before we start going to read this statement so due to staffing issues this evening we're going to have a limited broadcast in addition to in addition to recording would not be immediately available following tonight's meeting some folks are out not feeling well you're going to see on our screen usually with my stalking kind of you is going to stay like that issues with slides if they are i'll make sure to make an announcement spare with this please it's late in the spring folks are getting mold under the weather so we appreciate your patience call the means to order do i have a motion to adopt the agenda. s o s. all in favor say aye and you oppose motion passes we're going to try something a little different tonight we're going to begin reading the equity statement of our meetings this is a reminder to ourselves of the students that were making and how they impact not just us and our kids and their spouses and partners but everyone in this district so this evening i'm going to ask that this snodgrass read our equity statement for us thank you call a public schools through action and in partnership with families and community will uphold the values of policies and practices that promote cultural competence we will accept embrace and empower students and staff and their individual identities to establish and sustain human dignity justice and equitable treatment and inclusiveness in the classroom and workplace. thank you mr. grass. moving on to the consideration of the consent agenda i moved. they could get to jasper's in it. second emotion as is there any discussion by the board i just want to highlight a few items and i'm going to kind of do them in grouping so item for 36v which is the curriculum audit for e-11a which is douglas park summer food program for e12 be the horton animal hospital shadow partnership in for e12 see which is the nsr session access for staff i just want to thank you for working on all these things to help support our star students to support our staff here i think the curriculum. it is a great item to show to our community that we really are wanting to look at where i can democrat and our crew is our curriculum really helping us achieve what we needed to achieve the park is out in the summer food program continuing to do that and working with the city is always great i think the fork animal hospital shadow partnership is a wonderful continuation of what has been going on in our special education department offer offer opportunities. i apply for a part-time job there i didn't get one so awesome for the good i also just want to thank our staff for working when it comes to item for e12 d with working with columbia college in the nursing clinicals willing to work with our community partners i think this shows that beyond our community partners coming to us and helping us were willing to help that then to this is always a great reciprocal nature and then i also just want to say thank you to a couple of our partners when it comes to the item for e12a the mu psych fellow partnership for e13a with the max scholars program thank you it to mu for our partnership with that and providing space in working with us and supports i also want to highlight item for e15 be which is the chrome os support staff program which working towards. jordan 10 support staff to attend central methodist university to go get their elementary school is it a wonderful program of a continuation and expansion of it goes beyond just our students so i just want to say thank you to see him you for working with us on that and then i left i just wanted to make a comment on item for 39a which is the edustaff one-year contract extension we had some difficulties i think one of the things would back in 2019 i went through the sub process of going through all the online videos all of that i went to the to our in-person training it's a lot of work to become a sub doctor steve woman at that time and the president for edustaff and me we met we talked about it they made some different changes i'm still hearing that that is kind of a long thing and so i'm okay with doing this extension but once we do have our permanent new individual who will be in our our chief hr person i do think the administration and phone numbers to having a conversation. what is our subprocess and what is that on boarding to really help if they do think this is a link that it takes to do it is creating a barrier for us getting. thank you. discussion by the board. just want to. mention four item. 4d 1000e bbc services lactation support. i just really appreciate the the this policy being implemented to support working families students and staff so i think it's important that as we think about how we support our staff and students to think about how their i'm able to care for their families and their children and so basically having designated lactation support stations that uphold the dignity of parents who are lactating and need to be able to express breast milk during the day has one part of creating an inclusive space for school so just appreciate the policy committee's work on that and the fact that this is on the consent agenda tonight. are there any other for discussion. i know you had something that you wanted to make sure i said light to highlight.. 15b the chrome os support staff program this program is one that you just starting with central methodist university and i have a b in the cooler idea who's here with us who was very instrumental in getting this program off the ground running with a santa hat i'd like for you to see if you would but before she come just want you to know that as we look at growing our own as far as our teaching staff is concerned as we look at diversifying or teaching staff this is a great avenue for us to bring about change especially as you look at recruiting or instructional aides you look at allowing recruiting or power professionals and allowing them to grow into being a teacher instead of being stagnant or staying at theof the the assistant level so i can be a very proud of his program very excited about it and the president may i have. come up and see if you would please. good evening everyone i'm super excited about what we kind of have internal legs of kamala 2.0 and pay you back in the work that we've done with the grow your own program with our students i'm now will be working at looking at support staff in partnership with central methodist university's utilizing funds with that see who has really reach out across the state to look at difference on pipeline programs and innovative ways to be able to utilize staff that we have in place so we'll be looking at as a career would mention a professional learning aids teachers aides support staff in general central methodist will provide their three different tiers will primarily for tuition the same manner that we have with our current, right program in the partners that we have we're looking it up cohort cuz we really know the cohorts relationships work this whole horde of tenses. wella professionals will create a committee in the same way they will apply all those good things will provide supports central methodist has kindly offered their site b here and park aid will have childcare on providing meals everything that we need to do when we look at supporting or non-traditional staff so we're expecting great success. but you. i just want to remind you guys this is part of the teacher retention and recruitment grant that in this is federal stimulus funds that came through the department of elementary and secondary education ethnicity are said and so we that was approved by you guys back in january and so this money that's funding this program is coming from that grin. all right thank you is any other for discussion on the consent agenda. 19 never going to open it up to public comments on the consent agenda. if you like to make a comment related to the consent agenda please sign at the back of the room or at the podium before speaking public comment is limited to three minutes per person which will countdown on the timer on the wall thomas related to desperate actions or other matters which could be subject of grievance process out of order or disruptive and or threatening behavior public comment forms are available at the back table that may be filled out and placed in the blue box, tonica in. good evening my name is karen weaver my remarks this evening or in regard to the policy items on the agenda policy and administrative procedures are the framework by which the school system operate as such they touch every aspect of our of the education of our children items of this importance deserve their own section of the agenda. separate from the consent agenda in addition. if policies are presented for review by the board their accompanying administrative procedure should be presented as well as the two go hand-in-hand. i have several requests. present policy as its own item separate from the consent agenda and include the administrative procedure in the information present sees for first reading and discussion and then vote on them the following must to allow for a community comment this should be the procedure even if the policy comes as a recommendation from missouri school for the cps board policy committee. put the administrative procedures on the cps website you should be as easily accessible as the policies in fact currently the policy section suggest also consulting the administrative procedures but they do not appear to be on the website to consult. when does the policy with its administrative procedure and vice-versa so that it is easy for parents and taxpayers to find them. implementing these would help answer questions and it has understanding of how the district operates thank you. good evening robin shelf tonight i'm speaking on behalf of missouri disability empowerment usually i don't do that but that is so i'm speaking on behalf of tonight station run mostly by parents here in columbia the change to policy jagga seclusion and restraint has been over three years in the making the policy of putting on a similar to news the pollution or straight law passed on missouri by mysterious legislature last year mode at the privilege of working with the bill's sponsors on the legislation i want to make it clear that this law was not passed at the direct result of anyone school district and appropriate seclusion and restraint as well as the lack of parental notification when the student was secluded and restrained or happening school districts across the state i have heard it said reese. that's a lot of this policy mirrors was made by lawmakers without any input from those who are on the ground working in the schools this couldn't be farther from the truth representative paula brown retired teacher in ranking minority leader on the house education committee stated on the house floor last year that this bill with made the weight of bill should be made with significant input from many stakeholders we have a meeting with special at administrators from across the state teachers of former superintendent smokehouse than others to dress solid language which protected students and teachers special school district and its new policy follow closely to what they already had in place as great as it is to have a law and a new policy adopting this seclusion restraint policies only the first step next cut and i am hopeful that with the strength of the law behind this policy it will be implemented as written all this said my main goal tonight is to take a moment to publicly thank everyone who helped make the law. and this policy change possible representative represent daily for their leadership on the legislation that led to this version of policy jagga much time and energy across the finish line thank you so much i'll roboto sarah rivera and take a shelf for being at the capitol every week advocating for this strong girl off thank you to the mini parents tonight to send email to travel to jeff city to speak in support of the loss of your stories made a difference and now students will be safer thank you to our legislature for acknowledging the need for guidelines on seclusion and restraint and i look forward to seeing the new seclusion and restraint policy adopted tonight thanks. hello my name is john i have a 3 students at cps i want you guys take some things into consideration on the agenda item for i. rock bridge high school gsa club that gets better project grant application like to meet at this gender-affirming closet. favors one club and group of students over another it doesn't seem like there's any other clubs that get their own room inside of a school that can be operated out of all day long is a lot of questions that hadn't really been asked. in the application or a a few things that were said in the application as far as. understanding that that we do need a needs closet in high schools but it seems like that this one is. kind of trying to be taken over by an activist group and we want a. closet that is accepting of all students and it's for all students and this one is for a it seems like for a certain group of students so. one other question is this group is also got these gender-affirming closets in middle schools. have we thought about if we approve this one will it go into the middle schools from here to seems like it's kind of a slipperyletting an activist group have a room with inside of one of our high schools. please take these things into consideration thank you. hi my name is michelle do lady and i am a lifelong resident of boone county i'm here tonight to voice my support for the. clothing closet at rockford high school which is item number for l. my now twenty-three-year-old attended rockridge high school for one semester and was a member of their gsa he finished out his high school career at battle where he actually helped start the very first gsa there and was one of their first leaders i am at home facilitator of parents or parents which is a division of the center project the lgbtq community resource group here in columbia our group provides support and education to parent and guardian of lgbtq youth and the mid-missouri area of our group is to educate the community on the life-or-death risk that these young people face when they do not have a safe support system in place and school has the opportunity to be one of those base support system so because of that i would like to express my support for the mission of this clothing closet at rock bridge high school. having access to comfortable weather appropriate clothing that complies with the cps guidelines is important for all kids for marginalized groups however this access can look vastly different the clothing closet provided by this grant would have the opportunity to provide off when any child is hungry they actively engage or learn the stress of not having appropriate clothing at school should not hinder any students ability to be successful in school. the bottom line is the kids just want to have to have access to appropriate clothing at school and that really shouldn't be such a bigwe know firsthand the pushback that this beautiful group of students will receive from members of the community that do not understand or accept them and that fact it was straight to me why these students need to see their school and their school board standing up for their rights. thank you. hi my name is jen harper i'm here to speak on for e4l the rock ridge clothing closet. it's been making me think a lot about my high school and i remember that high school is hard remember always worrying about fitting in saying the wrong thing doing something in front of everyone but them kids just being who they are makes it harder for them to sit in especially right now they have the legislature try to keep them are blocking them from playing sports and their hearing hate speech from the public on a regular basis sometimes these messages that's who they are is not okay is even coming from home but instead of allowing this behavior to make them bitter and angry the gsa a rock bridge high school is trying to do something to help kids feel better about themselves they're trying to provide clothing for all kids so that they can feel comfortable at school because they don't have gender-affirming clothes or that their family does not have the resources to provide clothing this clothes closet is for all students at rockbridge. we know that intel kids basic needs are met and they feel comfortable in their skin they are not in a mental space for successful learning to occur and isn't that the mission of the school board to create an environment where kids can be successful. we've had school board members and this vulnerable population and these kids just threw you a softball all you need to do is swing. i'm carol sattler and i'm also speaking on the rock bridge high gsa club grant application. so being a parent is about raising and celebrating the child you have. not the child you thought you would have. it's understanding that your child is exactly the person they're supposed to be. so we live in the very cisnormative and heteronormative world almost all of us expect our children to be cisgender in heterosexual we haven't really considered any other possibility so it's a bit of a shock when our kid tells us that they're transgender oror bisexual or lesbian and they may reject that idea initially but please understand these are very natural variations in what it means to be human natural variations have been stigmatized for way too long. gsa's are in existence to support lgbtq students who are very much in need of support when this much stigma and disinformation is directed at them to do considerable amount of volunteer work last year they raised over $1,000 for the trevor project for suicide prevention. let you know this year they have proposed the clothing closet to benefit all students in need of comfortable and appropriate clothing representatives from the gsa where the grant application and will is funded operate and maintain your closet all as long as yours. i'm really not sure what the fuss is about the closet. the possibility that some students may use closet to wear gender-affirming clothes while at school seems to be upsetting some parents. i think the problem here is not the closet it is parents not coming to terms with their child's gender identity. i would encourage any parents who were in that position to stay in dialogue with your kid listen to them educate yourself about gender identity and reach out for support many of us here tonight or members of group of parents of lgbtq kids called parents for parents we are learning how to support her fusion in the beginning when your child first comes out to you most of us have been there and you're not alone but if we have learned our kids we have seen them blossom. alternative is how many transgender children because of bullying and harassment so pleased that or go to the center project website and look for parents for parents we will welcome me. hi my name is devon holder i'm actually a learning specialist and a sped teacher at lane middle school when i first heard about the project i love the idea i thought it was like a great opportunity after reading more into it i actually printed off the grant and i annotated and everything probably but after looking at it i started to do more research outside of it and saw what other people were saying and i know even though maybe the intent wasn't meant to be paid for harmful i did notice that there was some comments and felt hateful and harmful to our lgbtq students and i know i can't change people's opinions i understand that and people have different opinions but i always tell my kids like whether you agree with it or not it is absolutely not okay to bully or be harmful to anybody. regardless of their gender or their preferences or anything like that and i know when we talked about it on social media or maybe just wear out and about having a conversation i hope we do remember that this isn't just a grant and some money in a closet these are kids about like whether or not it singles out but i was reading and i didn't notice it says i think that's amazing and then i also remember reading about how like it's still meant to serve rockridge everybody and that no matter the exclusionary to anybody i also noticed noticed that in the grant it says here that there are a lot of students that because of the political climate. that they felt a lot of anxiety and just a lot of stress i mean i really love the idea and i'll do it even says it has happened before i think it's awesome i think we should support students and the queer student body before i leave still want those students at rockbridge to know and other teachers and things like that that even though i'm not connected to you in any way i do support you i do care other creatures do as well including my colleague and also i want to set a precedent so that way if anything or any of the other middle schools up north i want them to know that we're supportive and we want students to feel welcome. i got 5 seconds. protect trans kids and that's the first thing i got thank you. hello dr. lara wakefield and i'm a parent of a student who is now a young adult whose transgender and went to rockbridge and the gsa was life-saving for my child and i want to make sure you understand that. those types of support clubs for children who need that who may not be able to get that in any other location it literally is life-saving i would like to make a comment about e4l on the center of room in closet. just want to make these points number one any school club can submit a grant application request for the school board for them to approve or disapprove club submit grant applications all the time over the years club sponsors and cps business department assist with questions and guidance and inform clubs of the application you know if it would violate a school policy or laws or bidding process is etcetera i've seen that over the years this application was reading it a second time and i know jim's harrington assisted on that and he's one of the few people i trust that cps so i know that it was done well clubs like gsa or fellowship of christian athletes are protected under the equal protection act act and allow for a wide range of freedom to assemble and express themselves one of our american freedoms right and whether that is a freedom to express religion through a student-led prayer or freedom to express oneself with offering a clothing closet even if it were labeled for lgbt lgbtq students. but it wasn't as label for all students. and if a school board voted no to allow gsa to apply for a clothing closet grant they could be violating their own anti-discrimination policy that you write in the beginning of the meeting could violate the equal protection access act and possibly the missouri human rights act and someone could file yet another discrimination lawsuit on cbs this is not taxpayer dollars is a gram in the use of a dedicated ram inside a public school for a club or clothing closet has been going on for years it went on when i work there and i'm old it's been going on so this is not a new thing. i know that having access to gender-affirming clothing is about survival it's not just fashion like it's being talked about it's about survival and i hope that you support this application thank you. terry castilone here to speak on e4l many people have already said this is not something i'm comfortable still coming by i think i need to do this give me liberty or give me death for the word spoken by patrick henry before the virginia assembly in 1775. only in america to the idea of a clothes closet in high school controversial. something that is innately designed to ease the suffering. the martian light young adults even if it's just for a moment. their extreme politicians attempting to push their agenda is on the nonpartisan school board in the name of their religion and liberty cheaper and what their children wear at school they're the same politicians that say that i as a parent should have no say in my child receiving gender-affirming care under the guidance of a physician. the stance is i see it is how dare you dress kids without the parents over permission and how dear parents make medical decisions without the religious right over permission so which is it am i allowed to be in control of my child's well-being or not. anyone who will tell you that parents have their child's best interest 100% of the time he's a liar according to the cdc the united states at of the united states in the united states at least 17 children had experienced child abuse or neglect in the past year the school my son attends in 2018-2019 year had to. therefore according to statistics from the cdc approximately 285 of those students were abused or neglected. how many of those young adults were trains use. dealing with her parents who had strong moral religious beliefs to spend hours days weeks trying to pay that pray the gay away until eventually the parent brings the proverb spare the rod spoil the child imagine spending your entire life wishing you could be who you are not being told no imagine how hard it is imagine not feeling validated imagine feeling not wanted or welcomed imagine not feeling valued imagine being ridiculed by your peers by your family by your church by politicians imagine the weight of that everyday. for those of you that lack empathy none of what i've said means anything to you and i'm sorry that i wasted your time. for those of you that have control over what will be allowed i ask that you allow the school to have closets they give access to those young adults that for just a moment need the weight of the world lifted. city further public comment. say none that i am motion and a second. all those in favor say aye. opposed. are the consent agenda passes. i'm not going to move on to special recognition. can i buy the back hear me if i don't. thank you i appreciate it. they're not moving going to special recognition. this will be. good evening i'd like to introduce mr. james melton director of fine arts. good evening board of education great be here with you this evening and this is likely my favorite type of thing that i get to do and it's great to be among students than to honor and celebrate them in fact coming in tonight just being greeted by them if such an energy sitting on the front row next to a brand new friend and it's just just just the joy of celebrating and he's here celebrating his friends this evening i'd like to call down to join me at the podium dr. danielle johnson and mr. ahmad n n. direction. so just recently we had the state conference are the state championship for the story of the published work and perform a selection of one or more persons of that piece humorous interpretation is designed to test as soon as comedic skills to script analysis delivery timing character development competitors may persuade one or multiple characters and their performances are evaluated by a judge or a panel of judges ahmad and ended just that and was named our missouri state high school activities association state champion at the conclusion of the event april 23rd i might compete against 18 students who there who are the top competitors from 9 districts across the state much was done to get him to that point we are excited to celebrate his accomplishments this evening this is cps's first hi state champion at 6 state champion from lockport high school speech and debate and he's going by his coach danielle johnson. ahmad is going around and thinking he would like to thank his parents we don't get where we are without the support of loving family members in guardians as well as those the coach s we have an outstanding speech and debate team if you would like to see a mod in action you can do so this sunday as we raise funds to celebrate and honor those kids that are actually going to be competing in the national speech and debate competition in kentucky this july we're preparing for that right now and we're super excited so one more round of applause.. thank you mr. melton and ahmad and got your jonathan now i'd like to record bring up to the podium and dr. brandon russell with career center lots of winners from chris and tori still let her let you know what they are. okay good evening thank you for this opportunity i appreciate the great lie it's always a good day when we're celebrating our students so tonight i'll bring to you as very large group of ccc students being recognized tonight for placing first becoming state champions and their respective a career and technical student organization who held state competitions this free store today since you're going to be here tonight include educators rising skills with a f f a a xhosa future health professionals in fbla we're going to start tonight with fbla. so if you leave mission is to inspire and prepare students to become community-minded business leaders in a global society to relevant for preparation and leadership experiences how these students competed in the future business leaders of america state leadership conference held sunday april 10th through the april 12th national leadership conference which will be held june 29th through july 2nd in chicago illinois are there tonight or their advisor stacy ellsbury. so i have with me tonight the students are state champions and introduction to event planning competition was introduced re so congratulations to this. congratulations. alright next we have ffa and you can also obviously tell them because of their blue jackets what is love it when they show up in their their jackets so i'm missouri ffa may not know this is almost 6,000 or 26,000 members strong and growing up the next generation rise to the challenge of the feeding a growing population by helping its members developer unique talents and explore their interest in a broad range of career pathways through their agricultural education experiences today's ffa members are future biologist chemists veterinarians engineer at panera's in many other careers of their company tonight by the other advisors kevin duncan and taylor howell another adviser could be here who has the winners of was jacob raymer i bet he could be here the night has completed the 94 state ffa convention in columbia april 21st and 22nd and so here are the students with. you stop top state honors that start with gentry duncan gentry was a state winning cheap production obtrusive placement award for his sae which is a supervised agricultural education experience while he is a rockford high school student. next we have the state winning poultry evaluation cd eaton team and also the first place individual in that so jack malone is a part of that team again was first individual of all students in missouri and join him on that team where gentry duncan duncan off of rock bridge high school and an emily zimmer see who can be here tonight was from christian fellowship so those are winning i say when he pulled your evaluation team next we have a state bordering state forestry individual assume from rockridge high school devon straub who could not be here tonight we also have another individual high individual top individual in the state of missouri in the state grasslands evaluation competition mr. sam thomas from hickman high school. will another state winning agricultural communication cd team is made up of four individuals who are here this evening ethan cooper. abby eddie charlie hazelrig and lauren niemeyer. aren't we also a very high honor and state ffa is the state ffa degree and so we have a one recipient with us tonight gentry duncan. and then we have two others that i like to mention hunter snow and ethan vanderwork also earned that the highest degree at the state level and we also have charlie hazelrig and madeline who are also both designated as state ffa delegates so a lot of winners in ffa. alright next we have hossa i'm hozier future health professionals is an international career and technical student organization endorsed by the us department of education and the health science technology education division of a c t e r nashville middle school high school and post-secondary and collegiate students and professionals alumni and honorary members it is the largest student organization to prepare students to enter the healthcare field the spoons tonight or accompanied by christine robertson has one of their advisors. the states host the conference was held march 28th and 29th and rolla and these students are now eligible to compete at the hosa international leadership conference which will be held in nashville tennessee this year and i believe it's in june yes all right so our state champions are in final medical laboratory science. razor rockridge high school actually all these young people are rockridge high school students next was a nurse assisting hannah kuehnert could not be here tonight but she was a state champion the nurse is assisting the other three fine young people with us tonight or part of a biomedical debate team and they are anish ganga kevin and every object so let's hear it for our hosts of the week. what's a good right. having relations. graduation. okay the next group is educators rising you need to pay attention these young people you could be hiring on sunday helping with that teacher shortage so educators rising allows students in grades seven through 12 to explore careers in education which is essential and preparing quality teachers for tomorrow school students are coming tonight by their advisor gina green plate. so these students competed march 8th and 9th and will have opportunity pete at the educator rising national conference coming up in june so our state champions for educators rising are in educators rising moment lucy sadie white. team event in an interactive bulletin board we have morgan bussard and madison mcanally and a to madison is from rockford high school a lucy and morgan are both rock bridge high school we have to be with us tonight and teacher created materials on a state champion was christinaand then a job interview was emma peterson so i gave you your ed rising winners. alright our last organization tonight so that i'd like to introduce two or is from skillsusa skillsusa is a partnership of students teachers and industry working together to ensure america has a skilled workforce skills with a sword. middle school high school in post-secondary students preparing preparing students for careers and trade technical and skilled service occupations are there two other advisors instructors katy frank and brook harlan john miner has also contracted could not be here tonight and r2 in structures that are part of the team's successes like to compete among the best in the country in atlanta georgia this summer between june 20th and 24th at the annual national leadership conference. so our state champions are as follows first team event in 3d visualization and animation is jonathan imboden and christopher keen they're both a rock bridge high school students. heartland commercial baking you want to get to know this one from rock bridge high school. you might want to get to know this one to rock bridge high school in culinary arts eli hanson we say that guy back of game development what are other team event in interactive applications game development is owen kington cannot make it tonight and they were both from hickman high school so these are at state champions and skills usa. why you're taking answer i just want to say that he's definitely wish all of a sudden students lock the summer battle high school in cocc very well. georgia driving. all right it's always nice to honor our students and the faculty who helped make them successful. when are we going to move on to the report of the board president don't have a ports from columbia missouri national education association first vice president dr. allison at eye association president carries death. good evening i am dr. alexander thai first vice-president cmea we represent more than 700 cps employees who collectively believe every child deserves a great public we also represent over 1,400 teachers in columbia public schools as their exclusive representative elected in 2012 through to stablish by this board and we have been honored to serve in this capacity for the last 10 years the inclusion of teacher voice in the exercise of our constitutional right to collectively bargain to represent representatives of our own choosing continues to be our compass. some students are at the center of everything we do we firmly believe our actions helped recruit and retain high-quality teachers in their classroom this year was a productive session that was more collegial than in previous years we would like to continue this shift towards a more interest-based bargaining model which highlights district values such as trust collaboration and empathy as we work together to solve problems that result in contracts will commitment it just a start bargaining already occurs in many missouri districts we would be happy to help with any education or information needed to facilitate this shift. i do know last week was teacher appreciation week it was great to see rcps educators being celebrated by students teachers community and administration we appreciate the fact that the school board meetings have become a venue for recognizing great educators from across our district each month the public pat-on-the-back is appreciated especially during this trying yes we can graduate this month recognize educators as well as the outstanding students who were celebrated tonight. the end of school is approaching quickly we made it we commend the collective efforts of the board the ministration and building level faculty and staff to keep everyone safe while trying to return to a more normal school experience for our students and family we also acknowledge our upcoming graduates who have persevered through a global pandemic and loads of uncertainty over the last three years to arrive at the stepping stone into their futures we reflect on the lessons that we have learned during this bumpy school year and we appreciate the support of our community as we work harder than ever to deliver a quality inn seat education for our students. we're at pandemic concerns are lessening we are seeing greater levels of burnout than ever before. even as we have seen some improvement in sub coverage student behaviors in building climates in some cases the damage has been done we are fearful about the staff turnover especially in some of our most vulnerable buildings more than ever they need support and a concrete plan to finish the year strong and set themselves up for a thriving 20 22 23 academic school year i appreciate the opportunity to address the board on behalf of dmnd a thank you for your service. good evening presidentsuperintendent yearwood members of the board and cabinet small gift of appreciation we were excited to see parents community members and administration celebrating the amazing work that educators have done this year this has been a tough one we were met with many challenges and face them with grace and understanding the sub shortage tested the abilities of buildings to come together and they did an amazingly teachers learn new ways to teach and reach students that will forever be changed by a global pandemic. we have learned new social and emotional strategies to help students deal with educators have faced many challenges outside of the classroom again coming out of the other side stronger and more prepared to take on the future cmst a could not be more proud of all of the cps teachers and staff. i would also like to thank the cabinet and board members for always taking time to recognize the outstanding work of our educators the monthly recognition of outstanding educators has been uplifting and we look forward to seeing many more of our colleagues being recognized it is also amazing to see all the amazing things that are students her accomplishments during their time at cps tonight our list of students that have worked hard in their area of interest and accomplishment of so much is outstanding and further proof of the great things that are happening here at cps many of the awards tonight required many dedicated hours outside of school for students educators and community members the future is bright with these young scholars leading the way. as we dig into the budget and financial work that you've been working so hard on millard school district understands where the money comes from and how and why it is being budgeted to be spent we look forward to further information this evening many teachers appreciate the efforts been made with the salary schedule and look forward to increases especially as we look at the cost of living increases we would like you to consider looking at summer school pay miss has not been increased for at least 10 years these positions are an important part of columbia public schools and our community please consider this as we look into the coming school year our summer school is well attended and administrators struggled to fill positions every year and a pay increase would help in recruitment. we would like to recognize the cms tiring at the end of the school year brian clayton from gentry middle school gym steelman from grant elementary marlene anderson from fairview elementary charlotte brumfield from the early childhood mike cranford at west middle school. jamie greg garrett from nutrition services kim harley mill creek leslie horrorcore quest mary lamberson at russell training lab hearts at new haven kelly richardson at midway heights nancy cycles at jeff middle and sue van der. suzette's at in smithton we congratulate them and wish them well on their next adventures would also like to congratulate our members of the month for me kevin pace at battle high school bonita fitzmaurice at cork west brian hudson. john warner and cory corn corn oil at cacc each one of these members gets a gift card and just a nice thank you for all of their work we would like to invite the board to it to our end of your happy hour where we will give our rewards and support staff and hope that you can join us as always thank you for your time and dedication to your role in columbia public schools thank you. thank you president and first vice-president dr tie. moving on to the appointment of board members and ministrator to our board committees now i got mentioned the beginning of the meeting typically we would have slides up there with names that you can see at the moment i can read the news to you. more like has three dedicated committees and then we have commissions that we are on so i'm going to go out a name for a finance committee chris horning chair gene snyder grass and suzette waters as the board members for long-range facilities planning catherine sasser's a chair at waters and blake will be a policy policy committee lake willoughby is a chair and gene snyder grass or board members columbia public schools foundation that water's is a representative digital security davechapter 100 chris warren commission davidwellness snodgrass. i'm moving on now to the report of the superintendent of schools. forward as we celebrate our teachers of tomorrow. we have a code word. good evening again i'd like to present to you our teachers of the month so teacher is going to state your name and how many years and where you teaching what you and come around. that way she can't our first ornery tonight is andrew barnes he has from jefferson middle school dr. cain is here supporting him he teaches sixth grade science and it's hot at jefferson for 5 years. mister villasana is the media center specialist at cedar ridge elementary he has been there for 20 years. miss karen kk kelly is from west boulevard elementary she has been with us and cps for 13 years. sarah grilling is here with us she is an acting teacher at hickman high school her prince bullets. granny ani he is here he says she has been at hickman a long time there and i confirmed it's actually 18 years congratulations sarah. jennifer trotter is a french teacher with mr. johnson at gentry middle school who is your supporting it she has been a teacher for us for 20 years. mrs. rebecca bevel smith is the media center specialist at oakland middle school she is here supported by her principal jeff milky she's been an education for 17 years 10 years at oakland. laughing at least we have miss kathy farrell she is supported by her principal dr. solomon from laing middle school she's a 6th grade math teacher has been in a patient for 27 years and has been with us for 24 years kathy farrell. so hard to follow all the exciting but it's so good to see all the awards and scholars and all the teachers here tonight to update before we bring you the preliminary budget at the end of the month after work session we're going to go through where our revenues and expenditures are as we know them today and the latest news coming out of the fee. so first of all our property tax revenues again make up over 50% of our operating revenue and so you can see here on the screen we did have a decrease in our overall property tax revenue between calendar year 2020 and 21 the tax rate their decreased by about $0.40 and that's because of the blankenship ruling when we set our tax rate last summer we are required by law to reduce our property tax rate because of a court ruling on that happened a year ago in march that required us that ruined part of the statute that sets the tax rate unconstitutional and so we were required to reduce our tax rate which levies than x are assessed valuation is how we determine our revenue for our property taxes you can see for the 2020 which is the which will drive our revenues for the 2020 to 2023 fiscal year are we do expect our tax. to go up we have the $0.11 that was passed by the previous text rate love you by our voters back in 2016 we have the additional $0.11 that has been voluntarily rolled back and we're going to we promised our voters when we went we would ask for as much as we need and then we wouldn't come back again and so now it's been a while and so we're ready to take that additional $0.11 us we're going to see some differences spending as we move into the future and so you can see that $0.11 is taken into consideration and that's why we have a six million dollar increase in our property tax revenue expected for the 2223 fiscal year. again just a reminder the blankenship versus franklin county decision this was a taxpayer that challenged up part of the state statue that was calculate our tax rate calculations was unconstitutional i'm you can see and those bullet point right 3 section 137 .07 3.2 of the revised statute of missouri provided that taxing entities could rip levi a rate that is the greater of the increase approved by the voters or the adjusted voter-approved increase provided by that section of the statute however when they went when the taxpayer took this against the court they said that was no longer constitutional and so anybody any texting and to be any political subdivision in the state of missouri whether it's a school district the fire district dissidia county anyone who passed texas levies since 2008 had to roll back an amount that the state auditor's office determined for us and so the. now that the city of how the robot ar levy adjustment for 2021 because of this blankenship rolling was point 3284 so i must 33 spence of our tax levy was rolled back i cannot take equates to about eight million dollars in revenue if nothing else was changed with assessed valuation was equal and everything else was equal than they would equal 8 million dollars in revenue luckily are assessed valuation did increase them from where we were last year so our decrease was not the full eight million dollars and just as you recall when in 2016 was the last time we pack state tax levy they approve $0.65 or basically just this court case in the gated almost half of the levee that was approved by our voters and so as we look into the next few years i'm working on seeing i'm deficit spending in our operating budget we're going to have to go to think about options to be on a makeup that additional revenue loss that we had for our. do a bit of good news on the prop c front our proposition see a reminder that is our state sales tax that comes to collect a locally and then funneled back to us through the state based on a formula of our weighted average daily attendance w 88th and that amount has x amount that is given to us by the department of elementary and secondary education and so props the house remained up sales tax is about 15% higher than it was over this time last year and so the legislature is passing in a supplemental budget for fiscal year twenty-two that's the current fiscal year and so it's going to be increasing the distributions of prophecy for this current year and so it might not be until june since there were just now passing the legislators finalizing the budget just last week and so that additional revenue will be coming to us next month but you can see there a 2022 our total prophecy revan. who is 22448000 dollars and we're projecting again the current budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 or showing a proxy budget of 109 95 million statewide which is an increase again over the current year and so that the amount per wada on that they're giving us is $1,257. and then 18,000 507 as our weighted average daily attendance the that calculates our revenue at about 23.4 million dollars and so almost a million dollar increase in our revenue for proxy expected for the 2223 school year. and then this one is also some good news at our state revenues are foundation formula is pretty much flat but they are allowing us to use the weighted average daily attendance from physical your 20 which is our pre-pandemic amount because normally does the allows us a 2-year look back. but they're extending that due to the impact that covid has had on attendance and enrollment statewide and sold basically our foundation formula and classroom trust fund revenues are going to be flat for next year but the the the legislature did at the end of last week on friday it came out that they did approve the senate approved an additional one-time 214 million-dollar increase and the transportation categorical line for the statewide revenue budget and so that means i can spend up to 75% of our total transportation expenditures so that's going to be an increase you can see up here on our slide that i highlighted that i'm out in yellow cuz that is a changed. what we saw last week at the finance committee and it's going to be about a 3.3 million dollar increase just a reminder of what they included in that there's always going to be things like our total transportation budget is about 11 and a half million dollars but but it's never we have part of that is special ed which is also funded by idea funds until that cannot be we can't do basically double dip so you can't get federal funding for special education and also state funding for transportation so you have to reduce that amount and then there's always going to be things like shuttles are gifted shuttles career center shuttle different activity buses and things like that that are not covered that are not eligible for reimbursement and state transportation so once you subtract all those lines out we get in an efficiency factor and they are the amount that i project that will get is about five million dollars if of the eligible amount that we that we are spending. so that's great so about three and a half million overall in state revenue increase for next year. it's all the next fly this is what i was talking about that i'm 160 3.0 21.1 section 4 of the revised statutes of missouri is an impact on the state payments and duffy has determined that the fiscal year 2022 which is our current your student attendance has been badly impacted by the covid-19 pandemic specifically due to the delta and the omicron variants that occurred during the year and as such the payment calculations for district will include that of fiscal year 2020 which was our pre-pandemic average daily attendance which is r a d a and w a d a value of outlined below so that's great news for us when we do expect that our enrollment will continue to rebound in the future years but this allows us that i'm to use instead of a two-year look back that third year i'm really allowed to use the greater of the estimation for next year or the three preceding years when we do our calculation for including the second pull apart for our basic 4. classroom trust fund prop see all those different calculations can use on the greater of fiscal year 2020 21 22 or an estimate of 2023 f r a n roll matt and our attendance rate increase. so but most likely will be using that pre-pandemic attendance data from fy20. the other things to watch for at the state level these are our three categories of our federal federal stimulus funding packages that we've continued to watch our chairs act which was the original sr1 allocated and spent in fiscal year 21 which was last year we had about 2.5 million dollar allocation cps spent all of our portion of that on devices when we are going 12-1 to make sure we all of our students had access to devices for virtual learning but there was a non-public allocation so our non-public schools that are within our district's here and columbia such as the catholic school and some of our other private schools in the area also had allocation so there's a small amount that still outstanding that we still have to wrap up spending and so hopefully that will be spent by the end of the june of the current year because i'm the state says we can't spend any of our additional money until the prior ones are spent so our american rescue play. money are sr3 the largest allocation that we have coming up that's going to be budgeted for the 22 23 + 23/24 is 4 years can't be spent until that original i'm allocation of us are one is totally spent and so basically they're saying but like you don't need the money until you've spent the previous money so we want to make sure those non-public schools are spending that money so we can i move forward with their appropriation for the american rescue plan and the 22 23 school year. i know this is going to be kind of repetitive i just want to make sure that i clearly understand what you're saying so the non-public schools but i still might have lingering money from the other one the cares act like a regional funds that we got to keep us from receiving other funds are department are federal programs director and who is also our school improvement director is working with his mom publix to be able to make sure that it's bent by june 30th about $70,000 so in the whole scheme of things like it's not a large amount but to those schools at the significant amounts and so they're working with them i'm making sure i'm that they can either i'm told it back to expenditures that they've already made or make sure that they're getting stuff ordered between now and june 30th so that we can start fresh on july one and making sure that we can spend on the projects than the other expenditures that we have planned for next year thank you for working with him in the office of course. so the big one that just came out on friday as our house bill 3002 which is the fiscal year 23k 12 state budget the one-time increase of 214 million dollars of transportation categorical this would represent full funding 75% of a loud cough and that's a huge deal like i said transportation hasn't been fully funded and years and years and that's we're going to be there said it's a one-time thing because of the state also has fund balance that they're trying to spend down as well as i've had some unspent money for the last few years just like we did here at cps for because of covid and i'm spent dollars statewide. and no new money is being added to the foundation formula again to stay out of adequacy target the sat remains at $6,375 for next year career ladder program at at 37 and a half million dollars this requires a 40/60 match and for those of you who don't remember the old career ladder program this allows for additional spend outside for teachers to get additional money outside of the school day for running clubs are doing additional work i'm with colleen actually kept it here it was funded through about 2010 i'm at the state level but the district continue to pay anyone that was grandfathered into for supplemental pay prior to that date until we have about 200 individual about half a million dollars that we currently have continued to pay that are people on supplemental pay over the last 10 years even though the state was not sending it we just found it with local dollar. so this is less will be new money again so we'll be able to require or meet that local match against 40% is reimbursed by the state's 60% is paid by so that's the district still has to pay them the main amount for any additional money since we're already paying it with it'll be helpful for next year as well. i'm they did after the it went through the house the senate had removed it but there was a of them put back in for this 50 billion dollars for a voucher s program $1,500 which could go for grant the parents to help with learning lost i'm through out the pandemic and there's also a provision that that remained in the budget for eleazar which is our local education agencies adopt any kind of distance or blended learning model could have their other funds reduced by 10% and then a 3% are $3000000 a new money for the early childhood special education this is a pass-through grant so the state i match that cost in early childhood special education expenditures are paid in a rear so they spend it sure is that we have for the current year will be real the revenue. and the other things at the store when i last week of the legislature is in session this week and that they're battling out of the harmful bills that we're still continuing to watch the house bill 1552 charter funding and virtual instruction expansion on this one was voted out of this sunday and i'm ended version of the bill continues to sit on the house calendar we're not in favor for this because not only would state dollars flow through our local school district to charter schools are local money would flow through as well and follow those kids and no accountability measures for charter or the virtual school. i'm health bill 1858 at the parents bill of right that provides a list of rights of parents that may require school districts to follow and implement and then the sj-r 39 and 41 what's involved property tax cap them freezes we always are going to i'm not be in favor of any kind of limitations on our property taxes over 50 or 50% of our revenue comes directly from our local property taxes we don't want any kind of legislation at the state to limit the increases in revenue that we can get from our local property tax. cell moving on rs or funding just as we talked about those different pop the money that's rsr2 is all been allocated and the current fiscal year mainly weekends a lot of this is already been spent and paid so you can see our technology and our devices are high school with the lte service so that our students have access and then also are three hvac projects will be ongoing it'll roll over to the next year but they does b awards have already been contracted and awarded and work is started on the hickman high school oakland middle school and shepard boulevard hvac improvements and then we have our salaries are five instructional mentor salaries that we've had for the current fiscal year and are two additional elementary counselors that we've had for social emotional support at our most high-risk elementary schools for this current year and then those will also be absorbed on our sr3 funding for next year but our total allocation there was 10 million. what are $14,000 in so2. and so after 3 then will i was like i said we're going to continue with our counselors add 12 more additional counselor at the elementary level and there were going to continue the. of availability for our after 3 is through september 30th of 2024 so basically we have two years to spend this additional 24 million dollars until we have a very compact time to spend a lot of money and so we had to really balance what we could have absorbed local even works thinking about adding positions what we can afford on our operating fund versus what we went to what kind of additional things that we want to put towards one x bundle and so we've agreed to continue to fund the additional counselors for the next two years for 23 and 24 on for 360,000 i'm our math instructional mentor again there's five positions for two years so that totals about 600,000. and then we also added interventions for math at battle high school in at lang middle school on one position at each of those schools for two years so that totals $120,000 for each location in there and the big thing that we're working on right now is a tutoring rfp and so we're going to head out some tutoring services to build a help with the learning law's requirement of our number sr3 funding and so that's about four and a half million dollars that we're going to do over the next two years while so it's our own teachers when i would like to work with providing any of those additional support as well we could do stuff the part may be stipends pirate by the service and supply but we're going to that the large portion of that that we're going to be able to spend over the next couple years now we also have some allocated for our after-school programming for some of our local partners that we have such as boysgirls club adventure club in those type into these here. hopefully that there's aof money about half a million dollars that they can use to do after school programming for the students in our schools additional technology allocation for our elementary devices and continued lte service for all of those devices and then upgrades for the audio visual equipment in the boardroom so we have 10 positions on that we're going to find out until 3 and then at the bottle evan and a half million dollars. and the 4.5 million dollars of the tutoring a combination of like a nationwide company and local tutors yes yes so it's going to be what we're doing is putting out an rfp to see what kind of interest we can go out of nationwide vendor that can be able to provide lots of 24 hour 24 hours a day 7 days a week service to whoever however many that we can get one-on-one tutoring in the most of it will be virtually online and then if we do have some interest from our own teachers of course we want to make sure that our own teachers have access to that additional opportunity to tutor our own dollars as well so we'll do that but the mainly that the after-school stuff up to the programs are already offer after-school programming and those type tutoring services locally. mom has the additional allocation that's just solely for that purpose heather just when it comes to the fte physicians obviously we're sitting 2 years because that's how long the other funds are allowed for us to spend in calculating in allotting for that this board in the administration if we're seeing a need of continuing those positions we can make that decision to add that into the operating budget if we are wanting to of course and that's why we were really diligent when as we go through and listen to our building once and needs and departmental once the needs of the cabinet comes through edition request than that we want don't want to like ad so many that you can't we won't be able to continue to fund that forever that it's an amount that way hopefully we'll be able to absorb federal one-time money runs out. and then the left let us look at the list of our hvac projects i don't think anything has changed on this list of rs or three the remaining twelve and a half million of that fun that's going to be i'm start on this work a lot of these how long lead times for the part so i know our facilities department is itching to get ready to get start ordering some of those things that's what everyone in the country is trying to do it air quality improvement i'm with all this federal money that's coming in and then also our outdoor learning on that was a big thing when we surveyed last fall for parents and teachers to make sure that kids have opportunities for outdoor learning and so we have a half million dollars at the allocated to our outdoor nature areas as well. florida switchback years to our operating budget this is a one-time additions that we have for our operating budget for the 2223 school year and we have our middle school english language arts intervention materials $50,000 our world languages materials at 150,000 for implementation of that curriculum facility out of this is our final third round of our facility audits of her building so that we have a cumulative list of our deferred maintenance fees i'm $91,000 for isis to come and finish that review i'm the next to russell boulevard hazard elementary are at the addition and renovation project and then ava jeff middle school is also undergoing the addition and renovation project so both of those projects have ff&e your furniture and fixture from the operating budgets that are allocated to those two project we have a space utilization on it that we're going to work on with dlr who is our architect and then packaging and we've been. this period of growth where we've done a lot of new bills over the last 10 years while the next 10 years were going to be looking at a lot of assessing a lot of different maintenance on some of her older building so packaging addition and renovation projects with some upgrades and addressing some of those deferred maintenance needs and i'm dlr's going to give us an assessment their attendance area review on with crawford strategies i'm continuing the review of our areas for $30,000 on battle high school each of our band uniform wear on a 10-year rotation and so battle high school's coming up on 10 years so 175,000 to replace those original band uniforms and then that one time curriculum audit that we talked about earlier that was in the consent agenda tonight of 125000 for a total of 1.2 million for one-time editions. and then we have a recurring additions and deductions and remember these are not just one time things either things that will work her each year as we go into the future none of these are new items the one thing on the second page that i wanted to address that was a new item that you didn't see last month was the technology services reorganization and we talked of us about this a little bit at next week we had a i'm done of our technology technology services a reorganization and we're not adding any fte about work doing some different structuring in our technology services department and so the total i'm prost there's going to be fifty-five thousand so that's the only new item there that you didn't see last month so our total alarm recurring additions and deductions i'm 1518000. and then this is a summary then of all of the additional money that we're putting into our operating budget our salary and benefits again 80% of our operating budget comes goes directly toward our people and so this is where i was in the main cops are located so we have about twenty six eighty fte and our operating budget and so just a step everyone that's four years of experience each year 2.8 million dollars and then once you add benefits to that the total is / 3.2 million dollars just to step everyone on their salary schedules each year and then additional top that we're putting into salary schedules of the for improvement of schedules over four million dollars that were putting it to a flute for improve all of our schedules including our teachers schedules as well as all over non-certified hourly staff schedules that we're continuing to put make improvements to to make sure that we're competitive in a local industries and so against texans or six hundred fifty thousand for benefits on top of those approved. with our schedules so almost five million dollars total for that column and then that's still over if you scroll over to the right then you can see the total we have salaries of 7075000 we have additional benefits of 1088000 and then we have allowance for improvement for educational credit that's a few additional degrees you can move across columns rather than steps where you move down the column and so we have an additional allocation for that for 278,000 and then we do have some savings from retirees each year and when we hire new teachers a difference between someone on the top end of the schedule and then someone coming in as a new teacher so that the reduction there about three hundred seventy-one thousand and then the fte additions and deductions that we just talked about on the previous slide about 20.3 ft e-editions and that's almost a million dollars 928000 and then an additional 17f. the additions that our grandfather that includes rs our funding and also some title ft as well and that's over and another million dollars 1020000 so we're putting in the additional ten million dollars into our operating funds next year for additional improvements the salaries and fte positions for support for our staff. so that's significant i think it's in the more we can get that message out that we're continuing to be able to support our staff continuing to be able to try and do what we can to improve salaries even though sometimes it doesn't feel like a lot but we show that we really value our people and that we're continuing to support our people. so the last slide then as a summary of our impact to our 5 year model again our transportation funding for the 2223 fiscal year is really going to help our deficit spending that year was not our deficit spending not going to be nearly as much as we had seen on some previous months 5 year model so you can see just about 1.4 million dollar deficit for next year but as we put those again we have those recurring expenditures and those we put additional money into our salaries and into our people that compounds then and the years going out into the five your model and so we have about the 2324 fiscal year when the federal money and the one-time transportation money runs out you can see that that deficit. goes from 1.4 million to 8.2 million so that's significant and then you can see at the projected fund balance drops i'm throughout the five year model and it is above 19 per cent from 19.91 per cent in our 5 year model and that's still under two and a half months and fund balance and just a reminder to you guys and tell the audience that the reason that we have to have my son some fun valentine's because our major revenue source comes in our property tax as it's just like we pay our property taxes in december and january of each year that's when our revenue from its collective locally is turned over to us so we need to make sure that we have fun balance on hand and june at the end of our fiscal year and be able to make sure that we have cash on hand a bill to make payroll and pay our bills in the fall into that large sum of money comes in and december and january of each year and so if you think about two months that's july and august that doesn't really get you very far end of the fiscal year and we don't want to have to resort to any kind of short. i'm borrowing just to be able to pay bills in the fall. but that is if that's the last thing i had to do you have questions. i've got a question for clarification i think might require some additional thanks and so for for the work that took place down jeff city with our legislators and desi so there is an increase in frosty funding based on their projections of what it's going to be spent on sales tax from sales tax do it the more money we can encourage everyone to spend locally that all funneled back to us so they're projecting because we really didn't ever see a drop in sales tax like they originally projected through the tandem axles for continued to remain strong so they're projecting that that's going to continue to increase next year and so they're saying that money it's not it's going to be new money coming to the state which then we'll be back through to us local folks for next year. right now we're ahead of where we were which is not usually how it happens like a recessive or ahead this year if it were 15% above where we were in probably so weird that they're doing a supplemental appropriation which i haven't seen in my ears and the internet surplus wisely so i also allows for additional year we usually get to your look back. we get a 30 or the transportation increase is huge and then the career ladder match so additional funds coming in and then be additional monies for early childhood special education that's why i just wanted to pull those things out because you know folks down in the in the house. i'm sure helps of the district as well for education transportation thing is huge for every district in the state that there can receive basically receive less than 20% of what we spend on transportation and revenue the less than 2 million dollars in the last couple years and has continued to decline of gopher for any thanks that we can put out there to the for them keeping that for the senate to put it in to the budget and for them to the house. say yes we're going to continue to keep that in the budget is really important. for the blinking on names i know it's the missouri empowerment scholarships that bill got past flash about i think it was 40% of transportation or something along those lines had been met with that being met obviously for this year dude has desi at all given an indicator of how that might impact us so that you can calculate for it or have weaned type cuz i know the other thing is i keep up two tabs as much as i can there's not a lot on the treasurer's website on everything that's going on i guess it's a new thing so there's it's a large state thing i got it so i just didn't know amanda just approve that so then you will have to like. figure out how everything else on the plane and again they path they kept in that other voucher type program for parents again and the current year budget as well so we'll have to watch how that affects those two. and then i just had a quick question i know you did not highlight it in your update so i'm sorry that i'm throwing this out for a little bit late so i know there's been a lot of fanfare around the fact that the state is proposing something up the base salary of for the entire state for teachers and since we are already above that we're not going to receive any of that state money correct and just fyi the amount that they've allocated like that happen i know i was like conference a couple weeks ago and i know a lot of smaller districts are really concerned about how they're going to be able to afford to do that when the states not covering basically at the non-funded man come from the state they're they're saying you have to do this but they're not giving this takes all the money that they need to be able to find it. i appreciate that thank you. emma questions discussion. play krishna bhajan. but i'm going to new business and the consideration of the 2023 to 2024 school year calendar move to approve the consideration of the 2023 24 school year calendar i presented. sorry i got ahead of myself there and try to get up. i'm sincere apologies that she could not be here but she had a family emergency so i am bringing you the calendar here the bargain calendar committee brings this calendar and again this is for the 2324 school year i'm previously you guys already approved the one for the upcoming year which is a 22 23 school year and this one is very similar to that reflecting no presidential or midterm elections starting school the two tuesdays before labor day and again we'll have the additional 60 plus hours beyond the required minimum i can definitely requires us to have that 1044 hour minimum for the number of hours for student attendance and so we have 60/68 plus hours more than that which allows us to name our last day of school so snow days will not impact on our last day of school is because we have at least six days a bill into our schedule. and so. so now fluctuating due date which is really helpful for our parents to build a plan and no one schools going to be out each year. question i have a question. i'm just looking at the summer school and i know one of the really great things about not having the fluctuating days isn't as i know we had this discussion even with this your calendar trying to keep summer school with in the fiscal year or two before july and i but i am curious why the decision was made to start on a thursday and not just move it to the monday and just have june the summer school or if it was just that you needed those two days that the end to make sure everything goes through okay before the fiscal year no not normally i don't know the answer to that but i'm weak and i'll make sure that we get that address by dr. rock that but it is very helpful to have the ending of still not then are all of our summer school salaries and payrolls are not crossing this for years to make sure that all ends and so i do know that but the earlier attendance always like wayne's off that last week is going to summer school anyway and so i'm sure anything to move any of those days for work. they also need teacher. between so that's what that would start on june 3rd like why it's not all in june and propose to starting on a thursday it just seems like starting on a monday so they don't want to end on friday but i appreciate them so they were so they wouldn't start on a friday so that's why i think they started on a thursday did a full week between the last day of school and then started work that out this is more of on a text side so if you don't mind just ends up being. kind of the document that we put up can we also put one up that can be more acceptable to the variety of colorblindness that's there just because there's a lot of fluid is usually a color that a lot of people might have singular color blindness too and there's a couple other colors here that can be hard for instance like for me i was focusing in on with august i was like worst jumpstart day what happened and i realize like that blew it was more purple and once i got focused nights all that so if we could have something i appreciate that. any more questions or discussion. is up before we vote i'm going to try and paint a picture for all of you who cannot see this calendar so for august 23rd of august 2023 first day of school is set for tuesday august 22nd. the last day of the year. last day of the year is set for may 23rd which is a thursday summer school then starts on may 30th and ends on june 26th. that's why i give you the dates i know it's hard to see. this is not this august and has not stopped coming to your actual 2023 2024. and if if there's anybody new here new watching the khaled we the counter committee is a conglomerate of folks within the staff they work on this we do this so that we can have a calendar like set up but there are many times almost on a monthly basis sometimes we update the calendar the calendar is it for future years or even in the current year due to things so at times things can fluctuate in change so if there's things that you're noticing share it with us as board members share it with staff because we can make adjustments. and our intent is really to try and allow planning ahead of time and so that's why we're really trying to get back in the habit of having a calendar out there for two years in advance and it really is helpful that on the state track the tendon now based on hours instead of days which allows us to bill in the extra time in our schedule and not have to have a floating in the based on how many snow days does he have. are there any further public comment board coming. any public comment. i'm not seeing no public commentwill call bo. yes yes. why the motion passes 7 to nothing. when are we going to come over into. castelli 2021 2022 budget amendment. s. occasionally throughout the year we bring you budget amendments as we have some new revenue estimates our expenditures are transfers between fun to make sure that our current your budget most closely reflects what we were expecting to receive and spend during the current fiscal year so this is the second budget amendments that i have brought for the 2122 on fiscal year we start out with the net impact to the 2122 operating budget again that includes the general and the teachers fun combined is a decrease in revenues over expenditures of 1830600 $25. so the first section here is our operating revenues again teachers and incidental find that decrease of 2740916 dollars and so there's 17 different items you let you know you was too small probably just be up on the screen but the main one is again or decrease the that we've talked about a decrease in our local property tax revenues from our original budget of 5 and a half million dollars based on that final tax rate because of the blankenship ruling in are assessed valuation. an increase our property revenue again that's our state our sales tax that's increase of 3072000 dollars to adjust the projected actual amounts coming from the state increase and intangible tax revenues by $230,646 based on actual year-to-date collections and a decrease and sir tax revenues by $41,882 based on actual year-to-date distributions and also a decrease in our payment in lieu of tax revenues by $239,195 based on actual collections decrease in our fines and forth for pictures from the county on $41,376 based on the actual collections i'm decrease of state assets utility revenues by $34,399 based on actual collections and then we have an increase in our county stock insurance revenues by 148000. $795 based on actual collections 82,000 original budget inn again that's because of our additional waited ada that we receive for a 2021 summer school last summer was that extended summer school that we held for eight or six weeks so it was and we got additional ada for that that drove comes into our revenue for the current year and increase in state revenues for transportation by 190,000 to adjust to the projected actual and current desi projections and increase in our state revenues for classroom trust fund that for gaming revenue i'm 390 5741 to adjust a projected actual amounts from desi projections i'm a decrease in state revenue for residual placement access cough and also for a decrease of state revenue for extraordinary cost these are both these lines are both are related to our special services. and they're they're done in arrears like the early childhood special education so because of last year where we are we are virtual for part of the year on the or the expenditures were down for those placement services and excess cost and also our extraordinary cost i'm were down because of it some of those and we didn't have some of those expenditures last year so then the amount that they're reimbursing this year is a decrease from what we had seen in the past. a decrease in federal revenues for the sr2 funds and again by 1036000 based on dusty approved budget an increase in federal revenues for the mg er to equipment grant for the career center by $22,800 based on the death of the approved budget for that grant and an increase in federal revenues for the department of health covid sacramento grant this is for our nursing department got this additional grant by 195,000 based on the desk the approved budget and then an increase in federal revenues for our carl perkins grant by $223,354 to agree to the deathly approve allocation for that grant. is on expenditure side we also have a decrease in expenditures a large amount of that as a transfer of $607,846 to the capital again anything that's over $1,000 individually cannot be spent out of our operating fund based on a dime. these guidelines and so if if any department or building wants to spend buy something that cost over $1,000 they have to do a transfer from the operating funds over to the capital projects fund and so that transfer amount of $607,846. and then also a transfer of that 1086000 from rs their budget in the operating funds over to the capital projects fund to agreed agreed to that deathly approved final budget and also increased $22,800 on the expenditure side for the garage equipment grant based on the death of the approved budget and also an increase of 128 to 34 for the carl perkins grant all the expenditure side and then a roll forward of the locust street expressive arts autonomous school budget of 24006 74th i'm to roll four of those remaining budgets from the previous year based on the autonomous school committee agreement. and then a couple items in our special funds are debt service revenue as you recall we had are refunding bond issue but earlier in the year and so the main and kris and our debt service fund is to be able to allocate for that refunding bond revenue of 11421000 $45 for the january refunding bonds they all we also have some adjustments for a local property tax revenues of over $1000000 based on the final tax rate in assessed valuation again property tax were increasing in our debt service on that adjustment that we had to make for the blankenship was only in our operating adjustments to our debt service because we believe it's remained at the point 9719 when we do a debt service property tax rate is a separate calculation from our operating rates of that amount was introduced the bill and continue to make our principal and interest payments on her bond. increase in a tangible tax revenues by 50,000 631 increase answer tax revenues by $24,712 decrease in our payment in lieu of tax revenues by $54,260 increase in our state utility revenues of $10,452 and an increase in our county stock insurance and so that expenditure file in our debt service account we also have the increase in 11655387 dollars for the payment on that refunding bond they also the revenues come in and then we subsequently paid off those bonds and refinance them when we did the refunding. and then our capital projects fun we talked about and net increase of 1.6 million dollars in revenues we have an increase in our property tax revenues into our capital projects fund of $109,577 and increase in our certex revenue a decrease in our payment in lieu of tax revenues in an increase in our donations revenue by $100,000 for the columbia public schools foundation nature school donation and then we have an increase in miscellaneous revenue on for the sale of the sinclair property to the city of columbia and then some other miscellaneous sale revenue for our sale of surplus vehicles. and then the increased federal revenues that was transferred from our operating fun 4s or two from our operation over to our capital projects fund to of 1086000 to agree to the deathly approved budget for us or to an increase in federal revenues for the ger to equipment grant piece up in the capital projects fund for the career center equipment $112,200 of that is in the capital fun and then also increase in federal revenues for nutrition services equipment grant by $6,648 to agree to the dust the approved budget for that g. and then also a lot of the same things you see on the expenditure side as well when you have the increase for the grants you also see that the increased spend for those grant revenues as well and we also had a various transfer portal is 600-7846 the same transfer we saw out of the operating fun we see into the capital projects fund. i'm also various transfers totaling $46,801 that are coming from various donations accounts and student activity accounts that allow those things purchases of capital items and we have an increase of $200,000 for the gentry masonry project that based on the actual contract awarded and then that same 1080 $6,000 and the sr22 an expenditure budget $112,200 for the ger to equipment budget and a 135,000 increase to set up the budget for the preliminary design of the career center addition and renovation project. and one grant that we have in the grant and donations phone we have a increase love this with our local granite and you guys saw this grand previous months of the afghan refugee grant i'm that we got at $60,000 so we have the increase in revenue and the increase in expenditure and then we also see the transfers out of the grants and donations bond of $32,603 that for those items that are defined as capital items and so it out of the donations account into the capital count and same thing for a student activity account we have $14,198 i'm out of the student activity account and into the capital projects amount. and that's it. heather i have two questions the first one going to stop bring some expenditures and transfers number one when you're when it comes to like those transfers as you were sharing like those expenses that are over $1,000 has to be transferred to that fund but these are all building l requested kind of transfer is correct this is not the district telling these buildings you need to do this with your way that's correct so these are all items that are not approved on the original capital projects fund listing each year that if there's like some piece of equipment like a school building needs a new laminate or something where they decide that they have additional operating fund that they have they can transfer out of there instructional budget over to the capital projects fund and so it's a decrease in the expenditure budget an increase in the transfer button so that's why it's netzero in the operating found it goes out of one fun and into the other fun. number 14 of the revenues and number two of the expenditures should those be the same amount. are they referencing two separate things. quite possibly. the 1080 $6,000. it might be a typo it says 1030 fixed and the other spot do you know which one it should be at the 1086 in the capital projects fund so i'm guessing it's 1086. 386. he was also a combination of what's in the incidental fun and what's in the teachers fund. so it's it is 1036 based on the amounts that are in here so right now that's what agrees of possibly something could have been entered wrong into the general ledger but right now that's all is all reconciled to the general ledger so if we approve it like this will make sure everything matches but. just consists of the document that were proving with the amendments would you be okay if i motion just to change where we have the other we don't want to change it because the general ledger says so right now we wanted to make sure it agrees to the general ledger and if i had to bring you a subsequent amendment to change what's on our general ledger for the odysseus if something doesn't match up right then we can do that right now it's everything i have on the sheet is taken directly out of what we already have entered into our system. okay we will be bringing how we have to do it in june anyway right to make sure everything in the final budget has reconciled that brings although i think it's not the summary documents right because if you look at the two support that's why i don't want him to change what it's saying because it when i add those two amounts on the the pages following that that 1036 is correct. cuz 1386 thousand in the incidental finding 350000 and the teachers funds are those two amounts added together equals 1036 + 36 + 36. recent. sorry about that. any other board discussion. is there any public comment. say no public comment will have a roll call vote. miss answer yes the snodgrass yes let's wade miss waters yes. the motion passes 7 to nothing. we must be consideration of the superintendent contract. emotion. checked as presented s. so do you want to go to summon number to angels. talk about the process of how we got to this point with contract so each year we the board evaluates the superintendent on three areas of our choosing this year. you wrote for those evaluations have never been made public because they are personnel records but the boys tease them we can pile them bring them to the superintendent would speak about them and we all come to an agreement sold the dollar amount for this year for doctor who would its contract with a past week $239,000 2 + $39,200. that we are not allowed to go any lower than 1% of an increase but now i have to go higher than 10% of an increase for discussion. one of the boards in one of our main jobs is to hire and evaluate the superintendent and the rest of the current board has been i'm getting a weekly report from the doctor you're wet as well as having monthly meetings with him the six other board members up here were able to work with a consultant to go through the review and evaluation process and do individual evaluation because i'm new to the board i did not participate in any of those thing and it is for that reason i plan to abstain from the vote on doctor you're with contract i spoke to him in person last week about this this is not a surprise to him please make no conjecture about this one vote it is only a reflection of my intent to make decisions that are well-informed and fair. i look forward to participating and doctor your with evaluation next year and in the meantime working with him to ensure the success of all of the students and staff at cvs. aren't thank you see any other for discussion we had some concern due to a news article kind of caught labeling the increase is it is a hefty increase in so i was kind of wanting to give some space to thinking about it and so one thing so we have with lee's summit they have a clothes we we share kind of a similar student population of the right there's some demographic differences between the two of us but when it comes to student population numbers they are good comparison when you do you like them as a comparison district to lee's summit has 17503 students that's based on the data from 2021 other student population when it comes to what their superintendent makes when it comes like per pupil kind of cost to that salary that's $13.43. per student i can pull up what that amount is i just didn't write that down from my email that i sent to the constituent my apologies everyone when it comes to the jefferson city just a little bit south of us who has about but less than half of our student population i'm here at 800-392-8582 their current retiring superintendent based off his salary is receiving 27.26 dollars per student their new incoming superintendent who does not have a doctorate is going to be making $25.63 per student and then when it comes to this what we're looking at with cps for march 2021 data off at the desi website we have 18527 students and our population when you take that with a with current. cal we're paying you $12.41 per student with the increase we would be bumping that up to $12.91 for student and so when it comes to kind of comparing doctor yearwood isn't getting this is an increase that isn't as much right it looks like a lot but when it comes to a comparison district in a district is just south of us with a lot less students are making a little bit more in a comparison and a lot more in one that's just south of us so i just think when their constituents all that they think they said thank you for sharing that kind of comparison cuz i wasn't they didn't know that until i thought it might be beneficial for a community care that to to know that like this is a way for us to keep comprable to what we're kind of seeing across the state about this gallery is and i get at times it seems hard because it is a large amount and total but when it when you begin to compare and look at these contracts and other school districts are not too far from. from what those things are. thank you thank you i would just add to that that i think it's important to note that dr. year was increased is in line with what we are providing to our teachers but it is all at 4% is an increase and i think it's it makes sense we want to recognize our administration at our teachers they're all working hard everyone has all the living expenses and everything else that goes on in so so i think that that's important to know it as well. any further board discussion. a public comment. i could talk to you first and do the second couldn't. my name is sheila plumber. and a very long time ago i was president of teachers association in fulton. and it was an experience. we had a superintendent that told us we didn't work hard enough to get. increase this. because part of my education required a class in school finance i know what the percentages are that the state mandates how much comes in and what percentage has to go where. so i went back to the master budget. and. he claims that he found $50 and that was our annual increase for all faculty. and he of course got an increase well i know that his comes out of different pot but when i took the it his additional the amount he was being paid over and above what he was making and divided by the number of teachers in a mounted to $50. so i commend you on the board liking you and wanting you to stay and the increase i'm grateful for what the legislature has done but to those who and i thank you for taking the time to do the research and respond to the individual that question did. there's a whole lot to run you know that if you do it to dealing with a school budget and personnel so thank you very much. is there any further public comment. i think none will have a roll call them. mr. willoughby yes yes yes. why don't you ever seen a photo of 660 nose and extension and you contract passes. all right i'm going to move on to the general public comments section of our meeting once again probably, does limited series 3 minutes per person countdown on the timer on the wall and actions are matters which could be the subject of a grievance process would be ruled out of order please refrain from using any type c language or disruptive and or threatening behavior you would like to make a public comment you would like to refrain from coming forward you can fill out a form on the back table place in the blue box and we will receive it is there anyone who would like to make generalized public comment at this time. i just wanted to introduce myself my name is terence tao. i'm fairly new to the area of all i've been here for about a year i just want to say thank you guys in the hustle and bustle of numbers making sure that all of our people or taking care of including my little people snow area. my son is diagnosis. with covid and made it even worse thrown into a classroom number two of them step kids that are in florida for of them here. thorin. professionals is overseers. alright thanks guys. the bathroom debate regarding transgender individuals is one that i'm forced to face. your name please. hi my name is jake a slow and i'm a boy i'm a 10th grade student at rockford high school i'm a boy who likes music reading video games and sleeping i'm an average teenage boy i'm a boy uses the men's bathroom at school i'm also going to get this. what else pacifically told that i was allowed to use the men's bathroom at any columbia public school i was under the impression that i would have the same bathroom privileges as any cisgender classmate that i have however for the past two years i figured out that this isn't the case my first issue regarding the bathrooms at rockridge high school and every single other public school in columbia is a lack of regard for men like me who get there. i believe that is necessary for trash cans to be installed in every single stall in columbia public schools in men's restrooms just like the ones who are in every single women stall the simple act of that transgender men won't be forced to use ncrack bathroom during it.. not only will this help make transgender men more comfortable but i'll also normalize the fact that transgender people do exist which is something that columbia public schools desperately needs this simple act will make me feel safer and more accepted in school system. another issue that i have regarding the men's bathroom specifically at rockridge high school is that a majority of the men's bathrooms have been completely grief and don't have any salt in them and they haven't for a month this is an issue that should have been fixed the day after happen it is horrible to all male identified people are forced to use the bathroom that don't even have salt in them being able to go to the bathroom at school safely is a right and that is something that has not been shown at rockridge high school integration if you care about the significant population of transgender students at columbia public schools you'll agree with me when i say when you do start trash cans almond stalls and we just fix the broken skulls in rockford high school bathrooms that have been destroyed four months almost the entire school year. this is an issue that needs to be fixed immediately in order to effectively protect transgender men and give the same rights when it comes to bathrooms are cisgender classmates have i deserve to feel safe and comfortable at school thank you. any further public comment. hello dr. lora wakefield and i am a parent advocate and i work with families who have children with disabilities i have about 400 clients in columbia public schools i'm also a member at 10 i stopped at a special education pta and hopefully you all got your your reading material from them today with your cookies and i wanted to let you know that this is book is written by nathan by the group that is doing the special education review and so it's a great resource for you to look through so you can look at the research he's done and the different belief systems and structures that he is going to be basing the review on most likely i am i wanted to know to draw your attention to page 195 and i think this to me is the most important chapter in its the last chapter of the book and the title is uniting parents educators and policymakers to shift special education into the new era. that's what we need to do here i'm going to just hit some highlights of this because i think they are the most important and the issues that are extremely lacking in the district that need to be addressed. focus on children's feature the biggest shortcoming of special education and intervention services today is that too many kids won't be on track for a fulfilling rewarding financially stable life. the next area is remember that special educators are great folks doing what district leaders asked them to do special educators didn't create the currents that they didn't ask me assigned a hundred different tasks many outside their field of expertise they didn't create 15 to 20 hours of paperwork and meetings each week you're just working really hard to try to do all that is asked of them. and i want to add on that you've heard earlier from seeming a rap regarding the burnout and that is real and i'm hearing from a lot of cps staff it's bad and i don't know what's going to be done about that but i hope there can be something and i hope that you're looking into that sometimes i think you know a message that sent is when i see on the contract that painters are paid $41 an hour and i know how little we pay our teachers it breaks my heart the message that it sends about valuing them and i hope that that can be looked at in the future. recognizing that helping teachers is as important as helping kids co-op in reform is positioned on adult center decisions to student-centered ones and that's a false dichotomy have to be both at the same time. and have empathy for the past decision. special education was expanded to meet a need of wider range of students now the current practices have to change we can't be doing what we did in the past with the present situation you know this book. additional public comment. my name is john potter i have a 3 students at cps i want to talk about gender neutrality and i'm cps two stamps on it. i have a facebook group for a transparency for cps and. this district has to work on being more transparent when it comes to. teaching students about. gender roles in kindergarten to first grade all the way up. there's things going on in the school that i don't think a lot of parents know when it comes to. teachers calling boys girls in first grade and kindergarten and and how a parents have to deal with that. there has to be some type of policy and procedure when it comes to the other students in the classroom that are being taught that it's in first grade or kindergarten that. gender dysphoria is accepted. by the teacher. calling a boy a girl or a girl a boy in front of kindergarteners and first-graders it's called observational learning. you're teaching the students that it's okay to choose their gender which i think is very confusing. in kindergarten and first grade. what kind of negative impact will this have on our children in the long run. it seems like another experiment on our children just like the mask just like the. online learning i think these things will have negative effects that we just don't see right now i don't have the answer to what we can do to make it better or two. not make children feel unwanted. but something has to be done. parents are in the dark. and this is this is new too. parents in general that have young kids. and we took it very seriously. and. teachers are leaders to our students and the examples that they lead in front of our students affects our students. and. when it's when a teacher calls a boy or girl it it says. observational learning that that's okay and we. there could be a lot of negative side effects to that that we haven't seen yet when we go to a general neutral society which is. if cps is. seeing none we are moving to our announcements i believe miss snodgrass is on the radio tomorrow. 30. 17 oz in 1949 by the mental health america organization or mahhi clifford w beers william james and ate off meyer your organization was formed after beers. what episodes of bipolar disorder after graduating from yale college you organization has gone through three main changes first does national committee for mental hygiene later the national out mental health association and now has mental health america every year and made mha release has a mental health toolkit this year's is labeled begin quote back to basics in quote is to provide foundational knowledge about mental health and mental health conditions and information about what people can do if their mental health is a cause for concern beyond manha the national alliance. mental illness monthly recognizes the month as well and they're seeing this year is together for mental health they're using the time to bring our voices together to advocate for mental health and access to care through the national alliance on mental illness his blog personal stories videos digital toolkits social media engagement the national event and their whole focus is together we can realize our shared vision of a nation where anyone affected by mental illness can get the appropriate support and quality of care to live healthy fulfilling lives and i share this cuz. i just want to thank all of our staff that work with our students to help them develop skills to be mentally healthy and providing the support state our students that live with adverse mental health conditions as someone that has struggled. with mental health in his various actions to manage my struggles in the past and even now. i want every student and our staff members that struggle as well.. it's okay i just would ending this i just want to leave with a quote by brianna whist how we stand are booked the mountain is you transforming self-sabotaging to self master where she states remember that emotional health is not the experience of being perpetually calm and happy all the time it's been really mental health and self-mastery is the ability to see and feel and experience a thought without responding to it the response or lack thereof is where we regain our power and reclaim our lives in the present semen. thank you for sharing i appreciate you sharing though their human side of each of us are so on that note i'm going to ask does anybody else have any personal announcement i would like for us to look at some point try to not to seem like complete robots all of you like to share. choir auditions tomorrow at west boulevard for 5th grade choir so wish her luck she's been practicing every night while the other gets get tucked in and she makes me come in and give her feedback based on the list of things she know she's going to be assessed on and so she will have her her on a square edition tomorrow night so. anybody else another it was mentioned earlier but maybe you didn't hear cuz there was a lot going on my daughter is co-captain of the hickman high school speech and debate team and as they mentioned earlier the team is having a fundraiser on sunday i will be there at least two others want to join for more but there is a pending two different tournament actually groups of students from hickman rock bridge and battle there are students that are going both to the nationals in kentucky and another group of students that is going to washington d.c. those tournaments occur after school and so they're continuing their school year of and activities so. are you sure work. opportunity nothing about me but i know we have a lot of folks in the district to even during the campaign who have said that they want to they want to do things they want to be involved in at least they want to help beyond just the kids schools alpha hart lewis is holding the deputy is holding a fundraiser and there i don't know if they're still needing volunteers but i know that they weren't they asked about a week and a half ago like i've signed up that fundraiser for the eta is happening on saturday i imagine you could reach out to their principal and ask for the link or you could go to the ptas a facebook page and just look up alpha hart alpha alpha hart lewis. my wedding anniversary is actually friday. ten years ten years. i'm just shocked that she still said yes cuz 2012 david was not the most responsible person. i do have a motion to adjourn to jen. that is all up under all those in favor say hi hi thank you.