Okay. I want to thank everybody for joining us this evening. We're gonna call the regular meeting of the Kansas City Public Schools Board of Directors for 07/16/2025 is hereby called to order. Before we get to roll call, I'm gonna invite, Ricardo Flores up to make announcement. Thank you, Mr. Flores. Good evening, everyone. My name is Ricardo Flores. If needed, I will be your interpreter for this meeting. I will interpret everything you say, so please try to speak to each other at a good volume directly, clearly, at a moderate pace. Try to pause often. Please refrain from having side conversations and 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, English to Spanish, Spanish to English, accurately, impartially, completely and without additions or modifications. Thank you. I will say the same in Spanish. Thank you. Okay. Lisa, would you please call the roll? Kearls. Here. Foley. Here. Ford. Here. Jackaway. Here. Kendricks. Here. McGee. Here. Cortez. Here. Are there any outstanding action items? Not at this time. Thank you.
Next on the agenda, we have no individuals signed up for public comment this evening so we are going to proceed. Just as a reminder, if you know folks who want to make public comment in the future, we certainly invite that and, can accommodate up to 10 participants at each board meeting. Next on our agenda, I would like to welcome, state representatives Patty Manser and Melissa Douglas, to the podium to, honor, KCPR, KCPS KCPS champions and, I'm gonna say too much but truly thank you to each of you for the work you do in Jeff City on our behalf and on behalf of all the
citizens of your jurisdiction. Good evening to superintendent, board president, members of the board, and as well as our esteemed staff, and fans and friends. I would like to, take this opportunity, first of all, to thank you all. Thank you all for representing us here in the city and as well as going over and beyond and just really just giving it your all because that's what we do here at KCPS is we give it more than more than what is required so that we're able to accomplish. It is my honor, along with my my colleague,
representative Patty Manser, to present, both, the superintendent and the board president with a resolution here stating, the congratulations on you all being able to, firmly succeed and, and get that bond. Okay? Because that was a big deal. I've been in the district for, you know, a good number of years and so super excited that this was a win, not only for, my mom who's still in the district or for my nephew who's still in the district, but also for all of the other, you know, little kids that I see running around,
with KCPS shirts on and participating in all of our school buildings. So, I am pumped up and excited to present you all with this. But I won't, talk a long time because I can't. But I do wanna allow Representative Manser to have a few words as well. Thank you, everyone. It's so fun to be back in this room with you all again. I wanna tell you that the day after the election, we were on the House floor and we were utterly thrilled. It was an emotional feeling. And I even spoke on the House floor that day,
about what a historic and monumental win that was and how incredible to see how voters came out and just powerfully supported this district, a district that many people in Jefferson City for many, many years didn't think it could ever get its legs under it. A lot of my colleagues, on the house floor actually came over and spoke to me later and said, congratulations to your school district. We're really happy. I think the work that this board and this administration has done with this leadership
and the people in this room and those who are, not in the room but are part of the district, that work and that success signals to Kansas Citians that there is a confidence and a belief in the school system. But importantly for me, it tells Jefferson City that Kansas Citians care about their public schools and the public school children that you educate. And so bravo, we're just happy to be here and thank you for all you're doing.
Keep it up. I do have to say, while they're coming down, this might be a monumental moment. We have three former board chairs in the room, John Heil, Rita Cortez, and Patty Manser. It's kind of an historic occasion. So first I just wanna say thank you, Representative Douglas and Representative Manser. What you said is so true. Without the work of every single person in this room, and every single parent, and every single teacher, and every single member of our staff, all of the prior board, this was this was not a one year effort. This was a decade long arc that really required persistence and patience and pushing each
other to get to the place of achievement. So, thank you to everybody for, being a part of this journey. The next item I apologize, I have a little family situation going on so if I have to step out it's, it's not it's not whoever's at the podium. The next item on our agenda is, recognition of a gentleman who has, again, selflessly stepped up to, do work on behalf of Kansas City Public Schools and our taxpayers. Mike, would you come forward please? I wanna, just take this moment to introduce Mike Damico to the board,
and to all of the folks who are here. Mike serves. Come on right up here. Okay. I'm gonna come down there with a certificate here in just a second. Oh. I'm gonna invite Mike to share a few words, but truly, it is with great appreciation and respect that we recognize you, for your outstanding dedication and service as a representative on the Board of Equalization Appeal Panel representing Kansas City Public Schools. Mike has already devoted an extraordinary number of hours to hearing appeals on behalf of KCPS. We get great feedback from our colleagues
and understand that you bring fairness and integrity and public service to make a meaningful impact on our behalf, not only within the school district but also throughout the broader Jackson County community. We have a little certificate of recognition, that we'd like to present to you just to honor your efforts, and to express our gratitude for the role that you play in supporting equitable outcomes for our schools, our taxpayers, and all of the families within KCPS. Mike, really, truly thank you. Thank you so much. Gee, well, madam chairman, I had no idea there was gonna be gifts and all of that.
I'm not even sure I knew I was doing all that stuff, but thank you so much for the recognition. And I would mirror the speakers before me and thank you all for the work that you are doing for the kids in the schools. The little bit that I do is, just a little piece of the puzzle that makes this all work. Everybody does their little bit, and I'm the one that's honored by being offered the opportunity to serve in a position like that. Of course, nobody had any idea it was gonna turn into
the job that it has, but, maybe because of that, that's, you know, what makes the work worthwhile, to continue to represent an equitable outcome just as you said. And we will continue to do that moving forward. And thank you for the opportunity once again, and oh, shucks. Thank you. Is that true? Just give me a minute here. Just kinda huddle around you. Okay. Next item on the agenda is, the superintendent's report. Chair recognizes Doctor. Collier. All right. Good evening, everyone. Tonight's superintendent's report consists of announcements which I'll give in just a moment.
Then we're gonna have a video highlight, really showing, some of the testimony from our student interns from this summer. Following that, we will have our legislative update, and that will be provided by John Bardier and Associates. And then finally, we will have a KCPS Education Foundation update. So on to the announcements. KCPS Fest is back. We're excited to announce the return of one of our favorite family focused events, the KCPS Fest. Join us on Saturday, August 2, from ten a. M. To two p. M. At the East High School Circle Drive for our annual free back to school back
to school drive thru event. Each KCPS family vehicle will receive free backpacks filled with school supplies. We're also giving away over 5,000 backpacks this year. Health services will also be available on-site in the nearby parking lot, including immunizations, dental and vision exams, hearing screens, and sports physicals. So everything that students need will be there. This event will be made possible by the generous support of the Hunt Family Foundation, Fox four Love Fund for Children, Swope Health, Kansas City Health Department,
Children's Mercy, University Health, and Samuel Rogers Health Center. Families can register for the event at kcpublicschools.org/ kcpsfest. Next, we want to acknowledge KCPS schools that were recognized for outstanding student growth. We are proud to share that five KCPS schools have received seven awards from the Prime Center at Saint Louis University for demonstrating exceptional student growth from 2022 to 2024. Awarded schools and categories include AC Prep Elementary,
fifth in ELA growth among high poverty schools. Carver Dual Language School, seventh in math growth and twenty eighth in ELA growth. Garfield Elementary, seventeenth in ELA growth. Gladstone Elementary, ninth in math growth and James Elementary, fifth in math growth and fifteenth in ELA growth. These recognitions are part of a three year special edition of the PRIME Center's growth reports, which highlights schools across Missouri producing the highest average growth in English language arts and
math. Congratulations to all of our schools, principals, staff, and students for this outstanding achievement. And I see we have one of our principals here with us tonight from one of those schools. And then we wanna also give an update around the statewide law on student electronic device use. On 07/09/2025, Governor Mike Keyhoe signed into law Senate Bill 68, which establishes a statewide policy limiting the use of student electronic personal communication devices, which includes cell phones during the school day. This law,
effective for the twenty five-twenty six school year, requires all Missouri school districts to adopt policies that prohibit student cell phone and other electronic device use during instructional time, meal times, and passing periods. It also allows for exceptions for emergencies, learning, or medical needs, and then lead disciplinary measures to the discretion of each district. You may recall that over the past few months, KCPS has been actively engaging families, students, and staff to gather input on this issue.
These conversations have been instrumental in shaping our approach and ensuring that our response reflects the needs and the concerns of of our school community. In response to the new law, KCPS has finalized an implementation plan that will include clear guidelines for student electronic personal communication device use, aligned with the law, equitable and restorative discipline protocols for violations, secure storage solutions for student electronic personal communication devices during the school day, and ongoing communication with family,
staff, and students to support a smooth rollout. We're committed to ensuring a seamless transition this fall and to maintaining learning environments that are focused on, that are focused, that are safe, and supportive for all of our students. More detailed information will be shared with our families and staff in the coming days. And so those are our announcements for this evening. And so at this time, we're gonna have our video highlight, looking at, hearing from actually some of our KCPS student interns. This summer, we have the incredible opportunity to learn, grow,
and connect through the real world learning internship with KCPS. Let's take a look at the experiences and perspectives of interns in different departments. Last year, I did it last year. It was a great experience. And I had a great supervisor, doctor Erica Mabian, and a bunch of other supervisors too. And I liked it a lot. Like, we did a lot of stuff. I've learned how to work on computers and laptops. I've learned how to image them. I've learned better communication skills. What I learned specifically were characteristics of myself. Like, I learned how to be patient with the kids and obviously,
help them if needed. And yeah. This experience helped me grow by learning new skills such as the vocal skills, the social interactions, and the organizing skills. Never be afraid to say yes to things. Saying yes was gonna get you much farther than saying no was gonna get you was gonna get Thank you to all our summer interns for your hard work and dedication, and a special applause for our supervisors, coaches, and doctor Erica Mabian. We're excited to see all that you can accomplish. Okay. Next we're going to have our legislative update,
by John Bargier and Associates. So we wanna welcome John Bargier and Chris Roby. Good evening. Madam chairperson, members of the board, doctor Collier, thank you very much. I'm John Bardgett. My colleague, Chris Ropi, will be up in just a moment, to talk to you in-depth about the specifics of some legislation. First and foremost, I wanted to also lend my congratulations, as we already did, to Doctor. Collier and other staff members on that great success, on the bond issue. We'll talk a little bit more about the legislature, but it did give me the opportunity when visiting with Doctor. Collier, earlier this month or last month when we were earlier this month,
to kinda reflect back on the opportunities. In the early two thousands, I had to represent the Kansas City Public School District in Jefferson City. And I might tell you they were quite different times, and the viewpoints from legislators were quite different. I I just wanted to make sure that you knew congratulations from us. We see a marketable difference. We're glad to have been a part of it in Jefferson City, but what you all did here is remarkable. And you see the change, as representative Manser and representative Douglas mentioned, just in the views of the elected leaders, the education department,
and just the general vibe. And so congratulations to all of you, and thank you. It's a great privilege for us to represent you in Jefferson City. And as you all know, the legislative session ended May 15, and then we immediately came back in for a special session that all of you in Kansas City are all too familiar with. They all the legislators are at home now. I'll be having meetings in all their districts. And for us, it's a it's a great privilege to have Senator Washington, Senator, Patty Lewis, of course, Representative Mansour and Representative Douglas bring a world of knowledge about KCPS and public education
to the legislative discussions. And that's great for us, it's great for public education in Missouri, and we're very thrilled to be able to work with them. The legislative session was an interesting one, a little a lot better than some of the others that I've had to come here and report to you on. People did agree to disagree in a civil manner. The last couple of days of the Senate were very rocky, and we'll see how that progresses. I think that there is no doubt as you look at elections that are gonna occur, the Republicans will be in control of the Senate for quite some time. And there's a lot more cooperation going on between the two parties.
There's very tough sticking points. But, on the education issues, I think we're making some progress. The good news, I say sarcastically, is that perhaps open enrollment, other charter expansion ideas are not the number one focus of everyone in the leadership right now, the House. The bad news is reducing property taxes are. I was in a meeting the other day in St. Louis where every legislator that sat with me, 60, all brought this up as we have to do something. So there's a committee meeting today, which one of the other lobbyists that works in our firm on your behalf attended,
three and a half hours on property tax. So, thank you for the opportunity to let us work with you. We're, really appreciative of doctor Collier and her and her staff. We look forward to what's gonna be coming forward in the next general assembly. And with that, may I turn it over to Chris Ropey to talk specifically about some issues? Thank you. Thank you, John. Good eve excuse me. Good evening, everybody. I wanna leave time for questions at the end, so I will I will try to go through this at a at a high level as possible and then get into the weeds on any anything that you all, want to. You know, it it starts with the education committees in the house and the senate.
Unfortunately, we do not have anyone that serves on those committees from your your school district, anyone in our delegation, but they were all able to be very effective, with their work on on the house and senate floor, whether that's through the budget process or on stopping some really bad ideas that were were moving through the legislature. All kinda started this past session with the governor's, recommendations for his budget, which started out, underfunding the foundation formula, by $300,000,000. It still recommended a $200,000,000 increase, but it was under underfunded by by $300,000,000,
for what it called for to hit the SAT mark. Went through the legislative process, as a part of getting that money into the budget, they also decided to appropriate $50,000,000 for school vouchers straight out of general revenue. So that is that is something that will be new where before it was done through the method of a tax credit. Now that money is just straight general revenue, so coming from other, important and vital programs. You know, John alluded to this some with property taxes and just the budget picture overall, before I get into the the policy things.
Everybody thinks, with a lot of the federal money being cut off and what's happening under the Trump administration, that we're in for a very, very bad budget situation going forward as as the legislature prepares to do the the budget for next year. It it will not be fun to be a part of those those choices in trying to make sure that that public education, remains protected. But I know the governor and some of his comments and leadership and and some of their comments, are are alluding to those tough times and the different, entities that will be pit against each other as as that plays out.
And we will be right there on the ground trying to make sure that we're able to protect you all and and get our legislative leaders from your community, to to be in the middle of that fight and and and prepared prepared to do that. A part of that budget crisis, which everybody was warned about, was from 2024 in the price tag on Senate Bill seven twenty seven, which had the the bonus if you were going for five days a school week. It it had small school grant money. It had the minimum teacher salary mandate, which didn't affect you all as you have to stay competitive to get teachers in
in your community, but in a lot of rural districts. You look at the price tag of that with, the ideas moving forward, like open enrollment and and other education reforms, that that people have a lot of disagreement around, and it all comes with a big, big price tag. The governor, in in an effort to address that, created a task force to come up with a new foundation formula. That's gonna tie into all of these property tax discussions that are taking place. There will be a committee hearing in your community, I think, down at Union Station in in September,
I believe, as they travel around the state. And it's really going not it will not be a partisan debate. It is going to be a rural versus suburban urban, where you have communities who choose, like you all just did, to tax themselves to provide, the the education and provide the services they want for your community. You have a lot of rural communities where they are at the very minimum required in state law. And so those dollars that you put into the state general revenue heavily come from Kansas City,
Jackson County, St. Louis, St. Louis County, and then they get dispersed out to these rural communities. And I think legislators, are ready to attack and have that debate, and it it will be very tough discussions that take place and what the new formula will look like, but will will no doubt affect public education, across the board, and and we'll keep you all in the loop and figure out the best way to to represent you and, again, have our have our local delegation, ready to to take on that fight. We had our annual fight that we have every year on, your your operating levy rate that is set in the constitution.
Shauna did a great job when she came down and testified, and we had some really good conversations, and Doctor. Collier and others that met with the representative who was pushing that, which would have had just a the way it was written, a a tremendous devastation to the to your ability to to provide the resources needed to educate your students. We were able to keep that from moving forward and keep it bottled up in committee, but we did it in a cooperative way where I do think we have a great chance for, legislators who are interested in that to give you all the chance to address that
that yourself and deal with that at at what is best for your community. The only other thing that I will mention on on two other bills, there was some language that was being pushed through very hard that dealt with a port authority's ability, and you have one here, obviously, you're very familiar with, on their ability to abate taxes, especially projects that get rejected by your local process that you already have. And, with our legislators, specifically senator Washington, senator Lewis's help, they were able to get Jackson County exempt from that bill. The bill did not pass. It was one vote away, but they were champions for us,
as the price tag to to your your district and the resources for your students would have been, tremendously impacted. Fast forward to then special session that just occurred, another huge fight in dealing with the stadiums, and what that's gonna look like and tied into that to get the votes to pass that was, we'll see if they're constitutional or not, some significant property tax changes where you either you either freeze your taxes beyond just seniors, every property tax owner, or, you put a 5% cap in place on what the assessment can can go up
on those. Your Democrat legislative leaders were able to protect their counties, so you have a whole hodgepodge now of, again, a lot of rural counties put those in place where their voters will vote on that. Jackson County was exempt from that and and got that as a part of, fighting that with with our two senators that did a tremendous job in making sure that all the political subdivision in Jackson County were protected. So that's kind of the latest. That is what has fed into this property tax debate and the the interim work that's gonna take place on that that will be be working on your behalf.
A lot of education bills, open enrollment failed. An amendment was adopted on that that said, we're not gonna do open enrollment unless you fully fund the formula, you fully fund the transportation line item, and you fully fund the, minimum teacher salary across the state. So that's how you got some safeguards in place that said, we're not doing something new until you take care of the things we've already committed to. Once that amendment was adopted, the bill was laid over as the the people pushing that bill knew, which tells you a lot that they're the state's never gonna do those three things, so they they didn't. And that just says all you need to know.
I'll be happy to take any questions, get into any of the other education bills that failed. One big omnibus bill passed that all of the various associations that represent public education were a part of the discussions, and it was all pretty noncontroversial items that they all signed off on. And and, like I said, happy to answer any controversial items that they all signed off on, and and, like I said, happy to answer any questions and talk about, any other issues I didn't mention. Thank you for walking us through what was a pretty, hectic, session. Maybe in a good way for once, but it yeah. I'm gonna start to my left. Trisha, do you have any questions? Monica? I had a question. Thanks for all you do down in Jefferson City.
I could not have your job. I'm just curious procedurally, I don't remember and this also might be a Shawna question. The way the constitutional amendment is written where where our levy is, would we have to do something to undo the constitutional what it says in the states in the constitution in order to present or pass our own levy? No. It, what it provides in that in section 11 gs is that for any levy amount over or at 4.96
or above, we can go to the vote of the let of the voters of the district. That's actually in the constitutional amendment. So, what we would probably propose if we did have to deal with, legislation on the levy is that the 11 gs would expire once we did have such a vote. And once it was passed. So that once our, the voters passed our levy, then we would be just using that as our levy. But the, so a vote of the people can undo a constitutional amendment?
Oh, Fred. Yeah. There you go. Okay. So the constitutional amendment says that the k that the board I mean, it defines us as any any district that entered into a settlement agreement, blah blah blah. So that the board can set the levy anywhere under 4.96. To have a levy of anything greater, equal to, or greater than 4.96 requires the vote of the people. So if we just went to the people and got a vote, and our levy was now 4.96 or 4.97 or or whatever, 11 g would still be in place,
but we would have a different levy. The board wouldn't set it. They would instead when we do their levy setting in October, we would use the voter approved levy, like other school districts do. If they wanted to get rid of that, that would require the legislature to pass a statute like they've been trying to do just to have it expire. But they weren't gonna have it expire after a vote. They were just going to start, you know, make it go to where our levy would be back to 2.44. Alright. Thank you. No question for you,
Chris. Sorry. I'm not offended at all. Jameka? Y'all made me happy today, just seeing y'all. I have not been on government relations or shown up to the meetings recently. But, John, I don't know if you remember, but back in the early 2000s when we were fighting state takeover, I was a part of the parent leadership group. They kinda demanded that we be able to go down to Jeff City with you. And you all really supported us, and I learned so much from working with you at that time about this process and how things work. So very appreciative.
And then hearing both of you sit and do the legislative update just reminded me of that, and it felt really good. And I am as happy as you are that this time when we go down, instead of convincing people that there are actually parents in Kansas City public schools who choose the schools, we have people who recognize it because our community showed up and gave us that bond. So, again, y'all may be happy today, so thank you. Michelle? Brittany? No questions, but thank you for all the work that you do for our students and our school. I have to deal with, Jeff City a lot at work,
so I know it's not an easy job. So, thank you again. Josh? Chris, unfortunately, has to get lots of questions from me, in other mediums. So at this time, I'm not gonna give you any questions, but similar to my colleagues, I just wanna offer the affirmation of thank you so much for the work that you do on be on our behalf in Jeff City. I know that, doctor Collier and the administration has done a lot of work to, really change the narrative of Kansas City. You do a lot of work of telling that story, and I don't want that part to be missed because there's a lot of great things that happened here locally, that a few 100 miles away,
they would be oblivious to if it wasn't for the work that you do. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you on, behalf of all of us. I get a chance to ask questions all the time, so I don't wanna I don't wanna usurp this, but, a, thank you for the enthusiasm that you bring to this. Right? When when I when I watch the faces of the government relations committee and the administration when we're, you know, kind of trying to figure out why why would they do this, you you have a very good way of kinda centering the conversation and, that's very appreciated. Kinda keep us focused on the issues that you're facing in Jeff City.
I think we look forward to the advice about navigating the multiple committees on property taxes. I find it I I will simply use this as a little bit of a platform to note that I find it ironic that the port legislation was up at the same time that everybody is, trying to figure out how to, you know, kind of make their bones, by getting property taxes capped and yet at the same time, the squeeze is coming in both directions. And I didn't even mention they passed a bill that some people think will cost $600,000,000
from eliminating capital gains tax on your Missouri paying your Missouri taxes on capital gains that when it's fully implemented will cost $600,000,000. It's gotta come from from somewhere services, etcetera. So, yeah, it's it's pretty wild wild times on tax policy in Jeff City. Well, thank you for for kind of bringing a positive approach and, helping us stay focused on that positive approach. So thank you very much, and thank you guys for coming down from, Missouri to, talk to us now. Our pleasure. Thank you. Yep. Just echoing that,
thank you all so much for what you do for us here in KCPS because we benefit greatly from those meetings where you give us updates and explain everything so clearly to us. And so, we look forward to that continued partnership as we advocate for KCPS students and staff. Thank you. Thank you so much. You guys have a great evening. Alright, at this time we're now going to have a KCPS Board of Director, I'm sorry, KCPS Education Foundation presentation. You all say, we didn't know we had to present tonight. And that will be presented this evening by our Executive Director of the Education Foundation,
Mr. John Heil. Well, good evening, Madam Chair. It is lovely to be here this evening. Good evening to the rest of the Board. It is good to see all of you. Tamika, thank you for smiling at me. It is, it is my privilege and my pleasure to share with you a little bit of information about the work that the Education Foundation is doing. Also, Madam Superintendent, thank you for the opportunity to present and, to my colleagues and the cabinet, thank you as well for all that you do to support our school district. This thing is really wobbly. All right. So, what I'd like to do this evening is focus my conversation on a couple of
items. I think it's first and foremost, I just want to make sure we're all grounded in what the Education Foundation does and the role that we play within KCPS. I want to share with you some of the successes, some of the wins that we've had over the past year and then share with you a little bit about what we're planning to do as we move forward into 2026. We'll try to be as brisk as I can and we'll leave time at the end. I welcome your questions. This is, you know, the KCPS Education Foundation so I really want to hear from you how we can continue to strengthen and build, this foundation to be something that is truly an asset for the school district.
So to start with, so the Kansas City Public Schools Education Foundation is a separate five zero one(three). I always think that's important to notice. So what that means is that I have a board of directors. We have 15 board members. We operate independently of the school district but very closely aligned. I am officed here at the Board of Education. I work on the comms team. Nicole gives me advice and suggestions, as does Doctor. Collier. So even though we are separate, we work very, very closely together. The foundation was actually started in 2012 but really actualized in 2016 when Nicole Collier
White took over as our first Executive Director. And since that time, the Foundation has been responsible for raising almost $9,000,000 in support of KCPS, activities and initiatives. And so I'm really proud of that and really proud to be here, as kind of the next step in, that legacy of developing resources for our community. I wanna start our review of 2025 by talking about our financial snapshot. So So, in 2025, we were able to raise $2,700,000 and I wanna highlight something here that I think is really important. So,
of that $2,700,000 $2,600,000 of that was reinvested into KCPS initiatives. And the reason we're able to do that is because we have an innovative and unique structure that allows KCPS to cover much of the overhead of running the foundation, so my salary, my office, IT, that sort of thing. And And that allows us, when we're out in the community, to talk to donors and talk to supporters and confirm to them that $0.96 out of every dollar we raise goes back to KCPS, which is a tremendous advantage for us and I think really signifies,
again, that strong working relationship we have with KCPS. At the Foundation, over the past year, our focus has been really in three specific areas. The first of those is that we work externally with large, philanthropic funders, with corporate partners, to make sure that we are developing resources to fund what I would consider to be broad district level initiatives, and we'll talk about those in a few minutes. The second area of focus that we have is direct support for our teachers and our classroom through our teacher grant program, and we'll talk about that in a moment. And then finally,
over the last year, one of the things we've really focused on is trying to create more opportunities for the Foundation and also the District to engage directly with the folks in our civic community, our philanthropic community, and our corporate community and we've done that as well. And so I'd like to walk you through each of these areas with some examples and some details that I think help illustrate, what we are trying to accomplish. So So, we're gonna start with my favorite topic, which is our Educator Grant Program. So this is a program that we launched almost as soon as the foundation was off the ground. It started, I believe, Nicole,
with maybe nine, educator grants in our first year and has grown significantly. This opens up in every or opens up every October on October 1. We open the application window. We are able to let teachers apply for grants. These tend to be smaller micro grants, so these would be grants up to about $5,000 teachers are given significant latitude on what they'd like to apply for. Some teachers apply for, funding for innovative tools or techniques in the classroom. Other teachers apply for specific curriculum or specific opportunities for their kids,
but it is really interesting to see the creativity and the commitment of our teachers as they, seek to receive funding for these programs. So in 2025, we actually opened that portal and we received 108 applications, which is an all time high, which is a great, a great outcome, but we were only able to fund 37 of those grants. So that is also a high, we've never funded that many grants before. That represents about $73,000 and it went to 21 different school sites across the district. And so, we're very proud of the work that happened last year.
All of those outputs are all time highs for us, But again, I think it does underscore the fact that we need to continue to find ways to do even more. I wanted to share just a quick highlight. So part of the real perk or one of the real perks of this job is, when we do our grant awards, we try to do those as a surprise. And so we'll we have a board committee that goes through all of our applications. We select the, folks that are going to be awarded, And then we arrange with their principal to show up at the school and surprise them.
So for those of you who are of a certain age, if you'll kind of envision the Publishers Clearing House commercials you used to see, it's kinda like that. We show up with a big check and a lot of smiles and a lot of surprises. And so, the very first grant that I was a part of, was at Central Middle School with Amber Underwood, who's a music teacher at that school. And she was this is her very first award that I was a part of and showed up on a Friday afternoon and she had put a grant request in because she wanted to start a pep band at Central Metal. And I think we were excited about the fact there was a pep band, but it was the way she explained the importance of music and the importance of
a pep band as part of the way that she could continue to work to strengthen the school community, the school spirit at Central Metal that I think really won us over. And so we showed up and we snuck up to her classroom, and it was very fun. We walked in in the middle of bucket drumming lesson, which you've never if you've never been to one of those, is exceptionally loud, and was a lot of fun. And we walked in and she immediately knew why we were there. Her kids were super excited. They got to celebrate with her. And it was just an amazing moment. I think a validation for her and the work that she does, a validations for the students in the classroom who know that this community had their
back. And it was just an amazing moment and I think really kicked off both a celebration of what our grants program was last year and I think a celebration of what it can be in the future as we continue to invest in our students. In addition, you've already heard, another initiative that we're deeply involved in is KCPS Fest. So Doctor. Collier mentioned earlier that our KCPS Fest for 2025 is coming up in a few weeks. We are excited. We have 5,000 backpacks on their way here as we speak. We're gonna pack those full of school supplies that are provided by our partners at
the Fox four Love Fund. We've got great community partners that are coming to join the event and we will, be welcoming, we think, 5,000 KCPS families to East High School from ten to two. So, this is my first ask. If you are interested in coming and volunteering, coming and saying hello to families, it is a great chance for you to see the excitement and the joy that families have as they think about their children starting school. It's always a fun event and it, you know, we do a great job of organizing it, so we promise we won't make you work too hard. The next thing that I'd like to highlight is the work that we were able
to do this year to celebrate our teachers. I'm sure, as you know, as board members, the ability of KCPS to attract and retain high quality educators is paramount to our sustained success. And so, we feel that we play a role in that through a couple of different ways. One, we think the teacher grant program is a great way to bring that value forward and to show our teachers that we care deeply about their professional experience. We also are the lead sponsor of the KCPS Teacher of the Year celebration, which happens every April. I think this year, that felt like a celebration of all of our Teacher of the Year nominees,
but it almost felt like a celebration of all of our teachers because each of those nominees stood on stage and they talked about the power that exists in their building, the talent that exists in our district. And I think we hope to be able to continue to lean into that message that while we can only not while we can only honor one nominee from each school building, we know we have buildings full of talented educators. A couple of the smaller events that we do, we work with our partners at the Power and Light District. Every year, we give away a two year lease to a teacher in KCPS.
So I think this is year seven of that partnership. Last year, we were able to give away a lease to at the Midland Lofts, which is a brand new building that opened downtown. We gave it away to a fantastic teacher at Northeast High School. So that's a celebration of our teachers. We also do an event every January with our partners at JE Dunn that's called, it's a Headshot Happy Hour. We invite teachers to come by after work and they can gather at JE Dunn, have a party, talk to their friends, and and then we have a professional photographer that's on-site who does a professional headshot
for each of them. So moving away from kind of those micro level engagements we have and looking more at the macro level. So as I said earlier, we also work very closely with some of our philanthropic partners and I'm proud to report tonight that we've had tremendous success in 2025 in securing revenue and resources from those partners and bringing that back to KCPS. So I've highlighted a few of our grants that we received this year. We were fortunate to receive money from KCMO this year, that money that flowed through the foundation, and supported the exploration of potential transitional housing at one of our school buildings that is closed.
We received $565,000 from the Hall Family Foundation that supported, kind of programming on each end of the age continuum. We had support for our evening academy and our middle college program and then they also supported some of our early elementary literacy initiatives. So very proud of that. And then I always have to shout out our friends at the Block Family Foundation, who have been loyal supporters of KCPS for a great many years, but they, again, this year awarded KCPS a $500,000 grant to support,
the college access specialists that we have at each one of our high schools and play a huge role in the success of our kids as they approach their senior year and are prepared for what's next. The last thing I'll talk about for 2025 before we jump into 2026, as I said, I think one of the roles the foundation plays is to offer a point of contact and a point of connection for the broader community to KCPS. And so this year, we held two community meetings, one in January and one in June, where we brought together civic leadership in Kansas City,
we brought together some of the significant funders in Kansas City, we brought together some of our community leaders, and we just had a dialogue about what was happening in our school district. And I think that's so important because it gives KCPS the opportunity to drive that dialogue. And so it's not people talking about us, it's us presenting on the great things that are happening in our school district. And so we look forward to continuing to do that work and to make time to sit down with our folks. I feel like the January meeting that we had was a great prep for this
community about the bond ask. I think that that helped us continue to spread the word and to share information about the bond election. And then the June event, it gave us a chance to follow-up on that, but also talk about some of the very real threats that we're experiencing now with funding freezes, funding cuts, the challenges we face with property taxes. It was a chance to have a very honest dialogue about the impact those things could have in our schools. So as we look forward to the next year, our Board of Directors has been working and has identified, I think, some kind of some kind of immediate goals.
And then I want to share with you some of the things we're also wrestling with that haven't quite reached the point of having goals around them. So as I said, we are in agreement, the Board of Directors and myself, that we need to do more to increase the number of teacher grants that we're giving out. So we last year, we had $73,000 and 37 grants. This year, we're going to try to go to $100,000 and 50 grants. So we are excited for that. We think that we have some great applicants already and are just excited to be able to get that to that stage and continue to grow. We want to continue to do the work that we're doing with the Civic community
as we host, you know, two more of our Civic meetings. We want to continue to be a great partner for our philanthropic community as we continue to bring pass through dollars in, those kind of large district level, funding initiatives. And then finally, we have a State of the Schools breakfast that is on October 15 this year, and we would love to sell that out. I don't know that we've ever quite sold it out. We've always had a few tables that don't quite, get filled. And so this year, we are working to sell out, that event, which, of course, will lead to more resources for our operations.
We've already covered a lot of these coming soon events. I just really wanted to provide these to you. So as Board members, we are always happy to have you join us at events. So obviously, please come sweat with us at KCPS Fest, but we would love to have you at the State of the Schools breakfast. We certainly would love to have you as we celebrate with our teacher when we do an apartment giveaway. And so I will make sure that you have these dates as they get set so that you can come and enjoy these amazing moments. We'd also love to have you if you ever wanna come on a teacher grant visit. That was always a great time and, we'd love to have you come with that. I see some nodding down here,
so thank you. And then I mentioned that the last really, the kind of the last slide that I wanna talk through. I mentioned there are other areas that we think are maybe a deeper dive for the In ways that we can be a bit more productive and a bit more focused on developing kind of the long term sustainable resources we need. So we are doing a lot of work to update and, I think, expand the work that we're doing around our corporate giving. We are also working to expand what we do internally, with trying to increase the number of KCBS employees who support the foundation through payroll
deduction. We are focused on investing in our technology and our infrastructure. As I said, we've grown from just a handful of grants to now hopefully 50 grants next year. And so we're investing for the first time in a platform that will help us manage that grant application process, manage our scoring and then hopefully will also allow us to both memorialize the applications and the awards to have some automation in terms of tracking outcomes and really help us provide a dashboard that will give us a year over year sense of how those dollars are
being spent. And then the last two areas we're focused on, we have a brand new Board Chair this year, and so Lucette Walker is her name. And Lucette has made it her priority. She's a graduate of Paseo High School. And so she feels like one of the other areas the foundation can play a significant role in is in bringing alumni home. We feel like this is such a great time to be part of KCPS. There are so many good things happening that we need alumni to come back and join us and be part of this conversation. And so please be on the lookout for, maybe some asks from us. Right now,
we're in the committee formation stage on that, but we'll have more to share very soon. And then finally, as you know, much of the bond conversation focused on the investment from the levy, but there are projects within that bond package that require some additional dollars to really do them right. And so the foundation will continue to work with the administration and try to identify some additional funding opportunities where we can be supportive and help stretch those bond dollars a bit further. With that, I will cede the floor. But before I do, I wanna make sure that I do my job here,
which is to tell you and everyone in the audience that if you scan that QR code, you too can be a supporter and a donor to the KCPS Foundation and be part of the work that we're doing. In closing, I want to say again thank you for the opportunity to present. This is an honor and a privilege to be part of KCPS and to be tasked with this important work, but it is certainly a passion project of mine and I'm excited to continue to do great things. Thank you, Mr. Heil. Feels very formal, I want to say John. Thank you, Madam Chair.
I'm gonna start to my right, with any questions and if Josh, I should probably introduce you to your colleagues as the liaison between, the the KCPS Board of Directors and the KCPS Education Foundation Board of Directors. So give a little bit of insight. Well, I will say it is a privilege to get the opportunity to serve in my capacity here as a liaison on the Board and get to see the amazing things. John, you're the third Director that I've had the privilege of working with, and it has been absolutely amazing to have a front row seat to see the
vision that you've come in with, the energy, and the way that you've been able to kind of really build upon, what, Nicole and Solisa had kind of previously built up. My question actually isn't going to be for you. It'll be for anyone else in this room. And it will be if you haven't made an investment in the foundation. One of the things that my wife and I have the privilege of doing is is financially investing in this way, and it is one of the greatest things that we get to do. So if you haven't, this would be my invitation to you to get, to partner with them, scan the QR code. Your check is in the mail. Thank you.
Britney, do you have any questions? No questions. Tanisha? Hi, John. Thank you. Hi. It's not really a question. Just a recommendation. I'm always trying to remember, like, what was presented to us, like, the year before in terms of, like, focus areas, the revenue, like, all of that stuff. So I think it would be helpful for us in the future when you give this presentation again, because you'll be back. Is to just share any data that can be like previous year. I think it would help us to see the evolution Sure. Of the foundation. Alright. Thanks for that. Appreciate it. Jamika. I don't think I've smiled this much at a board meeting in a very long
time. Like, this is crazy. We know I love the foundation. But I do have a question for you, and I told you I wouldn't. So please understand that I still have much respect for you, and I like you so much. But you gotta answer my question. Alright. So if KCPS and it's not hard. If KCPS is providing the overhead, because I was not aware of that, I do know that it's separate. Then how do we main like, does that cause KCPS to have more influence with what happens with the foundation, because we have that? Or was it set up intentionally for that way?
And if it was, why? Just explaining that. So that's a question that has been, I think, volleyball back and forth, over the last nine years with different results. I think from my perspective as somebody who was, I believe, on the school board when the Catalyst Fund started and then on the Foundation Board when we actually became a functional, entity. I would tell you that the intentionality was to build the foundation out to minimize the amount of overhead necessary. At the time, it was incumbent upon us to raise dollars to support KCPS. And so even though our operating budget isn't huge, if we have to go out and we have to raise 200 to $300 or
$1,000 every year just to operate, but that takes money off the top of what we can do for teacher grants and other programming. And so we actually have a new MOU with the school district that kind of allows for, I think, a longer term vision of that, but it's something that we've discussed over and over again. And I don't know that there's a correct answer. If you were to go to the school districts around the region, they're split about fiftyfifty between school districts that that ask the foundation to raise all of the operating capital and school districts that fund multiple staff people and and big offices and all all manner of of work.
Okay. I appreciate that. And I I do understand and appreciate how KCPS is doing that. And I think the fact that we're spending 96¢ of every dollar, like you said, really makes a difference. And if this is what helps us to do that, I understand. I just wanted to question just so that if there are other people who are like me, like, does this have some kind of influence that you'd be able to give us that insight? And you did. So thank you. You're welcome. Monica? Yeah. Hi, John. Definitely appreciate your, obviously, continued commitment to the district now coming back from board member to be on the
foundation board now running the foundation. Your depth of knowledge and experience, and I can already see the impact it has. So thank you so much. And also giving a shout out to Lucette Walker, who's the board chair, also a colleague of mine at Terracon. So we will make sure we get some, hopefully some dollars and definitely a sponsorship for the state of the school breakfast from us. So, thanks. Then I'll also contact you about getting something from our, Terracon Foundation as well. So. Hi, John. Thanks for sharing all of these updates.
I'm a big fan of KCPS Fest and multiple time volunteers. So I actually love seeing the collaboration between, the Education Foundation and the FACE team, which I think does calls for volunteers every year. So if you're still wanting to volunteer, you all know who to look for. I actually do have a question about, individual donors. How much of a focus is that? What I learned, and I did not realize that until we were seeking money for the bond, is there are a lot of folks that do not have children in this city that are all in for public education. My, brother and his wife, double income, no kids. I mean, there's a big demographic out there.
I had people reaching out to me that I haven't spoken to in years that don't have kids. They don't have nieces and nephews. They're just hardworking Kansas Citians that do wanna help education in some way. They're just not engaged. And so has that ever been a focus and or should I just send them your way with this QR code? Well, yes. You should send them my way for sure. So I I would answer that with, I think, maybe of a strategic vision answer. I think one of the things we're trying to build is better capacity and better infrastructure on the foundation side. You know, I would like to do everything at once. My board members tell me that's not okay. So I think what you're describing will require us to improve a couple of areas
before we can truly engage in deep individual giving. The first is that we still are not, communicating well as a foundation to our current owners like it's not something we've been good at. We're trying to improve that. But I think in order to be an effective fundraiser at the individual giving level, you really have to communicate well. You have to storytell well. You have to be able to tell people what's happening in the school district. I think the second thing is we need to do more to brand ourselves as the place to go. What I've talked about a lot when I talk publicly, I talk about the fact that if you are someone who cares deeply about kids, about teachers, and about education in Kansas City,
This organization, our foundation, is the place for you to engage, to fund, and to be a part of continuing to build greatness at KCPS. And I think we have to do a better job of telling that story on the foundation side. Does that help? It does, and I love to hear it. And I'll definitely be clipping that and sharing it with my entire audience, everything you just said. Thank you for that. I did have one other, but I lost it. I did wanna offer offer if there's anything that we as board members can do, things we can show up to additionally to support, just let us know. I see this nice list here. So so as was mentioned, Josh Jacoway is our, is our liaison, our point of contact.
And Josh, I'll make sure you have all those dates so that you can share them with your colleagues. But again, what we do is a, you know, it's an open book. And, so anytime you have questions, you have ideas, I office upstairs, please come visit me, it's very lonely, team of one. And I'm happy to chat with you and share some of the work we're doing. Thank you, John. We very much appreciate the time and look forward to continuing growth and opportunity for the Foundation and our teachers and students. So thank you. Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity. Also, the QR code isn't working. So if you go to kcpsfoundation.org
forward slash donate, you can give right now. And, Trisha, at some point, I may have to understand what the clip it and post it thing is because I don't know how to do that either. I'm happy to host a board training for anyone that needs that. Okay. Thank you. But you lost me a clip. Oh, edit. Okay. The next item on the agenda is the Board Treasurer's Report. The chair recognizes, Board Treasurer Monica Girls. Alright. Thank you. So here's the revenues and expenditure report that reflect the approved FY 2025 budget amendment that we just passed at our last board meeting.
Year to date revenues exceeding expenditure are exceeding expenditures due to the tax revenue distribution beginning in December. Collection rate as of 06/30 was a 100.23 compared to a 100.75% last year, which was a, at least, decrease. And the district invests the reserve fund balance, earned to earn additional revenue. Sorry. We invested to earn additional interest revenue that we can then apply to, other parts of our budget. Our local income,
which was 78% of our budget, still mainly comes from the property taxes. Jackson County sends its property taxes, to the bill in October, and then the payments are expected by the December. Some come in late in January. And for FY 2025, KCPS KCPS established an operating levy of 4.9599 to continue to support the district's operations. Obviously, that is we set it below the constitutional amount so that we don't have to go to the citizens for a vote.
But due to some legislative murmurings, we might need to do that in the coming, years. So, Utilate local collection, which is mainly due to taxes, including back taxes and taxes, M and M replacement taxes and interest, properties, proposition c, sales taxes, earnings on deposit, food service catering, abatements, and various local grants. United Aid County Collection is from the line that says that is from fines, county stock insurance, and the state assessed railroad and utility tax.
As for our state income, our basic school funding formula that was mentioned, by, John Bargier and Chris Ropi, we don't get any of that. That money goes directly to the charter schools. Year to date state year to date state collection is mainly due to transportation, early childhood special education, Missouri scholars, evidence based reading grant, adult education and literacy, high need fund for special education, charter school sponsor fees, and the Missouri quality pre k grant. Federal income,
which is our second largest source of income. We'll see if that continues. And their connection is mainly from Medicaid, Perkins Grant, adult education and literacy, full meal school meal reimbursement, title funds, Head Start, special education entitlement, VOCA, E rate, and ESSER three reimbursements for expenses that were incurred through 09/30/2024. And so, then here we have the representation of what all that I just said, as far as the budget revenue. Okay. And so now we have our expenditures.
And salaries and benefits continue to be the largest portion of our expense budget, which, we're at 91.5% of that budget for, salaries and benefits. Majority of KCPS salaries and benefit expenses are for our certified staff. Services and materials, are at 80.72 of the budget amount. Payments were made primarily due to student transportation, property and liability insurance, utilities, general and technology supplies, facilities, repairs, maintenance, communications, material, food supplies,
cafeteria food supplies, professional development textbooks, musical instruments, professional, instructional, and substitute services. Capital outlay is 50 o 8% due to the purchase of classroom technology, network upgrades, security cameras, HVAC, roofing, and facilities capital projects. Capital projects include HVAC and roofing funded through the operating, but not Completed. Sorry. Are not completed by the completed by the end of the fiscal year and will carry over into FY 2025.
And then here's a representation via pie chart of everything I just said and indicated from the previous. Next, we have so this is our first time presenting our certificate of participation bond. That bond issuance was for a $100,000,000. We have a subtraction of the closing fees associated with that bond. So we have 98 point, 98,000,000, almost 99,000,000 to spend. We also had some project planning costs that we've reimbursed, like architecture fees, that kind of thing. And so right now,
we have remaining bond proceeds of 96,972,854. And so this, we will continue to present this slide, that's showing you the update, related to our certificate of participation bond. The last slide we have is related to our investments. This month we had three securities, one federal home loan discount note, one US Treasury bill, and one commercial paper, mature. These securities were purchased in January 2025 for, approximately 2,000,000
each and have matured, during various dates in June. And, so now we have a par value of 30,000,000. Were there any questions, comments, inquiries from the board? I'm gonna look to my colleagues. My only question and I think this is just a clarification. Mhmm. Once we, issue the first bonds from the general obligation bond, there'll be an additional page to fax those separately. Right? That's correct. So once we once we actually issue that, we'll do a similar to the certificate of participation slide that'll talk about how we are expending,
that bond fund. Thank you very much. Alright. Thanks. The next item on the agenda is just board chair report. I just have one request of my colleagues, and I'm gonna ask Lisa to resend the form. And that is, a request for a list of organizations or current roles or affiliations that you hold that, might be doing business with or entering into MOUs with, KCPS. I'm gonna ask Lisa to resend it with the deadline of July 31, and, folks can get that in. That will help us in determining what needs to be on the regular business items
agenda and what can be on the consent agenda. So, appreciate you guys doing that. I know we all have many things going on, and I will ask Lisa to give us an update, after the end of the month. So thank you. Ad hoc committee reports, finance, I'm guessing there is not a an update. You guys haven't met. You guys don't meet in July. Right? Yeah. We our next meeting will be August, some date in August. Government relations, do you have an update? Just a brief one. So we met, yesterday. Actually, we went over our initial draft of legislative priorities. So appreciate,
Shauna and the administration putting that together in a really timely manner. It's gonna allow us, hopefully at our next meeting in August to officially kind of finalize that to bring it to the rest of my board colleagues. So expect to see that before the, August 13 meeting. I'll be excited to share that so that then we can have some discussion around that. So I look forward to hearing your feedback, at the August 13, meeting, and hopefully you'll have that even before that that thirteenth meeting, Friday update. Yeah. The fifth is when our our, government relations meeting is, I believe. And then the one other thing is we've narrowed down the day for our advocacy
day to be either January 20 or twenty seventh. We should have that finalized at the August 5, as well. But we're really hoping to have that finalized before the start of school so that we can be able to activate as many families and students to be a part of that experience. And, Tanisha, a short policy update? I really don't have a update for our committee. We have not had, the opportunity to meet since, I gave our last policy committee update at the last board meeting. We have been working to get our July meeting scheduled. July is a little has been more challenging with vacations and such and the holiday
and all of that good stuff, but we Lisa has been working hard to try to get us scheduled for July. And hopefully at the next meeting, I'll have a more formal update, for you all on our directive for PolicyIM, and then also being able to approve our, Policy Committee Charter. Great. Thank you. And I know I'm part of the scheduling challenges, so thanks for your patience. The next items on the agenda are, regular business items. I'm gonna turn the floor back over to Doctor. Collier. Alright. Thank you. I think this evening we have about 14 regular business items, so we're gonna get started.
The first is Rotella's Italian Bakery. The administration recommends approval of the new contract with Rotella's Italian Bakery for the supply and delivery of bread products to various KCPS schools. The not to exceed contract amount of 285,000 will be funded from the Child Nutrition Services budget. The engagement information includes the procurement department advertised or RFP for the supply and delivery of bread products in the Kansas City Star, the Kansas City Globe, Dos Mundos newspaper, and on the district's e procurement website with a closing date of 06/30/2025.
The procurement department and child nutrition services determined that Rotella's Italian Bakery Incorporated submitted the best bid in accordance with the specifications. Thank you, Doctor. Collier. Is there a motion to approve the authorization of the new contract with Rotella's Italian Bakery for the supply and delivery of bread products not to exceed the amount of $285,000 So moved. Second. Motion has been made and seconded to authorize the contract with, Rotella's Italian Bakery for the supply of delivery supply and delivery of bread products not to exceed the amount of $285,000
Is there any discussion or question on this motion? Seeing none, Lisa please call the roll. Kearls. Yes. Ford. Yes. Foley. Yes. Jackaway. Yes. Kendricks. Yes. McGee? Yes. Cortez? Yes. The motion is adopted, Doctor. Collier. Alright. Our second business item is curators of the University of Missouri on behalf of UMKC. The administration recommends approval of the Math academy service agreement with UMKC to provide instructors to teach dual credit math classes at KCPS. Through this partnership, the math academy aims to increase the math skills of high school students by providing
intensive project based math programming and instruction. The not to exceed contract amount of $300,000 will be funded from the operating fund for 200,000 and the Block Family Foundation for 100,000. Thank you, Doctor. Collier. Is there a motion to approve the service agreement with UMKC to provide instructors to teach dual credit math classes at KCPS schools during school year twenty five-twenty six? So move. Second. Motion has been made and seconded to approve the service agreement with UMKC. Is there any discussion or question on this motion?
Seeing none, Lisa please call the roll. Kearls. Yes. Poehling. Yes. Ford. Yes. Jackaway. Yes. Kendricks. Yes. McGee. Yes. And Cortez. Yes. The motion is adopted, Doctor. Collier. Alright. Our third business item for the evening is City Year. The administration recommends approval of the first amendment to the service agreement with City Year to provide youth development and education support services at Central High School, Central Middle School, and Northeast Middle School. The not to exceed contract amount of $300,000 will be funded from the operating fund.
Thank you, Doctor. Collier. Is there a motion to approve the First Amendment to the agreement with City Year in the amount of $300,000 to administer support to Central Middle, Central High School, and Northeast Middle School. So moved. Second. It has been moved and seconded to approve the first amendment to the agreement with City Year in the amount of $300,000 Is there any discussion or question on this motion? Seeing none, Lisa please call the roll. Kearls? Yes. Foley? Yes. Ford? Yes. Jackaway? Yes. Hendricks? Yes. McGee? Yes. Cortez? Yes, the motion is adopted.
Alright, our next business item is All City Management Services Incorporated. The administration recommends approval of the third amendment to the service agreement with All City Management Services to provide school traffic control services or crossing guards to KCPS. The not to exceed contract amount of $356,076 will be funded from the operating fund. Thank you, Doctor. Collier. Is there a motion to approve the third amendment and renewal of service agreement for school traffic control services with all city management services in the amount of 356,076?
So moved. Second. Motion has been made and seconded to approve the third amendment and renewal of service agreement for school traffic control services with all city management services. Is there any discussion or question on this motion? Lisa, please call the roll. Perls. Yes. Foley. Yes. Ford. Yes. Jackaway. Yes. Kendricks. Yes. McGee. Yes. Cortez. Yes. The motion is adopted. Doctor. Pollard? Okay. The next business item is Brady Plus. The administration recommends approval of the agreement with Brady Plus to provide paper products for operational and janitorial supplies district wide.
The not to exceed contract amount of $400,000 will be funded from the operating fund. Thank you, Doctor. Collier. Is there a motion to approve the agreement with Brady Plus for paper products in the amount not to exceed $400,000 This agreement is effective beginning 07/01/2025 to 06/30/2026 with two with a two year agreement and one year renewal options. So moved. Second. Motion has been made and seconded to approve the agreement with Brady Plus for paper products in the amount not to exceed $400,000
Are there any 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. Collier? Okay. The next business item is CC Produce. The administration recommends approval to renew the contract with CC Produce for the supply and delivery of fresh fruits and vegetables to KCPS schools. As part of the renewal process for this contract, the child nutrition, director completed a vendor evaluation and determined that C.
C. Produce met the district's performance expectations during the twenty four-twenty five school year. The not to exceed contract amount of $500,000 will be funded from the Child Nutrition Services budget. Thank you, Doctor. Collier. Is there a motion to approve the renewal of the contract with c CNC Produce for the supply and delivery of fresh fruits and vegetables not to exceed the amount of $500,000 So move. Second. Motion has been made and seconded to approve the renewal of the contract with C and C Produce for the supply and delivery of fresh fruits and vegetables.
Is there any discussion or question on this motion? Lisa, please call the roll. Kearls? Yes. Foley? Yes. Ford? Yes. Jackaway? Yes. Kendricks? Yes. McGee? Yes. Cortez? Yes. The motion is adopted. Doctor. Collier? The next item is Missouri Project AWARE Grant Acceptance. The administration recommends approval to accept the grant amendment from Missouri Department of Elementary, the Secondary Education through the Missouri Project AWARE Grant. KCPS uses the grant to develop a sustainable infrastructure for school based mental health programs
and services. The grant, with this has a contract period of 09/30/2024 through 09/29/2025 and will increase from $486,335 to $535,925 Thank you, Doctor. Collier. Is there a motion to approve an amended grant award in the amount of $535,925 which is an increase from 486,335 through the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education or Missouri Project AWARE grant?
So moved. Seconded. Motion has been made and seconded to approve the amended grant award, through the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education for Missouri Project AWARE Grant. Is there any discussion or question on this motion? Lisa, please call the roll. Kearls? Yes. Foley? Yes. Board? Yes. Jackaway? Yes. Kendricks? Yes. McGee? Yes. Cortez? Yes. The motion is adopted. Doctor. Collier? The next item is tomorrow's promise today, also known as TPT. The administration recommends approval of the first amendment to the service agreement with tomorrow's promise
today to provide up to 38 long term, fully certified substitute teachers in support of KCPS's educational and operational needs. The not to exceed contract amount of $750,000 will be funded from the operating budget for teacher vacant position. Is there a motion to approve the amended contract with tomorrow's promise today to provide up to 38 long term educators to the KCPS, school district? This agreement will be effective through 06/30/2027 with two one year renewal options. The amount for this coming fiscal year is a not to exceed amount for $750,000
So moved. Seconded. Motion has been made and seconded to approve the amended contracts with tomorrow's promise today. Is there any discussion or question on this motion? Lisa, please call the roll. Kearls. Yes. Foley. Yes. Ford. Yes. Jackaway. Yes. Hendricks. Yes. McGee. Yes. Cortez. Yes. Motion is adopted. Doctor. Collier? The next business item is Kelly Services Incorporated. The administration recommends approval of the first amendment to the service agreement with Kelly Services by providing temporary educational personnel. The not to exceed contract amount of $1,000,000 will be funded
from the operating fund. Thank you, Doctor. Collier. Is there a motion to approve the proposed amendment between KCPS and Kelly Services to continue to cover district wide staffing services, with a not to exceed amount of $1,000,000 for this fiscal year? So moved. Second. Motion has been made and seconded to approve the proposed amendment between KCPS and Kelly Services. Are there any questions or discussion on this motion? Lisa, please call the roll. Kearls? Yes. Foley? Yes. Ford? Yes. Jackaway? Yes. Kendricks? Yes. McGee? Yes. Cortez?
Yes. The motion is adopted. Doctor. Collier? Alright. Our next business item is Delta Innovative Services Incorporated. The administration recommends approval of the agreement with Delta Innovative Services for roof recovery at Gladstone Elementary School. The not to exceed contract amount of $1,469,000 will be funded from the Operating Capital Projects Fund. Engagement information includes bids for this project were issued on 12/20/2024 and closed on 01/17/2025. Overall, there were four bidders of which one contract was awarded to Delta Innovative Services.
There's a MBEWBE participation rate at 18.3%. Thank you, Doctor. Collier. Is there a motion to approve the roof project at Gladstone Elementary with Delta Innovative Services in the amount of $1,469,000 So move. Second. Motion has been made and seconded to approve the roof, project at Gladstone Elementary with Delta Innovative Services in the amount of $1,469,000 Is there any discussion, or question on this motion? Lisa, please call the roll.
Kearls? Yes. Foley? Yes. Ford? Yes. Jackaway? Yes. Kendricks? Yes. McGee? Yes. Cortez? Yes. The motion is adopted. Doctor. Collier? Our next business item is Belfonte Ice Cream Company. The administration recommends approval of the renewal of the agreement with Belfonte Ice Cream Company for the supply and delivery of milk, dairy, and juice products to the district's child nutrition program. As a part of the renewal process for this contract, the child nutrition director completed a vendor evaluation and determined that Bellefonte Ice Cream Company met the district's performance expectations during the twenty four-twenty five school year.
The amended amount for fiscal year twenty five-twenty six is not to exceed $1,500,000 and will be funded from the Child Nutrition Services budget. Thank you, Doctor. Collier. Is there a motion to authorize the renewal of the contract Belfonte Ice Cream and Dairy Foods Company for the supply and delivery of milk, dairy, and juice products in amount not to exceed $1,500,000 So moved. Second. It has been moved and seconded to authorize the renewal of the contract with Bellefonte Ice Cream and Dairy Products Dairy Foods Company for the supply and delivery of milk,
dairy, and juice products. Is there any discussion or question on this motion? I'm actually gonna, you know, just I wanna acknowledge I appreciate the detail in the write up about the evaluation. I knew I knew I knew Jordan was gonna I just wanna I mean, very much appreciate that. Thank you, Jordan. Any other questions or comments? Lisa, please call the roll. Kurls? Yes. Foley? Yes. Ford? Yes. Jackaway? Yes. Hendricks? Yes. McGee? Yes. Cortez? Yes. The motion is adopted. Doctor. Collier? Okay, the next business item is EverDriven Technologies LLC.
The administration recommends approval of the first amendment to the agreement with EverDriven Technologies to provide alternative transportation services for KCPS' special education students. And not to exceed contract amount of $1,500,000 will be funded from the operating fund. Is there a motion to approve the First Amendment and renewal of service agreement for transportation services with EverDriven Technologies? Renewal is effective upon approval through 06/30/2026 with a not to exceed amount of $1,500,000 So moved.
Motion has been made and seconded, To approve the First Amendment and Renewal of Service Agreement for Transportation Services with EverDriven Technologies. Is there any discussion on the motion? Lisa, please call the roll. Kearls. Yes. Foley. Yes. Ford. Yes. Jackaway. Yes. Kendricks. Yes. McGee. Yes. Cortez. Yes, the motion is adopted. Doctor. Collier. Okay. Our next business item, a lot of letters but basically ZTrip. The administration recommends approval of the renewal of the agreement with ZTrip to provide alternative mode student transportation services for KCPS' students in transition and special education students.
As part of the renewal process for this contract, the transportation director completed a vendor evaluation and determined that ZTrip met the district's performance expectations during the twenty four-twenty five school year. The not to exceed contract amount of $2,000,000 will be funded from the operating fund. Thank you, Doctor. Collier. Is there a motion to approve the third amendment to the contract transportation services with WHC KCT, LLC, DBA, and hereafter known as ZTrip? The renewal is effective upon approval through 07/31/2026 with a not to exceed amount of
$2,000,000 So moved. Seconded. Motion has been made and seconded to approve the third amendment for the contract for transportation services with ZTrip. Is there any discussion on or question on this motion? So on my copy, it says second amendment. So is it actually the third? Yeah. I believe that it is second amendment. Thank you for that correction. I think Jordan's looking it up. Second Amendment? Okay. I stand corrected. So the motion is to approve the Second Amendment for the contract with Z Trip. Thank you for that clarification. Any other
Pardon? I was gonna move again, but I've already moved. Okay. Lisa, please call the roll. Kearls? Yes. Foley? Yes. Ford? Yes. Jackaway? Yes. Kendricks? Yes. McGee? Yes. Cortez? Yes. The motion is adopted, Doctor. Collier. Okay. Our final business item for the evening is Martin Brothers Distribution Company. The administration recommends approval of the renewal of the agreement with Martin Brothers Distribution for the supply and delivery of prime food and optional commodity storage to the district's Child Nutrition Program.
As part of this renewal process for this contract, the child nutrition director completed a vendor evaluation and determined that Martin Brothers met the district's performance expectations through the 2425 school year. The contract amount for fiscal 2526 is not to exceed $6,500,000 and will be funded from the Child Nutrition Service budget. Thank you, doctor Collier. Is there a motion to authorize the renewal of the contract with Martin Brothers Distribution Company for the supply and delivery of prime food and optional commodity storage for for
a not to exceed amount of $6,500,000 So move. Second. Motion has been made and seconded to authorize the renewal of the contract with Martin Brothers Distribution Company for the supply and delivery of prime food and optional commodity storage. Is there any discussion on the motion? Lisa, please call the roll. Kearls? Yes. Foley? Yes. Ford? Yes. Jackaway? Yes. Hendricks? Yes. McGee? Yes. Cortez? Yes. The motion is adopted. The next item on the agenda is the consent items. Is there a motion to approve consent items F1 through F32?
So moved. Seconded. It's been moved and seconded to approve items F1 through F32 on the consent agenda. Lisa, please call the roll. Kearls. Yes. Foley? Yes. Ford? Yes. Jackaway? Yes. Kendricks? Yes. McGee? Yes. And Cortez? Yes. The consent agenda is approved. I just wanna check, Lisa. I don't have anything on new action items. Do you? Okay. With that, we come to the conclusion of our agenda for this evening. So if there is no objection, the meeting will be adjourned. Please drive safely with the thunderstorms going on outside.
And yep. Yep. And our next meeting will be, Wednesday, August 13. Thank you.