001I'm starting about my body. >> Good evening. I'm going to call the meeting to order. Please stand and join me for the pledge. >> I pledge algiance 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. I get to >> our first item is to go to the approval of the consent agenda. Uh that had your 2025 uh APR, our annual performance report in it. our Navatas High School HVAC upgrades we've discussed to the gym and back of the high school building and the NOVA Beaker Middle School long-range facility plan um review for us to have to have some long-range facility planning um and an evaluation of that building. >> Move to accept. >>
002It's been moved and second. Is there any discussion? >> Question. >> All those in favor please say I. >> I. Any opposed? Staining or need to recuse. Next, we'll approve our financials. November bills totaling five $58,295.80 and the financial reports that back those figures as well. >> So moved. >> Second. >> It's been moved by Mr. Shepard and seconded by M Staley. Is there any discussion or clarification that anyone hasn't gotten prior? Cool. >> All those in favor, please say I. I. >> Any opposed? >> Moving along, we need to approve our minutes from our November 11th, 2025 board meeting, open session, of course. >> So move. >> Second. >> It's been moved by Mr. Carol and seconded by Mr. Smith. >> Question. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? abstain. >>
003I I'll abstain because I would so I don't know whe the minutes are correct or not. >> We will take it an abstension then from Mr. Lind from the last meeting because he was not present. >> I'm surprised you didn't I'm sure you probably watched it though cuz I know the way you're pretty stious. >> Uh next we'll move to adopt the agenda for the remainder of the meeting. Uh the only correction is under spotlight there will not be an A. We will just have one item under that >> not be an A. >> There will not be an A. >> Okay. No question. >> So therefore there really adopt agenda. >> Second. >> It's been moved by Mr. Carol and seconded by Mr. Linds to adopt the agenda with the uh notations as so
004moved. >> All those in favor please say I. I. Any opposed are abstaining? Next, we will move to the spotlight. >> Yay. >> So, underneath the spotlight, we have a unique opportunity and um experience here. We've got a couple unique opportunities. We have Miss Linda Quinley joining us from MSBA this evening. Uh it's too bad we don't have our financial books laying around so that she can take a peek at those before she leaves. So, she is fantastic at the money aspect of MSBA, but she'd like to come and recognize one of our board members on behalf of mayor, the Missouri Association of Rural Educators and MSBA, the Missouri State School Board Association. So, Miss Quinley, >> thank you. Good to see you as well. >> We need to get you a microphone in a
005microphone. >> We're streaming, so >> Oh, well, good evening. Thank you all for having me. I am Linda Quinnley with the Missouri School Boards Association and our friends at the Missouri Association of Rural Ed wanted to be here tonight but could not. We believe although we cannot prove that you may have the oldest board member in the state of Missouri working actively on your board of education and so we want to acknowledge that. We will challenge people once we maybe get this photo out on our website to let us know if you are exactly the oldest. Um, but your commitment to this work has not gone gone unrecognized. And so on behalf of MSBA and mayor, I want to read what this plaque says to you, sir, if I can. It says, "Presented to Jack
006Linds, Marshall Pro Public Schools Board of Education in recognition of dedicated service, wise leadership, unwavering commitment to the students and community of Marshall, Missouri. Your selfless contributions exemplify the highest ideals of public service and education governance with deep gratitude and admiration. Missouri School Boards Association and the Missouri Association of Rural Education. You true are you sir are a true true gift. >> Thank you. I tried to get my 84 year old mother to come with me tonight, but she didn't want to get out. >> I didn't either. >> She needs to be inspired. >> Thank you, Mrs. Quinley, for bringing those greetings from MSBA and on behalf of mayor. Um, next we will uh I did forget to add to our spotlight, but I'm sure no one will uh be upset that Mr. Pettit is
007going to have Miss Maryanne Gilpin join us of the Marshall United Way. Um, for the last few years, there's been a tradition where they've raised some money through the school district because teachers like to wear jeans, but we kind of have them pay a little penalty to do that, but we give it back to a good cause and remain that money back in our community, one of our nonforprofits. So, I'll let Mr. Pettit talk about that. >> Yeah. And we'll take a picture real quick if you don't mind as well, but just some statistics first. So, this year, like we have in years past, we asked our teachers if they would like to wear comfy pants, jeans between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and if so, to please make a donation. Um, so we asked them this
008year to consider two entities, one being the United Way. And we have from our teacher group wearing comfy jeans between the holidays now $525 that we'll uh donate this year to the United Way. And then our high school, middle school, U and elementary schools have done a food drive and by my I put my notes away and I don't remember it. By my calculations, they have uh collected in pounds 6,000 pounds at last count in food that they'll donate to the local food pantry and around $1,000 uh has also been collected to donate there. So, something fun we like to do for Christmas along with singing Christmas carols, but our carolers are off singing carols somewhere else tonight. So, >> Mrs. Gilin. >> I like appcate. >> And now I will pause for a couple
009minutes to see if anyone here would like to give a public comment. seeing most of the faces that I know are either on the agenda or just here for >> to hear our wonderful minutes and meetings. >> Lara says she's only going to go six minutes. >> And I'll let Miss Jacobe start moving up towards the podium for our APR review report. Okay. Oh, can you hear me? Man, that's a hard act to follow. So, congratulations, Mr. Lind. That's amazing. And, um, thank you for all the teachers and everybody that donated. So, I am going to talk about something that maybe is not as fun or maybe it is. Um, this is our third year now that we've done this. I was joking. I don't I guess it got passed along to Mr. Carol that
010I said I'm going to be about 6 minutes tonight. That's it. It's going to be really short. I don't know if you all remember in 2022, the first year we did this, it was close to an hour. Um, yeah, you all remember. Yeah. >> Um, it's not going to take that long tonight. I promise we're we are now that was when we would started MSIP 6 and it was our first year and we really just needed to understand what it was and I needed to explain that. So now you're all experts and so we're just going to report on that tonight. So as you can see here um I'm going to be presenting on our annual performance report. As with everything that we do um uh we everything that I talk about or present to
011you um is governed under our CESIP. And so that is our comprehensive school improvement plan. And as you see up here, we're talking about student success and student achievement tonight. So every decision we make, every, you know, building plan that we create all goes back to that. So I'm going to go ahead and get started. Maybe if I get this thing turned on here and I may need I don't know, Wesley on the side of it. >> I've got it on. Just click it for me. Thanks. Okay. So what is MSIP? This was this took a while uh the last several years that I presented on this because um it was having you understand what it is. It's our miss uh Missouri school uh improvement program and so every school district in the state of
012Missouri um has this. We are under Mip 6 now. Um so we eventually will move into an MP 7 down the road. Um and so what that produces is an annual performance report. And so that's for le every LEA in the state of Missouri. So that's every school district and that's what I'm going to be speaking to tonight on our 2025. Go ahead, Wesley. So because we have three years of data now and we have our 2022 um where our pilot and we have that data, I would like to talk to you a little bit about um the state's APR composite score. So that's first and foremost. So I'm going to show you what our 2025 score is and then this is our composite score. Every school district in the state of Missouri has a
013composite score now that comprises of um from when MSIP started until the most recent data. So something to celebrate for us. Um if you look here, this is our 2025 MSP 6 annual performance report um in our uh composite score. So Marshall Public Schools was at 78.7%. If you look up here um and this slide is taken from the state board of education. they had that um meeting actually this morning uh in Jefferson City. So these slides are taken directly from that. Um and so in 2025 if you look all eleas in the state of Missouri that's school districts from Blue Springs to Liberty to St. Louis to Milan to down to the lake every school district in the state of Missouri um their average score was 78.6. So Marshall's actually above the state average
014on the APR composite scores. So that is something to really celebrate. slightly above the average, but hey, we'll take it. So, um you know, every day we have factors and we can only control what what's here and what you know, we have so many hours with these kids and um I just I just think that's that's awesome. Um I'm just so proud of everybody and so I thought I think that's something definitely um to celebrate tonight and that includes the last three years of data from 23, 24, and then 25. So that's the composite score. Does that make sense? Okay. >> Okay. So now, oh, now it's working. Or was that you? >> Okay. Well, just kidding. I'll just put this down. Um, so if you look, I I wanted to show you from our
015pilot year, um, for when we kicked this off to where we are currently. So, our composite score and our just just our 2025 score are pretty close. They're 0.2 percentage points away. So, we started in 2022 at 68.1%. We have now moved to 78.5%. We had a 1% dip in our growth performance from last year, which I'll talk about a little bit about what that means. You remember, I don't know if you remember me discussing that. That's a it's an eb and flow type of thing, and you never know what you're going to get hit with there. So, that was a little slight difference. Um, but we are from the last um when this kicked off, we are an increase of 10.4%. So, that's amazing. um we have you know we're still seeing growth and
016I'll get into a little bit more on the next slide if you would go ahead and change Wesley for that. Okay. So if you look I have 2022 over here on the left I have 2025 over on the right. This gets into this is what took so long for um us to talk about over the last several years why it took almost an hour because you were trying to figure out what each part meant. So the top part in the performance and if you look here we're looking at the NPI points. So, we're increasing. We've increased on our our MAP performance index in all of those areas over the last several years. So, all of our NPI points are growing. So, that's great. We're growing kids. We're improving. That's amazing. If you look specifically to
017here on the social studies, so I want to give the high school and our government EOC some kudos tonight. They actually moved from their designation because we have different tiers of where we are approaching here. You're at your target. they've actually moved if you look here that they're on track and that's great. So I wanted to give some kudos to them tonight. And so in the other areas we're approaching and what that means is we're still approaching into that next tier. We're still increasing all of our NPI points but we're working into that next tier basically is what that means. And so then if you look down below this is where the growth measures come in. And this is where basically there's a a statistical analysis that the uh Missouri uh University of Missouri Columbia
018there's a system that they put all this data into and they look at zcores. They look at all these things and they say we think your district should grow by this much from this year to this year basically is what it is. And so districts really don't know what their growth points are going to be until it's out. We can pull all the reports. We can project and say yeah this is where we're going to land. We don't know. It's um controversial item. I serve on I'm actually very blessed and feel very um very blessed that I was asked to serve on the MP6 um advisory council for the state of Missouri. So I'm on that with Desie and I'm on that with district leaders from around the state of Missouri. And it's a it's
019a hot topic. Growth is it's a topic at every single meeting because districts are like, "Well, hold on a second. I grew in my NPI points. Why are you hurting me on my growth points?" Because we grew we grew from last year. Did you? They're like, "Well, did you grow enough?" And so that's where it's kind of a little bit tricky. So that's where that 1% that I talked about that difference is, which isn't necessarily a lot to be concerned about. We had a lot of snow days last year. We had a lot of PD days. I mean, it's just you can bounce around why or whatever, but um overall we're we are increased in our NPI points and went up. So that's that's a positive and that's a celebration. Um so if you look
020down here when we started in 2022 if you can see we were um you know below average and average in our CCR assessments we were on the floor no points that's our ASVAB that's our ACUPPLACER that's our ACT that's our work keys we didn't have enough data basically in 2022 enough points to even even get us any points. If you look down here in our CCR assessments we're earning 50% of the points. So, that's a that's a building improvement plan item that the high school the counselors and the high school administration are awesome. They've been working with me on getting those scores up. Okay. So, those are our college and career readiness scores. So, we've improved. So, they're hard targets to hit. The state has very high expectations and so they're working on some of
021those items. Um, and if you look, we were at the floor and we've improved here. Our graduation rate, we've also improved. If you see on that as well, our graduate followup, we're still earning 100% of the points there. So, this little area in the growth is kind of each year it's like h and sometimes it's almost like if you grow a lot this this year before, which we did last year, then you might kind of do this and you might and that's where it's kind of, you know, you don't know. They I was actually at a state meeting um in this fall and they had the professor in from Missou and he was trying to speak to that. But it's a it's kind of a tricky thing because you don't know it till it comes
022out. So this next part I have 2022 and 2025 here. Um these are the continuous improvement totals. So you'll see here that um our improvement plan 100% of the points um our response to standards um on our climate and culture survey. Those are all part of we're in the um round two for our CIP review. So Mr. Pett and I have been working on that this fall with our Dusty area supervisor. And those are all the items that we have to respond to. And we produce um artifacts and evidence and and items of those things that this is what we're doing. These are our action steps. This is our plan. And so we're receiving 100% of the points there. Um our KA, that's our kindergarten um entry assessment. We give the KOF, which is the
023DESIE one. We're receiving 100% of our points there. Those are what our kindergarten students take within the first four weeks of school. Um, our IAAP, we've actually increased on our IAP. We were only earning 75% of the points in 2022. We are now earning 100% of the points. Um, our attendance, we actually, um, so we had only, we were only earning 75% of the points there. Last year, we had a little bit of a slight dip. I don't know if you all remember that. In our attendance, we did increase by a point there to the next tier. So, we're earning um 75% of the points in our attendance. So, you know, that's something that they're still work we're still working on every day. And of course that goes handinhand with academics. If the kids aren't
024here, we c they can't learn. So that's obviously something that, you know, we continue to work on. Um our CTE expansion, that was um our two points there from our nursing program. And then of course our audit, we earn 100% of the points. Our ASBR and then our core data. Ashley Christie does a great job with that and always gets that done and on time and it's it's wonderful. So those are also components of our 2025 APR question. Anything? Okay, Wesley. Okay. So this is also um part of our APR and it's just kind of a yes or no. You're doing this or you're not doing this. So but it is produced within the report which um was in your also in your um drive and it's just um do we meet the minimum uh
025threshold for fund balances? Yes. Um is Mr. Pettit appropriately appropriately certified? Yes. Um, are you all uh doing your required training and orientation? Yes. And are we compliant with federal and state law? Yes. So, these all go into all of the considerations um for accreditation, which obviously we are accredited. So, um any questions on on any of that before I go into the next part? Okay. Um I did this last year and you guys kind of kind of liked this. It's nice to see. So, you're like, well, what does that mean? I showed you the state of Missouri. So, I just did a quick comparison. I only had so much room on here, but if you're ever curious about what a school district's um APR points are, this is all pulled from a Dussy portal.
026It's the MCDS portal. It's all public access. Everything is um lifted. Nothing is embargoed anymore. So, you can look at this at any time. Um I just put some of our conference schools in some of our surrounding um K K12 school district. Actually, one of those is not a K12 school district. I was thinking they were, but they're not. it. Um, some of the K8 school districts, they don't have all of the measures that we have. So, all of that stuff that you looked that goes into our report, our CCR assessments that were taking a hit with some of that stuff, they don't have those because they're they end at 8th grade. And so, that's why sometimes it's nice to compare with our K through 12 with our high schools because that are surrounding. And
027so, if you look, Marshall's very comparable to a lot of our conference schools, um, outperforming a lot of them, too. So, um, even though we saw that little slight dip in our growth metrics from the year before, we're still above the state average a little bit on our composite APR school and we're still doing very well. So, um, super proud of all all of the people. We're going to still dig our heels in and keep working and um, you know, keep keep at it. So, and if you need help on accessing any of that, let me know. I can help you. You can get on the MCDS portal and pull anybody's up and you can pull anybody's composite score up as well. So, in short, I don't know if I have hit my six minutes
028or if I went over. Oh, you went over already. >> I knew it. I knew it. I tried. Um, so we've had basically we've had a 10.4 increase from 2022. So, that's something to celebrate. We're above the state level for our composite APR score. So, again, that was from the last three year. The three is the composite. That's the difference there. Um, we've improved on all of our NPI points from 2022. I talked about that growth metric from 2024. That's just that'll eb and flow. Um, and that's kind of where you're like, uh, you know, and sometimes when you have a lot of growth one year, you may not the next year. And so sometimes things stall out. So that's something that we're we're still looking at and taking into consideration. Um, we know attendance
029in school matters. We raised our attendance a little bit more. So hopefully um, you know, we can continue that. Something that I did want to celebrate. I did not tell them I was doing this tonight, but when we were digging into all of the data and we were looking at everything, um I wanted to congratulate our seventh grade, which is actually our current eighth grade class this year and teachers Larry Welch and Stephanie Lundy. They actually scored their grade level in math scored above the state level. Um that is is really hard to do and that doesn't happen here very often. Um I meant to ask Mr. read um before I left work today and I forgot and got busy about how long it had been since we had had a grade level do that
030cuz he and I used to kind of uh look at that data together whenever we were on the math team, you know, department together. But I just wanted to congratulate them. That was on a year we piloted a new program, too. We were piloting our new new program. So, and they did not the year prior score above the state average. So, they had a tremendous amount of growth. So, if you see any of that current eighth grade class or you see those two teachers, give them a pat on the back. Um, I didn't even tell him I was going to put them on here tonight, but I thought that was really, really awesome and something to celebrate. Um, and then everything else on here is just everything that's in our seet that we're going to
031continue to do. We're going to continue those, you know, those tier one audits to make sure that we're implementing things with fidelity. That's important, the fidelity piece. Um, you know, continuing looking at our assessments and, you know, always striving to get better, looking at our tier 2 time because every day we can do something better than the day before. And and I know we talked a lot about numbers. Um and unfortunately that's what our APR is. We you know when you look at the heart of it, we got great people and great kids in this in this school and I just just thank them if they're listening tonight for everything they do because it takes a team and it takes everybody. So um just really appreciate it. So lots of things to celebrate for sure.
032Yeah. Do you guys have any questions for me? That's nice. >> Thank Thank you guys very much. >> I almost feel like you think you're disappointed when we don't have questions, but your reports are always thorough. We appreciate it. >> Thank you guys. >> And 26 minutes from you goes very fast. We appreciate it. >> We'll next move on to uh Mr. Pettit and his report for the evening. Uh Mr. Ricky is not uh able to be with us tonight. So there is not a report from him, but he did leave us some homework uh to uh do a little bit of approving which we did earlier on our contracts for uh review of the middle school. >> Yeah. Before I put that report up here, I want to uh take a second to first
033want to thank Laura for all the work that she does. It's no um it's no accident that when you see growth and progress and I've been kind of hung up on this feeling that I've had since we cut that ribbon at the new school this year, but how this has really become this working family that I'm really proud to be a part of. Laura does a phenomenal job when it comes to curriculum. Something that used to be kind of my wheelhouse and I feel like I'm almost losing touch because I don't have to worry about it, which is an odd feeling, but I enjoy that she lets me slow her down on occasion to understand uh what she's got going on. She does a really great job. So, thank you, Laura. I appreciate you, too.
034I also want to tell a little a story about Jack. In his words, I want to tell a cute little story if I could really quickly. Jack, uh, I don't know how long it's been now, Jack, but if you don't I hope you don't mind me telling the story cuz I'm going to. It's too late. But, uh, he had called me. I missed a call from him, and I don't believe I called him back until early the next morning. Jack has breakfast about 5:30 in the morning usually. And so, I think I called around 6:30, um, maybe 7:00. And he said, "Well, why didn't you call me yesterday? I fell and I'm in the hospital. I'm getting ready to have surgery today. And I thought, "Oh my goodness." So, first I felt terrible. I didn't
035call him back until the next morning. And then uh in this kind of divine timing of things, I had been talking to MSBA and Linda Quinley who joined us here tonight. Oh gosh, I think Linda and I were I think Linda hosted a training down in Colombia probably back in early September. And uh at least that long ago and maybe through the summer, I'd been working on trying to find out if Jack was in fact the the oldest active board member in the state of Missouri. And uh so between MSBA and mayor, this conversation had been going on and uh Melissa Randall, Miss Quinley's colleague, contacted me by email. The morning after I spoke to Jack, I got to my office and the email was sitting there. It was one of the top ones in
036my inbox to say, "Hey, we feel pretty good at MSBA to say that we can't say otherwise. It's not really a question we ask." And some people don't want you to say old when you're talking about them. Um, but Jack's always had a pretty great sense of humor and u most people half his age don't play, you know, a round of golf every single day. So, he's a kind of a local legend to us. So, anyway, I just thought it was really neat how all that worked out. It was like it was meant to be. And, um, he's only missed one board meeting and here he is with his brand new hip. So, we are really proud of you, Jack, and your son uh, one of your sons and daughter-in-laws are with us tonight. At
037the end of open session, I hope that we can uh, bother you to stand up and maybe get your family in the picture. I'd really like to have one. And we have a couple additional plaques. So, thank you for serving and you got board packet and filing opens tomorrow. Just mention that. See if you want to. Thank you again. >> Thank you. >> All right. I only have 40 or 50 slides tonight. No, I'm just kidding. Uh Laura Laura presents and we give her a hard time every year, but you know, our CIP really has been something that we focused on being a living document that guides us. And I learned at some point in time in my 20 or so years in education that uh you know a teacher can be doing a phenomenal
038job like Laura was saying, but if the kids aren't there and they aren't listening and they aren't engaged, you really and today in education I feel like we're measuring the learning, not just the great teaching. And uh I appreciate the way she was speaking to that and the CIP is guiding us to make sure that we're focusing on not just the teaching but the learning that's going on and I'm just really proud of all the progress. So it may not be exciting, but if it isn't measured, it will not improve. And we we are measuring everything with a lot of hard work. So that said, Mr. Wesley, I do not have the clicker. Um, and it may not work anyway. >> Oh, it's probably user. It's probably me. >> I'm going to stay here where
039you can hear me in the microphone because I'm a little tall for that one. But I'm going to move pretty quickly. And in keeping with the norm, I'm going to jump all over the place. I like to keep Harry entertained. So December, if you can believe that, we have the uh audit which is part of our CIP and I believe also statute that will be required to approve that. Tonight you've had that draft and I'm excited to say that this is the best audit we've had since I've been working with you and there's been a few things that we just have grinded at and grinded at and we finally have felt like we have some success. The one finding that still remains bit beyond our control is what our food service balances are. Those are
040federal dollars and there's guidelines on how you spend it. We have no problem spending money, but when you tie our hands on how, we're just doing the best we can and doing so responsibly. And I do believe we'll get that spent down. And I've I've said after we verify with certainty that it would work. If if we can't do so by the end of this fiscal year, we'll look at our food prices. Um that surplus and funds started with COVID state reimbursements being over district costs. Um, and you know, we've upgraded a lot of things, but we're still a little high. So, we're continuing to work on that. And if we don't fix it with a few final expenditures planned for this year, we'll look at our lunch prices and maybe make people really happy
041with an adjustment there. Maybe. We'll see. Um, and stop me anytime. I'm going to jump into a little bit of a financial update as well as construction update. And it's going to be part one of two. when you see that up there if I forget to mention it. I like to do this quarterly, but there's details I'm waiting on when we look at our January revenues. Those are pretty important month of revenues for the year. I really want to see where we are once those come in for kind of a halfway mark to then project to the end of the year. And that's going to tell me a lot of things I can't quite see yet and I don't want to speculate incorrectly. But what we're looking at here is an updated um as of
042December, what is our student population? And that current compared to last year, we are down overall about 50 students. That does play into your financial outlook because that's where your reimbursement levels come from. So that'll play into it a little bit, but the way that uh it's been such interesting legislative sessions the last few years, that may be really truly the least of our considerations when we look at part two in another month or so. Why are we down? I'll just speak to that in case the hundreds of people watching at home tonight, uh, which hopefully they're at ball games instead. But, uh, why are we down? We're graduating larger classes than we're starting in our younger grades. Our high school has a pretty large, actually grown population since post uh, since CO 19. We're
043bigger than we were before, which means our K8 schools are sending to us, but our smallest grades continue to be small year after year, smaller than they historically were were. So, let the jumping around begin to some extent. Um, I'm going to speak to the deficit first. This is really the where I'm saying I'm giving you part of the financial update this quarter, but there's so many pieces I'm looking forward to seeing in January. Um, we have new state funding formula going on. Now, I'm not going to see that in January, but that is going on. I anticipate that we'll have spending cuts uh on the docket for our discussion. You might recall we rolled back our levy that we just passed in 23 by almost 50%. Yes, we have current uh you know, local
044taxes and things are on the rise, but there's a lot of things going on. Um we are continuing to utilize attrition. We've been doing this for the last four years. um two central office positions that we will use attrition to not fill career center position we will use attrition to not fill and then we have the interest from our CDs I think a really good move for us right now is rather than looking at a lease purchase our reserves are above what we set for our minimum goal we're still around 30% for our reserves and our goal is to not drop below 20 a long ways from where we were in 22 so I'm pretty happy with that I think we can responsibly avoid a lease purchase it's time to update pay buses, which we
045do historically about every 5 years. I uh I'm going to float the idea that one of our CDs when they come due, we we go ahead and liquidate it and use that to buy the buses so that we incur no interest. Our interest rates and our returns are starting to drop to a point that uh you know, if we were getting 8% for it to sit in the bank, I'd say let's pay 4% on a lease purchase, but that's not it's about the opposite of that. So, some things like that. We've been really trying to be smart. um and and how we invest those things. And if you do recall, we put about $3 million into those CDs. And the interest that we've earned on those uh just one alone has earned around $20,000 in
046the last 3 years in a different interest rate environment than we now have, but uh they've done well. Jumping over to our construction and it's very it's been the great contradiction here for the last year, but the construction proceeds that we passed have nothing to do with the regular operating funds. We still have some of those construction funds remaining. Part of our remaining goals with construction after the new school was the bus barn, wanting to build an additional one out at the new northeast campus. Um, some recent discoveries here. I think we can save some money and avoid actually building another structure. The former dietary building that we've been converting into it was going to be primarily storage in our new distribution building. We uh we almost have all the pricing on just some reinforcements
047with the floor. We really think that that garage storage space would be a very nice bus barn um and avoid lots of spending on other things. um adding HVAC, reinforcing the floor, reinforcing the floor, making doors a bit larger on building B, and I'm going to show you a graphic of that here in a minute, would make that the bus barn, and we would be done, saving a lot of money. That might might, and that again is part two of this update. Uh we'll see where we are in about one to two months, but we believe that we'll be able to add that high school vestibule and BMS vestibule within what is left with the construction funds, which goes back to the safety and security aspects that we were hoping to accomplish. So I'll bring
048that final pricing. So far, these changes have been um discussed and acco anything that's changed from our original plan has been accomplished through our savings. There were contingencies and allowances uh built into the contract which was approved by the board and we've been operating at right around $1 million under what they anticipated. So some of these finishes are things we've already agreed to spend it. We just haven't had to for the tunnels and things. We did have a lot of fun surprises with tunnels out there building that school, but we're really past all those variables now. Any questions about that before I get into some more of the details on the bus barn? Okay. Um, I know that is going to be hard to see. However, bear with me and especially if you're at home,
049I'm going to try to speak to the graphic on the left first. That is the building site at the northeast campus. The large green square in the bottom left hand corner. That is the location of MIS. Its physical address is building B. Uh, 700 East everything out there 700 East Slater. That's building B. the large X in the top left, that is where the smoke stack was as the community knew it. Uh that the city re owns that property right there still. And it's outlined in a red square that you can't hardly see here anyway. At home, they're probably seeing it pretty well. Building D is the maintenance building, which is outlined in kind of an orange square. And building E is what I'm talking about being the future bus barn. It has a really
050large portion of that building still standing. On the left side, it's in kind of a purplish blue. And on the right in red, the right hand side of that building is what we're talking about making the bus barn. And where I wrote the big letter E, that's the addition, which they just finished the siding on today, tying it in and matching it to MIS. So all these buildings are starting to tie in and look like they were uh meant to look alike a little bit. That wasn't the case at first, so that's good. Um the bus lots in the bottom right hand corner, that's where the buses will end up being parked. And then the uh right hand graphic, this is the breakdown of what this space is going to look like. Again, the lefthand
051side being shipping, receiving, distribution, and the right hand side, the bus barn. Those office spaces then will be where all the bus drivers, maintenance people, um, and people working in that area, shipping and receiving, all can come together for meetings, trainings, etc. Going to jump back and forth between these graphics, maybe. Uh, so here's real world pictures. That's that's looking at building E and that's the siding that just was finished up today where they built on the new office space. So again, building E, right hand side, that's where it really is. That truck is sitting in the future bus parking lot. Off to the left of the gray siding of that new addition, you can see the white maintenance building that was reskinned with new all new metals. So, it looks greatly improved upon from
052what it was before. Um, and so hopefully that helps make sense of all of that. And then next week, Tuesday, I've spoken to our esteemed mayor, Craig Thompson, head of transportation, uh, today. It's pretty convenient to have him so close. And I was just telling him, I said, I'm going to come uh, talk to city council next week if you don't mind. And, uh, he just told me to keep it positive and he wouldn't show up here and talk to us. So, uh, so we're going to go talk to Craig and the city council and it is a positive. When we started the whole land exchange for that 123 acre campus and the inner loop and so many things that have been done and gone through out there, it seems like a million years worth
053of work, but it wasn't that long ago. But the big X on that lefth hand graphic where the smoke stack was. We as a school district had some hesitation when they gave us the rest of that acorage whatever 123 I think we didn't want that portion because we didn't know what was there and uh it was part of the agreement the city would tear that down and retain ownership of that. You see my my long purple line that you probably wondered about earlier. What I'm showing there is that we do still live on a peninsula out there with around a thousand students in two schools. The way in is the way out and we're concerned about our buses sometimes needing to leave in the middle of car rider traffic. So, we're going to ask them
054if they would either a give us an easement for ex for extreme situations where a bus could get out and around through there and b our other ask would be that they have the entire foundation remaining out there for that building. is pretty unsightly across from this brand new school. And you can see the tire tracks. That was somebody doing something they were not supposed to do. They shouldn't have be driving over the curb. That was how they accessed the area. We'd like to fence it off and gate it and be able to make the whole campus secure. So, we're going to ask for the other option if we can't have a permanent easement. Just quick claim deed it to us and we'll take care of cleaning up the rest of the site. We have
055the equipment to do that now. Um, so that's what I'll speak to them about. And I'm also going to speak to them about just a thank you. We've had a pretty great relationship uh with the city in accomplishing what we needed to accomplish and removing some liabilities and concerns for them. And I just want to wrap it up with this site right here is going to be what I talked to them about. That's a lot of pictures. Any questions or clarifications for anyone? All right, then I'm going to jump around a little more and wrap it up. Substitute teacher pay. Our policy on substitute teacher pay in Marshall is somewhat vague and uh and I believe that's probably by design so that every time you adjust pay uh which has multiple layers you don't have
056to update the policy. So it speaks kind of generically about how we uh pay our substitute teachers. Our daily rate um what we would like to do is we'd like to enter this into our employee manual and our substitute teacher manual and ask the board to approve it. We would like to just put it somewhere officially and that seems like a better place to say our daily rate is 115 and for our retired teachers who come back and substitute teach for the district it's 130. Um that's what it has been. It's what it currently is. We just want to get that in the manual so it's stated somewhere and more clearly understood. And then long-term sub pay, there have been some misunderstandings about that. at the end of this semester, all current long-term subs that
057aren't permanently hired to be in that role, I'm talking about someone's on maternity leave, for an example. And so, I've been in your classroom for 6 weeks. And uh all of those folks are finishing up their roles at Christmas break. And at the first of the year, we would like to just clarify in our employee manual that our long-term subpay rate is $160 after 10 consecutive days. So, this is someone who's going to be picking up grading, entering grades, lesson planning, etc. It's been a bit confusing and um practices have at times been inconsistent as a result. So, if that is something the board doesn't disagree with, I would like to put that in the consent agenda and have it take effect in January. Um, any questions about that? You might note I underlined we
058may need to increase. I think that we do, but that'll be a discussion when we get to that in the spring. Um, I always enjoy raising substitute teacher pay and then everyone around you will raise their substitute teacher pay and kind of null and void what you did. But I think it's time to be competitive, more competitive again. Any if there's no other questions, I'll stop talking. We'll move on. Thank you all. >> I was going to have you uh highlight the walk-in clinic underneath the old business as well before you finish for the evening. >> Yeah. But with regard to the to the walk-in clinic idea, something that I've really wanted for several years now, and as you know, we've had twous brought before us. Now, there's been some discussion since last meeting about
059other potential interest to compete uh for our business in that way. It's something I really want to provide for our staff that we could have ideally an on-site walk-in clinic for them. We have had some developments, and I say this with my full support and uh of Fitzgiven Hospital. There's been some things going on with uh in terms of their financial status and uh I'm kind of just pausing for a little while. I want to make a good choice for Marshall Public Schools, but I also want to be mindful of our other businesses and not do anything that could be detrimental there. I think that it requires more discussions and probably some roundt talks with these people who are interested in providing us the services. I still haven't surveyed our staff yet either because at
060this point I just I want to make sure I'm not really hurting a business that need at a time it needs support and not the opposite. So expect more but I'll probably take that off of old business and table it for a few months more than I expected though I want it for our employees. I don't want to marshall without a hospital so I think we better take a little time. >> Thank you Mr. Pettis. Uh moving down to new business to round us out for the evening. Uh the first thing is a motion to approve our 2025 audit uh that was given to us with the uh resounding news that we still have too much money in our uh food service program. That does not mean we are not getting food money. That does
061not have anything to do with lunches. That has to do with federal government money, not money coming from people paying for their students for lunches. So just want to be clear about that. Um because that comes up from sometimes and people get a little confused about it. So I need a motion to approve the audit um as presented to you in your packets and provide and reviewed. >> I'll move second. It >> was a good audit. >> It's been moved by Mr. Carol and seconded by Mr. Shepard. All those in favor, please say I. >> Any opposed? >> Any need to recuse tonight, Jack? Going to All right. Uh next a motion to approve the 2025 APR report. Um which was given to us by Mrs. Jacobe. And of course you had a longer version
062in your packet. I think about 60 some pages worth. >> So moved. >> Second. >> It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Do we want to note that she was 8 minutes over time on that or not? >> I wrote that down. I went ahead and rounded it up to nine. >> Love you, Laura. >> This is what happens when your old teachers are now still grading your work. So, uh, the financial update, uh, that was given to us as well, um, by Mr. Pettit, which was more about the bus barn and just talking about how, um, we, uh, ran into some good fortune, of course, building our new building. Um, we had a lot of contingency money built in. Um, we did not have to get
063into that money. had allowed us to move forward on some other projects uh reskinning and moving over to some of the uh projects on the back side that he was showing us as well as um still having some money left over um in our safety security side to kind of look at some other projects for making some more secure vegetables at our um now oldest two buildings in the district really. So >> So move second. >> This was not a a voting point but it was just a motion. I mean just a conversation point and then of course the bus bar and information that he gave you on a new business because there will be more conversation to come about that and we will be moving maybe to spend some money in the future. So
064hold on to it Brad it's coming. So and just to note those of you that know anything about school finance Linda Quinley started nodding when he said 30% re reserves because that is a great number for us here in Marshall. Having 30% of your rever uh reserve balance sitting around means that you can make it about a third of the year on the money that you have if nothing else comes in the door. And a lot of places aren't sitting in that position right now. So that is something to definitely be happy about. So with no other business before this board this evening, we are looking to move to close session. Um we will talk about hiring, firing, displaying particular employees, preparation of negotiations with employee groups and individual identifiable employee records. If I can
065have a motion. It is moved by Mr. Carol. >> seconded by Mrs. Staley. >> I I >> I >> on the set. >> I thank you. We'll move to close session.