001Deca lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Thank you. Aliance 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 probably should have got to be a jack. Thank you, DECA. We'll see you in a few more minutes for a true presentation. So, um the first order of business tonight is the approval of the consent agenda. Uh that was in your packets. The consent agenda approve has three contracts that we voted on last meeting. The Toshiba lease agreement for our printing services, our Southwest food contract, our CTS contract for 5 years. It also includes the 202526 board of education meeting times which you were given a revision of in a hard copy um
002this evening, the federal program review and the special education department program review. Need a motion of acceptance or I move to accept. Second. It's been moved and second. Are there any questions uh about those documents or the uh contracts uh we related to? They still hold the same. All those in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? Are recusing? Uh next, we're going to look for a motion for the approval of the financials of our March bills, which total just uh slightly under $3 million. 2,976,136.80. and the uh financial reports that verified those expenses uh contained as well in your packet. Move we accept. Second. It's been moved and seconded. Or any questions that we didn't get answered prior that anybody needs to clarify this evening hearing and seeing none. All those in favor of
003uh approval of the financials, please say I. I. Opposed. Recusing abstaining. Um, next we need to approve our minutes from the March 11th meeting, uh, the March 5th work session and the April 4th work session that we had last Friday. So moved. Second. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor without corrections, please say I. I. Any opposed or abstaining. Uh, the next topic is reorganization of the board of education. Um, there was a of course an April election that we did not have to uh have anyone run. We had two members that ran unosed that will be starting their three-year terms again. And so I will turn it over to Mr. Pettit for him to uh handle our election. We need to adopt the agenda first or you think we can do it
004after. Uh we can we can adopt the agenda first. All right. Make one more thing. It's been it's been moved and seconded. I'm supposing that no one has any additions or corrections. So So move. All right. We will go from there. All those in favor of the agenda is printed, please say I. I. Any opposed? Staining. And now I'll turn it over to Mr. P. All right. Starting with the board president to whom I'll turn this right back over to. I need a motion to nominate someone for board president as we reappoint the board. Okay. I had a motion by Matt Smith to nominate Brian. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Jack Lind. Discussion call question. Okay. All in favor say I. I. Opposed? Same sign. Anyone abstaining? Motion is approved. Mr. President,
005turn it back over to you to finish appointing the board. Um well, back with me again for another year. But um moving along to uh election of vice president, nominations for vice president. Nominate Matt Smith. Second. It's been moved and seconded from Mr. Smith. Are there any other candidates or names that'd like be pushed forward? Call question. All those in favor, please say I. I. Any abstaining? Are recusing? I guess I guess I probably would refuse. I didn't vote for myself either, so it's kind of a play thing to do. Uh, election of treasurer for the board of education. I nominate Brad Shepard. Second. It's been moved and seconded to push Mr. Sheepard forward as treasur and remaining in that office. There are any other candidates or nominees? Call question. All those in favor, please
006say I. I. Any opposed are abstaining or refusing? Okay. Um, election of secretary to the board currently that is Miss Mona Michaels. I elect Mona Michaels. Second. It's been moved and seconded that Miss Michaels retain the uh duty of organizing all of the board's paperwork. All questions. All those in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed or abstaining or recusing? And then deputy secretary. Um at times Miss Michaels may be gone. She's nodding her head. She wants to be gone. She she plans to be gone next month. So, um, before we had, uh, Miss Denise Renault has, uh, served as our deputy secretary and our past, uh, secretary as well. Um, and she's still willing to fill in that capacity. If there are any others that would like to be nominated, um, I will nominate
007her, uh, Denise Renault for that position. It's been moved and seconded. If there are others that wish to have that title. Called question. All those in favor, please say I. I. And next we need to appoint our MSBA delegate and MSBA al delegate alternate as well. Nominate Brian Jigs as a delegate. I would decline that nomination. That's a different one than Oh, it's a different one. That's different than the board of uh directors position. He's already in Missouri State Board Association. I'll nominate Amy Green for delegate. Okay. Second. I would uh nominate uh Miss Staley for alternate delegate. Second. Second. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? Staining are recusing of themselves. Now the uh board has been reorganized for the upcoming year. Uh we will move
008to public comments if there are any. Yeah, we're making good time. I know there were none that contacted Mr. Pettit or myself. I see no motion from the audience. So, we will move to uh let our spotlight speakers uh come up from Spain this evening. It'll be up and there's a clicker on the podium. There it is on the side there. Y well, thanks for having us. I'm Kim Albertson. I'm the president or president, I'm sorry. Here we go. Principal of Spain primary. And then this is Julie Garrett. She's the assistant principal. Vice president. And so we just kind of put together a short presentation for you guys tonight um that highlights some of the things that we have done throughout the year and kind of what our goals are um for Spain in general.
009And so we started just with a little piraphph um basically what we try to do is focus on the whole student. And so we put different parts in there about character education, academics, parent involvement, teachers celebrations, community, social, emotional skills. We just feel like it's very important for kindergarten through second grade students as they start their educational careers to have all of those pieces. So at Spainhower each year we like to pick a theme and um then we kind of decorate the building and we get shirts for the staff and students have the opportunity. So this year we were wild about learning so we did a jungle theme and we had our bulletin boards decorated. cafeteria. Um some teachers choose to do their own classrooms in that theme and just all up and down the
010hallway and our entrance. Yeah. Um so that our families can see that in when they come in. Um and then these were our this is our staff for this 2425 school year and you can see our fun shirts that we have and then students have the opportunity to purchase those shirts as well and we encourage them to wear them whenever they want but we encourage them a lot to wear them to our monthly assemblies um the first Friday of the month. Okay, so this is something we've done the last couple of years. Um, our car rider line, I know everyone is a big fan of it and they love waiting in it each and every day before and after school. Um, we greatly appreciate the cooperation that our parents give us and they work so
011well together with us. So this year we did have another transition to where we took our car riders from the front of the building to the back of the building in preparation for the inter intermediate school to open next year. And so we thought it would just be fun. We ended up taking little animal crackers to match our theme and just walked down through the car line and handed them to parents and just thank them for for their collaboration as we work through some of those hurdles. Um, one fun thing we like to do at Spain is high five Fridays and we have um students from the high school, we have the owl, we have the football team, um, cheerleaders have come, valley cheerleaders have come this year. We also had um some members from
012the play, the high school play came and they just greet our students on Fridays, give them high fives and it's fun for our kiddos to see those big kids and kind of give them things that like when I get bigger I can be a football player or a cheerleader and kind of give them that excitement. Um and it's fun I think for the big kids also and some of them get to see their previous teacher. So a little fun for us. Um okay. Um, one thing that we like to do at Spainhower to get some the families into um, well, not really in the building, but to um, interact with us is lunch on the lawn. And so we have a day for kindergarten families, a day for first grade, and a day for second
013grade families. And they get to come and eat lunch with their kids. And we do that on our lawn out at Spain. And um, just a little picnic fun time for the parents to come and interact with their kids. Um, we also have community helper days. So, we like to partner with the community. It's part of their curriculum. Um, learning what a community helper is, how to be an active part of the community that they live in. And so, we have several different people come out um from around town. Some of our police and firefighter, our ambulance, um we have some National Guard as well as just local businesses. Sometimes we have banks come out, um the YMCA and different farm equipment. just kind of gives the idea um to students of things that they
014can do in the future and it's a good way for them to interact and ask questions. And so that's just another example. Um our students in first grade have the opportunity to go and visit the fire station and we're always so thankful that they're willing to host us and they just kind of go through a little video with the kids and they let them put on the equipment. If it's nice they get to spray the hose. Um so that's always a big fun one. So the last few years, uh, Spainhower, some of our staff members have participated in trunk or treat to the high school. So this year, our vehicle was themed with our theme at school. Um, so we just some of us dressed up like some of the jungle animals. Um, and then
015it's fun for us to see our kids outside of school, outside of our school setting as well. And then lots of other members from the community. Okay. So then we put in some academic pieces in here. So teachers and students in action. Um if you were to come to Spain and just poke your head in a classroom, you're going to see kids that are up and active and moving. Um sometimes they have brain breaks, but a lot of it's just truly hands-on learning and education. And so we just put a couple of clips of things that you might see when you go through our hallways. Um we try to focus focus on those active and engaging lessons. Um going back to that whole child really focusing on their brain development on um social awareness. That's
016a really big thing for those, you know, five, six, seven year olds is learning their own space and then other people's spaces and how to act interact in that appropriately um along with their own body control. And so then we have some small groups um where we focus a lot on specific academic skills that each student needs um as well as explicit instruction. We've been really big on um the science of reading and focusing on literacy for the last several years. So you'll see lots of that. And sometimes we do fun things. They learn about the life cycles. So in our kindergarten classes, they get eggs and then they have them in incubator and they get to see the baby chicks hatch out of those. And so the kids, that's a fun thing for the
017kids to do. And then our bigger kids can sometimes go down the hallway and visit and see the little chicks also. Okay. And then we highlighted some of our special areas. Um the students really love going to library, music, art, and PE. And so you'll see different things here. They love to check out books with Mrs. Rugan. Um they love to um listen to songs and sing with Mrs. Davis. All of our specials areas do such a great job of incorporating some core content into their lessons. So lots of literacy things are tied into this as well as some math components, too. Um our music concerts are always a big a big hit and a good time. Every grade level um has their own music concert throughout the year and they also get to showcase
018their art to their parents that they have done. And then here's some pictures just of art in the classroom and then PE. We do still have our um learn to bike program going on. And so this month coming up, Coach E has set up a bike rodeo. So the optimist had helped sponsor this program and help us get this into um our classrooms. And so they'll be coming out to watch our kindergarteners in a bike rodeo. And then of course we have recess um where the kids get to, you know, some time to let loose and be free little kids. And sometimes you can see in that picture, some of times our teachers like to get involved and play with the kids as well. Um, we work hard at Spain and so the kids every
019morning at our morning meeting they count the days of the school year and so when we get to the 100th day that's a huge deal because they've worked so hard for 100 days. So we have a big celebration and some students choose to dress like they're 100 years old. you can see in that picture over there. And then some students make their own shirts to celebrate the hundth day and then in their classroom they do lots of hundred day activities and have fun snacks to go along with the 100th day. Sure. Um and then uh we also not only do we have a theme for the school year, but at Christmas time we always like to decorate the school and bring some holiday magic into the building as well. And this year we did a
020Polar Express theme. And so the day before or the week before we left for Christmas break, um we had a Christmas tea which our PTO helps put on that for us. But then we had some community members who are trained conductors come and they passed out golden tickets to our students and then that ticket got them into the Christmas tea and then they got to um watch the Polar Express and do some literacy activities to go along with Polar Express in their classroom. So that was fun for our kiddos this year as well. um kind of we added some things that we have added to Spain this year, some new things. And so one of those things was our kindergarten transition room. And so this has been such an asset to our building this year.
021It's kind of a a kinder or we'll call it a preschool plus. So those students who have maybe May, June, July birthdays. They're on the very young side compared to their peers as they're starting kindergarten. It's a big transition to go from a partday or part-time preschool program into kindergarten classrooms. And so Miss Krauss was our kindergarten transition teacher this year and she had around 10 students in her room and the growth that we have seen in those kids from August until now is truly tremendous and we're so excited um about the foundation it's laid for them to go into um a full kindergarten classroom next year. Most of them will be making that transition um and we're excited to see the data that follows that. But it was very exciting and and it's been
022really great. Some other new things that we added um some UFly resources. This was a teacher teacher request um because we've been doing so much work with the science of reading and our focus on literacy. You can see there's kind of those V-shaped um pictures in the back in the background there. Those are it's a kid lips program and it is showing students what their mouth should look like when they are making vowel sounds and really tying those sounds in. Um and so UFly was just a perfect tiein for them to implement some of those things into the curriculum. We also added number talks into our day. And so this is where you'll see different blocks. Um some of them have numbers, but it really focus on number sense and getting students to think about
023numbers and how to use mental math. Um and so actually it worked out great to where we started this this year and then next year when we're looking at adding I Ready um as our new math resource, I Ready actually has this as a component within its curriculum. So it was a perfect time to start that. And then we put in a little data piece. Um, so to go along with all of the fun and things we do, we do have I Ready and I, our past and past assessments. So that I Ready is what we use kind of districtwide to go over those reading and math things. And so I just put I don't know how well you can see it, some of those reading and math scores that show you that bottom um
024the skinnier little line shows where our students were in the fall and then the top line shows where they were at winter. And so we've seen lots of growth um and they are going to take it here again in the end of April. And I did write some of those numbers down. I don't know how interested anyone was, but we started the year with only 3% of our students on grade level or above in math and by winter we were up to 10%. Um and in reading we started with 10% being on or above and then we're at 22 halfway through the year. So we're seeing some great progress there. And then the red, you can see that declining as well as students are moving their way up the continuum. And then on the bottom,
025so we tracked our pass and pass score. That's that literacy assessment. Um, and we have made 98% growth with 98% of our students have made growth from September until March. So we're excited to see if we can get that last 2% when we give it one more time. Okay. So we know how important reading is and we work on that so hard at Spainhower, but we also know the importance of students reading at home with their families. So we encourage students to read at home and turn in their reading logs and when they have read 100 books, they get these certificates at our assembly at the end of the month and then they get to have popcorn with the principles. So these three friends were our first ones to get reach 100 books this school
026year and they got to have popcorn with the principles. Um and then so it's fun. they get to come in our conference room and sit in the big table chairs and they think that's pretty exciting. And then with our second graders, they work hard on their fluency with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. And so they have a program called Reflex that they get to work on throughout the school for short parts throughout the week in their classrooms. And then when they reach their goal of 100%, they get pizza with the principles. So that's a fun incentive for our second grade friends to encourage them to keep working hard on their fluency, their fact fluency. And we're getting close to wrapping this up. So, this is kind of our focus on character education and then applying
027what we learn. And so, Mrs. Ming is our counselor and a huge asset to our building. Um, she has small group visits with every classroom every month. And so, she is in there teaching them our character education words, which are posted in our hallways um of Spain. So, perseverance, acceptance, um, honesty, all of those things. And so as she's doing that, when we see classrooms displaying those skills like manners in the lunchroom, they're awarded a golden spatula and it's kind of like a traveling trophy. Um, and so our kitchen staff gets involved and they help kind of identify which classes have done a really great job with those manners. Um, we also hosted our second annual Walk of Wonders. And so, um, if you've ever seen the book or or the movie Wonder, um, this
028is what it's based on. She reads that story to the students. And then we had guest speakers come in and just talk about maybe how they are a wonder or there's been an obstacle in their life and how they have overcome it. And so we had three different visitors come this year. And so really just trying to teach kids empathy and acceptance um in a way to be a part of it all. Okay. Um so Mr. Pettit came to Mrs. Alverson and myself and the other elementary admin and um wondered if there was any way that we could help support our local food pantry because they were running kind of low on resources. So we came up with a coin challenge um for our students and their goal was to reach um $300 and if
029they were to reach their goal of $300 then Mrs. Albertson would read on the roof of our school building. So our students surpassed that goal reaching or um bringing in over $800. So Mrs. Salverson got up on the roof and read a book to our kids and they thought that was pretty awesome to see their principal up there on the roof. It was a really great time. Um and then this is just kind of our character education assemblies and what they look like. So our second grade classes, they're the leaders in our building and so they take turns each month um and they introduce the next um character word to to the rest of the building. And so this one we've got a second grade class and they have a little song that they sing
030and so this word was acceptance. Um, and then we have students that have read the 100 books and the students that are the character kids that have demonstrated those words, they get to run through the tunnel um, and then have their picture taken. So, that's always fun for them. And then we also like to honor our staff members. Um, they're voted on by their peers and so we have a staff member every month that we just like to celebrate that kind of goes along with that character word as well to serve as a model for our students. And then um we like to shout out to those ones that can be there every week. You have to have perfect attendance to be in the drawing to spin the wheel u to get a staff attendance
031prize. And so that's always been fun too. And then we try to follow we have a little district calendar and we just try to follow the days where we give shoutouts to bus drivers and paras and all the different things because we kind of like to celebrate. And then this is the I think our last slide where it just has um the outstanding owls that Mrs. Shakobe helps organize and we take community input as a district from that and so we just um are fortunate to be able to have such great people and we want them to to feel that way as well. So thank you guys for supporting us and supporting our students and if you have any questions you can send them credit. Thank you guys. Thank you all. Thank you all. Kim,
032I just have one question. With all the special events and saying this facitiously, how do you find time to teach the Ren arithmetic? We do. We incorporate it all in our fantastic. I know you do. And that was a nice presentation. Thank you, Miss Henley. If your DECA group would like to move forward, so um I'd encourage you all to follow uh the Facebook pages as well. Spainhower puts a lot of pictures and celebrations in that page and I see it all the time. I read the other day about your word perseverance on there and I thought, "Wow, we're using a pretty good word uh over there with some uh very small learners." So, but I I like it acceptance and some of the other ones that you have shown as well. So, it's really
033neat. I think I've stalled enough for them to get ready give an extra comment there. So, I'll turn it over to you. Good evening. Um, my name is Carrie Henley and I am the marketing instructor and DECA adviser over at the Selen County Career Center and I really appreciate you allowing us to present as I am getting ready to show you some of the snippets of some of the things we've done. Um, there's you think this is a year but it's like we fit 20 years of stuff in one year. So, um, you'll get an opportunity to see a snippet and a way to learn more about what we've done. Um, without further ado, I'll go ahead and get started of our snippet. So, we actually participate in what are called chapter campaigns for DECA,
034and we're the only chapter in Missouri who's actually achieved all five of them. Um, so we just recently learned that we got the advocacy again. So you see the four listed up there. Um, and you also see that we have had achievement status for membership. So we continue to see growth whether or not it's in the alumni membership or the professional area. And this is all, you know, thanks the hard work that my students do because they put the effort in. And I have this wonderful leadership team which you're going to get to hear some of the things that they've been up to as well because I don't really like to stand up here and talk about it when they can actually tell you the effects and impact that they have had by being a
035part of our organization. But this kind of shows you a little bit about the amount of achievements we have had because it is a very difficult thing to sit there and say that a chapter has achieved that. So, um, four and then another fifth one that we just found out. Actually, I can't even really take, uh, any credit for this either because Michelle Lynn, who's behind me right here, is my president of the chapter, put together several different impact awards. And so, she did this great um, put together with communications. If you're ever curious, it's actually at SECCC DECA that you can scan that and you can see just from the very beginning of the year what we've been up to. Um and it we have about 140 plus posts on Instagram and our Instagram
036I mean we are marketing so it that's our target market are the younger viewerships has increased by 40% and we reach over 25,000 users and this is like a school uh Instagram account that we've created for our program so it has quite a reach. Um, we also have actually I should let Vanessa talk about this. You want to talk about what you do as VP? So, I'm Vanessa Cortez and I'm VP of reporting and I put together the newsletter for our sponsors and just anyone in our school who's interested in DECA. They just got done creating their spring newsletter which I sent to the print shop. So, they're doing a wonderful job um with Maddie Weaver. Her Vanessa are working on that. And then just recently, what was this last month that we so like
037I mean it was a blur half things we do but um we decided this year because we've been trying to figure out you know creative ways to um earn money for our chapter and this year it was kind of last minute I would say what do you say October, November it was due pretty soon and I kept getting these emails and it was called the CT um show learning that works. It was a basically a 30 second video that we needed to create. It could have been in marketing, automotive, all the areas that you see over at um you know the career centers. And so I was like, "Wow, I really like to be able to do this." Because my kids, they create a promotional video every year just to promote DECA in general. So
038I knew what they could put out and some of them have done it multiple times and won the competition in advanced marketing. So I was thinking maybe we could put something together. Now let me tell you on my assignment I have it where they get a minute or up to three minutes to create. We had to do everything that happens in a marketing program and we had to make it fit in 30 seconds. and you just don't realize how much content you're trying to. So, you're supposed to feature somebody in the program that's actually been a student previously in the career center in that program. And so, we kind of brainstormed some ideas on, you know, what how can we show the types of things that you learn in marketing. So, we put that together
039and a lot of these who are behind me were actually in um this video. But then I was like, "Okay, so who's going to be our future person? Who is a past alumni? Who's gonna who's this going to be? Who okay brainstorm talk? I'm like running out of time." And then I'm like, I think I told this to Michelle. I was like, "Well, if we have to, I guess I could do it because in 1989, I'm telling you how old I am right now. I was a student in the same classroom at the Swing County Career Center and took marketing with my I most amazing marketing teacher teacher period was Mr. Goss who sadly passed away shortly after I graduated. So I thought to myself, I guess I can put myself in there. But as
040you'll see, that was just meeting the requirements. There's not a lot of me, thank goodness. But I want to share with you guys because we won that competition and he won $2,000 for that video. And if I had more time, I probably would have done more. But I wanted to share with you the video and hopefully the sound works. Leslie, you think it's going to work? It's short, so if you don't uh get to hear the beginning of it and uh this is the winning video. So, when I was in high school, I took marketing and now I teach marketing. If you're considering a career in marketing, remember that CTE marketing gives you the tools to succeed. Learning that works for Missouri. Our hands-on experiences with visual marketing allow us to gain connections in our
041communities. It's only learning that works. Whether we want to work in marketing, start our own business, knowing how to promote the product is key. Okay, so that was a winning video and I wanted to share that with you guys tonight. Short and sweet and I'm just glad I'm not like the majority of what it focuses on. Um, but it was kind of a fun thing that we got to do. And then we had the person who was in charge of determining who the winning videos were going to be come and speak to us and said he wish you had done more. So, I think we're going to try it again next year, but I'm going to try really hard. By the way, if anybody uh took marketing at the career center, I don't want to
042be in this video again. So, please come see me if you work in that field or any of the other fields because we'll do them all. We will do them all. Um, so the next thing I'm going to actually, we just got done doing this is our community service and how involved we've been. And every year we try to set this goal where each month we're going to have some sort of community service activity. I think it teaches engagement, it teaches responsibility, and I just think that is an overall skill um to learn how to get out there and learn about the needs of the community and help them in all whatever way we can as a lot of our organizations at the career center do. Uh we just recently got done on Friday helping
043the fistgiven fundraiser and event and cleaning up afterwards. So that gave us a lot of opportunity to network and connect and help our community. But rather me talk about this, I'm actually going to turn it over to uh Trevor Watkins and he's going to touch base on some of the other things that we've recently done. That's basically it. So I'll just let you Hello, my name is Trevor Watkins and I currently serve as the vice president of leadership for our DECA chapter. To start off, I'm going to go into some of the community service initiatives and activities that we completed since the start of the school year and then talk a little bit about our state career development competition and the awards and recognitions we got through that. So, we have a yearly community service
044activity where we paint and donate pumpkins to local nursing homes. And this year, we painted around 80 pumpkins and donated those as well. Next, we have the intersection collection where we managed to raise around $1,700 for local organizations. Half of that will go back into the chapter and the other half was donated to retrieving freedom. Retrieving freedom which is a company and organization that works for service dogs for autistic people. Next we are going to talk about our 20 plus hours of community service activities that we have done through Fitzgiven. So we are currently in charge of their hospital window displays for their I apologies gift shop. And from that we are currently still working on that. We have around three groups that'll continue that through May. Next I am just going to talk a
045little bit about my awards and achievements at our state career development conference. So I competed in a career development um project. I placed second in the state and I was also elected to serve Missouri DECA's VP of community service for the 2526 year. So I will be helping over 7,000 members with our community service activities and initiatives and the fundraising that coincides with that. Next I'm going to pass this off to Ethan Russell. Thank you for your time. My name is Ethan Russell and last year I took on an innovative business idea that was dedicated to painting portraits of pets for people within the community. This year I sort of expanded that and founded my startup business ESR artwork. ESR artwork is a generalized artwork business that um introduces customized art such as murals, canvas
046paintings, and prints. This year I got first place at district competition, third place at state, and I will be competing at the international competition in Orlando, Florida. And then next, I believe, is Payton Marshall. Hello, my name is Payton Marshall and this year my project was an integrated marketing campaign. I worked with the Marshall Public Library where I provided information on Proposition L. Um, as I'm sure you guys all know, Proposition L aimed to increase the sales tax in Marshall by a quarter of a cent through 2039 to fund the renovation of 102 East Morgan, which will be the future library. Um, my number one pri priority with this project was to remain objective objective and unbiased. um really just making sure that all community members felt represented and respected with the library's outreach efforts.
047So I made Instagram posts and um radio ad a radio advertisement with KMMO as long uh as well as flyers um to spread information about Proposition L. Um research shows that when voters have little information about a voting issue or difficulty understanding a ballot question, they tend to vote no or not vote at all. So, this was an excellent opportunity for me to step in and provide the library with with support in raising awareness. Um, Proposition L did pass with strong support from the community and this really reflected voters's desire for a new and improved library in Marshall. So, I've competed at districts where I got second place and then I competed again at state where I also got second and now I'm preparing for ICDC, our international competition in a couple weeks. Thank you.
048So me and my partner Heidi Gymnast this year did an integrated marketing campaign under the category product for our local uh bakery, Patty Cake Sweet Shop. We basically just marketed them in a new form to get um a new target market within the community and we went to go compete at districts and we placed first and then we went to go compete at state which we placed top 10 in the state. Great. Um I'm last up. Hi, my name is Michelle Lynn and I serve as the chapter president for our DECA chapter um along with um being Missouri DECA's district 4 vice president. So in this capacity I kind of act as the liaison between the state association of Missouri DECA and communicate our networking events um as well as any district activities and fundraisers
049um to my respective I believe it is 10 chapters this year. It was 12 chapters last year. So, um, I've had a great time doing that and helping out the association in that way. Um, but as for competition purposes, this year my project was called We Voted Today. I partnered with the Selen County Clerk, Britney Burton, to kind of engage the youth in elections, which I'm sure that you guys are all familiar with given that you're sitting in these seats. Um, but basically, we organized a mock election for area high schools. We had three attend um, and we saw a great turnout for that. We actually also have um digital election guides for niche ballot issues specifically for that November 5th ballot because I mean we've all heard countless things about that election, but there
050were a few issues that um not a lot of people knew a lot about as Payton just said. Um so we saw a lot of success with that, gathering over 5,000 impressions on Instagram and averaging 250 interactions per post. So that was a great opportunity. But I am actually taking on a roleplay to international competition. Um I compete in the marketing communication series which means that I basically get a case study from a real life business scenario and then I have 10 minutes to create an entire plan to present to a judge which can be nerve-wracking but um it's fun and I continue to do it. I've done it since freshman year. So yeah um along with that um I think that the last slide we have is to kind of talk about the business
051partnerships. So we're very grateful to be so successful as a chapter at the state level and we have a team of I believe five total moving on to ICDC. So in advanced marketing which is what a majority of us are in we are in charge of do for DECA which is our fundraising um initiative to kind of gather costs for and gather costs and funds um for the cost of our um sorry for the cost of our competitions. Um, and Vanessa here is actually going to hand you guys out the package deals that we have. Um, again, we are a marketing association, so we try to promote the businesses that support us, and you will see the benefits that they've receive um in the in this packet that she's handing out to you guys. And
052their contact information is on there, too. Um, but I believe that Miss Henley has a couple more things to say about this. Um, but it's um, a really big part of our class and it's great for us to get out into the community and get some real world experience. So, um, we thank you guys for your time today and I believe that we're about to wrap this up. Thank you. Yes, as our business partnership packages, I thought I made enough copies for everybody. Sorry. U, we have our goal of how much we set as a leadership team to make every year. So, we short our funds. um as you can see our cost and but we do have some really good news. We just found out today uh one of our c our past sponsors
053is going to sponsor us again, Wooden Houston. So, shout out to Wooden Houston. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um, but if you do know anyone who is interested in helping sponsor our students so that they can afford the competition cost and be able to have the hands-on experience of networking, and then one last mention, one last plug is our um, chapter is also the only chapter to ever in Missouri have a central region vice president, a district vice president, and a Missouri state vice president last year. So, this organization is definitely worth the support and I believe in them and I believe in every single organization at our career center and I believe they're all worth the support. So, if anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to answer them as well as these
054guys back here. You all very much. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you, DECA. That was a great presentation and I encourage you all to sponsor them. Big or small, all dollars add up, right? Um, next we will have the deputy superintendent report from Mr. Rinky. Start using that deputy word. Good evening. Thank you for your presentation. Thank you for Miss Elverson, Miss Garretts. Also, I was at a community meeting uh yesterday and uh we were just talking about the school and I said, "You you really don't have to look very far to see a lot of the great things from preschool to our seniors that our kids are doing and our instructors are doing. Um a lot of great things going on the district. You just just have to have to look and pay
055attention. So, a lot of success. They work hard and and there's a lot to be proud of proud of. Um, so tonight I've talked so much the last four month months I feel like. So I'm going to try to go quick tonight. Uh, I don't have anything on the agenda. I just have some updates on some previous things the last few months. Um, so I'm going to just jump into it. Uh, tonight uh, it's in the first reading and not that big of a deal. Uh, but I talked about this a couple three months ago maybe to the board of education for um, pay our van drivers when they take some of our athletes or our groups or some of our kids uh, when there's not a bus available or bus driver. It's just more
056convenient to take take the van. Uh, developed this uh, trip trip trip sheet uh, to be able to uh, give them a pay rate and we put this in appendix A next to our salary schedule and our pay packages. thought that would be a good place for this document to live. Uh so it is the first reading, but when you guys get ready uh to possibly approve that pay package, I just wanted you to be aware and some of our coaches and sponsors to be aware that this is going to be included in that. So, um some updates. We we've had we have so much going on this summer. We have been trying to I guess I've been trying to move forward some of our projects and get things rolling. Um so number one I
057have to thank our administration, our teachers and a lot of our staff and some building secretaries. Uh with all this trying to get around, you know, trying not to be a disruption to kids, but we're trying to get a lot of work done before the big moves come in this summer. So over spring break, we were able to uh few months ago we talked about playgrounds. you guys approved the playgrounds and the capital projects. I was actually able to move that up and we we have both of those projects done. Uh so if you look actually over this wall, the new playgrounds installed with the timbers. We're waiting on the we call it the kitty cushion. So that should be here this week. Fill that thing up and the kids can start playing on it.
058Uh and then they also over spring break and then a little bit in the the last week we were able to get the um previous playground out here moved over to Spain Spainhower um and got that all put up with new timbers. So once the kitty cushions in there uh they have a whole new place to to adventure on. So this was two big projects, two good projects that we're ahead of the game in and and got got done. Um one it's been a while since I talked about this. our, you know, with our energy efficiency throughout the district. Um, and of course, this was with our levy issue that we were able to complete a lot of this work. It was fast and furious there right away. We got a lot done and now
059there's a lot of behind the scenes work going on such as programming and putting tying everything together. Uh, it's kind of a learning experience for me also. uh it takes a while because you're putting all these buildings on schedules and trying to tie it all into, you know, just for the energy efficiency. So, basically everything pretty much is done. The only thing we have to do this coming summer is the uh Selen County Career Center has a big breaker box. Um and it actually with just the supply chain, I think it took 7 months to actually get here. Uh so it is the equipment is here. We're just trying to find a time and then it the electricity has to be pulled out and shut down. So, we're going to wait till summer to do
060that right away in the summer. But then we're working on the scheduling and then hopefully this summer we'll have some more training and then be able to help the teachers and staff when we come back in and kind of how all those schedules and the thermostats work. So, so that project is is wrapping up and then of course Navatas the company will help us through that to make sure we're uh gaining the savings that they said we would to be able to um complete some of these projects. Door door and window safety update. Uh of course this we've been working on this throughout the year. I just wanted to give an update. They are in district right now with our putting on our bullet resistant window film. um the attachments and also the uh polycarbonate
061doors on some of our vestibles, the defense light. Um we had the presentation to the board and I don't even remember when that was now. Um and then went ahead through our safety and security funds uh to be able to do this throughout the buildings we're keeping for the holidays. Um so I would say right now they've been in district oh probably two weeks almost. Um and we're about 60% done districtwide. So, they're they're rolling through it pretty good. Um, I'm hoping by the end of the month that we have this project throughout all our buildings wrapped up. Um, some RFPs, some things coming up that I will send out. Uh, so with our land exchange agreement with the city, uh, there was some questions, but there we're going to go ahead and, um, take,
062uh, Eastwood Elementary. we will demolish that building. Uh so with that, there's kind of a two-step process. The first process is the abatement of Eastwood. Uh that will go out and learned a little bit on this too. You're supposed to have a survey. We've went ahead and had the survey done uh of actually what needs to be abated in that building. And then that will go through the RFP. So that will get sent out to um some different companies. And then once it's abated, the second step is and that are they'll both go out together, but the actual tear down of Eastwood. Um, so those will be coming out. So if you know anybody that's interested in in either of those projects, feel free to get in contact with me and they they will be
063by the end of hopefully the end of this week once I get that survey back. They will be up on our website. Also, does anybody have any questions on that? Perfect. Uh, and the last thing really is new construction update. I I could have got a lot of pictures, but I I went back in last April and I was looking at some of the the stuff that in my presentation and it's kind of hard to see in this picture, but last April is this the pointer? I know the one the picture on the left was I had it in last April's presentation when the ground was just flat. They just had a little bit of rock and some equipment in there. Um, so I kind of found it and then I looked at this picture
064um on our Procore and I was like, "Wow, we went from that to that." So, I mean, things are things are really coming along. It's really it's really um been great. Um, you know, it's the Eric with NAB Holds. He called me the other day. He says, "Hey, I just want you guys to know this is becoming a reality. You better get ready because, you know, summer it's going to be go time." And I'm like, "Well, that's pretty awesome. It's going to be awesome for the community and kids." So, um, still on schedule. Um, everything looks good. You somewhere in that June, July range that we will hopefully have that building turned over to us and then be able to start the whole moving process, get things in soon. Any questions on any of that?
065All right. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next, we'll have uh Mr. Pettit with the superintendent report. I'm going to stay here so I'm not talking over that microphone like I've been doing for a while. It feels weird. But Jack, you can hear me better this way, can't you? Huh? Yeah, it's working. Okay. Um I while I'm going to go pretty quick this evening and I know that legislative update doesn't sound exciting. I want you to I want to emphasize to you guys that this legislative update though I'm sharing it quickly very important one the most important one I've given this year and I am going to be requesting staff administration and teacher support in a couple of these items. So with that said I'm going to jump in and I'm going to again go
066very quickly. You can stop me if you like. The reason I'm in April getting into a legislative update in detail is the state legislature this year particularly, I think in part because of the new governor, not because it's his fault, but because there's been a change in leadership at the state level. Um, everything's coming down the pipes, so to speak, a lot slower and it's slowing us down in our conversations. Um, legislative session is starting to wind down. They're about like our school year. They're in less than 30 days in session left. The budget's getting narrowed down. Currently, education as a whole, which isn't that far off at the state level, $300,000. Education is currently underfunded from the state budget that's in the works. That doesn't concern me that much. The SAT is still under
067in collections $1.4%. That is not a million-doll impact. That's a billion dollar impact to say that we're not collecting where we thought we should for the funding that we said we would increase. So, that's a bit concerning. Marshall Public Schools has never signed up for Career Ladder, um, which has been a grant that's been available from the state the last few years. It has always intrigued me, but I've been waiting to see if it was, um, something that with a new governor coming in, would it be something that was appropriated permanently? It hasn't been appropriated permanently, and currently in the budget, they've decreased that funding to cover those who are in it, not to necessarily cover additional. So, this is starting to shape my thinking and guesses for what's to come. Now, I'm going to
068hit on some very fast bills. Only one of these I'm going to emphasize is our number one concern. It is not this one. House Bill 567 relates to our classified employees. We've been the state's been increasing minimum wage in discussions throughout the last several years. They haven't been required of public school entities to to comply, but you can't hire anybody if you're competing with others who have. So, in the last 3 years, our classified salaries have been increasing exponentially to be ahead of this. This is not for sure going to pass this year, but if it does, $15 by January 1st. The salary schedule we'll present to you for approval, I hope in May will be a step ahead of that. Whether it passes or not, uh I mention it just because it impacts our
069classified discussions though when we have to be thinking about our classified salaries as well. This is, if I were going to say something that is of grave concern, I couldn't find a better word to describe it. Open enrollment has passed out of the House, gone to the Senate. Likely the Senate will add more provisions. It it has the best chance it's had in 5 years to pass. And we will need in the very near future to contact our senators is where this fight will will end one way or the other to contact them to say it would be negatively impactful. There's now upwards of 380ome schools that have passed the resolution that this board did to say we don't see positive implications for this legislation. So that's the really really big one. I cannot speculate
070what exactly the implications will be because we don't know what exactly it's going to say in its final form. Do we have to bust them to their other schools? Do we have to bust them all the way? Will we be met? We don't know any of that. Can we opt out? Is it going to be forced upon us? There's way more unknowns than knowns and there's nothing about it that encourages me about teaching and learning being improved because of it. It's negatively financially and academically. These stand a chance and I don't again I'm being late in the game to share this. These stand a chance to move out of committees, move on to calendars, move on to the floor for debate. HJR4 and SJR62. I'm only going to speak to the one. We did a
071fiscal impact note this last week with Miss Durham's help uh specific to Marshall. If that becomes a House bill that gets to moving and if it does, it could do so quickly. In the next 5 years, it would hit us for almost a million dollars in our funding in Marshall. Uh I'm just throwing it in there. The senior tax credit we have to keep considering has already passed. We really don't know the impact of it uh for sure, but if it's a 10% impact, that's a $400,000 implication. So, you start talking about $1.5 million in reduced funding in one school year, and I'm nervous. Um, and I've been sharing this a lot with our teachers, uh, particularly as we're talking about salaries. We we just can't move forward with those salary approvals until they land
072some of these things. These have major major implications. House Bill 594, another one that concerns me. This would be with regard to capital gains. It's being modified in the Senate, returning to the House, and then it could go on to the governor. It will cut Prop C gambling money. If we recall when they were going to give us gambling money for education and then they pulled the other funding away. Well, that was Prop C. And now they're going to reduce Prop C statewide $10 million. Um, this bill will also reduce 429 million in general revenue statewide. So, they are keep wanting to cut taxes. We all as individuals love that. It's very hard for us to keep competitive teacher salaries if that keeps happening. For now though, as we've all talked about, we're going to
073have that competitive salary package. We're going to stay the course with it, and we're going to hope that Jeff City moves on to some other initiative soon. Personal property is House Bill 629. They want to reduce it by 10%. And any increase in personal property would like new construction, they would not want it to count as new construction. That would force Hancock amendment roll backs on our levy at our next tax rate hearing if that passes. So when there's this many I think a lot of people think I'm maybe negative all the time. The truth is that when there's this many things and I'm only telling you the ones that are fiscal notes and this is the ones that at this point have traction and financial implications. There's a lot of other things that I
074think are bad ideas for education. I'm just not talking about them because they don't affect our money. Um but this much in a tax cut scheme for Marshall when you've just passed a levy, it's going to really really change our long-term goals, long-range facility plans, etc. We're just hoping that it doesn't happen, but I will be calling for help soon and I really hope that I can get support and making the calls on the ones we need to call about. Any questions about that? Let's talk about something fun then instead because that's worse than I thought depressing. It's pretty bad. For for five years now, it's been increasing that our their focus is cutting taxes and impacting the the education formula, which I've skipped over today, but there's a lot there, too. So, let's talk
075about something fun as we're going to remain optimistic that we don't have to worry about that stuff and they'll come to their senses. We had budgeted approved in this year's budget that we have $45,000 to spend on tuition reimbursement with our teachers. My uh goal is that we will budget the same again next year to do it again. But it is time for that to happen. So, I'm just letting everyone know, our teachers particularly that might be tuning in, that we are about to send out tuition reimbursement uh forms. principles will be sending that out in the sending that out in the week at a glance and I will be sending it out in the board recap to all the staff. Preferential consideration the way that was written and approved a couple years ago. Uh
076people who are a high school graduate of MPS, a Missouri Valley graduate, an ed rising graduate, student taught in Marshall, all of them have some pref preferential consideration with the tuition reimbursement. And the one prerequisite that we approved it with was that they have to have completed one successful year through our evaluation system before they can apply for that. So I'm excited. This is our first year to fully implement it. We just tiptoed into it for the first time last year. Any questions about that? All right. In this in the name of uh being speedy here, you have the following things in a first reading format tonight. So, we're not getting into the weeds on this. In appendix A, the certified salary uh package, the classified, the van driver, hourly pay schedule that Mr. Ranki
077spoke to, and our stipens are all there for first readings. I'm hoping that they are not going to be in a second reading, but in an approval form in May. That entirely depends on the state legislature whether we're comfortable to do that. It would be better if we could. Handbooks are also in first reading format tonight. um they're very much still in working condition, but they're close. That's appendix B, and I will speak at length about that next month. And our comprehensive school improvement plan, which is about to expire, it's three years uh under that CIP. The new one for the next five years is in a first reading format in your board folders as well. And last, next year's board meeting dates. So, not going to go any further than that. Just that's that's
078what's on deck for next month. Any questions about any of that? Okay, let's talk real estate. This will become official tonight in open session unless there's any reason you all decide to table it. It could happen before close tonight. Northwest um Michelle Pointer is here tonight representing us as our realator and she will be presenting to you guys in your she has presented to you guys in your packets an offer on Northwest Elementary School um as well as Benton Elementary School. The prices are there for the public to hear and again that has to be finalized. It's not done until it's done. But there's an $80,000 offer on Northwest and a $76,000 on Benton. First right of refusals and some of the details with possible close dates by as soon as or no later than
079I should say uh June 15th I think it was. Eastwood trailer that's pictured there top center just to the right. It is behind the Eastwood building. you all declared that a surplus and that sold for the large sum of $17. Um, and I'm going to fast forward to the surplus sale. We declared a lot of surplus last month and we began selling it. We sold five trucks and SUVs. I believe uh the Eastwood trailer that I just mentioned, some implements, all of that closed for the first phase of it. It's not everything you declared, but $22,500 was uh the final sale price. and minus a few trickle in small amounts all that money has come in uh which is great. So trying to keep moving with all this surplus stuff. If you have no other
080questions that concludes my report seeing none and hearing no questions, we'll uh move down to uh old business. miss you ended on a kind of positive trying um under old business uh the writing project um with the uh partnership with the University of Missouri University of Missouri to uh uh stipen and supplement uh salary for one of our uh teachers Mr. Jasal to be able to uh do work here within the district and then also to teach classes and to also uh push Marshall out further and also uh um notoriety and education of uh other uh districts and other areas as well. Um so this was outlined in your packet as far as the uh salary uh stipens the part that MU would pick up and then what we would remain in there as well.
081So are there any questions about that? I need a a motion that we accept uh moving into this. Second. It's been moved and seconded. Hearing no other discussion and prior to Harry telling me to call the question, all those in favor, please say I. I. I. Any opposed? Abstaining. Um, next under new business, um, as Mr. Pettit spoke of, we have, uh, contract and offer on Northwest, um, which is in the $80,000 range. Um, and the details and specifics were outlined in the uh legal contract and all that legal ease that we were able to uh browse over 83. It's 83, isn't it? Change the year from five to three to three. I did see I did see that there. Okay. The offer on Northwest. I'll second. It's been moved and seconded that we accept
082the offer on Northwest and contract uh pending any other legal ease that needs to be uh tweaked in there between the uh signing parties. All those in favor? I I Any opposed or abstaining? All right. Moving down to the contract for the counter offer of Benton as well. Uh that contract is for 76,000 and that has a longer right of refusal on it. is three years as well as three years. So nobody had to remember in three years or five years barring short memories then there will be three years on both of those and uh playground and um other equipment stays with that kitchen equipment stays with both of those buildings. So I heard it was moved down here. I moved it. A second. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor please say
083I. I. Any opposed? Stay. And then next under new business, uh we need to approve the closed surplus auction which was at $22,500 as Mr. Pettit just outlined for us for the uh articles that were contained within that. So move. Second. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor, please say I. I any opposed or abstaining? Um I feel I would be redundant to tell you all that there's a bunch of first readings. I I wasn't able to I wasn't able to access the appendix or the salaries. Well, I can get you hard copies of that for you. I'll get you hard copies tonight. It doesn't have to be hard copies as long as I can read it. Okay. So, um the first reading as uh Mr. Mr. P went over the certified and
084classified salary schedule packages, stipens, handbooks, our excuse me, our uh CSIP um over the next 5 years, uh summer school staff, and then the 2526 dates um which were given to you in uh hard copy because there were some errors in the electronic dates that were given to us uh originally. So on that summer school staff, I just want to mention like I have the last couple years, we we need to hire them between now and the next board meeting. So you'll be retroactively approving them. We've never had a problem. I just like to mention that so that we don't have a problem. Barring that we need to adjourn to move to close session for the purpose of lease, purchase or sale of real estate, hiring, fire, and disciplining are promoting particular employees of which
085we'll turn to open session following to approve our contracts. So move second. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor, please say I. I. And we should move to a roll call vote to go there. And we'll start on this end. Hi Matt. Mr. Greet. Hi. Hi. M. Thank you. We'll go to close session at this time.