e welcome to the January 27th 2025 Morehead Area Public Schools Schoolboard meeting it is 6 pm I'll be calling this meeting to order starting on my left please Valen present Bergen present
markart present step is present Berard present Borland present vote present thank you Item B will stand for the pledge Allegiance pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one
nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all item C preview of agenda Dr lunic uh there are no uh Corrections recommend approval as presented thank you item D we have approval of agenda Cassidy I
move to approve the meeting Keith I second I have a motion by Cassidy second by Keith move to approve the meeting the agenda as presented any further discussion from the board seeing there is none all those in
favor signify by saying I I I those oppose same sign and the motion carries item e public form I don't believe we have any requests to be part of the public forum tonight Deb that is correct thank you item two the consent agenda all items on
the consent agenda are considered to be routine and and have been made available to the school board at least two days prior to the meeting the items will be enacted by one resolution there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a school board member so requests in which event that item will be removed
from the agenda and considered under separate resolution to the extent possible Schoolboard member inquiries on consent agenda items are to be made directly to the District administration prior to the time of the meeting under item a superintendent we
have number one January 10th 2025 special school board meeting minutes in January 10th 2025 closed session meeting session minutes and January 13 2025 school board minutes item C under human
resources and operations we have number one January claims number two family medical leave number three change in contract number four resignations number five retirement and number six new employees Keith move to approve the
consent agenda as presented thank you I have a second Laur Lee I second I have a motion by Keith second by Laura Lee move to approve the move to approve the consent agenda as presented any further discussion from the board seeing there
is none all those in favor signify by saying I I oppos same sign and the motion carries item three the new business we have under a Morehead High School curriculum guide update Dr
arson so we are in the process of beginning registration for next school year um we took the some of the programs the study work that we've been doing and we wanted to uh addend or add it to our curriculum guide so we have Josh heg and Tom drberg here tonight to just kind of
go over how we've taken those programs of stud um and put them into our curriculum guide so students can kind of have a better understanding of where they would register for the next four years of high school so Tom and Josh thank you Tom and Josh for coming
today would you prefer questions during or after everything is all done done yep you should have the green L yep I can give an overview and then you can if you have questions feel free to ask anytime okay thank
you um so yeah we're let's see left or right yeah left or right is it too far away all right um so the uh uh the guide book was updated here um you know it was a Google DOC for
the past however many years um and what we decided to do is is kind of give it a little bit of a fresh look um update some things and make sure that all of the classes that we're providing um are fitting within kind of that that that
frame that we are are trying to work towards those programs of study um so a lot of the stuff is is similar it's not like we went through and and added a whole bunch of new courses um we just simply went through and got ourselves to a point where um it was probably a
little bit better organized and makes a little bit more sense as as students will go through this so if you go to page I want to say six maybe um obviously there's the information to start um each one of those guide books hopefully that'll be coming soon so the graduation requirements so this was one
thing that um has kind of Taken uh a little bit of time just to make sure that we have all the information updated and accurate and actually this one has been updated since this so we'll continue to add and and make improvements um as we go but it's very similar to this the hope is is that students now will be able to go through
um understand what their core expectations are and then really try to dive into what it is those programs of study provide um whether it's a a certificate at the end of their completion of it or whether it just gets them on a better track for uh college or
career Readiness um so if you move forward uh a few slides there um everything is broken down by Department with a hyperlink to the actual course description throughout the the Departments um each department you can either see a foundation intermediate or
Advanced course um foundational is typically um it's either going to open up the doors for the intermediate and advanced courses or it is a freshman level course um so you'll see also a freshman sophomore junior senior on the core um classes so in our math science
you can see the freshman sophomore junior senior but then it also has the foundational intermediate and advance so if a student is interested in taking additional classes for their electives um they have the ability to do that with their Advanced courses and then this will be the introduction to the programs of study
for parents and students and anybody else um we have I think 19 programs of study within our course guide book here uh this first year we took a couple of them out because um some of the classes maybe weren't quite um what we wanted them to be and didn't
feel like it was worth having them in there if they weren't completed yet um so we pulled a couple of those out right before we went to put it into print um if you scroll down a couple you'll see the farm to table and I know I think we went through this last year so it hasn't change much since you've seen this last year but the hope is now is that
students will be able to use um these guides as a as a way to kind of get themselves through their first second third and fourth year of college or High School sorry not College um and then provide them an opportunity to like I said get a a certificate if that's um at
the end of their of their senior year so the course guide um included the programs of study it has the different courses that are in each department and then it has a list of alphabetical courses A through Z at the end again our
our goal is that every student after their 10th grade year would choose a program a study so one of the ones we added at the end of last year was in advanced studies if if a student doesn't know what they want to do but they're taking a lot of AP courses we know they're on that fouryear track for a
university uh we'd still like them to be a part of the programs of study so we added a advanced studies under the liberal arts so again we we're trying to get it that every student will have some program of study they can shoot for so that's an example of one we added uh to ensure that we tried to hit every kid we
could again a big part with what we talked with and we did this with eth grade too is based on the programs the study and the courses um just because one course you may take is a foundation doesn't mean you take Foundation everything right my daughter loves literature she's
probably going to go into a lot of English classes that doesn't mean she's going to take advanced math classes right so we want to make sure kids kind of understand that before it was like you're always in this advance track or not track we're really trying to get in more on work they want to do and see how those advanced classes may play in that
track and if not that's okay um because then we have the other opportunities and then again we only listed the graduation credits to graduate as 26 because again this year's class is the last one at 24 so after this year we're back to 26 for everybody so we didn't have that in this guide
book because this is for kids registering for next year any questions from the board is there more of an overview or I don't think so no not really so once they complete get a certificate what's that help them do is that is it
for college preparedness or like is it show it to the college and they Advance a degree or get extra credits or something or what is that is that do or just it won't necessarily give them extra credits or anything like that it's it's more for a track for us really to say you kind of you know but it what it does do hopefully is it kind of gets
them an idea of where they want to go next okay um so it kind of maybe focuses them for what they're looking at for their next step so yeah so with all the programs of study we wanted to have a certification a conc an enrollment course you know something that the kids
could end at that's kind of that idea of you met your program of study uh so our idea of diploma plus is really what besides that high school graduation can they get to get them ready for career two-year school foure school so that's kind of every program of study we try to
have certification or something at the end so like just to understand a Tish better if somebody was taking the track that was geared more towards um medical or like CNA would that is that CNA
available at the end of that um track yeah that's the goal is to get where you'd have that Capstone like that and we we have CNA available already um so they can get into that but yeah that's to be honest a lot of this is still a work in progress in terms of building out these Pathways and what
health science that one for example is definitely one that we're just still really scratching the surface on we've got an EMR class right now and we've got CNA but there's more that could be built out there and that could help get them on a different path again that might focus them whether it's at a
two-year school down the road or if a fouryear whatever it may be thanks yep L does every student have to choose one of these technically no they can still they're still going to work through and
get their diploma so they don't have to have a program of study in order to to move on from Morehead but again our goal is is how how can we help them Focus up for what they want to do next and for some of them maybe that's all it is maybe uh maybe that that diploma without the the program of study itself maybe
that's just fine too depending on what they want to go into next so it's not going to hold them back from graduating but if if we can provide some Focus that's our goal okay I just see I've got a biologist and I just don't see a a biology track in here like or um really
a science sence track besides involved in engineering yeah yeah then like I said we've only well we I shouldn't say only we have 19 I think is what you said Tom right so that there's we know there's a lot more tracks than that and so yeah it's not going to it's not meant
to it's not going to hurt them if they're not in one of those tracks but if we can keep building something like that and if we can continue to build out our programs of study that's what we want to do Kei one of the things this goes back to portrait of a graduate probably 10 years
ago or whatever but um I remember talking about the tracks with Alexandria and how they implemented it and um it's been very exciting to see it come together and one of the things I remembered was of course you want to find something that the student is interested in but a secondary thing is
is you might find something that they thought they were interested in that they're not interested in and so even picking something that that is appealing to you right now your interest your needs your your desires you something that the class might not click or whatever but um you might find something
that you thought would be a career path that isn't and I think that's just as valuable as finding something that you know that is because then you maybe rule something out you have time to Pivot because you got a little bit more time to try something else yeah that that's a big part of our goal is is to not for
them not to go spend a whole ton of money at College to find that out if we can help head some of that off on the front end we'd like to be able to do that yeah so every program of study that's why we really looked at those related electives because then those courses are all tied to a different
program of study that if the kid got in there a couple classes he didn't like it we moved it over the other thing is we never wanted a program study to be more than three or four classes so if you changed Midway through your junior year you probably still have time to finish that other program of study so we we we
really tried to keep it towards that and give those kids that broad range of opportunities Mr Egg reading your letter is just wonderful and I I can sense the excitement you only get one chance at high school and the best chance to grab many opportunities as possible it would be great if we could have someone that
had production skills to to put some kind of a a something together that would that would generate the excitement that that all of these Pages generate but to to put it in in pictures and and song and
and it would just be wonderful to see if someone would be working on a PhD or or someone one of our students that maybe is in production just something to think about along the way because it it's this is really fun stuff you know really is well and the difficult part honestly
with this is there's a lot of really good information yes in here indeed a tremendous amount the hard part is is getting people actually read it right and dig into it because it's like there's a lot of effort that goes into this on by a lot of different people and there's there's a lot of really good stuff here but I don't know that we
always get our people to really read this stuff and really dig into it some do obviously but if yeah if there was a way to to get this reach out a little bit better because there's there's so much information here so and I I again I appreciate the work in progress progress
It's it's good to see I'm proud of proud of what you're doing what we're doing Cass so I'm super excited about this it's really fun to see all these as well but um what I really love is the careers in demand and so then I have kind of a
follow-up question with that um will there be somebody kind of monitoring that to kind of see if that's those careers are still in demand or will these kind of be a stagnant piece of paper like are they gonna keep changing and yeah I think we that that's been our goal from day one is to try and stay Nimble on this and and try and keep
because you know we that was when I talked about this years ago already we were talking about working with our community and talking to them to find out what do we need knowing that that could change over time you know we we said it before we're we're trying to create kids to be ready for jobs that don't yet exist
and as we learn what those are we have to be able to adjust to that so I think we have to stay on top of this too and keep working that way um because we keep being told that's what's going to happen is that there's jobs out there that don't exist yet that are how do we prepare them for that so I think that's it's going to be an ongoing thing this
is a this gets edited like um it's every year it gets edited and looked at checked over and whatnot so yeah how do the apprenticeships Partnerships works or you had any that are working well or that you're kind of
running that yep so we have Ally Johnson is our work-based learning coordinator and she um has I think 14 currently set up right now um So within our work-based learning Department um so the you know we have we have some that are working really well we have some that are we're
trying to get off the ground and everywhere in between um but I think that you know what what we've asked her to do is to start tracking those um so we can start to get get a baseline understanding of where we were you know in 5 years we can look back and say well
we were at 14 spring semester of 25 now we're at 150 spring semester of 30 right that would be the goal is to continually build that up so um between myself and her we were working hard to continually set up Partnerships that um are interested in um participating with our
students we have a student right now that's driving to Holly um to work in one of them and um another student that's working with our youth skills training grant that we got last year um so through both of those things we're we're making some progress that's that's really nice do you remember Tom how many
are in CNA now um the class or the that yeah I should have looked we had well we had seven that did the fall um work experience with Sanford so they had a political internship um with Sanford they were able to complete their CNA last spring and then um Sanford actually
hired them on um which was new we're I think we're the only ones in the state of well I shouldn't say that we're the only ones that are working with Sanford that have the clinical internships right now but I think there was 96 that took the class last year I don't know what it
was this year I was gon to say like c i I think of CNA when when we were doing this a few not that long ago CNA was a one course with maybe five or six kids in it that was off campus now we essentially have a full-time teacher teaching six blocks of it um and so
you're talk I mean we we've grown programs like that immensely compared to where they were even just five six seven years ago very nice anything else from the board I just want to thank and this is from the board I want to thank everyone
that's been involved in this and doing such a great job getting this off and running and going making the Partnerships that we need so thank you so much for doing all the hard work you do okay moving on Item B map staff and
and family prioritization survey results Brenda all right tonight I'm uh excited to share with you the results of the prioritization um survey that um we started in in December and really the goal of the the survey was to understand the the views and values and priorities
of our staff and families um and this is really an important first step in um the reductions process so the the survey details um we invited map's staff and families um sent
out a email on December 12th and then it was also in um our community newsletter and our staff newsletter and um had another reminder that sent out um overall we received 1,185 responses
which was an outstanding um um response rate so some of the demographics um we had um 85% basically that live within our district boundaries and um 15% that do
not um 73% that are parents or have children in the district and 27% that do not and then um 65% basically that were parent and guardian and 33% that were staff and the
little little green sliver um was a handful of students and a handful of community members that we didn't share the the the um survey with with um student or the larger um Community because there is no way to to narrow it
to just more head residents um so not sure how how those few respondents um got the survey but there's there's a few random um things that not really statistically valid so values and priorities um we ask them
to rank the following areas in order of importance to them with number one being the highest priority and six the lowest um so you can see academic programs um came out on top with um student Support Services next arts and music programs
current technical classes Athletics and activities and professional development for staff the next question is which areas of the school district's work do you value most and for this question they could select
all that applied there was no um limit to the number that they could choose um so you'll see the order and number of responses um there for the participants and then the last question was around
funding priorities specifically so in your opinion which of the following should the district prioritize for funding purposes um select all that apply and academic programs and classroom instruction came out on top with
92.8% student support services at almost 67% art and music programs Career and Technical education programs bus routes or trans transportation services facilities and infrastructure technology and digital tools Investments and then
athletic programs and extracurricular activities any questions from the board Keith so how will this data help is it is it just kind of to focus on the top two areas or three areas or um how are you going to use the data to help make some of the decisions yeah well I I
think that will be a communal thing right like um as we talk about reductions and and what that looks like we need to understand what the the um what our our audiences value and so you know I feel like this is just a
foundational um piece as we look at um where where to most effectively use our dollars thank you anything else no
Laur uh it looks here like high quality classroom instruction ranks uh first on values and priorities and academic programs in classroom instruction uh rank first on funding priorities with student Support Services
um being second um so I think we need to keep that in mind when we are making these DEC decisions on Cuts whereas athletic programs is the very lowest ranking on
here at uh 26.6% as opposed to 92.8% supporting the academic programs in classroom instruction so I just want to make sure that we are honoring um the input that
we are getting as we are making these decisions going forward thank you thank you anything else from the board thank you Brenda for this information uh moving on item C resolution directing Administration to
make recommendations for reduction in programs in position Kristen thank you um please consider the attached resolution directing Administration to make make recommendation recommendations to the school board for discontinuance and reduction of educational programs and Physicians um this is an annual
process we bringing this to you first as you know we've been having these discussions already um our staffing plan um doesn't change in process um we'll still bring we'll still look to bring that in March as we start um as we start having discussions and and making those
decisions throughout the spring um and as we get to generally February we'll send out some more information on um more details on that process but um right now we're just um bringing this to you to C ify that we have the decision Mak to bring
these to start making decisions and bring these back to you thank you mat move to direct Administration to recommend reductions in programs and positions as needed to reduce expenditures as a result of changing
enrollment and financial limitations thank you Matt Cassidy I'll second I have a motion by Matt second and by Cassidy move to direct Administration to recommend reduction ction in programs and positions to reduce expenditures as a
result of changing enrollment and financial limitations any question on this seeing none all those in favor signify by saying I I those are oppos same sign and the motion
carries item D teacher Master agreement early retirement incentive Dr damer um along the lines of the discussion of making those decisions um as we've talked about um potential reductions and as we attempt to make reductions through attrition which we do um as an annual
process as we review our our positions one of the things we bring forward tonight um is some teamwork with uh District administration and education Morehead um to look at creative ideas on solving budgetary issues and one of those things was to bring forward a teacher retirement incentive um to help
not only with decisions about um Staffing through potential reduction of Ft through attrition um as well as to provide additional support to those um intending to retire so uh beneficial um
beneficial on both fronts so um what we present to you tonight is uh we looked at three levels of Eligibility level of one would be age 55 or more in 10 years of service as of May 31st 2025 um if you are eligible under level one um that's a
$25,000 one-time payment into a special pay plan and special pay plan is um a 403b special pay plan so um for those individuals with a 403b we have multiple options available this this this is through um n supports us with Mid
America to use this process and it's really a holding it's kind of a holding pattern for for that money and then the individual gets to decide what to do with that whether they transition it into their own 403b they can leave it there um and I'll talk a little bit more about the information we provided to
potential um retirees and do provide annually with some of that information level two is members who are eligible to retire under the existing benefit um in the teacher Master agreement we do still have individuals um who would be eligible for that retiree insurance benefit um and that
provides a monthly amount until the age of 65 so we do have some still eligible if you are eligible for that it's a $115,000 one-time payment and level three is age 60 or more in 5 years of service um as we know sometimes we have
uh people come to us to a second part of their career maybe from across the river or from another school district um but giving that or sometimes late in life to to a different career so level three is a $10,000 one-time payment into a special pay plan notice of intent to
retire must be given in writing by the human to the human resources department by March 1 and to qualify for the recent incentive they uh individual must retire no later than June 30th 2025 and must have been actively employed this school year for the entirety of the year um for
those individuals who may be under uh full-time employment the benefit will be pro-rated uh by a quarter percentage so um you know if you're a if you're halftime 50% then the benefit would be 50% of the identified benefit within the retirement incentive so um we did
provide an info session um in support and with education U Morehead and attendance and I asked last Thursday um we had about 10 people come and um we likely have more eligible I would say um you have people who always intended and
you have people who because of this opportunity may choose to go earlier but all individuals with retirement on their mind so um so that is the retirement incentive and I would be open for questions cassid can you clarify um did
I hear you say years of service is only in Morehead or years of service total like if they were someplace else only in Morhead and the retire the current benefit requires that you have 10 years of service and were um employed prior to I believe 2010 so those individuals have
been with us uh for a long time M and only teachers this is only for teachers yes anything else from the board Dave in letter e where it says if they've
submitted retirement and then have retired prior to or in December so if they put in to retire at in end of the school year they still qualify for this at this point or they have to submit it after this date if you if we had an individual who um you know I have I have
about three individuals who started talking to me in August about their intent to retire because they want to dot their eyes and cross their te those individuals as long as they were here for the entirety of the year and told us by March 1st would still be eligible those individuals who didn't only worked partial year and I believe we have two
um or we had people who retired maybe late in the summer which has happened on occasion um would not be eligible have one more question and if what if they retired and came back in a year from now was that still okay or what what's the this sunsets um at the
end of the year so it is only for the 2425 school year but then if they came and applied and came back to teaching again after that is how what would happen there um that would be a new agreement so we'd have to consider that in a new agreement okay yeah so the
right right now the answer is no because the agreement ends so it's only for those retiring through this school year I guess my question could they come back and be hired again in the fall if they retire or in a year from now as as a teacher no because it's it ends uh June
30th so we'll have to make a decision so I think to your point if they were an existing contract and retired they already would have gotten a benefit for this in particular it would be for this year only it's Sunset so they couldn't come back next year and get this because we'd have to agree to new terminology
and if that happened um we would likely identify that individuals who chose to leave and come back likely wouldn't be eligible but that would be a discussion because this is only for this year my qu my question is if they they retire this year get the payment could they be hired
again as a teacher within a year full-time that is complicated question um yes and no yes and no yes we they could it depends on how they choose to move the money there are some stipulations um internally but generally if you are leaving it in the 403b it
it's tax issue right generally if you leave it in the 403b OR transition it into your 403b we would be happy to welcome you back as a substitute in August right thank you Keith you just touched on my second or the thing I was going towards and that's
I know um with a lot of the school tours I I hate to ask about having teachers that are retiring come back part-time but I know that's a huge part of uh you know the the bench and the depth and the appreciation that a lot of the principles that we've talked to have had
is that they have people that can come back and step in um so I'm sure that's already a discussion as they're retiring is you know hey please leave the door open on you know but I just wanted to throw that out there because I know I I've heard it myself and I know Matt and
and I think Dave was with for one of the other school tours and um that's a constant thing is is not having enough substitute teachers and having somebody that is early retired coming back in is always I think a a huge asset yes and generally we get a fair
amount of interest to come back and and substitute within the system yeah thank you anything else from the board this is an action item can I get a motion I move to approve the early retirement
in agreement for the 2425 school year Cassidy second I have a motion by Cass or Laura Lee seconded by Cassidy move to approve the early retirement incentive for the teacher Master agreement for the 2024 2025 school year any further
discussion from the board seeing none all those in favor signify by saying I I I those oppose same sign and the motion carries thank you item e resolution accepting donations Dr
damer thank you um as all these items are U monetary donation I will read uh the donor and ask that um you accept the following donations as identified as there's quite a few this round um Morehead downtown Shields Scott
Ellingson Morehead vikingland kaanas Sten theres Schaefer Amber Guston Danielle sex Jamie Lockwood JL Ellsworth Tracy lighthiser Daniel and Tina Sly Aaron and Dustin Schmidt Devin and Tory
guard Brett and Katie Berg Charles and shaa Sundy Luan week Jason and Nicole bit Troy and Angela begy Luke Anderson Chad and Heather Markus Amber and Joe Ferry and Nina
lman thank you Kristen Cassy um I make a motion to accept the names that Kristen damer read um that will be my motion thank you Keith I will second I have a motion by
Cassidy second by Keith move to approve the donations that and the names from the donations that Kristen read all those in favor signify or any further discussion I'm sorry there's a lot of awesome donations here I I just want to say thank you to
the the community for bringing these donations forward all those in favor signify by saying I I those oppose same sign and the motion carries item F approval of a school board work session on February 10th 2025
Dr lck thank you um you heard the uh survey that uh Brenda presented tonight and um the um comments that Laura Lee made so with those in mind um even prior
to the survey and uh the comments that were made tonight as a result of those surveys uh we felt here that it would be a good idea to get together as a board uh to work through uh that potential list and we'll start that February 10th
uh in a work session at 4:30 uh is that um okay with everybody would would everybody be able to make that night I know that we have some that have a I know that we have some members that have a conflict um and will not be
able to be there at either the work session or the the meeting but would the majority of us uh be able to be there before we set this date some will be able to make it some would would we be able to have corn okay
think so I should be okay I guess Matt was saying that he will not be here you'll be gone all February correct yeah not oh that's Melissa's birthday what a way to celebrate yeah
yeah no it's fine maybe I'll brn cupcakes you don't want me making cupcakes or do you maybe I'll pick up cupcakes you're okay Dave's okay so yep okay so it looks like we're okay so just uh what we'll
do uh that work session February 10th at uh beginning at 4:30 uh we'll probably have um if it's Melissa's birthday she said she'd have cupcakes for you we'll have something in between uh that and uh when we start the regular board meeting
at 6 o'clock that night so uh we'll have um something for you to munch on hopefully in between so um thank you for your support in that so we'll go ahead and schedule that can I Scott we need a motion go ahead D I'll move to approve the scard work session on February 10th
2025 at 4:30 pm at the map operations center boardroom 600 thank you Melissa a second thank you Melissa I have a motion by Dave second by Melissa move to approve the Schoolboard work session on February 10th 2025 at 4:30 p.m. at the
maps operations center boardroom 600 any further discussion from the board seeing none all those in favor signify by saying I I I those opposed same sign and that motion carries item G first reading of policies Dr L okay
thank you if we could uh have you pay turn to page 126 policy 104 please note the revisions there in section two general statement uh there we had some revisions and then we had an update to our cross
references thank you any questions from the board okay we can move on to 4 17 okay thank you page 128 policy 409 please note the grammar revisions in section one under the purpose
statement any questions okay move on to 417 page 130 for policy 417 chemical use and abuse please note the changes or the updates uh to the legal references any questions moving on to
420 thank you pick policy 420 on page 136 uh please note the revisions here in the title and the section two under in the general statement and then some legal and cross reference updates thank you any
questions 551 551 on page 142 uh the suggestion here recommendation was to remove uh from policy change it to a procedure to support policy 608 and then the updates to the cross
references see any questions we move on to 630 thank you policy 630 page 144 please note the updates to the cross reference thank you any questions 632 please thank you page
146 uh this uh we make the policy committee made a recommendation to remove it from policy uh change this to a procedure to support policy 608 any discussion on that no 702 please thank
you 702 page 148 accounting uh please note the updates to the legal and cross reference section I don't see any questions move on to 703 please okay page
150 703 annual audit there were some minor language revisions in section three um requirement in item C uh and item e and then the legal and cross reference updates
thank you I don't see any questions move on to 704 please thank you page 152 there were no changes to this policy I recommend as presented I don't see any questions move on to 706 please thank you page
154 public gifts to the school district uh please note the revision to the title to match model policy and then the update to the legal references no questions move on to 732
please 732 page 156 please note the update uh to the language in section two under the general statement and then the update to the cross reference
section I don't see any questions and that's it I believe is correct the first reading of uh policies so move on to item four superintendent updates there really no no updates other than to thank you for your support in uh
uh supporting that work session um uh we'll uh I look forward to the work that we'll do on the 10th uh in that work session uh similar to Laur Le's comments um we will do uh what ever we can to
guide our um decision making regarding that um and hopefully uh when we present that um you'll see that we'll do our best to match that so look forward to the work on on the 10th you Cassy um I'm wondering if you
can touch base on some of the stuff that's come out of the Slate of so far that's the same thing where we're at with that yeah um one thing I um I I I did plan on touching base on the 10th as
well is um there's a bill out there that I think is uh extremely beneficial and important for us uh house file six I believe and um in that house file six uh
there's a few sections but one of the one one of the sections I want to focus on in house file six is the flexibility component the one that we talked about prior to um um the session starting when we did
and and submitted that to the msba for um um their support and I think the language in that if that can see itself through the the session and and uh maintain its Integrity of the language
the way it's written now uh will be a GameChanger for us as a way to uh you know to build back that unassigned fund balance and and we'll have some uh I'll have some examples of what that would look like at
the February 10th work session um and you'll see the you'll see the importance of that when we when we get to it but that's the that's one of the big bills right now um the other the other uh things I'll say is that it just
kicked off you know the session just kicked off not too long ago so um there's some there's some challenges on the house side uh hopefully that gets uh hopefully that that Finds Its way to getting resolved uh the Senate
um uh chose a different path with their their tie they they chose to um continue to work in in uh in unison not that the other side isn't the house they're just they're working through their differences as we speak uh hopefully we
can get everybody in so the the work can start getting done and some of these bills can start Crossing and uh we'll kind of know where we're at but the good news uh is that house file six is is a big one and that's probably the one that
um I'll follow the most close or I'll follow the closest uh at least as of right now because that's the one that I think is gives us a real path to address uh what's what's happening uh financially and you'll you'll see that
too I think the next meeting uh cam will bring his budget revision uh back to you and and I'm I'm thinking at that point you'll you'll be able to see the value of of what uh house file six can do so good
question thank you Dr wck anything else from the board okay we move to item five Dave I'll move to approve the adjournment of the January 27th 2025 school board meeting at 6:47
p.m. thank you a second Keith I will second I have a motion by Dave second and by Keith move to approve adjournment of the January 27 2025 school board meeting at 7:47 p.m. any further discussion seeing none all those in
favor signify by saying I I I those AO same sign this meeting is adjourned