001June 24th, 2025 board. Nope. June 23 board meeting. Get that right one open. Okay. Um, I'll ask for an approval of the agenda. I'll move the board of educ education approve the agenda for the June 23rd, 2025 board meeting. Second. Buyers, yes. Kadu Blackwood, yes. Costello, yes. Franklin, yes. Gordon Ross, yes. Jones. Yes. Kimble, yes. Motion passes seven to zero. Okay. Um, so we're going to move on to recognition. Thank you, Madame President and members of the board, everyone who's joining us both in person and remote. We're beginning uh this final meeting of the fiscal year of June uh with something very special and that is uh to take just a moment to thank board president Kelly Jones for her outstanding leadership during these three years of presidency. Would you give her a thank you?
002uh late getting to the table because I was just in the back saying hello to Emma who is joining us and you will hear more about that in just a moment. President Jones became interested in board service after having been an active parent in her daughter's educa daughter's plural to educational experience uh here in Lawrence. She volunteered in classrooms at Cordley Elementary for a decade and served on the Cordley site council for eight years, including two years as its chair. Uh in 2011, a former school board appointed President Jones to represent Cordley on the Central and East Lawrence elementary school consolidation work group. This committee studied school capacities, enrollment, and district needs. Among its recommendations were that the board ask the community to consider approving a bond issue to improve elementary facilities and district technology.
003This led to the community's passage of a $92.5 million school bond election in 2013 that funded elementary uh improvements to all elementary schools, enhanced our technology and expanded career and technical education by constructing the college and career center. President Jones was a leader and an active supporter during that bond issue campaign, as well as the subsequent 87 million school bond election in 2017 that focused on secondary school improvements. The community again voted to invest in its schools, including the transformation of Lawrence High School, renovations at Free State, and upgrades at all middle schools. As a first generation college graduate, President Jones continues to advocate for public investment in education as well as equity and access to education. With her professional background in social work, she is passionate about schools offering a wide range of opportunities
004for students, social emotional learning, and schools partnering with families and community resources to meet the individual needs of all students. Community engagement and transparency have also been among her priorities. President Jones is now completing her eighth year of service as a member of the board of education and her third year serving as president. I want to say it's a little bit like dog years though. I'll just say uh editorial remark because she has led the board during uh both celebrations but also through the co 19 uh global pandemic through difficult financial challenges and this year a superintendent search. We all know that leadership matters. That's worth repeating. We all know that leadership matters. Elections matter. I am deeply grateful for the support that President Jones has given me during this first year of serving in
005Lawrence public schools. And President Jones, I just want to say personally that on every day of this year, I valued your principled, inclusive, and meticulous leadership and your heart for students, parents, and families, schools, and community. It is clear that the Lawrence community and Lawrence public schools are fortunate. we are better for having had you in this position of leadership. So, as is the district's tradition, this means we're getting close to the end, and I know that makes you happy. Um, I would like to thank President Jones for her leadership and service by presenting her with a piece of student artwork. Now, this framed print was created by Emma Newell. She's in the back. Give her a big hand right there. Emma Newell uh practices her art partly in Michelle Salman's art class at Sunset
006Hill Elementary School. We are fortunate to have Emma, this young artist, and her family with us tonight. Emma is the daughter of Katie and James Newell. And I also got the great honor of meeting these folks just now. Emma, uh you've already uh stood so we know who you are. We have a face to put with the name and with this beautiful artwork we're about to present. Uh I just want to share that Emma likes the variety of ways to make art and the creativity process. Her favorite subjects in school are reading and writing. Outside of school, she enjoys playing volleyball, baking, and hanging out with friends and family. Thank you, Emma. We love the artwork that you created, and we hope that President Jones enjoys it as a token of our deep appreciation for
007her excellent leadership and service as the president of the Lawrence Board of Education. Here we go. It's a nice wrapping, too. Yes. We should probably pause for a photo right there. Well, go ahead after we get it open. Can you help show it? [Applause] Chase, come on. Christmas. Oh my god. You know what? Yay! You got her up here. Y' [Applause] crazy. Oh man. Emma, for allowing us to celebrate your art and your work and for your family coming and joining you tonight. It's really beautiful. Um, and I love it. So, thank you so much. I think it's awesome. Thank you. [Applause] Um, so I thank you for the recognition. Uh, I am uh the kind of person that thinks that that you lead. It's not a good idea to single out a single person.
008So, I um really appreciate the opportunity to celebrate this last night with you all here tonight and all the work that you've done and to recognize um the great work you do in the district that allows us to um be up here and and and addressing issues but also celebrating. So, I look forward to hearing from everybody tonight. Um, and uh I have I guess I have a report coming up, so I'll save some of my other thank yous for later. So, thank you for the recognition. I appreciate it. Okay, so we're going to move on to the report of superintendent of schools. Thank you, Madame President, members of the board, those who are joining us here and remote. Well, welcome to the final board meeting of June, which is the end of our fiscal
009year. We close out June one week from today and we continue at a very brisk pace so far this summer. We've not yet slowed down. the public may not realize out in the world. They often ask teachers and principles and district folks, "What do you do all summer?" And and they ask that clearly because they don't understand how very busy folks are with programming, meetings, professional learning, and activities that occur in and around and beyond our schools during the summer. These two summer bun months are quite compressed as we both close out the 2425 school year and set the table for next school year. I just want to share my thanks and gratitude to all our staff who continue to support and move the work forward during June and July. The uh staff of this
010ESC meeting uh building, there we go. um and our district administrative leadership team both met last week for year-end updates, celebrations, and planning for our next steps. You can see some of the artifacts from those meetings here. We reviewed our uh the community priorities from our fall and winter engagement efforts that will become the foundation of our uh reset on our strategic plan. We're really excited about next steps on that in the fall. Um we also discussed the initiatives moving forward including our e efforts to innovate and continue to clarify efficiencies. So that we are doing two things really two goals. One maximizing resources st to support students and classrooms and opportunities and two continuing our strong commitment to improving staff compensation. Our administrative leadership team spent an afternoon focused on parent square uh and
011they were practicing using parent square. So, if you've received any communications lately from your principal or someone, anyone on our team, it may be coming through Parent Square. School families should expect to begin receiving communications from this new tool that brings together school newsletters um as well as individual communications from teachers, coaches, and activity sponsors in one place. It provides a a place a secure place to communicate twoway. It also provides two-way translation if that is needed and gives our parents some ability to choose how and when they receive their information for parents. All of the texts or posts or newsletters are all found in one place for all of the children in the family. So, it's a onestop shop for parents and I appreciate board members who've helped us get started with this this
012year. Our administrative leadership team uh also took some time to recognize alongside the foundation um the elementary principal of the year, Amanda Green, who has Yeah, we've got some folks yay out there. Uh she has led Broken Arrow in Sunfall elementary schools. And our secondary principal of the year, Katie Carson. Yes, of course. Uh who, uh is completing her first successful year uh her first year at West Middle School. It was successful after serving Billy Mills Middle School as an assistant principal and athletic director. These two principles have led significant improvement in school climate and culture in their buildings. Staff and parents from both schools praise these outstanding leaders for their focus on student learning and supports. I really appreciate our LEAP partner Audra Fussell from Trudy Credit Union for rewarding each of our principles
013of the year with $500 and she does that for all of our teacher awards. Trudity uh credit union is really a great partner. I want to just spend a few minutes on administrator changes. As you know members and many of you out in in uh on our team uh we've been busy in interviews through April and May and now June. And I just want to thank everyone up front who has served on large interview teams. Um, and I want to thank our HR team who has coordinated all of these efforts to ensure that our selections were the result of robust selection processes. So, we are welcoming new administrators from within two from within our ranks and two who are joining the district. Billy Mills Middle School upper left there. Billy Mills Middle School assistant principal
014Courtney Ellis, Free State Assistant Principal Adam Meyer, assistant principal and athletic director Jason Schroeder. And in the lower right, um, uh, Hillrest principal Christine Kathy. They are an exciting group coming in, uh, to leadership roles. We also have some admin administrators who are taking on new roles for us this next year. Uh upper left, Jeremy Phillip, Southwest Middle School assistant principal and athletic director. Denise Johnson. We talked uh last board meeting about Denise taking on the role as interim Prairie Park principal. uh Sarah Murray uh Quill Run principal Jason Klingman I'm sorry Jason Kingman assistant director of special education and Tina Mitchell lower right there uh director of equity and student and family engagement for the district. It takes me about two minutes to go through the slides and I promise you uh everyone that
015represents hundreds of hours of work uh to make strong selections on our team. We also are sharing a a fond farewell. Uh we don't say goodbye but we say see you later to administrators who are moving on to other professional opportunities or retiring. Hillrest Principal Sarah Cruz, Prairie Park Principal Jason Townsen, Director of Secondary Schools Dr. Wayman Irvin, Executive Director of Curriculum and Instruction Dr. Jana Craig Hair and Executive Director of Communications Julie Bole. I just want to clarify members, you have been presented with the recommendations and you're well aware of them, but I just want to say publicly that the recommendation this evening of an interim principal coming in at Sunset Hill for this 2526 school year is congruent with steps that we have consistently taken in the district when a principal position opens
016during the summer. And that's for many reasons including that we want to be sure and offer a fully engaged selection process and uh it's difficult to pull folks together during the summer season. So Quail Run uh as an example during this past summer of 2024 uh Prairie Park and Sunset Hill uh are it's occurring this summer that we're appointing intrums. This approach is in keeping with our core value and our work to bridge the leadership and have leadership in place to ensure a consistent and strong start to this fast approaching school year. Um, I am about to set the countdown clock to school opening. I won't say that number of days tonight, but if I did, it would be shocking to you. Uh because it feels like it's a long way away, but in principal
017selection time, it's really very very soon. So, uh we want to allow plenty of time and opportunity for a robust principal search and selection process. It will involve our teachers, our parents, our students, and community. and that will begin in late fall just as we did uh for Quill Run this past fall. And so in this way, we will both ensure that the work moves forward consistently and also that there's adequate time and space reserved beginning in the fall for full engagement with the Sunset Hills staff, parents, and community, and a recruitment process, time for recruitment process to ensure that we have a quality principal candidate pool for the consideration of our staff. And so as a result, members, you're aware, but the recommendation is coming to you this evening for Jennifer Georgie to serve
018as interim principal at Sunset Hill. This recommendation is based on the passion, skills, and abiding commitment to the success of all students that she brings. Her breath of experience prepares her to lead well during this next year as the interim principal at Sunset Hill. We are truly grateful for our willingness to serve alongside the strong Sunset Hill staff, parents, and community. And we look forward to a successful 2526 school year. Now, we're going to pause for just a moment. And I know she doesn't want me to, but I'm going to anyway. Uh, this is the also the final board meeting for Executive Director of Communications, Julie Bole, 27 and a half years. Will you join me in saying thank you to Julie Bole? So, um I by our math tonight, tonight represents approximately board meeting
019number 748 across Julie's career. We don't have a current count on the number of snow days uh that she has called. Uh but I have to say that's probably her claim uh to fame. Although those of us who know her know she does much much more for the district uh than uh board meetings and snow days. Uh she has dedicated her life and career to keeping our community informed of the activi activities in the district from the classroom to the board meeting. Uh she keeps us all in the know. Uh her work has made a positive impact and a lasting impact on the lives of students and on our school community and organization. Julie, your consistent support of our students, teachers, and school leaders, and your commitment to diligently and something we don't see enough
020of, accurately tell the story of our neighborhood public schools has ensured that these stories of our students, teachers, and classrooms shine brightly as a celebration of learning and the excellence of Lawrence Public Schools. So, Julie, we have some more gifts to give you. We'll do that later. Um, but we just want to publicly say thank you. Our Lawrence public schools and our Lawrence community are better for your service here and we are most grateful. Thank you. We have been on a parade tour the last two Saturdays. It's been great. I want to thank the board for allowing me to join in participating to the during the last two weekends in the Lawrence Pride and the Junth parade. And I do want to point out uh that the two KU cheerleaders on the left there are
021hello Chesty Lions who just graduated and found their place on the KU team. Uh we it was so wonderful being out in the Lawrence community together to get to connect face to face with children, families, and community members. The streets were lined uh with folks, and it was great to get to say hello. Of course, we have a few stories on the f on the side about getting uh drowned in the deluge of rain on one Saturday and um and member uh Franklin Costello and I got left behind from the float on the other day. But that's okay. We have buckets of candy and lots of willing uh takers. So, it was great fun. These were important occasions to share with our community and our and really demonstrate our ongoing uh our ongoing commitment to
022the achievement, success, and human rights of every student. Just want to publicly uh share this evening our deepest sympathies with the family of Lawrence High student Isaiah Ferguson, including members of our Lawrence High School family who join them in their grief. Associate Principal Mike Gilman shares that Isaiah was an enthusiastic participant in both the LHS band and track team. He was loved for his bright smile and the uplifting spirit he brought to everyone around him. Principal Dr. Quinton Riy said it best when he reminded everyone to please remind students that they are not alone. We are all here to support one another. I want to uh remind everyone that we will uh continue to have signups for free summer meal kits for children. Our nutrition and wellness and facilities and operations staff are doing a
023great job of distributing breakfast and lunch meal kits to families and organizations that serve children. Additionally, um I just want to make sure everyone knows we'll send out an announcement here in a day or so. Uh but all district buildings that do not have scheduled summer activities will be closed to the public from June 30th through July 7th. This gives our 12-month opportun employees some flexibility and an opportunity and encourages them to use their earned leave to take a little bit of a break this summer around July 4th. It also supports some other folks who are working hard, and that's our facilities and operations staff in performing maintenance, repair, and upgrades to our buildings. Thank you for the opportunity to share this report this evening and thank you for the honor of serving the Lawrence
024public schools. Thank you, Dr. Swift. So, we're going to move on to the report of um Board of Education President. Uh this is I actually start the next meeting, so this isn't my final final meeting, but pretty close. Um, a year ago on this same day, I said, "Thank you all very much. I'll be stepping down now as board president." And then found myself a week later uh reappointed void uh board president. Um the three years that I've been It was a really nice piece of art, so it's kind of got me all emotional. Um the three years that I've been president have been to it for my way of thinking particularly challenging um years for the school district. I've learned that every year at the school district is challenging and also has some great
025successes. Um I've served with a lot of different people on the board. I um I know y'all have heard me say this, 13 different people. uh this particular group I don't think that it's um we're better it's just a nice it's a nice better people I think it's a nice combination of people so that when I needed support uh reminders around um how to connect with the community how to um tackle technical issues uh how to stay on top of um committee notes I've turned to each of you for different reasons um and particularly uh GR and and Bob, I want to say thank you for your support in um helping me over the last year and and uh and the good fortune we have of of appointing uh Dr. Swift as superintendent. Um I
026cannot serve as board president a third year. Like I wrote I I actually wrote the line. I think it's the only line in the board manual I wrote which says no board president shall serve for a third year. So um I just thank you all very much for the opportunity to do this and and to have supported me so much in this work. It is a lot a lot of uh it has been as it's been a lot. Um I'm sure I had something else intelligent to say, but I'm going to leave it at that and just say that I'm really glad uh that tonight we also have the opportunity to celebrate um the LEA and their successes. So I look forward to that in a few moments. Um it's a really good night to
027do that. Thank you all very much for all your efforts and so I look forward to hearing more about that. We're gonna move on now to um ah I knew there was one other thing. Um uh Dr. Englebrick and Kristen Ryan. Um, there was a moment during my presidency where there was no superintendent and I was called upon to do things that you don't necessarily typically get called upon to do as a board president. Because you are both such expert administrators, I was able to make decisions that were informed and in the best interest of students under your leadership and because of the way that you connect with uh our staff and our community and the types of um departments that you run at the caliber that you do. So, I'm very grateful for this
028second term of, you know, my second year here as as um president to have had you both in that space for the first six months in particularly. Thank you for everything that you did for the district. Yeah. Thank you. [Applause] Okay. So, we're going to move on um now to uh regular business and go on to board committee reports. Um, since we've met, there haven't been uh many committee reports, but I'll see um Ann's G. Yeah, if you want to start. Okay. Uh, so on the um 17th, the policy committee met, we have uh three policies up for first read this evening and one for second. Um, of those uh for first read, policy GA complaints. This was revised to incorporate technical grammatical changes for clarity and ease of use as well as to clarify
029timelines based on duty days. Policy JGFGAA, stock supply of emergency medication. This is a new policy representing a change in state law that allows for schools to keep an emergency stock supply of aluterol in accordance with the guidelines outlined in the policy. And policy JGFGBA, student self-administration of medications. This has been revised to clearly delineate between the self-administration of epinephrine and inhalers by students which is outlined in state statute and the self-administration of over-the-counter medication by students as authorized by their parents. Second read uh policy BDA developing adopting amending and repealing board policy. This is updated based off recommendations from KASB including grammatical changes for the clarity and ease of use. In addition, the policy committee recommends changes to align board practice with the language regarding the board's process for reviewing and recommending proposed new
030policies or changes to existing ones. Then also on the 17th, uh the Lawrence Schools Foundation board met. Uh we had a special guest, Michael Brooks. So his hits for teachers program has raised over $8,000 um in his time at KU. Um he would uh donate money for all of the hits that he got um on the baseball team. Then we had uh several committee updates. So uh the LEAP committee is next meeting on July 15th at 1:30. Uh the team is coming back with businesses to target for our LEAP program. Uh our kids expo um they've sent out registrations. They're not due until July 2nd, but they had already had 18 back and of those 17 were new um people registering or new groups. Um they're working to combine this event with the city's event
031where they handed out bicycle helmets etc. So, as a result, they are expecting a larger crowd, which will be exciting, but they are working with counselors on targeting students for shoe distribution as obviously we won't have enough for everyone. Sorry. Um, and the kids expo takes place on August 9th from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Our breakfast committee, um, their next meeting is tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. Uh, this year's breakfast will be held at the Burge Union. They already have four validictorian level sponsors this year and the date is set for September 26th. And just a note, the back tochool supply drive is starting in July. So look for bins at local businesses and please donate supplies for our students. Next committee. Do you want to go? Yeah. Yeah. On June 11th, the facility planning
032committee met. Um just a couple highlights from that meeting. Um, FNO still has some open positions. There's some custodial maintenance and uh uh a journeyman plumber position. Um, we talked about a Billy Mills Middle School garden fence donation. We got uh some project updates. Uh, several actually and some highlighted ones were the studio apartment at Pinkney. Um, building exterior work at Billy Mills, Kennedy and New York. um the police preschool classrooms at Woodlon and Sunflower. Um we talked a little bit about uh Free State and Lawrence High Track resurfacing um a facility and operations solar study and then um generators at Billy Mills and the ESC. And we also heard from the city about some planned city street work that uh may that will possibly stretch into the fall that may impact us. Um there's
033some significant work in North Lawrence and then also on Michigan Street and West Second Street. Um on consent tonight, there's um a couple items from that committee as well. There's a the renewal for um workers compensation. Um there's a um purchase of middle school football uniforms and then purchase of student licenses for e dynamic learning for the virtual school. Are there other committee reports? This is Carol. I don't um have any committee reports, but I would just like to thank um Kelly. I'd like to thank you and for all of your years of service and commitment to this community. And I'm it's been an honor to serve beside you and um witness your leadership. and um and I really I just really look up to you and I I I consider you a a lifelong
034friend. I admire your compassion, your empathy and commitment to our community. And I would like to thank Julie Bole for her years of service. And um and Julie just doesn't quit. I was um I went to the lunch kit distribution last Tuesday and it was six o'clock in the morning. and everybody was in their ponchos and some people had their umbrellas and there was Julie at 6:00 in the morning ready to direct traffic and help distribute lunch kits and I you know I was not surprised to see her at all because that's just how Julie is. Um, let's see. Um, and I, you know, tonight's, um, consent agenda, we're we're going to talk about school lunches. And, um, and I see that I I have not heard anything about the the Kansas City Chiefs move,
035whether or not they're going to decide to move to Kansas or Missouri, but I know that this is in our legislative priorities is to get universal free lunches for all of our kids. And I think that we will still be committed to that. And now that you'll have a little a little bit more free time, we can yeah really zero in on that. Um yeah, that's something that um I'm really committed to is to continue to work to get universal free lunches for the state of Kansas. I don't know how we can do that, but if we can afford to potentially give $2 billion for a dome stadium, we can certainly afford to give our kids lunches. And with that, thank you. Thank you, Carol. Um I appreciate you very much. Uh uh we'll move
036this this nice transition to board commentary. So um Carol's led us off. Are there other folks that want to jump in this evening? I can see well um let me check with uh Yolanda. Yolanda, if you want to jump in at any time, just jump in and we'll pause for you. Okay. I'm sorry guys. Um at work and you know duty calls and retail. Um, again, Julie, I segue with Carol. Thank you so much for your many years of service. I cannot say my grandchildren were disappointed that you were retiring so they wouldn't hear your lovely voice this winter, but I told them I recorded the call so that, you know, if they needed to hear you cancel school, they can. Uh, thank you again, uh, Kelly, for your uh, leadership. five time that I've
037been on the board, I chose you as a mentor and you have uh been giving me a bunch of insight and helping me navigate my first term on the board and I really appreciate that. Um I also appreciate all my fellow board members uh willingly joining us for the pride parade as well as the Junth parade. I have received numerous comments from the uh other community members that they were so glad to see the board members outside of the boardroom and outside of some legal or uh talking matter. But to just see us smiling, shaking hands, handing out candy, and getting drenched in the rain showed them our vulnerable side that we are still human and we are still a community as one. So, thank you guys so much for uh answering the call to
038join me with the Pride parade as well as the Junth parade. Thank you for organizing it. Much gratitude to um uh Shannon go. So, I have a a few legislative and state board updates to share and then a couple of personal comments. Um so, the state board met on June 10th and 11th, which was the Tuesday and Wednesday right after our last board meeting. And as I shared with the board um in my preview of that meeting, the state board did take action and approve on a 100 vote um the uh bullying plan um recommendation. And basically their motion was to they strongly recommend to all districts and schools that a procedure or process for recognizing and reporting incidents of bullying be placed on the website or other prominent locations that will offer access for
039students and parents. and they uh directed the state department of education staff to prepare and offer materials and suggestions for steps and time guidance that may be helpful in the process to be observed. Um I would like to give a shout out to USD497 because our complaints process graphic that we have on our website was used as an example by the state board member who was presenting um this recommendation to the state board. So, um I I appreciate that our district was a model for work that um they are sharing with other districts across the state. Um in addition, the state board also made permanent the temporary emergency substitute lensure program that they put in place during CO. Um that also passed by a 100 vote. The board heard updates on the state assessments, an
040overview of Kansas health standards and embryology that relates to a statute that was passed this past session that is going to require a threeminute video of fetal development to be shown during courses that touch on human growth and development. Um, and then they also had an update on federal issues. Um, I wanted to just uh flag for my fellow board members that one of the state board members, Debbie Potter, made a request for a future presentation for um the state board to look into Kansas changing the definition of persistently dangerous schools. Um, this is actually a backdoor move to try to bring school vouchers um in through the state board because of some federal action that has been taken. So, I would just um ask my colleagues to watch that particular issue carefully if it
041does come back in front of the board as a report or an item. Um I've shared with the board clerk um uh links to the June meeting summary from the state board as well as a link again to their live meeting live streams if you're interested in following up on any of those issues. Uh federal legislative uh items. Um the uh federal tax credit voucher program is still in the Senate reconciliation budget bill. Um there will be a an anti- voucher hearing tomorrow, Tuesday, June 24th in Washington DC that will be livereamed on Senator Maisy Herono's YouTube page. Um and there will be a speaker at that hearing right here from Kansas. uh Goddard Superintendent Justin Dr. Justin Henry will be speaking as part of that um anti voucher hearing. So I wanted to share
042that with the board in case you are interested in tuning in. Um it is scheduled to begin at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon. Uh as I said it's available on the senator on Senator Hermono's YouTube page as well as I understand it's supposed to be streamed on her um XT Twitter uh page as well. And then finally, uh, state legislative update. Um, it's a little bit quiet because we're heading into the July 4th holiday, but the state education funding task force is meeting July 1st and 2nd in Topeka. Um, and those meetings are livereamed if you want to um, watch them. It will be a half day in the afternoon on the 1st and all day on the second. I'll provide an update to the board um about that at our first July meeting. Um in addition
043to those updates, um uh I wanted to share a few thoughts and thank yous. Um thank you to Yolanda for organizing our participation. I was not I was unable to attend the pride parade for personal reasons, but I was so excited to be a part of the JUTH celebration and thank you Yolanda and thank you to the parade organizers for inviting and welcoming us to do that. Um it's just it's a a great step forward in and getting out in the community and I look forward to more opportunities like that. Um also uh need to share my congratulations uh with Julie. Um, I have served for 14 years on the board and so I have worked with Julie for almost a decade and a half and I will miss you very much. I appreciate your
044passion for the work that you do um for Lawrence Public Schools and um uh you know I know that you have given so much more than people even see to this work and so I just wanted to share my personal appreciation to you for that. Um, and then also wanted to share my personal appreciation to Kelly for your leadership on the board. Um, having served as board president, I know how hard it is and you have served with such grace and compassion. Um, and you always, always, always put our students and our staff first in all of our discussions. You center that and you bring everybody around you back to that center. And I um I admire that. I aspire to do as good a job of that as you do and I have learned
045so much from you um as a board colleague and in your leadership and as my friend and so just much appreciation. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Well, I'll start with Kelly and and I start there. Um, Kelly and I have had an interesting time uh in our relationship. My first involvement with Kelly was doing uh discussions of school closure during my first tenure on on the board. Uh she was obviously not forclosing schools. Uh I can remember sitting in your kitchen uh having a discussion around uh I think the discussion was more around how boards work and how being a board member is different than than a simple clear decision that as a board member you have to take the world into view uh in making decisions like this. Um, from that I have enjoyed
046and welcomed the opportunity to serve as a co- both as a co-board member and as your vice president for uh for a year. So um like I say I consider you a friend obviously uh and and I respect you tremendously for uh Jul I I think the last meeting we talked to Julie as well about about she's been here each time I've been on the board I've always been welcomed. Um and usually when I see her in the community she always has a bright statement for me. I figure she hasn't forgotten me yet. Um, so, um, also wanted to thank Yolanda for the opportunity to, uh, to, uh, take part in the Junth parade. I did miss uh, the Pride parade. Uh, but I did go to the fair afterwards in South Park. Uh, and
047that was after the rain. It was muddy, but hey, I didn't get wet. Um, let's see. Other than that, I appreciate you, Bob. Uh, GR, you I'm good. You're good. Thank mercy. Oh, no. Go. Thank you all very much. I appreciate it. Uh oh, Ann. All right, Ann, you're up. Sorry. I'm sorry. No, it's fine. Um, so on the 12th I was able to attend the KASB leadership for tomorrow session in Harrington, Kansas. Uh, Harrington, Kansas School District has about 410 420 students on average. They are seeing smaller incoming classes of kinders than their outgoing senior classes. Uh, this last year they graduated 43 seniors and are only bringing in around 30 kindergarteners. They are 72% free and reduced. Um they spoke about this really great Harrington Hearts program. Uh they focus on those facing
048toxic stress and generational poverty. It's a 12-week program where they uh get fed and have free child care. It teaches them the importance of education and how to navigate the various systems. Uh it gives them help with budgeting. After the 12-week program, they get assigned uh a friend that they can turn to for advice, and they work together for 18 months. Uh the meals and child care are all provided through donations. They have a year-long campaign to raise money. It's about $8,000 which includes staff. Um they do track the participate participants and over the last seven years the total amount of debt that has been decreased is somewhere between 950,000 to a million dollars of the people who participated. The cohorts are about 10 to 15 people. They're incentivized to attend. So if they don't
049miss more than two meetings, they get a $250 stipend. So it's just something that they've been doing that is really amazing. Um, and so I commend them for that. Um, then on the 13th, uh, we attended, um, LFT in Manhattan. Uh, they just spent $12 million to renovate their district headquarters in an old high school building. Um, the superintendent noted that they could have spent less for a new building, but the community felt it was important to use that um, or save that building. Um, as far as demographics, um, he also pointed out that the boundaries does not align to the city limits. uh in Riley County schools actually come into a portion of Manhattan into the city. They're about 7,000 students from pre-K to 12, 40% free and reduced. Um similar to Lawrence, they
050have a mix of poverty and wealthy within um their student base. They have a 20% mobility rate than with um all of the Fort Riley uh kids over there. They are seeing slightly smaller kindergarten classes than seniors outgoing. Um but they are picking up in the middle. Um and they are a closed enrollment district. They don't take anyone from the outside. Um they focus their presentation on their early childhood programs. They have two centers there that are grounded in equity and inclusion. Each uh school has a principal and then overall they have a program coordinator, a family education coordinator and a director of early learning. They oversee the child find for the district. Um all the teachers at their um early childhood education centers are getting letters training. Um, their funding is a mix from
051preschool at risk uh funding to early Head Start and Head Start uh parents as teachers as well as grants. And they do both homebased and center-based services um and offer a braided program where all students are in classes together regardless of whatever labels they have and the point is to not have those labels. So, I thought that was really nice. Um, and then on the 14th, I walked in the Junth parade with my um, fellow board members and also wanted to thank Yolanda again for organizing the event and getting us the really cool shirts that change colors in the sun and glow in the dark. And glow-in-the-dark. Yeah, that too. She um, and I loved getting to hand out goodies to the kiddos. Um, even if we did get left behind. And I will say
052that the walk back to my car was much hotter that day than it was after the pride parade, but still a fantastic day. Um, and then earlier today, I attended a Corora and Koma update by KASB um where they reviewed changes um to Corinoma with recent state legislation. Um, and so that uh provided a good deal of good information there. Um, wanted to thank Kelly also for your service as president the past two years. I've learned so much from working with you and I appreciate all the time that you've given to me answering questions and just kind of giving me a clue. Um, and uh, thank you also to Julie Bole for her service. We so appreciate you. Did you need a minute? Okay, we'll move on to the approval of consent agenda. I move
053the board of education approve the items listed on the consent agenda. Second. Kadu Blackwood. Yes. Costello. Yes. Franklin. Franklin. Yes. Gordon Ross. Yes. Jones. Yes. Kimble. Yes. Buyers. Yes. Motion passes seven to zero. Thank you, Madame President, members of the board. I uh just technically needed to wait until after the board's vote, but I wanted uh because that's important to me. Um I wanted to uh publicly welcome um Mr. Cole Amaya as assistant superintendent of teaching and learning effective July 1st. Um, Amaya is completing his second year uh in Kansas City, Kansas School District where he also has served as a high school principal, assistant principal, and instructional coach for uh seven years. Um, as you all know because we've talked about it a lot, this assistant superintendent position is part of an overall administrative
054realignment and restructuring as our district prioritizes really directing resources to support our student needs in classrooms and to improve compensation. So, there really is and we've talked about it a lot. you all are aware of the positions that we've taken out kind of that at that middle level. Uh this really is about an assistant superintendent who work will work primarily with the classroom teacher leaders in overseeing curriculum instruction and assessment functions. So really bringing teaching and learning in the classroom and the district level all together as one team to s to serve that critical mission of teaching and learning. I just want to share that uh from my time getting to know uh Mr. Jeremiah. He is a proven leader who demonstrates a commitment to quality learning and to opportunities away from all the education
055acronyms. I just want you to know and he asked me to share it tonight that he's about opportunities for all students. He believes that all students can achieve. That matches with our core value. And so I believe it's going to be a strong match. He has lived that commitment through his record of service. It's not just words. his experience in inspiring a culture of teaching and learning, collaborating with teachers to improve practice by working alongside teacher leaders and principal leaders in schools as well as the skills he brings in the use of data at the systems level and strengthening of systems to inform and improve the work. the all of these things made him a strong selection for Lawrence public schools. We are fortunate to add Colamaya to team Lawrence public schools and look forward
056to welcoming him in July. I want to take just a moment to thank all there were four interview rounds large groups on uh three of those rounds and I want to thank everyone who served. Uh we had uh uh classified pareducator uh teachers uh principals, district folks. It was really a cross-section performance tasks on every round. Uh so we put uh Cole through uh through an arduous process along with our other candidates and he rose to the top. So it is my great honor uh to welcome Mr. Colola Maya to our Lawrence public schools team and I know he'll look forward to joining you on July 14th. Thank you. Congratulations to him. Okay, we're going to move on to uh my favorite part of this agenda. Um I'm going to invite the Lawrence Education Association
057to join us. And uh board members, they're going to uh present and then if you save any questions you have until after. I have to point. Okay. I didn't realize we're going to have such a great crowd. This is great. It's my first time to have red shirts in Lawrence and I love it. Yeah, they're hope so. Great. [Laughter] Um, is this I was gonna say turn it up. Is it better Emerson? Is it better if you want or don't? I mean, live your best. Can you hear us? Yeah. But would you would it be better over there? Are you good? No, we're fine here. Okay. How's it going? Uh, my name is Emerson Havzales. I am the uh president for the Lawrence Education Association. And as you can see, we have a very large
058group with us today. Um, very excited for the news we're about to present to you. I also have Julie Donley. uh parah at Hillrest Elementary and Mary Lee a speech uh path parah um districtwide but primarily at Schweinkler. All right. So um Denise Fish was an integral part of forming our organization and it was called PAL pareducators of L association of Lawrence. Um she moved us forward with initially just gaining and starting our um association with um uh she was a title one teacher. She met with initially four or five of us at a time. Um and we will miss her terribly. She was a title one teacher and uh when we started the organization it was in 2015. Uh we were formally recognized as an organization by the state and declared a nonprofit at
059that time. We slowly grew uh we initially had 90 PAR educators as our membership. we grew to 150 and then in 2016 we've we started our organization to advocate for better working conditions for par educators. We wanted better training. We wanted better wages and we wanted to have enough support so that we could support our most involved students. We are working to retain the best quality. So we wanted um staff to be well trained. Uh we wanted staff to be supported. We wanted staff to have respect and thank you for all your support in growing our organization from the beginning. Thank you. Um throughout this presentation, we did have like a slide earlier um just about our vision for this campaign. Um really the idea of unity, strengthen numbers, national reach, and our fight for
060a living wage. This has been a very long time coming. Um, we have been a union town, a union district supported through and through. Um, but this year, I mean, this was it. We saw the moment where we know that there is a fight at the state level that we have to be involved in. We have to have every single boot on the ground as it's not my favorite term of phrase, but you know, we need to be on the front line ready to go and advocating for our students and our staff. Um so going back to our story as as Mary was very greatly putting out like this started way before um I have been in office. Um and as you can see just even just looking really quickly like classified staff are a
061force to be reckoned with. ESPs educational support professionals um they knew what they wanted and they went for it. And by 2024, um there was a 40% increase in wages, which was one of a huge historic win. And but it didn't stop there. Uh that same year later, a little bit later, um October 1st, we not only um worked together, collaborated, talked with every single classified staff um you know, union member, we recruited 45% of the ESPs into LEA in just 21 days. That is not heard of. Uh when we told that to our state affiliate, they were like, "Wait, what? You did you did what in 21 days?" And we're like, "Okay, let's go. What else do we need to do? What's next?" So then by February, we had a super majority, which is
062like almost 65% if not a little bit more um of the petitions needed to file for an election to have bargaining rights under LEA. Um then spring of 25 you I mean a lot of community parents or just folks within um probably heard of us going into buildings and talking to one another or seeing our Facebook post. Um almost every Thursday this spring we have been meeting together collaborating one another classified certified we were in that room at the union hall. Um so it's been put to good use um working diligently to where we got to June 10th. June 10th, we had the biggest historic win in Kansas um education history and 95% majority uh voted for LEA to represent exclusively in the bargaining unit. Therefore, solidifying and unifying classified and certified as a whole.
063Yeah. Okay. Um, and we are one of we are the one of the first um in Kansas that has this very unique, very fun thing that's going to be happening soon where we have two bargaining tables, we have two conversations, we have two contracts under one union. And um, a lot of that wouldn't have happened if we didn't have Denise Fish or the amazing human beings behind me or the ones that are also wearing red at home watching or even you all here in the space tonight. Um, with that saying, we have a future. We have a lot of things. We're not done. Um, but wait, there's more. Uh, we are ready to bargain at the table. We have an awesome group of classified, uh, educational support professionals who are ready to go. Um, we've
064been looking at that contract forward and backwards. We've been looking at PIR. We've been really studying. Um, it's a huge book, by the way, with all the stuff we have and it is not a joke. Um, but we're ready for it and we are ready to continue building solidarity with our ESPs and uh certified staff. Even here, we have not just classified staff here today. We have certified here ready to go and supporting every step of the way. Yes. Stronger together. And then um I mean we're going to need you, Shannon, because we're going to be going to the state level. We need somebody to walk us around and tell us who to who to talk to. um because we are going to work with all ESPs across Kansas, all 10,000 of us, um working
065together to advocate for a living wage and quality public schools. Um and then lastly, you know, this is where we need to call on our Lawrence community. Um we need you. Uh just like we see on Sundays at the Pride and Junth parades, we see everyone coming together or Saturday. Sunday. Every Sunday. Yes, every Sunday. I was like, wait, what? Saturday? What? Sorry, I'm half here today. Um, but but we need every single human being in Lawrence who are supportive of our public schools. Um, we can only do so much within our district. We need to take the fight to the state. We need to ask our legislators and not ask, we need to demand. We need to put our foot down. We need to move forward as a whole unit because like I said,
066we are a force to be reckoned with, Lawrence, and we are ready to do that work with you. Um because together we're stronger and together we're heard. [Applause] So, somebody said we have questions. What questions do you have for us? We have questions. Uh, I've said I've said this in a lot of different ways, but really it's sort of awe inspiring what you were able to accomplish and I um I'm just I know there's a whole crew of people that I want to like single out folks and I'm going to pause from doing that, but I um I will send emails afterwards. It's so extraordinary how you pulled this together, the way that you did, the way you thought about it, the way you're coming together now to organize. I'm sure it's going to be
067bumpy. I'm not guessing that this will be smooth every moment, but um it's not mine to be proud of, but I am. And I really appreciate the work that you've done, and we're ready to help join you and um you know, in Topeka and and come together to see what we can do to make this the best district to work in in in the state. So, thank you for all your work and everything that you do to make us stronger. Yeah. Uh there are questions um or I heard some before but your presentation might have answered them. Are there um pretty good? Yeah. Are there questions or comments? This is Carol. I don't have a question, but I just want to express my gratitude for all the work that you do and we see you
068out there and we're all proud of you and thank you for everything you do. I can't thank you enough. We can't thank you enough. Yeah. What else? Go ahead. Um, so when people ask me what makes Lawrence Public Schools special, um, in addition to our students and our families, it's all of you. Um, and I always say that it's our teachers and our staff that make make it a great school district. And so, um, I am excited for you all, um, to have reached this milestone. It it really is remarkable, you know, looking at what is or is not happening in districts across the state in this space. you all are leading and um and that's very exciting and I can't tell you how excited I am to know that you are um planning to
069be a voice at the state level uh because uh what we are facing is uh significant and it's going to be really challenging and the way that we will make sure that we can continue to do what we all love to do for our students is together. So um thank you and congratulations. Thank you. We're up for the fight. Yes. All the way through. Um mention we've already been to the Oh, yeah. We have actually. Uh Lawrence was one of the locals that helped do the Lucky to be an educator uh over spring break and we're going to be doing another one and we're going to be continuing those. So, you know, you all can join have we had a lot of cool signs and a lot of cool people. It was a really great
070event. I I got to I got to watch you all um at your event. It was a really great event being in solidarity together in the state house. It was pretty dope. It was probably the coolest thing. Um, anything else? Other questions, comments? We look forward to bargaining with you all. I know. Now we're down to business. Yeah. Like, let's go. Maybe the next question is when do we have a date established for when we are we're working on a date for working on it very Yeah, hopefully really soon. Uh, because we want to get it done before August before we get our staff back in. So, um, I assume that July is going to be really fun for us. Mhm. I mean technic as somebody that got to has participated in negotiations technically it
071is going to be really great for you to be together as one because it there were times where it felt like the com because I learned so much from the interestbased bargaining process and it it there were times where I felt like um sometimes we were we weren't we were you know you one unit was bargaining as they should for their membership and another for theirs and you were All I could feel the love, but you had your own contract. Yeah. So, this this is going to be I think just another example of a way for us to do things more efficiently and smarter and be thinking about all the different areas that have competing values and how do we how do we take care of all of them. So, u I look forward to
072seeing how this goes this summer and then as we go forward the fall. So, I want to say something. Thank you all for coming tonight. It was really great. Yeah, thank you. Go ahead, Janita. Real quick, I would like to say something. as membership director of LEA. This past year has been awesome. But I want to recognize Ross. Ross started out in this district as a parent, is now a teacher, was the president of PALS. Like if Ross wasn't next to me doing this work, we wouldn't have been able to get it done. It took a lot of people, but Ross helped me lead the charge. So, thanks. Yes. Okay. Well, now I have to say one thing. Okay. Thank you, Denita. And I also have to say um that literally everyone up here did
073so much work to make this happen. Um and I'm just proud to have gotten to be a part of it. And I think just to rehighlight what Emerson shared, there were probably 60 plus leaders who made this happen in their buildings. Um all of these folks here tonight plus more people. So we we have a lot of work to do, but we have a really good team to do it with. Agreed. And I would like to mention too that that Hannah took over, Ross took over when Denise passed away. So without her, we have grown potentially and it all was because of her leadership. I agree. They [Applause] Thank you. I'll I'll just long as we're having this kind of this kind of a meeting. Um the um that kind of a meeting. actually sat
074with um GR and I I think a week into our into our meeting and uh she was a force like she connected with you instantly and it wasn't like I mean she was she was certainly telling me what to do but in a way that was like oh I I see how important this is. I we have to get on this and um we did I think immediately. Yeah. So uh thank you for for recognizing her uh tonight. So I appreciate important. Yeah. Okay. Um, I guess you know we'll see you at the table. [Applause] Okay. Um, we're going to move on to public comment and I'm going to ask my good friend GR Gordon Ross to read the public comment policy. USD497 Board of Education welcomes public comments and thanks you for taking time
075to talk to us about our policies and procedures. We set aside this time during our regular meetings to hear from the public. Patrons who wish to participate in public comment must email public comment at usd497.org by noon on the day of the board meeting to participate in person. Information provided will information provided will make it possible for district staff or the board to follow up with you as necessary. This is your time to share your opinions. However, public comment is not the appropriate form for making complaints about specific staff or students. If your comments relate to complaints concerning students or staff, such complaints must be addressed to district staff as provided under board policies KN and GAE. The board president or presiding officer of the media may direct that a public comment request be redirected
076to staff to comply with board policy, including and or to protect the privacy of individual staff or students. If you need assistance in sharing a complaint or concern with district staff, please let the board clerk or other district staff know. Topics discussed in public comment shall be gerine to the business of the board. Furthermore, comments must comply with standards laid out in board policy GAE and board policy JCA. Comments or acts that are threatening to staff, the board, or others in attendance, including the use of language or behavior that is disruptive of the board meeting, will not be permitted during public comment. In addition, because students may be in attendance or watching online, members of the public will refrain from using foul or obscene language. The district assumes no responsibility and or liability for the
077information shared during public comment. The views expressed are solely those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Lawrence public schools. The board president or presiding officer will invite comments on topics not included on the meeting agenda at the beginning of the end with the beginning or end of each meeting. Comments relating to agenda items are welcome after the board has had the opportunity to discuss the topic. Limit your comments to three minutes. Patrons who are unable to comply with the above procedures may email the comments email their comments or viewpoints to the board at schoolboards497.org. Okay, here we go. Uh Dr. Ciss, can you hear me? You can. Welcome. Okay. My name is Dr. Justin Spece. I I want to pick up where I left off last meeting when uh
078I got removed from the meeting while speaking. I was telling you guys about a petition that I was wanting to uh have you guys consider signing. And the the name of that petition is the full uncensored communications at meetings petition. And I was telling you guys that that acronym is f u ca m and is pronounced fuckom. And you removed me from the meeting, Kelly. And and I just want to say, but that's not a that's not a naughty word. The fu cam is is not a naughty word. And so what do you want me to do about that? You want me to change the name of my petition because what you say I can't say that in here? I was listening to a a speaker in this meeting earlier talking about their their organization
079called uh the PAL organization PAL and they got to say their their name no no problem whatsoever. So what I I got to change my name to what make make it through your your gatekeeping of of the words we can say say here. I mean it's not my fault that my petition is called that. I mean what do you want me to do about it? I got to change it? No. I mean, it loses its meaning if I got to change it to to meet your standards, their uh Kelly Kelly Jones. And so, that's also viewpoint discrimination. So, you're going to allow someone to to come in with their what whatever, you know, organization it is, and they can say it just fine. But, heaven forbid Justin and say, "FAM." Oh, no. Oh, look out.
080And so along with that that goes into my petition or why I need to do a petition is two meetings ago there was a speaker in here that said during general public comment said Democrats like to about Trump. And I'm still looking for an answer on on why he was allowed to say that when when when I've been removed from the meetings for saying batch which ain't even a naughty word again. I mean, it it, you know, it's it's again, it's a it's viewpoint discrimination. So, you're going to allow one one person to come in here and say but but as soon as I say then, you know, you got to you got to immediately remove me from the meetings. And so, that all goes into my my petition. Again, that's called the the petition.
081And I' I'd really like for you guys and and everyone out there to to consider uh signing the the petition because I mean that's what that's what we're that's what we're looking for. We're looking for full uncensored communications at meetings. Okay. And so I just invite everyone to to consider thinking about if that's what they want. If that's what they want, then they can sign the the petition so we can start saying at the meet again. I mean Jesus America or what? Bunch of tyrants running the board up there. You guys make me sick with your double standards and your discrimination and viewpoints up there and the words you say that we can't say in there. I mean, we're adults here for crying out loud. Thank you. All right. Um, uh, Carrie Michael. Are are
082you doing Carrie or Michael? It's uh you're free to speak. Am I? Can you speak time? Just a minute. Uh there you go. Go ahead. So you you said there that I was free to speak. I really question what that means. Are you able to clarify that at all? I mean, what I saw just a minute ago was uncensored speech. Did you really let Justin say those words? You know, talking about the petition and talking about another word, another speaker that used the word Have you finally climbed down off your high horse? Okay, that's your warning. Oh, so certain usage does get a warning still. Thank you, Kelly. I just wanted to clarify where we stood there now since you spent about the first 20 15 20 minutes praising yourself tonight. Agreed. Yeah. Yeah. I
083I couldn't I couldn't see how that was going to be uh what are you agreeing on? Pause my time. That was an interruption. Please pause my time. It it's fine to pause it and give him back five seconds. What was that interruption that you you were agreeing on something? What was that interruption? Pause my time. The way you run this meeting is incredible, Kelly Jones. Since you spent the first 20 minutes of this meeting praising yourself and taking all kinds of accolades, I want to make sure that everyone on that board as well as your school board president is aware of the words that you said to me. Fancy seeing you guys here. You think you're going to have the police like killing? No, you don't think so either. I actually I wish you well.
084But you are going to you are thinking you're going to get away with it at the school district. I if you're not treating somebody you realize you're violating the law at the school district banning people for free speech. I don't want to ban anybody for free speech. I definitely want you to be able to give your your point of view. Well then how about you lift the ban and let me come back into the school meeting. How about you should I actually say how about I can say the word anytime I want Kelly. Okay. You can't. You definitely can be. And I can say it inside that school district office, too. Okay. So, why are you kicking me out? Why are you using the police to express your feelings? I definitely didn't kick you out
085for that reason. What? What reason did you use then? You got a letter? I got a letter. You did? Okay. So, now you're banning me for the free speech outside on public grounds. I'm I'm glad you're here. So, as we can see here, as we can see here, there's nothing going on that is anything that's anybody's problem or anything. But yet, at the school district, you're going to have police arrest me. That is why we had police arrest. It's your feelings, Kelly. There was nothing There was nothing. And And what am I doing here that was different than at the school district? You're not doing anything different here than than So, why aren't the police So, why aren't the police coming up? Why aren't you having the police called and having them? You aren't doing
086anything different than you were at the school district other than having a conversation with me. Those are your words, Kelly. Dr. Swift, your band needs to be lifted. That's That's it. Okay. Um car back. I know. I'm sorry. Okay. Uh, welcome Carrie. Can you make sure that Carrie has three minutes? Hear me? Hello? Moment, Carrie? Just a moment. We're going to reset your time. Perfect. Okay. Welcome. I'm going to read a transcript of the conversation that took place in May where I was wrongly accused of harassing and threatening Kelly, the fake victim. First, I want to say the fake victim is not full of grace, nor is she doing a good job following the Constitution. During my speech, my mic was silenced in May and there was a hot mic moment where Miss Superintendent told
087the fake victim that she would trespass me. I assume she said that because I read cuss words that are written in one of the books that this district provides to minors. However, the permanent ban letter stated, quote, "You made harassing and threatening statements towards the board president. This behavior created an unsafe and threatening environment for those who were present." End quote. Mind you, the people present were Officer Lindsay Bishop, the police dog, the fake victim, and myself. The fake victim and I were at least over 6 feet apart during the entire interaction. Carrie says, "How? Hey, Kelly. I have a question. Why is it that you let Chris?" Fake victim interrupts and says, "Set back away from me now." Carrie says, "I am not threatening. I'm not threatening. I'm asking you a question just like
088I would if I would be." Fake victim interrupts again and says, "We will be no trespassing you. That's what's going to happen now." Carrie says, "Why?" Faked victim says, "You need to get away from me." Carrie says, "I'm I'm I'm just asking a question. Just like if you were at Walmart, I would ask you the same thing." Fake victim says, "You would not. You know what you were doing." Fake victim shuts her door while sitting inside of her car. Officer Bishop says, Carrie in a condescending tone. Carrie says to officer Bishop, "No, I would. What am I doing?" Officer Bishop to Carrie, "Let her leave." "Mind you, I'm over 6 feet away from the fake victim and standing closer to the police officer and her dog at the entire time." Carrie says to officer Bishop,
089"What am I doing? She's a constituent like I'm a constituent of hers." Basically, she is in the state of Kansas and she's acting like this. Fake victim starts her car. Carrie says to officer Bishop, "And I'm going to get trespassed because of this. She's going to trespass me because of this. Officer Bishop says to the fake victim, "Hey, Kelly, just go." Kelly opened her car door while sitting in it. Kelly says, "You're going to trespass me because of this?" Officer Bishop says to the fake victim, "I would just leave." Fake victim says to officer Bishop, "I don't want Officer Bishop." Then says to the fake victim, "See, I would just leave." Fake victim says to the officer Bishop, "Okay." Fake victim shuts her door. Hillary says to officer Bishop, "Like, I'm a threat because I
090said cuss words and I'm asking her why." Like, she's treating people differently. Like I don't I don't understand this. Fake victim backs out of the parking spot. Mind you, I'm standing next to the officer and her police dog this entire time. Carrie says, "And here we are because I'm a threat because I cussed. Someone tell me how I threatened and harassed an elected government official based I just read. I want to know if anyone involved in the writing of the ban letter ever got to ask me what happened or check the officer Bishop's body cam before writing the letter or did officer Bishop conveniently not have her camera on because she's trying to hide the truth. So the fake V. Thank you, Carrie. Okay. Um, we will now motion for executive session. I move the
091board of education recess to executive session for the purpose of discussing personnel matters pursuant to the non-elected personnel exception under KOMO with Dr. Janice Kerswift, interim superintendent, invited to be present and with the board to return to open session in this room at 8:00. GR, can you correct your motion? You said interim superintendent. Did I really? You did. It It says it in the in board docs. Sometimes that happens. We'll just have you back next time for some. That was good. That was good. I move the board of education recess to executive session for the purpose of discussing personnel matters pursuant to non-elected personnel exception under coma with Dr. Janice Kerswift superintendent [Applause] president and with the board to return to open session in this room at 8:00 p.m. with no action to follow. Secondello.
092Yes. Franklin. Yes. Gordon Ross. Yes. Jones. Yes. Yes. Blackwood. Yes. Seven to zero. and we need to extend. Uh, is there a motion to extend for 30 minutes? I move the board of education recess to executive session for the purpose of discussing personnel matters pursuant to the non-elected personnel exception under coma with Dr. Janice Kursswift, superintendent, invited to be present and with the board to return to open session in this room at 8:32 with no action to follow. Second. We second. Yeah. Gordon Ross. Yes. Jones. Yes. Yes. Buyers, yes. Kadu Blackwood, yes. Castello, yes. Franklin, yes. Motion passes seven to zero. a 5m minute break and then we'll come back and extend to our next executive session. So we will come back here at 8:37. [Music] session and we are going to uh enter a
093new executive session. Does someone have a motion? Yep. I move the board of education recess to executive session for the purpose of discussing personnel matters pursuant to the non-elected personnel exception under coma and with the board to return to open session in this room at 08. I that's 30 minutes, right? Yeah. 908 with no action to follow. I second. Go. Uh Gordon Ross Jones. Yes. Kebell. Yes. Buyers, yes. Yes. Castello. Yes. Franklin. Mot. Motion passes five to zero in the other I Does somebody think that was mine? Is this yours? Okay. Uh, we have returned from executive session with no action to follow. Um, for the last time, is there a motion? Motion to adjurnn. Second. All those in favor? I. Anyone opposed? Not me. All right. Very good. Just be quiet. Yeah.