So, >> or graduation. >> Yeah. Or graduation, right? >> Here. Yep. >> Their names. >> Yep. >> Or >> so trying to just talk through that. But again, um, with the the panels on the ceiling, that's not something you're just going to like just do real quick. You got to bring in lifts and, you know, do all that stuff. And, but it's part of a bigger picture as we look at that reports back from RC Engineers and and talk with them about, you know, what's that walls look like? So, my my thought was maybe at at a at a next work session or something if I could just get all those folks to come in and they they've all said it. They're they're more than happy to come in and just talk through that with you guys to understand kind of the pros and cons, not only the acoustics, but the wall, you know, the the structural pieces from RC from, you know, what it looks like on the contractor side, you know what, you know, the not only not only just pricing of it, but also just, you know, how you would do it and the staging of a project and, you know, sequencing and things like that, too.
I think that's one of those experiences to me that really instilled making sure that the students have a voice in our policies and decision-m um the community has a voice right because I think we do get kind of set in our ways about you know the way we think things should go and it's important for us to all use our strengths um in this job but again um it does not it does not fail to to remind me that sometimes like, okay, I need to step back and I need to listen and I need to hear what everybody else has to say. And I'm I'm typ that's typ that's my typical approach usually because I kind of want to I don't know if that's my inquisitive nature, but I want to hear everybody's points of view first and kind of do a little bit of analysis in the back of my mind first and then sort of um make my recommendations.
Um as we reach specific milestones, formal policy or resource recommendations will be brought back to Superintendent Lavoy. Um and we're committed to a safe, supportive, uh accountable environment um where students and staff can focus entirely uh on technical excellence. Um, also just to mention, we've had a couple vendors in over the past week or so uh to look at our visitor management and some of our responses that were as part of the auditing phase as well. Uh, so we're we're moving along to ensure that we have the best spot and safety for our school. Um, so not right this time, I'm going to pass it over to Panota um, who's going to talk about the teaching and learning priorities informed by the ACT and the other couple members of our team. Before you get started, does anybody have questions for the principal and the assistant principal?
I want you to look at this chart and look in the middle first. You'll see fiscal year 26. We currently have 41 sections for the 25 26 years total K through six. Next year as I predicted that we would um be able to go down a section in fiscal year 27. I want to share that in kindergarten we're projecting 104. We're online as of Friday we had 76 students registered. So we anticipate um a projection of 104 with an average of 17.3 with six sections. First grade 107 17.8 with six sections. Our second grade next year we anticipate 87 students 17.5 with five sections. Our third grade 104 with 17.3 with six sections. And I want to point your attention to grade four. Right now, our current grade three is in six sections. We are proposing to fall in with our class size guideline that they have um 94 students that they'll go into five sections next year and it will be 18.8, which falls right within our guidelines.
Uh so thank you to AMA and congratulations uh to Dylan. Thank you. >> Good evening. I would like to start by congratulating Murray Elementary um their staff, their students um and families on a successful family game night that was supported by our elementary math teacher on special assignment, Miss Julie McGow. That's always an event that the students um enjoy showing their families all that they know and our families also get to learn how to better support their children at home um with mathematics. Uh last week I also had the opportunity to visit one of the new classes that was launched this session at Isuza High School. Uh the student union which started as a club during reorganization uh and then evolved is now a class. So, I had the opportunity to hear from the students the various projects that they will be embarking on and I look forward to seeing the potential impact that those projects could have on our district and community.
So that's why you can't I see you trying to check those boxes. That's why you can't. You'd have to uncheck the bottom box. >> Jonathan, did you? >> Yeah. I was just gonna say, so if you click the bottom tab, the campus map, you know, so it'll explain the building numbers a little bit more. Chris, see at the bottom tab where it says campus map. So what they did is they did once again digitized the plans. And so building one is the building we're in. um that dotted area where it says one, those are our portables and those are buildings 2 through five. And so you can see all of that. What we started doing with our um superintendent advisory committee is going through building by building and finding out which buildings uh some of the necessary things that we feel are necessary to fix and some of the things that we feel like might not be necessary right away or that we can save our community money by, you know, continuing to um you know, uh duct tape and chicken wire those areas because our usable spaces and Well, and this is our our what we want to do is be more efficient.
>> Um so that it's like nonrenewal. We have to repost the position. So if you're hired after July 1st, you have to reapply for your job the following year. And we do that for that purpose because if we don't have the right, if our enrollment drops between now and May, we have to really look at our budget and our teachers that have were hired after July 1st will not receive contracts right away, right? And a and oftent times if we're going to hire new teachers, we still hold off and try to wait till after July 1st for that reason because we would have nowhere to send them. And to answer your question also, Mrs. Lewis is if anybody says anything, you can say we are not among we are not among the highest risk districts, right? Even because you have your high risk and you have your approaching and we're we're not we're not in the approaching category are >> no.
For kids that are far below, for kids that are approaching, for kids that are above level, um that's that's the way to lift everyone and I and I think that I think that's what's being done and that's being shown in the numbers. So I I think that's awesome. Um you answered most of my questions going through which was great in your limited time and limited slides. I would love to see more slides. Um, but I would was writing down questions as you were going and then you answered it about a minute later. So, most of my questions got answered. I did want to uh just I don't know if we can dive into it a little bit right now or if it's if it's a longer discussion, but with Mr. Briner was asking about about the difference between schools. Um, if there's a short synopsis of that or if it's really just hey, we got to we got to talk more about that.
So those were my prepared remarks but overall the audits were submitted on time. uh and uh the audit was completed efficiently. Uh Miss Rush Camp and her team uh was uh very helpful in ensuring we could perform and complete all our audit procedures this past year. Thank you. Um I also would like to express uh I appreciate the the explanation of some of those parts. Uh Mr. Jumper, so thank you for that.
>> I know I know it's inclement weather. Anything else? >> It's it's in l we can use it for any emergency purposes. So it could be again um not just weather but if we had to have some kind of school closure let's say >> electricity. >> I don't want to say anything negative like burst or something like that. >> Not electricity. We have reliable power. But any any reason why we would have to have any type of school closures, we can use that in in lie of an emergency day. >> Now what is it by school? >> I would just ask that question. >> Yeah. Like just to use your example of pipe bust or an electrical issue if it happened at one school does that institute >> does that qualify for e-learning day for that school? Is that possible? >> No, it because we're a unit district, it is we're all in.
So, um, >> are they out of Indie? >> Who is that? >> Either one. So KRM is they have offices in Indie and Anderson. Um Hearn is out of Cookamo. Um RC, do you know Travis? >> Fishers. Um Hstick is out of Indie. >> Is there a chance they would come like in the evening when we have a game going on and we have people? >> I Yeah, I saw I'm gonna I'm gonna reach out to them and see if I can get them to come. I don't know if I can. >> I think it's different. >> Yeah. Oh, 100%. 100%. Yeah, it's different in an empty gym versus when you put, you know, bodies in the gym, right? you know, and stuff like that. >> I was talking to Amy about it and, you know, it's it could be just as simple as >> we're pushing the sound too hard, you know, to the too much volume.
So, I think those two experiences are probably the most relevant in the community for this. >> Okay. Thank you uh very much for coming in >> and again I apologize if I get the name wrong but next we will hear from Terara Sledko. All right. >> Pronunciation of my last name. That is not normally what people >> What' you say? I got it right. >> Correct. That is not um good evening. It's nice to see all of you. Um it's it's kind of interesting to be here and having the opportunity to speak to all of you because I'm normally um just in the wings paying attention either taking I'm an obsessive noteaker so I'm always taking notes in the back or sometimes from home watching everything through um through YouTube. So I try since uh sorry I guess I kind of just stumbled right into my opening statement even though I don't have it planned out um terribly accurately apparently.
>> I do. >> Please, >> if you were to say that um going to this conference, you could bring you there was something that you really thought it was something that was said that you can implement here, what would that be? And if you didn't hear anything, which it could also be >> Yeah. what would you implement that we already have to to to in the from the conference uh visit? >> Yeah, and I'll let Brendan answer for himself too. Uh I think for me in going through in hearing from other schools big and small throughout the country, rural, urban, um in kind of the different ways they look at campus security uh in some of the tech the current technological tools to help with your visitor management um and having uh securing the facilities at all uh hours and really looking at how some people invest in in some personnel to oversee that in some larger um uh vast districts.
So that will be a change for our current third grade going into fourth grade. But that's typically what our fourth grade class size looks like around 18 students. In grade five, we'll have 111 students at 18.5. In our grade six, 102 students with six sections. So a total of 40 sections. What I want to share with you is very important and it's new to this budget process is on the next page. I always verbalize what the classes look like, but one of the questions that came up at the board of finance meeting last year was, "Can you really write out what each of these classes look like and tell a story about each one of the classes?" So, kindergarten, we're not sure what the story will be yet. We just know there's going to be 104 approximately. Our first grade, there's 107 students. our first grade cohort, approximately 32% of those students of the class are requiring special education including 504 and receiving reading or math intervention.
>> Good evening. Um only have two updates. One would like to announce that the Paramount parking lot expansion project um officially completed. Um so staff um starting Wednesday um tomorrow will be able to start utilizing um the parking lot as well as the drop off. Um we still are waiting for the seas to cure so some of the temporary fencing will still remain. Um so we're excited about that and we're still waiting to get um the green light from the county to do the drop off at um Valley. Um and with that we'll be completed with Valley Magnolia Murray and Paramount. Um and then lastly, just to update um to remind all staff for their W2 that they can download it on the portal, but if they do not have um the ability to download their portal, the hard copy um will be mailed to their home um this month um from LEGO.
And so, what areas do we need the most? And so, we're looking at areas at pump house. And I don't know if you guys noticed or not, but one of those AC pictures. Yes, the one that was uh dirty was in the cafeteria. And so, obviously, those are some health issue type things that we want to get fixed because of those old units. But another one where it was the ceiling was opened. I saw the class pictures. So that's the main um hallway in the high school. And so these are areas we want to prioritize where the student students occupy where if you go down to like building 19 and 17 and 18, that's a lot of unused space next to the fab lab. So those are things that we would want to put on a hold. But if you go back to the other tab, the facility improvement plan, because when you go down to the bottom, just to fix the ACs, the bathrooms, the cooling towers, the things that we looked at, the hallway renovations and stuff like that.
No. >> Right. >> So here are the school districts again that are in the approaching. >> Do we get penalized in any way by the state for being in this situation? >> No. The only time you're going to get penalized by the state is if you go into receiverhip and that's when the states going to come in. They're going to require the entire business officer, require the superintendent and the states. >> But this is where when you look at Round Valley approaching high risk since January of 2025. So that's where I mean we don't want to be there. We don't want to be on the list at all in districts approaching high risk. So that's why we have these conversations and we're looking at so we can make sure that we understand the why we're in this situation. We understand what we spent two years ago on what we moved and how that was going to affect this report.
I'm just wondering if if we're seeing some schools that are are really kind of lifting the numbers and others that are falling behind or if everyone's kind of more in the middle of the pack and and maybe just maybe a little bit more detail about about what we were seeing with that. >> Sure. So, I'm fortunate to sit in impact checks elementary, junior, and senior high school. I've been afforded that opportunity the last few years. this year more elementary schools than previous years just to spend a little bit more time gaining understanding of where we are and I will tell you across the board a a bit as you mentioned across the board we're seeing improvements there are spots however where we're not and we're analyzing deeply in those areas um Mr. Martin um Miss Hansen when we're going through with Mr. Bircher the feedback is immediate to the campuses.
Do we have any questions or comments from anybody else on the board before? Go ahead, Mr. German. >> I'll go. President Wade, thank you so much for presenting that. Now, when you said kind of some samplings, can I get an idea of that because I I really like to utilize this insight um because I think this is going to be our big tip um and clues. So, can you provide more insight on the samplings? Is it a variety? who chooses that etc. >> Uh yes, thank you for the question. Uh sampling so it I would say first it depends on the question. So there's different areas that we have to answer the questions on. So uh for example, I'll use attendance. So there's some questions over student attendance and just ensuring the district is following state laws in terms of uh uh withdrawals and of students if they leave the district.
>> Wow. Okay. We're all in. >> I'm sorry. Yes, Jamie. >> How does this impact in previous years, graduation for both eighth grade and high school seniors has happened before the end of the physical school year? Like students seventh, eighth grade like are still attending school. How will that impact graduated eighth graders or seniors for those extra days? >> So, when we set the school calendar and graduation and make our contracts with our external vendors that we it doesn't change anything for that. uh we still um have our 176 days of attendance and because we have that small group of students that may not be in attendance because of graduation, it has no impact on that. >> I'm thinking 0% chance of seniors coming those two days. >> Well, and and that's what I was wondering like what happens if a senior who's already got their diploma is like peace I'm not coming those last two >> typ typically they're finished um their uh >> before that anyway.