USD 345 May 2025 Board Meeting

001Oh, calling to order the regular school board meeting 12th, 2025 for Seaman School District, US 3:45. We will start with the pledge of allegiance. Christine to the flag of the United States of America and to one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and all. Thank you. Did we have anyone sign up? Okay, we will pass public communications. We need adoption of the agenda. Madame President, I'll make a motion to adopt the agenda as presented. Second. It has been moved and seconded to adopt the agenda as presented. All in favor raise your hand and say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carried. We are in our learning without limits stage and this is our retirey recognition. They're leaving. [Music] Don't boo our retirees. Mr. Wilson, thank you. We're going to uh we have individuals ready to

002uh present to each of these individuals. And I actually I am starting with Mr. Rodrigue. Oh gosh. Sorry. Okay. Neither. Yeah. Mr. Sprag has only been in our district for a couple years, uh, short time, but he has dedicated his life to educating children. He has over 30 years of service in education. Uh, he was an elementary teacher, a principal, and actually a couple other positions before coming to us as the executive director of teaching and learning. He served actually as a school principal for over 20 years, 22 I believe. Um, he is an exceptional leader who has given of himself fully to the families and staffs that he serves. I appreciate all that he has done for me personally and professionally. Uh, I learn from Rod every time I interact with him and he's

003a great person to be able to bounce ideas off of. Thank you, Mr. Sprag, for over 30 years as an educator and I am proud that you are retiring as a seaman Viking. Thank you. up. I'm here to honor Kate Scarboro. And if I get a little bit choked up, you'll have to forgive me. Uh, distinguished USD 345 board members, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Jones, and attendees. Well, she's done it again. Or perhaps I should say third time's a charm. Kate Scarboro is retiring this time, so she tells me for good. Kate's service to the school, the students in the community, and the English language arts department has been nothing short of exemplary. As an educator of nearly 40 years of experience, don't tell Kate I said that. Kate has literally taught thousands of students, graded,

004and keep in mind, she's of the red pen era, tens of thousands of papers, and written more detentions than the average police officer gives tickets. That's not only hyperbole. Sorry to throw in a little bit of lingo, but she was an English teacher after all. It's also incorrect. She was not that mean teacher who hovered about awaiting students to not cross their tees or dot their eyes. She was the type of teacher who, well, taught. She taught with intentionality, mindfulness, and genuine care. She taught mythology, dual credit classes, intro and exit classes, students going into the military, students going into the workforce, as well as collegebound students. All of them benefited from her presence at Seaman High School. And in her retirement, we lose a master class of a teacher. What's more, she's an amazing

005mentor, guide, counselor, and more than anything, great friend. Kate, if you're watching, we bid you well as your journey in life continues with your cherished pets, your dearest friends, Kelly and Paul, and the many other friends that you've made in your time here. And we thank you for your commendable professionalism, your genuine commitment to humanity, your wealth of content knowledge, and your fantastic fellowship, the Seaman High School English Language Arts Department. And thank you very much for the opportunity to have this moment. It's my privilege to get to share about uh Stacy Leers, our next retiree uh that we're going to honor. Uh it says on our uh on our agenda that Stacy is retiring after uh three years in the district, but like our last uh retiree. Uh that's not quite right, is it?

006Miss Leers, I started in 2006 at Northern Hills Junior High and taught English and social studies to eighth graders and taught uh our eighth grade students in English and history for many years. Uh following a brief break, she now uh is back teaching seventh grade English on our Viper Fish team. Uh Stacy has been a tremendous uh teacher at Sema Middle School for many years and uh our English department, our social studies department uh is going to miss her as are our students who have benefited greatly from her teaching. Uh Stacy's also been an instrumental part in helping out in extracurricular activities, especially running our concession stand for many years, right, Mrs. Leers, during football season and basketball season. So we thank her for that. Uh, and on a personal note, as someone who taught

007the same subjects as you do, I will always be tremendously grateful for the kindness you showed me and I know countless other teachers in our building. Uh, as well as the work that you did with your students. So, thank you very much. Uh, and congratulations on your retirement. All right. I have the uh privilege of talking about Marlene Taylor. Right. Marlene. Uh Marlene dedicated her teaching career to middle school math, serving both before and after the merger of the middle school. Since retiring from SMS several years ago, she has continued to be an invaluable asset to the high school, consistently demonstrating a can do attitude by stepping in as a substitute for the math department. Over the years, she has supported several long-term roles in the freshman center, but this year, she took on a

008greater challenge, filling a part-time position that remained vacant. Taylor uh Miss Taylor drove dove into the role with enthusiasm and commitment. Working closely with her team, Marlene quickly adapted the discovery approach to teaching algebra and geometry, taking time to learn the instructional strategies she could effectively guide her sophomores. Her support came at a critical time was deeply appreciated by the ent entire department. She has been a wonderful addition to the team this year and have already secured they have already secured her promise to return as a substitute next year. On top of her educational contributions, they've also enjoyed delicious bonus of her homemade cookies which she often shares with them as she tests new recipes. Arlene will be greatly missed. Next up, Gita Noble. All right. All right. Gita, Miss Aler helped me with this

009whole book. Um, so she she labeled it Gita Noble, a legacy of learning and leadership. Um, oh yeah, I've been reading this for like two days trying to get it in. All right. Gita Noble has served the educational community for 35 years with unwavering dedication and passion. She began her career teaching the complexities of math to middle school students, a challenge within itself. But Gita wasn't one to shy away from difficult task. Driven by a desire to understand and support her students on a deeper level, she took on the even great challenge of becoming a middle school principal. Her thirst for challenge didn't stop there. She married a shop teacher who would later become a superintendent, Mr. Noble. True to her savvy nature and eye for a good deal, Gita managed to upgrade Steve's entire

010wardrobe while staying within the evertight educator's budget. She knows. Together, these lifelong learners raised three beautiful daughters. When the girls were just 14, 12, and 11, the adventurous family uprooted their lives and moved to USD 345. Steve assumed the role of superintendent and Gita became the district's internship coordinator. For the fa past nine years, she has worked tirelessly to build connections between the school and local community, providing students with valuable opportunities to explore a future career. In addition to work with her internship, she establishes family engagement nights, events that bring together students and employers in one space to foster meaningful connections. Through her effort, she has forged countless relationship with students or families, many which stood the test of time. One such moment came recently when a when a former student now 23 reached out

011to Gita on Facebook. The student recalled back in the day when Gita had called her a fashionista. Yeah. The one word spoken at kindness stayed with her all these years. She wanted to thank you for seeing something special in her. When asked what advice she would give young educ educators, Ga said, "Teaching is too important not to want to build relationships with kids. find a way to reach what seems unreasonable. When asked what she'll miss most about teaching, she didn't hesitate. The students, always the students. Gita will be deeply missed by both staff and students. Her genuine love for young people has always been at the heart of her success in education. The impact she's made both in the classroom and far beyond it stands as a testament to her passion, compassion, and dedication. Touching

012lives have always been will continue to be Gita's true superpower. When I met her this year, I realized that we are living in Peta's world and and and I'm glad that I got to spend this time with you. Thank you. Diane Flanders, I come to you from the operations side of the district. This is Diane Flanders. If you don't know her, you've missed out. Diane has worked at Seaman for nine years, and she's leaving us as manager at West Indianola and Seaman Middle School. Her infectious laughter and effervescent personality have been a gift, and working with her is a delight. I can't look. Diane has great ideas, too. If she starts a sentence, hey K, you know, if we did this, I know I should stop and take notice. Our students use their power school

013ID number for the lunch program by entering it on a keypad. And this can be challenging for kindergarters, but they get it pretty quick. Uh but and it's temporarily challenging, but Diane said, and uh lost my spot now. I looked away. And Diane and others like her work patiently with the kids until they can input their unique number quicker than most adults. Um if they could see the number on the keypad, they could learn it faster. So, we found keypads that work a bit like a calculator and the kids could see the number as they typed. Diane also has the job of supervising the afternoon dish crew at Seaman Middle School. That's a fun job. Y'all want to get in on that, don't you? The end of the day job, it can be hot. It

014can be challenging. But having Diane as the crew leader ensures positive morale and a lot of laughter along the way. She will be deeply missed, as Mrs. Wade told me again today. And but there are winners in this. Liam and Kinsey and Steve, her grandchildren and husband Steve will be lucky to have a professional grandmother with a wealth of patience and kindness just focused on them. Thank you. As is always the case, Phil beats me to the punch. Is ahead of the game. Uh, good evening everyone. Tonight we have the honor of recognizing and celebrating someone who has made a lasting impact on our school district and our community. our director of security, Phil McCay, who is retiring after 10 years as our director of security and that dedicated service with us. Phil asked me

015to make this really short, so I'll go for a while. Before joining our district, Phil had already had a distinguished career in law enforcement, marked with excellence, leadership, and an unwavering commitment to public safety. When he came to us, he brought not only his vast experience, but also a deep sense of integrity and professionalism that became the foundation of everything he's done here. Over the past decade, Bill has worked tirelessly to ensure that our school system remains safe havens for students and staff. But what truly set him apart was not just his expertise. It was his heart. His genuine concern for students, his calm presence in times of uncertainty, and his steady hand in moments of challenge have earned him the respect and gratitude of all who have had the privilege to work with him.

016Bill, we want to thank you for your service, your leadership, and the example you set. You leave behind a legacy of safety, trust, and care that won't be forgiven. Congratulations on your retirement. You've certainly earned it. We wish you the very best. Hello. George Salah. George and I have uh worked together for go probably 35 years. George has been um with the district for for a little over 10 years. Started just before I did. Uh it's been a pleasure working with George through the years. Uh we both left the Shauny County Sheriff's Office as sergeants. Uh and then we were here been awesome for you to work for me. Um sad to lose you, especially you're the you're the best part of the team that I had. Uh I could always count on George to

017be at work every day. I don't think you ever called in sick and you very The only time you took a vacation day was during the summer. So your dedication was appreciated. I'm wishing you the best in the next next chapter of your life. Thank you very much, George. Bill, losers. I now get to talk about Melissa Pretty. Melissa Pretty has been with Seaman Food Service for a little over 10 years. She started her child nutrition professional job at Northern Hills Junior High in 2014. She was part of the team that moved the Northern Hills Junior High to the Seaman Middle School kitchen in December 2015. We were reminiscing about that, the move across the parking lot. One teacher at the time described this as organized chaos and Melissa helped us out with our part

018of that fun adventure. Melissa has cheerfully moved where needed and returned to Northern Hills. Let me make sure I get it right to serve meals and she is ending her seaman career at North Fairview where she can do any job that we need done. Melissa is patient. She is kind and it is rare to see her without a smile on her face. She learned new computer programs when needed and she's always ready to lend a hand to feed our children. She was on our team that kept the kids fed during COVID all the way through when there was no one else in the buildings. Diane, Scott, Melissa were in the buildings with me. She was on our team and she kept us going too and especially when we didn't know what would happen next. You

019were right there with us. She can often be found at North Fairview patiently working with a student to input their lunch number correctly in her kind, friendly way. She is also leaving Seaman for the best possible reason, to be more available to her family as a professional grandmother. To Declan, now let me if I get him wrong, and her daughter, that's her daughter, Caitlyn's son, and to Ellerie Rose. Did I say it right? Her daughter Allison's or her daughter Allison's daughter. And Dean is about to become a big brother soon. Yes, we will miss Melissa's dedication, dependability, and most of all, her smile and patient kindness with our students. But I know Declan Ellerie and her new grandbaby are the luckiest ones of all. Thank you for all you've done for our senior students. So,

020it's my pleasure to talk about Kelly Finnegan, principal at North Fairview. She is a remarkable leader, mentor, for anyone who seeks help. As she retires after 12 extraordinary years as principal at North Fairview Elementary, her leadership has not only shaped the school, but touched the hearts of everyone who walks into the building. Miss Finnegan has cultivated a school culture rooted in respect, inclusivity, kindness, and her commitment to creating a welcoming environment helps students thrive and make her staff proud to be part of her team. Collaboration is at the heart of her leadership. She works handinhand with teachers, families, and fellow principles to ensure that every decision reflects a shared goals and collective wisdom. Miss Finnegan makes everyone feel heard, valued, and empowered. As her supervisor, I've witnessed so many times her high expectations that extend

021to every part of school life, from classroom instruction to family engagement, from professional learning to school events. Excellence was a standard she set and she modeled. As Kelly steps into retirement, her legacy continues and every student in every student empowered, every teacher inspired, and every parent supported. Her vision and her leadership have left a lasting mark on this community. Kelly Fenigan. I have the pleasure of speaking about Kelly Eisenbart. Kelly has been long had been long the creative spark in the math department. Known for her big personality and bold opinions, she brings energy and focus to every departmental meeting, often serving as a driving force that kept them on task. Years ago, when the team first learned KG instructors, Kelly took the concept and ran with it, elevating them into dynamic, engaging tools for skill

022practice in her classroom. She truly thrives when she's designing new and innovative ways to help coach students master math. Kelly pours her heart into her students and simply won't ex accept it when they give up on themselves. Her unwavering commitment has led countless students, especially those on struggle the most, to spend extra hours before and after school, working one-on-one uh with her to succeed in math and earn their diplomas. Her fierce dedication coupled with her unique and and compassionate approach to supporting students has made a lasting impact. Kelly's presence, creativity, and relentless advocacy for every learner will be deeply missed. If I look around this room, I find myself in the company of seaman retirees who have an average of 17 and a half years of service to this district. I think that's amazing. Um,

023I think it speaks volumes about your commitment to the Seaman School District, also your integrity, and you are a true inspiration to me. So, thank you for all of your years of service to us. And now, it's my great pleasure to recognize Becky Clark for her her outstanding service to the Seaman community for 20 years. Becky serves our district as our occupational therapist. And when I was thinking about what to say, I thought, "Wow, Becky in one day could serve a preschool student, an elementary student, a middle a middle school student, and a high school student, which none of us have ever been asked to do. Um, and so really it became clear that you are truly an unsung hero. Um, as your work also happens oftentimes behind doors. Um, but your impact is both

024profound and lasting. whether it's helping our littlest learners hold a crayon or pencil to supporting their ability to grasp toys. Um from helping older students with adaptive seating or typing skills along with other functional skills that help them access life at home. Um you give students the tools to engage, grow, and access the world around them. Here's what a few people have said about you. Um, it's obvious how much you care for students and families you serve. You're always thinking about their needs and eager to collaborate for the best outcome. I've always appreciated your steady presence and support you've provided our preschool students and beyond. Becky, your quiet strength, compassion, and tireless dedication has touched many lives. It's been a true honor to work with you alongside you. On behalf of all of us, we

025wish you joy and new adventures in your well-earned retirement. You will be deeply missed, but your legacy will live on in every small hand you help steady along the way. Next, I get to recognize Don Wyatt. Don is completing her 40th year in education. That was my next line. They have to learn to say that. She spent 24 of those years here in the Seaman School District, including teaching kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, a combination second and third grade class. I learned that today in talking with Mrs. Wyatt, fifth grade, and of course, uh, our middle schoolers at SEMA Middle School. She's taught at East Indianola, Logan, and at SMS. Uh, Don also has a love for working with students outside of the classroom. Uh, you can see her often at many of

026our extracurricular activities. is one of her loves is getting to help out score for the volleyball games both at the middle school and the high school. I asked Don uh about some of the things that she liked best about teaching seventh grade and uh the first thing she said was our seventh graders, they come in and they're so nervous about middle school and she loves to help make them feel at ease and at home and I I love that about your presence with our students. Uh she also said that she really enjoyed teaching figurative language and the outsiders. I think the outsiders is required reading for every seventh grade student across the country. And of course, everyone knows the famous line, stay gold, pony boy, right? I hope I didn't butcher that too bad. Uh

027Don has a true heart of gold. Uh and that is what I'm going to remember about you. And I know our building is going to miss greatly about you. Whether it's helping cover numerous classes even in a day, helping out uh with different events, helping our seventh graders feel comfortable as they head in, or helping new teachers transition to middle school. Uh you've constantly served others at SMS, and that's your legacy. We'll miss you, and congratulations on your retirement. You can definitely tell the educators in the room because y'all all write books. math people write the four census. Don't let that fool you, though, because Barb's contribution to this district has been undeniably amazing and great. Um, she worked for Seaman for 25 years as the accounts payable clerk. Uh, one of the words you

028hear when her name is brought up is that she's loyal, dedicated, and dependable, and she was a friend to many over the years. When I first started here, um, I was told she was the business office historian, and that is by far the truth. Um she helped fill in many gaps for me and my staff as we navigated COVID and um new accounting software and changes from other finance directors to myself. Um when I asked Barb if she had planned to attend tonight, she was too busy enjoying retirement. So I hope she gets to hear this and know that we all appreciated everything she did and it does not go unnoticed the impact she had. Um, she plans to spend time with her children and grandchildren along with her mother who recently relocate relocated to

029the Topeka area. Um, my staff and I just wish her the best of luck in her next chapter and we hope it's the best one that you get to write. Thank you, Barb. And like I said, I hope you get to see this and know that we appreciate everything you did. Next, I get to recognize Dion Parker uh who is completing her 28th year for USD 3 uh 345 and 33 years in total. Uh Dion has taught at West Indian and Logan as well as SMS and has taught classes at Seaman Middle School including our reading lab, literature, creative and dramatic arts, American history, and American history. Uh, as our theater director, uh, Dion has had the opportunity to put on 24 middle school plays is quite the feat. And, uh, having gotten to go

030to those, they were always impressive. We did such good work with our theater students. Um, when I talked with her, her favorite part of teaching middle school was building relationships and getting to foster growth of our students at Sema Middle School and finding ways for students to improve over time through those meaningful relationships. Uh, Dion also noted to me that she loved getting to grow and change each year. And I think I quipped to her, "Well, you've got to change rooms more than any time in our building." She set a record for that. I think she at one point got a move like six different times within a couple years stretch but was always flexible and adaptable as she did it. Dion, as I was thinking about uh your retirement here today, I thought of

031Walt Whitman, the poet's uh famous poem where he pers the meaning of life and says the powerful play goes on that you may contribute a verse. Uh you have definitely contributed your verse to our students. Thank you so much. I'm here to say a little bit about Judy Hansford who is retiring with uh our transportation department after 29 years. Here is what Ronald Blocker had to say. I've had the pleasure of knowing Judy for quite some time since our days on the PTO at Lyman Elementary. I still remember how our path first crossed through our sons when her oldest was my son's book buddy. From the very beginning, Judy's warmth and kindness stood out. So, it was no surprise that when I walked into the bus barn on my very first day, she was one

032of the first people to greet me and make me feel truly at home. Judy has a remarkable gift when it comes to working with students. She spent years as a parent in special education supporting students from preschool all the way through the high school. Her compassion, patience, and ability to connect with kids was unmatched. It's no wonder she now drives a van supporting students and transporting them where they need to go, and they benefit greatly from having someone like Judy in their corner. Every student she works with is treated as if they were her very own child. Beyond her work with students, Judy brings joy and energy when wherever she goes. She's always ready with a kind word and she keeps the bus barn break room full of life. And if she happens to sit

033for too long, which isn't often, you'll find her cleaning everything in sight. We're going to miss Judy deeply. Her retirement is a loss, not only for us, but for the entire district. She is truly one of the best. Judy, thanks for everything, for your heart, your hard work, and your friendship. We wish you the best in the next chapter of life. Uh Brian was in the district for 31 years at Logan. Uh it was amazing that he was there for 31 years. He said he's seen a lot of changes in just in Logan. Um he was always here every day dedicated. Marty at the end of May would always send out a thing saying that he'd have a list of people that have to use their vacation before July one. And every year in the

03412 years I was here, Brian was always number one. So he'd have to take two to three to almost a month off in the month of June just to get all these vacation in. Um why Brian retired is because of his uh ankles and knees were finally given out. So that's his dedication for his first year is to get all that recouped over the over the next six to eight months. So I just wanted to say that Brian was uh always there every day and he's going to be missed very well. Sorry. My last one, I promise. Scott Barnes, I've been waiting months to say some things. I got some things to say, Scott. Scott retired late last year and just missed the recognition in 2024, and I am so honored to get to say

035a few things about Mr. Barnes tonight. Although it may be hard for the school board and those out there to know that there's been that there has been other food service directors, it's not always been me. I I would uh I was once a young mother of three volunteering at North Fairview Elementary. I would often cross paths in the parking lot and going to and from there was a truck driver making deliveries at the school and the driver always had a smile and usually a quick friendly wave and how are you? sufficient and it seemed to me he really enjoyed his job. Little did I know at that time how well I would come to know him in the next 20 years. Scott worked for Seaman for 37 years. He was affectionately known as the

036food dude on RT. Whenever something broke, Scott could patiently figure out how to fix almost anything. And if Scott didn't know how to fix it, he called Rick's here. Yeah. And together they would fix anything that we broke in the kitchen. Besides fixing our problems, he can maneuver a food truck like a pro. Have you all noticed the narrow cement walls out here of this building and backing a truck down in there? That's a tight fit for a truck. And Scott used to back into that concrete chute every school day where there is very little space for error because we used to keep the stock in the basement of this building. Um he would move stock around to all the kitchens. His backing skills with the big truck were truly remarkable. But most remarkable of

037all is his kindness, his quick smile for anybody that crosses his paths. And if you ask me, Scott has the biggest heart and the most pride of anyone in North Pika. And we were all truly blessed who got to work with him. Thank you. All right. It is my extreme honor to speak about Kevin Hoffman's. After decades of dedicated service, Kevin Hosman is retiring from his role as business teacher at Seaman High School, leaving behind a remark remarkable legacy of excellent mentorship and lasting impact. Since joining the staff in the 8687 school year, Kevin has been a passionate educator whose commitment to s student success extended far beyond the classroom. He transformed business education to an engaging real world experience, inspiring generations of students not only to grasp core business principles, but also to believe

038in themselves and pursue their goals with confidence. Kevin's contributions have been felt across the school community. He has served as the school bank sponsor since 1994, led FBLA, helping students gain critical leadership skills and hands-on financial experience. His impact wasn't limited to academics. He also made his mark in athletics. As the head softball coach, he became the program's winning as coach, earning over 390 victories. He was also assistant coach on two state basketball teams, the 1991 girls state champions and the 2022 boys state champions. As a new administrator, I found Kevin to be an invaluable source of information support. His depth of knowledge and willingness to help have made a lasting impression on me. I have witnessed firsthand the prof profound impact he has on our students. Under his direction, they are both challenged and

039genuinely cared for. an incredibly powerful combination. I truly wish I had the opportunity to work alongside him more for several more years. Kevin will be deeply missed by his colleagues, students, and the broader school community. His influence lives on in the lives he's touched, the programs he built, and the countless students he empowered throughout his career. We're gonna get a picture. So, if you [Music] guys congratulations here in a couple weeks. What have you been doing? Right in the middle there. Can you see me, Candace? I need to stand on a chair. Chris, get down. Oh, sorry. No, you're not. Take pictures. People are taking your Oh, no. She called me a girl. I am the five. You guys are all amazing. Those noble children are disrupted. Oh, we not supposed to come come back

040to our home. Oh, I did. [Laughter] me like a rent just probably. Yeah. I love you. Everybody's looking. No, I did. I saw you sitting right there. Wow. No, I'm retiring. Call the meeting back to order. Thank you everyone for coming. Oh, it's quiet. Okay, moving on to superintendent remarks. Thank you. I first want to give a special thank you to each of our retirees. A lifetime of commitment to serving children is a lifetime not only serving our community, but quite frankly, of ensuring America's educated democracy and making sure that it lasts. also making sure that America is the land of opportunity for each and every person regardless of their background or their upbringing. Education is an equalizer that ensures every American can participate in and own a piece of the greatest country in the

041world. America is great not because of its natural resources or even the freedoms our forefathers wrote into our Constitution. It is great because of the exceptional men and women like the ones we recognize this evening who ensure that the next generation is equipped to become even kinder and smarter than the last one. Thank you for your meaningful contribution. It is forever ever grateful. I'd also like to note that we are going to maintain uh what Dedra lovingly calls a perky pace tonight so that we can uh give the attention needed to each agenda item especially the budget actions which will impact each of the amazing people we have in our organization. Uh slow us down uh if you wish um but that pace is intentional but don't if you guys need to ask questions feel

042free. Thank you. Thank you. President remarks. I just want to say, wow, another year is over. Um, and what really brings that to my attention is my youngest ended her freshman year of college and I'm like, where did it go? So, all the people that are graduating, moving up in classes, all the teachers, administrators, um, food service, the people who clean the buildings, I mean, everyone, Lance, all of your crew, thank you for a great 2425 year. I think it's been really great. Um, I just had a thought. Oh, I wanted to also congratulate all the high school graduates cuz I will miss graduation this year because because my oldest is graduating college, but it is sad for me. So, I will miss graduation. Anybody else have anything to say? I really appreciated the words

043that were shared tonight and I congratulate you all for no tears sh while you were saying those things. Didn't happen. Um, you did good. You almost had tears. Yes, mister. Mr. Johnson, [Laughter] I loved it. I loved it. Good. I really appreciated those. Yeah, that was great. Thank you, Donna. Anybody else? I just want to say you have seven days, seven school days left before you get to release. So, just hang in there. It's normally this week and I think next week where all the kids are getting really squirly. So, I just want to say hang in there. Countdown is off. All right. Okay. Moving on. Disposition of business by consent. Madam President, I make a motion to uh accept the consent agenda as presented. Second. It has been moved and seconded to accept the

044consent agenda as presented. All in favor, raise your hand and say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carried. Discussion items. Here we go. Athletic activities report. [Laughter] Okay, we're doing the middle school first. Okay, come on up, Jeff. You all here for this meeting. Trying to tell some kind of a joke because I can't follow that. I mean, holy k all the experience and dedication and I'm just a loy athletic director. Oh, stop. 24 years. Get there. [Music] Exactly. baby. Excuse me. Okay. Ah, another season down. It goes really, really fast. We had lots of great successes. Our numbers are pretty steady. You'll notice like golf, we literally had two girls go out, but we had a ton of boys. So, numbers are about the same, even though they're skewed a little bit um by

045gender. Um, but still very happy. Um, lots of successes. We've had lots of new golfers, but we have some kids with experience. I think it'll help build the high school program, which is exactly what we want to do. Tennis was super strong. Um, again, this year, uh, I don't know how or why, but you get those waves where there's lots of kids in excited about it. Hopefully, they continue to play at the high school level and help with our competitiveness. Um track against tends to be one of our biggest. Um we're down a little bit total wise. I was hoping we'd get a little more a few more kids out. I think some of them are just scared to run. I don't know why. They just decide that it's way too season like right. Don't

046do it. Um we did have um at the league meet we had two school records broken both in the shot put and the mile. Um that mile record I just look at it and keep going. It can't get any faster and they keep breaking it. Um and then we had another school record broken earlier this season with the 100 meter hurdles. Um and so again it's like I can't run the hundred in that fast, let alone jump over stuff. Um, so it amazes me what our kids are capable of doing. Um, there's our there's our club numbers. Uh, they're pretty steady as well. Lot of chorus kids. That does include our Viking time chorus kids. I would love to see that. Love to see our band and spirit club and all of those kids involved.

047Not everybody has to be an athlete. So, we're trying to find something for everybody to do. Um, still trying to struggle with our FBLA program. and kids are like, "H, that doesn't sound like any thought." But we're still trying to build that. I think this this upcoming year, we're going to get some seventh graders, I think, that are are going to be um all in for that. And then total sports, all of those things combined, again, you just kind of look at numbers. Um they're staying strong, very happy with our girls, uh wrestling program. Um I still want to beat the boys as far as total numbers go. I don't know if we'll get there or not. Uh booked again. Lots and lots of success all throughout. Great kids. Amazes what they're capable of doing

048every year. Um and just excited. Just excited to celebrate those things and can't wait to see what they're capable of next year. And I get to follow them through high school and just kind of see those successes as well. That's the beauty about the middle school. You get to see them progress. I remember when you couldn't dribble a basketball and now you're a varsity starter. You know, just those simple kinds of things, the dedication, the hard work that they put in. We love it and we want to just keep building. Great. Thank you. You guys have any questions for me? Thank you very much. Yeah. Oh, Kyle. So, any reason on the golf that's just straight or not? Maybe I I really don't know. I know that this eighth grade group for sure is very

049heavily into club sports and those kinds of things. So, I think they're involved. They're just not all involved in school and golf being such a special sport. Personally, the hardest sport I've ever played. Um I think they're choosing other things. I know we've got a lot of competitive dancers and cheer. I know that we have a lot of volleyball and basketball players. Um and soccer. Yeah. Okay. And so I think that and soccer gets kicked off this time of year. So I think that that's kind of really hurt our girls trying something different like ball. All right. Well, thank you guys very much. Appreciate it. Big guy. What's going on? Get right to it. Uh we've got winter and spring sports. So follow along with me. We're going to go kind of quick here. Here's

050our total number of winter uh sports participants. Um the winner it's it's less sports and there's most of them are are are sports that we do cuts. So basketball, bowling, that kind of thing. So numbers are a little bit lower um compared to maybe the entirety of the year. Uh but in the winter we have about 14% of our student our students are involved in some kind of athlet or athletics. Boys basketball, varsity was 13 and8 got third place in UKC about 28 30 kids are out for that. girls basketball um had another phenomenal year. Just came up short in state championship game. Won UKC again with an undefeated league championship. Uh won the Glacier Edge tournament in Emporia. Matt Tinsley was our UKC girls basketball coach of the year. Uh boys wrestling, they qualified

051four for state, had one state placer, Samson Toodle, he was fourth place at 175 pounds. about 30 37 kids are out for wrestling where girls um had six state qualifiers. Two of them meddled. Both of them got second place. Both were in a very intense um matches just just came up a little bit short. 19 participants there. Uh working on trying to get those numbers back up a little bit. Uh but they were also academic all state team. Um peracia boys swimming. Bernie Tuck was the UKC coach of the year there. We took second at city, third at league. And when you hear city, you know, usually like a Washurn role is one we really have a tough time contending with. They just have a lot of people on club deck sports like swimming. So

052anytime you take second city with that that kind of with that kind of competition, it's great. Um then made state uh with three relays placing placing at state and a couple individuals. So 27 boys swimmers. Boys bowling, we got UKC league champs again. Uh seems to be kind of a a theme there. Two individual state qualifiers. 18 boys are out for bowling were girls bowling um had 12 out so a little bit lower numbers there. Um UKC league champs, regional champs and got third at state. I think coach Benoy was a little bit disappointed with third at state. He thought they had a really good chance of winning at all. Just couldn't quite pull it off there. Spring sports uh about 26% of our population is out uh for a spring sport. Um again, good

053numbers there for sure. um you know like for example track and field there's no cuts there so you have a lot of athletes out for that. Um baseball they're currently right now 18 and six. Uh they are the number one number three seed in the west as far as playoffs are concerned. Regionals are concerned. There's a chance if they win against Shny Heights they jump up to um second in the west which would mean we'd host the 15 seed instead of hosting the 14 seed. We got 44 boys out for baseball. Boys golf um JV and I'm a little partial here. My son was on the JV at they said they said it was their best JV season they've ever had. They have some really talented kids in that class. Um they got a little

054mess in that one. Uh they varsity got third in city meet and today they went for the UKC meet and they shot their best score overall that they've ever shot in the league meet. Took them fourth but the best that they've ever shot. So the coaches are real happy there. Uh regionals are coming up this next week. Boys tennis uh qualified all six of varsity athletes for state which booked hotel rooms about 3 hours ago. Um, UKC league champs, first time in school history. Girls have been doing it year after year, but boys first time in their history. Jamie Robinson was our UKC. Boys track, they're they're going strong right now. Um, several leaders in city as far as an 100, 200, 800, one mile, high jump, triple jump, shot put, and discus. We play

055second at the city meet last week. 77 boys are out for track. Girls soccer currently 10 and four. They're on winning streak right now. Knock on wood. Uh they're in the number four seed on the east. That means we'll host a first round game of regionals. Um and then depends on how things go from there. But 36 girls are out for soccer and they're just having a blast. Girls swimming. Um team got second at the city meet which again a huge accomplishment there. We have one state qualifier uh in four events. Um she's just killing it. Uh and we do have one in state consideration and one relay in state consideration there. But 22 participants in girls swimming, girls track. Um we took second place in city as well this past weekend. Several city leaders

056including Ryan Miller and everything she steps on the track to do. Uh in fact, she set a couple state records. So you guys are following she's just unbelievable and she's a junior. So that girl works so incredibly hard. So do all the other ones, but just Ryan Ryan special. So uh 47 participants out for that. Softball, they are currently 17 and seven. They're six seat on the west. If they win the next um next games they come up with and there's some mixup between Salina South, Salina Central, there's a chance we jump up to the four, which means we host regionals. Um so we're kind of crossing our fingers there. And the final one I have here is showing the participant of students that are involved in some kind of sport in high school. I

057went back and looked at the data last 10 years and this is the best we've ever had as far as participation where 50.2% of our students are involved in some form of athletics throughout the years. So I think that's pretty pretty and pretty pretty impressive numbers. I actually asked the walk uh ad just happened to see him out. We're kind of bsing whatever and was like what where are your numbers at? He thought somewhere around 25 to 30% of their people are out for sports. So that shows a commitment to um our athletics program and then also take on top of that we have activities. So all of our kids are getting the opportunity to get involved in multiple things. So that's what I got. Do you have an update on the Do you have

058an update on the UKC cup yet? We are in we're ahead um by about 25 points. uh baseball I think unfortunately because we lost on Friday even if we beat Heights tomorrow that means we would be tied and then they go from there to uh it's on the third tiebreaker and basically we split with Baser Lynwood and they swept them so they would get the league championship softball I think we're third um but I mean we're we're looking pretty closely I think we almost got it again so that would be another round don't jinx them but nice job Travis How was your How was your first year? Drinking from a fire hose. But I I really do enjoy this. It's It's a lot of fun. Um I love watching the success of the coaches and

059and the student athletes. It's a lot. It's fun. I like it. He's not afraid of work. We're happy. Do you like all the harassment you get? It's part of the job. Yeah. Yeah. He didn't give it ever. No. Thank you, Travis. Travis. And speaking of first year on the job. Yeah. Yeah. Don't worry. I was gonna ask him to work uh activities. We have a lot of them. They're going great. I like that. Tell us the numbers, man. The perky. I actually didn't include a whole lot of numbers because most of our numbers all stayed the same. So, I just chose to highlight a few of them to talk about to keep it short. Um because most of our activities are all year long. So clubs and activities, you're not going to have too much

060change in terms of your overall numbers. A few of them add second semester. Um but for the most part, we go and so really it's all about how great are we doing. So you start off with band, right? They're awesome. They're doing great. Our wind ensemble, our large group ensemble did get a one overall rating at state. So they stay consistent there. We had a symphonic band ensemble that got second. Um and then I was going to we had a whole slew of individual one ratings at the state um competition as well. So, um, they're in there at the bottom, but I'm going to keep going. There's a lot of them. They did great. They just had their final performances, uh, last week. Cheer and Dance, they just finished off their showcases and they did

061their tryyous for the next year. Um, so they're already gearing up for all that they will be doing this summer and preparing for the next year already. Uh, debate forensics, they did well in debate in the wintertime, took third at state, which is fantastic. State forensics was this last week. They did take a full entry to the state tournament which is good. Mr. Guzman's first year is bringing them back to where we would like to see them consistently finish year after year. So, uh, FBLA, unlike the middle school, I don't know what's going on there. Uh, we actually Mr. Hopkins, I did want to give him a shout out because they did qualify, uh, n they had 19 medalists at the state tournament. They qualified a whole slew of kids to the national competition in

062Anahead, California. So, congratulations to Mr. Hoffman's on his last year before he goes out. That was a great way to to go out. FCCLA did I had a note there. Dalton Parsons was elected as a national officer. So, he'll represent um not only uh Seaman, but he'll represent the entire at the state level at the national level. So, that's fantastic. We've only had I think one or two of those in our school history. So, Uh, orchestra is getting ready or they did just finish up. Uh, so they had their state ensembles. Robotics had their national tournament doing well there. Scholars Bowl doing well. I'm skipping those to highlight a couple others. The, uh, local music went to state ensemble um, and had a few, it had four individual state one ratings, I believe. Uh, theater

063just finished up with their student one acts there a couple weeks ago. And then they have their national competition coming up here as well. And that is the highlights from activities. Yay. Nice. That's awesome. Thank you very much. Wait, I know Christiey's got one. How was your first year? That was great. That's great. Oh, it really is. Moving from a single building principal, the only one in the building to be able to walk down the hallway and say, "What would you do on this?" Um, it's good. It's good team at the high school. So, good to be here. Happy to be there. Great. Thank you, Mr. Ralph. And they are thrilled to have both of these two gentlemen. Thank you. Okay. Teaching and learning report. Do you want to talk about All right. Good. He's

064done. He's all right. We have just a couple things to highlight for you. I have two in particular. First on the first page, I would like to bring your attention to actual numbers. Kyle, I thought about you with this one. As for our current completion with seal of literacy, so we have 34 of our required early childhood and elementary staff um who have done their letters. That's 25% of our staff. Add to that 44 who are currently in either first year or second year of letters. And actually, if they were in their second year, they will be wrapping up here in the next couple of months. And uh that leaves 43% of our staff at approximately 60 who have yet to be started and those are who are working through um to identify their next

065plan. So I thought that would be of interest and those will be numbers I'll continue to keep you updated on as we move forward with seal of literacy as part of our keysite goal. The other item that I just wanted to mention is on the bottom of page two and uh we are looking at some updates to our mentor program that I'm really excited about. The key thing I want to say here for those familiar with maybe a traditional mentoring program model is that you match up an incoming second grade teacher with another second grade teacher. Well, if you're in a two-track building, that's a default one person who's available to be that mentor, which sometimes is wonderful, but sometimes maybe you have other things going on and it's not the best year for you

066to serve in that capacity. So, we're shifting to more of a relationship-based model where it's not about content knowledge. It's about a passion to be um a coach, a mentor, that supportive person who's going to go above and beyond to really um take that new person into the building under their wing. And so, we're currently doing those matchups um that came directly from our teacher retention committee um with that information and looking forward to seeing how that goes this summer as we launch it. Great. Thank you. All right. I'm going to continue the theme um with structured literacy, but we did our school improvement day, which is the beginning kind of foundation kickoff of actually building our school our action plan for 202526. And um we took a team of eight and we met with

067uh three other school districts in the area. And so it was a really great day of just working, meeting um verifying for ourselves where we're at, what we want to work on, the uh two structures that we're going to work on. um this next year are strict um standards alignment and structured literacy um both of them focused on professional learning and then beginning to build into where do we want to go we want to go the next year so we're excited to kick that off this year the team did a phenomenal job working um the district leadership team that that participated in all of this I can't say enough about their work um the principal work and working with their buildings our instructional coaches did a phenomenal job so um two years worth of work

068at kind of culminating in this event. We submitted our plan today and um I'm looking forward to hearing some feedback in a couple of weeks. So, great. Thanks, Rob. Okay, site council summary. Site council summary. Can I interrupt for just a moment? Can we please turn the air off? Not off. Not just really cool. I turned the temperature down two notches. If you want to turn it back up two notches when we had a full room. That's why my jacket can't make them both happy. Site council summary. So, um I provided for you guys each individual building site council report. So, you have their report. I'm just going to kind of hit some highlights. Um just wanted to remind everyone that the purpose of site council is for advocacy and advisory. So they serve two

069roles. Um advise the advise the principal in the school on what they're doing but also advocate for the school. Um they provide advice, review, provide input. Um they promote communication and collaboration um with staff, parents, community, and then they support the implementation of what we're doing in our schools. So, our site councils this year have accomplished a lot and so I tried to summarize for you just all of them and what they did. Um provided input and support for our strategic planning and school improvement initiatives. They did data review, looked at assessments, um curriculum instruction, provided input on our curriculum resources that we're looking at for next year. Um behavior and social climate. They looked at the school climate and provided input. I know elementary school site councils were looking at behavior plans, those types

070of things. Um, family engagement and school events, looking at how can we how can we engage our families meaningfully in the schools. Um, communication and operations, providing feedback on things like the bus compass act um app and and some of those things and working on logistics of buildings just like car lines, things like that. Um, providing input and then any support they can provide for student programs. um things that they did this year, some of the accomplishments, there's numerous accomplishments. I couldn't go through them all. Um but working on district communications, that whole communication piece of aligning everything we're doing, not only at the building level, but across the district, um reviewing data, providing input, family engagement again, and then also the the meeting that we're getting ready to have on Wednesday. they provided input

071and feedback for our principles on the needs assessments. So, our site councils have been very active um and I was excited to see the work that they're doing and look forward to continue building on that for me. All right. Thank you. It's nice to have you back. It's good to be back. Megan, report card updates. Yes. I have two proposed updates that I would like to bring to you this evening uh regarding our elementary report cards. So to put this into context uh when I speak about the report cards, these are what go home at the end of every quarter um for families to see the progress the current student progress on standards and um skill accomplishment at the elementary grade level. So um that's what we're looking at when we talk about the report

072cards. Before I jump into the actual proposed changes, this slide that Luke had brought up is just an overview because it's maybe been a few years since we've spoken directly to report cards. So, uh, at elementary in grades kindergarten through fourth grade, we're what's called standardsbased um, report cards. So, really when you talk about standardsbased, that means that um, it's all about mastery. So, skill mastery. There's no kind of one and done. we're not going to we've, you know, taught this skill, here's what you got, we're now moving on. It means that it can continue to evolve and that's really what we're looking at in those younger grades. We're continuing to reach that mastery level. Um, at fifth grade, that's when we switch to the more traditional letter grade model as they're preparing in fifth

073and sixth grade to get to middle school and high school, of course, which are also the traditional scale. Um the scales that you see on here were just examples on this slide so you could see the difference. Like when we talk about standardsbased we're using those words um you know basic proficient advanced whereas on the right when you look at a letter grade scale that's where you see the numerical uh 90 to 180 so on so forth in the A um through F. Okay. So just wanted to um put that um in your minds as we talk about report cards. And the next two slides were just sample um if we keep going of what those grade cards look like. So this is second grade. Remember it's standard base and that's where you can see

074the standards um from our state standards listed and the numerical score based on our standards grade key which is up at the top of the grade card for how they scored currently on those standards. And then if you flip to the next one that's a fifth grade scale or grade card that shows the traditional letter scale. So you just have some visuals in your mind. So last slide are the two changes that I'm bringing tonight. The first one is for um second grade and this is totally teacherdriven um which is how I love for the feedback to come. On April 11th we had a professional development day. I was popping around to all of the grade level collaborations. I went into second grade and they're like we all have a proposal for you. We all

075agree this is what we would want. I say tell me about it. and is that they um would like to move to the five-point grade scale, which is what third and fourth grade do instead of staying at a threepoint grade scale, which is what K wants. So essentially, they're wanting to bump up and be aligned with those older grades. So when I say the fivepoint grade scale, you can see it there at the bottom. It just gives a little more differentiation on that skill mastery that the second grade felt that they needed. They wanted to as they're preparing those kids to be third graders that reading to learn level into the next grade. They thought that that gave them more opportunity to give the best feedback to parents um and shift that way. So with

076their support, I definitely um agree and advocate for them that we would like to make that fivepoint change. Um if approved, it's just a switch in P school um that I'd work with um Jeff through technology to do so that would be ready for them um next year. The other um feedback and um great for great report card change that I want to propose is also directly from the PE and music team. They drove this um came to me with the uh recommendation and that is for their behavior grades on the report card. They would like that to also be the five-point grade scale, the same wording that you see there instead of just yes or no, which is how they currently have it and how they have all of their skills. So they want

077to keep skills yes and no like can dribble the basketball yes or no. But when it comes to behavior and those behavior grades are things like follows directions, works cooperatively with others, shows up with good effort every day. Again, they feel like there's a bigger range of how to express that to parents and the range with the point scale will give them that opportunity. Um so I agree and support it and I'm bringing that one to you as well. So any questions on these changes? So, if I get a four, I'm a second grader, and I get a four, which says proficient on a certain uh state standard, does that guarantee that I'm going to get a four when I take the state assessment? Good question. Not necessarily. Yes, these are um different uh different

078factors, different grading. So, this is our own internal grading. This is um the teacher basing it on their internal formative assessments and summitative assessments but it is not guarantee it would be how they perform that particular day when they take state assessment but good clarifying question. Yeah you mentioned that earlier state so I can't remember how you said it think we need to be careful there we don't refuse the confuse parents. Yes. So just a question on this when I looked earlier too. Why do we have one as insufficient evidence? Isn't that just a NA instead of a NU? I mean really we got a four-point scale. Yes, I think that's driven u perhaps and I'd have to check with Jeff um and maybe Luke would know the answer but within power school we have

079to enter a number. I don't think in an A. So that one basis it's five but really it's only a four point because that one is basically we haven't gotten to that skill yet. Yes. Correct. And so we will have to communicate really well. Yeah. Because if somebody gets a report card, oh, getting all ones. Yeah. And that's where at the top of every report card, um like back on the second grade, the key is right there up at the top for parents. And oftentimes, especially um with the first quarter and the third quarter, that happens right at parent teacher conference time. So that's excellent opportunities for teachers when they're going through it and have those conversations with their parents. But yeah, every report card has a key so they can know what that means.

080Yes. Yeah, this question. Any other questions? All right. Thank you very much. Dedra, you are up. Dedra. So, in my quest to keep a perky pace, I will talk about two items on my report. The first one for you. Um, we have 22 graduates until we may have 23. I learned this morning we have one students working really hard this week. Um, so last year we had 11. So we're kind of excited about our 22 this year. Please come if you're able to the brunch on Sunday morning. Um, number two, December 1 count. We finished our December one count finally. It takes at least three months to compile all the information, but this is, if you remember, a snapshot of all of our students that we're providing services for on the day of December 1.

081um students there's 13 disabilities that our psychologists identify and two they we have to determine a need for services. So we look at those 13 disabilities and um we see a number historically we I think we have six years on here that that's the snapshot of the students that we're providing services for on December 1, 2024. We use this all of the information uploaded to the state to look at compliance on our IEPs along with um it determines funding as well. You have any questions about any of that question? So, and I know there is but what's the difference between developmental delay and learning disability? So it is it is really difficult to determine a a disability a learning disability or emotions of service for children nine and under. So the state of or the

082state of Kansas actually probably it's the United States thing but anyway um have a disability of developmental delay that is um it's hard to explain that is a disability that is from nine age of nine down because we're unable to determine if there is a learning disability or emotional service or multiple disability. Once you turn 10, there has to be a re-evaluation for any student with a developmental disability to determine what disability that they fall under, what category they fall under for a disability. In simple terms, it's just a catchall that says they're behind and we don't know why they're behind. Yeah. So what the disability is, but often determined by 10. Sometimes we do determine that they have a learning disability at that age, but most often we don't. And if they don't qualify

083by the time they're 10, then we dismiss them from services. And the 13 are under IDA, the 13 categories. They're in federal rights. Yes. Yes, they are. 13 criteria. Yes. Make sense? Yes. Christy asked what the numbers were. If you look at the second page, the two years prior, 626 students we were providing services for. I was close. I knew we were really close. 634 this year. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Bless you, Mr. Bradley. Facilities report. First thing I got up here is Sean Acres or Camp Bowser. I don't know who who calls it which, but I put them both on there. See, they're happy. Um, so we replaced the sign out front. It was faded. Had a couple bus drivers last year go past it. Even they had backed it up. We'll come

084back. So, we replaced the sign. Uh, the maintenance guys, you can scroll down there. Keep going. Uh, the core of engineers came out last year did an inspection. They said we had to redo the decks for the handicap up on top. So the guys uh during the nice ball did the back deck and then they Steve and Doug and all them did the front deck. Did Steve do anything except for pose with the uh he really well look good. Actually be having another inspection on May the last week. We were trying to get everything cleaned, ready. Wii was supposed to go out Friday. Guess what? It rained. So, we moved it to the 19th. Northern Hills is supposed to be going out there this Friday to do their games and travel through the forest and

085all that fun stuff. Did you have a question? Yes. Yes. So that's our property, right? Not the core. No. Oh, it's not. We rent it from the core. I didn't realize that. Okay. So, we have it's been in the district for almost 20 years. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's 2032 is if we want to renew it. Okay. So, but yeah, we take care of it, maintain it, everything. So, we've got trying to remember how many trails we got back there. Like 22 maybe 16 miles of trails back behind. I mean, they go clear up to the like I mean you can see uh the yacht club right. So, okay. All right. You want to scroll? There's Bob cleaning getting everything ready. got the restroom down there and got all the canoes, everything. He's ready to

086go. So, team in high school, I wanted to uh point out first of the year we bought a robot. It helped us in a uh the lines for football, softball, baseball, everything. We were actually on channel 13 last Friday for softball. I thought it pretty seeing that. But football took us about six and a half hours to park. This robot does it in about 45 minutes. Nice. So, we have more time for our grounds and everything else to peek on. So, it's all GPS. We just James plugs it in on the computer and let it go. Cool. And Lance sits around watching when he does see. So, we actually did the seaman head for softball. Didn't get over there to get a picture of it, but I do have one for football when we had

087homecoming. We did the football on the practice. Nice. So, great. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Meal price recommendations. I'll make this. Marty, it's you. Wait, first time Marty served. Sure, it's Marty. Uh, obviously the cost of commodities has continued to go up and as our mandate is to try and break even, K is recommending an increase of 5 cents per student in adult meals uh to offset the rising expenses for food and labor. And if you look at the comparison between the 1011 school year in 2425 and what she is recommending, that's not much of an increase compared to what everything else has increased over that same period of time. Them darn eggs, that's it. I'm just sad because a milk when I was young used to be a dime. Yeah. How old are you?

088Very nice. How much is milk now? How much is milk now? It'll be 60 cents. 55, but it's going to be 60. Oh, there it is. Going in for a little, but it's okay. I know you're trying to keep the prices as low as we can. And is the nickel enough for you to I mean, is that Are you cutting yourself too thin? I'm just asking if we change that up a dime or something or you did last year. Okay. Okay. Okay. I I just don't want you to be so tight, skinny, and short that we can't can't do what you wanted me to do. I I know. Yeah. But it's it's still a pretty good deal pricing. They runs a pretty tight food service. Would someone want to make a motion and vote on

089that tonight? Anyone? Madam President, I'd like to make a motion that we accept the uh lunch increases as presented. Second. It's been moved and seconded that we accept the food service recommendation for the increase as presented. Any more discussion? Hearing none. All in favor raise your hand and say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. There you go. Ma'am. Miss K, you can get out of the dungeon now. The CTE program. Yes. um excited to share with you um some of the um goals, budget, and kind of direction for our CTE programming. So, I'm going to jump right in um at the program goals section. And really, as I look forward with um CTE, there's three areas that I want to focus on. One is to continue to expand our um IPS, which is individual plan of

090study, scope, and sequence to be um preK12. Right now, it really has a focus just on 712, but expand it so that we are continuing to expose students to college and career opportunities um at all grades. Uh goal two is to continue to um promote our standards alignment process as we move forward with HIS and work with our CTE programs and what that looks like for them um as they have competencies um instead of the same academic standards and u make sure that they have the opportunities to do the same standards alignment work as our other grades. And then the third goal is to expand opportunities for students. So trying to get more students involved in either work-based learning, college and career opportunities with our internship and um I think we have some things in

091place to do that. Um so just looking at the bottom of that page as we consider CTE uh I put together just some of the budget items related to CTE. The biggest one is Perkins. So Perkins is an annual um federal grant that we have an aotment for and we can use that in order to buy equipment, supplies, professional development or other things related to our um CTE programming. You can see right there, this is this past year what the aotment was that we got from the state and I just put a couple of the um bigger items that we used that money for in order to support our CTE pathways. Um, also with title 2A, um, that has direct correlation to, um, budgeting items for CTE. Oftent times, if we have, um, professional development

092for CTE that isn't already covered through Perkins, it'll come out of our title 2A funding in order to send those staff to some dedicated workshops and opportunities. Um and then finally, anything that isn't covered um for CTE in one of those two categories, we do cover just through our general secondary um textbooks fund. Um looking at that list, these are the items that we paid for u related to our CTE program this year. Um going forward, we still do have Syngage curriculum which covers a lot of our curriculum for business and fax pathways. Um but code HS at this point in time, we are not renewing for next year. success 101 we are no longer offering um so we won't have that expenditure and you science was a pilot um which is still being determined

093if we would um continue with that into next year. All right, flipping over and looking at the back page on the measurables. really just want to bring your attention up to the top um where I pulled from our annual survey um for both staff and parents and you can see staff responses are in orange, parents are in blue for particular survey questions um and particularly the second one down which was question number 12 for staff um is based on the graduate profile schools and parents uh are preparing students to be college and career ready a future ready graduate. And while all of these had agree or strongly agree as the highest responses on that one, you can see that our parents felt very strongly, 83% um about our preparation. And that's sometimes, you know, that's

094just evidence in um a lot of the work that we do that we do have strong parent and community um support. And so um that was interesting um to me just in in that um difference. So, at the bottom of the measurables, um, all of those items I have previously shared with you, um, either within a teaching and learning report kind of as they come up throughout the, um, year. In fact, I believe it was just last month that I shared the CTE student follow-up data. But here, it's kind of all together in one spot for you to see some of those trends and some of the data that we have related to CTE. Uh so finally if we look at the bottom action steps um which are directly related back to the goals that

095I already identified um we do want to maintain our CTE um programming um continuing to make sure that we are offering the correct pathways and the right classes within those pathways and that's an annual process um with you know auditing our elective classes looking at those enrollment trends what is it that students are wanting um and making sure that we are offering those. So that's done annually. We have been doing that as part of our program planning process. Uh second action step down is develop a pre-K12 IPS scope and sequence which I already um mentioned. So that's continuing to work both with our pack team which is the principles, advocates and counselors for secondary and then um working with elementary to identify and be intentional about the oper opportunities that they are offering at their

096level for college and career awareness. Um increasing the number of pathway completers at the high school. This will be done um directly with that goal about work-based learning opportunities and college and career internship. Uh we do have a new college and career um coordinator at the high school starting next year and we've already um met and started brainstorming some of the ways to um and bring in some of her ideas for the programming. So I'm really excited about where that is headed and the ideas that she has to increase our numbers. Um and then finally the CT course um curriculum maps and standards alignment. Um so making sure that we have um a curriculum map which is essentially like a scope and sequence of what is being taught when throughout the year and that they're

097having opportunities to cover all their CTE competencies. So that's related to the work that we are beginning next year. So there's CTE program in a quick nutshell. Any questions for me? All right, you are on it. I think the numbers are interesting on the measurables on the survey. I just I just think those numbers are very interesting. I think it's interesting that the staff is lower Yes. than the parents. Yes. Yeah. Very interesting. Yes. And I think there could be um a variety of reasons for that. Sometimes, you know, especially um at the high school, we you know, live in our content area in our world and sometimes maybe don't h know everything that's happening, all the opportunities um happening in different pathways around the buildings. But also the fact that parents are at 83%

098they are they're their children. They know what they're moving on to and doing. And the fact that um it's such a high success rate, I think is a very valid um number. So I'm sure there's other variables um to be taken into consideration with that but yeah and I think a lot of us always okay we can be doing better you know so sometimes we um you know that affects our our rating. Yeah. Perfect. Yep. Thank you Megan. It is now time for Mr. Wilson. she says with the utmost of excitement. In the transition to the diligence platform that you're all looking at, Teresa and Candace have been reviewing our policies and pulling the ones that don't match our practice. In most cases, we have changed our practice to help match the policy. But these

099policies we'd like to change and make tweaks to in order to match our practices. Most of these are very small changes and I'll go through them. Starting with the first one, DK, student activity fund management. Most student activity funds do require a student signature to access that those funds. So, we'd like to add that. We're going to have to keep up, man. I'm going to be moving on policy DH. bonded employees. Notaries should be bonded. So each employee is required to be that is required to be a notary will be bonded by the district. Okay. Yeah. Time out. Y it's the last one. There you go. Oh, sorry. I must have gotten mine out of order. My bad. So easy. I know. Be nice to the guy. I know. He'll never come back and help

100us, will he? Um and so essentially, however we say it, we need to um have bonded employees being the business manager or bookkeeper and then all notaries. Um let's go eee food service. If you go straight up the because I've got my notes backwards in the change in this policy is accounts will now become delinquent at $50 instead of $150. It's a little more work for us, but it helps keep families above water and current on their food service bills instead of getting to 1550 and then they're pretty overwhelmed at that time. Okay, moving on now to DP collection procedures that goes right with that one. Essentially, we have changed the wills to May and that's to allow for many unique situations that our buildings and the staff encounter. Mostly it's our um building secretaries

101and so it gives us a little bit of uh flexibility when dealing with those delinquent accounts and collections. JGHB vending machines and other automated play machines which I'm not sure we have any. Pepsi now has the district on a single account. It used to be individual buildings account and so that is all handled through Lisa the budget or the business director, excuse me. And so that would be a change to do an annual report prepared by the business director instead building principle doing a monthly report. Awesome. I think that gets me through those. Do I have any others? No. Okay, then I'm done. You do not. All right. Got to practice what I teach. Anybody have questions about those teach? Yes, I did. I'll do. Okay. Moving on to parents as teachers. Okay. Well, May

102is usually the time we bring our parents' parents as teachers contract to you for renewal for the following year. Um, we pulled it out of consent agenda, put on discussion tonight because we typically purchase eight units, which each unit serves about eight eight families. Um, that will give us about 64 families that we would serve through parents as teachers. Um, this last year we served 52 families. Um, which is a little low for what we typically have experienced last few years. I mean, we were as high as 61 families. Um, we don't think that the need has gone down. Um, matter of fact, we think that he probably could be a little bit more at this point in time, but there's a question about whether or not we need to continue as is with eight

103units purchased um to serve 64 students or 64 families or do we need to reduce that. Um, our recommendation is that we should keep it for one more year and look at it. One of the things we did talk about is um looking at new ways to promote parents as teachers. Um we haven't actively promoted it as um well as we think we could have in the past. So our parents' teachers um staff have been attending our screening days at the at Mel and they've been going to um they've been going to classes and reading with classes and doing things like that getting themselves out there more and more so the families know who they are and can find out more about the program. Um, so what questions do you have for me? As this

104was on the consent agenda, we would love a motion to approve. That will allow Keystone to be able to do their um budget at the appropriate time. You want it approved tonight? Yes, ma'am. Okay. And Madame President, I make a motion to um accept the parents as teachers contract contract as it was presented. Second. It's been moved and seconded to accept the parents as teachers contract as presented. Any discussion? I would just say this. I I did bring up the difference in the numbers. Yes. And so, um, I don't doubt that there's a great need for this. So, hopefully this year we can get more parents catch those kids early who really need to be to receive the extra help. Absolutely. And use that money wisely as far as families. Mhm. Um so when they

105are usually it's through the a lot of a lot of it happens through our preschool and some of our community programs that happen also head start and things like that. So those older kids are in they figure it out for their younger kids. So otherwise younger kids have to find us. Yeah. Okay. So that's why we're trying to increase their visibility um at our screening days and things like that so people can see them and know who they are and find out a little bit about what the program's about. So they know there's a resource there to help. Exactly. So they some people don't even Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Two ladies that we've had have been in the district. Yeah, I agree. Yes. Yeah. There's no cost for the family to participate. But our cost our

106cost is correct me if I'm wrong is about $7,000 per spot. It's 8,000. 8,000. 8,000. So that per family per unit per unit. Not per family. Not per Yeah. per unit. And you said you bought four eight units. Eight units. Yeah. Which is 64 families. Okay. Not individuals, but families. They could have more than one kid in it. Yeah. Okay. Any other discussion? Hearing none. All in favor raise your hand and say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carry. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, we're moving on to the action items. Oh, sorry. I was trying to skip my most. What' you say? [Laughter] Mr. Wilson, you are up. Thank you. Um, I would like to review my recommendation um for uh realignment of the budget. What I will do is I will go through this.

107There are individual line items even though I'm presenting this as a full recommendation, but that will allow you to ask clarifying questions on each item. When finished, the board may discuss the merits of any item, ask for additional rationale, add or subtract from the recommendation if you so choose. I'd first like to highlight that many districts in our financial situation have chosen to just freeze salaries. People don't get step or call them uh instead of doing this very difficult work. And so I want to commend you. We have consistently listened to our staff and believe that freezing salaries would not value what we've heard from them uh in the past three years and uh or what our recruiting and retention um groups have uh prioritized and you guys have prioritized. This is my recommendation and

108the board may adjust it as they see fit. However, I will promise that I have carefully and meticulously considered these items um and honestly many more in order to put this recommendation together. I've listened to feedback, but I have not put this in front of staff as to not create more division and hurt feelings. I think that was a very important part. So you may get feedback from um staff from community now that this is going public. This will be available for anybody on our um ordocs diligent website after this meeting. Can you scroll down? Thank you. I wrote in the weekly wrap-up that I tried to maintain as much transparency as possible to ensure that this is done ethically, compassionately, gradually, and responsibly. I think those five words are essential for quality leadership. And

109I know the board seeks this kind of quality as they lead our district. Leadership doesn't just give orders. It cares for the people in the organization and puts people before ideologies. This work is difficult and nothing on this list of recommendations will be easy to part with. All of it is good and all of it has investment from our people, but it is a necessary work and I appreciate the board trusting me in this role to do. Last, there are also recommendations at the end for improving district processes to maintain our financial strength. And so I'll go over those at the end. So starting with the first one, um these we would ask that if the board approves this that they approve the concept understanding that not all of these can be identified perfectly in

110implementation. Um but we may have to adjust some of these a little bit. First one's a great example. We put a 6 to 10% reduction in departmental budgets. Initially, it was just a acrosstheboard 10% and our feedback that we got said we really think it it honors each department's work if you actually take a more fine grain look into the work that they do and decrease the budgets based on what their individual needs are, what they're doing, the size of their budget to begin with. Um this mostly is not general fund savings um because most of our uh operational uh departments are funded out of the capital outlay. So you can think of technology, transportation, maintenance, all are out of um capital outlay. Questions? Reduce the number of middle school teams from six to Sorry.

111I'm sorry. President want to vote on these now or go back line. I am going to present this as a whole recommendation and I'll we'll vote next time next board meeting. That's true. And you can you can suggest changes and the board can um give those to us as we go. But I'm kind of putting this as a whole package for you because every time you take something off or add something, I think when you see our final numbers at the end, those are the numbers that we feel are at least necessary to be able to um and again, you may ask for me to do more, but those are things that we think we can give raises if we do. Um, and that's really what this prioritizing is about. It's really about doing everything

112we can to prioritize raises for our staff. Uh so the next one is to reduce the number of middle school teams from six to five. Uh we've already begun that work. Um Kyle was kind of a leader in this work. Um it ended up us not having uh three staff members need to be um hired because of the numbers um at the middle school. And those are um three core teachers. Um but for one year, we do have a few more electives teaching a sixth period. So it isn't quite a $180, but it's about a $150,000 uh savings and that is in the general fund. Um we've already talked to you and communicated that we are eliminating the summer school that was paid for with ESSER funding. Um, obviously we've already made that determination and

113you've approved uh uh summer contracts based on that, but that would be uh esser funded decrease and really wouldn't um decrease the general fund at all. If we reinstated that one at a later date, we would do it with the at risk fund anyway, which is has gives us a little more flexibility on the general fund. Uh we are planning to eliminate the printing and mailing of the communicator twice a year. However, we won't probably see quite a $21,000 savings because we are planning to print a lot of them and putting them around the community. So, some of the community members that um really value that connection with the schools and don't wouldn't come up here to get it and really like it mailed to their house or having it someplace convenient would be able

114to pick it up. that might be in churches, might be at the Optimus, some places like that. Um, if a if a group or a company or business asks for us to provide those to them, um, we think we can do that. It I have a question and we please do interrupt anytime. I had mentioned the possibility of like our elderly community members being able to request a mailed copy. Is that a possibility? It is certainly a possibility. So, who would they contact just they would probably call the office, get Teresa and Teresa would make sure that we got a copy mailed out to that that and how are we going are we going to communicate this to the community that the communicator sorry is no longer will I I will trust our staff to

115do that. I I'm going to tell you I don't have all the fine details of all of these. Um but we will certainly need to do that. These are very difficult things. These are not good things any of them. You're not seeing upgrades in any of this. I had told Brad and Christy and Kyle that one of the things that the church that I belong to, the elderly members of the church love the communicator and they always come up and talk to me like the week after they get it about all this great stuff happening. So, I'm sure that's not just my church. I'm sure that's a lot of our elderly community members. And I just think that would be sad for them not to have that. I was just wondering if we could have

116a smaller list of people who'd want to be put on. Yes. You know, I want to make a list. So, you know, I don't know how we get that list built that we could. It's a mission for I think we can make that happen. I don't have all the details of how that come on. We will make it happen. How about that? I have a lot of faith in uh the communication director to figure it out. Well, Candace, thank you, Candace. Title. Um, okay. Next one is to move the district to fast fast bridge benchmark assessments aligning elementary with secondary. And um you voted on that actually today. That would be a $13,000 savings. Any questions? we would eliminate software products or the following software products really that were purchased with ESSER funds. Um these

117are the ones that we've gotten information back that we can do without. Um these supplemented our remote learning that we did when when uh we were at COVID and so Pebblego, Seesaw, Mass Seeds, and reading aids, eggs, excuse me, would u no longer be funded. that would save us about 16,000. Again, not general fund money because it was ESSER funded, but it's certainly something 16,000 that the um general fund doesn't have to pick up. And so the teachers have said that I will say not the teachers or or we got administrative. I I was very careful not to necessarily put this list out in front of teachers. Um, for one, um, the original list included a lot of things, including people's jobs. Sure. And I did not want to pit elementary against middle against high

118school and say you ought to cut that. And I think our uh cohesiveness as a district and our teamwork that we've been working on has really advanced and I don't want to hurt that by um asking teachers to make this selection. So no, I got the feedback I thought was necessary. I made this selection that these are no longer going to list exist. Um I feel confident that there are some teachers in our district that use some of these very well, but I also feel very confident that these are the ones that are not being used to the extent that is worth the money that we're spending. Yes. And I did hear you say earlier you had asked teacher to Yes. I I was very intentional about what feedback I got and you can blame

119anything in here and none of it's good on me. Can Lance, can you adjust the air? She's having a moment. Yeah. Eliminate unstructured summer curriculum work. Yes. So, we have had the opportunity to have any teacher just request to come up to the district do some work that they wanted to do over the summer and we would pay them. The reason I say it's unstructured is it wasn't directed by the district. It was any work that they wanted to do. They are still able to do that and Megan is going to open up the district office for that, but they will only get professional development points. They will not get paid for that. Okay. Um again, another one that you're going to probably see a little bit of ask for some flexibility on. Uh that's

120we would plan to do a rotation for national conferences for principles once every three-year rotation for directors once every four years. We do have some principles and some directors that never do a national conference and choose not to. We would probably allow that rotation. And there might be some people that are allowed to go every other year as a principal in order to um still be able to use that number of national conference spots. Um and so if somebody chooses not to use their we may not have it use it or lose it, we may let somebody else use that spot so that we allocate that amount of money for it. We can use that amount of money and people get the professional development they want and need. Questions on that one? Yeah, I I

121think that's one of those things, Brad, we need to look at is just because we have in the budget we're going to spend it. That's not a very good way to look at it. If we are going to put them on a three-year rotation, that's the way it should be. And if we have an extra slot, we just save the money. Okay. Just plant two cents. Anybody else? I would I would second that. Is that they go this same year? All of them just three and four year rotations. No, the plan is to have a rotation that each person gets one every three years, but so a third of the directors or principles will go one year a choose not to go, then they just miss their one comment I would have for that. Like

122for instance, I'm missing several pieces of work travel this year because I happen to have a child graduating from high school. I would think it'd be, you know, nice if someone could take my spot this year, which is what they're doing at my office, so that next year I could still have the opportunity to go. I don't I I don't love to use it or lose it because life happens and we want to have flexibility for our staff. Um, so I'm wondering, are we okay if we we say like they rather than use it or swap between themselves? I think that's what we were talking about. Yeah, if we do that keeps track of this, Brad. Just because you got an open spot and somebody else wants to go, right? That would be Mrs. Newsbomb

123would keep track of all this as our um queen of professional development, I think, is her official title. So, say for instance, I can't go this year and you were scheduled to go next year. We get this. Great. Okay. Okay. So, you are okay with that? I'm okay with that. You know, if I decide not to go, nobody. Yeah. We don't need to have to sell someone to fill it. Okay. I last year, but I'll go again. But you're okay with the I would be okay with that, too. Okay. Um moving 10% of the school budget from discretionary general fund to the at risk fund. It doesn't technically save the general fund, but um it puts the it makes the expenditures less discretionary. and in an area that we have some carryover in typically. Uh

124and so we're not reducing the school budgets at all, but we're making them really focus that spending on at risk services for students. Questions on that bucket actually, right? Just moving it to a different bucket. Exactly. Okay. an overall savings. No, no overall. It's an overall savings in uh in our general fund just because that at risk has to be spent anyway. Yeah, it's just a little bit different how that's been set up. We would like to change the fee schedule. I would like to change the fee schedule at Melk so that families pay for the school provided snacks. um similar to elementary school students pay for breakfast and or lunch um would be supplemented by the district still um but we would ask that they pay a fee to be able to get that

125allergen-free healthy snack. Um it was discussed whether kids should be able to bring a snack. Um what we have heard is just the challenge for little kids of that age to be able to manage an allergen snack. Um they think safety wise it's best that we have a snack if we just ask them to pay. It's basically 50 cents a snack. Um for our full pay kids, reduce pay kids. Um, and I apologize if I do not have I did not put it on here, but I do have a fee schedule that I will send you that we have updated for milk that includes both of the milk recommendations. Um, but essentially it's 50 cents um I think it's a it's a 50 cents um per snack for or per day for half day students.

126A dollar a day for two snacks or full day suits. And does Kane do that or Yes, she does. Since she's still here since she did leave, she take care of the snacks. She does fruit. She does grain. She does amazing snacks for them. We think it's really important that those kids get that healthy snack. Questions? Other questions on that? Go ahead. um high school uh athletics before COVID high school athletics survived off of their gate receipts. We have gate receipts around 130 depending on the year 140 120,000. Um obviously when Esser or excuse me when u COVID hit our gate receipts dropped significantly um by design and um the district has supplemented since that point using ESSER funds um and actually last year I think it was general fund we have supplemented the uh

127athletic department by $30,000. We are suggesting to give them a little chance to adapt to this to reduce that by 15,000 and only supplement 15 next year and then the following year not supplement that and make sure that they can exist on their uh gate receipts and so that would be a 30,000 redemption in the long term um for that questions on that. So what would happen if we made it 30 next year? I mean, is that too too sharp of a um I mean, if our gate are back up over Yeah, I I had thought about that, but you know how people get used to gohead. That's that would be the challenge to do it in that would be the rationale to do it in stages and that's why I have it on there

128in stages. Um but I seriously thought about it just all at once. But um again, it it will be having to say no to coaches and some things that we've been supplying in the past and that Travis has been able to fund because he had that money that he's going to have to start saying no to. But I'm trying to especially as a a secondyear athletic director, help give him a couple years to get that figured out. Okay. uh similar. We started um giving $60,000 at that same time to the district or the high school activities budget, but the reality is we've always to some level supported district activities. We just haven't necessarily given it in a bulk here's your budget. Um but when they needed things, we'd pay for some things because they don't

129get the gate receipt like athletics does. Um, they do get quite a bit of money from advertising, which is awesome. They need that. They get uh some money from little gates, but not a ton of gates. Um, they do fundraising, a lot of different things that they do, but our my uh recommendation is to go from 60,000 from the district to 50,000 from the district. And again, do it in two s two steps. lose 5,000 the first year and then the next year get down to the 50,000 and so over in the long run we would be the district looks to be supplying$10,000 less dollars to their budget. So, so we in two years that's down to 50. Are we going to put some type of CPI adjustment on that or something going forward or

130I think we would monitor. I don't think we want to put an automatic. I think we want to monitor expenses and maybe even as um funds are available if we go oh you really need 5,000. I mean we may do more than CPI. Um, I just think for what we do, an automatic CPI doesn't necessarily give you the because you're doing different different stuff. Good. And so, we just need to make a more intentional decision on it. And Brad, activities are what Mr. Wolf was talking with us about previously. So, we're talking band and chorus. Yes. FBLA and all of those sorts of things. Yep. And we do fund um out of capital outlay band instruments and those types of things as well. Um that is not something we put into this. Do we have

131just out of curiosity a breakdown of what the district supports between um you know what the district support amount goes to the $60,000? Do we know? We don't delineate from the part that the district gives versus what they spend because what they spend because of what they bring in advertising etc. It's essentially especially with advertising all district in that case. Um but no we don't ask them to differentiate you're spending this out of the district part or that essentially they spend it down and then Lisa makes the correct budget allocations on it. So if they have gate receipts at one of the musicals, does that go to the theater department or does that go to the whole general budget? So if I am right and I wish they were here, but Marty may be able

132to help me on this. If I am correct, I believe usually when the theater puts on something, all of that money goes to the theater. Okay. So obviously is is that correct? Okay. Yeah. And so I think those are their own unlike athletics that goes into the general pod. Yep. So they do it a bit differently. And then there's a lot of fundraising that goes on as well. Um there's still some money that the district gives if they go on a national trip that 650, you know. So you heard some activities going to nationals. We would pay 600 district would pay $650 towards each student's trip as well. And that that is different from this original budget. That's different from this money goes paid. The rest of it is usually not paid out of Mr.

133Ralph's budget. It's paid out of fundraising their activity funds. But we don't differentiate that. I mean the district puts it into the activity fund so they can give them that 650. But that is a separate allocation because it's based on a per student that right gets it. Yes. Any other questions on that one? There's another one that I would say we need some flexibility on. We would like to update have the board update retirement benefits policy GBQR. Um, we actually wrote a recommended policy and the more I looked at that recommended policy, the more I thought we can do a better job of protecting certain groups. So I want to take another stab at it looking at completely protecting people in different groups and then depending on where some people are at like the reality

134of it is everybody before what 2007 or after 2007 gets grandfathered out at some point. Is that correct? Or is grandfathered out already? Higher date. Higher date. So, I'd like to take another stab. The fact is, um, there's no zero dollars in savings, not only the first year, not only the first three years, but probably for quite a while. But it is our strong belief, my belief that the longer we wait to address that issue, even though we're going to grandfather people in and make sure that it works for everybody the best we can, if we don't start today, it will never h I mean, it just keeps going. Every year we wait is a year that that um we get to the end. And I kind of said to the when I just put

135this open today to principles, I said it says 400 plus thousand when fully implemented a year it will save. The reality by that time it's probably more like 600,000 or more. Um because that's a pretty big chunk that's just going to keep growing. Uh, I think in the long term I'd like to maintain the permanent policy that it says if somebody has been working in our district 30 years, we pay the full district contribution. Um, and so that permanent policy we'd like to keep in some shape or form. The reality I can't change a policy, only you can. So I would bring that to you as a whole separate item um to do that. But this is kind of a heads up that I'd like to bring that item to you at some later date.

136Um because I don't I'm not satisfied with the first draft that I put together on that. And could we get a copy of the current policy? Yes, of course. Yeah. It's it's a little bit convoluted sometimes. I think we have at least a in an interpretation that we've been using on it. Um, and we will go over that in detail if we decide to change that. Things in red are things that we are not proposing for next year, but that we want to give people some time. And so, we're proposing even starting it till the fiscal I'm sorry, fiscal year 27. First, we'd like to talk about elementary schools transitioning to iPads instead of MacBooks. And we've actually done the research and think that's best long-term for instructional purposes, but it would also save us,

137we estimate about 140,000. Some of that's in device purchase, but also there's a significant portion that would be in repair fees. Again, not a general fund item that comes out of capital outlay. Questions on that? again, not for next year, but the following year. They're already going to have a change in schedule for next year, but the high school transitioning from a their current block schedule to having seven classes a day in which all teachers would teach six class periods. So, all teachers would still have a plan every day, which is what the negotiated uh agreement requires. It requires a um 40 to 50 minute plan period every single day. This gets us much closer. This and the middle school part of it gets us much closer to what elementary already has. Elementary gets a

138plan every day and it's about 45 minutes of plan time every single day. Right now, our high school and middle school are getting about double that every day. Um although we can use some of that for other purposes. Um but in the elementary also is able to use project lead the way and library time to get a little collaboration time. They get about hour of collaboration time, maybe not quite that much, but about an hour of collaboration time every week. And what we would like to propose is we do something, I'm not going to say exactly what, but I'll give you an example, that we maybe do something to get the middle school and high school a similar amount of plant. That could be done as simply as every first and third Wednesday of the

139month that you have a two-hour late start for secondary. Instead of secondary buses running before elementary, they do the exact same routes, but secondary would run after elementary. And then that would provide a twohour every two weeks period for secondary to have some collaboration time. that would make it equal across the board up and down. Right now, we're very unbalanced. But what this is for is to say asking teachers to teach on the secondary level. This one and the one below it. You can see there can be quite a bit of savings with that. But that will happen over time as we have attrition. But obviously when they pick up basically 20% more classes that they're teaching, one more class um the uh Mr. Jones would tell you he he surveyed the um UKC and

140he said well over half of UKC also does this already. Also Auburn Washburn, I just happened to be talking to their uh superintendent and they also teach six out of seven. So, um, it is not an unusual thing to do. Yes. If we did that every other Wednesday, team like, yes, that still get us enough hours. Yes. One thing is those that time we would have a few less. Um, well, we could do a couple things. One, you can add five minutes to the day. It doesn't make up all that time. It makes up not quite about half of the time. Not quite. But the time that we spend there is professional learning time, that counts as half time. So although you're two hours late, you still get an hour worth of class time included

141the way the statute's built right now. Even though the kids aren't in school. Yep. That's the way it's been for years. I will tell you in a little bit. I will say you were not in the legislature at that time. Brad. Yes. Yeah. No, I was just going to say align both of you saying aligning with the negotiated agreement. Yes. So, this is not anything that is not something that our teachers have agreed to. We do this six out of seven or seven classes per day. That is Let me answer what I think you asked. This would not require a change in the negotiated agreement. Okay. Thank you. Our negotiated agreement supports this. This is what we used to do a long time ago, but it's been a while before we did block schedule at

142the high school. When we went to block scheduling at the high school, because the plan period is every single day, then they couldn't have just one period off anymore, right? Because it would be every other day. So, in order to make it work, we imbalanced it a little bit, right? Yes. Can we hold on? Let's get this one in. Sorry. Uh, so having caught under a seven period day under a block schedule. Yep. I can tell you fine. But is there a way we could work this into that? I'm for this, but we could reword that's that's a big ass reward it for secondary teachers get a certain number of minutes as opposed to one plan period a day just because maybe I mean I know but you're asking the wrong person. I don't get

143to make that decision. I'm baring. So, I'm trying to make a recommendation that fits with what I know we can do. Yes. Negotiation. What's the difference? You don't mind me asking? Well, so we perspective. So, if if we go by what we currently do, seven period day, the person gets one hour off. That means um get a plan every single day. So, you go to a walk schedule like a schedule Monday and the even odd walks the rest of the week. You get three days or three days with a plan and two of those days two would be a like a 90 minute or a little extra long be basically a double of a Monday. So you get roughly the same time just split over three days to five. Got it. Thank you. So yeah,

144just a subtle difference. Something to think about. That's a good negotiations communication. Yeah, I think he ought to be on the negotiations committee, shouldn't he? You thought it up. And so Brad, one more question. Yeah. This actually addresses the item that was earlier than where you were saying that for one year we would have some teachers at the middle school who are being paid to pay another period. Yeah. But then this would eliminate that. Yes. Starting the year the following year. Yep. This is 27 28 school. per 26 27. Next year is 2526. So this will be the 26 27 school year. Your fiscal year is always the second year of your school year. Any other questions on that one? The next one is again maybe misleading or maybe just not quite knowing completely what

145the savings might be. Um, but there's an additional efficiency can be you do the same for less money. Efficiency could also be you do more and get more impact for the same amount of money. So, this next one offering two world languages instead of four at the high school and being able to have some uh foreign language at the middle school as well. Um, depending on whatever the student interest is, if there was only enough interest to do one of them at the middle school, we might only do because kind of like a lot of times we've done in the past, we've done Spanish at the middle school, which funnels up to the high school. That tends to be your number one language most of the time um that people kids want to learn. Um,

146we right now have a phenomenal uh German program currently. um I can see that of being high interest to students. Um but right now we currently have Chinese um and French as well. So this is not one that we could just well we could this is not one I would recommend that we go we're doing this. This is one that happens as attrition happens and making sure we know what the kids really want. It's one that if the kids really are split on four different languages, maybe we keep four. If not, if you're seeing a definite strong slant towards two or three, then you get a little skinnier and you do those two really, really well. You may not save money that way because if you get rid of two of the four languages, you're

147going to have more kids in those two languages. So even though the thought was maybe you'd lose two teachers, you're probably not going to lose two teachers. You might lose one because we have less options. No, with only seven periods, you're going to have less kids possibly choosing to take that much foreign language. We heard one of our programs fills up a lot because kids just are wanting to take something. Um, so that's why we have to research real carefully what do kids want to take while they're in high school and what don't they want to take and then start making long range plans with that. This could happen as early as fiscal year 27, but the reality of it is it could take us five 10 years to really get this to be two

148world languages instead of four. I think personally having two world languages is more effective and we can be better at teaching kids world languages that way. Um, but I don't know that it's necessarily going to Well, I don't think it'll save 120,000. I think at best it would save 60. And I can't even promise you that it would save 60 because if every kid still wants to take a language, we still need four the same number of teachers we have now. we would just do that with teaching uh we'd probably be able to have two or three teachers teaching a single language and get pretty good at that with the collaboration and that type of thing. So questions on that recommendation, it doesn't really allow us to be responsive. He said you need to survey

149the kids to see what they're interested in and that can easily change as the kids change um as they different kids are coming in and out and it's not easy to find world language teachers. That is one of the reasons for this recommendation. We're already in a pickle right now trying to fill any open spot we have here. Right. We think we'll be better at finding if we're only looking for a certain number, we can probably look at how do we homegrow those instead of just hope that we get a applicant because we haven't done a very good job of getting an applicant. Maybe it's best to choose two languages that other schools don't because we're sure not having success getting a foreign language teacher for the ones that other schools typically teach. But I

150think we need to look at our world languages. There are very, very few school districts our size that teach four different world languages. And that's no longer a curriculum requirement, right? Graduation requirement, right? It used to be, but it isn't anymore. For it is for the scholars curriculum, the Kansas scholars curriculum, I believe it is. Okay. Thank you. Yep. Any other questions on that one? Again, it's my explanation is I'm looking for conceptual Like I said, the implementation of this has to be flexible based on what kids say and what adults are available. It's not really a let's just do this exact plan and move forward with it because that's if you do, you can do that, but you're going to be having people lose their jobs. You're going to have then potentially openings that

151you can't fill. you've I I just am wholeheartedly um an advocate of trying to do this in a way that people are not losing their jobs, that we are ethical, that we are compassionate to the people that we're trying to serve, which is our teachers to be able to serve our kids. Um and so to get that job done, I think we have to do this the right way. Um oh, you guys are looking at different ones. Good. The next one is our prek milk community students. This is going to take some explanation. We have about 200 kids 220 at times. In fact, I think currently we have about 220 kids at milk. Of those 220 kids, um about a quarter of them, maybe a little more, Dedra might be on this on the special

152ed, but there's a big chunk of them that are special education students have an IEP. Some of those are just speech, but they do have an IEP. There is an even bigger chunk, probably half of them almost are identified as at risk. We get some funding for at risk students. We also have kids that we call community kids. We have about 40 of those in our school. We get zero funding for those kids. We are a community preschool for those kids and we get zero. We're charging them nothing and we get zero funding. It's been a great service to the community, but our job is to educate students. And in order to educate students is not giving away free daycare. I know it's a nice thing to do. If you're talking about compassion, sure, it's

153great to give away free daycare, but we're also running a business whose job is to educate students. So my uh recommendation is for those students who um are community kids can go to any daycare anywhere that we charge them still the best deal in town. If it's a full day student, $250 a month. If they're a half day student, $150 a month. And if they're an employee of the school district, they probably need full day. they would get full day at a half day price. Chris question. How do we choose community students? Is there I'm pretty sure there's a way to remember because I've asked questions about this before, but I think it's first come first serve. And if you think about it, it's very similar to when my student was in school and I

154lived just over two and a half miles from the school and I could have taken my kid to school every single day if I wanted to. I worked at the school district. Now, you would have had to get there early because I got there quite a bit before school started, but we could do that if we wanted to. And many times we would drop our kid off and they would in elementary have boys or girls club. It was something different for us but and do that. We could drop them off. But the reality of it was if we were over two and a half miles it was free. There was a spot on the bus for my kid. I just let the school take them and I let the school pay for taking them. I

155think to where you're kind of leading is I think because it's there and it's free. We've got people that don't necessarily need it, but why wouldn't you sign up for it? It's free. And what that's doing is it's creating a waiting list for people that actually need it and would pay for it. I have a question. um back in the long long time ago, we was in the prek program at Logan before we had a mouth and they had peer students paired with the kids who might have had needs. So we had speech development, disability, whatever. Um and so she was our community students, they old peer students, they act as peer models. Yes. And we're we're saying that there are we saying there's not a benefit to that or are we or are other

156children in the buildings? Yeah, that's why we allow them in. But there's always a certain number because I know when my kids try to attend the preschool, they didn't qualify as a peer student or whatever. So, I literally paid probably $180 a week for two days for my kids to go to preschool. So, I think this is a a steal for, you know, kids that are preschool. Very reasonable because yes, you're paying over $100 a week probably like you said. Absolutely. Closer to probably 150 a week to do that. more than okay. We're going to see if there will still be a a limit on the number of children who would be qualified as a community student. Yeah. Well, we can only fit so we can only fit so many. Well, that's what I'm saying.

157Right now at risk and if they're not at milk, they're going to be somewhere else in the community, right? Paying. Yeah. Like three times. Absolutely. We Yes. If you remember from last meeting when we did the program development for MEL, we are okay. Okay, we've got Kyle too. We have about a $600,000 deficit in that program. This would fill a tenth of it. Yes, but it would do a little something. Right. So, Dan, do do we have room for more? No. No. Okay, we do not. Greedy. 220 is is what runs there. 220. 220. And we're probably pretty full right now, wouldn't you say? Yeah. We have to take every every IEP student. Yeah. Or at risk. We should then prioritize at risk students. That's why our community students are only right now at 40

158and a pretty good chunk of those are employee kids. That's what I was just going to ask. How many of those were employees? A lot of those are employee kids. So, I applaud you, but I I think we're too cheap. We're what? Yeah. 250 a month is cheap is that's cheaper than going to I think we some 300 I'm going to say I don't know that I have the perfect amount. So, you might be right, but here's what's in my head as I think through this. It's kind of where Diana's was thinking. Well, you don't want to make this so you don't have any any peer models there. We want to have pair models there. And it's still a deal. It is still a heck of a deal, but you're going to frustrate some people

159when they go and and Okay. If they don't want to go to the free will and go to PC learning, we'll pay I know. I was going to say they're going to be getting a break. That's almost free. I realize that's almost free. There are some familys and their children to have they'll figure that out some other way. And the peer model students were a huge benefit back when my own child was was using that. So, but it's also a benefit to the pure model student. Oh, sure. to be there. Certainly, no other daycare is going to get the learning and the service that our daycare provides. I I agree. It's worth way more than that. I'm trying not to be speech. I'm waiting for Brad to finish, but I agree with Brad. I feel

160like this is just going to be an initial an initial start of something in FY27. Yes. We can see how it goes. see like how the community takes it in and if we need to increase it at a later time, that would be a time to do that. Something that you would say you want to have yearly increases in um based on again maybe that reaction. Again, Kyle, you're not wrong. It's just of course it's it's my man. I I apologize to the rest of the board. Wow. There's nothing in this that's not going to be hard on people. So, we're trying to do what we have to to give raises. We're not trying to just like we're not trying to be free and just give to the community because we are a business that

161educates kids. At the same time, we're not trying to be a business that makes money because we're a nonprofit and we get funded by the state. Great. As well. So, I don't know if that's the perfect amount, but in concept is that we have a some skin in the game for our community students who are at Mel. That would be the concept for that. Good starting. Yeah. And then what you guys will do is you will do fee approvals during I think the July meeting. this would have to come to you on that. Yeah. And what I have done is I have updated the feed milk fee schedule with both the snack and this um to be able to take to you when that time comes. Yeah. Closer to on the full day program, you'd

162be closer once you add the dollar per day for snacks to what to add $20 to that base. Now at $10 a month for half day kids and $20 a month for full day kids. Right. Okay. Essentially, right? Okay. Thank you. Eliminate the college and career advocate program uh when this program was put in. A great program in order to help kids develop their uh individual uh plans of study. Um I'm sorry. did. Oh, we're good. Um, we are recommending that we have other ways to get this job done and meet the goals of our postsecondary preparedness. Um, but we would also then recommend if these two gentlemans who who work part-time want to remain on with us that we would find them different jobs to do in the district. Um but we think this

163job um this program has lived its life in our district. Yeah. Questions or comments on that one? I'm sorry. There is one comment. So you're still we're going to continue this program one more year and then it in the next year. Tell them so that they have time if they want to do something else that they can do that. um because they may not want a different job in our district. Um this is probably the one that is going to make somebody make the hardest decision, but none of these are going to be easy on people. They just aren't. Um we're I am recommending that we at least investigate a lowerc cost option for our learning management system. Right now we use Schoolagy that costs us 28,000 a year. There are some options that are

164free now that didn't exist when we started with schooly. We again got Schooly I think probably 2016 um to be able to do online type of learning with computers and so we could potentially save up to 28,000 but if we got one that cost maybe I'm counting on saving 10,000 but looking for a less expensive option than Schooly for a learning management system. Questions or comments on that? Schooly was awful. So, I'll be happy to get rid of them. It is, I think, what Candace will tell you where we get most of our complaints. I absolutely needed it. I am recommending that we eliminate the ESGI report card system that we currently use for kindergarten and first grade. It's nice. It really is nice. But school or power school, excuse me, will do something probably

165not as high a quality or or granular, but it will still do the job. And so that would save us $9,000 to use the tool we already have. So with like Power School, we're using it. Is that another add-on? No, it it's a you get the whole package. It's It's what we use for second grade through, but right now kindergarten and first grade are using a different program that we pay 9,000 for. We add more. No, no change. Okay. Because we already have Power School for every student in the district. Okay. We would just be using the functionality we already use are already paid for. Um I'm recommending that we transition from einance to Skyward Financial System. Um the first year we will have to have both of them concurrently. After that, we are we

166don't know exactly how much savings. It could be anywhere from by 207 or excuse me 2027 10,000 to honestly in the long run once E fininance is gone it could be well over 20,000 when you add the software and all the support costs because the support costs of powers school are ridiculously expensive much cheaper for Skyward but also about half the districts half about right than Kansas use Skyward and there are a lot of user groups and a lot of help you can get for free in the state as well for that program. So we've already started looking at that. We already kind of brought that to you but that's part of this recommendation that will save us some money in the long run. Questions on that already initi we we've implemented we're we decided

167we're doing it. Okay. We haven't implemented it yet. Okay. But we're in the process. But we've initi I'm always used initiated instead of implemented. One I am not giving a recommendation on but is up for your discussion if you choose to is um a board decision to suspend or to maybe do every other year or to maybe just suspend for two years NSBA or other national board conference. Uh we spend about 18,000 a year on that. So that would Did you find out if that included equity and advocacy? Equity and advocacy. It did not. And I apologize. That's okay. Um I think that's just NSBA. We haven't always done equity, right? Um and so no, I don't think that's included in that. Okay. I know that you did not offer a recommendation, but I'm going

168to offer a recommendation. And I'm sure I speak probably for the rest of us on the board that um I think if our staff and administrators have to take some cuts, we as the board should take some cuts. And I would think that for the next two years we could suspend our NSBA or well and actually we're not even a part of NSBA which um doesn't mean that we can't attend and we can't attend the other national conference which is COSPA but um I think if if we're asking our staff and administrators and everybody to take cuts then we should probably do the same. I do believe that we should still be able to attend KASB because I feel like our local presence within our state is very much needed but not necessarily nationally. And

169so I would like to go ahead and put the recommendation in. How about every other I think if we are asking our districts to uh suspend what they're doing for over the next two years, the board can do the same and then pick it up in 27 or yeah 2728. re revisit instead of just sure whatever but I I believe that PD is still great for all of us which we would still get with KASB but we don't need to go out of state to to get that PD and again while I do love the national conferences I'm a conference go but um I think we need to make the sacrifice and we need to lead the charge with with all of Yes, I agree. Christine, I would agree. Anything out of state should come

170out of the pocket. That's another discussion. No, it's I mean, but I agree, right? But I'm just saying at least we we can suspend it. I mean, we're we're fine with that. And like I said, we're with the state association. We're not a part of any type of national affiliation. So, it's actually perfect timing that we make this recommendation and take it. But make sure we leave K. KB isn't even listed in there. Not a part of those are national and KD and the price of those compared to the national is measures. Yep. I So yes, I think what we are all unanimous I think without voting that you could put that as a recommendation. Yeah. Um I don't see where I put it exactly, but I also had one that was cutting school board

171member salaries in half. Take it down 75%. Just zero. It's one of the reasons why this is a a difficult try and take it. Yeah. Okay. I just can't take food from Chris. No. Orly. But it is a difficult recommendation because you guys give of yourselves and your time without any compensation um or benefit. And so let me last say I do appreciate um that. Now, I'm not done with recommendations, but go ahead. Just one other thing is that I do agree with Christie. It is very important that we continue having KS because I'm not in the schools. I'm not a district administrator or a teacher. Having that professional help I mean some of them are true, but having that having as the board member having that opportunity for us to collaborate and learn just

172as we want our teachers to collaborate and learn, our administrators and our kids. um is important, but I think Christie said it very well. We can't ask our school district to do what we aren't willing to do ourselves. I also think that the KASB professional learning options that they supply are probably as good or better than anything. They do a nice job. They do a nice job. They really do. Okay. All right. More recommendations coming. Sorry, we're not done yet. This is long and hard. Okay. I don't have dollar values to these, but I am recommending that we look into these. Again, this is very conceptual. We look into photography services and seeing if we can get a bid that all photography services come from one vendor and maybe we can get some benefit from

173that. Um it's probably a benefit that is um offered to the district as a bonus. Not because we because essentially photography. You mean like school pictures or school pictures? We have four different companies that we do school pictures with. Oh, really? Yes. Take them. Professionally. No, these are professional. You want to go with somebody that specializes in school pictures. We have And Candace may help me. Life touch. We have Interstate, we have um um just and then one that I've never heard of before, Strawbridge Interstate all the way. So would that include like like all the sports teams take photos too? Yeah. Be all part of that like a try to get potentially. We haven't fully investigated this, but we're wondering if there might be some benefit to that. that the yearbook staff doesn't do

174that anymore for the sport. Oh my god. Uh for the yearbook. Yes. Pictures. These are the pictures that parents buy. Yes. Oh, well, they do. They do. That's why I'm saying this is this is consolidating for the benefit of the district. So, they might give you free um badges. They may give you free. So looking at what benefit can the district get out of this if we consolidate if we consolidate because if you want to be honest the people that pay are the parents that buy the pictures. Yes. So ensuring that we still get the quality product for our parents. Is there one that says hey if we can do your whole district we'll give you XY grade school parents don't yearbooks and all that. No. Okay Brad. Yes. I am going to entertain a

175fiveinut break. I think that's a great idea. Use the rest. We're done. Five minutes. All in favor? All opposed. We're going to stand up. Thank you. Extra duty pay is what? No, elective offering. Elective offering. So, these are all things that are worth looking at. And I'm going to say auditing. Many of these may not create any savings. Some of them may create savings that aren't worth the squeeze. So, we talked about photography services. We plan to look at our middle school and high school elective offerings. Are we offering what the kids want to take? Um, I think that's probably a smart thing to do regardless. Are we offering things that kids don't want to take? And we would eliminate some of those, but I don't know that there's a lot of uh of uh

176flesh on that bone, but there might be extra duty pay. I don't there may be we're not talking about changing the amount of pay for extra duty but are we paying extra duty for things we shouldn't have. I don't know if we are or not. I'm not sure there's much there. Supplemental positions. We need to review supplemental positions. It's not really the pay. The pay is set by the negotiated agreement, but do we have the right number of coaches in each sport? Those types of things. Again, not sure there's much if anything there. facility rental charges. Um facility rental charges again I we want our community using our facilities. I'm not sure that that we don't have those set where they need to be already, but worth looking at. We could probably save some money

177looking at our motor fleet replacement cycle. The thing that you have to balance there is as you get vehicles that are older before replacement, at some point safety comes into a consideration on those um repair costs as well. But usually the balance um you would never let them go to the point where you're losing money on repair costs, but you could let them go to where you might have safety being an issue. Um, so that's a that's a thing worth looking at, but it's also a a very it's not just as simple as extending each vehicle an extra year. Uh, district curriculum adoption cycle. That used to be a standard thing you would look at in budget times because you can keep a book an extra year or an extra two years and it doesn't

178cost you a dime to do that. The challenge now is these are all digital curricula and they are on a subscription basis and you pay for six years upfront and then if you choose to extend it and pay for a seventh or eighth year, they actually charge you more in the seventh and eighth year than what you were paying yearly with the six-year subscription. So, I'm not sure there's anything there, but we are committed to looking at everything we can to see if we can find some savings. Yeah, technology offerings. Um, again, looking at do we have the technology setup we need for every kids? Do we need to be taking um computers home at middle school? There are some parents that would be happy if we didn't take computers home at middle school, but

179I can promise you if we don't take them home, we're going to have less repair costs. Yes. Um, so looking at that, do we have our classroom technology set up best for our teachers and those types of things? Um, so we plan to do a technology audit as well. And then the last one is bus route options. Is there a more efficient way that is still not putting kids on buses for an hour or plus um that we can put a few more kids on buses and reduce the number of routes and be more efficient that way? maybe, but we haven't done the work to look at it yet. And part of that would be the 2 and a half mile radius. Probably um I am I do not have a recommendation to review the

180transportation in that if you did not transport kids in that 2 and a half mile for free. You could save quite a bit of money under that scenario. With with the safety concerns is why I have not put that up as a recommendation. I just don't think any ofbody on the board if one kid got hit by a car would ever forgive themselves for making that decision. I can guarantee as a superintendent I would not forgive myself for making that decision. Um so that's not something I necessarily plan to recommend. It has been considered though. I promise you that. Um general fund savings for the fiscal year 26 would be around 268,000. we would get some additional savings from capital outlay. So the total savings is a little more but general fund is what you

181pay salaries out the second year. If you just added up the the fiscal year 27 um savings in addition to what you started in the 26 savings, you might save as much as 654. Again, these are all estimates. You might not save quite that much, but it's possible. And then if you add on any savings above those two for things that were implemented after fiscal year 27, you could get a potentially another 240,000. And again, little more when you start adding in the the capital outlay or esser funds that we would save. So we do get more savings than that. If you look at a total, uh I don't actually have it added up, but I do a quick math here. And it looks to be about $1.6 million of total savings and a little

182less than that out of the general fund. Made a little over a million plus out of the general fund. Um that was our goal. The challenge of this is also if we continue to lose students, we've got to do more. If we flatten out our enrollment, I think this will get us where we need to go in the long run. It may mean not as big a raises as we hope for this year and next, but I think in the long run, we can get back on a schedule of raises if we make these cuts to other things. And then finally, this has to be sustainable for the long term. And so I'm recommending that our director of finance business create a seaman business and financial handbook for our staff that puts in practices, policies,

183procedures to make sure we have the necessary internal controls. We have our revenue collection procedures, receipts, documentation. We have how we make bank deposits. You can see all those. I don't need to read them to you. Some spending guidelines, how we manage our cash and those types of things to make sure that we have tight controls on our money and have good solid audits from here on out. I'm ex I'm recommending and and requiring that all employees with budgets greater than 10,000 to have an electronic access to their budget line with current balances and encumbrances. That's part of what Skyward gets. Also, that all purchases must be completed through either the electronic requisition system, which we don't currently use, a purchasing card system, or a two-party cash system. for human resources. Very similar. The person

184who we hired to be our human resource director, if you approve the um recommended organizational chart, would be required to put a human resources handbook together with similar types things to make sure our staffing stays in line. have a comprehensive staffing plan developed in the let me go longterm if we ever add a position above and beyond what we already have that that would have to be approved by the superintendent and I'm even saying that in the short term all positions before we fill them need to be evaluated or are we going to is this going to be an attrition position and we're not going to fill it and that BA superintendent called for the short-term term. All hires have an approval process, final approval by the superintendent before submission to you guys. And then

185of course, as always, maintain that you guys approve all hires like you currently do. So those are the things to long-term keep us where we need to be. Any questions, comments on those requirements? So over the next two years, we're predicting we'd save out of the general fund roughly a million dollars. Uh little less than that if I remember it'll be 920,000. So So close. Yes. Close to a million. What percentage if we're looking at just salaries over percentage of pay increase to our um to our Marty probably is better equipped to answer that. The only caveat I'm going to give you on that is that money depending on how much more money we might get from the legislature that year would add to that. But what takes away from that is all of our

186increased costs as well because we have to pay our costs in addition to our salaries. Marty, do you have But if Yeah, I don't know if he has an estimate. And the property taxes all go up, but the cost of living and covers our additional utility bill and all our expenses in theory with $900,000. We should probably talk about that at negotiation. Okay, that's fine. Thank you. Better safe. Yeah, somebody's been around long enough. If he puts something out there that's not quite perfect, it will be used. I just Isn't that right, Mary? Mary looked at us. Any other questions for Brad? You said you're going to send this out to us so we can comments, discussion, questions. Kyle just would say this. I what a list Brad I mean. Okay, Kyle went in here.

187Thank you. I just echo one. I want to thank Brad and I know all you sitting over here and probably a lot of people who aren't here tonight who putting the hard work into this because this is not easy to do and but it's something we need to do. Yes. And even though this looks like a lot of money, it's probably not enough. We're not done yet. I don't think I'm I'm talking not for you guys, for myself. We got to start looking at places other than than this, which is probably, you know, are we doing all the right things? Do we have the right amount of people? Do we I mean, it's going to be an ongoing um process that we need to keep looking at because y counting on the state to give

188us more money than the cost of living is probably not going to happen either. So, and the challenge is we do get keep getting asked to do more stuff. Sure. the state and fed vote that you know government money is not gonna go up a lot. No. If you look on the right side of total savings, the total savings, sorry, the total savings for fiscal year 26 is less than 1% of our budget. So even though the number itself looks big, it's really not that much money compared to our whole budget. But even that hurts because the vast majority of our budget is salaries. If you look at this number for fiscal year 27, I think it's about 1.2% of our budget. And the third number 240 is about a half a percent of our

189budget. So that gives you an idea what percent of our budget we're cutting. It's not a ton of our percent of our budget, but if we're talking about putting people first, people are already the vast majority of our budget. We cannot cut a whole lot out without starting to cut people. Okay. Any other comments? Well, with that being said, you know, we're looking at one one and a half% of our budget cut here. In your very first one, you're looking at six to 10% on some of that based on the department. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. which probably isn't there either. I mean, no, I we need to we'll need to look. Yeah, I I think we can find something in that range at least. Great, Christie. Anybody? All right, moving on. Now, we're going to vote

190on spending money. Oh, boy. Who? No. No. No. the copy paper bit. Wow. I can't beat that. So, on your in front of you, we it's actually bidded through our green bush um co-op bidding that we do for them. It's for the buildings um and the departments for next year's paper cost as total white. 30 29 oh 34 80150 for the total and green bush as always that's the best price you can get they go out and do the bidding on our behalf so yeah madame president I move we accept the bid for copy paper for next school year presented second it's been moved and seconded to accept the copy paper bid as presented Any discussion hearing? None. All in favor raise your right hand and say I. I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carried.

191You can still make copies. Lisa. About half of that is Lisa. Okay. the bid for the child nutrition program. We received uh bids from three vendors, EPCO, FNA Food, and Gold Star, which is formerly Grave or Graves Foods. Uh we recommend awarding the bid to FNA Food Sales and EPCO Wholesale Food Corp. based on price, ability to honor bid specifications, and service experience. What was the price? Well, it it depends on how many lunches and breakfast and everything else. Okay. More of a menu, right? Gotcha. type of price to the police department order. Second. It's been moved and seconded to approve the food the child nutrition program. Is that right? That you submitted. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I and raise your hand. I oppose. Same sign. Motion carried. Are you on

192this one too? I am up again. Stormline repair bid. You remember we talked last month about our architects um thinking that if we replace a storm line that runs under the building right now that is leaking that it will help with our issues at the middle school. We have two bids, one from Kindle Construction and one from Cinei. And you'll notice that there is a rather significant difference and we would recommend to go with Kindle Construction. President to approve the bid. Sorry. Approve the bid from Kendall Construction as presented. Second. It's been moved and seconded to approve the bid for the stormline repair from Kendall Construction as presented. Discussion. Madam President. Yes, Kyle. Just quick question. Is this something that wrong or bad construction 10 years ago or do we go down that path and

193we're we're so I think there are people that would probably consider that possibility. I think that could not have said that. You should be a politician. I don't think that's an irresponsible consideration. Uh I think that there are several vendors that would argue that they did not play any part in anything that didn't go as planned. How was that for in other words as a member of the legislature? How was that? That was good. So this is the next thing you try to try to alleviate that in hopes to mitigate uh water um grouping underneath the building causing the heaving and later it will also cause the constriction once it's gone. Yeah. But our chances of getting somebody else to help pay for this is probably over. We have not without litigation. Yeah. True. We

194have explored. Not without what, Brad? All claims court. Yeah. Maybe a little bigger than that. Judge Judy. Here we go. Okay. Thank you. Okay. All in favor raise your hand and say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carried. Okay, Megan. It's Megan. I'm here. All right. I am here on behalf of Jeff and myself to seek your approval on the AUA and loan agreements proposed for next year. Reminder, the main difference here is within within the device loan agreement. Some updates there um regarding fee changes. So, can we approve all of these together, Megan? Okay. Make a motion to approve the AUAS as presented. Second loan agreement. Loan agreement. The loan agreement moved and seconded to approve the employee student device loan agreement AUA as presented. Any discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I

195and raise your hand. I oppose. Same sign. Motion carried. Okay. Workplace math. Yes. So presented this last month. This is the proposed curriculum to go with the new work workplace math uh course that was added this year with the program planning guide. Madame President, I move to accept the invo um bid for workplace math essentials curriculum as presented. Second. It's been moved and seconded to approve the workplace math essentials as presented. Any discussion hearing? None. All in favor raise your hand and say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carried. FastBridge. It's here to seek your approval to uh adopt Fastbridge as our assessment for preK through sixth grade. Madame President, I move to accept the bid for fastbridge as presented. Been moved and moved and seconded to approve the fast bridge proposal as presented. Any

196discussion? Hearing none. All in favor raise your left hand and say I. I. Gotcha. Okay. Marty. The final action. Yes. Uh final action on a non-renewal of a teachers contract for next year. Okay. Require a reading of the Okay. document and I will read it, not you. Sure. Okay. Final action on the nonrenewal of a teachers contract. Whereas on the 14th day of April 2025, the board of education of USD 345 Shauny County, Kansas, by resolution duly adopted, took action to notify Lisa Spurlock on the board's intent to nonrenew her contract as a teacher for the 2526 school year. And whereas the clerk of the board of education gave written notice to Lisa Spurlock on the 15th day of April 2025 that it was the intent of the board of education to nonrenew her contract

197for the 2526 school year. Sorry. And whereas after extensive consideration and thorough discussion, the board has determined the matter should be resolved as follows. Now therefore, be it resolved by the board of education of the unified school district number 345, Shauny County, Kansas. Section 1, that the contract of Lisa Spurlock be nonrenewed for 2526 school year. Section two. Bless you. I keep thinking I'm gonna sneeze. That the clerk of the board of education give personally or by us mail, Lisa Spurlock, a signed copy of this resolution. Adopted by the board of education of Unified School District number 345, Shauny County, Kansas, the 12th day of May, 2025. That needs to be a roll call. Ideally, it is a roll. So, we need a motion. Yes, Madame President. Yes. I make a motion that we adopt

198final action on a non-renewal of a teachers contract. Second. It's been moved and seconded that we adopt the final action on a non-renewal of a teachers contract. Candace, would you like to take the votes? Michelle Fel, yes. Christy Wiler, yes. Martin, yes. Chris Travis, yes. Donna McGinty, yes. Braden Warner, yes. Diana, yes. You've done them all. Sorry. Um, motion carried. I will. Okay. I make a motion to go into executive session to discuss confidential employee information pursuant to the exception relating to personnel. matters of non-elected personnel in the open meeting will resume in the boardroom at no later than 9:30. All in favor, raise your right hand, say I. I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carried. Oh, and I am inviting Brad Wilson into the room. Thank you. So, we are in need of a

199motion. Madam President, I make a motion to accept the updated organizational chart for our districts. Second. It has been moved and seconded to accept the updated organizational chart for the district. Any further discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I and raise your right hand. I I oppose. Same sign. Motion carried. Okay. Now I will make a motion to go into executive session to discuss negotiations pursuant to employer employee negotiations under KOMA and the open meeting will resume in the boardroom at no later than 9:45 and I will invite Miy Ambra Hi. Hi. Hi. Oh. J. Where's Jet?