001[Music] right of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all i move the board approve the agenda as presented aj yes scott yes angie yes david yes andy nick yes kim marie yes russian carries can everyone hear me no we uh tonight for honoring excellence we needed to move a couple of things around we had a couple of student recognitions that we're going to get back to in march but we did though want to take some time to recognize you as this is our month actually we we hit it each year i think we miss it by a week when when the state dedicates the week of board recognition week and this year it falls february 14th through the
00220th so we are right in in the middle of it and i i thought i would begin by reading um what what was released by the missouri school boards association missourians benefit every day from the dedicated energies and countless hours devoted by a group of more than 3 600 men and women from communities across the state these public servants are elected by local constituents and do not receive compensation for their tireless efforts they are the local school board members of missouri during the week of february 14 through the 20th communities across the state will honor the dedicated service of their local boards of education during school board recognition week the goal is to build awareness and understanding of the important function and elected board of education plays in communities and schools all missouri citizens are
003asked to recognize the important contributions of these men and women and focus attention on the vital role these public officials play in the education of missouri's children so tonight i thought we would mix it up just a little bit as i mentioned i think you should had a few tokens of appreciation that our schools dropped by last week and i do want to mention that you may have a few more items coming up during your study session in a couple weeks we had some schools that weren't able to get them over to us today but they certainly wanted to do that um but our cabinet members are going to uh help me distribute the certificates to you as i call off your name and uh who would like to help mr anderson would you like
004me a question um miss kim marie graham board president thank you sir board vice president mr nicholas bartow bartlow thank you sir mr a.j bird we have your certificate for you here sir we'll be sure to get that to you mr scott connor mr david evans miss angie and mr andrew rockman thank you thank you cabinet members for your assistance for getting those distributed and also and i'm gonna call for this video here in a moment and then i will uh close it with this video we had a chance for some students uh who uh who came up with a thank you letter for our board of education so brian if you could roll that and that will wrap up honoring excellence for the season [Music] dear liberty board of education members we hope that
005this message finds each of you doing great we know that this year has been difficult for each of you especially as you serve in your roles helping lead our school district you have had to make so many tough decisions since cobin 19 began nearly a year ago and none of these decisions are ones that make everyone happy but in the end we know that you make your decisions in our best interest your role as a school board member can sometimes be a thankful job and one that many might take for granted we are so fortunate to be in a district that allows for so many opportunities in and out of the classroom if it were not for your passion and commitment to serving us none of this would be possible while we could go on
006and on sharing words of appreciation we will choose to keep it simple and say thank you mrs graham thank you mr bartlow [Music] thank you mr bird thank you mr connor thank you mr evans thank you miss reed thank you mr offman thank you for being a liberty board of education member and taking good care of us that's why i do it very sweet wow great kids [Laughter] all right i move the board approve consent agenda items oh sorry you have a little piece rules of parliamentary procedure robert's rules provide for a consent agenda listing several items for approvals awards by a single motion documentation concerning his items has been provided to all board members and the public in advance to assure an extensive and thorough review items may be removed from the consent agenda
007as a request of any board member i move the board approve consent agenda items 3.01 through 3.07 second aj [Music] scott yes angie yes david yes andy yes nick yes kim marie yes legend carries all right those are thunder 4.01 first of our reports this evening under reports from the administration is innovation and learning so dr westfall and dr mall over to the two of you good evening on behalf of the department of innovation and learning we thank you all for your service for the board of education um we just want to bring a couple things forward to you tonight first one is to talk through our kindergarten welcome which is getting ready to open for the next year so it starts on march 1st the enrollment is through the student enrollment portal found on
008the district website and due to coveted restrictions this year we've decided upon registration that a video would be sent out to all the enrolling kindergartners they include things like information from their home building an introduction to the administration and staff a day in the life of a kindergartner and kindergarten readiness skills for a few families that are still interested in the epic lottery that is open through february 28th until midnight and then they will sign up there in addition to signing up on our kindergarten portal i know it's hard to believe but this is going to be the class of 2035. so just so you know a couple of other things a number of feedback loops have been sent out through our department one of them is gathering information for our renewal for our learning
009management system which is canvas so we had 90 percent of the respondents to our survey say they would like to continue with that in the 6th through 12th grade we will continue using seesaw at the elementary level the other thing that we sent out for this week we have a return date set for tomorrow is to ask our elementary students k through four what they intend to do next year in respect to virtual school so we have right now still almost 2 300 students participating in virtual school we do think we will be able to integrate them at the secondary level but we are looking at the possibility depending on what our families say to us in the survey whether or not we will need to set up classes that are specifically elementary and the
010last two things just to close we had a great wonderful professional development day on friday we appreciate everybody who contributed to that we did have some really exciting times both dr moore and i were able to visit either via zoom or she was able to get to over half the buildings throughout the day but we had some guest speakers for example author ellen keane who is a very is very famous in the elementary world and in teaching and learning she was able to zoom in with our staff at shoal creek we also had some pineapple pd's going on in various buildings like donovan or kelly brook liberty high school had a huge one that they used for all their teachers a lot of emphasis on pbis and um a lot of work with echo and
011so we were we were very happy to see the work that all our schools put into that day and then uh last but not least today another snow day and so we just appreciate the grace that our teachers parents students had all of us we not only had the challenge now of a snow day but then we had the rolling power outages to deal with so um i did hear a story today that uh the kids were all the elementary kids were in a classroom and then poof their teacher was gone and so they decided to take the heist and try to see if they can one of them could take ownership and take over the class so it's always a challenge we're always learning but on behalf of our department thank you that's amazing
012any questions of dr westfall or dr moore in terms of their report this evening we had a report of two areas one close to lewis and clark and one close to schumacher i think one was earlier in the day and one was more mid-day so we'll see how the next day or two goes as well so questions for the two of them okay next up then as far as 4.02 our chief equity officer is joining us via zoom so we're going to turn it over to dr andrea dixon seahorn for her report good evening everyone very pleased to be with you virtually i wanted to just share with you a couple of updates from our board report for the month of february uh regarding strategic plan number four which is around equity action planning we
013are currently hosting brief check-ins with each school leader and director and or department in the case of operations and human resources during this month we've had some awesome conversations with school leaders and directors and wanted to just share just as a tag team to what dr westfall had mentioned about equity conversations taking place during the district pd day i wanted to share with you a number of schools that made it a focus for their professional learning on that day schools such as liberty high school around unconscious bias liberty north high school around microaggressions uh shoal creek and ridgeview had a focus on dei diversity equity inclusion as well as alexander donovan and manor hill south valley middle school and heritage middle school so very excited to get the reports in from those schools also we
014had a department of that devoted heart or most of their day to a dei focus and that was the fine arts department specifically in the area of visual arts and their music focused areas so just i wanted to share that as a highlight for today under strategic plan number four regarding strategic plan number seven the school's cohort is in full swing as we have mentioned uh in the past whether at the board report or uh whether in the board a study session we're very excited that on this friday our lps team along with cabinet members that have been invited to join us we will actually dive into the equity audit tool it is an online tool that we'll be utilizing provided to us by beloved community and we'll be walking through half of that tool
015to conduct our audit and then we'll convene again next friday again both of these are half day sessions so that we can complete the audit which is due by march 1st we've also extended an invitation to uh representatives from the kauffman foundation to join us if they would like to be a part of that conversation with us as well in reference to strategic plan number eight very pleased to share with you just some uh quick data some quick stats on our dlt um book talk series as you know this is uh been provided for any member of dlt who wants to be a part of these special sessions they've been going on since first semester and we're not we are now in our fourth installment of the dei book talk series and wanted to let
016you know that of our approximately 75 dlt team members we have had 62 of 75 or 83 participate again this is voluntary uh and so we're very very excited about those numbers we've had roughly 41 which would be equivalent to about 31 of 75 dlt members that have participated in at least one 27 which is equivalent to about 20 of 75 that have participated in two or more we've had five out of 75 which is equivalent to about five percent that have participated in three or more and we have four dlt members that have participated in all four of those sessions so we currently have so you want to talk about race going and going on at this time is being facilitated by dr precious kurth and it is just all about really professional growth
017and personal reflection and so we are pleased with the outcomes of this dei book talk series and then last but not least just wanted to share an update very quickly on strategic plan number 14. specifically our cultural competency work group that's been focused on the um focus groups that we will be holding very soon as you know we'll have students participating in focus groups grades 5 7 and 11. we now have all of those focus groups scheduled for the first week in march and then we'll be working on uh a subgroup of us the rest of this week on getting the family focus groups planned for any time during the first two weeks of march so just wanted to give you that as an update and looking forward to those conversations with students and with
018families as a follow-up to our panorama dei survey that concludes our brief report for this evening and i'll entertain any questions or comments at this time dr xenon can you hear me i can hear you yes is there any reason why the fifth seventh and eleventh grade are selected being part of this focus group yes i'm glad you asked that question so we we know that we can't go to every building and talk it's in every grade level so we wanted to have a representative sample across the organization so that is why we selected fifth grade uh from the elementary level in terms of just students that are getting ready to come out of elementary we chose seventh grade students at the middle school level because they're just really literally right there in the middle
019and then we chose 11th grade students rather than 9th or 10th um just because they've had they now have some context having been in school for three years and can give us some insight before they get to their 12th grade year and graduate we also elected instead of going to every single building to again and looking at a representative sample for our district we've selected six elementary schools we've selected two of four middle schools and then we'll have conversations at all three of the high schools liberty high school liberty north and liberty academy okay thank you other questions for dr dixon just after the focus groups i know we've got the the data and the research from the panorama focus group obviously to dive deeper into that information get some more commentary behind it there's
020going to be i assume a report out to the board is that a correct statement i didn't hear all of that i heard data panorama and report you got it [Laughter] oh so yes at some point if i'm kind of piecing this together at some point there will be kind of an um a follow-up report that we'll share with the board yes after we get our data in from the focus groups we did share remember just some preliminary data with you um as a follow-up to when the survey was held back in october but yes we will come back and share some more comprehensive data about our findings and the recommendations for moving forward through the lens of students and families around dei did that answer the question thank you thank you dr dickson seahorn
021uh next up then we have 4.03 our finance report ms cindy sullivan good evening everyone in addition to my report posted i have a couple things to share with you the foundation formula was paid out at 93 in january um jesse is projecting a final appropriation level of 95 and a half percent um which is great but that still leaves us about 2.7 million dollars short of 100 allocation so hopefully it might inch up a little more than that and that would be great if it did but that's what we're hearing right now they are also currently projecting a level funding stream for next year on march 10th i will be participating in a budget development webinar and hopefully they will be able to explain if that's level based on where we end level based
022on where we started or exactly what kind of level that means so looking forward to getting that information as well as anything else they can share with us about developing the budget for next year the elementary and secondary school emergency relief fund 2 allocation came in at 1.62 1.062 million dollars approximately 446 000 of that you will note in my report has shown to be spent as district funds that will be rolled up and used um that sr2 allocation for that leaving us a little over six hundred thousand dollars left of that sr2 allocation we don't actually get those funds until may or june so we're currently assessing how best to utilize the rest of those funds next steps trying to figure out what that might look like property taxes our current correct collection rate
023is 97.66 which is right at the total percentage we collected last year so that's great news considering we still have four collection months left so we should be back up to more where we're accustomed to collecting and we budgeted at 97 so we should be submitting a budget amendment to reflect more of what we're actually expecting this year so that's on the good news front and finally next month i know you're all really excited about this we start our budget conversation yes so we will start next month with revenues and this probably is a year where i know that i feel i know even less than i did last year at this time going forward but we will get there and start with that next month so that's what i have for you tonight and
024if you have any questions for me i'd be happy to answer them okay kind of tease something out you mentioned esser yes so there was one and then two this is two and we're anticipating a third that is correct and hearing that that may be substantially higher than one or two that is correct and um i anticipate hopefully hearing more about that in march as well questions of cindy okay thank you again as you mentioned we'll hit on revenues in march expenditures anticipated expenditures in april that'll culminate in a draft budget document for you in may with our final approval at our june monthly board meeting so thank you to cindy and her team for the work that they've done but then the work that they will also do so making his way to the
025podium is mr steve anderson for operations report thank you um also in addition to what has been uploaded i just have a few things to share in just general in operations so with the challenging weather which i'm sure we're all aware especially the extreme cold um just to make euro you all aware that our team steve aldrich's team facilities and maintenance has really over the last several days and through the weekend kind of babysat all the buildings and checked on them regularly just to make sure we didn't have any issues pop up and thankfully we did that we did catch a couple things not major but caught them early in time so appreciate his team for kind of stepping up over the past few days and making sure that we're ready if and when we
026do roll back um i also wanted to mention that our health services nursing team uh this is actually in the report uh in that nearly all of our nurses have now received the second vaccine and appreciate the partnership with liberty hospital to help facilitate that so i feel really good about that and now we kind of await the next phase in the vaccination process to when it hits all the district staff one other point i want to hit on before speaking a little bit to our return to learn plan um this really warrants i think a little bit of attention that's on the operation side we've had some staffing challenges over the last many years and really kind of hitting that uh fully staffed level has just been um it's just been a significant challenge
027uh tanika brown who's the head of our kidzone um department mentioned to me today that they are now fully staffed and we have nobody on waitlist and that has never happened in the seven plus years that i've been here and and that's that may not sound too significant but for the stress level that it brings on our team to just kind of keep that moving is really significant it really did want to call out dr vogler and his team he really called together d rose grants christelle morgan and jill valchester and they came together and worked side by side with my team and did a put together a plan and executed it made some changes in terms of how they did things but made a huge difference not only for her department for all the
028departments so just wanted to make sure that that was recognized tonight so with that i'll just pivot to the return to learn planning process so you all had received the community received an update from the superintendent's office on friday to outline a little bit of where we're at and where we're at least planning as we move forward into the coming months you'll recall that back in december that we had a good conversation at the board meeting to discuss kind of where we've been through the first semester some of the thinking as we look ahead to second semester um and and really at the time mentioned that come february we would kind of pull back and give you all an update in terms of where we're at what the data was showing across the district and
029across the clay county area but also we anticipate at that time that the cdc would be revising its guidance and sure enough they have so this is an appropriate time to revisit that i would also be remiss if i didn't mention that all along uh throughout the entire process our team has confirmed regularly meeting looking at the data looking at trends and really trying to figure out how we can continue to prepare to scale up face-to-face and in-person learning across the district um so so with that uh what i'll just mention here is that um we are um we have a couple different phases to the plan that we have we have kind of pulled together the first obviously is the status quo which everybody is aware of and that's just that we have uh
030virtual's an option for everybody but we have k k5 where it's face to face in person five days a week and then the secondary is as you know hybrid model so that's a status quo the two initial things that we've we've analyzed and looked at potentially scaling up one is is that second phase referred to is kind of bringing back some certain secondary subgroups and primarily that would be for four-day face-to-face learning at the secondary level for special education students with disabilities and and also those students are that are at risk of failing and so we're we're having conversations about what that would look like we're having conversations about identifying those populations and communicating with those families but also other issues such as transportation and the complications that would come along with kind of implementing
031that phase but that's the one that's probably most at the ready and we're having good active conversations about that we're also looking at potentially reclaiming wednesday as a full day with i take that back reclaim wednesday as in-person learning with the early release as well so that would be the next kind of phase-up uh as part of that plan and so that too has some implications across the system but again is something that we talked about back in december december and we'll continue to evaluate that over the next couple weeks again as we really watch closely those trends uh in terms of the numbers of cases and the positivity rate and then the guidance that we're receiving from the clay county health department beyond that is really the when it gets a little bit more
032uh serious and when we when we're at a point where we can welcome more more of our secondary students back for in-person learning and those are those next phases that we've talked about all along i think the first uh look that we that we have had is maybe would make more sense initially once where it is safe to do that and we can maintain all the guidance that's in place is that we look at a four day and still maintain that wednesday again just to help through that transition but then also there would be that point this is the last the last phase of the plan is just more ready to kind of go back full force five days a week so i suppose the main point is to let you all know let the
033community know that we obviously have been meeting discussing this regularly planning on all the contingencies planning on the ripple effect of once we go into one or next initial phase but again a lot of this is dependent upon the trends and then of course working in partnership with the clay county health department uh in terms of what is safe and how best to kind of move forward so with that i'll pivot real quick as an update to uh vaccine uh planning that we're working on i mentioned this earlier in my report so we continue to be working um on a plan where all of lps staff could be vaccinated and we're working with a couple different partnerships and trying to sort that out we initially thought this was a february march endeavor now it looks
034more like a an april project uh but uh believe that here in the coming weeks we should have a plan uh ironed out for how we can best serve our staff um for vaccination once it's here and the supplies are ready we are also continuing to work with more on the side with operation safe community and really in terms of providing opportunities for our team our staff to volunteer uh as those opportunities become available so we're still in connection with that team as well so i wanted to make you aware of that so with that i'd be happy to take any questions and then of course our folks here and innovation and learning are happy to help as well any questions for mr anderson regarding his report i know it's early probably haven't dissected the
035cdc report guidelines whatever in totality but have you taken a look at some of the mitigation factors they've recommended how are we you know in line with them or do we have things we can work on what's kind of the feel on that sure um yeah so i would say the the mitigation factors that they are recommending are really the mitigation factors that we have had in play here since since the beginning of the school year there are five primary ones which i'm sure everybody's aware of by now but but really the big one the one that's most challenging is the distancing one and of course there's masks and in sanitization cleaning protocols and so forth the other that is not in their recommendations that we really kind of put more of a push on
036and that is uh with air purification in the hepa filter project that we put into all of our classrooms so that's obviously one of those things that they recommend with ventilation but i think we've taken an extra measure there but really it's it really comes down to the fact that we have we're in compliance fully with what they're what they're recommending and i think the the issue that that all comes down to for us is the the distancing part which is really driving our plan at the secondary level thank you so on on that distancing point you mentioned i think four or five steps up from where we are right now with two days in the middle and in high school um getting the last two steps would reduce distancing significantly it seems is that
037consistent across all the schools or is there other variations i think it's safe to say it's across all the secondary buildings that to go to to move away from the hybrid model would either require a reduction in the distancing standard or for a decision to to kind of do our best right so it's six feet pretty much across the system i think if it got to that three or four foot range i think we could probably honor that and accommodate in-person learning at the secondary level five days again to point that out though the the decision would be to go against that six foot social or the physical distancing piece or the alternative being it's relaxed at the cdc or the health department level so that's one of the bigger concerns as we think about
038increasing face to face we know currently that we're able to to apply that mitigation strategy successfully across all of our schools anything beyond that or increasing face-to-face then kind of jeopardizes that moving forward so other questions for mr anderson just because you may know not that you're the expert at the clay county public health department but i know there's guidelines within that cdc recommendation anywhere from i think it's blue to being low transmission to red being high risk is there an indication of where we are as a community are we on that high side high transmission risk at this point so yeah yes so as it stands today but again the numbers are seemingly moving as we speak right in a good direction but as it stands right now using those four uh sections of
039the cdc we are in the red primarily red with maybe one exception on the on the yellow okay i would also point out that so it's it's was it blue green uh no blue or i anyway i was just looking at it earlier but the two more uh uh where it's not uh uh as as virulent in the community that the virus the two lesser standards the blue and the green i believe that that's when you can start it actually recommends it you could maybe loosen up a little bit on the six foot distancing it's when you're in the the orange and red that it becomes more uh more of an issue it's pretty strict in terms of guidance okay and to that end one of the things that we'll be doing this week and
040early next week both with clay county public health center and then the city of kansas city health department and mid-america regional council we've been working with mark since early august in around gating criteria and trying to make sense of data and so forth so fast forward now we have these the criteria that was set forward by the centers for disease control that existed prior to last friday and then we have the new set so you have the local regional gating criteria the first round of the cdc criteria and now the most recent round of cpc criteria and so we're going to be visiting with the health departments and then mark to make sense of all that from a regional standpoint as we move forward the other thing that we continue to engage in is conversations
041with our counterparts our other school districts south of the river um west on the kansas side but then also in the northland knowing that each region is slightly different to highlight one area that is unique and i wish we had this issue this issue on our western side of the metro area in kansas districts are already seeing vaccines administered to their educators and their staff so they are a little bit more ahead of us as it relates to getting closer to some of these scenarios that we've laid out we're going to be able to learn a little bit from them in terms of their trajectory and progress at the same time working closely with our health directors as it relates to you know what we might see in the coming weeks the other thing i
042would say is as we look at our data we certainly have seen a decline in data within the system within our schools but then at the same time at the county level we see that at the state level the federal level but then we're also listening and watching and hearing from the centers from disease control and other medical experts as it relates to the coming weeks so we're excited that we're moving in the right direction but at the same time we're not entirely out of the woods and so i would encourage us to continue to keep informed stay informed as to what we anticipate over the next couple of weeks working toward these plans it's by the way blue then yellow and orange [Music] yeah we can hear you aj steve or dr tucker question
043where are we in terms of the time frame of working with these scenarios uh are we just beginning to look at them or is there any kind of time frame we're looking at to try to make a decision great question we've been looking at them since last fall as far as i am i wish i could date everyone in this meeting or virtually or watching online a definitive date as to when to prepare for i think the conversations this week and next with clay county and city of kansas city health department will be telling i think it's important for us to put detail to these plans and then communicate those plans out with our community be it our staff our students our patrons our parents families to ready everyone in the event that we're able
044to initiate those next steps i would say we'll have detail within the next couple of weeks as far as adding to these plans that we communicated out on friday and then i hope to be able to bring back to the board um kind of a phased approach with the help of our health departments as what it would mean to move to the next phase in their recovery plan as a reminder with clay county public health center we currently sit at recovery phase two and as it speaks to increasing face-to-face learning or getting schools reopened completely we don't see that under the current plan until recovery phase three so that is another question that we've posed of our health department to try to get some clarity around so i wish i could give you a definitive
045date aj we're just not at a point of being able to do that would you add anything to that mr anderson okay so i just have one other question so we have seen some districts across the metro deciding to increase time um what do you know about what's going on in their districts and what their data looks like that might be different than what we're seeing here it's hard to look at their data entirely given that they're in different counties and so we have a hard enough time looking at clay county we can speak to those districts in clay county and that we all kind of see the similar information that's posted virtually or posted on our dashboards through clay county the other piece that we've seen is we looked at individual district dashboards there's
046differences or disparities that exist from district to district to district that cause us to wonder how well each district is kind of working at implementing you know the social distancing elements or the contact tracing or the quarantining all things that we feel pretty good about having done over the course of the last several months in liberty public schools the other thing is we have seen some districts and their boards of education move forward with increased face-to-face learning but yet we've not seen their local county health departments open things up to allow them to go to face-to-face learning they've just done that either through a vote by their board of education or in terms of that next step that's communicated administratively on the kansas side there's a little bit more structure as it relates to the
047kansas department of education and some clarity that's been provided from their state department down to their schools most recently revising some of their dating criteria to allow them to move more and more toward in-person learning as well as working with health departments like johnson and wyandotte counties so we watch and we look at we see their criteria that they're putting in place for opening a lot of what we've seen recently particularly with blue valley and olathe has been a result of their accessibility to the vaccine in other districts like lee summit blue springs platte county their decisions have been more localized in working with their boards of education based upon where they're at what their communities feedback has been in terms of moving forward with in-person marketing the other thing i will say is some
048districts have had plans to try to accelerate this you know as early as december or even november and then they've they've been slowly pushing those plans a little bit deeper into the the spring semester and are now at a point in which hopefully trying to be uh able to reopen face-to-face learning options for their families in their districts so so in your opinion does that mean i was trying to figure out how to phrase this so can we brought them but at least some of those springs are they just taking on the liability of making these decisions it's hard to say blue springs has been open since day one with that face-to-face option uh lee's summit had been virtually and then made the decision to move to more face-to-face learning here just within the last
049couple of weeks each circumstance is different quite honestly in working with their health departments it's a full-time job trying to stay in touch with clay county and what's going on here let alone try to trying to dive into the the specific nuances of all of those right and to that point we don't have really so we don't know they're any better or worse we're just choosing to stay more in line with what we're hearing from our county that is that's been our approach in working with clay county public health center but then also trying to stay in line with what we're hearing out of the cdc in terms of trying to navigate and adhere to those mitigation protocols i'll say this we are one of the only districts in the metropolitan area that has been
050open and been able to remain open since september 8th without having to close schools for a period of time even if it's for three or four days or other districts that we've seen close for a couple of weeks or other districts that have closed for an entire month i think i would acknowledge that first of all but then i would secondly point to the return to learn plans that we've had in place the mitigation protocols and the work of our administrators staff students families in adhering to things like masks and our ability to social distance that that's created our success over the last several months moving forward we know that the success we have had has built as it was built on that return to learn plan that we put in place if we shift
051from that i would hope we would be as successful we have no way of guaranteeing that at this point so so you've talked about the health department data by county um i know you've also been publishing weekly set of statistics about this the district how does that play into the calculation in your opinion of of how do we feel confident to change the mode yeah great great question and it's really two separate pieces if i'm hearing this correctly so we continue to do our dashboard on a weekly basis and that's updated every once every wednesday usually by five o'clock and it's predicated off of the data that is received the prior week and that closes by midnight on friday so what comes in over the weekend and the following week then is populated on the
052following wednesday so we continue to do that during the fall semester you know we were seeing prior to october you know a plateau of anywhere from 30 to 40 cases on any given week and then once we you know moved past halloween into the month of november we saw a new plateau and so we we took a bit of a jump right to about 70. once we passed thanksgiving you know that increased to another plateau closer to about 90 prior to entering into winter break of course we heard christmas was coming and new year's and two major holidays what would happen 10 to 14 days later in mid-january since we've come back in january what we've seen again locally state level but then nationally is a decline in the number of positive cases that people
053are seeing a couple things there while our number has gone down we also know that we've had more disruptions during the month of january and so far in february with either holidays additional holidays like the martin luther king day most recently president's day or we've had inclement weather disruptions and so you may not have a full week as compared to a three or four day week which then does a couple of things it doesn't allow us to continue on with our antigen testing to the extent that we've been doing it on a full week but then it also kind of diminishes the five day reporting of positive cases that we might see here that we might experience we continue to watch then it continues to move in the right direction that though doesn't contribute to
054the gating criteria that we have established by either our region with mid-america regional council or clay county public health center or the two iterations that we've seen with the sitter centers for disease control because those matrices or those gating criteria are really populated by our county data right so it's really both it's what's community spread look like within the county in our region as applied to the gating criteria but then it's also what's happening within our system and still from september to present very limited transmission that again we attribute to our return to learn plan and those mitigation protocols other questions let's get out of the red yes we'll continue to put detail to these plans and look for opportunities to engage community again huge thanks to mr anderson and his team for continuing to
055work through return to learning as well as all the support that our innovation and learning department provides so thanks mr anderson next up then human resources dr vogeler thank you very much appreciate the opportunity to give an update on my department's strategic departmental work we've uploaded a report for uh you to look at i won't dive into everything that's written in there but i do want to draw a few things out first of all with regard to our wellness work one of the things that that we've been doing is expanding the concept of wellness from just physical health and wellness to emotional social health and wellness and so we've added a financial wellness component rebecca fisher has been working with pnc bank to provide a six-week 30-minute webinar series to focus on financial topics that
056matter to our employees these topics can be kind of cherry-picked they don't you don't have to sign up and participate in all six weeks the topics are varied enough that they might not apply to all employees but it is an opportunity for employees to engage on topics that help equip them with regard to their financial wellness we're hoping that this will launch an opportunity to partner with a variety of different experts in the field the cooperating school districts retirement trust offers financial wellness platforms as well as several local banks here in the liberty area all of which we're in conversation with to provide opportunities for our employees to get educational opportunities with regard to financial wellness the other thing i want to talk about with regard to wellness is the negotiations that we've been in
057with blue cross and blue shield as you know they have extended the emergency covert 19 emergency period from the end of december through march we received word that they are willing to extend that again to june 30th so the end of the fiscal year this is good news for our employees because this means that outpatient uh cover services will be covered that are medically necessary and consistent with the cdc guidance if diagnosed with covet 19 this also means that they'll be waiving cost sharing and co-payments for inpatient hospital admissions due to a diagnosis of coven 19 for individuals fully insured by blue kc and members can also take advantage of visiting an in-network physician at no cost for virtual telephonic email or text visits to medical services or behavioral health therapy all these usually have
058a an out-of-pocket co-pay associated with them and those are waived during this period of time cautioning still does apply for physical therapy occupational therapy and speech therapy but a lot of waivers for our employees during this covert 19 emergency window with regard to our equity goal on the grow your own teacher program as you know the board of education is heavily invested in the success of this program we're launching our marketing campaign for this third class of students and uh february first was kind of the the initial launch communication with families and students direct communication based on teach kc survey results from last year occurred at the beginning of this month this targeted individuals who indicated last year when they were juniors in high school on the teach kc survey of their interest in education
059we were able to then target our communications directly to those employees or i'm sorry those students there is going to be some marketing materials as well that will be launched tomorrow understand that dallas has a quick news marketing launch that will go out and then in packets to students at both high schools marketing as well so this is the month when we get the word out for the grow your own teacher program hopefully we'll solicit several students interested in applying for that loan forgiveness scholarship opportunity that is funded through our school district and in partnership with the education foundation so thank you for your commitment uh to that as well uh final thing i want to draw is with regard to team liberty we met as a group team liberty met via zoom on february
0609th the agenda for that focused on the 21 22 salary schedules these conversations are continuing and ongoing over the next few weeks and input from these interactions will be necessary to formulate the recommendations that we give to dr tucker we anticipate that recommendations then from dr tucker would come before the board at the earliest march 23 2021 regularly scheduled board meeting that would be a first consideration with action to follow in april a later deadline of an april 1st read with may action could also result just depends on how those conversations go cindy uh sullivant and i will be meeting with team liberty again this thursday on the 18th as well as with the administrative salary and welfare committees to continue these conversations with that there's other items in the report if you have any
061questions i'll be glad to answer those questions but that's nice mr evans sat in on the last team liberty call so appreciate him representing the board of education in that virtual meeting as well questions of doctor was that there's a lively conversation about challenging topics to try and balance definitely i don't have any questions more appreciation for the uh the effort to find the financial wellness i mean i think finding other opportunities to create you know holistic wellness is great so appreciate the team doing that you bet thank you thank you thanks dr voglar the last item then we have is my report under 4.06 a couple items to pull forward as we shared with you at our february study session and had a good conversation around our liberty public schools board of education perpetual
062calendar and rethinking that a little bit to focus on three key areas annual reports from our departments be it academic or operations a second category of strategic plan updates that we would then bring forward with our board of education and then lastly an area of program evaluations and rethinking that a little bit more around areas of interest or research that we want to do as a system in terms of areas to explore or areas that we want to evaluate a little bit more deeply in terms of best practices comparing what we do in our district compared to kind of those gold standards around various operations in department areas working with gnd consultants in that work to be able to solicit their feedback and input and one of the things we want to do is use
063the perpetual calendar to really fuel or feed some of our communications planning and so whether we're reporting out themes from our strategic plan how do we take those areas and really kind of highlight them through a variety of social media posts or you know additional videos or communication included in our magazine and so wanting to try to mirror the perpetual calendar work with our communications plan efforts so we'll be working on that over the course of the next couple of months the other thing i would reiterate on that is that we're talking about a calendar that really overlays the 2021-2022 school year so we've been having some planning conversations and then would really begin that as we enter into the month of july another item to highlight is our continued work with real world learning
064in support by the kauffman foundation as well as partnership with getting smart we've had a couple of team meetings here of late in really wanting to try to wrap our head around the totality of this work because it spans pre-k through grades 12 and it ranges from components of the skills and dispositions on our graduate profile to classroom learning experiences in tandem with a business partner culminating in that market value asset in the end so it's a really big piece to wrap your arms around but that's exciting work amidst the pandemic and so we're continuing to move that forward we recognize the need to probably incorporate that more specifically and call that out on our strategic plan so we're working with the team to be able to look at that and assess that if we
065fold that in more intentionally then we'll certainly bring that information to the board for your awareness also want to mention and dr dixon seahorn saved this for me i noticed in her report but this was in and around our diversity equity and inclusion committee meeting we've had a stakeholder committee in place now for five years we looked at the dates and it goes back to about five years ago and they've accomplished a lot we've done a lot as a system but some of the items that we incorporated in this last week's agenda included a couple of audits that we're working on one is through our equity in schools cohort which was mentioned earlier but then also a curriculum audit that's being conducted in partnership between the office of equity and our innovation and learning department
066and as nick asked earlier as those findings surface we'll certainly report that to the board and attribute you know that association to the strategic plan work or actions that we may need to take moving forward the last thing that i wanted to mention is in and around the spring legislative session much like many of the schools across the area the legislative session has had some starts and stops the house of representatives early in the session was suspended for about a week due to bless you and then this week we see the senate is on pause there's no shortage of bills there are over 440 some bills that incorporate or relate to education of the 1300 and some filed back in december with that we're seeing topics like school vouchers charter school expansion virtual charter schools
067open enrollment in which there are specific bills attributed to each we're really watching senate bill 55 right now because it's it's shaping up to be what might be later this session an omnibus bill in terms of a large bill that incorporates a lot of different changes that might impact public education continuing to watch that and then also encouraging our staff as well as parents we've had parents reach out to us asking you know how can we get involved in terms of communicating with legislators but certainly encouraging people to reach out and have those conversations with our area legislators of which we are very fortunate they're very supportive of public education in our area so we appreciate the partnerships that we have with them last thing that i'll wrap up with is continued planning this semester
068for our 2021-2022 school year that's ongoing to provide face-to-face instruction and ready for those families that might opt into continuing their learning virtually so we appreciate all of the work of all of our team and getting us ready to wrap up this year but then also plan for the coming year ahead with that said would certainly open it up for any questions you all may have of me this evening okay thank you moving on to unfinished business uh we have a policy for review on first read gcba professional staff compensation you do have surprisingly only one item to take a look at so this is the one policy and again it's for first read so take a look at it and we'll bring this back to you for consideration at our regular monthly meeting in
069march all right and that moves us to 5.02 real estate purchase this item we've been talking about for some time as a board of education and we spent some time with with this under real estate under our closed session and then brought it forward for consideration but wanted to have mr anderson speak to this as it relates to a real estate opportunity for the district sure thank you and yes this would be the actual action required to accept the agreement uh that has been negotiated between the county public library and school district uh our legal counsel tom capps was was very involved and actually crafted and drafted the agreement that's before you the library essentially had no recommended edits to it um and so as you'll see it's directly it's the recommendation to move forward
070and purchase the property it's about 17 18 000 square feet over there on kent street and the cost to purchase is at 750 000 as a reminder the appraised value for this property came in just under 1.5 million and so feel like we've got a pretty good fair price for the property at this time we have uh we've had some good conversations about how it could be utilized more as a kind of support function but but details and plans are yet to come and i think the timing of holding this into the conversations and around our facility master planning which is likely coming into the summer it makes good sense so really again appreciate uh consideration of this tonight and then if it's approved we'll be moving forward forward to close on the property i
071believe it's towards the end of march if not sooner have the opportunity to have a lot of conversation about this in closed session any additional questions so the there was a closed bid process before we had about a month to you know so submit a bid and then others did as well right that's correct we were one of two um and it's that's for the problem does someone need to read the entire resolution i believe so will the resolution be approved below you ready after you read be it resolved and that the board of education of liberty public school district number 53 has determined that additional buildings and grounds are needed by the district for school purposes the board hereby approves the purchase of real property and improvements commonly known as one thousand kent street
072liberty clay county missouri legally described as track two re-flat of lot f re-flat four liberty shopping mall located in liberty clay county missouri from consolidated library district number three aka mid-continent public library as legally described and for the terms set forth in the written agreement in the form presented to the board and attached to this resolution and the president of the board of education or superintendent of schools is authorized to execute this agreement on behalf of the school district and is further authorized to execute any and all other documents necessary to effectuate the purpose of the purchase agreement and if necessary an addendum to the attached written agreement extending the due diligence period and closing date for a period of no more than 30 days from the dates stated in the attached agreement i'll move
073the resolution resolution be approved as read second props to the voice aj yes scott yes angie yes david yes andy yes nick yes kim marie yes motion carries all right new business tiered high school diploma next item is something that we've been working on with our high school study team and dr moore has stayed close to that and so we wanted to bring this to you this evening a few slides that were uploaded to board docs for your perusal as well this is presented for first read and so i appreciate the teams uh kind of working through all of the detail and working to try to make sure that we have a variety of opportunities for our students so turn it over to dr moore thank you this topic was brought up maybe a little
074bit over a year ago um and then kind of with govid we kind of put it on the back burner but i believe we talked about it maybe at a steady session so over the last few years the high school study team along with our administrators our director of guidance at both the high schools melissa norris several other people have come together to put this proposal um to share with you so the proposal has two pieces to it the first one is that we are looking at a the idea of a tiered diploma and so um you can see within we'll go through and kind of show there are three different levels of the diploma that a student could graduate with and what we're trying to do with that is make sure that every student
075walks out of our high school with an mba at least one and in the proposal that you have there are some sample mbas that you can see but that is our goal that every student would walk out with an mba and the proposal for that would begin um with our current eighth grade class that takes a while to get and our students have already developed a four-year plan so that would begin with that class the second piece that we would like to propose is that we would add a laude system to in addition to the valedictorian and salutatorian and that is to be more inclusive and add more students to be recognized at graduation currently students with 3.9 or 4.0 are the only ones who are recognized and this would change that and we would
076begin that next year so i just wanted to point out the pieces that it ties to with our strategic plan plans two four nine and ten and you can look at that and um see how it ties to each of those so here are the diploma options that we would like to recommend on three different ones that you would have a silver seal which would be the state minimum um that's 24 credits and students would have one mba required out of that the gold seal which is what we currently have 25 and a half credits and one mba and then the last one is a platinum seal which is distinguished um 28 credits so they would take seven classes all four years and they would have two mbas required with that take this off for
077a second sorry um the with honors designation then has summa laude magna laude and kumari if you remember that from college years what we did is made the summa laude they didn't apply to me would be your students who have a 3.9 to 4.0 magna laude 3.7 to 3.89 and then the laude 3.5 to 3.69 so you could see instead of simply honoring students who would be a 3.9 and to a 4.0 we would be honoring students also from a 3.5 to a 3.89 as well so we have been talking about this for a few years now and we're really ready to put it into action we've had focus groups with parents at both of the high schools um we meant to we've had two different dates set for student groups and they've been on
078snow days on virtual days so we have postponed those so that will happen this week into next week also the work with department chairs the counseling teams dr soluri has been a huge part of this and obviously the high school principal dr adams has really helped lead the charge on this process our goal then is to share it with incoming freshmen students and parents and then next year implement the with honors program and then over the next few years continue to grow the mbas so that by the time students get into high school they have several options for that which we already do now but we would just have that many more options available to them as they continue over the next couple of years so that was a brief overview in addition to the
079proposal that we shared with you at the end of last week if you have questions the other piece that you see reflected is in terms of amendments to board policies that we anticipate needing to be done to reflect the changes that dr moore is speaking to so i appreciate the forward thought around that moving from that minimum state requirement adjusting our board policies and then moving toward these tiers so yes um so one of the things that's in our board policy currently that we would change with this is that the ford board policy states that you have to have eight semesters of high school work in order to be a valedictorian um or a salutatorian and so we feel it's important to take that out and that any student who we have many students who
080can graduate at december that semester and we don't want to discourage those students from not being able to receive recognition for their hard work so part of the board policy is taking that piece out the other piece with the 24 credits if you think about like well why would we minimize that while we don't have a huge dropout rate the students that do drop out are right there they're right there and so this would really help those students um hang on and get up to that 24 state requirement level so that they don't so that they do get a high school diploma we do have a question doctor moore um on the zuma yes whichever the uh the highest level is 3.9 to 4.0 so today the valedictorians all have 4.0 correct so to talk
081to you about the thinking there of expanding that um i just want to understand that more it feels like maybe we're losing some distinction for kids who have have kept that 4.0 which is pretty hard so if they have a 4.0 they would still be the valedictorian okay and then they would also be uh recognized with summa cumate with honors they are with great with highest honor and typically a lot of colleges have the summa laude as just a 4.0 but we felt like the committee felt like then you're just recognizing valedictorians twice and nobody else within that group so we felt like salutatorians and valedictorians could be recognized with the highest honor and then you still have several students we did the math and i can't remember but i mean it was about 100
082students additional that would be recognized with great honor and with honor at each high school for their work so we kind of went back and forth on that so that is something that um you know obviously if there's questions about it we can look at but that's where we we kind of looked at keeping it a 4.0 moving 3.9 to 4.0 or possibly having a 3.8 the 4.0 and there's varying degrees of that as you research the cumulative zumwah magnet magna the lodge system how's that there's variations of that and different kind of benchmarks on how you split that up whether you're looking at the collegiate level or whether you're looking at as applied to high schools our goal i also think the other thing we need to think about if we are talking about
083um and professing to do thriving and that failure is an option and that you learn from failure if we i i like this because i feel like that is more in line with what we are saying for those students who strive to get that 4.0 that's great but you also have those perfectionists that make themselves in their parental units crazy while they get that in their anxiety levels sometimes impact their mental health right i think that might help ease some stressors for some of our students and our families i think we we've all have we all have examples of students who maybe were striving to be a 4.0 to be valedictorian with this pandemic um they got their first b and so it almost kind of i think like usually gives them a little bit
084of like okay i can still graduate with honors and be recognized but i don't have to strive for perfection there's a little bit of grace this is not college yet the other thing i would say and we've seen this bro being brought forward over the last several years in our district and others and that's the emphasis of social emotional learning and it ranges from those traumatic experience or adverse child experiences to high anxiety due to you know i need to maintain my level of performance and everything in between so i think you're exactly right and so then how can we come alongside kids regardless of where they're at and ensure that they are thriving and that they're developing those skills and dispositions along with the knowledge to not only hit these marks but certainly be
085successful beyond high school and that market value assay asset to underscore that one of those at least one for every single high school student our hope there is for that to serve as a bridge what are you interested in what do you anticipate pursuing post-high school whether it's college whether it's the workforce two-year four-year institution that's the intent of that real-world learning experience and so that that's a significant lift to think about all of our graduates over the course of their high school experience and having at least one market value asset so that's exciting work as well other questions of dr moore so knowing this kind of came out of the high school study session i assume this is going on at other high schools that some tiering system is in place in other areas
086true it's been a place for other districts for a long time in some districts there are some districts that do have we've talked about this off and on for years i'm loving the idea the other thing i would say to your point around the market value asset that that's in collaboration with kaufman of which you know their footprint has over let me get this wrong between the kansas and the missouri side i think they hit like a saturation of about 30 school districts not all 30 school districts are in round one we're in core one which i believe there's about 14 or 15 districts that are trying to scale up their market value assets so it's happening happening collaboratively on the mva side and then there are other districts that have a tiered diploma approach
087or seals of excellence as perhaps it's called in other systems so i'm seeing all the positives and totally get them it's got all good any negatives that have come up as you guys have talked about it and surfaced it out or is it everybody's just like let's let's roll no everybody um that we worked with has been very positive about it parents have been positive with regard to it and like i said we haven't had the opportunity to talk to students we'll have that before it goes for a second read and i'll bring that back to you but i think students and parents will both parents like the idea of just having that kind of what angie said that additional opportunity for grace within that you know 3.5 to 4.0 range and so that has
088been exciting the other piece is that it's allowed us to think through with melissa norris what we can do for students at liberty academy and what an mba looks like for students there and then what if students who are going through the missouri options program how do we still get them an mba and how can they still get a seal so in this with this plan they can still get a seal and graduate with that which i think is really important for that the other piece that we're working on right now with getting smart is a an extended transcript so that every student when they leave us we'll have that page too and we're going to pilot a program with them hopefully here soon that every student when they walk away they don't only have
089their transcript of courses but then they have their mbas and all the additional things they were able to do during their time in liberty anything else aj [Music] yes aj sorry i can't recall the name of the book what we're reading right now one of the things that the authors are talking about is how we've become such a sits your numbers on numbers and here again this looks like don't get me wrong students should be recognized for their achievements but it doesn't seem to have much in it about social emotional learning and growing just just we looked and thought about that book as we've read it i think you're speaking to our study session uh belonging through culture i appreciate you mentioning that and if i heard you correctly your question is around um you
090know where are we honing in or focusing in on social emotional learning a couple things to that end yeah a couple things to that end is continuing our work with panorama and surveying kids but then part of that that transcript project or that portfolio project is taking that data and really making that visible to both the student but then also the family so if you think about a student's like scorecard it's not just their you know quarter grades or semester grades but it's also with their social emotional learning scorecard through panorama that we might be able to elevate and provide more emphasis on for their awareness the other piece is that graduate profile that has all of those skills and dispositions and that dovetails here it also speaks to real world learning but how can
091we ensure that from the elementary level to middle to high school that we're incorporating those skills and dispositions with the graduate profile for kids to grow in their understanding of the skills they need beyond high school and in life a lot of its professional skills but then a lot of that also incorporates social emotional learning i don't know if dr moore dr westfall ul you all have anything else to add to that i think the part you added about the graduate profile one of the things that we're also trying to do is make that a part of a portfolio for students so when they walk away that they have artifacts and they've shown you know the things that they've how they've grown um as a student and just as a citizen of our world how
092they've grown by um and so being an entrepreneur um and personally culturally all of those things that are important that they can look back and reflect it's not something they might necessarily take with them but it's something that they can truly reflect on from the time that they're in kindergarten all the way to the time that they're a senior getting ready to graduate other questions okay time between now and our march meeting so take a look at it if you have other thoughts ideas or questions considerations please surface those otherwise you'll see that at our march agenda for your consideration so thank you thank you to dr moore and the team all right 6.02 architectural and engineering services another item for first read this evening we've been working on for some time is a process
093for soliciting proposals we've been working through for architectural engineering services so we'll turn it over to mr anderson thank you uh as you noted we actually put this out back about a year ago sorry yes uh so we uh solicited proposals back in march of last year um and uh for obvious reasons uh we actually just hit the pause button to kind of make it make our way into the school year here to get everything up and running so we did all of those who submitted back in march we invited them into a process whereby each one was given an opportunity to do a spark online interview with some preset questions that they then answered we had a total of 12 firms submit interest that would be both for facility master planning and architectural and
094engineering services kind of guide us through the construction process so of the 12 firms 10 of them actually did submit for the spark interview before we brought three in uh to actually do a zoom uh interview interaction interview and out of that group we decided and recommended it was unanimous to recommend that we stay with hollis and miller and continue on with their services for the next couple years and as dr tucker mentioned this is just first read we still are in the process of working through the contract language within the contract we would anticipate having that in front of you next month would that be happy to take any questions i know we have used hollis and miller the class go around and how many times now if you recall sure um a number
095of times i think this will be the third third time um that we've kind of renewed with them but we just finished about 10 years with them prior to that we had other firms that we've worked with for about a decade or so over the past 30 40 years so but yeah we've had them since i believe it was 2010 any other questions for steve so we will see this as well in march and then after the board's consideration that will then kind of springboard us into revisiting facilities master plan our demographic study we recently did looking at our train track similar to what mr anderson shared so more to come on that item as well okay we'll let mr anderson keep the mic to walk us through our contracts purchases and bids this evening
096sure we have a handful of emergency purchases and actions all of which you've received a friday or update along the way the past couple weeks three of these items were related to a water line break at liberty north which created some challenges for us over a couple days appreciate the team kind of swinging and taking care of that that would be hnl restoration train and lexington plumbing those were the three firms that we brought in to assist us in addition there's a contract in here for american trailer and storage and again that is to store a variety of issues as we kind of transition through through copen time uh and then the last one is with houghton mifflin and that is with respect to um allowing for some um uh learning resources um that was
097we're a little bit pressed on time there so we kind of rushed that one forward because they were needing it uh quickly happy to take any questions we don't have totals on the first truck not yet uh we just we brought them in we'll probably see that here the next couple weeks our best estimate uh total i don't have the breakdown is in the neighborhood of about seventy thousand dollars of course insurance uh we'll cover uh we'll put the deductible there well i'm just wondering if we can approve something we don't know the details yeah that is a great question uh apologize for that um so i i want to make sure you're covered yeah no that's a good good point but if we change the motion rather than purchase to work the work with
098these companies i think you could do that or given that it is an emergency provision we're giving you an update ahead of time so i don't know that we could actually prove it yeah you could you could undo the action item just keep that as information only and then keep the motion language in and around the following two contracts with american trailer and golden medal that works second yep aj yes scott yes angie yes david yes andy yes nick yes kim marie yes love she carries all right moving on to the board of education section um so you'll see there the resolution that we're putting forward for consideration in response to the ton of legislation that is in front of the legislature this session much of which does not support public education and the way
099that we would like to see it supported and i don't know if anyone is following any of the legislation very closely a lot of what's happening a lot of what's being pushed through is around charter schools and i think we've all followed that enough to know that that is can be pretty damaging to a school district and there's some other yeah for the record i think in reading through this it just says basically i'm not for against charter schools i'm just if you're going to have a charter school you've got to play by the same goals that i call it yes exactly so exactly we would like some accountability we'd like accountability we would like them to have the same [Music] be required to serve all of the same kids the board adopt the student
100protection resolution second yes scott yes angie yes david yes andy yes nick yes kim marie yes but she carries nice easy all right i'll just echo what dr tucker said earlier about um the preparation that obviously the whole district has gone through and and district leadership team all the way down to teachers um i think we forget where we were back in september sometimes as we've gone through this entire process the fact that we've been able to stay open um in a meaningful way not having to close an entire school through all of this uh is pretty remarkable and a testament to not only the planning but the execution of it that's happened within every building uh as well as parents and you know guardians and everybody uh students in particular also uh taking it
101serious doing what they can so um kudos again uh just another recognition of that oh and i would just draw out one one piece of that um that steve mentioned earlier which is the cdc mitigation guidelines that are coming out now are the things that we've been doing all along um and so that just demonstrates some a lot of hard work and attention to trying to do the right things for kids thank you and thank you for the recognition on board recognition very small token but yeah you're all very appreciative and we will make sure and get aj is black right i think david said earlier we saw the video from the kids that's why we all do it right thank you aj yeah scott yes angie yes david yes andy yes nick yes kim
102marie yes motion carries [Music] you