 I'll start with Pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God and indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Pause for a minute and silence. Is there any additions? No, sir. OK. So we will start with reports. Mr. Oliver. Just a report back on homecoming. It's over. But we had a lot of really good and positive feedback on the channels we made this year. The parade and the power puff. I believe huge hit and the feedback I can get. Moving in advance to the Saturday night was also a plus indicated they estimated about 25 more than what they normally get on homecoming Friday night. And with as long as the game went Friday night, it was probably a good move anyway. We anticipated that we were going to have to delay it because the volleyball team at Linden getting back a little bit late and everything fell in place and what that means. Also, too, I do announce, too, that we have a new PA system installed today on football press box. It sounds awesome. Looking forward to being able to utilize that in more capacity than we have been able to. And we are currently looking for a new popcorn popper. The one we had at the football field. Save up the ghost. Yeah. Our main guide is some research on it and found that they quit making that particular model in the 1990s. So that's what you'd probably want. Needless to say, there's no parts available. But we've probably got our money's worth, though. But the booster club has, back on the other thing, the booster club didn't bump in. I kicked in $1,000 for the new PA system at the football field. And we've got a couple of people in the community that are willing to put some money towards a new popcorn popper, too. So there must be popcorn fanatics on this, I don't know. And that's about it, I think, really. As far as new stuff going on right now. You're going to talk about the cotton candy machine? Well, I just heard about it. And I don't have all the details about that. So I'm going to pause on that right here. Yeah. All right, thank you. So that's exciting, that PA systems. Hopefully it's to where we can get the music to work with. And I don't know when that was in the soul, but I'm guessing maybe when the plus box was put on that side of the field. I don't know. And what I've seen, the activities that I participated or attended the homecoming week was very well attended. I had several people come up to me also, both the parade and the game. And kids had fun. Oh, still worries me. I served as a girl with a broken arm at Valley Falls from another school. But that's OK. So the girls had a lot of fun. I didn't know that. Yeah, the cheerleaders were having a good time, too. It sounds like theirs might have been a little rougher than ours. It's going to be very clear. The residents. What's your favorite part, too? Yeah. I know. The referees. Yeah. I was excited to see the homecoming parade for the first time. Yeah. The year stuff. And at this, we had a lot more community involvement because of the local community. Yes. Josh. I don't have anything extra to add. And this time. Consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve? It's been moved and seconded that we approve the consent agenda. All in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed, same side. OK. Old and new business. Transition back to in-person public board meetings. So this was discussed. We have the option to either televised or do in-person meetings. And so as a result of you guys have all let me know that you prefer to do in-person meetings and have life in person moving forward. So this is going to be our last broadcast of these meetings. And we'll always encourage the public to attend in person. We've got the seating arrangements for them. So we encourage them to be part of every board meeting. Transition to commerce bank cashback card for district purchases. So here we have a situation where we've got an opportunity to earn some extra money. Some passive income for the district. In this case, using a 1% cashback card. We have billions of dollars in expenditures out of this district. And so we want to take advantage of an opportunity to earn some free money. So we have shopped around. We're working with Commerce Bank at this time. We've checked in with a couple of the district as well to see how they like the service and how it works. Besides the 1%, it does allow us a little bit better options in terms of tracking expenditures and also gives the individual canvases and departments a little bit more of a control of their individual budgets while still kind of monitoring placing caps on so we don't have overshadowed expenditures. Any questions on that, please? Was there any options with our local banks in our district? Did they have any options? Not that we were aware of. That would be my first question. If we could keep it local, we would like to keep it open. This is an information. Is there any other feedback, comments? Anybody have anything on that? Okay. Mr. Comer, we will check in to up to see if there is a little option first before we pull the trigger on this. Okay. I appreciate that. Okay. Discussion, update on the bond election. Yeah, so this afternoon you were seeing one of the first communications that is intended to go out to all voters in the district. I wanted to give you guys an opportunity to look at the message, give us some feedback on the layout, the information that we've got gathered there. I've already received some feedback from Mr. Frank and was curious to hear if there's any other items or things of the strategy that we're working on is to start with the, especially the main selling points of the things that we're trying to do. Some of the more nitty gritty details will be handled in a postcard mail out that will come up a little bit later in mid-October, as well as through the political action committee that we are developing as of this Friday. That vote yes pack this meeting Friday to start the ball rolling on a local campaign with residents and community members. Currently, I've already been scheduled to speak at 10 different events between now and the long election. That includes four community meetings, two chamber commerce meetings, one to three other community meetings that have been organized and invited me to come speak. And so we are planning on putting the word out just as quickly and as accurate as possible. But again, at any point, I'm anxious to hear about feedback from the board members as to the specific message and the details that you would want us to include. Yes ma'am. And I want to acknowledge that I did put in request to the, to HTK to change some of the labels and one label in particular that I think will be very important. It has to do with the idea of the, yes ma'am, we're on the same page. No, you're right. Okay, I was just saying, I do like hiding the pictures, and I think that that's important. And again, Miss Oliver is exactly correct. We're starting with the Tech Housing Foot View. And then as we go deeper, as we move closer to the election, we'll make sure that we also reinforce some of the granular details. And again, we're holding the goal on the prize out there first so that everybody knows where we're heading. What's the pitch? We have all those dates. That's a lot. So board members are always invited to attend to be part of that, but I'm prepared to handle those on solo if I need to. I do believe that we'll probably have some participants from the PAC that will want to be part of that. And Patrick Shutter has committed to also take those as well to give any input on the architectural side or the construction side of it. Who would you mind sharing the dates with us? They are on the back of the... Are they on the bottom of this? On the bottom of this. Okay, I can send those other ones as well. Yeah. No, absolutely. I'd be glad to send those out. And if you guys want to attend, I'm sure that the different community groups would have no issues with board members being part of this as well. Sure, you're more than welcome to come and stand alongside. Some of them, maybe some very interesting conversations and some may just be off a couple of things. We'll have, again, a postcard mail out through a call-out about mid-October and we'll make sure we put that in front of the board before we send it out to keep the opportunity to review it. We'll have one more meeting. We've got a bar in the lecture, so that'll be our opportunity to get any last-minute feedback. Thank you. Okay. Idle District Fund's investment options. So, I've provided you with a document so we've met with Stop Builders Bank to look at the potential of using some of the Idle Funds in our district to, again, absorb passive income, in this case, the form of CD investment. The strategy is to ladder out the money so that we start out with a 6, 12, 18, 24-month CD's and then as each CD expires, it'll be renewed in a 24-month, so we always have cash readily available for purchases. But up until this point, the money has just been sitting in account and not earning interest or any kind of dividends for us. So we want to try and take advantage of that, especially with the level of funds that we have available in continuous CD capital outlay that probably could, in fact, be working for us. This is a strategy that many districts use and so I want to take advantage of this opportunity as well here in our district. Did everybody receive the interest rates and the information that was provided by Mr. Hybe? Did he email? Yes, sir. Yes, sir, that's correct. And I've got those interest rates as far as if anybody needs me to read them off. Don't say that. Don't say me if you see them. You're welcome. You want me to write off those interest rates? Okay, for a 6-month, we have 1.34%. 12-month is 1.65%. The 18-month is 1.84%. And the 24-month will be 2.04%. Each of these has a .60 rate bonus added on to the published APY for each of those interest rates. So the stock growth is trying something to deal for us a little bit to make these investments. Any questions on that or feelings about it? This is new for this district, where everyone is feeling good about it. I will work with Michelle to ensure that we look at our fund bounds as longitudinally over the last couple years to make sure that we don't dip too low into our available funds and so we've always got that cash readily available. In conversations with the bank president, he did state that in the case of a disaster event, a weather event, or a collapse route, if we had to pull back CDE situation, they would not penalize us for that. I would, of course, get that in writing first, but that would communicate or lead to a historical meeting. That would be my question. If we absolutely needed it, is it firm and we can't touch it? Currently, the only damage would be penalties to the interest and not to the principal. But again, based on what they're willing to put in writing, and depending on the specific circumstances, there is a possibility they have the option to waive those penalties that they wish. Any questions on that, you guys? Any way we can produce more funds, I really appreciate you going out and looking for and bringing this to us. This is something that obviously we hadn't thought of or hadn't been thought of before. Fairly straightforward. Right now we have a box that I'd say around $700,000 in vital cash that sits and if we use at least a portion of that, and again, we will try to be very sure-footed about how much we put in these CDs, but we can use a substantial amount of that and probably draw, you know, the reasonable amount of interest. Any interest is better than 0%. Absolutely. Any more discussion on that? Creation of multi-purpose facilities, grounds and transportation? Was that an action? That was an action. Yes, because of the amount of money that you were investing I didn't want to prove them from the board to go ahead and do this. Do you have a list of funds to invest in Option 1? I'll second it. It's been moved and seconded to the Idle District Funds Investment Options. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those at the same time. Motion passed. Thank you Kelly. Creation of multi-purpose facilities, grounds and transportation position. So as I look into my report we may be facing a situation where we may lose personality and medical issues and we're finding multiple gaps in our ability to handle maintenance requests some grounds keeping as well as driving routes for buses and lastly we are outsourcing a lot of simple maintenance of our fleet and our buses that's more expensive than if we were to do it in-house. I would like to create a full-time position so that we can keep all of these jobs here for ourselves and I believe the savings that we would make would greatly offset the cost of the position. We would save quite a bit of money especially in terms of the maintenance and the fleet maintenance and bus maintenance. So I've shared the amount in the report and I want you to know I have 100% confidence that we can keep this person busy 100% of the time all the time and in fact probably have them pick up some additional after-school activity in the house as well. But before I create a position I need permission from the board to do so. Who manages this person? This will be a combination management of myself and Clint Thompson for transportation because transportation is a little bit more specific. I would want his hands in that bucket but as far as the maintenance and support of the grounds I would definitely want to be a part of that management to ensure that we have all these things covered. I feel like we frequently are trying to piece meals and jobs together and find people to do things for like the facilities and the grounds and transportation. Just to give you some dollar figures our rates for bus driver routes are currently anywhere from $19 up to $25 to $26 an hour and this boils down to just a tiny bit underneath $20 an hour. Now when you consider what you would pay for maintenance labor costs for just for having your world changed or changing out of belt or something like that or even some of the facilities and grounds work that we need done we're getting at a much lower rate than what we would pay if we outsource it to the contractor. So that's so it's light maintenance, that's what you're thinking. Light maintenance. Well changes. Well changes, belts, hoses. Okay. Pretty much everything that you would use somebody to fill in all the gas with. And then what on facilities would they be doing? A lot of the maintenance that our current maintenance director does if we're not exposing too much information on that we may need some support that we already currently and so this is an opportunity to train and get our position ready in case we have a situation that may develop later on. And then grounds, what exactly where's the shortfall with grounds where this would be something that we're not already covered with with what we have contracted? So the shortfall in the rounds is that we don't have a written contract with our grounds contract currently. The relationship that was developed was apparently more contract and therefore we are on our way through the end of the mowing season and then we are going to step back and take a look at and dark you have a little more fully the expectations for our grounds keeping what we expect to be done and the cost of reaching those items. Because right now it's when we get the bills it's very difficult to tell what's been done and I'm not necessarily comfortable writing those checks each month until I know exactly what we're paying for in some cases. Now that's not to say that the work that is getting done is a risk quality. It just stands to reason as a manager of the district that I'm 100% sure of what we're paying for when we pay out the door. Jordan, I'm just going to say it seems like a position that was needed for our district with all the dates. I'm sorry I didn't hear that. Oh, I second. I second. I mean it's something that has been I just, I'm going to just trade it off. Sorry Jordan, I can't start mumbling. I just had one day. I'll get there then. It's been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? I'm assuming winter is also kind of an issue so snow removal will definitely apply to this work. We do have our own snow removal equipment on their site so we can ensure that all campuses get the attention that's necessary, especially in particular weather. Any more discussion? If not, all those in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, same sign. Motion passed. Sale of Paxco Middle School and our continuation of advertisement contract was approved. So as you're all aware, the initial buyer was able to gain financing for Paxco Middle School so we are at a crossroads of making decisions regarding taking one of the offers of one of the other buyers or potential buyers and or continuing advertisement to see if we can get some additional buyers interested into the property and at this point there's going to be a decision and discussion by the board to determine which direction they want to go whether it is to make a sale for a potential buyer or continue advertisements with Mr. Burke. I said no we could make the decision not to hear because that seems like what you said was accurate. Is that accurate too? We've always allowed the public not to be camping, not to be going out. Anything that you added to the agenda is at the discretion of the board but in the beginning if you have an established community forum then people are allowed in excess of that but it's not a normal approach to have someone request to be on the agenda as part of the discussion of business that's something that the board requested decides on. If that's a change that is the board you wish to make. Also this is more for public clarification. That modular is sitting there because Perry McCompton didn't want it. That is correct. The school district moved the first one. I've got a lot of questions about that. The school district moved the first one I've got it to the site and realized that they didn't have any more room for the additional one and so they left the remaining modular with us and not asked for a refund so they paid for it and didn't pick up it. So it's an artist question what I've seen from one of the proposals was I think it should be as is I don't think we need to report any more money into a property so someone else can buy it if they want it, that's fine if they want to put the money into it, that's fine that should be part of their offer or understood as their offer that's my opinion. I don't know what anybody else feels about that. I think maybe we'll list it somewhere possibly put it up it's done yeah we're going to make it and I don't know what I'm going to do and we want it for this and we don't want it for that and I've had I talked to some other superintendents and said you might be pleasantly surprised at what you get because gymnasium, the mirror part of that building is horrible to say that's the best about this it's an anthem I think if we put it out there I'm sure there's buyers I don't know the cost you can look and see in our bunker that's what they want to do the building is not even close to that size isn't it so let's move on then I don't think we need to worry about it especially in other schools people are going to put it in for a school those kids had no intentions of ever being in our district well that also could be on sale in an auction as well as it could be on a normal scale Steve just to note on that building there is currently a water leak on the east side of the building I contacted the city of Paxicole they checked it out it's a leak on their side of the meter I guess they just had that time to get it repaired it just happens to be right up front yeah hopefully that tree holds up or maybe not Brian he was worried that the valley he didn't want to mess with the valley so it breaks in the road yeah yeah I've seen it too I kept grabbing by it it's still there is that an auction here? are you making an auction? yeah I'll make an auction to be there there's a place in a different place I don't know if it would be the one or the crossroads crossroads real estate we'll make it that the auction or this I don't really want to do it but I've been saying we need to do it and just say it as is where it is you get it here's the building we'll show up to you we'll take you through it if you want to buy it is this just the one talking about the entire city there's a longer wheel don't you for a simple new calling propane down there to make sure it's warm you're going to have heat made to make sure everything is alright we've got a low I told you guys so do you know to put it up for the auction? yeah that was an extra so restate your motion please I would put it up crossroads real estate they seem to have pretty good following and having put it out I'm going to ask them if it's auction or if they want to try to sell it so it's paying to sell it we're covering so that's what we decided to do it was a 3% I think is what he had is that not right? I had the information from I think that's what he said on the sale it was a 3% he kept himself from looking on the side we must have something he had some neverizing I'm very happy I can work with Mr. Brown to get that information from the board that would be appreciated to see this would be fair because I would agree we would only have something I don't know that a motion needs to be I don't know not that but on this we already said sell it but you're making a motion to switch realtors basically is what your motion would be potentially put it for auction as opposed to just advertising all the counsel from Crawford I know that's exactly what's going to say can we just make the motion for it to be put it for auction and then we can discuss with multiple auction companies I'm not sure I agree it's been moved I'll have a second then it falls then it fails okay it's been moved and seconded that we attain crossroads real estate to see whether we should list it or auction the tax criminal school all those in favor say aye those aye motion passes okay I move that we go into executive session to discuss personnel matters of non-elected comma for 10 minutes with a meeting resuming at 644 seconded all those in favor say aye all those opposed same sign oh that should be to include Steve correct and I apologize that should so that should be to include Steve Oliver and Dr. Bitch that's much thank you well all board members are always included in that yes when others are coming in okay we're ready so moving on to personnel does anyone need executive session for personnel if not I'll just make the motion to approve employment Tim Klein as high school boys basketball assistant coach Beth Frank substitute teacher Tim Klein substitute teacher Deborah DeSelms as substitute teacher and the resignation of Jonal Wallace as a bus driver it's been moved and seconded all those in favor say aye aye let's serve it just get ready to vote all those opposed same sign motion passes alright superintendent board members form sure the only things I can add is I've been treated to a lot of great events that I haven't seen for 40 years homecoming things like that it's been very much privileged to see all our campuses operating and our systems rolling and things like that I plan to spend a lot of time on these upcoming weeks with this very important bond package because it's so significant to the district and to the future of usd 329 you can expect me to put it a lot of extra hours of time and effort into that work and I'm just very pleased to see things align and starting to see some tighter collaboration between the campuses and also that's been a very important piece of the work and so we're very encouraged and what we're seeing in the district we've got some momentum and we continue to and we plan on capitalizing on that Kelly Jim's position in front of the next I'll second it it's been moved to the second that we adjourn all those in favor say aye aye