001in session. Uh, next item is uh a uh approval of tonight's agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda as presented? Second. Thank you. Second. Any questions on tonight's agenda? All right. Hearing none. All those in favor of approval opposed. All right. Before we continue, please join us in the pledge of allegiance. To the 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. Thank you. All right. So, we are using a brand new board management platform uh effective this month. So, those that are in regular attendance will probably notice that some things are a little more out of order than maybe um they have been in in uh in previous agenda. So, the next thing that
002we have on our list tonight is uh the approval of tonight's consent agenda. So, do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented? Motion second. All right. Any questions regarding tonight's consent agenda? These are items A through Y. Any questions, comments? items to be pulled or items of concern. All right, hearing none. All those in favor of approval of the consent agenda. Right. None opposed. Motion carries. All right. Then we will turn to Dr. Isacson for this month's superintendent reports. All right. First off, want to thank everyone for graduation this week. Was a great evening and Mr. Groner and his team and a great staff and thank you for all the teachers that uh came out and did that. made that such a great evening for the kids. A couple things I
003want to touch on as we kind of wrap up the year and begin the summer. Um, we're going to have a lot of work from our admin team and such. They don't even know probably how much we're going to have due to the legislation uh that occurred in Jeff City at the end of the the session. Um within the packet uh there's a whole list of different things I want to say. There's mid40 number of items that we have to do. Some are good for the school. Some uh you know as far as kids who are suspended will now be able to count uh their full attendance. But there's also different items that we're going to have to work through that they passed that all districts ban the use of electronic devices during the school
004day for the 2526 school year. So, um while that's not that's probably a good thing, accomplishing that uh and kind of reeling that back in may be challenging. We'll have to work through that. that the board will then have to create a policy on how we're going uh to approach that. There's a requirement that all staff is CPR has CPR. We got I need to get the clarification between CPR trained and CPR certified because those are two different uh significant things. And so there's um a minimum teacher salaries now are adjusted. So, that's good. They put in some uh thanks for the 169 day school that's going to offer some forgiveness on a year like that we had this year. So, those are good. And I'll let the board and public kind of read down
005through that and summarize that within my report. And then also, um our board's awards recognition evening uh that we had a couple weeks ago, 160 students were recognized across many disciplines. That was a great uh evening to kind of wrap up the school year. We're almost done. What's that? That's all I got. All right. Any questions on the superintendent report? All right. Back to you, Dr. Isaxson for this month's financial report. All right. Um, within the financial report, there's two different uh reports. One I put in uh late this afternoon, midafternoon. I'm going to do the May financial report first. This is tracking kind of how we're running this year through May. Um we realize about 87% of our budget on the revenue side, 84% on the expenditure. We've got most of our money. One
006of the things uh that stands out to me, thank you, is on the state level, the state's been holding back um SAT payments. It was supposed to be 67 uh [Music] 40ish and we're getting only 6,700. They said they're going to make that up in June. We shall see. So, they've been slowly hope. So, we may get some revenue payments to end the year. Um, in regards to how we get our revenue on the revenue overview, we kind of keep going down through that. That's how we have ran through April 30th. We're down about almost $400,000 in local revenue. Obviously, the federal revenue, we're down almost uh right at 550,000. A lot of that's just to to uh some of the esser programs and such year-over-year. And uh some of our other revenue categories are
007up as far as on the other revenue like I said last month that was uh with the five Ridgewood property etc. I included in this um a three-year look back. This is will be the first time that you'll have seen this and this is what Miss White and I will use going forward. That way if you have any one year we're like hey are we month over month tracking and something seems off uh or unexpendable dive into that a little bit deeper. So it gives us uh and the board members kind of a look of a year-over-year going back three years which will then help us project three years. Um so is there any questions specifically on any of the items within that? One of the numbers that stands out on the function level, we
008broke it down even uh elementary instruction, middle school instruction, things are fairly consistent uh up a little bit. Food service is up as far as uh some expenses, operation and maintenance um in part just on some of the things that we've been working on to finish out the year. Debt payments is up 202%. Obviously, next year is going to show that that came down significantly u as we're prepaying the debt uh with over 13.6 million paid on that out of the debt service account. So, any questions on that? Our general fund, we're on track teacher fund. Uh we're close to near budget depending on the June payouts and I've been figuring those out. I still think we're pretty good on that. debt service has been fully spended. Capital projects, we've had some high utilization this
009spring uh as we're working on some of those projects uh in the different buildings. So, we're looking good through May. Then going to the next one, the the budget projection and highlights for next year. That'll be Mr. Moore, will you click on go back out into the system? It's the Oh, the other document. The other documents. Uh I want to commend uh Miss White who's here this evening and the work that she's done uh with Dr. Keem putting this together and uh for our budget that we will have to you in early June is uh the level of detail and finding so as we go into next year uh has been great. And so with this report is we're looking at uh assessed valuation to go up over 400 million reflecting a 9% increase in
010our assessed valuation. Um we won't necessarily be able to claim that full amount because of the Hancock amendment CPI. with this as we've paid off our debt. You can see our debt service will be going down. Our current tax rate is $3.73. The tax rate next year will be $3.52. Uh we expect going down again for uh multiple years. We're by far the lowest tax rate in Jeff County. Uh probably by more than 70 cents at this point. So that's something as we planning in the future. Um as far as revenue, um we do expect hopefully if they fund the SAT on the basic formula at 71.45 u excluding the 169 day incentive, we'd look to get 1.3 million in additional revenue. So, it's probably going to fall somewhere in the middle of that is
011how we'll budget this is. For the purpose of this, we budgeted the full SAT because that's what they said we're going to get. Uh, but we're going to in the actual budget dial that back um career ladder, uh, you know, on the amount per get the classroom trust fund, the 169 day incentive, we will achieve that. So, we're get $151,000. Uh that needs we'll put that towards teacher salaries. Um and our total revenue gain is about a million dollars. Some key revenue decreases to note. Uh and I think from now on we're going to see this year over year. It may not uh be in the amount, but it's going to be with Mr. Reau writing grants. um you're going to see we got revenue one year and then it went away. So you know
012the innovative technology grant for 300,000 the CTE performance grant for 246 which is the greenhouse you know those different grants u one time yeah one time and uh we'll try to uh write grants to fill those back in. One of the things that will be going down significantly is our investments, earnings on investment in part because we paid the debt service out. Um, and so that's going to be going down about $850,000, but we're still making good interest on our operating uh especially we locked in those uh CDs and they we made $77,000 last month on those. So, um, some good stuff there. As far as the expenditures projections, um, Miss White highlighted what we had budgeted for last year and what, uh, we're budgeting for next year as far as in the buildings, uh,
013with early childhood, technology, capital projects, and so laying some of that out. And then on the staff salary projections um and we'll get into that is based on what we saw that we were looking at uh ending the year. Um that's where this evening we're going to recommend adding an additional $500 to the already agreed upon to the teacher salary schedule to go to a $1,700 increase instead of 1,200. That still puts us in a really good spot as we project to u with all the different changes that are recommended tonight. Uh project that we're from a salary standpoint will be $140,000 over what our preliminary 2024 25 budget said. um with just doing some things differently and how we've restructured and that includes all the early childhood teachers that benefit. So, uh, we'll be
014adding $815,000 to the, uh, classified certified, uh, excuse me, certified salary schedules. It's just salary to the classified, uh, will be 707 to quantify that, it's more uncert not certificated, so SLPs that aren't certificated in addition to nurses and such. So, um there's salaried staff in there as well. So about $1.5 million adding into uh just salary that doesn't um also well that will that will include some of the other things that we um based on what we're planning for on the budget now is we have this is the um what it look like funing balances ending at the end of uh June 30th of this year and uh where we expect to end at this time next year uh to be at 36.9 in reserves. So kind of a spl planned spend down um
015as we look we are going to have to go for a tax increase and uh investing in our teachers and our kids and such is be able to show that but also we're not a bank so we need to spend that down and I'll be able to show like hey this is we're investing and we need the investment for that. As far as total bonds, um we almost have all the debt paid off. And so, as you'll see, uh next year, the plan is to spend $2.2 million, uh on out of debt service. After next year, debt service will be gone. We'll have enough money to pay off all the debts with the interest. So, um that'll essentially be wiped out. And again, our capital leases are there, but the interest rates are so low.
016We're making more money on the interest rates that they're essentially paying for themselves. So, that's a highlight of where we're at so far this month and where we're um what the budget's going to look like and how we're making those decisions from the salary standpoint. And uh again, I appreciate all the staff in the office and the principles for getting that in and it allows us to be strategic in some of the moves that we're recommending this evening. Uh when you know when you have all that information so appreciate Miss White and Dr. McKini for their many hours on that. Appreciate it. Any questions? 25 or 26. Okay. All right. So, moving on, before we uh switch gears, we do have an item um of action regarding the approval of the revised fiscal year 2025
017budget. So, do I have a motion to approve the revised fiscal year 2425 budget as presented at tonight's presentation? Any further questions on the SY25 budget? Okay. Hearing none. All those in favor of approval. Not opposed. Motion carries. Thank you for that. And then I will ask Mr. Nog if there are any items of public comment tonight. No public comment. Okay. Then we'll turn back to some reports uh back regarding academics uh report tonight on Bridal Ridge a program update. So before I jump into that too, this is typically if you've come to our board meetings or you're watching our board meetings, our how we're going to set up our board meeting, this would there's going to be like action items. It would be like a new business, but we've put everything under our strategic
018plan goals. So starting out, we're doing academics, teaching, and learning. So I'm going to talk about the Bridal Ridge Farm report. Um there's a board in there on the greenhouse program, but then we have an approval item right behind that. So it's not just a approval, approval, approval. We're mixing in some reports. So we're kind of topic focused with that on here. So starting out with the broader ridge agriculture report is um I included some information there from our meeting with Mr. Reauer, Mr. Governor, Dr. Laroo. Um, we met with Miss Jackie kind of working out what we need for the summer and uh, also put in some of our significant milestones and such. They had their FFA banquet uh, and just doing a great job over there. We actually had our first state FFA
019uh, degree recipient as well that we were able to recognize, Miss Giblin. And so uh the greenhouse is uh that all completely done now. It's it's up and running. Uh spy gas is so of course that's just for the heating. So we don't need heat this time of year. But spire gas should be done within the next week or so. They start running the conduit underneath. But yeah, it's occupancy. One of the things too, uh, there's a patio going in with an Eagle Scout is and our Gator leases, but we think we may make a a change on the tractor size is we had a lawn mower uh, come up and we tried that out. Mr. Allison did. It's a diesel lawn mower. It's 9 ft wide. Uh, blows at about 20 miles an hour
020times. Uh honestly go wrong I don't know I can drive it. So uh but by getting that for like mowing the crosscut and around campus is especially during this spring season uh you'll be able to do it much faster and you can mow it about 5 in. So to be able to the area that we're not using for hay and such we'll be able to do fairly easily. So we'll not having to use a tractor to do all the stuff. We can go to a smaller size tractor that will allow us to use some of the smaller implements and more kids being able to drive it. But it with the goal of still being able to if we need to pull the big brush hog to do that. So just some transition there uh that
021I think will actually improve everything and make it easier to maintain. So that's all I have on that one. Any questions? Okay. Thank you. Mentioned the greenhouse program, but the next board report is related to the fiscal year 25 enhancement grant and uh more specifically the greenhouse program that's Do you want to speak to that, Mr. Ren? Now, just I included this document uh because he has to do a followup on it. So just so so there are different reports and different things that we have to do um for the grant as we've got it. Um we had to do uh budget and then fill out different things for them. Um the last thing that we had to do was submit the final budget that's already been done. Um and then we have to do
022a report uh that is due next week but that has already been completed. It was completed about 3 weeks ago. So as far as regards to the state that grant is done, that grant is completed and it's checked off our list. So we should be good to go. Any questions? All right, moving right along. We do have some items uh of action. The next is the approval of the technology specialist for instructional technology and AI integration. Do I have a motion to approve the position description for technology specialist for instructional technology and AI integration as presented? Motion. Any questions on this position? Hearing none. All those in favor of approval. None opposed. Motion carries. Right. On to the approval of the instructional teacher/dean of student conduct position the intermediate school. Do I have a motion
023to approve this position at the intermediate school for the 2526 school year to be filled by a current building staff member who can meet those qualifications? Motion second. Any questions, clarifications, any concerns with this position? I can speak to it a little bit. This is a new position that we've never had. This is going to be like a stipen position similar to a summer school stipen of $6,000 because part of our salary thing as we increase summer school salaries by $500 and the next year. So as part of that this will be uh it would need to be a teacher in the building who is certified uh by Desi as administrator. Um and so It'll be kind of a pilot program to work where they're able to help out Mrs. Marchetti uh and Mr. Jack
024quot on just doing modern discipline student focused open on all of the uh ticky tack stuff that teachers need like that typically like I'm not going to write that up u because they're busy on those things but allows uh that to be addressed and almost another layer of right you visited with that person and that person will make phone calls home and just uh hopefully to get between an hour and two hours a Okay. And then they'll need to do their planning uh after school. So, it's going to be uh working with their team as well. Uh so, they're going to have I don't want it to be a drain on their partner teachers and such. So, it's going to have to be somewhat of a a learning there, but also we'll have them we
025plan to have a mentor that's also working next year with Mrs. Murray. And so that person working with this individual provides another opportunity to grow leadership uh opportunities for our staff to uh become administrators and leaders. And being that it's completely student focused um they're not going to have any uh responsibility on the adults or any authority on the adults from that and they're still a teacher. they just as a they're able to have the hammer be uh assist the teachers uh and give them some more help. You mentioned pilot. Do you do you feel like if that pilot's successful, do you feel this would be something that we would see in other buildings? I don't want to say no. I don't I mean, you know, I guess you know if you know if behaviors
026I guess out of control. How are we going to board that? You know, is that something that you foresee? You know, I think some of it like for the intermediates um standpoint because they have the three grade levels and we've had different buildings with three grade levels before is I've in kind of looking at this looked at the number of writeups in the building at the time of looking it up which was probably three weeks ago. The intermediate had over a thousand writeups. Comparatively, the primary had three or 400. And so I think volume um the high school obviously had the most and junior high is I think the intermediate actually had just a little bit more than the junior high, but it wasn't much more. Um, this volume matters because when you look at
027it from a desi numbers thing is another way to have gotten help there would be to the elementary building actually enrollments blown off where you take a halftime principle that doesn't necessarily work. So to your uh question is for that amount of money it's beneficial if we can make it work. I think it provides that opportunity. Um so maybe but I don't want to be like if a building's got 300 and and if John and Melissa are building 300 kids and things are going nuts it's kind like John Melissa what are you doing? Why do we need or if those behaviors follow a group or a class or whatever. So, thank you. Okay, I'm put putting on my teacher hat here because I remember those days very well. Um, so the expectation is that this
028person who is a teacher would basically give a planning period every single day. Correct. And so anything else would have to be done before school, after school, laid in, etc., etc. So I'm also assuming because it is beginning that this is going to kind of be a fluid type situation that maybe the expectations are here, but wow, this person is overwhelmed. So the expectations can change either up or down based on, you know, what's going on because we don't want to set somebody up to fail. Well, no. Absolutely. And to that here's my first priority and I visit with Mrs. Marchetti on this. when we say every day is if that individual's team needs to meet this isn't I don't want them big time and like no we're not going to talk they're a teacher
029first and assisting on that but also to that end is oh we had a week long if they're grading papers like if they're doing things that are impacting themselves my expectation is hey go that's something you would do after school if it's something that your team needs you, my expectation is you help out your team members or your students or your students and and on uh working through that. There may need to be a couple of adjustments on uh working through to make it work. But my perspective on that, it's it's a great opportunity as somebody that wants to be a leader to get in there and show cuz it's completely focused on kids. So, they're going to be a teacher's hero, but if they never show up and they're find themselves, they're always like,
030"Well, I'll just make those phone calls for my class." A teacher hasn't seen them in six weeks. It's going to be a little bit difficult like when they go like, "I want to do this." when they're applying for a full-time position, it can make or break them. So, it's I would encourage them to do that. So, it's going to be again working with uh the mentor and going through that and we just want to be able to help our teachers out. I'll provide an update mid year on how it's going. Other questions? Okay. Hearing none. All those in favor of approval. Any opposed? Motion carries. Right. On to the approval of the science curriculum. Do I have a motion to approve the science curriculum as it's presented this even? All right. Any questions? A lot
031of work goes into the science curriculum. All curriculum particular. Any questions related to sciences? Okay, hearing none. All those in favor of approval questions. I have a sitting chair like that. I have a whole list of questions for you, Mr. All right. Tied to that, we have the approval of the purchase of some science resources. Do I have a motion to approve the science resource purchase as it is presented this even? Motion. Thank any questions regarding this purchase. Hearing none. All those payroll approval opposed. Not opposed. Motion 7 trouble. Thank you. All right. on to uh items related to culture, climate, and communication. Approval of the communications and strategic engagement director. We have a motion to approve the establishment of a communications and strategic engagement director position as presented. Motion one motion. We have a
032we question back on the creation of this position. Yes. Yeah. because we went to that meeting when I was still in the office and we were one of the few districts that didn't have a fulltime communication. That's true. And um yes, it is time especially with the amount of communication several years and with Dr. Free and Miss Frasa uh both retiring is in doing this my plan tentatively in the salary book we have two people still working on communications u miss sites uh is has did like the social media website video I actually I think we need to change that title more of like communications assistant this summer we've already visited with her we need to retain that position for a minimum of one year to cut the onboarding of a new communication, but also
033the printed nest goes out in July. Yeah. So, we I need to get the website. So, we all kind of need to work on that. So, at least in one year keeping her and this the Shelby Walsh does all the athletic pictures and such. Um, but this is definitely a needed position and we're going to be looking for somebody with a communications journalism background. So, it's likely not necessarily somebody that's potentially worked this long-term strategic change. I think we're going to have plenty of applicants. Yeah. Any other questions? All right. Hearing none. All those in favor of approval. None opposed. Motion carries. All right. On to the uh approval of the program evaluation for our technology department. Do I have a motion to approve the program eval for technology as presented? Second. All right. Any
034questions on that program evaluation? Do you have anything you'd like to present, D? Yeah, I can go through and review if you like. Yep. Down. Just going to add some highlights. Details. Yep. Okay. So, um so yeah, um we have six employees and we currently have a job posted to add to our department um that's going to assist in uh um positions going away at the high school and the junior high um for the tech for the library secretary positions there. So, we're going from two of those locations to one. Um so that'll add seven coming up. Um I try to write this kind of as is as things have already happened. So next year you'll see some some of these updates that I kind of mention as I go through. Um but this is
035like I said kind of snapshot of as things are right now. Um I've got a section under the um program objectives and goals that talks about all the devices we support. Um, so just to briefly highlight those, 750 plus computers and laptops, 4,000 plus Chromebooks and Chrome boxes, 300 tablets, over 45 servers, 400 plus phones, 25 copers, 215 classroom projectors, 125 interactive boards, and then a various various other technologies on top of that. um just those numbers which it would be above that would be 5,860 devices that our department supports. Again, that's plus at the end of that um and with our six staff members. So really that would be over a thousand devices per person that we support as a department. So and again that would change adding somebody on um coming up soon.
036Um, under the program strength section, just wanted to cover a few items there. Um, server virtualization, we've got over 40 virtualization or virtual servers. We've got redundant servers to make sure if one goes down, we're still functioning. Um, we've got other physical servers as well, including our infinite campus server. And we have a um the the storage for that virtual virtualization um is on a device that has redundant hardware and we have a backup for that that's offsite at another building. So that helps provide if we have a a natural disaster event, we still have something on site um to to take care of our needs and and keep keep trying to run um things here. So the next section just high highlight our network. Um we've got a districtwide wireless and wired network that
037um we have wireless access points installed at each classroom. Uh for the most part we're going to um fix the ones that don't have them where we might be we might have them in the hallways. There's just very few um coming up when we replace our wireless and wired network that got approved recently. So, we're going to revamp that this summer, but again, that's not mentioned on here just because it hasn't happened yet, but I wanted to bring that up. Um, but um it's definitely time to do that and those devices are out of support at this point. So, it's a perfect timing. Um, our backup systems, um, we store backups locally and offsite in the cloud. So, that gives us a a little bit quicker restoration if we're able to access the local backups.
038and then in the cloud um if we need to offsite in case again a natural disaster happens or there's issues there. Um student information system um just kind of for your information we implemented infinite campus in 2007 from our older system before that and we've been using infinite campus ever since. um uh we host it locally here our server a lot hosted in the cloud um but I have noticed a lot of alerts where their system isn't available so that actually brings gives us more uptime um for our staff versus having hosted out in the cloud and that's worked out really well for us so far um we're due for a new server coming up our infinite campus server um summer of 2026 um internet access. Um and summer of 2019, we doubled our internet
039to 1 gigabit um internet from with AT&T. Um that's going to double again this summer. So July 1st, we'll have 2 gigabits. Again, that's not on here. Just wanted to mention that. That'll be on the next um you know, eval report coming up. Um we've got some um a security service with AT&T to mitigate some attacks on our internet service if we need to. We have had to use it in the past unfortunately, but um it's kept things running. Um we've got um remote site connect connections to transportation maintenance. um when we uh moved central office when we did that we brought them onto our um internal network. And so that's saved a monthly cost um and that's just continuous savings because we had a onetime cost for that construction. And now we're still continuing
040to see those savings um today. And then um if we ever need to upgrade that connection, we have a we can do that as well to speed that connection up at central office. So, um let's see. So, Chromebook 101 program um just kind of another kind of review the history there. Um we started our program in uh 20 the school year 2020 2021 and that was in response to CO 19 um to make sure our kids could have access at home with those devices. Um we have an insurance program with Gallagher Insurance for administrative relief and management of payments and claims. Um and uh staff computers. Our next um replacement on staff computers is the primary location. We're going to do that this summer. And uh sorry, I had more to cover. I'm like I'm
041realizing this is kind of going long. So I'm going to you can read kind of the read through this if you like. But um and then going under program considerations. Um just wanted to highlight we do have an aging van, but at the same time um still with 188,000 plus miles. It's 2004. But I want to say thank you for we re recently received a transportation van and that's really been helpful. So um that's been working out good for us. Um and um just wanted to mention the junior high is the only um school that has analog cameras. So that would be kind of next on the list for security cameras. So that's uh some something I wanted to bring up. And um under concerns um the high school business labs are going to give
042um make sure they're they have up-to-date computers this summer as well. Um so that's going to be replaced um anything that's needed there. And uh phone system is coming up on 10 years old and we have seen more frequent frequent issues. Um so that's highlighted in here as well. That'll be something that we look at replacing um coming up or at least starting to look into that. And um that's that's where I'll stop. So any questions? Do all district employees go through a mandatory cyber security training either annually or on boarding or Yes. So we provide um through infosac IQ. Um we fish our employees and that but that also they provide training um and we're we want them to have at least 30 minutes of training every year. Um, if an employee clicks on
043a link they're not supposed to, then it provides extra resources to try to train them on what mistake they made um when when they click on the link to things to look for. Um, so I love hearing some of those incidents and I I got a little thank you card and then when I opened it up one day from a staff member, it had a little picture of a fish and it said, "You've been fish." So, so they're like, "You got me." So, they got me back. So, fish me with a card. So, anyway, well, what I love about that is that we as boards get those emails, too. I've been caught the link. Yeah, you got me number. I'm just asking. So, safe way to fish our our staff and try to educate them
044better. And um anyways, this company, I think this is the first time I've heard staff say, "Hey, I didn't get that training." um because it's they have a humorous and and some actors that um kind of try to um relay the concepts that they needed to learn in the training in a real fun way. So, it's the first year that I've heard them actually really want to have the training. They're like, I didn't get it. So, that was good. Thank you. Thanks. All right. Other questions? The only question I saw on here is that um I think one of your goals was was getting a dedicated technology storage space. Can you elaborate more like is there a specific size or are you looking for something that's maybe at a certain temperature control? I don't know.
045Yeah. So, um, we find ourselves kind of bursting at the seams at times. And so, um, we're we've moved some of our Chromebook storage into, um, our server room. I'm just trying to expand that. Um, if you visit the data center, you'll you'll see that we're kind of crowded on with parts and Chromebooks and taking care of over 3,000 kids. Um, our other storage facility is the junior high annex, but it's also shared where welding's occurring and other items that it's not the cleanest space, right? So, we try to select what we put there. So, anything that is more temperature controlled or clean. Um, so that's why that's in there to try to, you know, we make do with what we can and um, but if it it's an opportunity that comes up, then we'd
046love to take advantage of it. So, okay. But we're doing we make it work. I know a facilities guy probably out. Yeah. Other questions? Okay. Very none. All those in favor of approval of the assessment of the technology department. Motion carries. All right. Next on our list is a report, an annual report that is from the foundation and district grants. Good evening again. Um, first from the foundation want to say welcome to welcome. Thank you very much. Thank you. So, it's a gift from the foundation. Um, as you got to hear the report from Kevin Roberts last month, even though we duped him, um, he still gave it. He still gave it and it was a good it was a very good report. We're excited that you guys have joined uh the board and we're
047excited. They're excited about working with you guys. Um, so here is a written summary of what been up to. [Music] So the actually one last week too. Um the uh foundation now uh we've had a couple board members that had to step away. We now have back up to full strength up to nine. Um, you have Abby Taylor who's a 2011 grad. Um, and at one point she even worked for the uh, NFL and uh, she's very much of communication and so we're excited about her joining the team. And then um, Jamie Lambert uh, is a 98 grad and a parent in the district. Super talented. Um, and so we're excited about that. uh over the uh this last year they've raised over $15,000 um and that number I think will significantly grow as we
048move forward. Uh they offered $3,000 in scholarships just last year um to the seniors uh 2025. So we're excited about that. Uh last year they didn't have the classroom grants. We are reinstating that and reinstating that for uh this year. They accepted applications. they will announce that if it's okay with you guys at the opening uh ra so um so they're really excited about that u project uh through generous donation u from a patron of the fountain got to get up and going but we're excited about that it's an icon in the community uh they hosted a retired staff brunch we had about 80 people retired staff show up a couple Saturdays ago they loved I imagine that they will continue that again twice a year. Uh it was sponsored uh by different businesses uh
049Maritime Roberts uh the law firm Robert Zimmer and um First Community Bank. So uh they were excited about that. It was a good time. It was good for people to see faces. Normally they only would see each other whenever they were at funerals. So they were excited to see each other in a positive light. Uh Lor and Dr. Is did a great job representing you guys um at that. Uh the foundation is going to have a big kickoff of stuff uh this coming homecoming. Uh they're going to have homecoming golf tournament. There is information in the back of your packet about that. uh uh the Thursday of homecoming week and then the Friday after the parade they will be hosting a tailgate party at the farm for the alumni and so they're excited about that.
050Uh I imagine that that'll be probably about the time that the retired staff brunch will happen again. They are going to they are in the works also for a 250th anniversary of the United States Gayla uh the week before July 4th next year. So you'll be hearing a lot more about that as we move forward. Um and so the foundation is going very well and we're super excited about that. Uh from grants, we got $30,000 in grants from the Jefferson Foundation, 10,000 for the backpack program, uh 20,000 for the playground to help assist us with the playground at the intermediate. We're thankful for that. Um we got a we just got found out, was it last week? I think we got a $500 grant from FCS Financial uh for uh the fire pits at the
051farm. And so we're excited about that. Uh we got a third $30,000 innovative technology education fund grant that paid for new computers in one of the high school business labs and we're thankful for that. Uh we did talk about this evening the the CTE grant for $240,000 plus for the greenhouse and all of those grants uh the final reports are done and so we're excited about that. Um we have several partnerships. Uh concrete strategies uh we have uh Dr. has done a lot of work with them and uh Pierce Century Farms does a great job. They are we worked out with them. They harvesting our hay a couple times through the summer which is a big huge help to us as well. And this jacket um that's a quick summary. We've got we're waiting to
052hear from a grant from the CTE for this year uh for to renovate the family consumer science uh stuff and we're working on the safety and security grant uh safe schools um through Department of Justice. Uh and that's where we're going to get talk about cameras and stuff like that. Um so we got a lot a lot of balls in the air right now. Any questions? Great work. One additional foundation item kind of since we're on that topic is um uh former school board member John Schuster's uh mother um reached out to me and she had closed his uh political action committee account through the MC and uh wanted to uh give those funds to Kiana Nelson in the form of a scholarship uh recent grant she had seen in the newspaper and some of
053the political activism and such and so uh in order assisting through that process um using the foundation um a donor matched that amount that she had. So now there's the John Schuster memorial um scholarship and so they will figure out a way to send that to Mrs. Schuster. I joked with her that probably person has to be opposed that must be a policy which created kind of a light. So um to that end if that's another use of the foundation and u Mr. Sher has a scholarship as we can add to that if anybody ever wants to start a scholarship all you have to do is call and help you out and thank you for continuing your senior discussion. I've had several people reach out. They're glad that didn't go away when you kind of
054Thank you for your leadership at the foundation level and moving those initiatives forward. Thank you. All right. On to items related to safety, both physical, mental, emotional, and social. Under this category, we have another board report regarding the mental health uh Missouri student survey 2012. Was just sharing that with the board that's actually comes from the Jefferson County Mental Health Board. They conduct a survey uh within Jefferson County. So, it's not just uh Hillsboro students, but uh just some information about what's going on within the county. Um we have a representative uh from Dr. different from Duncan uh serves on that board and uh so how they allocate the money to the different school districts and uh or not necessarily school districts explicitly to the different organizations that serve our students. So uh some interesting
055information um sobering information related to uh kits and just sharing that any questions on that report data set before we move on. Okay. All right. On to some action items related to leadership and governance. The first of which are some minutes from the April 22nd meeting. Do I have a motion to approve the minutes from the April 22nd board of education meeting? Second. All right. Any questions, comments, clarifications? Hearing none. All those in favor of approval and none opposed. Motion carries. All right. We do have a bill payable to Jefferson College. Do I have a motion to approve a bill to Jefferson College as is presented? Motion. Any questions on this single payable? Expecting none. All those in favor of approval this evening? None opposed. I will also have one abstension there. Motion carries. All
056right, on to the approval of the district audit contract. Do we have a motion to approve the contract with Mueller, Oberfell, and Jones for the fiscal year 2025 district audit that's coming up? How long have we been this last year, right? That was Daniel Jones. It appears that uh they may have merged, bought, or sold. I would anticipate we to your question, we've been with that. Yeah, as far as all I can remember, we have um and so I would anticipate uh Miss White had actually sent me an email that next year probably we'll go out to bid and talk to our we may end up with them, but in order for transparency and it's a $20,000 purchase. Makes sense. Thank you. Other questions? Time for me. Hearing none. All those in favor of approval?
057None opposed? Motion carries. Let me have the approval of the addendum to the 2526 certified staffou. Do I have a motion to approve the addendum to the coming year certified staff memo of under of understanding to adjust the base salary increase from $1,200 to $1,700? Motion second. Any questions, clarifications on this? Hearing none. All those in favor of approval? None opposed. Motion carries. Next is our approval of the 2526 salary and benefits handbook. Do I have a motion to approve the salary schedules, the uh enclosed information, and those duty assignments for the coming school year as recommended in the hand? Motion. Stephanie, was your second? Any questions on the contents of that handbook? Hearing none. All those in favor? None opposed? Motion carries. All right. Next up, we have the approval of step level and
058educational movement for eligible employees for the coming year. Do I have a motion to approve salary schedules, level enhancement, level advancements, rather, and the educational movement for all Hillsboro R3 district eligible employees for the 2526 school? Second. Any questions on this this evening? Okay. Hearing none. All those in favor of approval. And again, opposed. Motion carries. All right. And we also have the approval of our upcoming year's board of education meeting calendar. Do I have a motion to approve the 2526 board uh board of education meeting schedule as it's presented? All right. Any questions on the upcoming calendar? Why is August not on the fourth Thursday? It's early. Is that because that's actually because I'm presenting at a conference. I just figured that will be out at the HR that's I was like I already
059had on my calendar as the fourth. Gota just curious one week earlier and in case we needed one hired yeah because of the start of school we did try to move the office meeting around that week uh I think it's a Monday so it's kind of after that week all right other questions Committee assignments. Oh, did we skip the committee assignment? Yeah. Do we have a couple things to pass? Yeah. All right. We come back. Let me come back to that. I missed that on my list. All right. All those in favor of approval of the meeting calendar as presented. Yes. Thanks. All right. Moving one item back up the agenda, we have board committee assignments to work through. Do I have a motion to approve those proposed committee assignments as presented in accordance with
060our policy BCE related governance procedures? Second. Okay. Move some people around here. A recommendation. Okay. Um for the Hawk Award support staff, you know, there's two of us and then two former board members. I would like to recommend that we add another person whether it's a I'm assuming a third board member to that because at a step of four we haven't hit this yet but it's a possibility that we would have two to two vote and with five people in the committee that won't happen. Okay. And if anybody wants an insurance spot, I would be ready to go on. I'll trade you for policy. I'm on policy already. Yeah. Right. To that end, we don't have to have three. You just can't have more than three. So, right. Exactly. If you want to resend on
061that, I can remove and we'll just have two on the committee. else wanted to. We already have two on the committee. There's two of us and two former board members. I Okay, let's Oh, we're talking about different things. Yeah, we'll stay on the Hawk. That's what I thought we were talking. You brought up policy. Yes. I'm sorry. Uh, yep. Where were you at? Where are we talking about? Let's do the hawk board. All right. Hawk works. Yeah. Any further discussion on on the addition of an additional seat to that uh committee? I'm good with that. That makes sense. Yeah. All right. So, we do need to make amendment to the motion on the floor, which is as presented. So, do we have a motion to amend um this recommendation and and it is specifically to
062add that fifth seat to the motion for that? Second. Second. Of course, we need somebody to call that. All those in favor of of the amendment to that. Okay. So, that is our that's our that's our current motion on the floor. Are there any further discussion on uh on any of the other committee structures? All right. Then moving on to committee assignment and arrangements. The you're concerned about being on or off of insurance? Anybody? Very easily to come off of insurance. enough that it really if somebody planned to be on there, you know, one of your coveted spots or I think it it just it would just potentially be a vacant spot if that wasn't uh I don't mind. I mean, you know, if somebody really wanted it, you would. You're a team player, huh?
063I am. try to be such a great job with it. So, we're just gonna keep you in there. Big shoes to fill there, Beth. Big shoes. Yeah, right. Any other discussion tonight on committee assignments? Anybody want to shift or change? Are dying to get on or off of any other? Well, let's see what else I don't even know. I just know my name. Um, Yep. That's already that's already listed. Good. Okay. All right. One last call for any concerns related to committee committee structures before we get to the hawk. Yes. Would anyone like to fill what will be the new seat on the hawker board? I'll do it steps in. All right. Cage. Okay. All right, with that all those in favor of approval of tonight's discussion on changes regarding board committees opposed carries. Last
064item of business tonight is with regards to updates uh regarding upcoming calendar events. Look, we got a couple of items coming up in June. Got a work session on the 12th and then a regular meeting on the 26th. about that just cage to All right. So, yeah, the evening of the 12 7:00 p.m. for our upcoming work session and that'll be the uh final draft of the budget and then we're session on the 26th. So, any questions regarding the upcoming calendar? Okay, brings us to the end of tonight's agenda. All those in favor of adjourning tonight's meeting. We need a motion. Motion. I'm sorry. We have a motion to adjourn at 8:05. All those in favor? None opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you everybody.