001Good evening, everyone. Welcome to this meeting of the Kansas City Schools Board of Education for Monday, June 9th in the heart of downtown Kent. If you're in the audience, I'll ask everyone to please silence your electronic devices, and would you rise for the Pledge of Allegiance? To our family, staff, and community, thank you for being the best in Stark County. We're very proud of you, and we're very proud of our rich tradition. If you are here tonight, we welcome you. If you are online, thank you for taking the time to join us. Mr. Gruber, would you call the roll, sir? Mr. Rinaldi. Here. Ms. Watkins. Here. Mr. Kaminsky. Here. Mrs. Brown. Here. Mr. Russ. Here. I'll make the motion to approve the agenda as written. Second. Any changes or corrections? Yes, there are, Mr. President.
002There's one change and one addendum this evening. The change occurs on page up at the top of the page, extended days for technology resource coaches. We need to remove that from this evening's agenda. And the second and final change this evening, again, is an addendum to Superintendent's Report, Section A, Human Resources. We have regular certified staff appointments. Thank you, Mr. Gruber. Any other changes or corrections? We have a motion. We have a second roll call vote. Mr. Rinaldi. Aye. Ms. Watkins. Aye. Mr. Kaminsky. Aye. Mrs. Brown. Aye. Mr. Russ. Aye. I'll make the motion to approve the minutes for our May 12, 2025 regular meeting and our May 28, 2025 special meeting. Second. Any changes or corrections? Hearing none, roll call vote. Mr. Rinaldi. Ms. Watkins. Aye. Mr. Kaminsky. Aye. Mrs. Brown. Aye. Mr. Russ.
003Aye. Moving right along, public speaks. We do have one individual signed up this evening, Mr. President, before I call them to speak. We ask that they state their name and address and whether they are resident of the district for the record. Well, so I want to remind the speaker this evening that the board allows three minutes for each individual to address the board. And finally, the president may rule out of order any person using disrespect, obscenities, or arguing a point. With that being said, this evening's speaker is Mr. Eric Resnick. Eric Resnick, 1828 Grace Avenue Northeast. I am and have been for my entire life a resident of the Kansas City School District. So I want to start out this evening, Mr. President, by reading this from the Ohio Constitution. And Trent, if you want
004to zero in on this, that'd be cool, too. The Ohio Constitution, Article 6, Section 2 says, the General Assembly shall make such provisions by taxation or otherwise, as with the income arising from the school trust fund, will secure a thorough and efficient system of common schools throughout the state. But no religious or other sect or sects shall ever have exclusive right to or control of any part of the school funds of this state. So I want to remind people in advance of tomorrow's rally that you are not asking your state legislators for charity or special favor when you demand that they fund public school districts. You are demanding that they do their job. This is their obligation, their constitutional obligation. Since I penned the letter that appeared in the repository last week, I learned a
005couple of things about the Senate's budget that the public also should know. According to analysis of the proposal, less than one-third of the money the Senate says they want to add will go to public school kids. Only $190 million of the proposed $633 million is going toward funding the Fair School Funding Plan. The rest is going to charter and voucher schools. That analysis was available Friday. What that means is we are potentially at the point in Ohio where 85% of the students, the public school district enrollees, are receiving only 77% of all the state money going to education. This is hardly what the Constitution demands. I understand that 177 school districts, more than a quarter of Ohio's school districts, including this one, stand to lose a lot of money because they want to go back
006to 2021 funding levels. Finally, I want to invite you to the table tomorrow where the Public Education Partnership will be doing public engagement. There will be materials regarding the Vouchers Heard Ohio project and the lawsuit against Ed Choice Vouchers that this district supports and hopes to challenge some of this disparity. One last thing, I spoke to Ideastream reporter Connor Morris this afternoon and I know Treasurer Gruber did too. Connor was preparing for a show tomorrow called The Sound of Ideas, which airs in the morning and it is on education and the fair school funding plan and how it pertains to this budget. So you may want to tune in and with that I thank you and I will see you tomorrow. Thank you, Mr. Resnick. Anybody else signed up? Moving right along, Treasurer Gruber. Yes,
007Mr. President, this evening I would like to recommend to the board that they approve items one through eight under the Treasurer's Report. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments? Let's recap quickly, Mr. President, what's under this evening's report. Item number one is a lengthy list of donations, which we greatly appreciate. Item number two is approval of the April 2025 monthly financial report. Item number three is the ask to rescind two permanent transfers that I previously had the board approve on May 12th with transfers that take their place. Item number four is a list of permanent transfers that I'm asking the board to approve. Item number five is fiscal year 2025 permanent appropriation amendments. Item number six, asking the board to approve fiscal year 2025 estimated resource amendments. Item number seven is asking the board to
008approve two advances. And the last one is item number eight, asking the board to approve the fiscal year 2026 temporary appropriations measure, which allows the school district to legally spend money in the time it will take between today and for us to put together the permanent appropriation measure, which I will give the board in September. Thank you, Treasurer Gruber. Any other questions or comments? Hearing none, roll call vote. Mr. Rinaldi. Ms. Watkins. Mr. Kaminsky. Mrs. Brown. Mr. Russ. Thank you, Treasurer Gruber. Superintendent Talbert. Thank you, Mr. President. First, I'd like to recommend that the Board of Education approve section A human resources certified staff, which tonight includes retirements and resignations, leave of absences, appointments, and adjustments for our certified staff. So moved. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, roll call vote. Mr. Rinaldi. Ms. Watkins.
009Mr. Kaminsky. Mrs. Brown. Mr. Russ. Mr. President, I'd recommend the Board of Education approve section B human resources classified staff, which tonight includes retirements and resignations, leave of absences, appointments, adjustments, and a termination. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, roll call vote. Mr. Rinaldi. Ms. Watkins. Mr. Kaminsky. Mrs. Brown. Mr. Russ. Moving on to educational services report. Mr. President. I recommend the Board of Education approve section C, which is an overnight field trip. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, roll call vote. Mr. Rinaldi. Ms. Watkins. Mr. Kaminsky. Aye. Mr. Brown. Aye. Mr. Russ. Aye. Item number two, I recommend the Board of Education approve section C item two, which is an approval of the purchase of ELA novels for grades nine through 12, which were presented at our last
010meeting. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, roll call vote. Mr. Rinaldi. Ms. Watkins. Mr. Kaminsky. Aye. Mrs. Brown. Aye. Mr. Russ. Aye. And finally, finally for section C, I recommend that the Board of Education approve the 2025-2026 student handbook. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments? Yes, I forwarded those on to our team and we will make those changes to the handbook. Okay, thank you. Any other questions or comments? Hearing none, roll call vote. Mr. Rinaldi. Aye. Ms. Watkins. Aye. Mr. Kaminsky. Aye. Mrs. Brown. Aye. Mr. Russ. Aye. Moving on to our operational report this evening. First, I'd like to recommend that the Board approve a new ProTech security services agreement. So moved. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, roll call vote. Mr. Rinaldi. Ms. Watkins. Aye. Mr. Kaminsky. Aye. Mrs. Brown.
011Aye. Mr. Russ. Aye. Item number two under our operational report tonight, I recommend that the Board of Education approve the 2025-26 susceptible use policy. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, roll call vote. Mr. Rinaldi. Ms. Watkins. Mr. Kaminsky. Aye. Mrs. Brown. Aye. Mr. Russ. Aye. Item number three, I recommend that the Board of Education approve a resolution for a change order for the Crenshaw Gymnasium project. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments? Mr. Dixon, you want to explain something? So this change order for Crenshaw is the final and last change order to finish this project. This change order represents three primary changes. One was adding electric to the bleachers inside the gymnasium. That wasn't called out in the drawings originally. Ten rows high of bleachers. I don't think it was a good
012idea to be pulling those in and out staff to do so. So we added electric to those. The next change was a landscaping change. When you see or drive by, you'll see the landscaping all around the new part of the rear of the building is all what I call zero scape. It's all stones. It's not grass for weeding and being up against the building with the mowers and all those things. We want low maintenance and this is zero maintenance. And then the last change order was and in addition to a drive lane down behind the locker room and new facility. We're adding an asphalt lane that goes around the building that will assist in when the bus drops off the players right side drop off right there at the fence line for ADA and compliance.
013We'll be able to get people right down next to the field. It'll be a great addition. So those are the three changes. Thank you very much. Any other questions or comments hearing none roll call vote Mr. Naldy is Watkins. Mr. Kaminsky. Hi, Mrs. Brown. Hi, Mr. Russ. Hi. And finally under operations report. Well, no, we have two more actually item number four. We have the approval of a resolution to recognize school resource officers as union positions. This is a change. From the resolution. We brought you last that was school resource assistance. Sorry. This is a change from the resolution. We had you approved. We had a correction to that resolution. So we're actually to do it again this month. Would you repeat that again? Thank you, sir. So move second any other questions or comments
014hearing none roll call vote Mr. Naldy is Watkins. Mr. Kaminsky. Hi, Mrs. Brown. Hi, Mr. Russ. Hi, and then our final item recommend at the Board of Education Board of Education approve a resolution for an RFP for cyber security pilot program or project. So move second any questions or comments Mr. So is this a cyber security measure for our operation or or or some sort of curriculum? It's a grant that we're awarded and we must thank you. Thank you. Mr. Klinsky. Any other questions? Miss Watkins. Any other questions hearing none roll call vote Mr. Naldy is Watkins. Mr. Kaminsky. Hi, Mrs. Brown. Hi, Mr. Russ. Hi under superintendent action items. The first thing we have tonight is the first reading of policy 5780. Zero one, which is a new policy this year that must go
015in effect in July. It is also known as the parents bill of rights. This was passed in the law. Back, I believe back in January and they gave us until July to have a policy in place and this is the policy looking at what Neola has in place. It aligns with what we need to do and what we're going to ask our folks to do. So we're going to take the Neola policy as is. Thank you, sir. Any questions or comments from the board hearing none roll call vote. We get a motion in second. Oh, I'm sorry. Or this is actually just first reading first reading. We don't need to do anything. Okay, but we do have one extra item one more item under this section. Yeah, we're going to keep going. So I'd like
016to also recommend to the board that they approved the practical nurses program calendar for the 2526 school year. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments from the board hearing none roll call vote. Mr. Naldy is Watkins. Mr. Kaminsky. Mr. Mrs. Brown. Mr. Ross. I thank you that concludes the superintendent's report for this evening. Thank you. Superintendent cover. Is there a need for an executive session? No, but I did have one question that was presented about the books. We adopted from this Watkins. There there is a list being compiled of alternative options for parents. The first reading of this parent Bill of Rights that we're adopting though it gives parents the opportunity to inspect all curriculum upon request and also we have a policy in place currently that says anything that's considered by a parent to
017be a controversial issue. The parent has to the student has to be given an alternative assignment. So there are there already putting together a list the teacher started it and it will be complete by fall. Anything else? Mr. Gwinski, would you like to take Mr. President I move we adjourn second. All those in favor say aye. Everyone have a good night. Be safe getting home.