001okay I'm going to go ahead and call this work session to order can I get an adoption of the agenda I move to adopt the agenda as presented second all right motion and second all those in favor raise your hand and say I I I motion passes all right so first up on the agenda we have item 2.01 board committees so today is an opportunity for us to discuss uh the the different committees if there are questions about the Committees if we would like to reorganize the way committees are structured or also if we would like to talk about Community engagement with the Committees um to start off I can say that um one thing that has been discussed is community feedback with committees and I met with the citizens advisory committee steering committee and
002we discussed what might um what might it look like to have meaningful uh feedback from community members when there is a potentially even a controversial subject or just anytime a person wants to submit feedback to that committee for that one Committee in particular at the times that they do meet it is a work session that is very structured and planned and so they did not feel um this group that I talked to didn't feel like having public comment might be the the best use of time during those meetings so in in those discussions we were bouncing around some ideas of what what might be some ways for Meaningful feedback and an option that was presented was potentially to have a an option on our website like a a contact us feature on the website that
003would list out the different committees and emails uh anybody that reached out to the committee on that would automatically send an email to the chairs of those committees with that feedback so that way the chairs of each committee would be receiving any feedback from community members and then they could share that at some point during the meetings um so this would be a way to um just kind of streamline that communication but allow people to be able to provide their feedback and know that their feedback is received without having to come in to speak at a meeting does anybody have any thoughts on that suggestion um is that something that we would maybe want to explore with all of the different committees or do we feel maybe that there might be different committees that would
004allow for you know public comment and more engagement interaction or I know what does everybody else from the board think Dr B I think it's a great idea I wouldn't do it to all committees so if you look like the belter scholarship you probably don't want to have that because you don't want a people to influence you because you're selecting someone who's actually had chance to get money so there might be some in here you do not want to do uh that for like parliamentarian I don't know what that would look like to contact us to the Parliamentary so there might be a few in here you'd want to remove from that but I think it's a great idea to have contact us I know two of the um committees that I am on um
005so Lee Summit cares and um the leis some Educational Foundation and I mean I I could always take some public comment if there's something that wants to be relayed I don't foresee anything really I mean those I think very positive and I don't see anything I don't know maybe some suggestions I guess but okay so I wonder if it' be uh ideal if we just go through the list because I'm I'm thinking in particular with those they would probably want to contact the organization directly true um okay so uh first up going down the list we have the audit committee would we want to allow or includ feedback in the audit committee is that something that would be necessary BR member Miller I'm not on the audit committee but I was just just for clarification
006so are you thinking I mean I know it's open discussion but are we thinking that um depending on the committee that we would [Music] have um individuals just be able to sit in on the meeting and then like sign up for public comment if they wanted or is it an is it a back and forth kind of Engagement is what you're thinking about like between because you know when I think of public comment you think of the person is just talking at us like giving us information versus are you wanting are we thinking like a back and forth dialogue kind of Engagement I think that could be dependent on each committee so I think if we go down this list we can kind of look at it so even in the audit committee that is
007typically a presentation from our audit so we sit there we listen to the information and then we are given the opportunity to ask questions um I don't know that for that one we would necessarily need public comment I think there would be the opportunity for uh for people to sit in the audience um and I know that the auditor comes and sits in our board meeting and is prepared to answer our questions um so I think if a member of the public did have questions they would be able to even potentially ask the auditor or ask us and we would be able to relay those questions um so I don't I don't know that we would necessarily need that for the audit Committee in particular um okay board member Haley yeah I was just going
008to mention if if there's not a mechanism to deal with these uh comments that are made suggestions that are made I mean the the committee if we're going to do this it's going to just be going through the motions if there's not a mechanism to deal with the suggestions so that's going to fundamentally change the process that the committee uses if they're going to take feedback from outside the committee so I mean I think that might be a little more of a fundamental change in the way the committee is functioning rather than just say hey if you guys want to talk you know get up and give us some feedback agreed I I think we'll we'll probably get to that with some of these other committees that we'll be discussing here um okay looking at
009the beler scholarship do we agree that we don't really need Community engagement on that one okay board policy review and update committee so that one is already open so you know um it's an open meeting so people can come in and participate if they choose to and and we've actually had some folks do that this year that that came in from the community if I'm not mistaken to the policy Review Committee what does that look like does that just mean attendance or are they able to speak and engage they can ask questions I mean they're attending they're they're observing the process okay is that something that we want to have specifically outlined um as far as what that looks like I mean I think traditionally it's just been open I mean I don't want to
010over I mean Dr Carlson is yeah okay so if there was a person that came to the meeting because they were really upset about a policy they would have the opportunity to engage with people prior to the meeting watch the meeting and then be able to ask questions later um so that their feedback would be received and it would be taken into consideration when the committee was liting okay thank you okay next is the citizens advisory committee Dr Buck I think this and the next one would be really well done with a a contact us um and I take that from the steering committee of CAC when they kind of went through this um they made a good point that there's volunteering um and volunteers are going might be harder to come by if you
011uh have it be um a Hot Topic right in front of everybody they would rather have the feedback and then decide all right do we need to do a poll survey or some other kind of uh um engagement to figure out what everybody needs I think would work well for CAC and CIP to have it be a contact us and that's coming from the volunteers and the CAC steering committee okay who do who's currently on CIP is anybody that's here Dr Johnson would you like to weigh in on that if like that would address it haven't had a meeting yet because it has happened yet but um I don't know so I don't know who's in the room that's just the reality I don't know if someone can help me out with that but I
012don't already know who's in the room for the seat setp but I feel like we do get feedback as individual board members about what's on there because that is public information so Dr Barker could you help me out I think it probably depends on where we are on the seup cycle right so in the years that we're revising CIP we have people who volunteered and have been selected to be on the team which sometimes also means people weren't selected to be on the team and so I think contact us would be a really great venue for continuing the work um and and bringing that back to the team we use surveys with the community as well so hopefully there's plenty of opportunity for that and then to Dr Johnson's point on off years that team
013reconvenes once a year to reflect on the progress of the year and make possible recommendations for tweaks or edits um but it also comes to the board for public comment so I think plenty of contact up us would be a really good venue for that both protecting the volunteers who are on the team but also creating a venue for conversation particularly in that year in which I would imagine development looks like for whomever is developing it bring it to the board or bring a draft to the board get some feedback back to the team you know we did that a couple times to make sure you all felt like we were on the right track so that's very public and so then if somebody saw something in public setting they had concern with then that
014would be a venue to get to us as well thank you yep next is finance committee in the finance committee do we have individuals that will come and observe are they able to give input feedback how does that process typically work if anyone has concerns about Finance I'm not sure that would actually lend itself um and I'm only saying that because if you're unfamiliar with the financial statements there's somewhat of a curve to get up to speed with that so unless someone's already you know read in on that they might have a hard time understanding what's going on also they can view the video afterwards so if they had concerns they can send stuff in to the board I mean I guess you could do a contact me but everyone's already be able to view
015it and if they had feedback or they had questions they could send those into the board already I will say they they also don't necessarily make recommendations they're going deeper to make sure they understand so they can answer questions it's still the board that makes a decision on that it's a little different than CIP makes a recommendation to the board the finance committee really doesn't come up with a recommendation so it's a little different function all right next is msba delegates so for that one that's not really a um committee that's two board members that go and represent the board at the msba and so um we've gone through this before where we have the discussion about the msba advocacy initiatives and then we decide as a board are we going to move forward and
016support those or if anybody has any objections to those um so that one is typically handled with board input and feedback parliamentarian I think that one also is very similar in that that's not necessarily a committee that is um going forward with Community feedback and student board Representatives selection committee feel like that is also similar and then that one is not a interactive okay business Round Table they tend to not make a recommendation either they're more um in line what we were talking about with finance committee they take a deeper dive sometimes into things but they don't make a recommendation to the board okay next is health and wellness and it is not Shelley Sanders anymore sorry about that this is an old document this one um so this is a committee that I was
017put on this here although um this is one that I did reach out to Dr to to Shelley Sanders about um when I first got put on it and she's just like that can it's not and I don't know from her perspective it wasn't a working committee or they didn't meet they didn't have like a schedule that they were meeting or anything like that so there's really nothing happened with that so that's probably something we just need to revisit if that's a committee that we want to Contin with I think it's worthwhile because it's obviously important to focus on health and wellbeing of our um staff but um Dr Buck is that one that will be continued moving forward with someone else uh leading that or was that a kind of like a pratt where
018it was a short-term committee or what are the it used to have a function where they had to do something for a grant or something I believe right Dr Bary can you fill in the historic perspective of why we had the health and wellness yep there's a obligation to complete a health and wellness survey which was the original like Way Way Back reason for the committee it evolved a few times and there was some work with Miss Sanders and others to try to to to make it as meaningful and relevant Beyond just the completion of that survey interestingly though there is um still some work for us to do as it relates to we have a really great strong wellbeing Department out of our benefits department and they run some teams and works and so
019uh we were sort of still in the mix last year of of figuring out how to co-mingle all of that work in a way that's productive and not duplicative and I think that's probably where we have ended up at this point is needing to revisit some of that so is that something that we would want to include board member representation in or if if we're not needing a separate committee if there already doing this work or is that something that we should dissolve this committee moving forward if it's already being done in another capacity what does that so this says students and staff staff is what happens right now in a different department students part is not though um but I am totally fine with with dissolving a board member being on there if we
020need to be so I mean I don't I think it would be great to keep it going or get it back going or figure out what it looks like to keep it going because I do think it's it's important I just I think that we have to maybe like you said Dr barer just come back together and figure out what does this look like now and how do we work with the wellbeing Department maybe yeah and how we might marry because again well beinging department and some of our community business partners um are very focused on um staff well-being and and and the benefits that come through some of our our partners through business services and then there's the student well-being piece that is somewhat in Dr Sean's Department somewhat some in Dr Wilson's department
021but I don't see any harm in bringing it together I'll differ to Y allst in terms of whether or not board membership is you know always welcome okay well if it's if it's okay with for president and um Dr Buck I mean I would love to visit with whoever I need to to get us up back and running okay who who would be the the correct contact for I think it would be either Dr bargar or Dr Wilson which Dr barer do you want to be you Dr Barger so that because we got multiple people that might involve so um well I'll follow up with Dr barer and then I'll Circle back and report back to the to the board thank you okay that does um it does bring up a question though that I
022had about this document is that um behind the name of each committee it lists the name of of an individual like the the staff member that that coordinates it I wonder if it would be beneficial instead of listing the name of the individual to list the name of their position um so that as people move and shift in different positions within the district then it doesn't um make it where it's out of date okay next is Insurance health and benefits I wouldn't excuse me I wouldn't say that one open to the public I mean it's I don't know kind of speaks for itself it's within the organization and there are people within the organization that that directly impacts that's on that committee and we do have a contract with someone to review all those things
023so I don't see that one being necessarily having contact to the public and getting their feedback on that okay next is uh parents as teachers Advisory Board this one's really kind of a collaboration group to make sure as kids go you know that might be with us for part of the day or at a private uh facility for part of the day with us part of the day at home part of the day it's that collaboration to make sure we're we're all rowing the same boat to help out that child so I don't think this is one you'd want to have um I don't know I'm looking back at Stacy was shaking her head do you kind of agree Stacy so I feel like I mean I've been on that committee before I think that
024that one um could be similar to like CAC or um the cfmp maybe just if people had questions about you know parents as teachers or who to go to I don't know if or how to get involved maybe just an ask like an inquiry kind of so would that be a good one then to have that contact us listed on the website contact us that's what I meant okay all right next is team Le Summit it's internal and they do survey every single staff member already and they had a poll survey this year a follow-up survey so I I think they're already getting input from the folks um that it would impact from the members that have served on team Le Summit is there any concern about the uh the information that is getting to
025team Le Summit are the the surveys and the techniques that are being used right now is that sufficient to get team Le Sumit the information that we need do we want to just leave that as is or is there any recommendations for adjustments I would leave it as is again it deals with Personnel matters and so the people in the room are the stake holders who are directly impacted by that and so I think we should leave it as is so if a staff member has a concern and they want to take it to team Le Summit is there a clear way for them to know who their representative is so that that information can get related to team Le Summit they all employer groups are represented and so you would know that employer group
026and that's so you could share that information and they they elect and select their representative so um when there's an opening they all get together and pick who the representative is and we've had things come to team Le Summit from outside of Team Le Summit from employers of asking hey can we talk about this then team leaves some and discusses are we going to have this as a topic or not and then move forward if they do um that has happened okay government relations is next um with that one that is um that is open to the public and that's not really committee that gives any guidance or recommendations but as is someone that's been there uh many times I can say that the that group is very um open and social with anyone that
027wants to come in and interact and engage so I don't think there needs to be any formal change for that one I think if you look at this Restless list from here on out they're not necessarily us we just have representation on them they have their own boards and their their their own entities teacher of the year might be the one that's a little different because we partner with the chamber to do it um but again I don't know if you want to have public comment just like we wouldn't want for belter scholarship to influence uh um in a popularity contest or something like that okay so going through my notes um we could add contact us on the website which would then send emails to the chairs or responsible parties for the Committees for
028CAC CIP and and P so are there any other um thoughts or um questions or concerns as far as any changes to community engagement for committees board member Miller I don't um not anything that we've discussed but I didn't know is we're talking about um updating the list and revising it if um based on our last me meeting in our last vote having um the ls EDC on here since we talked about with Dr Buck being on there and then having board president be represented there I feel like that should at least be on here listed yes can definitely add that so looking through this list there was questions about um the frequency and meeting of Health and Wellness but um beyond that one have all the other committees been pretty active and involved and
029had board member engagement CIP would be the other one because it's like a three-year cycle you have one year of 10 meetings and then two years of one meeting so you're in one of the years of one meeting right okay yes okay are there any other committees that we would want to add okay as far as Lis Ed goes I know that's that's a whole new process as we're navigating um getting a new person in place for that and then figuring out board representation but for that one would we need any kind of formal communication process in that I would I would think that that would be another one that if community members had something to say to lsdc they would go directly to them okay okay are there any other thoughts concerns comments board
030member Haley yeah I would like to share some um thoughts I I've been approached by a number of people in our community uh that have asked questions about the the processes uh these committees go through one is the selection process um some people um that have approached me have said that they've applied to be on committees year after year and never get selected but their neighbor gets selected every year kind of thing so uh have we got a transparent process that we used to select these folks and do we publish that I mean I think that would be very beneficial if we would do that add some transparency to this process so folks can know um one of the other comments that I had U heard a number of uh times was that it seems
031like that um that uh employees of the administration are represented at a pretty high rate on a lot of these committees and and there's some question about whether that is U undue influence um from the folks that are going to directly benefit from from what the Committees are are working on so I mean those are that's the kind of feedback that I've gotten you know people are really that I've talked to anyway are very curious about the selection process how they get on a committee and um and that sort of thing so those are uh some issues that the community has brought up personally I Ser I've served on several committees this year I was on the CAC uh still I'm on the CAC and um I felt like personally that there was um a
032lack of um let me make make sure I Ed the right word wording here um in some cases the members of the committee were compartmentalized and were unable to share with the other members of the committee what was what were their concerns so uh you may feel like very strongly that we need to do X and somebody else feels very strongly that you need to do why but you're not able to talk about it and figure out why uh so I feel like that that was U detrimental to the process um and I did feel like that the process was Prett orchestrated um and I realized you can't get a whole bunch of people together without having some structure but I feel like that the uh the outcome was pretty much predetermined I mean uh
033the two grade schools were already taken off the board first R out of the box so there was almost $90 million right there that out of the total bond that that was not even up for discussion uh so I mean those are just the kind of things that that I experienced whenever I was on the cic thank you um Dr Buck um could you speak to I guess starting with the selection process for the different committees what that looks like it' be by committee you'd have to go through because they're all a little bit different so some are application based so like business round table it's application based and we say yes everyone applies uh CAC used to be the steering committee would select uh yay or nay based on on application we had stopped
034that um if you apply you're in and and we also uh found we did a audit of where our folks were coming we noticed there was buildings that weren't represented and so we asked uh individuals to join those who had applied but didn't get into Parent Academy because every building submits four names we select two um and and from each building so we we found parents that weren't uh on the parents Academy then we put them on CAC if they were willing to do so so that every building was covered in there in CAC so it just depends like CIP was an application it was a ton of folks and I think you're looking for diversity of of experiences grade levels and buildings throughout the district a lot of times that's what committees are trying
035to do to make sure they have people throughout our community uh involved so but some of them like finance committee it's not an appli I mean it's a defined group of employees um so it just really depends on committee by committee okay having said that can we make the process transparent in some way I mean can we put it on the website or something so people in the community have you know a lens to look through and see what's going on so CAC is is on our website K you want to come up and talk about um that one I also think Business Roundtable is also on our website um some wouldn't be like our board policy Review Committee is internal so it wouldn't be on our website um and Dr Carlson works on that
036one and be honest I don't know how he gets people on that committee um I just gave him the charge to do it and he has done it so ktie you want to talk about CAC and business round table because I know you'll know that answer yeah I would say in regards specifically to Citizens advisory committee and business Round Table I don't know if we have our membership post on our website we certainly could do that we have our Charters and um our agendas at times posted but I would want to remind the board about CIP goal number four which is um completely related to meaningful Partnerships um we have heard some feedback kind of similar that um about does the district really Recruit new people are they bringing are they expanding their pool every
037time we do engagement it is unquestionable that lsr7 is dedicated to meaningful engagement we're hosting countless committees pratts uh community events every year um every administrator on cabinet is probably hosting three or four committees or focus groups where we're inviting people to um into decision making every year but in some ways we've been kind of tracking that in silos so one of the things we identified 18 months ago when our stakeholders with the c process told us it was a priority to have meaningful Partnerships in the next CIP cycle was that we just didn't have kind of collective information sharing I know I hosted two pratts I facilitated two pratts this year I know Dr Kenny and Dr Herzog are facilitating maybe five I don't necessarily know who they invited to their process they don't
038necessarily know who I invited to our process sometimes it's not an invitation sometimes it's an application it looks very different committee by committee based on the individual charge so our actual seub goal for number four is intended to track the individual membership um and the diversity in terms of kind of stakeholder group admin Community member parent staff and actually ensure they by creating a benchmark in this first year that we are recruiting new people to the process so we have a very clear definition that we've taken from msba about engagement that is specific specifically about inviting people into decision making because we know we have different kinds of Engagement somewh we are Gatekeepers of who participates and somewhere we're not so this applies to to the latter category or the former category and what we're
039doing is we're tracking those individuals creating a benchmark of how many Unique Individuals create uh participated in that kind of Engagement this year and then we are um I believe we have to increase it by 30% over the CIP cycle so we have to recruit um new PE ensure that we're recruiting new people to the process every year um as we go through this cycle through 2027 um and so that is a way that we'll be able to actually show data that shows yes we are inviting new people to the process I think anecdotally we would say that but we haven't had that sort of tracking system to be able to show you we would have had to be if you asked us that question prior to this year we'd be like manually tracking rosters
040which is kind of what I'm doing to get to The Benchmark um so that we can create a better system and answer those questions more quickly for you thank you for that explanation all right um Dr bu the other thing that I wrote down that board member Haley mentioned was about staff representation and I know he was specifically uh probably referencing the citizens advisory committee um but would you want to speak to that as far as the staff involve involvement of some of those committees and what that I would we want diversity of thought that's why that group is so much bigger than it was before because when I first came it was 15 people showing up meetings now we have 50 showing up meetings but I would not want to take a take away
041from the folks in the back of the room there that are in there because they have a lot of institutional memory and understanding because we have a lot of questions depend on what the topic is um but they know not to speak first they speak last if they're going to speak but they're there to answer questions and so we we want to we wouldn't want to take away that the rest of those committees like business round table it's Steve and I and 25 business owners usually it show up you know so a lot of our committees are not do not have a lot of folks in there because we don't have the level of Q&A um but I think when you do have a committee that had may have a lot of questions um we
042definitely want to have that I I would hate to talk about secondary not have Chad Herzog assistant superintendent secretary there i' hate to talk about elementary and not have Dr Kenny there so um we we need to have those folks in the room for those kinds of conversations all right do we have any other thoughts questions concerns as we look at these committees I guess I will I will ask as far as board representation do we feel that the current number of board Representatives all in all these committees is fitting I would say for the boards that I'm on that's true so currently team Le Summit it is a larger group so it has two board members as representation but I'm on the Early Childhood advisory committee that's a smaller group that has one person
043so based on my experience in the Committees that I have been on I think they have good representation of us I think we also have to be mindful of the fact that there's only seven of us and we all have other lives and so being mindful of how many committees everyone's on and what you can actually commit and dedicate to and not just show up in a seat I think we have to be mindful of that board member Miller I think the only thing that I would add is I think it would be helpful at the beginning of the news well I mean just reviewing this maybe at our board Retreats or um as we have new board members come on to the board um just the process in which we have you're on a
044committee and then there's an altern alternate for the committee and so what is the process if you can't be you know if you can't show up how what is the process look like to contact you know the alternate to be a part of that so I think that that's something that I think would be helpful to just provide some clarity around for especially well new board members but also just refreshing those of us who you know I think it's helpful to have that conversation perhaps like I said at board retreat or something like that and I will brag on you I think I've seen the alternates used more this year than in the past um I've seen like you know board member Garrett's doing it tonight for parliamentarian right um in the past I would
045see somebody couldn't make it and the seat would just be open but you guys have used your alternates quite a bit on different committees when you can't make it and I appreciate that and I know the committee's appreciate it as well board member Johnson just adding to that in terms of talking about the board uh Retreat and picking committees I think one of the things I realized when I got on school board was that anyone could pick any committee regardless of having knowledge or continuity of being on the committee so I think that that is something to consider um like I wouldn't I don't know how I feel about putting two new board members on finance or Well Finance we can watch maybe not pick that one but I'll say for team Lee Summit that's
046my bias putting two board new board members there and expecting them to not only take on that fire hose of being a new board member been able to actually participate in some of those deeper discussions and bring feedback to the school board to the board itself so I think that's just something to keep in mind also when we bring on new members um and we have a committee having some continuity of someone who has some experience with that committee thank you that actually brings up a great point which is the role of the parliamentarian so um the parliamentarian is supposed to be the Parliamentary procedure expert Beyond just reading the script before public comment and that is not something that we have really utilized or considered or leveraged uh for quite a while um but
047that is something going forward that maybe it's not the ideal position for a brand new board member to be the parliamentarian and maybe that it should be a second or third year board member for that role just in case there are Parliamentary questions that do come up um I know we we we typically have just a few um things that we use as far as you know motions and votes but every once in a while there can be a different situation that we're not used to and so being able to leverage their knowledge and to let them know on the front end we're we're going to count on you to be our go-to so you got to know this stuff um would be very beneficial going forward and to that end uh because the board
048leadership had shared that with me maybe two months ago uh Miss ismer found training so whenever we select the next parliamentarian um we we the district can pay for some parliamentarian in training um because how do you know if you don't know right so um thank you Miss ismer for doing that board president there there's a couple that tradition the president serves on am I correct should we put this on that document so CAC the board president tends to be one of the two is there any others that we need to add that to my is that the only one that's tends to be the board president like is governance I can't remember if governance is tends to be a board president I don't remember that for the chamber I don't believe it does because
049I've just been on that one for a long time okay so so it just might be the CAC that we might want to add that description that one of the two tends to be the board president yes my my description in CAC says says that in here that it's the the president of the board it's on the steering committee I'm sorry I see it in the paragraph now I was looking up the top sorry all right is there anything else at this moment that we want to discuss about committees okay then next up we have item 2.02 legislative update all right so we have uh uh the first since the 1800s we've had a speaker from our area for the house and that's speaker Patterson he listed four things he is um his priorities more
050benefits for foster children additional funding for mental health services finding crime and improving Public Safety and more affordable and accessible child care for Missouri parents it's been a long time since the speaker of the house didn't mention schools um and Senate they have a similar list but they do mention schools um Pro present Pro Temps and de Laughlin um then we had the State of the State address by the governor who pitches a a budget um with that budget it typically doesn't end up being the budget how this works in Missouri the the governor puts out forward a budget uh the house usually sticks with the total dollar amount but they move things around they try to finish by spring break the last few years it's been a couple weeks after spring break they give
051it to the senate senate does their proposal and where the Senate house don't agree they put together a committee to work that piece out where they whatever place they agreed it's it's in and then the governor can sign or veto and Governor can veto uh line veto parts of the budget it's the only thing the governor can line veto they can't on any other thing but they can on the budget so that's kind of how the process goes in that State of the State address there was some pieces that go against our um our uh approved legislative priorities and also goes against the chambers legislative priorities so you have the the district one attached here um and the biggest one would be withholding 300 million for the call of the formula next year so for
052us that's $6.5 million we would notice if we don't get half million next year um I don't know if that'll end up coming out I can tell you that in the Senate I've already heard some folks that um who are influential on the budget side um are probably going to push back on that piece but that's also we have our priorities to fully fund the formula as as does the chamber um open enrollment was also pushed for and we have two bills filed that have been moving an open enrollment our priorities also oppose open enrollment so I'll go over the two bills um Senate Bill 250 15 that's in Senate um is passed out of the Senate education committee I believe at this point and is beginning of this week was number seven on the
053calendar of the senate floor so it could be brought up really soon if it hasn't already I haven't looked today um Senate Bill 215 is an interesting take on open enrollment it's not creating open enrollment per se it's taking what is in a different law for if it districts unaccredited and thus transfers can happen and just expanding it to all districts um so there would be no limits of how many kids you can lose or gain uh I think you can put some limits on gain you could say you have capacity um and that if you lose a kid you have to pay for the transportation to get to that new District so if we had a student so give an example let's say we have one student coming from Liberty here and we have
054one kid from here going to Liberty we both districts would be paying for the excess cost of Transportation um but we'd still get the same amount of state aid because you know we both have the same number of kids so it's a problematic bill in that respect um House Bill 711 that's in the house that's also passed out of committee this is Brad poetz Bill and this is probably maybe year seven that Brad's um proposed this bill it's changed a little bit and years past and started off this year you could deny a kid to come into your District if you chose to participate because they have an IEP well that's problematic um and probably filled with all kinds of lawsuits um so they've finally taken that out um so they've taken that piece out
055um it's still on this bill just like it has been in the past Brad's saying that you um don't have to receive you can choose to receive or not receive students um but you cannot uh say you're not going to lose students so he puts a 3% cap annually you could lose students um so every year it's a new number um 3% of your prior year um in there um I don't believe there's any cost for transportation oh no it contains mileage reimbursements but I think it's also via State funding if that's available um new this year in this bill I believe it's new I don't remember seeing this before um if a student does transfer in you accept that student and they have 80% or lower attendance for a quarter the next quarter you
056can put them on notice saying you have to have at least 90% this quarter or we can say you have to go back to your home school um so that's a different piece so with the Open Enrollment years ago maybe three years ago um we asked um both the assistens advisor committee and business Round Table what they thought of open enrollment when it was getting become a hotter topic um and with that they all were very much unanimous we don't want to participate in no enrollment some of the issues that they were concerned about as only the state taxes follow not the local taxes so our local taxes get diluted bust more kids if we're gaining kids um so that they're worried about that and they're also worried about um the potential conflict if a
057kid's coming here for say sports and there's now they're starting quarterback on the football team but the local kid whose parents are paying local taxes is not allowed to be the starting quarterback then because they a spot was taken from somebody who's not paying local taxes um so that that was some of the thoughts from business round table and citizen advisory committee it was more more complex than that but I'm just trying to simplify they they were also were opposed to that um when we got feedback to give to the board at that time about legislative priorities so open enrollments a um a big piece that's moving um there are a couple things I want to highlight that we're kind of excited about that's moving moving um so right later today in the regular session
058and why you're going to have a why you have a news reporter outside right now is as uh we're going to potentially have a a reduction out of our calendar because we've had so much snow um right now you don't want to go below 169 because you would lose quite a bit of funding right now it's about $650,000 for us for next year in a couple years it would become $1.3 million in today dolls um there's two fixes on that so state allows you to forgive days a whole calculation but Senate Bill 727 did not include that so there's this benefit Financial benefit to go at least 169 days that you lose if you go below it so there's two bills House Bill 607 and 712 that look to correct that and say hey if
059the SE says you can forgive days below 169 you're still good under 727 and can still get the financial piece both those bills also have I believe both of them have um some expans or extension of our um work after retirement which has benefited Us in several spots right Dr Carlson and hard to fill need spots um I believe those are to expire this summer if I remember correctly and so they're looking to ex uh extend those pieces so we've used that for some teachers in special education industrial arts places like that that are hard to fill um so very happy to see those um uh what else um there's a lot of bills on uh been filed about income tax at state level um what I haven't seen is where they're going to replace
060the funding for that so about 65% of the state funding is from income tax we've already had about a 20% reduction and what we pay in income tax all of us who pay income tax it used to be a 6% rate it's all the way down to 4.8% that's a 20% reduction but it's 65% of the revenue so if if they lower that um without other resource other Revenue that would be concerning because can they afford public education and other things they do um there's some bills out there on property tax some are okay and some are pretty honorous so that's something to keep watching um let's see I think that's probably the main things I'm going to pass out something so what the governor said why he wanted to not fund um fully fund
061the formula he said the funding is out of whack I agree but not in the way he is saying so so I'm going to pass this out and I've done this to other groups as well this was looking back at the last decade and a half of um the SAT which is the part of the formula changes so back in 0910 which is fy10 the SAT was 6117 and it should every two years be recalculated um since fy10 if you go down this list there's only two years that the in the inflation was lower or lower than the SAT change in other words the majority of the years vast majority of the years we didn't keep up with inflation so he's right fy2 the SAT is growing quicker than inflation the last time that happened
062was 16 17 school year and then it didn't happen again until you know prior to that so um if sat just grew 1% that far right column if it you can see those far two right columns if it just grew 1% which still isn't keeping up in inflation it still would be higher than it is today so the formula has not C kept up with inflation if you look over this 15 years inflation's increased 38.8% over time the sat's grown 9.43% a difference of 2937 percentage points so it is not kept up inflation so I I agree with things out of whack but I'm not looking just this one year I'm looking at the last decade and a half it's way behind at the very bottom you see those last three lines um as a
063state we rank 50 out of 50 and what the state pays per kid um for public school students we rank seven out of 50 for local and because we the onus is on us localwise to pay for education in Missouri compared to other states so that's something to watch on that personal property tax that almost entirely and not 100% but it's pretty close to it comes from people paying the personal property tax and that's why we want to be good stewards that's why when uh 23 happened we lowered it um 60 cents um 60 plus cents um because we want to be good stewards and we're not looking for a windfall but we if you take away that revenue and the state's already not paying us what other states are paying like no other state
064is paying as low as Missouri is per kid um that would be detrimental to uh us you know fulfilling our mission so that's what I know legislative wise um right now they can file bills up till next week Friday that's the last day they can file new bills after that they can only tweak uh bills that have been filed so they file from 1st of December to February 28th they'll have spring break in March um there is an msba day I don't know legislative how many people do have any sign up we have some so I would encourage you all to go if you can um that's fantastic I can tell you also the chamber uh least Chambers going up on April 1st if you'd like um they also have their leadership academy going up
065next week uh on February 25th um so they they're and they're going to meet with the commissioner of Education because the governor's out of town so they're going to meet with Margie van not Margie van Carling esler going back to the previous one um so you know they're worried about um making sure there's funding for Education our chamber is very supportive of our school district um last I would say is next week I believe is public school week so if you want to send your legisl information please do so we have a legislative breakfast uh Katie do you remember what day that is off top of your head March 21st that the CAC runs um we'll have some students there as well um but there will be quite a few people so please come if
066you want um the format of that one's very different than the one in the fall the fall we kind of do a state of the district address and then a showand tell this year they were Greenwood they went and participated in r s build zones um and that's all all elected officials now just our state legislators this one's state legislators I think we have the highest number saying they're going to come this time basically kids kind of talk about their experiences uh as being a student then they talk about what's going on real quick and then we split up into groups and we rotate the legislators on a regular basis so that way you have small group time with the legislator to ask questions about bills and and give input and and ask questions so
067um that's all I have Madam president thank you Dr BR does anyone have any uh questions about the legislative update okay next up we have item 2.03 Missouri School Board Association 2024 D policy updates Dr Carlson do you have anything you want us point us to before they do their first read this is not the the final time they'll see these but does anyone have any questions at this time board member Miller I don't have questions I I had one more question for the last the legislative update so do you want me to ask now or do you wait since this is a work session I would think that we would have the flexibility if you want to go ahead and ask I just my question was for Dr bu How concerned are you or
068should we be about some of those bills regarding open enrollment so in the past years the house has been in favor of open enrollment and the Senate's been dead set against it but there's been a lot of turnover in the Senate I just don't know how the Senate's going to react to it since they have a a bill pass uh moving on right now if you're going to choose one of the two bills it would be House Bill 7-Eleven because you can them as a district as a board you get to choose participate or not 215 you don't get a choice and 215 the financial cost of the district for any kid leaving it's just it's wasteful because you're paying for a long Transportation which is more expensive than to your neighborhood school um so
069I I don't know I'm more concerned this year and the years past it was very clear Senate was never going to pass it they wanted charter school expansion the house wanted open enrollment expansion they were on different um sides of that topic I don't know where the Senate is this year thank you Dr back with that didn't went pass last year the year before but it gave the it gave the option for a school district to accept a decline students so pretty much all districts could just Decline and then it was it passed the house not pass the Senate and go to the governor so it's it's passed the house multiple times in recent years but it's never passed the Senate got it thank you all right does anyone have any questions about the msba
07024d policy updates okay seeing none this work session is adjourned