001into order it's 6 10 according to that watch our clock and it's like six what 11 here so just so you know a little off but anyway so do i have a motion to go into executive session i'll make a motion that we go into executive session in accordance with idaho code section 74 206 do i have a second second and any uh discussion we're gonna go hillary hi hi jd michael hi and kirstie hi and i'm i also so those of you that are here we're gonna be back hopefully we'll be here okay to call the meeting to order thank you for attending let's all stand for this ready begin i pledge allegiance to you the five of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under
002god indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay that being said our next action is to prove the agenda but in order to have in order to have a executive session at the end we need to make a motion the agenda with adding the executive session at the end i'll make a motion that we approved the agenda with an added executive session at the end i second okay and any more discussion all right kirstie hi michael hi jd hi hillary hi and i'm i also all right so let's start with some celebrations teacher appreciation week professor almaboy yes um so um we had last week was teacher appreciation week it was a great week uh the end of the year celebr- .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. the end of the year celebration
003abrupt which is always fun because we get to celebrate teachers. It was fun to watch all of our principals talk about their educator of the year, their classified person of the year, and their, what's my word? Oh, their friends. Their friends of educator. And just the people that do so much for all of our schools. And, you know, we don't get to always see that friend of educator in the different schools, but to be able to listen to what the principals talked about how much they helped behind the scenes of the different projects. It was just, it was really, really cool. And then I think, I wanted to say, Kim, at the end you just tied it up. I mean, you were a former educator in the CUNY School District. You knew a lot about
004the people, and you were able to just tie it all together. And so I want to thank you for that. And I also would like to just thank Kevin Gifford who just kind of stole the show in between the two of us. Didn't he though? He's a man of many costumes. And every 10 minutes or so he'd come out with a different costume from . I would like you to do that during the board meeting. I didn't realize you had costumes. He does. Oh, we see. He's got. Is this the same thing that I saw with like Angelee Bauer was in a costume? Oh, and let me, yes. Thank you for reminding me that Angelee Bauer and Kim Riggs were our amazing hosts for this, and hostesses I guess. And they are always hilarious. They
005steal the show. We love having them. And then Kevin was kind of a tag along with them, unannounced. But he just. No disruption. Yeah. We had one, we had one of our teachers say that she wasn't paying any attention to Brian and I when we were talking, but when Kevin came out she couldn't stop laughing. And we're like, so you couldn't pay any attention to us. But every time Kevin came out, then we were like, oh, that's a good thing. But she said, I was laughing so hard through the whole thing it made the whole show. So anyway, it was a great, it was a great way to celebrate our teachers and our staff and our friends of educators. So I just wanted to say that. And I'd like to add that I don't know
006many districts who take time to have all their teachers come in and to award them and to look at how many have been here 10 and 20 and 30 years that are still here. And I think that's why they're here is that sense of community. Yeah. So I think that was really good. It was. It was very nice. Yes. So thank you. I think up next we have Robbie and Stuart. They're going to talk a little bit about some of the celebrations from CUNA High. Just as we approach graduation. The last time I was here doing a report, I said things were good and sat down. But now, they're all good. They are. So our CTE highlights. A lot of things have been going on. SkillsUSA. It was. We had competed. We had 29 participants
007this last year. Last year, we had 14. 29 this year. We earned 10 medals. We've never earned more than three medals. We had 10 medals. Three golds. Evelyn Hobbs, Bakery and Pastry. Cameron Morgan, Culinary Arts. Tyler Lights, Technical Drafting. And our trades in industries, auto diesel construction, pulled in three medals as well. Really showed well. We're in our fourth year. Fourth complete year of existence. And that was phenomenal. And it was really well noticed. FFA. We had 21 national participants in the fall. And our farm business management team took sixth at nationals. Liberty Simper was fourth individually in nationals. And she actually, not on your list there, also gave the national honor as well from the Nutrients for Life Digital Contest. She took second nationally in that contest, where she did the role of fertilizer
008in agriculture, a stop motion piece paired with scenes from the local farmland. Shows how fertilizer transforms land into fertile ground and boosts food production efficiently. She took second. The winner was from Washington. Other placers were from Maryland, Michigan, and Illinois. It was truly a national competition. We took first. With Murphy Klaus in Ag Ed, CDE. We had a district star farmer in Rosa Mendiola. Our conduct team, which is freshmen, took first. Chapter scrapbook was a gold ranking. We have four scholarships for Idaho FFA Foundation. National chapter award, we had a gold ranking. Two state proficiency awards and 12 state FFA degrees. In our health occupations, our HOSA program, we have 30 participants at state this year. We had a gold ranking. We qualified about 12 for nationals, I believe. Interview skills, Lexi Peterson was first.
009And our community problem solving team and parliamentary perspective teams both took second. Our BPA just returned yesterday from nationals. They didn't have any competitors, but they had participants because our BPA state VP of marketing is Maya Vassal. And Blake Wolters did win the graphic design promotion, qualified for nationals. But stayed and participated in the state track meet. He had to make a choice. And so he participated in nationals last year. So he stayed this year. And Sandra Wheeler, one of the advisors, she was on stage at nationals for being in BPA for 30 years. Our SECLA had seven national qualifiers, two state officers, three district officers. Our advisor, Katherine Thompson, was named the district advisor. And Lisa Wood Miranda is a district advisor. And she was the district three state board rep. So CUNA is
010very well represented in the SECLA in the state. We just competed just this last month in culinary cook around the world. 12 of our culinary students went to Orlando. There were three schools this side of the Mississippi. And 79 teams overall, we took third. When they had to draw the card of which cuisine they were supposed to draw, they were looking for South America, or, you know, something. They got Africa. Scared them to death. But they just blew it out of the water. They cooked curry, rice, and chicken. And again, took third in for entree and fifth overall. So again, well, well represented. Sadly enough, Chef Gwen is retiring at the end of the year. But I think I've hired a really good guy who's ready to rock and roll and take those reigns. Construction.
011Another thing that, you know, construction did have a third placer at the state SkillsUSA event. But our program won the ACE Exemplary School Champion. And with that, it says congratulations on being named an ACE Mentor Program Exemplary School Champion for 2025. In recognition for this achievement, we would like to invite you to attend the third annual University of Nebraska-Lincoln Durham School Teachers Workshop on Architectural Engineering and Construction. That invitation went to Rick Brown. And so Rick Brown in June will be going to Omaha, Nebraska, participate in that. And that's quite an honor to him. And so, man, he's, you know, the programs have just really picked up. Last thing I wanted to cover is CTE diplomas. Two years ago, we had 59 CTE diplomas earned. A CTE diploma constitutes all the standards. It constitutes the
012standard. It's a standard that's on the skill stack badges. And each of those badges represents standards in that pathway. They also have to pass their workplace readiness assessment, which is 100 questions in an hour. It is pretty taxing. And their technical skills assessment. So they have to have all three of those done. And all their skill stack badges have to be earned. You can't leave one out. You have to do 100% of them. 2059, two years ago, last year we earned 133 CTE diplomas. And as of this morning, we have 133 CTE diplomas. We had 150 plus earned. I'm going to tell you, 154 when I last looked, but we've got about five more kids, 10 more kids that are still either taking the WRA or TSA. There's a lot of tenacious kids out there.
013And some of them have failed once. And they get to retake. And so many of them are now coming and saying, hey, I know I can do it. And one in particular, and I want to give Rick Brown a shout out on this one, is the kid failed on his construction TSA. He retook it. And they get a free retake. And he retook it. And he missed by one. So Rick said, gosh, what can we do? So we actually called Tennessee, where the company is, and asked them for one more shot. Give us this kid. He showed great improvement. He improved 12 points. He took it yesterday and passed it by 14 points. Wow. So construction TSA WRA, 18 out of 18 in our capstone. And so we've never had that. We've never had that
014kind of success in our trades. But we've got almost 40 CTE diplomas in just our trades alone, which is just, again, phenomenal. The teachers are starting to really understand what their role is in getting kids out in the industry. And the kids are actually just jumping on it and really enjoying it. And, again, they're tenacious. They're working hard. So I think by graduation, I can probably announce, or Robbie can announce, that we're going to have a graduation that we're both at 160. That's awesome. Thank you. What a great way for our kids to have another avenue to be able to be successful when they graduate from CUNA High School. So thank you to that program. Yeah, it's awesome. It's opportunities. We're talking about opportunities, and we'll show you the opportunities that we've given our kids.
015So we have 421 seniors, total seniors, in this graduating class. And at our student award night that we had last week, I think it was two weeks ago, all the seniors that got in, we got an award or scholarship and invited them to an awards night, and we had 301. So that's over 60% of our kids got recognized as a senior class. So we have academic honors that get a hood, a gold, a silver, and a bronze hood, or a white one. A white one, not bronze. And so we had 60 with over a 4.0 GPA, and we get over a 4.0 GPAs by taking a dual credit class. You'll see how many dual credit classes we've taken. And then the high honors. And then honors. And then we actually issued four valedictorians, which is
016high for us, because we normally only have one, or maybe two, but we have four this year just because the achievement is so high with the rubric that we have. And then five salutatorians. So over 78% of those 400 kids took a dual credit class. So when we say opportunities in CTE, we have opportunities in dual credit. So 54% of those kids earned a semester of college. So that's about 12 credits, basically, is one semester. And then 36, 12. And then this is how many total credits they attended. I don't know past them, but that's how many they attended. That's a ton. College savings. So with the tuition saved, with those credits earned, $968,900 that we saved there. BSU equivalent was $2 million. And total estimated savings is 3%. That's awesome. Can we put that
017in our budget? Can we take that? We don't get that. Awesome. All right. And then we had general ed certificates. We had eight students get those. And then associate's degree six. And then we had two liberal arts, one AAA business, associate's in business, associate in health sciences, and STEM. And then the scholarships, 268 scholarships from Idaho institutions were given out. So a student could apply to Idaho. They applied to all the colleges in Idaho. And then those scholarships based on merit, you get scholarships. Then Idaho launched the governor's bill from two years ago that gives $8,000 per student. We had 210. So half of our student body got a launch scholarship. The way you qualify for a launch scholarship is that you go into an in-demand career. And so half our kids are going into
018an in-demand career that could take them either to college or trade school or training. And then this is kind of a hard one, because we don't know all the scholarships that kids get. There's no clearinghouse. There's no database that we can access. So it's a self-report. So far, seniors have self-reported over 2 million, almost $2.5 million in scholarships . And then we've had one, our military enlistments, one from Army, Marines, and Air Force. And then the civil life biliteracy. So we have the CTE diploma. And then we have the civil life biliteracy. And then we have 13 in Spanish, one in Tagalog, and one in French. And a quick video to kind of show this is the culminating. This is a video that our yearbook does. You're the first ones to see it as a
019whole. Our senior high school will see it tomorrow. And it just kind of shows the year in Ohio. Graduation next Thursday, 2.30. So if you're either about 45 minutes or an hour early, park in the back. Turn your back. You'll be fine. So yeah. Any questions? No, but what a great celebration. That was awesome. Yeah. Thank you. I don't know if I'll be fine, but I'll be fine. Green tissues. Yeah, I can. It's kind of nice to know that it's time for you guys to go. Sorry. So we have two board members who will be having sons graduate. And they'll be able to give them their diplomas, which I think is awesome. All right. So let's move on. And can I just say thank you, Deanne, for putting what pillar each of these are. So
020for strong relationships, we have an update on hiring a university. Bye. Director Kennedy. Yes. Chairman Nixon, trustees, we had a great showing at our parent universities. We had four different ones. Monday night, it was our high school and our kindergarten at Swan Falls. And we had over 100 in attendance at the high school. And about that same number at Swan Falls of our kindergarten. Great opportunities for the parents to learn about either kindergarten or what it's like in high school. And then on Tuesday night, we had the middle school. So they had about 100 combined, but it was at the two different buildings. So they could be actually in the buildings of Fremont University Middle School. And same opportunity, similar to the high school. But we talked with our principals about it. They felt like
021it was a great opportunity to be there and get to know the parents and share information. The parent feedback that we got was really, they really loved having the opportunity as well. I think for them, it was nice not to have their kids with them and be able to just ask parent questions. And they were really nice to have their perspectives. We did get one about having it earlier, which we agreed to as well. We just, this year, when doing it new, we couldn't get it in place. We have our senior one that we'll do in August for next year's seniors at the beginning of the year. So parents know what to expect for the senior year. And they'll be ready for graduation. But it was a great experience. I think overall, it's definitely a
022keeper. It was from our superintendent's advisory council recommendation. So it's a. I think it'll become just a traditional university each year for our parents. So if there's any questions, I'd be happy to have the superintendent back. I'll answer them. No, I was able to attend a couple of those. And I thought they were well attended and well done. And I'd just like to say that it really gives our community a chance to see what we do here. And it opens up that, what I want to say, being transparent with everything that goes on and what to expect. So I was really happy. Thank you. Thank you. I think it's a great, great thing, Parent University. You too. Well, I attended the high school one. And I thought it was really informative. And it was really
023good for parents to be able to go in and see what the experience is about is going to be like for the next four years. All right. The next is under student learning. So our capital plan update with Assistant Superintendent . Yeah. Chairman Nixon and trustees, and also, we have two of our trustees that are part of this work with us. And I'll definitely lean on them to share any details. But like we do every month, we want to give an update on our capital planning committee and the process that we're going through. There's some people in our audience too tonight that were part of the conversation last night and have been a part of that team. Tonight, or last night, I'm sorry. Last night, we started to really get into the work of how
024could we build a plan and what are some of the things that we really need to consider. We looked at the previous capital plan that was, we're working on in 2003. And unfortunately, that bond measure didn't get the super majority. It meant the simple majority to pass 56%. But we didn't quite get to that super majority. So we looked at that piece of data. And we looked at some of the other questions that have come up from the group about our capacities and numbers in schools and those kinds of things, projections of growth, that kind of stuff. But one thing I do want to make sure I call your attention to before if our other trustees want to share, we look at the data. We look at the data. We look at the data. We
025look at the data. And from the data that we selected. I'm sure they know what they're looking at. And I'm going to show you a little bit more. We learned something interesting last night from our financial advisor, Michael Keith, who has presented this body several times. He's been coming. Previously, I shared this timeline with you as kind of a projection of what we were thinking the work might go to the path of. And right now, obviously, we're in May. We met for three times. Previously when I showed you this timeline, we were under the you as a school board consider a bond measure for the ballot in November and September. We learned last night that due to a change in the legislature with House Bill 278, that they have sped up that timeline on us.
026And it used to be that we would go, I think, 60 days. We could go 60 days in advance, but they changed it to the 10th Friday before the election in that House bill. So that means that the deadline for us to get something on the ballot would be August 29th, obviously meaning we would need to consider this in our August meeting, or call a special meeting, I guess, would be an option that you could have. But I'll like to say the timeline maybe is adjusted on us a little bit. I don't know for sure that the committee is going to be able to work through the process fast enough. We're through the process fast enough to get us something. For us, it's going to be a little bit of a challenge. I don't know
027how long the August board meeting, but I would definitely yield to our two trustees that were a part of the conversation as well. I guess that's my question is, are we going to have a consensus that we can come before the board in August to let us know what the community feels would be right? Will we be up to that position? Because now, of course, they want it in August instead of September, which ties our hands a little bit. So. So what are your thoughts? I mean, honestly, I guess I would go back in June when we have our meeting and ask everyone what they think. I don't know. Most of them would probably say no, because they still are trying to gather information as far as like numbers and stuff, because they're not understanding
028the number piece of it. And so in order for them to make a decision, they want more definite numbers. Like I know it's kind of challenging to get definite numbers, but that's really what they want before they can decide. How to run the bond and what that would look like. Yeah, because going in front of our community without the support of that is not good. Right. And so I'd like to see some support of what they see we would like. And then to make sure that we take a look at that when we make our final decision. I do believe we had a great conversation last night. The groups had great questions. We were able to kind of come to a consensus of what we think is important for bonds. So we're still responding, but
029they still look like numbers. Yeah. And another question I have is, what are we having for attendance? Are we getting some good numbers? What are we looking at? I know last time we talked about putting it on Zoom so that people that maybe didn't even attend could hear what's going on. Again, that transparency piece, if they couldn't attend. You had some new people come last night. We had some new people come last night. We've had, I mean, May is always hard. We had a, I felt like we had a good group last night. Had a really healthy conversation. So what were your thoughts? What were your numbers? You know, honestly, I didn't count. I think we can say, what did you say, 25-ish? Something around those. Five. Five. Excellent. More is always better. I want
030to put that out there to the whole community. That's why. The more people that come, I think the better decision we get to. Yeah, I want to try to get as many community members in that we can to at least see the process to understand it. Because when we go to do that and to vote, that seems to me where the problem is. Yeah. People don't understand the process or understand what we're doing. So anything that we can do to help that process. So if somebody wanted to attend, the next meeting, it's June 9th. Is that right? Yes, ma'am. And it's here. Oh. We talked about meeting at, and I need to clarify this with the group. And we actually need to talk to our contractors and our architects. Because we talked about our next
031meeting being at Ross. But there's a possibility that Ross is going to be under construction. At that time, because we're working on some of the projects. We just want to fire a alarm and we won't have air conditioning. Right. So you'll put that information out and people can watch for the location. But June 9th is the day. Yes. Yep. We met the first two, well, the first meeting we met at Swan, April, we were at CUNA High. Walked the building, looked at some of the classrooms, talked about educational capacity. And then last night we were back at Swan. So there was an interest shared in maybe touring a few of the schools. So we might consider doing that in the next couple of months. To get people to picture a full listing picture of the
032school district. Any other questions? No, should I just comment on that? No. I appreciate that, Deb. Thank you very much. Thank you. We need to, patrons have signed up to address the board. So we have a couple that would like to speak to us tonight. I just want to make sure that they understand it's three minutes. So that we have time to do other things. Okay. And also. We won't be commenting because we can't until we actually talk and make that decision. And then the third thing is no matter what's said, if you guys would make sure that you don't applaud or say ooh or boo or whatever. In other words, two words, be nice. I'm a fourth grade teacher so that's really simple for me to say. Just be nice as these people are
033talking to us because it does take an amount of nerves to get up here. I'll just say that. So if I could have Omar Reynoso. I just have one minute. Welcome. Thank you. If you would just state your address and your name. My name is Omar Reynoso. My address is 1888 North Hurtsville, Q and A, Idaho. I would just like to give you guys my input on how the rezoning is going to affect me. Normally I wouldn't be. I wouldn't be the type of parent to. I trust that the school puts the right teachers in the right places. But the main reason I'm here today is because my seven year old daughter, she's non-verbal autistic. We've had a lot of struggles finding the right therapies for her. As you can imagine, we have a 13
034year old son. He's not autistic. Our seven year old, it's kind of unexpected. So we did a lot, we put a lot of research, we put a lot of time and energy into my life. Where we were going to move to. I grew up in the Amazon. We moved to CUNA. And then she is, you know, this was four or five years ago. We moved here. And we decided, we're like, well, let's see what's the best program for Vanessa. We decided to hold her back a year. Again, she's non-verbal autistic. She wasn't ready to attend school quite yet. So we decided as a family, hey, let's hold her back one year to get her potty training and whatnot. Now, you know, it was still hard when we took her and we sent her. But Silver
035Trail has been a blessing for us. I mean, we've been able to do a lot of things. We've been able to do a lot of things. We've been able to do a lot of things. We've been able to do a lot of things. We've been able to do a lot of things. You know, we were paying for all these therapies to get her up to speed so she could attend. So we're really kind of, we're very scared that this rezoning is going to impact our family because, again, not saying that the other school that she may attend is not going to be qualified. We're just comfortable, you know. But it takes a lot for an autistic child, as nonverbal, to get her routine right, you know, to get comfort, to get, just to be comfortable
036where she's at, what's her routine in life. And it's really been a blessing for our family. So, I mean, that's just my little story on how it would impact me and my family. Not to mention, you know, the most important person here, Vanessa. You know, like, she's made some huge, huge, huge progress. I mean, I wish I could sit up here all day and show you guys the progress she's made with that school. And, I mean, they're amazing. Like, they've done so much for us. And above all, you know, they've made us feel welcome, like family. And I'd hate to take that away from you. I'd hate to take that away from my daughter, you know. So, that's my two cents. And I hope you guys, you know, take that into consideration for me. But,
037again, I thank you guys for your time. And, yeah, appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Kayla Watson. I have my notes on my phone. You might stay on this. I have them. I have them. I have them. I have them. I have them. So, I'm Kayla. And stating your address. 1-286 North Blackwell Avenue. I'm Kayla. I'm the mom that sent the seven-page letter about how I would be affected. And I just wanted to say thank you for your careers and being a voice for children in our community. And if I stumble through this or I get teary-eyed, just know that's a normal representation of who I am when I am a passionate person. And right now, I am passionate about being an advocate. I don't normally speak up, probably since college. So, bear
038with me. As a parent, I have felt that these emails about the board change or the zone changes have been incredibly and intentionally vague. Teachers don't even know who's being affected. I am a parent that is in the school weekly. Sometimes multiple times a week. I talk to my daughter's teacher all the time. I fill out every form I possibly can. I am an advocate for students as much as I can. I volunteer as much time as I can. And I do know that we need new levies and bonds passed to help our district employees, to help our district kids. But I just am desperately wanting somebody to hear the parents' voices. And yes, I realize I'm being heard, but really, truly considered on how this would affect me and my daughter. I truly value
039public education. And just as... As a previous person, I toured many schools. And I very strongly urged my daughter that she has a voice and a choice in her education. And we looked at different charter schools outside of CUNA, CUNA charter schools, CUNA schools. And I said, where are you comfortable? What do you like? What do you like about these schools? And she chose Reed. And lucky for me, that's where I was zoned. And I am a homeowner in that district, too, in that zone. And... I also feel like I need to use my voice at this point, that I'm willing to jump through those necessary hoops, putting her into the dual language. But again, this is where we are comfortable. I feel like we are being forced out. And I'm not going to be
040comfortable to make myself comfortable in another school if I'm being forced out of the school that I'm comfortable in. If I was met with the same kind of kindness and empathy that I have been met with. I don't know what you guys think of Reed. Maybe I considered, but I fear that I have a lot of thinking, too, about moving and taking her elsewhere. Because I don't feel like if there's not some middle ground of grandfathering or help or whatever, it just, I understand that we're at a loss, but I just, I hope, hope that we can come to some sort of a conclusion for people that are negatively affected, and I feel we are. Thank you. alright so along with finished business and we're gonna look at safe schools and our update is the
041Hubbard annex roof and assistant superintendent Brian Griggs did I miss something oh I have a different one sorry guys here we go I got it okay okay strong relationships update every zoning boundaries thank you guys for keeping me going assistant superintendent Justin Reddy and director Kevin Kipper you both get to do the walk so chairman Nixon trustees yeah we are here to kind of just share the information regarding this question of rezoning and just a quick kind of context and maybe a history lesson on on why we're here to talk about this you'll remember back in May when we made some tough decisions you'll remember back in May when we made some tough decisions you'll remember back in May when we made some tough decisions you'll remember back in May when we made some tough
042decisions and one of those decisions was we had to close part of Hubbard the annex due to the roof situation and so over the course of this year with the 521 money from the state legislature and hard work from Brian graves and our facilities team we've been able to get a plan in place to have the roof prepared on that annex and open that back up for next school year so that means that there would be ten classrooms added to our school district and so we were in a spot where we said we should not be leaving these classrooms empty when we have other schools that are overcrowded that we felt like that wouldn't be being good stewards of our facilities so that led us on the path of okay we can we need to
043consider alleviating some of the pressure that some of our to two of our most crowded elementary schools are feeling so we did some work with Davis demographic that's a company that we have that manages the software and the software and the software and the software and does this kind of work of basically GIS software mapping looking at you know attendance areas density zones different neighborhoods how many kids are in each of those places and so as we did that work we were considering three criteria to make a decision on our proposal for you tonight those criteria were safety proximity and numbers for schools so I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Gifford to talk about some of the specifics of the boundaries and what you see on the map thank you I'm just going
044to explain how the criteria of safety proximity and numbers played into this map that you have a proposal to you tonight this section here is the part of the boundary that in this proposal would change from Silver Trail to Hub to Hubbard and Ross and in this area numbers wise we our target was about 125 students split between Silver Trail and reed so in this area you would have about half of those students give or take a little bit there's three this is mostly rural this area here there are three of newer developments though Legend Stone Lugarno Terra and Ashton Estates which are I'm close to Meridian Road off of Hubbard and then between on both sides of Deerfly so that's where the majority of the numbers came from those neighborhoods for the most part
045obviously proximity with Hubbard and Ross being over here this part of Silver Trail Zone this is the closest to it so it definitely meets that criteria of proximity for safety purposes these students are all currently bust so they would be bust still so it met the criteria of safety proximity and numbers from Reed you have a smaller size wise but you have two neighborhoods here Heritage Farms and Summit View with these two neighborhoods you can meet the number criteria proximity of course for our k3 Hubbard is Hubbard is about the same distance as Reed from this neighborhood these neighborhoods but across Lunder Road and Ross is even closer for our fourth and fifth graders safety wise right now these students currently have to cross both Hubbard and Deerflat to get to Reed going to Hubbard
046they would still have to cross Linder I'll talk about a sidewalk issue there in a minute though going to Ross there's no more crossing of those busy streets so proximity and numbers wise it meets that criteria safety there is a there is a small stretch right here on Linder that does not currently have sidewalk we know that's a concern that needs to be addressed we've started conversations with a CHD to see if sidewalk could be put in we also would then would have the option if every year we meet with its a CHD that meets with mrs. Saxton our transportation director and they determine safe routes to school so that could be a determination that bus and would be provided so that we make sure there is a safe route so while there is still
047that little section of no sidewalk we can meet that safety concern and make sure that it is safe so proximity wise and numbers wise and with potential help on the safety we would be able to meet all those criteria for both of these areas so that's that's how these areas came to be through Davis demographics who provided it information for us I do have one so the large area that's going from silver trail to Hubbard-Ross it's a large area and so obviously as it'll probably be lots of subdivisions to be added. in this area. future in the future um and so then that is i mean really another elementary school would would be needed in order to accommodate the growth in that area yeah down the road so like in and we do have property
048it's right in this general area yeah for a future site that's the most ready of all of our sites to build a school up so that could be that would be like as part of the capital planning if they decided to add an elementary school then that would be what would be in the bond in order to accommodate the growth in that area which we don't have a school east of cunard road which i think with all the subdivisions if you've driven yeah that's important but i'm waiting to see what the capital yeah most of our schools are over here on the west side of oh not most all of them you're right nothing and we've got a lot of growth out there yeah so this is the proposed one that we're looking at yes
049next slide yeah if you can go to the next one so this would be the action item uh proposed uh action item motion from from our district from our cabinet roughly how many um students are given like hardships or like to be able to go to the school that they've been going to like how does how does that look or like how many students are we able to accommodate to stay in the school like we've had a couple patrons here that have a very strong argument yeah like what's the chance that they can stay we have the open enrollment process for sure that those families can go through um i don't know of any specific hardship situations that come to mind initially the only the only i don't know the hardship would be a mckinney
050vento so they're the homeless ones and or they're doubled up they they can they help they can go anywhere so if they're if they're if they beat the qualifications of mckinney vento where they're doubled up or they're homeless living in their car whatever and the social workers and counselors i fill that paperwork out because then it comes to me then um they're the ones that can go let's just say they're in a school right now um they would not have to they can be if they could be at that school so when you're talking hardship that's we call those the mckinney vento kids who were like even if they were in boise but they wanted to stay in the this in this pool district because that was better for them they they by law they
051can do that you mean doubled up like families living together or they're living in a camper on somebody's property or they you know they don't have couch surfing couch surfing often I know you have looked over this lots but can you tell us about how many students are affected by the total I think 143 total with with all these changes I think that's probably one of those things we we also considered is how can we get accomplished what we need to get accomplished without affecting you know a massive amount right like didn't want to we're not we're not changing crimson points boundaries and Indian Creek's children and we're not changing the way we're doing it and we're not changing boundaries and you know we wanted to try to just like get done what we needed
052to get done the best we could that kind of was the proximity part of the criteria because we wanted to minimize the overall impact obviously the individual impact you've heard tonight is obviously you know you can't sometimes mitigate that but the overall impact we want to mitigate that through proximity I believe this is one of the hardest decisions we'll have to make because we're all parents and we know what it's like to be loyal to the school and that's hard but at the same time we need to take a look at the overcrowdedness and we've been to those schools too and there's some discipline issues and behavior issues because of that and that that weighs heavy on us too this whole thing yeah and I know that I attended I know some of the board
053members attended the open house night and I asked every parent that attended what they thought of changing the way we were doing it and I know that the board members were very open about changing and I think there were help me 10 12 parents that I talked to there weren't a lot that came but of course that doesn't affect a lot of people and it was only fourth and fifth I was at Ross but they were all very excited about it and were thought it would be a great idea the kids seemed excited so I'm looking at that but we do have parents tonight who have some concerns I get it hard so I guess my question is and we talked about open enrollment and I get that if they have to go to this
054school and they find out it doesn't fit their needs do we work with them when do we work with them when do we not work with them I guess is my question to you it's not a fun question I realize that because we want everyone to try I mean I think that we got Andrea right there and one of her teachers who would these kids would be going to Hover who are oh it's a family thing fabulous school I get it so I think that maybe having that conversation or with Michelle who's here tonight to Kara's here too and they're all they're all colleagues but I think having having if we can have some one-on-one conversations with that parent and a principal and go and visit like we had that at Hubbard and I think
055some of those parents that went saw that oh this is these people are fabulous and the kids really loved it I guess can I talk to the parents here then can I see the parents so my question is have you gone to those schools to take a look at them how do you talk with the administrators there have your kids had a chance to see that we did it we did attend the open house this was a nice week yeah it wasn't we did it in an open house again it's not to say anything about the school it's right there great you know what yeah we did attend the open house again it's not to say anything about the school it's great they have great you know what school it's great they have great you
056know what Our motto for our daughter is kind of like, what's working. It's so hard to find a program for our autistic daughter that works, so we just don't want to disrupt that. You know, we don't have to. Again, not to throw shade at the teachers over there. It seemed like a great program. You know, we took Vanessa over there. You know, it was a new atmosphere, so she kind of acted up a little bit. You know, but in the mornings when we tell her, hey, it's time to go to school, she knows her routine. She's ready to go. She's comfortable with the teachers. So we'd rather not, you know, take her out of that situation. But, yeah, there's nothing wrong with that school. Okay. It wasn't that. Thank you for that. And have you
057been able to go to this school at all? So I will be honest and not attend the open house because I didn't feel like I'd be in the right head space after I sent in my letter, and I realized it was lengthy. And I also don't think it would be appropriate for me to tell my daughter that she's in her. I don't think she's in her final few weeks at Reed when she is absolutely in love with that school. It would make her end of kindergarten not best. And I'm not willing to put her in that spot at this moment. I sent the email to the trustees of the board and also the principal at the other school, too. And I know I did get some responses, and I appreciate those responses. I realize I
058very much gave a whole diary. Okay. Okay. Thank you. But I'm going to go to hers, just a couple of city statements, and I think that they're fair. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. I appreciate your time. And I wanted to thank you. Have you been able to receive any of that? Was you able to get any of that because we're in a different country? But we have toured so many. Like we toured Indian Creek, and I was trying to push her to go to Indian Creek, too. And she wanted to go to Reed. situation it's not just you two and after being in the atmosphere they they still feel a little and it changes not easy it's really not it's not easy for anyone and I know the children all enjoyed being at Hubbard
059they all played together and it was more of the parents kind of uneasy about change so it's not just you two there were other parents there that both myself and Hillary talked to that feel the same way but I know the teachers there personally that are a part of this program and they're absolutely amazing and I know new teachers and resource teachers are coming in and I know one of them personally myself and she is absolutely amazing and I know you say that too as well but they will like love your children the same way that they would be loved and taken care of us over trial and I just want to put that out there too because I know as a parent it's not easy you and I understand the special needs part of
060that and I know it might be an easy at first I have the feeling that they will 100,000 percent not struggle there but actually thrive and grow in the same way that they are so much wrong I just want to put that out there not that it might help your feelings but just to let you know well I think my comments would be that we do take into account each individual student as we go through this process and even if we move forward and approve this boundary change the individual conversations could happen behind the scenes with the administrators and teachers to make sure that we're doing the absolute best thing for each individual student and sometimes that'll be a hard thing and sometimes it might be that a student needs to be in a different
061school for their specific challenges and so I think even if we move forward with this and approving boundary changes but that shouldn't say that the that students shouldn't be able to come and talk to their administrators and work together to find the very best thing. And it might be that a student isn't able to make a change like that. And I think that we're not, I don't think that the administration in any of the schools or our district would force that on a student that wouldn't be successful. So I think those individual communications can still happen even if we move forward. Well, and I think the other thing that we have to realize is if we did another boundary, we'd have two other parents or three other parents who wouldn't be happy. That's part of
062the hard part is we can't please everybody. I've often said that as a parent. I'm sorry I can't please you all the time. But, you know, we want to do what's best for the district and those kids, and we do take into consideration what you've had to say tonight. And we understand and feel for that, most certainly. I'm sorry. Go ahead. One other thing I wanted to just say is, like, I think our efforts are to best utilize the facilities that we have. And our district and to leave one school really crowded while we have open space and another one isn't utilizing the resources to the best of our ability. And that's a responsibility that we have to taxpayers. And, yes, we need more classroom space. And that would come through a bond down the
063road if that's what the community decides is important to them. And I think that that's something that we should all consider is that we are utilizing our space the best. And to the best of our ability, we're fixing a roof, opening up classrooms to alleviate crowding. And, really, we've used every square inch otherwise. So. I think we're doing the best that we can under the circumstances. But it's not easy, I don't think, from anyone's perspective. No. And like I said, even if we did another boundary, we'd have people. It's just, it's not an easy decision to be made. I make a motion that we approve the rezoning boundary changes. Okay. Any other discussion? All right. Hillary? Aye. J.D.? Aye. Michael? Aye. Kirstie? Aye. And I'm an aye too. All right. Now that I have the
064right agenda, we're going to look at safe schools and consider awarding a bid for asphalt and walkways and black tops. Assistant Brian Graves? No. That's okay. You're good. This slide's just a reminder that in March I came to you guys. I was a student. This is one of our House Bill 521 projects. This we thought was going to be one of the larger ones, but hopefully the next slide shows you that it was a lot. Next slide. That's hard to say that something between $300,000 and $400,000 is a lot lower than what we anticipated. But prices were a lot better than we anticipated. We had five responsive bids. We had to do this process twice. And I'll explain that on the second one. This was the first time that Johnny and I tried it without
065help. And we needed the help, so we did it a second time. These were the five companies that were responsive. And the lowest bid was Curtis Clean Sweep. We talk about never ... You guys requested two alternates. What would be the cost to add parking at Cunahy as well as that front parking lot, the event parking, the front of Cunahy Middle that's gone to gravel. What would it cost to do that? We weren't able to have any responsive bids for that because the companies gave us a wide range and they said we have to have architectural plans and engineering first, which costs us money. But to spend that money and then to come back to you guys and you say, no way, that's too much. So we can come back and get those alternate bids
066if you guys approve it. The Cunahy, it's three rows, 23 spots. It's about 70. I'm not going to say the number it really is because I was once a middle school principal. But it's about 70 spots. We got bids between 164 and 302, but it all depended on the engineering and architectural and making the land right. Do you match the plants and the curving? The event parking was a lot more and they would have to do a lot more, but it was somewhere in the range of 380 to 560. And we were able to get it. We were able to get it. So those would be two projects that you guys can tell me in the future, yes, go do the work. We want to do those projects. But the slide prior is the work
067that we're ready to do. One thing I would mention is one of the things that we talked about in the capital plan committee was middle schools. And one of the discussions was not fixing KMS and building a new middle school and adding one to Fremont. So if that does end up being a scenario, then we probably should have a plan. So we're going to have to do that. And if we do end up in that scenario, then we probably shouldn't put money into KMS until we decide. And remember, this lot is being used. Correct. The way it is. The way it is. So we would also recommend that that money we could spend a whole lot of ways. So just a thought before we send money at KMS. At KMS, the area that would be
068done is not the event parking. Can you tell me? Where your gym is, like if you were to pull up to the gym, the lot is kind of gone. Like if it swings back around where the baseball field used to be. And it's like really just ground. It's really just ground. So they can't reseal that. You can still park the gym. Yeah, absolutely. You can park it. You can reseal it. It's just not ideal. But that's part of the event parking that we're not bidding right now. Correct. That is a picture of if we don't do the reseal, that's what all our parking lots and our black top will turn to. Forest Street Gym is another one that we would have to completely redo when we bring it back to Fremont. So if you want
069to go back a slide, this was the... Yeah. I wonder, do you know what the engineering plans would cost for that high school parking lot? Like if that part... That was a question that Allison was asked today in our practice. I can tell you that right now it was about, it's a little over $30,000. This is not apples to apples. For our first phase engineering for Ross's HVAC. So that engineering architecture... It's like engineering for a parking lot. So it's like... They'd have to do the grade. Absolutely. Okay. So maybe less than $30,000. Yeah. Maybe. Maybe. I mean, I really, really would like to see some more parking at... I mean at... CUNA High School. Yeah, CUNA High School. It's just a real problem. Absolutely. Especially with parking on the streets. And you can park
070on gravel, but we've got students parking every which way in the dairy, at the... Yeah, they've taken over the dairy. I don't know. We really have to... Yeah. We really have to... I mean, we have to... We have to... We have to... We have to... We really have to do it. I think we should do it. We really have to do it. We really have. We really have. We really have. I keep wondering who's going to tell them not to. There's more kids. Nobody so far? I shouldn't say that. Yeah. Maybe we should read it. The school's almost over. Yeah. Apparently the person who owns it's son allows those kids to park there. That's what I wondered. Oh. Yeah. We've asked. Oh, you've asked. Okay. Go for it. Well, I'd like... I just... I would
071make... I would like to see all of it done, but I guess I think that more parking is... Yeah. better for the high school and because you can park on that part yeah unless we just scrape it all out of there and make that gravel for Kuna high school but then there's no lines and the students will park every which way so what's the ask for the bid the request to accept the lowest bid if you and if you guys want me to bring because it's already in here that if you guys say I can bring another action item next time to say yes we would like bids for new parking to be added okay so that's just for KSD and then we this is everywhere there's blacktop and Kuna school district to be resurfaced
072restrikes and that's also your playground and one question it's not coming out of Fremont you know how there's like I'm missing is that part of getting this fixer that's the concrete that's a CHD and we're in you're on it okay great you're on it okay great real problem every morning yeah do I have I make a motion that approve the Curtis clean clean sweep company for the bit of 325 325 thousand five hundred four dollars do I have a second sorry adding the bid for the Kuna high school parking lot is after another action item yeah that's right okay so I do have a second okay any other discussion all right Kirstie hey Michael hi JD hi Hillary and I'm I also you are you can look at the hubby group we have oh wait
073is that we're going to yeah you're gonna bring that to us meeting is that what you for that separate parking lot yes yes do you would you like some why I can add there are maybe more alternate instituted I'm not sure if you have any other questions I'm just going to ask you to do that okay so I'm going to ask you to do that or do I need to do that I'm going to ask you to do that okay and I have some questions for you today what you know we have to adjust the number of events and I'm going to go ahead and say I think the number of events between the second meeting should be higher than the number between 60 and 70 I never we asked to do a bit for
074Averdanny we have the responses is that's what I thought that it was like 66 versus one hundred eight that's why I asked for more information about the shirt yeah this is a local company you guys have met Ron at a time Ron was extremely concerned he wants us to say much with the their response of their shirt he asked me to double check really nice email from I bet it's the guy's wife they're excited they're they're ready to go he has no reason legally that we can say no he they he will be checking on them though they'll get checked and did do core samples and the insulation was thicker than what is written on our plans and the insulation was in great shape so they've actually said it does not need to be replaced
075it was a really good shape how much should we have budgeted for that day how much did we estimate it was a little over two was it it was also worth of that so we're saying to do the high school that estimation we made for the blacktop and all the reseal based on what we paid in the past was seven figures so that was a lot less so things were wrongs already asking us to add more and more and we're not going to do that we're going to add more and more and we're not going to do that we're going to do that we're going to add more and we're not going to do that we're going to do that we're going to add what is our three and five year plan so and this
076is the owner of the DNA roofing that you're no wrong no KB he's like oh LKZ got this because he's our everything but Q high is a track has come back under our estimations I make a motion that we approve the DNA roofing company to do the Hubbard annex roof in the Nana 66,000 $260 job a second second any more discussion thank you Kirsten I'm Michael all right I'm I also all right a new business so I'd like to bring up some discussion at this time which is under organizational strength I'd like to I think we all would like to see a policy of some kind with the process of signing mo use which is stands for a random understanding I understand um and understand the whole process as these people start coming to our
077district on what we would do as a board when they come and how that would look so that when someone else is on board, they have a policy to know what to do. Honestly, when we had this first MOU, I didn't understand a lot and I am now being a lot educated. But I think it would be important for us to take a look at setting up some kind of policy of how when people come to us and ask for MOUs, what do we do as a board? How do we set that up? What are the questions that we ask? I'm just wondering like who comes with an MOU? Like I've heard of, since I've been on the board, just this one. Yeah. And so is it commercial properties that do the MOU? Or is
078it developers for like homes? Is that also an MOU? Yeah, there's. Is it critical? Is it a local agency? No. Okay. Two very different things. Like Superintendent Bechtol would share with you, we have MOUs with Turner Police. We have MOUs with St. Luke's. We don't have an MOU. That's a contract. Oh, sorry. We do have MOUs like with. So when CUNY Counseling would come in like after school and use a facility when we didn't have as many social workers, they would come in and help, you know, with the, help with some of the kids. So it was just an MOU. There was no exchange of money. It was just like at any time in that MOU, it was like at any time either one of us could say this isn't working. And that was fine.
079There was no binding contract to it. So we've had one with CUNY Counseling. We don't have that anymore because they don't have enough therapists to do that to help us. We've had an MOU like with Boise State. Every university. Every university. That we have student teachers with. Student teachers. No exchange of money. Right. So it's different than with what we're talking about here for developers. So those are the ones that we work on with those MOUs. There's no money exchange. And at any time in that MOU, they can say, we could say, listen, this isn't working for us. Or we don't like what you're doing or blah, blah, blah. And that's all. There's no legal thing to it. So it's different than what we're talking about here for this development. Which. We don't have a
080template for that. I think we need to have a definition of the type of MOUs that we're talking about. Yeah. And I think it would just be like any bigger projects that are going to have an impact on bringing students to our district. Yeah. Maybe that would be the definition of any impact that's going to bring more students into our district. And maybe we have a process to evaluate the project. Well. And also if there's an exchange of money. Yeah. That would probably be a quality change. That's very different. And that would have to be something that would come to the board. But the ones that we deal with are no exchange of money. It's just like in those, and I could show you one of them at some point, it will say, at any
081time that this isn't working for them or for us, universities, or the nurses. Again, that would be college. But we've had MOUs with a couple of the nurses that we've had in our nursing programs. But they'll come in and do a vaping unit because their students, you know, if they're middle school or at an initial point, they have a little unit. We look at that first to make sure that we're all clear on that. They go through all that with us first. But that's part of their school. So those are all pretty simple and similar. Yeah, I think this is totally different. Very different than that. Yeah, and I think that we could set up those boundaries that we want for whatever. But I definitely think it's something that we need to take a look
082at and have a board member working with a policy on what we can do. A policy and a template that you want that to look like. I think so, yeah. Well, in addition to the MOUs, where it says the sending letters of support for development, like at times maybe we are being asked for those letters maybe before we're comfortable giving that support. Or we'll ask them for support financially. And then we'll ask them to send letters of support for development. And then we'll ask them to send letters of support for development. And then when they give it to us, then we send a letter of support. When really it's still going to overcrowd our schools. And so there seems to be a little bit of a conflict there. So I guess, I don't know, that
083in addition to the MOU with commercial property kind of seems like something we could add to that. I guess figuring out like when are we as a board comfortable sending out the letter of support, not just the letter of support. Yeah, I think that's a really good point. I think that's a really good point. I think that's a really good point. Yeah. That is not necessarily every time what that looks like because like for example like actually if you say yes then we're still adding capacity to a district that we can't handle. And so sometimes it's like tit for tat is it really worth saying yes when we can't house the students anyway. I definitely think it's something we need to look into and come up with. And so I like to do that. And
084so what would be maybe the next step in the process? Good question. I think the next step would be having a community policy. Would be you, maybe Brian, Needy. Like we could come up with something and then bring it to the board. I think so. Can I ask a clarifying question that might help us move forward? We have a policy related to donations. So I'm curious how this would be different or set apart from that. Because the policy we have in place for accepting donations is what triggered the presentation of the previous MOU that we're really concerned about. So we presented that. I guess I don't know how they would be different. But help me know how we would move forward with that. They may not be different. I think that's what we need to
085discuss is what does that look like. I mean, because it's going to be happening more and more, Jason, as the. As we grow. You know, I've never had anyone come to us, though, and say, hey, we want to give you this much money. I was totally thrilled, I'll be honest. But I've learned a ton since that time. But when it came, it came as a donation. If I remember correctly, with this MOU attached to it type of thing. So I think it's just where we have a great conversation of looking at all of that. I think we're definitely learning a lot because of this. And so maybe we want to not make. Maybe. Maybe repeated mistakes. And so the donation policy, do you know what it says or what the number is? So we can.
086Maybe we need to look it up. That's what I'm saying. I think it just all needs to be looked at. We have to revisit the policy. I guess as we go through this process, we might need to change it depending on what we decide. I just. I don't know if we even have one type of thing. I know that we've talked to you about different things like what we want. Donated. We have a policy around accepting. The board has to approve donations of a certain amount. It's like a couple thousand bucks. Right. Five thousand bucks or something. Well, it was recognized. We accepted this particular donation, but we want to now change our mind and do different things. I think in the future. I definitely want to educate myself so I don't make this mistake.
087And I think as the board maybe last year, maybe during the budget, we talked about changing how much we accept like an amount because we're over capacity. And so maybe that's the thing is we don't accept land over a certain amount of money or size or whatever. Because that capacity issues. I just think that's worthy of a conversation to take. And maybe maybe if it works for everybody like Brian and I and if Jason wants to be involved in it, then we can work on a policy to bring to the board for the next. I'm comfortable with that. Is there anybody else that would like to sit on that? Well, it's part of the development committee we already have. Which is you guys. Which is Michael and I. So would one of you like to
088be a part of it? Yes. Yeah. And if you want to be with Hillary or I can do it too. Yeah. One of us could be there. I just think two is enough. Yeah. Oh, three is enough. Three is a crowd. I don't think. And it does cause issues. Yeah. Yeah, I think we can work that out. Yeah. We can figure out a schedule. Because it might not be. It might not only be about development. It could be about like maybe it should be a greater type of encompassing policy. But I think this is a good step one. Sure. Thank you. And our jury can help us with the template too that would go with the. By June, right? Yes, by June. By June, right? Bring something back. I think so. The sooner the better
089if possible. I knew better than mine. Jerry loves policy. Oh, I love it. Way better than you. I made fun of me at the celebration. All right. Let's move on to organizational strength. Assistant Superintendent is ready. I'm going to ask you to give us a quick update on the CUNA Youth Sports Complex. Are you ready to hear about it? Yeah. Chairman Dix and trustees, this will be probably a pretty quick update for you. But we have had a lot of questions come up just about, I don't necessarily want to call it a rumor, but there's been some notifications and some meetings and some information shared in our community regarding the idea of having a CUNA Youth Sports Complex that's going to be. I started out in the area of where we have the Thornton property
090that was donated to us. The gentleman that is kind of working on this had this vision to build this. He reached out to us early in the school year, like October, September. We had a meeting, in this very room actually, with him and a few of our other district folks, Brian, our athletic director, and I think Tim Jensen was a part of that conversation as well. Where he kind of shared his ideas. Yeah. with us and you know basically proposed to us hey would the school district be interested in donating part of that property to help make this kind of dream come true for him at that time in October we said that's a really interesting idea thanks for sharing it you know let us know how you how you do on basically your fundraising
091journey and then maybe we can talk in the future but like that was one conversation in October I know it's been shared that the school district is basically willing to donate and there's been no conversation like that we have not ever agreed to that we've not talked any more about that since October with this person we reminded him that we don't donate right we don't we're not the ones that make decisions about donation of any kind of property for sure and that would be you guys you would know that for sure if there were conversations like that happening and so we we haven't we haven't had any I haven't met with him since October so we were a little bit caught off guard by that and so I just wanted to kind of clear up
092any misconceptions that are out there about that and and also be available to answer any questions if you have them that maybe you've heard in the community but to make sure that we did not say anything about donations any funds from the we there's no conversation like that at all it was just like well that's a nice idea thank you for proposing yeah I think Trustee Lowe maybe was in a meeting I went I went to the community meeting at Swan Falls just to hear about it not as a school board trustee just as myself because I was interested to hear about it and I mean I don't think it's a bad idea for him to do whatever he wants to do it's it's only a portion of the business is a non-profit it's very
093much a poor for-profit business and and I asked the question if that Keener School District would be given preference for its use and he said no and which is different maybe than what is being put out there so he also let me know that he has spoken with the school board about it so that was news that I thought maybe I'd share with you in case you hadn't heard shared with yourself I think I think it's not it's not it would be an asset in my opinion to the community but i i certainly think the school district involvement we need to tread lightly so well and then the i mean the other thing is it's like if we're going to donate this land we're going to have access to it right and i mean it's
094valuable land like he should probably buy it but we never had any conversation that even an inkling that we would donate right that's what was a bit frustrating and then we had a conversation after his meeting last thursday with him on the phone he was very frustrated with us because we're like who did you talk to it's an awesome it's an awesome project it's an awesome idea yeah yeah i i i mean we could make it work if if there was some talk and negotiation so i mean i would just encourage him the beautiful idea but but when you get way ahead of yourself yeah yeah because the city didn't approve that project either just we have our size to say i saw on the oh yeah yeah the city also because they have land
095out by our land yeah so they did not approve no it did not but it was on oh it didn't come to them and they did not approve anything there's a former city employee i think that has really caused a lot of the misconceptions and she made some promises and now she doesn't for us made some promises on behalf of speaking for the school and for the city and she doesn't work for the city anymore so i think she's kind of mucked up and he did not invent this idea this idea is like he's like the fourth one right and that's what i was going to say i've seen something of the same style and type in pretty much the same spot previously like with i mean it's not a bad idea i don't like
096hotels next to a sport because kids and hotels don't go together if you have to chaperone well good to know thank you appreciate it thanks all right and now for a budget update for 2024 2025 director stedman and uh it's under organizational strength for our school all right thank you chair and trustee so okay so the purpose of today's presentation is just not for this year but also a budget update for next year so this is showing you guys how we're rolling up right now for our revenues our expenses our fund balances for this year and next year and then what what i'm going to cover today are the four biggest funds that we have at a high level and then you have a budget document that gives you more details that you can look
097through for all of the funds get into more detailed view and then you can email call me questions in the coming days and weeks and then we go from there so the timeline for the budget is it really begins building the budget and how we're doing this with this year's budget in february where i look at detailed expenses and how they're rolling up i meet with the leaders of every department in the school district and look at how the expenses are coming in and what are the needs for next year then beginning in march and april we start to get information from the state department of education on how how much revenue we're going to get i also get information on how our state payments are coming in to fund us in this year and
098how that's going compared to budget so i get both of those and then each week i get updates little iterations and then by mid-april is when i got the final numbers of what we're looking like for next year and then since then i'm getting new updates on federal funding and our other funds so for example just as last week i've got my final numbers for what the federal revenue is going to look like and then in terms of expenses i've got all that the information that i need there except for the health insurance expense we're still looking at options because there's a big increase on on health insurance expense for the district you'll see up right here collaborations and negotiations collaborations have been happening for several months as and then recently we've been doing negotiations
099with the education association and we're winding those down the only piece of information to finalize that is the health insurance expense and options for us to negotiate and to choose what's what's the best for the school district so what will happen now in the next couple of weeks is i'll put together just the four-year summary it's very basic it's our first publication that has to get sent out and then a couple weeks after that we meet again in the beginning of june for this meeting where we do the formal hearing so that's the timeline and then after that basically i upload into the systems download the information that gets sent to the state department of education for the budget for next year so again you've got a detailed budget document i'm going to be making
100it not so expensive but I want to bring to you a bunch of information that that is going to give you a picture of what we're looking to study until it's done. yeah all right so first we're going to cover just a little bit more on the answer to the question more on the answer to the question here is like mentioned before what are some of these thoughts are there to do with the next lecture things um one or is it over a month i think there's a couple more enrollment is increasing but it's also how well we're doing with attendance so that's why we encourage good attendance because then you get better education get more funds for better education so there's also a piece I'll talk about that we got this year the school
101modernization facility fund which is a big chunk of money and why Brian's able to do a lot of the work he's doing for capital projects right now you wonder where that money comes from that's where it comes from but a couple of things I'll point out for next budget right now and then I'll do it a little bit more detail on the revenue side you did hear in the news that the legislature increased our revenue for health insurance that's about 8% and then we have a salary and benefit apportionment about 5% for those items the fourth big item in that revenue that they didn't increase is the discretionary so you get a certain amount for discretionary and you times that by the number of units that you have they did it for health insurance but
102not discretionary so if they've never done that before or if they've done it before it's been many years that we've not gotten that and that's about 15% of our general funds state fund that's a big chunk so when you have non salary benefit expenses like there's lights being on all these things inflation going up and that did not go up on the revenue so that's a challenge for the other thing is is expenses so you also have heard and there's a really good article on this and so I'll get into this a little bit later on a subsequent slide but we're required all school districts throughout Idaho are required to pay to the minimums that in the the career ladder for for teachers and for people services so I'll explain that a little bit later
103on another slide so getting into the four big funds at the very beginning of your detailed budget document you will be familiar with this from prior year I'm trying to stay consistent right now with prior year with what you're familiar with you can see definitions for all the funds so right today we'll talk about the big general State Fund 100 and then these three funds as well the debt fund this one here from House bill 292 just in our system we call 435 and then the one down here that you're familiar with 521 which is the great big modernization fund so first the main part of the presentation is the state for just a second general fund yep we have that as a link if I remember correctly in our agenda but I don't have
104this link now to look at it which is fine I can look at it up here but I think she sent it in a separate email there's a separate okay that's why thank you go ahead yeah and I think she was gonna give you a physical yeah she did but I just look it through it that's the PDF yeah yep okay this is the PDF on here mm-hmm okay all right so the main part is the general fund that's the biggest one of all so as we look at this one I'll start with the revenue side if you look at the fiscal 24 numbers those numbers match exactly to the the audited financial statements that we got last year perfectly when you when you now go to fiscal 25 and 26 we haven't had the
105audit yet right so those are estimations based on the revenue that we're getting now you see that you think oh we only went up a little bit of revenue here but actually last year there was a one-time two million dollar payment the state gave so really we have gone up when we went from 264 units to 277 units we have gone up a couple million dollars because of that and that's the theme of today's presentation as revenues going up the expenses are going up and they're going up together which is actually the way you want it to do to do it you want to go down together up together so in this year we're also starting to pull in some emergency levy money and then also some local revenue we're projecting to get over a
106million dollars in interest over our fund balance that's what's making up a majority of this and then last summer we got four hundred thousand health insurance refund now as you compare that to this upcoming budget we're being a little more conservative on the interest that we get as I've organized all the funds and we're being told right now at the end of this summer that we're probably only going to get about a hundred thousand at most 175,000 but I'm being conservative on that now why are we going up so much in revenue for next year well that's what I told you about we're getting the 8% increase in revenue for health insurance we're getting about 5% for the salary and benefit apportionments and again remind you that we don't get that discretionary now the units
107that's the other big assumption in the budget we're assuming that the units which is what that funding is based on staying consistent so Brian does track enrollment we we do have some enrollment going down a little bit right now which is what happens every year but then we also have some move-ins that kind of balance that out so this past year we ended up with a lot more units than what we budgeted we're getting conservatively to be somewhat consistent but it could go down right with school choice maybe people moving in don't want to join so that's all just trying to trying to estimate now when you look at we're going up about five and a half million in revenue year over year but a majority of that actually still is not the state it's
108actually coming from the supplemental levy that passed we'll start to begin to pull in all that money and that's that's crucial because we we couldn't we'd have problems if we didn't have that we would reduce FTEs we would we would have our ratios of teachers and students want to be as good so that's why that one is critical because it's it's helping us maintain which we didn't have this year so if I go to the expense side of things you can see our expenses are also going up but not as much from year to year this is what really happened in 24 and what we're projecting in 25 now I'm I'm projecting a little probably a little bit more than my actual happened by end of end of summer based on health what I've seen
109with health insurance costs come in but I'm trying to be conservative the other thing that you'll notice is for both this year and next year is a big increase Trent and Trent in our special education expense that we continue to see so it's it's it's actually not part of the general fund 100 it's a different fund where we get federal reimbursements that those reimbursements are not keeping up with the pace of the actual spend and so what you do at the year end is you have to actually apply it to our fund balance and take it out of the general fund so in essence it actually does become part of the general fund so that's a risk that that we're that we're fighting right now and then with of course you we want to have
110a contingency reserve for emergencies that that might come up so as you bounce as you look at both the revenue and expense it we want to look at those together to see how our general fund balance is going so these two years are what you'll see in 23 and 24 is exactly how it is in the audit of the financial statements if if you remember a year ago when I wasn't here they were actually predicting this fund balance to be less than this it was supposed to come in at the end of the auto financial state it's about more like this in the eight million dollar range but we had a lot of good stuff happened to us during the summer more than the bad stuff and we came in a lot stronger to start
111this year which is actually a really good thing especially considering the increased costs that we've had to have like cost of living inflation things that we've been experiencing this year so we did not have a supplemental levy it did not patch and so you guys approved to take it out of the fund balance to sustain ourselves because we had a very healthy fund balance and it wasn't even expected to be that healthy but still we knew that this was going to happen we were going to have more expenses and revenue this year and now that was part of the plan now if it this is more of a worst case I believe because I've been very conservative here putting in a lot of health insurance expenses so if it comes in better this summer this
112very well could be higher than this number and a better balance at the end of this summer when we go through the audit but you don't know something could come out of nowhere right that we're not expecting in the next couple months and then as we go into next year the idea is to balance the revenues and expenses if they go up or down and you're trying to balance them and be consistent with our fund balance now we're doing that with the exception of a special education where we're projecting like I showed on the previous slide where we have to we're spending more than what we're getting reimbursed and that's what eats into that that amount here how much do we get reimbursed so right now we're projecting to be reimbursed about nine hundred thousand
113dollars but we're gonna spend over two million to support the program in that compared to that specific fund so if you go into your detailed budget documents and go down and look at those special education funds there's there's a few of them there's a couple big ones and you'll see where that gap is and you'll see where I put in that exact transfer number on there and you'll see that gap it's a big gap I wish the legislature or the federal government whoever would help us in this situation because it only continues to go up yeah yeah so the goal here though too is to not have too big of a balance we want about we want to have a balance that you know where we take care of the students but also do not
114get too low because even at these numbers right if we all funding stops from federal local state level you can still only operate one or two months so if I showed you that as a from a visual perspective many years ago we got probably a little bit too low and then the COVID ester I think really helped jump that up and then we came in a lot better last year at the end of last year than we Than what we thought so now the goal is to get into that low to mid teen range I know as a board policy, I believe we have to have at least nine percent which is good, but that's still only a few weeks So the idea now is to not be too low not be too high and
115not to be going up and down all the time but to get here and just try to Be a little more consistent, but things happen on the revenue expense side and that are unforeseen So you can't always predict exactly what's going on? Before I get into the other three big funds any questions on the General fund like what's making up the the revenues or anything? No, you're doing a great job of explaining Okay, just wish we had more Okay, so as I get into the other fund so that one of the big ones is the debt fund Okay in the appendix of your detailed document. There is a debt Payment schedule that and this comes from our consultant Michael Keith. He's heard of me today We're averaging needing to pay about four and a half
116to five million dollars every year for debt in principle So this upcoming fiscal year will have to do the same and these payments are always in September and March now Luckily the state does provide a funding for This the 292 every year they're going to give us right around three million dollars now this upcoming year We don't know the this upcoming August September. We don't know what the exact amount is going to be It could be maybe like one and a half million up to four and a half million, but the vibe I'm getting from State Department of Education CFOs there. It's sounding good like we're gonna have a lot of good money here So hopefully more than the three million Which is a good thing because then that helps pay down the debt in
117principle here And then we don't have to levy as much To make our payments so last year now Let's compare this to last year last year We had a really great fund bouncing to almost ten million dollars in this debt fund So what that meant was even though we got this payment We didn't even have to use it and we didn't have to do this at all to the community So that was that was great news this This money was able to be used for maintenance, and that's what the 292 and in our systems 435 and Brian can use it for maintenance items however this next budget year and the following year most likely we will not be able to use that for maintenance items it's going to have to be used to pay the
118debt and then depending on what this is determines on what this will be so if this comes in higher Michael people say we don't have to do that much here if it comes in lower than we'll have to do more here and he's going to want he's going to be the one that advises what this final number is and of course you guys have to approve as well what that will be so the the timing of this that's the trick is because the state that won't know until the end of August beginning of September there they're telling all school districts that they have to file extensions for the l2 throughout the entire state and so there's going to be a delay on knowing really what the final number will be but once we get out
119I'll follow the extension and then we'll get the l2 and and then we'll get the final number we'll get the l2 and then we'll get the it'll be done with your approval so any any questions on the debt fund that works the reason we won't be able to use the waterfall money the way we did this year is because we do have a levy in place well and our balance is less so we were almost 10 million dollar balance but now we're projecting to be more around five six million and that's the other thing i forgot to tell you is you have to have somewhat of a balance because of the timing issue where we have to make these payments on a calendar basis but we do things from a school our fiscal year is
120a little bit different and because of that timing gap if you don't have a balance the way you do all this then you won't be able to pay make your your payments here so michael keith will always recommend we have some kind of a balance but it's not as big as it was last year so that's why we have to do both of these things that's the difference between this year and last year all right so the next two great big funds so this is this is the one i just talked about 292 and last year this or this fiscal year there's the three million and brian's starting to spend it he's also has that great big fund down here that i'll talk about in a second we're going to roll it over and really
121i'm going to push brian to finish spending this this next year and then this is the this is the great news that everybody should be aware of uh in community that we did actually in our bank we did get this 20 over 25 million dollars so it's it's a big chunk of money it's it's it's not because of how expensive things are it's not enough to do a great big new school for capital but we have a long list of capital projects when you get done that you know he'll share every month and you guys will approve and that's really great news for us we we may not get more of that but that's a good chunk of money and we probably it won't be able to spend it all next year i'm just going
122to budget it that we will and then if we don't we'll just keep rolling it over from year to year and look at the interest that we earn on it which is great amounts a couple things to keep in mind though this money is only for capital projects so we can't use it for salaries and all sorts of things and this interest money we can use it for maintenance projects because the money that we're spending on this project is going to be used for maintenance projects because the money that we're spending on this project is going to be used for the amount the amount up here that we're going to get every year annually is now going to go towards the debt payments it has to we're going to use this money to help us
123continue to do maintenance projects that aren't that you can't capitalize this interest money here this great big money here you can capitalize on big capital projects so those those are the four biggest funds now i will say in your budget document there's a ton of other funds federal and local that each have the revenue and it's going to be a lot of money and it's going to be a lot of money and expense and carry over balances if for some reason there's not enough revenue in those to match the expenses that's where you have a transfer issue and it does affect your general fund and general fund balance just like special education but almost all of those funds when you look at them that aren't special are sustaining themselves in terms of enough revenue to
124balance with the expenses um i will call out page 11 because a lot of people want to know okay i know you get your you get your health insurance money from the state you get your discretionary you get your salary and benefits but how do they calculate those amounts well that's what page 11 will show you the detailed amounts that you get for each one of those and in the appendix there's a salary base apportionment that there's the official one from the state for this fiscal year that shows you how much we get for salary and benefits for every position administrative um pupil certified um and then page 33 shows a detail of all the summary of all the funds and that will be similar to the information that the state will require from all
125school districts that will upload to the state uh end of june beginning of july um and then i already mentioned the fund bond payment schedule but just on the salary base apportionment you know you can you can see exactly what they're paying for certified classified people in certain departments and then all of their different types of and administrative so administrative and classified the actual specific fund that they give you will show right on that in the appendix so it's about forty thousand dollars for those positions so having gone through that more at a high level give you guys some time in the coming days and weeks to dig into the details and just call me and email it to me with questions since February I've gone into every specific detail of every specific dollar so
126I'm ready to go the emergency oh yeah so yeah the 277 there's a specific sheet I can even send it to you there's an official one this year they have actually a calculation based on your enrollment and your enrollment and your attendance and how that equates to the actual 277 they've given me one for next year where I can plug in how enrollment is going and what we're suspecting it move ins and so I can I can send those to you as well but keep in mind though that so when you look at the rep the revenue that you get they'll use those units for the health insurance because they'll say your allotment is six or seven million well no six or seven thousand and then you times it by the number of units and
127it ends up being like six or seven million or whatever they do that for health insurance and the discretionary but the the amount that you get for salaries and benefits that's that other sheet that's actually in your appendix so So, and that has some complicated formulas in it. And so they use two different methods really to determine your revenue. But units does play a big part of it. Thank you. Did they change that up this year in the legislature, how they were going to fund that? Am I missing that? No. It discussed. Oh, yeah, yeah. I thought they did talk about how they're going to change that up, and it would hurt rural schools probably more than us, if I remember correctly. Yeah, they, yeah. So I guess that's what I'm trying to do. Yeah,
128they're trying to, in the future, get some things in place that match the funding more with your specific students, so maybe they'll try again next year. Yeah, so that didn't pass. But it didn't pass, and actually that hurt us, because we would have actually gotten more money from that particular one. Well, that's what I heard, that we would do better on it than some of the other schools. Anyway, thank you. And fast correction, we wish they would do, especially like in town, but they do for. Like, through third grade, you get a different portion of it than you do for. Intermediate kids and high school kids. Yeah. And alternate kids, but they don't for special ed, which they 100%. But they were looking at that. They did. Yeah. But it did. That's what I was
129talking about. It did not. We spent a ton on special education that we don't get reimbursed for. So that would be nice to help us. So any questions? I feel like I should have some. I'll take a look. He has spent, I'll tell you what, Brad has spent hours and hours and hours, and he's had to learn because it's been new, but he's gone through every little thing. Thank you. It's the best way to learn, so now I know it all. Are you sure you want to say that? Yeah. Yeah. Well, the caveat is not knowing everything the state's doing with all their weird formulas. Yeah. No, you did a good job. I know everything that we're doing. Yeah. Great. No, it was good. Thank you. And coming from an outsider, you know, from his
130world to come into an education world and then learn all of it and ask questions and figure it out and take literally hours and hours and hours, we're really proud of him. Thank you. And grateful. All right. And now to our favorite policies. I love that it was budget and policy invention. Look at the crowd didn't leave, but stayed. The only policies that got changed were the ones that you guys asked us to change from last time. They got a little bit scattered. I'm going to be way better next time. But I stand for one at a time. The 402, we made it two changes and we brought it back as a first read. I just didn't see the change in there that I was looking for that the background check should happen prior to
131the first day of work or volunteering. That's what I brought up. It's still five days after. Which I thought was weird. But then I talked to Brian and Brian said no. The definition of hire, so when we hire you, like today you guys, well, in consent agenda you will hire people for next year. Before this. And then they come in and get orientation. Then they give their fingerprints. They can't, you can't get your badge until we get our fingerprints back. But like I just talked about volunteers previously and how like, like it, let me just read it. Yeah. No. This is the way they go. Code reads in that. Yeah. And that was my question too. Because it sounds like you get hired then you have up to five days to give your stuff. So
132my question to Brian was is that the way it's going or do you get that before? And he told me you get it before. So I'm with you on this. I mean you do, maybe you do get it before but that's not what this policy says. It's our debt, the way we define it. Yeah. So I think it would be nice if we put in here that they won't have unsupervised contact with students before their bachelor's. So that's a good point. Yeah. And that's like, it's specifically as even a volunteer like a, like a field trip person. Like they want to, they're going to go have unsupervised contact with the students and then we're going to get their background check after five days and figure out they shouldn't have been with students. Sure. Yeah. Which
133anytime you're unsupervised they might hire you. They just want to show you. So yeah. Good job. Something about unsupervised. Yeah. I just think, and it does say something about unsupervised contact and I feel like that's just an important part to. Yeah. Make sure that they have a background check prior to unsupervised contact. That is for second with those corrections? If the second isn't in the consent agenda. Then yes. Yeah. Okay. And I mean I did want to put in there the school board needed background checks and I didn't see that in there either. Members. School board members and trustees. Should be background checks. I've never been background checked. I know I've been because I'm a teacher but I don't know. I have not been as a school board member. Your aunt was as a coach.
134Yeah. And I guess I wanted just clarification. So I am in the elementary school and I sign up for a parade field trip. Do I have to have a background check in order to go? I just want that clarified. If you're going on a field trip. Yeah. Yes. Then we consider you like a coach and you have to be. Okay. So you can't go on the field trip until we get your fingerprints. Okay. And that's what's happening now in the elementary school. Just technically. But I've been on a lot of field trips. That's what I. I've never been back. That's what. That's what. That's what. That's what. That's what. That's kind of where I'm coming from. I just want to know, you know, because it does say in there, if I remember correctly, to the
135point of if you're unsupervised, you need to have that. But the teacher would be the supervision person, I would assume, around all of those people. Like if you break up into groups. You break up into a lot of little groups. I mean, got your little. So that's where my clarification was, but I'm fine. So. I mean, it's supposed to be happening. I'm sure things slip through the cracks. Yeah. So. So anyway. Yes. Okay. I'll make a motion that we make those changes to policy number 402 and have it come back for a second read. Can you list the changes that you want? Okay. The changes would be that school board trustees should be background checked and that there would be no unsupervised contact with students prior to the background check. Okay. And that's stated in
136there. Results coming back, I guess. Do you have a second? I'll second. Okay. Any other discussion? All right. Kirstie? Aye. Sorry, Michael. Aye. J.D. Aye. And Hillary. Aye. It's been a long day. And I'm an aye. So, okay. Expectation for communications. You guys wanted to keep it at first read. Any one of the principals to weigh in on the bottom part. There was two corrections added. One was about every other week. That was to change to first week or once a week. Right. And then you wanted feedback from the administrators. Correct. And then you guys wanted an opportunity to discuss. This isn't the version I saw. But with the blue, it wasn't in there. So how would it read that last bullet point? Schools and or the district will communicate with parent guardian about lockdowns
137and other disruptions? That interrupt instructions. Yeah. The only caveat is if it's a block, it's a block. It's a block. It's a block. If it's a state, a county, police become involved, then we can't do a communication until they tell us to. And the communication has to come from them. Police trump us and they take over . So you don't want to. So are you saying that like other disruptions would cover fire, drills, reverse evacuation? Instead of listings. And call checks and all those other random things. This is more, Principal Moore's not here. For example, we had a fox situation that I got to try and catch a fox. Like an actual fox? An actual fox. Allegedly. I, by the time I got there, I wasn't there. But they had to all come inside. If
138there's any parents who did send a message out. I went to go . That's for . And it didn't happen. But that would be a disruption to, and that would be listed. So it just becomes too hard to list them all. They heal. I know you guys wanted some feedback back from our principals as well. Well, I think that it's, you know, it's a little bit of a challenge. I'm okay with this. I think it's just good if all the schools are on the same page. So that one elementary or one middle school isn't sending out a ton of communication about every disruption. And then the other principals are not. So I think it'd be nice if they get on the same page about it. I mean, if it's a disruption, that means a hall
139check. That means if somebody's throwing things in the classroom. And the students have to leave or. We should talk. Or it's a room clear or whatever. Okay. Trustee Low, sometimes in the up here there's definitions. Do you think if we define. Yeah. That'd be a good idea. Instructions. I think that'd be great. Just so that the schools are kind of doing it uniformly. So people aren't like, well, I don't really want to go to that elementary school. Sure. Because they have a lot of problems. But the other one just doesn't send anything out and they have the same amount of problems. But that, yeah, if we clearly define it then they have. Yeah. That sounds great. I make a motion that we adopt the policy of 1013 with those correct. Corrections and move it to
140the second reading. Second. Okay. And any other discussion? All right. Kirstie? Aye. Michael? Aye. J.D.? Aye. Hillary? Aye. And I'm an aye. Okay. Because maybe somebody made some mistakes. I'm just going to stay up here just in case you guys want to. Well, I think. Or I've been instructed to pull anything out of. When it comes to the consent agenda, there was an item. Yes. We could remove 641.1. From the consent agenda because we kind of agreed to wait on that one until we have more information from several friends. And it definitely should be second reading. It'll be definitely on first read when it comes back. Yeah. Okay. So lawyer input probably. That was the only one. I was aware. Was there another one that you wanted to pull away? The only other one is
141681.1. I continue to hear about from . So I just feel like I need to bring that up. So I guess we can pull that out. I don't know if you want to do the consent agenda and then talk about those or what else like for us about that one. Or should we talk about . Yes. I do have a question about that one. Cool. Let's pull it out. Let's pull it out and then we can talk. I make a motion that we take those two out and approve the consent agenda. So approve the consent agenda without 681.1 or 641.1. Do I have a second? Second. Okay. Any other questions? Aye. Good. Aye. Aye. Aye. An aye from me. Aye. So those two are out? Yeah. Okay. So 641.1 is going to come back some
142other time. Yeah. We don't need that. 681.1. Perfect. On the form, the feedback that I'm getting, if you scroll down to the form that people will fill out, it's the section on student safety that seems to trip everybody up. But. But we have a process in place for student safety for everyone. And so we're, several people actually mentioned that they feel like this should be removed. And that any process on student safety should be followed by like school counselors or qualified individuals not designating teachers. Well, I think the concern is the whole point of the policy is parent transparency. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So adding adults in the school system to children for support. It might waver the transparency that we're trying to create with parents. And that that could be
143the concern with the parent side of it because then that still provides the opportunity for staff or teachers to go behind parents' backs to do things with students that are not appropriate when it comes to identity and such. And, yeah, that's what I heard. So I think that the policy in my opinion would be great minus this section on the form with student safety if it could be removed. So I'm also okay with the new policy as it is in removing the student safety section as well. It's the form that they fill out. Is it this pink part? It's the pink part. Oh, okay. Like parents are concerned that this is an avenue for issues. I think it kind of takes away the whole purpose of the policy. Are you guys okay if we take
144it back to our social workers counselors admin, get their feedback, if they agree with you then it goes to third reading, but they're gone. If they would like parts of it, if there's any changes, any request statement, they're not taking it out, then it stays in the second reading and it comes back. Not a consent in the record agenda that we discussed earlier. Does everyone understand what that is kind of like? Yeah. I think it's important to understand that the student safety section is a part of the policy. It's not just a part of the policy. It's a part of the policy. And then like implying, like so if the student is going to be in their home and something is going to happen, that's the safety that they're concerned about. I think the student
145safety that this refers to is if someone wants to be called by some other name or going through some other transgender or otherwise process, that parents be able to be informed. And that's why they would be filling this out with a parent and a person at the school. Yeah, this whole, unless they're 18, yeah, this should happen. All this should happen with... And so if we remove this student safety, we have other processes for all students and we could reference that process or policy here too that says if there's student safety concerns, this is the policy to refer to for them that applies to all students. Okay, but is there something else that would constitute safety that is not that part, not having to do with gender or whatever? No, I think if we're talking
146about student safety within the home, there's another policy and procedure for that. So is that what you're saying? So we could reference that in this policy for that specific student if they needed that protection. I can see a counselor saying, wait, you know, someone at home is being abused. So that would be a separate... Yeah, it's different. But this is a parent's policy. Yeah, it's a parent's. It's a parent's. It's a parent's. It's a parent's teacher. Helping fill this policy. Yes, I just want to make sure I get clarified. So, and what's only if needed? What is that? That was the change earlier that if my kid doesn't need a safety plan, it felt like the form was required. So that was one of the... So only if needed. You guys had requested it not
147applicable to the unit. This is only if needed. It wasn't like a have to fill out. Right. Additionally, what's been brought up to me is that this kind of suggests that if you have a student that's not a student, you're not going to be able to get that safety plan. Right. So that's one of the things that we're trying to do. So, I think what's been brought up to me is that this kind of suggests that a student in this position would be the only one targeted for student safety. And in some cases, they could be the person that targets other students. I don't have specific information about that ever happening, but I am just saying that that's what was brought up to me. So they would like the same process to be utilized whether
148you are... No matter your... Your gender, your orientation, whatever the words are. And I would tend to agree that it would... That it could be best done that way. So I think if you take it to your school counselors and bring it back, it seems like a good... Yeah. So... Next. Yeah, I'll come back as third read if ever there was an agreement so we can show you that we did what we said we did. If there's more debate, then we'll bring it back. Yeah. I might... Truth is it's second. Either way, it'll be not in consensus. I would like to see what the counselors think about that. Yeah. I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point. I think
149that's a good point. Yeah. I don't know of all of the scenarios of it. Yeah. Not being... I haven't looked at this one. Not being able to see it all. I just... So... I'm just curious about that. So we need a motion for that. And then... Yeah. The motion... What are we doing with that? The motion means that he's going to take it to the counselors and come back for third read. Yeah. Second or third? Second or third. Second or third. And then... Yeah. I would... That's a good point. I think that's a good point. Second or third. Second or third. All right, do I have a motion then? I'll make a motion for 681.1 that it'll come back as a third read after some more investigation from the counselors. And we'll see if a
150change needs to be made. Okay, perfect. Do I have a second? I second. Any more discussion? All right, Hillary? Aye. And Kay? Aye. And aye for me? Great. All right, we're on the good with the order. So it's graduation time. We're all excited. And so initial point will be May 21st at the KPAC at 6 p.m. And Keenah High School will be May 22nd at 2.30 at the Ford Idol Center. We'd love to see as many people there. And then Kindergarten Open House will also be May 21st, 2025, 2 p.m. until 6 p.m. So those are some things that are happening. Is that for every? Is that for every? Yes. Yes. Now that we have the boarders. I will not be able to be at the IPHS graduation. I let Deanne know. Okay. Yes, I
151will. It's just a really tricky time. It's going to be because you guys are having so many grand parties. Well, family's coming. Of course. I'm disappointed because I love that graduation. I motion that we adjourn. No, we're not adjourned. We're not adjourned. I motion that we go into executive session according to code 74206. Second. All right. And Pearson. Aye. Michael. Aye. Norton. Aye. Jamie. Aye. And I also. All right.