001e e e oh we're doing one uh htk something for us do thanks for us I'm [Music] Maria Elizabeth and we were here in October last year and then so this is an update to when L and the things that we've done since then we've got a lot of information we're going to go through it fairly quickly because we want to get to questions that you have and have discussion about it since this has been sent out in advance maybe you had a chance to look at some of this so we're not going to read through everything but want to go go through each of the things that we do so um like to start with where this all started um if we go back to the town halls that were're had in 22 and
00223 there were three things that were identified as major things that were focusing and trying to solve the student learning environments and there's some challenges with that K8 with a 4 a configuration and then 3K filling separate you have some defining enrollment and then how to make the operations more efficient with Staffing so those are kind of the three things that we use as our lens on developing different options to be evaluated this process on where we're at we're not picking a solution tonight or solving the problem um we're kind of right in that middle of we've done the research we figured these things out we have some options to review we're going to have to go back and make some revisions um and get some more input before we know which which way to
003move forward um but we're on the right path um the district had the facility assessments done previously and we we're using that as our basis of understanding for needs um kind that's the bolts parts of the building and then what we have been doing more is focusing on that program piece on how the spaces are used so we've went through each of the buildings twice now um met with the BLTs at each of the buildings grou shared this um these different scenarios to get their feedback as well on what they thought um this is a a common thinge that we see in schools is you know the buildings were built where you have classroom gym standard things and now we also have art instead and resource and psych and intervention and all these other things
004and we're trying to fit them into the same footprint of that the blue box and so you have all these additional resources for the children that you're trying to that you need to meet their needs um and you're just making it f so it takes more square footage to teach the same kids so even if you have the fin enrollment you may not have the space that you um so wanted to start with some highlights um some things that we found throughout the buildings that were really positive positive points before we get into some of the things that of the improvements that so just won't read through all these but high level you do have have that available classroom space there is space to grow that um and it's good space for dist because as
005we see it's just it's a good space for the the uses that they put in the building Overbrook has good classroom sizes the building from what we've heard it's laid out really well so teachers are able to monitor students the way that the hallways are laid out um at Carbon Dale you have several opportunity spaces the library is underutilized right now so could be potentially utilized differently um the band music program is growing it's excellent so much so that they're running out of space so there's some some positives there at the high school you do have some of those new spes with the gym the auditorium and then again the library is a space that could be utilized possibly better um looking at some of the challenges at each building as from the infrastructure side
006you have some facade repairs interior finish repairs the fire alarm system is one that as we look at some some options for this building will need to be address potentially um and then program wise the buildings that are utilized you have empty classrooms um and just kind of um the sharing between the District staff and the pre it's kind of a unique setup not necessarily a challenge but just something that's unique to this this building um you'll see these plans as we go through really not wanting to walk through them but this is just a piece that we use to kind of illustrate and keep track of each space within all of the buildings and make sure that you know the green is the the the spaces that are in better condition yellow are average
007and then red would the spaces that are in wor so just ways to track the different spaces in the buildings at Overbrook um again there's some exterior facade repairs there are some asbest concerns um some water and moisture infiltration in some of the exterior walls and you'll see so um some electrical panels and fire larm system those have been completed so we're going through these lists and some of these things are already being addressed by the district so wanted to know that program wise um your staff Works spaces and offices are small um compared to other spaces that we see the art classroom is in a locker room in the gym it's really just not an ideal space for that classroom again that building at Carbondale there's some site pavement upgrades that you're already replacing
008Windows 13 Windows already been replaced so that's an ongoing process um the elevator is old and does need to be looked at and potentially replaced there's some hbac concerns um some electrical items as well with the program um the building is kind of laid out a little bit differently there's two levels in one spot two levels in another and so it just creates some circulation concerns and some some safety concerns your abanded music space is like I mentioned it's too small for the programs that they're fitting in there looking at that plan in that building can you back sorry to the program on one more for me okay I just look at the bullet there thank you you have if you have any questions please question out wait so there's that was the carbon one
009okay and it said that there was the last bullet point on the program SL said that there was limited surrounding property limits building expansion um the in attached to the building so there's lots of property for the building as a whole but in some directions because of the road corner of the of the site or the um at the high school um there's some structural settlement issues near the main office that we're brought up as a concerned as we're walking through the building um some exterior windows just updating those kind of the exterior facade some hpac concerns and some exhaust concerns between classrooms there some issues with science La for example when they're doing experiments some of those fumes and smells perating throughout the building so addressing that program wise um I'm sure you all
010are aware of the unique classroom shape in some of the parts of the building so um it's not necessarily the best shape for a classroom so addressing that is is on the list triangle yes triangles triang yes they are very something that was not initially brought up and it wasn't really on our list but as we talked to saff really kind of close to the top was that lack of CTE space right now the wood shop is in the basement and um they do really cool stuff in there but it's limited by the fact that it's in the basement and they don't have um adequate ventilation their dust collection system is not adequate and they just don't have any room to gr so that was something that as we kind of went through all these
011options and scenarios we go through later was became kind of a high point of emphasis um so this look is meant to try to find more of the challenges um so it seems like a docking list but overall this is pretty consistent with what we see other districts that we're working with um it's you know just that lens that we're bringing to finding the the opportunities um one that is a little more unique is your transportation um system that you have and how they're trying to track that between each of the buildings is something that is less commonly seen um each classroom has a different way of trying to understand who goes on which transfer bus or a car rider or what that was um clearly something that has a an opportunity for clarity for
012the students learning environment and um understanding you know how a student moves um from their house to get to their school building they have multiple Transitions and the time that that takes and um Le into their overall school day is that's something to consider in reviewing the options um so the scenarios that we're looking at again we're tying it back to um those initial items of improving the student learning environments by looking at the different configurations there's a lot of transitions for on right now um understanding the declining enrollments and then looking for something more operationally efficient um however you evaluate or you PR um Place priority Within These different questions you get a different answer on which scenario is the best and it's going to you know and different people rank that differently so
013if you're trying to solve you know the fiveyear plan what do we need for the next five years what do we need for the next 20 years the scenarios may become one may make more sense um in that lens than in a different lens so trying to pick one or know which one is the best one you have to work through a different evaluation criteria to understand what is what is it that you're trying to solve and in the end it's building a plan that the majority of your community will support um because if you don't have a plan for a farm that is successful in new St then you don't have something to build on and so um that's I think where the give and take has to happen to find the right plan
014that's that's right for your District as a whole and when we take and look at these scenarios um there's Capital Improvements those things of hbac code items assesses that sort of thing that we'll need to do in each of the buildings if we're going to stay using that building so that's what this chart is meant to say in these different scenarios if we're using Overbrook um to address the priority items we've uh started with 1.1 to$ 1.75 million of just Capital Improvements regardless of what grade level is being used in that building it's just that those um maintenance and Capital Improvements to each of those build so this is something we can get into more detail once we're refining what the plan is but in terms of overall cost and understanding the scenarios wanted to
015bring to the conversation and the other thing when looking at the different scenarios I think it's helpful to understand that they've each of the buildings have already gone through a different life of age in grade configurations um at one time they were each K8 buildings and so having them transition back to a different grade level the building as itself you know we may need to do things to switch them out but it's something that has happened before that building that's help helpful to understand so um taking all that information we kind of broke this into three scenarios really four scenarios um kind of group those by the number of campuses that those represent so the scenario one would be a one campus model where you move everyone to the high school site and this I
016Works to get everyone in one place I think obviously Transportation wise that's really advantageous you're bringing everybody to one spot parents and students when they're picking up and dropping off it's all very centralized um in this option we would have a separate separ sorry prek through six building that would sit generally where that HX building is right now the high school it would put a 78 Edition on the high school and one like I said one consideration with that would be where does the district office go we vacate SC um that would be something that we'd have to work through in this option and this given to the cost range would be between 44 and 53 million um you know whether sixth grade is in the yellow box or it's in the blue box that's
017something that we talked about when we were going to the different buildings and that can be a change this is kind of just that starting point of what that scenario could look like and how it could fit out the so I just had a question on that one back there I I mean really anywhere uh like a playgrounds for the prek through six where would that like out by the future softball yeah field or in that little by and that's what laying it out like if we comine the bus Loops if that's a timing thing and we've got a bus loop on one side of the yellow and then another one on the other side like that could be combined into one so that's a good point that we will you can update on how
018that could but I think there's there's an do a couple places you might have a separate preate playground that's smaller that could be in that smaller Courtyard space and then a larger one for those students and I wonder too like parking um I know our enrollment is kind of declining but our parking is horable as it is like on Game Nights yeah I mean it's already overflowing I mean I and sometimes we have Junior High and high school games on the same night like is there anywhere to yeah in there I that's always been an issue yeah we I think this South lot's getting paved already it's planning to be paved soon um which hopefully will help some and then oh it won't PID or not it's still not enough par I mean people Park
019all along roow there we have 300 students out there now and our two keep up how's one additional going to take on 600 more students in staff and that's something we' have to evaluate what that size capacity is I also don't know I mean there's there there's a lot of questions for each of the scenarios that we don't have all the answers to once we have more of a direction of like this one might be one we're considering we'll dive deeper into it because I also like water capacity of the water district if they're going to even allow something like this I don't know that yet so as we get further into it like said once we kind of have a direction we'll involve some engineers and that kind of thing too right now just
020to keep costs at a minimum it's it's more that high level and then we'll dig in and see what's and see where we may have to make adjustments because any of these plans that are if we move in one of these directions it's still going to change some we're still going to evolve bring more detail that's question we use the practice fil so looking at scenario two this would be a two campus model carbon Dale would be at 3K through five and again these grade levels could could change depending on what your thoughts are kind of that's where they this scenario landed at this point in time car would be 3K through and then a little bit bigger of an addition at the high school for six through eight and that would be a range
021from about 24 to $30 million and this is another one that we continue to look at you know there's any way to do an addition somewhere else doesn't include part of a renovation on high school and so it's less of new construction um those are things within each of these Concepts um could be further developed as additional options it's starting to what it look like like with that parking question you know that building is right where a parking lot would be pretty perfect so there's a better place for that would beIN is there a new sorry Band Room on the six through eight Edition yes okay um Scaro 3 would be a three campus model you would have an addition at Overbrook and you would move 3K through five there so you have about 10
022classrooms on that building um you maintain carale um produce the number of students there to six or eight so you do get those younger students out of that building that was a big concern when we were visiting with those folks and then the high school would remain 9 through 12 so this on the cost it's showing those upgrades for each of those buildings on the pr PR life and and then the cost on this one is 13 to 18 where would the district office be just it would still be here or out like the out there we could figure out Administrative Office right that much space or you could add it here I mean consider the district office I don't see the district office in most of these scenarios yes yeah no I was just
023I think that was when we started this the ad going into the unit for sure thing yeah would be a next and then scenario four um really looking at is reorganizing your existing space and I think what this gets you and mentioned is is those Capital Improvement projects but really the ability to focus more on your existing facilities and maybe look at some of those improvements that would have gotten cut out of a larger option you know you could you could fit those in this you're money on additions so this would kind of provide those upgrades at each building and then some additional things you also move some students around so you have 5 through eight at over book for Cale and then High School say as a does address that issue with the young
024students mixing with the so and I talked with them about fifth grade being this grade level that and we kind of got feedback from Carbondale as well as Overbrook about the fifth grade concept and is that something you want to develop into a middle school is that something and we had mix uh we had I was too we had a few more um fifth grade teachers that actually like how they um use content area teaching and and switch um to prepare them for Middle School um and then there were a lot of others that felt fifth grade still needs to be the Upper Elementary grade so I told them to consider you know can we fit PK through five at Carbon and 68 at over um and with um declining enrollments if possibly go down
025to few sections per trade level um then how does that change in our set carbon so I that fifth grade was that very flexible piece but overall my recommendation would be to keep f with PK through uh so we also had some discussion about if how SC could be repurposed um think there's opportunity for the building as a whole um but it could be something that needs to be considered in the plan if you're moving out of the building what what happens with it and some of the other things we've seen other districts do um turn those buildings into community centers or housing or um Child Care co-ops that's something we have seen before workshare space um that becomes this special education Co-op I think there's some opportunities there bring an option without a buing
026considering and this is when we talked with the teachers and the BLTs at the buildings some of the things that we heard um when they were when we were over Brook and looking at the different scenarios um it was it was really helpful to see it through their their lens and their eyes and talking through the different scenarios um it was clear that like teachers are so great at working in the spaces that they they're given and what they have um and adapting to that um but with it carbonel is currently being used for was them to themselves on how that could work for the levels they really like the building that they're in um they like the circulation of it of it having the whole circle to walk all the way around and but
027car not having that that just made it feel more disjointed to them um for a younger um at Carbondale and they talked about they would need to expand opportunities for the junior high students um and was concerned you know if the carbon the older kids went to over Brook in that scenario um of just reconfiguring everyone that the crooms were smaller and not the right size for them um we talked a lot about that fifth grade level if it's the the and also talked about how Carbondale if it was stay as a middle school will use it has the practice field and it's closer TOA for parents that are commuting and trying get games the high school that we talk a lot more about that CT and that moving over to the annex and what
028that would look like um we talked a lot about the number of gens how many gens are needed um and how to how to pH into potentially the different scenarios if it's not doing it all at one time how do we take up the first step of that's the overall vision of the the plans that do Ines we also wanted to bring some cont the surrounding areas um in your league what they have in terms of number of towns number of campuses um we started looking at numbers of gyms and just all of the the parts and pieces that go into it whenever you are split between multiple buildings and what that looks like so haveed in here and so I think for next steps refine some of these um get some more feedback on
029which scenarios make sense um I think Clayton is coming next month to talk about the finance piece a bit more um but I think each of these snares we can dive more into that and understand the details of that and how you know with the annex being used for ad that looks like and what opportunities or how to use that High School space in a different way and then trying to understand the timeline as a whole what we're moving towards um one scenario is like the soonest you could probably move uh forward we're doing the bond to do would be a August late August or early September bond election that would be the next opportunity that you guys would have that would mean you have a of what the dollar amount is and trade configuration
030at the buildings um and have that by the June board meeting not be a special election outside of the general course the other scenario would be if you had the bond election in November you would have to have that configuration um by August there's a lot of strategy or at least strategy that goes into that into when you run your bond um and what else might be on ballot um making sure you've got good participation that kind of thing and we've done it every single way so you cany um the other thing I think just to realize is Big Picture wise if you did that election there's still so much design time that goes into figuring out and answering and Engineering every question um then there's bidding and then construction that any of these things
031or scenarios wouldn't be in place until probably June January or the fall of 27 so there there's when you the bond passes and everybody says okay we start construction tomorrow and it doesn't work like that unfortunately um it doesn't make sense for you guys to pay us to do full documents and then wait and see if the bond passes um so that's just an expectation that we make sure we set with the community so I think we're moving on to questions any questions you have about any of this any of the schedules um you know one thing that we talked about was starting to get a little bit of a facilities group together Poss um and that would involve some of you guys of course to get input and understand you have the challenge of
032several different communities and we see that in a lot of districts um but making everybody is heard um and has the ability to get their input um they're going to be more favorable if they have some input some buy and some ownership in what that plan ultimately looks like so we can talk that with you guys too um that kind of helps to narrow down these scenarios and these scenarios can absolutely change we're not going saying pick one of these um there's lots of wiggle room in there it's just from all of our walkthroughs all of our conversations all of our research um this is what we felt like these were some of the best scenarios but again thoughts questions agreements disagreements think do you know the amount of our last Bond yeah it was
033that was that was just for the domes is that right and the and they did that walkway piece where the commons is at the state was they redid All that so you got the domes and that connected piece from the lunchroom area and that's the only Bond we currently still paying it's in 2014 and it's 28 and we obviously have lots of steps to still take depending on what you guys want to do you know we may need another special meeting to discuss more um if you guys want to put together a steering committee I can um do that next um but there's a lot of things to consider here there's a lot of unknowns still um I've got Robbie working on um all sorts of scenarios for all of these things with Transportation so
034he and I are going to sit down and talk about how much efficiency we would have there Kaye and her are talking about personnel and all these scenarios and what we would save there to become efficient so I think what we need to consider a lot about is you know I'm making recommendations to you based off of a lot of feedback that I got in town hall meetings considerations was student learning I then came into the the knowledge in the superintendent role of our decline in enrollment um which then affects our funding and that Revenue and then our operations maintaining and and and still are exactly what they were um 30 years ago when we had almost 300 more students so there's a lot of things that I'm bringing to you as recommendations um based
035on um the budget we run and and being efficient and planning for the future and and I know that we've reconfigured many times and if we're going to do this again I think we need to do it um with more forethought than five years 10 years um student learning is always at the Forefront of my mind with all of this I know that money is probably in everybody else's mind right now because you see these dollar signs and those those those are big numbers um and so and I understand all that and it's going to be hard to also say we're we want to save money but we're going to have to spend money to then save money long term and that and that is a reality it will be you you run a bond
036um to Levy more money so you can be more efficient down the road and in the future hoping to not have to reconfigure maybe every again um or or maybe there's a phase into that so there's a lot of ways we can look at all of this depending on how you want to put together kind of that planning in your head on where you want to be and and how far ahead are we looking um and I will make every recommendation I can but at the end of the day um you know this is a community effort this is a board effort this is what you guys think is best for kids and what you want the future of your District to look like and and that's my job to then go out and make
037that happen for you in in whatever way we can um we then facilitate experts to come in and give us guidance and expertise on what they know um and they work with a lot of districts so I I can get you any additional information you want um any more research that you want me to look into we can put a steering committee together just to kind of get feedback on the community it' be nice to get a good litness test on what our community is feeling about I know the town halls provided a lot I heard transitions over and over and over and over I heard Carbondale over and over and over and over and I heard operations over and over and over the enrollment piece that came from me in just my knowledge um
038and that declining piece and what that does in for our revenue and then what I know about uh our operations that exist and and the money that we spend every year on that um are we sustaining we are we are sustaining right now our budget's good I told you that the last couple of board meetings I'm not nervous about that right now but I've also given you um some information on uh you know a great SA is on on Staffing and as we have fewer and fewer kids um I don't know how long we can continue to also sustain the same amount of personnel um you know in the next 5 10 15 20 years what that will look like now if something miraculous happens and our enrollment goes up then you know that's a
039different look as well um but I know the trend is downward Nationwide Statewide um people are having fewer for kids um there's private schools that compete with Public Schools uh there's just it's just what it is so that's just part of it it's kind of out of our control I have a question thinking I have a question and I probably won't know this ROM might know um I know the ultimate goal like a lot of people had talked about at the Town meetings were one campus I know that's something that they kind of talked about have we ever looked at trying to buy surrounding land around the high school I don't know would you know I I don't know if who've ever attempted to do that I I know who owns the land around and
040who we could talk to I've had a few people tell me there would be a few um of those land owners um possibly willing to sell us a 10 acres of it or something like that but I have not ever um looked into that I just always wonder just especially with the parking those are the things we have to consider if we if you guys want more parking to do something like that these are you know we go into these different scenarios we're like we've got to have more parking or our playground space is not good or if we have to acquire more land um that's something we that would have to be part of this planning absolutely I mean I am curious if any of them if it's a hard no or if any
041of them would be willing I feel like we've got a good in in the community because and what they're thinking because going be um and our view it's valuable um that committee again made up have representatives from every town from every school you have grandparents you have people without kids you have um economic Geographics you have all of that and it's important to grab a little bit of all of that um so you have a diverse group one thing we say if I grab everybody with think like me that's that's not going to be help um it needs to be everyone that can talk to their peers and say this is why I decided this is a good idea and many times that hearing committee will then turn into of the vote Yes Bond Campaign
042Committee U because they bought into it they they've got some skin in the game um and that's important too you want those people once that fond campaign s the district can do we talked a little bit about this in the interview but the district can say we want you to vote we're going to educate you on what's going on here um but what the yes comme can do is we need vote Yes and this is why um and physically push that yes vote um because a lot of it is that voter is and so if you've got that committee who has Buy in and then turns around they almost get competitive about it like I spent three of my evenings doing you know at these we're this so that's important to so I do know
043like obviously one of the biggest things is going to be the money so I guess we won't really know until we decide what we're going to do and how much money we'll need but I mean any kind of idea and well taxes and all the because I know we're already paying on one W and I don't know if people know that I don't know if people realize we're still paying on wand well yes this that bomb is smaller than it's it's not even half the amount that these are small when you say that number and it was a long time ago too so I mean well that's true the valuation of our district is also much higher than it was in too so what the work is then is now comparably we have to look
044up but yes these are these are larger um projects for sure than than the does work so I I I was trying to baby step this I didn't want to um throw everything at you at once I thought it was important for us to just get kind of some scenarios and look at things and and see what you think about just the options they've brought to you there's also other options that are not even up here um that we can consider if those are things you want us to dive deeper into we can do that I I know you guys had a couple of other five six seven eight 9 10 11 12 different things um and then the taxing implications so if this costs $40 million what does that mean to a $250,000 homeowner
045what does that mean to a land owner per acre what does that mean to all of that stuff I can bring all those financials to you as soon as you want I just didn't want to throw all that out tonight and and take away from the ideas and the learning of the ideas and the and the questions we have about the ideas first Sometimes doing that will kill an idea real quick and I didn't want to do that yet I wanted to make sure you guys had time to process all these thoughts consider other things give them feedback that's that's what they want tonight is feedback from us on hey we don't like any of these these none of these are doable um here's how much money I think we can we can afford or
046those numbers are scary to me or you know school closures that's a big one I know you guys are all thinking about that that's a a very hard thing no matter if you are in Kansas City or if you are in um Norton Kansas those are those are things I'm sure all you guys have in your head when you close a building what do we do with that building uh repurposing do we release it do we sell it does what does the community then do with it um the attachment each town we have three towns their attachment to their schools those are all huge considerations and I don't want to jump into these things if we're not ready um I do know that as your superintendent is my job though to be the steward of
047your money and our facilities and to make sure that you guys are preparing and we're thinking about the future all the time and um so you know we can do lots of things we can do no things we can do a few things we can process and um kind of stair step into some of these things but that will take you know if we have an ultimate goal we want to get to you know maybe that maybe do we do reconfigure a couple times versus um one time and we're done so you know I know we've talked a little bit about the one campus thing um but that dollar sign is is Big um there's districts that have done it um but it it takes a lot to do it AED approach it could be
048it's not going to happen quickly if it face but you can start start there and understand what your direction to the Future and some of that is also having that conversation with the community of um we have an ultimate goal and we're being responsible cols and this is how we're doing it so that they understand this wasn't the seven of you sitting in a border making decision um and actually you talked to other people you've made a longterm plan you haven't just looked at what's right in Fr of these say first things first get the committee the committee going I would also like to have some more insight into the besides what we think um might happen if we put fifth grade here or fifth grade there like some some research to back up what's
049happened in other places what's the learn learning implications what's the achievement look like what are the opportunities what's the psychological maturity Behavior aspects like can we find anything that that points us one way or the other probably a meop talked about some of that at the over meeting which is what kind of HED me up it was like well and I talk about that Mee before you were on the board we talked about some of that but it is valuable information and to have some literature and stuff to support that is extremely important the research says this this is simply put up the research the research says the longer you can keep kids together the better that's why a lot of even one campus Concepts uh like Gage City for example they've got them all
050there together um but the transitions are better they know all the teachers they have uh like kind of collaborative Concepts between the buildings even though there's separated operations and programs they're all there on this one place um there's a lot of K8 buildings that doesn't mean they're all going to school together and they're not separating kind of the programs but they have this longevity together a lot of smaller districts do that because they have fewer kids and then they don't have to have so many administrators and so many different programs and operations and whatnot but they can manage a K8 building because they have fewer kids but that longevity is very good for them especially if they've got the same administrators they see those same teachers over and over and they grow through the district
051so the research says that about any concept is the longer you keep the kids together and the fewer transitions you have the better it is for Learning and that's what the big picture is on all of it um the more we split our kids up the harder it is and it's not just harder on the kids it's also harder on the families to um I think be part of each school's culture each school's way of doing things each school's communication model each school's behavior model all of those things change from building to building principal to principal scho teacher staff to teacher staff um and sometimes even curricular structures to curricular structures um we've tried to mitigate that but it's harder to mitigate it when our teachers don't get to work together collectively on a vast
052vertical model um unless we have PD days together to actually pinpoint that so that vertical alignment right going for PK all the way up that's hard for trail like we have to set PD days to do that to get all those teachers in the same room and work that way and build an align curriculum that way um we have resources that we all use but um you know our our third and fourth grade teachers how often do they talk I mean not that often um we have to set that time especially for them um our 8th grade and ninth grade teachers you know that transition that's a very important transition um preschool that's a huge one we have a very isolated preschool um I don't think it's it's poorly run I love our preschool I
053think it's great this building has been great for it and they get to have the whole building to themselves and I think they love that so I don't want to speak to the preschool not loving this they do um but they operate in in isolation um and it's very different and so they don't get to see kindergarten and um very often so that research there I know is very valuable um that is always a Forefront of what I'm thinking not just for us but for anybody understanding it better to make a informed decision it is a lot of people are moving to 6 seven and eight as the true Middle School Model A lot of Kansas schools for a long time were Junior High concept which is true 78 and a lot are moving to
0546 seven and8 there's some 58s um but 68 is that I would say Stellar model for Middle School where you can run operations for six seven and eight in the same way they all have the same elective options they have similar teachers and and and they run that model um the 48 model is is not common um I would Justin and I talked a little bit about it a little bit um they looked up a few more models fine there's not a lot clear water was one that we actually found was a separate called intermediate building and it was 48 um similar population to us are pretty close you'll find 4 as well um but they were on a campus but they were on a campus with other grades though together I'm just going off
055what they told me okay data I found um so when we say transition are we defining that as a different building or is that from elementary to middle middle to high school what what do we I just want to like I so I guess my question is is one campus how do you solve for the transitions if it's a natural transition kids are going to have to transition from element still sep builds just because they wasn't travel as moving different building yeah like if you're on one I mean just for example if you're on one campus though you have like the preschool would have access would preschool I don't disagree necessarily I guess I'm I would say a transition for me is like because our preschool is here K3 there 48 there those are all
056transitions if PK through five is all in one building all one principle all that that eliminates t a few transitions I think I guess before we go I don't know make decision what option four that you have you had three you had four options right was was is and just fix what's moving everybody around into more natural transition reorganized existing so I think we need to dig a Little Deeper because we've gone from reorganizing twice out a c outlay to million I mean I know there's more to it but I that's that's big joke yeah and I think that includes all the things they believe need there's a lot of upgrades within that yeah that need to be done yeah but if you're talking do a bond issue for heating and air units and stuff
057they did that years ago and that causes nothing but problems for how long because they all the same way went out all the same well a lot of those things um we've done um oh yeah I know I just the first when they did the one for 4.6 part of it was to get people to buy in they said maintain the building we're already paying before we don't want to pay an extra bond for you to maintain the buildings so I think that needs to be looked at if that makes any sense that's some of the feedback that some I board that they talking about that that was very important what they do three times to get that for the domes yeah how many bonds went up before it succeeded they took they take out
058a middle school they it they it a middle school part of that was was they went back and they waited a few years um I think it was your classroom one that got remodeled before and that was part of it they spent a few years and they maintained the things they had and then they went back they said look we fixed what we have now this is our needs for the new buildings that make sense sure that's kind of what our Citi willing to help pay for it but if you're just looking for upgrading and maintaining what for tax that's where was that mid am I right on that M you so that would be like scenar look at what the numbers are representing if they're representing things that we can do in capital outlay
059remove those out of the fond and do those capital outlay and use Bond money to remodel spaces that need remodeling to fit a middle school concept you're an program and you need some I'm sure that's part of go you're talking about just maintaining stuff think very popular yeah no I agree and I think too like you know we had talked about repurposing safe grant for example and I mean if we if the school's getting paid for that too you know that's something that people need to know also like we're not we are getting income from this um one other thing though I wanted to talk about the six through eight so with numbers declining I think we really need to look at having six through eight together just personally because we might have to have
060sixth graders come up to play sports in junior high I know there's already pull up sixth graders because they don't have enough kids which I think every option covers that right well there was one that we only had a seventh and eth okay have six scenario but it was still all one oh they were still in option two wasan I think we need in the blue section but only one more gy right not five well because isn't that what was said that we need a total of five gyms to account for closing any of the schools yeah but that's just that's just with 678 there nothing else there we would so they have three gyms there be three gyms at the high school and then the other two gyms would be the other two buildings
061that was if there was a district wide how many gyms you say two buildings but there's only one be but what was said is that we need five GS to and I think that we can continue to refine on how to have four G or five and what that cost something but none of those examples I think accounted for that so I have okay so go back to one scenario one because I I did notice when I was looking before there's a gym and a wrestling room the 7 eight Edition so is that technically two gyms I'm assuming that's what that is well yeah wrestling but I mean like question the bigger B to accomodate is that the junior high does that solve yeah it doesn't really address that High School in the yellow there's
062one gy right that's so none of these options address any of the concerns from the high school perspective like um the band room no the ad concern right these are just looking at the in any of these situations the high score Remains the Same saying minus some upgrades or whatever that need to be made is that right yeah you want to talk about the long High School list that we talked to them about yeah and there was we have very long wine items of things to do at the high school and so working through in prioritizing those into what are the major things like minim building and then use the rest as long Capital out planning and new things there but it doesn't change the building per se a time except for that entrance there
063that is a new entrance um for the middle school yeah that would that would change front entrance of the high school provide a secure entry to that building where where is I yeah I could find that on this one where is the entr or the high school where would you here and you could go okay so the office so to do the yellow building you tear down the old district office we got like two minutes so anybody questions you guys process a little bit ask more questions you guys can give me lot feedback thank you guys for coming we [Music] cies e e e i.5 resignation personel and 5.0 employment of personnel m and you would like to remove 10.0 correct session correct okay motion to approve as amended motion to approve second second all
064in favor all right um 3.1 high schoola that you gave yeah all right I'm just here to uh so every year the national level give us chapter tasks to add points so we can get National recognition so one my tasks this month was to give a presentation to my school board about the importance of CTE in the student body so yeah it's the importance of TP on the body student body uh what is CT CT is a is Career and Technical education um the practice of teaching specific career skills to students in middle school high school and po secondary institutions um why is it important CP focuses on handson learning uh the CTE program focuses on Hands-On learning students don't learn the same some students don't learn the same others some students learn from a
065teacher lecturing in class speaking to the class and some learn students learn from getting their hands on something and using it and working with it C need to sucess college rather than diverting in college student away from college classes CTE can work in tandem with this goal foram Institute study revealed that students taking more CTE classes are just as likely to pursue a four-year degree as their peers who are not taking those classes um CTE sets the path for high W High wage jobs according to the to a US Department of Education study for of workers of eight years after high school graduation those who focus on CTE courses in high school had a higher average annual earnings than non CTE students many of today's top employers stakeholders and policy makers are strong advocates for
066CP because they have seen positive results in their Industries it also can improve graduation rates when young people feel their classes are not relevant to their lives they often disengage some students struggle to see the point in studying keeping up with their grades or remaining in school however CP programs can be the bridge that keep these kids engaged in learning there's a direct link between CTE and lower job rates and higher student Ai and for the final one it teaches soft skills CTE uh students also learn soft skills that will serve them no matter where in the future whole uh takes them these soft skills that employers and college admissions officers value in their employees include critical thinking collaboration teamwork Innovation and communication and time management which all of these classes that our high school
067offers values into [Applause] [Laughter] students's Tyler and Tyler's like I'm on my way I was like well your senioritis Miss is late but on that do you guys have any questions about any parts of our CT peram no but I feel like he may be a valuable part for getting by in as we try I thought that was cool information good job yeah we B does our board know that our pathway is officially f by the state no no yeah our pathway is approved by the state so we are we're we're flying quick okay any questions on agenda no motion to approve motion to approve cons second second all fa right uh 5.0 Personnel report how much time um 20 minutes 20 minutes first time okay 30 minutes okay let's do 30 whatever you say
068let's do 30 30 I Mr President I Mo be going to Executive session to discuss personnel pursuant and our elect Personnel exception under coma and the open meeting were res in the boardroom at 6:37 with okay second second all in favor e e e 11 11 minutes oh all up all got e e e okay okay you wouldn't touch each other anyway no that's fine that's fine at least you I just wanted to make sure you have the confirmation number Personnel report as presented motion motion personel report second and a second all in favor all right that brings us to administrators any want to go first all right I'll start with board goal two and then I'll do charges um board goal two was student achievement um I know previously you guys have seen like
069our action plans and different things so I just kind of outlined those in here um we have done a lot with student achievement we've really focused on our data dis year and targeted interventions working with tazin and going through class wides um we've seen a lot of success with those you've seen our fast Bridge reports we have a lot of growth still to make in those areas um but just key parts of those I just kind of outlined in your board packets like 10 steps that we've been working on we've really focused on on focused on our targeted small group interventions um working on our class wides which comes along with the core teachers and and really hitting on those interventions that align with our tier one site word alignment um that's more at the
070K1 level really recognizing academic growth with scoreboards and then having like schoolwide wigs um we had gray for a day come in and celebrate with us where the kids got to learn going through different stations like kind of what it's like to age so they would like put cotton balls in their ear and try to hear and they would put popcorn or popcorn kernels in their shoes like they were bunions and I don't it was really fun they liked it a lot whitle walked around with those kernels In Her Shoes until evening like until bedtime yeah and so they really they really get motivated to work for did you do that no the kids did they were like Miss I'm never going to get over popsicle sticks yeah it was fun had a lot of
071fun um we're still really working on common assessments um having new curriculum has helped new resources for that um so we can do that we always can make improvements there lots of data driven instruction we're constantly looking at our progress monitoring high impact instructional routines um I've asked the staff to focus on a different one and then they report back how they've done it in their plc's um that's been nice because they all twe it or do something different so they've been able to Showcase and share with their colleagues um and then just contining with that sense of urgency and curriculum delivery um referencing our objectives and then those teachers have really each one of them has a smart goal for their fluency um and they look and at their data all the time for
072themselves for their kids to make growth um and it's been fun to watch like even some of them will look at it before we even get to plc's and they're like showing me their data or they're like my kids went up this many minutes um I don't know Lizzy would you say that we've looked at data in a different role this year yeah so they get really excited and I get excited when they get excited so um but our improved desired outcomes is um we want to hit that fluency but we want to keep working on decoding vocabulary and problem solving skills continue to look at data and then just that enhanced engagement that enhanced academic engagement in the classroom so that's it for that and then and my Chargers um I we did double
073duty so I had a classified and a certified um my classified charger of the month was Lydia Simpson she is a academic coach in my building she came new to us mid year last year um fun fact my certified person was Dustin Roberts my PE teacher and they're dating so it was so cute I didn't know that yeah she goes what um so anyways Lydia is very invaluable sorry just out I think everybody knows um [Music] but they do know um Lydia is great um you would not know that she is new to her role she she's the person that you give a task to she asks some clarifying questions she runs with it she brings it back to you and it's done um she has done such a great job that we actually you
074know when you're like really good at your job and then your job just keeps growing um that's her checklist because um everything we give her she excels at so I just I appreciate her so much and she has just a fun relationship with the kids and they're always asking you know if she's gone or something where she is um or if her group times missed and she will step up to the plate and do everything um Mr Roberts is um just hands down the best PE teacher I've ever been around in an elementary study I mean I would invite you to come in I I I go to PE because it brings me joy and I'll play with the kids and do activities with them on occasion because it is so fun and is so
075engaging and his goal was to when he very first came our kids did not have a a good sense of um Ming with Grace um and he has really instilled in them about you know we're a team and this is how we do things and I would see them throw fits I would get be reports they I mean throw scooters I just they were upset because they did not know how to lose he wants them to still like maintain that I want to be a winner but when I don't how to react with that and in his time I have seen that change in our kids and we've talked about that him and I just personally and so I I just I think that's so great because that's a that's a life skill for them
076and he's teaching them that in PE um and then he's just amazing because he will if you want to like cross plan with him he'll work with stem he'll work with music and they're constantly doing activities together um him and Miss Nelson just wrote a grant um I don't know if they're good it or not for um to do like the drum line with the balls and then the dancing so that they can do like music and kinesthetic activity through PE and movement but then keeping Rhythm and beats through music so they've been a very good match but sorry I could go on another I'm done oh kids kids oh the kids I'm sorry I love the kids too I'm I'm sensing this over here he's like she's still talking yes okay it's just making
077our part shorter s Katie Port loock um she was our charger of the month um Katie is on our student leadership team um she's been the voice several times she is just a really fun kid uh I she got a lot of recognitions because when we did our jump up for heart um we needed a kid to wear a duck costume and walk around and then like do like little quacking things whenever they would tell her to and she was like all right this is mildly embarrassing but she did it and she had a great time with it um and she's she's just one of those kids that you can pretty much ask to do anything and she'll do it and she'll do it with a smile on her face and and she's a people
078pleas her she is a good friend she's just she's a great kid um Padilla is was our other one she's also a third grade student um she got nominated uh by teachers she's so respectful um she just is a yes absolutely or I'm done with my assignment who can I help you should have seen how she spoke to Dwayne when he came in and gave her that oh and I missed that CU I oh my goodness she was just like sound like a little adult just know thank you so much this is wonderful I love at Mel was just so and she like and she's she's a very good friend and so when we were describing her I said Aver does that sound like you and she's like yeah it really does I was you
079know and so that's so good for kids to hear how people see them through like our eyes and then reflect on that and and just know that that's really how they should see themselves too so okay now I'm really done are you sure I am okay all right uh so the junior high I'm going to talk a little bit about goal two um about uh reviewing Student Activity programs so one thing I do at the beginning of each season I meet I meet with that season's athletic coaches and kind of go over expectations um schedules you know answer any questions that they might have at the end of the season we do uh head coach evaluations and I meet with uh the head coach and not only do that evaluation part of it but we
080also kind of identify what are our needs going forward what worked didn't work um are that you know is there equipment that we need to order for next year those kinds of things um and that's and that's part of that process they do the same thing with their um assistant coaches so as far as Athletics and activities we are already on to Spring Sports at the junior high it's hard to believe um basketball finished up two weeks ago boys basketball um cheer just finished on Saturday they had a cheer competition at Baldwin that was kind of their final Harrah for the season so um we're already in the days of scheduling uh cheer tryouts for next year so you know we're looking at um 2025 2026 Sports already which is crazy so um track and
081golf practices start when we come back from spring break and then and then we're rolling with those so um our participation numbers this year have been outstanding for for Junior High um I think I covered this before but with the upcoming um spring Sports and other opportunities to be involved um we've gotten even more kids that hav been out for something that are going to go out for either track or golf so um for seventh grade we've got out of 72 students there's 67 of them that are out for whether it's basketball track um Scholars Bowl band choir um anything you can be involved in so 93% in seventh grade eighth grade's a little bit lower they've got 80 students and 67 of them are involved so uh that's 83% again that's going to go
082up a little bit as we get into spring Sports so um let's see our chargers of the month um I don't remember which one was December and which one was January but um Carrie gregwire fourth grade teacher um was one of them she's been outstanding she's a planner preparer she knows her kids really well um works great with our fourth grade staff and Amy culvin um same thing she's kind of the mom of our eighth grade group um works well with her students um is kind of a voice for our eighth grade teaching team and then our students of the month um or student Chargers of the month were two eth graders Georgia Lynch and Nathan Dickson both of them highly involved in um you know any activity and if they're not involved in an
083activity they've been showing up at you know after school extracurriculars to support their classmates and have been uh leaders in that way so that's what I've got and you have did you introduce your new coach yes Mary ber will be our Junior High Assistant all coach so um she's excited about that and we'll do a really good job with our Junior High golf athletes Junior High kids we conf yeah conference today which is a big deal in my work and so I Tred to involve the ji which is awesome it was fun it was real fun our high school kids were really you guys have proud um Mrs Berg stole a little thund that there you have that um I shared the board goals with you board goal two and some participation numbers did you
084guys get a chance to see that by chance do you have any I can go over all that or you have any questions on that because that was a lot of information I shared and I can go buy it piece by piece if you need to I'm gonna need you to read it all are we serious you can talk to Stephanie that was a joke that was J uh we have a lot going on at the high school I try to here lately especially with postseason come up really get Facebook updated so people know what's going on prices are increasing um State wrestling leaves tomorrow girls basketball play tomorrow to laa Christian boys play at home against um Aon County community so then we got the play going on next week if boys and girls
085win we play again next week uh spring Sports start on Monday holy cow so leis and I are trying to get all those paperwork physicals and all that for students that haven't participated yet and I've talked to some of you um and some of your wives to help me get physicals in so we've been working on that real hard um just a lot going on at the high school it's kind of like the building that never sleeps so there's always always things going on whether it's troan wrestling softball's hitting in there baseball's hitting we always got things going on and um if you have question just let us know I think has a question for you lights yes update I you want the updates on the football field or the parking lot parking parking we
086got bids today on parking lot lights yes what about football field football field we are still in negotiations just okay so there is really no new update on that we're still progress we are trying and you know one of the things like Austin said when I do my meetings with our coaches at the beginning then the parents meeting then I meet with the coaches at the end I do a need versus want list and this is for you seen this because I come there with our coach this is year-to-year stuff that we have to have to continue our program this is stuff that we want and we are trying real hard to get stuff that we want because we are trying to catch up is that how you tell me I'm going to be a
087little bit moreful on what we got to have but but I will say that she's been very good at understanding that over my time here that we are really trying to upgrade our stuff for our kids you've done a great job and everything that we try to do is for our kids and for our coaches it's not about us it's just giving them opportunities so um we appreciate what she does we do a lot of fundraising and she'll say hey if you'll if they can fund raise for half of we'll pay half and then um we negotiate that a little bit and so we just do a good job with that so it's a it's a good deal and our coaches are appreciative of that so thank you getting the stuff and I've got a
088list coming [Music] so he's good he's good he'll be a great retired car salesman but we appreciate you guys too supporting us in what we're doing so thank you absolutely keep up the good work we'll try look good play you right right feel good play good and have good equipment it's a kind of big back on uh ch about things going on hopefully you're keeping up with the high school newsletter so you can see that I like to celebrate what the kids are doing I want to get all the information out there of not just Athletics but the activities the clubs organizations what they're doing in the classroom and that really does align with standard two or goal two uh that we have for the board goal in terms of student achievement providing them the
089opportunities to show what they're capable of and the experiences so they can grow and improve um like in addition to our conference with KY uh we also sent kids on field trip down to wit to Aviation company and had a lot of success with that expanding the opportunities for them to be introduced to different career fields that are available that directly aligns with the CTE initiatives that Gabe was talking about um so thank you for your support in that those Endeavors uh speaking with the community and the stakeholders CTE is definitely a route that we need to emphasize a lot more and like the agriculture U programming that we're implementing that's that's a major component of it so I think these are opportunities that our students are going to take advantage of it is going
090to help them grow with their progress and on the flip side of that the teachers are supporting all these Endeavors as well we have the implementation of the uh framework the instructional framework with all the high yield instructional strategies that teachers are implementing in the classroom we're continuing to train on those and to progress with the use of those through the class through each of their classes um and then the students are also uh gaining more familiarity with their individual plans of study hopefully for those of you that have students to high school you've heard them talk about that talk about Naviance strengths explores some of the questions and this the curriculum that we're doing uh along the lines of the IPS U program and we're going to keep expanding that and and integrating more
091as we go and hopefully the students will be able to identify kind of their career track and Pathways that they can take to explore and expand their knowledge and understanding of what's what's available for them for their post-sec future um in terms of uh other things like I said with the uh uh the stakeholder feedback we're trying to expand not just CTE but other opportunities uh I believe that our relationship with Allen county is continuing to grow I just got some communication from them today asking if we have additional teachers that would be interested in getting the credentials so we can offer more out of County classes um out of Trail so hopefully we can continue that endeavor as well I really like pushing the kids to uh reach higher higher goals goals set their
092expectations higher for themselves one of those Avenues is let pushing them into some more rigorous courses uh wasman Tech is another Avenue that a lot of students take advantage of so if we can continue to expand those relationships and provide those opportunities for students I think that's going to be very beneficial so then some of the work that we are currently doing it relates to goal two on this uh charges of the month so for uh December and January so we had one classified staff member Sue Olson is a par at the building um kids like her they work very well with her she's been around for quite a lot and then our certified staff was Jessica Nicholson our Ela teacher that we stole from the elementary so she has been a great benefit to
093the high school she fits in very well the students have really gravitate towards her she makes great relationships connects well with the kids so very excited to see her on that list and then our students uh we had two seniors Tyler bolts and Katie Piper a couple of true leaders in that senior class um they have done a lot yeah I'm might dog on Tyler a little bit because he didn't show to this but uh he got this reward prior to the meeting so maybe that's what we should have we should have waited on that no very very good choices those kids are are wonderful in the building and they have a true positive impact back and we get both the piper girls over here in the preschool for their Early Childhood teaching pathway and
094they are Dynamite with these kids so teachers so um I actually got them mixed up one told me it was in Julie's room and I walked in it's like started reading I like oh this is Jersy for your sister so I had so I had to go down the hall to find Katie cuz I walked in I was like I started reading I go you're josy aren't you this much for your sister let's go down tell EO you will be nominated too I promise I know you'll be in there Senor name before so that was Sil anyway they do fantastic the preschools I wanted to just give them a shout out for that because they've done a great job over here too so um preschool goals I'll talk to you about those um uh Julie
095florry has I just want to give props to her she has really taken a lead with collaboration and working with the preschool staff um you know she went back to school and got her administrative degree and and her license and uh really helping me out here to help free up um that role that I had uh with the preschool and and taking some leadership in that and she's done a great job with um leading her team through some big changes very quickly that I know that it's hard to have change and um we've had to navigate some philosophical thoughts about preschool and and what preschool looks like and also work through trying new things but also taking in our time to evaluate the effectiveness of it and is it good but to also align to
096kindergarten Readiness so we've got um Early Childhood math now that is bridges that aligns to what they're doing PK through or sorry K through three and we've got we are using pieces of um the same reading content only few pieces of it um not the entire C but open court is what they use um K through three as well and so now our preschool is using some pieces with the letter recognition letter sounds um of that program in preschool for the Early Childhood piece and then for the first time this year they are piloting um fast bridge at the preschool uh there's a lot of schools that are doing it to the state of Kansas there's some kind of hiccups we've had through it because there's ways that we've taught certain skill sets to kids
097that they test them a little bit different in in practicum and so we've had to think about how we teach kids about letter sounds and letter recognition um not to match the test but to to to do it in a different way in a different manner so um there's been a few things there that we're trying to tweak a little bit and how we teach some of these things but um they've embraced it and I will give Julie and her team um just some props for really embracing those and and take it to Mom even though I know there's some challenges and some thoughts on some of the ways those things are done with our Littles because I know they're still really little and they're not expected to read when they leave us our standards
098do not talk about those things it's a lot of it social emotional learning um and so there's a lot of pre-academic skills in there so um but it's up the Annie a little bit and provided a little bit more rigor and a little more um opportunity for some of our kids and some of our kids are ready there are some kids we have had preschool kids that are ready to read so what do we do for them are we meeting the needs of all the kids and bringing them all um along a growth path so I'm very proud of the team those are things they're working on with student achievement uh they're also always continuing to engage parents um they want to have a um a music concert like a a preschool music um program
099so we haven't done that so we're talking about planning that for our parents this year to have a actual music program even we don't have a music teacher but they'll do with music and so we thought about that we talked about some different ways to engage parents and in the preschool and get them in and then we do parent education they send out newsletters we um have a a page out of our newsletter that always has some sort of a piece for parents um to help them at home with preschool Readiness not just kindergarten Readiness but coming to preschool prepared for what preschool um will do so things just um even potty training skills and uh things like that where we get kids that you know struggle to get that before kinderart anyway that's preschool
100so thanks for listening hey ters we go to that game tomorrow no shot clock in postseason no shot clock no shot clock in postseason it was just a regular season so if you're wondering I just thought I you that you guys going to the basketball yeah I wasn't wondering but why okay so you didn't have to do it this year some schools just did it to be practiced and ready it was a trial no it's not officially in yet next year everybody this was a trial year in our league chose to be in the trial year so we paid for all that stuff once I he begging for shot clock since our league had to do it so that was a want or a need I guess the league decided that that turned into a
101need because the league as a whole decided everyone was going to do it age and I want to say one more thing I know we're talking a lot but um we did go to Texas last week and so for student achievement I want to talk about celebrate our teachers at Overbrook what a outstanding group of Educators in over Brook and I am so thankful that um they got recognized on the big stage um in Texas we got to go do that and um just what a cool opportunity what I mean pretty pretty neat to just say that wow little o Kansas um there with uh schools from all over the country get to have their even just holding up the banner with the camera and saying look what we did it was pretty awesome so
102it was not warm there I will say that it was 5 deges the day we arrived and 22 the day we left so Lizzie is the only one that can tolerate the cold uh so I don't think she brought a jacket but I was in my own a jacket hat in my toat and freezing but um and Laura Lee went to quite a few great sections sessions um I went to a lot of uh United States Federal Department of Education meetings they were given all sorts of updates um um Lizzie you went to some good sessions some good sessions so um it was a great event it was a great um camaraderie just to hang out with staff and um just have a good time together and get a cool comments together so and I
103saw my college roommate oh yeah years another Kansas School was there a Missouri school that won it was there uh so we we ran into a few yeah close people so it was really cool opportunity okay uh baseball y all we're doing is the edits that um we put in are in that final document and um I think discussed everything you guys wanted to talk about and if there's anything else you want to change on there and all we need to do is approve it and sign Chris did you have any thoughts on no I think I talk about everything the lights don't get shut off can I call you it BL can you just walk up and just shut them off I have all lights yeah um you got a key for that used
104to have okay I'll make a motion that we give [Laughter] misss like it's your job until she starts shooting our okay so anybody did anybody have any question anything good okay motion to forward the parks baseball motion second all in favor and the only other thing I'll say is I'll probably take this exact same yes car I just wanted to wait till this was approved so we had kind of a model to use and then take it to them and twe it if I'm glad to finally something in paper we talked about this for like five okay 8.1 new bank accounts so we've been talking about using credit card um options in the district for quite some time we do it for Red track when you pay student fees enrollment launch uh technology things like
105that through red track but we haven't been able to um use it for if you want to get into a ball game if you want to use it for the concession stands um a lot of school districts Do It um I don't know why we haven't really looked into it in the p past I think there's probably some U business side things to it that were maybe complicated that we didn't look into it but we looked into it had Kaye uh talked to our banks about it and what they suggested they did suggest we have some new accounts um to keep those separate um they will still flow through the same accounts into the the activity funds and whatnot but it will kind of secure those just a little bit better because they are credit
106card transaction so um and then Andy helped us with some of the technical pieces so we're ordering a of the you want to talk about what those are called so you can say the real technical words mobile well kiosk type units were um the the actual um uh Gates will have a it's a basically a cell phone but it's not it's a Wi-Fi connected device that uh they'll be able to click and then I mean tap to past so it'll have all the all the options built into it and then the concession stands will have a basically an iPad and a stand that has all the different payment options on it just like you would use that a kind of any store will kind of spin it around and let you it's it's that kind
107of set up we're not asking for tips we tips they always ask can you make it to where that doesn't ask so so is there a transaction fee with every single one of those yes there will be and so there's a and it will say that level s it's of signies that will say if you want to use a credit card you will pay you pay so then we just push the button and that goes to them rev track we're still paying that right yes okay we that yeah I like it for Red track I'm glad that we're passing and they have the option they can still pay cash and that's absolutely fine so it's just an option for and I think a lot of people that want the convenience pay the I pay it
108all the time it's like a convenien ESS yes there will be Hardware cost for sure and the hardware cost so we're only doing a couple um for the school and the junior high we're not doing over Brook at this time so which is there a reason to do no we talked about some things we wanted to like if we were putting something out a parent teacher conference night like if we wanted to sell the flags so isn't it isn't it possible that we could move those to over for a night like that sure so our ours would be very lied yeah a lot of times from our ticket takers I've got the response that a lot of visiting schools will say hey can I just pay the card and they can't and so then if
109they don't have cash you present the problem so do yeah that was going to kind of be my question we get so we get used to doing this and if we have a glitch in the system and it doesn't work how are we going to approach that with people like at the gate so we're going be us I made sure the system has a Wi-Fi offline mode so um if it goes offline it would the transactions would stay on the device and then when you got it back on the internet it would upload if people get used to this I will say on the transaction passing the transaction fee onto them um there's a lot of legal stuff involved with it and square because of different states handle it different ways they don't allow us
110to actually do the one for one transaction costs back to them so we're basically going to do an average like it's a $20 transaction like there's going to be a button that says okay this is a 25 cent fee so it's just going to be kind of a a set if you're going to use a a credit card you're going to have a 25 cent transaction fee on it it's just a set amount that we feel like it's going to cover the highs and the lows basically so you may not legal in our and and still be legal we got to have signage we got to have all this other stuff that goes along with it but um this the way that we're going to have to do it to make it work is that
111what we've seen consistently with the groups that do I mean it sounds like what I've seen so we just need approval then um the action we need is to um open two new oh sorry three new accounts does it cost per account just the hardware of your account cost just the bank accounts oh you're just talking the bank accounts yes the bank accounts we need board approval to open new bank accounts okay ation all in favor perfect uh that brings us to District calendar uh as uh so we have a calendar committee that meets every year and we have representation from every building we make sure we have Nea on there and make sure have Andy Hill on there she's the minutes Master uh our ads are on there because they're the calendar uh absorbers
112um and uh then we talk through all the logistics that go into building a calendar um now this is the master calendar um at a glance um this doesn't have every single ball game and every single like when the third grade concert is it's not all that so you guys approve the master calendar for compliance of our required minutes which is 1100 or sorry hours is 1116 of those um or you can do 185 days so we've always done um the hour to so um the uh committee talked a lot about we wa we went back and forth a lot on taking off the entire week of Thanksgiving um we did not um at the end decide that was best um for a lot of reasons it makes spring really heavy it makes fall and
113winter U first semester very light with days um it's hard on classified staff um that need to be here and work and if they don't get paid or they're not here they don't get paid and then we have another holiday where they have all these days off in a row the ones that like are especi Paras um those are small paychecks coming in the holiday time that's rough um and just um and for parents you know thanksgiving's not till Thursday parents are still working usually up until then um and if they take leave they can use their leave and if they want to be gone if teachers wanted to be gone I guess they just use their leave to do it so we talked a lot about it um kind of ran through it you
114guys have any thoughts on just that piece of it no um I'm I'm sure everybody would love to have the whole week off I mean that's a desirable thing I just don't think it's a deal breaker for retention and Improvement we looked at how many teachers actually took off that week and it wasn't very many two yeah this like two so I didn't feel like it was a deal breaker on like this is an absolute deal breaker for keeping teachers around um otherwise I would have really considered it um high school we are wanting to do a couple new things with um homecoming we are recommending we do a full District dismissal um early release for the day of homecoming um we felt if we kind of hyped some things up we want to do
115a large districtwide all three Community event it will still be in one community and rotate but we want to invite businesses and people from all towns because it kind of gets well this is carbonell so they only carbon shows up this over so and have food trucks and vendors and have a carnival and and so people can come and do all this homecoming stuff together and make a really big event of it and really go out and sell it to the community um I know it's hard because it's Friday during the day um and but just have some Provisions in place that make it you know desirable for everybody to come and we make kind of a tradition of doing an early release on homecoming um because right now we bust all the kids there
116um and then bust them back or they or it's kind of chaotic and their parents come and pick them up there and it's just kind of back and forth and all over the place so we would like to request that that's new we've never done that before that I am aware of so would would there there would be no busing at kids and you'd pick them up at the schools no we we would do routes kids could go home on their normal route they would just go home at noon though does that make sense so parents could check them out um we're just not going to be busting kids to School's Out school's out we normal dismissal so do we feel like there'll be a negative impact for students that's what yeah so they won't
117be able to go to the homecoming parents can't get off a half day to take their kids we're hoping it' be the inverse of that so parents will get their kids and go with their kids to the events we'll get full families there and not just the kids we we we don't have a lot of I mean Community it's a lot of kids and um so I guess my concern is I feel like it's about the kids you know not about the parents and sure if your kid's a senior that's different but I just worry about the kids that aren't going to be able to do that is my only concern sure and I guess you know we can think about can we run a couple can we run a couple buses um there but
118we'd like parents to pick them up eventually or do something yeah because then we're responsible if we bust them there now we're responsible for them until a parent picks them up I don't know that I like that I will say one of the adverse effects at the little kids level is that we get there and a lot of our parents do come and they'll sign their kids out but they don't necessarily watch what is occurring and so then there's issues that then begin to happen behavioral issues because especially as they get older I mean we've had kids say like you can't tell me what to do my parent already signed me out um sometimes parents get frustrated because they're like no they're fine they're with me but they're not necessarily exhibiting the same behaviors that
119we would expect of our students students and then that offsets the rest of our students and then they begin exhibiting some behaviors that are not necessarily what we would want them to be showcasing for Santa F TR kids um what percentage did you say check their kids out we looked at that I know and I don't remember it was a lot it was a very it was a large amount I feel like it was like 70% that so a lot of parents come and check them out anyway so so that's for Littles what about like junior high level I'm curious do you know what was the question get it together Austin do you know what percentage of your kids what percentage of the kids get signed out for homecomings oh man me it's about 5050
120yeah okay so we're already I mean I didn't know that I didn't real we had that there's a lot of one of our problems this year with with students getting signed out is they would get signed out but then they would come in way and be with their class and I can be on my phone and I can do all this stuff that you can't do without any supervision so it kind of ties teachers hands it's a hard monitoring day yeah and I love it I think it's great that kids are all there it's just a hard monitoring I I think also just if we can bolster this event a little bit Kyle and I bounced some ideas um off of how to just kind of make it a cool event where hopefully parents will
121bring them and we'll have some things for the littles to do as well as just you know we watch the high school kids a lot we watch some dance we watch them cheer we watch the football players the cheerleaders but could have some things that are charger stuff that the littles could do too um we've talked to PT I've already talked to PTO um maybe there could be some Carnival type stuff um talk about food trucks talked about big kid little kid stuff so all sorts of um just ideas to make make it a a big Community event um I don't know I love it I think it's I just wor like you said with the kids that don't get a go and we would we do communication way ahead of time so they would
122know this a half day um where we're going to be what we're going to do have all the events posted so people would know um I don't know it'd be a great great time for I don't know our all three communities come together so outside of the food trucks great any typ yeah I I don't have next year we're in Brook yeah we're here and we've got a nice lot out there it's a great place for it it's a good place to it yeah it is it's really um okay the other one is uh we we we looked at minutes on this to make sure we could do this and we've kind of tossed around a couple ideas about this but through our stronger connections Grant one of the initiatives in that Grant was to
123start this link crew initiative which is a freshman kind of orientation um mentoring program throughout the school year for our our youngest High School Chargers um so we have money we've actually have people training right now in Oregon Washington Washington Washington right now at training some teachers um that are going to come back and then implement this program next year the way to kick this program off is to have a freshman day so we want to start the very first day of high school with freshman only um all teachers will come in and do a freshman day uh and then the rest of high schoolers won't start until the next day U we counted minutes there's plenty of minutes in there for seniors and um the rest of the students but it would be dedicated
124to a transition today and this link crew Initiative for um our freshmen lots of schools do these things for kindergarteners eight uh sixth graders uh freshmen uh we've never I know of since I've been here haven't done a freshman day um we've done kind of a rotational day with classes but never just a day for just freshman so it's a big deal to go to high school the first day uh so that's a new thing that we are looking for on the calendar as well there's also a component new students as well oh yes and new students sorry thank you thank you new students and freshman so so then we have a Friday first day of school for grade productive then you get all the like you get all the handb andab stuff out of
125the way and and then you start on that on this freshman first day with link it does involve a lot of upper class because the cheer the dance would be involved we'd have student leaderships who act as the mentors for the Freshman so there will be a lot of B would probably play Yeah there a lot third of right kidding no I think it's great I like it that was wild so that's new to the calendar what else is new is that oh you guys know how the C highest basketball tournament rotates yeah okay this coming up is already here to host on Tuesday and Thursday and those games start at 3:00 and I've talked to the other schools and what they do is let out school for people who drive at the high school
126if you drive you're out at 2:00 if you're a bus rider all staff is still on at the normal Duty day we just want to let the parking lot clear so we can have visitors come in because we'll have two games going on at two and then two every time so we'll play Eight Games in two days but we just need places to park and like West Franklin said they let out early for those people and teachers have rooms if kids ride buses or whatnot that have to stay they keep those and then the other staff helps with so are you talking two days or yeah two days it's a Tuesday the and we we only rotate and do this every three years so it's Tuesday uh the 9th and the 11th of Janu or
127December the game start at two or three okay so I say we a little yeah 3 o' so we want them uh the drivers to leave at two and then we'll request teams not show up till about 2:15 yeah and that gives them once they change and get ready I mean not a lot of time is you get 20 minutes to warm up for G one so I think that's great when we went to Regionals uh where we pay it was insane because they still had classes going I mean there were kids going around everywhere adults I mean it was we're still going to have kids in the building two but at least our parking lot and that's another thing you were a poola you had to almost Uber into the school I mean it
128was there was nowhere to park yeah there was no parking um and so it just an opportunity to we had talked about not having parking earlier so so do we do we add that dismissal on the district calendar ahead of time I would yeah yeah yeah I think we need to tell parents they know that's early dismissable on that day for student drivers so what kids would still be in school that it'll be our youngest classman there'll be kids that don't drive ride kids would not kids but they won be roaming I we'll have teachers there teachers are still on duty so we'll have them in classrooms I mean when we got to Peola they were in the middle of lunch and I mean there in there a bigger school like there was kids I
129mean no if if we have practice but yet we get out at two and I'm a junior senior and I drive and I want to go home well I mean you're going to come back for PR yeah like the basketball teams we won't play till the late games if coach that would be a kind of a coach decision I want you to stay or you can go kind of leave that up to how they want hey is just safety issues that that's my only thing is I just want to make sure R people are coming in our school you know that kids aren't just roaming the hallways and no no no that's why be on the north end of the building and we can keep them out from the gym area we'll have enough staff
130that don't have kids that will be able to police stuff right okay sounds good otherwise I think everything else is pretty standard the calendar wasn't off by a lot we added the preschool screening days on there um there may be one preschool PD day that's not on here yet we can amend later but I tried to get three LS but those was on our PD days that already exist because it's just extra PD day for preschool um unless we contact so they' heard what yes exra there a fo on the the header where it says 12 12 12 16 26 that's signicant oh because that was for our board meeting I said if it's published or say approved I just want to make sure it's February 15 I'll have that's she'll just put I'll have
131her put board approved February 26 questions motion motion approve the district calendar can I make a motion to approve with the addition of early dismissal for the December 9th and 11th at 2m for student drivers hey now I will double check those dates okay we'll double check those dates provided that that's the date I believe it's the 9th and the 11th so you're you want to prove the two days of that yes whichever those to be add make sure those go on the district calendar early as soon as you know confirm those dates okay on you it's not going to be a snow day that day won get doesn't S till February a lot of the stuff's already on the district calendar okay okay so we had a motion I'll second and the second all
132in favor do we need to know the date for homecoming to put it on there too for that day it's on yeah but it would be nice if at like enrollment and stuff but there's something that can go out with enrollment I'd like to start communicating the end of this school year like Hey we're starting a new tradition here's some things we're doing commun want get involved now that that's approved we we Shuffle kids through lunch before they dismissed right sorry that's question we'll feed them all we can do kind quick yeah I just want to make we feed them before we all right that brings us to the summer school programs you should have uh not far away you should have a recommendation for the high school uh lur Le's program she had last
133year and carbonell saying fourth grade transition last year the only other thing I want to tell you we have kind of in the works is an opportunity for a uh Kansas State University stem Grant uh for one of our teachers or yeah one teacher right to teach a stem a stem class for up to 20 kids sixth through 8th grade um it's mostly two weeks two weeks yeah um one session is about I can't even remember the name I'm not I'm not an Andy but it's just about like computers and technology and different things and then the other part is about Rob Robotics and it's from 9:00 to 12:00 in the morning um so we have to see 40 school districts get chosen and we did apply for that we just are waiting to see
134if we that accepted we thought that'd be a fun summer enrichment program for sixth gr graders that would be interested um so we would it will Sal and then we get um roughly $2,000 in equipment for participating so we'll let you know if that comes or going is it through like the star base no we did that before we did said similar before well yeah I knew that they were shut down there I didn't know if there were still thing at all oh we did something summer it was during going into sixth orth grade or coming out of going into sixth current 6th through 8th grade right well would be a summer program right it'd be current sixth I would have to look I think it's current I would have to look for some clarifying
135details from them all we did was just get a little flyer and then had to apply I would say current but by current you're talking your eighth graders that are going into their freshman year 25 26 or current 24 I'm assuming it's current but what is current though after the school year it's after the end school year current I don't know enough about it we can clarify after we get it right now we just have yeah we don't even know we'll get it so br all at once um at once fineo move forward the summer school programs [Music] present second all in favor per um Jamie do you want do the we both win um they kicked me out though I was there first yeah I was late and so when it come to Executive
136session that kicked me out well play tan um I was my first meeting in a long time but um well like they are changing their time clock system so we voted on that um talked about some um negotiated agreemente and I don't know have they started negotiations no I I think they started um like we talking about going to do it oh who who's going to serve who's going to ser yeah that makes sense which board memb is going to serve are you nobody do it you're doing it yeah stbn and patient will this be your first time on negotiations all right you're gonna learn so much this year I should have never came back after they kick me out good I got write that down I I mean they literally was like people was
137just like you're like nominate somebody else I'm going to warn you that ours are much smoother than there if when negotiations start pick somebody new maybe [Music] yeah I'm I'm lucky ours are great I enjoy ours great they they didn't sound like they they talk like they me that it was a lot um and then we talked a little bit about they went over some of the specialized programs with the great and I feel like ofai yeah from us from us they talked about about this facility as a possibility Y and um so Caroline and I have spoke quite a bit about um even by next year yes if we can move um a small amount of of students um for an Autism program over here and use some spaces in this far Wing over
138here so she's come over and just look at spaces I've talked to the preschool staff about it I talked to our district office staff um and um Caitlyn up front everybody just kind of so everybody's had kind of a thought or feel on could two programs like that operate here um there are some facility needs though um and I I don't know how many kids this would be um I think right now they're thinking there's an estimate of 10 Co-op wide that would qualify but they believe only about but they said about six but 10 that would qualify six that they feel parents and referral processes would actually probably go through u meaning a parent signing up have their kid being bust over to a different District to get those services so if it's six
139and six probably maximum um there's quite a bit of space over there actually a lot so they can run the program over there um and then they would have specialized people in those programs working with those kids in a better capacity than we do in our buildings without all the resources the space the the expertise and the right Personnel for the staff or for the students um so I will bring a recommendation to you uh when I know a little bit more and but I want you to be thinking about the possibility of starting this next year yeah next year they're going to pay for theit share utilities or something yeah so we have to come up with an agreement on what what they'll pay for um for this building using this building yeah what
140was what was was there any rent involved or how's that we haven't we haven't went over all that yet no the only thing we've done is we're getting bids on um the possibility of putting in a door to kind of the programs a little bit I don't know if it's necessary but I think was must should be an option not that it needs to be closed all the time but should be there in case somebody was to go yeah it's a very it's a very specialized program they contain do we have the doors down here if they the doors there they would have them contained to yes and there's there's doors on the rooms that they will be in that can also be secur in a certain manner so they can't just push that in
141a bathroom right yeah so then the other two bids will be the bathrooms that are um so they're back to back in the library space the preschool Library space now and that classroom does not me youli in a very far corner of the building you guys know what I'm talking about the exit door is there that room right there um so we're getting a bid on Plumbing two single bathrooms back to back on those two different rooms on that wall we probably have to run align to our to like Julie's classroom where they have inclass toilets there otherwise we have to run it all the way down two bathrooms down here so bathrooms are definitely a limited piece but they have to they have to have the bathrooms the bathrooms are I think the doors
142I like they made a doors were a big deal really I didn't get that impression as much as I thought she talk like that was going be like a Mustang like we needed that yeah and they would have that be their drop off pick up yeah yeah but we need our preschooler to be able to use this bathroom over here um and then they have a um sensory room over here too that we need to keep so and talk like save some substantial money plus thinking they could do it better theirself than Ling somebody fa to pay SP all that I mean and they talked about I mean our numbers are decreasing sped but this needs of our students aren't facing so Caroline also said she'd be happy to come to a board meeting and
143talk a little bit about the program if you guys all want to hear from her too on what she views this program to look like she's got a big put together we've all heard from her um so if you want to hear from her you can otherwise I can bring it to you however you want to do it she said I'd be she'd be happy to come in and chat with you about what the program would look like and what she's requesting um but that's up to you otherwise I can just bring a recommendation you guys are going to have to get to negotiating because they need the approval from us and that board yeah like pretty quick to get all next year like two weeks next meting I feel like I mean because they
144problem is they have to find yeah they Staffing will be the big one if she's ready for March I'll bring her do you guys want me to bring her in or do you want me to bring your recomend and Jamie kind saw going she has like the number of sash yeah she's got a which I can bring that whole I have it she shared it with all the suit so I can bring it um the um and I don't know if all school districts within the co-op will also have to agree to this as well um because it affects all students in all districts so I need to talk to Caroline on does every board need to go and talk about this program is going to say kids now go here or can the co-op
145um just make that decision without School boards all six school boards can they do it through their board since you guys have representatives from boards so I'll talk to her about that process as well what we'll need from you what I'll want from you is to utilize this building for that program so that's what I'll come recommend to you but the actual Jade program um I want to make sure she can just get approval through her board do all the other six boards have to agree to that um at their own meetings I don't think so I think we can collectively do it at just her meeting I think so have they've done that but to start a new one I just wanted to make sure that's changing the of the so I just want
146to make [Music] sure bathroom BR to and all and better so to as any questions all right we're Jed