Rolla Board of Education Meeting - April 17th, 2025

001Hey, welcome to our board meeting. Full house tonight. You guys are all here for the election results, right? In closed session tonight, we accepted with regrets retirements of Carolyn Kei, Teresa Helton, and Lisa Miller. Wishing you all the best. We have a few recognitions I have one more supports that and Diane Martin. Sorry, my notes were bad. All right, recognitions. Okay. Uh, number one on the list are mathletes. Students from Raleigh Middle School demonstrated their outstanding talent and mathematical prowess at the Missouri Council of Teachers of Mathematics MCTM competitions, showcasing their dedication and excellence at every stage. On Saturday, February the 22nd, students completed or competed in the MCTM qualifying math competition held at Raleigh Middle School with several advancing to the Southwest Regionals in Springfield on April the 12th. The following students represented Raleigh

002Middle School with distinction. So, oh, you're all coming up. This is good. We'll just wait for you to all get in place. And if you raise your hand up when I call your name, then Mrs. Jenkins will give you your uh document certificate. Jackson Adams, Alexander Bow, Zach Forbes, Katon Carr, Jaylen Shukart, Harper Turnb, Gustafa Aleroa, Corbin Durant, Nathan Hart, Vanessa Loavan, Max Schui, Levi Welch, Mason Bean, Vida Falcone, Reed Lorzuko, Varam Sadi, Elena Smith, and Kaden Wilkinson by Miss Fern. pronounce your name. I apologize. I had no time to practice. At regionals, Ra Middle School competed against 25 schools and 168 competitors with Jason Oh, Jackson Adams, Vanessa Loivven, Jaylen Shukart, Harper Turnb, Max Schwahier, Mason Bean, Alexander Bow, Nathan Hardle, and Kaden Wilkinson. proudly representing their school. Their incredible performances led Raleigh Middle

003School to secure first place overall. A remarkable achievement. Additionally, several students qualified to compete at the state competition in Colombia on May the 10th. Fourth grade, Jackson Adams and Vanessa Lozan. Fifth grade, Max Schwalier. and sixth grade Mason Bean, Alexander Bo, and Nathan Hardle. These accomplishments highlight the commitment of Raleigh Middle School students, guided by the unwavering support of their dedicated sponsors, Crystal Thompson, Brooke Wisdom, Kim Ray, Tracy Hunner, Becca Burell, Tina Tagart, and Jennifer Pippen. Everybody did a fantastic job, and we couldn't be prouder of their hard work and success. Congratulations, Bulldogs. Yes. Miss Thompson, did you want to say anything? I just want to say thank you. You have to go to the microphone. I'm so sorry. Sorry. I'm sorry. I just want to say that while each of these students have displayed

004a dedication, perseverance, and a true passion for math. Um, it's important to also recognize that the successes go beyond their individual triumphs. It's a testament to the collective efforts of our dedicated teachers, parents, and the community who have all supported, nurtured, and encouraged these bright minds throughout their journey. Uh their guidance and belief in the potential of these students have played a vital role in their accomplishments. Um tonight, we come together to recognize these students and celebrate them and uh congratulate their remarkable achievements. Congratulations. Congratulations. I remember those days of going to those competitions. I know. I was a math athlete. Were you a math athlete? I had kids that weren't. I was too. Yeah. Okay. I can do that. All right. Next are the RHS wrestlers. The board of education is honored to recognize

005the remarkable wrestlers at RA High School for their outstanding performance at district and state competitions. Congratulations to the following athletes for their achievements. At 106 pounds, RJ win 26. They haven't come in yet. They haven't come in yet. Oh, wait on it. They're coming. Yeah, I don't. They were in the hallway playing musical chairs. Somebody call the wrestlers in. They're coming. Kendra's Kendra's ushering this way. Only so many can fit through the door at the same time. Exactly. We're going to start over when they get here. Oh, got the stroller going out. Didn't they get Here they come. We'll give them one second to get through the door. I'm going to start over again because they missed the important part here. The board of education is honored to recognize the remarkable wrestlers at Raleigh High

006School for their outstanding performance at district and state competitions. Congratulations to the following athletes for their achievements. At 106 pounds, RJ Win who was 26 and 12 as a [Applause] freshman. At 120 lbs, Carter Libertart 25 and 12 as a freshman. At 132 lbs, Carson Mickham. He was 36 and 15, a three-time state qualifier, a three-time NWA academic all-state, a three-time NWCA scholar all-American, and 10 career wins uh this season. 157bs, Kaden Kinder finished second in the state. He was 50 and five, a single season win record. Fourth on the career pin total, over 150 wins, three times district champion, four times state qualifier, two times state finalist, took first, second, and third at state in his high school career. FZN Kinlock and Branson Champion, three-time MWA academic all-state, fourtime NWCA scholar, all-American At 165

007pounds, Jack Maracowitz, 38 and8 was his he was a two-time state qualifier, twotime MWA academic allstate, twotime NWCA scholar all-American and a Kinlock champion at 100 pounds. Kiier Sederberg. Cedarberg. Cedarberg. 39 and six, three-time state qualifier, 100 career wins this season. Owensville, Null, Jeffersonville, Kinlock, and Hickman champion. Three-time uh MWA academic allstate, threetime NWCA scholar, all-American at 125 pounds. Victoria Willie WY WY. Thank you. 31 and 17, three-time state qualifier. She was also a scholar all-American. Okay. Also a scholar all-American, coach says. Okay. At 155 pounds, Serenity Tilford. She finished fourth in the state, 45 and six with 35 pins, which is a school record. Second all time for boys and girls in career total pins. First female twotime state placer, three-time state qualifier, Owensville, Null, FZN, Jeffersonville, and Hickman champion. Voted no invitational outstanding

008wrestler for the second year in a row. Three-time MWA academic allstate, fourtime in WCA scholar, all-American at 170 pounds, Delaney Miller, 28 and 10. Owensville champion, NWA academic allstate, fourtime NWCA scholar, all-American one at 190 uh pounds. Kaylee uh Regal, 27 and 14, Nol and Kinlock champion, NWA academic all state, three-time NWCA scholar, all-American. These accomplishments are a testament to the strength and excellence of our programs at Raleigh High School, nurtured by the dedication of our talented coaches and supporters. Special thanks to the coaches for their unwavering support and guidance, Marty Hal, Kyle Meyer, Jesse Hullet, Melissa Perkins, Taylor Heinball, and John Saxs. We are incredibly proud of our wrestlers for their hard work and achievements this season. Your dedication, perseverance, and accomplishments have brought immense pride to our school and community. Thank you, coach.

009shot. I'll be okay. Do you want to take a picture? Come on down. Congratulations. [Applause] Congratulations, coach. Yes, you may. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Uh so we want to say thank you to you guys. Um you know it's it's always a privilege and an honor to be recognized by the school board. The work that you guys do is unbelievable. Uh you know we teach reps in our program. That's our goal. So it's relationships, education, passion, servant leadership. Uh we do a million repetitions in the room with the representatives of our program and our school when we go out and when they graduate. Um and that's servant leadership. We're learning that from you guys. and over the last year of of the many things that you guys have dealt with, it's

010it's unbelievable and it's tremendous and so we thank you for your time, your effort, uh we know that it's it's a thankless job sometimes and uh it's a lot of hard work and a lot of emotional toll and so we say thank you to that for that. Um you know these athletes because of what you guys have provided for us with the unbelievable facility uh with this being an Olympic year uh this past year we had several Olympians that have came through the room and worked with us. Our staff's worked with them. Um, we've taken several kids overseas. Uh, a couple kids overseas anyways. We've taken them all across the country. Uh, Serenity was also, uh, an athlete that got to attend the European Championships, more than medals. So, it's more than just the medals

011and the winning. It was, uh, cultural event experience. She's the only American female to be able to do that. Uh, so it's a tremendous honor there. She also earned the NWCA leadership and character award. Um, through that, um, the team, you know, obviously they did well. uh we don't the wins and losses are going to come with it. Um that this group of seniors they had over a 100 wins uh for their career. Uh once again this season we had 28 wins. We were 28 and six. Um so when you look at percentages and those things that you know the kids are doing very very well. We have over 400 in our program to give you an idea. Uh so there's over 400 kids in our program. um the youth club that that works directly

012with us, they just bought a purchased a mat for each elementary school as well so we can continue to grow and that way the PE instructors and everybody else uh you know can have start teaching our sport a little bit more for us. So you know feeding underneath. So uh we just want to say thank you for what you guys do. Truly appreciate your work, your efforts and allowing us to do what we do uh on a daily basis and providing for us. So thank you very much. We appreciate it. Um and let us know there's always projects that we are looking for. So, uh, you know, unfortunately, fortunately, we've had a lot here lately and it's been great. So, thank you guys. Appreciate it. Thank you. Next on the list is a recognition of

013heroic acts for Santiago Salazar and Austin Miller Mroy. The board of education would like to recognize and commend Santiago Salazar and Austin Miller Mroy for their exemplary courage, quick thinking, and commitment to helping others. On February the 20th, these two students showcased extraordinary compassion and community spirit when they heard someone calling for help while offering the shovel snow. Their decision to immediately call 911 ultimately led to the rescue of a resident who had been in critical need of assistance for several days. Their actions not only highlight the importance of being observant and proactive, but also serve as an inspiring example of kindness and bravery for us all. The board is incredibly proud to celebrate their achievements and applauds them for making a life-saving difference in their community. Thank you Santiago and Austin for your heroic

014efforts. You've made Ra proud. [Applause] Next, Alicia Alyssa Goi, fine arts essay winner. Alicia Goshi, vice president of the National Art Honor Society, has achieved an incredibly incredible honor. Her essay has was selected as the Missouri Alliance for Arts Education 9 to 12 grade fine arts essay winner for 2025. The board is delighted to recognize her extraordinary achievement accomplishment which is a testament to her talent and dedication to the arts. On Wednesday, April the 9th, Alyssa was recognized at the state capital rotunda where she had the special opportunity to share a portion of her work during the fine arts education day. Her achievement highlights the importance of artistic expression and advocacy in education, reinforcing the power of student voices in shaping the future of the arts. Alyssa's creativity and passion continue to inspire the school

015community. Congratulations, Alyssa. your commitment to the arts make the last minute. So proud of you. So thank you. Thank you. Okay. Next is Dr. Snitker, Missouri Association of Secondary Principles Midle Principal of the Year. She did. That's great. All right. The board of education is thrilled to celebrate Dr. Corey Snicker, principal of Raleigh Junior High School, for being named the 2025 Missouri Association of Secretary School Principles Midle Principal of the Year. I really don't want to be in the picture, but I got to stay close to my Dr. Snickers's leadership, vision, and unwavering dedication to students and staff embody the very best of education. As Clark Mchon, executive director of uh MOA SSP highlighted, middle school is a pivotal time for growth and development, and it takes an exceptional leader to foster a culture of

016learning and belonging. Dr. Snicker's commitment to excellence has strengthened the Raleigh Junior High community, helping students thrive during this critical stage of their education. To honor this incredible achievement, Dr. Snicker was surprised with a special assembly featuring the RHS drum line, her family, and the entire RJH student body as she was presented with this prestigious award. Congratulations, Dr. Snicker. Your impact on Raleigh Junior High and the entire Raleigh Bulldog community is truly inspiring. You may say some words at the microphone if you would like. Well, I'm going to tell you this is like the third speech that I've had to give about this. And the first one I was totally shocked by uh Dr. Dare and Dr. Fulton because we were going to look at the weight room and we get over there and I'm

017talking about all these things I want to do and then all of a sudden Dr. Dare is gone and he comes back. Well, let's go look at the gym. And I was like, okay, let's go look at the gym. And so we get in there and I'm first upset. I'm like, why are all these kids sitting in here? You know, I just at first glance and then they had a confetti little thing that they shot off at me and then I was so shocked I kind of blacked out a little bit for a few minutes. Um, and so I gave a speech. I think I was I just spoke in quotes. Um, and then I jokingly I told them up at state when I gave my second speech that I spent probably three sleepless nights.

018So I prefer the shocked speech where you kind of black out over the one where you actually have to prepare. So, but I would say right now with this that I just like Marty on told you, I'm deeply grateful for the work that you guys do and the support that you provide us in our buildings. Um, the only thing that I can say is that it is an honor and a privilege to be at Roll Junior High daily and to be around those staff and students. I love them deeply and so I appreciate all the work you guys do. And I, if you notice, you each have a little brown envelope as um schoolboard appreciation month came and went and we didn't have a chance to give those to you because hashtag tornado um and

019so we finally got time to do that and so I hope that you find those envelopes and enjoy your sonic drink. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Item six, Tanner Bistl, the Missouri outstanding beginning teacher. The board is honored to celebrate Tanner Bisttol for being named a Missouri outstanding beginning teacher. The Missouri Outstanding Teach Beginning Teacher Award is presented by the Missouri Association of Colleges for Teacher Education to recognize exceptional first or secondyear teachers across the state. This distinguished uh recognition showcases Tanner's unwavering dedication, passion, and the meaningful impact he has already made in the classroom. As a new educator, he has demonstrated an exceptional commitment to student success, creating engaging learning environments and inspiring those around him. His enthusiasm and hard work set a strong foundation for future generations of learners. Congratulations, uh,

020Tanner. Your dedication to education excellence is truly admirable. We are proud to have you as part of our school community community and look forward to all the great things you will accomplish. [Applause] It's got to be straight. All right. Item seven, the Rala Junior High Stuco. The board of education is proud to recognize Hold on a second. Yeah, they're coming in now. Oh, they're coming in. Come on in. This is the kind of problem to have to have a big enough boardroom to have everybody in here at the same time. I know. This is a good problem to have. We recognize in the front. Okay. No, I'm just kidding. I'm going to start over here. Mrs. I know if you'll raise your hand later. Well, I guess there's no names in here. So, all right.

021The board of education is proud to recognize Raleigh Junior High School Student Council for receiving the Missouri Association of Student Councils Honor Council Gold Award. This prestigious honor presented at the 2025 MASC state convention highlights the council's outstanding commitment to student leadership, school spirit, and community service. Raleigh Junior High School's student council demonstrated exceptional involvement at the local district and state levels, earning recognition among only 66 councils across Missouri that met the rigorous criteria for this award. Their dedication to fostering student engagement, leadership development, and a positive school environment exemplifies the values of Raleigh public schools. The board extends its congratulations to the student council members and their adviserss for this welldeserved recognition. Their hard work and leadership continue to make a lasting impact on our school community. Okay, everybody, you got to center on

022the scoot. [Music] So before you all go sit down, um Ella is going to say a few words on behalf of the state group that went. So, Ella, come on over. Hi, our sugo would like to say a little something before you all leave. Me and seven others of our RGH Stugo had a wonderful chance to go to Missouri Association of Student Council state convention in popler bluff. Miss with Miss Thessen and Miss Webster. While we were there having the time of our lives, a tornado stopped by. I don't think our group would have been okay without these two teachers saying it is going to be okay. Which is why we would like to thank you both by giving the you these t-shirts and a picture signed by all of us that went on the

023trip. So, thank you. [Applause] Where you at when they get done? Oh, that's adorable. In the middle. [Laughter] at the microphone. At the microphone. At the microphone. I know. I'm sorry. They make me get there all the time. You make me do it all the time. Um. You don't want to talk? That's rude. Um, first of all, I am really proud of this group of kids. That's all. We know you work really hard with them and we really appreciate everything you do with our kids. We appreciate that. Yes. You can go. Congratulations. I don't know where I'm going. Thank you. Thank you. I'm thinking you're leaving. I don't know where I'm going. I'm I promise. I got you. Keep leading the way. Good job. Thank you guys. All right. Thank you. Bye. Have a good

024night. So sad. You don't want to stay. You don't want to stay for the bet. We might be a little offended. No. All right. At this time, we will accept questions from the floor. Any person wishing to speak on question, ask any question previously discussed through administrative channels and not on the agenda will be granted three minutes to make a presentation to the board. Please state your name for the record. Any person wishing to speak on any items on the agenda will be granted three minutes to make a presentation. Please state your name for the record. Seeing no one, we will adjourn. N do the election results. I do the election results first. Okay, hold on. Number four. Okay. All right. The board of education had two three-year positions for director. An election was held

025April 8th, 2025. The results for director are presented for acceptance by the board. A motion was made. No. No. No. We have to I'll make a motion to accept the election results as presented. I'll second that. Sorry. All in favor? I I those opposed. Motion passes. Now you're Now I'm adjourning. Yes. Do I need a motion? Yes. I move we adjourn. Motion. I'll second that. All in favor? I. All right. We are adjourned. Okay. So the purpose of the adjournment is to reorganize the board. I would like to take just a moment of personal privilege to uh thank Jessica Baron for her service uh to our students and community. Uh Jessica was unable to be with us this evening, but we do have a plaque uh that we will get to her and um thank

026her personally for her service and we appreciate that. And of course, we want to welcome Mr. Marty as well. Um but we will start with um uh the oath of office. So Mr. Packard and Mr. Marty, if you'll come up and uh Amy is going to minister that. We're going to have you guys stand front and center uh facing Gina here. And tell us if you will raise your right hand. I state your name. I do solemnly swear do solemnly swear domly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Missouri and the Constitution of the State of Missouri and that I will faithfully and impartially and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties

027of school director discharge the duties of school director in the school district in the school district to the best of my ability according to law. to the best of my ability according to law. That's it. [Applause] That is not yours. You're welcome. I don't know what I'm supposed to do with this. To break that up, right? All right. Congratulations to Mr. Packard and Mr. Marty, thank you for being willing to serve. We appreciate uh your volunteering for these uh this process. So, appreciate that. Uh at this time, we will uh uh start the process to elect new officers for the board. So, uh I will open the floor up for nominations for president. I'd like to nominate uh Carla Clayton. Okay. President, we have a nomination for Carla Clayton. Are there any other nominations? Seeing

028none, I will close nominations. All those in favor of Carla Clayton for president, please say I. Any opposed? Same sign. All right. Congratulations, Carla. Welcome to the presidency. And uh at this time then, I will also open the floor up for nominations for presidentelect. I'll nominate Jim Packard. I'll second that. Okay. Have a nomination for Jim Packard. Are there any other nominations? Okay, seeing none, I will close those nominations. All those in favor of Jim Packard for president-elect, please say I. I. Uh, any opposed? Same sign. All right. Congratulations, Mr. Packard. Thank you. And at this time, it is my pleasure to turn this over to Miss Clayton. Get out of the way. I'm sorry. Chairs everywhere. Musical chairs and dances. Sorry, Larry. Pull your microphone down just a bit. There you go. Perfect. It's

029first time. I know. I know. I got to tell you. There's so much to do. That's right. I can't even sign in. Amy will fix it for you. Don't close it. Don't close the top. I remember my email. I couldn't carry it. If that's helpful, that'll get you to Thank you, Dr. D. I don't think they will. I think they're smarter than that. Sorry. Don't look anything. And they give you the And you will need to call me back to order. Okay. Completely different. Little touch. All right. Is everybody ready to go back into open session? Can I get a motion to go into open session? I make a motion to go into open session. I'll second. All right. All in favor? I. Any anybody oppose? All right. So, our next um item of uh

030duty is to make a motion to appoint a treasurer. Do I hear anybody who would like to make a motion? I'll make a motion to uh nominate uh Charlotte. Okay. For treasure. Any other nominations? All right. Seeing none, um can I get a motion then to um appoint Charlotte as treasur? I move we appoint Charlotte as treasur. All right, I'll second that. All in favor? Anybody oppose? All right. Great. All right. Motion carries. Our next item then is to look at the committees that we have. One second. Yeah, we need to do secretary. So, oh, secretary. Just need to Oh, okay. I see. Motion to appoint Amy. I'll make I'll make a motion to to appoint Amy Looper as our board secretary for another year. I second that motion. All right. All in favor? I.

031Anybody oppose? Same sign. All right. You're still in. Awesome. Okay. Now we're ready to move on to our special committees um that we have. So it looks like listed here we have the A+ schools committee and Suya Dailyaly was on that in the past. We never met. So uh would you like to keep that or anybody else? Somebody else with that. Somebody else. Yes. What was it? What school? A plus schools committee. A+ schools. They only meet if there's an appeal. Yeah. Okay. All right. So, Mark cells, take that. All right. Core board. Uh, last time was Charlotte Jameson. All right. So, Suya Daily is okay that I'm doing them all in one list. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Crisis management team. Um, that looks like that's the board president. So, that would be myself and

032president-elect. want to be Jim. So, I'm on there also. So, somebody could be have a spot there. All right. Who would like to join the crisis management team? Anybody? I'll join. I don't Can I? I'm new. Absolutely. The new guy will join. All right, Larry. Perfect. Okay. Our next one is the ESSA title foster care and homeless leazison. Is that Dr. Welch? So, we'll keep you there. We'll continue. Perfect. Then we have the audit committee which we had Tracy Jenkins, Carla Clayton, and Jessica Baron. So we need three individuals. Hopefully join there. All right. So Jim, I think you were on it, Carla, because you were treasur probably. So that would be Charlotte and then who else would like to join? We need a third person for the audit committee. She's Anybody? I'll do it.

033You want to do it? All right. Next, we have the MSBA delegate and alternate, which is usually the board president, president-elect. So, that'll be you and Y Jim and me. All right. And then we have a policy committee. Last time it was Charlotte Jameson and Mark Cells. I I would like to stay on it if that's okay. And then usually we ask our newest board members to be on the policy committee as well. I was just gonna ask a great way to learn. It's a great way to learn all the policy because there's a couple great opportunity. All right. Then we have the residency waiver committee. So Dr. Welch, we'll continue to be on that. I'll stay with that. I will stay also. Okay. We'll keep that the same. And then we have the calendar

034committee and that was uh Mark and Jessica. I'll do calendar committee. I I would stay on that. You want to stay on that one, Mark? So, we'll have Tracy and Mark. And then we had the student representative committee, which last time was myself. Would anyone else like to do that? Go. You want to try? Yeah, I'm happy to. Yeah. Okay. That's a great experience as well. What it is? It's Maria. Maria. This is Larry. Her replacement come the end of the year. All right. So, there is our committee. Did you get all that, Amy? Were you able to get all that list? Perfect. Okay. Moving on then to our We need to accept this. Oh, I'm sorry. Thank you. Can I get a motion then to accept our uh exofacto committee appointments? I'll make a

035motion. I'll second then. Okay. All in favor say I. I. Okay. Anybody oppose? No. All right. Now, we're looking at building assignments. So, um, drawing. We are gonna draw. If you have already been at this building, draw again. Okay. Thank because I think we're trying to mix it up a little bit. Some of us are getting the same one. So, all right. We'll just get up and do lowering on it. Keeps dropping last month. That's a good one. High school. Sue was high school. Okay. Raleigh Junior High. I have had Raleigh Junior High. All right. You probably get a lot of insight from the junior high. Oh, yeah. Raw Mil. I've had them, too. What are these schools? Truman Elementary. Yes. Okay. Okay. See if I get a new one. Nothing. I had that this

036year. Okay. Oh, listen. There you go. Don't redraw it. I don't want to redraw it. Why? Whatever. Whatever. Whatever. My favorite. I mean, not really my favorite. They're all my favorite, but they're all your favorite. They're all my favorite. But I've had my boys. Okay. So, was that Jim RTI? Was that RTI, too? I got the middle school. You got the middle school. Wonderful. You got to leave me one. Uh, that's the one I just had. Okay, we'll switch then. Okay, perfect. What did coach get? Perfect. Mark Twain. Mark Twain. And then I got Mark. Junior High. Awesome. Okay. All right. So, we don't need to make a motion for those, right? No, not for those. Okay. And we've done all of that. Okay. Moving on now to our consent agenda. A consent agenda is

037utilized by the board of 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. 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 the consent agenda are approved in one motion with a minimum of discussion. We do need to call one thing out. Um Miss Clayton, if that's okay. Yes, please. Dr. Do you want to talk through the roofing? I do. And I also want to call out another one too. Okay. So, um, first of all,

038we'll just go with number four,ou with Green Tree. That is due to our move because of the tornado damage. So, I just wanted you to understand that that comes with the tornado damage and that is part of the agreement that we have with them to use the rooms for preschool over there. Number eight is blackjack roofing. So with that, we have sustained damage to this building. The green trim to the parapit and the drip um drip pan, drip drip line, drip drip edge, drip edge. Thank you. I'm getting there. It's all new It's all new language. I'm getting there. Drip edge um was damaged in the storm. If we replace it, we cannot match the green color. So, we're going to have to go with gray. So, we have approval from the insurance company to

039replace the part that was damaged, but it's going to look very awkward with, you know, gray and then everything else being green. So, this is actually due to some storm damage, but is on the district. We would like to note that that is for the to replace this and get this damage replaced as soon as possible, but also make our building match and not look like, you know, weird all the way through town. And the insurance wouldn't cover that because of the continuous nature of it. They only cover we have replacement damage. It's not for betterment. So they would they are authorized 31 or $32,000 just for the damage portion. And then the remainder would be on the remainder is on us. [Music] Any other items? Nope. Nope. All right. Then can I get a

040motion to accept the consent of uh consent agenda A through E? I move that we accept uh the consent agenda A through E as presented. I second that. All right. All in favor? I I Anybody oppose? Mrs. Clayton. I'll be abstaining on that vote, please. Oh, okay. All right. Moving on now to old business. We have Dr. Fulton to present to us an update on the long range facility plan. Oh, you get me for the next. I see that Dr. Bolton shows thank you a little busy tonight. I have four of these this evening. So would like to um update you on our u all of our 2020 and 2023 projects that we have had going moving forward. So would like to remind you this is the rendering of the auditorium and I hope for

041what you're going to see in a few minutes will please you. So, the FLL panels are in. They have some blue on them, so don't freak out. It's being held up there, but here we go. Gina takes a better picture of the curtains than what Monica does. So, note that you are seeing the curtains in a better light. Also, note that in there in the bottom, that is the um items being there for Chicago. Chicago will be held in the auditorium um May 9 and May 10. So, very excited about that. I have to get the lights commissioned, but there. So, um, very exciting. As we move forward, notice the brown around the precinium, around the stage, but there it is. Wow. The FLL panels are in. So good. And installed. If you got a

042little closer, you'd see some blue tape holding them up there, but that's to hold the glue up and for them to set. It's very, very impressive. Great. Very nice. Just as another view for you, just coming from the stage out. Gina went and took pictures. So, really appreciate that. Her pictures are much better than my phone's pictures. And look at the entryway. So, this is in what used to be the alley off of 10th Street looking into the auditorium. That was drywall last time you saw it. So, look at how different that looks. And again, you can see the blue tape here where it is holding up because those um efall panels were glued in. So, it just looks so different. really excited about that. What's left to do? Well, completionist and front pieces in

043the hallway and commissioning the lighting. So, um there is a four pieces that need to be ordered that are that um we've asked them to do so we can get all of our lighting to work. There has been a one our lighting lights in the auditorium are overriding in some relays because they're wireless some of the lighting and the commissioning. So, they have ordered those pieces. I've told them today again, we have to have this. Chicago is going on and we've got to have the lights and all that working. So, KN&S has assured me that that is going and all that jazz and all that jazz all that jazz jazz hands, right? Um and then Honer will be here tomorrow for the final punch list. So, it is it's exciting times that we are finally

044here. would like to update you on our Phelps County Community Education Foundation um early childhood center. So, planning is moving forward um aka PCCF ECC just for you. Um probably end up going with the ECC early childhood center soon, but um we met with Honer and Associates on Monday and then we are meeting with the early childhood staff again to receive input on a preliminary set of drawings that we are working on with them. So, planning is moving forward. All exciting times. We have been talking to you a lot about over the last few months over the um athletic field updates. Received the last bit of information this morning. Um as you know, we are going to have to replace the turf at the football field and to fix the damage that is coming down

045on the edge of the bleachers on that wall and that retaining wall that is there. So, as of right now, they're working on the RFP right now. first proposed date or the proposed date that we issue it will be mid July with work not starting until November. That's because we have to get through football season and then the estimated completion date of April of 2026. So keep watching. I will give more information as we move forward. Just as a reminder that we completed all of our districtwide lighting upgrades. We took all of our lights inside and out and moved them to LED. That was completed um in January of 2025. it was completed on time and within budget. Security film is the W is the film that we put on the windows for um it

046is not u ballistic film but it does delay any intruder coming in. All of that was completed at the end of February 2025. I will point out in some of the presentations later it did its job especially when we had some window damage u at Mark Twain. It did its job. We're We did it for the purpose of, you know, thinking of an intruder, but when things fell on our windows, those pieces that were above 8 foot, because when we went 8 foot and below, above 8 foot actually broke out. Everything down below, it held it in place. So, we may come back to you and ask to play. I'm going to get a quote. I would probably like to go all the way up with it at some point. In the case of a

047storm, if kids were in our building, it would be a good idea. So, I'll be coming back to you with some recommendations before long. HVAC upgrades. Um, if you remember, it was completed in August of 2024 on time and within budget. Um, that has all changed. Um, just saying thanks to the tornado. We'll talk about that in a little bit. We also put a brand new chiller in um with a 23 2023 bond at Mark Twain. It sustained a bit of damage. It's we're working on it though. And then um that we replaced two two units here on our building as well installed in in November of 2024. still moving forward with all of that. Questions about the long range facility update. Okay. All right. Moving on now to the storm recovery update. And I'm

048going to apologize in advance. This one is quite long, but I last time we updated you in our meeting, it was just right after the tornado. And it re we really didn't have a lot of power. We didn't have a lot of time to prepare things for you. So, we're going to go back a little bit and look at some pictures and just talk about really what happened and you know where we've been and where we're going because until I did this I told Dr. D I didn't realize we've made enough a lot of progress but I am also going to say that in that Raleigh schools has a fabulous team. This could not have been done alone. By the time you add in our fabulous staff, our custodial staff, our maintenance staff, our teachers,

049they are the ones that pitched in and made all of this work ha happen and come to fruition. And on top of that, our community, they stepped up really big. We're going to come back and ask for their help again this summer because we have to get teachers back to some rooms and some buildings. But just know that without them we could not have done what we have what we did and all of the the plans that we can sit and dream up and in the dark some days. I mean literally it was just dark in the room when we were sitting there planning. So as with that we're going to talk about the disc about our uh recovery plan. So, the um properties that were impacted by the tornado, Mark Twain, Wyman Middle School,

050the softball softball complex, and our track, one piece of the track, REA technical center, transportation and maintenance. What did we do? Well, Dr. Deer was at the middle school when the tornado hit. Um, what did we do on Saturday? He was he responded to every building that night. Um, and I know and I know Dr. Welch did too. I was out of town and I was talking to them on the phone driving home um with my granddaughter eating all the sugar in the world. My son didn't appreciate by the time I got back to Wayneville that night. Kind of a little bit of fun, a little bit of paybacks there. Um we immediately met Saturday morning and we toured all of the sites and we looked at everything. We took pictures. Um we met and

051we created a plan. I'm sure that wasn't the plan we come up with in the end, but we got some really good ideas. We contacted our music, our insurance company, as well as the architects and structural engineers. After touring the buildings, we knew we needed them, and they were so gracious to meet us. On Sunday, we had three, four structural engineers show up. We had three from Archer Elgen and one from Honer and Associates as well as our architect Melissa at that point. And Mark, he was he was out of town, but he was contacting us as well. We toured all of the sites. They were there to assure and tell us what we needed to know. Could we have school? Could we not have school? What things were safe and not safe to help

052us create a plan? And this response has been ongoing. Question so far. Okay. Um I did not know we could have so many consultants, but I think we have consultants for our consultants. So let me start with this. Music is the Missouri United School Insurance Consortium. Um that is our insurance company that we deal with. They also um work with Gallagher Basset. So with that, we have an adjuster and Shane and I are becoming very very close. We talk a lot these days and so does so does Kendra. Um with that we hired a mitigation team which was first on site that was recommended by our insurance company to use. They were very good. And in order for us to get reinsurance, we have consultants on roofing, HVAC, a building consultant literally looking at the

053structural structure of our buildings as well as JS Held who deals with everything but roofing. So I deal with all of them almost daily as well. So we have consultants for our consultants. I'm going to start off tonight with Mark Twain Elementary. I know many of you have seen this picture and saw it on social media. That was the cafeteria. Um, when the tornado came through, it ripped the top off and those pictures are the inside of the cafeteria at that time. And while many people think because of this damage, this was our worst hit buildings. It was not. It was just this corner of the building. So, if you look in the um in the back right in here where I'm pointing the pointer, that is the stage area. And so that area also

054held two classrooms. This area is our stage and we did lose those two classrooms of items unsafe to get in there. And then when I talk about the windows, you can see here we have one that our maintenance team boarded up. All of these windows right here held. Um that was with the window film. All of these above did not. Those are the ones that broke out. But these are here. This damage is from trampolines if I remember correctly. Right, Dr. Dar? Yep. You picked up 27 trampoline springs. I don't know. I have a little collection if any. Everywhere we went, there was a trampoline spring, but that's where that's where the damage came from. So, this is inside one of the classrooms where they had boarded up the window at that time. Um, that

055is just a little bit of what Mark Twain looked like. In those windows, in those rooms where the windows broke, there was glass everywhere. Thankful to for our team, but as well as First On-site who came in and helped clean up. Our staff did as well. They wiped everything down. They cleaned everything. It looked like a school by the time we got ready to go. This is the section of roof that was damaged. If you look at the big section in all red and this part, this is the part of the building that we lost because we tore down the cafeteria and the kitchen and the custodial area right in there. All of that is now demolished. This part here is of the roofing that we are going back and repairing. Not structurally. It's not

056hurting anything structurally. It we just had a had a little bit to fix in there. Waiting on that quote to come in. We're waiting on an I I'll explain. We're waiting on IR scan. Okay. So, of the damage, we had eight classrooms with window damage. Three need the windows entirely replaced. We lost the cafeteria, the kitchen, the custodial office, and the stage area, including our kitchen equipment. We had some roof damage. That chiller I told you was brand new. Has not even been hooked up yet. It sustained a couple bricks in the area that it hit, which was on the compressors. Luckily, it was insulated with a some type of a of a covering and it protected it. So, we are actually able to use that right now. Has been cleared for us to use.

057We did lose all of our breakfast and lunch food for the week. That's what we keep in our freezers because of the power being out and as well as some finch damage. Not a lot there. How have we responded? as well as our staff responding and cleaning. And I think you saw a picture of Dr. Dare cleaning. That was at Mark Twain, by the way. Um, and I would like to say thanks to him and Kendra and Mandy and Kendra's husband. We were all there cleaning that morning waiting on everybody to show up because we didn't know what else to do. We were just we needed to be busy. So, um, it was a team effort. We did hire the mitigation team who came in and cleaned up the grounds as well as all of

058our community members that came in came in and cleaned up the grounds. that team from the m mitigation team was trained in what to pick up and what to look for. They went above and beyond. We also brought in desicant air. So that is a a fancy dehumidifier that was running through the building as well as hepailtered air. So we had big hepailter machines running in the hallways as well. Um we boarded up the windows and they insulated them and put drywall and they're very well decorated if you haven't been to Mark Twain. um in 2011, 203 and 205 and maintenance replaced the broken window pieces in the other rooms as well. The chiller was inspected and we were able to continue installation. They are still doing that as we speak. We did relocate two

059classrooms that were on the stage in title and one special education classroom because that was right off of that caf off of that kitchen area, off of that cafeteria area. Plans are underway for the window replacement in the summer of 2025. I do have some quotes coming in, but we're also going to go back and look at if we replace some windows. Those were 1956 windows. So, we're going to look at the possibility of upgrading those. We have to. We can't replace those with 1955 items. So, we're going to look at that. Just keep in watching for more information with that as we move forward. Working with Honer and Associates on that as well. We are working with the adjuster um regarding the rebuilding of the cafeteria and working on planning already with Honer and

060Associates. I would like to point out the timeline for replacement of that cafeteria could be 18 to 24 months. Greyco is our roofing consultant. So you will see Greyco roofing evaluations all the way through this. They are they are very big um to make sure that not only for reinsurance but we're putting in the right materials. They did an IR scan and correct me if I'm wrong, but the IR scan they have to they have to come in and wait for a very dry day and bring in and they scan the roof for any wet materials up there. So, we're waiting on that report to come back. Yes. And so, we're waiting on that report. They did that last week. We are waiting on a fencing quote. And just so you know, our students are

061still receiving their regular lunch. Christy Craft, our um food service director, and her staff has went above and beyond in cleaning things up and being prepared. We are cooking our food in other kitchens, and we transport it in um and I know they're going to be certain bags, but we got the bags to keep all the food at temperature and it is served in the steam table, the um gym cafety or gym cafe. So, um, but our kids are eating lunch there. Um, they we put tables down where they've rearranged their schedule for specials. They are making it work. They have that staff has gone above and beyond. Wow. Yes. We're also building a new kitchen. Yes. Cafeteria and kitchen. All of that involved in one. It'll all be there together. It's an exciting time

062for that. Okay. Wyman. As you will see at Wyman, this is the front of the building and that was taken that taken that morning. As you noticed, um the roof sustained the biggest amount of damage there. Notice that um all of the sophet edges are gone there. This is the inside of Wyman School. When we we really thought just like everybody else that Mark Twain might be our problem, we were prepared to move them and then we walked into into Wyman School. um very shocked by what we saw and what was there. This is another view of the hallways and though we have not this is all one whenever we walk in pictures of the downtown tile of the wet that has come through and this was what of one of the classrooms looked like.

063I would give kudos to the custodial crew from Wyman. They came in even before we brought in our mitigation team and had a lot of this cleaned up in advance of us bringing our teachers back to come in and help with this move. They did an amazing job outside of Wyman. This is on the back side. The yellow pipe here and here is our gas line. It rolled off the building with the force of the tornado. It also laid all of the U membrane back there and it rolled a lot of it up like a burrito and collected it right here. A few pictures from on top. Um, you know, you know I climb on roofs. I took some pictures up there. Um, we had Mandy up there with us. It was great. She was

064a trooper. She went with us and we were all on those roofs together. I'm like, see the fun I get to have? Um, so as you see as it rolled and took out a lot of the layers of all of the roofing all the way down to the tectum, which is a spaghetti like material in the ceiling. See, I'm learning. It looks like spaghetti up there. It is an insulation. That's the roof deck. That is the roof deck. It took it. At one point, we are going to have to go back with some metal decking in this in this building as well. So, we again are waiting on that IR scan to come back in. If you look right here, it pulled the expansion joint up out of the out of the roofing as well.

065If you look back here, it's a little hard to see, but this is the um that fence is damaged as well as all the debris on the playground in the back. Graco gave us this gave us this after their um roof analysis. This is the piece that was immediately um temporared in all of this right here. It's amazing what can happen in about 24 hours before the next rain comes in. But all of this section of the roof. So you're looking at the second grade wing, the cafeteria, and the kitchen area will have to go out to bid to be replaced as well. Right now we have we're we are getting approval to start work on this very very soon. So, damage 20 classrooms with water damage affecting ceilings, floor tile, lighting, and casework. Casework

066will be all of the wood items in the room. Um, two storage and workroom areas, two sheds outside the playgrounds, ECSE and K3, um, playground, fencing around the playground, and I'm saying approximately 80% of that roof. Uh, the gas line, and that gas line runs from one end to the other. has to run the kitchen as well as the loss of breakfast and lunch food items for the week recovery efforts there. Again, shout out to Bill and the custodial crew from Wyman and their work. I will also like to point out that um our interim principal, Mrs. Hayes and our new principal um Mrs. Mrs. Heftlin were both on site that night of the tornado and they have they have been there and been a great help as well. So again, we've had mitigation with

067a temporary roof. Um that that mitigation company came in, they ran the desk and air, the hepailter, they wiped everything down. They removed all of the damaged casework, lighting, flooring. Now, whenever I say lighting in all of these in this incident, all of our brand new lights, took on water, they are going to have to be replaced in those certain rooms as well. They will be replaced with light fixtures just like them. Again, our roof is analyzed by Greyco, um, which we have that initial report, but we did request the IR scan waiting on that report. And so, we will receive finalized quotes for roofing replacement based on that IR report as we move forward. Bids will be taken for what I'm calling that northwest wing, which is the second grade wing and the cafeteria

068roof and kitchen. And we are we do have a quote for restoring those classroom areas and that case working on approval from the company to do that. And fencing quotes have been requested. The fencing company hasn't had time to get with us yet. So, you're going to see that over and over. Questions about Wyman? Just in grouping in general, if they said anything about requiring fireproof material between So, instead of one, I know we're going with what they call a poly iso. I can't remember that entire, but we're going to they are requiring us to go with a poly iso, which is more uh fire, which is that fire layer that goes in between. There's usually something in between. Sometimes they have Yeah. Poly. It includes they got that in that in it's in that

069poly in that poly iso. Yeah. It's on top of the decking between it and correct the fire barrier. Okay. Yes. Did they have to take the fencing down behind Wyman or is it We have not. Some of it was taken down for us. Yeah. Super helpful. What What is the idea for Wyman's time frame? rethinking that our kids will be able to be back in the school in August. We are. Again, we are also planning backwards. So, we're going with the date and I'll talk about that in a little bit. This is our this is our date and we're working backwards with all of those things. I know that's been a question. Absolutely. That is right now that is our plan to be back there. So, once the roof gets on and that's just a

070couple week progress, then we should be able to move forward with the rest of the things. Ra Middle School The picture on the left is hard to see, but we had no power. So, if what you do see up top is the wet ceiling tiles in the hallway. There's also water in the hall. And this is one of the classrooms. This part over here is standing water in that as well. We're just going to go straight to the roof because here 17 units, 18 were damaged. The entire gas line was compromised, but 17 units were removed from the roof. And so they left 3x3 skylights. So everywhere that you see this, there was an air conditioning unit. It tossed them. It rolled the membrane membrane back. Again, the yellow line up there is the gas

071line as well. I would like to point out that is a large group of air conditioning units. this unit. We waited on those. I know. Oh my gosh. I know. Correct. And to order them is a 12-week lead time and they are not arguing with us. It is 12 weeks for us to get them in. So, it will be fast and furious. We have asked that they be ordered. They came just came and the consultants were here yesterday to do a the last look at them as well. They were finally up on the roof with our HVAC company. Going back to this unit right here, you can't see it very well, but this gas line was not broke off. And correct me if I'm wrong, Dr. Dr. Dar, but that gas line right there was

072still intact. This all of the um wiring is with it. It unscrewed from that gas line right there. Wow. Just a weird anomaly. Just thought I would point that out. This is not indicative of all of the units on the top, but again, the section of the roof that is under construction as we speak is right here. We've already received approval and they have begun construction doing this part right here. We did lose two of the three units on the auditorium as well as several down here at sixth grade and over the uh kitchen and the um music room area. So, 11 classrooms with water damage, ceilings, lights, casework, tile, flooring. 17 um units were destroyed and damaged. One is damaged. It was still on the roof. It is in a connection. It should be

073usable. Um the natural gas line was impaired over the entire building. It um thanks to Patrick and they immediately got it repaired so we could cook food there again. So, but that will have to be redone this summer. Again, the roof damage in the auditorium, um it was just the stage dressing room area of the girls area that was damaged. We pulled that ceiling out of there. We did lose all of our breakfast and lunch food for the week there as well. Recovery efforts. U Mrs. Davis um went above and beyond in getting people in there and getting things cleaned up and helping assess the damage as well as her custodial crew. Um the fifth grade area because that section that was there, we decided to move the entire fifth grade out. They are in

074this building. There are two classrooms in this room right now whenever we're not here. So, they have done a great job getting over here. Again, temporary roof, removal of the water, damaged islands, ceiling tiles, lighting, floor case work, cleaning of the items in that area. Even the things that were left in there, they the mitigation company came in and wiped off and cleaned. We ran the descant air. We ran hepailter air. Since then, we've had se we've had rain. So, they come back and they rerun all of the heaters and they keep movers. They have also given us temporary AC installed. We have temporary units sitting in the middle of the hallway because that very back hallway lost all of their units to run that. They they were very worried the kids were going to

075touch it. They've done a great job. So, we're very pleased by that. Again, Graco analyzed our roof. Um that work that roofing quote was done thanks to Patrick's quick work and it has been approved and that one is underway and should be done in two weeks. Question for you. Yes. on that with all the units that are not on the roof. How about your controls for the building? Your building HBAC controls. Correct. We have a quote for that work as well and we've sent that off. I haven't heard anything. So, we're waiting on that piece as well. EPM is going to have quite a bit of work to um get all those up and running again. All right. So, on middle school, same as Wyman. My first question that I get when I'm out somewhere

076is about Wyman. And then my second question is middle school is is are you thinking that all of our classes will be able to be back at middle school for once that roof is on then we can move forward with with everything else and that roof will be on in two weeks. Wow. Gives us a bit of a lead time. I will say it is 12-week lead time on those HVAC units. Um Patrick has done a great job getting in touch with the company that we purchased them for. They have actually been here as well as well as Butzer. And again the last report from our consultants is due in. I'll probably get it by Monday. And let me clarify there, we are not planning on moving anybody back this school year, right? We've had

077enough disruption. We're going to stay where we are and finish the year, but we do anticipate being back in Wyman and Middle School for August. August. And that's all coming up here in our working backwards plan. Okay. Softball and track complex. So that is the softball press box, concession stand, bathrooms on the left. On the right, that little box right there is our sound system. We did salvage the controls for the lights. Um the lighting company from Musco is going to be coming in to analyze the lighting for the softball field. We have to get them looked at as well. Um, we it bent the fence over. If you notice those poles, where's one pole lone pole standing? Everything else is laid down. Those are bleachers. Those are bleachers. There are bleachers over here. It

078kind of wiped us out. So, with that, we are working with the city to hold softball practice with them this coming fall. So, that work is already underway as well. Again, fencing, bleachers, press box, concession stand. Um the high jump pad was damaged at the track. That is the only thing that was damaged there. I have a quote for that. We'll get that ordered. In the meantime, things are still progressing there. So, and they're still able to do practices there for track season. Absolutely. Yes. Our track is they said was fine. Transportation and maintenance. I'd like to do a shout out to um to Hank Harper and Leo Clark, our transportation director. So, when all of this happened that night, I called Hank and sent him up looking to see how bad our buses were

079hit. I know if the middle school was hit, um, we actually got pretty lucky there with that. But I will tell you that this is some of the fencing in the back. Those are our band trailers. Um, you can see that the fencing in that area took a big hit. There are the band trailers. Again, I'm waiting on the final report, but I don't think it's going to be great. There, this picture right here is where whenever those p power poles bent over and it pulled our power from the building. Thank you to RMU and to um Justin who is our electrician that works for our maintenance department. They got this up and running finally. So great. And thanks to Leo and Hank for being our shoppers. And I knew I knew better than to

080give lots of people credit cards. So I just gave it to one person and two people and sent them out for all of the things that we needed immediately. They helped us with our move. They did a great job. So there our transportation building, the roof had minor damage. The electrical though was the biggest part. Bay door was damaged. It has since been replaced. Fence damage, bus damage. This is the miraculous part. One windshield and one back window. That's it. I can't believe it's so remarkable. It is. It's great. And so, um, our bus mechanics actually kept working without power over there and kept going. They had, and we'll bringing them in next month, but they had a 100%, um, inspection rate on the buses for the week after this. They did a great job.

081That's great. They they worked miracles. Maintenance. We have um two buildings out back that both of them need their roofs replaced. We already have quotes and that work will start soon. It has been approved. Electrical issues. Justin has taken care of that. The tree damage, fence damage. The vehicles, the band box truck, the van trailer, and the maintenance trailer are probably total losses. So, we're waiting on that report to come in. RTC, which we've talked a little bit about this building, the parapit and the drip edge because we talked about that a few minutes ago. Other damage across the district, RTI had food damage due to the loss of electricity and culinary arts supermarket careers FFA with minimal roof damage. Um, junior high, high school, and Truman, no notable damage. Personal items. So, everyone asked,

082you know, what about the teachers personal items? Our insurance will cover up to $1,000 of reimbursement, but that item must be pertinent to the position they hold in the district. And the employee has to purchase those items and turn in the receipt. Am I correct? Got it. But I want to say thank you to the core and our community members who have gracious graciously donated to help teachers replace their personal items not covered by insurance. So that process is in in place as well. Our community and our core core me core board have done an amazing job with that. How are we? Huh? I'm sorry. Do you know what's going to happen with Wyman PTO's supplies? Have no idea yet, but we'll get there. Okay, we'll figure it out. It's on our list of inventories.

083Every And just so you know, I have to go through all the inventory sheets. Every teacher has one, so give me time. We're We're getting there. So, we're still collecting things and going through. Okay. Um, we are going to plan with the end in mind. I say August 4th. We'd like it, but before then, but August 4th is when most of our support staff returns for the nine-month positions, our secretaries, although our principles will be there the whole time. We are planning to move with fifth grade and all of Wyman back to their buildings um sometime over the summer, not before school's out, but we are going to actually need more help from our community at that point to that was a wellfined oil machine to get them there. I need that same response coming

084back. I couldn't believe it when she called and said we're moved and we're like where and it was done and it was great. And so that was amazing because while Dr. Dar Mandy took care of those pieces, Dr. Welch, I was meeting with the adjusters and doing all those background pieces. Um, and then I meet with the adjuster weekly or on an on call basis and so does Kendra. Um, I meet with all of the consultants a lot and so um, and we have administrative team. We have regular meetings. you know, all of us as far as just administrative team, we meet regularly and continue with those plans. So, we will continue to update you. I'm sorry this was so long, but we needed to go all the way back to where we were to

085where we are now. And again, it was because of this great staff and this great team that we have made the progress we made. And I just want to say thank you to everyone for their work and their efforts in that. And I'll be honest, and I know he doesn't want to hear it, that the mind of Dr. Dar is amazing. And so watching him work and put things together and I know he has experience, but I'm I I was swimming going, "Oh, okay. All right. Here we go." Never made so many spare the moment decisions that were tied to a lot of money, but I did. I called him one time. I'm like, "I have to approve this. It's a lot of money." Well, Dr. Dear, Dr. Welch, Dr. Falton. All three of you

086guys just really stepped up and I I loved watching not just how your mind works, but uh but how you trusted the rest of the admin team as well. Um you know, the Josh Smiths and the Don Lunas of the of the district. There's lots of people we could mention. Absolutely. Um who just took you took the little bit that you gave them and ran with it and made it happen. So, uh you you have put together an amazing team and you guys have been amazing leaders of that team. Thank you. It it took you so long. It was remarkable. Appreciate everything. Watching them all load everything up at Wyman that morning was just like it was it was Sergeant. I wish we had video of that. You should have had video. It should have

087been like a time lapse video because it was like they were yelling for a teacher to come to this room and like two seconds later everything in the room would be gone and they were just marching and moving everything out. It stays here goes to the basement. Where does it go? How do I get to the basement? I was like, "Oh my gosh, this is crazy." But it it worked. It was fast and it worked. It worked. I will tell you, I'm thankful for Dr. Welch because she's the only one that had a little bit of power and the internet. So, we had that was our office and that was where we had that's where we commanded. So, she fed us even and she fed us. That's right. I mean, her husband went out and

088got us got got the pizza, got the food, made sure we had what we needed because neither one of us had any power. So, I just want to say thank you to everyone and thank you for your support as well. would like to offer um I know we took the board on a tour um somewhere in there uh one of those days. Uh but if any of you would like to go through now um and see um the cleaned up damage, I guess uh before they get in there, uh we're very willing to do that. We can propose some dates to you and and get that set up if you're interested. I see some head shaking. Is there still any any areas like at the middle school or Wyman that still needs trees and stuff

089cleaned up and debris or is it all pretty The ditch area is still pretty gross. Um there is just just all the way back in through that back area is still quite um there's some at Wyman. The back end of Wyman still has some stuff and but even here across the street there's still some stuff in there up in the Mark Twain um outdoor classroom too. So yeah, there's still a little bit of that and we can get with Patrick to find out exactly where those are because we're gonna have to work on that most of the summer. Yeah. So yes. Yeah. Well, I know there's a lot of people that were volunteering and helping with that. So there is Carlo we found way down off of the hill at Wyman. Our totes from the

090Christmas stuff with the little Christmas signs and where to go enter through here. Our handwriting on everything. Oh yeah. I mean like way I didn't even know it was still our property. Way down there. Mhm. I found some custodial supplies out there, too. So, sure did. And part of the roof was way down there. It was way down there. Absolutely. Okay. Any questions in regards to what we're undergoing and where where we're going? We will continue to update you every few weeks about the progress we've made and going from there. I did tell Dr. Dar today that wow, we have done a lot in, you know, 33 days. So, you have. It's amazing. Yes. Sometimes you don't think about that till you sit down and and go through all of that. It's like, oh my.

091So, but I would also like to shout out to, you know, to everyone again. Thank you for our entire community and our staff. They did the work. We are very blessed. They're awesome. Yes, we are. Okay. Very blessed. We have a great great community. We really do. Okay. Is it my turn again? It is. Okay. Are we Did I not share it with you? Oh my goodness. Okay. So, I'll just talk about real quick. That's fine. um climate and culture. The survey went live this week, little bit after what we were planning because we were planning right before spring break and then there was a tornado. Um so we uh Gina has so kindly um sent all of the survey information out. The staff will take it on next Monday during their PD day. It

092will be open through May, hold on, I have it here, May 16th. And um we have added a K3 link as I told you before. It is awesome because in that link the K3 kids there are eight questions. All of them are tied to themes but in the eight questions they have the same liker scale but they have happy faces to answer with and little faces. So um again I would like to point out that this survey is confidential not anonymous. It is being housed and ran for us. All the data collection is through Qualrixs and so staff may bulk but they do have to log in with their email and that gets them to the right survey. We do not see who answered what questions. I do not have access to that information at

093all. So um there is one question on the student link asking them to talk about their favorite teacher as a positive. That information will come back to us in a spreadsheet with no names on it whatsoever. We will not know who does what, but we will be sharing that information back with those teachers whenever we get it. body gone out to some has okay because I got a a parent ask one of the questions was asking about their school building and one was a Mark Twain student and their other student was a Wyman student. It was they were like we're not really sure how to answer that question right now but for the most part we really love it. Okay, that's good. It was very good. I I appreciate that. So um we did take

094some of those questions as we talked about and we instead of 48 questions for the staff I think they have like 24. It will not take them 35 minutes. It will take them 10 to 15 at the most. Every question is under a theme. You will get the data back in a data dashboard that will go live and public um as soon as we get everything back and they do all of their magic at Qualric and we will be sharing that with everyone involved and the team as well. So, okay, questions about that. Okay, I'm done for now. Thank you, Dr. Folton. Thank you. Great. All right, moving on now to new business. We have Mrs. Atkinson to come talk to us about the 206 salary schedule. Okay, I want to start this evening by

095kind of going over just recapping things that we have discussed in previous meetings that are salary and benefits related. So, brief overview of the health insurance fund. Again, we are have a self-funded plan. So, we have a fund balance of $5.7 million as of March 31st. Um, that those funds are used to pay our claims. Okay. So, there's a very healthy balance. We have experienced a decrease of just under $200,000 since October 1st. That was very planned. I actually was thinking it would be more than that. Um, if you remember two years ago, we decreased premiums by 10%. This year by 15%. So, we still have a really healthy uh fund balance there. At this point, I am not anticipating making any changes to the premiums or the plan structures for um next year's plan.

096We're only about six months in. So, we'll come to you again in July uh with an updated some updated information and ask for your approval to uh to approve those premiums. So, to be continued on that, but I don't anticipate making any any changes. And then um staff that you have previously approved and administrator, support staff, certified staff. I was noticing this evening. I'll have to revisit that on our list. Um I think there's more than one staff that we're not replacing because of classroom sizes. So I didn't c capture that here. Also, this happened during um our work session that we had in January, but you approved us to go ahead and pay up to 40 hours of comp time for our 12 month support staff in August because we are restructuring our our

097pay calendar so that we can start paying two weeks in a rears instead of one. So, that is also going to be built into the budget for fiscal year 26. So, all of those changes have already been approved and uh right now it's a net of about $383,000. Okay. So, moving on to new things. So, certificated staff proposal for salaries for next year. Of course, we're proposing movement on the schedule for years of service and then a 2% increase to the base. That would bring our base up to 41706. It's currently at 40,888. That comes at a cost of about $864,000. Uh if you look at our salary survey that Dr. Fton and her staff have taken on, that's that survey that used to be called the the Camden salary survey. It surveys about 25

098school districts across the state, mostly in our area. And so we kind of look at our rankings there. We're currently ranked at number 19 for step one. This would bring us up to step or to a ranking of number 14. However, keep in mind, of course, this is for current year data. All these other districts are also going to be changing their salary schedules. So, uh we'll we'll know more how we how we rank for next year in like what January, something like that when we do that survey again. For support staff, we're also going to propose movement on the schedule uh for years of service and then a 2% increase to that base. Our schedule that is the lowest hourly rate is currently at 1556. That would bump that to 1587 per hour and

099those are our food service workers and custodians and pair of professionals. Okay, that cost is for $483,500. I do want to point out the movement and um base increase averages about three and a quarter% pay increase. Again, that's average. Okay. Excuse me. Other things we're looking at or that we're proposing this evening is an increase to our substitute pay to $125 a day from 110. We're still short on substitute teachers, so we're hoping that this will um help us out there. Also increasing our long-term substitute pay to 147 a day. We're currently at 133 per day. And I want to clarify that's for a substitute without a teaching certificate. It's already if you have a teaching certificate and you've subbed for uh more than 10 consecutive days, you're paid at the base salary rate, that

100daily rate. So that will continue. Also, trip driver pay is currently $18 an hour and so we're proposing to increase that to $20 an hour and those things combine for about 95,000. And then extra duty salary schedule. Uh we are wanting to add a high school assistant boy soccer coach and an assistant speech and debate coach. Both of those are due to the numbers of participants in those activities. And then looking at the schedule, we're running to move the head softball and assistant softball coaches up one level. That would put them equal to where our baseball coaches are. Those are very comparable activities. So we've spoken with uh Mr. Cabo about that and he is in agreement. there's really no difference between participation, number of games, and all that. So, we're just making those more

101equitable. Um, those are very small ask those are total about $10,640 for for those. So, all told the salary schedule proposals are about $1.4 million. So going on to look at some revenue considerations for fiscal year 26. So high level foundation formula and recap that is our state foundation formula. That's about 35% or so of our total operating revenue. The uh figures that we you'll see on the next slide are budgeting at a flat um state adequacy target of 6760. Even though it's supposed to be increased to 7145, I am cautiously optimistic we're going to get there. There's been some some talk at the legislative level about putting that funding back in. We'll see what the governor approves. if it is um put back in and we're fully funded, it's an additional 1.5 million over

102what you'll see on the next slide. Also, transportation is budgeted to be fully funded. That's what they promised us. I put that here that it's a consideration because it is a categorical in the state education budget. And so, it is a very easy, it's low hanging fruit for them to cut if state revenues do not come in. And by fully funding, I mean that's 75% of this year's actual expenditures reimbured next year. Okay. Local revenue, it is a reassessment year. So it will come back to you in August with the tax rate hearing to set our tax rate for the year. Um I'm budgeting for about 270,000 increase to that. We are capped at 2.9% growth regardless of how much assessed valuation increases and all that because of the Hancock amendment. also a further roll

103back because we have to use a Prop Cy roll back and our Propscy revenues continue to come in higher each and every year which means that roll back amount that just is completely it's just a rate that's deducted right off our tax rate calculation continues to increase. So I anticipating only realizing about 270,000 in additional revenue from from local sources. uh school calendar incentive. We're waiting. I I'm not budgeting for that. If it goes through and passes uh for to be kind of amended, that law that they passed last year to incentivize school districts to have a 169day school calendar, which we do right now, I believe there's no provision for inclement weather days that we don't make up. So, we're waiting for the legislature to amend that bill. If that happens, then we're looking

104about $165,000 in revenue uh for that incentive. And then school voucher expansion, put that there only because um if they do approve to put more money into school vouchers, but all that does is take money away from public education. So, just something to keep an eye on there. Okay. Overall revenues review projections for fiscal year 25 just under $56 million. These are just operating revenues. just under 56 million. Budgeted revenues right now of just over 56 million. It's only an increase right now of 92,000. Again, if the foundation formula ends up being fully funded, which fingers crossed it will have a little ways to go. I think the budget is due what May 15th. Is that right? The state level. Um we that would be an increase of about 1.5 million. Okay. So praying that

105would because that would fully cover our salary proposals for this evening. So expenditures review projected ending total expenditures for this year again just over 50 um sorry just under 56 million budgeted expenditures for next year 58 million that's an increase of 2.2 to that those figures do include all the salary proposals, the added staff. Um what it doesn't include is any it's just a flat percentage increase for purchase services and supplies. We are still actually gathering data. We had another meeting this morning with the director trying to hone in our our expenditures for next year. So those have yet to be entered and um pulled together. So those will definitely change for next year. Hopefully down, but I don't know yet. So, um, when every time I pull that all together, I kind of hold

106my breath, see where see where it comes out. So, make sure I didn't enter one too many zeros somewhere. Um, so looking at ending fund balances and projected so for fiscal year 25 this current year, projecting a surplus of right about $31,000. Probably will be a little bit more than that. We have I know we only have about two more months, but it's actually a lot of there's a lot of buying that happens and bills that we pay. um in these last couple of months. So, the ending fund balance is projected to be just under 31%. That fund balance percentage is inclusive of a $2 million transfer to the capital projects fund. Okay. The budgeted deficit right now to completely estimate for next year, I guess it always is, it's a budget anyway, is a

107negative. It's a deficit of two just over $2 million. And then ending fund balance percentage of just under 23%. And again, our floor for fund balance percentage is 17. So that gives us about three months or so of ability to continue operating assuming we have pretty much zero revenues, which extremely unlikely. So all that being said, we are very comfortable tonight presenting to you the salary proposals of the 1.4 4 million increase because of our healthy fund balance that we currently have. We do definitely acknowledge that we need to keep an eye on things that are happening at the state level, also at the federal level to see how those will in the future affect our revenues and ability to continue offering these pay increases. So, are there any questions? Kra, I'm sorry. You go

108ahead. Sure. I was just going to ask um you know we did a little hourly rate increase this year because of the minimum wage increase and that that's supposed to increase again next year. I know we don't have to but I know that it definitely helps being able to fill those positions when we are and and you've got us at 1587 we would still be above that minimum wage. But is there a point? We will definitely have to look at that. That is on my list of things to evaluate over the next fiscal year as that continues to to increase because if I remember correctly that increases then by CPI after this next year and we probably would still be okay but we would end up being really close to minimum wage I believe if

109we don't start making some some bigger um larger headway there. Thank you. Thank you for your question. Well, on that comment, our budget doesn't go up by the CPI, which is a problem. Our revenue doesn't go up. Correct. And sooner or later, we're going to get squeezed. So, I bring this up because I reviewed the salary survey you sent me and I looked at our uh schedule and uh I've been to a couple sessions at MSBA. I think Charlotte Tracy, you went to the last one where they're talking about revisiting salary schedules and how they're put together. We have a lot of columns and what Linda Quinley suggested is that you don't need all those columns that you can compress those and uh increase your beginning teacher salaries which is one of the triggers on

110the uh Senate Bill 727. So, what I would propose is that you take a look at getting a committee together and looking at that this next year. I know we got a lot of things on our plate. Um, so I was reviewing it, so I thought I'd bring that up as a comment tonight. Well, that's something the salary committee could look at, too, and you know, the district plus other people involved. It is, but it's uh Linda provides uh consulting through MSBA and it may need to be a subcommittee of that salary committee. The salary committee needs to look at it. Right. Right. Yeah. For some of those columns, we don't have a lot of teachers in the column. Uh we have 10 columns. A lot of the schools only have six. And so in

111that survey there was a lot of you know not applicable for schools on a lot of those because they don't have that uh they don't have that. Yeah. So um I have actually reached out to Mrs. Quinley about that. I've emailed her shortly after we discussed last time and I apologize for not following up with you. We absolutely can can study that. Um when I questioned her on that and what the benefit is, she and I have the email. She said there really isn't a huge benefit because especially if you don't already have people on those levels, you're basically still going to pay the same amount or you're going to increase. Um what it can do, what we risk is morale when we do that. So we would definitely want to study that. Y and

112um my thought you move the people over. Mhm. You don't decrease your tire, you increase it and your face becomes higher and uh at what cost is the question. So, well, I absolutely don't mind reaching back out to her. Morale is a big question. It is. But her opinion and structuring salary is to let people earn more earlier. Yeah. So, yeah. Well, I'm sure we'll see her again at the MSBA conference this fall and we can talk to her some more there as well. I think that'd be great. I would assume there'll be another session. I would assume so. Yeah. With it, definitely. All right. Any other questions for Mr. Sackinson? All right. If not, looks like you need a motion this evening. I'd like to make a Go ahead. I'd like to make a

113motion that we uh accept the salary schedule as presented. I'll second that. All right. All in favor say I. I oppose say no. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Dr. Fton again. Presenting to us our 26 um 2026 building and grounds budget action. I guess we need action at the end. So I would just keep in mind as we go through this, this is for all of our regular buildings and grounds. This doesn't deal with anything with the tornado in our in our response. Okay. Okay. Because you're going to see some things on here and go but but yeah it this is all for our regular things. Have we not had a tornado? Okay. So in meeting with Mr. Kelly in regard and going over for our um budget meetings and buildings and grounds

114there are and you have all of the documents in the spreadsheet in your files. So in that all of the costs that are associated in general things, inspections, service contracts, general facility repair and maintenance. This year we did add EPM building automation services as an additional a little bit of money in there for ongoing and oh nope, sorry, that was already there. It's the added contracted HVAC repairs is what we added this year. So um just to keep going on and moving forward with those and again with equipment going into our schools. Wyman Elementary. Um we do have some tile in there that we have been taking out in phases which is asbestous tile. It is sealed right now so it is not in any danger but it will have to come out. It requires

115a special process to abate all of that. So we're looking at taking that out with the non-fryable tile and the mastic and then painting classrooms which is on a schedule. We paint so many every year. Questions about Wyman? Again does not include anything with the tornado at this point. Mark Twain again. Nothing with the tornado in this building. Things were going pretty well. Upgrading plumbing in one of the boys restrooms. So, from that 1950s and60s plumbing needs to be some upgrades. You would have to you may have to reload yours to see this presentation. So, okay. Reload. You'll find it. But you have all the paperwork in there. So, last year 25. Oh, okay. Okay. Well, anyway, this is it. It It's all in the paper. It's there. Okay. But it is in the 2526.

116The the document. It is in the 25. Go to the live. You'll see it there. They probably won't be able to see it because it's not shared with them. So, it's right here. Just hold that thought. Okay. No problem. So, at Trimman, we're going to widen the parking lot approach of the of the uh of the parking lot and the parent drop off lane. It's a little narrow there, so widen it so it's a little bit easier to get in and out. Ra Middle School. um asphalt the upper parking lot and then replace the carpet in the entrances and the offices. So replacing the carpet at the entrances. It has um all those ridges in it. It's very hard to vacuum. So we're going to replace that with more of a of a just one

117level carpet that's easier to clean for everyone. It'll look better. You're going to see that several places. Roll Junior High. Um that building's going pretty well. Replacing the cabinets in 214. That is the homecrim. um on the sewing side. Track comes underneath RA Junior High because they manage the um all of the assignments that go over there. So, replacing the sinks at the tracks and the bathrooms at that parking lot. Um also, instead of having all the cones out there, we're going to try and stripe that for the car pickup lines and then create an area for the concrete dumpster at the for the area at the track. Ra High School. Um several things here. Replace the grease trap in the kitchen. Replace carpet in the entryways. Same reason as before. Um, also with the

118construction there, our entryway carpets took a beating. So, replacing those, replacing the tile and the 10th Street hallway. That is the hallway right behind the auditorium. So, it took a little bit of a beating in the in the construction as well. Paving of the parking lot phase two. So, phase two, last year we did the part to the left over here. This time is this way. Remember, we are replacing and redoing all of that in phases. The next item on there will be adding a sidewalk on this side of the gym. It will come right in this vicinity. Again, the photo is old because it still shows us under construction, but it is going right in there. People walk along the road as they're as they are walking down as cars are coming up. So,

119we're going to put a a sidewalk right there. We talked about before. Yes, that is the one we talked about before. But could you go back for just a second? Also, as you're that little corner right there, um where it says phase two, there's a little there is a p a chunk out of the curve there. Yes. Are you going to fix that while you Okay. Uhhuh. Yes. They will do all of that at that time. Okay. Questions? Okay. RTI. They'll there is some fascia that needs covered with metal on the first and second wings and then remove some tile in the building trades classroom and polish the concrete. It'll be easier just to work in there with with the polished concrete. RTC and central office paint the front entryway and add and add up

120a curb ramp at the west end of our building for our in our parking lot here. That's the If you go out the west end of the building onto the sidewalk to the dumpsters, there's a curb. There's no ramp. So, the custodians are trying to take things out of the building, they're having to dump it down. So, we're putting in and out with their carts and Yes. and trash cans. Transportation and maintenance. A few years ago, um they cleared out all of that lot and expanded it in the back. Some of that you saw today had, you know, the fence and the trees down, but it's time to continue to expand that, add a adding gravel in there. And then one of our snow plows that we named had need died and needs to be

121replaced. So, I think he'll get the name. I'm not sure which name it was, but one of our snow plows died over the summer or over the winter. And in summary, in um FY25, we were asking for um basically 1.2 million. This time we are asking a little bit of 1.1 million, a difference of $93,955. So I need a motion to approve the buildings and grounds budget report for the 2526 school year. Please I have a question. Yes. You were talking about removing some of the tile some as best as tile I believe. Will you be putting new tile in or will you do concrete floors the polished concrete? Could be a bit of both depending upon where it is. Some of the classrooms they've requested just to polish the concrete and in the hallways

122there will be tile going back if it is in any of the hallways of the classrooms. Thank you. We are working um with the insurance company and then also a separate quote to to finish the asbestous removal from Wyman while we while we're empty. Um it'll be significantly cheaper and we can get that work done before we go to move back. So that's the goal. So we're trying to cross reference those and get um the bids in order to get that done. you get it done before schools out and usually looking for work. Yes. Less expensive. That's that's our goal. Yes. So, we have some quotes out there. I'll make a motion that we approve the building grounds budget for 2526. I'll second. All right. Great. All in favor say I. I. Those opposed say

123no. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Moving on now to comments. The superintendence report. I want you to do Maria first. Maria. I don't want to steal I don't want to steal her thunder. So, I wanted to talk, you know, I know we talked a lot about the tornado tonight and we heard about staff and we heard about admin, we heard about maintenance people. I want to talk about the students because that's my job to talk about the students. That's right. at the high school. Hayden Brooks, Lillian Webb, and JT Rogers, who have been recognized all throughout the community for great reason, um, scheduled community cleanups, I believe, the entire week that we have deemed tornado week, which is the week that we were not in school before spring break. Now, most high schoolers, I

124feel like, would see an extra week of spring break, and go, I'm going back to bed. I'm going to take a little nap. I'm going to take some time off. But all we wanted to do was go and see each other. We couldn't sit at home and do nothing. We couldn't watch this. It was horrible. It was very sad. We just wanted to be together and do something to help. And they made that possible for all of us. I think there was upwards of 200 kids there at 9:00 a.m. on that Monday morning. That Monday morning, the first day of that week, we were supposed to have off. There was 200 kids there. We went all across town helping clean up branches and talk to people and just be involved and to make sure the

125community was being strengthened back to its normal level like it should be. And so I think that that is a really really important thing to note because it is a testament to our community and to our district and to its students and how dedicated and how special it truly is. I've maybe never been more proud to be a part of RA High School than that morning when I showed up and saw everyone hugging each other and you know just excited to be there and to see their friends and their family. We're like a family and it was really special to see that. On that note, I had some friends who were at the middle school performing Chicago when the tornado hit. And it was devastating because I know how much work they put in. It

126was months and months and the back and forth of will it be here? Will it be here? And they deserved every accolade and every round of applause and every standing ovation in the world. And they did not get that the first go around. So, they're coming in May. They're going to be in the high school auditorium. I ask that as many people can go go because they deserve it. They deserved it the first time. They surely deserve it this time. And so I just want to put that on your radar that that is coming up. And I don't know exactly how ticket sales are going to work. I'm sure they're gonna have to reimburse the people that already had bought tickets for that original showing, but the high school auditorium is a lot bigger than

127the middle school auditorium. So should be more tickets to go around. That's right. And so I hope that if there are more seats available and there's more people able to go that I will see lots of you there because it is a big deal to them which makes it a big deal to me. Do you know how many shows they're going to have? I think they're going to do two. They were going to do three but they're going to do two. Okay. Because they're going to count that one as one even though it wasn't the full show and then they're going to do two more. So please please go and support our theater program. They do amazing things and they deserve it. And that's really all I have for you tonight. Thank you. Welcome. Except

128that there's a big party coming up. Oh, yes. Prom. Prom is next week. How could I forget? It's all anyone talks about right now is prom. And it's next week. Junior class has been planning it. It's the first dance I've ever been to that I have had pretty much no hand in. I have no idea what's going to happen. I'm just going to enjoy the good time. Everyone's excited. Tickets are going on sale next week. And it'll be a good thing to have some normal right now to just go and enjoy prom and have a good night. So now that's all I have. I think unless you want to add more things than I can talk for. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Very good. All right. All right. So, I had a feeling that I

129was going to steal Maria's thunder, so I'm glad we let her go first. Um, thank you for talking about the student response. um very uh um happy to report uh the state board of education um does a a kind of a a recognition of sorts uh similar to what we do at their board meetings. Um they don't do those typically in person. They have some videos and things that they do, but uh we're going to try to get um those three students who organized all that in next uh board meeting. Uh but at the May state board meeting the um I believe it was Fox News that did the news report on the student efforts is the feature for the state board of education meeting. So our Raleigh students are opening the state board of

130education meeting and that's that's incredible and um agree Maria something to be very proud of and and talk about an army. It was an army of folks. Yeah. Yeah. Um continuing along the lines of how amazing our community is we had the show me scholars and tech masters lunchon. uh for the Chamber of Commerce um yesterday. Wow, it seems like forever ago. It was yesterday. Um just kind of as a a little reminder for everyone, um those are students who are challenged to take a little more rigorous coursework and and apply themselves. Um there's some uh basically some um fairly straightforward requirements for that, but we had 85 seniors that qualified for that scholarship program. Um the the Show Me Scholar program awards thousand scholarships u for next steps in life. So it's for college

131or tech school um even workforce um needs for those going straight into the workforce, military um there's all kinds of paths and avenues there. The chamber raises that uh money for those scholarships. It's rooted in Pride Night. So is you know Pride Night starting in the fall u but supported throughout the year by multiple businesses and individuals. Um again this year there were 85 seniors eligible for the scholarship. Going into the lunchon there were 73 scholarships available. So the chamber had raised $73,000. So I will pause there and say what an incredible thing that is um just in and of itself. But before the lunchon started um suddenly there were 85 scholarships available. So, uh, $12,000 was raised on the spot in the room, uh, which is also incredible. I am not going to try

132to name the businesses and individuals that are involved in that, uh, because it's pretty much everybody in town, uh, at different levels, and I do not want to forget anyone, but on behalf of our student body, uh, I do want to say thank you to our community supporters uh, for making this happen. It is truly amazing. Is $85,000 in direct scholarships. That's a record um record amount raised and uh it's pretty incredible for those students there for every single kid in that room to walk out of there um with an award and uh the energy in the room is amazing. Um it it's pretty incredible and so that that doesn't happen without the amazing community and we we truly are very blessed in that regard. Along those same lines, senior awards night is next Thursday

133night, um the 24th at the high school at 6 pm. Uh last year we had over a million dollars in local scholarship money. I'm looking at Gina to make sure I'm not telling you the wrong thing there. That's not counting the money that the college has given that. That's local scholarship dollars. So once again, um, if you want to want to feel good about life and the things that we do here, those are kind of those culminating things where we see the the benefits to the students and and they're so deserving. So, uh, we we I can't say enough about the appreciation for that. Did you say six o'clock? Six o'clock is what I have. I hope that's right. Where will it be? Y, Gina's nodding. Okay. Auditorium. Auditorium. Is it the auditorium this time?

134Auditorium. Yes, auditorium. Auditorium. Um, core breakfast of champions Monday morning 7:30. Um, you do not have to pay for breakfast. We'll feed you there. They will feed you, I should say. Core will feed you. Uh, but Gina would like you to contact her uh to RSVP so that we can make sure we have enough food. It's kind of an important piece. Uh, but we would invite everyone to come learn about CORE and their mission of supporting our students and staff. Uh, learn a little bit about the history, some of their upcoming projects and the things that they've done in the past. um should be about an hour program roughly. So, uh if you can give up an hour Monday morning, come see us at the junior high cafeteria and uh learn a little bit more

135about the u school foundation. And then just a few reminders. Uh no school Monday. Uh so it is a professional development day. Um this one is uh the one that I enjoy the most. Uh we've shifted the name, we call this elevate now. This is our staff uh for the last part of the day. um our professionals, our expertise, our experience is shared with our other staff members. So um our staff members sign up to do presentations and present information. Uh the other staff can sign up and choose which ones they think are beneficial to them. Uh but we have a lot of very talented people and it's great that we can share that knowledge amongst our people. So I I enjoy this one the most. Um reminder about our NAP family track complex dedication

136on May 13th at 5. That'll be at the track. If the weather is not good, we will move that into the junior high cafeteria, but invite everyone out to come for that. And um this has actually come up a couple times and and Gina brought brought it up again today. Graduation is May 18th at 2:30. May 18th at 2:30. That's at Gail Bulman at S&T. Um would urge everyone uh Google is great and Google AI is fantastic but if you type Raleigh graduation you might get Raleigh North Dakota or somewhere. So be mindful uh that sometimes you get what you ask for and so uh be careful with that information but May 18th at 2:30 for that and um your seniors will scout tickets for you. Yes they will. That's all I have. Great. Thank

137you Dr. Shar. Right. Now, we want to just pay attention to our written reports. We have attendance and a superintendent or superintendent, sorry, substitute teacher list, uh finance report and uh cafeteria report. And our next board meeting will be on May 1st at uh 5:30 for open session. So, is there any other comments anyone would like to Is there is there um a meeting? There's a meeting May 1st. Is there a meeting May 15th also? There is. Okay. Any other um just real quick, um Gina would like to get a board picture if possible when we're finished here real quick and then uh Carla, if I could talk to you and Jim about agenda setting times. Yes. And um uh I'm sorry. Did Did you guys decide on a mentor for sure? Is that going

138to be Tracy? I can for Mr. Marty. Okay. if we could visit with you with you too for just a few minutes and and figure out some times for that too before everybody leaves please. We All right. You would like to second? I'll second. All right. All in favor say