 We'll continue here with a moment of silence. Thank you. Moving on then to the additions to the agenda, there is one addition under personnel, Joey Hershey's resignation. Is there a motion to approve the addition? Also is the addition of the elementary counselor? Is Gail in there? Yes. And I'm sorry, I forgot her name. Jordan Dunn, Jordan Dunn, D-U-N. All right, so those two additions under personnel, is there a motion to approve? I move to approve. Second. Okay, it's been moved and seconded. All those opposed, say aye. Motion carried. All right, now we'll move on to reports. Mrs. Hudley. I don't have anything to add to my report, unless you have any questions. Okay, thank you. Mr. Oliver. The only thing I'd add is that our league track, league track meet, excuse me, what in our league track meet was our host, the meet that we hosted on Friday. We have a new school record. Peyton Wirtz wrote the school record in the eighth grade, 1,600 meter run. So did a good job on that. She's still got a chance to break it that even more at league meet tomorrow. So we're hoping for good things. We're hoping for good weather, so we're hoping for it. I'd also like to remind everyone if you just let us know, either contact me or the office to let us know if you're gonna be in attendance for our promotion a week from tonight at seven o'clock. So other than that, I don't have anything to add. If there's any questions, I'd be happy to answer. Thank you. I would echo that, except Fards is obviously Sunday at two. So it would be, so we know how many chairs and whether you're gonna be on the stage or elsewhere, depending on how many. So if you could just, well, you can email Cheryl, but you can also email me, speed away with whatever you want. Okay. Mr. Craig. I have a question for the staff, mine's here. Do you have any questions? I don't have anything, but happy to answer questions. Great. Is all the phone switched over now then? Is it all pretty much done? We're still waiting on Maple Hill. We'll be doing that later this month. We'll see Morgan and Tyler here, so we'll move on for a minute. Moving on then to the consent agenda. Is there a motion to approve? Second. Kelly moved and Tony seconded. All those opposed, say aye. Motion carried. All right, then moving on to old and new business. Bombing facilities. Brad, you've got the floor. Thank you. Just the shared information from the Jim Colligan with the ASA Communications and Privacy Court that you all should have gotten. And the parent survey without he says he's got 140, I believe, that have come back so far. There, we have five headquarters members that have turned in there, surveys. So just encourage you, if you have that to complete that. And he's gonna be meeting and talking with the high school JAN that's put together a focus group, and thank you for doing that. And they'll be able to meet with them on Wednesday. They'll talk about some things that would include students as well as also some staff. And then a staff survey that was distributed a week ago had 54 and teachers, staff, administrative respondents. And he gave them some information, highlights from the current staff survey. It indicates that a large number of registered voters did not fully understand them, but were born. So with the trimmities and values of the education of district students, 33% indicated 20 million as the most popular bond with 22% for 25 million bond and 20% for 15 million bond. 58% liked the concept of a single attendance center and 31% for two attendance. And the fish and buildings was marked as the most needed among the five key needs to be remedied by the board. So with that, I have some highlights and goals. He will go ahead and continue to put information together. He's been integrating lots of people as well, random interviews as well as making himself available to others via phone and or what he's going to do at different locations in our district. And you can see the April, May, then get into the information that will be analyzed and then contribute to the long-term planning for the district. And then in late May or early June, use the data to develop and fine tune the bond proposal and 10 S with registered voters once constructed plan for a thorough and effective marketing education campaign. The other piece of that then just as we look forward with the timeline, August, we need to have a decision made about what bond proposal we're going to be moved forward with to meet the guidelines for the State Department of Education and going through their timelines and publications in the paper and et cetera. So those are things that are available and what he's continuing to look at. And then in that, we also had a continuation if we would continue with the present, it just depends on the mills in regards to the payment, but it's in between nine and 11 mills bond and interest and that was produced in the information from Piper Sadler between eight to 10 million if we just continued with the present amount. The last piece of this particular information under was the fact that we did discuss, I take it back, there's more to that, but we did talk and we turned on the structural engineer from Mitten. And so there's lots of information in there. They and I would encourage you to go through it. The thing that it does say on both the junior high and the high school portion are the structurally sound buildings. There's some things to do, my conditions that they ask us to do and to look at in the future that can be continued, but the fact that they're structurally sound, there's some things with the roof. So I've asked that the roof of the high school be able to be included in the energy performance contract as needing to be replaced because there was some issues with that with the chimney and what was happening with that. The other piece that would be put in there was there is one spot that's probably got two darn size spots of possible mold growth at the back of the stage. And so those areas at the back of the stage and in the chimney as well as by the elevator are going to be this Wednesday, I believe this is when the person's coming and have an air quality control test done on that to ensure that there's no mold and take care of those things. But that was in each 27 as no mold. But there's things that are included in that that I think were really good. David Verbend used to be the board president of Valley Heights School District. So he understands schools, he understands like when we're talking about a pier to put in at the front near the junior high area near one of the columns he said, hey look, it's eight grand board president. It's not worth it, it's a fix-a-crack. It's been in the south. And he said both of those buildings will help us long-term on a lot of things. The one thing that I did both from ASA, from Jim Colligan, and talking with others, the idea of hiring now a construction manager at risk. And that construction manager used the construction manager at risk, 80% of the schools are now using this method, the advantage is they, we have one contact. We're not dealing with subs when it comes to the construction and it's a guaranteed max price. So there's no max, excuse me, no price increases or change orders. That's all in there in a contingency. They help us in working with the architect and fact-checking. Because if you remember what one of the complaints was about the architect, the un-manufactured engineer checked it, the art paid a certain percentage and so who's ensuring that we need to really do that? And so the construction manager at risk helps to do that, creates that accountability. I've talked to HDK about it. They work with construction management at risk groups of people that we've had at our board meetings. And so there is a process and then we would go through that process, the board would select you, they want, based upon qualifications, previous jobs and endings. The old way of building, design build build way has distinct disadvantages as you must go with the most qualified bidder. And there have been some issues with this method when completing previous projects. The weight room down at the end there isn't the right compaction to do the right thing. It was a low bid person, the construction manager at risk would help hedge your bet that it was done right and correctly. So there's things that I think that we need to really consider and would like to get the board's feedback about that. And then the last piece is just that the stating for bottom interest, the school finance plan, it looks like I have not seen officially that sign in the law, but there's a possibility that we can get 25% state aid due to the fact that they took Fort Levenworth out of the funding policy in reverse department of interest since they paid taxes. And so that's, when I find out more about that, I'll make sure we report to the board, which would be a huge factor for us as we move forward. But I just would like to get your feelings about the idea of moving forward with the construction manager at risk and we look forward to that. So is that a decision that we'll be voting on or is that something you're just gonna go do some research and bring some possibilities back to us? Is there an example of who it would be a, what kind of company would do that? Do you have any names? You don't know what that is. Yeah, sure. VHS construction shutters, they were construction manager at risk with Brandy County or R. Then there are also universal builders from Kansas City that were at some of our board meetings. We've had other builders cutting from Wichita as shown in the interest. And then in attendance at some of our meetings, the County Board has been in our meetings and some of the things that we were going through that the initial bond possibility, they were there. So all those builders and all those people who have HDKs work with them all. And so they have an idea and what we would do is then we would go ahead and we would have to go through the process, there's a process that I think I included in either the packet that what the CMAR process is, it's very distinct. They have to provide a budget. They have to go through an interview process. We would utilize HDK to help us with those things. And then they say specific things of what they're gonna do and how that works. So, and once that was done, we would make a decision with the board in regards to if we want to hire this person or not. Do you have something to go with? I was just gonna say it's a pretty standard process that I know just even on the specific areas of the level that they use for projects and it moves the project usually a little further along or a little quicker than we can do because you're having the construction in the contractor working at the same time as the architect. So you don't have the architect build these plans and then on the construction side, they're saying, oh, that doesn't quite work. We need to change it. So then you're going back and changing this from the architect's design. Does it require committing funds? I mean, if we don't pass a bond, are we required to pay them something or does anybody know? Is that part of that? Yeah, if you've officially hired them. You've hired them? Process, no. But they put in their pre-bond amounts. How does that work with timing, Brad? So we're in May. We have to have a decision by August for a construction manager at risk. I guess what timing do we have to look at to have one, if we were considering doing it, brought before the board. So then the board has to vote first on whether or not we want to go with the construction manager at risk and then we have to conduct interviews and all of this, I can see this being time consuming. I'm just wondering how much benefit is this gonna provide us in our time constraint? Like, are we gonna, do we need to look at special board meetings if we're considering this? Well, I can find out more information, but it, those get worked with it on a consistent basis. And so they can move pretty quickly, is what I understood and the interview piece could be from a special board meeting if we chose to do it. And then, as I said, what they can help us do is if we go through this and it is HDK, if you remember they made those points and so particular different projects and options and things. The construction manager at risk can say, oh no, you don't have to do that, we can do this and it's gonna cost this much. Those type of things. So just a third party oversight that is tired by the board of education. I'd say we ought to look for one and find one. I mean, start that process anyway, so it's ready for the next board meeting. Would you guys agree or? Sounds like that's a go, Brad. Okay, I will start the process and see if we get a lot more information and include anything we're prior to notes or if we need to have a special board meeting or whatever with that. But I appreciate it and I think it would be helpful to us. Any other then discussion on the bond facilities before we move on? Do you know Brad? Yeah. Go ahead. And I'm just gonna say that Donald Frank's email should be also out there that what he'd given and his thoughts about that. It coincides a lot with the one location that 58% so far like the concept of a single attendance center that Jim found out. Okay. Jim, I was gonna ask you, Brad, do you know if ASA is gonna present the next board meeting or do they have plans to? If he's gonna be available to next board meeting to present. I would assume that he won't have more information because when I understand him, April, May, then he would start getting all the research and information together and start looking how it would be. But yes, he's gonna be, because it is May already and he'll start getting that information together and help us start proposing what we want to look at and I don't know what we're gonna come up with. Okay. Callie, did you have anything to add? I don't wanna leave you out. No, but he does not speak. Okay, everyone's good there, then we'll move on. Next on the agenda then is the variance line. The information on the variance line is included in your packet. It's just making a small change in the line to include the department, go to Mapleville. We have more adequately equalized classes and if I share the screen, you can then see the projections. Presently, it looks like that we could have somewhere around 24 in differences, 108 in Alma and Mapleville's 64. And you can see the class breakdowns and numbers. And if we did, Gail is with the out of district, but there may be some of the out of district that are closer than we had. Somewhere in eight to 12th we could, if we change the variance line. And so that information, and then the question then for us is what the plan is, what's the long-term goal? Again, the downside would be that it gives more justification to keeping Mapleville open. If that's a long-term plan, then we should do it. But if not, it may be for a year and maybe for two or three years. What happens, it may be for 15 years. If the bond doesn't pass, so if the bond passed, it still would take some time to construct and probably would still have students at Mapleville, but I think that it's worthy that we talk about that. It's important to equalize those classes and look at that, because we've been up front with teachers about classes six, which is a Commo class, but compared to a teacher in elementary that's teaching 22. And so the fairness in those things. So I just wanted to go ahead and it's an actual item and get you guys experience. I guess I'll start then with the long-term scope of what we're trying to accomplish. I feel like hiring BSA has been a part of gathering information as to what our communities want us to do for a long-term approach. I don't want to move a variance line for one year. Have the communities tell us what they want for a bond, go pass a bond and then that variance line means nothing because we have a combined attendance center or we don't. So I guess my thoughts are moving it for one year to move kids one place and then moving it again next year to move kids back around. It's an option for them to move currently, correct? They can request to move and we have not told anybody no, but I don't know as that cures our district needs by forcing kids to go to Maple Hill when that hasn't been the desire of them in the past. They've had the option to go and they chose not to. They still can. We can recommend a few of them do from there to help with class sizes. I guess my thought is, I don't know if I'm for changing it right now. If something happens with the bond and it doesn't go through and we need to readdress it, I think that's possible and pretty easy to do later, but that's my feedback. Anybody else have anything? We would provide the busing either way, right? Correct. So whether they come here for purposes of like future outlook, I don't see us being viable having two pre-K through four, pre-K through five locations. I just don't see that viable for our district. I mean, eventually we're going to have to get to one, pre-K through five in order for us to be sustainable. So a variance line for one year or three years or whatever, I don't know, because I guess how I look at it as, you know, ultimately, even if a bond does pass, I don't see us immediately closing schools, making transitions because we're going to, you're going to have to go through the process of potentially building if that's necessary. I mean, I don't see any way currently as our structures are laid out that we can have, unless we at least have three locations, I don't see us being able to have enough space for all of our kids to start pre-K through 12th grade where there's all comebacks, all the possible. We can't, we just don't have a space at two locations. So with that being said, I think there's going to be a transition time when we have, if a bond were to pass, we would have transition time where we'd need that additional space anyway. And that could take, I don't know, I won't, you know, depending on the bill and the scope, could take a year to get a full new facility up, ready to go for the following school year, two years, I don't know, depends on the scope of the project. But I guess my thought is, for the sake of our teachers and equalizing class sizes for students, I don't see a problem necessarily with changing the variance line for a year. They're going to be bused either way. I don't see that as a huge reflection for our whole district as we're making this a solid location that's going to maintain and be a location with USC 329 in the long-term future because, well, mine is not. We don't have the student population to support two separate K through five locations, three K through five. So I think provided the public knows that and understands that that's not sustainable, what we do in the interim has a huge effect. What are you saying? I think the follow-up you've said here, if you've argued to not change it and then you've argued, did it's okay to change it? I must not have to. I'm just saying changing the variance line for a short period of time isn't going to have an effect on our long-term growth goal. Because the population that currently we have for students, we can't justify having two pre-K through six locations. Two of them. We just can't. We're going to cut down in size. We have to. I don't see any rate, anyway, around that. Any other communication thoughts, feedback? I would just exchange these lines every year because they need to even have the numbers. I mean, it's not a big decision, it's not an unusual thing. I know that doesn't speak to the long-term plan but I'm not sure that comes into play as if the whole district's going to influx whether we pass them the bond that will pass or we don't pass them the bond. It's too big, we're not too big. Well, it's hard to, how do you, how do you, or please tell me, how do you justify paying a teacher to teach eight kids and paying a teacher to teach 19 kids that need to pay or not need to pay the fund? You don't work. No, I agree with that. Immediate need. This is an immediate need. It's obvious. And it keeps teachers stressed a little bit for lack of a way better term. I'm sure there's an educational term that I've lost, but that's in my world stress. And I think, I totally agree that the line changing this year and the line changing next year really is not at the scope of the end of it. Okay. Anyone else? It doesn't seem like a big deal unless you're a parent. Seeing that kids are going to one school one year and you have kids coming. I can't disagree. So I, you know, and then they have friends in one school and now I've got to go to a different school and now I've got to have different peers at that point in time. If it's changing back and forth constantly, that's what I guess that point was. If we change it and it's this way until we do the next phase, okay, then I'm okay with that. I don't want to change it and change it again next year and change it the year after that as we're trying to move forward towards a longer goal. I don't think that this impacts to Jerome's point. I don't think this necessarily impacts a long-term goal of the district as far as what we do as facilities. But I don't want us to change it in the end of the year and have families look after you because I don't think that's really good for kids to have that difference. I mean, we talked about we don't want them to transition from building to building as many times as they do now. So I don't want them to have to switch schools constantly. I guess from the numbers standpoint, I don't see how that would, how it would have a year to year. I'm not saying- I know, but that's where my thought process is. The numbers have set this since I've sat in this chair. I don't think that's changing. No, I'm just saying I don't- So, yeah. No, and I totally agree with that part of it. Kelly, do you have any feedback? I think I agree that at this point it's probably not the best idea to change it with being uncertainty of what's going to happen and once we have a little more certainty then we're going to be something we can look at counterfeited. I guess so, if I was to put a pull out there, I feel like we're a little split. When is, when does this decision need to be made for you in order to make those changes if we were to approve one? Katelyn, do you have any feedback on that? I wish the sooner is better to plan out over it. Well, it is an action item tonight. We can make action if somebody so chooses. If they all make good points, I can go either way on as well. So it's not a big, I think it is. For a teacher's sake, for our kids' sake, I mean, being in a class of eight versus a class of 21, there's a huge difference in the learning and I don't know. Yes, it's a lot of stress. My feedback though is the parents have the opportunity to choose where their kids go to school currently. They can choose a variance to switch, correct? So my point is, if they've already chosen for their kid to either go to Maple Hill or go to Alma, they've made that decision, that's where they want. Okay, so we move the variance lines. That is still an opportunity for them to say, okay, well, I live in McFarland, but I wanna come back to Alma. That's where my kid goes, that's where he wants to go or they wanna go. I'm not gonna move them for all the reasons that Katelyn came up with and boom, we are signing a bunch of variances to come back to the school that they were already going and we really didn't accomplish our feat. The only way to truly fix the problem you're talking about is to get rid of our grade school and put it all together. That's the fix. This moving district lines to try and force an issue is really smoking mirrors. I mean, if I'm in Alma, I don't want my kid to go to Alma, I'm gonna sign it. I mean, my kid goes to Maple Hill. She had friends in Maple Hill. I signed it to go to Maple Hill. So I guess if the opportunity is presented to the parents that they have that opportunity to switch, then switch. I mean, that's the other option. That's to encourage families to switch, not force them over the next few years. I think that- The student population in Maple Hill, I don't see increasing from that area. The next couple years. I would hate to say, I guess when you get down to it, what's best for the kids? And unfortunately, that stress gets put on our teachers, what's best for the kids? And I don't believe that moving kids from school to school or moving variance lines and forcing kids to move from their current comfortable zone is best for the kids. I find that very stressful for kids. And I don't want to put them in that situation. So hence why I'm not necessarily for it. If somebody can convince me otherwise, over the next 12 months, while we try and explore an opportunity with or without a bond that combines our middle school or our grade schools, I'm all ears. But I believe the board's long-term goal is to do away with Maple Hill grade school and find a solution that works to combine them. Does switching the variance lines today mean a hill of means to that? We've been a two elementary school for a long time. And what's another year to figure out all of our plans? But it is an action item. If somebody wants to make a motion to change them, then they're more than welcome to. Brad, do you have any other feedback? If not, I'll be right back. I know none of them. Okay. Let's do a change of the variance line. I'll start with you. It's been moved and seconded to change the variance line. All those in favor, say aye. Before we vote. Discussion. Discussion. A little bit for the before we vote. Because I don't know how I'm gonna vote. Are we doing it just to even out classes? Are we doing it to, I'm trying to think of all the different angles with families and teachers and the students themselves? My thoughts were to even out the classes for the teachers. Because ultimately, we can't continue to operate. We know that. I know that. We know that. We know that. We know that. We can't continue to outbreak relief. We know that. So know that, that that is our long-term goal. In the short term, to me, it doesn't have a huge reflection. Because it's not like we're trying to justify keeping these two schools open but they can't do that. I know that. I'm just saying, in the short term though, it is a big impact to a family. Interesting. Is there any further discussion prior to vote? Okay. All those in favor of changing the variance line, please say aye. Would you please do a roll call because two Don Frank just came in. Okay. Don, are you there, Don? No, I can't get him. And so we currently have four for yes. And all those in favor, all those not in favor, please same sign. Aye. No, I'm dropped off. So motion carries. Then moving on to safety and security at the WHS crosswalk to the Boag building's discussion. So was there some discussion or somebody concerned about safety and security at the crosswalk? Just as a thought, I didn't know if anyone was interested in talking with or having Brad talk with the city about putting in some sort of crosswalk barrier or flashing lights or speed bumps around the intersection of where the students, the high school students go across the street, Wilkins Street to the Ag building. There was at least a discussion with the city to see if they'd be interested in doing that or providing some funding for that. This part is like painting a crosswalk on the ground or whatever. There is a crosswalk on the ground but like speed bumps, flashing lights, crosswalks. It's a three way stop, right? Something, yeah. I'd like to hear the car count. Has there been some safety issues that we've heard about? Right, no, but it's an open street. Sure, it's been an open street for ever since I was... I understand, but just because they never had an accident doesn't mean there couldn't be an accident. So we're protecting ourselves against ourselves? Is that what we're doing here? We're protecting the students against potential drivers that's right and stop them. That's my thought probably, but having student safety and health is a big concern for me, so. Right. And that should be, I don't have a problem with them. I guess that was where I was going to start was is there, are we currently having issues? Is there currently concern that we have? Has there been any registered issues with that crosswalk, Ms. Utley? Not to my awareness. Okay. I think, so it was, I believe if you go back into board notes, I believe it was discussed a long time ago because that wasn't a stop sign there for a long time. It was actually just a yield when you come around and I think they changed that to a stop sign and worked with the city on that. So I think it has been discussed in the past, made it a three-way stop in order to make sure, I guess I'm trying to, since if you're coming down Main Street, if you don't stop, you're gonna have a head-on collision with something, house. I guess the other ways may be a little bit more concerning, but if there haven't been an issue, I guess I'm not terribly concerned. Do you currently have protocols in place for kids to walk back and forth or? Just crosswalk walls. Look both ways before you cross. And sometimes they don't. It seems, sometimes it seems like more precautions you put in place, the lazier, responsible walking becomes. Maybe we'll have Jan do some training. I could do some early in the school year. I guess I don't know that it is a problem, but I can't verify it isn't. I haven't had any reports since I've been there of issues, except I do think sometimes kids get distracted and just assume that everyone's gonna stop, which they should, but I mean, I guess I could, I haven't asked. I wasn't really aware that it was an interest, so I. Is our SRO swamp during a couple of those times? Could they just stand out there and watch for a little bit and see if you couldn't look over the next 30 days or the next two weeks? I think that'd be a good perspective to have. And just see what our SRO thinks. Maybe they wouldn't come up with a plan that would help us out. Or they might not see anything. Is that acceptable? Okay. Cool. You good then? Everybody good on that? Callie, you have any feedback? I think it's Canadian. Okay. Don, are you on? Okay. So then next, transportation software update. Just wanted to be aware of some of the, I put in my notes, what they are and the cost. And so just continue to look forward and see what we can do in regards to transportation software. Just wanted to give you an update. Great. Hopefully something comes out of there. I'm not opposed to spending money in that area if it's something that would help you guys be more efficient. So any other thoughts or feet to move too quickly but no reason to stick on if we don't need to? All right. COVID reopening plan, exiting COVID reopening plan. Brad? We have, from the beginning of this, we made the vision that we were going to control what we can control. And so we were going to continue to do that in regards to our COVID, exiting COVID reopening plan in the start as far as the end of school on May 19th. We would look to do HVAC, Plasma Spreadlers that can be paid through or through EsraMoney. It cleans 99% of the indoor air. And then also we'll have to talk with our energy performance contract people about what all things we can do with breaking down specifics of what cost may be for EsraMoney and or what's eligible or not. We would continue to disinfect with the schedule we have. We've got the victory backpacks. We've been able to use and they've done a great job of putting in the maintenance with that piece. It helps the allergies, including all viruses. And it does bottom line what we want to continue to do through this entire, anything we do is keep students and staff face to face and face to face school, which they have done a tremendous job. I want to really emphasize how great a job our students, staff, parents, everyone have done. Because I would get you to say that we in school, other than a small hiccup of 94 around November with the two week out at the high school compared to everybody else in the area and state as long or the longest of anybody. And I think that the things that we hear all the time about learning loss, what I'm gonna see is learning loss because our kids were face to face school. And our kids were safe because they were face to face school. So huge kudos to everybody that was involved in that from the board, administration, our classified and licensed staff did a great job. Also then on the return to mobile, it's a choice of wearing mask or not. From that point on, after, excuse me, May 19th, the open facilities to patrons and outside groups, our waiting cards would all be shut off and we'd start fresh and new with those on June 1st. They must reapply if they paid the $30 fee and that would just be honored for the coming year's fees. And continuation of the facilities, not open to students only. All activities must have adult supervision which has been our consistent policy in regards to that. So it's pretty concise and I think it meets everyone's needs and we ask that more be considered appropriate. Is there any discussion? Kelly. I just have a question. So I appreciate this and I think this is a good plan for us to move forward with. I had a question about the Plasmus, the HVAC Plasmus Preparers. So assuming those have a lifespan beyond, say, four years and we close a building or we close another building or something like that and we could go around. Are those able to be moved or can we do something else with them? I mean, I think to spend money on some of the facilities for a couple of years. Yeah, that's a great question Kelly. And yes, they can be moved. Okay. And the other thing that they've indicated it can be relatively easy to do. I've never done it. I can't say that it's been done with no better than I about the particulars. But it's relatively easy to be installed into them. Then the thing is that when energy solutions professional presents in the near future to us about the performance contract, they will make sure to include or not include long-term goals. In other words, if we're going to close a building, they won't have that included in the ester. Right. Right. Okay. Thank you. That's a great question. You know, Kelly's, you know, it's able to get cares or sports money from the student county and the federal paid for the thermal imaging cameras for taking temperatures. Right. And we have one at Paxville Middle School. And administratively, we've talked about, well, what do we want to do with it? And at this point, just not knowing what we're going to do with kids yet, because we may need Paxville Middle School for students in the future. If that's part of the bond scenario and how it all works, but we would leave it there and then we can move it as well to, like, another additional spot at the junior high or another spot at the high school when people get into the gym. And there's a lot more things you can do with them just taking temperature. But correct. So yeah, that is something that we definitely will consider. Great. I remember that when we purchased them. Hey, Justin. Yeah, go ahead. So, I mean, as far as the masks are concerned and our reopening plan, I mean, at first, I'm definitely going to be kind of questioning why we haven't, you know, taken the masks away and everything, but I would just like to point out that the biggest, for anybody who is, I guess, listening to this, but the biggest concern about, you know, school reopening and the biggest mental health problems have not been because of masks being worn in school, but it's because kids have been isolated at home. And we have not done that. Our kids are in school. They're doing their activities. Regardless of having to wear masks, they've all been very successful. Coming back in our schools and our staff have been very supportive of that in keeping our kids safe. I know that there were some concern about the safety of kids wearing masks and then, you know, is there an issue with that and how does that affect kids and the reading? But to my knowledge, and maybe Brian can correct me if I'm wrong, but we haven't had any adverse effects from kids wearing masks during sporting events or during school hours. To my knowledge, have we grabbed them? No, I'm not aware of anything specifically. Okay, so, I mean, I think, and I guess I'm saying this more because I've had a lot of feedback just on why we haven't taken away masks, but I'm sure we eat for our high schoolers to have something happen. Somebody tests positive and then we can't do graduation. I'm gonna eat for something to happen before softball, baseball, track, regionals, districts and all that. And then they can't compete. And so we have still a little time left, so I guess I just want to give my feedback as far as I don't like masks and we have them. It's not my favorite thing, but we've kept our kids healthy and we've kept them with their peers and we've kept them safe and in school. And so I think that that is the goal. I think kudos to all of the staff and the kids for doing that. And I mean, how many days have we had left in school? Like eight, seven, somewhere in there. So anyway, that's just my two cents. I think I echo that. I also want to say we may be a little slower to get to this point, but we're the only school, especially in the Middle East League, that are allowing people back into our facilities the way it was prior to COVID hitting. So it takes a little more time to do that anyways. And thank you for our school to give us the opportunity to let our patrons back in our facilities. I think it says a lot. So, yep. Kelly? I was just gonna say to Kelly's point though, we're not doing the way with masks, right? Like tomorrow. No, it's the 19th, what it says. After the school year has ended. Right. Right. And that's what I'm supporting. Right. I am as well, Kelly. There, that's Dawn. Dawn. You guys probably are not in support of what I say right now, but oh well. Yeah. My kids don't care, so. Yes, Justin. All right, how are we doing, buddy? You asked what do you need? I just wish to make it sure if you had any feedback here. I don't want to skip over anybody. No, no, I'm fine. Okay, thank you. So, question item, so is there a motion to approve our exiting COVID plan? I assume to approve our exiting COVID reopening plan has outlined by administration. Okay, is there a second? A second. Okay, it's been moved and seconded. All those opposed, please say aye. Motion carried. Next then is republishing of the budget. Brad? Just FYI, anytime we are in position of the federal funds that have some reimbursements and some things if we can go over our authority as far as authorization to spend. When you publish the budget in August, it then is the amount that we cannot go above as far as spending. You can move things around with enlightened items and with different funds, but you can't go above that specific amount. So, with our situation, and when we turned in the budget previously, we hadn't had a teacher, hired, we hired a teacher that we didn't have received more money as far as only salary schedule. And so the difference in other funds we can lift and be able to be spread out but to make up the difference. But what we have to do is republish the COV-11 preschool aged at risk money. It's very specific to that. So Cheryl and I, well with that, it was a good job with that. Been in contact with KSDE about it. And they're like, yeah, so there you go. Let's just spend money to be able to do it. And it is a quote, cost-missing, which is the fact that we can't republish what we're doing. My move, we go to republishing the budget as the administration has submitted. It's been moved and seconded. All those opposed, please say aye. Motion carried. Thank you, Brad. Moving on then to the SR2 plan. The SR2 plan, we will be turning in submitting a plan to utilize federal funds to pay for personnel and portions of personnel. The element eight council position to pay for the grant percentages that we are being responsible for for the school resource officer and for the mental health grant person that's Emily Anderson. And then a portion of the plan is as we move forward, then we would take HVAC system, for instance, which is an acceptable, can't think the word, anyway, acceptable to be able to use that to pay for it and use that in our second portion. The state has continually said, well, first thing you need to address is learning loss. And my argument, as she said in the beginning of the any COVID reopening plan is we won't have learning loss because we've been doing face-to-face school. So we are gonna continue to look at the danger in regards to being summer school and some other things, but I think when we look at our game when it comes back, it will show that our learning loss is not gonna be as what others have projected that haven't been at face-to-face school. So at that end as well, just on, I'm gonna share it on my screen with you again here, to show we, before we could do this, and I had argued that we would be able to reward our people for what they did and continue to push that narrative. However, if you look at number 15 here, other activities, this is authorized use for an S or two funds that are necessary to maintain the operation of and continue it, continually the services. And it says no, specifically, bonuses are explicitly prohibited. Well, with that, we had had the plan to do a PD to pay for so that they could then have a stipend. And if an auditor came that that is allowable because the other thing that the language is number two, which I continually put in our plan is to prevent, prepare for and respond to the coronavirus. And so that is something that we've done, as I said, by face-to-face school. And meaning our goal of not having learning loss, which is our goal as well. But long story short, now what has happened is, is it just came out Friday, that the Kansas legislature said that boards can pay up to $500 spending for COVID related and use of S or funds to do it. So that's what we want to do. We want to include it in a plan, hire two, that's why I was on the board agenda. We had a plan to possibly do some PD after the end of school. But we would like not to do that now and just be able to provide for our people a $500 stipend for them in their response and preparation and prevention of COVID, which is listed in the S or authorized uses and now been authorized by state legislator to do that. And that amounts to around $40,000. So I just want to make sure that we get that okay and have that actionized as we move forward with our S or funds. Okay. Is there a motion? I move to accept the S or two plan. Is there a second? Jim? It's been moved and seconded. All those opposed, please say aye. Motion carried. Thank you and thank you to our staff. It's well deserved. Amen. Okay. Then next is the approving, the propane bid from the Alma co-op. Fred? We did have several of that secluded in your packet. You can see the other bids. They were significant from a little better than a dollar and a gallon. And also the fact that they indicated that they couldn't go lower if that was something that happened. So that's been moved to us. They want to put something, and I can't remember exactly the term. I'm sorry, I don't have the information on our propane tanks to see what's going on. Tank monitors. But with regular, not regular. Tank or level monitors. Yeah, there we go. So I would just, everyone had a fair chance to get on it and we had several come in and I would recommend we utilize the Alma co-op for the propane bid. I move to approve. Second. It's been moved and seconded to approve Alma co-op's propane bid. All those opposed, please say aye. Motion carried. Great, thank you. All right, moving on into personnel. I move we go into executive discussion to discuss the latest proposal for increasing base pay rate from teachers pursuant to the exception from employer-employee negotiations under COMA and the open meeting will resume here in the board meeting at 7.15. It's been moved and seconded. All those opposed, please say aye. Motion carried. Yeah. We're locked in here. All right, so moving on then to personnel ads. I move to accept the changes in personnel as submitted by administration as follows. Approve emergency substitute teacher of Clinton first grip. Approve the employment of Cody Gilmore for WHS assistant football bus driver and teacher aid and accepting the resignations and retirements of Jim broth from bus driver Roberta teal bus driver transportation secretary Bobby Murray as junior high math teacher athletic director head junior high volleyball girls basketball and track accept resignation of Jamie Rogers for assistant boys basketball for the junior high Jessica Imthern as junior high assistant volleyball coach Kerry Beckman as a high school assistant secretary and Linda Drennan as a food service substitute and Joey Hershey as P.E. elementary P.E. and high school and junior high wrestling. Also in that, prove the transfer of duties of Christian, Kristen Braugh from the junior high library media tech to the high school library media tech. There was another K.A. councilman. And then also the addition of the elementary counselor Jordan Dunn. Did I miss any? Okay, there's your motion. Is there a second? Tony? Kelly got it. Kelly got it? Okay, Justin moved and Kelly seconded. All those opposed, please say aye. Motion carried. Superintendent board forum. Brad, you're up. Thanks. Just wanted to report that Western Governor's University in Missouri has a word Jennifer Mumpower at the Mapleville Elementary. A little community library is a $250 grant letter. So congratulations to Jennifer. And we had a Zoom with her and Western Governor's University and the students and it was really cool. So congratulations. One thing also I'd like to make mention of is that the first time in the school history that the Charger, the WHS newspaper received all state distinction from the Kansas Scholar or Scholastic Press Association for its news publication. So congratulations to Mr. Pregner and the Charger staff on that all state distinction. Other than that, that's all I have. Great. Kelly. Congratulations though to both of those areas. Jim. I want to say a big thank you goes out I think to the teachers, our support staff, our administration. Maybe this year has been a very challenging year and I hope our staff stepped up to the plate and did a lot of that. But I made it succeed this year so I really appreciate all of their efforts. And finally, I just want to encourage all the board members to attend the graduation of promotions. I think it's really important to show support for the students, support for their families and our community. Thank you. Tony. I would only say thank you to those resignations. There's a lot of years of service and who you just named off there. And we didn't, we haven't anything said but there's a couple of people here years of dedicated service and we, I do, I appreciate the board appreciates it and I echo everything we've done to get to this point in this year and everything our teachers and staff have had to go through and deal with. It did not go unnoticed and we obviously appreciate it. Jerome. Kelly. I mean, I think I echo the same thing. Thank you to all those that have the names on that list of the resignations and thank you again for teachers and staff done facing this year. Thanks for keeping our kids in school. So that's it. Dawn. I don't need it. So I would entertain a motion to adjourn. Nice one move. Been moved and seconded. All those opposed, please say aye. Motion carries. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. Thanks, man. Senator Dressel. Yeah. Tomorrow morning, okay? Yep, then that's it. Welcome. Did you expect him to be not lying? No, I always lie.