001All right. >> To the flag of the United States of America and to the stands. One nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Nice job. >> You're going to come right back up here in just a minute. Welcome everybody. Thanks for being here tonight, friends and family. Here we are in open session. Do we have a motion? I move the board approve the agenda as presented. >> Second. >> Nick, >> yes. >> Jen, >> yes. >> AJ, >> yes. >> Dan, >> yes. >> Drew, >> yes. >> Angie, >> yes. >> Karen, >> yes. >> Motion carries. All right. And then we're on to honoring excellence with Mr. Dallas Acriman. >> Good evening, everyone. And uh yeah, we're going to kick things off with our LPS awards in uh standing for love, perseverance,
002and strength. And we do have some uh Lilian Schumacher Elementary Sharks coming straight from the Shark Tank. Well represented. Also, uh should lead off by thanking Dr. Crony, Dr. Griffin, Miss Hartman for being here. You guys got good seats here for here tonight. So, um, we have three sharks we're going to recognize. Had a chance to meet them before the meeting and and, uh, great kids and look forward to introducing them to you. We're going to lead off with Carly Stafford. Carly, she brought a lot of family with her tonight. Appreciate them all being here. Also, your teacher, Miss Robinson. Thanks for being here. I'm going to read a little bit about you. She nominated you. Carla is a wonderful example of love, positivity, and strength in her classroom. She comes to school every morning
003with a bright smile. I've seen it tonight. And a positive attitude that lists those around her. Carly works extremely hard in class and is always looking for ways to improve her learning. Truly showing her strength as a go-getter and determined student. She took on her leadership role by helping plan or win her classroom party and by running our classroom store with responsibility and pride. Carly is always kind to others, respectful and supported. She truly has a heart of gold. Carly, I love to surround myself with people like you. So, so glad to award you with Anders. Anders, when I saw your name submitted, your name, Andrew Stadler, are you a golfer? Just rang a bell to me. Ander Stadler, you want to be a golfer? >> All right, let's continue. This is what Miss Salman
004shared about you, Anders. You're a wonderful student. You persevere by doing the right thing consistently. uh you lead by example and often loans a helping hand to other students who need help either academically or socially. In class, he is engaged and always gives his best effort, often going above and beyond the assigned task. His responsibility and capacity to push himself while helping others do the same is a unique characteristic that sets him apart from his peers. I'm very proud of Anders and all that he continues to demonstrate and achieve in the classroom. Congratulations. I still think he's going to be a golfer. Laya. Here's Laya. You were nominated by Mrs. R. Mrs. >> What? Who is Mrs. R? You're a teacher. Very good. Uh Laya, you embody quiet impact in both our classroom and our
005school community at Lillian Scheacher Elementary. Laya's kindness and positivity come so naturally to her without effort that they shine through her actions each day. Her presence makes our classroom a brighter, more welcoming place. and she is a joy not only to her peers but to me as well. That was from your teacher. How great is that? That is so nice. Here's an award for you. Congratulations, Laya C. Pretty great group. We had a lot of uh awesome uh nominations this month and we'll look forward to recognizing more of our schools here coming up as we continue to work our way around the district. Uh tonight we also wanted to publicly recognize live and in person. Dr. Allegri, would you please come up? Come up. Hopefully everyone saw this on our social media and our various
006platforms. Uh this is Dr. Reagan Allegri, principal at Heritage Middle School. You are in your fifth year and 20th year in education. I just real you're getting a little more experienced. >> So, she was surprised on Thursday morning uh January 22nd, just about a month ago, with the news that she was named the Neil Penirthie Middle level principal of the year by the Missouri Association of Secondary School Principles. uh she was uh actually named the greater Kansas City middle level principal of the year. That's about a year ago or so. That was an all school assembly on that day. What I learned uh from that as from the event just about a month ago was the all school parade through the school. What they did uh for this award was even better than an all
007school assembly. just so much excitement and just a great um great morning and we're so uh proud of her. Uh also wanted to share that she will now be a part of the national competition will go to Washington DC to be honored with the other 49 state winners coming up later this spring. No pressure, but we're really anticipating you being the national medal level of of the year. Uh we wanted to uh also mention a special guest with her tonight, husband Daniel, daughter Gia, and son Rush. And they are growing up fast. >> Oh my goodness. So again, we wanted to congratulate you and uh wish you nothing but the best. >> Thank you so much. So with that, that concludes honoring excellence for this evening. >> Thank you, Mr. Acriman. Let's take like a
00810-minute recess and then we typically like to come and say hi to all of you. And before you know, you all head on to your evenings, we just want to congratulate you on your wonderful children and of course congratulate Dr. Alley. So we'll take a few minutes. Good morning. purple. >> They have purple shop. >> Well, you can go in there. They got >> All right. We're going to move on now to item 2.4 and that is public comment. I do have a card so I'm going to read our public comment um information. It is that speakers may address any subject concerning Liberty Public Schools andor education. Board members will not engage in debates or discussions with those speaking other than to seek clarification of their comments. Speakers will address the board from the podium,
009are asked to keep remarks concise and to the point, and will not repeat what someone before has said. A person or persons may speak only once at the meeting. If several patrons wish to speak on the same topic, the board president may restrict the input to one or two spokespersons. Each speaker shall be limited to three minutes. Profane language or comments that constitute a threat to the safety of others is prohibited. Spontaneous comments from the audience will not be tolerated and may close public comment. In the event board members agree the normal flow of business is being unnecessarily delayed, they may by majority vote wave or end public comment. Concerns brought forward during public comment may be addressed by the superintendent or appropriate staff members usually within a week. And that is part of our
010we have a board policy BDDBH-1 that governs our public participation at board meetings. So I have at this time one card um Doug Cluck if you would please come forward and you can give us um your comments. Thank you for being here tonight. >> Thank you all for uh for allowing me to come. Um I'm not known for my brevity but I will I will attempt it. So, we were going to send a letter and hope you guys would just read it or whatever, but then I was told, "No, no, no. You got to come in and actually speak." So, this is written as a letter and I'm going to jump around a little bit, so bear with me. Um, basically, uh, my child, he's 19 years old, sped program, you all know what that
011means. Um, special education. Uh, we're writing or I'm speaking to you on behalf of all the concerned parents, sped parents to discuss, uh, educational programming. uh currently not being provided for students with intellectual and physical uh disabilities at Liberty High and Liberty North High School. Um now I'm going to jump down to here for a bit of background. Students with disabilities age 18 to 21 who have an individualized education program IEP um and have not yet earned a standard high school diploma are generally eligible for 18 to 21 transition services. These services are designed for students who have met graduation requirements but require continued support to transition to adulthood often in involving social graduation without uh receiving an official diploma. So I'm going to go back up. Uh my question tonight is one of my
012questions or concerns, however you want to look at it, has uh uh when did when did Liberty Public Schools decide to limit these students from 18 to 21 um uh for that program um beyond well beyond beyond uh the normal graduation time for a senior. So these individuals are commonly referred to as super seniors and we we totally appreciate the efforts of the current special special education staff. We believe there is a significant opportunity to enhance the outcomes of our students by reviving this program. um when he was a kindergartener at Manor Hill, uh we had the opportunity to go to Liberty North and they had a great program for sped kids, sped adults, sorry, young adults who um um were there until the age of 21. I don't that program I think has gone
013away. Um just to let you guys know what our experience has been. And then um specifically we'd like to address the pre-appropriate uh public education uh and IDIA requirements as they pertain to transition needs for students up to age 21. Transition planning to adult uh life is a critical juncture for these young adults. The need for functional academics, life skills, and community- based instruction is paramount for these students. I'll remind remind the uh the board that uh the Supreme Court Andrew versus uh Douglas County School District 2017 raised the bar requiring IEPs to be appropriately ambitious uh which applies to trans transition planning ensuring more than dimminimous progress. Parents of special education uh students would like to have the opportunity for their student to engage in this important program. So that's what we're um letting
014you know about. The program uh to our knowledge doesn't exist. Uh it's uh we can give you a lot more detail if you talk to my wife. >> Thank you. Thank you, Mr. I appreciate your time and we'll have we administration. I I see that you've indicated you wish to be contacted by superintendent or so. >> Absolutely. >> All right. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> All right. Then we will move to item 3.1 or 3 actually the whole three point the consent agenda sorry item three are adopted rules of parliamentary procedure Robert's rules provide for a consent agenda listing several items for approval of the board by a single motion documentation concerning these items has been provided to all board members and the public in advance to assure an extensive and thorough
015review. Items may be removed from the consent agenda at the request of any board member. >> I move the board approve consent agenda items 3.1 through 3.6. >> Second. >> Nick, >> yes. >> Jen, >> yes. >> AJ, >> yes. >> Dan, >> yes. >> Drew, >> yes. >> Angie, >> yes. >> Karen, >> yes. >> Motion carries. >> All right. And then we're on to reports from the administration. >> Yeah. First this evening under 4.1 is our innovation and learning report with Dr. Moore. >> Good evening. Um, a few things I wanted to highlight. First, I'm sure you saw this, but for everyone who's watching, um, Liberty Public Schools was awarded the, um, first ever Carnegie award for impact. Um, that is awarded for impact on student success in high school and preparing students
016to thrive beyond graduation. So we found out maybe a week and a half or two weeks ago um that we received this honor along with two other organizations. Um nationally they had um over 100 applications and we were um honored to receive that. So we'll get to share our story um later next month at a national summit. Um so we're excited to do that. Um we had a great day of professional learning on Friday. So, wanted to say thank you to those of you who were able to come. Um, we had over 800 um staff members who used our new event leads app and um rated the sessions, gave us feedback on the morning. Um, our most uh popular session was Dr. Dilts, I believe, is how you say her name. She's a pediatrician here
017in town. Um, and she talked about inside the anxious mind. And so we had um standing room only all the way in the back. We couldn't fit everyone in there. But um also Michael McDow was there talked about elementary math instruction and um secondary um spoke about the attention gap. So he's always a popular one as well. Um and then hopefully you were able to see some of our exhibits. I'll share some of the pictures with you if you weren't able to, but our schools put on um some great real world learning exhibits so we could see all the great things they were doing. Um, a few other things I wanted to uh share from the board report. Um, our graduate followup, which is a part of our APR, um, we had all but two
018students um, who we were able to make contact with from the class of 2025, which is really impressive. Um, and very similar to kind of their plans when they left, 72% of our graduates um, are attending a two or fouryear college. So, just wanted to share that stat and thank Kelly Saluri and the two high schools for he tries to do as much as he can and then he sends those that he can't find to the high schools and they help out. So, we appreciate that. Um, also on February 6th, we had a successful shadow search day for all seventh graders across the district. We had 75 businesses and organizations. Um also many LPS teams including our custodial department um and students from ProStart um there to um just educate students on all the different
019opportunities that they have. Uh next week we will be um sharing our story of liberty at the um Kaufman conference talking about personalized competency based learning. um we'll be doing a presentation along with the Lebanon school district and Raymore peculiar and so that is on the 24th and then the next day there will be a very large group of people from districts around the state coming to Liberty High School to learn about EDG um some of our other real world learning programs um and really dive into competency based learning. And then finally just wanted to remind you that we do have a walkthrough at Liberty High School tomorrow. Those are starting to kind of wind down. So, um, hopefully you can make that. That is all we have. If you have any questions, I'll take
020them. >> Is the very large group, one group or multiples coming at the same time? >> It's a very large group um all coming together um on buses and they but they're from all of just many different districts >> from different districts here for that real world learning conference. >> Yeah, >> we've done this before. We did it last year or two years ago, I can't remember. They went to Carney in the morning and then they came here in the afternoon. Um, so they will come and they'll spend about two and a half or three hours at the school. So they kind of dive in a little bit deeper. >> So are they working with the students? I mean, are they observing? >> They'll be observing students and then they'll be working with the teachers.
021We'll have students, we'll take them on tours of the building and then we'll have student panels as well. So if you're interested, I can send you the um time for that. >> Job shadowing comments. Did you say how many students or >> seven? >> All seventh grade students went and did that. Um it was held at South Valley Middle School and Discovery Middle School. Okay. >> And so they were able to go between the two buildings and um just a great turnout. >> Okay. Thank you. >> I I can't thank the community partners enough for coming and showing up. They they don't have to do that and I think it just makes a world of impact on those kids and it's just great and um >> kudos to the team that puts that together. I
022think actually the teachers should go to that and see like what all the other careers are like. >> I'm just >> um you mentioned there was some more to come with the Carnegie teaching award. Is there going to be some like more roll out or award presentation or something along those lines? >> We're not really sure. Um I know that we have a presentation um fire chat um that we will do at um a national summit and then we're kind of learning what comes with it as we go. Um it's just amazing the number of people that have reached out and have asked about it. Um just different organizations and different consultants and authors who are like can we get some time to hear what you're doing? And so that's been really um really fun
023just to to get our name out there even more than it was. >> And the intent is that the awardees the work that they're doing like that work is replicable. >> Um so the opportunity to tell the story but then also how did we how did we get to where we are with the real world learning work. So we'll have opportunity to share that. >> And the Carnegie is a part of the organization we joined a couple years ago. Is that right? It's the technically it's the Carnegie Foundation for Education and Teaching I believe is the the title. >> Thank you. >> But yes, we we joined part of we joined part of the high school transformation network. This this sits separate from that. >> Okay. >> Um but there is there is some convergence
024there. So >> were we invited to join it? Is that it was >> it was an extended invite. Yes. And so we had to go through this process of not only filling out some paperwork, but there was an interview that was involved >> interviewed on process. >> So >> there's been a lot of work put in by you and your team as well to make this to to to get to this point. >> We want to share the great things that we're doing here and that our teachers and our staff are doing. So >> absolutely. It's a big deal. >> Oh, sorry. I noticed one more thing. Um, huge response for summer school teaching. >> Yes. >> Any thoughts on I mean obviously it's good news. Great stuff. >> It is. It's >> Yeah. >>
025A little extra pocket change. >> So benefits us increase the salaries for No, I'm just kidding. >> So it benefits us. We don't have to go higher. We don't have to get subs, right? Are we going to have to turn teachers away? >> I don't think we'll have to turn away. Um I mean it's I'm like, we've never had this problem. >> No, we did have a good turnout even on the admin side, too. I mean, usually we always have um some teachers that want to do that as well, but we're hoping that we have very, you know, very few subs and we can have our our >> teachers in the classroom. >> Awesome. >> And keep keep your fingers crossed. We have a little ways to go between now and start of summer. Just
026saying. So, we may we may still need to rely on Kelly services a little bit. >> We will. >> Thank you. Okay. Thank you. >> Thanks, Dr. Moore. Uh, next then is 4.2, our student equity and access report with Dr. Dixon Seymour. >> Hello everyone. >> Hello. >> Just a few things to share from uh the student equity and access report. Um, I just wanted to note that Karen had reached out to me today and asked if it was too early to share any information on kindergarten enrollment numbers since of course they're in the report. And I was like, "No, not too early." And as a matter of fact, we looked up some information on not just where we are now, but where we were this time last year and the year before. So, we
027are currently at 136 kindergarten students whose families have fully completed the registration process. This time last year, we were at about 141 and the year before that at about 140. So, we see a trend that we're pretty much on par with where we are those first couple of weeks after we open up registration and uh we'll just continue to give you updates each each month as we you know inch closer and closer to the new school year. So, thanks for asking that question. I also wanted to highlight uh with respect to the special programs department and the work that we do with conscious discipline um that we were uh a host uh for area districts uh on a lunch and learn and Jill Moly who was the chief growth officer with conscious discipline. She was
028our guest presenter and facilitator and we had a total of eight districts uh in attendance and various leaders from those districts. So obviously LPS was represented. We also had Blue Springs for Sage Kansas City Kansas Carney Lonejack North Kansas City and Spring Hill. So you notice that I mentioned two districts even on the Kansas side of the state line. So um that was a very successful convening. And then also afterwards, uh, Miss Mully had an opportunity to meet with some of our district leaders to just talk about ways that we can continue to provide, uh, behavioral supports for our learners. So, very successful day. Um, and just want to give kudos to uh, Dr. Meisenheimer for helping to coordinate that convening. also wanted to announce that within the special programs department, Natasha Cole, who is
029an English language development, ELD parah, she was named support staff member of the year at Discovery Middle School. So, we're very happy to hear that news and want to congratulate Natasha. Also, let me go back to student services. We want to note that Stacy Bis who is one of our student services associates, she was named support staff member of the year for the district administration center. So um I can personally attest that she is a tremendous tremendous asset to this organization and especially the student services department. So that is what I wanted to share for this evening. I'm glad to take any questions if you have any. >> Any questions of Dr. Dixon Seyhour? just the the grant for the Klay County Children's Services. That's the two year is that that two-year grant >> that
030two-year grant cycle that we go through. So our it's time to you know submit that information and uh hopefully uh be funded for that endeavor so that we can continue to support the things that we have listed here on the >> Dr. Dixon Seahhorn uh conscious discipline elementary level. Yes. >> Yes. >> And in all the elementary buildings or >> Yes. >> Okay. Okay. All of our elementary buildings and we're also in the process of having conversations about expanding that to our middle schools. >> Okay. >> It is very wellreceived. Um so um Dr. Meisenheimer and her team are having conversations with school leaders at the middle school level to look at how we uh build capacity or expanding that to the middle level. >> Okay. Thank you. >> One last question. I'm sorry. Um,
031the hope squad, I forget if the application process for that is in the spring or if you start that in the fall. >> You know, that's a good question and I don't have that answer for you. I just know that we we did that initial round of application. We had a number of students that returned. Let me find it out and I'll just follow you. >> That'd be great. Thank you. >> Could you put that in the Friday update? >> Yes, I will. >> That would be great. Thank you. >> Yes, ma'am. I will. and not not a question but just a comment from your first remark around kindergarten enrollment and where we stand presently. Just as a point of reference, uh you may recall we started this year with about 715 students in kindergarten
032which was up a little bit from last the previous year's kindergarten class which will be this year's first graders which is right at 683. So definitely something to watch as we work through the summer and welcome those families and and kindergarters in in August to see kind of what that enrollment trend is. >> Um we went down a little bit but now we're starting to see a little bit of an uptick at least with this last year. So >> thank you Dr. D. >> Thank you. >> Our next then is 4.3 and that is our finance report with Mrs. Sullivan. >> Good evening. I have one donation to recognize and it is our quarterly donation of supplies valued at $677.26 from office max to benefit the students and staff at Manor Hill. Like to thank
033them for their continued support of Manor Hill. Um collection rate update, we are at 82% for the current year. This is down significantly from 97% that we collected last year at this time. Our biggest collection should have been this past Friday. So, I'm hoping that we will get a collection again on the at the end of the month like we did in January instead of one getting two and hopefully get closer to catching up to where we should be at this time of the year. So, keep you updated on that. Next month, we will begin our budget presentations which I know you are all very excited about. Um, and we will look at revenues in March. What? >> We are excited. Anxious. >> Yeah, anxious is probably the best way to put it. >> Um,
034and the last thing I have for you tonight is that the um audit and finance committee did review the financial documents and everything that was presented to them and they did not have anything to pass on to you other than what's in my report. That's all I have for you tonight, but I would be happy to take any questions that you might have. operationally, even though we're behind, we're still okay. >> We are. We are. The cash flow is good and um it could be better, but we will be fine. >> Yep. Okay. >> Did I see in this report or a different one? The budget balance the 23 24 >> it was% funal. the fund balance the fund balance 24% to that's what's >> prod.4 operations report with Mr. Steve Ederson. >> Good evening.
035Uh just a few things I wanted to share uh tonight in addition to what's uploaded in the three reports uh on board docs. Uh first uh with respect to capital planning um we will share with you probably within the next few weeks um kind of where we're look what we're looking at for the plan as we roll into the summer uh and as we've shared before it's about $6 million worth of work and investments. Uh we typically share with you the the major projects. There's a lot of lot of stuff in that plan. Um and they give you a sense of how much we spend annually on things like pavement and carpeting and all that good stuff. So we'll share that here in the coming weeks. Um, also wanted to mention the Liberty Academy. Um,
036what's noted in one of the reports is the kitchen is up and running and has been this, you know, here for uh for several weeks. Um and um that was one of those projects that we did as an alternate when we did the the project out at the academy with the the building edition uh because we kept hearing there was some demand for that and they as you'll recall we used to bring in the the food from Liberty Middle School and it loses a little bit of its um oh I don't know flavor >> palatability >> um yeah >> freshness the uh and the results has been just fantastic. I mean the number of students who are eating regularly, staff is is using it and then really the added benefit is many of the students
037are really kind of grabbed onto that program and are working in the kitchen and receiving some some real world uh credit uh as part of that work as well. So that's just been a really great investment uh on the as part of the bond program that was we're get getting close to finishing up. The last thing I'll mention is the transportation department just had their annual uh inspections with the state. The highway patrol folks come in and do that annually. Um and once again they performed quite well. It's 94% on their first pass through uh which is pretty consistent with that before. And really the only things that were flagged were really minor issues like you know old wiper blades and that sort of thing that needed replacement. So really credit to that full team
038over there and Mr. Jones has done just a fantastic job. But really that mechanic uh crew um they you know this is this is their Super Bowl and they take it very seriously and they do great work and I just appreciate their commitment to safety and the fleet. So um that's what I had and I'd be happy to take >> How many vehicles in total? >> I think it's like 80 90 in that range. Yeah. >> All in one day. It's a it's it's something to the whole I've been been down there once or twice in the midst of it. It's it's a show. they just kind of bring them in and it's Yeah, it's impressive. >> That's a lot. >> The the chart jumped out to me on Liberty Academy and the utilization of
039lunch. I mean, I'm glad you broke it out for to show that 84% of the Liberty Academy students are eating lunch at the cafeteria, which compares to the high school um it's like 69% overall for the high school other two high schools. Um that's I think that's a sign that it was money well spent. >> Was that kitchen completed bond work or capital? >> Bond. >> It was work. So is there any remaining bond work at the academy? >> Um, no. If it just incidental kind of punchless maybe, but yeah. >> No, no, >> nothing significance. >> I know we hired some specific trades individuals uh within the maintenance crews. is the roof. Was that one of them? >> That actually was I was actually that was that that was on my initial draft of
040what to share tonight. I didn't want to bring that up. So, thank you for that. >> Here to help you because it's a great thing. You know, we we struggled with keeping up with our roof systems and that's a costly enterprise. The more we could do in in house, the better off we would be. And so, we spent a lot of time brainstorming, working with HR on that. We hired somebody about a year and a half, two years ago. And just for context, we have it's like 2.3 million square feet of space, but of that it's like 1.9 rooftops because we have two stories. So that's a lot of square footage. And so we have one individual who's very skilled in this area. And he is just he's just gets after it >> and it
041saved us a lot of money and time uh and working through those things that can be handled in-house and he's very skilled at what he does. So that was one of those things that we identified as a specialized area and we found the right person and it's been a great benefit to the department. >> Good. Love it. >> Other questions for operations. >> Thank you for the tour of the walk through. >> Thank you, Mr. Anderson. 4.5 then our human resources report with Dr. Marian. Good evening. I wanted to share with you to mark your calendars to attend the 2526 student teacher breakfast which is going to be March 11th starting at 8 a.m. And we will recognize and honor the 38 teachers who completed their student teaching at LPS during the 2526 school year.
042So excited to host all those who can attend. Team Liberty conducted their fifth meeting of the 2526 school year on Monday, February or February the 9th, and they began their preliminary compensation discussions and work to identify what their priorities will be for the upcoming compensation discussions. And they will continue their discussions at their next meeting, which is going to be Thursday, March the 12th. We are working on fiscal year 27 staffing. Um, we've received 31 retirements and 15 resignations for our certificated staff members and we have filled 27 of those positions so far and continuing to hire more each day and we are receiving a wonderful applicant pool for all of those positions. So, we're excited to continue to review all of those wonderful candidates who want to work at LPS. And then lastly, I
043want to share with you that our application window for the Grow Your Own Teacher Scholarship Program closed today. Um the next steps will be that those applicants will participate in interviews. Um and select up to four scholarship recipients for that GYOT program. Um, and this year, if you remember, the shift worked towards encouraging and supporting high school students who are interested in pursuing a teaching degree in a high need area. Um, with priority given to our first generation college students, take any questions that you have. >> How are the numbers looking for those applications >> for certificated positions? >> No, for the grow your own. Oh, grow your more than we've received in the past. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Cuz it seemed like last year there were not very many. >> I think there
044were seven last year and I think we've received about that amount, maybe a few a few more. >> Okay. >> We'll wait on those final numbers today. So, it seems as if there's perhaps more participation or interest. >> Okay. Thanks. >> Other questions of HR? >> Thanks, Dr. Marriott, when you turn the calendar into January, it gets incredibly busy, >> particularly on the personnel side of things. So, appreciate the HR team. >> Uh, lastly then, under 4.6 superintendent report, Dr. Moore hit on the award from the Carnegie Foundation. Um, wanted to also mention though the two other recipients that are included. um both are from California core districts breakthrough success community and then the hemtt unified school district is also included um in that impact award. So we look forward to learning from them as
045well. Uh week week six of the Missouri legislative session concluded last week uh with no shortage of activity. Um included in my report I mentioned that 3,000 bills had been filed um with a variety of topics. A few just a few to mention as it relates to education. Uh you may be tracking the A throughF uh accountability or grading system that really is coming at us three different ways. in part through the governor's executive order along with conversations at the state board of education level, but then also through the legislative process, the legislative session. And so we're working within all three of those realms along with some of the work that we had done with Success Ready Students Network to see how that shapes up um toward the end of the session rolling into the
046summer. So, we will likely bring that forward as a study session agenda item just to be able to unpack it from all three vantage points. Um, knowing that Desi's task is to come up with an accountability system um that assigns A throughF at the district level, but then also at every individual school level based on the criteria that they develop. So, a lot of activity around that. Other topics include um of course open enrollment, literacy and reading requirements as far as the incorporation of a reading screener um statewide at the K through three level. In addition to that um employee training required annually anti-bullying uh legislation uh information around school protection officer and requirements there as it relates to bills being uh uh kind of walking through the legislative session. and also property tax reform
047conversation along with what happens with income tax in Missouri if we begin to move away from income tax toward more of a consumption tax. So, we're watching a lot of that unfold. We do have some legislative days uh scheduled in the coming weeks both through the Missouri School Boards Association along with cooperating school districts. So, we look forward to seeing both board members and administrators in Jefferson City over the course of the coming weeks. The work of success ready students network continues uh with a variety of work groups including system design dashboard assessment and accountability. Uh most recently a professional development session was held in conjunction with MASA on the Franklin CVY leadership uh work. We also have a professional development opportunity coming up March 30th which is leading aligned systems uh that takes the
048portrait of a graduate or graduate profile and brings that into practice as far as the daily application for students. We're also kind of at that first phase of the success ready students assessment pilot process which is part of our federal waiver. And so right now DEESI is working on launching that with invitations to districts to participate and also begin to kind of pilot and test what's called a readiness tool. And so we'll likely see more information about that at the board level as we move forward with support of that work. The last piece Dr. Moore mentioned was the real world learning convening coming up. um success ready students network has kind of partnered with our Kansas City work um as far as real world learning to be able to take that to scale across Missouri.
049So we uh we're glad to be part of that work happening uh across our entire state. With that said, would certainly open it up for any questions you all have of me. >> Do you have any visibility into what the criteria will be for who's participating in the testing of the pilot? >> Not yet. >> Yeah. Uh Desi is working on that and I know there's they're soliciting interest at this point. Um we'll have a better understanding of that probably in the next couple of weeks. So >> All right. Well, no other questions, Dr. Tucker. We'll move to unfinished business. >> We do have a couple of items under unfinished business. Um it's actually under one item, but there's three parts that is our board policy updates uh which you are used to seeing. So
050the first uh batch is policies for approval, policies 2A and 2 AC. With that, we're actually rescending a couple of additional items. Regulation 2AC-R1 related to instructional media u in terms of library selection and reconsideration of materials. The third item are just for your awareness and that is our administrative procedures that are listed there. So we present those policies for approval and the item to be rescended for your action this evening. >> Discussion. >> So we're rescending the item because it's going to be captured in >> captured. That's correct. It's captured in the new updates. >> Yep. >> I move the board approve policy I rescend regulation ICR1. >> Second. >> Nick. >> Yes. >> Jen, >> yes. AJ, >> yes. >> Dan, >> yes. >> Drew, >> yes. >> Angie, >> yes. >> Karen,
051>> yes. >> Motion carries. >> All right. And item six is new business. >> A couple items under new business. First item is 6.1. And then we are back around to our Apple Apple lease um in terms of we periodically do that from time to time. We'll turn that over to Mr. Anderson to provide the update. >> Thank you. Um yeah, so there was a Friday update last week that provided some context in and around this and it's really just as was initially part of the plan and program to reset um and renew with new devices for the Max. Um about 6,600 units are part of this plan and be part of a 5-year lease. We wanted to get an extra year out of it because we think that it's a newer generation of device
052and we feel confident that that fifth year would be fine. uh the first year payment is a little bit lower. Um and the reason for that is we're actually going to use the monies that we anticipate capturing from the sale of the old devices to pay that first year to to help with some of the work that we've doing uh with budgeting and such. And then going forward from there be about 1.7 annually. Um looking to move pretty quickly, assuming this gets approved tonight, that staff could start adding new devices in around April. And then of course with students it would be as they kind of move into the summer and get ready for the return back in the fall. So would appreciate consideration tonight >> and we're moving quickly as a result of uh
053forecasted expenses in the future. These are going to get more expensive. >> They're getting more expensive. We get we'll get more value on the old devices. Pretty significant. We kind of tested that out. >> Um and then really just the timing to get it ready for the uh school year. So yeah. So, are all the ones we replacing the same age or are we Yes. >> going with a bigger batch now to replace a couple of different groups? >> I think it's all the same device. It's all the same device. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Motion. >> I move the board approve the lease purchase agreement with Apple, Inc. >> Second. >> Nick, >> yes. >> Jen, >> yes. >> AJ, >> yes. >> Dan, >> yes. Drew, >> yes. >> Angie, >> yes. >> Karen,
054>> yes. >> Motion carries. >> And I appreciate as always the team looking out for those opportunities to save. That's just deeply appreciate those little things add up over time as we all know. 6.2. Then >> uh the next item is a utility easement um connected to Warren Hills Elementary School. So, Mr. Anderson. >> Um we were approached by developers that are looking to develop some town homes uh just kind of uh towards a highway between Warren Hills and a highway. Uh to make that development occur, they needed a sanitary sewer connection which was ne necessitated encroachment into the Warren Hills property. It's in a draw. There's no real value to the land. Uh and it's a fairly small little swath of an area that they need to draw uh bring the sewer main through.
055Uh and then associated with that, this is included in the language, is there also a temporary construction easement that'll be necessary to kind of get in and lay the the new pipe. Um that will then reclaim that once the construction's done. So it's just associated with this new project. Um really no negative impact on the district. Um and so we were um we had contact with the city as well just to make sure um it was necessary and everybody feels confident, comfortable with it. This this is easement for the city's access to provide the service to the development site or is this easement to the the condos? >> It's a it's an extension of the public city easement that would allow the extension of a public sewer main to this site. Right. >> All covered
056under the cost of the development. Yeah. >> I move the board approve the easement for public sanitary sewer mains on Warren Hills Elementary property. >> Second. >> Nick, >> yes. >> Jen, >> yes. >> AJ, >> yes. >> Dan, >> yes. >> Drew, >> yes. >> Angie, >> yes. >> Karen, >> yes. >> Motion carries. >> All right. Legislation and advocacy. I know Dr. Tucker talked a little bit about some of the bigger themes, but I think Angie also has an update. >> Well, there was a um Does everybody get the legislative update from MSBA? I know we get the other ones as well. >> Um there was a um there was also a lunch and learn on Friday. I know Jen was on, Karen was on, and I was on >> and um there
057there was quite a bit of conversation about um Senate Bill 3 um and that there was information coming out to different um individuals in the course of the following week. Um they did talk about the A throughF policy. um their big concern and and this was in the update was had to do with um the house passed forward the bill. The committee made some significant changes. I couldn't quite get all the changes that they made, but their biggest concerns from MSBA had to do with uh performance-based funding um and the fact that if your students do better, you get more money. Um and that does not always seem to be equitable. Um there was also some conversation about school choice. Um open enrollment. Um the school choice issue had to do with uh the governor's
058desire to have more money put into that program. >> And then as they said, the bottom fell out because that was funded largely by private donations. And when they took away the tax credit, the donations kind of dried up the management. Um there's also for us um there's a big conversation again on moving uh schoolboard elections into November which there were several concerns about that because um as Caitlyn said the down ballot wherever you land on that the farther away from the front page you get the less likely it is that people are going to turn that and take care of that and they want to preserve it for political elections. They want to keep the school boards away from the political side because that has always been a big um conversation that school boards
059are not political beings. And so to avoid that um they they are concerned about that. That seems to be gaining some momentum enough that that brought them up. Um Misha came up as far as the state takeover. That seems to be kind of nebulous in their conversation about um state taking it over when it is currently a voluntary um membership organization for high schools. Um and that was that was that was a lot. Um they really talked for a full solid hour. But the big thing was that came out on the Friday update. He had to do with the A through F. Um and and their concern was how um Desi was going to come up with the guidelines for that by the 30th of June in order to put it into place. So there
060seems to be some timing issues coming up. And then just the suggestion that for those of us going down to Jeff City on the 10th um to start considering who we want to contact and trying to set up appointments >> and I can report on that that we've got four of the five set up. So we've got appointments for advocacy day with the exception of one which I hope that we will have shortly. So >> Okay. >> But well thank you for that. Yeah, as just as a reminder like our our LPS legislative priorities kind of fall in three buckets. The governance side generally, local control, and kind of looking at it's it's we have a state legislature that has a lot of great ideas that they may put out in a specific bill, but
061you add all those things up together and it can be difficult to to create a school day when you have mandates around specific things. Um and then of course elections would fall under um governance governance as well, local control of elections. >> And then staffing like just kind of looking at that's our other bucket that we look at kind of evaluate legislation. want want staffing. Um certainly policies that help us acquire and retain the best quality staff because we know that that's one of the top um indicators of student performance is getting high quality staff and being able to maintain them, retain them. And then um funding just kind of general funding of education overall looking at what the overall landscape is going to be. And I think it's pretty clear that there's going to
062be some concerns around around funding. Um some uncertainty I guess would be the fair word like in terms of property tax and income tax and not quite knowing how that's all going to shake out. So, I think it's a good time for people who care about public schools to be paying attention and having conversations with their elected leaders about about the importance of public education and how we can best um ensure that our schools stay as strong as they are and keep moving forward. So, with that, I will >> What is the next um Friday? >> Mid-Marchch, I think. I think it's right before or it's early March. It's right >> No, it's March the 6th. Yeah, it's right before we go to advocacy day. Friday, March 6th. Yeah, >> that I was I mean
063I think if we look at how this has played out the last few years, we've seen a few omnibus education bills that get pushed through >> and so um the devil has always been in the details in those and those get packed kind of at the end and it used to be a way to avoid some of that legislation passing. But um when we think about public sector in the state of Missouri, I mean we're the most regulated public se sector industry. Um and that's always kind of fascinating and I won't give my complete thoughts on that, but uh some of these things from a a state funding standpoint, um property tax, I mean we're 65% local on our budget and about 30% state. And when we say local, that's property taxes. And so, um,
064you know, we think about all the wonderful things that that we try to do for our students and for our staff in this district and to be a good place to, uh, to go. Um, but it's all tied to that. So, >> I think I think that's well said. And then the other thing that I keep thinking about is we're getting national recognition for the innovation that we're doing and and we're we we are being creative and we're part of a consortium of school districts that are trying to find alternative ways to assess students. I think most people would agree that we don't feel like a a standardized state assessment at the end of the year is the most satisfactory way of evaluating what a student has learned. And so making sure that we're able
065to talk about like the work that we're doing in this district to provide a more complete picture to parents and the community about how our students are learning and that that that you know making sure that we're able first of all to continue doing that work and then to continue just having the opportunity to to grow in that area as we as we improve how we're measuring student learning and personalizing student learning. Any other comments? Well, 7.2 is upcoming dates. We already talked about advocacy day. Angie is going to COSPA in in March. I'm going to NSBA. And then um something you mentioned um that we should think about as a board, the possibility of moving the June 23rd regular budget meeting. I think we've talked about that. Maybe >> we tend to look at
066that each year >> and so keep that on our radar as it relates to our June board meeting in terms of finalizing our budget. I think that helps business services the deeper in June we can have our meeting. So, we'll need to coordinate calendars and check everyone's availability as we get closer to the month of June and our our June board meeting. So, >> what about our board retreat? We got we landed on a date there >> that is currently there as June 2nd. >> Um, and so we'll kind of keep that as a placeholder and working with Dr. Keart and her availability to to join us on that day. So, as of right now, June 2nd is that date. >> Speaking of Dr. Heart, I think that's a good time probably to say that
067you're kind of starting to go see the finish line. Maybe. >> No, not yet. >> Not yet. >> But we are grateful for the for the for our process, I guess, to be concluded and to have announced the selection of our next superintendent um Dr. Jennifer Keepart, who um will be joining us come July. Um, I want to thank all of you for the hard work that you put in um in the process of selecting the successor to our long tenure superintendent and a thank you to you for certainly all of your years of service. You're going to get you're going to get celebrated whether you like not necessary. >> Well, yes, you are. And so, but also just thanks for as always steady hand. >> Have you seen the Homer Simpson meme where he
068kind of fades? to the >> I've had that top of mind the last couple weeks. So, >> and I mean just to add to Dr. Tucker's discomfort, um >> you know, thanks. >> What I would say is I mean I I agree. Um you know, we I I think it's been an opportunity for us to reflect on how fortunate we've been with with your leadership. And even if you have a countdown on the number of board meetings left or anything like that, um, you know, we're excited for the new opportunities, but really appreciative, too. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, I would note that, uh, as we've been going through this process searching for a new superintendent, I've gotten comments about you, Dr. Verit, strong comments. >> I don't think this is on the agenda. On
069the agenda, it's board comments. I >> I got to finish this. I think it's special to note that they're saying at a time, you know, there's no what you what are you getting for except you really appreciate it. >> Yeah. >> And and I think that's something to really be heard. I think it's uh it's clearly people speak in their mind and and comfortable with it and have nothing to gain. Exactly. You know, but a thank you to you. >> I appreciate that. >> That's under border marks. >> That's right. And we also want to thank the community for all the time that they took to get input stakeholders like people who came to the feedback meetings, who filled out surveys, who made one-on-one appointments with the people that have helped us with our search.
070Um that is all appreciated. It was it was in our considerations for sure and we we appreciate of course the the input from our team as well. So all all very much appreciated. So, it was a lot of work, but it feels good to to be on your side because I think what we have eight meetings in the space of a month or so. >> Yeah. >> Busy January for a >> little bit. >> Ready? >> Yeah. >> I move the board adjourn. >> Second. >> Nick, >> yes. >> Jen, >> yes. >> AJ, >> yes. >> Dan, >> yes. >> Drew, >> yes. >> Angie, >> yes. >> Karen, >> yes. >> Motion carries. >> Wow. It's not hardly 8. 808. Thank you all. >> Were you embarrassed Appcate.