001All right, I'd like to officially call this meeting to order. If you could please join us in the pledge of allegiance. >> Yeah. To the flag of the United States of Thank you, too. All right. Uh, good evening. I'd like to welcome everybody here and from home that might be joining us tonight. Happy 2026. And I don't want to jinx anything, but we've almost made it through two weeks of school in a row in the month of January, which is which is awesome when you're a classroom teacher. So, uh, welcome. We're happy that you're here this evening. Okay. Could I get a motion to adopt the agenda this evening? >> I move to adopt the agenda as presented. >> Second. >> All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say, "I." >> I.
002>> All right. We have adopted our agenda. First up is the superintendence report. Dr. Buck. Thank you, President Myers and Board of Education. Everyone here. So, first off, I'm going to talk about President Myers because she just recently uh received and earned her master's board certification. So, we get a certificate from the state. >> Oh, thank you. [applause] >> Congratulations. I already know you're working on advanced, right? Um, >> or distinguished. Distinguish is next. We're going to distinguish. So, congratulations to you. Um, several things. Congratulations to our AM aspired teacher, Angela Mlan. Um, she and her fourth and fifth grade students at Sunset Valley were surprised yesterday as one of the 20 finalists in the Burns McDonald Battle of the Brains competition. So, kudos to the students and Miss McClean. Um, congratulations to Barbie Doyle.
003She was our well-being award recipient this month out of Pleasant Lee Elementary. Um, also thank you to the all the smart programs, Bronos Smart, Tig Tiger Smart, and Titans Smart. They hosted their annual freeze out and collected donations to support families in the community. Students donated 679 clothing items and 636 food items, and they donated those to Lee Summit Social Services and Cold Water. Um this morning, and you're probably going to hear this during uh reports out from the board members as well, was the charact mayor's character breakfast. And so our own Brenda Hall uh from Summit Point Elementary was honored as one of the 12 recipients. But also the entertainment was Lee Summit North choir. So kudos to Jonathan Crinky and all the students doing a fantastic job. And then at the Rotary meeting
004today, the Bronco Bots were the program and just knocked it out of the park. So kudos to everyone who helped out. And I want to also point out, they didn't have time to say this during the breakfast, but all the AV, the lights, the mics, the the the slideshow, including stuff they were doing at 3:00 a.m. uh this morning, was done by our Summit Tech Academy students. So, um thank you to Summit Tech Academy for helping make that happen today. If you have a child who's turning five after the start of this school year, but before August 1st of next year, um that means they're eligible for kindergarten, you can sign up for the kindergarten kickoff newsletter by going to lsr7.org/kindergarten. org/k kindergarten. Um, thank you to everyone who attended the grand opening of the
005Summit Tech Academyy's Aerospace Academy at Hangar 2. Um, fantastic job and the kids were of course the highlight and if you did come, you probably get to fly a plane, see if you can land one. Um, it's time to uh sponsor. I got two other uh things I'm going to show flyerwise. Um, first off, it's our bookshelf buddy. Um, so that is uh opening up right now. So, if you want to sponsor a bookshelf. So, how this program works, our high school kids at all three high schools build the bookshelves. Um, then we have people um uh that are PTA and and PAT and and Head Start and such help identify families of pre kindergarteners who would benefit from a two shelf uh bookshelf to go in their house. And so then we have 30
006bookshelves we build. And then we have citizens that donate $250 to sponsor a bookshelf. And then we'll put the kids. So, if you're a kid and it says, you know, you have your name plate on it, it'll say Johnny. You get to go pick your 18 to 19 books. You get to go shopping. So, if you already have Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, you don't need two of them. Um, you can choose what books you want. And then everyone who sponsors gets to write a um a motivational message on the back of the bookshelf. So, um if you want to participate in that, it'd be great. The actual event will be on April 18th at East Trails. And then I also want to point out 100 people who cares coming up in March. Um that would
007be March 17th also at East Trails Middle School. This is where we highlight all the nonprofits that do so much for our entire community. Um, we have over 40 uh over 50 last year nonprofits that came to that. We'll select a few at random and they'll give a pitch and whoever uh walks away will get a $100 check from all the participants. And so you can walk away with if 100 people showed $10,000. It's a great way to highlight those who are helping others and a way to give back. So you'll learn a ton about nonprofits if you want to come to that event. and that's March 17th um in the evening 6:30 to 8 o'clock at East Trails. And then last but not least um we're working on something special out of the PR
008department to celebrate alumni. So if you or know someone who was an alumni in the last 10 years, please reach out to our PR team or to our district. Um we're want to celebrate our alumni in a special way coming up. So looking for volunteers. That concludes my superintendence report. >> All right. Thank you. Our elementary spotlight this month is Prairie View Elementary. Now it is. Thank you, Dr. Buck. Good evening, board members and community. Um, we have here uh myself. I am Amy Fenwald. I'm the principal at Prairie View Elementary, and I am here along with Misty Miles, our assistant principal. Mrs. Angie Alexander, who is one of our reading specialists and also our student council um facilitator, and Mrs. Miss Deance, who is one of our um PTA board members and who is
009also our PTA president this year. And we have some of our um student council representatives here to tell you a little bit about Prairie View. >> Is it okay if I go ahead and let the kids introduce themselves first and then we'll have our friends share some great things happening at Prairie View. >> I'm Autumn Smith. >> Hi, my name's Avery Tucker. Hi, I'm Olive Reeves. Hi, my name's Anna Gardner. I'm Riley Enman. I'm Leila Boyin. >> I'm Maggie Carol. >> I'm Brendan Phillips. I am Siraj. >> I'm Charlotte Beckerly. And I'm Ed Ian Walker. Good evening, members of the board of education, superintendent, and guests. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to speak with you today. My name is Charlotte and I'm a member of the Prairie View Elementary student council. My name
010is Ian and I'm also a member of the student council. We are excited to share some of the great things happening at Prairie View Elementary this year. One of the import one important focus at Prairie View this year has been our building wide academic goals. One of our biggest goals is improving reading fluency for all students. Reading fluency means reading smoothly, accurately, and with expression. This is important because fluent readers better understand what they read and feel more confident as reader readers. What makes this goal special is that every single student from kindergarten through fifth grade is working on it. No matter the grade level, everyone is a part of the school together. Each grade level tracks reading fluency progress every month. Teachers help students set goals, practice reading, and regularly check their growth. When
011students meet their monthly reading goal, they are celebrated in a fun way. Each grade level has a collaborative bulletin board that shows student progress and celebrate success. These bulletin boards help students see their hard work pay off and encourage them to keep trying even when reading feels challenging. Working toward this goal together has helped create positive reading culture where students support one another and understand that growth takes time and effort. Another important focus this year has been student council and community service. We We wanted to find ways to help others and make a difference beyond our school. We began researching different organizations in our local community and learning about how they help people. Student council members then created presentations to share with our classmates, explaining each organization's mission and how our school could help support
012them. After the presentations, we worked together to plan schoolwide service projects that were meaningful, doable, and allowed everyone to participate. Our first service service project this year is supporting City Union Mission, an organ an organization that provides food, shelter, and support for services to people in need. During the week of February 2nd, our school will be collecting items to help individual families going through different times. Students are excited to participate because as they understand how their actions can positively impact others in our community. This project is helping us learn that when we work together, we can make a big difference even before the project is complete. We are also planning a spring service project and look forward to continuing our work in the community. Being a part of student council has helped us learn leadership,
013teamwork, and responsibility. It has shown us that students can make a real impact. At Prairie Elementary, we are proud of our focus on academic growth and our commitment to helping. Whether we are improving reading fluency or serving our community, we are learning skills that will help us now and in the future. Thank you for taking the time for listening us today and supporting Prairie Elementary. We are proud to represent our school. Thank you. [applause] Thank you. All of these students here have worked very hard and they have come here to represent Prairie View. Each one of them should be very proud of all of the efforts they have put forth this year. So I really appreciate them and their parents coming tonight. So thank you to each of you. Also, I believe there was a
014PowerPoint that came with the presentation and I I saw it flip on and off. So hopefully the board has a chance to go through that too. So because I think there is some more information in there as well. Also this evening, it is our um proud honor to be able to repres recognize one of our volunteers this evening. And so we have uh the privilege of recognizing Mrs. Misty Nance who um was unaware that she was also going to be recognized um this evening. U Mrs. Nance has been a part of our community for quite some time now. I believe um about seven years since about 2009 19 since her oldest son Connor was a kindergartener. He is now at ETMS and her youngest daughter um is about to end her fifth grade year. She
015is in her last semester at Prairie View and so she will also be going on to ETMS. U Mrs. Nance has taken on so many roles at Prairie View over the last several years, helping us through the COVID transitions. Um, helping us uh through some challenging times as our treasurer, also helping us when our PTA president moved um a week before school started. And so taking on the role of two almost two PTA um board roles that year. That was last year. and she has been our PTA president this year. So, as she ends her tenure on our PTA board and as a member um and as a community member with us for the last so many years, we just wanted to tell her how thankful we are for her and her family's um presence
016um all of the gifts that they have given us over this time. So, thank you Misty for everything you have done and congratulations on being PE Prairie View's volunteer of the year for 2526 [applause] and then we're going to take a picture with you and the board. So, don't go away. >> [applause] >> Okay, our secondary spotlight this month is Lisa West High School. Hi, good evening. My name is Kayla Maid. I'm the proud principal of Lee Summit West High School and I have uh the pleasure of representing an amazing group of women that we have at Lee Summit West, which is our women's flag football team. So, I'm going to hand this over to our coach Jared Pugsley. All right. Hello. Okay. Um, again, I'm Jared Pugsley. Um, I have the honor to be
017the head flag football coach at Lisum West. Um, thank you, Dr. Buck and board members for having us out here. Sorry, I got to sl over for the mic. Um, and forgive me for reading off my phone because I want to make sure I hit all my points. Um, really quickly, I know that she's going to hate this. Um, Dr. May does not like attention, but I want to thank her for all of her continued support. Hey. Hey. Oh, sorry. My bad. My bad, buddy. But I want to thank her for all of her continued support uh for flag football. Um, with this being a new onboarding sport um to Missouri, there's been a lot of uh random challenges that have come up and she's been super supportive through it all. So, thank you, Dr.
018Mate. Cool. All right. So, I have the honor again of welcoming the back-to-back uh state champions uh for Missouri state flag football, Lee Summer West Titans. Um two years ago, uh the Chiefs started the flag football program here in Missouri. Um there was no flag before that other than um in the youth level, but they started two years ago. And let me go next. Okay. And in the inaugural season, we we won uh in a nailbiter to Nixa, winning 18 to7. Um it was actually a fourth down um pick six that got us that 18 points and we could have nailed it, but our quarterback Addy Weights, who's um now at Missou playing softball, um decided not to take the knee and just rub it in a little bit more. So she ran it all
019the way back, which got us those 18 points, but it was a nailbiter there. So that was the uh inaugural championship which was um an awesome experience and we ended up following that up with back-to-back success. Um this past year we were the I would say the favorites number one seed. Um but we uh played our cross town rivals in Ray Peek. Um and they had us down uh what was it? 12-7 going in uh going into halftime coming out. They were driving down the field and about to score on us again. Uh we were really worried that if they scored that it would be an insurmountable deficit, but the quarterback rolled out. Ella Miller uh forced her to her side. Forced the Aaron throw and then um Alina Wilson uh intercepted it in the
020end zone and ran it all the way back for a pick six that put us up 13 to7 and then from there we had the momentum and never looked back. So um it was a very emotional day because um our girls uh do not like Ray Peek very much. Um so um they really wanted to beat them and we got it done. So, I was very proud of our team. So, we had back-to-back state championship success. Um, let's see. Where am I? Okay, cool. Um, I have a quick video on this next slide. real switch like I switch boy now I'm at the top two [music] full rocks it's a bird it's a plane that's call me I need I keep touching diamonds is doing too much. I don't know what time it is. Apply
021pressure when they see me. They know what time it is, boy. I ain't going back, bro. Hey, you got a lot of Let me drive the boat. Never take the riches. That's a must. [screaming] No, I'm 25. [music] I had 250 on me. She get flight. So, as you can see there, they um our women are very passionate about this sport. Um, going into this experience, I had never coached women before and I was actually um a little nervous about uh coaching flag football. Um, but it one thing that I've learned is um and being very grateful is um these women are very excited um very passionate um and they are willing to take very hard coaching. I had to learn a lesson in my first year um when I was trying to take it
022too easy. Um a couple girls told me, "Coach, you can coach us hard." And I was like, "Okay, cool." And that's when we started uh finding our success. Um really quickly, we have coach Willie Horn on the staff, but who's our head tackle, football coach, but a special shout out to Coach Juome. Um I'm more of a X's and O's guy. Um and I need somebody behind the scenes to help out with all the behind the scene things. And uh Coach Ju is the the boots on the ground. And this is surprise to the girls, but um he has helped set up two scrimmages, one in Dallas and one in St. Louis coming up in uh March. So, we will be traveling to those two places. So excited about that. [applause] So So lastly, um
023this is to everybody in the crowd and anybody that you know in the community. Um if you have young women in that are athletic at all or even not and just want to try a new sport, I implore that you um have them try out flag football. This is a growing sport um that obviously builds teamwork um and gets you involved in the community. Um but on top of that, the NCAA just this week um has onboarded it as a sport. Um so there are a lot of scholarship opportunities that are coming up uh with flag football. So the one thing that I said that I will I'll end on this because I know I'm probably over on time. Sorry, Dr. May. Um the one thing uh when I talk to to women and tell
024them that uh older women are women that are past high school. Um [laughter] um the one thing that I that I usually get back when I speak to them is when I tell them that I'm the flag football coach at West is like, "Darn, I wish I had that opportunity." So I'm just grateful that we have this opportunity for young women to play the sport that we all uh know and love. So again, give it up for your Lisa West flag coar. [applause] >> Oh yeah. >> Yeah. I'm gonna ladies, I'm going to have you introduce yourselves. So we are, as you can tell, passionate and extremely best blessed at Lisum West to be surrounded with amazing uh young people um but also amazing coaches. So, Coach Pugsley coaches um um our men's f our
025men's football team in the fall um and then this in the spring as well as coach Horn, which is our head football coach, is an assistant um coach for girls flag football. So, that just speaks to their heart of service and the excitement that they have to ensure that everybody gets to play this amazing sport. So, I'm going to let the ladies introduce themselves and then I want you to stay up there, okay? Because then we'll do our volunteer of the year. >> Um I'm Lauren Sinks. I'm Ella Miller. I'm Alina Wilson. I'm Eman Basher. I'm Samar. >> My bad. >> All right, you guys could just give me one give them one round more round of applause. [applause] So, I've been the I've been lucky to be the principal of Lisa Midwest for the
026last three years. Um and dur during that time people always ask me what is what is the best thing about Lisa Summit West and by far um it's the people it's our students it's our coaches it's our teachers it's our staff um and this may come as a surprise from a principal but I am extremely blessed to have an amazing community of parents and so three years ago when I um again honored and uh blessed to be able to take this job and to lead these amazing people. One parent three years ago reached out to me and said, "Hey, I'm the I'm I'm the PTSA president and um I just want to help you. I just want to serve you." Um and so I said, "Okay." And she's like, "I have this great idea. I
027think we should do like just like a a forum to where you just sit up in front of everybody and we invite all parents in to ask you whatever questions they want." >> [clears throat] >> and I said, "Sure, Sarah, let's do this." Um, but I have Sarah Stinks here. Um, she is an amazing parent um not only for making sure that um our teachers are loved and um spoiled, but our PTSA, one of the biggest thing that they do is provide an opportunity for our seniors to have a safe place to go after graduation. And to make project graduation go, they have to raise about 25 to $30,000. Um, and it is amazing. And we have an excellent participation rate at Lee Summit West. Thanks, Everly. I appreciate it. You're cute. Uh, and uh,
028and so Sarah helped spearhead that with the rest of the board members. Um, Sarah is the proud parent of Lauren here as well. um and has been a PTSA um board president or board member for the officer for eight years during her time in LSR7. Um obviously Lauren's getting ready to graduate. They're on their way to an amazing college visit here. Um but I truly from the bottom of my heart, Sarah, cannot thank you enough for what you've given to me as a person. Uh she knows my daughter's name because Everly's with me everywhere. She's always willing to lend a helping hand. Um, and she's just a testament to that why Lisa Midwest is the best. It's because of the people. >> [applause] >> Hey mommy. Okay, I think we're ready for item 3.03, the
029elementary enrollment process action team recommendation. >> Good evening and thank you for this opportunity. the at the charge of the board. Uh we were asked, administration was asked to organize a process action team to examine and diagnose, if you will, elementary enrollment and to come up with a plan to address enrollment when it becomes high and when it becomes low. And uh this process action team was led by four incredible leaders. Uh we have in the back Mike, I'm sorry, Blake Little. Blake Little, longtime resident of our school district, parent of uh current student, employee at Lee Summit High School, former teacher of the year, uh great leader in our in our community and in our school district. Also, Mike Vanuskerk, uh member of the CFMP as well as many other committees and highly involved
030in our community. Uh have have represented as as members of the CFMP team as co-chairs of this of this committee of this process action team. We've also had incredible facilitators. So, we have Dr. Todd White here, longtime superintendent in the Kansas City area, highly respected, and also not here tonight though, though, is uh Rob Schwarz from RSP as well. And I'm going to turn it over to them and let them uh present to you the outcome of this process action. Good evening. Um, thank you, President Myers, Vice President Miller, and the board for allowing us to be here today. Um, we will be pretty brief, but we will leave time at the end for questions. Um, and I'm going to skip down to here. So, Dr. Shelton did a great job of introducing the team.
031Um, I will say that the RSP group Um, Robert and Dr. White, who you hear from in a minute, um, made this process very easy for for Blake and I as co-chairs. Um, it was very organized and, uh, we started this process in November with a goal to finish it by the end of the year. Um, which, as you know, is a pretty busy time of year for everybody. Um, so I want to thank them for the facilitation. Um, also want to thank Dr. Shelton, Hannah Puit, Kyle Guerell, by the way, who was very instrumental with this and was like a dictionary. Whenever we needed an answer, we'd look to Kyle and he would know the answer like what's the average of this or whatever it was. So, I want to thank all them as
032well. Um, we had a great we had a great team uh that worked on this. Um, Dr. Buck mentioned earlier Lisa Mccares and I was thinking about that this morning. I started my day there as well that we have at least some are such a great community and there's so many people that volunteer their time. I remember walking in the first meeting of this group saying it's November, it's cold, it's dark and we're walking into a meeting um and this group showed up. They were very active, participated and uh asked a lot of hard questions and u information was provided that we requested. So I want to thank the members of the team. It was a good cross-section uh from across the district. Uh you know, parents like myself who had kids that went through
033uh the school district and are now out doing their thing. Uh grandparents uh down to folks that had kids that are in elementary school and all in between. uh as well as several I also acknowledge several uh uh teachers and educator educators current and past that were a part of this and they were very helpful uh in bringing a perspective uh to those of us who didn't have that perspective. Um, so the process, you know, I'm gonna talk about this too much, but I did say we did have three meetings. As I said, we started in November, we finished in December. Um, there was a lot to get through. There was a lot of information put in front of us. So, I was very pleased that we were able to get it done in time.
034The charter that you provided to our team um was to analyze the enrollment trends and building utilizations and the ramific ramifications were mall and two full buildings um and come up with a strategic plan to bring forward to recommend to you all. So our task um reviewed a lot of demographic data and trends um we've reviewed some impacts that I'll expand on and Dr. White will expand on as well um and then coming up with our strategic plan that we'll share with you as well. So, as I touched on demographic data, um I'm a numbers guy, so I put a spreadsheet in front of me and had all these different numbers. Um, but in addition to that, we we looked at uh a lot of information that the team brought forward uh in regards to
035uh data and and uh studies that have been done in the past on capacities and the impacts of too high or too low capacities. So there was a lot of this this team didn't just show up. There [clears throat] was information provided that they had to review and be in a position to bring that to the next team and react to. Um so research that we reviewed um a lot of data on current projections as well as the future projections. It was very helpful that we had the most recent applied economics uh studies on demographics broke out for us as well. U a lot of information design capacity of buildings versus program capacity, which is a difference that a lot of us didn't know and and there was a lot of discussion about that. Um,
036and then we we looked at low enrollment, high enrollment impacts in in our first meeting. And one of the things that came out of that, and I'm sure Dr. White can expand on this, was there's a lot of the same impacts if a school is such low enrollment. You know, some of the similar impacts you get with a school's too high of enrollment. So, that was kind of eye opener I think for many of us. So our recommendation we came up with a four-step process um that Dr. White's going to expand on each of these steps and then uh we'll be available to answer questions at the end. >> Thanks Mike. Dr. Shelton, thank you for your introductory remarks. Dr. Buck and the board, thank you for giving us the opportunity to work with your
037community and and come up with this uh process. So um we we begin with enrollment uh applied economics and that data which drives uh this part of the process and you're used to viewing that uh on a yearly basis which is good because of the the necessity of that information and that data to support uh the work that you uh would be seeing from recommendations from the CFMP, your administration and others. So in the Step one, we determine the facilities that need to be discussed for being either too low or too high. And the percentages that the committee is bringing forward is the low side being at 65% and the high side being 90%. And again, that is a program capacity and not necessarily the design capacity of the building. So this is how the
038building functions and students are in it. They're utilizing uh rooms in various aspects of of the building in order to educate and care for children. And so it's not necessarily, if you will, just the number of classrooms and putting 25 children in a classroom, for example. So there is a change here that the committee is recommending from what might have been previously done at 95% and 70 to get an earlier look is really the uh the aspect that the uh committee is forwarding in this first uh first step. The second step was to develop a minimum. Uh, and we really relied on research here to take a look at what other school districts have done and the studies that have been put forth regarding the student experience, the impact of staff and its community. When
039you have a building that has low enrollment, we suggested that the committee take a look at a minimum because you'll have fluctuations over time in enrollment based upon regreening, based upon movement of development, etc., etc., all those external factors that you might have. The minimum would suggest as the um icon points to if a school is currently at or forecasted to dip below 200 students, the school immediately moves into action. And you'll see that here in a second. But what that signifies is that you are saying the building cannot provide a adequate level of education from an equity standpoint throughout the district if it drops below 200. If you think about the number of staff that are shared when you get into that situation, students are needing uh various aspects of nurses or health care
040or mental health and the like and you're you're trying to optimize those sorts of resources in your district. Oftentimes they are not present when needed. So you have to schedule those sorts of things and as we know the life of a school can't really schedule some of those sorts of things when and where needed. So the re the research that we relied on really talked about student experience, the ability of teachers and staff to collaborate in forming this sort of floor and minimum um with respect to student size. And so you'll you'll see that we've established it at 200 and and brought that forward for your consideration. Step three is what happens when you get a building uh or buildings that are approaching either that high or that low uh threshold. Here we talked about
041a three-step process. The first one you do on an annual basis which is to monitor your enrollment. We've done that for years with applied economics. As we worked with uh applied and saw the data that they provided, we know that it's rich. It's in terms of your understanding about your economic and excuse me your demographic flow of students both in and out of the district and as you prepare for future development and other aspects that will impact that enrollment it will be important to continue that. So monitor every year is the first step of the committee's recommendation. The second is action. action does not mean that you will take uh immediate um impact on a building. What it does mean is that you as a district most likely from an administrative standpoint will begin to
042investigate and look at what are options that can be available to impact this building of being either too high or too low depending upon what uh the threshold is. We really talked with the committee about that. I wanted to bring that forward is that this does not mean that you are required to do uh something u maybe drastic or implement in that particular building. What it does mean is that it requires you to take a look at that building and make a decision about either continue monitoring and or begin the process of looking at programming uh elements in the building boundary changes all of the things that are available to district and certainly a board to impact buildings that might be too low andor too high. We go into this a little bit further in
043some of the additional information that we provided to you so you can get a feel for what some of those actions uh would be and again most likely those will come through your CFMP process, your administrative recommendations and and move in that direction. Finally, if a building gets to a point where it is at that 200 and really approaching after all of the uh administrative review and the investigation of what can or should be done, there is uh action to resolve the too high or the too low threshold. So it's at that level that you have made a decision that you need to implement some aspect of affecting the enrollment and or the operation of that particular building. We do not uh in the committee's recommendation dictate obviously to the board what that should be
044but give a range of options about what should be done but hopefully will follow this sort of understanding of monitor action and then implementation. The important thing about action is that once you move into that particular aspect of the work, it is transparent and overly communicated with the affected communities about what you're doing in terms of investigation and what are the possible outcomes. It was really brought forth by the community to ens committee to ensure that you are communicating throughout that process. So again, there's no surprises. Everyone knows where we are in the process and what are the aspects of of the work that would entail impacting the minimum or the maximum of the threshold. Finally, here are some of the possible actions. We've just kind of grouped these into five categories. They in the
045other information that I believe that Dr. Shelton has you can see that it we go into much more detail uh that was a part of the committee's work in each one of these but obviously there are decisions made from the district and the board's perspective boundaries for example would be one of those there's district curriculum which are programmic elements that could be added to a building or impacting that enrollment of high or low. Obviously there are financial considerations whether that be bond whether that beuh building in terms of that which leads us into the district architect and Kyle's work in terms of all the aspects that you can do from a physical space impact in order to address those threshold um concerns. And then finally, the student experience. And we really kind of centered a
046lot on this sort of impact because knowing that you have buildings that are either too high in certain situations in the future or too low would certainly impact the student experience. And if you think about students receiving their choice of classes in in in some regards uh being impacted of either having or not having clubs because of the insufficient number of people or staff that could carry those on. You also talk about uh student experience in terms of the impact of teachers being able to collaborate on curriculum and other aspects of the work that certainly impact the educational experience that they have. So that hopefully gives you some understanding of the realm of possibility that once you move into that action and implementation stage, there's a whole variety of opportunities that you have in order
047to impact that. And you can tailor that to the situation that you have, the building that is serving those particular students and the needs of those students as well as the community at large. come up. So, as you know, the goal of a committee like this is to build consensus. Um, and the four-step process that that we're recommending, uh, we had 100% consens consensus from our committee. Um, the minimum threshold that we were asked to come up with, there was a lot of discussion about that. I will tell you um some folks wanted it lower, some wanted it higher. Um but I think what really drove it was some of the research that um that we were provided that that really brought to light the reasons why uh when you get below 200, it really
048starts to impact um the students. So um so we ended up at 90% consensus on on recommending the 200. Um with that, we're available to answer any questions. Dr. Nickens, >> um, this is gonna follow from what you just said, Mike. Um, so if you could just explain a little bit more of maybe the rationale of the committee. I know that you had broad consensus on the 200 floor, but in just looking at the 65% lower range, that would kind of raise the red flag, right? To start monitoring, 200 seems pretty drastic for most of our like something like 13 of 18 of our elementary schools have program capacity of roughly like 550ish to 650ish. So 200 Maybe like the 30% right >> of program capacity. So that just seems very low to me. Can
049you can you talk a little bit more? I mean it would be a good application to our our smaller capacity buildings but we only have a couple smaller capacity building. So I just want to know a little bit more about the rale. >> Yeah the that is that is something when you look at the spreadsheet of capacities you have some very capacity buildings and you have some very small capacity buildings. Um our our our instruction was to come up with a number that we felt that if if a school got below that that we needed to further evaluate it and start the process of evaluating it. Um we spent a lot of time uh Dr. mentioned the uh the 65% which we actually lowered um and there's a lot of discussion about that but the
050reason we picked 65 because there's a lot of schools if you look at the spreadsheet that's 65 right now but once again this isn't immediate action this is let's just it's it's kind of like a red flag you know I think I don't remember exactly how you kind of somebody kind of said well it's like we're just putting a flag up and said that now we need to give this we need to start monitoring this doesn't mean it's an immediate action takes place and that was that's what we came out of this. >> So I I want I understand that um I guess I'm wondering the need for both the load threshold in terms of percentage capacity as well as the flat number of 200 >> that was that was our direction >> to do
051both >> set the high low my percent and then also come up with a number that we thought which is the the physical number the 200 And the 200 was just based on the research in terms of >> and a lot of discussion >> viability and resources per student. >> Yes. >> And Mike, I'm I'm assuming that you don't have to hit both of them to have the it's you hit either one, correct? It's it's either one. So, um I I don't think they they both have to be hit, >> right? I guess my question just comes back to 65% for most of the schools is far above 200. for only a couple of our >> so let's give an example if a building went below 65% they would also have even though they're at
052400 kids they would also have the the monitoring or move up to the next level and it could be that that the look is you have a neighboring building it's at high capacity and can you switch the boundaries um so it doesn't 65% can trigger um more monitoring or more engagement and those five things to look at as well as uh the number of 200 is what they're suggesting. >> Thank you. >> Um Dr. Nickton or excuse me uh board member Dawson, sorry. >> Thank you very much for your presentation. It was very helpful uh to hear you explain it and looking at the slides without hearing you talk. I was a little confused and you made it very clear. So thank you. Um but I do have a couple questions. Um going to slide
053if if we could go back to slide 12, the one on step three. Um can you explain again um what uh threshold or what uh what criteria would move it from monitor to action or from action to implement? >> Great question. So every building is monitored as you currently do. >> It would go to the orange or the action level if it went beyond either 90% or 65%. that doesn't trigger any particular application by the district, but it does put them in a situation as you take a look at the data that will be presented to you that you know that building there's there's something going on there that where it's crossed that threshold that the committee says needs to raise awareness for you. It doesn't suggest action, but it does suggest maybe intense monarchy.
054I think the uh the analogy that was uh utilized was a roadway that that orange is a rumble strip, right? It's an indicator that hey, you're veering a little bit here and we need to maybe correct some things, right? It's that white line. The the red is the guardrail. We're about ready to run off totally off the road and maybe even off a an embankment. and it's a guardrail that suggests we can't do that. So, we're forcing ourselves by some action by the district in order to ensure that we move back into that orange level, get back on the rumble strip, and then hopefully back on the the pavement. >> So, so when will you know that you're you're not no longer orange and you're red? I guess that's what I'm trying to figure out.
055If you're already at below 65 or above 90% um or or below 200 um then you're in the orange, right? So then is there another threshold or is there is it just that it's consistently been in orange for too many years or what is it? >> Yeah. So we had we had a lot of discussion about you know should it be three years three consecutive years that you're there and then if you will there's some sort of forced action regarding that. >> Um we advised and the committee accepted that you don't want to put yourself into a s into a situation where you might force an action that's unnecessary. You may want to just monitor and be the action that you have for schools for a period of time either because you know of the
056development strategy that's coming out of economic development and your housing authority or you know as Dr. Buck suggested that you have neighboring schools that have other impacts and circumstances that you know that it will over time or with slight adjustments in boundaries or other actions you can take that you'll be able to navigate it successfully. So no forced action >> other than that minimum of 200. >> Okay. And again, the committee is forwarding that to you to suggest that buildings that consistently operate below a minimum are in a situation where you're looking at possibly not providing that sort of equitable education to those particular students as compared to those that have a full array of staff and services that are provided every day, every hour. Got I think I think that clears it up and
057I appreciate that. So So there would have to be some sort of trend, some sort of urgency to say that you're in red, but orange in that orange zone action can be taken. Um and as and as you clearly stated with transparency and communication um overcommunication, that sort of thing. Um and I did have one last point or question um and it kind of goes to Dr. Nickens's uh point about the 200. At the moment, I I appreciate the value of of setting a minimum. I think that's extremely helpful and um clear. Um but when you look at our current data and our current school buildings in 2025, 2026, not a single building would not already be in orange if we hit 200. So, um I don't see as much value for it today. um
058because if I think 65% for the smallest school is 209. So um but I do um appreciate the value of defining it, but I don't see the value of I don't think we're ever going to need it because I I don't think we're going to need it in the short term because every single school is um has a 65% threshold above that. So I I don't know if if I'm seeing it wrong. I mean, is there do we see the use of the 200 anytime soon? So our our work at the committee wasn't necessarily to apply this particular process to your circumstance right now. Um what we were required to do was to create a process that you could apply when you you needed or wanted to. uh in regards to that I will tell
059you um that the research is clear that you operate a best practice is to establish that minimum uh and again it's because of that educational impact both students and staff that in the future you would rely on in order to establish some sort of action that would be necessary to address. >> Thank you very much. Any other board members? Hey, I thank you very much for the work that you all put into it and I I appreciate the way that you were able to help me understand part of this matrix that I was a little stuck on. So, I I appreciate that. Thank you all very much. Um, okay, I think we'll do >> and everyone that helped serve on that. Pratt, we thank you for your time as well. Okay. Item 4.01, public comment.
060>> We appreciate your attendance and willingness to speak to the board. Please remember that the board does not respond to public comments during the meeting, but may ask clarifying questions. Your comments will be noted by the board and administration, and if appropriate, we will discuss further action with the superintendent. Only those who have signed up prior to the meeting will be allowed to address the board. Pursuant to board policy BDDH, we will be limiting all comments to no more than seven people with a limit of three minutes each. You may not transfer any of your time to other speakers. Your allotted three minutes will be counted down on the screen. Please conclude your comments when the timer expires. Your comments must align with the subject described in your written request to speak and must directly
061relate to the business or operations of the district. Your comments may not discuss individual employees or students in the district, regardless of whether your comments speak of them in a positive or negative light. Any such comments should be directed to the superintendent who will then determine if further action is needed. Because the board does not and cannot impose age-based restrictions on who attends or views board meetings. And because children of all ages frequently do attend board meetings, comments may not include obscinities or sexually explicit content. Furthermore, comments may not include threats of physical or emotional harm or threaten in any way the safety of others. We also remind all those in the audience that board policy BDDH prohibits the use of signs or audible responses. This includes applause, cheers, or jeers. If you are in
062the audience and wish to respond in some way to a public comment, you may contact the board or superintendent after the meeting. Your comments must be directed only to the board because the purpose of public comment is to bring something to the attention of the board. You may not speak to or interact in any way with other with any other person in the audience. When your name is called, go to the podium and clearly state your name and the organization you represent, if any. Rebecca Bombgarten. Good evening board members. Thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight. I'm here as a mom, but I'm not simply here advocating for my own children. We have options. I'm here for their peers. Students who can't whose parents can't be here tonight or for those students who may
063not have anyone courageous enough to advocate for them. I'm also here to ask this board to exercise its responsibility to make informed decisions. I appreciate the enrollment Pratt's work thus far and understand it carries enormous weight. If accepted without rigorous scrutiny, though, it will effectively determine whether title one school um serving our most vulnerable students continues to exist. That is why I'm asking the board to continue to ask critical questions before accepting or moving forward with enrollment recommendations presenting presented tonight. First, I asked the board to seek clarity on the formation and composition of the PR itself. How were the members selected? What criteria were used? Why weren't parents or faculty from the school most directly impacted like LSC not included? Secondly, the research underlying this recommendation demands closer examination. Who gathered this research? Where
064did it come from? What specific questions were asked to reach the conclusions presented? Is this data relevant to our district today? Is it outdated? Some of the sources referenced, particularly the one establishing an enrollment threshold of 200 are older than I am. Thirdly, the board must scrutinize the concept of an enrollment threshold itself. Thank you. Why does the discussion focus primarily on threshold numbers whereas the research focuses on percentages? Is this threshold effectively targeting one school? Would a building capacity be a more unbiased metric? Four, I urge the board to ask a fundamental question. What prompted enrollment numbers to become the driving factor in school closure discussions in the first place. Currently, the district is in a financial deficit. The biggest expenditure over 80% is on people. People administration said would not lose their job.
065So, if this becomes a conversation of cost savings, where exactly are the cost savings coming from? Are districtwide inefficiencies receiving the same scrutiny or are we those with the least to shoulder the greatest burden. Moving on from LSE, there are two new newly funded elementary schools nearing construction. And after running a quick calculation and considering the projected numbers, both schools would be under the 65% capacity threshold, even with one having an increase of numbers coming from another school. So, are we saying these two brand new schools would also be under the risk of consolidation? This board has a choice. We can adults and do the difficult work of continuing to ask hard questions. Thank you. Um and finding fair solutions or we can make the children do the hard things for us and face the
066consequences from our lack of stewardship and foresight. I am not asking the board to reject the committee's work outright. I am asking you to do what good governance requires. Question assumptions, challenge incomplete analysis, and demand relevant and different data. Thank you for your time, your service, and your willingness to ask questions. Valerie Salazar. >> Good evening. I'm Valerie Salazar. I'm a mom of two boys from LC. It's good to see everyone tonight. It's hard to believe that it's been over one year. I often find myself thinking life before November 1st, 2024 and life after. But I'm not here to relive the past because we don't have the luxury to do so. We also don't have the option to be quiet, to give up, or to stop advocating for our own children in our own neighborhood.
067I'm here today to make something very clear. We're still here. We're still at our school. We're still in our neighborhood. We're not hiding. We're not keyboard warriors. We've shown up consistently. We attended every single one of them and listened. What we're asking for simple and reasonable, open and transparent conversation. Meet with us. Learn from us. We'll do the same. Let's read the research together. Let's work toward understanding together. I'm asking that decisions not be made for us, but with us. Yes, the Lee Summit Elementary and Westview process action team was a step in the right direction and thank you. But I have to ask, was it truly meant to represent community voice or was it simply a check? That question arises because what happened since then appears to directly contradict that team's recommendation and feels
068more like a coordinated effort to arrive at a predetermined decision. I also want to highlight a serious concern about representation. Not one current LSC parent not one current LSC parent wasn't invited to participate in the enrollment Pratt. Some might argue, and you can argue, that this is because LSE did not have representation on the district CFMP of a current parent. However, according to the Pratt's charter, membership was supposed to come through the from the district CFMP. Yet, through even minimal research and observation, it's apparent that nearly almost half of the members of Enrollment Pratt are not listed as district CFMP members. Are we going against the charter? Over the Last year, through our presence, our listening, our research, our advocacy, I've come to the difficult realization. The process for community committees is not working. It's
069not because we don't have volunteers. Because I agree with everyone's comments tonight. There are great people in our city that believe in this school district. I'm asking the board to take a hard, honest look at community structures moving forward. Who serves on these committees? How are members chosen? Are they on multiple committees and therefore have multiple votes for one situation? Do they have a conflict of interest of any financial benefit for anything within the district? Are there term limits? And finally, speaking of community, I believe our definition may be separate. We've invited Dr. Buck and Dr. Shelton to LSC. We'll follow up with that invitation tomorrow and make sure that you all are aware so they can share that with the LSC community directly. Okay. Item 5 5.01, board committee reports. Uh we'll start with
070board member Haley. Earlier this week, I attended the finance committee meeting and it was uh obviously headed up by Dr. Shelton and Dr. Herzog. Um they had uh some several items that we'll be discussing later uh for u review on uh spending some money that the taxpayers ask us as ask us to spend with the last bond that we put out there. And uh Dr. Herzog reported on um where we're at with the Jackson County revenue and where we're at with the our bonds. So thank you. >> Thank you, Dr. Mickens. >> Um I attended the board policy meeting headed up by Dr. Carlson. Um the board policy committee is charged with reviewing all of our policies on a cycle and so the good news is we finished it's a six-year process. Um so we
071finished reviewing all of our we have a lot of policies. We we finished reviewing all of them. Um and we'll and now we'll start over because uh one of our policies does require that we keep them reviewed and revised and updated. Um, just to give you an idea of the policies that we reviewed, we look at a different group every time. Obviously, these covered a lot of things about what the board actually does, um, the actual board policy process, release of information, um, board training and development, liability insurance, the legislative program for the board, and memberships for board members. So those were the regular ones that we reviewed. I also attended teamly summit um where we had great discussion. We really have been studying and reviewing all of our salary schedules um which are complicated.
072And I went to the mayor's character breakfast this morning. It's a great event and got a tour of Summit Lakes Middle School which was wonderful. So, >> thank you board member Garrett. >> Thank you. Um, didn't really have any committees um since we've been back from u our holiday break. Uh, but I did attend the community pancake breakfast silent auction on Saturday and that was hosted by Broncobots uh Lisummit North for the robotics teams. And then um of course this morning the mayoral character breakfast and recognizing members of the committee or of the community who give back with their time and talents. So I really enjoyed seeing all the honores being honored and and also hearing uh Dan Mir's speech which was really tugging on the heartstrings. So he did a great job with his
073speech and um that was about it. >> Thank you Dr. Johnson. >> Yes, for the committee meetings I attended teamly summit um as Dr. Nickens mentioned and we did budget review, we did look at salaries and we also talked about Prop C just making sure we're educating everyone about that. I also attended this morning's mayor character breakfast and shout out to all the LSR7 employees who got an award there. And um I really enjoyed the activity they did where the city and employees had to come together and build blocks. And [clears throat] also this guy is a great singer. I'm just going to say it. I've been calling him Captain America all night because he tells jokes, he sings, and he protects. So I think that covers everything. But that's in my report. Thank you.
074>> Thank you, board member Dawson. >> Um, I also attended a lot of the same uh committee meetings that you've already heard about, so I won't uh I won't repeat too much of it, but I did attend Monday's finance committee meeting with board member Haley. And uh once again, I want to thank all the teams who contribute to that and prepare for that. Um it's very helpful answering all their questions. um uh just demonstrating that we're looking ahead and we're using our resources wisely. It's really helpful. Um and um as Dr. Nickens already summarized, the uh board uh policy committee uh we celebrated that um that benchmark that milestone of being able to start all over again reviewing all the policies. That was great. Um and then also attended this morning's breakfast uh and represented
075Lee Summit Cares there because I'm on that committee as well. and uh I I don't have anything to add to what's already been said about those events. >> Thank you, Vice President Miller. >> Yes, I attended the LSEDC. We have some subcommittee. So, I am on a subcommittee, the events committee for that. And um I also as with my fellow board members um attended the um character breakfast this morning. And so just shouting out the summit cares and um Chris and his team. They did an incredible job. So, >> all right. Thank you. Um I attended the government relations meeting um where we had a presentation from um it was a lobbyist from the Missouri Chamber of Commerce. I'm sorry, it was before the holiday. Um yeah, and he kind of gave us a overview
076of what they foresee coming down the road in 2026 as far as the Missouri Chamber of Commerce goes. Um I attended the Build Our Future Committee meeting. Um I would like to say you you've heard this before, but I just want to the whole board attended the mayor's character breakfast this morning. every single one of us was there at, you know, between 6:45 and 7 a.m. And um it was a wonderful experience and it was a great opportunity to celebrate our community in general, but I just want everybody to that that is paying attention to what we do. Um we were all there and I'm I'm really proud of the fact that we all but we were all there. So I would just like to acknowledge that. Um and then I uh continued my tour
077of schools this afternoon with Dr. Dickens over at uh Summit Lakes. So that those are my um committees for this month. Okay. So moving on uh to item 6.01. We need to I need a motion to approve the transfer of funds. Please. I approve I move to approve the transfer of 4,824,987.94 from the general fund to the special revenues fund. >> Second. Okay. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say, "I." >> I. All right. Motion passes. Could I get a motion to approve the treasures report and payment of the bills? >> I move to approve the treasures report and the payment of the bills. >> Second. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say I. >> I. Motion passes. Could I get a motion to approve the 2024
0782025 single audit? I move to approve the 2425 single audit as presented. >> Second. >> All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say, "I." >> I. >> All right. Could I get a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> I move to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Second. >> All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say, "I." >> I. >> All right. The consent agenda passes. All right. Items for decision. Item 8.01. 01 the resolution authorizing refunding of 2016 certificates of participation. >> I'm gonna have Dr. Herzog come up um for this if you have any questions. Um just let you know this saves UCM over $600,000. Um they pay for it. They pay us and we pay it off the lease purchase for their part of
079the Summit Tech Academy. Um, so we are not saving anything, but we're helping out our partners uh that we share a lot of equipment with there save over $600,000 with this refinance. >> Do we have any questions at the dis? >> Could I get a motion? I move to approve the resolution for the refinancing of the district's existing 2016 certificates of participation as presented. >> Second. >> All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say I. >> I. Okay. Motion passes. Item 8.02, the Wilson Group contract. Give me a second here. >> Um, board member Garrett, you have a a question. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Could we um get a motion to put it on the floor and then we'll start our discussion? Is that okay? Board member Garrett, would we put
080that in park for just a second? >> I move that the board approve a contract with the Wilson Group for renovations to the Lee Summit High School bathrooms, restrooms. Second. >> Okay. >> Board member Garrett, go ahead. >> Thank you. Um, okay. So, with this particular item, uh, this contract, this involves the, uh, modifying of the gender neutral bathrooms, I guess, with the with the doors. So, that's what we're talking about, the modifications for that. Um, I just wanted to see um if there were any thoughts about issues with what we currently have um before we spend the money for modifications as far as potentials within those bathrooms of uh doing any activities, illegal activities in there. >> I'll I'll try to take this for you, Kyle. So that was the design for the Lee
081Summon High School bathrooms was done in 1819. So I can't talk to what who and why they chose the design. I can tell you the design for um Hazel Grove, Greenwood and Pleasantly Middle School do not have these same kind of bathrooms. It'll be to the right one gender to the left another gender sinks in the middle like you typically see. Um they will have some that or all that will still be single rooms. Um on the right, say that's boys and on the left will be girls. Um because we're finding that's what people prefer instead of having the old traditional stalls of our schools when we're kids. Um but we are not uh putting in the design. The teams have not asked for the design uh to be done the same way at least
082some of the high schools done. >> All right. So I'm just trying to clarify. So the way we are seeing the design of the bathrooms going forward. So we're going to have separate like areas for boys. >> Yeah. Just like [clears throat] you a lot of elementaryaries are this way now. You walk and there's a a common sink area. There's boys to right, girls on the left. The difference would be there's going to still be individual almost rooms for the girls and individual rooms for the boys instead of stalls for the girls and stalls for the boys. Um because that's what kids prefer. Okay. And then have we done I'm kind of wondering if if there was any type of data that was gathered whether it was from community, whether it was from students, teachers,
083faculty at where those bathrooms currently are. >> Kyle, I'll let you take handle that one. >> Yeah, it was discussed extensively with our design team. We had um district administration and um building teachers. Um the um as Dr. Buck mentioned, you know, that was you know back almost six years ago now. So um it is it is older older information. We did not get data um externally from that design team. Are you you good for the moment? And just one more. Okay. So, with this um it's not a requirement or anything of the ADA or federal civil rights mandates, right? It's just a >> No, it's a modification that >> No, it's actually a modification I asked Kyle Guerrrell to look into once I saw the bathrooms. I wanted them to go from floor to
084ceiling so we'd never have any issues. So, it's actually um my initiated to be proactive so we would never have issues. >> All right. Well, if it's not legally mandated, um how how would it be prioritized above other deferred maintenance? >> I think to me, I think you want to make sure kids are safe in that setting. So, if I can think back um maybe three or four years ago in a boy's bathroom that was not like these bathrooms. Um we had a boy take a picture of another boy from another stall, right? That could be pretty traum traumatizing. So, we want to make sure that can't happen in any of our bathrooms um that we we design and it would be extra traumatic if it was a boy and girl doing that, right? So,
085that's why the I suggested we do this and thank you for Kyle for um figuring out the solution. The big piece of this is when you go floor to wall, you have some uh um requirements sprinkler systemwise. That's why it does have a cost to it. So I should say there that is a requirement. If we do this, you have to update the sprinkler system in the area. >> All right. And just one more. Um, has anyone considered how this remodel will now increase the ease for students to vape or do other dangerous behaviors without the ability for building staff to identify and address the problem? >> It would be no different than if we didn't do it because we don't go into stalls or private bathrooms with kids. So, it's still still the same
086thing. Okay, I I can appreciate all that. I'm just wondering if we've considered um the issues, the significant issues as from what I understand with Lee Summit High School with students vaping in the bathrooms and um if this would provide more opportunity unch can I say something as a really recent practitioner, I'll be real honest with you. This has nothing to do with vaping or kids going into the bathroom with their girlfriend or their boyfriend. This is a This is like they're wanting to improve a I mean, if we're wanting to go after that, like we got a whole different can of worms to open. This this I I mean, I my room was right across the hall from a bathroom. You don't want to go into the bathroom. Maybe you don't have to. Um
087just because you just don't, right? So, that is not what I don't I don't think that's what this is about. We have not heard complaints that Lisa Man High has excessive vaping in the bathroom. Um several years ago, maybe five years ago, we had that at a different high school. Um that that request and look into it worried about. We've not to my knowledge have ever had uh awareness of of a higher rate of vaping at least in my high school versus other high schools. >> Thank you. So, I just um I would hope that we recommend um like getting information from students first and see how they feel about it and possibly having meeting with the board or dinner with the board and seeing how the community feels about it. >> Okay. Um thank
088you. Uh board member Garrett, are you you're in a good Okay. Uh, board member Haley. >> Thank you. I just have a couple of comments and one question. Um, I I have u been contacted by a number of parents whose have children at least summit high and uh whose children don't like the genderneutral bathrooms. Now, I completely agree with Dr. Buck that these have to be secure and our students have to feel safe when they're in these genderneutral bathrooms. Um, my question is moving forward, is this the model that we're going to use moving forward when we do a renovation on Lee Summit North? Um, I mean, it seems like that, you know, we just spent a pretty significant sum of money upgrading Lee Summit High School and now we're throwing another $75,000 at it
089to fix a problem that occurred because we did this. >> So, the short answer is no. That is not the model going forward. >> Okay. So, this is not the model we're going to use going forward. >> That is correct. >> Thank you, Dr. Buck. Thank you, Kyle. >> Um, but Mr. Haley, we you're good there. Okay. Um, board member Dawson. Sorry, I kind of got lost on my order here. Sorry. >> Um, just just want to do a course correction for anyone who's listening to the discussion at the dis. the specific item that we're considering and approving um or reviewing and voting on um has already been discussed number one at the at the Monday uh finance committee meeting. Number two, it has nothing to do with the original design of Lee Summit High
090School from six years ago. This is a specific um ask for $75,000 to fix a security and safety issue which Dr. Buck explained um that is specific to the risk of someone sliding a cell phone uh into those um into those stalls and the risk of it being a boy girl boy situation or any two students situation. Um so this is a simple ask where they found a cost-effective way to uh to make this security fix because they have to add sprinklers and detectors inside if they put the doors floor to ceiling. So there was a little additional cost. So um this has been discussed, this has been reviewed. This is a cost-effective um from what I've learned cost-effective uh solution. And I just want to be clear about that that some of the other
091discussion points and questions about vaping, about general neutral bathrooms, about the design have nothing to do with the thing that we're voting on. So just to be clear. >> Okay. Uh Dr. Nickens. >> Thank you, board member Dawson. That's exactly what I was going to say. Thank you. Just for clarification. >> Any other questions or discussion? >> Okay. So, we have a motion on the floor and a second. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say I. >> I. I. >> Opposed. >> Okay. One. Motion passes. Okay. Okay. Item 8.03, the first American lease agreement extension for Lenovo Chromebooks grades 6 through 12. Could we please get a motion? >> I move that the board approve the contract for the extension of our master lease agreement with the first [snorts] American for
09215 months at the cost of $85,295.85. Second. >> Okay. Any discussion here? Any questions? This item was asked to be moved from consent. Do we have any board member Garrett? >> All right. Thank you. Um, okay. Okay, so this was about the 15-month extension for Lenovo Chromebooks grades 6 through 12th uh making a single payment due July 1st, 2026. Okay. As a board, we must ensure that our technology investments be balance fiscal prudence with the student um performance and the staff suggests that this extension avoids an immediate refresh. We are essentially paying over $800,000 to bridge 15 months on hardware that is already three years old. If we know that the device prices and interest rates are trending upward, um kind of limping along an old hardware might actually be more expensive than starting a
093fresh lease now. Is that something that we consider? >> Yes, that is something we have considered. We feel like the devices have a lot of life left in them. Um, they are good with Google updates, I believe, until 2033. Um, from a physical hardware standpoint, kids are hard on Chromebooks. They're going to be hard on brand new Chromebooks. They're they're hard on three-year-old Chromebooks. This is well within our um repair window on keeping the devices maintained. So, we do not have any concerns of in that nature. And then um sorry one more regarding the equipment schedule number one. What is the current failure or repair rate of these specific devices? >> So we don't have a failure rate as far as we're not seeing any failures with batteries or motherboards or anything like that. Um
094repair rate is extremely variable based on building. Go. Middle schoolers are a lot harder on Chromebooks than our kindergarteners are. >> I was I have one, so I know. [laughter] >> Um, are we spending a disproportionate amount of staff time or parts budget to keep these units functional through this 15-month extension? >> No, we do not repair devices on site unless it is a very minor repair. All of our devices are under contract with our lease to be repaired by a third party and then sent back to us. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> Okay, so we have a motion and a second. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say, "I." >> I. >> Any opposed? All right. Motion passes. Thank you. All right. item. That brings us to
095item 8.04, the ATG, I don't know, Ram Industries Contract. I'm not quite sure how I'm supposed to say the name of that company. My apologies to everyone that's laughing at me right now. Could we get a uh a motion, sorry, I cracked myself up. [laughter] Uh could we get a motion, please? I move to I move that the board approve a contract with ATG Sports for the amount of 9,290,784. >> Second any uh board member Haley. >> Thank you. Kyle, I have just a couple of questions. Can you explain to us what the spread is between the 9 or the 9 almost 3 million and the 8.2 million that was originally budgeted for this? Yeah, sure. The um the original 8.2 million was a number um considered by the CAC and recommended by the board
096for the turf alone. It was just turf and the the media surroundings. Um that was uh just a a supposition at the very beginning that we we assumed that that would be the project. After meeting with coaches and um and our design team, additional scope um was needed to to make these complex as well. So addition padding cages, the some dugouts that are in in need of repair and some some plaza work. So, um they do have a much longer list of things that they would like to get accomplished, but um we did pair it down to what we felt were just really the essential elements just around the perimeter of the fields to support the the game play. >> Okay. Um, can you tell us uh what the life expectancy of this product is
097that we're going to be installing and when would the you know the district need to be thinking about replacing them? >> Yeah, sure. Will the um historically life expectancy for synthetic turf has been kind of in the 10 to 12 year range. Um our very early turf that we put in in 2010, we got 10 years out of it. Um the new product that we put down um we are very impressed with its performance and it is now five years old and still looks brand new. Um we also looked at Gardenner Edson. They had a number of fields there that are in that seven or eight year range and um they all look brand new. I can tell you Belton still has an existing um field from that original Southwick Stadium when they renovated that
098and that was I believe it was about 15 years ago that they're still playing on their original tour. So a lot of lot of factors can weigh into >> sure how much it gets used of course. >> So 10 to 15 years would be a reasonable expectation. >> Yes. >> Okay. Thank you, >> Board Member Dawson. >> I just wanted to thank you, Mr. Gur, for sharing all that information. Um, you did a great job explaining it on Monday at the finance committee meeting that board member Haley and I attended, and it was very helpful, and thank you for being so thorough. >> Okay, any other questions? All right. So, we have a motion and a second. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say, "I >> I oppose." Okay. Motion passes.
099Thank you. I know Coach Morhead and I are both very happy to see that pass. All right. 8.05 Audio Enhancement Safe Systems. Could we please get a motion? I move that the board approve the contract with audio enhancement systems for the installation of safe system in all district buildings. The cost of this project is not to exceed 3,225,147.91. >> Second. [laughter] [clears throat] >> Okay. Any uh any board member Haley? >> Thank you. Uh Dr. Shelton, would you explain to us and and the members or the folks in our community that are here exactly what we're buying for three million bucks? >> Um this is this system is called safe system. Um actually I'm wearing one of the devices as I stand here tonight. Safe system is part of a larger uh integrated system that
100we're bringing into the district. Um this particular system grander system has uh audio enhancement. We've had audio enhancement in our district for 20 20 plus years. Uh we currently have it K2. Our hope is to expand audio enhancement to K5. That same system also has the safe safe system. >> Okay. When you say audio enhancement, what does that actually mean? >> Audio enhancement means exactly what that sounds like. enhancements. It's teachers wearing a lapel mic, a mic that hangs around their neck uh and it amplifies their voice. And for those who have taught or spoken spoken uh throughout the day in a large room, um this allows them to speak in a normal tone and project because speakers are throughout the classroom. And so we have that currently K2 and our hope is to expand
101that in the near future K5 and then eventually districtwide. Part of that system is called is a safe system as well. And so we can purchase the system districtwide as a blueprint footprint to expand this service, the safe system, which is part of the bond um promise, if you will, uh upgrade safety and security around the district. Uh we dedicated $6 million within the bond to upgrade safety and security. This is that promise. But as part of a bigger plan, a bigger picture, eventually we want to have audio enhancement K12. Additionally, this can act uh eventually as intercoms and you'll start to see this upgraded to intercom systems throughout our district as well as bell systems. And so the safe system, what we're requesting tonight, recommending tonight is about meeting that promise to upgrade safety
102and security and every teacher in our district the ability to carry a panic button and in the event of something something happening they can lock down the building. You hear about it around the nation. This device also has the ability to alert the office in the case of an emergency and then a non panic button emergency. Students having a seizure, there's a fight in the hallway, something's going on and they need immediate attention. They also can do that with this badge. And so it's keeping that promise in the bond, upgrading our safety and security, but it's also part of a larger plan to to integrate um audio enhancement, intercom systems, bell systems, and it all comes at a one-time cost with bond funds. Sometimes you'll see other other devices advertised, and they come with an
103annual fee, and so hundreds of thousands of dollars every year coming out of operating. This is a onetime capital cost. has a life expectancy just like with audio enhancement of 15 20 years. >> Okay. Thank you, Dr. Shelton. Um and and just for the record, I'm in favor of this. I just felt like it was important that our community heard what functionality was for the price tag. >> It's an incredible tool. >> Yeah, I I'm I'm 100% for it. I just felt like the community need to hear it. Thank you. >> And if if I can add, um they use a different product, but it would have been not bond eligible because it's C it's a subscription eligible. same costs over the life that we couldn't use bond money for it. But Barrell County School
104System had a school shooting about a year and a half ago. Um they had a a panic button every staff member that was enacted. Um and within 40 seconds that meant a officer was engaging that person and within uh one minute that person was in cuffs. But even at that speed three people lost their lives. Time is lives. Had they not had a panic button, more lives have been lost. So um I know it's a big expense. it is bond money the way we we're doing it instead of operating money which is what they did. Um but I thank everyone for voting yes on the bond issue because we want to be prepared in case something ever happened like that and let's hope we never have to use it. >> Excellent. Okay, we good. Any
105other questions? Okay, all those in favor, please raise your right hand and say I. >> I Okay, motion passes. Okay, board members, you have written reports from Woodland Elementary, Summit Lakes Middle School, and the second quarter CIP update at your disposal. Anybody see that? Okay, I think this concludes our business for this evening. Thank you for being here.