001Good evening. Call this meeting to order. Roll call, please. >> Miss Williams, >> here. >> Miss Miller, here. >> Miss Chesn, >> here. >> Miss Karns, >> here. Miss Landing >> here. Mr. Moore >> here. >> Mr. Richmond >> here. >> I'll stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Okay. Good evening. Donna Baker, our board secretary, is not with us tonight. So, the board needs to appoint a temporary board secretary to take minutes for this meeting only. Um, and we if I could have a motion to appoint Becky Dunn, our director of communications, as board secretary for this evening. >> I make that motion.
002>> I second. >> Okay. Follow her whenever you're ready. >> Miss Williams? >> Yes. >> Miss Chesy? >> Yes. >> Miss Karns? >> Yes. Miss Landing. >> Yes. >> Mr. Miller. I'm sorry. Miss Miller. >> Yes. >> Now you're really Donna. >> Mr. Moore. >> Yes. >> Mr. Richmond. >> Yes. >> And the motion passes. All approved. Okay. Recognitions. If we can come to the front. Teacher of the year finalists. >> All right. Good evening, Board of Education. We are proud to share that the St. Joseph Foundation has announced the three finalists for the St. Joseph School District Teacher of the Year. We wanted to take the opportunity to honor all three exceptional educators for their positive impact and commitment to our scholars and our community. From these three finalists, the foundation will also announce
003the recipient of the teacher of the year award. Teacher of the year finalist, Bailey Naidell. Mrs. Bailey Naidell is a 14-year educator and a sixth grade teacher at Skaith Elementary whose passion for teaching was inspired by her own sixth grade teacher in the St. Joe School District. She builds strong, lasting relationships with students of all backgrounds, holding them to high expectations while creating a safe, energetic classroom where mistakes are seen as opportunities for growth. Her classrooms her classrooms are hands-on and rigorous, encouraging students to explore, collaborate, and develop critical thinking skills. Beyond the classroom, she mentors new teachers, serves on leadership teams, and supports colleagues through curriculum implementation and building transitions. Her resilience during the blending of Mark Twain and Skate along with her commitment to ensure every student feels seen and valued demonstrates her
004profound and lasting impact as an educator. I KNOW [applause] you doing pictures. >> You want to you want to do you want to do all three afterwards? We'll just do that. All right. >> Okay. Next. Teacher of the year finalist, Brooke Rich. [applause] Mrs. Brooke Rich is a nine-year educator and social studies department leader at Lafayette High School who creates rigorous realworld learning experiences for her students. While she did not dream of becoming a teacher as a child, she discovered her calling through the inspiring educators in her own life, including her middle and high school teachers who challenged her academically and helped her see the power of learning. This year, she is leading a partnership with the St. Joseph Museum in which her sociology students are researching and designing a public exhibit on Jewish life
005in St. Joseph during Holocaust Recognition Month. She has devoted extensive time outside of contract hours, extending her expertise in Holocaust education and sharing her learning through professional development. Mrs. Ridge fosters a classroom that is both academically challenging and supportive where students take pride in authentic work, underscoring her commitment to scholarship, innovation, and student growth. Brookidge [applause] [applause] and Victoria Turner. [applause] Victoria Turner is an 11-year St. Joseph School District educator and a dedicated math teacher at Spring Garden whose passion for teaching was inspired by her mother and aunt, both lifelong advocates for students in education. She creates engaging hands-on classrooms where students collaborate, explore mathematical concepts through strategies like concept attainment and vertical whiteboard work, and develop both critical thinking and confidence in their abilities. Victoria was the driving force behind 100% of her algebra
0061 students scoring proficient or advanced on the end ofear course assessment across the middle school sites. and she continues to use datadriven instruction and spiral review to support mastery at all levels. Beyond academics, she builds a culture where student coun as a student council sponsor leading initiatives that promote leadership, kindness, and community while celebrating student and staff achievements. Her ability to combine rigorous instruction with positive student engagement showcases the lasting difference she makes in the lives of her lives of her students. Miss Victoria. [applause] >> Awesome. CONGRATULATIONS. [applause] I just have to adjust the microphone. Sorry. We are proud to announce that the St. Joseph Foundation has selected the three finalists for the St. Joseph School District Support Person of the Year. We wish to take this opportunity to honor all three individuals for their
007dedication, professionalism, and commitment to our students and our community. From these finalists, the foundation will also announce the recipient of the St. Joseph School District Support Person of the Year Award, recognizing the outstanding contributions of one individual who exemplifies excellence in supporting student success. Our first U representative is Christy Campbell from Lafayette. She is an LPN healthcare. [applause] Christy provides compassionate care for students health needs, creating a safe and supportive environment that allows students to focus on learning. Our second recipient is Beth Hernandez Rice from Vincent. [applause] Beth is an attendance interventionist. Beth works tirelessly to support students and families, ensuring consistent attendance and providing resources that help every student succeed. And our third and final candidate is Lindsay Moyer from Webster, Social Worker. [applause] >> [applause] >> Lindsay advocates for students social and emotional
008well-being, connecting families with resources and supporting positive outcomes for all students. Thank you to all three of our recipients. [applause] Congratulations. [applause] This year marked a significant milestone for the St. Joseph School District as we began participation in real world learning through the Euing Marian Kaufman Foundation. Tonight we proudly recognize both our student leaders and our educator early adopters who are working together to bring this vision to life. Real world learning is designed to provide students with authentic experiences that prepare them for success beyond high school. This work is only possible because of students who step into leadership roles and educators who are willing to innovate, collaborate with community partners, and design learning experiences connected to the real world. A key component of this initiative is the student voice program. The student voice program is
009a leadership collective composed of student ambassadors and storytellers from each high school. These students actively engage in discussions that directly impact their educational experiences and serve as representatives of their peers. Participants attend five in-person regional workshops or events, maintain active communication within the KC cohort, complete and submit four approved leadership activities, and document their work through Google forms. Through this structure, students help ensure that real world learning implementation remains grounded in authentic student experiences. We first recognize our student voice leaders. From Bittton High School, we have Landon D. Yarm, Brian Penlin, and Ruby Stein. [applause] [applause] From Central we have Ethan Hyde, Raina Ramirez, and Malia Safely. [applause] [applause] From Lafayette, we have Brooklyn Bennett, Story Dawson, and Eric Wayaser. [applause] >> [applause] >> Do you want Do you want to grab a picture of
010this? >> All right. Board members. Smile. [laughter] Awesome. CONGRATULATIONS. [applause] >> [applause] >> We also celebrate the educators and students engaged in client connected coursework across our district and the new board approved course elective principles of coaching. Miss Callie Frell led students in a client connected partnership with Mo family sports providing coaching plans and coaching experiences. [applause] >> [applause] >> In Miss Tamara Hardy's interior design course, students partnered with the Mustangs to redesign a functional space, applying professional design principles and client collaboration skills [applause] at Bitten High School. Miss Gentalyn Pacmara guided physic students through a comprehensive energy audit project. After Benton administration approved their proposal, students participated in expert sessions with Mr. Casey Houseman, director of operations for the St. Joseph School District. Over 5 days, students collected and analyzed pre- audit data. And
011during a second expert session, Mr. Dr. Dan Hegman from EverGee validated their calculations, bringing professional expertise directly into the learning process. [applause] Finally, we could not lead all this work without Miss Corey Elms, our instructional coach and district liaison for real world initiatives across the St. Joseph School District. Her leadership and coordination help make this important work possible throughout our schools. Together, these students and educators exemplify what real world learning represents. Partnership, innovation, leadership, and authentic engagement. We are proud to recognize their dedication in the collaborative effort that is helping transform learning. [applause] Awesome. [applause] >> Hi, good evening. My name is Lenia Wooten. I am the director of bands at Central High School. And I'd like to introduce you all tonight to our three central bands. Missouri Allstate bands members, Dayton Fitzpatrick, Jake Burnham,
012and Assaf Gupta. If you guys want to go on up. [applause] [applause] The Allstate journey began back in November with our district auditions, although I'm pretty sure these three began practicing last summer. Uh, all three were named to the Northwest Missouri Music Educators Association all district bands, earning spots, making them eligible to audition for the Missouri All-State Bands. In December, we traveled to Colombia where 1,489 auditions uh were completed for spots in the All-State Band and the Jazz Band. Senior Assaf Gupta was named the 2026 Missouri Allstate Jazz Band Honorable mention Jazz Vibes Player. [applause] Senior Dayton Fitzpatrick was named to the 2026 Missouri All State Band for the third time in his high school career. [applause] And junior Jake Burnham was named to the Missouri All-State Band and also the Missouri All-State Choir. Huge
013accomplishment on both parts. [applause] Dayton and Jake traveled to the Lake of the Ozarks at the end of January to rehearse and perform with the Missouri All-State Band under the direction of Dr. Travis Cross, director of bands at UCLA. Thousands of students statewide wish, work, and strive to make these bands, but only around 125 do each year. We are very proud of these three and are excited to celebrate their hard work, dedication, and perseverance with you all tonight. Thank you. [applause] HEY, I JUST want to smile. >> Awesome. Congratulations. [applause] Okay. Audience participation number one, Hillary New and Dana Campbell. Good evening. We're here on behalf of the Lovers Lane Association and many community members who are distressed over the potential closure of Eugene Field Elementary School. As we canvased the neighborhood and reached out
014online and via petition supporting uh to support keeping our schools open, we discovered the majority of our neighbors surrounding Eugenefield were unaware of the potential closure. We compiled their questions and concerns into an email that we sent to the board of education on February the 9th. We received no response or acknowledgement from that email, and that's why we're here tonight. We'd like to share our concerns and as we do, if there's anything that you'd like to answer or clarify, please do so. You have chosen to close the highest performing elementary, I'm sorry, one of the highest performing elementary schools in St. Joseph. Why is it worth a disruption for the kids and the parents in terms of transportation, after school activities, sports, work schedules, daycare, and mental health? you're inc you're incurring hundreds of thousands
015of dollars to move staff and facilities along with having to retrofit Rubidu. This leads to having two elementary schools in the same busy street one mile apart. Plus, these changes won't reduce the needs or expenses. Instead, it will create the largest elementary school in the district and require more staffing, more supervision, more safety coverage, transition support, more cafeteria and recess monitoring, and a heavier nurse and counselor workload. Why is pushing two schools into one necessary? Have you considered the effect this will have on the home values of the Leverslane neighborhood, which is one of the most historic neighborhoods in St. Joseph and has consistently voted to pass school bonds. Our city encourages professionals to move to St. Joseph, not just to commute from Kansas City and the surrounding areas. With all of this chaos, we
016are taking away a high achieving elementary school and reducing options. Why? In the 2425 school year, 70 students from Lindberg were moved to attend Eugene Field. Were these Lindberg schools uh I'm sorry, were these Lindberg students assured that they would not be moving again? Mark Twain students who had been moved from Mark Twain to Parkway, they were promised to never move again. Shouldn't the administration and the board keep any such promise to these Lindberg students? The theme throughout these concerns is a resounding why and what are we benefiting from doing this. Lastly, you are the board of our public school system. We have to take care of kids and families in our public school system. That is why we elected you and we are relying on you to remember what the goal is to provide
017a good educational experience for our children and not to make it about special interests. We cannot cave to special interest groups. There is enough room and there has to be enough room for everyone in this town to get the type of education that they deserve. [snorts] Thank you. >> [applause] >> Thank you ladies. Okay, number two, Jessica Wy. It's not too late to pause these school closure decisions. The plan has changed repeatedly with new costs, new questions, and inconsistent answers at nearly every meeting. That alone tells us there's no clear finalized plan. Without a clear plan, how can such major changes realistically be completed before school starts in August? You would never begin building a house without a complete approved blueprint. Why are we willing to do that with our children's education? Once these changes
018are fully felt by students and families, it may be too late to reverse course. We still have time to pause, reassess, and make a thoughtful decision. At the elementary level, Rubadoo cannot adequately accommodate the number of students being moved there. Larger class sizes mean less one-on-one attention, overcrowded classrooms, and a loss of personalized learning that purging per sorry that makes purging so special. We are also being told that classrooms may be split by adding walls to create more rooms while increasing the number of students per class. How does that improve learning conditions? Room's restroom facilities are not appropriately sized for younger grades, and due to the building's layout, some cannot be modified. Combining two schools will also create traffic and parking challenges during arrival, dismissal, and events. These are practical concerns that have not been
019clearly resolved. There's also equity concerns. Currently, all students receive free lunch. If that changes, some families may not complete paperwork in time, leaving students with negative balances or going without meals. That is not a step forward for our district. For nearly 100 years, Persian Elementary has been a cornerstone of the north side neighborhood. Many families moved here specifically because of Persing's strong reputation, small class sizes, and supportive environment. Persing has a dusty accreditation score of 86.3, ranking in the top three elementary schools. This is tied to the very environment now at risk. Persian is more than a building. It is a community where children are known, supported, and encouraged to reach their full potential. Closing it will fracture that community. Families have already left the district and others are considering alternatives because of these decisions.
020Property values may be affected, but more importantly, civil children. Community support for purging is undeniable. Our change.org a petition requesting persing to remain open has gathered at least 463 signatures, which is approximately 150% support per current student enrollment. If the community is not heard now, how can trust and partnership be expected in the future? We're asking you to pause, take the time to create a fully informed, transparent plan before committing hundreds of thousands of dollars and making irreversible changes. Let's ensure the future generations have the same opportunity to learn and thrive in the unique irreplaceable environment pers. It's not too late to stop, reassess, and choose a better path forward. [applause] I appreciate your time. Thank you, Miss Wy. Number three, Mr. Shot. My own three minutes. I got it right here. I wanted to
021congratulate the board as our moving toward rebranding. Rebranding a school system in St. Joseph has never happened. We always started off with three high schools and it will never happen again. What this board is doing with all of the issues that you're having, you need to be congratulated. There are many steps in rebranding the school system. The school board, as you could have t you can tell through the last four or five months, you have gone through all of them except one. This school board has not been asked this question during the public awareness or the public meetings. And it would go like this. Uh I'm a student uh being reassigned from Central to Benton. Uh will I now become a Benton student? Will red and white be my school colors? Will the Cardinals be
022my mascot? Will I bleed red? The answer with the school board as it is right now, the answer is yes. You from Central to Venton will become a cardinal. The step that this board is missing is changing the culture of the school by allowing the entire student body of Benton and of Central, the students to collectively choose a new name of their high school, select new colors and mascots. During the difficult times when we were trying to decide Benton or Lafayette, there were a couple of school board members who were going to vote stated pretty adamantly, I'm not going to vote tonight. I am not going to vote tonight because I do not know all the pros and cons of closing Benton or closing Lafayette. And when I find that out from the administration, because
023all we have to do is ask them, then I will vote. And they did. I'm telling you now that the information about naming a school and a developing a school culture at Benton and Central has two very, very distinct areas of pros and cons. And the cons is that you're taking 1,200 students which you are moving into a school that is widely established culture of 50 to 100 years. That's the cons. The pros is that you can take those 2,000 students at Central and you can take those other students and you can actually have them develop their own communities. >> [bell and music] >> Hey, that's your time, Mr. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay, next is Natalie Han. Good evening. Um, in the last recent months, there have been a lot of conversation
024that has focused around the challenges that our district faces. While those conversations are very important and need lots of reflection, I believe it is just as important to recognize on the many positive things that are happening in our school district and the people working every day to serve the students and families of our district. We are encouraged by the academic progress that's taking place across many grade levels and subject areas, as well as the district's continued commitment to updating de using data to make sure that they're updating instructional, strengthening schools, improving plans, and improving outcomes for our students. Improvements in attendance across the schools has become more positive. And we know that that is a great thing for our district because present students equals learning, growing, and preparing for your future. We also want to
025recognize that tonight there were tonight there were many folks that were um really honored for their achievements. So you had several students today who continue to excel academically, athletically, and in arts and in as leaders from state level honors in athletics to recognition of students that participated in all state music programs. and realworld learning initiatives. We see young people stepping forward with talent, determination, and pride for their schools. We also want to recognize the outstanding educators who have achieved national board certification and the district's continued support of investing in these teachers through this rigorous process. The strength of any school system depends on the quality and the dedication of the educators, and we are fortunate to have some amazing professionals serving our community. We also want to recognize the launch of the Superintendent Student Advisory
026Council, which gives students a voice in shaping their educational experience and other ways of really making sure they're developing as leaders in our community. These programs that connect students to real world experience and career pathways are especially important to the future of St. Joseph. Investing in programs such as Helier Technical Center and other enhancements demonstrate a strong commitment to preparing our students for college careers and service and building that workforce that sustains a long-term community. A strong school district is essential to a strong city. The work you do today will shape the workforce, the leaders, and the quality of life for tomorrow. It will influence whether young families choose to build their lives here and whether businesses will choose to invest here. So tonight, I just want to pause, acknowledge the hard work and tough
027decisions that you have to make and say thank you to the board, the administration, the teachers, the staff, and everyone who supports students in our district. And thank you for having tough conversations. Good night. Thank you, Miss Han. Next, Mike Schoeacher. I don't know how I ended up going after Natalie. It's never a good spot. Um, but I wanted to thank um the school board in particular, the superintendent of schools for some of the things we're working on. Um, the student alliance is a key part of that. Without her leadership, they really wouldn't come together. and that's a collaboration of all the schools public and private in St. Joe. Um it's been an absolutely fantastic experience so far and we look forward to building on it. It's quite honestly we learn from these future leaders
028of what direction the organization needs to go as we continue to partner and collaborate on increasing vaccination opportunities for different students across St. Joe public schools. Um it's another opportunity uh for us to excel and to really build on that collaboration and partnership. So um I just wanted to say thank you. I do realize you have difficult decisions. Don't want anything to do with those. Um we have our own uh but did want very much want to say thank you for your leadership and what we're all working on and in particular between administrations and the things that we're getting done. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Schumacher. Chuck Lake. Hello. I have a speech prepared every time I come here and then I change it on the fly. you come and we recognize all these great
029students for the great things that they do. And I know it's a big pride in what you do as as board members and we all like to recognize students. I just want you to understand those great accomplishments. There's so many of our students that the great accomplishment is just getting to school, is just getting through the day, is just dealing with all the things in their lives. and we're going to make that harder next year for a lot of students. I asked a question, will we be better off next year? Let's answer that not by what we say, but the actions that we take. Our talking points to to do all of this mess was to save money, retain staff, and more course offerings. Dr. Hedge course, I I'll ask you first. Have we updated
030our financial projections with our current enrollment numbers? Because we've lost students. Do we have a projected on how many students we're going to lose? cuz I historically it's going to happen. Miss Chzn, I remember my plan of not adding an early childhood center was a non-starter for you. Are you still considering the administration's plan possible plan to cut early childhood programs? Miss Karns, I remember you stating how class offerings was a huge issue for you. Do you realize that on the courses offered, we've already cut down 20% of those off that list that were presented to you? And with some of the new courses we're gonna that yeah, we're going to add some, but we're going to make some very popular staple courses that our students really need a little bit harder. Mrs. Miller, the
031one thing I've always respected about you is how much you are out in our schools attending the events. I do not understand how you cannot see what we are losing. Mr. Moore, Mr. Richmond, after planning past 7 to0, we spoke in the hallway about using the momentum to move forward. My plan was the fastest to pass a levy and another bond. We could be discussing making that sunset permanent right now this spring, but now it's going to be a while before we can get momentum back. Mr. Crow, I'm sorry that you had to answer a question two months ago that was a blow to teachers to guarantee admin pay but not be able to answer that for teachers hurt. And I know that you you wanted to so bad. the fact that we weren't ready
032for that question. The fact that we made the promise to admin and couldn't make it to teachers, we need to plan a little bit better than that. I'm happy to see that addressed tonight, but if recruiting and retaining quality staff is a priority, we should have had that ready to go. Our staff is worried about their financial future. That has to be a top priority. Dr. Dr. McInness and the board, the timing of the contract extension, whether deserved or not, it was terrible. To worry about giving you the security of three and a half years is not playing well with teachers and staff who are unsure where they will be in three and a half months. To say we are on a schedule or ahead of schedule is no significance. If this had to be
033done, either one thing had to come first or we could have moved that that later. >> And that's your time, Miss Lee. It's okay, guys. It is your time, Mr. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. It doesn't take courage to follow a bad plan, but it does to stop one. Thank you. [applause] >> Okay. Next, Miss Cook and Miss Karns, I certainly understand that back thing. It doesn't work when you're taking pictures. Mr. Carell, the question is actually to you. In the agenda tonight, it talks about the education council recommending the personnel reports be discussed in close session. And I'm assuming that is to not be posted as part of the agenda anymore. If it is, you are going against something that as far back assembly is concerned goes clear back to 2019. We
034talk about wanting to have good facilities for our students and we compare to Staley to Liberty North to Park Hill. Those school districts post all of those things. They are not hidden behind closed doors. I understand that if you are evaluating contracts when someone is there, that's fine. Those should be discussed in private but not posting it here. That's wrong. You guys need to You already have an issue with transparency. Big issue with transparency. This is not going to fly well with the community that you guys serve. That is your job. It's time to start doing your job. [applause] Cook Kim Dragon board members. I'm Kimoo. I'm running for school board. Many reasons why. I'm going to start off with this chart. This is from the Missouri Department of Education. This is staffing versus enrollment.
035So, admin are going straight up. Students are going straight down. Why aren't we cutting admin at all? We're not taking anything away from them, but we're losing teachers. We're cutting staff. Um, if wen teachers, they came here for a new life, but they're going to be sent home. I think you need to re-evaluate administration. We don't need more. What we fire, we hired like four more four new secretaries. What for? We're not even getting filings done to receive money. That's why we're supposedly in this Number two, there's over 200 scholarships to Lafayette. What's going to happen with that? They're not going to follow to the schools, so we just lose over 200. How about um Woods and Shop? I understand you're going to move it to Hillyards. Wood and shop is a world that's our
036backbone to working people. Why would we move it to Hillyards to where very few students can take advantage of it? Because we're overcrowding and we need the room. But how many students take those class and learn how to build? That's real world. And number three, C community eligibility program. That's our free lunch. I thought we had a blanket, but as I looked further, we got 16 schools out of 25. So, this is a scenario and it's wrong, but it's on the lines. We have 10,500 students and 70% of them are free lunch. That's 7,350 times $3 a day for lunch. One day would be 22,000 times one week would be 110,000. So are we addressing the community on what it will cost? Because we lose that blanket. We will have to each student will have
037to file their paperwork. It needs to go home. Parents have to fill it out and come back. In the meantime, we're paying for that. Is that money included? How much it would cost? Do you have an estimate of what? Because we'll lose it for like two years before we can get it back. So, that's something to think about. Number three, the distance people will have to travel for school. Our double-decker bridge, it's been voted on. It's going down. We can't drive that way. the next street >> time. I'm sorry. Thank you. >> Okay. But we will have students going on I 29 to drive. I don't let my kids. We'll have buses. Busy times. And I know it's my time. >> That's your time. Thank you. >> 3 minutes does not even cover near. >>
038I appreciate your time. Thank you, Mr. Cassandra. Okay, >> good evening members of the board and district leadership. My name is Kassan Reveal. I'm a mental health clinician who works with IPS and 504 plans and I'm here to speak about the pathways to teaching program and the proposed reduction in student pair professional apprenticeships. This year, our district has six student pairs serving in classrooms and as of earlier today, at least seven pair professional positions remain posted on our district website with more vacancies likely. That reality highlights why this program is not optional but strategic. PAR professionals are central to how special education services are delivered and research shows students with disabilities often receive individ excuse me individualized instruction. Behavioral support and implementation of IEP goals directly from pair professionals. When staffing is inconsistent, student progress
039and classroom stability declines. Student apprentices student apprentices, sorry, lots of S's here. strengthen that workforce. National apprentichip research shows students can deliver 70 to 75% of a trained employees productivity at a lower cost, making apprenticeship pipelines one of the most fiscally efficient staffing strategies available. The Pathways program builds a local educator pipeline, provides paid experience, leads to paraprofessional certification, and offers college credit through Missouri Western. Districts across the country are investing in grow your own programs because teacher and special education staffing shortages are persistent. At just $123.75 per day, pair professionals are one of the most cost-effective ways to meet IEP and 504 requirements. Cutting the pipeline that feels or that fills these roles creates long-term cost, including miss minutes, staff burnout, turnover, and [clears throat] emergency hiring. I understand funding pressures, particularly within special
040education, but reducing the pipeline that fills some of our hardest to staff positions, creates long-term cost that exceed the short-term savings. [snorts] If we are exploring apprenticeship expansion and other support areas, we should protect and ideally grow the program that directly supports our most vulnerable students and addresses our educator shortage. At the same time, I am also speaking tonight as a parent. My junior is losing her high school next year due to consolidation and Lafayette's closure. The apprenticeship program has given her direction during uncertainty and a meaningful way to stay connected and contribute. And I'm sure she is not alone in that. [snorts] Um, I am respectfully asking the board to protect and consider expanding student pair professional apprenticeships as an evidence-based investment in staffing stability, student outcomes, and the future of our district. If
041we want students to succeed, staff to stay, and future teachers to choose our district, we do not cut the pipeline, we build it. Thank you. [applause] Okay. And that ends audience participation. Is is there a motion for the approval of the agenda? I'd like to make a motion to amend the agenda, please, by removingformational item D um upon the advisement of the full council. >> There's there's multiple >> underformational item D >> extra duty staffing plan. >> Tim D, you mean? >> Yes. I have a motion. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Okay. Any discussion? >> So, can we can we talk about cuz I I'm confused. So, what is TIN? What is TINDD and why are we being asked to move it or like I I don't understand the problem. Please legal counsel
042has advised some of the discussion um could create a risk. So they have advised that that gets moved to discussion in executive session. >> So So what about it though? >> Like that's what I don't understand what the risk is. >> Well, I think if I mentioned that then >> it would put us at risk. >> I'll ask you a different way. So this is the extra duty staffing plan that would essentially is our effort to match what we've already committed to the administrators. We said administrators, whatever job you're doing, unless you're asking you to go back in the classroom, we're going to continue. We're going to provide you a consistent pay. The extra day staffing plan is what we've asked for that next year for one year that all of those staff that are
043not administrators essentially get the same commitment. Is that right >> when it comes to extra duty? So coaching and department chairs and those positions that are beyond the contract. >> Okay. So all so I'm going to vote against this for some a lot of the reasons that Miss Cook had mentioned. Um it's it's very concerning to me how much um this board uh attempts to do out of the public's eye. Um so I'm going to vote no on that. I'm going to get outvoted most likely. Uh but I think that's something that this board really needs to consider and reckon with that these are public tax dollars. Um and these are these are important conversations. Sometimes I feel like we have discussions about this reorganization plan and it doesn't even feel like we're talking about
044the same district because there are so many staff that are so concerned, so frustrated, so upset, and then we take our conversations to the back room. So, no, I'm still talking. So, I'm concerned about that and I think we should stop doing that >> um to the most extent possible. Go ahead. >> Thank you. Um, I would have great concerns of doing something that we've been legally advised not to do would be >> like policy GCI like that policy that we were supposed to get board approval first. So, so again, I'm just illustrating that we we bring in we're going to follow we're going to follow legal advice. Sometimes it feels like only when we feel like it. But that's just my personal opinion. >> I just have a question. Aren't these normally items we
045do in open session? >> I would say yes, but again on the advice of legal counsel, um there's some discussions that could put the district at risk and they have advised that that gets discussed that specific point, not the entire plan, but that spe that specific point that could lead to some risk for a district. >> Okay. My question is if we've always been doing this in open like okay so then it was a risk all those other years >> and we just never addressed it. I mean it was never a problem until now. >> Well I'm pretty sure this is the first time we've ever had an extra duty staffing plan. So I believe it's never been discussed in open session. >> Okay. But I just asked you if if this was a thing
046that we normally do in open session and you said yes. I'm confused. >> I would say a conversation like this would typically be in open session but again on legal advice they have advised us not to do that tonight. >> So will we be able to talk about I mean I'm going to ask about it in the reorganization part. So you can take this off Rhonda. That's fine. Um, but I'd still like to be able to ask if we're going to be able to keep that commitment to our staff. I mean, I know that you guys are going to say like, "We're thinking about it." I mean, it it's almost March. Um, and we're not great communicators, so this is really where most people find out the information about what's going on. >> I would
047say we do want to keep a commitment to our staff. >> Want to and actually doing it are very different things. >> Okay. Okay. Well, my other question is, okay, we're it's on the advice of legal counsel. Okay. So, are we all agreeing right now if there is advice at legal counsel, we're going to listen to that at all times? We haven't cuz as I mentioned earlier in an email, our legal counsel advises and they give and they also give ideas of what's legal. Well, because it's legal, it doesn't mean, you know, that we have to do it. I mean, in all honesty, it's us that make the decisions. It's not legal counsel. And I'm not saying I don't want to listen to legal counsel. It's my experience in my position, you know, that they
048answer us in what is legal and what is not. Is there any more discussion on this matter? Okay, there's a motion by Rhonda. And who gave the second? Was it you? >> Yes. >> To amend the agenda. Correct. >> To remove tendee. >> Roger. >> Is legal going to be in our executive session tonight. >> Okay. >> The camera won't. >> No, they won't. [snorts] >> Okay. I have a motion to second. Any other discussion? If there is none, would you call the vote, please? >> Miss Williams, >> no. >> Miss Chesn, >> yes. >> Miss Karns, >> yes. >> Miss Landing, >> no. >> Miss Miller, >> yes. >> Mr. Moore, >> no. >> Good. >> Mr. Richmond, >> yes. >> And the motion passes 43. >> On the consent agenda, is there a
049motion for approval? >> I move. I have a motion. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Have a motion in a second. Any discussion? >> If there are, no, we can call the vote. >> Miss Williams? >> Yes. >> Miss Chesley? >> Yes. >> Miss Karns? >> Yes. >> Miss Lanning? [clears throat] >> Yep. >> Miss Miller? >> Yes. >> Mr. Moore? >> Yes. >> Mr. Richmond? >> Yes. >> And the motion passes. All approved. >> Adminorts. >> Dr. McInness. Yes, good evening. I wanted to speak a little bit about our student advisory council. We met last Friday. It was a little unique situation because I was not well. I was not feeling well and so um we had to do some creative um discussions, but Mr. Carell helped out, Mrs. Dunn helped out
050as well. So, I was able to share some information with our students as far as the common course request form and some planning renovations that are taking place at Venton and Rudoo that are also on the agenda for tonight. And then we summarized last month's dialogue. I did want to point out that when we met with this group of students last week, I was amazed at how the portrait of a graduate dispositions were coming out uh in their communication. So, problem solving, respect, courage, communication, and engaged citizen. These students are truly leaders in our district. And even though I was not feeling very well, they took charge. They literally took over and decided that they did not want this group to be a complaining session or just talking about concerns. And we had one student
051in particular that uh led the group and said, "Let's make this an actionable organization." We want to have subcommittees and let's not just talk about things. Let's problem solve, come up with solutions and pitch it to district leadership. So that's what they're doing and we're going to go with it. So the committees that they established, one of them is academics and some of the topics that they came up with that one is class rank. So we've heard about that one as far as students at Lafayette were competing for class rank. Could they have a central class ranked and a Lafayette class ranked next year? So that's something that they are talking about. National Honor Society was also one. They want to maintain Lampians, which is an honor society that's specific to Lafayette students. They talked
052about graduation traditions and preserving some of the academic awards, uh, specifically the cups that take place at Lafayette. and they mentioned having co- student body officers for next year's student government groups which I thought was unique and so that was everything wrapped up in the academics committee and then the second committee was the climate and culture piece that Mr. shot spoke to and they talked about ways to provide an [snorts] inclusive and welcoming environment and I loved how one student stated this starts with us. It starts with the students. Um events next year they talked about combining traditions from all schools and they talked about connecting with students now that are within their grade level um to start building those connections and relationships. They talked about coordinating a combined student council day this spring. And
053then they also mentioned joined clubs and activities. So starting some joint practices, join meetings and having some team bondings as far as climate culture goes and activities. The third group all centered around enrollment growth. And so this group really wanted to get strategic with ways to come up with solutions for possible overcrowding in hallways or lunch. how we can handle assemblies, bathrooms, and they mentioned some strategic scheduling. They also wanted to address parking, ensuring safety, and having activity options for students in the off season. So, I wanted to share with you a few statements that I heard from our students on Friday that were meaningful to me. and one of them is a shout out to JOTC because they are already having some joined opportunities and activities among those um organizations at the three schools.
054Another student said they say iron sharpens iron so larger teams with more competition can be good in the long run. And then the last one says I hope the narrative will change from three high schools to one St. Joseph school district. And so I just want you to know those things that our students are seeing this as a challenge but they are problem solving. They are coming up with solutions and they are working collaboratively to move forward in a positive manner. So I want to share those things and from our students we will continue to do that monthly and I'll report out and then I will also speak at the district reorganization item a little bit later on the agenda. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Any questions? >> Can we get minutes for that?
055>> I can do my best. >> See, that's always Okay. So, can we um as a board talk about whether or not we'd like minutes from these meetings because that's what always happens. We say we'll try and then we don't ever get them. So, if you don't want to hear from me and the best is all we can do as a board. Do we want those minutes? >> I do like hearing the updates. I would actually like to see things that they came up, things that they're scared of, things that they um suggestions they have made. >> I can share that in my report. >> Yes. >> Perfect. >> Okay. If there are no other questions, >> happy Monday. >> All right. So, I'm going to kick it off here with building bridges. It's not
056the building bridges that you think of here in St. Joe. It's the building bridges program for DESIE and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education um sent out a um kind of a pilot program and said if there are interested districts and local universities who want to come together and um think about how ways to strengthen partnership between the two so that we were connected. Um boy, I reached out to Dr. Richardson at Missouri Western who chairs the education department and she and Miss Chzn applied for the grant for Missouri Western. And so on November um we November 13th we ventured down to Columbia, Missouri. And um one of the key things that um we were wanting to lead up was that um literacy connection, the strengthening the literacy between Missouri Western and the St.
057school district and also ensuring that I know you guys have heard a number of times letters um the work that's happening in the state level with the um scholarship grant for teacher learning um in that work and um that collaboration when Miss Chassy and I worked with um other districts and um local universities they were surprised about our partnership with Hosia um and they thought it was a forwardthinking approach to tackling pretty much the states 's number one issue is recruiting and retaining highquality educators. And so, um, they tasked us to, uh, put together a video to share the work that's happening at Hosia so that we could, um, they could share that at the state level. Um, and I believe Kevin has that ready to go. >> Hands up if you can hear me.
058[music] >> Hands on your shoulders if you can hear me. Hands on your head. Hands on your lap. >> Good job. As part of our education majors coursework, we have a partnership with Hosia where we come to class at Josea School rather than on Missouri Western's campus. We are so lucky in St. Joe to have a university right here in our community. Um, we work really hard with the St. Joe School District to try to get our students in classrooms as much as possible. So, we meet each Tuesday for about 2 and 1/2 hours. My students um get learning coursework and then with a partner they coordinate and go out into classrooms and do actual teaching. So they're able to learn lesson planning strategies, collaboration strategies, and classroom management strategies because they're in classrooms with
059real children. [music] >> He checked in there. >> Yeah. She showed them up. She said, "It's okay. You made a mistake." But we all make mistakes, right? We reflect on their experience in the classroom after they're done. We talk about um some additional behavior management strategies they might want to use, some different [music] teaching tips. They get to execute a lesson plan each week and therefore they can figure out what works and what doesn't work based on a reflection they have after the fact. So the class word right now is integrated arts in the elementary classroom. So, we have an integrated arts lesson that goes with an English lesson like standard. And so, we're on day two. We're having the kids create a collage off of the book, The Invisible Boy. And that's going to
060be our day two and final day for our lesson plans today. >> I think it's really important for us so we can actually be in classrooms cuz your learning doesn't happen outside of a classroom. It happens in classrooms with kids cuz that's going to be more unpredictable. You get more hands-on experience. >> They love it. They I think they look forward to like every Tuesday when we come in, they always are so excited and asking us what we're going to do this week and what we're going to do next week. And they're always just so excited to see us and to get to learn from us and hang out with us. >> As soon as I walk in, I'm greeted with hugs and hi Miss Meredith, hi Miss Kylo, which is my partner. and they
061just are really uh joyful to have us here and they're really locked in on our lesson cuz we're new and we're exciting and we only get to be here once a week. So they're they're very um happy when we get to be here. >> Set go. >> So we get a lot of opportunity to be proactive that your good planning will help you be proactive. Therefore that is a classroom management strategy. to make sure you're prepared. They have to bring materials with them. They have to plan for those materials. So, they really get an experience with the full gamut of of teaching. I think it's important for the community because you're growing the next generation of teachers. And I think that truly the only way you learn how to be a teacher is if you
062teach and if you're in the classroom. So, I think that this is us building and growing our skills and having experienced teachers help us is just the the best way to learn. >> Does it like that? Thank you. >> I want to I want to thank Becky Dunn and John Morris for capturing all that work. And again, Miss Chzn for allowing us to come down to Hosia to videotape that to share out um at the state level. Um we we're truly honored um that the St. school district and Mo West um are innovators and forward thinking um in this work and um we actually have another meeting this Thursday. Um it's a virtual meeting. So, Miss Chzy, anything you want to add to it? I would like to really thank the teachers um who let
063my students come in because they they take a break from what they were doing and they allow my students to really practice management and they support them. They give them feedback. they fill out a rubric um after the students are done teaching to give them um positive feedback and also some suggestions of what they can do better. And I just really appreciate the fact that they're so welcoming and several of my students have ended up teaching at OIA based on um having had that experience. So I appreciate them a lot. >> Good. >> Thank you. >> Nice work. >> Thanks. Now, I know I spoke about elementary, but I also wanted to share something that's happening on the secondary side. And I'm sure you've seen on social media the um oh, the Altech trucks and
064the linemen and um all the great things happening with our uh digital publication course at the eighth grade level and our senior English course. Um and so when we speak about um postsecary and success of our students, we're also talking about those client connected projects. Um, and on the back of what I wanted to share out today is um, you know how I am, I start with data. And so I took a snapshot of the um, district report card and it gives um, just kind of a a picture of the outcome of the class of 2025 and it provides some important context for our goal, which is number three. um ensuring that our students um are moving into those college and career pathways. Throughout this year, our team um teachers and students and our leadership
065team have been actively engaged in the Kaufman Foundation and their work with real world learning. Um we have toured so many districts um Piper um Winnatonka um center um a number of districts who are already leading forward in this work. we have taken our teachers on professional learning days and so we are synthesizing all of that learning and coming together to create what we hope is a tiered diploma um in that um piece. And so what you'll see is that our goal is that every student in the class of 30 um will not only graduate with a high school diploma um but also a tangible skill, a credential or experience that's recognized by employers, post-secondary institutions andor the community. Um and the Kansas City Real World Learning Network identifies those categories, those market value assets,
066and you'll see those listed there. Um, again, this is why you'll see several of our students participating in the Altech Innovation Challenge so that we can grant them those experiences or those client connected project works with the make 48 where they're working with EverG in those client connected per uh work where um just the other day Dr. Davis, Dr. Rita and myself working with Beringer Ingleheim to ensure that um we are leaning forward with a biio manufacturing certification that our students might be able to achieve by the time they graduate. These are all partnerships that are important to us. Not only the high school diploma is is is so so very critical and important, but these certifications so that we can grant our students the um resume skills necessary to be competitive and a um
067after high school. >> Impressive. >> So um I I'm going to give a little plug here because on March 19th, Dr. Davis, Dr. Green and myself at our academic service committee meeting are going to lead up um some of this work that we've been exploring and kind of putting together and brainstorming with teachers. So we look forward to going more in depth on those market value assets. >> Thank you Miss Stutter. >> Okay the budget amendment. >> Yes. So here every year we update the board uh to give you financial update on budget amendment. And so uh the first one is in October uh that's when you know your tax rate that's you know your enrollment uh your assess valuation. So that is uh time to give the board an update to ask them to
068update either revenue accounts or expense accounts based on the information we know. And then February is a good time because we're halfway through the year. We can look at our expenses, see how we're tracking, then also track our revenues as well. And so some of the things I wanted to highlight in October, uh the operating fund balance was listed as 9.97 and the amendment I have for you today has us at 9.99. Uh you can see after a anticipated transfer from fund one to fund 4, um we are in the black by about 582, $164. So uh feels good to have a balanced budget. feels good to stop that mo downward momentum that we had over the last couple years. Um and then to build up off of that. Uh some of the things that
069were adjusted is salary and benefits were slightly adjusted. We have that halfway point. We're able to see um you know where we projected that to be at that was slightly slightly increased. And then on the revenue side um we have uh a higher anticipated payment for um our Eminem tax. We also had the Missouri quality prek grant. Um, and then additionally on that revenue side, um, we had additional Medicaid payments for this year. So, um, be happy to answer any questions for any of the accounts, whether they're revenue or expense accounts, um, that you see before you. I will have one more budget amendment at the end of June. That will be our final budget amendment. Um, and of course in that June time, I'll also have a preliminary budget for the next fiscal year
070as well. So I'll have two in that June meeting. >> Okay, if there are no questions, is there a motion for approval? >> I have a motion. Is there a second? >> I'll second it. >> Have a motion in a second. Any additional discussion? If there are to call the vote, please. >> Miss Williams. Yes, >> Miss Chesby. >> Yes, >> Miss Karns. >> Yes, >> Miss Laneing. >> Yes, >> Miss Miller. >> Yes, >> Mr. Moore. >> Yes, >> Mr. Richmond. >> Yes. >> And the motion passes. All approved. >> Approval of the bills. >> All right. I ask for approval of the bills as presented. Um, one thing I did want to note is, um, as you look through the bills, compare them to last year, you'll see, uh, lower expenses for, uh,
071EverG and Spire. And so our um energy efficiency projects that have been worked on the last couple years have been showing um in our financials. Um also last week's buyer came out um and gave um Casey Houseman and myself a check for over $20,000 uh as an energy rebate for some of those projects that were done. So um we are seeing some real dollars to those projects and um continuing to see our budget for utilities come in lower than expected u because of those. So, um, be happy to answer any questions you might have about that or, um, the things that are listed here in the payments. >> Make a motion to approve the bills. >> Second. >> I have a motion to second. Any additional discussion? If there are none, would you call the
072vote? >> Miss Williams? >> Yes. >> Miss Chestn? >> Yes. >> Miss Karns? >> Yes. >> Miss Laney? >> Yes. >> Miss Miller? >> Yes. >> Mr. Moore? >> Yes. >> Mr. Richmond? >> Yes. And the motion passes. All approved. Okay. Financials. >> All right. So, if we could bring up the bond um tracking documents and put that on the board for you. Thank you very much. So, we made a um additional line item for this document that shows you the premium and interest um on our bond at the very bottom there. uh totals um 100 or sorry 1,844,3559. Um that is the premium and interest to date. Of course, every month that there are funds in that account continues to earn interest and build on that. Um we do have something called arbitrage and
073what that is is because we sold taxes and bonds um the IRS makes rules that we have so long to spend that down or we can only cap our interest over a certain rate. And so, um, our deadline to do that is June. And we have, um, until that time to spend that or we would have to pay back about a little over $200,000 worth of that interest. And so, um, we are pretty much close to closing out a lot of our projects. We still have a little bit to do with the turf and athletic field to finish those out. And then we have some retainings left um, on a couple different items. Um, I I think one of those might be um, Oak Grove, but we are coming towards the end. So, we do
074need to go ahead and allocate those funds, whether it's for things that we need for uh next year for reorganization um or we also spend some additional dollars in our CIP budgets for HVAC, we can allocate that towards uh bond savings because those word was listed in the bond language. Um and so we don't have to make that decision today. We just need to make it sometime before June. Um, but just wanted to show the total amount that we have available. Um, from the 20 million $20 million bond sold, the premium it was sold at, and the interest on that bond. You can see it totals um close to 22 million, just shy. So, happy to answer any questions um on bond expenses and the total we have available. >> You you mentioned um 1.8
075million. Um I I'm not seeing that figure on here. Where is that? Yeah. So, the bond was a $20 million bond and so that total at the very lower left. >> Anything over 20 million is premium and interest. >> I see that. >> Oh, go ahead Joel. >> No, I'm sorry. >> Um, so we have the total. So, the 20 million plus the 1.8 >> 44, right? So, can we get of that one of that 1.8 8 million what we're kind of already obligating like through the Benton renovation any other is anything else other than the Benton renovation supposed to be coming out of that or >> you can use that for Benton renovation you just need to spend it before June um you don't have to use it for bitten renovation um that's just
076an option >> so I thought that's where the benton renovation was coming from >> it's an option we have that available if if you want to use it for bent renovation we would just want to spend it before June because that's the deadline for arbitrage So where's the Benton renovation coming from? >> So it can either come from that savings or it' be in the fiscal budget for next year in capital projects. >> So this is this is where I just get worried and frustrated is that we already approved a $500,000 bitten renovation, a couple other things, and now we're like where is it going to come from? You've only approved 30 some,000 for the architect to do the design development on it. You have not approved those bids yet. Those bids will come in
077April um when NAB holes puts those out to bid to approve the construction on that. You've only approved, >> right? And and I get that. But part of our conversation during the work session, part of our conver tell me if I'm losing my mind. I don't think I am. Well, I am. But during the work session, we talked about we're not going to spend essentially more than some of our paras and frontline staff get over $34,000 if we're not also going to follow that up with a $500,000 renovation to Benton. Like I was under the impression that we were all committing to that and when we said, "Well, where's this money going to come from?" We said, "It's going to come from here." Am I >> No. No. >> I thought it was going to
078come out at the of this extra money. >> You have not voted to >> to do that. What I'm saying is you have that availability. That is up to you. That's your choice. That's all I'm saying. And I get that. >> That's what I remember the discussion being that that's a that was a possibility that we would have some funds available at the end of the bond that we could use for that purpose. That's the discussion. >> But I know it's not official and I know that it's not like a vote. Okay. But like if it's if it's what we were like I think that we all agreed, you know, that we were going to use all this extra money on the renovations. And so if it's not going to come out of that, okay,
079so then what are we using this extra money for? And where's it going to come out of? In my mind, it just makes more sense and it's what we all agreed on. >> Absolutely. it. Well, we didn't have a vote, but you certainly can. The option's there. All All we need to do is is get a board approval to vote for it. Uh we don't have the bids. We won't have that till April. That's an option for you. All I'm saying is you want to do it before June because if you don't, you have to pay over 200,000 back for arbitrage. And so, it is simply an option. I'm putting it on the table for you. It is for you to decide. I just I guess I'd like for you to come back with an
080option of making sure that we don't have to pay the $200,000 and that we if we have to allocate that from um for the extra that we spent on on something else this year for capital project um that we can apply that we do it um and replace that money in essence with um with with what we need to do. I'm just concerned about if we use it for the vent. I I think that's what we want to do. I don't disagree that's what we want to do, but I'm not sure it can happen before June. >> I think the conversation's coming into play. Let's say that arbitrage deadline was November of 2026. We wouldn't necessarily be talking through this as carefully, but because the deadline is June, I'm just trying to make sure the
081the district gets as much as they can in value out of the interest we've earned on that. There's many districts that have made this mistake, had to pay over a million dollars on bigger projects back in arbitrage that they didn't realize they didn't track correctly. So, I'm just trying to make sure we stay on top of it. We have those conversations now and we know we need to make a decision before June about what it is >> and and I totally I I understand that. I just feel like we made a decision to spend and I again I remember back two meetings ago that I said we shouldn't be entering into a contract with DLR for $34,000 unless we're committing to moving forward with the Benton renovation which I thought we had all agreed to
082that yep we have to do it for spatial reasons anyway. We approve the B we approve the DLR contract and now we're kind of like well we could take it from here or there. I am just saying and and I and I don't know I'm not trying to to cast blame on anyone. I think it's the fact that we are doing this so quickly and it just really feels like we are building a boat while we are in the water and so that does not if if the if the future plan is to get a new high school this I this process is not building trust with the community. That's my concern. I again I understand the deadlines. I understand what you're talking about, but we've made a commitment to a $500,000 renovation and we
083can't even definitively say where we're going to get the money from. >> Yes, we can. I definitely said two sources, savings from the bond or CIP from either one. It's your choice. It It's your choice. You have options, but it doesn't matter which one you take it from. All I'm saying is you want to maximize your interest on this. So, you want to do it before June so you don't have to pay it back. But don't you think before you commit to making a >> never mind. >> We committed to the DLR for the contract to do design development >> and as they'll have present to you. We have that in the discussion tonight as it gets to the district organization. I have the design development plans that they have and we can continue that
084discussion. Then >> I I repeat I'd like for you to come back with a recommendation so we don't lose so we don't get any kind of penalty. And uh I think that what you're hearing kind of from the board is if we can do it from the bonds um from a timing standpoint, let's do it. If we can't do it um then let's figure out which which of the other capital projects we can have done and then fill that out with capital. >> Absolutely. >> So I was going to ask that if it's not used on renovation, what would you use it on >> for the additional HVAC projects we did out of CI this year? >> Thank you. Those were already approved back last spring. >> They're already >> And they're already completed. >>
085Paid for. >> Absolutely. >> Okay. >> Any additional discussion? I have to look where we are. My apologies. Okay. >> Is there a motion for approval? Thank you. >> Are we voting on the January financial did you have any other comments you want to make on that other than the the budget adjustment? >> Uh the only thing is on the actual financials itself. Um I did want to mention on healthcare trust fund we just have over 5.1 million um in that fund. And then also you'll notice that uh we are over 90% on revenue for local collected to date. So I want to thank our community. Um not everybody has as high collection rate as we do. So appreciate that. And then you'll see the county is above 100% uh due to M&M sir tax
086payment. >> Did you say that? Did you say that the Oak Road project is done, not started? Where is that one at? >> Just retainage. So they hold by retainage until everything's been signed off on and then that last retainage bill's come in. Casey, do you know if that retainage invoice has come in on that one yet? >> It has. Okay. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> No problem. >> You mentioned the expenditures on the revised budget and I probably should have asked then are you projecting um any um change you know from the local um taxes for the um I mean is there is there some potential improvement that you think could happen revenue side for June? >> Um I'm hopeful. Um, you know, as you continue to track, you know, financials and looking,
087you know, local over 90%, we pretty much, you know, pretty secure in what we're going to get as far as that goes. Um, you know, nice surprise on the county again with no sir tax. Uh, we continue to claim for federal reimbursement for title funds. Um, we have another application in um and then Medicaid has been trending above um re receipts to date, which is, you know, a a good and bad thing. you don't want to ever, you know, want to, you know, have to apply for too many things for Medicaid because it means, you know, there's different things going on that I can't get into, but as a student information. So, uh, but it is good to know we have a process that we're claiming for those things and getting getting those revenues in
088um, going forward. So, I would say what you see there for the February revenue um, is going to be pretty similar. What I'm hoping is on the expenditure side, everybody has been very diligent about being frugal with dollars that we come under budget on some of the expense sites for supplies and purchase services to have a budget that has higher than 10% on the operating fund balance. >> Yeah. And I I'm I'm with you in terms of um it's nice to um quote stop the bleeding or the leakage that I I'm I'm with you on that, but we still have such a hell of it. I'm hoping that um you know, you just can't put all your hopes in the next year and the next year. Um I'm hoping that we can make a little
089a little bit of positive progress on this year. >> Absolutely. Yeah, I hope too. >> Okay. Is there a motion? >> I'll make the motion. >> Thank you, Mr. Tom. Is there a second? >> I'll second it. >> Thank you. Would you call the vote, please? >> Miss Williams? >> Yes. >> Miss Chestn? >> Yes. >> Miss Karns? >> Yes. Miss Lane, >> yes. >> Miss Miller, >> yes. >> Mr. Moore, >> yes. >> Mr. Richmond, >> yes. >> And the motion passes. All approved. Personnel report. Mr. Pro. [clears throat] >> All right. Before I get to the report, um, a couple weeks ago, I attended a conference, um, personnel conference led by Ed Counsel. Um, here here's the wonderful thing. I know there's been been some questions and um possibly the personnel report going
090to close session. Um I'm here just to present information to you and then you guys are the ones that really get to decide how we move forward. um they have recommended um not just to us but to all individuals that were at this conference that personnel reports be discussed in executive session due to the potential of identifiable information being shared. Um if there are questions if there are concerns raised about specific individuals it's impossible to be able to ask those questions. Um, for example, we went through a scenario where it said, um, there was a certain individual that a board member had a concern about because they they knew them personally. Um, and they pulled them and they and they said, "I would like to pull this individual from the personnel report and that already
091raised some red flags about this individual." So people watching um then knew there was a cons there was a concern about staff member X. So we have to be extremely careful moving forward. We've already had a couple situations where there were some questions asked that were that could have could have created some some concerns about some um personal identif identifiable information. Um if you would like this change, we want to know if it's the will of the board um to make this change. um to be effective in March. Um if we did make this change, the personnel report would become public within 72 hours. Doesn't mean we have to wait 72 hours. Um but we are required to make it public. It wouldn't be any different than our supplemental report tonight. It is not currently
092public because it was finished today around um 2:00. So it wouldn't be any different than that. Um the full report is not out there. Anybody have any questions about that? We just want to know that the will of the board is moving forward. >> It's not a question, it's a comment. >> All of us are elected officials and when we were running we constantly over and over transparency transparency transparency and that's why people elected us and so it is maddening in that we do the most in order to do the opposite of that. I do understand you know that you are I do understand legal's advice and I do understand why I think that all of us are adults enough in order to handle the responsibilities of a personnel report. So, all right. Can we
093get the I mean, if this is legal's recommendation, can we not get that recommendation? Because I would I would like to ask questions, but I don't know that we'll have them. Like, I'd like to talk to legal about why that change is. Can we put that Can we discuss that with them? >> Sure. >> That's not cuz that's not on closed today, right? >> No. >> Okay. Sometimes things get added. I mean, it would be nice to be able to hear from them like because I know I've seen many many many other school districts and I get that practices change, but I've seen many other school districts where they have folks's names right on the agenda and what they're going to and I've always considered that to be again because it's a public school and
094you want to know who's going to be around your kids and if there's something wild that's kind of the public's prerogative, good or bad. Um, I would just like to have legal counsel explain this to us like what what precipitated the change, what that would look like. >> That's just >> I would agree with you. I mean, if we're making advice if we're making a decision on the advice of legal counsel, can we at least look at the council that they gave us? >> And I can get them I can speak with them this week and put it in my weekly update. >> That would be helpful. >> I love emails. That's great. But It it would be nice if they could come to close session and they could explain here's what I mean because
095I can read a real long email but there's not much back and forth that can happen. So if I mean we've we're having close session at the end of every work session. We have a lot of closed sessions efficiently use them. >> Mr. Carell, I appreciate that because sometimes we do have comments that we make about particular personnel. So I think what comes out when it is printed on the agenda it's probably a finished product where that discussion has passed all the information that or the questions that we have with about those particular staff members have been uh determined the end result is then then to post them. So, I appreciate that that there may be some things that people do not want out in public until we know for a fact. If there is
096an issue, if there's a personal issue, that is a place to discuss it in the executive session. But I agree, I like it when it's posted. It does give people a heads up, but only after all those questions and discussions are taken care of. >> Well, okay. That is the exact opposite of what we decided to do with other members of the district. It's the exact opposite. I don't think it I don't think transparency is putting a name out here and and talking about a person out here if we have issues or if there's something that we may not particularly like. about us looking at names and discussing. We decided against that for other members of the staff. >> I don't think that's the case. >> Okay. You know, Mark, I'm I tend to be
097supportive of the council um on this in that right now you pull names that you know may be um sensitive and controversial from your from your lens that you're seeing. But I think that um it does having this does prohibit us a little bit from being able to ask a question if we have some question on this on this report. And if it's not going to be a big delay, I don't see it being a lack of transparency. I think it being a way that mo most organizations handle things related to personnel. >> Okay. But most organizations are not a public school board either. I mean, I can understand like a business or like a company, you know, that a portion of our jobs is keeping the community informed and it appears like every meeting
098we're asking to do more and more things in the back and that is extremely disturbing to me. >> Yeah, actually our our agenda there is normally very small. um we we you know um we don't do that many things back there. Um and and even as we read the adjourning to that thing, it talks about if there's things related to personnel. Um that's what close session is for. And I I I you know, we may disagree and I'm I'm glad I've been glad enough either way, but I I um I think in I I don't think it's a hindrance to the um community to expose things that um are in consideration and need open discussion by the people that have been chosen to do that. >> Have individuals I respect your decision, you know, but
099I do disagree. Um, I've had lots of individuals in the community tell me the exact opposite of that. >> Well, they're not in they're not in close session. They, you know, >> I'm talking about our community expects as much transparency as we're able to give it. And I do understand about the legal ramifications >> we do that. That's what I'm saying. I think that's a myth that happens that there's some backroom things that take place and I for one don't have not experienced that. >> Listen, I again I'm only one person and this is I'm that's fine. But I just think we really ought to be more cognizant of what we're doing and when we're doing it. I think this is a really unfortunate timing again because we're talking about all these things that we're
100doing. We're talking about moving them to close session. I don't think that that throughout this reorganization process that the community has felt like we have been transparent. Um whether we believe that or not, that's kind of a belief. So then when we start doing other things, unless it sometimes feels like we're back to this kind of uh culture of we know better, we're going to do it whether you kind of support it or not. Uh and and that's if if I'm the only one that thinks that and everyone else in the community, I it I'll stop. I'll stop. >> I don't know. I get why we need to discuss personnel back there, but I am in agreeance with Whitney. I want to know why like one minute one thing's okay to discuss here and the
101next minute we have to discuss it back there and that's why I want to ask Ed counsel >> I agree >> and there's not a motion and we can actually ask Ed counsel prior to making a decision about this um about the personnel report. >> Yep. So the personnel report and the supplemental report have been submitted for your review. Uh, if you don't have any questions on those, I ask for a motion for approval. >> A motion. >> I have a motion. Is there a second? >> A second. >> Motion and a second. Any discussion? Any additional discussion? >> So, have we agreed to So, is the con will of the board to have a council come to the next close session to talk about this or are we just doing it? No, we're not
102just doing it, but we will get council from we will get ideas from ed counsel in order to make a decision. >> I think that's a good idea. >> Anything else? Okay, you can call the vote. >> Miss Williams, >> I abstain. >> Miss Chesn, >> yes. >> Miss Karns, >> yes. >> Miss Laney, >> yes. >> Miss Miller, >> yes. Mr. Moore, >> yes. >> Mr. Richmond, >> yes. [snorts] >> And the motion passes with an abstension and it is over a member of my family. It is not over. Any discussion, anything like that? Okay. Action items number 9A, health insurance. Is that you? >> Yes. Thank you. >> Uh so we have Mr. Matt Tritz here from Locked in that is our insurance broker. And before uh he goes in the presentation, just
103want to talk a little bit about the background. Um so Mr. Carell and I u facilitated our salary benefits committee um to talk about our salary benefits for this year. And one of the things that we need to bring to the forefront a little bit quicker than some of the um salary recommendations is our benefits. So the springtime is when um our employees, you know, get um that notification that it's time to sign up for benefits to start for next year and get our HR department working through that. Um, so we had a lot of good conversations with our sound and benefits committee. Um, it started with, you know, Mark and I meeting with Lockton in the fall and kind of looking at um, some trends for healthcare costs and what that looks like and
104how that applies to some of our plans. Um, so with that said, I'll go ahead and turn it over to Matt and let him um, go ahead and give the presentation and actually have a little picture for you. So it should take Okay. I can do it. >> Is the receiver that >> plugged in? I can go ahead and do it for you. You want to go for it? >> Just go ahead and >> it's not that many pages. >> Yeah, it's only five or six. >> Thank you, Dr. Hedgeforth, and thank you administration and members of the board for inviting us in. So, my name is Matt Tritz, uh, senior vice president with Lockton. We're headquartered in Kansas City, and we proudly served, uh, the district as your broker, consultant, uh, advisor related to
105health insurance program for seven or eight years now. So, you can go ahead go to the first slide, please. What we're going to go through here in just a few minutes, uh, today, just a little bit of information and some numbers, right? And we'll start looking into your renewal for next year. As a reminder, uh the big the big item we're going to talk the most about is your medical plan with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City. And just a quick refresher on the way that's structured, that is a self-funded uh insurance program. So, we kind of we set our own budget. Our job as your consultant, advisor, and broker is to monitor plan performance and report how you're doing according to your budget. Um and then we work with Dr. Hedgeorth and uh
106Mark and the rest of the benefit committee to kind of work through decisions. So, just the top four items here are in bold. These are the ones that are up for renewal. Your plan year renews every July 1st. So, we've got our uh medical pharmacy with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City. You also purchase stop-loss coverage or reinsurance coverage is another name for that. It also renews July 1st. Right now, that's also purchased through Blue Cross of Kansas City, but we will do a marketing effort um and take a look at a few different carriers for you. Um you have another administration vendor that handles things like your flexible spending accounts, Cobra administration, retirey building called called Task uh that contract also will renew. Uh we are looking at some options uh uh perhaps
107to replace that service and then uh TRIA Health is another one. So the just real quick the uh benefit committee has already made a recommendation on two of these uh programs. which you'll see up there at top open cross they have a program called uh smart shopper that program has been uh recommended to be discontinued and there at the bottom tree of health that's another program that's been recommended to be discontinued uh as of July 1st you can go to the next slide please so this what we're looking at here uh a few numbers on the page basically this is a snapshot of the uh cost projection starting July I1 2026 that would run into next year June to June 30th of 2027. So what we do uh is just look back at historical claims.
108So and we waited. So basically we're looking at 24 months of your claims from your plan. We give uh 70% waiting to the most recent 12 and 30% to uh the prior 12 and then we trend that forward uh to come up with this projection considering what your incurred claims are going to be, how much you pay in administration charges, how much you pay in stop-loss premium, um how much you see the the board funds, health savings accounts and a few other items there and we come up with a total plan cost estimate. So, this is estimating as is, if you didn't make any changes uh to the way things are structured right now, uh just just shy of $20 million. So, uh $19.5 million, which is um about 12% uh higher than what you're
109budgeting for this year. And just for a little context, uh the district has been really fortunate. I'd say um over the last seven or eight years, you had some really, really good years in there. last year um was not so good and this is just all a function of claims, right, that go through the health plan. Um last year was the worst one you had in five or six and this one is shaping up to be just as bad as last year if not a little bit worse. So claims are running a little hot just to put it in perspective. So let's go to the next slide. um [clears throat] in the in the spirit of providing valuable benefits and also trying to be efficient, you know, the benefit committee got together and actually um
110was decided last year. You've always had three options. Um they they voted to go ahead and replace one option, the uh EPO plan. Uh so that plan is going to be discontinued uh July 1st this year, but we're going to add another option called a PO. It's PO2 plan, a base plan. Um, this still provides a great choice for employees. You've got a two different PO plans and the VIA plan is your $1,500 plan. Um, $3,000 deductible for your family. And I won't go through all the features of the benefit, but that that plan is unchanged. You have your high deductible health plan, which has got the majority of your enrollment in there. That plan is unchanged. And then the new plan, PBO2 base plan. um which um also just provides another option a lower
111cost option uh for employees to pick from. So this is what's going to be proposed um for adoption July 1. Go to the next slide. I got to put my glasses on. So that's just a second. So employee ask a quick question on BP1. Is it uh are those numbers there that um in network those things are they the same as last year or is there changes from >> they're they're the same >> same so all that stayed the same in the new I >> um the PO stays the same on the high deductible health plan column um this is regulated by the IRS because we have health savings accounts attached to them and they're pre-tax so you anytime you get into tax you have to deal with the IRS so what they typically do
112is index up those deductibles. So you see a little aster by HDHP up there and a note on the bottom. It says deductibles will increase per IRS requirements. There's not anything we can do about it. It's regulated by the IRS and they they index those every year. >> Thank you. >> So what you're looking at here employee contribution modeling um the sheet is kind of cut you know in two sides. So on the left side you've got current year which is 2526. These are budget rates. I'll just kind of go left to right so you can orient yourself with the page. Um on the far left you 2526 funding rate. We could also say that's your budget rate or the a premium equivalent, right? Um we have HSA seed amount. So anybody that's enrolled in
113your high deductible plan, the district is seeding a health savings account. And then you have a gross rate and then there's payroll deductions which we call employee contributions. We've got percentage split and then we've got a district net monthly plan cost. So it's set up the same on both sides of the page. 2526 is on the left, 26 and 27 is on the right. So you can see the PO plan. [clears throat] Um really what's happening here, you're going across and just to look at what's going to happen to payroll deductions. Um, and before I get there, one modification I guess that the committee has made which is a positive one. The district will be contributing the same amount of money in the employeeonly tiers. So we'll draw a distinction if you look um employee
114only in 2627 on the PO plan says $935. And then if you go down to the high deductible health plan for employee only it's $935. And then the new PO plan also is 935. This is a little adjustment. It's not like that right now. So, they're making a little adjustment going into next year, which is good to have some consistency in those tiers. So, that's a positive change, but we do have increasing costs and we're sharing in that cost with the employee contributions. So, you can follow along. Um, if you look at the 2526 rates, employee contributions for the PO were $5153. Those are being proposed to increase up to 8103. And then you can kind of follow down the EPO plan, as we said before, this was the most expensive plan, right? So, anybody
115that's in that plan won't have that an option anymore, but the other options they have are all less expensive for them. So, um, we will go to the high deductible health plan. This one is zero plan. So, you're still offering, uh, an option for employee only where they have zero payroll deductions, which is fantastic. And then you can see what the proposed increases are for the other tiers. And then the new PBO plan, also a lower cost option. So through some of this work um you know [clears throat] the original projection was calling for a 12% increase some of these changes right with the plan design and uh the employee contributions we're trying to trying to provide a valuable benefit um at the same time trying to just uh be responsible with with dollars. we
116go to the next slide. So this one's pretty simple and I'll show you some benchmarking that'll just take a second after this because this one by itself just shows where the HSA seed amount which has been a very uh effective program for your employees what the district has been contributing is um you know if you look at a bell you're way on the high average right um as far as benchmarks compared to what other districts provide as an HSA seed. So, we're still going to be uh way above average. Um but we're going to reduce the amount down to 16667 um for next year starting July 1st. So, if you go to page eight, please, it says peer benchmarking PO on top. So, what we've done, remember your PBO one plan, the $1,500 deductible. We
117just laid this next to a couple of school districts and the committee's looked at at at more extensive benchmarking at this, but this gives you a few ideas. Um, what I want to call your attention to is on the bottom the employee contributions monthly. Um, you can see even if we if we [clears throat] raise those up, they're going to go up next year um to 81. You're still offering um an enormous value for the benefit that they're getting here through payroll deductions. So I would still say your plan is well above average from an offering perspective. Um and moving on to the next page, pure benchmarking for the high deductible health plan. Um again the seed amount um that you guys offer is um well in excess of almost anybody else. Kind of right
118in the middle of the page. It says employer annual annual seed. You can see where you guys are. But then if you look at the other districts that are around the area, um you're you're double right what they are. So even with the reduction, you're going to be offering a very valuable benefit here that many of your employees take advantage of. Page 10 is just another snapshot of some HSC benchmarking as we're always looking what other districts are doing and how you guys are stacking up from a value perspective. With that, I'm happy to answer any questions. I know insurance not a great topic. Maybe better than legal or lawyers. Not great, but happy to answer any questions if we have any. >> Thank you. >> Good presentation. >> So, tonight we are asking for
119the board to approve this plan so we can start um with the pre-enrollment process to get everything set up uh with Vinnie Express uh which is our the system which our employees will sign up uh for their health plan through. Um, and before I asked for an approval, I do want to really thank the salary and benefits committee. Um, you know, I really felt like they looked at this from a standpoint. You know, do they love that the HSA seat is going down a little bit? No. Do they love that some of the, you know, contributions they'll have to make going up? No. They they did not like that. But they understood that the 12% increase was over $2 million to the district and we weren't in a position where we could take on that
120entire cost. So we had to come try to meet in the middle. Um and through a lot of conversations um and a lot of you know back and forth some ideas you know I think we came to a spot where um you know they don't love it but they they feel uh good about it and they understand it if that makes sense. So I I hope next year that I can bring back a plan that has no cost increase but right now you know health insurance costs unfortunately are just continue to rise and rise and rise nationwide. How many >> how many people are on the EPO? It's it's not many, but how many are there? >> Yeah, on the last plan it showed it. Could you go back to that slide that showed both
121years side by side? It was around 150. Um that Oh, back that one. Yeah. >> So on the very left hand side, so you have 155 employee only EPO, seven employee and spouse, eight employee and child and 12 family. So I guess my my only um concern or um encouragement would be to have some good communication with those folks. They I know that they um we talked about this after the last work session that they were all very concerned. Um and I know and I I know we have talked about this at the board level for quite some time. I think this is probably the third year um that we've said okay next year and this is this is happening. So we've talked about that you know you were here. >> Uh yeah so we
122I talked about about terminating EPO plan for a while but I and I do know when people listen to insurance the eyes glaze over. No offense you're riveting. It was riveting. >> Um, but I do think, you know, people it's it's hard to con it's hard to understand sometimes when you're not in it a lot. So, I just think our communication with the with them um is really important. >> Yeah. No, duly noted. Um, and we even talked about, you know, possibly do we keep it on one more year and one of the committee members said, you know, we said this was the last year we need to stay with it cuz I was new. So, I was like, okay, you know, kind of bring me on the conversation about why you guys decided to
123end it. and you know, do you want to keep it? And they, you know, they said, "No, we said we're going to end it. We need to go ahead." One of the good things about um a PO is that if you have out of network cost, um there is coverage for that. It is a 50%, but there's coverage with the EPO. Um if you're not in network, there's no coverage. So, we kind of talked about that a little bit too with the plans. >> Yeah, these are these are really hard when you don't lose a plan. Um, a couple of talking points, you know, just from my other experiences. Um, when this happens, when you set sunset a plan, and in this case, um, they still it it, um, most of the people in this
124plan have been in it for a long time. So, it's just all they know. Um, exploring, asking questions about these other plan may benefit some of these folks in in a few different ways. All of the plans are less expensive from a payroll deduction. And I would contend there's probably a good number of them in that EPO that I would say are overinsaturured. Like that plan was if you look at the payroll deduction, it's very expensive and and hard to justify, right? When you have a really good PBO plan that still has co-pays um or I'm not saying a high deductive plan for everybody, but certainly an option with that HSA and a lower cost option. So we think that we could see their migration into that lower plan. It's nothing more than a guess.
125I mean, we kind of put 15 people or 16 people into that plan. It may or may not be that much. Most of those people in the EPO will probably select that PO plan and it'll be a good option for me. >> I'll move to approve. >> Second. >> I'll second. >> Motion a second. >> Yeah. Sorry. >> You're good. >> Yep. >> Any additional discussion? >> All right. If there is to call the vote, please. >> Miss Williams, >> yes. >> Miss Chesn, >> yes. >> Miss Karns, >> yes. >> Miss Laney, >> yes. >> Miss Miller, >> yes. >> Mr. Moore, >> yes. >> Mr. Richmond, >> yes. >> And the motion passes. All approved. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Next. >> Mr. Chris. All right. You guys should all have uh before
126you the um proposal for the 2627 enhancement grant, state enhancement grant uh for our CTE programs. uh this year um have asked our staff to be especially prudent um if they need equipment obviously feel you know that they could they could request that equipment but um let's make sure that it's something we need given the current financial situation. Um so as it is we are requesting um for the allocation of as it as it if it gets funded at the current level I believe it's a little over $31,000 of district funds um which will get back almost $90,000 of state funds. >> Is there a motion for approval? >> I make a motion to approve. >> Thanks. I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? >> Hey, I'll just add that um Miss Stutter
127shared some interesting data. I thought uh you know the number of our graduates that are going into the workforces versus the state average. I thought it was quite striking. I think the state average was 29% and in in St. Joe in in in in SJSD 42%. >> Yes. >> Uh am I close? you were right on% of our students in our workforce. >> Yeah. I just thought that was a striking uh profile of of who we are. So this kind of stuff that that we're talking about is super important. >> I should also point this out too because you know I don't want to toot my own horn here but and by my own horn I mean Hillary technical. Um, but we're talking about market value assets and we're talking about client connected projects and
128entrepreneurial experiences and we're talking about dual credit options and we're talking about apprenticeships and we're talking about internships, right? Am I missing anything else? >> IRC's. And you know where you can pick up all six of those things? A two-year program at Hillyard Technical Center. All six. And we're talking about just trying to get at least one for everybody. Good. Thank you. >> I like the $30,000 cost and $90,000 payback, right? >> Can you could you um expand that a little bit? That No, I don't mean to talk about it. I mean, that might solve our budget thing. >> Well, yeah. I mean, that's if we could get all our stuff reimbursed at 75% from the state, that'd be great. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Okay. I have a motion in a second. Any additional
129discussion? If not, let's call the vote, please. >> Miss Williams, >> yes. >> Miss Chesny, >> yes. >> Miss Karns, >> yes. >> Miss Laney, >> yes. >> Miss Miller, >> yes. >> Mr. Moore, >> yes. >> Mr. Richmond, >> yes. >> And the motion passes all approved. Thank you. Okay, Mr. Casey. Good evening. So, I'm here to bring to you the the uh I lost my place. The change order. Thank you. The change order for the temporary striping that is placed at central that we spoke about in the last uh board work session. So, I didn't entertain any questions or to go into any detail. If anybody has any questions or concerns, >> can you go over so I'm sure I'm sure we'll approve this, but can you go over like the timeline like
130what they'll start and how long it's going to take? >> Sure. So, we're going to start as soon as um the spring track season is over. >> So, we plan around middle to end of May. >> Okay. >> And we'll have it down guessing two two and a half weeks, 3 weeks maybe, depending on weather. That's when we'll put the final surface on and then repaint it again >> and no one will be able to use it that time. >> Correct. >> So, we might want to be good communicators with the walkers >> cuz I got a lot of those messages. When is it opening? >> I would agree. >> But if the temporary lines, what's the timing on getting those down? >> The temporary lines are on there. >> They're on there. >> So,
131this we were originally covered in the original bids for the lines. So, they put the lines on so that way we could ensure that we have approving those temporary lines tonight, but the change works for those, right? >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Will they have a home meet there this year? >> I believe so. Yes. It'll be an all city meet. >> Mhm. I mean, look, you need them for practice as well, but but uh yeah, feel even better if they're having a meet. >> Yeah. Oh, absolutely. >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> A second. >> A motion to second. Any additional discussion? There items to call the vote, please. Miss Williams, >> yes. >> Miss Chesn, >> yes. >> Miss Karns, >> yes. >> Miss Lang, >> yes. >> Miss Miller,
132>> yes. >> Mr. Moore, >> yes. >> Mr. Richmond, >> yes. >> Think the motion passes. All approved. >> Thank you, Mr. Hassy. Hello, Mr. J. >> Hello. I am here to make Mr. Richmond's dreams come true. >> [laughter] >> Um, so I'm bringing you um our -ate project for next year that we talked about at the last work session. Um, and tonight I would ask for you to approve our bid from uh, Yellow Dog for 1.69 million. um of which we if we get funded by the the -ate program our um contribution will be between 300 and 340,000 um is what we will be responsible for um if that project gets funded and what percentage it gets funded at which we won't know till usually it's sometime early April is when we find out
133the actual percentage that we're funded It seems appropriate that I'd make a motion to approve. >> I'll second it. Any discussion? >> And so this uh somewhere between 300 and 1.2 uh >> well between 300 to 350 is what our responsible responsibility will be. >> But you said if this thing gets funded. >> Yep. >> So is there >> federal federal funding? >> Is there a chance we'll be on the hook for 1.2? Nope. No. If it doesn't get funded, then we aren't on the hook for any of it. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yep. >> Okay. If there's no more discussion, we can call the vote this. >> Miss Williams? >> Yes. >> Miss Chesy? >> Yes. >> Miss Burns? >> Yes. >> Miss Ling? >> Yes. >> Miss Miller? >> Yes. >> Mr.
134Moore? >> Yes. >> Mr. Roseman? >> Yes. >> And the motion passions? All approved. >> Okay. Next. I'm sorry. Okay. Good evening. Um, thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight. My name is Jennifer Fitzpatrick and I teach woodshop at Central High School. Um, I'm here to request board approval to accept the $20,000 facilities enrichment grant through sheet metal workers local union number two in Kansas City's 965 the fan radio station. This is their largest grant to date and I'm incredibly honored that Central High School was selected. As outlined in my proposal, these funds will directly enhance our industrial arts and woodworking program by expanding access to updated equipment, materials, safety systems, and shop storage space. This grant aligns directly with our district goals of career readiness, workforce development, and community partnership. It will not
135only strengthen our facilities, but expand opportunities for students to gain real world skills. It will also allow our program to grow a project that celebrates St. Joseph's history while building St. Joseph's future workforce. There is no financial obligation required from the district beyond approval to accept and implement the grant as proposed. Thank you. And I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> So, how did this come So, how did this come to be? So, >> so, um, for this specific, um, grant, I was forwarded the opportunity to apply for it from my building principal. Um, so I submitted that and then I got a call recently that, um, I was selected as the winner of the grant. So, it was open to, I think, 31 counties in Missouri and Kansas. So, there
136was a pretty pretty big pool of schools that could apply for it. >> That's awesome. Nice work. >> Thank you. >> The things that she's talking about. So where will we were talking about expanding central and this grant is wonderful, but where's woods and metals? Where's that going to be? >> Absolutely. So after consultation with the teachers, we are going to honor the sites of wood or the courses of woodworking and advanced working at both Central and Benton for next year. Um metalwork and advanced metal working will be offered at um Hillyard Technical Center. So, we'll keep woodworking at the sites, metal working at Hillyard. >> I move to approve a second. >> I have a motion and a second. >> I just have a question really quick. Okay. So, um, if you're able to
137keep those at the site and put the other one over to Hillyards, is a grant okay with all that still? >> Yeah, because I'll remain where I'm currently at right now at Central in the wood shop. >> Thank you. Okay, there's a motion to second. >> Congratulations. Thank you so much. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> You can call the vote, >> Miss Williams. Yes, >> Miss Chesn. >> Yes, >> Miss Karns. >> Yes, >> Miss Lanning. >> Yes, >> Miss Miller. >> Yes, >> Mr. Moore. >> Yes, >> Mr. Richmond. >> Yes. >> And the motion passes all approved. >> Thank you so much. >> And congratulations again. >> Thank you. >> Okay, Dr. McNez. >> Okay, we're going to speak to the district reorganization tonight. And I just want to start with acknowledging
138I know this has been a tough process for a lot of our staff. There's a uncertainty. There's the unknown. Um there's just waiting to see what happens. And I just want to recognize that all of us have had many conversations with our staff and although they are willing to do what needs to be done for our district, I just wanted to extend my gratitude for them and recognize that this has been a tough process for many of our groups. Um I just appreciate that they've been in this with us though. So we're going to talk about a bunch of different topics tonight. Um starting with staff tenative placements and Mr. Carell will speak to that one. >> Yeah, you stole some of my thunder. >> Oh, sorry. >> That's all right. Um, this I'm a
139glass half full. I mentioned this a couple weeks ago. I truly do believe um starting off we've never done this before. I think the process has been fairly positive. I know not everybody's going to agree with that. Um, but over the last several weeks, academic services and human resources, I'm going to sound like a broken record. Over the last several board meetings, um, we have hosted individual conversations. We've met with staff at Field, Persian, Bodie, Truman, Spring Garden, Rubidu, Lafayette, Benton, Central. um individual conversations to kind of gauge what their preferred placement is. Um our next step in the staffing plan is to um have collaborative placements um with both of our groups including building principles because they need to have a voice in this. Um I am pleased to say that we have finalized
140elementary placements. um they are going to announce to their staff starting tomorrow and on Wednesday. We are meeting with middle school principles to finalize their plans on Wednesday. Stacia. >> Yep. >> On Wednesday. Um hopefully they will make their announcements to their staff on Thursday um into Friday. And then we are finalizing our plans with we met with high school principles again today. Um and we are meeting with them again on Thursday to finalize those. And then our high schools um our high school principles will make their announcements hopefully on Friday um possibly into early next week. Um any questions on staffing plan placements? So what's the the I mean so what's the process? So you're going to send them individual emails? >> No, sorry. >> The principles will meet with them specifically. >> Yes.
141>> It's a lot of folks to meet with. >> It is. It is. But our building principles wanted to meet with them. >> Yeah. I appreciate it's not >> Yeah. So we did not want to send an email. We knew that um some of them probably don't want to hear from us, but I think the building principles were they were adamant that they were that they wanted to inform their staff. >> Okay. So, they'll they'll spend time breaking people out of classes, those types of things. So, that's all the teaching staff. What about >> it? Is all staff in the building. So all staff will know um like elementary either tomorrow or Wednesday whether it's teaching staff whether it's support staff they will know what their placement is for next year. >> Okay so it's
142the placement that's being offered to them. So if they get their placement and they say no that's not going to work for me then what is that kind of second because I would assume that there's a secondary process to that. If they're like I don't that's not going to work. I'm not going to do that. Then I would assume there's gonna have to be like a second tier to this at some point. >> Well, the district states that um you're not tied to a building that you have a contract with the district. So if you need to move um unfortunately the district can place you >> I know as needed. >> And I think the more we say that the more it upsets them. But I think that so so but that's my point is
143so if we're going to offer this this is where you're going to be next year. If that doesn't work for you, you can >> attrition >> like what they have to resign or they're like how does that work? >> They will have um we're still going to be hiring staff um because through all this or we're still going to have a need. Yeah. >> So there will be a chance we'll post positions and if they would like to move to a different building, they're more than happy to apply for that position. >> Okay. So that that's all I'm saying is that there's just the way I'm if people aren't accepting of that and they're like I don't want to do that and and I'm thinking kind of um you know middle school staff that have
144been in the middle school that are there's specific feelings about that. So, so there's going to have to be some period that says okay that position say we're going to take a sixth grade a sixth grader from um uh who has sixth grade uh not Bodie uh Rubu >> Rubidu so Rubu is going to have sixth grade from Rubidu you're going to go down to Persing/field or wherever it is if I say no then that sixth grade position at Persing Field is open right you see what I'm Yes. >> So then there's going to have to be a second round to say >> Well, I don't know if there's going to be >> No, no. I don't mean like a second round of of meetings. I mean like there's going to have to be a
145a posting of here's all the positions. We're going to have to update all of those positions and then people will interview and go through it. >> Correct. >> And do we have to have that by a certain time or that just kind of happens whenever as we feel like it would be anybody else? >> They're going to hopefully sign a contract um the middle of April. We hope to have those out by then. >> Okay. >> And again, it's a contract with the district. >> Yeah. Gotcha. >> I just want to add that all those tenative placements are pending board approval of contract for the following year. >> When will board find out? >> Find out of the individual buildings. >> Yeah. >> I believe it's been the the will of the board that we're
146not sharing individual names. Just the process behind it. Okay. Then the board will know when the public knows that is what I'm saying. Right. >> Again, we haven't been sharing individual names. So like counseling, nursing, social workers, we haven't shared individual names. >> I I don't >> Okay. Next. >> Unless there's other questions about that. Excuse me. All right. If there are none, we continue on. >> Dr. Adams is going to speak about the staffing transition committee. >> Yes. So, we have our first staffing transition meeting. Uh Dr. Reid and I will facilitate that meeting with our committee uh Thursday. This Thursday, February 26th, our first meeting. We have a total of 22 committee members. that include um teachers, people from technology department, counseling department, fine arts, communications, special education, librarian, and um administrators. So,
147um we selected um a variety of of representatives and our goal is um to support a smooth, efficient, and wellorganized transition. we have access to um previous um processes that where we transitioned when we closed other buildings and so we will look at those and brainstorm together and work together to try to provide the most smooth transition for staff possible and students. I'm sure they'll there'll be uh things that come about that we need to do to take care of kids too. >> So in um Dr. Adams, I'm I would assume that you've been with the district long enough that you've seen kind of this process happen. And were you in your position when the Mark Twain >> No, I was not. I I have closed buildings as a elementary principal and opened buildings. >>
148So are are will you guys look at like um enrollment data? Will you look at um turnover data? cuz I think that would be important for the board to keep track of is as we go through the pro this process are we having a large um change and you know I think Mr. Lee had kind of alluded to it earlier that you know kids are leaving and um staff are leaving and just kind of what that turnover looks like if that's higher lower. Uh yeah, that's something that we can we can definitely take into account and take a look at. Um I know right now we have projected enrollment numbers, which is what our elementary sections are based off of. Um so that's our starting point. >> Okay. >> Did you say you guys started
149to meet yet? Are you happy? >> No, Thursday. This Thursday is our first meeting. >> Okay. >> Any other questions for me? >> Appreciate your time. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> And then our next piece, we know we wanted parent feedback and so February we did have the founders day banquet for PTA council, but Staca and I are scheduled to meet with PTA council at their next meeting which is March 19th. So we will present a little bit about our district reorgation and see if we can get some feedback from those parents in our district. Are you meaning are they going to do like a survey or like a poll of the PTA members or what do you have in mind? >> We're going to work that out with uh Shandra and I don't
150know how much time we have because I know we have a forum after that PTA council. So, we kind of need to work out some of those details with the PTA president. But I think we need to have some type of process to capture that feedback from our parents and we'd be happy to share that data. >> Okay. Anything else? >> Yep. Few more areas here. Academics and course programs. Mrs. Stutter. >> Yeah. And I already spoke to the woodworking and metal working course. So over the course of last week meeting and with each instructor, um it boiled down to, you know, a couple different concerns with the metal working and the um staffing um safety and ensuring that our kids have the right tools to be successful in that course. And so um we'll
151um lead that program there at Hillyards, but ensure that the woodworking program is um there at Biden and Central for our kids. Any questions about that? >> I have a couple questions. Okay. So, are we losing courses? >> I don't know that we're losing courses. Right now, our students are um are filling out enrollment forms um and they have a course enrollment form um that um students are registering from. But I I know that we've done some alignment with courses, but I don't know that we're losing courses. >> We don't What do you mean we don't know? Well, well, I guess maybe I didn't ask that correctly. Are we not offering as many courses? >> Oh, no. >> Do you currently at Central? >> No, we are offering a a multitude of courses. And one
152of the things that we've done is looked at the freshman schedule, a sophomore schedule, a junior schedule, and a senior schedule to ensure that we are on track for graduation rate. um that we are leading up the core courses for um students to be successful in graduation. >> Okay. My next question is okay so all the current all the courses currently offered right now will be offered also in the fall at Biton. All the courses >> currently offered right now at central. It depends on students registration if they sign up. It'll depend on the overall concern >> in the community. I get lots of >> I know >> I get lots of questions about it and so like >> cuz at the beginning everybody was like it's for >> right >> alignment but I think
153that I think that the definition of alignment isn't the same. Like I know that in my mind it was offering everything that we currently offer now also at bitten. >> Okay. But it's not like that. It's only offering the same courses even if all of them are not offered. Correct. >> Well, I would have to go through that course um and and compare. Um, Miss Williams, I you know, if I could line out every course that was offered um through 25 26 and 26 27, our academic service team can do that. Right now, we're progress monitoring what courses students are signing up for to ensure that we can lead those academic programs. >> After you get that information, if you could let us know. >> Yes, absolutely. >> Thank you. The other thing with um
154academics is college 101 courses will be offered at both sites by a certified teacher as required by Desi guidelines. So the course is not going away. >> Um there was some conversations from the speakers about um scholarships like how are scholarships going to be affected with Lafayette not being a high school any longer? is that >> I would say that would be part of that transition plan to ensure you know because you know um there are many um alumni scholarships that are over at Lafayette to ensure that those um scholarships are transferred um in some capacity. >> Yeah, I wouldn't think there'd be any issues with those being to the students this year, but I believe it would be up to those individual givers if they would want to continue those grants going forward. Yeah,
155that's the concern that I would have. >> Yeah. Yeah. My own family has a a scholarship over at Lafayette, Richard Heleric scholarship out there um that we want to ensure continues on. >> And then what about So I know um Miss Beal had mentioned the pathways program that's still going to be offered or is there anything changing with that? >> Yeah, I'm not sure. I would have to be educated to um know. I haven't heard anything that we are downsizing that program. I don't know. Dr. Anderson, can you speak to that? >> We are still offering the parrot program. So, I think the issue is is originally when we started, we were contacted by billyards two years ago. We want to try this. It was a very last minute thing. We said yes. Um, we
156took all of the students that were in the program at that time. This year we have determined that we are scaling back the number of students we're accepting. Um but I'm going to tell you it's still probably double that other companies accept and we also did that because when I spoke with other districts they wanted to have opportunities for paraprenicis as well. So I think what's also misunderstood is with paraprenicis they still have to take um coursework within their home building and so they were not a full-time employee for us most of the time. they were [snorts] only working part-time and so it wasn't filling a full-time spot and we were still having to f hire employees full-time to cover minutes for students in their services. So yes, we are still offering that. In fact,
157I have interviews at the beginning of March with those students and we've just made that a little more rigorous for them to get accepted into that. >> Dr. Anderson, you're next on the list as far as special education programming. >> Well, can I ask one more question? Sorry. So on the course offering, sorry, go backwards a little. Um, how many have you guys decided how many need to be enrolled in that offering before you decide to give it or not? >> No, Miss Karns, we're sitting down right now. We're placing staff right now and we're progress monitoring the signups from our students currently. Okay. So there is a Google sheet where each of the counselors are keeping track of what um students are signing up for by course. Okay, thank you. >> Okay, I just
158wanted to give a little update in regards to special education because I knew there were a few questions from board members at the last work session and so I wanted to talk to you about the process and what we've been doing. So along with academic services and HR, we have been having those staff discussions. Staff placements for special education teachers and pairs will be announced right along with elementary, middle, and high school staffing timelines. Uh I've been included in all of those meetings and then I've collaborated with principles on staffing and how that's going to look and to ensure that we have appropriate services at all locations. Um once staff placements are announced, we will be sending out that initial wave of letters that I talked about with students um the letters to the families
159of students in the specialized programming. We hope to send those letters out the week that we are that the students are on spring break because they're my office staff and I we're at work at that time and so the process consultants and buildings are getting those letters ready and filled out for us and envelopes ready and then we hope to send them that week. Letters will go out to all students that are in specialized programming classrooms even if their program is not being shifted. We felt like that was super important. So, if I'm a student that attends uh foundational skills at Oakrove and even if I'm not moving, we're sending letters just so everybody knows exactly where their child is attending. Um, these include programs such as foundational skills, targets, structured learning, the daily living
160classrooms that we have, the complex needs classroom that we have at Pickicket, which we also call daily um, not daily, medically fragile, and then public day school and high road students. Students that receive I want to clear something up with this as well. So, students that receive special education resource services will attend their school of residence. So, we have many students that get special education services and those services are offered at every school um because we have resource teachers. So, whenever I've been talking through staffing and that plan and what that looks like, we offer those services at every one of our sites. So, I just want to make sure that you know that those students will not get letters. If I am a central student and my address that I'm a Benton student, even
161if I am in special education, I will now attend Benton because we will offer those same services. We've always offered those services. Only if I'm in a specialty program such as Targets would I be sent a letter about what school I'm send attending. Okay. All um oh as a reminder too I also wanted to state this that student IE place IEP placement decisions continue to happen throughout the year. So we may have some students that are in kindergarten, first grade, third grade that have IEPs and annually we hold meetings or we have to make decisions for those students and so their placement can change throughout the year. We are planning on any of those students that we host um meetings for in which we have to make a placement determination and change to also send
162those parents a letter. So if I'm a student that just receives resource students, I've become struggling, I have other needs and we need to meet their needs in a different way and I move to a structured learning program and that is housed at Ellison. Um I will that parent will get a letter of where their child will be attending. So, we're trying to take care of those that are already in place and then any that will be moving or changing programs throughout the remainder of the year. So, that's why when our initial statement went out, we had to say we will get everyone a letter by the end of the year. Does that make sense? Um, there are just a few minor shifts in programming locations due to the reorganization and what buildings have space.
163I've talked about this before that every year, not every year, but a lot of times we have to shift program locations due to the growing population or the growing needs of our students. Those can change from year to year. Um, you've heard a lot about foundational skills. That is one that has just grown and grown and grown and so we have to keep expanding and changing some of those locations for those students. So, there are some minor shifts in some program locations. Um, the other thing that I wanted to update you on is special programs has been working with the building trades with Casey and Daniel to help prepare some classroom spaces at Lindberg with specialized doors. And we had to remove a few walls or add a wall just to help prepare for some
164of our specialized classrooms. And that's for safety and security of students with special needs per their IEPs. Um, but very minimal minor changes to buildings. Um each building then will be given a list of the students that are in their special programs classes. So they have that for if parents contact that they can also assist them with any questions. And then each building will have uh transmit transition meetings for those students along with tours and special events to help get them in and help them to get acclimated to those sites. Okay. And those things have always happened with special education classrooms like we try to welcome in the teachers bring them in for certain nights. But I just wanted to make sure that everyone was clear on that. Okay. Any questions for me? >> Now
165Dr. Hedgefor and Mr. Hman are going to speak a little bit about the Benton and Rivoo renovations. >> Thanks Dr. McInness. Um if we could pull up the architectural plans. Thank you very much. Um, you also have these printed out uh in your folders as well for reference. I know sometimes some of the print is small. Um, but if we can go ahead and just go to page three, I think that's the page that you know probably gives people the best graphic um that they might want to observe. And so if you're looking at this hallway, this area um you know you have the lower gym downstairs. This area is the area that if you go up that ramp, you have three classrooms. You have a sports marketing classroom, you have a metals classroom, and
166you have a Woods classroom. And so, um, as you're looking at this plan on the screen now, um, over to the right is the Woods area, and that area is going to be untouched cuz that program, um, is going to remain at Benton. And then the classroom you see in the middle is currently the metals classroom. Um, it, you know, has had years of metal work done in there. You know, you have exhaust hoods, you have metal cutting equipment. um we basically need to come in and uh demolish that area to get that area ready to be another classroom because there's um a lot of soot and a lot of things you know in that ceiling that comes along with metal working. Um and then on the left hand side uh you can see that's
167a sports marketing classroom. We are uh that classroom is extremely large um you know for smaller population. So we are dividing that classroom in two uh to have two classroom spaces. So, um, as Miss Steer was stating earlier, Metals will move out to Hillyard, uh, which will add an additional classroom in this space and then also splitting that classroom in two, uh, will allow two pretty good sized classrooms. You can see, um, if you look at the square footage there, I want to say they are high 700s on square footage. Um, it's just small. I'd have to zoom in really, really close to see exactly. Um and then the other pages you have in your document, you know, are basically, you know, demolition design. Um you also have your mechanical plan. Uh you also have
168your lighting plan. Um and then you have your electrical power plan that shows receptacles and and your low voltage uh pieces as well throughout the plan. But those those are more details as far as um you know, things that Daniel and Casey would look at. Uh but as far as just looking at the design overall, I think that page three would give the board the best optics to kind of see how those places will um evolve um after uh this is completed. One thing to note that uh with Navo's uh bidding this out in April, um the plan is to have them start right after school ends in May. um then this will be complete before uh the first week of August or complete that first week of August to ensure that you know teachers
169can get in those classrooms get them ready for that first day of school and have that done. So um the estimate on this cost I know before on the outline I had 513,000 um is continuing to talk to NAV host and them looking at what we have uh is this design development plan here they believe it'll be more around 450,000 of course we won't know until bid day those are just estimates they just use national averages that you see for bid projects across the country look at the square footage they look at the materials we have in this project that's how they come up with those estimates but you never know until bid day so that is that is an estimate at this um be happy to answer any questions on just this plan. Um
170not overall on the whole topic, but just this plan as you guys look through those pages. >> Is there any other modifications to Benton that are going to be required other than these? >> Yeah, so there will uh be a wall placed in the library. I'll let Casey talk a little more about that. There will be a wall at the will replaced was there in the original existing construction that had been removed in the past at some time. Uh we'll be putting putting that back to add additional classroom >> and that'll be by our own trades group in our maintenance department. >> You have you'll have an estimate on that too. >> I can get you an estimate for sure. I I think I think so that we um are transparent in terms of what
171what there are things costing us. We have to just be overdue diligent even if it's things that would have normally been done in maintenance. I think I think that's a good thing to do. >> Sure. >> Can we get So we have you know you have a little paragraph here but could we get a summary? I mean, I can look at all this and kind of see it, but >> is there a summary that we could get that says like here's of this 450,000 we're we're going to change this many classrooms into this many. You know what I'm saying? Like here's how many here's how many classrooms we have. Here's how many we're going to cut up to make more. >> Sure. >> That because it's really all this the entirety of this renovation at
172Benton is just classrooms. It's not any improvements to infrastructure, those types of things. >> Sure. Well, you know, we have we have a middle budget because we wanted to keep it, you know, on the >> No, I I I understand that. I just I think having a a full picture of where we're at and where we're going is helpful. >> And then I think lots of people are estimating, you know, it's getting a complete makeover. >> Yeah. Right. >> And this is only adding how many classrooms? Well, between the library and this, this will add two. Well, so let me take that back. The library add one. Splitting that classroom add one and then moving medals out to Hillyard will add basically three >> three total. >> Okay. So, this is going to cost all
173this money for three classrooms is all we're doing. >> Of course, you got to remember we're doing this within the same square footage that we have. >> That sounds crazy though. That does sound that I mean when you say it out loud it sounds kind of wild. >> I don't think I knew that. I thought >> it would be more classrooms and I mean I knew it wasn't going to be like a makeover >> sure >> of the school, you know, but I think that I anticipated more classroom space. >> Well, when you're talking about adding like a a six or eight classroom ring, um you know, recent projects I've seen that goes for for five or six million. So, um that is way beyond any type of budget we had. if you were wanting
174to do something like that, that's what that price tag would have been. Uh to get three classrooms for 450,000. Um you know, I yes, I wish we could add more, but you know, construction cost and the availability we have space out there. Um that's where we're at currently. >> How many more kids are we adding? >> How many total? Yes. >> So, our estimates right now are looking at 1,50 students for next year. Um I think personally when you look at our current enrollment I think that's a little bit high. Um but that's what we have on the documents that we shared this uh fall to the best of our knowledge. Of course that's from looking at demographer looking at current boundaries and then moving those kids into that area. Uh that's the number that
175that we have. Of course that is an estimate that's based off the demographer and even you look at the demographer you know they're off by certain percentage points as you look over time. >> Is three classrooms enough? I will defer to academics team but as they go through the sections and look at that um if you look at using six out of seven hours um and using the population of about 24 to 25 students um it does calculate to be enough classrooms >> we sorry we've walked through that building there are plenty of empty classrooms at Benton right now so I just there's some storage space there's a room that has bikes all in it. So, there's plenty of spaces there that are just being used, not for classroom space. I thought I'd heard one
176time, too, that that we might be converting some office space back to classroom space. Is that included or or are we not doing that in this round? >> That has not been brought to me. >> Okay. >> Well, I'm not aware I heard that even Casey, so I might have made it up. It was at one of the meetings we heard it. >> Yeah, we've talked about >> every single one of the scenarios this fall when we talked about, you know, um what that relationship looks like. All of them had these costs associated with it. We all knew that we had to redesign some spaces no matter if it was at Lafayette, if it was Benton. Um all those costs were advertised every single meeting and we had those um you know estimates which they
177were estimates because you don't know until bid day and you don't know do you have a design build out uh to see what those would be. >> Okay. We would never tell that we were paying 450 for three classrooms. We were never told that. I don't remember. >> It just it just And again, I I don't want to cast blame, but it does feel like we make decisions and then we find out information about the decisions that we've already made and it's just not been great. But the will of the board. So, >> so does this cost include like the extra desk, extra chairs or we have to buy all the extra, you know, like furniture equipment, uh, jerseys, [clears throat] I mean, is this all in here, too? >> Well, athletics is separate and
178so this is just the design cost for we will have additional furniture at other locations that we'll be able to shift um because we have, you know, high school furniture at Lafayette we have because that will convert into a middle school. So, I am not worried about furniture. There will be some very program specific things um like for example metals out at Hillyard. There might be some things we do um out there um as far as that goes. But um as far as furniture goes, you know, consolidating three high schools of two, I'm I'm not concerned about the number of furniture we'll have that fits high schoolized kids. >> Okay. >> So to Jennifer's question, so what about um her the second part of her question was um what was it? uniforms like >> uniforms
179>> will we have to get more of those or >> yeah so we're going through that process right now with the ads but I mean as logic would tell you if we're getting you know about 400 more kids at Benton >> um and looking at participation rates and things like that um you know you will year one and a lot of these costs are year one costs but please remember they're onetime costs as you look over time you will have reduced cost um from a coaches type of perspective going three high schools to two you'll have reduced cost in staff ing reduce cost and support costs. So, this is a long-term um solution when it comes to lowering your costs because 75% of our costs, remember, salary benefits. And so, that's what this plan is
180doing is reducing those through consolidating square footage. Um because, you know, I'll be honest with you, looking at our state legislators right now, look at the things we're looking to do, it is scary. Our revenue outlook is scary what it looks like. some things are going on and feel free to read some of the house bills that are talking about, you know, whether it's state income tax, property tax, adjust the Hancock amendment. Um, the governor's already stated no new money for education. So, the SAT next year might go from 7145 to possibly 6,900. And so, we might have less revenue next year than we will this year uh when typically we grow a little bit with assessed valuation. And those things are going to continue to knock us down. And so, it's important we get
181in front of this and important we curb our expenditures. And so again, these are onetime costs to have long-term gains in lowering our salary benefit costs over time. >> I have a question. All of us know, you know, that the majority of our cost is our people attrition cost. Are we able to get the numbers of the past 2 three years like of attrition? Are we able to get those numbers? So I do have um some data I we are still working on this year's data. It goes back about six years I want to say to 2020 where it shows every employee class. It shows where we were in 2019 2020 school year. Um and it shows the increase in staffing um through the last six years um up to that point. We don't have
182this year's yet. Uh HR is still working on that, but I do have a document that does show the past history last school year uh for the previous five or six years that shows every category, administrator, teacher, counselor, support staff. So you can see all those and how that breaks out. >> Yes, if you could send that to us. >> I certainly will. >> Thanks. >> And then Rubidoo. >> Yeah. So I'm Rub. So first I'll start out with the two playground areas that have been identified. Uh, one would be fencing off the existing you still hear me. Sorry. Fencing off the existing back basketball court. Um, that would provide one area for some of your older students. The additional playground would be on the other side of the I guess the other end of
183the building where is being currently used as a practice field for the middle school football. um that will be fenced in and that is where uh the two large area large structures from Persing and Efield will be moved and placed at along with some other smaller structures. Um and then restrooms uh there will be an addition of five stalls added between the restrooms been addition of a wall in the library. um a wall in the band room, just current band room. Um and removal of a temporary wall that's between two small classrooms upstairs. Um one other area would be by where the art room areas upstairs uh to add accordion partition wall for a code teaching classroom. And then one other thing I was going I was asked to add as well is I guess
184there's been some rumors there have been no trailers ever spoken about in this entire transition period and there's no plan to use any additional trailers just just so everybody's aware. >> And what's the total cost? >> Uh right now I'm still working on that for the bathroom partition or for the ignition five stools. I'm right around 15,000. Uh my first initial quote for the playgrounds right now is 86,000 to move those. That's that's all the numbers that I have that are exact at the moment. >> Casey, you you did reference a few other items that you're going to do there. >> Probably be [clears throat] good to track those. >> I will get you the numbers for sure. I don't have those. >> Okay. Anything else? >> And then Dr. Noly was going to speak
185about transfers. >> We talked about the Thanks. Can we talk about the teacher relocation expense? So, is that that's the estimated cost or we have a bid or like where did that >> We don't have a bid yet. Um I bid out these services seven years ago. So, I'm trying to look at the teacher population and use a percentage. It is just truly an estimate. um until we get fits for that. It's probably going to be a time and material type thing. Meaning that, okay, they're going to provide, you know, two or three trucks, these boxes, this is amount per hour, and then they will continue to go through that moving process, whether it takes, you know, four business days, five business days, don't know. And then once the hours are compiled, then we'll have
186a total. And so when it's bid, um, you know, that's typically how they bid these things is time material. So you'll be able to see what that out estimated hours is, the number of people and trucks they'll have with the materials like boxes and things like that. But that is an estimate just based off kind of like we did with the playground. You know, we had had Oak Grove, we moved that playground to make that drive and Casey had had a previous bid um for that. So that's we based that off that estimate. So that's what I'm basing that estimate off of. >> Okay. Well, then it it also says that our maintenance department will will assist. I am very concerned about our maintenance department and the amount of work. Looking right at you, Casey.
187He's shaking his head. I want you to stay so healthy and your staff to stay so healthy. But it just seems like the amount of work that we're going to be requesting of our maintenance staff is exorbitant. So, I would say if if it needs to be more um the other thing maybe for you, Dr. Adams, I know I've had some people, this is going to sound wild, but you'll get it. um that they not have a cap on how many boxes they can have. That they maybe if they get a here's how many boxes you get, but if you need more, get more. So, >> well, we got have some sort of limit, but I hear you. But you might not wreck me this summer cuz I might be in jeans and a t-shirt
188helping move around. Uh we also are looking to utilize our students. We talked about, you know, um you know, using our student uh population to help in real world experiences. And so, um, those students that'll be willing and able to to work this summer and help us out, um, you know, all are going to be willing and, um, you know, be a great experience for them to and help us to get a lot of these things moved to the right buildings. >> Sounds like a sounds like a slip tripping fall nightmare, but I'll let Mr. Carell deal with that. >> That's paid or are they volunteering? >> They'd be paid. It'd be application process. If someone wants a volunteer, we'll take them. But these positions would be would be paid and and we typically every
189summer um have student positions that work in the maintenance department, work in the tech department. Um you know, I personally have people that uh when I was a tech director work in my department that now work for Google and so they are great segways into career path and and we're happy to have them. >> Is that included in the 25,000 or will that be additional? >> We budget for that every year in the maintenance department to have student workers. No, I mean I just assume you know that you would need even more. >> You might have to >> because you're doing more >> for that. So we'll have the moving services and our maintenance department both to help with this. >> Any anything that would be in would be included in a budget either this
190last uh fiscal year for that last budget amendment or would it be in the um preliminary budget for next year and you'd be able to see if there's you know what differences there might be there. But you also have to have people apply and want to, you know, work that job, too. So, even if we create 15 openings, that doesn't mean we'll have 15 applications either. So, >> thank you. >> Okay, Dr. Um so my department's been working and I've been working with a committee of mostly academic services uh folks um with Stacia and her crew both all the directors and um Tabitha and a lot of the folks in academic services is really our committee uh Tammy and um as well in our department. Um but we've talked about um we have over 140
191staff I think uh transfer requests right now. Uh we plan to push those that information out uh approvals um on Monday the 2nd, March 2nd. And by the 5th um of March, by the end of that week, ne next week, we plan to uh put out information for the rest of the community or the the other transfer requests that are non uh staff member requests. So part of what you're going to see a little bit tonight um is talking a little bit about the policy. um as we go through this. But um we have guidelines already in policy that we'll use and we'll be informing them. Everybody's asked about this being earlier. Well, March 1st was the deadline. It would be immature or immature premature to make that determinations uh before that March 1st was
192over. So once we have those, we have a very large spreadsheet that details all those things. will be able to in our enrollment center and our student services, my staff will be able to get that information out starting March 2nd. So, we'll be pushing that information out next week. >> Yes. >> Are there like tiers or priorities >> about the transfers? >> Well, there's there's board policy that lists um different um you have different categories. You have reassignment based on um you know safety, health, welfare of students. Um you have students with disabilities and their siblings that are that would be considered. Um you have homeless student and students in foster care which are part of uh that that um and then there's children of employees that that I've talked about. Uh the remainder of
193those would be basically it's going to come down to if you we can offer the same like Dr. Anderson talked about services, IEP services. Well, if we can offer those services in those buildings, um, or whether it's IEP services, um, 504 services, which are offered in all the buildings, I mean, any of those other counseling services, we have social workers, those will all be staffed in all those buildings. So, as long as we can offer those in those buildings, um, we don't see that there's, you know, may not be a need to transfer. So, we'll go by what is listed in uh policy JCB um as our priorities >> in that order. >> Yeah. I mean, really, they're all considered together. It's not like one over the other. Um we are looking at the staff
194uh movement first. Um that is a benefit that we've determined in this district is one we wanted to uh preserve. Um so, we are going to, you know, honor those first. I would that's why we're getting that information out first. um when you know when with over 140 requests you've got a lot of movement um that'll help dictate how uh Stacia and her crew uh assign teachers and everybody's you know to buildings that need to have the teachers in those buildings. So >> cuz the schools if you're looking at the numbers I mean are going to be pretty packed. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> Okay. So what if like I live out of town and my kids are like attending >> in town. >> so that's that that's a good point and I'll I'll go
195back to that because in in this policy you do read in a lot of these transfer movements space and availability is a consideration even with employees and children. So I mean if and they're children. So if there is a large number in a building that where our classes are maxed out, we would we would you know we would say no, there's no more space or availability. There are there is another policy um that's in our talks about non-resident students. Okay. Um and non-resident students under enrollment, okay, have them and if their staff their parent works in our district, they have that option as well. But again, that will go back to space and availability. And I think we take care of the, you know, the staff that we will notify first or the the current
196staff and the resident students. And we'll take care of the resident students first. So, >> yeah, I just meant like if I live out of town and my kids kids are like attending in town, I'm not a member like of the staff. Okay. So, where would I fall? Like at the bottom? Well, you have to pay you have to pay tuition to to to come to school here. If you're if you if you're a non-resident and you're not a child of a staff member, you would be paying tuition to come to school here. Um, but again, that may to be determined by the availability. If we say that, you know, this elementary school is full or whatever, we you know, we have the right to, you know, not accept that non-resident transfer. Any additional questions?
197>> I have one for you, but not really about this part for Rividoo. Um, I had a couple parents ask me the transportation going across that busy road like for the walkers. Is there a plan for that? >> Yeah, you know, I I've talked a little bit with Casey about that. We've not put any um and apologize if this seems to be like one of those things that we have to we have to adjust on. We do have to adjust on a lot of these a lot of these things we're talking about tonight. I I don't think any one of us has every single thing accounted for. Um but we have had that discussion about how we plan to make that safe because that is you know the crossover there. um you know if we
198need to have uh officers there or if we need to have you know personnel there or whatever to make that safe we will do whatever we we need to do. solutions that we and maybe this was in an email, maybe we're talking about the same kind of people that were concerned was talking about a crosswalk similar. Is there one at Lindberg that goes across where the So I think one of the things that and I think we got an email on this um was if whether or not there could be a similar crosswalk situation. >> I I didn't receive an email on it, but I'm happy I'd be happy to get that because then we need to work with the city to to make that plan. That was one of the that was one of
199the questions and then a potential solution. >> Community member. >> Yeah. Something. >> Yeah. There is a crosswalk that goes across the street avenue for Lindberg. >> And I think that was that was it was St. Joe Avenue that was specifically the concern. >> Okay. Any additional questions? >> I have just two questions. So for staff, Mr. Carl, that are that move between buildings like I know we have. So who's going to talk to them? Like our principal is going to pick who does that? [snorts] I just don't want them to be left out cuz if they don't have really a home building, you know, I mean, I know we have some specials that transfer amongst different buildings. >> Yeah. So we have we have I think identified everybody today to make sure that we're
200not missing anybody >> doing it. >> That that was kind of the the reason for having meeting with elementary one more time, meeting with middle school one more time to ensure we have not left anybody out. >> Okay. And custodial staff will be included in that. >> Uh no, that'll be up to maintenance. >> Okay. So custodial staffs >> nutrition >> similar to counselors was announced by Dr. Davis. Um so maintenance will be announced through maintenance nutrition through nutrition. >> So will that so my only concern about that is that is that happening this week as well? >> It will. Yes. >> Okay. Just wanted to make sure cuz if everybody else is >> I'm meeting with nutrition tomorrow. >> Okay. And then Webster is still going to be in use next year. So that
201stipen that we had set up for them to receive for working there will still be intact. Is that right? >> Um I don't know that we've talked about a stipent uh for Webster. I know they had a stipent this year for it, but >> I can't recall that was part of our discussions. No, we haven't. Okay. haven't discussed what like like it at all >> anything about it it at all >> that would be part of the extra duty so I would think that would go along with that plan that we're talking about tonight >> so it' be that extra duty compensation that Mr. the girl has. >> Okay. Um and then the only other question I have is can we get so we've it seems like specifically around the number of when we were
202making these decisions we had number of staff that would be impacted, number of students that could be impacted. I don't know if that's if we're staying in alignment with that, if that has changed. Um, can we get those updated numbers? >> It's not the same since the schools and every that No, it's not the same. >> I have no idea. >> Yep. We can get that. So that the students would come from academic services and probably with the help of data management and then Mr. Carell can update the staffing and some of that. I just want to put a little caveat there that as we have resignations, retirements continue to trickle in, that may result in additional shifts of staffing to fill those needs. But yes, we can start working on that data. Just know
203it may shift. >> Well, and I just think that's important that if we made a decision based on this and we don't continually visit the process to say, okay, this is what we anticipated to happen, but this is what actually happened. And I think sometimes with the transitions and the school closures that we've had, I think specifically of Humble, we didn't follow through to say or at least it didn't seem like it. So, >> okay. Any additional questions? Okay. If not, moving on. >> Okay. Dr. Milty, >> I didn't go before I knew I'd be up here again. Um, one of the things with the district reorganization in our middle schools, uh, we had conversations with middle school administration, uh, at that year. Well, probably it was end of January in all honesty. Um, but
204we had different scenarios of what our middle school sports and activities would look like. Um, we we talked about three different scenarios. one where each middle school would have their own teams, one where we would have um Spring Garden Truman co-op together and then Bodie Lafayette separate and then we talked about Bod Lafayette co-oping and Spring Garden and Truman co-op. Now having two teams kind of like what we do right now with our football teams right now currently Bod and uh Rubidu which will be Lafayette next year co-op together to make football team and then Spring Garden and Truman do that same thing for football. So, we looked at all the pros and cons and looked at a lot of this these different factors and uh what was decided in that meeting was again it
205was up to myself and really I listen to the input of these administrators that are going to be in middle school buildings is to have BOD and Lafayette each have their separate teams except for in football. They will still co-op in football. Um but Spring Garden and Truman will co-op in all sports and all activities at the Michel level. Um some of the the reasons for this um you know Truman and Spring Garden will eventually uh you know those two schools I mean if we end up combining to go to two middle schools overall and uh they end up combining to go to one middle school they'll all go to one high school eventually. So they those those students would be uh participating together eventually in high school. Um, we looked at the needs of
206potentially not being able to field teams. Um, if you looked at some of our participation rates, um, there were teams with only nine, um, players on them this year, uh, between the between Truman and Spring Garden. Um, and if you dropped the enrollment in both of those buildings the way we anticipate the enrollment would be dropping because of the boundaries, um, you you're looking at potential, uh, sports that won't have teams. Um, we don't want to do that with students. We want to still offer them every opportunity. Um, and not only opport opportunity to participate, but to to compete as well. Um, these are incolastic sports at the middle school level. they are learning how to compete as teams um for the high school level. So we need to give them every opportunity we can.
207We felt like with some of the numbers um there might not be those opportunities. So we wanted to protect that. Um some other things you know there are some potential savings uh with some you know with with combining uh uniforms and things like that. We would use the current uniforms spring and Truman. We would not buy new ones. And we would just decide which sports, which you know, teams would use what's which jerseys and we would just use the ones we have. There might be different um there might be different numbers. Uh if there's an increase in numbers, we might need that. But um we would go by our uniform rotation and just get those numbers. Usually stock uniforms at the middle school level are pretty uh inexpensive, but we don't anticipate a big uh
208risk there. um cost savings and event workers um would would be one you know with between our SRO's and our offduty officers and gate workers and all that other you all those other things there might be a potential savings there um shuttles are already running from between Truman and Spring Garden with the football uh that would continue obviously be increased a little bit more with potential savings in in transportation because we only have you know one team one co-op team going um to different different schools. Uh there might be some savings there. Um Keatley is always a question with Truman, you know, in the past has always used Keatley uh as their main gym, their competition gym for volleyball and basketball. Um we would not need to use that. We use Keatley probably as a
209practice facility, but all of our games would be played at Spring Garden, which is a full-size competition gym, handles lots of crowd. uh the the parking and everything else that goes along with that would be much better around the spring garden than it is around the Keatley area. So, there's a benefit there. And also, one last thing, we looked at our administration structure. Um we have one AD that will be sharing responsibilities between Truman and with our with the plan that we have for administrators. Um, we have one AD that would be working with both those schools and for that one AD to be working to two full slates of teams. um and and having just one set of teams to work with will make that much more efficient um and keep that administrator uh
210being able to do assistant principal duties um and not be so overwhelmed and involved with just the AD duties because at the middle school level they are split as an AP assistant principal and AD. So those are a bunch of the u positives and so we will this is an information item tonight. We do have to uh petition for this cooperative cooperative agreement. That will have to be a board approved thing. Um so I'm just presenting this to you tonight to think about ask questions and bring that back next month for approval. >> Okay. Are there any questions right now? >> I would just ask that I mean, so I'm going to be honest with you, Dr. Ni, that there's I just feel like there's been so many moving parts to all this and you're
211kind of finding things out. I mean, I don't know what you're talking about with two middle schools because we don't have a long range plan that has that, but it would just be helpful to me if we had some sort of like each sport where they're currently at, where it's proposed to be at. That way we can kind of >> You mean numbers wise participation? >> Yeah. Like because I know, you know, when you said um that I think you just said that Rubu and Bod would have their own teams and everything. Yeah. So, I just think back to um Rubu volleyball had I think only they had very minimal growth. I'm just thinking back to when my daughter was in seventh grade of that looked like. So, I think just being able to see
212what those numbers were the first part of the year. >> Sure. I can get those. Yeah, I get those numbers for >> and and not not not like immediately, but when we talk about >> No, I think it's fair. Yeah. But as far as the Rubidoo example you mentioned, um, you know, Rubadoo as it'll become Lafayette Middle School with 650 students. I don't think that that I mean, I don't think the possibility of that them not having teams there because they almost doubled the enrollment of what Rubidu was before. So, well, not quite double, one and a half times. So, you see what I'm saying? So, with no more students, there would be less chance of a >> of the small Yeah, a small but yeah we can get those numbers >> and so I
213think if if you can you know include like here's locked which is previously rub whatever and then say here's here's the new student population of that and then here's what we're planning on doing cuz I just think that when people hear about this they there will be a lot of chatter about >> students not having proper opportunities and so it would just be nice to be able to respond to that >> and and here's the I that's why I went to the I mean I went to the principles and ads in each of these buildings all they all know currently at the four sites that they have now they know currently what their numbers are and so if I was off base by this this is just Dr. I can hope you this is not
214just my idea but if it was just my idea that hey let's just do this. >> No >> when we had that meeting they would they would say this this won't work or this will work. I mean >> yeah and I and I appreciate that. I know in other times they have said that and we've done it anyway. Not with you other situations but just trust but verify is all I'm trying to do. >> I Yep. >> Okay. Next item. Is that also you Dr. Mily? >> I believe it is. All right, Mr. Roll. >> So, I did send this is an information item as well. Uh, policy JCB is our transfer uh especially our resident transfer policy. Um, it it outlines what I just talked about you when um Laton you asked about different
215priorities of what would be considered. Uh JCB outlines all those things. reassignment, student with disabilities, uh homeless and foster care, uh children of employees. Um there is a section in there um as as I met with this committee, we talked about what sections moving forward would be um better for us to and clear for us to and so there's no ambiguity on okay, how are we considering what are we considering these transfers, what are we not? Um you got you have a redline version that we that our committee came up with as a suggestion. Um that redline version that was attached in this board document was actually vetted through MSBA and they said all those things those changes that you haven't read on that policy would be fine. I mean that would it would be
216um legally okay to have as a policy to make those changes. I did also vet that through ed counsel. Um, and I also looked at um, several different districts in the area or in the state that I know of that um, have multiple high schools. Say um, Park Hill District, um, Liberty, North Kansas City, uh, Colombia, Springfield. Uh, I looked at them, their MSBA policies because I we have access to those if you go online. And um so I looked at what components of their transfer policies having multiple high school or multiple schools in the in in their district um would look like. And so I did talk to um ed counsel and they made some recommendations. U I guess I'm just opening this up for question. Um what I gave you as a red
217line is what I would initially propose. Um, we are going to bring that back again for final approval next month. Uh, but I wanted to get you ahead of that so that you know how we we need to change policy to like I said better be be better consist consistent and clear about what our transfer decisions are. So I would take any questions or input to this. Again, this is an information item that I just plan to bring up and change as the board would would direct me. >> I have a couple questions looking at the at the area with the students of of disabilities. Um, I'm looking at the last line of the paragraph and so I'm looking at the information and I understand that it will now allow a sibling of a person
218that has an IEP or like a 504 to also attend that school. Is this line meaning you will not provide transportation for that extra child >> for the siblings? Yes. Now, by law, we may be we may be asked to uh provide transportation for the IEP student. >> Well, okay. My concern is as a parent, I mean I know lots of parents and they have a child who has an IEP and and then other kids and not in their kids are attending other schools. And so, >> [snorts] >> um, I would just like us to think about if we're providing transportation, you know, for one child, also the other child as well. >> So, so we look at that is when, you know, as a as a parent and if you've got siblings, and this,
219by the way, this goes back to if they are placed, Dr. Anderson talked about placements. We make placements at different buildings for different IEP level programs. And if we make placements there, we're telling a student that may live in a a different resident district boundary to go to this school because this is where your IEP services will be provided. And when we do that and there's siblings involved, we look at that as a benefit that if I'm a if I if I'm a parent that has siblings, then I would be welcome to do that, but then I would just take those kids to that. And and again, I think any hardship can be looked at, but I think we look at as a benefit to say, okay, if I'm a parent that wants my students
220to go there, I may be able may have the ability to take them there, so they can they can go. >> Yeah. But the majority of our parents, I do understand it is a benefit, you know, but it's not a benefit if I'm not able to use it, if I'm not able to provide the transportation. >> Yeah, I agree. And you know what? right now. I should say this is a this is a practice that we have allowed in the four years I've been in this position. Um if they currently do that, I'm not aware of of any parents that have told our office that we can't do this because we want transportation, you know, for our siblings as well as those those ones we've offered that to have always again I I don't know
221how many I've approved there. Multiple. Um, I don't know that I've had that uh issue of not being able to transport, but I'm sure it is out there. I would >> I've enrolled them in my program. >> Yeah. >> So, what is this going to look like? Um, what will this look like for this year? Because there's going to be some staff that don't know what their placements are going to be. I mean, if we have some secondary staff that could go into early next week, then that would not meet the deadline. Is that right? So what what is that going to look like for them? >> So I I think realistically we put the deadline on there to get a majority. We need the numbers at at our schools to know what what would
222be too full, you know, what schools would be full, which one's not. Um I I realistically look at if we place I mean we we expect those decisions to be made this week. >> Um that's why we we've kind of run this timeline and in the same you know kind of put that all together that way. I think if a student if a staff member gets placed or if we hire a staff member after March 1st, we're going to have to consider placement um for the that staff member and their kids. >> Now, will it be based on availability? It's kind of like if you got your name in by March 1st, you would have kind of a priority. If they we have a school that is full, uh we may not be able to
223do that, but that again that's by board policy >> that is in the in the policy to to not allow that because there's no space or availability there. But we would look at those after March 1st still. If we placed like if we wouldn't if we're going to say these high school teachers are going to be placed and we don't give them that, you know, word until next week, then we would work with those those employees. >> All right. Thank you. >> I have another question. I'm looking at the policy and so there will be no um transfer requests during the school year at all. Um there can be if you look under the reassignment section based on um you know if if they designate that it's it's for the health safety and welfare of
224the student or to maintain discipline and safety uh in the schools uh to better meet educational needs. So >> it's not like >> I'm a parent. It's not like I'm able, you know, to make a request. It's like the admin request. >> [clears throat] >> So the the um no the parent one of the things that the uh but I told you the ed council we talked to said we could put the sentence at the beginning of that sentence that reassignment section upon request of the parent or guardian or superintendent or designate discretion. So there was where we could put the the request of the parent in under that reassignment section >> and appreciate that because as you're looking at it, it looks as if >> it's not any >> right >> transfers at all
225allowed after this. >> That's where legal counsel put in there that we should, you know, we should have parent requests somewhere in there, but that's under that reassignment section is where we would include that part. >> Is that because open enrollment would be closed, >> right? that way. >> Yeah. One of the reasons for li I mean not limiting but just clarifying the transfer process better when we had a meeting with Misha and we talked to them about open enrollment and how our enrollment next year is going to change and how our system is going to change. They asked the question in that meeting are you going to still allow transfers within your district? And we said well by policy that still is allowable because currently it [clears throat] is. and they they told me,
226"Well, then then you're still allowing open enrollment." Now, what we are defining as open enrollment, what they're defining as open enrollment is different. But um so again, it's to more clearly delineate how we would approve a transfer. So there's limited amount of open enrollment um that because I wouldn't want an open enrollment to be considered by Misha and then them declare, you know, ineligibility for that student in sports. So, as far as like the So, they have until March 1st. That's going to be kind of dependent on who's already got their questions in. Where do where do the non non-resident students that are paying tuition to come in? Are they are they already in because they're in or are they going to be after a like after our staff get placed or >> We don't
227have any we don't have anybody that's paid tuition to come to school here next year. We currently have student students that the tuition students that pay here. But we that's another reason we wanted to do this process first because we can do this first and then then we would know cuz they're not going to until we open enrollment. >> They're not going to know to enroll here and register their kids as a non-resident and paid tuition. Yeah. >> So we haven't even opened that yet. So >> yes, we're doing this before. >> What's that? even if they already attend here like like I mean if there's a kid already attending and already >> I'm going to assume you know the next year I'm going to do the same. Right. >> Right. Well, we don't automatically
228assume that but I mean they they haven't made any payments for tuition until they enroll for school next year. So I mean they would finish out this year because they paid for the tuition this year, >> but they would know to to be able to come to here next year. they would have to indicate yes, we are paying tuition. Again, at that point in time, we would look at space and availability and and consider those things if we were going to allow them, you know, if there's room to be >> in a building. >> Are they placed after our staff? >> Yes. I mean, we're placing the staff and their children. >> Yes. Yes. Yes. I mean, after the Yes. Okay. So their place after that then. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Anything else on this
229policy? >> If there's any questions, you feel free to shoot those to me an email and I'll get get those back to you as soon as I can. And it's information that we need to know to bring that policy back to you for approval. So, >> thank you. Okay. Next. CIP update. Dr. Low. >> Okay. So, if your stations or folders or what have you, um, you should have found a copy of our >> CEIP. And so, this, I believe, was developed at the beginning of this year. And so, uh, that really the first few pages just really outlines a lot of the, um, processes used and the lenses, uh, used to develop the plan. Um, certainly won't go into that, but the piece that we're going to be looking at tonight is kind of
230a progress report for the CESIP. Um, Dr. McInness asked me to put this together. I think it was February 9th. Um and so uh really it's looking at how are we doing on the plan and how are we progressing in terms of the priorities and smart goals. So that's kind of how it's set up. So if you look at page one and there's a black and white copy there for you as well as if you wanted to pull it up you could you could or it's certainly also available to you in your documents. Um so really just to break the plan down, I really looked at it through the lens of measures. So first um we looked um at that first chart. It's really outlining the priorities, smart goals, action steps, and the percent of
231CESIP. So it just kind of dissects it before we dive into the progress um on those particular pieces. So just as in the way of reminders, the priorities are effective teaching and learning, uh, school finance, recruiting and retaining highquality staff, facilities, and communication, climate, and culture. So you can see that, uh, within each one of those priorities, there are smart goals. And within, for example, effective uh, teaching and learning, there's six. while is if you look at communication, climate, culture, there's two. So, it just kind of breaks it down for you. I'm not going to read it out loud, but you kind of get the the uh the sentiment there that there's some have other, you know, larger smart number of smart goals. Well, others don't. Um, for example, effective teaching and learning has 38
232action steps whereas maybe another component of facilities has six. So, I broke that down in just the components. So you can see before we move on that 51.5% of the CIP is attributed to effective teaching and learning 17.6 is school finance recruiting and retaining high quality staff 12.1% facilities 8.1% and communication climate culture 10.8% and again that's just a function of the smart goals and the action steps. Um [clears throat] so if you look um at the next page um really outlines the executive summary. uh the the process that was used to determine a lot of these what I tried to make quantitative out of uh you know qualitative action steps really I uh put all of the action steps into a spreadsheet and asked the folks that are overseeing these priorities to let me
233know what their uh percent to progress completion rate was at about 65% through the school year which was about the time that the report was asked for. So 65 completion rate would be on task given the fact that it was 65% throughout through the school year. So um that's really uh what I asked folks to give me feedback on in terms of completion rate. Um and so you can see that for the St. Joe School District if we looked at the CIP at the time at which uh 65% completion rate um would be on on track or on target. we had 83.8% of those on track or exceeding and then we also had 16.2 that we are either at risk or behind. And in some of those instances, those things just hadn't been started yet.
234Um it's not to say that they wouldn't be completed at the end of the school year, but that's what it was at that point in time. Um and so you can see um there's even a further breakdown at the end of that page. Um, and you can see those were that were exceeding those were that were on track, at risk, and behind. And so opportunities for improvement, it really [clears throat] uh in terms of teaching and learning, the winter metrics were behind target um but their winter metrics and so they're being compared to the finals goal andor the final from last spring. Um in addition attendance is behind target and that was at the time and we can talk about that a little bit later as comparison to this February compared to last February and
235where we are um which is a little more uh applesto apples comparison recruitment and retention uh there was an area that uh was the 360 feedback implementation but again that was just a function of that process hadn't been started yet. So, those are just opportunities that were found. If you look at page three, and of course, I'm not going to read all of these to you, but um priority one had, like I mentioned, six smart goals. And so, what I did in this instance, you just saw the district as a whole. Now, you're going to see each priority broken down with the same type of data. So, for example, for effective teaching and learning, um uh 86.8% 8% of the action steps that were the 38 action steps that I mentioned 86.8% of them were
236uh exceeding zero on track because they were all in the exceeding category um at risk 13.2%. So if you look at the smart goals which are kind of a different subset of data when you look at it because the action steps are the steps that are taken to obviously attain the smart goals which then would roll up into your priorities. Um the the uh I attempted to answer u with the current metrics how the smart goals were at that time at that snapshot in time. So, [snorts] winner progress scores are behind the goal based on the data charts, and you can see those. Um, they're on the next few pages. 65 uh% completion rate on winter predictive assessments, which is good because that's right where it should be. Um, uh, winter reading. Um, the scores
237are right there for you. And that goes to a [clears throat] smart goal of three which is to increase the reading proficiency from 38% to 85%. So um in that particular case grade three and during the winter was at 35%. K through three chronic absence the goal was to reduce it to uh 8%. It is currently at 16%. Um, number five, you have to see a chart for the explanation. And then for number six, I think uh, Miss Sudtor talked about this in her board report. So there, we quite haven't gotten metrics available to us to better quantify how um, all the things that she talked about in her report are going. Um, but that's something that can be continue to look at things like participation rate, things like market value, asset. there's a new
238report in powers school that can track that. So those things are being onboarded so that she can definitely articulate those metrics to um page four has data charts on them kind of outlines what I've already talked about. Um the only caveats um that I wanted to point out in 2025 um biology 1 there was 347 uh% students that participated and so in 2024 the participation rate in biology 1 was 86.1%. So sometimes that can throw off the way that the proficiency looks depending on the student population that participated. Um if you go to page six of the report, one of the things that uh the smart goal and I believe it was number five is that the St. Joe school district will attain 70% on their APR. So if you're going to measure that, you
239have to try to predict during the course of the current year, how are we progressing towards that goal? And so um as you know the APR has a big chunk of it is academics. And so um for us to uh get what was another goal in um effective teaching learning was that each one of our categories would be an ontrack designation. Um so to achieve that it looks like the ELA would need to improve about 3%. Math proficiency would need to increase about 5%. science proficiency um about 3% and again that caveat still exists because participation rate will be higher this year as opposed to last year. Um the uh APR growth uh that is very hard to predict. I think you've heard me stand up here and talk to you before about how that
240is a very hard metric for us to be able to predict because it is based on student performance um in the year that um the APR data is collected. So it's really difficult to know how students are going to perform um how our students will compare because every year that's different. So um predicting that would be foolish. um success ready students. We already have that data set. It's already in. We still have a chance to get some appeals on that, but at the moment it's at the approaching designation. Graduation rate um current is 91%. We need to be at 92%. So I know the um the folks are work working really hard, Dr. Davis, Dr. to read um data management um they're all working really hard with the building principles to review that data graduation
241followup that is uh the exact data that Miss Stutter showed you earlier um we submit that to the state in February um so right now we know that that is at 92% so our goal is met for that part particular metric um improvement cycle two for for C CIP, you may know that we submitted another round of data and information to the state. Um, that will not affect this year's APR. It will affect next year's APR because not all districts have had a chance to participate. And so, uh, th those metrics will likely stay the same. I just was able to verify that from the state. um the climate and culture survey data um those were deployed and that's all you have to do to meet that criteria. Um and then current our current attendance
242rate is 81.6 and again this was at the time that the report was written and um that would earn us two points. Last year was the first year um since the pandemic we were able to get over the threshold of 80%. Um and then the uh KA is the kindergarten entry assessment. All you have to do is ensure that your kindergarteners are taking that and that was met. And then our individual career and academic plans, all of our eighth graders have to have that 100% done. And so that was met. So in terms of the CTE expansion, the Korean and uh technical education, uh that is already that's on its way to being submitted to the state for um us to get some additional points. Um then in terms of all the MSIP required documentation,
243um those are likely to earn 100% of the points. So, in terms of APR outcomes, it's it's like having a very foggy crystal ball, but in the ones that we can um we we do have a good handle on, we're in good shape and and are able to manage those particular uh uh metrics uh with a little with a a little better accuracy. Um priority two, these it goes faster from here because effective teaching and learning is was is the big one. Um, in terms of this particular plan, um, the school finance smart goals, um, you can see that [clears throat] there's some, uh, summary data within those boxes that Dr. Hedgeworth put together to answer the progress of the smart goals. And then you can see for pri that priority um exceeding was 61
244and a half% on track for action steps was 38 1.5% and then at risk were behind was 0%. Okay. Okay. So then we're going to go ahead and move on to the next page and that would be priority three which is recruiting and retention of high quality staff and you can see the smart the three smart goals that are associated with that priority. Um of the action steps 44% were exceeding zero on track 33% at risk and 23.2% behind. Keeping in mind there's only seven goals. So that those percentages can be yeah a little bit misleading if you look at this at the actual counts. Um and then the smart goal completion for number one for uh priority 3 was 96% completion rate. Um number two um the current metric according to uh Mr. Carell,
24550% of summitive evaluations were complete and they're due March 1st, but that was at the time of the writing of this, so I'm sure that's gone up since then. Um, and then for number three, this is a baseline data collection year. And so, uh, there will be more uh more data to be provided as to how to monitor that particular smart goal. Um and then for uh priority four facilities, there's three smart goals and of of again the seven uh action steps exceeding 33% 50% on track at risk 67 or sorry 16.7%. For the smart goals the um the data that I received back is 100% complete for October 2025. So that was for uh smart goal number one and the long range facilities plan has been put on hold until April due to district
246reorganization. However, the goal was met for facilities plan on of October 2025. 65% review complete and that's for item number two. And then number three uh 100% complete. Then if we go to priority five which is communication, climate and uh culture smart goals there's two. So exceeding was 25% uh 62 um.5% on track and 0% at risk and 12.5% um were uh behind. And so again, you're looking at eight action steps. So kind of keep that in mind when you look at those percentages. So 65% completion progress to completion and then 100% complete on number two because it's a baseline year. So we don't have all the data we might have on how to me how to um progress monitor processes. Those are kind of tricky. So that was really um what I was asked
247to do is to put together a progress report on the CESIP. So again, trying to look at the priorities, looking at the the SMART goals associated with each one, and then looking at the action steps within them, gathering feedback from the folks that are overseeing them. And then for any metric that's really out there that we can put a number or two on the page, um we're able to do that. >> That's a lot of data. Um, and I don't know how you could have gone through it any cleaner than you did. So, thank you for that organization and for um doing the best you can to give us a measurable progress report on those important areas. So, thank you. >> Yep. You bet. Thank you. Thank you. >> Okay. Next, >> I don't know
248if I'm I don't want to take Mr. more thunder here, but we had a we had a meeting uh talking about use of district facilities last week. Um I think some priorities some issues we identified uh availability of staff um after hours to have gyms open um you know proof of insurance being a priority that we need to have uh increase number of hours of practice and times with with different teams and then the registration process and access. Um we had a lot of discussion good discussion about those things. Um there's some things we identified possibly having, you know, shifting uh some of our maintenance custodial staff to certain buildings to open them up and um ones that are either uh adequate space or high needs already um across the district. Um and allowing maybe
249flexing some hours to maintenance and custodial to have those gyms open a little later um so that teams can have access. Um, we talked about uh different ways to market and talk to uh folks about u especially Kai Turner and his um uh partner there uh in Mo family sports, Cam Rucker uh were were there and they offered some input on on how we could, you know, provide access, how we can promote these things. Their program has grown so much. um it's kind of taken over the parks and wreck um usage uh over time and but with all the things that are going on there and the number of teams there's obviously um you know more things they had suggestions about that we could do to kind of um you know allow access and and
250encourage access. Um another thing we off we talked about was that registration process. We have a um component of the operations hero software which is a big component of what Casey and his staff use for maintenance requests and getting things done. There's a component for facility usage there that we can have teams and people register um and get them in and then they once they do that then they're they're registered and then they can obviously start signing up for gym times and things like that. and that might be a process that's a lot cleaner, more accessible um to community um and to coaches and people like that that uh want to have our gym. So, very productive meeting. I think we're going to meet here again in uh April to kind of go back through
251some things, kind of get a little uh progress started on our end on the maintenance side and the that facility usage piece uh for that that registration process. Um Mr. Dr. Moore, I'll let you fill in any more or add any more to that. What you >> I wouldn't add much, Dr. N. Thank you for that explanation, but yeah, I mean, listen, it's it's fairly simple. We we we know that the the barriers are just available gym time and somebody to close the building, right? And um we we we we special target to being strategic about which gyms we open to benefit some of the kids that have harder time with transportation, for example, on practice. um would note that uh Mr. Turner's organization, Mo Family Sports, um has a blanket policy that he u
252an insurance policy that covers all the teams that play under his um um organization. And so the school is good with that. And really one of the biggest hurdles was uh the need for that centralized scheduling, just you know, who do who do you contact and how do you know what buildings are available when? And so luckily we we have in the district a piece of software that we've already paid for that can help us can help us with that with a little bit of programming work. And so so yeah, that's it. Um it just trying to address a need that came up with the community. >> Tone of the meeting was good by >> the tone. Yeah. >> Oh, absolutely. >> Yeah. Yeah. Look, I mean the I mean I mean uh Mr. Turner's
253organization is there to help the kids and kids that are recreational players. Very important that they they get out and be able to do this. And of course the district uh Mr. Noly, Mr. Edgecore uh want to do the same benefit some of those kids. So yep, very good time. >> Is this also an opportunity for like other teams and things if they're not involved with >> Yeah. organization absolutely can benefit. Uh it was mentioned in the meeting volleyball which I think is still part of >> parks and wreck >> park and wrecks with the city >> right now. We'd have to check their insurance situation. Right. I'm I'm feeling it's probably covered but we'd have to check that for sure. But yeah, absolutely. It's not just uh the one organization that could benefit from
254visibility to gyms that are available and some slightly expanded hours. >> But you need insurance, correct? >> Absolutely. >> Yeah. Yeah, we do to cover the district. >> Thank you, sir. >> Okay. Next, Dr. Munis. >> Yes. So, I wanted to speak about our cooperative agreement that we have with the county, and this was put into place August of 2024. Um, the original intent of this partnership with our county was to improve our attendance rates. And so, um, we have a partnership with a position, an interversion officer, and our hope was that this would help, um, bridge a gap between the juvenile office, the prosecuting attorney, and help us improve our outcomes. If you look at our attendance data, which is uploaded onto assembly, our attendance when we ended the 2023 school year was 79.1.
255When we ended 2024, we dipped down to 77.8. Last year, we ended at 81.2. And you'll see on my report, that's where we are right now. That was based off of when we had to submit this to assembly. So, actually, as of last Friday, we're at 81.13. And I do want to point out, historically, our district declines in attendance in second semester all the way to the end of the school year. Sometimes we can see a slight increase in April and May um but from the measurement at semester 1 we tend to decrease. So last year at this time I'm sorry 2025 at this time our district attendance was at 83.24 and again we ended at 81.2. So we fell just over 2% from February last year till the end of the year. So being
256at 81.13 is a concern for us that we're not going to meet that 80% requirement that we need to get points for APR. Um so we took this back to our county commissioners last week had a very productive dialogue. Um looked at these outcomes and agreed that we should reconsider our approach and in this agreement. Um, I will say the county wants to support us in something that is effective to increase our attendance numbers, but we agreed that this wasn't being effective currently in its in its current state. So, this agreement was approved by the board in August of 24. We would need board approval to end the agreement. Um, and that was be our recommendation after meeting with the county commissioners. >> Any questions on that? Yeah. Would we expect to see it slide
257back down? I mean, it's not a a lot, but might we expect, you know, in 20 256, say we end up at Yeah, like you said, maybe we'll end up below 80, but would we expect it to slide back a couple of points or do you look at this whole thing and just say it's basically level? >> I'm looking at this from 2023 to 24 to 25 to now. Um and overall I don't think this is a big bang for our buck. >> Yeah. >> In getting an outcome that we need for our APR points and that's the data point that we are looking at for this partnership. Um we often get data as far as number of referrals um how many kids we've contacted how many are on the diversion program. But overall, the
258data point that matters to us the most is what that attendance percentage is at the end of the year or where we are throughout the year. Um, so it's concerning that we're at 81.13 right now and knowing that to get any points at all, we have to be at 80%. And just as a reminder, the state's expectation is 90% for attendance, which is still missing almost 17 days of school in the school year. So, it's still a concern, but I am very appreciative of our county folks. They want to work with us. They want to partner with us, whether that's a financial partnership or a different approach. And so, that's something we're going to take back to our administrators and our staff and try to come up with a different system to improve our tenants
259data. >> And when does the current agreement end? >> Um, well, it's actually a five-year agreement. And so we plan to continue this for this school year, but then would ask for ending it at the end of the um in May or the end of the school year. Sorry. >> Has it been 5 years? >> No, it's been since August of 2024, but we actually had a partnership with them informally prior to in 2023. Yeah. It just wasn't set in stone and we weren't contributing financially to that partnership until August of 2024. >> And what what do we contribute to this the current program? What what what's a financial expense >> looks like? Uh >> so it's about 25,000ish and that includes a position that is split between us and the county. It's also um
260postage and things of that nature when we're sending out letters from the prosecuting attorney's office. So things of that nature >> and as you evaluate that um you the gross numbers aren't necessarily I mean there was some improvement and it's kind of stalled a little bit. There's still a concern that could say um but they're making a difference to help us keep to even where we are. Um do you have any sense at all that um the the work that they're doing uh not just on the gross level but on the individual level that they're making a difference for students? >> I think some of it is and I I think they're also very cognizant of our financial reality and I do think some of this partnership will still maintain. I just don't know what
261that looks like right now. >> Okay. Thank you. because all along as we tried to improve attendance before the last few years even we the prosecuting attorney's been involved with us to help with truency you know what I mean >> correct >> and so I hope I'm glad you're I'm glad we're keeping that bridge solid that's what I'm saying >> yeah we need to partner with them to try and improve this data but I would say that I think this agreement is not producing the impact that we had hoped for >> thank you >> okay any additional questions Okay. Um board notes. >> Okay. Would you like to start with me? >> Sure. I'm fast cuz it's 9:16. Um so we went down to Great Northwest Days. What? February 2nd, 3rd, something like that. A
262couple weeks ago. Um we met with uh Representative Falner. He has a bill going on that I think um Dr. Hedgeworth has emailed us all about. Um it's in regard to tax >> bonding capacity in chapter 10 353 tax abatements >> that he's really excited about it. Uh he feels like it has a lot of bipartisan support. Um but we'll see. Uh we also met with uh Representative Brenda Shields. She has a bill going through right now about gifted services. Um we didn't get into that uh too much. One of the things that we did talk about uh with Representative Shields was the release time for religious instruction bill that Josh Hurlbert who is a state rep who um is also an employee of the Herszog Foundation had um put forward. Um there's a lot
263of concern about that. Um has to do with Lifewise Academy and students leaving during school um going to receive church religious instruction. Um, Representative Sheila said that she felt like there wasn't um a lot of support for that bill um and that she felt like there wasn't um support outside of our community honestly um for that. So, she didn't expect that to go anywhere. Um the other thing to have um on that neither of our representatives really spoke about was um the future of the foundation task force. um that foundation met today. Um as Dr. Hedgeworth had mentioned, um Governor Kho has already explicitly told the committee not to increase funding for public education. Um as a reminder, there are four total legislators who are on that committee who have received over $2 million in
264total from Herszog um and one Herszog employee. So, I wouldn't anticipate a lot of positive coming from the legislature this session for public education. That's all I have. >> Any questions about her recap? >> Okay, Mr. Richmond. >> Yes. I I have a suggestion that I'd like for I think we should consider and that is currently um we have a town hall meetings scheduled for March 25th and I put myself in the position of saying I'm a new board member um that gets elected in April not and I won't be me obviously but new board members I feel like that um that meeting we should consider moving to April. where they have the opportunity to hear directly from the community um after the election on um what what are the things that are most important
265and what are the needs and I think both from a scheduling standpoint and then but even more so that they get firsthand hearing from the community and the community knows that they've heard from them that it'd be better to do that meeting in April. >> I agree. I don't have any I mean if there's going to be two new people and they need to be able to hear and talk to them about that. I would agree with that. >> I agree. >> I get what you're saying only. I'm thinking I mean if I'm a candidate I would attend any and everything right now anyway and so I would still hear but it's whatever y'all want to do right with whatever. Well, I think I think overall districtwide too, there's a lot going on in March
266with parent teacher conferences and spring break. Um, there's just a a lot of other stuff happening as well. >> Okay. So, are we looking at like a new date now or what you want to do? I I didn't have a new date. Um I kind of hope the district would help um take a look at their schedules and what what conflicts there might be and both in um date and you know even location because it could be well attended and um and so I think >> it's maybe like over the work session. >> Yeah, maybe by the work session we could um we could try to have that nailed down. So, I think that at this point maybe we could um you know, it's listed on here that we're having that. I think at this
267point we would be saying we're going to postpone that to to April with the date and location to be determined. >> Are you guys okay with that? >> Yes. >> No objections. >> All right. Perfect. Any other board announcements? >> I have one thing. >> What's up? >> Um Dr. Dr. Noli is retiring >> and uh I just want to say thank you to Dr. Ni. Um he is he has affected hundreds of students and staff and his time in public education. He has the hardest and worst job arguably in the district. Uh no offense no offense but transportation and busing just I I can't imagine. Uh you are a great threeon three partner and I believe that if we had had one more of you and one less of Robert Seagris, we would have
268won that corporate challenge. uh your fellow canon and I appreciate you. Thank you. >> I'm still I feel so still. >> Yeah. Yeah. That was a rough time. It was a rough time. Thank you. >> Tanya, I have one more quick thing and that is um the PTA had their annual recognition banquet and um I I was specifically want to call out Jennifer Karns um and her involvement, leadership um with that group of people and the organization. There were there was a full house at um um there at Stony Creek and it was a good night with a lot of a lot of recordings and recognition in the community to schools all over the place and Jennifer was right in the middle of that and um that's that speaks well to her involvement and and
269participation. Some of us were able to attend that. It was good. I was thinking about that too, Tom, because it was a great opportunity to recognize staff. >> Yeah. >> All staff. And then following that with the catillian, which recognized some exceptional students. So, there are some really positive things going on and recognition for the hardest workers in the district. It was it was very nice. So, thank you, David. >> It was good. And there's also another res resignation only. I'm not prepared to speak because I was kind of surprised to see it and so I will speak on that next month. Is there a motion to adjourn? >> Motion to adjourn to executive session 610.021 021 close meeting and close records for legal hiring firing discipline holdings of particular employees and individually identifiable personnel
270records. >> Perfect. Second. >> I'll second. >> Okay. Would you call the vote, please? >> Miss Williams? >> Yes. >> M? >> Yes. >> Miss Burns? >> Yes. >> Miss Lanny? >> Yes. >> Miss Miller? >> Yes. >> Mr. Moore? >> Yes. >> Mr. Richmond? >> Yes. This meeting's adjourned.