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Adoption of agenda — Passed, 7-0. A motion to approve the meeting agenda was made and the board approved by unanimous voice vote.

Approval of minutes (Aug. 4, 2025) — Passed, 7-0. The board approved the minutes from its prior meeting.

Consent agenda (donations, PANDO Initiative memorandum of understanding, certified and classified personnel reports and claims) — Passed, 7-0. Items listed in the consent agenda included donations to Tanglewood Elementary from Casey's General Store, Chicken and Pickle and Walmart; donations to Sweeney and Cooper elementaries from the Derby Education Foundation; a donation to Derby Public Schools from Credit Union of America; a donation to Special Services from the Derby Haysville American Legion Post 408; and a PANDO Initiative memorandum of understanding.

Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program addendum — Passed, 7-0. The board approved an addendum to the district\u000027s school nutrition program agreement to start a fresh fruit and vegetable program at Cooper, Oak Lawn, Sweeney and Wineteer beginning in September.

Facility condition assessment selection — Passed, 7-0. The board approved a contract for facility condition assessments covering the district\u000027s 12 schools at a cost of $30,000.

Kansas Forest Service community grant — Passed, 7-0. The board approved acceptance of a Kansas Forest Service award of $31,298.59 to plant approximately 46 trees at Oak Lawn Elementary.

Facility-use regulations, fees and BOE policy — Tabled. After extended discussion and public input from staff, board members directed the item back to the facilities committee for revision and expanded representation; no final adoption vote occurred.

Cost-per-mile for busing (school trips) — Recommendation accepted; no roll-call vote recorded. Director of operations recommended maintaining the cost-per-mile charge for non-competitive trips at $2.35 per mile for the 2025-26 school year; the board did not record a formal roll-call vote during the meeting.

Adjournment — Passed, 7-0. The board voted to adjourn the meeting.

All recorded unanimous votes were announced as \"Pass 7 0\" on the meeting record. Where a named mover/second was provided in the transcript, the meeting minutes recorded those procedural motions; for several routine items the transcript shows moves and seconds without a full name attached in the audio record. The board tabled the facilities-use policy for further committee work rather than adopting the committee\u000027s proposed fee structure.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Derby - School Board","oneSentenceSummary","At its Aug. 18 meeting the Derby Board of Education approved routine agenda items, a fresh-fruit program addendum, a $30,000 facility condition assessment contract and a Kansas Forestry Service grant; it tabled proposed facility-use fees for further committee review.","taxTitle","Derby, Sedgwick County, Kansas","taxId",56179,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":75,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":76,"_41":77,"_43":78,"_45":79,"_46":80,"_48":81,"_50":82,"_52":83,"_54":55,"_56":57,"_58":84,"_60":61,"_62":63,"_64":85,"_66":67,"_68":69,"_70":67,"_71":72,"_73":72},6487518,"Derby board tables new facility-use fee policy after music teachers and coaches raise concerns",3288,917000,4205000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5595945-086872e88f51b631ff90f84cd5eea1d2&start=917&end=4205","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5595945-086872e88f51b631ff90f84cd5eea1d2/thumbnail_917000.jpg","/articles/6487518/Derby/Sedgwick-County/Kansas/Derby-board-tables-new-facility-use-fee-policy-after-music-teachers-and-coaches-raise-concerns","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6487518-3126b5c70b717c42c1888185b1988935/orig.mp4?Expires=1770448378&Signature=TDjfi7ANVcemtl2y88FuUbfJB0yoJkpwwkMeC6rzvKdAxaf637XkIelX91PjfyJVCGJah1l6bSiUN68vtKmtnLf-M~VVj4DnPIdnFIll9f4pMwl0uuOJjK-CdPZMkuCcbNrR9-83gaN4gKfZ~KaCfMHj2UtnvaXLYb29deaL8I8-GdPl0WZQaB4RwEGlOsj0L9HIB7SCtKwnwIzfhnRrpEu5Bc6cZJ1JrNNlWFKKob6VgvvE~SrG7j9U0w-5c~NVdxmBM4lW-O0Ndg6fL4CWTCYC9F62XrSJlg0AeyGUoJaDRD4VJhCOlqqZzFemGuJUIIeE2dDW4UYlZrIm4-Ov9w__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Derby Board of Education on Aug. 18 tabled a proposed facilities-use policy that would impose fees for staff who use school classrooms and other district facilities to teach compensated lessons or run camps outside the contract day.

\"The suggested fee that I have seen is $20 per hour for the use of a classroom,\" said Adam DeVault, a high school band director and Derby resident. \"That's close to 50% of what we make for teaching the lessons. We will either need to pass the expense on to our students and their families, lose half of our earnings, or quit teaching the lessons altogether, removing the opportunity for many of our students to study privately.\" DeVault told the board the in-school lessons are cheaper and more convenient for families and support high-performing students who participate in honor groups and festivals.

Burke Jones, director of operations, told the board a committee of principals, coaches, operations staff and board members had developed a consistent fee structure intended to avoid many exceptions. Jones said the committee considered camps and other outside-user events as different from academic tutoring or district-run programs.

Board members expressed concerns about unintended consequences for music instruction, tutoring and academic access. \"If we're requiring or inviting and encouraging students to do [private lessons], then we need to make it easier on our students to be able to do that in our facilities,\" a board member said during discussion. Several board members urged the administration to review janitorial invoicing practices and to examine whether an academic exception should apply to staff-run lessons tied to student coursework or district programs.

By consensus the board directed staff to return the policy to the committee for additional review and to expand the committee\u000027s membership to include music teachers and other affected instructional staff. Board members suggested the committee consider an explicit exemption for coursework or credit-bearing classes, clearer communication around custodial charges, limits on how late privately run events can occupy buildings, and use of a master calendar to prevent scheduling conflicts.

The board did not adopt the proposed policy at the Aug. 18 meeting; the item was tabled for further committee work and additional board direction. No formal roll-call vote on final adoption occurred during the session.

Clarifying details and committee direction: the policy as discussed included a proposed classroom fee of about $20 per hour for compensated instruction; the committee that drafted the policy included two principals, the athletic director, coaches, three board members and operations staff; board members asked the administration to examine academic exceptions, janitorial billing history, master scheduling and whether fees would be passed to families.

Speakers who raised substantive points during the discussion included Adam DeVault (band director), Burke Jones (director of operations) and multiple board members (identified in the record as Kathy, Tanya, Melanie, Mike and others). The board asked that the committee reconvene with expanded representation and return with revised recommendations for board action.","Board discussion centered on a proposed policy charging staff to use district facilities for paid private lessons and on a uniform fee schedule. Band directors and board members asked for an expanded committee review and an academic exemption; the board agreed to table the policy for further work.",{"_33":87,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":88,"_41":89,"_43":90,"_45":91,"_46":92,"_48":93,"_50":94,"_52":95,"_54":55,"_56":57,"_58":96,"_60":61,"_62":63,"_64":97,"_66":67,"_68":69,"_70":67,"_71":72,"_73":72},6487523,"Derby parent says district wrongly referred her child to county DA over attendance",437,603000,1040000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5595945-086872e88f51b631ff90f84cd5eea1d2&start=603&end=1040","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5595945-086872e88f51b631ff90f84cd5eea1d2/thumbnail_603000.jpg","/articles/6487523/Derby/Sedgwick-County/Kansas/Derby-parent-says-district-wrongly-referred-her-child-to-county-DA-over-attendance","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6487523-13fc8dd5944d9f2cc23c58f2ca3fb421/orig.mp4?Expires=1770448378&Signature=ov23HELAXCuA7af9m7AQMYmRMgSkrBQAyFyof~T8l-km08bvJTnuOBeFktUP~5qluJGSVZzVVjoQauXEuXMzPH7e2z1U684u8XpQz3jgJw6kAyf4nMRS59FNRTWvvzJ260AVPEN4nFIFJKI9YKbMmHY6wcXOK8gU6q9-fhFxHpyG2A0r-yScxwlCNM2XSPNoUrdF~oQcbyrCK7RYqgxUzgHDG3Dg8QKEe-ycnN~FXY7BxIfNP-w5YEOSkivwpr5rCvbwBymXeRtr8iFZVkDj0vh6AvVcRFu4Gem9b3RW78NWpjtRbz8BrvXQy6nlXPBY1cUfgKrNnv0AtQrpZaxuTg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","A Derby parent told the Derby Board of Education on Aug. 18 that a district truancy referral to the Sedgwick County District Attorney\u000027s Office wrongly accused her family of educational neglect, citing district attendance records and an attached staff comment that she called an opinion rather than evidence.

\"In January, our family received a letter from the district stating that my daughter had 10 excused absences and 0 unexcused absences,\" Elizabeth Stanton said during the meeting\u000027s public-comment period. \"And yet just 3 months later, this district submitted a truancy referral to the Sedgwick County District Attorney's Office and attached that very same letter as evidence against us.\"

Stanton said the DA\u000027s office followed with a notice threatening that her daughter could be declared a child in need of care and directing the family to attend a courthouse workshop or face formal court proceedings. Stanton said many absences listed on the district record were actually district errors logged while her daughter participated in school-sponsored activities.

\"My grave mistake was that instead of challenging every 1 of your errors, I simply excused them in the Skyward app to keep the peace,\" Stanton said. \"And for that, I was told I could no longer excuse my own child's absences without a doctor's note.\" She characterized the referral as \"incompetence dressed as authority\" and said it caused reputational harm and stress to her family.

Stanton also quoted a passage that she said was written by a district staff member and included in the referral: \"this student does way too many activities and is under a lot of pressure to do well by her parents and herself. She does need to attend a workshop, but she needs to slow down at the same time.\" Stanton said that language was opinion, not evidence.

The parent urged the board to \"take a hard look at the culture that allows something like this to happen,\" saying that if a thriving, supported student can be treated in this way, other families could be similarly affected.

The board did not take an immediate action on the comment during the meeting; public-comment remarks were taken under advisement, and the district did not respond on the record during Stanton\u000027s turn. The transcript indicates the district uses the Skyward student information system to track attendance, and Stanton said she used the same system to excuse some entries rather than contest each error.

Stanton asked the board to examine district processes that lead to truancy referrals and how staff commentary is appended to official referrals. The board did not announce follow-up steps during the meeting.

Clarifying details from the public comment: Stanton said the initial district letter listed 10 excused absences and 0 unexcused absences; she said many entries labeled as absences were actually participation in school-sponsored activities; she said the DA notice directed attendance at a courthouse workshop to avoid court proceedings.

The comment was made during the board\u000027s public-comment period on Aug. 18, 2025. The board took no formal vote in response during the meeting; public comments were recorded and will be part of the official meeting record.","At the Aug. 18 Derby Board of Education meeting, parent Elizabeth Stanton told the board a truancy referral sent to the Sedgwick County District Attorney\u000027s Office used district-generated attendance data and a staff opinion to threaten court action against her family despite, she says, records showing excused absences.","actionData","errors"]

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