e e e e e e welcome to the March 24th 2025 Morhead Area Public Schools board meeting it is 6: PM and I'll call this meeting to
order starting on my left please Matt Valen present Bergen present does Dave have is he gonna call in good I Mark present step is present Bard present
yorkland presid vote present thank you item number B will stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I 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 preview of agenda Dr lck okay on page 49 under article 6 discipline under Section d uh the numbers in that section
are currently four five and six four should be one five should be two and six should be three and then uh we'll add a page 118 uh and that will be reflective of
the uh procedure 203-2 policy excuse me 203-2 okay thank you Dr lck Cassidy I move to approve the meeting agenda as revised Melissa I
second I have a motion by Cassidy second by Melissa move to approve the agenda as revised any further discussion on this seeing none this will be a roll call vote I'll start with Matt please
volen I Bergen I Mark w i stefas i burgard i Borland I vote I thank you that motion passes move on to item e we are proud this is the time that the during
the meeting the board gets to recognize outstanding achievements of students staff and community members after your the Honor's name has been read please come forward and accept your certificate and a photo will be taken there will be time set aside for mamarazzi and
Paparazzi also to take video photos if that's okay we are proud of Morehead high school athletes Billy Ward d humic true menen and Michael Jenkins who competed in the Minnesota boys class AAA State
wrestling tournament Billy Ward placed first in the Minnesota class triaa 215 pound bracket Dalton humanic placed fourth in the Minnesota class AAA 152 pound bracket Morehead High School boys and wrestling team is coach coached by
Greg fugleberg JJ Franken hanel Trent suby John Smith and Colin har let's do the coaches in [Applause] we are proud of the Morhead high school students who competed in the Minnesota
business Professionals of America BPA State leadership conference Benjamin cheldon placed fifth in fundamental desktop publishing and will compete in the National leadership conference in Orlando in May other students participating were David
aori Bernice PA Michaela warling dilia mint Kai Kuba Ade adal Audrey SE is Mahan Hassen and Victoria captor BPA is coached by Leah spots
[Applause] [Applause] [Music] congratulations we are proud of Tom drberg adviser and community outreach coordinator at the Morehead High School
Career Academy for being named the 2025 Minnesota Association for Career and Technical education teacher of the year this award recognizes Career Development professionals who have demonstrated commitment to connecting students with opportunities for Success show
innovation in career exploration and development and have advocated for Career and Technical education as a viable option for all [Applause] students I could have given you a chair I'm sorry moving on item F the public
form public form I don't believe there's anybody here for the public form Deb that is correct thank you item two consent agenda all items on the consent agenda are considered to be routine and have been made available to the school board at least two days prior to the
meeting the items on the on the agenda will be enacted by one resolution there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a school board member so request and which event that item will be removed from this agenda and considered under separate resolution to
the extent possible School Board member inquiries on consent agenda items are to be made directly to the district administr prior to the time of the meeting item a under superintendent we have number one approval of the February 24th 2025 Schoolboard meeting minutes
Item B under business administrative Services we have number one March claims number two Family Medical leave number three leave of absence number four sabatical leave request number five change of contract number six
termination number seven resignations number eight retirements number nine new employees and number 10 resolution to terminate participation in the Minnesota service Cooperative Viva plan related trust and participation in
wex health Inc Master service agreement do I have a motion Keith move to approve the consent agenda as presented thank you Cassidy I'll second I have a motion by Keith and seconded by Cassidy move to
approve the consent agenda as presented any further discussion on this seeing and hearing none I have another roll call vote I'll start with Matt again please volen
I Bergen I mark i stefas i burgard i Borland I vote I and that motion carries we'll move on to item number three item a energy rebate check presentation Steve
[Applause] Moore good evening um we're I'm pleased to have Morhead Public Service here uh to present a check to us for some Energy savings initiatives uh through the energy the bright Energy Solutions
program uh for our new high school so um this is a significant check that goes of course into our general fund and helps us will help fund our utility bill for this year but before I have uh Travis Schmidt the general manager of Morehead Public Service come up I would just like
to talk about a couple of initiatives that we have going on uh that will'll see some more energy savings uh we have two HVAC controls projects one at Dodge and one at Horizon West that I'm working with train on to on some HVAC controls
and right now that's um very that's a less than oneye payback and we're estimating uh about 25 to $26,000 savings annually in both those projects so that's you know almost 50 it's $50,000 and then uh I'll be proposing a
project in the next in the FY 26 Capital LT f m program to retrofit all the lighting in Horizon East that has about a six-year payback um and replaces retrofits 2318 fixtures and that will result in approximately
38,000 annual utility savings and another 18 or so in um o in operations and maintenance in terms of replacing Lighting in Old ballast of the fluoresence they're they're going away so um that's just the tip of the iceberg so we're going to be pluging away at
some energy projects over the next couple years focusing on some low hanging fruit which is typically lighting and HVAC controls um the lighting projects are expensive but with you know a five or six year payback uh where we can take our ltfm dollars fund
that project and then see immediate Savings in our operations budget and utilities then that translates into real savings so um more to follow a full report uh you know in a few months on some Energy savings initiatives but with
that I'd like to introduce Travis Schmidt general manager of Mo public service and he's going to say a few words about the program and and what we did thank you for coming tonight Travis sure uh excuse me uh general manager Travis Schmidt for more Public Service the water and electric utility in
Morehead um again just want to present a check to you tonight uh on behalf of Mor Public Service Missouri River Energy Services which really coordinates the bright Energy Solutions program for all the Energy Efficiency rebates um I've known Steve for a long time in his
past career um and we love to continue to work with him here at Mor Morhead Area Public Schools as well um we've done a lot over the last few years we've collaborated with the solar for schools programs and then all the Energy Efficiency Steve has always given us a call and asking hey can we do this can
we do that and we try to find a solution that helps provide some energy efficiencies to more are public schools so on behalf of that I want to present the check again this is just a partial check because we're not done with the construction at the at the high school
yet but it is for $ 45,46 and like Steve said that will go into your guys's general fund wow wow that's awesome very nice work that is great to see that we're getting some
from uh upgrades in our schools Item B eate 2025 Category 2 uninterrupted power supplies Dan okay a month ago I promised I'd be back uh tonight to go through the
category 2 portion of e rate um the last meeting you approved the category one which was the dark fiber connect which delivers internet to each school and now category two are the items that get the last mile so from the DeMark point in
within each School building down to the classroom level so our ups units are the first part we bid and the UPS units basically take our electricity that's coming into the buildings and it
balances it and grooms it so it's even going into quote our expensive switch equipment um and at the same time if in the event of a power outage it buys us the two minutes we need for our generators to spin up and then there's
an automatic switch over to use generation power so uh we buy the lowest Enterprise level UPS's because we only need two minutes of backup power but still need that level of balanced power
so our units are ated for about 20 minutes of power um in the event that a generator would not um function uh there were six vendors that submitted bids here's our scoring
Matrix there we go might be a little too small to see so the vendor in green is the vendor we're asking you to Pro approve tonight um the first five vendors left to right all submitted exact match models of UPS
the vendor on the far right the highest price submission was a u different manufacturer so pretty straightforward lowest bid meeting specifications and uh the units will be used to complete phases
1B two and potentially um there is interactions related to phase three which is the athletic fields so okay any questions from the board in regards to e rate Cassidy have we used
um Software House International before yep Software House International is uh if you look at the scoring Matrix uh what is it uh prior experience is the third row so we bought
uh a fair amount of they they typically get our software that you can't buy direct from a manufacturer so for instance our Microsoft Office licensing our Adobe Creative Suite licensing goes through Software House International uh I do believe this is
probably the first Hardware we have purchased from them okay anything else from the board Keith prepar to make a motion thank you move to approve the e-rate category 2 contract with Shi Somerset New Jersey for the quantity of four cyber power
uninterruptible power supplies in the amount of 7,2 or $ 7,820 thank you Keith or Cassidy I'm sorry I will second I have a motion by Keith seconded by Cassidy move to approve the e- rate
Category 2 contract with s Somerset New Jersey for quantity of four cyber power un un uninterrupted power supplies in the amount of $782 any further discussion on
this seeing and hearing none roll call vote starting with Matt please Fallen I Bergen i markart i stefas i burgard i Borland I vote I that motion carries
thank you item c e rate Category 2 Network Poe switches Dan okay the second uh items we bid were the actual units that slide into our racks and connect the cables that go to each classroom or
to the wireless access points throughout the building to deliver the signal to the classroom that our phones run on and our internet runs on those types of things the scoring Matrix is here uh this scoring Matrix is a little bit
unique in that you can see we had seven vendors but vendors had the option to perch two different licensing bundles if you did exact match and the difference in the licensing bundles allow us the freedom to maybe use the switches
differently so in a nutshell the hardware when we unpack it out of a box they're identical so we're purchasing 10 of one brand eight of another brand but in theory they're identical it's the license in that gives you the feature set down to the port
level or the classroom level so Advantage is more expensive than DNA Essentials but you always bid Advantage because sometimes vendors are hungry just to get their foot in the door so we are recommending tonight that the DNA Essentials package be part of our
purchase and so in the again in the green if you look uh that explains why Marco bid two different prices we're asking you to approve the lower priced uh 128,000 uh number uh down in the lower
right corner you'll see aircore aircore did not bid exact match equipment they are certainly cheaper but our entire network is Cisco based you cannot mix and match switches unless you are going
to change out one entire building and so the fact we're only buying 18 switches every one of our buildings with the exception of maybe our Vista Center for Education could we look at a different manufacturer but since these are again bid to finish out the high school we
have to go with a Cisco branded switch okay lle is there uh any advantage to going with Software House International because we went with them for the last
[Music] thing uh they so the eate spin the form 470 has a long ugly skew number and when people bid they could bid just switches just
UPS units or they were asked was there a discount if they bid both all vendors bid both but none of the vendors had a discount for taking you package so it was asked for but no vendors chose to
bid both with a discounted amount if they were awarded both so there's no disadvantage to going with Marco we would get the same thing from Marco that we would where International the unit the units from any of these vendors except for aircore
are all identical units coming from Cisco Matt I would just like to say how appreciative I am and I know we are of your expertise stand these areas you are a gift to us well thank you but I could say that
our network manager is the one who puts together the equipment skews I sign some paperwork and give it to someone else to even type in the purchase order in the bid so and that's what makes a manager a good manager hiring good people that's yeah
half of the job more than half of the job Keith I know in the past we've only seen like a vendor well two sometimes three vendors and there was I was pleased to see the amount of vendors is that more typical do you think going forward to have that many options or is
this a unique bid um I would say this is a unique bid from a standpoint of Cisco does not limit geographically their vendors that can bid and likewise you'll see there's some Nationwide
vendors here they let Nationwide companies come in and try and coach as well locally so that's why you'll see additional um bids on our wireless side that is a geo geographic based product
so we can get a vendor to bid out of the Cities we can get another Midwest vendor that bids based through the state contract because they actually have the state of Minnesota contract and then we'll also from time to time get on North Dakota side of the river vendor will bid since we're a border City so
they somehow convince somebody that they're allowed to bid gotcha no I was just curious because I I saw more bids than traditionally we see so I appreciate it's based on this product okay thank you thank you this is an action item can I get a
motion Melissa I'll make a motion move to approve the e- rate Category 2 contract with Marco of Fargo North Dakota for Cisco 48 Port upoe plus switches including DNA essential licensing and select Cisco switch
accessories in the amount of $18,200 or dollars any further discussion on this hearing and seeing none I'll start with Keith this time vote I Borland I Berard i stepas i markart i Bergen I
Valen I thank you that motion carries we will move on to item D resolution discontinuing and reducing educational programs in position Dr damer thank you tonight we ask you to consider the following resolution to discontinue and reduce educational
programs and positions due to changing enrollment and financial limitations we're looking at 0.5 FTE and that is a Chinese teacher from at grades 9 through 12 thank you Laura Lee how many students have
been in these classes over the last couple of years um this school year um she was r time cuz we only had about 40 kids uh of those 40 we looked only like 15 refresh men so um there just wasn't the program
she retired and so this was kind of the opportunity to make that switch thank you any other questions from the board okay this is an action item can I get a motion Keith move to approve the
resolution directing the administration to termination Andor reduction and non-renewal of educational programs and positions as listed thank you Melissa I second I have a motion by Keith second by Melissa move to approve the resolution directing the administration
to effect termination or reduction and non-renewal of educational programs and positions as listed any further discussion from the board Laura Lee does this in any way affect her retirement retiring from the
district um can you clarify like would this have any impact on her uh like retirement plan or uh she retired yeah so the teacher in this position uh was approved for retirement in the previous uh board
so should not affect I can't speak to the outside piece of her retirement but she is able to retire with us as a school district perfect thank you thank you anything else seeing and hearing no other questions we'll start with Keith again vote i
porland i burghard i stefas i Mark I Bergen I Valen I thank you that motion passes item e 2025 26 preliminary Staffing plan
Dr um thank you um tonight we go over the uh 26 preliminary Staffing plan um Dan will bring up the presentation I'll do a little bit of background and then um review the chart that has been included in the memo um so when we look
at the Staffing plan our staffing process looks like um we review budgetary processes with District leaders and make decisions requiring regarding current additional staffing needs generally we start that around December um I would say this year we started that process you know we've been
in continu continual uh review of that process throughout the year um but that can include staff meetings uh with [Music] buildings number eight didn't want to work so we've moved
to okay okay so I don't know what it's picking um so generally between December and March we look at staff meetings with buildings and departments um January we look for um we come to you asking to
look at programs and positions and review them for potential reduction with of course us bringing that to you um at that in this last meeting March which we just did in the previous agenda item so as we look at March and April we bring you additions or reductions uh
which is the discussion item we're talking about right now the Staffing plan for approval um any discontinuation which we just reviewed and then we look at the hiring process now generally um after this uh Staffing plan goes to the board we look at any approved positions
for hire and those generally are posted tomorrow um in some cases we are um in a holding pattern as we continue to look at some of our positions within the Staffing plan um but any postings um you know potentially will happen in the next
couple of weeks um the the other part of that process of course is any any individuals who leave us within the next um over over the next period of time before the school next school year starts and every time someone leaves regardless of position that gives us an
opportunity to look at um is that is that a position we need to fill or is a position we can look at for efficiency which is why we bring you this as a preliminary Staffing plan and why between school years sometimes when you see the grid within the the presentation that those numbers can shift um the
other thing that you might see sometimes times is that we may have a position in one place and it may shift to another for example you may have a position in a supervisor position you decide that that supervisor position isn't needed and it shifts to not a line or it shifts to a teacher or it shifts to another another
section so um while that's a guideline it can be fluid depending on the decisions made until we start the next school year so um specifically uh as we start this process we look at enrollment so what do our enrollment projections look like for next year what does that look
as a snapshot as we plan for um some of our elementary positions for example what does that look like at the high school level where you're looking at sections and what students have signed up for um we look at the budget increases in Staffing are based on needs and can consider enrollment or funding same with reductions and also
legislative funding and changes are considered when we make those decisions um generally we have grade level and department meetings uh to review the student numbers by grade level as well as 7 through 12 coursework and then uh the Staffing plan bringing that here in consideration with like I just said
internal movements so you may see movement within those sections but generally you should see the same number at the bottom um but that's that's some of the decision- making we make as we go through this process some of our considerations of course we look at fund balance and budget we look at Grants funding often
has to be shifted to meet needs and can require staff layoff especially if they're Grant funded positions um whether you obtain a grant or a grant ends uh continue work throughout the process so continuing to re review programs and positions um and then our
next steps what do we look at we look at program evaluation we look at um at the next uh school board meeting we'll look at probationary layoff and remember when we look at that we also look at people who are not licensed um some of our lure uh statutes require that they would be
laid off so we that that has something to do with the list that we bring uh next time around as well and then uh whether we have continuing cont contract in Ula if necessary so that's um unrequested leave of absence and we're not presenting that to you at this time
some of our unknowns enrollment although we can project it is always an unknown um legislative actions and what negotiations looks like so the Staffing plan we present to you um today um we're looking at
elementary K4 and we're looking at a a 2.0 reduction um but we did not show that in the Staffing plan so you see that that stays fluid partially so that we can be responsive if we have an increase in enrollment over the summer um but right now our numbers show that
we can have a two uh a 2.0 reduction K4 Middle School there's no additions or reductions at the high school a 2.5 FTE reduction is recommended and again this is based on scheduling and projected enrollment at that grade level um and we do request a 1.0 ft custodial to support
overtime reduction as well as our increase in square footage as that building has um grown significantly uh special education uh 1.0 FTE in speech language pathology and as previously discussed this is one of those items where we contract and Hiring
Our Own FTE is much less expensive than hiring a contract so that's that's why the addition of 1.0 F student support a 2.0 reduction is recommended and um 1.0 of this has been reduced um already through attrition um
and that is at the grades 912 level um and then there is a reduction at the elementary but that is being adjusted with FTE to support that building um through a shift in another position supervisory a a 0.25 FTE
reduction and just a a documentation that we did see a 2.0 reduction uh through attrition through the 24 25 school year in that section and then districtwide a 4.0 reduction um in recommendation for district level coaching um and I think it's important
to note that although you see reductions in front of you in the Staffing plan um generally uh these do not affect people who are employed it's generally happening through attrition um and so as we track these reductions we're tracking as uh people re retire
and resign um and making decisions as I alluded to earlier as well so I that's an important piece of this and then I know it's small it's there for your information so like I said um we've got each section and this
is not identified so the interesting part of course about school Finance is that all of these people may be identified in different pots of money and we have to then come back and say okay but these are my elementary K4 teachers and these are my middle school teachers and these are my alternative education teachers even though from a
funding perspective they me may be in a different pot so this is a little bit of an art and a little bit of a science which is what sometimes you see a shift and sometimes you see a shift because um as I said earlier you might have a position where um
where you have uh a position in um Elementary music and they move up to music 512 so you might see a shift um unless it's a an even transition and you you back the that position or you might see a shift between not align in supervisory or non-aligned and TCI or um
clerical and non-aligned uh non-aligned is our agreement that's kind of our catch-all group of of people you've got people across the board um of all different abandon grades and professional levels in that in that group for example
so um and that I'm open for questions there you go Keith good segue um so on that that page here the the column headers what are they supposed to be indicating I know it's licensed staff but there's four
different columns what what are we yeah that would be helpful wouldn't it um so the dark orange column would be our request for 2526 the orange column would be or the lighter orange column would be our
actual for 2425 and then the two columns previous are for um so the second white column would be proposed for the year so what we proposed going into this year um I think it should be 22 23 23 24 are
actual for 24 25 and then 25 26 but I can get clarification I apologize for cutting that off thank you any other questions from the board Le could you explain what you mean by
attrition because it's been used a lot yeah attrition means um when someone reti retires or resigns from their position so as we look at um so for example the two supervisory positions were two individuals who uh one was an individual who left the position and
then you don't you don't back fill the position because you identify whether the the position needs a full-time person or you can spread the duties amongst other groups um and another person then moved into another group because a supervisory position wasn't needed so attrition simply means someone
retires or resigns or U terminates employment effectively and then you decide uh we decide whether that position is needed or the duties are covered in another in another place does that come to the board if someone resigns and you decide not to fill that
position generally know that would be an administrative T to move FTS around so we present the number of FTS um at the Staffing plan as a preliminary plan as the number of FTS that we moving around essentially but you're not going to see so like total licensed teaching staff
that's generally going to stay the same um and in some cases contracts would require discussion within the contract so there's some contracts that if you add a position you would have to talk to the leadership of the contract or if you decide to reduce the position position you have to talk
to the contract to the leadership of the contract so we reduced uh one FTE in the 2024 2025 school year through attrition already so that means a student support specialist uh retired or moved on from the district and then the administration
decided not to fill that position correct Matt ready to make a motion yes I move to approve the resolution directing the administration to affect addition or reduction and non-renewal educational
programs and positions as listed Melissa I second I have a motion by Matt seconded by Melissa move to approve the resolution directing the administr effect addition or reduction in nonrenewal of educational programs programs and positions as
listed excuse me any further discussion on this from the board Keith U just want to clarify and confirm that um with these reductions the the class sizes I know that's something we hear a lot um aren't impacted with our projected what we know
for enrollment for next year correct okay yeah and especially at the elementary I want to um address that we left the two in there so we could be responsive um which is where we see some of those movements over the summer generally okay thank you anything else from the
board okay this is also a roll call vote and we'll start with Matt again volen I Bergen nay Mark cord i stefas i burgard i Borland I vote
I thank you this motion passes six to one and we have item F adoption of policy [Music] something in statute uh that requires each district to uh have something in
policy requiring us to monitor how we manage uh personal electronic communication devices um just a note on the policy here um this when we talk about personal electronic communication
devices this includes all devices such as wearables watches phones Etc and uh the the other thing I'll add to this is that there is some more discussion uh going on at the state level regarding uh
cell phones and personal electronic devices and buildings so as we continue to follow what goes on uh down in St Paul this policy that you're approving tonight uh with one reading May undergo
some revisions again uh based on what uh may or may not be decided uh down in St Paul so I would uh recommend uh that you adopt this policy as presented and um and then this would move uh into a
policy based on the one reading uh as mentioned in the memo and I would guess Dr lck that this is model policy for Amendment correct thank you Keith U just a minor revision on this one on page 47 High School I
believe should be number four yep thank you yep thank you I thought I caught them all but you proved me wrong okay any other questions from the board I have a question Scott okay Dave
under the high school letter C is there a plan to have any additional oh sorry letter B under high school any for extraor any additional guidelines or is that hasn't decided yet that hasn't been decided we'll work
through that as we get closer to the um uh as we get closer to the uh school year I think uh one of the things we'll do as we'll take a quick visit on that uh Dave because I know that we have some track and uh baseball and softball
activities as well so I I think our plan would be if this was approved tonight uh we would create some sort of um uh procedure to support your question regarding section B thank
you thank you anything else from the board okay this is an action item I get a motion from somebody Keith move to approve Maps policy I have a motion by Keith seconded by
Cassidy move to approve the maps policy I stepas I Mark g i Bergen I Valen I thank you this motion passes move on to item G approval of modifications to policy 413 harassment and violence
Dr okay thank you this policy starting on page uh 52 uh was reviewed through the policy Review Committee and uh based on um the changes that were made uh the recommendation is that it goes in after one reading but I'll just take you
through some of those changes if you could uh follow along on page 53 please note the revisions there uh you'll see a section D was added you'll see some modifications to language uh if we can go through 54 there were no changes uh 55
56 uh 57 58 59 uh there were no changes uh to that policy other than the changes that we referenced uh like I said it went through review uh with um with with some discussion but uh nothing uh that
would be um alarming or um um modified so I would uh recommend to you the board to approve policy 413 as presented thank you Dr wck this is an action item Keith move to approve the revisions to
policy 413 harassment and violence at a single school board meeting as per as allowed per Morehead Schoolboard policy 208 Schoolboard policy development adoptions implementation and review thank you Keith I second have a motion by Keith
second by Melissa move to approve the revisions to policy 413 harassment and violence at a single school board meeting as allowed per Morhead School Board policy 208 School Board policy development adoptions implementation and
review any further discussion on this seeing and hearing none I'll start with a roll call Vote with Keith please vote I Borland i burgard i stas i Mark Wy Bergen I Valen I thank you that
motion passes move on to item H first reading of policies Dr lunik okay starting on page 66 policy 2011 uh please note the updates to language in section two the general statement uh Item B and cross
reference to follow the msba model policy and that's policy 201 thank you any questions on policy 201 moving on to 203 page uh 70 policy 203 operation of
the school board there were no changes to this policy thank you any questions for 203 203- one please starting on page 72 Schoolboard procedures Rules of Order uh please note the update to language in
section two the general statement item a and the legal references to follow msba model policy thank you any questions from the board 2032 please if you don't mind we'll go to page 118 which would have
been in not necessarily in your packet but left I think in your or near your uh notebooks uh policy 2031 please note there are no changes to this
policy thank you any questions from the board d one or d d one I'm sorry Dash two good catch thank you okay move on to 76 school board meeting agenda 203-523-4748 please 422 page 80 uh please note the
revisions including updated language to follow msba model policy any questions on 422 444 please 444 page 84 uh please note that this is not a
model uh msba policy so the recommendation is to move this from a policy to a procedure to support policy 5:15 protection and privacy of Student Records any questions from the board 512 please okay page
86 uh School sponsored student Publications and activities uh mba's recommendation by adopting the proposed revision uh school boards uh can reduce the potential confusion when implementing the student journalism law
that was enacted as a result of 2024's session any questions on that from the board 522 please okay starting on page 92 that's Title Nine uh non-discrimination policy grievance
procedure and process please note there are no changes to policy 522 thank you any questions from 522 713 please 713 starting at page
110 please note the updates to the legal references and cross references to follow the msba model policy any questions from the board 904
please 904 starting on page 114 please note the revisions to remove procedure 9042 uh the forms not needed uh distribution procedure is examined or
explained in procedure 94.1 any questions on that from the board okay moving on number four superintendent updates Dr okay uh just uh give you a little update uh
legislatively um um last week uh went went down to the capital again they requested that a school board member uh testify uh before a um a bill that was sponsored by Senator kupek and
they were asking for a board member from his region uh so um board member ven went down and testified and uh went last and uh did a really nice job j i I don't
know if the Lo bill that he testified uh for based on the position the state is in uh will gain any traction but it's on the radar of the importance of L and the fact that it
hasn't been increased since 2014 so uh board member volen and about five other testifiers uh testified uh to the importance that not only uh should the equal uh not only should the dollar
amount be improved from a board's perspective but it should also be equalized to minimize uh the tax impact so for example in in Morehead the proposal for everybody for every school district every school board would have
the opportunity to Levy around 950 a pupil up from 724 and due to the equalization changes our taxpayers could actually see million dollar in reduction uh as a result of that now that would not happen uh the million
dollar reduction would not happen unless the equalization was modified so to speak the the state has the option to increase the dollar amount and not modify the equalization factor which uh
currently right now would be 8020 so whatever that whatever that increase would be uh 80% would be picked up by the local taxpayer 20% would be picked up by the state um like I said in the proposal we're also modifying the
equalization Factor so would become it would go from an 8020 for us to almost a 5050 so it would be big uh but I'm I'm not sure um uh if let's just leave it this way I'm not
sure if that can happen based on the position that that the state is in um we'll keep you alert to that if it uh if it does gain any momentum but right now um I think with the testifiers that were
there and uh Mr V and batting cleanup and hitting a home run um I believe that um what was said resonated with that group um and I can't remember did did Senator kunish say it
was getting late laid over for possible inclusion I I honestly can't remember so it it will get laid over it will continue to have discussions um but it's got across from I think we were on the Senate Finance it'll go to Senate policy and then it'll
it'll go to the other side uh hopefully a House member will pick it up and then they'll review it as well and then hopefully it can make it to the conference committee and from there it's anybody's game so but uh appreciate uh uh board member volen for going down
and and uh doing that on short notice and a lot of times that's what happens a bill comes up and they request uh testifiers and anytime we can be flexible to provide support I think it's in our best interest to do so so thank you and that uh that would be my update
thank you and as a board I would like to thank Matt for going down and testifying it was very kind and the board appreciates the work you're doing also item five adjournment Keith keep it going keep it going I'm
not going to hit a home run but I'll I'll try to lead down a bun here for uh move to approve the adjournment of the March 24th 2025 Schoolboard meeting at 653 thank you Melissa I second I have a motion by Keith second by Melissa move
to approve the adjournment of the March 24th 2025 school board meeting at 6:3 p.m. any further discussion and we'll have a roll call starting with Matt please ven I Bergen I
Mark I stepas I Berard I Borland I vote I and that motion carries this meeting is adjourned thank you all