001Student recognition FCCLA. So I am Johnson. I'm the FCCLA advisor. If I could get the five members to come down to compete in the state, that would be awesome. So we have Emma Bohannan who is the vice president of FCCLA, Sage Bell, Ares Williams, Alana Rogers who is the president and Mackenzie Krueger who is the secretary. Sorry. Okay. Um so these girls competed at state and parliamentary procedure which is just um a team event where they sorry where they organ do an organized business meeting and it's an extremely difficult event to compete in. Kansas has only sent one team in the last two years and that happens to be this team right here. So it's a really big accomplishment. I'm very excited for them to go and compete at the national level which will take
002place in July. So, can we give them a little round of applause? [applause] Okay. Forensics. How about we get the following people to come forward. Say the bell. Bowling off. [applause] >> So, Sage uh got first place as pro. How about that? Uh, second place program for interpretation. So, all of these kids um competed at the state um as well as the world level um for a steam competition called Kid Wind. Um, and this year they took first place in the homebuilt division, which is where they took a generator, made it themselves. Actually, Eli Grow is is our guy. So, not only did he wind the coils 100 times for each one, nine of them. Uh, he also placed the magnets and designed the entire thing. And have a video for them here in a
003second. And you'll see it was the only thing that actually survived the shark tunnel. Um, but everyone here was instrumental, including Pate Stewart, who was not able to make it tonight. um in this project. It was an everyone from the top down um accomplishment. Um so yes, they took first at state and that's but then we went on to Madison, Wisconsin and um placed top five in the world uh for their wind turbine. Um we don't know where we landed in the top five. I'd like to believe it was number one. They are in my heart, right? And it was a relief because we all knew we performed in the way we thought we should have. Um that they should have been able to walk across that stage. So we have Cameron Davis who was
004our esteemed chapter president. Kate Solder are you secretary taking notes? >> Yeah. >> Brandon Hazlet the quiz taker extraordinaire. Cash Hanley who is our new vice president and then treasurer sorry and then our going out vice president Eli Gr. And I did make a video for you all. This will highlight um their entire year uh through kid win. So, they've actually not seen it. So, you wanted to have a secret. And um only reason I know how to do this is because he taught me. So, if it's bad, it's his fault. No, I'm just kidding. It's not how education works. And there is music. Hey, [music] This is the sharp tunnel which reaches speeds of 30 mph winds. You'll see what that does to small turbines. And >> so on their last day, they do
005this on purpose. >> This is our second team that attended. Adelia Riggs, Gabe Peelin, Connor West. They were not on to make it tonight. >> [music] [music] >> down. Feel [music] Congratulations. [applause] Good job. Kids and parents want to leave, you can. If you want to stay for the whole meeting, you are more than welcome. >> Thank you guys for coming out tonight. Thank you. >> Thank you. Okay, >> Jay, you're up. I think it's pretty awesome to have world champion wind tunnel team right here in Vernon. It amuses me because I all people work and from my church that work at the plant are always naysaying wind power. So I think it's awesome. I just drove it in. But I came to really to say thank you. Our principles are lined up over here
006and and I want to say thank you publicly to to the principles. This year we were able to come to the high school. Mr. Baldwin got us in to do for the American Legion to promote boy state, girl state, uh the law enforcement camp and stuff. And so we appreciate the opportunity to get into the to do this. We've not tried that before. Actually, we did last year with no no real success and so promoted again. And at the middle school this year, Mr. Spring let us in to do the hand shaking for the American Legion for the eighth grade promotion. And we appreciate that. because every year if we came out here we see high school say what's the American Legion who are you and so if we could let get into the middle
007school at 8th grade and it's not a surprise to see us here so Mr. Springo thank you for letting us do that and then Mrs. long always does some great things for the American Legion Legion veteran veterans day and we appreciate you doing that. For me, you know, it's not the recognition because, you know, I've been in high level headquarters and four stars pat me on the back and stuff. So, it's not recognition. It's just that our students need to learn. It's not a little green earning men that buy freedom to go to school and play sports. It's people with real faces, real families, and real people. So that's just a way to do that. So I appreciate our principles let us get to be part of this year. >> Thank you. >> Communication. Thank
008you. Everybody got a chance to read that? made it through the first round for the 21st century program and you should know something tomorrow. So we'll know for sure tomorrow. So that's exciting. When I had a virtual meeting with Chris told me that the second item on here literacy grant that we've been keeping up on. We've used that money in the past for parents and teachers. Um they've been really slow to announce anything but different on updates to that um definite changes to how those funds um can be used and also how funds are being awarded to the school area. So some ideas right now basically we'll have application for award,000 districts will get 50,000 and the other 25,000 there's certain guidelines that your proposals have to meet and they also are branching into some
009other funding outside of that to offer schools for like your own models or getting people to get lure. Um so we'll be sharing that information propose for that but it is not going to look the same direction that we may get. So that's kind of the update there. Summer programs going in our school right now. Um we have 3 students end up being enrolled. One dropped out late. We also have the um summer food site going with that. We're serving in the 50s daily at lunch. So, we're getting some community participation which is really good. We're getting participation for breakfast and lunch is having a director in Ottawa come down right now and do that. That's been really positive. So, appate I appreciate having So, uh, traditionally in June, I just do my successes and
010and challenges in here because I know that the the, uh, linkage time will be, uh, for the buildings and deservedly so. That's a a good conversation time to talk about that. So, I've listed our successes and challenges. Um we've we've talked through the year our successes. We had a we had a lot of uh change outs and uh of systems and network over the past year. Um uh we've adopted a new AI or that as you adopted an AI policy. We have uh implemented a a product called school AI. or we are implementing it. Um because we felt that if if we asking our teachers to follow a policy, we needed to then provide a product that was both furpa and copa compliant uh for them to use. Um so um and then also our
011e eons has just been phenomenally uh successful this spring. So um we continue to have a lot of uh credentials and completers and concentrators and um uh lots of success there. Challenges um you know uh very I mean there's always challenges but um you know very few and far between. um one that I put on there, you know, just to make you aware, you know, I think I think uh >> just a board member. >> Okay. just >> I think um whether it's whether it's uh social media or or things in the classroom um the it's important to just communicate um you know I know we had a parent who was upset that um that a group didn't get recogned ized on social media, Facebook for an accomplishment and and you know they sent a
012whole long letter to Mr. Marshall, you know, and honestly, it was simply last day of school. Um, information was sent late. Um, you know, instead of a long letter, it could have been, "Hey, is this group going to get any recognition?" And and we go with it. You know, we want to celebrate every success of every kid. You know, we love our students in our district. We want to see them be successful. We want to celebrate that success. And so, um, whenever we can, we want to share it. And so, social media, you know, getting our sponsors and our coaches, you know, we don't know everything and we don't have a person, one person dedicated to doing social media because we've got many other duties and tasks. And so, um, shared uh kind of responsibility
013for people to share with us when they have something to uh for us to promote. And so that's that's a a challenge. >> I think that comes down to something we talked about in the previous meeting in that communication breakdown. >> Yeah. >> Where the parent if they would have reached out to the sponsor or the coach, they would have got the answer. >> Yeah. >> And it didn't require a letter to the superintendent. >> Exactly. Yeah. You know, so >> just follow the change of command. >> Yeah. and and would have saved them a lot of time, you know, of just, hey, you know, did I miss did I miss a social media post or, you know, or that >> um and that happens from time to time, you know, as soon as it
014was realized, it was like >> even better than better than what was pre-planned because um you know, instead of one single picture, all kinds of information and a whole gallery of photos was able to be shared. So, good opportunities. >> First item, I want to have Eric Long come down and his team. I don't know if they're all going to come down or not. Or I'll let you introduce Eric. You get introduced. Eric is with a company called Spearscapes. And Spearscapes is a playground company. I thought you might want to hear some information in regards to the elementary playground which is going to come to an exploration date here in the very near future. Eric uh they've done numerous playground projects over the years. They tailor the playgrounds uh to what is needed based on
015what you want as a school community, what you what you need for age appropriate uh playground equipment and activities and so on so forth. So, I'm going to stop there and just turn it over to Eric. >> Sure. Absolutely. So, uh, very nice to meet everybody. Thank you for the quick introduction there. U, probably did it better than I will, but no. Uh, so yeah, we specialize in the playground equipment, uh, surfacing, a little bit of everything. And I've got Kase Gomez. He's one of our interns this summer. He's with us. Bryce is, he's with us as well. He does maintenance on the turf side. So, um, thank you so much for having us down. It's a little bit warmer than it was when I came down. I think it was in March. We were
016walking around in mittens and stocking caps and looking at everything. So, um, for those that aren't as familiar or don't look as close, uh, to the playground, I just thought I would share a couple of things while I was here. And hopefully this pulls up there, but yeah. Um, I don't know if I'll be able to display it. We'll go through that. Was that's on the So, this is the proposed spot uh that we talked about. Uh, it's going to be right over here to the south. I think that's the southeast corner. Uh, the colors that you there and I'll go through some of these things if anybody wants I've got a summary as well kind of what I'm going to go through as far as my agenda if anybody wants to see a you
017guys want to the physical presentation itself is all part of the minutes so all the pictures and everything else you guys will be able to see but So, that's the area that we're talking about proposing in. We're talking about the potential of uh new playground equipment and then also some potentially some type of a like mini sports field or turf for playing area, kickball, soccer, uh football, flag football, you name it, kind of in that outlined green space. So, again, these are all just topics that we've been talking about and discussion. I also captured as far as the location of the existing playground, which is up in that northeast corner. Everybody's very familiar. Things that I noticed that I think everybody's also aware. There's no fence that surrounds that and there's two streets right there.
018So that, you know, potentially is, you know, one of those things that would need to be addressed if that playground's going to stay there. I just don't know logistically if, you know, since you got other playground right over here to partner up against to allow the kids to play. Um, but again, we'll work with you guys however you know makes sense. So, let me go to a couple other pictures I came across and then we'll really kind of start diving in. This is some of the Okay. So, we'll just go right to the presentation. I didn't connect to the Wi-Fi. So, >> would you like to be >> No, it's okay. So, we'll just get rolling here. >> So, and I'll just describe. So, if anybody that wants to see it. Um, some of the
019pictures that I showed, there's currently, I think, a piece of plywood that's blocking the slides. It's just because it's not safe anymore. Um, there's, um, a few other things. And, um, anybody that goes through and deals with playgrounds, it's CPSI, certified playground, uh, safety construction. And so there's a lot of things regarding, you know, safety and things like that regarding kids that um definitely it's time to address some of those needs. Right. >> Now you'll have multiple ages out there. Is that going to be too much? >> Well, I think that's One of the things you talked about is like my feeling is like we have the structure we have now space like that have to be some equipment because like we have not so right now but sometimes we have one group out on
020the north and group out there >> is this also moving this also open. >> Yes. Yes. >> So, when we were down there and we looked and we looked at that space as well as far as just the age, >> I guess just proximity of where that was and then just as far as teachers being out there and then taking advantage of existing fencing and everything that's at that And absolutely um from an equipment stand some of the things we've proposed we're just taking our conversation age group what's age appropriate um but as far as you know putting those pieces in place there's >> yeah no I just didn't know that I know that school has >> separate So yeah, and those are great questions. Thanks for asking. Um, and as far as like some
021of the colors we talked about, you know, we make sure as far as the red, black, school colors, whatever the case might be. Um, we talked about some of the different ADA accessibility as far as surfacing just like the other so and then we would put age appropriate not only age appropriate um but pieces that would mix in there that would be compliant for kids that have uh not the same abilities as others to play some of these things clim >> yeah let's go ahead and uh so again spirit stage point pride this just talks a little bit about our background we are part of mammoth obviously you guys are familiar hopefully with Mammoth uh some of the work we've done for baseball, softball, football. Um we just felt that as far as a lot
022of the playgrounds that we started doing, it really takes a more specialized crew. Um all the spaces that we come into, I mean football field's a football field, baseball field is typically a baseball field. But when you come into a playground space, as you see the layout of some of the different pieces and some of the skill sets that it takes, uh the safety requirements it takes, the uh padding and the surface and everything that it takes. Uh it's just a lot more unique. So we went ahead and created a division. I think it's about two or three years ago for the spearscape side. Uh and it's just taken off. It's been a really really good opportunity uh to where we can still be that turnkey partner. We can come in and help design. We
023can do sidewalks. We can do fencing. We can all your equipment. We can do the surfacing, pretty much anything you can imagine when it comes to that's kind of a one-stop shop. So, next, so here's a couple examples uh that we worked on. This is most recently I got the opportunity to go down to this is near Tampa, Florida. Um and this is just kind of an example of some of the things we put into the turf. Um this is right outside of a I think 6 8 10 I can't remember exactly how many baseball softball fields that we created down there for um down there and uh they wanted a playground environment. So you can see being in Florida, we put the sun shades up and things like that, but then they wanted to
024incorporate all the different sports. You see a baseball net and soccer and things like that. That's all incorporated into the turf to make it a little bit more fun. So the next one, uh playgrounds, athletic training, golf, that services, that's just a little bit of background. Today we'll be focusing on the playground side. Uh go to the next one. So, as far as spearscapes, the slide before us is on the far family, but this is a spearcapes team. Myself, director of business development. Janelle Harper, she's my project manager. Chris Fireborn, another project manager. Brandon Kaufman, he's our landscape architect. Dakota Win right there. Typically, he'll come with me to board of education meetings. His daughter had something tonight. Um, he is our boots on the ground as far as superintendent. He is CTSI certified. Um,
025and he would be the person. That's why I think I told Darla like you got to meet Dakota because who you're going to be working with dayto day. Um he's working on a couple projects right now. He's down in Oklahoma and around but really puts a lot of personal attention into putting these playgrounds together. So we'll go to the next one. So this was the example based on kind of what we talked about based on the the size and the space. You talk you can see right down here we have that level ground and this is on a ported place surface. So that's just one example. Uh same concept those as far as when you put it on turf. Um, and that would be the preferred because of the sports field and everything else tying
026that all together. Um, but right down here, like this spinner, that is wheelchair accessible to where there's somebody that's on a wheelchair. But I'm telling you, kids like all the playgrounds that I've been to, doesn't matter. They love getting on regardless of what the types of equipment are. This just was trying to capture a little bit about like what you guys have, what don't you have as far as you know, different slide concepts, different climbers, swing capabilities, just overall playability. And again, we can mix and match and put different pieces in uh that make the most sense. If somebody's I will tell you there was somebody in Lawrence, they wanted monkey bars, get monkey bars. And then somebody else said, "Hey, we've got to have a zipline." Okay, we'll put a zip line. I mean,
027there's just a variety of different things. So it really is based on what the community wants, school wants, district wants, things like that. We got a lot of flexibility when it comes to that. So your participation and feedback if there's a committee or teacher or whomever is really really critical for us. This is just a topographical layout. You'll see that um the reason why we do this and the reason why we share this is all the safety zones. This is huge. So the way things are laid out a lot of times we have to show this because I want a bigger this or I want a I want a this or I want a more swings. Well, you can't necessarily because every one of these has what's called a safety zone or a fall zone.
028And so the way even down to the turf that we use, the padding we use, everything is compliant for safety. And that's really really critical even down to like the envirill, the sand, and everything else we use. If you're familiar with turf, typically you'll see like those rubber pellets. We don't use the rubber pellets on our playgrounds. teachers, everybody loves it because you're not attracting those rubber pellets everywhere. It's either a hydrochill or an envirill, which is like a smaller sand product. Um, and it keeps that turf really nice and pretty. I mean, as far as it withstands a lot of things and it doesn't attract as much heat. A lot of times you see those black pellets, things like that, turf can get really, really hot. That's something that we talked about, too. So,
029um, and that's why we also put that 3 in pad underneath for safety. So, um, so from the equipment standpoint. What are the dollars related to that? What you saw? Um 239300 for that. Um but again that would be providing and installing that equipment uh installed based on those manufacturers recommendations. Uh so that would be for that in particular if we added something, subtracted something, shifted things around. Obviously that's going to change a little bit um based on some of those pieces. What we've done a lot of times is we may propose and put together like some of the And then maybe if a parent organization or club or somebody else has other funds that they've raised money for, they'll come back and they want to add a lunar scooter or something else or sometimes
030a buddy bench or within the buddy bench they want it labeled something, you know, so they'll put some of those things together. So a lot of flexibility regarding that because we do like I said the whole thing from a design install to then ongoing maintenance if necessary. So next So again, back to my question. >> Oh yes, sure. >> So I thought that our preschool had to have a separate playground as part of that requirement where it's only age appropriate. >> So like right now, but I think part >> Okay. We don't have that like for our >> play in that part because it's smaller toys, >> right? Soy part. >> Okay. And there is >> but but there are tons and tons of options 2 through five, five through 12 or different ages that
031you can pick and choose from as far as >> I just remember at one point we had to have >> two to five around that fence to equip and whatever. So I didn't If it is, by all means, we can absolutely accommodate >> fencing. >> Okay. >> Uh, and then surfacing. As far as the turf itself, there's a concrete m strip if needed. And what that means as far as a concrete mo strip is the concrete curve that goes around. Uh, the last thing you want is if somebody is doing maintenance and it's not their fault, it just happens to be if they, you know, bump up against that or something. You do want a nice concrete curve just like you do on your existing so to keep that nice and firm. So the next
032and then the additional turf surfacing um that's going to be that entire strip um as far as um the the sport field or whatever the case is. That's going to have everything from the leveling that's going to have the drainage, the geo fabric, clean rock and it's going to Imagine creativity, playground, turf, fall protection, everything else included on that space. And really the sky's is the limit when it comes to that. Um right now we just completed the final uh for a school so late it was um but they just did a mini field that's going to have kind of a soccer combo with a kickball. So they kind of incorporated some of the bases into it. They've got pickle ball, basketball, a number of things they kind of included all in one right there
033by their softball fields. Pretty. >> Okay. And then so are there any questions? pretty straightforward. Okay. Um so our project approach methodology uh just from start to finish being very collaborative I think somebody mentioned before as far as communication um is critical. We we need to know we need to have an open dialogue um open communication as far as feedback whether it be from committee lead or project manager whoever the case is letting us know. Uh like I said since we're going to be designing we're going to be procuring we're going to be doing install start to finish. we don't uh like sub it out or have any subcontractors. It would be our team doing everything so that communication is going to be critical for us. Project experience go a couple more and these are
034just going to be a couple highlights of some of the different schools that we've done. Um Webster Ky Christian Gerard Front Neck Jefferson West Academy and then you can just kind of see some of the different things shade structures slides through these Uh so Webster uh this is one I think is really kind of neat too because this is an example we've done on a few playgrounds with some mounds. Um and then there's kind of a walk through trail the kids kind of flow through. We put a climb over here and obviously they love the swing side of things and put that wheelchair accessible as far as the swing back and forth as well. Ky Christian School is a school in the Kansas City area. This is kind of a combination as far as where
035you put um there's the pickle ball in the middle. We've got the basketball court and it pairs up right next to the soccer field up there. They chose to have a Gaga ball pit. I didn't even know what Gaga was ball until recent I mean. >> Yeah, it's pretty cool. Pretty fun. I just learned how kids play. Um and so we put the fence in all the way as you can see instead of what's becoming more popular is either a border because some kids just need to take a break and go walk and so that allows and in this case what we did on the turf is we just put that white line and it just allows kids to take a walk and go around because maybe that day they just didn't feel like they
036wanted to play and do anything on the equipment. So the next one yeah so Gerard here's another one where we incorporated we put there's project manager. They took pictures while she was there. They have the tic-tac-toe in the turf itself. We're doing more like hopscotch and a variety of different things that's in the turf itself. Obviously, a lot of swings there, slides, climbers, um a lot of different options for kids to play there as well. And deck. So, this one's another one as far as a couple of basketball courts, swings, slides, a variety of different things as well. And then Jefferson West, uh, that's in our hometown sport court. We did the concrete over on this side. We did shade. We did the entire playground. And this one's a little bit unique, obviously, because it's
037in our backyard, but we ended up doing the little league baseball field over here. We did up above that mini sports field which has become very very popular. Flight football, seven on seven, numerous kids and uh sports practice there and do a variety of different things. They get rained out fields and things like that. So um those are just a couple examples. Crush Academy, that's another one. So that's a daycare. Um you can see where we put the soccer goals down here and then in between there's a little That's another surface that we have there in the middle and over I guess it would be on the north side where that shade structure is. That's where there's more tunnels and climbing universal play. And then we're going to you don't see it in this picture,
038but we will be putting a surface for basketball on that. So unless there's any other questions for I >> appreciate it. Thank you. I think some of the things that you can think of in the future of course the biggest thing where is this going to be in the current elementary school project discussions for new elementary schools at some point I think you also have some opportunities potentially to get some funding for a playground potentially let's say with you recenter practices and different things. There be some potential in the future. We had a really good working relationship with the rec center in terms of partnerships. Would they be interested in contributing some funds? City county would they be interested in contributing some funds? Could the Jones trustee in the future? All those things are possibilities
039that help make that cost down. The key thing is is where is it going to be in the future? So that's reason I wanted Eric and his team to be here tonight is just to give you an idea of what you're looking at potentially if you have you know a new playground in some in some place in the future. Anyway, uh second thing and last thing again I just shared with you a bunch of personal messages I received over the past few weeks as I end my decade of service as your superintendent. the people I've worked with, they've been a work family for me over the past 10 years. I'm just so thankful to them for the impact that I've had on people as well as the impact they've had on me over the years.
040And here's hoping for even bigger and better things for the district in the future. Just wish you all the best. That's it for me. Anything else for Craig? >> Thanks for coming. Um, I really appreciate that it gives us real concrete information and numbers and not just us telling somebody that playground's half a million dollars. Like this is an actual proposal from a company that does this for a living. So I guess what we say when we talk to people about cost. So I appreciate that. >> Yeah. And that's that's we just want to have that open communication and uh be real careful to open it too far because again there'sund options but the bad 100 options and so everybody starts fighting for them. >> SK is the limit but at least >> Okay, moving
041on to board member items reports. Anybody have anything? >> I don't know this place to do it, but I would say Craig want to thank you for your service here with us. can certainly appreciate all you've done for the district there and else >> this is information you've seen in the >> [clears throat] >> just updated some numbers. Uh again, I don't know if you have any questions over anything u you know listed here. It's just again budget summary budget planning as we are working together uh to to build this budget. Christy and myself and Don as well as Steve Parsons from Green Bush, we all work together. We get input, we have good discussions. So Donald will be here to work on the budget close out and budget prepation. I think the 17 is
042when she's been Steve and Donald and myself and Christie will be working on closing out the budget year and beginning preparation for a new budget year. So this is just information again that you've seen before the numbers have adjusted. I don't know if you have any questions >> questions. You have three different recommendations there. If there's any questions on those support those. Those are simple questions that we've had in the past. Again, will the board continue to support the governor's philosophy? That's recommendation one. Recommendation two, will the board support a local option budget up to 33% or the state average? And then the board continues minimum levy for capital outlay fund for purposes maintaining including physical plant, construction equipment. Those are questions that we've had in the past. So if you have any questions there
043recommendations depending on your future with Bington elementary school that four mil levy could be a discussion if you go to five six seven or eight mills potentially petition the public for that if you bond issue does not pass that would prolong the duration of a project for Burlington Elementary School would make it very very very challenging to take care of Burlington elementary and the other facilities that you have in the future. It would be not only challenging, I think it would honestly be next to impossible to take care of things the way they need to be done. So just use your >> advice. >> So we have the revised calendar for us. Yeah, as Christie just mentioned, third times a charm of the calendar. We have had we had an inservice day scheduled on September
04420th. That's our count day. The state frowns on you having an inservice day on your count day. So, we have shifted that day to the end of that week. So, that's the adjustment. Simple adjustment because of count day. We forgot that. >> What is count day? >> Count day is on September 20th and we count students. That's how we get funding from general fund. >> Thank you. Appreciate I didn't clarify that. >> Entertain a motion. I move to approve second discussion. Who was second? >> John policy updates. >> You have a couple of policy updates there. One for staff online activities. The biggie though is the cell phones. It's the student personal electronic communication devices. That's the cell phone piece. So if you look at that, we reviewed this as administrative team. There's a couple
045of spots there where it says I think may or shall. We're going with May on both of those. Just so you know, I'm trying to find those. Excuse me. That is permitted etc. Thank you Christie. Um again may instead of shall there >> are you talking >> both of them? They're both going to be maze. >> Are you on page two or >> pageion? And if you look down below, it says use during school sponsored activities. Before and after the school day, students may use or access personal electronic communication devices during school sponsored activities. So basically, it's after after school's out, they're a game, they can do that. >> So not number. on both of those during school activities and enforcement and disciplinary action violations of this policy may result in disciplinary action. >> I
046have a number >> like We're getting it figured out. >> Got it. >> It's under JCDC. >> Okay. No worries. >> So, we're keeping all the sh >> in both documents. >> Yes. Any questions on those? >> And then I do want you to hear from elementary, middle, and high school, what they are planning to do in terms of their cell phone plans. Elementary, Darla, you're first. >> So before we did this, we had a few kids kindergarten kids like seven or eight kids room. So our plan is just to like get all these steers that have access to it at the top of the day. devices. >> We have a few more moving parts. Um, so one thing that we had found if we're if we're unable, like I said, my rented earlier, what
047we do at the middle school currently works. Kids turn them off, they put them in their lockers. We don't have a huge issue with kids having their problems in class. So, if we can't do that, uh the next option is um it's actually a clear acrylic lock box. He gets a key. A student gets a key to it. Um just like the post office, they leave their key in it. When their phone's not in there, they lock their phone up. They take the key out. And then we would obviously have them uh for fifth and sixth grade at the front of the school. Seventh and eighth grade, they would be at the back of the school in the north common. And so, the kid would have to have their it's still accessible to them. If
048I got my key, I can still go get my phone. So, I don't understand what the real difference is, whether if it's just in their locker. So, that's something to to be determined. So, even if as a middle school kid and I go and I put my phone in there and take the key out and lock it, I still have the key to my phone. >> Just like the combination to locker, >> correct? So why would we spend money on something? >> So if we don't have to, I would prefer we continue what we've done at the middle school where your phone is expected to be in your locker and off. And I can tell you I would say 85 to 90% of kids follow that because changing period you can walk down and you
049can look on the top shelf because that's where every kid keeps their phone. It's right on the top shelf. So if we don't have to do the acrylic boxes um then we would just maintain what we we've done in the past and honestly they haven't. >> Where did the boxes come from? That's just something >> um that would be something that we'd have to purchase that uh Mr. Baldwin had reached out to. I believe it was Wellsville had those. >> I just reached out to surrounding schools similar size to see what they were doing and that was the one that made the most logistical sense. some other ideas we talked about just there's too much there's gonna be too much foot traffic >> up in the front office and I didn't want >> our administrators
050and our secretaries being cell phone police officers all day long >> we're still deciding >> they come with two keys so the school would keep one they would have one they lose it they charged >> for a replacement >> give me five bucks whatever that is. I don't know what to ask. >> You may want to talk about because you did have a different thought in terms of just boxes. >> Yeah, we thought about >> just go ahead. >> So, we thought about Mr. Schmidt gets a box. All his all the phones go on the box that comes down to the office. Then you got to redistribute them somehow. And then you have kids that are going to be leaving throughout the day. Then you're going to have seventh and eighth graders that are going
051to have a track me now we're trying to distribute 70 phones and all that. It's just it's going to continue to impact the learning that should be taking place because instead of teaching we're going to be trying to hand out phones in a timely manner. It's just not going to work very well. So, we talked about that that then the boxes would come to the office and then distribute them at the end of the day or the teachers could keep the box in their classroom and distribute the phones back at the end of the day. It's inconvenient. It's it can be a problem especially if a student needs to leave during the day. But that said, that is a possibility. Instead of having 200 some kids, 230, 240, 250, 260 kids going into the office
052every day. And not every kid's going to have their phone. I don't want to bring them all to school. They don't have to. They can leave them in the car. They can leave them at home. But if they come into school, again, the idea is according to the law in accessible. >> My biggest concern there would be the liability issue on the Somebody's cell phone got damaged. >> Okay, I didn't read that. >> No, good, good, good question because it was brought up by us too as well. Problem with middle school, >> enter at your own risk kind of thing. >> Problem with middle school is they don't have a car to leave it in, >> you know, but they may need it there to contact parents after practices or after a getting back to
053town after a ball game or, you know, so >> we have enough lockers at the middle school. >> Absolutely. We've reduced lockers. Do you still have lockers? >> We do have lockers. We would be able to get most of them. really depends on how many of them want to bring it in. I mean, if I'm being honest with you, in a month or so, these kids are going to realize, you know what? I'm just going to turn that thing off and keep it in my backpack. And I'm not going to go around and check one of them. >> I'm not. So, I I don't I think the space will be we have enough space if we had to go that route. Um, if we have to use these locks, there's enough space in there to
054put a smartwatch in there. there's enough space to put a phone in there, but I think after a couple weeks, these kids are going to realize, you know what? I don't want to keep doing this. I'm just going to turn them off and I'm going to put it in my backpack and it's going to be out of sight, out of mind. And unless it goes off, none of us know anything that's going on. Now, if it goes off, then we have disciplin disciplinary actions in place that are consistent elementary all the way through high school. So, um, so to me, if we have these boxes in the morning, I'm going to go out there and go, "Well, box number four, they're not in there today. Hey, where's your phone?" Like to me, unless it unless
055it goes off, not going to really worry about it. You just got too many things to worry about. >> I like the idea of spinning every penny that the state gave us. So we already have lockers in >> the lockers. We're going to just use what we have at our disposal until they want to give us funding. >> Motion approve policy updates. [snorts] >> Second discussion. >> I honestly think this is a that got brought about by a push from administrators that didn't want to administrate. They wanted someone to make a law to make it easy for them. I'm disappointed. I believe they are administrators in the state good. They should make this hard decisions and I think that's happened. They're following all the legislators to make this law and across the state everybody has
056lost the ability to kind of do their and our way has been working now influences by making this law. I think we're following the law. Any more discussions? Yeah. So, I I mean, I would like to push this to the next month's meeting. I don't know about you, but between Friday and now, I have not I don't have time. I haven't >> You want to table it till next month? 14 handbooks to go through and we got them on Friday and I honestly have not had a chance. So I don't know if all of you have read them all back to back way better than me, but >> I think that's a fair request. >> Is it is it going to negatively hinder any of you guys if we >> mine's supposed to go to
057a publisher tomorrow? >> Wow, that's poor. I mean also we'll do is we'll just push it back when we get it. >> We didn't have a lot of changes to be honing. We changed the eligibility for to participate in eighth grade promotion from passing three or five class passing four or five classes. >> So your old >> Yeah. There was >> I don't remember it was I tried to find it referenced for either lettering >> or something else having at least a C minus minuses are going away the publisher for your >> we will table this until next week. >> Okay, moving right along session regarding personel uh I move to recess into executive session for 30 minutes to discuss personnel under session in this room that time. Motion second discussion. >> Thank you. Thanks.
058>> Thank you. Nice to meet you.