001Okay. >> Roll call, please. Here >> Christina >> here >> Bailey >> here. >> We have adopt and approve the agenda to adopt the agenda as presented. >> Second. >> All in favor? Opposed? Thank you. Next we have the public hearing with tax rate. >> Move. Oh, do I? Yeah. >> Move to set the tax levy operations at $322 and.7700 and the debt service at $119 and200 for a total levy of $441 and 7900. >> Second. >> All right. >> Good evening. I have just a brief presentation tonight to kind of go over the numbers and what we're looking at this year as far as the tax rate. Um here you'll see we have broken it down into two main C categories uh real estate and personal property uh both for Klay County and Clinton
002and you will see overwhelmingly most of our assessed valuation does come from Klay County. Uh you add it all up uh the grand total for both counties for both real estate and personal just under 620,000 or 620 million. Um and that is an increase of 11.02%. 02% from the prior year. Uh keep in mind this is a reassessment year which makes it higher than it would have been last year for a non-reassessment year. Uh people get assessed by four different categories and four different percentages. So if you have a home 19% commercial 32 agricultural 12 and personal property is 33 and a3. So to calculate how much tax uh on your bill, you can take your market value uh which you can go online and look that up and then multiply your residential home times
00319% that gives you your assessed value. Uh then if you multiply it by the the rate uh and then by 100 it'll give you uh the tax bill that you will be expected to pay. Here is a breakdown of the where our main tax dollars come from. And you can see overwhelmingly 74% of the grand total comes from residential. And I will tell you in comparing that with our neighbors and those around us, that is definitely on the high side. So hopefully more uh commercial comes in and that'll help uh reduce the burden on residential homes. Uh, I went ahead and if you remember last year I adjusted the home value because as you know home values are going up. So I have given you a sample of a $300,000 residential property uh what that
004tax bill would look like last year uh with the tax rate at 4.6226 versus this year where it's gone down to 4.4179. Um, so you'll see if your home did not increase in value, you are actually going to see a reduction in your tax bill. However, the next slide, if your home did go up 11.02%, um, you're going to see an increase. Uh, if your home went up 11.02%, your value went up to $330,60, multiply it by the rate, you'll see overall your taxes went up about $160 annually. additional revenue. Um you'll see here that uh additional revenue due to reassessment uh is estimated at 640,000. Uh new construction pulls in another 236 for a total additional operating revenue of 800 just over 840,000. Uh there is some additional uh revenue for debt service uh
005just under 94,000. But there is Senate Bill 190, uh, also known as a senior tax program. Uh, the estimated impact is, uh, we're we're missing out on about 221,000, uh, in revenue on the Klay County side and then another approximate $10,000 on the Clinton side. So, when you figure that into the equation, our new operating revenue is closer to $610,000. Final slide. Um you'll notice that the general fund or the incidental fund is decreasing by just over 20 cents. Um we are voluntarily rolling back the debt service levy just a tiny little bit. Um and then final comment is uh given that the levy is dropping and and dropping significantly, you know, that uh opens the door for us to really think about the future uh making sure the levy set right to where our
006revenue will meet the needs of the district. So that's all I have. I'm happy to answer any questions or turn it over to public comments. So >> Doug, is it accurate to say then so folks as they pay their tax bill may feel like will be paying more assuming that their house has gone up, assuming their house has been the assessed value has gone up, but that increase is not because the tax rate has gone up. They're going to be paying more because the assessment has gone up. >> Absolutely. um it's because their home's worth more and so someday when they go to sell their home and it's worth more, they're going to get to pocket that money. Um and unfortunately as your home goes up, you have to pay more in taxes even if
007it was left flat. But in this case, it's actually going down. So it could be that they're seeing an increase in home value, but they could still see a reduction in their taxes. So if it's a small one, great question. Anything else? All right. >> So, now we have time for public comment. >> Did do we we thought we had someone that did sign up for public comment? Are they here? Okay, then we will not have any public comment. Are we ready to vote? >> It is. >> Yes. >> Ready to vote. >> That's okay. I was on a different page. >> You're fine. Back at last. Okay, let's give her a roll. >> Yes. >> Jason, >> I >> Christina, >> yes. >> Darlene Bailey, >> yes. Thank you. Next, we have school spotlight.
008Dr. Gustoson and Miss Barry. So, I brought the real um stars of the show here today. Um I'm just going to give a brief overview. Um we last year we talked about our internship uh program. This year we're going to talk about a little bit about our client connected project program. Um when we started with our MVAs and our real world learning um this one was the hard one to kind of wrap our head around. Um didn't really know what it was all about. um brought in somebody to kind of go over how they do CR client connector projects from a different district and all of our teachers were just kind of like we can't do that. Um, luckily we had people like Caitlyn Fountain who said, "You know what? This is a good thing
009for our kids." Um, and a lot of early implementers um that really have made this the strong point of our program and allows us to um have as many kids get MBAs as as they did because I think last year we had it was 100% of our students graduated with an MBA. Um, and they averaged 3.1 or 3.3 MBAs per per graduate. And this client connected project is a big reason why. So I'm going to turn it over to Emmy Barry. She's um hit the ground running. She has been a great addition to um our district and has taken this um on and uh going to give you more information about it. >> Good evening. Um again, my name is Emmy Barry. I'm the career readiness coordinator for the district. And I'd like to start
010off by giving a little bit of background information about what client connected projects are. Um, so client connected projects are when students team up with the local business or organization and solve a real problem for them. Uh, the students use and apply what they've learned in class um to build professional skills and also create solutions that benefit both the client and the community. And these experiences are also meant to be leadership opportunities for our students. and students can speak to them in future interviews and can certainly list them on resumeumés as a professional experience that they've been engaged in. And client connected projects allow students to earn an MBA or a market value asset as well. And next, we'd like to share a couple of examples of the great client connected work that's happening in
011the high school. And then we have some students and um Mrs. Fountain, our one of our teachers to to speak to um their experiences specifically as well. And this is just a small sampling of the client connected project work that's that's being done at the high school. So in our web design class, Jacob Hill um does a great project each year where he connects with a local small business or organization that needs a website built. And then his students actually interview the client, learn what they need for the website, they research the business, and then they're tasked individually with building a website for that business. So, they're applying their skills in class to to do something useful for the community. And then the client comes back and learns about all of the the websites that
012were created. And then they choose out of all of the the classes work a website that they actually use. And um last year our partner was Mojo Coffee and Angelina BeaZ a student at the high school her website design was actually selected for um Mojo's coffee and the link is featured um on the u presentation if you have time to go back and look I highly encourage because it's really neat to see the the work that students are doing. And then another example is our human geography class with Jen West. And a big goal in her class is for students to learn GIS mapping software. So she ties that into the client connected project that she does each year. And she partners with a area nonprofit um to do some some research and um the
013students create project proposals for the nonprofit. And last year they worked with Missouri Donate Life to identify counties in the state that have a low Oregon donor registration. And then the students created um presentation software using the GIS software. Um they're called story maps and um presented their strategies to increase sign up to the clients. And then the client actually uses that research and uses that work to um promote their organization. And then in our engineering class with Shane Remley, they do a different type of um client connected project where a um member of the community um partners with the class and then the students learn about that client and what their needs and and wants are. And then the students use Revit software, which is industry standard software that they can they can take
014that skill with them after the project to design uh house plans for the client. And we actually have one of our fabulous engineering students here, Ava Maize. And word on the street is from Mr. Remley, that she has one of the best um house design projects in in high school history. So Ava is going to tell a little bit about her project. >> Hi. Um I'm Ava Maize and yeah, this was my project last year. It was my second client connected project. My first one was with Mr. in sociology, but I really enjoyed this one a lot more because I do want to pursue architecture as a career and I'm starting to apply to colleges right now and it's given me something really useful to use in my portfolio. Um, I really love this experience.
015It took a while, but I really liked getting to use Revit and like she said, it is like an industry standard. And um I communicated with my client probably weekly to get what she wanted in her house design. And these are some of my plans. This is the front render of the house and then some of the floor plans. And then I rendered some of the interiors. Um, my client really wanted to go with like a modern approach to her house and I just really did my best to communicate with her weekly and give her what she wanted. Um, but also take my own little creative liberty. Uh, just so I could like get used to what it was like making a project in Revit. Um, but yeah. That's kind of all I have to
016say. I really like the experience and I think it was really worth it. >> Thank you, Ava. That was great. >> All right. Next, we'd like to um highlight the work that the graphic design class does. Their teacher is Angie Carmarmac, and each year she partners within the district. So, this is an in-house client connected project, and she learns about the needs of clubs and organizations. Um, and then the students create um, professional quality pieces, logos, um, marketing work that's actually used within the district. And some of the the work that you're about to see hopefully that you recognize. And this is student created. And we have two graphic design students here to share a little bit about their experience and share their work as well. We're going to start with Lake and Stub. Um,
017I'm Lincoln Stab and so I really enjoyed my client connected project because I think it taught us a lot of useful skills that can come in handy like in the future like very good. And so it taught us, so our teacher, she basically gave us a client and we had to communicate with that client like weekly and we had to do all the communicating and talk to her and we she gave us what she wanted and we had to meet her expectations by like a certain deadline and it also gave us I think it helped us with connections that we can use in the future. like I don't really know what I want to do in the future, but I know that I have those connections that can come in useful and references and it
018also is a really good resume builder. And so first semester we kind of learned how to do Photoshop and use everything and then we really used it for like the clients in second semester and yeah that's basically how >> you did a great job like thank you your work looks great too. All right and then we have Bella Payne. Um she'd like to tell a little bit about her experience with um client connected projects and showcase her work as well. Um, good evening. Good evening. I'm Bella Payne. Um, thank you for this opportunity for me to come and share my experience with client connected projects. Um, I would like to go more into depth about the communication side of it because I could go over like what we did in class, but I feel like
019the main focus that like I took away from my experience is definitely communication throughout like the entire year working with clients. The biggest part was communicating with them, asking them what they wanted for their projects, asking them what they wanted us to change. And this communication has definitely helped me carry that outside into the real world. Especially since right now I'm in I have an internship and these and like this communication has helped me communicate with my bosses, help me communicate with patients that come in every single day. So, communication is definitely key and it's definitely a key part of the things that I've learned and I think carrying these skills will definitely help me in the future like applying to colleges um job interviews. It's just like a really big part of the whole
020entire um client connective program. Thank you. >> Thanks, Bella. That was that was great. Thank you to all of our students for sharing um their experience. And as you can see, these um projects are are so much more than just solving a problem for clients. The students are building real professional skills that they're going to carry with them um outside of their high school experience. And lastly, we'd like to showcase um one of our um great client connected um teachers, our client connected project teachers at the high school. This is Caitlyn Fountain. um and she'd like to share a little bit of um her experience with her botany class. And Caitlyn was actually asked by the Kaufman Foundation to mentor other teachers in the entire Kansas City metro area and um show them how to
021to do client connected projects. So, she's a model teacher in this area. All right. Hello. My name is Caitlyn Fountain. I teach uh biology, astronomy, and botney at the high school. I started doing client connection projects in my botney class around 2022 and then um like she said I also am a mentor teacher at the Kaufman Foundation for client connection projects um and it is my third year mentoring there and um we've heard from our uh students about their experiences so I want to share a little bit about the teacher side of things. Uh, one of the biggest advantages I would say to client connection projects in the classroom is that it kind of flips the classroom um to a st student centered learning model where students really take advantage of their learning. They are
022leading their learning. Um, it's less of myself up there uh lecturing students and more of our students working, collaborating together and learning different skill sets that they're going to take on after high school. in whatever they choose to do. And so in my botney class classroom, how my client connection projects look, I in the summer or, you know, during the school year, I find some clients. I send out an email, you know, I have a set of students. Do you have a problem that my botney students could solve for you? And from there, they say hopefully yes. And um then I turn it over to the students. I say, "Here's your client. Here's briefly what they want. here's their contact information. Go. And then it just becomes a student centered project. And watching students really
023take pride in what they create is one of the biggest, I would say, advantages of these client connection projects. They're not only getting um new skill sets that they're going to take on after high school, they're um getting real world experiences while in our school. Um and so some of our examples uh that my students have done is landscaping designing at the um for the first United Methodist um church in Carney. They've done designed plant labs to be used in the afterchool um spark academy. Um they've worked with Joyful Noise um for these botney labs. They have um done recently pollination gardens for the designed those gardens for the um Carne parks and for Klay County parks. They I had students that actually presented um their different plans to the Carney Board of Alderman um
024and to the Carne Parks board um this past school year. And um what's really cool to see is that students um are seeing their work being used. And so we give them a project and they take the lead and then they see it in our community and they see, you know, their education, what they're creating matters and is actually shaping our community. And so um I I mean I'll save you the time. I could talk um for hours I feel like about client connection projects. I am all about them. Um because it truly does shape our students um for the better and they are leaving our high school with skill sets that are just going to help them prosper in whatever they choose to do after high school. >> Thank you. >> Does anyone have
025any questions? >> I don't have a question. I did want to just say I wanted to echo what Bella said actually, which is I'm glad that you're having them take the communication because that is what sets a really good employee apart from maybe one that's not as good. We have uh engineers at my company and I can tell you that if you have an engineer that can communicate with folks that that is worth its weight and gold. And so I'm sure you guys had experiences where you went to the client and the client probably said something like, I don't know, just make it look pretty or something like that. And so that is that ability to be able to communicate and tease out what the client really wants and what they're saying. And that is
026maybe the most important skill you learned even though I think you're all very talented at what you do. So I'm I'm glad to hear we do that and I hope you guys will continue to use those skills. >> Do students kind of get on a track of the MVAs that they do? So like once you do one, do you do the same thing or what does that actually look like? So do I gain more experience in a specific area or so if I know I want to be an architect, do I do that twice or so I can keep going or do I do something else? What is that? >> Yes. And and they can. So, it's personalized to um the the teachers have the option to include a client connected project or an internship
027or have the students um do an industry recognized credentiing program um in their classroom and then the students can choose which classes they want to to take. So for example um if a student like Ava um really enjoyed her time in the engineering class then she can the next year take the advanced engineering class and do a separate client connected project that builds upon her skills from the the previous year and then the class content builds upon that. >> And likewise if the first one didn't go well you can oh not doing that again I can go on and I've learned and I can move away from that. >> Yes. And try a different area. >> Right. >> Yeah. >> Okay. program. >> Okay. So, there's there's some sort of a menu. You know what
028you're getting into when you enroll in that course. >> Okay. Our industry kids, they all think every me five years ago. >> Does this start at sophomore or do you have to be a junior to start these classes? >> Actually, she told me today. >> Oh, great. The freshman level. Great. >> Younger and kids can get in front of them. Great. >> Yeah, I think it's awesome, especially considering kind of the communication problems we start to see develop now with with our society and and and kids and stuff, especially in this age range. Ava, Lake, and Bella, thank you guys so much. This is this is really awesome. I can tell you I'm an accountant. 90% of my day is communication. So, these are skills that they're they're gold. They're going to take you a
029lot of places. So, >> thank you all so much for coming to real quick. >> Go on. Get in there. Get in there, Gus. >> All right. >> Yep. Perfect. Great job. some sort of house with this thing looking at me. >> Yeah. >> Can we get like copies of that scared? >> I know. I felt like it was going. >> Okay. Next on the agenda is the superintendence report. >> We don't have it >> and we don't have any public comment before that. Sorry, no public comment. >> Next. >> Okay. Thank you. My comments are going to be really brief and I'm just going to tack on to a couple of the presentations tonight. First, I'm so glad that Carne High School uh Dr. Gustoson, Mrs. Barry, Mrs. Fountain, and the students came and
030gave that presentation. Real world learning has been a commitment since 2018. And so it's so great to see that come to fruition and see that uh actualized 9th grade through 12th grade. One of the things that I wanted to add on is we're looking at this as a system uh prek12. And so when you think about elementary, what we're doing at the elementary level, we're trying to instill those same skills through project-based learning so that they can see all the way through the system project- based learning. And then we start some of that exploration at the middle school and junior high levels so they're ready to launch into what's going to happen at the high school. The other thing I wanted to mention was uh Mr. Schwin's presentation. I want to thank him for that
031great uh tax rate presentation. Um I don't know if you're aware, but coming from Kansas to Missouri, it's it's a little bit different, isn't it, Mr. Schwin? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, one of the pieces that I just wanted to add on to his presentation was in regards to Senate Bill 190. And just as a little education piece, um when we look at the senior citizen tax credit, um we have to look at that as revenue um for all those properties um that and then we uh CPI is then factored in and reduced. So when you think about the impact of that, it's it's pretty significant um reducing that uh $220,000 u during a reassessment year. So I just thought I'd add a little color there. So, thank you. >> Thank you. Next, we have
032the consent agenda. >> Move the consent agenda be approved as presented. >> Second. >> All in favor? Opposed? Thank you. >> Next, we have information items. Bond project update. was just going to make a quick comment. The U report that you see posted there uh might look a little different than previous months. Um I uh tried to make the numbers a little bigger, a little easier to read. And I wanted to add a column so you could see percent complete. I mean, that's that's what we're wanting to know is okay, when are these projects wrapping up? How much did they cost? Um, and eventually as they do wrap up, we'll be able to report back whether they were we're going to report back that they were under budget, but if they were over, we would
033let you know that, too. But so far, everything's been doing very well. But I don't want to steal Mr. Nolan's thunder. So, um, there's the numbers. If you have any questions, be sure and reach out to me. Or if you have suggestions on the reporting format, let me know. I'm all about feedback. I want it to be, uh, something that makes sense to you all and and also the public. So, I appreciate your feedback. >> Thank you. >> And to follow along with that, um our summer projects um that have been uh the additions and renovations at our three elementary schools are essentially done with the exception of some punch item uh pieces to it. things like uh fabric tack boards that haven't come in yet. Some uh some wall um illustrations and things like
034that had to get refabricated and some carpet had to get ordered. So, we're waiting on a few of those items to come in and that will be the uh conclusion of those u additions and renovations. As far as the deferred maintenance items, they're a little further behind. Um some of it was because of uh materials not coming in on time, some reduction in workforce for some of the u subcontractors and so on. We anticipate a lot of those uh deferred maintenance items uh being completed throughout the month of October. One that will stretch out a little further is the U north and west wall at the middle school. Uh the replacement of the exterior panels on those walls. Uh I don't understand exactly how the shipping works, but somehow they're going to come in on
035November 1st. And so that'll that'll back that up a little bit. Um but we anticipate completion of a lot of those projects uh throughout the month of October. And then that way um at that point we can get um a little better idea and and working with New Kirk, Novak, and and and Doug about where we're at on getting contingencies back and and the money that we would have returning to us. happy to answer any questions if you've seen around have questions about any of the uh projects. >> So, some of the delay too is because they're working around school, right? Because I've seen work on Saturdays and correct things like that, which is great that they're trying to do that and >> I've had I had a couple people call me about what is
036that smell? But that's the roof stuff and they're doing that outside of school hours too, right? >> They for the most part. >> They are for the most part. Um the >> makes sense. the the problem Hawthorne and the middle school roof is drug on there. There was a we had a nice June, but it wasn't nice for roofing. They had a lot of uh rain and storms. Uh and so those crews, they work on completing the projects that they are on. That backs them up in June. And so then that puts them starting with us later. And that's exactly what happened. >> Will the wall panels be able to be put up during school or will they have to be >> They will be after school hours. >> After school hours. Any other questions?
037>> I had just a just a few questions more around kind of format and and such of I really like the breakout of the main projects. I didn't know if that would be potentially possible for you know the the main lines for like reallocated projects and also the deferred maintenance if we can categorize those to see kind of you know the main categorize those into a little bit more of a you know segregated buckets just to see and then my other question was just um I think more for Doug actually right now this this is showing that we will have roughly 2.3 million left over after everything's said and done I'm assuming I mean, as we get down to the financial report, that's included in that June that June figure for the financials. Is that
038correct? The 4.6 million. >> Okay. >> Because I in the capital fund at the the ending fund balance. >> Okay. Because my other question would be with that 2.3 million, is that something that we we're exploring, you know, potentially using it to, you know, do additional projects can hopefully help hedge against future operational expenses, especially with the the tax rate. So, yes, the short answer to that is the the first ones on that list are um some flooring items and roofing items that didn't get um started on this first batch, but were in our um want and need list. And so, because there was so much construction going on, we couldn't we couldn't handle those at the same time. So, that's going to be accounted for in a lot of that. >> Cool. >> We're
039currently working actively with MOAT, with Newkerk to really try to hone in on what that actual dollar amount is, you know, because we invested a lot of dollars. We also there was a lot of interest earnings. So, trying to land and yes, to your um an uh to answer your question, we will have probably additional projects that we'll bring forward to the board um prioritized maintenance work that we can complete. Are we pretty confident as I look in the projects that starting with Carney Elementary renovation and going down from there? Um, you know, we're 63 and 60 and 92% done. Are we pretty confident that we're going to hit budget on those? I this spreadsheet is just amazing to me because I don't know that I've ever seen something be on the on the penny
040this the way this one is. And so, is that unusual? Is that just a a good planning? Like what what am I missing here? I feel like it's it's almost too perfect, right? Like I it's like when my kids tell me that they've already cleaned their rooms like something's wrong. >> If you're referring to the fact that some of them are at 100% and yeah well my previous experience I think what was being done here is once you get towards the end let's say it comes in at 95% of the budget. You say 5%. Um at some point in time that money will get rolled over into another project. Um, so that's just showing that those are spent out whatever we saved and that was before my time. It's already been moved down, reallocated, and
041and off and running on another project. >> And on these ones that are that are, you know, 60 and 92%, it they must be running pretty close to on on budget then. >> Oh, yes. Our conversations with new Kirk Novak is that all of those should be coming in under budget and there's contingency setting there. We don't know exactly yet because it takes a while for those final invoices to flush their way out and they usually h hold a retention until they know everything is absolutely complete. >> So, it's a timing thing. Even though we can see pretty much the finished product, it's going to take probably another month, maybe two before we can actually zero those projects out. >> Okay. Well, that's I will tell you I see a lot of construction projects and
042very rarely are things on budget these days. So that's it's that's good to see >> and and early indications are I think everything's coming in under budget. So good. >> I mean these numbers were locked in a while ago. >> Yeah. The construction manager at risk delivery system helps to ensure that right when you have a guaranteed maximum price. >> Thank you. Hang on. We don't take questions. >> Okay, >> we need to I'm I'm sorry. We can't have comment. We can't have questions from the audience. If you want to have a question after we're finished, you can. Okay. Um, next is >> Financials. Sorry, just kidding. >> All right. I think this is my final trip to the podium. So, uh, financials, you're going to see the standard reports. I know the one that
043draws the most attention is that final percent. Where are we looking at? I did not change it from last month. I I there's going to be some ups and downs along the way, but I still feel pretty confident we're going to end up over 20%. And I'm hoping closer to 22. So, um, but anyhow, that's that's where we're at today. I I feel like everything's kind of coming in right where we think. Um but it's still too early and I'm still too new to be exact as far as where that target's going to be. But I for now I'm I'm happy to report we're still above 20. So any question? And I know the goal is is to clean up some of these reports, make them a little more user friendly. Uh look at what
044some of our neighbors are doing. um and hopefully make some changes around January time frame. So, look for that coming down the pike um because I want reports that are easy to read. You can take a quick glance and kind of know where things are at. So, again, appreciate your feedback uh on any of them and be happy to clean them up for the future. So, that I'll take any questions if you have them. >> Doug, I might just ask about fund five. So fund five is the partially funded self insurance. And the reason I'm asking about it is it's new. >> It is. >> But when I look at that uh flow of those dollars, it makes no sense to me. I see there are months where that's >> negative revenue and then it
045and it kind of all works out there at the end. How how should we think about that? How do the dollars flow? You help me understand what I should be looking for there. >> Yeah, it it's it's a tricky fund. Um, first of all, uh, when you start off the plan year, um, you're you're going to have you're going to get hit right out of the gate because some of the high claimments haven't hit that pooling threshold yet. Uh, once they start to to hit that threshold, then, uh, we no longer have to absorb those claim dollars. Um, and then we have rebates that are coming in. Uh, >> jump in. >> Yeah, if you want to jump in, go right ahead. So, uh, since this was our first year, um, we actually ran in
046the black, but not much in the black. So, we didn't have much of reserved built up. And so, when you go with that January one start date for the plan year, usually when education, that's when everyone goes to the doctor over the summer. So, we'll have a big uh group of claims in July, August, September, and even into October. And it takes about 90 days for a lot of those to roll in. So with a low fund balance at the beginning, we'll we can go negative early and then as things kind of trickle out, as we collect our premiums from for every month, which is, you know, four to $500,000 for our group, that fund balance builds back up over time. And so sometimes we have to feed a little money into that fund to
047pay the bills, but eventually it works out at the end. Like you said, >> there's some cyclical nature to it. >> Absolutely. And as we move forward, as we build that reserve, that cyclical nature will will flatten out. >> And I think to just to echo Jason's question, my question because I think when I look at this and I I see the negative amounts, they're actually in the expenditures row. So is that due to rebates being collected or something? Okay. >> Yeah. Um, and what I basically did was look at last year's cycle the way in and kind of trended it to mirror what happened last year. And it may not be anywhere close to that because you just don't know when people are going to go to the doctor and when big events are
048going to happen or when hopefully some people get off of, you know, a major drug or recover from a major surgery. So it it it is the one budget that I would not bet money on coming anywhere close. Um but hopefully by the end of the year all the numbers as a whole would flush out and be fairly close. >> So what happens between January and February? What's big there? Because it's like from $618,000 to $190 >> as far as the balance. >> Yeah. Like what's going on there? >> Well, that's when everyone's deductibles reset >> and so now we're cranking it out again. and claim. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> A lot. >> It also depends when So we, you know, unfortunately in a district guard size, we do have some high cost claimments
049and if you have one come in in a month, >> unfortunately someone has a catastrophic, >> you know, could be cancer, could be anything. Okay. >> Um that's it's really it's uh and that's why we have the uh reinsurance and that's what Doug was referring to, not only in the pharmacy rebates, but with specific insurance. If someone does have a catastrophic claim, uh, we're insured up to $200,000 and once they hit that mark, we start getting reimbursed for any expense above that, which also helps. So, at the beginning of the year, we're waiting till everyone hits that deductible mark and then once they go over that, we start receiving reimbursement on our reinsurance, and that's why we pay the premiums for that. It protects the district from going over a max number. We know what
050our max number is going to be, so we'll never go over that. The bet is that we won't have that max number and we'll recoup those premiums when we're in a fully insured uh model. We paid the premiums to Blue Cross Blue Shield and we don't ever see them back. >> So, we're we're playing a little bit of it's not a gamble. It's it's a game that if we hope people are healthy and we can save money is what the boils down to. We don't have to raise premiums that way. If that makes any sense. >> It does. >> Okay. >> Thank you. And you'll see most self-funded plans, I think eight out of 10 years, you save money on average. So, I've always wanted to be part of a self-unded plan, and I I
051this is the first time I get to experience it. So, this is new. I'm kind of excited about it because I do think long-term it will save the district money from everything I've read and studied. So, >> all right. Thank you, Mr. >> Okay. Program evaluation, grant funded programs, the written evaluation. They had a chance to look at it. Any questions? >> I did. I had a few questions. I'm full of questions tonight. Um I don't know who'd be best suited to answer this, but as I was reading, I noticed like the the Kaufman grant, which seems to be very beneficial, is at an end. Um I'm just wondering is is there an alternative that's being identified or is there another is there another opportunity that's available? We just picked that up as a local
052expense. >> We built that into the budget. >> And uh the Kaufman grant um is designed to get a lot of systems in place that weren't currently there as you heard um Dr. Gus say. Um we we looked at it and a lot of teachers said no, I I don't think I can do that. That is well been established and in KSD and I I believe the cost to get that kind of buy in and get moving forward was expended throughout that grant. So, um the systems piece is a big deal when you have to, you know, kind of change mindsets and do some adult learning throughout that process and that's what a lot of that um some of that money went towards. So, that's a great question. >> So, it was seed money um
053really directed towards Emy's position in particular and we find value in that position. So, that's why we again built that into our budget. >> Gotcha. Okay. I just Yeah, I just knew that I I saw that it had a position tagged with it. I also know that, you know, it was a fairly substantially large grant and so I wanted to make sure next we have um we go keep going down here. Move to resend board policy G250P and I140P effective September 24th of 2025 and move to adopt effective September 24th, 2025 the same board policy numbers as presented today. >> Second. >> All in favor? Opposed? >> Next, we have the adoption of the board manual. Move to adopt the 2025 2026 board manual as presented. >> Second >> questions had a chance to review.
054All in favor? Thank you. Ratification of change orders. Move to ratify the change orders with the Garland company and the Kerberg Kerberg company as presented. >> Second. So asking for ratification of a change order for the metal um on Hawthorne roof and this was a oversight within the planning and so this would be to match the addition um lighter color and have it um essentially we would be paying for this um out of some contingency money that was set aside and unsure of the total value of a reduction in scope. hope um that was uh would be a refund to us, but it it it should be close. Um either way, this will be paid for out of the 2022 bond um funds. Questions on that? >> This is just to make it look uniform
055to all the other buildings. Is that the idea? >> No, it'd be uniform to the addition on the north side of Hawthorne. It's like having a gray wall next to a white wall. >> Okay, got it. >> Driving nuts. >> Okay. All in favor? Opposed? >> Thank you. Approval of the activities manual. >> Move to approve the 2025 2026 activities manual as presented. >> Second. Uh the updates in in the manual reflect some personnel changes, some date changes, but the main change, as you saw in in the red, was the update of the Misha policy for the non-traditional student that coincides with state law. And that uh guidance just came out from Misha last month. So that's why you're seeing it now. Normally, we would have this for you in June. >> Questions? Um just
056curious, I think maybe people would be interested. How many non-traditional students do we have participating at this point? Five. Okay. Thank you. >> Are great. Thank you. All in favor. >> Post. Thank you. Approval of the revised miscellaneous salary schedule. >> Move to approve the revised miscellaneous salary schedule for the 2025 2026 school year. as presented. >> Second. >> So, this miscellaneous salary schedule has been updated for the sped and gifted testing. Um, been the rates been raised to uh coincide with our market. All in favor? Opposed? Thank you. >> Assessment plan 2526. >> Move to approve the 2025 2026 assessment plan as presented. Second, >> this assessment plan is nothing that is changing in our district. It's simply capturing the work that we do to meet the Missouri learning standards and assess those through
057the Missouri assessment plan or program um as required by state statute and also to then all um address the Missouri learning standards that are not um addressed in the Missouri assessment plan. So that is through local assessments. So that uh document encompasses everything. There's no budget requirement or cost for this. It's already been um happening throughout the years. Um this is just capturing through the Missouri uh MSIP 6 Missouri school improvement program um cycle that we're currently in. So we're just making sure that it's captured and we have it documented as current practices. So um and it it requires board approval and it also requires it to be posted on our website. So that's why you're seeing it tonight. Any questions? Has this been brought before to us before? No, it has something to correct.
058>> Okay, no questions. All in favor? Opposed? Thank you. Approval of positions. >> Move to approve adding the following positions to the 2025 2026 school year. Assistant varsity cheer coach, head boys volleyball coach, assistant boys volleyball coach, assistant girls seventh grade basketball coach, assistant boys seventh grade basketball coach. >> Second. >> Uh so these positions uh one of the positions uh specifically varsity cheer. We have uh over 40 girls participating in varsity cheer which is a great number. Uh but we like to keep our sponsor to athlete ratio about 10 to 12. And in order to keep those kids safe, we have adequate supervision. We're asking for another position there. Um the other four are for the new volleyball, men's volleyball program that will be in the spring and then the seventh grade uh basketball
059program that we've adopted that will happen this winter. >> Do we already know interest numbers coming in for the volleyball and the seventh grade basketball? >> I don't know numbers for seventh grade basketball, but correct me if I'm wrong, Mr. Lincoln. We had 12 boys interested >> 21 now. >> 21. Okay. >> Great. >> That's great. >> We only have assistant seventh grade basketball coaches. Is there >> Yeah. So, Kelly Gentry will still be the head of the junior high program. >> Got it. Okay. And then we'll just add this in addition. >> Yes. Two more two more uh coaches to help with the other with the other new kids. >> Perfect. Perfect. Thanks. >> Any other questions? >> All in favor? opposed. Thank you. Board member comments. I have a couple things. Uh Mr.
060Nolan, you you brought us a a change to order tonight and I just want to commend you that we have not had very many of those. So, thank you. Sometimes there's there's a lot and we have not had very many of those as we have done this entire bond project. So, thank you very much for your work on that as well as a lot of other people. Um, the other thing, ma'am, I'm sorry I cannot see you, but I just wanted to say that. >> Okay, I'm sorry. >> It's our policy. I I was following the policy by how we run our meetings. So, I it's just my responsibility to make sure we stick to that. But I would encourage you to ask any questions later. Thank you, >> Darlene. I just wanted to commend
061um all the folks in this room that have worked on seventh grade basketball and boys volleyball. I think all of us have heard from quite a few uh constituents uh that are very excited about those programs. So, thanks for making that a reality. I know that those things are probably not as seamless or as easy as you've made it look. Um and I think folks are excited about that. I know I'm excited to go watch um some uh boys volleyball. I think that'll be very exciting and uh I think it's a good change. So, I just want to congratulate you on getting that done. >> Anybody else? All right. Next, important dates. Um the 29th is the recess forever lunch. October 7th is our board work session. That one's in the morning, right? And October
06210th is homecoming. And our next board meeting will be October 15th. Miscellaneous >> action for close session to immediately proceed the regular meeting in October, including any record or vote to discuss items and issues allowable under section 610-021 of the Missouri Sunshine Law. >> Second. >> Roll call, please. >> Matt Baker, >> yes. >> Jason Clint, >> I. >> Jay Clean Smith, >> yes. >> Christina Lindsay, >> Yes. Vasquez, >> yes. >> Charlene Bailey, >> yes. We returned. Thank you.