Good evening, everyone. I'm going to take this opportunity to welcome you to the regular meeting of the Kansas City Public Schools Board of Directors for 06/25/2025. Before we call the roll, I'm going to invite, Ricardo Flores to, just make an announcement about translation services this evening. Thank you, mister Flores. Good evening, everybody. My name is Ricardo Flores. I will be your interpreter for this meeting. I will interpret everything you say. So please, if you could speak to each other directly at a good volume,
clearly, at a moderate pace, try to pause often. Please refrain from having side conversations or from interrupting each other. I will let you know if I need you to slow down, raise your voice, or if I need any clarification. Lastly, my goal as an interpreter is to convey, your messages from one language to another, in this instance, Spanish to English, accurately, impartially, completely and without additions or modifications. Thank you for your patience. Thank you. Lisa, would you please call the roll? Kearls? Here. Foley? Here. Ford. Here. Jackaway.
Here. Kendricks. Here. McGee. Here. And Cortez. Here. Lisa, do we have any outstanding action items? Not at this time. Thank you. The next item on the agenda this evening is public comment. Just as a reminder, public comments are limited to three minutes per speaker. The Kansas City Public Schools Board of Directors invites public comments during our regular business meetings, allowing up to 10 speakers per public comment session. I will call on individuals in the order that you've signed up. No substitutions are allowed. You have three minutes. Remember, and if you talk with folks in the future who are going to be doing
this, remember written materials can be submitted to the Board. Comments must be appropriate for a business and family friendly setting. Inappropriate language, gestures or personal attacks are prohibited. You're reminded that this is a public forum and comments relative to individuals are prohibited. The Board uses the public comment period as an opportunity to listen to and receive information, but not to debate issues or enter into a question and answer session. With that preamble, Marguerite Friedman is the first person who signed up to speak. I don't see her. Okay.
The second person on the agenda this evening is Tom Love. Mr. Love? Welcome. Good evening everyone. I appreciate your time to listen for just three minutes. Am I the only person to speak tonight? Okay, so it's really important. Very important. Okay, so, I'm really excited to find out that there's a solution for the approximately twenty percent of children who are entering kindergarten behind. And the solution is, of course, is that we have funding from the state for them. All we have to do,
all you have to do, I should say, is, ask to have it done. This funding, it's all paid for. We can close the gap in pre k. That's what happens across the street, across State Line Road, in the high income districts. The parents can afford it. These are low income disadvantaged children, and we know that approximately one out of five are way behind. And you have the authority and the ability to just say, we want to fix it. Just mention that to the superintendent or acting superintendent.
You know, last summer, I mentioned what was taking place across the street at this incredible technical school and that there wasn't one student there from KCPS. The next year, Doctor. Collier mentioned, hey, we've got two in the HVAC program. I mentioned that to someone at the technical at Manuel Tech. Two students got to go. What about next year? They have they have a tool and die program that's incredible. You can make, after a few years of experience, over a $100,000 a year. It's like the top of the technical trades.
Why won't you let the students go? Why don't you tell them about it? I mean, you could probably ask the superintendent or acting superintendent to put someone in charge of that. It just takes a moment to ask them to do it. You guys are you know, it's you're in you're in charge. The city is depending on you. These parents and the children, they're all depending on you, you members of the school board. You have an incredibly important position. Incredibly important. I I didn't realize that. When I ran for state rep, I I thought I skipped over the school board. They said, well, you should run for school board first or something like that.
I wasn't I didn't have a clue how important it was. I really didn't. But when you have all these students that could get the help that they need, and I mean, this is a tragedy, what's happened in the district, that you guys can turn it around. Just ask them to do it. Allow the students to go across the street and the other technical school programs, get that out there, and let's change it, make it better. Okay, thank you. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is the District Advisory Committee or DAC report.
I'd like to welcome Ashley Johnson to the podium. Good evening. Good evening, everyone. Good evening, chair. Good evening, active. Doctor Davis. Peace and blessings, everyone. Ashley Johnson, interim chair. The district advisory executive committee will finally have our, end of the year outro intro meeting tomorrow here in this room at 5PM. We're excited. Finally gonna be able to get the ball rolling, on some new visions, new plans, within that space. We'll be reaching out to, each and every last one of you individually,
to learn, grow, and advocate for our babies most effectively. The district advisory committee also would like to thank the policy committee for allowing us to observe in their past few meetings. Thank you so much for that time. It was, clear as some of the footwork over here at the District Advisory Committee what we need to do and plans and visions moving forward. I do wanted to speak today, as interim chair because tomorrow I might not have this position anymore.
So I wanted to leave a few paragraphs for y'all. In advocacy, people who are directly impacted by said problem are highly motivated to find solutions. As a working parent, my time is very important to me. I am always going to be centered, and I live by this quote. Truth is the highest principle. Within advocacy work and within these spaces, Each one each and every last one of us come from different views, ideologies, and backgrounds. When we have these different views, ideologies,
and background, it comes for us to have different opinions, different sites. And with that in space, and we're trying to come together and make collective solutions. And then sometimes there's friction. But I want to leave y'all with this. We move by leaving into tension. And leaning into tension means to choosing to acknowledge and confront these difficult and uncomfortable conversations rather than avoiding them. Being passive isn't working.
We need to actively seek to understand, and we need to sit and process these conversations and find constructive ways to address these conversation and collectively address these situations so we can have solution solution based outcomes. I'm gonna go back to a sentence that I said. Being a working parent, my time is very precious to me. And when I get within spaces, that I feel like my voice and any other working parent caregiver's voice, is not being led.
That's an issue. Because, again, people who are closest to the problems are closest to the solution. I wanna leave y'all with that. I wanna move forward that this is summertime, y'all. And I also want to encourage y'all to reach out when we have our community members, when we have our stakeholders. Reaching out to y'all, hit us back. Thank you so much for your time. I'm looking forward to our meeting for tomorrow so we can move forward, and I'm also looking forward to our twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six school year. Thank you so much. Thank you, Ashley. Next item on our agenda this evening is the superintendent's report.
The Chair recognizes Doctor. Davis who will introduce the reports. Good evening, everyone. Tonight, we have several items under the superintendent's report. We'll start with we have a couple of superintendent announcements, followed by a video highlight, followed by the budget amendment two and then we'll have a presentation on the Success Ready Student Network. So our first student announcement, we want to give a congratulations to the East High School Tennis Team. Coach Michael King and the East High School Tennis Team have been featured on the cover of Racquet Sports Industry magazine.
This recognition highlights the incredible strides being made in the building in building a strong and inclusive tennis program at East. Coach King was recently honored with the USTA Art of America Outstanding Diversity Achievement Award, a testament to his dedication to fostering excellence and equity in athletics. Additionally, the East Tennis team celebrated a major victory this past season by avenging their previous district loss to Raytown. Please join us in congratulating Coach King and the entire team on these outstanding accomplishments.
We look forward to watching the program continue to grow and inspire. Our next announcement is to celebrate our KCPS interns who are rising to the challenge. We are proud to recognize the outstanding accomplishments of our student interns who recently completed the Forging Pathways with KCPS Internships professional development program. These talented students engaged in a transformative experience that combined real world exposure with skill building opportunities designed to prepare them for future success.
The field experiences included City Hall, JE Dunn Construction, IC Stars Kansas City, Turner Construction amongst others. Also, they experienced the Professional Development Series highlights including Understanding Job Trauma, Portrait of a Graduate, Pitch Competition Training, interns as office leaders with Crystal Reed, financial literacy, resume expertise and many more. These experiences have equipped our interns with critical insights, leadership skills and professional tools that will serve them well in their academic and career
journeys. We commend their dedication and thank all of our partners and our supporters on helping our students with their presentations and for their invaluable contributions. Let's continue to support and celebrate the bright future of these KCPS students. Alright, next we will have a video highlight featuring our summer interns. And I'm this year's student intern from communications. This summer, we learned some photography skills. So we went to three summer academy futures, and we captured these great memories. We learned the words we hope you enjoy.
All right. Next up, we will have a report on the Budget Amendment two from Erin Thompson, our Chief Financial Officer. Good evening, board chair Cortez, board members, and doctor Davis. Let's see here. K. This is to end our school year this year. Of course, we approved the budget for next year, last board meeting. So this board meeting, we have to close out the year and get ready for our auditors to come in. So we're requesting the board to approve the final budget of $489,000,007.92
$1.30. So on the, screen in front of you and in the budget book that you received, you see that from Amendment I to Amendment II in revenue, we received 134,765,802 additional revenue. The majority of that was at 96,972,854, which is our COP. We had to add it to the budget because we're starting the King Project. So now it's in our budget, and it will roll over into next year's budget. The additional expenditures correspond with that. You see that under facility services,
the variance of the 103.197872. That's where that COP funds will be in the budget for expenditures. So our budget variance, the increase was 97,863,659. You see our beginning fund balance of the $2,102,492,959 but it's restricted. Of course, we have restrictions for our workman's comp. Our prepaid insurance encumbrances of 900000436593.
Those are open purchase orders that we still have out there that will come over into the next year. So that's restricted because those are contracts that we have with vendors. We have capital access declared surplus. That's a audit figure. Then we have our capital projects budget, which is $39,000,007.48 $1.60. That's that reserve set aside that we have set aside for capital projects. And then Town Nutrition also has a reserve set aside of the 4.8. So restricted reserves is $56,000,005.64 $9.94.
So our, unrestricted reserves is $148,000,004.11 $3.40, which is about 30% of the budget. You have to look at what is restricted. So this year, we set aside that 30¢ out of our 495.99. And you see that on this second column that there's that revenue that we set aside, the 36,985,904. I need better glasses. What? Get this. For reserve level that we just said for, revenue for capital.
So to summarize, our final budget of the year, our final revenue budget is 492,365,505. That's the total 495.99. Our expenditure budget is 489,792,130, which we're asking you to approve tonight. The variance is, the the the, variance is the 96,972,854. That's how much we have in the bank right now, be okay for the certificate of participation. For our Keene project and,
the other projects that we have assigned for COP. Then we also got, additional grants during that period, about $890,805 So there's your total variance of $97,863,659 So tonight, I'm requesting approval of the final budget to close out this fiscal year, FY '25, of 489,792,130. Any questions? Oops. Any questions? I'm gonna start to my left, Tricia. Monica. Jamaica.
Because I miss you and I love you. This is I'm prefacing this with I am not intending to say I don't approve of the amendment. But I would like for you to explain what happens if for some reason the board decided not to approve the amendment, what would happen? Oh, you would stay with amendment one of the budget that was approved in, February. So how does that how does that affect the closing out of the end of the year in our audit process? The auditors would just recognize that as the final budget. That would be it.
Okay. I mean but we have to recognize revenue that was received in and our certificate of participation. So it would be us not recognizing that revenue received, and it would affect our certificate of participation? Yes. Okay. That's what I needed because Yes. We we approve these things. And a lot of times, folks don't understand, like, why we're approving it. What's the consequences? What does this do? So that's why I asked you just for you to give the explanation of how it impacts when we make the the vote on this, on the budget amendments. So thank you for giving me that.
You're welcome. Miss Ford? Trudy? Go ahead. I have one kind of question clarification. I know that we had a significant increase in local revenue and that the, general fund balance projection from Budget Amendment one to Budget Amendment two grew by $30,000,000 That's correct. Although that is not being shown as restricted funds, that is kind of the additional reserve, for lack of a better term, that if we have to resolve issues with Jackson County is available.
Yes. It's available to resolve any, overpayment to the 15% limit that, Jackson County is abiding by the tax commission. Yes. We have those funds available. So it kinda slightly overstates our reserves on a percentage basis. Correct. Okay. I just I think kind of helping folks understand it's confusing Mhmm. A little bit, but that we're kind of holding those funds in anticipation of wherever the county goes. Yes. And we don't control that, but we're thinking about how we That's correct.
If they ask for those funds back or if we have a credit in future years, we will have to go to reserves to balance our budget. And we're preparing for that. We're preparing for that. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you very much. Alright. Our final report under the superintendent's items will be advance the slide. Alright. Thank you. It's coming from doctor Pamela Ford, executive director of research and accountability, and she will provide an update on our Success Ready Student Network. Alright. Thank you, doctor Davis. Good evening,
board chair Cortez, board members, staff, and community. At this time, I would like to provide a update on the Success Ready Network and seek your approval for KCPS to participate in a school innovation waiver. And so just to give some background information, in the 2022, DESE convened over a 100 Missouri stakeholders to participate in the Success Ready Student Work Group. This group consisted of parents,
students, teachers, administrators, school board members, business people, and Missouri higher education in collaboration with DESE from the state board to support the initiative of looking at redesigning and reimagining what the Missouri assessment and accountability system looks like. And so in '23, DESE approved the Success Ready Network. Since then, over 95, school districts including rural, urban,
as well as suburban school districts in Missouri, as well as state and regional educational organizations have joined as members to collaborate on this new, innovation, including assessment and accountability. So in October 2024, KCPS joined to learn more about this the Success Ready Student Network and to engage in the work with DESE. So this list that you see in front of you is just a few of the school districts who are participating in the Success Ready Network.
And so as I said before, there's over 95, there are 95 school districts engaging in this process. So we are excited to be a part of it. So the next on the next slide, you'll see the question was asked, what is the goal of the Success Ready Student Network? And the answer is design a better way to support all students through engaging in meaningful learning, measuring individual growth, and preparing them to become high school, college, and career ready.
So to achieve such requires that there's a ecosystem that incorporates learning as well as the assessment. And so because of that, there were alignments when it came to those discussions around looking at knowledge, skills, dispositions of those various stakeholders. So the design was to, system is to design a assessment as well as a learning system that incorporates all of those components, but also allowing
the ecosystem to adhere to the state and federal requirements. As well as, as you'll see, expanding on that personalized learning when we get into the the real world learning through partnerships, but also looking at the policies related to accountability. And so these are just a few of those things that we've discussed as we've participated over the last year in the, Success Ready Network, PDs. And so we look forward again as we continue to move throughout the next year
to continue to, look at what and what changes that will need to be made. So in doing so, we talked about the benefits. The benefits of the redesign. Looking at our students, providing multiple opportunities for them to learn and demonstrate, for teachers to be able to also support targeted instruction and giving up evaluate where students need that extra support, as well as looking at it from the LEA perspective is having real time data. And so,
again, looking at how as a district, how are we supporting our students and what we can do. Next is also making sure that our families are able to access this information on a continual basis, but also having meaningful, conversations with their instructors of their of their children, but also leadership. And the last piece is looking at from a community perspective. How are we as a district meeting the needs of our students and communicating those needs and supports that we are providing our students?
And so in doing so, takes us to the next piece of looking at the Success Ready, Student Network timeline. So in October, the board approved the board resolution that gave us the rights to, approval to move forward with the participation. And so throughout this process over the year, we have, engaged in the various success ready professional development learning opportunities, engaged in conversations with Marzano,
research group who has been very, very supportive of the SUCCESS Student Ready Network to be able to give feedback about how what they're, you know, perceiving and thinking based on their conversations with DESE. And, also, they began to talk with us more about the, engagement piece, which I'll share a little bit more about. But, also, I will say that, the Success Student Ready Network really found that KCPS being the on the largest urban school district that's participating to
be very, helpful in some of the conversations because we were talking about mobility. Some of the, smaller districts, that is not an issue for them. Also, looking at the diverse, learners in their students that they serve. We are able to provide that information, and we were able to talk about that. And so we brought a different perspective, to the conversations as we, continue to just talk through what that would look like as moving forward for the next year. And so in April,
we started our engagement with the community sharing information. And so from there, till June 20, we also shared information, all the way there, and we'll talk about the surveys, results. So the goal is to seek your approval tonight of the, board resolution for the school innovation waiver for school year '26, which would then be presented to the state board. And then the state board, in August will then make a decision. There are about, I believe, about 15 school districts that the says the Success Ready Student Network will be taking,
for approval. And so if that is granted in August, then the meetings will begin in September. And so we will then look at building our, subcommittees to move forward to provide feedback. And so in that process of engagement, we were able to, go out and have conversations with various stakeholders. And so the question was, do you approve of KCPS applying for the state board, applying to the state board for the school innovation waiver for school year '26, '27,
and '28. It is a three year, waiver which allows us to continue to work with DESE in that process and provide feedback on the new assessment as well as the accountability. And so under the statute, a school district it allows the school district to participate, but there are certain state requirements that are waived as part of it. And so we shared this information with our families, our staff, our students, and the community. And so we were able to provide the survey in multiple languages.
Besides English, we did Spanish, Somali, and Burmese. And so as of the various types of engagement with our community, I wanna thank our communications department as well as our face liaisons for assisting us. And so we began our engagement starting with our CIPD family night at Lincoln Middle School. There's various community organizations that we were able to go out as well as we were able to,
share information with our district advisory council. We were also able to share information with outside community partners as part of our, I wanna say, our relationships and, our partnerships with those, agencies as far as it relates to our STEM and real world learning. So then we also were able to engage our families at graduation, middle college, as well as our high school graduations. Also, we engaged our families as part of our in the year celebrations all the way
up till June 20, which was last Friday. And so we were able to, receive feedback from our stakeholders. We received 1,360 responses. And of those responses, you'll see 15.7% were our came from our students, 25% from our staff, close to 54% came from our parents, and 4.8 from our community. And so based on the feedback, 94% of the families approved of KCCPS board,
applying for the school information waiver. And so, the comments that you'll see below are just some of the remarks that families had. Some spoke to, how they felt like the map did not really capture the students, really, what they're learning. Some felt like they needed more information, which is understandable because we will begin that process once, it is our my belief that it'll be approved tonight, that we'll be able to share more information as we go through the year. But also just from teachers feeling like the map,
is outdated and provides little feedback and feel like the I Ready data is more reflective of students. And they'll like to see that the, assessment system is considered, something new, more innovative that's gonna measure students' growth through on a continual basis versus a summative just at the end of the year. And so, what you have, I've placed a copy of the school, the success ready board resolution that speaks to our commitment of what we will participate
in as part of this school innovation waiver for the next three years, which will, allow us to engage in more conversations, be able to start piloting, some of the new assessments, but also looking at how are we incorporating real world learning and helping our students to prepare to be college and career ready. And so it is my request and belief that you will consider KCPS, participating in the next school of innovation waiver. And that completes my presentation.
Thank you. I'll take your questions at this time. Thank you, doctor Ford. I'm gonna start to my left. Tricia, do you have any questions? No. I just wanted to thank you for the presentation and thank the team for all of the, community messages that have gone out. I've heard from folks that they've received lots of emails about it, including explanations within the email, so that was helpful. I will say from a personal perspective, I was, I had the honor of being on an assessments and accountability council nationally with parents from across the country, and parents from across the country want a better way to be assessing how our children are learning.
It's It's more than just math and and reading, and so I really think it's great that KCPS is moving forward on this from my perspective, so I appreciate that. Hi. Thank you, Doctor. Ford for your presentation. I had a couple quick questions. One, obviously, where the resolution is to sign up to waive the normal requirements from DESE, but I thought I saw somewhere that there might also need to be a waiver for federal requirements. Did I So for the federal part, so the DESE is going to once they've decided on what the assessment will be
they will then submit an application to the state, to the to United States Department of Education for a a waiver to implement that. And so once that's decided within the next three years, they will then submit that application. But as for the waiver itself, we'll still have to adhere to the MAP assessment until that is in place. And then they use that information just to identify who are the low performing schools,
but then you also get a opportunity to present a, alternative APR. Okay. I mean, do we have any I guess I'm just thinking of the volatility with the federal department of education. Do we have a sense that even in the past that they're they're supportive of these kind of initiatives? Or are we just hoping for the best? Well, I I can share with you the information that they shared with us, me and Desi, is that they've been in conversation through this process, and they've encouraged them to go ahead and proceed with it.
Okay. Alright. And then the, other question was there's the, Marazano Research Group, that you had mentioned kind of once everything is approved, you'll I'm I'm assuming is that a is that a DESE vendor that's helping with the research, or is that someone that the district identified? That is, a vendor that DESE has hired. So Marzano will be working with each of the schools to be able or districts to be able to take their data and help them synthesize and analyze that data
and bring it back to the state board. Okay. Alright. Thank you. You're welcome. Jamaica? Hi. Hi. So when you all presented this back in November, I had some questions about what engagement of families would look like to get their feedback on whether or not we should participate in this program. And I also told you that whether or not I would support it when you came back to us would be determined by that engagement process. So I have some questions around engagement. So because and I wrote them down so it'll sound very formal because I wanted to make sure that I asked them and they made sense because,
you know, sometimes I can ramble. So I'll read them now. Okay. Alright. Because participation in the Student Ready Success Network requires a shift according to DESE and the student re Student Ready Success Network website to content based learning, in and instruction, and would therefore affect the educational experience and scholar of scholars or parents at their school. Board policy 4.1 requires administration to meet and confer with KCPS families on this action at times and
locations that are conducive to KCPS families' participation. So my question is, what opportunities do KCPS families have to discuss and share with administrators their opinions regarding the student, Ready Success Network participation and the shift to its, content based learning instruction and assessment. A lot of the information that was presented in the presentation really focuses on that assessment piece, but I wanna know what information did we get from parents in our discussions of the participation in the network itself as well as,
in the instructional shift. And then what data were presented to the KCPS families to inform their, feedback? Because I didn't see it. I may have received it and just didn't read it. To inform their feedback about participation in this in the in the shift. Did they get information, presented on the history of similar models using KCPS? Because we've had it used twice since I've been doing work in KCPS. But it was called different things like standards based learning, but they're very similar, and as well as, the things that the s r and I'm just gonna say SRSN because I keep
messing up on that. Mhmm. That they had on their website to kind of describe the program so you're familiar with what it is you're getting into, like the definition, the framework, the foundational studies, innovation zones, and then those optional deeper learning pathways. Did they get that information? Were they allowed to discuss it? Okay. So the information that was presented to us, I know they presented a lot of information on the website. So in our original discussions, we did share that information. But as we went through our engagement, with the families, it was more so we shared about what
move into the, school innovation waiver to be able to participate and be able to do some of those things. So when it comes to the content, I know you were mentioning about the content and the, framework of content based learning because that's what DESE says they're trying to move toward. That is what they're trying to move toward. And so that is just pretty much a pretty broad statement, and they have not really defined it in in great detail what that looks like from a perspective of what schools will do. That is the goal of us as a district participating.
I know in our conversations with the, Success Ready, Student Network, we talked about looking at our curriculum and proficiency scales, which we do already have as part of our curriculum. But, as for additional information, we did not have, all of that before us to know, and we didn't wanna put information out in the community unless we knew for sure. And in our conversations with DESE as well as the information you see on the website, we wanted to, make sure that that information. We knew where we were going with that because we wanted to,
definitely impact that, curriculum and look at how we can better serve our students and support our community. And I can just share. So when we sent out direct messaging to the families and I'm pulling up the email here now. So you're welcome. So we listed on here the eight elements that are covered within the Success Ready Network. We did, hey. What's currently wrong with MAP testing? Why would we even consider this? We then pulled out, okay, what would be some of the benefits that families would wanna see? Teachers, students, all that. So a lot of the pieces you saw here, we actually did a screenshot so that families could see some of that.
Then we moved into the feedback piece, why we need it, what we wanna see. We linked the survey. Then we actually did the full blown presentation. So the one that she gave back in November, we linked the full blown piece so parents could have every aspect of it as well. And so we did that in both parents, students, and then we did it for, staff members as well. Also, face liaisons took hard copies of all of these pieces and did they did drop off lines, car rides. They went classroom to classroom. They talked to teachers directly, students directly so that they could fully understand all of those pieces. So, yes,
we did present the full piece. It is a difficult thing to kind of bite off and choose. So as we got further on in the conversation, we tried to do more screenshots of the presentations versus just a lot of words, but it was provided in different formats, that full aspect. Did you receive feedback on moving to that instructional process, of CBL and the mindset? Because I know we're saying that DESE hasn't clearly identified what that looks like. But throughout all of the information that is available Mhmm. It says that one of the things that's required for participation in that network is
a shift to content based learning, which is a shift in our instructional practices and our curriculum, which we said we weren't gonna do when we adopted the last one. We said we would stick with it for three years. So I just wanna make sure, and I thank you for giving that information about what was presented. But I just wanna make sure that as our parents were considering this, that they understood this was a complete shift in our instructional practices as well as assessment to something that's totally different. I just wanna clarify. And to your point, this is primarily focused on the assessment.
So they really are trying to assess students in a different way that is more frequent and more aligned to the standards. And so all of our curriculum maps are already aligned to the Missouri learning standards, and this would not change what we are currently using as our curriculum resources. Any adjustments to the resources we follow the process of going through our AAC, we don't have to make any of those adjustments to participate. So other districts are participating right now. They've not had to change the curriculum resource that they're using,
but we do have to change what instruction may look like in order to take the assessment at a different time frame. So that's really at the crux. It is robust. It's a lot of information. And I think the best approach moving forward is if we proceed, we do need to have these, additional, touch points with the community, with our parents and families so that they know what's really happening. So we've been partnering a little bit with Lee's Summit. They've gone full into the whole process, and so we've learned a lot about what that will look like.
But in terms of our current processes for, curriculum adoption and and, things of that nature, we would not have to, divert divert from that process in order to participate in this. And my last question, it's KCA still engagement. So, a lot of the information that we received about engagement and communication, talked about information for, hold on. Much of the engagement communication information presented demonstrates that district level administrators met with families and presented SRSN assessment information. While I appreciate those efforts, and I really do,
board policy KCA stipulates that district administrators are responsible for communing communicating timely and relevant information to DAC on issues that impact the school district, and principals are responsible for establishing regular means of communication with parents and community members about the district and school with regard to programs, goals, accomplishments, new initiatives like SRSEN and major challenges. So I'd like to know what expectations were principals given with regard to compliance with board policy KCA and SRSN in the content based learning communication,
specifically keeping families informed about the initiative and involving school based parent organizations in site site based deliberations and planning process involving this network opportunity intended to change how educational goals are set and achieved, help KCPS and help KCPS plan, develop, and enhance curriculum and instructional programs at the school. I added all that language because that's the policy language. And so I wanna know what were the expectations of principals with regard to this, and how was that monitored? So I will just offer from the perspective of when I've gone to the training.
In order for us to go that deep into the process, we have to commit to being a part of the network. And that's really what we're trying to do. We we haven't engaged principles around here's what's going to happen because we're not a part of the network yet. So I I hear what you're saying. I'm just thinking of the opportunity to participate, not the network itself. Right. I hear what you're saying. I think what doctor Ford is just trying to get to is before we can even start dialoguing in that way, we we do have to have a level of commitment that this is something that
we're doing. And so this is just the start of the engagement. It it is a robust process and so in order for us to start having these conversations with principals and teachers we've not gone that far yet because this really is the first step. But I will say this, as we start to move through the process it is required that we are engaging everyone because everyone's a part of the work. So it cannot happen without principals, all of the community partnerships that we're engaging with, teachers. I mean, we do have to do all of that work anyway.
It's just after we know that we're moving forward. So I think that's probably the difference in in this type of an initiative because we really don't have the control. It really is we have to follow the process with them. That's why this is starting first before we move into having dialogue with principals and doing professional development and things like that. So, but that is a part of being in the network. So that cannot happen. We can't move forward without doing those things. I'm gonna request if we could. Yeah. So we can let some other Board members participate in the conversation.
Ms. Ford? Yes, I was just gonna add that principals and department leaders have all engaged in this process and provided their feedback. I just wanted to, in addition to what, Doctor. Franklin and Doctor. Ford have shared, this is really about, the state's recognition that our current, assessment of school district is really is not comprehensive enough. And so when we think about the purpose of K-twelve education to graduate students college and career ready to, compete on the international world stage,
currently it does not account for their real world learning experiences, internships, market value assets. How is that weighed into their, preparation to go out and compete, on the world stage in their chosen career. It currently does not and that's why a quarter of the state's school systems are involved in this, engaged in this from Lee's Summit to those other districts that Doctor. Ford mentioned because we want to work toward a more comprehensive competency based assessment. So this is really, the administration asking for the Board to approve for us to continue to be a
part of this, to help, create a more innovative and more comprehensive assessment and then over the course of that, we'll be able to bring Updates back to the Board as well as to our community as to how that's going to shape up and firm up in the future. Patient. Do we know of any reasons why a school district might be denied this opportunity after submitting the, waiver to the state level? And what would be a contingency if the odd chance that would happen? We did ask that question. And based on the information shared was that,
they accept the whole group. So they don't approve individuals. So it's going as a Got it. Collaborative group before the state board. Got it. And then just trying to understand, what support might look like from an organizational standpoint. I think it said it was, like, 25 organizations Mhmm. That are participating. Are any of those organizations local? Any Kansas City organizations also a part of this that you're aware of? So those would be the higher education. So it's been some conversations with the commission for higher education about how,
the feedback that they're receiving from the colleges about students being ready, making sure that they're on the right pathway because they did share that, students are going to college. They're trying to figure out. They may not be ready. And then students are using their financial aid. Or they may spend two or three years in college and they're still trying to figure out. So if we can help students as we have set up pathways for students to know, okay, maybe I wanna try this or try that.
So by the time they move into college, they felt like this would be a great way. Instead of waiting till the students got to college, let's start impacting them in the K 12 arena to be able to help them move succinctly into, college and be prepared for that transition. So the organizations are all post secondary institutions. Post secondary institutions. Yes, ma'am. None of them local that we know. No. None of them aware of. No. Britney? Hello, Doctor. Fort. I have a few questions. Mhmm. And my question is other than hearing that the map is outdated,
what other research and data was informed that the districts believed that we need a new assessment? I say this because in high school, I'm the one age myself. We started I'm from Texas. We started with a state assessment called the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills. And we moved on to something called the STAR, State of Texas Assessment Readiness Test. And as a student taking the, the tax the test, once we changed to something different, scores dropped. I was outstanding student, top of my class. But when they introduced something new,
even for high performing students like me and others, it was something different. They want it to be for career and readiness, but it was something we haven't seen. So I just wanna know, like, what what research, especially when it comes to, you know, our our students coming in with a different language. Like, what other resource did we get? What other research did we get from other districts or other states that have done something similar? Because it was scary for me when I took it as a as a, did something different like this as a student. Okay. So based on, they looked at the,
research from the Aurora Institute. And so as they were looking at the research that supported the just moving away from a summative, just making it a summative assessment, but creating some form of a interim assessment throughout the year. So example would be, say there's eight standards that students are being assessed. So instead of waiting till the end of the year for that student to be assessed, so maybe the first two within the first, let's say the first two months,
they're being assessed on the first two standards. So there's an assessment there. Then the next two, and then the next two, and, on and then there's a project. So that was what they were saying that students tend to, based on the research, students tend to do better on smaller chunks of the assessments, monitoring their progress. So if a student is not doing well on those first two standards, the teacher gets to re, continue to, I wanna say spiral that support in reteaching that, but then they get an opportunity to do it again,
that student. So the student is not penalized just because they took it one time and they didn't score well. And so a student can continue to move through. Yeah. And so that was the research that they show. And that is why there's been conversations, with DESE. But this is information from, educators throughout the state of Missouri saying that they felt like the summative assessment, which is the MAP, as well as the EOC, does not give, information in a timely manner. Because by the time you get it, the baby's already moved to the next grade level and the teacher like,
that was last year. Now he's here. So what can I use now to be able to inform instruction and help students and support their needs? Okay. And I'll email the rest of the one I have. Like, will if we were to go forward with this today, will this impact like any collective bargaining that we have with the teachers union or are they okay with it or any con any, conversations with the teachers union? Are they the teachers are okay with it? I'm trying to I was trying to figure out my question and write it better. No. I I think I understand what you're saying.
So in our last workshop, those were things that I was already thinking about. The more they talked, the more I was was thinking about how does this impact what we're currently doing. And so we do have control over what we do. So we can be a part of the network, and we don't have to change everything to fit a certain model. We then work around what the model is and make sure it fits with what our requirements are so that we aren't disrupting, what teachers are expecting to do. Doing the assessments in a different way will shift kind of what that instructional framework
looks like. So those are things that we would have to look at. Okay. What are we currently doing? How does this fit within our current structure? What adjustments need to be made? But we obviously would work within the confines of what the expectations or requirements are for teachers. And then my last thing is just a comment when it comes to engaging. I know May 1 you guys are at the DAC, but honestly as an engaged parent, it went over my head because that was the day that we did the scholarships for my for our kids. And it was a day that people weren't really paying attention,
so I'm interested. I really just wanna push that engagement a little bit forward where it can be a time where caregivers and parents can be able to take it in. Because a lot just came for, you know, the scholarship. So I'm just interested in in more, you know, engagement as we continue because I don't remember anything. Only the scholarships from that day. Okay. And we recognize that moving forward, to be able to have just a specific meeting just for that. And then engaging a a smaller committee, having representatives from each of the different advisory boards sit on the subcommittee.
Because there's a lead committee, and then there's a subcommittee. And those subcommittees, would then have a opportunity to hear more, but then they'll also be a part of the, engagement in going out and sharing information and getting their feedback from their different groups and then bringing it back to the, lead team to have those discussions. Josh? So first of all, I'll say I I'm really excited about the prospect of what we might discover as we go about this. I think that what we're going to see is it's gonna speed up that feedback loop. So we're gonna be able to see a lot quicker where our students are and how to be able to adjust. I know that
with this being something that we're talking about as it correlates to MAP and replacing that, I'm curious as we think through I Ready, which I know is completely different. But if we go down this pathway and we find it is really helpful in serving our students and families and and we continue to move in that direction. How do we envision that corresponding to how we leverage I Ready? Is that I don't even know if that makes sense or not. But I Ready feels like it is similar to MAP and that it's more of a summative summative,
rather than cumulative. So you're right on track with that thinking. Honestly, I think that is partially why DESE is moving in this direction because this assessment pattern, that they're looking at will really inform instruction. And so it is really moving away from this summative assessment that we really aren't doing a whole lot with that data. Is it really having an impact on students in real time? And so when we do a formative benchmark assessment like iReady for the district, we get that data three times a year so we can act on it.
And so I think that is the direction. So we would have to look at, okay, do we really need both? Once we get to that point, that is ultimately what what the whole conversation would end up being. So they want to have something that is similar in a way that you can get information about student performance, what students need throughout the year as opposed to just at the very end of the school year. So what I'm hearing is that there is a future reality in which we just would do this and we would no longer have I Ready and MAP.
We would just have this one potential resource potentially? I say potentially because, it just depends on what the state will require. So sometimes the state will require a district benchmark assessment even though we are doing this. That's not been clearly stated yet. But if we don't need to do both, we would not do both. And then another question just from a very practical standpoint, and, I say this as a parent myself. It's like, as this gets rolled out, is there going to be any kind of, like,
platform where as parents we could go and actually see? Because what excites me even from a parental standpoint is thinking about being able to better understand where my student is and how I could partner with, you know, the educator to help support them to keep them moving along. So I don't know I don't know if it this is way ahead, but the idea of having a platform where I as a parent could go in there and see, oh, this is where they're at, this is where we're moving, and this is how we can better partner. Yeah. And I think the way you're asking questions is really highlighting that this is a
journey. So DESE doesn't have everything figured out right now. We're building this. There are some, districts that have already been a part of the cohort, so they've moved further ahead. And you can see I'll just use Lee Summit as an example because they do have the dashboard on their website. So you can see all of what it looks like. That's a great example of the direction that we're moving in. So you can see all these different data points to assess performance for the district. It's not just resting on the MAP score.
It's it's really a comprehensive model to look at if you wanna see, oh, this is what it could potentially look like. But even with with those schools, districts that have gone through the, earlier cohorts, they're still in the process with us trying to figure out the assessment piece. So So it's still in process. And so all the all the answers to the questions don't really exist. So we're just kind of thinking ahead too. But, yes, I think potentially that's what what DESE is looking at, a different way of being able to engage everybody. How are we engaging with parents?
How do parents know how students are performing not just at the end of the year on the MAP test, but how students are doing throughout the year based on the state assessment? So this is what the state is providing for everyone. Just wanna check with my colleagues if there are any follow-up questions. So I just wanna make sure that I'm wrapping all of this up in my own head. At the end of this trajectory with DESE, not just for KCPS but for all of the districts in the state, we end up with three years from now, five years from now, however long the process takes, a framework that applies to every school district?
That is correct. So we're part we're part of building that framework and and as a result the waiver, the the federal waiver is a waiver not for KCPS but for the state of Missouri. Right. And so we'll then take that information and then they will then submit that to The United States, Department of Ed. And so, just wanted to just add on to what Doctor. Franklin had shared is that all the questions that you're asking are questions that they had not even thought about or even began to talk about because of the districts.
And so being that we are the largest district, urban district that's participating, we are able to talk about. We're talking about making sure that having access so parents can see and understand what is being, taught, how well their kids are doing, what can they do to support their students, what should the conversations be with the teacher. And so all of those pieces that you've asked and and discussed are things that we've been sharing and learning about as part of being a part of the design
zone. So this will then allow us to move to the next phase to begin having those conversations and then discussing more about what that looks like, as Doctor. Franklin shared with you earlier. It strikes me that this process is one that creates more opportunity for our parents, our students, our teachers to have a voice in the creation of the new process. That is correct. KCPS has not in the past had that opportunity, so we will have that opportunity this time.
Okay. Thank you. Okay. The next item on our agenda this evening is, the Board of Directors Report. The first item is the Board Treasurer's Report. Monica Curls. Thank you, Chairwoman Cortez. Do you have it up? Okay, yeah. So the report has, is through 05/31/2025 and it represents the revenue and expenditures, that were approved as part of the, fiscal year twenty five budget amendment number one, which was passed by the board in February. So some of this is gonna be a repeat of some of the information you saw on
the presentation on budget amendment number two. But and that's assuming that we pass that will this will be updated based on those new numbers. So year to date revenue exceed exceeds expenditures due to the tax revenue distribution beginning in December. Collection rate, as of May 2025 was a 107.84% compared to 99.38%, same time last year, which is an increase of 8.46%.
The district invests those reserve funds balance, in order to earn additional revenue. So the local tax income, which makes up more than half the budget, mainly comes from property taxes. Jackson County sends out the property tax bill to owners in October. I know some of you probably, got your estimate, this past month or even last week for me. And then the majority of the tax tax revenues are distributed in December and January when people pay those, tax bills. For FY '25, KCPS estimated operating tax levy of 4.9599
to continue to support the district operations. Year to date local collection is mainly due to taxes, including, the M and M replacement taxes and interest, proxy, sales taxes, earnings on deposit, food service catering, abatements, and various other local grants. Year to date county collection is from fines, county stock insurance, and the state assessed railroad and utility tax. As of as it relates to our state income, our basic food, school funding formula income is redirected to the charters.
Year to date state collections are mainly due to transportation, early childhood education, special education, Missouri scholars, evidence based reading grant, adult education and literacy, high need fund for special education, and then charter school sponsor fees. Federal income is our second largest source of income. Year to date federal collection is mainly from Medicaid, Perkins grants, school meal reimbursement, title funds, Head Start, special education entitlement, VOCA, e rate, and ESSER three reimbursement of expenses through,
September '24. And so then we have the visual representation of all the words I just said. So now, we're on the expenditure side. Salary and benefits continue to be the largest portion of our, expense budget, which is 79.43%. Majority of KCPS salaries and benefit expenses are from certified employees. Services and materials were at, 75.56 percent. Payments were made primarily for student transportation, property and liability insurance,
utilities, general and technology supplies, facilities and repair, maintenance, communications, cafeterias, food supply, professional development, textbooks, music instruments, professional, instructional, and substitute services. Capital outlay is at 51.79% due to the purchase of classroom technology equipment, network upgrades, security cameras, HVAC, roofing, and facilities capital projects. And so then we have the representation visual representation of that. Okay. And then the final page,
talks about our, investments. This month, we had two securities, a US Treasury bill and a Treasury note that matures. These securities were purchased in January 2025 for approximately 10,000,000 each and matured on May and May 31 with a total par value of 20,000,000. Each business day, the available funds in the operate in the district's operating account are invested in overnight repurchase agreements. At month end of April 2025,
the repo fund was approximately 86,800,000.0 compared to 80,000,000 at the month end, May 2025. And then a 10,000,000 most SIP term purchased in May matured I mean, in January matured in May 2025. So, and I know Rita mentioned this to this, board earlier. But once again, if there's something you want we're about to go into the next fiscal year. So if there's something you wanna see differently or be represented differently,
make sure to let us know that, so we can, apply that when we start presenting the budget, in the future. When we present the treasury report in the future. And should we approve the amendment two, we will also start to include, the information about the certificate of participation bond as we start to, utilize those funds. Are there any questions? Do you have a question? I'm on a question roll today. I've never seen this and maybe I should have and I was not good at my job previously.
But what is Mocap Liquid Series? That's just the that's an investment company that helps us to vest the funds. Okay. Yes. And we invest it. Mocap. MOCAP is the one working with us for our COP and our operating. Remember they came out and did a presentation? Mhmm. Okay. So that's the $66,000,000,000 and that's where that okay. Yes. Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you, Ms. Gross. Alright, thanks. Thank you, Ms. Thompson. The we have two other items on the Board of Directors report. Very briefly under the Board Chair report, you'll see in the policy and governance section,
a calendar for adoption for this next academic year, for policy monitoring and business meeting. You also shared a tentative calendar for the subsequent school year. So as we're trying to think about policy monitoring and topical coverage kind of over a two year horizon, Part of that is looking at the strategic plan, part of that is looking at board governance policy and part of that is looking at the topics in policy I'm to make sure that we've got things
at least tentatively scheduled to be covered and then as we refine, the process will bring any changes. But that's kind of the proposed, that's how it's kind of been a lengthy process of working through, how to make meetings useful and not interminable, so that we spread topics out and match them up in a logical way. So, that'll be coming up here shortly. Ad hoc committee reports. Ms. Curls, you've had a lot of finance tonight. You want to do any finance updates or? Not particularly. Thank you. No, I think, I mean the finance committee,
we've just gone over the amendment number two, and talked a little bit about some of the anticipated, schedule and things the board will need to do in preparation of starting to expend some of the Go Bond, the general obligation bond funds as well. So I think that was the majority of what we talked about. Oh, and then we had a presentation on our insurance, provider, from, Lockton? Oh, CBIS. I know it was one of the two. Sorry. From CBIS that talked about our, kind of our policies where things went up,
where things became more reasonable, and just in anticipating, for next year's insurance expenses. Any questions? Is there anything else we talked about? No. I think you've covered the waterfront. Okay. Alright. So that's it. Mister Jackaway, government relations. Yes. So we concluded our, state legislative session when we normally meet twice a month. So we just return to our regular monthly rhythm, which will continue through the end of the calendar year. Our big things that we're focusing on the next, three months, so that will be June, July, and August, is number one, we need to set our legislative priorities.
That's something that we usually adopt as a board. So our goal is to have those, ready to present and vote on officially as a board at the last board meeting in August. From talking to our, lobbyist, Chris Ropi and John Bargier and Associates, he really feels like by us getting those approved as a board prior to, the Labor Day holiday. It allows him the longest length of time as he's connecting with people all across the state to be able to work on our behalf and to build, consensus with even even other charter based districts school choice districts like in Boone County
or or in Saint Louis. So, he's asked for us to work over the summer to get that, approved. So expect that to come, over the course of the next few months in July and August for us as a board to look at review. Secondly, we're working on setting our legislative breakfast. Typically, we've hosted that in December, but after getting some feedback, we feel like it might be valuable to move that up a little bit. So we're looking at potentially a time in October or November to do that to get ahead of the holiday season where sometimes towards the end of the year, people's schedules get really full and we lose out on the opportunity to have our
message front and center. So we're gonna set those dates. We'll get feedback from all of you, on that. And then third, setting our advocacy day. Typically, that has been at the January, and this is an opportunity that we're looking at this year of being able to even figure out how we further embed that inside of our classrooms so that students have access for that as a beyond the four walls, like a field trip type of experience they could even get credit for. So we're in the very preliminary stages of trying to figure out what that would look like, but we'd love to have that figured out as well before the start of the school year so that that way we could have as many of our students participate
in that and and engage in that as possible. So those are the things we're working on kind of in this summer season and then we'll kinda take that and use that for our jumping off point as we head into the fall. Any questions for Jen? I was just gonna say, isn't, Chris and Jean Barget gonna be at the one of the July meetings to do an update? Yep. We only have one in July, so everyone be excited about that. Right? Enjoy summer. But, yes, they will be here to do a presentation for us, so I'm excited for them to be here. Good reminder, Monica. Okay. And policy,
miss Ward. Okay. So our newly formed policy committee consists of miss Kendrick, miss Cortez, and myself. We have had two committee meetings to date. Our kinda two primary agenda items have been, our committee charter and figuring out what our committee is gonna actually do and the policy I'm board referral. With our committee charter, the committee spent time in our first meeting reviewing other KCPS board committee charters as well example as well as examples of committee charters from other,
school boards who have policy committees in place already to see what we can borrow from. We shared some thoughts on what our committee's kinda endgame might be looking two years out and what we want would want to have accomplished after two years of this current iteration of a board and also suggested some responsibilities of our committee during that time. From there, we, developed an initial charter draft. We are still in the process of making updates to that draft and intend to
come back to you all with a final recommendation for our committee charter that will be voted on by our full board. With PolicyIM, you all, probably recall from our last business meeting, the board asked the committee to come back with a recommendation on interpretation of and compliance with PolicyIM. At this time, the committee has not let not yet landed on a recommendation to share. We have had some pretty intensive dialogue about a lot of things, but, some of the things that really stand out in my mind is if our current
policy monitoring fulfills the expectations outlined in PolicyIM, ways to restructure our current policy monitoring, the extent to which instructional programs are being evaluated, and if a third party entity might be incorporated as mentioned in PolicyIM, governance versus management responsibilities with PolicyIM. And then we also heard some feedback, that a group of parents shared with miss Kendrick relative to PolicyIM. We landed on, identifying, where there might be opportunities to improve the monitoring process and then addressing some underlying
concerns about the implementation of PolicyIM. We have some very specific things, to start off with as what might be included in our current monitoring, process that it's gonna rely on partnership with administration to kinda sort through those things and see what's feasible and what's not. So I say all that to say, we have not yet landed on a recommendation to you all, but we are actively continuing to work towards that. Our objective is to continue our dialogue as a committee and have, a PolicyIM recommendation or resolution and committee charter approval for you all at the July
meeting. Did I nail summarize everything? Any questions for anybody? From anybody? Okay. Thank you. Next item on the agenda is Policy and Governance. Chair recognizes Doctor. Davis. You don't have any questions. Okay. Okay, then I will I'll take it from here. As you saw in the materials for the Board meeting, there are a number of policies that are recommended for updating based on either changes in law or changes in practice that are recommended by the Missouri School Board Association have been reviewed by our legal counsel and those redlined
or greenlined or whatever they were, policies have been shared with you. And the purpose of them being on the agenda tonight is to seek approval and adoption of these updated policies. Those include GCN, GDN, IC-two, IGBCA, IGBE-one, ILA, and JHDF. Is there a motion to approve, the adoption of these policies? So moved. Is there a second? Second. Motion has been made and seconded to adopt the updated policies, in Board Policy Appendix D, GCN, GDN, IC2, IGBCA, IGBE1,
ILA, and JHDF. Are there any questions regarding the proposed motion? Seeing none, Lisa please call the roll. Kearls. Yes. Foley. Yes. Board. Yes. Jackaway. Yes. Kendricks? Yes. McGee? Yes. Cortez? Yes. The motion is adopted. The next item under policy and governance is, to approve, adopt the school year twenty five-twenty six Board Policy Monitoring and Business Meeting Schedule. As I've mentioned in my earlier comments, this is a product of some ongoing work. It is intended to cover more of the topics more explicitly and there's also been
work with the administration for which I want to express my gratitude to figure out a better method for identifying topics within presentations and making those accessible, through our digital foot footprint. So beginning with the new school year, having those be, easily found in our digital archive as opposed to, if you're my age or older, trying to find them being somewhat challenging. So, that process will continue to, improve, but I appreciate the time that our communications team and Lisa are put into this
process today. So, is there a motion to approve the SY2526 board policy monitoring and business meeting schedule? So moved. Second. Motion has been made and seconded to approve the school year twenty five-twenty six Board Policy Monitoring and Business Meeting Schedule. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing, hearing none, Lisa please call the roll. Kearls. Yes. Foley. Yes. Ford. Yes. Jackaway. Yes. Hendricks? Yes. Mickey? Yes. And Cortez? Yes. The motion is adopted. Doctor. Davis, we're at regular business items. Right.
Good evening. Tonight we have 15 regular business items. We'll begin with number one, the resolution authorizing the offering for sale of general obligation improvement bonds Series twenty twenty five. The administration recommends approval to authorize the public sale of general obligation improvement bonds Series twenty twenty five for $60,000,000 that will finance renovations, rehabilitation and other capital improvements to certain KCPS facilities. Engagement includes development of Blueprint 02/1930,
the ten year capital plan which included placing a general obligation bond on the ballot and with participation and feedback from steering committee more than 6,000 staff, students, families and community members. I'm going to just amplify Doctor. Davis' comments preceding the motion, just to make note for those watching at home, watching later, or seeing clips of this at any point in time or to share with anybody that you choose, the approval of this resolution is part of a series of steps that will take
place to get us started moving forward in this, go bond, environment. Some of the other steps in parallel are the development of the charter for the, Bond Oversight Committee and then taking that public and appointing that committee, addressing, continuing to assess and going live with a mechanism for transparency and visual updates through our digital footprint and other mechanisms so that all of these pieces are happening, kind of in parallel with each other ultimately. But this is a big part of the first steps of this process.
Sharing that, is there a motion to approve the resolution, authorizing the public sale of general obligation improvement bonds series 2025 in an approximate amount of $60,000,000 So moved. Seconded. Motion has been made and seconded to approve the resolution authorizing the public sale of general obligation improvement bonds series twenty twenty five in an approximate amount of $60,000,000 Is there any discussion on this motion? Seeing, hearing none, Lisa please call the roll. Perls. Yes. Foley. Yes. Tanisha. Oh, Ford.
Sorry. Yes. Ford, thank you. Jackaway? Yes. Hendricks? Yes. McGee? Yes. Cortez? Yes. The motion is adopted. Doctor. Davis? Our second regular business item for tonight is the approval of the FY '25 Comprehensive Budget Amendment two. The administration recommends approval of the FY 2025 Comprehensive Budget Amendment two with a projected revenue of $492,400,000 and an estimated expenditures of $489,800,000 The actual expenditures for FY 2025 will be known when the audit is completed in
December 2025. This final budget amendment will close out the current fiscal year. Thank you, Doctor. Davis. Is there a motion to approve the FY 2025 Comprehensive Budget Amendment two, consisting of General Fund, Teachers Fund, Capital Projects Fund, and Child Nutritional Service Fund for the period 07/01/2024 through 06/30/2025? So moved. Seconded. Motion has been made and seconded to approve the FY 2025 Comprehensive Budget Amendment two for the period 07/01/2024 through 06/30/2025.
Is there any discussion on this motion? Seeing, hearing none, Lisa please call the roll. Kearls? Yes. Foley? Yes. Ford? Yes. Jackaway? Yes. Kendrick? Yes. McGee? Yes. Cortez? Yes. The motion is adopted. Doctor. Davis. For item number three, the administration recommends approval of the renewal of the insurance policies agreement for district property liability, workers compensation insurance and miscellaneous insurance coverages. The result is an overall decrease of 4.9% primarily due to the Property and General Liability Insurance.
The estimated insurance premium for fiscal year twenty twenty five-twenty six is $4,515,436 Thank you, Doctor. Davis. Is there a motion to approve the twenty twenty five-twenty six insurance policy renewals of District Property Liability and Workers' Compensation Insurance in the amount of $4,515,436 So moved. Second. Motion has been made and seconded to approve the twenty twenty five-twenty six Insurance Policy Renewals of District Property Liability and Workers' Compensation Insurance in the amount of $4,515,436
Is there any discussion on this motion? Lisa, please call the roll. Perls? Yes. Foley? Yes. Ford? Yes. Jackaway? Yes. Hendricks. Yes. McGee. Yes. And Cortez. Yes. The motion is adopted. Doctor. Davis. Alright. Item number four. The Administration recommends approval of the Board Resolution for the Success Ready Student Network System Design Zone allowing KCPS to be included in the school innovation waiver application to the State Board of Education to help design a new state assessment, replace the Missouri Assessment Program Test and create a better MSIP accountability system that supports
student learning and school improvement. Engagement included a stakeholder survey which was administered regarding KCPS applying for the School Innovation Waiver from April through June 2025. This was within our district newsletters, meetings, advisory councils and school events. Thank you, Doctor. Davis. Is there a motion to approve the Student Ready Success Network Board Resolution allowing KCPS to be included in the School Innovation Waiver application to the State Board of Education To help design a new state assessment to replace the Missouri Assessment Program tests
and create a better MSIP accountability system that supports student learning and school improvement. So moved. Second. Motion has been made and seconded to approve the Success Ready Students Network board resolution allowing KCPS to be included in the school innovation waiver application to the State Board of Education. Is there any discussion on this motion? Go ahead. Yes. I just want to note, that my vote on this item, is not based on my thoughts about the district's participation in the Student Ready Success Network because I think that's
not really important for me as a board member. It's based on what I said in November, which is, the engagement, and it's alignment with board policies 4.1 in KCA with regard to the potential participation in this, of our KCPS family. So I just wanted to make that clear that it's not about whether or not I believe this is something that we we should participate in, but rather about, how we engage our families to make sure that what we choose to participate in represents what they need. Thank you for those comments. Anybody else? Seeing, hearing none, Lisa please call the roll.
Kearls? Yes. Foley? Yes. Ford? Yes. Jackaway? Yes. Hendricks? No. McGee? Yes. Cortez? Yes. The motion is adopted. Doctor. Davis? For Item Number five, the Administration recommends approval of the agreement with Eagle Technologies to renew 4,000 licensing subscription for SINET360 endpoint protection. SINET endpoint detection and response has been deployed across all our Windows and Mac devices to strengthen our cybersecurity posture. It provides advanced threat detection and automated response capabilities enabling us to proactively stop potential
cyber attacks in real time. The three year contract subscription amount of $276,000 or $92,000 annually will be funded from the operating fund. Thank you, Doctor. Davis. Is there a motion to approve the agreement between KCPS and Eagle Technologies? KCPS agrees to pay Eagle's Technology to renew 4,000 licensing subscriptions for Synet360 endpoint protection Synet Elite. This will be billed annually for a three year subscription term at $92,000 each year. Is there a motion?
So moved. Second. It's been moved and seconded to approve the agreement between KCPS and Eagle Technologies. Is there any discussion on this motion? Lisa, please call the roll. Foley? Yes. Coward? Yes. McEacoway? Yes. Kendricks? Yes. McGee? Yes. Cortez? Yes. The motion is adopted. Doctor. Davis? Hold on, I didn't get to vote. Corals? Sorry. Yes. The motion is adopted. Thank you. Thank you. Doctor. Davis. For Item Number six, the administration recommends approval of the agreement with Aspire to Play for the new playground
landscape structures for Wendell Phillips Elementary School. The contract amount of $285,903 will be funded from the operating capital projects fund. The MBEWDE participation is at 0%. Thank you, Doctor. Davis. Is there a motion to approve the purchase and installation of new playground landscape structures at Wendell Phillips Elementary School by Aspire to Play LLC in the amount of $285,903 So moved. Second. Motion has been made and seconded to approve the purchase and installation of new playground
landscape structures at Wendell Phillips Elementary School by Aspire to Play LLC in the amount of $285,903 Is there any discussion on this motion? I do have something I'd like to share with a question as well. I'd like to thank the parent community members that brought public comment to the board several times in addition to teachers, especially in our special education program at this particular building for continuously engaging with the district and letting us know that the need was there. And so I think it's a great, demonstration of parents and teachers working together for better outcomes for students.
I do have just one question. The decision on, whether or not the playground installed through Aspire to Play is going to work for all students, including the students in the autism program at Wendell Phillips, who is guiding that process? That's a newbie question. I'm sorry if everybody else knows, but I wanna be sure that the playground installed is going to be fenced in, which is what they named when they gave public comment and appropriate for all students. Yes. So we engage, particularly with with one of the parents and students or not students. Staff members that came in provided that feedback.
We engaged with the cohort of teachers along with the principals. So the the design was customized to meet the needs of the students and it will remain in the current structure space. We're removing the one in disrepair out so it will still remain enclosed and in that same location. Thank you. Yes. Any other questions or comments? Lisa, please call the roll. Krolls? Yes. Foley? Yes. Ford? Yes. Jackaway? Yes. Kendricks? Yes. McGee? Yes. Cortez? Yes. The motion is adopted. Doctor. Davis? For item number seven, the administration recommends approval of the agreement with SHI International Corp for Microsoft Office three
sixty five licensing to ensure users consistent and secure access to the full Microsoft Office suite. The not to exceed contract amount of $288,644.76 will be funded from the Operating Fund. Engagement included following a competitive RFP process, SHI was selected from a pool of three vendors to provide Microsoft Office three sixty five licensing. Thank you, Doctor. Davis. Is there a motion to approve the agreement between KCPS and SHI International Corp?
KCPS agrees to pay SHI for Microsoft Office three sixty five licensing to ensure that every user has consistent secure access to the full Microsoft Office suite. Cost is not to exceed 288,644.76. So moved. Second. Motion has been made and seconded to approve the agreement between KCPS and SHI International Corp. Is there any discussion on this motion? Lisa, please call the roll. Kearls? Yes. Foley? Yes. Ford? Yes. Jackaway? Yes. Hendricks? Yes. McGee?
Yes. Cortez? Yes. The motion is adopted. Doctor. Davis? For item number eight, the administration recommends approval to extend the service agreement with Trezolo Communications Group to execute the District's enrollment campaign. The service agreement covers media planning, placement and reporting, strategic marketing counsel and creative copywriting final art preparation for the District's enrollment campaign for school year twenty five-twenty six. The not to exceed contract amount of $389,000 will be funded from the operating fund. Engagement including Kansas City Public Schools is committed to reaching parents,
students, and community stakeholders through a variety of channels. While this specific contract did not involve direct engagement with the community, it serves as one of several tools used to share timely and relevant information across the Kansas City region. Drizzle Communications Group helps extend the district's reach to a broad and diverse audience, including families who may not actively seek out enrollment information. By leveraging their expertise, ACPS can increase awareness of enrollment opportunities and ensure that messaging is clear, consistent and accessible.
Thank you, Doctor. Davis. Is there a motion to approve the renewal agreement BA26007 with Terzolo Communications Group for $389,000 for the enrollment marketing campaign. So moved. Second. Motion has been made and seconded to approve the renewal agreement with Terzolo Communications Group for the enrollment marketing campaign. Is there any discussion or questions on this motion? Lisa, please call the roll. Kearls? Yes. Foley? Yes. Ford? Yes. Jackaway? Yes. Hendricks? Yes. McGee? Yes. Cortez? Yes. The motion is adopted. Doctor.
Davis? For item number nine, the administration recommends approval of the agreement with SGI to improve the HVAC mechanical systems at Pitcher Elementary School and Southeast High School. The not to exceed contract amount of $412,790 will be funded from the Operating Capital Projects Fund. Engagement included bids for this project were issued on onetwenty seventwenty five. All bids closed on twotwenty fourtwenty five. Overall, there were five bidders of which one contract was awarded to SGI.
MBEWDE participation is at 0%. Thank you, Doctor. Davis. Is there a motion to approve the HVAC, systems improvement at Pitcher Elementary and Southeast High School with SGI in the amount of $412,790 So moved. Second. The motion has been made and seconded to approve the HVAC contract with, SGI for mechanical system improvements at Pitcher Elementary and Southeast High School in the amount of $412,790 Is there any discussion or questions on this motion?
Lisa, please call the roll. Kearls. Yes. Foley. Yes. Ford? Yes. Jackaway? Yes. Hendricks? Yes. McGee? Yes. And Cortez? Yes. The motion is adopted. Doctor. Davis? For item number 10, the administration recommends approval of the First Amendment to the service agreement with Quantum Education Professionals to provide staffing services specializing in special education and related services. The not to exceed contract amount will increase from $640,000 to $1,058,000 an increase of $418,000
and will be funded from the Operating Fund, State and Federal Grants. Thank you, Doctor. Davis. Is there a motion to approve the contract amendment with Quantum Educational Professionals in the amount of $418,000 So moved. Second. Motion has been made and seconded to approve the contract amendment number one with Quantum Education Professionals in the amount of $418,000 Is there any discussion on this motion? Lisa, please call the roll. Kearls? Yes. Foley? Yes. Ford?
Yes. Jackaway? Yes. Kendricks? Yes. McGee? Yes. And Cortez? Yes. The motion is adopted. Doctor. Davis? For Item Number 11, the Administration recommends approval of the amendment to the Construction Management at Risk Agreement with McCownGordon. The amendment will update the terms and set a not to exceed amount for preconstruction services for upcoming capital projects supported by the general obligation bond. The not to exceed amount for preconstruction services is $460,000 and will be funded from issuance and public sale of GEO bonds.
Thank you, Doctor. Davis. Is there a motion to authorize an amendment to the existing construction manager at risk agreement in the amount of $460,000 with McKeownGordon? The amendment will update the terms and set a not to exceed amount for pre construction services for upcoming capital projects supported by general obligation bond funding. So moved. Second. Motion has been made and seconded to authorize an amendment to the existing construction manager at risk agreement with McKeownGordon in the amount of $460,000 Is there any discussion on this motion?
Lisa, please call the roll. Kearls? Yes. Foley? Yes. Ford? Yes. Jackaway? Yes. Hendricks? Yes. McKee? Yes. And Cortez? Yes. The motion is adopted. Doctor. Davis? For item number 12, the Administration recommends approval of the memorandum of understanding with Mary and Henry Block Family Foundation and H and R Block Foundation to accept the grant that supports the College Access Programming. The grant amount of $500,000 will be used to fund the salaries and benefits of College Access Specialist positions. Thank you,
Doctor. Davis. Is there a motion to approve the memorandum of understanding with the Marion and Henry Block Family Foundation and the H and R Block Foundation for a grant totaling $500,000 to support the college access specialists. So moved. And seconded. Motion has been made and seconded to approve the MOU with Marion and Henry Block Family Foundation and the H and R Block Foundation for a grant totaling $500,000 to support the college access specialist. Is there any discussion on this motion?
Lisa, please call the roll. Kearls. Yes. Foley? Yes. Ford? Yes. McElwey? Yes. Hendricks? Yes. McGee? Yes. And Cortez? Yes. The motion is adopted. Doctor. Davis? For Item 13, the Administration recommends approval of the renewal agreement with A List LLC to provide temporary personnel in IT department. The not to exceed contract amount of $1,000,000 will be funded from the Operating Fund. Thank you, Doctor. Davis. Is there a motion to approve the agreement between KCPS and A List? So moved.
Second. Motion has been made and seconded to approve the agreement between KCPS KCPS and A List. Is there any discussion on this motion? Lisa, please call the roll. Kearls? Yes. Foley? Yes. Ford? Yes. McKeowne? Yes. Kendricks? Yes. McGee? Yes. Cortez? Yes. Promotion is adopted. Actually, is A List is an MBE firm. Correct? Okay. It's never in the write up but that's what I remember. Thanks, Doctor. Davis. For item number 14, the Administration recommends approval of the First Amendment to the service agreement with DLR Group
to provide architectural and engineering services in support of emergency capital projects and prioritize capital projects identified in the COP and GO bond issuances. The not to exceed contract amount of 11,750,000 will be funded from the issuance of COP and GO bonds. The engagement included: The vendor will continue to engage the Community during the design process motion to Is there a motion to approve the amendment of the existing agreement with the DLR Group? This amendment will update the terms and establish a not to exceed amount for architectural
and engineering services in support of upcoming capital projects supported by GO Bond Funding. The not to exceed amount is $11,750,000 So moved. Second. Motion has been made and seconded to approve the amendment of the existing agreement with DLR Group. Is there any discussion or questions on this motion? Lisa, please call the roll. Kearls? Yes. Coley? Yes. Ford? Yes. Jackaway? Yes. Hendricks? Yes. McGhee? Yes. Cortez? Yes. The motion is adopted. Doctor. Davis? For our fifteenth and final item for this evening,
the administration recommends approval of the amendment to the contract with Hollis and Miller Architects to provide architectural and engineering services for the upcoming capital projects supported by the Certificate of Participation as well as General Obligation Bond. The not to exceed contract amount of $14,000,000 will be funded from the issuance of the COP and GO bonds. Engagement included, the vendor will engage the community during the design process for major capital improvement projects to ensure alignment with Uber and 2,030
goals and strategies and the 10 capital funding plan guiding principles. The MBEWBE participation rate is at 26.1%. Thank you, Doctor. Davis. Is there a motion to approve the amendment of the existing agreement with Hollis and Miller? The amendment will update the terms and establish a not to exceed amount for architectural and engineering services in support of upcoming capital projects supported by the GO bond funding. The not to exceed amount is $14,000,000 So moved. Second. Motion has been made and seconded to approve the amendment of the existing agreement with
Hollis and Miller. Is there any discussion or any questions on this motion? I'm just going to briefly note on the Hollis and Miller, DLR Group, and McCownGordon, those are all people firms that went through a detailed selection process prior to the bond election. So this is not an expansion of the team. This is simply a retention of the team that got us to this point. So, Lisa, please call the roll. Kearls? Yes. Foley? Yes. Ford? Yes. Jackaway? Yes. Hendricks? Yes. McGee? Yes. Cortez? Yes. The motion is adopted. Before I do the consent items,
I just wanted to share with the board you all received an email from Lisa about, to help us identify places where you might have a conflict of interest. So that's really just to make sure that as we build the agenda each month that we're aware of organizations that you might have a relationship with or be on the board of or otherwise be connected to so that when we put the agendas together, those items are separated off of the consent agenda. So if you can respond to that, that would be super helpful. Did I just say super? That would be really helpful.
Okay. Is there a motion to approve consent items G1 through G36? So moved. Is there a second? Second. It is moved and seconded to approve items G1 through G36 on the consent agenda. Lisa, please call the roll. Kearls? Yes. Foley? Yes. Ford? Yes. Jackaway? Yes. Kendricks? Yes. McGee? Yes. And Cortes? Yes. The consent agenda is approved. That brings us to the conclusion of our agenda for this evening. Thank you for your patience and your longevity. If there is no objection, the meeting will be adjourned.
Our next meeting will be on 07/16/2025 in the next academic year. The meeting is adjourned.