 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. Continuing here with a moment of silence. Thank you. Next, then, is approval of the agenda. Are there any additions to the agenda? Just approval then. I saw my vote. It's been moved and second, approved the agenda. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Motion carried. Moving on then with reports. Kelly's on. Mm-hmm. Mrs. Lilley. Kelly's in. Yes, she is. She was from the beginning. I love you. Yep, now I do. I don't have anything to add to my written report unless you have any questions. Thank you. Mr. Allen. I'd just like to remind you, the board, we are planning to go ahead with an eighth grade promotion at Paxco like normal. We're eliminating our seventh grade awards that evening to kind of cut down on that crowd. We're going to be able to allow each family 10 tickets. And we've asked them if they're not using those all 10 to turn them back and then we'll listen to other families that would like to bring additional. So mark your calendar for that night. And if you plan on attending, please let us know. And we'll make sure we have a chair for you. But other than that, I'm good. Unless there's any questions. Thank you. I haven't tried to add to my report. She had any questions? Thank you. You got anything? Nothing at this time. OK. Thank you. That moves us down to the parents before the board. You're up. OK. Hello. Hi, Joseph. So yeah, I wanted to talk about the school that's actually right across from our house. And I know that it's being debated whether it's going to be what its future is going to be. I'm here on the assumption that it will be discontinued as a school. And so I'm interested in using it as a tool for economic development within Baxico and Bonzi County. My business is a growing business. This is exactly, this is something that would work really, really well for what we're wanting to do with our business. We import a beer out of Germany. And it actually has Baxico on the back label. That's a very, very special beer. It's a 500-year-old brewery. And it's been having a lot of success everywhere we go with it. We're expanding into, we're in four states now. We're looking at expanding into probably seven states before the end of the year, bringing on some pretty powerful sales personnel to help with that expansion. The success we're having is terrific. So the response is very, very good from the consumers. It's set for a solid, steady growth moving forward. And I would love for Baxico to be the hub of that growth, a place where we could really call home for the brand as it currently is on the label to actually give it a home there in Baxico. We're looking at hiring people. We want to start doing direct-to-consumer sales in states where that is possible. So there are probably, I think there are about 10 states right now where you can actually do direct-to-consumer sales. That'd be a great option to get into if we have the space to do something like that. Everything's set up to do that. I just don't have the space right now to be able to pursue that project. And then we're looking at, we do a lot of videography, for social media, and so on. Again, a great place for that type of work, especially with the fact that there's a kitchen there. You can talk about doing pairings, food and beer pairings right there in Baxico at the school. And yeah, ultimately, we're going to need office workers. We're going to need, Guller's not going to be the only brand. We're going to be bringing on other brands as well. He has a couple of them in the pipeline that I'm working towards, but we're going to get serious about bringing on other brands in the next couple of years as well. So we're looking at, again, a lot of some solid growth. We're going to need help, people coming in and working with us, employed with this business. And again, I would love for that to be in Baxico. So I wanted to put that out there as a great option for the school. It could go many, many different ways. It could be, I don't know, it could become something that as people in Baxico, as residents of Baxico, we may not want it to be something. We certainly don't want it to be abandoned. Wouldn't want it to be just demolished. And if it could actually be a source of great interest and income for the area, I think that's a win-win. So that's my proposal. Great. Thank you. Any questions or feedback for him at this point? OK. Thanks for coming. We appreciate it. And we are continuing to figure out plans for how we're going to approach that facility. And everyone will know as we get those plans put in stone, everybody will find out our communication process. So you'll be in the know as to what happens with it and when it's time to do something with it. Perfect. And if any of you want to ever talk with me about it and kind of understand what my business is and how we're building it out, please reach out and love to talk with you. So thank you. Great. Thank you. This is great. Joseph, you're welcome to stick around as long as you want to. But if you want to, if you have other things to do, you're more than welcome to leave. I appreciate that. So thanks, Joseph. OK, moving on then to the consent agenda. Any discussion? No. There you go. There you go. None. I just need a motion to approve. Can we move? Is there a second? I'll second. It's been moved and seconded. All those opposed, say aye, please. Motion carried. All right, moving on to holding new business, bond facilities. Jim Colgan is here to discuss some things regarding ASA and his phase one. And that updated strategic plan is set for everybody to see and is up on the board. So I will go ahead and turn it over to Jim. And it's all like, gee, there's no one to move. That's a cool BLCL, so you have CCLA. Yeah. OK, everybody has a copy. Thank you for the opportunity. We talked in February, gave me a lot of time to share PowerPoint. And my partner Jim Dynas introduced him was on. Last week, we got a touch base a little bit, tag along behind the engineering, which we do work a lot with the engineering. And so tonight, I thought, let's just cut to the chase. I want to give you a proposal for the research phase and what we do. That's the front end. The back end is marketing. And that's often a bigger one, because it's longer and involves a lot of additional work. This one's very important. You've already looked at the back side when we handed out a sheet to the kids, when they always go to the back side first, and see what's going on. So we'll give you a price back there of $12,000, $12,000. Do you have a next year's chance? Do you guys want to pass it on? Sure. I'll talk to you as we go ahead and pass it on. I had a wonderful chance to visit each of the school buildings and walk through the high school of Can. Last week, we enjoyed it a lot. Always astounded how far it is from Maple Hill to here. It's a long district. We work with a lot of districts, but we see the length and size of your district. It's always amazing. But anyway, compensation. You've seen it there. Let me walk them back through and let's go to the top. Bond research, and we already talked to you about our past history. I think if you go down to the bold, the influencers in the community can have significant impact on the outcome of the bond. But the registered voters, the people are the ones who really got to make their final decisions. So what we like to do is get in, help you form a clear plan, and a plan that will last for years, and one that is going to be the best for your school district, and then test that with voters. There's a lot of ways we can do that. Our research resources, of course, the one that I put here at the top that I really enjoy, and that's working with the architect, engineers, the Piper, Jeffrey, HDK. I know you've got them going. I know you don't have a contractor, or love to have a contractor in the room. If there's a way to do that, so you can work on ideas. I've done about 20-some million of construction myself as owner rep in a similar situation. And with all the change orders and working with them, it really works to have triangulation in the room when you're working with these guys. Starting with the planning, debating through the subs and all of that. So that's part of the experience I really enjoy. I love working with the numbers. And that's one of our resources. Another is, of course, open-ended surveys, and you've done some of that. We really enjoy doing that with the patrons, if we can get them. There aren't a lot that we have emails for, but definitely the parents. They're your consumers. They're people that are really looking for the best school for their children, and to really do a great survey is another input, a research input. Group meetings, of course. I don't like large ones. I like smaller ones. You get a large one, and you get maybe a theme going in the room, and everybody kind of follows it. A smaller one. People have more chance to express themselves. So more meetings, but smaller, I have found is always a great advantage. And then man and women on the street always enjoy that. Or they have a chance to talk to Jim down at the short, where the Phillips gas station. And I have to admit, I did stop in the Long Branch, and there was only one person sitting there. But she happened to be the former mayor and the current clerk for Paxaco. So she's been there since 1975. She graduated from Alma, and her kids have graduated. So that's a great resource. And Jim down there was a farmer just north, and same story. Those are fun, especially at the Long Branch. Tom, just kidding. I didn't know if they were going to be handling that beer or not. And then our shooting day, Tom, the real thing that we go across is our phone survey. And you guys have done some survey work. It's a great, great start. This is just phone poll number one for our last poll, which was up at Riley. We go into about 10 questions here, where we ask input on, and we ask not only yes or no, the why, and then make some choices. We give them their choices. But that comes from our research, so we can get focused. We always have another, if they want to put their own in. And then at the end, once they've been warmed up two, three, four minutes, we get into the open-ended questions and let them pop away. And by that time, they're usually very conversive and get some good opinions. Anyway, we record those opinions. One of the real sharp parts, and that's Jim's brain mind over here, is we cross-tab. So we take the gender, the zip code. Are they a parent? Are they a patron? What grade are their kids in? And we cross-tab that. And then we can come up with several pages. In fact, that's the majority of our phone surveys, the company out of Utah. Finally got their pricing today, so I'm sorry I didn't get you the numbers earlier, but I was waiting on their pricing. They took a while to get that done. But then from this, we trust we have a plan that you can take and make it go. Once we're done with that, we feel we're then in a pretty good position to say, this will go, this is how it will go, and this is why it will go. So on the back side, I'll cover deliverables quickly. We help you develop a needs assessment, a clear plan, sustainable plan. We make recommendations to the bond package. We help you develop bond language, that's very clear. I saw your bond language. Certain words, when someone's reading, the bond proposal in the voting booth, is a plus or a minus, can be a negative, can be a positive. And then advise on all communications and messaging. Got a timeline here, if we can get going, and I know it's not on here at the Genesis National, but we'd love to be able to get it done in 90 days and then be able to have it done so that then you can start right in the fall in August, we can start in the fall then with the marketing and that's an assumption, of course we'd love to be able to do that. So last paragraph, I'm pulling this complete, we'll advise district leadership on message format, budget or recommendations. Communication need effectively campaign a bond vote that could pass in November and we'll assist with all recommendations. And I know you get tired of hearing that, we've been successful, 94.447% of the time, I'm just kidding, 90.4. Other close of this, I work in a lot of school sites where I do research and I'm a school digger. I have an elementary school rate at 78,000, 660,000 in Kansas. And you have a high school that's rated 68 out of 325 in Kansas. And this is a website that partners with Zoho for people who aren't looking for a school district to move to. So there's my close of that, keep that going. If you have a great product, they'll come. This beer purveyor tonight is counting on that and I'm sure it relates that well, but you understand what I'm saying. You have a great school, great start, knock it down for the next plan for the next 20, 30 years. Your last bond gets paid off here real quickly. Perfect to hook up and keep it following. But anyway, again, I thank you for the opportunity to come and I'll take any questions or dim the range a little bit. Any questions? We just listed our bond. We've done over 200 research projects of all kinds, including governorships and state as well as legislative representatives, et cetera. And I believe the majority of the board believes that we do need a bond of some sort and we need to do that by November in order to make sure that we get our self setup for success in the future. And November poll is desirable. More people will come out. This is an action item for us? This is an action item for two, correct? I don't see that on your agenda, sorry about that. The, I mean, I guess part of my question is if we are hiring you to help us put a plan together, that is obviously gonna work with the voters because that's what you do, correct? Work with the voters, you come up with a plan, come back to us, tell us what that plan is, we put it together and made it. In all intents and purposes you would believe that that would be a successful bond. We really want you and me and the lead on helping to make that plan. It's not gonna be any good if we don't have, you know, what you really want is the seven members out of seven agreeing on the plan and that really helps to start the process down the road. But yes, yeah, you'll be working with you, get there. My, I guess my feedback comes around to our budget if we had funds available, and I'm not saying we can't make $12,000 available, but every dollar that we spend on this, in my opinion, we take it out of the kids' hands at this point. And if we spend another $12,000 here and it doesn't pass, what did you gain? Oh, we don't gain much. What do you gain if it does pass? We gain. 18 out of 19. Yeah, but you still gained your $12,000 is my point. Whether we are successful in the end of the game or not, you've still been paid, you still move on, you get your deal and signed, sealed, delivered or not delivered. What you'll get out of it is research results. You'll get a lot of information that will really help you in your decision process. And remember, this doesn't mean, when we're done, doesn't mean it goes to a vote. We've provided you research and input from your patrons that you'll never have reached this level of input that you'll have. At that point, you'll make a decision. Do we trust these guys? Do we go on with it? And then you start down the road of marketing, at which point, we have a ton of advice there, because that's a very, that's a big part, that's a strength part too. We look at marketing as not marketing. We look at it as education, teaching, explaining. And people when they're taught and explained and shown the positives nine times out of ten, get that and they go, I understand that. I may not like that, but I understand that and I'm open to it now, rather than just fancy stuff or yard signs or whatever, but getting them to really understand it. And that's our job in the second half. But you can stop, yeah, you will not have wasted $12,000. You'll have, we trust $12,000 worth of information and education and with the help of an architect as well, as I said, I'd love to get a contractor involved and we can talk about that if we decide to go ahead because there are ways that you can do that. And they give you a lot of practical advice. You got to walk with your engineer last time and keep that ball rolling. From there on, funding, since it's a marketing campaign or a campaign in a way, now you're gonna rely on other sourcing, a yes crew, a yes group, an architect and contractors, all those people now are committed, they're committed, then that's not much money for them to help pay for marketing to get them the job to be a contractor, be your architect, get paid, get paid as an engineer, et cetera. Yeah, you're right, $12,000, what's your annual budget? You know, I'm way like that. When it's negative, it doesn't matter if it's $3 billion or it's $1, if it's negative, where's the $12,000 company? I know exactly where you're at, I understand, yeah. And we understood that going in that you're smaller district and budget would be a consideration. That research and this service is $18,000 to $22,000, I know that doesn't mean anything to you, but that's the range that we normally would get for this project. And we won't do the project that we don't think we can win, that's just not the way we do business. And we have passed on some for a couple reasons. People ask us to not, you know, do what we feel is the right way to do it. And there's research particularly in the bias and wording and such, but also if we don't think it's, if there's a way to get it won, we won't advise that also. Yeah. It's usually a case of a dollar amount and a mix of outcomes that the public would support that we can give you some certainty about passing the bond. That we, the only one we lost, the client at Shawnee Island School District, they had an assistant superintendent that passed, they'd lost them three bonds prior to the time they hired us. We had done five bonds, Oklahoma option budgets, including the Hummer Sports Park was the last one. That's what kind of got us in the business one now. But they would not change some wording. They wanted to call it a performing arts center. You know, it was a rural community, not as rural as yours, but as a rural community. And they looked at that as extravagant. And in the peak, there was a performing arts center that had a negative image. So our research said we could pass all three of their valid issues if they would change that performing arts center to an auditorium or a multi-purpose entertainment or education at arts center. So, but they refused to do that and communications director through a fit because he'd already put out brochures calling it a performing arts center and a couple of teachers likely had the idea. It's the only one we've ever lost. And we won't do that again because we knew based on our research is very precision and cracker jack and we can give you references with our chamber of Congress, the city and the county of Topeka, everything that they've given us when people said it couldn't be done, we've got it that, including local option budgets for streets and economic development. And five, I can't even say that. So, we won't do this just to make money. We, this is about our core business side of it. When we did the Roder County project, we had other districts calling us and Jim likes that side of the business. And so, we're not out soliciting for it. Aggressively, we're busy doing what we do with sports marketing for our high school. But if we take on your project, I have a affinity for discounting and a lot of people I know from here and around here. So, it would be a cost to ask if we did it as much as anything. I think it's an impeccable record. No, I'm trying to speak for itself. There's a lot that goes into research into determining whether or not it's going to pass or not. And, I mean, we know, I don't know personally because I was involved with a full process, but some individuals here know what that means, what that takes, the work that needs to go into it for it to succeed. I don't see our district not being able to, I mean, continue to operate without a law. I think it's somewhat of a mean something and it needs to be sustained. I think a maintenance bond is not an appropriate solution. And I think this is an investment. I think you can look at items that we pay as expenses or investments. And if you see it as an expense, yeah, I can understand that standpoint, but if you see it as an investment, think about what you could get out of it in terms of the long path. This is virtually nothing that could be wrapped up into a cost to the loan itself if we didn't want to pull that forward. So, I just see it as a huge investment that we would be missing out on. Kelly, do you have any feedback that you'd like to share? Sorry, Kelly, we didn't hear your real well. Could you repeat that? Yeah, that's much better. So, I just said I don't have a lot as a business at this point in time. I think that if we are going to propose another bond issue for those of our elections, that would be unique in terms of with the commitment to change it. And your pick are off. Yes, yeah. Okay, I think last time around, we did gain quite a bit of feedback from constituents, but it was only from those who really either didn't want us to do anything or had a vested interest in the bond. It may not necessarily have been those that voted one way or another. Anyway, so, I don't know if, you know, I think we need assistance, but is it a difficult one for me? Do you have something else, Jim? No, I'm just gonna make sure we had all the, if you don't want us to wait here for any more, I'll move to approve that proposal that ASA has provided us with $12,200. It's been moved, is there a second? Okay. It's been moved and seconded to accept the proposal from ASA communications, regarding our future bond proposal. All those in favor say, aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign, motion carried. All right. Thank you, sir. You're on the payroll. All right. Hi, guys. We're ready to go on, Brad. Let's go. All right. Thank you. I'll talk to you tomorrow. All right. Thank you. Thanks. Okay. I'll move. The other part of that is under the same information in regards to bond and or facilities is just that Gail has put together just an example of using a map that's on your tables. And you'll see that by moving the line from the blue line there to a red line in the middle there, now it's basically not having McFarland but moving the line around McFarland and then having them be headed to Maple Hill, the numbers would look like this as far as projections. And he utilized out of district as well but there's some things without a district that we can still talk about. So between eight to 10 to 12 number of students difference then between Elm Elementary and Maple Hill Elementary and now projected it would be 44 different. 108 in Elma, 64 in Maple Hill including the class of six in that second grade. So some things to think about with that. Do you want to move kids down there and then turn around and have a bond and move them again with a projected or a possibility of a PK six at Paxco or some other type of configuration as such? Something to think about that. And so I just want to put that out there that that's a possibility to help in even out the classes because we've been up front with staff and as well as you all about wanting to as much as possible have even classes and classrooms for our students and for our staff. So this would allow that to happen but again how it fits into a bond and what that may look like but moving kids back and forth. So I'll just consider. Is that East West bound? It comes down to the interstate and then goes down to that drainage ditch about and then down to Fairfield Road. Even we would like to need it but we would still utilize probably both elementary schools. So even if we were to have a bond pass it wouldn't necessarily mean all of a sudden we have to change the line or the form. Get rid of the line. That line may still have to exist because we still have to have the dual and interstate. And the out of district kids you can tell us the total of six. Federated here now. Yeah. Two from Topeka, correct? Two from Topeka. Go ahead. Two from out to Vista. And the others are from Longington. So if need be, you know, fairness to all to Vista could. So if you change just two instead of eight it would be 10, then difference in the total student population between the two. But I wanted to put that out there and thoughts on that. We need to decide on that soon. Yeah. But and since we just presented you the information you can roll them and think about it and do those kind of things. It would be with the transition we're already involved in. It would probably be a very good time. We're talking, you brought this up ever since you've been in that position. But this was a viable option. So yeah, this is not the first time of purpose. Any other thoughts, questions around that? Okay, Kelly. I just have a number of questions. So if you want a red line in Longington at the end of the day, would you like to be on the May agenda as an action item? If that's what you guys need. I mean, I'm in favor of these types of moves if our leadership has discussed it. We've discussed it with our staffing and that's what you all come to. Who am I to get in the way of that? I mean, I don't know that that's really what I am good at making decisions based on running a school in that manner. So that's where I'm at. If it's good for you guys and it's good for your teachers, then I'm all for it. I agree with that. Appreciate it. It would be needed to be since changing a policy that it would have to be a board action but appreciate the thoughts for sure. Which is fine. That recommendation comes to me. Like this is what we need to do, then I'll first report it. We'll have it on the May agenda. Okay. Then to information item, Enterprise Vehicle Program. I'm sorry, the Ms. Murray. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought maybe we're already on that. Yeah, sorry, okay, investment grade audit. Just that our next steps, they provided Brad Ray in your board packet as the next steps piece of that. It doesn't commit us to a energy performance contract, but what it does do is, then allows us with the company that as far as the FCIP verification approval, et cetera, then we will have the information to have solid numbers that we start building then. This is what it's gonna cost. This is what it'll look like. And then making a determination on final guaranteed pricing for the things that we're doing as we move forward. And then after that, the next step with it, the board approves the final energy performance contract. So alls we are asking them to do is get down to the hardcore number. Yep, authorizing ESP to proceed with obtaining final pricing for the selected scope for the energy performance contract. I so move to allow them to go to the next steps. So it's been moved and seconded. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign, motion carried. Thank you for that, Brad. You bet. And I'm sorry, I missed the second. Did you just do the show? That sounds okay. Okay, thank you. I didn't hear you. You're on my back. You're on my back here. That is, that's, I never do that. All right, next item then is the enterprise vehicle program. Just wanted you to, the board to know that we're continuing, we've got some maintenance costs. We looked at, so we have an apples to apples comparison, what they can do as far as cost savings to the district and providing safe reliable equipment for the school district. Obviously there's some things that we have purchased that wouldn't be involved with that. And that would be on a rotating basis on down past the year. We determine if it's five years, 10 years, whatever we want to do, and then have the ability to then have newer equipment. And again, then should see lower maintenance costs, better gas, all those things. So they're putting an apples to apples comparison. And we'll hear about that on the 22nd of April. So we'll have hopefully something to bring to you in May. Because it is an issue with things we continue to have. For instance, we put a thousand dollars in one of the vehicles and the value, when you look up, blue book value is $1,500. Does that make sense for us to continue to do that? Those kind of things. So that's what will be coming forth in May. So excellent, I like it. Any questions around that? Moving on then, next is Emily Henderson and Melissa Watson. Hi guys, welcome here so I can see everyone. Hi Emily. Melissa Watson is going to be coming on Zoom here if she gets done with her training show tonight. But I'm really excited to be here with you guys tonight. I've wanted to get here for a while. I was on the agenda on the meeting where we showed everything down. So I'm happy to be here this year. So I currently serve as the school liaison for 329. I've been here since October of 2019. So I just wanted to hop on and come here to show you guys some of the data that we've worked on, some of the programming that we're doing here in the schools. And I'll provide you guys with opportunity to ask some questions about what we have going on. So here we have just kind of our circle of support. We're wanting to connect our families, our schools, and our community mental health center across the internet homes. Can provide more access to those rural communities. So if you want to go on to the next slide, I'm Melissa Barnes. You have me too. Awesome. So these are some of our goals when we first got here. Number one, we wanted to provide access to care to our rural community. Even in Maple Hill, it can be 30 miles to get access to the rural community. So we wanted to be able to provide that access to care here in our school buildings and reduce any of those barriers that might be in place for some of our families. We also wanted to enhance our connection, our communication, and our collaboration between Crosswinds and our school, as well as our teachers, our students, and our families that are participating in the program. We also wanted to build school and community engagement. And this was included in the Not One More presentation, some of the Yellow Ribbon initiatives. I helped sponsor that club. So I'm working a lot with students of the high school to help support mental health and just working to create a network of support for our students using all of our community and our school resources together. So I know you guys are data people. Show me why this works. Show me why this is good for students. So if you hit the next slide, Mr. Barnes. Every semester I submit a progress support to the State Department of Education. So this is our data in December in May of 2020 and in December of 2020. So each student has the opportunity to be marked with four different indicators. Attendance, behavior, academics, and internalizing behavior. So some of those things like feelings of anxiety, feelings of depression, some of those internal mental health concerns. So when I first got here, it was October of 2019. So in December of 2019, you can see where we were at. And we've progressed since then. Important things to note, we've been in the middle of a pandemic. So attendance and academic performance, those are some of the things that have been part of track this semester. So we've been doing the best that we can to make those informed decisions and write as many students as we can. Do you guys have any questions about any of that data that is up there? And not every student is marked for every indicator. So if attendance is not a concern for that student, then we don't mark it as a concern for that student. These are just for the students that have these individual concerns. All right, next slide. So these are our students reached. This school year, we've reached 122 individual students. So that doesn't include any of the classroom stuff that we do or any of the whole school approaches that we take. This is individual work with students to give you kind of a marker of where we are versus last year, last year, we reached 63 students in the entire year. This year, we're at 122. There are 45 individual students that are engaging in ongoing services this year through Crosswinds. So in the 2019-2020 school year, we had 12 additional students that were referred and then this year, we have 34 additional students that have been referred to the program. And so obviously we've had some students leave, some students graduate, we'll do great things and then we'll have our needs services. So that's how those numbers change. Okay, and yeah, good question. On the 122, how does that look between like gray bubbles? I would say it's pretty even throughout the entire district. I wouldn't say that there's an area of need that is more consistent. I know at the high school, we do have a counselor, so some of those concerns are able to be addressed at her. So we work to address all of the needs that we can. Later, I'm gonna go through the tiers and kind of where we're working. We're working from a tier three perspective right now. So up there with Annie Frank, our social worker, she works with two three students as well. Great, did that answer your question? Awesome. Okay, so this is a quote. Last year I presented to the KS Board of Education. I was asked as one of two programs in the state to come present on all of the cool things that are happening in our rural school district. So this is a quote that one of our teachers gave we get the opportunity for all of our teachers to give us some feedback. So I've been an early childhood educator for five years. For those five years, I've found more and more need of social-emotional skills being taught that the children are missing for one reason or another. This year I had the great privilege of having many services available to me. These services weren't just through crosswinds, but also having a school liaison readily available for any needs I would have. As a teacher, I am in definite need of these services and cannot thank all of you who provide them and assist in teaching those skills enough. And then I also have two of our administrators who gave me some of their feedback. The knowledge and skills brought to schools was invaluable being able to assess, student and family needs made it easier for our school liaison to make referrals to the local mental health center, the relationship of our local mental health center was strengthened by ongoing communication and the referral process. When this program was built, it was a pilot. So we started from the ground up. This is something that we've built here to accommodate the needs of our rural school district. Adding this type of support and guidance that our students and our district needs, having a presence here in the community and here in the school at events, that's something that we've really strived to do this year. So on the next slide, something that we're gonna look into in the future. So as you guys have heard, we're moving towards NTSS as a district. This is an example from Tazen of mental health supports and how those would work for our students. So we have tier one at the bottom that is supports that all students get because you're a student at USC 329, you deserve to have these supports in place. The next tier is tier two. So those are some of our students. Those might be some individual interventions, some group interventions, looking at those progress monitoring things. And the tier three would be a few of our students. So intervention, support teams, school re-entry if we need it, some crisis services in there. And then kind of dividing up what that might look like. This is from my ASDE handbook. So this is how a district separates those responsibilities between people who are working in the school district. Do you guys have any questions on what any of that looks like? So just looking at this on a behavior help team, the counselor is responsible for classroom focus tier one. And then the tier two and three with some and few, then the social worker, which we have to spend social worker with Annie. Right, and right now on this turn over here, this district, the school liaison's referred to as a lot of different things. It's a pilot program right now. So behavioral health social worker is what they would call the school liaison. Okay. Yes. So you're in that tier two and three with some and few students. And this is absolutely not to say that the counselor does not ever do any crisis intervention or any suicide assessments or that the social worker doesn't do any of that. We definitely intertwine with some of those responsibilities sometimes. This is just an example that was put forth by KSC as to what this might look like once we move towards that tiered system of supports. I wanted to share with you guys today just some data about what's going on in schools and answer any questions that you guys have about our program. Right now the grant is in legislature right now. So we should know about mid-May. It'll be a pretty quick turnaround process if we want to reapply for that grant. And we're hoping that it will move from October to be in this published program. So that would be really exciting for our schools. So yeah, I really want to answer any questions if you have any. Really good progress. Start from home wherever we started from. Brad's been keeping us abreast of what? You've come up several times and it's always been, it's always good to hear about Emily. So you're doing a good job and we appreciate it. The numbers are showing up too. So. Thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you. I don't know if Melissa Hawthorne may remember. She wants to add anything. I'm not seeing anything from her. I know one thing that she wanted to talk about that I missed in the presentation is that we don't just provide therapy here at the schools. There are a lot of different services that Crosswinds provides here in our school. So we have therapy, we have case management, we have attendant care. We also have emergency services if our kids need those. We have med clinic, all of those services are able to those families that are in the program and as we refer them through those processes. Now, Echo, Tony, I mean, we're very thankful for Emily and the relationship with Crosswinds. And you ask other school districts, they don't have this. I mean, this is a rare commodity and very thankful that we have it. And when we get into a little more of the information Kansas Community Care Survey, it really shows the need and the continued need of what they're doing. And obviously they've got the data backing it up. Some things that we're doing up with going to the tiered system of support that we as a school district will be doing with KSDE and moving forward with that, continue to meet that need. So it's something that is great for our school district, great for our kids and families. And just very thankful that the support, that the state with the grant is provided as well as the school district and allowing all that to happen. So thank you. And the kids and families really thank you all. And thank you a lot. Thank you, I appreciate that. Tentas, they provide a majority of the grant for that need. Yes. It was 75-25. And they also provide it to some grant funding to the grant fund as well. Yeah, it's a win-win for the community behavior group as well. It also has our school contracted case manager as well, Melissa Watson. And I keep telling her that I keep, when she says present at KSDE and doing things, back off. I told them again and again, back off. I know what they're after. And we want her here. So anyway, she serves on a lot of things. So anyway, thank you so much. Yes, thank you. Sorry, I took the spot. Excellent. Then moving on to the resolution of approving this bill. Yeah, I can send you guys some stuff on legislative things happening. There's a Senate Bill 40 that there are hearings that can be requested by students, by parents or students, and or by employees, regarding specifics of things from the governor's office. Then within that, you have to have requirements for hearings, and the hearing officer and recommendation fan association school boards as well, that superintendent being the hearing officer versus having the whole board have to get together. Board still has to make a decision about those within a certain specific timeline, but it then frees up and allows you not to have to be involved in that particular time. And so I would just be the hearing officer. So just to clarify on that, the hearing officer makes the decision, and then do we have to convene in that seven days? You do. OK. I was thinking, that was what I was reading. So we still will have to go off here. I mean, we're going off here, the hearing officer and recommendation. And the situation is right now with us, it has to be within the last 30 days of a plan change. In other words, you guys as a board, we came and said, this is our reopening plan for our school district in July, August, when you guys approved that. That's not changed. So there was one change in November with the quarantine situation with the high school. If it's 30 days, if you make a change in 30 days, then you're open to exempt from that. You still have to have the hearing with your exempt in the sense that if somebody spreads a case to the hearing officer as to the board, as a representative of the board, it would be nulled in the fact that we have to have it. But there's no decision change because it isn't within 30 days of a change in the reopening plan. Yeah. Any other questions, comments around that? Seems pretty straightforward. Is there a motion then to make our superintendent our hearing officer? I so move. Coming in, Jim, all those opposed, please say aye. Motion carried. Other duties as assigned. I think duties as assigned. Put it on my resume. There you go. All right. New guitar class. Yes, exactly. Is it going to be under 2? What's that? Is it going to be under 2? The guitar class? Uh, I'm, yeah, I'm not, yeah. The next year we'd like to have our current music instructor, Jamie Rogers. He talked for six years guitar previously in Mission Valley. And since it does involve, because typically, again, what happens is board policies. You guys approve the schedule that's included in the student handbook. But if there's things that are going to need to be purchased or personnel or things like that, then you go ahead and have to approve that prior to those type of things. We want to have the class approved so that then we can move forward with the pre-enrollment piece. There has been some pre-enrollment, but the numbers aren't real accurate because students really don't know if the class is going to be approved or not. It is no additional cost as far as personnel. So he would be taking on this guitar class and then also helping with fifth grade here in Alma Elementary because of the way of the travel and split Peter Ruby would continue to have the fifth grade of Maple Hill while the fifth grade is here in Alma Elementary with Mr. Rogers being able to do that. And they've worked that out. So it would be, too, that we would have it, again, when you approve fees at the organizational meeting in July, we'd have a small fee adjusted to that so that over time, just like with the iPads, it would then help to recoup some of the costs for repair or some of the equipment. It also helps to have some skin in the game for people in regards to the equipment. He's asked for four guitars, the cost of $750 for the guitars and music, and then just asking for the approval of the board to move forward with this. I think it's a good thing, again, for our opportunity for our kids. I'm up to approve the class. I second. All those opposed, say aye. Motion carried. Thank you. Great addition, I think. Thank you, Janie. You're listening. Appreciate your push. All right. Thank you. Moving down into personnel. I would like to have an executive session for 10 minutes, if we could have that, if that's okay. For which one? I'm sorry, for non-elective personnel. I move we go into executive session to discuss individual, employee performance pursuant to non-elective personnel, exception under coma, and the open meeting will resume in the boardroom at seven 10. Sorry. All those opposed, please say aye. Motion carried. We'll be back. The file office is open. Shut it down. Thank you. Moving on then with employment. I think what I would, so I would like to make a motion to approve employment as submitted, but I am going to go through those submissions. Okay? Sure. So if there is a second, then I'll go through those, those submissions as they're listed on the sheet. Does that make sense? No. Okay. Okay, so it's been moved and seconded to approve the personnel submitted as one, approving the substitute teacher, Braden Sunberg, approving the substitute classified bus driver, Steve Lyra, approving the elementary, fourth grade teacher, higher of Emily Garrett, approve the bus driver, Philip Wildenauer, to approve the substitute teacher, classified sub of Matthew Alhoff. Then we are accepting the resignations of the Maple Hill Elementary Library Media Tech, Shelby Hollenbeck, we're approving the resignation of a substitute teacher, Kip Kress. We are approving the transfer of duties of Kerry Rosine, from Paxwood Middle School to fifth grade at Maple Hill, Brooke Janssen from Alma Elementary School, fourth grade to Alma Elementary School, fifth grade, and Trevor Keller from the Junior High Assistant Football Coach to High School Assistant Football Coach. And then are we adding anything? We need to have that motion. Did we do the motion, Kerry? With that reason? I just gave you the motion, so we're getting ready to vote for it right now. Okay. I wanted to try, I didn't miss it. So are we adding anything, or is that coming next month? Yeah, I would like to, if you, yeah, if you want to support that, find out one way or the other, yeah. So should we make that a separate motion? Okay. So right now, motion is as stands, and I just named those off as submitted. Okay. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. I see her mic moving, but we don't hear it. Is she muted? All right, are you muted? No, she's on. I can see her mic right there. No, she isn't. The little microphone's still there. Yeah, it was. Jerome, there's a motion on the table of approving the employment as submitted on your sheet here. I went through and named them all off, but on your sheet. She says she messaged, I don't know if yes. Okay, very messaged. Right now, we have five votes. Would you like to vote on this? And that's six, motion period. Okay, and then I would like to make a motion to approve a K-6 counselor position. Pre-K-6. Is there a second? It's been moved and seconded to approve a Pre-K-6 counselor position for USD 329. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. What's Kelly's vote? I haven't seen it yet. Kelly voted yes. She voted that before. No, it's, that's a second one, isn't it? I'm just asking her. Yeah, he's asking. Yes. She said yes. Okay. Opposed, same sign. Okay, motion carried. Superintendent Forum. Just wanted to let you know that I've given you all the information about the Kansas Communities of Care survey results. And just that it continues to be the sheriff Robin mentioned before at community meetings five times the national average of suicide for our county. And this information, again, I've talked about it being valid and reliable. The sense that the survey has the ability to separate out those that are just lying and take that information out and not have it countered. But we continue, if you look at this, here at first thing, seriously ever considered thought about killing yourself. Yes, in the past year, 18.26, and that's a percentage of six, 10th, six, eight, and 10th and 12th graders, which is significantly higher than the county and the state. And that is a percentage of all the kids in our district or all the kids that responded to this survey. Responded to this. How many kids responded to this survey? Six, eight, 10 and 12, 200 and... About 270 some is what I thought it would be. Probably something like that. There I can pull up numbers of responses. The other thing that bullied through texting, social media or gaming, at least regularly one or two times a week, 6.84 compared to the county 5.53, compared to the state 5.67 from 2017 through 2021. During the past 12 months, have you been bullied at school regularly one or two times a week? This actually has gone down for us and is below the county and state averages, which is a good sign. And another thing that we wanna know, what do adults do at school when they see bullying? And the response, stop it and solve the problem. And we are 37.07% of our students say the adults would stop it and solve the problem. It's lower than the county, a little lower than the state, and 2020 was highest 57%. So we do have people that will do something about it. Again, and then more specifically, have you ever tried to kill yourself? Yes, in the past 30 days, 2.59% of our students that took the assessment say they tried. And then have you ever tried to kill yourself? Yes, again 12.93 at any point in time percentage, which is significantly higher than those in the county and the state. Made a plan, again, 19.83% higher than the county, lower than the state average. But again, it's information that we wanna really continue to keep track of and address as much as possible. So very thankful for all your support in regards to social and emotional mental health. And we'll continue to look. And I would again like make reference to take a look. There's a lot of information in there about what's causing it and can we see through with is it alcohol, is it other drugs, is it those other sayings that are in it. But specifically with our county and the things that have happened, national averages wanted just to give you the information and thus make data made, driven decisions on what we're doing. So the second thing is Paxville Middle School Crossroads Realty had worked with them. They came out several times. They used to square footage the letter that's in your board packet to determine what the unit would be, or excuse me, what Paxville Middle School possibly could be valued at. And they believed that the greatest ability for that as an asset is as a storage unit and the value was determined at $100,000. So that gives us a gauge if and when we decide to sell it. Administratively we feel like recommendation is to wait to sell it until we see what happens with the prospective bond in November. Because if we have to move kids for situations we need to have that asset and have that available to us. It also allows us some time to get things out. So the things that we wanna like, the fifth graders coming to the elementaries, we need whiteboards, we need this, we need that, getting all that stuff out and getting it in place. Thank you for the substitute class five person, but that would be Freddie and Matt doing that and that's the only two we would have for Moe and for doing this as well. So that's the plan and again, that we have a value. Crossroads have that value with the modules? With it? Yeah, with and without I believe is the- They thought it'd be about the same without or with. I mean, I can't imagine that they're gonna have a whole new value. Yeah, thanks Tony for putting it out because we're not gonna, right now, initially we talked about moving them up to the junior high, but that's again at an expense again if we aren't going to need them or whatever if we have to move kids out, Steve and his staff have done a good job of determining where locations are and working on building a schedule to meet that need. And so we don't need that at this point other than selling the one modular which will be on purple wave the 25th of May. So if you have an interest in a modular and then them getting it out of there but we wouldn't have to again move something up there which we thought we were gonna have to do. Yeah, yeah, but you're right. It does say that with and without. One of the things they also mentioned in there is if we decide to sell it, their professional opinion would be to have the option at the property. So that everybody has equal opportunity. I know we declared it a surplus that would be in competition and I've talked to them about that. But as I said, once it's sold initially then you don't have that again. And so the ability if you said that we wanna put in there that we have a reserve of 100,000 if that's what we want to choose to do, we could do that. So and the possibility if there's equipment or other things included in the building they were gonna be able to auction off how at the same time. Fresh loads of whoever we would choose. That's all I have, sir. Your own. Do we have outside groups that wanna use facilities after school adjourns for the year? Do what? I'm sorry. Do we have outside groups? Yeah. We wanna use facilities after school adjourns for the year. At the end of this school year? Yes. So if we're gonna discuss that next meeting we're gonna change the policy. Yes, sir. No, that's it except I don't wanna get into the situation where this is not this subject exactly where we start to hear the guidance that we need to start next school year for just a month with masks. And then we get in middle September and it becomes well, we should really go one more month just to be safe. And then we get, well, we should really go to Christmas. I think if we're gonna fight it we need to start fighting at the end of this year otherwise we're just gonna get rolled over by the health professionals and their guidance because they have nothing to lose. The jobs included when they do a bad job there are no consequences. Unlike some of the other stuff that was here. And then I just don't let go. Oh, and I don't want everybody to think reasonable people on board to think oh, we're not gonna be wearing masks next year. I'm not gonna worry about that. I think we need to fight that sooner rather than later because you're gonna hear the suggestions creep up. Next meeting though, we've got a new real plan. Correct. So. Correct. Cool. Yeah, that is. Thank you. Okay. Tell me. Brad just in response to the survey results for the companies that care. I mean, across the board, across the country, mental health is just, it's awful with our kids. So I just am really grateful that our district went full time, reopened this plan because if we hadn't, those numbers would be higher. So I'm just really grateful that we did that. Yeah, thank you, Kelly. And for the board's support of us doing that when we did. So it literally took everybody from you all, administration, teachers, staff, everybody, students, parents, everybody. And they're even seeing data now on, I mean, kids that are just now starting to go back are now having severe anxiety and mental health problems about going back to school now. So it's just going through the root for mental health. So I'm just so glad that we stayed the course, did what we need to do, and that our numbers are not wonderful but they could have been a lot worse. I think I'm glad we're doing this because it raises awareness for all of us, like me, that was the biggest thing, whether those are good or bad numbers, the awareness was not with me, I didn't have that mentality. So I'd like to know it. Kelly, is she still on? Does she have any comments? The voice deal is working. Other than that, I do not have any either. Thank you all for what you do. Thank you. Is there a motion to adjourn? Jerome? Yes, all of them. All right. All second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. The motion is as carried in the meeting as adjourned. Kelly. She said I don't think you can hear me. Thanks.