--------- and welcome to the Independent Missouri School District Board of Education School Board meeting. I welcome you. My name is Anthony Jay Dane, senior and I'm presiding at this meeting uh fulfilling the role of vice president. I want to thank you again for being here with us.
I will now entertain a motion to approve the agenda this evening. >> I'll move to approve the agenda. >> I'll second. >> All right. It has been motioned and seconded. We have any discussion.
Roll call, please. For all in favor, say I. >> I. >> Any names? Motion passes. >> No one wants their name called this evening, guys. All right. Our next item on our agenda
is request of district citizens or employees. And I want to uh share this um policy with you. Addresses uh board policy C140p addresses comments by the public in the board of education
meetings and states that a total of 30 minutes are allocated for public comment. Each individual or set of parents are allotted five minutes to make remarks. We ask individuals to give their names and home address prior to their statement. Comments or questions
are not to be addressed to individuals on the dis. If you would like to address the board of education regarding a student matter, personnel matter or potential legal matter. The issue can only be heard in close session. Comments are only made related directly to an
agenda item. And the guest that we have this evening to All righty. Our third item is the consent agenda. The approval of the consent agenda. >> I move that we approve the consent
agenda. >> I'll second. >> It has been motioned and second. All in favor? >> I session. Sorry. Is there discussion? >> Yes. Me? Okay. Just waiting for
discussion. All right, we do have bills totaling 14,52,740.554. This is up from last year at this time. Uh this is due to some updates around the district. We had sound panels installed at all ele elementary schools,
transportation costs for McKenna Vento, foster care, and contractual placements. We had concrete work across the district. Um if you've driven by Chrysler Stadium, you'll see some improvements there. Um and improvements to that wall that was falling in um towards 23rd Street. HBAC service and
replacement uh payment for many of the projects that took place over Christmas break. So those are the reasons there. We also have approval to let bids for the abatement services at Fairmont Elementary School. This will be contingent upon bond approval. This is
for asbestous and lead paint. um approval to let bids for district chemical lamination film custodial equipment and consumable supplies. These will be items for next year and this is um would come from general operating funds. Approval to let bids for carpet,
stair tread, cove base, rubber tile landings and LBT and LBCT and at district buildings. This would come from capital and this would be for project shine and other district buildings and annual upkeep approval to
let bids for epoxy flooring finishes finishings and simarazzo and district buildings. This would come from capital also again for project shine and other district buildings and annual upkeep. Approval to let bids for painting and at district buildings from capital. This
will be for project shine and other district buildings. and approval to let bids for replacement of interior and exterior doors at district buildings. This would come from capital um significant um to Bryant Elementary for those replacement and doors and at some of the uh high schools. So that's what
we have going on for our consent agenda. >> Um since it was mentioned, do we know yet what the Project Shine schools are? >> And little blue. I got it right. Right. Any more discussion?
All right. All in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> Any nays? Speak now. Motion passes. Our uh this is now I will entertain a motion uh to approve.
>> Okay. We will now have the superintendent report. Nothing. I'm just buying for tomorrow. It's all right. It's all good. >> All right. Superintendence report. So, I will be making bond presentations to numerous stakeholder groups throughout the spring prior to the election to
share basic information regarding the bond. We kicked off last week by presenting to Fairmont staff. Um it was very wellreceived and a video has been sent to all district staff and families uh sharing the information and it's a very exciting time
as we heard earlier this evening during our work session from Dr. Hurl regarding the situation with assess valuation in Jackson County. I just want to reiterate a few items because we do have more individuals here uh this evening with us during the regular session. Um, the ISD
will lose nearly 60 million in AV for commercial, which will hit our 2025 district AV, which will result in nearly a $3 million loss for this current year. With the AV cap for 23 and 24 for residential properties and district AV
loss o is over 135 million, resulting in a revenue reduction of 11.5 million over three years. It's also important to mention Senate Bill 190 that provided the senior property tax relief and that
will result in a loss of nearly 90 uh $900,000 this fiscal year. We are continuing to monitor this activity um and the activity that is taking place in Jefferson City. There are a couple of bills to bring to your attention that
we're keeping a very close eye on. House Bill 1766. This would change how increases in per personal property valuation are treated for tax levy calculations by excluding those increases from being counted as
new construction. While intended to limit rapid valuation growth, this change would have a direct and negative impact on district revenues. Based on the 2025 tax information, House Bill 1766 would result in a revenue loss of
746,46 to the Independent School District. House Bill 2709 makes changes to property tax levy calculations and rate setting provisions, including revisions to how assessed valuation growth and levy adjustments are applied to
political subdivisions. Although framed as property tax reform, the bills would significantly reduce school funding based on these current projections. House Bill 2709 would reduce the ISD revenue by $1.5 million annually.
Um, a reduction of this magnitude uh directly impacts funding for classrooms, maintaining staffing levels, and providing student services and how to sustain essential educational programs. On a positive note, the ISD is positioned well for our fiscal
responsibility uh due to our fiscal responsibility and current fund balances. However, it will be extremely important to clearly understand and monitor the situation with Jackson County and what is occurring at the state level. So, we've got to keep our eye on that. Um in support, um our human
resources department has been on the move. It is hiring season and in support of recruit rec recruitment efforts HR has actively engaged in outreach since January by attending career fairs William D at William Juel College University of Missouri Kansas City. Um
this week I believe they're at MU and Pit State. So they're going to continue those recruitment efforts there as well. So that is what I have for superintendent report. >> Thank you Dr. Grant. Do you have any additional questions or
comments? >> Um, I just wanted to comment that, um, Dr. Hurl made mentioned that the Nebas project could generate up to 27 million a year by 2030. Um, so that is a significant, I would even say
transformational revenue opportunity. Um, and I just wonder if there's things that we can do as a board to try to support that. Um I know city council is going to be voting on a chapter 100 um
on March the 3, second or third, not sure. Anyway, um just what anything that we can do to try to support that because that would be a significant increase in revenue for the district. >> Well, and I think it's continuing to share information, right? And get that
information out there and what we're monitoring and what it can do for the district as a whole. To piggyback on that, one of the things that I thought that the district did with the 4day school week that was very effective was the one pager. Is that anything that you have in mind for um some of these
challenges and also for the bond? Yes, we are working on a one-pager um as well as a PowerPoint presentation. Uh the groups that I'm going to speak at sometimes it's not always possible to have a PowerPoint presentation. However, there will be a one pager that people can take um that shares accurate
information. Also, I would encourage people to go to the district site that lists all of um the projects that will be considered and all of the information. >> Thank you. >> Lots of really good information being shared this evening. Any additional
comments or questions for Dr. Grant at this time? >> Um I I have one more question. Is it possible to get the financial information in some kind of consumable format, too? Um considering we're asking voters to approve a bond which will be
wonderful and transformative for Fairmont Elementary and elsewhere within the district. Um I think it's also important to note that our reserves while high there's a reason for that and there's a plan for that and everything that um Dr. Hurl shared earlier would be
helpful to include in that as well. Just where we are and where we could be if we didn't have that kind of deal. Are there any plans to produce something or to >> So I guess my questions in relation with the bond. >> So are you wanting the bond funds
because bonds are completely separate than what we talked about today. Bonds will be com for construction projects and those types of things. >> No, I understand. But folks might say, "Oh, you guys have plenty of money." Like how do we combat that argument? >> Yes, we can work on that for the one
pager. >> Thank you, Director Bay. Thank you, Dr. Grant. I've asked a few times, but I want to ask again. Uh it's totally welcome if you guys have any other questions or comments for Dr. Grant. I'm sure she's ready to answer.
All right. Fantastic. Thank you again. Uh we will now move on to new business. Um our first item is the approval of Independence School District emergency operations plan. I move that we approve the emergency
operations plan. A second. >> Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> Any nays? Motion passes.
All right. Our second item this evening is the approval of the Independent School District Employee Assistance Program, EAP. I will entertain a motion for approval. >> Need a second. >> Second. >> Thank you. It's been moved and seconded.
Do we have any discussion? Any questions? >> I will turn it over to Dr. Stout. >> Okay. Thank you, Dr. Grant. Good evening, board members. Um, the district worked closely with CBiz to conduct an RFP for EAP or employee assistance program plan options. Uh we are at the
end of a three-year agreement with our current provider, Curel Link. So, we thought it was a good opportunity to put it out for bid, see what came our way. Um this evening, we're recommending that we go we move to Comsite. Uh the bid tab was included for you to to preview. Uh a
couple of interesting facts about Comsy. One is the largest EAP provider partnering with over 78,000 organizations, 1,000 school districts, and 40% of the Fortune 500 companies. 105,000 clinical providers work in this
network. Um, dedicated phone number for ISD staff and families will be provided. Um, phones are answered by folks having a master's or doctorate level counselor. uh and they will answer it in under 10
seconds is what they've told us. And all of these things um led us to making the move to Comsite along with the fact that they will um meet what our current price rate is and it they put a rate guarantee on for 5
years. So we were very happy with that as well. So this evening, uh, we're asking the board to approve them as our EAP provider moving forward for five years with this rate guarantee. >> Thank you. Happy to answer any questions. >> Um, while the rate guarantee is
phenomenal, I did see that the first year matched our current provider. Um, do we have plans to assist with the transition? Will there be any bumps for existing employees to switch? I mean, it's always a pain when you have to switch what you've been using. This is a little different than like health insurance, but
>> no, great question, Wendy. Um, yes, and I work closely with Levi Henson. So, as we once the board approves this, there's a number of things that'll go into play as far as uh communication out to our staff and their families about what this transition looks like and what are the contact numbers and things like that.
And that won't be a one and done. There's several little things that are going to happen between now and April 1st. and the services pretty >> very much so and actually more robust and and like I said our previous provider was very good. Um I can tell
you just personally in in working with a few situations within the district I thought they were excellent in answering the phone. Some of the concerns, some of the hiccups that I heard were then the follow-up conversations. They'd say, "Hey, no problem. We'll get something set." Somebody would be reaching back
out to you and we found ourselves having to call them again. And that was kind of disheartening. So, we're hopeful with how much broader this scope is of support pieces and personnel that we can address that. >> Dr. Stout, I I apologize. I was not as
attentive as I'd like to be when you were speaking. I was taking some notes. Uh, so I do have two questions for you. Um, with this new EAP uh provider, are other school districts uh acclimated with this provider? >> Uh, there's many, many school districts
across the country. locally, I believe so, but I don't recall which they are. I can I can get you that information. I know we're not the only one in the metro. However, >> okay, that'd be good to know. And then you may have mentioned this and I apologize again. Um, as far as to piggyback somewhat on Wendy's, Director
Bear's question, um, the persons who may be using EAP right now, those providers that they're using, when we convert, uh, will those providers still be considered as in network or will it then be? >> No, it that's an excellent question. So,
we once ends on April 1st, we kind of sever those ties and we start a new. So, as we like I said, after tonight, we put some steps into place between now and April 1st that helps in that transition that hey, if you are receiving services or if you've got a few more sessions
set, um here's a contact and here's how we'll continue that plan. Okay, that that is a little I mean I do pause on that just a bit just because I I do have a background in in mental health and substance abuse services and that
can be devastating to some people. Um so hopefully there's just some thorough uh thought processes and ways that we can mitigate any gaps once you have a good provider that has helped. Um people usually like to stay with them. Um, but this is really a good program and I
understand why we're making the move, especially with hearing that they haven't been as responsive. That could be a really big deal. Uh, but I am concerned with um folks who might have an existing provider that might not be in network anymore. >> Yeah, I appreciate your concern and I
will look into that further. Um, Director Montane, I like I said, my understanding is that it's the fact that we've got 6 weeks until this transition occurs that will certainly help with that transition. Um, so I'm hopeful that that's the case and if there's anybody
that has specific concerns, certainly I don't want to know their itineraries, but I'll certainly help in making sure that they're in tune with the right people. Any additional questions, comments, concerns? All in favor? >> I >> I.
>> Any nays? Motion passes. Thank you. Our third item is approval to accept the project AM MSA, Hearts Safe Schools Grant. Dr. Grant.
I need a motion. >> Thank you. >> Second, >> Dr. Grant. >> There you go. And I'm going to turn it over to Dr. S. >> Thanks again. I got confused by Korean. No. >> Um, Lori Holly has worked closely with Children's Mercy and fulfilling all
requirements that allow our schools along with INT and central office to be designated as hearts safe schools. This designation qualifies the district to receive grant funding for our 27 title one schools. Uh so this evening we would
ask that the board of education approve grant funding for 69 AED units in the amount of $143,382. Um I greatly appreciate Lor's work on this. She came to me within the last 10 days. She was very excited. Um she's
done a lot of work as as Peter mentioned even in his uh presentation this evening. She's worked closely with Children's Mercy and a couple of conversations led to a little bit of paperwork and then all of a sudden we were notified that we're going to receive a substantial grant which will help fund some of these things that are
going to be required for state legislation. So we're very excited about that >> and correct me if I'm wrong, Dr. Stout, this was a part of the emergency operations plan that we just heard about correct and implementation. So this will allow all of that to be implemented. Any further discussion or questions?
>> No, but excited to see a grant pay for it. Wonderful. >> All righty. If no more discussion, all in favor? >> I. >> Any nays? Motion passes. Thank you. Our fourth item is approval of FY26 budget
amendment. >> I move that we approve the FY26 budget amendment. Got a second. >> Second. >> Thank you. >> All right. This is something we do annually and Marty Gardner is here to
share this with us. >> Um, this motion is an addition to the original FY26 budget to reflect the overall carryovers and updated department and grant allocations that were not finalized at the time of the original budget approval. Um each year
once the school year has finished and the building budgets are closed, remaining um supply balances that the schools have get carried over into um this current year. So that money is still available for school use. Um department budget ed I'm sorry. Um and
that amount was $546,31251 that we gave back to the buildings to use for this year. Um department budget adjustments um totaled $3,618,942.14 and reflect operational and facility needs identified throughout the year.
Capital technology adjustments included technology purchases that were appropriately reclassified to capital. So those monies were in um general and we just moved them to capital because that's where the needs were. Um facility related adjustments include fac uh
furniture purchases. based on building input, um contracted services, security camera requests, and facility improvements across multiple buildings. Um, notably projects include um lighting updates, locker room renovate
renovations, excuse me, classroom space reconfigurations, perimeter fencing around Sherman's um football field to help protect the students um and additional um and addition of program spaces in other district buildings. This
amend this amendment also incorporates updated grant allocations totaling approximately 4.2 million. Several grant award amounts were not available at the time of the original budget approval and since have been finalized. Significant
grant increases in include special education moments of effort, adult education and literacy, the evidence-based reading um instruction which are budgeted once we get that award amount. So um the amendment also
reflects the close out of the federally funded FY2425 federally head start grant and early head start. That grant is runs from November to October. So once all the expenses have been um paid for in October, we do the final budget
adjustment since it crosses years since our our fiscal year is June 30 and this is October. We go ahead and tie up the expenses. So that's why you'll see the budget adjustment for that. You will also see another one with the new grant that started in November. And that one
will happen at my next request for a budget amendment. Um some grants reflected um reduced award amounts including the CTE um enhancement grant. It was allocated over $300,000 and the state came in and dropped it to
34,000. Um and the Kaufman Foundation design and planning grant also went away. In addition, the amounts um the amendment includes restricted donations and foundation grants. All grants and donation funds included in this item are restricted to their intended purpose. Um
administration recommends approval of the budget amendment to ensure the district's budget accurately reflect finalized funding and approved expenditures at the time. And I don't like to public speak. So there's that. >> Great job. Great job.
>> I thought that was great. Very detailed. I really appreciate it. I just want to make sure I um my understanding is that when we do these budget adjustments that um in general we're not increasing or decreasing the amount of expense or income. We're just reflecting where they
some of the changes that have to be made in the spending based on grants andor changes that are required by the state. Just want to make sure I understand that correct. We could increase the budget if we get a new grant and now we get four more four more million dollars in revenue and four more million dollars in
expenses. You're going to see that increase because we weren't expecting it. But a lot of it is just re reallocation of accounts. >> I I would like to sign up for that getting the extra grant. Sign up. >> I would too.
>> Any other questions? >> All right. >> Thank you. >> Great job. Thank you. All righty. Thank you again. Uh if there are no more questions or concerns, all in favor? >> I. >> Any naysay?
All right. Motion passes. Thank you. Our fifth item is approval of preliminary budget for ordering the next year's supplies. I will entertain a motion. >> Motion to approve this. >> Second. >> Thank you.
>> All right. So, this is something we do each year in order to prepare for next year um to approve a preliminary budget for supplies for next year. This allows us um to order supplies that can so that they can be here for the start of the school year and teachers can put in what
they need. Um departments as well. So, this is something that we just do each year and we would ask for your approval. >> All righty. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any naysay?
All right, motion passes. Our last item for this evening is the approval of 2026 2027 school year calendar. I will entertain a motion. >> Second. >> Any discussion?
>> All right, we will I have Dr. Plater here to share some information regarding the calendar. Good evening. How's everybody doing today? All right. This evening, I'm going to share hopefully in front of you had the proposed calendar that the calendar committee had discussed and uh
voted on and so forth to to present to you all. Um I was just going to share a few things about the calendar committee. Just some considerations we have to take into account when we were deciding what the calendar would look like and then some of those changes for the 26 27th calendar. So, I'll start with the
calendar committee. Um, 30 representatives were invited to be part of that calendar committee. It consisted of district admin, building admin, early education, uh, kids safari coordinators, teachers, parents, students, transportation facilities representatives, and we also had two
board members with us as well. I know there's several that are in attendance that were part of that, and so I want to thank them for their uh, taking part in that. Um, we did have building admins and teachers represented at both the elementary, middle, and high school. Part of this is guided by our CBA that we have to have at least one teacher
from each level uh present at that committee. Uh, we did also add another teacher this year um as part of the kidney meet compared to what we had last year. And then our meetings were held on November 13th, November 20th, and December 4th. We skipped Thanksgiving because I didn't think people would want
to be there for our calendar committee. Some of the considerations that the calendar committee had to take uh into account was one we need to have 155 student contact days and 171 contract days. Uh that also includes a fifth day option for teachers for those Monday
schools. Uh the remaining days we did have 13 professional development days. Eight of those usually designated as building district and five teacher worktime days. two of those days because there is a discrepancy of two extra days, but those are part of the teacher conferences that are part of the CPA as
well. Uh since they work those extra hours, those are where those two extra days come into play, that fall and spring conferences. Also, due to Missouri law, uh the first day of school kit may only be uh two weeks prior to Labor Day. Uh so this year, or I'm sorry, next year, that
means the first day that we could start is August 24th, which is about a week later than what we started this year. this year was August 18th. Uh and then we also need to consider summer school. We held summer school in June and we need to be able to start and finish. Uh summer school has to have 19 days in
that. So all that kind of comes into play when we were talking about the calendar look like. So some changes this year to the calendar. We did add two professional development days prior to the start of the school year. That was voted on by the calendar committee. Part of that reasoning that came to us was
providing more opportunities for professional development and teachers to prepare for their classrooms for the start of school. There was emphasis at the elementary school especially considering they have meet the teacher uh that they have to prepare for. Again I talked about this but our first day
will be the 24th. That's what was decided upon and again that's due to the uh requirement that we start two weeks prior to Labor Day. PD days were taken out of this uh during our uh parent teacher conference time. And so part of
the reasoning with that was teachers on the committee and others discussed that there was concerns about the length of those teacher conferences weeks. So they usually have right now they have a PD day and then we have our parent conferences but then they also work those extra hours. So to kind of think about that it's almost like a six day work week for our teachers. So we've
taken those out. So now they will work those extra hours. those more of a 5 day week, four days with those extra hours involved in there. So, help alleviate some of those long weeks for our teachers and all the paras and everybody else that's involved in those. Uh, school will be in session as of now on
December 21st and 22nd. That was voted on by the calendar committee. There's a couple reasons why we looked at this. Uh, due to the necessity of having to start late, there's a noticeable imbalance in instructional days between first and second semester. um this
imbalance especially would affect the secondary level as we think about our secondary our semester courses. So adding two days prior to the winter break helps lengthen that first semester and reduce that disparity a little bit. Uh with the proposed calendar the first semester would be 71 days and second
semester would be 84 days. Just to kind of give you this year give you some comparison this year first semester was 74 and second semester was 81. Um, additionally, by including the 21st and 22nd, one of the things the committee talked about was considering
that commitment to our voters for the supported 4-day week. Uh, we know we had feedback from families and staff about more consistent 4-day weeks. So, while we do increase the number of days for semester to kind of help that disparity, it also allows us to go from five student contact weeks throughout the
year to three 5-day student contact weeks, and there'll be none second semester. Uh, and then I kind of talked about this already, but that reduction of the five-day weeks from the 3-day weeks. Um, again, by reducing that number of five-day weeks, it allows for more consistency within our calendar.
The first two weeks will be 5 days student weeks to allow schools to work with students upon return to establish practice, reinforce expectations along with starting curriculum. The final five-day week will occur on the week of December 14th. This still allows for a full week of grading. Uh supportive
assessment at the high school level. Um and there's no 5-day student weeks during that second semester for our teachers and students as well. So, so that's kind of the reasoning for the calendar. So, you have the proposed calendar in front of you and I'm happy to take questions. >> I will say Dr. Plater, I'll interject
here. The dis the late start day has been a conversation across the state with districts because it is it it's a big deal. And so, um, I know there are districts around the area, um, and our greater cooperating school districts
association looking at submitting a le letter requesting a waiver for just this school year to see if we could potentially start on the 18th. So, we will wait to see what happens. I know there are several school district in in the um bootill area 4 day weeks that I
did submit a a letter with. Um, they've yet to hear back. They did submit that to the Desessie to see um request the waiver. However, we have not heard back. So, more school districts joining on board because it is it's really hard to late and it ties our hands. Um so,
requesting that for just one year. We'll see what happens. I don't know. But if that is the case, then Dr. Plater would have the privilege to reconvene um the committee and see what happens. But we've been trying and that was done. We submitted the letter with the southern
state or school districts um right around in December. Correct. Yeah. So, we'll wait and see what happens. Um so, I did just want to to add that as well. Um so
>> that was one of the reasons but also to have conversations with the PD committee because one of the conversations that came out of calendar committee was additional days at the beginning and so what could that look like and having those conversations to say hey um you
know what we've done this year works well um I know a survey was distributed to staff and I Please, Dr. Boat writes in here and I'm going to put her on the spot. Um, for the PD committee, um, we sent the survey out regarding the structure of PD. How many respondents did we have?
>> Um, we had over 500 uh 500 responses. >> So, almost 50%. So, we have about a thousand teachers and that's who would have filled out that survey. Um, and what percentage of those staff of that those respondents stated they like the structure of the day? >> 92% said they like this year structure
of the split. um PD day with half work day. >> Gotcha. And so what we wanted to do um I'm sorry I'm talking Dr. Bo about should be coming up here and doing this. Dr. Boight, would you like to come up and talk about how that was decided with the PD committee in conjunction with um
honoring what was agreed to last school year >> last school year with the the third addendum to or um the structure of how PD was decided in buildings. >> Yeah. So, we had some conversation around um so we wanted to poll our staff
because it was a new structure this year in an effort to have more work time spread out throughout the school year. That was part of the rationale behind splitting that. Um, also there was feedback in in past that sometimes a a
six-h hour PD day can be a lot and so there was time needed to digest the learning and so we would have learning in the morning and then teacher work time in the afternoon. Um, and so we did want to poll our staff and ensure that we were reading the feedback correctly.
And so we had 92% of our staff who said that yes, they did like the structure. They did provide some feedback on just some things to consider moving forward, which we did take that back to the PD committee. Um I don't have it right in front of me right now. Um but um in the
end it came down to sometimes the needs of elementary and secondary are very different. As Dr. Plater had mentioned that um the meet the teacher night is at the elementary level that is not at the secondary level. um at the end of
quarters when um elementary prepare grade cards. We do not prepare grade cards at the end of the quarter for secondary because they are on semesters. So just considering the various needs of each of those uh groups, we landed that there would be some autonomy given to
buildings to structure how they want some of those PD days to fall. So, August the 13th and 14th and then the 18th and 19th, I believe that's a Tuesday and Wednesday, those are given to the buildings for their building leadership teams to decide how they want
those to look. Do they want two full work days on the 13th and 14th? Would they like to divide those up between the building uh building PD and teacher workday or an all day building or an all day workday? So, we felt like that helped to be a nice compromise in um
allowing buildings the opportunity to have some of that autonomy. And then sprinkled throughout the rest of the year, the cross district days, we had to um those couldn't be moved because that impacts all grade levels. We have some grade uh excuse me, content areas that
meet together K12. And so we needed to to ensure that on a cross district day that those were set and so buildings would not have the ability to adjust those. Um there are I believe three days in second semester. And I say days, let me preface that. So a day consists of an
AM and a PM time. There are three um times I believe in second semester where the building still had autonomy to decide um do they want this to be a workday or would they that half of the day or would they like that to be building? And so that was wellreceived.
They have until May 8th, I believe, for those building uh leadership teams to come together and decide how they want to use them. >> Quick question. And just a point of clarity for the survey respondents, 500 plus respondents out of the thousand.
>> 500. It was 499. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> I did not mean to be that. I promise. >> I just wanted to be clear. 92% of the uh respondents were sorry >> correct >> so not of our staff right just
>> of those who responded >> got it okay cool beans thank you >> I wanted to ask Dr. Plater talked about the comp what comprises the calendar committee and 30 and and what all comprises the PD committee and then kind of what happens if there is a conflict
between the PD committee and the counter committee on um how things are supposed to lay out. >> Well, in response to your second question, we've not had that. Um we've been fortunate. Um but the first one is there is a representative from every
building at every grade level um on that committee. So there's a voice from all all schools and all grade levels. >> So is that like uh we have how many grade schools do we have? Three >> 20 elementaryaries. >> Okay. >> Yeah. And so they we have 20
elementaryaries. We have all middle schools represented, all high school represented. And then I actually has two representatives because they have an elementary and a secondary. So um again just understanding that the needs can be different sometimes. We want to make
sure that those voices are heard. >> Yeah. >> And regarding the uh committee composition about how many like what percentage are nine-month employees? Do we have an idea of what that is? Which committee are you talking PD or calendar? Sorry the the calendar committee just because that had come up
is that >> uh for nine month uh I would say well we had six teachers u those those would probably comprise and so it' be one out of five so 20% or so that's what I'd say
>> the rest would be administrators and students >> administrators administrators there's parents three students we had high school students from each high school as part of it uh we two representatives from facil one I'm sorry one from facilities uh one from transportation as
part of their CBA as well negotiated >> I'm sorry yes transportation they would have been yeah I apologize >> also is there an opportunity for all staff to weigh in like are there is there a survey put out with three different calendars
>> no the way we established it. The first meeting was coming together, kind of talking about the process. Um, and I'm going to give Dr. Lether, I don't know if he's here or not, but I stole his process from last year. So, um, the first is just presenting that we
had a tool that they could go um it was a Google doc basically where they can enter uh teacher day and student contract, sorry, teacher contract day and student contact day. And so that counted uh counted it up for them, the people that are participating. So anybody had the opportunity to make a
calendar uh they can go back get feedback at that point we come back the second time those that wanted to do a calendar they presented their calendar um had some discussion they could go back and get feedback then we came back the second time or sorry third time uh
we put together kind of two calendars with multiple just kind of taking ideas from all of them um kind of looked at those and then made decision from there but there's there wasn't anything necessarily sent to all staff regarding Um was there a discussion about snow day
makeup? AMI? >> The only discussion we have is we followed the basically the process for this year. We knew that um this year we were making up the five snow days and then the next five would be AMI. I don't know what that'll look like next year.
So when I talked to the county committee, we just kind of went with what we know was accepted this year and we're going to follow that next year. Now, that that may change and that's fine. So, we did indicate five snow makeup days in there. Uh but again,
that's not really our decision to make how that'll be used, but if that leadership makes that decision, then certainly we don't necessarily have to use those, but we marked them just so they were there. Was there feedback or has there been a survey about obviously we're kind of still in the middle of winter so maybe a little
preemptive but I would like to know staff's opinion if they would like to change that structure. >> I I don't know that there's been any survey sent out regarding that. >> No. >> Um I would say I do know we had two board members who served on the committee. I want to give them a chance
for them to share their thoughts and ideas about how the process went because it did take a lot of time. So, we had three meetings. So, thank you. >> I'd be happy to. Um, a lot of what I kind of plan to say has been said, but um, I've been on this committee now for
probably eight years or so. And several of the people concerning the the calendar makeup um, the committee makeup, several of those people um, place different roles. You know, we have
teachers and administrators who are also parents. So, you know, we I feel like we do have a good uh a well-rounded group of people there. Um I've been thoroughly impressed. You talked about um Dr. Leam
and his calendar tool and I've been thoroughly impressed these last two or three years with the efficiency, the organization, collaboration, communication, all the words of this committee. Everybody has an opportunity for a voice and Dr.
Plater mentioned this this calendar. They can take it home, create their own calendar and come back and share it in depth with the group which was very interesting to me. Um and then everybody has a chance they come together at the
end and put together a calendar um these 30 people and that has not always been the case. So I really appreciate that. It's a voice for everyone in that way. Um, I know that the December 21st and
22nd days are it's a struggle every year. The holiday schedule, the semester, the days in the semester. I think before I was on this committee, I didn't realize the big discrepancy in the number of days um between first and second and that's that really affects
secondary schools. So, um it's it's a real struggle and I I do appreciate this year the district's commitment to um try to um make our 4 day weeks more consistent. I I know that's important to our stakeholders. So, I do appreciate
that. What I what I will say is that with this new structure, whatever we have now does not mean that it will be in place forever. So um maybe for you know we have tried things the last two or three
years and you know maybe they didn't work they've made tweaks and come back the next year. So um it's it's kind of a give and take every year. So calendar is important to everyone and every single person in this district. So I just appreciate everybody's work and
flexibility. >> I would have to agree. I was thoroughly impressed with what I experienced at the calendar committee meeting. Um, lots of discussion, lots of ideas, lots of collaboration and I think that again
just thoroughly impressed with the work that is being done. Uh, quite intimidated to go home and make my own calendar. So, I'm sorry, but uh, yeah, I'm not your guy. Okay, but glad to have had the option. U, but I do have some questions here. So, I manage a bank in
my personal life. Um, and surveys come out often. Okay. My manager reaches out to me to tell my staff, "Cascade this down to your team to make sure they, you know, do the survey because that's how change happens." And so, I'm just interested to know what what is our
approach to encourage our staff to actually do the survey. U, I would really love to see that more than half of the staff persons are actually or teachers at least are doing the surveys. uh because this is in some ways how we leverage uh change in their voices. And
so is there like reminders that go out or are principles encouraging teams to do this? >> I don't know. I can speak to the PD1 specifically. I can tell you that other, you know, surveys that we send out that certainly, you know, we we try to reinforce that with our teachers or
whoever is supposed to be doing it, whether it be parents or students and so forth. Um you know, we have several that go out. We do send reminders. I don't know what was sent out for the PD1 if you want to speak to that or not. >> I we try to be strategic when we send it out. So if we know that teachers have
work time, sending it out during that typically yields a higher return because they are at their computers versus it getting buried in a workday. Um but yes, and then leaving it open um sending reminders to PDC reps um you know and
our building principles about the about the survey. I I think five 50% is a really high return considering a lot of what we some of those that we've had and we might get 20% back. >> Um so that was that was encouraging that
we had over half well >> I know in many instances when students are filling out we'll have them do it either during class or home room or those types of things. So to try to encourage that. >> Yeah. I I recognize people are busy especially teachers. I mean, having someone do another survey can be quite
daunting. I mean, I get it. So, I just I I just love to see voices heard as we all do and people being uh you know, considered throughout this process. So, again, I I join you in celebrating the amount of uh respondents and hopefully
that number continues to increase um over over time. So, >> I I have one more thing along that line. Part of the responsibility of being on the calendar committee is taking back each week um the ideas that were submitted or the possible calendars to
their buildings to their departments students. We get great feedback from the students who are on there. They talk to their peers about you know what do you think about this and that. So that is part of the responsibility. I, you know, would encourage anyone that could be board members, stakeholders, anyone to
if you have ideas through the years or through the year, things that don't work, take it to, I don't know who, maybe somebody in HR could direct you to the right person or maybe an INA rep. I think they have several spots on the calendar committee. So,
um, we're losing our sound systems going a little crazy. Um I just want to acknowledge because I did count and it's if we by losing those first uh two days of the holiday week in December um as teacher work days and attendance days obviously teacher work days with
attendance um it's 16 versus 12. So, I would I'm hopeful that would this is the first I've heard about asking for a waiver and that's fantastic and hopefully um the state of Missouri is kind because this calendar stinks just with the way not this particular one
presented to us. I mean the calendar in general sorry I mean the 2026 full year calendar just when you're thinking about holidays and how it lines up. So, I apologize that didn't come out right, but um just the timing of the holidays and the two
weeks before um Labor Day, it's not set up well for um anything. I do appreciate the commitment to the five day weeks because it or the four day weeks because if we I'm all messing up all the words tonight because if we are going to be a 4-day school week, then let's be a four-day school week. So, I appreciate
that as well. Um, but I hope that those two days in December, the 21st and the 22nd, I hope that those are the first things to come back if we do get that waiver because 16 days versus 12 days when
education is hard and we don't have a spring break. We don't have um other breaks through the years or throughout the school year. So, I think it's important that we leverage what we can get where we can get it. And if we can get those full two weeks just helps
everybody morale, feeling good, coming back ready for the second semester. I think that that's super important. >> Um I can echo what Director Bear just said. Um and also echo the struggle with this upcoming school year's calendar. Uh
we had similar discussions on our committee and Liberty and it is just with the restraint of our started schools and really trying to um make equal number of days in this in the first and second semester. It is
difficult and um I can also attest to what that attendance will look like December 21st and 22nd as a high school teacher. So, um, that is where it really is unfortunate because then as as an educator, it's really difficult to plan
for your finals knowing that you're going to have students that are going to say, "Well, my family decided that we would take a vacation." >> Any other uh discussion? All right. All in favor say I.
>> I. Any naysay? Speak now. Motion passes. All righty. We have covered a plethora of material this evening. Thank you for bearing with us. Lots of passion. Director Bear share tonight. Thank you everyone for sharing and asking
wonderful questions. I want to remind everyone that our next regular board of education meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March the 10th, 2026 at 6 PM. So, we look forward to seeing you here and bring a friend with you next time. At this time, I will
entertain a motion to close uh to adjurnn to close session. >> I move to adjourn to close session pursuant to Missouri State statute for personnel issues 610.021 sub paragraph 3, legal m legal matters 610.0 1021 sub
paragraph 1, real estate 610.021 sub paragraph 2, and students 610.021 sub paragraph 6. >> Roll call. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> We are joured. Thank you. Part: 2
Good evening, guests and friends. I am Anthony J. Mundane, senior, the vice president of the board of education. I'm calling this meeting to order uh here at central office Tuesday, February 10th, 2026. I will entertain a motion for approval
of our agenda this evening. >> Second. It has been approve motioned and second. Is there any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> Is there any naysay? Please speak now.
Motion passes. Thank you. On to new business financial update. Dr. Green. >> All right. Thank you very much for our special board meeting this evening. We do have two presentations. Our financial update from Dr. Dr. Hurl which he will come forward and begin our evening and then we'll have a second presentation
um regarding our emergency operations plan. So we'll start with Dr. Hurl. >> Good morning everyone. >> Good morning or good morning. >> Good afternoon. Um I am pleased to present a financial update for all of you. As you guys know if I start talking
about finances I can go a lot longer than 15 minutes. So I'm going to set my timer for 10 minutes. That way there's time for questions. I am going to go through this really quickly because there's a lot of information. Um, I'm going to call this the good, the bad,
and the ugly. Unfortunately, the slides for the ugly regarding finance. Unfortunately, the ugly slide is more than one slide. Okay. First of all, the good. If you look at historical fund balance within the ISD, uh, my first
year here was in 2009. We were at 7.94%. It took us 7 years to get our assessed valuation back to where it was in 2008. If you look at our most recent audited numbers, we are sitting at 40.82%.
Now, you may say that's really high. Okay, a little bit of that is um is false just because you may remember our auditors wanted us to change how we handle summer school. So we had no summer school payment last fiscal year
which increased our fund balance. We will actually have a double payment this year. So that fund balance really is false. But even with that we would still be at historical regarding our fund balance. I want to
point out the um information writing. I went back through and found an old pres to the board of education back I'm g back in April of 2022
and I said all the way back then that we had to get above 30% fund balance because even then I was predicting many of you will remember that uh things that I thought were coming in the state of Missouri. Now, what I did not know is
this was going to get so much worse because of local assessed valuations within Jackson County. Okay, so obviously we're above 30% now and thank goodness for that. Okay, the good first of all, our budget forecast and you'll
see that we are projected to deficit spend about $9.5 million. Now, while you would say that's really bad, that is coming in exactly or I say exactly almost exactly where I was predicting at this time last year. The reason for
deficit spending was all planned because we have the last two years the largest raises in district history and actually three of the last four years if you look at salaries and benefits. The other thing that is good, I'm always
very conservative whenever I budget for revenues, try to get expenditures right on assuming home employment. So again, I did assume withholdings this year. Uh the SAT, the student adequacy target, is at 7,145
with full funding. Um I budgeted for 6,953. We do have fewer students this year, but it will not impact us until a little bit later. And I'll explain that why that is. Okay. The bad foundation formula,
the most recent numbers I pulled, we are down 524 students compared to last year at the same time. It will not impact us this year because the foundation formula you get to use this year, prior year or previous year. So the whichever is the
highest. So we would not see an impact on this until FY28. Hopefully we can rebound. Um there will be a new formula that will go into effect within the next two to three years. I do not see a situation where that is going to be kind to public
education to be quite honest. Potential withholdings in FY26. Um the governor in his state of the state address did not mention any withholdings. withholdings is a nice way of saying budget cuts. Okay, that does
not mean it will not happen. Um, but again, we have planned for that. Prophecy revenue, that is sales tax that people pay whenever you go and buy something. There's a 1% sales tax. Our lower enrollment, those 524 kids, will
have an impact on our Prop C revenues. I anticipate about a half a million dollars. Okay, the ugly, and this is where it does get really ugly. First of all, federal revenue. We have been told to expect a 20% cut in federal revenue next
year, mostly in the form of title funds. If that 20% does come to fruition, that would mean we would see a loss of $1.2 million, again, mostly in title funds. But that's not where the real concern that I have is.
It's local property taxes and I I do not want to get into some of the legal parts that is best addressed by our attorneys. Um but I will tell you there are ongoing lawsuits regarding this fund 12. Okay, that's our general fund. I budgeted
62.79 million. Again, I always go shallow on this. Okay, even with that, as of this morning, we'd received 53.51 million. Okay, the the last receipt we've received was the 30th, so we'll
have more that come in. Um, we do get that every week. That's a collection rate of 85.2%. In comparison to the budget, this time of the year, we should be around 93 to 95%.
Right now we are $9.3 million short in ad balorum taxes. Okay. Everything that I am giving to you right now is just operating. Has nothing to do with debt service. If you put debt service on all of this, it's actually even worse than this. Okay? No losses. These are things
that we know are going to happen. Senate Bill 190, that was the senior property tax freeze. This is a number I've received from the county that were given back in credits or are in the process of being given back. That's 891,376.
The commercial property being capped at 15%. We will lose almost $68.8 million in assessed valuation. That equates to almost $3 million in revenue. That's this fiscal year.
Okay, the 15% cap on assessments and I'm talking residential now. I know you guys have been following some of this. Our AV loss, again, that's not counting commercial. This is just residential is 135 almost $136
million of AV. As far as operating funds, that equates to about $1.5 million that would need to be given back in the form of tax credits over the next three years to local taxpayers.
Okay, financial summary. Foundation formula loss in FY28 again because we can take this year, last year or the previous year. Uh Prop C revenue is going to be down about a half a million. That's my prediction as of
right now. Title funds because of the cut of federal funds that won't be till next year. 1.2 million. Local property tax uh 11.55 million over three years. Okay. Again, back in the form of
credits. And then Senate Bill 190 about 890,000. So, we have a potential revenue loss of more than $14 million over the next three years. And I cannot believe I did. I have two minutes to spare. That has
never happened with a budget update. Okay. What questions do you guys have for me? I have one question and that is so why is the collection rate so much? >> Um couple of things. Number one with
that is a collection rate as a ratio of what was budgeted. So, because of the um the order that came from the state tax commission to um the county and the county executive saying that they were
going to rebate any property taxes that went up more than 15% from 20 FY22 to 23. Um that's why it's so much lower because again it reflects how much less we're getting because of that state tax
commission. I had a couple of questions. Um I wonder, and it may be difficult for you really to say, but um a lot of the property tax bills went out very late this year. Yes. >> And so I'm wondering if some of that is going to end up being timing and maybe
bounce back in February and March. Do you have any kind of feel for that? >> I I am hoping that. That's why this morning I checked because again we get it every um every month or I'm sorry every week and the last one we got was
the 30th. Okay. Normally when I look at property taxes, you know, everybody is supposed to pay by before January 1st. They push that back a month. So I do think we'll see a higher capture rate for January and end of February than
what we typically would see, but not enough to catch up at 9.3 million. that's just so substantial. >> That makes sense. Um the other thing is I'm wondering um what are you seeing as far as opportunities for the school district? Like for example, I'm thinking
about the Nebas project. Is that something that we might be able to um you know offset some of these challenges with? >> U certainly anytime. Sorry I'm shutting this off. Um anytime we get additional
assessed valuation that's always welcome. Traditionally, we do not see a large influx in in one year. A project such such as the Nebius one, I mean, we're talking in the billions of dollars with a B. Um, so and I'm I personally
have never seen a project this big with this amount of assessed valuation attached to it. So, I was able to go through some of the proformas related to Nebus and how it would impact the school district. The building is actually a very small um amount of the revenue that
would be received. If you look at 2028, I'm going some of this off in memory. Um I think it's about 310,000 we would see an additional revenue both for debt service and operating from the building. But if you jump to 2030, whenever they
start putting the personal property, which is the computers in there, we're looking as just us as a district, about $27 million annually. Okay? I want all of you guys to think about that. $27
million. Our budget is about $225 million. So, we're talking a jump of more than 10% on one project. And this Again, I've never seen a project this big. Um the lifetime of um the assessed
valuation is more than 7 billion dollar. So, not only does it impact us, it's going to impact fire districts, it's going to impact the library. Um when people talk about a concern about taxes, think about throwing that much assessed
valuation into a school district. Okay? We've tried to run bond issues. We've been able to do them with a no tax increase, but that type of of influx of a set valuation. The certainly the tax
rate we would levy because of um because of Hancock and some of those things, our taxpayers would see an increase. >> Thank you as a question. the fund balance you showed initially was like%
high. I think I guess I guess I say thank you but secondly I worry personally about some of the other schools and surrounding districts because I don't think they position themselves in that standard. What what's your take on that? What are your thoughts? What do you
>> um I I think every school district is certainly very different. Uh I know there are a lot of districts their loss of assessed valuation is significantly more than us. Some have a lesser impact. What I will say, school districts that
set themselves up with a healthy fund balance are very well positioned to absorb any losses. There will be some school districts, I have no doubt that you will, actually, you've already seen some of them that they are anticipating
having to riff or cut staff. and it's already been announced at some as some of these come to fruition because we have the ability to do what's called a recoupment to get some of these losses back because we are not at our uh voter
approved maximum uh in regards to our levy. Our maximum is $467 per $100 of assessed valuation. We're at I don't remember like $431 something. So we have the capability to go up. There are some
districts that do not have that. So when they see losses like this, they have no way to get that money back. That is 100% a loss that the only way to get it back is people because most districts 80% of
your budget does deal with salary benefits of people. So there's going to be a lot of pain. a very short answer for some school districts and not just us, fire districts, library, such.
>> Um, I know you said with the title funds that we might be cut 20%. >> The for this year current status like where are we at in receiving funds for >> so right now we've received no notification to expect any cuts this
year. I would be surprised if we see anything this year. Um, it would be next year whenever we get our allocation amount, but no word yet on that. But whenever I whenever I get it from the feds saying expect 20% of these, we're
probably going to see hopefully it's just not 20%. >> So, have you ever seen anything like this before? I don't remember anything quite like this on the board. >> Not even close. Now, when I came in in ' 08, there were certainly
situations, very low fund balance, a drop in AB because of the housing crisis. There was a big difference back then and that was we have three main funding sources as a school district. You have federal funds, you have adalor taxes which are local funds. Then you
have the foundation formula which are state funds. Never have I seen in my entire career where all three are under severe attack. And I don't I mean that that they're in real jeopardy for seeing a significant impact in all of those,
but probably the most concerning is >> so do you have any general advice for us as school board members going forward? >> Here would be my advice. Um, I really hope you heed that you heed this advice. I I remember back when we were talking
budget in the past and niece always asked the question, what fund balance should we have? You know, my my goal always in the past, I know you guys probably remember this 18 12 to 21% fund balance. And if you look at those numbers,
this is where we've been. This is where we operated for a lot of years, right? But we're at a time that I would say cash is king. You better make sure that you have enough money in reserves to be
able to absorb anything that comes our way, either from the federal government cuts or from adding more in taxes locally or the rewriting of the foundation. Because always remember, as soon as you deficit spend without a plan
on how to absorb that, that $8 million, if you don't fill that hole in, it becomes 16 next year. and 32 it just gets worse. So you have to find a way to mitigate that. One of the best ways is
to have enough cash to draw that from >> Thank you, Dr. Hur. >> All right. Thank you. >> And I would like it noted if I did fall within my time. Go ahead. All right, Pete Scott for our emergency operations plan.
>> Good evening. I'm not going to move with the mic either. Everybody hear me? Okay. Yeah. Um, I put this intro slide because I haven't formally met all of you. Um, I might have given Blake my life story before the meeting, but here's some
highlights here of uh where I've been, where I came from. Grew up in Independence and coached in Independence. Um, all my kids came through Independence. I came through Independence myself. Um, but for the last seven years, I've been in KCK managing 35 to 40 SRO's there. Kind of
fluctuates with recruitment and retention. Um, and as well as a small patrol unit out there in KCK. Um during my time there I I helped them craft and implement an EOP in a little
bit larger district than we are here. So um this has been not not exactly a unique challenge for me but um something that has been challenging nonetheless jumping over to the state line. There's there's a lot of new considerations here. So, this is a presentation on
where we're at currently with the comprehensive emergency operations plan and how Senate Bill 68 affects that is it's an attempt to and I have seen this in Kansas uh it's attempt to standardize processes because every school district is a different size different
considerations but when it comes to emergency operations management there's certain standards that we all have to adhere to right and I think that's what Senate Bill 68 attempting to do is to standardize certain processes across the state of Missouri independent of what
size district you are. Um it helps uh reduce liability, maintain compliance no matter what size district you're looking at. So when we talk about comprehensive operations plans, comprehens comprehensive is always kind of a scary word because everybody thinks they got
to put every last little bullet point in there from the state. But really in terms of EOPS, emergency operations There's four components of the actual facility. Prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery. So, in the past, we all had response plans. We had
preparedness plans. We had bits and pieces of everything, but it wasn't comprehensive. So, what Senate Bill 68 sets out to do is to make a compreh comprehensive version of that from what what in law enforcement we usually call the left of right before the event. So,
we're not just coming up with a response plan. We're coming up with ways to prevent respond. So part of our prevention strategies on top of uh you know we have the raptor visitor management system would be one
way right identifying in our buildings. Um the we're kind of ahead of the curve on anti-in locks in our buildings. These are prevention strategies in the physical space. But also since my time here and I can tell you before me when
Dennis Green was here and Ken, we've been in constant communication with CES um getting clarity from DESIE and CES on what this looks like, where are we at with these uh reporting change, where are we at with these appropriations,
constantly communicating with them. So I think we're ahead of the curve as far as policies go so that we're not caught on the back end after we submit something and they wears this part of your emergency operations. I can tell you everybody down there knows my name. They
know Dennison's name. Every time we call, it's usually let me get back to you. And sometimes we're prompting them of things they haven't even thought of yet. So, I think that's the important thing. We're ahead of the curve on policies. That makes me feel good. Training. I think we do far more
training here than the district that I came. And we do better training here because we're doing on-site training. And that means we're teaching our staff in buildings, not just administrators and saying administrators, go train our staff. We're training administrators,
staff in real time with hands-on people, you know, informing them of how to use the systems that we have like raptor notification systems. Um, and it's been it's been rough. I mean, there's there's a lot to learn there, right, at Mercy. It's also a very stressful situation
that teachers, administrators really didn't sign up for. You know, when you went into a career teaching, you might not have signed up to be, you know, response team for active shooter, but that's the world we live in, right? So, we need to be prepared. So, we train them in real time. I think that's a big
part of prevention. Safety assessments is something that Desi isn't necessarily set on yet. But that picture there is just one example of tools that will probably going forward starting next year to assess sites, right? We'll safety score our
facilities and then we all have an idea of where we're at and where we need to go as far as those standards that come from the state. Um preparedness planning refers to obviously there's a picture of the comprehensive emergency operations plan
but a couple of the big changes in there in emergency plans are one the cardiac emergency response plan I'm sure you've all read about that so we've implemented cardiac emergency response teams and if you guys have any questions there'll
probably be more her area but in regards to the 13 cardiac emergency response And we not only train nurses and health secretaries, but now we have SRO that are trained in the buildings. And we're doing that every training every two
years. Right. For Okay. For cardiac children's nursing and we ran a full round of drills through the school district. Completed the last one. I don't know how long ago. >> It was mid January.
>> Mid January. Completed the last one. And with a few hiccups, I can say that all of our sites did stellar across the board. Children's Mercy gave us a lot of praise in our building now. Implementing some like internal communications through a raptor system. There were some
hiccups and that's part of the on-site training thing that we're working on right. But as far as our ser teams that we had assembled or that Lori had assembled, I don't want to take any credit for that. She worked really hard on it. um that she had assembled. We did very well building to building and that included central office as well. We have
a certain here. Um another big one was the traumatic blood loss protocol. I'm not sure if you were all familiar with that. That's a mandatory part of central. We have to have that. So we have to have tourniquets located with the we have on site. Um we also
have to have training annually for annually. So the stop breed training is conducted annually and we have increased to how many elementary schools that we do additional training for >> mandatory to
>> okay so if you've been here nurses SRO on each side so that we don't just have people sit now the middle slide we haven't really tackled yet but I can assure We were
ahead of the curve for defined roles. So, while we're doing on-site training in each one of these buildings, I kind of started not with all but with some working with administrators to show them what an incident command team looks like. I'm not sure how familiar all of
you are with NIMS or IC or anything like that. Uh, national emergency response protocol, right? So over the next year, probably more so the next school year, we'll work on kind of building out those IC teams in the building. What that looks like is your principal is the
commander of that situation. We have somebody who's a liazison, somebody who's information officer. Why that matters is currently in a lot of school districts, businesses, etc. When emergency happens, everybody knows the boss is the boss, but the boss might tell 10 different people to do the same
thing. Wasting time and resources, right? So when we build teams that have specific roles that we become effective and efficient rather than redundant wasting resources in a situation where time matters. Um the third regular
drills like I said our anybody who has raptor on their phone knows that these last three months in my drill season right it goes off all day. Not all day every day but a lot every day right because
One thing I can say the school district will always meet the state minimum for drill always and probably double it and that's because we're getting used to the raptor system right we want to make sure that we know what that alert means how we can communicate who we can
communicate with so we're doing a lot of drills on site for that reason because we're getting we're getting used to implementing new tools that we have at our disposal So response and recovery protocols are a huge thing and this will tie back kind
of to ICS2, right? So clarity and consistency is a huge thing when you're when you're drafting protocols for emergency because what you don't want is this elementary school doing one thing, this middle school doing one thing, and
this high school doing their own thing. The last thing you want is well in an emergency incident, right? because the assistant principal at the middle school this year might be the head principal at the high school next year.
We need to be consistent and clear across all of our buildings when it comes to emergency response because that that costs us again time and resources, right? We don't want to waste either two of those things in emergency situation. Now, I will say the same applies for
documentation. We need to standardize a lot of processes and 68 bring that to the table standardizing reporting systems which aren't in place yet right Jessie is tasked with creating
that flow of information from districts to the state and I can assure you that that's not happening all the time when is this change coming what's the portal going to look like how we do it but in the meantime we have to standardize inhouse reporting processes so that
we're ready to be compant with ahead of us, right? And also so that we can identify threats early and deal with them effectively. That's an important part of documentation recovery. The first thing that comes when I when I see that word in this
district is the mental health response. And I've seen that in action different just in this last month. And I really have not witnessed things I've worked with district. I haven't witnessed a team be as quick. in a cohesive way as
the mental health response team everybody seems to kind of flash into action and know exactly what they're doing even before I know what they're doing they're they're equipped to not only restore normaly in the site that day but also follow services as regards
to mental health emotional support so recovery isn't isn't just about recovering that physical side or the business it's also mental support, emotional support. It's nice to know those systems are in
place. So, in conclusion, I think that what what we've seen here is our comprehensive operations plan emphasizes those four points way ahead of way ahead of most of the other
districts that surround us. Um, I'll compare to Dr. representation, you know, what he said about being well compared to other districts in our area. This is another situation where we're probably ahead of the game probably
and I thank you know both of my predecessors that they were involved in. There's my public safety link that'll get you information on some of the reporting systems I talked about as well as we're crafting some overc
>> I do have a question for you, Mr. Scott. Thank you for your presentation. This this feels this feels good. But I mean I I love the fact that these revisions are being made and it just makes me feel good as a director and a parent that the best precautions are being exhausted. Um
in your presentation you shared about special training that's going to be required. Um I'm just interested in knowing can any of the students partake in the training and are we required to keep it at a maximum number of folks
that can be trained per school? Um, I'm not I'm not suggesting that a third grader needs to know how to get a tourniquet, but I am asking can we broaden the scope of who can know what to do in case someone calls out and that's the person that needed to be there. >> Well, and I think that's that's a good
question. So, it's important that appropriate as far as building high school that is a very active dialogue. So I know students there have a real understanding of what
>> so they're engaged in that training in a way probably say or whatever it doesn't really engaging all you know I would say that we
had conversations Thank you. >> It does. >> Yep. Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> Yeah. Um and I won't talk extensively about the um operations manual because I know a lot of that we need to keep under
because it's Yes. We don't want it publicly out there. Um, but one question I did have is do we have a plan for when um a threat might be from outside the building like in the neighborhood or um I'm just thinking personally of the news
that we're seeing from Minnesota of um huge things just outside of buildings and students getting involved. That's not technically our role because it's outside of school grounds, but do we have a plan um in place for when you
know if it's happening at school pickup and kids are leaving the building, what do we do with that? >> Well, yeah, absolutely. So, we have a few things that are really all address. I also have
always radio. I also had my radio secretary. business. So yeah, >> and that would include like federal agents too. Um we would also be alerted when there were things happening around buildings.
>> Absolutely. Um, and sorry. Hi, I'm Wendy Beard. Nice to meet you. We haven't met. Um, and I did have one other question, and I'm sure a lot of this is um statemandated, but is the number of drills proportional to the threat of
those things happening? Um because I noticed that there's a lot for the active shooter drills and not so many for tornado and or no I guess fire was the one that had the most. So is that proportional to the threat of that risk versus a tornado and earthquake or is
that just like state mandated or do you know >> stateated? Okay. Now, that's like I said before, I think I think it's important to identify where you're critical where you're at
>> a lot more than the others. Okay, that was my question. >> I do have another question for you. So, you know, partnership is obviously incredibly important. Uh, partnership with the police, the fire department is going to be obviously extreme important.
So, I don't imagine that if there's, you know, an emergency in our lunchroom and we need a paramedic to get to them quickly that we don't stop them and say, "Put your ID in the Raptor system to make sure you're safe." I I I don't imagine we're going to do that. But I
also recognize that we don't we we should not exhaust any type of leverage to say it is safe not to ID anyone at any time um except for an event and an emergency. So can you just speak to is there an exceptionary basis that we
abide by when CPS or a non-emergency person is coming to our building um that that needs to do their job. Are we still IDing them and doing raptor or we not? >> So those people So
flag and I hope that all secretaries know that there's any suspicion beyond that they can call Okay. >> And honestly, I I truly assumed that was the reality. My concern is, and you you
know this better than I do being in your field, u I just begin to think about how often do they practice reviewing that background check? Is this something that they do monthly, weekly, yearly? Is there a gap that we could miss in that process? >> Okay, that's reassuring. That's
fantastic. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Are there any other questions or discussion items? All right. I will entertain a motion to adjurnn.
>> So moved. >> Second. >> It has been motioned and second. All in favor? >> Sorry. I apologize. We've got a caller needs, guys. Yes.
>> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> We are adjourned. Thank you.