001e call this meeting to order would you do the roll call Miss Donna yes Miss Garcia here miss Miller Miss Williams here miss darer yes here Mr Foster Mr Garing pres Miss Lanny here if you all please stand for the pledge of alleges please I to the flag of the United States of America and to the rep it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all MERS if you can stay standing we have some a couple resigns good evening I'm Lacy Adams the director of elementary school and tonight I proudly bring to you um naesp which is Missouri Association of Elementary School principles and their recent uh congratulations to Mr Jake ketzer as being named one of 10's Missouri's um 2024 outstanding assistant principles and so I'd just like to congratulate
002Jake and recognize him and uh Justin [Applause] is Jake has been instrumental in helping carry out uh hosa's building Improvement plan this year and H Justin is here as well the principal do you have anything you'd like to say Justin um I would just say um work with him he chooses to work here or chooses to be in the school district even though he can go anywhere he wants to deci appreciate he keeps coming back to you know a day and a day out of KS thank you thank [Applause] you if you guys want to stay up there um we would just like to recognize all of you this month is the board appreciation month so we want to thank you you've got several certificates um at your station and a little goodie from the
003district but I think there is somebody here from msta that wants to come up and thank you as well good evening my name is Denise Peters and I'm on the State Board of Directors for the Missouri State teachers Association I'm also the past president of the local CTA in honor of board appreciation month mstda has purchased books to donate to our elementary school libraries in your honor thank you for your service to our district and for all you do for our students and [Applause] staff [Applause] Josh Walters and Brad H hello I'm Brad Hub um wrestling coach Venton High School been there 17 years uh I had the luxury of introducing our Lone State medalist this year Ethan Nash Ethan finishes his career with us as a three-time uh State qualifier onetime State medalist uh
004last few years been a staple in our lineup uh outstanding Kid hard worker um pretty mean on a wrestling mat but uh pretty kind-hearted young man um does a great job for our program we're going to miss him so Ethan [Applause] nashile congratulations uh my name is Josh Walters I am the coach at Lafayette High School for the last six years it's my honor to introduce the two extraordinary State medalists at Lafayette uh first was 45 and 12 at lafette um came to came to us from Independence Missouri last year worked as off um his hard work showed this year and he took third place at State and did wonderful for for the team so Elias [Applause] chapen and this next young gentleman um he as a junior placed third place at state for us
005and came back this year went 51-1 um state champion he broke the tech fall record the for season and for career broke the nearfall record for season and three-point nearfall record so he's got multiple Records On The Record Book for Lafayette High School for St Joe um and state champion Jackson [Applause] Perkins [Laughter] everybody congratulations here okay audience participation Odyssey Jade good evening I'm mon C Jade I'm 17 in n 10 Central High School I have came with a few friends young and old of all different grade levels from all different schools and we would like to address the academic benefit of a 4day school week now I know there's some bumps in the road when it comes to a 4-day school week but there are so many pros and we could benefit a lot
006students is our main priority and I think we should have a say so and the board should listen so please hear me out our biggest concern right now is childcare with the elementary students so students ranging from kindergarten to roughly fourth fifth grade makes sense there are students in high school who need to invol uner hours to graduate students like me have A+ program I need 50 to graduate and get that scholarship for free college my solution is set up things with Lafayette bitten and Central and our feeder elementary schools come in and the students who need the volunteer hours help take care of those children on the days that the parents cannot if any high schoolers are in work that extra day off would be great a lot of students that are 18 cannot
007fall under child labor laws and they work overnight and still have to attend school to have that day off to rest do your homework catch up on school work or even just be a kid because you are still in school would be really nice for those students it would give them time to reset and make sure they have everything together because with work and school that can be a lot especially if you working full-time or even part-time a lot of students work from 400 p.m. to 10: to 11:00 p.m. that gives them no time in the day to work on homework or focus on school next I want to talk about the quality of our education students get burnt out by Christmas break even after Christmas break we're still burnt out we don't want to
008come to school we have to dread a 5ay school week and same with our teachers with a burnout teacher and a burnout student in the same room nothing gets done nothing productive is happening to us quality of the of the education is going down we have loose lessons and you can tell that that your teacher is tired or if you're tired you're going to put your head down and sleep in class now you have to go to the office so now you're taking time out of class to go to the office because you just got in trouble for sleeping because you're exhausted nothing's getting done in classrooms if you asked me and I am actively in classrooms every single day so having a day off to make sure your teachers have a solid lesson plan
009without students being present helps they know what they're going to talk about and they they have a solid way of teaching you for students we have the rest time we are more focused in class I did my research there were students in Iowa and Ohio that said that even in elementary students focused 10 times more with that extra day off because they felt less tired those were young kids saying that a 4-day school week will also attract more teachers we're looking for Subs we don't have to look for Subs a 4day school week will attract teachers to come in knowing that they don't have to have five full days of helping children in learning they can plan lessons a 4 day school week will provide that we need teachers that's a good way to get
010teachers four day school weeks and they will we want more amazing men and women willing to educate and guide us giving us more days also give us good quality education and less stress in workload really think about the high schoolers and older middle schoolers in that please so next time when you think about or when you guys hopefully put this back in motion to think about a 4-day school week think about your students not just your staff think about your older students who are willing to take care of the younger students to graduate who will really benefit from the five days us or someone else please just listen to us there's a lot of us that have a lot to say thank you well done thank you onesy Chelsea solers hello my name is Chelsea
011sters I'm gonna speak on item 10B today attendance um I am an attendance interventionist for the St Joseph School District I work in Tria Middle School which is a title one building and I work at Central High School which has a student body of 1,00 students I a head coach at the central Palm Squad um I also own a small business in this town where I teach the Youth of this city um so I am with children literally 12 to 14 hours a day seven days a week so I am here to speak on their behalf um and kind of bring some light to the attendance issue that's really happening within Four Walls of these buildings um I am on the front lines I use that word strongly I am in the trenches of this
012battle with St Joseph's School District and the attendance I put myself on the line Daily building relationships digging deep to find out what's going on with these children all to have our numbers not matter all to have us looking at un accreditation in the near future we've got to change something and it cannot be a Band-Aid it has got got to be a change a big change and it has to happen soon so here's our deal attendance issues home life these kids are helping take care of these CH these younger children at home because parents can't miss work right so they keep their kids at home I'm literally reaching out to children who are telling me they're home taking care of their siblings grant them the day guys grant them the day give them the
013day they're taking it anyways these kids on an average are missing one day a week or one day every other week anyways it is happening already it's already happening they're missing it it's gone that's why our numbers look the way they look that's the average they're already missing one day a week the community is already figuring out what to do with these kids for that one day a week clearly our kids have a backup plan great for them love that but the community is already figuring it out they're already keeping their kids home that one day a week the economy is a struggle these high schoolers are working like onsy just stated they're working their butts off they are working midnight shifts they are trying to get up by 7 o' in the morning to
014make it to school they they are drowning because they are trying to keep their home running because maybe it is a single parent home and the only other income they have is a teenager's income um these students are overwhelmed behavior in the classroom is at an all-time high guys we are not educating these children in the 80s in the 90s or in even the early 2000s these children are brand new and if you don't know what that means I encourage you to follow me around in a school day I want you to I invite every single one of you board members to follow me around at trim and middle school every single day because we are in the trenches and we are drowning we are on fire and we need help and we need change
015now not next year not the year after now we need it now how do we do that guys we can keep sitting here talking about the problems we know the problems we see the numbers every month we see the numbers Solutions give them their day give them their day let them have it they need to be heard let them be heard give them their day Solution One um employ them employ them on that Monday give them a job open up some jobs for them let them get paid on a Monday taking care of the youth under the supervision of another staff member that's going to secure jobs for St Joseph's School District later if these teenagers get a job here what makes you think they won't go to Missouri Western get a teaching degree and
016come back and teach for you why wouldn't they you gave them an opportunity at a young age give them that give them that um relationships with teachers and students is what matters on an attendance level on an attendance interventionist relationships matter within that building we are sucking our teachers dry they are exhausted they cannot build adequate relationships with these students because they're tired they can't look past they can't give them Grace they can't give them anything because they have nothing left to give they don't get a plan period they don't get a planed period to have lunch with a student and figure out what's going on because they're covering for other teachers who are mentally unstable because of the behaviors in the classrooms that they can't catch a break from give them their day give
017them their day of planning let them have a whole day to plan without interruption so they can provide quality over Quant attendance and quality over quantity education once these kids start building relationships and getting quality education they will want to come to school I've had kids come to school just for me just for me but I'm one person in a school of 1,800 for two days and one person in a school of 500 for 3 days my time is split I can't make that kind of a difference guys and neither can any of the other attendance interventionists we are trying we are trying we've been trying I have personally been trying for two years I was the first attendance interventionist hired it's not working there's not enough of us and adding us is not going
018to matter if we do not build those relationships you have got to get your Healthy teachers healthy they've got to be ready and recharged we have got to make a difference they need they need four day weeks they do that's the reality of it they need a day to plan uninterrupted they need more pay that goes without saying I think everybody can agree on that these teachers deserve and need more pay attire change the dress code it's that simple we are breaking up fights on a daily basis we cannot do that in skirts and heels if you want the safety of our children and us to divide and conquer and stop these fights in the hallways this is reality guys I don't know what I don't know if you know but it's bad these kids
019are brand new fighting every day we're chasing down Vapes we need to be comfortable and be able to get quickly where we need to get and we cannot do that in heels and dresses let us be comfortable let us be relatable and let's start building relationships with these kids from healthy adults but the change needs to happen now not later thank [Applause] you Chelsea approval of the agenda is there motion make the motion thank you Rick is there second yes thank you Kim would you call the vote Please Mr Foster Mr reer yes Miss Williams yes Miss Garcia yes Miss Miller yes Mr gar yes Miss Lanning yes and a motion passes 70 consent agenda is there a motion um I need to remove item item what was that sorry say b as boy sorry
020is there a motion to approve the are you just removing B completely I'm removing B you're not placing it on the agenda anywhere I'm removing B so that we can go to B by itself okay the cons in the5 moving it nope I'm removing it so we can vote on it separately that's what I mean so we're moving it down under an action item sure okay that's up under that's what I needed okay is there a motion to approve the consent as amended I'll make that motion is there a second second thank you Whitney did you call the vote Please Mr Foster yes Mr rer yes Miss Williams yes Miss Garcia yes Miss Miller yes Mr Garing yes Miss Lanning yes and the motion passes 70 committee reports academics yes Ken it's hard to know
021where to start because we had a great meeting last week first we had some Librarians come and talk to us about how they go about their book selection selections they also gave us um a way that they inform our parents on the books that will be brought in by the Scholastic Book Fairs and those others that bring in extra books they gave us uh what happens three weeks before two weeks before one week before and that the book fair week it gives parents an opportunity several times to uh look through the guides look online for the books that they are seeing in the brochures so it was nice to know that they are very thorough in doing in in uh getting the parents' involvement so the kids just aren't walking up and buying whatever book
022they like even though that will still happen but it was nice to see the information that uh they put out to guide our parents to get them in to help their children pick out their books it was also uh they went through several uh collection development Pages there was was an analysis a selection of materials reviews and ratings that they talked to us about I know there are still ways to improve the system and and some of that was also talked about and will be looked into to uh include parents on notifications and uh late books so it was nice to have them there I appreciate their time we also talked about our instructional uh interventionists and this is probably a group that goes unnoticed a lot of the time they come alongside teachers at
023various schools during various times of the day they help with uh just the instruction they help with the students they help um just the logistics even of teaching our children when boy it it timely opportunities so I admire these interventionists and the work that they do as they come alongside our teachers they are desperately needed so thank you for that group also and there was some we were given a list of names where they work um a little bit of kudos to those same people who are involved in that program and they're a great gift to our school district there's also a section that they talked about k to2 math flowcharts and this is something else they brought to us different Pathways our students can uh can take to achieve the math credits that they
024they are supposed to have by the time they they reach their senior year so they gave different ways of pathway one the classes to take a pathway two and that can be uh mixed or swapped out uh according to the students needs and uh interests then they also gave some science ones because we need to some of that has been changed out rearranged uh to help better our students uh adjust to what's needed out in the community um physical science is placed before biology and again a pathway one and a pathway two these were talked about and discussed in this meeting um what is remarkable to me is the investment that this academics Core Group put into uh trying to do what's best for our kids they work constantly to figure out what works well
025with them how to get them to achieve their potential um just to walk alongside them and encourage them through to graduation so thank you for this invest M that you make in our kids all the time and always looking for what's best for them so I appreciate that thank you very much there was in the AC is there also a discussion on certain books that want that are going to be banned or that someone was wanting to there were no books discussed to be banned just some that were questioned so there's nobody's trying to ban any books good thank you man Finance Canon Whitney well um Robert has some good news I know we estimated long and we're looking at a deficit spending but that's been cut and over by half so Robert why don't
026you tell them how we got there that good news we need some good news well we're we're really not ready to come forward with that we'll be bringing you a budget amendment next month um so we'll be ready to talk about that at that time really uh we did have Lockton came and presented finance committee the other day and they're here tonight and they'll be presenting to the board tonight uh looking at our insurance for next year and then uh talked about the finances which we will go over that here later on tonight my report as well Katie Whitney is there anything else I think everything else is in the report okay cool K did you want to add one address your question there are there were some concerns about age appropriateness in the books
027there's no discussion on Banning books but I think there was some parental concern about age appropriateness but it's not about banning them it's about making uh appropriate choices are there any other questions comments about that topic okay let's move on okay Mr R facilities uh turn facil me we just kind of continued the talk about the draft of the long range plan that the administration had put together um so that's really the whole meeting which just kind of continueing that discussion any questions comments or concerns about that all right assara retention to recruitment yes so I'm going to let Dr CR on this one okay we had our Recruitment and Retention meeting last Thursday I would say there were 25ish people there give or take five probably um our one agenda item was to talk
028about the administrative recommendation that was sent out in the email last Friday to staff and to the board um there were a few teachers there I'd say probably four five six um I think the administrative recommendations were were well received uh some of the words the teachers used were that they felt recognized validated and appreciative of the efforts several of those things are going to come up as specific board items later on so I won't spend any time on those uh we did talk about the dress code and some uh things some changes to make there uh the calendar both the academic calendar and the um 260 calendar I know Dr mcginness will talk about the academic calendar later and I'll review the other one uh another administrative recommendation is going to be that the
029board uh put a levy on the ballot for August uh which if it's approved at that point would be in time to use for salaries 42425 and that's an information item of later so we'll talk in depth about that uh one of the things that was consistent was that people feel like we need to do something to assist with retention uh and recruitment to the title buildings uh two major areas came up there one was to have a a stien for employees in the title building similar to what we're doing at Webster this year and another was to um develop some model classrooms and I know staia Andor Lac are here would you ladies like to give a brief description of that I did put a job description at each of your uh work stations
030that's what the page with the hole punches in it um that station found from some other districts so this is just an idea uh in the works of how we can help support really it's a recruitment retainment and development strategy it's one of the strategies I've seen it's all three of those areas um it would it would title schools help recruit uh highly effective teachers into those title one schools it would help uh retain staff there because start to build a culture and you have culture of Excellence people want to stay um and then we would hope that it would be a development tool for many of our new teachers who are new into the profession who haven't had student teaching experience even or who are Al sered folks um that would be it would
031be like a lab classro a model fol can go in and on ground learn alongside Coes helping support them there back to their own classroom so it's one idea there's several States several districts that do it just looking through the research um it's shown students have they can gain up to a half of a year of learning um if their teachers are part of this and taking part of this um there's of Staff satisfaction the folks that are in these roles and um there's schools all over the country doing it so one area that we propos St do you have anything want to add that no Dr provided the job summary yes so that just outlines um what uh development pie that would be for to support our like said our new teachers developing their
032SKS to but also placing them at weally data student outcom take a so I have a couple questions about this whatever so this would be an existing teacher that has that already has that three years of experience and has high performance would they only be in the title schools or you're saying they they'd be at the most at need buildings or where would they be I think we one strategy we've looked at for considering is in the title one school we're seeing a high turnover rate of staff and would you see that would you see this in lie of the the extra duty pay for all title teachers or in addition to or just depending on how much money you tring to yeah that's that's one of the many unanswered questions obviously those those items
033would both cost dollars it's just a matter of how you want to allocate your your do I don't think either either idea has been nixed I mean we we see them both as having some validity it would just be let's have a discussion and see what we think is be the most beneficial and I have maybe two other things so I think my only concern about this is I mean I I love it but I just worry that how are we going to break those staff those teachers out to this classroom to be able to like have that time to observe and learn if we don't have subs and we don't we don't have that already um so that's my first concern but then also is there a way that this um someone had reached
034out to me about um curriculum or curriculum about using current staff as like maybe we used to do like a star Teachers Program any anybody know what I'm talking about no I'll send it to you okay ignore that take I have a couple questions about this okay so um each of those ideas I think are amazing are we able to get some information about about like a cost analysis of each of those are implementation we'll give you in- depth um information about the calendar and the Sal salary schedules and potential Levy uh tonight like I said the calendar and the salary schedule are on as as uh action items because we need to get going with contracts I in those last two items about the model classroom and then about the sens in the title
035one yes we can we can provide whatever you want that that portion isn't as time sensitive as the salary schedules and contracts so we wanted to um just float the ideas today and then you guys give us some direction as to what um further information you'd like but yes we can find you information on that is everybody okay with getting information on those two ideas every's good perfect and the the only other one I hadn't U mentioned yet was we talked about employee child care and employee preschool um talked with both the salary committee and the Recruitment and Retention committee I think there is is a high level of interest in that and um the thing that I found fairly surprising was that even said we don't care if it's at whatever it costs to
036run that we just want to know who's taking care of our kids and where they're going to be um so I think that could we could offer both of those at cost and I think that would still be viewed as a as a good thing by employees and we also if you decided yeah we want to throw a little money at this we could give reduced rates too but um the numbers that U DLo put together for me I think were very reasonable and and that was viewed as a as an ice perk by the employees that I talked to I think that was the the high points okay guys are there any additional questions about those perfect I appreciate your help Dr cross thank you Gabe your report okay there were two items that
037uh I was going to talk about tonight and Dr Krauss thank you for uh um explaining what you just did because you helped me about 10 minutes um so I was going to talk about the uh memo that went out to the employee and I will talk about one other thing um that was sent and that's probably more near and dear to my heart than anything and I think everybody all the administrators in the room would uh uh vouch for this but I kind of wanted to talk about the first thing that was on the list on the memo and that was Discipline matters you know obviously we have to keep all the legal requirements in mind um but I just want you to know that it is a real focus of ours to protect
038a learning environment by assuring principles will be supportive when discipline students who constantly exhibit uh disruptive behavior that keeps the teacher from teaching and the other students from learning so um that is going to be a main focus of ours for 2425 I have been speaking to the staff um as I go around and talk about the bond issue so I just want people to understand that uh discipline is on the Forefront um it will be a major concentration for 2425 and I think Dr Krauss covered the rest of that so the second item I wanted to talk about was the committee structure and uh there is an attachment I did attach the uh employee um memo that was sent out so if you want to see those uh specifically what Dr Krauss and myself
039just spoke to it is an attachment the second attachment is the committee structure as you guys know uh we changed the committee structure in the fall of 2023 and you know I listed uh what that committee structure looked like and so I sent this to the board last week and I just wanted to be totally transparent to the community on on what was said so I just um printed that email and I'm just going to read this because I think it's important that people understand where we're at at this time we believe our committees are not operating as we intended the purpose of holding committee meetings at 4:15 was to allow staff to attend but this has not been effective for example the academics committee meeting had only has only had one staff member attend
040in five months all other staff members were directly asked to attend by administrators the open Forum has allowed some individuals to utilize public platform for personal issues and agendas or to Simply complain in an aggravated manner we continue to listen to the feedback as always from our stakeholders we believe this set setting is negatively impacting staff morale we have offered to meet with some uh verbally concerned meeting participants individually but that has not been accepted from those individuals and lastly our current structure was assigned to allow board meetings to run more efficiently uh which has not occurred either in our opinion as a district leadership team we recommend discontinuing the current structure of the committee meetings in the near future um again it's not serving the attended purpose uh we'd like to proceed with our
041committee meetings for the month of March as we did and after March our recommendation is to return to a work session format to discuss any relevant matters um and so the work session it's not going to be uh totally different you know I mean what what would happen is uh the agenda items uh would just be agenda items that would be on the board meeting two weeks after that and just to give you an example we would you know if you wanted to talk about uh map scores on the academics meeting then that would be an agenda item obviously a standing agenda item for a while uh would be the long range plan and uh we just think that this would serve a better purpose we think it's more uh professional and uh we would
042entertain any kind of questions you might have in regards to that okay so Dr Edgar are you meaning two meetings a month then in yeah you would have a board meeting and then you would have another another um work session okay kind of like um how the city council does pretty much yeah I'd be very similar to that we actually did this um here in St Joseph right before my time um I believe it was effective I know Dr Krauss was involved I see Miss pasley's shaking her head so I think it was it served its purpose and um I I just think there's more structure um it doesn't allow you know one person to control a conversation it doesn't allow um people to talk at the same time and just I think it would
043provide a a better environment for everybody involved and this will be implemented in April we'd like to try it in April um I think the timing would be right because new board would be um coming on and so uh we think it would be good a good starting place for everybody so if it would happen what what it would look look like um and I know there's a couple board members that have had concern with dates uh they didn't want it to be two Mondays I'm not opposed to changing the regular board meeting date it doesn't make any difference to me but um they probably do need to be two weeks apart and another thing that I I didn't mention uh but as a board or as an administrative team the requirement uh that we
044put in place in regards to getting the information to the board um it's putting a little bit of it's hard for us administratively we'd like to go back to have that requirement on like the Thursday before the board meeting or the Wednesday before the board meeting because what's happening is we have a requirement so we're having to get it to dawn of the week before so we're actually operating about 12 days uh before the actual board meeting and then it looks like we're adding stuff just to be adding stuff which in turn shows or you know people feel like we're not being transparent that's not the case we just there's certain things that have to take place so we feel like if we could take a little bit longer to get that to the board
045if you guys would take that into consideration as well and I know at the business office that's one of the things Robert you wanted to elaborate on that a little bit I know that there that is where the crunch comes from for the most part I mean this this month I think we had nine working days before from the last meeting until we had to have items in on the agenda and so um if we have things like an RFP and have to do interviews and things like like that it it really uh it it makes that have to be at least a two-month process because there's not enough time in between so if it would just back up to right now I think the agendas are due the Tuesday before the board meeting if
046it would be that Thursday that would give us the weekend and a couple more days you know if we just had to have them to Donna by Tuesday the week before the board meeting that that doesn't seem like a lot but that couple of days on most months uh can be a lot lot so it would help us be a little more efficient we think are there any additional questions comments or concerns is that all do yes that's it for me anyway I have one thing um so in your email to the staff about priorities you had mentioned um attire you had mentioned jeans can they just go ahead and start that now supposed to ask we actually talked about this yes I don't think we have a problem with that so we'll we'll we'll
047get that rolling now so we'll say up you know April 1st or whatever um yeah we don't have an issue with that we actually talked about it last at our last superintend C thank you right yep okay to you Dr mcginness okay I left my report at your station so first thing I want you guys to know is it's parent teacher conference week so all of our buildings are holding two nights this week for to meet with parents and go over grades the next thing I have on the list is school start times we talked about this at our November academics committee meeting we sent out surveys and we were holding off on that decision for the 4-day school week at this point I feel like we've had so many unknowns um with the bond
048issue with the election with the long range plan with facilities that I feel like we just need to let the dust settle a little bit and maybe revisit that for the following school year I feel like we owe that to our families to give them some time if that is something that we want to pursue in the future I still think it's best for kids um but I'm also not so sure that the 4day school week won't be presented again in April when new school board members join team so I wanted to let you know that and let our staff know that the next item I have on there is Webster enrollment we continue to meet every Monday and review uh referrals from our buildings uh we met today and just so you guys know
049not all of those are behavioral referrals some of those are principles who are working with students and families who have significant mental health uh concerns and crises and so we are problem solving with them and trying to come up with a plan that best serves that student so that's not always an immediate referral to Webster and but we are working with those administrators you can see the the breakdown by grade level and by school the next thing I had talked about our report card our APR and this is a piece of it graduation followup so that's where we have to track all of our graduates after six months and to get our full points we have to be at 90% so that's an update U when I reported on this last last time Lafayette had
050made that goal but now Benton is also there and Central is very close we will get there and but just wanted to give you an update on that and then next we are right in the midst of preparing for State tests so with that um the window opens on April 1st all of our principales will go through training to administer those tests then they take that training back to their teachers and train those staff who administer those tests so the window opens on April 1st um most students will begin testing on May 1st that gives the teachers a little bit more instructional time and so right now they're really um reviewing everything for the whole school year to prepare uh we do have students who are um receiving special services or maybe English language development
051or on 504s that may have some special accommodations it could be a small group testing or individual testing so some of those students will begin testing in April but most of them will begin in May buildings right now are working on their testing schedules and then I just wanted to give a little overview of our professional learning so uh staa Cara and I attended learning last Sunday at the lake uh it was called learning forward conference I think we all understand now why it's called learning forward conference because it is very forward thinking um so it talked a lot about Collective teacher efficacy which some of you may not know what that means but the significance of teachers believing in their students that their students are capable of learning and can perform academically so that
052was a big uh focus and they talked about how um important that is on student achievement U secondly they talked about student expectations prior achievement but the last thing on that list was homework that homework is not very effective at increasing student achievement so I just wanted to bring that back to you there was lots of learning at that conference about high impact teams how they have clear roles clear goals there's trust again that belief that the student can perform academically and the the big Focus that we wanted to go to that learning for was for Competency Based learning so uh we have the opportunity to hear from Liberty School District and some other districts who are right in the heart of that work but they've been at this for 10 years and so I
053think that was good for us to hear that Liberty has taken 10 years to get where they're at now um I think stasa and I both are kind of like we want to see this happen like next year um but to to hear the process and and starting slow to go fast was important for us um so what they talked about um for us was to start with learner agency and so what that means is having students active in their learning and that they can make choices and take ownership of their learning they're empowered um to make decisions they kind of know where they're at in their learning process and I I feel like we are there with our professional learning right now so that was um beneficial for us to hear the other piece
054they talked about that was our district having belief statements and that kind of flows right into the conference or the I shouldn't even say conference because it's not a conference the professional learning that we went to at the University of Virginia for that partnership with leaders in education so that was Gabe Doo Lara stas and I and we went out there on Tuesday came back on Saturday and that is our core change team those five individuals they talked about the four lever so one of those is systems leadership another one is support and countability one is talent management and the fourth one is instructional infrastructure um and they also talked about belief statements and so what we would like to do is have belief statements about our values about learning equity and Community what does
055it mean for us what do we believe in in those three worlds so we we learned a lot our our thinking was very challenged um we learned um teamwork versus departments working in silos and I think it brought to light to us that we do have some departments that are working in silos rather than everyone collectively working together in a common goal so we are going to be making some changes um to some of our structures I just wanted to give you guys a brief overview of that right now um of course we want to have our superintendent's cabinet and our leadership involved in that process too so it was very rigorous starting at 7:30 sometime the first day ended at 5:20 and then we went to dinner with all these other school districts so
056there was 13 other school districts there it was very impactful so I'm grateful for our community business Partnerships in that learning thank you Dr mcness are there any questions and one thing I uh failed to State Mr Foster had sent me a message earlier just wanted to send his regrets as to why he's not here his uh baby is just close and so he needs to stay close to home so he is on Zoom but he wanted to wanted me to pass that information along thank you Dr Edgar Dr where so from the University of Virginia so you guys went to that last week what happens now we've created a plan and we have action steps I don't really want to speak to those right now because we haven't gone over that with our superintendent's
057cabinet since we just got back on Saturday um but I can tell you just changes in our um our systems our processes even our superintendent's cabinet meeting um we tend to report out so I'll report out what's going on in my world an assessment will report out student services will report out when we really need to be focused on the same common goals and working more together to meet those goals we should have a more specific report report at the April meeting and we're going to roll it out to superintendent's C on the 2D April 2nd so and some of that talent management uh there's a heavy focus on retention taking care of our own people and I know we we talk a lot about recruitment um but there was a session that Dr Edgar
058and d and Cara are known can't think of went with you what's that there's the other person that went with you sta staa okay so that they went for that I don't know um anyways they had a heavy emphasis on taking care of your people and then people get word about that and they want to come to your District so it was great learning thank you Dr mcginness is uh yes we uh through February we're two-thirds of the Year through our fiscal year so 67% um our operating budget is at 68% of the budget right now expenditures but overall we are at 63.8% of our budget for expenditures so we're tracking uh right where we'd like to be uh I will be bringing you a budget amendment uh as we noted a little bit earlier
059next month um I think the beginning of the year our original budget we thought we would deficit spend a little over 7 million and I think the First Amendment we brought you was a little over four and uh I do feel like probably that's going to be coming in under two um so so it has trended in the right direction uh I will tell you that a large part of why that is is because we've not been able to hire a lot of positions so um money that we had to budget for staff positions that we just haven't been able to fill so um it's a good thing that we're trending in the right direction but maybe not why so um expenditures are up 7.69 million from last year at this time uh the areas
060where that really the majority of that is 3.57 million in salaries and benefits 3.92 million in uh purchase Services those the sped contracted areas ecsc those contracted Services we've talked about there several months um also our sub costs are up 330,000 from last year at this time supplies are also up 1.18 million some of that is some aser dollars that are being used in early childhood uh but some other areas food costs is up uh in nutrition services and then also we have some additional maintenance costs that are up a little bit this year too on the revenue side uh the state revenue is down 3.01 million at this time from last year uh there's a delay in some funding in early childhood from desie and we expect a 3.02 million payment in March uh
061this month so that really is going to kind of negate that bring us back to a break even at that point just some timeing with the desie funding there and then our tax revenue is up 3.1 million at this time from last year year any questions about that before I talk about the healthcare trust I have a question as you were talking about the revenue you had emailed to the board about House Bill 2430 could you explain that yeah there are there are several bills that are moving in Jeff City right now and that that is one that um probably just as you look at it initially it doesn't sound like it would make much of a difference and and the concept behind it is to lower uh the assessment rate for personal property from
06233.3 to 31 um I did reach out to our assessor uh just to see what kind of a fiscal impact that would have on us and if that were to to pass and go into law it would uh result in a loss of about $650,000 for us next year so uh while it doesn't sound like a large percentage U it would have it would have a pretty negative impact on us and where would that loss be from like it would be in the loss of assess valuation on personal property because it's going to be well just be our operating budget operating yeah I appreciate that thank you y thank you are there any additional questions all right the healthc care trust um if you remember last month uh due to timing there was uh the
063payroll did not hit on that both pay pay have hit this month so we're kind of caught back up to where we should be when you look at the balance sheet uh we end the month with a balance of 3.5 million 3529 and then if you remember we have about 3.1 in Investments so our total uh between our investments and what we have liquid right now is 6.61 million uh to give you a a comparison the end of February of 23 we're at 4.82 million so we are up 1.79 million in the healthcare trust from this time last year so uh we're in good shape um which is good because uh as I said Matt from lton will be here to talk a little bit about insurance moving forward we've been really uh good with
064where we've been uh with some consistent rates we are going to have a little increase next year and he'll talk about that so but we're in good shape in the healthcare trust right now I'll take any questions about that all right uh if there are no questions I'd ask for a motion to approve that okay is there a motion thank you thank you Rick is there second David second thank you David would you call the vote Please Mr Foster Mr reer yes M Williams yes Miss Garcia yes Miss Miller yes Mr gar yes planning yes and motion passes 7 zero the bills uh you've had those for a few days um if there aren't any questions right now I would ask that you approve the bills this month are there any additional questions okay is
065there a motion thank you Rick is there a second thank you assar to call the vot Please Mr Foster yes Mr reer yes Miss Williams yes Miss Garcia yes Miss M Mr gar yes Miss lny yes and the motion passes six with an extension thank you Dr seers person report all right in terms of the Personnel report I left the supplemental report at your workstations uh the Personnel report or the information you were given is a little more complicated than usual I think probably we would want to do two motions here um first did anyone have any questions about the Personnel report or the supplemental I don't believe there's anything unusual in either of them so if you could um vote on that one first and then we'll go to the other to okay is
066there a motion I'll make a motion or I'll second okay I have a motion in a second would you call the please David okay a second sorry M Lanning say Mr Garing yes M Miller yes Miss Garcia yes Miss Williams yes Mr reer yes Mr f and the motion passes 61 all right thank you um then there are two other documents in there there's a certified first year tenure reappointment list and a probationary reappointment list for teachers in Missouri there are two different types of contracts uh one is called probationary probationary contracts are given to teachers who have less than five years of consecutive employment in your District um or who have experience in a different District they can if they've served two years they only need four in our district so this U certified
067first year tenured reappointment list are those uh the group of teachers who have this would be their fifth contract fifth consecutive contract therefore they now will be issued a permanent contract versus a probationary so that's what that list is uh L um in Missouri we're required to have contracts to teachers no later than April 15th where the continuing contract law kicks in um so the 2425 certified probationary reappointments are those folks who have been with us for less than five consecutive years or had experience elsewhere and have been here less than four and those are the ones that by statutory requirement um need to be re reappointed every year by the board until they reach permanent status any questions about either of those lists okay is there a motion for approval thank you Kim is
068there a second thank you s Please Mr Foster Mr reader yes Miss Williams yes Miss Garcia yes Miss Miller yes Mr Garing yes Miss Lanny obain and the motion passes 61 is that all Dr F or did you have another one I think that's it for right now I've got a bunch later on but thank you okay action item Insurance updates uh yes Matt tritz from lton is here tonight U he's going to give you a little bit of an no View and an update on our insurance PL Point thank you Dr SE uh good evening my name is Matt tritz with Lockton and it's a pleasure to be here tonight we'll just take a few minutes to go over the employee benefits and uh funding for Renewal which would be July one of this
069year going through um end of June in 2025 this slide right here uh we're just going to focus on the top two which is your medical pharmacy and your stop loss um those are the only lines of off that are up for Renewal all the other benefits that are in Gray are under rate guarantee so they're not up for discussion uh tonight so but this is the full roster of the entire uh benefit program that's offered to the employees of the district uh Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City is your medical provider they partner with opum RX opum is your Pharmacy benefit manager and uh Blue Cross of Kansas City also provides your stop- loss coverage for your self F so we'll go to the next page please um as part of your self
070funded plan you pay uh some fixed cost administrative fixed cost so this is an illustration of those um you could see from left to right you've got administrative fees basically what we what we pay Blue Cross Blue Shield to administer the plan and pay the claims uh you can see that they're proposing a slight increase at 2 and a half% uh network access fee which we pay that to access the Blue Cross Blue Shield network of hospitals and doctors also a slight increase and we've in I guess uh to the benefit of the district we're going to collect just slightly more in rebates Pharmacy rebates next year at two and a half% so on a fixed cost basis uh this kind of washes out so these are really good get 2 and a 12% um
071you were on a rate cap anyway and they came in below the rate cap for your admin and your network access Fe so we're going to recommend approval for those act those fees next page please a lot of numbers on this page but this is just the math behind really the bulk of uh the the cost of your medical plan which is the claims right so in entirety this plan is projected to be uh 16.1 million for next year you'll probably finish um at the end of June you'll probably finish at 14.8 or 14.9 this year um which actually you're running um below below expected cost for this year this is just the detailed uh math behind claims and how we do a forecast for the next renewal and as Dr seus mentioned the the
072fund is really running in a surplus position right now and we're projecting um if you hold your budget flat um as it is right now you'll come in just at a slight variance less than 1% variance um at the end of next year so we're in a good position part forecast just to give a little history it's hard to look at a one-year snapshot but looking at the last three years and then uh the next uh a re forecasted year to have a prescription drug Trend average 3% and a medical Trend average 4% over the last four years is outstanding and in large part beating any Benchmark you know that that we have seen um so kudos to uh the group and Dr cist um for putting together a good plan design that's providing valuable
073benefit to your employees and being delivered in an efficient manner um we're projecting a little bit of an uptick on the prescription drugs and medical but overall um Over a four-year period of time this is outstanding plan performance or your self-funded plan the next two slides up slide six is just a snapshot of the actual plan design so your employees have three plan options to pick from uh an EPO plan which is really an in network plan a traditional po plan and a high deductible health plan that has a health savings account um as an added benefit the only change is a mandated change in the uh qualified High deductible plan the IRS indexes those deductibles and out of pockets every so often just as they index the contributions you can put into it so
074that's really the only change um that's occurring or being proposed uh for for the renewal for July one on page seven we've Illustrated the payroll deductions uh by plan and by enrollment tier on the bottom you can see the breakout on how your en uh employees are enrolling um I believe Dr Seager is proposing no increase at renewal next year as well yeah if uh if you look back on that one page it shows that uh we're projecting or locked in is projecting us at a loss of $136,000 on the plan for the year this time I'm not making any recommendation that we ask employees to absorb that cost am I asking the board to contribute anymore right now the healthc Care trust is is in a good position that we think we can absorb
075that so um so we are keeping everything flat from a cost standpoint both uh the district and employees with that that'll be our recommendation tonight I know I went through that pretty fast I'm happy to answer any questions if youall have any about your plan or Healthcare gy I just want to add one thing Matt and I think it's important to realize that we have uh trended in a very good uh at a good rate as far as our increases um but that's also one of the reasons why uh We've continued to get good uh bids when we have had to rebid things such as our stop loss and I would attribute that to I think we're doing a good job our employees are doing a good job of utilizing the benefits proactively uh they're
076doing a good job of of not utilizing the emergency room unless it's an emergency and so some of that is education some of that is is employed behavior and so um there are a lot of things that our employees are doing that are contributing to our plan being as healthy as it is right now and so um and we've we've added some additional benefits that are at little or no cost um we've got a couple of things that you've we've talked about the last few months with the uh Tria some chronic Care Management and smart Shopper uh which will allow maybe uh some additional benefits to our employees that are not adding to our costs or maybe even we'll save some cost long term to to keep those costs down so um you know I'm
077I'm I'm going to toot the district's horn a little bit here on the insurance our insurance benefits are really really good um and and I I hope that people take time to explore and compare those to other districts to see where those benefits are because um we've done a nice job I think of putting a good package together and and it's a great benefit for employees and lockton's been a huge help to us to to keeping it as an efficient and effective and affordable plan for everyone so so yes if I appreciate what they do for us to help us is it really good because the coverage is good or the amount that the employees are paying is better than the districts that you're comparing it to I'll let Matt speak to that sure the
078plan design that's offered um is compar competitive right to other districts I wouldn't say that it's U you know Miles and Miles Ahead nor behind I think you have a nice competitive plan and the key is you have different types of plans as options like the pobo plan or the qualified High deductible plan and if you look um different types of employees almost equally spread with a higher percentage in that qualified High deductible plan but because you have the options you kind of have something for everyone right now which I think is a big part of it um the overall cost of the plan since headcount kind of goes up and down we try to normalize that like on a per employee per year basis and I think at the finance committee meeting you know
079it was a little under 12,000 per employee per year and benchmarks right now are 13 to 14,000 per employee per year so even on a perit basis just to normalize like the up and down with the head count it's running U below per employee per year so there's a great question but the combination of things going on there that and after a while um just so I'm aware of it after how many kids are they considered a family because there's a sign significant difference between employee with child children and then the family just one um so you can have you can be in the family tier right um with one child two parents one child okay okay I got it thank you are there any additional questions if there are none is there a motion
080I make that motion thank you Rick is there second thank you Mr Foster Mr reer yes Miss Williams yes Miss Garcia yes Miss Miller yes Mr gar yes Miss Lanning yes the motion passes okay nutrition services paper vendor miss m hi my name is Becky shaik I'm the nutrition service coordinator and I'm presenting our uh paper vendor for our paper products in the kitchen we ended up awarding um the bid to two separate vendors and divided up the products based on price to kind of help combat the cost of uh Rising paper goods um for next year thank you Miss Becky are there any questions so the two the two sorry okay so the two so we picked Clayton and Martin yes and that's just because there were you want to be able to use
081both of them because some of them are higher than other things so when we looked at both of them we there was a pretty much a 50/50 split between products that were cheaper versus the other and so this way we decided we would just divide them up EV evenly between the two based on the cost of the products um because one vendor would offer one at $24 higher per case so we want to do this to help maximize um savings and so I also saw in there that there was um so I my preference would be to use Clayton specifically just because they're local um and keeping those tax dollars in the community um but with you had there was mention in here that sometimes things aren't available is that like a is that a
082big problem or it has been in the last few years and um we had reached out to Clayton during covid and times like that to kind of help replenish so that this way we kind of have a backup plan if one vendor can't Supply us with enough product okay are there any additional questions okay if there are none is there a motion for approval thank you Kim is there a second thank you assar would you call the please M Miss Lanning no Mr Garing yes Miss Miller yes Miss Garcia yes Miss Williams yes Mr reer yes M proser yes and the motion passes 61 AC number c ntss platform contract yeah so we are asking for your approval of a platform that we've been using this year it's a pilot project this year for our
083elementary schools and um it's really for our interventions it tracks our interventions whether that's academic behavioral um attendance and so it just really helps us because we have a lot of student mobility and so this particular type of software um a plan roles from one school to the next and um we really need this kind of platform for accountability but also so that we are sure that our interventions are being deployed they're being administered and are they working or are they not working and so there the platform this year through the pilot has shown to be easy to use teachers uh seem to think it's easy and we like Simplicity we preent we presented this to the academic Services committee meeting um about a couple weeks ago um and asked for them to review that
084and so we're just asking for approval so that we can give that to every teacher in every building across the district make a motion to approve is there a second yes questions are there any additional questions did you have any Kenny You' mentioned that um this was the pilot year for this yes how many schools has it been in 14 or 13 excuse me 13 what was the initial cost um it was right around $42,000 I believe and so this additional then is the final out pay on this program yeah it's for one year of using the software is this the final or is there going to be another version and another version no how much is it this year it's 89,000 and this will put it from how many schools to how many all
085of our schools and it's a one-ear program right now it's a one we're going to take it one year at a time yes so it'll come before as next year again then yes are there any um good things to say about what it's done I heard what you said I mean is it is helping something yes right now we are using it for all of our reading success plans and so there's a new Senate bill that requires all of our students at certain levels to have reading success plans so we have over a thousand reading success plans right now in the system and that's a statutory requirement so we see that as helpful to have this program we don't need to have this program to meet those requirements do we a school district our size
086needs to be able to digitize the information yes thank you very much is this the recommendation of the academics committee as well yes okay I have a motion in a second are there any additional questions okay would you call the vote please Mr Foster yes Mr reer no M Williams yes Miss Garcia just told me she is voting yes uh Miss Miller yes Mr Garrett yes Miss Lanny yes passes 61 Dr Krauss are you ready after this one Dr mcginness is going to do the first one okay cool I'm ready for this one but I will tell you that that language up there is not accurate this is probably version 87 of the academic calendar for 2425 uh we first took this to the board in November and it was approved and then we created
087a 4day and then when that was shot down in February our district leadership really brainstormed some ideas to try and keep our folks um so this is a proposed calendar which also reduces the teacher contract days from 181 to 178 um there are additional teacher work days there's at least one per quarter um there's additional days that are closed um so we really just um are trying to keep our people a motion to approve it thank you is there a second a second thank you questions are there any additional questions okay let's call for the vote Please Mr froster Mr reer yes Miss Williams yes Miss Miller yes Mr Gary yes Miss Lanning yes and the motion passes 6 okay now Dr Krauss okay um couple of things I want to add to what Dr
088mcginness was talking about with the academic calendar uh two things uh just to make sure everybody realizes that the change from 181 to 178 as salaried employees the teachers won't lose any any money there they'll still get the same amount of money it'll just be for for three less days uh the second thing is that the the number of student contact hours uh was decreased to exactly the same amount of of contract contact hours with students that was present in the 4-day calendar uh so we pulled that down as as much as we possibly could um now how that affects the 260 workday calendar um we have a hard time recruiting every occupational category it's not just teachers we have trouble finding par secretaries you name it um so the the workday calendars were all
089reduced basically by three days as well uh I going to give you give you one example and then this carries through really to every occupational category we have currently our Paras are on a 177 day calendar um so their their calendar for next year will remain it'll say 177 days but they'll be coming in 107 4 in their case they would get a paid day off on October 21st April 18th and November 27th so their calendar Remains the Same length 177 but the only work 174 and then those three days are paid holidays which um our hourly staff has not had before so while the the number of days stated will say the same for all all occupational categories except teachers they'll all uh actually work three less and get three paid holidays and this
090uh 260 workday calendar is reflective of that um November 27th anytime July 1st falls on a weekday there are 261 work days in that in that calendar year or in that fiscal year um so the 27th had been before a unpaid day off it will become a paid day off because the other day the teachers got was May 23rd and that falls outside of um people who have a contract of less than 181 days so it it all evens out in terms of everybody from teachers to every other occupational category we have will have three less days that they were work will not receive any less compensation and so that's the way this this calendar is devised does anybody have any questions for me oh and I I do want to mention too the assuming
091this is approved tonight then in April we'll bring you um every work group has an individual work calendar that tells what days like forars what 174 days are expected to show up their three paid work days occupational category has that word calendar and we'll bring those in April a motion to approve is there a second can if there are no questions just call a vote Mr Foster yes Mr reer yes Miss Williams yes Miss Garcia yes Miss Miller yes Mr Gary yes M Lanning yes and the motion passes 70 Dr cross all right the next um item on the agenda is ELD or English language development coordinator um at the administrative level we've had some discussions and I believe that was shared in executive session last month about the way we would like to uh
092revise our administrative um staff and we would like to develop an ELD coordinator position uh so if this is approved tonight we'll advertise it and have someone um hired for the Jan or the I'm sorry the April meeting Dr CR is this in lie of the Dei position that we had previously approved I'm sorry is it in lie of the Dei position that we had previously approved it in that reorganization it's in lie of the job description that had been approved by for de yes okay you have a question yeah I want a clarification on that now is this the same job description was supposed to be for the de Dei no it's completely different no it's it's substantially different and it's a coordinator did I misunderstand how you answered Miss Lanning then yes you
093did well in in the administrative restructuring that we're proposing this would take the place of a Dei director a director of Dei how does uh we're going to create a whole new position so then now all of a sudden we're going to uh Incorporated under another title does that mean that salary goes with it as well no this this is actually driven all from ELD the pressure that we have from the English learning development it has nothing to do with Dei and it's a coordinator it's not aor that means it's cheaper if if you were to approve this and we hire someone into this position that the district would actually see a savings of between $2 and $3,000 because of the way it's going to be structured be no no additional FTE um we'll take
094somebody um from the ELD Department most likely internal candidate and there would be no no additional cost in fact it'd be a small savings what do you mean2 or $3,000 savings per year yes okay um have so it's it sounds like somehow the Dei position I know that was passed but then it was buried in the executive session from even creating a job title somehow is this putting uh all those well we never did get the title made up or the job description we never managed to make some you know my recollection of that Mr reader and I could be wrong so somebody correct me if I am uh what was approved by the board was the job description for director of diversity equity and inclusion that job description still exists the administrative recommendation was
095to move instead of doing that to do to a cordinator of el and while that's a new position with the restructuring we won't be um filling an assistant director position which pays more than a coordinator therefore it results in a in a small savings and that's correct you're completely correct all right thank you okay so um are there any in no way shape or form the this position now is going to have they are not going to be responsible for doing what the de I person was going to go out in uh Court I mean go out in whoever whoever fills diversity we a monitor somehow it has nothing to do with it you read it I I'll get you a copy of what the Dei stated I'll get you a copy of what this
096stated you can read both of them and they're totally they have nothing to do with each other okay and this is no way than anything connected in whatsoever way on the record so to speak with the Dei position that no nothing it's correct it's nothing it doesn't have anything to do with it it's completely different I have a motion is there a second okay okay appreciate your answer no problem but is there a second is directed towards the superintendent that's fine superintendent I'm trying to help Kim made a motion is there a second thank you assara would you call the vote Please Mr Foster yes yes did he say okay Mr reader since everybody's on the record yes M Williams yes Miss Garcia yes Miss Miller yes Mr Garing yesing and the motion passes 61
097Dr cruss all right I gave you a copy of the additional pay rates document with a uh a proposed change and if you vote for this change would like for the motion to state that it'll be retroactive to March 1st because we have some things that we need to get paid from that um I think you're all familiar with this document this is the one that gets changed the most it's kind of a catchall for one-offs that that come up and don't fit anywhere else uh we have some Desi reimbursable grants that um teachers did some work for in various areas desie provided money so there's no Financial impact to the district it's simply a matter of us awarding the funds we were given from desie to these teachers um and we I put a
098large range in there from $100 to $5,000 can somebody in the audience tell me what the the total was this year the sten's 500 and one's a thousand okay one is 00 and and one is a th000 and again this is desie funds I put a large range in there so that you know if I had put maximum of a th000 and then in six months we get one that's 1,500 I'd had to bring this back to you our business office needs um a pay code a board approved pay rate to uh disperse those funds and if we leave a a range there that'll allow us to do that without coming back to you five or six times a year hopefully any questions that anybody has I didn't have any questions about the the Desy
099Grant specifically but I did see that doesn't look like there's anywhere on here for um like kindergarten screenings or Kinder Club there's Early Childhood screenings um and I know that's been kind of a point of contention for some of our kindergarten staff so can I so to clarify that's not something that's included as extra duty pay yes and I and I believe we have a pay code that we can pay that under Jenny is that right I know we're paying those folks for their time well I had seen where the time was going to be paid for through closing the Gap but if they're not enrolled in closing the gap or if they have a second job or they have you know some kind of issue like that then those kind of people seem like
100they're a little like they're left out of that to my knowledge we only had one kindergarten teacher who is not able to she wasn't participating in that program but there was also an alternative provided and not as far as compensation but another teacher could cover for that night I think the principal even offered to cover for that night well I think my my just concern is is and I know this is kind of public education how it works historically but I think especially with the Recruitment and Retention issues that we have asking people to do really anything off of contract hours that they're not going to be reimbursed for I think is going to be kind of contradictory to our retention efforts so I just wanted to throw that out there yeah that's something certainly
101that could be added um if you'll notice well you guys I'll be talking um in the next agenda item about the salary schedules and I did not include the additional pay rates document I'm going to wait till probably June for that because it does change so often that would be something we could look at adding for next time around well I know that the kindergarten screenings are coming up so I don't know if there's any way that we can make sure those folks are you could you could do the same thing that I'm asking you to do tonight to make it retroactive to a particular date when is this retroactive I'm sorry when was this March 1 please are there any additional questions if there are none I'll take a motion for approval can wait
102hold on can we just add the word and kindergarten I'm just wondering if we can just add the word make an amendment to add the word and kindergart screening to that early childh at one and that would take care of tonight problem listen he's ready to spend money and this never happened anybody see a problem with just adding in kindergarten hour wise is that similar for the two well it also wouldn't be a grant I guess it's just my personal opinion I'd be more com more comfortable with a separate item for it that was good all right keep nice gu you Tred okay you is there a motion motion thank you assar is there a second thank you Kim you call the Please Mr Foster yes Mr reer yes M Williams yes sco yes Miss
103Miller yes Mr Gary yes Miss Lanning yes the motion passes 70 Dr kuss me again um the next item deals with Sal schedules and I included actually three alternative sets of salary schedules the two we want to talk about right now are the two that uh increase the teacher base $11,000 and $1,300 respectively um $1,000 would raise our base to 39,7 that's a a 2.84% increase uh above the current year um the $1,300 increase to the base is 3359 um if you have any questions about the financial impact I know Dr secis would be more than tickled to to talk about that um both of these will result in deficit spending uh we have given you these two options because we feel like we're at a Crossroads here in terms of Recruitment and attention that
104we need to take a a bold stance I guess uh toward helping ensure that our that our people will stay here and that one we can recruit from the outside as well um so any hourly schedule was I took the first number in each column and increased it by respectively 2.58 4% and 3.35 9% so some of the salary schedules um OTS pts PCS School PES um some of those are indexed to the teacher salary schedule so every salary schedule is going to see either that 2584 or that 3.35 n% increase do does anybody have questions about this and again I I feel like this needs to be an action item tonight because we do need to get contracts out um by Statute to our teachers no later than April 15th next board meeting is
105after that so I know that this was discussed in the Committees last week is there a recommendation I don't think from the finance committees I don't think we talked about it in finance which I know we talked about it in recruitment yeah we we didn't talk about this in finance can we get though um what we talked about the fact that it would create deficit spending but I don't know that we got was it four well I can tell you so you're going to deficit spent next year okay um but I also know that that there's a desire to uh to do something for salaries so um the 1,000 uh increase is going to cost 4.1 million and the $1,300 increase will cost uh 44.9 million so it's whether you want to deficit spend and
106I'm I'm not saying that we will deficit spend 4.1 or 4.9 this will add to the deficit okay so uh those are the two numbers that you just need to be aware of so there's $800,000 difference between those two numbers as far as uh what the impact will be financially and what had you projected I feel like you've talked about what you think the deficit is going to be next year I know that there's a lot of factors on that but yeah it's too early for me to really come up with a M there I mean anything I would throw out now would be a guess um not that and Katie's done a lot of work and we've we've looked at stuff but um we're still finalizing some budgets um we've asked people to cut
107budgets this year um but there's some budgets that that we aren't able to cut we know transportation is going to cost more next year uh we know sped is going to increase next year um um so there are some areas that that we are unable to cut in u the areas that we can cut in we're working to do that um we're also going to lose uh this is last year of us being able to use pre-o numbers for Ada um that's going to probably have about a $4 million impact on us uh now the SAT is scheduled to go up which may offset that amount that we think that probably is going to be about a net Z for us um because of that loss of ada8 numbers um so there are a lot
108of factors in that um so it'd be premature for me to try to give you a number right now though but we are we are looking at that working on that and and trying to find areas that we can't uh reduce the expenditures even more also the S money goes away this year too so there's a revenue stream that has been there that we've known is coming um The Cliff the cliff is a so yeah Dr Krauss um so can you talk a little bit about how this will affect the entire schedule so we're talking about how it'll increase the base but it's going to increase it's going to increase everybody can you talk just briefly to that and then can you also um describe how it will affect hourly staff yes um on the
109the teacher salary schedule for instance is um there's a process called indexing that's used and that's very common um I think every every teacher scale I've ever seen uses that so for instance um if the teacher base is 397 if and that's in the top leftand Corner if you look at the bottom rightand corner it's a little over 880,000 kind of a 2:1 ratio and that's because of the indexing the indexing number in cell 31 in column 7 is like 2.14 or something like that so this schedule is set up to both incentivize and reward longevity uh so that the first year teacher in column one gets a $11,000 increase that's going to generate about 2,000 for the very most ex um experienced teacher if they have a doctorate so every number in there as
110you go down and right has a little higher index IND ing number the um hourly schedules are set up a little differently in that the first number in every column first number in every column is um based upon the teacher base and then we take in you like in this case if you approve the ,000 increase we would multiply all those numbers by 1.025 um to get that 2.58 increase in there and then there's typically in those is a set number as you move down like one call may increase cents per per sell and then as you moved about five or six it would increase to 26 and then to 27 and then 2 no CR we fixed that last year every every cell will go up by 2.58% right yeah but uh 2.58% doesn't
111in every cell make a difference like if there's 25 between one and two it may be till cell four where that. 258 catches up so yes you're you're exactly right every cell will get at least 2.58% did that answer your question this time y um one thing while we were waiting if there were any other questions I included the operations and the nutrition services salary schedules in here if you opt to approve one of these tonight U that would need to be without those two the reason for that is that both of those groups have a collected bargaining unit and salary is one of the things that they negotiate um every year since they uh develop their collected bargaining agents we have brought those at a later time usually in May um so if like
112I said if you opt to approve one of these two sets please do it without nutrition services and operations okay we're looking at option one option two is there a motion for either one I make a motion to increase 1300 to the basement without without operations and ntion services is there a second yes I just like to so this makes me incred not to sound too much like Dr Seager but thises incredibly nervous um I know that what last year there were some more PTO offered to staff and we're seeing a 330% increase in our sub pay $330,000 30% no that I'm sorry that's what I meant $330,000 increase to sub subcontracts the sub cost so my my concern here is and I I'm I'm going to vote for it cuz I don't know what
113else really we can do um but last month we voted down an option that was largely very little cost and now we're getting ourselves into deficit spending and we're going to talk about some other things that are going to increase that deficit spending um like I said I'm going to vote for it but I really worry about where we're setting ourselves up for I mean I I get that the reserves are healthy but if we're just going to keep tapping into reserves I mean are we could could we potentially be looking at in two years where we have to freeze steps and things like that I just don't know how you say I don't know how we can say we're going to deficit spend for a couple years I you want me to answer that
114Robert well one thing I will point out is that you you were guaranteed to go 500 at least to the base this year that was already promised and so that was going to be 2.8 right there so that would be the least you could do because of what we what we promised well and and that's my thing is I'm I'm going to vote for it I just think we're this I just think it needs to be I think it just needs to be acknowledged that this is not a sustainable solution to just continue deficit spending and to set Us sell ourselves up to be deficit spending yeah I'm not saying we can't I'm not saying we shouldn't do it yeah I I understand where you're coming from and I I agree deficit spending is U
115is not anything you want to um continually get into and I think that I'd like to rewind about 13 months where I I I told the Board of Education that there's going to come a point where you're going to have to prioritize uh what wants and needs are as far as funding is concerned and you're going to be at that point uh probably next year so I I would I would answer your question specifically are you going to have to free salaries in 2 years no you're going to have to start prioritizing what wants and needs are um as you move forward right that's a very politically correct way to say you're going to have to start slashing the crap out of this budget well I don't think you're going to have to freeze salaries
116um I I don't think you're to that point I I I honestly believe that that if they're you know I'm confident to say that and I think that you know all you guys know that the that my background is in in this it's scary I'm I'm not going to sit here and tell you it's not once you start deficit spending you have to stop it uh because it is like a snowball that's really small and it gets really large and so there are going to have to be some tough conversations um and a lot of that can be taken care of uh internally um because there were a lot of things that we put into place uh with Co money with erra dollars and so we'll have to prioritize a lot of that and um
117in public education you can't cut dollars by taking pencils away from kids you it's it's Staffing and so we'll have to prioritize what those staffing needs are on that note I have a motion to second if there are no more questions would you call the vote Please Mr Foster yes Mr reer yes Miss Williams yes Miss Garcia yes Miss Miller yes Mr Garing yes Miss Lanning yes and the motion passes 70 I had also asked that we the staff bring back are we still so I don't know what we're doing with committee well whatever that is going to be but he had had the list of Recruitment and attention ideas and kind of how much they were could you ask could you add the salary schedules with the additional columns plus 5 years to that
118that we had talked about just to see how just add just to add that to the list of like how much it would cost thank you thank you Dr stasa student yes happy Monday okay so this is a new I'm speaking on behalf of Jill Huntsman and the staff at hillyards it is for the work keys curriculum um students take the work keys assessment and they want to be adequately trained and and brought through the learning of the work keys curriculum so I'm presenting that to you tonight along with the contract that was $1,600 for that renewal piece are there any questions if there are none is there a motion for approval I'll make that motion thank you Rick is there a second yes thank you Kim could you call the vote Please Mr Foster
119yes Mr reer yes Miss Williams yes Miss Garcia yes Miss Miller yes Mr Garing yes Miss Lanning yes thank you the motion passes thank you thank you Dr seagis Legal Services take there there it came on uh thank you um our Legal Services contract with our current provider at Council uh ends at the end of June uh so we put an RFP out for Legal Services uh we did have four firms who returned U bids and we brought three in and interviewed those to of Keeny uh Gwen mundorf and Ed counsel and after the interview um I will tell you that all three interviews are very good feel very comfortable with any of those firms um but ultimately we did decide that we are uh going to renew with that Council we felt very comfortable
120with their services and uh and and also they were uh considerably a little bit less expensive than the other two two firms so uh the recommendation is tonight is that we renew contract with Ed counsel thank you Dr sers are there any questions uh yes uh Dr sheis U is there a on when we U use them there's not an initial upfront retainer is there no it's strictly an hourly fee do we have any guesstimation of how much money we spent legally last year I can get you that number but I don't know off the top of my head I just wondered with if you could guess within $10 million it was way less than $10 million okay yeah that's good it was it uh it has been considerably less this year than it probably
121was in the last two years but I would have I I can look at that number I'll look that number up for you it two are there any additional questions if there are none I'll take a motion for [Music] approval second I have a motion a second David and Rick you Mr Foster Mr reer yes Miss Williams yes Miss Garcia yes Miss Miller yes Mr Garing yes Miss Lanning yes and the motion passes um action item we're going to go back up and get the February 26 board meeting minutes um so I just had a couple um Corrections on 7A the last sentence is incorrect and on 7B the last sentence refers to the direct director of director of diversity engagement and um inclusion it should say equity and then on item H um I'm
122listed as abstaining from that and I have voted yes okay so so item 7A what was your correction the last sentence is incorrect should be struct is that what you said no it's like it says Dr mcginness assistant superintendent period the academics or something like that okay and then 7B has the position title incorrect should say equity and not engagement H and then on H I'm listed as abstaining and I had voted yes thank you you're welcome is there a motion for approval including Corrections and amendments there's a motion to second with me sorry Mr Foster Mr reer yes Miss Williams Miss Garcia Miss Miller yes Mr Garing yes Miss Lanning yes the motion passes 61 informational items board votes y I'll go uh I just wanted to bring this up as an informational item
123I know in the past when we have voted um as a group there was iorry oh so I know in the past when we have voted um we used to have the capabilities of just all submitting our votes and then the vote was read after everyone had voted um I absolutely think how we vote should be the public should know um I just feel like when we vote we should all vote at the same time um I just feel like when we go in order I'm not saying it happens but I'm saying the possibility is there that how certain people vote it could influence someone else how they vote because they hear it before it's their turn to vote so I just think it for I just my preference would be if we voted if
124we voted at the same time and then after everyone's vote was was taken then it was announced how he voted I think there was mentioned our computer program does not actually allow for that the computer program does allow for you to vote electronically however it does not allow for us to project the votes so and even if it did project the votes it doesn't say specifically who voted what my suggestion if if you guys want to do this this in order to do this I could call for all gays you guys could raise your hands that way it shows who voted and then I would call for all the Nays and then the Nays would vote and then I would call for extensions that's that's the way I suggest that you do it because there's
125no way that we can do it on the computer on the computer I have bugged them bu them and told them where my glitches are and they say they're working on it you could do an electronic vote and then just verbalize what the vote was at the end the the only thing that we would see would be it wouldn't be individual votes it just shows us we have five five right I would like to be able to give board members the benefit of the doubt that they're voting based on their their own um will and not through the influence of others but if we think that's a problem then I'm supportive of that this is only an informational item it's been mentioned a couple of times over the past two three months or so and
126so I mean it's worth looking into and just people thinking about at least was board m mentioned it have board meetings no I received an email if you want to speak about your email to me and Dr Edgar yeah I I had sent an email back on um earlier this month looks like the 11th is when I sent it um I think I had mentioned something before but wanted to put something in writing um that I had sent to Dr Eder and Miss Williams about that just like I said I agree with Whitney I would hope everyone would do that but I just just something that came to my mind and thought it would be I can tell you that um I did hold the greater Kansas City school districts to see how they take
127their votes all of them say that they take their votes by show of hands in regular meeting an executive session it must be by each person but they said that they do theirs by I show up hands that way you know you're recording it so people can see it it will be in my minutes that I type up who who voted what but it keeps just Just for information that's that's what the majority does um you could also I know that the city council now I don't know that there theirs doesn't always work correctly um but I know that the city council has an automated system that they use that's they I think they do it do they do it through their iPads I'm not sure I know that they have a system that they
128do it through which you can vote like I said you can vote in three theirs displays it onto their onto a monitor I'm not sure what they use I just know that they no but lifting up our hands is free I appre can you repeat that I'm sorry I do like the idea PR when sign V individually maybe we should do it like Survivor and all of us write on a piece of paper walk up put it in the thing and then Bon you can read it that way we all vote at the same time we don't know how we voted it until she reads it so it gets the same privacy and things you guys are striving for right now seems to work on [Music] Survivor I don't know somebody gets you know might
129be a reality show here for that and that's a valid option too we can think about both so I personally don't think we have an issue with the voting but if it is something that the majority of the board wants to look into I think we can vote on something when the new board has um reorganized and then maybe that gives you enough time to look into some softwares but it would allow you to project it to the screen it's what we were thinking it's how come it's only an informational item to just talk about it amongst everyone openly and people can think about and then come back at the end of April with I'm not recommending put it out in a torch or anything like that a third option that's great okay Dr Edgar
130attendance thank you attendance um as you can see the numbers were not very good for the month of February all grades decline with grades 8 and ncre the most 11th grade um dipping below 70% for the first time high school decline the most 1.27 followed by Middle School 1.16 and Elementary .97 um you know I I think that uh usually March and April are better months for us so um hopefully we can see a comeback I just you know it's frustrating um I know that the there's a lot lot of things that go on behind the scenes and a lot of people are working very hard you heard from one of them uh tonight uh and audience participation so I mean it is a struggle um we continue to work collaboratively with a lot of
131different folks in the community uh with the prosecutor's office and we're just in hopes that it will turn for the better eventually but uh just know that we're continue to do the best we can but um it is a struggle I would entertain any questions you guys might have in regards to the attendance report no question this even we always see a slight death yeah you know one thing U I'm glad you brought that up assara uh one thing that I would like to mention I'm not one to make excuses but u u in the month of February I do know that we had um Tammy um gather some information for us about um students that were sent home by the nurse and I don't have those numbers specifically in front of me but I
132do know it was around approximately 750 kids were sent home from the nurse in the month of February alone and the month of February had less days than any other month combined uh in School attendance and you know the closest one to it was like 400 so there is you know we're battling the flu there's a lot of different things out there um so that was one thing that I did want to make a make note of I think and Tammy's continuing to track that and she told us the other day oh oh she is here um yeah she's continued to track it and and it actually has has not gotten any better right it's a little better a little better okay I I think that's you know that's a problem that you know you're
133always going to have a flu you're always going to have you know flu cold and flu season but when you add it on to the chronic absenteeism that we have it just it makes it so so much wor okay that next one you okay the last one oh we still have tenant right okay I was just the attention intervent that we have I know we're short like five or six yet right well I believe we budgeted 16 and we have uh 13 employed as ker yeah how much of that budget is created out of the ARA funds all of it all year so when we just mentioned that's going away this year or next year so is we're going to build that into our budget or we're just going to eliminate those positions Mr reader
134that's exactly why I said we're going to have to figure out how to prioritize um that that's one of the things I'm exactly I'm talking about so that's a good point that you make and that and we have to visit those things and see how they're working and um hold them account accountable to that that is a good point thank you thanks okay the last item U Dr SE and I are going to kind of tag team this this is something that Dr Krauss had mentioned earlier in regards to the levy um so you have a levy option you can put information on uh the ballot in August uh that needs to be approved by the end of May and I believe it's the approv date is before the May board meeting so this is
135something that probably would need to be voted on in April um but there are two attachments um in you know the documentation that you have uh the first one talks about The Proposition C sales roll back waiver um there's a narrative of information the prop prophecy roll back is very very confusing but in 1982 the voters of Missouri approved a Statewide 1 cent sales tax with revenues dedicated to public education which called The Proposition C the initial theory behind this um additional Revenue was that each School District would reduce their operating levy on real and personal property within the district by the amount The Proposition C sales tax generated um I'm not going to read it verbatim but uh to go down what it explains what what is the impact of the roll back for
136St Joseph so in fiscal year 2324 the tax rate ceiling was $438 since one half the actual revenue for The Proposition C uh for fiscal year 2223 were $ 7,513 th000 the district had to roll back 59 so we had to roll back 59 uh because we still have this waiver on file so we went from four $438 down to $33.79 this means that the full waiver of The Proposition C cost us $7 million and change so approval of the waiver helps the district join up with over 90% of Missouri districts with a similar full waiver um so as you can see there's not too many people that have that now one thing sorry that's okay okay can you click that too Aaron and bring up the uh right there that one sorry about that
137thank you okay so this is the information that I'm talking about right here so um now St Joe is just a little bit different because we also have the 61 cents that has a sunset on it so you have a propy waiver over here that's worth 59 cents you have a sunset over here so I just want to be perfectly clear with everything that's going to happen this does not affect this 61 cents over here you'll still have the opportunity in 2029 to say whether you want to extend that 61 cents into the future for 6 years is what they did the last time so keep that out of the equation so what you would do is you would release this waiver which fluctuates up and down right now is worth 59 cents so that
13859 cents you as voters of the public could say you want that 59 cents to go towards salaries for staff teachers however you want to State it okay that's the way it would go on and then that would release um click on that other one will you uh Aaron the bottom one okay now that's the salary schedule go back it's over here is it yeah okay see yeah there here's the calculation so if you see on the calculation page um it shows exactly how you get to that so what it would do is generate $7 million 7, $154,000 more next year or into the future so that's not just for next year and I have also a sheet that shows all the way out to 2042 and then there's also a sheet that show shows
139exactly what that oper operating level Levy increase would mean for residentials so it has a home of a $50,000 $60,000 and all that information should be on there are those two attachments not with that if you scroll down okay scroll down please scroll down y all right so this is the 7 million it just goes out to 24243 then go to the next one Aon and then this shows this is you know this one's very important and it shows exactly how much it would cost for taxpayers on everything that they have it's broken down into residential on top personal property commercial property agriculture all the way down so as you can see it wouldn't be very expensive uh to the taxpayers but I wanted everybody to to have all that information and we can start
140having these conversations if we need LJ Hart or somebody to come and expl differently we can they're going to say the exact same thing probably better than I did just because I don't you know the I'm not an expert on Prophecy but um one thing I did want to make note just please understand that it has nothing to do with the 61 cents that 61 cents will still be over there so I I'll entertain any questions you might have in regards to prop C and then I'm going to kick it to Dr seagers and he can talk about what that looks like from a salary schedule standpoint and then we can answer questions at the end together if you need to so are you are you saying that there it's going to be propy and
141let there' have to be two valid initiatives on August no no just be one just be one so what would happen is if you got rid of this prop C now let's say you talked about it till 2029 then you would have prop C and the 61 Cent Lev on at the same time hopefully we're not talking about in 20 I mean for this August no for this August it would be propy to eliminate the prop C it'll generate 59 cents and then that waiver would go away and that 59 cents would be there forever we're also boxed in somewhat as if the bond this time doesn't pass and we must run it again next time yeah yeah Dr seagers really all I have to add to that is that so the 59 cents would
142generate about 7 million um that would allow us to um bring back a revised salary schedule in August um add another 15 00 to the base uh which would be uh I did this with th000 so I didn't do it300 so I'm going have to do some rough math in my head real quick that would end up putting U about a 6 and half between 6 and half 7% increase for staff total um you could run this in August we would set the tax rate then we always set the tax rate in August and so you would be able to generate those funds so that they would go on the December tax roles and we would collect it in January so you could use this money for 24 25 salaries do you mean that you
143would would you revise so let's say that it passed would you revise those contracts in August or would you wait until no we would go we would recommend that we would go ahead and have you approve a revised salary schedule for 2425 so we would just and then we would go back and and revise those contracts for everyone and we would just front the cost for those four months or so have any tax revenue yeah we'd be able to hand that okay that's a good question because we would not have any tax dollars come in until I there's a few that linger in in November but normally January is our big month February we get a few in December as well so yeah we're in good we're in good enough financial shape to take that
144on just to clarify that this it would be in the place of a levy and it would be like an even bigger increase to the teachers correct yes and you would just have to state that so U you know when you put it on the ballot it just needs to state that that's what the public is voting for and I can get uh ballot language for you I mean if this is something you guys are interested in then at the next meeting I'll have the ballot language I'll have the information if you guys feel like LJ Hart needs to be here can have them come as well but I think I think that U you know any anybody in the public too I mean if you want to copy this information it it is it
145did help me understand so um I'm happy to provide that to anybody is this Dr this the same thing that we went over at Recruitment and Retention because I thought there were a couple different options that had yeah I thought there were different options difference uh in one we talked about Recruitment and Retention is we talked about uh different levels I think we were using 50 cents instead of 59 that's what it was a year ago that's what I I and then and then we also said you know the board if you said well we don't want to do 59 cents we want to do 85 cents I mean you can pick any amount you want and we just talked about 5161 and. 71 the the set of salary schedules that u i attached as
146an information item was based on a $1,000 increase plus the 51 so it was indexed to to 412 since you guys voted for 1300 tonight it would be just even using that it would be uh indexed to 415 would become new where that put us compar I know the there hasn't been a wage comparability study since the one you did in 19 is that the newest one uh the last one was in 2122 and so where would that just and I know that this things have change but based on those numbers where would if we've got up to 41 what if if we got into 412 it would definitely put us in the top half um probably not top quarter though I don't think um depends on what and again we have no way of
147knowing what other districts will do um you know last last year the the board voted for $1,000 increase to the base which was the biggest one since I've been here and I was really excited about that I thought it's going to push our rating up um but then I found out when I serve the 30 districts we compared to the average raise in those other districts was 1300 so not only did we not increase we actually fell even a little bit um you know whether regardless of whether we have a 4-day week or a f- day week our our salaries excuse me our salaries have got to go up for us to be competitive yeah and I don't think you know my point I think when maybe I said something earlier about that that it's
148not a sub substantial increase I realize for it it is um I my point to that was I don't know that it's substantial or significant enough to really draw people here um but I I recognize that we have to do something to continue to raise that um Dr edar I saw that today our friends on Riverside put out a mailer saying that um the April bond issue raises taxes it says something about teachers before Turf um could you so if that were not pass we would essentially have the propy waiver on in August and potentially this bond issue if this weren't to pass yeah so both of those well I would just add to that I I saw the mailer today um it would had very inaccurate information and I sincerely hope that problems among
149adults don't get in away for solutions for kids so I'll leave that at that that's a question that's been asked so I I'll address that about Bond money cannot go towards salaries the the bond money has to go towards facilities equipment things like that and so I I know there there have been questions out there why can't we use that Bond money to increase salaries bonds by Statute have to be used for facilities buildings equipment things like that I know you are doing rounds at the schools and talking about the bond is there anything Community focused where you're going to be talking about the Bond as well yeah I have actually uh been to several community events uh there is one tomorrow night at Benton and Benton at the football stadium and there's also one
150Thursday night at Lafayette and you would allow for questions at the public absolutely okay future meetings and events March 22nd to the 27th the district is closed for spring break April 2nd is election day April 8th 4:30 facilities committee 5:30 policy committee if needed April 15th um reorganization meeting at 530 and April 29th 5:30 uh Board of Education meeting is there a motion to adjourn to close [Applause] session we need a motion to adjourn to Executive session are Ser to 61021 Clos meetings and Clos records for three hiring firing or promoting of particular employees and 13 individually identifiable Personnel records performance ratings and there's a motion is there a second all right would you call the vot please um Mr Foster Mr reader M Williams M Garcia Mr Miller yes Mr Garing yes M Lanning
151the meeting's adjourned