001Heat. Heat. Oh, hey. Amen. Oh, it is good district board of trustees meeting. Today is Tuesday, December 9, 2025. And we are going to um put this meeting on hold for about five minutes. We will reconvene with close session. La. Hey. Heat. Heat. to uh convene with our meeting. We're going to start with agenda item number one and that's adoption of the agenda as submitted and this is for possible action. >> Second. >> So motion by trusty Walker and second by Trusty Walt. Any board discussion? See none. Any public comment? Seeing none. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Agenda item number two, adjournment to close session per NRS 288.220 220 to discuss labor relations with the district's management representatives. And this is for discussion only Heat. Heat. Amen. Oh, Hey, hey, hey.
002Oh, you are. Hallelujah. Oh, hey. Oh, hey. Don't Hey. Hallelujah. Oh, Ah. Oh, oh. Oh, hey. Oh, hey. Heat. Heat. Hello. Heat. Oh, Oh. Oh, I la. Heat. Heat. Hello. Oh, hold on. Oh, forever. la. Hey. Heat. Heat. Hello. Oh. Oh, hold on. Wow. Oh. Hey. Heat. Heat. Hallelujah. forever. Oh, heat. Oh, la. a heat. Hello. Oh, hey. Oh, hey. Oh. Oh, hey. Don't la Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. Come on. Amen. Oh, heat. Oh, la. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hello. into our public session at 6:01 p.m. And we're going to do agenda item number four, flag salute. Michelle TR uh Peterson, if you can please lead us. To the flag of the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Great. Thank you Trusty Peterson. Agenda item number five superintendence
003report and this is for information only. Superintendent Feling. Thank you. Thank you, President Ramirez. Uh, welcome to the December board meeting. We have some very special guests this evening from Celiger Elementary School led by the incredible Mrs. Carrie Prior and music teacher Mr. Van Norman. And so, Mr. Van Norman, if you would like, you can bring all of your performers out here. >> AB: Absolutely. So trustees, if you'd like to stand under the exit sign, I guess back here so you get a good view of of the students. our part fourth, fourth grade, and fifth grade choir students. And we're here to bring the holiday season of Bell Christmas. people merry Christmas everywhereing. Merry merry Christmas. Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, Not only Christmas tree shine. Shine so brightly. Oh Christmas
004tree, oh Christmas tree will shine so bright. Christmas tree. >> And one last one featuring a very famous reindeer, not Olive, >> but Rudolph. Dashancer and Dixon and Cupid and Bliter of Rudolph the red nose reeer reeer had a very shiny nose like a light bulb. And if you ever saw it saw it, you would say it glows like a flashlight, ho ho ho with your nose so bright tonight, ho ho ho. with your sleigh tonight. Yippee! Rudolph the redeer reeer down. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Merry Christmas. >> Thank you, Mr. Van Orman. Um, maybe trustees, maybe we can get you to stand behind the the kiddos so Mr. Davis can grab a picture to share for all of us. Parents, you want to grab a better picture? You can make
005them wait. We can make these kids wait all day. So, as a >> as a thank you. >> So, You know, I see these kids counting candy canes. They don't trust you. >> I think I'm generally giving them too many. Thanks guys. >> Thank you so much. Yes. Thank you so much for coming. Merry Christmas. >> There goes the phone for the evening. A >> I'm sorry. Good. >> Do you have any other investments? >> Oh, yeah. Okay, that's okay. Okay. Well, now that we got everything warmed up, um few uh recognitions this this evening, um first to Mr. at at the silver campus, Carson High silver campus, uh Mr. Dan Etchabaria. Um, I'll I'll send a picture to you later, trustees, of um what is an incredible um Mr. Chabaria is well known for
006dressing up and he um went all out and looked like I I actually don't know exactly what he was. It's like a 17th century, 18th century um king. Um and and he he does this for his students on a regular basis trying to engage them and just make the learning environment fun over at Silver Campus and uh just just incredible. So I'll share that with you a little bit later. Um wanted to recognize Mr. Race Malmed at Celiger Elementary School. Um he is a PE teacher over there but also leads their MTSS team and is an admin intern. Um recently he created an incentive for first quarter attendance and behavior. So students who had uh who were recognized with the magnificent matey award because it's the sealer pirates. Um, so they had zero behavior issues,
007uh, minor or major, and only one or zero attendance marks earned a trip to the night night monsters game up at Lake Tahoe. And so they had 137 students who earned that. And uh, you're familiar with the pumpkin pumpkin patch. He used all of um, proceeds that he had earned for his class at the pumpkin patch to use um, to help pay for that along with PTO. So that was uh just great great effort, great event for for Seer. >> Um over at Empire, there's a special ed uh par profofessional over there, Connie Cortez. Um every time I'm at Empire and Connie sees me, she gives me a really hard time. And she is she is wonderful. Um just really kind and compassionate with some of the most challenging students, uh most the students with
008our greatest needs over at Empire. Uh just going above and beyond every day at that school. Uh Fr would like to recognize their school psych Christy Keley Goldberg. Um she's actually shared between Carson High School and Fr. Um but as Mr. Brown noted between bal balancing between two different sites is not easy, but like the UPS carrier, she can deliver. Um, up at Carson High School, um, one of their they they encourage staff to to attend performances and and games. And, uh, recently, um, one of their new teachers, Mr. Brendan Dowling uh is moonlighting as a super fan and apparently was running up and down the court uh acting as a super fan screaming let's go trying to get um everyone on the court really excited for uh a recent game and so uh that
009just got to love the love the effort and the the desire to get that going up there. Uh wanted also to note um just with the the the completion of the fall sports season had quite a bit of success um up at Carson High. So for girls golf they had uh one golfer who qualified for state. Girls tennis as a team qualif uh competed in regionals. Boys soccer made it to the regional semifinals. Football made to the regional quarterfinals. Uh, girls volleyball was regional runner-up and in the state semifinals. Uh, boys cross country uh was third at regionals and competed at state. Girls cross country was uh regional champions and second at state. Uh, we had three coaches who were coaches of the year. Uh, Wade Greenley for girls golf, Russian for girls cross country,
010and Steve Nelms for football. So, just overall a real successful fall season up at Carson High. Uh lastly, we have a um early release day minimum day uh on December 10th, which is tomorrow. Um we have a min minimum day for all students on Friday, December 19th. Christmas break uh will run from December 22nd through January 2nd. January 5th, which is a Monday, will be a professional development day for staff. And then classes resume on January 6th. And that is all I have. >> Awesome. Thank you very much, Superintendent Philly. Agenda item number six, board reports, board member comments, and this is for information only. Uh I believe we have Carson High School representative. Um Cooper, can you please come up and provide with your report? And then I have the report for Carson High
011School Silver Campus. So, >> uh, good evening everyone. I'm Cooper Feling, the, uh, Carson High School main campus student body school board representative. Um, tonight, uh, just a few things. Uh this week at Carson High is our holiday week. Uh which is just uh spirit week meant to uh kind of bring up spirits and just especially setting in before um our last week next week finishing up. Uh just kind of getting everyone semi excited to finish. Uh but uh so we have just a bunch of uh dress up days. Yesterday was um pajama day. Thank you. Uh, today was our holiday wear. Tomorrow is twin day. Uh, Thursday is white out and Friday is you know that one too. Should know this. >> A fun day. I'm sure. >> Oh, it's Santa versus Grinch. There
012we go. So, red and green. Uh and then along with this um we are doing our um typically in like March April area we do uh what is called you matter week which is a week uh devoted to uh the mental health of our students. Uh we set up stations in the library to um just kind of uh ease the mind. They're like stress balls um uh like coloring just like simple stuff just to kind of ease things up. But as this year we are hosting the um uh national or uh Nevada association of student council state conference at that time as well as prom. Uh we kind of combined that week with holiday week this year. Uh so we also have uh every day at lunch we have stations in the library devoted to
013um just supporting the overall mental well-being of our students. Uh and then along with uh that stuff um all of our winter sports seasons have started uh with girls and boys basketball at the varsity JV and girls or and uh freshman levels and then we also have girls and boys wrestling as well as skiing for all and that's it. >> Excellent. Thank you so much Cooper and good luck on your finals and I hope Santa treats you well. You heard Santa. Thank you so much. All right. >> Okay. I do have the report for um Carson High School Silver Campus. Maggie was not able to attend, but I more than happy to read it. So, the Carson High Speech and Debate team competed at North Valley High School in Reno on the 5th and the
0146th. They did very well and they are currently getting ready to host the next one at Carson High on the 23rd and 24th of January. they are in need of judges. So if if any of us would like to uh are willing to surrender our time and um help they would greatly appreciate uh we we are to contact Jul uh Jillian Sha Shaeld I'm sorry if I chopped that last name um if you would like to sign up. And then Miss Christian Stingross is challenging the engineering class to make pine derby cars and the students are loving it. Each car is unique and they will be competing against the main campus on Thursday in a pine pinewood derby race. As a grand recipient, Miss Tara Thieling has completed the small interactive garden with the girls
015PE class. The flowers will bloom early spring and will surely be a sight to be to behold. Uh, Silver Campus is celebrating the festive spirit with all week dress up days. Monday was pajama day. Today was holiday wear day. Wednesday is twin day. Thursday is wear white and Friday is Grinch versus Santa. They are excited to see all of the creative ways the staff and students choose to dress up. Yesterday, December 8th, Silver Campus held a community connection event where community members Kim and Adam Cox visited the campus and taught the students and their parents all about becoming a hair stylist and or barber. It was very interesting and they would like to thank them for their time. cookies and cramp power um hour power hour study hall was um today December 9 and Thursday
016December 11 from 2:15 to 3:45 students can come down come study and get support for their finals which will be on December 17 and 19 17 through the 19th and then also uh uh Dr. Molden shared with me that our uh former um student board representative, Miss Kayn uh Nan, we all remember her. Um she has been selected as a Quest uh QuestBridge National College match recipient of a full 4-year scholarship. Isn't that just super amazing? um she will be attending Carlton College in state of Minnesota and she share she shared with Dr. Molden that she owes her success to the Carson City School Board for allowing her the opportunity to find her voice while representing the Silver Campus. I thought that was super super amazing. So congratulations to Caitlyn. Very welld deserved. And that
017concludes um the report for Silver Campus. And again, Cooper, thank you so much for coming and for your report and merry Christmas. >> Okay, >> Trusty RmIrez. >> Yes. >> Could I I add something? Sure. Go ahead. I forgot. So, >> absolutely. >> And I apologize trustees if if one of you are going to mention this, but um we had the NASBY conference this last weekend. Um and we had some recognitions there, some awards that were won. Um, so, um, if you if you weren't aware, Mr. Varner, uh, you won director of the year. >> Yay. Congratulations. >> Um, Mike Walker won individual school board member of the year. >> Yay. >> Molly Walt won new school board member of the year. >> Right. And congratulations. >> And, um, Mrs. Cortez in the back there
018was um the I forgot actually the exact name >> support >> board administrative yeah board administrative assistance of the year. >> Um so a lot of recognitions for for you all the team. Um, also recognized that was a um a nomination from this board was Rosio Hernandez uh with the Nevada Independent for the reporting um that she does and so she was uh just very grateful for the the recognition and so um I'm glad she was able to enjoy that event. Uh that's and that's all. Sorry. >> That's fabulous news. Congratulations to each and every one of you. That's amazing and very welld deserved. That's wonderful news. Excellent. Okay. >> You want to do it now or how about shoot after the meeting? >> Yeah. >> You do a photo. >> Okay, we can continue
019then. Awesome. Okay, very good. So, we are done then and we will start off with um Oh, Nevada Association of School Board NASBY update. Uh Trusty Gardner, do you have an update for us? >> Yeah, I do. Uh there was some awards given out uh and some of them was for Carson City. So congratulations to everybody who won them. >> But I wanted to point out also that uh we nominated a lot of other good people that could have easily won one of these awards. There was a lot of nominations this year, but I wanted to point out that this board recommended school administrator of the year to for Dr. Sue Molden and Josh Billings. the school district employee making a difference. We nominated Elizabeth Wingfield and Sheree Fletcher. And then district level administrator of
020the year impacting student achievement. We nominated Dan Sadler and Dr. Tanya Tanya Scott. Veteran School Board Member of the year. Uh we recommended Lupe RmIrez individual friend of K12 public education. We recommended and nominated Dana Wattley or WA uh excuse me, WH ALY and Carson City from Carson City Toyota and Mayor Lori Bagwell for innovator of the year, educator of the year, Jennifer Chandler. And I just wanted to point that out that uh you know we made a lot of other nominations and like I said earlier that any of these people could have really won and deserve to win and hopefully uh in the future they will win. So I wanted to follow up on that. So thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you Richard. >> And I do have some other information from >>
021Okay. >> Uh we had our joint meeting on December 4th, the joint meeting between the executive board and the board of directors. And just some of the highlights that came out of that, uh, I approved a two-year contract with Tom Clark Solutions for lobbying services for the next two years. Um, Irene Boston Monty Adams was u elected the new president of the association for this next year. And um on the 5th on Friday we started our yearly conference and it was held on Friday and Saturday and I'd like to say that it was an excellent conference. We had some very good keynote speakers and breakout sessions. One of the keynote speakers was the new super state superintendent Victor Wakefield and he kind of gave an overview of his first 100 days what he wants to
022accomplish in his new position and I know that he's going to be traveling around the state meeting with super school superintendent and board members in the next few months. Uh we need to thank the executive director Harris, his staff who are mainly volunteers and the NASBY president Mike Walker for all their hard work putting the conference together. Um, one other thing that I'll mention is sometime in the near future a survey will be sent out to everyone all the board members from NDE and uh there'll be more details coming out about this but it's going to be very important for you to complete the the questionnaire and return it because uh NDE is asking for our input and our direction on different uh issues. So when you receive that, if you would really please return
023that, that would be greatly appreciated. >> Trusty Barner, could I help you with that just a little bit? >> You can. >> So the state has a commission looking at um school and district rankings. And this is in uh Senate Bill 460, >> right? >> Um which are adding accountability measures. They're increasing for schools, principles, and also for school boards. And so um that survey is going to get our opinion about some of those proposals and um it'll be important to answer those so that our feedback is used as a determination is made by the state moving forward. So there's a committee that's meeting um every month through the the rest of this school year and they will be making recommendations. There's three school trustees that are serving on that. there's um superintendent as well
024as community and business leaders. >> Yeah, thank you, Mike. Uh the highlight, one of the highlights of this conference for me was they uh had a new thing they tried this year and it was student performances and they brought in um a dance a group of Native American dancers from Nachas Elementary School, a jazz band from Mindive Middle School, and a orchestra from Damonte Ranch High School. And I got to say that these kids were amazing. The orchestra, you couldn't you wouldn't know they were high school students. They were that good. The jazz band the same. And the dancers were really enjoyable. So I think it's going to start a new tradition in the future at conferences. You will see the student performers coming in to um start the conference. So, it was really great
025overall. >> That makes it super exciting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. It was really They were really, really good. So, thank you. >> Very nice. Well, thank you. Thank you for that update. Um, and then board announcements. Uh, Michelle. All right. I've got a couple. Um, first up, I from the high school. My report today is um from Rodney Wade. Um he says some of this is is is just kind of talking about things that already happened. He says the boys varsity basketball open the season with a thrilling 6766 win over Reed. Um and that we have been 0 and9 in previous meetings. Um and so it was very exciting to have that one-point win. Uh Kaylin Jackson 17 points, Ethan Cook 16 points. Gabe Boris 10 points. He says, "Girls varsity basketball also secured
026wins against Reed, uh, and played Golden Sierra. In the arts and activities, uh, winter orchestra concert was December 2nd. Choir and musical theater winter concert on the 3. Tonight, I believe, is also a musical theater event. Um, let me look at that. I have it in a different tab." Um, musical theater concert tonight. And then, um, the regular choir is tomorrow or Wednesday. Yeah, that's tomorrow. Um, let's see. He also has um some student engagement. Kyle Allen, who we all have met a few times, uh he is selected as the national representative for the state of Nevada. He's one of only two um for the 20 thou or 2026 United States Senate Youth Program. Uh and then Carson High 10th grader Kevin Morris. He earned an honorable mention for the 2025 Nevada Reading Week art
027contest. And then they also included Caitlyn Win as you have mentioned uh being chosen as a QuestBridge National College match recipient of the full four-year scholarship. >> Um so that's all I have for Carson High. And then uh Miss Kirk Shanks over at Mark Twain. Um she mentioned that they had their lottery last week. Um and it was a lot of fun and well attended. Um it's one of their strongest family engagement nights of the year. So um it's always looked forward to. and she says, "I would uh really like to celebrate our implementation of the uh CKLA. It's been going so well at our site and the teachers are embracing the change. Uh when Miss uh Kasaka and I watch the lessons, we are so impressed with the level of rigor and also the
028level of engagement from our students. We will map test next week, which I think by now may mean this week. Uh we are excited to see if we have some measurable growth." Then she mentions the tree lighting. Um, Miss Bourne always does such an amazing job and works so hard on behalf of the school and the district and the community to make sure that our um, fifth graders have a strong showing there. So, she wanted to make sure she got a pat on the back for that. Um, and then she just is excited. She said, "There's a spirit of joy in the halls at Mark Twain and we're excited to be celebrating the holidays and our students success." That's it. >> Nice. Thank you so much, Rebecca. >> All right. Fremont from Dr. Ward. She
029said the PTA had a successful reindeer lane gift shop that allowed students to shop for family members. Volunteers helped students wrap the gifts and she wants to thank her staff for fabulous first semester. They are the hardest working group of individuals. The entire staff of 91 would like to wish the school board and the community members a merry Christmas and a happy new year. >> Nice. Very nice. Thank you, Richard. I just have a short one is uh from Principal Brown from Fridge Elementary. He just wanted to wish everybody a happy holiday period and a merry Christmas. And uh Miss Prior, if I could, Principal Prior, thank you for bringing those students in. I look forward to that every year. And I was a little concerned at first because I didn't see any kids here
030and I thought, well, this is the last board meeting of the year and we're not going to get our normal singer. Oh, thank you. >> Excellent. Thank you, M. Matt. >> Um, thank you. I have, uh, two updates. Uh, first one from Miss Hoppy at Eagle Valley Middle School. Um, they have a winter semiformal dance coming up Wednesday, se or excuse me, December 17th. Um, information will be going out in Parent Square and that'll be from 5:30 to 7 at the EVMS big gym. Um they're having an awards ceremony and recognition rally for students during the day Friday, December 19th. Um they're looking forward to having Mayor Bagwell at Eagle Valley Middle School to recognize the lucky winners of the most improved attendance. They'll also recognize students for perfect attendance, good grades, um as well
031as grades for the first semester. And then they'll be having another VIP lunch to invite families to E uh Eagle Valley. That'll be Friday, December 19th. Um, we have, she says that they're happy to open doors again and invite parents and guardians for the the lunch. Sixth grade uh will be from 10:20 to 10:50. 7th grade will 10:50 to 11:20. 8th grade 11:20 to 11:50. And then lastly, she wants to um have a huge thank you to the fun EVMS staff who dressed up for incognito dress up days. Uh recently it was the 67th day of school and a majority of the staff wore attire that represented 67 and the students loved it. And from um Miss Robinson, she says that the boys basketball season is wrapping up this week. Carson High School's invited them
032to play um their game against Eagle Valley at the high school gym and that'll be tomorrow. Boys are very excited and the cheer team will be there to cheer them on. The ta the Tanva basketball championship is this Saturday at the Douglas Community Center and the girls volleyball is um in the middle of their triyout period and the season starts next week. They'll have a winter band concert this Thursday, December 11th at 6:30 in the CMS cafetum. First time I've ever heard that word. Um they've been practicing all semester, so they're looking forward to hearing their beautiful music. and they'll wrap up the semester. The students and staff are working hard to make sure the students are learning and earning their credits for promotion to the high school. >> Excellent. Thank you. Thank you, Matt.
033Molly. >> Yeah. So, for Empire Elementary School, uh quick update, their family winter wonderland event is moved from, uh December 12th to December 11th starting at 5:30. Um and then we had a parks and wreck and open space commission meeting last Tuesday. Um just one thing to note um regarding the school district is that they were updating their um or recommending an update a proposed update to the parks and wreck and open space department fees and charges policy. Um we did end up tableabling it um or bring having staff bring it back. Um one thing to note is that I did ask that um with um consulting with um Mr. Fueling is that um when they have due to popular popularity of the park system and park facilities shall be scheduled or reserved in the
034following order. Um, number one is public programs, activities, and events. And we ask that maybe they put in parentheses school district um, programs and events as well as a priority for those um, scheduling since so much of our school population uses, you know, the community um, the parks and wreck and open space or really parks and wreck um, community stuff as well. And um so that was just something to note on um that end. >> That was it. >> Excellent. Thank you, Molly. >> Mike, >> so Celiger Elementary School has a lot of great things happening as we've seen and heard. Uh they are taking maps tests and uh Mrs. Prior promises there's going to be stellar results when they get those all compiled. She promised me. And uh they also have some fun holiday
035games going on. And if I still worked there, I'd be fighting to be at the top of that leaderboard, probably slugging it out with Miss Sacklarius. So, uh we have that going on. And they had um an event where kids used $50 of their rewards money to uh take a picture with a pig. And if Miss Prior was really industrious, she would have charged the school $1,000 collectively so that they could see their principal kiss a pig. So instead of just posing with the pig, she could have actually uh taken it to the next level. You just give me a call. I have all kinds of ideas for you. So seriously, sounds like great things are happening at Celiger. Thank you for the student performers. And then is it race? Thank you for your hard
036work and I would tell you to be careful. I know somebody who was a student intern at Celiger and the work never stopped. So just word to the wise. So that's it for Celiger Elementary School. >> Okay. >> Yeah. So sorry I I meant to mention this as well, but I wanted to thank um you know because Friday night's event downtown um the tree lighting is all honesty a large amount of that crowd comes to watch their students to watch their their um kids and we wouldn't have that without the schools the fifth grade and um there were so many teachers principles that are putting in their own time. it's after hours and they're there to support the students and so I just want to thank you all for attending that um because you did
037you they volunteered there was so I think every principal from every school was there that evening and um you know you don't you all don't have to and so thank you for being there and the teachers as well because it was a phenomenal performance. Thank you. >> Very nice. Thank you. So go ahead. I'm sorry. I thought you were going to say okay. All right. So for me, um I just want to give a big shout out uh to uh the music teacher Nick Jacques um and um his student that is taking to the uh Rose Parade on on New Year's Day. I think that that is beyond amazing. And I when I read um Dan's um email and thank you Dan for in um informing us about this, you know, amazing stuff that's that's
038happening in our district. I was I got goosebumps and I got choked up because I'm thinking this is just incredible for for both of them to be able to go and represent Carson City School District is just incredible. So congratulations for for their um huge accomplishment and we look forward to watching the parade. So, okay, that concludes my report. Agenda item number seven, association reports. And this is for discussion only. Do we have anyone from the association? See none. Okay. Agenda item number eight, public comment. Uh, do we have imper uh and and by the way, this is for discussion only. Do we have inperson public comment? Please come on up. And um just as a reminder, in making public comments, speakers are asked to come to the table and podium, sign in, speak into
039the microphone, and identify yourselves. Um for the record, uh commenters are instructed to limit their their comments to no more than three minutes and not simply repeat comments made by others. And again, this is for discussion only. Please state your name. >> Hi, good um evening. My name is Kelsey Penrose. Um, and while some of you might know me from my uh day job, I am coming to you with a new hat today, which I am a new instructor at WNC as an English professor. And I'm here with one of my students today. Um, part of our um, introduction 101 class is rhetoric. And so I offered them uh, extra credit if they could come to the schoolboard meeting and uh, practice their their rhetoric skills. So I've got Maddie here with me. Um so
040the reason that I wanted to come today is um this is my first semester teaching and um I um was very surprised to find that the demographics of WMC have changed significantly from when I went there. Typically as a community college we have a lot of older students, veterans, a mix of 20s, 30s and then um seniors who want to come and learn. But now uh the demographics of my classes are uh predominantly um meaning 99% um recent graduates um or dual enrollment students which I was very surprised about. Um and it's very cool. I'm very excited about it. Um, but it also gives me a broader understanding of uh what what's kind of going on with my students. And I found myself very concerned uh with their preparation um in them coming into my
041classrooms. Um and I believe that that's for a couple of different reasons. And I definitely do not think that this is a Carson issue. I don't think it's a Nevada issue. Unfortunately, I think it's a systemic issue of education in general. But I wanted to kind of bring you some data to work with as um I believe that we're all partners in education. Um and mostly I wanted to come because I felt um that I needed to because my students are telling me that they feel stupid or they feel um ignorant or they feel like they're failures. Um and this is not because they are lazy or um uh not doing the work. it's because they don't have the foundational skills that they should have coming into um my courses. And um and after talking
042to other faculty, this is just kind of an issue that that goes around. And so also because I'm a journalist, um I love research and I'm a big dork about it. And so I did a lot of deep dives into it. And under the Nevada academic curriculum standards, we have very specific uh things that students should be hitting in um their coursework going through everything from kindergarten up into um their senior year of high school. And um through those there's very specific things that students should be learning before they graduate. And this includes writing essays, composition, um rhetoric, writing different types of essays, um and doing uh research papers with like numerous sources. But I can tell you that in my 101 course, which has all but one of my 32 students, uh are recent
043graduates, the majority of them coming from Carson High and Douglas High, that um >> I'm so sorry to interrupt, but we um we have met the three minute limit. My god. >> No, I was even I even practiced it to try to hit my >> You are welcome to provide us with any documents that we can include. >> Okay, I will just um I if I can just have 30 seconds to just tell you what my uh >> I'm so sorry. We are limited to three minutes. My apologies. >> Okay, no problem at all. It's my own fault for uh going on my tangents. Um but here we have Maddie and she will also speak. >> Hi, my name is Madison Lauderb. I go by Maddie. I am a recent Carson High School graduate with
044the class of 2021. Can you please speak up closer to them? >> Yes. I'm so sorry. >> Thank you. >> So, I'd like to start off by saying I am struggling as a new college student. I am enrolled in the fall 2025 semester at WNC and I am falling behind in my classes. And that's not because I lack the desire to learn, as Miss Penrose said, but it's because I find myself struggling with the basis, the foundation that I was supposed to have. And I'm lost. I don't know what to do. And it's not because I'm stupid. it. I just wasn't provided with all of the necessities and I feel like I was failed as a student. And a lot of that comes from what I learned not to do. I kept my head down
045because I thought success was a pat on the back and a passing grade. And they taught me to graduate. They taught me to graduate and they didn't tell me what was supposed to come after that. And I think a lot of that was because they decided that I was a C before I decided that I was a C. And I struggled with that a lot and I didn't get all of the help or the necessities and learning that I thought that I needed to. So when I came to college, it was hard. It was very hard to know what I needed to do because I was taught to walk but never to run in college. And that really stuck with me and it's hard. And I want to be a part of that change if
046there is something I can do to help the upcoming students that are graduating because I feel like it's desirable to want to learn, to want to grow, to want to grow out of college. When I went into high school, I had this idea that I was going to go to a 4-year university and I find myself in community college. And I'm not saying that that's a bad thing, but I had a lot of hopes for myself and I didn't have a lot of support around me. So I think if we can change that and if I can offer advice and insight as a former student that I would be very happy to. Thank you. >> Thank you for for coming to provide those comments. We appreciate it. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Okay. And do
047we have um online public comment? Miss Renee >> Trusty Ramirez. it is for a particular item. So I will mention that at the time the item is presented. >> Okay. Very good. Thank you. >> Okay. So then at this moment I will close um or I should ask is there any additional public um comment? See none. Okay. So then at this moment I will close public comment. Agenda item number nine, discussion and possible action on recommended approval of the July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2029 tenative agreement with the following Carson City School District Bargaining Group, Carson Educational Group Association, CESA, with an estimated fiscal impact of $468,667 and that is for possible action. Welcome, Mr. Spencer Winward and Mr. Dan Sadler. >> President Ramirez, members of the board, thank you Dan Sadler for the
048record. Uh it's my privilege to bring before you tonight uh refreshed agreement with our education support professionals, our classified employees, and CESA um July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 209. Um we had really really good conversations with our employee organization. Um you'll see before you that we have many language changes. Um there is uh an update for the progressive discipline manual. Um some changes to sick leave. Um annual leave payout clarification. Uh expanded sick leave conversion rules. There's one of the highlights is a new language for credit for prior work experience and promotions in district. That's been language that's been needed for some time. Um an agreement to create a salary working group with CESSA that we look forward to getting together to have some discussions about that. Uh there's some revised information specific to
049safety and closure closure operations and incident command team. And as a final highlight, the bilingual services program. Um the recommendation would be to approve the agreement. And I just want to also mention a few names. Um starting with uh Frank Flity, Brian Lee. Um they did a tremendous job in and working with the team this year. Also um CESA members Eva Reynolds, Elizabeth Rubkkey, and and Bev Singleton. Um represented CESA very well. very productive conversations and also uh my partner in crime here, Mr. Spencer Winward and uh Mr. Joel Lockach for representing the district. Thank you. Any questions or comments from the board? See none. Okay, if there are no questions, >> I I do have something. >> Okay. Um, I would just like to thank you guys for all the work you did on
050it. And also just for the people who uh don't have knowledge, the increase, the $468,000 is basically due to the increase in PERS. Is that correct? >> Yes. That the line share of that is due to the PERS increase being covered by the district. Okay. >> And that covers the two years of the bianium is what that amount reflects. Okay. >> Thank you. Okay. So, if there are no other questions or comments, I will >> I move that the Carson City School District Board of Trustees approve the July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2029 tenative agreement with the following Carson City School District Bargaining Group. Carson City Educational Support Association, CESSA, with an ES estimated fiscal impact of $468,6667. I'll >> second it. So motion by trustee Welker and second by Trusty Barner. Any board
051discussion? Seeing none, any public comment? Trusty Ramirez, there was public comment provided online uh by Mr. Brian Lee expressing his uh gratitude uh for the work that was placed and put into the cessa conference and also like to urge uh the passage of the tenative agreement uh that the comments will go into the permanent record and I'll forward copies to the trustees. >> Excellent. Thank you Renee. >> And I think we should also note that the vice president of NCAA is in the room and so thank you Mr. Wallace for your representation as well. >> Yes. Thank you. We we definitely are very grateful for your work. Okay. So motion's on the table. Um all those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you so much. >> Thank you Mr. Sadler and Mr. Winward.
052Okay. Agenda item number 10, discussion and possible action to approve a revised capital improvement plan for the Carson City School District for fiscal years 2026 through 20 20 excuse me to through 2030. And this is for possible action. Uh Mr. Spencer Winward again and um Superintendent Feling and Mr. Mark Johnson. Welcome. >> Take it away here, Mr. Johnson. >> What do you want me to say? >> Mark Johnson, project manager for the school district. >> They have a copy of the capital improvement project proposed. Page 60. Page 61. >> Yep. >> It's similar for the ones in the past. It has more items on it for 2026. I'm available for questions. >> Okay. I think we all had an opportunity to review these. Do we have questions or comments from the board? >> The comment
053I would make is u we have these regular ongoing meetings about the capital improvement bond uh meeting. >> Yes. And uh we're always provided a lot of detail of what is uh occurring in our maintenance of our schools. >> Our schools are aging and they're getting older. No doubt about it. But I wanted to compliment you because I think you and your work you do the very best you can to keep them in very good shape. So, I I appreciate the work that you do and I appreciate um the money that we're able to spend to keep them going because um like I said, they're not getting any younger. And so, thank you. >> A lot a lot of money is going into preventative maintenance and ongoing maintenance to keep them going. If you notice,
054like the very first one on asphalt, they're giving me a lot more money for like asphalt maintenance. Most schools don't even look at that, but they've been giving me more money years before like a h 100,000 and then they started giving me 150 for crack seal and seal coat and we started and I've asked for uh slurry seal uh to prevent uh the uh ongoing maintenance of our asphalt. Nobody even looks at that. I have a civil background. I I look at that >> um because it wears out after 20 years. But if you can do ongoing maintenance of our asphalt, we can let it keep it going for 25 30 years. So we started doing a maintenance program uh slurry seal uh I started two years ago. It lasts like seven years in in
055L of like a seal coat that's real thin. Slurry seal is real thick and I started that uh two years ago and I'll be doing that. They've given me additional funds to do that on our parking lots. We don't have a lot of asphalt, but parking lots, playgrounds, that's one of the additional uh work we're doing. >> Well, I think we all know it's very important to do the preventive maintenance. So, >> thank you. >> You pay a little bit now or you pay a lot later. you know, with the economy and the increase of everything that we're all experiencing, can you address what it has done to your budget like Okay. Yeah. Yeah, >> but I mean I just think it's I think it's important that the community knows as well of you know
056it's not like the because um >> the cost of everything increased that you were able to then you know come back to us and say hey I need another $3 million because asphalt you know cost so much or but if you could address what it's done to your budget >> I've been here a year less than AJ and I call him a bean counter and and and I had to work hand in hand with him when he was the bean counter and we I used to work with him on budget and the term is construction cost index and I'd worked with him on stuff 10 years ago and I said okay here's what this project's going to cost before we'd come to the board and a year later it went up $200,000 it went up
057a million dollars and I'd tell him the construction cost index would go up 1% to 1.5% every month. And then we hit the pandemic and it go up like 2% every month. And when the pandemic hit, it just kept going up and up and up and up every every month. And during construction during that time, contractors wouldn't give us a a a budget for a month. After a month, they'd have to give us another cost because the costs would keep going up. So, we have a construction cost index that would go up at least 1% every month on estimates. So, I'd estim AJ an estimate for a budget and it would be blown after four months when we would come to the board with that estimate. So, the construction cost estimate index would go up
058every month. So, our our construction cost index goes like this. So, I just pulled out um to give you that 1992 newspaper out of an old uh um decoration 92 Jeep Cherokee. $15,000 for a brand new Jeep. So price that to a new car today are new houses, new buildings. We just looked for the cost for new construction on a building in Carson commercial $1,000 a square foot and we looked at AJ wasn't at that meeting and I remember when I was estimating u buildings for square foot for us like 350 a square foot. So if that gives you an idea build a building uh for a school a school that's the cost difference for 10 years >> and 450 >> if if I could add yeah I I think that is it's been a
059dramatic especially in the last six to seven years alto together because I I think of some of the the projects that were done the expansions on to Fremont and Mark Twain elementary schools um >> Eagle Valley. I I I think any of those projects just from five, six, seven years ago literally would be double the cost at this point from what we paid cuz Fremont Mark Twain the expansions were uh $4 million and I think just based on that square footage increase I think we paid that for the school. >> Yeah, >> we paid that for building Mark Twain. 4 million. >> Yeah. Well, in 1992. Yeah. Um but then that just that little expansion was 4 million. And now I I would guess it easily would be 7 to8 million to do that same
060expansion. >> So yeah, it's it's been very significant and and the the revenue side um due to um tax abatement laws and um can't think of the other tax term I want but it's just been it's been restrictive um in in the growth in tax revenues. So it's it it's put uh public entities in general, but school districts in particular in a tough spot with trying to maintain facilities um over time. So the cost keeps going up on everything we do, any type of the construction and maintenance costs that we do. >> Thank you. And I'm sure you're it's also a struggle finding those who will do it. So I appreciate your >> I I I they would rather work for us than W show. >> They >> Please strike that from the record. >>
061They they like working for us. So contractors, they're all busy. All the engineers are busy and the architects, but they always find time to work for us. It's easier to work for us than it is to work for WO. They cost more to work for WO for the red tape. They call it the WOO factor. Thanks. Thank you for that. And um I appreciate the work that you do. >> Just being honest. >> Yeah. And I just know I mean just for the record, I know that um things move slow and people get frustrated because things aren't getting done as fast as you know we had all hoped and and wanted, but I know there's a lot of factors that play into that. So, thank you. >> Okay. Well, I I would just add again
062that it's very important to do this maintenance because I've heard the superintendent talk several times as things stand now, Carson City will not be able to build a new school. And so, it's very important the work you do. >> Yes. If there are no other questions, we will go ahead and are we are we good? >> Okay. So, if there are no other questions, I will entertain a motion. >> I move that the Carson City School District Board of Trustees approves the CCSD revised capital improvement plan for fiscal years 2026 to 2030. Holy cow, it's long ways out. Okay. So, motion by Trusty Walt and second by Trusty Walker. Any board discussion? Seeing none, any public comment? Seeing none, all those in favor? I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Thank you so much. All right. Agenda
063item number 11, discussion and possible. Yes. >> Uh just so the minutes are clear, it should reflect that. Um Trusty Peterson did not vote on that matter. >> Trustee. Okay. Peterson did not vote on that one. Okay. So it's only six of us. Okay. Thank you for catching that. Okay. Agenda item number 11. discussion and possible action on a resolution to approve an augmented and amended budget for fiscal year 2025 2026 to include revisions for certified enrollment audited fund balance carry forward amounts and recommended augmentations to specific funds and this is for possible action. Mr. Spencer I or Mr. Spencer Winward I think this is your last item. >> It is. cuz I I tried not to talk too much on the first two so you weren't tired of hearing this moment my voice. So,
064>> all righty. Um, again, kind of in our budget cycle, we we first see this in April. We finalize it in May before we have a lot of the moving pieces. Now, we have a pretty good handle on a lot of those and we we change this for what we hope is the last time to get us through the end of the fiscal year in June. And so a lot of those things that that updated is uh we have really good solid numbers from what our audit will be to update our our beginning fund balances. Uh we've got more enrollment data rather than 10 days worth and we can fine-tune a lot of our expenditures, a lot of our salary and benefits costs which makes up the bulk of of our expense expenses and and
065get a good look of what uh we hope our budget to to finalize for the rest of this fiscal year. Um, kind of before I get started, I just want to uh a couple of cliff notes. Some of you may have had the chance to to learn about budgets at a NASBY conference, but just a reminder, page six of the budget shows all of the revenues and inputs. So, the very first column of that of page six is the beginning fund balances from our May uh our our May budget, which uses budgeted items from the previous year to now. Those are all all updated to um actual numbers. So you'll see a lot of changes there and that kind of updates everything that we had available to us. Page eight shows everything that's flowing out
066of all of our different funds. So again, page six shows all the funds, the general funds about the top third of the page and then each of the other funds are represented by a line on the bottom about twothirds of the page. And then page eight shows all the expenditures and they're organized by columns of one being salaries, two being benefits, three being services and other and then the fourth column there is the ending fund balance for each of those. So and then those are all summed the very bottom of the the lower right corner of both those pages of the same number. Um that was reference 174 million or so in our final budget and 179 or so in this budget. A lot of that is because monies that were budgeted last year but
067not spent are now reflected in our opening fund balances. Doesn't necessarily mean that we have more money to spend. An example I'll give will be a parking lot project. Mr. Johnson just heard we did a lot of parking lot projects. If we had one that cost us $160,000, we started it last June. Uh the work was nearly completed but not quite. The company who we we contract to do that with elected not to bill us until it was done. and it ends up being finished at August 1st and is build. So that was um an expense that was um authorized put on a purchase order. All the paperwork was done in the previous fiscal year, but we actually didn't realize the expense until this fiscal year. So the capital or bond projects fund that would
068house that project, the opening fund balance would start $160,000 higher. But then also we have update the CIP to the construction improvement plan to include that hey that $160,000 we thought we were going to spend last year we now know it's going to be spent this year. So even though that opening fund balance is is included there, we've also included uh additional cost to cover that work that was essentially completed over the end of the fiscal year into the beginning of this one. I use that fund because our bond fund has a lot of volatility there. A lot of times if we have a lot of projects in in process, sometimes that can be three or four million dollars that we had authorized to spend last year, but by the time paperwork and everything was
069complete, then it actually happens in this fiscal year. And so all of those items roll through on that page eight of all the expenditures. So just a kind of a quick uh you know, those two pages tell you a lot about the budget. The other 70 pages behind that are a lot of the breakdown and flow through to those two pages. So, as far as this this budget changes that from our May budget, um we've had some slight updates from average daily enrollment. We've got a quarter's worth of data for that. And then we've updated our staffing cost to be the most accurate that we possibly can. Um including column movements if we have staff members that that have moved mid year. Those are reflected in this. Um our health benefit cost changes are reflected
070in that. any new hires uh between the beginning of the year and when we process this uh which would be Novemberish sometime is generally all included in there and then uh general fund transfers were relatively flat uh collectively there. So if we look at the general fund revenues and feel free to stop me at any point if you have questions uh don't don't wait till I stop talking or you might forget what your questions are. Um, looking at a comparison of revenues from the the final budget to the amended, um, we've we made a small change because our enrollment has dipped a little bit and and we've made an adjustment there. It reflects about $50,000 less in revenue. Now, when it's all said and done, the end of the year, that might be even lower,
071but we're pretty comfortable with that number for now, and we don't feel it's going to be the kind of thing that would be much lower that that that we need to make other adjustments at this time. So again, our our basic support uh is the bulk of that and then a couple of the other general fund revenues um remained unchanged. That 50,000 was all in our our pupil centered funding plan basic support. So from 80.8 million to 80.8 million if we're rounding. So really not much of a change there, but slight decrease in revenue. Um our transfers again we have our PCFP funds English learners uh gifted and talented and at risk that are very closely tied to our general fund budget and other funds that have transfer. So these would be the ones that
072that would be a re that have a um potential change to our ending fund balance of the general fund. our special education balance. Oh boy, I I apologize. I've got an old number on there. That 8.3 million should be 9.1. Um it was 9.1 in the May budget and 9.1 in the final budget. There was no change to that. Um, one reason that's kind of uh important is so we had additional PERS costs that were have been rolled in and ideally we have more costs in special education and then those flow would flow through to this transfer but we were able to kind of take care of those additional costs without increasing the transfer of the special education fund. Our nutrition fund has an ending fund balance that will be sufficient to cover any deficit
073spending in that fund. So it will not affect our general fund balance. um summer school. Uh the last couple years this has been largely taken care of by er funds which are no longer available. Uh so we're anticipating a small transfer to that that did not change from the May final budget to this budget. Uh one thing you'll notice is our we didn't have a budgeted fund or transfer from the EL fund or excuse me from the general fund to the EL fund. Uh that did increase by about $120,000. And again, you could easily take a couple of uh of positions that are funded in the EL fund and and move the expense to the general fund and and leave that transfer alone. We felt it was best to reflect those costs in the EL
074fund and increase that transfer by that small amount. Our gate fund, and again, this is kind of colorcoded. If it's red, you know, there's a positive in front of that's because the transfer is increasing, but that's negatively incre negatively affecting the general fund balance. That's why the EL fund transfer increase is in red. Our gate fund transfer decreased by $50,000 and our at risk decreased by $43,000. And those are largely just because of when it was all said and done, all the uh position changes and salary and benefit expenses for each specific position in those funds. There were some differences there. Um when those all out, there's a slight um increase in our total transfer by $22,000. So, not really a material change overall from those fund transfers and how they affect our general fund.
075Any questions at this point >> questions? No, we're good. >> All righty. So, if we compare our expenditures from the May budget to this one again, we we are able to our our staffing uh salary and benefits, we've got a really good handle on those. We know which people are in which which positions, which funds they're being paid from. We we know exactly what step they're being paid on. So, we've been able to fine-tune that. And we've included we had some estimates for what our PERS increases were. That's all been kind of finalized and um and adjusted out for what that would cost us for the rest of this year. And you see that it went up just a slight amount for our salaries and benefits. And again, I would take that because we had
076some pretty good estimates based off of uh what we provided in in uh the final budget. So, not a huge difference there. Uh the non-staffing costs, you'll see those go up by about $600,000. The bulk of that is carry forward funds, and that's where each of our site budgets and departments that the budgets that are in charge of, we allow them to carry forward a small amount. The reason we do that, it it uh it um is beneficial for smarter spending because if we didn't do that, all those funds become use it or lose it and people may not think through their purchases the most wisely because they just don't want to lose that money. So, they're going to spend on on whichever they can. the ability that they can carry some of that forward
077um help helps just to promote smarter spending and then also gives them a little bit of a of of autonomy over their their site budget to have a little more flexibility if they know they can carry an amount over from one year to the next. So if they were able to do that then why is it um if it's a carryover so you're looking at it's close to the 800 you know so you say that there's an increase of expenditures of $867,000 and if it's a car carryover why is it a negative >> that's an increase of what our budgeted expenditures. So, and what the carryover represents, let's say for u a site that we allowed $25,000 of carryover and they didn't spend it. That's $25,000 that was budgeted last year. We didn't include that
078in our May final budget because when we had to do that in May, there's a potential they might have had a $25,000 balance available, but they could spend that between May and June. So, it's not reflected in our final budget, but we do roll that carry forward over in our amended December budget because we now know, hey, they really didn't spend that $25,000. So, we're going to increase your budget authority for your site by that 25,000. So, it's available for you to spend this year. Or if you continue to choose to carry forward $25,000, then that carry forward would roll to the next year. >> Okay. I >> And trusty Wall, I I apologize. Um, I just want to clarify, too. So where it says increase of um that's not a a negative sign. It's
079actually a little swiggle. And so I just want to clarify that it's not >> not a ne because if I understood you said going down and I don't know if >> you were saying that was a negative. >> I guess I'm looking as an expendit an expenditure as being a negative >> because you're spending it. >> Sure. >> You know so I'm looking at it that way. Okay. is because what I'm trying to find and maybe you know I'll wait for this at the end for you to address but the difference between the two budgets that you proposed in May and then now we're looking at a um what is it $917,852. So in May we um accepted we uh $4.5 million deficit spending. Now you're asking us to approve 5.5 um deficit spending. So
080I'm trying to find where is that 917,000. But then if you put in the um 22,000 of the transfer, it's actually we're o what I look at it as and maybe correct me if I'm wrong. We're overspending 939,852. So I'm trying to find that in there. the 917 would be very simply this $867,000 plus our 50,000 reduction of revenue and those two really equal the difference in that deficit increase of the taxation deficit. So I'll talk a little bit more about that and hopefully I will address all your questions at that point. And I think when I think about it, we also have to remember we're in contract on a lot of these items. And so it's not as easy as just making cuts in December because we've obligated funds and we have employees that
081um we have contracts with at this time. And so it's kind of like we're we're squaring it away. We're balancing it up here for this year with what we actually have based on what our projection was and then I think looking forward we tighten the projection up accordingly for the next year. That's correct. I mean there's a lot of of items that could not be changed if we needed to reduce spending um right away. But we we've been we've used enough foresight I think to to prevent that. And and as you recall the beginning of this year, we knew that we kind of needed to have a plan spend down of two$ two and a half million dollars just based off where our ending fund balance was. We there was no need for us to
082continue to increase that. It would provide no benefit to the district and potentially would just provide a sweeping of funds back to uh the state education fund. So, um, and again, the the increase of 867,000 to our expenditures, that's in red because that will negatively affect our ending fund balance. That's that's why I chose red there. Um, any questions on on the differences here. I I will admit, Lil Maya, I did make an error in the final budget with the transportation budget. Um, an amount that should have been $24,500. I missed a zero and it was at $24,500. So I made that adjustment was about $180,000 net adjustment that's included on top of our carry forward in those non-staffing costs. So they had sufficient budget to get through December, but we wouldn't have budget to
083cover fuel and transportation costs if that adjustment weren't made. Um so overall if we if we look at uh our revenues and our expenditures and the the the deficit. So here in yellow this reflects our taxation deficit. Um one of the easiest spots to find that in the budget is on page two. There's an explanation there and shows what that taxation deficit is. And that we call it the taxation deficit because that's the form prescribed by taxation and that's what they look at. Um, a couple of things that that includes, that includes a million dollars of contingency that we have no intention of spending at this point, but we budget it for unforeseen items that may uh may happen. If if we have something happen to one of our buildings that that causes a million
084dollars of of expense that we need to incur to continue operating, then we have that available to us and um would take steps necessary to to use that budget authority at that time. So um the other item that factors into that the difference between the taxation deficit and the structural deficit is our carry forward. And again in the final budget we estimate a small amount of kind of hey we we assume this much we'll roll forward but then once we have those actual amounts that increases to to right around 500,000. So again, as you mentioned, our our taxation deficits are roughly a million dollars higher, just shy of a million dollars higher than than what we presented in May. Um here, this just kind of shows you what the taxation and the structural deficit deficit
085was of the final budget. So 4.5 million and it was not quite uh 4.5 minus minus our million of contingency was is would be 3.5 and about 300,000 of carry forward is makes it 3.2 is our structural deficit. Structural meaning that's what if we spent every budgeted dollar minus our contingency that would be the amount that we'd expect to our ending fund balance to reduce. Now with the amended we've gone up by 700,000. Um and and again that's largely because you know we had a slight reduction in revenue. Um we've tred up our salary and benefits costs and we've moved that carry forward to it the full amount of of right around 500,000. And as you recall um in October uh when when we kind of projected here's where we think we look at where
086we had more data from our our negotiations. Um we we anticipated our budget to be 3.9 million. So, I feel pretty good about that number since once we got all the numbers squared away, we were right at 3.9 million. So, this just includes kind of a a picture of the slide from that October presentation where our our previous deficit was 3.2 million. We anticipate an additional 700,000 of that and our our estimated structural deficit was 3.9 million which is right where it sits in this budget. So, any questions at this point? And what you you had questions specifically about the budget so I make sure I got those addressed for you. or excuse me about the deficit >> about the budget. >> Um, you know, I understand being in the middle of the school year
087and having um contracts that you you can't get out of, but if we looked at any because what I think at the October meeting, we gave the school district what was it to what we would be comfortable with, right? And what did we say? I think >> that was for the the FY27, >> right? For FY27, we said, you know, it would be like at around three, >> right? 2.93. And now, you know, we're looking at um more of an increase in the middle of the year. So, to say that, you know, I'm a tad bit nervous is an understatement. Um, so is there any I mean it do we look at at this point in time in the middle of the year any contracts that we can get out of at beginning of the
088year? You know, I mean that might end December 31st of 2025. Can we have we looked at those to say we're not going to renew them on January 1st of 2026 because it is not a necessity? >> Uh we have very few contract contracts that run on the calendar year. Most of them run on our fiscal year just at fiscal year/school year which are are fairly well aligned. Uh so it's not very common that we have something that ends this year and generally if we do I mean if we have any positions that become vacant we're looking at everything's like is this a position that we can go without filling. Can we can we not fill this for a time and and you know give it a trial run to see if we can do
089without this this position. So any position that becomes vacant, we're looking to see, you know, is this mission critical, which we run very thin and generally it's we don't have positions that, oh, we can do without that. But any that we do, um, anything that we can do, we're we're trying to to see is there a way we can get by and even can we try this for six months and see if we can make it through the school year. Um, so we are doing everything we can to make sure that, hey, is there any savings? Uh, one thing that I may add, um, you know, we'll talk a little bit more next month when we present the audit, but our our last year budget had a about a 2.1 2.2 million deficit is what
090we had budgeted and our numbers aren't final yet, but our our ending fund balance for general fund will should not be negative next year. So, that $2.2 million deficit is really sitting more at a zero. And that's because we have to budget for everything we may potentially have to spend. And we know there's going to be, you know, if someone's even if we have a vacancy in a position for a month, there's a little bit of savings there. Uh we have some we have, you know, if fuel costs go down, we kind of had to budget on based off of a certain price per gall price point per gallon of fuel. If it goes down, we've got some savings there, but we don't really try and sweep and and realize those savings right away because
091they could go up before the end of the year as well. But when it's all said and done, historically we've come in under what our deficit budgets have for the last four or five or more years. >> Okay. Because just looking at page two and you know looking at that um you know the deficit I think you're you know with the goal that the the board has asked you to try to ch to achieve um at this rate it looks like this is going to be an extremely extremely hard goal to to to give to us. >> It is a challenge. I think we're I think we're willing to accept it and and there's been a lot of lot of conversations already about how because we know it's not we can't wait till May to
092try and decide what that's going to be. There's a lot of lot of uh planning and operations going on now on what it will take to to get to a deficit that's acceptable to you collectively as a board. >> Any other questions regarding the budget? >> Other questions, Richard? >> Yeah. Um, at one of our meetings when we discussed the budget, and I think Molly, uh, touched on it briefly, uh, you guys were, I thought, had committed to coming back to the board with, um, projected or, um, cuts that could be made for us to consider. Is that still going to happen? Uh, because, uh, honestly, I mean, I'm not saying anything I haven't said for the last seven years. We cannot continue deficit spending. We're down to $12 million ending fund balance now. If
093we have another two or3 million deficit next year without taking some corrective action, we'll be down to 9 million. Say, and it's not going to be many years before we're down, if we continue this kind of rate of spending until we're down to where the state may look at and say you're not really fiscally responsible. Yeah, if I'm not mistaken, I believe that was referencing to changes we could make operationally for FY27 because again, if we took a carbon copy of this year into next year, we would be overspending. So, we're looking at ways. They weren't really changes, which again, if there's anything we can change during this fiscal year, we can. But, as Mr. Walker kind of pointed out, there's there's some things we're kind of locked into and and it wouldn't be very
094healthy to try and drastically make changes mid year. Uh but as we're starting to formulate and shape up what next year looks like, we're making all sorts of considerations to see, you know, different scenarios of how that could look like to bring that spending in line to what you as as board members would accept. >> Yeah, that's what I was asking. Basically, I know you can't really change things midstream, so to speak, but just wanted to get a commitment that we're still going to be highly involved in ongoing budget things. uh maybe more often with ideas of how to make certain reductions without really impacting students. That's what I would be looking for. Uh is that still what we're going to do? >> That is that is how we're moving forward as far as how
095that gets presented to the board. That that might still be kind of taking shape on on what our best practice would be in in presenting that information to you as board members. >> I think the board would like to be more highly involved in it. >> Yeah. And and if I could, Mr. Verer, ju just a just a reminder to so at the uh first meeting in April, the board will hear the tenative budget historically and then the the final budget for next year isn't approved until the last meeting in May. Historically um whatever the situation is usually within the month of February um we we are coming to the board and if there are changes we will changes that are being suggested we will be bringing those to you. So, so there's three, four
096almost months up until that final budget is approved where you'll be getting uh opportunities to hear about some of the things that we're looking at and considering and be able to give feedback on those. >> Thank you. >> Mike, you have a question? >> I don't have a question. I just want to point out these are conversations that are happening in every school district in the state and this is a funding issue. This is an economic issue statewide. And so, yeah, it's concerning. We need to advocate for adequate school funding as we've been doing for a number of years. And we have to be responsible, but we also have to remember that 80s something percent of our revenue, our capital is tied up in personnel. And you can't just cut that in the middle of
097a school year without impacting students because that personnel are teaching in classrooms and leading schools and driving buses. And so what we really have to make sure that we're advocating and talking to our lawmakers about is the fact that they said even though there was an investment in education, it was just a drop in the bucket and it was a backfill. And the fact remains that with inflation and step and column which is already built into our contracts, those increases in revenue, there's nothing that our district office can do besides cut staff. And so we have to go to the Mr. Wallace and our other leaders and really have a talk about what the economic situation is. as we've done in the past. We've faced real dire fiscal situations in this district and we've all
098come together and then when things were a little rosier, we fixed it. And so I think I would ask this board to work with the entire community and really be open to creative means to meet the needs. I guarantee you the last thing you want to do is scare all your teachers that you're going to cut all these positions because I will be hiring and I know a district between here and where I work that will be hiring a lot of teachers as well and the big giant isn't too far away and they're always hiring people. So, we have to be responsible when we're talking about our budget. We have to know that it doesn't matter if we've talked about it for seven years. I've been on the board for nine years and the whole
099time I've been uncomfortable with the way school funding is done in this state. Just as superintendent statewide have been pushing back for since I've been in school. It's the system we have and until the change comes, we have to realize we we operate on projections and then we shore it up and get it balanced by the end of the year and then we make another projection in April and we do the best we can do. And I would take the advice of this staff over a lot of um different school districts within the state. We're one of the ones that people look at and say, "How does Carson get it right so often?" And so I want to say that to Spencer. I want to say that to AJ who was before him and Mr.
100Stokes. And we have to be patient and we have to know this isn't a Carson City issue. This is a Nevada issue and we're going to have to work through it. >> And I agree with you. And I was not advocating cutting funding this year. I'm advocating that we look at it closely in the future and that the board is highly involved in uh developing the next budget. >> Thank you. And and I would agree with your comment, uh, Trusty Verer, and I even wonder if it if it would be possible to have some sort of a workshop, you know, with the board and your, you know, your cabinet just to brainstorm an ideas. I mean, that may be a a way for us to, you know, start um looking into savings, you know, >>
101and I definitely do not want to scare any teachers because I've said all along, every time I bring this up, is that the needs of the children have to take first priority and that is keeping good teachers in the classrooms. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. Okay. Well, Mr. Winward, thank you so much for this report. We appreciate it. And this is if there are no air and if there are no other questions or comments, this is an action item. >> I'll make the motion. >> Okay. >> Go ahead. I move that the Carson City School District Board of Trustees adopt the augmented and amended budget for fiscal year 2025, 2026 by approving the resolution and instructing the chief financial and operations officer to file the documents as necessary to comply with NSRS chapter 354. Do
102I have a second? >> Second. Okay. So, motion by truster um partner and second by trustee Roberts. Any board discussion? See none. Any public comment? Seeing none. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Again, thank you Mr. Winward. That's a lot of work that you put into and we appreciate your patience and >> thank you to all of you as well. Yeah. Okay. Agenda item number 12, discussion and possible action on the superintendent's annual evaluation for the 2025 calendar year. And this is for possible action. So we all have in our packets um a bundle of joy. Right. So we have our um information compiled of all of the evaluation that we did for superintendent feeling. So just a recap of of our process um that we used to evaluate him. Um we
103um evaluated him based on five standards. Um this year we uh he created f four um goals of um four superintendent goals and those were approved by the board and additionally he provided us his self assessment with his achievements for the year and then um Renee sent us a survey that we compiled to do the evaluation and then we send um Renee the information and she um put it into a Google doc. back and we have the overall score. I I assume you guys had a um an opportunity to review the compile evaluation document that Rene provided to us. Any questions on that or comments? If not then we look at the very end of the um document and the overall score is 103 which places him on the super uh superior rating uh which
104is uh 1,176 being the highest and then the lowest 941. So congratulations uh superintendent. I think that is um an excellent rating. Um do we have any comments uh that any of the board members want to provide to Superintendent Feling? >> I think Mr. fueling does a superior job for our school district and I'm glad I'm glad that our ratings show that and I look forward to seeing the great things. You know, you're one of the veteran superintendents in the state even though you're in what, year four. And so really to have this strong of a start, I can't wait to see where you are in 10 years. And so thank you for your service to the district. >> Anybody else? Yeah. Um yeah. No. Um ditto. Um of that as well. But um no,
105I do think we Carson City School District is extremely fortunate to have you. Um I think it's one thing that we're extremely fortunate to have as well. and being at NASBY, you know, you you see this as well, but um you're not just the superintendent, you're a parent of students that are within the school district as well. And I think that is extremely important um because you you're out there, you know, with the kids. Um I think we're extremely fortunate that you live in the community as well. Um people see you, you know, um just Rotary every week, you know, you're there and um you're very active member within the community which I think you know speaks volumes as well and um that is on your own time and I think that we need to
106appreciate that which I know I do um appreciate that as well um that you are active in the community. you're seeing you're not behind a closed door in an office and I think that speaks volumes. >> Richard, >> yeah, I'll ditto some of the comments, but you I think you do a great job. One thing that I think that we enjoy here is a great working relationship with the board members and you as a superintendent. A lot of boards uh I've heard around the state really do not enjoy that aspect of their work. >> So uh thank you for always being willing to engage with us to provide us information. I greatly appreciate um that you send out your weekly updates of your activities that you reach out to us when something occurs that we
107need to know about. You you do that. you're very good about doing that and I think you're just doing a great job overall. So, thank you. >> Anybody else? >> I No, I also want to um thank you, Superintendent Felian, for um taking the time um to meet with me um before the um board meeting and work on the agenda. I um appreciate that you were willing to make a little adjustment this this year and um work on the agenda in advance. Um that was very helpful and I really appreciate um you taking the time and explaining to me a lot of the questions that I had. I feel like I learned a lot this year from you and I really appreciate it. Um, I also appreciate the fact that um um anything that we
108bring to your attention, you um act on it. Um, and it doesn't matter if it's a small thing or a big thing, you um don't ignore any any of our of our concerns. And so I very much appreciate that. And um and I appreciate that you are definitely um very supportive of the entire um district. Um, you're definitely a a an an an an amazing administrator that I have a lot of respect for and I appreciate um what you do for all of our students. >> All right. So, yes, if if there are no other comments, I will entertain a motion. >> I move that the Carson City School District Board of Trustees deem the overall rating of Mr. Andrew Fueling, superintendent of the Carson City School District to be superior for the 2025 calendar
109year. >> Second. >> I'm sorry. >> Second by Michelle. Okay. So, um motion by trust uh by Trusty Walker and second by Trusty Peterson. Any board discussion? Seeing none, any public comment? And at this moment I would I would say would you care for >> Thank you. >> providing I I feel like most of us in our uh careers whatever they are are are fortunate to have a a boss that you like working with. Um and I have seven. So and I enjoy working with each one of you. So I think that says a lot. And um it it is I I still I say I feel so fortunate that however things happened that I ended up here now almost 12 years ago which is pretty incredible. Um, and just such a a great community
110and it and it I I cannot overstate the importance of having a strong board that communicates well, that works well together and is willing to engage in dialogue um on on whatever the topics of concern are. uh that does not happen everywhere and it makes an enormous difference for for this district and gives it so much more stability that is so beneficial for everyone who happens to work here. So, thank you so much for the work you do. Thank you for your support of of me um over these years. Um, and we just continue I just continue trying to improve there. There's always going to be room to um make things better and um try to do well by every one of our kiddos. So, thank you very much. >> Thank you. So, I think
111we have a motion on the table. So, all those in favor? I. Any oppose? Motion carries. So again, thank you so much and thank you everyone for submitting the uh information on time and also thank you Miss Renee for putting that together for compiling that report. We appreciate it. All right, agenda item number 13, approval of consent agenda and this is for possible action. >> Okay, so motion by trusty Walker and second by Trusty W. Any board discussion? See none. Any public comment? Seeing none. All those in favor? I. Any oppose? Motion carries. The agenda item number 14formational items and this is for discussion only. No action will be taken. Any questions, concerns, comments? See? None. Okay. Agenda item number 15, request for future agenda topics. Okay. Um Molly first and then Mike. >> Yeah.
112Um so I would like to if we could in our second January um meeting review the superintendence evaluation maybe get rid of some things that you've both well things that you've consistently you know have done like 3.7 you know an average of 3.7 and above. eliminate those and maybe add in some new things. >> Oh, yeah. Well, you you never know. I'm only one of seven. >> Simple. Keep keep it simple. Okay, Mike. >> So, that was I was actually going to recommend revision. I think it it felt a little reductive. Um, and then also I've tendered my resignation as a trustee and so this will be my final meeting and I look forward to seeing the great things you guys do in the future. So I'm relocating to be closer to work and it's
113been an honor to serve. >> Yes. Well, thank you, Mike, for very very much for everything you have done for this um board and for our district. Um you leave a huge legacy and um we will do our very best to follow. Um I'm a lucky person. >> Yes. Yes. Yes. And and um as as a reminder, we got some cake for you. So please stay after the meeting, everyone. you please stay after the meeting for um and join us for some cake. All right. Um I do have a future agenda item. Um if we could get a presentation on the capital improvement projects um that would be good. Um I know you and I talked about it um AJ. And then um and then also I'm sorry also if we can bring um the
114um the policy number 408 on classified staff promotion and regulation and also the classified staff employment policy so we can revisit those. Awesome. Thank you. Um, Trusty Ramirez, just for clarification, Trusty Varner, you were at the last bond oversight committee meeting, correct? Do do you, if we were going to um kind of give an overview of the the capital projects that we have completed, did you feel like um that the presentation that reviewed the projects that happened over the summer, was that a a pretty thorough review of everything as far as you were concerned? Yeah, I thought it was a real thorough review and I would uh feel comfortable bring that forward to the board. >> Okay. At least as a starting point and then if there's recommendations after that >> that would be wonderful.
115Thank you. All right. Any additional future agenda topics? >> Are we still going to continue the last meeting to have the budget like uh funding the fund? >> Yeah. Yeah, we can do that. >> Great. All right. Agenda item number 16, adjournment. Thank you so much everyone. And again, don't go away. We got cake and I Oh, hold on.