001all right call the minion to order welcome everyone the March edition of the Columbia school board meeting called the mean to order we'll do a quick roll call please Kimberly Tyson sir here perfect we do have a quorum very much well you would stand with me and recite the Pledge of Allegiance pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty awesome thank you I'd like to welcome our visitors this evening we have uh Micah Studio Thunder no go ahead all right perfect we have our two uh School Board candidates here so then with Lisa they're not running against anybody else so you guys are pretty much issuing so welcome thanks for joining us this evening got some other
002visitors thank you for joining us this evening do we have any public comments oh all right perfect we have correspondence I think that's going around the room with that we'll get right into our consent agenda Mr Brodie if you'd walk us through that please all right well you've got your typical reports there um we're accepting two resignations John hee middle school math and Elizabeth Stone freshman volleyball coach we've got um a few appointments or Employments doesn't need Dasani sorry sorry uh shadler High School Agriculture and Kylie Wolfe it would be high school English and Quentin Spivey High School Middle School business extracurriculars we have Josh Hogan volunteer track coach he is um being added because his son is quite um the competitor he came in 11th in the nation I believe at the New Balance
003open that was an Invitational in Boston and so this will allow him to take his son to other meets um and compete so that's a great opportunity for that we wish him well and then we've got Quentin Spivey who I mentioned is in business being the eighth grade baseball assistant coach um because of the resignations we've got a middle school math teacher and a freshman volleyball teacher or volleyball coach posted for your approval Administration recommends that you approve the consent agenda as presented perfect any questions concerns comments very none I'd entertain a motion to approve the consent of gender as presented I'll make that motion thank you Scott for a second Tyson seconds uh roll call please yes Greg Meyer yes Scott aye yes typing search yes perfect that's unanimous we'll go on to our
004Communications reports and presentations our enrollment report is in your packet anything substantial there we'll go right on to our administrative reports start with the building as you can see from my blue screen lovely pictures of our students if they showed up we did an egg drop for our eighth grade students as I started on the second floor they built these lovely containers to drop an egg if anyone survived they got to go on I can't think of it the stretcher up Mr Kendall dropped him we had a lot of people that created great designs to have their egg survive so there wasn't One winner but everyone won with just the tremendous design to keep those eggs safe and we all know eggs are like 50 each and it really helps out uh I also had
005a picture of the sixth grade doing the peppered moth lab this is to investigate how camouflage affects the survival chances of an organism the adaption and natural selection basically we they had to put on these glasses and then they had to use tweezers on their nose and they couldn't really see what they were picking up and how they're picking it up and then some of the colors were the same as the colors that were on the paper so it was very challenging they seemed to really enjoy themselves it was very interactive and Biz loved it uh my second slide is of the 8th graders at Eagle View we send them over once a month they're creating children's books they're developing great relationships you see all the Acres go in and they have this I'm so
006cool mentality then when they see these young kids they're like oh my gosh and their heart melts and they're just so sweet and lovely and the Eagle View will be coming over on March 31st we're going to be adopting bunnies they'll get a little uh stuff rabbit and then we're gonna see about possibly bringing in real rabbits we're deciding about that my third lovely slide is our um projects our service projects that our schools our grades did our fifth grade did treats for troops our sixth grade worked with the human support services for canned food drive our seventh grade worked with Berea Nursing Home in our eighth grade collected items for helping strays presentations were lovely it was great to have an assembly where students were paying attention listening and I think they were really
007moved by everything that was said otherwise I believe that's good anything from the Salem stargazing night is next week Friday the 24th at 7 30 p.m at the Salt Lick Trailhead if you're interested there's a big parking lot there and then a field right across from the parking lot and the Riverbend astronomy club is going to be coming with their giant telescopes and we're just working on finalizing the goodie bags contents so it'll be a fun night what time did you say that was 7 30 just to get in and get settled while we have a little light left and we'll go from there perfect also we're doing iir testing next week so if you see any students remind them to charge their Chromebook get a lot of sleep and bring a extra book oh
008and headphones and headphones yes please bring your headphones perfect thank you all right we're on to our assistant superintendent report like Jake said on my lovely slide you would see that um so a couple of shout outs I just want to give I'm starting at the high school our new nurse um Jenny Rao she has just stepped in and done a phenomenal job she not only you know jumped in to help get all of the paperwork that had been piling up since we didn't have a nurse to start the year off with but she has been instrumental in helping us as a district help come up with some different policies and procedures for next year as far as making sure that we can serve our students and our staff in the best way so she
009has just been a a blessing and a great addition to our our staff here at the middle school I wanted to give a shout out to one of our custodians Tom writerski the administration at the middle school has actually received several comments a couple from parents and staff but also a couple from students who have reached out and just said how much they appreciate Mr Tom that he goes above and beyond and helping it is no there's no time that you won't see him somewhere doing something that you wouldn't think of he was in the cafeteria the other day helping with condiments and opening ketchup packets and cleaning up things but he also is right there when we at the fifth grade band concert the other day helping set up and making sure that we
010can accommodate what we need to so it's just he is a a true blessing to have at the middle school and and helps out with whatever he can whenever at Eagleview I want to give a shout out to Robin Seiler our secretary um I'm sorry at Parkview they always talk about um write your you know Administration likes to think that they're really the ones calling the shots when really it's the secretaries that we know run the buildings um and I would say Mr Dugan has said over and over again that he would be lost without um Robin in the office she does a phenomenal job and again she is another one that is not only doing everything that you would think of in the office but is all over the place filling in taking pictures
011doing whatever she can so she is phenomenal and then last at Eagleview I want to give a shout out to one of our kindergarten teachers Michelle erkey so we last month as part of our professional development did we talked about inclusion and not just students with IEPs but all students and really talked about getting rid of those labels that there's right they're all students and they're all our students there's no yours or mine they're all our students and in Michelle's room she has partnered up with Tiffany dill and she brings in The Kindergartners out of Tiffany's class in the morning to do morning meeting and when you go in there you really do have no idea which students are from which classroom they all participate they all are asked the same questions but she also
012is doing a lot of teaching them life skills and you know introducing yourselves to people and talking to them and asking questions and they give a lot of would you rather if they play would you rather every day so the other day I was in there and it was would you rather be a pirate or go on a treasure hunt but they not only answer that but they had to give their reasons why and again those kids are so used to being in there and sharing their experiences that um every kid was raising their hand to participate and it was just awesome to see something that we had been talking about in our PD blend into it's already being done in a lot of our classrooms and she's not an isolated incident but I just
013happened to be in her room during morning meeting and it jumped out at me so um other than that the only other thing I was really going to share is we do start like Mr Elliott said we start State Testing next week for our second through eighth graders so they'll do the iar with math and reading tests so we're just getting ready making sure the kids have Chromebooks charged you know like he said get a good night's sleep get a good breakfast um but we're really looking to see and have another data point to be able to compare how much further our students are overcoming what the struggles that they went through during covid so we're excited to see them do their best on those tests that is all I have for tonight what hello
014all right um I'm gonna kind of follow suit with a shout out and say how important administrative assistants are Kimberly Johnson um I want to thank her for relentlessly attacking the recycle company if you haven't seen the recycle bins around our buildings they've been full no one knows how they've ever gotten there they were there when I was hired they were they've just always been there and they've always been full and every once in a while they might get emptied but no one knew like who was in control of them literally Kimberly called I think every other day for a few weeks until they finally gave up and we are now getting it emptied on a regular basis so our recycle bins are now open for the public to start putting things back into them
015I also want to thank Kurt Steve and his guys because while they were full and we had wind they would open up and so he finally just took Saran Wrap and wrapped the build wrapped them because they were blowing everywhere and we were trying to figure out who it's the little things in life are sometimes the hardest to get done but uh it's Relentless and it's just you just keep going until it happens and right now I'm glad to say that our recycling bins are being emptied on a regular schedule um also Foundation we have a foundation I will tell you I have started a foundation in other districts and you never want your foundation to lapse it takes a lot of work and so I am currently looking for um some individuals who would
016like to serve on a maybe a quarterly board or where we would be working on Foundation stuff um I certainly welcome those that are stepping down from the school board leadership to um maybe have a less frequent board meeting with this Foundation but I will take anyone if you're interested call the district office um those are the really the two things I've got I volunteer Scott and Tammy perfect all right move on to items for Action the first one is the approval of the 2023-2024 student fees yeah um we're not making any changes to the student fees again um I wish I could tell you that covid hadn't caused revenues and expenditures to be all crazy but we are doing fine there's no reason to raise the fees at this point in time the recommendation
017is to keep them as presented with no changes perfect any questions comments concerns maybe like to make a motion to approve the student fees I'll make the motion Thank you Lisa sorry second I'll second I'll actually beat you out for 30 seconds roll call please yes Craig Meyer that middle camp aye Mr Schumacher yes Tyson search yes yes very unanimous our next Item B is the approval for the non-tenured teachers yes and I want to note that you have a new list at your place there was a name that was taken off um one of the most important things is to um to make sure that we allow tenure to happen it's a very serious decision and so I took one name off we are looking into that a situation and I will bring it
018back to the board later for consideration but at this time uh the new list that is presented to the board I recommend that you approve with that slight adjustment any questions would anybody like to make a motion to approve the revised non-tenured list thank you you got one in there and a second a second seconds uh roll call please Lisa Schumacher yes Tyson search yes yes Andrea Corey yes Greg Meyer yes Batman okay all right the last item for Action this evening is the approval of the ihsa membership for 23.24 yes and we are a member of ihsa it allows our athletes to participate there is um they are back to not charging any fees and so um at that price I recommend strongly that we continue our membership with the ihsa also in the
019communications that went around for for the public that Mr Horner received a nice letter from ihsa graduated is on the second place finish of the cheerleading squad so well done very nice letter yes nice good little recognition for hard work so thank you what any questions would it be like to make a motion to approve our membership for this year I'll make the motion sorry a second it's got seconds a roll call please search yes yes Tammy Hein yes Andrea Corey yes Brad Meyer yes Scott Middle Camp hi Lisa Schumacher yes perfect for unanimous again that concludes our irons for Action we'll go on to discussion items for start with our facility study uh yeah we had a meeting today with Cobalt Mr Myers and Mr Hamilton we're both participating in that we are moving
020along we've now engaged them um and we're looking at starting the scope of work um do you gentlemen have anything to say about the meetings we've had so far I'm not I'm stuck though okay I can barely talk other than the contract being no I tell you what we idolized you know we met with Cobalt and uh our board's attorney today and and it's it's funds watching the reaction of our board's attorney how excited he is about the process that we're doing we're kind of stepping outside the box and doing stuff that no one really has done before having an owner's rep and you know in my experience when you're prepared for something is so much the project just goes so much better start to finish and Cobalt has really performed um they're they're very
021impressive they're reminding us a lot of things that we would have never thought about and incorporated into the contract and and uh just it's gonna it's gonna be a huge Money Saver overall but uh it's it's nice to be really kind of on The Cutting Edge of something in the head of the game for a change so I was very pleased with them and it's really moving along very smoothly so they also did a cost analysis and you know we kind of did our own in our Architects as well as building a new school versus renovating the high school and so we had them do some backup numbers independently of ours and the conclusion was was the same even more so that the decision we made was was a good one and it's much more
022cost effective to redo the high school than it is to build build news so it's uh it's always good to have checks and balances though and and viewpoints that we don't necessarily see so I think it's working out really well that was a question at the town hall right Scott what's that if the home rule was going to be supporting the construction of our high school yeah I mean we just yeah it was like no that's too good day so taxes are two totally separate things and we have facility sales tax right it was just interesting that somebody brought that up for the um uh for the county so yeah it's getting people to understand what how it works is far where they go what goes on pretty hard complex yeah so the facility study
023right onto our individual board member comments and we have anything they'd like to say I have two things awesome um real quick uh we've kind of gotten away from inviting the new hirees to attending the school board meeting so we can put a face with the name if we could kind of get back to doing that we haven't done that for the last several months what we were thinking was we'd have a big event in August and have everyone come and have maybe some cake and so that you'd not be able to just see a name but you'd be able to meet them and and have some discussion beforehand and so that's kind of what we were thinking and I did not communicate that with you all and I apologize thank you second thing is
024um we got I got a phone call and we received kind of a good new shout out for the Columbia School District as far as Waterloo lost a young teacher to cancer and we were gave having substitutes that day or whatever so that Waterloo could have all the substitutes therefore they could attend the funeral so they've really been praising the Columbia School District that and I don't know where that came down from if if you said something if Alyssa said something or I I think everybody said something and and it's I mean I'm glad that they're praising us it's sad that our society's gotten to the point where those kind of normal actions are surprised but thank you for bringing that up though yeah anyone else all right prison prerogative you guys heard me talk
025way too much tonight so I'll spare you of any more of that we do have executive sessions so we're going to go into the executive session for the purposes of the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of a specific employee of the public body or legal counsel for the public body including hearing testimony on a complaint Lodge against the employee of the public body or against the legal counsel for the public body to determine this validity this five ilcs 120-2c1 that would anybody like to adjourn it to Executive session in a motion I'll make the motion Thank you Lisa to wait a second oh second every seconds and roll call please yes Corey in the bar lights off Craig Meyer yes yes perfect we're going to adjourn it to Executive session which means that
026we do have to ask our visitors to departos we do have two items for Action as a result so you're all welcome to rejoin when we come back in Open Session