001President, I will wait until I get the thumbs up from our team. >> And if you don't want to sit through the rest of the board meeting, you are free to go if you like. [laughter] >> Board, as we begin the second semester, we have a treat for you tonight. We will be highlighting student performances and student talent across our district for the remainder of our board meetings together. Tonight we are pleased to welcome the Rayc Orchestra under the direction of Lynette Foner. We have 11 11 students here tonight who will be performing for us. And at this time I'll turn it over to Miss >> Fonner. >> [music] [music] >> Hallelujah. [music] >> [music] >> Hallelujah. [music] Hallelu. >> [music] >> Hallelujah. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Glory. [music] >> [music] [music] >>
002Hallelujah. Hallelujah. [music] >> [music] [applause] >> more than that wonderful. Thank you, Mrs. Foner and students. Thank you very much. [applause] Miss Foner, before you go, could you recognize and introduce each of your students for us tonight, please? >> Absolutely. >> Thank you. >> Is it working? Yep. There we go. Raise your hand, guys. Okay. So, this is Charlie Phobes. This is our concert master. And then our associate concert master is Christopher Garrett. And then we have Ashley Silva. And then Nabil, raise your hand. Katie Hal, Kevon, Callie Jensen, who was our honorable mention at All State, first ever for Ray Peek. U we have Lena, Roy, Kaden, Lillian, and then this is our bass player, Leland. Thank you guys. [applause] students. Well done and thank you for being here tonight. We appreciate that. Very
003good. This is just a side note, but any thought of having them play like live at graduation pop pump and serpent that song pumping serpent that I didn't even say right. >> We'll take that under adisement and I'll pass it on to our >> lovely that was amazing. They did a great job. >> Yes. Very good. All right, moving on to our ninth grade center update. >> Yes, at this time I ask Dr. Alan Downing to principal of the ninth grade center to come and share some highlights about the great work happening at the ninth grade center. Dr. Downing. >> Thank you. Good evening. Uh tonight I'm here here to celebrate the work that we're doing at the ninth grade center that aligns with our array non-negotiable of helping students do hard things. So, prior
004to this school year, uh Allison Scott and her team identified a group of students that were struggling academically at the middle school level and who may need help transitioning to the high school and and to a different building. So, after those students were identified, they were given a they were assigned to a a check and connect mentor, an adult in our building to uh to meet with them. So, check and connect is an it's an evidence-based strategy that focuses on [clears throat] relationship building. uh checking with students in their grades, helping set goals and and check on progress. So, they meet with these students about 15 minutes per week, once per week, just to check in with them. So, um before the school year started, we identified 31 students uh that we that we felt
005needed some some extra support coming in. Of those 31 students, 22 of them performed better academically than than they did in the past, with 10 of those students passing all of their classes first semester. Um, so I as I checked in with our with our students, I interviewed some of these guys that that performed better than they did last year to kind of ask them, you know, hey, what helped you? What what spurns your your turnaround and how did your check and connect conversations go? So, one student said that her check and connect mentor helps her keep track of stuff and has shown her college programs that were will help her do what she wants to do. She helps her plan and helps her helps her with getting her assignments turned in. Another student said,
006"We talk about grades, how to improve my missing assignments, and those things have helped, and I' I've implemented those things." And then a third student echoed, "We talk about classes, and if I'm struggling, how to get my grade up, and I feel like it helps." So, our our mission statement at the 9th grade center is to establish a collaborative community where every person is valued, challenged, and supported. And that challenge piece is really important right now. the the challenge that students get, that is where they learn how to overcome adversity and they build their self-esteem and self-efficacy through that challenge. So, we look forward to continuing to provide our students with that challenge as well as the support to help them realize their potential. >> That sounds like a great program. Will they be able
007to carry it on at all to next year as they move to the high school building? >> Absolutely. So, and we've got some students that we have transitioned to instead of a full-time status, we've kind of transitioned them to monitor status, we feel like they're we help pull those scaffolds away. Um, but that that is a program that continues on with them at the at the high school and and they are working to to build that up at the middle school levels as well. That was going to be my question if we we've identified a couple, you know, like 30, >> um, which is is a lot, but what about the ones that are just on the cusp and how do we, you know, as we're thinking of how could we move that around so
008that everybody's getting some, you know, because your advisory is your advisory, um, but some of that personal connection in there. I love it and I love that we're helping those come up and maybe we think on how we keep everybody still where they are, right? And challenge them also. So, I love it. So, >> yep. And we looked we we had a conversation last week of what what is our criteria? How do we expand that to to get more students involved in that as well? >> I love that. >> All right. Any other comments? >> No. Kudos to you and your team and for the support team that we have wrapped around our students like this for finding ways to make the the connections that will help our kids uh with whatever struggling they're fa
009struggles they face. Um I'm I'm proud of you guys. Thank you for that. Awesome. >> Great. >> Thank you. >> All right. On to the consent items. Is there a motion to approve the consent items? >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any other discussion? Just a quick question on early graduates. Are those more that are going to graduate that are like graduating already done or because normally we get that before and >> yeah so there's a variety of of we have some these are the MO option students these are students come through a mo options program for this month >> and look at Dr. for our I wouldn't anticipate any more from this point forward. >> If we did, it would be a option. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> All
010right. Any other discussion? >> All in favor? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. On toformational items. A foundation update. >> Yes. First on our information items tonight is Miss Mrs. Jody Houston, executive director of the Raymore Public Schools Foundation. Jody's going to provide an update on foundation activities with a look ahead to the gayla. >> Yes. Thank you for letting me speak. We always enjoy coming and representing the foundation. We appreciate your support and encouragement to us. Um I'll give you some statistics this year. So far in grants, that's the impact grants where any staff member can apply. We have given out over $25,000 so far. They're still open for some more for the rest of the semester. and that has gone to 30 different staff members. We're also doing some student led grants where student
011groups are coming and speaking to us and telling some things that they would like to see done and we have funded almost all of those as well. Um currently for CAN in the elementary program we have 144 enrolled and the total for the upper grades that use the pantry and sec other secondary schools is 235. It's a little higher than it sometimes is, but it seems to have leveled out, at least for right now. You matter night, we had a great night the other night at the basketball game where Belton and Ray Pek came together and we just encourage kids. We handed out foam fingers that said you matter and um tried to portray our message. We are excited to be partnering with Reach Foundation. Foster Huggin, who actually was an alumni of Ray Peek
012and taught here for a little while, is coming around and doing um some motivational encouraging talks and he's going to each of the secondary schools. So, he's going to have five presentations. We're super excited about that. And with the partnership with Reach, we were able to fund all of that. Um Major Savers right around the corner. So, if you um don't have a student to purchase from, be sure to look online. We can do that. But if you have a student nearby that lives by or lives in your house, please support them first, but then holler at us and we'll get you a major s card. It's going to be a great card. There's new things on it and there's some other other things that have been on before. Teacher of the year support staff
013employee of the year banquet. Mark your calendars is April 9th. We would love to see you all there. It's going to look a little different, but it'll be awesome as usual. And then our most exciting event of the year is the Taste of Ray Peek. It's going to be at the Raymore Activity Center again. This year the theme is 90s, back to the '9s. The foundation was formed in 1991. So, this is our 35th birthday. So, we're going to have kind of the birthday theme, '9s theme. We'll have food vendors, we have some new food vendors, we have some of the same food vendors. It'll be exciting night. There'll be a silent auction, live auction, and just a great time as usual. We would love for you to attend if you're able. If you have
014something you'd like to donate, of course, we would be love to do that and you can purchase a table. There's lots of ways to be involved. So, we would love to have you. If you have any questions or want to get signed up, please let me know. >> I didn't tell you, did I? I'm so sorry. April 25th. It's Saturday, April 25th, and it'll be in the evening. It'll be a great time. >> Well, you >> I can't wait to see what everybody's going to wear. You just made me feel old because I have a daughter that was born in 91. So I have a 35 year old. That's not possible. [laughter] >> Yes. Any questions? Thank you again for your support of the foundation. We love what we do. >> Thank you, Jody. >>
015All right. On to the sharp focus. >> Yes. Next up at the podium, Mr. Craig Derking is here this evening. Let's talk a little bit about market value assets. So, Mr. Good evening everyone. [clears throat] All right. So this month's sharp focus, we're going to take a little bit of a different angle than we normally do. A lot of times we talk about assessment data and we talk about MAP and NWA and all those great pieces. Um this month we decided to focus on the market value assets. So in looking at the sharp focus for this month, we decided to focus on the four pillars of market value assets. So the four pillars that we're going to discuss are going to be your client projects, college credit, credentials, and work experience. So getting started, what
016I'd love to do is talk about that 43.3% of the class of 2025 earned this very first pillar of a market value asset in client projects. Looking through the client projects, you see there's everything from enterprising design, English floor, botney. The big piece here is though to be successful to earn this asset, you have to have successful evaluation from the teacher and you have to showcase the growth in that area. [cough] The next pillar we're going to look at is college credit. 20.5% of the class of 2025 received the market value asset in either AP classes or dual credit. To get that market value asset, they needed to take three AP classes or nine college credit hours and get a C or higher in all of those coursework classes. >> Can they do more than
017one of a like? Could they have done a client connected project and get college credit? So, they can do multiple. Yes. The next pillar would be credentials. 24.3% of the class of 2025 received a market value asset in all of the credentials listed above. Anything from work keys to seal of by literacy to interior design, fashion design, and multiple stackable credentials. To get this market value asset, they needed to complete and pass the certain assessment for each credential and then they would receive that certification. The big piece here is that all these credentials are the IRC's which are the industry recognized credentials. And again with all of these pieces they could be any one of these or like you asked multiple of these to have that. And 24.3% of our graduating class was able to
018get a credential in this area. The last pillar is work experience. 11.8% of the class of 2025 received their market value asset in anything from Panther Teacher Academy to drone internship to multiple Chewies market. all those wonderful partners listed there to work on and get this market value asset. They had to have teacher and employee verification and evaluation of all of these different four pillars that we we talked about. I think the most important thing here to look at is this big final piece. This is your total market value asset attainment. Now, as you can see, there's some fluctuation between the numbers between the different category, but the big takeaway here is we keep growing. And truly, when you look at something like this, overall at almost 80% this shows that we basically have an
019more expanded choice for students to take. And to reiterate the message, all year long, Ray Peek School District is the district of choice. The kids have so many options to choose from, and this list is growing every single year. Um, and we have new offerings this year that will be part of the class of 2026. Again, looking at this from 75 almost to 80 in two years is a huge gain. And this is going to keep going up and up and up, especially with all the great opportunities that we offer. What kind of questions do you guys have for me? >> Uh, when with the 79.5% is that just your individual because there may be multiples within the category. Somebody's got college credit and work experience and a client project, but everybody there's a 100.
020You're this is one that we we have to get to 100. >> Correct. >> And so, but that's one. We're not double dipping in here. >> Correct. It is 79.5 of the graduating class received at minimum of one market value asset >> and that's just through first semester. >> No, that was 20 the class 25. Yes, >> that's 25. I'm still in 25 in my audit. Sorry. So, um so the 26 We don't have any of those numbers. >> No, we won't. Not until everything is probably wrapped up. I would say closer to the summer. Um whenever we would get the final numbers of graduation in all those um market value assets. >> Oh, shoot. I was hoping that we were NWA market value assessment, not MAP assessment. >> Correct. Um actually, if we're talking
021about NWA, the window closes tomorrow evening. So, our next uh sharp focus will probably be based on the growth that we're seeing throughout our entire district. I think this is great. You know, and in talking to community members, this is a big positive for our district right now. People really appreciate that our kiddos are graduating high school and able to get a decent job if they so choose to go in those particular directions. >> And I like seeing them working with community members to fix and solve their issues and concerns. And because we have a lot of small businesses in our community and they really it's a win-win for both sides. You know, the key thing that you just said there is if they go in that particular way or that particular um look, what's
022amazing about the market value asset system that we have in Ray Peek is it encompasses everybody. If you have a collegiate mindset and this is where you want to go with the the college pieces with AP and dual credit, you can get that market value asset. If you're ready to hit the ground running, we can make sure that you're working with our heavy equipment operators, our construction, with electricians, and then you can jump into that pre-apprentice or apprenticeship right out of the gate because you already have the certifications you need. Everybody has a place here and like we said earlier there's so much choice built in that every kid in Ray Pack is taken care of within this market value asset pillars. >> Well and I think no matter where you're at >> correct >>
023scale of life >> absolutely >> what is when is the goal that we have to hit 100% by >> uh I believe it is 2030 is that correct after tomorrow >> 27 >> 2027 >> 27 >> I'll be doing NBA presentations with Dr. um the very first uh week of February just to remind >> what what can we do to help support that to get that to 100%. I think we have so we have analyzed where our holes are. Um >> we have analyzed um where our gaps are like where are those um groups of kids that aren't in that 79.5 and we are have plans for each one of those groups. For example, Missouri options is a group and we've been working with Skyler Myers on what to do for that. Virtual is a
024group. So because we know consistently from year to year who those are we can make some really targeted plans. Um I think you do what you've always been doing is that when we come and bring fabulous ideas for you like hey let's start heavy equipment operators you say yes. Um so [laughter] I think that willingness um is helping and will continue to help. >> Um you just made me think of a question. Um I don't know exactly where it's through but we have to give middle schoolers a career plan. This just kind of plays right in with that doesn't it? >> Yes it definitely can. I do know we're making more and more concerted efforts that kids recognize like what is the lead center and what's op what options are there? What are options at
025the traditional high school? Really trying to get them to think at a much earlier age. Um you we have a um class right now um that um is for seventh and eth, but it'll be for sixth graders as well next year. it's academic applications and it goes through the high school course guide and then goes through their own strengths, the agility strengths and then talks about how your strengths and what does it match up with with the options that we have. Um, and so yes, we definitely have a more concentrated effort. >> Dr. Dr. Slay and I when we were in the high school last week, we stopped and talked with a young lady and she was commenting on some of the classes that she's taken and one of them happened to be in health
026care and she discovered that that was not and she always thought this is what she wanted to be and she realized yeah no that's not what I want to do and and went a different path but what a thing to learn at an early age and at a pretty cheap rate >> for free. >> Yeah. To realize those things about yourself. >> Yes. And I'll say they the the lead center all the representatives from each of the departments at LEAD the programs came into the middle school gave presentations and talked to the the kids and they that was one of their projects they had everybody had to do something and then present to their class on it as well as the the lead center. So that was people are talking about it like they're there's
027talking about it and I was at the lead center um for the open open house um and got to talk to a lot of the teachers and they talked to me about um my kid and then some of the other ways that they're um talking to these kids that are coming in. and they're like they don't know and but this is what goes to that this we're providing choice >> and we just need to give them that opportunity to to learn about it. So um I loved Mr. Dearing your like enthusiasm. It's almost like you graduated from here and you own this place like you are talking it up. You are I love it. It's great. >> I wish I would have. Um, you know, I've said this multiple times in in looking where the
028multiple districts from the Kansas City region, um, this is an amazing hidden gem here. Um, to do it all over again, I wish my family would have been here to start from. Uh, the opportunities that you guys bring forward and the just the community and just the commitment to excellence here is unlike anything I've ever seen. I'm glad to be a part of it. >> Well, I you know, you haven't been here even a whole year yet and I have learned so much just from looking at these numbers in a different way than we have before. And not that we necessarily didn't get them before, but just in those smaller chunks makes it so much more um I don't know what the word is. >> Ingestible. Yes. >> Well, and and the good thing about
029some of these pieces, you know, we we've talked about where we've been and we've talked about kind of where we're going. I'm excited to start showing you things and how we can truly bring in growth because when we did NWA in September, we just had that initial first test. Now we're going to be able to really dive deep and you know the questions have been brought up, you know, like what are we doing with the numbers? Where are we going with things? How are we using it? It can get as granular down as to a single teacher talking about all their specific kids on one specific standard versus an entire school looking at growth. The opportunities here are as vast as we want to really kind of help. And everybody's at a different level with
030this. So working with teachers, working with administrators, and working with all stakeholders to make sure that they're comfortable with that data set and they can make an impact and a decision to change has been a huge piece of this. >> Any other comments or questions? >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you guys. >> Appreciate it. >> All right, on to policies to review. Dr. Sgel. >> Yes. Thank you, Madam President. Tonight, board, you have 14 policies for introduction. All these policies have been reviewed by our policy committee. That committee met in person last week to examine each policy in greater detail. Most of these policies before you tonight are required by state law and came to us as um recommended or mandatory for approval from our policy service. Board members serving on the policy
031committee included Carol Barnes and Ruth Johnson. So, thank you for spending time with us that evening. Uh these policies are presented tonight for introduction. You have a written summaries of each one in your packet as well as for public viewing as well. I'll be happy to walk through any policy in more detail if you'd like. Um the intent tonight was I know that you've had them for a week and you were able to look at them uh to introduce them in mass and then put them on the agenda for approval in our February meeting. But if there are no questions this evening, these that's where those policies will be placed. If there are questions, I'll be happy to try to answer any you might have. I know that we had discussed previously that we were
032not satisfied with our current policy um support provider and that we were going to be moving to MSBA. Is that still the plan and if so what is the timeline for us to be completely transitioning over to MSBA? >> Excellent question. I know Pam has been working on that and they have our set of policies correct me and they're doing the re the transition now. >> Yes. So when is the due date for that? >> I'm hopefully by July 1st. Okay. Yeah. The idea would be for the 26 27th school year to be fully uh transitioned over to MSBA policy set. What they are doing now, they've taken all of our policies and throughout time we've made minor tweaks to our policies as well. They want to make sure that our wording and our desires
033have been are accurately reflected in their versions as well because they do this in mass for hundreds of school districts across the across the state. So there's a there's a probably a a master set and then master set for each district that's been a little augmented from time to time that they want to make sure they capture that for us. >> Thank you. >> I will say during the committee meeting, I haven't been on policy for a while or I guess we haven't had a meeting for a while either, but uh it was really good to hear the input from different people that are part of that group. Um, it really aided to making sure that we were having a well-rounded um, look and approach to our policies, especially since they're mandated. You know, we
034don't get much leeway sometimes. >> Policies brought happiness to people's faces that night. That was a beautiful thing to see. So, >> I do have a question on policy 1210. It was about the calendar and all of it just seemed like it was now it's all planned, planned, planned. Is there anything that's You're smirking at me. I was going to say thank your legislators. >> Okay. Well, I just didn't know. I mean, if does does anything really change for us with this policy change or is this just wording? >> Talk about half days. I was >> Yeah, the policy's purpose of that was to bring us into alignment to make sure that school districts were aware that if you used your AMI days for that 169 day um incentive plan that the state was going
035to pay you for hitting a 60 169 day calendar, that was going to work. Okay. >> So, this is a clarification because up until that point there was some um confusion over what the how that law was going to be interpreted. This policy um solidifies how that was going to be approached. >> Okay. So, but for us we're still we still have AMI days. We still all >> right. As always, if you've got any questions or thoughts after tonight, make sure and don't hesitate to reach out to Dr. Slaggel on it. Can I just say I really liked the summary at the first. That was very helpful because there's a lot of policies so it was very helpful to see that first before looking into them. >> Excellent. Thank you. >> All right. On to
036our budget update. Mrs. Banks. >> Good evening. The financial reports included in your board packet reflect results for the period ending December 31, 2025. Through the first six months of the fiscal year, the district received approximately $35 million in revenue, which is about 1.2 million more than this same point last year. This increase is primarily driven by growth in stable recurring revenue sources. Property tax is higher due to strong assessed valuation and state funding also incre also increased as a result of updated enrollment and attendance calculations. The district is also seeing higher revenue from early childhood programs, special education services, transportation reimbursements, reading support grants, and federal meal reimbursements. These gains were partially offset by lower statewide sales tax distributions, reduced earnings, interest earnings as rates have moderated, lower revenue tied to gaming activity, and
037the planned phase out of one-time federal pandemic relief funds. But even with these declines, total revenue remains ahead of last year at this point. Total expenditures through December are approximately 46.6 million, which is about 367,000 higher than this same time last year. This increase is largely driven by increases by salaries and benefits reflecting board approved compensation changes along with higher spending on classroom and operational supplies. These increases were partially offset by lower spending on contracted services and capital purchases due to the timing of projects as compared to last year. Overall, financial activity remains in line with budget expectations and the district continues to be in a stable financial position with no significant concerns to report at this time. I'm happy to answer any questions anyone has. Tiffany, just one clarification on the revenue um especially
038with local property tax that also includes a our third and final year of the levy transfer. >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. So, that was that will help explain that additional amount as well. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> All right. Any other questions? I will entertain a motion to approve the budget update as presented. >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. Any other discussion? All in favor? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you for those updates, Tiffany. All right, on to our mowing bid. Mr. Dobson, good evening. >> Good evening. How are we tonight, >> Peachy? >> Awesome. All right, >> peachy. >> I love it. >> Very good. >> All right, in December, uh we are at the end of our our three-year contract. We did renew for one year uh for our
039RFP did allow us to. we've had enough changes in the new east campus kind of build out and down here at the high school we felt it was best to go ahead and go out for public bid. So in December we issued an RFP uh this week we were very happy to receive six responses to that. Um it's kind of broken into three different groups. So we have our regular weekly mowing uh what we call kind of our finish mowing and then we have our brush hogging an effort to save some cost. Uh we do brush hog a fair amount of the east campus our property that we own on Prairie Lane and then some uh the back access road. uh down uh horage on the back coming into Tipper Creek to try to keep
040that maintaining the trees and weeds down from scratch up the buses and things like that. Um so that's how you'll see it broken up and then lawn chemicals as well for the sports fields and then some of the schools uh when we have the ability to. So with that um we had six bers for the lawnmowing. We'd like to make a recommendation for that one um with a local company here based in I believe Raymore kind of Belveltton and then for the brush hogging separate company uh we can realize some savings if we split that out to another company out of Harrisonville and then for the lawn chemicals uh coral law landscape out of Pleasant Hill was kind of the recommendation how we would split that all up amongst different bidters uh to save cost.
041Happy to answer some questions. because I know this one is a little cumbersome. >> The company that we used previously >> uh one of them >> I had didn't think about this question ahead of time so I apologize if you don't have the answer with all the added spaces that we have. How much is our yearly output increased over time here? >> Uh I I checked on that actually uh I've checked math a hundred times on this. I'm happy to report we've actually gone down $43 a week. >> Nice. Nice. So >> you think that's from having more competition amongst it or >> I think a little more competition hasn't hurt. I think we've been able to make some strides to simplify some of the mowing as well with some fences uh ways we've installed
042new fences over the past years with the playground remodels and then I think balancing that brush hogging versus mowing has helped. >> Good question. >> Microphone >> occasionally. It's not the permanent route currently as of today, but Apple or First Student does reev evaluate that yearly I'm told. I have worked with Mr. Naylor on that. Uh not every day, but yes, they do have that ability to and we still have access to that road and the the land owner does request that we make a pass down each side of the roadway as we still have kind of an easement to that. >> Oh, so that's not our land. >> We do not own any of that land. No, ma'am. We just have a written easement with the land owner. Oh, >> okay. >> All right.
043I will entertain a motion to approve the bid mowing services from Outdoor Solutions with a unit cost of $5,200 per mo, the bid for brush hog services from Legacy Lawn with a unit cost of $4,842 per mo. and the bid for chemical application services from colar pool and landscape with a cost not to exceed $25,000 per year. >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any other comments, questions, discussion? All in favor? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Now on to the Triton Environmental Sens sensors. >> Yes, ma'am. And Dr. Vulker is going to join as well. uh as part of a renewing effort here through Rayek uh the district safety and security committee has been meeting quite often uh bi-weekly and has come up with uh an option to present tonight with
044a try environmental sensors. These will be installed in all the district's uh single-use restrooms at the secondary buildings um to help aid in medical emergencies through occupancy environmental monitoring. Um, uh, this initiative, uh, has been approved by the C County Safety Commission for full reimbursement of the cost of the sensors, um, for this project. I'm kind of happy to answer questions on this one. >> So, what is it supposed to detect? Is it the vaping or >> we're focusing primarily on a heart rate through ultrasonic? >> So, it'll be able to determine um, it's really in a medical emergency. So, we have a lot of single-use restrooms and students can go in there. They're using the restroom if they have a medical emergency. We do not know how long they've been in there. Um, we
045don't monitor that currently in any way. This will tell us and alert us if a student has been in there for any length of time or if possibly there are multiple students in a single used restroom, it would alert you to that as well. It's really works on kind of a heat sensor um mode. So you'll think of thermal readings. It can determine, that's why I was talking about heart rate. It can determine your motion relative to your thermal reading. Um, it knows when the door has come open. It can tell when someone has come in. It can tell if they have exited or not or if they're multiple people. So if a student or an adult honestly had a medical emergency in the past, we would not have known that in any way and
046they could be in there a long time before realized that's where they were and they needed help. And these sensors um are being paid for by Cass County. Thanks very much for that. Um would alert us then if someone did have a medical emergency and didn't exit the restroom. >> Where does the where do the alerts go to? I mean, who monitors? >> Administrators. You can have an app on your phone that would just alert you that someone's been in the restroom for 12 minutes or 15 minutes or 17 minutes, whatever. You set that at that alert time to to to tell you um or that there were multiple people. We we work with teenagers. Um I think it's probably important to note that we have medical emergencies are our first use and then if
047there are multiple people in there um there doesn't need to be there single use restrooms we want to let them know that's not appropriate. >> So all that will be real-time emails or alerts push apps through the application. >> Does that partner with our uh what is that other safety app that administers >> crisis go? No, it's not. it doesn't coordinate with Crisis Go and the safety team to just to let this group know is currently looking at Crisis Go and see if there is another product that might better serve our district and we'll have recommendations on all sorts of safety items as our committee continues to meet. >> Please extend our appreciation to the county for letting us work. >> Yes, I absolutely >> absolutely. And I wanted to thank Darlene Santiago Dodson as
048well. She has done a lot of work to review and bring that group together and get us on the same page as the district. And this was one of the things she brought up immediately. How do we know how long students have been in those restrooms? What if something happens? What if they have a medical emergency? What would we do? Well, first of all, we wouldn't have known um that they'd been in there any length of time. So, this was a way and then reaching out and finding a grant opportunity through the county that will pay for that for our single use restrooms for us at the tune of $54,000 is pretty incredible. >> So, was there there wasn't if I just heard you correctly, there's not an impetus for this a trigger. It was
049just part of um her analysis of >> review. Yes. >> The whole thing. So, this is >> coming in grant funding opportunity. >> Yeah. and a great grand funding opportunity and sometimes you have to just take advantage of those. >> We did, to be clear, we did beta test these last school year as a as an early >> at the lead at the lead. >> How many single uh restrooms are there in the high school? >> 24 total between the >> Yes. Between the secondary buildings. >> Oh, between multiple secondary buildings. And when we think when we expand, you know, different programs, school choice programs, different single-use restrooms are pretty common in those states. So you're talking about, you know, juniors and seniors and some restrooms more typical to the work environment, not you know,
050giant industrialized restrooms. Um, so these things are become even more common, I think. >> All right. I will entertain a motion to approve the quote from Smart Pro Technologies utilizing the TIPS co-op for the purchase of environmental sensors in the amount of $54,560. >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any other discussion, questions, comments? >> I do have a quick question. So we pay and then we submit for reimbursement. Is that how that works? >> We have clarified multiple times. >> Yes. It's a great question we've asked as well. Yes. >> Full 100% reimbursement, I think, is the key. The >> Yes. >> That's awesome. >> Yeah. >> All right. All in favor? >> Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. On to the junior ROC application. Dr. Vulker. >> Well, good night.
051I I'll be perfectly honest. I'm really excited about this. So, I used to I need to try and come up here and be objective in that and present information, but that's going to be hard for me because this is something we've been working on. Uh, and when talking with administrators and I was talking with Scott Bacon the other day and he looked at me in a kind of a straight face and said, you know, this is just another great program of choice for our students at Ray Peek. And it kind of gave me goosebumps in that moment because I believe that to be the case. I think this could be a program that a lot of our students benefit from. [clears throat] So, um, I'll go ahead and present this and then of course any
052questions and we still have quite a bit of work to do on this, but this is an important step in the process. So tonight, administration is requesting board of education approval to submit an application to the United States Army to establish an Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps or a JOTC at Ray Mcure High School beginning in the 2728 school year. The program will be open to all Ray students in grades 912 and is designed devel designed to develop leadership, citizenship, character, and service while supporting students academic and career goals. Pending approval and that's your approval and the Department of Defense approval. Department of Events would fund the majority of program costs. Capacity allows. Remaining seats would be offered to students from across the county, strengthening community partnerships and expanding youth leadership opportunities. This proposal
053aligns with strategy three of the district strategic plan by introducing an innovative non-traditional educational leadership program that enhances the overall student learning experience and supports the district goal of adding new educational programming. The administration is requesting board of education approval to submit an application to the United States Army for consideration of this program again to begin in the 2728 school year. Happy to answer any questions. >> What is the capacity? >> That is a great question. It really is a lot in the design. So, we would be working in the design. you think you the minimum requirement is 100 students in the program as it's going um and you've got it started. They don't ask you to start immediately at 100, but that is the goal to stay at 100. We think we'd probably have
054a little more capacity than that. Uh but really you can design your JROTC programs in different ways. Some do them as just singular elective classes that are that are a part of the some do them in two period blocks. Some you can extend to make kind of build halfday programs. All of that kind of is in the development stage and you don't have to have all of that finalized when you're making application. >> Is this a 912 or like a 1112? >> It's a 912. You can have students in 912 they're in and as I said you there can be introductory courses, they can be elective offerings and then there can be more advanced coursework as they go through their high school experience. There are a lot of options. I I've had some really great
055conversations. I have some scheduled for next week. I'm going to Independence to meet with their uh JROTC team. Um Lieutenant Colonel there and uh Sergeant First Class I believe. Uh I'm going to Independence on Thursday and then I have a conference call with an individual that started a couple different ROC's. He's currently in Florida. Um but really we're in the learning stage and and the design stage, but we have time um as we set this up. We are making this application now because in speaking with the third brigade command um who is our Midwest area they let us know that there was opportunity for a fully funded program if we made application now for the 2020 um 2728 school year. So we had talked about making this a district paid program which is a national
056defense cadet program which I think would be a great opportunity for our students very similar almost the same in nature but the district pays for it well with the opportunity that the United States Army the department of defense would pay for it that it that makes that's a considerable cost savings to the school district you would still we as a school district would still need to pay for at least one of the two um staff members, but then the rest of the supplies, the other staff member, all of that would be paid by the Department of Defense, which is um a considerable savings. >> It's easier for us to say yes to your brilliant ideas when half of it is paid for. >> Yes. >> [laughter] >> Is this uh program similar to some of
057our other programming that um we will meet state standards through the classes they take? Does that make sense? Am I >> That Missouri does have teacher certification requirements and does offer these. I mean that >> Well, no, I'm sorry. I'm for like the students sometimes they'll get a math and an English class for taking >> Oh, if you integrate those that's a part of that program design question. often what's actually integrated this is a physical education and health. >> So you build those into the program, not necessarily math and English. But that's one of the questions that I want to talk about when exploring because I think it'd be nice to have multiple layers. Uh but I really have to be honest that is still in the design stage. >> So is there any commitment
058then on a student's part after they graduate? there isn't a commitment I believe that they wouldn't need to continue. They're not required to go on. There is a lot of just leadership components and uh teamwork and collaboration and besides their high school credit as you're working towards graduation. >> I just kind of wonder if the army would get something in return. Well, they they are gaining um they are training and um uh the skills that students learn in the in these programs are very beneficial if they choose to go on, >> right? >> Um so I think it's access. I think it is um you we they want, you know, as we're talking about an educated populace, they want a fit populace. They want an educated populace. The United States Army and the United States
059military wants all of those things as well, whether those students choose to go on or not. >> As a vet myself, >> I'm super excited about this. >> Good. >> I I'm very excited about this. >> I think Dan just volunteered to be on your committee. >> I I I had already written his name down. >> Okay, that's good. I just >> All right. I will entertain a motion then uh to approve submitting an application to the US Army for consideration for a junior ROC program beginning in the 202728 school year. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any other discussion, comments, questions? >> All in favor? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> Before we leave that, I want to recognize Dr. Vulker who has really done the the
060lead work on this to try to tear all the paperwork apart and try to figure out where we're headed and how to get there. So, tremendous work and I'm excited as well. So, thank you all for that. >> All right, on to committee reports. >> Well, I have uh Janet and Carol and I are on the legislative uh Zoom call once a week with Dr. Slaggel. I think there was 20 20ish on it this Monday. So, he's getting great response and have had good conversations, good questions from a various uh group of people. It's a very uh diverse group of people of different backgrounds. So, that that's been going really well. Um >> it sounds like we have good people fighting for us in Jeff City. So, that's positive. >> Yep. Uh, I got to
061participate in a couple of lunch and learns lately. One was on the budget and some of the governor's uh things he would like to see. So, we'll see there. Uh what else have I done? Um, I feel like I've had a few, but I don't remember them all now. So, several things going on. Anyone else? >> Any other policy? >> Oh, yes. We had a policy meeting the other night and that was Carol and I and I guess it was just Carol and I. So, good discussions there as well, too. All right, moving on to the superintendent's comments. >> Yes, thank you, Madam President. As you know, my written updates are attached to tonight's agenda and available for public review. I want to briefly highlight a couple of things. First of all, our new courses
062for next year. Uh Dr. Bar recently presented a a list of these new courses and a description of these new courses to citizens advisory committee uh last week I believe it was and that same information has been included to you in your recent board update and there's a a whole plethora of new courses next year at the high school level that we are looking forward to. Very excited about the direction we're headed. Um, also this week we launched our Delta program information campaign and in February during our work session you will we receive a more detailed presentation of that particular program that will be housed at South Middle School for next year. This will serve as you know as our uh pilot project or pilot program for project based and compy based learning. This is
063something I take you back to our June uh advance together. We talked about the uh putting the this program together, having the lead set of teachers kind of work with it throughout the year. We're ready to launch it for next year. And the information the first information uh campaign was started earlier this week. So, we are very excited about that. In February, you're going to go deeper on that. Uh we'll have a full presentation as to what it is and where we might be headed with that for uh for the future. >> Didn't they have a session, a Delta session? >> Yes. uh last Tuesday >> with parent meeting >> parent meeting parent meeting >> this past Tuesday >> how how was that was it well attended >> I'll turn this over to Dr. Mark,
064she was the one that MCed it that evening. [laughter] >> Uh, yeah, it actually was well attended. We did it at the lead center, so common ground um for east and south teachers or of families. And um we actually had to bring out extra chairs, so that was good. They asked a lot of great questions. Um and so we're going to do a second parent night. Um I think we decided maybe the first or second week of February. Um there is chatter among the kids. They've been talking with the kids about it as they're talking about enrollment. Um I did hear a cute little story today. So, our our seventh grade team is still doing PBL with their seventh graders, just not as immersive as it'll be in Delta, but they still do it. And
065one of the students, who may know Mr. Moore because she may or may not be in his office a little bit, um was excitedly ran up to him and said, "Can I give you my presentation about my metaphor about something with cells?" And he was like, "Yeah, I'd love that." And she went ahead and and did that right then and there. And he was really excited because when we go on those visits and see those middle schoolers at other schools and how they can talk a lot like our Lee Center kids, that's what he was seeing with this young lady. And he's like, "That's the first time I've ever seen her talk about school." He goes, "She talks." Um, but she was so excited. So, I think that's just a snippet of like what immersive
066programming will give us. >> Well, while you're there, I've got a quick question, too, on, you know, some of the new programming and stuff. Are we going to have to eliminate classes to bring these on? Yeah, we do have a list as well of classes that um that we eliminate and that comes from each of the departments. So, it's their requests and oftentimes it's maybe something that hasn't made um in in a while and so the interest isn't there and so that's how we kind of make room for new stuff. >> Yeah, kids largely voting with their feet that help us determine what classes remain and which ones don't. >> Excellent. Thank you, Dr. Bar. Also, board, earlier tonight under the consent agenda, you approved several donations and grants, and I want to publicly acknowledge
067a few of those donors tonight because it kind of warmed my heart as I sifting through the uh uh consent agenda tonight. The Peory Charitable Foundation donated $6,000. Livby Polly donated $200. Dorothy Thomas donated $25. All these contributions went to direct support of our school meal repayment program. So stepping in, standing in the gap for uh students who have balances and uh so much thanks to the generosity of uh these individuals and also this foundation, peculiar charitable foundation, strong partners of the school district. I want to recognize that publicly tonight and say thank you. >> With that, I turn it back over to the board. >> Absolutely. All right, on to board of education comments. just want to say at the lead center talking to all of the the teachers there, they love it. Um
068and they love the kids and what's coming out of there and the choice um there. And so um one thing I talked to Dr. Slegel about that they brought up to me is that there's no bathroom at the heavy equipment operator, which I didn't realize that. So I talked to Dr. Seel and said I'd like a some just give us some quote estimates. They have a portaotty. Um and like okay well where do we go? State fair. Um so just just a thought there just as we're as we're talking and they're so excited of the kids and huge equipment that's out there. And I know when I talked to Mr. catch him. He's like, "Well, we don't want the workspace to be super comfortable because when these kids are going to do electrical, there's there's
069not there's no air conditioning where they are." So, some of it may be experience of what it is, but maybe we could look into making that a little bit >> giving them a toilet. >> Give them a toilet. >> Yes. >> Well, then you'd have to put a sensor in a single stone, >> right? make it a dual stall and then you don't have to. >> Well, you know, I got to go out to uh the machinery the heavy machinery building uh a couple of weeks ago with Mr. Dobson and Mr. Vulkar and it was amazing to watch those kiddos sit there and you know they weren't comfortable out there. They were sitting at some big dirty tables because it's full of equipment out there >> and they were very engaged and and and not
070comfortable by any means and they were happy to be there. They asked uh what districts they were from and it was we had what probably five other districts in our county that was represented and this is the level one class that was in class at the moment. and you know seeing what this impact has on our community you know and we're a community beyond our little border sometimes and you know many of these young men and women are going to take over family businesses potentially you know by learning these trades at an early age and not having to go spend a lot of money on the schooling to gain those things. So, I'm very grateful for the the teacher, you know, the teacher out there. He picked up his laptop because we commented about it
071being dirty because there also have construction going on out there. You know, he he blew the dust off of his laptop, but I mean, he he he laughed about it. He he was very content with the environment he was in because he understood >> what he's doing. >> Yeah. >> So, I appreciate that from all of our teachers across the district. >> They're all very excited out there talking about all the kids, trying to get all the kids to come to their program. So, and we were at the high school visiting and we were there at a passing time and I was truly amazed as a parent these kiddos walking down the hallway and they weren't sneaking their phones out. They weren't sneaking their headphones in. They were truly disengaged and that was a little
072surprising to me to see how >> not disengaged from disengaged from electronics. >> Yes. I'm sorry. >> That would be the opposite of what we wanted. >> Okay. It's it's late now. >> I know. Um, but you know, they they were conversing with each other and um, it it it really was good. >> It's not the Armageddon that everybody thought when it when it came out and >> it's a good Okay. All right. On to calendar of events. January 26th, we have a special meeting at 6 PM. February 5th, a work session at 6 PM. And oh, wait a minute. I said that wrong. February 5th work session at 6 p.m. February 26th a regular board meeting at 6 p.m. closed and 7 p.m. open. >> And on that we are adjourned. Thank you guys
073for all your hard work. >> Thank you. Thank you. Uh, we're going to the ninth grade center next