001Call to order of the Kearney School District Board of Education meeting. Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. >> [clears throat] >> Roll call, please. Here. We have a quorum. We will adopt the minute agenda. Move to adopt the agenda as presented. Second. Roll call, please. No. Raise your hand. All in favor. [laughter] I forget. All right. Next, we have school spotlight. Mr. Gooden. All right. Welcome. Kearney Junior Thank you. Thank you. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Wow. Wow, wasn't expecting that. >> [laughter] >> You'll have to tell all the other principals that have been here that it was the first time. That's the [laughter] first time? You have bragging rights. I appreciate that. Um thanks for having us. It's It's hard to believe that we are already um here for the junior high spotlights. It
002seems like that is the very last almost one of the last things of the school year. So, it's crazy that we're already here. Seems like this year has flown by. Um a lot of great things going on at the junior high. Um we've come a long ways in the last 3 years. Um about 4 years ago today um was about the time that I got hired at Kearney um junior high. And two things really stood out whenever I was researching the district. Um and then there were two big pillars and we still talk about them today. And that was authentic literacy and real world learning. Um so, fast forward after I get the job and I come in and trying to figure things out, you know, what exactly does real world learning look like? So,
003um that provide us an opportunity. Mr. Daniels came with or is here with me tonight. He came to me with an idea 3 years ago um and said, "Hey, I've got this awesome opportunity to run this mock trial." And he's talking talking with me through it and I'm like, "Bingo. That is That's it. That's what we want to do. This is a great opportunity for our kids." So, anyways, we've been doing it for 3 years now. Um I brought with us a few students as well as Mr. Daniels to talk about it. So, I hope you enjoy. Come on up. Hi, I'm Kira and this burger I'm a student at Kearney Junior High and I participated in mock trial. We went to Judge O'Hara's courthouse and we learned how to go through the trial of
004the process of a trial. We did many things. We acted out our scenario of a murder on a cruise ship. Through the past few years, mock trial has been at Kearney, but 2026 has been the most successful year. With this new tradition sprouting in Kearney with excellence, we have had such a wonderful opportunity to learn about real world world learning and so many more things. Okay. Um this isn't possible without tons of people. Okay, so um the first person obviously Mr. Gooden, you you heard from him. Um and then Miss Stewart volun-told Judge O'Hara uh to come and do real world learning talk at our school. So, she talked to our kids about um free speech and their rights essentially. So, very government-like uh very social studies. And then we were eating lunch and she
005said, "If you guys want to come to my courtroom, you're always welcome." I was like, "Oh, yes." So, uh I talked to Mr. Gooden and we got in the courtroom in 2024 um it was our first year Mr. King supervised that trip. Um in 2025, our students opted to write the entire case. So, they spent a whole semester writing all the evidence, all the witness statements. Um and what they did was they took a current event that was a dress code violation out in California. Um and they researched all the precedents. They wrote the whole thing. They spent most of their time writing it. So, like when we got to trial, we learned a ton of things about trial. Um and then this year, our students wanted to do a murder trial. Um and so,
006essentially, they built the evidence. Um there's a video here from Mr. Keeler. Levi Keeler put this together. Mr. Gooden was our victim. He's David Bask. David Bask was last seen alive on the video camera here moving into his cabin. Um and he was allegedly killed by Patricia Post who was played by Abby Welch. They had had a disagreement. They worked together. They were in a relationship and things went south. Um and so then that was the last time that they saw him alive. Um and I think that this year was fantastic because we didn't spend a ton of time writing the case. They wanted their own case, but they filled the holes with AI and they sourced AI appropriately. So, rather than cheat it or, you know, hide it or not do the work themselves,
007they used it as a tool, which I thought was very real world learning and very good. Um and then Miss Baker's going to tell you a little more about our case. Hi, I'm Cadence Baker. I'm an eighth grade and I'm a member of the prosecution team, or I was. On the day of the trial, we all of our hard work finally paid off when we were able to actually experience a case. We went in and we had 45 minutes to just practice questioning our witnesses, practicing our opening statements, and practicing our concluding statements. Our actual trial rest lasted about 90 minutes. And in the end, the defense team won and the verdict was not guilty. I really enjoyed being able to work with others and collaborating with others who actually wanted to work on a
008project and not be forced to. I enjoyed dressing up and acting like I was really in law. And I really enjoyed like understanding debate more and understanding having to debate with others to get the right verdict to get my one verdict. Thank you. Um and so, the cool thing about this is that our law teams prepped they they worked for 2 and 1/2 months at least once a week to prep. Our jury was just like a regular jury. We had a group of people that volunteered. They got jury summonses and they showed up and they did all their work on the day. Um and on the bottom left here, you can see they went into the jury room. They had to elect a foreman. They had to use evidence from the case. They were making
009arguments and they were calling each other out. There was a hilarious moment. Uh Mr. Wilson in the green shirt said, "Maybe it was a suicide, right?" Cuz that was one of the theme one of the theories that the defense team threw out. And then Leo leans over and he goes, "He went back in his room after he ditched the murder weapon and then died?" >> [laughter] >> Right? Like they were really really thinking it through. It was fantastic. Um and they they found that the prosecution team did not meet their burden of proof in the case. Um and so then they flipped a little switch on the right and our defense team here is the winner on the not guilty side. Um and the cool thing about it, guys, is you spend your whole career
010trying to get kids to pay attention for 45 minutes at a time. These kids were in for 190 minutes straight on the day of the trial. Um nobody got in trouble in the jury. Um you know, [laughter] like it was phenomenal. Like kids that you wouldn't expect to make arguments and hear the other side. We had um Amelia who is a a super quiet student. I She swears that it wasn't her, but she was the only um guilty vote that made them actually debate whenever they deliberated. So, I can just speaking their mind and doing what they needed to do. It was fantastic. Um and then afterwards, um we have some bonus material. We go to CC's if we get done in time. So, they make sure that we get done in time. >> [laughter]
011>> And I was talking to um an 11th grader, two 10th graders. So, we had an A+ cadet and we had teacher cadets that were there with us who were also witnesses and prepared. Um and so, what happened was we were talking about like how the court is set up and then what is our burden as teachers and how does world history lead into teaching government at the high school. Um and Taylor Jones on the right hand side goes, "Mr. Daniels, is that like the iron triangle?" And I'm like, "I don't know. It's been a really long time. What's the iron triangle?" She pulls it up and she's talking about how interest groups and government and um you know, legislation work together to create the laws and policies that we have. Um and so, to
012make that connection to me at lunch when it's supposed to be free time, I thought that was super bonus material. Um Emmy Berry emailed me and said, "Hey, we can give these lawyers market value assets." So, that's fantastic for their their check-off list. Um and like I said, it really it really comes together from Dr. Gus, um Miss Solomonson who had to clear another market value asset project for our older students to be there. Um you know, Mr. King, Mr. Crawl, Miss Robbins are recruiting our eighth graders so that we have freshmen and eighth graders working together. Um this really is a huge team effort and and I'm thankful to be here and I'm thankful for these kids. So, um thank you guys very much and to Judge O'Hara for making an offer and then
013having us back every single year. Uh makes me very emotional and very excited. So, thank you guys. >> [applause] [applause] >> Did anybody have any questions? The the group? Go ahead and go front. >> [clears throat] >> All right. Go up there. Face me. And I'm going to take my picture and then it's the parents' turn to take their picture. Hang tight. Awesome. Parents, do you want to get pictures? Anyone? Yeah. You're You are not. Thank you for asking, though. Oh, thank you. It's cool. Yes. >> [laughter] >> Yeah? I mean Okay. Judge Horwitz here, thank you very much also for everything you do. Appreciate it. That's awesome. Okay, next we have recognitions and tonight it's going to be the Golden Girls. >> [applause] >> Hi. I'm Coach Anderson and I am going to talk
014on behalf of the Golden Girls and Coach Sarah and Coach O'Connor who couldn't be here tonight. First of all, we just want to thank you for having us and taking the time to recognize our program and these girls. They work so hard all year long For those of you that maybe don't know a ton about the dance team or the dance program, we start our season off in April. So, we have tryouts in about a week and a half and we go all year long. And then we conclude in March with our banquet. So, they are a year-round sport and they go into the summer working on clinics and camps and practices and getting their performances ready for the fall for football season. And this past season we had a really great time going post-season
015with the football team and traveling to state with them. That was really really exciting for our team. And then we got to jump right into basketball season with the girls and boys basketball teams and our own competition season. So, this year we went to three different competitions and our first one was Kansas City Classic which was hosted at Liberty and we took home two first place trophies for our routines. And then we went to Lee's Summit North and we Oh, sorry. In Kansas City Classic we took home a first and a second place and then at Lee's Summit North we took home two first place routines and then we finished out our season at state where we got a first place, a third place and then third overall. And these girls have just worked so
016hard all season. Um you know, I know everyone gets to see them at the games and on the sidelines, but what you don't see is all of the hard work that goes in to every single practice. We also had a handful of girls take solos this year. If you took a solo, would you raise your hand or just go ahead and stand up so you can be acknowledged. I know I'm really putting you on the spot. So, all of these girls TOOK TIME >> [applause] [applause] >> THEY TOOK EXTRA TIME and energy to represent our school and our program and it was really wonderful to see that. These girls are just incredibly dedicated and when they're not practicing here at the school, they're out at their studio. They are just truly some of the hardest
017working, most dedicated girls and we are so incredibly proud of them. I know parents are really proud, our district is really proud, coaches are really proud and of course they couldn't do it without Coach Sarah and Coach O'Connor. They are both really wonderful, wonderful coaches for this program and overall we just would really like to thank all of you, all of our community, our district. We know we're always out there fundraising and you know, advocating for our program and having the support from the school district is huge and it has made us really successful. So, thank you. We really appreciate it. Do you want me to go ahead and read this for them? Okay. Are you going to hand out? Okay. All right. Aubrey Compton >> [applause] [clears throat] >> Ainsley Daniels >> [applause] >>
018Emery Glennon >> [applause] >> Angelina Gordon >> [applause] >> Scarlett Goody >> [applause] >> Jacey Hensley Gillian Jameson >> [applause] >> Lillian Kagarice Maya Kopp >> [applause] >> Ellie Miles Ricky O'Connor >> [applause] >> Claire Olson Gracie Parks >> [applause] >> Taylor Ross Cameron Slaughter >> [applause] >> Claire Watson Peyton Williams >> [applause] >> You guys want to squish together? Let's get two rows. Get in photo formation. >> [laughter] >> Yep. Good. Coach, get in. Okay. All right. Hey. Okay. Well, yep. Yep. Hang tight. Hang tight. Okay. Nope. Nope. Fail. Okay. Try it again. Okay. Big smile. All right. Okay. Parents. Don't go anywhere. Parents' turn. Smile. Look up here. Wait. Just kidding. >> [applause] [clears throat] >> We have no public comment tonight. So, next we'll have the superintendent's report. Thank you, Dr. Bailey.
019I just have a couple of things for tonight. And I just want to again, what a great example of teachers and coaches and kids. I mean outstanding recognitions tonight. I'm going to switch topics on you. I just want to mention the Missouri Association of School Administrators or MASSA. They've got a really good document out that I believe is open for public view. It talks about legislative overload. It's a big place mat document. It's a little bit hard to print, but I'll tell you what it does is it gives a really good picture of the changes that have happened in Jefferson City over, I want to say, the last decade. It shows that basically back in 2014 Jeff City basically passed one to two education bills. And then you fast forward to where we are in
0202025 and we're we're probably looking at 20 to 25 plus separate bills just around um education and public education. So, one of the things that's that's a concern and one of the things that our team has done when we go meet with our legislators is really just to reinforce um one, we have a local school board for a reason, right? We trust in your ability to govern us as a district. The second thing is we have the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. All of these bills that get passed, many of them are unfunded mandates, but it requires administrative burden. And so, again, one of the things we're just asking from an advocacy perspective, um is really to um slow down all of the legislation impacting public education at this time. Couple of uh things
021I want to bring to your attention. House Bill 2710, um that is in regard to uh the governor's executive order for the A through F grade scale. So, that's a bill that's moving forward. Simultaneously, DESE is also working on what that means. Um and DESE actually has an obligation to submit something in June, have something approved by the State Board of Education by September. There's really a lot of questions about what that implication's going to be for school district, and how that's going to be interpreted, the level of weighting. Again, we have a lot of questions. Um right now, we're addressing this as an awareness piece. Um again, we feel strongly that our teachers are doing great work on behalf of our students. Um but again, it's something we're watching closely. There's also a another
022big literacy bill, House Bill 2872. Um there was a big literacy bill that passed, I want to say a year or two ago. One of the concerns uh with this particular bill is mandatory retention. And again, when we look at what's best for kids, um I think there's a lot of uh research and evidence out there that would support that that's probably not the case. Uh there's a uh flurry of property tax bills out, um and they're all kind of pulling in different directions. And this is this is a concern as we head into the end of the legislative session. One of the bills that we're watching most closely as uh Senate Joint Resolution 111. And one of the things that would do is a constitutional amendment that would fold debt service and new construction
023under the Hancock. That would be financially crippling for the school district. Again, there's a lot of different uh property tax bills out there relating to personal property, um you know, expedited uh reduction in uh cost for vehicles, and that would have a significant impact, but again, we're we're watching to see if this they roll into an omnibus bill over the last couple of weeks. Lastly, um regard to the budget, um the house has passed their version of the budget. The Senate is currently working on theirs. As we've talked uh Doug Schwen has done a nice job uh updating us on really kind of state funding over the course of the year. Uh we're looking to see what happens for this fiscal year, and we're very curious about the impact for the upcoming fiscal year. So,
024more to come on that. And my my closing comment would be uh just want to say a big thanks. Um the Kearney School District Education Foundation, last Saturday they hosted a really nice event um with the Wizards, and it was you know, it was wonderful to see parents and students, and it was a it was a great Saturday. So, I want to thank them for all their efforts. That's it. Thank you. Next, we have the consent agenda. Move that the consent agenda be approved as presented. Second. All in favor. Opposed. Thank you. Information items. Bond project update. Mr. Nolan. Hello, everyone. Um this will be a continuation of last month's um kind of declaration that we're approaching the end of our 2022 bond funds. Um I've put together a list of the eight projects, seven
025projects that have been approved for summer work, and um this the top one would be pending a action item for approval with the Southview roof. Um if that is added, that would effectively exhaust our 2022 bond funds with those eight summer projects. Questions? Thank you. Thank you. Next, financials, Mr. Schwen. Good evening. I'm not going to spend too much time on the numbers tonight because there's going to be a lot of talk on numbers at our work session on the 24th. There's going to be numbers on the May meeting, and also a lot of numbers in June. So, tonight will be brief, unless you have questions. Um one number I need to point out uh that's been bothering me for a long, long time, is uh our operating fund revenue has been lagging, and I've
026been telling you Clay County has been sitting on a significant amount of money. I am happy to report that today we had 4.3 million hit the bank. So, um still need to get the breakdown and get it in the right funds to get an accurate picture, but the money has arrived. So, uh that definitely changes it'll definitely change next month's report. So, this month, when you look at it, um if you uh this particular port report that's up on the screen, far right column, um you know, I'm still predicting an ending cash balance 18.467. That was revised based on SAT coming in at 6,900. There are some whispers that it could be a little higher than 6,900, but I'm not counting on it at this time. Uh but the one number, if you go just
027a little to the left of that 18.67, you'll see that the cash balance as of the end of March was only 15.5 million. Well, if you add another 3 and 1/2 or million to that number, um that makes it a lot more reasonable compared to past history. So, next month's report will look more normal, I guess you could say. Um as far as the programs, uh nutrition services actually doing really well. Revenue is uh up 140,000 compared to last year, and expenditures is only up roughly 54,000. So, that's really good. Activity fund, again, revenue's higher than the expenditures. Um and before and after school and puppy pound are about even. Um so, the numbers look good at this point, um but we still got 3 months to go. So, we'll see how things wrap up.
028Uh with that, I'll entertain any questions you might have. Doug, remind me the percentage that you'd like that we need to have as we hit there. I think you you're showing it as 18.67, but ideally, you'd like that percentage to be Oh, ideally, I would love it to be where we left off last year, which would be 22%. We're we're not going to get to 22%. There's a outside chance, and a lot of things have to fall for us that we could get to 21, um but it's starting to look like maybe my original projection that I was sitting on for months and months and months, the 20.29, that's going to be, I think, pretty close at the end of the day. And as you're watching the legislature kind of and it's not done, right?
029There's a lot There's Yeah, oh yeah. There's a unfortunately too much time left in the legislative session. Uh but uh it does not look like it's going to be a big it it may very well be a reduction, right? So, as we as we're looking I guess the point I'm trying to make here is anybody that's watching and and think this, I want you to understand that, you know, that 18.67 is down dramatically from where we'd like to be, and that might be a year from now, that might look awful good to us. That is correct. And and we'll be discussing that on April 24th in in great detail. So. Yep. But there are a lot of variables still left to play out before this year's over, unfortunately. So. All right. Thank you so much.
030Program evaluation technology. Hello. Hello. Good evening. I am Ryan Blankenship, technology director, and this is our technology program evaluation for the 25-26 school year. So, the purpose of the technology program is to provide the technology and related services necessary to ensure students develop 21st century skills for college and career readiness. Our customer focus is on our KSD staff and students, which is nearly 4,000. We provide technical support, planning, upgrades, and maintenance for those customers. That That includes needs assessments, refresh cycles, and analyzing trends in K-12 educational technology. Um a brief recap of our student devices. So, back in fall of 2020, when we returned from COVID, we became a one-to-one district with iPads in K1, and Chromebooks in 2-12. The Chromebooks at 2-12 were at a take-home model. In uh fall of '24, we did
031change that around a little bit to where we went one to two iPads in K through two, one to two Chromebooks in third grade, uh one-to-one in fourth and fifth with Chromebooks that are in carts, [snorts] and one-to-one in 6-12 that are take-home Chromebooks. Our long-term goals are to keep technology up-to-date and innovative, and improve service request completion times. And our short-term goals are to implement additional cybersecurity measures, and improve our ticketing, inventory, and documentation systems. This aligns with our strategic plan under goal two, where Kearney School District delivers Kearney Kearney School District delivers high-quality educational experiences supporting the diverse needs of all students. So, our goal for this past year has been to improve our customer service by reducing our service request completion times by 10% over the year. So far this year, we
032are at a a reduction of 5.5% over the prior year. So, last year our resolution time was 5.8 days, and as of last week, we are at 5.5 days. Our number of tickets resolved last year were 3881, and so far this year we're at 3014. Our average device age for staff is 2.44 years last year, 2.74 years this year, which is really right where we wanted to see, somewhere under three, as well as for students, 2.79 last year, 2.69 this year. Under three is our goal there. Um our action plan for going forward is to partner with our ticketing platform called IncidentIQ to support other support teams to implement new features and automations to increase efficiency within the department. Continue building our knowledge base for staff members to potentially assist in resolving issues themselves, and
033then continue replacing devices to keep that average device age under three years. Our workforce focus, our 21st century skills team, they meet monthly to vet, develop, and share technology practices to incorporate into lessons, and they share those through PD sessions throughout the year. And then we also review our master inventory list to ensure that teacher laptops are on a 5-year rotation, and that student Chromebooks are on a 4-year rotation. Other devices such as smart boards, uh smart TVs, and those sorts of things, those get replaced as funds allow, again from our our inventory list. Our technology staff, we have six staff members. You have myself, I've been here 13 years. Chris Shirk is our network administrator, who's been here 11 years. Matt Walker is our help desk technician level two, he's been here also for
03411 years. And the other three staff members are provided by Heartland Business Systems. Andrew Durham, our senior support specialist, has been here 13 years. Frank Veo, our other senior support technician, has been here six years, and William Headley has been here four years as a support technician. Over this past year, some improvements that we've completed throughout the district include 18 additional Newline interactive displays, a network and Wi-Fi upgrade, complete overhaul at Carnie Elementary and Hawthorne, uh Wi-Fi upgrades at the stadium and field house, coordinating access control, cameras, and classroom technologies for the bond projects, upgrading our elementary security camera servers, replacing 20 legacy security cameras across the district. We recently or over the last summer we upgraded our copier fleet through a new lease, and we reduced our number of printers, and we placed the
035rest of them under maintenance contracts. We replaced our core servers. We replaced Chromebooks, teacher laptops, and desktops according to our rotation schedule. We increased the number of additional data privacy agreements in the districts from 109 last year to 194 this year. And we improved our department documentation for cross-training and coverage. Some future improvements that we're planning are to continue upgrading our networking equipment as federal funds and local funds allow. Continue upgrading Newline interactive displays. Continue our rotation schedules of Chromebooks, laptops, and and desktops. Um work on an inventory and a replacement plan for legacy security cameras across the district. Continue evaluating and maintaining our cybersecurity posture. Continue that important data privacy agreement work. And continue improving our department documentation. These are our budget numbers from 23-24 through the current year. As you can see, we've
036increased by about 200,000 each year in expenses, which is pretty typical with inflation the way it's been going. We are in the final year as well of our cybersecurity grant that we received about three years ago. That was a $55,000 total purchase grant, 50,000 of it was was reimbursable. So, we are wrapping that up. That's all I have. Any questions? Ryan, I might I don't know if you Well, you got the slides there. Can you go back to the slide that shows how many Chromebooks per grade? Um I think it was like the third slide in. I've been holding this one for a while. This one? Uh yeah. Um just as you a thought that comes to my mind is these cost money, right? Like so we're spending money, you have a grant that's coming
037to an end, and I think when I think back to the anxious generation about maybe kids need less screen time, I'm wondering if we don't want to rethink whether we need to do Chromebooks for all those grades at that early level. Is there a way that we can continue with what we're teaching without and get rid of Chromebooks? I even as I look at sixth grade one to one, we start that starts to get to be the age where you would do that. So, this is less directed at you. I'm just hijacking your presentation, and say and saying that that might be something we look at if we're ever looking for cost reductions is do we really need Chromebooks for kids that are that young? And at what age do we really need to start
038ramping them up? I'm so glad you asked that question. >> [laughter] >> So, we are doing some work in that area. Right Ryan has done some great work um along with uh Dan Miller at the middle school. Um I I will say I I do think our our teachers have been intentional about pairing back. Um so, we'll give you an update on middle school plans for next year. Do you want to give it Do you want to foreshadow that? >> know if you want me to go for it or go ahead. >> That's okay. Okay. I think we're [laughter] okay. So, the middle school has been working on some plans for next year to pull those Chromebooks back instead of having that take-home model, have them be in carts in the building, and have those
039stay within the classroom each day. So, we're working through plans on that, what that would look like. There are a few costs and involved in getting carts for that model to work, but overall it's going to be a positive experience for all. Good. Just a clarity question for me, Ryan, is Yep. on your fifth slide, you show the average age per student, per staff of of their device, but then two slides further down we talk about five years for teacher laptops, four years. So, are we saying that we're not hitting those 4-year life cycles, that that we're actually hitting less than three years on our like compared to what we So, for staff, I think we're pretty close. You know, two and a half would be the average we're looking for on that 5-year replacement
040cycle. For student devices, we're kind of at the end of this shift that we made a few years ago to get us onto a rotation schedule that we could manage each year. So, I would say we're just approaching that number. Um Okay. I was just It's a little hard to show Yeah, the difference between the two here, so. Cuz the other question I had, too, is I'm assuming our fleet is all capital purchase. It's we we don't do any like devices as a service or any any options like that. >> It is all um purchased from local funds. Yes. Um Outright ownership. Yeah, there's no leases involved. It's it's all fully owned. Yes. You know, Jason, I want to go back to question you asked. Um you asked do we do we need devices at
041the elementary level? With high-stakes testing, A through F is going to be um yeah, it's it's it's going to be significant on how districts are perceived. Kids are going to need access devices. They're going to need to know how to type. They're going to need to know how to respond Right. just even for the assessment. So, that's something that we I don't think we can ever 100% get away from just for that alone. Okay. Yeah. Ryan, >> [clears throat] >> I just want to comment. I I think it's amazing that your staff has the longevity that it does. And so, I compliment your leadership in the area because that's pretty incredible, I think, for anybody. Um but in technology, that seems to be really incredible. So, thank you for what you do. >> team. That's
042great. >> really well together, so. So, your cyber grant is about to expire. Is there Is there anything that we see out there that could replace it or that could we could benefit from? Um at this point, the funding opportunities are not we're not eligible for those because those are those are um It's already been allocated to us in the past few years. So, we can look for some in the future, but as far as the one that we were receiving, that would be off the table as of this point. So, we'll just have to replace that with unfortunately with local funds. >> Yeah. Or or yeah, or Yeah, we just have to pick those things up locally, so. Ryan, can you recap the origin of the grant? The origin of the grant? >> Yeah.
043Um it came through some federal funds that were distributed to the Department of Public Safety, and when we received this grant in 2022, we were one of I believe two school districts in the state to receive it. There were I believe about 14 or 15 um public entities across the state that received it. So, you know, police departments, county governments were all eligible for this, and we were one of I believe two or three districts that did receive it. But it was for things like um EDRs, which is an enhanced detection response, it's kind of an advanced um antivirus. That's the major expense that this does pay for, but it it pays for additional training for our staff, cybersecurity um training, phishing tests, you may be receiving those as well as board members. So, I
044can't tell you what those look like, but Yes, you're on the list. Um [clears throat] Yeah, so those were the major things that it did pay for, but two-factor authentication is another one that it pays for, so. Yeah. Thank you very much. >> Yep. Next, we have the intent to utilize construction manager at risk. >> [clears throat] >> So, I'll attempt to explain this. We, as we are closing up our 2022 bond construction projects, we as a district will obviously need to move forward with planning next phases of what our needs are to keep our district improving. So, part of that is um bringing on a construction management firm for the next round. Statute um within Missouri dictates that we can't just keep going and going and going when you move from project to project.
045So, as we talked about in our board work session, we had a good experience with construction manager at risk with Newkirk Novak and um that is as the delivery method for our construction projects and the very first thing that you must do to pursue a construction manager at risk is to make a public statement that you intend to do so at board meeting. And so, that is what this statement is. There's some uh bullet point listings as criteria that will be used in the first phase of a two-step process that's dictated by statute. So, that is that is our statement that we intend to pursue a construction manager at risk. Okay. You stated good job. Thank you. >> [laughter] >> Okay. Now, we'll move on to action items. Approval of agreement with Hollis and Miller.
046Move to approve the agreement with Hollis and Miller as presented. Second. I shouldn't have sat down. >> [laughter] >> So, we're asking for approval of contract with Hollis and Miller as a architectural and design firm for next round of possible projects going forward. This will be a 3-year contract with the ability to extend that up to five. Um let's see, we we had eight firms submit proposals. We had a eight-person committee evaluate those firms and from that we had three come in for interviews. Hollis and Miller was the um high score um across the board for our committee. They did an excellent job throughout the process and um we have in attendance Kevin Nelson, a partner at Hollis and Miller and um we are asking for approval of that contract. And happy to answer any
047questions. Seeing no questions. All in favor? Opposed? Thank you. Appreciate it. Next, we have amendment 12. Move to approve amendment 12 with Newkirk Novak as presented. Second. Okay. So, again, asking for approval of amendment 12 with Newkirk Novak. Uh this would be for the Southview roof um project, which includes shingles and metal decking replacement. Uh just a very quick um background. The as we explored the shingles on the roof between the roofers and the engineers that came out determined that there has been some compromised tectum panels due to moisture and um when we got that news, uh Ben Vandrew and the Newkirk Novak um folks started to investigate um problems and solutions and and this would be a um and I'll let Ben come up and talk a little more in detail about um the
048solution, but this would be our um amendment 12 to replace the Southview roof and um metal decking uh come out of bond funds for 2.185 million. And I'll turn that over to Ben. Hey Eric, before you do that, um this is an amendment, right? Meaning that so, it didn't have to did it What process did we go through to determine who was going to do the work? This was the last construction manager at risk 2021 for the last bond issue. So, we've amended that contract 11 times now. Each time you add a project to that within uh the overall bond, you solidify with an amendment. So, this is the 12th time we've done we've done that. >> Okay. I'll have more questions after that, but I'll go ahead and go through this. Okay. So, uh
049we talked about this a little bit last month. Um had a team working really hard to kind of figure out a plan on how to get this roof done this summer or as much as we can this summer. So, you're seeing a picture of the roof right now. The red areas are the areas with tectum deck underneath the shingles right now. That the shingles have to get torn off, the decking has to get torn off and new metal decking will go down. Um the rest of the roof will just be a a shingle replacement. So, we're going to have multiple crews out starting multiple shifts as soon as summer starts, so we'll start as early as we can. We'll have people tearing off decking and reshingling on different areas. As soon as we tear off
050a piece of decking, it will get replaced that chunk with metal decking that day and then dry it in with a dry in sheet and then it can get shingled um at a later time after that. So, it's a pretty uh intricate process. A lot of folks working together on this one. Um the area in green is the area we have to get done this summer. Um the area just to the south of that is the gym area and some of those areas where we could still be putting shingles on if it's already dried in. Um so, just being honest with you, it's a lot of work to get done in a summer. Um we're hoping weather works out for us. We've planned um weather days into the schedule, so um we are not sure
051we can get the whole thing done, but we're going to get the green part done for sure before school starts. Anything that would happen after school starts would be an after-hours uh shingle installation, so that's the plan right now. Um if we can exceed that, we will absolutely will, but just want to be as um honest as possible going into it that there's a lot of work to do there this summer. We appreciate Ben and his team. Um we really pushed Initially, it was a two-year project is what we were looking at, right? Yeah, and we weren't sure we were going to be able to get the decking material, but just a lot of teams working together to make it happen, figured out a a solution there, so. Yeah. It's been a good good process.
052Yeah. Now, everything that is in the green that is not metal decking is also getting new fascia, new gutters, Yeah. downspouts. Yep. Um the acoustical decking, it does that have the um I guess what's what is the Is it the 6-in again same as what was the tectum that was there before? Or is it going to be >> So, the decking is not that thick, but there will be insulation put on top of it and then a couple of cover boards on top of it, so your whole system will be the same thickness as >> So, the R-value will be similar to what was there previously? Yeah. Yep. Then is this costing I assume a part of this is it costs a little bit more just because of the compressed time frame that if you
053got folks that are working at nights and on weekends and all that, you're you're having to pay a little bit higher wage. Is that Am I thinking about that right or >> We we bid it as a multiple crew job, so they're not technically working overtime to do it, but they're working multiple crews. So, like one crew is going to start really early in the day and work their 8 hours and then another crew is going to start more like 11:00 that day and then work a later shift, so we're trying to stay away from the overtime piece. So, I don't think you're incurring any of that. If we have to work when school starts again, again, it would be a second shift, so still the standard 8 hours just starting at probably 4:00 or
0545:00 or whatever we work out with the district. So, we were very intentional to try to stay away from the overtime game. And you mentioned that it's that red piece at the bottom that is at risk of potentially not being able to be done before school starts and that's the gym is that And and when I say that, the intention is to have the deck replaced and it dried in, so you'd have the initial layer of waterproofing on top of it, but you may not have the shingles finished on it. >> My main question just being would would the would the facility be usable or is it something that we would have to, you know, say like you can't you know, cuz if that is the if that's the >> It would be safe. It
055would be safe and usable. Okay. Yes. We wouldn't probably want to be putting shingles on during school just because of the noise, but um as far as people underneath it, you'd be fine. Okay. You guys are going to have to You guys are going to have to remove all of the HVAC on top of the buildings, right? And then replace reset those or are you able to just work around those? >> a lot of HVAC on top, but there is some things underneath the tectum deck. Like there's conduit, there's lights that we have to take down. Put the new deck on. >> Right. I think what I was getting to is it's not as simple as just peeling off some shingles and throwing on some new new decking and moving on. >> it's it's a
056pretty labor-intensive process and it's a big roof, too, honestly. So, um but we're doing everything we can to just get this done as quick as possible. It's more economical to do it that way and not spread it over two summers. And you know, it's less intrusive to the school. >> about getting the material? The the I don't know if that is that The one concern we had was the metal decking, but we think we've got that figured out and we should have it at the beginning of the summer. The shingles are all stock, so. That's all I got. All good. Any other questions? All in favor? Opposed? Thank you. All right. Next we have the appointment of agreement with Call Valley Engineering. Move to approve the agreement and proposal with Call Valley Engineering as presented.
057Second. Okay, this will be asking for approval of using Call Valley Engineering to be a third-party um in in inspector for metal welds on those metal decking panels that are going in and that would be again paid for through bond funds estimated to be at $20,000 or below, um but you can't necessarily tell what you're going to run into, so. Tied into the roofing project and third-party um inspector. >> [cough] >> Questions? All right. All in favor? Opposed? Thank you. Thank you. Next we have approval of district designations. Move to approve Doug Schwen as treasurer and Leann Bradbury as alternate treasurer and approve Becky Birkemper as secretary and Don Kunrod as alternate secretary for the 2026-2027 school year as presented. Second. All in favor? Opposed? Thank you. Next we have dissolution of the board. Move
058to dissolve the 2025-2026 Board of Education. Second. Vote, please. Matt Baker? Yes. Jason Klint? >> Aye. Jake Klingensmith? >> Yes. Lindsey? >> Yes. Reece Whiteside? Yes. Nick Vasquez? Yes. Darlene Bailey? Yes. Okay, for agenda item 10, we'll administer the oath of office to newly elected board members. Board policy GE255A requires that successful board candidates shall take an oath of office to faithfully perform the duties of the office as required by law to support the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of Missouri and laws made pursuant thereto. Becky will administer the oath. Please stand and raise your right hand and repeat after Becky. You have to go out there. Front center. Great. I think Yes. Get a photo. I'm all the excitement. >> [laughter] >> Oh, what? I didn't tell him. What's up? We're supposed
059to get a picture. State your name. I'm Jason Solemnly swear Solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the and the Constitution of the state of Missouri and the Constitution of the state of Missouri and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of school director in and for District number one County of Clay, State of Missouri to the best of my ability according to law, so help me God. I think I think Nick said to him, "I will I was listening. >> [laughter] >> You guys are best of friends. >> [clears throat] >> I'm going to go play Friday golf. >> [laughter] >> Nick, you may take your seat. >> [laughter] >> The board's
060been dissolved, Darlene. We can do whatever we want. Right. I have I have no power. [laughter] Sorry. Yeah. >> [laughter] >> Okay, now that the board members are sworn in, agenda item 11A is the election of the president of the Board of Education. The floor is open for nominations. I move to elect Darlene Bailey to serve as president of the Kearney School Board during the 2026-2027 school year. >> [clears throat] >> Second. Darlene Bailey has been nominated. Are there any other nominations? Hearing none, the board will now vote via roll call. All right, catching up. Matt Baker? Yes. Jason Klint? Aye. Jake Klingensmith? Yes. Christina Lindsey? Yes. Reece Whiteside? Yes. Nick Vasquez? Yes. Darlene Bailey? Yes. >> [clears throat] >> All right. Next we will Room me out here. Right here. Next is the election
061of vice president. The floor is open for nominations. I move to elect Reece Whiteside to serve as vice president of the Kearney School Board during the 2026-2027 school year. Second. Are there any other nominations? Hearing none, the board will now vote via roll call. Matt Baker? Yes. Jason Klint? Aye. Jake Klingensmith? Yes. Christina Lindsey? Yes. Reece Whiteside? Yes. Nick Vasquez? Yes. Darlene Bailey? Yes. Okay. All right. No, don't have to move anything. >> [laughter] >> Thank you all for being willing to serve us another three years. Good job. Um board member comments. We got anything? Okay, important dates. Sorry, I didn't realize. My computer is swimming, so I got to read over here. Uh April 21st is the Northland Chamber [clears throat] Excellence in Education Banquet. I think we have a couple board members going
062to that. April 24th, we have a board work session. April 30th is the KSD Awards and Retiree Reception. And Oh, yeah, graduation in here. It's not on the list. I'm thinking we should put graduation I should put graduation on there and that's what, May 18th? 17th. I'll add that one in. Okay. I'll add graduation. That's the most important thing we do. And May 20th is our next board meeting. Action for closed session to immediately proceed the regular meeting in May including any record or vote to discuss items and issues allowable under section 601-021 of the Missouri Sunshine Law. Second. >> [laughter] >> Nick, your mom can wait. Hey, let's stay focused. >> [laughter] >> Roll call, please. Matt Baker? Yes. Jason Klint? Aye. Jake Klingensmith? Yes. Christina Lindsey? Yes. Reece Whiteside? Yes. Nick Vasquez? Yes.
063Darlene Bailey? Yes. We're adjourned. Thank you all.