001is put under there. >> We'll call the USD273 board of education meeting to order. We'll start out with the introduction of visitors. >> Dean, director of MCPC, >> Danny Hank, >> on behalf of employee council, >> junior senior high school, Casey, >> Christy, junior high technology teacher. Curtis, director of special education for special income. >> Kevin Ward, strategic programs with train. Brian Bay, reporting for the call. >> Mariah Presley, education and industry programs uh leader for train. >> Great. Well, welcome everybody. Moving to 1B. We've got the to review and approve the agenda. Are there any additions or changes or corrections? >> No. All right. Does anybody else have anything? >> All right. Is there a motion? >> A motion that we approve the agenda. I'll second. >> Motion by Amber, second by Kelsey. All
002in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose. >> Motion carries. 5-0. Moving on to number two, we have the consent agenda. And I think in our packets, we have the minutes from the May 11th board meeting. Uh, bills and claims, revenue journals, activity, funds, and personnel. Are there any questions on the consent agenda? >> Not. Is there a motion? >> Make a motion to approve the consent agenda as is. >> Second. >> Motion by Tony, second by Craig. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose. Motion carries. 5. Moving on to number three. We have a presentation by train. Uh, thank you guys so much for being here. This is a good place for me to stand, Jeff. >> Yeah, absolutely. >> Awesome. Awesome. Um, for what I think is an incredible
003accomplishment and a long overdue recognition of the incredible things happening in Boyd in the school district. Uh I will never forget the first time I had the privilege of meeting a boy student. Christie actually brought him on to a call that we host for our teachers across the nation by the way to come together and share best practices for how do we bring STEM learning into the classroom. And as we're on the call he's presenting his data from his most recent project with Christie and he's showing us the different energy sources that are used in your buildings. and he gets to a point where he does two things that like made my jaw hit the floor as someone who is um responsible and building that future talent pipeline to hear come from someone at this
004age like says this is the data from my building. Um it wasn't this is the data from Bloit's school building. It wasn't it's the data from this building down the street or the building next door. It was here's the build the the data I'm going to show you from my building and the different energy sources that we're using in my building and continue to reference the school district which I just thought was such a cool show of ownership as his building moving forward. But then he gets to the next slide and he's kind of showing us how the energy works and he gets to this solar array and he says, "Well, hey, this is important but it's not going to sustain my building. It's just a learning tool obviously." And so I said, "Hey, you
005know, I'm not an engineer and I haven't seen some of this data before. Could you help me understand like why why wouldn't it support your whole building?" And he was able to communicate how it's only generating 1 kilowatt of energy um when the building needs 71 or something like that at the time. And so I thought that that's a concept we teach our engineers when they're coming in on how to talk about this with their own customers. And here we have a student who is not only proud to talk about it for his own building, but he's he's showing teachers now how to help students like himself understand this in the classroom. So I just thought that was incredible. Um so today I'm Maria Presley. I'm the education ind industry programs leader for train. I'm
006here with Kevin Ward. Kevin, you want to give a little introduction to yourself? >> If I can set a little context. So I'm a strategic program consultant with Train. I've been with for 19 years. In 2011, we were recruited to be the industry partner of the National Coalition of Certification Centers to bring more uh emphasis on a career in technical education because of the workforce needs. And so we visited with Kore and Kore said, "Hey, this aligns with at the time the strategic plan was called foresight 2020." And uh by the fall of 2011, they had joined as a fellow member of that organization. And then we subsequently put in labs at Washington Tech, WSU Tech, and a couple in one in Nebraska and one in Oklahoma. And those became templates for 20ome more we
007put around the country. So it actually started right here in Kansas. In 2017, Commissioner Watson approached us and said, "Hey, we see what you're doing with those labs. Can you join the Kansas school redesign project and help that program get off its feet and get going?" And we said, "Sure, sure." Well, shortly thereafter, so that was 2017. Shortly thereafter, that that same year, get a call from Jeff Travis, who I'd known through Clark Coco. Some of you know Clark Koko. Anybody from Boy probably knows Clark Koko. And he said, "Hey, we want to be a part of this, right?" And so I brought some my colleagues up to Boyd. We had some discussions and basically said, "We're not sure what we're going to do together, but we're going to do something together." And that was
008the genesis behind this innovative ideiation sessions that we had throughout 17 and 18. We hired Dan Whistler who some of you have probably met Dan a former science teacher and he started working with Casey and with Christie and basically got the students involved and as you know your students won an award that following spring went to Washington DC and literally put your district on the map. Remember, Train is a global leader in energy and comfort solutions. We're over 114 years old, $20 billion last year in revenue. We're a Fortune 150. And your district has been part and parcel to us showcasing what's going on in Kansas and what can be accomplished. And then I don't think we you missed a year where you haven't won awards, right, Christine and Casey? Right. Every year. And so
009it was a combination of Jeff's initial reaching out with his leadership, but but again Casey and and and Christy and there was one other teacher, >> Brook Hammer moved on uh someplace else, but basically said, "Let's work together. Let's collaborate." Well, that's that that vision that Kore and KSD had with the Kansas scam school redesign is how to bring more business and industry collaboration at the school level. And what she shared was what we came up with was all these buildings have data and we could make that data available to the students. And they proven that concept because like you said, he called it my building. So it's their building, their data. And there's endless stories about how they've discovered things and I think they accused the teachers one year of having a New Year's
010Eve party or something because there was a big spike in energy. >> Oh yeah, we had to research that one. I'm supposed the youth basketball tournament and so immediately they're like we need to talk to Mr. Vice. We need to know what he's charging. So, the students have gone on to not just win awards, but they've co-presented at how many conferences? I've lost track. KSB conference, USA conference, the Kate RECC, World Education Summit, on and on and on, right? And these students, as as you probably witnessed, they're so comfortable speaking in front of adults and sharing their information. And again that was the vision of the canc school redesign was to bring that sort of programming to school so that the students could start earlier and make better decisions for postsecary right whatever their whatever
011their choice might be. >> Yeah. And you have some data in front of you that comes from the department of labor and transone what we call workforce innovation which is our future work kind of pulse and research um that really shows like based on the every programming that we do including what's happening in Christiey's class there are really some areas that we concentrate around um data literacy or new modern critical thinking communication um that agency and that ownership to problem solve and create a solution to move forward and so we've gotten to see that for almost a decade um with deote. So I know Kevin talked about the magnitude of a company like train. The the reason that we're here today is to officially and formally recognize as not just a BTU crew school, but
012one of only about a handful. We're we're at 10 in the country, but we're debating two of them right now, but only three in the Midwest because it's a pretty exclusive designation. It means that this district has put in a lot of leadership and a lot of work. But even bigger than that um the entire country for training in this program was modeled around what has done with the BTU crew. So starting in about 2016 was when this partnership was struck up was a facilities upgrade with a dream of student engagement. By 2019 they were students were earning national recognition in 2021. Um that's when the can school re redesign campaign was launched and this group was featured in that video and part of that campaign in 2022 train said how do we get the
013rest of the country to do what deote is doing um I was welcomed onto the team and we've gotten to take this program that really was born from Christy and Casey and Jeff and the teacher him um and take that around the country to establish it at a different level. So, it's really got three characteristics. Um, the first is that resourceful alignment. How do we leverage the things we're already doing on campus so that we can get a better investment from those resources? So, a facilities upgrade now becomes a student learning tool. That's one of the most relevant resources you can find or afford or purchase for a student interested in STEM or energy career pathways. The second piece is realigning or giving students real agency to solve problems. So, it's not just that they
014have access to the data. This incredible school district and community has welcomed them to make suggestions. That's why we have the solar panel. It's why there's uh sensors in some of the bathrooms. And so, they've actually heard them and allowed them to be a part of um the pride and the growth of this district. So, that's the second pillar that we've kind of initiated into this. And the third is that trifecta teaming which you heard Kevin mention there we require now when we sit down with the school looking to do something like this that there's alignment between our district administrators our building leadership and our in the classroom innovation and so Jeff and Casey both have our future ready leadership award sitting in front of them as the leaders and the kind of trouidors that
015allowed us to establish that best practice and Christy has an achievement and innovation award as the person who really took it in the classroom. room and ran with it. And those are the three pillars that we kind of look to now to say, are they a BTU crew school or not? And so, thank you not for not only for being the first, but for giving us a program that we've been able to really build interest and train and train like careers around the country with >> Thank you. Thanks for everything that you've done. >> Not done yet. >> I was going to say, do you want to picture Sorry. >> Mariah, >> do you guys want to do a picture really fast with those three? >> Can we do Sorry, Danny. >> We usually do
016it right in front of us. >> I didn't want to say >> he was over there on that side so we can get the Trojan head in it. >> Back there. Maybe by the Trojan head. Oh yeah. >> Somebody else can still >> Can you grab that chair? >> All right. Smile. >> Okay. Thank you guys very much. Thank you. >> Thank you for giving us some time. >> Yeah. This right here in this Oh, okay. Thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you for all your support to our students and faculty. >> I will say it's been a dream to work with. I absolutely love what we do so much. >> Well, and congratulations to Christy and Casey and Jeff for everything that you've done as well. Thank you so much. All right, moving on
017to number four. We've got the superintendent report. We are going to start off with the needs assessment and go through some things. So, this is required and this is some of the things that we go through. Casey's going to chime in with me at times on this, but we uh as we start to put the budget together in the next couple months here, things that we do look at that we use uh as we go through this and what are we going to need to do with the budget? We started this when we started putting this together. We wanted there was a reason we were doing two years at time so it would build some of that was because the state assessments the test actually started over last year. We were looking at that the
018and then as we got into this further the state has not kept up with their data quite yet because we wanted to show you this year and Casey's got some of that. So, that's going to be exciting, but it's not in the same quite format yet that they haven't put out there. But, uh, enrollment, it's always good to look at your enrollment to see where you have see where you are. Um, as you can see, it's been pretty pretty similar there. Of course, preschool we know can go up and down. That's a head count. That's not enough PE on those. The other reason for two years is Glasgow with the uh as we look at them bringing the Glasgow that part of the southern cloth district in as well at risk data. We started looking
019at that and the news figures right now through uh free and reduced lunches on there. So we went and looked at our paid lunches or reduced lunches, the free lunches, what we're doing those cafeterias as well upgrades here and there. 25 26 day is not quite here on this yet because we have to see that come back to us yet even though we probably know what we've had for that maybe not that stuff coming into play they something that people ask us about from time to time sometimes they they think that's a bigger percentage sometimes they think it's a smaller percentage but over the last couple years 2.2 2 to 2.5%. Not a big change in there. Uh Christie has shared this with us a couple different times on that prevalence data. Uh where are
020we with that? Where do we fit in our I want to say within our co-op and within the state. Um and you can see our not the highest in the co-op, we're not the lowest in the co-op. Um, we're above the state average on especially at IDPS and I'm not ever going to get all those initials right still after all these years, but speech and language is our biggest seems to be our biggest percentage typically is where we we end up a little higher. But, uh, you don't get in there without meeting the having that need. So, but as you look at that are, uh, I don't know. I I I would tell you that I think that um we might just do a better job of working with our students and identifying more students
021that need help than some of the other schools do in some of those bigger populations maybe too is why our percentage is just a little bit higher. I I don't know Christie I don't know what your thoughts on that. >> Well I mean over the years in general the state averages the state numbers for students with disabilities has been increasing. So this is a trend that's across the state is not something that um is unique necessarily. I mean the numbers are higher than they have been in the past. Um but I think certain things like the speech language percentage that has been impacted specifically with um issues from you know co pandmic when we had um children who weren't around certain things weren't socialized as much and um you know just some things that um
022also you want to look at some areas of u sometimes electronics um impacts that as well. Um so I I don't think it's necessarily out of line with trends that are um happening across the state and across the nation. Um we are always trying to make sure okay are we overidentifying? Are we um are there things that we need to address? And um with the speech language numbers, you know, in this district, um that is something I've really been working on the last year and a half and bringing awareness to people and staff and parents as we have those meetings. So, um, you know, we always look at those trends and we're not out of line and we're, um, trying to make sure that we, um, come back to center and focus on what those
023students need and if they need something, we're going to provide that. I think that's, you know, paramount of this district. >> And special ed data, unfortunately, kind of runs behind because they used the previous year. So we'll see the 25 26 data hopefully soon. So we'll have that to compare and put side by side, but I think it's probably going to be pretty similar. That's what I would say. But yeah, they've done a great job of working on that and identifying those though. So I think we're we always keep that in in our minds. We are preparing for that attendance. Um couple different ways to look at it. the state attendance rates were above our percentage of attendance as well as state average. We have pretty good attendance here at uh boys and that's something
024that we don't really fight a lot of it felt like we did when we came back with co but uh for us it was a fight but for a lot of districts they have a lot different situation in their districts. Uh there's another way to look at it again. We're above the state average 94% to about 92 and 94 to 93. And I would say this last year would be right in that same era. Not even better. It seemed like every day I look at your guys' attendance of those missing. And it just seemed like we didn't have very many kids missing at all um this year. So I wouldn't be surprised if that didn't go up a little bit this year. something that was tracked pretty well. This comes off of uh last year's
025accountability report card. Our graduation r 94.3% over the four year adjusted cohort compared to the 90.5% of the state and even here in when you have somebody not graduating affects your rate. One person not graduating or one student that doesn't graduate really affects your rate that believe there's one that shows up on us and they didn't finish their school year with us and they went out of state or that happened two years ago but we still got dinged for it because the state couldn't track whether that young person graduated or not. So we got we had a don with that but uh anyone that goes out of state or out of country like we can never reclaim those. So, we lost two students out of the country this year who were freshman and sophomore. And
026so, they will hit our graduation rate in two years even though they're in school. We've sent records. Um, we had a kid that was in the gifted program that went to Idaho and they just said like, "Oh, they didn't graduate." Like, no, I'm certain that kid and and nothing you can do can prove it. >> It's because as soon as they're in your building, they track them even if they left as a freshman. So >> it's almost one of those things you want them to transfer in state before they go out of state. So it doesn't hurt you on that. >> A c absenteeism that's something we probably work on. It's before co it was down about here. We came back was a little higher. It's gone back down in that rate. What we find
027out is our kids typically like to come to school. uh there are places on throughout the state that are inviting a 30 to 35% of absenteeism rate. So even though 14.3 sounds high and our people work on that very hard, uh it's really low compar comparatively across the state and then it's not going out rate there because we do a great job not having to deal with that as much as much as some doing just you know different graph different way the district and the state on that postsecary progress for postsecary success we like to call that um when you look at the district the high school success rate the effective rate we fit very nicely into all of that and um I sometimes think that we lose out on some that we are effective
028with the state doesn't count as effective for years it didn't count a student going to the military which I don't know tech college it didn't count for a while they didn't count the KCAC schools for a while. Um, we may have a young man or young lady that goes straight to the family farm and does a fantastic job being successful in life, but the state doesn't call it as effective, which is u I just shake my head. But, uh, so our rates are really good. I mean, there's nothing there. I don't think there's anything there argue with other than I think we probably have a better rate than a lot of shows. So with our students and back into that dropout rates and where the state is where we're at mean 0% in 2025 a
029year ago I think that would be 0% again this year so another great year on that and as they both Casey said there will be something in the future but it's nothing you can control when that's when there when there's things that have been controllable These guys have done a great job of helping with that and helping students out. So, they've done a great job of controlling those variables that our students may go through. Um, this one will be interesting next year. We've always been and you can track it right with the state just above it just right at it maybe just below one or two years but right at it on ACT but we've uh I don't know how many years in a row every senior took days because it was pretty it junior
030junior junior so that goes on eight and some of those >> dips what's that >> dips >> right okay there you go dips 20 >> yep so there you go. But this year it was a uh we changed that where they opt out. Opt in say opt in. So not everybody's going to take that. You're going to see that right in the back a little bit because um those students that are not that don't need the ACT are not taking it. But it's always good back to know where they were is good information for us. But as things change and the games or the rules of the game change or the rules of what they're doing change, you know, those I guess what I'm going to say. I don't know. Is that a good descriptive?
031>> You all sides. I mean, we've gone back and forth. >> Yeah. >> Wanted to opt in. I wanted to have them all take. I wanted every single one of them to have it, but I see the merit in not taking it. So we finally >> less than 50% off which was disappointing. >> Yeah. >> But we have lots of kids who took it in short amounts of time because it was I have to be here. I have to take this test. And so there was no merit to it. So it was one of those hey this is free. We're offering it. It's during school. Like everything's good. But you're not if you don't need it, you're not going to use it. like there's no that's that's where we really saw I'm going to say
032I think I feel like we're going to see some gains just from the kids being forced to take a test that they in their mind are saying I don't need to take this test I don't want to take this test >> large big discussion going on about this too back and forth both sides of this or all sides of this were discussed there might be one or two thought processes going on there but I think it's going to be interesting to see once we get those results I was case and I were talking today and I thought we got it already but we've not seen it yet. So it's uh it'll be interesting to see where that pulls uh starting in the state assessments. This is where it's going to get kind of fun to
033talk about what happened this year and as we build this budget and we talked about this, you know, we we added an instructional coach that helped kind of in between the teachers and administration to look at some things there. elementary gear. You got to see that firsthand and where we looked at this 24 25 data. M this is the math and what I have showing here is district and Casey can get really in into it per grade and per he's done a really good job of studying through this kind of where we've knocked out some of these and the ones and twos went away because you have to be a three and a four to get above that state average what it amounts to in there or to keep bringing your scores up and the
034differences in some of the classes and the scores are crazy from from one year to this year and I think you're building that as you've seen it at the elementary with uh what Amanda Pson showed you guys a couple months ago when we met at elementary there I think it was in April and that's as she went through those kind of things and the excitement you know people were uncomfortable some of the things at first because it was different but we were looking at that data and using it was done done really well um >> go back to the math for a minute so on the math so This is the state report and so the state doesn't have this year's report comparing apples to apples just yet because they first off the science at
035the high school hasn't been scored yet. So that not scoring till around the end of this month when they'll report the science scores for 11th grade. But fourth grade math was 14 points above the state average. So just fourth graders was 14 above. Fifth grade was one point above and sixth grade math was two points above. So, we moved the bar the whole way against the state average. And the only way to really compare is compare state average to state average because we can say that we moved this class up, but the state average also moved up based on the validity of the test that and so, you know, fourth grade plus 14. That's pretty impressive compared to the rest of the state. >> And that's what the state average moved up. >> Correct. So,
036the state average moved up, but we moved up even that much more. So what you see on these two, and I know I said this earlier, but the state's putting this out there, that's the old test. That's the new test. And now this year, you know, 2026 will be the same test as 2025. So we're comparing the same apples to apples data at that point. That was one of the big reasons we wanted to do two years building off of that. And now you can see elementary over those two. That's the ELA and the reading. >> So, so in the ELA at the elementary, fourth grade went up one point against the state average, fifth grade three points, sixth grade, four points. So, we improved in all three grades. Then we move up to junior
037senior high school. This is the math. And uh even looking at the last two years of data, if you look at our ones, we didn't have many kids in the ones throughout really the two was where our area is and one was the lowest. I don't know that I explained that before being the highest. Then you can see the legend I guess over there on that side explaining that. But Casey, you want to go through those increases? junior high and high school high school math went up eight points against the state average compared to last year's state average. So if you stack the test we're up 16 16 points. We've moved that much in two years against the state average. Junior high math uh seventh grade this year we were five points above the state
038average and eighth grade math we were 12 points above the state average. Well, you mentioned next year will be this like the same test. Do they is it do they change the test every two years or is it a random? >> So, it's it's the same test this year as it was last year and that's the state average we're comparing to. So, like if you compare it to 24 like like it's you still have to compare just to the state average, not to the actual test scores. And so not supposed to change it again, but like they also >> I just know how often like do they have a schedule like we we change it every two years think >> a long time. >> Now we're going to go on into the ELA. This is
039junior senior high school totals >> at at the seventh grade. We were down one point from last year and four points from the state average. In talking to other um principles and superintendent at the conference USA conference two weeks ago, they said seventh grade was the kicker for all. There's I don't say there's always historically there's been one test that's been lower than the rest against the norm. And everyone else said it was their seventh grade English because I said our seventh grade English wasn't as good as our other same kids taking the test. So maybe that's a factor. eighth grade English compared to last year we were 10 points higher. So last year's test where we were in this year we were still three points below state average this year but we were 10
040points higher on the scale comparing the two. And then high school which is fantastic. We were 13 points higher than the state average this year and the last two years we've gone up 16 points. So that's a pretty good direct correlation and we we focused on it. That might be your last one. Is it last >> only because we don't have it but like when we do the chart's going to look awesome and I know I talked about it last time and I appreciate you writing about it in the paper Brian. It was good stuff but eighth grade science um plus 27 this year. >> Wow. So 27 points above state average in eighth grade science. And remember in junior high we've added a science teacher to help out part-time. So we've we've lowered class
041sizes in terms of instead of cramming everyone in and trying to get there. So so we now have multiple sections. Um which is going to be really important because next year the eighth grade class is huge, the seventh grade class will be huge and the sixth grade class will be huge. They're the three biggest classes. And so having some some additional instruction will be there. Uh Mrs. Linton also threw in a bunch of inter rooms along with Mrs. Cox and Mrs. Fors where they did small assessments to go over uh key elements that are going to be tested just along the way that was practiced. Mrs. Channel did a really fantastic job with FastBridge and just helping our kids understand how to take a test and going through there. And so all strategies that we
042we put in place, adding Mr. D helped our junior high math scores tremendously because it not only lowered some of Mr. Cox's load, but it also took some of our students with the highest needs and had focused interventions on them where it's, you know what, we're going to work on this skill to work on moving that forward. So, but in the last two years, junior high science is up 31 points against the state average. So we really jump a lot and when it comes to not only being an expert in the field but also having the time to teach versus the time to manage that's and then instruction is key to improving schools. >> Our students and teachers and staff did a fantastic job. Our students took it really serious this year. We did a
043lot of uh pre-talking. We met and we went over at assemblies, but we also talked to them before. We did some different test methodology basically feeding him, taking the test later in the day. Uh just little things like that. But they they made a huge difference. And I think our kids um I say try hard, but like knew that it was important. And it was it was nothing crazy, but like hey, this is really important. Okay. Well, this is important to our school. We're going to make sure we do it and that's good for our kids. >> A simple thing like they made sure every student that needed a mouse had a mouse instead of using that track and I mean it's just something you wouldn't think about but it makes a difference. I don't
044know what the percentage we we read that somebody talked about >> I was going to say they talked about their fast scores going up like significantly and so we asked it and most of them took it said yes. That's pretty simple change and ice are pretty cheap. >> Very proud of their accomplishments and why they're moved that. So they're moving the bar. That's where you know we we prepare the budget. Last year we asked for some help in some of that and it's paying off. So that's what uh want to share that uh as data comes more comes to the district. I know Casey will be sharing that in the future and uh but this is exciting. is trending this way and it's moving forward. So I I we don't have a lot of facility
045stuff on here yet. It's the build as we come through and you know we'll see the glass students transportation's going to look different than what we've seen in the past as we build that piece and there just some some building blocks we we will continue to build on this needs assessment continue to share. questions on those ACT scores. >> Are those are those super scoring results or are those like individual test results? >> No, the ACT. >> I think it's comprehensive, not super based. So it's based on the it's based on comprehensive test but it's not a super there's so so it's it's even from >> it's even from 15 all the way to now. So your institutions are restoring but your other norms are not. >> Okay. Well, because I would have expected to
046see jobs as soon as they answer my question. >> The science sections Casey, do you know correspondent day for graduation? That This is something that you will set next month in your July meeting. So be May 15th, the home hearing. >> Yeah. Senior's last day is the 12th. So graduation this year will be on will be on next year's 157. >> So that'll get brought to you uh next month in that July meeting as you guys uh do all of those preliminary things. Set your year just so you are thinking about that coming into that meeting that looking at May 15th which kind of we've been corresponding on that date for quite a while. I want to say 10 plus years that 10. >> Yeah. So, it's uh it seemed to work out has worked
047out pretty well, but u so you have that in your mind. So, Southern Cloud updates um it goes back and forth a little bit. Uh property still high school building and the shop building on July 1st, but we will have to have a special meeting for that to happen that morning of July 1st probably. So then um this is just an an example. It doesn't have to be at this time, but uh 7:30 moving on July 1st. You guys will the buildings have been offered to the state. The state said no. That was done through Southern Cloud. They state says they're good, but Southern Cloud can't sell the buildings because it's real property. So then that goes to the district where Glass School will reside in USD273 Bullets District. So then those properties become, you
048know, C273s. So you'll have a meeting July 1st because um superintendent can dispose of property but not buildings and that's all above. So you'll declare those surplus to be disposed of. We'll have a description for you for the high school for the shop. Ask for you to dispose of those. Then we will work with the realtor uh our board attorney, the title company here in town to get those two properties sold on that day. First lady in that day as a day goes on between those two. The elementary property is still up and they're trying to get buyers on it. They have a person who would like to purchase it, but it needs to be considered residents, a residential property. The city is supposed to be working on that in Glasco for that purpose because
049you can't get a loan on a school to unless for a resident. It has to be a residential property. Uh so that was a lot of things they're going through. Kevin loses and I talked about though if they don't get that done and is to start to put it on an auction on an auction and then it would go to the highest seller and it would probably be the middle to the end of July for that property. Um, so we had a uh a meeting with property insurance for the look next year. I didn't bring that in um for property insurance with EMC, but we are looking at a decrease in our overall between workman's comp and property uh about $6,000 less. Uh Casey can share that with you uh next month. But uh that's
050a good feeling to see that go down. Um that's the first time in a few years now that we've seen that go down. I think since 2020 um you know 2021 maybe but uh we saw a decrease in that. So that's good. But we are going to have to do some kind of insurance on that property so we have some liability coverage on that classical elementary. Joel brought us a u 120 day coverage that would help us and it would be a he didn't have a cost but he said it'd be inexpensive to do that. So that's probably how we'll cover that property during that time. So that um it is covered up you know and the other thing we have to think about with that property is how do we get it mowed while
051it's still our property and the yard maintain and that sort of thing. So those ought to go in there. Uh we are going to go over tomorrow uh two three students Mr. B myself and we're going to go over and clean out the shop. So the shop using rooms so that we can get that sold on July 1. Glasco personnel has cleaned out a lot of it but they just don't have the personnel man power to pull it off. So we're going to go get that done. There are some instruments and timies in there that we're going to bring back. That sort of thing. Some band instruments to look at that maybe will be a fit for us. Maybe not. The timies we know she wants and couple other things over there. So those things
052will be brought back tomorrow because Glasco has to declare Southern Cloud has to declare those surplus because still their property till then. But making that sale on July one would not give us a lot of time to do that. with that agreement out with them on that. We do have the new maps Tiffany got was ordered for us of the property and that was printed up for us. We got one and I didn't have to get that frame put back up against the wall and there we got it on frame and then this is the cop the teeth for the busing but um you can see that addition here the valve right here over and then that's the blow up of the inside the city of where I was working for the 2020 census on
053there. So, I think that should work nicely for you on that. That's what you guys voted on in April, I believe it was. So, we've got that the state um we had a group, as you know, in frontline that worked with us on the maps and the county clerks had an issue with North Ottawa and us claimed a piece of Stanton Township, but it was it was ours is how it was drawn out. So, we did work through that. this last week with with Ona and those county clerks and county clerks are working on getting all those valuations done for us, get them split out. Uh we had to give them a a map of the townships and name the townships. Uh Tiffany worked with front line and we got that done and we got
054that to them. They were grateful for that. Um on that and I don't know this just that little piece of um Stanton I know it's not large but it added $360,000 of value. I did know that too on your valuation. So that's a I mean you see that at least it's a real number that you're seeing on there. So it's a positive. It's going it's going in a positive not a negative. So, um, I think that's going to be good. I don't know what the rest of it's going to come out like. Our 90 square miles is the biggest portion of what was split up and and all of those uh of the other four other districts. I guess I would say there's five districts that receive territory in that. So, I don't know. I
055don't have any other southern cloud updates for you. We just continue to keep working towards that goal on that day. But July 1's going to be here soon and Glasow will be part of USD 273. Everything four miles east of Glasgow over to the line called offus road will be uh in USD 273 there. So any questions or thoughts on that? That's my report. >> Okay, Jeff. So, we just we just got a text that hail and downs golf ball size looks like on radar it might be headed this way, might stay north. Can't really tell. What does everybody want to do with administrator reports? We can I assume we can >> I was going to say we have Casey, Christie, and Janet. Got you. >> So, I guess let's let's just let's I guess
056we'll just go through everybody, but let's I mean just I guess like hit the very high points or anything we've got we've got because I think we're going to try and speed this meeting up a little bit. I just we'll kind of keep an eye on it. So I guess with that said, Brady, >> my high points, I guess I was going to do a little history, but the high points are ELC daycare budgets leading thread. >> Yeah, >> I think we said that last past last month. And so we we've burned through we had a lot of co money that we've been keeping race and using that to supplement the loss to that's we're getting we went through about three two/ird of it to 347 about 2/3 of it and so it's getting to
057the place that we're not feeling comfortable because we want to burn through all of our cash and take it down to zero. So, we're needing to look at um we think if a 10% rate increase for infants and 8% for everybody else should bring us back to about a break even where we can go and that's what we usually try to do. So >> we haven't increased rates much for >> our last discussion >> being we've been using some of that other money to to kind of control that would have been probably some gradual step up is now unfortunately hitting all at once because we just we have to get to a break even point. >> We do to keep it viable. Um they they had leftover co money about that time and they gave
058it to daycare through the through that and so we received one and it was a blessing because every year you know whenever you guys approve raises it's the same at DLC they the classified raise through the district the insurance raises every cost just skyrocketed crazy everything over there and we haven't raised rates and so we do also I to make it more sustainable and not have to have these big jumps every three or four years to come back that um I would propose we do a standard 3% increase across the board here just to keep up with cost of cost of doing business. That's that would be the proposal that we put forth tonight. 10% rate increase for infant care, 8% for everybody else, and then a 3% increase on July one going forward every
059year. So we don't have >> and we are voting on this tonight. So >> questions. >> It's about $50 a month. So infant care we go to about $825. Um the other care would be around I mean, the unfortunate reality is we either do this or we're going to run out of money and we don't have anywhere else to subsidize it from, so we're not going to keep it open. I mean, that's just the harsh reality of where we're at. >> So, the other side, I'll be quick. We're eliminating DS bus service transportation. Um, we can save there and use school bands. So, that's going to save some money. We also received an early childhood block grant rate increase for the early for the early learning center and those cost cutting measures that additional revenue
060from a grant that's why we didn't have to raise rates any more than that 8 to 10% actually because it would have been much higher if we would have been able to find the cost savings plus award we were awarded that early child block grant increase. So there was a combination. We're not just asking the parents to fund the home. They found some other revenue tendency cost savings. So >> and I don't know do you want any discussion now or later when we vote? But I think that like letting people know when they bring their kid in like this is the expectation that it's going to be a 3% increase every year because I mean it's been long enough ago I think I had a kid in when the one of the bigger increases came
061and it was just the shock of it like you're used to something and then it changes. So knowing that when you enroll your kid that this is what you need to expect going forward. Um >> I think the smaller more frequent would be less of a shock to the system for the parents. It' be much more manageable because I mean you're talking a 3% would be like a $15 a month increase for that next year instead of going a $50 every three or four years. >> Okay. >> If that makes sense. be a little better than our current method. >> Other questions? Did you have anything else you want to add? >> No, other than, you know, we hate doing this and that's why we've tried everything and just come to a point where there's
062really no other options to keep in mind. >> Yeah, I I know that I know that I know that everybody's tried really hard to to keep those costs as low as possible. I think everybody understands how how expensive daycare is, but unfortunately it's not a district problem or even a state problem. It's just daycarees the costs are just >> huge. Yeah. And we we try to run it at at a break even. That's our that's our goal. We haven't been doing that for a few years, but that's our goal. We don't try to make money. We just try to keep enough cash there to cover the next month and run the month. keep as low as possible. That's what you know is tits too. >> It's not a good fun discussion. That's as fast as
063I can. >> Chris, >> I guess Casey, do you have anything you want? >> It's coming up in I was just going to go over nothing that you can't read. Okay, >> I'll share just recap the year. >> I'll come back next month and some stuff. >> Only thing that I wanted to mention was the six key asurances. A copy of that is listed in the Google put in the Google Drive folder for you and um superintendent already approved those. So just wanted it on the record that's already been approved. >> All right. Thank you. and Gary, >> he's going to put vehicles under. >> Okay. >> All right. All right. Well, then we're going to move on to number six, bond updates. >> So, they are still in line uh with everything on time.
064They continued with through the grade school. The high school, junior senior high school is done with the four units at this point. Uh there was some cement broken with the crane both on the west and the south end of the building. Uh they are going to fix that and that holds going to make sure it's fixed. Uh I was going to say it's about I don't know it's a pretty good section. Um 100 foot on each each side maybe. So it's u pretty sizable. Um but it will be fixed and they're making sure it's going to be done. It'll be done in the next started in the next couple weeks. they're going to turn out and uh start putting them back. There may be a piece that we add on to that just so it's
065done that wasn't broken, but it will look kind of goofy if they don't. They're on the south end of the high school. Um elementary, they continue to make progress and continue to stay on time. Uh we are going to have that. We don't have it yet. We've met Joe was part of that. I had him be part of that meeting with um the OAC meeting a week ago and two weeks ago. I believe we you met twice and I was meeting once with Casey when I was gone with him and then with me and here and the fencing and the cement in the front of the building, you know, we get water in the building. If you ever look that building, it's just like flat, right? I mean, it's not built up. The ground's not
066built up. We we brought dirt in there years ago. I'm going to say 12 years ago. was very I was very new into the district and we tried to slope it out a little bit on it own water was still getting into the kindergarten rooms. We uh went in and put some curbing in cement curving and it kept it out. Was it a perfect fix? No. But it kept it out. Well, with this project, they're going to have to pull that out so they can get electrical underneath. So, they've got to do something with some waterproofing in there. We got to get some I'm gonna say great slow whatever joke can talk explain that much better than I can but we got to get it away from the building. Uh there was we got to
067have a a real solution. They're going to bring surveyor a surveyor in hasn't been here. They said I got a message that they have him in this week was the plan and then we're going to talk. So, we're going to see added onto that bill to get that back would be my assumption. When we talked, Casey and uh Joe walked through with them and they were going to be a foot of having an ADA compliant sidewalk there. And the three of us agreed if you're going to do that much work, make the sidewalk ADA compliant then. You know, put another foot of cement in. And then a foot wide, make it a foot wider, make it compliant. I mean, we have teachers and students that will take advantage of that if it's there. So, I
068mean, why not have it done right? So, but they have not brought us pricing back. We've talked about blockchain link in the front of the building, not the privacy. We've looked at blockchain link around it. We talked about the blockchain link to where the students can do projects and put like the Trojan heads or something to take away from the sign take away from the >> unit showing. Sorry. Thank you. Um I didn't look up with my hands. I'd get it right eventually. Um we also have talked about the privacy fence. Some of our teachers are not in favor of losing that vision of sight. So I I don't know how much more to >> I mean there so I think the one thing we did is bring the sidewalk all the way across it.
069It wasn't originally planned to go all the way across the front of the school. And now you're going to be able to walk out the front door, get onto the sidewalk and go straight across to where you connect to the to other sidewalk at the I guess it'd be the the southeast corner of the building. Um, and then there'll be a fence that runs right along that sidewalk. There is some space in there. I know it gets used for like, you know, back to school thing. I mean, there's different things. And there's a couple of picnic tables in there that are going to be behind that fencing now. It's going to get pulled out. Um, it just there we we had to get the fencing away from the units so we can get in there
070and service the units. We've got room. It eliminates like individual fencing. And then because of a number of issues and I mean I think we're just going to put the the 4 foot black chain link in there now. You're going to be able to see through it. It's not going to be fancy. It's just it's just going to be black chain link. It's going to keep people out of the area. Um we may want to go back in a few years once everybody's used to it and and consider the privacy fencing. It may not look awesome, but I think it's going to be the most functional, most cost-effective thing we can do. And then the other thing is just there's no grade. So, they're going to bring us back. They're pricing concrete solutions to come
071away from the building. I think they're pricing one where you just come away 10 ft all the way cuz we don't have any grade to work with. And you put that dirt to grade and what's going to happen? We're going to mow in there. We're going to get clumps up against the building. We're going to weed along the building. Then we're going to get depressions and it's going to rain against the wall and it's going to run down. It's going to pond in the building. And if we if we try and slope it with dirt, it's just gonna two or three years from now, it's going to be a problem. So, >> we're trying we're get we're getting variable costs to get concrete away from there and to try and carry it out. Um, it's
072>> we can't jack up the building two feet. So, we got to do something. >> You can see it right now where that dirt was brought in and it's higher on one from the higher on the south to the north it goes lower. I see a seam that right and it's it was done that it's ran like that as we tried to fix it. >> Well, and it's worked. I mean, but we've got dirt up against a couple couple bricks and I mean, it's it's higher than it should be. And I mean, it's kept the water off, but >> it's now now we've got to do something that's that's a little bit more permanent to to address this. And, you know, not trying to put in tremendous amounts of concrete and make, but we're going
073to have to do something and we got to get the water away because the last thing I want to do is do all this and then, you know, have flooding issues in the building. And the key to it all is getting the dang survey because right now you can't sit out there. You can't just you can't eyeball anything. So I don't anything else that I have for you to update unless you have questions on that. >> All right. Moving on to number seven, classified staff recommendations for 2627. You've got your list there provided and I would and they've been given to us by the administrative team. I would recommend that you approve the classified staff recommendations. >> Does anyone have questions? I'm going to start going really fast. So stop me if >> um No
074questions. All right. Is there a motion? >> A motion that we approve the classified staff recommendations for 2627. >> Second. >> Motion by Amber. Second by Craig. All in favor say I. >> I. All oppose. Motion carries. 50- N number eight. MCPC ELC employee recommendations for 2627. >> Same thing. They've been given to us and on the recommendations. I recommend that you approve those. >> Questions. >> Is there a motion? >> I make a motion to approve the 2627 MCPCL staff as recommended. >> Second by Kelsey, second by Tony. All in favor say I. I. >> All oppose. Motion carries 5-0. Number nine, parents as teachers employee recommendations 26 27. >> They've been given to us by the director, Amanda McGuire, and I would agree with her and I would recommend that you approve those
075>> questions. Is there a motion? >> Make a motion we approve the parents, teachers, employer recommendations for 2026, 2027. >> My second. >> Tony and Kelsey. All in favor say I. >> All oppose. Motion carries. 5-0. Uh, number 10, student accident insurance. >> We took bids. We got two bids back. Um, typically I would ask you to approve the u less expensive bid, but uh I ask you to approve the more expensive bid on this because it covers a lot more for our students. It's $1,100 more than the uh I think it was like $7,100 and other about $6,000. I think they're provided put for in your packets there, but the $7,100 covers a lot more things for our students and it's a lot more useful. And when you're spreading that across 850 students, it's
076pretty that's pretty reasonable. >> Where did that bid come from? >> Uh the one was the K KB group that uh Rod Spangler runs. This is where the one I'm asking you to approve. the Gallagher group uses. >> Okay. >> Questions or discussion? >> Is there a motion? >> A motion that we approve the student accident insurance from KBS. >> No. >> Oh, you're right. You're right. I'm sorry. >> Sorry. >> Motion by Amber Craig. Gotcha. Tony. So second by Craig. All in favor say I. >> Motion carries. Uh 50. Uh number 10, grow your own application. Number 11, grow your own application. Sorry. >> Your own is Tiger. >> This one is Erica. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. Erica Prince. And this is out of the money that we set aside in the district
077as she's working towards um her master's degree there. So, >> yes. Okay. >> Questions on that one? Is there a motion? >> I make a motion to approve the grow your own application for Eric Prince. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose. Motion carries. 50. Number 12 Patterson grow your own application. This Stacey Bar Stacy Baron and she's working towards our gifted and it's under the Patterson grant that we have that Karen McCroy helped us secure. Is there a motion? >> We'll make a motion to approve the uh Patterson grow your own application for Stacy Baron. Second >> by Kelsey. Second by Amber. All in favor say I. >> All oppose. >> Motion carries. 50 um special education grow your own application is number 13. >> Submitted. >> Smith.
078>> She is a special teacher at the elementary building currently. employed and she's done a really good job for us. Worked here. She's working on her special ed endorsement and we'd like to support her to continue down that path and help our students. >> Is there a motion? >> I'll make a motion to approve the special education program application for Lexus Smith. >> Second. >> Motion by Tony, second by Kelsey. All in favor say I. >> All oppose. Motion carries. 50 number 14, MCELC daycare rates. What Brady just described to you in his report. Um, unfortunately, we get here and we have to do the rates. I I know that they uh had dollars that they spent down. And, you know, it's like Brady said, you don't um you don't do this to make money.
079you do it to break even, to be a service to the community. And so they use that those dollars to not just collect, but to keep the rates down for people, but unfortunately then you hit that threshold and you've got to bring them back up. So, um I don't know what else you're going to do at this point, you know, and there there's other things. You go back in the day the parents have done a fundraiser and you know, we may have to come back to some of those days too where they can do a little bit of that. I think they would do fundraisers for equipment, that sort of thing. And you know, we may have to go back and do some of those things, but unfortunately, we are daycare is a tough business.
080I mean, you can see all sides of that. So, there any questions? I know this is not something any of us want to do, but I think we have exhausted our options. So, any questions or discussion? All right, I'm going to keep this moving fast. So, is there a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the MCELC daycare rates to 8.25 25 for infant correct for 80 740 for okay just or we just keep it simple >> as presented there you go I was going to add all >> that as the 3% yearly >> and 3% yearly yeah >> there a second >> second motion by Tony second by Craig all in favor say I >> all oppose motion carries 50 number 15 BES primary hallway south entry doors Yeah. And I need to I
081probably described this. We took two bid. Well, we took bids. We got two bids. >> We do have about five minutes before we get >> I'm asking approved doors that really have to be approved and that we they're original to the building down there by Gary's office and down by the entryway where they go to recess. The recess ones are in really bad shape. >> So, any questions? >> We take the lower bid. >> Is there a motion? I motion that we approve the bid for the uh the ES primary hallway south entry doors for 21,947. >> Second, second by Kelsey. All in favor say I. >> All oppose. >> Starting to talk to you. Uh M. What are we on? MCPC school readiness specialist aid job description. >> This is Trinity McMillan with fillless
082position helping Brady. >> Yes. And anybody that wants to leave, go ahead. >> Yeah, it's it's coming. So, >> it's bearing down on the board. >> Brady, don't go that way. >> Any any questions on this job description? All right. Is there a motion? >> I move we approve the MCPC score in the specialist a job description as presented. >> Second. >> Kelsey Anton. All in favor say I. >> All oppose. Motion carries. 5-0. Uh number 17, authority to close the budget and make necessary transfers. This will allow the uh superintendent the clerk to make those necessary transfers at the end to close the budget. >> We have to do this every single year. So, >> uh is there a motion? >> Make the motion that we give the authority to close the budget and
083make the necessary transfers. >> I'll second. >> Amber and Kelsey. All in favor say I. >> All oppose. >> Motion carries. 5. Um, I Jeff, you're gonna be here next month in the audience >> and I'm gonna say thank you very much. But at this point in time, we'll uh we'll talk. >> Let's push it to the second. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Please take a motion to second. Tony favor say I. >> I. >> All right. Motion carries 5. Thank