001Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Oh, hey. Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat. Heat. Oh, hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. Heat. Hey, Heat. Hey. Heat. Heat. Oh, hey. Hey, heat. Hey. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. Okay, we'll call the meeting to order and start with roll call. Brian Jones >> here. >> Becky Engel >> here. >> Dusty Wear >> here. >> Morgan Brown >> here. >> Brett White >> here. >> Christina Shark is here. Dave Wallbrunner is absent tonight. Next up is adoption of agenda and declaration of a quorum. >> Motion to adopt. >> Second. >>
002We have a motion and a second. Is there any other discussion? All those in favor, raise your right hand. Motion passes. Next, a citizen speak. I do not have any green cards tonight. Next is consent agenda. >> Motion to adopt. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Is there any other discussion? Not all those in favor raise your right hand. Motion passed. Next board priority. We will promote and monitor growth in student achievement and all students will be challenged with high expectations that meet or exceed measurable targets. We have two action items under this section tonight. The first one is the science center curriculum adoption. >> Yeah, thank you Christina. We have two of our science teachers. uh one of them, former science teacher, project lead the way Kim Brisby and Heather
003Swanstrom uh to present to us tonight about the curriculum review process. They were part of the committee that selected uh our science curriculum as part of our review process. And they also have a slide in there reminding the board where we are in that uh review process because those are cyclical. So with that, I'll turn it over to Kim and Heather. >> All right, good evening. Um, so like Brad just said, this is our curriculum review cycle. So this year it was our time to uh review our science curriculum. Uh, and then we will implement start implementing that next year uh while we start to review our social studies curriculum. So that's kind of what that looks like. our process for choosing our new science curriculum. We started this at the beginning of this previous
004school year. We started by reading uh doing a book study together. It was the new art and science of teaching science which goes along with all of the other nay work that we've been doing. Uh this was just geared specifically to science. Uh and so that gave us kind of a good framework for what we wanted our science curriculum to look like and what it should include. Uh, as far as meeting, I kind of helped with the elementary side. So, we met after school. It was just easier to get everybody together that way. And then the high school side, the secondary side, uh, met during their district PLC time on Fridays just because that worked better for them because they were all going to be there together. Uh, then we went into doing some research
005and making sure that, uh, we did a good vetting process. So, we went through and determined some essential standards for each grade level uh just to make sure that any curriculum that we picked met that content or those standards. Uh we used Ed reports to help us narrow down good curriculum or good resources. Uh and Ed reports just kind of does some prevetting um for schools. And so they kind of color code it and say, "Hey, this is an all green curriculum, so it's probably a good thing to look at." And if it's not all green, it's probably something you don't want to look at. Um, and then we kind of work by grade level bands to help pick our curriculum. So I think we kind of have a K5 curriculum, a middle school, and
006then the high school kind of branches out a little bit. After we kind of narrowed it down, um we narrowed it down to two curriculums and we had the vendors come and present uh their resources to us and then we made our recommendations from that. Um we do have some courses especially at the secondary level that are starting to go back to textbooks instead of just doing online only things. Uh do you have anything you'd like to add? Yeah, for the secondary portion, especially at the high school level, like 912, there's a lot of different curriculums that you guys are going to see because they're very specific to the courses, which are vastly different. Um, and I think the whole goal as we worked through this process was to make sure that we weren't just
007like finding something that we could just kind of make fit. We've already identified essential standards for all of these courses and what we want students to have like when they leave here so that they're prepared whatever they do postsecary. And so making sure that what we were picking wasn't um going to compromise those essential standards that we've already like put in the work to do. So um this is an example of what we used. Um K5 or sorry K5 did this process and then 612 also did this process. So when we were looking at different um resources such as textbooks or curriculum resources um we went through all of these pieces um does it align um with our standards. Does um it have the content focus of the course that we're doing especially um some
008of our additional courses that um like for example at the high school like anatomy and physiology. I'm trying to find things that fit like within that realm. Um we have the idea of like hands-on learning or phenomena ba phenomena based um learning on the secondary level as well. And um is this going to be something that's going to work for all learners was also a big thing. And so we would rate these um and then at the end we'd get a percentage and then we use that to help drive our um discussions within groups. And so you're going to see in a little bit that there's a variety of resources that have been chosen because there isn't a one-sizefits-all. We didn't go with just like one company for all of these things because that wasn't
009necessarily what fit within the realm of what our goals are. So these would be um this committee's recommendations for new curriculum to buy um for science on the K5 level. Um we recommend mystery science. This is an primarily online platform um that does a really great job with that phenomena that we're really looking for in science so the kids can see these natural things happening. Um it's >> really hands-on. there's a lot of um opportunities for them to do experiments and really be able to do the science and not just learn about it, which is super important. Um, and we'll talk a little, it also comes with some kits. We're not going to do that. We'll talk more about that here in just a little bit. Um, we have a cheaper option for that. So,
010um, that is what we've chosen K5. I used it before, um, in some of my previous teaching experience. I really liked it. I think it's a good resource and um not super overwhelming for our elementary teachers who already have a lot on their plates. So, I'll let Heather talk about the rest. >> So, to streamline things for sixth through 8th grade, they're going to be using um Savas and um it's more of a digital online platform and um there's a lot of standards that kind of mix when you go through the sixth through 8th grade curriculum. So, it was important to have a resource that all of them could use um along the way. And then um for biology, they have chosen um the Pearson Campbell. And you can see a lot of the secondary
011ones were looking at requests for textbooks and not online materials as we found that students don't do as well with reading online and they need like something tangible. We're not um and some of them still have online access as well. um a lot of them still come with the um online access of like digital labs or like resources to use um within that realm. And does anybody have any questions about some of these resources that are up here or what was picked? So for um K5, I see it's online. Um how much time online and how often will they be doing that? because we're trying to reduce the online learning component, >> right? So, it's not so much online for the kids, it's online for the teachers. So, there's still resources that are printable for
012the students and there's like videos and things that we can show, but it wouldn't be online time for the students necessarily. Okay. So, it wouldn't hurt that 30 minute um computer issue at all. >> And and are they going to have a block of time required to teach science because that's gone by the wayside over the past years in the elementary. Yes. So I believe the expectation right now is they should be teaching 30 minutes of science and social studies every other day. >> Okay. Thanks. >> All right. So some of our next steps >> um so there is opportunities for staff to plan um within their PLC's over the summer to get prepared um with the new curriculum um as we move forward with um our standards and making sure that everything is aligned
013and we've got those um first units kind of solid as we move into the beginning of the school year. uh the thing that I was talking about earlier. So, Mystery Science comes with kits that are available for purchase that gives you all of the hands-on material that you need for the experiments. They're pricey. Um so, one thing that we're going to do to kind of help bring the cost down. Um we're going to work on buying those materials and putting the kits together ourselves um this summer. Um I'm not for sure how that's going to work out yet. We've talked a little bit about it, but that was so much of that stuff you need you need, you know, rubber bands and index cards and it just made a lot more sense to do that
014on our own as opposed to spending the amount they wanted for the kits. >> Um, there will also be professional development for teachers surrounding these new resources um as we move into um into the start of the school year as well. um specifically I think that's a um a big K5 um focus within the professional development. Obviously the secondary level will also have that um but the K5 is a large roll out across a variety of buildings. And then for the elementary um materials we're going to pilot that this coming year. So the resources will be there and available for teachers to look at, use as kind of as they want to. Um just to kind of get people familiar with it and not overwhelm people. Um and then we would look at a full-blown
015implementation in the 2728 school year where they will be expected to use this curriculum. Do you guys have any questions for us? Okay. Thank you. >> Thanks. >> If there's no questions for them, this is an action item. >> I'll make a motion to approve the science curriculum. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Is there any other discussion? If not, all those in favor, raise your right hand. Next up for approval is the 2627 student handbooks. >> Yeah. And I believe in your board packet you had a summary of most of the handbook updates. And I I believe in addition there's a parent handbook at Pwick. It's not a student handbook. Um I think the two that maybe didn't get added were the Liberty updates and the Evans updates. And I
016I had them send me those and most of them are just roll over like the calendar rolling over, some tweaks to the bell schedule, mostly clerical stuff. Um just a few tweaks to like the Evans is going to be implementing a standardsbased grading policy. So that kind of thing, parking maps at OS and Evans. So nothing nothing major. And I believe you had updates a summary page for each of them other than maybe Liberty and Evans. But if you had any questions about any of the handbooks, I I have the notes here that I could answer most of them. Guess I just had one comment question type thing. I know uh I've had it brought up probably 10 to 12 times just on at Liberty about students not having lockers there. Um, and I noticed
017on the page it's highlighted just to make sure um, you know, to make sure they limit students to one bag. It's on page 20 just and then it says they're supposed to carry stuff to the classroom. But I know usually the students have been told they can leave stuff in their home room throughout the day if they need to. And I just I just want to make sure there's some clarification on that just because I know it's been asked a lot and anytime a parent or a parents asked me, I said, "Well, just ask the principal or ask their home room teacher." And I' I've never heard from again so they must take care. just so that's out there that that's available to those students especially in the winter with coats and you know bicycle
018helmets or something like that in the spring if they're riding bike school. >> Each each room is equipped or not every room but each each of the main classrooms is equipped with um like cubbies and then even locking overhead cubbies um and if we need to add to that we can. I know even when my daughter was there, there were a couple times she had to lock some things up to make sure things were secure. Um but yeah, there there are cubbies where kids can hang their coats and put their bags um as needed. Any other questions about handbooks? >> If there's no questions, I'll make a motion to approve the student handbook approvals. >> A second. >> We have a motion and a second. Is there any other discussion? If not, all those in
019favor, raise your right hand. Motion passes. Next. Board priority to be the best. We will create a positive learning and working culture for stakeholders and embrace our community partners through communication and transparency. We have three action items under this section. The first one is the school resource officer agreement. >> Yep. And this is uh we had run on a three-year contract with the city, partner with them on three school resource off officers. Uh this was our renegotiation year. So uh there are no changes to the operation of the SRO agreement. We got together, we talked about it. Uh we didn't hear any complaints or issues from the buildings. Uh we didn't have any requests and they didn't either. So the terms and conditions are the same and we basically just renegotiated the the wage numbers
020uh that they've they supplied based on their negotiations with the police officers union. So uh we still maintain a 50/50 split of the actual officer salary and benefit cost. Um the new contract for 2027 is an increase of 5% over last year and then their annual cost increases are six and a half% per year and that reflects the salary and benefit increases for the officers during that time. So uh just for numbers we paid a little over $214,000 this year for three SRO's. Uh next year it's a little under 225,000 and it's a 6 and a half% increase per year. So no uh just changing on the money and uh we would expect that based on the increased cost of the officers. Any questions? >> There are no questions. We'll take a motion to approve.
021>> Motion to approve the school resource officer agreement. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Is there any other discussion? If not, all those in favor, raise your right hand. Motion passed. Now we have board policy review of the 500 series. >> Yeah. So the first section there were quite a a few. Well, first of all, there's a lot of policies in this series. Um and so we uh looked at them pretty closely. The first group in part B there are the ones that did um just some of them were minor, some of them are a little bit more major changes. Uh but we cross referenced all of them with um IASB provides you know recommended policy. So, we cross referenced the the language in that uh series. Um, and I had
022each of the different directors in those departments double check them and u, but there are a lot of them. So, if you have any that you have any questions on, um, I know there there are a lot there. And John and I were talking this morning that we'll develop a better tool to give you all a better glimpse of what these are, especially when they get this comprehensive and have this many um, policies in a series. And John, I don't know if you had anything you wanted to add to this series. No, just a reminder that the way we handle it is this is the first reading. So, um there's a lot to absorb and then uh the board can can look at this and if there's any concerns, uh we come back at the
023next meeting to do a second and final reading. So, if there are any suggestions for changes, you can reach out at any time on any of those. Uh but there always are two readings. The the next item on there is C and that's a first and final and that is when we are just reviewing the existing policy with no changes and we just do a one and done. Uh but this group here does have some changes and there's kind of a summary there that kind of explains the reasoning behind it. Most of it is it comes from IASB. They provide us policy updates. Uh we go through and compare ours to theirs. They make legal reference updates. Um mainly if there are things that are legislatively changed, we update there and then the the admin
024team looks at it to see if there's any wording or duplication. And those are some of the other changes. So, um, >> and there were a few that we we'd even kicked down to like, uh, there were some, uh, health policies that I know like Mike Steamman worked with our nurses on and, um, I worked with some of the head principles on just to make sure that we weren't missing anything. So, I just want the board to know that we, um, we do look at them pretty closely. We do compare policy with IASB on what they recommend. We compare language and then some of them we have to get together on and really double check um, policy to make sure that we get them right. But again, like John said, the the first reading component
025there, there were some changes there. The second uh set part C is first and final where we didn't find any changes were necessary. >> I just have a question about one in part C >> and it's 507.12 the allergens. Um I know they fill out this paper. I just need to make sure that that paper is shared with everyone in the building that they are aware that there is a severe allergy because some of them are life-threatening and um in the past it's not always been taken seriously and um it just depends on what building you're in. Uh, it needs to be something that is looked at, I think. >> And that may not have anything to do with this policy, but I just want to get that on the record that we need to
026watch out for those kids. >> I've got I I made a note there to just talk about that. Uh, you're mainly looking to make sure that the paper that's completed is shared buildingwide whenever there is. So, I'll relay that to the admins and we'll look at the policy to see if there is any language in there. I don't know off hand, but >> Okay. Thank you. >> Always tweak it. >> Yep. And that was 507.12 you're referring to, Becky. Okay. >> Any other discussion or questions for John? >> If there's no further questions, I'll make a motion to approve items B and C. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Is there any other discussion? If not, all those in favor, raise your right hand. Okay, motion passes. >> Thank you. >>
027Next board priority. Through the board's financial stewardship, we will provide operations, technical, and curricular resources to staff, teachers, and administrators so all students have consistent and sustained achievement. We have two action items under this section here. The first one is the summer meal vendor recommendation with Yavon. >> Yep. And I have John and Yvon here to share an update just about our summer meal program in general. And then the summer meal vendor update from Yvon. >> Yep. So we'll like they said uh we do summer food service. I think it kicks off here very very soon. >> Yep. Already has >> already has. Yep. And uh so we just have um a vendor that we're purchasing some food kits from and I'll have Yvon talk a little bit about that. >> So I thought Good
028evening everybody. I thought that I would give you a little bit of history about summer feeding because um we do a lot of meal to students during the summertime that a lot of people think summer's out and you don't think about that, but it's very important for uh our program that we continue to feed kids right up until school starts. So that's what the summer feeding program does. Um, in the summer of 2025, we fed a little over 171,000 meals and snacks to students. Um, enclosed enrolled congregate sites as well. And that would be like weight training, PTYC, the STEM programs, anytime you're enrolled in a program. Um, they eat on site. And then we have non uh congregate or open, which is our drive-through sites. So, we do those in five different locations. Um,
029and we had some challenges with some of those open sites um, with waste and handling. We did frozen meals and some of the comments and things that we got back. Um, you know, one of the things they got was a gallon of milk per child. Well, if you have four children, that takes up a lot of room on one day for four gallons of milk in your fridge. So, they were really requesting shelf stable items so that they didn't have to worry about that. So, our goal for summer 2026 was to secure a shelf stable, highquality, USDA compliant 14meal kit. So, we distribute once a week, seven breakfast, seven lunches. Um, that would target the need for our students to have full access to food all summer. It's easy to handle, easy to store, don't
030have to worry about prep. The student can open the box and eat. They don't have to wait for mom and dad to get home. Mom and dad don't have to worry about somebody using a stove or if it's heated properly or reheated properly. So, uh, and all the milk that's provided is shelf stable. So, once they open it, it has to go in the fridge, but it's in, um, I don't know what the name what they call those. It's like what a juice box comes in. It's like a I don't want to call it septic, but I think that's what it's called, a septic pack. Um anyway, so we have found uh this is a new concept. Um it was introduced to me at a food show that I was at and we gave it
031a trial run and the parents that um we have talked to and received feedback from has been very positive. So, um, we decided that we would like to move forward with that, um, project and provide that shelf stable, uh, box every week for our families. Um, I guess we researched the companies that provide that kind of product. There are three companies that met that criteria for our goal. And um they're Optimum Foods, ES Foods, and Yumoja Foods. And um tonight I'm recommending that we accept the bid from or award the bid from ES Foods. Does anybody have any questions for me about summer feeding or >> So, Ivon, how does that compare to I guess because this I don't see an attachment on here as far as the the prices or the of the vendors
032or whatever that we're talking about. How does this price-wise compare to what we've done in the past >> as far as everything kind of being separate? >> The dollar amounts in the recommendation. We put it on there. So, it's uh there to price of price per unit of $33 and that's for the the meal kit. >> Mhm. >> My understanding. So it's $33 for the seven. >> Well, it's 14 meals. >> 14 meals, seven breakfast, seven. >> I think it's about $4. >> So they're with the if we were to use our staff or do any kind of food prep, we I don't think we could touch it. Um we did a couple little estimates and uh the dollar value per meal is is pretty low uh with this kit. >> And and what's in
033there? I'm sorry if you said it already. What's in there for like the supper? >> So, it's it's not supper. It's breakfast and lunch. It's just breakfast and lunch. So, the breakfast kit um each individual item. So, the first the first trial that we did had everything loose in there. It provides a menu. It says in this box are the following things and this is what you should eat for breakfast and for lunch. Um, this kit that we're g going to give out this week is individually packaged. So, for example, there's I think in the kit that we we handed out last week, there was um rice, there was a rice meal, there was um like a nacho meal. Everything is shrink wrapped. So, even the dairy products are vacuum sealed. Everything is shelf stable.
034So, like this week we have yogurt. It's a shelf stable yogurt that's in there. So, there's cereal, there's different kinds of grains, there's juice boxes, there's vegetable juice in there. There it's a variety of of items and it changes every week. It'll be different, >> but nothing has to be heated up. Is that Did I Did you say that >> you can heat it up? You don't have to heat it up. It is shelf stable, ready to eat. >> I just want to make sure that yes, it's nutritious, but is it something that the kids want to eat? So we on the trials that we did, we had positive feedback. It's going to be different. There are going to be different things in there. There are going to be items in there that are very
035familiar. Some of the cereal bowls and things, they're familiar with that those brands. It's brand name stuff, but there are some items in there that are new. They're going to be different items. And I I think that encourages them to try some new foods. So, >> and this is an aside from the actual food things, but it's about your volunteers. Um, they were concerned, and I don't know how it went. I haven't talked to anybody since Thursday about handing out boxes and how heavy they were going to be. Um, you know, cuz a lot of them are retired people with bad backs. Um, and then a concern at the high school distribution center, and this was a concern last year that somebody addressed, but it didn't get taken care of, is that that driveway or
036alleyway, wherever they distribute it, is a very b it's not in good shape um for them, you know, to have to walk on to distribute the food. >> Yeah. So, the the weight of the box, I can't tell you exactly what it weighs, but it's not very heavy. So I I know the conversation maybe I I know what you're talking about because they had the same conversation with me and then when we got, you know, we checked in with them and I was at every site and said, you know, how's it going? And they're like, oh, this is a breeze. This is so much better than what we've been doing. And because it's in a box, it's much easier to handle. You're not going back and forth two or three times. And that particular place
037where we distribute at the high school is a city street. And it's my understanding that that they're going to resurface it. >> And my understanding was they had t this one of the volunteers had talked to the city and they put it back on the district. >> So I I don't know where that is. That might be something to look into. >> Yeah. I don't know that part. I don't know the answer to that. I'm >> Yeah, like I said, it was a side I know that's not your deal, but yeah, >> it seemed like a time to bring it up. Yeah, it it's we looked at all the different places to be able to distribute and not back traffic up because that's been an issue in the past. And for us to be able
038to come up Fourth Street, go into that parking lot and then come across Fourth Street and then when they we can do two lines that way and then they can turn and one line can go straight and the other line can turn. So that's we really did try to look at every location that we thought would work the best. >> Yeah. I just don't want any of our volunteers to twist an ankle or anything. >> Yeah, I don't either. I They're a blessing to us. So, yeah. >> Yeah. >> So, you're asking for we're signing a contract. So, that contract would basically be we would be exclusive to these guys for the whole summer. Is that what it basically amounts to? >> Yep. For ES Foods, that's who had the to award the bid to
039that they had the lowest bid. If there's no further questions, I'll make a motion to approve. >> We have a motion in a second. Is there any other discussion? If not, all those in favor, raise your right hand. Motion passes. Thank you. Next up is Medicaid billing vendor contract with Mike. >> Yep. Mike's team was going to come up and John, are you staying for this one as well? Yep. update on >> I just love being here >> Medicaid billing and some numbers from the last school year. >> Yep. This is um we've got a we use a vendor for our Medicaid billing. It's Relay. Uh we also this is on a three-year contract. Um our first one with them was three-year. We used to be with Timberline and uh Relay has actually purchased Timberline.
040So that the companies we've used are now one, which is interesting. But uh they've been they've worked pretty well. uh we are renewing the agreement with them and I just figured it's a good point to kind of talk about how much we utilize in Medicaid. Um last year we had uh about $912,000 that we received in Medicaid reimbursements. Uh this year we're projecting to have a little above a million 1.05 million as we're the numbers are tracking. And this this money directly uh comes off our special ed deficit. So we don't get enough money from the state for special education services. uh every dollar we get in Medicaid uh reduces the amount that we're having to um overspend out of the general monies just to support the special ed needs. So it's it's very beneficial
041and uh I'll have Mike talk a little bit about the vendor and I think we've got one new add-on with it. So >> yeah, like John said, we've used Relay for three years. Um the only change that we're looking at is they offer a different kind of dashboard for our associates to log um the services that they're providing. And I had a few associates test drive it just to see if this was uh if something that made their lives a little easier, made the whole documentation process easier. The feedback I got was really positive. The nice thing is even with this dashboard, if you're just really like the old way of doing it, you can still keep doing it the way it was. But for those that um take it on, it'll be an easier
042way to get your documentation. You can really do your documentation once a week and put in all the information from the services you provided to kids for that week. And this would all just simplify it for people. And anything that we can do that makes the process um accessible and easier for our associates. That's a big goal for us, just to make things go smoother. And the fee they charge, they charge 6% of our net receipts. Um, that's what they did when we did the first year, three-year contract, and they've left that rate the same. Uh, we are paying $8,500 a year for the uh dashboard service. Uh, Mr. Steams recommended. Uh, and the group uh, test drove and we're always in favor of anything to make it easier because the easier we can make
043the billing, it seems like the numbers go up. Um, if we it just it's make it it's a paperwork. It's a paper chase. And if we can make that process a little better, we hope it would improve uh the collections. Happy to answer any questions. >> No questions. I'll make a motion to approve the contract. >> Second. >> We have a motion in a second. Is there any other discussion? If not, all those in favor, raise your right hand. Motion passes. Thank you, Mike. Next up, a superintendent report. >> And uh since Mike is here, I'll just have him continue. I think he has a few slides uh to update our uh board on uh summer um enrichment program happening in the elementary school. So Mike, >> we're into we're into week three of summer
044enrichment. Um it's a service that we're providing for our students that are identified in our migrant education program and our English language learner program. So we have uh K8 students on an average day. Uh tornado warnings aside, we get about 120 kids that come and uh from 9 to 2 and we focus on literacy and math, but we also do science and social studies, PE and music. So, I figure there's you listen to me talk, you can see some pictures of our kids. Um these are some of our uh standout PE students. They were um the PE students of the week. And here we have some students. They're they were doing a unit on um ancient Greece that was covering linguistics, science. Um and you can see some of the amazing artwork from our kids.
045Uh we have some kids that are having a snack break today. These were students making um tie-dye t-shirts as part of the science experiment. And this is music. >> What else? >> I'd never seen drum art before, but that was uh some of our younger students doing drum art outside because it was a beautiful day today. Uh this young lady created as part of one of the as one of the art projects they were creating um uh postcards and this was a postcard from uh her country that she had made and I thought it was just incredibly beautiful so I thought we'd include that here today. Um here we have some elementary students doing a literacy lesson. They were uh working on um consonant vowel consonant at the time and we had some PE. This
046was a shot of playing some field hockey in the gym. In addition to that, I have a few EL teachers that are doing some small groupoup work with students that's even more targeted around language acquisition. That's all dependent on the skill level of the kids when they come into uh summer enrichment. But that's going on. This is our final week. Uh so Thursday will be our last day. Thursday is the best day because that's the day that all the staff can bring their pet to work. So we will have cats and dogs and llamas this year. So some of the kids who've probably never seen a llama will get a chance to uh pet a llama. But it's really exciting. It summer enrichment is just a blast. We have so many happy faces that are
047coming in again with that focus on uh language and socialization. It's really a a unique experience and something that our kids really are enjoying this year. >> And I know you said it, but between 120 and 130 per day. Yep. >> On average, >> usually about 120 kids. Um yeah, we we lost a lot. We didn't lose We had a lot of kids not come the day of the tornado. Um so that one kind of skewed my numbers a little bit, but usually it's running around 120. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, Mike. Uh, next I'm going to have Sarah Hopkins join us and give the board uh just an HR and hiring season update and talk about some upcoming events we have going on in HR. Thank you, Sarah. >> Thank you. Um, hi guys. Uh,
048we have been busy. So, it has been non-stop since our u December announcement of retirement incentive. Um, we have been busy posting jobs and filling jobs and interviewing staff. Um, to date we have a few openings. Um, and any help that we can get from the community in filling those openings, we would love you forever. Um, we do have some sign on bonuses offered for the positions that are harder to fill. Um, we are leaning on our colleges and our staff in other districts. Um we're looking into opportunities to um Canvas. Um we have School Spring. If you're um ever on our website and looking at what we have available, it goes through our school spring software and um looking at the ability to go on there and uh reach out to candidates that maybe
049haven't thought about a tuma and and just kind of put a bug in their ear to look at our district instead of wherever they're ending up. Um so to date we have four elementary teacher positions open. Uh we are interviewing for a music teacher later this week in our elementary setting. Um our secondary level we have two math um four special ed uh two social studies four science two ELA and an ELLL um teacher still open. So quite a bit left to do. Um but we're also very excited. We have an open interview day here on June 30th, actually here from 1 to 4. Um, so invite anybody. They don't have to apply first. They can stop by. We'll interview them on the spot for every single opening. That could be in food service, custodial,
050um, substitute, teacher, associate, food service, custodial. Um, it doesn't have to be a contract position. We're going to offer on the spot interviews and, um, do what we can to fill our openings. Uh, happy to answer any questions you guys might have. >> Sir, I have a couple questions that don't have anything to do with the hiring. And since we kind of already went through the billing stuff, >> could you explain something to me on our monthly bills? And maybe John will have to too. Can you explain the difference to me on our Hypers between Hypers dues and fees and then Hypers payable? >> Yeah, that's a John maybe. Okay, thank you. >> Sorry. >> That's okay. >> Uh, and as Sarah pointed out, you know, we do start hiring in December. You know, if
051you all remember, we had an open hiring fair uh right before winter break in December. And I mean, we go almost up until depending on when we have things filled, up until when school starts. So, uh, Sarah, McKenzie, and our newest addition, Brianna, um, they're working tirelessly, uh, to help us fill all of our positions. And you know, there's always attrition and turnover. This year with the early retirement package, we did lose uh you know, a lot of institutional knowledge and a lot of experience, but a lot of people on top of that as well. So, they're working hard every day. And um anybody listening out there, if you have any interest or questions about any of our open positions, um we're here um four, five days a week to answer your questions and reach
052out. >> My email never stops. I'll respond to you on the weekend. >> Thank you, sir. Uh the board may have seen as well on Facebook that we are accepting alumni hall of fame nominations. So um those are are coming in and Jeremy Weller has agreed to lead that committee. So we'll take a look at those nominations. So again, I'd encourage you to check that out if you have somebody that's been a OS graduate or Gateway graduate um a Tumblook schools graduate over the last 10 years um or longer um to fill out that nomination. We have a committee that'll look at those and we recognize those folks. one or two a year uh during homecoming week just like we do the athletic hall of fame as well. So that's up on our Facebook page.
053Um just a couple athletic updates. Uh soccer season wrapped up and I got these some um updates from Bo Rabido, our incoming athletic director. Girls soccer finished the season with 11 allconerence selections and recorded the most wins in program history. So um congratulations to the Erllinssons, the the coaches of our girls soccer. They also had uh five academic all-state selections for our girls soccer. Uh boys soccer had six all-conference selections and three academic all-state honores uh in here recently in baseball. Um Tucker Long recently just surpassed the 250 career strikeout milestones. So congratulations to Tucker. >> Um one of the topics I wanted to see what the board's interest was. I've been doing some check-ins with you individually. They wanted to see what your interest level was at the July board meeting. Um, ahead of
054that, doing a workshop where we kind of look at last year's data, uh, look at our current board priorities, look at, um, some some of our, uh, goals that we've set. We had a team last week, our district leadership team was working at Liberty um, last week to kind of reflect on the year and and do some goal setting. So, I wanted to kind of just gauge the board's interest in doing a workshop ahead of our board meeting in July. >> Sounds good. >> That's fine. >> Yes, that sounds good. Okay. So, we'll plan to do that um ahead of the I'll get some information out to you, but we'll plan to do that down here. We'll just have a classroom ready um ahead of July 20th, I believe, is the board meeting in July.
055Um so, we'll we'll get that put together and we'll get some information out about that workshop. Um and then lastly, I just want to again thank uh Mr. Mcgory um and all of our other retirees is you know he is on vacation and kind of wrapping up things at the office and he's just about done and um this is the last official board meeting for this fiscal year and we just can't thank him and all of our retirees enough for all they've done and um we had the retiree reception at uh the high school on May back in May. May I think it was like early May and uh nearly 700 years of experience that is leaving our our um district and um we can't thank them enough for all of their service and uh
056I've been talking to my team and um our directors as we kind of start thinking about next school year and goals and things this um next phase of be the best will really be polishing and uh honoring the work that all of those folks have done before us and continuing their legacy. So we we thank them and um wish them well in in retirement and we're always here if they want to come back and sub. That's all I have. Thanks Brad. Next is board member topics. >> Okay. If nobody has anything I will accept a motion to adjurnn. We will take a twominut break and then enter into our exempt session after adjournment. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Second. All those in favor raise your right hand. We are ajourned.