LCSD1 School Board of Trustees Meeting - October 20, 2025

001Good evening. It's 6 pm and I'd like to call this meeting of the Laram County School District number one board of trustees to order. Um, please join us for the pledge of allegiance. >> Hello, my name is Ian Brown. I'm principal at Rossman Elementary. >> And I am Kenzie Yarder, the dean of students here at Rossman. And this is Rossman Elementary reciting the pledge of allegiance. Thank you. >> All right, Dr. Newton, do we have any adjustments to tonight's agenda? >> Madam Chair, there are no adjustments to this evening's agenda. >> Okay. >> Madam Chair, I move to adopt the agenda and I second. >> You have a motion and a second to adopt the agenda. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed? >> Okay, that has been adopted. So, we'd like

002to start out our meetings um with recognition of staff and students for outstanding achievements. So, um this is always, I think, one of our favorite parts of the meetings. And tonight we have quite a few. Um we're going to start with our student of the week recognitions. We have three students to recognize tonight uh for the week of September 29th, October 13th, and October 20th. Um the first student that we'll be recognizing is Molly Hail from Triumph High School, and she would be joined by Principal Mike Maloney and her favorite teacher, Amber Martins. >> Uh good evening. I'm Mike Maloney and it is my privilege to introduce Molly Hail, a senior at Triumph High School who was selected for this award because of her her near perfect attendance, A's in all her courses, and her

003consistency in displaying our school's guiding principles of being prompt, prepared, polite, having a positive mental attitude, participating, and producing. She is a wonderful role model for our younger students. I will always remember Molly because when I interviewed, she gave me the tour of triumph. Molly chose Amber Martins as her favorite teacher. And Amber is going to say just a few words about Molly. >> Hello, I'm Amber and I have the privilege of having Molly in both science and advisement. And Triumph High School is a closed campus, so they can't leave for lunch unless you have a Spartan ticket. So, you'd have to have three or less absences, A's and B's. And Molly has that. But, she has chosen not to leave because um she just loves Triumph. and she and it's great because even at

004lunch um she will sit with the dean and some other staff members and a couple other students because she doesn't want to be with the drama either. Not just do her grades and behavior show success, but also her desire to help others. So, I love having her in class because she's always the first one if they were absent to make sure that they got what they needed. If they're not understanding, she will help them. So, I'm grateful to have her. And I call my kids water bears because they do will go unnoticed sometimes often and but they're very indestructible. So, thank you guys for noticing Molly. And she, I would say, is my true water bear because she is resilient and she perseveres. Um, she has had many challenges in her past, but it doesn't

005prevent her from continuing to try. She just has become more compassionate and wise. And even when we graduate or we graduate, when Molly graduates, I know I'm going to stay in contact with her because I just love and adore her. So, >> um Molly has asked me to share a few things on her behalf. Um her strengths are working well in groups. She has been successful in online classes and she is always willing to help others when they ask. Her interests outside of school is her dog Precious and pretty much all animals. She really enjoys reading and she likes to keep busy. Her future plans will mo will most likely she will graduate at the end of the second quarter and she wants to work in animal grooming or the vette industry. Uh she would

006like to thank her parents Derek and Penelopey who are here tonight to support her along with Laramie our dean of students and of course her science teacher Amber and Kirsten. Uh, now Molly will say a few words about her favorite teacher. >> Um, Amber is my favorite teacher uh because of how kind and resilient she is and she has amazing communication skills and she always listens to me and she is really smart and funny and nice. Uh before I present this award to her, I would like to recognize her um parents, Derek and Penelopey, and her brother, Jeremiah, who are here tonight with her. Please stand. >> Just wait right over here. Congratulations, Molly. Our next student that we'll be recognizing for the week of October 13th is Nia Herrera. Um, she is a Nia

007is a 12th grader at East High School. And so, if we could get Nia and principal Mark Kersner and favorite teacher Cody Fornier to come forward. My name is Mark Hersner, principal at East High School, and it's my pleasure to introduce to you Nia Herrera. Um, Nia was selected because she's really made the most of her high school experience. She's also a bright spot at East High School. There have been many, many times when I've been standing in the cafeteria lobby around a bunch of ninth graders, and I must have had a really grumpy look on my face cuz Nia always comes up, says hello, flashes the biggest smile, and uh, always makes me feel better. and reminds me that they'll grow up someday. I appreciate that. Nia's super involved in East High School, but

008her passion is in the fine and performing arts. So, she's a part of our TV program and our drama and theater programs, and she makes some great contributions there. Mr. Forny couldn't be with us tonight, but he wanted me to read few words that he had prepared. And keep in mind he's a creative writing teacher and an English teacher. So I'll do my best, but I promise you he has words I don't have. So here goes. What a rarity to engage with a student who reflects that which we all could aspire to be. Acutely aware of the human condition, all of its flaws, follyies, bright spots, and brilliance. Nia interacts with every student and teacher with the utmost respect and honesty. Those that meet her feel dignified and that she honors them with the feeling

009that they are being seen and heard. In this way, her heart is often on her sleeve, glowing with empathy. I consider myself exceptionally lucky to be a teacher. But when a student like her tolerates my celebratory excitement for literature, creativity, and simple kindness, it bubbles at the core of what makes this job so worthwhile. Even luckier as her creative writing teacher, I get to read her writing, which is a gift to us all. It is lyrical, clever, and versed in life. It is a title wash of what it means to be a human today. A sensory salute to this moment. Nia reflects all that is good in the world. She's giving. She shares her happiness. She acknowledges the sadness of others. She lends a hand. She invites us into her adventure with open arms and

010an occasional cup of coffee and expects nothing in return, though she certainly deserves our admiration and maybe a blueberry Red Bull. I am honored and humbled to be part of her journey and I am so excited that she has been chosen to represent East High School as student of the week. I can't wait to see where the next few years will take her. I'll let Nia speak a little bit about Mr. Fornier. Man, how do I follow that? That's crazy. So, um before having Mr. Fornier's class, I had his brother's class um my sophomore year in English. And before this, uh I had just developed an interest in writing. Um, but like most teenagers, I focused on a lot of negative things and my writing wasn't really that good. Um, when I began his class,

011I learned that a lot of the writing process was through processing who I am before writing other stories. And with that, I developed this sort of negative outlook about the human experience. Um, the world is weird and crazy and confusing at times, but every single time I went into Mr. Fornier's class, without fail, he had a big smile on his face. And that alone, along with other things, really changed the way that I became a writer. And day by day, my writing got better. And along with all of the weird, crazy, confusing things that I found out that life was, it is simultaneously beautiful and exciting and awesome. And throughout that, every single day, it started to show in the way that I treat myself and others and how I approach school and learning and

012growing up. And because of that, I'm taking the step to continue to pursue creativity and thinking critically and learning to uplift others and treat myself kindly. And so from here on out, I'm headed to an art school hopefully um to continue to pursue creativity because I think it's awesome. Nia has a group of people in the audience tonight supporting her. Could we get those people to stand so that they can be recognized? >> Congratulations. The third student we'd like to recognize as student of the week is Dela Ortega from Johnson Junior High School. Dela is a seventh grader and we'll be joined by Principal Aaron Moon and favorite teacher Janet Weisbrook. >> Maybe just Mr. Moon. >> Okay. Well, glad we're here. Miss Weisberrook just couldn't make it the last minute, so we'll we'll we'll

013carry forward. So, good morning trustees, Dr. Newton. My name is Aaron Moon. It's my privilege to introduce Dela Ortega, a seventh grader at Johnson Junior High. Uh Dela was selected because she's always helpful, supportive, uh often checks in with adults. It's not often that people see us throughout our day and they want to stop and see how we're doing and what we're doing. Um so it's it's always great to have that. Uh she's one of the most fun students that we have. Um she's always positive. If you see her walking through the the room, it's always with a smile and and whopping around uh from one group of folks to the other, often just checking in and just being a positive light in the in the in the building. Uh it was further confirmed when

014I was talking to staff members about our choice for student of the week. Uh every staff member's face lit up and as I was sitting here tonight, former staff uh former administrators, teachers who saw Dela uh were equally excited and knew that we had made the right choice. So, we're very proud to have Dela as our student of the week. And Dela chose Janet Weisber as her favorite teacher. And at this point, then Dela will share a few things about herself. >> Miss tell us some reasons she chose Miss Weisbrook as her favorite teacher. >> Um, so I chose Miss Weisbrook as my favorite teacher because she always makes things fun for me. She makes me smile a lot and she helps me get motivated for the morning because I know that some people have

015struggles waking up and getting motivation to go to school. But my teachers, especially Miss Wisbrook, help me get up and want to be at school. She makes it fun. >> We were having a competition to say who could be the most nervous for this. I think I won. We do. We are joined by Shelanne, a mom and support system here in the front. Stand. Give us. >> Thank you. >> Congratulations, Dylan. Um, congratulations to all of you students and your favorite teachers. Western Vista Credit Federal Credit Union sponsors awards for our students of the week. So, at this time, I'd like to invite Lurel Botti, chief marketing officer to the front to say a few words. Thank you, Madam Chair. Hello, everybody. It is my true honor to be here. We rotate this uh honor

016through our staff and so we usually get to come once or twice and it's always just so fun to hear the wonderful stories about the students in our district. Molly, Nia, and Dela, one of the things that I heard about all of you is not only are you good students and active in your school, but you are good humans. You are kind people. And I think that that's one of the things that I love the most about this. Of course, we expect students of the week to be good students and to be active in their school communities, but I think their character is really, really important. And to parents, kudos to you for what you have done to raise such wonderful children. So, um, I would like to acknowledge that I'm wearing jeans and I

017wouldn't normally wear jeans to this presentation. However, because I know what's coming a little later tonight, I'm also wearing my J boots. So, you'll hear about the Jay Foundation a little bit later, but that is why I'm wearing my jeans is because I proudly wanted to display my red J boots. I am an East High alum parent, but I am not afraid to wear central red because it matches my boots. Anyway, on that note, I will call it an evening and congratulations again. Congratulations. >> Congratulations. Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> Congratulations. Thank you so >> Mr. Kersner is not going far because our next recognition is of an East High School uh 4A speech and debate champion. So, I'd like to invite Andrew Schultz to the front. He'll be joined by Principal Mark Kersner and

018speech and debate coach Alan Pino. It is my pleasure to introduce to you Alan Pino, head coach of the East High School speech and debate program. And there's actually a little bit of a typo in the agenda because we're here to recognize the national champion, Andrew Schultz. And I'll let Mr. Pino tell you all about it. >> A little bit shorter than everyone else. >> All right. Um, so yes, I'm Alan Pino. I'm the head a little bit too short. >> So, I'm Alan Pino. I'm the head coach of speech in the Bay at East High School, and I get the honor of being able to work with Andrew, who is a junior this year. And this past summer, we went to De Mo, Iowa, where he became a national champion in expository speaking. And

019to kind of understand what that journey looked like, it was not an easy one. So in February, we participate at a national qualifying tournament that is composed of half of Wyoming, a little bit of South Dakota, and a little bit of Nebraska. So when he qualified to nationals, he became part of the 1% of students that get to compete. And then when we went to De Mo, he was competing with 550 other students in his single event. And so over the course of the week, they narrow it down, narrow it down, narrow it down until he was part of the final six where during the award ceremony, we had the opportunity to see him be crowned a national champion where he now joins the top 1% of that 1% and is, I believe, if I

020did my research correctly, um, number nine in the history of Wyoming to became a national champion in speech and debate. And of course, I have to recognize some other people because Andrew's journey doesn't happen just by himself. There are two people in this uh audience here. His family who speech and bait greatness kind of runs through their blood because we have Ashley Souls, our assistant coach. Please stand on up. and Danny Souls, his sister, both who have been umly recognized as a national speech and debate coach uh of the year in 2024. And Danny, his older sister, who was also a um finalist for student of the year by the National Speech Debate Association. So, good things keep coming. Um, so we'll just close it up because um, this isn't possible without the support of

021the community, the board, Mr. person or everything everyone and all the resources that go in this because um I think it just shows how much this community supports our students, how much they want our students to succeed and how much we want our students to be more than just to be able to say their opinions and be critical thinkers and go beyond expectations. So, thank you Congratulations. >> Wow. Great job. >> This is the only time I'm going to get this close to a trophy this big. So, I'm going to enjoy it. And we have one more East High recognition. I'd like to invite Colin Cresselius to the front. Colin was the number one singles boys or male singles tennis player at state this year. and he'll be joined by principal Mark Kushner and coach

022head coach Chris Liv. >> So again, I'm just going to turn it over to Coach Love to talk all the uh talk about all the great accomplishments for Colin. >> All right. Hi, I'm uh Coach Love. Uh this is my first year coaching tennis over at East. So it's my first year getting to work with Colin. Um he's done a lot of great things well before I showed up. So I'm not going to take it all. Um, a couple accomplishments that we've got. He's been playing for about 10 years now. A little over 10 years. Um, region's champ this year, state champ, three-time all state. Anything you want me to add to that? >> No, that's great. All right. Um, besides that, he's just a tremendous leader for the entire team. Steps up every time

023we needed somebody to run some practice stuff, run drills. Uh, great model for everybody, including those ninth graders that hopefully one day will grow up. Um, but no, just an outstanding player for our program. Going to be sadly missed. And hopefully those kids behind him really learned something this year and will model the same kind of uh sportsmanship team type uh attitude that uh Colin has carried all year. So, thank you. And could all the people in the audience supporting Colin stand up to be recognized? I think we're over in the corner there. >> Figuring that out. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you guys. >> Thank you again. What do you say? >> All right, we're going to switch it up now and recognize some Central High School students. Um, I would like to um call

024up principal Karen Delbridge from Central Golf head coach Kevin Georges and assistant coaches Ross Windows and Emily Pilington. Are they here? Maybe. Um, we will be recognizing a member of just two just two kids I think. A member of the boys golf team and a member of the girls golf team, Andrew Lewis and Bella Beach. come on up. >> So, I'm gonna introduce uh Coach Georgees. So, we've have a number of golfers. Um quite a few. Um and so, I am super proud of these two and so I'm going to let him take it over. >> Thank you very much. Uh yes, we do. We our our golf team has grown uh a ton. We have more players on our team than our football team does. Uh, however, these two, I would like to uh

025uh bring something up that often times isn't recognized to be a student athlete is very very hard. Uh they the time commitment uh that these kids have to put forward for studies as well as as their trade is is huge. And I'm proud to say that both of these not only are all sters in golf, but they also are academic lettermen. And we make it a point to really point that out to our to our school uh to our team and how important that is. Um the other thing is is yes golf has become very very uh competitive boys and girls side and to have uh these two standing behind me uh having received all state honors this year at state is just an absolute honor. Uh Andrew um puts his his uh effort daily

026into playing, practicing, working on his trade. Uh and it shows his his uh his brothers are some athletes and he didn't want to fall in their uh shadow. So he dedicated himself to golf. And for him to step up as a junior and get all state in one of the most competitive uh boys fields we've ever had is is is absolutely impressive. Uh Bella, same thing. She came to us, she's only a sophomore, and for her to already re be receiving Hall State honors as a sophomore is is pretty phenomenal. Um she she put a pretty big run at at state. She was tied going into the last hole uh with a senior and um just missed it. But uh I think uh I think we're going to get there. We got a few more

027with you and one more with Andrew. I couldn't be prouder of these two. uh they represent our school uh they represent uh our sport and they represent um this city uh very very well and we should all be very proud of them and I want to thank everybody here and the board uh for recognizing these students and letting them come up. I think that um too oftent times it's it's not recognized enough with what these athletes do as well as our tennis team up here that's coming up next. Uh so thank you for your time and and uh we should be very proud of all of these kids. >> So does Andrew and Bella have some family here tonight? If you would stand. Oh, there you are. Thank you so much for what you're doing.

028Congratulations. >> Congratulations. decoration. >> Oh, and now we are going to recognize um Central High School 4A state tennis champions u from the boys and the tennis girls tennis team. There are quite a few. So, I will let you call them all up and introduce them. Dr. Delbridge. Um, and I do the tennis coaches, I imagine, are here, too. So, um, Coach Garrett, is it Seammens? >> And assistant coach Lisa Escoel. >> Yeah. >> So, come on up. I'd like to introduce to you our coach Seammens here and our state champions in tennis. Um, so come on up. Come on up. I'm going to tell you, um, the tennis community has just been, um, this amazing group of people. Um, and they have just really opened up their arms to me to show me really

029what the world of tennis is about. And I'm going to tell you, these kids are phenomenal um, in the classroom. They um, exemplify who Central is. And I have a large stack. And so, I'm just going to turn this over to our coaches. So, Coach Seaman. >> All right, I'll hand those out after the players because we kind of have a lot of them. Um, so this is I think our third time in a row at least that I've been here. I'm sure Central's been here many times um before this and there just is a lot that kind of goes into our program. Uh the first part of our program is obviously the kids. Um the amount of hours that these athletes spend on the courts is unreal. We help out a lot with Cheyenne

030tennis. Um a lot of them give lessons to youth, which if you have any kids or work with younger kids, you know that it can be challenging in itself. And so just the fact that they're willing to go out there for those lessons, um work and develop those kids, not just for the Cheyenne Central program, but for Cheyenne East and Cheyenne South as well. Um it's just incredible with the amount of work that they put in. Uh they also like to challenge each other a lot throughout the year. Um play at tournaments across the United States. Um we've had teams travel um for our USA team. Um we've had Gov Cup players um just lots of playing around the year. And that's kind of what it takes for um for these players to be successful

031is to just get out there and play and not back away from that challenge. Uh the second part of our success really comes from the players. So I can see a couple of us out there. If you are a tennis parent, could you please stand up for us? >> A big part of our success comes from our parents. Um they're always asking, "How can I help out?" And I found it to be most successful to let them help. They want to help to better their kids. They want to help to better the program. And they just want the best, not just for Central Tennis again, but for all tennis. I know there have been numerous tennis meets that we've been to to where the parents have given out water uh for other players have given

032out shade. Um I'm pretty sure one time coach Bell also helped a team um at a set tight or at a set tie break just asking him what do you need? what do you need um to help finish your match? And I think the parents just do a really good job of not supporting just us, but supporting their players and then supporting tennis around um around Cheyenne. So, thank you to those uh parents. Um the other thing is we have volunteer coaches. We had three this year that I would like to recognize and that's Nate Smmedley, Jared Smmedley, and Paul Spilman. Could you guys stand up for us? And with these coaches, they help out kind of wherever is needed. Um, the Smemedley's have helped run summer practice sessions. I think for years, even before

033I was here, I think they helped out a lot with central. Um, and especially at our practices, they kind of do whatever it takes to help better these kids. And I've always appreciated this help. Um, one of our new ones was Paul Spilman this year who's had a couple of kids on our team. Um, and he helped out doing like conditioning sessions in the morning before open net sessions, uh, doing stretching, and he was always asking, "Coach, what do you need? What can I help with?" And just kind of that go-getter attitude. And so, especially all three of these people have really helped the players succeed, have helped me, um, have helped coach, and are just always willing to help. So, I really appreciate their help. Um, the Smith also had a ton of crazy

034stats that I wish I could share. Um, but basically at our end of the year banquet, they talked a lot about um, just how dominant the central tennis program has been. Um, and then specifically went on to say a couple of our teams um, that played this year, especially our girls team. I think this was, correct me if I'm wrong, the highest scoring girls team or tied with the highest scoring girls team. >> The highest scoring central girls team ever. So that was a huge accomplishment from our girls team. And then our boys team uh placed fourth. We had some injuries this year. Um but after every practice, every player showed up. Um and every player challenges each other. We don't really have a boys practice and a girls practice. Um, both of our teams

035can play with each other and I think that makes them better and better every single practice and every single day. And then our final recognition I want to give to is Coach E who has been with Central for many years as well. Um, Coach E helps keep me on track as much as she can. Um, she is very good with her organization. She's always running around helping players. Um, something that really stood out to me was when we were in Rollins and I can't remember co or I can't remember which player uh had a headache uh but they needed a coffee really bad and um coachie graciously offered to get about nine kids their coffee order from Starbucks uh came back for the matches was there to support was there to coach out and help

036out and I don't know very many assistant coaches that would get the kids what they need like a coffee in that moment to help play to help do what they can and our girls team was successful that day. So, whatever worked with the coffee, it worked. But, um, we just have a really great program here at Central. I'm always proud to be a part of it. I know I'm from Gillette and so I grew up with maybe a little bit of hesitation towards Central, but I think every day every day I'm with these guys. Um, I'm thankful that I'm here and I'm thankful to have such a good group of kids behind me. So, thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. That is a lot of fun. a couple more recognition um things

037to do, but the the next one is one we're always really excited to do and it's an award we started this year, but it's our employee spotlight award. Um, so recognition of of staff for outstanding achievements and contributions. Tonight we will be recognizing Karen Low from the custodial unit. She works at South High School. Um, so I would like to like to invite um Karen forward along with South High School principal Carrie Gentry and um custodial services supervisor Michael Kimmel. Good evening. Uh it's my privilege and pleasure to introduce you to Karen Low. She's the assistant head custodian at South High School. Um she's being recognized with this award because of her excellence in leadership and dedication. Uh her dedication leads to um us getting Let me check my notes. Sorry. Um she was se

038selected for this award because she consistently demonstrates exceptional leadership and dedication. That's what I meant to say. Um she ensures the facilities are safe and clean and welcoming for students and staff every day. Uh which is something that I truly appreciate from Karen and her team. Um Karen's exceptional work work ethic, technical expertise, and ability to lead and mentor others has earned her widespread respect throughout the district. Um I am very proud to recognize her for this this award and her outstanding achievements. We couldn't do the job that we do without people like Karen. So, I'm very honored to honor to give her this. >> So, yes, I'm Karen. Um, Jimmy Buffett wrote a song about an encounter with a street sweeper. It's called It's My Job. Uh, Mac Minelli still sings it. If you're

039familiar, I think you'd be a great visitor here for Frontier Days. Uh, this is the chorus. He said, "It's my job to be cleaning up this mess, and that's enough reason to go for me. It's my job to be better than the best and that makes a day for me. Thank you. >> I' I'd now actually we're going to just if you'll give me a second I'd like to invite Lorel back up from Western Vista Credit Union. So this is my first time presenting one of these because this is a new program. So um I love that you referenced Mac Mini. So, here's a fun fact. Here's a little trivia piece that maybe you'll get to use sometime. So, Mac Minali actually did some songwriting for Ned Leoo, the son of the well-renowned Chris Leoo.

040So, there you go. There's a fun little tie for you. You didn't think you'd hear that tonight. Um, but congratulations to you. Thanks for all you do. Um, I cannot imagine being a in custodial services in a school, especially not a high school. And so, we value all the work that you do. And I just have a feeling you seem like you have the type of personality where I know you're in and amongst the students. So you hear things, you see things, and I think you probably have a special relationship with some of those kids. So, thank you so much. >> Thank you for your hard work. Thank you very much. All right, we have one more big round of recognitions. Um, and this is for Cheyenne Schools Foundation awards. I would like to um

041ask our community relations director, Mary Quest, to come up. president of the First Education Federal Credit Union, James Yates, who also spearheads the Cheyenne, oh my gosh, schools foundation. >> Schools foundation. I'm so sorry. I actually sat on that committee for a while. Um, and the Cheyenne Schools Foundation treasurer, Steve Girt, and anybody else you have with you who's helping with recognitions, come on up. >> Well, thank you. Thank you so much. Um, I think I'd like to My name's Mary Quest and I'm community relations director and I'd like to actually turn this program over to Steve Gert. He is on the board and he has some words to say here. Lots of them. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. Thank you, Owen, for attending uh the meeting here tonight with our Cheyenne Schools Foundation. First,

042we have Dr. Michelle Aldridge, who's also on our board. She actually runs our our grant program, who oversees all those grant applications. Um we have Margarite Herman who is also on our board and we also have then Dr. Renee Hinkle um who is also here tonight. >> So first I'd like to send some thank yous um for those in attend or when they do come to our run for number one school and that really is the bands from East Central and South High School. Um they really bring life to our 5K run that we do have. Um that's followed by the cheer squad of all of Central, South and also East High School. um they cheer on those runners both at the beginning and also at the end. So yeah, if you haven't attended um

043certainly try and try and do that. We also have volunteers from the ROC um program with South High School. So they are in attendance and this year we'd like to send a special thanks to Dr. Karen Delbridge um for allowing us to use the central high school location where we use the commons um and the restrooms and things. So first I'd like to u bring recognition to the the highest student participation rate within the schools. And if those principles can come up, we have Kerry Junior High, Matt Schlaggel, if he is here. We also have McCormack Junior High, Jeff Hatcliffe, and Katie Wheeler. And with Willowson, we have Dr. Barbara Lysath. If she is here, I'm going to go ahead and bring up the next six here. I'll bring up the other three and we'll

044do one big picture. So with Dildine, we have Carrie Peacock and Shelley Davis. This is 15 years in a row with the most money raised. >> So, thank you. I really appreciate that. >> And again with McCormack Junior High, Jeff Hadcliffe and Katie Wheeler. Fourth year in a row with most money raised. And then with Central High School, we have Dr. Karen Delbridge and Zaboni Brown. four of the last six years with most money raised. Each school um participating up here will receive a check of $500 uh from the Shine Schools Foundation >> and then we'll grab a picture here with everyone. So, thank you everyone for the participation in the outreach for the students um and raising the most money. Thank you. So, following we have our 2526 grants awardees. Um, but first we'd

045like to send a thank you for those who sponsor that makes it possible for us to to provide the the dollars. We have First Education um credit union um who is a sponsor, the Carlton family who continues every year to provide um dollars. Meridian Trust credit union. We have Kohl's which provides quite a bit. Um, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming, AMB Bank, Simpson Electric, and then Taco John's. >> Okay. Yeah. So, Margarit said to bring up what the foundation does. So if you don't know or if you haven't or not aware, so the Shyen Schools Foundation provides uh funding opportunities for teachers to do not just innovative but innovative in other um programs to help our students. So we are a direct um donation to the school district to L County School District number

046one the the schools and also to the teachers um to provide education opportunities uh to the students. So yeah that's okay. Thank you. So, I should have started with that first of of what we do. Um, so we're going to go ahead and start with the student enrichment, which is up to $1,500. So, the Shine Schools Foundation provided $12,388 um to this category. So, if those teachers are in attendance, if you would please come up as I call your name. We have Mary Bortwick, reading for proficiency, building a Spanish classroom library. We're going to come on up and Bill Chambers, Make Music Cloud, home to school connection. >> Sarah Evans, District World Language and Cultures Festival. Beth Grisby with electronic technical and artistic needs with East High School. >> Tara Hall, Little Language Learners with

047HOBS. Andrea Kis Kitzky with a squid dissection with Freedom Elementary. Katie Lovevet, materials for growing, enhancing drawing opportunities for students with East High School. We have Ally Rose, classroom enrichment equipment, Central High School, and Amber Thompson, enhancing musical access with adaptive instruments. So, we're going to leave these guys up here and go ahead and move on with excellence in education up to 3,500. Um, where we granted $10,000 in this category. We have Nicole Cameron with photography and mentorships. Uh, she's East High School. Gene McKe aquarium based science exploration responsibility program with Triumph. We have Jennifer Pas Pasque with reporting the present reading the future with South. So, these are our grantees, but we have a couple more where we had 10,000 offcycle grants, u $5,159 for number one payments and $6,300 from Koh's grants for

048a total of $43,867. Um, we do have a large check that we'll bring up. We'll get a a large picture of everybody and yeah, so >> yeah, so we're going to slide on on in Sarah. Okay. Congratulations. >> Grant winners. We'd love to shake your hand if you have a second. Congratulations. Sorry. Congratulations. >> Congratulations. So when we're >> congratulations, while we're sorting out, they get back to into their meeting. Um this my name is Mark Reed Herman, former member of the board, but um I'm on the board for the Shine Schools Foundation. And this is this is also addressing everybody who's going to watch on Zoom. is that um uh I think we should give an extra kudo to all the teachers who on the you know the in the first month of school

049sit down and write grants that are um really stretch not only their resources stretch their kids make um opportunities available they really wouldn't have the space to do and and and they pick up ideas from each other and from conferences and they bring them all together and then before the end of September they write these grants and so I just I admire them so much for um while they're keeping everything together and meeting the standards and doing the curriculum and all that stuff, they're able to think a little bit beyond and what will help the students get to the next level and all students, not just the straight A students, but every student in the class and and and so I just wanted just to shout out that um we just have remarkable teachers in

050in Larammy one half of you. So that concludes the recognition portion of our evening. We are now going to move into um the public comment. Um, we allow at the beginning of our meeting public comment concerning agenda items and then public comment concerning non-aggenda topics. Um, before I call anyone up for those, I have a statement to read um, regarding our public comment. The purpose of the board meeting is to conduct the business of the district publicly. The board sincerely values community input and feedback on school operations and welcomes public comment on both agenda and non-aggenda items. Individuals wishing to comment during a board meeting must sign up by 5:45 p.m. on the day of the meeting. Sign up for public comment can be done electronically by accessing the form available on board docs under

051the public comment portion of the meeting agenda. Alternatively, individuals may contact Darlene Davis to be added to the electronic signup sheet. We begin by hearing public comment on agenda items, followed by public comment on non-aggenda items. Please keep in mind this is a time for school board members to listen and consider, but not to comment or debate. The board asks that all speakers first state your first and last name. Second, keep your comments to three minutes or less. And third, understand that if you wish to discuss matters pertaining to the employment of a diff district staff member, such as the appointment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, investigation, discipline, or dismissal of an employee. This will not be done during the public comment portion of the meeting. Such comment should be directed to the executive director of human

052resources or you may request to meet with the board during executive session. So, we did not have anyone signed up for public comment regarding agenda items, but we do have two individuals signed up for non-aggenda items. And the first of those is Margaret Herman. >> Thanks. It's nice to see everyone here. Um, some old faces, some new faces, and um, so I'll be brief. Um, I only have three minutes. I must be brief. So, just about the uh the speech and debate a little bit earlier this evening. Um reminded all three of my kids that speech and debate and the unsung heroes of the speech and debate excellence and uh of our of our high schools here in Cheyenne are the bus drivers. And I want to tell you, they take off early on Friday

053and they and they travel to the four corners of the state. None of this 4A stuff. I mean, you go to the to the far reaches of of the state. hours and hours into winter and then they bring them home uh the next night late. It's midnight, 1:00 a.m. Saturday and Saturday night. It's and so, you know, it's pretty amazing. They deliver those kids year after year, safe and sound. And um and I think the kids are pretty good for them. I don't know that for a fact, but I just have to say that waiting in a parking lot at East High School at midnight and just crossing fingers and by George every time they turned him up could not happen without the bus drivers. So they earn special special award for that. Um the

054second thing is about the bands and so we mentioned about the bands that they showed up volunteer this was not required sometimes with color guards at the Shine Schools Foundation 5K which raises money goes right into the classroom there. It's it's a wonderful um way to raise to raise money for kid for teachers, but the but this um the band showed up and what was really great is they they would play individually and um and it was great to see two of the bands always cheering on the third one, whoever was playing. And and then they joined together for a final song. And it was just kind of neat. It was it was just the uh kudos to the directors and the band parents. They, you know, we hear about tennis parents, yes, but band

055parents, I mean, are they are they they, uh, they leave everything on the field, literally. So, um, so, so kudos to the to all the all the students who showed up. Um, and also they just got through with the marching band contest, and you'll be, uh, in Casper, so you'll be handing out those awards in the weeks to come. So, and there are a lot of kids, a lot of hands to shake. you have it's it's it's a fun fun meeting to do all those kids. So kudos to the all the music programs and can't leave out the strings of course and coral but bands are kind of near and dear to my heart. And then finally I want to uh thank you all for pursuing on appeal the litigation to fully fund our public

056schools. Um that we got um we are part of the litigation team the plaintiffs and uh we got a local ruling in our favor. that's being um appealed. And I have to say with recalibration this year, it is important that we all stay focused on um fully funding our public schools, fully compensating the most important part of the expense, which is our staff. Um classified, certified, they they all contribute to the good to the safety and education of our students. Um and um so thank you for sticking with that. I think um it will have an impact for years to come. um let us keep our really qual good staff uh our you know have the the seniority that really is necessary to to bring up uh young new teachers and so um so thank

057you for doing that look at that >> thank you the next uh individual signed up to speak is Julie Mackey Thank you. All right, I gotta do this this time. Thank you, board of trustees, um, for allowing us to jump in here tonight, but uh, my name is Julie Mackey. I am with the Jay Foundation. I'm the Wyoming outreach coordinator for the entire state. Okay, we all know how big Wyoming is, and the goal this year is over 3,500 high school seniors and staff. Today, we had the pleasure of being right over there and sharing uh the story with um Central High School. Uh the next two days, we have South, we've got East, and so we're here until the 30th. Ultimately, um I know we had schools opt in to be able to be

058a part of this and we just want everybody to know that we want if a senior shows up, we're going to get them their J boots. Um we want them to opt in to be a part of it, but we don't want to turn anybody away. Ultimately, we're preparing them. We're giving them a tool um mental health awareness, suicide prevention. So having these conversations has been great today when the kids um get their J boots and they understand the message and the importance behind it and they look you in the eye and they say thank you um that this meant something to them today. Uh we're just blessed to be able to be here and be a part of it. So just thank you for this opportunity um making this happen. Um and I'm just

059going to invite all of you uh over the next few days. Dr. Newton has the schedule. Um, and where we will be, but to come down and watch these kids, listen to the story, be a part of the experience with them. Um, we're willing to gift you your J boots as well. So, I want you to hear that. Want you to come and see those kids and be a part of it. Um, but I don't know if if I am allowed to if anybody has questions or anything. I feel weird that you guys are back there in my backs to you. Um, and I just love seeing familiar faces, too. So, it's been a joy um today and just being at the schools um or at the district building here um and seeing J boots

060um out in the community. So, it was really fun. Thank you for this opportunity. Um but we do we want as many seniors in LCSD number one to have this opportunity and get on the bus, come be a part of it. Um, and you guys come see what it's all about, too. So, thank you. Thank you for your time tonight. So, >> thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Thank you very much. >> Yeah, absolutely. >> All right. Well, now >> you ladies wait for just a minute, please. >> Yes. >> Sorry. Oh, the next portion of our meeting is um when the board is allowed to share communications and report. So maybe we'll have something concerning J boots. So um but we're moving now into board communications and reports. Um first um just we'll go

061over some upcoming meetings. Next Tuesday, October 28th, from 12:00 to 1:30, we'll have the executive team meeting with the superintendent. Monday, November 3rd, is our next regular board meeting at 6 p.m. But before that, we will have a work session at 5:00 p.m. And, uh, Wednesday, November 5th at 6:30 p.m. there's a parent advisory meeting here in the boardroom if anyone is able to attend that. So, now I will open it up for individual board communications and reports. Does anybody have anything they'd like to share? Trusty Ashe, >> thank you. Um, I just I came tonight not knowing you all were going to be here. I wanted to give a shout out to the Jay Foundation because I have a senior. >> Um, and when the emails first came out, I thought that's just weird.

062So, um, but I saw some of the posts from the work you all did with the Casper group and I thought, yep. Um, I wanted her to hear what you guys have to say. And um, she came over and she called and she said, "Mom, I bet I I got boots in the basement of the admin building." I'm like, "Well, that's interesting." She's like, "But they did a presentation." She's like, "It was one of the best presentations I've heard." She thought it was very, very good. Um, she said she really thought she learned a lot. >> Um, so for those of you I don't know that don't have seniors, probably haven't heard all of this. I just wanted to make sure you knew who these ladies were. Um the Jay Foundation has put together a

063foundation in honor of a a young man who died by suicide and um um they are providing the boots to the seniors amongst other things across the states state and Idaho. Is that correct? Um and providing education on mental health. >> Yeah. >> And so uh the boots are beautiful. So thank you. >> So uh I have a couple of other things. >> Go ahead. Um, I also want to shout out to the band since I shouted out South High a couple weeks ago. I got to go watch all nine hours of state marching band on Saturday. Woohoo. Um, but wanted to talk a little bit about they have changed marching band a state marching band a bit. Um apparently um over the last 40 years it has been primarily just a festival and so

064all of the participants um went and got rankings like you would at any kind of music or arts festival. Um they uh they have not given away a state championship since 1985 according to the program. Um this year they u ran two separate divisions. a scholastic division that um just did went for the rankings and a um open or competitive division. Uh East and Central both compete or just uh participated in the scholastic division. I don't know why I didn't have a say in that. Um and South uh participated in the open division and got second in addition to receiving the um people's choice award. Um, I'm I was a little irritated because I thought they should have gotten first, as did most of the children I was with. Um, Kelly Walsh is >> something.

065>> Um, but I I honestly thought South did a better job this year, so big shout out to them. >> Uh, also, um, I did go over to the, um, state re-calibration judgment panel, I think is what they were calling it. um is basically a focus group in Laramie. Um I wanted to say thank you to Dr. Newton for encouraging uh pack members to attend that. Uh we had two parent parents at that meeting shared some great feedback from a parent perspective. Um I would highly recommend that people kind of pay attention. Um the recommendations coming out from the consultant um are are fine. They're just He didn't like me because I argued with him, but that's okay. Um, but yeah, the recommendations do increase the model salaries, but they also decrease the number of

066teacher recommendations, so changes the equation pretty dramatically. >> All right, Trusty Cook. >> Um, thank you, Madam Chair. I went to a few things. One was um I went to a well attended literacy night at Fairview and it was um they served food to the the families and had great activities and it was really wellreceived. Secondly, I went to the 75th birthday party of Henderson. And that was kind of cool because my children had two of my three children had attended Henderson. So, we could see former teachers, a beloved former custodian, and a former school nurse. So, that was fun, too. And then funny I was we went up over the weekend to Sheridan to watch the 4A conference cross country meet and um Laramie County kids did great but I was going to shout

067out the bus drivers like you did Margarite. Uh I stopped and talked to one of the bus drivers and I said thank you so kindly for bringing the kids safely to Sheridan. And um she said it was a pretty interesting drive on Thursday. It was through rain and we had come up that same day. So, it was a pretty scary drive. >> And then as we returned to Cheyenne on Saturday, I saw and texted uh trustee uh Ashby um about the poor condition of the roads and I saw these buses from Laramie County coming up and I thought, "God bless them. They're keeping our best assets safe." >> And um so I just thought, "Thank you." because I I don't think the students are always so lovely on the bus, much like Margarite thought they

068were, but sometimes they aren't. I've heard from my grandkids. So, um anyway, I just am proud of the bus drivers and what they have to go through and keeping the kids safe. So, thank you. >> Thank you, >> Trusty Humper. Just a couple things. But first, um, in regards to the Jay Foundation, I had the privilege of attending the lunchon with the chamber during Frontier Days and got to hear a pretty in-depth presentation and was just floored by how intentionally your foundation's being with mental health. So, thank you. Um, I will be seeing you this week. You may also be seeing my boys. So, if I've got some in tow, just know that they're uh they're wild. So, um thank you for that invitation. Um couple things with Anderson. So, my son's a kindergartener, which

069is just mind-boggling to me. Uh we went to family bingo night, which is absolute chaos with a bunch of I mean, five, six, seven, eight, maybe nine year olds. And um the staff handled it so gracefully and let them be kids and it was just the best time my son left um both my sons left having just the time of their lives. And then today we went to the pumpkin patch which again two kindergarten classes to a pumpkin patch. I thought why why are they doing this? Isn't that a family thing? Like they're really going to take a class of 25 year olds to a pumpkin patch. And I just have to give kudos to Miss Alexander and Miss Calhoff. They were so well organized. And again, like they let the kids be kids. Like

070there was just organized chaos and they're so good at that. And I I only have three of my own and I couldn't fathom taking care of 20. So just wanted to give kudos to them. >> All right. >> Trusty Burden. >> Um yeah. So last Wednesday I went to the trades fair at Triumph High School. I was so excited about the briefing at the last meeting about the trades that I showed up for um the trades fair a week early. So I went twice. Um and I'm just really super excited about um all the work that's being done to promote um the trades uh to our students and our families. And um I learned while my husband went through the electrician apprenticeship program which is paid all the way through. Um but what I learned

071is that um construction, HVAC, plumbers and concrete guys and gals um also have on the job training programs. Um some of them have classes, some um in addition to that. But um I just think it's really awesome that you can work for four years and you know spend that same four years and you know you go to college and you're thousands and thousands in debt. But for those who are not collegeminded and not gifted in that area, I just am super excited with all the things that we're doing and um I asked about training and how much does it cost and all the things and oh no we we pay you we pay you to go to to work. So I was very excited about that. Awesome. >> And then I just thought everything was

072outside. So by the time I went in, then I learned I was inside. I missed all of that. So I just talked to the folks outside. >> Anybody else? >> No. >> Julie, I I just wanted to thank you for coming and sharing tonight and thank you for what you and your team are doing with the J Foundation. Um, I believe you have done something maybe with other LCSD1 kids in the last couple of years, maybe an FFA team and I've seen seen some publicity things about small groups of of kids I believe in our community who have um met with you and and heard the presentation and just been blessed by the boots. But um, like Trusty Ashby, I also have a senior and she and her friends are really excited to come. um

073they're at East High School, so I think they're a little later in your in your lineup, but um thank you for what you're doing. Thank you for the message you're sharing. Thank you for um just your love for our youth and um and getting out there to encourage and to to build them up. And um anyway, we appreciate you being here. >> So, thank you. And that's all I have. So, at this time, I will turn it over. >> Oh, yeah. >> Just one more thing. I was curious with the students. It was my understanding that the parents got to opt in as opposed to opt out for this program and other areas in our in Wyoming got to opt out if they didn't want their kids into it. So I can see these kids

074going to school with their great great boots and other parents might be interested in saying I'd like my child to do that. So, is there any way that we could get the information to the principles of the high schools to really talk about this and um yeah, say that because it runs through next week as well. So, even if they aren't signed up, could they still be so if we could get that information out to these students? >> Yeah, let's let Dr. Newton speak to that because I >> believe that the schools are all aware and things have been sent out. >> Madam Chair, Trusty Cook, it's a great question. Um because of the sensitive nature of the the conversation, as powerful and healthy as it is, um our families did opt in and our

075principles have been the ones leading the charge, getting kids signed up, cheerleading them on, um to make sure that everyone can be a part of it who wants to. Um because I take good directions and Julie told me to give you the invitation. I've already sent it to you. And um you'll notice at the tail end of the week um there's some makeup days. So those will be for kids who maybe didn't get to go the first time through to get them uh picked up the second time through. We know our principles are continuing to try and get kids um signed up at the last minute so everybody who is interested can be a part of it. And I did receive a parent square message about it as a high school parent probably several weeks

076ago even at that. So >> um but I'm glad we have those makeup days so that kids maybe who they and their parents have not paid attention and and didn't get opted in um will have the opportunity to do that. Yeah. Thank you. >> Thank you. Okay. At this time I'll turn it over to Dr. Newton for reports from superintendent and staff. >> A special thank you to our friends at the Jay Foundation. Um I know they've had a very very long day. So um I I will uh wouldn't be surprised if it's time for you guys to hit the road. Um but I want to personally thank you for all the work you're doing caring about the the children in our community. Um, I was blessed to be able to be a part of

077um of this as well. And um, as I saw everyone working furiously this morning, it reminded me to do a boot check with my own children. And so um, the message just continues to reverberate through our community. So, um, you probably need a good night's sleep. So, feel free to, uh, stay as long as you wish, but I we can understand if you need to go. But um on behalf of the district, thank you for the work that you all are doing. >> Uh we've heard a lot about uh school buses this meeting and um I'm not sure if you all are aware, but October October 21st through 25th is National School Bus Safety Week. So I see Mr. nap in the back and I sure hope he will express to Adam Greenwood and his

078folks uh just how thankful we are for all of the work that um those in our transportation department are doing. Um at this uh time I'd like to call up Mr. Jeff Lewis to give a bit of an update on our efforts um towards um student behaviors this fall. Uh thank you Dr. Newton, Madam Chair, member of the trustees. I'd like to just briefly come up to you and give you a little bit of an update on kind of the the continued conversation with regard to the discipline matrix um that that you all had the opportunity to pass through a couple months ago as well as follow-up conversations and engagement we've had with building leaders specifically around conversations with with discipline. Um today really the biggest thing I'd like to share and communicate is is

079a lot of that feedback that I've received and and that members of the leadership team has received. Also kind of what we've talked about so far in our behavior council meetings. Uh we've had two of them so far this school year and and like to kind of talk to you about what the format of that is and and really what we're trying to do to support building leaders. Um and then also talk a little bit about some data um early in the school year. So we're only talking about the first couple months of school, but but how things have been looking. Uh initially the behavior matrix feedback has been very positive. Uh at this point of time, principles have reported that it's working well. Um and really the reason it works well is because it

080provides a lot more transparency and consistency to to how we're approaching student behaviors and and working with them. Uh, another big part of what conversations I've had with principles, um, really works around that common language and it's an opportunity to to engage in conversation with families. So, as we start to see behaviors happening, um, school staff has the ability to engage with families and and like I said, use that common language component so everybody's on the same page and understands that uh, one definition in one part of town. Um, we're looking at the same defining things the same really across and consistently throughout town. Uh and then really making sure that we're we're providing building leaders the opportunity to address and deal with behaviors, but also to have the ability to to evaluate some of

081the different context of situations that happen and allow those building leaders the opportunity to to apply the relationship component uh and things that they know with regard to the situation to really determine the sever severity and and some of the supports of how we're addressing those behaviors. So really the the overall communication that's been given back is is very positive about what it looks like. Concerns that administrators have so far really around the matrix. It's it's a robust document. It's there's a lot to it and there's a lot of information in there. So really being able to make sure that we're providing ways or avenues for administrators to access, be able to look up things, be able to identify language and have that conversation. It it takes a second. So as administrators are getting more

082used to using it, um also being able to go through the different tiers and then identifying the different levels by using the criteria, it's it's a process. uh and continued practice will are continue to help, but at the same time opportunities for us to to see where can we pair things down, where can we make sure that things are accessible um and and give them a quicker access to to the parts of the matrix. Um another big component is the documentation component, making sure that how we're documenting it, uh how we're making sure that that information is documented and how it is stored and logged in infinite campus. uh and making sure that that t technology is being able to talk. Uh and those are all things that we continue to work with to make

083sure that it's easier for administrators to work through the process so they can focus their time on working with kids and working with families um and not get caught up in paperwork or what button to push or or where to click. So those those are kind of the bugs that we're still working on. Um once a month we have we are meeting of behavior counsel. Um very much looks like academic counsel but with a much different focus specifically on what's going on. Um during behavior counsel we've focused on four four areas that we try to address every month. One of them is the review of the discipline matrix. Again identifying what's working, what's not working. Have we identified a behavior or condition that we need to add? Are there things that we need to change?

084and really looking through the matrix itself. Within that, working through scenarios and and working um not just as the director of student services, talking to a bunch of principles, but allowing principles to have conversations with themselves and with colleagues to say, "What what about this situation? What about this scenario? How would we work through it?" And really giving opportunities to kind of talk through different opportunities. The second component is improved and revised communication with families to make sure that we are engaging families not just on the reactive part but also trying to be proactive in establishing good relationships with families. Um don't only talk to families when it's a time of situation or crisis. Make sure that we're reaching out frequently and celebrating the good stuff as well. So engaging in that communication process and

085really having some strategies around how to use the discipline matrix to engage in a collaborative conversation so that families can understand the why behind what's going on. The third component is really focusing on that positive behavior set of interventions and and coming back to making sure that we're celebrating the good stuff that kids are doing. Um, and not just focusing only on a discipline matrix and how to address or assign consequences. Really making sure that we don't lose sight of that focus that's celebrating the positive things that our students do is is genuinely what makes it great to come to work every day. And then the last focus is that re-entry plan. And that's something we talked about predominantly or or was intended to be our focus the last week of when a student returns

086from receiving a consequence for some some type of behavior. What does it look like when the kid comes back into school? and not only how are we welcoming them back in and making sure that they know they're still apart and it's a fresh day, but also engaging the conversation of what do we do to retach so those types of behaviors don't happen again and creating plans and creating supports. So, in essence, u some of those initial behaviors that we see, we see more long-term success for that student while they're in the building. So those four components is what we try to address whenever we start to engage with behavior counsel uh and with those meetings. Um a side note, something that Mr. Jackson, Eric Jackson came back from some uh community meetings and there's talk

087in the community uh at the Juvenile Joint Appropriations Board meeting. Um there was interest um because there has been a change in in kind of some of the things that law enforcement has seen and some of the other folks that work with students who go and have some behavioral struggles where the clarity, the communication, the the expectations that are being held to. Um those are things that are being noticed by some of the boards that we collaborate with around town specifically around discipline and behavior. Um, one thing that continues to be a resounding theme amongst administrators throughout our district is to make sure that we continue to ensure consistency and make sure that we're continuing to to make sure that we're holding students accountable um while at the same time, like I said, really supporting

088those successes. Uh, briefly, I talked about talking about data and trends. I would tell you truency, abuse of language, uh disruption, um all of those found in grades 7 through 10 consistently cut. Um a lot of those numbers have substantially lower than comparative dates from last year. In the elementary schools K through six, physical aggression, disruption, insubordination all have decreased significantly. Is it necessarily because of a discipline matrix? No, it's not. It's because of solid conversation, expectations that teachers have with their classroom, good conversation that those teachers are having with their administration and then having conversations with the parents and really coming together collaboratively to address what is expected in schools and what's not allowed in schools. Um, I would tell you the one significant increase that we've seen with regard to discipline referrals is

089around the area of technology. there has been a significant uptick in that and in con having conversation with administrators throughout the district, it's the renewed sense of wanting to make sure that we're enforcing those expectations among students. So things that may have gone overlooked in the past are things that we're holding students accountable and engaging parents in those conversations. So there has been a significant uptick when it comes to uh technology violations. From my perspective, um I think things are going well. Continuing to engage in conversation, knowing that we don't have it perfect and accepting the fact that engaging those conversations will will help us tease out the things that will only make it better. Um not only for a better place to learn and work, uh but an opportunity again to to really shine

090the positive things that our district is doing. So, um, really excited about the first couple months, uh, and look forward to see how the year continues. Be happy to stand for any questions. >> Trusty B. >> Madam Chair, uh, Mr. Lewis, um, just want to make sure that I understood correctly. It's being noticed in the community from like law enforcement and those types of agencies that the negative behaviors are less in the community because of the changes that we've made within the district. >> Thank you, Madam Chair or Trusty Burton. What was communicated with me was because the because the school is engaging in those conversations and the school is dealing with some some of these significant behaviors. They're things that um other communities like DFS that the SRO's in our community um they don't

091have to deal with because they're things that are are being addressed and talked about with schools and again engaging parents in those conversations so it's not necessarily a thing that nobody's addressed. So then it goes to the next level um as the school deals with it also parents get involved and and we've seen some promising results. >> Thank you. Trusty Cen, >> Mr. Lewis, thank you for your presentation and thank you for all the work that you've done to develop the matrix. Um, I know our board was in agreement on the need to have this and it's exciting to hear that behavior is down and these various grades that you mentioned. Um, I uh I have two questions. when the council meets, I'm curious how you communicate the work that you're doing on the council

092to all of the buildings because I'm assuming it's not every principal, but maybe I'm wrong. So, could you address that issue? >> Sure thing. Uh, uh, Chairman Smith, Trusty Clawson. Um, initially the the behavior council is designed where there is representation from every building that should be there. Um again, schools that are fortunate enough to have assistant principles or deans, um sometimes they come in the place of the building principal, but the things that are reported at behavior council is designed to go back to all the individual schools and be communicated to staff through that way. Uh the format of that meeting is initially we start off with everybody in the room for general announcements and communications and things that are uh prevalent to everyone. Uh and then what we do is we break off

093in the second half of the meeting to break into elementary and secondary principles so that we can talk about more specific topics that hit those age and grade level groups. Also, I appreciate the uh uh the acknowledgement for the discipline matrix, but I um all the folks in the back there are definitely have a huge part of that and I I cannot uh cannot stress the help that this district did to come together to to help support administrators. your second question. >> Yeah, thank you Mr. Lewis for mentioning our great staff and all the great work they put into it. Um the the second question was related to this idea that other outside groups are noticing our matrix and I noticed that the education committee is talking about behavior as well and I just wondered

094if there was an opportunity maybe this is better suited for Dr. Newton, but an opportunity for us to communicate that we have this matrix and we are seeing the benefits of it to uh that committee. >> Thank you. Uh whoever would like to answer not off staff here. >> Uh um Chair Smith, Trusty Clawson, I definitely appreciate that conversation. I would tell you within um within the the few districts that I've had an opportunity to have conversation with specifically around what we're doing with with behaviors um I think some of the things that we're doing here in Laramie County 1 have taken uh really exceptional components that I think districts across the state have done and uh if there is any opportunity that that uh LCSD1 gets to share with state legislators about the successes

095that we're having uh I'm all on board but I will always defer uh to my boss there. So, >> Madam Chair, um Trusty Clawson, um I think I've heard through the grape vine a little bit that our um behavior matrix, which is a public document, of course, is starting to leak out around and there are some folks in in the state who are uh paying attention to it. Um, one of the things um that the Division of Student Services has really taken on this year is they are paying very close attention to the legislative work that is happening. We just had a conversation today about the recently uh released agenda for joined and that's one of the pieces on there. And um we we need to be careful and pick and choose our moments when

096we actually testify, but certainly communicating with legislators behind the scenes uh making our resources available, but if nothing else, following very closely the work of those committees, >> Trusty Cook, >> thank you, Madam Chair. U Mr. Lewis, thank you for your work. I'm curious about the technology uptick and does that have anything to do or I didn't hear you talk much about cell phones. So, can you address that aspect? Is is the technology under that is are the cell phones a part of that? And I'm curious if our attention or our emphasis on that has made that um more of a a challenge to schools. Uh, Chair Smith, Trusty Cook, uh, thank you for that. I would say yes. Um, the cell phone usage definitely falls under the umbrella of technology. Um, and from the

097data that I've looked at, I would say it significantly attributes to cell phone primarily at the secondary levels. We've seen a slight uh, we've seen I wouldn't even say an uptake. We've seen very um baseline data that has come back from K6. Uh 712 I would say is where we see an increase. Um the again the feedback that I've gotten from building leaders is um that consistency piece making sure that we're supporting our teachers uh so that bell-to bell that they're not losing instruction and time with instruction. So to continue that emphasis, um, our our our three high schools, I think, continue to do a good job making sure that that consistency piece is there. Is it, and forgive me if uh, but I I I thought I heard you ask, is it is it

098an an increased burden? Um, I I don't I would not advocate or say that it's an increased burden as much it is as an opportunity for the schools to establish an expectation for students and make sure that we're holding to it. Um, getting rid of cell phones in the classroom um and making sure that that stance is is the one of LCSD1. That that's a tough one. And to rip that band-aid off for the first couple months is going to hurt a little bit. And um but I would tell you in the conversation I've had with principles, the uh the opportunity cost of doing discipline and having those conversations around technology versus the instructional time that was lost previously is a compromise that they're willing to do. >> Thank you, Mr. Lewis. >> Thank you,

099Trusty Hump. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. Mr. Lewis, I just want to thank you for your work. you came in with not much time to prepare and have implemented um and made this matrix your baby. So, thank you for the work that you're doing behind it and your staff that's also helping. Um and along the lines of the of encouraging positive behavior. Um this is something that I've really noticed Anderson doing and maybe they were before and I just don't know, but my son every day is like, "Mom, I got a hawk sticker." and it's like what in the world is that? And he'll go, "Oh, I helped a friend in line or I did this." And so to have him be excited to show kindness and respect to those around him just I mean

100he's he's growing up in the school that way. So to start that young is I'm just um really excited for the district that he gets to grow up in and how we're shifting in this. Let's bring positivity to those that are doing good. but also like um kind of losing my train of thought. I think I made my point. So, thank you so much for all that you're doing. >> Anybody? Okay, Mr. Lewis, I just want to say thank you to you and Dr. Newton and all the members of the admin team that that worked on this and to those folks in our schools that are really making it happen. This was um when we as a board all put in our ideas of what our top priorities for this year might be, behavior was

101it was at the top of the list. I think most all of us said that you know looking at behavior was I mean that was that was something that we were all felt was just super important. So to see this in action and to have something in place and there's I know there's always growing pains and um it's not not easy um maybe daytoday and there's a lot there to reference as I read through I read all of it and I thought gosh this I mean it's a lot it's a big document um but I just I appreciate the the work but also the update thank you um that was something we had talked about as a board in a work session recently here in a a a little mini retreat we had was that,

102you know, it's great to put these things into play. Um, but if we don't do check-ins and we don't find out how it's going, I mean, we're really shooting ourselves in the foot. So, um, we appreciate the update and we'll look forward hopefully to to hearing from you from time to time on those things. And, um, anyway, thank you everybody. >> All right, Dr. >> Thank you, Miss uh, Mr. Lewis. Um, I'd like to call Mr. Mr. Curelli up real quick for a brief update on a very important topic that's going to be coming our way in the next couple of months. Mr. Sarelli. >> Thank you, Madam Chair, Dr. Newton, members of the board. Um, as Dr. Newton mentioned, uh, I'm going to provide a very, very brief update on an important upcoming uh,

103request for proposal or RFP uh, for our district employee health benefits program. Um maybe starting from a procedural lens a little bit. Um this RFP uh is going to be necessary uh as our current uh 10-year contract with our existing vendor or um health benefits provider is coming to an end and we've exhausted um all of our renewal options with um our existing administrative uh company for our district health plan plan. Uh because of that, we'll be issuing a new uh full comprehensive RFP later this fall. Um, I would tell you that um, all RFPs are a significant process for our district, but this one is of particular importance. Uh, not only because of the size and scope of our employee health benefits plan, but also because it's an opportunity for us to evaluate different

104funding structures, cost containment strategies, and plan design options that may better serve uh, the district's employees and our retirees. Um, for these initial steps, I'm working with Mr. Martinez and his senior buyers um as we develop our RFP um to ensure that it's competitive, transparent um and focused on long-term sustainability for our district health insurance plan. And it'll be important to note that we'll also be incorporating the work of our health uh benefits consultants um to provide some guidance and um assistance along the way. Now um as we move a little uh further down the process, uh we'll be engaging with a broad group of stakeholders. Uh certainly this includes uh members from finance and human resources but also our employee insurance committee and probably most importantly um representatives from our employee units will be

105involved in that process as well as we move forward. Now uh speaking a little bit to the timeline um the RFP will be issued later this fall um with vendor issu excuse me vendor interviews um anticipated early in 2026. Uh we'll keep the board informed um as we pro as the process moves forward. Uh we anticipate bringing recommendations back for your consideration sometime this spring. Now um once that vendor selection um is complete uh our next major task will be implementation. Um much like our ERP that we did a few years back u this will be a pretty heavy lift for the district as a whole. Uh this will include um plan setup, employee communications, open enrollment and coordination um on the operation side between payroll and human resources. uh and this selected vendor to

106ensure that we have a smooth transition um for July 1st of 2026. Now um it's important to mention that even if the evaluation would result in continuing at the same vendor, uh we'll approach that implementation as a full relaunch to uh verify verify our plan accuracy, update our administrative processes, and probably most importantly u make any improvements that we identified along the way through that RFP process. Um Madam Chair, I promise I'd be brief. So, that concludes kind of my my quick uh update on the employee health benefits RFP. Um, again, this is a major process for the district as a whole, and we'll continue to keep you uh informed as it progresses, but I'd be happy to address any questions that the board may have. >> I bet we have some or maybe I'm

107no questions. No, thank you, Mr. Secretelli. >> Thank you, Mr. Cigarelli. Just a couple other quick updates. Um, as I often do, there are a couple of consent agenda items I want to shed a little bit more light on on the the theme we've been on regarding behavior. Uh, consent agenda item D2.4 is you'll notice a rather large increase on our Boseis contract. Um, this is to serve our students whose behavioral needs are greater than what we can serve in this district. We certainly have highly trained special educators. Um, but often times the needs that our students exhibit go beyond the kind of needs that our staff is trained in and and go deep into the therapeutic needs that some of these kids have. Um, the cost for this is uh fully reimburseable with uh

108state dollars. And um we um one thing that I would like to mention is um the these are not just emerging issues with our currently enrolled students. We oftentimes have students move into town who have these kind of needs. So, um we will undoubt undoubtedly see these kind of costs um crop up periodically when new families move into town. Um I should note that um in the placement we have locally, the um the cost for per student for a full school year can be well over $100,000, sometimes upwards of $180,000. And for our students who have to um receive their services in Gillette at the Boseies there, the cost per student can be as high as $350,000. And so when we see these large increases, um it it does not necessarily mean it's a large

109number of students. It's just students with very large needs. So I wanted to to bring attention to that one. Um also, uh D2.1, our school improvement. Um you've had a chance to look at the plans. You'll notice that there's a lot of help and a lot of um planning in the needs assessment that goes into our schools who are um um identified on that list. Um the the options um kind of go the spectrum from um both state and local um trainings and guidance um data review and analysis sessions, check-ins monthly, um sometimes additional personnel support, lots of professional development. I am very pleased to announce uh what you wouldn't see in all of those plans that you received is the list of our schools not meeting expectations. Last year we had nine stu uh

110schools identified. This year we're down to six. Um and so we're very very proud of uh Heers Heard Henderson Cole and Fairview Lehart that went off the list. Um the schools in need of support we had five last year. We're down to four this year. Alta Vista came off the the year before last and this year ARP just came off of that list. So, we're very pleased not only with the schools that came off the list, but the growth that we're seeing um on those schools that that remain on on those lists. Um I've said it before, I'll say it again. Um reducing a school to a label is dangerous work at best. um these um even if they've received a designation of not meeting expectation, that's on a very narrowly defined set of terms,

111there are many many things those schools do well. There are many many things those schools do as well as any school. And so we will continue to monitor um their new planning as we go forward. And uh we've talked a little bit about music tonight. And so as they always say, we should end on a high note. And I do want to share with you the white top interim data has just finished up. And uh there's lots of things to to celebrate, but a couple of um points that I'd like to bring out. Can you believe this is a real date. The class of 2032, those are our fifth graders going into sixth graders. We saw a reduction of um 16 percentage points less students in the below basic category from uh when they were

112in fourth grade or fifth grade to now they're in sixth grade. And already and this is just the fall data uh the projected proficients are up by 7%. And that is in mathematics and again in language arts is just a representation of the great gains that are being made. In language arts, that same class of third 2032, the the percent of students below basic has gone down by 18 percentage points and the percentage uh the the those predict predicted to be proficient is up 17% at this moment. So, uh, we've just heard a whole lot about behavior, which we need to keep, um, in mind, but we never want to keep our, uh, take our eye off the ball on how our students are doing academically, and we're seeing some very, very positive early returns

113on how that is going. And with that, Madam Chair, that is the end of my reports. >> Anybody have questions for Dr. Newton? Trusty Hinkle. >> Thank you, um, Chairman. Dr. Newton, um, I just want to say I was fairly impressed with those, um, uh, plans that um that we got regarding those schools. There's a lot of work that goes into those plans and it was um uh pretty amazing to see all the detail that these schools put into um this and the number of daily meetings, weekly meetings, monthly meetings that they're doing to try and um get those numbers where they need to be. So, I I was fairly impressed and I appreciate all the work that those schools put into that. Absolutely. >> Anybody else? >> Dr. Newton, I was hoping maybe you

114could explain. I I believe the board members know, but for anybody that might be listening or coming back to this recording later, could you explain to us what the difference is? Like >> when is the school not meeting expectations versus when are they in need of additional support? >> Madame Chair, I'm going to phone a friend and ask Mr. Jackson to give us the the brief retail on the difference between those two categories. Okay. Well, good evening, Madam Chair, members of the board, Dr. Newton. Um, the two categories that you have in front of you are not meeting expectations and then schools that have been identified in need of additional support by the state of Wyoming. The not meeting expectations would be those schools um who in the categories that they're scored on with the

115white top achievement, equity, growth, and e at the elementary level plus a few more indicators um including graduation rate, nth grade uh co on cohort. Uh overall when they combine those and it would take us probably about three work sessions to go through all the calculations and how they're weighted in order to understand that. But ultimately when they combine all those scores and they get their overall score combining all of those things, um if they have not met a certain score, if it's a 1.0 or a 1.4, they're not meeting expectations. Once they hit a 1.5, then they meet expectations. It's a combination of all those categories combined into one score for their overall rating of not meeting expectations. for the schools in need of additional support. Those would be the schools who in one

116or more of those those subcategories, whether it's just growth or just achievement or just equity or EL, if they have not met expectation in one of those categories or more for three consecutive years, they would be identified by the state as needing additional support. >> Okay. >> Does that help? >> Yeah. Very much. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Well said, Mr. Jackson. Thank you. >> Y >> All right. And that's it. >> Okay. We move into the consent agenda section of our agenda. All agenda items listed with the designation of CA are considered to be routine items by the governing body and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion on these items. Any item removed from the consent agenda will be considered in its normal sequence on

117the agenda. Does any board member request to remove a motion from the consent agenda? Okay, seeing none. >> Madam chair, I move to approve all motions listed as consent agenda and I second a >> motion a second to approve all motions listed as consent agenda. All in favor say I. >> I opposed. >> Okay, those have been approved. Moving into new business. Madam Chair, I move to approve LCSD1 trustee Ashby as the Wyoming School Board Association Area 1 Director to serve the two-year term from November 2025 to November 2027. >> I second. We have a motion and a second to approve Trustee Ashby as the Wyoming School Board Association director um for the coming two-year term. Um do we have any questions or discussion on that? Nobody. Trusty Ashby. >> Nobody has questions. I >>

118Okay. Trusty Ashby has served in this role for us um the last two years. So, she would be continuing on. Right. >> I would Well, so I served this I served a year and then I was off a year and then I was back on. >> Okay. >> Um and so this would fill a full term. I'm I have another three years on the board now. So that works out well. Um and it's um possible that I may step into a leadership piece in in WSBA. So >> wonderful. All right. So um you have a motion and a second. >> Um all in favor of approving Trusty Ashby with us, please say I. >> I opposed. Okay. Thank you for serving in that capacity for us. >> Thank you. Madam Chair, I move to approve

119offering the retirement health insurance option for for the 2025 2026 school year to eligible employees of Laramie County School District number one with a district contribution of $789 per month toward health insurance coverage. Eligible employees wishing to p to participate must notify human resource office by January 9th, 2026. >> I second. We have a motion and a second to approve offering the retirement health insurance option for the uh 2025 2026 school year to eligible employees. Do we have any discussion on this questions? Trusty Hinkle. >> Thank you, Chairman Smith. Um yeah, we um had a discussion about this um uh in the past and um it was brought to our uh attention that this amount is the same amount that's been paid um in the past year. And given that um uh the uh amount

120that each of these people will have to pay for their monthly um uh insurance will go up pretty significantly in order to continue at the current rate of paying 75% of that premium monthly. I would like to move that we increase that 7.89 up to $884 a month, which would continue to support um those retirees at a 75% rate. Okay. So, we have a motion to increase that amount from $779 per month to $884 per month. Is that correct? >> Yes. >> Do we have a second on that motion? I second. Okay. Trusty Cook is seconding that motion. Um so at this point I if if do we have any discussion on the amendment to the original motion the proposed amendment >> trusty >> I can continue. Um Mr.elli um has um discussed with us

121that um the uh way we fund uh this account that pays for this retirement uh monies um can uh withstand that increase. Um and given all of the increases in costs um that uh we are all experiencing currently and as a retired person um it's difficult to um change your um income. uh and so if we uh continue at a same rate and the uh retiree has to pay um more money each month for that um it does decrease the overall um uh benefit that they're receiving um and their overall monthly income. So, I think in order to try to um continue to support those uh retirees who have worked many years at our district that it would be worthwhile, um insurance premiums will continue to go up and many of them are going to

122go up fairly significantly in the next year or two uh because of all the economic changes that are currently happening. So, I just feel like if we can do this at this point, this will um help support um our uh retirees. >> Okay, Trusty Bon. >> Uh Madame Chair, um because I have to do math backwards, um $8.44US 7.89 is $55 per month per person. just as a fact >> as as additional information because I was looking at like well how much is that increase and $55 a month isn't much okay anybody else I have a question trusty um so I expressed in the work session that we had on this last meeting that I was in favor of um that I would be in favor of the $884 a month. My question is with

123the motion to us being recommended 789, is that because things were looked at further and it wasn't the best financial uh move to do the 884? Um, Madam Chair, Trustee Humphrey, um, I'm I would be glad to be corrected on this, but my understanding was we just didn't have a clear um, direction coming out of the work session. So, this motion um, was the starting point. >> Okay. Thank you for that clarifying piece. Anybody else? All right. So, we have a motion in a second to increase the district contribution to $884 a month instead of the $789 per month that is currently being paid. Um, so all in favor of ch amending this to $884 a month, please say I. I >> opposed. >> No. >> Okay, that passes. So, will you read the new

124motion for us, please? >> Madam Chair, I move to approve offering the retirement health insurance option for the 2025 2026 school year to eligible employees of Laram County School District number one with a district contribution of $884 per month towards health insurance coverage. Eligible employees wishing to participate must must notify the human resources office by January 9th, 2026. So, we have an amended motion. Do we have a second? >> You have a second. Oh, >> I'll second. >> So, do we not need to vote? >> We already voted. >> You don't need to, Madam Chair, you don't need to to second that now. So, you're just now voting on the amended motion. >> Okay. Madam Chair, >> yes. Trusty comments now. Absolutely. as amended. I'm just going to note that I I I did not

125vote for this because the difference was um 8% and as I'm trusting your math. Um >> I I did my math wrong because I used 844, not 8.84. So $75. >> Okay. Well, my point was going to be is this is new spending for our district from our general fund toward this very nice and I'm glad we can offer it. Um very generous um retire um health insurance for our retirees. But it is new spending and when we have new spending we have to think about well what are we not spending money on to be able to afford this spending. So that is why I um did not vote for this because I would like to see any of our new funding going more um being directed into our our buildings and into um the

126the positive output of our students and learning and and for our staff too. >> Thank you Trusty. Anyone else? All right. So now we will be voting on the amended approved amended uh motion. So all in favor say I. >> I opposed. >> No. >> Okay, that passes. So that will be increase the district's contribution to $884 a month. All right. Do I have another motion? Madam Chair, I move to approve submitting a resolution on termination hearings to the Wyoming School Board Association. >> I second. >> We have a motion and a second to approve submitting a resolution on termination hearings to WSBA. Um, I'll turn it over to Trustee Ashby to start this conversation. >> Yeah, absolutely. I want to start this by giving a little more context to what this is because it

127became clear today that where there was some confusion around that. Um so the process um for us to take a look at issues that we have pop up in the district whereby we there's some kind of state legislation or state statutes that dictate those um we can work to get those statutes changed through the WSBA. And so each year they ask they put out a call for resolutions from all of the school districts um for things that we might want them to address um through a policy um through their policy statements and through their um advocacy at the legislature. Um this is an issue uh that we've seen pop up a number of times over the last 10 years. Um, and it very specifically has to do with um if a if an employee is

128terminated, which even in a district our size, one of the largest employers in the state of Wyoming, does not happen very often, um, but on occasion it does. Um, there is statute that says that we have to commence a hearing within um, 48 days, I believe. Uh, there is no time frame, however, for finishing that hearing. Um, in addition, there is sub there can be substantial costs if that hearing continues on for any length of time. Uh, and so, uh, Miss Paulie and I did, Miss Polly did some research and I pulled things out of it, um, and put together a resolution to submit to, um, the Wyoming School Boards Association that will go before their membership, um, in the middle of November. um and if voted in would then become part of WSBA's um

129advocacy agenda. Um it basically takes language from a handful of other states. Um puts a cap on the amount of time before a hearing has to be completed. um tried to look for a reasonable amount of time that was both fair to the employee and the district and also allows us to um put an employee on unpaid leave prior to that if they meet certain um felony um charges uh with the with the idea that if they are found not guilty that there would be back pay and um appropriate reparations for that. Um, so that is what is in the resolution. >> Okay, we have Yeah, >> Madam Chair, I'd like to propose an amendment to the language. >> Okay. >> Um, if you look at the language, and I've got to thank Trusty Humphrey

130because my computer was not loading. But um right at the very end, this is just a just adding a D to a word, but it it says in the second to the last sentence, a superintendent may suspend without regular compensation, a licensed employee who has been officially and the next word should be charged with a D. >> Yep. >> Um that's my amendment. Okay. So, we have um a motion for an amendment to change charge to charged >> about. >> Okay. So, we have a second there. Any conversation about that amendment? Okay. So, all in favor of changing the word charged to charged in the second to the last sentence, um please say I. >> I. I opposed. Okay. So, that has been changed. Then, Britney, it's okay to to give them some corrections with

131typographical things. Okay. Um, >> benefit of living in my >> Yeah, just just >> they're just down the street. Um, okay. So, we have that amendment now that's passed um for this um resolution. We have any other questions, conversation, proposed amendments to this? Trusty Cook. >> Yeah, thank you. Um, so not being that familiar with it, um, if it wouldn't I mean this could we ever as a board do this without having WSBA? >> Uh, there is very specific language in the current state statutes. >> Oh, okay. Okay. So, we couldn't independently go and say >> not not to this level. No, we may be able to make a few tweaks, but for the most part, it's very dictated. >> Okay. >> In the in the statutes I've got referenced in there. >> Thank you.

132I believe you could lobby legislators on your own though to kind of put a bug in their ear about this, right? But but we couldn't as a district just choose to change how we do things because of the state statute. >> Okay. Anybody else? Okay, so we have an amended motion or an amended resolution. Um, and at this time we'll vote on that. Um, I just I guess before we vote, Trusty Ashby, thank you for doing this. Um, I think as a board we've and and Miss Polly, thank you. Um, as a board, I think we've had some conversations about this topic. Um, so I I'm I personally am excited to think that perhaps we could put this on WSBA's radar and if it passes there that they would add this to their advocacy agenda

133for the next year. So trusty Cook. >> Yeah, Madam Chair, I had when I read through it, I had also found another additional that under rationale dictates that that a hearing. So dictates that a hearing must commence on a date. Do you see the extra? >> So do you want >> I don't know that we have to vote on that. >> Okay. >> I just clean it up. >> Just Okay. >> Doesn't substantially change the >> Okay. Sorry. >> I was trying to get this out. Sorry. >> No. No. >> All right. So we will now vote on the resolution with just the amendment that we passed to change the word charged to charged. All in favor say I. >> I opposed. >> Okay, that has been approved. And Britney, thank you for your your

134work on that. That uh concludes our new business. The next regular board meeting will be held on Monday, November 3rd, 2025 at 6 PM. A work session will begin at 5:00 p.m. The business of the district is now done. We have a motion for executive session. Madam Chair, I move to go into executive session prior to adjournment for the purpose of possible student long-term suspension, expulsions, personnel, and legal advice. >> And I second. >> All in favor of going into executive session at this time, please say I. I. >> Oppos? All right, we will break to that