001We're gonna get our meeting started. You're not. Huh? Can't hear you. You can't hear me? Oh, sorry. We're gonna get our meeting started now. So, we have some recognitions this evening. We're going to start with uh Rala High School Music for the district and state competition. We want to say congratulations to our talented RA High School musicians for their outstanding performances at the Mshaw State Musical Festival for solo and small ensembles. We are incredibly proud of our students who earned gold, silver, and bronze ratings for their dedication and artistry. A special shout out to our gold medal gold medalist including Elena Gayert. Gellert stand up. Okay. Elo, Jersey Stinson, and the Veo Trio. Excuse me, I better finish. As well as our fantastic ensembles like Ral Brass, Quintet A, and Ral Saxs 4. Each performer
002demonstrated incredible skill and commitment, and their hard work has truly paid off. Congratulations to all who participated. You continue to make Rala proud. Thank you. Just a really quick thing and we're really proud of these students. Thank you, sir, for that great introduction. Um, what's awesome about this? There's two things. I got to do this. Forgive me. Hey, band kids, wave at me out in the audience. Wave your hand. Like, this is fully I walked in, it's like it's band class again because they're all smart kids. We love that. But anyway, these guys have to go to districts first. We took 27 entries, which is an incredible amount to district came out with 16 gold, 10 silver, one bronze. Um, you already stated our groups that went to state. Um, our choir kids, they had
003three golds, two silver, and three golds at choir. So, congratulations to choir. And these ladies and Joe has to get out of here pretty quick uh because there's a choir concert tonight. But we're going to go ahead and start. Um, they're going to introduce themselves, but this is our brass um a quintet and they're going to I think they're just going to be playing the third movement. Am I right? Yeah. Third movement. It goes for a while, so we're shortening it a little bit for tonight. But they'll introduce yourselves and play for you a little bit. My name is Lily Bristol. I'm a junior. My name is Isus Rivera and I'm a senior. My name is Joe Hun. I'm also a senior. Name is Ivy Burgerer. I'm a sophomore. My name is Stormmy Hanky and
004I'm a freshman. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Wow. Wow. [Music] [Applause] Gina, do you want a picture? recognize that second place. [Music] All right. Hi, I'm Owen Sanchez and I'm a senior. I'm Zach Cliff. I'm a sophomore. I'm Michaels. I'm a sophomore. I'm all black and I'm a sophomore. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, good. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Yeah, hang on. I got to get my notes back up. And special recognition to Jersey and Ella and Joe on the tree. Oops. on their trio and both of their solos for the ladies. They did a great job. Sorry we didn't play, but we didn't drag over a piano. So, thank you guys. Appreciate the choir second. It's okay if we get too
005far. Should we do the choir first? Yeah, choir. Perfect. They got to get to a concert. Do you want the lane you with them too? Oh, perfect. Yeah, you too. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. Yeah, it'll be bigger. [Music] You do. What are you doing? Phoneing over here. All good. I got what I need. It just doesn't. Thank you guys. Thank you. Congratulations you guys. Wonderful. [Applause] Give them just a second to leave the room here. Next, uh we're going to uh go on to teacher of the year, Brian Eller. The Raleigh Board of Education proudly recognizes Mr. Brian Eller as the 2025 Raleigh Public Schools Teacher of the Year. Mr. Eller, a dedicated educator at Truman Elementary, has spent 25 years shaping young minds with the last three years at Raleigh Public Schools. His
006commitment to student success, patience, and passion for teaching make him an invaluable asset to his school and community. As a district honore, he now has the opportunity to compete at regional and state levels. Congratulations, Mr. Elder. Again, thank you for making a difference every day. Congratulations. didn't prepare a speech, but I I didn't prepare a speech, but I it is a it's a great honor to work for this school district. It's uh it's one it's the best school district that I've worked for in my 26 years teaching. So, I appreciate it. And so, I I don't feel worthy of this, but uh I feel like the letter I and I'm supposed to represent the team, but um I do what I do and I can do what I do and if I do anything good,
007it's because of the team that I work with. So, that's great. Thank you. Thank you. sneak in. Congratulations. Okay, item three is Rala Robotics. Congratulations to their robotics teams, coaches, and mentors for an incredible season filled with hard work, innovation, and team work. Their dedication and success at multiple competitions highlight their passion for excellence in robotics. Special rec uh recognition goes to uh team number 5893 direct current for earning the inspire award, the tournament's top honor and advancing to the Missouri Kansas State Championship as well as uh 6168 maniacal mechanics who were named winning alliance captain and also advanced. Additionally, a 4964 Raleigh Patriots secured the control award and moved on to the West Super qualifier. Individual honors include Ethan Bowdenhammer earning deans list finalist status and Bosala Egawadi being named a worldwide deans list
008winner. An extraordinary achievement. Your hard work and dedication continue to inspire the Raleigh community and we look forward to seeing even greater successes in the future. [Applause] Hi, I'm Andrew Benhammer. I drew the short straw tonight. Um, I'm a coach, parent, and the sponsoring uh mentor from the Department of Defense educational activity for the Roller Robotics teams. This is a RA Robotics 14th season um competing on behalf of Raleigh Public Schools. And uh every year they surprise us with their creativity and ingenuity and how they attack and solve problems. Um, of course, the first question is, you know, what does robotic season look like? Is it battlebots? Is it uh you know, what do they do for six months out of the year away from home? uh working long hours in the in the workshop.
009So, in the beginning of uh September of every year, they receive a unique challenge, this year's challenge called Into the Deep, where the teams uh built a robot to uh to collect objects off of a field and score them in various ways to uh to to win matches. So, they go head-to-head paired with another team. So, two on two robots versus two robots uh in a tournament style uh uh season uh looking to be the top team uh coming out the end. So, the capstone awards that were just mentioned were fantastic achievements uh both in the the judged present the judge presentation awards such as the inspire award for all-around excellence and of course uh five uh 6168 for their winning the tournament in uh Springfield this last year. I believe in the last five
010years since this league tournament style play has been in part of the robotics uh season. This is the first year that RA Robotics has won both the topped performance and top judge award at that tournament. So, amazing job uh from this group of students. uh you go on to the next I have a couple slides my TED talk here. So but what what really uh inspires me as a mentor and as a as a STEM professional is uh seeing the journey these kids come on. So not only are they they learning and applying these engineering design skills uh CAD you can ask these kids about the best material to 3D print with on given your application they can tell you about how to use trigonometry and physics to find the threedimensional center gravity of a
011robot to make their robot improve better. But that just that dedication of of going after uh applying these STEM skills uh event after event working tirelessly to improve their robot to maximize performance. On the other end of the equation, uh these kids spend a lot of time uh out in the community. They they take the skills they've learned, they apply them to to outreach. Uh this year we had a team build a a water robot that skimmed uh trash off of Schuman Lake. Uh teams working with USGS to learn about underwater sensing. uh going out to the community at different STEM fairs and uh teaching kids about circuits and other STEM activities. So all around the the achievements uh that they win at the tournaments, we're we're so proud of them. But uh every one
012of these kids has has learned a lot this year and come a long way and and giving back to their community. So we're very proud of them on behalf of all the coaches and mentors. Uh thank you and thank you to the parents for uh supporting your kids uh through the ups and downs of the season. It's been a long one. Thank you. Can't play the next game. over here. Just a little bit. Parents, feel free to come. Parents, come on down. Come on down. Lean, you can move closer. Okay. Yeah. Put all that work in. Can you get a photo? [Applause] [Music] Wait, parents, come on out. [Applause] One more team. Is there one more team? Yes. 6168. You need to take them from [Applause] Sorry, I have one more word. I didn't read
013my notes well enough beforehand, but um again, just a little just one more context point or one or two more context points about um you know, the the quality of students that RA public schools is producing. So, um, the these teams winning the awards, there's 207 teams across Missouri and Kansas that compete in this competition. And these teams year after year, um, rise to the top and it's very impressive to see their growth. Um, a lot of these teams goate every year. Yeah. Go to state every year. Um, a lot of those teams we compete with are private teams. They're not affiliated with school. They have no limitations on where they can recruit, how what type of money they can get. uh and uh to be able to hold our own uh in that type
014of playing field with no restrictions on school size or anything like that is is amazing. So, Rala Public Schools has a very strong reputation across Missouri robotics community uh for for the quality of students it produces. One final note on deans list. Uh the deans list award is uh the finalists are selected. Four students from that entire population of Missouri and Kansas are selected and uh I don't have all the stats but from the last five years uh six students have come from RA public schools either from our teams or the community teams and that is that is equivalent to the total number of students from every team in the St. Louis metro region in that same time frame. So that's like 60 teams and the our small community uh hasn't beat. So very well
015that twice. That's right. Thank you very much. Okay. Uh next we're going to talk about the Missouri State University math relays. The RLA Board of Education proudly recognizes the outstanding achievements of the Rala High School math teams and their individual medalists at their recent competition. Their hard work and dedication led to three second place team finishes in algebra 1, algebra 2, and four-year math, as well as a third place finish for the geometry team. Several students also earned individual medals for their exceptional performances. The board commends these students for their commitment to academic excellence and thanks their teachers for their support. Congratulations on this well-earned success. [Applause] Okay, so while I'm talking, if my students will go ahead and come on down so we can get lined up. Um, we did have we had to
016leave before they presented medals. Um we are the farthest school away in this competition. Um in order to get our kids back for athletics and other events we leave um and this year we were running behind so they didn't get medals. So our kids didn't find out till a week later that they had placed. Um Luke Wyn got algebra one individual fifth place. Uh Vaheen Prasad got algebra restricted second place and he gets a medal. Um Mohamad Al all girl um gets a medal second place medal for fouryear math. And then we had two that did get their medals before we left. Um and that is um Adil Azim and Angela Buu. They were in calculus third place. And then our algebra one team of Shannon, Byron, Luke, and Danielle, they all got uh medals
017as well for placing second overall. And when I say overall, the competition is divided into four classes. And so in order to get medals, they have to place in the top three of all the classes. Um so we did have our geometry team, our algebra 2 team, and our four-year math. they placed in our class but not overall. So, um these kids take a 30 minute multiplechoice test. We have no information to study beforehand. So, they go in pretty blind to these competitions. Um all they know is there's going to be algebra one on it. Um algebra 2, calculus, so forth. So, they really have to study a broad range to be able to compete. Um so, that's it. Where's Shannon? Luke and Steve Blakeley goes with us as well. I'm good. You did. Yeah.
018regular teach. There is that How did they do? [Applause] Thank you, Mrs. Green. Congratulations. Congratulations. That's it. It's time for you to do your thing. Well, thank everyone for coming. Um, we are going to start the rest of our uh board meeting. You're welcome to stay if you'd like or you can leave now. And they're gone. And just like that, the room is empty. Okay. Well, we'll go ahead and get started. So, questions from the floor. At this time, any person wishing to speak on any question previously discussed through administrative channels and not on the agenda will be granted three minutes to make a presentation to the board. Seeing none, we'll move on to presentations on agenda items. Any person wishing to speak on any items on the agenda will be granted three minutes to
019make a presentation. Seeing none, we'll move on to our consent agenda. A consent agenda is utilized by the Raleigh Board of Education as a means of dealing with routine matters which must be considered by the board of education but require a minimum of discussion. All board of education members receive and review written information supporting the items listed on the consent agenda well in advance of the meeting meeting. While any board of education member is willing to remove any item from the consent agenda for separate consideration or discussion for any reason, normally all items on the consent agenda are approved in one motion with a minimum of discussion. Our um items today are A through D. Do you have anything you want to pull out, Dr. Ter? Uh, no. Mike mentioned the um, uh, Blackjack roofing.
020That's part of our tornado cleanup. So, that's a segment at Wyman. Correct. It is. Um, so moving forward there. And, uh, the ECC lease is in there. Um, continuing that partnership. Uh, the rest of that I think is fairly self-explanatory, but and note that on the, uh, -ate services that we now have to maintain our records for 10 years. Yes. Yes. Because technology lasts 10 years. No. All right. Can I get a motion then to approve items A through D? I make a motion to approve items A through D on the consent agenda. Second. I second the motion. All right. All in favor say I. I. Say no. All right. Moving on then to old business with our long range facility update by Dr. Fulton. Hi, thought I would stand up this week. So, um
021I have honestly nothing more to report on our auditorium at this moment. We are waiting on some trim to come in and we have not received the final punch list. So, I am expecting that at any point in time. So, still working through that process. Um as far as tornado recovery, we have quite a bit to report. No pictures today though. Um at Wyman, I'll go through all of the areas one by one. At Wyman, the abatement has started. Um first onsite will be our contractor to restore everything that was recommended by our insurance company. They are working with the same abatement companies. So all of that work has started as well as work on the roof has begun as well. I received final approval today to replace the playground equipment. There is um two
022pieces on the main playground that need replaced as well as the rubber surfacing and um the swing set and the tricter they call it. It goes around in circles. So that will be um 10 to 12 weeks out. So we may not start school with those pieces of equipment and they are damaged enough that we'll have to make sure they are not accessible to the kids when school starts. But they are going to be under order as of tomorrow. So that is exciting. Dr. Fton to get that done. There were some I think special education accessible pieces that kind of blew to the wind. We never really found them. Correct. Will those also those will be replaced as well? We can buy we can buy at you know playground Walmart any local area order off
023of Amazon. So we have all of those in the inventory list like the classroom inventory list of those little things that are waiting on approval with the auditor that I was going to cover in a few minutes. I will speak with him tomorrow. So we should get that. But yes, all of those pieces should be replaced at that time. Thank you. So, um at Mark Twain, we are waiting on drawings for the windows that are facing Salem Avenue. Um going back with all glass windows on that side is probably not it's not recommended. So, we're going we're asking the architects to create some type of a drawing that will make all of that seamless between that and the newer portion of the building um with that. But with that, I will tell you that um
024they have approved for us to rebuild back just south of where the cafeteria was as a storm shelter. So that is good news. So we're working with the architect team on those drawings. That's great. That's great news. It's wonderful. Um Morala Middle School first on-site was here yesterday. Um they are ordering the ceiling tiles as we speak. They've brought their electrician in waiting on the paperwork from the electrician to move that process forward. All the casework for that building has been ordered as well as Mark Twain as well. So that will be in before hopefully the case work will be in before school starts. That was ordered about three weeks ago and it has about six to eight weeks time. So So we should be moving forward there. So they should be in the building
025in the next couple of weeks. So that's exciting. And the roof is done at the middle school. Oh, great. Except for the guttering, but we can have school without that guttering. So So that's good news. Softball complex, we are working on plans with the architect firm. Um the lighting has not been assessed yet because you know there's no power. So we have been working with Patrick to make plans to hook our to a generator up to each one of those. We're waiting on a date for Musco to come in to assess the damage that we have to that lighting in the storm. Um and I talked about the inventory and so and uh they have not begun work on our roof in this building and of course we're waiting on roofing at transportation and maintenance.
026Basically two maintenance buildings that need roofing. though there is something going at every building. So, um a question about Mark Twain. Uh I drove past there just the other day and in the c old cafeteria area where the uh tables used to recess into the walls. Of course, they're not there now. Um but you can see brick behind that. I didn't know if that was actually a former exterior wall. I mean, there was some discussion about it being an interior wall that's serving as an exterior wall currently, but maybe it used to be an exterior wall. I just wasn't sure. I'm sure that's part of the process of things that are being repaired. And I think so. I think according to the uh facility plan, I believe part of that building was built in the
02750s and part and that cafeteria came on in ' 62. So really not sure. I would say we're probably seeing some exterior, but we'll have to get the architects in as we continue that planning and that process and in shoring that area up. Okay. Um we'll add to that. We had a conference call this morning with um Honer and Associates of course were involved but we've engaged a company called Toth and Associates to out of Springfield. They are kind of the go-to um engineering firm in Missouri for storm shelters. Um so we have given them the information to um submit uh notice of intents to SEMA, the state emergency management group um for additional storm shelters. Now, there's no commitment and and um I would tell you we've submitted uh we're submitting an NOI for
028every building that doesn't have a storm shelter. So, uh Mark Twains will get taken care of here. Uh we're submitting for the new Early Childhood Center, Wyman Middle School, RTI, RTC. Okay. There's almost no chance we'll get funding for all of those, right? Uh but there are two uh disaster mitigation declarations, one that's already in existence and one that's pending with FEMA. So there is a fair likelihood that we could get drawn for one and possibly two. So um it doesn't hurt to submit the NOIs. There's no commitment. There's no uh obligation there. U but if we were to get drawn and selected to submit an application, then we have to go a little further and we'll bring that information to the board. Uh really this is very preliminary and it could be months um
029down the road before we know anything. But um they'll keep those NOIs on file and uh we can we can autorenew those every couple years so they're just out there in case there's a funding source um down the road or someone takes funding and then doesn't use it or something along those lines. So um it's just a first step to to see if we can expand um those storm shelters through the district. So great. And is the plans to use blackjack roofing for the rest of the correct? Mhm. Yeah, they have been approved by our adjusters and reinsurance all the way through. Okay. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Mrs. Atinson will give us the FY25 budget update. Okay. So, I don't have a presentation for this. Um, basically since January, I've
030done probably over a hundred different little budget adjustments. Most of those are just moving funds from one account to another as we move through the year and things were budgeted not quite as accurately as you know we we don't know this time a year ago. Um so overall some I guess highle overview. The um operating fund balance has increased by about $319,000 for budget. Um basically increasing local revenues including activity accounts. Those those revenues have come in higher than originally budgeted state and county revenues. And then on the expenditure side for operating an increase to special education nursing services, special education tuition to other districts, so on and so forth. Capital projects fund overall increase to the fund balance of $2 million. 1.4 million of that is I just now have budgeted for the anticipated
031FY25 revenue from the Phelps County uh community foundation to their donation for the purchase of the early childhood center, the the Wyman West building, Columbia College. Um and then also a decrease in capital expenditures as adjustments were made to account for um the 2023 bond issue funds that we had budgeted this year that we will be spending next year to finish that project up. So a net overall increase to that fund balance of about $2 million. And then debt service, I don't typically touch that, but this time of year our revenues are almost all um received for that um that line item or for that fund rather. So those revenues have increased by about 200 thou 200,000 over original budget including um interest revenue for the debt service account. So all in all um our
032original budget ending fund balance is 26.32%. We're now sitting at a budgeted ending fund balance of 26.29%. Still anticipating our ending fund balance to come in just over 30% actual once all is said and done. But I will tell you I know we only have about six weeks left in the fiscal year. We have 10 certified payrolls still and about five or six support staff payrolls yet to do in these six weeks. So that's that's a lot there. Um we have summer school um expenditures payrolls to pay out. And then we still have over 800 open purchase orders out there that we're chasing to find out where those invoices are and all that. So this is all normal for this time of year, but that's why I still I can't nail it down too close
033yet, which is very frustrating. So anyway, um I do need if there's any questions and then if not approval for the budget. Does anybody have any questions? No. Then can I get a motion to I'll make a motion to approve the budget amendments as presented. I'll second. All right. All in favor say I. I. Those oppos say no. Thank you, Kendra. Thank you. All right. Moving on now to new business for our early childhood program review. So we have Miss Lauren Brown with us today. Okay. Hello. Hello. Hello. Childhood is alive and well in Raleigh public schools. So, that's always a good thing. Um, I always just kind of start off with our cover just so we always remember what we're uh all about in the early childhood world. So, I'll go through kind of
034in this sequence as well. Uh, presenting today. kind of a fun day in the parents as teachers world because you may or may not know that today the parents as teachers year ends and tomorrow it starts again. So, uh today my parent educators have the day off and tomorrow they'll be uh back in business because I do always tell them that they have to have that final invoice information in for me by 10:00 on the 14th so I can be ready to roll on the 15th. So, uh we served 164 families this year, uh 254 children. We completed 729 home visits. Um, and we have seven parent educators. So, uh, just for some quick math, you can see that they do lots of, uh, home visiting in our community. So, that's a good thing. We
035had eight group connections this year. That is not counting playgroup. Uh, so we were able to get about seven playgroups into our uh, new early childhood center, our Wyman West building, until that building was used. And so, uh, we haven't uh, completed a play group since then. But these are just our true group connections that we've partnered out in the community with. Uh we we're able to make 97 resource connections with our families this year. And that's kind of a new number the state wants us to collect. And really that is making sure that not only did we refer a resource to a family, but they followed through and received that resource. So uh that was a good number just for our first year at really kind of monitoring that. Uh we did complete 422
036screenings out of the year. Again, those same seven amazing parent educators. Uh stay quite busy in our screening world. You'll see that we have 164 families that we serve and I'm happy to report that 154 of them are signed up for the Dolly Parton Foundation. So they're all getting free books in their home um every month until their child turns five. And that's been a huge uh hit for our families. The books come in a big package and they actually come addressed to the child and if there's four children in the home, all four children get a different book except the very first book and the very last book are always the same. So, um it's fun. They always want us to read those books when we get there. And and uh I think we
037read the little engine that could about 400 times the first month when everyone signed up. So, uh I I threw our pictures in this year all all around. Uh that first big picture, I wanted to make sure we got that in here. Those are our friends um at Mark Twain and so they are uh combined teaching right now due to our uh storm plan and our little tiger cub friends from St. James made goodie bags for all of our Mark Twain preK friends and they uh learned about sorting and they stuffed the bags for them and then they delivered them to them and so that's their picture sending a thank you. Um, and then in Wyman East or Green Tree as we call it, I said to a someone the other day, GT. They're like,
038"Where's GT?" And I was like, "Well, that's just what I use in text when I'm trying to say where I'm at or where I'm going." So, um, but we made some bunny bait with our friends. And as you can see, that was a huge hit as well. So, kind of looking um I decided this is probably the last year we're going to be able to get them all on a slide that you can all see because we've had preschool for so long, which is super exciting for us. So, this year currently right now, we have 191 preschoolers across our district. So, that's a a mixture between our prek and our early childhood special education and our peers. We have 44 children on our weight list that we've not been able to serve. Um there are
039about half of those who we offered spots to periodically through the year just due to movement or um as our early childhood special education program grows at Wyman, we can add in more peers, but we very rarely have morning spots open and morning are what most of our families need because they need that midday transportation. So um some of those we just had to move on and and let sit there because we couldn't provide a spot for them. our projected uh early childhood start numbers for August. So, all of our pre-K kids are in place and um have actually already gotten their email to do returning student update. They're in and official. Um and along with our early childhood special education students who are staying with us for another year or coming in as three-year-olds,
040we are at 166 to start with us in August. Um, and as you know, that number increases as children turn three or I find them and bring them to our program. Uh, we currently have 47 on our wait list for preschool for next year. So, 47 families who either signed up or called us after screenings. Um, or we did have about 11 we couldn't serve that we did screen. So, uh, out of those programs, out of those kids, uh, 14 are in the Mark Twain zone. 11 in the Wyman zone and 22 in the Truman zone. And that Truman zone does just consistently be our heaviest weight list. We've experienced that throughout. So, uh, screenings this year, so to hit that uh number, where did all these kids come from? So, we do uh give
041the dial to all of our current preschool kids, uh all of our incoming preschool kids, and then all of our incoming kindergarten kids. And then uh we do screen for Head Start in the fall. Uh Presbyterian preschool. This year we actually even got to screen their infants. So we got to spend some times with with the babies which is always a fun day. Um and St. Patrick's Early Childhood Center, which is also babies, and then also their preschool. So we will we'll typically go anywhere anyone calls us and wants us to do a screening. So there's some outside fun of our littles. It's always a good day when you can cut a pumpkin in the middle up and see what's inside. Uh just as a reminder of what our programming looks like, we have seven
042classes at Wyman uh or Greenree. One of those is our low incidence classroom. Um and that's our medically fragile group. Most of those kids come to us right on their third birthday. Um and they are coming to us typically as a transfer from our first steps program. So they age out of that. they come to us. Often those kids are in our program three years based on how their birthday falls. Uh and as I'm certain you remember, we did add a low incidence autism classroom to our program in January. Uh that has been a a very needed addition to our program and uh has been has been a good move for our kids. Even when we physically had to move them again, they still um have done very well because they're in a very uh
043secure safe setting. So they they transitioned very well. And then we have five early childhood special education classrooms with peers as well. Two classes at Mark Twain and one class at Truman. And that Truman class graduated today. So I did participate in two preschool graduations. And there may be nothing cuter than that. I'm just going to throw that out there. Uh our pups 2 update, as you know, that is Mrs. Diaz's uh preschool program that she does with her early childhood careers kids. uh she has been super creative since our tornado and she has moved to RTI. So she has done uh what she calls playgroups with her families and so they're bringing their kids in. They've toured like every part of RTI. They've done automotive. They've went to woodworking. They've went uh to the
044field trip at our farm day and so they've uh they've done a a really good job of staying uh in and going even though their space was lost. So she has 10 in the morning and 10 in the afternoon. Um, if you don't hang around with little ones very often, 10, twos, and threes year olds is a good time. And if that doesn't scare a high school s junior or senior away, they're probably ready to stay in early childhood with us. So, so that's a good thing. That 3 to five group in the afternoon, uh, we typically are always able to fill that with weight list kids. So, families who are able to make those three days work, uh, and and transport, uh, just to kind of know where our kids are. um and maybe
045where they aren't and where we might want them to be. So, we uh screened 131 preschool kids. 62 of those are not attending preschool in our community. 61 are. So, we're pretty well half and half. Um and we we when we ask families this question, some of them actually type out in home daycare. So, that's why I single that out. I can't tell you if it's a preschool or not. when they fill out their registration, they tell us yes, they're in a preschool, no, they're not, or they're in an home child care. So, I always just put that on there because that's what they tell me. This was just our field trip um to the uh FFA kids took us on a a great trip through the greenhouse and we actually got to see a
046banana plant growing and that was a huge hit for our friends. They just really learned a lot that day. Uh, I think we had some pigs and horses, um, goats. We had all kind of sheep. Uh, they love to get on the tractor. Uh, the FFA kids read to them and then let them do a coloring book. And that's a great that's a great field trip. All of our field trips we take within our program happen with our older kids with the exception of our pumpkin patch trip. So, we partner with all of our high school friends and and have some really good trips. Okay. kindergarten kids. So, these are kids coming to us for kindergarten screening that we don't currently serve in preschool. So, we screened 92 this year. Um 44 of those are
047not in a preschool program. 48 of those are. And then that's not including our preschoolers. We we know they're in preschool. And then finally, uh this I love this picture right here just because if a picture can tell a thousand words, that one is is uh really talking. But they are actually working on a Santa letter with our friends from the middle school. And uh that's some deep thinking going on there. Um, but finally, the one item that I kind of just wanted to talk with you about this year is I was able to gather our uh kindergarten, oh, let me think, kindergarten observation form or the KOF is what it's called. And it is uh given by our kindergarten teachers within the first four to six weeks of school. And it's an observation tool.
048I think there are like 16 areas to observe and it's all looking for our kindergarten kids coming ready to learn. So this year I was able to take some time and separate out our preschool kids based on our kids that came to us in kindergarten that didn't attend our preschool. And we did excuse me very very well in all of our areas with one area of an area that we are under the state's goal is in social emotional learning. And so the fun thing about that is we had two of our preschool teachers two years ago uh reach out to me to see if they could attend Second Step which is an a social emotional learning curriculum activity. Our state puts it on. It's quality PD. They provide it free for us uh virtually and
049they incorporated it in their classrooms and those kids were not in that below state average level. So we were able to see very obviously that this is working. It's a lot of um this is how I feel. Do I like to feel this way? Do I not like to feel this way? And if I don't, then how do I need to change that? And it all happens through social stories and uh opening circle time, which also goes right in with our curriculum. So, the two teachers did it, they talked about it a year ago in April when we were all at our last meeting, and four more added it over the summer. So, I'm excited to see what this KOF looks like when we hit August next year. Um, and then the remaining teachers are
050all signed up and ready to take it this summer. So, we should have everyone in and ready to go in August using the same social emotional learning curriculum across the district. So, uh, that's fun. It's fun to see uh, continued growth in different buildings even though some of our teachers really don't ever get to see one another. So, anything you need to know that I missed? How are things going with everyone all there together? Is that Tell me about that. Fabulous. Okay. Everyone is not all together, but everyone that is together at Green Tree is going very well. Um, some things we've learned very quickly is the kids transitioned very, very well. Day one, they were a little uneasy because they thought their teachers weren't coming. We were seeing that as at drop off like,
051"Oh, you are here. There she is." As soon as they saw that it was the same people, just different building. That was really it. By the next day, uh I think we came back on a Monday, by Wednesday, we all just stood in the hall and said, "Go find your room." And just monitored. And about 95% every single day can completely get to their room. Uh they know where, you know, where the bathroom is. One of the things the teachers love is it's like everybody in that building is ours. So, take care of them if they need to be taken care of whether they're yours or whether they're not, you know, those kinds of things. But, uh, meals have been amazing. Uh that was a process that we weren't really sure what that would look
052like, but uh Miss Dawn has just done a wonderful job of getting us breakfast and lunch and she and I have a system of knowing what we need and those kinds of things. Um the playground has worked wonderful. We worked a partnership out with the learning center downstairs of when we can be on the playground and when we can't. Um, and actually on Tuesday, all of Miss Rachel's kids at Green Tree and all of our kids are going to have messy play in the parking lot. So, we're gonna box it all off. We have about 12 different activities. We sent notes home to parents that said, "Please don't send good clothes because they won't come home good after they leave here." So, um, but it's been it has been really good. The kids have transitioned
053very very well and the teachers are super happy. So, good. And Green Tree like takes care of us with like, you know, candy salads and potato bars and candy salad buffet. You know, the candy salad buffet was a huge hit this week. So, yes, for the teachers, not the kids. We're not Yeah. Yeah. We're not going to get candy salad today. Sure. Everybody knows. I'm not sure. We were invited. Just saying. I'm like, we gone so soon we forgot to call you. It's fine. It's fine. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Brown. Okay, next we have Mr. Richards with us to talk about the TNPT year one overview. Evening everybody. Good evening. Hi J. Good evening. Can you hear me? Okay. You'll have to go to the mic for the record. Yeah, you're live broadcast this
054evening. Surprise. Well, good evening. My name is John Rashard. Uh, I'm a partner at TNTP, which is just a fancy way of saying I get to oversee all of TNTP's work across the state of Missouri. I also see our work across the state of Michigan, and I'm supposed to be unbiased, but I live in Kansas City. I've been a Missouri resident for 25 years. So, when we do work in Missouri, I'm really passionate about it because we get to affect kids that are in my backyard, like here in Raleigh. Um, so I thought I would start and talk a little bit about what TNTP is in case you're unfamiliar. Um, TNTP stands for or it stood for the New Teachers Project. We're a national nonprofit and over 25 years ago, we started sometime in the
055mid '9s and we were just working with teachers. We quickly realized that if we wanted to have impact on the American education system, we had to extend beyond just working with teachers. So, we started doing some work across all the disciplines. We started uh working with curriculum directors and curriculum rollout, math, science, reading, you name it. career connected learning CCL and we started working with superintendents and the folks at district office board members. We also realized we needed to start working with folks all the way up to state district and policy. So we work with departments of ed too. We do all of these things for the past two decades. The other thing we do besides consulting is we also collect a lot of data. So you can imagine we're working in the field. We're
056seeing a lot of things. So every four or five years we publish a report. Our most recent one was called the opportunity makers where we track um schools across the nation that are making really big gains for kids and we found commonalities like what's working there. So in your spare time take a look at that on tntp.org. We got some really great research there. And then we also work within communities and doing coalition work and how we helping communities improve their schools um out for organizations that are I would say education adjacent. And we do this uh in over 6,000 districts across the nation. Right now we're in over 39 states. I'm a little bit upset with our marketing team. This uh image that you're looking at is a little old because RA should have
057a dot right on there. Um and our state should be yellow because we work with the state department of ed. But we've been doing this for a long time. We've earned a lot a lot of things. Um, and for the same reasons that you all are sitting here today, we're doing it because we really want kids to be able to have their choice in career, economic and social mobility to lead ha happy, healthy lives and they can uh contribute positively to society. So, we're all aligned in the kind of work that we do. As you can imagine, as you're all well aware, there's a lot of challenges in the American education system. Um, one of which is around literacy. And a lot of folks ask me,"Well, John, why is third grade so important when you
058talk about literacy?" And the simple reason or the simple saying I say is that in in grades K 1 and two, our children are learning to read. So all kindergarten, first and second grade teachers here in Rallet public schools, there's an explicit time where they're teaching our kiddos that letters make sounds, sounds form words, words form sentences, and so on. But when you get to third grade, it switches, right? All of a sudden, that specific time for kids to learn how to read, now they're reading to learn. So now novels are introduced, primary sources, thinking about textbooks, science, reading is coming at you really, really quickly. And in third grade, if you haven't learned how to read yet, it gets harder and harder and harder as you advance through the grades. So third grade is
059really, really a pivotal year. If I could tell any district what goal to set, all kids should be reading by third grade because that would change the trajectory of so many lives. And a lot of research has been done. So for instance, students who are not reading um on grade level or reading at proficient by third grade, they're four times less likely to graduate high school. All these longitudinal studies have been done. And for our kiddos who are um in low SCES or in poverty, they're 13 times less likely to graduate high school. So that put that in perspective. Like here in Raleigh public schools, you serve I think it's like 47% of kids qualify for free and reduced lunch. Almost half, right? So it's so important that those kids are reading by third grade.
060And then when we uh if you do a you go backwards and you look at kids who did not graduate high school, 88% of them identified as struggling readers in third grade. So all these studies point to why is third grade so important? That's the magic and the sauce. Now the flip side of this is that kids who are reading on third grade, right, they're showing that they're five times more successful in college and career. 96% of them will finish high school on on time. 96%. So again, we're doubling down on the importance of third grade. I also get a lot of push back and they're like, "John, well, we're climbing out of a pandemic. We've faced a lot in the past few years." Like, yeah, we have, but if you look at our scores
061pre- pandemic, literacy has been a challenge for years, for decades. And I want to say not just in Missouri, this is nationwide. So I'm not I'm not saying Missouri is down here at 50 out of 50 states, but it's been a struggle. It's a struggle here in Missouri and one that we all collectively need to address. Uh, and yeah, and the state literacy scores aren't great either. So, kiddos on our MAP scores, they're not performing proficient advance. You got fewer than 50%. So, we believe at TNTP the importance of literacy and all kids should have access to excellent quality literacy instruction. and I know you do here at RA public schools because you have taken some really big steps to ensure that our kiddos especially in K1 and two are getting those early literacy skills.
062When Miss Atinson was talking about um the Dolly I like the Dolly Parton book and all the kids having access to that is warms my heart. The more access we can get kids to read and get books in their hands before they even hit kindergarten. Kindergarten teachers should be singing your praises right now, right? So there's an opportunity here. Um the science of reading and we we won't talk about this today because I could talk about this at Nadium at Nauseium. Um but the science of reading has really swept our nation because we've learned a lot about how the brain acquires language. Um if you think about advancements in modern uh medicine, we've learned a lot about how the brain learns to read and that should impact our instruction. And we call that the science
063of reading. And here in Missouri, the state is requiring now that districts adopt curriculum that is lined to the science of reading, which RA public schools, you're all already ahead of it. You already did that this year. You adopted a really great curriculum. In addition to that, the state has a read, lead, exceed initiative that it started a few years ago, and it gave all teachers access to letters training, which many teachers here in Rale public schools took advantage of. So, two really good wins right now. You've got a great curriculum. You got teachers who have taken letters training like you you've got the sauce the magic sauce is happening. The piece that's missing not just here in RA but the piece that's missing across the state that we see is coaching. So if you
064think about a really great athlete even some of the best athletes they have coaches. No, nobody says I'm just born to be the best and they are just the best without any coaching or practice. So what we've done is we equip teachers. We give them the roadmap. That's a really strong curriculum. We give them training. But what's been missing is how do we coach them so that when they're in their front of their kids and they're getting instruction, how do they get better at that? The only way they get better is if they get feedback, right? And so nationally, this is what we're seeing. Um and I think uh hopefully um Dr. Welch, do does everybody have like hyperlinks in case they want to read more? Like would those go through here case studies presentation?
065Okay, perfect. Great. So, in all your free time, if you'd like to learn more about this work that we've been doing, we've been coaching and working with teachers in literacy and in math um for several years now, uh in Tennessee, in Nebraska, um Arkansas, Nevada, and schools that were for instance in Arkansas, schools that are underperforming in that state, they ranked them DNF schools. Really harsh, but that's their that's their ranking system. We went into a lot many of those schools and working with them and they were now A and B schools because it's a really strong curriculum and coaching and so we coach to get teachers to get better just like an athlete. So where does our funding come from at TNTP? We have districts that will contract directly with us. They'll call us
066and say, "John, we're having trouble with our our algebra one scores are really struggling right now. How can you help us? What can we do?" Um so sometimes we contract directly with the district. Sometimes it's through the state. something. It used to be through the federal government, not anymore. Um, but now, uh, here in Raleigh, the work we're doing is actually privately funded. Um, so Jim Walton, uh, the Walton, a personal Walton philanthropy group, which is different than the Walton Foundation. The Walton personal philanthropy group is Jim Walton's own money. It's the family money. So each of them has their own like little bit of money that little bit of money that they do um to be very philanthropic. So, um, Jim Walton, the story goes that he has a, uh, there's a grandparent that
067was a rural school teacher in his family. Um, so he has a passion for rural school work. Um, and he also has a passion for literacy. So, this work dovetales really, really nicely. The grant that we're engaging you all with and five districts across Phelps County is a three-year grant. It's $3.2 million and we're working with 50 um, kindergarten and first grade teachers all across Phelps County. So here in Rala, Den Phelps, Phelps, St. James, and Newberg, all kindergarten and first grade teachers are working with our coaches right now. Um, so five districts, seven elementary schools. And I like to say the work is occurring in five or four buckets. The first is the coaching. We'll talk about that in a quick second. The second is we do we have a cohort model where we
068bring teachers together and we provide professional development with them. That's targeted. I'll talk about that in a second, too. We're building capacity in your teams. So we think about your instructional coach, your principles. Every month they come on building walks with us. We're looking at best practices in literacy instruction so that when TNTP leaves this work continues on, right? Because if we came in and did great work and kids soared and then we left and it all fell apart, what did we do? Right? So we have to build sustainability. And the last thing and I think really important here is we're building a certificate a coaching certificate with Missouri S&T so that any teacher who wants to across the state who wants to become a literacy coach can take this course but DESIE is also
069very involved in this process and I say that because they want to know what is working in Rala and how do we scale this so it's really put Phelps County on the map in terms of like hm what's working here there's something special that's happening in Rala in Phelps County and how can we replicate that across the state. Jim Walton will tell you this isn't about like yes, we want to see kids improve and their scores, reading scores improve in Phelps County, but really it's how do we scale this model so that kids across the state have access to high quality literacy instruction. When we're on the ground, we have uh seven or so, our team is about between seven and 10. Um, our coaches are literary literacy experts. So, they come from all over.
070They're the same coaches. Uh, they come from, let me see if I get this right. Arizona, Texas, Illinois, Florida. Am I leaving off here? Here in Missouri, we've got one Louisiana. There you go. Louisiana. Yes, there you go. In Colorado. In Colorado. That's right. I forgot about Jessica. Thank you. Yes. You don't tell my team I could from. Um, but they meet one-on-one with your teachers every month. They're in their classroom with their kids and they're observing and they're talking and they're building a relationship. And when they're not on the ground every month, they do a virtual meeting with them in between. The goal here again is just to get practice to get better and it's non evaluative. So our coaches will never run to your principles and say, "You won't believe what's happening in
071John's kindergarten class. It was out of control." That is not what we're trying to do, right? We're just trying to practice and get better. So, here's where I'd love to talk to you just a little bit about is our progress to date. So, I know this is a lot of data and this is my big rule of not putting a lot of data on a screen and I did it. So, I apologize for that. Uh, two things. First, I'll say that darker is better. So, no matter what the color is, you want the darker color. Every month when our coaches are on the ground, they're in their classrooms and they're looking for best practices in literacy instruct literary instruction. So, we have a tool that we use at TNTP and every month they're putting this
072in and seeing what they're seeing. We do this for a couple reasons. The first is because we want to look for trends. What across not just Phelps, but what across Raleigh public schools are we seeing? Where is there success? Where is there some opportunities for growth? In the first year, we concentrated in two areas and those were the areas that are circled up there. The first is aligned content. We want to make sure that this um the content that the kids are getting is exactly what they should be getting, what we know that's appropriate for their grade level and what's in the great curriculum that you all adopted. The second is teacherdirected instruction. Got to make sure that the teacherdirected instruction is really strong. So making like watching teachers, how are they forming words? Are
073they using the right vowel sounds? Um, this is way beyond way beyond my thinking, but my team is very very good and they know um what all those sounds should be and the best way to be communicating that with kids. Um, and we're super proud to say if you look consistently, you'll see like we're seeing tons of growth, especially with teacherdirected instruction. Um, and align content has just been consistent. There are some big challenges this year. Big mean tornadoes. Big also mean weather. We had a lot of nasty weather this year. We had up in Kansas City, too. But it means that we couldn't always get here in time. So, when we did, your teachers bent over backwards really working to meet with coaches, whether it be taking a video of my classroom and sending
074it to coaches or just figuring out a time to be really flexible. And we still got results like this, which is really saying something for the teachers that you have here in Rala. So, this is just year one, and we're going to do this again in year two. The million-dollar question is is like, well, what's the impact on kids? Right? This is all really nice, John, but what's the impact on kids? So, we are collecting data right now. Uh, we work with the state on that. We're going to be working with individual districts, and hopefully the next time if I get invited back again, I like to report out on what we're seeing in terms of student achievement. Um, and there the last slide, you can see some of the um just some of the
075quotes. We're collecting end of year survey data. I was able to pull a little bit. The data is not due yet. The surveys aren't due. Um but the response and these are specific to Rala. Um the teachers have been really really happy and appreciate the relationship with their coach. So I just talked a lot at you. There any questions about the work or TNTP um that I can help answer for you all today? What will summer look like with this program? Yeah. So summer is really a time for us to come together. We look at all of the data and we think about what is the plan for next year. Uh we really try to give teachers a break. We do we would love to meet with them and I'm sure that maybe some of
076them would like to meet with us, but some of them just need their time. Um but we will come back in August and we'll do a kickoff with them. Um and some of the teachers have just great relationships with their coach and they will continue to talk throughout the summer. It's it's kind of funny. our I think sometimes our coaches become therapists sometimes um and like just really listening and you know and really having empathy and I mean all of our coaches were teachers too so we know how hard it is um but summer will be a time for our team to regroup go through some training um but our same team I'm so excited our same team is coming back again next year awesome okay so from our point John our team is not
077the same coming back because we have retirements and new hires so how do we get our new teachers up to speed to this build capacity. I I'm I'm so glad you asked that. So, uh good news is that of the 50 teachers that we support across Phelps County, only three will and it's actually it's not because they're leaving. I think it's because they're shifting grade levels. So, we'll have three new teachers. Um and so, when we think about how do we onboard those new teachers, those new teachers will still have a coach next year. They'll just be starting off at a different um point, entry point, but they'll still get coaching for all of year two. Does that answer your question? Yes, I think so. Great. Any questions? No comment. I just from the school
078district's point, this is great for us to uh have this opportunity. Well, I speak on behalf of our team. We love We love it here. I mean, our team really loves this project. The teachers are bought in. your administrators are bought in. Um the central office folks, Dr. Dar and Dr. Welsh have just been phenomenal. Um it really takes when we think about systems coherence from the top all the way to the classroom that through evident public schools. She should be really proud. We're humbled to work with you all. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for being here. Thanks. Really appreciate it. All right, moving on to comments. So looks like we just have you, Dr. there. Just me, huh? Yeah. Uh, okay. I have a I have a little list going tonight. So, uh, Dr.
079Bolton, will you turn the light on because I'm old. Yes, I will. Um, legislatively, uh, still still some things happening there, but, uh, uh, would like to comment the the budget awaiting Governor Kho includes full funding for the formula and all of our categoricals that impact our district. So, that's great news and and we appreciate the legislative support there. Uh I I gave the board a summary sheet of Senate Bill 68 earlier this evening uh just for you to peruse through. Uh I gave you the summary sheet because the actual bill is 138 pages long. Oh, thank you. Uh you can find that online if you would like to read through that. Uh but a couple things and I'm sure you've seen the the news. Uh uh before I say that, let me say that
080has passed through the legislative process, but it has not been signed by the governor yet. Uh however, I would anticipate that happening. So, uh I'm sure you've seen the news. Uh this includes a cell phone ban. And uh it is it is state law or will be state law uh from from what they're saying is basically bellto bell. So students will not be allowed to have their phones out or on display uh in use from the start of the school day to the end of the school day. And so we have some buildings that do some restrictions for cell phone usage and that kind of thing, but this will be a full step further. And um so we will have um uh to work with our administrative staff to to figure out our consequences and
081our process for how we're going to handle those things. Um it includes smartwatches and all those other types of devices. So um just want to kind of get that out there and and u we'll communicate as quickly as we can once we once the bill is actually signed and we get some guidance from MSBA and the legal teams of what it means. We'll we'll uh communicate as quickly as we can. But um that's a that's a big one. There are some exceptions in that for uh we have a handful of kids about 14 kids actually who have medical um necessities that require some monitoring and some device um usage. U mostly our diabetic students and so there are some exceptions for that and we'll work with each of those individual students and their plans to
082accommodate that. Uh but that's that's a big change and and people will need to be aware of that. uh that bill there's 138 pages as I mentioned there's 36 different provisions in that bill. So it's not just a cell phone man. There's a there's a myriad of things in that. So we'll have a lot to to um uh pour through and figure out what our next steps are. Um want to say thank you to everybody that helped with the uh NAP family track and field complex dedication the other night and thank all of you uh from the board for being there. That was a great event. um uh really fantastic family and and um so humble in their approach to everything and great great working with them through this process. Uh the drama kids uh
083production of Chicago was amazing. Yes. Uh and and to think that they they paused everything, relocated everything, shifted, learned new lighting systems and sound systems within about a week and and put on the show that they did was truly impressive. So uh it it I I did um email Mrs. McVean to let her know that since they were able to pull that off we with no planning in time what we expect with planning and time is going to be phenomenal. So but no the kids did great and and that's not just the performers on the stage but the ones running the sound ones running the lights the ones doing all of it. It was it was really incredible. Uh reminder graduation May 18th at Gail Bowman uh at S&T. Tickets are required and you get
084those through a senior. So, if you don't know a senior, um you you uh have the option to live uh to watch the live stream. And so, that'll be on our YouTube channel. Um and uh let's see, last day of school on Thursday the 22nd, dismissal at 1. Reminder to the board, we have our recognition breakfast on the 23rd. Um please uh if you're able to join us, we would we would certainly welcome you for that. What time do you plan on starting in the auditorium? 8:30. 8:30. Mhm. 8:30 in the auditorium. 7:00 to 8:30 for um drop in breakfast. 8:30 in the in the performing arts center. Mhm. Summer school the 2nd through the 27th. Just want to keep throwing that out there that uh people will get used to not seeing the buses
085for a few days, but the buses will be back on the road and um having kids in them. And then uh I should have mentioned this earlier and I I I uh I was tried to find my little trophy, but I couldn't find it. So, I'll have to let Miss Green know, but I was going to tell the kids that there's great things coming for them because I placed first in a freshman algebra 1 word problems at what was then the Southwest Missouri State University math field day, but um same thing. So, uh I was going to I was going to share my little trophy with them and their their medals are much nicer uh than what we got back then. So, um and then uh shared the information with you about the disaster mitigation
086process. Uh we'll we'll share more information with you on that and uh um probably at one of our upcoming board meetings once the the legislative process is finished we'll do a presentation on all of those changes and what all of that means for Raleigh public schools and so more to follow on that but that's what I have for you tonight. Awesome. Thank you Dr. Ter. All right. Would just like to pay attention to the written reports. We have um attendance um for the audit report and attendance for percentage um by month. And if we have nothing else, I was just going to comment that Dr. Fton and I helped last week with the hope of food packing. We the FFA and the uh ski club. So, Mrs. green and company. Uh we packed 21,000 meals
087in two hours. Very organized. So that it's going to go Yeah, it was very good. It was very good. Very seamless. You would be surprised at how quick that went. Wow. Yeah. So that's great. Is it kind of like moving a school all the way out, Mr. Jenkins? Yes, very much so. Well, yes. So, one of my students or students at my table commented when Mr. Jenkins came up and he said, "Well, you two look the same age." I said, "No, M." That might be a compliment for me, but not M. He was on my underage soccer team. Last year, last year when I went to buy flowers, they thought I was his mom. So, they said, "Oh, are you Jenkins mom?" And I said, "I am. Do you know him?" Thank you. They didn't
088mean Logan, right? They meant Cord. So, we've decided we could be brother and sister, but I'm not going to be his mother. I think we're really close in age, and that would be really weird. I also attended the band concert last week. It was very good as well. Got to see Amy's daughter play, and everything sounded great. Uh, was very good. Yes, it was very good. Sitting with uh Mrs. you daily invited me to set with her when I came in. So, it was good. One other comment. Sure. With the passing of Kit Bond, former governor and senator, it I need to note that he was the impetus for us to have parents as teachers. And what a great man to do that for us. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. That's true. Any other comments? Tracy
089and I really enjoyed the Chicago program. Uh the the play of course Dr. Dion went to the play. Oh man, it was so entertaining. It was amazing to sit there knowing that the play was taking place when the tornado happened and then seeing it all and then I mean it was just I still get goosebumps thinking about it. But it was just like everything's all coming back together just fitting. So it was very nice. There's a great article that uh the public radio sure baseball is playing their last home game. They start districts um next Wednesday in St. Louis. That's great. So if you want to go now, Logan Jenkins is pitching and there's a choir concert in the auditorium right now. Uh and tomorrow night is um I believe it's the night of drama
090at the high school as well tomorrow evening. Is that like a mystery type? I'm really not sure. I don't know. It was more like a variety type thing. I think they all get to do one act and do different things. Fun. So that is night of drama. Sounds exciting. So, and I will note that our architects and and their spouses were in in attendance at Chicago and enjoyed it very well. I think it was good for their families to see everything what they've worked so hard on come together. Our KN&S project manager was there Saturday night. He was I had I had sent him pro I had sent him tickets as well, so I knew I wasn't sure he came, but I'm glad to hear he was there. That's great. That was awesome. All right.
091Any other comments? If not, can I get a motion to go into close session? I move we go into close session. I'll second. All right. All in. Oh, how do you vote? Yes.