001good evening I'd like to call the me to order if you'll please uh stand and join me for the pledge I pledge Al 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 our first item on the agenda this evening uh we have a nice full busy agenda for the night um is the approval of the consent agenda within the consent agenda you found our long range facilities PL which we've talked about and adhered to for quite a while um this is just an official motion uh placing that again within our records and going on and then there was some nursing program updates for fees in there to bring us uh more in line with
002the actual cost to the program uh for the upcoming year and that was just short of 18,100 $ I think it was 8,094 maybe exactly or so move we accept as consent agenda second it's been moved in second is there any other discussion about the consent agenda all those in favor please say I I any opposed recusing next moving down to the financials February bills tolling 1,18 $8 4,735 195 and the other Financial reports which were included in your packet may we accept the financials okay it's been moved in second in I'm sure all questions have been answered prior to the meeting for board members does anyone have any discussion prior to the vote call a question all those in favor of paying uh the February bills and the financial reports please say I I
003any abstaining thank you next we need to approve our minutes from our prior meeting the February 11th meeting second it's been moved and seconded without Corrections I'm assuming all those in favor please say I I opposed moving right along through the agenda um looking at our agenda for the remainder of the evening we have public comments um and then we have some Spotlight reports and nothing uh additional to add and quite a few points under new business so moved a second it's been moved and seconded to adopt the agenda for the remainder of the meeting and I know that we have one public comment from Dr pzy if you'd like to move up towards the podium sir so while he's coming up that way um I'm going to just talk briefly about the Ed Rising
004program um the Ed Rising program sent 17 students competition excuse me did we complete to vote on the last motion yes we did okay say I did we we did not we did well thank you for catching me sir I I'm sorry so therefore go back and ask for a vote on the uh agenda for the remainder of the meeting Dr all those in favor please say I I any abstaining I feared we were going to have to talk about it so Dr pzy since I've asked you to come up I'll recognize you for comment and then we'll talk about Ed Rising so excuse me thank you thank you very much everyone for your time this evening I I'll be brief uh been a lot of conversation in the community I've I've been to uh
005three different events this week uh yesterday was the Monday club I really enjoyed an opportunity to visit with them yesterday and uh entertain questions and um trajectory of Missouri Valley College as it relates to Marshall Missouri and Seline County um we have a uh growth uh strategy that's planned over the next 5 years and um initially and thinking about opportunities that abound uh in a time of higher education where uh eight of my colleagues out of 16 colleges in the heart of America conference have vacancies in their presidencies right now um that's a a huge challenge in the higher education uh schematic um we're planning for growth um our board and our cabinet and our leadership um has set out a 5-year planning mechanism and what it's going to look like year toe and so
006what does that require from us just so everybody understands why uh we have interest in purchasing the property at uh uh 1304 County Road um is because we have additional growth needs uh year-over-year uh in a time where it takes a long time to build and certainly more expensive to build um property Acquisitions have been at the Forefront of our um thought process and conversations we're planning on 60 new students for the college we had a record enrollment this past fall we had a record enrollment this past spring and we're already outpacing those metrics by 177% uh as it relates to the upcoming fall uh so the challenge is last fall we didn't have a bed to be able to offer anybody and you can imagine when higher education is in the most tumultuous uh
007uh time that it's ever seen um uh most are not talking about growth and certainly record level metrics um so part of the expansion is to expand um our world renowned uh Rodeo program um was very easy for me to come into the uh Missouri Valley presidency and say look Missouri Valley Rodeo is here to stay and what can I do to help grow uh and add to what we already have in need so any any property that's adjacent or contiguous or has opportunities for for Rodeo students to be able to uh certainly live in thrive in that uh environment uh to say do I want to uh help coach Mason uh produce additional world champions would be a gross understatement uh to say the least uh it's a value proposition for the community for
008those of you that have been to the Seline County rodeo uh myself I'm big hat small cattle but I love the rodeo and um love what it brings to to this community and and what we do um so that's part of our expansion uh we're starting a new agriculture systems management degree in the fall so land for an Agronomy lab with crop science and row science is super important to us which we don't have right now we have an a business program and that's okay but um we're losing students uh who really want to study Agronomy at a higher level so that's part of the plan uh and ultimately our goal is to keep Missouri Valley College affordable what's not good for our business model is we're the least expensive out of that 16 peer
009group cohort and we give away more scholarship doll than any other school in that mix so we give away the most money and we're the least expensive it's not a good business model my goal is to continue to allow Missouri Valley College to be the most affordable that it can possibly be certainly for Marshall and for Seline County and and the surrounding region um you know you may or may not know this Missouri Valley college has a $19 million economic impact on this community annually uh and a study over 15 years gross well over 300 million in uh economic Vitality for this community I'm certainly proud of that and proud as the second alumni president in 150 years to be a part of it uh currently you might want to know this we have 80
010kids uh attending from this area and over a million dollars that we've given in scholarship dollars uh to Youth and uh that that serve this area and uh hopefully want to come back and work in this area and grow and raise families in this area um alongside of that and certainly on the education front we've invested in degrees we started not only our masters in in education but our masters in Ed Administration and we've invested in those programs to think about the teacher shortage and how can we help the school district with its teacher needs and so uh superintendent and I have had many conversations around a grow your own Teachers Program uh and rest assured uh growth in the teacher prep program uh is something that's on my mind as well uh the challenge
011for Missouri Valley College um is we have over $20 million in unfunded scholarships where a lot of schools uh and institutions uh would have those uh at least half named uh scholarships and and scholarship support for those scholarships so not only do we have an opportunity to reward Youth and award them in financial aid packages for their achievements um we also got to find a way to fund those scholarships uh as an end result uh and that's our challenge but um we can't do it without the community certainly without the uh School District um we have a great partnership currently and and and I'm just here to tout that partnership I I love what we're doing I love the direction that the district is going uh we have a lot of needs the school district
012has a lot of needs and and and my hope uh that this property acquisition you know certainly wouldn't hurt the partnership by any stretch of the imagination even if we uh didn't get it but my goal is to um strengthen the partnership and what does that look like uh for the for the surrounding community and and the Marshall Community um you know I ask that you consider Missouri Valley College um uh and and you know come back at us with something that that would be fair and just and uh the most viable opportunity for us to be your neighbor uh and and uh uh enter into that uh relationship uh uh to strengthen it at even a higher level so I thank you all very much for your time this evening I'm sorry that we're
013meeting under Schoolboard uh circumstances I hope to get to know each and every one of you uh on a personal level but thank you for your commitment to the community and all you're doing for the school district thank you thank you thank you Dr pzy it's good to hear uh good things are coming out of our College good things are coming in our school districts so education is uh doing well in Marshall so uh and various fronts um I will next recognize are there any other public comments before I move on did not believe so uh moving on to the spotlight and Amy from mwood school thank thank you for having us I would like to introduce some Eastwood current staff members and past sta members that are here with me tonight oh history list
014yes if I have to stand up here they have to stand up here so there you go way to leave okay um let's see I'm Amy Hyman principal at Eastwood um I'll let you go ahead and start I'm Amber keer and I'm the librarian for third fourth and fifth at Benton Eastwood and Northwest I'm Andre pH I'm the Easter secretary I'm I teach art grade my name is Daniel Bri I used to teach Eastwood I teach at beer I'm wyley and I teach fourth grade okay thank you very much and thank you all for being here so um as most of you know we have started thinking about um packing and moving um it has been Bittersweet um so we've started going through things and we've had a great time looking at yearbooks and different
015memorabilia and so we just wanted um just to kind of Spotlight or highlight Eastwood um now and then um so we have some um letters and memories we're going to read from former students and teachers and and um our kids um our current fourth graders have learned the Eastwood Eagle song so we would like to play that for [Music] You2 children that they [Music] so that was fun for them to learn that I did not know that song but a couple other people did we won't say who but anyway so that that was that was fun Val Dr okay next we wanted everybody to know that there is a time capsule um in the Cornerstone of Eastwood in the 1922 block and um thanks to Travis Reed um he had a list of actually what
016is in that time capsule so I know this is hard to read so I'm just going to quickly um run down the list for you so there's one copy of the Eastwood Enterprise from December 19 uh 21 copy of the history of Eastwood parent teacher Association picture of the Marshall Public School Board pictures of the old school buildings one copy of the weekly Seline citizen August 1921 one copy of the Democrat news um let's see 1921 that um also includes or notes um the financial statements um from the school district plans of the school board after Eastwood and Benton were condemned um and notice of a special Board election um Masonic lamb skin or white leather apron and a copy of the roster from the trumel N lodge number 205 so anyway it's it's in
017there they leave directions for how to open it Amy I'm sorry tell Give us directions for how to open that thing well I don't know honestly I think if you wiggle the brick you might be able to yeah okay um so several of the stories and memories that um we received talked about the hallways and the colored tiles so if you spent very much time in Eastwood they're kind of a a point of Interest or conversation and it it's fun because I can see the kids you know hopping back and forth and you know we're always like okay be safe but you know it it's fun and even I think sometimes the adults want to hop and Skip down on the hallway but so this is just um kind of an entry to some of
018the memories that we are going to read yeah echoes in the hallway Within These Walls were footsteps tread A Chorus of the past softly said laughter's time a whispered plea memories dance eternally free next okay I'm going to tell my quick Eastwood story so I had the honor of teaching in the Eastwood trailer that's no longer there and what was so cool about it is when I opened my door it opened right to Amy Hyman's office so if there's any ever issues in music I could just pop open the door and say Mrs Hyman and she go yes and it was great so Eastwood um so this is what I wrote about Eastwood um Eastwood is always been a close-nit community I have always loved the camaraderie and shared vision of Eastwood after working in
019education for over a decade I wish every first year teacher would be able to have the opportunity to learn and grow in an environment like Eastwood thank you Mr R okay go ahead I'm going to read rendy moins um she said what Eastwood Elementary School meant to me I was given the opportunity to work at MPS 32 years ago I was hired to be a third grade teacher at Eastwood I was very excited to to be part of MPS as this was also where I attended School growing up I was a third grade teacher at Eastwood Elementary for 12 years before moving into an administrative position with the district I truly enjoyed my years at Eastwood Elementary I remember my first year having 29 students in my class this was a big class for me
020I had been a fourth grade teacher at St Peters for 5 years and only had 14 students there my last year I do recall it was a big transition for me but one of the best moves I ever made in my educational career I enjoyed being able to work with so many students and still see many of them in the community and in the district today I also worked with many great teachers and administrators over the years I made many friends while working at Eastwood that I stay in touch with today many students and teachers have definitely influenced me and helped me to continue to grow as an educator and as a person I will forever be grateful and cherish all my years with MPS I'm going to read from paig clous Eastwood Elementary so
021many fond memories for me as a teacher at Eastwood yearly walking field trips to herdz Forest and Indian bathtub Eastwood on the hill programs the close community of students and staff thank you Eastwood for all the memories paig CLA and I'm going to read what Debbie Perkins wrote I remember my years at Eastwood Elementary with a grateful heart when we moved here I was questioning many things including why Marshall then I began teaching at Eastwood and the answer quickly began to Coes in my mind from the welcoming admin teachers and support staff to the students parents and caregiver caregivers everyone I encountered confirmed that I was right where I was supposed to be ideas and resources were shared among colleagues without hesitation every single adult in the building worked to make Eastwood a vibrant welcoming
022and safe place for students to learn starting right where they were memories of the students in my classroom frequently bring a smile to my face whether working on day-to-day reading and research or presenting our Living Museum and animal pikm every learner brought unique sites insights and strengths to our classroom community that may be what I miss the most yes the building was old but it was also full of character character and style and character in the people that walked through the doors every day to strive for excellence janitors Cooks Paras AIDS teachers admin students parents you are what I will remember about Eastwood Elementary and I think of you all with a grateful heart Debbie Perkins thank you Mrs hearty I'm back to read from about from Amy Mel Eastwood Elementary was my second home
023for over 28 years I spent the majority of my teaching career Walking The Halls of Eastwood Elementary despite its age I came to a appreciate the physical building with its woodwork floor colored with titles tiles scattered throughout the hallway that would make anyone child or adult want to jump from a color tile to Color Tile cold water in the bathrooms and the uniqueness of how easy it was to move through the building as it was a big U shape I enjoyed working with all the staff members at Eastwood for my very first year I felt the staff was one big happy family everyone got along working well together and was very and was very willing to support one another with the sharing of ideas knowledge and materials these feelings never went away as new staff
024came and work in the building to me everyone and has always been super supportive and we had each other's back teaching at Eastwood has been a wonderful experience one I would start all over again if I could teach with the same individuals the Eastwood Community has always been friendly not only to each other but to the families we serve Eastwood staff has always been willing to go above and beyond to help their students families there has always been a genuine concern and warmth shown to our students Eastwood school has been a great home away from my home for 28 years I have many memories of staff that I have worked with and students I had the pleasure of teaching it is very hard for me to say goodbye to the enduring school thank you for
025the Memories that's Amy miles that popping from the ti tile is a big is a thing I'm tell you every day you're like okay guys let's not do that again today all right I get to read Vicky Vicky Shannon she has two slides she had a lot to say so who's reading the second part the second one all right wonderful okay okay so I attended Ewood from 2nd to sixth grade I have fond memories of making butter in Miss swinger second grade classroom and playing the harp and violin duet with Kevin Hartley for PTA PTA in sixth grade I remember singing the Eastwood song to the tune of David Crockett which you guys all heard um at the school assemblies and I love the spelling bees in Mrs Hayner's fifth grade class in doing the
026independent math books and Sr only a teacher would say that they love doing the independent ma books and Sr reading cards in I had to laugh when I saw that in sixth grade my sister and I walk to and from school every day when I began teaching my first position was teaching kindergarten and Eastwood it was like coming home Joe Mitchell was the principal and he was very supportive of teaching staff and I thought he did a wonderful job at the time our classroom was in the building and then moved to the trailers later we did not have air conditioning at the time so the windows were open a lot which was pretty typical of anywhere uh without screens too she said I had a terrible coughing fit in the fall another teacher thought she
027had asthma so then she soon got diagnosed so I think maybe ew saved her life there see perfect see it's only um they apparently she said the railroad track back had a was full a bunch of ragweed and she found out she was allergic to Ragweed so things you learn thank you Mr to continue one of my favorite activities was when the Missouri Valley College baseball team would come to my class and we would go outside where the baseball players would pair up with students and read with them I also loved our annual Eastwood on the hill night when Mary Marshall um would hold a music program out in the hill classes would sing prepared songs and family members would relax on blankets in the grass or chairs at the top of the hill one
028year third um third grade teacher Debbie Perkins opened the program with a beautiful solo it was one of the first times of many that the staff found out that she was musically gifted I was blessed to work with the best principles par professionals next door kindergarten teachers students and parents during my time at Eastwood I was sad when I had to leave Eastwood the year there was no kindergarten bear um no longer that's why I had the transition to Benton my time at Benton was positive too it was just a hard change to make and that is from Vicki Shannon so many other memories but I better stop there we want to say thank you for all the memories and thoughts that were um emailed in if we have anybody else that would like to
029add their thoughts um or you know just give us some advice or um say thank you we have a Eastwood farewell tour bolab board and I think um Mrs Gan you've worked on Bolton boards for the other buildings that are also moving so not only Eastwood but if if you have memories from Benton or um Northwest just send them to the principes or secretaries and I'm sure they would love to post them okay now I'm going to close with a poem a creek a click the handle turns the final glance the moment Burns foot on threshold heart takes flight stepping out into the fading light the door shuts softly with a sigh leaving Echoes of what used to lie a world outside both vast and new a farewell to the old a fresh Pursuit each
030step a beat a rhythm set no looking back no second guests the door behind a closing scene a chapter ended a life unseen the path ahead a mystery veiled with every stride a story hail walking out with purpose clear the door a marker the future near thank you thank you damy and her staff and congratulations Miss ker on being a outstanding now thank you um next we will move on to the superintendent reports and while uh Mr rinky is getting ready for that I will go back to Ed Rising so uh the members of Ed Rising recently competed in competition in Fulton on Friday March 7th Some Gave speeches other views what they learned from administrator teacher support staff through presentations several wrote children's books and a few uh created interactive bulletin boards students will
031plac in the top 10 of their uh category qualified for the Ed Rising national competition which will be in Orlando Florida June 25th through 30th 2025 there were 17 students in Ed Rising uh that went to compete and all 17 of those students uh qualified for the national tournament so they are going to be fundraising as well you can reach out to Danielle Callahan or any of the staff probably at the uh career center which will put you in contact with her um and there is also uh they're looking for sponsorships from people in the community and businesses there are various levels of those so please reach out uh if you're will to help support our students uh move on to a great experience and and their supporting guest so and Mr rinky on to
032you all right thank you I have to be the one to follow the Eastwood presentation but uh it very good thank you for that um you know there's definitely a lot of memories there and it is Bittersweet so um moving on so uh tonight I have several things have several approval items on the agenda uh hope to cover all these and hopefully all the questions are asked uh first one 2025 26 school year calendar recommendation for approval um then I have three different things that we've been talking about for about three months um we have our food service provider uh contract approval our printing services our technology services provider um and then I will make uh I have a recommendation in your board packet for the meal prices uh for the 25 26 school year
033and then quickly we'll go over the capital outlay plan and the technology plan for 2025 26 for the the district which will help us in our budgeting so let's go ahead and start with the school calendar um so the school calendar this here was a little bit tricky and I I'll explain here going through this uh we started we sent out initial survey to all our staff asking several questions had a lot of feedback on that of course there's so many different worlds between the elementary the high school the middle school on kind of what everybody wants so putting all that together um sometimes is really interesting um with some of our feedback we we received on student instruction days we were at 156 days because we felt this year we needed so much professional
034development there was so much going on working with um Mr jacobe and our instructor coaches and I think it was beneficial U but we did have a lot of feedback of the student instruction days a lot of teachers felt that they were falling behind so we listened to that uh the second thing was in 169 um days to the calendar is the state has put in some Financial incentives I wouldn't say incentives Financial constraints tied to 169 day calendar um last year I believe that was Senate Bill 727 I think don't quote me on that um so we decided as a district to build a calendar at 169 student days um that that gets a little bit tricky because as far as legislation you can't start till after the state fair and then um we
035have overwhelming feedback that our teachers and staff and uh really would like to be done before Memorial Day which I do not disagree with I think stretching things into Memorial day so far after testing and everything with students it it get kind of tough keeping everybody on task um so those were two of the things we really looked at um I went ahead and put a calendar committee together uh to try to work through some of these things that was the assistant principales in our district so we brought those together um I gave them several options and then we kind of work worked through all those uh we decided to come up with a couple options that uh basically was a hybrid between full PD days and half PD days I know a lot of
036the half PD P days U sometimes are hard on parents and so are some full PD days but we decided to try to balance that out um we also looked at the senior graduation which I'll talked about a survey or in our survey and um also the final vote of between the two calendars um so that was kind of the development going through everything that we did send out two two options for to our staff um number one I wanted to share this survey uh the high school had this idea for a while talked about it the last year two uh with us and they had feedback and I and we ended up sending out a survey for not this year's seniors but next year's seniors um on the graduation date uh between that Friday
037night which would be May 8th and then on Mother's Day uh so they sent sent out a survey what the parents would prefer um it was pretty um pretty balanced uh the Friday Friday night graduation did um end up winning the vote uh so we are going to try that I think it would be a neat thing to try so we will schedule graduation on the calendar May 8th and that will still be outside underneath the lights on the football field weather permitting so um and then into our votes uh we had about 70% so we sent out two options uh from the committee that they did and then option one overwhelmingly about 70% of the votes came back so that will be the one that I am bringing to the board for approval tonight
038and both of those options I believe were in your packet materials and then uh the proposed options so does anybody have any questions on that right now all right no sir moving along we will move into our food service okay that's one thing uh this is one of the ones that we've been talking about for a few months um our food service provider currently we are with Opa Foods um we had four very competitive bids come back into the Marshall school district and it was a process and we finally decided to set up a committee which was really it was really kind of fun um so this committee consisted of our Wellness um some of our Wellness committee members of the district but we also brought in some of our high school and our middle
039school students uh to sit on the committee and I can't remember what day it is but we set up uh presentations for all our biders so we had four presentations that day um I'll tell you what our kids did amazing I was so proud of our kids you know they they came in they were engaged they asked questions they got some good food to eat too but um so they and they gave great feedback I was I was really impressed so I want to uh definitely thank our committee going through this process um so looking at our our bids I tried to break it down as simple as I I could here um and Mrs Durham has been awesome through this helping me put all this together uh but we are with our bids we
040are recommending a change with our food service provider um to move away from Opa and I'm going to recommend um South Southwest Food Service Excellence SF um for our next 5-year contract um when we looked at the feedback from the committee and the references uh from some other districts and definitely the financials uh there was a big Financial benefit to make a make the switch uh so we also have when it comes down to time for the voting if you do have any questions um Fred Ellis and an Wanger did I say everything right they are here tonight from uh SF in case you had any questions um so does anybody have any any questions right now on this for me perfect all right moving on um printing services bit you we don't have to
041do this again for five years everybody know that all these bids so just tell um printing service of bids ow okay so this was a process um a lot of thought went into this and I'll get to a survey here in a second we are currently with Rio um we also house a print shop throughout the district um we were looking at when we went out back out for bid because our fiveyear current 5-year contract was up and moving into the next 5year contract uh we basically were had definitely open options and we didn't know if we were going to continue with the print shop uh you know more copers everything else I since I've been here I get a lot of feedback from teachers on our printing services uh so a lot of feedback
042um but that's okay so you know looking at different options what we had actually uh I think six different options come back uh Rio gave us two they did a an option with the print shop and without the print shop we had GFI uh company GFI Solutions um they gave us three one with a print or two with a print shop and then one without and then Toshiba gave us uh a bid without the print shop um so comparing Apples to Apples this was tough to do uh you might look at some of the prices that uh is very low but I felt in some of those low prices cuz we still want to meet the needs of the district that they were really too low and not we weren't getting the equipment we needed
043um but I do feel that we can have a uh very um to switch our switch our services and switch how we're doing our printing uh we can still manage uh meet our teachers needs meet our staff's needs and also have a pretty decent Savings of money so I will this was our and I also sent out uh for printing services I did one before and then I sent this back out cuz I wanted to know how I can see what our employees are using in the print shop but I was asked you know I don't know if that's this many teachers or this many teachers so I sent this survey out um we had some individual answers but basically the survey had 144 responses back is would you rather have more copy machines more
044convenience copiers throughout your building or would you rather have the print shop and we actually received that teachers would like about 60% more convenience copers that are conveniently placed throughout their's buildings um so I will be recommending the Toshiba bid for a 5-year contract tonight and that is a 5year lease on the machines um we will not be housing a print shop the production Center anymore um so it would be $5,895 basically uh a month month for that lease in copers we will drastic we will be able to increase our copers throughout all of our buildings um be a little bit different uh we'll still have the uh software to be able to put it everything in um and we might and then we'll probably Outsource some of our other things like such as binding
045and everything which will still be a benefit so switching to Toba while still meeting our needs uh I believe we can say between 70 and $80,000 a year um over the course of the contract that that's about $350 to $400,000 over a 5year contract that I believe the district will save by switching um moving away from the print shop and putting more convenience copiers for our teachers so um and even with Outsourcing that I believe it's still the most bang for our buck and and it will be a it will be a financial benefit uh to the district as a whole so when it comes to that that time I will be recommending the Toshiba B does anybody have any questions on that all right um we also had to go out for our technology
046service bids um Tech handles all our computers our Chromebooks our internet uh everything we have so much technology in the district that uh it it's crazy and it takes somebody to to take care of it all and run it all um we received we are currently with with converged Technology Solutions here in Marshall CTS uh those that is our current contract uh we received two contracts back one again from CTS converge Technology Solutions uh basically for $1,632 a month plus, 15500 a month backup this will be for a 5-year contract also uh I did ask about that you know with a yearly contract but they have a hard time planning and be able to pass the service is along or pass some of those savings along to us doing that yearly um so it is
047a 3% escalation for 5 years um the other bid we had back was from GFI digital which was 51,200 a month so that was that was kind of out of the ballpark for us so I will recommend us staying with CTS when we come to that point anybody have any questions on that all right since we're providing are approving food service providers tonight I thought it would be good to go ahead and recommend um our meal pricing for 2026 um we are or I am proposing a we uh have no increases for next school year from this year we leave the uh student pricing the same that is one of the benefits of going out and uh looking looking at uh new providers and their pricing that we will not have to do that for
048next year um so it'll be um with our savings that we're going to do with the new contract we will not have to raise meal prices for next year so there is no increase I'm recommending any questions on that all right um two other things the 2025 2026 Capital out outlay plan started bringing those to the board through our CIP and putting that together and this uh can kind of go with our long range facility plans um there are a few things outside it but we try to make them run together and and just updating some of our district needs that we really need to do and we put these together because mainly it helps us budget into next year instead of just we we have a plan um so looking through this we're looking
049right now about $250,000 for next year this does include the playgrounds that you already proved I think a couple months ago that we did that so that's listed in there um this also does uh which we are still working on the complete pricing but the additional parking at the high school I think we talked about that about four months ago uh so that's involved in there uh we also are proposing in this plan the two I'm not going to go through all these but the two big things we would like to replace the tile floor in the old section of spainhower this summer and that would you know to match the new section and make that building start to run together update that and then also a tile project um at the sing County Career
050Center if you've been in the career center the tiles are getting in pretty rough shape and popping off so those tiles will have to be abated so we would Abate those hallways and then come in with our crew and then be able to lay a new tile floor is the plan this summer so those are so those are some of the highlights the big things that we'd like to do in the capital outlay project for the summer David how many many how many uh stalls did you get for the high school in the final are you still counting Harry I don't know I I haven't I haven't counted them all yet we still counting last time we talked we were still counting yeah I I will let you know no it's no big deal Mr
051rinky you said We Lay Flor tiles are you saying that's going to be an inhouse project I believe yes our maintenance department I talked to Chris I believe that we can handle that that project good so I think it'll be they can do it we started laying Beaker flooring so I think we can do the tile now good place to find out okay um technology outlay plan first does anybody else have any questions on that sorry the capital plan okay technology outlay plan this is really small and I apologize you do have this in your board uh packet um so this is very similar to last year again this this aligns with our CIP uh our plan outlays about 7 $50,000 which is basically what the district has been spending I just got everything put
052together and and was able to to outline all the numbers that we're doing um so this includes the big things is still continuing the Chromebook rotation that we talked about last year and approving uh this will include we usually try to do a student lab we'll do a lab at the high school this year uh update those those uh desktops for the students and then in and the rotation for teachers devices we will go this summer at the Intermediate School in spainhower so we will update all those um into new teacher devices um this also uh contains our e- rate contribution we bought several servers this year through rate or going to buy into next year and then I also included all of our internet and all of our software and our uh firewalls and
053all that all those software cost that um it adds up but it is if we're going to have all the technology it is a necessity for the district so um so that will be our technology outlay plan for approval um all right so just for your information on these bids with the different food service printing um our technology whatever else I have in here uh when we if you approve those to tonight I will go back and I will work with those vendors to set the contracts and then I'll bring back the contracts next month that will be in your consent agenda for approval so that is all I have anybody have anything else that's all all right that's it thank you thank you Mr rinky next we'll uh hear from superintendent Mr pet I
054always feel that I need to explain I don't like to not stand up that they can't hear me at home and you can't hear me at the end of the table on that microphone doesn't work for me so uh we're gonna jump into some things but before I do a couple of things that are not on my agenda this evening and my agenda is very short I promise I thought Mr ranky had more than enough to cover for his workload and and our presentation tonight so I I really Tred to keep it brief um and I'm thankful to him first of all for all the work he put into all of that he's done a fantastic job very detail oriented and uh it took a lot for him to put all this together and bring
055it to you and I've appreciated his help with all of it he's done fantastic I want to also I'll start with an odd question but Mr Lind did you golf by chance today how many holes 16 so I want to take a quick recommen uh recognition of Mr Jack Lind he has a 90th birthday coming and if anyone thinks that he isn't spry he he golfs almost every single day and I've golfed with him once and he's a lot better than me and he's a lot better than other people that are a lot better than me so cuz that may not be saying a lot but uh he has a 90th birthday party celebration at his church Covenant Presbyterian on Yerby street it's 2: to 4:00 p.m. and that is Saturday March 15th and his
056birthday is on Sunday so happy birthday to youy birth birthday Jack and thank you Mona for putting together those for everybody to share and put it all over Facebook and make it a big party for him so happy birthday um I also I want to brag on our elementary schools here a while back I was at a rotary luncheon and we had a presentation from Meals on Wheels here in Marshall and for those who don't know cuz I didn't we have meals on wheel and we have the food pantry they're separate entities with separate funding and they had a pretty great need and I was speaking to one of our elementary principles and said I wish there was some way we could do something we asked our teachers to support uh in some ways around
057Christmas and let them wear pants I wonder if our kiddos could help and all of the elementary teachers came together and I believe it was a pajama party was the bribe wasn't it so they were uh change Wars for pajama parties and I don't have the exact count because I didn't count the third envelope that came over but I think it's around $1 122 to $1,300 that those kiddos brought with pennies and uh I don't know all the parents might not be as thankful I know that my wallet was raided my car was raided everything but um and we have some pajama parties so next year I told them if they want to do that again I'll buy pizza for the winning classrooms and come see them so nobody knows who I am now that
058my wife's out of the classroom I'm not Mrs pettit's husband I'm I'm starting to become Bellamy's dad and Henry's dad that's my new identification so um so I say those things and celebrations before I get started with our business today which I promise will be quick I don't always keep my word but today it will be and I'm going to get right into the meat and potatoes as grandma called it of what it is going on with salaries and how it all plays out and I want to explain too with Mr ranky annual presentation of our capital outlay and our it outlay as well as summer projects when you all approve that that is a part of our current comprehensive School Improvement plan sometimes I I just want to make sure and draw attention to
059the things we're doing is for a reason and it's that District plan so now with those approved it's time for me to start working on presenting to you and our staff our certified staff what it is we're going to do with salary packages next year so and I'm sorry I didn't realize that would cut off that's my fault I apologize for that but here is what is proposed and we have done staff surveys to get input and after we did staff surveys I've met with teacher representative groups this week to discuss um the survey data we also had a board work session where we discussed some of the goals that we had as a board of education and what we would hope to accomplish so this is an outlay of all of that and Harry
060this may some of this may be the first time you've heard it unless you uh read really deep into this month's big packet we gave you but salary percentage on the base our proposal on the base is 2% plus steps which is an average of 2% with Benefits that 2% % will go into life insurance retirement Medicare and Social Security and we also have a goal of covering whatever health insurance increase we have we'll hopefully know what that is in one more month but it's capped at 5% and then there's some other things this gym membership I'm going to ask for approval of tonight which is a recruitment and retention idea the all day preschool that we've added and tuition reimbursement which we will be working to fund again next year at $45,000 a year
061for our teachers all told and that won't math because I'm being very conservative but all told I'm comfortable in saying that we are proposing that we want to provide for our staff a 6% package of benefits this year 4% in salary and the rest in these other items I'm mentioning um and we do have the benefit of our survey data uh and I've shared that in months prior to get staff feedback that those gym membership all day preschool things and the reimbursement That Matters to our staff and it helps recruit I can say from a recent job fair so that's what our plan is that's what we're propos osing and we intend to do it if uh if the state funding is there and there's an awfully lot being discussed there so for now uh
062certified staff will be getting a contract this week that's part of our uh statutory requirements and our board policy that they get that by the 15th of March uh same day as Jack's birthday party uh they have to have that contract we're going to give them a contract that says what their salary is this year we're going to be very very open about what our intentions are it's truly in the hands of our legislature who are having a very good run at attacking our funding I might add um so jumping on into these gym memberships and I'm excited to share this with our staff tomorrow we have two gyms I'll tell you about one is the YMCA um which is offering a partnership with the school district and the other is UVU I didn't know
063that for like a week and I was running around calling it uu that's not correct it's you versus you I've learned uh both of them are proposing opportunities for our staff to come be a part of their gym and we're doing this on a tri basis is my proposal tonight that we invest $115,000 this year which our insurance company will partner with us to accomplish we'll do this for the rest of March April and may possibly June um but I'm promising to the staff we'll do three months and at the end of those three months we're going to see how many participated according to our survey it'll be over 100 and I hope it'll increase and then we will incentivize and and reimburse them for their costs if they've been active in that gym membership
064so that our insurance will help us to continue to hopefully invest in that and promote our staff's health and well-being this opportunity will include their spouses and their children they need to use the gym 10 times and I think if they bring everybody with them it'll actually make a difference and make them healthy any questions about all that so far I only have one or two left good big thing to keep in mind and I have not gotten into the Weeds on legislation it'll be my turn to stand at the podium for a long time next month because it's going to be time to start really looking at what's going on on in Jefferson City House Bill 7-Eleven however is acting quickly we know from the governor's State of the State that was going to
065be a priority of his administration and uh it was possibly going to be called to the floor for debate yesterday sounds like that got delayed I've reached out to our district leadership um and teacher representation I'm asking them and the board as well to make contact on that we have a new state representative in this area I think he has really good intentions with education we just need to forge that strong relationship because not only will that impact our financing so will the senior tax credit and there's multiple other tax cutting bills that changes so much I'm waiting until April to start getting into many legislative sessions with you but I am concerned at a minimum I'm concerned about things like our student adequacy Target that was a increased in last year's state budget to
0666760 we have not hit that we're falling short in our Collections and they're keep talking about more tax cuts I love tax cuts as a taxpayer but that's what this public school system operates on so these things on top of the discussion about the entire education formula being Rewritten in Jefferson City there's just frankly too much that we don't know but if we were left to be with our funding and our long plans that we' started down the road of here in Marshall uh everything about this salary package would be for sure be easy and it would be the best salary package since I've been here but I share this with you all in the public tonight T because in the past I've asked for calls to Jefferson City and I cannot stress enough how
067critically important that is because it literally is going to impact what we can and can't do and we've got the best plans but we need the funding I believe this is my closing remark real estate we're going to have motions on real estate uh this month and next month at least and there's some opportunities further into the future and so just a quick recap of some policy there and as a board I know we know it sharing with the public we uh particularly with the property next door to Butterfield that's up first that's up this month on our agenda and there was a first ride of refusal so just a quick history review for the public is that that first right of refusal meant the school didn't own it but we had a first right
068to buy it if somebody else wanted to and we exercise that um we've utilized it for building traits uh coursework and learning and you might have noticed the fence going up over there today they did a lot of things inside as well that's been good I've been appreciated their work and then we were exercising in our policy how to sell it and there's always two options to do that a sealed bid where you have no choice but go with the highest and obtaining a realtor and Michelle Pointer's with us here tonight who's been representing the district um and however that sells we're intending to include that right of first refusal again and there's been um some protections put in there about Section 8 and subsidize housing based on that Community input that we've got with
069our other schools so that is all I'm going to say tonight if you have no questions for me I'll rest okay uh before I ask you to rest completely I'm just going to ask you to overview the writing project that is down for old business um I know that's a Cooperative project but I'll let you explain the details of that please we have a one of our high school Educators that does a very nice job for us he's been given an opportunity to work with uh missou and this writing project it was something I did when I was in the classroom a while ago and it was a really great it had a great impact on the way that you teach it was effective and so social studies classrooms English Etc and the offer on
070the table for him is that he works part-time for the school district and part-time for the University of missou and and basically what I hope to be bringing to you next month is that you approve a u a mutual agreement between us and missou where we will pay a full salary they will reimburse us for 50% and that includes benefits so it doesn't impact their employees uh retirement and then we have a representative of Marshall Public Schools that will go out and they will teach this at other schools it becomes a a professional development thing that goes on so it will represent us around the state there's no Financial loss and uh I think we have a good person up for it long and the short is with all the political stuff going on on
071the federal level the funding got shaky I expected to be approving it this month so it's there for a placeholder and I think that funding is clearing up now that it will be sustained and that'll be an approval next month I participated in that program when I was teaching it's an excellent program it is thank you Mr petett yes sir moving on to uh an alphabet of new business that we have so the first thing uh letter the whole thing a uh real estate contract for 1304 County Road ww that was in your packet and there's been some other discussions um I am seeking for conversation or a motion at this point I move the table till closed I second that yeah it's been requested to table uh the real estate contract for 1304 to
072closed um we will discuss particulars and closed at that point in time but we will return to open session to complete a bid after that time um for the board to ask any other questions of contracts and developments that may have happened um very recently so I that right yes so that also takes a mo a vote all those in favor of tabling to close and returning to open session after close this evening please say I I I any opposed are recusing so that would be 60 with one refusing St next tuition policy setting for tuition rate increases 2025 2026 um this is for the all day prek program this will be $30 for staff weekly $60 for non-staff is there availability within that and then a $30 a day uh PD day where we
073would staff uh to take care of District uh children or children of uh Educators within the district to allow them to attend PD and not have to seek other outside babysitting commitments and and we will start that child care as a prek Endeavor and see how it goes we hope to expand okay move it's been moved in second and is there any questions or discussion call a question all those in favor please say I I any opposed stain are recusing um next is the coach and stien pay increases in conjunction with uh the base um this is something that we've uh talked about as well before and uh kind of restructuring how we're looking at um our coaches the amount of kids they have the time commitments it takes for uh each some of those
074programs that they work with uh in the evenings or year round for some of those so in in practice with regard to that in Practice Marshall Public Schools has always had had the base salary for certified teachers be the indicator of what our coaching salary was it just is not and has not been tied to policy so separately we really should make this vote each year it's not changing anything they would appreciate it but if we give the base it'll give them a raise to I move to accept the stien pay increases with conjunction with the base second it's been moved in seconded I'll recognize Mr Lind who got there a little bit faster in his 89th year question I'll do better all those in favor please say I hi opposed abstaining are recusing um
075next item D is the adult um Ed tuition that right now is $ 17,23 and it'll be a slight increase to $1 17,488 um that's an increase of $150 if I did my quick math correctly so moved second it's been moved in second is there any more discussion call a question all those in favor please say I I opposed or abstain if anyone thinks we're running through these things pretty quickly we also had a uh about a three and a half hour board work session last week where we discussed a lot of these items already before so we're all pretty well versed on these uh topics so uh next print service provider was a 5-year contract U Mr rinky outlined those for us um also with the input of our teachers staff of course uh
076to see what they thought they would uh best be suited for it sounds like they overwhelmingly wanted some more copers within buildings allowed them to do some more on demand printing um and he recommended to Sheba at $529 monthly on a 5-year lease uh with new machines and additional machines uh machines per District building so move okay you can have it call a question then it's been moved in seconded I will let say secretary choose can I make a comment ran yeah of course you can sir I would like to personally thank David I know how much work he goes through to do all of that and he presented it in such a form that we could I could understand and that means it's pretty darn good so David I say thank you I I
077I agree with that it makes it so much easier for us to know what we're talking about David and we've mentioned that before so you're welcome question been moved and seconded uh to accept the uh Toshiba bid all those in favor please say I I I any opposed or abstaining um next moving down to food service provider um the recommendation uh from was for Southwest Food Services um which was from our committee as well of our students uh we met last week as a board and talked about this and we thought it was really neat that our students got to come in and meet and actually because all of us can sit around and vote and weigh the dollars and the cents out they're the ones that going to end eating lunch every day so
078how'd that come about David that I'm I'm just thrilled to know in that we had students involved in that thing all it I mean they they eat lunch every day that's who we should be asking I don't know when I I've done it before with the some food service committies and I thought it was neat when I've done it before let me congratulate you on another great decision well thanks Eric it's your also to let you know must be going to something to have an executive session with you when we get this also to let you know know uh there were more uh students on that uh committee as uh versus adults and everybody's vote was just one um and so the uh students are driving this so uh look at your peers if you're
079not happy with your food no I'm just kidding but but uh you know in an effort to always uh you know let our students take the lead in things I do appreciate that as well Mr rinky so the uh contract was for Southwest Food Services uh for five years um and that is at a a rate that increases through the year so I'll just stop there as far as that would be the provider so move second it's been moved and seconded any discussion call a question all those in favor of our new uh Southwest Food Services as the uh food service provider please say I I any opposed or abstaining accusing um next going down we have breakfast lunch pricing for the 2025 2026 school year um that is currently 245 at the high school
080240 at the middle school and 230 at the elementaries and 1:15 for breakfast that will stay the same going into next year for our students and families so moved yes second so moved and second it is there any other discussion question all those in favor please say I I uh the next item we have to never mind one so the the next item on the agenda is is to uh reinstall myself as uh our area representative for msba uh so we are in Region 5 that encompasses uh Lexington Higginsville down to warrenburg sadelia back to this area um I was asked to join that team to fill a vacancy last year um as a representative of the State Board of Directors um which I've been serving on for the last eight months you don't have
081to make a speech I'm going to nominate I'm I'm done right after that so just giving the preference so I just need my board to support me um in that endeavor as I send the paperwork back to MSD Mr President it would be my honor to nominate you for that and I'd be very happy to second we go well thank you very much both you gentlemen that was the best motion we've had of the night so all those in favor please say I I thank you all any uh oppose to that just want to make sure nobody was going to vote at the end um the next thing that we have is to look at our technology managed service provider contract um that is again looking at CTS who was our uh best better for
082the district at that point and for a 5-year contract um annually starting out at $157,000 588 um and 56 with a 3% um raise per year is that locked in that 3% per year yes yes sir ouch don't realize how over five years it's still a whole lot cheaper than the other one Harry huh it's still a whole lot cheaper than the other one yeah and and on a cost of living increase 3% is probably about what you're going to end up with uh annually anyway so that's a pretty standard rate um as far as uh I guess inflationary markets go over cost of living so I move accept a bit from CPS it's been moved and seconded to the right all those in is there any other discussion or questions no we're just we're
083just grousing about spending money so I all right well let me get through it while we're still in the given all those in favor please say I I any opposed or abstaining um next we're moving down to our Capital Outlet projects as uh Mr rinky outlined to us um roughly at about a quar of a million dollars $250,500 real life applications to be able to do things within the district and projects that they can be proud of and see as they pass around so seeking a motion here so move second it's been moved and seconded all those in favor please say I I I I'd like to comment too I really like the way you break this down for us David I can sit down here and tell exactly what's going to be happening with
084the high school the Middle School the other schools and and I look quickly we're going to have an inside outside vendor and of course I'm really thrilled that our own guys are doing a lot of this stuff yeah anyone that was opposed to that St thank you and I appreciate the comment as well so it it is very easy to understand where we're going so and as we reduce buildings we have a lot less places to put check marks on so and newer construction so thank you all for helping us maintain these buildings as well uh CIP goal number four our technology plan um that was uh as he out LED uh for replacing devices at various schools and other parts servers and such uh for right about 3/4 of a million dollar $734,000 18063
085which also includes our e rate where we're able to purchase some things at 90% or 80% reduction as well on some of our larger pieces of equipment so moved second been moved in seconded all those in favor of the uh technology plan please say I I I any oppos or abstaining uh the next thing is a surplus of furniture at Eastwood Benton and Northwest scrapping rights at Eastwood the trailer at Eastwood and District Vehicles this is not an exact set Surplus wish yet because it is ever growing and changing then probably as uh Amy and her staff are going through the building putting Post-it notes on what they want or what they don't want through the building um over the next few months so this is just to look towards a surplus auction for us
086and being able to list those which I believe we're planning on listing online as well yeah the only thing that will not be sold on gov deals is going to be just for the Public's knowledge it'll be the scrapping rights as well as the trailer we will do those as sealed bids where you must accept the highest and I think that's going to be the best way to move them I don't think those will move on gu deals everything else will be gu deals this time so moved second it's been moved and seconded question and all those in favor please say I I I abstaining recusing thank you uh the next thing up is trial gym membership with uh UVU and as well as YMCA I know that uh the staff are kind of asked
087about this and staff said I go to this gym I prefer here or there uh so thank you all for communicating with both gyms and getting us a trial membership to see how this is going to look for staff uh going forward and as an added benefit that we can offer our staff as a fringe um going forward so so moved I have a comment have we decided yet on how many times they have to use it it was 10 I believe in this presentation 10 a month 10 a month okay thank you and due to these mean family plans that would be 10 uses a month which um depending on how big your family is you might only have to get in there twice yeah they'll have they'll have a perk if they're a
088family call a question all those in favor of the trial gym memberships please say I I opposed recusing thank you and the final item item number n um physical year calendar 2025 2026 um that has 169 days on it which is uh uh compliant with uh some State uh regulations and changes which theyve made with some funding uh um ideas that go along with things and a Friday night graduation which is uh the first that we've had on a different day in quite a number of years so uh any of you uh mothers that have children graduating next year you're going to get to have Mother's Day all to yourself again and so we will try that and see how it works out for us on Friday night so so move are you asking you're
089asking for yes ma'am yep second it's been moved in the second it question all those in favor of the uh School Calendar's outline please say I I I any opposed staining recusing next we are going to uh motion to adjourn to close session um we are going to talk about lease purchasing of real EST State and identifiable uh Personnel records performance ratings or records pertaining to employees or applicants for employment at that time don't move second we moved and seconded we will start with a roll call vote on this end I I I and Mr Carrol I hi thank you all we will move to close session thank you