USD253 Board Meeting 2025-02-26

001e e e [Music] would like to point out Janet Kingsley who is our CK coach for our district so she came here she's been doing traction days this week and so came to watch um Logan avenon present tonight good evening and thank you for the opportunity to come and talk to you about capturing kids hearts and the impact that it is made in our students lives daily first up talking to you we're going to have Miss Sophia Ria from kindergarten hi my name is Sophia I'm in kindergarten at Logan we are start our day with good things sharing good things makes me feel happy because I get to share fun and exciting things that happen in my life good job Soph next we have Oliver brool of first grade hi my name is Oliver brooka

002before entering the build buildings or classrooms were greed with handshakes high fives hugs or fist bumps I like greetings because they make me and others feel good job Oliver next we have Sebastian Gonzalez of second grade hello my name is Sebastian Gonzalez I am in second grade at Logan we do Brain Breaks after we do a lot of learning I love when we get to dance for our brain breaks this helps me get my wiggles out next we have sole Kane of third grade my name is sole Kane I am in third grade every classroom has a affirmation station these law staff and students kind compliments I like affirmations because they make others feel happy and special next we have a Leia Jeffrey of fourth grade my name is Alia Jeffrey I'm in fourth grade

003at the start of the year every classroom builds their own social contract the social contract includes actions and expectations based on how we want to be treated and how we should treat others job and finally we have Adrien Garcia fifth grade hello my name is Adrian Garcia I am a fifth grader CK highlightes a word for each month respect was the word for January students and staff are recognized for their exceptional display of respectful Behavior throughout the building the fifth graders nominated help pass out certificates during the assembly we end our days with launches in our classroom our launch today for allic it's a great day to be a Logan lion this has been just two final slides for you this has been a two-year recommitment for the staff students and community and we have

004fully embraced it um our next area that we are going to expand into is lion leaders we're looking for empowering our students and some student leadership and then finally I'm very happy to announce thanks to miss Janet Kingsley we've been nominated as a national showcase school for capturing kids Hearts so um I want to thank the staff and the community for supporting us in that and then our last thing that we have is I want to thank you to you the Board of Education and thank thank you Dr harder and the rest of district office for your support of capturing kids Hearts um and as you can see it has made an impact in our students lives daily so thank [Applause] you that was amazing thank you so much students and congratulations on your nomination

005what an honor the next item is item 3B um Casey do we have any public comment this evening we do not okay thank you as a reminder anyone wishing to submit um public comment should complete the request to submit comments form which is available on our website the form will need to be completed by 1M on Wednesdays the day of the board meeting next item is item four the consent agenda the items listed on the consent agenda are considered by the Board of Education to be routine business items approval approval of the items may be made by a single motion second and majority vote with no separate discussion of any item listed should a member of the board desire to discuss any item at his or her request it will be removed from the consent

006agenda and considered separately what are the wishes of the board I move to adopt the consent agenda second we have a motion in a second please cast your vote motion passes 60 thank you and thank you to our generous donors um who continue to support public education in Emporia the next item is item 6A sparkwell Mrs Judy Stanley assistant superintendent of teaching learning and student Serv who will introduce spark wheel formerly of community and schools we have Kelly Stanford here to please make the presentation and then she's going to also introduce our strategist here in them for you good evening thank you so much for having us this evening um I'm Kelly Stanford the chief program officer with spark wheel I'd like to ask my teammates to stand up in the back we have Leah

007hogot who is at um Walnut Elementary Jennifer Martin at Avenue Michelle Nicholson is at the high school that's Melissa Martin our CEO and Megan BRS is at William Allen White and Victoria Partridge is our VP of communications so we have a a good showing this evening from our team we are so proud of the team they do amazing work here in Emporia and as you know have been for the past eight years so I just wanted to share a couple of things with you this evening uh um Judy let me know that you were primarily interested in hearings from student voices so we included some of that in in the materials that we provided but just wanted to kind of start with some pictures of what's happening in the schools I'm sure as your in

008schools you've seen some of these things but this is kind of a sampling of things that have happened in in all of the schools this school year so far we work with our school Partners to really identify the barriers that students are facing and support students and families so that students can be at school regularly in the best condition they can be to take advantage of what teachers counselors and principes are working so hard to provide and so we've been um privileged to do that here in Emporia for the past eight years and look forward to doing that um in partnership with the district a lot longer the next slide if we want to go two up let's just yeah show then let's go to this one this is a slide that sort of gives

009you a snapshot of um kind the performance of our program over the last three years our program has two main components the universal supports are the things available to all the students in a school and in um most of the schools where we work a big part of that are essential needs items so you see on this slide kind of a breakdown of what have been the the different categories of essential needs that have presented at the schools over the last three years you also see in that Universal program programmatic supports um chart the kind of the scope the instances of students served that represents anytime a person a student or a family comes and needs support that those numbers are the number of times that happened so if I needed help three times this

010school year I would be reflected in those numbers three times and we that's the that's one of our data points because it really shows the scope of the need over the course of a school year we also have shared um case load support hours so that's the number of hours over the each of the last three school years that our student support coordinators have provided to students receiving individual individualized supports either one on-one or in small groups and then the case load um students goal category every student who is on case load being supported individually has a goal and our staff assessed their progress on that goal as we move through the school year every grading period our staff shares with the principles and I share with um Judy and the and the district leadership

011the progress toward those goals at the end of each grading period and the final one in the bottom corner there is showing you our end ofe outcomes kind of a a you know a graph to show you what the trends have been in different categories of our end of year outcomes our our goal areas are academics Behavior attendance and life skills which is a category that's really looking at those aspects of of um sort of soft skills things it takes to be successful both in school and later on um in the workforce and in life and you know we see things change from year to year because we're dealing with different students who have different needs but our overall performance across the a three-year span or if we were to look at the full eight-year

012span is is fairly consistent over time and and shows very strong results for students who are facing quite a few very significant challenges in their life um we can go to the next slide so each year Emporia schools through our program is receiving more than $400,000 worth of supports for students and Families with an annual cost share of $440,000 to the district and so we're really um proud to be able to provide um a program with that kind of quality and that kind of um value because we have primary funding coming from the Department of Children and Families tan of dollars and then School District Partners pay a cost share per for each building to have the program in the district so we're we're you know we're really proud to be able to bring that

013much value to a school district for a very modest annual cost share and so then we get to the student voices I won't read this to you you have it in there but there is one on this on the next slide on eight that I think is a should be an audio file that hopefully down there on the speaker if we're if we're connected to the internet and you don't think it will work no okay well if you have a chance on your own to to check out that um sound file it was very cute but these are some um some comments from students about what spark wheel and their student support coordinators mean to them and the impact they're having on their life and with that I just want to say thank you for

014having us here this evening I'm happy to answer any questions that anyone might have um and as always if things occur to you um after the meeting or you have you know different questions about um our our program and other performance data we we may not be able to answer every question someone could come up with but we can do a pretty good job so please let Judy know and we can you know provide any additional information that would be helpful to you thank you so much what questions do we have I do want to say how much I appreciate your social media um I love the student stories on there you just do a really fantastic job of of sharing those um those testimonies with us and the successes no matter how small and

015I really like that thank you well that's that's you know to the credit of the student support coordinators and then Victoria Partridge who leads our communication effort and so we appreciate that that means so much to you thank you um I have a couple of questions I have loved sparkwell ever since Victoria told me about it when I worked at the United Way so it's a tremendous program um so I love the data points that you've shared and it's just like so astounding like the items that you've distributed um and how food just keeps going up right I was curious on the referrals just curiosity like what kind of referrals do like do you make and I don't want you know violate any confidentiality sure sure I mean the referrals reflects when we have a

016student who needs um support from um professionals with expertise that our staff do not have so that could be things like mental health supports it could be referring students you know out to Medical you know to get medically uh assessed and helping perhaps get them to an appointment that kind of thing so it represents that piece of it when our staff we're very aware of of what where our work is and when we need to access um um expert and Professionals in other areas so it could be really any aspect of a student or family's life that needs that additional um Community expertise to come in or to be connected to so that they can hopefully move forward on a on a situation and we're all you know you see in these in this data

017a lot of responding to to situations but our ultimate goal is to try to help resolve some of the barriers so that over time the same barriers are not presenting you know presenting for families and students and there is there is progress and growth for for students and their families and I could ask them to to give me some EXA some specific examples which we couldn't get to you if you'd like to have this and my other question is I know that you all had worked on getting an line item in the state budget this year were you is that moving forward okay so yeah I have well it is moving forward so I have um exciting news to share on that front we have a strategic expansion plan and one of our priorities has

018been for a very long time to build out feeder pattern so as you know here in Emporia there is no Middle School spark whe program and so we identified um 10 schools across eight or so school districts through throughout the state where we currently work but we have a gap either at the elementary or at the middle or sometimes at the high school and we presented to the legislature last fall this this expansion plan that we have um I'm happy to report that it has made it made it through the house budget process with strong support and only positive response from the legislators it's with the Senate right now um you know State Legislative budget is a complex um process and things can always go in directions you don't you don't you know predict but

019we are cautiously optimistic that we may get approved for that um State funding and that would allow us to offer to Emporia a a program at the middle school for that same $10,000 cost share bringing the total to the district to five and and filling that Gap we've we have some communities where we are in all this you know from K to 12 and we've really seen that when that Continuum of supports is in place you know the the the needs that students have at elementary as we know because of the way that children develop are different at middle school and then different still at high school and when you have that Continuum of support in place it really strengthens um the impact that these kinds of supports can have for students as they as

020they progress through their education so fingers crossed I'll be you know keeping um Judy up to spe and we're we're hopeful I mean you know and if not this year I would say we've made really strong progress and have a lot of growing support in the legislature so um if not this year we we are feeling confident that sometime in the near future we may be able to to report that we have that funding in place thank you I'll keep my fingers crossed too thank you appreciate it and if any leg any Senator or legislator reaches out to anyone to ask you know any support that you would feel you know compelled to express would be helpful course so I had a question um about the funding if I understood your presentation right um we

021get about $400,000 worth of services but we only pay for about 40K is that right yes yeah and so the rest of that comes from Tamp Federal funding it and there's most of it comes through a contract we have with uh DCF and those are tanif dollars there is also we have a fully um built out uh development and fundraising team so there are also other local dollars like we had we have been funded by the United weest for a long time and other local funders but the majority of that funding is coming through that contract with uh the department for children and families and do you have any idea how the federal funding freezes and some of the stuff happening there are going to affect mean as yes as we understand it right now

022it it shouldn't impact we are we are a grantee we are not a um a a con I mean a recipient or a subrecipient so because our status is grantee we we understand right now that there isn't going to be an impact act again we don't necessarily know exactly but if funds are put to the state as block grants we've put a lot of effort into building strong relationships in state government both in the executive branch and on the legislative side so we we feel um that if that is the way that the funding um evolves to be block grants to the states that that we are well positioned to maintain our our support okay good thank you very much thank you great thank you so much thank you set of item 7A empor High

023School boiler replacement okay Mr Cory Nicollet director of Maintenance and grounds here to talk about the boiler at the high school hello so if you recall from the about a year ago we talked about the big book of needs one of those was the boiler replacement for the high school we had projected a 500 ,000 cost to do that uh for this process we got a hold of several different reputable companies we got three companies to provide back tips quotes and the one we're proposing going with is Five Star Mechanical uh they're actually the company that does our controls and has done several of the projects through the bond project with us so it's company we're already working with we're familiar with them and we're looking at 350,000 $799 for the boiler purchase and install

024at the high school this would be three units they would take turns being the primary unit and then um they also heat the pool so this would be tying into Plumbing to the pool and then there'll be some later secondary costs that we'll be bringing to the board as we get these approved and start going through the process of the whole package for the high school thank you what questions do we have are these boilers equipped with like an alert system like something that notifies you if it's a malfunction I'm I'm speaking because my dad managed white Auditorium for years and years and I remember even in the 80s him getting calls at like 2 in the morning that the boiler was not working so one of the things we've done is through five star

025um put more sensors on all the boilers so we can start seeing more of that um prior to my arrival here that had not been done the function was available but the sensors hadn't been installed for us to monitor it this is a new high efficiency system that is a lot more computer controlled so the opportunity to really see what's going on is better with this than the old system which could just give us pressures if it was on or off this actually can tell us exactly everything that's going inside it what's the lifespan of a boiler if it's well maintained Through The Years um hard to say I would expect we would get 20 years out of these pretty easily and we have a filtration system already in place so that should give us

026more longevity out of it um the ones we're proposing are the highest efficiency that's made right now they're up to 99% efficiency uh some of the others we looked at were in the mid 90s which doesn't sound like much but the more efficient it is the less heat it produces the longer the components last also the less we pay to get the same amount of heat so we think these are going to be a good choice um parts are available more locally for this brand that we're talking about than some of the other brands that we've gone with um the fton like I say we've got a rep that is actually helpful in the basis of design that he came out and when we looked at it uh when we designed all this was with

027that kind of boiler in mind so the systems really kind of designed around maximizing the time we get out of it thank you any other questions this is an action item I move to uh approve the five-star mechanical bid for completion of the EHS boiler replacement project that submitted second we have a motion in a second please cast your vote motion passes 60 thank you thank you the next item is item 7B Reemployment of Administrators this is an annual recommendation that comes um you will see that when we did away with the rolling contract then um those that were recommended for two-year contract last year have an aster so you can see where that ends and then the the other administrators are recommended for a two-year contract if they have successfully fulfilled three years in

028the same position thank you are there any questions I will make a motion to approve the list of administrator contract terms and updated salary packages for administrators and classified exempt as submitted second we have a motion and a second please cast your vote I have a correction um we don't have an updated salary package I think that was a a Miss um copy paste yeah it should be just just a contract contract then I would amend my motion to just take that reference out apologies yep and do who second the motion y i I'll res second thank you motion passes 60 thank you we move on to item 8B to discuss the superintendent search process we have Dr Marsha whisman leadership field specialist from Kansas Association school boards that seemed like a very long walk

029um so I think we've had an amazing 24 hours we've worked with seven uh different focus groups uh starting last night and finishing not very long ago 103 people participated in those f group so pretty powerful uh return and um on the online survey that went out you had 628 uh responses so you know um we we can continue to look at ways to increase opportunities for voices to be heard and we know there were some barriers uh in that not all voices were heard but I think you should feel pretty good that uh we brought got a pretty good representation so that's just part of it so I'm going to do a little Logistics first before I get into the good stuff of U of what we learned but of course everybody that heard

030me today knows the next thing I'm going to tell you is how amazing the student group was at 9:00 this morning uh the high school students uh were so they were prepared they had thought about it they uh were in tune with needs they their responses aligned really well with adult responses as we went through um they were really reflective and and very mature and uh they they were great to work with so the first thing I'm going to do is give you a resource book uh that we need um so much of what I'll talk about you can find in there but I really am going to do a kind of higher level overview okay so uh we we divide the search process into phases and and um so if if you look quickly

031um phase one is well underway um that's that announcement establishing a timeline uh we have it posted um Lindell and Casey and Lindsay in our office worked uh to put marketing materials together um so we have those things in place um so so we're well underway uh in terms of that um there the the timeline you all looked at so we're we're in in place to do that and um uh and move forward we started then um that next process uh of identifying the characteristics and that obviously that's what the focus group and the um online survey uh we're doing so if you look at phase two that's what we've already entered into by by doing that work and so with you tonight after I share a little information uh I'll take you through a

032little process to to fine-tune some of those um we uh will also want to talk through some other kinds of Lis IC Logistics related to like interview day um but we can do that in conjunction with the meeting uh where we're bringing the finalists we don't have to get all of that done today I I kind of am a believer in the just in time instead of overwhelming you with too much information before you need it um and so that's when we'll talk about that interview process and then uh when you look at phase four of the hiring process that's the negotiations the offering the contract so there is a phase five but that comes after uh you've offered a contract and hired somebody and that's when the new superintendent and the board we come

033together and I facilitate uh a process with you uh to make sure everybody's on the same page with goals and expectations and some of the information that is gleaned through this process of um focus groups ends up being really good information uh as you're looking forward because it kind of by having all these voices heard we're able to pick up on some needs being expressed by the community so one of the things I'm going to give you right now is um a summary of comments um and this is a AI generated summary of of 400 comments that came on this survey um but but what I want to say to you about a summary when we summarize all comments that were made from all stakeholder groups uh the example I shared with the focus groups

034is comment 99 uh the school district needs to be run like a business they need to look at you uh function more like a business comment 100 school districts are not businesses they should not be run like a business so you know that happens throughout so when it's aggregated summaries like that you you don't always have as useful of information so uh one of the things Lindsay in our office is helping me do is uh well she's doing all the hard work I just get to talk about it uh is kind of disaggregating those comments out so we can kind of get a better sense of what's coming uh from different stakeholder groups um so so I think you know take this for what it's worth now it's like a 30,000 foot view but it's

035like anything else when you're looking at the mean you start to to lose meaning as you go to the center um like I said Logistics I'm going to give you some more paper now uh and this is something that will revisit the next time I come but I want you to have uh these salary comparisons just so you have a little time to kind of digest them um and and that's for your information so as candidates come in you have some context uh to have those kinds of conversations and there's lots of other context uh required with that as well okay so I will be following up uh by sending you um the full report uh from the online survey uh with with all the comments um I do need to redact non-elected Personnel when

036when that shows up in a comment and sometimes words that we don't want to publicly say um but I I think they were helpful and so I think uh what's interesting to know is the largest group of respondents on the online survey were parents okay the second largest group was students numerically yeah so I thought that was very interesting and of the people who responded it was 100% correlation between length of time in the district and number of participants the people who have been part of Emporia Public Schools the longest responded the most and uh those with the shortest tenure uh had the the fewest responses so I think that's valuable as we um you know look at this data and so I'm just once again giving you high level responses but um when we

037asked people to rank and Order their priorities of personal qualities uh that they would like to see uh the highest one was a kid's first personality um followed not too far behind by personal strength to do what's right regardless of circumstances and then a little bit of space below in transparent a little more space uh and approachable so those were kind of the top four and you'll get more detail related to this than you can digest okay question number two uh your I so those were personal qualities so leadership qualities um these rankings were a little more tightly uh distributed uh so the the highest was proactive uh forward thinker uh and next was Community oriented and involved within the community uh and then Innovative creative and an outof thebox thinker uh like I said

038these are pretty tight so there's not like an obvious real obvious breaking point and then efficient manager of resources and budget and then understands and recognizes diversity uh in the district um uh came out right in the middle uh and then Visionary can build and Implement uh vision for the 21st century uh so th those are your top ones the the lowest uh ranking one on the survey was instructional leader so okay when we talk about priorities of experiences so we've talked about personal qualities and then leadership qualities so for the experiences uh what ranked the highest was a previous superintendent experience followed by experience with diverse socioeconomic demographics and um and Then followed by diverse race demographics and then came experience with curriculum and instruction okay so th those are the top ones with

039that and then like I told you I let me see if I was right when I said comments okay I'm sorry it was only 381 but uh you know that's people didn't just go in and click buttons they they made the effort to say some things and uh mostly pretty on point so then that final uh question is what's what's that single quality that if you're separating you know two qualified candidates that you would like to to see so we kind of call it a separating one I think of it as really a way to prioritize and number one is honest trustworthy strong integrity and then Kids First Student centered and then positive Personnel support and development and then acknowledges and addresses issues related to diversity then uh transparent flexible and then build relationships then

040we get into communication and um Advocate you know at State and and uh Federal levels uh communication skills so this will all be uh data that you can use so I was telling Linda I always think I can type fast enough that when I finish with a focus group an hour before a meeting I'm going to have a nice report for for you but since I dropped typing in high school I I never pull that off um but 103 people showed up in our groups and I saw a whole bunch of them out here um really positive uh engaged uh uh participation in the groups starting with that community group last night and um and one of the things that came out of last night is hey there one of their top priorities is hey

041there is a core committed group of community members and parents that really care about this district and are are willing to work towards it so um everything that was said in a focus group I will be giving to you in this report but right now I'm I'm just going to give you kind of these uh top ones so under uh the category of important leaders ship and personal quality so not separating it out like in the survey um and the and the way I just describe it is think about what you think the next superintendent needs to have to be most effective in Emporia Public Schools so could be knowledge skill set personality traits experience okay I don't think I've ever had one waited this weighted so high but in a broader category of leadership

042skills strong communication transparent and um believes in value shared leadership what so my ratings don't have context right now but if you remember that's a 25 when I tell you the next number you kind of get the relative prioritizing the next number is 17 and that it overlaps which these typ Ty Ally do but transparent with decision making setting direction for the district in communication with adults and students so that came through uh pretty strongly and then they're a little closer together with Forward Thinking Innovative experience improving low performing schools of similar size and diversity and um honest approachable and uh then uh won't micromanage trust staff value teacher knowledge and experience not top down so that's kind of how those rate it the next question which is always uh fun to ask is what

043are all the really great things about empor public schools that need to be protected and valued and honored and six out of uh seven focus groups the first thing that was said was diversity and on the waiting then at 22 and then the next highest waiting is at 11 so that tells you how strongly that was viewed as one of the best things about uh Emporia and uh then the next one was access and collaboration with two secondary institutions uh ESU and Flint Hill Tech so um that th those were the top in that category of course we asked the FL what are the challenges uh that a new superintendent needs to be prepared to tackle when they come in now the ranking wasn't quite as high but diversity is always or tends to be

044listed as a challenge as well which is not unusual um but the uh highest again with a 25 is teacher and staff retention and competitive wages and then poor ranking and student achievement in math and uh Ela and uh uh concern us that student Prof proficiency uh is is below uh 50 percentile or 50% in the state and sorry I didn't have a chance to check these numbers so I'm taking them at at face value um but with a graduation rate of 91% so um that that definitely was powerful because after that uh the weight drops quite a bit so so you you will get that um but then again asking that separating question or prioritizing question and by now it it makes sense that these are Tighter and uh so builds relationships with students

045and staff and sees different perspectives had the highest uh waiting and then uh diplomatic skills good listener honors Legacy makes Community feel valued strong interpersonal skills transparent open honest kind of all combined uh for the the second high so th those kind of dominated um I tried to use uh the focus groups also as an opportunity to communicate to stakeholders what the process looks like so explain to them that as as you finish the process tonight this is information that's used to screen applications it's used to um make sure calls to references ask the right questions to to get it the right kind of information um when applicants contact me and say hey tell me about Emporia not only this kind of data but just the feel of of the 24 hours and working with

046people gives me lots of information to share uh with people to help try to get a good fit um then as you develop your interview questions we'll cross check carefully to make sure your questions get at uh what you determine you want those characteristics to be and then also that final ranking after you finish interviews you know once again and checking to make sure that you're evaluating in relationship uh to to that criteria so once again in a nutshell that that's where we go with it um so my question is are you ready now to walk through a little process and and see where we go okay so it'll be the four questions and first Paul can you make sure sound is on oh Paul's in the closet okay um so the first question is

047you know when you think about the characteristics that the next superintendent will need to to be most effective what do you think those are so could be knowledge skills experience or like personality traits so I'm going to make a loud noise tearing this paper [Music] off and this this always goes much faster with you all because there are only seven of you and is there only six here tonight I didn't count okay um so it's we're faster at criteria so as soon as you think you have something in mind uh because we'll go through these first three questions and then I'll let you come back and revisit because sometimes responding to question two and three triggers uh response that you wish you had had for one okay so is someone ready with a characteristic they

048think is necessary uh for the superintendent to be effective in in the new context of the world that will be as you start a new year effective Communicator okay and I'm going to kind of see what responses are I may come back to you and ask you to drill down a little bit on that depending on what we get from other people so we know know what that's going to look like when we're asking about it okay I like a decisive quality I don't want someone who waffles uh whenever they have to address something okay decisive I may term it differently but a collaborative leader okay so collaborative with stakeholders Board of Education all of the above all of the above okay yeah so I'm going to leave it uh just to that collaborative um

049do you want uh one [Music] more let's see in in categories related to communication and decision making I'm putting words in your mouth but I just kind of want what are the areas in which you'd like to see that collaboration with with all of those stakeholder groups so we can be commun and and and I don't mean this is just grant answering you know anybody to respond but uh collaborative and decision making communication um messaging as a subelement of communication um determining Vision um and and action steps if you're not prepared or don't know yet I mean you're pretty much saying everything we want everything and and a paragraph okay kind of all of the above approach I think is what we'll just say what's the acronym for all of the above for for everything

050and and I I did tell the groups you know we are working from a model that says that you can get the ideal perfect person that does walk on water because that's how we get as close to it as possible and then reality will set in and we we'll find out we can't get absolutely everything but if we start with ideal we get us much closer to it then if we already start to think about what might be there it's what do we want to to find so so I'm not going to add any more modifiers to this I'll keep that there okay I I like the students first um but I I also want to point it in the direction of accountability okay connected to students first okay and um in in regards to

051the student achievement okay that's just what I was going to ask you is this related to proficiency okay so students first with accountability and um and I think that came through enough through all the groups looking at proficiency that we can really be descriptive with that okay um I think I um one characteristic would be um in a leader who inspires greatness okay espe I know so yes walks on water yeah so we we want the ideal uh leadership that inspires greatness I had um in one group uh leadership that inspires students and then also leadership to develop internal leaders and develop leaders so um I think this is the big umbrella concept for for those I'd like to see experience um sorry I'd like to see experience um someone who's probably dealt with a

052district of similar size and with as many buildings because we actually do have quite a few buildings when you think about it so it'd be nice to have someone who's dealt with something on our scale before okay so that was a common theme that came through the focus groups so uh let me ask when you say experience in a district of similar size are you looking for experience in functions in a district of similar size or experience in the superintendent seat in a district of similar size or experience in the functions that they would have responsibility for I think e e [Music] e e e I mean you know in puya state Fint Hills Technical College and I think that filters down into our school system too okay so Community Values education yeah okay I'm

053sorry to interrupt for just a minute but we did have a problem with the mics and they all turned on so if you could turn your mic off there we go he just had to reset it sorry okay anything else you want to put on this list okay now not to put words in your mouth but what I think of is uh and traditions resulting from that is that true statement or not where you want to go okay okay okay and and that did come up in our focus groups and we we had some people who uh a few people that were like the third or had the third generation in schools okay so um a lot more of that than people that were relatively new okay one of the things that I've always thought

054is has been great about our schools are and I probably don't know an easy way to say this to write it so I defer to you to summarize but we offer like so much to our students in terms of the career Pathways the extracurriculars the just the Student Activities and the support for Student Activities I mean I don't remember anything like that when I was at Lancing High School um and have never really seen a school district and I lived in a lot of them because I was a military brat but I never had a school that was quite like ours if that makes sense how I don't know how to say that well it totally does because it came through in most of the groups and um uh it the community group last night

055but the kids were probably the most eloquent about it this morning in terms of describing the opportunities now the one that got my attention most in addition to uh you know they were talking about this CTE Pathways and the opportunity for credit uh you know for summer classes at Allen County and they were talking about you know the Partnerships with es ESU and with Flint Hills Tech uh as well as Athletics activities Jag Avid but the one that got my attention was glass blowing I want to see that I never had anything like that in high school I got hosed right okay but uh in various ways there was something related to this in in every focus group so I can pull some of those examples if that kind of reflects what what you're meaning

056okay all right I'd say we have some really great teachers we just have one recognized uh for stem and there's there's many more so I think that's something to be excited about and to be proud of okay all right anything else you want to capture that was that was the I'm sorry I stepped out this was for our schools right strength of our schools and then we do have really diverse schools okay and um and that was as I said before when I did that six of the seven focus groups when asked about the good things in Emporia Public School said diversity first as as something that they thought was really positive so do you you're wanting to add that okay and different kinds of diversity were described yeah okay and I do want to

057clarify I want to include our staff too okay not not just teachers but I know we have a lot of classified staff that go above and beyond every day okay and I almost asked that but I thought I'd wait and see where we went before I put it in there uh and and that did come through strongly with all our groups okay I'm going to take you to the next one and then we'll go back and look at these three again and see if something else was triggered so the next one is you know what are the challenges facing uh the school district and um that the new superintendent needs to be prepared to tackle and so what I might suggest with that is obviously your school district sits in a community and so sometimes

058those challenges may not be directly cause and effect but from the school district but Community challenges clearly have an impact on on what you do and and strategies are needed to tackle those to be able to you know reach your vision of of what you want to accomplish so so when I say that you you might open your mind to that broader idea of challenges in the school district or community that will impact the school district or could impact the school district I'll jump in um you know there's a lot of poverty in our community a lot of people don't see that sometimes especially folks you know like me who maybe are in a higher income bracket um because we live in our own bubbles but um I did legal aid for many years um

059in our community and there is a lot of high poverty in our community and I think that's a challenge because that causes issues with getting students to school the issues that happen at home that prevents students from being able to be at school and just focus on learning and excelling and I think that's unque everywhere but it's something we have here okay and and so um we we did hear that in terms of increasing numbers of Lowes and um and a recent loss of a major employer in the community kind of adding uh to that and so allocation of resources are impacted within this the school district as a result so that that was kind of some of what came out of our groups I would add um you know we just have a declining

060enrollment um but also made more Urgent by the fact that one of our major employers is winding down and to not we don't quite know what the impact of that might be okay so declining enrollment and some unknowns in terms of what could happen Okay um and unknown future related okay I I do want to see uh student achiev student achievement improved um also an issue with chronic absenteeism that I know is not just our community but many communities across the country but those are the same struggles we have here okay and since I'm holding the mic I'll share my soap box but I think it's always important when we're looking at Chronic absenteeism that we look at it for the issue it is of itself you know that if kids are not there they

061can't learn but even more importantly that we examine the causes because those are the real root reasons that need to be addressed so this becomes important on in multiple facets um sometimes I lose track of where I'm writing I may be creating brand new words that have never been seen before I think staff retention is a concern both certified and classified okay and once again um definitely reflected so staff as a whole so I'll go ahead and ask the question because what often followed on our groups is the recruitment p as well do you do you see that as a challenge as well and I I I know your District's been working uh on those issues okay so um I think that can be very appropriate because we know the correlations between uh board governance

062and student outcomes um and so I usually don't frame it that way but there absolutely is a research-based correlation between um board uh governance and student outcomes and uh board development and and student outcomes so do you have one ofle with okay okay issu okay and that's that's a big one okay I have um two um that I think are important um the health insurance for staff um we've faced increasing costs on that basically the entirety of the time I've been on the board and so we've had this issue run up where we you know renew contracts we adjust salaries kind of give the equivalent of a cost of living raise and then by the time your health insurance premium goes up it ate through the raise like you're you're making less than you did

063even with the raise right okay um and that's kind of a systemic issue that's pretty broad um but um also and I don't know that I think it I'm not saying this and that I have information or data that makes me think it's you know a roaring issue but I feel like student behaviors are something I've heard a lot of people in the community talk about and I don't have you know on the floor pers perspective cuz I'm not in the buildings seeing it but I know it's been mentioned to me a lot and I've had a lot of Veteran teachers talk to me about how um they feel like it is more now than it was in years past in their career B BC and yeah AC I don't know how true that is

064but that's what I've heard and we hear that consistently not only across the state but Across the Nation um I think there's some reality interestingly enough that was a a factor that came up but it didn't rise to a high impact factor um so I don't mean to say in any way that it's not significant um but it it looks like within your stakeholder groups and so what I just said may not be as true as the of the community group last night but within the other groups it was something that was mentioned but it didn't get some of the priority that some other things so kind of processing that that's interesting I think one unique challenge that we're going to be you know seeing in the next year for a new superintendent is that

065we have a lot of attrition in our DST DST right or is it in our DST so a lot of our senior leaders have retired or moving on and so we have a lot of you know new new employees joining our leadership teams okay so um okay yeah so so that was framed several ways through throughout uh the day and was mentioned um kind of some loss of institutional knowledge um some loss of of leadership for new people coming on I'm trying to help me with the words and how how about Green Green Team okay so um so so uh okay because you know I also I mean significant changes in leadership okay I also think turn over I mean I also think I mean it could also be some opportunity too though I I'm

066feeling the loss right now so and and and that is absolutely true you know often what's good on the flip side is a challenge what's a challenge has a some silver lining for some benefits it's not usually pure these things cross lines uh okay but on a given day this is going to look more like a challenge than on another day when when things come in and there and there's not some institutional history okay uh um you want to now kind of think about what you have for characteristics that are desired what's good and challenges to add to any of those lists I would add um some um something Jeremy kind of sparked it when he said you know we we sort of have a high high low income population but I think as a

067school district we've really invested a lot in our community Through like Capt kids Hearts um raising you know our minimum wage to $15 per hour um doing the reduced price co-pay so I think we've also made significant Investments to support our community as well okay so does this capture it significant investments in community um impacting um issues of socioeconomic status because I didn't want to go quite to Poverty because that may be a different definition okay okay anything else to add okay okay so this last one and then we'll go back and prioritize is um that like one separating Factor so let's say we have two candidates both are really they have all the characteristics that you want but different characteristics to different degrees this one's really approachable this one has significant experience in increasing

068student achievement okay this one has some experience but this one has more but this one's a little less approachable okay just two examples of characteris itics when you think about the characteristic that is most important uh for the next superintendent to have to be effective so it doesn't mean the others aren't important but what's the one that you would say is the most important and and and this is hard yeah because and and prioritizing is important because if everything's top priority nothing's top priority and you've got to start somewhere so sometimes another thing I suggest when you're thinking about that is what does the new superintendent need to be prepared to take on in their first hundred days that may help give you an idea of what you want to make sure that they have

069so so it's already got to be there it's not something that you're hiring for potential if it's something that you think is critical to be taken on immediately you want to already see it there in strength I would I would say students first I I feel like we try as a board to make decisions with that always the being the the first kind of piece of that puzzle so okay so I'm going to ask each one of you to just give me one of these so if yours is up there just say that well if if you truly like you said the first hundred days right is just one lens to it would be all about establishing um trust and strong relationships right out of the gates okay okay and I like the way you

070built that rationale for that okay okay um thank you I don't I don't know what my deal is microphone sorry Cas you can just whack me after the meeting you got a friend here and it kind of ties into a lot of what we've talked about when you are dealing with struggles and you are dealing with it's sometimes hard to communicate but I think just being thick skinned just you you and we've learned that we learn that you have to get very good at just you know and you listen to people and you do and you respect them but you you've got to be thick skinned yes if that's yeah what what did he said tough tough but that makes it s like sound like we're looking for a biker dude so we'll go with

071thick skin okay no they could apply I'll kind of go back to experience I want to see someone with the skills that they need to be able to hit the ground running in this kind of job um open to what that experience is probably would favor prior or current superintendent experience but I don't want to for close anyone from you know throwing their hat in the ring okay I'm making it harder and harder for you to be able to read it if you need me I think mine would be inspires others to be great okay sometimes I hear I guess as a coraly to that is everybody's better when they're around they lift people up well I as I was trying to Grapple with it you know some thoughts that came to mind is inspirational

072motivational but I also like what Le the the trust building um I think which can capture some of that other thing but you know the trust the relationships I think are extremely important so you want to keep that one is okay and I forgot to really pay attention to who told me what so is that everybody okay thank you as a former math teacher you know six minus one that's hard to come up with um okay so students first establish trust in relationship thick skin uh experience uh with the skill set to hit the the ground running and inspires others to be great quite honestly I don't think we need to do another step if you all kind of look at that um and if we think there's kind of consensus um that those would

073be you know the boiled down characteristics like I said you're going to get a lot more information of other things to consider for for all those things that we're talking about um but that that is kind of the 30,000 foot perspective from from your role um any discomfort from anybody that something might be missing that's critical like I think Grant I heard you saying is if this is in place then then this is in place and okay okay well then we can stop right there I'll add this to the report and um with 103 participants it's going to be a lot of pages for you to read when I send that back to you but I'll add this information and I thank you very much for your time and that's really all we have to

074do tonight and when I see you next time we'll pick up the other tasks okay thank you so much well we'll just take a moment that noise would be the boiler [Music] system yeah okay well we're not going to advertise that Lindell and Jared must have done something I asked if he would go outside and just make sure there's nothing outside thank you good job so let's move on to item 8B board policy updates okay we have Mrs Pam stranathan assistant superintendent of business operations and Mrs Casey Jones board clerk um Lillian Lingenfelter was also involved but she's not here tonight or does he have to oh there sorry it's covered with tape it's not that I can't see blue just to be fair why I can't see it so all right um this probably

075out of this one this has been one of our biggest ones so now after um just a recap have we had um ksb look over all of our policies and so now what we're getting is um our December and then June where they that's the two times a year they do the updates and so this is kind of capturing all of that um with our weather and the holidays and then having time to for Casey to put these together for you all and then also on top of that is having time for the committee to be able to look these over so um they have been vetted through the committee and the committee has looked at that and also gave feedback um one of the things on what I'll do is I'll go through each

076of these in the order they're in and if you have questions if it's just language it's just some small stuff that's in there but if there's bigger questions that are in there I'll kind of recap a little bit so um not won't go in a lot of detail with it also Erica has been working on some of this because if you noticed in there there were three that dealt with um the nurse and students and meds and then if um on kayen and reference to complaints uh Jared also can walk through some of those that um we've had to and look at some of those if anybody has any questions so if we start off with ID uh you'll see where ID had mostly just um language there were just some changes in small like

077superintendent design and licensed um the next if we go to if um this this had to reference to on the if with textbooks and materials and the request of those and it got into having a bigger discussion about um if determining the challenging it got down to the challenging of materials if you look at that section there where and and also the repeat because um where you see people challenge materials and then they keep coming back or a different group brings it back so and referencing to your committee um JG fga that what we're seeing there the addition there it was under the training in reference to the administration of those um epip pin and things along that line I did have a question on this one goad um so I was looking um to

078see that you know staff would be trained do we like identify um a certain number of Staff per building to be trained so you have some overlap maybe um to who can administer this for the safety groups yes um for when it comes to the opioid that piece is mainly just the school nurses and then the director of healthcare services uh and then um for that specifically then when you look at the other pieces for um the anahist and that type of thing that would be also the school nurse and then the secretaries in the the um buildings if that makes sense I think with the changes they've made in this is the discussion Eric and I have since she oversees the nurses is one of the things it's um it this is a bigger

079discussion now since it's in here on training and what that training would look like in the future with staff all right moving on to JH um this this references to students that are virtual and that are participating in activities and it references to the fees that um now can be requested as long as the fees are the same fees that you apply to every student in the district you can't just have madeup fees for students that are virtual um KK we're seeing um building disposal um gets into more disposal of District property and what you'll see there is they've they keep up I I'd say upgrading the language for the building disposal with the number of days and I'm assuming this one will probably change every year because that's what we're seeing so far on

080how to get rid of a building in your District BDA was I did have a question on this go ahead no you're fine this is just a clarifying question so the way I read this this sort of means that like if we had this information when we were trying to sell mayard we wouldn't have had to go to the legislature for mayard since it wasn't a k through 12 building remember May mayard missed the mark it was Kansas that we had to do that no I was asking no I was asking about mayard like so I was asking like because that wasn't a k through 12 building and this Pol this says it has to be a k through 12 building to go to the legislature for approval for disposal so case I was just

081curious if it's just because I was reading it as like saying like if it's students were in the building from K through 12 you have to go to the legislature but that was a prek building so so just just for like I was just seeking Clarity so one of the things cuz I had checked on that it's any building that would be used that house students for educational purposes so that's probably something they need to change is to get that back into a pre you know a Pre-K because you're right you know if we had a building that was not K through 12 but what they're indicating is it's a it's a building that's used in that capacity so so they kind of left off the pre so I might ask you a question you

082don't know the answer to but then what if it was a building that was previously used but isn't anymore so it's still School District property and they would request that all property would come and so they would have them okay thank you for [Music] clar uh BDA was just a few pieces of language in there I think the superintendent did oh May a necessary then uh CC this is the org chart and Lindell I'll throw his name out here I didn't tell him I was going to do that but um he's in the process right now of putting that on the website and rearranging that so putting the org chart up on the website a lot of times you'll see it it'll have the superintendent then underneath it you'll see where it'll have um the

083org chart underneath that so whereas before it was just a requirement if if somebody asked for it you could give them a copy of it and now um it says in there where we can put it up on um CG evaluation of uh do what oh yeah CD sorry we're deleting that one and then um C CG was the one where it gets into the evaluation of administration and personnel and um getting that language in there so that it's not just vague from District to District that it's following the same is what you would see with your teachers I hate to be that person but there's a typo under evaluation of administrative Personnel there's a ath that's a t I just saw the same thing at the same time that and I'm like oh that

084gets in your mind that F it's not bad minus one no and uh CGI that one's retiring CNA gets into the preservation of documents legal documents maintaining them um when you get into situations to where the courts are wanting you to keep documents and we should preserve those and keep those so that that changed up the language it used to be destroying documents and now we're preserving so uh de was a small language I believe yeah an employee who reports evidence of gross misconduct it was the language down at the bottom there and then referencing to kayn Under reporting fraud and under the whistleblowers dfac that gets more in now to our cyber security and then mandatory disclosures which um is referencing when you look at that towards federal grants and people that are doing

085work for you they have to disclose if they've had any misconduct with um any federal grants or money which I'm still not sure how you get that information because there's no Clearing House for that so and then Also it talks about whistleblowers protections and that one again dfh is probably one of the biggest ones they've added to this in reference to fundraising activities the overall language to that is um putting language in there to protect two things the the um students from going door too and how we're requesting the students to do that and then the other thing is is it's making um a stronger statement now and they do use stuff like GoFundMe and things where if those are done in capacity for the school district that the property becomes part of the school

086district and so do the funds and it can't go into personal accounts which is not been in any language in the past so I think that's been the greatest area for fundraising is trying to navigate you know if you're doing a Gund me is that for you for your classroom or is that so now anybody doing things that are representative of of the district for the district purpose it would have to go through and be um accounted for so so I so happy to see this policy like I I can't imagine how much work it was to just craft this one so I I have a couple clarifying questions so sometimes it's not about like raising money so for example it could be like a canned food drive and so sometimes students might be incentivized

087to bring 20 cans of food because I did I did like seeing in here that it like fundraising couldn't be tied to a grade or extra credit or something would that also apply to like canned food drives as well and and then I think also where you're going with that because sometimes there's this feeling of obligation you know that somebody brought 10 cans so I should bring you know 10 cans my kids kids used to go just just destroy my pantry and I knew when it was fundraising time because it was empty and so I think those are the practices and the procedures that are the next discussion that the district would need to do and put those practices and procedures in place so that the this is the umbrella but the overline of you

088know what extreme are we going to with the food drives and the expectations and things along that line so yep thank you that's great and then my next one was and I wasn't sure if this fit in here but um at the beginning of the school year um you know teachers will at times have an Amazon wish list that I know many of us like to contribute to um does that fall into this or is that oh yeah if it's if it's a applying to their classroom and they're doing any level of advertising or publication in reference to needs for their class and that's that would fall under that they and you know most people are doing that for their classroom so it's you know it's in there one of the the things I know

089that's very successful is kind of doing you know just like a textbook request you would run through a request for a fundraiser or a request for you know if it's something small like that just so there's documentation that we would have in the district that these occurred so that nobody's reporting that somebody's not you know following what the policy says and it's not that they couldn't do those they just just have to understand that they can't take any Financial gains off of those if they're advertising it for usd253 classroom and they could not it can't be personal property of theirs it would have to become in their room and used in their classroom and so I know yeah I don't do yeah because if they like move grade levels you know or they move to

090a new building like technically would they have to leave they could take that stuff with them but if they left the district they couldn't they they should leave it yeah wow I know are they gonna I mean I I don't in a perfect world no one would have to ask for those things right we would be able to give them Oodles of money and they could do whatever um but are are do you think anyone's going to offer any workarounds like well any ideas for them like cuz this is going to be a really big education piece then for our teachers coming this fall especially new teachers because that's kind of like the precedent that has been set for so many new teachers is hey this is a great way to get your classroom and

091everyone wants to donate and help you um so I just don't know like maybe we can come up with an idea that isn't subverting policy but it's something that we can we can come up with to help them and I do know I do know principles and um and I'd have to go in and look but I do know by looking at the budgets and and that the principles are offering for new teachers like they help support them they give so much money to them to help buy supplies and get their classrooms you know up and running so but I think it you know I think it's something also for further discussion I think the this right here is the bigger umbrella to protect the bigger items in that you know where that that goes

092from there on the practices and procedures once again that would be something that we would need to look at you know I think I can understand the purpose of the policy but I don't like the idea of you know if I'm a new student teacher or a teacher and I say hey you know I want to get all my first grade students the best crayons possible and you crowdsource it on your Facebook I feel like you shouldn't get in trouble for that we just need a process to catch that information um correct and that I think I could get behind I guess my question is when do we have to implement this could we perhaps carve this out work on that process come back and do it all together that way we don't kind of

093blow people up in between does that make sense well and I think to keep in mind it's not it's not like anybody's going to get in trouble for it right and right now I guess you would say it's kind of on the honor System with people in reference and even when the policy passes that the the communication needs to be there and it has guidelines in here about making sure the technology works with the district and that's probably one of the things we see is that people will um do a grant or do something and then they'll get technology that doesn't match up or they'll go ahead and purchase all their pocket something that doesn't match with the system and so or they'll get a grant and then they'll get iPads and then there'll be

094a discussion on whether that's their iPad or the district's iPad but they use the districts to get the grant to get the iPad so I think yes it's a bigger procedure I think this just this just protects the district in reference to the things that have that gray area so I do think the procedures need to be put in place I I hear what you're saying like I'm thinking like the bigger stuff like iPads and grants yes absolutely should be covered in this I just worry about the starting off the school year and you know there's the Amazon wish list and I just think it's a great way for families who want to like buy something can participate and because we are so lucky in the District not to have to pay for school supplies

095and so that's just a nice way I think for families to be able to support also absolutely and so I'm just worried that this policy could be interpreted and enforced as stopping that um from moving forward and and I I can't support this one if if it could be interpreted that no Amazon wish list could be purchased could be used and I I don't think keep in mind it's not and it's just like it says it's this is not intended to prohibit it's not nobody's telling them they can't do it they they're just I think Jeremy you said it very well there just needs to be an accountability for it you know just so that so nobody's saying you can't do the Amazon wish list you can't you know you just need to make sure

096that you're not doing it for your own personal like you're not doing the Amazon wish list and then you're getting all these crayons and then half of them you're taking home to your own kids or you're you know that I think that's the part where it just gets to be gray and so I think it is a bigger conversation as to practice as to what that practice is going to look like on that reporting side of that yeah when I worked at legal aid we actually had a policy that if you um just a standard policy for kls Statewide if you ever bought something for your office or anything like that technically that became part of kls and you know we had a secretary once who decided to get a really fancy desk and uh

097when she had to move on we joke that maybe we were going to keep the desk we didn't but that's a very common what you're talking about is a common thing you have to have in every organization what I'm what I would prefer to do and i' kind of you know pivot to the board when I'm done I think we should carve this policy out because it requires a it requires a rule that says there is a process to be able to do it with authority but we don't have that process yet does that make sense I feel like if we're going to implement that that then we should give people the tools to be able to do something as simple as buy crowdsource crayons for their students right yeah maybe we I mean we

098can certainly look at the but remember tonight is our first reading so it's not like we have to vote tonight a really good point but yeah I would support Jeremy that that just needs a little bit more finesse that sounds good yeah I wanted to get you off the hot seat sorry p no you're fine no I I I totally understand and and this is new I mean this is a new policy that's been thrown in there so yeah it's just I feel like if I were that teacher I have the ability to do this I'm going to ask my boss how to do it and if they can't tell me that's not right you know but that said I'm cool with passing everything else we reviewed I don't think there's any reason to wait

099on that it's the first reading though yeah okay thank you yeah I forget we do it in twos I feel like we have to do it now okay moving to a um I you're going to see this this comes in with student surveys protecting anything that has to do with grants or I'm sorry Pilots projects that would be in the district it just adds that language which is the same language that the district has to use in reference to surveys with students and then idaca um that's a line deletion in there and then uh J GF G AA I'm going to turn that one over to erush we now have stock supply of and I I mentioned it a little bit before so um stock supply of uh EPI and um I'm looking Albuterol for

100our students um and those are in the housed in the nurses office all the nurses offices um as well as our director of healthcare services area um um and so when with that uh highlighted part we need to add in there um student stored in the student handbook so just as where where that information is stored in the the logistics of of where all that how all that is done um questions about that training is done by our School nurses and then our director of healthcare services and as Pam mentioned before that will be a part that is a part of our current training but we are going to ensure that that is a part of our ongoing onboard ing training for our staff and that's that annual training questions about that one okay and

101uh jgf GBA that one is adding in now we have inhalers and Efron is in that one whereas before there was there was not the language there plus they took out any the the written parental and authorization so um what you see there is it loosens up a little bit on the inhalers also you'll see in that one over the counter medications you'll see a section to that and misuse of medications and then KNN is complaints one of the sections that you'll see added there it's pretty much the same except now you will see complaints against the superintendent and the process for that I have a clarifying question so when it says like issue a complaint there's not a form it's just a a letter an email but there's no formal form is there or

102is there so there's a form and yes that did you want to share anything on that one or but yes there is a form sorry yes there is yes there's yeah there's a form for that and that wraps up so I I do have one question about this because it says you file a complaint but not later than 20 days after the complaintant becomes aware of the violation um unless it's ongoing but if there was a complaint filed that was 20 days after it was untimely but it's not ongoing would the board still be notified of that I'm going defer this direction on that does that question make sense because if it wasn't ongoing then it's untimely but I wouldn't know unless someone told me right right yeah I think our goal is to communicate

103with that that with the board in any instance that a complaint might come up but every situation is so different um if there is something of a very serious nature obviously we would continue to look into it it's a violation of other policies or something specific to federal statute um where we're going to continue to look into it to make sure that those violations aren't happening in the district but so it's a little bit different but we do try to follow the timelines as closely as we can as I was reading this just a little bit ago it looked like they'd taken out 180 day timeline to report something and it makes it much more close to when the event actually happen so that that things are remembered in in more details thank you and

104that makes a lot of really good sense also okay that's all we have tonight on the first reading any questions Pam thank you so much yeah and we'll go back to the committee and we'll work on and work with um the with our um DST too on that other for procedures on that one thank you okay item 9A District highlights Dr Harter right um our high school bowling we appreciate our partnership with the local bowling alley um they put in bleachers so there's more seating um last year there were a lot of um audience members and they were crowded in and so they had a better place to seat uh to sit and so a big thank you to coach Andy battenfield he does a great job coaching our kids and then inclement weather days

105uh we have six of those and so we would just like to give a big acknowledgement to our maintenance and custodial staff members they worked really hard to clear sidewalks and parking lots so it was safe for our students staff and parents Cory Nicolet does a nice job of updating us on the progress and then also we appreciate the work of Michelle sharbono Jasmine buer and all transportation department staff members who kept our buses and District Vehicles ready to pick up students and then we're really excited about this so um Mr SS mentioned that Logan Avenue is nominated for a national showcase we have seven of our nine schools nominated for National showcase we are very excited and hoping in April to find out so those schools are Jones Early Childhood Elementary or I'm sorry

106Jones Early Childhood Center um Logan Avenue walut Elementary Village Elementary Riverside Elementary Timberman elementary and aoran middle school so uh this week we're the as I mentioned earlier CK traction days and Mrs Kinsley visits each of their schools with either Mrs Stanley or Dr mikkelson to see what the teachers students and staff are doing throughout the day with CK they want it to be very authentic and see exactly what they're doing so greetings in the morning fist bumps social contracts launches all of those great things and the schools that have been nominated have principles who have been very engaged in the CK process attending monthly cohort meetings and reaching out to Janet for additional resources and guidance to improve their practices and also the staff and students in these buildings are actively engaged through CK

107practices through throughout the day so that seven of our nine schools also gets us closer to being a possible District showcase so fingers crossed thank you next item is item 10A executive session for personnel if you tell me the time um I move we go to ex session for 15 minutes to discuss Personnel matters of non-elected Personnel in order to protect the Privacy interest of the individuals to be discussed and to return to this room at 802 superintendent Dr Allison Harter Director of Human Resources Mr Jared Griffin and KB leadership field specialist Marshall Weissman are invited to join the session no action is anticipated thank you we have a motion and a second please cast your vote motion passes e e e motion please it gives me this second oh wait last Le I is

108it something with my phone or is it oh we can still pass it with fibo do we have a second okay okay all in favor please I mean please vote passes 5 thank you Jeremy yep I move we go into executive session for 10 minutes to discuss Personnel matters of non-elected Personnel in order to protect the Privacy interest of the individuals to be discussed and return to this room at 8:15 superintendent Dr Allison Harter Director of Human Resources Mr Jared Griffin and KB leadership field specialist Marsha Weissman are invited to join the session no action is anticipated second can you tell me the time on that again are we extending or are we going into another okay I missed it 10 minutes thank you no 815 and 8:15 Sor count do you want our hands

109all in favor please raise your hand motion passes 5 Z e e e to regular session second we have a motion a second please cast your vote oh raise your hand we got okay okay I was we're gon extend we're extending for 15 minutes okay okay motion passes 60 I would also like to note that our board president Lillian Lingenfelter has entered the meeting and um we'd like to put her on the roster so she can continue the meeting with us is that allowed Casey okay it is let me add her to the roll call here and then she will be in on the future votes I'm not giving up the presidency though this one will need to be the motion in the hand vote please oh we're going back okay I move we go

110into executive session for 15 minutes to discuss personal matters of non-elected Personnel in order to protect the Privacy interest of the individuals to be discussed in the return to this room at 8:34 p.m. superintendent Dr Allison Harter Director of Human Resources Jared Griffin and kasb Leadership field specialist Marshall Weissman are invited to join the session no action is anticipated second we have a motion and a second hand vote raise your hands please motion passes 70 thank e e e return to regular session we have a motion in a second please cast your vote he just said motion passes 60 I'm going to make a motion to uh enter executive session for five minutes to discuss Personnel matters of non-elected Personnel in order to protect the Privacy interest of the individuals to be discussed and the

111return to this room room at 8 8:42 uh KB leadership field specialist Marsha Weissman is invited to join the session no action is anticipated we have a motion and a second please cast your vote e e e I motion to return to regular session second we have a motion in a second please cast your vote motion passes 60 thank you item 10e executive session for acquisition of property I move to enter an executive session for 15 minutes to discuss potential property acquisition pursuant to the exception for preliminary discussion of the acquisition of real property under coma and we return to this room at 9900 PM superintendent Dr Allison Harter an assistant superintendent of business operations Miss Pam stranathan are invited to join the session no action is anticipated we have a motion on a second

112please cast your vote yeah that works that works I'm going to get you like a little plaque like emporia's best timekeeper e e e I move return to regular session second second it's been moved in second it now I can go to the store motion pass passes 70 thank you um 11a future board calendar dates as you'll see we've added um several dates to the calendar our next meeting regular meeting is on Wednesday March 12th at 6m we have a special board meeting on March 26th at 6m we have um superintendent interviews between March 31st and April 3rd but we'll determine those dates in times a little bit later we have a regular board meeting on April 9th at 6: p.m on April 23rd we have a 5:30 study session and 6 p.m board meeting

113all of those meetings are at Mary Herbert education center and on Wednesday April 30th at 5:00 P PM we have staff recognition at White Auditorium and item 12a I'll take a motion to adjourn so moved second motion passes 70