There was kind of a little bit of a confusion there. So we wanted to clear that up for everyone so they understood. Uh more details about the work calendar. We talked a lot about work calendar and um about how many days everybody had, how many train days and that was really important for our members. They wanted to be able to know what they their calendar would look like going forward. And then we updated my biggest excitement I guess because I'm a secretary. Um we're now administrative assistants. So we're very excited that we have a modern-day name of administrative assistance across the board. Um overall we are very pleased with the final results of the negotiation. I wanted to say thank you to the administration and the board um for your support through this process. It was a great experience. Um and then we are very we're looking forward to um working with the administration on these joint committees for job descriptions, evaluations, trainings and mentoring program along with a variety of other things over the next three years.
Um that's basically it. That one super special repair. Okay. All right. Superintendent. Okay. I got several things. First of all, um we have not had a transportation outside of school district um standard operating procedure before. And so um we have this draft. I've shared this with you. Um and you can see basically um who it who it um applies to and the scope of it as far as um applies to students currently enrolled in MS of Wish County Schools and living outside the district boundaries and also new students enrolls enrolles who reside outside the district boundaries. So the procedure it talks about the grandfather grandfathering clause for current students um and then transportation for new students outside of the district. uh basically bus transportation and that's that's 2.1 bus transportation for students who enroll after May 2025 and reside outside the legal settlement will only be provided if an existing bus route passes directly by the students home transportation will not be modified or extended to accommodate students outside the district.
The primary purpose of amending the article is to provide greater flexibility. So the main purpose of the changes is to provide more flexibility to press board in approving the annual budget. The most significant change in the article involves removal of a cap that non-member district tuition premium cannot be more than 20% above member tuition district tuition. So that anybody if a district goes to crest and wants to have a service they can't increase their service by more than 20%. That's not we're a district member, so it doesn't impact us. Only if you if you're going there and you're not a member of the of the of the collaborative, they can't charge any more than 20% more each year for that service is what that's the main change that they're looking for based on this. [Music] Um so they've attached a 2015 version of the crest articles of agreement with along along with the dark joint Pacific language to be removed and its replacement.
Um they can only be used for capital purposes, but um the intention would be as you know we have this large lease burden already. So maybe we can reduce that payment with offsetting these these revenue lease funds. So So can can the lease if we sell it um those funds can go to pay down our bonds. Correct. A portion has to legally um our our outstanding bond debt. Yeah. But that is do that with a lease or lease as well. Um we could prepay but that would be at the district's discretion. So there's is that there's no mandate on that piece. Uh what prevents the district from being locked into uh leases that block future expansion. Not sure how just let's say down the road, you know, the district grows and we want the property back then and and we're signed into a 20-year lease.
And so this is um historically we decline in student enrollment from freshman to sophomores because they usually have to take some of the required courses in their sophomore year. But um we see that they do come back to us now because they are feeling very much that we are the community their community. I think um one way we build student agency is through both teacherto student and studentto student feedback. So this is an example from dance 4 teaching unit. Students lead their peers through a dance class taking on the role of teacher and I take notes in the back documenting their successes maybe some areas of growth um and offering suggestions and then at the end of class they come over and meet with me. So this is an example of what notes look like after that. Um they're very eager to meet with me at the end of class because it it builds their enthusiasm.
So thank you. Thank you. My if I may also add to that, excuse me, that um the contract I think was uh the fruit of efforts that really started more than a year ago and and and reflects the improved relationships between VESPA and administration. It really has been um a new day so to speak with um with those relations and the efforts uh uh working collaboratively. I think a big part of that are the monthly meetings that the BESBA board has with the RJC team here. And what I what I think that this new contract really um helps with or sets the stage for is the next contract that will come up three years from now. Um it really does uh mark a new phase. the the last contract, which was a five-year deal, really left many people um uh in BESBA and outside of BESBA with a bad feeling about where relation uh ship stood between a district and its uh workers.
I will say at the when we get down to the end um there is a clause that says that that could be uh changed a little bit. the eligibility verification will be done. Uh transportation approval process um which is pretty standard. Compliance with bus safety rules obviously is um something we always want to happen. And then the roles responsibilities of the transportation director uh school administrators and families. And then effective date would be uh when we uh approve this and then the review and amendments. This OP SOP will be reviewed by the transportation director administrative team on an as needed basis to ensure its effectiveness. Um, additional notes then exceptions to this SOP will require approval from the superintendent or designate. And so there are some things that that could happen to do that. Um, and then changes in bus routes that impact eligibility will be communicated to affected families promptly.
So um I would say that what you would be voting on um would be anything any changes based on that language changes in here that are as well. Okay. So that's answering this question if I'm if I can ask. So this is just one of the things that I read. It says somewhere that they are they are changing this numbers. the first when you started on after page 15 after page I'm sorry just so I know where you are section four of so I mean it's just one curiosity that I have and I want to know what what this means it says that an appointee of the commissioner of elementary school should be voted member so but it says each school committee so I'm Not sure what that means. That means that the the the the committee members are appointed no longer are going to be voting members.
Yeah. So, typically leases or agreements have termination clauses. And so, again, working with our district attorney, we'd want to make sure that's advantageous for the district uh to have a term clause in there that we can uh execute and and potentially quickly, right, uh utilize that land again. So, okay. So, we could have language in there um to be able to take that um back if needed. And then also uh in situations if the lease defaults um we can have language in there as far as how quickly uh we can repurpose the land. Yeah. Again, kind of you looking down the road. Um yeah, we can flush a lot of that out with uh whatever potential individual will be coming in to to lease this land. And then will the district retain um partial ownership? We'll say we'll still 100% owner. If we lease it, if we sell it, then we revoke then we completely [Music] um and then as far as there's laws as far as the the usage of the land, correct?
They take it really seriously. They take mentoring their peers um very seriously. It deepens the engagement and it helps them to better understand their peers as people and as learners. Um, additionally, we do something similar in dance one that, um, after students complete a flexible grouping type choreography project, uh, they provide feedback on their groupmates on a Google form. And the beginning of the Google form is a liykered scale using the success criteria of the class relationships rubric that you saw in an earlier slide, but it ends with a free response prompt where they can talk specifically about each person in their group. Now, you might expect most students would use this as an opportunity to tell the teacher maybe some negative things that happened in the group, but I have been surprised every single time that the majority of it, if not all of it, is positive and thoughtful feedback about their peers.
This new contract is a different story and as we talked about at best, but we really believe that it sets a nice foundation for when this contract reaches its term and the next round of talks begin on the next collective bargaining agreement, it will be on a firm and and solid foundation. And the group that does that will be in a very good position. So, thank you for everyone who had a hand in in putting this one together. It is very much appreciated and we thank you. We look forward to going forward together again. Thank you. Thank you, Kevin. All right. Next is consent agenda. According to our board policy, we designate a portion of the uh agenda as consent for those items that are usually do not require extensive discussion before board action. These items are generally routine, recurring, and can be grouped together for efficiency.
And as you can see, there's a couple things that that uh play into this again. Uh we have another bus driver that has um resigned. And so we do not even have a full staff right now because we have um substitutes that are are working with that. We would love to be able to go everywhere um and do all of that, but that's what we continue to uh have to be concerned about, just having enough bus drivers. And then also with SP1, which we'll talk about a little bit more, will affect um some of our um funding that we have for um not just not just transportation, but but other things um involved with the school. So um we can talk about this again next meeting. Um but it's it's always evolving all the time because of staff members in particular here bus drivers um routes how many students that we have and so it um this is one thing that we would like to put into place uh once you we can look at it again next next.
And what that means now they're going to be what's that? What is that whole thing? And again, that's just one thing that my attention So they're talking about uh a member of the elementary of the department of education shall be a holding member to the board to manage collaborative but they can so yeah an appointed member from the board from DC so they used to now they're not going to but they used You want to take a minute to go over it? We've got [Music] time. All set. We have the motion. We have the second. Miss. Yes. Mr. Jones. Yes. Mr. Tox. Um, Mr. Yes. And yes, M. Richard, you can update us on the new website for JTS. So, um, hopefully everybody received an email a couple weeks ago. I think it was about two weeks ago today. Um, we were able to launch the new website.
As far as like restrictions on what could be built on that land. So, it's currently zoned as industrial, right? But if a lease company comes in and say they want to do multif family, they would have to work with the town of Gilbert to reszone that property. So, we would the district would not be involved in that process. That would be somebody the lease or uh would if they wanted to pursue that avenue, they would have to reszone that, right? Um so, again, that kind of down the road, but like we we would not be involved in trying to reszone that ourselves. Okay, that's all I have. Thank you, President Wade. Um, thank you so much for this information. These are great questions. Um, just out of curiosity, how much was this purp purchased by the district? So, I don't know the history of it, but I believe it was it was traded at one point.
And these are examples um of some of the notes that dance one students are writing about each other. And I believe that this kind of feedback is a direct result of the intentional relationships we're trying to build between them in our classroom from the first day of school on. Um this is from um our dance 4 uh teaching unit uh that first paragraph in the top. But our dance leaders also are helping us lead classes in dance one. And they're building agency by modeling movement and explaining how the movement is done and watching the success the observable success of their students and their peers. um many and I do have them do a reflection at the end of the unit. And this one I think is an example of pretty much what every student has said that when they begin to teach they realize that how they understand it in their mind and what works for them doesn't necessarily work for everyone and they have to constantly be thinking about the best way to approach it or the multiple ways to approach information so that it makes sense.
Brad, what? No, we're doing moving them toward the end for a little bit of celebration. I asked and clarified. I should have announced it unless you were ready to go right now. Are you ready? Yeah. Got a little celebrating to do at the end. So, okay. Um Brad, as a change of pace, would you like us to walk walk us through it? Sure. The consent agenda has a number of items, including 5.1, the approval of our February 18th close session minutes. 5.2, 2. The approval of our March 18th, 2025 meeting minutes and the close session meetings is 5.3. The approval of our April 8th special meeting minutes is 5.4. 5.5 is the close session from that night. 5.6 is our monthly personnel report. 5.7 is the approval of our payroll and bills. 5.8 is accepting donations both from our Rotary Club and Amy Flanigan. Thank you very much.
So was this modeled after other school districts policies or no just we formed it ourselves. I just wonder what other places are doing. I think if you see there's places all over um that are advertising for bus drivers all the time and so um and our difference is that we have 300 square miles um and compared to other districts around us. Now Huntington's different obviously um but everybody else around us is not near as large. Do we ever consider maybe morning and evening when the bus stops different drivers right typically in the past it's been one individual does morning and they do afternoon I didn't know shortage gets more intense we have to look at hiring for the morning and then a different person we hire for the afternoon staff for that person it just would fit schedule. I mean, if somebody wanted to I don't know if anybody's ever come to us and said, "Hey, you know, I think that we would look at it if we had those people that available to you." Well, I see what he's saying because, you know, if you advertise it that way, knowing that maybe you could fill fill that usually doesn't get dry for you guys, you know, in the morning.
Um, so we've moved over, our previous site was um, operated by Blackboard. The new website falls under a company called Final Site. Um, so the new site um, features a more modern and visually appealing design. Um so the the layout and the navigation have been improved to help families, students and staff find um information more easily as well as of just community members who are looking to find information about GLTS. Um so the the new white uh website also enhances accessibility to better meet um ADA. So the Americans with Disabilities Act, they have specific compliance standards to ensure that the site is accessible for all people. So, one of the things that you might notice when you're going through this site where previously we had a lot of like linked documents that you would have to click on and open up, um not only would those get out outdated more quickly, but um you know, if if you clicked on those, they they weren't um embedded into the site, so they might not be accessible like the colors, the format, and they wouldn't be translated.
Maybe Scott, Mr. Glover was built. Maybe there was a there was a trade. Yeah. With the church. And so somehow we got this parcel. Um perhaps because of the ward that was built right there by Bridges, but I'm that's a guess. Yeah. I think Bridg's lot was split and they gave us this parcel to build their ward on the what would that be? The east side of Bridges. Okay, thank you so much. And yes, just that liability factor. Um, so it's similar like uh landlord insurance and then the tenant has tenant insurance kind of similar that layout for insurance purposes. Yeah, I would, you know, I would have the district covered in this agreement to where the liabilities on the lease um and try to limit our risk uh with again the limited overhead that we have and expertise in um anything outside school district from from my scope of work.
And um one thing I say pretty repetitively repetitively in class is details matter. And that consistently came up that being really detailed and asking specifically for what you need or what you want seemed to be a really um big success criteria for them in working with their peers. Um, so in kind of wrapping all up this information back to the data, we've seen growth in from dance one through dance 4. You can see that we've grown in our classroom climate, our pedological effectiveness. Um, I believe if I press this again, I think it's going to say it goes up 12%. Yes, I was like, do I or don't I? Um, I do trust you now. Um, and what I really want to say about pedological effectiveness, because I feel like it's a little misleading when you read it, it seems like it has to do with what the teacher is doing, but a lot of the questions on the student voice survey are about how the student finds strategies to help themselves in class and how they are as learners.