001e e e he good evening I call this meeting to order would you do the roll call please miss Don Miss Williams here miss Garcia here miss Miller here miss chesne here Mr Gary pres M Lan here Mr Mo here I'll stand for the Pledge of Allegiance please plig to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation God indivisible withy andice all members of the board can join me to the front please and we will skip a in see until next month and let's begin with Triumph donation evening I'm not sure if this is on is that working I can't see the top what oh it is can you hear me not the batter's dead it's all right I can talk loud so we'll be fine um
002we are so honored to have Triumph Foods here tonight to present a donation to the St Joseph School District for the past five years they have supported SJSD with contributions of $25,000 per year the funds are used to support multiple groups of students including newcomers migrants refugees and high school students this grant also supports the promotion of technical programs at hilard technical school with ELD families we are so thankful for Triumph support for our English language Learners and for this Community Partnership and with us tonight we have Matt England chief executive officer Josh Klein Chief Financial Officer Nora Allen Communications analyst and Lynn D le Communications analyst and then we have Michelle scholes who is our ELD coordinator thank you so much [Applause] sorry okay uh tonight we want to recognize the dedicated men and
003women who serve on our school board uh we celebrate celebrate their tireless commitment their vision and their crucial role they play in shaping the future of our school and most importantly the future of our students they are the stewards of the public education system tasked with ensuring that our schools provide a nurturing and effective environment where all students can Thrive their service is not easy and often comes with tough decisions they are advocates for public education champions for Equitable opportunities and leaders who are ensuring that our schools are prepared for the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow tonight let us express our gratitude and appreciation for the vision they bring the dedication they offer and the lasting impact they make on the education system thank you for your unwavering service your commitment to Excellence and for
004being true champions of public education let's give them a round of applause for all their do [Applause] sir just want to make sure all right um we had a pretty historic end to a great winter season um not too many chances like this um I I'm I'm kind of honored and privileged to do this because I I don't think I've ever been in a position where I've gotten to announce uh this kind of accomplishment especially from one school um we'll start with the Benton girls basketball team um the Benton girls basketball team um finished second place of state state runner up in class four this year um they started I mean they they battled their schedule this year is built um they were 24- seven but I will tell you they played every they took
005every chance to play teams that were bigger than them them better than them they knew they had a bigger goal in mind um with that and end 247 they were uh undefeated Conference champions in the Midland Empire conference um they went through District uh pretty easily um and and I know there was a St Stout test from their Cross City rival uh in District that may have been one of their toughest games until that last game on Saturday down at State um I will tell you that with these girls I mean there's a lot of you know bent girls program has have a lot of state championship and it's it's very probably unfortunate thanks Brett for setting that high bar um but you know when you have three out of four years uh with these
006seniors that they play second in state a lot of people would say well you know that's that's just kind of disappointing that that is far as far from disappointing as you can get three out of four years to have that same level of excellence and commitment and standards to I mean to themselves to their teammates their coaches and their school is remarkable um and so I'm very very honored I'm going to invite Chris Michaels the head coach if he wants to come up and say anything about his team I'm very proud to present the Benton girls basketball team with this recognition tonight for their second place finish in the class four state championships [Applause] um I don't have a lot to say I I still don't have a lot of voice um for some reason
007um uh we just appreciate all the support we've had all year and um for for even through throughout State we had people it didn't matter if you wore red all year if you were in green or blue um they came around and supported us when we made it and um that that means a lot to us and so we appreciate all that and everything everybody's done for us thank you [Applause] [Music] about I'll [Music] look at me big smiles awesome [Applause] congratulations great job thank you great job girls coaches everybody and like I said it's pretty special usually one team get to be in this position uh to be able to honor is is pretty special but we've got two okay the Benton boys basketball team also finished second place class four state championships they
008also were undefeated Conference champions um running away with that conference and and pretty easily okay they had some battles but it was it they they dominated I will I will say that um their record was 28 and4 um they they again I mean I I've never seen two teams that want to go out and seek out the competition of both these wanted to seek out but they played some high level competition because they knew again they had a bigger goal in mind um you know this is legendary you know talked about the tradition that the girls had built okay the boys on the boys side is not I mean it's they've been always competitive they've been right there just really really close and just maybe a game or two right there before you know at
009the district level or right after that kept them away from it I know coach Boon's been a part of some great teams at Benton okay but this is legendary because the first time since 1941 they're in a state championship game over 80 years so this set of this team is uh remarkable because they just now flipped the the script and restarted the history books for Benton boy basketball so at this time I would bring coach Boon up here uh and congratulate the bo Benton boys basketball team on their second place um kind of like Chris I mean that you know for me this was extra special um just being able to rewrite the history books I mean it's been a long time um since we've been in this position and you know it's just exciting
010these last few weeks have been a ton of fun um you know I know the boys enjoyed it the parents enjoyed it Community the city I mean same like Chris said you know we we United the city you know for however long it was you know the city was United and you know that was awesome and so I just can't thank you guys enough for your support and uh you know the dedication to us and I mean hopefully we can do it all again next year there you go [Applause] you have to go to the fr [Music] congratulations [Applause] like trees I okay we have one for audience participation and stra good evening members of the school board on behalf of the St Joseph School Districts msta I'm here to express our sincere gratitude UD
011by honoring you during Missouri school board appreciation month as a token of our appreciation we have donated on your behalf two inspiring book titles to our secondary schools not an easy win by Crystal Giles has been purchased for our middle schools and res Ball by Byron Graves has been purchased for our high schools both of these are stories of resilience determination and the power of Education values that reflect the work you do for our District every day these books will serve as a lasting reminder of your impact inspiring students for years to come thank you for your leadership your advocacy and your commitment to the success of our schools we appreciate [Applause] you okay approval of the agenda is there a motion we need to amend because um item 2 C which has already taken
012off for Spring Garden student council and 2 a Joel Huntsman both of those need to be moved to April when those people can be in attendance thank you is there a motion make motion thank you s and Kim when you're ready you can call the vot Please Mr Moore yes M Lanning yes Mr Garing yes Miss chesny yes Miss Miller yes Miss Garcia yes Miss Williams yes and the motion passes 70 consent agenda is there a motion for approval thank you Whitney is there a second I'll second thank you Mike I do want you to know that uh I received questions uh on the consent agenda regarding CD and e um and they will academic Serv services will touch based on those in the assistant superintendent academic report so are there questions that we should
013remove those and to vote individually or no questions it's just uh they just wanted them highlighted okay so we voted to put these on the consent agenda I don't know back in August uh and um I remember if there were any questions then they needed to be brought to be voted on within the action items but there no no specific questions they just want them to be highlighted the board member want them to be highlighted so then should take them out but I digress um on the information that you're going to be giving as a portion of your report will it like affect approval of the board I don't anticipate it to I was just going to highlight some of the pieces that are in the attachments I'm happy to do that now if you
014would rather me go over that now before you vote um in order to do that we would need to remove those items to the action items vote on the remaining consent agenda items and then discuss those you okay with that remove I'll revise my motion to remove CD and are you okay with that Mike I am okay okay would you call the vote please Miss Williams yes Miss Garcia Miss Miller they're just going to be brought down below correct or just underneath the academics correct they will be action items yes M chesne yes Mr Garing yes M Lanning yes Mr Mo yes and the motion passes with one abstention okay admin report okay in the for the superintendent report tonight I wanted to uh touch base on uh three items the first one I'm going
015to start with is uh the long range plan I just wanted to give some updates as to some of the questions uh that we're receiving in regards to what happens next um um and where the long range plan stated we were going I thought it'd be a good opportunity tonight to provide some background information in regards to that so uh first of all obviously you know we have an initiative on the ballot April the 8th um and if it passes uh then uh the the restructure um is somewhat simple and it's easy for me to uh provide that information so what does happen is uh in the fall of 2028 um everything that was presented to you guys in the long range plan uh will happen okay and what that is um we provided you
016with a desired state of what the school district would look like that's two high schools one in the north end of town one in the south end of town that's four middle schools uh which in turn fixes your uh Middle School model issue that you have right now uh those middle schools would be Lafayette Benton um bod and TR and then it's a 10 Elementary model and two of those elementary schools um are currently serving as um two of those elementary schools are currently serving as middle schools so would' be a two High School four Middle School 10 Elementary system um and all of that would go into place in the fall of 2028 nothing would happen until then so you don't go change boundaries and then change boundaries again in 2028 everything would Happ
017happen at once every student uh that would fall in the South End boundary would attend the new high school every student that would fall in the North End boundary would attend Central High School and then we would go through that process again and um LJ Hart was here uh three months ago and they provided you with some background information as to what that would look like from a financial standpoint so you would have a specific amount of no tax increase um in 2031 and you would go through the same process to build the high school on the North End so um and then uh you know your second option if it doesn't pass um on April the 8th the long range plan still states that we're a two High School System uh those two high
018schools will be uh Central and Lafayette um the reason for the choice of Lafayette over Benton is strictly because of the number of seats that are um can be occupied in those two buildings it's still going to be very tight to put 3,000 kids in those two buildings but that is the only thing that in states can happen so paring so so what so what'll happen then um obviously if Lafayette serves as a high school it can't serve as a middle school which in turn brings rubido back on the Middle School list and then it'll bring persing and Eugene Field back as options uh for elementary schools moving forward as another North End school because you would need seats for elementary students it also states that that would happen in 2627 um there are some
019decisions I I believe that the board of education is going to have to make those conversations are going to have to start on April the 9th because there will be a lot of planning that has to go into place to make that happen um you know what does a remodel look like uh for the two new high schools um right now in the long range plans it's stated that we would put some something on the ballot in April of 26 uh to remodel those buildings but I'm not so sure that um in my opinion it shouldn't happen in August of 2025 if you're going to go that way just because you give yourself more time to plan for that because if you wait until April of 26 and then tried to go to a two
020high school system and in the fall of 26 it's going to be pretty tight but you know I think that uh as long as everything is out there and out in front of the community I think that's you know that's what's in the best interest so at this time I know that's a lot of information very fast but I know that there was some misconceptions or some false information that was being spread and so you know I've presented in probably over 40 presentations so far and you know I do my best but obviously you can't uh can't touch everybody so I thought it' be good for us to bring it up in a public meeting can you make a request for audience members to hold their comments please yes can uh the audience please hold
021their comments thank you um so April 9th we're going to have to make a lot of decisions no matter what happened yeah so the election will happen on the 8th our next work session and the reorganization is the fall two fall two Monday one one Monday after that the 14th so on the 14th so we'll do the reorganization and then immediately after we'll go into a work session I'm assuming we'll have the long range plan on that work session yes yeah yeah probably that and then um I believe there's only going to be one other item because that'll take up a lot of time well and then the other thing is I don't I mean I at some point you're going to have to have potentially um that any ballot language that you want to
022put on for August is going to have to be approved in May along with whatever so we'll have I hate I hate to even plan that that doesn't happen but again there's people spreading so much misinformation that it's hard um so if that were to happen we would have 80 million we would still have that 80 million no no tax increase bonding capacity but we would need LJ Hart we would need something pretty clear about what we're going to do with that yeah yes that that you definitely would have the 80 million probably plus a little bit um if you wait till April 26 it's probably going to be closer to 90 million or 95 million whatever that looks like um but in August I would say it's going to be very similar to what
023you have in April well I'm just thinking about from another campaign structure or another ballot initiative structure of you're going to have to have a lot of information about you're going to have to have the boutot language end of May and then you're going to have be start being able to again clear up misinformation Within new part of the plan and what that entails yeah and you know the plan was not to speak to that too much because obviously you don't build a plan for it to fail and and so that's why but I mean it's kind of forced our hands and that's okay I I mean I don't have a problem talking about it but I just think there's going to be a lot of decisions that the board's going to have to make
024in April just either way that's why I wanted to bring it to your attention tonight I appreciate it thank you are there any questions yep the second piece of information was uh paid parent leave I know that we've talked about that several times over the last couple of months and uh I did have Dr seagrist gather me some information one thing I will tell you there's nobody on the west side of the state that's doing it right now we couldn't find anybody um that had paid parental leave it is somewhat popular on the east side of the state and uh a lot lot of the you know our our conversations were around um the cost it it's hard for us to say that it's going to increase the cost because you have those costs built
025into the budget anyway so the only thing that I could tell you it's it's probably cost neutral but you wouldn't have cost savings for the people that aren't gone so You' just be increasing the cost of the but it is built into the budget so you know I just wanted to put that information out there um I have some copies of some policies the board chooses to move forward with this or wants to talk about that a little bit more um I can provide that information for you one thing that I would caution you of you'll see sick leave Banks um in some of these policies I would caution you to stay away from a sick leave bank and the reason for that it's hard to manage those things and and it's hard to tell
026somebody know that it does not qualify and uh there was a sickly bank here in St Joseph um right Dr K didn't they have one right before I got here in my time a long time okay so they did have one here um we had one in my previous district for over 15 years and got rid of it it's just it's hard to uh the larger your district is the harder it is to manage so uh when you look at that I just wanted to let you know the cly Bank probably wouldn't be anything that we would ever recommend but uh there are some districts that do uh some interesting things and I'm happy to uh provide that information if you guys want to move this conversation forward then I'll do that so what needs
027to happen just need to put it on place it on the agenda as an agenda item information item can we talk about session yeah but and I think we've had it on a couple informational items in the work session or so but we haven't had like a yeah we've got it now inform so I'll send this out to you guys uh tomorrow and you guys can look through it and let me know what you think okay and then the last thing I apologize but I have to pull up my phone I forgot to print this one off um there were some questions in regards to uh Middle School principal uh the position Middle School principal because of what they do um they serve as the athletic director as assistant principles I'm sorry Middle School assistant
028principles also serve as the athletic director and so there's been questions in the past is it too much and U so we had a series of restructure meetings um in the month of December January and February where there were Middle School principles who served on that I believe there was a middle school assistant principal who was in that room as well and um there were 11 items that I provided to everybody in that room that day and uh so I created recommendations uh for the next Administration provided those to Dr m us on what I would do uh to help restructure the district or fix the system and the Middle School assistant principal position was one of those and um I think this is what I stated I prioritize the essential functions of these positions
029and explore opportunities to distribute duties as necessary and so um I think it's up to them to you know meet with those folks and and uh explore the options for 25 26 so I just wanted to let you guys know what was said and and what I provided as a recommendation to them so can we start those conversations now now and and my and again if the rest of the board doesn't want to do this then I'm only one board member but to me if we wait four months then those people are going to go a whole another year with potentially um overburdened job positions and maybe maybe they're not maybe they're not as bad as I think they are I mean well and that's that's one thing that I would tell you throughout the
030conversation it was a very low priority on the list yeah um and it did not seem the conversations uh that I heard I walked around the room and just listened uh during that conversation I'll be honest with you it didn't last very long and there didn't seem to be a whole lot of concern I don't know if you want to chime in on that because you were part of that you served as a assistant Middle School principal one time so right I think that having three of them being new out of the four also plays a factor in that just learning the role um but we did provide some suggestions to the principles and Middle School assistant principles one being um if they have rosters that they're doing for an event that maybe a secretary
031could do that Duty or if we have physicals that we're tracking the nurses could assist with that and so there were some recommendations that were given um I can tell you as someone who was in that role it is a lot but I would also say that all of our administrators have a lot on their plate so I would caution the board to um tread lightly I guess on that one because I feel like if we're if we're taking some things off of their plate then we're going to have some others knocking on the door and asking for us to look at their job duties and considering things to take off the plate as well um I do know Dr Gilpin is working with those principles and providing support suggestions to those folks and so
032I I know ascribe to if we help this person then it might open the floods for us to help this person like to me that's what we should be doing um so I guess what I would just refer back is if it's I've been identified because I think I'm hearing two different things so Dr Ed you're saying it was a priority but then I'm also hearing that it's really not an ISS it's not an issue well I'm not saying it's not an issue it I I can see that you're not saying it was one of the 11 items that I took to them and I can tell you that it was towards the bottom of a priority after that discussion happened I think um Dr mes you make a good point that essentially since you
033have so many employees and they could all feel a little overburdened when we start to take a little bit less um or take some from someone's job duties um then others will want to feel that too and to this land's uh comments we should be doing that for everyone but is it sustainable you know is it sustainable for us to run a district where we obviously we want our staff to be feeling healthy and to feel like they can manage their workload um but I know especially in the director positions and those positions that require more um feeling a little bit overwhelmed I'm not saying it has to be part of the job but it is something that we when we're in a leadership position like that we take responsibility for um so I would
034caution I I I appreciate your caution because it's realistic and we do take care of our staff um we do provide coaching and support part of that is mentoring for those folks and we've done that um I've done the role Mrs dter has done the role I get it I really do and but I I can't say that I think it's any more than what any of our other administrators do they all work very hard and and I I don't I don't necessarily understand why it goes to the that people don't work hard or that we don't have policies or that we can't get every give everyone everything what I'm saying is it was listed as a priority and so if it's a priority that has been identified now to me waiting another year or
035telling these people like you're just you're just too new or you can have other like we're telling people have other people do it but then we don't want to look at it to see if it needs to be a different allocation I I think we did and I think it didn't come as a priority okay as one of the top priorties and that's and that's what I I just want to have a clear answer to these people that it is not a priority for us as we evaluated positions it didn't rise to being one of the main priorities then we can just let it happen I I just want I feel like sometimes we don't give clear answers that we say okay it's a priority but it's not quite a priority but we see that's
036an issue if it's not a priority that the Board of Education or the administration is interested in moving forward with addressing then I'll leave it alone and I think that's what I'm hearing I don't think it's this drop that I'm moving on yeah that's what I'm asking you y okay let's move on what's next um assistant superintendent report I'm done sorry thank you okay Dr mes sure uh just a few things and I had left a copy at your stations and Kevin's actually pulled up for the public as well and it's posted on assembly so MIP 6 guidance you guys know that is the guidelines that the state sets for districts to implement that is currently being revised so once we have that updated guidance from the state then we will use that to create
037our updated CIP and then once we have that in place our buildings will Design their school Improvement plans so everything will be aligned so I just wanted to give you a heads up on that and that that guidance is currently being revised through the state and then the second item career ladder that program for this year will end on May 15th desie is also updating that guidance it's already released and they have included language from Senate Bill 727 um so there's not a ton of changes with that but I did want to let you know the state requires us to submit a application and a plan every year to participate in this program program I wanted to highlight this program because I've learned that a lot of our districts surrounding us do not offer this
038to our staff and so I was actually talking with a friend of mine who's considering coming back to our district because her District doesn't offer career lad so it has the stages there um for um what's offered if teachers have two years three years or five years and then the amount that is allowed per Desi which is the maximum our district does do the maximum amount for career ladder which I think is something we should showcase to people as we are recruiting um and then we also as part of our plan have to create an assessment committee so if you remember last March in our academics committee we talked about career ladder plan the development of that plan and we had some staff that were present there they are also going to serve as part
039of the assessment and review uh Team so they will look at that and tell us what were the benefits for our students what were the benefits for our schools what things should we consider and they'll give us some feedback I will provide a report of the whole career lad program to you guys hopefully in May um that also has to go to the state and it needs to be board approved so just wanted to let you know that those will be coming and then the new application and plan will also have to be approved by the board before I send that to the state any questions about career lad I think it's been very very well received by our staff and then the third item Ami application so that guidance is also being revised by
040the state I don't anticipate a ton of changes there but I did um Link in our our Ami plan that we have in in place for this year that will be revised for next year um you guys know we have 36 hours of Ami that we can use and that's what we'll plan on doing next year with Senate until 727 we have to have 169 instructional days so the plan will be we will have six days for 6 hours of that Ami time and then it's kind of a flip of what we're doing this year but when we had isolated closures so for example when field was closed due to heat we would probably have them closed rather than do Ami because our total hours for the district are going to be well over $1
041100 and so we will use those Ami days for full districtwide closures does that make sense sense okay and then the last thing spring assessment so I just put the testing windows on there for you guys for map testing and EOC testing our teachers right now are looking at a lot of data revising instruction to uh determine what we need to do before testing time comes um so that's um very near to to us any questions for me was the sort of last I think it was the work session no it was February board meeting we had talked about Ami days and then we had policy GB CBC on there about the three-day limit for hourly staff so it was on the it was on the February meeting as an informational item are we doing
042anything with that I don't anticipate that we to do that because we were just going to allow everyone to work on those Ami days kind of like we started doing this year take we just take the three days out completely do we need to revise the policy the procedures yeah it's a procedure but we can put it on there it'll be handbook you'll approve the handbook next year because it's not policy it's it's handbook it's a handbook procedure yeah I mean I know and you you guys tell me that but like it refers to people pay so that's just what makes me think that if it affects how we pay people that it ought to be yeah and we just strike that one line and just put Ami everybody would work so yes we'll do
043that we'll put that that'll have to be updated and then the other thing I forgot to mention with that is potential makeup days so hopefully this bill passes um to where if schools have built in 169 days and then a we have a district closure after our Ami hours that we will be okay because we've built the calendar for 169 days but I can't Bank on that right now um so if that passes great we'll be fine if not we're going to have to have some makeup days scheduled in our plan and communicate that out to families right when school starts I'll keep you updated on do you anticipate those would come like at the end of the school year or over breaks because my calendar is so limited on days it could potentially be
044uh a PD day which I would hate to do that um but it could be a PD day it could also be Spring Break um it could be if we have Easter Friday or Monday something like that the problem with tacking it on at the end of the year is we start to dip into summer school and so um it's it's just very tricky we're limited on on options towards the end of the year so we would try to probably do that in the third fourth quarter because I don't feel like it's effective at the end of year either people are just coming to be coming or you're not coming so that's why I was curious where that might get Stu in there but I think it's important that we line that all out before
045the school year starts and communicate it to families anything else Dr mcness nope that's it thank you any additional questions okay perfect approval of bills uh yes You' got bills for days if you have any questions be happy to try to answer those if not I'd ask for a motion for approval of those so Mo I have a motion for approval of the bill is there second second Whitney and can you ready Mr Garing yes Miss Williams yes Miss Garcia yes Miss Miller yes M ches yes Mr Mo yes Miss Lanning yes motion process 7 Dr Serv uh yes financials you have those in front of you uh the end of February were 67% through our fiscal year uh operating is running it at 62% right now so we're in good shape there our expenditures
046are up by 11.9 million this year uh the areas that that's really is that impact is coming from the 3.9 million in salaries uh that's mostly due to the increas as we put there 1.2 million in purchase services 1.8 million in supplies just like everybody else uh our our things are more expensive right now and then uh about 4.2 million in capital projects a lot of that has to do with some of the bond projects that are going on so we knew we'd have some increases there revenues the state revenues are down by 1.5 million we anticipated that because of the reduction in the W and then our local tax revenues though are up 7.01 million uh that is due to the propy waiver passage in August and then also also uh some increases in
047AP as well the healthc care trust is in good position right now um You have about 3.9 million there that shows and then also we have a little over 3.2 million in the investment account right now so the balance uh total is 7,277 37470 which is up a little over 1.2 million from last month and in comparison to the end of February 24 uh we're up about $667,000 there so uh we'll talk a little bit more about some increases tonight uh but right now we're in a good healthy position in the healthcare trust so we'll be happy to answer any questions you might have there so that one so it's up 1.2 is that did we already talk about why that was was that the timing because there were some issues in November that we
048talked about we had some timing on on payments in healthare trust yes U but those are all caught up now okay that was are there any additional questions if there are not is there a motion for approval of the financials so thank you Whitney is there a second a second thank you Mike every ready M Chesney yes Mr Garing yes Miss Lanning yes Mr Moore yes Miss Williams yes Miss Garcia yes Miss Miller yes and a motion passes 7 Z Dr Krauss all right thank you um i' left the supplemental Personnel report at your stations on the Personnel report itself on page seven section Roman numeral 12 uh line one that person needs to be removed from this she's taken uh work in a different capacity so again this is the the Personnel report page
049seven Roman numeral 12 and not the supplemental this this was put in electronically um the person on that line has taken uh employment with us in a different capacity so she needs to be removed from that particular line everything page seven page seven Roman numeral 12 okay line one okay uh needs to be removed there working with us still but in a different capacity and that's the only correction to that the supplemental report itself I don't believe there are any changes or modifications uh this month is a little different in that you have some additional lists as well one of those is the first year uh 10e reappointments um that happens most traditionally when someone has offered their fifth contract if they've been tenured somewhere before and come here uh there are lesser times um
050according to the Missouri teacher tenure act once you are tenured you have a um a permanent contract so that's why we don't bring other than First Year tenur to you they're assumed to be reemployed unless told otherwise um and then they're also is a longer much larger probationary teacher reappointment list that would be for anyone who's coming back next year that does not meet the requirements for tenure are there any questions about any of those lists if not I would ask that you approve them all with the exception of the change on the supplement or on the Personnel report page seven section 12 line one is there a motion for approval make a motion I have a motion in a second sure R Miss Williams yes Miss Garcia yes Miss millerain M Chesney yes Mr
051Garing yes M Lanning Mr Moore yes and the motion passes with two exensions landing and Miller okay action item a Dr cers uh yes CM contract naol I want to recognize some people from na hols who here tonight uh Brett Collins Annie Hyatt and Jeff gtis all here from NAB Holz um we had this almost ready for you last month and we were back and forth a little bit with the lawyers getting the language worked out but uh you approved uh Na Holtz as our partner earlier this year for uh the new high school project also uh within the last week they have finalized their local partnership with elel Crawford and so Eric Moore couldn't be here tonight but elel Crawford is going to be local partner with nav hols on this project so we're
052we're happy and excited to announce that so U just ask that you formally approve the contract with them tonight are there any questions if there are is there a motion for approval thank you Whitney is there a second a second thank you Mike anytime you're ready Mr Miss Garcia yes Miss Miller yes Miss Chesney yes Mr Garing yes Miss l y Mr Moore yes M Williams yes and motion passes 70 copier and printer extension leas uh yes District's had a an ongoing copier printer Le leas with proserve since 2019 uh proserve Local Company uh the original term was for 6 years uh in that contract language it does allow us for Renewal we've vetted this all through the attorney and everything uh there's unique situation right now where if we renew this contract with proserve
053uh we get ahead of some of the increases that are anticipated and actually um you have a copy of a letter from Rico that was sent to proserve indicating with the tariffs there are going to be some significant increases uh in equipment things so proserve has agreed to keep our costs flat for the next six years uh the same amount that we've had for the last six years so uh we feel this is probably a really good opportunity for us to go ahead and lock in at that price so I'd ask you to uh approve that copier and printer lease extension with Pro Ser make a motion to approve have a motion a second do so we don't have to rebid it we we do not because the language in the contract allowed for this
054and it also uh falls under uh djf AP1 where it qualifies as a single Source unique circumstances purchase uh as it's available to discount from a distributor for a limited amount of time so again we ran this through the attorneys to make sure that we were doing everything above board there perfect thank you okay we have a motion in second if there are noral questions you can call the vote Please Mr Garing yes Miss Lanning yes Mr Moore yes Miss Garcia yes Miss Miller yes Miss chzn yes Miss Williams yes and the motion passes 7 Z okay Dr CIS all right uh next is health insurance update and renewal and funding that we'll vote on tonight uh Matt tritz is here again from Lockton uh if you have any questions also additionally we have U
055uh provided some more information about our supplemental uh items are on their for as well tonight so um I'll let Matt talk just a little bit about uh what you have here excuse me good evening Robert the Dr seagar the document's gonna go on the screen are you gonna pull that up for yeah contributions for session which one contributions for session yeah yep just tell you we're good right there for a second thank you sorry about that come on now that's okay we're on hold anyway uh my name is Matt tritz uh with Lockton I was here about a month ago in uh for the work session and we ran through a little bit of history about your health insurance program uh historical cost and then projected cost going into next year reminder your plan
056renews July 1 um coming up so we talked about a few scenarios um and I'll spend a minute and reorient you with this page and what we're looking at here because there's a lot of numbers um but really we've put together um these are the same as last time except we had one option that the board asked to look at so we'll we'll take a look at those but um what we have here on the left side 2024 2025 rates by month um so that's current and then you can see just kind of working down the sheet the PO plan EPO plan High deductible Health Plan and you can see corresponding enrollment and then if you work your way left to right the full rate funding rate that's the full cost of the plan hsac
057is what the what the board contributes to those in the high deductible Health Plan just on the bottom um then there's a gross rate and then there's the 2425 employee contribution those are payroll deductions by plan and then we've got the percentage split and a net net monthly plan cost which shows 13.4 million right for the district ending June 30th this year so same set of numbers if we just go to the right side this is projecting forward 25 26 um we're looking at like a 10% increase 10.4 um this scenario uh doesn't change any of the benefits or any of the plans and just passes 10% on that's the total cost increase this year for the plan so um this scenario just passes 10% along to every person that's enrolled no matter what plan
058they're in everyone would get a 10% increase the scenario we would we would take a 10% yeah um what would happen here your net monthly cost so um I would be comparing current year we're going to finish 13.4 it would go 14.82% total so again that's no plan changes and just uh passing on about 10% increase to every individual and Matt I just I just literally got this email from Bailey from Lockton u i get get it monthly but I didn't have it yet uh right now the EPO this year is running at a deficit of 1, 125,000 it's running at 144% funding rate the PO is running at 107 with a deficit of 263 and the HSA is running um at 72% rate with a surplus of 1.3 so overall plan is at 99.9%
059funding ratio uh with a surplus of 12,000 so uh the plan as a whole is running right exactly as you'd like but uh as we've talked about the EPO is is becoming pretty pretty hard to maintain and this plan here scenario one spreads the increase out evenly amongst everyone including the district okay we go to the next slide please um kind of along the lines that Dr SE said the EPO plan at the moment is the worst performing plan and this scenario um raises contributions uh the most in the EPO plan so you can see um you kind of have to look at the difference 2425 contribution if I ran down the list currently like for employee only 9724 do it test 92924 6627 1070 and then if you go over to the other side
060and look where the numbers are blue you can see what they would go up to so it's substantial um increase heavily weighted towards that EPO program uh producing a lower net cost you know the slide before I think was 14.8 this one is 14.2 so about 6% to the district versus 10 next slide please uh I think this was in there uh last time we're going to skip right by this one there wasn't a lot of questions and very little interest in this scenario so let's go to slide four so remove EP EPO plan and split the increase equally so in this scenario The Proposal is just remove that plan Al together um and you would have a PO plan and a high deductible health plan with the HSA which are both great options um
061no network disruption and anyone that's in the EPO now would have a choice for healthcare that's less expensive than what they have now um this uh trims off a little bit of the cost instead of 10.4 for the district it's a 9% increase so this is the one you had asked for them to run and can we do that one you can do any of the four that that's the decision you have tonight if you want a recommendation I'll give you my recommendation if it's not scenario four I don't it yeah what's your recommendation my recommendation is scenario two U scenario 4 would be my second choice and the reason scenario two U those employees who still want to keep the EPO would still have that option for one more year I'll be at a
062pretty pretty substantial increase uh scenario two also has the least impact to employees in the HSA and the PO and it also has leas impact to the plan as a whole uh the net additional cost to the plan is about 800,000 in that plan in scenario 4 it's 1.2 million um so that would be my recommendation um you may have to get rid of that EPO completely next year we just have to see how many people still would want to stay on it uh but it does give them one more year the option if they want to take on that increased cost they can um and at the same time impacting the employees on HSA and the PO the least which um since I just got that email from Bailey hang on a second I'll
063tell you um 20% of our employees are in the EPO 35% in the PO and 45% are in the HSA so that would be the least impact to 80% of our employees by going to scenario two and the least impact to the plan but if the board doesn't want to go to that one my next op my next suggestion would be for yeah do you guys feel like scenario 2 puts us in a good place competitively so as we as we compete for staff and uh and also retention you know I mean I mean does that put us in a good place M can probably speak to this the EPO is probably not even an option in many districts yeah so just referring back to last month we did go through benchmarking we went through
064plan design you know value of the plan we also went through the payroll deduction benchmarking and you're playing is very competitive y thank you the only thing I worry about with going I mean I'll go with two if it's better for staff the only thing I worry about is just kind of kicking the can down the road to have to do it next year but well my hope my hope um I won't look at Mat when I say my hope is our increase wouldn't be as as much next year maybe that it it comes back a little bit and it's not 10.4 next year maybe it's more in a five or 6% range hopefully somewhere in that that area again I can't predict that but um our increase is not because of our claims our
065increase is because the market is trying to bring us closer to the market well and I feel like this gives people on the EPO another year yes to think about it and to consider it too that that would be the reason uh Rhonda that I would support scenario two uh scenario 4 is probably the best best for the district to be honest with you in my opinion but it hasn't been communicated to those staff members and I think if you um this is a trend that has happened every year since I've been here the EPO is just getting worse and worse so my recommendation would be to go with scenario to tonight and then start communicating with those staff members that the EPO is going to uh go away can we see scenario two on
066the board again please she BLS Rick and you mentioned it's an increase to the staff and the district 6% yeah the increases District's about 6% there um the increase obviously like I said to the EPO is considerably more than that but the increase to the HSA and the PO employees is less in this scenario than it is in scenario 4 i' make a motion to take your recommendation for scenario two second okay we have a motion in a second motion by mik I are there any additional questions okay Mike uh yes different voice thank Kim Miller yes SAR Yes Rick Garen abstain Ronda chesy yes Whitney Lanning y Anon Williams yes six with one exstension the motion passes thank you Dr seagers Casey it's me Still Still you yeah okay perfect uh we have change
067order here Turf and track um in the uh letters being outlined on the School logo and everything um the contrast really was not quite right um so we have a small change order to that we want that to look right when we do it so this change order gets the color contrast around that that that looks much better motion to approve I have a motion from Whitney is there a second second thank you Mr and you would okay perfect you can call the Miss Garcia yes Miss Miller yes M chesne yes Mr gar yes Miss Lanning yes Mr more no sorry you threw me off there Miss Williams yes and the motion passes 6 to one okay is that also Ed it is also me okay go ahead yeah but then I'm done so uh
068actually this is a good change order we don't usually get change orders this direction but uh this is actually a change order that is reduction in price um they're removing some of the equipment uh from bod that they say deciding was not required and then they're adding back some recording equipment at Lafayette additionally so uh the net change in this though is saves us about $6,185 so it's a good change order make a motion to approve I have a motion is there a second I'll second it are there any questions y Mr Moore yes Manning yes Mr Garing yes M Chesney yes Miss Miller yes Miss Garcia yes Miss Williams yes motion passes 70 okay Dr yeah the next two are mine so I like it when I can be up here allou together uh
069the first thing on your agenda is the contract with supplemental Healthcare this is a contract for managed services for some of our candidates for our hard to positions like such as our speech language Pathologists some of our uh Paras are hired for this company um these individuals are hired on an as needed basis um as required to provide those services for students IEPs so this is when we just can't find people we're required to exhaust all efforts I've talked about that supplemental is the company that we've used for at least the past five years they really have the best rates around and so my motion would be to approve the contract with supplemental health care for managed Services as written thank you Cameron for a second I'll second thank you Mike so this is included
070in the sped budget yes it's all paid for through sped okay so the only so I had meant to ask this earlier but since bed is kind of along these lines there's been chatter about uh reduction and force the Department of Education and there's been talks about elimination of the Department of Education I know a lot of sped service goes through um the department um do we have concerns about what's happening there or well and I know we like obviously we hear things that you guys are I actually start in the meeting um over uh the week before spring break and um they told us at this point not to panic and not to be overly concerned um that they're they're just waiting to hear um I'm hoping that no matter what the money would
071still come through the state and we will be able to provide services as necessary so at this point they're telling us not to panic about anything that there's nothing specific at least that's the meeting that I was in thank you you know in regards the total budget the federal government provides about 9 a half% of our total budget which equates to about $15 million approximately and so um those funds being sent down to the state and the state being responsible for those I mean it's it's just too early to answer specific questions in regarding to that is it concerning absolutely it's concerning um when you're talking about something like that but at this point we're still going to educate kids the exact same way we educate kids uh come and do our jobs every single
072day so that's our Focus if there are no more questions I have a motion a second would you call the vote Please Mr Garing yes Miss Lanning yes Mr Moore yes Miss Williams yes Miss Garcia yes Miss Miller yes Miss chesne yes and the motion passes 70 okay Dr the next thing before you is a contract with Beyond interpreting services this um provides services for our families and students who need sign language interpretation um like for conferences or if there's a parent event at school these are the people that we call in and they will also provide us a substitute for our sign language interpreter that we have in house and so this is a contract that we use on an as-needed basis we don't pay them unless they provide services and so I would
073just provide a mo uh please approve uh the contract is written motion okay we have a motion in a second I have Kim and Whitney yes if there are no questions let's call the vote please miss Garcia yes Miss Miller Miss chesne yes Mr Garing yes Miss Lanning y Mr Moore yes Miss Williams yes and the motion passes 70 and my last item is anou with Truman State University we currently don't have one of these on um file with our district with Tran state but um they have it allows us to provide practicum internship experiences for students that are coming out of college with communication disorders um that they're graduate students they're going to be speech language Pathologists so we have agreed to provide a practicum internship experience and my hope is that we'll get
074more people that want to come and work for our district and so this is really just um a no PA to us that we will allow that partnership and train those people while they finish up their schooling so I would um motion to approve the mou from Truman State we have a motion and a second are there any additional questions not would you call the vote please Donna Mr Moore yes Miss Lanning yes Mr Garing yes Miss chesne yes Miss Miller yes Miss Garcia yes Miss Williams yes thank you Dr Anderson okay Dr CR all right well to maintain the the process of having three a piece I've got the last three um first one's the criminal history record information User agreement um I think most of you realize we um do background checks on
075all of our employees and any volunteer who is going to be alone with children and the rest to run through the Raptor system uh every year we're audited and they ask us to sign a new user agreement uh there's no cost to the district it's simply us agreeing to um fulfill the background checks in the manner prescribed there any questions about that I'll make a motion to audit was good yes we passed thank you have a motion a second are there any additional questions if there are none would you call the vote please M Garcia yes Miss Miller yes Miss JY yes Mr Garing yes M Lanning yes Mr Moore yes Miss Williams yes and the motion passes 70 okay Dr Crow okay the next item is the um salary schedules for the district U
076Mr ni is going to chime in here in a moment uh these are all the same that you saw last time uh a is still not in their adult education and learning um they're still working on their hopefully it'll be ready to bring um April 14th for the for information purposes and then the 28th to uh pass it and then the other one that is not in there is nutrition services those one of the two groups that we NE neate individually with as they have their own collective bargaining unit I'm fairly confident that one will be ready um by April as well and then there were a few changes made to the extra Duty salary schedule and Mr ni is going to talk you through those yes as we uh presented the work session um
077Dr Krauss Dr mcginness and Dr seagers and I sat down and evaluated kind of where that was where we were at and making sure again things are kind of uh equally distributed just somewhat distributed around the the whole schedule um you know comparing Seasons comparing different duties and things like that to make sure everything was as Equitable as possible um so there were a few changes slight changes from the work study um and I I just want to go through and review with you um a few of those changes like is in category two there's two new items the competition cheer and dance we felt like if that is a longer season and we have sponsors choosing to do that at each high school then they would have that salary uh versus if they're just
078sideline cheering dance that would be in category stay in category three um in category three you have high school sports such as cross country golf tennis swim and we also had Orchestra High School orchestra that came up from category 4 um they were there with other Middle School coaching positions we felt like as High School coaches their seasons and everything else with their duties uh we felt like moving them uh up to Category 3 was uh the right thing to do there um in category 4 um we moved cat Middle School track up from category 5 to category 4 um and also moved Middle School volleyball from category 6 to category 4 what was probably the most inequitable one that we felt like across the board um in the Middle School setting and uh we
079did move to category five from category six we moved up Middle School band vocal music and Orchestra we had some sponsors from um those groups come and show us and demonstrate uh uh the needs for those that movement as well so when you look at all that movement um I will say one other thing on the back uh one of the back pages is Department chairs we Consolidated middle school and high school um Department chairs um they really do a lot of the same work even though it's two different grade levels uh so we put middle school and high school if the Department's three to six people at the same rate and also then we the seven plus rate we moved them all really we moved them to the high school level plus the increase
080that we we put in across the board so um those were the changes highlighted I would say that and I I think I said this before um as far as the increase of this goes um approximately $130,000 was already going to be spent with the 8% increase in the $2,750 that we um increased salaries at the beginning of the this school year so that was our already going to go up because of that that increase was already approved um the remainder remainder of the increases um one of them was in category two where we leveled out from category one to two to three we made those even steps uh it was a bigger jump from category one to two then from two to three so we just equalized those out it's about a 6% uh
081bump from uh for that category 2 section of coaches um but that total of all the movement of all the changing and all the percentage changes we felt like and also remember we moved those up to make us more competitive and this puts us in a very good spot in the area um so the 130,000 was for the the original uh part of it and then uh 340,000 was uh for the next part of that so that's the cost uh for these increases that we're proposing this evening so the 340 is the total no the toal 13 the total would be uh 470 470,000 the 340 was was changing all the percentages move the movement of positions um increases uh to be competitive the 130 was of that 470 was already going to be and
082just as a reminder that the base was not increased on these positions last year when we did the the 2750 that was passed in August so there is a pretty good increase to the base going on on these because there was that that increase as well that was not on these positions last year and this is all this is what we talked about in correlation to the fund balance how that's going to come down or where is this so it's going to go up 470 that's where's that we we we'll budget it in salaries and benefits next year yeah I just have one question I think this L it looks amazing and I know that you guys put in a lot of work I really appreciate it um I was looking at the schedule of
083the substitute pay and I noticed that there's no change is there a reason for that uh I don't believe substitute pay is on this is it not I mean that came through salary committee that's through salary committee that was through the salary committee and that was not one of the items that they ranked in the top portion so we um didn't bring it as a as a proposed change um it was my only question are there any additional questions if there are none is there a motion for approval thank you Kim is there a second a second thank you Mike if there are normal questions if you can call the vote please M Mr Moore yes M Lanning yes Mr Gary obain Miss chzn yes Miss Miller yes Miss Barcia yes Miss Williams yes and
084the motion passes six with one exstension thank you m Williams can I interrupt for this a second yes we may need to go back and clean up something procedurally because there was a second part of the insurance that needs to be approved that we really didn't discuss the supplemental there are not many changes uh we kind of got caught up on the the main health insurance and I just realized we did not approve that part of it um briefly I can give you a real quick overview uh they sent things out for marketing for most things there is no change Pharmacy actually is slightly cheaper from last year we should save about 42,000 uh vision went up just a little bit and these are supplemental plans that people PID for employees paid for uh went
085up about $7,600 as a whole so um you've had those as well I wanted to make sure we need to go back and actually approve those supplemental ones as well uh because I think the motion we had was strictly about the health insurance plan so was that um the marketing summary document yes and the total is the total for for all of those supplementals the savings of 35,000 yes sorry we got we got caught up in that and I was like we probably need to go back and catch that glad you call have a motion to approve the supplement I have a motion is there a second second thank you R whenever you're ready Miss Garcia yes Miss Miller yes Miss Williams yes Mr Mo yes Mr Garing abstain Miss chzn yes M Lanny yes
086and the motion passes one exstension thank you Dr seis okay last one all right it's an additional teach teacher pre-service day in the past few years we've had two days where teachers new to our district came for pre-service training uh we're finding that uh we're having an increasing number of Staff who come from non-traditional um they don't come from traditional teacher prep programs they come through grow your own or Pathway to teaching and so um it's been more and more difficult to get our teachers to a place where they feel comfortable uh with the first day of school just having those two days uh ademic Services was really wanting to add a third day and they did a lot of work to make sure that every new teacher is going to receive the information he
087or she needs and there'll be some differentiation um you know for instance somebody who comes from the business sector education is famous for acronyms you know we have an acronym for everything and so uh when we say IEP or plc's to education people they know what that means U but someone who's coming from the private sector does not so they'll differentiate the instruction uh for those teachers give them an additional day and hopefully they'll be um feel more prepared when the kids arrive on the first day uh the cost obviously will vary depending on how many new teachers we have they're PID $200 per day on the average year we have somewhere between 70 and 90 so it will range between 14 and $118,000 as a total expenditure are there any questions I do have
088a question about the differentiation part of it would that be differentiation on all three days or just that one extra day I'm just curious about that yeah so Mrs stter leads that with our instructional coach team so typically they'll have one day that's in their building um and they get acclimated to their classroom and learn kind of the ropes of the building and meet with the building principle and their mentor and then they also spend time going over the lesson plan framework um our professional learning calendar what mentoring looks like and they get into their content areas and specific strategies so there's a whole lot covered in those two days we just weren't able to do it all so I think this third day would be super helpful to go over all of those pieces
089okay core resources all of those things okay are there any additional questions so how does that affect so I assume that their contracts are built in with an extra day is that that's uh they receive a supplemental contract in the past it's been for two days it would be for three so how does that compare I know so we got an email a couple days ago from a staff person that was talking about the salary schedule or the calendar um because we're taking down three days right from this year right right so we're we're reducing teacher Days by three days they had three paid days off this year that they won't have next year okay so then will there be a difference between the number of days that a new with the supplemental do you
090see what I'm saying like if you have a if you have a contract for a set number of days and then you have supplemental for all all of the first year teachers will receive this receive the same teacher contract that returning teachers do they simply have three additional days that they get some some pre-service training right and so then that's my point is that they're going to have three additional days of pay is that they get paid $200 a day for those three well that's yeah I get I get what free service means I'm just saying that you have a a group of staff that are going to make more money I mean I know they're doing more work but I think that was to the point of the email that we got somewhat and
091I don't know I don't know who all got that email well but they're all going to be they're all going to be first year teachers so I know but they won't make more money than other people you're saying because of the base rate that they're starting at they'll make a mo to kind of they come in three days earlier than everybody else there their contract day is different I understand that but that's what I'm saying is that they're getting it's fine no one else is worried about it I understand what you're saying I would also say that when we have snow days traditional snow days and of course we won't have those next next year they don't come in and make up those days this year do you know what I mean yeah I'm just
092looking at the difference between the pay and the days but I'm the only one so it's fine go ahead are you sure it's got to be okay I have a motion and there's so a second if there are no additional questions I'm good are you good to Rhonda okay because I saw your face so I want to make sure thank you all right would you call the vote Please Mr Mo yes Miss Lanning yes Mr Garing yes Miss Chesney yes Miss Miller yes Miss Garcia yes Miss Williams yes and the motion passes 70 um Dr Dr Krauss is this not Dr Krauss you're not looking like Dr cruss l m and n oh yeah I forgot I forgot we're going back and getting those yeah so we're going to Now cover uh the three now
093c yeah it's an agenda so we'll call it action item L and then D will be M Ln and yeah and so Mrs stter hi good evening I I'm thankful for K you guys I work with new teachers and that has been one of the requests by new teachers is there's so much to learn um so I'm thankful for you I'm also thankful for Dr L because I wish I was bringing with you or to you tonight A completed program evaluation for curriculum I'm not I am presenting to you a plan um in 23 and 24 um last school year we did a comprehensive audit of our curriculum and it was conducted by the northwest rpdc and what they affirmed to us was our curriculum is welldeveloped um what they asked us to think about
094was the implementation because we know guides and ideas um are all good but it's that implementation part that we need to work on and so what you'll see in the plan are three goals that we hope to achieve um the first goal is that um that teachers at 80% use those curriculum guides in their classrooms um this second goal is what I've been working on very diligently is to support each core with a core resource um there are some courses that we don't have a core resource for right now we're currently piloting um K5 a core resource and Ela and Dr Adams and I just met with the teacher and we talked about the core resource and why we needed to have that core resource to support and so what we're trying to do is
095establish core resources um that teachers are using high quality materials in their classroom and the third thing that we've been working on as a team an academic service team and I'm grateful for the system and process is ensuring that we use assessment to drive our um our and informs our instruction and curriculum and so for example um last week I met with a teacher about her data um in Mastery connect with algebra 1 scores and one of the things that we looked at was like what was what was the projected proficiency for her class and it was an 80% so where there were two students that we really wanted to provide some um hardcore supports for but we also looked at a particular question like question number nine and in question number nine what we
096noticed was everybody across the district did not do well with that question and so what we are looking at is in the core resource that we have right now does it support question number nine and so that third goal is that 100% of the curriculum re revisions would be driven by our assessment our student outcomes that we're seeing so and any priority that the state deems um is a change in um K5 K8 or K12 um curriculum so our curriculum is aign to the Missouri learning standards all we do is um scope it out into units and place it um that is um what works for our teachers and our our students so I will bring you back um the data after um the program evaluation is completed um but like I said we were
097at a different point in curriculum because we did go through a comprehensive audit um due to the fact that we have a school placed in um uh comprehensive are there any questions I can answer so I guess the action I I'm asking for is is a permission to go ahead and and lead up the three goals that I have in the uh program evaluation plan make a motion to open second are there any questions I I have a question sure so I'm looking at the um evaluation questions yes so my question is um when it says how you're going to measure because I was just looking up the percentages and then trying to figure out how you're going to measure to see so it says surveys and questionnaires so are those the questions that you
098will ask teachers or there'll be different questions different questions right now we're leading up work in math curriculum from a K5 um standpoint and we're using our math curriculum team to help us guide the documents that we um have as a team because I guess I guess I was just curious then where the maybe you just answered that I didn't understand where the questions come from that you will ask the teachers in order to assess measure one we'll use our teachers our our curriculum writing teams because it's not like the instructional coach team and myself write this curriculum we bring teacher teams together right um and I'm real big about having teachers construct this with us and so I would really value their Insight um into um the construction of those questions though that was
099Dr LA and I's ideas on how to lead the plan itself okay and then um the let's see the second one about incorporating the core resources in the lesson plan format yes um so I guess I'm thinking young children how they will give their student feedback or is this maybe not intended for younger um you'd be surprised on what um you know some younger students would um be able to State as um what happens as a routine and procedure in the classroom okay um and so for example like the University of Florida they have an explicit um scope and sequence that they follow for the lesson design and so a lot of times we'll be working with students and we'll say okay what happens next you know it's those routines and procedures that are so
100critical um and that's what you'll find in the lesson plan framework yes okay thank you for those questions you're welcome are any additional questions if there are not would you call the vote please M Chesney yes Mr Gary yes Miss Lanning yes Mr Moore yes Miss Miller yes Miss Garcia yes Miss Williams yes and the motion passes thank you Miss 7 Z Early Childhood is that Miss thank you um so I have attached two different um program reviews or evaluations whatever you would like to call it um the first one was parents's teachers so Lauren Kelly our supervisor she had prepared that for us so overall um a goal that we have had is to increase the number of families that we see and um really en encourage our families to participate in a lot
101of our activities and so you'll see even in the survey that that was something people wanted some more evening and week weekend activities which we have we have provided um it's just getting everybody to come right everybody's busy so we do have a lot of activities um planned we had a partnership um with some grants where we got some referrals and those have also provided um some additional opportunities to get some students um signed up so for that do you guys have any questions um for parents's teachers regarding the parents's teachers review so a big part um I did separate them both out because we work collaboratively together it's still part of our Early Childhood Program but it does have a different kind of set of um requirements but we feed together so moving on
102into the actual Early Learning Centers where we have our preschool age students so going back to our parents's teachers that's prenatal up through age five but when how we collaborate together is um they perform all of our screenings our parent Educators do so that helps us figure out where our students are developmentally we offer that to all students in the St Joseph School District regardless if you meaning if you live in our district you don't have to attend our preschool we do have developmental screener screenings um available so we ask them to come and then that's how we also through our Early Child special ed look at child find to see if we see some developmental delays and if we want to intervene and kind of provide some additional services but going into the actual
103review you'll notice that two years ago um well actually was the 22 2022 2023 I believe school year we had a program evaluation then and so I started off with the goals that we had at that time and that's that blue box on there and then basically answered those goals and like where we are and kind of just basically gave everybody an update I don't know how in depth um I should go on this so do you guys have any questions or would you like me to speak more about a certain area are any questions no it is nice to know we have these programs and I think there's a lot in our community that don't know we do so it's nice to have something that draws the parents in the families work together in
104this process so that's that was my desire was that this word gets out because it's important and it certainly helps our Littles it does um it is our Intervention basically um for our um Littles and so the one thing I will point out is um on measure outcome three measure one when you look at our growth um our numbers we have been working really hard to increase our availability in in our Early Learning Center um and so with opening up or repurposing Mark Twain we were able to add over a 100 students and we have about 30 more that should be starting Wednesday so we'll end up 130 more than last year um and along with that looking at our early childood special education we have identified more students because as the kids have come
105in we have been able to look at the needs and therefore um through child find been able to identify that more of our students are have some needs and get those needs um helped early on it helps ahead of time it does yeah it's our it's our intervention yeah for kiddos to get them ready for school prior to kindergarten anything else is there a motion for approval thank you Kim there a second thank you Ronda was a little bit louder Miss Garcia yes Miss Miller yes Miss chesne Sorry Miss chesne yes Mr Garing yes Miss Lanning Mr Moore yes Miss Williams yes and the motion passes thank you okay who's got this next one I can take this one okay thank you curriculum so really this item is a renewal of the ACT work curriculum
106for Hillyard and so all of our high school seniors complete a CCR assessment the work keys is one option along with Act and the asab um so the focus on the work keys is applied math graphic literacy workplace documents and Dr Gil gave me a couple of notes in here each program completes 30 minutes every other week in the curriculum to help prepare for the certification test as well as get more academic lessons combining the work case curriculum with math lessons every other week for the embedded math credit at Hillard for students and then we are also looking at utilizing this at our high schools because we know we have a large number of of students who would like to go to Hillyard can't get into Hillyard and so we offer work keys also at
107the three high schools so we are looking into this curriculum for them as well but right now this is just renewal for Hill are there any additional questions if not is there a motion for approval I'll move thank you Kim miss or a second I'll second thank you Mike would you call for the vote please miss Garcia yes Miss Miller yes M chesne yes Mr Garing yes Mr Manning yes Mr Moore yes M Williams yes and the motion passes 70 now Dr cross in your packet you had a a Redline uh post contract for General Revenue Corporation uh this is the company we would like to go through uh to use as a debt collection uh service um this is an information item tonight uh the contract was originally sent To Us by the group
108we sent it to our attorney her um suggestions are in front of you and I just heard today that GRC has agreed to every change that she SU suggested so um I'll bring it again as an information item one more time April 14th and then April 28th we'll ask you to approve it are there any questions at this point all right thank you thank you okay the last thing uh information I'm the attendance report uh the March year to date attendance as of Thursday March 13th was 83.2 4 uh the SJSD is holding steady at 83% heading into April um there are also some graphs that were provided to you that um in this document the 2017 to current attendance Trends show the majority of sjsa schools are above prepandemic levels so as we uh
109continue to work hard and you know knock ourselves down in regards to attendance uh we are making some progress and uh doing good things so if you have any specific questions in regards to the report that was provided I'd be happy to entertain those at this time good thanks for the information I don't think there are okay future meetings and events April 8th is election day uh April 14th 5:30 p.m board reorganization meeting slw work session April 18th the district is closed for Good Friday April 21st the district is closed for Easter Monday and April 28th uh is the regular Board of Education meeting at 5:30 need a motion to adjourn to Executive session pursuant 610.021 close meetings and close records for hiring firing disciplining or promoting of particular employees and individually identify Personnel records
110make a motion thank you is there a second thank you anytime you're ready Miss Williams yes Miss Garcia yes Miss Miller yes M chesne Mr Garing M Lanning Mr Mor yes this meeting is adjurned