001[Music] Woo! [Music] Hey. [Music] Oh, [Music] you are. [Music] Good evening everyone. Welcome to the Carson City School District Board of Trustees meeting. Today is Tuesday, October 14, 2025. And we are going to call this board meeting to order at 5:45 p.m. Agenda item number one, adoption of the agenda as submitted. And this is for possible action. >> Okay. Motion by Trusty Wall and second by Trusty W um Gardner, excuse me. Uh any board discussion? Seeing none, any public comment? Seeing none, all those in favor? I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Agenda item number two, adjournment to close session per NRS288.220 to discuss labor relations with the district management representatives. And this is for discussion. [Music] Oh. Ah, [Music] oh. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] la. [Music] Hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] How you are? How [Music]
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003hey. [Music] Heat. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Oh, for Heat. Heat. [Music] Oh, [Music] oh. Oh, [Music] hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] for me. [Music] Oh, [Music] of oh. Oh, [Music] hey. [Music] He la. [Music] Oh, [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Oh, [Music] Oh, [Music] God. [Music] Oh. [Music] Hey. Hey. Oh, [Music] my hand. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hello. [Music] Oh, for me. [Music] Oh. [Music] Oh. Oh. Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Oh, [Music] Oh, [Music] hey. Woohoo! [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] It is 6:30 p.m. and we're going to reconvene to our public session. It's agenda item number three. And before I go on to agenda item number four, I um need to inform everyone that trustee uh Klopp is absent today and Trusty
004Walker is joining us um on the phone. So um agenda item number four, I'm going to ask Trusty Wal if you can please lead us for the flag salute. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you, Trusty Walt. Agenda item number five, superintendence report. And this is for information only. Superintendent and Philly. >> Um, thank you, President Ramirez. Um, it is hard to believe, but we are three days away from the end of the first quarter, which is pretty amazing how fast that goes. Um, first thing I just wanted to give a thanks to the Carson City Schools Foundation. Um, they have recently awarded uh just over $9,000 in grants to many of
005our staff members for various projects. And so this is something they've been doing for years now. and just really appreciate them uh giving our staff with some neat ideas for things to do for kids. Uh some funds to to make that happen. Um wanted just to share a couple stories um some of our incredible folks in our schools. Uh I'll start with um Carson High. So Carson High this year uh Mr. Carson's has started a um an uh at his staff meetings, they're handing out uh chance cards. So, if you've played Monopoly, um you have to draw a chance card sometimes and you don't really know what's coming with that. And so, um sometimes it's uh the example he gave was wear mismatched socks all day and act surprised when people point it out. all
006day long. Um, and so one of the uh one of the cards they had was uh have one of your administrators come and sub uh for half of one of your classes. And so uh if you know Ty McMillan, Ty is an an amazing human being, super positive. He's a science teacher at Carson High School. He pulled one of those chance cards uh and he got an admin uh Mr. Carson's to come and sub for his class for half the day. And um with that half day decided to head over to Silver Campus to uh uh spend some time supporting one of our our new science teacher over there. Just voluntarily didn't have to do it. Um just just a a class act. So >> wanted to recognize that. Um Julie Clanky over at Mark
007Twain Elementary School. um just a incredible team player for our kids period. Um someone who you don't ask what she does but it's more what she doesn't do in that building trying to support um as a special ed pair uh pair professional over there. Um and just doing great things for kids. um over at Fremont Elementary, our kindergarten teacher, Amanda Bowdenstein, a a fountain of positivity um and creativeness in her classrooms. Um has also uh done a lot for the staff over there. She's worked out with Starbucks to uh have four times a year uh bring over like a coffee event for for staff. So, um, caffeine makes people happy and, uh, so she is doing great things, >> especially as it gets colder. >> As it gets colder. Yeah. Um, over at Fridge Elementary
008School, the amazing kitchen staff, led by the amazing Sheree Carter, um, had some new new menu items that they have been working hard to figure out as they cook so much of this from scratch. um chicken dumplings with sesame green beans and uh some a new chicken Alfredo dish that apparently is uh getting them a Michelin star rating cuz it is so good. Um and they have been now serving some walking tacos that as Mr. Brown has said has gotten them a fivestar rating on Yelp. >> So that was pretty impressive. Uh, and then, uh, just a shout out to the sta, the office staff over at Eagle Valley Elementary or Eagle Valley Elementary, Eagle Valley Middle School. Um, Jessica, Miss Nendy, and Jamie Paige. Um, just doing everything they can um to keep things
009moving that office. Um, keeping it positive, supporting our new principal over there. um and she has a lot of thanks to them for all the work that they do. And finally, um Brenda Ramirez, who's at Carson High School, um a a personal thank you from me at the Douglas football game last Friday. If you didn't hear, we won. Just throwing that out there in overtime. Exciting. Um, first play uh for Douglas on offense. They threw a pass that I thought was going to get intercepted. And as as I'm rising from my seat in excitement, as I think it's going to be intercepted, I drop my phone uh through the bleachers. Um, and as I'm running around trying to figure out how to get under there, I realize that I can't. and and Brenda um voluntarily
010dives under the bleachers and army crawls for probably what seemed like a mile to get uh my phone for me and I think dislocated her arm to try to reach through the bleachers to get it to me. So, just a big uh big thank you to Brenda Ramirez. And that is all I have tonight. >> That's awesome. Great. Thank you. Agenda item number six, board reports, board uh member comments. And this is for information only. And I would like to invite our um student representatives for Carson High. And for uh Carson High campus, welcome Maggie and Cooper. Sorry. Hello members of the board. Uh good evening. Um this is I'm Cooper Fueling, your uh Carson High School um student body representative. Um uh All right. Uh just a couple of things to go over tonight.
011Um so a few weeks ago we uh had our homecoming week. Um it was very successful. We had lots of people participating in all the dress up days uh and we got some really good um social media posts out of that and just a lot of student engagement. Um the uh homecoming uh court was also they were very involved the whole week. Um, our winners uh they would they would have loved to be here today except uh so they uh our homecoming king was Kaden Coleman and our homecoming queen was uh Gloria Douly and Kaden had work tonight and Gloria had a soccer game but they both uh were trying to be here. Uh we also uh won that football game uh 49 to6 against hug and then uh on Saturday we had the homecoming
012dance which was also very successful. I think we had about uh 7 or 800 tickets sold, so there was a lot of people there. Uh and then last uh Friday on October 10th, uh we uh varsity football beat Douglas at Douglas to reclaim the rivalry trophy for the first time uh in we haven't had it since I think in like three years. So that's a really great thing. And they are a very good team. And we were in overtime, too. It was a great game. Um and then yesterday, October 13th, uh we celebrated uh student council at the high school main campus, uh celebrated indigenous people's day uh by giving out free popcorn to the student body at lunch. >> Perfect. Thank you, Mickey. >> All right. Good or good evening members of the board,
013those here and not. My name is Maggie and I'll be sharing Sulfur campus's announcements this evening. First things first, our Carson High speech and debate team is going to compete at Worster High School in Reno this weekend on the 17th and 18th. We are always in need of judges. So, if you'd like to donate your time, please reach out to Miss Jillian Shufel about signing up. Please join us in wishing the team good luck. During the week of during the week of September 29th through October 3rd, we participated in homecoming week as well as the week of respect. And I'm very happy to report that the students and staff dressed up throughout the week which ended on Saturday the 4th with a western themed homecoming. Silver Campus is hosting a silver power hour, also known
014as tutoring, today and Thursday from 2:15 to 3:45 p.m. Student the students will get targeted help for their academic needs. and we are all excited to see the outcome of the first quarter ending on Friday. On October 22nd, the Silver Campus will be hosting their first ever Silver Campus JAG initiation and installation ceremony during school from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m. We are super excited to swear new officers and initiate all of our JAG students. This concludes the announcements for the Silver Campus. Have a wonderful rest of your evening. This is Maggie signing off. >> Thank you both so much. We appreciate you guys' report. >> All right. Nevada Association of School Board NASBY update. Trusty Barner. >> Yeah, I I don't have much tonight, but I can tell you that last evening the awards committee
015>> finished up uh reviewing all the nomination letters and I think you asked last time how many letters we'd received. It was 98. >> Wow. >> Plus or minus one. That is awesome. >> Nomination letters. Yeah. >> Yeah. So, it was uh it took a while to get through them, but u >> the final decisions were made. So, those will be coming out on the conference upcoming. >> A lot of people knowledge. That's that's good. But a lot of work for you guys. Well, thank you for all those hours that you put into helping out with that. >> All right. Mike, do you have anything else that you want to add? Yeah, actually um this last weekend I attended the Pacific region meeting with colleagues from Nevada, uh Utah, Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and really just
016talked about the issues facing our school districts and uh in districts big and small, states uh urban and rural, we're all kind of facing the same thing. So, it was nice to kind of hear what other states are doing and um just collaborate with our colleagues and we are planning the conference and getting ready for that. So, December is coming quickly. >> Awesome. Thank you, Mike. >> You're welcome. >> All righty. Uh board announcements. Um Michelle, um starting off with Carson High. Um, as the AJ um had mentioned, um the Carson City Schools Foundation um awarded several grants. Seven of those were awarded at Carson High. So, we'll be going around to those classrooms and presenting the checks um to the teachers in front of their classes so that they can all be celebrated together
017for that. So, I'm looking forward to that tomorrow. Um let's see. this Friday. Um if you want to support Safegrad, um that's the committee that puts together um the after graduation celebration to keep kids in a good, sober, safe environment. Um this Friday we're having a Panda Express fundraiser where um if you go to their Facebook page, which is just safe or Carson safegrad, three separate words, um you'll see the flyer or the online code if you order through the app. Um and then 50% of your sales will will go to support that. Um, we've also, um, as is mentioned for the third time, but it's worth mentioning a third time, we, uh, kicked Douglas's butt in overtime, 2114. So, that was a very fun one, and it's always extra fun to do it on
018their turf. So, we beat them at home at at their home. >> At their home. >> Um, and then, uh, tennis is in regionals this week. Um, trying to be in regionals this week, but we keep getting rained out. So, um, that's hosted up in Monog. And for tennis, um the team as a whole gets ranked um and seated. They're 11 in the division and and we just missed. We tied for six in the top six go, but the team that beat us was our we were tied with them and so they got the to go as a team. So we didn't get a go as a team, but you also get ranked as individual players. And we had um two of our singles players and two of our doubles players that made it in
019as individual ranked players. And so their individual regionals are this week hosted up at Manog. and if we could just get it to stop raining, we would play those games and see how we do. But we're excited for the kids that have that opportunity. Um, also at Carson High, uh, the bowling team officially kicks off tomorrow. So, if you, uh, have any kids that would like a temperature controlled sport where you don't have to worry about the rain or sunblock, the bowling team is always recruiting. And, um, we're at Homegrown Bowl on the south end of town and we, uh, practice every Monday and Tuesday from 3:00 to 5:00. So, come join. um get your kids in with us. Um oh, and I was going to say before they ran off, but um maybe he'll
020hear it on this, if not, Dad can pass along. Cooper had mentioned um as a part of student council, working really hard during homecoming week to have a strong social media presence and and I was just going to compliment him. They do a fantastic job. If you don't follow the Carson High um student council on Instagram, they are such a strong presence and they post constantly so you always know what's going on and you stay in the loop and u makes it really easy to be a part of school spirit and they're doing a fantastic job um keeping that keeping that hopping. So that's all I have for Carson High. Um Mark Twain Elementary, I'm just going to read some of the notes I got from Miss Corkch there. Says Mark Twain is working hard
021with our new reading program, the KCLA implementation. Teachers are really liking the curriculum resource. It has allowed us to understand our students reading pathway in depth. We also had a very successful fall carnival. Many of our families attended and we all had a great time. This week we also have several classes on the road for some exciting field trips. Fifth grade is going to go up to kids court. It's a mock trial experience at the Wo County Courthouse. Preschool is going out to Andalan Farms for their farm unit. They're going to spend some time with the animals out there. And then the fourth grade is going to the Nevada State Museum as a part of their Nevada History unit. So, lots of moving around and and getting out in the community. She also says, "We're
022uh busy getting ready for our fall fall parent teacher conferences that we're excited to meet with our families." And they typically have about a 98% attendance rate at those parent teacher conferences. So, a big high five to Mark Twain for making that a priority and for the families for supporting it. >> Awesome, Michelle. That's a lot. Thank you. All right, Rebecca. Yes, for Fremont from Dr. Ward. Uh, hello by the way. Thanks for being here. And parent teacher conferences starting October 27th and they're looking to get 100%. So, let's go parents. Um, and then many teachers have extended conference times to accommodate all parents. So, thank you um from Dr. afterward to all those parents or to all those teachers to help support our families. And then also congratulations to Terry Schiffer and Muriel Maiden.
023They were foundation winners and Terry is also um a grant winner of the DKG grant. So congratulations to those teachers. >> Wonderful. Thank you, Rebecca Richard. >> Yes. Uh for Fritz, Mr. Brown. Principal Brown wanted to share with all the fridge families that they're getting very excited for the parent teachers conferences which are upcoming. And he wanted to remind all parents to make sure to schedule a meeting with their child's teacher. That's it for Bridge, but I do have one more. >> Okay. >> Or a couple more actually. >> Uh if I can find it here. And this is from principal Reta from Borg Bray. Parent teachers conferences are being held October 27th through the 30th. Uh remind everybody to mark their calendars for the upcoming multi mult multicultural night on November 19th which is
024hosted by the house of Armistat which I happen to be a member of. Uh it will be from 5:30 to 7 and you will not want to miss out on all the fun as more details will be coming soon. And then uh since Trustee Clappen's not here tonight, he wanted me to read his board announcements if I could. >> Yes, go ahead. >> Okay. From Eagle Valley Middle School, their students and staff raised $540 for Alzheimer's awareness in September. all funds to be donated to the Memorial Alzheimer fund in honor of Coach Blever Blever Bla Ver. This money then goes to Alzheimer's research and to support families struggling with Alzheimer's and they'll be having more fundraisers throughout the year for this cause. So, I think that's a very good cause. And then this week uh
025they're starting they start off with a great week with their uh week of respect and they will be having their student of the quarter recognition on November 15th. This recognizes students and parents the recognized students and parents will be invited for a breakfast. They will also have a recognition rally on Friday, November 17th to honor students for grades attendance and participation in club and sports. and they'll be hosting a Halloween dance on October 30th 30th during the school day. Students will be allowed to dress up in costumes. Then also a huge thank you to our coaches and staff staying after school to support after school activities, clubs, and sports. Uh they really appreciate you. I have one also for Carson Middle School and uh their cross country and girls basketball seasons are coming to an
026end this week with the Tall NEA Championship for cross country on Thursday the 16th at Kale Park in Lake Tahoe and the girls basketball championships at the Douglas Community Center on Saturday the 18th. Their boys basketball season starts on Monday and tryyouts were today. Next week, their eighth graders will be visiting Carson High to learn about career and technical education, electives, and other exciting things the high school has to offer. They are looking forward to parent teacher/ student conferences the week of October 27th through the 30th. and families will meet with their child's advisory teacher to look at grades, credit, test scores, and more. They would also like to invite their entire school community to their fall family festival, which will be on November 6th from 5:30 to 700 p.m. They'll be celebrating the many
027cultures within the community with food, activities, and fun. Finally, uh they invite everyone, especially veterans from the community to join them on Friday, November 7th at 9:00 a.m. for a Veterans Day performance honoring all who have served. Look for their Veterans Day out on the front lawn as well. That's always a very exciting event. I've been to it, I think, every year for the last six, seven years, and they do a really good job in their Veterans Day. And before I go on, for the fourth time, I'd like to mention that uh Carson did beat Douglas and I was fortunate enough to be at the game. >> Oh, >> and it was very well attended. I mean, the stands were full on both sides. So, I'd like to thank all the parents and students who
028came out for Carson to support Carson. Uh when when I res when I arrived at the game, there was no parking in the parking lot. It was full >> and um it was very exciting and it came down to the last play uh when Douglas had the ball and uh Carson made them fumble and recover the ball end of the game in overtime. So, great job, guys. >> Awesome. Well, I'm sorry that I missed that. Molly. >> Yes. So, for Empire Elementary School, they just finished up their week of respect, which was um October 6th through the 10th. They are having a candy contest. They are um bring a bag of candy and help your grade level win. The winning um grade level or winning class will earn a pajama day and a pizza party.
029So, please bring a bag of uh candy. their fall festival I thought was scheduled October 17th, but now I'm thinking it might be October 24th. So, we'll have to get that one straightened out. Not quite sure. Um, however, then beyond that, we did have um as the schoolboard liaison for the Carson City Parks and Wreck >> Commission meeting, >> we had a marathon meeting last Tuesday night. Um, and it was just um very exciting. a lot going on with parks and wreck. Um they uh awarded an MVP employee who was presented for um you know going above and beyond and his name was Steven Tucker. Um it's something new that the parks and wreck is doing and I think it's um it was very wellreceived. Um he was noticed by the public. the public is
030able to um nominate anybody through parks and wreck that they see is going above and beyond and then they um are presented at a board meeting or at a commission meeting. Um that we also heard from the um uh trails for the Carson City Trail System. I don't know if many of you know that the um Carson down uh um what is it? The Carson River Trail, they're going to be redoing it. They were awarded a grant for 2.3 million um and it's for their phase four and it will be the trail head. So that whole park when you're coming down highway uh fifth street is going to be redone. Um some really great plans. I would visit their website to see and so we were given that uh presentation as well and then we
031were also presented um so then that presentation and then we were presented with um the disc golf they're up on the east side of town and they're redoing they're hoping to add nine additional um I don't think you call them holes but nine additional holes I guess in the south and of their of what they're doing. And you know, the one thing with that is it's all volunteerism. That group is all volunteerism. They do a um a uh fundraiser in March, which I'll bring that information to you as well. It's a disc golf tournament. It's always sold out. They had 93 last year, which was really good. Then the one action item that we had which was really exciting was we all voted unanimously to recommend to the board of supervisors the John D winter
032Centennial Park master plan. >> Um this master plan is to do Centennial Park upper and lower. They're already putting in the artificial turf on the upper. However, they're going to make some um you know they have some uh other things that they want to do up there, restrooms and that. But the lower development is where it's all being done. And it will have four um it looks no two baseball fields, um a football field, and possibly two other football fields, which could be then six soccer fields or two large large soccer fields. Those would be grass, um a play structure, concession stands, restrooms. So that lower area is going uh parking. It was a phenomenal plan that was brought forward. So, congratulations to Carson City Parks and Recre staff. They have worked diligently to make
033the parks around Carson City um just phenomenal and it was just a it was a really good meeting. So, I encourage you all to visit the um parks and wreck website and get um where it is, but we are recommending it. I will attend that meeting for the board of supervisors in hopes that they um approve the master plan for Centennial Park. >> And when will that meeting be? >> We don't know yet. Oh, okay. Gotcha. Well, congratulations for being part of that. I mean, that's that's exciting. Super exciting stuff. >> Thank you. >> All right. So, for me, uh, from Dr. Molden, uh, she wants to thank the Carson City Foundation for the grant that, um, they awarded her school for the, uh, games that they will be purchasing and some outdoor furniture to
034make the, um, Carson High School silver campus more inviting. and have the students look forward to going to school. And then also on Tuesday, October 21st, they will be hosting the powering youth future. I think the student also mentioned that earlier. Uh event from 5:30 to 700 p.m. with pizza served from 5:30 to 6. The Northern Nevada Electrical Training Center will be presenting about electrical apprenticeship program and paid training opportunities, career paths in electrical work, skills students with can start building now and how families can support future career uh success. And then the students and families um will also be invited from the eighth graders so that they can actually be introduced to the programs that are being offered at the Carson High School Silver campus in hopes that they can recruit some students. And
035that concludes my report on that. But I also want to um inform the committee or the board members that um I attended the Carson City Foundation meeting last week and they are encouraging everyone to consider um making a um payroll uh donation. Um, I handed each of each and every one of you a sheet for you to consider uh making a an ongoing donation. Um, if you if you do want to consider doing that, if you can fill it out at the end of the meeting and give it to Renee. Um, they would like to see that the board um that everyone, you know, every board member contributes so that they can have 100% participation. They're also encouraging obviously everyone from the foundation board to do the same. Okay, very good. And then what else
036do you Oh, so I joined uh Superintendent Fielding last week to the future Carson High School runners race and it was super super fun. Uh we had um we were very impressed to see so many families attending that event and it was during the day and Rebecca you also joined us and and I believe your son also participated, correct? Yeah, it was super fun. Um I was very pleased again to see so many families um supporting their children and just to be part of their their education. It's it's what we all look forward to to seeing you know happening. So it was very nice uh very well attended and congratulations to John Hager for that initiative. It was it was definitely a very very um successful event. I believe that covers all the reports that
037I had. Okay, moving on to agenda item number seven, association reports. And this is for >> I'm sorry, Mike. Sorry. And forgive me. >> No problem. I just wanted to uh report out for Seager. So, they had a chilly but successful chilly as in cold pumpkin patch on Saturday. And they want to thank the community for support and remind everybody that 100% of those uh profits go towards staff and students. And so they thank uh the community for that support. And they'd like to remind parents to sign up for parent teacher conferences. I should say parents or guardians to sign up for parent teacher conferences for the week of 10:27 to 10:30. >> Excellent. Thank you. Okay. Agenda item number seven, association reports. And this is for discussion only. Do we have anyone from the
038association? No. Okay. Agenda item number eight, public comment. Do we have inerson public comment? See none. And I was told that we do not have an online public comment. So we will close public comment. And moving on to agenda item number nine, discussion and possible action on approval of recommendations of the benefits committee regarding group health care insurance plan design and renewal of coverage for the calendar year January 1, 2026 through December 31st, 2026. Approval of any insurance coverage may have a physical impact up to the amount contained in the budget approval by this board. And this is for possible action. Welcome Melissa Davis and Mr. Dan Saddler. And I see we have more people. If you if you can please introduce yourselves. >> Absolutely. President Rome. Uh the sitting next to me here is
039Valerie Clark from formerly Valerie Clark and Associates, now True Cordia. And then Melissa Davies is next to her and then we have Spencer Winward as a special guest on the end. Uh so the information in your packet here um represents the the recommendations based on our benefits committee um for benefits year starting in January. Um so that being said, I'll just kind of let you know the process. Um, last year we said, you know, we haven't really shopped around for a long time, so let's kind of see what's out there and, uh, kind of went to market. Um, Valerie can talk about what that process looks like. We did get some information back and decided that we were really best to stick with Prominence last year. Um this year there's a few other changes that
040we'll highlight but um and Valerie again I'm gonna ask her to kind of go through the process of negotiating with the prominence or whatever you can share of that conversation and kind of where we started and where we ended up. So maybe we'll just kind of start with that part of it. So specifically with the medical plan and prominence do you want to kind of give some highlights there? >> Thank you Dan. Uh good evening members of the board. President Ramirez and members of the board. It's good to be with you tonight. I'm Valerie Clark with uh Tracordia, formerly Clark and Associates, and it's uh a pleasure to share the uh process of the renewal and uh how we get to the numbers that we get to and make the recommendations that we make. So,
041uh, this year the district had a loss ratio of, uh, the mid90s, 95% loss ratio, which, um, and I', I some of you are newer faces, so I'll explain the loss ratio again, which is basically, uh, the the amount of premium dollars that the district pays annually, um, divided by the the claims that are incurred by the district. Because you are such a large group, you are considered what we call 100% credible, meaning your rates are based entirely on the utilization of the group. So you're not pulled with other business um you know like the small group marketplace would be. So your loss ratio this year was a bit higher than prior years. It was up in the mid 90s 95%. um that puts us at a little bit of a disadvantage in trying to
042negotiate um with a lot of other carriers. Last year we did shop, we did full shopping because we had a loss ratio that was better. It was in about the mid80s last year, so we had some room to negotiate. Um ultimately, Prominence still came back with the best premiums last year and so it was it made sense to renew with Prominence. This year we decided not to shop because you don't want to shop every single year. you lose a little bit of negotiating power if you shop every single year. And because our loss ratios were a bit higher this year, um we were able to sit down with Prominence and negotiate in a way that um they just reacted as a good partner would and they have been a good partner for a number of
043years. They started out the renewal with a 17% rate increase. Um, after quite a bit of conversation with them and a little bit of arm twisting, we did get it down to 6.5%. Um, with a 95% loss ratio, I consider that to be a very good and fair renewal and they have been a good partner over the years and I felt it was a very good faith effort on their part to be a good partner uh, in a little bit of a tougher claims year. So, we decided not to shop because I I was there's virtually no way we would get a better rate. And if we did, it would we would not be served well to move you because it could be setting you up for a much more difficult renewal the following year.
044Um, so we um ultimately sat with the benefits committee, explained everything. Um and you know as usual they were very thoughtful and very you know we uh conversive with us and ultimately we all agreed that the 6.5% was a good renewal on the medical piece. Um you guys have an excellent benefits program. We've hardly touched the benefits over the years. um over the last six years we have averaged a 4% increase um every year year-over-year if we average it out and I could not say that for any other group I ensure during the these times you know I don't know if you heard yesterday the exchange came out with their renewals there are 25% um and so we I think are doing very well to have the benefits package that we have here at the
045district and continuously yearover-year have not paid on average more than 4%. Uh it's it's an excellent thing and you have a fantastic health savings account um that you fully fund well up to $3,000 which is is just excellent and half of your uh staff are on that program. Uh it started out very slow, but over the years it's become a very very popular plan. And there are some people now that have tens of thousands of dollars in those accounts. Um and it's a it's a great thing and and I think it's caused I think the reaction of the plan is that it has kept the rates very stable to have that health savings account in place. It's it's been very very good for the district in my opinion. So that's the medical piece and I'm
046happy to answer any questions that you have. >> Okay, questions, comments from the board? >> And uh I may be premature of this question, but what's the total cost of the increase? >> Uh the total cost if you I believe you got these packets. The total cost is on the page towards the middle. And that number is uh 514,87344. >> That's on this page right here. >> It's page seven. I'm sorry. >> The renewal package. >> Yeah. Thank you. There's so many different numbers. >> I know. And it's hard to, you know, we take booklets of information and put it down into a few spreadsheets, but it still is complicated. I know. But yes, this on page seven is the final dollar amount. >> If if you would, can you would you mind going over
047some because um Dan, you mentioned that there were some changes. Um can you highlight >> what >> on the medical piece? >> Medical, dental, and vision. >> Yep. Mhm. And I haven't gotten into the dental or vision yet, but on the medical, the the only change on the medical is that the IRS does require us to increase the deductible on the high deductible health plan by $100 as a cost of living increase every year. So, you'll see that highlighted on page five. You'll see right here the deductible currently is 3,300 and it has to go to 3,400 via IRS um requirement for the highdeductible health plan which is coupled with your health savings account. That's the only change that is in being incurred in the medical plan. So the um so for an employee it
048increased for the school district but for the employee to add a spouse and children that didn't increase. That did increase. You'll see those numbers. Um for instance in on page five which we were just on you'll see the current premium and then we have it listed for additional spouse, additional children and additional family. We've got the current on the left column and then the renewal numbers are on the right column. So you'll see all of those numbers. >> So did that change for all plans or just the planing? >> No, for all of them 6.5% across the >> board for HMO2. >> Yes. >> The freedom 1000. >> Yes. All of the plans. >> Okay. And it all increased 6.5. >> So then for a spouse it went up 6.5. for children it went up
0496.5. >> Yeah. And you'll see all those numbers uh on the medical pages which are the first few pages of the spreadsheets. >> Okay. >> And for retirees who stayed on the plan that go up also 6.5 >> all factored in as well at that rate. >> All right. Thank you. And so I just want to just make sure it's public. Nothing changed with the prescriptions. >> No. >> X-rays. None of none of that changed >> at all. Okay. And then nothing within um like what is covered for the freedom 1000. All of like the details within the the benefits plan itself stayed the same. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> So then this question is for Spencer. So Spencer, um, with the budget that we've been all, you know, talking about our forecasting and we
050said that our forecasting was actually not too bad is this wasn't in the forecasting. >> We we Hey, it does work. I've never used the microphone this far down before. Uh, when we did our budgeting, we included an increase of 10%. And so where this is 6.5% there actually is a little bit of savings based off what we budgeted. So I I hope that's good news to all those who are listening. >> Very good. Thanks. >> I I apologize I don't have the exact dollar amount of those savings but good news nonetheless. >> Would you like me to go on with the dental and vision? Yes. >> Okay. Uh the dental is with Kansas City Life and that did come into us with a proposed 5% rate increase for a 12-month contract. We were able
051to negotiate that down uh with the help of the benefits committee's uh requests and suggestions. We were able to negotiate that down to a 3% rate increase and have a 2-year rate guarantee. On top of that, um we are also able to negotiate um a dental implant benefit to be installed into the high option dental plan as well. So, I felt that was a big win for us. Um, we have not incurred rate increases. >> Pardon? >> Well, I'm gonna get um personal on this one then because this is uh personal. I mean um three kids with cleft lip and cleft pallet. All three of them need uh dental implants. Never been covered. So I have two more to go. So if you can explain that benefit, I'd be greatly appreciate that. That one is
052that one hits home. Um, yeah, I don't have the actual full verbiage in front of me, but uh we did Do you have any information on that, Mel? >> Yep. So, they're covered um under major service. >> Can you please introduce yourself? >> This is Melissa Davies with True Cordia. >> Um and the new implant coverage um is covered under major services. So, they'd be covered at the 50% up to 2,000. Yep. So, we are very happy about that because that does bring that high option dental plan uh into a different realm in terms of um opportunities for people. So, I'm really happy with that. >> Um and you do have a 2-year rate guarantee on that as well. >> Um and then the vision, we were with a company called IMED. We have been
053with IMED longer than I have been with you and I've been with you for 25 years. IMAD has been the same plan with us. um at fairly good rates over the years. Um but this year they did give us a 6% increase and probably because we were coming off of a four-year rate guarantee, but they did give us a six-year rate uh 6% I'm sorry, a 6% rate increase. Um we were able to work with Kansas City Life on the vision. We realized that the benefit was a little outdated. So, we were able to increase the benefit maximum on the frames from $70 a year to $150 a year. So, we more than doubled the benefit on the frames and were able to get a rate that was 5% higher than what we were currently
054paying. So, we wouldn't be paying the full 6% renewal. we would move to Kansas City Life, take a 5% rate increase, increase the benefit by a significant amount, and offer a much larger network through the VSSP network as well. The benefits committee was very happy with that offer from Kansas City Life to package it up with the dental and vision and life and so they agreed that that was what they wanted to vote for. So, um, that is what we are presenting to you tonight is an enhanced vision plan packaged up with your dental and life insurance with Kansas City Life. And then finally, the life insurance that the district has a high and a low option life insurance benefit. We've had that for a number of years that renews with no rate increase at
055all. Z% of that one. Okay. Correct. Yes. This looks great to me. Anybody else comments or questions? Go ahead. >> Um Dan, can you explain um the committee who's on that health benefits committee? >> Yeah, so we have members of all of our uh bargaining units. So um let's see Shalis Krookshanks from the administrators association, Beth Rubkkey from our ESP CESA association, and Bridget Gordon. Thank you. Counselor at Carson High School representing uh the teachers association as well as Spencer, myself and uh obviously Valerie Melissa and her team. I don't know if in the future if it would if we could possibly um think about having a school board member that we would then when we get these we would be able to maybe go to that school board member and and do all of
056the questions that we had to >> as an ex official because we wouldn't have you guys would bring forward recommendations to us so we would be an ex official. >> Yeah. Mhm. Is that >> just so gives gives us the little bit of the opportunity to to go to them um you know and kind of ask the questions that we were all like gathering today and yesterday and today it was just a little overwhelming I think. Yeah. >> Sure. No, I think that's something to take into consideration. Um I will need to review what we have in the bargaining agreements and policy as far as the makeup of the committee. I think being part of the conversation would be welcome and then that would probably help determine if it was a voting member or somebody
057who's just there to participate in the conversation as well. But I will certainly follow up on that. I think it's >> and I would look at it as a non- voting me member. Sure. >> But just somebody so we could um have I just felt that I overwhelmed you today and I did not feel that that was appropriate but it was Yeah. So thank you. >> Yeah. Go ahead. >> Thank you, President Ramirez. I just want to really thank uh Melissa and Valerie for their work over the years helping us keep these rates in line. I know some superintendent are losing their minds right now. Um I believe uh it down in Mineral County, they had a 65% increase that has been floated to them. um Persian County a couple years ago, I think two
058consecutive years, they were in the 40s. Um and the fact that I mean I would love to take credit for this because from when I started here long ago, we have had many rate passes. We had one year where our rates actually went down. Um and so just it's been incredibly helpful to us in the um budgeting process and still offering incredible support and they personally do um support a lot of our staff um when situations come up and just go above and beyond in trying to help make uh make things happen and get clarifying information. So just really wanted to thank both of you for for all of your work. >> Thank you. It's a pleasure to work with you. I do have one just so everybody knows what's the total cost of the
059whole package of the insurance package including the >> dental the total amount of dental life or dental vision medical right cost to the district right >> uh very roughly because I I'm only doing it in my head. We're looking at about 1.1 1 point, not one. It's got to be more than one.1. >> Yeah, it's got to be more than that. >> So, one point. >> I'm sorry. I thought maybe you'd have >> I'm sorry. It It'll be just around $10 million a year. >> Yeah, it's around $10 million a year. >> Okay. I just wanted people that are out in the public to know what it's >> Yeah. No, we're talking big numbers and >> and we take that very seriously. We expect our insurance partners to take that very seriously, too. >> Well,
060thank you for your work. >> Thank you. Yeah, I would echo that. Thank you for advocating for us. We appreciate it. >> Okay. Well, if there are no other questions or comments, I will entertain a motion. >> I can go ahead and make a motion. >> Go ahead. I move that the Carson City School District Board of Trustees accept and approve the recommendations of the benefits committee as submitted for the renewal of coverage for the calendar year of January 1st, 2026 through December 31st, 2026, which may have a fiscal impact up to the amount contained in the budget approved by this board. Sorry, Trusty Walker. You were beat by by Rebecca. So motion by uh Trusty Barner, uh second by Trustee Roberts. Any board discussion? Seeing none, any public comment? Seeing none. All those in
061favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. All right. Well, once again, thank you so much for your work. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Okay. Agenda item number 10, discussion and possible action to interview and possibly approve the selection of CCSD Family Life Advisory Committee members from both an open application process and a request for renewal to serve a three-year term January 2026 to December 2028 in the following categories. Three parent representatives, one counselor representative, and one medical representative. And this is for possible action. Welcome, Mr. uh Bringhurst and Mrs. Story. Thank you, President Ramirez and members of the school board and also our district office. My name is Sheila Story. I'm the chief nurse for the Carson City School District and I'm the chair of the family life advisory committee. This evening, we're here to
062present to you candidates for the positions that are currently open on the family life advisory committee. Like U Trusty Ramirez just said, three parent, one medical, and one counseling position. First, I want to let you know that we did go ahead and take um an application or a letter of interest in a resume from a student representative. We are going to also go ahead and open this up to other students at Carson High School. We're going to go ahead and present it within the announcements at Carson High to see if we get some more interest in regards to some students who would like to be part of our board. The one uh student who is interested, her name is Nicole Lawler. She's a ninth grader at Carson High School. And like I said, we're going
063to go ahead and open it up for other um student members also. Okay. And will you be bringing that forward to the uh board once you have more applications? >> Yes, we can do that. No worries. Yep, we will do that. We will schedule that. >> Of course. Molly has a question. So, if a student is on the board then uh would they give volunteer hours and something that you would be able to sign off on? >> Definitely. we we can go ahead and write up a volunteer letter and uh give volunteer hours because they are serving and it is an important um important committee to be on and they really truly learn a lot of um information regarding Robert's rules of order, how to conduct a meeting and also um it's a sensitive um
064subject area. So I think they they bring a lot to the table and I think a volunteer hours would be appropriate. So first up we have our counseling position. We have one candidate. His name is Jeremy Batton. If you could please come up. Jeremy Battton is a counselor currently at Carson Middle School. He does have children who do attend the school district. He comes with us with a lot of experience including China Springs, Dayton um Dayton School District and also the Carson City School District. So, please welcome Jeremy Ben. >> Would you like to introduce yourself? All right. Yes. Press the button. Uhhuh. >> There you go. >> Hi, my name is Jeremy Batton. Uh I am a practicing professional school counselor uh for in eight years in my ninth year. Uh five years, five
065of those were at Dayton Elementary. I'm in my fourth year at Carson Middle School uh where I am the uh lead counselor. Uh, prior to that, I was a uh, licensed alcoholic drug counselor at China Spring Youth Facility down in Douglas County. And prior to that, I was uh, working uh, with at risk youth and uh, outdoor residential setting um, in New Jersey and also in Arizona and Oklahoma. Um, yeah. Any questions? >> All right. Thank you. Um, do we want to start um asking questions um each and every one of us or >> I I was just wondering he's the only candidate >> correct >> For the counseling. >> Correct. >> So I mean we need one person as a counselor on the committee. >> That is correct. >> So I don't know if
066we need to >> interview him since he's >> I'm also a parent of a ninth grade girl. So >> I guess the overall question is what would you be able what would you bring to the committee? And then one how um and as a school professional I think I know the answer but I think what we struggle with too is attendance. You know everybody can sign up to volunteer and say I'm going to be on this board. I'm going to be on that board but to actually be present and attend I think is extremely important. Um and so would you address your attendance policy? Uh absolutely that's a fair question. Uh we are very very busy people and working in the school district. Um but since I've been um with Carson School District I have
067been involved in uh many committees and organizations. I know President Ramirez can attest to that and also um my principal and uh superintendent fueling um and I've been very active and engaged in in those including um at our school uh the multi-tered system of sport tier 2 team where I co-lead that. Um also the MTSS uh tier one team where I co-lead that. Um those are the two that spring top of my mind. Um but yes, I'm definitely active and engaged in many after school activities. Um very committed to working with youth. I've been working with youth since gosh 1999. So it's been my entire professional career. >> Well, I just want to say thank you for your interest in adding to one more to being part of one more committee. Uh anybody else questions,
068comments? No. Okay. Well, I think that we if we don't have any other questions, we welcome you to that position. >> Mr. President, you're going to need a motion at the end. >> We should hold off on the motion until we >> Oh, you you can take one now. You just you you need a motion to actually appoint him. >> Okay. So, >> so you can do all >> We want to What's the preference of the uh rest of the board? Do we want to >> take a motion at at this point or wait till we do them all? Yeah. Okay. Very good. So we will hold off on the motion then. No problem. >> Okay. >> All right. Sheila, please proceed. >> Okay. Once again, Sheila's story for the record. Our next category we'd
069like to bring up is our medical professionals. We have three candidates at this time. The first one is Lydia Washor. She is a registered nurse. She works for Carson Hospital behavioral health services. She is a behavioral health nurse educator and she has two young children who attend our school district. Please welcome Lydia. Our next professional is Danica Williams. Danica William is a parent of three children enrolled in our Carson City School District. She is an epidemiologist and works for the Northern Nevada Public Health and is a research affiliate for the University of Nevada Reno. And our third candidate is Kyra Morgan. Is she here? Kyra Morgan is also an epidemiologist. Um, and she is a parent of two young children within our school district and she is a medical epidemiologist for the Nevada Division of
070Child and Family Services. >> Welcome. and me if you'd like to introduce yourselves. >> Hi, my name is Lydia Via Seenor. Um I am a nurse within the community. Um I've been a nurse for about um seven years. I work at our behavioral health service department. Um I spent most of my years in the behavioral health department as a nurse on the floor and then recently moved on to our nursing educator position. Um, I also have two kids. One is in the school district. She just started kindergarten. Um, and I have grown up most of my life in Carson City and have gone through the school district and all the schools here. >> Wonderful. Go ahead. >> So, good evening. Um, my name is Dr. Denica Williams and I'm the parent of three children in
071Carson City. Uh, currently in first, fourth, and seventh grades. My husband and I are both proud Carson alum. So, uh, we have deep ties here in this community. Professionally, I'm an epidemiologist at Northern Nevada Public Health and a research affiliate at UNR School of Public Health with a focus on infectious diseases. Over the past decade, my work in Nevada has focused on communicable disease prevention, including HIV and sexually transmitted infections. I've managed statewide programs, taught university level courses, and partnered with schools to strengthen health education. I also hold a bachelor's in secondary education which gives me insight into both the science and instructional methods needed to deliver sensitive material effectively. So whether I serve as a parent representative or medical position, I want to support education that's accurate, age appropriate, and responsive to our community.
072And I thank you for your time. >> Wonderful. Thank you. Welcome. And thank you for your interested serving on this position. Do we want to start with um questions from the board? Um Michelle, do you have any questions that you'd like to ask him? No. Okay. Rebecca, um what what brought your interest into serving on this committee? I know you both have medical um backgrounds and both have kids. Is there anything else that kind of piqu your interest to wanting to um have a voice in in this kind of curriculum? And just for clarification, we're going to ask the same question to um each of you. >> So, um I guess part of the reason that I had an interest um of kind of joining the committee is um more from also a personal and
073then a professional aspect. Um growing up not only in uh the school district but just in general. um reflecting on some of the education and knowledge that I received growing up on such a sensitive topic. Um it lacked in the sense of uh stemming from home and then also um kind of what I was taught as I was going through um school as well. So I want to be able to be a part of um I guess newer education and the presentation of it whether it is from a parent um standpoint or from like a medical standpoint. Um and then more from a professional side. Um I do work with um a mental health population also um a youth population as well and I know how sensitive sensitive of a topic it is and um
074how it pertains to uh not only medical health but mental health as well and I want to be a part of um boosting that and helping educate them. >> Okay, Dana. Yeah. So uh for me two two big reasons. One professionally you know over the last decade and even now I work on a daily basis with schools and communicable diseases. Um huge part of my job when I ran the HIV and STD uh statewide programs was identifying gaps. And so I became very familiar with specifically every county but as this state a lot of the barriers and specific challenges we face. Um, so that was part of it, but also when I saw the kind of call for apps, I did realize, you know, as a parent and my unique background of an education degree,
075um, working for 10 years in public health, working on these topics, working with these populations very often, I just thought it would be best to volunteer if my skills could be of value. >> Wonderful. Thank you, Richard. >> Uh, Sheila, do we have one or two medical positions? >> Uh, we have one medical position. >> One medical. >> Well, number one, I'd like to thank you both for offering to volunteer. And to me, this is something I don't like happen to interview somebody who wants to volunteer, and you're both very well qualified. So, thank you for your interest in doing this. Um there again, I don't think I have any questions, so I'll just pass it on to Molly. But thank you guys. >> Molly, >> thank you. Um yes, and thank you both for
076applying and um because it is always, you know, time consuming, so we appreciate your time that you're willing to give. Um, what do you though, and if you'll both answer this though, um, what about the school district's mission and the purpose of the family life committee is most meaningful to you? If you'll, if you'll start, Danica. So I think providing um the best education and information to our students in the highest quality is the most important part of the mission goals of this school district. um that's what I identify most with especially with my background in research and data that I really do believe that bringing highquality facts and education to our students is one of the pillars and most important things that I identify with. Um, one of the things I find most important
077um, with the mission is essentially providing the students um, in the community and the youth in this community with the best education that is going to carry with them throughout their life because this is part of their medical health, their body and whatever we can provide um, to not only keep them healthy and safe for now, but something that's going to carry with them through the future. um since these children are our future and um can continue sharing the knowledge. >> Uh one last question um what we offer right now within our education um you know the family life education what we offer do you see um any changes or that would need to be made? Um, so actually I reviewed a lot of the materials that you already have approved in a lot of
078the minutes. I actually think it's really well done, very engaging and I I saw that's really a huge focus that you wanted engaging to students and be factual. Um, I don't think there's necessarily anything missing and I think a part of the committee is seeing what everybody feels could be most beneficial to add or improve. my own personal background. I think there's a lot of or not a lot of there's a lot of Nevada County specific information that could be provided that I think isn't currently provided um that might help our students and our community understand our community even more than just the generic statistics. Go ahead. Um I don't necessarily at the moment um have changes that I think would need to be drastically made. I think a huge piece that um I've identified
079in our community and just within our hospitals and working with youth um is that um a lot of the media piece is a large aspect um and it's contributing to a lot of um information education that some of the youth are receiving right now. And um I think it's such a heavy presence that it's something that not only should continue to be addressed um but um definitely something that's going to continue rising and that's a piece um that should always play a factor. >> So I think you've already touched a little bit about engaging u families. As you may know we have a large percentage of um uh Latino families in our community. In fact, we have the majority of our student population that are Latinos. How would you engage the f the Spanish speaking
080families um in these um conversations um related to their students health? Um so I I do think it is very important to ensure that we're engaging um all culturals, all all families. Um, and I think a way to do that, um, is kind of gauge knowledge, um, that, you know, some of the culture and population currently have, whether that's, um, you know, doing it through different surveys, talking to families, things like that, or maybe things that schools have identified. um is uh where there's areas education is needed and ensuring that um we are offering it in different educational methods um and everything that we offer is in different languages as well so that we are catering to all populations and all cultures and families. So she said it very wonderfully. So I would only add
081um that it's important for information and education to be culturally sensitive. And so a lot of that is understanding who your audience is and what they need and how they need it. Um, I'm not familiar with any assessments that have been done, but if there haven't been assessments as to that population specifically recently, that might be an area as to connect with them to see how do we update our information and the way we communicate it to best effectively get it to that population. And that could go not just for the Hispanic population, but any of the populations that are in this community, >> of course. Perfect. Thank you. Can I just confirm? Um, if not chosen as the medical representative, you both are still interested in being a parent representative. >> Is that correct?
082>> Okay. All right. I don't believe we have any other questions. So, thank you so much for your time. Thank you, Sheila. >> Sheila story for the record again. Next, I'd like to go on to the parent representative. The first individual I'd like to invite up is Stephanie Cook. Stephanie Cook um has a son who attends Eagle Valley Middle School. She has been on the committee and she put a letter of interest in and an updated resume because she'd like to stay on the committee. So, I'd like to invite Stephanie Cook up to to to the table. She's our first parent representative. Our next parent representative is Aaron Glass. Aaron Glass has a son who attends Carson Middle School in sixth grade. He comes with a a large background of law enforcement for the state
083of Nevada. One including he was on the sit team which is the crisis intervention team for Northern Nevada. I'd like to welcome him. And the last one is Heidi Remnik. Heidi has a seventh grader who attends Car Carson Middle School. Okay. And she has a legal background. She currently works for Douglas County District Attorney. She's a deputy district attorney. So, I welcome all three of them up to what's that? Um, and Ash, I did speak with Ashley. She um has decided not to run for the board because we had such um we had so many other applicants. She said she was going to forgo her application. So, I um welcome these three candidates up to to to the table for you. Well, >> welcome. and do as can you please introduce yourselves? >> Sure. >>
084My name is Heidi Remick. Uh I have been Well, let me first say I saw the dentist this afternoon, so half of my face is numb. So if my voice is strange or my smile is lopsided, it's temporary. I moved here to Carson City with my family in 2020, right at the beginning of the pandemic. And um I have uh now settled into the community a little bit more and I'm looking to get more involved. Um my son, my youngest son is a seventh grader at Carson Middle School. I have an older son who is a sophomore at HUG High School. Um my partner is a special education teacher for the past 30 years. So um my she works up in Wo County and my son goes up to school there on a variance with
085her. Um I as I was introduced I I am an attorney. I've been a prosecutor for most of my career, almost 20 years as a prosecutor both in Vermont and in Nevada. And um most of that time I have had a focus in domestic and sexual violence cases. And those cases are like the worstc case scenario of what happens when people do not know how to navigate consent and set boundaries and and communicate those issues. So that's um that's one of the the big motivators for me to get involved in this committee. >> Thank you. >> Stephanie Cook for the record. Um I am currently on the family life advisory committee going in for um for my third term here. Um we've done a lot of work in the last six years. So I'm interested
086in continuing that work. Uh my son is a seventh grader at Eagle Valley Middle School and um my daughter is a sophomore at UNLV. Go Rebels. Um, so I, um, in my professional life, I'm the state opioid treatment authority and I have oversight of the opioid treatment programs in the state and also oversee all the substance use programs. Um, so I'm looking for a continued um, interest in this committee. >> Well, thank you for your service and thank you for your continuous interest. >> Hi, uh, my name is Aaron Glass. I've spent the better part of 15 years in law enforcement. uh 10 of that with the department of parole and or division of parole and probation uh supervising um sex offenders um you know robbery, murder and uh drug use um things of that
087nature. So coming at it from that aspect I get one foot in law enforcement and one foot in social work. So being able to um like Miss Remick, >> yes >> um had said seeing the effects of um sometimes just lack of understanding. We don't know what we don't know sometimes and seeing on the other end how that affects um not only families but society. So, being able to get on the front end of that and being able to have a positive impact to keep them um with correct information, um resources, uh family planning, things like that to keep it from getting to the point where they have to meet me. >> Oh, um I have a son who's in the sixth grade at Carson Middle School. >> Oh, thank you. That was going to
088be one of my questions. >> Okay. Thank you. All right, Michelle, you want to start? No questions from you. Okay, Rebecca. >> Okay. Um, Richard, again, uh, thank you all of you for your interest. Um, and you pretty well covered why you want to serve on the committee. So, thank you for that. And, um, we pretty well know your background. And I guess I would just ask you um what do you feel your major contribution or strengths would be to be on the committee and uh how do you like the Nevada State Police now versus Department of Public Safety? >> Because I I I can ask you that because I retired from there. >> Oh, did you? Um it's easier to >> I did a brief stint at uh deputy chief of probation at one
089time. >> Oh, did you? >> Yeah. Um, when did you retire if you don't mind me asking? >> Okay, fair enough. Um, so I will say that I I like state police better than Department of Public Safety. It's easier to yell through a door when someone asks who it is. Um, and can you repeat the the question? I apologize. >> What do you feel your major contributions or strengths as a member of this committee would be? Um, like I had said in in my intro, seeing the back end of some of the failures of education, um, family planning being one of those that traps people in cycles of generational trauma, violence, drug use, um, emotional um, disturbances, things like that to be able to get on the front end knowing the back end of it.
090Um, I do have a degree from UC Davis, um, in European history. Um, so I'm by no means, you know, um, this isn't going well. I guess a meatthead, right? Like most law enforcement tends to have the reputation of being. Um, I do try and come at things from an analytical standpoint of what's best practice, what's the science say, um, not just what the emotions say. That certainly has a a place in things, but when it comes to, um, educating kids, I think emotions and politics should take a backseat to what the science says, what best practice says. And having that perspective as a parent, um, I think would be helpful. Go ahead, Molly. >> Oh, I can't. >> Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Forgive me. >> I think as This is Stephanie
091Cook for the record. I think in um spending the last six years on this committee, we've done a lot of work to really um review materials and ensure um the the age appropriateness of them and that they're you know that the their community um voice is also there as we look at what materials are appropriate for our kids to be learning as it relates to family life. um under the great leadership of Sheila, you know, we we're now taking a an approach of looking at all the old stuff we've got on the list and like you know as things change um via technology and other things really looking at revising all that all that criteria um the content may not change but the way it's being um given to our students and and learned is
092is may be different. So, um I think continuity and um strengthened leadership is important and so I think that's what I bring to the table. um continuing my service on this committee. >> Heidi Remick, for the record, I think I bring to the table a broad perspective. Um because when I talk about consent issues, I'm not just talking about in the context of dating or romantic relationships because these are really issues that we all navigate every day in all aspects of our lives. I mean, who here has ever felt pressured to do something that you weren't entirely comfortable with? And it's not just in a dating relationship. Maybe it's something at work. Maybe you've been guilt tripped into serving as a volunteer when you really don't have the time to devote for it. And that
093happens to all of us. And many of us don't have the confidence or the vocabulary to set those boundaries and advocate for those boundaries. And I think it's also important to note that, you know, societal norms of of consent and appropriateness of behavior change over time. as anybody who's watched a TV show from a few decades ago and been uncomfortable about things that were totally normal, you know, the last time you watched it 15 or 20 years ago. Um, and we're preparing our students not just for school, but for all of their lives outside of school when they'll have to recognize these issues and talk about these issues and be able to check in with themselves and each other to be able to navigate consent and boundary issues. I also I've served on a school
094board before in Vermont. I've served on a lot of different committees, so I am familiar and comfortable with um working in this sort of setting with um the rules of of order in terms of of organizing a meeting like this and also with building consensus. As an attorney, you know, the main thing we do in our job is is listen to all the different perspectives of what happened in a situation and be able to uh condense that down into coherent, digestible language to communicate to juries, to judges, uh and so on. Now it's my turn. Thank you. I'll wait for his him to give me the green light again. Um but thank you again for all applying and um in in wanting to continue and I'll ask the same question I asked the um the
095first two as well as what about the school district's mission and purpose of the family life committee is most meaningful to you? And we'll go ahead and start here. The time that students spend in school is is a small portion of their lives. We are really preparing them to be citizens of the world. And so the um I I think it's really important to educate them not only so that they find academic success but so that they have the tools and skills they need to be um successful in the workplace, successful in their future education, successful partners and members of their family. Um and so that's that's the perspective I would bring. Stephanie Cook for the record. Um I think it was no when this legislation was passed to form these family life advisory committees.
096I don't think it was a mistake that the the makeup of the committee was outlined um as it relates to the various representation that's on the committee. Um I think it helps with the balanced voice for all of us. Right. So it's very helpful I think um to have you know the medical perspective, the counselor perspective, the parents and the whole makeup of the committee to really be in a room together and having that balanced voice to really review the these materials and talk about the various things and and how we want it um to be reflected in our um health classes throughout our school district. Um my current position with um state police is as a sergeant at the training division um for all inservice training in the north and having to look at
097what the needs are of the community as well as the law enforcement community. Uh mixing the two, seeing what needs done and how to do it means pulling in a lot of um outside resources and perspectives to make sure that all the needs are met and that we're not forcing one. uh on top of the other. So having the ability to um as was just said, bring all of those perspectives together um is fantastic and quite frankly the only way that's anything's going to be successful. Um so already having I guess a background in that kind of liazing and cooperation and um being able to put together um desperate pieces uh to a puzzle is something that's going to be a good contribution um to the committee. >> Okay, perfect. And I don't have any
098questions either. So I believe at this point we will uh make a motion. Um but first we will go but one by one right to to identify the vote for each category. Is that so? >> Yeah you you can you can do >> thank you so much everyone for coming for to to um this interview. We really appreciate your interest in volunteering. >> Okay. So I'm sorry one more time. >> I I however you want to get to the motion is fine. If you want to go down the the line and have everybody contribute, you can do that or somebody can just make a motion. You have five spots to fill. >> Okay. How do you want to proceed? >> You want everyone get a vote? Okay. >> All five. >> Uh well, first we
099go with the first category. I would uh counselor and then uh medical and then the third um parent. Hey, President Ramirez, if I may. Yes. Um, first thing I like to say is, um, at the end of these interviews and such, I always like to invite all of the candidates, whether they receive the position or not, to please come to the school board or the family life advisory committee meetings and be part of them because their voice will be heard even though they can't be a voting member at this time. Um, we do appreciate their input, their insight, their experience, their knowledge to help us make the best decisions we possibly can regarding family life advisory material. Also, in the past, we have had an alternate parent member. Um, this individual was very active within
100the board and then she actually did become a board member a year or two down the road. >> Thank you for saying that. And and it would be also um important to mention that we really appreciate your guys's time in submitting those letters and and um you know all the time that you put into into doing that. We really appreciate it and your interest in helping the district and please know that um we do have other positions available. So by all means um continue applying for for other positions. Um okay, thank you. and we will go ahead and start tallying. Is that what we can do right now? >> Do we do we want to do do we want to first take the vote for the counselor? Oh, not the counselor, sorry. Medical do we
101want to identify the vote for the medical um position? Michelle, >> who did you want to >> Um, well, I first wanted to say I'm so impressed with the pool of candidates. Um, and it sounds I would I would say if we could have you all, I would love to have you all. And it sounds like with the possibility of an alternate position, that is a reality. Um, so thank you all for caring enough to put your name in the hat for this. Um, for the medical, um, I think I'm leaning towards Danica as my medical position. Um, but also with retaining Lydia in the parent position for sure. >> I'm sorry. Your vote was for >> uh for Danica to fill the medical. >> Okay. All right. >> So, Michelle, Danica. Okay. >> Okay.
102And >> I agree. This is very hard. You guys are all um amazing candidates. So, thank you for the time and everything that you've put into this. My vote for medical is Lydia. >> Lydia. Okay. So, Lydia. Okay. And Richard, >> maybe I'm confused here, but um Cara Morgan, >> and just so you all know, we did have the opportunity to review all the documents that were provided. So, >> she she was not here. >> Yeah. So, real quick, what I did is I did call each individual candidate by phone. I also sent an email as a reminder and Cara said she was going to try to make it, but she does work in Reno and um she was unsure if she could make it this evening, but I I was hoping she could make
103it, but apparently she did not. >> All right, then. Um you know, I forget uh your name, not uh your name. I forget your name. Sorry. Danica. Yeah. Uh, she's my vote. >> I'm sorry, Danica. >> Yes. >> Okay. Uh, Trusty Walt. >> For medical, I'd go with Danica and then put Lydia in the pool for parents. For medical, >> we're still in the medical. >> Okay. And now we're gonna So that's that was the second category medical. And then now the >> So I think you and Mike still need to >> correct. Thank you. I thought of all of you guys but myself. Okay. So yeah, for for my vote is and I want to I want to say thank you because you both complimented each other. I mean we could I wish we
104could get both of you. Um but I am going to go with um Lydia. My vote is for Lydia. Mike. >> Yes. My vote would be for Danica as well. >> Okay. Trusty Walker, Danica. Okay. So, we have one, two, three, four for uh Danica. Okay. And then one, two. Okay. So, then it is Danica. Okay. And then we go with the parent. That's the third category. Okay. Michelle. Um Lydia for sure as a parent representative. Um would get my vote. And then Heidi as well. Um and then um it's a tough one for me between Stephanie and Aaron. Stephanie, I really value the six years that you've put. It sounds like you're very invested and I appreciate that. Aaron, um, with your law enforcement background and just having another male voice, I think brings
105a lot of value as well. Um, but for my third spot, I I think Stephanie is my third parent vote. So, for the parent category, we need three. Um, Sheila, is that correct? >> Yes, that is correct. >> Okay. So, Heidi, Lydia, and Stephanie for me. So, okay. Michelle, Heidi, Stephanie. >> Okay. And Lydia. Okay. And then Rebecca. Okay. May were Lydia, Aaron, and Stephanie. Okay. Erin and Stephanie. >> Yes. Okay. Okay. Richard, >> my three would be Heidi Rimik. >> I'm sorry, Heidi. >> Yeah, Heidi. Um, Stephanie Cook for her continued service and her continuation. I think it'd be important. And then Erin Glass. I feel that having a male voice on the committee would be very valuable, which I don't think we have any other males right now, do we? >> We currently
106would have Jeremy Bat as the counselor. >> Okay. Wally. Yes. I'm going to go um Lydia, Stephanie, and Aaron. Stephanie, who else? >> Aaron. Okay. Okay. in my vote is u let's see Stephanie Aaron let's see did I and Heidi yeah so Stephanie Erin and Heidi and Mike >> yes I my choice would be Stephanie Aaron and Lydia Okay. Do you have it written down, too? >> Okay, good. Okay, then at this moment, I will entertain a motion. All right. Um, I move that the Carson City Board of Trustees approve. Um, Lydia, Villainous Snor, so sorry about that. Stephanie Cook, Aaron Glass as the parent representatives, Jerry Batton as the counselor representative, and Danica Williams as the medical representative to serve on the family life advisory committee for a three-year term January 2026 to December
1072028. >> I'll second it. >> Okay. So, motion by Trusty Walt and second by Trusty Vardner. Any board discussion? Seeing none. Any public comment? Seeing none, all those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Well, thank you once again very much to all the applicants. Uh we really appreciate your time and your interest in helping the the district with this endeavor. >> And I just like to add, Heidi, I really encourage you to please stay present. President Ramirez, just so the record's clear, uh, was there any opposition to the motion? >> Any >> Did anybody say no? >> Did anyone say no? >> No opposition? >> Yes. Thank you. >> Did I skip that part? I'm sorry. >> Okay. Okay. Good, good, good. We're all clear. We're all good. Okay. Awesome. All right. Well, thank
108you again very much. Really appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> Okay. So, at this moment, I am going to move on to agenda item. I'm going to switch agenda items here. I'm going to um move on to agenda item number 18. Umformational update on the CCSD budget for fiscal year 2026. And this is for discussion only. U welcome Mr. Winward. Thank you, Madam President. Members of the board, >> 18 18 We don't have >> We don't have a hand up. >> All righty. I believe uh this was original item 18 but is being moved up at >> your request >> and so and again as we've been kind of going through the board of workshops and looking at all of the different funds you request kind of an update of of where this budget's looking.
109We're focusing uh really on the general fund since that's everything kind of ties into that and we have more information available since our last uh since the final budget and then you know as last month we kind of presented information on on how enrollment has affected the budget and so this just kind of next step further to add several other items of information and see what they do to us. So here's just kind of a list of items that we've evaluated and that that have affected this that we included in there. So the final placement of nearly all our new hires, we have some that uh may increase steps if they're able to uh uh provide the requisite u proof of their previous experience. Uh but most of that is uh settled and in place
110at this point in the year. Um the PERS increase which is was previously budgeted for uh steps uh for our employees also previously budgeted for. Uh we've updated supplemental salary costs uh to reflect what those will actually be this year now that we've got more information on that. longevity educational increments have all been updated and impacts of that have been rolled into what I'm presenting tonight as well as uh our negotiation fiscal impacts and then uh as I discussed you know we we looked at enrollment and we were a few students above where we had budgeted for which was good news and that's all kind of rolled into this as well so as you recall from the final budget presented in May and we discussed f in other times a structural deficit is $3.2 million.
111And as we've looked at uh all of the items we just kind of discussed, the difference of what those all makes would be $700,000. Um and again, that's a combination of everything, every little salary change, steps, pers increase, everything that we that we have into there, and uh negotiation items. And to keep conservative, we're not making any adjustments to revenue, even though we did have a slight increase. And uh for objectives, we're just keeping all of our other expenses the same just to make it easy to to see kind of what it looked like and what it is now. And again, keep in mind that um you know, about 87% of our expenses are salary and benefits across the general fund. So with those additions, that would move our structural deficit to 3.9 million. Um
112and and that's as it stands now. Uh we're always looking at ways to minimize that to save funds to provide the same services we are at lower cost. And I will mention that we have not included any vacancy savings into that. Mostly because I kind of feel it's not good to to count your chickens before you h they hatch. Uh, for example, you know, if we have a teacher that salary is $60,000 and benefits are about $35 $40,000, that's $100 of savings. But if we fill that position two weeks from now, we really don't have those savings yet. So, but as we get towards the end of the year and and are able to realize those u those that would affect this number, but so those are not in there. Our vacancy savings, we do
113not make any adjustment for that at this point in the year. Any questions? questions. >> Certainly just for two seconds. >> What's that? >> Yes. >> All right. Um I have to stop jumping the gun. So um Okay. So we're looking at 3.9 million deficit. What is our revenue right? What's in the bank account right now? >> What's in the bank account? Meaning like what does our ending funding balance look like? >> Yes. Um, I knew you'd ask hard questions. >> So, sorry. >> 16.9 or 15. >> North of 15 million. >> 15, did you say? >> Yes. I looked at that number various times today, but it's I also looked at several other numbers today. >> So, wait, I'm confused because I thought at the last budget we were at 12 and then we
114had a 3 point we were in the deficit, so we did deficit spending. 15 would be what we had at the beginning of this year. So with that this deficit would take us what with the 3.2 would have taken us to about 12 which probably uh goes with your recollection um that the 3.9 would take us slightly below that. >> Okay. So then we'd be looking at 12 and then minus the 3.9. So we'd be looking at like eight and so we are kind of doing >> no what? >> No 15 at the beginning of this year. If we spend everything we budgeted, it'd be that 15 million minus a 3.9. So we'd be looking at um 11.1. >> Okay. And so so at the end of the day though, we we continue to deficit
115spend and you're looking at deficit spending at 3.9 right now when we were at 3.2. Correct. >> Correct. >> Okay. So obviously we can't continue this year to year. So the hard question is and I don't expect you to answer it tonight and I know that this is why we're doing the workshops as well, but when we're done with all of the workshops, the hard question is going to be how do we stop it? What do we need to do to make sure that this deficit spending does not continue? And that's where I think it's going to take the entire board. It's going to take everybody. It's a complete team. Your administrators, your your employees, everybody needs to come together and say, "How do we stop with the deficit spending, you know, and how do
116we make those tough decisions?" Um, we do it this year. We're not going to be able to do it continuously. And then knowing as well, and thank you for building in the benefits, um, you know, the 6.5 increase of our benefits. Thank you for building that in there. But I mean, we're hearing that it's gone up 6.5 this year. I can't imagine we're going to go, they're going to come back and go, "Oh, and guess what? Since you paid 6.5 increase, we're going to bring it down for you next year. It's going to be a status quo, if not increased from there as well." And so I think that's where we look at um we need to stop sooner than later. >> Yeah, we we'll definitely want to be very wise. you want to plan
117ahead. Um later on this meeting, we'll talk about kind of where things will fall next year if everything stays the same. Uh do you essentially because we're doing exactly what what you're wanting us to do is to plan ahead and and not be caught to where oh wow, we we're in a situation where we can no longer sustain this. And uh I I think as you as board members understand that, you know, deficit spending cannot just go on and on because we don't have that right or privilege. Well, and I think too what I want to avoid is we get to a situation where um we're not filling vacancy. You know, we know that the the general fund is primarily employees and benefits as well, but then we get vacancies and and it always looks
118good that says, "Oh, guess what? The school district is zero. They did zero um layoffs, but then what's in the underlining is they didn't fill 30 vacant positions." And so in all honesty, then you're getting rid of those positions. You're increasing classrooms, you know, classroom size or um you're le you you have less pair of professionals. And um that's what I don't want to see, you know, moving forward because right now we have what we're doing is working and we saw that with our, you know, the star ratings of the school and everything else. what we're doing is working and um we continue to progress and we continue to do well and so that's what I would like to be able to see on that end. So you have your work cut out for you.
119I know >> we I I would agree with you that we all do. It will be a team effort. >> Any further questions? >> Just curious approximately how many um vacancies do we have? >> That is a Mr. Saddler question if I've ever heard one. But we started the school year vacancies. >> There's a guest seat down there at the end. I don't think >> I can actually pull it off our website in real time, but um we started the school year off with five certified teaching vacancies and I want to say we had 11 actually 13 classified vacancies to start the school year. And so some of those positions have been filled. We've had a couple situations with employees change where they're resigning. So, um I can if you give me a minute, I
120can pull up and tell you exactly what we have on the books. >> Okay. >> Well, with five vacancies for u certified, that's amazing. >> Yeah, >> that's really good. And um I don't think I need to repeat how I feel about deficit spending. I've been doing it for what, six years now. So, I think everybody knows uh and I agree with what Molly is saying is, you know, let's continue to plan ahead. Uh if we had to make cuts, let's make them um the easiest that we can without impacting uh the students. >> Yes. Please keep in mind also that we kind of had about a 2 million plan spend down this year just because to follow within the parameters of of where we want our ending fund balance to be to be the
121most advantage advantageous to the district. We did need a kind of deficit spend this year. Circumstances made it's a little bit larger deficit than we would have hoped. Um but so I know that 3.9 seems large. We needed a deficit spend about 2 million and that was kind of a part of a plan spend down this year as as well. But if you spend that 2 million this year that you had to, that's going to carry over to next year and the year after unless we >> that is where we do have our work cut out for us to to figure out what's what best serves the district and our students, >> right? The students mainly. >> Okay. Well, thank you. We This is very helpful. So, thank you. We appreciate >> y >> to
122be continued. >> Okay. Yeah. To be continuous, right? All right. Okay, now we can continue with um our agenda item number 11, discussion and possible action on recommended approval of the July 1, 2025 to June 30th, 2029 tenative agreement with the following Carson City School District Bargaining Group, Orange County Education Association, OSHA or I should say OCA, excuse me, with an estimated fiscal impact of 1,900 37,49 and this is for possible action. Uh Mr. Dan Sadler and Mr. Spencer Winward also. Yep. >> You try to get out of it. >> Uh trying to get away Dan Sadler for the record. Uh thank you very much and uh pleased to present to you tonight um the draft agreement that we have presented uh with our partners in education OCA. Uh we completed negotiations this summer and
123been working on getting this put together. Uh the term that you see there is a four-year agreement. So again going through June 30th, 2029, if approved, it would be retroactive to July 1st, 2025. Um couple highlights, streamline processes for efficient resolution of disputes with just some a lot of cleanup that we had to do. uh clarifying and simplifying some of the processes and payouts that we have on the books. Um clean up of the supplemental position compensation structure and that's really just the way it looks physically on there. Um hope hoping that that's helpful for everybody who has to utilize that in the future. Um what happened on my screen here? There is a step added for fiscal year 2627 to column 6 and it my screen just got cut off but I think that's
124also in place for 2526 Mr. when we're >> column. >> Yeah, I my note page just got >> so for OCA there there is 1% added in column 6% >> for 2526 and then in the following year 26 27 there is additional step I believe it's uh delineated by step Q for the next year and that goes across for column six as well. >> Thank you. My screen's back. So, any questions? >> Questions or comments, Molly? >> Um, so this has been a long time going and I think that um you guys have done a phenomenal job. I think you've done a great job um communicating with the board as well. I appreciate you answering all the questions um that have been given to you time and time again. So, I do appreciate your time.
125I appreciate appreciate the bargaining units, OCA's time as well. Um, this is, you know, I mean, like I said, it's a long time coming. So, I really appreciate all the work that you have done. Um, I do want to reiterate that that 1.9 is two years, correct? So, it's 800,000 this year and 800. >> Yes. As the last couple bargaining units have been over two years and since there is a potential for a reopener in two years, we elected to show that fiscal impact over the next two years >> because there are a lot of unknowns between then and now and we'd be estimating. >> Yeah. >> Way into the future. So the 1.9 is over this year and next fiscal year. >> Okay. Just those who are reading the agenda were >> Yeah. So
126I appreciate that. But thank you again for your time and um and thank our attorney as well. Okay. >> Anybody else? Okay. If not, this is a um an action item. I will entertain a motion. >> I can make the motion. >> Go ahead. >> I move that the Carson City School District Board of Trustees approve the July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2029 tenative agreement with the following Carson City School District bargaining group. the Orangeby County Educational Association OCA with an estimated fiscal impact of 1,937,149. >> Second. >> Sorry, Michelle. Okay. All right. So, motion by Trusty Gardner and second by Trusty Peterson. Any board discussion? See none. Any public comment? Public comment. >> Good evening, madame president, superintendent fueling, trustees. My name is Brian Wallace, the president of the Orangeby County Education Association,
127representing all the teachers within the Carson City School District, our counselors, and all our other OOLPS that are out there. Also, uh I wanted to thank the district's bargaining team for all their hard work and being prepared at the table. Our interestbased bargaining system works absolutely wonderful because our mutual interest interest is the education of the children within the Carson City School District in Carson City and then we work from there. Um we have had this mutual interest now for the 17 years. I've been in this position um and it's been absolutely wonderful and this year was no exception. Um a few little notes as you get ready to ratify this which we greatly appreciate. Um the 1% really helps the problem you have in this district and that's called longevity. Um your teachers come,
128you hire them. HR does a wonderful job and has a history of it of hiring wonderful educators for our district and then they never leave. Um as an example, almost half of your certified staff is all the way over in column six out of approximately 500 teachers. And a lot of that's from everything the district offers for credit movement because we want staff to be certified in GATE. We want them to be certified in ELAD. We want them to be the best of the best. And unfortunately that does cost money. Um when you look at where staff currently resides when it comes to adding a row to column six, you have approximately 133 certified members out of approximate 500 certified members that are bottomed out on the salary. They will not see another increase for
129approximately the four years unless the Nevada legislature and $2 Joe finally does something. And that's where your deficit is to blame. Asking us to consider cuts is rough when the Nevada legislature and $2 Joe refused to pass the plan and ignored all the work by our educational partners this Nevada legislative session. for benefits. Just to add a little clarity, over the years I've been doing this, the benefits are based solely on that loss ratio. And luckily with Valerie and her team, every time they come to us as a benefits committee, she has worked extremely hard, as you heard, to get us down if there's going to be a rate increase. We have had those years where there's been an actual rate decrease and then an actual rate pass for several years in a row. That
130is how this district has achieved an ending fund balance of almost $16 million at one point. Every time there's a rate pass, this district saves approximately 10%. Because that's what you you have budgeted and agreed to for that year. That is money that has allowed us continue to operate and that's how we survived getting through the great recession at that time. Much to much to the chagrin of the trustees that were there. We did not do layoffs. We did not do cuts. We did not freeze step and columns because through our partnership in interestbased bargaining we were able to get through that and in the midst of the great recession that school board at the time through the help of uh everybody was able to give us a 1% raise across the board >> while
131all other districts were doing the opposite. >> I'm so sorry Mr. Wallace to interrupt. I think we exceeded the three minutes. So we thank you for for your partnership. We appreciate it. Um any additional uh public comment? Seeing none, um all those in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Okay. Agenda item number 12, discussion and possible action on recommended approval of the July 1, 2025 to June 30th, 2029 tenative agreement with the following. Carson City School District Bargaining Group, Carson City Administrators Association, CCAA, with an estimated fiscal impact of $138,694. And this is for possible action. Mr. Settler and Mr. Whitward. >> Thank you, Madam President. members of the board. Uh so before you is the tenative agreement with the Carson City Administrators Association. Again, a 4-year agreement. Um a lot of
132updated language clarifying some things that have just been outdated. Um so a lot of language changes. Um additional contract days for elementary principles and assistant principles, vice principles across the district. Um I believe there was an update for the salary schedule um that Mr. Winward had presented. One thing to point out there is that the increase of days is specific to vice principles. Previously there was uh another position tied to that elementary school vice principal salary schedule in the assistant director position and that position is not seeing an increase in days. So just one thing to highlight there. um those increase of four days across the board for all vice principles and elementary principles combined. Um there are some adjustments for longevity. Uh we feel that that's a really good move so that we have
133continuity across associations. Um, we do have a lot of people who are in the certified ranks that end up in administrative ranks and we don't want to have them lose longevity when they're staying with our district. Um, so that consistency also helps out with retention of our veteran administrators. Uh, with that in mind, I'll pass it over to Mr. Winward. Anything else you want to touch on? >> Uh, I believe you've covered it, but we're we're welcome happy to answer any questions you may have. questions or comments. Again, thank you again for working with this bargaining unit as well, answering the questions and um meeting, you know, with the board as often as you did as well. So, it's great to know that everybody can come together and make this work out. Thank you. >>
134Thank you. >> Yes, I would echo that. Thank you very much for all the hard work that you guys put into this. This is a lot. Okay. This is also an action item. So, I will entertain a motion. I can do that one. I move that the Carson City School District Board of Trustees approve the July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2029 tenative agreement with the following Carson City School District Bargaining Group, Carson City Administrators Association, CCAA, with an estimated fiscal impact of 138,64 $694. I'll second it. >> Okay. So, motion by Trusty Roberts, second by Trusty Gardner. Any board discussion? Seeing none, any public comment? Seeing none, all those in favor? >> I. Any oppose? Motion carries. >> Thank you. Agenda item number 13, annual review of the manner in which the statewide performance
135evaluation system for teachers and administrators is carried out in the Carson City School District as required by NRS 31 3091.485 and this is for discussion only. Mr. Settler. >> Thank you madam president, members of the board. Uh so yes to satisfy the statute requirement and also just good to keep our eyes on how things are going uh we'll be presenting information on the NEPF uh Nevada educators performance framework ratings for our uh certified and administrative staff and also some of the highlights from the survey information. Uh this information is collected throughout the year as we complete evaluations and then we create a report that goes to the Nevada Department of Education which then they put into a state system and kind of compare things statewide. So in your packet you do have a breakdown as
136far as the numbers um in our district and then the numbers, excuse me, the percentages for the state just kind of as a comparison. One thing to note on that data sheet that we uncovered in our conversations with NDE, we use a software platform to gather the information called evalu. And as we've been pulling reports on evalu, if there's not a I'll just call it a secret code for the teacher because when we pull that information, we don't want names associated with it when we submit it to the state. And so if that code is not properly attached to the employee, that data doesn't get pulled in that report. So, as you're looking at some of these numbers, you go back to 2021, and I'm looking at the sheet that looks like this. I don't
137know what page that's on in your packet, >> but as you look on the right side, you see like in 2021, we had 419, and then it looks like we've had to decline at >> and and that's not accurate information. Um, there was a handful that did not get reported in the state report just due to not having that control code on there. So, that is an error that we found out after the fact. um we've rectified that for this year to ensure that that does not happen on our reporting requirements. Uh so it it does change the data a little bit but the trend data is very similar to the percentages that you see here. So just one thing to highlight. >> Okay. >> All right. So again overview is that Nevada law requires
138that uh all local education agencies in the state annually review the manner in which schools carry carry out the evaluation of teachers administrators. So that's why we're here tonight. Um, and I know we do this every year, but just as a reminder, like there's an evaluation cycle. NPF really covers all of our classroom teachers and administrators. We do have some certified staff members um who are not in NEPF as well, uh, like TOSAs, teacher on special assignment. They're not under the NAPF framework. But NPF also covers our other licensed educational professionals such as uh school psychologists, school social workers, school counselors, library media specialists. They have a different rubric that is followed than the teachers, but they do have a framework under the state NEPF. Um all of the evaluation cycles for uh anybody under
139NPF as an OLIP as a classroom teacher or as administrator follow a similar cycle in that we start with a self assessment of where we think we are in the process uh according to all the standards and indicators. Um we follow evaluation cycle that includes all of these steps including a pre-evaluation conference, goal setting and plan development. Uh next step in that is conducting observations, having conferences, collecting and reviewing evidence. Um the fourth step is a midcycle review and that should take place roughly midcycle um for the evaluation and that's just a chance to really review and check in specifically on the student learning goal, which I'll go over in a minute, but also any evidence that we've collected. often we get to the midcycle review and we have evidence to to suffice to to
140move forward in the evaluation and and it gets um completed earlier in the school year. Sometimes we need more evidence as we're going through that process. So that midcycle review is really a chance to kind of check in both for the evaluator and the evaluate to have a conversation to see where we're at. And then that step five at the end of it is a summitive evaluation and a post-evaluation conference. Um there's different requirements depending on if you're a first year probationary, there's three cycles as a minimum that need to be completed, whereas if you're post-probiary, it's one cycle. Um and there's some different statutory requirements for second and third year probationary as far as when those evaluations need to be completed. We won't get into the weeds with that tonight. This really just an
141overview. um just know that there's a lot of language that's being proposed also um through legislation to make changes to the NPF and so there's going to be a lot of dialogue taking place this year um both with the Nevada State School Board and the Teachers and Learners Council, Teacher Leader Council. I always forget actually the the acronym for the TLC um which I should know because I'm a member. Um but the updates will start changing um for NPF in July f excuse me on July 1st 2026 as kind of round one and then there'll be some additional changes as we get into the next session. Of course we'll have another session before some of those changes take place. So things could change in the next legislative session. So it gets a little confusing. We're
142just going to stay focused on what's in front of us for this year. Uh so as far as the category weights, we have educational practice which has components of instructional practice standards and professional responsibility standards. You can see those listed. Um that makes up 85% of the evaluation for post-prob um probationary educators. Student performance is 15%. That's the SLG. You might hear that term when you're as you're having conversations with people across the district. And that's really student progress and growth proficiency targets that are set by the educator to to measure how students are doing. Um I think we've grown a lot in the student learning goal area from when we first started working with NEPF when that was first a requirement for us and uh I don't think there's nearly as much fear in
143that conversation as there was initially um coming into it. Um so as we go through the cycle uh and complete evaluations through that summitive uh everybody receives an overall score based on these weightings. Um a 3.6 to 4.0 is highly effective. 2.8 to 3.59 is effective and then you can see the scores for developing and ineffective. Um there is also a rubric that scores the SLG and that is followed to be a score of a one two three or a four and then you can see that in order to be highly effective it needs to be a three or a four. Also for post-probes in a row then we get essentially a waiver for that third year. We still have some documents we need to complete. We still need to go through some of the
144evaluation cycle, but there's not the all the the formal requirements of the cycle required for any educators that are two years highly effective. Uh so again, a little bit more about the process um specifically for SLGs because I think that's probably the one we get the most questions about. Um, and it really should be a process of collaboration between the administrator completing the evaluation and the educator who's also completing the evaluation but being evaluated. Um, so that it's collaborative and that usually starts with what goals the educator has through that self- assessment. Um, the SLGs really can reinforce good teaching practice because they tie right into how we're supporting instruction through those professional and instructional responsibilities. And so, if we really want to see student growth and we know where students are, how do we
145change our instructional and professional responsibility and those practices to have an impact on student learning? And that's really what we're trying to measure through those SLGs. And they're also adaptable because if we say, okay, my students right now are performing at a overall six out of 10, I want to grow that number to be a 10 out of 10. And as I'm going through the evaluation cycle and I'm collecting evidence and I'm not seeing the growth, I might need to make an adjustment. And so again, back to the midcycle review that SLG is adaptable. We're not locked into it. We can make some adjustments. That may change in the future with some of the discussion about what might need to be used and considered an assessment and that might even depend on what subject you
146teach in the future. But for right now, we really want this to be highly collaborative and ensure that those SLGs are adjustable. So this is the scoring rubric for the SLGs themselves. You can see that if you are going to be at the high level and scoring a four, you must have one source of growth or achievement from multiple points in time showing evidence of high growth and high impact for all or nearly all students on which the SLG was set. So, it's a very high standard to be able to score a four. Um and then you can see scoring a three there's a little bit of change in language there that you have at least one source of growth or achievement for multiple points in time similar language that show clear evidence of growth
147and impact for most students. And so again, you can see that well, what what what is the definition of clear evidence in most versus all or nearly all like those are conversations that should be taking place collaboratively so that we can decide, hey, what are we going to say is going to be considered high growth and high impact according to what this goal is. Um and that that ensures that that's not something that's done to an educator but done with an educator. Um with with growth in mind for all. Um so overview of our ratings for this year. Again that number is not complete with 332. I will be happy to pull the data with those codes um this year and and update you on that. Um but we we are missing a good chunk
148of our evaluations from this data. Um that said here we have represented you can see the total numbers 18 school administrators 11 counselors uh two school nurse three school psychologists five social workers eight speech pathologists two teacher librarians and 332 teachers um overall we have done very well with the evaluation results um I think we've learned how to use this as a tool um effective and highly effective we've been in the high 90 percentiles for a couple years now with evaluations. Um and and I think that shows the really good quality of educators, both teachers, counselors, librarians, everybody who's on this list, including school administrators. Like we have really good high quality people doing a lot of really good work here. Um >> can I ask a quick question? What would put somebody in that
149exempt category? >> So that's if you're two years highly effective in a row. So if you have if you're post probationary in two years in a row you get highly effective then you get exempt the following year. >> And is it just a one-year exemption? >> Correct. >> Okay. >> Yep. >> Uh this is a breakdown of the specific rankings for the instructional practices and the professional standards as far as what are the highest and the lowest. Again you can see like when we look at uh we'll pick on school administrators there. Their highest score was a 3.57. Um, average for indicator 3. Their lowest was a 3.47 for indicator 4. Still a very high score across the board, but that might be important as we work with our administrators on areas that we want
150to grow. Um, it's a little bit more individualized. We don't tend to look at a group of let's say teachers here and say well across the district our lowest was 3.16 so everybody needs professional development in in standard 4. That's not necessarily the case. Um especially when we have very high scores across the board. But it's interesting data to take a look at just to kind of see where we are and what changes we have and kind of where we average out yearbyear. So again, overview of the state summitive ratings here. Um you can see statewide uh there's a lot of people in education. Um percentage-wise I I think we we do really well in comparison to the state uh specifically in the effective and highly effective area. Uh but you can see statewide that
151there are very few in ineffective and developing across the board. A couple things here to highlight just from the survey that the state puts together. So all educators uh have at the end of the school year an opportunity to complete a survey with NDE that is anonymous that just asks some questions. And so we've kind of tracked a few of these questions year by year. And so I will just highlight those for you here. Um, I'm not going to go over I think there's like 60 questions total. We won't review all of them tonight because we want to get to bed at a a decent hour. Um, my evaluation was fair and this is specifically from the uh teacher uh educator voice. So people who identified themselves as teachers on the survey. Um we we
152have very positive overall again 48.39% strongly agree and 41% agree. So we have very very small numbers that disagree um that their evaluation was fair and that's a really important indicator. My evaluation was focused more on my professional growth rather than awarding a score or rating. We don't have as high a number of we strongly agree here but again overall very positive and I think this is something that we can take into feedback as an administrative group to say how can we ensure that we focus these evaluations on professional growth and not worry so much about the score. I will tell you that often uh the teachers just want to see what the score is like they don't want to read through all the feedback and what not like where did I place and and
153and that's okay and that's that kind of comes with the territory sometimes but really trying to focus this process on being about growth um we could be uh highly effective two years in a row we're exempt we come back like how are we going to grow this year we're a learning organization and we always want to support learning for obviously for our students first and foremost and our staff um as long as we're continuing to learn and grow we're going to do really good things. Uh my NPF evaluation cycle experience took a reasonable amount of time. This one's improved quite a bit over the years. I didn't do the year-by-year breakdown. Um but this is one that four or five years ago we were leaning more towards disagree and strongly disagree both from the teacher
154group certified staff and administrators. And we've started to see this shift a little bit more towards being positive, which is a good thing because we don't want this to get in the way of student learning or adult learning. I had access to professional development, formal or informal, that was necessary to implement the feedback andor directives provided during my NEPF evaluation cycle. um strong agree and strongly, excuse me, strongly agree and agree were again the majority, but we start to see that slip a little bit. And um making sure that we have educators have access to high quality professional development that is specific to their needs is something that's very important and something that we take very seriously. Um but sometimes there's things that everybody needs to get through as well. So, um it's not always
155differentiated. I think the NPF cycle is another opportunity for um educators to work together in collaboration to ensure that it meets the needs of the people who are being evaluated. So just a couple highlights from the survey. Overall very very good numbers across the board. Um I don't think we're measuring these numbers uh year by year saying, "Yay, we did an excellent job again this year and and we'll worry about it again next year." like this is an ongoing process. It starts on the first day of school and goes through the school year and it's just kind of nice to get those numbers on the back end from the state and some validation that we're doing a good job. So, uh, congratulations to everybody who's involved in that process and thank you for your hard
156work. >> Thank you for providing this data. This is really positive. You guys should use this for um for your recruitment efforts. highlight highlight this data. Any questions, comments? >> Go ahead. >> Um so when it comes to the 15% um you know that they're evaluated for the students performance. >> Mhm. Um, how do we or can we per statute adjust the 15% student performance um when it is out of the the teacher's control because the student doesn't attend school, you know, they're chronically absent and so if they're not there, obviously they're not going to perform well. Is there any way that um that is kind of taken into consideration when it's that 15% of the teachers? >> It is and I think it's going to get less flexible in the future to be quite
157honest with you. Uh looking at the NEPF crystal ball, um going back to this slide here, like it's a collaborative process and it's something that we can adapt and we can make some changes. So that I'm going to go back to when I was a middle school principal. Often we'd go through this process. I'm working with a teacher and they've got 22 students and they want to use that entire class period as their their control group, if you will, of what they're going to monitor for this specific assessment and growth. So, they're focused on their fourth period class and these are the students we're working with. And then we have one who wasn't there for many of the assessments and so those growth points aren't there. We we don't just discard that to say, "Oh,
158now we've got better data because if we don't include him, I'm at all or nearly all." like it's important that all students are represented, but there's a reason why that students data doesn't look the way we set that goal out to look, you know, and so if the growth growth goal was to get all students to show that they were um go back to the rubric here that they're showing high growth and high impact that that can look very different from student to student. So again, I'm going to highlight that that's a collaborative conversation. It really needs to be because if you have information showing that a student is currently performing at a level one out of 10, getting them to go to a level six, is that high growth? Could be. Is going from
159a level five, you know, a five to a six high growth? >> Probably not. But it really depends on what parameters you're setting that assessment out. >> What what is the goal and how do you define that in the process? I think high impact also like there's not a statewide definition for high impact. So I think that's an opportunity for that conversation to take place collaboratively like let's define that as we go through the SLG conversation. Well, let's define it together. What is high growth and high impact? And we agree to that so that when we're measuring it, we can be in agreement to strong measurements of high growth and high impact. If a student's absent, you could also make a decision to say, well, because that student, we had no evidence of that student
160learning, we're going to not include that in the assessment of the SLG. But again, I think that really needs to be collaborative. Uh, I mentioned that I think this will be changing because I believe there's going to be conversation about having criterion reference assessments built into the assessment for specific subjects in the future. Um, I know that there's it's going to look different. So, this is where we're at for right now. But, >> but you do the school district does entertain the um outlier and not um punish the teacher's evaluation for the absenteeism. You do >> that would be best practice. Yes. Okay. I mean, I will also say that everybody does things a little bit differently. like if if you give uh every first grade teacher a curriculum, they're not all going to teach
161it exactly the same. And I would say the same is true with evaluation frameworks. Evaluators are not going to do it all exactly the same. But I do think we have strong administrators and understanding what what are the standards and indicators and and how do I need to get evidence of that and and really hopefully supporting a collaborative conversation. If we went more in depth on the um survey from NDE, you'll see that the feedback overall is very positive. There's some outliers there where they it's very negative. Um, so I' I'd like to learn more about what that experience is from that educator in their evaluation and and hopefully if they're feeling that way while they're being evaluated, if they're watching this right now, that they reach out um to me individually and and communicate
162that during the process so we can intervene. >> Thank you for inviting that. Yeah, I think that is important. Mhm. >> Richard, >> thank you. Uh two different things on some of the things uh the questions you have uh six or seven that indicated I did not participate in the NEF evaluation cycle. >> Is that those exempt employees or >> could be sometimes? So when when I send the link out from NDE, we usually wait till after May 1st when all evaluations are completed. Then we send this out and I I think sometimes uh an ESP or classified employee may get the survey and fill it out and they're like, "Wait a minute, I I didn't they're not evaluated using NPF." So, they may complete this and then indicate it that way. Um sometimes it's
163somebody who's a teacher on special assignment or they're being evaluated using a different tool other than NEPF. >> Yep. And the second thing is it's um I guess kind of a question. I my understanding is that in the near future the time frames for the evaluation observations is going to change. It's going to be what in the first 30 days then >> that is >> with 150 and then the last 40 days or something like that. >> Yeah, that's what's proposed. >> That's going to cause some problems, isn't it? >> Yes, it would. >> And how are we going to address that? >> We're not going to worry about that this year. We'll worry about that confusion next year. >> Well, I'd like to think ahead. >> Yeah. No, I I'm right there with you,
164but I purposely don't want to get into that conversation because I think some things still might change even from what's been presented currently. So, yeah, we will find out more and we will overcommunicate when we do know. >> I know there's a lot of concern about that. >> Absolutely. >> Last 40 days, you know. >> Yeah. >> Right. Thank you. >> Okay. Any additional comments or questions? No. Okay. Well, thank you so much for this report. This is very informative. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Agenda item number 14, discussion and possible action to approve proposed changes to CCSD policy 343 prohibited conduct employee bullying, harassment, intimidation, and discrimination which includes renumbering the policy to 140 in section 1000 all staff and this is for second reading for possible action. Mr. Sadler, >> Madam President, members
165of the board, thank you again. uh second reading of an update to a policy. Again, going back to our conversations and review, thorough review of policy and regulations with poolacted um taking recommendations from pool pact and legal guidance to ensure that we have updates um that are accurately represented. So, uh I believe last time there were no changes other than one minor uh clerical change but other than that there were were no recommendations for changes. >> Okay. Comments, questions, concerns? No. Okay. If not, then I this is an action item. So, I will entertain a motion. I'll go ahead and do it then. I move that the Carson City School District Board of Trustees approve October 14th, 2025 as the revised date for the policy 343 prohibited conduct employee bullying, harassment, intimidation, and discrimination, which
166includes reumbering the policy in section 1000 all staff. >> Okay. Motion by Trusty Vardner, second by Trusty Wall. Any board discussions? Any board discussion? See none. Any public comment? Seeing none. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. I know. I'm sorry. We're getting >> Yeah. Thank you here. >> All right. Agenda item number 15, discussion and possible action to approve proposal to eliminate CCSD policy 443 employees harassment, sexual harassment and intimidation due to proposed inclusion of renumbered policy 140 prohibited conduct employee bullying, harassment, intimidation and discrimination. And this is a second reading and it's for possible action. Mr. Stherler, >> Madam President, members of the board, thank you. So with the passing and um reumbering of 343 to represent all staff, um likewise uh policy 443 becomes obsolete. Uh this was
167the old version of policy 443 which represented classified staff. uh but with the approval of an all staff policy 1040 uh policy 443 is obsolete and suggest we eliminate that. >> Okay. >> Uh I move that the Carson City School District Board of Trustees approve October 14th, 2025 as the eliminated date for policy 443, employee harassment, sexual harassment, and intimidation. >> Okay. Motion by Trusty Peterson and second by Trusty Roberts. Any board discussion? Seeing none, any public comment? Seeing none, all those in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Agenda item number 16, discussion and possible action to approve proposed changes to CCSD policy 225, drug and alcohol-f free workplace program statement and policy. And again, this is for second reading for possible action. >> Mr. Settler. >> Thank you, Madam President. members
168of the board. So, the last uh before you this evening for the policies and regulations on my behalf, uh an important one, drug and alcohol-f free workplace, uh there's some updated language here, program statement and policy. Um you see many changes as far as some things we cleaned up and and crossed off. Um assuming this is approved, there will be some changes to the regulation and some of the forms that go along with this that I'll bring forward to you in the future. Um, but this is really the the starting point to that with is getting the policy updated. So, uh, I believe there were no changes recommended last time. >> Comments, questions, motion? >> I will entertain a motion. I move that the Carson City School District Board of Trustees approve October 14th, 2025
169as the revised date for policy 225, drug and alcohol-free workplace program statement and policy. >> Second. >> I'll second. Oh, go ahead. >> Thank you. >> Hey, a motion by Trusty Roberts and second by Trustee Peterson. Right. Okay. Both of you. Okay. Any board discussion? See none. Any public comment? Seeing none, all those in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Motion carries. >> You're done. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you very much for your patience and for all these items that you've brought forward. >> Okay. Agenda item number 17, discussion and possible action to approve a revised p capital improvement, excuse me, plan for the Carson City School District for fiscal year 2026 uh to 2030 with no change in the approval budget authority for fiscal year 2526. And
170this is for possible action. And welcome, Mr. um Winword. >> Thank you, Madam President. While I'm pulling this up, I I don't want to eat a dead horse or kick a tiger while they're down. I can use animal idioms here, but I was talking with six or seven of my friends and associates about the game before it was going to happen. And I thought it'd be fun if there's some skin in the game. So, I'm happy to present this presentation to you in Carson blue. I won't talk about who won, but I like the color scheme here. All righty. And what we have before you is this is really just a great opportunity that's that has come up for the district. And as we put our heads together to figure out a way to make
171this work, this is what we've come up with. So first off, why are we making changes to CIP when we typically only do it during the budget cycle and would do it during December as needed. Uh but we can do it other times. Um so we'll talk about why we're doing this and then we're going to review the what the current plan looks like. uh what the revisions will look like and then I have just provided an illustration of what it could like in look like in December just for illustration because we're not voting to approve that. It's just an example of of what it could be to give you an idea of kind of the full cycle of this change. So the reason why we're doing this is the vendor that we just purchased
172two special education buses from and got them a couple weeks ago. Uh they've got three transit buses that are available right away. Another district in the state had ordered them, decided they wanted a different engine configuration and these became five of them became a available two of them were gone before we had an opportunity to act on them. Three are being held till tomorrow and uh yeah, it's just a really good thing. In talking with a couple of different bus companies, the quickest that they would guarantee that they could have a bus to us if we ordered it today is 18 months from now. >> Wow. So there's just really long lead times. They'd say maybe they could do it faster than that, like 14, 15 months, but they wouldn't make any sort of guarantee.
173So it just takes a long time to get these things put together, get them configured to to follow all of u NDOT's uh Department of Transportations for Nevada's requirements. Um these happen to be three that the only thing that it needs is the letters on the outside that say that the district that purchased them. So, um it's very difficult to budget for purchases that are 18 months out um and doesn't really help us with immediate needs that we have with our fleet um facing us right now. So, that's why we're proposing to revise the CIP plan. And as mentioned, we're not creating any new budget authority. We're just going to to rearrange the budget authority because these buses are about uh I believe $252,500 each. So 750,0007 757 750 or so is is what it
174would cost to do this. So we have that budget authority available in our capital improvement plans. At the beginning of the year we slated it for some projects that would start to take place at the end of this year. So rather what we're going to do is rearrange some of that budget authority to move 800,000 to a transportation fleet uh procurement line item in our CIP, which is a capital improvement plan to allow for the purchase of these right away. And then when we do the December budget amendment, we can access some of our pay as you go funding. Um so we have that available to us. we didn't put in our budget because we didn't foresee anything like this coming up. But uh as we look of possible solution to do this, this seemed
175like the best thing to be able to address our immediate fleet needs and not affect our our general fund as well given its current state. So pay you go funding is excess debt service funds that can be transferred over capital projects. Um that's NRS 350. 020 uh regulates that um to maintain the the amount we need to have in there per statute. We need to have 50% of next year's uh principal and interest cost of debt service fund in there. After we make this $800,000 transfer, we would still have over 100% in that fund. So, we're well within uh the statutory requirements. I kind of look at that requirement as if you get down to 50%. It's kind of like max out your credit card. We don't want to get there unless we have like
176a one or two-year plan to get out. We're in really good position to be able to use some of these funds to make this purchase. Um, so we would going to rearrange a couple of these projects and and then we would access this pay you as you go funding when we amend the budget in December. Again, what we're voting on tonight is just to uh to amend the CIP plan as presented. And I did provide a handout that proposed that shows the proposed or the CIP as written. That's exhibit one written in the middle on the top two pages. Exhibit two is what we propose to changing the CIP to. And I've got some color coding in there. Uh, anywhere you see a red square, that's where we would be reducing the budget authority for
177those projects. And you can see what the projects were amounts originally were in exhibit one. Exhibit two is what we proposed those would be. And that includes the addition at the top of page one, highlighted in green, the transportation fleet procurement of 800,000. As you go to the bottom of page two, highlighted in yellow, you'll see that our total expenditures is still 1.15 1,155,000, the same as it was prior to this revision. So, uh, we're requesting this change so we can purchase these buses not to exceed 800,000. There's some wiggle room in there in case there's a fee, um, in case we have a transportation fee or anything that we're we're not aware of, but we're pretty certain on that 757,000. Um, these buses are already compliant with all the Nevada requirements. One of the
178things that oftentimes takes a long time is Nevada requires a fire suppression system in buses. Not all states do that. So, a lot of times we'll buy a bus and then last minute like, "Oh, we need to add this." And that literally can add four to six weeks to the production time as we recently discovered with our special education buses. So, uh, we recommend this revision in December. Uh if you go to exhibit three, this just shows an example of what the proposed CIP could look like at uh our December revision. Really just to show that we would be restoring the existing projects we have back to the original budget authority authority. Although as we go through things, those could be funded by a bond fund still, but we're not delaying any projects or cancelling
179any projects. We're just rearranging the budget authority to allow this to happen and fulfill our statutory requirements for budgeting. Um so again I kind of mentioned already NRS requirement is to keep 50% of the current or I said current year it's actually next year's um principal and interest required payments that's about 7.7 million for us give or take um we would have again our requirement to have would be half of that about 3.5 million 3.6 6 million. Uh we would have over 7.7 million when this is all said and done. And any questions or comments regarding this proposed change? >> Go ahead. >> Will these be new buses in the fleet or replacement? >> When you say newer replacements, like >> so additional, sorry, are they going to be an add? >> Um they could
180be additional. We would have some buses that are ready to be retired. Mhm. >> Um these would be used for a lot of our away trips. Um things long longer a transit bus if you're not familiar. So ones they typically have a flat nose. They have storage carbon compartments underneath. Seat 84. Uh they're 300 horse um Cumins engine Allison transmission just the way Mr. Zable likes them. Um and that's how our our transit buses have that same configuration of engine transmission. So it's not like we're sacrificing or giving up something to get a deal on his buses. These are exactly what we already operate in our fleet. Um, so our the buses they'd be replacing, they they would either be retired or kicked on down the line and and the oldest one or or buses
181that would be the least serviceable in our fleet would be retired. >> What happens to our buses when we retire them? >> Um, we can we have a couple different places. This actually vendor could take them in on trade. They could trade them in. there is not a lot of value left in a bus by the time we're done with it. We could send them to auction. It would be a lot more hassle for approximately the same price. We can take them out back and leave them sitting there for a really long time. Um, also does not generate a lot of of income. Typically, a bus when we're done with it maybe 5 to 10,000 is its residual value. They're fully depreciated by the time we take them out of service. So, >> thank you
182for um clarifying that this would not delay any any projects. That was going to be my concern. >> Statutes do allow us to to give a bus to other school districts or other nonprofit organizations. >> Um, so I have a followup on on that. So, where you're proposing to move the money from would be asphalt, the roofing, right? Mostly asphalt, correct? Re-roofing. >> We have some of those projects and we had some asphalt that we we budgeted some money in both capital projects, the the fund 300 that's this is in orange on here and we also had some of that budgeted for bond. So some of that work is done is paid for by bond. Uh that actually is advantageous to us given our our whole project schedule there. So that would be the bulk
183of it. and then a roofing project that is not going to be as expensive as we thought it'd be when it comes time to do that this spring. >> So there isn't any safety concerns then >> safety >> by by hold >> of our buildings. >> Yeah. By holding off on any of this these >> these would be projects that wouldn't be h starting until late this spring and getting ready late this spring to the start of summer. >> Okay. So no safety. >> Yeah. We're not uh robbing Peter to pay Paul by having a leaking roof that we're not taking care of to get a >> asbestos and all of that, we're good. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Thank you. >> As best as we have that little item that we're that we move there,
184more often than not, as those management gets rolled into existing projects, but we do keep a small amount there in case we come across something that uh we need to take care of right away. I I would just say that uh the opportunity to purchase three buses without having to wait 18 months is uh worth pursuing and I would uh support it. >> Thank you. It is uh it does it is a very wonderful opportunity to have and not have the the lead time we typically would. >> So if there are no other questions or comments, I will entertain a motion. I move that the Carson City School District Board of T Trustees approve the CCSD revised capital improvement plan for fiscal years 2026 to 2030 which includes no changes in the approved budget authority
185for fiscal year 2025 2026. >> No second Peterson. Okay. So motion by Trusty Walt and second by Trusty Peterson. Any board discussion? Seeing none, any public comment? Seeing none. All those in favor? I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Thank you so much, Mr. Winward. All right. Agenda item number 19, presentation on early projections of the CCSD budget for fiscal year 2027. And this is for discussion only. Mr. Winward. >> Thank you, Madam President, members of the board. Uh I don't know if there's any Paul Harvey fans in here, but this is the rest of the story. This is what >> the rest of the story. President Ramirez, before Spencer starts, sorry, I I just I I just want to point out I so um putting together a budget update like the the detail level that goes
186into it usually takes a couple months um when you're preparing a budget for May or December at least. And in the last one month, he's not only put together the update for this year's budget, but tried to generate entirely budget for the next fiscal year, on top of having dropped on him, hey, we have these buses. How are we going to figure this out? And so I I just I I I was never asked to give a budget update this early after the start of a school year or a projection for the next year. And so it's just a ton of work and I just just wanted to recognize that. >> Yes, we really appreciate that. That's that's a lot of a lot of hours that you put into your day. So, thank you. >>
187Well, thank you. I' I've I've had some good mentors along the way. >> All righty. This you'll see this background here looks u very similar to our FI26 budget. Um and what we really wanted to do is we know a little bit more where it's not a legislative year there. We we have more known knowns than there are known unknowns even though there's still plenty of those. But we wanted to give you kind of a first look of what next year would look like if we just carried on how we are. And the reason for that being is to give you as board members the opportunity to help sculpt and guide and consider our strategic plan goals and figure out how we best want to continue forward to to meet our fiscal responsibilities as a
188as a district and meet the needs of our students and our staff. So again, this is going to be a lot of assumptions into this budget projection. Um and again largely most of what we've considered is our salary and benefits we've been through and a a lot of those things we talked about updating during FI26. We've projected those up best we can for FI27. Um to kind of look at if we continued staffed exactly how we are what what FI27 would look like. So again our seller and benefits um I just did some rough math while there were some family life discussions going on. 87% is what uh are based on FY20 um our FY25 budget what what uh our salary benefits are for uh general fund. So again for this illustration uh we've kept
189our re revenues budgeted flat. So we know that um a term I heard earlier today $2 Joe is about $19 Joe maybe a little bit more I don't know. We know there's a modest increase for the second year. We also know that we're uh we're dropping in enrollment. So, we've elected to keep those two to let them cancel each other out, keep our revenue the same for next year as we had for this year. As we get closer and we know a little bit more where things are looking, we we will certainly up that. But to give you a good idea, we're not counting on tons of dollars coming in or losing tons of dollars. It's just staying the same. And then in a vacuum, we know that everything that we purchase services and supplies-wise
190would cost the same next year as it was this year, we know that's not quite going to be the case. But without trying to guess and extrapolate too much and get too far off the beaten path, we're just going to keep those flat so that we can kind of get an idea of where things would look um as we go throughout. So, and for this keeping the funds transfers to be uh we expect they'd be very similar to what we have this year. So, of course, there might be a couple changes as as we have different salary costs and other funds, uh, but we're keeping them the same for now. So, um, again, kind of building off what we did for FI26, if we're looking at a $3.9 million deficit this year, we know that's
191going to roll into next year if we don't change anything. And then as we've gone through the all the salary and benefits to include all our changes that we have through negotiations, everyone receiving their steps, um again not taking any uh vacancy savings or anything into account, that would be an additional 1.5 million for next year. And so with that, that would make our deficit our structural deficit. Again, this is different than taxation. We don't put uh our contingency in there. A couple other things that usually is about 1.22 2 million, but just to keep it similar to what we've been comparing, our structural deficit would be 5.4 million for next year. Um, any questions about what we've seen so far? >> Questions? >> Let me look at the next slide. Yes. concerns. >> Yeah.
192Well, yeah. Well, obviously we're not going to do that though, right? >> Um, >> obviously we're gonna >> if we all left here saying we were going to do that, I would not sleep very well tonight. >> Okay. So, >> very well regardless because of that. Yeah. And so I think that's where you know it comes in where I previously stated as well is with those workshops I think once we once we move from learning everything about all of the different funding mechanisms you know the different accounts that we have we bring it then back to the board and say okay where are we going to cut 10% where are we going to cut 20%. Where are we going to find these cuts in order to make this not a four $5.4 million deficit or
193deficit spending so that we're not doing 5.4 million deficit spending? >> I think that's where we're going to need to come back and I'm going to look to Richard and say, is that not where you agree? >> No, I I totally agree and I think everybody here, the board and everybody in the room realizes that we cannot sustain a $5.4 4 million deficit next year because that would bring us down to about what $6 million in our outstanding balance fund or whatever they call that. >> Yeah. Ending fund balance which fun >> to answer a previous question 15.2 million. 15.197 million. So 15.2 the beginning of this year. If everything shook out exactly as as budgeted then that would be 11. Uh >> and then you take away 5.4 for on top of that if
194this is accurate. >> Yeah, >> we're down pretty low, right? >> A reduction that I I don't think would be healthy to go >> down that low that fast. So >> because when you start getting in trouble, if I recall correctly, is when you get down to about a 4% rainy fund balance and we don't want to go near there because things happen where we need may need to fund them, you know, naturally. So yeah, I mean I I am concerned and I think it's good that everybody here is committed to working together with the associations to try to reduce this quite a bit. >> And there again the main priority would be keeping teachers in the classroom. >> Yes. And and again this is a very little projection. This is just kind of give
195you a starting point of and again as you've seen it during our budget cycles we kind of start here and as we whittle and and hone things we typically can get that down some but um you know I think there'll be some structural changes to to get the deficit to where you as board members feel comfortable with that >> president. Um, so I I again I just this is a really early estimate. Um, and there's a lot of I think fine-tuning detail that still has to happen around this to to land at a a kind of a final number that we're running with going into the next year. Um, but the number is substantial. I I I recognize that. Um it's not a number that we've seen in a while, this big. It's probably been
1968 years, I think. Um and and the reality is that there, you know, in in trying to bring that number down, depending on how far we're looking to reduce it, there could be some significant impacts and changes um in how we operate. So, I just want everyone to keep that in mind. Um I I think it's important to remember that you know when when we have dealt with this in the past as much as possible um if there was an impact to staffing that the absolute goal was to kind of through attrition just not replace positions if possible. Um, and I think for all of you, and I don't expect you to to give me a give us a number tonight, but to be thinking about what what is a reasonable kind of response to
197this in terms of where where do we want that number? And I just I think it's really important to remember that um you know every year whether we like it or not we do have some vacancy savings every year not 100% of our operational budget is is spent. So you know if you um if you budget a $1 million deficit, it's entirely possible that you end up with a surplus just because some of those things happen. Um so to be thinking about what is kind of that number um as a board I think as a you know it's not an action item but just kind of a consensus idea of where where do we feel comfortable and then we can work on putting together um scenarios to to continue best supporting um the students of
198the district um keep moving things in the right direction >> on that note and I appreciate that AJ J. Um, on that note though, I would so say if we threw out a number, you know, and you tried to achieve that, I would hate to come back and go, well, with that number, this is what we had to do. So, like if I said to you 2.4, because isn't that where we were a couple years ago? >> It was like a 24.4. It seemed, you know, that seemed pretty reasonable. But with that, we would I would appreciate to know what got cut. It's going to be Yeah. >> Yeah. You know what I mean? Give me an option A or a B or a C because if that I would be going, no, I don't
199want 2.4 if that means 25 teachers, 18 pair of professionals, six bus drivers, you know, on that end. Yeah. >> No, there will absolutely be a level of detail for all of you um in these meetings and open meetings talking about what changes are being suggested and and different options. Um the the other thing I want to float out there and again not not taking action tonight but um one of the things that has really I think helped us the past two years is uh the board's willingness to offer some type of incentive for notification uh when staff are deciding to leave or retire um from the district district um but potentially consider doing something even earlier in the school year. Um that I I think that would be immensely helpful in in trying to
200plot out the course uh to do this. So uh just want to throw that out there so that is on your radar and just something to be um thinking about if we would uh as we're discussing this just um thinking about how to um proceed and and do it kind of as thoughtfully as as we can through this process. Well, what I'd like to point out to the people who may be listening is the Carson City School District, we run pretty lean on staff, uh, admin staff and everything. I recently found out that there's one high school in Las Vegas that's the same size or similar size to uh, Carson High and they have five vice principles at that school. And uh so we run a lot leaner than a lot of the districts and
201so that's what makes it even more painful because there's not a lot of fat. >> Yeah, that's definitely a big concern. But like you like it was already said, you know, working together. Um hopefully we will come to a a um a way that we can do some savings, you know, that we can come up with some savings. So >> Okay. >> But thank you. >> Thank you very much for all this work together. >> You are very welcome and we certainly appreciate the input from from the board and community members and >> it you know it will take a good concerted effort to to come up with the best ideas. Yeah. >> So, we appreciate all that input. >> Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for meeting all our expectations here. We were we asked
202you for too many things this this time. So, I'm sorry that we had you work so hard. Okay. Moving on to agenda item number 20, approval of consent agenda. And this is for possible action. I think everyone's getting tired. You got moved >> and second. >> Second. Okay. So mo motion by trusty W and second by trusty Gardner. Any board discussion? Seeing none, any public comment? Seeing none, all those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Agenda item number 21,formational items. And this is for discussion only. No action will be taken. Any comments? >> Okay. >> If you're looking for comments, I do have one. >> Go ahead. Uh, I'd like to uh tell Superintendent Fueling that I really appreciated your uh board report tonight where you took the time to recognize the uh people
203you recognized. I think that's very important and uh I really appreciated that. >> Yeah, definitely. Okay. Agenda item number 22, request for future agenda topics. Um, budget workshop. >> Budget workshop. >> Yeah. >> And anybody else? No. Agenda item number 22 23. A German. Thank you so much everyone. That was a long meeting. Oh, hey. However,