we have one board member who is out of town and california doctor studio wilhoite and she's having some trouble logging on although she is presents and attempting to log on and see if we can get that technological issue resolved as soon as possible i would have another board member mr. willoughby who is also out of town and joining us zoom am i am joining via zoom obviously as well i'm at home because i am still in my 5-day isolation.. all right having announced all of those things i'd like to call the meeting to order it as 641 thank you for your patience is there a motion to adopt the agenda. i move to approve the agenda as presented. is there a sec there's been a motion and a second island. on favor of the approved. chris horne dead. is there any discussion by the board. on the 1st. as i was disappointed not to see a covid update on tonight's meeting i understand it's on sunshine law that we cannot add another item to the agenda tonight in such short notice i would like to ask ministration that are at our next work session we have a covid update and that we also include covid updates for as long as there is covid protocols and issues in the district that's my first and then my second is it has come to my attention that item 7f was added to the agenda and are and there's no contractual purpose for that to be on our agenda tonight so i'm moving to amend the motion to adopt the agenda as presented less item 7 point f s. all right there is a motion and there's an amendment now on the table so board members any discussion on the amendment. all right i seen on weiser when i hear from the board meeting sorry go ahead blake present weight i just want to clarify its not that this is not warranted within the contract it's just that it's not stated that it must happen when i do want to just make that clarity in fact that this can be done that the board may do this or so. all right thank you mr. willoughby any further discussion on the amendments to the motion. president wait i just want to make sure we we clean up and clarify are potentially year did the doctor who the worldwide and join after the motion was made or before because she joined after she is not allowed to to vote correct i don't i am on here and i did hear cats make the motion then i heard blake us. the amendments about the lotion she can vote on the amendment. the robert's rules will not be able to make a vote on any amendments or the main motion when it comes to this agenda item for right now all further motions. okay and so then any discussion on the ament the most the amended motion that assassinated. all right i'll call the question all those in in favor of the amended motion which is to approve the agenda less item 7f please indicate by saying i was a point of clarification. we are voting on not okay and i need the clarification on the 7f. consideration of the superintendent's contract extension letter that was only on the amendment not on the motion as its stand and my foot on that language is right now all of these boats you will not be able to take part. okay that's just a clerical issue since we got started since we were having network ibc be believed that we need to restart the meeting for me because it was not my fault that are we had some issues with the network so i do believe that when that happened in the robert rules they do give a justification for that. because i am present and so that therefore we need to pause on that because i should be allowed to vote on the main motion whether or not i can vote on the amended because of the fact that we need to restart the meeting because i am present at this whole meeting by zoom and so the consideration should have been that we waited to all of the members of present. well i think you know if all of the board members are in agreement with us. removing the initial motion subject the cats motion to amend i'm content to do that to ensure that all board members get the boys to do so it's a bit unusual but in light of the technological issues we've been having all evening i think that's probably a fair thing to do unless somebody has a very specific objection to that so speak now otherwise that's what i'm doing. alright let's start with the initial motion is there a motion to adopt the agenda as presented s. all right there's been a motion and a second any discussion by the board. my discussion comments so that they're on record. tracy will miss sasser's comments made previously be in the minutes. her comment yes because they've been recorded okay so with that cat if you'd like to repeat you're welcome to otherwise if you would please restate the motion that you made with respect to 7 us to amend the motion to adopt the agenda last seven items 7f. s all right there's been a motion and a second any discussion by the board with respect to that motion made by miss sasser. alright hearing no discussion all those in favor of the amendment please indicate by saying i. and i can't hear what that is so tracy you're going to have to read the vote count out to me i think we're going to need to. i'm again please all those in favor please indicate by saying i. all right all those opposed please indicate by saying i and raising your hands. okay the amendment fails. that brings us back to the original motion which was to adopt the agenda as presented there has been a s any further discussion on that point. seeing 9 all those in favor of the adoption of the agenda as presented please indicate by saying i am pleased for his davenport raise your hand so that she can see all those in favor indicate by saying i i i. and all those opposed. the agenda has been adopted as presented. that will bring us to the consideration of the consent agenda. is there enough room to approve the consent agenda has presented. s. there's been a motion and a second any discussion by the board with respect to any of the items that are on the consent agenda. presenti did just briefly want to highlight three items the first item is 3 e5a the human rescue plan humanities grant has a really cool stats on the rock bridge high media center seats funds through an american library association grant will support to students enter collaborative projects that explorer and preserve community programming for students in space for them to be very focused in and it being centered around their work in this collaborative way the other two items are item three e7a it's an mou with dr quarryville which is around having elementary math me towards work and i think it's really good if we are trying to address any learning loss that has happened throughout. students especially at the elementary level really helping to strengthen our teachers as much as possible to address of where we're seeing these issues and giving them the support necessary to do this since i think this is a really good space for the district in the last one being item 3d 9 a.m. soon agreement with macc work-based learning just another program for internships for students. thank you very much mr. willoughby does any other is there any other further discussion by the board with respect to any item on the consent agenda. seeing none. it is time for public comment on items that are on the consent agenda if anybody would like to make public comment related to those items only please do sign the back of the room or at the podium prior to speaking each person will be given three minutes for their public comment which will countdown on the red timer that is on the wall to the right of the podium as you stand at it, is that are related to disciplinary actions or other matters which could be the subject of a grievance process will be ruled out of order please refrain from you of any obscene language or destructive and or threatening behaviour public comment farms remain available at the back table that you may fill out and placed in the blue box at the back of the room if anybody would prefer to share their public comment or input in that manner but prefers not to come forward if you would like to make a public comment on the consent agenda it's only please stuff work the state your name and prior to coming forward i have enlisted the assistance of mister. i'm at the most senior board member who is there in person to assess so that we can ensure that we have i'm all persons heard that wish to make comments so i must receive and i'll defer to you at this point. like the president weighed if there's anyone who would like to get public comment on the consideration agenda please step forward now. say none present weight i'm going to hand it back to you thank you very much we have got a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda is there any further discussion by the board. seeing 9 all those in favor please indicate by saying i and raising your hand so tracy may see who is speaking all those in favor say aye aye. opposed. thing on the consent agenda has been adopted. that will bring us to the next item on our agenda which is special recognition we will turn this over to helen porter to provide us a an introduction to those receiving special at recognition this evening. good evening i'd like my friends from hickman high school and career center to join me please. good job high schoolers from across missouri gathered at the missouri school of journalism last month to compete in the inaugural add to challenge the event saw teams from 15 that's advertising campaign for a hypothetical marketing project the purpose was to introduce high school students to the opportunities and hands-on education style available to the program and current practices and it work for us since were briefed on the scenario out give an 80 minutes to can create a comprehensive plaid plan for an ad campaign the teams were judged on the creativity of their ideas understanding of the project are the strategic tactics and overall quality this team from cps columbia area career center and hickman high school one overall team champion and best tactics the members of the team or india by trude greta frymire isaac lewis elior and jessica z their marketing instructors are scott hooven housing michelle kelly. an alliance we are infinitely proud of them and how they represented the career center and columbia public schools please join me in congratulating this exceptional team. congratulation. i just think you god bless. congratulations to all of you and thank you mr.and everybody else who's sitting at the board table that i can see for handing out those special recognition awards i appreciate that. i'm all right that will bring us next to the report of the board of presidents as we do at every board meeting we will hear from the president of the columbia missouri national education association as well as the president of the missouri state teachers association this evening will first hear from is noel gildo from the columbia missouri national education association. good evening and happy new year i am noel gills i was speaking as president of cm nea the exclusive teacher bargaining representative for columbia public schools first some great news last month we were in the midst of our annual como gives campaign where we were able to raise about $8,000 our goal was 4000 we raised $8,000. to support our como ed scholarship program a big shout-out goes to the principles of our three comprehensive high schools who took the peer-to-peer challenge to new heights we congratulate adam taylor and the battle spartans for winning the competition themselves raising over $2,200 we know that the real winners are the students of cps. tonight you will approve the bargaining parameters for this year the mnea is quickly working with administration to complete our bargains committee reports by our january 15th deadline both teams have already come to an agreement on our ground rules for bargaining and are ready for our first bargaining session on january 20th. yet there seems to be some confusion in the public as to why you choose to bargain with sia many a the missouri constitution gives even public employees the right to collectively bargain through representatives of their own choosing the teachers of cps elected to collectively bargain and a lectin cm nea as their exclusive representative through an election conducted by the league of women voters in 2012 since that time annual surveys indicate majority support from our teachers for the results of that election with a large majority every year indicating they would choose the mnea as their exclusive representative if the election were conducted again. our bargaining season requires see many a to represent all teachers as we bring forth issues of concern that will improve our teachers working conditions which are also our students learning conditions our previous negotiations have resulted in many items we should all be proud of which will attract and retain the highest quality teachers and cps a stated goal of the district. in the last couple of months i have shared concerns about employee safety in some of our buildings i'm pleased to see that we are making progress in that regard and the district has taken these comment seriously. one step is that is being taken is to improve to improve safety and security is the upcoming reinstatement of sros in our district already the district is calling in law enforcement for many issues from violent fights to behaviors that threaten the safety of students and staff members i acknowledged that many of our students have trauma related to interactions with law enforcement either personally or through shared experiences by choosing sros we have some say in who answers the security calls also we can make sure that these officers are trained in restorative practices and we can integrate them into our school community that way we can have officers that know our students while helping provide a safe learning environment. physical assault is not the only concern in our buildings though as omicron surges in our community and case raids are setting records many educators and students alike are concerned about their health given the changing covid mitigation protocols which became effective january 4th only one week into the second semester and we are already seeing many students and staff out due to covid again we are facing severe sub shortages 56 short in only six of our buildings. some subs aren't comfortable taking jobs now that masking isn't required inadequate sub coverage means overpopulated classrooms with insufficient supervision to maintain safe additionally students are returning from quarantine and not wearing masks even though they are supposed to 45 days post quarantine it is difficult to enforce this requirement because we don't have a mechanism for knowing who is supposed to be masked reporting on remote learning is behind because our nursing staff is overwhelmed with the combination of their normal duties and covid protocols the covid daily tracker shows the results of this laxity rapidly increasing case rates that dramatically overshadow rates that we have seen in the past year. cm any a conducted a survey of its members to assess their feelings about the changes to the covid medication protocols preliminary data trends show a large majority feels uncomfortable with the new masking in quarantine procedures the datatrend also shows overwhelming support for a return to the policies in place before winter break with monthly board reviews a summary with data analysis will be sent to you later this week please consider the health and safety of our educators and scholars and revisit the covid return to school plan as always i appreciate the opportunity to address the board on behalf of cm any a thank you for your service. thank you miss guelzo at this time we will hear from the president of the missouri state teachers association mysterious death. good evening president wade superintendent yearwood and members of the board and administration good evening my name is carey steph and i stand before you representing 475 of your staff members. cmst a would like to thank the board for their time and attention that you've given to columbia public schools we know that it takes away from your jobs and families so please know that your dedication is much appreciated your hard work continues to make cps a district of distinction and one that draws in people who want to be part of this amazing community we want to thank all of our teachers staff members and administrators that have worked so hard this year. to make this the best school year with all the challenges they have faced teachers are working harder they're working longer hours than they ever have before cmst is very concerned with the number of teachers that have reached out that are considering leaving the profession this year we need to make sure that we are focusing on how to retain the excellent teachers that we have in cps the sub short and storing members of staff out sick is an added stressor. the said there was a sub tractor that listed / 700 / scuse me sorry the last sub tracker that we had had 200 positions not filled these are being filled in our buildings by title 1 teachers media specialist classroom aides homeschool communicators and anyone else that can be pulled teachers are covering for each other and this added stress is overwhelming this is not sustainable we again want to think of them again want to thank the many district staff members that are helping to cover positions we see them and it never goes unnoticed. we also think about them and that they have their own jobs to complete as well as budget parameters are presented to the board this evening cmst a appreciates all the hard work of heather macarthur and her team they continue to show the transparency with the difficult task of best practices for all stakeholders we are excited to see it again student achievement is the number one priority is educator student achievement is always our top priority we're pleased with the board's commitment to continued improvement to compensation and continuation of benefits for employees recognize the effort put into planning for the future the need to open new buildings maintain the ones we have accommodate our learning community and attract and retain high-quality teachers. an item on the agenda this evening is the returning of sros to some of our buildings so we sent a survey to her teachers asking their thoughts on sros if you were their responses were as follows as far as provide a great opportunity to create a positive interaction experience with law enforcement officers in our building i believe that's our as relationships with kids decrease fear of law enforcement certain people in the sro role can be effective at building relationships with students and helping to prevent issues not all officers can be sros. though and that should be considered i think it is helpful to have sros in building to help keep staff and students safe i also think that it provides a connection to students they're able to see an sro is a good person and not just a bad thing i feel it creates a positive relationship between law enforcement and our students i think it also provided another person to help with discipline even if it's a just another person to talk with the student and help them process we loved having her as a sorrow and officer presence in the school helps build positive relationships and trust between students and officers which in turn translate to community trust of police officers the help these officers provide to the schools is tremendous and has a great impact. police officers and there were some that were a little less positive some police officers are trained in law enforcement not working with students their presence will cause fear and i think we should invest more in social workers but overwhelmingly most of our teachers felt and then almost 83% rate that azzaro should be returned to the buildings. cmst a works hard to keep members engaged by trying to send out surveys and asking for their real opinions and to let them know how much their hard work and dedication is appreciated as we begin the collective bargaining season we want to continue to express our concern that our members do not have the ability to participate in the process we want to encourage you to consider returning to a meeting him for model we're all teachers and staff members have a voice c u m s t a stands behind putting students first and we would like to see that time and effort put into bargaining is well by all parties to support our scholars we would like to recognize our members of the month marion can't meyer it's c e l n pamela laughlin at battle elementary luke lucas. dolor fuerte at lang rebecca bought at battle high school our regional representative carrie cothran will help recognize these members in the coming days thank you for letting me share my thoughts with you this evening good evening. thank you very much. that will bring us to item number 6 on the agenda which is the report of the superintendent of schools we will begin with a report by doctor yearwood with the assistance of john white i regarding school safety at school resource officers explained dr yearwood school resource officers in schools and in school safety and we have with us sergeant call lakisha and mr. john white here to talk to us about sros thank you i good evening my name is john and this is my very good friend apartment a joke a lot about keisha been able to write a book about what an effective school resource officer is it go around the country make millions of dollars so thankfully she's here. with us tonight and we're just going to tell you what what what what a school resource officer is and what they do. it's not working on my okay so it's to be in a school resource officer there's an education aspect there's a mentoring role modeling aspect and then there's the safety switch the safeties the easiest it's just a deterrent there's a deterrent having a uniformed police officer in and around because those people will not commit crimes when there's a police officer close by the mentoring and the role modeling i'm i'm going to let sergeant edwards toys you guys all about that what she does a little bit later on in the education process is just an opportunity for school resource officer to get inside the classroom as a guest speaker and then be able to break down some of the barriers that happened between a police officer and an f in a scallop. so. ultimately the sro their primary responsibility is the overall safety and security for the building. they build relationships with scholars stats pants groups they break down barriers between law enforcement and scholars they provide mentoring support for scholars and staff their resource within the school they can be escalate scholars that are in crisis they reduce incidents by being visible presence in the building they work with the juvenile office the family courts to keep scholars from entering the system there is an immediate response time for emergency there is no lag time. increase overall feelings of safety and security for the staff scholars and they participate in a restorative practices. examples of daily duties. these these are the examples that i came up with told the board already this before i come from this as being an xsr0. what seems like a hundred years ago so. i met with principles each morning to exchange information gathered from pants community members social media to identify potential safety concerns you didn't have a whole lot of social media back then for example spillover threats drug activity and other behaviors that might be coming onto campus and it was school l counselors parents to understand when and how at home issues me an impact the scholars behavior at school listening to scholars concerns and working with the school to help develop solutions. coordinating additional law enforcement resources to assist with large public events on school campuses that dances basketball games football games concerts that kind of stuff scheduling emergency drills in conjunction with other local agencies including right now we have active an intruder shooter drills that we have to do that are better monitored by the by the local law enforcement fire drill tornado drills earthquake drills. developing and supporting social emotional and healthy lifestyle programs that part of that education piece helping scholars with the academic and social needs including assisting with homework. i'd like keisha to actually tell you what her they were like but she was out how long you've been doing it all things that john white mention is all the things that i did as well i was a school resource officer for rock bridge high school for nine and a half years and so maybe what i did on a daily basis was me to read the students where they were at and so that consisted of meeting the students at the front door every morning with the high five a smile or good morning one of the three kind of depends on how they were looking at some students in the morning when i get off the school bus david look at me with a smile or didn't look at me at all but i wanted them to know that i was there and that i was wanted to be engaged in their life. i myself after the bell would ring i walked the hall is my job to make sure check the doors and those sort of things i'm as i'm walking the halls i would notice a student who was supposed to be in class who's not in class and so i spent a few minutes talking like that stupid into going to class by saying you can't get your education from the hallway so after i walk that student class by the time i make it to my office there are at least two or three otherby my office or i'm getting a phone call from a teacher of students who want to come to my office to talk to me see my office as a school resource officer is a safe space is a safe space where kids can go when it don't have any of the adult to talk to. my office is the office where you can be yourself in a kid knows if they can tell me anything and i'm going to help find a solution and so when john said the mentoring piece that's the piece you're going to get from the school resource officer. so the relationship building piece so the relationship building piece is very detrimental to the resource officer be their friend like you can't have both ways you can't walk through the door with the idea of arresting every kids kids are not going to be friendly to you it doesn't matter what you do so you got towed the line a little different and so you got to have a different mentality to be a school resource officer and so the mentality is to build relationships and so the arrest is not the first thing that you want to do it is the last thing you want to do you want to exhaust everything else before you get to the arrest okay so. be building a relationship keys consist of. we figured out what the problem is. me freaking out what resources i can put in play before i'm even leaving looking at an arrest or anything else and in regards to the relationship piece it goes beyond. when they're in high school it expands outside of high school i have gone to basketball games bbqs weddings was not just when they're in school they go beyond that. after all that throughout my day i think i do multiple restore the sessions inside the building on because with young adults there will be conflict i'm normally don't do this by myself and then we pick the homes go to pinacate and we get together we do them together for that conflict with that the building will probably the greatest thing that i ever created was the program that i call a cheese this program was when i first found out that i had to do this in my building who were initiating each other in our bathroom you need to take her fighting in the bathrooms to initiate each other they were jumping each other in the bathroom. and one of the reasons that they said that they were doing these things is because they said if it did not feel like they had that they belonged in the school and so these kids had it so what i did with this program is i took those same kids every last one of them lord i discipline and i put them all in the same room and i started and i pull people with a c t s. come and talk to my kids and also put kids from the community and the university of missouri to come out and start talking to my kids to give these kids some hope. so they know if they can graduate and it don't have to make a decision to join the game and so you didn't answer earlier just more than a cop and in uniform it's more than that i have the desire and then definitely kids life just like any other staff member. so just a little bit of history about the sro program it it was established here in 2001 shortly after the columbine school shooting at the time it was actually fully funded by the city of columbia and columbia police department there were two sros in the what was the two high schools back then that was later expanded to consume to add to every middle school so there was actually an every secondary school fully funded. that has fallen off over the years and we were i think paying 55% 2 years ago of salary and benefits for the for sros that we had which were three for the three comprehensive high school's we have now and one a sorrow that was in charge of all of the middle schools. tsro agreement ended in june when the city had budgetary constraints which is the only reason that we don't have them now. sergeant edward was talking about building relationships are building for developing connections and these are just some of the things that sean patton directing traffic these are some of the connections that i personally witnessed over the last 11 years. i've seen a certain sergeant that standing here next to me walking scholars at senior night when their parents were not available fitting a stepping into that to fill that role i've seen them dj at lunch time another way to make connections with the children and sometimes the music is very very loud and old people don't like that i've seen them dancing at dances with the scholars. i've watched them personally provide food and other support needs out of their own pocket from their own refrigerator and their own office to students i've seen them deliver food during the pandemic. i know for fact several cpd officers that are on the on the porch right now or there because of the relationships that they built with their sros while they were students in our in our buildings. i will let you tell them your story and how you build connections are some of the stuff other stuff that you've done. to my students were arriving at school 8 every morning and it's something that i noticed and i'm at the mall i'm out in the circle drive of the school and i asked her why she told me because her car wouldn't the battery was going out in the car would start. i think i had $100 in my pocket and i handed it to her. she didn't want to take it. but i said. you got your education i need your kids to get there so i need you to take this money so that they could get to school on time and she took it and she called me the next day and she was a butt. sometimes you do things i don't bring the lord into it that thatleads you to do certain things and i knew that she needed the help she just probably was unwilling to ask for it and i did. i bought christmas presents for kids don't have christmas presents i have hooked up food at my house and handed it to the giving it to the kids they like steaks for some reason they like to eat but i don't mind doing that because it's about building a relationship like i said that extend way pass high school it expands into their adult life even to this day i still have adult who were students at the school that i was a school resource officer. contact me and say how you doing or i still get invitations to things baby showers and weddings and things of that nature and that speaks about it it doesn't say that i was a bad person that says that i was an excellent persons but i was a police officer because they saw me and my profession did not see me in my personal life they saw me and my profession so that means i was doing something right. so when 2021 the secret service put out a report call diverting targeted school violence in that report their findings of the schools they studied where the shootings actually didn't happen or the attacks didn't happen. buildings that were successful at a threat assessment process or procedure which we do we we follow the virginia threat assessment model we've trained hundreds of our staff members in that we've actually trained police officers in it and juvenile officers so we've opened the doors up to more than just our own people. they suggested a robust counseling and social emotional and mental health supports which we have. they wanted a tip line or an anonymous way to report a possible incident so that students had a way to it to make an anonymous report we actually have two we have a tip line that's on our website and we also have the courage to report which is a statewide it used to be called missouri school violence hotline so there's two and then the final thing was a school resource officer program. we've been back in 2020 put out a thought exchange when the sros were being taken back from our buildings we sent out a thought exchange that went to 1854 participants they gave 1669 thoughts and they rated 68334 those thoughts the question was with the elimination of the sro program how should cps reallocate funds to enhance the protection of students and staff while they are in cps care. the interesting that came interesting thing that came back to us was that the highest rated thought the number 1 and number 2 rated thoughts were get the sros back even though that wasn't even an option of the top seven 4 or we need to ask her husband so the number one and number two answers were takes it if we need to get the sros back in for the top seven where we need to get the srs back. and i will leave you with this. this is kwame police officer john warner of warner devoted most of his 20-year career as a school resource officer in columbia public schools officer warner positively impacted the lives of so many scholars staff members and families he's a positive example of a relationship we want school resource officers to develop within our schools the naming of our newest middle school john warner middle school symbolizes this great connection between our school and our local law enforcement. thank you. thank you very much both of you for that presentation is doctor yearwood i would turn it back over to you for a moment if you have anything further that you'd like to add i would like to do it again officer edwards and mr. white for their presentation this afternoon a number one priority and in columbia public schools are scholars and the safety of us carlos and you know we we we living in a time in which again there on present this is an unprecedented time with mental health and different issues being faced and we want to just provide levels of support so or schools can function for what they're meant to be educational for scholars that sit educating our scholars and providing the best education experience and so i would just like to add this is but one. are there some other areas that we would be looking at in terms of counseling and think like that but this is what one area that can definitely be a plus for all schools in in the support of the educational process. at this time can i move onto the next president wait. let me just pause for a moment and just turn it over to the to the to the board for a minute just to see if the board has any questions or anything that anybody would like to discuss following that presentation by mr. white and sergeant edwards. i would just like to say i actually worked had the privilege to work with keisha at rockford high school and i was a teacher at rockbridge and was a daily inspired in an oz of the way that she was transformative in the lives of students so she's not here anymore but a big thank you to keisha she's i admire deeply and then i just have one and if you want. and then it just might my next point is just a question don't laugh at me david i'm doing my best over here i think that this is a really important conversation i'm glad that we're having an i appreciate ministration making space for a presentation tonight i would also request that we engage in a community forum and or engage the community task force as we look into i'm at the rose re-entering or school so that we can hear an end really participate in conversation with community members across our city to hear from them about their experiences and needs so i would just throw on the table as request. do anybody up anyone else have anything that they would like to add. i just want to add i really appreciated hearing the presentation i would echo miss astor and thanking the administration and also think sergeant edwards a minister john white for being here and and sharing their experiences from everything that sounds like sergeant edwards is really the sort of the exemplar of what we want the sros to be an end to be able to do and i just asked as we move forward with the process in addition to the community input that. we think about any contracts things like that to make sure that they really reflect what we want out of these officers the qualifications that the duties that we want them to perform so that we are setting this program up if we're going to bring these sros back into the school so we really set it up for success in in a way that is going to benefit our students and and benefit our our staff and our buildings overall. and thank you again as well add another think you two to john again because he answered a number of questions previously when when the first version of the contract last month was presented and i know that there's a lot that's being looked at their and encourage us to keep looking at that deeply. thank you and anybody else have anything that they would like to say before i turn it back over to dr. yearwood. yes president wait again i want to thank you sergeant edwards the presentation that's what theout and highlight its possessor i was building in our start with ox are we talking to those he heard his voice today and so there's a lot of things we can talk about relationships. thank you mister horn anyone else. madam president. there's been requested around us looking at having community forums or larger group dialogues with this being a recommendation that i know that and dizzying as an imperative you can contract have a conversation on board resources this in one of them when it comes to addressing issues that they're seeing within the building and giving assistance i'm curious to know if you would be willing to ask our colleagues you were saying that they are wanting to see kind of this model to present us with a timeline and structure with this would look like when they would like to see this happen because of just of the urgent nature that it seems from my perspective that staff would like to see this be decided on. yeah absolutely so in terms of in terms of each board members and you know for that matter administration's thoughts about any any specific things that you would like to see in a contract removed from a contract where do the specific way in any other concrete timelines or mechanisms that you would like to see and play i would appreciate having that information as soon as possible cuz i do perceive that this is something that we need to address in a timely fashion not that anything that is before the board isn't something that needs to be addressed in a timely fashion but the the more concrete detail that can be provided by each of you to administration in advance of a planned vote on this the better and so if you could do that for us that would be wonderful so i'd say thank you in advance and thanks for raising a flag that's a good idea. anybody else have anything that they would like to say. alright seeing doctor yearwood i would gladly turn this back over to you so that we can discuss the long-range ability and von plan update along with mr. george. thank you president wait this time we will have the presentation of the long range facility plan and unbound plan i'm the board of education in columbia public schools have a long-range facility and finance plan that includes two goals based on an evaluation of district facilities the plan began in 2006 with the goal of reducing overcrowding in schools including reducing the number of trailers and proving physical and learning environment in all facilities and increasing the function of life and death and efficiencies of existing facilities facilities the continued expansion of the plan in 2020 to now also includes focus areas that continue to address growth maintain and improve safety and security and improve accessibility in this update as you can tell from our presentation the first slide shows a classroom environment.call exceptional schools exceptional scholars exceptional teachers and staff and we continue our work towards excellence because of the support of our community and its investment in our schools so as we look at these slides we see scholars we see the future. as we look at all romant overtime. what do you think is that we're definitely increasing over time in 2010 we started at 17,000 today to our 2122 we have over $18,500 in our school on this number keeps going we are approximately $525 even last year if you know this is a dip in 20 2021 with the pandemic we still continue to grow this dip that we see is pratt was primarily in kindergarten when he decided to do we call it red shirt their scholars starting them in kindergarten or first grade the following year so again we continue to enroll students daily. as we look at our infrastructure columbia public schools in compass has over three hundred square miles we have 39 building 3 support facilities over 3 million square feet of building space and we have to maintain approximately 799 acres as part of a school district. how to look at our buildings though noticed that we have a very aged buildings we have grant and jefferson that approximately 111 years old douglas 105 ridgeway 99 hickman 96 benton 95 and swan and goes all the way down to rock bridge coming through there at 51 aziz buildings age it requires different levels of maintenance different levels of upkeep and also all buildings have to be very well maintained so that we continue to provide a safe environment that is aesthetically pleasing and one that was carlos contriving and it'll cost to operate operations department is in charge of done a magnificent job with that later with i'mma start mr. gooch. how to look at time they've been a variety of of bond projects that have been delivered throughout the years and i'd like to highlight a few of these while i'm wanting to know in columbus public schools we deliver or projects on time and on budget and he has a listing that we have alcohol in 2010 bartow high school 2013 to high school gyms additions in 2013 by the elementary 2015 and someone so they are host of projects that have been worked on that have been delivered on time and on budget. so one of the main issues that we have ever had in the past with trailers and again we have seen a definite decrease in the trailers that have been used for classrooms throughout our school district and again b number 20 now we should have under that the process of the fortress to eliminate trailers from our school district completely one of the long range facility gold has not only to address growth but to eliminate these trailers and we've made significant progress along the way thanks for the planning of by the board the district and support from all community. if you have two projects images of a projects in a district be nearing the completion of the rock bridge elementary addition and renovation john warner middle school is open and operating jeff middle school edition that includes a gem among other update these continue to to see great progress we have an elevator to address a d needs also at jefferson middle school progress is happening because of again the bonds that were approved by voters. so if you look forward for the to the next 10 years what what does that look like what is that that horizon look like or district is full focusing on continuing to address or growth are making sure that we are keeping school buildings safe we must be able to keep her building safe for a scarlet addressing accessibility needs addressing improvements in our existing buildings so i can receive areas for the next 10 years talking about growth safety and security and accessibility. so i can't we look at our facility and bond planning recommendation the recommendation is that we we asking permission from the board to move forward with is that in april we go to the ballot for 80 million dollar bond but i want to be very clear with this with this 80 million dollar bond there will be no tax increase is expected this is not going to involve any increase in taxes i want to be very very clear about that and their variety of projects that we will be looking at if approved starting in june 1st 40 million dollars to be looking at an elementary school looking at renovations and additions at the career center will be different pieces to that battle elementary school edition upgrading what safety and security or making sure that we have accessibility projects. time to accommodate you have accommodations for $88 at need that improving my technology infrastructure we definitely have a need to improve as we increase the use of technology in classrooms and of course the roofs and other projects on the way in june of 2020 for the second recommended 40 million dollars would be to look at continued renovation of a career center as a look at it face to a flat looking at the new elementary school also are the safety and security and accessibility projects they are as well at this point in time to give us a little more detail of a skull chief of operations mr. gucci to come forward and talk to this site for just a minute hello thank you very much, look up here cuz the slides not on this so i want to make sure i cover this right these are kind of the highlighted items that we want to talk about for this issue and we have check. yes if you add up all those projects on there they do add up to 80 million like it was darker would mention that although the bond issue will be one vote will be taking it over to 2 seconds. who did that i did. all right so man you know there are three kinds of people in this world. whitewater all right so what was wrong with the first one we have the new elementary school that's slided to go after john warner sight when we do we build john warner middle school we did the site preparation for a possible elementary school at that site so that's kind of shovel-ready project that's 25 million you look at the other elementary school we not really yet determine that that will be something that comes out of that second phase of a of a drawing down funs why is it through three million dollars more than the other because we're not we're not talking to site ready project so there will be additional cost due to the site work 15 mean for christian tradition renovation took a group up to missouri innovation campus last friday to look at some very new and exciting career center technical space and i think. everybody got pretty fired up with what we can do one of the major reasons were doing this as we have some significant foundation issues at the career center along the east side of the original building and really if we were just a recover that building and bring it back to 1978 it would probably take a big chunk of what we're looking at their so we think it's a wise use of money to look at some new space demolish some bring back some new but also renovate the existing some of the existing space that's in that old erwin and that we work with the architect on this visit and we're excited about what they're going to be bringing to us and they should have some ideas for us and and visual ideas that will be able to share with you as a board and will also be sharing with the community as we get closer to april. then we also have a battle elementary addition we built that school we also were thinking ahead we did not build it to its full size he said it could be at that point in time but we did prepare the site so we have a shovel ready site to be able to do addition which will bring it up to the same size as like cedar ridge so that that's in that's in the first wave and all through this four-year process we have numerous opportunities to do some enhancement and just stay our existing facilities ada work hvac work that sort of thing we're continually evaluating our safety and security hardening entries and that sort of thing that work will continue and obviously technology is something that. that never quit so we we have to stay up on that and we have a portion of that designated for that. alright thank you thank you miss a goose for that i'm over with you and now we want to let's talk a bit about for the benefit of our community and public that may not be as familiar with bonds is the difference between bonds and levies as we talked about people and operating expenses like supplies material bonza for bricks and mortar and by law you cannot use bond funds to pay for salaries when we very clear with that bond funds cannot be used to pay for salary based solely intended to be used for cost associated with construction so he knows we are growing with our numbers we having to increase all our capacities and that's why we're going out for a bunch to increase that to look at again the brick-and-mortar a part of our school district buildings. as we look at finding some people may ask what what about the funds we get from the state the state of missouri does not find major construction projects technology on infrastructure local funding is required for these initiatives and as we look at local funding local funding is required for addressing the needs within a local school district so again we do not get funds for construction technology or other infrastructure for mo state funds issue facts that you look at certain facts to consider the first one is cps is a brewing district most scholars are coming next we must be so long way to plan that we in place to be able to address this growth and again as i mentioned before the state does not fund construction or infrastructure. so as we look at what's ahead we're looking at asking for snowboard and if permission is granted in the voters about a 80 million dollar bond looking at april 5th and remembered in in in red want to be very very clear no tax increase so again late in the agenda of the board will consider putting an 8 million dollar bond issue on the april ballot. that's what i have thank you presently have any questions thank you for that overview ford please. president wait i just want to share i joined at mister boots last friday up to lee summit to go visit their the krishnans they have a fair and it was quite a phenomenal trip in the resources that are there the design of that building really allows for deep collaboration as well as space that is movable and changeable in for what the district as well as their the partnership they have is a district in the university partnership and so the university of that are partnered with how they're needing to use those spaces and so do the designers talk to us about. i forget what the first one was about like movable walls or somehow i got but then i was like five your walls and 10 your walls and kind of meaning in the sense of like walls that are going in your walls being well that will be there forever those are strong structural support walls that need to be there to keep the building physically there and then these like 5 years ago on your walls being before they can be tearing down and change depending on where meet is at and where programming changes and then having walls that are movable no matter what so that it allows us space to really weak and we can create an ou's with other entities that might need additional space when we're not using it to bring in some income as well for the district and so i do think really looking at the same kind of talking to me how this is going to be great for her students for looking at a reimagining of whitaker center can look like as well as the program of the enhancement that is going to give to a programming to her students. place that actually helps them do what they are doing already but also giving up space for a kuna to see all the great worker skins are doing through the career center because right now there's a lot of things that were doing that a lot of people wouldn't expect are happening in those walls right now and it's mainly just because of what the space looks like and how you walked through it so it's really exciting is mr. stead of mean i i really left being really energized about talking about the phone and talking about what can really do for kids specifically when it comes to that career center aspect of this pain. i also wanted to add that i know questions but as someone who had children who had trailers as their classroom for for a number of years the teachers did great jobs with that but now in that same school having the permanent classrooms for my youngest the difference is really unbelievable as far as the learning environment and similarly with the ada improvements when my oldest two were at their elementary school their grandparents could not join them in certain classroom when they would have the opportunity to visit because they could not navigate the stairs and so the addition of elevators the addition of those continued ada improvements to all our buildings is really great and i just want to come in the long range planning committee, and i love you for looking at all of that and and i think the importance of the bond issue of really keeping our infrastructure up. is highlighted by the experience that our students have in the building's when they are accessible and really well up kept so thank you. thank you mr. willoughby and miss snodgrass does anybody else have any comments or questions that they would like to ask or state thewe have two elementary schools plan for construction one of the john warner site one to be determine how far along are we in the process of of the kind of turning where that second elementary school will be sure that's a great question one of dr. yearwood's goals is to develop a a new long-range facilities plan so as we work through that using the information that we've gained with the facilities conditions on its working with our new architect on long-range strategies that will be something that we will start to look at it if you if you remember the slide we have a wide range of buildings in age and each of those depending on. rage percent different problems obviously ada and accessibility on those older buildings is much more difficult to accomplish so we'll have to really take a look at it look at those think those through well look at areas in the community that maybe had it have not had as much attention as other areas but that will all be part of that the great thing is with those facility conditions audit we have an apples-to-apples comparison to every building because every building is graded on the same things in the same scale and it and it's put in current dollars so will we can look at one of the surprises we had early on when we started doing those was one building that we thought for sure we might be our worst condition building well really when they looked at it it wasn't a structured been done some of the hvac store think so there are a couple other buildings that that that fell in that category versus that one so it's been very good it's a communist. you know when education, assessment is very very important but it's also very important to come and we assess your facilities particularly with the wide range the number of buildings we have and the diversity of age and locations that we have so we'll be doing that as part of the doctor yearwood's goal. david i also want to just reiterate to her as we continue to work we always are looking at our demographics and our attendance areas as well and working with our cooperative strategies who does our tenants area work and looking at where our growth areas as well and so that's always taken to into consideration when were talking about opening new buildings to. i can take you. anybody else. all right being at no other questions or comments that will grant the end of this presentation i will say that in the slide presentation the facility in bonne plan recommendation does have a lot of good information in it i anticipate that we will be seeing this particular slide i'm circulated widely among throughout the communities we talk more about this bond question and you know if the public has time to take a look at it i'm sure it's a bit difficult to see all of the information that's included on it on the television screens but it's certainly worth a good luck so thank you very much for including that in the presentation done for the presentation itself. all right that will now bring us to the finance updates on his macarthur would you take us away. i'll talk about as it every january we start off our kickoff of our budget season for the upcoming school year we're going to look at where we ended our last year's numbers that we received our comprehensive financial report last month and the december meeting so we'll look at where we ended 2020 21 with our actual numbers for that year and then where our projections are looking like for our 2122 school year for our upcoming 22-23 budget planning. so this is our operating funds flat again are operating funds just include our general and our teachers fun i'm a general as another name we refer to that as our incidental fun those are where all our salaries and benefits are paid out of these funds and general operating costs again construction and debt service are paid out of separate funds i will look at it in a few minutes. but we ended up obviously last year at our fund balance at june 30th 2021 represents right over 40% 40.3 1% of our operating expenditures and transfers out we did have a surplus last year and i didn't know about a 5 million surplus due to our covid closure in the fall of 2020 resulting in savings from our transportation of about 5 1/2 million from transportation almost a million from subs and about 750,000 from our professional development and lack of travel that was able to be done and i'm 2021 school year so we did and our fund balance right over 95 million dollars there so that's going to be our current year and are operating funds. so what we're looking at right now or 20 21 22 projected amount these amounts of been updated with our revenues and expenditures through december of 2021 we have our final assessed valuation numbers which which then correlate to our property tax revenues for our 2122 school year we get those final numbers and we just got them hot off the press last week and so you're seeing their the updated numbers with the blankenship numbers as we set our tax rate again if you recall our property tax numbers were about 8 million dollars lower than what we had originally thought but our final of stuff valuation to come in higher so our net is going to be not as low as we thought but these are the updated numbers but you see and the total column there were starting out with a 95.7 million-dollar fund balance and we will see a deficit this year with our fund balance at june 30th 2022 at 90 point. 5 million-dollar deficit and our expenditures as we which is not the same as what we've seen in the previous two years so we saw a lot of savings and some different areas were very close to budget with all of our expenditures we do have some open positions that we've also added some positions throughout the year where we've seen different needs and different schools that we've allowed to move ahead with i'm editions there. and so then the next fun we look at is our debt service fun and that is what the state calls fun 3 i'm not the the fun that we used to pay our principal and interest payments from that fund and so you can see how we ended our fund balance and july one 2020 about 65 and a half million dollars and because we had a large refunding bonds payment in the fiscal year 2021 and march i'm you can see our brought our fund balance down to 35.23% of 21. and then what were projecting this year this actually included the refund thing that we just had our bond sale this morning that we'll talk about later tonight so i have her updated revenue and expenditure numbers and here and so are unbalanced for the current school year in the debt service fund right under 28 million dollars and again that is significant and our revenues are able to still be paid with our principal and interest payments with a revenues that we have coming in from our tax rate steady at point 9719 again at none of the the bond authorization require a tax increase in our debt service fund the so the revenue that we have coming in because of the savings that we continue to have us are refunding and are are healthy balance there in our debt service fund that we are able to continue to make principal and interest payments without any additional revenues in that fund. and then the last fun that i want to look at it here tonight is our capital projects fund again we started out last year with a $25 balance and if you recall we had the the fall of 2020 we had a. i knocked something loose. sorry about that. okay okay thank you i'll stay back away from the cord by the capital projects dollar bond authorization in 2020 and so that is incorporated there in our our revenues i'm out for the 21 20 2021 school year and then our expenditures than about 18 and a half million dollars and for a fund balance ending on june 30th 2021 up right under 33 million dollars again that's where we're starting out our current school year so the 2122 projections for our capital projects fund our revenues again there's no bond authorization so far in the current school year so our revenues thereof 11 and a half million dollars for our capital projects fund includes about five and a half million dollars. okay. but that's not what i'm supposed to look like. we don't want to show all this up on the screen call. whatsapp restaurant. no. okay so sorry. so our revenues again for the current year and our capital projectsabout five and a half million of that 11 million dollars in revenue does include our federal stimulus money irs or two funds that we have planned for this for the capital projects we have three capital projects that we budgeted and to come out of her ass or two funds are hickman high school hvac or oakland middle school and then you'll see on the agenda of the night the third one we got the final contractor award and bid for you tonight but the shepard boulevard elementary hvac work and so that is included in there and then we receive about three-and-a-half to four million dollars and local revenue each year and the majority of that again is from our property taxes that a portion of that goes into our capital projects bum. and then expect when we look on the expenditure side we do budget for the full amount of our capital projects in the current year even though if we do not expect them to be fully completed because at the award of the contractor liability exist so we want to make sure that we have enough money to cover the full amount of those projects and so even though we don't expect some of those projects to be completed this year the full amount of those outstanding is right at 42 million and so you can see our fund balance absent any additional bond funding will be about two and a half million dollars which is not a lot and so that's one of the reasons why then you'll see later as we go for the additional i'm fine. the reservation to continue addressing our growth needs and our facility needs. it will switch gears now back to our to our operating funds we have three main sources of revenue that are operating funds are assessed valuation which drives are property taxes property taxes account for about 55% of our operating fund revenue and so that's over half it comes directly from our personal property taxes as i mentioned before you can see are assessed valuation there are final assessed valuation compared to our primitive to luminary numbers that we received from the assessor last summer you can see that the personal property tax line is the one that usually increases between the preliminary and final as those numbers aren't continue to be gathered by the assessor's office and so are percentage increase did come in a little bit higher than what we had originally expected which is good since we had to lower our text right because of the blankenship ruling the difference instead of an 8 million dollar difference were only going to see. five and a half million dollar difference in revenues which is still significant but at least it's not as high as what we had originally anticipated. the second-largest source than of our revenues are state revenues which the majority of that comes from our state foundation formula or senate bill 287 formula calculation and so that is driven a lot by what are ada or average daily attendance i'm calculation and so you can see hear what our budget was compared to what our current projections are the difference there in that line for 2122 is from our summer school if you recall we had an extended summer school last summer so our summer school average daily attendance team in a higher than what we had originally budgeted at 9:47 compared to 7:50 so our weighted average daily attendance there is a 18,000 659 in the information coming from the state is that we will consider the sat or stay out oftarget it will remain flat at 6375 all indications are that they will continue to meet that amount that's where we ended up and last year and 2021. as well and so you take that are weighted average daily attendance multiplied out by the state adequacy target and that's the number that we use other springboard then we left subtract out our local effort against the more school districts the higher your local ever than you they reduce that out and our estimated payment for our foundation formula is over 66 million dollars and we do expect that to be fully funded by the state this year at 100% appropriation percentage and so the difference between our budget and current projections then was 877000 and that's a positive increase from what our original projections were. in an update on our federal rs rr to revenues against these were the revenues that were authorized over a year ago in december of 2020 and so they were budgeted and the thoughts i like we talked about earlier that some of those projects have cuz we have final numbers on our hickman high school hvac project and are oakland middle school and shepherd those are final number so that we have a better idea of what those the full cost of those projects are so there was a been amended slightly also because this budget was not approved by the state until november there was some expenditures that happened that we are going to charge to the federal money that we had to charge back to local because you're not allowed to charge anything to the budget until you have a approved budget at the state and so we had to move some stuff around again we added some social emotional support some elementary counseling fte down there at the bottom one was a alcohol. another split fte at battle and blue ridge episode those are some of the highest needs schools that we are seeing there and then again our technology are our devices with our lte service in her hot spot again that total is still our 10.6 million dollars is a total that we expect to receive then from rsr2 funds and we have not received any additional information i know there was a debate in the legislature about the commissioner of education took some questions on sr3 funding today but there is still has not been officially appropriated by the state legislature hopefully that will still happen within the next coming couple months but a lot of that money than will not be able to be spent until next school year so as we work for the budget process for the 20 22 23 school year will definitely work on making sure that the sr3 funds are included in that budget. and then this is the first look at our operating funds are 5 year model for the next five years again remember we don't just look at the current year we look at 5 years in advance so that as we see true that we can make adjustments in our revenues and expenditures before we're in a crisis situation and so as you can see and are are we do have a deficit spending over the next five years continuously we started out again you recall our first lie we are about 40% i'm at our operating fund balance ending the 21 school year and so we're already we're expected to drop at the end of the 2122 school year to about 36% and then we see that trend continuing over the next four years and a large you can see the large spike here between this the 5 million + a 10 million. dollar and decrease a large of that is because of plan salary and benefit increases and increases to improvements the salary schedules for all of our employees including our teachers and are non certified staff that we expect just to step our employees each year cost between two and a half and 3 million dollar so that's no improvements no additional improvements to the salary schedule is just a step everyone down on the salary schedule so that means we would need three million dollars a new revenue each year just to continue to stuff those employees and so anything additional to that which is basically what we're seeing in our property tax we get up three million dollar increase each year so we'd have to have additional money above that than to continue to offer without to get rid of our deficit spending over the next few years so you can see there and why that's important is because the large majority of our money does come and property taxes which just. coming in december and january each year so the number of fund balance the months the average months that will cover down here in the bottom you can see where way below where we want to be in our bank balance percentage in our budget parameters that you'll see later tonight we want that to be above the 18 to 20% range one and a half months of fund balance will not get us very far on monday or we don't want to have to resort to any short-term borrowing in the fall to meet payroll and needs and so we want to make sure that that's enough to be able to cover our expenses during the fall so as we start working through this budget process we've already started meeting with our with our building principals and our division leaders as we start looking at what are fte needs our last year we'll have to start prioritizing request and looking at how we can look at savings to make sure that we address in that the the budget that we present you for the 22. play preschool your meet the requirement of the 18 to 20% school balanced or unbalanced and that's outlined in our comprehensive school improvement plan as well. they got that. alright thank you very much heather is there any discussion or questions from the board with respect to her presentation. us president weighed i've got a couple items here thank you so much for that something real quick that you mentioned a few questions for you by the first one can you can you remind everybody what the blankenship case was talked about how it affected the numbers just so real quick with you what that was so again our main source of our revenues over 50% come directly from property taxes and we have to set the property tax rate each year and the summer in august and the state auditor's office sent out information and it gives you what are tax rate ceiling is an anything in the dish into the tax rate would be have to be authorized by the. and however there was a ruling in a small frying it was called blankenship versus franklin county collector a little small county and franklin county and that they that was wash and it affected every public political subdivision in the state that had any kind of levi that has in the past tense and i think believe 2006 so if you would pass any kind of levi then it it capped what your if you had if you had raised your tax levy above what the statute has said which we didn't do anything wrong at the time like the way the statute was written in the way that was interpreted was that if you had an assessed valuation increase you had you can take a mouth that was in addition to what that the actual voters will vote of the levy was and so but now they're coming back and saying that piece of the of the concept of the constitution. is unconstitutional and so they're removing that language from the statue and because of that our tax rate is lowered by 32 cents will 32 cents equates to about eight million dollars and so as we obviously we're deficit spending that eight million dollars would go a long ways towards the amounts that we are our expenditures are over our revenues in the next five years until we're going to have to eventually address how that reduction in our property tax feeling is affecting our revenues. thank you for that i know that that case was detrimental to us financially it's complicated so i predict music. yes of course so of course i over 80% of our budget is salaries and benefits that a large majority of any kind of savings is going to come out of our salary and benefit line we as weekend and we just have to make sure them when were we're taking requests that we're prioritizing it's a lot easier to say yes we've been in a fortunate situation since our luck prior text levi and 2016 that way you have built up our fund balance over the last five years and as well as as leaders come forward and have request then it's a lot easier to say the f word is going to have to really scrutinize what are requests are and where we can have savings and then also another factor than our fixed cost we all know that our inflation is real this year a lot of are you our insurance has gone up are the gas prices are going up so some of those sticks cost that we're going to have to really scrutinize or use. their utility use them those type of items as well cuz those are large service and supply dollar items that show up in her operating funds. thanks so much that's all i got appreciate you. would anybody else like to ask any questions like go ahead. miss macarthur you head on insurance and if i i'm from river remembering correctly when it comes to our health insurance we had a cap kind of sitting in there for the three-year period when we initiated a contract i think we initiated that contract renewal the contract back in. it is our third year so i actually have a meeting later this week with our benefits consultant so we're going to start our strategy for 2022 marketing and so the all three of those large our medical art pharmacy and our dental benefit providers are carriers are going to go out for bid this year so we're in the third year of our three-year contract so again that's going to make a big difference to you as we are looking at what kind of additional funding we might need to have an r5 year model regarding on those benefit-cost. because i can only imagine there's a big selection that those are all going to increase dramatically with everything that's been going on. and then he then bit out our services so that we can get the best pricing possible. another quick question i know you talked about with summer school we had an increase in funding because we had to get elongated summer school i was curious and kind of comparison comparing, stephanie. it's around this thing. this is we have a large sum of money kemperle than what we were projecting before and obviously we didn't do everything around the esther fun never going to federal government be pumping out last year is that it is that what accounts for kind of this larger fun bounce that we have now. correct so last year and the previous year we saw surpluses because we have a large cup of transportation cost that we had savings and we also have additional federal stimulus money that we can spend we were able to spend technology purchases and such that were able to offset some of our operating costs. and then just as a reminder for a community and for myself to a sr funds they're supplemental there or are they supplant. so we do not end title one we have the rule of supplement not supplant well in the in the federal this round of the cares and then the crr essay how much is a second the sr2 funds we don't have that require that we do not have to meet that same requirement so it doesn't have to be something above and beyond what we normally do we can use that to supplant like our technology expanded if we are buying something that's that would obviously helping a virtual learning environment even if we are already going to purchase it or we purchase something from local and some from federal were still allowed to do that it doesn't have to be like a position or a supply that is above and beyond what we would normally purchase. and then with the sr funds we still fall under a specific time line with those must be spit correct or we lose them. 2023. and so we still have a year-and-a-half to be able to spend those funds always since all three the main long-term thing will be those three capital projects and since all of those have already been dead out and awarded and we don't expect to have any kind of problem with being able to spend them by the fall of 2023. thank you miss macarthur i appreciate it. thank you very much anybody else. alright seeing that there's no one else that has a question or something to say that i can see that will bring us to the end of our financial update for this particular meeting and bring us to the beginning of our new business section of our agenda we will begin with the consideration of the refunding bonds if she wants which is different than what we just discussed on is there a motion to move to approve a resolution authorizing the issuance of general obligation refunding bonds series 2022 of the school district of columbia boone county state of missouri prescribing the form and details of said bonds providing for the levee in collection of an annual tax for the purpose of paying the principal of an interest on said bonds as they become due and authorizing certain other documents and actions in connection therewith. s all right so there is a motion and a second is macarthur and piper sandler is going to give us an overview of this issue and then we will move to board discussion the following that overview macarthur if you wouldn't mind but we have matt courtney from piperwho is here with us tonight from our financial advisor i'm generally gilmore in bail bond council is here as well but we have some sicknesses there as well so we're going to make do with what we had a very successful and some real bon sale this morning at 10:30 a.m. our beds we got all our beds in and again just a reminder we were refunding 11320000 dollars of our bonds that were issued back in 2014 and so basically what are refunding is like if you are refinancing your house you get a better interest rate and so we refunded some of our bombs in order to get interest savings than in our debt service. again they're just as justin the debt service fund is not in the operating fun so it's savings just to our fund balance in our debt service fun and so the what we are then what were issuing the man is a i was ten million three hundred and ten million one hundred thirty million dollars and so it was it overall savings of right over $1000000 and drew interest costs up and savings with a one-million $70,000 that you want to give it a compressive over and just about everything that i was going to say but you might recall back at the october board meeting the board gave permission to staff and you're professionals to move forward with the steps to refinance the remaining series 2012 bonds so at 10:30 today. kids were due from underwriters for underwriting the recent funding bonds the district received 12 bids which is a very good number of bids for underwriting the bids ranged from 0.72% of to just over 1% the underwriting from the provided the best bid was bok financial the end result is like heather said about a million 70,000 a present value savings savings over the next five years are we didn't extend the maturity on the standing bonds or anything like that or said these are bond fund money is there can't be used for other purposes but still it's great to save money within that bond fund the resolution before you tonight would approve the sale of the bonds to bok financial at the rates and terms that they did and. upon approval of the board chooses to approve that resolution staff and bond counsel and us will try to move forward with the bond registration process at the state level and other paperwork that needs to be done to close the bonds currently playing for february 8th so if anyone has any questions i'm happy to take them. that's great news we still had a lot of interest like you said we had 12 different bitters on that so that's great news as we continue and we have might have a possible after the authorization if we have an additional sale later this year that's good news for the school district we continue to have a great bond rating so it and we get a lot of interest from a lot of bitters. thank you very much saving is expected. text matt the words right out of my mouth sorry that's okay questions about this issue. all right seeing none thank you very much for the overview and presentation and thank you very much were conducting a very successful refunding sale this morning appreciate it at the vote tracy then we really have to ask for publix, there she was always just had a motion as in your overview and now run discussion by the board then we'll have public comment i'm so just ask one more time anybody on the board wish to discuss this item or have any questions. alright seeing that it is time for public comment on this item as before if you would like to make public comment please state your name prior to commencing your public comment make sure that you sign in at the back of the room or at the podium before you begin you will have three minutes to make your public comment and you can keep track of your time on the timer that is on the wall to the right of the podium as you're standing at it mr.as before i would like to ask for your assistance in running the public comment section since you are there and you can see the the audience and see who is coming up if anybody but this time i would turn it over to you mr.to run the public comments section and then let me know and if she wants the coming through sex. have their opportunity. how the conversation for this item is now open if you have public comment please step forward. sing none present weight i'm going to hand it back to you thank you very much and there is a motion and a second on the table this is a roll call vote i do believe that heather made it heather had a question about whether or not we needed to read the recommendation or not miss davenport are we good to go. then please real call. mister horn. yes yes yes. yes mr. willoughby yes. pretty well. yes. yes. i thank you very much the recommendation is upheld it has been approved that'll bring us to item be under our new business section of the agenda which is the consideration of resolution notice of election sample ballot calling special election and general obligation bond question is an action item in miss macarthur is going to give us a m overview after i will i have a motion if we have one i've moved to adopt a resolution calling the special election for a no-tax increase general obligation bond question for the school district of columbia boone county missouri. s. all right there's been a motion in the second time is macarthur alternate over over to you excuse me for the overview. you're wet earlier tonight we do have our updated long-range plan in order to implement the ongoing plan to the district and continue to manage the consistent growth in enrollment the district finds it necessary to issue a general obligation bonds and the amount of 80 million dollars for the purpose of paying costs of acquiring constructing improving extending repairing remodeling renovating furnishing and equipping new and existing school facilities and acquiring land there for including without limitation constructing two new elementary schools and handsome safety and security improving facilities to comply with accessibility requirements renovating and upgrading aging facilities repairing or replacing roofs windows parking lots and heating and air conditioning in improving technology. and again a reminder approval of the spot in question is a no tax increase that there's no increase to the taxes we're just required by law to have for the voters to authorize that's the issue this additional debt even though there's no additional revenue required to our debt service fund and this is what it'll look like i'm special election on the ballot and they'll have this question in the april election if it's so approved tonight. alright thank you very much for the overview members of the board do you have any questions or comments to make. all right i don't see any and if in that it being that as it is it is time for public comment on this particular item prayer to our votes as before mister semen i'd like to turn it over to you to open public comment is any public comment please step forward. c9 present way to head over the back to you. afterand there is a motion and a second and is davenport would you please 2pac call the roll. mr. semen yes yes mr. willoughby. yes. yes. yes thank you very much and that will bring us to the next item on our agenda which is the consideration of the notice of the election sample ballot for the forthcoming april 5th 2022 school board election again this is an action item may i have emotion i moved to approve the notice of election in sample ballot for the april 5th 2022 school board election. all right there is a motion and a second at the candidates who are running for the two open spots on the school board are sue's at waters lake willoughby and real is andy and adam matthews burke's is there any discussion by the board. all right see i unless the did i see somebody on the diet move is if they might want to say something. all right very good then this will bring us to the public comment section for this particular agenda item mr. steam and i turned it over to you she is now open to have public comment on this item please don't forward. sinon present way to hand it back to you. all right there is a motion and a second to approve the notice of election sample ballot roll call vote please miss davenport yes yes yes yes yes yes alright the notice of election sample ballot has been approved that will bring us now to the consideration of our collective bargaining at 4 a m for this bargaining season is there a motion to approve them. i moved out that the collective bargaining for amateurs as presented. i think mister horn got the jump on that one. i'm all right i see you standing at the podium floor's yours each winter the board of education direct the administration to engage in negotiations with representatives from the columbia missouri chapter of the nea you have a copy of the parameters for the 2022 session will be which will begin on january 20th in large part those parameters reflect those from years past with a few minor changes this year as bargaining team is the assistant superintendent for human resources chief financial officer and chief equity officer in parameter 3 also parameter 7 has a slight change which outlines the timeline reflects the intention of the district and see how many a to achieve an agreement by april 5th which is earlier than in previous years the administration asked the board to approve the parameters as presented. thank you for that overview is there any discussion of the bargaining parameters by the members of the board. all right here in town i'll just very briefly state the fees this is no common place for us to vote on these parameters and it sets out sort of the broad brushstrokes outlines of the logistics of being negotiated solution process anybody have any questions or comments before we knew it we moved pardon me to public comment. seeing 9 it is time for public comments on the collective bargaining parameters as presented mr.i turn it over to you too to run on items so if you would like to provide public comment please step forward at this time. sinon present away diana back to you. all right thank you mr.there is a motion and a second this davenport would you take us through the roll. mr. seaman snodgrass yes mr. willoughby a pretty wilhoit. yes the bargaining parameters have been approved on this will take us to item e on our new business section of our agenda which is consideration of the 2020 to 2023 budget parameters which is also an action item is there a motion with respect to same. i move to approve the 20 22 23 budget parameters. s. all right miss macarthur macarthur i'm sorry will you give us an overview. yes so i'm just like the bargaining parameters generally these i'm the budget parameters are similar to what we have seen in previous years you can see here than on the preface hear there was information added about our property taxes regarding the blankenship case and the third paragraph there are property taxes were reassessed in 2021 and we saw the assessed valuation growth i just saw in our finance up the earlier was right at 6.2% which was much higher than what we had originally anticipated due to the reassessment however on march 2nd 2021 the missouri court of appeared appeals eastern district ellyn blankenship versus counting franklin county collector that an increase in the operating levy by political subdivisions to increase the operating love you to account for inflation and certain situations can not result in a levy that exceeds the highest voter-approved levi an article. 10 section 22 of the missouri constitution that ruling lower the tax rate ceiling for the district by approximately thirty-two cents resulting in a decrease in operating revenues totaling about four and a half million dollars and so we're projecting an assessed valuation growth not nearly as high as the current year's that's what the reassessment but about two and a half percent for next year and so in order to account for that we're obviously we're going to have to look at different ways to look for additional revenues in the upcoming year we do are taking our voluntary role back again we passed levies in 2012 and 2016 and we promised the voters at that time that we would not take the full amount of the the levy increase until we actually needed it while we actually need it so we are taking that additional 11th 11 cents which is about three and a half million dollars in revenue for the 22 23 school year and that will be accounted for when we set the property tax rate next. so the budget parameters as they are as they appear here tonight number one the board of education will consider building program and departmental budget request in a manner that prioritizes student achievement budget additions and reductions will be reviewed based on the need and link to the comprehensive school improvement plan in the district statement of equity. again i modified zero-based budgeting approach will continue focusing efforts on analyzing and prioritizing budget intentionally and specifically the board of education will consider salary improvement for all a ploy he's including hourly employees through the budget and negotiation processes using comparative data locally and statewide continuing movement or the model salary schedule i have three columns schedule with a starting salary of $40,000 for teachers will be prioritized the board of education will consider employee benefit programs for eligible employees to the budget and negotiation process is a minimum of eighteen to twenty percent level of fund balance will be reflected in the five year model based on current and projected future total revenue and expenditures controlled spending and reasonable revenue projections will ensure financial integrity and capital project budgets will be allocated and prioritize based on guidance from the long-range facilities planning committee with emphasis on growth safety and security issues and maintaining existing facilities capital. budget will include operational budget impact projections. alright thank you very much other board any discussion of these parameters or the preamble or preface to them. all right he bring none this time for public comment on the side of mr. stephen if you wouldn't mind what would call me for autumn 7 years now open you would like to provide comment on this item please step forward. say none present way to hand it back to you very much there's been a motion and a second with respect to the 2020 to 2023 budget parameters miss davenport if you call the roll. yes yes yes. yes yes. yes. let's wait. yes the 2020 to 2023 budget parameters have been approved that'll bring us to item number letter excuse me f on our agenda which is consideration of the superintendent contract extension letter of intent. is there a motion measurements of a letter of intent for a one-year extension of the contract of the current superintendent of columbia public schools. s. all right there's a second i'm going to give a brief overview on this item and the letter of intent is included in the board packet this letter of intent does not affect you ate a change to the existing superintendent contract which was entered into by and between the board and doctor yearwood for a three-year term any extension to the contract will need to be reduced to writing signed by dr. yearwood and signed by the board of education this is an articulation of our present intent with respect to the contract. which if approved this evening would express the doctor yearwood our attention to i keep it in place through june 30th of 2025 which is one year beyond its current expiration date. i'm in years past our superintendent contracts and included term where it was required that we provided this notice to our superintendent's on an annual basis and by february 15th of each year doctor yearwood's contract makes it permissible for us to do so in the interests of transparency and accountability and i believe this is appropriate to be on the agenda and is on the agenda for a vote at this point in time but again i would emphasize for all of the board members we are not voting to change the existing contract that will require additional action by this board of education at some at a later date i also think that it's appropriate to mention the fact that in normal circumstances we have had sufficient time to be able to conduct our formal evaluation which we engage in with respect to all of our superintendents in years past we've had time to complete. that process but this year we don't haven't had time to complete that process which we are engaging in with the guidance of u g l i am absolutely confident that doctor yearwood has the expertise and the dedication to leave this district going forwards and i believe that he has the ability and willingness to do so this is been a very challenging time for our district as it has been for every district across the nation in dealing with the covid pandemic and the response a day or two and then addressing the collateral consequences and pressures associated with the response to the pandemic i am hopeful that our district as well as others will be able to get back to the focus that we need to have on student achievement on the improvement of equity diversity and inclusion in our school at some point in the very near future so that that focus can be singularly and i. we pursued i believe doctor yearwood has that capacity and ability if you have any questions or would like to discuss this letter of intent please do so at this time. present way to think i was well i think they need better and so are your thoughts. and i want to add to that as well is that i know we have a leader and i'm confident the doctor yearwood it's the person to continue to lead us on the achievement gap to what what the scholars as well as to work with the community and also and especially with the teachers and and the district as a hole so that thank you for your words doctor excuse me mrs. ways because i deeply appreciate yourin bad and i have full confidence that we should go forward with this letter of intent. thank you. i want to express that i understand the doctor yearwood was put in a very difficult position i've really appreciated his leadership so far and having the opportunity to speak with him on a number of issues and see his vision and i i also want to express that reservations that i have are procedural and around notice to the board around what this letter of intent was for some of us that weren't on the board in the past and didn't have a chance to previously viewed the contract that i deeply appreciate your leadership i do deeply appreciate what you are doing for our district. alright i'm hearing a pause which often indicates to me that the board has concluded the discussion and comment. i'll ask one more time just in case i've missed anybody who would like to say something yeah i would actually like to move to amend the motion to approve the issuance of letter of intent for a one-year extension of the contract of the current superintendent company of columbia public schools pending the completion of his formal evaluation by the board. all right so there's been an a motion to amend is there a s. alright hearing none the motion fails. is there any further discussion or questions by the board. president wait i do just want to ask a quick question in the intent of the letter of intent and as you clarify as you shared this is something where it goes the intent of the board to exchange but this is also through the process that we do is continuing you're looking at the goals in the conversations that we have what's up for your wood has the superintendent has the board of education as we set them together and as we're seeing in measuring those outcomes coming together and happening and i am i correct in that understanding what you're talkin about is the process through which we actually evaluate the superintendent every superintendent this required by missouri law and we identify very specific goals and by virtue of the process itself in the forms and the procedures that we go through we are given a very objective matrix last 3 weeks to evaluate the performance of our superintendent and identify areas of concern as well. what areas of compliment in order to guide our decision-making process as it relates to our superintendent's growth and in order to provide appropriate feedback to him but this is this is not this is not that process that process has not been completed and this is not an action item that relates to the terms of the contract itself nor to the necessary written contract that would follow if the extension ultimately is voted upon by the board in terms of the actual contract i hope that answers your question blank it was long-winded. thank you present. okay is there any any other questions or any other on comments that anybody would like to make that having only seen the the item on the agenda on thursday and not having had a proper time as a board to engage in meaningful conversation makes it challenging to speak to this in a in a thoughtful intelligent way on my part so just want to reiterate jeans point to the process peace being a primary issue for me as well. very dead buddy else. present way to him am i'm misremembering we held a meeting recent board with our employee being superintendent correct. that's my recollection yes thank you. okay i'm going to turn this over to public comment and mr. stephen if you would do the honors once again. bubba, for item 7f is now open if you would like to provide public comment on this item please step forward. see none present weight i'm heading back to you. thank you there's a motion and a second tracy miss davenport i'm sorry would you please call the roll abstain. mr. willoughby yes. mister horn. yes yes. abstain. yes. yes. alright the loi passes. that'll bring us to the consideration of our construction agreements and engagements this is also an action item. arthur again will call upon you to give us an overview please. i'm so sorry i move to approve please thank you brother. okay we just. agenda here tonight under the construction agreement section and we have an agreement for our secured front entry at gentry smithen and lang middle school that is a project that was on our capital projects list for this current year on this is just the agreement with american document solutions for our copy services engagement for $1,000. the next one is our security in ada main entrance up battle high school again this is security equipment and installation for the single entry vestibule there that we did at battle high school i'm with alarm communications for the equipment $11,420 and then the next to have to do with the shepard boulevard elementary hvac project we have the document copy services engagement with america document solutions for $1,500 and then we have the the hvac replacement construction agreement with gbh builders got the low bid on that for 2002 430 $1,645. all right sorry i was muted there thank you very much all of the agreements and engagements are included in the assembly packet is there any questions for miss macarthur or any discussion among the board with respect to these agreements and engagements. alright hearing none is it is time for public comments on this section mr.if i might please unless your leadership again. public comment for 4 item 7g is now open if you would like to provide comment on this item please step forward. see none present a way to hand it back to you. all right and there has been a motion and a second miss davenport could you please call the roll. yes. yes mr.yes yes. yes yes. yes and the engagements and agreements have been approved as presented. so bring us to item number 8 on our agenda this is the public expense section of our agenda called for public comment with respect to each action item this is a section for open public comment the same parameters apply as have been previously articulated and each person who wishes to give public comment will have three minutes to speak please do sign in prior to coming forward to speak or sign in at the podium and remember to tell us your name prior to beginning your public comment mr. stephen again if i might enlist your leadership to run public comment as public comment is now open if you would like to provide public comment now is the time please step forward. good evening my name is a plumber i would first of all like to congratulate dr. yearwood and just making an observation as this seems to be at a meeting then the few that i attended recently the observation is simply to complement the board and the administration for your way of handling a very challenging minefield it is easy for those who do not have to make the decisions to criticize. but yet you have waited through and continue to wade through a very challenging for all of us and i'd like to compliment all of you for doing so and doing so with grace and ported to thank you. is there any further public comment. saanen president of ozark. i left my written comments so i had to ask for some. sorry. all right so my name is teresa couch and my email address is here at cps i was very concerned after the temporary closures at both southern boone and then sedalia which as you might know how to close because of lack of school bus drivers and so i feel that even though the barbershop to teachers and made it sound like we have everything in hand we were 56 sub short today and just 6 or a building that you were a little bit more heavy-handed for house of parents that there is some danger of a temporary closures and so i can reach out to parents preemptively to see what was the would be some ideas to make a temporary closure a little bit more palatable i don't foresee a massive closer like we had before but i just was curious if the district has reached out to families that had to utilize hot spots during the virtual time. to make certain that they have access to wi-fi again if we were too close for just a few days so that students don't get behind i wondered if the district has reached out preemptively to businesses and both the private and public sectors to make sure that they are prepared to allow parents to work from home in case their jobs were allowed to do that before that they could do that for a few days. i talked i wondered if the district has preemptively reached out to businesses and churches who might be able and willing to provide adventure club type services morse places for families to meet in case of a temporary closure if the district could on perhaps host a maximum number of students at school buildings i know that during the pandemic on the virtual time i know kirksville high school smaller community but about 90 miles north of here had a number of students faces that they allowed into their school buildings on those students had a seating charts and went through school like the virtual time but we're able to access wi-fi lunges things like that and so if we could host a maximum number of students based on available on staff members stephen furst play where students with ieps and then at the elementary level of parents are unable to offer care for their children during the day. can we divert resources from her house higher-level buildings to elementary schools to help try to keep those open can high school tutors offer some assistance to our teachers who are supervising recess and lunches without brakes i think we're doing our best to try to stay healthy but i don't want to be prepared for something that we're seeing happen i'm a nerd unprepared for things that were seeing happening community surrounding us so i know i think it'll be a rough couple of weeks and i'd rather prepare for the possibility of closures then have our students being prepared. send it further public comment. good evening rebecca shaw. i'm here to ask for it again to do what's best for parents students and citizens with the honor conqueror of covid-19 kris hospitalizations in our area and with hospital staffing not able to keep up with demand the landscape has changed again. mu health care has had to turn away requested patient transfers and it's cancelling elective surgeries parents are hearing reports that cps is using office and maintenance staff to monitor students because too many teachers are ill or quarantined. testing opportunities and kids are in high demand and then some cases unavailable for days past initial symptom onset. with no discussion planned on the agenda tonight you sent us a message at cvs isn't listening a petition with over 2,500 signatures was submitted to bring back masks. today students walked out and hickman high school in protest of being in school with no mask. if you want listen to us at least listen to your students they recorded today in the paper. the freshman named ebony stated students feel unsafe who masks aren't required the school board listen to the anti-mask faction of the population but the board is paying no attention to those advocating for a mask mandate. i don't feel like they're listening.. we feel like we're on heard. i want everybody to be safe and healthy a student by the name of kami said. it's not that hard to wear masks. listen to these students. listen to your staff that are telling you that they're spread too thin. what are giving a planning hours to cover classrooms and listen to the parents who all want our children to learn in person but in a safe environment with educators trained to teach not just be a body in the classroom. this is just kind of a difficult year. idaville 18 months. but we can meet everybody to come together as a community and do what's best. any further public comment. send none present a way i'm heading back to you. alright mister simmons thank you very much for your leadership this evening i appreciate it immensely i don't know it was very very helpful that will conclude our public comments section and does anybody have any updates to provide on board member activities. at present we just want to say thank you to mr. stephen for taking on that leadership while we are all gone so thank you. you are so welcome mr. willoughby. alright everybody i do think that the deafening silence indicates to me that there is nobody who would like to provide an update that will bring us to adjournment is there a motion to adjourn. all right miss davenport did you hear mr. for a second. no i know i just wanted to make sure you heard his second. all right all those in favor of a german please indicate by saying i and raise your hand i are there any who are opposed. all right seeing none the meeting is adjourned thank you.