001Flag 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. >> We're going to move directly into tonight's consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve all items on the consent agenda as presented? >> So moved. Second. Any questions this evening on the consent agenda items questions this evening? None. All those in favor of approval of the consent agenda. None opposed. Motion carries. Right. We will now turn to the superintendent report and turn it over to Dr. >> Um. Yes. A few things uh in the superintendent's report this month. First, I wanted to uh recognize Miss Belie Solomon, teacher at our junior high. Uh as you're coming in, you may have seen it on our marquee. She's been recognized
002as a Missouri regional teacher of the year. Uh she was our district teacher of the year. So, she's been selected as one of those representing the St. Louis area. Uh finally, kind of getting down the potential to be the Missouri state teacher of the year. So, she filled out that application uh and has submitted that. So, that's a huge honor. We don't know that we've ever had a teacher >> get that re regional recognition. So, that's uh pretty exciting for her and for the district. Uh included some items regarding uh federal funding. I'm going share my screen here. Uh I'm going to let Miss Hildabbrand speak to that uh on some of our title two and title four funds and seen that in the news. >> So the federal government has put a pause on
003allocating title two money which in our district use our title two money for professional development as well as a classroom reduction teacher um in the primary building. Um they've also put a pause on the title four allocations. Um and we use that for our linewise monitoring services for all of our Chromebooks um for our students as well as our tuition for our kids that are enrolled. Um they haven't said since this came out they actually went back and they allocated a nominal $1 to each category um for us and they haven't given us much information on when or if um that money will come through. So up there there's a little bit of a history on how much we receive as a district. Um, we will continue to provide the same services that we do
004for our students as well as those staff. Um, we will pull anything that from title two we will pull out of the general operating fund as well as our PD budget which is part of the foundation formula in our title 4 tuition for our kids will also come up. So, we're hoping um the Department of Education, Missouri Department of Education thought they would hear something from the federal government anywhere between July 1st and September 30th. So, they have they're getting just as much information as we are at this point. Our Title One money, which we use for our summer reading program, our remedial reading program, was not affected at all. um the uh allocation dropped by about $2,100, but that was based off of our free and reduced lunch count. So you'll if you see
005that information and you notice about there, that's that's wasn't was unchanged. The money came off of our free reduced lunch count. >> All right. Thank you. A few um additional state laws from other than the ones uh that we're talking about the cell phone later on to make the board aware of is uh Senate Bill 63 which is the homeschool uh students playing athletics. Uh also there was house bill 296 which expanded substitute eligibility uh allowing retired teachers eligible to substitute uh under some additional guidelines. Senate bill 49 which was chaplain in schools. So the district may employ or accept volunteer chaplain um if they would choose to do so. House Bill 567, which is the minimum wage and leave uh act. Um we are above that um from a salary standpoint, but it's just
006something that will continue to impact uh us as far to keep an eye on um as the levels go up, it will um our schools will have to um something that we talked about in our admin meeting and uh I just want to put in front of the board and it's something that we need to keep an eye on collectively um is some technology fee concerns as you know with COVID and uh moving to onetoone um there's issues we call them new issues but new challenges uh that districts are going to have to face in regards to some replacement costs um and it's more expensive than a textbook historically. So, um, visiting with Mr. Moore and some of this information, uh, is a little dated as I have in here. Uh, on May 8th, as
007of that date, Mr. more sent me a a spreadsheet that we had assessed uh roughly $234,000 in technology related fixing Chromebooks, broken screens, replacing the entire uh unit or they just didn't come back. As such, $77,000 is still outstanding. Um, that's a lot of money. And with that, um, we have some of those balances can accumulate year-over-year. We actually have some students that have seven 8 $900 bills is uh we need we're going to communicate with the parents again at the start of a this school year, but that's one of those things we're waiting until their senior year. Um, and then having to cut a check or uh for something that occurred in third grade, Chromebook, you don't necessarily want that, but you also don't want it uh stretching along that because it creates uh
008$77,000 is a lot of money. Um, so in some of the families and people we've reached out is they have no intention of paying. We actually had uh a case where a family left to go to a different school. They took the Chromebook and they had an outstanding thousand over $1,000 fund. Uh so what do you do with that is uh those are some things we need are going to need to talk about is we're going to send some start school and see if we make up some ground on that because we did talk about like do you tie it to extra duty or extra curriculars where you you have to have your fine uh settle. But there is a concern um there are going to be some $1,000 bill is going to be an
009economic issue for some families and they don't want to or their child isn't able to participate in sports because of it. There's that fine kind of balance. um on that. Um so just bringing it to the board's attention. Presumably we'll have some followup um conversation. We just wanted to make the board aware that we're talking about it administratively, looking at it, communicating with uh parents, probably putting it in the next nest that goes home is um cuz uh just try to we'd much rather try to get him the carrot informing than having to uh do it from a negative standpoint. But the round is at that dollar amount. we do have to at least look at it and bring it before the board. One of the things uh that I did want to share is
010as 2019 we uh implemented our leave day stipen for our teachers and every year um I maintain kind of looking whether that's success and uh our teachers has become evident with our employees that it's something that we look forward to but it's has imported them. We had salaries this year and the lead dates have been actually ranked as far as uh over health insurance as far as a priority. Um but what are the results? Is it making a difference? Uh I'm excited to be able to say yes. Again, this year uh as you can kind of see 201617 we had 2700 absences. This is our certified staff. Uh this would include FMLA and uh someone being offered with child or sickness, but I included that in all of these numbers. Um 2019 20 there's an
011aster there that was COVID. So we went home in March. So that one uh is down a little bit and you the following year was the hybrid year. But as you can see 21 22 22 23 our um normal school years this year we had 1743 absences. Now we've also had went down some teachers. So to be fair kind of comparing some of those uh the average days missed you know dividing by the number of staff had also come down uh and was the lowest that it has ever been. So continuing um to be successful and um excited about the the annual reduction of 613 days far exceeds the goal way back when when we started up my I was just trying to hey if we can get recoup one day per teacher you know
012per employee um that's 400 days and so we're exceeding that for sure and that has um huge instructional benefits for our kids. So excited for that. So finally, the superintendent report is just getting ready for back to school. Threw it up on this sign yesterday out on the marquee. I'm sure people drove by on the way home from work. Parents are excited, kids were not. uh that that was coming back on but by next week we're turning the corner into August and we have our welcome back assembly on the 13th and first day of school on the 18th we have our administrative retreat uh this weekend down at those for our conference uh annual administrator conference brought to state uh admin lobby this weekend and that's got officially the kickoff to 252 That's my job
013on that. >> Okay. Any questions? See, thanks again. All right. We'll move to the next item, which does have action attached to it, recapitulation of funds. So, um, do I have a motion to accept tonight's financial report and approve the fiscal year 2526 recapitulation of funds as it's present? >> Motion. >> All right. One update the board uh on this is as Miss White has been closing out the FY25 school year. There's going to be some potentially some subtle changes as a few things are still rolling in um through June and some reconciliations, but it's very very close uh as far as finishing up FY25. Um few things of note that's why there's uh an updating of a recapitulation of the balances and such of it's our first budget amendment of the FY 25 uh
01426 year um as we try to target in so we actually end up with 102% uh of the revenue that we had anticipated ended up with a little bit more coming in Um uh I'm having your brain freeze program why can end up what's that >> federal programs came in immediately >> um there was some a little bit of local funds also >> some of the uh delinquent payments and such uh on the expenditure side um we spent 98 um 10% of what was budgeted and I'm going to come back to that later on in the report. I want to highlight that. Our local revenue uh came in a little bit higher than expected. Federal revenue um ran at about 127% which was the federal programs. State revenue ran right on. That's of course tied
015to ADA. Uh looking here overall um when you look at the general fund of where we had put things the general fund the revenue finished uh almost $650,000 less than um we had projected as well the the teacher funds there and kind of detail out what had occurred. Uh our capital projects, we had a transfer there. So that ended up being higher than initially projected. Uh debt service, we got a uh interest payment coming on that. Miss White, >> uh >> um interest rebates on the QSCB and QCAB funds. >> So the IRS had cut us back a check on that. So all total funds we had uh about $1.1 million uh additionally there. So we had actually in that time had updated uh Mr. Carson there on the newspaper and these numbers reflect uh
016what Miss White had shared with you uh because we wanted that was we thought it might come out actually today. um year-over-year comparisons. I believe this is important for the board to kind of see where we've come to project where we're going in the future and visit Miss White on that is local revenue um is down. Uh so as you as we talk about some of the things later on related to property taxes, uh we're down about $340,000. Some of that is due in part to we've been reducing uh our tax rate and so you're not going to be bringing in as much revenue. So total revenue is a little down for fiscal year 24. One of the things that I do think that's important, I want to point this out, is uh our state
017revenue and our local county revenue um are relatively close. So, as a district, we need to continually pay attention to what's going on in Jefferson City as far as the state budget uh because that's going to have big impacts one way or the other in Hillsboro District. Um and on our other revenue or excuse me our other right here this 289,000 up there that next year when we look at that that's going to show a decrease because we're not selling the the original property. So including that in the story here uh kind of explains it uh from a long-term perspective and then broke it down by expenditure by fund uh where we spent our money and how we ended up as far as change year-over-year. The big one here being the debt service 13 million.
018That's going to go down obviously significantly next year. uh when you look at the year-over-year when FY uh 26 is there and FY25 is in that middle column it'll look like uh significant changes and put the next uh ex explanation in there and then also included what I just said FY26 and subsequent years will have experienced significant lower debt service. Um rounding out, this is the change uh year-over-year. Um in elementary instruction, the last column there is the one-year change. Um as you kind of go through there, maintenance is up $275,000 yearover-year. Executive administration down 263. uh principal and interest because we paid off all of the a lot of that debt service on capital. So that's all the principal and interest and knocking down our debt 8.7 million. A little reference there highlighting here
019as we talked about before over the last two years since FY23 executive administration decreased over 31% $534,000. Um net position budget utilization uh this I want to commend uh Miss White working with Dr. keen. One of our strategic plan goals um is that you know we have the one with reserves. We want to be 18 to 22%. But one of our strategic plan goals is we want to be within 5% of what we budget ends up being our actual expenses. Is in FY23 that number was 81.38. Uh FY24 was 83.64. This year we spent 98% of what we budgeted and that sounds like what did you spend? That sounds like you spent more money. What that means is we're we're more accurate. I mean the 57,000 um uh looks or 57 million looks at a
020key is did we accurately predict what we're going to spend? Why that is important? Salaries as we're planning for the next year and all that. So, uh, thank you to Jen and Dr. B and everyone in the office who's, uh, works to make sure that that occurs, um, is I was pretty excited to see that is, uh, the roll after this next year. And thus, part of that accuracy is why we have the re a budget amendment of a budget that we just passed to continue to refine that to make sure that uh, it's accurate. So with that with that additional money and not spending as much as we anticipated um we are ending the year with a reserves of 44.89%. Um which is very healthy. Um, our debt service fund decreased significantly by over
021$11 million while our capital fund because we're pushing money in there planning for next the uh turn lane and other such as high school what's that >> high school Hback >> high school HVAC is uh putting that money in there to build up and then potentially look at things with early childhood uh center, the grants and the playground and all those different things as we go and plan for the future with that is the FY26 balances are equal to the ending balances and where we project them. Um, I have a narrative there, but I also included I'm going to run through these on the very back because this is the the public It's on the very back of the sheet that actually shows on page 27 of the budget. This one will be what's replacing
022that. So, we're finishing with 17 million uh in the general fund. I'm going pull that up a little bit. Our debt service will be down to 1.7 or is down. Capital at 5.2 million. So, $24 million. uh in reserves, our revenues projected, our total balances, uh our transfers. So putting a a million dollars in the capital through the year, we'll actually uh have a balanced budget as far as general and teacher and spend pay off the rest of not the rest but another vast majority of our uh debt service and then end the year with 22 million. So projected to end ne this upcoming school year be at 42.38. Our previous budget we've had at 39%. So um 3% higher. So that's an indepth look on that. Again, thank you to Miss White and everyone
023in the office. Thank you. Any questions? All those in favor of approval this evening opposed. Motion carries. Thank you. All right. Do we have any items of public comments? Public comments. Okay. On to some new business. Uh first of which is the 2526 school calendar revision. Do have a motion to approve this revised calendar as presented. >> Second. >> Questions that share changes? the law changed for our inclement weather days will count towards that 169 data that we had previously. Um so looking at the calendar we were able to to remove one day and the school school year on Thursday instead of the Friday which will be helpful as we plan for summer school ads hearing none. All those in favor of approval, none opposed. Motion carries. All right. Next is the acceptance and allocations
024of the FY26 Desi enhancement grant. Do I have a motion to approve the use of 191,398.50 in enhancement grant funds as outlined in the budget? >> Second. >> Any questions on this? >> Sure. Uh just an update. We have engineering is pretty well finished. Um we should be going out to bid really soon in the next couple weeks. I was hoping to have that approved by the August board meeting, but if not, it might be an early September um special board meeting, but we'll we'll be really close. Um the plan is uh to finish one classroom hopefully by Christmas break and then transition to the next classroom so we're not interrupting school as much as we we've kind of worked that out with Mr. grown or in the high school staff on relocating and stuff
025throughout the school year, but should be seeing uh bids pretty soon. Any other questions? Okay. All right. Hearing none. All those in favor of approval? Opposed? Motion carries. All right. On to the approval of the Ability Network uh for behavioral services for the 2526 school year. Do I have a motion to approve the ability network agreement for behavioral services for 2526? >> Any questions on this agreement? Okay. Hearing none in favor of approval. None opposed. Motion carries. Right. Next is the approval of agreement with Row Health for private duty nursing. Do I have a motion to approve this agreement with Row Health Private Duty Nursing for the 2526? Motion. >> Questions on this agreement? Hearing none. All those in favor of approval. None opposed. Motion carries. Next is the approval of theou with Jefferson Franklin
026Community Action Head Start. Do I have a motion to approve theou head start uh the Jefferson Franklin community action for the 2526? Motion second. >> Questions on this? You hearing? None. All those in favor of approval see opposed. Motion carries. All right. We also have the agreement with elite ABA services. Do I have a motion to approve the elite ABA services agreement? >> Second. >> Questions here. >> Hearing none. All those in favor of approval? None opposed? Motion carries. We have approval of the supplemental healthc care agreement for occupational and physical therapy. Do I have a motion to approve this agreement for occupational and physical therapy services for the 2526? >> Questions here? >> I don't have to do the bills direct. >> No, unless you want to. >> Then I want then I want
027to approve that. Yeah. >> Any other questions? Hearing none. All those in favor? All right. Motion carries. All right. We also have the approval of the principal growth coach and leadership strategist. It's a 550 hour position. Do I have a motion to approve the principal growth coach and leadership strategist position as it has been budgeted? And >> so questions, comments, concerns with the hearing none. All those in favor of approval. Again, no one's opposed. Motion carries. All right. We do have renewal of our uh relationship with Sedexo. So, we have a motion to approve the renewal of the agreement with Sedexo Food Services to continue as our food service provider for the 2526 school year. >> Motion second. >> Any questions on this agreement? >> We're required to go out bid every five years um
028with the food service. This is for the year three. The contract is just annual, but the prices are bid out for a five-year price. So, this is just the annual agreement that we will continue with. Any questions? Hearing none. All those in favor of approval? Any opposed? And any abstensions? Motion carries. All right. We also have to approve this coming year's lunch prices. Do I have motion to approve the 10 cent increase to both paid breakfast and lunch prices for the 2526 school year? >> Questions on this? Uh this is the same adjustment that we made in previous years that also reflects of the the maximum increase allowed questions. All those in favor of approval opposed motion carries. All right, we do have some minutes as well this evening. Approval of the minutes from the
029June 12th meeting. Do I have a motion to approve these minutes? >> Second. >> Any questions, comments, clarifications on this set of hearing? None. All those in favor of approval and none opposed. Motion carries. We also have a bill for payment to Jefferson College. Do I have a motion to approve this bill for payment in the amount of $1,400? >> Everybody wants to pay bills. >> Any questions on this particular bill? >> All those in favor? Any opposed? And then I will have one extension there. So motion carries. All right. We also have the approval of the Jefferson College area technical school, the the Perkins all aotment for that consortium agreement. We have a motion to approve Jefferson College ATS secondary Perkins agreement that is just presented. >> Motion questions here. This is part of
030an annual agreement between our institutions. Any questions? Okay, hearing none. All those in favor of approval. Any opposed? And I also have motion carries. All right. So we are uh at a point now where we do have some board policy items um that are at their second reading ready for approval. We have a motion to approve policy revisions 2025 A and B is present. Any questions regarding the set of policy? None. All those in favor of approval. None opposed. Motion carries. Okay. We do have someformational items. I'll turn it back over to Dr. uh with regards to Senate Bill three. Um yes, I wanted to bring before the board and uh just uh update everyone as to kind of where we are at on this. Senate Bill Three uh is probably more widely known as
031the bill that uh is the stadium bill for keeping the Chiefs here. I in the board packet there's uh significant amount of information I went through and just uh as a means to educate the community uh because I think a lot of people really don't have attention or to have a full understanding of what this bill is is it was a stadium bill but in order to pass that politics got involved uh and so they also added uh the legis legislature did about hund00 million for the St. Louis area in response to the tornado. Uh the other portion of this bill is that of which uh count dealing with property taxes and assessed valuations as to uh each senator uh got to choose what they wanted uh to put on a ballot. each county being
032required to put out a ballot to the citizens to uh establish what the permanent assessed valuation was as long as you live in your home. Um our senator mayor Elizabeth Coleman set that at zero uh for um Jefferson County. Likewise, uh Franklin County is zero, etc. Uh next, I actually put up a map. um is in your board packet. Um I'll actually share my screen to kind of guide some conversation. um is within here. Uh as you'll see, I put a significant amount of information that I recommend that the community uh delve into just become educated. It involves us uh here at Hillsboro um and within the county, but our district is in the the 0% St. Louis County uh is not impacted. They chose to not be a part of it. And so other
033counties, so what has been created is each county has a different thing going on. So there's concerns that it's not even constitutional. um that you can't just pick and choose uh what each uh area is going to do arbitrarily because it creates kind of an unfair scenario when uh a blanket application could occur of which we already have with the Hancock. So, as such, um, our school attorney, as well as many, uh, school districts, um, fire districts, ambulance districts, I said on a call with the library districts, any political subdivision, we rely on property taxes is the the local control is local uh, supporting of that. And so um I foresee a collective challenging of that constitution. Somebody has to file for that. Um and the Hillsboro board may we may need to look at
034that uh in the future. But we're also I have a meeting this week uh with some other leaders in the fire uh ambulance, all the different political subdivisions to kind of see the where we're at, where they're at with that. Um it's it's frustrating for me that we do have to anytime you file a suit like this you're using tax dollars to preserve tax dollars uh of which it's locally we've been told like hey we even within the bill and I included in there they put a severability clause in there so when it was passed there's been a lot of talk about is by the legislators themselves, they don't even know that it's constitutional, but it got the stadium bill passed. And so, um, when you put an out in there, there's already been like,
035it's literally where they can remove parts of the bill, but the other part stayed in. Um, unfortunately, everyone gets caught in the the politics that occurred to the west of us. So, Uh I would encourage the community to look in there because there's been a lot of talk about um assess valuation. Um and it's something I want to talk about publicly because I'm proud of this school district. I'm proud of this board uh because of the work that they've done and I would I put it in there. The Jefferson County Property Viewer and this is will be on camera. I encourage any if you live in Jeff's account, you can access a website we put on there and you can look at your own home, you can look at what your assessed valuation is. Uh,
036and up in the lefthand corner up there, you can go by year. You can see what your home assess for. If you saw that, you'd be like, "Oh my, that's less." Nobody wants to pay taxes. But you can you can see there. And I can tell you and I've I do it all the time and randomly look because is across the school district many of the homeowners your taxes are lower now in 2024 than they were in 2021 and nominally I mean a lot of within $20 $4 of 2018 and I would encourage you to do that is as I went through our financial report we've been reducing our tax right now, but we have mechanisms in place um with our Hancock amendment rolling things back and by being good stewards that we've this board
037has really worked hard and is my fault of taxes on our seniors. You know, it's a former but Mr. would always bring that up and this board hasn't forgotten that and I haven't forgotten that is in the work that I do of that's important but this um makes it even more challenging and it then puts it on a board and I may it's more of a heads up I may be asking a board that who's done everything they can to keep be good stewards of our district's money too is literally reduced taxes in a time when everything else is going up. Um, and I would encourage any homeowner in the Hillsboro district to look at that. And now there's it may have went up, but you can click in to see what the Hillsboro School
038District number is. And I I can almost say I guarantee it's not. And so, but to be put in a position to then defend that and then potentially because it will require quite frankly the board to ask for even above and beyond like if we wanted to do construction. Uh there's some things to improve our district for our kids uh academically and athletically where we may go we need to ask for a levy but it changes that number because you have to make up for the gap because at the end of the day the cost is the cost. Everyone knows things are getting more expensive. So this um Senate bill is kind of a mess right now. So I don't want to us to run out ahead of everyone else, but it's also collectively may
039come back and say this is what the other uh what's going on in the state. It's a kind of a threw a lot out there and would encourage if you're watching on this tape to watch it again, go through some of the documents and on here there's news articles about it just so um you can educate it as I tried to kind of take a cross-section of newspapers because I don't want to get into partisan like that. Missouri Independent is a nonpartisan uh included the the bill in there uh clarifying and even just a lot of information that I would highly encourage people to look at uh the long-term impacts of this not just on Hillsboro uh but across our state because I think they're the decision was made quickly to get a state in
040I think they realized that as well but Now we have to work. So if if I understand the legislation right, the senator that represents Jefferson County elected to put us at 0%. That still requires a vote of the citizens of Jefferson County to put that in place. >> Correct. >> So that that that would still need to happen kind of solidify this and put this in play on a permanent basis. >> Correct. But there may be challenges to this as in terms of it being unconstitutional >> Prior to that, >> it has to be on maybe April. >> Yeah. Are you aware of any other political subsidies you mentioned like meeting with some that are planning um to talk about this with their boards and starting in that? There's uh multiple districts statewide uh even
041locally that was on their board agendas as recently as this week gathering information. We're not our outside of outside of the reduction in the tax revenue. Just one of the biggest concerns that I have about this legislation is that it removes strips away local control from boards that are elected by this the communities which they're serving. So just I'm interested to see how this plays out. It's it's an interesting turn of events not dissimilar to send questions. >> Those are my those are my two cents. >> Thoughts? Okay. >> Yeah, I'm going to say to me uh part of this is again that the legislature passes a bill without looking at the practicality of it and how to it's going to play out, how it's going to affect everybody. kind of like how it affects
042them in the blade world >> instead of as lines down here takes me off the thoughts. All right, we're going to turn our attention to some additional discussion on Senate Bill different Senate bill Senate Bill 68. Switch gears. Senate Bill 68 um is a really big bill with lots of um lots of safety items in there and tried to condense it. Uh it's in the board packet here of kind of aligning um what do we need to do uh with what we already have been doing. And so, um, most of Senate Bill 68, uh, we've already got covered. We've as a district been proactively ahead of that or Dr. Laroo. Um, we have a safety coordinator with Mr. Ramsey. Um, and also Miss Woodham has worked on the CPR and expanding that um, and moving
043through to that. Dr. Do you have anything that you want to add to some of these things? >> Um, no. I I feel like most of it's we've done a lot of to be in place and um prior to this being rolled out, but uh just have an emergency operation plan setting up on it. Jim's done a really good job with it. Um make sure we're evaluating our spaces and secured entrances and security on campus. Uh we already offer CPR, but we have to we do have to expand that. So, we're looking at that service with Miss Wood. So, um, we've had these conver even before we this, uh, went into a vote and passed, uh, Mr. Ramsey and I have had a lot of conversations. So, uh, we're in really good shape with the
044district with a a lot of the safety things. the big uh couple of big changes when students are suspended, we can now count their ADA and out of school uh suspension. Uh that never quite used to be the case. Um so just kind of going through that is there's a lot of stuff there, but the big one the big one that um is cell phone use is no longer permitted uh during the instructional day. Um so we've uh the next agenda item is MSBA um has put out uh the draft student use of personal communication devices. This is actually uh I don't know when they put it in there, but it I imagine it's in the last week because I had actually went in last recent last Monday and it was NJCR. Um so I
045was looking for that thing came like wait a minute it's not in there anymore. And that's how I they had even sent this email out and an update. It was this in our assembly board packet. So, I have that before the board for approval and review tonight as well as um we visited with our administrators and I actually included that midafter afternoon. It's in blue in your board bag uh student handbook is visiting about the consequences for that. Um so, any questions? on that. This isn't a an agenda item here. This is the discussion kind of piece to that. And um the handbooks aren't necessarily approved. The policies approved. I just wanted to pro get input from the board and thoughts collectively. >> Any questions about the approach related to this? >> Just you know
046uh yeah comes my teacher. I mean um I was kind of identified as a teacher that took away a lot of cell phones because this was obviously and so as a teacher who follows you know the guidelines etc it will be a major issue for administrators as well as teachers uh initially but I'm I'm a strong believer that if you enforce it from day one by September the end of September it will we know what the ex the kids will know what the expectations are and they'll follow. Um our there's always the concern of those staff members that don't necessarily follow the rules and still allow you know use of of the devices in their classroom for whatever reason and you know that's always a a glitch. Well, when we visit with the principals and
047we talked about this at the point is my expectation I said publicly as we were talking about because I'm going to use the high school and that's going to be the toughest >> is and talking Mr. B is almost four principles are not and four principles are is how this gets um addressed is Mr. owner's job is not to chase students down. His job is to make sure the adults, the teachers, the a that's kind of I know Mr. Roner, your focus is the teachers, the teachers on the implementation piece of it and hopefully the teachers collectively because they have um to your point it's hard when one person is uh not enforcing or and we talk about this isn't a dress code thing that is this isn't where somebody like a comfort it's a
048cell phone like you have if you're walking down the hall and I told Mr. I go if you literally you see a kid coming down there's teachers in the hall and they want all a sudden they got their phone out is you have to go address those teachers like and it may even be uh we need to document those type of scenarios is in here because we have the first one is where the teachers want hey put it away because there is going to be we talked about that the administrators did um our goal isn't to end up with out of school suspensions because a kid had their phone out, gets the detention, they don't serve the detention, and you have this progressive disc um of working with them. Hey, you need to put that
049away. Um but it's also going to require the teachers putting it into the >> the system and kind of building that up and the we are making a different appreciation and the administrators are there. So if I misspeak, please interrupt office. I won't say anything is if I ask for Miss Hilderbrand's phone. She had I ain't giving you my phone and you get into the in that's a whole different we're going to hammer that. >> Insubordination and respect related to that. That's a different type item. Or if a student has a phone and does something inappropriate, does a Snapchat in there, bullet type thing, it's different. Well, I just have no head in your phone is you shouldn't have your phone out warning. It should be a defense. Mom got pick it up. But if
050you're recording or you record a fight, that's going to be a serious consequence because not only did you have it there, you did something that you shouldn't be doing. That's above and beyond. um and so is working through because it's going to be a huge change and also um our teachers should have that they're for other than for academic reasons. We kind of talked about that like PE out on the on the track when they take attendance but I think our kids they also understand if Mr. Gordon's taking attendance at the beginning of the hour is a lot different than on your phone 30 minutes in like that can't happen. um either and I I'm going to talk with the teachers on the welcome back. I'm sure I'll get some push back, but um I
051feel strongly on that because professionally >> is I wouldn't want my doctor while he's doing a knee surgery checking his phone. >> How's this procedure, >> you know, how's this procedure going? Or taking the phone call is or if you're in court with your attorney or all these different job. There's many jobs out there that you don't have access to your phone. Uh, and I think we should as professionals, as educators, we should adhere to that. That when students are around, unless you're using it for an emergency reason, if we have to go up woods, there's things in there where we need to communicate for school business that we shouldn't have it out around our kids. we need to model what our expectations are. >> So my question is, is the expectation that the devices
052be in the locker or just put away in their backpack or in their pocket? Um I, you know, I'm curious as a parent to how to, you know, coach my kids and inform them it needs to be put in your locker when you get to school before the bell rings. you can get it out at the end of the day or you need to keep it turned off in your pocket and just don't access it. What is the expectation? My >> locker >> I the expectation is they all have lockers is put in your locker >> is but to that end I'm not going to expect the principles to >> you know you have it on you the as a parent I'd say put in your locker because >> the temptation >> is uh going
053to occur so that's what ours it should be in the locker um if it's on their person or not I don't envision our principles like it's not a square phone in your like it's in your pocket that's uh not what we're trying to do is but if they're walking down the hall and they have that's where it will be addressed and it's a state law and so uh >> no I agree with you I mean if it's in my son's pocket he's tempted to pull it out um to me, even if it's in the locker, you're I mean, literally throughout the school day, in between classes, the kids are still going to, you know, be accessing and all of that. I mean, you know, you go back to my era and I told my son,
054you leave it in your truck because once you take it in the building, there's always concerns. >> Yeah. I don't know if we'll be able to keep the building. >> I agree. >> So, I think the lockers probably, >> but That's what I'll be drinking my own kids that you know there will access it. >> That's right. >> What about smart watches and things like that? Doesn't that fall under this new law as well? >> Are those going to be asked to be removed or just like I know for me it's very distracting to look at my wrist. I purposely don't wear it on certain occasions because it is a distraction. Um, so that's that's a going to be a little bit harder, I think, to address if you see somebody looking at their small
055smartwatch >> multiple times throughout the day or in class. >> I think that was included in here is but to your point, I think it's going to be difficult is in kind of that if they're utilizing the smartwatch, >> right? And by utilizing is they're texting, they're doing >> that is you can't to uh not wear a watch. I don't >> right >> I don't think we're going to maintain that and even on the personal devices some kids um have a a MacBook that you know educationally those are things uh there is within the law um is similar with the keyboard an device that is likely going to fall into It's very different than >> well the so the the law itself indicates the definition of the personal communication device to be a portable device
056that initiate receives store etc data electronically the policy widens that to include may may include the cell phone smartwatch personal laptops tablets video games media player so my question is a procedural element if we because of the exceptions in the policy when authorized use use advice for educational purposes. We plan to incorporate a procedure to say the student that prefers that that MacBook to the district issue Chromebook. We going to have a way to recognize that so that they're not visited by a teacher every single hour >> that they're that they need to put that in there. >> We have policy that they're allowed to bring and not use the districts. Okay. >> Okay. And if it becomes an issue, maybe we get a form of just approved where approved list of devices to where
057it's almost license to you can access our you have a MacBook and it's detailed and if you get a new one for Christmas or whatever you're updating that academic item. So in the policy that's what the number two is when authorized to s use such a device for an educational purpose because when I read that I was thinking what does that mean because we give them Chromebooks so why would they need anything else >> is >> I didn't realize that they were allowed to use other things. >> Is that a district decision that a policy level sounds like it's a district decision but but is it then also a building level decision or a teacher to teacher decision >> because I know some of the younger grades use like the platform and you could launch
058that on your your advice if that if we have that available for individual classroom use that that's that that would be that that could be considered an education use just sure where the where the procedural element allows for incorporation if you've got maybe I'm getting too thought but if you've got someone on their personal device and they're using it inappropriately by the letter of policy would be confiscated. They're going to confiscate their device, their UG or I think that >> well I think if they're doing um >> I guess you could skate for the day and issue a pro. >> Yeah. is >> whe that's >> so if they are getting bringing their own Mac book or whatever they don't take a school issue Chromebook correct or no >> some of them do but they're
059even if they have their own device they also have the school Chromebook >> some and some just use their own device as well >> but we have Do we still have that option from back when we moved to one to one? >> Yes. >> Where you can use district or personal bring your own device. >> Is that on their personal device? Does LineWise still in effect for those? >> As long as they're connected to our network, yes. If they have some kind of mobile, you know, cell tower setup, then no, it would not. Other thoughts? >> Well, I'm just not electronic like everybody else. What's Why would a student need slash want the Mac versus the Chromebook? >> It's bigger. Chromebooks kind of >> what they've got at home. >> If it's what they've got
060at home, >> it's easier to use the same thing. >> Yeah. Being familiar with the ease of use. >> Yeah. >> I mean, I I have preferences on my devices, but there's also certain circumstances I don't get to select either. You use what you're given. So giving students the choice, does that present more problems? I think it muddies it a little bit. I think if they're using it for the appropriate use, right? For example, if if they can communicate on their Chromebooks in ways that they shouldn't be communicated on their on a school issue program, >> right? >> In the same fashion as they could. >> Are we able to monitor that? And is that what you were asking? >> Yes. So they >> because I know on our school issues on books things are
061monitored. So when they're on our on our network, they can't. >> But when they're on their Chromebooks at home, it's still being monitored. Correct. >> Yes. >> But not their personal device. >> So at somebody, a student's at home on their Chromebook and they're Google searching, but if they're doing their homework on their personal device and Google searching, we don't know. That's that to me is what the law. So, as a teacher in the classroom, okay, I'm old. I realize that. Um, am I going to know the difference? You guys are a lot younger than I am. Well, I know the difference as a teacher. Like, it's okay for them to have their Mac versus the Chromebook. And what's the pro? I wouldn't know the difference. Well, the Chromebook's going to be like this is
062more a smaller size versus >> Oh, yeah. >> But I know >> what is approved through the district and what is not the personal device. >> Do you mean the type of personal device? No, just that this student, it's okay for them to have the Mac versus >> any student can bring their own device, >> but don't they have to have it registered with a form to fill out or something? >> Oh, nothing. So, they can just So, there's really no control unless they're on the network. >> Correct. which unless they have >> cell hotspot or a cellular enabled laptop or tablet have to connect to the district which at that point then it is the monitor connection. >> Now this is also just during the instructional day. So >> sure >> at 2:30 like
063they're going to be able to access >> the thing with our phone with get on their phones anyhow to what we're talking about at home. Even if we require them to use the Chromebook when they're here, we wouldn't require them to >> right >> have to do their homework on a Chromebook at home. Are we talking about a pretty small population of students that this is this isn't happening? And a lot of them are are college. >> The biggest component of the list of technology is the soul. >> Sure. >> Well, and that's why I had the number two identified as when would they need to use their cell phone as an educational device because I was zero in on the cell phone and not on Chromebook. So >> to that I don't think any
064student I'll go on record say I don't not at school when we're providing a Chromebook. >> I wouldn't think so. Um maybe at home someone would be like cuz they may not they didn't take it home and my oldest would be typing research paper on his phone like kids do that >> like word documents on >> computers and stuff they don't use their phone in math for >> but to that end I would say this our math teachers is we can go back and say you need to go get a the TI80 or whatever and use a because that's the slippery slope is um well we need it for math. No, we just need that add that to our supply list. Um and they don't need to listen, you know, they listen to music. Again,
065this is slipper is this is not an educational device that replaces what we currently provide. if you want to bring in alerting devices such as that. But yeah, we need to get calculators and even if we had class we'll pay for the classroom supplies to to get those. So can that be actually identified in the policy that statement that you just kind of made that instead of leaving it instead of a device put a disclaimer there does not include cell phones or something >> because until this discussion I I realize you know I'm beyond the electronic age but um I read that to include that if I have a teacher that lets me use my cell phone, then I can use it because I'm using it for an educational reason. So we said it for
066the purpose of this policy cell phones and video game devices, portable media players and smart watches are not deemed educational devices or such. Well, I think the way that the sentence is presented in in the the definition of the personal communication device, it says may include and so that's the part that then I I would take that to mean the device that hasn't been invented today falls into this category, >> right? >> But there could be um what we include or may not include. I think that's that's that's a point I was making was the question about number two is how do we how do we authorize devices that may include this list. So if there are some like personal tablet or a a laptop that we we would want to recognize and allow for
067the students to use under under current policy, how are we ensuring that they that they're adhering to both halves of this policy situation? make sure that we're recognizing considering that but also adhering to it being a a qualified educational use case. >> You know, with defining the personal communication device up there, I think if you try to repeat it in number two, now you're if something new comes up, then it's like, well, that's not in the policy. Yeah. you know, so you almost have to leave it broad and then that's a conversation that you have with your staff in deciding, you know, if they say, "Well, I have the kids use their cell phones for this." Let's find that out before the school year starts. And that's addressed before the kids get back into the
068school building. you know, the teachers having the teachers that are in the classroom having knowing what's expected is how this is going to work, what the expectations are. And with some conversation prior to the start of the school year, defining what what do they see as an educational purpose and then being able to say, "No, calculator won't count. How many you know, you can't use it as a calculator. How many calculators do you need for your class? and get those conversations out of the way instead of waiting until we run. And the kid goes into English and said, "Well, I get to use it in math for a calculator. Why can't I use it in here for a dictionary?" No, >> that's that's an excellent point because I I hear stories of I mean right
069now of staff not enforcing the current, you know, rules that are in place. So, in essence, if you allow that situation. I could almost see one of those staff members that doesn't want that didn't enforce it in the past using that as a crutch. Well, I don't want to enforce it, so I'm just going to say it's for an educational reason. >> Yeah. >> And allow to have it while they're in the classroom, >> right? >> You know, and I think we should give that option. >> Yeah. >> Kids, we have a meeting on the 11th is as we discussing that is I want to be able to visit with you, Mr. facil because two kind of ideas came to my head I want to verbalize them because I I also don't want to impose
070something that's like an albatross uh is one if the number of students bringing devices like this is minimal is if we had a for basically a gatekeeper of you're you have a you're registered to do that similarly to Miss Kea's point is if Mr. Mr. Isacson um has an educational reason of which he wants the administrators to know that they're using phone. It's also a similar I use the this device kids in my class are going to be using it for this. They have to go down to their administrator and explain why they're to eliminate the okay today nobody's paying attention pulling your thing you can listen to that folks because similarly if the administrator is walking by then it's black and white if I'm a building administrator I know that Mr. in horse class.
071You don't have one of those things or I use it in this one lab. They got to take a picture. Okay. Is is there's some accountability for me as a teacher and assisting is it a pain potentially? Okay, you got to fill out that form and get approval similar like what I do with all my college classes is that gives us in my mind some protection on there. It's an extra step that allows more control. I >> think it leans into the language of of the policy the way it's presented with a procedural element that that qualifies both the hardware use that comes from the outside and then the desire to have the software piece as a qualified educational tool. table. >> What do you think we need to do or or is that just
072>> administrator? there if there are other >> edits to the policy >> because have has have the administrators actually looked the policy the way it's written here and applied it to I mean I hadn't seen it until today and I kind of looked for it all Billy Billy, it's coming your way. >> Lesly a little bit. >> All right. We do have an action item. Next item on the list is is relative to the approval of this language as it's presented. So we need to take some action on that. And then I move that we table that it talk until the next meeting >> to >> and so I'm clear with bringing back the >> process for the communication devices >> and then teacher process for That's a >> educational >> education >> and anything
073else the administrators feel need to be here. >> Yeah, there's something >> to make their job easier because this is not going to be easy the first two months for sure >> and it will probably probably ride waves throughout the academic year back from first and second >> but it's all about consistency. So motion on the floor at the moment is to table until the next meeting um the approval of this policy. Any motions second? Any other discussions at this point in time? We're hearing none at this point. All those in favor of table this until the next board meeting. Okay. We move on to the last bit of info in open session tonight with upcoming dates on the board of education. Got a workshop coming up on. So that was we had personnel. We
074usually do late hiring the board workshop a lot of times talk about goals and stuff with you but that will now be we'll include an open session piece for this this policy address. Any questions on the upcoming hour? >> We do have some items of uh to go back into executive session here. So, it is 8:18 and I'll ask for a motion here in just a moment in accordance with RSMO 610.021 for the purpose of items related to individually identifiable personnel records and hiring firing discipline. Motion >> second. All those in favor of recessing into executive session opposed. We'll take a quick break. We are now in executive session. Thanks. Appreciate You know,