001ready. >> Okay, we'll call the meeting to order. Um, order and approval of agenda. You have 3.6 6 high school fundraisers 8.7 uh donation to high school cheer and 4.1 employment of personnel 8.1 accept Jones trust grant >> right >> anything else motion to approve as amended I'll >> second motion second all in favor All right, that brings us to the consent agenda. Anybody have any questions on that? >> Nothing to add. >> Nothing for me. I'll make a motion to approve the consent as presented. >> Okay, got a motion. >> I'll second it. >> Second. All in favor? Perfect. Uh, personnel reporter faith, do you need uh you need any time? >> Uh, anything? >> Yeah, I need probably 20 minutes. >> Need 20 minutes. Does anybody else have any >> any time added?
002No. Okay. 20 minutes. >> All right, Mr. President, I move we go into executive session to discuss personnel employment pursuant to the non-elected personnel exception in the open meeting or resume in the boardroom at 6:22 with Faith Floyd present. >> Okay, there's a motion. A >> Second. All in favor? [Music] You guys, >> thank you. Get done. >> That will bring us to 4.1 employment of personnel. I'll make a motion to approve employment personnel. >> Michelle makes a motion. >> I'll second. >> Makes a second. All in favor, >> administrators. Yeah. Great for the kids to be back in the building. Uh we've got more events going on right now, so we're seeing more more of their faces back in. Uh so yeah, we're we're amped up, ready to go. Building's prepped, so we just
003need to bring staff in. And that's uh this week. We got new staff coming in. Next week, all staff's returning. And then at the high school anyways, freshmen uh come in on the Thursday the 21st and all students return on Friday the 22nd. Yes, very excited to have them back in there. Same with the middle school. We're we're ready for kids. custodians have done a fantastic job this summer getting the building in shape. It's clean. It's put up and teachers are starting to wander back in this this last couple weeks. Had our fourth grade entry camp Tuesday. I think that went really well. Teachers had really good day with them. The kids kids were great. Kids were awesome. Good to see kids re >> I've been joking with Mike. I feel like we've been ready
004to go for the last month. Like we're just kind of, you know, ready for kids to be back. Uh we had our fall sports uh parent meeting last night. Saw I think most of you guys there. So practices start Monday and we're I mean we're rolling here in just a couple days. So we're ready to go. >> It was nice to have them together the junior high and high school. >> Yeah. It's good for parents to you know that might have one at the high school and one of the junior high just to do it all in one shot. So >> um we had kinder camp just recently. We had a really good turnout for that. Um, we were able to look ahead this time and we had made some changes. So, we were able
005to hire all of the kindergarten teachers and they were all there. So, they actually 98% of them were assigned their kid that they were going to be getting. Um, so that gave them some really good insight into getting to know those kids already bonding and making relationships with parents um and having conversations. That's a nice start to that in a slower setting where they have time to talk and visit with them. Um, so we got that all done and our building's ready to go. Um, elementary teachers are so different. I don't think my teachers have left. >> They've been there all summer long there all summer. >> Yeah. >> Um, but we are ready to see those kiddos back. It definitely makes sure they go faster and just seeing them out in the community and
006and they're asking, they're ready. A lot of them. So, >> get tired of hanging out with adults. >> Yeah. We're excited for them. >> You're excited to hang out with me. >> Uh, preschool. Um, I have I think we're ready. This building has been ready for a while. Greg does a really good job. Um, our new custodian here just helping out Greg Cameron. He's done a great job. Uh, I can't say enough about the work that goes on in the summer in general. It is a lot of work. I think people forget school operations are 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. There's always something going on here. whether we got stuff after school, sports camps, custodians in the building, capital outlay projects going on, building the budget, our district office getting ready for
007things, closing out the budget, getting it ready to go, Amy working on lensures and getting teachers and our directory updated. There's so many just things. So, I can't thank everybody enough for um just preparing for the school year. Ready or not, here we come. So, I'm very excited to get kids back. I'm really excited to see staff. I love when new staff come in for orientation tomorrow. So, uh, Carrie runs our new Charger Academy now. Um, and they're going to tour the district. And what else you going to do, Carrie? For two days. >> We're gonna hear from all people. >> We're gonna get lots lots of information. >> Yeah. We kind of fire hose them a little bit and they get orientation. We do some fun things with them. They do a scavenger hunt.
008We go into every building so they can see all the district. Take them on a bus ride. Um, so it's pretty fun. So if you guys want to come say hi the next two days, feel free to drop in and say hello. We'll be here Thursday and Friday with them. And then all staff on Monday. So we'll do a convocation starting at 10. I'll welcome everybody back. We'll do introductions. I think Amy said she was going to come hang out for a little bit. You're welcome to come eat if you want. And then um we have some fun sessions in the afternoon for two hours for them to do some team building relationship time, hang out, get reacquainted, get to know each other, and and then we'll off and running full P full PD on
009Tuesday, teacher prep on Wednesday, and kids back on Thursday. So preschool's ready to go. They they've been in and out here. Um so I preschool's always fun because it's the new teachers or the new parents that have never experienced school yet. their little ones are coming in. So that's been fun to get parents ready set up and enrolled and whatnot. So had our last screening in August. So we send out teacher names late in preschool because of that late screening to change and we may have placement changes based on needs. So um they got to have their teachers this week finally figured out who their teachers were. So I think people were excited about that wait patiently like teacher going to be. So um the only other thing I wanted to share do you guys
010have anything else to share? No. Is um I wanted to talk with you guys about board goals and I would like to develop a an assessment tool where you guys can kind of grade uh how we're doing on our board goals. We're in year four now and I think it'd be good for you guys to take a look at it. So, I'm going to create just like a short assessment tool for you guys to do briefly. I'll take that data, bring it to the administrative team. I've already told them about this and it kind of gives us a guide from a a different lens. You know, we we judge ourselves all day long and then look at our work and look at data and determine how we're doing, but from the board standpoint, these are
011your goals and I think it would be great to hear your perspectives on where we're at with these goals and that helps us know whether, you know, are we not meeting these goals? Have we not communicated well enough about what we're doing with these goals, what our action plans are, and if there's any outcomes that um we need to really be honing in on that you guys think are um significant that maybe we aren't addressing um in a manner. So, I think it'll be good data for our administrative team and then as they go into the school year and build their school goals with their BLTs that helps us align everything and um kind of just give us like a grade card. I think that will be great for us to review with our with
012our team. So, I'll bring that to you. I'll add an agenda item probably next month and bring a tool to you. I'll make it quick. You won't. It'll be just a real short tool. Um, if it's electronic, I might have a device here for you ready for you to fill it out. We do like Google survey or something and then um do it that way. Then we'll take that data. That sound good? >> Okay. That'd be a good way to review the goals at the beginning of the year. That's all I >> thought. Good luck. Thanks. >> All right. Capital update. >> Yes. Um so have a few pictures. If you haven't seen um our biggest project for the summer was the high school parking lot and then our windows. So if you haven't been
013by the high school yet, I encourage you to at least go drive on it. Feels nice and smooth. >> There's bright yellow lines so you know where to park. Hopefully you don't hit a a light pole anymore because It's It's significantly more obvious where there's light bulbs down >> and I'm hoping our first football game will show us how good everybody can park. So, we'll see. Um, >> just >> Okay, so Amy's going to pull up a couple of pictures. Um, I've got some windows in there. I went into both uh Carbondale and Overbrook. Just snuck in one day and said, "Hey, I'm here." And went to some classrooms and took pictures. Got new carpet pictures. Uh there's lots of other things that go on with Capital Outlay, you know. Um, so we've got some
014new carpet. So this is our carpet in all of our new classrooms that we're rotating out. >> The great thing about this carpet is it has little squares that if one gets torn, I can pull out a square and put another square in. So we we're getting this throughout all of our our classrooms. So every time we rotate this older carpet out, we we put this in. So this is one of our uh Overbrook classrooms. And there's a new window. Nice and bright and lots of sunshine coming in. And it's not those old crank ones that were not uh >> Oh, no. They I They just changed the whole room dynamic. Just the window. Um it's just so bright. And then a lot of them put up some little homey curtains. And I It's I
015don't know how to explain it, but it changed the dynamics of the room. >> Yeah. And ones had built-in shades. >> Yeah, they did. And >> these ones have much more window space. >> And when you open them, it's just a lot easier to open than the the cranks were fall. We just had some issues. So anyway, much better concept here. And I like the big the big window over top. So this was early on when the asphalt was first being laid out here. Um came out and took some pictures early on. And then um there's some more windows. There's a new light uh pole that we had to fix. So Oh, the lights out in the parking lot are bright. So they are bright. >> Yes. If you drive by at night, they are
016bright. Um, which is really good. >> It's not near. >> Maybe Chris can call that guy. >> Hey, we do have an update about that. Don't tell a great one. >> It's terrible. >> Okay, keep going. Keep going. >> Sorry. >> Our nice shiny gym floors. >> Appreciate the text reminders. >> August 29th. Is that the >> Yeah. So all of our floors in each summer we we get them all shined up and and re uh resurface those pieces and um so I think I took pictures of quite a few of the the gyms in here. There's some more carpet. Oh, so we redid the entire uh Carbondell library carpet uh because it was it was a mess. Lots of wrinkles and very old. So that was a big project. Had to bring everything out
017of the library, bring all the new carpet in. So that was a little bit of a project, but they were they were done quick. I mean they they did a great job. That happened really early in the summer, too. So, uh, there is our finished product. >> It does. >> I think it is. I think it's bigger. So, we're not going to have any parking issues at all. >> Yeah. >> You have our sound system on there. >> No, we should have play We should have got a recording of you talking you playing the national anthem on it. >> Did you? >> No more. No more chopping through the national anthem at CAC. So, we're borrowing Lance's speakers to bring in. So, >> I I should have got a video of the sound and you
018talking. >> I'm excited about it. >> Yeah. So, >> it was >> that's at Carbondale. Just the windows at Carbondale. So, a little bit bigger. >> But I think Carbondale is almost complete. I think the whole window project at Carbondale is complete except for the old ones above the fourth grade wing that are right above the staircase. Those are those are I think the only ones left over. >> Yeah, that whole wing is done. So, >> shiny floors, squeaky shoes. So, and then there's uh we finished the top of that one. Put new striping in. Sealed cracks. >> Speed bumps. >> Speed bump. Oh, yeah. We made sure those speed bumps real real painted yellow. Painted real. Hopefully, everybody can see them. And we got new lights, so you'll see them. So, Uh Kyle's got
019some new paint. You want to talk about your color choice? >> Uh do do you want me to explain the reasoning? >> Yeah, sure. Go ahead. >> For those that that have more of a keen eye, you would have noticed the high school had about 15 different shades of white and different finishes as well. Matt, Los, HL, all of them. Uh so for uh some continuity, we have carried the dome gray throughout uh the hallways in the building. So there is a a bit of a color change. Um I think it freshens it up quite a bit, especially when you as you walk down the hall, you're not like, "Oh, that gloss wall that was blinding me that turned into the matte wall is now consistent clear through." So >> So the whole high school
020is painted. Um but it um it makes it a little bit darker, but Kyle is going through a light rotation to upgrade our lights to brighten our our rooms. He's also putting some dimmers. I think I got a picture of a dimmer in here. So he's putting dimmers in our classroom. So we don't have the classroom with the lights off and the lamps and those. So now we can just we can have some good regulated light with a switch for our teachers to, you know, they do get bright and you can dim them a little bit, but we don't want to be in the dark either. So help our teachers be a little bit more flexible with some lighting and whatnot. So >> it's a pretty easy conversion. They're all LEDs that fit into the
021old fixtures. So there's not much to it to pop in new LEDs. of hoping to improve the efficiency as well. >> Here's a dimmer switch. Got a couple of those laying around. Little page for that. >> And that goes up to the concession stand. And you can see the new concrete pad up there. I should have went all the way up there and got a better picture of the concrete pad. Has anybody been up at the concession stand yet? >> I saw it before as >> that just for drainage. That little >> Yeah. There is there is a little uh ditch concrete ditch that goes out to the asphalt driveway to help with that drainage. >> Well, it's rained if we verify. >> Yes. Yes. So, we have recently got some rain and that was
022the first thing Chris and I did. Soon as we got to the building went out. >> Where's the water going? >> Yeah, it was draining in the correct direction. >> Good deal. >> Okay. Thanks, Amy. >> Just a few pictures. >> That's good. parking. Ready for school? >> We are ready for school. We are >> all right. Good enough for me. Anybody else? >> Yes. Nice. Oh, >> I don't want to forget this part. This is the other part of capital outlay. Um, so we received a grant which we're going to hit here here down on the agenda a little bit further. And with that grant, we are going to get a significant amount of equipment and startup for Charger Enterprises. Uh Charger Enterprises is going to be our new CTE schoolrun businesses. We're going
023to have a coffee shop. We're going to have fabrication which will include welding and woods and then greenhouse with um plant and then I think she'll be animal sciences too but uh plant sciences with a greenhouse concept. So with this grant we will have uh $325,000 for startup costs. This does not pay for capital projects, but I wanted to wait to see if we got this grant and this equipment to see what we were then going to do about our space. So, Kyle's kind of got a vision for us to move out to the district office with your permission. We will have to get some things looked into about putting classrooms out there for fire code. Uh some of those provisions that we need to go through if you're going to put kids out there.
024Um we've got we're tearing up carpet out there. It's old and smelly. And so we're going to then use concrete and slabs. And we'd like to do one side as greenhouse and one side as a and then uh a big piece of that um remodeling would be uh Kyle really thinks it would be important to have a 10-foot garage on the south side so that we can bring in and out equipment um and have that flexibility of space on the south end. So, we wanted to talk to you about that, what your thoughts are about that, and then I can bring you bids and and what it's going to take to do that, what that will look like for you to vote on later, but we just kind of want to talk through the vision
025of what he's thinking out there. So, you got some things to share. Your your vision is >> Yeah. Just kind of for those of you that are familiar with the building, it's kind of split a north end and a south end. So, that south end is uh more accessible to the parking area. Uh so having a garage door on that south end then and having that south side be more the fabrication construction side of the a programming and then the north end uh focus a bit more on the uh greenhouse side of it because uh a lot of the components within that grant dealt with hydroponics. So we built that side out as our our initial greenhouse application and then hopefully we can expand on that as we go. And then uh like like Faith
026was saying, go with concrete um polish it uh epoxy seal it so it's it's very easy workable space and not worry about carpet things like that to get messed up in there. So that's kind of the first phase idea and then obviously as we continue to grow the program if we can expand it maybe do a renovation of the kitchen to make it more of a commercial type. So, I know I've talked to a couple of you about a farm-totable idea with the greenhouse, but again, that's big vision down the road. So, phase one, getting the initial setup uh with this grant helping tremendously. So, are we hoping for FFA to to start in the basement and then maybe by second semester or something go out there or >> So, I've kind of got it
027split right now. Um, with our our AD teacher being new to the district, um, I didn't want to separate her from the rest of the staff. So, our ad construction, uh, those classes are going to be down in the basement where the wood shop is, but then our plant and animal intro to ad classes are going to be upstairs in the classroom, uh, with the rest of the the staff. And then if depending on the timeline of um what we can get to you to recommend for uh any remodeling of that building. Um I mean Kyle and I and this is I don't know if I should say this out loud, but we would like to set a goal to try to get by January uh some classes out there and students out in that
028building after we've got her here. And then we can get that set up, get all that we got to order a lot of equipment. We got to spend all that money in the year and get all those things ordered. get all that equipment in and then um have that building ready to put equipment in. Uh Andy's going to be a big part of this. It will need technology pieces out there. We'll need phones out there. Um he's going to have to do some things with Wi-Fi. And then I would like it to be secured like our buildings are in the same capacity with that amount of equipment out there, safety and security. We'll need to do some access controls and some other safety mechanisms for the building. So, there's quite a bit that needs to
029be done as well as making sure the fire marshall and and everybody's on board with us being in compliance with having kids out there in a in a classroom. So, we will bring you more information. I just wanted to kind of update you on capital outlay um after we got this grant. So, >> you said you want permission to look into that. Yes. Anybody have any issues? >> Are you're talking about just adding a garage door, not necessarily building on to that, right? >> It would just garage door on the end. They'd have to put probably an overhang over there somehow. So, we'll look at what we'd have to do by um by codes and what what will work on that side of it. Um but we will definitely look into that. Do you guys
030have other thoughts or >> No, just probably steering committee and making sure we're have use for the building and not putting money into the building if we're not planning long. >> Sure. >> Yes. And I and we've talked about that, you know, depending on where where this all goes with reconfiguration. on on what that means. And so we can take this slower a little bit too. It's not that we can't do any of these things um in a different space. But um yeah, and that will that will be a big factor in it if we're going to do this somewhere else or a different kind of space for it. So if you want us to be patient, we can be that's not a big deal. Uh so I can bring you we'll bring you information
031and then we can make some more decisions. Maybe we'll know a little bit more where the steering committee is headed and then what you guys are going to be recommending. So >> I don't think look into it. Yeah, the grant's not for capital stuff anyway, right? What we will be pushing for the program is so it's really just >> Yeah. So, we'll be able to get all the fun stuff just where we're going to put it >> where we going to put it. >> Yep. Absolutely. >> All right. Uh you two, Amy and Justin, you guys have an update for us? Steering committee update. >> We talked I thought Michelle was going to do it. >> Michelle, what do you have? They're in spirit. >> She didn't pay attention. >> That's their in spirit. >>
032Uh we toured the high school. >> We toured. We did there was some um we did short survey just to kind of kind of feel feel a little bit where people were leaning and what they were thinking and maybe what kind of support was out there for different options, different things. Um and then took that into small groups. We got to really hear um some people's ideas and thoughts and feedback in a small group setting. and then maturity. I got to see upstairs, downstairs, classrooms, other parts of the of the high school. So, um, there were a lot of folks, I think, who hadn't done that for a while. So, it was good for them to see. >> Yeah, Kyle took a lot of tour. very quick, but I mean very educational too on like
033the chemistry lab and the ventilation there and >> locker rooms downstairs kitchen >> the spray foam plex seal ceiling tile >> sagging fix people were pretty shocked to see what they saw >> I think people who hadn't been in some of those spaces in many many years were like oh okay this okay this looks a little different than when I was here 20 years ago so It's good for people to see things. I think the tours would be good. Um, we talked to some steering committee members about let's put a video together and and kind of give a a vis a virtual tour of the building so people can see it that aren't here and and watching all the time, but give them some information about where our buildings are at right now and um,
034just as we're they're aging and whatnot, things upgrades that need to be done. So, um, you guys have other thoughts that there's just a couple things I was going to share about the upcoming meetings. >> We're going coming to carbon now. Yeah, >> next week. Yeah, first day of school. >> Very thrilled about first day of school. We also have a steering committee meeting that night at 6 at Carbondale. Uh Mike and Austin are going to give a tour there. We've uh given Mike the facilities assessment. So, he's prior prioritizing some areas of need we want to look at, but also some areas of strength that we have in that building that are really great. Lots of space over there. Uh so, we're doing that in August. September, we will move over to Overbrook and
035Laura Lee will give a tour. uh October we will come here and I will probably give a tour here and then um I talked with HTK and Piper Sandler and it we're hoping by that time the steering committee has a pretty good idea and the board um will then get a recommendation on where we want to go with this project and if we want to move forward with the bond if that's something we want to do HTK is advised on that timeline that our first election we could run if you guys decide to do that would be in March. So in order to get that done, the timeline would be um make a resolution in November, December, the latest on running an election. uh probably before that I would recommend a special meeting at the
036end of October after we've finalized this the steering committee stuff and then uh spend the December and January putting in all the applications to the state um engaging construction of some capacity so we get some more um advisement on uh construction costs alongside HTK's estimates with architecture uh you guys will have to decide what type of process you would like um for construction needs whether that's CM um or any other bid a bid build process and then um we would do an election in March if that's what the board decides that is the just the timeline if you decide to run a bond March would be the first election you can have if you decide you don't want to do March and the next one would be August or November so that's kind of what
037that timeline is you guys get to decide all of that based on um what comes out of the steering committee process. So, we will this will come quickly though. Um we'll blink and it will be November. So, steering committee meetings are going to go quickly and uh hopefully we learn enough that you guys feel confident in uh making a decision about what direction you want to go with reconfiguration. >> You feel like you're getting good feedback from community members as to like what they're thinking or >> This is the first meeting we really kind of dove into that, right? The first one was really just the designs, the why. The second one was more the finances of each of the options that we were presented with. And this one's the first time we kind of
038sat down to talk about how much would you be willing to pay, how much do you think that the communities be willing to pay? And >> um talk through some of that. I mean, it's it's across the board. I think right now >> in the first couple of meetings, it was moreformational, but there were a lot of good questions asked >> that made it things to think about that maybe we hadn't thought about or we had. And we was able to provide some really good answers. >> And the survey information, um, I'll be able to post all that on our website. I can bring I'll I get I'll get you guys all that survey information, too. But there were questions like how much money would you be willing to spend a month in your tax
039dollars? Um, and then how did that align to what projects, you know, like so if you're willing to spend $20 extra dollars a month, uh, what project, uh, total cost is that align to? Is that a two campus or a three campus? if you're willing to do 30 a month, 40 a month, no dollars a month, whatever it is. Um, then how did that align to the options that HTK presented? So, we got that and then there was a just a basic question on do you support two campuses, three campuses, stay the way we are, one campus. Um, I think there was a pretty good run between two and three campuses. Um, there were fewer on the one campus and I think no one agreed to stay as we were, right? Okay. I don't I
040think there were zero votes on staying remaining as we are. So that was from the steering committee. So I can get you all that data from that survey once HTK um finalizes it. I pushed it back out for people to fill out some other questions. So we'll bring that as well. So >> costwise I think most of the the most votes was 20 a month. I think it was >> almost half the votes were like 20 a month and the rest. >> Yeah. Maybe it was 30 >> I think. Yeah. Was it 5 10 20 30 50 or something? >> Yeah. >> So maybe half in the middle. >> We feel like we're having a lot of the same people come to us. >> Yeah. We've only had a few I mean we get a
041pretty good turnout. We have >> I think last time >> Yeah. Oh wow. >> Yeah. I think most people the entire committee that was invited which was everybody that applied has been to at least I think two meetings. We've only had maybe one person that's missed two meetings. So, it's been pretty I think it's been pretty well attended. And we've had many that have been to all three of them. So, yeah, well attended, which is great. I think people are very interested in it and wanting to learn. Um, I did talk to the committee about a communication plan and if the committee would like to do more of the communicating like putting together a flyer or the information that they as the committee view the public, you know, really wants to hear about what are
042some really key points. You know, I put out newsletters and I put out lots of information and who knows who reads them or doesn't read them. And um uh I got some feedback about um you know, am I communicating it to a level that everybody understands what reconfigure really is and and how finance works in in the school world and where we get our revenue and where we and where our expenses go. And so um you know to simplify the conversation a little bit and really have some good key points and communication so the public gets exactly just the information that's the most important and really understand what the project's about. I thought that was great feedback as well as just this the committee doing a lot of the the communication versus me. You know,
043this is a a community decision. That's why we have a steering committee is to help guide the board in a direction. And so, um I'm hoping that HCK can kind of work that into one of our meetings or maybe we have a meeting separate from that. just works on maybe some communication points that that we we push out as as a committee versus just for me and my typical newsletters or whatnot or what's on the website. So, I thought that was a good idea, other thoughts, questions. >> Yeah, that's been good work. I think it's been really good. >> Oh, yes. And Cheryl Florence is making, this needs to be on the record, Cheryl Florence is making no baked cookies for the next steering committee. >> So you guys, >> I'm very excited about the
044cookies. >> Oh, I do. >> Okay. Okay. 71 uh Patterson Family Foundation CTE grant award 324,000 grant. >> Awesome. >> All right. Anybody opposed to that? >> Make a motion. >> No. >> Accepted. >> I I would like to say that I am super duper proud of you and our administration for working so hard for these grants because it is incredible. That is money not out of our direct pockets, you know, and so >> and not having to come out of other funds. So, great job on that. It's been amazing. >> It's, you know, it's I kind of got an act for the grant writing. I think you'd kind of like it. So, you know, future careers, I believe, you know, I don't know. >> Big. >> And I want to thank uh on the
045record the Patterson Family Foundation. They have supported Santa Fe Trail multiple times um since I've been in this role and and prior um to that. They have I I mean we've got $150,000 for rural educator development that we've used for letters training, getting people new certifications, um helping out our district in different capacities. So, we have new learning opportunities for kids. We've got some money through COVID. We've got and it's a it's a private family foundation and they help rule schools and it's just been phenomenal. So, I can't thank this u this this grant organization enough. They they've been great to Santa Bay Trail. So, um, I will after this meeting and once you guys approve it, push out a press release and let everybody know that we've got $324,000 to spend >> on our
046ACT program and our Charter Enterprises for our coffee shop and cameras and um, all sorts of stuff. So, >> we'll definitely go I go, let's go shopping. It's going to target all the kids because like you said, not just a we've got Julie's classes and the programs that she runs and then our entrepreneurship and the business classes as well. It's it's going to targeting. >> We're going to go from three kids sharing a camera and photo imaging to every kid gets their own camera. >> Like the the amount that they'll be able to build and grow in a semester will be exponential. >> Very exciting. And hopefully we can satisfy your caffeine fix >> pretty soon. >> I know. >> Drive through the drivethru. >> Oh yeah, we need a drive-thru. We're going to look
047into >> garage door on the south and a drive-through window on the east. >> Do it through the circle drive. >> Come on out. >> Chris carry him out. He's not here. We can >> All right. >> Yeah, I'll make a motion to accept that. >> We have a motion right here. >> Michelle, a second. All right. All in favor? >> Great. >> Thank you very much. Awesome. Yeah. Thank you. >> All right. Um, let's see. Personnel report approved negotiated agreement for 2526 school year. You need to say anything about that. I'm going to let our board representation talk about negotiations this year. They did a fantastic job. It is Kylie, Amy, and Justin. And they do a great job for us. We have great conversations, and I'm proud of the work they do. It's
048>> It's a lot of time. I will say that. A lot of conversation. So, I'll let you guys tell us what you thought about the process and what we're recommending. >> My take notes. Did you Did you uh It's kind of outlined here anyway, but Yeah, I thought they accomplished a lot. >> I think the NEA negotiations team showed up prepared, ready to talk. Um, got a lot of stuff accomplished. Um, I mean the the highlights is I mean a good percent increase and and we were able to again just make a lot of progress in a short amount of time with them and and pleasant to work with as always. >> Great. >> We met twice. >> Twice. >> Yes. >> This is actually Kaylee said this will be the earliest that we get
049out um new contracts that we can pass them out at new teacher orientation. So that's that's really good. >> Sometimes we're still still in the thick of it waiting on >> insurance and things. So um that was quicker. That was good. More efficient. >> Our increase to base is a highlight for sure. It's going to help us stay competitive and keep keep good folks and bring more. Put >> our base pay at 48,000 for our teachers. So I think that's significant. Great. Perfect. All right. So, we need a motion for negotiated agreement. >> I'm biased, but I'll make a motion. >> You're happy. >> I'll second it. >> Second. All in favor? >> All right. Good job, guys. >> Thank you guys. Appreciate all your work. >> All right. That's 721. Now we are 7.2.2
050uh classified administrator salaries approval. >> So each year um we make recommendations for raises. Um it has been standard practice that we extend the same wage increase to our administrators and our classified staff. So I'm recommending that for your approval tonight. >> Any questions? >> I'd like to separate classified administrators for the vote, please. classified administrators. Okay. So, we need to go a motion for classified and a separate for administrator. A problem with that. Um, I'll make a motion for classified salaries. >> Second. All in favor? All right. Administrator salaries. I'll make motion for that also. Then favor salaries. >> Do we need any discussion? >> Um, unless anybody has a discussion they want to do, that would be close session. Correct. >> Well, if you're going to talk about individuals, yes, we're going to
051talk about people. If you're going to talk about raises, >> talk about raises, then we don't have to. But if you have any individual, um, but I'll go and make a motion. If anybody has any comments or questions for her right now, go ahead. If I just need a second to vote. >> I'll second. >> Second. >> All right. All in favor? All right. Thank you. Um that brings us to classified handbook. Uh there was some things that we requested. Didn't we request some changes last meeting? There's a couple of changes in there with language um regarding um salaries and then um lure years of experience for nurses and some language there. But otherwise there's not much else that we've changed. So we typically have rotated um how we look at our starting wages for
052classified staff. Um we've changed um we've rotated through bus drivers, custodians, paras um I would consider what we did this year was nurses um and then um office personnel. We did that last year. So um I don't there's no other changes in here other than just a couple language pieces and that nurse language and that's it. I had one question on page 19 with what was taken out. Um the state and federal regul food service workers who are involved in preparing and meals basically did receive a meal. Was that is that a choice that we have? Meaning yes. So we have a choice who receives meals. Um and typically that's people that work in the kitchen uh do things in the kitchen, clean up in the kitchen. >> But you're saying this would be going
053away with that. >> We don't have we're not employing nurses anymore. They're all open nurses or oh, not nurses, sorry. Food service food service. We no longer employ um food service anymore. They they've all retired. So, OPA takes all of those on. So, it's not in our handbook anymore. >> Okay. So, we're just taking out because it doesn't apply to us, not because we're not allowing it, but >> Correct. That's all I wanted to do. >> Yeah. Yeah. So that was all removed everything for food service on that end since we're no longer importing them. >> Makes sense. Okay. I'll make a motion to approve. >> All right. Motion handbook. >> Second questions. >> All in favor. >> Sorry that was confusing. I said nurses. Open nurses. >> No, we don't have open nurses. >>
054Okay. Uh health insurance renewal. um you want to give a little quick rundown on what's here? >> Um we uh got our renewal early this earlier this year and um it did not come in at a rate that was awesome or favorable. So we had our brokers go back and negotiate. Uh they brought it back down. We will be at a 12% increase on on that rate. Um, so we talked with NEA quite a bit and Justin and and the team can can chime in on this a little bit, but um, with with what's going on with insurance and insurance rate, um, we felt that our 650 monthly contribution was going to stay and we were going to put more money back then in salaries, um, which affects more employees because not all employees take
055our insurance. So to put more of our our efforts, uh, for I guess the the package. I've called it the whole package back into the salaries instead of uh the contribution just because it has went up so much. So, um NEA came back and and agreed with all of that. So, that's why our raise was more significant on the base there and then we're keeping insurance contribution the same. So, we're at 12% increase. Um so, it it it's pricey. It's even pricey for a for an individual employee, let alone an employee with a family. So, um, we do have more members that take it as individuals versus the family plan. We only have a few members that take the family or the the dependent. So, uh, so all we need to do is approve the
056renewal with Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Our vision and dental is also staying the same. So, all I need is for you to approve that and then we'll move forward. Then EA is on board with what we've decided, our insurance committee as well. They all voted on it and that's why we make a recommendation to you. >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> All right. >> Second. All in favor? >> 7.5 sub handbook, >> very little dates, um calendar, uh very logistical things. nothing significant otherwise. We gave raises uh to subs a couple years back. It will be something we will try to remain competitive with. Uh we are at about mid-range. I think there's only one school in our co-op that's actually doing 125 or 120. So I will probably readress this next
057year as one of our areas to look at for possible increases with subs to be competitive. But I'll I'll continue to look at the market, I guess, on what sub pay is around the area. And um but I think we we do pretty well. Um obviously it's not perfect, but um I think we're pretty competitive with that. Topeka and and some of the bigger schools will be obviously an area that we will compete with for subs and where they go to sub based on their so I I will continue to monitor what our subs are making in comparison to the the surrounding school districts that we compete with for that. Otherwise, no changes. So motion >> second right here. All in favor. 6 non-resident student enrollment. >> Yes. Approval for that. >> Yep. You have
058a list of students. What um this process is a little lengthy. So we open it in January and in June it closes at the end of June. We then uh have to hold a lottery by July 15th if we have people that want to come in at a grade level that we have a capacity set and we have exceeded that with our applications which we did not. Um we did have a couple of grade levels we were not accepting non-resident students that we did not accept and that was kindergarten. Uh there were a couple that wanted to come in. We weren't accepting zero seats there. uh we didn't want our kindergarten classrooms to get too big and we've gone down to three teachers. So, we wanted to keep those at a at a nice size
059and not get too big there and we did have some move in. So, we've got a couple more in kindergarten than um than we thought, which is good. >> We had a lot of kindergarten movements and some that we missed. So, they're sitting at 19 a piece kindergarten. >> Yeah. So, a little bigger than we predicted, which is good. Um but, um they come and go, so we'll see. I guess my concern with that is moving teachers and not having a lot of flexibility because we're at 19, you know. >> Yeah. >> How do we prepare for that in the future? >> Yeah. It's really hard. I was going to say you don't know sometimes like when we went to three third grade teachers, we thought, oh man, they're going to have classes of 17
060and 18 and be good and that was the influx year. Then they all came to third grade and they sat at 22. Um, and so it's it is very hard to predict where those And then we've had other years where we've lost kids significantly and our class sizes dropped significantly. So um I still think we're at where we need to be with um the predictions we have and the projections we have. I also think that you know we get we also get very transient kids too. Um some of our influx of kids are you know you can get foster that come in, you can get um just >> so some of those things will we'll see by September 20th where we're at. you know, we'll get kids coming in and out by then. I our
061preschool last year, we had I think five kids didn't end up coming. So, that happens as well. It it is it is hard to project, but um >> normally I talked about moving teachers if we have to. I mean, we have four still in some grade levels and if we have to move stuff, we talked about that a little bit, but we hate doing that last minute. They and and really so the year with my last big class that I just sent to Carbondale that year that class was even bigger when they started in kinder and Miss Thompson was like 19 I got this. I had 22 that year remember 23 for a little bit and back down. So um >> even when we had four we had some class sizes in kindergart so there's
062it's just weird the years we see where they go. >> Yeah. Um, I had another point I was gonna make, but I I think at the end of the day, we continue to monitor. She does things like kinder camp. I monitor preschool. We monitor our screenings. And, you know, at the end of the day, we can move teachers if we need to move around, we get in a bind and need to move. Um, but it's nice to know early. That helps. I think doing kinder camp closer towards when school starts so we have a better idea of how many are coming closer to the school day because people are moving in and out and doing things. But um yeah, we'll see where we end up. >> No worries a little bit. I think 19 is
063huge for kindergarten class, but I I realize it's probably not when you're comparing it with some other schools. >> I think it's huge compared to 11. Yeah, >> which is what we had last year. Yeah. >> Right. >> But 11's like unheard of. That's really small. That's very very small. Um >> we didn't we're not at capacity with the Is there There's one on here. I'm not sure the individuals >> which they're in. I think they're different. >> Um so we had a request for a enrollment to be at a um a different grade level. >> Okay. and we came to an agreement. >> Okay. >> Is that not the right? >> Yes, that's correct. Yes, that's correct. Just want to double check. >> Yeah, that's correct. >> Um, there's one other >> Yeah, I
064think the rest of them are fine. I think the rest of the group >> that was that was the only one I >> was asking about just >> Yeah. And a couple of them are employees children. So, we have a couple of those on there. And there's a a piece in our policy that talks about those as well, but I still bring all those to you for approval. Uh we do monitor students in good standing. So we get records checks and that's very challenging in the summer when you're trying to get a hold of schools to get records. So got all the records in and so these all met the policy of good standing. So >> motion. >> Yeah. >> Make a motion. >> Yes. >> Okay. Motion for non-resident. >> Second right here. All
065in favor. >> Okay. Uh building needs assessment and state assessment review. >> Um just wanted to make sure you had this in front of you. I I have sent this to you before. Um what you need to make sure happens before our budget meeting is that you have reviewed this. You make suggestions. If you have additional needs and concerns that you want prioritized in this, we will discuss that at the um at the budget hearing and then we will approve these as well as um look at our budget. We also have an RNR hearing and uh and go from there. Okay. So, take these with you. It's it's lengthy. >> I don't need any action on this. >> Right. Uh State Assessment. >> Yes, that's in there as well. >> Yep. So, all three building
066all uh so Scranton's uh in Overbrook need assessment. So, SACE and OAC are together. Then CAC, the high school, and the back part is the state assessment review. I want you to know the state assessment review because we are not getting state assessment scores back until the fall. We are still reviewing the current uh state assessments from last year. So, we don't even have our scores back yet. I was just the state um board of education just approved the cut scores yesterday. So we are pretty much a month behind now. So even longer. >> So we'll bring the new ones to you and those will come into consideration um for next year's needs assessment as well as the ones we take in May. So I think what we'll do is we will review the new
067scores in this new test and we will also get the new scores for the test we take in the spring again and we'll really have two sets of data to consider in our needs assessment for budgetary decisions next year uh at this time. So we'll actually have this fall which Carrie will share with you ahead of time but I think we need to look at all them because we'll see some we'll be able to compare two tests. So I think that will be valuable because this test is harder to it's more like apples and oranges here. So, versus we'll have the same test twice than >> if that makes sense. Sorry. >> Okay. >> All right. Um that brings us to Green Bush virtual school policy. >> Yes. So, we updated the Green Bush virtual
068school policy this year. Just to have some clarification. Um this started during co uh we we are not a virtual school. We do not have a virtual setting. So we have partnered with Greenbush over the years to offer um a few seats that we actually pay for out of our FTE uh to Greenbush to serve a virtual uh programming. Um I think it's gotten out of the last couple of years that we have a virtual school and anybody can just sign up for virtual school and that's not really how this works. So our partnership with Greenbush is through anou and that understanding says that we get so many aotted seats and then we pay green bush for those allotted seats. So at this point in time we would like to recommend that those six seats
069that we have are for uh chronic long-term illnesses or medically recommended and then educational needs due to long-term suspensions, expulsions per hearing outcome and discretion of administration. A lot of times those are things like required special education needs, things by law that we have to meet uh even in the sense of long-term suspension. So we'd like this policy to be used uh or this policy to help us guide parents when we have questions about I'd like to go virtual or whatnot. Um that this is this is not what this is for. Um unless it fits this criteria because we pay for those seats um and we only have six of them. So, >> do we pay for them whether we use them or we don't? >> We do. >> Have they been pulled? >> We
070do. >> We usually fill them. Yeah. >> Yep. We usually fill them all. >> And if we need them, like if we have eight or something, we just pay a difference. >> Yeah. So, sometimes that they have some extra ones that other school districts haven't used. So, they'll look at all the schools that they serve like this, which is usually smaller schools that don't have virtual schools. If they don't have one, they will let us purchase one. They have let us do that in the past. Um, I don't think we need one this past year. Um, I don't even know if they've given us one this year. I don't think we needed one. >> We all use all our canid >> I don't know if that's how it works but >> seems like it >>
071and this is something we'll want to look at in the future if we want to continue with or not. I think it has been valuable for long-term illness. We have used it for that for kiddos that need that support. Um, and then I think, um, when we have some kids that struggle and we've had expulsions and and behavior things to to keep them on board with, um, not going any even farther behind in their academic career and giving kids some second chances because they are kids and and so um, we can we can review this every year. I'll probably eventually just add it to the handbook as a review item. Um, right now it's just in in like a policy placement. Pete made it every year. We just put it. >> Yeah. In the hand.
072>> Yes. >> And that's fine. I just thought we'd review it every year and how many slots you guys want and we've kind of done it just based on the kids we know and and what's gone on with special illnesses and things like that. So, >> so I just need approval for the policy. >> Motion. >> Yep. Need a motion. >> Motion right here. Green Bush virtual school policy. Second. >> Second right over here. Okay. >> All in favor. >> Uh 7.9 brings us to uh 504 handbook. >> Yes. Uh so our district utilizes support systems and wraparound services for kids in in a variety of capacities. We have IEPs. We have um MTSS response to interventions title and uh 504 support. So we have not ever had an official uh I guess handbook per
073se, but to help better align our practices from building to building. Obviously, we've written 504s. We've gone through the 504 process. Um these are things that are requested often and as medically u medical um issues are brought up more often now and and suggested by even families or referred by families, we we thought it would be good to have a good handbook and guide all of us align our practices, have that posted so parents can see it. So Carrie um devised a a handbook for us, took it to the administrative team, they worked on it, reviewed it, and finalized it. So this is what we brought to you for approval. We'd like to use this. Uh, I'd like to put it on at least pieces of this on our on our website so parents can
074have access to it and see that 504 process um that their child may um get services through. >> Great idea. >> Yeah. >> Little little over here. >> Keeps everybody on the same page too from school to school. >> I'll make a motion to approve this. Second >> motion and a second here. All in favor us to 8.1 Joe's Trust Grant for ITV75,000. >> I'll let this guy talk about this one. >> We're bumping 400,000 in grants tonight. Right. >> We are. >> All right. We we waited quite a while. We were hoping to have the the the notice at the around May time frame, but they they tabled it until their July meeting. And so we just got notifications. So we now it puts me in a predicament about how to deploy these TVs,
075but as soon as possible in my in my if you guys if you guys approve it as as soon as possible. So we'll make it we'll make it happen. But um we're going to finish finish out Carbondale and then give well in total 11 TVs to the high school. So that's the current plan and then we'll figure out the next phase of it shortly. So >> perfect. >> And for the record, these are not just TVs. These are interactive TVs. You can learn with them, touch them, mess with them. They do a whole lot of cool stuff that I I don't even know all the gadgets and gadgets that are on it. And they are they are pretty cool. pretty cool TV. So, >> the same setup that Overwork has right now brought to to
076so >> kids can engage with curriculum and learning. So, it's pretty cool. It's better than projectors. I'll say that. So, >> perfect. >> Job Andy $75,000. >> I will make a motion trust grant makes a motion. Amy has a second. All in favor? >> Good job, Andy. Appreciate it. And and another on the record, thank you to the Jones Foundation. They also support trails and uh mass amounts of capacity forever. So, thank you to the Jones Trust. >> Um all right, Jamie, do you have anything? >> Um we had a meeting on Monday. Um some personnel changes, some forms, >> much approved, but it had been over by superintendent and all the superintendent. >> A good one. >> It's a working three-year budget to help build cash back. Um, we did I think there are
077some good strategies in lowering the estimate for revenue versus overestimating revenue. So, we underestimated revenue for categorical aid. Um, we changed up some expenses, put some hard lines in there. We didn't, they did, but we, you know, we talked through this. Um, >> and then hopefully u maybe some of those areas that um we put some hard lines on that will we'll get some cash that we'll be able to then set back in that cash flow to carry over. and I think in a three-year plan be at that 10% that they're wanting of their budget and uh hopefully that three-year plan will then help us reassess our assessments and lower those assessments over time. So, that's the goal and um I hope I hope that we can we can get that done. I know that
078you guys have been talking about getting an interim director in there. I hope that interim director can uh hold some lines here and really um work pretty in exact numbers with that budget and then work with the superintendent on really uh I guess navigating our our monthly spending where we're at and and really paying attention and monitoring the budget um very closely. So uh I look forward to seeing the decisions the board makes on a director and then >> took no action. >> Yeah, took no action at this time. I will say I do appreciate the superintendent started trying to come to one one to each meeting which has been very helpful because they just meet in the morning and then you know we have a separate meeting at night so it's nice to have
079one of them >> give us some feedback on things that we're talking about >> yeah we're all going to try to make sure we rotate or at least have someone there all the all the meetings so >> I mean sometimes I want to have her on the phone you know just because >> it's hard when you're not there >> I get Have you guys started hiring or hiring interviewing anyone yet? Do you know? Have they? >> No, we haven't question. >> All right.