001e rise for the Pledge of Allegiance please here here we have a quorum adopt the agenda move that the agenda be approved as presented second all in favor opposed thank you we have no public comment this evening in our school Spotlight in case you haven't heard them is the Early Education Center and we are very excited to have you here Dr ball hi I am um Amy ba I'm the proud principal of all the adorableness out there and I was going to talk a little bit about our school but we will just skip right ahead because our little bunny ears are very excited to perform for you so I will let them come on in [Music] like I don't adorable she took a step back she like wait a [Music] minute he's gonna clink to
002her [Music] DPP [Music] oh my gosh how cute buddy hi hey [Music] buddy [Music] [Laughter] having none of it [Music] [Laughter] [Music] the oh my gosh I love it one still sleeping I [Music] got [Music] [Laughter] he's going man he asleep yeah he's [Laughter] asleep that little boy hasn't moved oh my ground [Applause] [Music] w momy [Music] m [Music] [Laughter] f [Music] one little finger one little finger one little finger tap [Music] leg [Applause] you want to [Music] try my picture all right we're going to try oh my gosh there's that is so good did a good job yay nice job William I am Parks daddy yep [Laughter] oh I here oh my gosh oh this might be why do I stay here got to grab May a parent come up [Laughter] seriously toate she
003in it she is on it seriously oh she's on it I don't think so either hting that was so cute thank you all so much for coming hey can you wear bye to us bye bye bye bye look at the Little Boots she's bye bye he has another question what's that sticker I got to text it's too funny he was asking for our stick he thought we had a sticker for him oh he's looking for he's asking everyone about his sticker oh my gosh she's here with the twins oh my uh month ago he said two months ago maybe you sticker yeah talk about those stickers yeah last week that's I was surprised she's amazing yeah wow oh my gosh that was good that was [Music] great this is group another group right another group
004right oh wow too funny love it had to stay outside that's Miss sister that was my Miss Curtis was my English teacher I got it maybe we should have looked up the high school Bells wow there's a whole bunch that wasch probably not what they practice yep celebrity yeah you are celebrity with the kids every morning yeah they don't know him as the problem because he's probably he'll be asking him what your dad do up there okay well thank you for having us this really our next song is w [Music] you might know this [Music] one [Music] you do [Music] for oh I'm so excited I don't know how to oh yeah you are ready all right Carson you g to show me how to do it are you good at it come on buddy
005let's go purple right yeah baby what you think I can do this are you sure go come out come out there with you you okay okay are we supposed to go got so we got to be out there thanks yeah Nick hey budy the floor is it on the floor or with another kid no thank you she left it [Music] on do I have to know what I'm [Music] doing okay Pur Bell come right here is called happy harmonies letter Ollie are you [Music] ready [Applause] [Music] you hey thank you I rang the wrong C the first two times start cramping off my H I'm trying to move trying to move to hold on to everybody's about one thank you guys for coming bye thank [Music] you [Music] thank [Music] you like yeah that's right
006thanks for coming thank you for coming I cannot believe they can coordinate those kids to do that that was good that is a lot to give that Wass I just feel no no theg seriously that's amazing wow that was fun all right that was good energy for us that's awesome yeah okay we're g to move ahead with the consent agenda Mo of the consent agenda be approved as presented second all in favor thank you information items first of all financials we have the uh Financial reports for March in your board packet at this point in time the district Still Remains on track to make 20% at the year end operating fund balance did anyone have any questions about any of the reports provided we're going to talk more about budget later yep okay thank you
007all right Bond project update so um from Newkirk Novac um side South View construction is on schedule if not ahead this past week we they have poured the um concrete slab for the front additions as well as a slab on the north um there's a North square of concrete it's um Outdoor Classroom type uh setting and the uh steel should arrive on site next week and um weather permitting they have have a they they've had some kids and staff sign a beam and they'll have a um little ceremony out there when they place that beam um hopefully next week um if not um the week after with weather uh from DLR standpoint uh they have uh finished the design documents um well let me me back up design development documents and um they've turned those
008over to to new Kirk to uh start estimating and they went through those documents with the principles as well as myself and um technology department today to kind of fine-tune uh Hawthorne K and um Dogwood documents so uh the plan is to have uh construction documents um out on the first week of June uh bid those in mid to late June and bring those to the board of education on uh the July board meeting for those other three schools questions what's the timeline for um once we bid in July are we going to be doing a school year work project or are we going to be going to the next summer So the plan would be to start any additions to those buildings in October is um and then have those go through the school
009year and then the renovations would take place starting that first day of summer next year okay thank you thank you Mrs cop Carney Leadership Academy okay so about three years ago we started our first Carney Leadership Academy and the reason we did this is we noticed that when we were interviewing some of our teachers who were aspiring to be you you know entrylevel administrators they weren't coming in as prepared as some of the teachers that were coming in from other districts and those districts had leadership acmy so we wanted to make sure our aspiring administrators had the same Edge that these other schools had so through an application process the first round through we chose five aspiring administrators and they were provided with professional development they had the opportunity to Shadow our administrators around the
010district um and some of them even had opportunities to fill in when principles were absent so we have done the same thing this time it's a application process our current Leadership Academy has six new aspiring administrators um Mitch masker who is our carne Elementary principal he is working on his Doctorate in educational leadership and he was very interested in being a big part of this so he's kind of been leading this group this year um they've been getting professional development chances for shadowing and they added on they each have a passion project so that's what they're going to do they're going to give you an overview of what their passion project was so I will turn it over to them we'll start with Sammy Latz yeah oops She'll always be Sammy last to me Sammy
011rothus oops well I first want to thank everyone for this opportunity to um learn from some of the best in our district um that's kind of the philosophy that led my passion project as well I fully believe that we have an excellent staff here at Carney being both a graduate and now a teacher here um I love this district and I felt that there was a learning opportunity that we were missing out on so my passion project that I started is called Bulldog walks um this is a bridge between classrooms towards a Collaborative Learning environment um you want to thanks l so essentially the idea here is that teachers need to be celebrated teachers need more confidence and teachers need to have more conversations with each other um which led to the conclusion that teachers
012need to see each other teaching so with this we focused on student engagement and auth IC literacy which are two of the um District goals for our students and what we're kind of wanting them to be focused on um throughout this year um so what we do um during Bulldog walks we set a date ahead of time um and we will take volunteer teachers to open up their classroom doors for um a group of teachers to come in during their plan time and we observe each other teaching for about 5 to 10 minutes it's just a short short little snapshot but we get an idea of not only what's going on um in our building and um see how our students react in different environments but we also get to see those best practices put
013into place it allows us to see other contents um in areas that might not be our personal strong suit so that we can learn how to make our own teaching better um to measure Effectiveness we have post-walk surveys that are sent out to the whole staff it's Anonymous um so I take that feedback and use it for the next time we do a bulldog walk on how to make improvements and uh make this a better process for everyone um the particip participation rates are just referring to the teachers who are willing to open their doors and let us in it can kind of be intimidating to walk a group of 10 people in as you guys know with um the different observations that you do um so the willingness to do that has um definitely
014improved since first round okay um so some of the results from doing this we conducted three different Bulldog walks so far this year um teachers are requesting professional development on things that they've seen in their classroom there's been a more collaborative culture um and teacher self-efficacy as far as teachers um wanting to improve all on their own um conversations related to individual student achievement again seeing how students interact in different classroom settings allows us to talk um about how to best benefit each individual student students are really enjoying them I've had several students they know that I'm the one who leads them and they will personally request that we go to their favorite teachers classroom to see XYZ project that they're working on um and then teachers are also leading micro PD sessions let me
015show you how this would work in your classroom um here's what we did here here's how it can apply to your content so just to wrap it up to um in the future what this will look like we're going to do three um scheduled walkthrough dates as a team and then we'll have one observation scheduled with our building sub so that they can see same content because it's the junior high our plan time is aligned with everyone in our same content area so our like I teach English so I would contact our building sub Abby for an hour that she would cover my class so I could see another English teacher so we can get that same content as well so any questions can you reiterate or just share what some of those conversations that
016look like you said that it's increased collaboration can you talk a little bit more about that so um it's been a lot of um trying to connect across uh content areas so we have like science they're working on um motion and the physics stuff I'm the English teacher guys so I'm stretching out but they worked together with like our history teacher and they did like a cannon ball launch and trying to get those cross contents of like oh well this is how I could use that in my classroom a lot of the collaboration is more look at this teaching practice like um Steve bakus is an excellent Spanish teacher I call him the king of Kagan strategies um and that's not strategies that are a lot of people are familiar with in every content area
017and so he has um offer different strategies on like sentence starters for debate discussions that they could do in like an Eng her history class as well thank you one question so you're when you started the process did you think that like what the results that you thought you were going to get did those actually align or were you surprised by anything in your process as you went through this like was there an aha moment or anything like that that you that you saw so this was uh something that was actually implemented at a school district I worked in beforehand so I kind of had an idea of what I was getting myself into and to expect um I didn't expect such positive feedback right away especially when taking away teacher plan time I thought
018there'd be a lot more grumbling um which there's grumbling always but um uh overall a lot of teachers were super appreciative of being able to um go to different content areas so it was nice to be surprised by that nice thank you thank you thank you okay Abby Madison hello oh I didn't get any taller since the last time maybe next time um okay so with my passion project I knew I wanted to do something with pbl and getting it rolling more at South viiew um so I I really put a lot of time thinking about um what will help teachers the most what can they use the most what do they need the most with this um so that resulted in a shared drive so um I created a a shared drive so the
019whole staff has access to this um and with talking to teachers I realized some of the things they need to start pbl are very very simple so for example if they're writing a unit they might just need a list of uh like what kinds of speakers would be perfect to come in for this year unit or what kinds of field trips would be great to align with this um just creating lists of ideas it sometimes just those such simple things is all they need to get rolling so some of the things in there are are little quick things like that and then there's um some things I threw in there that are a little little deeper so for example um if a teacher wants to look at a social studies standard they would go to
020the desie website pull up the document and it is like 75 pages long and you can't drill down to a specific grade level or a certain standard you have to just scroll and scroll and search and search so it is not user friendly and everything the teachers need is in that document but it's not quick it's it's um very cumbersome so I wanted to create a sort of cheat sheet for them um so if you go to the next one so this is not user friendly either but I wanted to show you it looks nicer I overlapped them I wanted to show you kind of an example of what they're looking at so I took all of the social study standards from kindergarten to fifth grade um and each grade level is a tab and
021then each sheet is all of their social study standards right there um but the the best part about it is the vertical alignment that doesn't exist in the Desi documents um so now any teacher can look what what does this standard look like in the grade level before they came to me what does it look like for me and what does it look like next year for these kids um so I highlighted so you don't have to read it all but for example so like the first one for kindergarten one of their social studies standards would be to label and analyze different social studies sources and then for first grade that labeling and analyzing turns into identify and analyze those sources and then you could look at the second grade page and see how that
022moves forward so that's pretty powerful for teachers to be able to just quickly grab that and look at it and make sense out of that so next okay and then I wanted to take this opportunity to um tell you some really cool things that are happening with pbl um I need to shout out the first grade teachers at Southview they um have been amazing guinea pigs they it's um I put their names at the bottom cuz they're really awesome I have thrown a lot of ideas at them um what if you did this and could you do this and they have taken all of my ideas and they have made them so much better than I could even come up with so that's really really cool um so then so they started their first pbl
023unit it's a writing unit and they chose animals as the topic and um so their driving question for first graders was how can I research to teach others so they were teach teaching the kids um how to work together to research how to gather all their information um and then turn it into something that they can teach others from so the coolest part um as they got through those those units was I talked to um Mrs Mrs Zimmerman she's one of the first grade teachers and these were her biggest takeaways from it um the students using their knowledge from research to answer questions so the rainforest group was asked why the Frog had bright colors so the kids got up and and talked about their frog and the rainforest and some of the kids said
024why why did the frog have bright colors and the kids said it's a poison frog his bright colors tell predators to not eat him so they they they were ready for the questions to to come at them and they were prepared and so proud of themselves that they were on it they knew it um but I think this is the coolest part that pbl creates self-motivated Learners so the desert group was asked why do cactuses have spikes on them and you can read but the kid had no idea like dear and headlights I don't know the answer I this was not in our research I don't know why cactuses have spikes and they they just said I'm not sure we'll have to look into it um but she said later in the day they were
025doing something totally different hours later and she saw that kid sneak off and he he was going to find it he it was like a mission I have to figure this out and he went and figured it out he found it and he went to the kid who asked and he's like I he wrote um they have spikes to keep their water in because it's very hot in the desert so he figured it out and and they all clapped for him and it like this is very exciting so it pbl just creates such self-motivated kids they're just so into it um they love it so much so I think that's really cool it speaks for itself um and I don't have the level of cute or fun that the bunnies had I did not bring
026instruments I did not know what I was up against tonight um but I did include a couple of their videos um a lot of teachers get so intimidated because they think pbl uh like kindergarten or first grade they just can't do it it's over their head it's too much it's too complicated um but I wanted to show you that they can do it they they can totally do it just at their first grade level so if you want to they pretty quick isope special special foods to stay pink um elephants blow water out of their trucks and it'ses this is [Music] all welcome to the mang trees [Music] andsnes and and best of all is trees ands for the the reason they have lily pads is for want to keep them safe and for two
027for them a jump on and how they keep them safe is whatever's in the water they can jump on lily pad and if even a predator tries and jumps on the l pad with them and then eats they jump to another Lily Pad because they and then they jump here and then to the safety so they are very proud of their work they like to show it off that's it thank you thank you AB that's awesome thanks Abby Abby I know uh you um made some structural changes at South viw do you want to talk about that because I think um resources are wonderful but I think you've also personally done a lot to help support mentor and collaborate do you want to talk about those changes yes I've kind of been chuckling since January
028because I I signed up to be a librarian but I have found myself being a librarian and I don't know what my other title is I'm sort of a pbl coach so yep since January um instead of six classes in the library I've been doing three so kind of a half day of library media and half a day um helping coach uh teachers and students with pbl so um speaking of dearen headlights from earlier me but I think it's been going really well and I've really enjoyed it I love writing curriculum so it's been really fun helping teachers do that and um and now seeing these things come to fruition is really cool it's really helped to build momentum for pbl across the school yep y it's helping everybody get some confidence with it well
029thank you guys thank you yep thank you and our final presentation is Nick Ward think we're getting progressively a little taller as we go along all right hi I'm Nick Ward um thanks for having me I really appreciate the opportunity to be in this program I learned a lot and uh my project kind of went through uh more of a facilities Direction with mine um as you know we have a overabundance of space here in the district not right uh and so um storage is an issue um if you want to who's my slide person there we go uh thanks R uh so um the problem we had is um we've added girls wrestling six years ago um this so this was the sixth year and um our numbers have steadily grown and or or
030held serve every season uh the boys have been well established for quite some time um this year particularly we had December came around and the football team came off of their state championship run and 25 new guys showed up that we'd already been training for a month we had always ran girls and boys together um and we started as we've gone along and evolved we've kind of realized that ideally we need to probably have separate accommodations um just istically tough deal to to to get done and so um this year when the boys showed up and we had we had some potential safety issues um so we started thinking about problem solving that and we I started kind of wandering around the building thinking about what could where could we roll out a couple strips
031of mat maybe siphon off some of these uh these younger younger guys or the newer guys and and allow them to kind of get differentiated learning over here um it just didn't seem like anything made sense and so we found I found this this old metal shop uh back by Mr bnd's room and I was like we had an overflow weight room in there um so oh a couple more problems here I'm getting ahead of myself so we had lack of mat storage uh we have two competition mats that I don't know if you've been in our our facilities this year but they're lined up down the back hallway of the of the new gym not ideal um so uh and then we had some security concerns about door propping with our outside clubs that
032come in and use our facil facility of an evening and so there's four doors minimum to go through to get to our facility for these little guys and their parents they drop kids off they want to come back in later somebody's propping doors Dave schwarzen Box's telling me stop that right and I tell them stop that and they keep doing it and so uh so there's some there some issues there and so um wandering around here I found some ideas and so I walked through this overflow wait room and I've got some pictures to share with you here it'll make more sense uh so I started walking through there and I'm like when's this thing getting used coach Minik and he said well you know we use it as an overflow weight room in June
033July some of our weights classes have used it over the over the years when we have super large weight classes we haven't had that in a while and so um looking talking to coach Minik he said hey you know we we don't use it that often and so I was like what about this staff cardio room is an adjacent room to this and we had kind of made that just a little workout room facility for the staff a couple years ago what both of these had kind of evolved to uh is a catchall of surplus items and junk in the corners like and I'll show you some when I do my initial walk through here there's like some boxes of new rolling chairs and then there's a weight rack and then you know so I
034was like we can make this better I think we can we're not maximizing this facil this uh this space as it's underutilized and so how can we be more efficient about it um so lots of things Surplus items and both rooms so got with uh grounds and maintenance uh talked with Gus and and Dave in the administration at the high school and uh then there were some unforeseen problems uh it's kind of like when you uh you buy an old house and you have these ideas for tearing it up and doing this big project and you do the first tear up and there's three more problems uh that was kind of what we started to run into initially uh we found out there were some other groups that had kind of laid claim to some
035of these spaces unofficially and so so uh they had been maybe left out of this process so we had to problem solve for all that and try to get everybody accommodated So the plan was to to go in get get the Overflow weight room take those racks make the cardio room more of a an accommodation for everybody that we can use staff can use it our carne Academy students are using it now um and it still maintains the Integrity of a weight room like coach mik needs uh so uh um that's kind of where we got so we we we got in over Christmas break I got some dads in there and I want to go to another SL here in just a second just kind of looking what I got here so uh paint
036job so I get these dads in over Christmas break and I was like here's my vision um we've got no money and um no space and uh here's what I want to do and so from there those dads got real uh resourceful real quick and uh we got a a paint job bid or well not bid that donated um supplies and the job if that would have been a a a bid job with with supplies and prevailing wages it would have cost us over $20,000 we got that for zero uh so that room is has new new paint job um safety concerns need wall pads for a wrestling room those cost money um we got creative with our supply budget for the wrestling team uh with some fundraising we got those wall pads they're on
037order they should be here in another month uh and then so then we needed some some wrestling mats for permanently for the for the ground and so uh we we got the topof the line highest safety rated we got through a private donation and some fundraising got that taken care of so at a cost of the district probably like $5,000 we've got about a $45,000 new wrestling room and on top of that our staff cardio room is now more functional for the staff our Carney Academy kids use that and when it's needed for an overflow weight room that's getting used now back to the robot guys uh so the robotics team um they' they're and we're all kind of dealing with this uh you know make and do with what we've got and the robotics
038kids have been doing that for quite some time they have a very little workshop they had kind of commandeered one of these uh spaces on next slide so I'll just kind of I'll kind of show you where we what we came up with them for them so this is the initial walkthrough this is I go and I I stumble into this I'm like what is this place uh so you can kind of see we've got stuff over in the corners there's an old sled Mr Jones used to make kids punish you know punish kids with there's a boxes over there with rolling chairs we've and if you might have seen the first pass through there's a mezzanine in there and in the mezzanine is a giant pile of surplus desks um so that will be
039mat storage for the mats that are in the hallway those will go to a surplus uh how that goes uh Mr Nolan and uh and so yeah yeah he's got the answers to that um and so this summer those are going away our Matts will get moved in there um and so I'm go next one here oh next one all right so here's our dad's breaking that thing down we had some students come in some siblings um I got to give real quick I got some of these private donations the paint job was long blasting and painting his two sons one Zach is a alumni Caleb is a senior this year those guys came in on those days that we were uh out of school for freezing temps and no Heating in there at the
040time and they got this all kind of done the paint job and all that so they helped us move these over so that's the dad crew and the the Brain Trust that kind of got this all figured out here's a an image you can kind of see how we're going to solve some of these problems so that green box at the top that's the mezzanine those will be mats um we solve our security issue over there that's a direct access door to the outside so no more propping of doors for our youth club um that little you know little corner room there will be a wrestling office and then the storage there uh will consolidate all of our uh wrestling storage so boys and uh girls we've kind of got stuff in multiple different little
041closets they're going to all be in one place now which will free up another closet here's our paint job um just kind of a little preview there we got the old bulldog gray um super exciting and then next slide so this is like how we made do in the meantime um so this is and this all happened during the middle of our season uh so you can kind of see we made makeshift wall mats those are about this thick we got tough in there this year we hit the wall a few times but um so this will be wall to wall and I've got a layout here for you on the next slide this will be wall to wall mats that's the our our layout for our wall mats and then the next slide is
042our custom dimensions for the floor um so on the wrap up here uh new improved space safety concerns addressed mat storage addressed outside access addressed uh Surplus items are on the Move um our wrestling storage is Consolidated staff cardio rooms good weight room M maintains its integratory Integrity we got two furnaces fixed in there girls love that uh I I don't know if you saw that on the last picture but we have a garage door in there which is super cool uh that's a huge mood lifter uh when we yank that thing up those nice days in February before state it was like natural light they're like oh my God coach Ward can we just go outside and like so that's nice so future steps we've got a hookup already in there for a drinking
043fountain um we're going to install those walm mats we're going to have a I want to get with you on this Mr weille going to have a little uh open house night to dedicate the room a little ladies night hang our banners get our championships on the wall um all that stuff so um that's it and then that garage door we got some neat ideas for sealing that redoing that weather seal and uh maybe adding some natural light in there so I think that's it any questions the space looks amazing Nick looks great thank you it's it's a work in progress and but uh oh robotics I we did take care of the robotics so they have um the one of those closets that we have kind of taken our stuff out of is actually
044a bigger space than what they had it's still in proximity to their workspace and so they're going to have a bigger area to to store their things it'll be easier to go access it because they go in there and it's like Sanford and suns are just junking stuff out you know and pulling things out of a pile and measuring things I'm like we could do better here so uh that's that's where we're at that's awesome thanks guys great use of time and effort and a lot of good things so thank you EXC thank you Mrs cop we'll look forward to hearing more about this all right next the 2425 preliminary oh no I'm skipping technology sorry Ryan move that up hello everyone uh here's our technology program evaluation for the past two years um here's
045a list of our staff of course I'm the technology director we have Chris Sher our network administrator Matt Walker desk technician too um Andrew Durham is a senior support specialist from Heartland Business Systems William Headley is a support technician from HBS as well and Frank voo is a support technician from HBS so our mission is to uh 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 so our customers are all staff and students which is approximately 4,000 people and we provide technical support planning upgrades and maintenance to those customers as needed based on needs assessments technology refresh cycles and Trends in K12 technology since covid-19 we've been onetoone with iPads in K1 and Chromebooks in 2 through 12
046and teachers are using technology to incorporate the four C's and those are critical thinking creativity collaboration and communication the long-term goals for the program are to keep technology upto-date and innovative improve service request completion times and our short-term goals are to implement additional cyber security measures and to improve ticketing and inventory systems um here's a list of our budgets for the past few years uh two years ago our actual expenses were about about 1.4 million and that encompasses supplies salaries Services everything uh 2223 is about 1.68 million and the budget for 2324 is 1.7 97 million so over the past year some of our improvements that we've made we've implemented new cyber security measures as required by our cyber security insurance through uh a cyber security Grant we've also implemented and integrated multiple new products
047from Frontline which include absence management time and attendance recruiting and hiring Frontline Central as well as Raptor alert which is our new emergency notification system for our staff and we've implemented a lot of Automation in those systems to help keep them up to date we've also replaced 11 traditional smartboards and pro projectors this year with new line interactive displays and that's a pilot of a new brand which gives us the same functionality but costs less we've also upgraded our Network Management Systems to the latest versions according to our internal update uh procedures and we've also upgraded our Network switches to replace agent equipment and improve uh Network performance we've also coordinated with um Mr Nolan and his safety team to implement new door access control locations through his safety Grant as well as door sensors
048and new cameras of course we've replaced Chromebooks teacher laptops and desktops according to our rotation schedule we finalized migrating some storage over to a new Appliance and we began the process of establishing data privacy agreements with software vendors who have our students data some future Improvement opportunities include continuing to upgrade our Network backbone to prepare for the future continue replacing traditional smartboards and projectors with those new line interactive displays uh continue replacing computers and Chromebooks and iPads according to our our replacement cycle continue implementing more cyber security measures to achieve compliance with some critical controls and are changing a cyber insurance requirements continue um upgrading our systems by replacing our core servers and then uh also perform a full inventory of all software and sites that have our student data both free and paid sites
049so that we can establish those data privacy agreements or just continue using them and then we're also going to work on centralizing and improving our documentation and standard operating procedures so our goal for the past two years was to reduce the average ticket resolution Time by 10% over those two years and that aligns to our strategic plan goal of Del delivering highquality educational experiences to support the diverse needs of our students because that helps our teachers and our students access the things that they need so our measures of progress are ticket resolution time and average device age so for in the uh 2223 school year our ticket resolution time was 5.4 days on average we had 5,13 tickets that we resolved and the average device age of Staff devices was 3.48 years and for students
050it was 2.5 years for this current school year as of just last week our ticket resolution time is 4.7 days and we've so far this year resolved 3,422 tickets so we're well on our way to that 5,000 Mark our average staff device age and student device age if you round them they're right at 3.0 which is where we want to be so over those two years or over over the last year we've reduced by 12% and over the two years we've reduced our ticket resolution Time by 18.1% anybody have any questions that was a lot of information is that all you do that's all I do that's exhausting that's awesome though they do you guys do a great job and um how many devices do we have we have about 3,000 Chromebooks about 600 iPads
051about 750 various PCS through throughout the district for staff use and student labs and we have about 60 Max so so about one device per ticket if you get about 5,000 requests a year close to it yeah W okay awesome yeah I I can't thank rhan for uh all the backend systems change work um it was hours and hours this past summer you know uh Business Services HR it's just cyber security things that you don't readily see he's constantly touching like to thank my team as well CU they were huge those processes thank thank you very much thanks Ryan okay we have a written program evaluation at risk had a chance to review that and then next action items approved of the revised program of studies mve to approve the revised program of studies for
0522024 2025 school year as presented second do you have any questions questions okay okay all in favor oppos thank you preliminary 2425 budget move to approve the 2024 2025 preliminary budget as presented second uh annually the district brings um brings you the preliminary budget um which allow allows us to open up the next fiscal year to begin making purchases at this point in the school year um the FY 24 year-end fund balance as Ginger mentioned just a few minutes ago um is looking at about 20.45% so historically we know that this number will continue to improve as we get closer to the end of the school year and close out our fiscal year in June so want to talk a little bit about some of the assumptions in FY 25's fiscal um budget um so
053really one of the things we're going to do uh we look at local revenue and so looking at the past 10 years um we've had experienced approximately 3% growth in assess valuation um in non reassessment years so that's something that we'll continue to factor in again that won't get finalized until uh September so uh keep in mind of that um we also have to be mindful of projections from the state um so we will decrease in our average daily attendance uh since the co uh covid home hold harmless Provisions no longer apply um we will also see an increase in our state adequacy Target the SAT and that will go from 6375 to 6760 uh which is um a dollar value um the state has determined as the adequate level of per people funding propy
054we're continuing to watch um that's a state sales tax and that's estimated to increase from 13 60 to 1513 for fy2 um and again the state will finalize its budget in early May so we we'll continue to watch what these estimates are and this is based on the uh Governor's proposed budget um the projections also increase uh include a decrease in federal revenue um which is due to uh the loss in funds associated with covid um and again this is just a preliminary operating budget um there are there's several variables that we take into consideration When developing the budget um which are subject to change and we'll present a finalized budget to you in June questions all in favor so we all understand that this is an initial budget of a deficit spend of 500k
055um when we had our Workshop we talked about the possibility of a balanced budget correct and are there what are the factors that have led to to the deficit spend sure so um one of the things we know that historically we start with a deficit at the beginning of the year and then we kind of work our way out of it um so we've tried to be more accurate with our estimates but we know there's still estimates and there will still probably be that upswing the other thing that we want to be mindful of is and we'll get into this in our next um presentation is that we've gone through when when the uh August Levy initiative didn't pass um that was pretty significant for our district um we've really taken a look at uh
056how we fill vacancies and we've really scaled back through attrition a number of positions approximately 17 full and part-time positions um but in doing that we had to be mindful of making sure that we were filling all critical positions and that's something that we continue to evaluate so at one point we thought we were going to be at a balanced budget but again we released a couple of positions that added to some of that deficit okay MH any other questions okay ready to vote all in favor post thank you next we have the salary schedules for 2425 move to approve the administrative professional certified and classified salary schedules for the 2024 2025 as presented second okay well thank you um again what you'll see before you tonight is uh three revised um salary schedules uh
057one that includes our classified um our certified and we've also added a professional administrative salary schedule um salary schedule revisions are costly um and I think it was important for us to really kind of dig deep and really make some systemic changes in what we can offer um our staff um we felt really important it was really important for us to look critically at how we can reward um staff with uh longevity and tenure within the district um and again in order to do that we had to think differently about some of the problems that we're experiencing um and again this this comes at a sacrifice um again looking at positions through attrition how we can be mindful belt tight and be smart and again this will get us over the short term um do
058believe in the very near future we're going to see reductions in Revenue through Senate Bill 190 um and again what happens in Jefferson City uh plays a direct impact on how we can compensate our staff so again uh while we've made some of these revisions and belt tightening and uh reductions in staff only through attrition um I think it's it's really important for us to uh make a good faith effort in recognizing the hard work that our staff does it was very important for us to meet work towards that strategic planning goal um so again Zach's going to present to you some of the work that we've done um over the past year thank you guys for giving me a little time uh before we get into the sary schedule recommendations I I do want
059to just thank the board uh for supporting puppy pound in the eec and that program there mean you saw how those kids are blossoming in our district and and uh just as a staff member that that uses that program really appreciate the support there and I appreciate Dr B and her staff for just the excellent care that our kids receive and it's the the program as a whole it's just it's wonderful and it's something that uh not many districts have that we do so just wanted to throw that out there okay uh salary schedule recommendations for this year uh this is the salary and benefits committee the members uh that worked on this diligently this year but I'm going to come out and say this was a district effort there was there wasn't a building
060that was touched by this there wasn't an administrator there wasn't a teacher that somehow weighed in on this whole process it was it was it started last spring uh when we when we started the salary and benefits committee last year that was a goal that we looked at looking at the Strategic plan that's goal that's goal four exemplary and valued staff uh employees uh wanting to wanting to offer those compensation but salary and benefits committee um I really got to pick out uh Becky burn Kipper Dr Miller and I have put her through the ringer this this whole year as far as I don't know how many spreadsheets she probably has nightmares about spreadsheets I know I do um this year and she has done so much work for us uh uh Leanne Bradberry Ginger
061um uh I can't forget uh my right arm Don krod and then again Dr Miller a lot of this has been her tireless effort in in making this work uh but really the salary and benefits committee have has been instrumental in in shaping this whole process and I just my hats off to them and they they've been a great group to work with very good group to work with so just talk real quickly about the process uh again salary and benefits committee we started in the spring looking at our our salary schedules and we really the first step was just looking at we really didn't have much of an admin schedule it was basically building principles um we have a teacher schedule we had a had a uh a classified schedule and looking at this
062and we've talked about this before in work sessions uh one of the main I main main um deficiencies that we identified save not being competitive in our market and in the Metro was the structure of the schedules themselves so we've talked about this but maybe let's talk about bachelor's uh bachelor's column on our teacher salary schedule certified schedule going from Step One to step 10 you could have 10 different percentages between steps it could be 1% it could be a half percent it could have been 2% so we wanted to standardize that that was a that was a goal also looking at our Market in Metro areas Market meaning Smithville plat County Liberty Excel Shire the schools that we compete with for teachers the geographical area that was a a a recommendation from the salary
063and benefits committee that we really focus on those areas but we also want to compare ourselves with the Metro we're still we'll still still we're still a Metro District and we need to compete with the metro area uh we also looked at individuals when we were looking at this we looked at each individual staff member to make sure that when we re uh uh initiate or implement this schedule with approval that no one's going to go backwards that everyone's going to get some kind of race and then also we looked at uh when we looked at the market in Metro we really had a focus on some employee categories we had some employee categories that were Far Far Below Market that we had to adjust there were some Focus areas so some of the highlights
064and I spoke about the uh inconsistencies and the steps so with classified um on steps 1 through 10 there's a 2% uh increase per step from 1 through 10 so 1 to two you're going to get a 2% raise just based on your step and after step 10 it's 1.5 for certified and for the professional administrative all their steps are 1.5% in between each step all right so that's a flat increase so each step now has value every single year so teachers can predict staff can predict administrators can predict what they're going to make per step uh we also in index columns on the certified SK schedule so there is actually a percentage between Bachelors Masters Specialists there's a specific percentage based on the base that if we would increase the base that percentage will
065trickle throughout the schedule so there's no more guess work it'll be a consistent increase as we move um and really when we looked at that index those columns uh we really we did increase the base to 425 as you see up there but really as Dr Miller talked about earlier we really focused this year because we last year we focused on on recruitment on the front end we did some did some work to the first four columns and changed those to two and made those a little more uh competitive but this year we really focused on that bottom right of the salary schedule or even the bottom part of the salary schedule to reward longevity to to reward those who stay with Carney School District and as the saying goes now uh retention is the
066new recruitment all right we want to keep the great teachers the great staff that we have here in KSD and we have to reward them as they stay the longer they stay here so this is the salary schedule uh staff impact summary uh this was sent out to uh the staff this afternoon um with approval this is what they can expect in their uh new schedules so classified I I'll go through each column there's a range of increase there was a 3% for some but then some folks got a 20% raise depending on what col or excuse me category they're in again we did focus on certain employee categories more than others because of the market value that we saw and they weren't competitive the average percent increase for our classified was 7.68% uh overall
067impact of the budget estimated is $310,000 for certified the range is 1.61 to 1116 uh the average is 6.19% for the impact of the budget estimated is 1 million $1 million uh for the professional admin uh the range was 098 to 1058 uh for an average uh increase per administrator or professional uh 6.16 uh impact of the budget was 215,000 uh the overall impact of this of this these salary schedul proposals will be $1.5 million to the budget so that's really it for uh what the changes are for the schedule you guys have seen the schedules uh presented there should be in your packets one thing I want to forecast with you along with salary schedules benefits uh we really wanted to talk benefits tonight about some of the contracts that we uh wanted that
068our attorneys to vet before approval we're a little late getting to us so we'll just move those back later on we're still good for open enrollment so it's not going to be we're not in a rush for that and we want to make sure that we take the our do our due diligence due diligence and get those vetted to make sure that we're making the right change uh but some of the things that we're looking at doing uh moving from Blue Cross to Blue Shield to Etna uh Etna was more willing to work with our new strategy strategy of a partially self-funded uh model uh the plan change also really excited about this that we'll offer uh three plans for our staff two will be board paid and one will be a buy up option
069that has a lower deductible that's a little more Rich uh two of those plans will have a broad Network and one will have a narrow Network work but uh met with um when was that April 1st we had our PD day and so uh USI USI our broker came down uh we held a uh a Q&A session in the morning at 7:30 and then we had another one at 3:15 the morning one was very well attended I bet we had I don't know over a hundred people there uh really good questions we got a lot of The Kinks worked out uh from that session we were able to develop an FAQ uh that we can move forward but really it's been a very good there's been you know can I see my doctor that's a
070big question how much is this going to cost me we I think we are able to answer most of those questions and to talk about disruption for employees uh when USI did our disruption report there's a probably about A 99.8% disruption there's a point. 2% of folks that might not might not have the same coverage they did before it's really really good Etna actually has a little bit broader Network Than Blue Cross Blue Shield does so uh I really don't feel like that disruption for the endend user meaning those who take insurance are going to see much change and in fact it's going to be better coverage it's a better plan um it'll it's it's going to be better for everyone and it's going to be better financially for the district and then something else
071that we'll be coming to you in this next month is we're going to talk career ladder uh next week the career lad committee is going to uh meet and revise the career ladder plan the reason being is that uh the district has capped career ladder expenditures to to 500,000 and so there's going to need to be some changes to our plan to accommodate that cap uh this year we've kind of opened it up and those who are available could apply there's going to be some stipulations but the career louder committee is going to be instrumental in developing those stipulations and then also stiens we will talk also talk stiens next month so if you're curious about that any questions for me got I've got one yeah sure um so the the change to the salary
072schedules to streamline standardize what is the overall benefit to the district like I mean are we just are we is it time to bite the bullet to do this or like why was it like now that we've decided to like Hey we're going to clean this whole thing up well I think uh when Dr Miller and I and I think the staff too but uh when Dr Miller and I walked in we would we looked at our salary schedules and we saw some some pain points there uh but to be honest with you it was the Strategic plan that probably drove most of this work you know that goal 4.1 we want to be in that that top top tier with our Metro in peer districts um and you know I think the motivation really
073is that we feel obligated to provide competitive comp compensation for our staff we have the best staff in the state and we need to pay them like they're the best staff in the state and we can't do everything we want to do but that's really the motivation okay and I'll tell you John uh getting up in front of Staff last year I mean it became pain painfully apparent um in visiting I've got one staff meeting in mind in particular um where it was basically articulated to us depending on where you are on the salary schedule steps have no value right and that's what we wanted to change so that each step has a consistent value and so I think that that really resonated with us on why it was important um did we accomplish everything
074that we wanted to do no we didn't um but I I I think again we made a good step forward um again a good good faith effort to for improvement and I think too to to piggyback on what Dr Miller said from that staff meeting is we we've often heard you know when you get to year 15 year 20 and that's where we've lost some of our teachers some of our best veteran teachers in this District the comment is I I can go next door and make 10 grand more on the salary schedule that's not the case anymore so so the other question is is that in the past years we've always seen how everyone gave a large increase and we were giving a more standard 3 2 1% where does this rival as far
075as like with our peer group are we giving a larger increase than our peer group or is it about the same or on average not everybody has released their information correct on the 92 Corridor that's correct um I'm still waiting to see Smithville and Pla County but I'd say we're probably about average I've seen uh close to eight for certified staff in one District that's close to us uh but I've seen as low as four but I'd say between four and eight is pretty much I think we're pretty much in the middle because that is a talking point that you will get with teachers as well which I'm sure you know that you know oh well so and so went up well we had a 92 Corridor District that just passed a measure too so
076again again uh you know we will have to be mindful about going back to the public at some point I I do think this is a step in the right direction um but I I feel like we had to go back and do our due diligence and I think that's what we've done fair enough not a question but sitting on the committee um this was one of the largest larger committees involving teachers that we've had on a salary and benefit for a while isn't it um yeah there's 22 staff members but I would say a majority of those are teachers and then we have an ad hoc which is a lot of central office administrators and other folks that need to weigh in at certain times um to provide you know clarifying information to teachers
077so they understand the expert our district so I just looking sitting there at the meetings and now looking from here the work that went into this with administrators but then with those teachers to go back and forth to their buildings to their peers um you guys like you said I mean this started last spring you guys have put hours and hours into this so I as a board member I really appreciate that I appreciate those teachers getting the feedback um and you guys just listening to where things need to change and knowing that so thankk you for your hard work don't you think we talk collaborative you know learning all the time why why can't we also be collaborative Learners right so I think that place to that Bri the teachers that brought the ideas
078and and they they did they sat in those meetings and they they told us what they thought and it was it was we we heard it and we're trying and um sometimes it's better to hear what you don't want to hear absolutely it was and you you ran those meetings great I mean I think that that's um a big point you guys you guys did a lot of work on this so thank you it's a nice compliment thank you any other questions or anything I can clarify for you all okay thank I think it's important point that and we've said it but just important for us all to remember that uh This was done certainly with some reductions but no layoffs it was all through attrition of all the positions and a careful look at
079making sure that every position that we did decide to go ahead and fill was a critical position and uh keeping our students in mind to give them the best that we can give but still some some tough tough decisions that time thank you all right read all in favor post thank you next we have approval of payment to Coal printing move to approve payment to Coal printing as presented second all in favor oppos abstain thank you comments so Dr ball that was probably the most fun I've ever had that was fun great I still have my bell just so you know I kept the Bell never played in the right spot though and and I may have played it in the wrong spot a couple times he the the little guy helped me so uh
080that was really cool uh you can tell the the love that your your staff has uh for that it's very appreciative and I just want you to know that I I noticed it and it it was amazing so thank you for for doing that tonight that was really cool thank you I want to take a moment to um recognize Dr Miller um she is one not to put much attention on herself but we want to take this opportunity to recognize her her peer organization the Missouri Association of superintendant has recognized her this year as the emerging superintendent for the Regional Kansas City area which that's a pretty big deal and so we're very proud of her and the work that she's done and um certainly uh she's ex ex exhibiting great leadership both within the
081district and without and Meredith were you going to talk a little bit about that um yeah yesterday um I was able to attend advoc advocacy day in Jeff City with Dr Miller and um Dr Bailey and I had the privilege of meeting with a couple of our our state representatives and I'd like to encourage everyone um to support or to if you're interested in uh supporting our district to read up on what's happening with Senate Bill 727 and all the upcoming votes that may affect our district um it was amazing to see Dr Miller at work I felt like at some point she knew more than our Representatives on on some of the subjects so that was interesting and um I'd like to thank her for that um I also want to extend a personal
082wish wish of gratitude to Susan Morman tonight um long before she was on the school board she was in the trenches of our schools volunteering any way she could and a practice that she continued to do while on the school board to the benefit of multitudes of students and teachers um Susan I want to thank you for your many many years of service to the Cary School District you are val you are valued thank you very much you're welcome anybody else just me we well we're going to celebrate you in a little bit but yes formally sus Susan and I think we've got something for you a little reception a little bit but we do want to thank you for your service on behalf of the board it's been six plus years you I say
083seven you finished a term for it's really 14 because of Co years that's dog years that's true but on behalf of the board as a whole thank you so much thank you um I don't usually speak a lot during board meetings so everybody who decided to come this your lucky day um I I want to talk a little about some of the things that I am passionate about and that I will always and will continue to do but I had write it down how often do we hear the phrase once a bulldog always a bulldog we hear it a lot and yet I think it means different things to different people I think the word always is very significant in this phrase as I was nearing my Schoolboard retirement I want wondered what always a
084bulldog really means to me always I have been and will always be a teacher Advocate I will continue to fight vigorously for an increase in pay for teachers and staff of the Carney School District regardless of the personal cost to me and my family I recognize the value that the KSD staff brings to this community and I know that attracting and retaining teachers is key increases in taxes is a big issue of great concern for everyone but if we don't continue to keep our teachers and staff here in Carney we will feel the pain our students will feel the pain we will feel the pain in our personal property our property values we need to support our staff and their effort to always be a bulldog always I will always believe in diversity equity and
085inclusion regardless of the semantics used by some to diminish what this means everyone here is a diverse individual and deserves to be treated equally and with respect respect I have confidence in this board to continue to treat all students and staff the same regardless of their sexual orientation their race their religion their economic status Etc always a bulldog means always be inclusive always I will always look for ways that we can keep a safe environment in our schools it's scientifically proven that the human brain is incapable of learning or accepting new information unless there is an absence of threat threats have increased in recent years whether that be external threats which I pray we never have to experience or internal threats such as bullying or marginalizing people removing threats from our environment is not just
086the role of this incredibly capable board but it's also responsibility of Staff parents and our entire Community I encourage everyone to fully support efforts to remove threats to our children to allow them to learn it truly has been an honor to serve this community and the Carney School District for the past seven years you are in great hands with this board you will continue to have my support even though I no longer sit in the seat supporting this District not just with words but with actions is what it means to always be a bulldog and I will always always be here to support KSD thank you Susan alumni board members back here tonight who came to uh support Susan and your time here and also Don I see you I can't see you but I
087know you're back there so he's back there a little gimpy but he's back there okay thank you next we have some housekeeping here certification of the election move to certify the election results naming Darlene Bailey and Matthew Baker as the incoming board members second roll call please yes yes yes yes yes Susan Mormon yes Darlene Bailey yes disillusion of the board move to dissolve the 2023 2024 Board of Education second roll call please L yes yes yes yes yes yes yes now we have the oath of office so Matt the same time right read uh for agenda item 10 we'll administer the uh administer the oath of office to to newly elected board members board policy G 255a requires that successful board candidates shall take an oath of office to Faithfully perform the duties of
088the office as required by law to support the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of mouring and the laws made pursuant thereto Becky will administer the oath please stand and raise your right hand and repeat after Becky duties of School director the best of my ab you're prepared now that the board members are sworn in um it's the election of the president of the Board of Education the floor is open for nominations move to elect Dr Darlene Bailey to serve as president of the Carney School Board during the 2024 2025 school year a second Dr darling Bailey has been nominated are there any other nominations hearing none the board will now vote via roll call sorry just record that real quick yes yes John K yes reer yes Nick Vasquez yes Matt Baker yes
089darling Bailey yes at this point the board president is the presiding officer and can handle the agenda going forward Emily you want to do that some [Laughter] more okay now we will take nominations for vice president I moved to elect Brie schwitzer to serve as vice president of the Carney School Board during the 2024 2025 school year second any other nominations roll call please yes yes John yes yes yes yes yes thank you thank you okay approval of District designations have to approve Ginger LC sorry I knew it h as treasur and leam Bradberry as alter alternate Treasurer to and approved Becky burkemper as secretary and Don krod as alternate secretary for the 2024 2025 school year second do we have to roll call for this one all in favor opposed thank you board comments
090congratulations new board member and and in combet thank you very much and Bri we getting to keep the VP everybody yay just want to [Laughter] hear all right very good I think we like it at the end of the board meeting too so we like this format yeah okay important dates um April 15th is the district Awards and retiree openhouse at the Tobacco Barn Farm it's coming up April 19th is the ran rise and shine breakfast on the 23rd we will have our next quarterly board work session 15th is our next board meeting then the 19th is graduation all right you're on miscellaneous 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 61 0-21 of the Missouri Sunshine Law
091second roll call please Len yes yes yes yes yes yes Bailey yes we are adjourned but we will have a reception here for everybody to celebrate Susan and celebrate Matt so encourage you all to stay around for a little while thank you [Music] oh