001Please [Music] 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. I need approval of the agenda. >> Second. All those in favor. >> All those opposed approved. Uh any comments? >> No patron comments on to the consent agenda. I'll make a motion we approve consent agenda item presented second. >> All those in favor. >> All those opposed consent agenda is passed. New businessformational items. The National Weather Service. Good evening. I'm gonna stand off to the side. That way I can kind of address everybody. Um tonight uh Christine with the National Weather Service out of Paduk is here. uh back in November of 2024, we uh I attended one of her uh weather briefings for the winter
002season and while talking to her and things, we found out that the school district could be uh apply for and work with them to become uh school >> storm ready supporter. So, I've been working with uh the National Weather Service since then. Um completed their applications and everything and our school district is officially a storm ready supporter for the National Weather Service. Do the things. So, this is Christine. I'm going to let her I'm going to turn over to her. She can explain what we are and how it's going from there. >> Good evening everyone. My name is Christine Logas. I'm the warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service forecast office in Pville, Kentucky. And I want to thank you for giving me the opportunity to recognize Perry County School District 32, especially safety
003officer Mr. Garrett St and Superintendent Dr. Farah Jones for the recent achievement in earning the National Weather Service storm supporter designation. The National Weather Services Storm program, which was created back in 2000, helps arm America's communities with the communication and safety skills needed to save lives and property before, during, and after an event. A storm ready support school promotes the principles and guidelines of the storm ready program and its severe weather safety and preparedness plans. School safety officials in the local National Weather Service office review these safety preparedness plans, track progress towards storm warning guidelines, and work collaboratively to strengthen these plans. Unfortunately, the residents of Perry County, Missouri, know all too well that severe weather is a frequent and serious threat underscored by the EF2 tornado that struck back here in March and causing
004damage to school grounds. This is all the more reason to be as prepared as possible because it's not a question of if dangerous weather will strike again, but when. Parents in of students in this district can find peace of mind knowing that the school officials have thoughtfully prepared a strong and reliable severe weather safety plan to protect their children and to keep them safe. In fact, in my 25 years as a National Weather Service meteorologist, the protocols set up here are some of the best I've ever seen. In addition, officials commitment to strengthening and expanding their already robust plans highlights how seriously they take student safety and reflects their deep sense of responsibility to protect everyone on campus. Becoming part of the Storm supporter program is a very significant accomplishment because it has around 10
005different requirements that have to be met. One of those requirements is to have staff who monitor any hazardous weather information and relay important threats to faculty. Mr. Rashad has clearly demonstrated that he not only knows how where to obtain critical weather information, but more importantly has multiple methods to effectively communicate these weather threats to everyone on campus. In addition, when a semi weather threat arises, campuswide announcements are delivered through push button alert systems in each building, ensuring that every message is heard quickly and clearly. However, even the most well practiced severe weather plans are only effective if they include clearly designated sheltering locations and the plans are practiced regularly. This district has two FEMA designated shelter locations on school property and the tornado drills are practiced at least twice a year. In fact, due to
006the frequent practice schedule, all students and faculty can reach these shelters in under five minutes. So, those are just a few of the important requirements for becoming a story supporter school district. And I'm delighted that Perry County School District 32 has taken such a strong interest in the safety of the students and faculty and has met all of those needed requirements. I would like to extend my sincere thanks to Mr. Shot and Dr. Jones and everyone at the Perry County School District who have contributed to building and maintaining such a strong severe weather preparedness program. Your dedication to protecting students and staff is truly inspiring. As an agency, we are honored to stand beside such a committed group of people and we look forward to continuing our partnership with this outstanding team in the events
007to come. Thank you very much and congratulations. I have our certificate for you and also the storming supporter program does come with two large signs and uh Mr. will be able to put those wherever he shall >> picture. >> Absolutely. >> One, two, and three. >> Okay. One, two, three. Thank you. [Applause] >> Very good. Uh after the storm recovery update. So, we had a very detailed storm recovery update at the most recent board meeting last Friday morning. Our construction manager and our architect and several other of our construction team managers were there to provide an update to the board because they were here that just most recently doing that. They're not here this evening for that, but we're going to leave this as a placeholder on every board agenda going forward. on to the
008program evaluations for communications. >> So, we have three uh that we are presenting to you all. If you remember last year, all of our program evals, we put them all together and provided them to the board for review for several weeks. Um, and if you all had any questions, then we pulled those out individually. We thought that it would put a little more focus on these this year if we would add just a few at each board meeting for your review. The three of these are connected to Miss Kate Martin who will be transitioning into a new position for the next uh start of the school year and so she wanted to get those done as quickly as possible so that her replacement person wouldn't have that task ahead of them right off the bat.
009So if you have any questions, if you would like to study these and call us with any clarification, we would be happy to provide that for you all and can also continue to keep them on the agenda as needed if you feel necessary. >> Any questions or comments about them at this point? >> It looks like there's a lot of work in there. Obviously, is there a way to share that community member wanted to see what we're doing in regards to communications? Is it on on the website somewhere? >> I don't know if it is, but I don't see why we couldn't put it there. I will make a motion to for a roll call vote to schedule close session to discuss student and personnel matters as permitted by revised Missouri statute 610.21 sections 3613
010and 14 at the conclusion of the open session. Jamie. >> Hi. >> Receive two different bids and there's a notation the board to know who we currently are working with. We lay out by prices by individual items for the board to make a decision from. The two companies that we receive bids for are Prairie Farms and Diversified Foods. >> Make approve the bid from Prairie Farms for the 256. All those in favor. All this bread want to bread. >> The same format has been provided for the board. The two companies submitting bids are Flowers Baking Company and Bimbo Bakeries and we are currently working with Bimbo Bakeries. Make a motion to bid from bakeries for bread for 25. >> All those in >> favor using food and other supplies. >> So this was a bit
011of a challenge for Miss Debbie and Miss Julie because over 800 items that went out to bid for food. So they chose to provide samples out of those 800 items from the two different companies who submitted bid so that you could see a comparison. We are currently with both Gold Star and US Foods and Debbie is here to answer any questions that you would have. She has gone through all 800 individual products to see which company has the best items and that company has been highlighted for you in the bid sheet. The two companies are Gold Star and US Foods. >> Now, if we're currently currently using both Gold Star and US Foods, is it going to be easier for you to go strictly to Gold Star or do you want us to approve two?
012I would rather do both because we've done just the one before and like two weeks before school started they decided they didn't want to go with >> Yeah. to provide. So I I would really rather have both of them. >> Okay. >> So there's always, you know, back up in case something would happen. >> So we just need to approve one as the primary. >> What I'll do is go through and >> it's cheapest. >> Yeah. No, I'll pick what's cheapest. But it still allows me to be able to order from the other one if I need it. I just, you know, get the better price with them. And there's, of course, some items that Gold Star has that US food doesn't have or the US food has that Gold Star doesn't have. >> Mer.
013>> Yes. >> I used to do school bids for a food company. I was always up against five or six people. I'm always surprised you only have that are interested in participating. >> We reached out. I go through a company called Interflex Advantage and we invited um Cisco and course I can't think of the other one. There was four that were included on it. >> Yeah. >> But Cisco has just gotten kind of far away from the K12. >> Okay. >> And they just didn't we haven't worked with them for the last couple years and Kuna was the other one. and they're kind of working towards K12, but they also did not we did reach out to them. They just did not reply. >> It's always surprising. >> Okay. >> Board accept Gold Star and
014US. >> All those in favor. All those opposed carriers gas and diesel. >> We provided the bid tab sheet for you to show the companies that we reached out to. Uh and only one of the six companies submitted a bid. We also indicated who we currently are working with. We can provide that information for you all. >> Any idea at all why the current After I found out they did not submit a bid, I did contacted them. >> He said he contacted him, but there was no answer yet. So, didn't want to make any money or I don't know why, but I did reach out to make sure that they had an opportunity So, we advertise these in our local newspaper. We post them on our district website and we mail paper letters to the
015vendors who have submitted bids to us in the past. Was we only had one to look at. Would that impact your budget more based on where Don Pile was at? our memory is not good on where we were before. >> Um I don't think so. They're typically also close. Um MFA we have had for multiple years uh before and then we switched to someone out of Cape and then got high last year. >> So you you remember service being well in >> Yes. Yes. Make a motion to approve. All those in favor. All those opposed. notification for next year. >> That's the breakfast and lunch prices 26. Okay, Jessie provides for us a calculator um to help calculate our minimum cost for paid student lunches. Um the idea behind that is the district is required
016to provide sufficient funds to to cover the cost of those paid lunches so that we do not um get into a position where the free and reduced reimbursements that we receive subsidize that program. So there's a calculator that goes in um and gives an estimate of what we should be charging for paid lunches. The minimum requirement in that calculator is that we increase lunch prices by a minimum of 10 cents. Our calculator came up just a little hair higher than that, but it will be our recommendation that we go with the minimum 10 cent increase. And that still meets all of the state's minimum requirements. >> And breakfast can stay the same. >> Breakfast can stay the same. So that proposes for the 2526 school year that student lunches K through 5k would be $355.
017The student lunches 6 through 12th grade would be $360. and increase both at the minimum 10 cents required. Make a motion to approve the breakfast and lunch prices that all those in favor. All those oppos I have some responses from parents that they sent out to provide us to share those. Thank you. >> Side facing up is HMH The back has I ready. And so if we want to start with um HMH that is Hootton Mifflin Park that is for grades 6 through 8 math. And uh this was a program that we piloted starting in late first semester. Some started in July or January, but majority started in December, November. And before that, we had done imagine learning. We had done a pilot and that did not um fit with what we felt like our
018district the direction we needed to go. And so, um, Hootin Mifflin, we had been we had done it at grades six through eight and the teachers responded well. They felt like it was aligned with the standards. It was rated highly by curriculum um ratings. We have some districts surrounding districts that also utilize it. Um we we received uh good support from the company. They provided some professional development for us and worked with us also on our quote. So I would recommend that we would purchase Putin Mifflin Harboard for grades six through eight. Yes sir. So these both parents were they able to just have access or do you have material that you gave them? How that work? >> Those were just parents of our students we sent home and asked for you know solicited feedback.
019Um, and this was following the open house that we had last month and we didn't have um parents that came to to ask for any kind of feedback or insights and so I I felt like I needed to take another step and and get solicit some from them and so this is this is the response. >> Do you have how many like staff members were here? Yeah, we had a math representative, Sherry Palmer, our eighth grade math teacher, and um that was for our middle steps for this program. >> Probably speaking out of ignorance here, but I hear grade 10 math a lot. Does it go to this grade level? >> It does not. These teachers have not been trained in uh grade 10. >> So that's high school only >> uh K5. >> Oh,
020it's K5. >> Yeah. You did did the um teacher leaders feel like that meshed well with those strategies? >> Actually, yes. Um many of our instructional resources are have been adopting some many of the of the protocols that that Tang espouses. Um they just don't call it Greg Tang and yes we feel like it meshes well with that. One of the qualities that we really liked about this particular program is that it is direct instruction and the other one that we looked at was very um open-ended um much more like almost studentled. We did not feel like that was the best for our students. We felt like we needed much more direct specific instruction from our teachers. >> And the next one, the I Ready Math proposing it's going to replace. >> It will not
021replace it. Okay. >> Um we will continue to use the methodologies that Greg Tang has taught us. Um primarily his program truly is more of a supplemental program. He's been trying to develop like a almost a textbook and a full program, but it didn't have the ro robustness that we needed um from it, but the the philosophy behind it u many of the same strategies are in I Ready. So, we feel confident those will mesh well. I can speak to I Ready since we're talking about that as well. We began that pilot in um January and the reason why we started to look for that is because we have not been seeing the results from uh Greg Tang over the last four to five years. We felt like it was time for us to look
022for something that would provide us a little bit more um just across the board materials for our teachers and for our students and families. And so um we also did an exploratory process of looking into programs. We looked at curriculum ratings and uh I Ready is the one that our teachers wanted to work with and so we began that pilot also expecting to do another pilot and once we got into it they fell in love with it and um we continued with it for the remainder of the year. They saw growth and and I did not bring that data with me but Dr. could speak to it too, but we saw growth uh just with the few teachers who piloted um that program. So I feel confident in recommending it as well. This for this
023age of students is there a lot of is it more textbook based or or device? >> It is it is a combination. We primarily use paperbased materials. They uh they are student consumables. At the at the older level, there are textbooks. Um and by consumables, it's basically workbooks that we get each year that the kids can write in. Um and the teachers have their own materials. We have just found that moving away from a focus on electronic devices, uh, a lot of research is telling us that that's the best move for our students. It's not that we don't utilize them. We do, but not to the same extent that I think we sort of moved into in, you know, 2013, 2014 with the one to one push that happened. There's still a place for them,
024but they are not our sole way of providing instruction. These programs is there for an engaged parent, we always want to engage more parents. Is there you feel like there was ways to incorporate them into the learning besides just the worksheets. >> I I think what we heard from our parents and that we only had three parents respond to the survey, but our elementary and primary teachers talk to their parents fairly frequently and and the responses that they got were that the te that there was much more engagement from the parent side because they understood it a little better. The materials were clearer for them to help their children with. And and I guess I should also state at the elementary level and the primary level that we don't we don't give a lot of
025homework at those levels. And so you're not it's not like back in our day when we sat at the table and we were working on math problems, you know, all night long. There is some practice and especially with fact fluency, you have to learn you have to learn the facts and and that kind of thing is what we work on mostly at home. But they do still get the work uh and it still comes home to them. Any other questions? >> This looks like a big investment. >> Have we been paying something or >> Yes. >> Are we at the end of that? >> Yeah. So, what we have been paying so far for example uh Tang math was different for each year but it was mainly professional development. We did have access to his
026online platform and that total was anywhere from 20 to 30,000 per year. >> Less strategy, more strategies for the teacher, less poor >> instructional material. >> He was wonderful for our teachers. It it provided some great strategies to our teachers over that period of time. And I think one of the comments that I got from one of our more experienced teachers is that with I already it's rigorous and and so you need math content background. Greg Tang has provided much of that for our elementary teachers over the past several years. Many of the same strategies are utilized in this program. Now the the other good thing about I Ready that I I do want to bring up is that that is also the the diagnostic that we are going to be using instead of NWDA
027at the K5 level. And so those two will mesh very well. >> I think when I was in there at their demonstration last week they said that I also uh runs more closely to the map than the current program. So that it should prepare better for math testing. >> I think so. I I I do think we saw our NWA scores also did some alignment as well. But I feel like the I Ready questions are probably more like our MAP questions are just based on what I have seen and experienced. They they look very similar. >> So when you add this to we would we would no longer continue our contract with Greg and um which you know is is sad to see but we have to be wise with our resources and so we
028would take what we know uh utilize our math coaches at that level to continue to teach those strategies >> new teachers still >> they would still get that I feel like in the past year, what I saw in our professional learning communities during the day was much more of those math coaches working with the teachers uh with strategies and methods and and bringing that more to the forefront. Greg we met with um five or six times a year. Those teachers, those coaches can be in a PLC every week. So it's kind of like training training our own to do similar things >> or strategies you have. >> Absolutely. >> And and I think all of our teachers would this is not a break with Tang Math because we disagree with it at all. It it's
029because we feel like we need to add to it and expand on it. >> You need to add student resources. >> Absolutely. >> And and also so that uh so and for what the teach and what the parents need as well. >> Yeah, it was mostly an online program. >> Did you have some peer schools that are using this? >> I is heavily used in the southeast district. >> Yeah. Southeast region I should say. Hm. Not as much there. I will tell you once you get to the middle school level you get a wide variety of math programs being used and many who are doing what we were doing which is make it on our own. So um but it is very common if you you probably may have heard of Hooton medical parkour. It's
030pretty common well-known company. This is a five-year commitment for both programs. And so at the fifth year from now, we would look at um we continue to be review that includes all the student. >> Yes, >> we pay that up front. >> We pay it up front. >> Any other questions? I did list what it all includes in the letters that I motion to approve instruction materials from H&M and I ready All those concern. >> All those in favor? All those opposed. >> All right. >> Thank you very much. And I speak on behalf of our teachers. They appreciate this very much. >> Pretty excited about they are very excited. Thank you. >> Okay. on the budget. Um the final numbers are not in. So we're going to have to wait and reschedu that to
031set the budget for next year. We kind of briefly talked about June the 25th, which is a Wednesday all the time. We want to try or start earlier at 6 or 7 whatever. >> Okay, we're on to the superintendent. attendance requirement. I'm glad you got all the kids. >> We've uh provided you with a copy of second semester and also for overall for the school year. As we did at last month's meeting, we have the primary center first followed by elementary, middle school, high school, career. So numbers are pretty consistent with what we had last month. So entertain any questions. Next month we'll be uh looking at our attendance and procedures, what we're going to do with attendance there, changing it up a little bit. We'll present that to you guys. Lots of hard work
032by these folks here in the audience to make that happen, chasing those kiddos around school. Any attendance questions? What you see highlighted is average daily not for our numbers for 99 not good. We have still not with the infinite campus uh how they figure that. We still haven't program where that's at be quite frank. I'm not sure even knows how to the financial report. We have the June dashboard to share with you all. The first one here are all fund revenues that are coming in. As say before, we are waiting for our last fiscal year payment that will come in on June 20th. Um payments um those payment transmittals have been coming in around a million dollars a month. And so if it comes in at that or a little bit above, we will hit
033uh right on budget. what we plan for for revenues for the school year. >> That's between state and federal. >> Yes, federal is coming in a little lower. If you look, it looks really dramatic in the chart, but if you look at the numbers, there's much smaller numbers there. So, it shows that it's like a big discrepancy, but it's not. So, we provide the visual, but then we also provide the actual numbers for you to look at as well. We have been working on making um the estimates for these revenues for the next school year. Jesse has provided a lot of guidance on what to use to predict those. >> Do you suppose the other 30% funding that you budgeted is delayed or have you counted that off? I am counting some of it off
034to not hit the book before July 1, but it may hit the book after. So, we will go in and amend that and it will become revenue that will post for the next school year budget. Um, various federal things like title money, Perkins money, we have the makeover makeup macro makeover grant. Um all of those things are money that comes in as a reimbursement. So for example, you've seen um in some of our social media posts the paint booth. So we are diligently working to get that done. We will not get the money for that grant until it's completed. If it doesn't get completed before July 1, we'll get the money in the next budget. So that's a lot of federal >> that was probably in your budget that as an example >> as a
035revenue. Yes. >> And then the next page would be the opposite. is the expenses, what's going out and kind of a realization for us just recently and we may go back and make a few amendments to tweak our budgets on expenditures for next year because items that we regularly purchase annually are items that may have suffered some damage. have been destroyed in the high school area or in our athletic areas and so there will become hopefully a revenue source from insurance to replace those. So we will remove those out of our budget expenditures. Uh, I'll be getting with principles and directors in the next two weeks to see if we can kind of put placeholders in all of those things. Keep our eye on them, but it looks as if we'll probably have an alternate
036funding source for the replacement of those things. We just need a little more time to tidy things up and to find out exactly what revenues are going to be coming in. looks to be a very um comparable scenario as far as fund balance, that type of thing compared to last year. I'm probably jumping ahead, but thinking about what you just said, insurance reimbursements, all that we budget like category for that >> would be almost like a like you would think of as a slush fund because it is a reimbursement. We'll spend and then we get reimbursed. So it'll be of a cash flow type but it will have completely separate tracking. >> Most of that we probably won't spend it until we get authorization from the insurance company. Right. probably still getting ahead. Are there
037restrictions on what fund balance that goes to be distributed back out? >> So, right now, um those items that we know were damaged, we have already gotten quotes and prices and submitted purchase orders and we have earmarked those purchase orders so that they can all be tracked together for any audits that we go through. still have the same budget items for. >> It'll look very simple >> except for be a bit of a challenge, but I don't think it's going to be one that Lacy, our bookkeeper, and she's on top of it. And directors and principles are already submitting those purchase orders. Secretaries are already utilizing the correct codes. So, We'll be careful so that he's prepared for any audits that we need to go through questions or comments about the financial. Okay, moving on
038to the board newsletter. we have a list of dates for you all. Even though it's summertime, there's still a lot going on. So, this gives you um a quick glance so you can see some of the upcoming events and also just uh Miss Martin uses this as an opportunity to kind of highlight some some recent student activities. So, there are some important dates coming up with the start of the school year. So, if you all will pay special attention to those August dates, there are several opportunities that we always like for our board to be able to be engaged in, especially when meeting some of our new staff and welcoming our teachers all back to the district for a new school year. >> The July, >> correct? >> This needs a correction for July 9th
039on the newsletter. the extra meetings for June. >> So, in my uh newsletter that I send out to you all each week, I will continue uh that last page giving you the update on all the upcoming meetings. And we understand for the bid um meetings. You all may not all be able to make it because of because of work. I'm sorry. 20th is 27. Aren't you out? >> I am at 27. If anything changes on those, just please let us know. >> Okay, let's do the spotlight on special. [Music] I'm a Hoover. I'm a junior. I've been in StuCo since freshman year. I'm getting ready in year four. And preparing for Special Olympics. It feels like a field trip almost. It's a fun day. We're all ready and excited to see all the kids come
040out. It's really important for our school and community because we get to get the special education kids involved, which sometimes they might feel secluded or away from the other kids, but it's a good way to get them involved. Show that they're important and the same as everybody else. There's no barrier between them and everyone else. >> I'm Reese Bley. I'm a junior in high school. This is my third going to be my fourth year in StuCo. And Special Olympics, as we said, is like a field trip. It's such a happy day leading up to it. My committee makes signs for all the kids. So, we just to make them feel extra special and not as distant from the high school because it's very different culture since they are in a different building. So, getting them
041involved with us and getting to have fun with us all day is really special to see the smiles, their smiles just grow. They get to hang out with their people. It's like when people come together in a community like the tornado, it's like everyone is there for it. It's so special to see how the teachers interact with everybody because they see the kids every day, but they don't see them interact with others. And it's just a good way for them to get a social more social time in with other kids. And it's really great to see. I think it helps obviously the special education students be more involved, but if they're with our high school students and we're seeing how they are, if we tend to take things for granted and it just brings us
042joy seeing them, too. So, if the special education students are around our high schoolers more or in terms of the special Olympics that day where we are, I think it brings us a lot of joy seeing how happy they are. My cousin has Alex and they know nothing but joy. So like us, we're we everyone's negative in their life. So seeing them just be nothing but positive and they are going through something. They've been dealing with this their whole life and it's just really like we could always look at the better things in life going forward. So Very good. Thank you. June videos. Welcome to the June edition of the Missouri School Boards Association's Board Report. We begin with a look back at the legislative session that wrapped up last month. Education issues once again
043dominated headlines and talking points throughout this year's session. MSBA's director of outreach, Caitlyn Wheis FY26 budget has some good news, there's also reason for caution. The legislature passed their FY26 budget this year, which included some funding highlights, including fully funding the foundation formula, baseline teacher salary grant, and school transportation. While it's exciting that we have a fully funded foundation formula, we do want to encourage you to budget cautiously as the governor does have the power to withhold funding anytime he predicts revenues might not meet projected expenditures. So, just work closely with your superintendent and um for any questions you can reach out to our very own Linda Quinley. >> Caitlyn says that the passage of Senate Bill 68 provided some positive fixes for public education after last year's passage of 727. >> Some of the
044legislation passed this year was Senate Bill 68, which included a lot of provisions related to K12 education. Some of them were really positive fixes that were necessary after last year's passage of 727, such as fixing the 169day school year calendar allowing for exceptions due to inclement weather. And included in other legislation was also a cell phone ban. We know that you all are very curious about how this will impact you and our policy department has been working hard to make sure that you have the latest and most up-to-date policy. I do want to note that cell phone policy was already included for those of those of you who use MSBA's policy services, but they are working to put out a standalone policy just to make sure that everyone is in compliance with this if you
045use our policy services. >> Missouri parents may soon have a better understanding of whether their child is performing at or above grade level on the state's standardized test under a sweeping education bill. Another exciting change is the inclusion of a new category in the math test ratings. So now there will be five categories with one of those being grade level. There was confusion previously as the actual grade level laid somewhere in the basic and this led to uh people misrepresenting performance of our students. We want to make sure that we are accurately representing how well our students are doing in school. And we're hopeful that the inclusion of this new level of grade level will bring clarity for not only um administrators and parents, but also you as schoolboard members as you're assessing how your
046students are doing. >> And although the session is over, Caitlyn says it's still important for board members and administrators to stay in touch with their legislators. Now that the legislature is out for regular session, we encourage you to reach out to your local legislators and invite them to tour your schools. Back to school events are great times to get them inside your schools and see the wonderful work that you're doing. MSBA's legislative positions on state and federal education issues are determined at the delegate assembly that will be meeting this coming October. If your school board has a position statement on an issue that you would like to submit to the advocacy committee for consideration, you can do so this summer. The advocacy committee reviews those proposals and makes recommendations to the delegate assembly that determines
047MSBA's position on issues. Make your plans now to attend the 2025 MSBA annual conference in cooperation with the Missouri Association of School Administrators and the Missouri Association of School Business Officials to be held October 24th and 25th in Kansas City. The event will once again feature outstanding general session speakers along with a wide variety of concurrent sessions, many presented by school leaders from districts throughout the state. Registration information for the conference will be posted on the MSBA website soon. And past and present members of local school boards can be nominated for the 2025 Paul Morris Community Service Award. The award is for those who have shown an outstanding commitment to local community service. Nominations will be accepted through June 27th and the award will be presented at the MSBA annual conference. And finally, if you've
048been following MSBA's social media pages, you've seen many of the regional winners of MSBA's future builder student scholarships. Congratulations to all of the regional winners and to Aiden Cox of Sykes Senior High School, who is also the statewide winner. All of these students essays are on the MSBA website. These outstanding students truly exemplify the amazing teaching and learning happening in every corner of the state. That's it for this month. Thanks for allowing us to have some time at your board meeting and we'll see you in July for the next MSBA board report. Motion to open session. All those in favor. >> All those opposed.