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Board of Education Meeting: Video and Notes

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The St. Joe School District posted video from its Monday meeting. Suicide awareness was among the topics. Notes are below the video. You should be able to skip around the video with help from the chronological notes to get to the topics you want to watch.

1.0 Call to Order
1.1 Call to Order Info
1.2 Roll Call Info
1.3 Pledge of Allegiance Info
1.4 Reading of Board Norms Info
2.0 Recognitions
2.1 CHS National Scholar Bowl Team Info
2.2 GATE Award Winners Info
3.0 Audience Participation
3.1 Audience Participation Info
4.0 Agenda Approval
4.1 Approval of Agenda Action
5.0 Superintendent’s Report
5.1 Assistant Superintendent’s Report Info
6.0 Donations Action
6.1 Approval of Donations Action
7.0 Consent Agenda Action
7.1 Approval of Consent Agenda Action
7.2 Approve the 6-11-2018 BOE Special Meeting Minutes Action
7.3 Approve the 6-11-2018 Board Work Session Minutes Action
7.4 Approve the 6-16-2018 Board Retreat Meeting Minutes Action
7.5 2018-19 Operations Salary Schedule (from 6/11/18 work session) Action
7.6 2018-19 Operations Staff Negotiated Agreement (from 6/11/18 work session) Action
7.7 2018-19 Paper Bid (from 6/11/18 work session) Action
7.8 Petition for Payroll Deduction of NEA Dues per Policy DLB (from 6/11/18 work session) Action
7.9 Surplus Computer/Technology Equipment (from 6/11/18 work session) Action
7.10 CheckVelocity Agreement (from 6/11/18 work session) Action
7.11 2018-19 Financial Handbook (from 6/11/18 work session) Action
7.12 2018-19 Purchasing Card Handbook (from 6/11/18 work session) Action
7.13 2018-19 Program Handbook for HTC (from 6/11/18 work session) Action
7.14 Bid Results for Special Education Teachers for the 18-19 School Year (from 6/11/18 work session) Action
7.15 Hillyard Technical Center Agreements (from 6/11/18 work session) Action
7.16 New Water Service to Mark Twain Elementary School (from 6/11/18 work session) Action
7.17 2018 Free and Reduced Application (from 6/11/18 work session) Action
7.18 Year-to-Date Gas Quotes for Fiscal Year 2017-18 (from 6/11/18 work session) Action
7.19 Conflict of Interest Ordinance/Resolution Policy Expiration (new) Action
7.20 Diploma Daveon Harris Action
8.0 Personnel & Finance/Treasurer’s Report
8.1 Approval of Bills Action
8.2 May Financials 8.2.1 Bank Reconciliation Statement 8.2.2 SJSD Self-funded Health Insurance Action
8.3 Approval of Gabe Edgar as Board Treasurer and Approval of Bank Signatures Action
8.4 Personnel Report Action
9.0 Old Business
9.1 Juvenile Office Facility Agreement (from 5/7/18 & 6/11/18 work sessions) Action
10.0 New Business
10.1 Mobile Classroom Lease Agreement Renewal Info/Action
10.2 Adding Blackboard Ally to Supplement Existing Blackboard, Inc Contract Info/Action
10.3 Purchasing Trainers Through MORAP Grant Info/Action
10.4 Middle School Education Guide Info
10.5 Carden Park Mural Info
10.6 Suspension of Policy BF – School Board Policy Process Action
11.0 Board Policies – Group Action
11.1 ADF – District Wellness Program Action
11.2 DCB – Political Campaigns Action
11.3 DGA – Authorized Signatures Action
11.4 DJF – Purchasing Action
11.5 EHB – Technology Usage Action
11.6 EHBC – Data Governance and Security Action
11.7 FED – Selection of a Construction Manager at Risk Action
11.8 FEE – Selection of a Design-Build Contractor Action
11.9 FEF – Construction Contracts Bidding and Awards Action
11.10 IGBD – At-Risk Students Action
11.11 IGBE – Students in Foster Care Action
11.12 IGCE – District-Sponsored Instruction Options Action
11.13 IKF – Graduation Requirements Action
11.14 IL – Assessment Programs Action
11.15 JCB – Intradistrict Transfers Action
11.16 JCC – Interdistrict Transfers Action
11.17 JFCL – A+ Schools Program Action
11.18 JHD – Student Guidance and Counseling Action
11.19 JHDF – Suicide Awareness and Preventing Action
11.20 JO – Student Records Action
11.21 KBA – Public’s Right to Know (RESCIND) Action
11.22 KG – Community Use of District Facilities Action
11.23 KL – Public Concerns and Complaints Action
11.24 KLA – Concerns and Complaints Regarding Federal Programs Action
12.0 Future Meetings and Events
12.1 July 19, 2018 – Special Board Meeting (5:30 PM) Info
13.0 Motion to Move to Executive Session
13.1 Motion to move to Executive Session Pursuant to 610.021 Closed Meetings and Closed Records (1) Legal, (3) Hiring, firing, disciplining and (16) Records relating to municipal hotlines Action
14.0 Adjournment
14.1 Motion to Adjourn

More detailed notes available at the district’s website.

Brief: MO pays 110k in Greitens probe; Excessive Heat; Phone Scams

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Vermin Supreme, attorney general for Kansas?

Excessive Heat Warning in St. Joe tomorrow through Saturday. 100 degree highs for both tomorrow and Friday.

 

Missouri lawmakers spent $110,000 due to its investigation of former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens.

The House investigatory panel spent more than $29,000 from March through May, mainly for court reporters who transcribed its hearings.

The special session cost $70,000 in the House and $10,500 in the Senate. That includes more than $36,000 for lawmakers to return to the Capitol on June 11 to hear a speech from new Gov. Mike Parson.

 

KCUR reports Kansas City gained a third insurer for the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace.

Medica, an insurance company based in Minneapolis, announced Monday it will sell individual plans on the exchange to customers in Cass, Clay, Jackson and Platte counties in Missouri. It began selling insurance plans on the exchange last year to Kansas customers in Johnson and Wyandotte counties.

 

 

As always, be on the lookout for scams.

The Brief is a daily roundup from St. Joe Post and around the web. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Brief: Barrel Bob falls; Hawley’s emails; No M.D. on Chief jersey

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KC Star reports Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley used lawyers to review emails and documents from when he was a law professor at the University of Missouri. Hawley was due to release documents under Missouri’s Sunshine Law.

From the reporter:

Experts said Hawley’s use of campaign funds was legal. Democratic groups that filed the records requests for documents said it was hypocritical of Hawley, who has cast himself as a proponent of Missouri’s Sunshine Law as attorney general and during his Senate campaign to unseat Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.

Kansas received a “C” on an infrastructure report.

KCUR:

Kansas earned a C on the report card, which ranks the quality of state infrastructure in nine categories, such as bridges, roads, energy and drinking water. This is up from a C- in 2013, the last time the Kansas ASCE chapter released a report card. And while some areas, such as levees and bridges, increased in quality, roads went down.

Over several years, lawmakers have diverted more than $2 billion from KDOT to fill deep holes in the Kansas budget.


KC Star reports on reaction to reports the NFL rejected Chiefs offensive lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif’s request to have “M.D.” added to his jersey. He received his medical doctorate in May.

“The marketing value alone makes ‘Duvernay-Tardif, M.D.’ a great idea for the league. Allowing him to show off his status as the first active player to earn a medical degree would be unquestionably great P.R., especially in an offseason that involved fallout from the new anthem policy and another prominent player facing suspension for violating the personal conduct policy.

The Brief is a daily roundup from St. Joe Post and around the web. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Brief: McCaskill Heimlich; KS GOP Debate; Nugent and Kobach

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U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin performed the Heimlich maneuver on Senator Claire McCaskill.

McCaskill at a Hearing on tariffs:

Headline from St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Trade tensions send waves through Missouri, offering a possible opening for McCaskill

Also from St. Louis Post-Dispatch: McCaskill faces a familiar political problem: her own wealth

The Wall Street Journal reports Harley-Davidson is suffering from tariffs at home and overseas.

Other factories are falling victim to the declining demand for motorcycles in the U.S. Dave Rogers, a 50-year-old with two children in college, will be losing his job at Harley-Davidson’s Kansas City, Mo., factory, which will soon close its doors . He joined the company in April 2017 “thinking this is the last job I’m going to have to get.” He expects to find work once Harley cuts him loose, but it is hard to replace the high-paying manufacturing jobs that old unionized producers offer.

Senator Roy Blunt spoke to the Senate about apprenticeships. Video below.

“200 years ago were the way everybody learned to do whatever it was they learned to do. If you were going to learn a skill, you were going to learn it as an apprentice. This is a program where it really gives the employers the tools they need to develop the workforce they would like to have.”

Blunt is Chairman of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (LHHS)

KC Star reports on ease of voting after a court ruling against Kansas’ law on voter registration.

Instead, all she and the other newly registered voters had to do was write down their names and addresses and attest to their new status as citizens. “It takes five minutes or less, and it’s done,” said Christine Hutchins, a member of the Johnson County chapter of the League of Women Voters.

The Wichita Eagle reports on child trafficking victims in Kansas’ jails.

One in five possible child victims assessed by rapid response teams from 2014 to 2018 were in juvenile detention, according to Kansas Department for Children and Families data obtained by The Eagle. In eastern Kansas, juvenile detention was the most frequent housing option for possible trafficking victims.

MoDot reminds us to be careful in work zones. No injuries.

If you have 90 minutes, here’s the Kansas Gubernatorial debate from Saturday.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach held a fundraiser with Ted Nugent. 175 people attended.

The Brief is a daily roundup from St. Joe Post and around the web. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Brief: KCI Delay, Royals in Omaha, Watch Your Mouth

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Kansas City’s new airport will open a year later than planned. The new opening date is October 2022. Officials expect the airport to cost $1.4 billion. Airlines are funding the project, not taxpayers.

 

The Kansas City Royals will play a home game in Omaha on June 13 of next year. It will be before the 2019 College World Series. Kansas City’s AAA affiliate is the Omaha Storm Chasers.

KC Star has the quote from General Manager Dayton Moore.

“When we first got wind that this would be a possibility we wanted to be a part of this.

“This is our fan base. This is a community we love, a community that has been very kind to us, that’s helped raise our players.”

 

KDOT wants you to watch your language.


Democrats in Kansas held a news conference about immigrant children in Kansas group homes.

The Villages confirmed Thursday that it has a federal contract to house 50 unaccompanied immigrant children at its seven group homes in Topeka and Lawrence. But it would not say whether any of them had been separated from their parents during recent crackdown at the border.

 

A Cuban immigrant arrived in the United States in 1961. KC Star shares his story about being separated from his mother, and how he arrived in Kansas.

“The emotional cost I still pay today,” the 70-year-old said. “And the long-term harm that we are causing now will be a stain on our nation that will last for years.”

 

KCUR reports the Interstate Crosscheck system has paused while the Department of Homeland Security makes a security check. The system searches for duplicate voters. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach runs the program.

Crosscheck, at one time, held data on half the registered voters in the country, and critics have warned that the program isn’t keeping the voter data safe. Crosscheck recently came under fire for a data security breach that made public the names, dates of birth and partial Social Security numbers of 945 Kansas voters.

 

National Weather Service Kansas City points out an oddity in our transition from spring to summer.


 

The Brief is a daily roundup from St. Joe Post and around the web. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Brief: Kander for Mayor, Internet Taxes for the States

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Jason Kander might run for Kansas City mayor, according to the KC Star. Kander lost in a close race against Roy Blunt for senator in the 2016 election.

In a strong sign that Kander is serious about entering the race, he called former Kansas City mayor Emanuel Cleaver in the past few days to tell him he was running, a source familiar with the conversation said. Cleaver, a Democrat, now serves as the congressman for Kansas City in the U.S. House of Representatives.

From St. Joe Post:

The cases the court overturned said that if a business was shipping a product to a state where it didn’t have a physical presence such as a warehouse or office, it didn’t have to collect the state’s sales tax.

 

Wichita Eagle reports Kansas is underfunded to fight wildfires.

“Kansas often requires state agencies and local jurisdictions involved in wildfire suppression efforts to cover their own costs,” the report says.

…

“We have, obviously, the worst-funded state wildfire suppression system probably in the nation by every measure,” said Rep. John Carmichael, D-Wichita, who initially requested the audit.

 

The Kansas Board of Regents approved tuition hikes for state universities in Kansas for the 2018-2019 academic year.

Tuition increases for resident and non-resident graduate students also ranged from 1.1 percent to 2.8 percent, excluding Kansas State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, which had no tuition increase.

 

Missouri Governor Mike Parson and seven other Governors are meeting with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.

 

EPA chief Scott Pruitt made a stop in Kansas. Politico with the quote:

“My personal opinion is farmers are demanding accountability and I think that Mr. Pruitt probably is a dead man walking,” said Dane Hicks, the GOP chairman in Anderson County, Kan., where Pruitt stopped Tuesday. “I can’t imagine he rebounds from this in any way to salvage his position. I would expect his resignation soon.”

 

The Brief is a daily roundup from St. Joe Post and around the web. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Brief: Child migrants; Kobach Goes to School, Hangs with Nugent

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A federal judge ruled Monday that Kansas cannot require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, finding such laws violate the constitutional right to vote in a ruling with national implications for voting rights. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach defended the law.

 

Developments:

Witchita Eagle:

Having already found Kobach in contempt at trial, Robinson offered a parting gift: an order for six hours of continuing legal education beyond what’s required to keep up his law license.

 

Topeka Capital-Journal reports Kobach’s office instructed clerks to not change practices at this time.

Danedri Herbert, a spokeswoman for Kobach, said the office needs time to fully review the court’s 118-page ruling before understanding it completely.

U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson made clear in her Monday ruling the documentary proof of citizenship requirement can’t be enforced.

 

Washington Post:

Kobach promised to appeal Robinson’s ruling (though the last time he challenged her, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit took Robinson’s side). But the real prize he covets is political, not legal. Kobach will wear this defeat, in a Trumpian cause, like a badge of honor in his GOP primary against incumbent Gov. Jeff Colyer. Polls taken before the ruling, but after Kobach was held in contempt of court, found the race to be highly competitive, with plenty of voters undecided.

 

Topeka Capital Journal reports Kobach has a campaign event scheduled with Ted Nugent.
Nugent is expected to sing a few songs while accompanying himself on guitar before a sit-down chat with Kobach, a discussion likely to revolve around the joy of firearms, defects inherent in liberals and attributes of the host.
The Wichita Eagle examines Kobach’s chances at becoming Governor using “Trump’s playbook.”
“I am who I am regardless of whether President Trump had ever become president,” Kobach said in an interview.

 

The Brief is a daily roundup from St. Joe Post and around the web. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Brief: Lawmakers on migrant children; KS voting law fails in court

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Lawmakers react to separation of migrant families. Below is a compilation of statements via tweet, press release, and media report.

“I agree with Mrs. Bush and Mrs. Trump that separating families does not meet the standard of who we are as a country. Strengthening our border security and upholding our laws in a manner consistent with our values will help facilitate progress toward addressing all aspects of our broken immigration system.”

-Senator Roy Blunt, as quoted by St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 

 

“Separating children from their families at the border is a policy many of my constituents and the American people in both political parties oppose. As Congress pursues legislation to address this issue this week, an interim solution is needed. I ask that you take immediate action to end the practice of separating children from families at the border.”

-Representative Kevin Yoder in a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Wichita Eagle:

Among Kansas lawmakers, Yoder wields the most power over immigration policy. He chairs the House Appropriations subcommittee on Homeland Security, an appointment announced just last month.

 

“The outrageous notion that children must be ripped from their families to secure the border is as false as it is cruel. As the Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Committee, I will be working to stop the Administration’s misguided policy. The idea that this policy is being used for deterrence and Congressional leverage is offensive. I need answers from DHS concerning the care of these children and their failure to even reunite children before they fly their parents out of the country.”

-Senator Claire McCaskill, in a press release.

 

“Our immigration system is broken. This has become more evident in the last week when children are being forcibly separated from their parents. I oppose this policy and am working with my Senate colleagues and administration officials to bring the current circumstances to an end. Our country must make the well-being of these children a priority. We can find appropriate ways to secure our borders and deter illegal immigration in a moral way that honors our values as Americans.”

-Senator Jerry Moran, in a press release.

 

“What is causing children to be taken from parents is this very deliberate choice, and it is this choice to criminally prosecute all asylum seekers and I just don’t understand why we are doing this to parents. We are separating families from their mothers and fathers. History is going to judge us terribly for this, and this is going to match what we did in World War II with the internment camps.”

-Representative Emanuel Cleaver to KCUR.

 

St. Joe Post on ruling against Kansas voting law.

A federal judge ruled Monday that Kansas cannot require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, finding such laws violate the constitutional right to vote in a ruling with national implications for voting rights.

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In the first three years after the Kansas law went into effect in 2013, about one in seven voter registration applications in Kansas were blocked for lack of proof of citizenship — with nearly half of them under the age of 30, according to court documents. Between 2013 and 2016, more than 35,000 Kansas residents were unable to register to vote.

 

 

The Brief is a daily roundup from St. Joe Post and around the web. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Brief: $1 billion roads in MO; Farmers, Moran, McCaskill on tariffs; Kobach, ACLU, Trump

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Missouri roads and highways need nearly $1 billion a year, according to this KC Star report.

The state’s roads and bridges have so many critical needs that, by the state’s own estimate, addressing them would require more than $800 million per year in additional funding.

 

The Wichita Eagle reports Kansas farmers’ concerns over Chinese tariffs.

Farmers are operating on razor-thin margins, said Glenn Brunkow, who farms corn, soybeans and other crops near Wamego. And Kansas farmers are expected to harvest substantially less wheat this year than in the past.

“There’s a lot of producers out there that this will be the end,” Brunkow said.

Senator Jerry Moran gave comment after the story published.


Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill tweets about the issue:

 

The Topeka Capital-Journey spoke with ACLU attorney Dale Ho about Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s desire to add a citizenship question to the 2020 United States Census. The ACLU filed a lawsuit.

“Months before the Trump administration claimed — without any basis — that it needed this information to enforce the Voting Rights Act and to protect minority voters, Mr. Kobach was lobbying to add this question for exactly the opposite reason: to drain resources and political representation from immigrant communities.”

KC Star reports on a hunting buddy’s connection between Kobach and Donald Trump.

 

Debate continues on family separation policy at the border.

 

The Brief is a daily roundup from St. Joe Post and around the web. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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