001If you rise for the pledge. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Well, good evening everybody. Skeleton crew this evening. Kind of nice. different from what we've had in the past, what we've been used to. Uh we're going to deviate from the posted agenda a little bit this evening. Uh Richard's here uh to do a presentation on our natural gas pricing for the upcoming school season. So with that being said, Richard, I'll turn it over to you. Okay. Crowd this time gets in the library and so [Music] Sorry. He's not so sure yet. It's not one thing. No internet or something. Pull me here. Don't like something. Oh, there it is. Good,
002good, good. Well, greetings. Uh, it's good to be back. Um, it's the third year now I think officially I've done this. So, thank you all for your time and uh and uh and I'm excited to be here again. Uh, basically there's there's a couple things going on with the natural gas world. Um, I know last year there was a lot of question about what's going to happen with the if a new administration comes in. while the new administration's in and some things have changed a little bit overall, but the fundamentals, the market fundamentals are still there. There's still concern for a lot of different things. Um overall, we had the one thing that changed a lot from year-over-year is for the first time in 2 3 years, we had a traditional winter. Uh for the
003first time, it wasn't mild like it has been. Uh January and February obviously haven't, you know, been through it. it's really cold and what that has great impacts on the near-term gas prices but also the outer term. It's kind of like dropping a rock in a pond. You get bigger waves uh that move out from the plant. Um the bigger the rock obviously the bigger the waves. So in this case uh January, February pretty big rocks. So it had uh effects on near-term pricing and outer term pricing. And the reason for that is when when it's really really cold or and now this case really really hot, we pull gas out of the ground, we pull it out of storage. So the more we pull out of storage, that means we got to inject it
004back in. That's a supply and demand issue. So gas prices start to elevate. Um cold weather means just more and more demand on gas. hot weather um in parts of Texas or in Texas southeast and the southwest the more they when they start flipping on their air conditioning it has big impacts on the rest of the country in the natural gas supply side of things. So with with January and February, we had initially really bad impact on the market as it relates to overall storage impact and then overall pricing. We started to feel the impact of that. Um overall just kind of market highlights. This is this is week over week. So this is uh kind of hard to explain, but you can see as a whole gas prices are starting to move back up.
005And the reason for that is hot summer weather moving in. Um, in particular, it seems like summer's showing up. Whereas last year, we had a very warm June or May and June, now it looks like we might have a very warm late June, July, and we might have a back half summer. So, we're going to start to see price if it continues and the hot if hot weather stays with us and depending on where that hot weather is. Like I said, Texas, Southeast, and Southwest are big natural gas users for power burn. So, the more they flip, if they start flipping on things, air conditioning, it's going to have big impacts on the market. You're going to see overall gas prices start to elevate. Same thing with winter here. When people start turning on the
006heat across the board, uh gas prices elevate. Um, and the reason for that is we're pulling coal offline and we're starting to see and we have to inject that with something to replace that. And that something else is natural gas, wind and power and solar and um all that is not meeting the demand like they thought it was going to do do. So we're back to the kind of a natural source of that or carbon source for that. So it's natural gas overall. The reason we saw price increase week over week is because the outer term we're starting to see warm prices start to elevate. We're also starting to export more out of gas out of the country. In the the near term, it's it's usually a lot to do with the current weather conditions
007um as well as kind of supply and demand. Outer term, there's a lot of big elephants in the room as it relates to natural gas pricing uh that will affect natural gas in the outer term pricing. And that has a lot to do with AI technology which is basically data centers is the best way to look at it is AI technology data centers crypto because those use a lot of power to generate an AI search for example uses 10 times the amount of power as a normal Google search and the reason for that is it's constantly searching it's kind of giving you a better answer. So when you have big data centers which are it's now growing into large hubs for data centers uh in particular in Ohio, Texas and Washington DC area uh Indiana's
008kind of getting in that game too but large data centers means it's going to strain the grid for more power. It needs more power. And with Ohio, in our particular neck of the woods, when data that Ohio is a big data center state there, the data centers have deep pockets. They're going to they're kind of dictate, hey, we're building these days data centers in your backyard. We need the power source. So, they're going to start pulling more and more power. And the next state over gets a little hurt by that. Then the next state over gets a little bit more hurt. So when our gas comes from Rocky Express, it basically starts in mid Pennsylvania, West Virginia area and goes shoots straight across to the Rocky Mountains and splinters off into pipes. So imagine that
009chain is if it's kind of a lot of it's used here, it's going to have ripple effects throughout the rest of the market. So that's long term. The other long-term is the current administration is very they are dig baby dig. Um but the problem with the current administration is they have market factors that are going to affect that. The data centers are a big one. The other thing is the current administration is also very pro LG which is liquid natural gas. US is a large producer of natural gas and an exporter of natural gas. Right now we're a spot player. The produ if the producers have their way they want to be more of a ongoing player like and they want to send more and more gas out. Um, usually followed up question with that
010is what are the impacts of the tariffs? Uh, tariffs weren't really impacted overall by natural gas. Uh, China said we didn't want they didn't want our gas. That was part of their deal. It's just like, well, if you're going to raise our tariffs, we don't want your natural gas. Well, the rest of world turned around and said we'll take it. So, it was it was more impact. It was less impacted by China saying we don't want it because Europe right now is still being impacted by the war in the Ukraine because they shut off all the pipelines from Russia. And so they're not getting their gas the cheap gas from the east. They are now relying more from us to get their natur US usar and Australia to get their natural gas. So there's a
011lot of factors going on. Uh the current administration's very ex like I mentioned very export friendly in getting the gas out of the country which again will affect demand prices or supply prices and prices of gas in the current current situation. It just means add that with the AI and then we still have the plugins and for cars and stuff like that. There's a heavy demand for natural gas in the future. So that means most likely prices are going to be elevated even though the current administration is dig baby dig. They are facing market trends that will kind of curtail that a little bit. I mean it's and producers really right now have no incentive to go out and dig new natural gas wells because gas prices are still low enough right now where they
012have no incentive to spend their own money to go out and dig wells. the banks have been problems for the the producers because they weren't lending money with the past administration because they didn't like gas because it was a carbon etc etc. So there's a lot going on in the world right now. It's kind of a wait and see approach. We're still waiting to see what the AI the impact of the AI is going to be. We'll see. I have to caveat the LG could still I mean we the current administration might want to send gas out but the courts might come in and say absolutely not for some reason or another. It's very political right now. So there's a lot of things going on. Uh as I mentioned weather is going to be a
013case for the near-term prices and we'll have ripple effects out. It is starting to get summer weather as I mentioned. So that's going on right now. Now, we're projecting that uh overall summer outlook is looking like it's going to be the 10th hottest summer since 1950. I guess that was when they started tracking all this. So, um it's going to be it could be a hot one. We'll see how that goes. I mean, I think last time I talked to you guys, I was like, "Oh, it's going to be really hot summer." And it was June. And then in July, 4th of July was everybody was wearing long sleeves and pants for the 4th of July. So it mother nature has a tendency if I say one thing she does or she does the complete
014opposite. So um overall power demand good news is we're still below the overall 5-year average and we're below last year's numbers. Obviously that has a lot to do with the weather. Nobody's kicking on the air conditionings yet just yet. But if that changes and the weather changes like we're projecting it to, that should start to move up towards the last year's number, if not 24 number. So, we're going to probably see a little elevation with that by the end of the year. So, just for just because of traditional summer should show up. We should get a couple warm days in there. Overall exporting, as I mentioned, is up. Um they've kind of freed up the producers to start sending natural gas out. A new pipeline is uh Plaxman's which is the very top line. You
015can't really see it in the graph I sent you because it's black and white but you can kind of see the the light purple at the top. That's a new facility that's coming on. That's going to have big impacts. Again, more gas going out means less gas in their markets for the domestic use and less gas in the ground. So two years ago we ran a or we didn't run a study but a study was run if we the amount of natural gas we want abroad or the producers want abroad we would not have enough gas like at the demand we would not have enough gas to get into the ground for storage. So something's going to have to give a little bit. So we'll see how that kind of plays out. But there is
016a new facility. They're can they're continually getting their approval to move forward with opening up other facilities. There's talk about new facilities in Alaska, which probably will not have as much impact on the lower 48 states, but it could. Um, and then there's also one talked about in California. I'm not sure if that's going to go because California has a lot of regulations about pipes and anything carbon driven. Um, as I mentioned, well, I'm wrong. Rig counts for the first time in a long time jumped. So, uh, producers saw something that we, uh, it looks like rig count has come back up a little bit. So, that's a good sign. They they must have gotten incentive somewhere. It must be elevated gas prices that made them decide that they were ready to dig. That is
017new to me. I apologize. That's uh that was a little bit of a surprise. So, good thing is we're we're produc we're getting more gas out of the ground. The one thing that this slide says is we're at a very very high production rate. We're actually right now at the highest production rate we've ever been. So, what that slide was originally telling is we had less rigs operating, but we were more efficient about getting gas out of the ground. So, we're starting to pull more gas. Good thing is it looks like they it's like the one thing that doesn't say is what happens when those wells start tapping and we're running. It's like they have to go out and dig at some point because they're it's like they keep pulling out of the same wall.
018Those are eventually going to run out. So, we got we need more drilling and more production in that regard. So, overall production um it's kind of it looks like it plained off for the past couple weeks. Um overall, we're still at a very very high level as you can see. Uh this year was expected when we started in January and February. it was the producers came out and said we're seeing a flat year-over-year and since January and February they have gone gang busters with the gas. So I think it was the current administration changed I mean the direction of the country um I think that has a lot to do with it um and but overall production is pretty high. We need the gas so we're going to use the gas. Um, this is an
019important slide because uh, as you can see, you can see the black line and it dipped below the red line, which is the 5-year average in January, February, March, and finally started getting above the red line. That's an important line because if we go below the 5-year average, the producers have to get gas back into the ground. It's mandated. So, when we're below that and we got supply demand issues, they got to get gas back in the round, which isn't going to elevate it. So, the good news is right now the we're above the 5-year average and it looks like we're going to be above the 5-year average moving out at the current trends. So, that will have good impacts on the near-term prices. Now I say that and if it gets real real hot
020or gets hot, this slide could change and we could go back below the line or skirt the line and then we have concerns going into next winter with lower storage numbers than kind of like what we did this year. We had very low storage numbers from December going into January. Hence why when we started pulling gas out we were less and less and we were below the 5year average. So, um, this is the NAX right now, the NAX strip. Um, it what you can see on the slide is it's a it's a very weird market we're in right now because the 12-mon strip is in contango market which means outer term prices are are outerterm prices for 26 are higher than the current term but 27 28 and 29 are in backwardation which means they're
021lower. So it's it's I don't and I I'll be honest with you I don't know what that's called. It's just weird. So, so what that means is it might be a consideration for the board to think about maybe doing something longer than 12 months. I know you guys like to do in 12 monthes, but if you go with a 12-month agreement, you're going to be hitting that pink line, which is the 26 strip, and you're higher than your current strip. So that's that could be I mean it depends on the board obviously but my recommendation is I've had a lot of customers start to switch strategy and look a little bit longer because of the backwardation is pulling down the near-term pricing um and you guys hedge or uh do a basis price you're able
022to pull down your overall price out farther. So any questions? I've gone over a lot and spit out a lot. So, any questions so far about the market or anything? Um, overall, like I said, this this candlestick chart kind of shows you the the blue line represents where the high point was and where the low point was. The black line represents where current markets are. So, you can see what I was talking about on the slides. The outer term closer to this side is lower than where we are right now. So when you hedge or even if you do a fixed price, the longer term you go down, it's pulling down your overall weighted average for the pricing on your natural gas. The slide down at the bottom, you can see where current prices were
023as of Monday. I astro that, but as of Monday is 27 is at $4.3. Uh 28 is at 380 and 29 is at 368. So, if you go a little bit longer, you're going to get a better weighted average overall. So, any questions on that? Uh, this is again, I' I've shown you this couple years now. This is the NAX, uh, the historical NX since 2020. This is why I tell people you should transport because it's a roller coaster. You can see the high points of 2022, which heaven forbid we get back in that awfulness, but you can see where I started the conversations with you guys three years ago, where we were and now where we are now. It's it would take a lot to go back up there and I'm not going to
024say it couldn't happen because life lessons learned. You you never say never, but we are elevating and we're starting to start to see a rise in overall gas prices. So, it's it's a good time to be considering this because we're still looking at the AI. I'm waiting to see if it's going to affect how much it's going to affect the market. And one thing I forgot to mention about AI is back in February, China announced, hey, we have an AI chip that doesn't use as much power. It doesn't use 10 times as much as power. And to be, we all know how transparent China can be. That was a very narrow scope of with AI. It's it's not an open architecture where it goes out all over the place. It's very narrow. And somebody ran
025a test on it. Basically said if you mention the word Taiwan, it nothing came up with it. So there's a lot of it's we we have to be cautious with that. But at the same time, about a week later, Microsoft came out and said, "Hey, we're working on a chip that should use a lot less power." So the AI world and the digital world is kind of a wait and see. We do know it's going to use more power. We do know a big data. There is a large large basically city or townsiz data center that's being built in Texas right now that is going to use a lot of power which means a lot of gas and and it's going to it's going to affect the overall markets but you can kind of see
026the roller coaster of the markets and where we're kind of we're we're elevated where we were preandemic or right at the pandemic and it's been elevated it's kind of started elevating as of this here. Um, reasons to consider, I kind of went over a lot of those, is summer weather is finally moving in, could impact uh, current lower NAX storage numbers long-term basis. So, it's going to have ripple effects as I mentioned. A new administration is promising dig baby dig but a lot of customers are kind of waiting and seeing uh the administration is fact being affected by market factors and then wait and see as I mentioned long-term demand for the AI data centers or the digital world as I like to call it. It's going to it's going to affect things once they
027announce like hey we are moving forward with these data centers or this is what the agenda is gas prices are going to elevate. It's just a matter of time. So, overall pricing uh to the nitty-gritty of it. Okay, this is your indicative price as of probably 300 p.m. I had to do that before I started driving. So, you can kind of see where your current basis numbers are and then the 12 24 and 36. The one thing you can also see is how the backradation is working and the overall impact of 12 24 and 36. 24 is higher because you're getting that 26 number there. Um it's not as extreme, but it's just like you're getting a little farther into 26. Gas prices in late 26 into the winter are still being affected by it.
028But your basis numbers, all your basis numbers are lower than your current basis number. That's important to remember. Even the outer term as far as 36 months. I didn't do anything past the 36 mark because there's a lot of uncertainty. But if you guys want to see 48 and then we can look at 48 months and so on and so forth, but overall it's you're in pretty good position on the basis. The fixed prices, the NMX is a little elevated because it's starting to rally a little bit because of the what's going on in the summer. But that those prices could change. I mean, they probably did change. The fixed price definitely changed since I priced it at 3:00 Eastern. um because the market closes technically at 3:30. So it's um but that's probably changed.
029But overall the NAX might stay close to about the same and so on and so forth. So that's the gas story for 2025. Appreciate the board. Any questions I can answer about market fundamentals? What I know it's riveting stuff as always. It's like I know you look forward to this every year. I can't wait for Richard to come in and talk about natural gas. It's a real gas. It really is. So, u but it just kind of gives you an idea. Like I said, it's what I like to do about this time is here's your baseline. Let's watch how the market moves. But it's there's a lot of big big elephants in the room that are going to affect your gas price. And I'm what I'm trying I'm doing this with a lot new customers,
030old current customers, every we're talking about it now because it's better to be proactive than waiting. Like I I don't know if I'd wait all the way through summer to like lock in the gas price again because with the heat and what we experienced in January, February, it's already elevated. It's just the market wants to get higher. It's just unless old hell breaks loose, it's like goes right back down. But that's kind of the fundamentals of where we are right now. So, but yeah. So, any questions for Richard? Thank you, sir. All right. Thank you. Yep. Appreciate it as always. Thank you, sir. Thank you. [Music] I think the timing for this kind of discussion is great because obviously we're getting ready to do our budget season here shortly and we're starting to try to
031figure out the impact of Senate Bill one on our operations side for the next handful of years and none of that looks positive at this point. So sharing that with you this is good time to have those those thoughts running through our head. Thank you all. Thank you. Appreciate it. All right, moving on. Is there any comments? Um, you guys saw pictures before the board meeting started of our playground. Um, it looks wonderful. So, if you have a chance to go back and check it out, please do. Um, but that's due in part to a partnership with the Park County Sheriff's Department, primarily Sheriff Jason Frasier. Um, I reached out to him because I saw that he had an inmate um, worker go in and paint some playground equipment in Monizuma, and I said, "How
032do I get that going?" and he got it going very quickly for us. We supplied the materials um and he supplied the work. So, it looks absolutely amazing. So, if you didn't get to see the before and after pictures or you don't have a chance to drive by, I will gladly share those with you cuz it's it's amazing. Amazing. Yeah. And to hear the kids, I mean, we've gotten to hear them at the baseball and softball games, you know, they see it and they're like, "Oh my gosh." And they're just so excited. So, to see that is is really fun. So, we we still have a little bit of work to do, but we'll get there. So, little by little. Awesome. Thank you. Moving on to consent agenda items. There's quite a few. Um, we
033have retirements, resignations, separations, professional leave request, uh, athletic ECA positions. I think the board has all had an opportunity to review these and I will entertain a motion to approve as presented. I'll make a motion. We have a motion. Is there a second on the consent agenda? I'll second. Motion is second. Are there any questions? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Those opposed. Motion carries. Superintendent report. Dr. Harrison. On page 22 of your board packet, you have a very brief written report. Facility updates. You've seen the pictures that were floating around. Uh you also have the notes from our progress meeting that was held uh yesterday. Things are progressing quickly, which is good. Um I I don't know what more to say other than things are going quite well
034in that in those projects this summer. The contractors obviously they've worked together before with our projects. Um things are going great. Rosedale seems to be moving along a lot quicker than Monazuba did. I'm not sure all of the ins and outs of that, whether it's facilities and and those things kinds of things the way it was constructed, but it seems to be moving along really quickly. Uh in your board packet on page 23, you'll see construction invoice from uh performance services. Uh you've actually got two. One in the amount of 77,62722 cents and another one for 20,928 at 60. We'll see a lot more of those as they continue to do work this summer. On page 29 of your board packet, you'll see the uh ongoing construction account balances and just see how we're we're
035cruising along through those. Uh page 20 uh excuse me, page 30 is our current go bond spending that we've got going on uh for the cafeteria infill, irrigation system, restroom partitions. And again, if you saw the pictures earlier, the cafeteria infill is deeply in progress. They're getting close to I think they'll be pouring floor within the next handful of days, which will be interesting to see that. I know the tile crew is scheduled to come in next Wednesday to start demo the tile and then they'll do the rebuild after that. So, lots of stuff going on there. The restroom partitions are 99.9% in. We still got one restroom on this end of the building in the A, I believe it is, that uh still needs a little little work there. But those those are your
036financial updates on on those pieces. I would also point you to starting on page 31, we get some academic updates. We've concluded our academic year and we get to celebrate some successes. And if you see on page uh 31, you see the IE math from the diagnostics. This is the overall picture K through 8. and did our our students did exactly what we needed them to do, which is we needed to move them on or above grade level. We have more kids on or above grade level at the end of the year than we did at the beginning of the year. And that's a fantastic thing to see if you look at where they started and where they moved to. That's tremendous. Page 32 is the Monizuma K through6 report for mathematics. Tremendous gains uh
037on the di through the diagnostics. So very proud of the work that they're doing there. Uh page 33. Yeah. Page 33 is the Rosedale report and again tremendous movement on their part as well. Page 34 is uh the high school and they did see an improvement as well and their grades seven 8 through the I ready diagnostics. So very pleased with that. If you look on page 35, you get the reading report. And again, look at our our students K through this is the grade one through eight report, excuse me. Overall, our students did very well. Lots more kids moving up to on or above grade level. And then we break it down on the next few pages. Page 36 on the Zuma report. Tremendous, tremendous growth. the beginning first diagnostic 22% of those students
038were on or above and by the end it was 61%. And then Rosedale on page 37 and moved from 31% to 64%. That was great. Third park also saw improvement in their overall diagnostic score. So you know the the ready curriculum is working. The teachers are embracing it. They're doing what they need to do. The students are doing what they need to do and we've been able to celebrate a lot of their successes. Um, I think maybe in August or September we'll get uh Rachel Porter in and she can tell you about the level up program. It's a reward program that she does for kids and she can bring to you the statistics of how many kids met their goals and how many little trinkets she gave out to celebrate them. It was really remarkable
039to watch her do that work. Um, that's pretty much the bulk of my report. Again, back on page 22 is the written report. You see the board calendar for July. Um, and for August, it's hard to believe we're already starting to talk about August, but it'll be here before we know it. And those are my reports for you this evening. If you have any questions, I'll certainly do my best to entertain you. Any questions? I have a question. Yeah. Are those highlights going to be posted on your website? Those testing highlights. I think it's good for the public to know that. Yes, we'll get them. All right, moving on to new business. Uh, first item is a release time for religious instruction. Uh, this is an information piece as much as it is anything. You
040you remember that Indiana code 2019 uh, no, excuse me, 2033 to19 allowed for religious instruction, release time for religious instruction. So students can get up to 120 minutes of school release time for religious instruction during the regular academic year. Uh this religious instruction is not provided by the school. This is provided by an outside provider and we have an outside provider in this region that is working with Rosedale currently to develop a program specific to their students for release time for religious instruction. So Mrs. Clay Horn has been working with their director and their their teacher to look at an appropriate release time which I believe will be somewhere in the middle of the day. Um working with a local church. So the way this program works is the provider will provide transportation. The this
041instruction has to take place off of school property. So they will have a teacher who comes to the building. Parents have got to provide a written release for the students to participate. Those students will be released to an adult with that provider. They'll go out to their provider vehicle, whatever that may be, whether it's a van, a bus, we don't know, depending on the the current level of participation. That provider will take them off of school property, take them to a local church where they will receive their lessons for that day. That provider will then bring them back to the school property and release them back to us. Um, this what we're talking about here tonight is there there is a provider who is working in our area. You'll see some advertisements that show the
042name Southwest Park associated with the provider. Want to make it clear, we do not endorse this provider. This is not something that we have set up. This has been a provider. The provider is likewise when they do their advertising obviously they are advertising trying to get enrollments from this area. So they want to make clear where they're enrolling from. They don't want any confusion. That's why you see that they say lifewise for Southwest Park. So again, that's not us. We don't have we don't approve them. We are not affiliated with them. We don't pick and choose. We are just cooperating with the law. So parents need to be fully informed that once they sign that release for their child, once that child is in the care of the Lifewise representative, we have no liability during
043that period. And that's something the parents just need to be reminded of that it's the provider who takes liability for that child during that religious instruction time when they go off of campus. We're just saying that not not to dissuade anybody. We just want to make sure that's very very clear that if a parent signs that release and a child goes over to the local church, they fall down, there's an injury, there's an accident there, that is not our responsibility. That is actually the responsibility of the program itself. And that's where parents would have to look if they needed some assistance dealing with those sorts of things. Once that program then is complete, they bring them back to us. Once they released it back to us, once they return to our property for regular instruction
044again, then they are once again our liability. So, I'm just wanting to make sure that everybody's clear on that. We do have a like I said, Lifewise has a local director, Amanda Ferris. Um, they have hired a teacher, at least they're advertising a teacher who happens to be one of our retirees, Anna Barasco. So, I just want to clarify that this is not our program. This is a program that Lifewise is providing for Southwest Park students. I do believe they've had conversations with high school. I don't know if they've made it to Monizuma yet. I have not heard. But again, they generally have to have a church that kind of sponsors them and they'd like to be someplace close so that they're not giving up a lot of that those instructional minutes to travel. So
045that may put the high school in a little different situation. I suppose Mecca has a place if they wanted to do that, but that's again that's up to them. Our our position is that we are going to fully comply with the legislation. We're not going to hold anybody back from this. But we just need to be clear that we do not endorse a program and it's not our program. If you see Lifewise Southwest Park, how many days a week? It's 120 minutes. So you could release them in in chunks of time to get that or it could be one block of time. The the way that the legislation is written is that the provider and the school work with an agree work to reach an agreement regarding the time and the duration and the number
046of days. I don't know what yours is setting at right now. Maybe what one or two days. Right now we're looking at one day a week for an hour. Okay. What what if what if the kid happens to start falling behind in classes and stuff? I mean, then those will be conversations that we just have to have with the parent about the academic performance. Academic performance of it. I mean, and and I know you've worked on a schedule. Your schedule is up against lunch. Is that correct? Yes. And is there a recess? So, the conversation Yeah. The conversation I've had with the director has been that it would be lunch and recess time. So they're not missing out on academics. So I mean if if this transforms into other programs and whatnot then that that
047may change. But they've been very understanding, you know, through conversation. Any other questions? Great. Thank you. Moving on. Uh bonds for district level treasures and building level treasures. You have in your board packet on page 39 a recommendation to uh to approve a a the official bonds and the board needs to act on that so we can respond. Is there a motion to approve? I'll make that motion. Have a motion. Is there a second? I'll second. That motion second. Are there any questions? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Those opposed. Motion carries. We have the renewal of the Edmonton Plato curriculum agreement in the amount of 10,1850. We have worked with Plato as a uh as a provider of remediation and advancement opportunities for students. Um it's time to renew
048that curriculum piece and we do an annual renewal with them. Is there a motion to approve? I'll make a motion to approve. Have a motion. Is there a second? Second. Motion second. Are there any questions? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Those opposed. Motion carries. We have a resolution to transfer $69,95958 from the rainy day fund to the operations fund. Is there a motion to approve? I'll make a motion to approve. We have a motion. Is there a second? I'll second. Motion second. Are there any questions? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Those opposed. Motion carries. Final item under new business is the River Park High School update uh handbook updates for uh year 2025 through 2026. you have in your uh board packet pages
04946 and 47 the recommendation from Mr. Kurzy for updated language. It's most of it is involving just dates um and some some legal ease that came through recent legislative session. Mr. Kery is out tonight at the WRC banquet. So he's not here to be able to respond to these. Is there a motion to approve the updates to the high school handbook? I'll make that a motion. Have a motion. Is there a second? Second. Motion second. Are there any questions? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Those opposed. Motion carries. Moving on to personnel. First item is recommendation to extend uh administrator contracts. You have in your board packet on page 48 a recommendation to extend all administrator contracts by one year. This time there's no change of base salary benefits. However,
050all administrators will be eligible to receive increases or stipens consistent with the outcome of the fall 2025 collective bargaining season and the administrators are as follows. Abby Klehorn, Chad Dicki, Brian Emer, Kyle Kery, Charlie Martin, Rachel Porter, and Jill Wyram. That would extend them all through the 2627 academic year. You've heard the recommendations or is there a motion to approve? I'll make that motion. Is there a second? I'll second. Motion second. Are there any questions? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Those opposed. Motion carries. Recommendation to employee Jennifer Watson, teacher of Rosedale Elementary. A motion to approve. I'll make a motion to approve. We have a motion. Is there a second? Second. Motion second. Are there any questions? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Those
051opposed. Motion carries. I have a recommendation to employee Reed Goodwin, teacher at Rosedale Elementary. I'll make a motion to approve. Motion to approve. Is there a second? I'll second. Motion second. Are there any questions? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Those opposed. Carries. We have a recommendation to employee Shaina Mcccleintoch, uh, secretary treasure at Rosedale Elementary. Make that motion to approve. Have a motion to approve. Is there a second? Second. Have a motion to second. Are there any questions? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Those opposed? Motion carries. Final item on the personnel is the recommendation to employee Jared Garmin, varsity girls basketball head coach at Riverton Park High School. Uh this became an individual item at the at the request of of some
052board members. There's been some discussion uh some questions and perhaps some concerns about Mr. Garmin continuing on as the girls varsity basketball coach. On page 20 of your board packet, you have a written request with some additional data from u Mr. Kerzy. Um I think you all received this earlier as well, just kind of explaining his position uh as to why you would like to see Mr. Garmin continue on. Today I met with uh four of the high school girls basketball team members at their request. Uh they wanted the opportunity to express their thoughts about Mr. Garmin uh operating as a coach and I told them that I would represent our discussion to you. So you have at your location uh a list a bullet point list of things that was we discussed and then
053you have a little information on the back of just how we wrapped up that meeting and I wanted to make sure that you had that information before you before you wanted to hold discussion regarding this this I have some comments I'd like to make at this time um I just want to say I have the utmost respect for our administrators um and the job they do. I've always gone along with their recommendations. Um I believe in letting leaders lead. This time though, I I cannot support this recommendation. Um too many parents have come to me uh with concerns and full disclosure, I'm a parent as well. My daughter is on the basketball team. So, that makes me awful close to the situation, but it also means I've witnessed things firsthand and share these other parents'
054concerns. Um, boys basketball, I've heard had some of the same concerns and uh we're making a change after two years. Mr. Garmin has had five years. Um, and I think the girls deserve the same consideration as the boys if if there are concerns that maybe it's time to move on. Um, Mr. Garmin is a great guy. I like Jared. Um, he's a good teacher, a good supporter of the community and and of the school. He's had five years to prove himself specifically as a basketball coach. And I don't think he's done that. So because of that, I I cannot support this recommendation. Thank you. Any further comments? Is there anyone knocking down the door to be the coach? Currently, I'm not aware of anybody who has a tremendous interest in that role, but of course
055it's not been open. It's not advertised either. Okay, back to the original question. There is a recommendation to employee Jared Garmin. Is there a motion to approve the recommendation? I'll make a motion to employ. We have a motion. Is there a second? I'll second the motion. Are there any further questions? I'm going to call for a roll call vote on this. Mr. made employ Mr. Adams. No, Mr. Hawk Rider. Yep. Mr. Case abstain. Myself. Yes. 31 with recommendation passes. All right. Is there any further comments at this time? I just it's been all over social media, but Mr. Kery was named district 8 principal of the year by IASP. So, I just want to make sure that that had some recognition at the meeting. I wish he was here to catch him on the next
056one. Had him on the back of July. Yes. Yeah. He'll get his bad boy down. But that was awesome. Any other items come before the board. Couple questions if I could. Yes. Just it's a very specific number that you had on that resolution to transfer funds. Can you share what was that a specific thing that it was needed or is that just several things all thrown together and that happened to be the total? That was for legal fees regarding the auxiliary gym and the referendum. Okay. Second question regarding to the rel construction. Yes. And you're talking about having a particular provider, correct? Is that an exclusive type of thing? The question would be if another provider came in saying came to No, there there's not an exclusive designation on that at all. They just happen
057to be the first one in our community that organized. Okay. So, but no, there there's no exclusivity. Another entity maybe we're very another entity or multiple entities could come forward and develop programs and parents could release to those individuals. Yes. Okay. And do they have to be approved in some way by the school or? No. No. So parents could you It is all parent driven, community driven. And you're basically just deciding on the amount of time or the time. No, that's decided by legislation. Legislation dictates the amount of time. The only thing that we do is we work with the provider to develop the appropriate time of day for the release. Okay. All right. Thank you. Anything else? Any other items come before the board? None. Correspondence? None. Claims as usual. As usual. And you
058should have uh in your board packet all of the claims and the final AP again on 28 uh 218 of your board packet. It did not change from what was sent to you earlier. Take a few minutes. Review those. Is there a motion to approve claims as presented? I'll make a motion. Motion. Is there a second? Second. Motion second. Are there any questions? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Those opposed. Motion carries. [Music] DJ that one. Everybody who voted yes will have to sign and then DJ will have to test it as well. Is there a motion to adjurnn? Have a motion. Is there a second? Motion second. Hearing no objections. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you everybody.