Nodaway County school board notes

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Jefferson C-123

CONCEPTION JCT., Mo. — The following are notes from the minutes of the June 25 meeting of the Jefferson C-123 Board of Education.

• The board approved changes to the elementary handbook. According to online board documents, highlights of the changes include prohibiting students from wearing smart watches, adding the unauthorized use of AI tools to the academic dishonesty policy and adding new details to drug and alcohol testing and discipline steps that mainly center on the prohibition of marijuana use by students. The new policy makes it clear that possession or being under the influence of marijuana remains against district policy even if the student has a valid medical marijuana card, among other provisions.
• Board members also approved changes to the high school student handbook that include the same marijuana and AI language as in the elementary handbook, and also changes fire alarm procedure to state that the first teacher out the exit door should hold the door open until everyone has left the building. Previously, the policy had called for the first two students that reached the door to do so.
• The board approved the district participating in the state’s Teacher Baseline Salary Grant program. A law signed by Gov. Mike Parson this year will raise the minimum teacher’s salary to $38,000 from $25,000 beginning in the 2024-2025 school year, and the state’s grant fund will provide 70 percent of the difference between participating districts’ previous minimum salary and the new $38,000 baseline.
• Board members set the tax rate hearing for 6 p.m. on Aug. 21 at the regularly scheduled school board meeting.
• The board voted to add Martin Luther King Jr. Day to the paid holidays schedule.
• Board members offered Jackie Spire a Parents as Teachers position for the 2024-2025 school year.
• The board declared previously used security cameras as surplus property.

North Nodaway R-VI Board of Education notes

HOPKINS, Mo. — The following are notes from the minutes of the June 28 special meeting of the North Nodaway R-VI Board of Education.

• The board approved the adoption of the 2024-2025 budget. The adjusted assessed valuation of the district increased approximately 2 percent, according to the budget document. In total revenue, the district is expecting $3,962,781 from local, county, state and federal sources. In expenditures, the district is planning $3,916,653.
• Board members also approved donating hail damaged tin to The Roxy, the town’s local theater.