001welcome this uh march 7th 2022 wichita board of education meeting is now called to order we'd like to welcome everyone that's here in the audience and everyone viewing tonight we appreciate you taking the time to spend your evening with us the wichita public schools will be the district of choice in our region where all students on staff are empowered to dream believe and achieve if you would form uh join me in a moment of silence please thank you tonight's pledge of allegiance is led by the marshall middle school jrotc with fernando martin de campo lilly fountain madison fountain viviana dominguez would you please rise for the pledge of allegiance colors hold left face you may post the colors thank you sir order colors colors posed i pledge allegiance to the republic for which it stands
002one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all you may be seated let's give a round of applause to the marshall middle school jrtc our jrotcs always do an excellent job and we appreciate them i mean immensely uh patrick first item please first item under reports superintendents student advisory council good evening board it's great to see you all again tonight my name is jase nelson from northwest high school at our last super sac event last wednesday we talked about the esser grant and how it can improve the students and include and improve our lives including college class opportunities for us and any kind of funding we could get out of the esra grant for college classes because you know times are rough and um sanitation and upkeeping of buildings which you guys are
003doing great thank you very much to all our sanitation teams and i was wondering if there is any news revolving around the ester grant that you would like to share with ufc 259 parents and students tonight no all right that's all thank you thank you [Laughter] the second good news item good evening president recently sorry super our first i apologize i've got four so i'll just i'll just get rolling you'll take over from thank you you bet good evening president research superintendent thompson members of the board tonight makes my wps heart full and happy to see a room full of people here to support our students i think we have a lot of parents in the audience this evening we have students in the audience we have so many students here tonight in fact that
004we have a whole group of student artists that are waiting in the wings across the hallway to come in and meet you and be celebrated for their scholastic art achievements we also will recognize several exemplary schools and one amazing educator who has put kansas on the national map as one of our two national award winners for math and science teaching and you'll get to meet mrs olsey soon but first i think that our scholastic art award students are waiting in the wings and are going to come in and while that's happening i believe that you will begin to see their artwork on the screen and have an opportunity to see the amazing work that students have created that has allowed them to earn scholastic art and writing awards and as you know these awards are
005recognized across the country it's a national competition and our students who are winners you will have a chance to see their art at mark arts during the display in march and sean chastain our executive coordinator of fine arts will tell you more and allow you to meet the amazing students and the art educators that are here to support them thank you wendy and good evening everyone before proceeding i would like to invite any student or teacher representing tonight's scholastic art awards to join us down front if you haven't already and i also want to invite everyone to start viewing our district's award-winning artwork that is on your screens i also want to thank marcia scurfield wps visual arts curriculum coach for joining me and for also organizing tonight's slideshow thanks also to wps visual arts
006faculty who submitted digital images and especially to those in attendance tonight from east high school we have shelley sally and brenda lichman and molly williams and from northeast magnet we have meredith radke gannon so around for our teachers that are with us tonight thank you as wendy mentioned the scholastic art and writing awards is the oldest and most prestigious recognition program for creative teenagers in the united states each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for originality technical skill and an emergence of professional vision and voice this year 1614 individual submissions plus 24 portfolios were submitted for the eastern kansas scholastic art awards of those combined 1638 entries 466 student works were selected for the show of those 466 works selected 125 entries from the wichita public schools were awarded our award-winning artwork
007represents 89 student artists guided by 24 visual arts instructors from nine wps secondary schools and for the first time in many years all of our wps high schools were represented this year's district winning category percentages include 30 percent honorable mention 26 percent silver key 17 percent gold key and two of the five american vision nominees so percentage-wise everyone over 25 percent of the 70 county eastern scholastic art award winners are from the wichita public schools while we have an upfront look at these award-winning students and faculty we also would like to recognize any parents and administrators and family members and friends of those students that are with us tonight in the audience so parents administrators family members and friends i'd invite you to stand or wave as we give thanks for your continued support of
008these talented students please stand and finally as we did last month with the banner winners i want to again thank the student artists for joining us tonight and to briefly come up to the podium and introduce themselves to everyone by sharing their name their grade and their school and their award so come on up my name is valen huber i'm a sophomore at east high and i have an honorable mention and a silver key [Applause] my name is kenda balut i'm a senior at east high i got two honorable mentions two silver keys and a gold key my name is isabelle meda i'm a senior at east high and i have two gold keys and an honorable mention [Applause] my name is calista govert i'm a sophomore at east high and i and i received
009an honorable mention my name is serena chow i'm a junior at east high and i received honorable mention my name is tom nguyen i'm a junior at east high and i receive two silver keys [Applause] my name is stephen hunt i'm a junior at east high and i got a silver key my name is malia subba i'm a junior at east high and i got one silver key one honorable mention my name is jennifer nguyen i'm a senior in east high and i got one silver key my name is nora reed i'm a sophomore at east high and i got two silver keys in an honorable mention my name is rebecca reimer i'm a senior at east high and i received three honorable mentions my name is jd brown i'm a junior at east high
010school and i received two honorable mentions hello everyone my name is mitzi darmstadter i am in 11th grade and i go to east high school go blue aces i've gotten a silver key in ceramics my name is deborah arreola i go to east high i am a senior and i got a silver key [Applause] my name is liza potts i go to east high oh i'm a junior at least high and i got a gold key my name is ashley duns i am a senior at east high and i got an honorable mention [Applause] my name is fatima brava i'm a senior at east high and i got two honorable mentions hi my name is desaraca jaina shaklu i'm a junior east high and i got an honorable mention hi i'm estella massaro i'm a
011junior at east high and i got a gold key for my ceramics hi i'm delaney trammell i'm a senior at east and i got a silver key hi i'm caitlin mai i am a sophomore at northeast magnet i won a honorable mention and a silver key for my writing hi i'm julia hazelhorst and i'm in 11th grade at northeast magnet and i won three honorable mentions thank you again students and following this good news item teachers or mrs scurfield or myself will be distributing to each of you a beautiful certificate of recognition prepared by our district's strategic communications division and finally many thanks to once again to our board and our district leadership for supporting our wichita public schools excellent representation at this year's scholastic art awards if anyone here would like to see more
012you can view the entire exhibition at mark arts 1307 north rock road until march 26th but for now how about a final round of applause for all of these students and these people thank you congratulations mr chastain do students ever have art sales there are some really amazing pieces up there and i suspect there are some adults who would love to have their work in our offices and homes extraordinary talent we will be sharing the slideshow on social media if you would like to be able to review the images again and hopefully you will have the opportunity to go to mark arts and see our students work for yourself it was really amazing on to a different kind of amazing we now have the opportunity to recognize the students that are in the audience with
013us tonight who are winners of this year's cte pathway awards it's been a couple of years since we've been able to recognize these young people in person and it's an honor and a thrill to have them and their parents back in the house along with mr kelly bielefeld who is executive director of college and career readiness who will introduce you to the awards and the students who receive them welcome kelly thank you president reeser uh wendy joked about you know purchasing the art um but i tell my team so she wasn't joking um i tell my team so marla hayden uh kathy mong and pj reilly are pathway coordinators for cte programs i tell them often what makes a cte class a cte class is the skills that our kids have they can take it
014and go make money with it so uh shelly sally and casey and meredith and jenny a lot of these teachers that are here tonight actually teach graphic design in the graphic design pathway because that is another way you can turn this into a career or livelihood so obviously lots of talent i'm going to go ahead and invite all of our cte pathway winners to come and if you guys would just kind of stand over here i think that'll expediate this a little bit it wasn't as organized as mr shastain that's perfect yep so when i call your name you can come up next to the podium here we have some some winners who weren't able to be here tonight so i'm still going to go and read their information and what they won any teacher
015in the district can nominate cte pathway award winners throughout any of our 27 pathways so these are the winners in each of the pathways and i'll tell a little bit about their pathway and their future plan because the other thing that we do is we try to get an individualized plan of study for every student and so we're going to talk a little bit about what their goals and dreams are which are also pretty amazing so our first winner taylon coleman is not with us tonight she won the pathway award for early childhood she is a senior at heights high school she was in fccla for three years a two-year star event competitor and she plans to major in early childhood and become an elementary teacher for wichita public schools she didn't say that but
016i added that on there so congratulations to taylon next up is alex gleason alex you want to come up alex is the winner in our computer programming pathway he's a student at northeast magnet high school he plans to attend college and study astrophysics and mathematics he wants to get a doctorate in physics to work in a research position at a university or national lab so let's congratulate alex next up is deasia goalie she is the winner in the fcc s pathway that stands for family consumer and community services she's a senior at heights high school she's been in fccla for two years vice president of community service this year she plans to attend avila university in kansas city and major in nursing and wants to eventually become a pediatrician congratulations to asia next up is
017jessie hancock jesse is our winner in the fade pathway i was joking earlier with mrs bond about all the acronyms we like in education so to define this one fashion apparel and interior design she is a senior at northwest high school she's been in fccla for three years two of those as the elected president she plans to go to college and study graphic design and eventually plans to move to a big city and find a great job so congratulations to jess next up is kenneth kitchen kenneth is our winner in the restaurant uh an event planning pathway or also known as culinary and he has a senior at northwest high school he plans to attend wsu tech in a two years to become a chef so let's congratulate kenneth [Applause] lyndon lee is our winner
018in the finance pathway lyndon goes to southeast high school he is in deca and bpa he plans to attend butler community college for a general education and then continue on to wsu possibly majoring in pre-law or continue on to kansas law school or washburn and passed the barbs bar exam to obtain a jd so congratulations to lyndon mariana ledesma is our mac marketing pathway winner she is a senior at west high school she is the deca president and plans to attend wsu tech for digital marketing and wants to start her own business congratulations john paul lewson could not be with us tonight he is our winner in the engineering pathway and he attends east high school he plans to go to wsu for a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering then get some experience from text
019drawn or spirit and then continue on to get his master's degree so let's congratulate john paul soraya marquis is our teaching winner we have a teach and train pathway that is a lot of our favorite pathways and across the district so this is always a competitive one soraya attends south high school she is the president of educators rising and a plans to attend plans to attend cali county community college and her earn her associates in creative writing and then also plans to continue on to secondary education or child psychology let's congratulate soraya all right donovan powell is our winner in the digital media pathway donna couldn't are you doing it okay come on over it's pretty good donovan goes to southeast and he has a winner in our digital media pathway donovan completes in jea
020which is journal the journalism education association and nspa which is the national scholastic press association he received superior ratings in both of these he plans to attend wsu for computer engineering and once a career in broadcast journalism or the i.t realm congratulations donovan and our final one winner that could not be with us tonight was priscilla torres priscilla wins the pathway award for law enforcement she attends south high school she plans to attend community college for the first two years of her education and then to attend wsu and major in criminal justice so let's congratulate priscilla so as long as uh the art kids and mr chastain didn't eat all our cookies our students and parents are invited to the cafeteria for a small reception so thank you all [Applause] thank you kelly mr rooster
021if you don't mind can we pause for a moment so that we don't disrupt our next next good news item yes do you ernest ernestine if you want to say that again well they're all gone back but i'm just real proud of all we are very proud of all of the students that have shown their awards and shown their abilities we just are popping our buttons thank you ernestine wendy third item our third item tonight allows us to celebrate four three amazing schools and one educator who leads one of those schools i had to make sure and look carefully at my list with national recognition for their achievements as magnet schools and in two cases as leader in the lighthouse schools so you'll have a chance to hear a little bit more about those awards
022and meet the leaders at those schools as i introduce jessie milne and phyllis cottner from our magnet department well welcome phyllis and jesse thank you good evening thank you so much for this opportunity and we do want to acknowledge our folks this evening that are doing some amazing things in their building so we'll start off with jessie talking about the magnet school awards so um the magnet schools of america is uh if you're not familiar it's a national nonprofit uh professional association whose members are schools and school districts they serve kind of as a resource to magnet school stakeholders around the country msa as i'll call magnet schools of america for short bases all their work on standards of excellence that they refer to as the five pillars of magnet school which are diversity innovative
023curriculum and professional development academic excellence leadership and family and community partnerships annually except for last year because of the pandemic but almost every year msa presents merit awards to a select few of the most deserving schools around the country whose magnet programming best adheres to these five pillars previous winners from wichita include allison traditional magnet earhart environmental magnet mclean science and technology magnet and as well as jardine stem and career explorations academy this year uh the magnet department is really excited to celebrate with jardine stem and career explorations academy and principal magnet malgot eric's professional creaseman i get my mats mixed up uh professional principal kriesman um as they bring home the this award for the third consecutive year so uh do i give the thing now or what i'm done so mr creaseman here's
024your award there to hang up with your other two thank you and i should also mention that our print shop does an amazing job on those banners they're very lucky to have them um additionally magnet schools america awards uh principal of the year to uh to one principle from each of its regions now msa has seven regions and we are region six um our region includes chicago minneapolis st louis indianapolis and detroit public magnet schools unlike the merit award which is very hard to get but it's you can get more than one more than one school in your region can get a merit award but the principal award principal of the year only one principal gets it um and uh we're thrilled to share that out of all the candidates from the aforementioned public school
025systems matt malgot earhart errol elementary was selected as msa 2022 region six principal of the year so quite five seconds yeah phyllis and i have really enjoyed working with uh principal malget and watching him take what was already a very successful program at earhart to to just at the very next level it's been awesome it's very well deserved matt so finally in addition to the other resources that msa provides they also have a very prestigious magnet certification program applying for certification is a year-long arduous process in which the applicant must upload evidence to support the depth to which their magnet programming strongly encompasses all five of those pillars i was talking about and this year we recently found out that earhart environmental magnet became our very first school in ust 259 to be certified as
026nationally certified magnet school by magnet schools of america so congrats man i don't have another banner for you for that one we'll work on it yeah yeah so can i get the teachers from can earhart teachers stand up please thank you it is my pleasure to do a presentation about lighthouse status we have two schools that have been awarded that and i am absolutely thrilled to talk about the lighthouse certification that they have been awarded the two schools that have received that are gammon elementary and high leadership and international explorations magnet when we think about this certification it is such a significant benchmark that schools only go for it after four to five years of having a leader in me process in place and the evidence that folks are looking for when we talk about
027this is student outcomes that are truly led by students implementation of the leader in me process throughout the school and truly being a partner with staff students parents and the greater community there are more than 600 schools around the world that have earned this status and so we are so proud to have two of those schools here in wichita they are looking at principles schools administrations really engaged in ongoing learning and really living the seven habits and these schools have definitely done that they work closely with their school community and you can see leadership reflected in the attributes of the students um in addition the school identifies tracks progress and has very well established high priority goals otherwise known as widely important goals wigs and the students know where what those are and how to
028assess their needs and their progress so we would like to thank and recognize jamie cole and matt snodgrass and congratulate them and the staff and the students and families for this outstanding accomplishment of lighthouse certification congratulations thank you guys very much thank you not long after we started our strategic planning process and we were all learning about wildly important goals and the ways in which you establish and track them i remember going into gammon and having the students school me on how it was supposed to be done because they had it all laid out in their notebooks they knew more about it than we did it was impressive so it's a pleasure to close out our good news recognition tonight with an opportunity to celebrate mrs zarin olsey i've been working on pronouncing your name
029correctly we had the great honor along with her husband and other family members of being able to walk into her classroom and surprise her it's always super cool when people see tv cameras and a whole bunch of grown-ups coming in and they have no idea why we're there and it was really terrific to be able to surprise her and celebrate the amazing work that she does at mclean to help kids embrace understand and celebrate science education so without further ado i am pleased to introduce michelle engenthron who is our assistant superintendent of elementary schools who is going to tell you more about the award and introduce you to our national presidential award for excellence in math and science teaching honoree welcome michelle thank you president reaster dr thompson and other members of the board it
030is my privilege to be here tonight to introduce you to an amazing teacher that we have right here in the wichita public schools mrs zarin olsey is a science teacher at mclean science and technology magnet elementary school this past month past month mrs olsey received the highest honor mrs olsen i'm sorry i've neglected to bring you down come on down this past month mrs olsey received the highest honor any teacher can receive from our government the presidential award for excellence in mathematics and science teaching this award honors the dedication hard work and important role of america's teachers and mentors who support learners who will be future stem professionals mathematicians innovators science explorers and our engineers nominees complete a rigorous application process that allows them to demonstrate deep content knowledge and their ability to adapt to
031a broad range of learners and teacher in teaching environments a panel of distinguished mathematicians scientists and educators at the state and national levels assess applications before recommending nominees to the white house office of science and technology policy teachers are selected based on their distinction in the classroom and dedication to improving stem education we are very proud to have mrs olsey in our district and we were so very excited to surprise her in her classroom on valentine's day along with her husband who knows all of the hard work i'm sure very closely that in all of the time she dedicates to to her students mrs olsey i would love to invite you to say a few words and not only give you a good news certificate but also present you with a banner that you can
032take back to mclean i just want to say thank you to the board of education i have taught in wichita for 21 years and i'm so grateful for this district i've received excellent professional development all through the years and thank you so much to my principal cindy graves and all of her support for us and just love the educators and the students and the educators board and administration that leads us so thank you all so much [Applause] thank you miss olsey i just wanted to say that the one thing that distinguishes you between our other teacher all our teachers is not only do you have that deep content experience and knowledge but there's a lot of people who understand math science the stem but very few people can translate it to the students and that
033is a talent that i'm always in awe of and i wanted to just personally say thank you for your 21 years of service and we are lucky to have you and we thank you [Applause] patrick next item please next item under reports service employees international welcome esau thank you president reeser dr thompson board members i appreciate the opportunity to speak with you this evening and uh it's really nice to be able to follow up these these great groups of people the kids that are involved in scholastics i remember that being a great opportunity in high school and i always loved engaging in that the cta pathways and i really really appreciate all of the hard work from our magnet teachers and our teachers in general so thank you very much for everything you've all done
034i've got a few issues that i want you guys to be thinking about if you can wages are something that we're we're kind of concerned about because we we saw the wages raised but inflation's have shot through the roof and uh you know it's a little scary you've got all these people who really care about the kids and they really care about their jobs and stuff but when menards is hiring for 18 an hour and you've got hobby lobby and and places like that hiring for 21 to sell widgets and trousers and trinkets i know that that becomes a very difficult thing for you guys to compete with so i hope that you will reach out to the leaders in topeka and let those leaders know and remind them of the great work that our
035educators do to prepare our youth for the workforce and we need to remind them and people in the chamber of commerce that jobs and the chamber of commerce is there to support the community and not vice versa it's not our job to hand out to them they're going to reap the benefits from our children who come to school and are educated every day and we should encourage them to contribute more to early childhood education child care for workers their workers and you know employees of the school district the state everywhere so that parents can give the time that they need to their children to help to enrich them outside of school and give them a better chance to be a well-educated autonomous adults when they grow up and i know for a long time we've
036we've looked at things as a business model and sometimes we get to talking about statistics and well why can we do this with this but i just want everybody to remember when it comes to funding in schools we're not making widgets we're making the best people the best individuals that we can out of our children and we need to make sure and remember that some kids take a lot more money than others to do that but the goal is to get everybody to become the best that they can be so um with that i also want to say that we support governor kelly's elimination of the taxes and we hope that you guys will also send messages to pica and let them know that you also support that because that would help many of your
037customers and their families as well as many of your employees and i assume that it would help many of you as well too food is a very important thing it's something that i think we do a great job with nutrition services in usd 259 and making sure that our kids are fed they have full stomachs they're happy and they're ready to learn and not worrying about their tummy scrolling so with that i really don't have a lot more to say this evening but i do appreciate the opportunity and if there's any questions i'll be happy to answer ernestine would you be would you clarify as to what you were referring to about the taxes uh what the tax elimination that you're referring well there are a few bills in topeka right now and one is
038to immediately eliminate all taxes on groceries on groceries on groceries it's not all taxes but all taxes on all taxes on groceries and i think that that's a very important tax break to working families i think that's something that would help all of our families and we as an organization believe that that's something that should happen right away and not be something that happens in a tiered amount because whenever we give tax breaks and giveaways to the corporations we don't do it in a step down tier we just do it all at once so let's flip the script and do it for people and that's what i mean by that anyone else thank you esau thank you patrick next item please next item under reports united teachers of wichita welcome brent hello president reeser vice
039president hedrick superintendent thompson members of the board this has been a difficult school year for students and staff alike and this has been true across the nation not only in our wichita public schools as we return to a sense of normalcy the united teachers of wichita are focused on the challenges we face to ensure that our students are successful and our educators see sustainable rewarding career paths ahead of them now we've been reading news reports about fewer college students choosing to study education and teachers thinking about leaving the profession the fact is that this can be very challenging work and we don't often see the results for a while but i want to remind everyone that our teachers make a big difference in people's lives when i arrived at south high school as a freshman
040i was a mess my single mom was working all the time trying to get us out of the trailer park off macarthur road and i didn't want to be at school and i was failing classes and i had some teachers take a special interest in me they saw a potential that apparently i could not see glenda butchie mary smith theresa molina they kept telling me that i need to be at school i need to do the right thing and i wasn't listening yet my mom worked to get us out of that trailer park and we moved into a house right down the street from south and a month later she was diagnosed with breast cancer and those teachers saw us through it they were there for us when we needed them and they saved me
041as a student and they kept our family connected to that school when my mom got better they helped me apply for the army scholarship which i won and made it possible for me to go to college and when when i got to drake university i thought i really have to figure out this uh this student stuff because all these people are counting on me and i did but when i got the call that the cancer was back i returned to wichita and after she died those same teachers were there for me again and i tell you um you know i went on to serve in the u.s army infantry and when i was injured and could no longer continue in the army i was devastated i did not know what i was going to do
042with myself after a year in the hospital and physical therapy and the like and somehow in my head i thought i could become a teacher and that might be the way i can serve my community somehow going forward and that's why i'm here and i'm reminding you that the number one factor for student success is the teacher in the classroom i know it personally and i'm sure many of you do as well so i ask you to do everything in your power to ensure that your teachers feel like they are heard and supported as they go about doing the work to change the lives of those for generations to come thank you very much brent and we appreciate you sharing your personal story on that patrick next item please item public communications we have three
043speakers tonight the first one is kathy wilson welcome kathy thank you good evening president reeser superintendent thompson and members of the board of education i am kathy wilson my husband is also here with me we are passionate about public education we live this passion for public education john is a professor of education at wsu for 45 plus years often seen during this time in a wichita public school classroom to maintain that connection to practice as well he also wrote numerous letters has written numerous letters to the editor supporting education and i serving for 38 years as a teacher principal district administrator and college instructor i served 24 of those years in the wichita public schools our son went through the wichita public schools we continue to demonstrate our passion and support of public education through
044the dr john scholarship program at wsu and providing scholarships to other individuals in whom we observe the same passion i share this with you to give context to my comments this is our home this is our district we are alarmed with what has been thrust upon the wichita board of education the last few months and thus affecting the students teachers administrators and classified personnel of this district the conversation of the board until last fall was focused on guidelines policies recommendations recognitions of achievement that supported the pursuit of quality education for students and providing a healthy environment the board was not about personalities and block voting before last fall meetings were not infected with boos and cheers from those attending the meetings this kind of behavior affects everyone in the district bus drivers secretaries custodians lunchroom
045servers teachers building administrators as well as district support personnel we ask these people who are in the trenches every day to exhibit professionalism a commitment to the students and their learning and civil behavior when such behavior and focus are not being exhibited by a small local group at the board meetings it is healthy for a district to have individuals speak to represent an interest that supports furthering the education of young people but the board needs independent thinkers who read research survey those who are affected prior to making a recommendation and be prepared to provide factual study support please do not use the wichita board of education as a political platform you are not here to draw attention to yourself we do not want to know your name we want to see evidence of thoughtful and
046informed discourse to follow the script i'm sure your next assignment is to divert the board from real issues to argue about teaching critical race theory a non-existent course here then choose some books to ban then whatever direction politics drags you please stop i wrote a letter to the editor published years ago that in part said the public education is the foundation of civilization i continue to believe that public education is the foundation of our civilization this work is too important to be pulled into useless and unnecessary debates please choose students over self thank you thank you kathy next speaker is bella binji welcome bella thank you good afternoon ladies and gentlemen my name is bila bengi and i would like to discuss what impact standard reference grading has on high school students and middle school
047students and why this can lead to a very disastrous future standard reference grading in theory is a good idea the main issue of standard reference grading srg's is the power law formula what the power law does is calculate how much the student has improved in order to pass the class improvement needs to be consistent across the board this sounds good however there have been many detrimental and unintended effects of this formula that the students and teachers have seen during the pilot period the first graph shows the student's initial score of 3 and all scores are consistent except score 3 which was 2.68 still leaving the student with a calculated score of 2.6 2.98 please note that 3 out of 4 scores were above a 3 but they still received less than the 3 for the
048calculated score this explains that students are saying if you score high on the first assessment that is nearly impossible to end up with a higher grade because of the results in a flat slope the second graph shows the student's first score is the lowest and continues to gradually score higher leaving the students calculated score at a 3.44 higher than any test score the two the student has achieved please note that this student only had one out of their four scores above a three the score they had above a three was identical to the 3.22 of the previous student and yet they received a calculated grade that was significantly above the first student students have figured out that in order to get the a they have to essentially fail the first assessment they also do not
049have to turn in the assessments in between because the zeros that will be inputted in the gradebook do not count against the students since they are ignored by the formula another strategy that the student have started to notice is they need to score a passing grade once at the beginning and then it is best for them not to turn in assignments after that point in order to maintain that score this rewards not completing assignments the students the third graph shows the student scored a 2.32 on the first test they did poorly on the second and with the third and the fourth assessment the student progressively got higher scores please note that even though the student's final two assessments were above a three instead of ending with the desired grade the slope of the graph became
050slanted making it impossible for the student to receive above a three overall this is why students are choosing not to complete intermediate assignments which get progressively more difficult they could score lower on these assessments which bring down their overall grade this also illustrates that the calculated grade does not always end up reflecting the final standard performance standard reference grading with the implementation of the power law formula affects students negatively because it penalizes work ethic what i mean by this is studying for their first assessment and it rewards poor work ethic high achieving students now have to purposely fail their first assessments in order to show improvement this is working against students and their future success because of how the power law formula works we will now have fewer students failing classes despite not turning in
051many assignments and we will now have fewer students receiving a's even though they are working extremely hard this will result in a decrease in gpas for our hardest working students and ultimately a loss of thousands of dollars in scholarship money i plead with you to think about what kind of grading system or firm below we want in our schools across the districts to have please reconsider the power law formula thank you thank you bella and our final speaker tonight is carrie sue vosberg welcome carrie sue good evening i spent a couple of weekends in january at various school grounds i must say i was appalled by the amount of trash on the school grounds it might be a good lesson and respect for the students if they were required to spend time picking up trash
052at their schools during the covid presentation at the board meeting february 7th terry moses was asked who picked up the mess her response was the district staff was picking up discarded masks as you can see from what i dropped off with patrick i was out on the school grounds picking up masks during those two weekends they have been bagged by the school and the district they came from as well as the date they were picked up unfortunately i was not able to get to all the schools in the district so a couple of you won't receive any anyway i just thought the board and miss moses should know that the district staff aren't doing a very good job of picking up the mass thank you thank you kerry sue patrick next item please next item
053under education coleman middle school environmental magnet middle school proposal dr thompson would you like to introduce this topic yes thank you am i on now all right so um some years a couple years ago um you know we had some some folks to come and visit with us um to talk to us a little bit about kind of the continuation of services that they wanted to see in some of our magnet school programs and so we began to kind of explore uh there there was uh we have a pretty popular kind of theme that is out here in our magnet school land and it is around our environmental agriculture those kinds of things and so we have a lot of schools that that are you know doing the bees and they're doing lots of other
054things and so um in in this particular feeder pattern and it was the southeast feeder pattern and so we have earhart elementary school and then we had southeast with the agriculture and so we began to look throughout our feeder patterns to begin to see where we can get that continuation so the children who are in those magnet school programs that do the environmental magnet or agricultural work and they wanted something for their middle school programming to occur so that leads us to coleman middle school um coleman middle school i'll let them tell a little bit about what they had already been doing um and it was a kind of a natural kind of a fit for this particular middle school to have an opportunity to become and be considered as a magnet school so i
055won't tell any more of the story because i have two wonderful colleagues here who will kind of give us a little bit of the history we have a board policy as it relates to magnet school development and and we have followed that policy uh is policy 12 i believe it is 12 17 and we followed that particular policy and so i will let them kind of walk us through kind of where we've been and how that policy is blended into what we've done and then we'll have the opportunity to have discussion with the board thank you dr thompson and welcome jesse and phyllis again thanks i'm going to add i can't do better than that but i will add that this program support that jesse mellon and phyllis white cotner add to all the success
056that you reviewed earlier this evening comes from their rigor and their expertise and we're so fortunate to have them so turning it over to jesse and phyllis thank you guys so much good evening again um board president reeser and superintendent thompson and the rest of you all um i am excited again i know to to talk to you about the proposal to have coleman currently coleman neighborhood school become an environmental magnet so as we go into the presentation we want to give you the background about how we got here and the purposeful planning that happened to move to this point that we're sitting in front of you to talk about this possibility so as you can see we have the recommendation up here just front and center and we'll start with that and then give
057you the background about the purpose of a common becoming environmental magnet the steps taken to garner input from staff from community and from families and then the intentional planning that occurred as we looked at the possibility of transforming coleman now before we jump in we want to start from a system perspective just to give you the purpose of magnet and talk a little bit about that one of the things that we want our magnet schools to do is really provide that opportunity for increased choice here in the district we also realized that the innovative educational methods and practices that happen at magnets are very attractive to some of the parents in our district we use magnets also to recruit students from diverse backgrounds so that our schools really represent what the district looks like and
058of course the magnets develop those 21st century skills for our students so uh zeroing in a little bit on some quick facts about our magic programming uh it's kind of a ketchup so the district has 24 different 24 magnet schools we we categorize our magnet schools in two different categories either you're a neighborhood school if you're a neighborhood school you have an attendance area just like any other school does and within those boundaries are able to attend without applying so i'll use earhart since they were in the spotlight a second ago earhart is a neighborhood magnet school so students that live within their attendance boundaries go to that school just naturally that's their base school they don't have to apply or anything like that but if before they're open seats for other students in the
059district that may be interested in environmental science and be kind of outdoorsy they're able to apply and get transportation to that school regardless of where in the district they live and that's the majority of our schools or neighborhood schools we do have what we also call pure magnet schools and pure magnet schools are schools in which everybody has to apply to get in they do not have an attendance area you can live across the street from brooks and and you still have to apply if you want to attend that school and if you look at i have i have them all listed here it's bostic and cleveland are only elementary pure magnets horace mann is our k-8 pure magnet and gordon parks academy is pure in their middle school but their k-5 is neighborhood our
060middle school pure magnets are allison burks and mayberry and of course northeast being our pure magnet high school so district currently has over 10 000 students attending magnet schools we break our programming into what we call five themes there's stem which covers all of our science and technology schools we have our art schools communication magnets or leadership magnets and are of course our traditional magnets northeast magna is kind of a wild card because they have different programs that you can apply for they have arts they have health science they have jrotc which is you know leadership so a lot of this stuff is represented just within north northeast magnet itself a little harder categorized our application period starts on the first monday of october every year and it goes until the end of january for
061northeast magnet and about the middle of february for all 23 of our other magnet schools students are allowed to select three choices of schools that they would like to attend their first choice is what runs what they run through the lottery and then if they do not land and randomly selected in that first choice then they are put on the wait list for their second and third choices and if there's an open seat or a place opens up then there are then we call them and and they take their second or third choice and as i just mentioned the lottery is random there's no criteria for entrance no one has a better uh advantage than anybody else so we've given you magnets at a system level and kind of the background about why why they
062are an important part of the system we're going to transition now and talk specifically about coleman and the rationale behind proposing to magnetize this building so the benefits and the rationale for magnetizing coleman first and foremost is to just to expand the opportunity for choice at the middle school level like we have four six through eight schools and two k-8 schools and uh some of them have very long wait lists and are very popular this would add another choice for the public uh to our middle school choices and uh and in turn decrease the wait list in size of our some of our middle schools that that have those long wait lists which ultimately is going to improve we believe parent satisfaction and and that we will have less people wait listed or not getting
063into any magnet school at all for that matter at the middle school level um and also it will uh we are told by transportation we'll relieve pressure on busing infrastructure because it's going to shift all of those 8 a.m coleman routes to a 7 a.m route so looking at some numbers again to our rationalization uh 45 coleman students this year this recent lottery that was just completed last week um 45 of those applicants we had came from the coleman attendance area of those 45 27 of them already attended a magnet school so we have families and we have that desire for people that believe in magnets and enjoy magnets that they like to stay in that pathway they like to stay in magnet schools um right now looking at sixth seventh and eighth excuse me
064looking at sixth seventh and eighth graders uh we have 91 students at coleman or excuse me 91 students that would be going to coleman that are attending other magnet schools within the district so that's potentially essentially 91 of what could be a a population of about 520 at coleman so a lot of the students are choosing magnet another aspect that makes coleman such a viable idea is they already have many things that are in place that really address that environmental theme so some of the pictures that we're showing you here are some things that are already going on such as the garden club they have bee hives there that have gone to the state fair they work with sustainable farming and nutrition and all of this is happening through their science department as well as
065they have lots of property that lends itself to having that transformation toward more of an environmental theme so really our only other model in the district for environmental magnets earhart and erhard is very blessed because they have they have you know all kinds of old growth trees around them forest they have the arkansas arkansas river behind them um and and their whole property really lends itself to that habitat exploration coleman is lucky in that it has a lot of land it's not quite as diverse as far as uh flora as as earhart is but um we have room and we're really excited about the prospect of our partnership with the dick arboretum and heston where we have with their uh prairie ecologists there that is if we're able to go forward is willing to assist
066us in planting a tall grass native prairie up to three acres at least uh on a piece of this property here that would lend itself to that discovery and that exploration um and also have something that earhart doesn't have you know so so we're excited about that idea of transforming that so if there's anything that we know from experience is that when we're talking about a school being a magnet it's important to have intentionality and to have purposeful planning we don't get things done by dumping things on folks and saying thou shalt do this we really need to hear voices from the community from staff from families and so this next part talks about how we really reached out to hear from folks to make sure that this was not a surprise but let's bring
067folks along and talk about the possibilities of what this could be if coleman were a magnet so we have here a timeline and if you take a look that first date is october 15 2020 so this is certainly not something that we have jumped into we really have been having conversations seeking guidance from the district and doing uh conversations with the community with outreach answering questions doing research and so that's just a snapshot of some of the things that have happened in order to get to this point that we're sharing in front of you when we look at the budget considerations and are thinking to magnetize coleman you can see some of the things that we know that would need to have fiscal support the magnet department does have sufficient funding to support that without
068having to come from other sources a lot of it would be expanding what's already present so when we're talking about the garden as jesse mentioned the land is there for a prairie habitat professional development would be very important so that the staff understood how to incorporate that theme in and we can support that as well one of the things we want to make sure that happens is we call it screaming the theme so that if you go to the school it looks different it creates that buzz and that excitement and kids understand hey we're doing something different here so the money to support having that theme reflected in and outside of the building is also present in our department so as phyllis alluded to earlier you can't just shake a stick at someone and tell
069them they're going to be a magnet school through our work in this field over the years uh it's very evident that if you don't have staff buy-in and the staff are not excited about becoming a magnet that you're really not gonna be a magnet because because the magnets start in the classroom with with the resources the staff puts into their instruction and so first of all first off we wanted to engage coleman staff and and see how they felt about becoming a magnet school so a teacher report week this year in august we went in and phyllis and i did kind of a similar presentation that we're doing now about some ideas we had and some possibilities and uh talked them about it and um gave them gave them an anonymous survey that we got
07073 responses from the first question said i'm excited to be a part of the magnet journey with coleman almost all of them said yes they were 98.6 percent the second question said i am ready to learn about integrating the magnet theme into my instruction again 97.3 a very high percentage said yes now the third one was about the change in start time because like all our other secondary magnet schools for busing purposes and transportation coleman would have to move to seven o'clock start time and uh so we said the 650 to 220 contract day would work for me um essentially almost 92 employees agreed that that that would work for them so with that we were very excited and had what we felt um significant in employee staff support and but but also magnet is
071much more than just the staff and the students it's the community and and the things around us so we wanted to bring this to the community the best we knew how we started with presenting this idea to parent ptos at at some of our different schools mostly coleman and its feeder schools it's feeder elementaries um so we went to price harrison presented that pto minnehaha coleman of course we talked to them because we haven't got to the timeline yet but we're looking at implementation for 23 24 school year so that would mean today's fourth fifth and sixth graders would be sixth seventh and eighth graders when this becomes a magnum school so we targeted those fourth fifth and sixth grade earhart we went to earhart who has a very very um excited parent base they
072love their program they're fiercely proud of that program at earhart and they had about 20 people at the pto and and they there was a lot of excitement among the parents about those students being able to continue that environmental uh pathway through middle school adams and gammon did not have active ptos so we set up little kiosks at their conferences and said ask me about coleman and and uh that's how we got to there uh at these meetings we gave this little one-pager uh to parents just kind of an overview that explained what a magnet is what theme earhart would be what that would look like mention the start time and gave a spot for feedback in some cases principals also put up on their social media pages as well in addition to visiting those
073ptos we also distributed a parent link a few weeks ago a call went out to again those fourth fifth and sixth grade families at coleman and their feeder schools as well as as earhart to gauge community interest and magnet schools and their understanding of magnet and looking at how they respond they're out of 128 responses um we got the plurality from price harris um and coleman earhart ben aha i think college he'll have 10 but the majority came from those five schools and one thing that i do want to point out is you're looking at the schools that responded price harris is a communication magnet earhart is environmental and minnehaha is a core knowledge magnet so again you can see that those parents that are currently in magnaflow elementary still like that pathway and would
074like to stick with it as much as possible yes thank you so one of the questions the one that i think a lot of the people leading up to this was the most had the most concern with was um asked if you were contemplating sending your student to coleman in the 23-24 school year beyond um do you foresee 7 a.m to 2 10 school day being an issue for you and we had almost 90 percent of our respondents uh indicate that that would not be an issue for them whereas eleven and a half percent indicated that it could potentially be an issue so here is our proposal and our timeline for implementation so if we go to the second bullet you can see here we are in march presenting to the board of education the
075next piece if we get the running shoes to move forward the 22-23 school year teachers would be planning for school-wide implementation in october coleman would be an option on the magnet application and then for the 23-24 school year that would be coleman's first official year as a magnet school so uh to summarize we're we're proposing i'm asking for permission i'm not sure how to phrase it that uh we changed the name from coleman middle school to coleman environmental magnet middle school giving it an environmental science thing excuse me environmental science theme and it would remain a neighborhood school so it would not affect their current attendance base at all and again it is our recommendation that the board of education approved the request to magnetize coleman middle school to coleman environmental magnet middle school thank
076you ernestine a couple of questions would you explain again why that the start time has to be so early you said it but i it went by pretty fast the way i understand it best is that um with magnet schools since they have a wider attendance area sometimes kids have to be bussed across town that we don't have enough enough buses to all run at eight o'clock so they're at seven and i'm gonna yeah i'm gonna ask fabian amanderas to come who is over our transportation so that he can give us a thorough understanding this means to be here for transportation we got you we got your back yes good evening um the way that our transportation system is structured is structured by tears i'm sorry go ahead and identify yourself okay my name is
077fabian ardeiros i'm the division director of operations and transportation is one of the areas that falls under operations so the way that our transportation system is structured is we go by tiers so we have 8 and 9 a.m start time each one of those represents a tier and so we pay for buses by the day and really the tier or the start time that has the largest number of bus needs is the one that designates the number of buses that we need our second tier which is 8 a.m which is where coleman currently sits is our largest tier it's the one that mandates our transportation costs right now so by them starting at seven o'clock we have available buses at seven a.m that we can utilize and so we would be able to do this
078without having to increase our transportation scope and it's not just only about cost at this point but it's also manpower as you all know we have a significant shortage of bus drivers and so at this point moving them to a seven o'clock start time will actually reduce our transportation scope at 8 am and which reduce our transportation scope in general if that makes any sense thank you that does make sense thank you second question is the obvious one is that if we enlarge the opportunity for students from all over the district to come there will it crowd out some neighborhood students neighborhood students would automatically have their seats there and then what happens is when the lottery happens principals let us know how many seats they have beyond neighborhood so they save seats neighborhoods get
079first crack yes ma'am they're there automatically okay and so therefore how large do you expect the population at coleman to be with the magnet students added as compared to just it being a neighborhood magnet so when we're looking at that a lot of hinges work with that because it would depend also on staffing and availability to staff at different grade levels so as we move into it that first year we would have to work to see what is the staffing look like how many could be added to a classroom before we can say definitely here's how much we want to grow this school well that's a part of my question is that are there enough classrooms available at the school to be able to add some more students so you take the neighborhood and then
080you add also the magnet students yes yes yes they have room for additional students thank you coleman thank you ernestine kathy thank you that was a great presentation and i too feel your excitement and i'm excited for you um i love magnet schools as we had look we we've got great magnet um people there i'm confused about the timeline can you help me out yes um is the school you're going to start 22 23 or 23 24. help me 23 24. so next year would be a planning year with the staff and it would be available on our magnet applications in october of 2022 for the 23-24 school year yes and if the teachers are going to have to plan for that school-wide implementation in this next school year is that going to hinder their
081already stuff that they're doing right now is that going to be more workload on them most of the training that we that we would be doing with them uh would consist of uh after school training that that stipended um so it would it wouldn't be mandatory and again with the with the response to that with to our questions about it and then their enthusiasm i think most would come anyway but but yeah i mean the one more thing it can always be a question and part of what we do is to show teachers how to naturally integrate magnet into the work that they do and how to build that excitement in students so we know that students learn better when they can connect their curriculum and it's not just you know kind of ideas and
082facts floating but you can connect it to something so i think the teachers having already had some background and environment since they have those things they are are looking forward to learning more about i see it happening in science what could this look like for me in my classroom so the curriculum has been looked at already to accommodate the theme when we do our work any curriculum can accommodate the theme it really is doing that just in time teaching so whatever curriculum people have i can pick it up and talk to you about how to tie it into your theme it's just knowing and planning you're going to get sick of me saying this but planning intentionally so that you know when we're talking about this here's how we can make an um a connection
083to the environment i always talk about a story called beatrice's goat right it's an elementary story but um beatrice lived in a third world country and it talks about how she had a goat and how that particular animal helped the whole village well can i tie that into the environment absolutely they were suffering drought can i tie it into science yeah i could talk about what do goats need to thrive can i tie it into leadership in beatrice being a leader so it's all in looking at it and saying let's talk about how we can make connections thank you that was probably longer than you wanted i apologize thank you kathy julie um i just want to say that i'm very excited as well about this program um i've had the opportunity to be at
084several of the times whenever the program has been discussed and talked about it is in district 2 but also my granddaughters one of them currently attends coleman and the other one attends price harris so my family is going to be in that group that you um that you uh surveyed so um we've been talking about this for a long time we're excited about it my daughter and her kids are excited about it and so i'm very much in support of this very much appreciate all the work that you all have done and um you know the the only negative that i get is from uh you know my granddaughter's saying she's gonna have to get up an hour earlier but you know that once once they get in the swing of that they adjust yes
085so um so anyway i um i very much am uh in support of this and i know we have another speaker but um i would like to make a motion um to um approve the magnetization of coleman middle school thank you i second that there's a motion to approve the um let me get the wording here implement the program magnet program at coleman middle school seconded by ernestine moved by julie next speaker cheryl thank you very much for the presentation and i am very much impressed with how you have taken this systematically to make sure that everybody knows about it first of all and that they have the understanding of if i don't agree with this here are things that i can do and if i do agree with it here are things that i
086can do i have three questions one is kind of a statement the staff surveys that you did it they you really have very high percentages of people that have buy-in into this when you get in that 90 range that's unusual for anything so i'm really impressed with seeing that higher percentage and buy-in the start time again i was a little surprised that we had almost 90 percent said it wouldn't be a problem that's very high because middle schoolers aren't known for wanting to get up another hour early and the budget uh i just want to be clear because we are not as a district as a board voting additional budget for this building you are taking the implementation year budget upon yourself with the magnet school office budget correct yes ma'am and then after that
087implementation year so the year of 23 24 the budget to support this program will be what the current budget is for coleman correct no we we've made at least a three-year commitment to to come out of our magnet funds to support the the the whether it be transportation or supplies that they would need to help implement that theme so at the end of that three years it reverts back to coleman because i know most of our magnet schools do their magnets with their own personal budget well not not necessarily because we do have a budget that we that we use to support all of our magnet schools so if if dodge literacy magnet needs books for the whole school or if uh brooks center for stem and the artists need a brand new uh tricaster
088for their student broadcasting then we have a process and a form that they fill out and send to us and we talk about it and if we think it's something they need that does indeed support their magnet theme then we take it to dr polite for approval and then we're able to to give like buy them what what they requested but so committed a little bit more for this start yeah yes we we've we'll use a significant portion of it for the first three years and and but beyond that we it doesn't mean we're just going to walk away but we'll continue to help you because you don't walk away from any of our no no no okay thank you thank you for a great presentation thank you cheryl ernestine well really i just want
089to tell you that my experience was four years ago when i first went to coleman to visit as a part of the health and wellness committee the students were so impressive they were scolding me because i didn't know how to approach the bees i was being skittish and they were telling me the importance about how much of the neighborhood was being pollinated by their bees and they were telling me how that they were selling the honey and there was a whole crowd of them that were rushing to try to inform me and they were almost tripping over each other to be the one that could be my teacher because i was so ignorant on the subject and they were so wise so for this many years those kids have had that passion and i just
090think it's exciting to have that that continue and to expand i know that the whole school is already i mean kids that were not even in the bee program were busy telling me as i went out about that you know the bees are taking care of and they told me how many blocks around that the bees went to they knew it i didn't so i think it's a really program that's that's been long needed and it's really exciting thanks yeah that really illustrates like we said that they have such so many good great things in place that with with with our help and we can expand that school that concept school-wide and it's going to be exciting thank you ernestine diane my question revolves around the budget so um what year are we expecting to
091see an increase in spending from our department um 23 24. i mean we'll spend some next year probably on stipends for training during the planning year but as far as buying um buying supplies and stuff that that we collectively decide that that they're going to need um most of that will be for the 23-24 school year okay and what do we know what dollar amount increase we're expecting to see um the the money coming from our budget we looking at three years we looked at uh roughly 189 000 spread out over three years um it's very it's very hypothetical at this point um we've we've been a part of some relatively large grants in the past and and part of writing for that grant was creating a budget narrative to send to the the committee
092that you that choose the grants and that budget narrative is what your vision is when you first want to see something change in a magnet program or something like that and in reality as you start to put things into place and things move forward then you sometimes pivot and go a slightly different direction or something you thought you were going to buy or would be cool for an environmental science team isn't something they want at all so it's it's something that that we just kind of put together um just to kind of envision what it could look like and what we would be willing to to spend out of our budget um so and that's the number we came up with when we looked at field trips transportation the great plains nature center to collins
093of prairie we've looked at um skype hydroponics stipends of course uh siphons for training uh of course the the native prairie that we would like to parent plant gardens around the schools gardens beautification screaming the fame we call it so so we would i just want to be clear we're going to see those increased spending in the in the 23-24 school year while that is it being implemented or will we see that in the 22-23 school year so i'm not sure what you mean by increased spending it's it's coming out of the budget that we already have for magnet schools it's not right it's just a transfer from the magnet yeah and actually we just they would request and then we would purchase those things for them from our budget okay let me just kind
094of help out just a little bit so every year each department gets a budget and so the magnet school has a budget to support the magnet school programming sometimes i mean like she shared with you how people go about getting those funds so they can request those kinds of things and then they get them they have the ability within their budget so for instance if they want to spend more money on coleman for the next three years then they readjust how much is available to the other magnet schools not that they would suffer any but they would be able to shift dollars to be able to support themes and they do this all all the time about who needs what when they need it how they need it so we won't increase their magnet school
095budget they will just take the budget that is given to them every year as we would give them any other year and they will use that those dollars to readjust how they spend it and the next three years the priority will be coleman okay do we know what the overall budget is for the magnet schools it's in our budget book uh i'm not sure but i could get you the total of their total school budget i don't know that right off the top of my head that's fine but i definitely will get it to you thank you diane cheryl yeah i just one piece to add to that besides your budget that's already established within the district's budget you also write a lot of grants don't you um we have yes yeah and so that
096money is also given out to schools yeah yeah i mean we're not we don't have any like hardcore plans for competitive grants but that's certainly going to be an option that we can look at as we i know in the past you've written grants and being able to use it for the schools okay thank you thank you we have a motion on the floor to approve and implement the proposed magnet programming and in the timeline at coleman middle school creating a wc coleman environmental magnet middle school it was moved by julie and second by ernestine diane mine's freaking out we have to have one every night don't we yeah you drew the short stick tonight oh oh well it's just blinking and while we're bleeding take the opportunity to recognize our two principles two of
097our principles at these schools that will be impacted you guys will stand and and be recognized from i think that's awesome [Music] [Applause] motion carries 6-0 congratulations something in the hallway it's me screaming for joy thank you so much thank you guys we really appreciate you and we look forward to future reports on on how that transformation is taking place absolutely absolutely and i've got to have my grandson now apply for that school yes ma'am yes ma'am thank you so much thank you patrick next item please next item under education coveted 19 protocols and mask mandate um dr thompson did you have a presentation or did you want to introduce this topic or yes i just want to i'll introduce the topic this was request agenda item for march the 7th regular board of education
098meeting to revisit covet statistics in cedric county and wps and to vote again on the mass mandate this was a request from ms bond and i want to acknowledge that and we are prepared to um follow up on that board of education request so without further ado i will turn this over to my uh colleague miss terry moses good evening i'm trying to make sure we've got there it is love technology when it works good evening everybody terry moses director of safety and environmental services here to give you an update on kobud and can i tell you how much i hope this is the last time i do this we're really really really hopeful um so to start with we just want to do a real short overview of kind of where we are we
099continue to make sure that safety is a priority as always and want to emphasize that not only with covid but with a flu and everything else healthy habits is a big part of any educational program that we have we have it i was happened to be in a cafeteria just a couple of days ago and just hearing the repetitive you know make sure you take care of things absolutely so important hand sanitizing cleaning supplies we still have all of that available and we're still involved in the regular cleaning including high touch points you see the proper disposal of masks there after tonight's speaker i certainly will get a hold of our custodial department and make sure that that information and the concern that was relayed to you is relayed to the proper people in regards
100to handling that situation air handling enhancements that's one of the things that we've continued to do we also of course have isolation rooms to accommodate those who do become ill or develop symptoms after arriving for schools and we continue to use our employee hotline that has been a great asset i can tell you as an administrator to have somebody who is able to answer questions because there are still a lot of questions out there in regards to covid and how to handle uh illness and illness if you're close contact those kind of things so that's the changes that we made after your last meeting when you had the vote in regards to ending the mask requirement at day's end on 3 10. you have them in front of you you have a couple of protocols
101changes that were made there and the main change is of course masks will be after 310 required not required but recommended in all district facilities additionally and another change that was made after that meeting was the cdc changed their guidelines into tran in in regards to transportation so our guidelines will follow that in regards to transportation as well that guideline was before that anything that we did in regards to transportation was mandated by the federal government and even though you voted to remove masks at the at your table last time you met you discussed the fact that we could not change that in district transportation now that has changed and the cdc has changed their ruling in regards to masks on district transportation so there will no more longer be masks an additional change that
102was made since the last time you met is that the kansas department of health and environment removed their posting in regards to travel guidelines and prior to that on our covered protocols we had always listed fault that we would follow kdhe's guidelines in regards to travel other countries uh even at the beginning of coba there was there were guidelines in terms of other states last week laced what last week kdhe stated that they're going to stop having that guidance on their site and they're now referring to the cdc and so our protocol will refer to the cdc uh we will continue to provide masks for those who wish to wear them that's one of the things we do have the supplies we will have them on buses we will have them in all of our
103facilities so anybody who should wish tamara wear a mask we will be able to provide them the other thing that we've done since the very beginning of protocol is to try to be very transparent in regards to our data and we want to continue to do that so we will continue to maintain our data being posted on our website through the end of this school year which would be through may 30th of this year additionally we've made the commitment that we will continue to run that employee hotline through the end of this school year the the fiscal year is actually june 30th we'll continue to to run that hotline and i would like to say and give kudos to the hr employees who have given a tremendous amount of time to both collect maintain answer
104the phone calls in regards to that hotline and that data several times i've heard in these conversations how important data has been in terms of decision making and certainly we've been able to provide you with quality data because of the work of the staff with nhr and speaking of data just to give you an update as to where we are uh as is the case in the county and in the united states positive cases have dropped tremendously but they have not gone away and i think that what we're hearing in the community is that the pandemic may be coming it to an end but there's was now going to be considered that endemic and that covet's not going to go away we're going to still have it in our community so you can see the
105data there last week of reporting was done at 3 2 or march 2nd and that our student positive cases we had 11. staff same thing in regards to the date march the 2nd we had five positive cases for staff and as all along with cobid cases always lower than quarantines because we know we live in community and other people do have covid so our quarantine case for students during that last week period we had 47 and then our numbers for staff quarantines you can see during that same time period we had 12. so to give you just some information about what the current status is and the changes that we made after your vote last time and then the changes that were made both by the cdc and the kansas health department that's kind of
106a quick update regarding covet and i would be happy to answer any questions or i have people behind me with better information if i can't answer them thank you terry and i appreciate kathy working with the board officers on this issue it was her request to do this uh and we there was a little confusion on whether or not we needed to put keep put still put it on even though we had addressed the issue on february 22nd uh but kathy i appreciate your cooperation on that i think we felt with the bus issue that it would probably be wise to go ahead and honor the original request so kathy the floor is yours thank you in light of the recent cdc mass guidelines changing as terry you just mentioned and the sedgwick county reporting
107our percentage at 3.2 percent on friday march the 4th and our very own um president of the united states even saying masks can come off and based on a statement from the cdc that effective february 25th 2022 cdc is exercising its enforcement discretion to not require that people wear masks on buses or vans operated by public or private school systems as was mentioned including early care and education child care programs the cdc is making this change to align with updated guidance that no longer recommends universal indoor mask wearing in k through 12 and early education settings in areas with a low or medium covered 19 community level i would like to make a motion at this time to lift the mandate effective immediately right now instead of waiting until the 10th of march while keeping
108in place continued measures of safety with hand washing and the protocol that the district is offering while offering compassion for those who wish to continue wearing a mask and making available extra masks in each school building i'll second that there's a motion by kathy seconded by diane uh cheryl um i just want some clarification because i want to make sure i know what what you're asking are you asking us to stop all mask wearing today or just buses no i am asking for the mandate to the mask mandate to be lifted right now at 7 46 pm on all masks what do you mean on all masks the you're not just talking about buses i'm talking about everything the buildings and the buses because if we follow the cdc guidelines which i think is a
109safe thing to follow that's what i'm in i'm aligning my motion with okay so so just so again this is just clarification right i want to make sure i understand you're really saying don't wait until this the end of this week stop it now yes okay i have a problem with that and the reason i have a problem with that is because we have clearly told our community we're going to end on the 10th and i i believe strongly that we don't need we're talking about three days let's keep the mask on three more days we will follow what we have told our community we were going to do and and then we will remove the masks i 100 percent agree that masks need to come off our bust students just exactly like they do
110everybody else but i i have a problem with moving it up three days i think it's playing games and i don't like to play games can i ask what your problem is what's going to change between now and three okay nothing but okay but what's what would change is we gave our word to our community i think this is a bonus i mean do you really think someone's going to complain it is a book cheryl you went too soon what it is a bonus to those of you who believe that mass should have been taken off a long time ago well it's the mandate problem it's not the mask yeah let's instead of the problem is that i just don't believe that we're doing our community any favors to for three days three days we
111have people who believe very strongly that masks should stay on kids and we have people who believe very strongly that mass should come off kids we have said alignment there will be no interruptions from the audience or i will clear the audience we we have set up a line in the sand of we're going to take them off i believe we need to take them off i am okay with that but i am not okay with playing games with our community and telling them one thing and then voting something different when it's three days let's keep them on till spring break then they'll be off after that sure cheryl do you want to uh kind of like we did on february 22nd do you want a alternative motion uh uh because i tend to agree
112with you that it should be restricted to the buses okay i can make a motion on the buses i think the original motion that i made i would like to hold with that motion with this one exception okay this one exception is that i move the district remove all mass requirements for bus students starting march 11th which is the same timeline interrupting the students of parents cdc's deadline for the masks is march 18th which is the middle of our it is not right now okay ernestine i'll let you make that point after jul after julie yeah we would we would stop our masks on buses and everywhere else at the end of the day on the 10th which literally is march 11th three days away thank thank you so we have two motions uh that
113we'll vote on we have kathy's motion that was seconded by diane which uh covers the buses but immediately removes mask and then we have a second motion if that motion fails we will take a vote on cheryl's motion about uh removing uh bus students consistent with the cdc recommendations with consistent with our february 22nd vote uh julie has removed it so ernestine it is your turn now all i want to say is that i really investigated this very carefully because i was startled when i heard the date of the cdc uh to lift theirs was march 18th and then i looked at the date of dates of our spring break and i kind of laughed and i thought well that'll work fine because we're not going to have any buses running from the 10th through
114the 18th to make it addition so the cdc is saying that they lift all of those on the 18th including all transportation in the united states and covering school buses so i too am thinking that there is we don't want to run ahead so ernestine you're uh not in favor of the first motion and you're in favor of the second motion that's correct but i also think i also call for a vote okay diane emotion needs a second oh yes thank you thank you thank you cheryl uh so we'll have a second motion on the floor uh by cheryl um and seconded by julie diane so um it's not just about the mask it's about all the coveted protocols that we have and uh we just got passed out the updated covid protocols for after
115march 10th and i have an issue with we we mark out asymptomatic and fully vaccinated or tested positive and then not fully vaccinated and has not tested positive for covid i don't believe we should be treating the vaccinated and unvaccinated any different from one another because the vaccinated can still get coveted they can still pass covid so why are we separating them out we need to treat all individuals the same and then treat a positive test so i'm not in favor of this new protocol under not fully vaccinated and has not tested positive recovered it says that individuals that are not fully vaccinated can attend school or work as long as they're asymptomatic and this is the part that i have a problem with consent to daily rapid rapid antigen testing through day 10. but
116if you're vaccinated you don't have to do that i'm not okay with the with the testing if they don't show symptoms they should be able to attend school if they do show symptoms you're sick and you should stay at home uh i'm sorry i didn't mean to interrupt you diane it's okay uh dr thompson if a vaccinated person comes down positive which is is possible it uh these rules would still apply to them too about getting tested right this this is what we were given a recommendation from kdhe this was a recommendation from them again it is a recommendation and we've used these recommendations and your the directive to me was is any time that there's any adjustments to kdhe that i was to adjust the protocols these are recommendations just as masks are so
117if there are adjustments that need to be made you all need to decide on that and let me know and we will make the adjustments diane do you have any more well i i would recommend that we do not adopt this um but we've already got two motions on the floor and i think we could are only basically allowed to have one motion on the floor at any given time so i don't think we can have third motion on the floor so i don't know how you want to proceed forward but well uh let me ask this uh if kathy doesn't mind me jumping in here real quick uh let me ask this is that if we uh take the votes on and the reason why we have two motions is because it's fairly common
118when you don't follow robert rules of order which is in our policies that we don't uh that if you feel the need to make a motion to if i'm understanding you to not follow the kansas department of health and environment recommendations then we'll entertain that motion okay okay cheryl at kathy last meeting um when i had made the motion to have the mandate lifted right away and it was um turned down and then diane had actually asked you at what data were you looking at that made you insist on the 10th of march and if i recall correctly to quote you you said i feel comfortable doing it this way and i have a real problem with feelings when we're talking about data and the data shows that we are down 3.2 percent our kids
119are tired of wearing these masks and you're saying well it's only three days so what well yeah it is a big so what when these kids and these teachers and these parents are looking for an option and you know one day is too many so i asked this board are you wanting to win or do you care about the people thank you kathy cheryl my response is i very much care about the people but we have a divided community we have people who really want the masks off and we have people who really don't want the masks off and we as a board made a decision to go with the 10th i can't see any advantage of three days changing the masks all we do is upset the half of our people that really want
120to keep the masks for a long time it also falls within the cdc pieces like like ernestine said the 18th is during our spring break we will not have masks on our kids or on our buses when we come back which is after the 18th well i'm willing to die on this hill thank you thank you cheryl i was just going to add that the one thing that the cdc also did was they put out a color-coded map and i thought i'm like with ernestine i thought the the map was pretty consistent with our original motion too and also it gives us a transition period which we're now down to as cheryl mentioned three days transition period of those people are still very uncomfortable whether they have a immune compromised situation for a family member
121or even a student that would be sensitive to them ernestine so i'm speaking in against the first motion in favor of the second motion ernestine my reasoning for why we don't change is one of the biggest messes that cdc has made is that as they found new information they changed which scientists do but the united states public has kept saying they changed their mind as if they just randomly made a a decision that's the reason that i want a whole firm is because i do not want them to see the usd 259 school board as being well they changed their mind that they just keep being random i want to make it so that they can know and plan i also know that there is going to be some little changes that will happen in
122the schools over the spring break that'll give them a chance give custodians and teachers and staff a chance to if nothing else get rid of the nasty bucket that has the old masks in i want to not be based on what we say is randomly changed and i think our decision before is a reasonable one and i am going to vote against the first motion and for the second and i want to suggest that we just do this and be done and the cdc has made it so that when we come back this is a non-issue thank you ernestine um we will let diane uh and kathy go and then i will uh then i will honor ernestine's request earlier for a call to vote diane um it's kind of sad when we are behind
123new york public schools in in moving this forward we have the lowest positivity rate um probably ever with uh last friday 10 people out of over half a million people tested positive for covid and it was even less this week um it was so small i couldn't couldn't zero in on it and and click on that small of a number um on my phone so i feel it's very sad that that we're behind areas that have a greater population have been hit harder by covid than we have and uh quite frankly i just find it very sad um i was i would hope that we would be leaders in our area instead of followers and be some of the last people in the entire country to remove this so with that being said i'll uh
124well i would like to move on um after the two motions are and talk about the signs and the protocols and uh after the the motions are voted on thank you diane kathy last word thank you mr chairman um i'm hearing tonight that we don't want to confuse the community and we've already made this decision don't go back on that and don't do this well at the beginning of the school year dr thompson said masks recommended and then two weeks later you guys changed your mind so i am just saying i'm very disappointed in the direction that this this debate has gone into and i'm very sorry that the kids cannot have their parents choose whether or not that they're going to wear their masks to school tomorrow morning and i'm very sad that the
125teachers will not have a choice tomorrow of whether or not to wear their masks having said that i will never talk about masks again thank you kathy and i do want to clarify no one use no one used the word confused but i just that's regressing uh so the first motion is kathy's which is to remove mass immediately exactly uh which and also including the buses mr chairman yes kathleen to remove the mandate not the masks okay thank you for that clarification that motion fails four to two uh two to four uh kathy and diane voting yes julie ernestine stan cheryl voting no the second motion now is to remove all masking requirements for bus students starting march 11 which is consistent with our march our date that we stated on february 22nd and that
126mask will be welcomed if the student or parent so chooses is that correct cheryl that's correct and it was seconded by julie just making transportation consistent with the rest of because in my emotion in february at that time it had not been lifted so we had to follow it but we don't now and that motion carries 6-0 uh diane the floor is yours if you wanted to make another motion yeah i'd like to make a motion that there'd be no signs in regards to masks and that they just be removed from the schools there's there's no reason to have signs posted everywhere on all of our doors and entrances into the buildings mass are just optional after the 10th i seconded it moved by diane and seconded by kathy that no signs be present at
127any wps uh building regarding the usage of mask is that yeah i i really just want to move on i know we had sherlock talked about is your is your motion to move on move on from covet because cheryl had referenced signs being posted and changed after the 10th and i do not support that because we're spending time money and energy oops sorry still revolved around coveted sorry and i think as we're going to see when we get updated on the budget we're going to start seeing some some numbers be tight coming up and i don't want to waste any more time or energy and especially money on covet protocols if people do not understand at this point that they can wear a mask if they want to a sign is not going to help
128them so i would just like to to move on from this and not have a constant reminder at the doors thank you diane cheryl my logic in putting that in the motion that was in february was the whole issue of students feeling and parents feeling like if they want their child to wear a mask they can and they would be welcomed in our buildings and that's a could be not all the time is but could be a bullying issue and we want to do everything we can to make every student no matter what their or their parents beliefs are comfortable in our buildings so if we say welcomed in our buildings that's we're going to have some kids and some staff that are still going to continue to wear masks and that's their choice i
129agree that is their choice um and that's why it's we don't need the constant reminders they can i'm strong we need to learn to treat one another with respect again and the covid constant reminders have not have not allowed certain people to move on from that so that's why i don't support any signs being posted and if there's bullying issues then that needs to be dealt with one-on-one but i assure you there's been bullying issues on the other side so we do need to get back to treating one another with respect and dignity and i think moving on from signs would be a step forward in that direction thank you diane i'm going to vote against that motion because i think consistently what you see throughout the community anywhere from public buildings to private buildings
130to uh to retail uh even hospitals though they're still mandatory at hospitals is that uh it's pretty consistent that as long as we're still in a moderate risk i do also agree with you that there's a day that let's get through this and move on but to just rashly change what is a consistent approach to masking through signage uh that's consistent throughout the community seems a little rash at this time diane um and then we'll and then we'll vote on your motion yeah that's fine uh i don't see how having less than 10 people testing positive is a is a rash decision on feeling that that's a that's a major threat right now all right thank you very much i appreciate the spirited uh discussion and debate uh and we do have a motion by
131diane seconded by kathy and i will have uh diane uh could you re repeat that motion to have no signage posted in the buildings in regards to mass or covid all right thank you and that was moved by diane seconded by kathy motion fails three to three with diane ernestine kathy voting yes julie stan and cheryl voting no i think that concludes the covid protocol and mass mandate uh a section of this agenda patrick next item please i'm sorry next item consent i think she was applying that with the signage all right patrick next item please next item is consent thank you terry and i and i we all agree uh let's hope this is your final report on this topic we're ready for that okay cheryl do you have any consent items you need
132to pull kathy i only have one c7 no no no no no not c but number seven yeah c7 yeah that's correct which is the snap cloud-based school nursing software yes thank you kathy julie nothing to pull stan reeser no consent items to pool ernestine nothing to pull diane c3 the cox communication lease dark fiber services is that correct that's correct all right thank you i will entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda except for c3 and c7 motion to approve excellent julie moved kathy seconded yes on all the rest of the consent agenda that motion carries six zero uh we'll start with kathy's c7 go ahead i had a question and maybe somebody can and it was answered earlier when the students graduate or they move what happens to their medical files that
133the schools have we have a protocol for how we dispose of those things and they are shredded okay thank you that's it would you like to make a motion to approve it i would i would like to make a motion to approve snapcloud based school nursing software and i'll second that motion motion to approve c7 moved by kathy seconded by julie that motion also passes six zero uh back to c3 uh i'm sorry diane you pulled yes diane pulled it uh the floor is yours diane it says the recommendation is to approve five hundred thousand dollars annually for a term of 60 months i'd like to remove the word annually and then i can approve that that that is that is a definitely an appropriate request and it makes it very clear what we're doing
134yeah it fits more with the contract yes ma'am okay so uh we have a motion so a motion by diane to remove the word annually from the recommended uh motion uh recommended action right after the 500 right after 500 000. patrick is that somewhat clear yes thank you sir and ernestine seconded it that motion carries 6-0 patrick next item please next item under finance budget report dr thompson would you like to introduce this topic as my colleague is coming forward again as we stated before we will have budget presentations beginning now until infinity until until when we approve our budget um and as we promised um we will just continue to chunk this into um little pieces so that everybody in our community and on board on the board has an opportunity to digest this
135because it is an um it's a big feat to be able to understand all of the pieces and components to the budget and so here is another month's worth of budget um presentations along with dialogue and conversation with you all as we continue to move on our journey to approve our budget colleague my friend susan welcome susan good evening president research superintendent thompson vice president hedrick members of the board i'm susan willis district's chief financial officer and as dr thompson said this is our second budget presentation uh in our planning for the fiscal 23 budget year and i will pause for a moment and dr thompson i do have the magnet budget number if you'd like that um it's 642 annually thank you for that so we'll go ahead and start and dive right into
136some terminology it's always good to [Music] use the same language when we're speaking about the budget and certainly when you're looking at our budgeted numbers there are there it's a lot there's a lot to look at there are there are a lot of changes that occur during the course of a year so i wanted to begin tonight and you'll see this chart several times over the next few months to make sure that we know what we're talking about so when the board adopts an original budget that's the process we're building up to for a hearing in september you will adopt an what we call the original adopted budget which is based on months and months of preparation it's part of the materials i'm covering with you during these next few months and it is the
137the budget that we send to the state and to the county as far as our overall budgetary plan once we submit that original budget we then over the course of the next 12 months continually get adjusted based on our actual account information based on additional information that comes in from the state as far as different pieces of the funding so we don't actually get the final adopted budget number until sometime in early june so there are several things that change over the course of a budgetary year after that original adopted budget in september so it is important when we're talking budget to know what budget we're referring to at what time of the year we're at um and what adjustments have have needed to be made to the budget so a little if our numbers
138are fluctuating it's typically going to be because adjustments have been made during the course of the year the legal maximum which is by law the maximum that can be spent per fund is dependent upon the revenues that we receive it sets them the maximum we can spend which is driven by the revenues we receive in some funds there is additional cash carry forward from the previous year that can also be part of those those those new revenues that we get annually but it is the legal max we can spend we cannot overspend in a particular fund we cannot deficit spend so again knowing those pieces of terminology is important as we go through these upcoming months of discussion and then obviously the budgeted expenditures is the plan and then actual expenditures occur during the course
139of the year and we report those um as part of our annual reporting process in the budget book that we prepare and the board approves every year you have two years worth of actual expenditures and then you have the budgetary plan so that's just some baseline terminology as we kind of start into some of the the meatier parts of budget planning and so tonight what we want to primarily talk about is the results of the audit and kind of giving you that first look at some fiscal year 23 revenue estimates so i i point out our lovely district logo and i have a specifically an arrow pointing to the student little stream there because that student fte is a critical part of the budget process that fte which is as an acronym for full-time equivalent
140which by definition is 360 minutes a week that's a 1.0 fte student we are funded on student fte that's the primary driver of the district's general fund and all the weighted funds so that that definition of student ft is important that's different than a head count so a student can be a partial fte for budgetary purposes primary example would be a pre-k student a pre-k student is a 0.5 fte there would be some there's other limited uh partial ft most students are are 1.0 pre-k is 0.5 and then there's a few exceptions through there so but that fte is is as a big driver in the school finance formula and that then those fte are then weighted for various needs that they may have whether it's special education uh career and technical education they're an
141english language learner weightings drive additional funding based on that student's needs as we were planning for fiscal year 22 here are the fte enrollment trends we looked at and you've seen various forms of this chart before but this is showing you the 167 back to the fte of the district at that time and you can see the red trend line through the 1920 school year was relatively consistent in a in a slight decline 1920 being a slightly larger decline then 2021 that this is the first entire school year that we had an impact from the from covet going into 22 we really didn't know we had no historical trend data to look at to know are we going to bounce back are we going to continue a decline are we going to stay flat will
142we make some gains so from a budgetary perspective with kind of a lack of other information we budgeted back up to the trend line we knew there was a risk and the board at the time we talked a little bit about this we knew that there was some risk in doing that because we really didn't know if that was going to occur or not i think i told the board at the time i hoped we never had to use 2021 fte data to build a budget because that was such a sharp decline from the 1920 school year um i'm going to end up having to use that that year unfortunately so what has what occurred as far as the 2122 enrollment was a further decline from the cova year um 2021. so what we now
143believe is we have a new trend line kind of at a new baseline from the 2021 school year and now we will slightly decline from that point that is now our belief we're it's a lit we're a little data shy here we'd like another year or two to see what that trend is going to look like but at this point there i don't know of anything that would convince me that the trend line is going to be dramatically different we might go up a little bit we might go down a little bit but i don't know that we'll swing like we have from the 1920 to the 2021. so what does that mean as far as this budget year we adopted an original budget of 402 million dollars we will need to make 16 million
144dollars of budgetary adjustments to the general fund um to get down to 386 million and change as far as the uh the anticipated legal max in the general fund the local option budget or the supplemental general fund is also impacted because it is a percentage of the general fund so that fund will also need to be adjusted um almost four and a half million dollars so our total budget reductions for this fiscal year fiscal year 22 will be almost 20.7 million dollars now that is a significant budget reduction the the silver lining here is we knew from a budgetary perspective that that enrollment estimate was probably high so we did not allocate to programs some of that money just we took we knew that we weren't sure that was what was going to happen so
145we held it in reserve we didn't give it to the program managers so now we'll just pull that back and it it's not really going to impact anyone's spending plans at the program level because budget held that so that's not the whole story but some of what we're able to do we will do out of the budget level reserve that we did not allocate out because again we weren't sure that money was going to actually come to us so we allocated out something less and held the rest to find out what this number was going to look like because we were concerned that's where we would end up and that's where we ended up additionally some other actions we will take as we finish this fiscal year we will be forecasting the remaining expenditures so
146we will take where we're at as far as the salary spend and we will forecast out based on current spending patterns what the remaining payroll will look like um look at the the open purchase orders and and basically do a final forecast of all anticipated spend through june 30. and then we will look at the revenues that we have and what can be shifted around within the funds that are able to shift not all funds we can do that with but with the funds that we have that can be shifted around we will shift to cover the shortfall again we're trying to get through this school year and then we'll make adjustments for fiscal year 23. we may need to come back to you if that is not enough action with some other alternatives that
147we'll need to look at again it's a little early we'd usually like to get through the end of march with salaries to start to fork to get those really good forecasts for the last three months of the fiscal year so we should be able to look at that um in april uh and know if we'll need to come back to you with some additional recommendations but what this does give us is a pretty good idea of what we might be looking at for fiscal year 23. so we look at this and i've given you three years of base fte data here for comparison purposes so i went back to fiscal year 21 that fte we used to build a budget was from two years prior because the school finance formula for that base aid you
148look at either the previous year or the second previous year and you get the higher of the two so in fiscal year 21 we used fiscal year 19 fte to drive base aid in fiscal year 22 we used fiscal year 20. and in fiscal year 23 we're going to have to use fiscal year 21 which this is the year i had hoped we'd never have to use and now we'll have to use it because that and the reason i didn't want to use it is because that that decrease in enrollment is a percent drop and that's a pretty significant um budgetary adjustment for us and the weightings themselves went down two and a half percent and primarily in at risk that's where we felt the biggest loss and we anticipated some of that with that
149change from the free lunch form over to household income survey um and that that's what happened um can you explain just a little bit what those two forms are so that sure so we the district receives at-risk funding um based on the poverty level of our families and it that that that free lunch application it has been for years the primary documentation for at-risk funding as this as the uh as the nationwide free lunch for all program came into play under the pandemic you didn't need to fill out a free lunch application because everyone was getting free lunch so instead we had to go to an alternate form called the household income survey that established the level of income to determine if you would have qualified for free lunch therefore would drive at-risk funding if
150you made that qualification and some of those forms required documentation from families and some of that we didn't get back so we didn't those families didn't actually qualify then under the household income survey some of it was just different data sets that people used to fill out different forms and it was new so we did anticipate some drop and we saw some drop so again not not overly surprising but still from a budgetary perspective a significant adjustment for us so again at a five percent fte reduction and on and trending two and a half percent adjustments on the weightings even with a three percent base aid increase we would anticipate close to a five million dollar reduction in available funds and we've been kind of used to seeing new funds based on that that base
151aid per pupil going up three percent we won't see that for fiscal year 23. um the base aid number that 44 thousand and ninety three that's locked that we are for sure using that number the weightings we are we will look at and well we're talking to the program managers particularly um pre-k enrollment i think is kicking off if they didn't kick off this week it's going to be very soon so some of those we might get some information that would cause us to go back and re-examine so this is by no means final we are going to be you know working with the with the various programs to kind of refine some of those estimates but this is this is a pretty good indication of what we're looking at for fiscal year 23 as
152a as in terms of new money which as you can see there is no going to be no additional new money we're going to have to roll back some expenditures here so that brings us to kind of what's available in the budget tool kit to adjust for those things without especially coming out of a covered year without you know stressing the system more than it's already stressed so right now we're looking at some strategic staff reductions through attrition this is retirement season and we will continue to come up onto more and more teachers who are choosing to retire at this is common this time of year teachers certainly who have put in their years of service look forward to being able to retire and we will look at those particularly at the elementary level where
153the enrollment loss primarily occurred and start to not fill some of those positions again in a way that isn't going to put us in a risk of chaos i mean that's what we are trying to avoid as we are as we go into kind of a more recovery and again we also have federal funding available to support um kind of that learning loss so we have options here this isn't necessarily a doom and gloom presentation but we do have to start down this path of making adjustments based on kind of a new level of enrollment that now it looks to be somewhat more permanent we also are going to look at contracts specifically those that are that are fte based to make sure that we are paying based on this level and that was going
154to be ongoing work we will look at some limited use of one-time funds particularly esser funds where those can embed in the budget process we will have to probably limit new initiatives unless there is a funding offset so if if someone wants to come to us i really need something we're going to say what are you willing to give up in order to get that something i'm sure um dr thompson's probably tired of hearing me say it but that's been the conversation for the most part for the last few months is that's great we we can do anything we want we can't do everything we want so you're going to make choices um as you go through the budgetary process as far as things that we want to do and things that we are going
155to not do in order to pay for the things we want to do so that's kind of the going to be the change in direction of some of the budget conversations um that we have that will get us through these next few months hopefully and get us into next year there is still a tremendous number of unknowns again the the decision at the federal level on the on the lunch program we have not heard that yet um we don't know what the recruiting season is going to look like will we be able to fill the open spots we're still again very short in pairs we're very short in bus drivers we have open teaching positions already so how will we be able to fill those so we don't want to aggressively reduce if we can't
156hire some key replacement so it again this is this is a tricky time from a budgetary perspective and i we want to bait we want to go carefully through this process and not just start to rip band-aids off every which way without knowing some of these pieces of information that are still outstanding again we have a budgetary timeline that you've received this update tonight we'll give you another update probably getting a little bit more into um kind of like you you asked about the magnet program get a little bit more into some of that program information i think we'll bring to you our budget at a glance our internal document which is i think extremely user friendly and gets a little bit more into how dollars get to programs and then and then may we
157talked about that the we'll provide you an esser update as well as some first looks at what we think we're looking at for fixed cost increases so again because it's not only just balancing the budget but we will have other pressures we are again paying fuel which has gone up tremendously in the in the last few weeks we have other inflationary pressures just like other people are experiencing the district is feeling that same pinch and so we will have to look at all of those areas and make some determinations on how we're going to adjust june 30 again year in business meeting the revenue neutral decision which again we'll give you some background on that in the coming months and then as we're heading towards um an adoption in september and i just covered that
158slide which is what was coming up so at that point um or at this point i will go ahead and stop for tonight because again it's it's uh getting late in the evening and i wanted to make sure we we at least covered those pieces related to the enrollment um and then kind of forecast where i'm going here in the next in the next couple months so i will go ahead and stand for questions cheryl thank you very much i have a question on your slide on the sixth slide has this 20 million dollars taken into account audit of our students yes that these are the audit adjustments okay yes so so uh losing students as we always do in an audit that's figured into this 20 million okay thank you thanks cheryl um i
159just had a couple uh questions and comments uh first off just for our audience uh could you go ahead and define what fte is yes the the acronym stands for full-time equivalent and for for school districts it's 360 minutes divided by basically um 60 minutes a student has to have six hours a day of educational services to be considered a 1.0 fte half of that would be again a pre-k type student which would be would receive a 0.5 allocation for funding purposes and would you say if i had to summarize this presentation tonight to the average person on the street would it be fair to say that we anticipated some of this last year and we made some adjustments last year so this number could have been even worse but basically our budget is based
160off of a district of 47 000 students and we need to adjust our budget to be a district of about 44 000 students would that be a accurate summary i i think that's that encapsulates the presentation very well that we will have to start to reduce the budget footprint because the student footprint is down and and it appears to be more permanently down and not just a one-year um covet anomaly which is what we had thought might be the case and it turns out that's not at least from this year's count that's not that's not the case thank you susan i appreciate that uh are there any other questions i have one uh cheryl yeah just to bounce off that because our numbers are down but when you look statewide because usually when we go
161down our suburbs grow are we seeing that statewide what are we seeing where where are those kids going i guess my question is so from speaking with um kind of the groups that have been looking at some of the enrollment the state as a whole enrollment is down and i know dr thompson can verify that because she hears it at the superintendent's meetings all the time wichita in particular um we did lose some to suburbs but we also received some from suburbs so it's kind of a it goes back and forth we have some that went to private school but we also received some back from private school and we received some or we know some went to homeschool so it's a kind of a combination of factors we are getting more students right now
162through some of the the esol programs particularly newcomer programs we don't get funded for those we just have to provide the services but next year if they are still with us we will receive additional funding based on those students so again enrollment is is since it only gets measured on a particular date that date is important for us and certainly hopefully our families understand that that's a really important date um to make sure that the students have all the services they need and that we can pay for those to have students should be at school every day we've said that but certainly they from a funding perspective those count dates are important not 9 20 count dates important um as students come in after that date it's not that we turn them away we take
163them we educate them but we don't receive additional funding for those students because it is based on a formula that puts a count at a certain point in time thank you ernestine would you reiterate on what are the different programs that we provide that are not fully funded i know special ed has never been covered as as the law says it's supposed to be covered there are other programs that we provide that are not fully covered that we just do it because we know that it's the right thing to do could you tell what those programs are so it's a that's a broad question but i'll give it a shot um for example our level right our early childhood program the the money we receive for early childhood on a per pupil basis does not
164cover the expenditures it costs to provide early childhood services so the general fund makes a transfer to early childhood to support the fund as it does with special education as it does with the english english language learner costs so as it does with transportation most of our major programs do not are not self-sufficient because the costs exceed the weighted factors that we get so again not that those students aren't also general funded students so i mean again there some of that makes some amount of sense but it in and of themselves they don't drive enough weighted resources they have to get general fund support okay i won't carry this on any further because one of the things is that for years and years there's been both law that says we have to do it for
165the students but there's no money then well there's not enough money to do it right but we do it and we do it well and people move from all over to get into the kinds of programs that the wichita district has so thank you that's all uh diane so we have a new downward trend line and i would like to know what our estimates for on how how drastically that's going to go down what we're estimating as far as that is just from 2021 to 2021 and 2022 that's a pretty good decrease what are we looking at for 22.23 so we as far as what will budget for 22.23 we'll probably estimate about well that the the base aid is set so we don't actually have to worry about what the actual enrollment is going
166to be for 22 23 because that won't impact us for two more years so i mean would we if it was 43 000 and change we would estimate it's probably around 43 000 flat the weightings however are trending down about two and a half percent we would anticipate that continuing unless information to the contrary is given to us so for example i believe our pre-k audited at 855 if we can drive some pre-k enrollment that act that will help the budget from a pre-k perspective if we don't then that's flat or or less so but as a whole our weighted enrollment from a funding perspective is dropping at about two and a half percent i don't see anything that would make me believe that trend won't continue okay and going back to the coleman middle
167school i i support that initiative um but with the numbers i'm curious from your perspective i understand how budgets work um but i think they said i can't figure out where i wrote the number down 189 000 um over three years and then you know the budget 640 200 000 so that's a significant portion of that budget um are we going to get ourselves into a pickle here in a few years with taking those funds and basically spreading those out across all of our magnet programs which i support right but from a financial standpoint seeing the trends that we're looking at so the the common change and we believe me we were involved in a lot of those conversations because again when when the superintendent asks you know can we afford this you you do
168your homework right you want to make sure that you're you're you're able to answer that question a lot of that coleman work is going to be one time costs as far as to get that school to a place where its theme is again as as phyllis said is screaming um you know environmental so some of those that is infrastructure right it's doing some of the um the the the planting of the different flora and and getting it to be an environmental magnet so i'm not overly concerned that the magnet in their own budget starts to make shifts as far as for a little while they're going to say we won't necessarily we'll pull a little bit here and a little bit here and a little bit here to get to 60 000 a year let's
169say to support that change we were pretty firm on again i know families don't like the seven o'clock time but we were a firm we can't take a transportation increase to do this and that's why the eight o'clock would not work because again that would be a transportation increase and we didn't think we could sustain that so that's why if you're going to do it you're going to have to do it at seven if you're going to do it you're going to have to support it with the staffing you have not we can't allocate more fte to you to do it and you can you can make adjustments to cover your one-time costs but we can't provide you additional support at least we're not we can't guarantee it's going to be there and that they
170knew that going in and had to make plans accordingly okay thank you and i did wanted to just reaffirm that susan you did use the term this is not all gloom and doom we did we did anticipate a lot of this last year and we kept our cash reserves we boosted up our cash reserves we're in good shape there we also know that esser balances are available for use to sustain and maintain current levels of services and it but i agree that we do have to start thinking in the future now just like last year when we was thinking about these problems this year we need to think about the future problems of our new uh enrollment numbers and and what all school districts are facing birth rates are down uh so in the future
171we're gonna have to right that ship and uh i'm hoping that with the use of esser funds and unfilled positions and a few cuts here and there that that are sustainable and don't cut the life out of this district that we can make this budget work so i'm off to still optimistic that we can make this budget work but i do think we do need to adjust and understand what our new numbers are with enrollment yes we're not unique right in urban school districts this is this is a very common problem for urban school districts so in fact we actually have fared much better than our urban some of our urban peers the fact that we only lost in that covert year five percent when other districts were down 10 15 20 we held enrollment
172very well comparatively um and the fact that we've kind of gone back to more of a normal trend when other districts were even worse this year we've we've done relatively well now is it you know would i choose the trend we're on versus a trend up i would prefer the trend up it makes budgeting much easier because this situation is very different than what we had in the 2008 2009 years and forward when state aid was reduced per pupil or we were in the block grant and we were fairly stable from an enrollment perspective this is different this is enrollment driven reduction and therefore we do have to adjust spending accordingly and i and i agree you you've always done a good job of giving us the reality of the situation you've never covered anything
173up or sugar-coated things so the board is does need to be aware of the new reality but it is manageable yes i believe so too all right thank you thank you see no further questions patrick next item please next item under miscellaneous superintendence report no report tonight uh patrick next item please next item under miscellaneous board of education report and requests i started at that end last time i'll start this in next this time diane uh as far as reports i just had um i went to garden parks academy with uh with you mr reeser and dr thompson and we were able to recognize three outstanding teachers for the distinguished classroom teacher award and the the assembly there and met a bunch of great people there and great print great principal great teachers great students
174and so i enjoyed that thank you diane ernestine no report from earnest no report from me okay glad to be here i am too um i also went to visit and it was great being there with you diane um if if you want to check on my schedule and what uh visits i did uh go check my uh stan reese or facebook page i can't believe i'm putting them plugged for my facebook page i was impressed at how many places but it showed up thank you it was it's easier to just tell people go look at that julie [Laughter] yeah i have several reports tonight um i um also was able in my district to go to a distinguished classroom teacher award presentation uh but the thing that i want to to share about that
175at southeast and particularly talking about the environmental program expanding at coleman here in the near future um i got to meet as i was honoring the teacher i got to also meet a new baby lamb that had just been born at southeast so that was like super exciting i mean it's so great the things the kids are getting to do in that program they do everything with the animals and it's it's the teacher that's in charge of that program that is the one that won the distinguished award so a lot of great teachers doing great things and that's a super cool program over there so as is earhart and our future things to continue to grow at coleman um my uh second report is i was also had the pleasure and honor of uh serving
176on the team um that that looked at our honorary cadets in the sixth grade and that's it's always fun to sit in on those interviews of the kids in those programs that just do a fantastic job but i was so impressed by the sixth grade students and their maturity and their answers and just the way they did such a good job in their interviews we actually had a tie for first place because we couldn't pick the winner third i i we had an exciting thing in our district with a professional composer and her son who was a product of wichita public schools mimi and dan overholt that composed a number that was first exhibited at the honor all city choir program at century 2. they composed and on to celebrate 150 years of public ed
177in wichita public school a song entitled we learn in possibility so that's a wps proud with dan overhold product of wichita public schools and his mother miriam overholt and then my fourth item is we did have the appointed policy committee meet in february and that's an annual thing we had our meeting in february and we have no amendments to bring to the board at this time that team looks at the 100 series policies just the policies that impact us as board members not the entire district policies and the team has no amendments to bring at this time we also had the benefit of our board attorney being on that team so he also looked at every looked over everything for us with a fine-tooth comb as well so that concludes my report tonight thank you
178julie and i'm glad you mentioned uh the lamb because instead of following don't follow my page my page is extremely boring and not well written out follow the official wps facebook page they'll have the video of julie petting that new blam and it's much better than my page so forget my plug and let's go with uh follow the wps's uh social media pages they're really well run thanks maria kathy yes i too had the privilege of surprising a nominee for the distinguished classroom teachers award that was a lot of fun at mayberry middle school shout out to kimberly hughes yoo-hoo okay good job i also attended the all-city fifth grade middle school and high school choir concert um which was just very nostalgic for me because i saw my sons up there um back in
179the day i attended a naturalization ceremony out at the metroplex wichita state and that was fascinating um and our hamilton's um jrotc led the colors and then i went to mclean and i gave blood and not to get you grossed out but you know they put the needle in and then they didn't get in the veins and they had to manipulate it when it was in there just grossing you all out so anyway so i really really did that i really did that um also um i want to do a shout out i'm doing a plug for a business locally it's called delano's diner and the reason why i'm doing this is because amber almost is the general manager and she hires only high school students on the weekends and i had the uh my
180husband and i went to eat lunch there um and they were all from different parts of our district and so it was really great to be able to just uh ask their boss can they come sit with us for a minute and they did and i was able to get a lot of feedback from our students and it's always i don't like the food so that's just always i think every student doesn't like the food on one day or another so i just wanted to give that and also i just under request asked how does she become a community member with our district so that's here's our card so i don't know if you need that um and this is a report mr um hudspeth um thank you for your report on the um custodians
181with their master certifications could you please follow up when they have completed their certificates just to let me know that everything's done okay thank you thank you very much are we going on the requests or am i just okay yes what time is it okay i promise we'll be done before 11. okay because last last week i wasn't i have been receiving multiple emails from our educators regarding the crg srg it's very interesting that we had her come up and talk about that i'd like to read portions of them because i think it's important um the the first few statements come from a veteran teacher of 29 years at one of our high schools and it says that's not it that's another one i'm sorry usually i'm more organized than this okay he says the
182district this year has been faced with teacher shortages to encourage retention the district has provided financial incentives if we haven't quit by certain dates we appreciate the thought but throwing money at a problem does not fix it you must change things at the root of the problem which is teacher morale this has been destroyed over the last two and a half years and i mean i can understand our educators have been through um a lot a lot this email goes on to say teachers are not marvel superheroes um many of us got bent beyond our limit last year a solid month of in-service meetings remote and hybrid learning models and so many pivots many of us broke under that stress um and this year is actually worse um part of part of the agenda that
183needs to be stopped is the push for srg as we heard tonight all elementary schools haven't planned implemented it in 2019 to 2020 middle school started to implement it last year and high schools are piloting it this year but i believe that we're pushing it back a year is that correct dr thompson for high school yes okay um the idea of teaching the mastery of specific standards is absolutely fine but the rest of srg is fraught with problems to do it right requires teachers to make significant changes in planning and assessing almost to the extent of reinventing the wheel given the events of the last two years with more and more students not caring srg will not increase graduation rates with the bar for passing being set so low srg does not prepare them for
184the rigors of the workforce and he he goes on to say how students don't care and as we heard this evening why should they because if the standards have been set low if they don't need to pass the first test to be able to be assessed well i i'm concerned about this this is also another educator has said that the district is planning to train the teachers on another new program next year now that the srg has hit the high schools and this teacher has said that they will likely be moving to a different district i we really need to hone in on what the teachers are telling us um because we need to keep them here and if they're so frustrated and they don't feel heard i got this email at 11 o'clock last
185night the way the district is implementing the srg's despite what is being said is meant to bring children to the middle of the grading scale it makes it far easier for students to pass classes which i and many others believe is the end goal for graduation right right the downside is that it makes it very hard for students to get a's in the class again as we've heard as we've heard tonight i i want to ask have we lowered the standards why and how long will they be lowered are you asking for a report on this or i mean because right now i'm not i mean this is a report session portion of this and yeah i would like your report okay so what are you i mean you're right all that but what are
186you asking for are the standards down put it in writing and then we'll bring back information okay um and can you educate me briefly on srgs and does this come from the state or the local level with the board yes all of the above once you write that into a review report i will bring back any information you need about srgs once you have written it okay and i just have another question that given the elementary middle schools have implemented the srg and high schools are being pushed back another year does this create inconsistency for the district as a whole put that in the report okay questions and the report and then i will okay okay and i just i just have um just a few more questions and i will put them in there
187for a report uh would it be so difficult to return to the former way of standard grading have parents ever been sent a survey to evaluate their child's school the administration and the staff during a school year have students ever been given a survey to evaluate their school and have educators ever been given a survey to evaluate their administrators um and also having the students with their art um this is phenomenal and we had the fourth graders with their art for christmas time i think that is awesome i would like to see our students being recognized at every board meeting i mean pick a school pick a grade pick something that they've done i think it's important that we recognize them i mean you get a kid that gets claps from everybody that's going to
188inspire others that's going to encourage so i will put that in writing also i'll be here until 11 writing um and then um i have one more and it is actually new business so i'll be quiet i'm done thank you that i think four of those questions are about srg and the last one was about a survey if i understand and then they the question about honoring st we yes that's why we have the good news portion of our every week of every month i would like to see students every month yeah we have students here okay we have students okay go ahead i'll just say well just put it in your report and we'll we'll continue to follow through with everything okay quest thank you thank you okay cheryl i'll write it uh yes
189thank you i was going to say as my report i am so thankful that we're able to have students back at our meetings because we do value our students and we literally have kids here almost every single month along with the programs pieces and everything else that we recognize so i think that's great that we finally cross the hurdle to be able to get students back in here so we can talk with them i do have as you all have noticed hazel stabler is absent tonight she had to be gone but she gave me this request that she would like to have as a request so what hables hazel sent to me is as a district what initiate initiatives have we taken to support mental health issues for our students and staff what are the
190current programs and how are they monitored for success and if possible a report will be brought back to the board at the april meeting so i am turning in this request from hazel stabler for us as a report thank you cheryl anything else cheryl no all right patrick next item please next item under miscellaneous new business i have some new business ernestine well it's it may not be new business it's a repeat is that as we're dealing with the finances and the amount of time that takes what we use our staff for i want to remind that we have a policy that says that if it's going to take a staff member more than is it two hours i believe our staffing that we need to come back and vote from the board so if
191there is a a report that's needed that's going to take like all day or something we need to come back to the board and have the board decide if that's an important enough report that we need it to because that's an expensive use of staff time that we have in our district so i would just like to remind us that that's a good way that we can do some help with our finances as we come to looking for places to cut is to make sure that we don't overwork staff that's all thank you ernestine and i the way that uh policy is written is the superintendent will bring the request back if it takes more than two hours so once she receives that uh request from both hazel and kathy or any one of us
192any one of us yes or any yeah not just yeah i was just using the example of the ones from tonight yeah go ahead dr thompson okay uh so is that your new business ernestine just to remind us about okay and i'm glad that you had it there in front of you to share with us well i i was uh thinking about this uh around the same time as you understand as we're trying to figure out ways to cut you know to do some money saving that's a good way to save some money on staff time because we pay our staff well and their use of their hours is very expensive and so we want to make sure that we're using it efficiently and well yeah i actually brought this with me last month as
193well so i'm glad somebody else brought up the topic kathy business totally out of the realm but in the realm as we continue to watch the news about what's going on in ukraine i've learned that we have two ukraine students here in our district and i thought of what could we as a district do to show support for the ukrainians which will also show support for those two families and i thought of this pennies for peace of having a penny drive at our schools beginning on the 28th of march through the 1st of april and just have all the students of all the schools just bring as many pennies as they can and then we can take them to the bank and they can cash it we would need someone to research how would we
194get that money to this is just an idea i mean i just feel like we need to do something and i'm sure that there's a lot of people in our district who feel the same way too because we feel so powerless over what's happening this is one thing that we might be able to do ernestine well to piggyback onto that the international rescue committee irc is the one that is helping to settle refugees here in wichita right now there's 500 refugees being settled most of them from afghanistan the irc has they've got a new headquarters they were over like near park lane but now they've moved to a bigger headquarters and they i know because i've talked to someone there they are absolutely right now on the ground in kiev and in the poland corridor
195where they're coming so that irc that is our wichita connection it is a what you call it a 501c3 pro non-profit organization that that is already working with our students that are coming in that are the refugee students that are being put in our schools right now so would that be an organization that if we had our schools do a penny drive penny for pennies for peace um we could then give them the money and they would make sure that it got to the people of ukraine what they would do is that they would get it exactly to the people that were already they're their representatives that are already doing the rescue there in ukraine is this something mr chairman that i need to make a motion about why don't we investigate a little bit
196i i was just okay i was just thinking i'm not sure how to do a spontaneous uh fundraiser from the bench that's just never come up before uh i think we can start with uh your own personal appeal you've mentioned the organization you've mentioned the the cause so i think we could start there and then let's see if it gels for uh any further action and i offer to contact the irc and make sure that this is a great group that could could funnel it directly into the ukrainian need and then our principles would then be notified is that how it works no i i think i think you make the personal appeal uh instead of an official act of the board and then uh use our time to to see whether or not we
197want to do more so basically you can use your social media platform to make this appeal for this i mean that's that's really about the only thing i can think of i don't want to do it for me i want to do i want the schools to do it that's what i'm saying i've never had a spontaneous uh fundraising official fundraising uh thing from the it's not that the idea is bad it's just that how instant it is well and not only that next month uh i'll will get a request to make an official cheryl help me out [Laughter] here okay okay cheryl make sure your mic is on first sit on okay thank you um i think if we put some time to be able to figure out is this something that's doable first
198of all and and if it is doable we do have fundraisers in our buildings but i i stan i don't think as a board we've ever directed a fundraiser our schools take that initiative we like jump rope for heart they decide at the school level is that something that's appropriate for their building okay and so i think we want to be real careful about saying we're going to raise money when we haven't talked to anybody or don't have any information or don't even know if this is something that our schools would want to do this is i know this is none of my my business to interject myself but i i don't have my computer but we do have a board policy as it relates to that and that board policy number is there is
199a board sorry susan willis chief financial officer there's policy 1410 which is the fundraising and crowdfunding policy school-wide fundraising activities for charitable and humanitarian purposes shall be carefully planned limited and combined whenever possible to avoid duplication of effort and to avoid imposing on those being solicited for funds general generally only one major fundraiser shall be permitted each school year to secure funds from students for charitable and humanitarian needs and typically that's part of the friendship fund process which has already been completed so we would have to look outside the policy somehow to do something like that and that's why i wanted her to come up and ring the board policy because it's not about researching either we have a board policy that tells us exactly what that means okay you live and you learn thank
200you kathy i i appreciate your patience with us on that and and it was uh it's learning for us too as well um i believe that concludes new business uh patrick uh next item please next item executive session i move the board resource into an executive session to discuss preparation for upcoming negotiations between the boe and the united teachers of wichita pursuant to the employer employee negotiations exception under the kansas open meetings act and the open meeting will resume in this room at [Music] 30. i suck at that motion we're going to executive session to discuss employer employee negotiations come back at 9 30. there needs to be a vote motion carries 6-0 we'll be back at 9 30. wichita board of education is reconvening no action necessary from executive session patrick next item please
201next item adjournment motion to adjourn i apologize uh the motion uh is to adjourn uh no no action was necessary uh from the executive session uh the motion was from julie seconded by uh i believe it was cheryl to adjourn but we'll leave it at diane if you don't mind diane this is actual vote okay got it [Music] motion carries 5-0 thank you very much yes