001meeting back in session here and we're going to start with recognitions. Jim, take it away. Excuse me. First is the uh RHS custodians. The RA board of education proudly recognizes the ex exceptional custodial staff at Raleigh High School for their kindness and quick action during the March 14th tornado when a traveling family needed shelter. Jediah Barnes, Dom Peton, Mark Davis, Jonathan Canfield, Jason Conroy, and Michael Don welcomed them inside and ensured their safety. Thank you. Their compassion in a time of crisis exemplifies the strength and heart of our community. Thank you for your dedication. Congratulations, J. Good to see you. Good job. Congratulations. Congratulations. [Applause] Robert, why didn't you get the photo? Yeah, okay. [Music] Ah, thank you, Robert. Thank you. See, he did. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we have the RHS scholar bowl
002team. The RAL High School Scholar Bowl team had an outstanding season, winning the class 6 district 5 championship. Wow. And advancing through quarterfinals to secure a third place finish at the state tournament for the second year in a row. The board of education proudly recognizes these talented students for their dedication, teamwork, and exceptional performance with special congratulations to Muhammad Algra for earning all state honors as the tournament's second highest individual score. Their hard work and perseverance have brought great pride to RHS. Congratulations to the entire team. And a heartfelt thank you to Dr. for Keith Peterson, Ryan Hickerson, Pat Brooks, and Jeremy Haberman for their invaluable support and guidance. Your dedication has been instrumental in the team success. So the team members are Mohamad Agra, captain, Yagoot Agra, Tommy Prattz, Ivan Kilkovich, Franov Satala, and
003Janna Agra. And I apologize if I mispronounce. Sure, I'd be happy to take any opportunity to brag on the kids. So, yeah, this year was an exceptional year. We've had um our last four seasons here at Raleigh High School have been fantastic. We've actually been state finalists the last three out of four years, which has been fantastic. Uh Muhammad's been with me, all four of those. Unfortunately, he's graduating this year. Uh we're also graduating, Ivan, and then Tommy. And then Prren is actually graduating. I believe he's at work this evening, but uh so we have Yagoot and Janna are both coming back next year. Uh so we're still in good hands. We still have two great team members and much to build from. This year, our regular season, uh we attended multiple tournaments that were
004high school level tournaments. We finished either first or second in those tournaments. And those usually consisted of 12 to 36 different teams from around the state. And then we attended two college level tournaments where if you get a question wrong, they'll actually take points away from you. Uh high school level tournaments, if you get a question wrong, you just stay where you're at and you move on. But at college level, they take points away from you, which is lovely as far as pressure goes and what have you. Uh but in those two tournaments, we finished ninth and eighth out of 36 teams from around the state. So they did fantastic. Uh they kept the season fun. Uh during districts, we had nailbiters even though we went undefeated and won. So it gave me a few
005extra gray hairs, but we had a fun game against Jeff City and we came out uh on the better end of that. But no, it's been great. One last thing and uh I'll stop bragging on the kids, but Muhammad actually made the national team for the state of Missouri this year. So, he is going to be uh competing with I think it's six other uh scholar bowl athletes against other states and that's going to take place this summer. So, that's quite the accomplishment. That's the first time we've ever had that happen. This has been the best record we have ever had and the best finish we've ever had in our history. So, very proud. Any idea when that is? When is that muhammed? June 21st and 22nd. And that's in Virginia, isn't it? BCU. Wow.
006Okay. Fantastic. Something to build on. Yes. Thank you guys for having us. [Applause] Very impressive. Muhammad will have to come back for the July meeting. That's Friday. I'm considering it. Should have held him back. That's right. Exactly. We'll have you here until you go to M have an assigned seat just for him. MIT. So, it's awesome. You don't have to stay. You don't have to stay. You're welcome to stay, but you don't have to. All right. Well, thank you. If you want to stay, you're more than happy. Well, thank you for inviting us. We appreciate it. You're welcome. Thank you guys. Thank you. Have a nice evening. All right, moving on to questions from the floor. At this time, if any person wishing to speak on any question previously discussed through administrative channels and not
007on the agenda will be granted three minutes to make a presentation to the board. Seeing none, we will move on to presentations on agenda items. Any person wishing to speak on any items on the agenda will be granted three minutes to make a presentation. Seeing none, we'll move on to our consent agenda. A consent agenda is utilized by the RA board of education as a means of dealing with routine matters which must be considered by the board of education but require minimum of discussion. All board of education members receiving and reviewing written information supporting the items listed on the consent agenda well in advance of the meeting. While any board of education member is welcome to remove any item from the consent agenda for separate consideration or discussion for any reason. Normally all items on
008the consent agenda are approved in one motion with a minimum of discussion. Tonight we have items A through E. Is there anything we need to discuss before voting? I don't think so. Unless anybody has any questions. Does anybody have any questions? If not, can I get a motion to approve our consent agenda? I make a motion to approve the consent agenda items A through E. I'll second. All in favor say I. Oppos. Okay. And I'll abstain. Thanks, A. All right. Moving on now to our old business with our long range facility update by Dr. Bolton. Well, for the first time in a while, I actually have a presentation for you. So, I got you. Um, if I could draw your attention, I have taken the rendering out. We're done. So, with the exception of a
009few punch list items, the blue tape is gone holding up all the FRL panels. So, it looks very much like the rendering and very beautiful. We are very blessed and thank you to our community for all their vote of confidence in that. There's just another view from right there, you know, midway up. And thanks to Gina for all the pictures. And then there's the view from the stage going the other way. So, so again, what's left to do? Just the final punch list items. So, they're working on those as we go. But tonight, I am bringing to you change orders. So, um, we had expected a couple. Didn't expect all of these. I'll be honest with you. I've had to go back and and dig. Some of these were pretty old and went through them,
010but they are closing out all of their books at KN&S and we're going through everything and things that were missed and things that were there. So, this is should be the last the hopefully the last list of change orders that we will bring to you. The first one and two they're normally they're in number order, but we're going to go out of order for a minute. Change order 79 required structural changes to the dressing room area. That area is directly under our HVAC units in the mezzanine. So it required some more CM CMUs, some some blocks in there. And then we needed to put in some architectural. So they needed to be put in some bulkheads and things and columns to support all of that in there. Column and change order 82 goes right with
011that because that's the column that goes that was in the dressing room. So I put those two together. Change order 80 was labor and material to complete the installation of the shear tabs for the gymnasium bar joist in the anchoring of the fieldhouse structural decking. And just so you know that all of these have been vetted by our architects and and the engineers. So change order 81 is adding duct liner for eight HVAC units. The ones that we knew about and were expecting were change order 83. that was we talked about um reconfiguring the sprinkler main over the stage due to um all of the all of the rigging that went in. We are expecting that and change order 84. I will be honest, those were the two circuit relays that had to be installed
012at a moment's notice because that was what was interfering with getting all of our lighting commissioned. We authorized that to happen because we had to have it for the performance. So I am bringing to you tonight change orders 798 818283 and 84 in the total amount of $30,5965 cents. I will more with real quick and I'll get you. One of the things on there it was the um all of the all of the structural in the gypson jar drawers that was actually knocked down some because it had been so late. They knocked some price off of that. So there was actually a 2,000 deduction that they took off before it came to us. Now your question. So did we get all the lighting things done? Yes. All the lighting things all done and commissioned and
013this piece the relays were the pieces that were missing that we said order and get in that we did just didn't have time. I know there was some back and forth trying to get the lighting and the electricity people and all that and got it all. That was it. So that's it. That's great. We are good. So, is K and S officially done now with the minus the few punch list? Just a few punch list. They have to finish the punch list. Yes. Then we should be able to to be be done. Yes. Okay. Awesome. Any other questions? Did you have something? No questions. I'll make a motion that we approve change orders uh 79 through [Music] 84 in the amount of uh it should be the 396 30 39665 yeah I'll second all in
014favor say I opposed say no. All right moving on then to the storm recovery update. Oh no we're not done yet. Oh we're not we're not done yet. Sorry, I apologize. No, talk a little bit about since we have ongoing projects, we're just going to go ahead and talk about the early childhood center. Um, this is a rendering that our architects have made of what the building currently exists like with a few extra pieces. Just know that we are constantly meeting with um the architects. We've met with them on May 30th. I've met with them again today and they kicked off their big team meeting on Monday, June 2nd. So, we're in constant communication and moving forward with that project. It's very exciting. And we can't forget about the athletic field updates because we are
015getting ready to go into that turf update as well. Um again, we are set to go out for an RFP hopefully mid July. I am going back up going to Honer to meet regarding this project on Wednesday so we can finalize a few more things with all of those. Again, proposed construction to start in November with estimated completion of April hopefully. So I'll learn a little bit more when I go back go up and spend the day there on Wednesday. So going to go up and talk with them. We're going to meet with some companies and then we're also going to start kicking off just so for your knowledge um talking about redoing the long range um facility planning as well. So I'm going to talk with Mark about that process so we can get
016that going next um fall. So Okay. All right. Yeah. I have one question. Yes, sir. has to do with projects that are either in the long range or the bond projects. Uh and that is where we stand with our security uh contracts. Are we going to be available to use all of the Keen systems? Yes, we are. This fall. We have rolled it out right now for summer school at Truman and at junior high and we are going active with it. All the cards are being printed, plans in place with all the staff in August and we're already assigning them to groups that are using our buildings after hours. So, we are moving forward with that. We're complete. Very good. We are complete. Okay. Right. Any other questions? All right. Okay. Ready now for the
017storm recovery? I am. Okay. Thank you. So, as we revisit again, you know, the tornado damaged multiple um areas of our district on the 14th of March, um we are again working with all of our insurance company and our adjusters and all of our consultants. The work with that, while it has not been entirely smooth, has not been bad. I will tell you they have been very favorable to work with. Um, not only do they, you know, hold us accountable, they also guide us in what things we need to do. Um, their advice has been very sound and very beneficial. So, not many people thank their insurance companies, but we need to thank music and and all of what they do for schools. Apparently, we can get a middle school roof before I can get
018a house roof. Just saying. Just saying. Okay. So, again, whenever I came to came to you in April, we talked about where do we work backwards from. Again, my dates kind of August 4th. We're going to be pushing that date, but we have to work backwards. And so, um, but because of that date, we got to have it quit raining. Just saying. So, Mark Twain Elementary, where are we now? Yeah. Where are we now? Again, we had eight classrooms with window damage. Three needed need the windows replaced. cafeteria, kitchen, custodial office, stage area were entire were entire losses. So just keep that in mind. Um recovery of course we tore those down. We boarded up the windows. Where are we now? The classrooms are operational. Everything is working, but we are working with Honer Associates
019to create plans for the window replacement. Planning a new storm shelter and cafeteria. And then what are we going to do with that old area where the cafeteria was? What's the timeline? approximately 18 to 24 months. What do we have left there to do is waiting on a fencing quote and those came in today. We're waiting on the actual numbers to come in. So, um we're making progress there. It will be a while. We will still serve a hot lunch just like we have been over there. We'll use our um cafeteria, gymnasium, whatever. Whatever. Caffematorium. Caffetorium. Yes. Caffetorium. So, we will we will still be using that. They finally got that into a rhythm. Does our kitchen staff who was preparing food at Mark Twain, are they preparing food elsewhere? I mean, our our kitchen
020staff still just elsewhere. Correct. Okay. They're going to go, they've been at the high school, they're going to the junior high this year to be closer. Um, they will cook their food there and we transport it over in a van with all of the heating precautions and all of the things. So, they are they are doing very well with that. And the insurance company is still going to take care of the cost of the van, correct? through this whole time until through this whole time. Wonderful. Okay. Nice. Okay. Wyman. Again, 20 classrooms with water damage affecting the ceilings, floor tile, lighting, and casework. Two storage workroom areas, two sheds, the playgrounds, the fencing, the roof, the gas line, and of course, we did lose food, but that's all done and all taken care of. So,
021where are we now? So on this map, everything that is to the north, that is that shorter hallway up above, that roofing has been is 100% complete right now. Wow. So that is good. So our custodians are in there working and cleaning rooms and and scrubbing floors and getting those ready. And we're actually repainting in all those areas at this time, too. Bill and his crew have done a really good job. They already have some of the downstairs ready to go. He's on it. It's It's going very well. What's holding us up is right here. All of this you approved for us to pay for a portion of the metal decking, but all of the tectum, it looks like spa, a hard spaghetti noodle that, you know, material in the in the se in the
022in the roof has all been damaged. Yes, ramen soup is right and it is the stinky part. It all has to come out. This will be exposed. So, they can't start that until the rain stops. We can't move on in any work in this area until all of that is done because that will be a mess, I understand, when it comes down. So, that is what we're holding up for. And that's the preschool rooms, right? It is preschool and kindergarten. So, all of those rooms right in there um are kind of on hold. We can't bring anybody in till that's done. So, but we are we're making progress. We have plans. We've met with um with the uh company again today. We've met with Patrick. We've met with Bill. So things are moving forward. That
023will be a push because once we get in then they push everybody else in. But um first on-site the company that our insurance recommended is working right with our roofers and working with Patrick and working with us. They are they are all over it. So again, I've talked through all of that. Um the north wing is complete. That main hallway has to be redone. Then um the gas line repair will happen when the roof is fixed. tile and casework will begin immediately after they can get back in. And our plans are to move in late July, early August. So those rooms that had the tile removed and just had it there was a couple of preschool rooms that were bare concrete, that whole hallway, both whole both of those hallways all the way down to
024the library all the way back to the playground have no tile in them right now. Oh, I will show you. Here you go. Okay. So all of this is done. tile will go down. It just hasn't. Yes, sorry. New tile will go down. It just has not yet. We don't want to do, we can't do anything until all that roofing is done and replaced. And so, so the rooms that had the bare floors, those will get tile back in them. The rooms that had the bare floors will not get the tile back in because we are having a trouble getting our our vinyl tile right now. It was not ordered. The rooms that that they took the tile out of has been ordered. So, any room that had tile previously will be restored back to
025the way it was. And all the hallways will be. We had that. We had a meeting about that today. Okay. I was just curious. Yep. I just remembered noticing it. Once they do a section of roofing Mhm. So they get it weathertight and they can go in and start their work. They can, but they don't want to do anything until that tectum's out. All the all the tectum till they replace it. And because those wings intersect and merge, it's going to be a mess no matter where they go and what they do. Okay. That's what they're My understanding, and correct me if I'm wrong, he's he's looking for about five sunny days, correct? Which we have not had, right? Because that's going to be completely exposed. Completely exposed. Is there any concern of anything coming
026in once they start? I think once they pull off, they'll probably put things right back on. So, they'll they'll protect what areas they have. Okay. And that's why we're not wanting to do anything. And that's why they're not wanting to lay tile because we also have to wrap pipes because we abaded this area and we took the p the pipe wrapping off as well. We'll have to we'll have to cut the air conditioning at some point in order to wrap those pipes back. So there's just a lot of work to go in there at this moment. If you if you go in there today, you're going to see little puddles of water and that's not roof leaking. It's condensation from the pipes and the air conditioning system that we currently have. So there's a lot
027to do, but we can't wrap pipes till we get the tectum. I can't have to get the tech out and get it cleaned up. And I have learned a whole lot in the last few months. There's a few classrooms right there and some of those are the rooms that we'll get the things back. But I what I want to show you and the the lights are on order. So you will see some lights up there that have no covers. Those are all the lights that were damaged in the water and those will have to be replaced. So all of those are being ordered here locally. Um that company's using one of our local I think they're using new to replace and order and bring all those in. So all of this has to be in
028and replaced as well. So we will work fast and furious at Wyman. Ra Middle School it is moving right along again. 11 damaged classroom 11 classrooms damaged with water, ceilings, lights, casework, tile flooring. Um, the tile flooring actually made it through better than what we thought because that was the original. 17 HVAC units are set to be delivered by the end of the month. They should go on and be operational hopefully when school starts. We'll kind of be in that same learning mode whenever we get in like we were last year. Um, they will replace the entire natural gas line whenever they put the HVAC units up top. Um, roof damage has been fixed with the with the exception of some guttering. They're still working on that. stage in the dressing room will be the
029last thing that we do there, which is fine. We're not using that at that moment. So, um, gas lighting. So, the final plans for the casework are complete. I have approved those already. Everything that was damaged and taken out will be placed right back in. We've even matched some of the blue that was in there. So, one room didn't have blue and gray. Otherwise, we're going back with gray. Light replacements are ordered, expected delivery within the month, and ceiling tiles are currently being installed. So those areas and those were brand new ceiling tiles that are being in. So we do have work occurring at the middle school and you can see where we still have a little bit of it open over here in this room. They were actually working in there when I took
030that but then that's what it looks like. So and again lights haven't come in so they'll put them in whenever they come in as well. So middle school teachers when they moved from here did were they didn't take their stuff straight to classrooms yet or No, because we still have to wax and do other things in there. So it's all kind of stationed somewhere cafeteria. Okay. And the caf and the custodians there are working right along and making very good progress there as well. So softball and track complex. Our track was actually is fine minus a high jump pad. We will get that ordered as soon as I get the approval. We are working with architects to create the plans for the concession stand press box. And why are we working with them to create
031them? We can't find them. Just going to be completely honest. Have no idea where they are. We have looked and looked and gone back and gone back. We have pictures and so they're going to recreate off of that. So, we're doing that, but we are exploring the possibility of converting this field into a combined baseball and softball field. So, we are also working on that as well. So, look for more information to come there. Transportation and maintenance, everything there is fine. We did have the outuildings with the roof damage, um the electrical issues, tree damage. We're taking care of all that. Fence damage. Again, that quote was coming in today. Um, again, that is a different roofer doing the roofing there. So, we're on the list to get those repaired. Um, waiting on that fence
032quote. We have finalized the vehicle claims and work is underway to replace or repair them. So, we're we have slowly replaced one of the trailers so far. The band the big box band truck, we have to find a box for it. That's all they approved. So, we're making progress. RTC, this building will be the last one to get any work. We are not significant enough that I want the schools done before we touch anything here, just so you know. So, moving back, what have we done so far? It was quite a feat on Tuesday and thank you to Mr. Smith and all of the Wake teams and the classes and um it was amazing to watch. So, Mr. Smith organized it with Mr. Goldmid um golly, Mr. Luna, Mr. Sinsky, Mr. Ray, Mr. Ray, Coach
033Joey. Yes, all of them were there and um that was just very well organized. The teachers did a great job packing everything up, having it organized. They had it loaded. I think we were out of Wyman and in Wyman within an hour. So, there are some pictures from the early childhood move that we kind of took whenever they were packing up and then all of the kids working there and the and the caravan of trucks. It was very good and very well organized. fifth grade move. We again we had trucks and we had kids. They came from weights and they go, "Oh my gosh, I didn't lift this many weights in weights today." So, they were lifting boxes and doing all the things. They It was really good to see and went very well. Any
034questions in regards to that? We just clarified it to Charlotta's question earlier. So, the fifth grade moved everything from this building back to the middle school to the cafeteria to stage till the flooring and everything is done. Same thing with the the Green Tree PreK for Wyman. Everything got moved back to Wyman, but it's in the cafeteria just waiting for those classrooms and things to be fixed. The the items at Wyman West are still are packed. They're sitting in their classrooms labeled. Everything is ready to go, but we're going to leave everything right there until their rooms are ready at Wyman and go straight to classroom to classroom. Yeah, I think so. That makes sense. Yes. Did we have an opportunity yet to test the lighting at the softball field? We have not. We are
035waiting on Musco to come down. Once they come down, we will hook a generator to each of those poles and see what has or has not been damaged. But we're waiting on Musco at this moment. And neither of the dugouts were damaged. Are they okay? The roofs on them? damaged. Oh, they're damaged. I was going to say cuz I didn't think I saw they're damaged. I didn't put pictures in there, but they are damaged. All of that will have to be addressed. I didn't put it in the list, but it has to be addressed as well. I was like, it didn't look like it was okay, but I didn't. No, it's not okay. I just didn't add it. No, it's just the whole complex. So, I would question the integrity of what was left. Oh,
036absolutely. There was a lot there. Yes, very much so. Okay, questions. Any other questions? I won't lie, I'm feeling the pressure. I said, you know, I know it's just early June, but I'm not sure how to make it through summer right now and take off. So, it's like, oh my. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. We'll move on now to new business. So, we have our FY26 budget with Mrs. Atinson. I have nothing. It's still there. Did you move it? I haven't. No. All right. FY26 budget. So, a quick overview. Um, if you recall, we began this process back in January. And we start by gathering revenue data throughout the uh those next four or five months uh for calculating local property taxes, estimating that, estimating the foundation formula revenue, looking
037at what we think the revenue will be for part B and title and Perkins and all the other stuff, analyzing that. We meet with building administrators and department heads to determine expenditures and needs for the buildings, for the classrooms, for the facilities. We start entering all of that into the financial system usually about midappril, 1 of May, pulling all that together. And the reason I wanted to call out fund accounting is that as you know, we have to record everything in different funds for specific purposes. And that's kind of how I've organized tonight's presentation. So to recap, operating fund is actually made up of two funds. The general fund and the teachers fund 10 and 20. Those are used to pay purchase services. So our utilities and other services, contractors, supplies, teacher salaries, um all
038of our support staff salaries and benefits. Then we have the debt service fund that is there solely to pay our debt. So uh bond interest and principal. And then our capital projects fund. So, anything over $5,000 is coded to fund 40. So, we're going to start by looking at operating revenues and the biggest um source of those revenues. So, local tax revenue, I'm budgeting for an increase of about $139,000. So, I don't know about you, but I know I've received a reassessment letter from the the county assessor. So, we all are very aware that this is a reassessment year. We're looking at an average of a 15% increase to assess valuation. That being said, there is such thing as the Hancock amendment which limits our growth for how much we revenue we can um can
039gain in a reassessment year. So we are limited this year to CPI which is at 2.9%. On top of that, our Propsy revenue continues to come in higher. So I've estimated that Propsy roll back that we're going to have to apply to the tax rate here in August to be at higher. Both of those items result in a lower tax rate. Okay, so that all being said, flow it through the calculator for what I can do now using essentially last year's calculator because I don't have the forms for this year. I'm estimating an increase of only 139,000. So, we'll know a lot more um come July when we receive the assessed valuations and then in August during the uh tax rate hearing. So, I did want to touch on the senior real estate property tax
040freeze. Dr. Dr. Darren and I met with Faith Barnes and Sher Stites earlier this week um at the county offices just to talk through with them exactly what this really is and make sure that we were understanding it correctly um for how they're implementing it. So, so far they have received about 2,000 applications. I believe that they're extending that application deadline through the end of June. Is that right? That's what she told us. Yes. And the individuals that are over 62 have to reapply every single year. We did confirm with them that this year is going to be the base year. Okay. So, anybody who has applied for this tax freeze, their invoices that they get this November will be their base year that their tax will due will be frozen. Their liability will be
041frozen at that rate unless there are improvements to their property or there's a voter approved um increase to the debt service levy or the operating levy for the different taxing districts. how that gets applied gets really complicated and so we're going to take this one step at a time. I'm full disclosure I don't understand that part of it right now and I'm not sure they do completely either. So and I would would point out those 2,000 applications are countywide. Correct. So we obviously will assume that we'll have a large majority of those but probably not all. But at this point there's no way to know what that really means um going forward. Do we know how many total uh tax bills they have for real property? She gave us that number, but I don't remember.
042I don't know. It's a lot more than that. Well, I understand that might be, you know, 20,000 versus uh 4,000. The impact in future years would it was it was a relatively wasn't like 38,000. Yeah, it was a relatively small percentage of the total tax bills. Um and keeping in mind this is only for primary households also. So correct um that limits that a rule further. Yeah, we should know a lot more. Well, certainly in the coming months. So yeah, I think we'll stay in communication. I think probably by November we'll know how many and and a relative number of what that impact to us is when the bills come out. Yeah. Okay. Moving on. So the foundation formula I'm anticipating and budgeting for a $ 1.6 million increase to our foundation formula revenue that
043is assuming that it is fully funded at $7,145 per weighted ADA and weighted average uh membership. So weighted average daily attendance and weighted membership. So I want to talk a little bit about that for this year. This is the first year in a long time that this formula the foundation formula is calculated slightly differently. They've changed that to move from a 100% based on average daily attendance to a 9010 split between W weighted ADA and weighted average membership or enrollment. That is going to result in approximate revenue increase of two about $28,000 for us. Um in future years that split um changes. So next year it will be an 80 an 8020 split and then a 7030 so on and so forth up until fiscal year 30 and beyond where it stays at a 50-50
044split for the funding source or calculation rather. Um other operating revenues Prop C budgeting for about an increase of around $100,000 and then the calendar incentive that was approved. So that's if um school districts that go five days and um have a calendar of 169 contact student contact days have a 1% incentive 1% of their um state aid entitle entitlement. So the foundation formula entitlement based on this year's state aid formula we will receive that next year. So it's 1% the next two years and then after that it's 2%. Um assuming that we stick with that at least 169 contact days in the calendar. And I believe that is being approved. It's on the governor's desk or that has been approved by the legislature. Has not been signed by the governor yet. Yeah. So let's
045look at operating revenue sources. So I have two different slides on this one. This one because we talk a lot about the property taxes foundation formula Prop C. So how do those compare um in reference to all the other local u or rather other operating revenue that we receive? So certainly property taxes is right up there are right up there about 32%. If you look at it for the total sources local, state, federal, and then county and other we have about 47% of our operating revenue comes from our local taxpayers. So it seems like since I got into this position, we're getting more and more heavily towards our our local taxpayers. Okay. And then this year versus next year for budgeted operating revenues, the overall increase to budgeted operating revenues is about one and a
046half million primarily due uh to that budgeted increase to the foundation formula. I'm sorry that didn't those colors didn't really show up as very well on this the uh screen. I apologize for that. So moving on to operating expenditures. So salaries and benefits. Earlier this year, you approved movement on the salary schedules, a base increase of 2% and then still recommending no changes to the insurance premiums. So that's what we've what I have budgeted for. You have also approved some additional staff, an elementary assistant principal, high school counselor, and four classroom teachers. So combined salary changes, new staff, and attrition savings from attrition results in additional 1.4 4 million in um salaries and benefits expenditures for for next year. Other operating expenditures. So that again, this is supplies and purchase services. Some kind of our
047big ticket items. Um just so people are aware of what this costs. We've never really talked about this too much. So the math textbook adoption is budgeted at $900,000. General classroom supplies at $935,000. our new phone system. Uh we're looking at maybe 150,000 for that special ed services and tuition. So not salaries and benefits, but for contracted services and tuition about one and a quarter million and then a little bit of increase to uh just because of inflation and tariffs. We've already received some invoices that have a flat amount for a tariff charge. So this being passed through to us. So that was kind of shouldn't have been a shock, but it was kind of a shock to see those invoices start coming in like that. So overall though the purchase services and supplies is
048only increasing about 70,000 over current year budget. So percent of total operating expenditures uh salaries and benefits are a full 75% of our overall operating expenditures. And then this year as compared to next year again salaries and benefits make up the majority of our um our increase in expenditures by 1.4 4 million overall. So, operating fund recap. Um, oh, sorry, 58.3 million in revenues, 60.1 in expenditures, budgeting for a 1.8 million uh deficit, ending fund balance of 23.32%. That is based on ending this year at about a $521,000 surplus. I would anticipate something very similar for next year and still ending this year slightly better than that. We're still wrapping up the year and I haven't had time to go back and look to see if that's changed since our last board meeting. Any questions
049regarding the operating fund? Okay, moving on to debt service. So, this is something that I've never really discussed in a budget um meeting, which probably should. It's part of the budget that you approve. So, um again, debt service uh fund exists solely to pay our bond principal and interest payments. Uh the debt levy is calculated in August and we are required by law to collect enough to pay our debt. We don't really have a lot of wiggle room. It's just a calculation. It tells us what our tax levy is. What we do have wiggle room in is that we voluntarily are able to roll back that levy if we feel we do not need that much revenue. And we've been able to do that um consistently for several years now. So this current year we've
050rolled it back 35 uh.32 cent. So the levy actually said we could collect 93.82 cents. Okay. So we've been able to roll that back. Um so most of our revenue for debt service comes from our local taxes and state assessed utilities. We do have currently a federal subsidy for uh 2010 C bond issue. That issue actually gets paid in full in fiscal year 27. So that payment drops off but so does that revenue. And then uh budgeted for about 135,000 in interest going into that fund. So total revenue of 3.3 million and then to my point earlier our total payments are only three and a quarter million. So we budget again to um and try to plan accordingly to have basically our revenue match our expenditures in a given year. So our principal payments for
051current bond issues are 1.5 million and 1 point almost 1.7 million for next year for interest. And then moving into moving into the capital projects revenue. So again, capital projects for um expenditures over $5,000 per item. So our revenue sources for the capital projects come from the financial institution tax, the Eminem sir tax and payment in lie of taxes. We also have some interest that goes into that fund, our facility rentals. Uh the most of those come from our um East Central College rent from that agreement. And then some CTE enhancement grant revenue goes in there. And then our expenditures, we are budgeting to purchase four buses this year at a total cost of about $700,000. CTE equipment expenditures of 282. Our 2023 bond issue expenditures, hoping to finish that up and next fiscal year
052of about 3 million. And then the uh certificate of participation payment. So that was essentially the loan that we had to take out in 2022. because it's not a bond. Um it's not a bond. We actually it's a loan. It comes out of the fund for account from capital. Okay. So that's 611,000 there. So recap of the uh capital projects fund. I'm anticipating a beginning balance next year of 9.1 million. Uh receiving 1.3 in revenues. Uh budgeting to transfer 2 million from the operating account. 7.2 going out for an ending fund balance in capital of 5.2 million. And then overall budget recap primarily for the operating because that's what we focus on the most. Operating deficit again 1.8 million for budget 2 million uh transfer to capital projects ending fund balance of 23.32%. Are there
053any questions? Okay. All right. You ready? Yeah. Okay. Can we get um a motion to I'll make a motion to adopt the fiscal year 2026 budget as presented. I'll second that. Okay. Thank you. Pick one. All in favor say I. Those opposed. I do want to point out really quickly um there are things in that are not included in this. So as we discussed this evening, we'll have expenditures for the things that we want to do that insurance won't cover the football field. All of those are very very unknown amounts at the time that I had to complete the budget. So, we'll come back to you at later board meetings for budget supplement approvals for those items. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. All right. Next on our agenda is communications plan and update
054by Mrs. Veros. She usually just has to sit nice and quietly in the back. I love it when she's get to participate tonight. Don't worry, I only have 68 slides. Just kidding. I didn't review that many. Well, you'll want to review again. I've made some changes. Um, thank you so much for having me this evening. I always love delivering this report to you all. Excited to share with you some of the work that's being done in communications. Uh, you you have a copy of the proposed plan in your board documents. Um, I'll ask you to consider approving that just a little bit later. But since the plan is an ongoing version of the last couple of years since our new CIP SIP was established, I'm going to keep those CIP connected goals kind of high
055level tonight. We'll focus on sharing the year and review review and uh what's on the horizon for next year. But as always, happy to take any questions as we go. So just a quick reminder here some of the list here's a list of some of the things that happen under the umbrella of the communications department at R public schools. I know most people see me out in the community and at buildings with my camera and uh I certain I promise that photography and social media are just a small part of what goes on in my office. Every day is really different and I almost always get my steps in so I am never ever bored. Staying connected with families has become increasingly tech heavy the last few years. These are the platforms we use at
056the district level for communication. We have eight websites, one at the district level and one for each school. Collectively, those house thousands of pages of content. Uh department leads and other assigned staff members keep an eye on those pages. Some of them have editing rights, but for the most part, about 90% of the web editing and content uh updates happen in the communications office. This time of year, the website audit is front of mind uh and a high priority as we get ready for returning families in August and uh some of the annual update things that are happening right now. Uh that next icon is Parent Square. We're wrapping up our first year with Parent Square. I have a lot of things to talk about in regards to Parent Square. Uh, of course, no tech
057ever works perfectly, but I'm really proud of how this year has gone and the adoption rate throughout the district. Uh, again, have some sha stats to share shortly, so you'll see what I mean. The dragonfly there moving to the right represents Intrado. Um, that's our crisis communications tool. Um, we, uh, use that tool to run drills, take attendance in a crisis, uh, for reunification in the event of a crisis. The app integrates with our local PAP and 911 centers. Uh we are taking a really close look at that platform right now to see if we can make some improvements there. And then to the right of that one, the peach is Peach Jar, not Peach Tree. Uh that's our digital flyer distribution. This is our fifth year using the Peach Jar system and I'm still
058really pleased with it. So plan to keep that for the foreseeable future. Um I have some more stats on that one too. And then of course we share uh information, great news on our social media platforms and we have fantastic relationships with our local newspaper, the Phelps County Focus. And Dr. Dar and I uh visit them on the morning mayor show at least once a month. So we have a lot of fun with that. Oops. The communications plan is deeply connected to the district CIP with a focus in our four main areas. uh academic success, climate and culture, uh support systems and leadership. Uh each one of these areas has a unique set of goals as it relates to the communications department and a very long list of tactics and strateg strategies within the plan.
059But again, in the interest of time, uh I'm going to go through these very quickly. Please stop me if you have questions. Four main goals in the communications plan relating to the areas of academic success. Uh number one there is all staff, faculty and staff will participate in learning opportunities aligned to district goals and identified uh areas of improvement. Uh I mentioned Peachchar. We use Peach Jar a lot for that sort of thing. So if we have academic institutions or community partners that have opportunities for our staff to learn and grow, we share that information through those channels. Um, also on the list is something that has been on the list for a while and is moving to the top of the list for this year is a password protected resource page for staff. Um,
060I know Dr. Welch has been working on that in the background and we still have plans to improve that user experience. Uh, goal number two, uh, RA students will be success ready at all times. that portrait of a student um piece to the CSIP. That's something that will also move to the top of the list this year. Uh so work with the superintendent team to determine the best plan of action there and how they want that data displayed. Um this will be used both internally and as an informative tool to give stakeholders a tangible idea of the academic and social emotional benchmarks used as students advance through their K12 careers here with us. Uh, another strategy employed to meet this goal in the communications department is to further partner with our regional post-secondary institutions and
061expose students to advanced projects, demos, and learning opportunities. Um, goal three, increasing the number of families and community members participating in our volunteer program. In the fall of 2019, we had 126 registered volunteers and then we had COVID. Um, and that number dropped dramatically. We have made a a significant climb back in the right direction this year. Last year we had 55 registered volunteers and we're up to 74 as we end the year right now. So happy with that. And then finally goal for increasing the awareness of early childhood. Uh perfect timing with the new Phelps County Community Foundation Early Childhood Center. Uh we've spent a lot of time building awareness around the benefits of early childhood education. We have a new landing page on our website for the Early Childhood Center and I have
062been in front of dozens of live groups around the community. So excited to continue that work in climate and culture. We're going to work to build on existing communications efforts with families to enhance more broad-based awareness, particularly with those who don't generally come in contact with the district. This is a big goal with a lot of moving parts. Um, and you can see from all the strategies listed in the plan, there's a combination of internal and external channels. Uh, and it really just focuses on expanding those existing relationships and making new relationships with our community partners. Goal number two, uh, promoting that positive work environment. This is one of my favorite parts of the job. Uh, Dr. Fulton and I have been working with the climate and culture uh, committee here at the district level
063and uh, we are working on a new staff recognition program. So, more to come on that later. And then of course using our existing channels, social media, Parent Square to uh do regular recognitions such as Top Dog Tuesday and um just recognizing all the great work that's going on around the district. And then I've combined support systems and leadership here. That first goal uh references safety and security. I mentioned in TRAO we are doing some work there uh on that crisis communications platform and then goal two references leadership and uh I've included a lot of our external community engagement pieces here. So a lot of the work there is already being done or in progress but we always have ways to improve. Um one of the ways I like to challenge myself is to edit
064the list because I really like to say yes to everything. Um and that's not always the best plan of action. So that is in a nutshell the goals that uh provide the structure for this plan. I'm going to pause there for questions before I get into some of the communications data points from this past year. Okay, as I mentioned, we are wrapping up our first year with parent square. Uh as you recall, we rolled out this two-way communication app and masscoms tool last fall. Everyone has done a really great job adopting it. We had some consistency issues going into last year. We had some schools using one platform, some schools using another. It was very confusing for families and students alike. Uh and so our goal was to bring everyone under one umbrella. And um
065I'm just again really proud to say our staff was quick to adopt it. Our parents for the most part really seemed to love it. Uh we plan to do some education around those settings in the parent app just to help guide folks that feel like maybe they're getting too many notifications. We can help you fix that. So if that's you, feel free to reach out and I'll show you where to find those settings. Um but our survey data leading up to last year had revealed that many families were frustrated with that inconsistency and um just not really knowing where to look. So we adopted Parent Square and it has been a very successful year. I want to give a shout out to Megan Duncan who is our core data um wizard. What's her actual title?
066I don't know. She manages our student information system and without her a lot of our platforms around the district would not work at all. Um and she has put in just so many hours behind the scenes to make sure that this runs smoothly and everything works the way that it's supposed to. So thank you Megan. There are two parts to Parent Square. One is the mass communications tool and that's the the one way that sends out the calls, the text, the emails and the app notifications that you don't respond to. So think snow day um big blast here's the news just you get right. Uh this is a a screenshot from the dis district dashboard in parent square. It tells us who we have in the system. You can see the number of students, staff
067and teachers, how many parents. Now that parent number is double. So, it's a little bit misleading. And then we also do have some guests in our system. Uh these might be families from St. Pats that join us for athletic teams um or other opportunities. So, we can add folks in manually for that kind of thing. Uh this dashboard also helps us learn who is not getting the information. So, it's a quick and easy glance to see are we missing some emails? Do we have um emails that bounce back? Do we have bad phone numbers? Uh also the language report is interesting to me always. Uh parents can or students can uh select the language they prefer to use in parent square and they can receive instant translations based on their selection. Uh parent square hosts
068118 different languages. Uh so very robust and lots of options there. This slide shows reach and deliverability. Um, at least one parent of every student has opted to receive emails from us and more than that number has opted to receive text. Our adoption rate for the the for the app itself is still a little bit low. It's really high at the elementary and middle school levels. It's really low at the um junior high and high school levels. So we have more students on the student square piece of this platform in grades seven through 12 than we have parents. So the students are using it really well. The parents at those uh 7 through 12 not so much. So we have some work to do in education there. Um but again happy to see our uh
069elementary students and our middle school or elementary and middle school families uh you utilizing that really well. all of our sports teams, clubs, band uh between from grades seven through 12 has switched to this platform and so again the students have figured out that's where the information is and they want to be there too. Uh I will say you don't have to have the app to log into parent square. So that's also maybe some of this missing piece where the app hasn't been downloaded. Uh you can log into parent square from a desktop and we do have parents that do that. So you can go in and read the information on your computer. You don't have to have the app on your phone. You also do not have the have to have the app to
070receive the calls and texts uh and emails. The one-way communication piece of parent square will bypass all of that regardless of whether or not you have an active parent square account or you've downloaded the app. So, just wanted to make sure that was clear. And then I just wanted to show off the super users. Look at Wyman go. uh they had almost 2500 posts in their parent square page this year. So that includes their classrooms and clubs and groups. Um but they uh definitely utilize the tool really well. This year we made 98 posts at the district level. Uh pretty sure at least 90 of those were tornado related. Just kidding. Kind of. But those are the 98 at the district level are typically big news. So again, think snow days, um large announcements, food
071pickups, um anything, you know, urgent throughout the day, those come from the district level accounts. Uh we had 727 school posts. So within those pages, 7,200 plus class posts and 3,400 plus group posts. So again, um feeling pleased about the adoption rate. And this is just a shot of the inside of Parent Square. If you've never seen it, it has kind of a social media scroll feel to it. Um, I like that I can go back and find things because I forget. Uh, but I know that I saw it somewhere and if it if I saw it, it's going to live right there and I can scroll till I find it. Helpful for people who have a lot in their brains. So, moving on to social media. I know social media sometimes gets a bad
072rap, but it can be an exceptional tool to engage and educate. Uh we know that there are amazing things happening in our buildings all day, every day, but not everybody necessarily does. So, it's a great opportunity uh to share those little glimpses inside of the education world here at Raleigh Public Schools. And um I know that if we aren't telling our story, someone else is. So, uh, we have to take advantage of that opening. It's also a great tool for two-way communications with our community that helps build trust. We can answer questions quickly. If someone has a question, someone else probably has the same question and we can place those answers publicly for for people to see and reference. So, just quickly, I wanted to point out some growth. Uh, on the right hand side,
073you can see in those last two columns the uh numbers differing between last year and this year. We continue to steadily gain followers on that Facebook page and we're so close to 10,000. Um, which it doesn't matter to anyone but me, but uh 10,000 gets you kind of a different visibility ranking on that platform. So, if you're listening and you have not subscribed to our Facebook page, please go hit that like button right now. Uh, I really appreciate it. Make me so happy. I'll ask my kids to do it. Yeah, please. Yeah, they're not in here, but uh Instagram continues to show growth. Not as not as significant as our Facebook page. That's just where our people are. So, um now that we know that, we can just continue to focus our efforts there. Uh
074our our younger families and our students are on Instagram, so they're seeing our content. They just don't tend to engage as much as as uh folks do on Facebook. We added LinkedIn new this year. Slow growing, but I have some big plans there uh to work with Dr. Fulton and her staff to help with some recruiting uh campaigns on LinkedIn. So, more to come there. And then I added our YouTube numbers. I I just hadn't been tracking those for you, so I threw them on the list so that we can track them going forward. Uh real quick about Peach Jar. This is just a snippet from the inside of Peach Jar. what you see when you dist uh distribute a flyer uh where it lands, how many people see it. This is a district-wide post.
075So, it's showing the number of the of deliveries, how many people opened it, and how many people clicked a button on that flyer. So, we have really good analytics here to see where the information is going, and who's actually taking action. This has been really helpful for like our sports camps because we can create buttons within those flyers. a parent might be looking at that on their phone. They can click the button that says sign up here and it takes them right to the sign up page. So, lots of great uses for this and a great way to partner with our community that always has amazing opportunities for our kids. Uh this year we put out,00 flyers. Some were ours, most were not. Uh average inbox reach was 3,700. We saved 330,000 pieces of paper.
076Yay. Um, and then again, just a great way to partner with many of our community organizations that like to reach our families. This next page shows some of the top hits on our website. It's exactly what you would expect it to be. Um, people go there to find calendars, lunch menus, the staff directory, uh, information on job openings, and the student enrollment. uh registration information. So, uh just some numbers there. I thought that was interesting. Uh 538,000 hits since last June uh on our homepage. So, people are definitely visiting our website. That slide says smart sites. It shouldn't it should say uh survey results. So, my apologies. This is some preliminary survey data from our recent climate and culture survey. Dr. Fulton will do a deep dive with this with you on this a little
077bit later. Um, but for now, I wanted to snip uh some of the responses on our communications questions. I'm going to focus on the top one. And I know it's hard to see. It says, "Effective channels are in place for parents uh in the community to communicate with the district." So 97% of our staff uh agreed, disagreed or were neutral uh in that statement with that statement 89% of our families and 79% of our community. So really positive responses there that we have effective communications channels in place. Also wanted to briefly update you on the scoreboards and signage at Rala High School. These are the large digital boards that were installed last year and the fall of 23. Uh there are two of these boards. One sits at Lions Memorial Field. That's the one that's
078on the screen. And there's another one in the fieldhouse. Uh these large video boards were installed using sales from sponsorships and that's what you see on the signs surrounding those large boards. So again an adver advertiser supported contract mostly five-year contracts. We do have a couple of tens in there that negotiated up front. Almost 700,000 in revenue from this project. So $690,000 in revenue. Uh they are all sold. So we're wrapped here except for a few digital packages. So if you have interest in digital advertising on these boards, please contact me. But the signage opportunities are all taken for the next five years. So So is that number is that the five-year number or is that this year? That's the five-year number. That's the five-year number. Yes. We we made that much. We'll make that
079much in five years. Correct. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And then the one 10-year contract is included in that number. Okay. So that's the full payout for everything that's contracted right now. Okay. Yeah. Good question. Um and then I also just wanted to remind you that this uh scoreboard is a provides learning opportunities for our students. So uh big thank you to Megan Willie, teacher at the high school, and Peter Bryant, coach and teacher at the high school. They have done a great job uh coordinating this board on the back end. So, a lot of times it's either them or their kids that are running their students that are running this board. Uh, Megan Willy's video production class creates a lot of the graphics for the boards, uh, which is great experience for them. And then also
080there is some curriculum and training that goes with the actual physical running of the boards. So pushing the buttons, moving the features around, learning the interior of that platform, which is more complicated than than you'd think, but it's an in- demand field and we're going to see more job demand for skills like this. So I think it's really cool that we offer this to our students. Okay, a couple other highlights from the year. Uh Dr. Welch and I worked together on an attendance counts campaign. These are a couple of graphics from that campaign. Uh just reminding families of the importance of every minute of the school day and being present present, excuse me. Um it's tough to measure the impact of things like this, but I will say that they were very wellreceived by our
081community and generated a lot of positive comments and conversations online. So definitely happy to see this. This was a series of infographics that was spread over five weeks last fall. So, we can definitely work on something similar again this year. Also, hot off the presses, uh, and new to our communications toolbox this year is a boundary map location locator. This has been linked to our website. Uh, it is under the district tab if you're looking for it and also available as a button on our enrollment page. So, I shared this with our local realtors group today, uh, awaiting their feedback, but hopefully this will be, um, helpful for families who are looking to move to the area or even within the area to make sure they're getting great information on which district they're in, which
082elementary zone they're in, whether or not they're in a walk zone. So, there's a lot of good information here on this map. And then finally, drum roll please. I pred pres present to you the 2526 word of the year chosen by our staff at almost a 60% uh 60% vote. Word of the year for 2526 is resilience and I think we earned it. Yes, we did. There were a lot of writeins for fine. Uh we went with resilience. Fine. Everything's fine. Really proud of our staff for keeping it professional on that survey. Love it. Also wanted to update you on core activities. This year, CORE put 31,000 plus directly back into our buildings, uh, providing funds for enrichment and student needs. I've been working really closely with Ashley Gisham this year to assist in providing
083support for some of our high school students that have been stepping out on their own for the first time. Um, and just, you know, maybe some of those groups of kids that get overlooked from time to time because they are self-sufficient. Uh, so proud to help carry on some of that work. Uh, in addition to fundraising, just a reminder, CORE houses over a million dollars in investments, including 23 perpetual scholarships. And this year, the core board voted to draw $50,000 from investments uh, dividends and donate that amount to the future early childhood center at Raleigh Public Schools. And that $50,000 contributed toward the Shyak Family Foundation match matching grant uh led by the Phelps County Community Foundation. So this photo is the majority of both boards coming together to celebrate that donation. So huge thank
084you to our corporate sponsors, our individuals, and those that make our events a success every year so we can do this work. Speaking of events, we have golf tournament tournament coming up August 5th at 11:00 a.m. Putting contest starts at 9:30, so don't be late. Uh, lots of games, lots of prizes. We met with the committee yesterday at the coreboard meeting, and uh, they have some really fun things planned for you. Also, on homecoming weekend, we host the maroon and gray suare. This is the fifth annual, and you don't have to like Taylor Swift to come. This is really just more for me probably than anyone. Um, so the theme this year is in our bulldog area era and uh we hope to see you there October 18th at Hasselman Alumni House. Tickets for both
085of these events are linked on our website under the community tab and they're on the core Facebook page and on Eventbrite for the suare. just wrap up here uh sharing some projects that are coming soon. 2526 uh wish list. Is that the right word? I don't know. I mentioned our staff recognition program. Still working on that. So uh we will definitely share when we have more solid plans for that. I do think this list gets longer every year. As I mentioned, I like to say yes to everything. Um so I'm going to keep it here for now. We will also be going through an ADA compliance audit. Uh I think you probably heard me say last year we are facing a compliance deadline of April of 27 for all of our public facing communications. So
086there's a lot of work to do there going through our website ensuring that all of our public facing communications are compliant. And then there will be some sta staff training pieces to go along with that to make sure that everyone understands what that looks like, what the rules are, how we can incorporate best practices, um, and just do that work. Uh, I'm working on some Bravo enhancements, enhancements to our volunteer program. Plan to make that uh, process a little easier. Looking for options for an online form so that you don't have to print the papers. uh and also working to incorporate a a community group of volunteers into Parent Square so we can use that app to communicate with that group going forward. Streamline that a little bit. Golden Bulldogs is on the list. That
087one's still kind of a secret, but I'll share a little bit with you. Uh this is a concept to bring in our seniors uh quarterly for just a meet and greet on a certain topic. We'll vary the location uh and again just bring that set of our population into our buildings back to the CIP goal that incorporates our members of our community that don't necessarily come into contact with us as often as we'd like. Uh and try and bridge that gap. Crisis communication app upgrades I think I covered and the portrait of a series. So, uh, finally before I close, I just want to give a special thank you to Jordan McConna, the communications assistant in my department for taking on some of the behindthe-scenes work this year of the daily operations and uh, and
088the large projects and the tornado and all the things. You know, we don't plan some of those things. Uh, Jordan's out right now, but I know she would be here if she could. So Jordan, if you're watching, thank you for all you do, especially keeping me on track, which is probably a bigger job than all the rest of it. She's been a great addition to the communications team this year. And with that, I am happy to answer any questions. Have any questions? This is great, great stuff, great information. Really appreciate all your hard work. Thank you so much. Do you need us to approve your plan? I do. Okay. Can I get a motion to approve the communications plan? I make a motion to approve the communications plan as presented. I'll second. All in favor?
089I posted. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you, Gina. Thank you. All right, moving on to our superintendence report. Uh just a couple things uh this evening. Um summer school obviously in full swing. Um Dr. Welch um kind of coordinates that enrollment process and all those pieces. Uh um but we're using uh Truman Junior High and High School this year. So uh if you're out and about uh in town around noon, you'll notice a little extra traffic in those areas. Um so be aware of that. And the bus is on the road, too. Uh but similar enrollment to what we've had the past couple years. So we're just under 1500 currently in seated um or in session now. Uh high school is enrolling, and you correct me if I say something wrong here, but
090high school's enrolling for their July sessions, which are all virtual. Uh but uh all that's in the works. Um and so all seems to be going really well there and I appreciate all the efforts of everyone to make that a smooth um start transportation, food service, everybody um does their part. Uh MSBA summer summit next week. So I think um most of you are attending that. So looking forward to that. Uh and then um just as a reminder, all of our summer maintenance stuff is going on. So, as you as you're going even coming into this building, you see painting going on and uh furniture in the hallways as they're waxing all those things. So, people uh sometimes get a little nervous when they're walking into buildings and they see all this stuff, but that's
091that's what we do in the summer. Um and our our crews do a great job. We're very appreciative of our custodians and maintenance folks for all their efforts. So, that's all I have tonight. Awesome. Thank you. Summer Summit's in a couple of weeks, actually. I'm sorry. That's okay. You said next week. It's not next week. I keep trying to steal. That's all right. No problem. That's good. We'd like to draw your attention to the written reports. We have attendance, financial reports, the cafeteria report, and the library report as well. Um, any comments from any of our board members? Just going to mention a a Zoom meeting that I was on the other day with MSBA. Had a just a couple of things I wanted to mention to everybody. um MSBA's new board member training for
092in order to qualify for the governance award. Our new board members need to be trained before July 1st. I know that Larry's already got his training on uh on the schedule, but uh uh I don't know that everybody realized that that was a governance award change because I know in like anyway in years past you had plenty of time and it it's not that you can't do it later, it just it's a governance word. Uh we also talked about uh for there there is one other organization that you can be trained through uh mayor which you we are members of our board our district is although they may not have as many training opportunities as MSBA but if someone did mayor training instead of MSBA new board member training it would still be accepted as
093okay for like governance or things like that. Um, and then one of the other things they talked about is they have revised the board self-evaluation process a little bit. They've moved from uh survey monkey to qualric which I think we use for some things here. We just um they re reduced edited some of the questions um and uh changed the categories that it's all broken out to into five specific categories. It's it it seems really good. Um we are welcome. we are it's able to be piloted by us if we would like to. I know we've talked about in the past doing our self-evaluation. Um it's not something like we have to decide right now. It's not open till July 1st and it'll be open through November 1st. So if we wanted to be a
094part of that process um they assign us one of the MSBA um staff and that person uh pushes out to us a survey. This 79 question survey. Um then we get the results and then we would also have one of them come down review results, talk through things that were significant or or things that came about from the questionnaire. So it's kind of how that works. And um anyway, I told him we might be interested. I wanted to talk to you guys first and if we want to get on somebody's calendar, then we would just need to do that. Yeah, it sounds interesting and it's on our list to do. Right. Exactly. Do you know if they're going to have a session on that at the summer summit? There's I don't know that it's on
095the board self-evaluation. There is a session about all the different award changes and all those qualifications that we put together. So, which like I said, you can go if you want or I can just bring the info back for you. Sure. Yeah. Okay, that sounds everybody open to that idea of I am trying to pilot that. Okay. Yeah, we'll go and move forward with that. Sounds good. All right. Anyone else? All right. So, our next board meeting is going to be um Did you want to do something? For me? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Just make it turn. We don't want to leave you out, Larry. All right. Our next boarding will next board meeting will be uh June 30th and of course that will actually be uh a morning meeting versus an evening meeting. Um for
096that and if we have no other questions uh can I get a motion to adjurnn? I move we adjourn. I second. Okay. All in favor? Hi. Hi. Hi.