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USD 345 March 2025 Board Meeting

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YouTube / Seaman USD 345
Date
2025-03-11
Location
Shawnee County, KS
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10,853 words · about 61 min
Collected
2026-06-13

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001e e e the school board meeting of seaman USD 345 to order we will start with our pledge allegiance Trayden will you lead us pledge alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the repic one nation God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you has anybody signed up sign up okay we will move on to adopting the agenda Madame President I make a motion to adopt the agenda as present it's been moved and seconded that we adopt the agenda as presented all in favor say I I and raise your hand oppose same sign motion carried all right we will start with our special guest Michael stoer from the theater Department hello esteemed members of usd345 school district I'm Michael stoffer the director of theater at shs happy theater in

002our schools month I'm here to give an update about the theater department and inform you what we do on the theater department and celebrate some of our achievement so some updates in this past couple months in January we went to the Kansas thespian Festival in Witchita the students performed watched shows attended workshops we took about 30 students and about 24 of them completed competed with what are known as thesp we qualified three students to the international thespian Festival in June and in another qualifying event we Al also qualified two more so we have five going to the international best me Festival in June other awards that were awarded were um Cody M Holland was an awarded for outstanding male lead in our fall play taming the Wild Wild West and aess and for the seventh

003year in a row we've awarded the gold honor troop for from Kansas thesians this is given out to troops that go above and beyond with theater activities throughout the year this takes account of our shows our events our community events and school services our Musical that we put on recently The Drowsy shoppr was a great success we've entered the gesture awards for Music Theater wishah and we'll learn um what nominations we have in May and then some other things that are happening here in the future March 27th is our annual Viking variety show which we hope to show off some talents over there at usd345 community and this past week we've had auditions our student directed 1X these are completely ran by students Brandon grunfeld and S M are the directors and story Tory Sten

004is our Tech director these performances will be April 24th and 25th so some of the things that we do in the theater department and we do a lot of it the theater Department goes all year starting the first week the schools with auditions for our fall play and one act to the winter for our Musical and the Springs with our student directed 1X spread throughout our players improv shows a Haunted Trail a variety show and rehearsing and building sets for all these activities all of this besides players improv is done after 305 and all our activities are around 30 to 60 kids depending on at somewhat involvement some of the achievements that we've had um every year we qualify uh an average of six to 10 students to International thespian Festival the past two international

005thespian festivals have we had students reach Superior ratings in this past summer we've had our first overall thespie winner with a perfect score Anna Sage was honored on the international stage uh with her solo acting performance and then with all our musicals we have multiple Music Theater of wit to Jester nominees and last year Brandon grunfeld won outstanding supporting performer Awards aside I'm very happy to extend our involvement out in the community and in the school we work with area schools for what's called ticket shares they come to our shows for free then we go to their shows for free we also have com we've also had a combined improv show witha West High School we've added a fall one act performance at the end of semester to get more students involved and we've also

006connected with our elementary schools touring shows and helping out with their activities Northern Hills Elementary on March 26 is coming to our to have a theater day a part of their Midsummer's Night Dream and finally the students and I would like to recognize the board for their generously support the recent approval with the new lights and sound system to our Auditorium will out our students the opportunity to finally perform with an appropriate outfitted space that supports not only theater but all the Fine Arts and all the district events your continued support allows us to remain student Focus instead of fundraising Focus we greatly appreciate for all your for all our students thank you for your time and letting me speak on behalf of the theater Department this board and all of the districts is always

007welcome to any show we put on I wish you uh continue support for a success for our Fine Arts students thank you very much thank you where's international yeah where is it this year is still in Lincoln it is in Bloomington Indian so we go to indana university for a week so actually this du tals nicely I was going to talk about during president's report uh TOA Stephen high school was qua performing arts school of excellence award finalists this year and that includes our um speech communication our our speech team our thespians our band our choir uh and I think Anna Kennedy said this was the first time that we have received this award to be even be a finalist yes so that was one of our main goals to be recognized by C so

008we're really excited that we are congratulations thank you can I request a music sure yeah I'm kind of I'm reading plays and useful what we do for the future we do like the teen Edition of six six yes okay yes I was gonna W Side Story Westside Story I'm all in on six yeah in may we went a group to New York and that was one of the shows we saw Prett so thank you very much presented for honorable achievement for the thank you very much you are very welcome all right thank you for your time you have a great evening thank you again thank you for speaking and letting us know everything that's going on okay I am now going to make a motion to go into executive session to discuss student discipline appeal

009pursuant to the exception relating to actions adversely or favorably affecting a student under coma and the open meeting will resume in the boardroom no later than 6:30 you can always come back out yeah and I would like to invite Mr Johnson and Marty and Mr Wilson into the Board Room second second all right all in favor raise your hand and say I I I oppose same sign e e e regular Schoolboard meeting back into order we will go to superintendent remark so the legislative process sometimes I don't know why that was can be difficult to follow at times so really I just wanted to give you an update on where the school funding recommend commendations are as they go through the legislature initially the governor um and as actually started last year Governor proposed a

01072 million plus increase over last year's special education funding in the education budget went to the house and the increase in special education funding in the budget was reduced to A10 million increase over last year the recommendation then went to the Senate where that 10 million was removed from the budget along with other funding such as CTE Transportation safe and secure schools Grant teacher professional development Mentor teacher program and really anything that wasn't directly tied uh to the funding that's required through the Ganon court case that recommendation was sent from the Senate um education to Senate Ways and Means Committee and is currently waiting for presentation um and potential approval before it goes to it have to go to conference committee because it's different between The house's recommendation and the Senate's recommendation so just wanted

011to make sure you guys knew where um our funding for next year was sitting perfect Grant thanks for the wonderful news you kind of know it already but all right moving on to president remarks first of all what a beautiful day oh my gosh I am ready for spring I said earlier in the winter that I love winter I love snow but now that I've had a bite of the weather I'm like yes um I was sick last month so I did not get to speak about my trip to DC so I just wanted to make a brief comment that it was amazing um um it was a different type of conference than I've been to with the board because it was all learning I learned so much in our two days of conferencing about

012how we're funded where the funding comes from who does what and this I mean it was just amazing but exhausting I would have to say my favorite thing about the whole trip was actually going and speaking with the representative or their assistant and talking with them and letting them know why it's important and how we use the funding and just overall it was awesome it was a once in a lifetime like first time I'll probably go again next year but for me being my first time it was it was a lot but it was amazing so I appreciate the opportunity to go to DC and do that does any of the board members have anything they want to say this month yes Kyle so in response to the Brads rebuttal so he's right he didn't

013but uh just to let you know in committee I voted for the $72 million increase for special ed thank you Kyle Kyle I was actually the only Republican to do that in in committee so so anyways for for what it's worth I tried to do my part so and in committee we actually uh compromised if you want to say to 30 million instead of 72 and then when it got out of our committee the Appropriations moved it down to 10 so so just to let you know where I was on it I I I think that we we have other places we could have cut some spending but unfortunately One Voice didn't make any difference on that so anyways just well we thank you for that thing I would AR is I do believe your

014one voice makes a difference and I appreciate it I'm trying very much so I think we do have people even in that committee even you know you said you're the only Republican but I think there are other Republicans who are trying to do what's best for schools and what they believe is right um I think there is a small majority that sometimes is in leadership that um is not listening as much as some of the people that are more tied to back home anybody else um I told Mr Wilson before the meeting that I felt like uh the board needed to take a field trip um I know that all super busy and everything and we have a lot going on in our lives but um I was able to travel to LEC County for

015the KB board and um that District was able to kind of give us a Showcase of what their District was like and I feel like if we can get outside of Topeka I know building administrators and um teachers and stuff can always go and look at other other districts um and get a visit from there but for us board members it would be nice if we could take a field Tri trip somewhere and look at another District because that's where we're going to kind of like steal some ideas from them you know um but I was very inspired this weekend by going to Southeast Kansas and what they were doing with their CTE program was amazing and so if if we can actually get together at some point and figure out like where we can

016go we can bombard a district have Mr Wilson extend um you know maybe a discussion to another District that we could go and Venture and see that would be fantastic certainly what I could do is take um and put together a list of a number of districts who are maybe doing some things that might be of interest to the board um and then give you guys a list and a little description of what they're doing and then you guys could decide any or all none if you wanted that you wanted to go visit it doesn't have to be um we we can observe what other schools are doing as long as we're not making decisions about our own School business that is a fine thing to do it's not an uncommon thing to do it's

017similar to what you do when you go to a conference um so yeah we can go see some uh other districts but um I'd be happy to put together some districts and Piper would be one of them that are doing some things that might be of interest to you or or um that might be where I think the vision for where we want to head is um in some way shape or form I don't think we should copy any District but I certainly think we can get some really good ideas um that can help us move forward it's hard for people to Envision sometimes what that looks like in real life and just know we get to showcase our district at the end of the month to a bunch of um superintendents and building administrators

018and a couple other board members for um KD so the end of the month Career and Technical education CT oh sorry used to acronyms I apologize you talking about the leadership for tomorrow yes and so we actually have a plan um they'll see things like our um FFA and horiculture and um Candace what else did you arrange for us there's the museum studies law enforcement pathway is Gonna Come and speak and um yeah culinary students culinary gonna put together some treat and they will use our library to meet and do their business for the rest of the time nice so we'll get get a hour and a half is that right two hours I think there's like 20 of us yes that's we had trouble finding a space so we've got the library so I

019also wanted to share that we got a thank you from the Kansas teacher of the year team and thank you very much for allowing our team to visit and tour your district and spend time with staff and students we appreciate all that you do for your students and your commitment to Excellence in your District that was to the board so okay anybody else okay moving on to approval of the consent agenda make a motion to accept the consent agenda as presented it's been moved and seconded three times that we approve the consent agenda as presented all in favor raise your hand and say I I I oppose same sign motion carried rod and Megan you're are finally up yay happy haircut thank you you're welcome feels so much better so um I just want to

020talk to you about the district leadership team work that we've done so far and where we're heading um tomorrow we have our um School site visit and that's just kind of a check-in type of deal that we do prior to going to our school Improvement day um but the team has done a lot of Rec cause analysis we actually work for principles today to do some recaus analysis as well um kind of getting into which fundamentals that we want to focus on and structures and as you can see in the building report we have two fundamentals that we're zeroing in on um the first one is structured literacy and the second one is um standards alignment and actually both of those go hand inand very well um and what we're doing and so um we're

021now looking at the structures that we'll um be working on those through so either professional learning collaboration um evaluation those types of things so is there any way we can move that 27 up mostly the biggest struggle we have is timing because of the number of people that we're training and having the availability to pull them out of classrooms to train them so doing cohorts and to get everybody trained the problem is if we had you know the substitute teachers going into classrooms having enough Subs to fill classrooms and cover those as we go in so we yeah I just know shaie Heights has 100% of their G through or K through six teachers trained already they started yeah yeah what percent are we at do you know a Megan probably hasn't making question um

022yes and um I need to Crunch the official numbers because it depends on if you're talking completed completed or in process in process so okay so in process we would be closer to about I would say 50% of our k6 staff okay um we're in the 20 to 30% range of those who officially completed but with the new two year process cor years I remember yes and so we had our greatest cohort of teachers start just this January after news of the um lure requirement that is coming um by July 1 2028 um so that's where we have the plan in place in order to get them all trained um by that point awesome yeah thank you oh yes sir so is there any um thought on who's going next or do we start with

023the first grader second or was it just who was available to go yes absolutely so our timeline is that uh this may right after school gets out we are training our four identified IND District trainers three of them are Elementary instructional coaches and one of them is our early childhood instructional coaches so at that point in time they will all be trained in order to begin a cohort of units one through four in the first year of letters and we will use our um data that we have on relicensure for all of our current staff members to identif who is up first for that relicensure and start targeting by that relicensure date based on staff who haven't already completed it who aren't planning to um take the early reading test and would be the first

024candidate so that will determine our order training I'm done now you're you're training trainers now but up until now we've had trainers from outside the district yes and in fact we started with our own IND District trainer um and um she started our very first cohorts she had another um opportunity she was wonderful and we were pleased to let her go to our other opportunity so then since that the past two years we've been a part of virtual cohorts with the state and our group that started here in January um this would be the last virtual cohort because we're shifting to the industri trained model yes nice thank you okay okay Megan yes so in the teaching and learning report I just wanted to highlight that both within the Early Childhood Elementary section and the

025secondary section I shared some information about our curriculum renewals because I do say spring is our curriculum renewal season um so you can see the information within those it's kind of a precursor to some of my curriculum information that I'm going to dive into here in just a few moments also within secondary I know you saw this within the program planning guide um but just know in March is when our um annual uh pathway appliation requests are Dua to KSD so it seemed timely just to remind you on all the pathways that we have requested and are getting approved to go into next year um because some of those names and Pathways did update so any questions for me on any of that information all those pathway applications have been submitted um couple three of

026them maybe have been approved already okay so now for program evaluation yes so uh this month I'm happy to share with you the program evaluation for professional development as I was working through this uh program evaluation it was really clear to me how professional development is so integrated with so many other things that we do and um plans that we are making so just within the description know that professional development is ensuring that all of our individual um uh teacher and staff needs are met through training ation opportunities providing the right resources but it's also closely tied to relicensure um and the salary movement process as well so all of that is overseen by our professional development um committee and obviously impacts our building staff and our building P principles who are facilitators at that

027as well uh so as we look at the program goals section goals one and two are related to just ensuring that we are meeting the appropriate needs of staff so that we are providing professional development um that are indicated by building staff both on their annual survey um which some of the data you'll see here in a moment and we'll have the new one going out here right after Spring Break um and so the ones that came across last year as the highest needs were behavior management strategies students social emotional needs and high impact instructional strategies so we've really tried to Target those and encouraged our principles and their professional development planning to tie their own professional development to that this year so every year that goal will be updated and aligned with what those

028results are from the professional development survey um the second goal is to ensure that there is alignment between what the building and district is doing on both our PD days and during collaborative time do either that professional development survey um building um strategic plans and of course our Kissa action plan that we are in the development of this spring we want to make sure that the PD that we are providing is targeted to improve Us in those identified goal areas then goals three and four um are related to some of our goals that we have set through feedback both with the retention committee and that you'll see their sciance here with our strategic plan and that is to establish an updated new teacher mentoring program for human Capital Management and support of those newest teachers

029um and then goal four is looking at how we can continue to support our support staff in their own professional learning and growth so measurables that we have for a professional development program two of them come from our staff survey um that went out this past fall and you can see what those questions are and kind of the dissemination of the responses across the board and then the other three measurables that you'll see on that table come from our annual PD survey and how we can use that to track and see how we are improving you can see the highest percentage did land and the agree strongly agree sections of each of those um but of course would love to see those and just to continue to take upward as we meet these goals and

030support staff in their professional development needs okay um then on the back page of the um evaluation you'll see at the top is our budget so the budget um categories you can see there um are the different pools of money that we have to allocate to professional development needs in the district and those are the total numbers for each of those budgets so thank you to Lisa for helping to um or working with me to get those um compiled for you um and those are allocated out to buildings so we have both as a teaching and learning at the district level allocations that we can use to put into these categories and then buildings do as well as they manage their own professional development and make decisions on sending staff and paying for staff opportunities

031that meet those goals that we talked about on the very first page um then finally what all of this means for moving forward is three of the things I've already kind of ref we want to continue doing um and continue implementing within the recommendations so the first one is that we will continue to administer the annual professional learning survey that is tied um both to our professional development um committee's handbook and part of that process but it does give us those greater District Trends in order to make decisions on what uh professional learning should happen both at the district and building level we want to continue to work with building leadership teams in order to align their professional development to their targeted building areas so that we are making intentional decisions towards staff learning and

032continue to provide opportunities for personalized professional development just like students no educators are exactly the same everyone has unique individual needs in order to grow and improve as a professional and we have instructional coaches who support staff through coaching cycles and other processes to meet that need so we want to continue all those great things that we are doing in the areas of professional development and then um as I referenced ear ear um we want to make an update to the mentoring program so we will start working um on that this spring with a formal launch um this summer with training new mentors and into next year on how we can support our newest teachers through that mentoring program and um then we'll be working as a team in order to identify those training opportunities

033so those two for support staff so those will be our two items to begin implementation and I would look forward to reporting back um on those to you when I see you again any questions for me on professional development I have I have a question if you could just please move up to the measurables the graph the chart there so my question is this and I'm going to ask this because I sit on the committee the PD committee yes so um we've got like a 75 25 breakout there of the bottom three this PD surveys with the middle non applicable yes so one of the questions that one of of the um staff members brought up at the last PD was the irrelevance what they felt was an uh PDS were irrelevant that there weren't

034um things that they could go to that were relevant for theirs well it occurred to me as I was reading through this that that person she's a special she's a you know so I thought and I know you heard that that day because you acknowledged her and um so I just got to thinking I mentioned this to Mr some while ago about thinking out of the box for some of those people because I know that I know that um having sat through PDS I can only imagine as a specials teacher or somebody with a unique band shop whatever they have less in common with some of the other and so any ideas of how to think outside the box yeah absolutely I think I really appreciated that staff member speaking up and sharing you know

035perspective so that we can continue to do better and meet those needs but I think myself and I will speak for other building leadership we are always willing to hear ideas on how we can um be flexible I know that there's um depending on the day opportunities you know for specials who maybe are um a lone wolf in their building to maybe have opportunities to visit other buildings if they are in session on those days and we've done things like that in the past um we've had conversations with um a special team even for our April date coming up about kind of taking a a field trip together to work on um or work on an area that they have a focus so maybe to other districts even I don't know just absolutely and we

036that um works as long as it's not a PD day at another District depending on the time of year like coming back in January often everyone maybe a PD day that's um collaborative between districts too so I don't know I like that the field trip that's just to accommodate those people so that they feel like that's a that's a work of all day yes 100% thank you this board meeting's a theme is field trips yes yeah okay to curriculum thanks Megan she she's back I am back all right this evening I'm pleased to bring to you some official curriculum recommendation as we look to next year um the first slide is just a reminder on the review and adoption process you have seen this slide before um it's the same one uh that we have

037followed in previous years but just know that the process is always intentional in order to get feedback and make the best decisions that we can regarding our curriculum adoptions the next slide though on timelines this is an update and I'm not going to spend too much time going into it but we were nearing the end of the original adoption cycle that I was working on and as we looked to the next um six to eight years I had the opportunity to kind of make some adjustments in order to streamline some areas that I saw maybe um weren't as um efficient uh for example we had um some cases where an elementary content area like math was happening at a different year than middle school math which was a different year than high school math and

038um looking at that I thought the opportunities there were missed for maybe some vertical conversations and alignment if they were all happening in different years uh so looking ahead uh I made some adjustments to schedules which meant a couple curriculums and content areas are maybe extended an additional year or two with their current adoptions but after we moved past that year or two we would have all content areas as you can see on the same page so that we're looking at a big picture view across the district um like when we're looking at English language arts or math or social studies um so that would be my proposal for the timeline going forward so in yellow is where we're at here um looking at hgss for elementary and the high school um and next year

039would be science and then we're getting closer to being on track with everything so you hgss oh excuse me hgss is history government and social studies y okay so yes so history government and social studies for elementary this actually hit at a very good time because our current resource into social studies through um hmh hotland they are um were retiring the current resource that we had it was no longer going to be available after this year even if we wanted to continue with it um so we were made available or made aware of that going into this year so we were able to plan accordingly this slide just shows the timeline that was taken um and I really want to recognize that the elementary buildings all had Representatives that sat on a steering committee with

040me in the fall as we looked at standards looked at available resources and narrowed it down to two options so there was great conversation and representation across the board after we narrowed it down to both um tcis social studies alive and savic's my world those were the two both of those products we had virtual webinars that were available for staff to listen in on and recorded So staff could watch those and then sample materials that went out on a tour of all of the buildings um for at least a week if not more a couple buildings got them longer because of snow days would you call that a field trip there would be a field trip okay yeah I'll see if I can work that in any other place this evening um and then um

041so at the end of January all buildings uh answered a rubric in order to give feedback on the results and the results are what you see in front of you when they came in and I know it's teeny tiny um but the recommendation it came in for TCI and that was at about 64% of the staff um ranked that as their preferred resource uh that is the resource we are bringing to you for recommendation and the next slide shows um what that proposal would mean this would be for another six years according to the new timeline um what would come with the adoption would be digital access for all teachers and students uh print teachers for students as well as a print copy of a student workbook um just so that they would have access

042to flip through it all the workbook materials would be available online for them to print off and access it just means that you know if they weren't going to use every workbook page we aren't paying for a resource that we wouldn't be using in its entirety um so that was a fiscal decision with um not adopting the workbooks across the board um and then um there would be Student Activity cards that are classroom sets that would be for each um classroom there is a shipping fee for some of those and that's just a one-time shipping fee that would not be annual uh there would also be professional development provided in August for our staff so that um comes to the grand total that you see there very briefly I wanted to read to you some

043of the staff uh responses as to why they wanted um TCI um they says it aligns very well with the standards and connects each unit to the state of Kansas which we are missing right now this resource has a lot of independent and collaborating opportunities and seems like a highly engaging to students TCI social studies alive is the best option because in every unit it has students connect with their learning back to their state hits all the standards better than the other resource the activities and research in each unit seem like they'd be more engaging for students um there's more but I won't um take your time reading more of those but know that I'm very confident and comfortable with making this decision or making this proposal to you this evening Megan I see that

044it was also presented to building site Council so parents who on the site Council also had the opportunity to yes there are one or two buildings that haven't didn't have their site Council since the decision was made um but those buildings have been made aware and they will be presenting it at their site Council either end of March or April when those happen any other questions on Elementary before we move to high school okay so high school um also met with their history department and after doing A needs assessment um with their Department there was really um three particular needs that stood out one was our US History resource was in need of a refresh and then both of our AP History programs had very outdated resources so that's what we um honed in and

045looked at some potentials you can see there was really five um companies that we looked at four potential resources there and after their team had an opportunity to dive in and review those um the proposals that are coming from the high school would be mcra Hills Edition for US history so that's the one on top um we would get 80 copies of that and all that they're looking for is just the print text not the digital resources and uh three teacher editions would come with that and then for AP and both AP US History and AP government would be S gages uh resource for those also looking for just print editions um and I'll make a note with those print additions those are to be one to one whereas the um US History ones will

046be classroom shared sets and the reason that the AP um is uh being requested to be oneto one is because that is more of a college level text they need the students be able to take them home uh read them at night uh utilize the resource outside of the classroom so it' be a checkout system with those so that's our high school history recommendations and ready to move on okay the um CTE curriculum proposal for this year would be within our agricultural uh pathway and you can see some of this is related to the new classes that we have adopted for next year including Small Animal Care and then also an update um with our uh modern livestock and poultry class so we have 10 copies of one 15 copies of the other these are

047also from Sage which really is one of our best CTE resources and you can see the total that is available there for our supporting our CTE a program we also had a new teacher that came in with some great ideas and she saw the need for some of the updated resources so we wanted to support her with that and then my final update curriculum wise and this is more informational than cost but as you will remember last year we adopted character strong k6 um and I shared in a teaching and learning report last fall that milk was interested in piloting it has included with our character strong adoption was preschool curriculum so it was a resource we already had at our fingertips they have had staff piloting it in the fall and found have found

048it to be effective and supports their Frog Street curriculum as well as provides a different perspective than what they're already doing with the conscious discipline which is part of Frog Street um it will also be that exposure to our students who are going into kindergarten next year with some of the same language and characters um and ideas uh that they will be then diving into even more kindergartner so just a nice um correlation there between preschool and kindergarten we have or if we um recommend that milk continue with that yes so the the kindergarteners who don't go to Milk are they okay do they catch on okay yes yeah I think so um the character strong curriculum at each level does a good job there's kind of a kickoff a two weeks kickoff to the

049curriculum and so that's the time where they get familiar with the characters and everything so even our students who don't go to Milk and come in fresh as kindergarten they will pick right up and um understand it and um if you ever happen to be in a building when it's character strong time I recommend to go into the kindergarten classrooms because they are the cutest singing right along to the songs and knowing the characters so they they definitely catch on very quickly um so finally my update um is that similar to previous years we will be making the curriculum available to the um public on display here at the education center um anyone can stop by on March 25th or March 26th um between the hours of 8 and 4 in order to view these

050curriculum materials uh they will be available in the second floor room so any questions for me thank you very much you guys very much Megan so is there any way that a parent who is a student is not at milk this information and use it at home the character strong yeah I mean I just is that even doable if wanted to um they wouldn't have access to the same lessons that the teachers do because that's a paid account access but there are parent letters that go home or can go home and I can check with um follow up with our buildings I know at least several that do share those um home and the parent newsletters give recommended activities and things that you can do that correspond with the uh word of the month so

051like for example march here is cooperation um it talks about how you can talk to your child about cooperating um and and do some can we get copies of a parent letter for the legisl good word of all hiss we sing songs there you go helps Kyle yes thank you Megan welcome all right d we're ready for your special services first want to thank Kyle for being that one boat I appreciate it if you ever need any information I'd be happy to talk with anybody and that's my plug I would like to talk about the very last item on my report the bowling prevention plan um we started with the district mental health Team oh my gosh it was a while ago three of you were there um reviewing and revising that was our task

052um using our district policies our old plan the um ksde executive executive summary and task force recommendations so we had lots of papers we review and reviewed it all um and had some great suggestion suggestions then we took it to the building principls as well they took it to their District leadership teams or building leadership teams and so forth and so on so we um the very last page has our recommendations I will let you read through those um some main ones was you know in our board policy we talked about bullying with not only students but with parents and staff we wanted to make sure we added that within our plan um updating the Board of Education we will update the Board of Education annually on bowling within the district we haven't been doing

053that that was a recommendation from the task force um documentation and training and all the other things that you can see in there is definitely all within our plan if you actually click on which Jeff you don't need to do this but click on the heading within um my board um report you can actually click on the plan so one of the main things that's different is that um the first Pages two three and four not the not the title page but two three and four we are going to integrate that into our building handbooks um you know we had a lot of feedback that we had this separate handbook away from everything else and we wanted to make sure that it was integrated so um if you have the building handbook you have the

054buling policy within that handbook so that'll be on page two two pages two three and four will be integrated the discipline also will not be separate the discipline will be integrated into the building's discipline plan so the principes have that task to bring that to you all for approval when the building plan books are approved so you guys have a kind of a sneak peek at it um and the PA and page five is everything for the principles how do we report it in power school what are the steps in how do we look at that data and review and revise that data within power school and how do we utilize that data so Rod actually is working on a principal's handbook and so the entire handbook will be in the principal's handbook does that

055make sense we're just trying to make sure everything is the same spot um so that people have easy access to it another recommendation that came I can't remember if it was the mental health Team or the building principles was that we'd like some paper copies of the handbooks as well so we're putting that request in there that parents can request paper copies at their office from the handbooks because I know that they're on the website you can get through two of them from their website but it's often nice to have a paper copy so you can see it as well um do you have any questions on any of that he thank you for all your work and your inut thank you for all your work Mr Bradley be completed so that we can go

056on the stop bad question next week yeah were weather delay no no when the weather but uh couple weeks ago they started this was the demolition of the dugouts on the first Bayside for the flag pole and the sign comes in got over and took a couple pictures of that and then the next pictures or when they were cutting out the concrete over on third Bayside and last week they poured concrete on third base side this is first Bas side concrete Bo it's red it's actually getting pretty exciting over there starting to see it come together so have we have we got the blocks no not yet so we're do we have an idea yes okay yes so um last year I didn't get in with the Boy Scouts until it was summer but they

057did a project at the high school up there on the front where the uh parent teacher or student drop off they did a flag United States flag drop off and then this year's project was the sign out on the east side of tennis courts they brought rock in did some native Rock and then they planted a tree here about two three weeks and that's the next picture down the Boy Scouts been doing quite a bit of repairs and up up little upkeeps so soy exciting can I bring up a bad subject are we gonna have to reschedule some softball games there Jam B's been moved okay the first game has been there negations right so we're keeping the first game but with a backup plan I would encourage them not to totally give it up

058until we know for sure right I think uh Mammoth is willing to work late turn on lights and do that type of stuff but they don't really I mean until we get the block there but the Jamber yeah I think the J W moved already into April oh did it just get backed up yeah it just got April but I hadn't heard about the jamere Jamber is now you know yeah proba anything else any questions should I not have asked oh I'm GL she it's all right thank you very much thank you L Mr Wilson yeah a conversation with governance um we had some difficulty uh scheduling uh the appeal hearing um for student discipline um so the thought was to bring this to you guys as a board for discussion um if you go

059to page four Jeff of the policy JD we've done a couple things at the bottom of that page for you can see where it starts appeal to the board it was a little bit confusing that um it almost looked like you had to be 18 in order to get an appeal but it's 18 the student can request it if they're under 18 the parent has to be the one to request uh with written appeal of a suspension or expulsion so we added a little bit of language to hopefully clarify that um PR and I looked at that and didn't ever get language that we thought was perfectly clear but that's hopefully to clear that up a little bit yes way this reads now if the student is 18 they have to request it if they

060are under 18 the parent has request so you're if a student is over 18 their parent or Guardian cannot request it no that's the student at least that's how it's written well that's what I'm asking yeah the parent cannot according to this policy correct is that the way it has been yes yes okay was clarified that way in poliy that's word yeah it was it was written unclear but yes it was the reason it was unclear is because they were specifying a student who is 18 or older and then it went to or a student's parent or Guardian but if it's 18 or older it can be the student under 18 would be the uh parent Guardian so we're just saying if the student is over 18 it cannot it needs to be the student

061yes they are an adult at that time so they have to choose whether they want to be in school or not thank you um but the real question um that's a slight clarification which again I don't just to would it be easier to say flip those two around the following TR condition shall apply the students's parent or Guardian student's 18 or if a student is 18 or older I I think most of these are going to be under 18 and just flip them just flip them because the way you read that would probably make more sense you're Candace do you mind taking a note on that and we'll get that cleaned up if a student's parent or Guardian files yes or stud age 18 or older makes it appe so that way I have the

062same idea that makes sense you're right the vast majority are are under 18 yes it makes it clearer yeah in fact more often than not if they're over 18 they don't even appeal either parent or student want appeal um but the next section on the next page Jeff is really the question so right now it says the board or hearing officer appointed by the board and so you've always had the option of either having a hearing officer do the appeal hearings or you could do them as a full board which is what you guys have typically done in the past um I was asked earlier is that typical I would say I'm aware of both of those situations happening if I were to guess but I can find data that's better than my guess I

063guarantee you that if I were to guess I would say more do a full board than do a hearing officer but I don't know I would happy to go get information from other school districts that'd be willing to give me that information um and so if you chose to the challenge is you have to have that appeal hearing within 20 calendar days if they give a written appeal and you do not schedule that within 20 days they are back in the school no matter what they do essentially um and so then the process would be the hearing officer would hear the um appeal they would uh make a summary and even a recommendation potentially to the board the board in executive session would be able to hear that summary um and um recommendation but then

064the board would make the final decision regardless of what the hearing officer would recommend unlike the um initial hearing the appeal hearing will always be decided by the board as a whole um but you could delegate the person to do the what you just did for the last um hour or so you could have a hearing officer that hearing officer would need to either be me the superintendent because the hearing officer are are executive directors and I would be the only one that would be able to Trump them and to overrule them um in the chain of command or you could have uh an attorney um either from KB or probably from um David Cooper's firm that could do that as well and so those would probably be the best options if you chose to

065have a hearing officer I'm not making a recommendation I'm bringing this to you for discussion so that you guys can make the decision that you think is most appropriate the decision and the appeal will always rest on the board so I want the process to be what the board wants it to be an additional cost the attorney yes if you have an attorney it would cost extra would you U Mr Wilson please um give the benefits for for each option yeah so let's say the whole board the benefit probably of the whole board doing it every time um there was some discussion could you have the board do it when they're available and If not delegate that to a hearing officer yes you could the negative of that I think is pretty serious of some

066families would not would feel like they didn't get something another family got with being able to have the board hear it if you did a if you did a little bit of both I think the negative is going to be perception of a fair um hearing um I would say the positive of the board hearing is you get to hear it firsthand there's no is this being filtered through another person that type of thing um which there's always bias there's always somebody these perceptions that you would be able to hear if You Secondhand we would record it so that you would be able to if you wanted to hear the recording um before you got to the decision you could do that if you chose to um but that would be available to you um

067the negative of of doing it as a full board is the challenge of we've had hearings that maybe four or five board members were able to show up for that then the whole board doesn't get to hear it in a special meeting type of thing or the challenge of being able to hear it in a timely fashion which is part of Statute to be able to hear it in a timely fashion uh if we can't get four board members together then essentially the whole board can't hear it because the board is only the board when four are gathered in one place making a decision so that kind of talks again then to the advantages and disadvantages of a hearing officer as well um the only difference is I see it between the two is um

068if an attorney hears it you're going to be paying a little bit for it but um we pay for attorneys anyway um but it would be just a little bit of extra money that would go to an attorney if they heard it um the well that's that's probably the minor negative I think that probably the bigger negative would be if you chose an attorney they're also going to have to be able to be on call and and hear it within 20 days um Advantage is you control me so I'm always available within 20 days that's your even that I'm here within 20 days so you'd mentioned U we had some questions about what other districts do what's kind of most common I'm happy to go research I I would appreciate that I think that would

069be nice to know for sure what most the majority of other districts are doing I think sorry I interrupted you go ahead I was say that I in my for me my opinion like this is part part of what we signed up for when we got elected and uh in hearing these the sorts of things and understanding what's going on within our buildings and helping to make those decisions but we did have a hard time getting everybody together which we would still make the decision the only thing is we wouldn't be the one meeting with the parent and the student and I feel like the parents and the students have the right to come the board right so I'm just saying right so we'll still be making that decision I would like Mr Wilson if

070you wouldn't mind reaching out and finding out what's most common what other districts do I think that help any other discussion comments I just I just had a comment sometimes working with families they do raise the concern that's of confidentiality because they're having to come to an open meeting and I have to put that open meeting out there and I have to send it to media that there's an appeal hearing and so that kind of s they don't really know what to expect then whenever we're kind of sharing it as an open meeting and they come to that but I like they would try to keep it private as speak and it would always be private if it was with the superintendent it wouldn't be it wouldn't be a meeting at all wouldn't be be

071very similar to what their regular first appeal hearing would be would just so they would do the first appeal hearing and then turn around and do pretty much the same exact thing with Brad very or the superintendent y okay and then it would be an your the decision would not be the hearing officer's decision then you would present it to us an executive session correct okay and I would write a summary and if you chose to listen to the T you could do that tape I don't have tapes anymore tape W you're old well thank you I appreciate be glad we'll bring this back um next time probably well I might bring it as a discussion that you could move to action if you chose to because if you don't want to change it you

072just move on if somebody makes a a motion to move it into an action then you guys could uh vote on whether you wanted to be an action and then voted on it as an action okay so sounds good okay thank you yep um demographic and budget discussion I think that's you as well Mr Wilson this will not take too long I did um put in the uh board docks um you've seen that table already the difference is I did at the bottom put the reference to where that information we've gathered so our student headcount is gathered from ksde data central if you go to KD's website there's a link on their front page for data central and then in data central if you go to headcount enrollment un audited public districts that is where

073you could find for each of those school years what our student headcount is that's un audited um when I looked back it differed by one from where I thought they told that number but it's it's a good data the second one funded FTE comes straight from the um School Finance page the legal Max is where that comes from and um that's is actually an audited number that's one reason why it lags a year there and then um but we do know ahead of time what it's going to be um because it's a look back and then um the licensed staff is again a data central under Personnel reports licensed you can find that data here's why this is important this is our past and if you've noticed our past we have uh decreased our student

074count by about 320 students during that same time frame we increased our staff six staff members uh you will notice from last year to this year we actually decreased by five and a half staff members um a conscious decision to um through a attrition us right siiz us a little bit um we're nowhere close still to where we were in 2017 18 for student to staff but um I wouldn't even say we're not even closer quite frankly um but we did uh reduce five and a half for plan for moving into next year we've made a cut of another six positions um again to uh do this so the if we do not address this we will not have enough money to pay our bills it's just that simple the board has one of the

075board goal is to recruiting and retaining a staff and one piece of that none of these are riffs none of these are people being cut these are all through attrition and deciding um not really about programs but about in places where a person has either retired or resigned and we don't need to fill it in order to get class sizes into their appropriate level um our levels have not changed we haven't increased our student levels but sometimes we don't need a hire one back to maintain our levels of student population however even with those last two years we are probably 28 staff members um certified staff members heavy um so even though we know the past and can start to make some practices what we don't know yet is our future and so I am

076recommending to you that we do a demographic study um the this board um or past boards has had um RSP which is Rob schwarz's firmed do demographic studies in the past in fact uh he did one right before Co then Co hit and then that study never made it to the board and if I understand correctly we actually never paid for that study um because and when I talked to uh Rob Schwarz a while back about that study his comment was yeah you can buy that study if you want to but now that covid has gone through that study is not good um I've known Rob for years he would not try to sell me something I don't believe that we didn't need um and I at that time he thought that study was not

077valid anymore but we could choose to do a study moved forward and that is what I recommending that study would tell us things like the age of our households um of the people in our households what it's been in the past what it's doing now and then the projection for the future it's the number of students per household um and that projection into the future he will do what's called a heat map that will show the areas where there's growth um and not growth um and so that information I believe will allow the board um and us to make uh decisions moving forward um that are better because what the hard part is we did with this table is it looks obvious right now that we should have been making decisions but right around covid

078like that decrease wasn't that much well then it dropped during covid well it dropped everywhere during Co and the Assumption was it will come back and it did a little bit but then it started dropping off at the same rate and so we think we need more data to dig into I can give you the reasons I think we're declining enrollment but I'd rather have Rob Schwarz give us data that would confirm or refute my guesses um so our next steps would be um hopefully in April to have Rob Schwarz tell you what he can and can't do and then uh you guys could have a discussion item on whether you want to have a demographic study in the district um in May um we will do a building needs assessment but also um you

079could decide whether to get Rob started on a longterm it would cost money yeah uh that would Rob would need to act all give that I don't know right I've to my head um they're not cheap they're not cheap I couldn't I couldn't give you fine we're overflowing with money at the moment yeah no problem um and then in June is we're going to have a budget discussion um and then we'll go to that and then this kind of Segways into our next action item okay and again any questions about the budget discussion or having Rob Schwarz come are you guys okay with him coming to the next meeting at least presenting to you I'll see if he can he's a very busy individual good okay so moving on to our first action item building

080needs assessments Mr Wilson so we're being a little bit proactive maybe overly proactive um but you know we found it as an opportunity to improve something we were already doing and make it better but the legislature has a bill out that may or may not pass I really don't know um pal may know better than I do but it is changing the needs assessment and the verbage that is used in that is twofold one is the board conducts A needs assessment and the second part of it it is says that obviously board members give input but teachers employed by the school district give input School site councils give input and attend Center administrators give input so I think we have a decision to make this is a process in which we um let those groups

081look at data we get feedback from those groups and then bring that to the board to be able to have the board answer the three mandatory questions that the board has to answer based on um that data as well as student assessment data the question I have for you guys is fairly simple today would you like the board to conduct those needs assessment at each Attendance Center with both staff and site counsels or would you like to officially delegate that responsibility to an administrator such as the building principal would be my recommendation and let the building principal get with their staff and their site cancel Council um there is a survey that once they've given the data to them that they would be able to fill out on that and then there is also um

082the principles what they would do would be to summarize that information and then we could do a special meeting with the board so that you had one meeting where each build Attendance Center principal would present present on their building the barriers to each of these and notice we've put these in terms of each student reads proficiently by third grade the barriers to each student maintains or improves their academic uh achievement each student use their unique talents and strength in at least one academic to excel in at least one academic area and then our retention so um the barrier to each staff member being engaged in supporting the learning of students and then uh feeling valued and supported in their work um and then uh what they would also bring to you would be what their

083they believe are the budget actions that would best prioritize the goals of the um board and what we might be able to reallocate because we're not going to have very much of any new money and so if we're going to do things like the board has said we want to make sure salar are competitive then that means we're going to have to reallocate from something else so they would bring you recommendations but the final decisions on that would be yours um after you've heard them each of the principles you could then answer your three questions which includes the time that would take to be all threes and fours um and be able to identify potential budget actions that would hit your priorities do do we we know why the legislature is asking us to do

084that like what's the reasoning that they actually want the board members to conduct it considering there has to be all of us and all of our buildings and all the time and it would have to be we don't have anything else to do I know it is and nothing against the legislature Kyle I'm just asking no it's it's not this is a bill that has been sponsored and written by a group out side of um the legislature um and then it has to be carried by a legislator but um that group I think is trying to put more um onus and responsibility on board members that are elected and maybe trying to take it off of superintendents or um I don't know other other employees in the district uh my feeling is some of that

085information is best gathered closest to the source which is why I didn't even offer to me to go do those things I think it would be awesome for the principles to empower them into having them do it and then they report to us I agree with Michelle but the answer Christie's question is we I think our board and our administrative staff do an outstanding job of working together and doing what is School Board should do if you hear the testimony and the and some of the stuff that we've heard at the Capitol it's it's not doesn't sound like yeah it's not happening we're an exception to we are we are and there's some things that we take for granted that other school boards just you know either superintendent doing it or or they just aren't

086they don't know yeah you know so so I think that's the reasoning behind it to say maybe the purpose is to better engage board members in some of those districts that make sure the board members know they have the P what the responsibilities are and and that that's really the board's responsibility so that's the the reason no I appreciate that thank you yeah that makes sense we because there's a I went down through the list and you know we do that we do that okay you know right so it's I think we we just do a really good job and it's not only us but it's the whole administrative staff and I don't think that's true in the other 28 or 85 school districts thank you so I like Michelle's comand about empowering the principles

087because they are in those buildings they know what's going on they still report to us and we I stop I guess but right besides the legisl but um I like the idea of the principles I I agree they know what's going on there because if I went out there I I don't know I could around and ask a bunch of questions it doesn't need the right question yeah yeah it doesn't mean it's the right question right so do we need a motion stating we want the principles to do it what are you needing um if you're going to delegate that to the principles yes I need a motion and um action wait before we do that ask yes okay I Stu out awesome I know right d it okay so this assessment is what could

088potentially should we delegate this this is what this doesn't look look like right and it's awesome because for those of you who are printing out um it lists here are the priorities we've set and then here are the barriers BL and then we asked them to tie this to the budget yes as they're making budget recommendations is the the only hesitation I have is that we're saying these priorities that we as a board have set are the only priorities that better and in a way yes that is correct however each individual building might have a reason for something else that is very important that may not eye directly to a priority the board is St is there a way we could add something in here that would allow our building principles to say boy you

089guys are right most of the time but what you really miss in my building is yeah I know right I'm perfect all the time but Chris and Kyle are real problems and so I just feel like there should be some here's what I want to be careful of Al when when you guys made your priorities that wasn't you guys just saying this is what I think and feel right right you had data from administrators teachers staff members community members parents um and so what I want to be careful that if we are going to get on a path I don't want us to say yeah but if you change your mind and want to go off in this Direction that's okay that's what I would want you against in this I think we can put

090some other that they can have other conversations but I don't know that I would want to phrase it as you know if your building's just different and you want to go a different direction that's okay because what we said is the door if we're not all for one and one for all we're not going to get the results we we want to get because we've had individual site-based schools and it hasn't resulted in the results we want to get I'm saying I understand but I want to be priorities should be the priorities for every single building what I'm saying is if there is because of a building and our buildings are very different our buildings are very diverse and some sometimes in the student population that they serve I would like there to be at

091but if you say other priorities what are you what kind of things are you talking there a six thing I don't know is there a six thing maybe I'm wrong and we should say these are our only ways that we want you to PRI money I know I'm always right maybe Chris is wrong so what I I don't know I would I would just throw this out um we have to keep in mind what our job as a school is it's to educate students it's academics and so that's what we need to be our buildings that's what they need to be focused on I mean and if it doesn't fall under that somehow well I would hope that it would yes I'm just I think we could we could br B it a whole bunch

092I don't want but I don't know that that's what we want to do no no I just feel like we're we're basically asking everyone to justify their their budgets completely and totally under these five priorities no no no no no what we're asking them they have their budget is spent on a vast majority of things what we're asking them is what would you reallocate either in your budget to meet these goals not how are you only addressing these goals we spend money on other stuff okay but how are would you what would you recommend that we reallocate either in your budget so if you notice it says from current budget line to recommended budget line they don't have to they don't have to clean out every budget line that's not one of these five things

093that's not they they understand that thank you the other thing that I'd like them to bring to you though is because their budgets are pretty small in comparison to all staff raises so I have said to them if you have recommendations about other places in the budget the whole District budget that would say you need to focus more on staff salaries instead of X they can bring that to you as well because that's really the decision that you guys have to make is is yes we want them to have some skin in the game and be thinking about when I make my budget decisions am I thinking about meeting the board's goals but I also want them to give you the information that would help you make the decisions to say Brad maybe we should

094take less money on this and put more money on that in order to for our students as Donna said to learn better that was good clarification for me because I was very I see what you were looking focused on just those five things and justifying all the budget but you're saying we're saying on these five priorities what are you doing to address the budget what are you GNA do different thank you not completely in that but what are you gonna do different because if you're spending your money and making the decisions exactly the same as we always have done we're going to get the same results thank you very much that actually is great clarification so we need to so what action do we need to take somebody can make a motion to either have

095the board do it or to have the uh principles do it and then if one fails then you can do it the other direction and see if it passes mam pres one of the two has to happen I make a motion for building principles to do the needs assessment process and present their results to the board education for approval yep so you're delegating okay yes I second it has been moved and seconded that we have the building principal do the building needs assessment and then report back to the board any discussion all right all in favor say I and raise your hand I I oppose same sign motion carried in your spare time suum L criteria no I don't look like Brad Jones but I'm I'm going to do my best to pinch him one

096so last month Mr Jones presented the suum lat um proposed um process for you for when we adopt the seventh period schedule next year um so I just wanted to give you a chance to ask any questions or and I'll do the best I can to answer questions all right do we have a motion requirements as presented second it's been moved in second second that we accept the Su suum requirements as a presented any further discussion hearing none all in favor raise your hand and say I I oppose same sign motion carried credit waiver request thought that's what was wrong switch now Rod FR um last month I presented a 21 credit graduation request to you um so I'll stand for any questions you might have about that presid I make a motion to approve

097the credit credit hey it's been moved in seconded twice that we accept the credit waiver request any further discussion hearing none all in favor raise your hand and say I I oppose same sign motion carried all right thank you thank you Brad I'm not on the M Mr Wilson yes these are the policies that Candace so eloquently um went over with you in the last board meeting um I would say she's probably the expert if you have any questions or concerns on any of them I did not I don't believe we got any change recommendations for any okay so so they're as they were last month yes all right do we have a motion I make a motion to accept the changes to policy as presented been moved in second twice again that we accept

098the policy updates as presented any any discussion hearing none all in favor raise your hand and say I I oppose same sign motion carried all right the internet take 45 minutes or you guys have seen at least prior to this meeting all the bids and hundreds of pages that they all contain it's a lot uh we're recommending um em3 networks again we've been a customer of their since 2019 and I don't have a single bad thing to say about them there was one less expensive bid in there but I think you've all seen the reasons why I'm very hesitant to go back that direction so we're asking to maintain our contract with a couple of upgrades from mem3 any questions clarify this is a service and so you do not have to choose the least

099expensive bid service I'll make a motion to accept the viid from em3 as presented second okay it's removed in seconded that we accept the bid from em3 networks any further discussion hearing none all in favor raise your right hand and say I I oppose same sign motion carry thank you Jeff Mr ninad take a field trip to the roofs okay Virtual Field probably better uh we gave this information to you and it has now been vetted Again by htk and we would recommend for the roof at Seaman High School to go with Midwest coating not to exceed $1,120 th000 and this is a construction project so we have to take the lowest Madam president I make a motion to accept the bid from Midwest coding not to go over $1.12 million second it's been moved

100in seconded to accept the Midwest coding bid as presented any discussion just to clarify so that is just for the high school right correct okay these are two separate right two different projects okay any other questions or discussion hearing none all in favor raise your hand and say I I I oppose same sign motion carried we have a second project for the r roof at West Indianola and we would make the recommendation that we go with Meridian not to exceed $451,500 Madam president I'll make a motion to accept the bid from meridium Roofing as presented it's been moved in seconded to accept the bed for West indola [Music] from thank you Meridian as presented all in favor oh any further discussion all in favor raise your hand and say I I oppose same sign motion

101carried tractor Lance has convinced me that we probably need to replace the 48 year old tractor you from 1923 that's right you're not exaggerating are you no it it is truly at least 48 years old it predates rick sear to kind of give you an idea um and his life but in his career our our thought on this is with what we are going to recommend um it will allow us the opportunity to use it as a loader uh to push snow potentially if we get another Implement for it uh even to brush sidewalks and uh parking lots and also uh to put mower decks on it especially when we go out to uh Sean Acres and do things out there so it will be a multi-purpose item uh what we are looking at is

102with the trade in of the tractor that we have now we would be asking for $85,100 Madam president I make a motion to accept the bid from can equip for the new Koda tractor as presented it's been moved and seconded that we accept the bid for the new Kubota tractor as presented any discussion hearing none all in favor raise your right hand and say I I oppose same sign motion carried landscape we have taken over uh some of the pest control and whatnot uh including um fertilizing so we have still a need for someone to come in and augment what we do with Mowing and a little bit of landscaping and uh you'll see the three bids um we would recommend that we go for one year with cutright Lawn Care LLC with a total

103bid not to exceed $5,350 uh Madam president I make a motion to approve cutright Bond Care LLC for one year not to exceed whatever Marty said 115,000 it's been moved in second it to accept landscape bid from cutright for a year as presented any discussion hearing none all in favor raise your right hand and say I I oppose same sign motion carried thank you very much thank you very much Marty that was very smooth yeah I was just gonna do that okay I am going okay I'm going to make a motion that we amend the agenda to add a third executive session for student second it's been moved in second that we add a third executive session for student any discussion Madam president I'd request that we do that one first okay yes we will

104I Now understand um I can do that okay any other thoughts all in favor raise your right hand and say I I oppose same sign motion carried to invite Brad Kyle and Brad well we'll call Kyle oh okay we'll call Kyle later okay I'm going to make a motion to go into executive session to discuss student discipline appeal pursuant to the exception relating to actions adversely or favorably affecting a student under coma and we will invite Mr Wilson into the room and the open meeting will resume in the boardroom no later than 9 15 I'm just making that long that hurts e e e right so so we're back in session and I'm going to make a motion to go into executive session to discuss negotiations pursuant to employer employee negotiations under coma and the

105open meeting will resume in the boarding boardroom at no later than 9:40 second it has been moved and seconded all in favor I raise your hand and say I little slow today the same time Mich carry e e e

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