001I pledge 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. All right. First, we need a motion to approve the consent agenda. which consisted of the C3 apprenticeship agreement, uh, roofing contract for MIS, um, some engineering data and and and for the U for the bus barn out at out at MIS campus, uh, which included the I think it was stand construction and insight. Uh and then the policy BBFA board member board member conflict of interest and financial disclosure. >> So move >> second. >> All in favor? >> I opposed. >> Need a motion to approve the financials for December bills totaling 2 million56,686. >> So moved. Second. I'm assuming everybody had answers to questions.
002>> Yep. >> I wasn't looking at you for a reason, Jack. [laughter] >> All right. So, all in favor? >> I opposed. >> All right. Next, we need to approve the minutes from the December 9th, 2025 board meeting. So, move. >> Second. >> Moved and seconded. All All in favor? >> I >> opposed. >> All right. Next, we'll adopt the agenda for the remainder of this meeting. I don't think there was anything. >> Second. Do >> I need to need to bring that up? >> No, because it doesn't it wasn't required. Doesn't change anything. >> All right. All in favor? I >> oppose. Now we will have the spotlight. Mrs. Norine Gascoll from Beaker Middle School. >> All right. Good evening. >> Good evening. >> And happy new year. Hard to believe that it is
003January, but I am Norian Gascal as you already know because I'm on the agenda. All right. Um, trying to get used to the clicker. >> The on button >> point up there. Turn it on. >> It's wireless. No, I promise I've worked one before. On. Battery is full. Look at that. Look at that. Like magic. All right. This year has been a true building year. um where we our administrative team have focused on um buildingwide processes, routines and clear communication. We've made some intentional moves as leaders. Um one of which is how we divide our mentorship. Uh we separated this from evaluations. Uh we've encouraged the growth of our hospitality committee and they have seen record involvement this school year. We've decentralized leadership through our school improvement team and we are working on building community
004through unity and vision. I would be remiss if I did not mention um all the work that we have put in with building not just our community at bigger middle school but community in Marshall public schools. Uh it doesn't feel good to take losses. Uh but we did lose our pink week and we haven't lost in a while. So, uh, we lost our pink week challenge to the high school in volleyball this year. Uh, but I think we made up for it in I don't know if this is appropriate, but we're going to go with it. Clobbering the new school, uh, MIS in our charitable giving. Our staff really came through. They didn't just come through. I mean, it's a landslide. So, Fallon, if you're watching, thank you. Uh so we collected many items for
005our community. Okay. Um engaging and informing the community is always at the forefront of our minds. Uh Beaker does a lot of great things. Um but the question is how do we show without having people physically come into the building? I know it was difficult and maybe uncomfortable for some um when we asked not to invite parents to our assemblies. Uh but ultimately uh we provided other opportunities for them to see their students in action. Um we've leveled up our use of social media. Uh these are just some examples. Okay, this is very small and you can't tell. Uh, but my personal goal when I first started using Facebook on behalf of Beaker Middle School was to beat this post that Mr. Pettit put on there. He put some posts and it had a ridiculous
006amount of views. It was a real of him giving away something. So, I'm sure everybody wanted to know if they had won. And that was the the the marker what I wanted to beat. And we have several times in case you were wondering. Um, but we're showing the community. We're showing parents what they what their students are doing and how they're doing it. And we're doing it as frequently as humanly possible. Um, and this is in addition to uh stepping up our use of Kinvo. So, we're messaging families what are what's going on um how to stay informed. Uh, and yeah, it's it's been wonderful and the response has been wonderful as well. Uh I know that some people were worried about our change of not inviting parents to our assemblies. Uh but we also
007for the first time ever included uh an evening performance of our play that our students work so hard on truly um and Miss Rudd works so hard on uh and they would have one shot one shot in the morning and I don't know about you but it's difficult to get call off work to watch your student perform at 8:00 in the morning um and then race to work. So we had about 125 people, not including infants, attend that. And it was wonderful. It was wonderful to see siblings able to watch and parents come and grandparents come and um did we fill our auditorium? No. But it was a wonderful turnout for a first time evening show. Okay, these are some difficult numbers. Uh but they're good. They're actually a good thing. uh we focused uh
008some heavy-hitting processes in this presentation. Okay. Um one is our tardies. Uh thank you for coming to support and if they have questions they can ask you about this. Uh no I'm kidding. I am eloquent in this uh fluent. Um I'd like to point out that these are our tardy numbers per grade level uh at our sixth, seventh, and eighth grade level. Uh if students are not arriving to class on time, they're not learning. They're disrupting learning when they come in. They need to be out of the hallways and in their seats and ready to rock and roll when they that bell rings. So we have held them accountable to what our handbook says we are going to do. And if you do the math, okay, and you do the tardy math, approximately three tardies
009will warrant one consequence. So according to this the first semester our sixth graders would have had the equivalent of 47 consequences our seventh graders 248 and our eighth graders 92 totaling 387 consequences for tardies. Now that's inflated. That's not the real number because a lot of these are one-time offenses. They're um let's say everyone was laid was tried to eat one time. They did not equate to a consequence. But I will tell you that there are a lot of phone calls and there are a lot of inerson conversations happening and there will be plans set for those students who reach the level of ISS. Just a few of them, but some of them received ISS uh for their tardies and now they will have plans um developed by our team um to help them get
010to where they need to be. Okay, I've been so eager to share this with you uh because 92 oh 94 sorry I apologize 94 phones not 94 phones 94 infractions have been documented as far as the first semester goes. Um but what we are receiving the feedback we're receiving from teachers um and families is positive. There's maybe 94 times that we've documented where a cell phone was seen and taken to the office. Taken to the office by the owner of the cell phone. We don't touch the cell phones. We have a policy. We follow this uh procedure. I apologize. We have a procedure in place. We follow it. We have um our office staff does a wonderful job of communicating through Kinvo, text message and email to families. um not only the first offense uh
011but every offense after that and when they have to pick those up. So I want to thank them for their consistency. Um it takes consistency throughout the whole building to make this possible. Teachers are saying they're really not a problem, right? Because we're seeing them in passing and we're take we're having them collected and we have a checkout like come get your phone or have your parent check out your phone. Um, I think that this has a lot to do with how we promoted this um, very transparently at open house. We took uh, questions and answers from parents what this would look like. Um, how they could support their students uh, with this new uh, state law. Um, and then we outlined exactly what the administrative role would be, the teacher role would be, the
012student role would be, and the parent role. Um, and we've held it held the mark there. So 94 in first semester. I bet you're wondering how many phones did you confiscate last year? I think it was about 75. So are the numbers up? Yes. But keep in mind those were 75 times that teachers were like, "Ah, get off your phones." Not just seeing phones, they were frustrated. They were um to the point where an office referral was probably made. Okay. So, this is just some facts about what we're seeing in the patterns and what we're seeing is there's really no pattern. Um, and that we're working on that and watching that. Okay. So, something that another thing that we're working on here at Beaker Middle School is high school readiness. So, I met with uh
013Mr. Navaro, Mr. Heler, um, Mr. Albertson during the summer and we talked about how do we get these eighth graders ready to go to the high school? And the number one frustration was that they're, [laughter] why did these eighth graders come into our lunchroom and ask to use the restroom? Just use the restroom. Okay. Well, they ask because we have three stalls. Uh, and I don't know if you know this, but they want to congregate because there's all of this structure at the tables where you have to sit with your home room and you can't be with your friends. Where can you be with your friends? In the restroom. So, we have some some structure and some things that we have to abide by here at Beaker. Uh, but we're trying to like give them
014a little bit more freedom, right? We want our students to not have to do those things. We are explaining to them we are trying to set you up for success at the high school and I'm thrilled with the progress that our eighth graders have made. They have open lunch. I mean like they can sit wherever they want. They know the expectation. They meet the expectation. Um they are working on not going into the bathroom when there's more than three people in there. Go figure. Uh so we're working on it. Mr. Albertson, I remember. Uh, and um, our seventh graders, that's a large class. Okay, the class of 31 is large and they're taxing, a joy. They're a joy, but they they require a lot of clear instructions. Now, our sixth graders do have open lunch
015on Fridays, and they're getting used to it, and it's going really well. So, I'm excited for them. Okay, so this slide we just wanted to touch briefly on um I talked about early on that we separated our evaluations from our mentorship. So each we have three principles, three administrators at Beaker Middle School and we each have a grade level that we work with. Uh we are in those halls, we are bouncers of those bathrooms, we are um confidants of those teachers. We work with them. They're our team. Um but we also have to um evaluate teachers. And so the way that we do that is we um have divided the other the other teachers on our plate. Um I work with sixth grade uh and then others outliers. Um and then we have I'm sorry
016I my team is seventh grade but I evaluate sixth grade. And then we have you know Logan. He works with um he's on the eighth grade floor. that's where his office is and he evaluates seventh grade and then Megan has the other. So Megan works with sixth grade as a team. Um but she evaluates eighth grade. It's like a scramble in my brain. Um so we get to track them all year long and show progress and um we do cover for each other. We don't just do our own grade levels, but it's one way to build that rapport and consistency. All right. And we have to of course mention um some academic goals that we have our students. Um we wrote on our improvement plans that we are going to bring up our percentages, right?
017Our MAP test scores by 2% uh in each tested level. And um the num the information is cut off at the bottom, but you'll see that uh we are not too far off from where we have in the p where we've tested in the past. Okay. All within um margin of error, but it's not good enough, but it's a starting point. Um so if we can meet that this year then we can start to make plans to address those deficits in the future. Uh but this year is a year of understanding, a year of um figuring out what our strengths and weaknesses are so that we can target them. And that's all I have for you unless you have questions for me. I don't think so. >> No questions. Okay. Thank you for your time.
018>> Thank you. Appreciate it. >> Thank you, Miss Gas. >> Mr. Patrick, thank you for being here, too. Appreciate it. >> Yep. [snorts] >> I don't see any public, but I'll pause a minute for public comment. I will say we this is board appreciation week or month or whatever this month. >> Yeah. And we are surprised with letters from students at uh MIS uh thanking us for the school building and telling us about their day. And uh these are fun. I'm going to read these. I'm let my wife read one of them for sure. But thank you for that if anyone's watching. So, all right. Next, we will hear from Deputy Superintendent Mr. Ranky. Good evening. Um, I'd also like to say I appreciate everything the board of education does. I know a lot of
019times it's not a easy job. Um, I'm sure I'll say the joke, too. You guys get paid so much for doing the position, but it's definitely uh very appreciative. Um, kind of addition to that, you uh hope everybody's had a great new year. It's been a really great start to the school year, I believe. Um, you know, and that there's a lot of work that goes into that. I know for us, it has been a fast and furious start when when everything got ramped back up. Um, but I just want to go ahead, you know, and thank our teachers, our secretaries, maintenance, our custodians, bus drivers, our food service, um, our administrators in the buildings. Um, I mean, it takes a team to get everything back going, so I really appreciate it. All right. So,
020I just have some I don't have any action items tonight, just a lot of information um for you guys and some follow-ups and I'll try to be fairly brief. So, I want to talk about a playground at MIS. Um what's going on with next year's school calendar. Uh we've been busy working on on that. Uh little beaker update. Um some additional safety and security improvements throughout the district. uh the SRO vehicles and then some - bids that came in here right at the beginning of the week I wanted to include in this report. So So moving on to MIS our uh our new building uh we had some extra funds and we were uh going through that and you know anytime we we have the new building and you're going to adjust and find out
021we should have done this or should have done this just a little bit different but one of the things that we wanted to do is expand the playground. Okay. Just right off the back of the building into the play or uh off the existing playground to give those kids a little bit more room um you know for for recess and with um you know just the if we grow in enrollment or whatever just to have a little bit more room. So this is going to be come to fruition here um probably in March. We're going to go ahead and break a little bit of ground uh right behind there and put up a couple more apparatuses and some more swing sets for the kids and and then we'll eventually our maintenance crew um within the
022district will go ahead and fence off a little bit of that area. So that'll be a nice addition to MIS and give our students and and our teachers a little bit more room. So So if you see that, that's what's happening going on there. Okay. Um calendar work. So, we've been working on LA or for next year's school calendar. Oh, we probably started in November. Uh have a calendar committee we put together uh consist of all the assistant principles in the district. Uh I like to use the assistant principles. I think it's a great learning tool as they grow as administrators. Um, and we started by putting together a um, survey out to our entire staff to get some information what what people liked, uh, what they didn't like, what they'd like to see changed.
023It's always amazing to see get that data back because it's almost split 50/50 on what people like or what people don't like. Um, and especially what high school elementary worlds want. So, but it was good. Um, so we were putting together the calendars and if you notice in the calendar, it actually with the uh state law and and and it's for the state fair how it starts. It actually starts a week later for next year is our first our start date. Um, so legally the earliest we can start is August 24th next year. And when you talk about August 24th, just that one week getting pushed back and then trying to be done before Memorial Day and then we want to try to get our 169 days in there. Um and then you add your
024spring break or Christmas break and all the PD days. It's really tough. It is really tough to fit all that in. Uh so there was a little bit of there there was a push. Um and I did not hear it was at the state board of education meeting this morning. I did not hear how that went yet. Um, but several districts throughout the state did a waiver. Um, I went ahead and and uh put in a waiver for Marshall School District 2 just to be able to start a few days earlier. Um, so we put in a waiver that hope if we were asking to start August 18th. Um, and just those four days would free up so much in our calendar. Um, and then so when hopefully, so I put the calendar kind of
025development on hold to see if our waiver gets granted. Um, if it doesn't, it's not the end of the world. We'll just start August um 24th or sometime that week, whatever the committee or the the faculty will vote on. We'll give some different options again this year. But um so hopefully in this process, not trying to delay the process, but waiting to hear what Desi says and um with some school districts and with this and I want to be very clear, I think the state fair is very important. We have several kids. Uh my my daughters participated in that. Um but checking into it, I don't think it will affect a lot of our kids um just those four days in at the end of the state fair. So, I we were very cognitive of
026that to um to not step on those toes. So, that's just a little bit of information. We'll we'll continue to work on that and then when we get it set um we'll send that out to our whole or our options out to our staff and then bring it back to the board for approval. So, anybody have any questions on that? All right. Well, moving on. A little update on Old Beaker Middle School. Okay. So, Beaker Middle School and we talked about our facility assessment and that did get kicked off here. Um, actually right away when we came back yesterday, uh, we did our first walk through with uh, Denovo Construction. Um, it it was good and you know they they lot of needs in Beaker Middle School. Um, that's no secret. Uh, the first things
027that we were really [clears throat] really identified that we need to do and it's no secret. I've talked about it before. Number one, the roof. Number two, the secure vestible that regardless of what happens with Beaker in the future, those are two things that really need to get done. Um, so we put that as a prior priority. Um, and he knows that. So we took some measurements and everything, went up there yesterday. He did some assessments and he's going he went back. He's going to get some options together. I'll present to the board here hopefully fairly soon. And I'm really hoping that at least these two things we can get started depending on finances get started in the spring um or finish up this summer. And then in January 28th here at the end of
028the month then for Mrs. Gasco too you admin team will be invited and some of your teachers but they'll send a team in and do a more thorough assessment and go down in the tunnels and and check water pipes and and just do a a whole uh scan through of that building. So then we can really get a good idea of where that's at. So So that's kind of where Beaker's at. Anybody have any questions on that? All right. Um just a couple more things that we we've been working on. Uh additional safety and security. Now, Greg, Mr. Woodring, he is our safety and security officer. He'll do a more thorough uh presentation probably come spring summer, but there's been a lot of work that's been going on in our safety and security. And I
029just wanted to update the board on some of that. Um it's caused a little frustration, too, because we we went to when I first came into the district, we everybody had a key to everything and nobody knew what keys went to whatever. So, um and of course that was with four other uh buildings. um worked really hard to try to get at least down to two systems. So now the high school beaker has a system and then every MIS Spain how this building has a whole system and it does come down to safety and security be able to control that get in thing. um worked hard on putting the um uh NOX boxes outside every building so in case there's an emergency, our emergency personnel, fire or our police, they have access to a key
030to be able to get in. Um so that has has been a good thing. Um really appreciate uh Sheldon at the fire department working with us at that. He's worked really hard to to help us move that along. So that's been good. Um uh so another thing, door access controls, our electronic controls. We're continuing to add that. We added here and at Beaker and then at Spainhower. Um that's always a good thing. I like the door access controls, key cards. Um if there's ever an emergency, we can lock down easier. You can open up easier for for emergency personnel. Um, and then if something ever happens where we need to, if there was ever, you know, something happened with an employee that had access, we can shut them down very easily, so they couldn't get
031into the facility. So, um, it's good to continue to to build that throughout the district. Uh, we also have added additional security cameras. We're working on some for Beaker. Uh, added some at Spain how and we're getting some additional ones here. Um, and then we have also uh worked uh to we did a big push on the Z-locks to be able to lock down classrooms there a couple years ago. As we go around, we find a room here, this room changed or this room's now an office or something. So, we're continuing to um keep those updated. Um, and then I I just want to thank our SRO's and Mr. Woodring for working really hard at doing that. So, um, and then speaking of safety and security, SRO vehicle update. Um, I don't know if anybody's
032seen these. I like them. They look good. Uh, so the one thing was, Mr. Ranki, how could you buy all new SRO cars? Well, we did not buy all new SRO cars. Um, these are actually very used um, old police cars we got off an auction. And um we we bought these and then brought these back. We wanted to update it, give our SRO's um more of a security a security look. Um I think it also is, you know, talking to law enforcement in our SRO's when you have this these cars outside of schools and they're very recognizable, they are a a safety det I mean, not a safety deterrent, they are a deterrent. if I'm going to go up to a school and try to do something bad, I'm probably going to think twice
033when I see that car sitting out out in front. And that was one of the main reasons we wanted to do that. Um, but with that, so got those at auction. They didn't cost very much, but I we had several people that I want to thank. Um, Chris Chamberlain worked very hard. He actually did all the graphics on there. He just did it for the the district. [snorts] We did buy the graphics, but they weren't very much. And then we had a lot of local law enforcement and the fire department people um that helped us out, you know, putting different stuff in the cars and, you know, just trying to retrofit them to work. So, and they donated their time and everything. So, I appreciate our local law enforcement and our emergency services for helping
034us out and um giving our SRO's uh some some a nice vehicle to a recognizable vehicle to be in. So, all right. The last thing I have, and this is nothing to vote on. I will bring this back next month, and I wasn't even going to include it, but it did come this week, so I just wanted to let the board know. This is something we do every year. We try to do an -ate project every year. - a federal funded program uh for schools, libraries to help with uh a lot of electronics um and networking. They uh some of that stuff gets very expensive. So this helps deter the cost. Uh we are working on a project. It will actually be for next year but uh updating our um our server switches and our
035access points in the IIA building uh the AE building and some of the career center and what basically we got our bids back. Um I will bring you a contract next month for approval. Um, and then we'll probably go with Provision again. $35,968 for uh our switches and then 60 60 basically 61,000 for access points. The total of the contract will be $96,000, but it'll only cost the district $19,000. We get 80% reimbursement off of rates. So, um, and that was approved uh going through that just just came back. So, I'll double check all the bids and the contracts and then [clears throat] then bring it back to the board for next month's approval. So, all right, that is all I have this month. Uh, just some information. Does anybody have any any questions? All
036right. Thank you very much. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Rinky. You going to stay seated? I >> always feel bad to stay seated, but that microphone's you can't hear me when I go up there. [clears throat] >> All right. So, uh, first things, a little housekeeping. It is, uh, board of education recognition month here at Marshall. We uh we want to thank you all for everything you do first of all and then want to thank SPS who provided you guys this nice banner and some really neat cards and letters like Mr. Smith had mentioned and then uh also we have a couple board members that had other obligations tonight. They couldn't make it, but uh we did get you a stocking cap or a ball cap of your choosing and I think that pretty
037much summarizes your compensation for the year as well. Um but we really do appreciate you all and what you do. Thank you very much. I also don't want to u leave out our secretaries to the board uh Denise Reno and Ashley Norman. Ashley's been training to be sworn in in April when we reorganized the board. Denise has been helping us out as uh the board alternative alternative alternate secretary to the board. It's a mouthful. And I just really appreciate all their work. It really is a big learning curve and I think they're both doing a really nice job and I appreciate them both. So, thank you to all of you. I want to say first of all um I have a few things to go through um just sort of everywhere like a pinball which
038is pretty consistent and I hope you don't mind and uh feel free to stop me if you have any questions. I want to thank uh Craig Thompson for being with us. He's he's u I would argue the best director of transportation in the state and he also moonlights in many other areas and he uh he left one meeting to rush to this meeting and uh we're not going to put him in the hot seat tonight. We are going to talk about a little city business and I think it'll be good that he hears that. But we're also going to talk about Bus Barn. And I just wanted you to be able to ask him questions, but forgive him if you might need time to answer them if you do have questions for him tonight. We
039didn't bring him here to uh quiz him and stump him. That's not our goal. So, why not? >> Okay. So, the old business, we'll just start right into that. We have things to discuss there. The old business we talked about last month was that the city and the school district, they did have a land exchange agreement. And I keep forgetting if that was 23 or 24. we actually signed, but this was the site that we're talking about. That was the smoke stack site. Um, so the picture on the left is showing the paved street. That's the new street on the school property now. And then uh and then you can see it from down below sort of what that looks like where that was. And that's part of what we we're going to meet and
040talk about since last meeting. And we'll we'll discuss that a little now. We'll discuss that a little more regarding uh contract stuff and close this evening. Uh what it all kind what it all really 100% comes down to is that contract has and I'm going to use contingencies with other business tonight. But these [clears throat] contingencies mean different things with regard to this contract. There's just some things that we're the city and the school is working out what will satisfy it on both sides. And obviously there there's school perspective and there's city perspective and then there's contract and lawyer perspectives and we've got to just sort all that out. Um the discussion we had last month that I'm following up on is that our bus barn will be located at what used to be the
041dietary building um at the old HAB center property which is now behind MIS on the northeast campus. So our questions uh that we're sorting through and we'll will be sorting through for a while is what will happen with this piece of property? The city retain ownership of that. Um and so our question is what will happen with that? because that purple line represents uh a school perspective perfect scenario. It would be nice if we could take buses along that purple line and get them off of that site for an extra way out. Um so the discussion is does the city want to tear down that foundation? Do they want to keep it and use it for something? If they do, would they allow us an easement for our buses? We're afraid there will be times
042where our car rider line will block buses for trips. So, that's the discussion that we're having um and sorting through. And then this is a picture of the Eastwood site. >> You you've met with the city already. >> We had a we had a meeting recently. Um we had the city's council, Mr. Ranki and I, uh the city administrator and the assistant city administrator and I met and discussed this. And I would I would say it's definitely a preliminary conversation. I don't know if we're um I don't know if we're all seeing it eye yet. And then the city council ultimately has to weigh in and and um make some decisions there and direct the city administrator. So there's definitely going to be more to talk about. Um we are going to go ahead in
043our board business tonight make a motion for a resolution. That's part of that contract for the land exchange agreement. We we need to sign off and give that land to the city and then uh and then we'll do that. We'll be ready to do that as soon as we come to terms on what that contingency will look like, what what's going to happen with that. And it and I said this last month, the the offer was it we would like that foundation to go away. We've also offered and I put this in writing to them. I can't remember at all, but so generalities, forgive me for being general, but I don't want to be too specific and be wrong. We've said if you guys don't want to tear it down, you're going to develop it.
044Great. uh we don't have to own it, but if you're not going to develop it, we would be willing if if you would give us that red square. If you wanted to transfer ownership of just that red square, we would take care of the destruction of the foundation. We have the equipment. We can do that ourselves now and we have places to get rid of it. Um, if they don't want to do that, then our ask would be, could we compromise and just give us an easement to get our buses through there and let us fence that off because especially if the city does do something with it. My concern, you see the muddy tracks on the lefth hand picture. They shouldn't be there because that car shouldn't have done that. Um, we we want
045to be able to make sure that we don't have undesirable behaviors going on on the that property. And yet, we want the city to be able to do whatever they want to do. We've had a great relationship. We worked through a lot of things and accomplished a lot of good things. Um, but that would be part of the easement. Could we get a bus through there and could we go ahead and fence across your property if you're going to develop it? Um, so at this point, the way it was left was that we'll probably have city attorneys talk with school district attorneys um if we need to. And then and then I've also uh let the city know I would be happy to to meet with the council and and talk more and and negotiate
046more. Ultimately, I just want to resolve the the issue and I think we all >> they have any plans for it at all? I mean, is this something they want to develop? >> I think that some have plans and some don't and probably don't all agree. I don't know. I haven't been to the council meetings in a little while. I need to get to going again and be better informed. Um, but yeah, that's sort of where it sits now and probably that's the that's probably the big question. What's the majority want to do on the council side and then how can we come to terms with the school side? That fairly said enough, Craig? Um, so [clears throat] we will go ahead and approve the resolution tonight. I want to in good faith let the
047city see that we're we're wanting to we're wanting to do this well and complete it in a way that's good for everybody. We did have that meeting and we will be waiting to hear more and then uh and I've welcomed a conversation after I followed up from that last meeting kind of summarized what our talking points were and just reiterated again we are very happy to have conversations with the city council too if they want to discuss uh they're probably I think as I understand it they're going to be the decision makers in that and uh hopefully we'll resolve it well. I the Eastwood site sad to have that school building gone, but I believe the city council has discussed in a couple meetings that I did follow early in the year before things got
048really busy. Uh I believe that they're satisfied with the condition our site and uh you can see it's foundation's gone, fooding's gone, etc. So now the comparable question is just what's that site going to what's that going to look like long term? Any questions about that? Craig, anything I left out or you'd want to say? All good. >> Okay. All right. So, we're going to jump around. Uh, like I said, we're going to talk about attendance and, uh, this is really exciting stuff. It's going to lead this is a culminating event, so to speak, that we've been hoping for for a couple years. Speaking of collaboration with with city entities, uh, there's a lot of them that I'm going to thank for what's come out of this along with our social work team. But MPS
049attendance has been a goal we've had in our governance plan for years and we've really been hyperfocused on it the last several. But this is a this is some data that the social work team put together for me. So to them goes the credit for these next couple of slides. But they take care of tracking our attendance and helping with our policies and our enforcement of those policies as relates to the student attendance. And for the public sake I want to say this isn't just MPS choosing to be sticklers about attendance. Obviously, it's good for teaching and learning, but we're also penalized by the state if they're not here. And attendance has been a big concern. So, at present, uh I should say really as of January 9th, 209 students in our district have missed
05012% or more of this school year. Um for MHS, that means 62 kids MIS 56, Beaker 35, and Spain, 56 kids have missed 12% or more of school this year. That isn't something I expect you to read, but 12% would be the very bottom of that screen. The equivalent of about 18 days. So take that percentage and compare it to those numbers. Again, 62 kids have missed 18 or more days at high school. 56 have missed 18 or more days at MIS. That's a lot of days by January the 9th. Certainly that's got to have impacts on how much they're learning and also penalties for the school district. So the discussion has been what are we going to do about that attendance and can we get a truency program going and I'm really excited to
051say that we have one that has begun and it's been supported by all of these wonderful folks uh including the 15th judicial circuit court and the juvenile division uh judge Harvey. There's some discussion also with the city about uh I believe that falls to an ordinance and that would allow the municipal court to support us as well, but we already have something good going. We're just looking for consistency. The question in the past has been do we want to do this at the county level alone or do we also want to be able to do it at the city level? And that that's some of the things with the social works team and driving we've been able to talk about and [snorts] uh council person uh Bellamy, Mrs. Bellamy. Um, she she's on the municipal
052side of that and she also serves the city council as their legal counsel. So, so that's something the city's been talking about and another thing that I I need to collaborate with the city council more on uh just for consistency, but it's going it's happening and we're really excited to have a juvenile judge that presides over these um court dates. And the first one occurred on January the 6th. >> [clears throat] >> um eight students and their guardians were asked to attend. And that's the really important part. You know, if you're a kindergartener, it's it's difficult for me as a parent and an educator to say, "Well, that kindergartener needs to lose out on these opportunities or field trips and the things that we do to discourage attendance. If you're kindergartener, you didn't have an
053opportunity to drive yourself to school today if somebody didn't get you up and get you to the bus." So, the parents also are asked to come. Seven of those eight students for the first court date were Marshall students. And then there was another student from another district. Six did attend with their parents. Two did not. Um and they went before the judge and they were asked to explain why they're not attending school on a consistent basis. The law says until the age of 16, you have to come to school. And I think we could all agree. Um it's probably better for these children as adults that they come to school, graduate, and have a diploma. So the outcomes from that are not all negative. Uh in fact, I would say they're largely positive. Uh there
054was a lot of encouragement, discussion, certainly accountability too, but they there were resources discussed. What do we need to do to sometimes help the parents uh get the kiddos to school and then sometimes there's mental health issues involved where maybe the parent is trying and that does happen sometimes and they can't get that child to school. So really really excited that this is in taking place and I think it's going to build relationships with these community partners that we need to have relationships with and it's probably going to build relationships with those families and those community partners. So a huge thank you to all these folks listed out the juvenile office county juvenile judge our school administrators resource officers our our secretarial team has a ton of work that they keep track of this all
055those what day did you miss? Why did you miss did you you know it's really specific and a lot of work goes into it and the social work team most of all who I said put these slides together for me even tonight so that I didn't uh mess up any of the facts or the details got this all going. It's been a it's been a couple two to three year labor of love and I think it's going to have positive results for our kids and our families. Any questions about that? Okay. Construction funds. Same picture because it was easier for me. Uh but construction funds we built building B the large green blob in this particular image uh MIS um our original construction contract had another sort of contingency not like the contract I'm discussing
056with the city property uh these contingencies were we knew we had tunnels on the site sometimes you start construction you find surprises and MIS is done the building is built we do have some leftover funds and proceeds from that build we're required by law because we went to the public for those funds to use it for construction. Um, but the $1 million in contingencies for building Marshall Intermediate School, we are certain we won't need to use because it's done. So, uh, we started down this path that, well, we'll just do change orders. And it started getting pretty confusing pretty quickly about November. And so, working with NAB Holds, working with Insight, we had the discussion, you know, though we can do that, I I'd like my board to know, and I don't want to forget
057and get confused. We need to separate these funds and these projects. And uh that's what they're working to do for us. I don't have a motion on this matter tonight, but I will at our next board meeting have stronger numbers. And part of what I'll ask you to vote on is um to reallocate those funds to allow us to finish the bus barn. It was up in the air. Would we build a different bus barn? Um actually that was probably the original plan actually. And then we realized, you know, these funds that we have left, they're running out. We're getting near the end and we're lucky to still be going at this point. We should have been out of money, but there was a lot of frugal decisions made. So now we need to reallocate
058that and decide what final phases we'll do and that'll probably save a lot of money to use the building we have as as opposed to constructing another one. We could have probably done a few things that would have been a little cooler. Uh but they cost money. So that's where we are with construction funds. And I'll be coming to you guys with exact numbers and a vote uh because it should be that way I think to allocate the remaining funds and make sure it lines up with our goals. Any questions about that? It's justformational for tonight. Uh another great reason for having uh Craig with us tonight, the current bus barn and the two lots that we acquired from MSDC. So discussing both of those U Miami and 240 1 240 uh out there by
059the current bus barn site and Mccoral A sales that area right there that's where our bus barn currently sits with um the ability to get this new bus barn constructed on the northeast campus. We're going to have the ability to move our bus barn to that location. Um and that means we need to follow our policy on what it's going to look like for us to sell the current bus barn. we needed to declare it as surplus. Uh the same for the lots when we traded MSDC Northwest for two building sites. Um those two building sites uh now are in our inventory and this summer comes, we're going to need to mow them. We know we aren't going to have the funds to build houses on them right now. And there's plenty of available lots
060around town that I think I could work with the city to try and acquire. We could even utilize uh opportunities at tax sales and get a different lot when we're ready to build, which the, you know, the economic forecast for that doesn't look too great in the near future to be honest. So, I would like to ask the board in our business tonight to declare the bus barn property and those two MSDC lots as surplus and then the motion and ask you to let us list them. and we already picked the listing agent and went through our policy to be able to do that a few months ago or maybe a year ago. Um, so that's the status of those properties. If there's no questions about that, that'll be in board business tonight as well.
061Okay, last thing is the bus barn itself. Um, and I know that's a really hard graphic to see here, but anybody watching at home, that graphic shows up pretty well. That is the uh that is the blueprint of what's going on in the dietary building as it used to be called in the HAB center and it's now the future site of our bus barn, our distribution building and the offices that were constructed and added on to the front of that building. On the left hand side of the image you see two garage doors. That's the new um distribution building which currently is out at the transportation property. Um our current building there is 40 by60 as is our bus barn. um that distribution portion will be at least as big as the current distribution building
062with two doors instead of one. And then um the bus barn on the right hand the far right hand side that's going to have access with two doors like we have now. But it'll also have a loft for storage and parts in the upper. It'll have a slight incline up to those doors which is where we'll put water in for two wash bays outside the building. won't help us in the winter time, but it'll be there and and have an incline slope to let the water drain away. And that build that part gets bigger. Current bus barn's 40x60. Our newest buses and if we ever get bigger buses don't fit in there uh with with the door closed, I'm told. But the new building will be 65x75 instead of uh 40x 60. So, they're going
063to gain some square footage, some better storage. And the best part to me is that their offices, kitchen, st uh driver lounge, all of that's going to be right there in those offices. And so will maintenance uh be right there in those offices and distribution. They're all going to have one place, one hub, copy machine, etc. Definitely should create efficiencies and operations. Any questions about that? All right, that's all I have. That's plenty. And that's that should cover everything for your business that follows. pretty much. >> All right. So, moving on to old business. We will need and this is just a resolution to sign >> as a resolution for board members. >> I'll need a motion uh for a resolution to sign for Eastwood. >> So, moved. >> Second. >> That's the resolution, Jack.
064Just the board policy that you got to say that somebody can sign when we sell those properties. >> [clears throat] >> So what I hear discussion >> well wait I'm still with the Eastwood. What would >> Yeah. So on the Eastwood part and I'm sorry I didn't put the the motion word didn't get put on there but old business is Eastwood we our policy says we just have to say that a board member the board president can sign when we transfer it to the city. >> I'm with that. >> Well that's old. Okay. Hey, >> I was following you, Jack. >> Yeah, >> it's been moved and seconded. So, all in favor? >> I >> opposed. >> All right. And then bus barn information. >> I think I covered that pretty well. >> Okay. All
065right. We'll move on to new business. Uh I guess we uh there will be there will be no uh school board election in April. There were three seats open and three people have filed and that was Jack Lind, myself, Matt Smith and Andreas Inard. Uh so there would be no reason to uh >> bite my fingernails for two days. So um and then in your board packet we had uh the list of early graduates. Uh I think there were 41 of them. >> Um >> I don't know. We don't need a mot. So, you'll want to make a motion to approve that declaration on the board meeting. >> Okay. >> I think you have to do that by itself. >> Oh, I'm sorry. All right. So, I need a motion to approve the declaration of
066no board election. Sorry. >> So, I move >> second. >> All right. All in favor? >> I [clears throat] >> Okay. Now, early graduates, we'll move on to that, which I just covered. So, do we need I >> Yeah, we've included that list on them. And so, just a motion to approve the list. Just a motion to approve that list of early graduates. >> So move second. >> Question. >> All all in favor? >> I >> oppose. All right. We need to schedule or reschedule our special work session. And I think we had three dates available. I think everybody kind of agreed on February 3rd. >> 6 p.m. >> 6 pm. Is that all right with everybody? Yep. Okay, >> we need a motion for that. >> So move. >> Second. >> Get a second.
067>> Second. >> All right. All in favor? >> I >> opposed. >> All right. Next, we are going to need to make a motion for to provide a letter of support for Mr. Brian Jakes. He is going to be running for the MSBA state board vice president. Uh and we just need he would like a letter of uh saying we think he'd be okay at it. >> I would absolutely move soon. >> I mean I [clears throat] don't know. He went on vacation for this meeting. So >> yeah, >> don't tell him I said anything nice about him while I was gone. >> Don't worry. >> So I just need a uh need a motion to >> Got a motion from here. You need a second. Okay. >> Need a second. >> Second. Second. >>
068All right. All in favor? >> I >> opposed. All right. Now I need a motion to list the bus and the two lots acquired by MSDC as surplus. >> So move. Second. >> All right. All in favor? >> I >> opposed. I I'll go I I'm just not excited about selling the lots. We just got got them. >> Yeah, but here they've been for sale for the last 10 years. >> I know. We're stuck with them. Okay. Uh, make it unanimous. >> All right. Now, I need a motion to list and sell the lots and the bus barn. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Discussion. All in favor? I >> opposed. I >> No, I'll vote for it. >> All right. Then we have the first reading. >> Do I need to read all them
069out? >> No, you don't. >> All right. There were Yeah, there were 11 different uh policy changes from uh MSBA. So, they were all in your board packet. >> For your second reading next month, I'll do a breakdown of all of those policies. And uh if you want to weigh in on anything, the only one I think we have much autonomy to change it would be the mileage reimbursement and travel. Um we elected to update that because it was way behind. Um so we'll make some adjustments on that and I'll share all those details next month second reading. >> If there's nothing else, I'll take a motion to adjurnn to close session. >> So move second. >> Third, fourth. >> All right. Hi, >> Jack. >> Hi. >> Myself. Do I get to hit it?
070You going to hit it now?