001Hey, hey, hey. Oh, [Music] Every perfect. [Music] Are you Testing. One, two, three. One, two, three. Left. One, two, three. Pretty good. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hello. Yes, that's true. Sushi. [Music] All right, 7:00. I know seated, but let's call to order and have the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Hi, good evening everybody. Thanks for being here tonight. Have a motion for the approval of the agenda. 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 next item is 3.3, which is our public comment. Speakers may address any
002subject concerning Liberty Public Schools Board of Education or andor Education, sorry. 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 are 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 rest 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
003business 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 this is all part of consistent with our board policy BDDH-1 public participation at board meetings. And Denise, I don't know if we have any. So I just read all of that just just because. It's a good reminder. There we go. So why not? So okay breakfast. Well, that's right. So item four is our consent agenda. Our 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 asssure an extensive and
004thorough review. Items may be removed from the consent agenda at the request of any board member. I move the board approve consent agenda items 4.1 through 4.7. Second. Whenever you're ready to Nick, yes. Jen, yes. AJ, yes. Dan, yes. Drew, yes. Angie, yes. Karen, yes. Motion carries. All right. So, that should move us to So, next up, we have our reports from administration and we'll start off with 5.1 and that is a report from innovation and learning. Good evening. I feel like I usually have a little bit more time to get situated. We're giving Dallas a break. Rush. Yeah. Um well, summer school is wrapping up this week with just under 6,000 students. We have Madagascar Jr. that is um was being presented today and tomorrow if you have time to go and see that
005at Liberty North tomorrow. Um we presented you a summer school report um with our innovation and learning report and one of the most exciting things that was in there was that students are still checking out books which I think is really cool. There were um a lot of books being checked out this summer which I love to see. um innovation and learning wanted to just say thank you to everyone in human resources and operations department who really helped pull off summer school. Some of our usual sites as we've shared um were not available because of some of the just different projects and so we had to kind of pivot and use our middle schools for elementary. Um but it's gone great. I was over at South Valley today seeing some of the elementary kids and
006they were doing a great job. So, um, thank you to everyone for that. Um, also going on this summer, um, we have been working with principles. We had a retreat with them, um, last week. Um, started to look at the strategic plan, um, tie our building improvement plan to that new strategic plan we've been working on. Um, still having a focus on our math and literacy, um, as well as looking at real world learning, um, artificial intelligence, obviously implementing school links, K5. So now having that um K12 focus with school links um and then we were able to welcome some new faces to our administrative team. So that was um a great day of learning. I'm sure that Dr. Tucker will mention this in his report, but um we were able to um spend a
007couple of days um with Education Reimagine um wrapping up that cohort and it was just um humbling to be a part of that cohort and be the only K12 um school district a part of that work over this past year. and we were able to do an exhibit and our exhibit was um being learner centered a learner centered journey from epic to um every graduate and we were able to focus on um every graduate having a um a market value asset this past year. Um, now we look forward to our work with Carnegie and the future of high school network which I know um starts here in the next couple of days and our team is now working on preparation for summit 53 formerly NTI and um pre-ervice which is just around the corner. Dallas
008and I were just talking about that or like it's the end of June, July is here and August will be here before we know it. Um, but that is all I have for you today and if you have any questions, I'll take those. Questions for Dr. Moore. Thank you. Thank you. Great. 5.2 then student equity and access report. Uh, Dr. Dixon Seven Horn is unable to be here this evening. So, you have her information that is provided u for your review. you can certainly entertain any questions and relay those to her because I probably won't have the answer questions. Um, but do present that information to you this evening. Any questions to pass along to Dr. Dixon C1? Okay. Uh, 5.3 is our finance report and we will welcome uh Cindy Sullivan to the podium
009multiple times tonight. So, this is round one, Cindy. Round one. Here we go. Good evening. I have two donations to present to you tonight. An anonymous donation of a Casey Strings full-size base valued at $1,000 to the fine arts department for student rentals and a monetary donation of $2,000 from the Persan family charitable gift fund to Liberty High School men's tennis program. So, thank both of those donors for their generous gifts to our district. Tonight, in addition to my report, I wanted to talk just briefly about the revenue picture for the current year and one item for next year. Um, the personal property tax, great year. Collections were up overall. We collected 100.42% of amounts levied. That's everything we levied, not budget. We traditionally budget a little bit less than what's levied because we know
010the collection rate historically is about 98%. So to collect 100% of that was something that happens about every five years and this happened to be that fifth year and um so we're very very happy to report that income into the system. The foundation formula for this year, as you know, the um state adequacy target was scheduled to be 6,760. Uh last week, we were informed that the state did not have enough revenue to meet that call on the budget. So, instead of 6,760 per weighted ADA, we're only going to get 6,700 and Make sure I get the number right. I'm not going to get it right. Yep. 6749, which is not far off from 6760, but it does leave us with a shortfall of a little over $131,000 um for foundation formula revenue this year.
011And as you know, when I presented the budget for next year, we talked about that revenue. And even though the state budgeted for the state appropriation is going to be higher than what we budgeted, it's for scenarios like this that we are taking that wait and see approach because even though the state had an additional supplemental appropriation, we still had a shortfall in state revenue to meet the call on the foundation formula. So, um, I feel pretty good about what we're doing for next year as well, but I did want to pass that information on to you. And the main shortfall came in lottery revenue, gaming revenue, and cigarette tax. So, we need to start advertising, yeah, good question. So, do you know that do you know the aggregate the aggregate like loss in revenue
012for the state? They did not give us that information and I did not look to see what it was, but um I can get that if you'd like. Just curious. Yeah. Is that why they raise lottery prices to make up shortfall? So anyway, I wanted to pass that on to you. And then in the last couple of weeks, there's been quite a bit of chatter about the federal programs income. Um, and some districts have seen a great decrease in their allocations. We fortunately were not one of them. Ours is still in line with what our census poverty is doing. Um, so I wasn't too alarmed about the other districts throwing up red flags because we really didn't have one there. We don't, however, know all of our federal allocations. So that's another thing that's going
013on. they're not releasing that information as timely as they once did. So, I don't even know um what some of them are, but the ones we do have are right in line with where I thought we would be based on census poverty and where we've been in the past. So, that's a good thing for us. Um, one other note that I wanted to pass on as far as revenue for this coming year, they have not paid out um, all of our title one allocation, um, early childhood special education allocations and title or part B IDA. So, they are a little slow at getting that revenue. Um, we're being told that the revenue will be passed through once they get it from the federal government and that we will get it. We have not heard that
014we will not get it. So, it's just going to be in next year instead of this year as it was budgeted. So, that will just kind of tip the scale a little bit and what our fund balance could look like this year. Um may change it then for next year. And it also affects cash flow. So, it's about a million 1.6 $6 million that we've had to jockey some investments to cover payrolls for this week because we pay um June, early July, and early August balance of contract. So, there's a big pull on cash this week. So, we were keeping track of it. So, there's nothing to worry about. Have not been informed that we won't get it. Timing is just a little bit different than we expected on some of that. So, um, that's
015all I wanted to tell you about the revenue picture for this year. I also wanted to let you know that the audit and finance committee did review the finances this month. Did not have anything to pass on to you. That's what I've got tonight. Any questions of Miss Sullivan? Great. Thank you. Uh, next is 5.4 in our operations report with Mr. Anderson. Good evening. Um just a few things to report on uh point off the report and then some things to add to that. Uh first is as you'll notice especially in the facilities area the report um that team led by Steve Aldrich Kevin Pace the maintenance manager Justin Preston project manager and Clayton Smith who's our custodial manager. The amount of work and coordination that takes place over the course of the summer is
016rather extraordinary. Um and that's in the midst of all the construction and everything. So, I did want to um just recognize them tonight and the work that they do. Um in add in addition to that, wanted to indicate or share that the kids own summer camp which be begins July 7th. So, that's after summer school. Uh that's July 7th to August 1. We have over 400 students signed up for that. So, we're excited to kind of roll right into that program. That'll take us right up until uh pretty close to the start of school. Um quick construction update, especially the bigger projects that are winding down. Um the uh distribution center is now open. They have fully moved in. Uh it's quite the site. If you get a chance, I'd encourage you to pop in.
017They're always happy to take a visitor and you can really kind of see it in its full glory and it's pretty impressive. So, uh thank you all for your support of that project. Then the other two biggies that are wrapping up right now are South Valley and Discovery Middle Schools. Uh South Valley looks to be wrapping up. We expect occupancy by the middle of July and then end of July for um uh DMS. So all that is looking great and right on on uh schedule. Last thing I wanted to share, a little bit of a tougher one for us, but um as I think all you know, Kathy Elamire is um she's got one week from today will be her last day with us. She started with us 23 years ago. Uh 19 years she
018served as a director of health services for the school district. What I like to point out, and I think I may have pointed out this uh last year with uh the retirement of Mr. Majors, we have a handful of folks on operations and Cathy's one. We've got a couple more, Trey Coxer, Jason Bright, Steve Aldrich, and and certainly Kathy who really are were founders of that program. There was not a program uh before they arrived. And so I really wanted to recognize her for her dedicated service, long career, and she is about as committed to this place as anybody. I think everybody here could attest she she feels it real. It's real to her and supporting the kids and supporting her team is is the you know her the calling of her life. Uh and
019I just wanted to thank her for her service and recognize her tonight. So that's what I had. Be happy to take any Questions of Mr. Anderson. I don't have a question but just would also like to echo thanks for all of the team that is putting all of that work in at all of the projects around the district. It is amazing. I I would like I think it would be fun for us to go on a playground recess tour once those playgrounds are all put in place because they look like so much fun if you go look at the the all the different ones that are going to be in place at the elementary schools. And then um also thanks for Kathy Ellier for her appreciation for all of her service. Check if you're properly
020insured before. Can we do the recess door when it's cooler? Yes. Oh, well I would agree with that. They've got to be installed first. One quick update. I just happened to drive by Heritage today and it looks like a really interesting project going on there. Very bold inside and out and foundational. It's u Yeah, there's a lot going on. It'll be a very busy hot summer there. So, we're still looking forward to starting school there. We will definitely start school. It it will be inconvenient. Yeah, we're kind of used to that there. Yeah. Yeah. Messaging is key. Have there been any have they got in to the foundation enough to see if there's any problem? Yeah, I think uh it's much of what they had anticipated. Um and so they're kind of getting after the
021work that was approved all a couple months ago. Uh nothing beyond what they had discovered back a couple months ago. Kind of an old building. A little bit. A little bit. All right. Thanks, Mr. Anderson. Thank you. Uh, next then is 5.5 and we'll turn it over to Dr. Marriott for our human resources report. Good evening. Um, I have some staffing updates for you to begin with. Um, we are doing exceptionally well still with our certificated openings. Right now, we have 6.5 FTEES open to be yet filled for the upcoming school year, but we are confident that through our recruitment efforts that we will um have those fully staffed by the time we start school. We do have several classified vacancies, which is typical at this time of year. The majority of those openings are
022school age care and then pair of professionals. Uh but we've made several offers over the past two weeks fill those vacancies and then um our team is working to advertise in a variety of recruitment platforms and so we are also confident that we will have the majority of those filled by the time we begin the school year. Uh a little bit of data regarding the number of certificated teachers that are exiting LPS as to compared to years prior. So we are seeing a slight increase which is expected because we're seeing the increase in the number of teachers who are leaving the district with 16 or more years of experience. And so it's that first kind of wave of retirements that we anticipated and we think that that will increase next year and then the following
023year as well. Um so we will continue to monitor that and make sure that we are um putting efforts and pieces in place to ensure that we have and are prepared for that in the future. a bit of an update for team liberty. So, as you know, our facil facilitator, Michelle Baldwin, retired at the conclusion of the team facil team liberty uh year this year. Uh so, request for proposals closes this Wednesday. Um we will collaborate with Jason Brightite. He will facilitate that process and then help us determine what our next steps are. We anticipate that that will likely include a series of interviews that involve a representative sample from team Liberty as well as cabinet members, but I'll keep you guys posted on those developments as as they become available to us. Um, and
024then we had an initial benefits review meeting on June 4th with Holmes Murphy. Um, so we reviewed our utilization data for this past school year. where we received preliminary cost projections and we examine the history of health care plans um and the navigation of changes over the years at Liberty Public Schools and we will have more information to share in the near future um regarding that topic as well. Um and then I would like to conclude I want to invite Dr. Leah Copelan up to the podium and just share with you all a brief update regarding our grow your own teachers program. Um, so as you know, the Grow Your Own Teacher Program is part of our district's strategic efforts to address a national shortage in highquality teachers and teaching candidates. Um, and our primary
025focus of the program is to identify and cultivate aspiring educators from among our own high school students here at Liberty Public Schools. So that vision started in 2016 um when LPS was introduced to Missouri's plan to ensure equitable access to excellent educators and the f first cohort of four GYOT award recipients was introduced to the Liberty Public Schools Board of Education in May of 2019. So I want to just briefly recognize our steering committee members and then I'm going to hand it over to Dr. Copeland to introduce this year's recipients. So, we have an ongoing steering committee that meets periodically to review the progress, um, conduct interviews, review applications, and then make any suggested revisions to that plan moving forward. And those members are Dr. Bridget Herman, uh, Dr. Carrie Mark Antonio, Christelle Morgan, Colleen
026Jones, Dr. Andrea Dixon Seahhorn, Dr. Tena Brown, Dr. Lee Allen, Miss Melissa Taylor, Dr. Mike Sharp, Dr. for Rosemary Camp, myself, and Dr. Copeland. So, I'm going to hand it off to Dr. Copeland to introduce this year's recipient. Well, good evening everyone. So, this year we have seven future college students who comprise our GYOT cohort. And I have the joy and honor of interviewing each of them on Zoom and with a great group of future educators to present to you tonight. So, um, if you would just stand and come forward so the board can see you as I call your name. I'm going to tell you who they are and where they're going to college and as of this moment what their area of study is as far as becoming a future teacher. So, first
027we have Addison Birkinhole. Come up. Uh, she is going to be going to Northwest Missouri State. She is a Liberty High School graduate and she'll be going to Mville to study elementary education. So, congratulations. Then next we have Lillian Bryant who is going to be going she's a Liberty North graduate and she is going to be going to the University of Central Missouri in Warrenburg, Missouri studying secondary math education. Next we have Catalina Eddie. She is going to be going to Truman State in Kirksville, Missouri studying elementary education in the fall. Then we have Lydia and she is going to be going to Ka to K State to Kansas State University in Manhattan studying elementary education as well. And then we have Madison Low who is not able to join us this evening. A Liberty
028North graduate going to Maplewoods Community College to begin her college career and studying elementary education as well. And then Jasmine Mensah, she is going to be going to Maplewoods Community College. She's a Liberty North graduate and will be studying elementary education. And then Samra Sha, she's going to be going to Libert or to Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri studying instrumental music education. So these are six of our seven recipients for the upcoming cohort. [Applause] I also want to point out that Addison, Catalina, Lydia, Madison, and Jasmine were all part of the LPS educational internship program, EIP, as well during their senior year. So, they had a lot of good experience already in our Liberty classrooms. So, congratulations to all of you. and I'll take any questions that you guys have of the 219 initial
029class. So, where are they at in the district now? You know where some of them at least some of them are. Tricky question. I know that we have one teaching social studies. We have an elementary education teacher. We have one who will be teaching Spanish with us next year at the high school. Um I'm trying to remember where music music do we Yes. Yes. We have a music educator who are currently placed with us for next year. Yes. Oh together. Yes. We have five currently this year the year that we just finished and two more coming. Wow. Great. Thank you. They're filling positions. Yes. It's fantastic. Other questions of Dr. Marian? I just not a question but I just again I love seeing the emphasis on leadership development within the organization like espec especially with
030the classifi the classified like yeah not the certifi the classified but that that launch program. It's been really interesting to read about that and see the growth of that and to read about what they found valuable in terms of the speaking. That was really interesting to hear about. Yes, we're excited to be able to offer that again next year. That's great. Okay. All right. Thanks, Dr. Marriott. What you may not have noticed behind Dr. Marriott was our students taking selfies with Dallas as they exited. I want to start by thanking Mr. Gates for sticking around for my report. Thank you. Thank you. She's not that excited. That's what he's here for. Not that excited. But no, congratulations to our grow your own uh teacher recipients and we appreciate Dr. Copeland for leading that and wish
031them well and it'll be fun to watch them over the coming years. Um, couple things that I was going to share have been mentioned already um, as it relates to wrapping up our uh, year-long experience with the ecosystem lab through education reimagined. And so appreciate Dr. Moore and others from our innovation and learning department and participating in that experience over the course of this year. Um, as that sunsets, we transition into the Carnegie Foundation work. uh this week actually a small team of us will be traveling to California um to begin that process. Uh Dr. Camp, Dr. Sharp, myself will bring others into the work as we go. This is just that preliminary kickoff this week um as it relates to the high school transformation network. Another item I wanted to share regarding our learning
032network would be the success ready students network and our submission of the federal waiver around assessment that was submitted back in May uh with the help of DESIE submitting that to the US Department of Education in anticipation that we will receive notice sometime in August as to whether or not that is approved. Uh in the meantime uh we'll be in uh Washington DC mid July with our summer legislative advocacy uh work that we do each year and that will be a topic of conversation to bring up with our Missouri delegation just to make sure that they're aware of our submission um and anything that they can do to support uh that application. Uh a couple of additional items. Uh appreciate the mention around summer school in terms of our 6,000 nearly 6,000 students served over
033the co course of the month of June. Others that will continue on into uh July and services as it relates to extended school year and special education support for those students and families. Um, additionally, uh, we're walking through kind of the the debrief of the legislative session and all that transpired this last legislative session to make sense of a variety of bills impacting public education. Uh, the one to make note of is Senate Bill 68 that ended up being the omnibus bill. Um, that has a lot packed in there. And so, we were actually on the phone with Missouri School Boards Association earlier this afternoon. uh in addition to the updates that you have on your agenda this evening, you're going to see another round of updates um in July uh that then we can
034put in place as we think about the start of the 2526 school year. Uh the last thing that I wanted to mention is that the governor's task force for school modernization and as it relates to funding uh held their second meeting today. The first one was back in June, June 3rd. Uh today was the second one. So I made a quick trip to Jefferson City. um lasted about two hours. We're pivoting then into uh workg groups and assigning individuals to work groups. The work groups are on the subjects of funding targets, student counts, local effort factors, and then performance incentives. And it's anticipated that those work groups will begin their work this month in July. Um continue to engage over the course of the next couple of months. and we have a meeting, our next
035full task force meeting is scheduled September uh September 9th, I believe. So, we'll continue to keep you informed as to that work uh moving forward. But, um again, that is about a year and a half worth of uh information gathering, but then also soliciting feedback from a variety of stakeholders uh that then culminates in recommendations to the governor's office. So, more to come on that front. With that said, would open it up for any questions that you all may have of me this evening. Tell me the fourth work group. Uh performance incentives was the fourth one. Which committee? Which are you? I was they gave assignments today and so I am part of the funding targets uh committee in terms of task force members assigned to that. Those there's about three to four task force
036members on each of those work groups. In addition, they're bringing in additional stakeholders to serve as experts, so to speak. And so, you have those that are familiar with school finance or, you know, individuals that are engaged in policy development, um, some staffers and so forth that will also support those work groups moving forward. So, generally speaking, what what would be local factors? I mean, there's obvious things, but I'm just curious. The majority of that has to deal with property taxes as far as our local effort and how that fits into the calculation of the current formula, but then also looking at how other states approach that. Um, and that we we are beginning to learn more and more about other states funding uh processes, whether it's a similar formula or something completely different. Um,
037so I think each of those committees will likely have some degree of, you know, lens in and around what other states are doing and then bringing that information back to see if that might fit here or if we pursue something completely different. So Linda Quinley is part of uh she will be assigned. I'm not sure which work group she's part of yet. They haven't announced those experts yet and what um what work groups they'll be working on. She has been present at the last two meetings. For those of you that don't know Linda Quinley, years ago, she was the CFO in Columbia Public Schools. More recently, she was, I believe, CFO in KCPS, Missouri side. Uh retired officially from her CFO role, but is now working as a finance consultant with Missouri Schoolboards Association. So,
038she's a well-known um finance expert. So, and how much would the performance group be looking at success ready student network as a I asked that today in in a similar fashion uh in terms of broadening our definition of performance and achievement beyond what traditionally we would think it to be. So, that seed was planted. Uh we we'll see as far as how that um kind of informs recommendations. The other piece to think about, not only does performance part of our current calculation, right, in terms of those top performing districts that then inform the calculation and the SAT and so forth. Um, keep in mind you may also have targets, performance incentive targets that if a district obtains or reaches those particular targets, it comes with additional revenue. So, it's really twofold. the achievement performance piece
039as it relates to a formula calculation, but then also might we consider some additional incentives as it relates to more funding. So, we'll see how all that plays out over the course of the next year and a half. So, I'm searching my memory was a suggest success ready was there discussion about how many did you mention how many the percentage of districts they're involved and what that number was? No, I didn't this evening. That's grown. We're pushing 70. That will be part of the waiver request. 70% are for 70 school districts. No, 70 school districts. Okay. Yeah. And you have some additional ELEAS, charter schools involved as well. There's a third wave, third round of districts pursuing an innovation waiver, which will get us closer to that 6070. Um, but then that's in the system
040design zone. The districts that are all in with the state waiver. There's what's referred to as a learning design zone. A little confusing for those districts that aren't quite ready for allin and that they're learning, they're experimenting, maybe they have pockets of this work happening across their systems. Um, by the time you couple that all those districts together, you're well over a hundred um that represent a significant number of students in the state of Missouri. So, does that make it meaningful? I think so. In my mind, it does. Yeah, for sure. because of the collective learning, the collaboration and the fact that this is being led from the field, right? You have much of this happening from the field. Um because by themselves, I'll say it, Desessie wouldn't necessarily have the capacity to do it
041solely by themselves. So, it's been a good collaboration which then gets you into some of the funding pieces. you know, as you think about funding and you think about the possibility of how a formula winds up in Missouri, you know, additional choice options and so forth, that kind of limits that collaborative spirit potentially if we're not mindful, right? Um, and gets us into more of a competitive space. Um, so we're all for collaboration and that, you know, a rising tide rises all ships, right? Um, and so we're we're trying to keep that front and center as we walk through those conversations. I would assume those 70 districts represent a larger proportion of students as opposed to just the sheer number of districts. Yeah, it's well over 50%. Um because you have you have a variety.
042You have urban, suburban, uh subural, but then you also have rural um so you have some as few as a couple hundred kids in their local school district in a rural community all the way to some of your larger systems in the metropolitan areas. So, and more being added as we pursue this next round of innovation waiverss. Okay, back to the task force. Yes, 16 members. I believe that's right. And two two practitioners of education out of that 16. That is correct. Yeah. Uh you have some others that are Sorry, just a question. Pointed. um where you have some that have experience like education backgrounds and even some of our legislators. Um many of you may know Rusty Black. He is the chair of the committee. He was a 33y year veteran ACT teacher I
043believe from Moberly or Chilikop. Chilikopy, thank you. Um kind of up in that area. So you have some folks that you know understand K12 space. Um but as far as existing sitting practitioners, Mr. Marriott's correct. It's very limited with just two of us. So, we'll certainly keep you posted as this progresses. So, good conversations thus far. Thank you for Thank you. All right. Well, then we're on to item six with unfinished business and the big time budget. Is this one ever finished business? No. Never. I think that's what we've been until she leaves the podium. It's finished. Well, for the day. Yeah. Thank you again. Um, tonight we bring the completed budget for your approval. I would be remiss if I didn't once again thank all of the people involved in its preparation. The number
044is vast and that means the business services department, all budget managers and all of cabinet, Dr. Tucker and anyone else um in a building that might have their hand in a budget. Lots of work, lots of hours, and I appreciate everyone's input in this document. Um as a review, in March, we talked about the revenue budget. Then in April, we reviewed the expenditure budget. And then May, we brought you a proposed preliminary budget. And tonight, there are two documents posted for you. One is the completed budget document and the second one is a document that shows you what changed from the preliminary budget that you saw in May. Changes to revenue were small. We decreased projected revenue by $16,486 by the things that are shown on this sheet. And then the expenditure changes were a
045little bit larger. We increased projected expenditures by $280,717 um for those items listed. If you don't have any questions, that would complete the budget process for the year upon your approval of it. So what did you do with the two I noted two things from what you reported earlier. The fact that uh tax revenue was 100.4. So that had a bump up and then the the foundation formula not quite as expected going down some. So are those two changes the up and the down are they accounted for in this in the proposed budget? Yeah, in the proposed or would that be a correction that we deal with beyond tonight? So the um all of the revenue that came in that I spoke to came in after the the culmination of this document. Okay. So our
046budget for the current year as reflected in this document does not reflect any changes to current year revenue. Okay. And as far as how that informs next year's budget, the as I stated, we typically budget the tax revenue based on historical collection values, which were still right at 98% which is what I budgeted for for next year. There's a collection rate of 98%. And then if that changes as we collect in January, February, and March, we will do a budget amendment to reflect those changes. foundation formula. We'll just have a small deficit in this year's budget for that line item. Okay. And we did, if you'll recall, we had that discussion about um whether to fullon budget what the state allocated versus what we know um we're going to get or suspect we're going to
047get. And based on the state of the state, as proven by what we got this year, revenues are sluggish. So, I did not change any revenue for the state. I left it flat at the current year SAT. And as revenues come in and show that we're going to get more than the current SAT, we will then do a budget amendment to reflect an increase in that SAT as it is earned. Okay, great. Thank you. Other questions of Cindy? I think this is the kind of the same question. I'm just making sure in my head just because the decrease in IDA part B revenue of 90,000 is different from the 1.6 that you're talking that you talked about earlier. Okay. I just wanted to clarify that the 1.6 million are already spent um expenditures for the
048current year. Okay. As you know with IDA and other federal programs, we are reimbursed on the rate that we spend. So those are simply reimbursements of items that we've already spent this year. That $90,000 is a decrease in our allocation from this year, okay, to next year. When we um budget for the coming year, we typically budget based on the current year allocation until we know for sure what that allocation is going to be. We did receive that allocation in time to correct the document. Okay. Thank you. I move the board adopt the 2025 2026 district budget. Nick, yes. Jen, yes. AJ, yes. Dan, yes. Drew, yes. Angie, yes. Karen, yes. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Curriculum approval is item 6.2. Yeah, you saw this last uh month as it
049relates to um presentation of our facts, our family and consumer sciences, IT, and then business curriculum. And so wanted to again bring that to you this evening for your consideration. It is an action item. I don't know Dr. Moore if there's anything to add from your vantage point. No, no real changes. Um moving everything. Okay. Any questions or comments? I just continue to be so impressed with all of the opportunities for high school classes that we offer. I'm very jealous. Do you want to go back to high school? Not really, but just I move the board adopt the facts IT business curriculum as presented. Second. Nick, yes. Jen, yes. AJ, yes. Dan, yes. Drew, yes. Angie, yes. Karen, yes. Motion carries. Thank you. Item seven is new business. A few new business items, a couple
050of which are reoccurring annual action items. Uh so 7.1 is our community engagement plan. You'll recall recall that a couple of years ago that became a um requirement within our state and so we worked to create that with our district leadership team. uh plan that you have presented to you this evening has very few changes other than some dates updates there. Uh so we present that to you this evening for your consideration. Just a point of border. Karen, I know that you mentioned a couple of times ago you wanted us to go through the You know what I I did, but then we went to summer summit and the that the parliamentary lady that gives us all the parliamentarian that is one of five uber parliamentarians or something in the whole country said we don't
051have to do it that way. So, okay. So, we're good. But thank you. Long as the uber parliamentarian. Do we have one of those? We did. Apparently she lives in Alabama though from South Carolina. Wow. So we checked her out. So no, we can we can have discussion. But thank you. Does anybody have discussion? No. Okay. I move the board approve the LPS community engagement plan. Second. Nick, yes. Ken, yes. AJ, yes. Dan, yes. Drew, yes. Angie, yes. Karen, yes. Motion carries. Right. Item 72 is what? Professional development. Another annually required item. Want to thank Dr. Moore as well as our professional development committee for the work that they do in support of our staff and their professional learning needs. Um, so what you have shared with you this evening in your board packet is
052the plan for 2526. um that is also informed based on a needs assessment in terms of what our community needs, what our professional learning needs to look like as we move forward. Um so we present that to you this evening for your consideration. Anything to add to that, Dr. Moore? If you're interested, um the document is really the link on the last page, page 12 that includes the district service, the um on the calendar for the year representative all the information there pretty much sums up our focus here based on what we what our work was professional development council I liked reading the survey like which sections and what kind of feedback there was from different Yeah. Mhm. Schedule is the last piece on there if you want to see that. It's also on the
053district website, but you'll notice we do have a keynote speaker this year. Um, we've also given quite a bit of time back to the teachers in the classroom. Was this the keynote speaker that we heard? Yes. Oh, okay. No names, but that's great. Thank you. Good job. Excellent. Well, then I move the board approve the 2025 2026. [Laughter] All just for that second. Otherwise, no. Yeah, you didn't say yes to the speaker. Nick, yes. Yes. AJ, yes. Dan. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. Carries. All right. Handbook 7.3. Yeah. 7.3 is a culmination of work over the course of this year to update our 2526 student handbooks and readying for next year. Um, right out of the gate, we know we will have changes to these handbooks as we again wrap up from the legislative session, work with
054the Missouri School Board Association as it relates to sample draft policies that we'll have an opportunity to look at. Uh, some of you may recall in past years, we would hold on the handbook until the 11th hour and approve it in August, which was a little bit of uh caused some stress. And so we we we kind of started that process earlier in the spring to try to get it sooner um to get the information. All that said, it creates a challenge in terms of looking at the previous legislative session and folding pieces in. So we have had some instances of needing to add it or create addendums or amendments to the handbooks. So, they are um pretty close to final knowing that we will change them and provide additional information uh based on what
055we find from MSBA, but just wanted to mention that. Anything to add, Dr. Moore, as it relates to the handbooks for 2526. I I just have a question about the information that's contained in those. I know I I think I believe that students have to say like I read this or I received this something when they log in at some point at least high schoolers. Um do we highlight things that are that have changed that parents and students maybe need to be more aware of like I don't know like cell phones or something? I mean like is there going to be an introductory something that says, "Hey, pay attention to this. This is new and different." Yes, we spoke to that specifically. That was one we spoke to last week with our principles at our
056retreat and we went through the new policy um and talked to each component of it and said that we're waiting for MSDA to come out of the policy, but we actually highlighted some of the pieces about, you know, having something in, you know, should you have something in your classroom to hold cell phones, you know, should you allow them out during instruction? what would that look like K8 we don't allow them at all so it's not really an issue but at the high school and then enforcing it as an issue you know and so then what does that look like and then how do you start the year off with reinforcing that and telling them that you know how this changes what has been done what that looks like um but yes so we we've
057talked about that what that looks like and then how we have to make we hit that end of the classroom with every student. Yeah, I think that's the part where it gets confusing is it's enforced in one and not the other and then it just kind of down and that's the consistency across any any policy, right? In terms of that consistent enforcement, I think to your point, messaging is key. Yeah. With some of these changes that are coming both for staff in terms of what's it look like in the classroom to student expectations, but then certainly certainly parents. Yeah. Right. So, it's on multiple levels. Um, for those that have been around a while, particularly educators, we did this about 20 years ago in terms of cell phones first kind of popping up, right? And
058came up with policies and came up with enforcements and what you can do and what you can't do. So, it's a little bit of a look back and the biggest challenge is the enforcement piece, right? Um, and I I'll get a little bit more granular given that you have K through 8 that is used to the policy. again, so long as it's being consistently enforced, your bigger challenge ends up being with some of those upper classmen who have had different expectations um who now are kind of being fitted back into what they experienced when they were in middle school. So, I think that's kind of that targeted focus among the whole district, but certainly with those older students. So, do they understand the why? I mean, do the older student do the upper class? I
059think that's going to be the why. you're going to have varied um you know understanding of it, perceptions of it, right? Um that's again the opportunity to message as to okay why are we doing this? We're doing this for some very explicit purposes legislatively from the governor's office, but really it's both kind of the academic piece, but then it's also the mental health piece, right? was reading something earlier today that narrowed it down to those two factors in terms of an effort to try to improve performance, but then also to help with the mental health piece and just socialization. That would probably be the third one in my mind um to make sure that we message home to all of those uh various stakeholders. I feel like they're kind of aware of those things. I
060mean, I don't think that they would deny those. They may not like it, but Sure. I mean, for kids, as someone who just denied a screen time request on my watch um from a child, I I don't know that the why is gonna necessarily matter, but it's gonna be very I am thankful that you all were able to get this done. Yeah, school starts. I totally get the addendums. They happen, right? Even in the workplace, we get a handbook at the beginning of the year and it changes throughout the year. So, I don't think that's an issue, but I I appreciate this. Agreed. I wonder if we should work toward a a video presentation of the handbook. Okay. Some type of AI type of some content. The idea that a 14-year-old's going to sit down
061with this and and read through it word for word. I think we're kidding ourselves. if it could be boiled into a video that could be looked at and on their own device you would know if that video had been played. I think that would be more evidence than saying did you look at the handbook? Did you look at it, Dan? Just wondering when I was teenager. No, when you were a parent. Oh, I I skimmed through the pieces that I was interested in. Exactly. Dan's the guy that reads user agreements. You also you also have class meetings that occur. Keep that in mind. Right. So, an incoming group of like the freshman this next year, they're going to go a little bit more in depth. I just wonder if it could be a nice project
062in some for sure. I think I think the more you can the more you can vary like the the access to it and information sharing the better off you'll be. My point with that freshman group is you're going to go into a little bit more detail with them hopefully not always the case but by the time you get to your junior seniors like okay guys reminders right don't forget this don't forget oh and this is new right so like you have slidesh shows presentations put together for each of those classes and our administrators do a good job of going through that relevant content you gonna add something Dr. It was at the middle school with having advisory. Several of them do that. They'll put together videos or um like PowerPoint presentations and they like whoever's
063in charge of advisory will give that out and say everybody today goes through this part of the handbook and then everybody tomorrow goes through this part of it so that they know that everybody's getting the same thing. Um, so I do think that at the high school level, what we may need to do is just have somebody put something together to say everybody at this time is showing this, you know, and and just to make sure that everybody gets the same the same message, right? I mean, part of the difficulty is in those handbooks, you're balancing the information that you want to provide, but also the information that we legally have to provide. So they get in language to be Yeah. Okay. Well, was that enough discussion? We have a motion. I move the board
064approve the 2025 2026 student handbooks. Second. Nick, yes. Jen, yes. AJ, yes. Dan, yes. Drew, yes. Angie, yes. Karen, yes. Motion carries. 7.4 meal prices. Another item in readying for next year is our 2526 uh list of meal prices. you have a description as well as kind of a little bit of a look back on what we've done over the last several years as it relates to um increases. Um let that I'll let let you uh handle that Mr. Anderson as far as speak more specifically to that and I'll I'll just be brief here of course if you have questions as we've discussed in years past this is kind of the annual look at this and it really is a it's pretty formulaic and I think that's spelled out well by the nutrition services team
065here in these few paragraphs. Um and basically it's just a compliance issue. It's it's requirements and regulations and then uh we have this equity tool that has to get applied into it as well. So uh at the end of that process uh you'll see some increases that are proposed for next school year. Um milk is increasing by a nickel. Student breakfastes breakfasts uh will also increase by 5 cents. Student lunches by 10 cents. Adult breakfast by 15 cents. and adult lunches by 25. And just as a quick aside, the adult meals are that's really to our discretion we want to do with with that. So, we typically put a little bit more on that to help balance out the rest of the load. Um, but basically, that's how that adds up and uh we just
066appreciate your consideration of this tonight. Happy to take any questions. So, again, this is a calculation from USDA on how much we can actually charge. We're not this. We're covering the costs. Y discussion. I move the board approve the 2025 2026 meal prices. Second. Nick, yes. Jen, yes. AJ, yes. Dan, yes. Drew, yes. Angie, yes. Karen, yes. Motion carries. 7.5. Our lease purchase agreements. You have two lease purchase agreements. one for transportation and one for um Schneider Electric. And so we initially thought we might have these ready for action this evening. These are justformational. You'll see these again as we enter into the month of June or July and our July board meeting with additional information, but we'll turn it over to Mr. Anderson. Sure. And apologize. We did we were hopeful that this was
067going to come together on Friday and then had some understanding that this morning we might have that the kind of completion information. Uh that being said, uh this will be just first read and we'll bring it back next month. Um the first agreement is with respect uh to the purchase of 15 buses. We've done this periodically for those who have been around. It's just a great tool for us rather than incur the full cost in front of that massive purchase. It's allows us to kind of spread it out over time. And of course with Cindy's help in the budgeting process, we just allocate what that that amount is for each year over the term of release. And and it works pretty well for us. Um, and that just kind of depletes, I guess, the the
068capital what we'd spend on other capital needs. So, it all just kind of works together. Um, so that, um, it's about two and a half million, uh, to cover 15 buses. I think they're nearing completion and will soon be delivered, uh, this extra few weeks here. We're going to have to kind of work through how to do that, but I think we'll we'll figure that out here working with both Cindy and Jason Bride. The other item uh this is related to a project that we've been sharing uh with you for some time now. It's with respect to an ESCO kind of performance contract uh related to energy efficiency savings that can be realized by enhancements and improvements. Had a good question earlier today from the board on uh much of this first phase is related
069to LED work. Uh as you might recall the the bond has quite a bit of LED work that has already taken place about three and a half million. This is the remaining balance of that about 5 a.5 million. Uh at one point we had hoped to cover all of the lev work within the bond schedule. The issue at at well it was about a year ago now that ever we had every indication ever was going to continue with the abatement structure that they had in place which was very generous and and within the course of a month it just went away and so really effective because we had to time out the work. um it took a lot of energy to pun intended to plan out the work so as not to interfere with all
070the schools over the course of the the school year and through the summer. Um so the other uh part of this that's important is that the LED it's nice to capture that because that's where some real energy savings can be realized pretty quickly. This phase one work will really be what is the focus of what what will fund phase two which is the replacements of the roof at South Valley and Discovery. Those were really anxious. Those were going to be almost impossible to fund out of our capital plan because they're so expensive. This will allow us to kind of take those two really big projects off the uh capital list which will be a big help to the to the department and to the district. Um so um anyway with all that said um this
071is on first read. We'll be if you have any questions certainly be happy to answer them and then we'll bring both of these forward next month uh for formal consideration. Just trying to understand then the process for this work is we're paying for the replacements as capital as a capital loan, right? We're paying we're we're paying for the LED work. So that $5.5 million. Go ahead. Yeah. So that $5.5 million is an annual No, that's that's a that's the amount that we need to drive the construction of the the work, right? Yeah. And then what's but what's what's the 15-year I guess. So it'll be a reimbursement of that 5.5 million almost like the bus lease I described previously. It'll be a allocation in the capital plan every year. Okay. To pay down that loan,
072okay, over that term. And then what's the the unique twist here is we'll be tracking I don't know how we'll account for all this but we'll be tracking the realized energy savings uh on from on the electric side of things that we anticipate coming off of uh the all the LED improvements and and that's part of the statutory mechanism for selecting escos is that okay you realize you're supposed to realize the entirety of the savings within that period of time. We the district did an ESCO I think we've done two um we did one um it sunset just about a year or two after we started 1450 um with respect to kind of putting more um smarter systems into our HVAC systems across the district. Prior to that, we did a lighting enhancement which was
073moving from one I can't remember now what it was like T5 to T3 what I I can't remember but it was an energy savings to replace all the lighting systems across the district. Yeah, that's right in the sensors. Yeah. And that was probably like 20 15 years ago sometime. Other questions or discussion was really helpful. I also appreciated the discussion around the choice of lenders too. That's great. Say that again. We've replaced some buildings with LEDs. So, we've got some rough estimate on the cost savings within those buildings, right? Comparisons. We we have um we've not I mean, it's still pretty fresh. So, I don't think we've got an annualized what what we were expecting. The the thing that's a little bit of a challenge, it all kind of washes out into our operating budget
074anyway. Yeah. Uh but yeah, we are and we have talked about creating we definitely have to do it as part of this ESCO, but we have we have discussed of putting in systems for what we've already done with the three and a half million to start tracking that um and making sure with rate increases that we're kind of accounting for that. So there's a little nuance, right? Yeah, that's it's a great actual whatever usage measure versus cost. Thank you. Okay. Again, we'll see that later on in in the month of July. And what would be the one more question just what would be the what's the period of trans of getting all this work done this first round? Um I had this about a month ago. We walked through this because I remember there are
075a lot of buildings listed. There are and it's difficult, right? Because you have to get in when we're not being a nuisance, right? Uh um I think this first round I want to say it'll take almost two years. Okay. Um but let me follow up on that and make sure. Yeah. And the envelope stuff's later, right? I'm sorry. The envelope like the roofs and the outside that'll come later and we'll have another discussion just like this um probably next year at this time for that next phase. Okay. Okay. Well, the five million we would re recognize is over that we'd save $5 million within that 15. Yes. essentially right. All right. 7.6 board policy update. So you have uh two sections here. One is policies for review presented to you this evening for first read.
076Um again we'll have another round of policy updates in July to accompany this. Um some of which we may want to act on first read given the proximity to the start of the school year. The second piece is administrative procedures that accompany those prior policies. So, we just present those to you this evening. Um, if you have questions, comments, can provide any clarification on anything, feel free to reach out to us between now and our July board meeting. So, we'll see those again as well. Okay. 7.7 contracts and purchases. We'll turn that over to Mr. Anderson as well to talk through a couple of items. two uh emergency or expedited actions that we had to take this past few weeks. Uh the first is with uh vendor frankly strategies and it was with respect uh
077to uh an agreement u for uh support services uh for hearing uh for sped department and then uh the second one is with Canva within the technology department and it was a subscription for integration uh for classes and and um programming. Um, and again, this usually we like to time these so that they're not brought to you in this manner, but both of these kind of have to get through more quickly uh to make sure that we're ready to go for the um start of the school year. I move the board approve the emergency contracts and purchases as presented. Second. Nick, yes. Jen, yes. AJ, yes. Dan, yes. Drew, yes. Angie, yes. Karen, yes. Motion carries. All right. Legislation and advocacy. We've talked a little bit about session, end of session and special session and
078changes. So all that does anybody want to talk about summer summit? Not really. Um there's some changes to the governance award. A lot of all of that. Well, it's on it's on the MSBA site and I would think maybe at a later study session we will need to talk about that because they've moved away from they've moved more towards doing team events and so um bowling could be synchronized swimming. So they have like three sections like like learning, growing, and leading. Yeah. And and they've really kind of refocused on on how you achieve that and going from um having, you know, and if your board doesn't do something as a group, there are individual needs, but if you're doing individual, it takes more than the group. Um, it's best if you've got the papers in
079front of you so we can look at it and talk. If you can explain the foundation formula, you win. Yeah, they did. There are so I mean I have just a picture of it on my phone and it was a lot more team work than it was individual work. They they and and I think my personal opinion is there I count it there are 500 plus school districts in the state of Missouri. I don't know how many of them belong to MSBA but let's just say 200. I don't know if that's true. Out of that there were 24 districts who were awarded a governance award. So let's make it more difficult. So you want to make it actually it's not. Well, I know it's not, but like but but but I really think that they're
080going after if if if you're ever at a conference and you listen to what smaller school districts do. I mean, in a small town, the entire board some somewhere and they're, you know, selling lemonade at Walmart or whatever policy. Um, no, because it's posted. Okay. But MSBA used to have multiple categories, right? And so you could get leadership recognition for a variety of things. It sounds and then they went away from that in a more streamlined um approach. Now it seems like we're going back to categories. Is that true? There there's well and and the thing with the categories is what Jen was reading about what those three categories is is also reflected in advance, master and distinction awards. So for the individuals, they correlate for the individuals and the the team award. So So
081yeah, it's interesting. Um I thought it was a good conference. There were things that they talked about that I aside from that that was good. Um and um the hotel had air conditioning and we didn't have to wait for an hour in line to check in. So I consider that a bonus right there. Of course. However, the caveat is there were no elevators. No, you didn't use the steps. They put you on the surface elevator. So, just a small I think that one for those of us who got there earlier, one of the sessions that I did was um well, the title of it was AI in action practical tools for schoolboard members. But what was fun about it was interactive. And so he would bring up like grock or he would bring up perplexity
082or he would bring up different things and we worked in like pairs or fours and kind of pres we've worked through what each of those is useful for or and I have a whole list of them. And so we kind of just got like like a little glimpse of how these tools can all be used. all to say that I don't know if that's what we do for our educators or everyone like this is how you would like this is the program you would use for this type of work and this is the type of program you use for this type of work so that was that was a really cool session Karen Rogers presented in case you didn't know that really panelist I was on a panel so there's a difference you were on
083a panel which means there's a difference between a panelist and a presenter well there were lots of presenters there was a panel presentation on let's see the importance of language that lang words words matter and then just the the importance of how language matters in in fair education practices and so I was a couple of folks from around the state the Rittner school district um Park Hill we had a lawyer from MSBA I'm missing somebody oh someone from St. Joseph school. It was kind of a mixture of board members and school superintendent, a a instructional leadership coach. We call them instructional coaches. It was some different name in a different district. And then um it was a good conference. I think the other big takeaway is that I think there are more people watching these
084than we think. I mean, I think there there's a really interesting um there's a lot of research going on about the connection between boards and superintendent and just that people watch these board meetings and I I I find it I find this time with all of you valuable and the engagement that we have as a board and so I hope we all continue to to do that. So people are watching or they'll look it up. That's right. So search it up. All right. I know that I will entertain a motion unless anybody has any other comments. I move board. Second. I don't know if that's the words, but that's the way it Yes. Jen, yes. AJ, yes. Dan, yes. Drew, yes. Angie, yes. Karen, yes. Motion carries. Mr. Gates, thanks for hanging out with us.
085Can anyone tell me what was going on at Margaritavville? Was there something at Margaritavville last week? for schools. I don't know why I have that on my calendar. I drove there, but that's not where I was supposed to be. But I don't know how it got on my calendar. I mean, not not like Denise calendar. Like, I put it on my calendar, but I don't know why. Trying to manifest it. [Music]