001can add to let's call our meeting ordered. Chris, yes. Roger. Yes. Adam, yes. Caitlyn, yes. Tammy, yes. Sherry, yes. Jennifer, yes. Seven present. Okay. Next up, we need an approval and adoption of the agenda. So, I'll make that approval. Second. Okay. Are you talking over there? Motion by Tammy Palmer, seconded by Caitlyn Mace to approve and adopt the agenda as presented. All those in favor? I opposed, seven yes. Next up, let's go through board norms. This month, we are going to approve norms 9 and 10. We will be guided by the mission statement, which focuses on professional development, which enhances success for all students, and we will use humor as appropriate to help us work better together. Okay. Next is the pledge of allegiance. Thank you. Will you lead us, please? I pledge algiance to
002the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Next, we have board recognition. I don't think we have any for this month. um citizen participation and we don't have anybody signed up for citizen participation. Let's move into consent agenda items. There are quite a few items, quite a few reports under consent agenda. Um if anybody needs clarification or questions, now's the time to ask. Otherwise, it's a lot of the end of year reports. If no questions, we do need a motion. I'll move. Thank you. Motion by Caitlyn Mace, seconded by Chris Bell to approve the consent agenda as presented. All those in favor? Yes. Opposed? Seven. Yes. Okay. Next on our agenda tonight is the financial
003statement and June bills. I think there's three different check runs in your packet. So, if you've got questions, we can talk about anything. And if not, we just need a motion. Motion second. Motion by Chris Bell, seconded by Roger Bridgemond to approve the financial statement and action on the June bills as presented. All those in favor? Yes. Opposed. Six. Yes. One abstain. All right. Next on the agenda, we have administrative reports. Let's start with warden and committee reports. I believe Sherry, did you just attend a conference? The summer summit down at Branson. Yeah. Um, and I also sat in on the delegate because we voted we voted in our new uh board for next year. So, I sat in on that and it was a kind of a mini annual meeting as from what from
004what uh we attended went to diff I went to different uh sessions if you could call them that. Um, I don't know. Are you going to talk about any of those sessions in your I can if you need. I didn't know if you want me to. Hey, you can find um see if I can find them. I got them here somewhere. It's a little paper or something. Well, guess I'd be fine to share. Okay. Oh, here we go. Uh, legislative update. Of course, that's always a doom and gloom time when you sit in there for an hour and listen to them. Um, and then they they went over a bunch of bills, several of the bills that are sitting on the governor's desk right now to be signed. He's kind of I they feel that
005he was taking his time waiting to see about the uh Kansas City Chiefs Royals and maybe St. Louis see if that was going to pass and evidently it did. Um the next one was um homeschool participation, extracurricular activities. Mish is working on getting that taken care of. So and that will go into effect this next school year. Now it will include middle school and high school. Summer legal issues. Basically it was just a a extension of the legislative update. They really didn't have a whole lot to say because there's so much stuff in the air. There's a lot of bills sitting on the governor's desk. They don't know what he's going to sign. what he's going to send back. Um, that's about all I had and I know if you've got anything else you want
006to put in. Yeah, just some things to add with some of those bills. Uh, they are contingent upon uh appropriation. So, if it's not funded, it won't be required. And some of the bills they don't know are legal and probably go into litigation and get thrown out. Uh, one of them um is the you may have seen where they've got the cap 5% cap on counties or zero or stays the same. Um, that's probably one of the big things people are curious about. So, if the county right now the way it's written, if the county votes it in to use that, utilize it, it would cap your real estate uh tax at either 5% zero, so you go off 2024s or it would stay the same. They think that'll get thrown out because school districts
007go into multiple counties, so it would be u equitable for all the families to attend. So, likely it'll get thrown out. Um, but we'll we'll just have to watch. But right now is the time all the attorneys are going through and seeing what actually works, doesn't work, and then policy makers will make policies for us and kick it out. One of the things I'm proud to say, some of the school districts got checked up on about getting their policies uh current and and getting all theirs approved because the MSBA can see who had and hadn't approved policies. So, I'd say we've got all of ours approved. We use MCE, but we're all up to date on that. if we weren't on the naughty list. There there is there is one other thing and I actually
008ran across it this afternoon and I don't know how many of you actually read it but uh um now they're they're turning they're turning the wheels on a new trend new trend uh for the state of Missouri to offer an alternative trade school which you know that's kind of a big thing for us because there are a lot of kids that go to trade schools and legislation is sitting on his on the governor's desk which would allow high school graduates to attend career uh certificate programs free of charge and which they look they think an estimated 600 students would participate a year on that. So um that's just something to look forward to but it it is kind of you know if you go to trade school you don't have to go as long you
009start making money right away. Is that instead of doing um A+ it is? Let's see because right now Senator Okay. State rep state rep and an Kelly filed a bill in house which mirrors the A+ program but funds trade school education rather than classroom degrees. So this and then the state's fasttrack workforce incentive grant is another similar program to it. So there's there's a lot of things out there, but I'm kind of glad to see because not every not every student is college. Both my boys went and yeah, you're with a plus. So they state tech is loaded right now. There's programs that they can't even get into and they're booked out for a while. So So that's the new trend. That's a new one. Been a high school for a while obviously. Yeah. If
010you when you go to your meeting, the the next meeting you go to, I can't promise that I can go, but will you let me know and I'll go with you? Uh, should be October. Yeah, probably October. Okay. Probably when it'll be our um district one will come up in the fall, too. So, we'll go to that one like we did last year. Yeah. And it's in Washington this year. Okay. Uh and if you This is the delegate assembly handbook. anybody wants to look at it. It was rather short meeting. Sometimes they get a little long and boring, but yeah. The other nice thing to throw in here, some of the legislation that was passed, we already have in play. Yeah. Like cell phone policy, different things. So, we're good there. And some of the
011safety and security stuff we've already got that stuff in play. So, I think that's, you know, speaks well to our district. Right. And the other thing, and I told Dr. Davidson about this today, is that MSBA closed on the land that they were wanting to buy to open their safety center. and it's uh it's out close to the airport out of Columbia and eventually I do believe they're looking at maybe moving the whole headquarters out there currently in Jeff City, right? Columbia it is in Okay. All right. Thanks. Thanks for attending. Yeah, good information. Okay. Principal end of year reports. Um, if you need questions answered, send an email. I can help facilitate that if necessary. Special ed report, same story. Let's move into assistant superintendent report. Sure. Uh, the only update I had on
012my report was that um our federal programs um application has been um opened finally. Um it was supposed to be open the 1 of June um and they just opened it yesterday. Um however our title two funds have not been allocated um by the um federal government yet. So um as of now we have title one and title four funds that I am working on the budget application for. Um because the title four funds were lower. We'll probably just push those um transfer them into title one and it'll cover our title teacher salaries and a little bit for supplies but that's it. So, but our our rep from DESIE did say um that they are expecting that the federal government will release Title 2 funds for this school year. So, thank you. You're welcome. Superintendent
013report. Yeah, just uh something to highlight is our fifth annual participation in the parade, which seems kind of five years has flown by, but uh if you would like to participate to just wear some Cuba gear and then be up at my funeral home at 5:30 and we'll walk like we normally do with handouts and have a good time. Okay, excellent. Thank you. I really appreciate that. And it looks like from all of the reports in general, just from principal to assistant to superintendent reports that summer school is going well. Yeah. So that's a spot to do as well. Let's move into unfinished business. We've got a 2425 budget update. So these numbers were pulled at the beginning of the month, but our current expenditures year to date are 94.69% in comparison to our revenues
014year to date, which are 98.93%. So, by the close of June, we'll have those all all pulled there. But sitting good. Had a good school year. Nothing uh major popped up on us, which is great, great news there. So, okay, we don't need a motion on that. Let's move into new business. We need to approve our 2526 preliminary budget. Um Dr. Davidson has quite the report in her packet. It's about 35 pages long. Um, and it's it's very in-depth. So, I think that we've had a week and a half to read that. So, we could get a very condensed version tonight if everybody's covered. This was about an hour and a half. Yes. Yes. Yes, it was. Give you a condensed version. So, um, just some highlights here. Uh, one thing do have a career
015ladder budgeted. So that's about a little over $150,000 of our general fund, but then we get that matched by the state. Uh, $225,000. Uh, so that's in our budget for next year. And then our classroom trust fund money. It can be split up in various ways and the uh, three different funds. U this year have it 50% staying in fund one to continue to pay operating costs and then fund two which are teacher salaries split the other half in there. So that's equally uh uh $327,000 there. Our fund four is a a healthy balance at $2.5 million and and that's our capital projects fund. But when you think about where that money goes, school size needs to have about $800,000 to a million dollars in there for a rainy day. If we had some facilities
016that had something happened to them, we need to update. So then that leaves 1.5 million. But if you consider two buses are 300,000 that we typically purchase every year and then we do approximately 200,000 and roof maintenance that's 500,000 a year there. So three years uh in that fund but we can always change the how that classroom trust money where that goes and we can funnel some into fund four. So good good balance there. Uh 0.9 uh there talks about our SAT. Uh in legislation, it was approved for $7,145 to be the new SAT. We're currently operating at 6760 um per student. I did get an email from the state a couple days ago that said the revenues are down, so it's more likely we'll get 6750 this year instead of that 7760. You said
017what that indicates though. If we can't hit this year's SAT, I'm not sure how we're going to hit next year's 7,145, which MSBA officials have. Uh caution to all all districts to be conservative. So, I built this off of those uh advice from our state officials there. Um but, uh that's kind of just some highlights there. Um on the page two, it kind of breaks down where we get our funding. So locally we get 51%, the county we get 3%, state we get 35, and the federal government we get about 10. Uh so that's just where our money um comes from. Um one of the things that uh kind of affected our budget too, our enrollment is down. So that does affect our overall ADA. Um and that's multiplied by our SAT which gives us
018the money from from the state. Um but looking at this uh current year 2425 we have 106 uh certified staff and then uh 67.5% or 67.5 uh classified staff. So uh we've decreased I think uh 3.75 certified staff just with a decrease in student enrollment. Um and then in there I have the salary schedules and they have the same uh board approval date at the bottom. I just at the top change the next school year the 2526 and then the other piece that's I think good to point out our projected uh u reserve for the end of next year is 71.9% which is good but that has gone down from that 82% so we are going down but in a controlled manner uh with that deficit spending there um but again just some highlights there
019just kind of left the funding in for the increase for the utilities. Um then those reserves are in from having uh the SR uh SR3 funds from previous years that we utilized appropriately and it freed up our general funds. So that's what kept that money there. Um and then this past year uh last salary schedules we modernized was the administrative salary schedule and the director and professional salary schedule. So, we're in a good competitive place there for for any of those positions to be filled. And then the next few pages, those are the line item um budget there. And then I attached four um the previous four um summaries of our ASBR so you can kind of have a reference. But one thing to be caution cautionary, each has its own story. So there's different
020variables on why these numbers are where they're at. So you could really lay these out side by side and kind of make assumptions that it that would steer you in the wrong direction probably. But anybody have any questions or is that a condensed version? Great. [Music] Very good parent. Hey. All right. So based on that update that we just that little condensed version, we do need a motion to approve the 2526 preliminary budget. We'll have a second motion after this. So moved. I'll second. Motion by Roger Bergman, seconded by Caitlyn Mace to approve the 2025 2026 preliminary budget as presented. All those in favor? Opposed, seven yes. We need a second motion to um that's a little bit wordy here. to approve the 2425 budget to receipts and dispersements after June 30th, 2025, which then
021finalizes the 2526 budget. So, second motion by Roger Bridgemond, seconded by Chris Bell to approve the 202425 budget to receipts and dispersements after June 30th, 2025, which then finalizes the 202526 budget. All those in favor? Yes. Opposed? Seven. Yes. Okay. Next up, I know board of education proposed agenda items. None. Resident agenda items. None. So, our last item uh for open session is just to large a live board meeting. Um, I would like to throw a caveat out there to maybe look at your schedules and potentially meet um to have a daytime meeting for the month of July. Um, because the third week when we would typically meet is fair week and that's, you know, I think most of our most of us will probably like to attend that. Um, so I would like I
022and we did this last year as well. So maybe like a 12 o'clock meeting on not Tuesday since it's parade day. Wednesday 16th would be great. Yeah. The 16th at noon. Can you do that? Does that work for people? Will that work for you guys? I'll move. You're moving where? Wednesday. We're not there yet. At noon. We're still talking about it. Can you get away at that time? Okay, everybody. You guys good? I'm good on Okay, I move. Me, too. I'll second it any motion by Caitlyn May, seconded by Roger Bridgemond to schedule the regular July board meeting on Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. noon with close session to follow. All those in favor? Yes. Opposed? Seven. Yes. Good to see you. Just two days in. Yes. Next up, we need a motion
023to go into close session after recess. Yes. I know. I We had a plan and I failed. I failed it. Totally failed it. May seconded by Tammy Palmer to go into close session in accordance with the provisions of section 610.021 021 subsection 3 and 13 of the revised statutes of Missouri in order to discuss personnel after a 10-minute recess. Roger. Yes. Adam, yes. Caitlyn, yes. Tammy, yes. Sherry, yes. Chris, yes. Jennifer, yes. Seven, yes.