001Good evening and welcome to the Pavilion L Vista Community Schools Board of Education. We start tonight's agenda with a hearing to amend the 2024 budget. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Roll call, please. Mr. Mather, here. Miss Wit, here. Miss Wood, here. Mr. Bailey, here. I make a motion that we excuse board members Elizabeth Butler and Brian Lotus from this evening's board meeting. I'll second it. Thank you. I have a motion by Miss Wood and a second by Mr. Bailey. Roll call, please. Miss Wit. Yes. Miss Wood. Yes. Mr. Bailey. Yes. Mr. Madler. Yes. Thank you. I think we begin with Mr. Richards
002for our budget. Thank you, Miss Wit. Um, tonight we are looking to amend one of our budget funds. the special building fund. Um each year, as you know, we pass a budget back in September that includes eight different budget funds. Um a lot of them we estimate the amount of expenditures we'll need throughout the fiscal year. Uh the special building is one of those funds that we do estimate on our expenditures. Um we use the special building fund for all of our bond construction projects. um ex these the special build fund back in September when we did our original bud budget was underestimated um on how much we'd spend between September 1st 24 and August 31st 2025. Also contributing to this is that um need to increase the budget in this fund is an accelerated
003construction schedule uh that is ahead of schedule as well. So we have 12 projects going on right now. Um, we did enlist the help of BCDM, our architects, to kind of look at our expenditures for the rest of the summer here, uh, through August 31st. And we thought, uh, adding to the budget and getting to 68,58,561 for the 202425 fiscal year, uh, would cover any additional spending we'd need um, through August 31st. Uh this gives us the budget authority to spend up to that amount until August 31st where our 202526 budget will then go into effect. Um want to emphasize that in this budget fund there's we're not asking for any additional taxes than already have been approved uh by the v by the voters in 2023 and the board back in September uh for
004the special building fund. next steps after this tonight. Uh we would bring it back for the June 23rd board meeting uh for action. So I would entertain any questions. I know there's a hearing tonight for any anybody in the public if they wants to speak. Thank you. In case um you didn't notice, the Nebraska open meetings law is posted at the entrance to the room. Are there any public comments regarding the hearing tonight? Seeing none, we'll close the hearing at 603. Our next agenda item is uh on our regular night agenda starting with communications recognition. Thank you very much, Miss Whit, members of the board, and for all of our guests that are in attendance this evening. Thank you for being here and representing our community. Uh one of the things that we do around
005here that I think is pretty special is at least once a month we try to do recognitions. These recognitions single out uh most commonly staff and students. Uh sometimes it's academics, sometimes it's athletics, sometimes it's other things. We have a mix of all of the above uh this evening. More on that in just a little bit. Uh the first three recognitions, however, are student groups, and we'll get to that in just a little bit. But just so you kind of know what to expect in case we have anybody that wants to take pictures, and we would certainly invite that is after each of the three recognitions, we'll pause. You'll be recognized by your board of education. If you want to come down, we can do do pictures. Our communications office will take some official pictures
006for our social media channels, but if we have moms, dads, randos off the street that just love taking pictures. Come on down. Come one, come all. We just love to celebrate our students and their outstanding things that they do. So, without further ado, we have three track related recognitions. First of all, from Pilion La Vista High School, we have a monarch in attendance, ladies and gentlemen. Uh, head coach Abby, thank you for being here and thank you for your expert toutelage. We would expect you to come down. Uh, under coach Aby's leadership, we had Alexis Chadic, who is a junior that took state in the highly competitive girls 800 meters. Alexis, please come down and be recognized by your board of education. [Applause] Congratulations again, Alexis. Uh certainly no pressure, but since she's just a
007junior, ladies and gentlemen, maybe we'll be seeing Alexis back here a year from now. Uh next up, we have a relay team. And I know I saw coach Johansson. I think I saw coach Hazelhorse. Maybe some other coaches from South. I saw those two for sure. Uh but we have a relay team from Pilion La Vista South. We have the 3200 meter team, which means you run four 800s. We have a mix of both underassman and underassman. Uh once I've read the uh the total list of names, please come down and be recognized. Ladies, we have Ashlin Carter, sophomore. We have Elizabeth Heisler, junior. Grace Huby, senior, just recently graduated. And Marissa Garcia, also a senior, recently graduated. Coaches, ladies, come on down and be recognized by your board of education. [Applause] Uh yeah, I
008think a couple of them might be sticking around uh because the final uh student recognition of the evening, Pavilion L Vista South, for the second time in the last three years, we had to check this to make sure. I think we were maybe edged by Westside in one of those years. Second out of the last three years, we have won state in class A. That is a huge accomplishment, ladies and gentlemen. In a completely loaded and competitive class A field, to take state and class A is no small accomplishment. Ladies, please come down and be recognized by your board of education. Congratulations. [Applause] Oh, did I? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, for all of our ladies, thank you for being here. Coaches, thank you for being here. And of course, I didn't recognize the Chief
009Monarch. Thank you, Jason Ryan, for showing up to support the Monarch Nation. Much appreciated. Um, breaking just a little bit from tradition, we did have two other individuals uh that weren't on the list. Uh first off, uh ENSPRA is an organization that the board has probably heard me mention a number of times. National School Public Relations Association. Every single year about this time, we submit as a school district uh a number of entries to the National Ends Competition. They have uh a slug of different award categories, but we received some outstanding recognition for Dr. Viraal and his team. Uh just very quickly, we received the very highest award that ENSRA gives out is the excellence award. We received seven of those. And then we also received additional recognition in some other categories. But I think
010just for the public and the board's benefit, the seven categories that we received excellence awards in, again, highest you can receive. Number one, brand image package for elementary brand evolution. some of the things we've done with colors, logos, updating our look, the annual report that that greatness update uh magazine that was sent out, the financial publication which shows our budget infographics, the podcast which is about to enter I believe season two, social media for the best be part of something big campaign, special purpose publication for human resources, and finally the video series for the superintendent spotlight where we go out and surprise employees with recognition for something that they've done. Seven excellence awards all for the same department. That's absolutely outstanding. Can we have a round of applause for Dr. Viel and his team, please,
011ladies and gentlemen? And last, but by no means least, I don't know that we've ever done one of these before, but it absolutely begs recognition. We usually focus on our staff or our students, and that's always great fun. But tonight, we're going to focus on one of my bosses, a man who needs no introduction, Lieutenant Colonel Skip Bailey. Uh, I knew he would poo poo it, which is specifically why Miss Wit and I didn't put it on the agenda because we knew he would give us grief. So, we're we're going to do it anyway. So, uh, Colonel Bailey, uh, a longtime member of the board, longtime member of the community, his wife teaches for the district. kids graduated from here. Gave 20 at least 25 years I believe to the United States Air Force where
012he left as an '05 as a lieutenant colonel. Uh piloted a number of aircraft as I recall. I believe the E4 was your last assignment colonel. So since leaving uh 25 years of service to the United States Air Force, he was recently named the 2025 National Coach of the Year at the 2025 Safecon National Intercolgate Flying Association. He's been leading the Flying Mavs with honor and distinction. U I know that the Colonel, based on a conversation I had, didn't do quite as well at this last competition, which means he only got his team in the top 10, which given it's a national competition, that is a pretty pretty lofty uh goal. Did you see what I did there, Miss Whit? You saw what I did there with. So, without further ado, could we please provide
013some recognition for Lieutenant Colonel Bailey and his outstanding accomplishments for being named the National Coach of the Year. Well done, Colonel. [Applause] I'm sure I'll pay for that in some future life, some future way, but we are awfully proud of you and your family. Skip, speech, speech, speech. And with that, Miss Whit, I'd conclude our recognitions for the evening. Thank you very much. And congratulations to all the award recipients tonight and especially to our own Skip Bailey. Thank you. Our next agenda item is reports. Dr. Rickley, superintendent report. Uh, okay. Thank you very much, Miss Wit. Uh, members of the board. So, happy summer to everyone. It is amazing how quickly the school year went, and I have no doubt that the school year will go by even more quickly. Uh, we launched right into
014summer school. At last count, we have approximately uh 300 students combined at the two high schools for summer school. I believe we're just shy of 400 students at our elementary summer school. Uh, so we're getting it done. And I know that for some of our students that's not high on their list of priorities is showing up for summer school, but we're awfully proud and grateful for the families, the kids, and the staff that pitch in to make summer school successful. Uh we also uh welcome back our curriculum development toolbox teams. If you visited this building in the first several days after uh kids were dismissed, you're going to see a lot of activity around here. These rooms were packed with teachers, with district office, with building administrators continuing to lead the teaching and learning process.
015It's pretty pretty staggering. It it never stops around here, which is all part of the fun. Uh also, uh we're you'll hear more from uh Senator Gay here in just a little bit, but we uh welcomed the conclusion of a long legislative session. Uh 90 days became 89 days. They cut the session short one day. Uh, again, I don't want to steal any of Tim and Brett's thunder, but from my vantage point, it was one of the most successful legislative sessions we've had in a really long time, in spite of some really difficult circumstances at the state level. We all know that the budget deficit they face, they closed a big part of it, but there's still some heavy lifting to do. Uh, more on that in a little bit. One of the things that
016we'll be shifting our focus to later this summer, in fact, later this month, is strategic planning. Uh, Miss Siri and her teaching and learning team have done some incredible work uh, preparing for next week's strategic planning community meeting. We have two board members, I believe Miss Wit uh, and I believe Ms. Wood are participating in the long-term planning efforts for the district. We've had other board members participate in the past. I think we have 35 members. We have students, we have business leaders, we have teachers, we have building administrators. Uh, we have a really good mix of people. So really excited to see what that next iteration of the strategic plan looks like. Uh also wanted to remind the board that we have our annual swing for the kids uh golf event tomorrow. So good
017luck to all of our golfers. And one last recognition before I close my superintendent report. Um, I've been sharing with the board for the last several months that we have been in negotiations with the city of Pilion, specifically uh Pilion Police Department, to add another layer of law enforcement, uh, to the school district. Um, one of the things Chief Whitt has been pushing for for a really long time is an SRO supervisor. Uh, we think that this individual can bring a ton of knowledge and expertise to the school district in the area of safety planning, in the area of providing coverage. uh when frontline officers are out uh and providing general consultation and liaison work with the other jurisdictions that we deal with and I'm pleased to announce that our own Sergeant Kurt Mlan who's
018in the back of the room has been selected. Uh Sergeant Mlanon is just got a wealth of experiences. I think when Dr. V and I sat down and met with the command staff at Puan Police Department, I was pretty blown away. Uh Sergeant Mlan's a guy got an undergrad degree. He's got a master's degree. He served in the United States Marine Corps. I'm told he's a really nifty diesel mechanic. So, if you have any work that needs to be done, I think Sergeant Mlan's your man. Um, he's just got a wealth of experiences in in training and safety and crisis that I know are going to benefit Pilion Police Department as well as this school district. So, Sergeant, we're truly grateful that you you agreed to join the family. We know you're going to do
019great things for us and just really appreciate your service. So, could we give Sergeant Mlan a round of applause, please, ladies and gentlemen? [Applause] And with that, Miss Wit, I would conclude my superintendent comments for the evening. Booya. Welcome. Oh, well done. Uh, on to board member reports. I have something. I attended the It's been a long time since our last meeting. This was on May 15th, I believe. was the um graduation for the um kids from Ideal. There were 48 total grads and it was a wonderful ceremony, lots of enthusiasm, lots of hugs. Um 28 kids were able to walk across the stage and it was um a happy day. It was a happy day. Also attended the Pavilion Lista Community Schools annual safety meeting. There were 21 present. They represented our building administrators,
020schools, principals, fire, rescue, sheriffs. All jurisdictions were uh here participating. We reviewed the incident management structure, threat assessments, um protocols for emergency responses, reunification, and the emergency procedure guides and formatting, the flip charts that you see in the buildings and things like that. So, it was a really good meeting, short and sweet. Anybody else have anything to report? No. All right. Next on to committee reports, building grounds and finance. We did meet on May 23rd. We discussed the uh proposed amended budget uh due to the accelerated construction projects that we already discussed in the uh budget hearing. Uh we also started to have the conversations on the new elementary schools colors and names. Uh and I know that was going to be those conversations were going to be had with the other subcommittees as well.
021Uh so more of that will pop up in future board meetings. Thank you. Human resource student services. We have a meeting coming up next Thursday, I believe. Thank you. And curriculum and Americanism. Uh yes, we have a meeting uh next Monday. And I think you already covered the meeting they had before that I missed. So yeah, that's what I thought. Okay, that's it. Thank you. We have no public comment for items on the agenda. action items. Action by consent. I'll make a motion to approve the uh action by consent items as listed. Second. Thank you. I have a motion by Mr. Bailey and a second by Mr. Mattis. I just want to make sure that people are aware that the 4,000 policy were discussed at our last meeting. There were no changes, so we're going
022to put them on through the consent agenda. Roll call. Miss Wood. Yes. Mr. Bailey. Yes, Mr. Madler. Yes, Miss Wit. Yes. Our next item for action is the 2025 student Chromebook case purchase. Doc, Miss Siri and Mr. Moore. Good evening. Um, so yeah, you can see in your in your board packet, I've got the uh board summary for the approval of the uh student Chromebook case purchase. Uh, this is for a portion of that fleet that we bought uh that we discussed and approved back in April. Uh, so we bought the 3,400 Chromebooks. This would be for a thousand of them for the freshmen. Uh, and then we're looking at uh different cycles and stuff for um the lower grade levels. So yeah, this is for the um Chromebook freshman level um cases. I recall
023you you mentioned that that was already bid and um you just had to make that decision. So yeah. Okay. Thank you. Any other discussion for Mr. Moore? I need a motion then. I'll make the motion to approve entering into a purchase agreement with CDWG respectively as presented for the total purchase cost to PLCS of $21,470. Second. I have a motion by Mr. Madler and a second by Mr. Bailey. Roll call. Mr. Bailey. Yes. Mr. Madler. Yes. Miss Wit? Yes. Miss Wood? Yes. Thank you, Mr. more. Thank you. Thanks. On to discussion items. Legislative updates with Mr. Gay from Catalyst Public Affairs. Welcome, Tim. Well, sorry I missed you in April because it was crazy. Uh just the agenda is So anyway, then congratulations on a good school year. Sounds like graduations went well. That's exciting
024about the track team. I did not know that that they were so good. But uh but anyway, interesting year. Just one thing part of the reason we couldn't make it the agenda. You don't get till the night before, you know, and then uh maybe this year they had uh 24 late nights where they worked after until 9:00 or later. So it is a interesting uh interesting year. Uh this is that long session, you know, that you get. And I can't believe today when I was driving here, it's already setting up for pilion days in the College World Series and but whatever. So anyway, uh we saved one day 80 89 days. But you know earlier we talked about the number of bills keep every year they keep going up even though we had many new
025senators this year 16 new senators. Um of those 715 179 bills passed I would say probably a little more than that because few were amended into other bills. um what we followed for you the 75 education committee bills only eight committee bills kind of got out it's kind of quite honestly it was pretty slow year for education which is a good thing that's I think Dr. Wrigley said uh we had a good year. So that's true. But but anyway, um we're look kind of when we look ahead next year, it's going to be that shorter session. All the bills that are there this year are carried forward. Anything else can be introduced. Uh so we'll see, you know, if somebody wants to try a bill that didn't get through and they keep pushing it, that
026that will happen. Two two people will be done. LA next year will be their last year. chairman, Senator Murman, who is elected chairman again this year over Senator Hughes. Um she'll probably be the next chair. I'm assuming she she's up for election, but she should win. And then Senator Hunt is term limited. Uh so, and you can see Conrad and Hughes are up for election. Um they're both good members. I don't know they should win election if they run. Um some of the things we're waiting around for uh were these two bills 303 and 306 were just took forever to get on the agenda. They were on the agenda on the agenda then get passed over whatever part of that I will get into is more politics than policy on that. But uh so this
027what they call and they when they say it's a committee bill, it's kind of a cleanup bill where we get non-controversial things hopefully in there that need to be done. this year or can clarify something or whatever the case would be. So they they go anywhere from the state colleges uh scholarships you can see um just different things that are going around. So that was the the bill that was introduced. Now that seems pretty simple but there are a lot of things in that bill that got taken out and on these bills Dr. Wickley I think you send these out to them. If you click on the bills you can see them all and the process. I don't want to go through them all tonight because it' take a while. But when you when you
028just click and hit control and it'll bring up the bill and you'll go right to the to the bills. The second one though, uh, and I'll get a little more into these. LB303 was that Hughes bill. There's going to be a lot of different things in there with financing, but in April, of course, they found out, oh boy, they had two big whammies. One was Medicaid. They overlooked $289 million on Medicaid oversight, which I know that sounds crazy, but with the amount of money you spent on Medicaid, it can happen. So, they did that. And then when they came in about April with the forecast again, they were down 290 million. So, they had a big huge budget hole to fill. So, 303 was supposed to be a finance bill. It ended up being the
029school financing review commission and I'll talk about that right now what it is. They've been talking about everyone complains about Tiosas, you know, um you know, we need to look at it. We need to look at it. So they're creating a commission um to evaluate the program and this has been done a few times but I think it's probably been 10 years at least before and with term limits and new new new governorly new governor let's say and new senators that it's probably important they're doing it. So the commission as you can see I won't go into all of them who it's made up state education commissioner and others the superintendent um they're going to try to hash it out. But I don't know how how it all works, how they're going to work this
030out. Uh we do know a good candidate who we'd like to get on that. Your Dr. Rickley would be excellent on this, I think. So, um hopefully that will happen. Uh we will see what happens. The governor appoints these and there's input and I know we've had discussions and we'll see what happens. But that's a that's a big thing. I don't know, you know, if it's an ongoing thing uh and what they can get done. These were passed as well. Um that's wrong. It was it was Sanders uh bill at the request of the governor. So we put Senator Hughes by accident. But WB 140 as you know is the electronic communication devices that passed early in the year. You have to have a policy just makes everyone have a policy and I don't want
031to get too much into that but you guys know your own policy. You already had one and kind of so this just makes everyone else do what you were already kind of doing. I don't think it was overly um ambitious that's going to get you trouble. probably keep you out of trouble because you can say, "Hey, we have to do this and that." Senator Roundtree had a bill. He's a new senator out of Belleview, a good man, uh who uh this is or uh individual education plans. If you're in the military, um you get you get into this school. I don't think there was ever a problem on this. It just pretty much because you always take the kids, you know, it's never been a problem in Bellevier Pilion or anywhere, but I think he
032just wanted to put it in the law. but they get first shot at getting into the school of military family that comes in. And Senator Arch's 296, that one's been going for a long time. It's a rather boring bill, but it's an important bill. It's anyone who's in juvenile the juvenile system when they go from school to school and parent to parent and it's just no one really keeps track. I mean, you try to keep track and this and that. So they could create a database where you can follow the the foster care's education or that child in that school. Maybe they were only in that for a couple years and that but so you can accumulate all their different grades and classes and all that don't get lost. So right now it sounds like
033it's just a mess trying to get it. Uh Speaker Arch has been working on this bill for three years. Uh finally got it done. Like I say sometimes the boring bills are really good but they take a long time. But this is a really good bill that that he got done. And I would say next year also is Speaker Arch's last year. So we're going to lose a a good uh good friend there. Um 390 uh parent guardian to get this is uh it's May I think. Brian was this or Brett was this May on the school board access to the parent or guardians? Not sure. But either way, it's it's not as bad as it started out. Um, so getting the parents and the guardians involved in what you're doing, it's you're already doing
034that. It makes it that they can a lot of schools aren't, but they can access what you're going to look at, read these kind of things. So, it is a requirement. It is a requirement. Yeah. Yeah. I think but it it's not as bad as it started out to be those two bills. So there are several they've been watered down some but um in our app just to interject Tim going back to 390 um and Shireen and Mr. Moore can keep me honest here but most of the functionality uh is already covered by our app which already tells parents which books have been checked out. I think we need to look at if there's a push notification. It's actually all covered now. We've already fixed it. Well, look at you. See? Well done. Thank you.
035Yeah. So, I mean, a lot of these bills you you already do a lot of these things. It's just makes everyone else do it and these mandates they keep doing, but you're kind of ahead of the curve on these. Uh, the aniflaxis, that's a requirement. You probably already doing that, too. But, uh, for epipins that are around the school, um, interim studies take place. These can actually be a hearing on it or just a we're going to do some research into it and turn it over and officially here's a paper. uh they can mean something or they can't mean anything. Depends on how much work you put into them, but um Sarah Calf, she's a new newer senator. Um she's got a couple of here that are in uh trying to get more teachers in.
036Senator Dorne, um again on the toa, I don't understand that why he's doing that when they're going to create this committee, but whatever. uh cow on truency that's been studied a lot over the years and then Lenowski uh allowing retired teachers to return to the school to to teach. Uh that's been looked at a lot too. So who knows what they're going to get going on on these um and how much they're going to look into them. It was pretty slow on the interim study end of things this year. Um but uh carryover things would be watching would be uh Sarah Conrad got a lot of push back early this session on LB31 um on student surveillance monitoring and tracking um it just a lot of people I don't know whether it was her or
037the bill or just a lot of different things didn't really go anywhere and uh they pretty much stalled it. uh a lot of push back on that from the the more conservative members on on any kind of thing like why does it you know why are you doing this that's the kids under it's fine right now I guess so um superintendent pay transparency act you know that was kind of that got on there that's kind of a silly one they put on there uh that got kicked out of a a bill so these are the ones that were in that earlier bill 306 And the a good bill, good or bad, whatever is LB440. So Senator Spivey, brand new senator, introduced a bill that education leave support act where they're going to take the money
038and you'd participate, the teacher would participate to get paid family leave. Okay? That's how they're going to fund it. So she worked worked worked to get this going. She's on the appropriations committee, not the education committee. Uh that put a lot of time in. that I know um you know NSEA was involved in it. All the different groups were trying to work with her on this thing. But what they did, they threw it into a bad bill. So let's take a a good bill, throw it into so I could pass my junk and garbage and another bill and it just didn't fly. Uh which is probably a good thing. I feel bad for her. But like I say, all the work she put into that, she couldn't help that she got put in that committee
039bill. Well, the committee bill also had the time off for religious studies and this and that. I think three other things were yanked out of that bill. So, you know, whatever. We'll see what happens if that comes back. How the financial situation looks, who knows? But hey, that was a big part of why 306 uh just got butchered. And that was towards the end. So, even if I would have been here in April, we wouldn't have known these last two bills because they were towards the very end. And um so that's the the way it kind of works. The last one a carryover that might be something um Murman again is the chairman um option enrollment and some of those things and this education future fund how they're going to use it. Senator Murman seems
040to get some very conservative bills again and again and again and and they they have a group of about five senators that keep introducing super conservative uh bills that are going to go or not go. Uh any questions on this legislature because I want to get into what I think might happen next year that you got next few years which I think you all know anyway. But any questions on these bills or did I forget anything Marcus? I know you're on the it's Yeah. Just I had one quick question. Yeah. When you were talking about the uh the study for the Teiosa and you know you listed all those people and it said something about five members of the general public. Do you have any idea how that's you know is that going to be
041something they're trying to five members of the general public? Uh I don't know. Okay. I didn't know if that was a way to be able to this thing passed 49 to zero. You know there wasn't a ton of discussion on it like who could that be or there wasn't a fight on it. Everyone's like let's do it. So, I don't know who those five would be. Uh, probably business people from Okay. It'll be scattered. I didn't know if it was an opportunity for somebody to say, "I really want this person to try to sway that one way or another." That's why I was kind of asking if I don't know. I'd be guessing heard anything. But if anyone's interested, you know, on that, you're on the school board. I don't think you'd be quite a
042citizen because you'd have a Oh, no. I was I was just wondering if if you had any idea who they were looking as they get going on it. Um, we'll pay attention at that point. I just saw the governor today actually at an event and brought up a good candidate. So I think we'll see what happens. Y and typically on those they have all those commission and board openings on the the governor's website and you can go and and look to see uh what is currently open and the criteria for each seat that is open and you can apply for it if anyone is interested. Yeah. I'm not Yeah. No, I don't. Sherry would be good on it. Yeah, this plate's full anyway. It's Yeah, but um but I guess one thing that really really
043we need to pay attention to or you'll need to pay attention to is on the budget with 25% of the state budget going to these tax relief programs. So, just one the big school taxes, the biggest of it. And they keep each time they're doing any bill, they keep saying, "Well, the funds like gaming for legalizing gambling, the money will go to the property tax uh fund, property tax relief fund." 25% of their budget is going to those funds. That is not sustainable at all. So, I don't know what they're going to do or how they're going to do it, but that's the that's the main thing. They're going in with a billion dollar shortfall uh on the next bianium. And even this year there's talk about a special session on money. So when they're
044paying other people's bills on property, you know, just I don't know. It's going to be really interesting how that's going to shake out and I assume that's why they're looking at the toiosa thing and they better do it quick is all I'm saying because that's just not sustainable. So we're going to look at that. You're going to continue to see some of these bills that didn't get passed this year on time away from school to do other things. There's other things that are popping up around the country, I think, of those. So, a lot of the same old stuff is going to be coming back, but the number one thing is that budget. Uh I mean, you've been saying it for years anyway. You know how it is. They're not the most reliable partner. Uh
045but they they were rolling in the dough before and now they aren't. And you know, how does that work? So, we shall see. And that's going to be the big the big question that everyone's going to have to answer, too. So other than that, that's uh um over the summer, like I say, hopefully we get a couple months there won't be anything going on and these people will just relax a little bit. We won't have a special session and go from there. So, um Dr. Rickley, that's it. So, all right. On the on those carryover bills, I think I asked this at the end of every session, uh or any or uh any of the uh the long sessions, those carryovers have to start over again, right? They have to go through hearing again or
046they start where they left off. Nope. They can go right where they left off. So, one of the bills we'll be watching is a tort form. Uh so school, you know, how how easy could it be to SC sue the school. That bill didn't get out of the judiciary committee, but we keep a close close eye on that uh for your long-term, you know, finances. Uh that will be it's had its hearing. It's had whatever and it's just sitting there. It could be kicked out of committee any time. So if you're on select file even um it could come back on select file early. You just have to get to the speaker and say hey I want my bill to come up and so some of these close ones and and again they'll start debating
047right away. They'll hold so let's say 500 bills are introduced next year. They'll have those daily hearings and all that, but they in the morning they will be having uh legislative on the floor passing bills, which is the scariest part of all quite honestly because now like well we need to do something but so they'll start that first 10 days even though it's 60 days. Uh you could be dealing with pretty heavy stuff pretty quick. Gotcha. And this is where the speaker comes in. He doesn't have to schedule those things, you know, but he's a Speaker Arts is definitely a make them work kind of guy. Like I said, 24 nights of late nights is that's the most I've ever seen in a long time. So, and and you talked through a handful of them,
048but G, while being around senators and understanding the bills, anything that you feel like we need to try to get ahead of before the next session, especially if they can start advancing some of these real early on, maybe try to get them under the radar before people start paying attention to the session. Yeah. Uh, let me let me think on that one real quick and I'd get with Dr. Ricky, but anytime you can chime in with a senator and tell them, I mean, you just got to be straight up with these people that was a dumb bill that whatever xyz if you remember. You don't need to remember the number. Yeah. But a lot of times what we want is let's say I introduced a bill. It's not the best bill in the world, but
049you know what, Marcus will vote for it and you know, Suan will vote for it because we're working together. We all like each other. That's what's happening a lot. It's like they don't really take a look. The superintendents came in and the finance people came in this year very heavy saying these are bad bad bills and that helped a lot. Not that we didn't do it before passed, but the timing was better this year, I think, where they came in and said, "Hey, this is what it's going to be." So, so Brett and Andrew would send in key emails at the right time that they would read because and I think that's so some of it's timing, but I think if you're a school board member, anytime you talk to them and say, "Hey, here's
050the situation." Ours are pretty good. Senator Roundry's been uh really good. Um yeah, I wish I had the answer for that. I mean, we struggle all the time with we told you 10 times about this bill, you still voted for it. Yeah. I mean, yeah. And then I'll be pretty surprised, Mr. Madler. I hope I didn't cut you off. I think the one bill in particular that Tim highlighted, LB653, which deals with a number of special education issues, including uh option enrollment and prioritizing students with disabilities. Um I think they ran out of time on that one. Uh there was some uh debate late in the session. I I think the body there were mixed mixed feelings about whether it should go or not. And again, since they uh they didn't have enough time to
051fully debate the bill, that would be one in particular I'd be pretty surprised if it didn't uh get a robust conversation next time. It's a good one to point out because it's dealing with a subject matter that's very difficult. Everyone wants to take care of everyone, you know what I mean? And but you also have a limited number of teachers and this and that. So, but I thought you did a good job sending those out though. So, we sent to our delegation of senators and especially the ones on the education committee. Like here's why that's not great for us. Um not like we're not trying, but we're already packed on this. We can't get more teachers. We get, you know, whatever. They look at theories like, "Oh, wouldn't that be great?" Well, it would if
052you could hire people, if you could do a lot of things. Because just remember two years ago when they were saying, "Well, we got to keep the teachers around. We got to pay them more. We got to do this, that, and everything else." Not one word of that this year. U not one word. So again, it's like when they're flying high with the money, let's do a lot of things and now they're going to be broke. So yeah, that's what we got to think about. And you you'll hear rumors from your associations and things like that. Kobe Coash and some of those people, they they'll know probably, you know, they'll be talking to people all summer, too. um but guessing game and then I know we spend a most of the time looking at the
053introduced bills right and how they're they're progressing and how we can uh even if they're going in a direction we don't like maybe how we can make them at least uh less bad uh at times uh but and this is more for administration and I guess for us school board members too is there anything that we want to work on as far as on the you know trying to get introduced like are there any you know any areas for you know potential legislation that we can work with state senators to get introduced and have a an opportunity to to get passed. I mean now is the time to think about that as um because we have till till January. But obviously you'd like to have if we come up with some of those ideas we're
054going to start having the conversations with hopefully a senator some senators uh well before then. That's a that's a good point. I mean because so much time we're on defense. Yeah. 99 95% of the time it's defense. don't do this to us. But yeah, if there's some good ideas, um, whatever, absolutely, you can introduce bills. And if you're going to do that, best time to do it is now in the summer when it's pretty slow. Finding the right person to do it. I hate to say this, but when you look over who passed bills this year and who didn't, it's all people with a R behind their name. And it's just a fact of life on anything that was major. So who you want to introduce that bill and who you can convince to get
055it in is is super important. So if you're gonna do that, do it in the summer. Yeah. Because I know I mean we have a lot of great relationships around you know everyone around the table with some of the senators too um from our district and in other districts as well. Yeah. And then also I mean again this politics never ends right in 2026 which is we're trying not to think that far ahead right but again I have arch gone so there's two good people running here in the building already. There might be more I don't know but two quality candidates. We've always had pretty good senators you know coming from here. So uh there might be two or couple more in there I don't know but the two I've heard I've met with are
056really good quality people. So, I think we're in good shape there. But, um, yeah, it's just there's just so many things going on and it is sad that we have to do the the fight against a lot of things. So, too. Um, so yeah, but let me think of something. I'll see you tomorrow, I think, at the I think because I think there are some that we could get fixed. Sorry for the long report, but a lot of things going on. Good report. I would just add on the ones that were passed. We're taking that as a cabinet and kind of looking through all the policy recommendations coming from our law firm KSB from NCSA and we'll be bringing that information to the board subcommittees here over the summer. So, if you're wondering if there's
057going to be any policy changes with there always is. So, we'll bring those to you um as early as probably June here. Yep. All right. Thank you all. Appreciate it. See you tomorrow. It's good. Our next discussion item is the 2025 student iPad purchase for elementary refresh. Mr. Morgan and Miss Siri. Yes, I'm back. Uh so yeah, this is a discussion item for um the 2025 student devices, the iPads in particular. Uh this is kind of the second part of that refresh for our tech cycle. Um, so just wanted to bring it up and see if you guys had any any questions for me. So the iPads, are those basically kindergarten through third grade or what? Kindergarten through second. What do what? Kindergarten through second is our plan right now. I don't know if you
058want to probably maybe it's part of our tech audit. Um, so they will be accessible at the third grade level, but in the actual ratio identified by the technology audit, it would be um earmarked for K2. Mr. Moore, are you seeing anything? We much talked about tariff situation and some tariffs have been rolled back. Not right now. Yeah, Apple hasn't said anything. So, no no real changes in this. Yeah, no real changes. Uh cases for the iPads are a little iffy as far as getting them, but uh the the price range is so similar in all in all the cases. I I don't see us having an issue. And I know the agenda item is iPads and not Chromebooks, but are we seeing any change in Chromebook prices? Uh, I haven't looked lately, but yeah,
059it's a good question. Something just for us to keep an eye on. I know it's something you and your team watch very closely. There is a lot of a lot of talk about tariffs right now. So, yeah, the first round of Chromebooks that we purchased were actually state side and arrived super early because they tried to house them as many as they could to try to keep the cost down. I think they arrived in three days. Yeah, it was ridiculous. We thought we had three weeks we've ever had them. Yeah, but I thought it was going to be weeks and Yeah, within a couple days they're like, "They're here." Okay. Few pallets we had to scramble for storage, but otherwise, yeah, it was good. So, yeah, I think they were anticipating tried to stock up
060their warehouses with inventory, so it worked for him. Great. Thank you. Keep a good thought. Uh last discussion item is review of policy 6000. Miss Siri. Yep. So this is um just our typical time of year where we begin to um reflect and evaluate our current 6000 series. So I have um made a folder in the drive and I'll be sending out um that link to those of you that are not on my subcommittee. my subcommittee has already received that link, but you can start to make suggestions and recommendations there. And I'll also um start to place uh recommended changes from KSB and NCSA that Brett mentioned. Um there's several that were impacted by changes in the legislation this year. So um we'll have a subcommittee meeting and we'll start that process of evaluation of
061those policies. This is the students series for academic achievement. Thank you. Any questions for Miss Siri? We have no public comment for items not on the agenda tonight. Future board calendar. On June 10th, we have the foundation swing for kids. I think that's tomorrow. It is tomorrow. And on June 23rd, we have our next board of education meeting here at 6 PM. I want to thank uh Miss Stephanie who was this is her first night is flying solo. And Matt, thank you for your support as well. Seeing no further business, we will adjourn at 6:49.