001Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. Heat. Heat. I am happy. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Heat. You get up because water. >> It's a good start to life. All righty. It is 6:03 and I need to apologize cuz Jiren and Jenny made us late today. So, we had to take care of some stuff in executive session. >> I'll tell you later. Um, but I need to call to order uh the Uni County School District number one board of trustees uh school board meeting.
002I need a motion to go into that meeting. So moved. >> Second. >> I have a motion by Brian. I have a second by Jenny. Any discussions? >> All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? >> Eyes have it. Motion carries. Please join me for the pledge of allegiance. >> I aliance 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. >> Thank you. I need a motion to adopt uh the agenda for today. Um >> Mr. Chairman, I move that we adopt the agenda as presented. I have a motion. >> Second. >> I have a motion by Dave. I have a second by Dan. Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any
003opposed? Eyes have it. Motion carries. This is the first meeting I've been to. I can actually hear the speakers. Speakers. >> Well, I finally turned my mic on. >> Oh, was that what it is? >> It's been your fault, fellas. [Music] I need a motion to approve the consent agenda items. Uh A, minutes approval. B payment of bills three, special education related service contracts. D approve second reading of the JJIF R1 and DE1 sports medicine concussion protocol. And E, permission to excise equipment from the trans transportation department. >> Mouthful. You're supposed to repeat that, please. Uh-huh. Yeah. >> I have a motion. >> Second that motion. >> Have a motion by Brian, second by Dave. Any discussion? >> None. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Eyes have it. Motion carries. We
004will now move on to our presentations. >> Chairman Peterson, members of the board, I would like to uh introduce our district teacher of the year, Crystal Peterson. Crystal, come on up. We have already given Crystal a plaque. Um, but we just like to give her an opportunity to say whatever she wants to say. Or Pat, you're going to say something first. Okay, >> that even works better. >> I would love to. Um, I'm here representing Epson Middle School. It is my privilege and honor to introduce Crystal, not only as a teacher, but as a person. just kind of getting to know Crystal. Uh I've gotten to know Crystal over the last few years. Wonderful family, got two unbelievable daughters, a new granddaughter and an adult male child that still lives at home. Um and with
005all of that, she still is able to be an unbelievable amazing teacher. she just this last year uh in the white top and it's funny because we right before the white top came in I know that Crystal was just panicking scared to death about how her students were going to do come to find out 69% of her students came in as advanced proficient which is about 14% higher than the state >> at least 14% higher than the state not only that 40% or 40 students were advanced, which is amazing. Just awesome. Uh, as I've kind of gotten to watch Crystal and the things that she does that's just so amazing. Number one is the relationships that she builds with our students. She sets super high expectations and her students know what those expectations are. She
006holds them to it day in and day out. And there is not a lot of waiver. >> It's they know what's expected in her class each and every day. and they know what they're going to get by going into that class. She holds holds the students, she holds my feet to the fire about what we need to be doing at school. And she is very much a trusted person in my eyes. We have amazing amazing staff at Evston Middle School. And Crystal is just kind of the tip of the sword of those whole people. Um she's part of our guided coalition. Um, just so you know, as a board, I've actually offered her a 10-year contract because I think that's how many years I've got left, and she can't leave until I'm about done. Um,
007I got to really kind of work with Crystal one-on-one when I first came in and I was a middle school track coach. And to see how co uh, coach Peterson just even works with students in in extracurricular activities. She coaches volleyball, she does track in the spring, and then math counts through the year. is always somebody that kind of brings in a schedule two weeks ahead. Here's what we're doing. You know, the organization of Miss Peterson. I know she It's amazing to me how organized she is. Um, but I feel truly lucky to not only get to know Crystal, um, consider her friend, but also be a colleague of hers. And, uh, so Crystal, congratulations and you're very welld deserving. Thank you. All right. Pat doesn't know this, but I have a scheduled two options
008for homecoming already. I tried to find him a couple days ago and he was busy. So, I've got two options to give to him. No, this is really quite an honor. I was quite surprised when Pat called me. I was headed home from LeBarge and out of service and he turned back around so I could see what do you need? What do you need? So, I could get in service and he told me that recognition. So I I felt very honored and and um very surprised by that. Um he's uh shared a lot of things that yeah I'm kind of an organizer but really I'm just one of the the people involved. I work with an amazing staff. Um I work hard. I ask my enrichment team to do a lot and they do. They
009really support me. It's just not a one person. It takes a village, right? And so I'm super excited to accept this um recognition and recognize all of Eston Middle School for everything that we're able to accomplish. And I'm just glad to be there and to be able to be a part of the lead t team and and kind of help things push forward. And I do have three years left counting this one. So thank you so much. It's been it's a good ride and a good thing. Thanks. >> Hold on. Say something if I could. >> Yeah. I I would just like to say that in in this world there is a small subset of people whose whose personal character and integrity and and skills and dedication stand out and and are far above the
010norm and above reproach and I just want to say that I feel like you are definitely and unquestionably one of those people. >> Thank you. Thanks. I just wanted to add is uh as district teacher of the year, she qualifies to uh to apply for Wyoming teacher of the year and I think she has an outstanding chance. Um we've had several teachers of the year before and and uh um Crystal definitely has everything that's needed. But the interesting part is she has to put the application together. So I really would encourage that she do do that with support of her principal and and put in for Wyoming Teacher of the Year. >> Okay. Well, if it involves scheduling. >> Okay, you're good. Get a scheduling. >> All right. Well, thank you. >> Thank you. >>
011I say one thing before we leave. I'm going I'm going to beat up on my wife here. >> No, I I I absolutely love Crystal to death, but the one thing that people have to realize is she has a sweet little demeanor about her when she's out in public, but when she is home, she is ultra uh competitive. So when the white top scores come out, she's on it right then. Where am I? Where am I at? And then she the next thing she does is she looks at Davis Middle School. And so she's always competing against Davis to see where they're at. And if she happens to be a little bit behind in the past, she she she sucked it up next year to make sure that she was going to beat Davis and
012and and her kids were going to outdo Davis. So >> just a couple points. >> I know you in the past. So, but there was >> Yeah, but just the competitiveness and I I love you and and thank you. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. Thanks everyone. Next one. >> All right. Presentations. Now we will move on uh to the white results. members of the board. This is we do this annually every year once the results came out and uh we asked uh assistant superintendent Rigby and Engles to do this for us. So I think we have really good news. All right. Okay. So, Chairman Peterson, members of the board, it's our appreciate the opportunity to share uh this year's data with you. Um it's actually last year's uh results from the YOP
013as well as the school accountability reports. And so, um, let's go to the first. Okay. So, in terms of school accountability, um, elementary through 8th grade all have the exact same accountability measures. So, that's why you see, um, the four elementaryaries and the two middle schools group together. You can see that all of the schools are meeting expectations. Uh you can see that EMS uh is exceeding expectations as an overall school rating. So doing some amazing things. Um the challenge there is to to stay there. It's it's it's one thing to get to that exceeding uh ranking, but it's another thing to stay there because it's hard to meet the growth requirement within that if you're achieving at a high level. So um and then you can see the areas that that we still need
014to work on there as well. Um, Evston High School is a partially meeting uh, school this year. Uh, you can see that the achievement is meeting, but the growth and the equity were below target, and that's what kept them from meeting expectations. You can see they're exceeding in 9th grade credits. And I'm going to I'm going to talk to this in just a minute, but I'm going to use some other data to to kind of drive that point home. >> Remind me what equity means again. Equity is so the the students that perform on the white top in the bottom 23% or the the 23rd percentile and below across the state that is a category of students or a subgroup of students that are are considered equity students. So the competition as as chairman Peterson
015mentioned is that they don't have to become proficient. You just have to So if a a student had a scale score of 200, all of the students that are at the 200 scale score are competing against each other to see who grows the most. And if your student grows more than the average student that was at the 200 scale score, then you can get out of the equity piece. So it's it's it's actually designed and quite honestly the white top I wasn't going to talk about it but the white top is norm it it's it's competing against yourself all the time and and I'll address that here in just a few minutes and the equity and growth are very similar only the equity is that 23%. So you become part of cohorts based upon your
016previous year scores. you out scored then you're above that 50th percentile then you you get credit that's built into the formula your school so interestingly enough DMS was a not meeting school last year and they are a meeting school this year the reason they were not meeting last year was because of ELLL which was not even applicable this year so it it in terms of how they calculate these scores it's it's really it's hard to explain I don't know. I don't know that anybody could to be honest with you. >> And your ELLL population below target. Again, we don't know the exceeding. North does an incredible job, but I think all of our schools do a nice job. Our ELL team meets on a regular basis as a PLC and so they're offering very similar
017programs to all our schools. So, uh you can see that uh again, North was exceeding there, but the others remaining and DMS is not applicable. The reason it's not applicable, it didn't have a cohort larger than 10. It seems like we had a conversation one time last year or something that that the objectives of ELLL were difficult to meet that there was there was some difficulty in the structure or something as you continue to move up and as you try to pass the access test and that's what determines whether you're continuing to be qualified as an ELLL student becomes more challenging as the years go on. So if you get out of middle out of the elementary and you haven't passed that it becomes pretty rigorous and challenging to do because you start to add
018all of the other nine the other content areas right so it is very difficult horizon uh meeting expectations uh PSR is uh postsecary readiness so things like um CTE industry recognized credentials is a way that you earn post-secary readiness um scoring and then credits earned just the ability um to make sure that students are on track to meet graduation requirements. Uh this right here is is really something that Wyoming should be quite proud of and as you're going to look later as you look at our data, we should be very proud of being above average of the state average and and reading in math at almost every grade level. You're going to notice that that tells you how we would rank across the country. This is our NAPE score. It's really what's given uh our
019schools participate in it in on a regular basis. What it does is is really takes a look at Wyoming. It's interesting. It says here Wyoming is fifth, but then if you look in the star uh on this particular chart, it says they are fourth. So uh they are fourth. uh as you you look at them coming across sometimes we've been second in the country the one state that seems to always be at the top anyone have a guess >> Massachusetts though chose years ago when they were required under No Child Left Behind to have a state assessment they chose the NAPE assessment as as their state assessment and have continued to do that. So therefore, they take that NAPE assessment and their standards are aligned to that. So of course, they're going to do better
020because they're better aligned to the assessment that they're utilizing to determine how states are doing across the country. Wyoming is one of the few states in the western United States that competes with the Massachusetts, Minnesota's up there as well at this point in time. But consider that we're fifth in the country as it states here. and we as a district are currently about above average uh in comparison to the state. So says something about the education providing also continue to keep in mind and not that as as we look at stores as we look at our accountability we are between 58 and 60% free and reduced lunch which is a poverty indicator. I know that sometimes people say well that's that's what it is. However, poverty does make an impact on education. When those kids
021come into kindergarten and you have a difference between a 500word vocabulary and a 5,000word vocabulary, there's a huge difference. Uh, so economic status does make a difference. We do an incredible job in preparing kids and moving them through our system. So, questions on that and on Navy. All right. So this is this is what really interesting, right? So um there are seven states that require all students to take the ACT. Of those seven states, Wyoming is number one >> in in terms of ACT performance and college and career readiness. That's pretty cool, right? This is what our legislature continues to not pay attention to. The NAPE scores. We're fourth in the country as a state. We're number one on the ACT of the seven states that require all of their students to take the ACT.
022When Dr. Engles talked about, right, our are and we'll show you when we talk about our white top scores and I mentioned it's a normed test. A normed test means that 50% of the kids are design by design of the assessment not going to be proficient. And so we continue to push our kids and our goal is to always be above average, right? But if you look at the averages when we show you our white top scores, you'll notice that they're always between the state average is always between 45 and 55%. That's by design. They change the test every year. If kids do really well on this particular domain, Crystal can tell you this. She knows it. If they do really well on this domain as a state, if the state is above average, they'll
023change the cognitive demand of the questions that are aligned to that domain so that more kids get them wrong. And so we do extremely well. So when the legislature says, well, third grade reading only 55% of our kids are reading at proficient level. Well, if if our kids took a different state's test that wasn't norm, they would perform much higher, right? So, the the point is we have a lot to be proud of, not only in our district, but as a state in terms of the education that we're providing for our students and and our legislature really needs to take note of that. And I think sometimes proficiency is the goal or being advanced, but those kids who are basic, you have some kids who are right on that cusp. it may have been a
024question that kept them from being from basic to proficient. And so we try to watch that number as well and the percentage of students who are within that basic range, the ones we're really concerned about. And those are primarily our equity kids who make up that well below group. But again, because a student's basic doesn't mean that student can't read. And I think that's the language that is sometimes used in certain circles that well kids can't read. Well, they didn't read proficiently on that day to meet the criteria that was set. And again, you're going to look at some of our third grade scores. They had eight passages on their their reading assessment. That's a lot for a third grade. Think these are nine year olds and you're sitting down and they're trying to to
025pass this. We don't look at the assessment. We don't spend any time count. But we do know really the structure of what those kids are being required to do and and it's a pretty heavy load. Again, the whole state has that same that same load as as we all right. Does anybody notice the paradox here? Paradox. >> Southwest High School was a partially meeting school using the Wyoming state accountability system. US News World and Report has them as the fourth best high school in the state of Wyoming. Right? So what is that based on? It's based on AP scores. A the number of students that you have taking advanced based placement courses, the number of students that are passing their AP exams. And so there is a lot to be proud of at Evston High
026School. Okay. So, um, and what's interesting about that when I dug into the data, we actually have a higher college and career, uh, percentage than Sheridan does. And we always compete against, >> right? So, they beat us in some other areas, but I had to point out we did beat them in college and career readiness percentages. >> All right. So, just real quick, here is this is our secondary schools. Um, and you can see, right, DMS is red, EMS is blue, the state is brown. Um, you can see, again, if you look at the state averages across the board, it's between 45 and 55% typically, right? And so the ones that have hearts next to them are our goal is to always be at least 5% above the state average, right? That's our that's our
027our goal every year. And where you see the hearts are those scores that were above 5% beyond. Right? So you can see um and and quite honestly in a single testing in a single subject school like our middle schools you know had already identified it. So those were crystal scores at 69% proficient or advanced students. >> Oh those are still mine. All right. So there's our ELA scores again higher, right? And you can see um again where the hearts are, that's where we met that goal of being 5% above the state average. We have amazing ELA teams that are doing some amazing work that I'm extremely proud of. As you can see with our science, uh you're looking at there's only one grade in elementary that's tested in science. That's fourth grade. Eighth grade is
028tested at the middle school and then you look at the 10th grade scores that are there. Uh phenomenal what happens. Consider that uh these kids are coming into science maybe at Clark they might get it two days a week and at some of the schools it might be three days a week that they're getting that four days every fourth day you might be getting that at night. So keep that in mind as as you look at those scores. But, uh, love the hearts. Uh, and again, three of those elementaryaries and was really close in being 5% above what the state averages. And you can take a look at our our math proficiency levels. And uh again, if you're going to look at that 5% range across, I just didn't know how to put the little
029hearts in uh above some of those or we may have had blue hearts up above, but uh I just didn't ask Doug how to put the hearts. So, you can see that our scores sometimes our scores are are staggered a little bit, but you can see that this year you may be at a 45%, next year you might be at a 60%. Some of that is the group of kids that you have sitting down to take that assessment as they're coming through there. There's good work happening at all of our elementary schools and uh and you can see that across the board with our math proficiency there. And there you can see our ELA ELA as well. Again, keep in mind that every one of our schools, they met their accountability measures as meeting or
030in some cases exceeding depending on the area that they indicated that they're working in. So, uh, proud of the work that our schools are doing, proud of the work that our our leadership is providing, and, uh, that in and of itself is here. We'd like to recognize those school leaders and the staff for the e effort and the commitment for all the students that we have in county school district number one. And I do want to emphasize the importance that we place on all students. Our guarantee is that all of our kids are in the court. And that's something that we have said for for years. That was a shift that we made. And uh and those kids received core instruction at grade level. They also have the opportunity for interventions that may fill some
031of those need gaps by skills and by standards, but keep in mind that our kids are in the core receiving core instruction. That means tier one, lots of different things that you say, but they are there receiving that instruction. questions that you have for us and welcome. It's good to see you. Thank you. >> Yeah. Yeah. You're done. We're going to have him introduce himself. >> Just having people come walk up on the >> Oh, sorry. Yeah. I think it's interesting the states that were listed >> uh they seem to be states that are more rural in their than their structure >> and uh I think those that helps a lot in Wyoming because we have a lot of independent thinking and I think you see that in what the uh request or demands for
032the students to compete. >> Absolutely. >> You know, we're we're we're a little more aggressive. You're talking about the seven states that require the ACT. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The ACT. >> That's interesting because, you know, it used to be everybody, >> right, >> to some degree. >> The states on the on both coasts will use SAT. >> So, the East Coast states will require the SAT. Uh, New Mexico requires the SAT. >> Yeah. >> Um, so it just depends on the the state >> where you're at. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Good job. Other questions? >> Yep. >> Thank you very much. >> Hey, thank you. >> Great. There you go. >> The floor is now yours. >> Yeah, it seems on. You're good. >> Just bend it over where it's close
033to you. >> You need to use your bra. >> Oh, yeah. >> Oh, I'm Dominic Stewart. I'm the student body president down at Evston High School. >> Oh, sorry I'm a bit late. I had I was at football practice, so I tried getting over here as fast as possible. >> Thank you. >> Good reason. >> Say your name again. I didn't catch it. >> Dominic Stewart. >> Thank you. >> So, who do you play Friday? >> Riverton. Yeah, Riverton. >> Here or there? >> Here. >> All right. >> I knew that, but >> Well, Dominic, welcome. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. So, you made that long bus trip last weekend. >> I did play though. >> Okay. >> But long ways to go. >> No, we had an interesting conversation with a a a
034person of renown in Utah and it turned out they were a Ben Lman fan. >> And was an interesting discussion that we had [Music] Well, thank you. We We'll see you every month. >> Don't be tardy. >> You can be. >> Sick Mrs. Peterson on you. Okay, we will now move on to our discussion items. I'm not throwing under the bus again. [Music] >> All right, Chairman Peterson, members of the board, um, Superintendent Thomas has asked that I come and talk about just the projects that we did in over the summer. You'll notice in your assembly packet um that list and that doesn't represent everything. Um, basically what I've got is anything above really about $1,500 and above. um which represents about 26 projects that we worked on from the start of uh summer break
035and continuing through through this fall. Um a lot of uh funds were spent on just repairs throughout the district on different asphalt um trying to take care of as many potholes as we possibly could um in the big areas there. built another timeout room um for our special services department, added a handicap approach um that at the time UN Meadows was built wasn't required um but due to the nature of some of the students we have felt that it was a good um addition for UN Meadows as well as a handicap door closure um that they actually didn't have in the front and again wasn't required when UN Meadows was built at the time but will be a great um need for what they have right now. Did some sidewalk work um not only at
036Clark but just across the district as you can see. Um a lot of work um was spent or a lot of time was spent on the upgrade to Aspen fire alarm and that's a whole new system. Um the system that was in there was original and so that leaves me three more buildings left which is Davis which will happen this upcoming summer. North um and UN Meadows. And once we have those three, then we will have everything up to date and compliant with with code. Not that we're out of compliance right now. Um but the newer systems work so much better and we're able to determine zones a lot better. Um did some railing, step railing on the um bathroom partitions at North. I've got a two-year project over at the horizon on the roof
037repair. We did a part of it this summer and then we'll do the rest of it hopefully next summer. If you haven't seen um the continuation that we started last summer with the EHS stucco, we finished that on the gym entrance and then coming around, I'll call it the south lot um over there um where the stairs coming from the second floor come down all of that. And I think that turned out really really nice. Um, with that, I know questions have been asked why I went with tan and not red. Um, because um, the tan over time will stay tan. The red, although it might look good for a couple years, will fade to pink. And I did not want to create ourselves where we have to redo the red devils to the pink
038devils. So, we're going to stay with tan and keep it that. Um, >> could go with blue. >> Blue has a tendency to fade as well from that navy to light blue, but we could have. Yeah. >> Um, EHS a lot with the sprinkler project. What that is, and I know I've had um some individuals in the community asking what are we doing again at the entrance. We have now tied all of the uh sprinkler system um for the high school, which is our largest use of water from the domestic water system to the secondary RAW system, which is the same one that the uh golf course uses um for that. And so that should be a a savings um because the cost of that water is significantly reduced compared to the domestic. So that'll
039be a great thing. here. Is this why during the summer sometime we quit watering the grass? I mean it gets brown. Is there a reason for that? >> We are chasing some wiring issues. >> Oh, some of those then all of a sudden the sprinklers are working again. >> Yeah. >> Of course, you know, I live close to the >> It's a ghost in the night sometimes and >> ghost in the night. >> So again, we're dealing with a system that's 40 years old and and that wiring when it was put in was not put in in any conduit. it was just direct buried. And so replacing that has been just little by by little and what we can do. Um we're adding some more lockers to the EHS um PE area to account for
040um the increase numbers there. We did a huge project in the auditorium at the EHS. Again, original lighting was 40 years old and it's now all up to date um with new LED lighting in both the house lighting as well as a stage lighting. And so fantastic project that um I know both um our music department and our drama department, all of those teachers are are super excited about what that did in that change into the auditorium there. Um currently working on the DMSP lockers. Um they are backordered should be here probably in the next couple weeks. Right now we have them slated and working with um Mr. O'Driscoll and the PE department um to put those in starting over fall break and then finishing a week or two after that. While they are transitioning,
041they'll be using the um pool locker room. So they still will have a place where they can change and store their stuff. So, the students will be using that and then they'll be able to move into their to their new space once the new lockers are put in. Um DMS front doors, working on some more um duct work and heating and cooling at DMS. Um and then pad for the new cooler which we purchased which is a ConX cooler which is going to be a wonderful um piece of equipment. So if any of our existing coolers go out, we have a place to transition that food quickly and not lose the thousands and thousands of dollars, especially at Central Kitchen with the size of their cooler. And then um we had an emergency replacement of
042the EHS pool boiler. Um as we were doing some maintenance work this summer, um found out that it was failing. So we quickly um have ordered a new one that actually should be coming in anytime. I'm just waiting. They have everything prepped for it and then they'll put that in. Um and so as you can see, close to $2 million um being spent this year. The good news is is the um I don't know if it's part of the lawsuit or the generosity of our legislators, but um our major maintenance significantly went up um for this upcoming year, which is which is good. Hopefully, it'll continue to go up. The hard thing and as I've talked to the state, a lot of the projects we're dealing with are really um in regards to our heating
043and cooling HBAC which are expensive. Um we have two roofs that we need to work on and again really expensive. Um and a lot of it's due just the the age of the buildings. We have five buildings that were all built about the same time and so their age is getting getting up there. So that's a quick overview of kind of the summer projects. Do you have any questions for for me in regards to those projects that we've accomplished or currently working on? >> Major maintenance. You're getting 2 million in. Is that what you get every year? >> Right. >> So it actually has increased an addition almost an additional million. So, we're 2.9 um which is good, but >> for the coming year. >> Yes, for the coming year. >> Okay. That's why >>
044y 1.9 it is. It is awesome. Um two big projects that are coming up that we have component level funding. So, remember I get major maintenance from the state and then component level funding is outside of the major maintenance. Th those funds are determined by different FCI scores. Um and then the committee decides how those funds can be allocated across the state. So two component level projects that we have received funding for is uh Davis Middle School for next summer, an electrical upgrade. And so we'll be upgrading updating all of their outlets, their light fixtures, um their light switches, new fire alarm system, um and going through that. The other thing that we have received funding for is the roof. Now, what's unique about this is they gave us $3 million for the electrical upgrade
045and they gave me a million dollars for the roof. Those need to be >> the other way around. the other way around. >> But we're grateful for the funds they've given us. We'll do what what we can and um I'm hoping that if we can save some funds from our electrical upgrade, being able to have the conversation with them and saying, "Look, that roof's going to be 3 million, maybe four. Can we utilize those funds? We'll see what we can do. All we can do is ask and hope for the hope for the best. the roof a component of the electrical system that keeps the >> correct. I joked with the state and I said, "So, if I put um solar panels on there now, it's become an electrical project, which means in order for
046me to put those on, I'm going to have to redo the roof first." And they said, "Jiren, you're too creative. Can't do that. >> They have no sense." Yeah. So, >> so Jiren, the the 1.9 million, any of that uh major maintenance from last year or is it all this year? >> That's a great question, Dan. And and so what's difficult is I get my funds in July, >> right? >> So, I was actually spending some funds from last year trying to do projects in June and then I carry some of that fun fundage over to July. So, it's actually a mixture of fun. It's what was left over from last year than we started this year. Now, if you were to look at how we ended, um it was close to $2 million for
047the um 2425 year, we ended with just less than $100,000. So, I spent well every bit that I could. So, >> okay, cool. Great question. Other questions? >> Thank you. >> Appreciate it. Thank you. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Okay. >> Don't mind me. Are we ready? >> Yep. >> Chairman Peterson, members of the board, just uh pathway of excellence. This is when we approve it in September. Um just wanted to kind of remind you of the district goals. You'll have an opportunity when the principles present their goals to you. uh you know we we'll start that next month and so you'll see the building goals uh up close and personal but just to point out the first goal we've had for a while is the idea that in the state accountability system uh for
048all content areas will meet or exceeds categories this is the best we've ever done closest we've ever come and um it is a moving target as you can see but that needs to be our expectation that we're me exceeds in all categories that will continue to be our emphasis. That's really in terms of what has been added and modified, not a lot. I mean, we're going to stay the course and continue to work. Um, you'll see some uh differences within the building goals when they make their presentations based on their test scores, but uh I do recommend later that you approve pathway to excellence as our strategic plan. Good. That's it for that >> for insurance consultant. Mr. Chairman and members of the board, if you remember last year, we uh um had a small
049consulting agreement with Morton and Company, and Morton um presented a uh an option for us to go in go in contract with them for insurance services that was for believe $40,000. and that triggered a need to go out to bid. So in June, uh the board approved to go out to bid for and as we termed it, um insurance analysis services. We wanted to to keep uh our relationship with Hoppin Insurance Services, which we we value. Um, I feel like the the um the staff values um and and yet bring in a consultant or consultants that will uh allow us to have kind of actuarial services, the specialized um services that are uh kind of necessary in this day and age. So we uh we published it in the Yonyi County Herald. Um we uh
050solicited bids throughout the nation. Uh I did receive one from at least an inquiry from New York. Um and should be in your bid packet. Uh two bids that came back. Um, one was from Morton and um, the other one was from Gibson and Gibson uh is their proposal is $30,000 whereas Morton's is $50,400. Um, I've met with Gibson uh, members. Um, I've met with Hoffman Insurance and um, and had some discussions about what they're able to do. Um, I believe that they can accomplish their the things that they've um, that we set out in the RFP and at a much cheaper rate than uh, Morton. Now, with that said, I um this last week I was at recalibration and let me let me give you some kind of weather forecasts that I'm seeing on
051the horizon. I'm not saying that this is happening, but one of the issues that they did talk about is possibly bringing in all of the districts into the state's insurance pool. Okay. So, currently right now we have one one district which is NRONA which is at the center of the state nearest hospitals and things like that. I'm not saying that they're going to do that but let me just say that that there was an inordinate amount of discussion for that. Okay. um that we did also hear from uh Wept and Whisbait the the the big pools that are also out there. But um in terms of the amount of time, then you can use that as a guide to kind of the political tea leaves that are out there that could happen. So if we
052go with this, be aware that there could be a a seismic as part of recalibration in which you know, the state could could play a move that we're maybe not wanting to do. I'm not I'm not saying that it's not a good thing. However, it kind of forces everybody's hand. Everybody's in the pool. Um it would also as far as unless they change the rules um require um potentially other rules that would apply to the district that we are, you know, maybe not maybe that's not the direction that we want. Um the state right now uh uses Sigma as the major provider and it's a na national company and and things. It's just so I'm not saying, hey, this is going to happen. I'm just saying it could happen. >> So potentially we approve this
053consultant and work for the next six months to go out to bid and the state comes up and say, "Nope, you go with Sigma." >> Correct. >> But still, I think we need to do due diligence and study this before we >> in in other words, let's say that it does not happen and that that's not a move. if we do nothing then then the the criticism is well why didn't you do something and so I think uh uh 30,000 I've I've put money into the budget for it because we knew about it in June of last year. Um I I like the price that that Gibson has. I like the fact that Dan is saying I think this is that I could work with them um and things. So again that what they're what
054they're offering is the behind the scenes actuarial services which Morton also has um but it allows us to dig deeper and and things. So with that said um do you have any questions on anything on this? Where where is uh Gibson from? >> Oh, they're out of Salt Lake. >> Okay. All right. >> So, >> and and when would this contract be valid? >> We kind of uh we were going to start September 1st, but the thought was that you would have this in your hands last uh August. >> Okay. So, you know, it's it's one of those things of, you know, we'll we'll start that as soon as the board uh gives permission, but we would like um kind of the analysis services to work with the um insurance committee as soon as possible.
055So, any other questions? So, >> yeah. >> Okay. >> Thank you. I think he >> Okay, Mr. Thomas, early graduation requests. >> Okay, General Peterson, members of the board, we did discuss uh the early graduation requests and really this is just an opportunity if you have questions. Um we do this typically every year. we get one or two every year and um again these individuals have a plan um and we'd like to respect that and uh this has also been approved by principal Kohler so later we'll recommend that you approve this early graduation any questions anything I can answer for you don't sound like it so we can move on to our JFC FCK policy, student cell phones. Members of the board, this is our uh student uh cell phone policy, cell phone use policy.
056Um there are some changes that were made. Uh I had uh uh Mr. Phillips go through them to make sure we we hit all the legal points and and they are kind of the eyes are dotted and the tees are crossed. Uh remember this was opened up to the community for comment. I did receive three comments. Um unfortunately they're all anonymous which is disappointing because I would have loved to been able to contact them and respond back. Uh one was from a parent and two were from students. Um I don't know if you want me to read them to you, but fundamentally what what their concern is is they recognize that and they understand that academic time should be protected. What they really don't understand is lunch um and buses that they're limited on lunch
057that lunchtime and buses um and they they don't agree with that. Um which is kind of the argument we've had for a long time. Um, if you look at the policy, you can see the bullet points there. The last bullet point, the building principal, coach, sponsor, router, activity driver may authorize the use of cell phones by students in special circumstances. And these are the special circumstances. Emergency contact, health monitoring, delayed or extended travel. So, we have built into the policy that there's some flexibility, but we felt it was important to start out really as a ban. Um, and then we can go make some exceptions. We will have to tighten up a little bit, I think, for a while. The idea that one coach allows and one coach doesn't. >> Um, one bus driver does,
058one bus driver doesn't. So, this is brand new. We're working through it. Um, I think it makes sense, common sense to me that as a coach on an overnight trip, I would tell my kids, you can have your cell phones for an hour, make contact with your friends, parents, um, and then the phones have to be put away for the night. I think that's reasonable. Um, after an activity to say you have your cell phones for an hour, contact your parents, let them know you're okay, let them know how you did. After that, you need to put them away, turn them off. So that's stuff we can common sense stuff we can get to in the future. Um the bus routes even our long bus routes, regular bus routes was a request from our transportation
059department. Uh they saw enough misuse and abuse that they requested that we include them. Um they have some flexibility too, but right now I think we just say no no cell phones on the buses. So, um, is it the most popular policies we we've ever had? No. But I think it's one of the ones that research is pretty clear. There is really no argument that they're a distraction and a disruption. And for schools, they do cause additional headaches. So, for now, um, I think it's a good policy. Like I said, we've been through it back and forth. It does provide some exceptions. The part I really like about the policies and I think we policy I think we talked about this before is to recognize that we understand that there are times that there'll be
060emergencies. We've always been equipped for that. A parent can call the school and then there is an adult who can contact that student and deal with an emergency. If there's an emergency at school, our students can use the phones with the support of another adult there. Um it just again it's maybe one one step more but we did it for years before cell phones were even around. Um any other questions about the policy? I like how it talks about consequences. Um I I think we we're in uh parallel with the law that's out there in terms of confidentiality uh furup. Um, we have had already this year some disciplinary issues because of the phone. Not that they had them, but they used them inappropriately. Um, so they got in trouble for having them and for
061using them inappropriately, but uh I just think overall um you know, our students are are uh capable of adapting and uh we have a student representative. I'm sure he'd love to let you know how he feels about that. Maybe not. >> I think he was shaking his head. >> He didn't like >> We know where he's at. >> Go ahead if you want to say something. >> Oh, well, in my opinion, I actually like the phone band. Cuz for me, like socially and like mentally, like school's been a lot easier this year when not everyone's on their phones. And like my like relationships with my friends has also grown. like on that Colorado Springs bus trip, all we did was sit and talk the entire time rather than having our nose in our phone. So,
062I actually do like the phone band. So, >> that's a great >> There you go. >> So, um I don't know if you know, we we made the Cowboy State Daily. I think we're one of two districts that have banned cell phones or we're in the process. This will be second reading tonight. Um and uh those I guess in the no have the same opinion. Our principal and assistant principles appreciate the ban and and again it's maybe a little some growing pains but uh we'll get better at it. But I do recommend that you approve this policy as written for second reading later on the night. >> Can you um define what uh where it says activity trips that require extended travel? Overnight. >> Overnight is is defined as extinct. So driving to Riverton and
063back in the same day is not >> Yeah. If you were if you were going to go to Riverton and back, but you got caught in a snowstorm and ended up in Rollins, >> you probably should we probably should let them use your phone to call their parents. That's that would be a perfect >> Again, it would be like the guidance that you suggested where the coaches say, "Okay, you can have it for an hour to let your parents know this is what's going on." But >> Yep. And I would say with this policy, we've taken it a step further than what we did last year. We we allowed really our teachers and our principles to deal with this issue. I think we need to monitor that too and make sure that there is some
064guidelines in place and that we have discussions with our coaches that it's not a choice to let them use it all the time. That's not okay. >> Um but at the same time, I think we need to be reasonable. Yes. Right. >> So, we'll be working on that shortly. >> Yeah. I was just going to comment that I talked to some kids that are involved in different activities and it seemed like it was kind of all over the place of who was enforcing and who wasn't enforcing it. >> Yeah. >> On the policy. So, >> and that's the way it was last year. That's again why I made the decision to put this together. >> Well, I think we knew going in there was going to be some growing pains. Absolutely. >> Well, and I
065don't think it's necessarily mostly the kids. I think it's the parents. The parents are used to having instant access to their kids. When we were going to school, you didn't talk to your mom for 8 to 12 hours and that was fine. >> Every day. >> Yeah. >> This isn't anything really new, Brian. You know, we've had >> Yeah. >> Even when I was there, it was cell phone issues and we handled it as a school, but I think it's better as a district policy than it takes a little bit away from the schools differently. They're all on the same page now. >> Exactly. And I do think if you read the Cowboy State Daily, I think Senator Shooter is still going to pursue this. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So, >> yeah. >> Ryan, have
066you had any feedback from the article? >> Um, no. Just individuals in the district. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> That's all I had. >> Great. >> Any other comments on that? >> No. >> All right. We will now move on to public comments. Can we strike up some controversy somewhere somehow? We have >> a pool. >> I'm just I we just have not had any public comments for a long time. So I just careful what you ask. >> Well, it could be good. What could that have? It could be good things. Moving on, Dave. we'll move on. So, no public comments. We will now move on to our action items. Uh we have no personnel uh action items to be taken care of today. We'll move on to I need a motion to approve the
067uh insurance consultant um as I identified uh by Mr. Williams. >> Motion to approve the insurance consultant as identified by Mr. Williams. Second >> motion by Brian, second by Jenny. Um >> any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Eyes have it. Motion carries. I need a motion to approve the pathway to excel excellence for 2526 school year. >> Second. >> I have a motion by Jenny, second by Dan. Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Eyes have it. Motion carries. >> Chairman Peterson, just to make sure that we provide um enough time between motions. Just have a brief discussion. Appreciate approving those two. Ready to move on? We're good. >> Oh, sorry. >> You're moving too fast, Dave. >> Well, wait a second. I'm not
068moving fast enough. Listen, >> I am moving too fast. >> I thought you >> I got >> just right the porridge. Right. So, okay. I need a motion to approve the early graduation uh request for the Evston High School as identified in the executive session. >> So, moved. >> I have a motion by Brian. I'll >> second. Second by Janice. Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Eyes have it. Motion carries. >> Is that okay or can I bump it back up to 10? >> Now, are they aware that they have the the opportunity to come and walk? >> Yeah. Okay. Okay. I need a motion to approve the second reading of policy JFC, the student cell phone use. So move. >> I'll second. I have >> a first a
069Jenny Jessica. >> I'm struggling when you keep trying to go slow. >> I know I'm trying to go slow. So >> trying to serve two masters here. >> Slow is fast. >> Okay. Any discussion? >> None. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Eyes have it. Motion carries. I need a motion to approve the permission to seek bids for the buses and vehicles. We never did discuss that. >> Chairman Peterson, members of the board, we don't need to discuss this. This is something that's uh >> Yeah, we do annually, typically two buses every year. This one's a little different because we are adding two uh student vehicles and uh one staff vehicle. Um our fleet's getting a little older. Um and again if the funds are available I say go ahead and
070do it. So that's the recommendation from director Felro. >> So if you have questions he be the man to answer. >> So where was I at? I need a motion to approve. >> Mr. Chairman I I move that we approve the transportation uh request in regards to buses and vehicles. Second. >> Sec going to bed. >> I have a motion. I have a second. Dave and Brian. Any discussions? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion. Did I say any opposed? >> Yeah. No post. >> Okay. I have it. Motion carries. >> See, you got me out of my little groove. >> You're in the right there. There you go. >> I need a motion to approve the transportation department compliance requirements. I can't I don't know if I saw that anymore.
071>> Any discussions? This is something we have to do annually by law. We always do it in September. Um this where we stop, where the routes are, where we turn around. >> Oh, that was part of that. I seen that in there. So, yeah, that was the >> So moved. >> Okay. >> Second. >> Brian and Jenny. Any discussions? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Eyes have it. Motion carries. I need a motion to go into recess from the regular school board meeting. >> Uh Mr. Chairman, I move that u we go into recess from the regular meeting. >> Second. >> I have a motion. I have a second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Eyes have it. Motion carries. We now need to
072go into a public hearing on the concealed carry CKA policy. >> So moved. >> Okay. >> Second. >> I have a motion. I have a second. Any discussion? >> None. All in favor say I. I. >> Any opposed? Eyes have it. Motion carries. >> Members of the board, just uh this is an opportunity by rule making that we allow the community an opportunity to provide comment on um our notice that we're going to make revisions to rule CKA. This is the clean copy of rule CKA. If you get insembly um everyone has access to this through uh our uh our district website. They have access to the clean copy and redline copy that shows the changes, but it's so confusing to look at the red line. So, I'm showing you the clean copy. Um, basically
073what makes this different than the last one is this is it. It's CKA. Um, there is no CKA R1, R2, R3, and R4. They're being done away with. Um, this takes into consideration all the aspects of the new law and the old one 213132. Um, and went through it again today. I think it is really well done. It's concise. Um, it protects us. Remember, the whole point of the new statute was it allows school districts to limit employees and volunteers um to concealed carry. They have to provide notice and they have to receive training. Anyone else can bring a weapon into the school without that. But this allows us to deal with our employees and uh volunteers uh this way. Um it also provides us protection that open carry is not allowed and of course
074students aren't allowed at any time to concealed carry. Um it uh provides a requirement for training which is robust. Um just what the law requires. Um there's an annual reertification that's relatively robust. Uh, but the best part, I think, is the communication between us and law enforcement. So, law enforcement will know who and where is someone that's concealed carrying in our buildings. Um, that's really what the law allows. It's kind of an interesting predicament that we've said before is this puts a little added restriction on our own employees, but the statute allows it and uh we've lived it for three or four years now and are comfortable with u the training. Um and so I I think it's something that we just need to continue to move forward. I did, and this isn't a big
075deal, but I did find one section in here we can probably take out because it's duplicated. If you look at B, uh, under liability insurance, it's repeated at the end. I don't know if we did that in intentionally, Jeff. It's in there twice or if we can take one out. I'd say we take the one at the bottom out. But anyway, um, this does provide additional liability insurance for all of our employees now that this law is put into place. Uh we purchased another policy for a active shooter. Um kind of interesting that the state did this and were the one paying for the liability insurance and also liability additional liability insurance for those who are actually approved to consider carry. So I think we protect our employees and we protect ourselves. Okay. Another thing
076we have learned since that liability insurance is in our policy, we can seek reimbursement from the state because it is part of our rule. >> We experienced that this year and we were reimbursed for everything we applied. They originally fought back on the liability insurance, but when we showed them it was in our original rule, they went ahead and paid for it. We got reimbured. >> Wow. >> So, that was good news. >> That's how we had it twice. >> That's right. Yeah. We well a double reimbursement. Um also remember what's nice about assembly is it allows public comment uh right on the system where they can comment. I have received no comments. >> Wow. as of 4:30 today kind of as I have received two inquiries from employees that weren't interested before that are
077potentially interested now. >> That's good. >> Okay. >> Any questions, comments? >> How much longer is the public comment open for? Um, we've got another 25 days, I think, till October 7th. What we'll probably do is we already have a public hearing scheduled for next month already on the budget. We have to do a couple budget revisions, but it'll be pretty short. Um, couple things changed since we did that before. >> We potentially could have another hearing on this. Um what you have to do now is once that comment period's closed, we have to take all the comments and you guys have to interact with them and respond to them um and go from there. So we'll follow that process. So kind of a timeline. We'll discuss this again in October and we'll may be
078able to put this to bed in November. Okay. Final approval in November. >> Very much. >> Okay. Just on top of this. All right. All right. If there's no more questions or discussion on that, I need a motion to adjourn the public hearing and to reconvene the regular school board meeting. >> Motion to adjourn the public hearing and reconir reconvene the normal school board meeting. Mr. Chairman, second >> I have a motion. I have a second. Any discussions? All in favor say I. I. >> Any opposed? None. We are back into our regularly uh our regular board meeting. We will now go into round table. >> Anybody? >> Yeah. If we can just make a comment right now. >> Yeah, I do. I do have something. Um, I wanted to uh uh just comment on
079uh uh Eveston Hall of Fame. Uh the induction banquet is uh September 20th. Uh that's homecoming weekend. And uh we we've been criticized a little bit in the past that we haven't done as good a job to uh let people know about the Hall of Fame. This is the 13th year uh and it's at the at the uh roundhouse. So I've tried to uh do some public comments uh to inform people of uh of what we have. And I think one of the uh misconceptions has been that uh we would encourage everyone to come and have a nice meal. Uh tickets are $40 uh a person, but if you your uh schedule is tight uh and you may not be able to do that, you're certainly welcome to come uh and uh hear the uh
080induction people uh make their make their speech and uh be part of the activities. So it's a social hour at 6:00. Uh banquet starts at 7:00. Uh we have uh I think a great class uh and um we have one uhostimous award. Well actually we have more than that but uh Rugger Davis who was uh uh worked for the school district for many years and we have a school named after him uh will be aostimous award. Uh we have a lady by the name of Connie Gerard who uh was a EHS graduate in 1959, college graduate in 63 and went on to work for six presidents in the United States. Uh and she will make the trip and be here uh in uh in a couple of weeks. Uh we also have a gentleman by
081the name of Forest Bright who was uh in the law enforcement uh locally here with the police department, the sheriff's department and then was with the security with the governor of the state of Wyoming. And back in uh probably 2016, uh the uh governor at that time was Matt Meaton came and introduced one of the inductees and Forest was part of the uh uh crew that uh protected the the governor. So he's already been to our banquet. Uh we have a a gentleman by the name of Brett Wilson who uh has had a distinguished career with the military and with the still with the Department of Defense. Uh and he's been one of the rescue people for SEAL groups. So uh we we're excited to have him. And then um the 1979 or 19778 state
082golf championship golf team. So, and one of the things I think that's been a little confusing is that um you have to be nominated. It's not something that the committee generates. You have to be nominated. And so, uh it's a process that we can you can go through and uh we would certainly encourage anyone to nominate whoever they would like. And the last thing I would like to say is I'd like to thank Superintendent Thomas and CFO Mr. Williams uh for the great support that they've given us over the years and really helped us and supported us and uh we're trying our best to be a little more independent. But uh yeah. >> So Dan, I got a question. >> Yes. >> Are all of these inductees are the ones you're honoring this go around?
083>> I don't understand it. >> It's that's right on the front. >> The blue square. Is that in the blue? >> Yeah. >> Mhm. >> Oh, I didn't all the previous years. >> Yeah, those are all the 13 13 years >> that you've already inducted. >> Yeah, that we've already had. >> Yep. >> All right. I'm just trying to figure out what No problem there. >> So, it's class of 2025 and those are the people. Okay. Okay. >> Got it. Thank you. Thank you. I'm done. >> Any other comments? from the board at all. Okay. I need a motion to adjurnn. >> I move that we adjourn. Mr. Chairman, >> second. >> I have a motion. I have a second. Any discussion? None. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries.
084We are journed. >> He was in the floor above us. studio making.