USD 453 Leavenworth Board of Education Meeting: Monday, June 9, 2025

001Good evening everybody. Today's June 9th if you didn't know it, 2025 and this is a regular meeting of the board of education. Roll call. Mrs. Murphy here. Mrs. Wells here. Mrs. Oh, she's here. Mrs. Wilson, I'm here. Mrs. Reed here. Mr. Zby here. Mrs. Price here. I'm Mike Garnney. See the pledge of allegiance. Stand for the pledge of allegiance. Please turn your phones off if you got them once to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. And now would you please give us the district mission statement? President Carney. Thank you. Just a reminder to everybody here at the dis as well as anybody coming to the podium to speak into the microphone loudly and

002clearly for our folks following at home. Onto the mission of the Levware public schools which is to prepare every student for success in every classroom every day. And right behind me is your board member commitments. Not the top one. I commit to phil fac facilitate the wonders and ask more questions. I commit to not agreeing to push through ideas until they have gone through a discernment phase, earning a majority of support. I commit to sharing my wonder with more clarity and share my discernment to provide thoughtful feedback. I commit to working on my wonders without letting it overtake my focus. I will work on not discounting the importance of my enabling genius as being nice. I will commit to sharing ideas and achieving results for positive change. I commit to being openminded and attentive to

003the ideas of others for the good of the whole and staying focused on the task at hand. And now we move on to the agenda now. Like to make a motion to adopt the agenda as presented. Second. Got a motion to adopt the agenda by Mrs. Wells, second by Miss Murphy. All in favor? Hi. Click 70. I guess recognitions next. No, no schedule input for Thank you, Mr. Carney. I've got two groups here tonight, both of whom qualified for state competition in the spring. Several good things to be proud of here tonight. So, up first is our boys and girls track and field team. And I'm going to have coach head coach R.J. Subtles come to the podium, please. [Applause] Good evening. Uh, I just want to start by saying thank you guys for the

004opportunity to come be recognized. The the group that we have did a phenomenal job preparing for the opportunity to put themselves in a position to qualify for state. Um, so it couldn't be done without the opportunity that you guys provide. So, we thank you guys for all your support and the help that we got from you guys to make sure that we got across the finish line there. Um, as for the group of kids that we have, this is a fraction of what we took to Witchah to make that trip to Cessna Stadium to go compete. Um, but every single one of them did exceedingly abundantly beyond what I could have asked. This is my second year as head coach here at Liverworth High as the track and field head coach. Um, we have a

005phenomenal staff. I have coach uh Alyssa Wilson back there helping support as well. Um but we have a really good staff that has come together and we've got kids from every event group that was able to put themselves in a position to compete at the state track meet. Um and so I'm just super proud of the group that we have and I look forward to more things coming because the group that we have right now is fairly young and so we have a lot of people coming back next year to hopefully challenged to do it again. Thank you guys. I would like to present you and your team with a certificate of recognition from Leworth Unified School District. We present you with Leworth High School track and field for achievement in regional and state level

006competitions throughout the spring court season. Outstanding achievement. Thank you. [Applause] All right, track athletes, if you would make your way over there towards the LV logo. Hey, Jake. One sec. If you would close the cover door, please. I got everybody. [Applause] Stay here. All right. Thank you, Coach Settles. Again, congratulations to our track athletes on a good culmination to the spring sports season. This season culminated at the Topeka's Capitol Federal Nitorium. And here to introduce them is head coach Stenderson and assistant coach of the girls swim team. [Applause] Thank you guys for inviting us here. We appreciate the opportunity. Um we had a team of 12 this year. Of our 12 girls, six of those girls qualified for state. Um with seven events, three relays and uh four individual events. Um out of those six

007girls, four made it to the podium. We had Alyssa Stenderson, Elizabeth How, Alexandria Hal, and Ella Dah. Um the four girls swam the 200 medley relay and the 400 freestyle relays earning fourth and fifth place in both. Um and then Elizabeth how swam both the 50 and the 100yard freestyle earning fourth place in both of her events. And she also was named a second team allstate swimmer as well. So and Elizabeth's actually here to represent as well with all her cool medals. [Applause] to present you all with a certificate of recognition from the Unified School District from the Leworth High School girls swimming team for outstanding achievement at league regional state level competitions throughout the spring sports season on this day the day of June 2025. I can hear. [Music] [Applause] You're all going to

008stay for the meeting. Mr. Potter, just looking for confirmation. That was it for our groups. Right. Again, congratulations to all of our spring sport athletes. [Applause] Thank you all for coming. I guess we move right along here. Okay, I think we can continue. Item three is it going to be the reinvestment housing incentive district with uh Mr. W. President Carney. Thank you. Our guest tonight is Mr. Vogle from H Heartland Housing Partners. I want to stress tonight is information only. Uh but it's under the assumption that this may be action that's facing you here shortly. And when I say shortly, likely within the next fiscal year. And so the idea tonight was to get in front of this with information very much a question and answer type of format but a chance for you to

009understand what is an RHID and the implications that may be facing you as a taxing entity moving forward. So with that Mr. Vogle the microphone is yours. Thank you Dr. Adams and thank you Mrs. Reed for uh orchestrating us to come and visit about this. We I've spoken to Mrs. Reed about uh reinvestment housing incentive districts in her capacity at the county. Thank you for coming. I uh looked around high and low and you were the only name that I was given for anyone to talk to the schoolboard about our HID. So, thank you. Well, that that leads me into the introduction. Uh our company uh Heartland Housing Partners has worked on housing and unreserved markets across the state of Kansas for about 12 years now. Um and first of all, we need to applaud

010our leaders in TPIA. I know we don't always uh but they've had the foresight to see that housing is an issue and has been an issue in a lot of places in Kansas for a long time. Uh starting after 2008, some places before that 2008 housing crisis and it's just moved across the state. Um I'm going to show you a list later of all the places that are using this tool and it's places very close to you all. So um first question is what a what is a reinvestment housing incentive district? Uh reinvestment housing incentive district is a way for real estate projects to capture future real estate taxes um through the increased value of the land. So little bit of mouthful. I have a I'll have a slide that'll maybe clarify that in a

011bit. uh it it has been around since 1998 but has become much more been used much more uh regularly in the last seven eight years across the state as well. Um RHID's permitted uses basically it allows those future real estate taxes to pay for infrastructure costs to keep it simple. You can see the whole list of infrastructure costs um and infrastructure related related soft costs. It also includes there've been two provisions. Once again, TPIA has been aggressive um or the state legislature has been aggressive on um these programs and two things they've done in 2021. They allowed for seconds story um buildings that are in downtown areas to be able to use their building construction as an eligible cost to be recovered later or to be reimbursed later. And in 2022, uh we saw a

012lot of lots around the state um or that already had infrastructure in place, but the economics didn't work for those. So the legislature said that if uh infrastructure has been in place, so I mean streets, utilities been in place for 10 years, you could once again use the construction cost as an eligible expense. Here's where I hope this explains it a little better than I did in my opening. So, we have a we have a piece of property and it's getting taxed at $100 per year right now. A developer or builder comes in and puts a house on it and it becomes taxed at $1,000 a year. Much lower numbers than would actually occur. The taxing jurisdictions would continue to receive that $100 a year and the additional $900 and there's a lot of complexities

013in this so but keeping it simple. the additional $900 would be reimbursed to that developer to help offset those infrastructure costs. And I'll get to get to why those infrastructure costs need to be offset later as we continue through the pres presentation. Um our HIDs for up to are for up to 25 years. Um in a in a community like Levvenworth, I could imagine that it would probably be around 20 years to make most projects work. I won't I won't say that as fast and hard. Much smaller communities, we often go out to 25 years. and the uh Levorth County um has said that they're adverse to anything 15 years, but they also said they were open to listening on a project by project basis during that meeting. So, and when you limit it to

01415 years, it becomes difficult for certain types of projects to occur because there's variables that that happen um such as doing some off-site infrastructure like a street to get to a development. uh the RHID creation process. Wanted you all to see this because it's important to know that you won't come and be blindsided by an RHID. In order to create an RHID, there are three public steps at the city level. So ultimately, this is a city's decision to um enact an RHID district. Um and there are three steps. So the project's become very well vetted. In addition to Levvenworth County, the county has also uh requested quite a bit of information if an RHID will were to be able were to be approved. So projects will be well vetted when they come your way. But

015the other thing that we always do is when we start a project that has a potential for an RHID, we visit with the developer and and the city about visiting with the county and the school district early on so they know it's coming. So you won't be blindsided that you get a notice and say you you have to choose whether to um accept this RHID. The one important thing on on the bottom last section is a public hearing. That's the third step. But there's one fourth step. That fourth step is that you you two chat taxing jurisdictions. The county and the school district have 30 days uh if you want to veto an RHID. um your action can be taken by inaction meanings meaning if it sets for 30 days it would become enacted um

016I suspect with the level of scrutiny that we might have in um Levvenworth or in Levvenworth County um that you might want to take action but we'll decide that when the time comes um you may be asking I gave a similar presentation to this or starting at this point to the Leworth County Development Council And in Lancing, there's been a lot of questions about a potential RHID and the value to the community. And what we noticed there, it beca the discussion became so much so much about RHID that we forgot the real issue that we're dealing with. And the reality is um Lancing and Levvenworth have serious housing problems and there haven't been houses built here in a long, long time. And one of the things we always say is even if we're talking about

017building by the way I do a ton of consulting around the state been involved in I don't really know 35 40 50 of these um around the state in some capacity. I also do my own development. I was talking on the way up here with one of my partners in the development in Edwardsville and we said hey the market will tell us what we need to know and um that's the same thing that's occurring in Lance or in Levvenworth. The market is telling you what you need to know. they are not interested and we'll get back to that a little later and and it but we can fix that. Um a developer that is interested in Leborth had his own housing needs analysis done. That analysis was done by RDG which is a well-known housing

018study group out of Omaha, Nebraska. They did the state's housing study in 2021. They did Lancing's housing study. Um and they did one for this particular developer. By the way, Dr. Adams, I'd be glad to send that to you and you can forward that to your folks. Just didn't want to bring it because it's a stack this high. So, um that that study showed that there is a need for 593 housing units by 2035 in Levvenworth. Um 356 owner occupied, 237 renter occupied. It was across all value ranges and unit types. What I mean by that is expensive houses, not so expensive houses, rental, single family homes, everything was needed across the board. That's about 60 units per year. Uh, couple other interesting facts. 69% of the workforce lives outside the city of Levvenworth. Uh,

019now there are a lot of there are a lot of na lot of places you can find this information. So, I'm going to tell you there's noise in this and I could have gone to six other sites, but a look at homes.com on June 2nd showed 45 homes listed for sale at a minimum of 200,000 in Levvenworth, Kansas. Of those 45, eight were actually outside of the community. That's where I say there's some noise in it. Um, there was one new home listed for sale. If I recall correctly, it was in the 700s. 700,000s was the cost. So, no homes list for sale. Uh, nearly 50% of housing units in Levvenworth are renter occupied, which is just high. That's higher than we normally see, but I think there's some obvious reasons why, but I just

020point that out. And the last thing that I I'm not going to go in with you to with with you all, but we would certainly point out is uh I I uh Miss Reed sent me a study that you saw in April about your enrollment. Uh looks like in school enrollment is down here. Um there's a lot of lot of things that can be done, but certainly new housing would help that. [Music] Um housing issues in Levvenworth. I mentioned this earlier. Our company's view and I think a lot of people's view is the housing issue is a supply side issue. In 2008, a lot of developers and builders got wiped out and they didn't come back or got went to work for larger companies or larger builders or a lot of different things. So, there's

021just not that many builder developers. Um, another thing I'll I'll mention that occurs in most markets oftentimes because of difficulty in in getting debt from banks. Banks now view can view housing as as a risky business after 2008. The memories are long. Um, there's often a builder and a and a land developer and they're two separate people. Land development is really risky um business because it's hard, it's expensive and it takes a long time to uh get return on profit. Um then you have to have a builder. Builders don't want to land develop because they want to use their debt capacity for building homes. So you really have a supply side issue. And what I mean by that is I for instance you have a builder that built here for a very long time that

022is choosing to build in other markets. And he's he doesn't hide that at all. Right? he's choosing to build in other markets and not choose to choosing to build in Leworth. That doesn't mean that isn't going to change. Um sorry, wasn't sure if these would pop up or not. Um one one thing we see so we talked about lack of builders developers. Um lack of building subdivision lots. We've asked the question or or myself and and a couple people that are interested in Levvenworth have asked the question, how many developable buildable lots? meaning lots that are created for single family that we could walk out today and buy and start building. We can't get an answer. And it's not because someone doesn't want to give the answer. They're just are very few around or if

023they are if they are available, they may not be in areas that are as attractive uh for investment. I'm sorry, did you say builders don't want to use their debt capacity for infrastructure or they Sorry. Yeah, good question. They don't want to use their debt capacity to to build lots. Okay? So, because they they want to focus at what they're good at. I mean, quite frankly, if you're surviving as a builder today, it's because you're really good at building homes because you don't survive otherwise. Okay? Um, so they want to use that debt capacity. That isn't to say, uh, Miss Reed, that there are builders that also develop their own lots. Um, but it just doesn't occur all the time. Okay. Um, attainability. I'm going to talk about three three items here. Um, we have

024to have attainable priced housing. Um, Levvenworth by Kansas standards has pretty good median family income, which indicates that, um, certainly housing can be built. I know Miss Reed's always asked this great question. Even heavily incentivized projects, the lowest you're probably going to find for a price point is 300,000. we may see under 300,000 every now and again. Um, and it's just the realities of building housing now. And and that's, you know, a 14, 15, 1300 square foot slab on grade may have a basement, but probably slab on grade to be under 300,000 or at 300,000. So, there's an attainability of of and we use the word attainable rather than affordable um of of building new homes. Um, existing home renovation there. You know, there may be people that want to downsize or move out of

025their current homes and and different families could move in those homes or different people could move in those homes, but where would they go if they want to stay in Levvenworth? There's no homes to purchase here. And then the last one, we've talked uh a lot about new homes. Talk about rent rental development economics. The rental market just does not work in almost anywhere in the state of Kansas or most places without being heavily incentivized. even some of the large projects you might hear about or see about in in Johnson County have some type of incentives. Um, economics just don't work because of the the cost to build interest rates that have gone from 3.75% to 7% have all created tremendous headwinds on um rental projects. So, the economics don't work for rental projects without

026being heavily incentivized. That's where you would see an RHID u be used to help offset uh the future real estate taxes by reimbursing that developer for their infrastructure costs for a rental project. The other reason that that kind of the time is now for action. You know, we had spoken to some folks in Levvenworth. They said, "Yeah, we just had some had a ton of rental done just recently." And when we look back, and I may get my dates wrong, so don't owe me to it, but that's been in the late teens that there was quite a bit of rental being built downtown, late 2019, 18. So we're six, seven years past that, and there hasn't been hardly any rental built since then in Levvenworth and and very little single family development timelines. If we

027started today and a developer or builder said, "Hey, Ross, let's go for it. Let's do an RH idea. I'm ready to do a project. Here's an idea for my project." At best, we would maybe have people moving in before the school year in 2027 if we started today. That assumes things goes go pretty smoothly. It just takes that long uh to to develop. I I use the word development. So, time for action is now. I know the city is is considering some action. I don't know exactly what that is, but the city is considering some action on RHIDS. We talk about housing incentives and I mentioned this earlier. Reinvestment housing incentive districts have been uh used. These are communities that are simil similar to you or geographically similar to you. Bonner Springs, Edwardsville, Spring Hill,

028Gardner, Edertton, Wellsville, Baldwin City, Perry, Tonganoxy. Didn't think to put it on this list, but it's been used a lot in Aches as well. Um so you're one of the few communities that that haven't used RHID uh to help in housing. You notice that Spring Hill and Gardener are on there. They're two of the largest uh or fastest growing communities in the state. They've used RHID although were those were very targeted projects to specific needs within the community. Um lastly then what we have found predominantly over and over and over across the state is that the school districts are the biggest proponents of use of RHID and they're dealing with the same things you are. I need some housing for my teachers and staff. We don't have housing. I need some rental for my new

029teacher that's coming in uh that that he or she is going to feel safe in. Um often schools, districts are dealing with an enrollment issue, enrollment issues. New housing is a way to to uh deal with that enrollment issue. And here's the big thing. I know you heard pay taxes are going away. Every time that someone has done a deep dive that I've seen, so I'll qualify this statement. It is either to be neutral or positive financial outcomes for the district and the financing formula is really really complicated and it's on a case- by case basis but it would either be neutral or a positive outcome. Of course you get paid by student that helps. I don't want to dive too far into that because I'm not an expert at it by any means but

030but you're dealing with something that's probably neutral to your taxur jurisdiction. So that is basically the presentation. I hope that I've explained what an RHID is to enough for you to understand it. It It wasn't perfect, but um be glad to take any questions that you have. Perfect. Thank you. No, my brain was wrapping. Okay. Sorry. I'm glad to answer. So you're basically telling us that on this concept like this um 90% will go to you for development. There's not negotiation processes of where we say yeah we might consider this idea as a community but we think a 6535 split would be better and more economical for us. It's a great question. I was talking I was just giving you an example of how our hi I countered it. Yeah. Yeah. No, just as an

031example of how RHID works, sometimes, not often, there will be negotiations about splits and that is occurring. It's occurring in a community close to you all. So, it does happen. So, is there a ballpark though that is what is usual? Like you say, median house value now is basically 300,000. What is the usual cut right now? I didn't mention one more thing because I didn't want to confuse the matter. the 20 mills that goes to the state for schools um is retained or it doesn't come the developer. So between that and several other things it's usually about 83 84 82 83 84% of the real est future real estate taxes. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Perfect. Could we have some board discussion maybe at this time? Good. Yep. Good for my again. I just want

032to emphasize tonight was not about action. Um but I am I guess reading tea leaves that I think action may be coming your way and so I think it would be timely to have the conversation with Ross in the room. So I just kind of wanted to give my explanation not only to the public but also to the board. As you know, we can't talk much behind closed doors and I like to make sure as much as I can that we do everything in public. Um, I don't want to just represent my side and my opinion, and I think there's probably things that we can agree on, but there's probably things that we won't agree on. And so, I'm I just kind of would open it up for discussion. But what I did not want

033is for an RHA to come before the school board, and we had not discussed it. Um, the school board members had potentially not even heard of what an RHD was. and then we're trying to kind of cram make a decision or make a bobblehead decision based on um recommendations. So, I would just encourage each board member to really do their homework, do their own research. Um there's been a lot of activity in Lancing. You can go back and watch the Lancing City Council meetings the last several months. Um there's a lot of people that have done a lot of research and that have um stood up for their neighborhoods. And I don't want to name drop anybody, but there's definitely people that I can get you in contact with in Levvenworth County that have been

034able to dedicate a lot of time not only with state statutes, but also researching what the effects they believe these kind of things will be. The last two, if I'm not mistaken, failed in Lancing City Council, and I don't know exactly where they're at with that, but it's it's a many tiered process. It's not like one fails at the city level. then you never see it again. It might come back. So, to me, it's a it's something I'm still researching and I've already spent a lot of time researching it and I wanted to give a heads up to my fellow board members um to please make sure that you've researched all sides of it. Every time I hear someone speak on it, I think this was probably definitely the second time I've heard uh Mr.

035Vogle, but every time I've heard someone speak on it, I learn a different viewpoint. Um, so I'm going to give you some of my questions that have come to me kind of where I sit on it and for the different reasons so you can kind of see um why I wanted us to discuss this tonight because I wanted to put my thoughts before the board also for consideration. Um, we have developers that have developed in Levvenworth City that no longer develop in Levvenore City. I don't know if you've taken time to meet with any of those as I have, but it's very interesting. um take the time to to find out how the city is being ran as well as to why it's not necessarily a development friendly city without tax incentives because that would

036be the best deal in my opinion for everybody is if the city of Levvenworth worked with people well and they were great to not only existing business owners but people that want to come in and build new developments and and they were good to work with. They were quick on responses. we didn't have extra um stuff built into our streets. I'm not a very technical person with that yet. I'm working on it. Um than other cities have. So, we have some barriers in place. Um one of them is sprinkler systems in our downtown area. If you know, I dealt with this when I opened my business in Lancing. Even though the last person before you was operating, when you go in to operate, you're responsible for bringing that up to code. And that might be

037hundreds of thousands of dollars. And that might be time that you didn't um imagine when, let's just say for Levvenworth Downtown for instance, maybe a little jewelry boutique wants to open boutique and they, you know, also have an online sales game going on, but they don't think about how putting a sprinkler system in a dated building is going to make it so they can never open. So sometimes we have codes, but I think codes need to be used and applied with reason. And I know it's difficult because we also have to make sure as a board, I understand we don't make these decisions at the schoolboard level, but these RHIDs will affect the taxes that come into the school district. And so it's important to have this conversation. I don't want to go on too

038long, but I have some notes here if you'll give me time. Um, as the superintendent explained, RHAD may be coming to the school district. It may be after I'm off the school board, but I encourage the school district, as I already said, um to watch and study them. I also encourage you not to just take data that's handed down to you, even if it's a housing study or anything that's done at the levels before you. Go over the information. Look for mistakes. Make sure it's actually right. Um there were mistakes found in Lancing, um not by people on the boards, but by regular citizens. So, make sure you take your time to really go over the information and make sure what's being presented to you is correct. Um, I, as I said, encourage you to

039meet with people in the city that have built here before but aren't building and talk to them about why and see if there's anything we can encourage the city to work on, even from our seat as a school board, to try and help us with these things. I know that housing is a concern of Dr. Adams. Um, you know, I feel like he's pretty much been speaking about that since he got on here. Um, but I just think we need to be extremely careful. Um, these are some of the things that I want you to consider. Um, I I took notes when he was speaking, so let me get to my part. Let's say that your neighbor's house burns down and they had no insurance and they could not afford to rebuild their home. Would

040you pay for their home to be rebuilt? If someone wanted to move into the empty lot behind your home or let's say maybe 417 houses, would you want individuals from other areas whose politics may differ from yours? They may change the tide of the local landscape and even the state level. Um, we had a Lancing City Council race that was decided, I think it was two years ago, by just one vote if I'm not mistaken. Um, our senatorial race here was really close. So, sometimes when we think about homes, we don't really think about all the impacts of those homes, but we also have to take into consideration to into consideration urbanization that can happen. Um, we have to understand that we may be taking a step to become like Johnson County, um, politically, which

041obviously some on this board would want and some wouldn't, but I think it's just important to make sure that we understand all the impacts and of what could happen. And obviously Levvenworth is completely different than Lancing. And so, one of the things that's critical is to make sure that you understand the kind of developments that Levvenworth might be looking at versus the ones in other neighborhoods. Um, let's see. So, it's there's two sides to everything. Um, and I'm not saying that the presenter and I are necessarily on different sides. Um, but I just wanted to make sure that you guys had more or less two sides of this. Um, I'm not anti-development. I don't want Levvenworth to die. Um, but I want to make sure that it's done responsibly and I want to make sure

042that we protect the taxpayer dollars that are supposed to be coming to our students learning. Some people believe that this type of development is just like padding the developer or the home builder's pockets at the end of the day. It's building their portfolio. Um, other people believe that the incentive would be so good for the community that it outweighs that. I've struggled to be able to substantiate that. The other thing is if you look at downtown, this is just an example. Um, with the sprinkler systems, so your money goes to infrastructure, whether it's through NRHD or if it's just by your city government or county, whoever's doing the development doing infrastructure. So, for instance, one of our neighborhood cities um had done some infrastructure work on land on what they say was like a side

043handshake deal. The developer never came through and developed that property. So, even though the Lancing City Council put Lancing City taxpayers money into um potential infrastructure, the land still sits empty. And so sometimes they look at the RHIDs as more of a guarantee because if you want something developed as a city and it's good for the people, it's the right decision for the schools, etc. It's not bad for the taxpayer and you have to decide is RHID the right mechanism or are we going to be able to find someone to come through and do it in a way that we would all we're more familiar with where the city pays for the infrastructure to be done to make it a developable property. So your taxpayer dollars are going to that you're regardless if they do

044the infrastructure in hopes that someone will come along and develop it or if you use an RHID where you have people on board. And so some cities I think in Lancing's case, I'm not speaking for them, but my understanding of talking with everyone is they want to go the road of RHIDs because if you're going to put taxpayer dollars into infrastructure, you at least have someone who you know is going to come through and work on it. You have more or less people on the hook for that. if you would, rather than putting taxpayer dollars into infrastructure when you don't have a definite um agreement with the developer. So, I know the city of Levvenworth has not made an RHD RHID policy yet. Um I think they're waiting on a housing study, which will be

045interesting to see how that comes out. But I just wanted the board to kind of start doing research on it now and know where you stand. And I would love for the school district to put an RHD policy together um like the county has done which basically just lists out for you know how we want to be contacted how much we want to be involved when these projects come along. Um watching what rolled out in Lancing, I really do feel like um it was quick. Um you know, not to counter Mr. vocal, but I I feel like people did feel um you know, like rushed into it. I know at the county level as a county commissioner, I felt rushed into making a policy, not making policy, what the policy should be. So that's why

046from my own personal experience I wanted to have this discussion tonight bring it before the board ask you to do your own research individually talk to people in the community um I never was successful at getting any of the state legislatores legislators that voted on this latest policy in 2023 to have any discussion with me as to you know we had a Republican majority at the time in the state house and so I was trying to figure out, you know, why did the state level legislators think the RHD policies were good for a city like Levvenworth? And I have not gotten any of them to answer that for me. So, I'm still trying to research it for my own. This is hopefully I've done a decent job at explaining how confused I am on some

047of the matters. Um, which is why I wanted an official presentation to be done to try to hopefully um add some context. and so my uh opinions would make sense. So that's where I stand at right now is that if we were going to approve something, I want to make sure that we're going into it educatedly and that we've all researched it. Thank you. Anybody else? I just want to say one thing real quick. I I talked to one of Lemur's largest developers about three times a week and he's worried Le is not going to grow. All the actions towards Baser Tongi, he talked about Gardner Edton and those those kinds of communities, they're growing. Lumbars are not growing. All you got to do is go up here at the bridge and see all the

048traffic comes across that bridge day and one way the other way. People are living across the river but working here. And then why why aren't they here? Because nobody developing anything. And I don't think you're going to see much development. It's a great idea if you got development, but you know, I think he mentioned something about the the the fact that you're they're they're not going to get ahead of themselves on it. Anyway, so one school of thought is to set policy not during the heat of the moment, but rather when the time is cool. So I just wanted to entertain is this a conversation you want to continue to have where we could bring model policy drafts for you. My concern is trying to set policy when you then got then have implications right

049in front of or right behind that. So what it makes sense to set policy now just like a broad economic development policy whether it's RHID tiff CI etc. I I hope that these opportunities continue to come before you, but having that set now helps future boards as well as the current board. Great. Okay. So, with that, our team will bring you draft policy uh to consider with the idea that this would likely be an ongoing conversation uh but hopefully having something set in stone before impending decisions are in front of you. I would like the presentations to really focus on the tax tax portion. You know, will the school district lose money? Will the city lose money? Will the county lose money? Will the tax dollar lose money? Or at the end of the day,

050what's the bottom line? And if it isn't an RHID and we are losing XYZ amount of taxpayer dollars, then you know, how much is the developer, the homebuilders, etc. making at the end of the day, including their investment. What are they clearing at the end? Um, if we can get some real life examples of those from the communities around us, I think that would be really helpful for us to be able to look at that. Um, I think Marty Kovza, Lancing Superintendent, if I'm not mistaken, had put out a study that was not um favorable towards it. Um, so that might be something that we could look at as well. Not that we can't create our own information. Obviously, I'm I'm welcoming staff doing that because I have no idea where the district or or

051the board sets on this, but that's what I wanted to explore and find out before we're in a time crunch. So, I would be interested to know if KPI and KSB already have policy written and researched regarding the impacts for school boards. And I know we just had like KSBRC here and if they have something on it, I wasn't able to find it. So I'm just going to warn you, we may be on slightly unchartered waters as a school district. Um I think this is somewhat new work as far as USDs are concerned. But um to our mantra, first in all we do, maybe we can be the first school district uh with a board policy on economic development. Thank you. Well, with all the cities that he mentioned having already done them around us,

052you know, did any of those come to a schoolboard vote? Were they just silent on them and they passed? You know, these are things I would really love help um discovering. So, we will bring we will bring you back something to consider here in the upcoming months. Thank you, Mr. Vogel. Thank you for your time tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Item four, Richard Warren intermediate school project. All right, going along with our trend of having guests up at the front end of the agenda so that they can leave after. Uh this is a capital project that has uh a third party, so to speak, that's here. And so that's why we put it at the front end of the agenda. There was no other reason. So it is an action item for you. uh

053it is specific to the intermediate school and specifically tied to the uh I'm going to say the infrastructure uh needed if you will uh in order to move the NETI programs fully over there for this school year. So Beth's got an introduction and then we'll take questions as appropriate. Can you open that? Okay. So as Dr. Adams said this is due to moving the Netti programs to Richard Warren Intermediate School and the map is on the next page. So this shows the first floor at Warren Intermediate School. The blue lines reflect what is the project. So there would be a doorway built um with badge control access and then there's a wall built there in the collaboration area to to um so that that can be enclosed. And then there would be another door built

054at the stallway at the stairway for controlled access. And that is so um the students could not go up the stairs, but the students on the second floor can still go down and out. There's also going to be a it's not going to be a door, but it's going to be a pass through way um built into the wall between B 104 and 105. Currently, that's just a solid wall. So, there' be a doorway put in so that the people could move back and forth between the two rooms. Okay. So that's the project. Is that on the first floor or the second floor? First floor. Okay. Okay. So we have partnered with Gordian and John Grider is here with Gordian. They do job order contracting and that's how we've partnered with them. They have a

055list of construct construction tasks that are from the source well bid, right? And so the uh the project is given to a contractor and then they put together a proposal. So the proposal sum that they put together cost $86,500 [Music] like 8758670. My name is John Grder. I'm senior account manager for Gordian. We are the administrator uh of the Sourcewell cooperative purchasing contract for construction and we teamed up with BKM a local contractor here in in Levvenworth to uh produce this proposal from our construction test catalog. The way that this process works very simply is that Gordian as an administrator provides source we have a contract with source to provide them with construction data. That data is specific to the Kansas market and BKM bid and adjustment factor against a fixed set of construction tasks

056in our catalog. Um those tasks are outlined and my job is to make certain that the representation of those line items is correct. All the line items are correct, all the quantities are correct, all the scope of work that you all have asked us to execute is included. Take the construction task that's a fixed cost. multiply it times our adjustment factor. That's the total for that line. Add it up. That's the price for the project. And that's exactly what we did on this project. Work through with Kathy and um on the scope of work initially and then with complete the proposal and review it. So as you see most of the cost was in the doors door frames and and control. So in order to have this project completed by August 1st, we would need

057board approval to enter into the contract. And so Gordian chose BKM. There wasn't a bidding process. Yeah, there actually is a bidding pro process that takes place through Sourcewell. Okay. And then Sourcewell uh gives that contract to um the contractors that are chosen at that time. BKM was awarded that contract. Actually, they've had the contract for about four years. It's a fiveyear total on that contract. It'll come up back up to bid soon. But BKM actually Julie's call is also local. He's also got a contract as well. Uh we chose BKM because their availability. they were they were in agreement that they would be able to execute in the time frame that we were talking about and also we've done a ton of work with them over the last five years. So really really good

058quality work. So we need a motion then. Well I still have a question. How is it we came up with um using source well to do the bids out for this? I know in the past we've normally like had DLR and some other organizations come and put bids for work that we've done on our buildings. So I'm kind of missing where we bypassed all that. Sure. So first DLR would be your architect andor engineering firm. Um so that was engaged in professional services earlier in the spring. Um the second piece is we chose to go with job order contracting primarily due to the timeline of this. We did not go with the traditional hard bid so to speak uh that you're probably referencing Mrs. Murphy u because that typically takes much longer to go through

059procure award and ultimately you would not have the project ready by the start of school. So essentially the source well is already an omnibus contract that's done all that negotiations all of the sourcing or whatever. We're just going in saying we want this job done. Okay. This meets competitive bidding guidelines on every single line item. Thank you. Now, can I get a motion? And this is coming out of capital. Yes. I'll do a motion that we approve this project. I second. Got a motion by Mrs. Overby to approve project Warren. Second by Mrs. Price. All in favor? I. 70. like Beth, thank you. The next items is the consent agenda. Do we have any problems on the consent agenda we want to take off? Um I would like to take off item 5.4. Um just

060one job description, the assistant superintendent of student services. Um I just wanted to word smith um a piece of that and um and suggest some edit. Okay. 54. Anything else? Uh I want to put pull off 5.1. I did talk to Beth about it, but I I had a couple of concerns I want to make sure that are shared. 51 51 Oh, checkbook register. Okay. Check register. Do you want to keep them in the order they're in or the order in which they were pulled? Yep. You got it. I'd like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda as amended. Second. A motion to approve the agenda is amended and seconded. All in favor? I. 70. [Music] Okay. We're going to talk about the checkbook register. Yeah. Your next agenda item. Okay, that's fine.

061Um, but for everybody's clarity might help because it might be a while before we come back. I have check register as 8.1 and I have job descriptions as 8.2. Make sense? Yes. I did them in the order they're occurring and not the order in which they were pulled. Good idea. We are now ready for an executive session. Mr. Carney. Okay. Six. Mr. President, I move we go into executive session to discuss non-elected personnel pursuant to the exception under the panzas open meetings act or coma in order to protect the privacy interest of the individuals to be discussed that we return to open session in this room at 7:35. The board will invite Dr. Adams, Amy Sloan, Amy Joe Troyer, Beth Maddox, and Robert Hangula into the meeting. 7:35 put a bio break in before we

062go. Yes, there can be a bio in there. Okay, good. And I second it. You second. Who second it? Okay. Got a motion to go into session by Mrs. Price, second by Mrs. Murphy. All in favor? I 70. We have multiple motions to attend to. First off, I move to approve the staffing report as presented. Second. Okay, we got a motion by Miss Price to approve the staffing report. Second by Miss Murphy. No. Oh, Miss Wells. Sorry. All in favor? Hi. Hi. No. Okay. No. No. On Mr. Reed. Any particular reason? We were in executive session for that. So, I can't discuss it out here. We can go back in if you want. I did lay my concerns out when we were in executive session. Oh, never mind. I'm going back in executive session. Okay.

063So, 61. The next one is I'm um move to approve the starting classified pay rates as presented. I'll second. Got a motion on the pay raise by Miss Price. Second by Melby. All in favor? I look like seven 61. What? Seven. Seven. Okay. Next. Okay. The next we reading a resolution. So motion for final action of the board of education in regard to the non-renewal of a teachers contract where no hearing was held. Resolution 24/25-024. Whereas on the 12th day of May, 2025, the Board of Education of Unified School District number 453, Levvenworth County, Kansas, by resolution duly adopted took action to notify Peter Harley of the board's intent that his contract as a teacher for this district would be non-renewed for the 2025-2026 school year. And whereas pursuant to the resolution, the clerk of

064the board of education gave written notice to Peter Harley on the 14th day of May, 2025 of the board's intent that his contract as teacher for this district be non-renewed for the 2025-2026 school year. And whereas after extensive consideration and thorough discussion of the matter the board has determined that the matter should be resolved as han and ha after indicated now therefore be it resolved by the board of education of unified school district number 453 Levvenworth County Kansas. Section one that Peter Harley's 2025 2026 school year contract as teacher be non-renewed on the 9th day of June 2025. and section two that the clerk of the board of education give Peter Harley a signed copy of this resolution in person or by United States mail or by email. Adopted by the board of education and

065unified school district number 453, Levenworth County, Kansas on this 9th day of June, 2025. Okay, the resolution stands as read. Do I have a second? Second. We have resolution presented and second by Mrs. Wells. All in favor? Hi 61. Okay, where are we at? Okay, the last item from the executive session is I move the board approve a 2.5% raise for the 2025 2026 school year for Dr. Adams. Second motion by Mr. Price, second by Mrs. Wells for pay raise for two and a half% for superintendent. All in favor? I plug 52. Right along just remind everyone to see Miss Maddox to sign the original resolution before you leave tonight. So we're up to the [Music] cassette, correct? You there yet? Yep. So just a reminder, we were going to go in the order they

066were listed. So 81 was previously 51. Okay. Checkbook register. Okay. So I was going through it and um I noticed and I did talk to Beth about it and she got to me very rapidly and I truly appreciate it. Um we had fees at local restaurants. Um $330 here and $40 there. The thing is is they were listed under rather than lunches or meals or something else. One would be supplies and materials, another one was under travel and meetings and um it just didn't make sense. I mean it's lunch for whoever be it one two 20 is not supplies or materials or um travel if you've not traveled meetings possibly but even a celebratory is not a meeting um so that's why I had a question on it and just wanted to to be transparent

067because we're in a age where we've just sat here and had to go through uh trimming and callulling so many things from our budget to get down to break even and now we're spending $100,000 almost $100,000 to do work at Warren and whatever else may come up you know it just I wanted it to make sense. Thank you. So are you saying that things were filed? I mean, it's just going through the ledger wherever it would say of restaurant X 300 and some odd dollars and I I let me see if I can Mr. Cifford, will we pull up the report and zoom in on the specific page and line item that's referenced, please? Thank you. It looks like page 12 of the check register. I see two local places. So 422 a purchase of

068local X 33481 and it's listed as travel and meetings. Um what do you feel the line item should be listed as? Well, it wasn't travel. It's a local restaurant meetings. I found out it wasn't a meeting. It was a uh party. Will you please zoom to the top to show the column header? Okay. So, what you'll see there in the description column is some broader categories. It looks like it starts with contracted services. Go ahead with a slow scan, please. Student transportation, repairs, travel/meings. I'm not going to go through all of these. Um, but we do have just kind of these broader categories. Right. Again, it wasn't a meeting. It wasn't travel. It was So, I'm going to say celebrate celebratory. Beth, was this just incorrectly classified? Correct. Okay. You should have been under other

069expenses. Thank you for catching that, Lisa. And and I t you know in my email I talked to Beth about how some of the other ones it might have been uh where it's $15 to eat at restaurant Y two blocks away or restaurant Q four blocks away. But it just, you know, it's not supplies, it's not materials, it's not travel or meetings. So that's why it just kind of threw me off. And I just wanted to make sure like while we're trying to cull and trim that we are, you know, paying attention to things like that. Thank you. Well, we would still request an approval of the affforementioned check register, please. I'll make a motion to approve the check register. Second and vote Murphy. Second by M. Reed. All in favor of the check register.

070I 70 and all right. So the second one was 54 originally and now it's 82. You've got the stage, Mrs. Overby. Okay. Um, I wanted to look at the language on um the assistant superintendent of student services um under the key responsibilities um number four. And to be clear, I know that was um that was written with an eye to special education. Um and when I first read it, it didn't bother me. Um, but I think we could tighten up the language a little bit because we just um well, we have new directives to remove DEI if we and I don't think we've done a lot of DEI um but to remove that and make sure that we're in compliance with um um the new directives and um I think the language is a little

071loose. and you could drive a truck through it. Basically, I think we should tighten it up. And I would um I have a couple suggestions. Um just I think since it's suggestions, I think you can approve the others except for that one and that one be rewritten with your suggestions and be provided back to the board because we're not going to track what you're saying. Okay. But I think saying that you going to provide them that then everybody else has a chance. I have a copy for everybody if you want it if you want to look I'm just saying that but editing on the fly out here it's just I think might but I I think yeah that particular one I don't have a problem with the other ones but that particular one that number

072four I think we could um can I see your copy camera we could be a little more um there's a couple of suggestions since you have multiple suggestions that's why I'm like editing on the fly I don't think we want to approve it at this point but are we right but we provider just so that we're in compliance and um and that we're more precise in our language. Thank you. So, M Price, you're suggesting we review these and then we'll come back to it. But they can take them by the next turn and then we can say yes. Okay. because we're not gonna it's two different options and we can not time. So, thank you Karen. Okay, does that make sense? Making sure I'm tracking because I heard two different things. So, the other three.

073Yep. No issues with unless someone else has issues with them. No, no issues with the other. Just the one other and then paragraph four for the assistant superintendent for learning services. Learning services, excuse me. Student servicesdeed. Yeah, student services. Okay. Is the one that you take that's the clarification I needed. Yep. Somewhere between these because there's multiple there's two suggestions for the same paragraph. Right. I don't think we want to edit in public. So, I would say take the suggestions, come up with the new language, circulate with everybody on a Friday update, and then we can go from there. Okay. So, to restate what I think I heard, are we going to do this next month? No, just that one. Just that one. It's just the one part of the one. So, we have the

074ability to send it back to you and unless there's somebody wants a correction further request from Mrs. um overview make those changes and put it in the BOE it goes in effect July one. Yes, I think we could do that. Yeah. And then unless somebody if everybody would take a look at it, we'll do her correction. And then unless somebody opposes those corrections, then that would be the we would see it in the DOE. Yes. Okay. So I guess it would be we approve them with the additions of correction to that. Yeah. Okay. Well, we would we would request action on 82, please. 82. The three job descriptions as originally proposed and the fourth one with amendments. Yes. So, I move that we accept the job um descriptions as presented and that amendments to the

075assistant superintendent for learning services, excuse me, student services be provided back to the board. Second, we got motion by Mrs. Price to What was that mouthful? We accept them with changes being made to the assist assistant superintendent of student services to be returned to the board. All right. So that's the motion. It's been seconded by this. Is your hand high? Is your hand high on it? Okay. All in favor? I 70 there. Okay. Now we nine. Sorry. I guess I should read that motion, but I'm just trying to keep Now you're ready for nine. Number nine. Call a doctor plus. I think the doctors are coming. [Music] Hi. We're here to talk to you guys. Do I need to talk directly into this? We're here to talk to you guys today about Call Dr. Plus.

076It's a program that would bring a lot of really cool mental health services to our district. My name is Shelby Hardesty. I'm a behavior analyst for us and also a coordinator of our district mental health team. And then I'm Meredith Dyke. I'm a school psychologist for the district and also part of the district mental health team. So the first thing we kind of put on here is just the strategic plan and we outlined the areas that call a doctor plus would um assist us with. Um, so the staffing and personnel, family and community involvement, and then student engagement and support services. So what it is, it's a $2 million grant. So it's a no cost to our district. This company finds the funds. Those funds will flow through our district and then be given back

077to our students, our students family members, and our staff. So all three of those parties will have access to either inerson or taotherapy that'll be provided by a variety of professionals. Um why do we need this? Again we need access to mental health services. This does not replace anything that we already have. So it will not replace the guidance center. It will not replace our EAP for staff. It's just another service. And the good thing about this is it's a lot easier to access. So that taotherapy is something that is really hard to find nowadays. So they can get people in a lot quicker for services and that includes like med management which I know personally is really hard to get our kids into. You call the guidance center and the wait list is just

078so so long right now. So this is just another service that we'll be able to hand to parents and if they want to do it they can do it and it'll be at no cost to them. All the money again will flow through the grant. Is that is that guaranteed that 2 million? Um yes. At this point, they've said that they found that two million $2 million and that it would be a three-year contract. And what's your deadline for submitting the grant requirements? So, um, from our understanding, once you guys approve this, um, the approval tonight is for the money to come to our district just to simply flow back out. Um, and so once that approval happens, then they start the work on the backside and it's between 45 to 60 days to initiate

079those services as long as everything is secured. Okay, sounds like a no-brainer to me. Um, we also put a slide up here just detailing the services a little bit more in depth for you guys. So, um, it does serve, uh, student services starting at 18 months and then follows all the way to, um, 17 years of age. Um, it offers that in-person uh, and te teleaotherapy that we kind of talked about. And something that's really cool about this is it has parent coaching, staff coaching, all of those things. And like we said, it's in the in the middle of an emergency situation. You're able to call and get support that day even if you need it. So, um again, just a lot of uh multiple accessibility um options for you. So, inerson teleapy or over

080the phone. Um and then there's also first responder notifications in case of an emergency that we need to be notified of. You know, is there anything they can do? We have several students that are 18, 19 years of age who could still benefit for this. Is there nothing here? So, it does cover 18 year olds. So, what it does is each time there's an incident that happens, it makes an individual eligible for eight sessions. If they're 17 or younger to 18 months, they get an additional 12 for being a pediatric. Okay? So, an 18-year-old would still get services, but they would get the eight sessions and not the pediatric additional 12. Okay. Thank you. As a student? What? As a student? Yes, as a student. But again, if a student's mom, for example, and dad

081got a divorce and parents were seeking care, they could also seek care through this, okay, for themselves and they would get eight sessions themselves as an adult. So, is the care based on incident? Let's just say there there's a child that has 18-year-old child that has one problem and they've gone through the sessions, but then mom and dad get divorced. So, now there's a whole another problem. Are they going to give them another eight sessions? Okay, very good. So every time something happens, eight sessions are allotted. Thank you. So speed to care, um any routine care that you're looking for, you're looking at a 2 to three day wait once you contact them. Urgent care is a one-day wait and any emergency care is same day care. And again, this is a three-year contract. So

082once we say yes today, that 45 to 60 days goes into place and then we should be locked in for three years with that two $2 million grant. Do they provide any kind of analytics on usage? Um they not that I wanted details. It's just like hey we had 42 requests for help for same day or whatever. Yeah. So we'll get quarterly reports of usage not the details of who and those types of things but yes we'll get some details as far as like suicidal um what types of cares were being provided those types of age ranges. So then we can do anything on our end. If we want to be more proactive or if we see more trends we can be able to implement things on our side to help support students. they'll provide

083that to us on a quarterly basis. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. The next one is just any other questions you guys have. Um again, just emphasizing that this is just a resource that um we could additionally provide to parents, staff, and students um just like we do all of our other community resources as a additional um thing that could be utilized for our community. Is there any liability to the district for services not being rendered in a timely fashion because somebody's not available or or something of that nature? What what what is the risk to this? Is there any risk? Are you asking like if somebody called in and they weren't able to get services in that time? Correct. Are we held responsible as a district from this company not providing the service that was being

084offered? Sure. So there would be no risk to us as far as if we have a student that maybe is in crisis, we would follow the same procedure as we do for any other student. We would tell parents, here's a list of resources we have for you to utilize and then it's on that parent because we've given them the parent the resources to access that. Yeah. Okay. Don't run away. Because just to lean in onto her question with liability, should there be an incident where it could be a malpractice subject, would the district have to bear any brunt of that because we put that in place? We should not as far as I would know because it would be no different than if we had a student that went to the guidance center, a local

085doctor, that medical malpractice would fall on them. We once again, we've just provided them the list of the resources and the parents choose which doctor, which resource they want to utilize. Great question. That's what I was wondering. You know, different but similar. Obviously, we have no idea what kind of guidance is given and what effect it might have on a student, especially I think it talked about coaching or whatever on the website, which might be different from counseling. I I kind of found it gray. I looked on their Facebook and it hadn't been updated for years. Same with their Twitter. So, it seemed like it kind of maybe stepped away from social media or something. Um but uh so what I can say so in um the materials and some of the things that we've

086learned from them as far as like the coaching goes whether it's the parent coaching or whether it's the sessions for the students they use all evidence-based so whether that's cognitive behavior therapy or different types of research based interventions and strategies that same you would go for you know I mean these are medical professionals so any type of um strategies that they would use at any other location they're going to use for those individuals as well. So, I would just say, you know, unfortunately, I think um with the extreme limited resources we have for healthy mental health resources in Longworth County, um you know, this is an option, but obviously if you feel like it's not a healthy option, please report back to the district. You know, if you have an experience that you think is

087unfavorable. Absolutely. Any other questions? Any chance a board member can use that service? staff. I mean, I got you. I know. Unpaid staff. Okay. Any other questions? Sounds great to me. I don't know. All right. So, you need a motion. I move that we the district go forward with the call a doctor plus grant starting with the 202526 school year. Second. Got a motion with prize to go with the call a doctor program. Second by Mrs. Murphy. All in favor? Hi. Good luck. 70. Thank you. Okay. Big news. Good news. I'll let you take care of you can. Thank you, President Carney. Uh, just first I want to say thank you to Mrs. Miller as well as all the others that cannot be in attendance tonight uh for the very collaborative environment from LNA. U

088was very pleased with the feedback that I received regarding how the negotiations process went from start to finish. I am most pleased with the fact that we have uh one vote already taken and another one before you tonight and it is not even the middle of June which I think speaks to the progress that we've made and certainly that collaborative environment. So uh with that it is our recommendation that you dy ratify the 2526 negotiated agreement. You'll see the vote count that was passed along to us on Friday, May the 23rd. And I would certainly stand for any questions or I'm sure Mrs. Miller could help us out as well. Thank you. Any questions? My only thing is has it ever been that overwhelmingly of a positive to ratify? Yeah. Because last time it was

089like pretty contentious. Yeah. But this time, I mean, only only five said no. Five years ago is pretty easy. Pre precoid. Yeah. Okay. That's That's what I remember. I'd like to make a motion to approve the ratification. Second. Got a motion to approve the ratification of the negotiated agreement for 2526 by Mrs. Wells, second by Mrs. Murphy. All in favor? Like 70 staff handbooks. Thank you for that. Um, number 11, staff handbooks and number 12 are very similar in nature in that they are a draft for first read. So, no formal presentation tonight. There should be a redlinined version there for you. Uh, we'll give you obviously the month of July. If you would please send back any questions, comments, thoughts, etc. Send them to who? By Jake. Um, yep. So, let's funnel those all

090through Jake. Um, Jake kind of runs point so to speak on the student side. Amy, Joe and or Amy Runpoint on the staff side, but for simplicity for you, we can just funnel them through Jake and then we would like to propose final action on those for July. So that way we can get them updated for purposes of enrollment, the website, all that good stuff ahead of the start of the 2526 school year. I am a procrastinator. I need a specific date at the last time that I can send you my Sure. recommendations. Okay. June 30. Thank you, Jake. That is a Monday 30 June. You get three weeks. We're good. Again, that was 11 and 12. So, sorry. Kind of combined both topics here. Number 13. Strategic plan highlight 13. All right. Thank you

091guys for giving us a few minutes, especially this late in the evening to go over where we are with our um behavior management task force. Um I've asked Meredith to join us in our presentation tonight as she's a member of our behavior task force and thought maybe she could bring some insight um as well as just once again applaud the hard work that the teachers have really done this year um to get us up and up and going with all the work that we are doing with this. So we'll start with just a brief overview of our task force goals and the status of those goals. If you remember, we started this work um last year and about January as we set those goals. So, we just kind of want to work through those with

092you. Yeah. So, uh going for uh goal number one. So, we just wanted to review and then adopt a um evidence-based classroom management model for us to follow. So, we achieved that goal um by selecting safe and civil schools. Our second goal was to develop a tiered response system um for common behaviors. And so with the behavior task force, we developed a list of common behaviors. There's 75 on that list. Um and then developed a response system for is that classroom managed? Is that um something where I'm going to put in a referral and the administrator will come to me sometime within the day to deal with that or is this an emergency like I need administrator right here right now type of situation? As well as a communication plan for each one of those

093behaviors. Um and a playbook that goes with that. And so that goal was met as well. Yep. And then goal number three was just identifying those supports that staff and students were continuing to need um with the um basis of going through behavior. And again, this was another goal that was met. And then um Dr. Adams also had a goal that was in his evaluation um for decreasing office referrals and incidents, your ISS and OSS's by 10% by this school year. And that goal has been met as well. And we'll go over that data in just a second. Yeah. So, um this was just there was a survey that was sent out in May to uh staff u and uh just kind of to get a perception of how this school year went about cakeboard

094and behavior entries and safe and civil schools as a whole um chance all the things. And so this was just a quote that was taken from that survey of one of the perceptions that was given from the um uh staff member just talking about a lot of the great improvements that we've made as a district as a whole with um our behavior and incidents and things like that. So our first data point is referrals. So once again, this is anytime a uh teacher or administrator or a staff member reports a behavior concern. This is not an ISS. This is not OSS. This is simply there's been a misbehavior in my classroom, hallway, cafeteria, wherever it is, I'm reporting that um and documenting that. So that's what this is. Um and so you can see we

095are at a 29.6% decrease. Last year we had a little over 11,000 office referrals and this year we had about 7,820. Um we do believe that this number um actually could be greater of a decrease. However, because we had we didn't have a unified system for referrals in the past. We had some people put some of those referrals in powers school um just in log entries. We had some doing Google forms. We had some doing paper um pencil which then some of those individuals said that like those forms just got thrown away, never actually got reported in the system. So, we do believe this that uh decrease may actually be larger. Um but because we didn't have that unified system until this year, it was hard to tell. Um so, this is just a compilation

096of everything we have in the system. Yep. And then we have a top five behavioral uh referral categories. So those are all listed at the bottom. So aloping building uh physical aggression towards students uh chronic disruption defiance non-compliance and then skipping class also. And then um if you look at those we categorized them as this school year and then also last school year. And so last school year the reason why the data is not uh for last school year is because this is directly out of kickboard. We didn't have kickboard last year. So that data was not able to be classified as such. So next year moving into this uh this one then we'll actually show the data from this year compared to last year because it'll be that half. So this is establishing the

097benchmark. Correct. Yes. Thank you. Uh and then this is just a spread of referrals by grade. So you can kind of see where the referrals tend to fall. Um one thing to really kind of look for is those years where we tend to see the highest are our transition years. The first year when kids are in kindergarten that tends to be high. um the year that our kids are going to fifth grade tends to be high. The year the kids go to seventh grade that tends to be higher. Ninth grade once again tends to be higher and then it triples back off as um kids get through their senior year. So those are really important data points for our teams to remember. If you're a building that has those transition years, we really need to

098hone in on those and make sure we're teaching expectations, holding kids accountable for those. Yeah. And then going off the number of incidents. So again, an instance just as a reminder is anytime that a student would get ISS or OSS um for a behavior that is exhibited. So the number of incidents as you can see also went down um from last year. So last year we're seeing about 2,300. This year we're setting just under 1,800. So that was a significant decrease. There's also a chart showing the again the behaviors or incidents that most likely or that most often get reported on kickboard. And then also going uh off of building over here looking at what referrals were at last year in the blue. and then what they're now at in the red. So, every building

099also had a decrease in the incidence of uh behavior that was reported in that as well. We also looked at days of suspension because that matters as well. And so, um last year we were sitting at uh 10,634 days of suspension and this year we were sitting at 6,849. So, that's about a 35.6% 6% decrease in the number of days that kids were actually able to stay in the building versus being sent out and not getting instruction. Yep. And then manifestation. So manifestation is something that um we look at we have to hold whenever a student reaches 10 days of suspension or more. Um and we had a 53.7% decrease in this as well, which was very significant compared to what we were at last year with 177. And this year we're only sitting at

100about 82. And then we also look at long-term suspensions and expulsions. So those are those um kiddos that are out for the full year or anything over that 10 days. Um and so last year we were sitting at 72 and this year we sat at 41. So that was a 43.1% decrease in the number of long-term uh suspensions and expulsions. Yep. And then access helps for behavior. So an access help is just a form that a teacher staff member can fill out if they continually have um behavioral incidents with a student and they are seeking more help um than the interventions that they can already provide in the classroom. So um this just looked at those access helps that were submitted last year and then this year and we had a 34.7% decrease in those

101as well. And then we also looked at repeat offenders and so those are going to be students that receive two or more suspensions during the school year. So looking at that, we have 14.4% of our students have received a suspension. So any any love student, 14.4% of them have received at least one. Then we break that down and start looking at repeat offenders, 6% of all of our student population has received two or more suspensions. So much less. But what really I want to hone in here is this is that of the students that get suspended. So of that 14.4% chance or those 14.4% 4% students, 41.4% of those students have been suspended for two or more days. So, when we talk about why don't we continue to suspend students, there are students that sometimes

102that's all we have to offer. But it also shows that suspension isn't the only answer because we know that once a student has received a suspension, the likelihood that they're going to get suspended again is a 50-50 odds that they may get two or more suspensions in a row. H and is this tracked over the student's career with our school or is that within the school year? So that would be within just the school year. Um but what I can tell you just by looking combing through the data over these past couple years is more often than not those students that are repeat offenders I can put money on they're probably maybe likely to be repeat offenders over and over again unless we can get certain interventions strategies in place to help prevent that from

103continuing to happen. Well maybe this new will help with that. Yeah, absolutely. Um the next thing was the basic five behavior benchmarks. So we kind of broke this down into um time on task. So this would be time that a student is observed um doing what they're expected to be doing in a classroom. And then opportunities to respond. So how many opportunities they're getting to respond to a prompt or something like that. Um ratio of interactions, disruptions, and then alignment with expectations as well. Um all of these we had a significant increase in. Um the lowest one was the disruptions with a tip but it was still a 10.3% increase for this year and that was out of 364 walkthroughs. So um different administrators, district and building level administrators walking in classrooms and doing observations

104for different levels of time to collect data. Just a couple additional statistics here just to once again really emphasize the importance of the work that the team has been doing. So when we look at learning loss, so once again whether a student has an ISS or OSS, we say they're not in a seat in a classroom getting instruction. And so that's lost instructional time that impacts test scores, outcomes, etc. So this time last year we were sitting at 74,438 hours of lost instructional time. This year was much less, 47,943. We still have work to do, but it's still a much better number than where we were last year. And then we also look at interactions loss because once again when kids aren't in seats getting instruction in classrooms and when they're not in our buildings

105they're not having interactions. They're not having interactions with peers. They're not having interactions with staff with administrators with volunteers etc. And that's where they learn to grow. And so last year when we look at research shows at a minimum kids get minimum 80 interactions a day. More likely than not they're getting more like two to 300 interactions a day. But we went on the conservative side with 80. So given our data last year, this time last year we would have been around 850,000 lost interactions. This year we're seeing a little over 547,000. Once again, we have a lot of room to grow and we're going to continue to work for that, but we are seeing significant increases in those cost interactions as well. Um and then opportunity cost impact. So again, just looking at the

106uh 24 school year compared to 25 uh school year and just kind of looking at per pure sorry per pupil um what we were spending and we actually ended up having $172,000 of savings this year compared to last year. So what we really want to emphasize with this is this is not us writing a check saying this is real money, right? This is a perceived savings. The way I like to kind of describe this is as a taxpayer, your dollars go to sponsor, if you will, a student to sit in a seat. if that child gets suspended and gets to stay at home and play video games, your tax dollars are still being spent just for that kid to be in a seat that then doesn't get that education. So those tax dollars almost are,

107you know, they're thrown to the wind at that point, right? Because the kids not getting what you're paying them to get. So this is a perceived savings, but when we looked at we spent around $80,000 for this first year for the initiative and then we kind of recouped back, if you will, $172,000 of perceived savings, it well is we did save that money in a way of taxpayer dollars aren't getting what they're actually going towards. It's a way of looking at return on investment. Yes, absolutely. So this is just an overview of that staff uh perception survey. We had 142 staff members that did respond um to that survey, other certified staff members. And so we asked a series of questions. The first one being um how confident are you in understanding champs and its

108components? And we received a 4.5 out of five. Um on our how confident do you feel in understand 3.6 out of five. Uh and then how confident are you with using the matrix a 3.5 out of five. Then um for our next piece of it was how effective has Champs been in improving classroom behavior moved to the 3.3 out of five. And then the last one being was how effective was the behavior task force work as a whole um in addressing behavior concerns and that was 3.3 out of five. So when I first looked at this I was kind of like oh that kind of bums me out that we have so many threes but then when I reooked at again and looked at the spread we don't have a lot of ones and twos.

109We have kind of where you would expect a new initiative to be. So new initiatives, you're never going to have 100% at the far end. Um, and so because of that, we're going to have a large bubble of people that are sitting in the threes. And so that's a great opportunity for us to take the feedback that was provided, develop those plans, and bring those in threes up to those fours and those fives. So we're really excited about that. That actually is a great place to be sitting. And then again, that perception data success. So some uh comments taken again from the survey of additional input that could given. Um a lot of it is touched based on like the interventions that were you that were utilized with um CHAMPS and how the district went

110to something cohesive which is really easy for our students to understand transitioning from building to building. Now hopefully they'll you know familiarize themselves with that language so that when they go to a big building we're not seeing those huge jumps again. Um and then also just the uh implementation across all classrooms. So this is something that can be implemented in every area in every building. Um and a lot of our um youngest are understanding it all the way up to our oldest. So it's something that they can carry with them as we continue going through um the district. And then also just that students are really responsive to this language. So it's very easy for them to understand and it's easy for a staff member um to come in and see like, oh, you have

111your champs poster. I know exactly what the kids are supposed to be doing right now if there's someone that needs to jump in and help. So just as always when we have areas of success we also have areas that we need to continue to grow in. And so this captured some of the individuals um concerns with areas of growth. The overall tune of what we kind of received was staff want more accountability. Staff want more accountability of amongst each others. They want more accountability amongst administrators. They want more accountability from families and from students. And so we'll touch base on that in this next slide here. And so kind of those highlights there are um inconsistent implementation across classrooms, teams, and buildings undermine that system effectiveness. So several staff members expressed frustrations with I'm doing

112it. I'm putting all the hard work in, but my colleague down the hallway isn't doing the hard work. When are they going to hold accountable to do the hard work with me? So that was kind of the theme that we saw. Um we saw some themes as far as like our building's all in, but we know another building that maybe isn't all in on these types of things. Like when's that candle going to be held there? when is accountability going to be held for the families and the kid keeps being sent home eventually. What's going to happen to help this kiddo be successful? The next one was perceived lack of consequences administrative followthrough especially with those severe repeat behaviors. So Johnny keeps coming back to my class and does the same thing over and over

113again like what's happening to Johnny so that I can get movement in my classroom and help Johnny be successful without disrupting my class. So that was a frustration that we heard. Another frustration um that came about in an area for growth was um that staff continued to voice that need for parent accountability, emphasizing those importance on strong school partnerships, those types of things and wanting meaningful consequences for students. So not Johnny got suspended, so now Johnny comes back the next day and tells me you got to play video games. Like wanting that onus on the parents to be able to do things that are effective to keep the kid from wanting to be suspended again. Because the reality is we have a lot of students that want to go home and they will they will

114verbally tell you I'm going to do X because I know you're going to send me home and I get to play video games or I get to then sit home and not be at school. So like they're verbally telling us that. So staff don't want to send kids home. Staff want an alternative that holds families and kids accountable. And then the last one was needing for more target training. So working around trauma, working around deescalation strategies and like how to work with those more intense behaviors because what we're really dealing with now is we're we've kind of we're we're meeting the needs of those tier one kids for the most part. We have a little work to do, but we're kind of getting those kids settled. We're now seeing the uprising of those more intensive

115behaviors where teachers really have no idea what to do. Um they're trying all the strategies. They're using all the coaching that we have and they're still struggling. What do we do with those population students and what strategies can we access for those? So those were some things that started to come out as well. And then for our next steps, so again, things that we want to continue working on as a behavior task force. So implementing those high quality tier one supports because you start with tier one. Um and engaging that academic instruction piece. Um implementing continuing to imple implement the uh CHAMPS and SOIC language and then expanding that tier 2 and tier three training. So kind of like Dr. Barbara was saying for those more intense behaviors um and those students that may have

116more trauma than others kind of continuing that deescalation piece um and then also focusing on that check-in and checkout um individual student behavior and then identifying patterns in those repeat um suspensions. Um we wanted to activate the family portal for kickboard to increase parent awareness of what's happening every day at school. Um sometimes even if you tell parents it's not always um you know easy to hear in that moment. So just having that documentation of it um continuing to use suspension strategically when student behavior poses a safety concern um or severely disrupts the learning environment and then uh looking at that KISSA goal. So decreasing suspension by 15% through continued use of safe and civil school and implementation of school-based behavior plans on the kickboard. Is there a way does it only is there a

117way to document positive behaviors that families can have the opportunity to log in and see that my kid did something great instead of they did the same behavior again? Yeah. Yeah. So actually whenever you print out um like the kickboard reports it will print the positive behaviors also if you select them on there. And there is um actually like all the positive behaviors are listed first. So you have to scroll to the bottom to get the more maladaptive behaviors. So, they're all in there. And I would say um an area that we've seen positively, especially in the past about 6 months, is teachers and staff have done a great job of entering positive behavior for every student. So, that's been a really positive thing for Kickboard also. And we're using Kickboard in every building. Yes.

118And so, with that parent portal, like activating it, there's no cost to us. It's something that's already included. We use this year to calibrate and get staff well um first as well as we can. So, then this fall, we'll activate the parent portal. where a parent will receive, hey, here's your letter. Here's your activation code. If you want to use this, you download the app on your phone. And then parents in real time will be able to see like, hey, like Johnny got a positive referral for following Champ's expectations. Oh, Johnny got sent to the office or running down the hallway. So, they'll be able to see that. So, hopefully that will help parents um be more in tune with what's happening with kids because oftentimes, you know, they're getting a phone call and it's

119already after the fact, the parents want to know in real time what's going on. or Johnny will throw away his behavior reports the parent actually never sees it. Well, that's not able to happen anymore because you know Johnny's mom has on her phone and she can say, "Hey, I saw you free time today. What's going on here?" So that hope with that accountability piece and so kind of outlining what our outline looks like for the next um upcoming six months. So in July um we're finalizing those schoolbased behavior plans. So every building will have that schoolbased behavior plan. Here's how we do behavior here at the Brewer, Lover High School, etc. Um, all the staff members receive a copy of it as well as it will be posted on each building's um website so that

120families can see that information as well. Um, we'll be providing training at new teacher academy so all new staff will be trained on this model and methodology and then they'll have ongoing training throughout the year for that. Then starting in August, we'll continue to deepen that capacity um with staff um by doing building level professional development. Um Jacob Edwards is going to come for one day and do a half day with elementary and a half day with secondary just to continue um to bolster this. And once again like we can't just say we hey like we met goals like we're done. Like this has got to continue to stay at the forefront if we want to continue to see change and change over time. So, we're continuing with that piece of it and then continuing

121with those data reviews that we do at cabinet level, building level, our key accreditation level, etc. site council levels just to keep that data at the forefront and making good decisions based off of that information. And then our plan will be then in January to come back to you guys um with our uh year 2 semester 1 implementation results, where we're heading, what we're seeing with trends, etc. So, you'll continue to see that with the results. Any questions? Yes. They told me to exercise my wonders. Absolutely. Wonder away. Um, so I've been through this several times. And there are several comments that they don't feel like they were trained well on it. Now, I know one thing a professional does not want to have to do is keep taking training on something they already know

122how to do. And I'm assuming this was done confidentiality, so you have no idea who answered what. How are you going to reach out to these educators who still may be seasoned but still don't feel that they were trained properly to utilize it? Oh, I was just going to say, so one thing about the behavior task force is there's people from every building um within, you know, wherever that staff member may be. Um, so one thing that kind of moving forward the task force wants to focus on is please reach out to us for all staff members. If you have a question and there's a specific intervention you're struggling with or things you need more support on, please reach out to a task force member so that we can bring that up at our meetings

123and make sure that we're getting those, you know, that kind of wraparound support for all of our teachers. And I'm not trying to be Debbie Downer, but then we go back in onto that where it wouldn't matter. Kind of paraphrasing an educator or two in here. It wouldn't matter if I knew how to put it in. Administration's not going to do anything about it or we reported it, reported it, they still don't do it. There's no consistency. Um if you can't get the top tier to take it seriously, right, it's just going to constantly frustrate them. Sure, that's a great question. Great point. So, one thing that we have built in for this upcoming school year is with our um elementary and secondary administrator meetings that we're going to be putting a focus more focus

124than we already have on this work and diving into giving them strategies and then having them dive into their data and really be able to verbalize and vocalize like what are we doing? What are we doing when you're seeing these trends happening? Like when I look at this and I see Johnny's had 25 of the same behavior this week. Hey, you know, Miss Cross, what have you done with Johnny? like let's talk through that and Miss Cross is like I don't know what else to do with Johnny like in the team and let's talk about that because sometimes we don't you know other team Mr. vant, hey, we tried XYZ. So, really having those conversations and those professional learning community conversations to be able to use the data to support that and then watching that

125data again. Um, and then once I really hope that vocalizing those these concerns, our administration is is aware of those concerns and hopefully then allowing keeping that open door policy of like if these types of things are arising and you feel like things are not being done like you can take that to the next level if we need to. Like, hey, you know, Dr. like I've, you know, referred this kid 50 times and I don't feel like we're getting any movement. Can you help support? Or talking to our BCBAS that we have in our buildings. All our buildings have BCBAs. They have RBTs. We have those behavior supports in place. Go to them and say, "Hey, you know, Shelby, who was here today, like so, you know, I've worked with this kiddo. I've put in,

126you know, 30 referrals for this kid and I don't feel like anything's happening." And sometimes Shelby can then do the springboard and go talk to administrators to say, "Hey, anything going on with this? Like, are you aware of this? Is there something going on?" And then that way then they can give those versions to help support that. Okay. Thank you for that. So the la the last one I I believe is and this is not so much a you problem as it would be a board and a board policy problem but something I saw repetitively through here. We've got to get the phones out of these kids' hands. And I honestly do not think some of these things are not are not going to change until the phones are barred completely in the school passing

127periods whatever. Um, and again, that's going to end up having to be a board policy rewrite take care of, but it's just I wanted you to know that I'm very conscientious about this. I'm glad this came in because my phone's already been ringing quite a bit about it, but that way I got to actually sit down and read it and see it besides whatever I was being talked with about. So, thank you so very much. Absolutely. And just speak just for a second on the the phone piece of it. You're absolutely right. I think that would probably be more of a reward piece. I know that the high school has implemented some strategies which I think has helped immensely um with the the phone piece of it but once it comes to the accountability of

128everybody following the policy that the school has put in place um and then what do you do with the kids are like nope I'm not going to follow you know your rule I'm not going to put my phone in the bag I'm not going to do the things like just to suspend them and send them home once again they want to be at home anyway and they get to use the phone that you know they're bothering my phone. So it's like it's kind of that repeat that round. So, I do agree with you on that piece of that's something I've heard over and over again. Like, I do think that's something the board is probably gonna have to tackle at some point. Thank you. Yeah. Any other questions? Where are we at with that phone

129piece? So, I know that we had done that at the high school. Did we have plans of doing that in other buildings or with the phone policy? Phone in the So, so in my mind, there is a phone policy. It's whether or not it goes far enough. Yeah. To meet um what I'm going to say is some educators expectations, right? Um some parents expect I don't know if it meets everybody's right. We do to be clear, we have a current policy. It would not represent a I think I heard you say it over here. Belltobell uh which some people have a fundamental belief is is what we need to explore. So you have I want to clarify a current policy on the books. So at the high school is it when class starts it goes

130in a bag on their desk they get it back at the end of class period. Yeah. So then the the issue becomes it's not truly bell to bell. So then there's these interim periods throughout the day in which a student can access a phone. Uh then of course is the second piece. So you have policy adoption which in my opinion is one phase and then you have policy execution which is the next phase. Policy adoption obviously happens here. Policy execution has happens, excuse me, in the day-to-day trenches by our building administrators, teachers, etc. So, I think have kind of both of those, if you will, um that are part of this issue. Do we have that at the middle school? Sorry. Do we have what are the cell phones going in the bags during class?

131I believe they can use their phones just on passing periods, I think. Yeah, this the middle school policy is going to look different than the high school if that if that helps. So, I don't have like a side by side in my mind, but they are different. So, but we don't have the secure bags at the middle school or we do to my knowledge. We're putting them in the I have like brown paper sacks like Yeah. So, like at Brown, it's more of an integrity thing than it is anything. It's they teachers have been starting in December we at Warren Middle School we started marrying the policy procedures. Thank you. The same procedures as what they do at the high school. So teachers ask are initially told students need to put itself on the way

132when you're in class. If they don't put it away if it comes back out they give them their bag. the bag stays the the envelope stays on their desk and then the students the student puts the phone in the envelope and it stays there. So teachers are not touching it at all. So that credibility is off the staff member. Um and then they do have use of it during lunch and passing periods just like at the high school. So the middle school doesn't need any more resources than what the high school has. intermediate school, the students either keep them in their backpacks or the teachers lock put them in a lock box at their desk. Okay, just to be candid, I think that the feedback that's coming out of the survey is what staff want

133is no cell phones at all. Like, so I know that some districts have went what we're doing is showing some success. There's everywhere in between of that, but that is kind of what the overarching comments are coming out of the surveys. Anybody miss mentioned cell phone is we just don't want cell phones period. So thank you. Anything else? Anybody else? Last chance. Thank you guys. Thank you. So, guess if I can read item 14, the big calendar there, the main one. Make sure you're all here on the 14th of July. We'll call in. Nobody no speakers then. You guess we're board member comments. M. Murphy. Well, I want to congratulate our teams on their uh exemp exemplary accomplishments uh and their accolades within their sports. I want to thank all our presenters today for giving

134us um you know very pertinent information of things that we need to look forward to and maybe things that we need to adjust on our ends to try and make everybody else's uh jobs easier. I am excited about the collidoc. I think that may help some of the issues. Um I thought diet was going to help too, but I you know blueberries don't necessarily help everything as much as we would think it would. Um but I do think the call do especially with maybe some of the parenting and and having more hands-on. Uh, so I do appreciate finding out about that grant and knowing we were able to access it and um I hope everybody enjoys their summer. Be safe. Thank you. As well, um, yes, I have one ask. Um I would like to

135receive some summer data for enrollment um of how many students we have going and programs that they are doing. Um I know Miss Batson is the one who traditionally gave that to us. Um but just a Friday FYI would be great um with that information. Um successful end of the school year, graduation, the weather could not have been more agreeable. That was a fantastic celebration. and I'm happy to share that with all of you. Um I am grateful to our staff that are planning to return to us um in the 2526 school year. Thank you very much. Your dedication to our students and community are very appreciated. Um the ones that have left us, please reach out and let us let us know why. Um couple of community things going on soon. Uh Saturday, June

13614th is Levvenworth's um Junth celebration. It will be a twilight parade starting at 6:30. It will end at Hay Market Square and the live music and festivities will um carry on there through the evening. Um it is an incredible event. if you are able to attend. Um I highly encourage everyone to do that. Um June 22nd is our uh familyfriendly pride picnic um at Hawthorne Park at 100 p.m. Um free food, free activities for the families. Um there is a splash park there as well for the kiddos since it's in the afternoon. Hopefully we'll have great weather and everybody will have fun. Um, happy Pride Month to everyone um that is in our community. We have staff, we have families, we have students, we have a large community of allies and supporters and people affected

137by um this month. And thank you, Ms. Reed. I think, sorry, I turned my microphone. I was coughing. Um, I hope that all of our staff are having a going into a good summer. Um, I hope that all of our students are going into a good summer where they're going to be able to spend hopefully quality time with their families. And um, I would just ask everybody to kind of keep eyes out around you. Um, not everybody has a safe home. Um, when they're outside of school services, sometimes it gives them more time to be in um, a worse environment or unsafe environment. And so, just keep eyes out on, you know, on your neighborhood whenever you're driving around. Just keep eyes open. And there was a little girl that was um very youngl looking

138like three or so um on a street corner on Fourth Street the other day by herself and you could tell she was crying and there was no adult around and I was so glad by the time I pulled around the block there was at least two other vehicles that had pulled over to assist. Soor's not perfect and we don't all agree on everything, but I think that we still do a reasonably good job of loving each other and meeting each other where we are. And so I just want to encourage people to just help keep an eye out on all the littles when they're out for the summer. Just gonna mimic what everybody else said, but have a great summer. Enjoy it, make memories, and come back. and we'll see you guys soon. Um, everybody

139always um I would like to congratulate our teams that uh that got recognized this evening, our swim team and track team. Um, I'd also like to give a little shout out to our Special Olympic athletes who just had their state track meet this past weekend. Awesome. And um so I'm sure uh we missed it this year because my daughter was sick, but I'm sure it was uh it it's it's always a lot of fun. So um congratulations to our Special Olympics athletes. Um have a wonderful summer. Lastly, Sunday is Father's Day. And just to put a good word in for all our dads out there, our teacher dads, our administrator dads, our community dads, our our every kind of dad. Um you matter and um and you're needed. So, uh happy Father's Day, Mr. Price.

140All righty. Everybody's had some really good things tonight. Mine is going to go towards those summer session attendees, both the staff and students. Make the best of it. enjoy your summer after you can, but while you're in there for the summer session, just make the best of all your learning. Um, it was something in our consent agenda that folks may not have understood or seen, but I wanted to kind of call out our workers comp um decrease in our premiums. It was some $61,000. That is huge. And I know some people tease Mr. Carney all the time when he says, "Hey, be safe." But it really did make a difference. So, please keep being safe out there. whether you're in school or not, we want you all back safe and sound when things start in

141August. And then to my board member, uh folks, please remember to sign the resolution with Miss Maddox before you leave because I don't want to chase you down. But anyway, it's always a good day to be a pioneer. Mr. Carney, real quick, can I have an alibi before you close out? Alibi away. Thank you. Um remind everybody that we do have the summer um breakfast and lunch program. It's another way to keep a safe eye on the kids too during a season of not being in class and then still have a good meal. Thank you. I appreciate that. Okay. If you if you'd like to say a prayer for me, I'm having some issues with my heart and I'm going to be uh you ever see the movie the where they reduce themselves and go

142to the guy's brain to and anyway so I'm having a hard catheter probably no big deal but uh appreciate any kind thoughts Bobby going through that Thursday. This means adjourned. Since we're off the record, you have a heart front or back. You got it there. I'm going to invite