UCSD #1 May 12, 2026 School Board Meeting

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002actually won and actually got invited to some national tournament and I think that There's going to be sitting down west. Thank you. Yeah, we just enjoy the same year. Sorry. >> No, I also pay money. All right, it's 6:03 and I need to call to order the Uni County School District number one board of trustees school board meeting. Will y'all join me in the pledge of allegiance? >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. I need a motion to adopt tonight's agenda. >> Uh Mr. Chairman, I move that we adopt tonight's agenda as presented. >> I have a motion. >> Second. Any discussion? >> None. All in favor say

003I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Eyes have it. Motion carries. Agenda. Uh the agenda has uh been adopted. I need to have a motion to adopt the consent agenda items. Uh, a minutes, b payment of bills, c ehs classics regional trip approval. So second move. >> I have a motion. I have a second. Any discussion? >> Mr. Chairman, I recuse myself from check number 131491. >> Okay. Any other discussion? >> All in favor say I. I. >> Any opposed? Eyes have it. Motion carries. Consent agenda items have been approved. We will now move on to our presentations. Uh Mr. Thomas that uh Chairman Peterson, members of the board like to invite to the podium our friend Mr. Dan Mayor from uh CBV and region five Boseis. Time is yours. >> Thank you. I think this

004is on. Uh chairman, uh members of the board, thank you for having me here tonight. As part of my obligation to our member board districts, when we go out and make requests for mill funds from our member districts, we do a short presentation and provide information to answer questions. We've changed that, pardon me, over the last couple years, trying to provide more frequent information in your board reports and not come in here and try to give you the whole enchilada in one setting and try to provide it. You know, I think early in the days I was so excited about all the things I was learning and wanted to share it and probably was a bit overwhelming. And so, um, tonight that's what you have in your packet is what we have. I know the

005board has made decision to not utilize the mill levy and we are okay with that. Actually, with some of that and some of these conversations that have been happening, we've been looking for alternative ways to include and and have membership. One thought we have especially with UN to one is the business relationship we have with the Kurland building you know utilizing that being able to rent that we just sign that I think that is something that has cost to it um we also contract tech services from you instead of the other way around and so I think there's a real mutual benefit in those partnerships and so I'm not here asking for anything I'm more here just being able to provide any context text or any questions that you may have with any of the

006services or any um information that's been provided throughout the year. We have I just have one question on the item number two. It says the number of students in the member district. This is one of the choices. >> Yeah. >> Um uh member district fall times $279.25. >> Yeah. Is that what the other I mean is that an option for the other for all nine school districts? Are is it the same or you know does Teton pay more per student or >> when you go into statute there's a district who really they their mill levy really for the amount of students they had captured a lot of a lot of resources and they felt like what they contributed was a way more fair share of what there was and so they wanted to get to

007more of a per student type of calculation. they were the only one who wanted to utilize something like that. And so we've never gotten that was before I even started. There was there was really no consensus. It's really been to district choice. We allow our member districts to make that choice. You know your finances. You know what's best for that. Um and we allow that to be that decision. That was just another way instead of just doing 2/10 or 110 to get some calculation to make some equity for large mill levies that had small population. Any other questions at all? >> Um so what would our contribution be? the 210 >> the 210th roughly on average we've done the three-year averages for our districts would be about what would come to us and again based

008upon evaluation I don't know what that would be but it's been the last three years or the last year we were doing $60,000 two times >> our valuation is down a little bit so I think it would be just a little less agree I would agree with that total services use It's up to about a million dollars through KDP, CPRB, and those other services. Um, we're looking at expanding different services to provide more of that. And again, what does membership and what does this relationship look like? Because I think a lot of districts are looking at their internal resources, the millies that they're contributing. We're actually providing some documentation on like return on investment because we do offer discounts and there's some benefits but when when the account that that comes from is fully reimbursible.

009I don't know if giving you a 10% discount matters then I think that's what a lot of districts have come to and so we're grappling with all of that along with you. Um we just appreciate um the partnerships that we do have and the work that we do together. So, that's really what I'm here for. And I wanted to congratulate Ryan on his retirement. If you don't know, I used to work here um years ago. And Ryan is responsible for hiring me here. Um but Ryan's been more than a supervisor. He's been turned into a colleague. He's someone I can turn to when I have questions about some of the things that we have to deal with in our positions. And so, you know, Ryan, I just I wish you the very nothing but the

010very best. You're someone I've always looked up to and was just a wellrespected individual. >> Thank you. Hope the best. >> Thank you. >> Chairman Peterson, if I may, I was going to say this before he said those nice words, but >> I do think it's a good opportunity to look at what we do with the Kurland building and how we can work with continue to work with the region five Boseies. Um it's been a great partnership and and those are things I think we can be open to as we have discussions moving forward. I I have one more question. So um Sweetwater One, which is Rock Springs. >> Yep. >> What is their percentage that they pay? >> They pay 210 of a mill. Their mill levy comes in at about 300. That would

011bring to a tune of like 300,000. >> Yeah. >> The 210. >> Yeah. Green River. I don't have that number out there really. I usually compare you guys with the same size. Yeah. Yeah. Even utilage is very comparable. >> Again, thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Don't be a stranger. >> All right. we can move on to the K12 curriculum and instruction presentation. I was going to say, can we turn that? I know your guys' Chairman Peterson, members of the board, it's uh it's our privilege to present uh in May every year, which is nice and gives us a chance to look at what we've done throughout the year as well as share with you about our planning week as we move forward into the summer. um just starting out initially uh we

012want to recognize Amy May has done a really nice job for us as a as a curriculum department should be as you can see to do a new opportunity and next year and actually in about a week and a half and we will be hiring her position uh within the next. So we do want to thank her for the job that she's done and thank her for the job that she know she apply that same level of uh I should say position uh we'll start just quick with higher reliability schools continued certification and as you see level one level two level three level four for the elementary schools all of our schools are level three will continue to work towards reertification as we begin to move forward with that. Uh that involves continuing together and

013analyze our quick data to ensure that our schools are meeting those indicators and then doing the work if they if it indicates with their parents and students as well as staff surveys that they're not necessarily meeting a specific indicator then they would move forward with that and make that as an option. uh accomplishments. We're in this year seven of our implementation of our focus teacher evaluation model. Uh it includes 23 instructional elements. Eight of those are required and there's two choice elements that go with that. um as we look at that model, it's a good framework for instruction and has I think has treated us well and uh it's based upon evidence-based uh and researchbased strategies, techniques and and those elements again have true. uh we're grateful for the principles and what they do in

014implementing this and lifting that up and continuing to lift that up as they work with their teachers to help them to understand uh the requirements of those particular elements and so um professional development to uh to support strategies in each element our PLC time Mondays often times there's some structured professional development around F10 it could be HRS it could be PLC it could be database and decision rig uh variety of things that go into that, but that's really our focus as we move forward and it becomes very job embedded and delayed start Mondays have been really effective for our staff as well as as our principles. Uh they really appreciate that opportunity to work with the entire staff. Okay. Uh we look as well at supporting teachers from higher to continuing contract. Becky Sides is

015an incredible resource in our district. Becky next year will assume some additional opportunities to apply her skills and and abilities at in the curriculum, her first love and her first job, so to speak, as the induction coordinator and that'll continue to be there. She'll then also have the opportunity to apply some of what she is knows and does to uh to the curriculum page one as we move forward. Um, anything on that? >> No, I just think that so a couple things. Number one, going back to the start Mondays, um, I I don't you can't um really quantify the impact that that has. Um, the opportunities that provides our teachers, um, we're districts that don't have that built in time really struggle to do a lot of the work that that our teachers do. you

016know, from a board perspective for, you know, working with the community to build that time into our schedule, it the impact is is really significant. So, just wanted to show my appreciation for for that part of it. And then, you know, the the induction program that we have is is really Uh as you look at further accomplishments uh teachers added revised curriculum again the state requires a 5-year cycle. uh we do that on a regular basis especially with with our major core areas ELA science uh is constantly looking reviewing and revising math uh many of the content areas at the secondary level as you think about what has happened over the last couple of years science standards the content of performance standards were rewritten and revised our math standards were rewritten and revised uh in

017the name of lessening those uh the number of standards when you look at it that I think what they did is they they just compressed it and uh the number you still have a lot of the content that is being required even though you have fewer what they call standards as you build into that um specialist teams music PE media computer science they're meeting regularly they're meeting at least twice a month as a PLC and they're doing a lot of work you go on to your website and and pull that up under curriculum. You can see the work that they are doing and it continues to be updated, continues to make sure that we are meeting the needs of what the state is is requiring through the new uh and revised standards. You know, the

018only thing that I would add is I'll be I'll be out Scott will be in next year. I would really encourage any board member that wants to truly see what we do. But at the middle school level, our our collaborative teams when they get together on Wednesday, it's the best part of my job. I I look forward to Wednesdays where I get to go and sit in on uh sixth grade or eighth grade math or or whatever. And then just to be able to sit down and listen to those teachers, whether it's just two of them or there's eight of them sitting there around the table and when they're collaborating, they're doing this work, it is truly, um, inspiring. And so, um, I would love to take you that, but now we're getting into, okay,

019so now we're in field season. So that being able to schedule that and make sure that that teams are actually going to be there and doing that work a little bit tough at the end of the year, but I really encourage you to to work with Scott and and go in and just see what those teachers are doing on those Wednesdays. Uh again looking at the overall process for K5 uh PLC teams in each building develop what we call 15day unit plans. Doesn't mean they're exactly 15 days. It means that it's just the name that was given by one of the consultants which she referred to the process that way. It's aligned with our district unit plans that are reviewed and revised in June. Any of you I would invite you to come the first

020week of June. That's the second, third, and fourth. And in those days we have between 50 and 70 teachers who represent all of the schools and all of the grade levels. They come together. They look at the unit plans. They look at proficiency skills, what may need to be reviewed and revised in regard to really the backbone of what we do, which is those proficiency skills. And then they decide on what changes need to be made to those and then they begin to make those changes over the course of those two days. Um we have our first year under our belts almost of implementation of our handwriting curriculum. We went with uh the Zer Blowser Zerouser always said Ber and they say Blouser. So Zer Blower which is a evidence based handwriting program. We also

021align that with CLA. So they instead of doing it the way that says hey you need to do it this way they do it in accordance with how CPLA is in using those letters especially important when you're dealing with um math and science alignment we talked a little about that that's already occurred and we are continuing to move forward one of the things that they noticed on the white top was a shift they used to say here's this evidence and then which one of these claims and they list four claims is represented by this evidence. They've reversed that now for fourth grade kids and 8th grade. And I would assume in the high school we're going to say here's the claim. Now you look at the evidence that's here. Which of these actually support that

022particular claim? That's a whole different way of thinking, a real critical thinking process they're requiring. So, our science teachers have had to really do some adjusting as they built that in and made sure the kids were ready for the format that they were going to see on the desk, not just the content that they were teaching. Um, we also have our ESPA, which is the district essential standards assessment that's given twice a year. We give it in November over the essential standards that have been taught during that time frame. We give it again in February. We get together as district PLC teams after each of those. We look at the data. We ask ourselves what's what's going well. We ask ourselves as well, what do you notice that we as a school, you did really

023well on this? What did you do? How can you help and support the other teachers around the district as they as they come together? So really, it's a district level PLC. Next year we'll do that four times. One at the beginning and end, which really is bringing those teams together. The other two will be around the S3 and All right. So for 612, right? So what we focused on this year was proficiency scale revisions. I have a assessment alignment, making sure our readers there. I have on there uh star reading and math benchmarks. Those those truly have been uh amazing tools for us, I can tell you. So we do our March STAR uh third quarter assessment. I can tell you with 80% likelihood exactly how we're going to score like that's how close that

024data is. Right? So, so for example, um we're 70% efficient at the third quarter of seventh grade ELA. I'm 80% likely that we're going to be plus or minus two points of that 70%. And so so the the mechanisms that we've built for for data have become incredibly accurate and incredibly uh preliminary revisions math and science. I'm just going to tell you the state stepped when they when they decided they were going to put new science standards and math standards in a second year. Two tested areas, right? It it's just it's it's hard for our teachers and it's killing our kids as they go in, they take the life out, right? We're pretty much done with that right now. The kids walk away and in terms of taking that assessment because they're not going to

025get their data back until October or November for math or for for science if they're in fourth year for 10th grade. And so just there there's a lot of work still to be done there. Um the city did not help us out. Hopefully the curriculum director's association has asked uh the state board of education to a hold on the DLA standards. Otherwise next year when we go into a new state assessment, new vendor, we won't get any data because they'll have to go through the whole revision process for three contacts, right? Disaster. So, so hopefully they'll they'll make some new decisions around that. But but just know a lot of our data is not going to come back. I I'm confident we're going to do really well. We're going to do really really well. I

026think we're going to do well at the high school level. Um we're just not going to know until they're telling us we know usually that dated a month. Uh another other accomplishments are moving forward when we had the wide oak grant uh which was our our reading uh language development grant. We had a mentoring program that was there and we've now worked at building that in looking at title 2A funds and continuing with our mentoring program for our first and second year teachers in any content area. So, that's that's something that we're excited to to be able to say we're going to continue to move forward with that uh letters, which is the science of reading training for all K12 teachers. It's it's there and it's available. Here's what's going to happen when we look

027at at our new and we'll get to it in the next bullet point, literacy and language K12, which is Senate File 059 and now is law. We'll talk a little more about that. um all this provides an opportunity for them to be certified in the what they're calling the science degree and begin to build on that. So thinking about literacy and language for next year we're looking at adjusting our current practices elementary we've been doing we've been under the the K3 uh requirements for probably the last seven years. Now they've shifted that to the 612 environment as well. So, we'll be adjusting those and making sure that we're meeting those demands. Um, we're implementing the statutory requirements as well. Uh, we have evidence-based programs currently in place. CPLA is listed as one of those evidence-based

028programs. They're not going to say you have to do these four programs. They're going to say your program has to meet the evidence base criteria. And not every program does. and we're fortunate to have one that that does. Uh the literacy screeners for 612 and uh we're still waiting for clarification from the state around that. We're hoping that the star reading will cover that and that'll allow that to be utilized. Uh but we haven't put back fully. We'll have our literacy plan put together. We have it for K3, but we'll have them put together by middle of August of this particular year. That's one of the first requirements that they have for us. Uh as Doug said, white top results for science and maths will be available in the fall. What they're doing is data

029validation and standard setting for assess content areas. And so that's that's what's causing that. School accountability reports obviously are going to be pushed back into as well. So we'll get those when they come. We'll bring those. Next is federal programs. I'm going to go through this fairly quickly. As you know, our federal programs fall under the ESSA act of 2015. Uh, usually about every 10 to 15 years, they go through and overhaul that law. I'm expecting that potentially they'll start looking to that again. And it used to be No Child Left Behind, now it's Every Student Succeed Act, and who knows what the next generation might be. Um again the purpose is to provide fair equitable and highquality education and close the achievement gap especially for are at risk and our students who experience crisis.

030In title one you can see we have 1.2 million dollars that are distributed across four elementary schools as well as Horizon High School. And we look at the four elementary schools in K3. we put those dollars, we try to build up that that literacy development in those grade levels so that that they will benefit from that as they move on to later grades as well as in the middle of high school. Um, title three, we got 17,000. It's not a big money maker as far as a grant is concerned. However, it is very focused on our our ELLL students. Uh David Day does a really nice job in helping and supporting that grant and and lifting up the work that we do for our students. Um the other piece is title two. So the title

0312 a is is the money that we use. Uh it's federal grant that is tied to teacher professional development. What I love about this is is it provides our teachers the opportunity to self- select what it is that they would like to learn more about. So you have teachers that are part of a team uh that may be working on intervention as well as that group's going to go to an RTI conference and learn more about that. And so it it gives teachers the opportunity to self- select and and find things that that they're interested in learning. Uh we encourage teams to go um so that it's not one person going somewhere else. That's great. Uh Perkins uh last year we had 78,000 Um, out of that 78,000, 64 of it or 62 of it

032went to um remodel the uh drafting room and and really get that set up for AutoCAD. It's an incredible um space right now. Um the other funds went to uh business as well as auto. This year we got about 94,000. We're working on getting that grant to the beginning. So there's just some different examples of of places that our teachers have have gone to workshops. Um and and what I love about that is that number is down a little bit from last year. We used to have title 4 which is school safety and security um that we rolled into title 2. So we take it from about 300,000 to about 450 and we put in uh special education title 6 funds for professional development. We're putting about 3/4 of a million dollars into our teachers.

033That's the investment in their professional development. That number's probably down about $150,000 current still investing human capital. Uh we're appreciative of of Christine Hayek. I want to shout out really she does an incredible job. uh our HR department really uh is Doug and myself and and Christine and uh she she does a lot of work to make sure that uh what we are required to do from tracking professional development for all of our teachers and getting that into the state for PTSP and reertification purposes to uh making sure contracts are put together and all of the paperwork that goes into hiring goes through Christine And so we just want to say thank you for make sure that you recognize the job that she does for us. You can see that certified employees we have 289

034support staff we have 281. Uh some are part full-time uh FTE and that's a total employees of 570 which is pretty organization when you look at it. I think we're still the the uh largest employer within the county. Yeah, >> county school district number one staff average years certified we have right at 13.69 that's uh that's a really good average uh when you consider that uh that over the first 5 years of the teachers in in teaching that almost 40% of them choose to go and do something else. uh our percentage is more like 3 to 4% leave don't necessarily leave our school for whatever reason within that first 5 years support staff we have 8.3 years that's a lot and I think as as the years continue on that that's going to just increase

035and then our administrative staff has 19.6 six years and that's that is uncertain. Uh now, Superintendent Thomas with his four or five years that he's been in the district, that's obviously going to drop that down a little bit for us cuz his average is built into that. But as you look at it, 19.6 years, you know, your typical principal may be a building between, you know, 3.75 and 5 years and your typical superintendent is generally about 3 years. So that's that's a pretty impressive number says something. When you talk about climate and you talk about culture, when you're looking at those kind of numbers, if people are really that upset uh with what's going on, we hope that they come forward, but that's a that's a pretty good percentage of indicating that that people want

036to be here, right? instead of it just being a a starting place in something. Other things that we've done with human capital, uh job descriptions, we continue to add our job descriptions is an ongoing process. Uh right now we're at 79. Uh we received staff input with those who have had that job or continuing that job trying to make sure if those particular job descriptions still represent what they are doing. Um, we're also looking at our market analysis and making sure for our support staff especially, are we and are we even in the ballpark? And I think we are and I think after this year it'll be even more. And then we're very proud of the the training that our staff receives, not only certified but also our support staff, uh the principles and and

037the consultants that we bring in support and work with our especially our instructional staff and Jiren does a really nice job with custodial staff. The kitchen staff is very very well trained. They know what needs to be done as they move forward and our transportation is I would say as good as in as we look at our training and stuff. So, moving forward, uh, we want to make sure Sherry is is does an incredible job in our district office. And, uh, we are, uh, we're fortunate to have her going to be side by side coaching for the next 3 months, uh, after, um, helping Amy get into the routine of this., it's a big job and we're thankful for your willingness to do that. Sherry, thanks very much and for all the work that you

038continue to do and have done for us. Okay, I've got continue to collect quick data. We talked about that earlier. Um, uplift the PLC process to ensure a PLC right and less on PLC like sometimes you get a little spread as you and uh we're hoping to to continue to lift that up and really lift up that the F10 instructional framework is what we're doing. We'll look at some recalibration uh scoring with our principles early in next year in August and we'll have the F10 folks coming and looking for Okay. Uh we talked about the first bullet already. We continue to align to our prioritized standards. Um update the essential standards that will happen in June. Again, you're any of you are welcome to come and join us. we'd love to have you there and

039just to see what those teachers are doing. Uh and then our summer professional development opportunities. You can see we have math, we have ELA, writing and interventions. We have certified M instructional aid training in the summertime assessment direct instruction as well as Cisco. >> What was your favorite part of the awards assembly last summer at EHS? >> Other than your husband presenting, right? you're going to get that on. You all enjoy that. >> Um, my favorite part. >> Yeah, >> I just loved seeing all the kids and everything that they accomplished. I mean, it was amazing to me. Um, and the smiles on their faces and they just, you know, were so happy and excited to receive those awards. I don't know. I enjoyed the whole evening. I thought it was great. But hopefully I'm

040not missing what should have been the most important. Was it that I didn't I just saw that if there was anybody else there? >> Well, and to see the success. Um, one of the one of the girls seemed to like clean up on everything and I don't even remember her. Sophie. Yes. >> Sophia. And what's her last name? >> Carter. I actually text. >> Oh my word. Yeah. >> 54 college grads. >> Incredible. in her high school career. And so just to see all of their successes, you know, there were some kids that maybe only got one award, but the common theme was there was a select group that really put forth the effort and just were extremely successful throughout their high school career. So that was just exciting to to see. >> Agreed. It

041was it was awesome. Um, and and that was the segue, right, that I was going to have you put put forth there. Right. So, so watching uh that young lady and and there were you couldn't fit all of the kids on the stage that had 15 or more college presidents, right? So, so this transition we we try to meet what the community is asking us to to do. And one of those things over the last 5 to seven years, right, since I've kind of been in this position, has been this this request for more and more college credit and dual enrollment, college credit, concurrent credit is those are taught by our teachers, right? Our teachers are are have a master's degree in that particular content. They can offer college credit through Western lab. There are

042people, right? Western agrees to give our kids credit. Cool. duel means they're taught by Western Wyoming Community College teachers. There are kids and somebody's got to pay for that, right? That's not part of our traditional what we offer. And so that's that's why that's the the last thing on there is one of the one of the things they did right in this legislative session was set aside $10 million to support dual credit offerings. And that's awesome, right? So currently we have 62 kids that are enrolled in the fall for just dual. That's not concurrent. That's just dual. Okay. I don't know how much that costs, but it's going to be a lot of money, right? The Boseies, right? And so here's where the Boseies comes in. The Boseies through the mill used to spend most

043of that money to support CTE programs because we didn't have a huge difference for Duel. But over the years, we relied more heavily on Perkins to support the CBT programs and asosis to put more and more money into the dual programs. Right. And so now with this new legislation, that's that's what needs to be worked out, right? I had a great conversation with Marty um at the what we call that the consolidated grant meeting, right? And because nobody knows what this is going to look like yet, but but my request is that the proceeds continues to save that line item for us and continue to use that money. If it's not going towards duel and supporting duel, which I don't think it'll have to, then we still want that money to be supporting our CTE.

044That's what the grant says that that's or that's what the mill says that that's for. That's what we would like to do is to continue to put more of that money into CTE. Jenny was fortunate enough to be a incredibly amazing uh CTE spring meeting, right? >> No, actually I quite enjoyed it. I'd never been to one before and Doug thought I was there just checking up on him or to keep him smiling, but I really did enjoy watching the process of how that works. >> Right. So, here's what we ended up with. We were 40 grand over, right? So, we had each of the teachers talks about what they would like to to have in their program to update it and continue to be relevant, giving kids real opportunities that set them up for

045success with middle high school. Well, once when all of that math gets done, we're about 40 grand short from Perkins to be able to give the teachers what they need in their CT programs to be successful. So, that's that's what we're going to talk to to most about is how do we close that gap if they don't have to pay for or continue to support the group. Any questions on that? Put a lot into that. There's there's a lot. >> Um I just have one comment. Um you talk about both in the mill. >> Yeah. >> U that's why everyone that's here needs to vote in the fall to continue that mill. Uh it's it's extremely incredible that that that happens. >> For sure. Absolutely. It's been a great partnership, right? I mean, there's pushing

046on them pretty hard at times, right? Cuz that's my job. I got parents that want their kids to take more and more duel and I don't have money to pay for it. I got to find somebody else that can. So, I I lean on other people to say, "Hey, can you help us out here a little bit more, a little bit more, but it's been great. It's been a great partnership. We went into this year with both season green paper, I think, 50 students. Like I said, we're at 62 right now. So, you know what? We'll get it all stay. It's a reimbursement, but nobody knows what that's so >> what areas are we hoping to grow the concurrent enrollment programs >> in terms of subjects. >> Right. So, so math, if we were able

047to offer math 1400 on site, we're doing it this year at a huge investment to us in that students are signing up for the online college algebra and we have a math teacher that's not assigned, right, isn't teaching a regular class during that time. That person is assigned to those students that are doing the online math. So, they actually have two teachers. They have the western one and they have >> and and because online algebra sucks, >> right? So, so math would be one and science if we could offer biology 10 1020 that would be huge. We would be that much closer to >> to being able to to offer an associates for students when they graduate. >> Sounds like credits away from >> She's close. Yeah, she's but you have to be you have

048to be willing to do and we don't have an on-site, right? So, we have the Boseies, but they don't have on-site biology classes there, right? So, it's all online. Some of those classes are hard. Biology is one of the most failed classes in in college to begin with. Then you try to do it virtually, right? Online, do an online lab, right? It's tough. So, so those are the two areas. If we had those two, we'd be a really good uh moving forward as we look at our frontline implementation this year. We we really looked at absence management and and digitize a lot of what we're doing with subs and those kinds of things. So, that's something that we're getting better at and and moving forward with. uh we continue to look at our our hiring

049and retention aspect of that and getting better at at looking at data and information that is there as well as our professional roadside. Um again we continue to emphasize the professional development but for all staff and how important that is not only the instructional staff at all uh especially when you look at grounds of maintenance around safety and things learning continue to increase learning opportunities that connect our students with local employers. Do you want to add anything to that? Nope. That's what it says. Okay. Uh we just want to say thanks to our teachers. They're incredible. uh our support staff in all areas and departments. Uh we really appreciate the principles and the work that they do. Uh they continue to move forward uh the the great work that are we are seeing and the

050uh the learning that is happening across the district. So thank you to to all. It's been a privilege to work with Doug over the last 10 years. It's hard to imagine it's been 10 years as we as we get through that. uh he's I've learned a great deal from him. We sit down together and we do a lot of joint planning. It's been a really kind of a seamless process as we've gone through that and we wish you the very best. >> Yes. Thanks. >> Any questions that any of you have for us? >> Yeah, I have one on uh the human uh capital. There's Christine and you two guys. So, who who are going to replace the two of you with Christine? >> Matt will do that directly piece as well as the the

051HR side of that. >> Well, start as well. >> Okay. >> And in some cases you you share across. >> Sure. I mean it depends on who might be there, who gets the call from the kitchen, who gets the call from transportation, depends on who may be in the office. So we kind of question. Oh, go ahead. >> Going back to K5 curriculum, we've been using CKL at CKLA for what, seven going on, eight years, right? Six years. Um, so my understanding is the the lifespan, for a lack of a better word, of a curriculum is 7 to 8 years before it's time to do a pretty, you know, bigger overhaul. Are we do we have plans to pilot some new some new curriculums in the next little bit? >> I'm waiting to see what

052comes out of the state. Can you have a program that meets is evidence-based and meets the requirements that's coming out of the state with that K12 law? uh as well as coming in next year with all the changes that were happening looking at that as an addition might be beneficial to look at a third edition which is to do a good addition of CLA uh what happens is you replace that resource you also replace all the work that goes around that and planning and some of the provisions for the CCAL work that we're going to do but it is something that we're looking at not sure that that's going to be something we're going to jump on in in the would be something towards the screen as an opportunity. >> Okay, very good question. >>

053Is that the model though that we usually do like a pilot program in a few classrooms to test different curriculum? We >> haven't done that. What we do usually is we start with a really a guidance group and we bring as many teachers who would like to be part of that. We go through good research as to what goes into a good uh ELA program or math program or whatever we happen to be looking at. So we look at the research. We then put together a guidance document to guide the process of how we begin to move forward with the the set of curriculums that we may be looking at as to what we're currently using. We piloted uh two really different programs. The last time we piloted the National Geographic program which doesn't exist

054anymore and the CPA program. So they're two really very different programs but we piloted them effort forward. actually pilot the classrooms across the year. So it is an extensive period of time before you at least the way that we do the process. Some districts still do it this way. You have a group together and you say we're going to do these these six publishers. They bring them out and they put them on display. The teachers come through and they kind of evaluate the program and then they they vote on which one has the nicest process. Um >> yeah, >> no, I agree. I think piloting is is going to give us the best feedback, which is why we should, you know, you know, we think we want to start that process so we can get

055some data over a year or two years. >> And what about math? Where are we with math for K2? >> Now, uh Eureka Math has has what's called Eureka Square, which is really good program. It's a dance program with the same math that we were doing. um they have another addition of that and it again we're kind of looking at what would be the best alternative as we move forward with the least amount of maybe disruption in the student loans as we >> but it is something >> okay on a similar timeline to >> uh we probably don't want to do both of those major resource areas at the same year so probably be better to look at math initially for some reason seems to be very concise as we move forward is pretty good

056question really quick on the last slide it talked about workbased learning what aspects about what students see directly >> so for example we have over 40 students right now that are in um early childhood classes that are currently either working at UCDC or in classrooms um across the district. That's that's an example. Uh I believe Randy is shoot that came out and work with you. That was an example. Um we have students that are working at Union Bank, right, that are part of the well program students at Fair River Vet Clinic that are part of their place. So you see that mostly through our CTE programs and and what it looks like is in the the early level classes, freshman and sophomore classes, it's more can we have a guest speaker come in? What can

057we do to to kind of introduce people to this? And then as we get into juniors and seniors, we want people to we want students, right? Our people to start going out and and experiencing those in in short to intermediate uh time frames. What are you looking at doing to further that? Like what was furthering that? What employ? >> Finding more partners, right? But the the biggest issue that we have is that we have a large number of students and we have a fairly small community and it's hard to get everybody in place. That would be the biggest challenge. But I work with uh economic development. I don't know how many times I've talked to the economic every time I get a chance to speak. That's one of the things I'm asking for. Hey, we

058need more help. We need we need local businesses to to partner with us. We need uh opportunities to get our kids out into the community and and working in some of these. >> There's also the internship program through Verizon, right? >> Y they're basically the same. Yeah. You're welcome. It's a great question. Finally, we'd like to thank the board for your support work that we've done to Thank you ladies gentlemen. Thank you. Thank you. Now seems like a good breaking point. So I need to excuse myself. I have got uh some uh family commitments that I need to get to at 7:00. So, uh Mrs. Welling will take over the remainder of this this meeting today. So, >> thank you, Chairman Peterson. Dave, have a good night. >> Thank you. >> Say hi to your

059family for us. >> Huh? >> Say hi to your family. >> Madam vice chair, would you like me to move forward? All right. So, our discussion items, we'll start with a budget update and budget message. Madam, vice chair, members of the board, um we're very confident where we are with our budget. Uh it has been um it has been different. Uh the silos put a different twist on all this. the funding that we received, the changes in uh uh FTEEs and just uh some unknowns. We are still getting direction from the AG's office on current legislation. Um we we're comfortable with as we prepare to uh do meet and confer and solidify salaries and benefits for our staff, we're very comfortable where we are and excited for the opportunities. Um there it's kind of speaking

060out of both sides of my mouth because we're also still very concerned about what was done in the legislative session and how that will impact us really next year moving forward. Uh, one of the things that is a hot topic right now, um, is activities. And if you've read the Cowboy State Daily, kind of what's happening out there is, uh, as school districts have gone through this budgeting process, us included, uh, from the very beginning, I told you that we were cut $300,000. We over spent our budget by another $300,000 last year. So that's a cut of $600,000 for us, which is significant, over 8% in that budget. That is what's happening statewide. And what I would like to do for several reasons. Number one is um softball has approached us and girls softball is

061something that we we've been asked to look at. Um and we gave some not excuses, some reasons why we can't do that at this point. So, I'd like to review quickly what uh Wyoming High School Activities Association has put together as they are looking at a reduction from 46.3 million to a 42.4 million, which is an 8.4 reduction statewide. Additionally, the restructuring limits district's flexibility by restricting access to a 76 million budget that we used to have access to, which we don't anymore. the immediate impacts, and this is kind of critical. Um, most districts are looking at some forms of reductions and cuts. Most districts indicate they will rely on cash carryover funds to support activities and athletics during the 26 27 school year. We are fortunate we don't have to dip into reserves. Um

062we are one of the districts that came out of this as a winner in terms of the RCA really put us in a position. Um the additional spending for instructional services will help us for salaries and benefits but the changes that allow us to do this for our operational budgets were kind of hidden in all this works. That was the change to uh middle school um specials. We got some additional funding for that. We got additional funding for our elementary counselors, which we're already paying for, but they fund us now. So, some additional funding there. Um, and again, the RCA was was very, very big for us. Um, but those are all unknowns next year in the budget cycle. They could change the RCA, which they're talking about adjusting, and we could be one of

063the losers. So, we need to keep attention on what was done in the legislative session as we move forward. So again, back to activities. This is what um the uh they met on May 8th and Casper discussed discussed this. Uh the Wasa board discussed a range of potential strategies to help balancing rising costs and these are what they put together. Culminate events, eliminate regional tournaments, eliminate consolation games, limit number of teams qualifying for state events from 8 to four. In other words, cut them in half. limit number of individuals participating um to two classes of wrestling top 16 marks and track and field. Um regular season events eliminate regular season tournaments uh reduce contests. So the number of opportunities our kids would have to participate program cuts based on number of schools and students participating.

064Um these are what is being discussed statewide that they'll have to reduce. Um, and these these are I just can't imagine and we're not in that boat, but I still think you need to realize where we are and what's coming our direction. So, these are the events they're talking about. Um, doing away with soccer, indoor track and field, Nordic skiing, which we don't have, alpine skiing, which we don't have, swimming and diving, spring golf, um, and spring tennis. So, not all of those we offer, but some districts offer more than we do. It's also out there that at least two school districts will drop softball, which means they drop to eight teams. If they get to six, they do away with it all together. That's why Nordic skiing and alpine skiing, there's no longer six

065schools that do um activities. This is a speech and debate 12 to six cut from 12 to six events. Limit six speech and debate workshop events. all workshop events to be one day, no overnight stays. Central Locate all state music, which means Casper gets everything again. Eliminate participating in national events for those kids who qualify, which would be a shame. And that's what this is in. Student Council, NSDA, uh, National Qualifying Speech Tournament, All Northwest Music, Washington Leadership Institute, Mid American Conference, FCCLA, National Leadership Institute, FCLA Chapter Advisor Summit, FBLA, National Fall Leadership Conference, FFA and Skills USA, eliminate overnight travel. uh recommendations to schools, limit number of teams, varsity JV and C teams or varsity JV, which you guys know that was one of the hot buttons for us. We already did that. When

066our budgets got tight, we eliminated um some teams. Use fewer officials and as an official, good luck. Set limits on the number of players on a team. We already do that, but are they going to reduce the number even further? Um, no funding for national travel contest should be played on Friday and Saturday to minimize substitute teacher cost. Districts, you cannot get all the substitutes necessary on a Friday and a Saturday. You have to spread them across the week and implement and increase the student participation fee of up to $400 per student. We have 58% free introduced lunch. that would limit our number of students participating in activities K12 significantly. Um, the reason why I even bring this up because I just told you we're not looking at these cuts, but guess what? If they

067do away with an event that we have been going to for years, our kids >> don't get them. Kids will lose those activities and those events. um if they cut state tournaments from 8 to 4, we're what the 14th largest school. We may not ever make it to state again. Our big events for our communities are regionals and they're talking about doing away with regionals. Um those are things that will even though it doesn't directly impact our funding, it will impact our kids opportunities significantly. To see that the legislature claimed that they didn't know they were doing this is just not honest because every school that I met with, the community I met with, I gave a sheet that showed the reduction in activities from the start. When they cut class size, they cut those

068multipliers for activities. And that's what has to be fixed next year. My point the reason why I say that is because we had to take the position that we can't offer girls softball right now. In the future maybe um I did send a letter in of response to all those individuals that uh uh came forward. We sent them to their addresses they gave. Some of them came back undelivered. So we're still trying to find those. But I'd like to read it if if you remember how the board works. public comment typically you don't respond to. That gives you 30 days to respond. This is the response that uh I sent to you guys um about girls softball. You county school district number one board of trustees and district administration. Dear students, parents, community members, we

069sincerely appreciate the interest, advocacy, and positive engagement shown regarding the addition of girls softball at Evston High School. The respectful and constructive manner in which this topic has been approached reflects the strength of our school community and its commitment to expanding opportunities for students. After careful consideration, the board of trustees and district administration regret to inform you that girls softball will not be added for the 2627 school year. This decision was not made lightly and is primarily driven by significant financial constraints facing the district. For the upcoming school year, the district operational budgets have been substantially reduced, including a loss of approximately $500,000 from the activities budget. Additionally, the new funding silo has limited the district's flexibility in allocating resources to new programs and operational budgets. Beyond financial consideration, there there remain several important questions

070that must be addressed before adding a new sport. These includes the availability and development of appropriate softball facilities on the high school campus, the absence of a strong feeder system to support a sustainable fast pitch program, uncertainties regarding consistent student participation numbers, and challenges related to weather conditions during the softball season. While these factors prevent implementation at this time, we want it to be clear that the interest in girls softball has been heard and is valued. The board and administration is committed to continuing to explore future possibilities should operational funding improve, particip participation levels increase, and the necessary infrastructure and program support be established. The district would welcome the opportunity to revisit the addition of girls softball. We are grateful for the passion and advocacy demonstrated by our students, families, and community members. Your efforts

071contribute meaning to the ongoing conversations about how we can best serve our students. sincerely Dave Peterson, board chairman and Ryan Thomas superintend. So that's the response we gave. Um I guess we got some bad press on social media that we made excuses. There are reasons why we couldn't have girls softball. They're not excuses. So with that, I think we're in a good budget position, but we need to be wary as we move forward. Um we wait patiently for the lawsuit. Um, and we'll talk about meet and confer here in a minute, but that was kind of the budget presentation. John's budget narrative, budget message is in narrative form. It's very well done, very clear in terms of where we sit financially. He's provided charts and graphs for you that explain um changes from previous year.

072We are looking at an increase to our carryover. remember because we purchased we get reimbursed those buses that we purchased. That's a one-time expense that we cannot budget for this year. Um but that will help us uh move our carryover up. So with that uh any questions for John or I in terms of the budget message and where we are with the budget. All right, we will move on to item B, Evston Parks and Recreation Center operation agreement. >> Madame vice chair, members of the board, the operating agreement hasn't changed. It's the same as it's been for several years. Um, if you recall, this is being presented now, so you can look over it if you have any questions. This will be approved next month. Next month, I recommend that you approve it. It's been

073a good partnership and uh there's some things we'll continue to work on, but it's been a good partnership. >> I have a question. >> It will the costs uh compared to this year compared to next year, will there be a an increase to the school district and overall cost and its obligation to this agreement? >> No, not at all. Um and I have to be careful with that. Remember, this is a flow through mill. We we assess the mill but it flows through us and it's uh assessed valuation is down. So the money that goes to the rec center will be down about 240,000. That's the total I think now. Um we we don't supplement that with anything. That's what they get. We have a partnership that uh allows them to use our facilities. We

074use some of their facilities. Uh we charge a very small usage fee and we'll talk about that later in the policies. Um, so there won't be any additional cost to the district. U, again, you never know how that's going to impact us. But, uh, this is truly just the use of that mill, which its intent is for, uh, community recreation programs for youth. Y questions. >> Okay. Year end activities calendar. >> We have provided a calendar. Um, there's a lot of stuff going on as you can imagine. Um and so we had provided that for you. Please take a look at it. Uh some big events coming uh for you to be aware of. Of course, meet confer is Wednesday the 20th at 5:30. Um two board members have volunteered. We do have room for

075four. And again, the room for four is if you have five, that's a majority and it has to be a regular board meeting. So four is the max. Um Janice and um Chairman Peterson would like to be on it. Anyone else like to serve on that? >> Yes, >> I can. >> Okay, you two. That's good. Okay, so we got John and Jessica. So, we start at 5:30. We usually have a light dinner and then we jump right into it. um the other board members uh to hand out diplomas at Horizon on Friday night, that's the 29th, and EHS on Saturday the 30th. Any takers for Horizon Friday night? It's great opportunity. If you haven't done it, I encourage you to do it. It's really pretty cool. Best thing I think you do as a

076board member and what I do as an administrator. Anybody make high school graduation? David got a granddaughter getting out. >> Great. Getting out. >> Getting out. >> Yeah. >> Getting out. >> Anyone else? >> There was one other person that I thought that had um besides Dave. >> Jerry member. Anyone else that volunteered? Did Dave >> I had a family member? I >> Oh, >> Scott. The Davids will show up. All right. >> Well, I talked to Scott about it. Who was the other one? >> Okay. >> So, I told Scott I could do it if cuz I do have a niece and nephew graduating, but I don't have to if there's someone else who would rather >> three is great. That's plenty. >> And if David Peterson can't make it, >> okay, >> two

077two can handle it easy. >> Yeah. Okay. >> And anybody Friday night, it goes really fast. About 50 minutes for Horizon. >> And I'll be there. So, we're covered. >> So, what's the date? >> Uh, Friday the 29th. >> Okay, I can do it. >> Okay. Thank you, Jenny. Okay. Um, just some other I think we have them down at the bottom, but just some other dates of interest. Monday, we're having an open house. It's Monday, right? The 18th. Um, for all those retiring. >> So, you're welcome to come from >> 3:30 to >> just the office. Yeah. >> So, 3 to 3:30 to 5:30. Thank you. Um, it's just the five individuals retired from this office. They're just having like a little open house. So, you're welcome to come. Uh, >> is that time

078what, like a couple hours or what? >> Yeah. 3:30 to 5. >> So, it's just, uh, meet >> drop in and say howdy or not say howdy, whatever. >> Many of them I'd like to drop in. >> Yeah. >> And then, um, the retirement dinner is May 21st at 6:00 p.m. Um, it's a big group this year, so you may want to attend. you're welcome to bring your your spouse and we just kind of review and congratulate uh the retirees. It's it's a nice we we do it in here and we'd love to have as many well we'd love to have four of you. >> I'll be there. >> Okay. But let us know if you could be there for that retirement dinner. >> Sherry, you have my res. Yep. Okay. And that's really all

079the end of the year stuff I've got. All right. So, item D, first reading policy revisions and additions. >> Madame vice chair, I put a little cheat sheet together because there is a lot of them. So, to help you kind of organize them and take notes if you want to. Um, the reason why there's so many is because there is a deadline of June 1st for some of these based on the legislative session. they uh passed a law that we have to do some of these before, like I said, July 1st. Um, so I just kind of went through all of them, put them together, and this is where we are. So, I'll put them up here for us. If you notice, there's really three types of policy additions. One is a brand new policy

080and I know you probably can't read that but you can see what the green is what has been added. So this first policy EHA is technology uses and student data privacy and security. This is one that um we've had in place for a long time, but these are just either updated by statute or updates that we've needed to have. So, this is just an updated policy. I did put major because it is something that has to be done by July 1. Um it's it's up to you guys if you want me to go through the changes. They're very very uh I guess straightforward. They're not like we had a the ability not to add them. The legislature add them for us. Um the idea of student privacy, it makes sense that as technology continues to

081expand, um we need to make sure we protect our students privacy and also our employees privacies. Do you want me to go through the changes or updates? They're not really changes. Changes, deletions would show in red with a line through it. Um, green is updates. Blue is Jeff's review of the policy. Um, and so you can see Jeff went through this and did not uh make any any changes. You want me to go on? Yes. Okay. I can remember how to get out of this now. That's not what I wanted to go. Okay, the next one is JFCK, student cell phone uh usage policy. This was one that was, if you recall, we uh we jumped ahead and did this last year and really it's not a gamble. We just felt pretty serious that uh

082we needed to limit the use of cell phones. Well, the state um passed a policy or passed a statute this year that requires all school districts to have a policy. Doesn't doesn't mean you have to say no cell phones or you can use all cell phones you want. You just have to have a policy. So, um, this one, if you notice on the cheat sheet, is just a review. There is no change. So, what I will do is just update the review date and then we're required by statute to send it to Wyoming Department of Ed just to show that we have a policy. So, no changes to that policy. Um, JHCD. Uh, this is again very similar. This is a review. Uh, I sent this to our nurses. They went through it. I actually

083sent them a draft policy from Wyoming school boards. They like our policy better and everything in it is contained in our policy, so they made no recommendations for any changes. So, I'll do the same thing is I'll update the review date on the policy. And um again, when we're audited, it'll show that we review the policy as required by statute. We do have a very good policy book and our nurses are exceptional, by the way. So, they do good work. Um EHA I'm going to go to EHA2. Uh, actually, let me see if I can >> What about the media consent and labor form? >> Did I miss one? >> Gh. >> Yeah, I'll I'll come back to those because they're kind of linked. Um, the one that this sits on is um is really

084linked to EHA, but what EH A2 is is um and you you actually have to go to since this is a exhibit, you have to go to the link and click on the link. you won't see any of the updated stuff on our policy handbook because it's an exhibit has to be sent in as a PDF. So, if you look at this one, it has been uh significantly updated. I'll just say that. Um Jeff has gone through this too and his updates don't show up on this. I have another updated copy. um bottom line to make sure that we're in line with current statute and that we are protecting all aspects of our student use student use agreement. And at the bottom of this is our parent and guardian acknowledgement. Um our our students sign

085a a internet use agreement and our parents sign an internet use agreement. So this will be roughly a totally updated policy um about uh technology use >> and and I know that this policy refers a lot to AI. >> Yes. >> Which I know what what's the expected timeline to get the AI policy. >> It's actually here too. >> Yes. I mean to get it completed and approved. >> It's IK it'll be approved in second reading in June if you approved first reading today. >> Correct. That one's coming. Yeah, we do not have currently have a policy with AI. Um Jiren and I started working on that. I sent him a a a draft policy months ago before the legislative session was really wound up because we needed a policy on AI. There's so many

086things coming in so fast. Um and so the draft policy I found was Wyoming school boards. There's another one. I think John says you you've got one you'd like to look at and add some things, but let's get to that. Any questions about eh aa exhibit 2? >> No. Okay. Eh aa technology use. This is simply a form and the only thing that was changed was we added social media. Uh do does it need to be in more detailed to define what social media is? You know, Instagram, Facebook, something like that. >> It always could, but sometimes it's better to leave in general cuz if you start going specific and you miss one. >> Yeah. Okay. >> It allows us to be flexible. And again, this is a a media consent waiver form. Bottom line,

087if we are going to film a student, we need to get these signed. And that's part of our FURPA commitments, too. This has been in place. Again, I don't know why it was important to add social media, but apparently someone in the state felt it was. So, this is one of those things that we've had to add. >> So, I just got one more question. Yes, please. I know when I go to the website and I see a lot of photos of of our children, students on the website. Do do we have permission to put that on the on that public? You know what I mean? Yes. The school district. So what we do is we send out our FURPA notification in the summer. It's goes in the newspaper and we post it on our

088website and with FURPA that's confidentiality and the rights of individuals. If they don't want their image, likeness, even their grade reports, uh honor role, they just have to sign off that they don't want those used, we won't use them. So it is a passive um acceptance. Um, but the one that you're looking at, this media consent form, goes beyond that. If you're going to use a student in a video, not just in the background in a picture, you need to get more consent than the purple consent. >> And we have had individuals that said, "I don't want my son or daughter's image um >> anywhere public." And you you can there's reasons for that. And so, we honor that. It's not always easy to do, but we honor it. because uh our teachers do want

089to recognize their students. Okay. Um so if you notice on the cheat sheet I just put updated. It's a minor change, very minor, um but it needed to be added. So let's see. KG community use of school facilities. This is a lot to do about well it got really scary in the legislative session. Bottom line, there was a group in Cheyenne that wanted to use school facilities for free anytime they wanted. It happened to be um a community group that used the pools and the use of pools in our district is very very restricted because of the liability issue. Uh we allow it's not WAD anymore. I'm not sure what they call it. Um high octane soybeat whatever. um we allow them to use it, but they have very strict guidelines through the rec center

090and they have the um the liability insurance there. So, if you look down through here, um I thought we were going to lose our ability to charge uh you uh facility use fee. Um but if you look at the new language that the statute came out is we were already within that spectrum. Bottom line, if someone uses our facility and we charge them, they have a right to request an itemized copy and we only can charge them actual cost. >> Well, when you're talking about a facility like the high school where we use the gym and the auditorium, um actual cost is hard to figure when you talk about utilities, um restroom issues, custodial, all that. But we've already broken that out in our policy. So, it's all broken out by an hourly rate. We're

091very, very reasonable. You can use the auditorium for $500 a day. The cost of that alone is much more than that $500. >> Yeah. Um, but so we're within the law. You can see the green part here. Um, we added this because the Evston Rec Center is a good partner with us. What we allow the rec center to do is they have these traveling teams. We no longer schedule traveling teams. The rec center does and we charge a very limited fee for them to do that. The reason why we do that is the rec center has liability insurance. So now these traveling teams do not have to get their own liability insurance. They use the rec centers, but they have to pay a rec center fee. We in return charge the rec center a fee.

092And it is, if you remember, it is minimal. Um, but it is a fee that we're trying to recuperate some of those mill monies and that's part of the agreement that you'll approve next month. It's been a good partnership. I think it's worked well. Um, the nice thing is if it comes from the rec center, I just automatically approve it. Now, if the rec center has a let's just use um wrestling, they have a wrestling tournament on a Saturday. That is not within our agreement. that's outside the agreement and we just charge the regular fee for that Saturday use because of the expense to the school district but it is extremely uh reasonably priced I think it's a custodian has to be there because of life safety someone has to monitor the life safety systems

093so at least a custodian for the whole length of that um and then they clean up and and but anyway it's worked out well um I hope it's worked out well I haven't heard the complaint complaints that I have in the past. Our domes are continually used um which is what we wanted um by these traveling teams. I don't think there is a night that the turf dome isn't used. Baseball, softball, soccer. >> Is there someone that makes around and locks those up? Cuz other night >> must have been like 9:30 or something. One of them was white. They're supposed to the custodian that locks the building down should make the trip out there and lock them down. That's usually 10:30. >> Okay. >> That's the downside to those facilities that are not attached, >>

094right? >> Cuz I've gone there and they've been open too. So >> So there's no >> if the light ons you can >> you can tell cuz they glow. But uh that that's again I know Scott deals with that and takes pride in those facilities. So that's why we put cameras in there just in case someone gets in there when they're not supposed to be in there. It'd be the same as the whole school. If a custodian doesn't check every door, last person that left the door open, the school's open all night. So, and I don't like getting those calls from the police officers at 2:30 in the morning that say, uh, the high school doors wide open. >> Been there. >> Yeah, you have. You've got them, too. I'm sure. So anyway, any questions

095about facility use? Again, policy work we did and the work with the rec center because we don't anyone can use our facility. They just have to um hit our policy. Our policy is very good. It cannot be for profit. So we don't have to worry about someone making money in our auditorium. Um it has to be a community event. They have to have insurance. um and they pay a reasonable fee and it's been a really good policy. So anyway, moving on. Uh student absences and excuses. You can see that this one is also just some minor changes. Really what this deals is with the law change. It's not a law change. It's just an emphasis that um to the end parents and guardians are expected to ensure that their children attend school regularly and comply

096with applicable attendance requirements. The district's school shall be equally free and accessible to eligible ch eligible children attending school on a full-time and part-time basis subject to applicable law and regulations of the board of trustees. This is an outreach of the homeschool and um private school, charter school work that uh has been done. The policy, most of the policy changes you see add the words full-time, part-time, and we've always done that. We've allowed homeschool kids into our schools forever. Um, if you listen to the legislation this year, it's more of an emphasis on younger uh, grades. Uh, typically the homeschool kids that use our facilities or use our programs are um, activities um, music. Uh, but now they're really pushing this down to the elementary where you can come in for um, music or PE

097every other day or whatever. So, um, they really have increased the rights of those homesooled kids into our facilities and we've never had a problem with that. If it becomes a problem, then we we'll deal with it then. Any questions? We still have a huge emphasis on attendance. Okay. IG co-curricular and intercolastic activities. Intercolastic activities. It's the same language. Bottom line, students participating in activities governed by Wyoming High School shall also satisfy any statutory amateur status requirement. This deals with the new um statute that's students in high school have to be amateur athletes. They can't be paid for uh NIL. It's I think this was one of the good things that came out of that. We we want them to be amateurs. So that's why that was added to that policy. Any questions? Keep going

098then. Right. Okay. Uh J compos JA compulsory attendance agents. This is the one that just adds the same language. Nothing in this policy shall be interpreted to prohibit attendance on a part-time basis where permitted by law and district regulations. That's right out of statute. Uh graduation requirements. This one, this one makes me a little nervous when the state starts making changes that impacts our graduation policy. It makes me nervous and the high school is going to have to pay attention to this because there are some differences. Um, I put IKF together I don't know how many years ago and it really hasn't been modified a great deal since then when I was in the high school. So, 20 24 something. Um but what has changed now is um just the opportunity for kids to get

099additional credits. Um you just heard we had a student with 54 college credits. Well, how all that works together has to be lined out. So my guess is the high school is going to have to look at this. This one has to be in place by 71. No, I think we have a year to do this. But this starts out with statutory language and the high school can work through it, make changes um that they feel is necessary. But this is the statuto statutory language. They are going to have to be able to define this. Where they typically define this would be in their course description book. They give those every year and that's really the the procedure part of policy. And that book is very valuable and and so they'll have to do some

100work. But it makes me nervous when the state starts manipulating our graduation requirements. But these are pretty good. I don't see any Jeff additions, so he must have been okay with them. Um, IH AK is a brand new policy. Um, and if you notice, I do think um, this one didn't format the right way. We'll have to do some work on it, but I thought Jeff had made some changes. It looks kind of funny the way it didn't format. We're still figuring out assembly. And John, I I think you said you had some recommendations. I I did I do did do um kind of where I put it. Uh yes, it was one it was regarding with the with making additions as as it uh applies to compliance with sens sensitive or pornographic material laws.

101That's not in the AI policy. There's another school district that put that in there. Um there that's that's one. And then um that students who do present AI generated content um that they identify what is content they got from AI and and then what's their original work and >> and I I've seen that one of our other policies that's a crosswalk but it's not in this one. So I think it's good we put it in this one too. >> Yeah. And then uh there was one other I I I I actually sent it from my work email to to uh >> Jiren. >> Yes. >> Okay, good. >> I sent three of them to two. >> Okay. Will you send those to me, too? And I'll get them in here. >> We'll do. >> Okay.

102I think it's it's a pretty straightforward policy. Like I said, Wyoming school boards, it doesn't look like this normally. Sorry, but uh it just formatted weird. Any questions about that? We do not have an AI policy, so we felt uh we needed to put one in place. So, we have time to um make changes as we see fit. >> When does this have to be in place? >> I don't think I think this was our choice. >> Okay. >> Um we were told we had to have one, but it's our choice. So, uh I I think what the plan would be is to put it place to see if it works. Um and because we're going to learn a lot about AI. Yeah. Um coming up the bad side and the good side, right? >>

103Yeah. Uh E A G. Uh this is a specialized um one from And if you notice, you can see here there's actually uh E E A G E1 which is reimbursement for parental travel. It's a form and E E A G E2. Um maybe that's the form, but the other one, let me I'll just show you what they look like. Um this is something that sharing with Matt, we we do not have in place. In other words, if you have a student that has an IEP and you are required to attend a meeting in Casper, u you can seek reimbursement. So that's all this does, required by federal law. So, this is a compliance document. This is straight from Wyoming school boards and so is the um exhibits that are with them. PDF on that.

104Oh, this like I said is a PDF. So, the only way you can get to PDFs, let's see if I can get there. Yeah, this this not going to show it, but these are um How do I get So, I'm pretty sure this won't be either. Yeah, I can't. Thank you. >> Yeah, they're just lower on our page. >> What's that? >> They're just lower. There's a blank page. They're a blank page. If you scroll down, this the second page on there shows up. >> Scroll down. >> Oh, there they are. >> Yeah, >> that's crazy. >> So, they are just uh forms to use that Matt will have in place in his handbook for reimbursement. Pretty straightforward. Something we've we've had in the past. We just have always provided reimbursements. Um if you have

105a student in CBV and you go pick them up, we'll reimburse you for the travel. So, that is it. Um, that's a lot. There are eight to approve, 12 on the list because two of them you don't need to approve because there are no changes. I'll just update them. Again, what I'll do is clean these up um and put them back in assembly so you have all month to look at them before they're approved in June and add second reading. We do have another one coming. I think I put it at the bottom of the list is IHBI, which is another one dealing with special education that is required by the federal code, but we weren't quite ready for that one. So, it'll come first reading in June, second reading in June. Any other any

106questions? Thank you for your patience on those. >> Okay. >> Um, are there any public comments? Moving on. >> Okay. Apparently, we do have public comments coming right now. >> Brad Francis, 603 Twin Ridge Avenue, Evston, Wyoming. Uh, madame vice chair, members of the board. Did I say that? I said that right. Okay. I wanted to make you aware of something that maybe would have flown under the radar a little bit, but I thought was really cool. Today the high school hosted a student council conference for all the elementary schools and middle schools and they brought us all the kids up there learned leadership skills got them uh excited about the high school I think and all these different activities and things that they could do brand new thing that they've done I think created

107a great partnership between schools a great opportunity for kids so I just want to thank the high school for doing that and uh hope it continues in the future but that's everything for me >> thank letting us know that. >> Okay. Any other public comments? Um Dave asked me to read this and it's in regards to Donna Bruce and Ryan Thomas. and it says, "WHSAA board and Commissioner Wilson, I am requesting consideration of gold cards for two of my longtime team members. I am sad to say both are retiring after over 25 years as employees of UA County School District number one and tremendous supporters of Wyoming High School activities. Donna Bruce and Ryan Thomas have decided to hang up their sneakers and megaphones for their rocking chairs. Our community and our state will be

108losing tremendous fans as well as people who have worked not only for Evston, but also for the kids of Wyoming. Superintendent Thomas has been a coach, teacher, principal, superintendent, and football and basketball official for well over 30 years, all in Wyoming. Ryan had four kids who participated in WHSA activities and had traveled throughout the state, not only working for Evston kids, but for all kids. Ryan has been a varsity football official officiating games for all schools in southwest Wyoming from 1A6 man to 4A and everything in between. Mr. Thomas is a class act who has done the work worthy of recognition. Donna Bruce needs nothing said about her and her service to our activity community from border to border. She has served as the activities assistant and some would say the director of activities for

10926 years, nearly as long as an official at all levels of volleyball. I could write a book upon everything Donna has done for Evston and our state as she is the MVP of my world. We talk about people who are the face of an organization. Well, Donna is the happiest, friendliest, and most passionate face of our organization. There has been none more deserving of this honor than Donna Bruce. I hope you consider both of these deserving individuals for the honor of holding a WHAA gold card. Donna and Ryan are superstars who I believe are worthy. And that's um from Bubba O'Neal. So, we would like to present you with a lifetime gold card pass. So, if Ryan can come up here, I don't think Don is here. >> Oh, okay. >> So, cool. Thank you.

110>> Congratulations. Springfield. All right. Any other public comments? All right. Moving on to our action items. A is personnel. >> Madam vice chair, members of the board, we do have two resignations that I recommend that you approve. >> Okay. >> We'll we'll do those two. We'll do them. We'll do them all. We'll do those separate recommendations, the resignations. >> Okay. Okay. So, I need a motion to approve the resignations. >> So, move. >> Okay. A second. >> Second. >> All right. We have a first and a second. Any discussion? >> Yeah. >> Camille Sturgis from the high school. She's an Horizon. She's an ELA teacher. And Logan D's fourth grade teacher. We kind of knew we'd lose Logan. He's from Cokeville. Yeah. He's going back to Cokeville. Yeah. Okay. Okay. >> All right. All in

111favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? Motion carries. >> Okay. Any contracts or the >> Yes, we recommend that you approve the contracts. I'm going to read their names and you don't need to put them in there, but I'm just I more importantly what they're doing. Kayla Young is the strings teacher. Dustin Blair is a director of special education replacing Matt. Andy Flake is a kindergarten teacher. Candace Francis is speech language pathologist assistant. Um Sydney Hansen, speech language policy pathologist assistant. Celeste Hatch is instructional assessment facilitator. Nicole Robinette is dean of students at the high school. Tyler Hume is math teacher at the high school. Rebecca Cook is second grade teacher at Aspen Elementary. >> Okay. >> I still think we have a couple positions to fill, but this keeps us moving forward. Okay, I need

112a motion to approve the contracts as read. >> Okay, a second. >> Second. >> Okay. All in favor or any discussion? >> Okay. All in favor? >> I. >> And those opposed? >> Okay. Motion carries. All right. Item B, approve changes, additions, and draft policies on first reading. So item A, EA, >> I recommend you approve them all in one shot. >> Oh, okay. Not individually. >> Motion to approve the changes as a group. >> Second. >> Motion. >> Hey, we have a first and a second. Any discussion? >> Okay. Those in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? Hey, motion carries. Perfect. Thank you for doing it that way. All right. And so that's it. We have the board round table. >> Yep. >> Yeah, I do. I have comment. Um, we we have come

113to a uh conclusion and have gotten acceptance for all of the Evston Hall of Fame inductees for this year. So I would like to read them and uh a little bit of uh information about about them. Uh we have the 9899 boy state championship golf team. We have a gentleman by the name of Charles Alexander who uh graduated in 1947. >> Um and that obviously that will be aostimous award. >> Oh he is not kidding. Uh no no and we have anotherostimous award uh a gentleman by the name of Paul Mills. Uh we we have a uh a gentleman by the name of Mike Sunberg who is a 1961 graduate who was very interesting in the fact that he uh uh graduated from high school, went to work for uh uh the Union Pacific Railroad

114and through the years uh ended up uh with a engineering degree and then ended up with an engineering degree from MIT. uh he was he was the supervisor of all the engineers not the engineers on the trains but the engineers on the construction projects. >> Uh we have a gentleman by the name of Jason Puit who uh was a graduate of the uh uh US Air Force Academy and became a pilot and retired. Uh Clay Caswell >> class of 20 no 2000 wasn't he? No, I think it was >> 2019. >> Yeah, I think it was 19. Yeah. >> And and a gentleman by the name of Klay Caswell, who was an outstanding athlete and uh a track star on the upper level, uh met his wife recently. Uh has seven children. Uh not just

115sure that they will make the homecoming parade because uh uh son is playing high school football, but we'll be here for the banquet. uh Jamie Bounce who uh was a track uh outstanding track star here at Evston High School and then went on to Washington State. And the last one is a gentleman by the name of Rob Wallace who went through the uh 10th grade here and then uh family tradition he went to New Mexico Military Institute but uh uh worked for um now I hate this when you can't think of some things but uh ended up uh working for the uh uh Department of Interior in Jackson. He worked in the Trump administration uh in the first uh first goound and uh I didn't say anything about Mr. Alexander. Um he graduated with uh

116a degree in industrial management, went to work for Huelet Packard in its infant years. uh ended up being uh the worldwide uh person for uh Hulip Packard for at that time uh pocket calculators and that type of thing. Uh spent many years in uh uh overseas and his wife uh was able to uh do some fashion shows in Paris. So uh interesting people and uh we are excited to have them. Uh the banquet is Saturday, September 26th. That's homecoming weekend. And uh uh we made mention of Donna Bruce, and Donna's been very influential in helping us with our Hall of Fame and I I hope to uh keep uh her engaged with as as she moves on. And then the other thing uh that I want to uh uh talk about just just quickly is

117that we we try and keep the uh banquet uh uh ticket at $40. Uh obviously as time goes on uh the the menu increases, but uh we are able to uh uh sponsor a Hall of Fame golf tournament. It'll be October 1st on Saturday. Uh and then it will be a fun night on the 31st. Uh and that's kind of a fundraiser for us to offset some of the cost with the banquet to keep the price uh what it is. But uh would uh things will be out. Uh if you go to UA County School District number one website, go to the high school over on the right hand side. Uh there is a website for the Hall of Fame and the information will be on there. So, I'm sorry I took up a little

118bit longer than I I thought I would, but uh thank you. >> I'd just like to say one thing. Um referencing the student council activity that happened today. Uh Remy came home from school, was speaking very very highly of it and uh had the impression that it was something that was beneficial and we should probably continue. >> That's great to be here. Anybody else? >> I'd like to say one thing, maybe two things. One has to do with Dan's involvement with that whole process. Takes a lot of work. Been there, done that to some degree. And I commend him. Commend him on his effort to do it. If I got it right, Dan, you were a graduate graduate of Evston High School 1966. Was it 65? That was close. >> Yep. Yep. Just want to

119thank you for a job well done. And the other thing I want to share a snippet on Mr. Thomas. And him and I know this because it was kind of interesting. Shows what kind of a guy he really is because this had nothing to do with being a superintendent. We were coming back from Casper and we got to this last sister. Brian knows what I'm going to say. When we got we couldn't get over it, so we decid decided to take a side road. We were wandering off in linement or anyway off into nowhere land and it got so bad the snow was coming down so bad. We're in a school district car of course and Ryan gets out to try to make things clear and I happen to have this big old coat of

120mine and I gave it to him. He went out there, put it over his head and it was just miserable weather and I thought for sure to this day that we were going to spend the night there and so did he. and he tried to get us out, but you won't believe this. What was about 30 minutes after that, this truck comes out out of nowhere >> and got us safe. >> And I I think God had a lot to do with that one. That's my personal opinion. But Brian was the effort to try to get that done. And he was a true man of his >> policy and life. I appreciate him. I've known him a long time. We go back a long ways. I just want to publicly express that. Ryan, >> thank

121you. I I I have one comment to follow up on that. Um, I did not know Ryan real well and we had three or four trips to Casper and back where I learned a lot about a lot about him and his life. And uh, it was on one of those trips that he came up with the idea of of uh, the using the ESER funds to give to the the teachers and everyone involved with the school district. So, uh, yeah, I I I enjoyed the trips. Thank you. >> I still have some time left. I know. But you know what I'm saying. >> I appreciate Madam Vice Chair. I do have a plaque for Dominic Stewart. So Dominic is our student representative, but uh Remy uh just want to express appreciation for Remy being here.

122Absolutely. >> And uh doing that, too. So, is Dom Dominic was he? >> Okay. We don't get that information, but uh Remy, thank you for being here. Um I hope it's something in terms of the student representative we continue. So, um we'll get this to Dominic. It may not be anything to him, but uh we appreciate that. That's all I had. >> Okay. And uh David and I share the same sentiment and I told him that I would make mention of it during the board round table, not to end on a negative note, but um just to implore people to pay attention to who you're voting for. Um, I'm a conservative and I believe in less government and I think anyone that has their name associated with the Freedom Caucus, we need to be very

123cautious that we are looking into those people and making sure that we're making a wise decision when we're voting because a lot of them made cuts just to make a point or send a message. and that that is not that is not someone that we should be voting for. Um it didn't just affect education. I work at the circuit court and the cuts that they made to the Wyoming Highway Patrolman. Um they just it's ridiculous the cuts they made and a lot of it was just to drive us home. So I would just implore you to please do your research and make sure you know who you're voting for. Not that the state doesn't have the money. >> Right. Exactly. >> The part is hard to solve. >> Yeah. That's what's frustrating. >> Publicly, tomorrow

124is an important date. Tomorrow, if you have not registered to vote or if you are changing your party affiliate affiliation, you need to do that tomorrow. >> Um, primary election, we just sent that out to staff is 18th of August. But if you're registered to vote, you can start the 21st of July and do uh vote at the courthouse. It is really, really slick. >> Um, >> and you do have to have ID, which I appreciate for the state of Wyoming. >> Um, but you guys realize the candidates are selected at the primary. They're not really elected at the general election, which is November 3rd. But uh we need to as a school district we have a huge block of vote in terms of education friendly individuals. Um and that would be my hope is

125that we do find those that are uh friendly to education. We'll support what needs to move forward with our staff and our students and uh um like I said tomorrow is kind of where that starts. So >> and the school board will not be on the primary regular but people need to realize that. I think you have until August >> August 15th >> August 17th to to put in for school board. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Thank you. I promise I would motion to >> Okay. I need a motion to adjourn. >> Second that motion. >> Okay. I have a first and a second. Any discussion? >> All in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? >> Motion carries. Thank you. If you could find out what happened today, >> I don't know. >> I don't have

126but I am going to make