USD 453 Board of Education Meeting November 8, 2021

001Our call to order. This is Monday, November 8th. This is the regularly scheduled board of education meeting. All begin tonight's meeting and all meetings for the foreseeable future with restating more board of education's five shared goals. We are here to maximize the academic performance of each student to attract and retain quality teachers and administrators to improve collaboration and engagement with our parents and community. to ensure adequate facilities and safe schools and maximize funding and prioritize spending based on the educational needs of our students. I'll also take this opportunity to clarify that while our board of education is an active member of the Kansas Association of School Boards, we do not belong to the National School Board Association, which is an entirely separate entity. Despite conversations and deliberations at the national level or with any other

002education related organization with independent goals and objectives on our own, the Levore Board of Education remains committed to the students, staff, and entire school community, Kansas. While we might not always agree on the best way to prepare our students for success, we sincerely welcome and appreciate the thoughts, perspectives, and input from all of our district's important stakeholders, including parents, guardians, staff members, the community at large, and the primary reason for the existence of our school district and board of education, our students. And with that, we'll start roll call. Mr. Carney here, Mr. Garland here, Mr. Goodman here, Miss Murphy here, Mr. here. MS here and myself. Please stand alsisible with all. Yes. To prepare every student for success every day and every classroom. Mr. Adoption of the agenda. Madam President, I move we approve the

003agenda. Second. All right. I have a first by Mr. Harling and a second by Miss the agenda as presented. All those in favor? 70. Thank you. Moving on to item number two, field trip request from TSA and USA or no. [Music] Come this way a little bit here. Come back here. There you go. Good evening, President Price, board members, Dr. Roth, Mrs. Maddox, Mr. Herod, and all USD453 supporters of TSA and Skills USA. We would like to take this opportunity to to thank you for your continued support of our two CS CT CSO programs, Levvenworth Technology Student Association and Skills USA. We would also like to share with you the learning opportunities and 21st century skills students use during our project development, our competitions, and our leadership events. We will also be sharing a short

004history of our two very successful CTSO programs. Hello, I'm Jimmy Yates. I'm the current president of our school's TSA chapter. I'm TSA or technology student association is a CTSO program that includes high school and middle school students involving over 70 STEM events. TSA has about 250,000 members along members in Germany, Japan, and Turkey. I'm Audrey Frankie and I am the president of Skills USA and I am Oh, sorry. Skills USA has about 13.9 million members involving 53 different states. Student members are secondary and post postsecary and there has just recently been a small middle school program added. Skills USA has 106 events focused on technical careers, leadership skills, and occupational skills. A few of the events that Levvenworth has succeeded in include video, TV, video, architectural drafting, quiz bowl, web design, technical drafting, job interview,

005job skill demonstration, broadcast news, internet working, technical related math, and automotive service technology. TSA offers 39 different high school events. Levvenworth High School has been successful in many of these events. Some of these include biotechnology, computer integrated manufacturing, structural engineering, architectural modeling, technical and architectural drafting, board game design, STEM careers, extemporaneous speaking, children's stories, video production, transportation modeling, and flight endurance, just to name a few. It is important for students to stay competitive in our everchanging career market. Practicing 21st century skills is a valuable part of education. One of the best ways to practice these skills is to be an active member of a CTSO program. Jim and I will share with you different ways in which TSA and Skills USA offer students opportunities to practice these skills. Social and or leadership and social skills.

006Students have the opportunity to attend leadership trainings, KSDE citizenship day, KU engineering day, schoolboard meetings, and state meetings. Students use leadership and social skills when working with their teams to complete a project as well as when working with other students from other schools, other states, and even students from other countries. Students become team leaders or project leaders and will manage their teams per product development. Students have the opportunity be to become local and state officers where they must practice leadership and social skills. So, I want to just point out Whoops. I just want to point out on the slide then this one up here. These are my uh two state officers right there. This was at the citizenship day. Uh and they got to sit down and eat lunch with Janet Wall and talk about

007um things that are happening at Kansas and and the she's the uh you know our our area representative. And then the young lady that's down in the bottom right, she is the was the vice president that year. I did it again, didn't I? Um, and so they actually get to to address the board, the state board, and so they have lots of different leadership um opportunities, collaboration, and creativity. Students work together on many different levels to create projects, design leadership events, to share ideas, and generate new interesting products. All participants have a willing to sacrifice parts of their own ideas and adopt others to get the best result for their product. Many of these projects are original creations and couple have researched the possibility of patenting their products. A student's ability to be creative and

008collaborate on projects is a valuable skill for success. Communication and critical thinking. It's crucial for students to learn how to effectively convey ideas among different personality types. Students learn to communicate with their teammates, competitors, and peers while presenting their projects. Students must be able to diagnose an issue and communicate a solution to teammates or judges during competitions. Students must have the ability to present ideas clearly and convey the importance of their product, usually for the betterment of society. And uh on this slide again, I'd like to point out uh some of you may recognize Dr. Watson there. Um that's Ashley Donovan. She was uh acting as the state PSA president that year. And after we went to the citizensship day, Dr. Watson was so impressed with Ashley that he actually invited her to be the

009keynote speaker at a science and mathematics conference in Emporia. So that's just one of the abilities that this CTSO gives these kids. Information media and technology literacy students must be able to listen to others ideas and be willing to compromise to their product to the best possible product. Students must be resourceful in their abilities to research, design, and develop products. Most projects involve some use of technology. Anything from 3D printing, laser engraving, using new software like Blender, Photoshop, Illustrator, GrabCad, Solid Works, Chief Architect, and other CAD programs. Students must also use different forms of media technology to share information about meetings and workdays. Students learn how to use social media in useful and informative form. Um, and so on this one, I just want to point out, you might recognize, somebody might recognize this guy

010right here. And so, uh, Michael looking at him like, I don't. So, uh, in some of our trips, we actually got to visit Mr. Michael Carney in Florida. And at that time, he was heading up some of the what's that VRC virtual reality uh, at that time. So, our kids uh got to meet with some former students and do some stuff as well. So, um it's it's pretty impressive. flexibility and world knowledge. Students learn to be flexible as teammates, change meetings as competition times change, and some rules also change. Once again, they must be flexible with their own design ideas and working with teammates. A good example of flexibility is learning Grabcat at the state and getting a new partner for national additive manufacturing event. flexibility with an open mind brings great rewards, which is

011what happened this summer. And then world skills really isn't one of those 21st centuries, but I believe it's a huge part of TSA scooters. All the places we get to travel. Uh we've been to Washington DC. Uh we've been to the mall and seen the monuments and the museums. We've gone on a boat ride on an architectural tour in Chicago. We visited the Atlantic Ocean. We pulling on an airplane which is many times the students very first time they've ever been on an airplane. Same thing going to the ocean. We have gone to the tops of the mountains and we plunged to the bottoms of roller coasters. We have seen professional baseball players bats being made. We have learned about Muhammad Ali the stockyards in Texas and met car and NH drivers. We have visited

012former students and learned about technologies and we have learned how to function with lost luggage uh on delayed plane trips and most importantly we got to visit the AT stadium in Dallas. Community service and initiative part of belonging to a CTSO is getting involved in a community service project. TSA and Skills USA members have raised over $5,000 for Ronald McDonald House, and built them over 40 blankets, worked at local food kitchens, purchased toys for Angel's Tree, and gathered food for local food pantries. This year, the members were involved in the trunk or treat event at Levvenworth High School, as well as creating the award-winning CTE flow at the school's homecoming parade. Students understand the concept of making a difference in the community and making the world a better place for everyone. And then uh state

013and local officers and productivity. We have had I believe nine state officers since I've been here. Uh they participated in the Kansas CTSO citizenship day uh KSD meeting and KSD board members. They're involved in the state leadership events and again they got to meet Dr. Watson as well. Um and they the skills that they learn in this leadership is just invaluable. Oh, it's me. Okay. So, what I'm going to do is I hate to take this much time, but I'm going to go as fast as I possibly can. I would like to introduce you to the history of student USA and TSA as quickly as I possibly can. There is a disclaimer, and that is that I can't remember hardly anything. So, I've dug as much as I can possibly dig and this is just

014as true as I can possibly make it. We started school in 2003. That was our first year. Uh Don Schaer forced me into doing it. I took two students down to Witch Hall. competed in architectural drafting. Uh Tyson Thomas here, you see him on this side and Daniel M on the left. They play second and third our very first year. Uh this is a recent picture of Daniel M. He is in New York State. Uh he is kicking butts taking names. That's a picture of his wife. I urge you to get onto his website. What he is doing is incredible. Those are his renderings right there. That's done on software. 2004 was our second year. Ian Thomas took second in his native Kansas and architectural drafting. The first place student did not go. So we

015got to go to nationals and he placed in the top 15 in architectural drafting. The following year I had a team and we swept the medals. We swept first, second, and third in architectural drafting. And Fred, for the life of me, I can't remember his last name. I've been the last couple nights. I remember what it is. Uh took second, I believe, in technical drafting. Ian and Fred went to the nationals. and uh Thomas took second in the nation in architectural drafting. I do not remember what Chris finish was at nationals. 2005 TSA our first year of TSA Vicky Subin took first place in 2D AR or first place in 2D architecture first place in 3D architecture and Brian I want to say both right I don't know that that's right took first in tech

016written we went to the nationals in Chicago and Vicki came home with the first and second in architectural 3D and architectural 2D and she graduated from Kate become an architect she's actually out of the board right now 2006 field USA first place in architectural drafting. Lindsay Bates first place in tech bowl. Uh and third place in architectural drafting. Uh 2006 Brad Boart Lindsey Bates took first in architectural model. That's a picture of their model right there. I did not get to go to nationals, but Mr. Bogart was kind enough to take the kids to Dallas. Um and uh I really don't remember the results, but I think that they did very well. Uh 2007, we took first in quiz bowl at the state uh at the state conference. and I believe Mrs. Thompson took them

017to nationals that year. We didn't break into finals, but uh the kids complained about a rule. They they fought the rule and they won. So, they felt really good about that. 2017, TSA State, I had a huge crowd. Took three bands to get us all the way out to begin. We took six first place, two second place, a third place, and we went to nationals and our biotechnology team, biomedical team took third in the nation. USA 2008 we took second in job skills Diana Toro uh she went to school at KU and she's a pharmacy tech took third took third in architectural D as well and T bowl don't remember nationals that year 2008 there's my another big uh trip that's a snowstorm in in um KBY Kansas we almost didn't make it there in

018April um we have 1 2 3/3 one two three fours a whole bunch of thirds in nationals. Uh that same team took second in biomed and they own have their their product u patented. They will be doing that 2009 networking networking with Mrs. Thompson. We took a first, second and third. We swept that one and took third in architectural dowskilled Tyson Ryel D mechanic Alex Pepper. I don't know if you know Miss Andy Pepper, but her son uh I don't know if you know uh Alex, he went to Steel USA, I believe two or three years, got hired as a diesel mechanic and never turned a wrench. Uh he makes more money than all of us probably put together just from Steel USA. Video production was very successful. 2009 first place. We had a whole

019bunch of first place. I remember I guess I didn't count those. One, two, three, four, six, seven. Uh everybody on that stage qualified for nationals except for one. Uh, and we did go to nationals and um I believe it was Mariel and Katie I think placed in nationals that year. 2010 it say we took first in video broadcasting their picture again and Harley right there second as well. Architectural we took fourth in 2010 2010 in TSA. Everyone on that stage except for one place for nationals. That's a picture of us at the Baltimore Stadium in Baltimore at the baseball game. So those in that picture on the right is us at nationals as well. We made top 10 in biotech. Picture of Katie and Jenny up there. 2011 that's when another group networking swept the

020medals again gold, silver, and bronze. And Natasha went to nationals. I don't remember her place, but I want to say she took like eighth. It was one of our highest places. So I think she was actually one of our highest places. George Santana and Jimmy. They took first and second in mechanical drafting. Uh George also won first in um this is George and Jimmy. George also took first in technical related math. He was one of those at his time. He was off the charts. He could not go to nationals. So Jimmy went and I believe he placed in the top 15 at nationals. Um 2011 CSA five first place, one uh one third place. What a pretty small group. Once again, everybody there uh qualified for nationals. We went to Orlando. Uh we got to

021go to some theme park and watch me lose my guts. They force me on a roller coaster. I don't like roller coaster. 2012 Josh Bernard took first in the states. He also went to nationals. He placed fifth in the nation. That's our highest. And again, how many like 13 million people students are at national school saying he took fifth. That's our highest. He did fantastic. Um he's quite the gentleman. And then in TSA, then Josh also took first at the state and he went to nationals in TSA and he took first in the state in TSA. So TSA took first and took fifth. So um everybody's holding a plaque there apply made it to nationals. I have no pictures because I think I was in Greece. Mrs. Thompson took this group. We had broadcasting first

022place. We had TV production first place. Xavier Wells. Anybody know Xavier Wells? So Xavier Wells and I know he went to nationals. He plays 14th. 14th in nationals. See that's huge. That's huge. So and I didn't go to that one. So that's why I don't have any pictures. He was here at Kansas City. He felt so good. Yeah. No. No. Kansas City was great. Trust me. Nashville was not near as good. Here we have 2013. We took six first, 2/3, two, three seconds, 1/3, and a whole bunch of fourth and fifth. And we went to the national event, and there's Josh. Whoops, back up. There's wrong way. I got you. I got you. There we go. So, and then Josh Bernard, I think, came out of there with the first and second in 2D CAD.

023And then I believe Amy came out with a third place in architectural. There we are. 2014 video production again. first and third internet working third and fourth architectural uh technical related math again did really well that year 2014 six first place this is one of our biggest groups right here I had to have some help so uh they got us there and then nationals Amy Hansen took fourth in architectural drafting and I got to do that was fun 2015 Zack Terry took first at the state then at nationals he was top 15 I know what he placed I just Haven't been able to find that paperwork yet. Fantastic kid. He went on a mission trip for I believe about three years and then he's down in Texas and went to school down there in mechanical.

024Uh 2015 had another great group of kids. All of those plants right there. We went to nationals in Dallas with that software development team. We did not make first uh did not make the stage that year. It's the first year that I can remember that my GSA group did not make top 10 in that in the nation. Uh Eric White in 2016 placed first in architectural drafting internationals. He placed in the top 25. He didn't have his best day at nationals. He did his art. His uh house plan state was amazing. 2016 three first place, three third place, fourth fifth. And that year um Logan or Morgan Lester took third in the nation in architectural drafting. Dra took top 10. Ashley took top 10 in children's stories. They wrote a book. They wrote a children's

025book. It's really good. 2017 Ashley Donovan uh and Tanner Hendris Tanner took first in technical related math and Ashley took first in technical drafting um and we went to Louisville. So that's when they moved from Kansas City to Louisville. Um and uh we participated there. Um I asked actually what place that she had and she did remember but I want to say it was like top 20 but I'm not really sure. Uh TSA 2017. So, uh, Ashley Dun, we had six first place that year. Six first place. I had three state officers, Morgan West, Duchar, Ashley Dunovan, and actually took third in the nation in STEM. Um, uh, it was like STEM education, studying STEM. 2019, there's Ashley again up on the stand. She won first again in technical drafting. Um, she, uh, did not

026get to go to nationals that year because TSA and Skills are on top of each other a lot of time. They were on top of each other the year before that and we had to frantically fly from one place to another. This year she just couldn't do both of them. But the teams went that web design team uh was top 10 in the nation. I want to say they might have been something like eight. They did fantastic. Um that's Wind and Jesse. They did awesome. 2018 I had a state president Ashley Dun was a was a president of state that year. They we took first in the nation with our computer integrated manufacturing project and accident took second in the nation in in photography. She's a fantastic girl. She's out in the school of minds

027in Denver, Colorado. 2019 first in video production. So Eric was best went out there. We had a great time and they placed in the top 15. Don't remember where, but they did really well. 2019 by first five seconds third. National CC third in essays in technology 2019. I will tell you that sorry guys I will tell you that in all the years I've been doing TSA there's no other school in Kansas that has had more students on the stage in the top 10 than Levorth High School. As a matter of fact, Levworth High School four out of five years was the only high school that had a student on the top 10 stage. They do fantastic. They work really really hard and they do really really well and they cover 2020 nothing happened. Ska 2021

028virtual. All right. Skills USA 2021 was held virtually and involved drafting video and web design students. Levvenworth took four gold medals and three silver medals. All three programs competed com competed in the summer virtual nationals. Um, so state results, we took a gold and silver in technical drafting. I actually took second place in that and then Jacob Smith took gold. Technical related math, he also took gold in that. Uh, gold for architectural drafting was Bana Santiago. And silver and additive manufacturing was Jim and his partner CJ. And then gold and silver were taken by the television production teams. Nationals. Oh, nationals. Uh Jim and I were on the national additive manufacturing team. As he said earlier, his partner couldn't make it, so we subbed me in and we placed fifth in the nation. And that

029was a really huge moment for us. That's huge. So TSA 2021, y the 2021 TSA season was a strange one. State and national events were changed to virtual events. Students competed at school, at home, and sometimes halfway in between. We had to make quick trips to Walmart to purchase food and find a place to take pictures. We had to move computers from one room to another to another part of the building, back to the classroom. We thought we thought it would be one of the easiest state national events. Actually turned out it would be a logistics circus. We we competed with noise from lunch crowds, apartment announcement interruptions, and even concrete saws and jackhammers. This however did not deter students from performing at a high level and winning several competitions. The TSA program finished the

030year with only three students and all three students placed first place in the state as well as two second places and two third places. The first place included for friends of science with Audrey Frankie and Brianna Santiago, architectural drafting with Brianna Santiago, transportation modeling and scientific visualization with myself, Jim Yates. Nationals were held virtually in June and resulted with Briana Santiago placing second in the nation in architectural drafting and Entra Frankie placing sixth in the nation in CAD engineering. We currently have 12 members and hope to take all 12 to the state. The Kansas State TSA conference will be held in Salena, Kansas the last week of March. We currently have seven members for Skills USA, but anticipate adding six more members by January. We will be competing at the Kansas State Skills USA competition

031in April in Hutcherson, Kansas. We would like to invite all of you to attend these conferences to witness students practicing their 21st century skills and bring home a van full of trophies. This year, Skills USA Nationals will be held June 20th to 21st in Atlanta, Georgia. This year's TSA will begin June 20th through 30th in Dallas, Texas. We could not compete in these event without your support. We thank you so much for your support and we greatly appreciate it. Okay. Uh just real quick, I want to say uh something really quick. We saw a lot of pictures with a lot of winners, but I can tell you that in my program, you can't be a winner till you fail. And to quote the the philosopher Will Smith, um fail early, fail often, fell forward. And

032so if you even go out for TSA, you're a winner. So, I have a lot of champions, but um I would also like to take this opportunity because I don't know when I'll do it again, uh to give some special thanks uh guys, board members, uh present ones and and and some past ones as well, especially a couple I've known who are, let's see, their sons are probably I don't know 25, right? That makes me younger. Um so, thank you guys very much. Dr. the rope in your right hand, Brenda Shoemaker, Brian Hair and an amazing IT department. Like we couldn't do anything without them and seriously like they get us ready and everything. Uh Beth Maddox and her predecessor for everything that she does. Thank you so much. Um uh John Richmire John Richmire

033puts us on the front page of the paper every single time and every time military family comes to town and they see us on the front page say I want my kid to be an engineer. I get those kids and they're they're amazing. Uh I also like to thank me daddy keeper helping us get rid of all of the noise this summer so we could have our competitions and also special thanks to Liz and like she helped us out. She helped she helped fly us back and forth. She helped us at the state conference. Chris Bergen who's helped me. Mrs. Thompson, Ginger Riddle, Lyn Shipman, all those guys helped me so much. Um, and so, um, and I I also say that these programs, guys, my students come back to me. They come back to

034me and I'm telling you, they're successful. And they're successful because of these programs. These programs are huge. Uh, they're learning those 21st century skills are huge. And so, I appreciate it. Uh, um, I I hope that you continue to support national because what it does for these kids is amazing. So, Oh, wait. One more. Does anybody have questions? I'd like to make a motion to approve all of these field requests. Second motion by a second to accept their proposals for their field trips to Dallas. All those in favor zero. Thanks guys. I could use these one in my room. consent agend recognitions and I know that's why we asked for the full house tonight. So, thank you for being here. Um first off uh for our state sport state qualifiers for boys and girls cross

035country such and state qualif Boys and girls across country words of wisdom or share. I it's it's exciting to be here again. Um I I remember Mr. Carney's story was back when he was young, he used to run across country. I remember that right. I know. Uh Mr. Garling, you mentioned it earlier. His son ran for me. Uh our illustrious cameraman back in the day, he ran for us. This group of young men and young ladies are an exceptional group. Uh several of them ran their first state cross country meet. Uh some of them were here last year and they got to run their second state cross country meet. Uh it was exciting. Um I think out of this group possibly maybe we figure coach maybe three may not be back because of maybe graduating,

036Uncle Sam moving and all those kind of things. I can't think of a better group of kids to be able to work with year in and year out. Um, our season has come to the come to an end. Um, Coach Marriott's getting ready to uh pick up the winter program with these kids um to get them ready for when track season rolls in. So, even though their season season is over, their time's not over. Coach, would you like to say anything? You're good. Like I said, you can't ask for a nicer bunch of kids. Um, if we could say one thing about some of these kids, this is probably the first year we've truly had a lot of kids just get hurt with crazy weird little things. I don't think until probably the last meet

037of the season of the state meet, we ran a full complement of runners and they ended up taking 11th in the state this year. uh real proud of them and we look forward to see what comes in the future. Thank you. I've got a certificate of recognition for you for both the Levvenworth High School girls cross country and Levworth High School boys cross country for outstanding sportsmanship, athletic achievement in regional and state competition and positive representation of Leverworth High School and USD 453 throughout the fall sports season. for this. We would like to recognize you and thank you for your service. Thank all of you for the hard work that you've all put in there. I'll give these to you. You're welcome. Where do you want to do it? Well done. I know there's at

038least one freshman out there. How many are freshman? How many of you are freshman? Raise your hands. Two. There's two. Two sophomores. Oh, there's a bunch. Next year will be just as good, right? Well done, kids. Well done. There you go. Is that okay? That's fine. You can take down two proud you guys perseverance and thank you and blueberry. Uh board members, thank you for having us. It's been a couple years since uh we've been able to do this. Um want to thank you for having us here and recognizing um the outstanding achievement of a student athlete. Um, I would like to take a quick second to uh recognize someone that has inspired me to be the golf coach that was my golf coach uh at Leworth High for over 25 years and that is

039my father back there uh James Labar. So, he was um since we have not been able to do this the last couple years, uh Chloe Herring is a threetime state qualifier. So, um, co kept us from the last couple years of recognizing her, but a three-time state qualifier. Um, last year, um, played both days, finished in the top 50 out of 90, uh, players. Uh, this year they went back to the original format that you had to qualify for the second day. Um, she did that and ended up finishing 28th out of 90 players this year. So quite the accomplishment, highest ever for our Levworth uh participants. She has been backto back UKC league champion, player of the year twice. Um what else? She was supposed to continually every year improved. Um last year, uh

040no score over 100. This this year, um everything was in the low 90s except for the uh well, no, she kept it under 100 for uh everything. Uh plenty of fourth, second, several first place finishes in um all the tournaments this year. So um quite the accomplishment. um and had her for all four years and she has just grown tremendously. Um hate to lose her um as she is a senior and she's going to move on to um play golf, maybe bowling also um or one or the other. Uh she decides that. But super awesome student athlete. Um super awesome young lady. And I also have to say I couldn't do any of this without my assistant Joe Herring. Um has been a a tremendous help in guiding the girls. Um having a repertoire with

041the other coaches. Um and we always Leworth High always, boys and girls get compliments of how well they're respected uh respective of the other uh participants, their coaches, um just nothing but compliments. And that does go back to uh the parents um but also uh teachers and fellow uh students that uh help um mold them. So, but again, thank you uh Coach Herring and I miss you tremendously, Chloe, but an awesome awesome career at Leworth High. So, thank you for follow Uh no uh he did retire after years teaching and coaching at lower. So my inspiration I'll be right next to you recognition forward high school girls golf for outstanding sportship and athletic achievement state competition positive representation high school 453 all sports sports season in all four years award day in November Sure. And

042you have any idea. [Applause] and girls tennis. Hello. Hello ladies and gentlemen of the board. Um uh yeah, Dr. Ro. Uh well, thank you very much. Uh have this opportunity to recognize again u just great uh allound uh students that yeah able to see at LHS. Uh so these are two fine uh uh well-rounded uh examples of some uh senior girls uh that I had this year taking the states. Uh Claire Lyos, she's a two-time state qualifier uh both years in doubles. Uh Brooke Collins Brooke uh is a first year state qualifier um in tennis, but uh you know it's also bowling uh and I'm sure probably soccer hopefully um you know uh but I'm trying not to drag on very much and uh um just very very very proud of uh these girls and

043everything that they do on and off the courts. Uh it it uh makes my job real real easy. Uh as a coach and as a father uh and it's just gonna uh it's going to be hard. Uh you know, I've known one for all of her life. I've known Brooke for uh twothirds of her life probably. Uh yeah, at least they grew up playing soccer together. Uh got to know Kelly, her mom, pretty good and well. So, um it's um I know it's going to be tough to miss him, but uh yes, I need to I'm just going to stop right there. Yeah. Yeah. So, thank you. Thank you once again u everything that you're able to do for us. On the bowling, on the bowling, go Pioneers. [Applause] I have the honor to be

044able to present you guys with the certificate of recognition for the Lark High School girls tennis for outstanding sportsmanship, athletic achievement in regional and state competition and positive representation of Lemore High School throughout the fall sports season. Congratulations. You did a great job. We're also happy to report that this morning the city of police department another hard fought national championship. The girls took first overall and the boys took second overall. um we'll reach out to the team and they arranged us to have either December or January recognition. So another national [Music] capital. So, one of the things that we try to do periodically as purchases are coming up or preparing for summer projects is to bring Matt in for you to share his plan. We feel like tonight there's several items on the agenda forward

045approval. We're trying to answer your question before you ask him. So Matt put together and I as always Matt does a super job [Music] keeping our buildings up and open program. So that Well, good evening. [Music] Tonight we're going to uh review capital outlay revenue. Uh we're going to review current and future projects and then finally um consider uh expenditures that will be presented after this capital outlay presentation. So we'll start with capital outlay budget currently is banking about $9.2 $2 million. And throughout this presentation, you'll see a mill rate behind the number that's totaled. And that's just for reference of how many mills it takes to make that number. So 9.2 million is in the bank. Annual deposits are about 2.7 million. And that comes from state aid and the eight mills that are

046levied. If you do the math, you'll see that the mills don't um equate exactly, but you have to count the state aid that's attached to that single mill. So, you're at 344,133 per mill. So, total bank for 2122 fiscal year 11,953,64. So, we take a look at the 2122 large capital expenditures. You've already approved a tractor and seed. Tonight, after this presentation, we'll have four additional items. These are being brought to you because they've advanced either in the uh planning phase or are part of the planning phase that have been presented to you in the past. We do have to take advantage of the opportunity to secure materials because of the supply chain issue that is impacting us and then also securing spots on the schedule for these contractors to do the installation. As a

047quick review, we've discussed the Henry Levvenworth bus lane several times. And just briefly, we've added a bus lane to the front, made improvements. We reduced our time on the street, I believe, to 20 minutes or less. Now, Mr. Pal, I think you've timed it several times and said we're getting closer. Um, overall, the improvement has improved uh for the student pickup. Throughout that discussion, we looked at multiple opport uh options for adding additional standing space. The initial were option A just a long straight road, option B, a longer single lane road, option C, which included some additional parking and a little bit additional stacking space through a uh the back lane there. And then after we presented that, uh, the board asked me to go back and do a final plan review and come back

048with a, um, pretty much the best out of all solutions. And we came up with this for the linear footage that we need to stack all the vehicles that we've talked about, this option would be the closest for you. Not only does it increase your parking capacity, it provides you lane structure for those vehicles to come off the street and wait within our property. This can be developed into three different sections. It can be just the asphalt parking lot that you see in the green space. It could include parking lot lights and it could also include the overlay of the existing parking lot which will show up on our future capital outlay plans. So when we put this together with the help of our uh engineer that we're working with the the estimation for just

049the lot structure would be about $400,000. There are some considerations that need to be taken for rainwater retention and runoff that will have to be designed into this. Um, and then parking lot lights would be another consideration. That numbers a ballpark number. Could be more, could be less. And then resurfacing the existing parking lot like I mentioned. So, we have an option here. We would estimate somewhere in the range of 400 to $660,000 to put an additional parking lot in. One of the things that would be considered is the growth for that school in the future. Where would it move to or how would that impact it? This option would serve for both your activities for your parking and for your lane stacking. We move forward to the 22 23 large capital projects. Currently, I'm

050estimating about a $1.7 million need. This is a living document. This is a document that will change. Uh two years ago, I provided you a three-year outlook detailed, and I can tell you that some things have worked their way to the top that were not planned, but that's how that functions. We do our best to identify the most needed improvements, repairs focused on safety, security, and operation to meet the school district mission. Some additional considerations that are not factored into the capital program are parking lot projects throughout the district at 1.15 million. We've discussed a special education home located on the property of Netty Hartnett. I'm still carrying a rough number of 300,000 for that because we own the property. We have received some pricing for framing and I do have pricing for some other

051pieces of that. If given the green light, I would definitely want to dig into it more, find partners and and give you a better detailed budgetary cost before you would move forward. Creek repairs. Spoke with the city uh representative today via email and uh currently we are still working through that with the city and that's for the creek repairs over at Warren Middle School football stadium. Our district has quite a security system. We have a lot of cameras. We have a lot of devices that record. We have systems that are starting to age out. They still function well. Um, but some of the cameras are not supported with some of the software updates. So, we are slowly replacing cameras throughout the district. That is a budgeted item. But, uh, in the next few years, we're

052going to be looking at some major improvements for the main recording systems. And, uh, so I'm going to start plugging in 50 to $100,000 a year for about three years to get us back on track with uh, some of those devices. And then finally, another consideration is renovations at Lawson's uh gymnasium for professional development. And uh that that would be just developing that area for hosting larger events. And then um I've always put us last for the facilities department, but we do store a lot of product and equipment and we have a lot of value down there as far as what the district operates with. Some of our roofs need attention and some other improvements down there. So together, I'm estimating about $450,000 uh for that for those two projects. So just looking at those

053additional considerations, we're sitting at about $2.1 million above and beyond our capital budget that's been scheduled. I want to break it out a little further with some special groups. So we have sports. One of the items tonight is our tennis courts. So, fiscal year 21, we carried an estimated cost of $300,000 for the uh repair and renovation of the tennis courts. Fiscal year 28, based off of um manufacturer life expectancy of the materials that we have in place, turf, track, uh we're carrying about a million dollars of future expenses at our Pioneer Stadium 31. We're looking at carrying about $800,000 for turf replacement on those two baseball fields. Now, that's 10 years out. Time will tell how much we use it, how much wear and tear is on it. We may get more than 10

054years. We may start to see excessive wear sooner than 10 years. But these are all assets that are very expensive to maintain. And we try to predict based off of manufacturer recommendations for replacement cycle so that we're not caught off guard. So with those three projects, we're about 2.1 million in the next 10 years. And it's important to note in the last six years approximately, we've spent about $800,000 on other athletic areas. One of them mainly being the high school gymnasium, the competition gym. We replaced basketball goals, um, volleyball nets, standards, redone the floor, put on end caps for the bleachers, made bleacher repairs. Um, and we've done that throughout the district at different locations, and another gym floor is up for consideration tonight. Extracurricular support. These activities involve large number of our students. JOTC

055we've talked about uh growth of their space for educational and activities, band equipment and uniforms, theater upgrades of equipment and space and thanks to the board's actions uh last year, we have moved on a $220,000 renovation project. Supply chain has slowed down right now. Um, we're still waiting on some final lighting renovation equipment to show up, but the sound has been completed and with the help of uh David Brown, he's making uh good use of the fixtures that we did receive and uh we'll see that in the upcoming performance. So, then it's time to talk about bonds. Our next bond date would be 203031 approximate and that's where we would have to consider the special projects we just described for athletics extracurricular or even the capital planning and what does that look like in the

056next 10 years? What needs to be pulled from capital dollars now and what can wait for potential bond and that's all subject to the community. As a reminder, uh three million in our last bond that we just completed took a big chunk of those big items out for us. Uh we replaced HVAC systems at Warren Middle School, doors and windows at that location, and upgraded fire and clock systems at that location. All very expensive items that were able to be taken care of along with several other smaller projects. So with that boost, that $3 million spend that we had, we're able to focus on some of the I'll say smaller dollar, but uh still very expensive projects and then also start planning for the future. So our expenditures annually, the facilities department runs about 1.5

057to 1.6 million. Our technology spends somewhere around a half a million. annual district expenditure. This is uh at at district's approval for architectural fees, property acquisition, furnishings, those type of things, about 600,000. And then this year, we encountered a situation where our insurance rates were going to be very high for wind and hail. And the decision was made to self-insure. Essentially, based off of the percentage that was recommended by our um insurance carrier, uh that total comes to about $4 million to carry for wind and hail damage. Add to that emergency funds to cover, we say boilers, it could be any mechanical system that could keep school from occurring, vehicles, or any other type of damage um to equipment that could potentially keep school from happening. And while we have the insurance, there's a stop

058gap that we need to be able to produce that money to get things moving until the insurance can be uh assessed and and claims can be filed. Those things added together are about 8.75 million. So that is our um if you will obligation per year of what we've decided to spend out of the capital dollars. So if we take that first number, the 11 million almost 12 million from the 8 million, we we're left with 3,200,64 in our 2223 budget. Uh to identify and prioritize the needs based on the district's mission is what we're going to do and with your help make those decisions. We want to identify the projects and improvements that are best supported by a bond versus capital and put those in the right category so we get those taken care of

059at the right times. And again, for every mill that would be reduced, if that's something that happens in the future, we lose that $344,133 which includes the state aid that would accompany it. And just the projects that we talked about tonight, those are examples of projects that would be potentially removed from our to-do list for that amount. Each one of those are at or exceeds $300,000. So, we need to do all this, but still maintain enough in our reserve to handle a wind and hail event, take care of our self- insurance needs, and handle emergency situations that may arise. So 2122 we're spending about 1.5. I'm on track to spend that tonight. If everything is approved, we're spending $1.14 million for four items. Those items are below. They fit within the budget. And I believe

060all but one of those was forecasted in the the the plan from two years ago that I submitted to the board. And again, just a quick review, 11,953 from the allocated dollars that we just discussed. That again that was selected by our team to hold of the 8,750 leaves us with $3 million in the bank at the end of the year that can roll forward to help support next year's capital projects or unforeseen events. And with that, the three of us will be ready to take any questions. By transferring the Old West to KCK, we avoided $2.5 million outlay down there. Is that correct? I would have to look at the uh the actual spreadsheet, but I would say probably more than that at this point. It's been long enough that um yes, we've we've

061saved quite a bit. If you want to stay safe, we've deferred quite a bit of money by removing West off of our books. Matt, your your plan, we've sat down one-on-one together and looked at your plan. Um, it's extensive. So, this is these are the four projects that you think are needing the most attention right now that you need our consideration for. Correct. um out of out of what is scheduled right now. Those fit my budget and fit my priority levels. Yes. And individually, we can get into those as they come up for approval tonight. Be happy to dig into those a little bit more. I I appreciate the information that you gave us prior beforehand. It was extensive and it had a lot of great materials with it. So, thank you for all the

062work that you did prior and all the work that you constantly do for us every day. We learned a lot of this through law because we were going through bond and meeting with the contractors, Matt and I, our frustration were that we would have a thing that would come up and we would always have to ask you to do it before we say yes. And so as Matt and I were talking through this, that's kind of we have some major expenditures for the board. Um I think it's good for you to see a frame of where the dollars are coming from. Um and that the dollars are there if you choose to spend them on these projects. Um just as a reminder, the $4 million is our best estimate for the wind and that would

063take a major health to do that. Um, it's our recommendation to keep that on hand in case that event would ever happen. If not, you would have to go to most likely warranties. No fun. And that's basically borrow from the state. What they do is they pay it and then you you get taken out of your next year's funds plus. So that's that's the reason we would recommend keeping that piece on hand got into a definite need that money is there for the board to spend. So it's not like Matt should decide that we spend $8 million annually and that's not true. $8 million annually that we have the potential to spend based on any need for. So you're really spending about half of that on an basis between technology expenses and facilities and so

064the rest is allocated or reserved in case of emergency but you would have that to adjust your spend as you go through this week. It would be our recommendation to stay within those parameters, but also no other things come up or other wants the board may have that cause that go up and down. But it goes down there's risk longterm. So these are the projects separate. So this sets up This was just information included in that plan. We possibly do something. That's correct. Yeah. Matt, if I understand your numbers, the very last slide, 3 million is after those four projects are voted on. Okay. Yes. Does that change? Yeah. So, so that would be part of the program budget would still remain your 3.2. Okay. Yes. Welcome. Questions? I guess some numbering jumps out of

065my head. I'm just going to use rough number two million a year. Then I heard be spending four million a year possibly. That that ain't going to work after about 10 years. Pull that back up. Okay. So, we annual deposits of at 2.7 million. That's our total. So, if you go to Here we go. So within that that 2.7 million that you see Mr. 1.6 that allocates basically to maintain type things. Brian usually has a budget right around 500,000. Um the 633 is a possibility of an expenditure. It's not expended every year. I mean if we don't have any projects we only are fees we're not purchasing land but it's there in case something would come up or a need it's budgeted for that. So then your four million and two million those are those

066are like reserves that's like a savings account within that account. So those aren't technically being extended unless they're there. So when you're looking at the expenditure part of that, it wouldn't exceed necessarily 2.7 on an annual basis. There can be times where well it could because you have it in there, but as Matt and Beth to if we have a bad year, the following year, Beth doesn't allow him to do one6. So she keeps she keeps a balance as close to that as possible. Matt works him and Brian work very well communicate very well in situations like that. So if we were to look at the spreadsheet at the end of the year what we should see in capital outlay if all the expenditures were done is 4 million plus 2 million plus 3 whatever

067it was. So about 9 million as we try to explain you know what is in our budget at the June turnover. Correct. That's right. And we have that three million extra because we million into bond capital outlays and the board prior to a nice job building that capital up. Matt did a nice job holding off on purchasing trying to leverage the bond on that because anybody that's ever had a bond I want to pass Matt J on the back because we stay within probably 95 to 99% of most people and so that's another reason I also think the way you put in charge of it a lot smart way of doing 100,000 for the creek project. That's still in the planning stage. It is still in the planning stage. Uh working with uh Mr. FA

068over at the city of Levvenworth and he's running some options to ground to see if he can have any idea when that's going. He said soon. U soon. Our target date is to try and hit it before spring or in the springtime uh before the wet season really starts hitting. So, um, but we do communicate periodically. He's been a good partner working with us, working with my department, myself. So, if we do that, it will draw off of the funds that I just talked about. Those are not already programmed or are they programmed into our funds? $100,000 we just talked about. Okay. Okay. So yeah, those uh I'm more I'm worried about after the study what it's going to cost. Well, the study is complete. The 100,000 is being held for contractor work. So we've

069we've completed the study. Um we reviewed the study. Um there were some suggestions made and what we're doing right now is evaluating those suggestions and seeing if there's some other options that are value engineering, if you will, to bring our numbers down a little bit. Uh so that 100,000 and and Mr. Pal yeah that's correct that is not those projects under the additional considerations are not programmed right now. So we talked about the living option that you all have looked at. Are you going to have a formal readown and decision action on that? I don't see it all today. We talked about getting some possible um contract feedback on what's possible and then making decisions so we could execute in the spring because I mean we had the same problem. November they said took four

070to five months to roll in both we had the problems with delivery etc. And if we wanted to start spring we had to start thinking about now. Correct. And that's accurate. When we talked last time, we we slowed down a little bit because we knew we wouldn't be able to execute anything until the springtime. Um that would be direction from Dr. Roth or from the board how you would want to move forward getting prices or um electing to do that work at this point. But the the numbers that I have currently, they could change up or down. Um, but I would be prepared to do what the board needs done as far as getting prices or moving that forward and he would prepare that. So contractors that we take to more than two contractors. So,

071three to four contractors on that and that's basically what Yeah. So, he he's a busy guy. Um kind of a oneman operation. So, just a little bit of time for him to put his uh documents together and get that out to bid. So, wintertime would be a good time to put it out um to have something back for you to actually vote on and move forward. I'm just looking at time timeline then what's month next one's December and so this president I'm just trying to figure out action here that one we've been talking about now for eight months is the city talking about paying some of this halfway on any of it no ma'am that uh they split the cross with the bus lane because it was directly connected to the uh street. This would

072be on us from what I understand. And since we're talking through that, um there is Brian, can you find the slide for me? Uh we would have to maintain easement um from the nearest property owners. We'd work through the city to make sure we do that with all the plans. Plans would have to be submitted to the city for review. As I said, we would have to discuss runoff and what our retention uh needs would be um if we can tie into our current retention pond the way it's designed. Right now, we're planning on retention uh between. So, the green space between that area, there you go. So, the green space between would act as a buffer for runoff. Um, so this is very preliminary, but it was a a visual for the board to

073see to decide if we want to move forward with this. Um, and again give you the overview of the the capital budget, a good understanding of where we're at and then decisions made to spend that dollar where it would put us at. So the reason with all of the discussion that that's taking place, Mr. concerns. This makes the most sense because it gives us the parking for the events as opposed to trying to double something across the pond or across the retention pond. Um and the linear feed to stack um our best estimate is that this would keep over 95% of the cars off the street. I'm not I can't promise anybody with what we are able to do that we keep 100% of the cars off because it could change yearly based on pickup

074drop offs. Yeah. I mean to come and say that this was gonna fix it. Um I think it this option gives us the best opportunity to fix it. um cost. Theoretically, uh Matt has in there 200,000 to resurface the rest of the parking lot, which would be probably wise to do it all at once and probably actually get a cheaper cost because within the next three to five years, you you have a resurface project on that anyway. Um and so that's that was a $200,000 estimate that we have in that budget. um not necessarily have to have have lights for safety reasons you would put in lights. So our best guess or mass best somewhere between 60 and 75,000 for that and so um you're looking at a total project of probably somewhere between 650

075and 700,000 off the $3.2 million. Right? So the board the reason why you haven't had that is because you also discussed a possible additional building and some of that the board would need to prioritize where their expense or their priority would be is Henry priority one because we discussed it the most or is the the building that was presented and discussed the previous meeting is that moved to priority one. um because the 3.1 or the 3.2 definitely wouldn't cover them all um in in where you're at. So, by all means, and you have you had totally n million to spend, but you're risking you could be here to pay all um by trying to do it all. You're more than within your means to do that actually. Um, and so that's why this hasn't been

076on there. Um, because this and you can take something off. You can take the tennis courts. You can take one of the other projects off and put that on and push that down the road what you want to protect. What Matt's team did is recommend what they need or what they see as a priority. um and the board can prioritize between this and future projects. Um how you would choose uh to prioritize this. Move on to next item. I believe it's elevators. It is elevators. No, it's uh so just a brief I provided everybody a uh write up outlining the age of the elevators. Three units uh are in question. The biggest problem right now the controller uh inside of those are no longer manufactured. The uh rebuild rate is less than 50%. And uh

077if we pushed it, we could have an elevator down middle of the school year and be six months without it. So just in preparation, um this is a nonproprietary replacement, meaning pretty much any elevator company would have access to work on it. We currently contract with MEI, uh Minnesota Elevator Incorporated. Uh they've serviced our elevators for many years. Bought out the last company that serviced our uh our elevators. have done a great job. Uh and then this would be brought to you through the uh KU purchasing piggyback meaning KU University has put out with their uh purchasing group um a bid. MEI won that bid and within that bid it allows for public agencies to use that same pricing very similar to what we do with our co-ops but it's called a piggyback. Um so

078we can purchase through that. It meets the state statutes. So, that's what's in front of you tonight. It's a modernization of the cab, the elevator compartment. It replaces several of the items inside, makes it more ADA compliant, brings it up to speed as far as uh better sensors for the door closures. Um, and then the main piece again and the main reason for this is the controllers. There is a difference in price between Netti Hartnet, LHS and uh Lawson because Netti Hartnet has multiple stations and dual side exit where the other elevator is a single floor or dual floor one-sided exit. So the controller is a little different. Uh total cost on that if we uh select do all three and that includes the bonding that's required for the statute is $349,23. And with that

079approval, it would uh generate the acquisition of the products hopefully to get here on time for installation this summer. Matt, why did we not um do Lawson's elevator when we just did all the construction on? This is one of those projects that kind of snuck in. Um it was on the far back burner. Um and then they uh when they were out servicing so Lawson's elevator was serviced along with uh the high school, we kept having issues with the high school elevator and it prompted them to dig into it a little bit more and we discovered this and the module was in all three of those elevators. So it was um it it would have been in the capital replacement if I knew about it at the time. I did not know about it when

080we went into construction. That's the simple answer. This controller says now it's nonproprietary which means it's not coming from original manufacturer being remanufactured a new product. Um what do we know about the liability on a nonproprietary control elevator since elevators always an insurance issue? Sure. So, I I don't have specifics on the exact manufacturer of it, but I will tell you the elevator industry is highly regulated. Um, very regulated. Um, you have to be licensed to work on it for uh hoists and lifts. Um, it's it's a union shop that's working on these things. Um, so the proprietary versus non-proprietary, it allows the biggest thing, it allows the school district to choose who they want to work on it. Uh we have had instances where we had proprietary systems um had difficulty getting out of

081um service agreements getting service because only they could work on it. This uh one this company can work on multiple brands but two if MEI separates from us at the future um this would be a product that pretty much any other elevator company would be able to come in and service. Okay. But the reliability of it I would say would be on par with the propri warranty side because sometimes company takes over another company's product which was I was trying to be sure of they're not taking over product it's just a non um control the right term here um I think you said anybody can work so but you answer the question so the elevator itself is long out of warranty. So, anything we do to it is not going to affect um Dover's warranty

082um for instance. So, maintain us. Correct. Correct. Madam President, I moved [Music] by the amount of second Motion second to do the elevator repairs as suggested 349. All those in favor 70. Madam President, at this time I'm going to ask Mr. Brimmyer, who is our custodial coordinator, to come up and just give you a brief on the gym floor for Warren and answer any of your questions. Thank you. [Music] Dr. Road School Board, thank you for this opportunity to discuss something that's near and dear to my heart, which is the gym floors. Um, I've had an opportunity to work on gym floors for close to 35 years. Uh so having this opportunity to improve the gym floors in the district is so important to me. Uh anybody who is familiar with the high school gym

083floor, we did that in 2018 and I think that turned out phenomenal. What we would like to do is the same thing to Warren Middle School gym floor. that floor. Uh last time it was sanded, painted uh in in in the way that we're going to uh recommend it to be done was 1999. Now, since then, yes, seems like seems like forever ago. Since then, in 2001, we had some water damage due to some sprinkler systems. water damage due to sprinkler systems. In 2010, we had some more damage due to sprinkler systems. This is the Warren Middle School um competitive gym floor. If you've been out there, you've noticed that the gym floor has three spots that are noticeably different than the others. The floor was replaced, sanded, and is quite a bit lighter than

084the rest of the floor. We would like to correct that by having the whole gym sanded, uh, have it painted and then have it sealed. We try to do this once every 7 to 10 years. In 1999, we're talking what, 22 years. So we maintain the gym floors in such a way now that we araid them, scrub them and then we reseal them every year so that the gym floors look really nice. Uh we would like to redo this gym floor at a cost to about $34,000. Exact price is 33,675,000. Seems like a small amount. When Matt's talking about millions, I'm talking about thousands. But it's very important. We would like this gym floor to look as nice as the others. Uh the price included in that is aluminum transition strip on all entranceways, included

085the cafeteria, gymnasium, which is a pretty long run. We're also going to stain from the three-point line to the key, just like the high school. And then the center of the court, we're going to do the LV in three color scheme instead of two. Really make it brighten up. And I am open for questions. So we built the new gym at the intermediate center. Are we still primarily as a district using Warren side for competition or because 56 doesn't really compete, right? So the 56 center gym was built with a 300 seat capacity primarily for competition is a competition gym but it was built more of a supplemental gym to as far as competition to gym. to like some tournaments, we could host tournaments, those types of things safely, but the seating capacity is not

086as large. And so, and that was really intentional because we didn't need the two gyms that that large rooms that we put on were also part of the room. Yeah. Right. So all of that all of that was done with the ability to expand our middle school and post tournaments volleyball, wrestling, basketball and be able to use both gyms simultaneously, but it wasn't designed to take over competition. I guess I guess my question is three times now we've had water damage from the sprinkler system. So my question is we fix it, we're done. What about next year's water sprinkler system? So, I'm looking for how are we attenuating that problem before we spend this money on the door. Oh, exactly. Mr. Daki U has uh the vestibule. So, the south entrance used to used to

087not have a heater that was capable of keeping up. So, a sprinkler system gets too cold at burst. And that's been remedied since the entrance ways been made so much bigger. Yeah, it took three times, but we got it right. The pipe has moved below ceiling and the heat has been adjusted. So, luckily those two years, I'm sorry. No, also uh the west end, which is an outside entrance. Um we're going to do some concrete work because hard driving rain will blow water in and we all know what happens with wood when it gets wet. So, we're going to cut a 8 by 15 foot section out of the gym. Do concrete and rubber flooring to prevent any damage to the floor moving forward. I would like to make a motion to approve the link

088for Enterprises to do the West Middle School gym floor at the cost of $33,675. Motion to [Music] those. [Music] So, roofing Warren Middle School. Um, I approached the board last year about putting a new product on that roof. Existing roof is 20 years old. This product uh is a fiber reinforced product uh that extends that roof warranty for another 20 years. That roof does have positive drainage. Even though it is a low slope roof, um it's in good enough condition, we can rehab it. So, if we let it go a few more years, it could get to a condition where it have to be tore off. So, this is a cost-saving opportunity. Um, additionally this year because of supply chain and petroleum prices, uh, styrofoam foam insulation, some of the fasteners are hard to find

089for roofing. So, we decided to forego uh, one of our other needed projects just because we didn't know if we could get it done on time. This project is um, able to be applied during school time. Matter of fact, the first phase that we did occurred during school. um low to no VOCC's, safe to be around. Uh it's a small crew that puts it on. And uh the package tonight does three large sections at our school. And just the visual, the yellow would be the areas that we're looking at doing. And I can show this to you closer. Um and it basically leaves us with one more year of coating for Warren Middle School. And then that whole campus is in good shape for 15 to 20 years uh for any recodes. Um there'll always

090be some maintenance things, but the the project in front of you is a additional coating, second phase of um a Trimco product that we put on last year. It performs well, went on well. This would be purchased through uh Greenbush. Total cost for that project would be $475,5892. Um just one other caveat there. you did have a breakdown of the pricing. So, we buy direct for the material, save money through Greenbush, and then we uh competitively bid the labor installation. So, that's not something that we can install oursel. We have to have them do it for us. Correct. It has to be a certified applicator and it's time consuming. And we've already been through this process last year, right? On the other section. Yes. A different contractor got it this year. Um local contractor was

091aggressive and and was the low bid. Since we're buying the materials, but we're hiring someone else to apply it, how does the warranty work on this? Trimco warrants it as a certified applicator for us, the customer. So, yes, yeah, they all all the biders were their prerec was to be a certified installer of this product. It would be probably soon. Well, I think the outside temperature has to be above 50 consistently. So, it'd be sometime in the spring before they uh this is also taking advantage of a price cost before the new fiscal year for most of them. Uh January, you'll see about a 10% increase on this material. Any questions? Madam President68,792 [Music] by American amount of $27,510 for a total of $475,589. Second. [Music] Thank you. So, this is my last item for

092you this evening. Tennis court resurface be for Levvenworth High School. Um, this uh tennis court we recoat about every three years or so. That's the just the very top coat. We fill the cracks and try to make it look good and and playable. In my tenure here, I don't recall a time that that asphalt has been removed. We have added curbs to that structure and fencing um probably 10 years ago to help that asphalt stop moving as much. Currently, if you go out there, there's a few pretty large cracks. It has been sitting out there on my capital outlay list for several years. Uh it's time to move it forward. We did uh get uh quotes from McConnell and Associates and from Mammoth Construction. Uh we asked for asphalt. Mammoth offered a alternate for uh

093concrete as well as bidding the asphalt. And um tonight's recommendation would be to move forward with the mammoth uh alternate of concrete in the amount of uh $276,900. To that we add the bonding and uh our total request would be $285,27 which would give us a superior surface over asphalt. What is the difference between concrete? Uh the cost from them is about $10,000 roughly. Quality. So um asphalt will tend to have a little bit more movement in it. Um it's really contingent on your substrate. It's how how well you've packed or compacted your ground. And then um they typically do it in two layers. So making sure you have a good uh what they call um a first run asphalt on the top. Um it it will probably settle a little bit more than concrete

094down the road. It's a good surface. Um that's what we have now. That's what most tennis courts are are asphalt. So I'm not saying asphalt is not good for the price and what our budget was. Concrete will be superior as far as um longevity. If we've had over 20 years out of this asphalt, this would be the last one that we'll have to do for a while. Um it will have stress relief cuts in it as with the asphalt. And then um you have rebar in the concrete um every two feet on center. It's a 4,000 PSI concrete with a granite mix. So it's going to be a low moisture bearing concrete. Um I think you're going to get a flatter surface with the concrete. It will also have a surface coating on it that

095will also lay out all the lines. With this, you get new nets, new anchors, new posts, and um they have money in there for the the removal, replacement, and putting everything back the way it was. So, usually on the base, I think it called for a 2 in uh two lifts of 2 in. So, it ended up being 4 in of I'm sorry, Mammoth was three inches for the asphalt and McConnell asphalt, three inches of base, 2 in of top. So they would have had five inches of asphalt. Um, so three versus five, but the concrete option given was 4 in of concrete, 4,000 PSI, less money than McConnell's asphalt. So in my opinion the concrete is a better product for less money in this option. Now concrete is surfaced with a separate material. Is

096that correct? Correct. So in the future if we decide to repair you know things happen the concrete can be resurfaced. Basically it's almost an indefinite base. Right. Correct. You could you could come in and mill it. Um it would still be a solid base. Um, if it's a small chip or something, you can use an epoxy concrete, fill it, and then recote and do similar maintenance that we've done before for the color coating to make sure it's vibrant, the lines are easy to see. So, yes, you could continue. I would agree with you. Matt, do we know what other surfaces our tennis teams play on when they go out? I know ours is asphalt, and you said a lot of others are asphalt, but when they're playing in other districts, what are they playing on?

097Um, I would worry about changing the makeup of the game. I don't know anything about Mr. I guess I think uh your asphalt and concrete first. I can't answer 100%. So I don't want to sit up here and act like I know. Um, when my daughter played for a different district, I did notice that they played on concrete and asphalt. It's not as bad as clay. They're going to be pretty similar. Just the asphalt. I wouldn't think they'd be different, but you know, there's actually more issues with frosty than being soft when it's too hot and that sort of thing. the coating. The coating was most important part. That's where you get your your uh texture, your grip, and where you get your ball bounce from. So, those would be similar to Yeah. Yep. So,

098Matt, changing the the surface from the asphalt to the concrete, is that going to change the way that you budget maintenance for the future? Um, I would say it would probably reduce. Um, if I've if I've had to recote and touch up cracks every three to four years, um, I mean, I probably spent $20,000 just keeping it going in the past five or 10 years. So, I would say the maintenance would reduce it. It just seems really un unusual for us to be able to get that amount of concrete for such a reduced amount of price over the asphalt. So, when we're dealing with a confined I say confined, it's all fenced in. So, the fence isn't going to come down. They'll take out a section to get equipment in. Um, it'd be my opinion.

099I can't answer for the contractor who bid this, but when you're working in there, you can cut it out in chunks and remove it easy. When you put asphalt in, you have to have rollers and compactors that need room to move. So, you probably have more difficulty compacting within that fence. Whereas concrete, you lay out your rebar, dump your cement, smooth it out, and then make your relief cuts. Because when we initially put it in, it wasn't fenced. Correct. It was, I believe it was a open court, then it went to fencing, and then we had a lot of movement in the asphalt. We put in a concrete curb to contain the asphalt from moving as much with the freestall. Um, it helped it extended our life. Like I said, that was 10 or 11

100years ago. I remember doing that. Um, and we've we've squeezed a lot of life out of that that tennis. I was talking with Mr. Wilmouth and he was mentioning it's a little difficult to take his uh PE class out, too. So, we want to get it corrected. Um, that would really be about one of our last big sports projects right now. um we'd have some money to focus on some other things and construction will be not interfering with our tennis seasons. Correct. Right now it would be scheduled for uh late spring, early summer. So um contractor has agreed that that would work for them. Um Mr. Stoka who who's over our grounds has communicated with Mr. couns all all the people at the high school and I think we're in agreement that we can get

101that done in a timely manner before it would impact any kind of a tournament or the season. Madam President, I move that the board accept the administration's recommendation for mammoth construction to the concrete to replace the tennis court as was presented for an amount of $285,27 to replace the tennis court surfacing in this before I start. What's the total yards they could come up with on that? Yeah, I don't know. I don't have that right with me right now. Maybe how many how many quarts are we? Six quarts. I just asked you to have that. Sorry. All right. So, we accept Sorry, that was not me. It's John Goodman. Mr. Pow made the motion and John. Would anybody like to second the motion? I already seconded it. Yeah. I just thought, [Music] thank you for

102your time and your support tonight. Thank you very much. Um the format of the child want you want that parking lot that process I don't to get the board approve whatever that is probably done late spring. Yeah, Madam President, I would need a motion, but I would like to make a decision before January. Okay, Madam President, I move that we authorize uh the administration to move forward with hard bids for the proposal presented uh at the meeting for parking lots at the end level. Can we make sure that the bid includes lighting? Because the main intention is to provide for events. Those events typically happen at night when we're doing whole school events. winter trees. So what we'll do is we'll do the project and then alterate providing and alternate. Yes, I mean that's what

103I was going to suggest. I'd like to be able to make a decision based on Madam President. Can we delay for a second? Since I'm not going to be here to finish it up, I'd like to step out of the room for this one. Item number eight, the 2022 2023. Um, actually this is Amy's bread and butter. Miss, you want to talk? [Applause] You got this on your calendar? I'm sorry. The calendar is presented for as a first read only. So, next month I'll ask for your approval. Uh what we have prepared for you is two calendars. our academic calendar for all all of our buildings excluding uh Earl Lawson and then we have a second calendar for them. So uh with regards to the contract it's 186 days on both it's 172 days for

104student um in comparison to last year we are gaining professional development hours approximately 14 additional hours for professional development with the early release yes from the yes so so I as a I have lots of things that I I have mentioned that I'd like to just address. So half day early releases are very much not convenient for a lot of families and when we got rid of them several years ago um it was welcomed that they were not a part of our calendar any longer. Why are we looking to do that again? We're really trying to increase our professional development across. We're trying to get consistency um and allow for vertical and horizontal professional development. Uh right now our PLC's, those that have it built in their schedule. Um right now we have a very

105um it's varying building by building as far as professional development or even professional learning opportunities as the staff. Uh we have one building that has no built-in PLC. Um and so they're doing it after school once a week and then we have buildings that have built-in PLC every day. And so it varies and I know we're really going to try to focus on our academics um and our test scores and our performance. And we feel like this is what's best for the district overall. It will allow us to meet as buildings by grade level and or the entire building. or if need be, we could ma meet uh buildings could um other buildings could join in with the professional development. Um with our little kids, we plan to take advantage of Amy Kates who's doing

106our afterchool programs and our um what what's the um the intermissions. Thank you. And so we hope to offer opportunities for the elementarymentaries. We plan to have uh some either it's our classified staff um that will stay and maybe offer some opportunities, learning opportunities um in the gym or some of our larger spaces for our elementary kiddos. Um because that's mainly the concern is the little ones. Um but we have not ironed out all those particulars, but it is our intent to have something for our kiddos that are younger. um after you know when we do the early release I will tell you we are one of the few schools that do not have either late start or early release um in the area or in the Kansas City I mean most schools have it

107have weekly. So why did we get rid of it? Um me when I came in here I felt like we had too many breaks in our calendar and not enough consistency. Um, one of the things that we really focused in on the last several years is trying to build relationships with students as well as families. Um, and we were trying to do that over time. Um, and I think when we were looking at all of the relationships and the times we were building that, uh, I think some of our instructional piece, um, as far as meeting and having instructional time work with staff got put at the beginning of the year and end of the year, um, and not a lot during the year. And so this gives us more time consistently during the year

108to focus in on the test scores, the the data points and actually dive into those more regularly um than trying to do that at the end of the year when people are ready to check out um because the data is not there at the beginning of the year and you're and you're redesigning all of your all your time through. And so when we got rid of it, I will tell you um Miss Bass and Mire part of teaching and learning team. It was Mr. Church or Dr. Church and then Christy Jones. They were in the teaching and learning. They tried to talk me out of it, but my focus was at that point in time is to try to close the gaps in the calendar. I feel like our relationship piece we've done a nice

109job with always will continue to develop that and now we need to leverage some instructional pieces and this fits into that instructional piece. Would full day not PDS not be better? Well, if you do if you do full day PES, um, one of the things you do on that is you change the length of your calendars as far as days out and you lose instructional time students because when you do a PB full day like these PBS on these on these early releases, you're losing about 90, you're losing about 45 minutes of instructional time because you get you get half credit with that if you do a whole day, then you only get a half day worth of credit. So then you got to expand that out. So Amy's like we got 172 contact days,

110186 contract days that then that gets more spread out and you're actually going to lose go less contact time on whole days. Plus, um, you wouldn't be able to do those monthly because you wouldn't want full days out of out of the out of your schedule. And so, by going back to an early release at the beginning, we started with a a late start. No one liked the late start because our targets increased. the early release. As Amy said, we got things in place now that we can possibly manage more efficiently the families that need the assistance and not being able to pick kids up um with a with a late with an early release versus a late start. So, there's been a lot of discussion on this as well. Um, and the the biggest

111piece is we're trying to leverage opportunities to improve instruction throughout the school year, which our current calendars don't have. Okay. So, along with that, you had said um possibly like having the inter session um instructor. So, I guess what I'm asking is are our parents are going to be losing out on half a day of pay because they're not going to be there with the students any longer? No. found with the interessions is that not everyone wants that extra time, right? And so we at the beginning and I think if you read the the reports that through the questions of what the responses were, I think that's changed a little bit. Um, but this would give an opportunity and we would be able to keep an opportunity for Paris based on the number of kids

112that we need to stay during that time and that would be developed over time. That that plan isn't in front of you today. But our intent is to offer some type of interession type material during those early releases. The thing that we got to protect is the teacher being able to get away from the classroom and get into what the early release is designed to do. And so all of those steps have to be played out. The first one actually is to get the calendar approved. Once the calendar is approved, then you start making plans to cover the steps of all those plans. And it wouldn't be building specific as you were talking about. It would be district specific. It's going to be both. So, so you're going to have a combination. The first Wednesday

113will be after school will be the building for one hour because we have built in the negotiated agreement. Um, up to three one-hour meetings after school. Well, one will be protected. It will be the first Wednesday every I know. But so that will be the building working on um PLC or whatever. And then that one Wednesday at the end of the month, that's where because we're planning well ahead, teaching and learning can come in and assist at different buildings and we can plan ahead because we only have so much teaching and learning and our support staff, they can utilize their manpower and plan and and bring everybody together whether it's all first grade, second grade or however. So um that early release will truly be directed by teaching and learning um as to what happens.

114So to answer your question Mr. the first staff meeting principles have the autonomy to to design that I still have more questions. I'm sorry. So, um I had several staff members this year at the end of the first week of school say that was too much having a full first week of school. I noticed the proposed calendar has the first day being orientation and then the rest of the population coming in Tuesday through Friday. Is that enough of a break for that first introduction back to school for the staff? Did you guys hear the same feedback that I did? Because it wasn't just one or two handfuls of staff members that said that was too much. So, we presented this to all of our administration over a month ago and then we sent this out

115to I met with LNA um a month ago and shared out the or three or weeks ago shared out the calendar and then we shared the calendar out to all staff. We didn't get any of so they have the opportunity to give you every single staff member certified classified has an opportunity. Um, a lot of the buildings what they do is the building administrator and their building leadership team will go over and review the calendar and they we just have it as a Google doc so everybody can share suggestions, ideas, we resolve the issue. We make changes based off of that. Um, so that was not an issue that was ever raised. Talk to your administrators. Don't just talk to us board members. No, that was never. So you're this first time hearing that of

116being a concern. Okay. But one of the things that we did change because it's an alternate start because that was a lesson learned on getting kids where they need to be with lunch getting car systems all of that at a slower pace for families. So there's less frustration at the beginning. Um and so that change was based on observations, communications, um and feedback from outside of school. So that piece was adjusted based on what you were talking about there. And then homecoming is slated for October 7th with a half a day of attendance, but then we've got a half a day of PD. How how can our staff come and be a part of the parade if they're going to be in PD? It's actually that's the way we labeled it last year, the previous

117year. It it's for uh the calendar so we can get um credit for it. But it's also school based. It is it's school spirit. That's our PD. I just wanted to make sure they'd still be able to come and attend and do the things with their student would be that they would attend the parade facilitate floats. That's when we brought our elementary in to design the clothes and do that. That's why. Okay. And then November 1st, the last several years, we've had the day after Halloween off as like a, in my opinion, a reset for everybody from the excitement for Halloween. We haven't had Halloween in school for a couple years, just the way that it's done. But this year it's set on a Monday and then we're going to be back in school on

118Tuesday. Have we seriously thought about that? So, we considered uh as you know just the way the calendar falls and the days rotate um having a Tuesday off we felt was too hard for our parents and it's only really the only ones of interest that like to have that day after are the elementary buildings. Have you been in there? They're crazy. So, um we did consider it u but we felt it was better saving that PD day for another day um later on. And so, we're doing that in April. Okay. And then the last thing that I wanted to say about the calendar is I'd really like to see our district move towards extending our year out to more of mirror the early childhood center calendar. Make it longer, give us larger breaks in the

119middle. And I personally would like to see us move to more year round type school. So everything that you see in the calendar has to be negotiated. in and when I say negotiate anything in pink or blue so that we have 186 days they decide when they want uh Christmas breaks and things like that and so that's something that we we would need to negotiate um so the other struggle especially at your seventh through 12 is true and so all your activities unless there's more flexibility from the side it's really hard to go an extended calendar or breaks like what we're doing at the early childhood center because of all of the activities that don't take those breaks. And so um and so really determines unfortunately really determines a lot of calendar and all schools.

120That was all of my questions. Thank you. We did our best to overlay the two calendars. So, um, when there are breaks, we try to overlay them as best we could with the early childhood and the other schools. And just as an FYI, as soon as whatever calendar is in front of you, Amy takes about three weeks thinking about calendar and the next year's calendar. So when she's kind of genius is what I call her I was talking about Matt were discussing [Music] is wrong. I think I just saw that is wrong. I do have a question on the yes interess. Yes, sir. Probably in Ryan's wick as far as what measures are we evaluating, how successful those intersections are, and anecdotal comments by parents are not necessarily data in my opinion. And regardless of

121how you sit on them, whether you think they're a good idea or bad idea, having actual data that they have no impact, they have great impact on student performance will be useful in making decisions in future. And so determining what those measures are going to be should probably be something that we're told about in December when we go through these. Miss Batson, would you like to Sure. Absolutely. So the data point identified it's using go which is part of the creative curriculum assessment program for this first round. I will tell you about getting systems in place because that's one of the lessons we learned from when we started in August with that. So we took the simple machined unit and which is it which is one of our prepaid units and it up to our

122standard and then work on um our routine our buildings and getting to know our routine. So the data that were taken there is actually coming right now. So this a time out of task of classrooms ability um to progress in more routines in classrooms and understanding how curriculum play based learning is used with kids who attended inter session so far and of course it's anecdotal data on it and it's more qualitative in nature for the most part in that sense is very positive the features we're seeing are different from August to 1 of October, then end of October to where we are now and kids understanding school, kids understanding the structure of the classroom and how we use their environment. And with that being said, for future, and I'll be honest, it probably won't be

123in March. Um, but in the future as we get gold up and going with students and with teachers, that is what we're hoping to do is transition the gold data from prek and the assessments that they have with that to where they were kindergarten and look and use those colors if you remember from the presentation and and track it going from different colors to different colors on that. So that's where moving forward. However, right now is not a book. Is there a way that you can give us um past data points from kindergarten with the traditional schedule and then those same data points with the students that are attending the new schedule and then the ones that are also participating in the inner sessions as well. So they're getting the the instruction though it might

124not be direct instruction by certified teachers but still engagement in school with those so that we're able to track what's what and like yes can yes is this the best year for absolutely right but I mean we move from higher ready tradition to fast for um and then then go but in there can it be tracked Yes. And remind me set up that tracking document to start tracking that and I guess just reframe that it's what are going to be our benchmarks. We kind of need to know what are the benchmarks where are we starting because we are mixing systems which is another problem when we want to start preparing data as well. Your fast bridge will be your ultimate benchmark with this. So I I think within bridge are we looking at color recognition?

125So yes, that yeah sort of because I mean it's more than what we're talking about. How do you take interception having developed measures of effect performance for 540 collective tasks for the United States Army high level that's kind of important what are you going to measure you know so that have knowing that is also I think will help the board in the future if that data is there if they're going to look at bridging that new schedule on to elementary schools which there are legitimate discussions going on both ways on that. So if we're going to if we got the data at the prek and supports the thing that that would support going to an alternative schedule at elementary school but it doesn't support this district. That's something more as well in my opinion. I

126I think it's definitely an inconvenience for families to not have all of their children on the same schedule. But if we can show why we're doing it and that it's working successfully, then I think that's important as well. Parents want their kids to be doing Absolutely. We're good. If you have any other questions, just let me know or shoot me an email. I'm not talking just the process of last year evaluation process. This one is more based on your observations and then any any u comments that you would have for me to uh to continue to improve, which I know I need to. Um, but then if you could have all of that compiled and back to uh uh Brenda uh the Monday. So that'd be the 7th. I think that's the Monday before the

127board meeting. She can compile it and get it to Miss Price. Um and then Miss Price can review that with you and the uh the board um in executive session on the 13th. Um and then after that then Miss Price would uh be able to share the cumulative uh information um from that evaluation with me um after that. So, um it's probably more about your comments and what you see where you see my improvement needing um or things that you see that you would like me to work on. Um and uh and so uh Miss Price and I, we visited about this when she became president. We set some goals. She set some goals for me. Um and we talked about the evaluation process and felt like this would be the best avenue for the

128board to go um in the current year. Just clarify the date all the information and are is this the format that you're wanting it? you're wanting a paper copy turned in to Brenda and then she'll she'll compile um and what you'll see like on item one the I don't know it it'll be like if some gives two some gives five she'll give a like a 4.3 or a 3.9 on each of those as a scale um and then you would have an opportunity as a board to discuss that in executive session. [Music] Um yes. Uh probably the the the the biggest thing that um like to share with the board um is our uh COVID data uh to date um and where we're headed um in December for discussion and and that for those of

129you that know um that the vaccination has now been approved for students uh ages or kids aged 2 through 11, which previously it was 12 and older. Um and there is no there won't be at this point in time and I don't foresee any recommendation from this administration or state administration that vaccinations would be required. Um those would all be based on uh families uh wants and desires at that time. where I see us going as a district and and talking with colleagues not only locally but across multi-states um where I think it's going to land um with most cases is that um students that are vaccinated that are exposed would not be quarantined. students that can't prove vaccination and and remain unmasked will most likely find fa follow a quarantine procedure. Um that's yet

130to be determined, but every all indicators are that if you're unc if you're not vaccinated and you're unmasked and you're exposed, there's a 10 to 14 day quarantine that you'll have to follow. That won't be I mean again that's health department CDC recommendations. your local health department would have to break away from that um in order for us not to have to enforce whatever is on that and it's really current practice uh right now vaccination and mask is no quarantine um uh so I really look forward the board to make a decision or we'll make a decision in the December meeting um of what lies ahead for second semester um but with vaccinations being possible, um I think that masking at that point in time would be more of an optional masking as oppo as

131opposed to a a mandated masking or a situational masking. But again, we'll give you the information in December. Um currently, uh we've had uh as of today, um they uh you will be getting some information because it happened after school. Um all the information came to me after school, but we have some classes at our elementary uh early childhood center. Um we have a class that will be uh quarantined based on an exposure and an a mass situation. Um that also fed into some other buildings. Um so as our numbers seem to have been going down, they're going today seems like there's a spike. um not districtwide. It's it's pretty isolated, but we do have um some situations where we're going to have some students quarantined. Um one of the things that as a community

132and and you follow the gating criteria uh that Jake compiles and sends out on a weekly basis to you as a board, um two weeks ago we had two greens. Um today the newest data we had two reds. Um and so um I think honestly that's how it's going to kind of flow as we go through. Um but I think with the ability of all kids school age having the potential to be vaccinated now it becomes more of a of a of a decision based on what a family needs and and then as a board we would just watch the numbers or as a district and reporting to the board you would watch the numbers. if we're seeing big spikes, you you you may have to have some special meetings and make some decisions. Um

133but at this point in time, um I think by January one, most families will have had the opportunity to have their students vaccinated if they would choose to do so. But I want to emphasize again, it's not the recommendation of this superintendent or and I don't believe it will be the recommendation of the state associations um to mandate or make any vaccinations mandatory. Um, and so that's kind of a time frame uh to share with the board, but I think in the December board meeting, we will have enough information to give uh you uh to make a decision on what you how you would want to uh move forward um starting in January or second semester. Questions or thoughts on that? I think you misspoke. You said 2 through 11. I thought it was 5

134through 11. Um I thought they have approved the uh vaccination from ages two through from ages two and up. Is that not right? It's five. They're getting ready to start doing phase two. Oh, maybe that's phase three. Thank you for I I was under the impression it was two. So thank you for that. Another question. Are we going to be, you know, should the board send a letter to the county commission requesting the county commission uh direct the north county office to allow rapid test results which are paid for by the federal government which would cut down the amount of quarantine time if people are negative. That would be the discretion of the board um if you would choose to move that way. Uh I do believe that with vaccinations becoming more readily available for

135school-aged children um that rapid test now may be more um available and recognized um because of the vaccination where before the false positives or the false negatives had a bigger impact because there was no vaccination available to those families or to those students. But that would be at the discretion of the board um whether or not you would want to uh submit a letter in favor of uh recognizing uh rapid testing um at at that point in time. We definitely we definitely could uh uh construct a letter on behalf of the board if that's what the choice if that's what the board would want to guide us to do. to follow along with your comment because that was going to be my question as well is we're trying to find normal and we know that

136this is not going to go away. It's just a function of how we deal with it just like serious uh flu epidemics. So why not go for another tool in our tool box because not every parent's going to run out and get the kid vaccin and and and I honest and and this is just my opinion on on that on that comment. The same families that don't want their student vaccinated probably don't want them tested on a regular basis on a daily basis. Well, that was the testing, as I understood it, if they were exposed to it, right? They get if they test negative or on the rapid test, they don't have to go into quarantine, but they would have to be in a mask. Just know the point is we we don't have that

137option, right? And so why not ask the county commission to provide us that option? Is that a motion? Luke about, you know, I will be happy to make such a motion that we send a letter to the county commission requesting them uh direct the health office to do a allow rapid testing because that testing is through. So Jake can comment on this is Part of the challenge on testing will be that testing be distributed by a licensed health professional. So some of that becomes a staffing challenge for us as a district to work out. We're having those meetings internally. And I think as part of that December board meeting, we would put forward what a testing strategy could look like that we could sustain to support. Um, I don't think there's a a need at

138this point in time to ask the county commissioner to do anything different because whatever we come up with, we believe will be allowed by both the county health department and KDH. Um, but to your point, we want to make sure that we put something forward that the health department is going to support because the goal for that would be an ability to cut down on quarantines. As Dr. O said it would be a situation where if your child's not vaccinated but is is uh is masked and is able to keep coming back to school as long as they continue to to test negative. But the key to that is that we do know whether it's the county or not that we do have to have a licensed health professional giving those those tests and then

139we'll work through the logistics because there's a 15-minute wait period before the start of school. So figuring out the scheduling part of that. So, I guess I'm saying that we'd be premature to send that letter to the county commission right now knowing that we're going to be able to come forward in December with if if the recommendation is to drop masks, it would be accompanied with what our testing strategy is going to look like. Not drop mask, just make them volunteer. Correct. Yeah. Sorry. Absolutely. If if somebody wants to wear a mask, I think that's great. Absolutely. I tend to keep wearing one when I go volunteer on those kids just from me. Yep. first assessing habits and whatever else. Well, and I think we're getting into an environment where we are concerned about the

140professional credentials to do this, but it's exactly the circumstance that Dr. Roth just brought up. We have to apply, you know, what resources we can to classroom or a whole large population of kids in one circumstance versus, you know, we're not testing a whole district population. is trying to save that class as early on. Get them back as soon as possible. Absolutely. But the rapid testing certain hospital don't they don't use them. They won't they're no good. Yeah. Johnson County school districts are using them. They've been taken care of and paid for by the federal government. because all I'm saying is when I had an issue, I had a rapid test. I went to the VA and they said it wasn't valid, have another test come. So, we would bring forward the recommendation of test

141that will be allowable and if that's a requirement for us to at that point in time ask for the county commission to intervene in somehow some way, I think that would be the time to do that. So, we would bring all that together in December. If the rapid tests negative that they still get to go to files, they're wearing their masks because of the exposure. It's only if it the rapid test is positive, then they go home, do the PCR test, wait five days. If that comes back negative, that's a whole another Okay. Well, it's still negative. It's positive, then you have to quarantine, right? Until December is what I just heard. Yes, sir. I haven't heard anything about natural you get from so I think most of these presentations and you won't hear that

142answer for me from the medical you know perspective tonight the recommendations that we are very most sensitive to are those that are going to cause a student or household to be quarantined. can't answer the national immunity part of that. Um because if you're exposed, you're not vaccinated, you're going to be quarantined regardless of positivity rate. So that's a medical question. I'd have to defer to somebody with, you know, when I came positive for COVID in August, you said Bill home. I have one other thing that's not COVID related. Um, you have two colleagues, board members, you have two colleagues that was uh awarded a certificate from KSB for the completion of KSB's leadership for tomorrow's course. Um, which, um, this course takes your colleagues across the state to different buildings. um and you thought the

143KSB conference gave you a lot of ideas for what the superintendent and the administration should do. This leadership class doubled it. So with that, I would like to recommend or I'd like to uh honor and recognize Miss Danielle Wells and Miss Judy Cross. [Applause] Thank you, sir. Congratulations. Thank you for representing our district. Um I know I had some colleagues in that class and they uh um they spoke very highly of the two of you and um I appreciate that you guys took the time you ladies took the time to uh to travel the state and uh bring back a lot of great ideas for me. Yes, as we told you, we come back those weekends always. Yeah, m president. Um, I move we go into executive session to discuss normal personnel pursuant to the

144exception under the Kansas open meetings act in order to protect the privacy interest of the individuals to be discussed and that we return to open session in this room and they said needed 20 minutes we need a 10 minute break. Okay. Uh so 20 would be 42 and 5 47. So, uh, and we'd like to invite Dr. Ro Sloan and board attorney Sarah Kino. Second session. [Music] question. 42 Democrats 23. So, Madam President, I move that we accept the staff report as presented. Second. We have to accept this present. All those in favor 70. Thank you. Okay. So, closing some upcoming dates. Um, this Thursday is better. No school, but all of our groups clubs and our band at the RBC are involved in the parade. So, should be a nice day. I hope to

145see everybody out there. Thanksgiving break 24 through 26. Our next board meeting is on patron. All right. So 133 board member comments. So I had a fantastic time. Thank you for giving me all the details and everybody over the Halloween. That was a uh very enjoyable uh thing to participate. Handing out candy to all the kids. So, I have to go to the uh I have to go to Lawson. I have to go to uh high school. Um and uh that's one of the the perks of I just thoroughly enjoy our kids and parents enjoyed it. I think that was a great thing for for us to do as a community to do that. A lot of staff members participated in that. Um so I'm I'm really proud of our ROC for what they've accomplished.

146So that's going to be fun to to do. um and look forward to the upcoming year. I had the pleasure at the convention this weekend to go to one of the sessions monitor by man named Potter J and uh probably one of the better presentations I've been to a lot of conventions probably and sadly big crowd shouldn't get in The other thing I liked about it is talking to people around the state and reinforcing the knowledge that we all got the same problems and kind of how people are addressing mainly the the BS that's being spread around the country, the critical race theory and all that. just blown away one of the days. I think everybody handled it pretty much the same way kind of ignore not um I would like to make sure that

147everybody knows that the Wizard of Oz tickets for the high school production is on sale now. production dates are November 18, 19, and 20. And you'll see students from a lot of our buildings participate in that production. So, if you can attend, please do. Um, I also would like to uh recognize again our um teacher of the year um nominees to go to the state level. Um we had Miss Melanie Braun, who's our third grade teacher over at Henry Levvenworth, and Miss Kathleen Edwards. um for our secondary. She's a special education teacher at the high school. Proud of all of you guys. Um all of our teachers are exceptional and um you guys represent us well at the state level. I'm sure we'll do great things. Um I also attended the um state conference and

148um I just wanted to I don't know are we going to have a report out session at some time as to what we did and learned. Okay. So, I won't go into any of that, but um we kind of divided and conquered a lot of the sessions. So, I know I personally attended um four of the sessions, so it'll be great future um interests for everyone, I hope. Um it it it's definitely refreshing to be able to talk to colleagues across the state because whether your district is, you know, 41 in the entire district or if your district is 50,000, we all share commonalities and um it's it's refreshing. So that's it. Okay. So once again, we we get this donation list. I just want to say that I am amazed by the generosity of

149our community and um your continued support support to the children, the teachers and the staff on helping our district have the things that we need. Um so thank you very much for that. I want to say outstanding job. 211 were JOTC uh Raiders who came came back this morning at 8:30 with a national championship award. So this is their second one. Their first one was in 2019 just two years ago. Um we know how hard you all work with your blood, sweat, and tears. Uh keeping your grades up, the dedication to the sport and to also leadership abilities. So, congratulations to you all. I will be looking forward to seeing you in the Veterans Day parade along with our National Champions of the Calvary Angels at one in February and um other teams that will

150be there along with the whole Pioneer Battalion that will be marching and then again to see you all in the lighted parade on November 19th. Um let's see. I want to say congratulations to Mr. Carney for winning his bid for reelection for his school board seat and to Mrs. Reed uh who will take her seat in January 2nd. More importantly, I want to say thank you to Mr. Darling. I want to thank him. Thank you, Mr. Darling, for your service and mentorship. You took me under your wings and started the path of teaching me the ropes of being a board member four years ago. And um it has been a distinct pleasure to have served with you the last four years and I will always relish all the wisdom that you help on me and

151making me feel so comfortable at home. Thank you. I want to thank everybody for the kind words. I lost school board elections before. This will be the last one because the only reason I ran was my late wife said I need to stay out of the pool halls here in River City. Uh I've got a billard table in my basement. So I'm not sure what she was getting at. Uh I want to thank the staff here the central office Dr. Rose, Brenda, you so much. Jake, Matt, who actually watched my kids when he was younger, a little bit better than you. Uh Amy, everybody, Ryan, Laura, who I work with, her husband there for a couple years. You're a great group of people and you support an absolutely astounding, unbelievable group of people out there

152in the buildings that actually provide the instruction. Uh I can't say enough good about our teachers and paras and you know the janitors who go in and clean up after the kids get sick in the bathrooms and everything else. You just can't say enough good about them. the cooks uh child nutrition sent does a great job. I wish you could still make those cinnamon rolls that aren't, you know, spike your blood sugar to 300 after having one. Uh it's been a fun ride. Uh I no longer have to choose between coming to a board meeting of the scouts after the new year. So, but my scout troop is well gone home by now. But, uh, it's been good. Uh, I'm still going to continue to serve the community, uh, helping out in the first fifth

153grade classes and I'll be sending my letter after the new year saying, "Yeah, I want to take two locks into a school without any gunpowder." And, uh, that's going to go through there. kids eyes go wide when they hold a 10 pound musket with everything else in it. So, it's a lot of fun. You know, if you're retired, help out in the schools. It's fun. They're not going to chew you apart and skip you out like backup. So, just go in there and have fun. And fellow board members, it's been great. Right. uh you know just stay on it. I managed to make it through 16 and a half years without ever going to a KB convention largely because they were always on the same weekend as Eagle Days at what is now Loss National

154Wildlife Refuge. You know I'd rather go see bald eagles in the wild than a bunch of politicians such as a very rotten scandal like myself. So enjoy. Thanks for All right. Mr. Well, I want to jump on the Netty hard uh comment a minute ago about the Halloween. It was just a funny circumstance because I wasn't sure what was I was expecting. So my wife and I went to kind of look and see what was going on. And little did I know I was supposed to be standing there handying out Annie. So needless to say, I kind of looked I had a pioneer hat on and all that. I I kind of look like a normal person. So, here we've got the uh different costume people all around me. It's dark and in the middle

155of handing out candy and and this happened more than once. This mom, this little kid comes up and just scared to death, you know, wants the candy but doesn't want to contact the ghost, everything else he's in contact with. And the mother looks at me and goes, "He's normal. It's okay. Go." So, I handed out a lot of candy that night just because I looked normal and didn't scare kids. It was great. I had a blast. Yeah, keep inviting us because that that is so it kind of makes coming here and all of us having to work hard to make it right really worth it because you get to see what's going on. I really truly appreciate that. I do want to encourage everybody to do it. I went as Dr. Strange because the dad

156superhero. And uh I I had one little kid. It was so cute because he said, "It's Mr. Strange." And I looked at that kid. I said, "Listen, I didn't go to eight years of sorcery school to be called Mister." So the the parents just love it. I can't say how that second comment. the JOTC amazing kids. So we call it the department kids and they keep stepping up to the plate and unlike many of our other uh sports events, competitive events, these kids are doing it all year long. There's no, you know, I'm playing this sport and I'm playing that sport. I mean, they're in the summer climbing up and going over walls and stuff and working together. So I think we have a we have a, you know, first art's a great guy, we

157have other great staff, but it's the kids. So, I would just I would just hope that we keep in the back of our minds as we come together as a board, what can we do to enable these kids to achieve year after year after year? So, are we giving them the right resources to do it? You know, when they're out in the cold flipping a tire, you know, freezing hands and gloves and all that. Um, is is that where we want them to be? Can we do better? So, we just offer that. Uh, great job, kids. I mean, it's you're just amazing. Um, I went to the convention, too. And um I was the the the speakers and particularly uh Dr. L uh really hit cord with me on a number of different things and

158don't need to go through all the whole out brief it all but one thing was threaded through all because keep in mind these aren't the professionals. These are people just like for the most part people just like us on the board are actually doing a presentation. So, it's not all these professionals out there, which really surprised me. Um, and Dr. Hill, he said something and it stuck with me and I'm hoping that we can embrace this as a board. That thread that ran through them all was you got to find a way to love that individual kid. You know, there can't be any invisible kids. And so, I think I know it's my personal challenge and it's it's not new to me. I mean, this has struck me before, but it just really drove it

159home was the invisible kids. how do you reach them? And the answer to that was uh crazy for your kids. So, I hope that we as a board as we go into this next year uh can find ways to epitomize that because I think we're set to do that. I love our teachers. I love our administration and I think that that we can do this, but just crazy for our kids. Pick a kid and just be crazy for that kid. It was it was amazing. So, um, the last thing is, um, you know, the door is open. I was I was going to do in December, but Doug, I really, really do appreciate the, um, leader that you've been as a man on this board. Um I'm here for the most part because just a

160couple people and you're one of those people and I've been watching this board since it's been televised and u you there were times in places where you were this quiet kind of common sense can we approach this this way and then everybody kind of went which told me that you could come on the board and think through a problem and this board and this administration is capable of taking a wellthoughtout idea and then making good decision and running with it. And I think that's why we're why we're here. So, I so much appreciate it. You're one of the reasons why I'm probably on the board today. And and I so much appreciate that. So, there are lots of different ways, getting involved with board members. So, going to conferences, getting training, going to houses. That

161was great fun. And I stand. Um, but the reason why we're all here is really to do things for our students. So, I want to give a shout out to Education Foundation because they showcase our students and murder mysteries. Um, we actually had people who drove from an hour away not really to anyone in, you know, in the production, but because they had seen it and they wanted to see what our students could do. And I thought, wow, drove an hour to go to see our students at Murder History Dinner here. So, I thought that was fantastic. kids were amazing. Um, and then they turned that around and they took appreciation for our teachers. So, last week and this week they're doing pancake breakfast. I was at Anthony this morning. It was really awesome to

162see teachers coming in and like, oh, good for us. This is great. So, thank you to the foundation for what you do to both showcase our students and for our teachers. Um, tonight we had a lot of great student recognitions. I'm very proud of all of our students because they are top performers and that's a very public venue for them. That's something that's very near and dear to my heart. I'm trying not to that we had some offcycle graduations and not a lot of times they don't get a lot of visibility for them but Mr. Vanic invited me to come to those two cycle graduations in October and November. The last time I was with me, um it is absolutely fantastic to see a student who maybe not with their cohort, they took the time

163and effort to keep track, you know, keep at it. Persistence and they graduate. And so going there and being part of that celebration with their family, the small group, just be to show that someone is very proud of their accomplishment that they kept going when kind of the chips were down. So very proud of those two students. I know we have some more out there in the in the pipeline. I hope we can get them across the finish line, too. And that said, very proud we are all pioneers in design.