001okay today is Tuesday September 19 2023 we are about to embark on our regular school board meeting for Creek 201u it is 18:30 at 6:30 p.m. can we call the meeting to order can we have a roll call please Madam Secretary sure um Mr alre Mr alre here Mr gagos here RP is here Mr swales here miss s stumbris here Dr Hall here president Brown here okay can we stand for the pledge led by Mr gyos and follow that we're going to have our mission statement read by by Dr Hall I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all our mission statement is to empower each students to positively impact the world for
002a bright new future thank you now we have public comments for I like a motion do we have to have a motion to open up public comments open public hearing I think yeah I think yeah I would like to have a motion to open up public hearing for the purpose of approving our budget for 2023 2024 so motioned second second by Alex roll call please sure Mr swales I miss s sters i Mr gagos I Mr Al I rup is and I Dr Hall I president Brown I motion pass okay Brian you're up this good to go done good good evening everyone my name is Brian Johnson I'm the business manager of the school district um I'm going to talk you through our projected FY 24 budget um to start these are the criteria we
003need to meet in order to fulfill the state requirements for our budget um we've met all these requirements and just just for everyone's knowledge um if we choose to amend the budget further down the road in this fiscal year um we would need to follow these same steps again and hold an amended budget hearing as well um here are just a list of some definitions revolving around the budget our sources of revenue property taxes state revenue and federal taxes are our main sources of revenue property tax tax make up the majority and then other revenues which is usually fairly minimal expenditures salaries and benefits that makes up around 2third of our operating budget each year and then purchase Services supplies Capital outlay other objects non- Capital Equipment and termination benefits um those are just the
004other things we need to spend to keep our day-to-day operations going our tax levy is the amount of money we need in property taxes to run the district each year our extension is the amount of money the county decides we're actually going to receive and then our debt limit we just included that our long-term liability is a little over or a little under 129 million with outstanding principle of just under 103 million this is our comparison of last year's amended budget to this year's proposed budget the proposed budget is the column in yellow so this is all funds which includes our capital projects um our debt service those are the main differences compared to our operating budget which we'll discuss less our property tax and local revenues are going up we were able to increase
005our tax levy by the maximum 5% this year and also state revenue our evidence-based funding calculation increased and then our revenue from federal sources is projected to go down a little bit and that's based on our Sr funding we just have a little less available than we had in Prior years and then salaries and benefits purchase Services everything else are increased based on our Union contracts and then just CPI and the trends we've seen and historic expenses so we're pro rejecting a $22.5 million deficit which as a reminder we've sold Bonds in Prior years which showed up as large Surplus as then and those bond funds will cover this deficit to be able to spend the money on our building upgrades that we've been working on these past few years and then now we're moving
006on to our operating budget revenues are are similar ebf and property taxes and then the lower Sr funding and then salaries benefits again that's the majority of our expenses and we are projecting a $410,000 deficit which we budgeted for all staff positions to be filled which right now we have 36 open positions which is about $1.5 million so we ended last year with about a $1.5 million surplus and again we didn't have these positions filled so our final numbers could look similar to last year but we wanted to be conservative in budget for all of those positions so there were no surprises and then to make up that deficit we also have spending reduction plans that will work through and we have an opportunity to invest some of our bond revenues that we don't need
007in the shortterm to hopefully get a little extra interest Revenue to bridge that Gap as well next we're moving on to our fund balance projections this is all funds and the orange line that goes across the middle that's just under $60 million that's our average six month cash on hand the dotted Red Line towards the top were projected to be $19 million of of our six-month cash onand requirement at the end of the year which would maximize our financial profile score in this area which I know is a goal of the board each year and then similarly for operating funds were projected to be $21 million above the six-month cash onand threshold which again is important and it it helps us to be able to get our projects done that we want to help improve
008everything across the board for the district and then finally we just wanted to end with the business department goals for this year a big thing is we've started trying to get our audits done earlier in the year and we're on Pace we actually received our first draft document today for the grant portion of the audit and we should have all the draft documents by next week and our Auditors are projecting to present to you at next month's board meeting of just the annual requirement for them to explain to you their findings and everything and um and then with that they've been helping us improve our policies and procedures and a goal now that we're a little more comfortable in our new Skyward accounting system is to build a more robust policy and procedure manual to
009formalize our our practices and to further improve our month-end Clos processes and then also just our facility planning and capital projects that's an ongoing need that we're overseeing just to make sure that all of our life safety and different construction projects especially the HVAC in the older buildings continue to work towards their completion so with that I will open it up for any questions anyone might have yeah if you don't if you don't mind so you have the chart on on the third and fourth page all funds and operating yes so I I asked you guys before the meeting so I understand the revenue variance but it would be I think a little bit easier for some to to absorb if we had last year's projected Revenue budget prior to the amended because last year
010we approved uh a projected budget and then you and then we amended it which is the blue column but it doesn't really you can't really match that with this year's projected I think it'd be easier going from year to year to see how that kind of carries through to see how close we are sure so I'm just wondering maybe for next year you'll have four columns there you'll have your projected from the previous year you're amended if we amend it and then you're projected for this year yeah that would be no problem at all thank you and then sorry guys the next question I know we focus on our operating funds and our six months cash on hand which is uh two uh two slides past that looks good at all times it looks like
011we're above that six months cash on hand even in March April and May when we're right before tax payments right but the all funds we're three months we're below our six months cash on hand how concerning is that sorry so I wouldn't be too concerned because again we have all of our capital projects going on that is to be expected that we're going to be spending that down and especially that's kind of our construction time of year and Ken you might be able to speak to this a little more so is that the reason why we're going below there because by that point we're going to have exhausted most of the money we borrowed bonds from yeah that so those two months or actually those three March April May are always the low point of
012our fund balances and the more money that we spending out of working cash towards construction projects the lower that's going to get what will happen though is that your cash on hand for our financial reports is determined in June which is when we get the big Flux Of of property taxes we get half our property taxes in at that time so it it kicks it back up and that so it's really not that concerning um we also meet with PMA who does a uh uh a cash flow analysis for us too and that always shows those months as being low now they haven't been that way in the past because we've sold a lot of bond money that we hadn't used but but again it'll it'll start getting low like this um and it's really
013not that concerning as long as June is above that level and that's because our tax payment the second one comes in November second one comes in in September September October um we get the the second round okay so and then we're carrying that all the way until the following June carrying that all the way yeah and operating is really our most important to stay above that line it is very much so yes because if you look at the 400,000 on the operating it's less than 1% it's a half percent basic it's a little under half percent it's like 4.4% right that's I mean that's really close out of $90 million yeah and again with that Bond money we've had some good opportunities for short-term Investments for some of the money we have that we're not
014needing right away and this past year with the rates being so high that's definitely helped us Bridge those gaps a little bit as well and I know before the meeting I asked uh Ken a little bit about so the last three years we've had that the Esser funds that are 8.5 million but they're not funding that anymore so we have money in there but they're not putting any more into that is that correct no so um our allocation what we have left in our allocation is about $4.6 million we still have not gotten that's what's left that is left and that so um and if you remember when I talked to the board before and I know Jamie and Alex are are familiar with this but when I talk to the board our goal with
015that exra money was you know not to get things that are not sustainable in the budget because that money eventually is going to run out and that so we have used that I'll share with you I think we've used it very wisely where we've been able to get reimbursed on a lot of operating expenses um that normally would I'll give you an example Chromebooks when we went to all the Chromebooks we actually were able to get reimbursed on it that was a normal operating expense but we were able to get reimbursed on that um the big a lot of the money that is left is going to be used and are is we're going to get reimbursed on all of our aestus removal if you remember when I talked to the board about the esus
016I thought it was going to come in at about $1.5 million it actually came in at 1.6 so pretty close and and so we will get 100% reimbursement on all of that money uh through the use of the eser F that we have added a couple positions um in that money but they have been needed um because of class sizes I know we've add a couple teachers at B moral I think we add another one at cre um we were just able to get that into eser because it helped we were able classify it under learning law so we're able to get reimbursed on that um so yeah that money will run out next fiscal year we we can use expenditures all the way through uh September 30th of next year and then that money
017runs out and the idea of that is it's already earmarked most of it it is and the idea of that is anything we've created we don't want to lose right we don't want to lose you know programs or you know we want to be able to whatever we've started we want to make sure that we sustain exactly and so you know again um you know we've relied on that money again just to reimburse ourselves you know because I don't like leaving money on the table and so just to reimburse ourselves with things and and to put things in there that are sustainable that we feel is an executive team or because when it goes to zero that's it that's it yeah does anyone have any other questions yeah yeah go ahead yeah I actually was
018going to direct the conversation to youel so if he had any questions or follow-ups so go ahead yes so so Brian I just um off of Bill's point I think it'd be good to have four columns to put what the budget was for last year but I would get rid of the amended budget column because that's that's ruling is done technically I think we had to do that because we issued debt um it's kind of meaningless I would put in what the prior year actual was so for it' be helpful to see 2020 or at least next year see 2023 2024 budget or actual before we see the 24 25 budget but I think that's a better comparison because then you see how we did against on an actual basis how we performed against the
019priority or budget and I think then comparing can see how we performed against budget the prior year and then you can also compare the current year budget or the the coming year budget with how we actually did last year so I think that'd be a more apt comparison but I've already sent that to you in the email so you're aware of that so my next question is you talked about the 36 open positions and and I think it broke down between 17 certified positions and 19 non-certified positions I mean I'm hoping we can fill all the certified positions and it's not you know we're going to have salary related to substitutes to fill those positions so I suspect that we will expend most or some of that money uh that we have allocated there my
020question is and this may be a better one for Eric is on the I think there's 19 N non-certified positions budgeted that are not filled how many of those went unfilled all of last year and and I think the question is do how many of those do we really need so um I think that's something you know maybe in an FY in the future something Eric or um Brian you guys could come back to us with but I got I just I remember last year we had it seemed like we went through the year with quite a few unfilled positions there and if we can operate with them being unfilled it may be a strain a little bit but it seems like things are working okay so uh I think we need a little more
021justification on some of those positions so that would just be my comment there the one sense yeah yes certainly does I can tell you that the most of the certified positions um and I say most what I mean by that is the bilingual teachers I can tell you are not being filled by substitutes the remainder of the certified positions are as well as the teacher assistant positions those are all being currently filled by substitutes um just because of the student application um that those positions have right and that that's what I would expect it's the non-certified where I think we may have some some opportunity I guess Mr Rob if I can if I can interject for a second also um the amended budget is actually your official budget so you are going to want
022to show that in your presentation I I think it's good that you have the original there but you're just going to want to make sure you have your amended budget because that's actually your official budget for the district um okay so I think I think you want both there along with maybe some actual numbers that but I I agree with what you're saying I know what you're saying understand what those saying too makesense I mean I mean the issue is well even for just if you look at just on operating funds our approved budget for last year or the amended budget was we projected a deficit of $1.1 million I think we came in closer to 1.4 to 1.5 million surplus so we had we exceeded the budget last year that's a good thing we
023should show that um and then you know when you look at it we're projecting a smaller deficit this year but I think the public can have some confidence if we didn't by the magnitude that we exceeded the budget last year we should be able to exceed this budget and end of the year with a surplus as well so that's I think that's a story you want to tell because it's a good story so okay anything else Nelson nope I'm good okay I hope you feel better and thank you for uh bringing that to the board's attention and to our administrative attention with the questions that you submitted via email just reiterated what you sent us so thank you very good uh I have a few few questions here first of all are we doing zero
024based budget or we didn't we didn't start off from scratch here you want a combination a combination do a combination of uh different types of budgeting one is zero base budgeting which is youate um you know all budgets and then you start from scratch so we're doing that we're doing some incremental budgeting so things like salaries are already set salary increases are all already set so we're using that too and then um we're also you know even on the percentage increases we're using some of that also with some of our services too so it's it's really a combination of different types of budgeting not just zerob based okay great and I think Bill alluded to it you you mentioned the $90 million that $90 million over what we as a board require over the 180
025days amount six months amount cash on hand the board policy is three months cash on hand 90 days and then the state looks at the 180 days our board policy says six three months yes I believe so 25% I believe no that's that's different that's 25% that's so that's that Gray Line the 22 25% I that is our board requires that we have that as a fund balance of 25% correct and the state have I think the state for for well talking apples and oranges here so there's five indicators for our state profile one is a fund balance 25% of expenditures well 25% of the fund balance and then we have the deficit which is expenditures over revenues all right and then we have our six month 180 days cash on hand and then we
026have short-term borrowing and then we have long-term borrowing so the three bullets the three top guns for us is fund balance cash on hand and the deficit the ratio of revenues and expenditures right so it looks like our deficit you know we can we can kind of clean that up you know it looks don't look really good right now but I think we have answers for that so I just want to get clarity on the cash on hand in our fund balance which is 25% I believe of revenues uh 25% of the expenditures is one or the other because they different they little different your board policy for fund balance is 25% of your operating funds operating f as an as an aggregate yes okay okay yes so it's not all funds it's just your
027operating operating funds okay great so we look good on that do we yes okay and we did when we did the the audit I think the biggest concern we had for years was that our on you know our balance was under six months so that's why it was it was and in order for us to continue going down the path of being recognized by the state we that's that's that's a bullet you know that's a that's a a big point that we need to get a four as a weighted average in cash on hand right and you feel pretty good about that I do and and you know there is a little bit of a difference between the two I you know fund balance is what you have in the bank sure cash balance is
028based on what your total expenditures are and how much cash you have to pay all those expenditures so like I said your fund balances are just your operating funds doesn't include your capital projects doesn't include your debt service okay but your cash on hand includes that that's part of the formula it so we're we're in good shape the district is in good shape with that um I think you'll see that on the audit results that come up um and I think in the future you know you'll be you'll be in pretty good shape too okay excellent uh turkey W for it and thank you continue to show us on paper no surprises his board do not want surprises okay yes all right so another I got two more questions here going back to your first
029to second page here I just need a little Clarity on here it's under the revenues and expenditures when you talk about the debt limit and you have the two numbers 128 plus million of debt liability and then you have with an outstanding Bond principle of 102 102 million are those both numbers combined is actually what we owe I I don't believe so Brian no it's the principle and interest in the first number and just the principle in the second number the principle and the interest the total debt liability is our principal plus interest so what number what number is it that we actually the taxpayers is paying at the end of the day based on9 million how much the 129 million 128 929 yes that's factoring all the money that we borrowed over the last
030year or so yes okay because at one point yeah I guess that that makes sense because I think before we Bor start borrowing we was right around 54 million so this this actually based on a 20-year amortization for most of the money that we borrow right okay that makees sense all right and you mentioned spending reduction plan correct as a form of efficiency correct and I think the board kind of said that we I don't want to say kind of I think we want an efficiency plan I don't get off on a tangent here but I think that can be captured once we get an efficiency plan can something like that be captured your spending reduction plan be captured under the efficiency plan somehow too okay I agree want to follow that all right so
031our board policy I think it's 4.2 in our board board policy about the board want to maintain the 25% fund balance and I think and I I can't quote the exact board policy but I think it's under section four as well that the administrators specifically yuken your position is supposed to look at that policy because Brian you didn't mention a policy you're going to review policies I'm not sure if that's the one you was talking about under our board policies that you would ensure that we are on point with all our all of our finance yes so and make sure if that policy is not correct you bring it to the board attention so can you look at that it looks like I when I looked at that policy a couple weeks ago it said
032that we adopted that June of this year I'm like I don't recall that so I don't know where that came from yeah I'm I'm not sure so it's under section four okay in our board policy okay and overall good job appreciate Brian any further questions from the board thank you thank you appreciate it all righty no other further questions no public comments on the budget hearing if not I'd like to have a motion to close the public hearing Al second by duct the hall roll call please Madam Secretary when you're ready sure Mr swes I miss site stus I roup is an i Mr gagos I Mr Al hi Dr Hall hi pres Brown hi motion carry we now in public comments I have a few first one here is a submitted written email electronic
033public comment from Courtney Jackson and the question is is CPI not consumer price index but Crisis Prevention Institute Training mandated for any of the employees that's the end of that question and Dr H uh Dr cin would you like to follow up you follow up okay great and we have two more public comments somewhat addressing the same issue and it's regard in dress code and we have husan Hiller come to the podium please exp wanted to explain that we don't respond oh okay okay okay great how's everybody doing today that's good okay um my name is Assan Hillard in the back with me I have Mr Timothy Watson how you doing uh my name is Timothy Watson I am the vi student body vice president and as of today I am the senior class president
034okay so we took it upon ourselves to direct a meeting with you guys about our school's dress code kmy has a handbook like any other school but page of 67 through 70 of our student handbook exemplifies in my personal opinion while our handbook is a little outdated and unrealistic um the argument is usually either we are getting ready for the workforce environment but while appearance-based bias stems from factors like height weight race and other current identifying features as well as wardrobe a dress code does not make it easier for diverse talent to feel comfortable in their own skin at work or we do not want it to be distracting or want teachers or boys to be looking looking for something to prevent the dress code gives room to alienate and subject people that do not
035fit in a box we are seeing short-term harmful effects of people self-esteem teaching girls that their body parts inherently bad or important to others that implies how her body should look extreme importance to others my main few key notes and talking points are the male dress code and the female dress code and how they are different in the different body types of our school yes how do you prce so a pretty big following on social media so I took it upon myself to do a poll and out of 1,038 people we got a few statistics here I'm just going to read a few so we got um some pictures I can't show you but we have some pictures and I ask some people what do they think about the dress code and who do you
036think should have got dress coded from your personal opinion and most of these are just unanimous 0 to 100 94 to 6 79 to 21 and 96 to 4 so as you can see a lot of people do not agree with this dress code and I'm not here to say that we need to take away the dress code I am just here to point out some discrepancies in our dress codes so we can get those fixed so first and foremost male and female dress code what's the difference a lot of schools have a dress code and they are very gendered over 90% ban school clothing predominantly wear by females nevertheless it is wrong to tell a 14-year-old girl she is showing too much skin and is quote unquote distracting school should be about school and
037the insane stigma that men SL teers and or staff find a child distracting if they so choose to wear a belly top is inappropriate for example public schools that ban cleavage or bra straps or impose restrictions on the length of shorts or skirts are often targeted against girls and invite unnecessary and excessive policing of girls bodies in schools not to protect them while public schools are allowed to have dress codes and I do agree with one and uniform policies they cannot discriminate against certain students or censor student expression to make the argument that the dress code is ex excessively sexist it is very understandable in the different body types of our school there are all kinds of body types at our high school who either wear the same pieces of clothes or celebrate their bodies
038and wear something completely different nevertheless this can this can make those who are dress coded feel insecure about their bodies or the clothes that they choose to wear the decision to wear wear what they want to wear should not be solely in the students hands but it often leads to sexualization of them more often than not affecting girls with more mature bodies who attend our schools some main points that I like to point out is about height you may have a 64 female who may wear some shorts if you do finger LM temp she will get dress coded because her arms are a little bit longer her legs are a little bit longer so the shorts might be a little bit shorter but if you have a five six girl who wears that exact same
039thing she will not get dress coded which brings back up my discrepancy point which we have those small problems in our dress code so it's not about the dress code itself it's more about how we determine who is getting dress coded and some frequently asked questions that we have is how do we fix this issue I personally feel like we should understand our students concerns dress codes hinder students ability to express themselves and feel comfortable if we just slightly change this dress code just a little bit we change some of the rules maybe fix the the croptops the shoulders then the students wouldn't be so rowdy about it I personally understand that some of the students want to protest and I have been and me and my team have been prolonging this protest for as
040long as we can so us coming up here today was definitely a means to try to reason and get something changed get something fixed the argument that the dress code should improve focus and productivity are also false in my opinion students should be able to wear what they are comfortable and have a personal style with with obvious limitations but small areas of skin should not be included um and that is all I appreciate you for giving us your time and and we hope that this presentation fits you all thank you thank you much appreciative and our superintendent will give back to to you in some manner to address your concerns we always look for opportunities to get better as a district because the youth symbolize Unity here in our district well spoken well accepted thank
041you next up is regarding our district dress CLE as well and this is aella gyos um before I start can I hand something out to the board sure long as it's not a termination letter for me thank you my name is aeli gigos I'm have for a little bit more than a week have been part of several uh a team of both men and women from all grades in the high school who have been trying to organize something to change a School dress code and we have tried to stray away from the protests that a lot of people would love to do to prevent um seniors from getting threatened with diplomas taken away or getting Mass referrals for many students so so we put together a list of wanted changes that we had with the
042dress code that again what Hassan said targeted specifically girls with different body types whether they have uh a higher stance or whether they have longer legs whatever that can cause them to get dress coded and we had for a I believe less than a week went around the school um during like free time or during passing time and in we got 247 signatures from students in the school we looked over them we made sure there weren't any duplicates or uh anybody trying to just write something down to be rude and we believe in in just a day if we went to another school we could get at least 50 more and we say this because we have many people students and uh employees who have seen especially in the first week of school for freshman
043sophomore and even seniors where lines of 20 or more girls were dress coded and lined up and not really paraded but just publicly shamed by either a teacher or a security guard for short shorts short skirts uh shoulders things that have for years been promoting the idea that women or just people in general that they are responsible for the actions of others and they need to control how they express themselves and their body to guarantee that others [Music] can focus and do their school work and Studies have shown that this is detrimental to especially teen girls and teen boys who are just going through puberty and figuring out who they are and doing this can cause severe mental health issues and Body Image issues and in some cases can cause eating disorders we together have
044formed a list of things that really would seem like common sense in many workplaces but have just been ignored and have let many girls go punished both publicly and um privately by teachers [Music] and security guards we would love for something to change about this for for changes in the school dress code or changes in Behavior as there have been students who were harassed by um security guards for what they were wearing and shamed and or followed not out of school but in school to remind them of their clothes and we believe that this is not acceptable and a horrid display of how the teachers and the security guard officers and all employees treat their students I rest my time thank you Miss gagles well spoken by both students that spoke today on this issue
045really appreciate it and the board would do everything we could to make things as right if it's not right we want things to be right all righty okay right now and you can give me that basketball superintendent and believe that I was able to DB 6,000 miles per hour there put it on TV have a good evening guys all right that leads us to board updates by our uh any board have any updates they like to share uh yeah we uh uh some of us participated on the Saturday Fun Run uh that was exciting um the uh Education Foundation hosted a 5k uh myself uh president Brown Dr Kagan and our secretary Cheryl rup were there um for our Fun Run and and uh it was a uh it was exciting it was uh we
046arrived on time and and it started on time and it was a a nice course through up so uh very fun yeah I brought I brought my wife and my daughter and my dog for help yeah I've brought everybody that I could uh that would follow me uh so it it was a good time yes anybody else anything else Alex uh so last week I uh mentioned the calendar and I forgot to bring it but I brought it this week um I don't know if uh you guys like the design or anything like that but it's it's just a little calendar uh that uh shows when uh things are going on at school yes um I don't know if that's something that we want to pursue maybe not no big deal but I thought it
047was cool and kind of interesting cool they used to have one of those I know at least for the board so you say you you you brought enough for the board no I I just got one each one was get a month I just got one wow that is nice very nice can pass that over anything else Alex Uhn we had uh toasta cre on Thursday that was fun uh yeah some of us were there hey gun she uh toasta creete I don't know Dr KAG you could talk about that that was you were there I was yeah so uh yeah this is our second year that we've done this it's it's the five different joint body tax governing bodies that we're all getting together we do uh talk quite often about how to support
048one another within the community and um so this was our way of toasting uh those folks that uh work as Trust es on Villages our board Etc so it was a quite uh successful turnout we had our band there and um so anyway so we're looking forward to do that again next year I uh I definitely enjoyed it uh although so many nights away from home my wife kind of got mad at me cuz we had the bo busy month yeah busy week so uh I think that's it for me it's only the beginning only the beginning okay any further board updates anything yeah I just if none uh no others I would like to just say thank you board members for again being visible in the community Dr kog lanise she's out there she's
049an energized bunny she just got full of energy out there along with several administrators out there principal assistant principal throughout the many events so I I'm just elated to see all of us as board members participating and being visible in the community so I just want to continue I don't expect everybody to participate in every event but at least 99% just good I need to backtrack a little bit before I move to administrative updates I missed a public comment so if it's okay with the board I'm backtracking get one more person to speak on the district codes and that is there we go winter Brooks and she does have a prepared speech and I'm going to give her five minutes hi uh good evening everybody I'm also speaking about um the dress code today um
050so I wanted to start with my name winter Brooks and I am a senior at Creon high school so this is an issue that's been happening for four years for me at least um today I want to address the dress code at Creon high school and middle school as somebody who has attended both I feel that I can accurately represent the population of girls and assigned female at Birth people in this District the dress code in cre mononi heavily targets girls and out of my four years of high school I have seen guys sagging their pants and nobody says anything to them and security guard will even joke around with them like it's funny or something staff is so quick to dress code shorts and crop tops even when nothing inappropriate is visible and I
051want to start by addressing the shorts fingertip length is nearly impossible these days because stores just don't sell women's shorts that long anymore and another reason is it doesn't make sense that many girls have long arms and long legs or they have a bigger body type in some way and shorts just end up being shorter even if they cover everything so um reasons like this are why some aspects of the dress code are unfair and another thing I would like to address is shoulders and stomachs I genuinely don't understand why these parts of my body are being sexualized when they are not sex organs in anyway if it is hot outside then I would really like to wear a tire that I am comfortable in for this weather and my stomach and shoulders aren't distracting
052to the student body so if that means that they're distracting to the teachers then that's an issue with the staff that's being tied I don't come to school to be sexualized shamed and ridiculed by outdated sex sexist ideals that were created Generations ago I do not come to school to hear staff members tell me that I will be nothing in life if I continue to wear crop tops I come to school to learn in an environment where I feel safe and right now I don't feel safe I'm disgusted with the way that Administration is treating our student body if my body is supposedly distracting me from learning learning then putting me in in school suspension does not help me learn either if the girls sports teams gets get to wear tiny spandex shorts that everybody
053views wearing jean shorts that cover me completely are appropriate no matter the length I would really love to see some change here because the stress of feeling ashamed of myself for wanting to feel confident in my own skin and what I enjoy wearing is much more stressful than any homework I'm ever assigned Administration is single-handedly promoting self low self-esteem and shame when they tell their students that their bodies are shameful so I am standing here today telling you all of my concerns because it affects me and every other student in this room including some of your children I have worked so hard to finally love my body and have love for myself to just be thrown back down and told that I should be ashamed of it my body is not a distraction and if
054you think it is then you are the problem now I would really like to um talk about this paper that II handed out and these are some of the changes that I would uh that I would like to propose and I understand that maybe not all of them will be possible but I think that they are reasonable um getting rid of the shoulder rule I really don't think that shoulders necessarily need to be covered as they aren't really a sexual body part in any way same with shorts or skirts should just cover you know the butt area any private areas if they're completely covered I think it should be considered okay and appropriate same with crop tops I feel as long as when you lift your arms up if you cannot see your bra or
055any private parts that that should be allowed if I can't see anything that isn't inappropriate to me underwear should not be showing so sagging of pants when males are sagging their pants that actually needs to be enforced that they should pull their pants up if we're going to be strict on the females we also need to be strict on the males because it is unfair leggings and biker shorts should be allowed as long as they aren't like see-through so as as long as they are opaque they should be allowed because leggings are so common right now and bra St bra straps showing shouldn't be taboo it shouldn't be dress coded CU sometimes they slip out sometimes they're just visible and that's unavoidable at times and like lace on shirts shouldn't be considered lingerie I had
056a friend who had a lace tank top underneath one of her shirts and she got dress coded because they told her that she was wearing lingerie um I think that was inappropriate as well because why are you look looking at somebody's undergarments um and lowrise bottoms should be allowed as long as you're know you know your underwear is not showing so like lowrise jeans those should be acceptable as long as no undergarments are showing um that is all I have does anybody have questions for me anything that uh they want me to elaborate on in any way okay thank you thank you another Well Spoken student on the issue we appreciate it thank you all right we're going to pass it over to our superintendent for ministrative updates um I do not have any at
057this time okay trying to get us out of here huh all right okay we're going to move forward to the consent agenda approval before I ask for a motion is there anything that any board member would like to remove and vote on separately if not I would like a motion to approve the consent agenda do we have to read it first we have to the motion yeah motion second okay we got a motion on the floor for and it has been moved pass it over to our superintendent okay item uh for a under superintendent report item one is approv regular meeting minutes of August 8th uh 2023 item two approv special meeting minutes of August 1st 2023 item three approve special meeting close session minutes of August 1st 2023 item four approve revision of board
058policy 6 col 1 190 uh Item B for personnel and culture on number one approv Personnel report which includes approval of the certified staff employment leave of absence return of leave of absence and resignation educational support staff employment leave of absence return from leave of absence reassignment and resignation item two on a Personnel report would be approved guest par professional rate changes item three approve cadr teacher benefits item four approve mandated uh training stien underneath business item one approve Board of Education financial report report item two approve a payment of a 50,9 1249 to CCC holding Inc for work completed at Creek money High School item three approved payment of 46,2 2913 to RL Soho for work at CSK item four approve a payment of 96798 and66 to RL Soho for work completed at B
059moral item five approve a pay payment of 1,261 62 and uh 9 cents for RL soul for work completed at Creek Elementary item six approve a payment of [Music] 632,000 I just have one Ken I know the last regular board meeting when when um we actually approve these payouts I and we had a lot of them just stated final I guess it wasn't the final I didn't I didn't match apples apples final for 2022 those are for 2022 that was 2022 yeah these are 2023 pays are these finals or no no they are not finals okay that okay that's what it was we're still waiting for chillers at two schools okay um I do know that and so that I that's going to be a little while yet so there's still some work going on
060when the payments when the payments were overlapping he was putting in parentheses what year they were going to there we go I see it now okay yeah that SLI right past me thanks Bill thanks Ken all righty any other further comments if not roll call please Madam Secretary okay Miss site stumbris I Mr swales hi rup is I Mr Al I Mr g gigos i Dr Hull I president Brown I motion carry okay and 11 action reports un like a motion to approve 11a Alpha business approved a 2023 2024 budget you have a motion move move second any further questions or comments second by Dr Hall no further comments or questions whenever you ready Madam Secretary roll call please Mr gyos I rup is an i Mr elre I Mr swales hi Miss stumbras I
061Dr Hall I president Brown I motion carry like a motion to approve 11 action reports B Bravo personnel and culture number one consideration to approve certify resonation I have a motion to approve that item so moved by remind them what this is second you can remind I can okay so uh just so you know how this is written on the report we've provided two options uh one of these will then carry and this is regarding the one uh Personnel matter that we spoke of at close session so we're e just for clarification we're either I approving the resignation or nay not approving correct yes okay I understand make sure that that was clear on the vote so but there's two votes yeah no I think you should do two votes the first to approve it
062and then if that then you would go to the second one yes thank you okay okay so great thank you for the clarification okay and if we don't approve it it doesn't go to two if you approve it then you don't go to two if you do not approve it then you would go to two yes so just do a roll call for number for number one that's on the table number one right so roll call for and is this and this is the employee that we talked about correct in our in our in our recommendation it this was what we were supposed to do yeah so it was moved by Mr gyo second by Dr Hall we ready yes okay rup is a nay Mr swales nay Miss site stumbris nay Mr gagos nay
063Mr alre nay Dr Hall yes president Brown nay motion carry well motion not carry a motion sorry a motion I did get did not carry okay not used to this one here kind motion did not carry all right all right so now can I have a motion to approve yeah okay a motion to a motion action report B Bravo personnel and culture number two so moved uh uh consider to not accept the resignation of the certified employee got it move by Jamie second second by Alex any comments or questions on it everybody is clear roll call please okay rup is and I Mr alre I Mr gyos I Mr swales I miss s stumbras i Dr Hall nay president Brown I motion Carri number 12 do we have old business hearing none new business I
064have one that kind of just stirred up hearing the public comments from the students today and I think I just kind of spoke a little bit with Nelson about this I not sure if I shared it with anyone yet but I think this is an opportunity just think about it an opportunity to have some representation from the student body on the board non voting person but just an opportunity some school districts have that just think about it don't know who that is who that would be I'll talk more with Dr cck least I should have hit you up first before I brought this up but it just came to my memoris uh hearing those students I think it might have a good impact and add value good value to the board just think about it
065okay that's a new business more to follow on that so so with that being said MH what's the what's the next step then so they've come to the board right mhm and we listen to them but we're not that's it it's not our role right I I want wanted to ask but I didn't want to ask like so the question what's the next step for them to to achieve their goal right to achieve some sort of mediation of of the situation did they come to you or do they come to the administration like so that we can help support one way or another we need to help you know three students got up here and spoke which took a lot and we want to at least listen do they get 100% Maybe not maybe so
066m but at least we got to come up with a happy meeting of what we feel um is appropriate right and but we got to give them they came here and we got to give them their stage you know their their opportunity they presented so now how do we what's the next step so I I had kind of spoken to them as well and I congratulated them on their role and advocacy uh and taking the a really great uh channel for advocating for themselves um I did say I would follow up with them at the building I will talk with Administration and follow up with them at the their council meeting because what I want to do is I want to listen to um well reflect on this uh listen to some of their their
067key points um talk with Administration and see if there's some way that we can either modify or ad just as needed but since this is a school code policy that you did vote on what I have to do is I would come back and ask you to reconsider a couple key points amend it yes that's basically what it would be and if we do then we would just amend the school code policy in up coming because I will tell you for the first student to come up who's the student body president to avoid a protest it was commendable was a big deal right so having that understanding and keeping that in control for him was the big deal because coming with a plan so to stop something else that is unnecessary so I it's good
068I just want to know what the process is because we're going to have to be part of it at some point but I just want to know where yes and like I said I will be out there probably uh with Miss Perkins probably tomorrow uh trying to figure out a time to meet with them and so we might be able to have something for uh consideration for October that's fine and as long as explain the time frame because everything in a school district does not tapen tomorrow and as being young students they don't understand that so I want to make sure you explain explain the process because in two weeks if they're frustrated they'll protest which is terrible right it's not a good idea but if they understand the process and they give and we
069give them that timeline and the credit and then we come up to a happy me but like I said as long as the communication is there that they understand that this will have to be addressed in this amount of timeline and I don't want it to wait because I don't want to get frustrated yeah agreed I I honestly don't know that it has to come to us though if you read the policy all it talks about is not disrupting the education or not disrupt it says it a couple different ways compromising health and safety you know not disrupting the educational process I I think people probably interpret that differently so I don't I think it's pretty gen our policy is pretty General and it and it does say that it's it's set by the superintendent
070or design it's a student handbook I think where it's at so I don't I honestly don't think that we have it has to come back to our level unless it's something really only if we amend the the the policy right or no I think that's very general is what I'm saying if you look at the policy unless I'm I'm always full uniform I'm looking at yes we do okay that's where we would need to need to put the changes to the hand not to the polic yeah policies are usually DET yeah so we have to do we have to because it's in a handbook so I will go back and rework this and then we approve the handbook yeah yes okay I don't remember in August August yeah I will bring um I will give
071you an update on the FYI what I'm working on out there and then uh any proposes will be coming back and just think about iidea what I kind of suggested and again paracity or the frequency on how how often we give them a seat at the table can vary could be twice a year whatever you know just like we give board updates maybe they can give updates of some one that uh lont would select in high school whatever I don't know I don't know the answer it's just a thought I'm just throwing it out there okay all right uh something that uh I think we passed up on old business um and it was in our FYI uh that whole um big section about uh residency yeah uh yeah I and I think more we
072can probably bring it up next meeting or whatever okay it's not done it's not done I did no that's not off the table so we can bring it up or whatever we're table it for next time or something we can talk about it if you want that we can put that as an agenda at the committee of the whole no I I read it was and thank for the information that was very good questions and answers can can I add something to that um uh I would like to know how many uh students were found to be uh non-resident uh in the in the the year that we paid the uh the the 80,000 that was in the U 79,000 something like that yeah um how many students were did they find that was uh
073just out out of cod out of violation right right right I'll check on that number but I do believe it was somewhere around 200 and what was staggering though and I'll just say this that we had 700 new students applied to come in into the district that was that was a you do that's how many you have on an annual basis it's it's amazing 700 new new students well you got to remember how big I mean our district we have schools we have Middle School we have high school yeah but is that taken into account like coming into kindergarten you're counting those people that's coming in sending a kid into kindergarten first those that number is like all the new applicants we had all of our grades prek through 12 we have but predominantly probably
074K I would think uh no I they're they're all over I mean I I don't know what the real breakdown is Mr Brown I really don't but they are all over you know uh it's it's a staggering number and and that's why residency is uh really important and you know the process of going through uh verifying residents is a difficult process then you have to include your returning students every year well verify that well let's talk about it let's have a more of a to talk about it because there was a lot of information you shared with us and sure greatly appreciate it sure but it did it does lens itself for further discussion fit it out and there's an opportunity for this process to be considered part of the efficiency plan you know given
075what it's doing if you know but there's definitely some qualms out there that I see and probably other board members see as well okay all right so old business new business I understand we do not have a reason to go into close session so we don't have to pay our lawyer thank you just Katy ER I'm still here right now all right well I I meant to say additionally okay and with that being said can I have a motion to adjourn so moved by Alex so second second by Jamie all in favor by saying I I any Nays I any nay we are adjourned thank