001Good evening. I call this meeting to order. Roll call, please. >> Sorry. >> Hi. I'm sorry. I was not ready. You're good. I was changing something. Oh, Miss Miller here. >> Miss Williams here. >> Miss Chzny >> here. >> Miss Karns >> here. >> Mr. Richmond >> here. All stand for the pledge of allegiance, please. >> 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. >> Is there a motion for the approval of the agenda? I'll make the motion. >> I'll second. >> The motion is second. Please. >> Mr. Richmond, >> yes. >> Miss Karns, >> yes. >> Miss Chzn, >> yes. >> Miss Williams, >> yes. >> Miss Miller, >> yes. >> And
002the motion passes. All approved items for discussion. Revision of the salaries. >> Yeah, that's me. Uh, thank you. So in front of you I have presented four different salary schedules and the reason for this is January 1st um Missouri minimum wage increases to $15 per hour. So under these four schedules um there are a few um on range one that are below $15 an hour. Um, previously public employers, similar to a school district, were exempt from having to follow state minimum wage. We had to follow federal minimum wage. But under House Bill 567, that has changed um to where public employers are now um we are now subject to state minimum wage. Um, so as we go through these, you'll you'll notice that only the changes were done to those um steps that were under
003$15 an hour. We will present um later in April changes to the entire schedule um as well to reflect these changes. But in the first one, the support staff salary schedule, um we have added the position of technology apprentice because we do have some high school students who are working for us as an apprentice. Um we have changed range one um steps one, two, and three um that were under $15 to be at $15 for all three of those steps. and then again we will adjust those when we get to April for all of the salary schedules. Um changes to educational staff um there is one step one is under $15. Changes to the adult education and literacy um salary schedule. There were two steps that were under $15. And then changes to the operational
004staff salary schedule. Um there were three steps that were under $15. Um the approximate cost for the remainder of the school year is about $2,000 total. Um it affects five employees. Have any questions? >> When when you bring that in April, will you um give that another bump at that time or will this be the bump for the year? >> Um we will not. Well, we are still waiting to meet with our um salary and benefits committee um on whether we're going to make an increase. My idea is going to be that um step one is probably going to remain at $15 um because of our financial situation that we are in right now. >> Well, I think at least take it into consideration that that's already happened. If there are no >> other additional
005questions or comments, let's move on. Every business program, >> good evening. So, this is the one time of the year I actually get to come up here and say we made some money. Um, so the EverG uh business response program is designed for commercial customers in peak demand areas during the hot hot times of the summer uh to back off some of our power consumption in order to as an incentive to make money. Um, and al also to basically to help the load of the power grid to allow for all your homes to be able to have the proper power, you don't have brownouts, you know, things like those things. Um so this year we uh we participated in five curtailments um across all of them were see all of them were outside of school
006hours except for one um and kind of what that looks like is the buildings are very I guess structurally sound for the most part but a lot of your a lot of your heat and everything doesn't really absorb in real quickly. So that allows us a little bit of leniency back and forth there. Uh but all in all, uh this is our third year that we participated in this event. Uh the first year was just around a little over $4,000 that we had for an incentive. Uh the second year was a little over seven [clears throat] and this year out of the list that is provided on the internet there, the there seven of those locations were actually able to be able to be used and uh we had an incentive that we reached uh
007with a paycheck from Evergy with the amount of $17,50. So it's nice increase. Um, a lot of that is due to the updated uh control systems that we're allowed to use now that we didn't have before. Um, we can really regulate the temperatures and the consumption, you know, in areas of the building that aren't being used as much versus areas that are. So, just going to find you guys and let you guys be aware of we're in the right direction. That's good job. But it's also I I'm glad to hear about the control system because that was an upgrade with all those HBAC things and so it's nice to hear some positive benefit of that. >> Absolutely. >> Appreciate the information. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay. The next item is a review of
008the transfer policy within the district. Um, if you look at the agenda, I had asked to put this on the agenda, it's been lots of um, questions about the transfer policy and about the process and such. And so I just wanted a review of the policy and a discussion about the process. If you could explain, Dr. McInness. >> Sure. So, we actually just finished the boundaries today and that has been published on our website. So, our students and families can go on to our district website, click on that reorganization button, and then actually put in their address to see where the school will be for next year. So, we are hoping to send out that communication before Christmas break, but definitely by January, so that all of our families know where their students will be
009attending next year. As far as policy JCB goes, if you scroll down to transfer request, it lists how students can transfer to a different school, they must submit a transfer request to the district prior to the beginning of the semester. So, we will probably begin that process in January. Um, but we want to make sure we are being clear in that communication to our families as far as what school you will be attending because we've heard that some families may not be sure of that. Um, we will have a committee in that process. So, it won't be a single person. Um, and I also want to address why we cannot grandfather students in. That's been a a frequently asked question. Um, when you transition from three high schools to two high schools, it limits your
010space. And so, the reason those boundaries will be in place is to ensure capacity. And so all of those transfer requests will be based on what space we have available in those two buildings. But again, we will not make that in isolation. There'll be a team created to go through all of those request forms. And just to clarify, um, if I if I already have a child who who is a transfer to a particular light high school, I would need to apply again. Correct. >> I would wait until you get that letter that states where your where you where you live, what boundary you are in for that particular school. And if it is different from where you are currently going, then yes, you would need to fill out that transfer request form. Okay. I
011just wanted um open information out there. I think that there are people and they just automatically assume, well, I've already been approved a transfer, you know, and so I automatically will be able to go to a particular school. I mean, this is like a clean slate. >> Correct. Now, staff, we do have board policy that staff can have their kids go to the school of their choice. I do want to say the procedure that is uploaded to assembly right now. Our form will most likely be tweaked just a little bit. Um right on here it has the building level will approve the application. We want to take that off of our principles and make sure that's a district-led committee um so that they're not stuck making those tough decisions. And so this way we can
012have a team do that and keep the uh principles part of that conversation but not the decision makers. >> I think my main um concern is an open process um a fair and equal process across the board about the transfers and such. And so, um, I just wanted information out there and I just wanted, um, everyone knowing, you know, that the district is looking at the process and how to improve it and make it a little better. >> And once we have more information and everything created, then we will push that out to our families. >> Any questions, comments on that item? I think that's great for the admin >> to be out of that. >> It frees them up. >> I think it'll be good to have a team, a committee that's looking at
013those individually and and we we'll probably have a rubric and that type of thing to make sure that we are fair in that process. >> Okay. Next. >> Is that Dr. Noly? >> Yes. >> Thank you. Um the item I have here on the agenda is uh the Missouri School Board Association and uh CES, the Center for Educational Safety, has been working to develop a tool that is um uh involved a mobile app. It it basically uh pre-formats an emergency operation plan that can be uh developed for each school and and across the district. Um if you [clears throat] some of you may remember a few years ago we did look at a tool that they were developing. Um they kind of stopped doing that. There was there was templates out there. Um they found
014out there was a lot more cumbersome work with that. Uh so they went to work with this K12 safety group and they have have launched a different uh an application which also can be on a uh download on a smartphone which can be accessible to every every staff member um every administrator um and that can be accessed also by law enforcement and emergency responders. Um the uh the cost for this is it is the probably the bigger item, but it wasn't I will say this was not budgeted. I wasn't sure that this application would be up and going. Um, but they have uh posted that by December 31st they're calling it a beta testing phase uh to where they are still testing it and we can have a part and say maybe how we would
015like ours to look um and and have input to that. Um so I wasn't quite sure that it was not budget initially. Um we would if we decide to do this it's a three-year uh locked in price and I did give the pricing on the attachments. Um, it's about it. I will say this that it's it's half of what that price is cuz it's prorated for 6 months. The the thing that I uh talked to Dr. Hedgeorth about is by locking in this price, you'll save about $11,520 over the next two years. Um, if you do, uh, go with that price now. Um, again, I would just emphasize I did not have that in the budget. So that will have to be something that will be added within the safety and security budget under student
016services. So take any other questions you might have. >> Could you repeat the amount that it will cost? >> Uh so it will be um $4,795 for the rest of this year. $4,795. That's half of the prrated or the price that they give on the brochure that I included. >> And the years after that, >> um the years after that, it's 9,590. But that, like I said, that at that price, um after January 1st, uh that price goes up to 15,350 uh a year. So that for the next two years that savings is 11,520. >> Hey Shann, could you talk a little bit about the Raptor module? This what you're replacing this. >> Yeah. So um Raptor's three-year agreement uh with the state and one of the reasons we had Raptor was to do the
017emergency uh response and drill management. Um this would take the place of that. Um right now we spend with the Raptor uh software around $22,000. um that will this would replace that. So actually if you if you make sense of that next year if we're using this at 9,000 versus our 22,000 with Raptor that would that would be a bigger savings there as well. That goes also along with the intercom systems that got put in with the grant uh excuse me the bond issue. Um between that those those intercom systems and the software there and this this here this houses more of the emergency operation procedures. Um but between the two of them that will replace um the raptor cost that we would have. So we would not have that the next you know two
018years or beyond. >> Shannon, we had a pretty public issue about whether or not um that to to get the three-year coverage that would require us to pay the whole fee up front or would it um be an annual? It's >> annual. So we would pay the that uh 4,795 for this year and then it would be 9,590 um the next two each of the next two years [snorts] >> and then do I see that it goes up to 19190? >> No, that would that's if you're a bigger school. Our tier we're in tier four which is our enrollment. So it it stays in I mean we're that's between 5,000 and 14,999 students. So that's what it would stay. >> That's for the bigger if you're a bigger school. All those tiers depend on your
019school's district size. >> Any additional questions? >> If not, I appreciate your time. Thank you. >> Okay. Academic calendar. >> Okay. Good evening. Um I wanted to share the CIP alignment with this piece. Um Miss Williams, I'm glad that you um put that into our um you know the written communication, but this this academic calendar is so interdependent upon different priorities and the first priority of course is effective teaching and learning to ensure we have an academic calendar there. Um but we also this also plays a factor in recruiting and retaining high quality staff and that um it impacts um climate and culture as well. also priority five. Um but I am presenting to you tonight it's a rough draft of the work of the St. Joe School District's um calendar committee. Um and this
020committee began its work on October 23rd um with a charge of developing a recommended academic calendar. Um every individual who expressed interest to serve on the committee was selected. Um and so we had a representative group of 20 members across our system including I ensured that we had somebody from powers school. So Angie Lawson served um on there as well as a core data. Jessica up in core data also served on the team. Um this diverse group brought forward a wide range of voices and perspectives. Um and we examined um each month of this academic calendar to ensure it remained focused on all of those priorities um that I shared with the CSIP. Um in the review, the committee ensured full alignment with state requirements including the mandated school start date of no earlier than
021August 24th. Um along with um we are required by statute to provide 1,044 hours of instruction annually um 169 um suit days. Um, additionally with the passage of Senate Bill 727, we also had to provide um uh the 36 hours of the weather makeup um time which equates to a publishing six days of AMI um on the school calendar for potential emergencies or like weather. Um so um what you'll see there is the academic calendar. We did um our academic team met um and discussed this. Um we looked at um three um topics that came up um as differences I would say or you know um just um different voices to the table. And so that's when we um also surveyed our entire staff. And so we surveyed the entire staff and if you look
022we got 63 I'm sorry need my glasses. 635 responses there. And so they varied. When do we want to hold spring break? Um and you'll see where spring break was placed. Um you will also find the survey results um attached there as well. There's no cost to this. Um as outlined in the board documents, I um I'm grateful for the team. Um this is um stakeholders coming together to ensure that we're getting this right um in the priorities outlined at the beginning. So, are there any questions? >> No, I don't think so. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay, Mr. Cra, is the next one you work day calendar? It is um based on the work from academic services um and the academic calendar. I'm presenting the 2627 workday calendar for 260day staff.
023So that would be um it's a central office that would be some high school administrators um administrative assistance operations TMC. I'm sure I'm leaving some out, but those those staff members there that work 12 months. Um some things some items to note. So in July of um 26, there are four full weeks. So we will we will be working four days that week. So all staff members will work 9 and a half hours on those days to get our time in for those weeks. Um there's a total of um 19 days off. 13 of those are paid holidays. Six are paid days off and those six days would be four around Christmas and two for spring break. Um there is one unpaid day which is the day before Thanksgiving. Um I've been doing some math
024a little bit and if you take the weekends times 52, it comes up to 261 days. So that's that one unpaid day off would be the day before Thanksgiving on that Wednesday. um as I was um and this these these 19 days is equivalent to um the 25 26 calendar. So it is it is identical on the number of um holidays and paid days off. So there is no increase or decrease there. Um I will need to make an adjustment on it as I was analyzing this. I'm glad it was a draft. Um, if you look over on, excuse me, if you look over on the right, um, where it says central office admin, high school principal, supervisors, um, it does say on the fifth line, 13 paid holidays and five paid days off. That
025needs to change to six um, to mirror what it says down below under support staff and TMC. So, I will make that adjustment um, as well. Um, I also surveyed our 260day staff only um to kind of ask them where they wanted our spring break to fall. So, if you're anybody less than 260 days, um, you get the full spring break that entire week. Um, 260day staff only gets two days during that spring break. Um, and 90% of those that responded stated that they wanted spring break to be March 24th and 25th, which would be at the end of that week. Um, in previous years, it's been at the beginning of that week because it usually aligns with um our 4-day week for third quarter parent teacher conferences, but they chose to do that at
026the end of the week um to follow up with the Easter weekend break. Anybody have any questions? I appreciate your time, Mr. Carl. >> Thank you. >> Okay, Grand Canyon. >> Is that also you? >> I thought we were done. All right, we have anou from Grand Canyon University. Um we have a few staff members that are completing online courses to get their certification. Um thisou entitles um Grand Canyon Education students to participate um in a practicum or field experience for student teaching. Um this contract expires November 12th of 2028. So it's a three-year contract. Um, and thisou has been verified by our legal group. Have any questions for that? >> And there there are no fees or cost to this. It's actually a recruiting tool for us. >> I was about to ask about
027the cost. So, thank you. >> If there are no questions, our next meeting is in exactly two weeks. And is there a motion to adjurnn? I have a motion. Is there a second? >> I'll second it. >> You call the vote, please. >> Miss Miller, >> yes. >> Miss Williams, >> yes. >> Miss Chzn, >> yes. >> Miss Karns, >> yes. >> Mr. Richmond, >> yes. And >> this meeting's adjourned. Thank you.