001[Music] Oh, [Music] hey. [Music] Heat. Hallelujah. [Music] to the Carson City School District Board of Trustees meeting. Today is Tuesday, August 12, 2025, and we are going to call our school board meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. Agenda item number one, adoption of the agenda as submitted, and this is for possible action. And this is subject to uh removing agenda item number 10 from this agenda. We will be bringing that agenda item at a future meeting. So with that, I will entertain a motion. >> I'll make the motion. Uh, I move that the Carson City School District Board of Trustees adopt the agenda as submitted. >> Second. A motion by Trustee Varner. >> Sorry, Trusty Varner. With the removal of item 10. >> I'm I'm sorry. Yes, with the removal of item number 10. >>
002Thank you. Thank Peterson. Any board discussion? See, any public comment? Seeing none, all those in favor? I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Agenda item number two, flag salute. Uh, Trustee Roberts, if you can please lead us. To the flag of the United States of America and to the stands one, indivisibley and justice for all. Thank you. Agenda it. Before I move on, I'd like to acknowledge that trustee um Walt is absent today and she is excused. Agenda item number three, superintendent report, and this is for information only. Superintendent Fueling. >> Thank you, President Ramirez. Um things are starting to heat up both outside and inside the schools. Um last week we had our first uh school administrators, district administrators meeting welcoming everyone back. Um had some some trainings uh over a few days. Uh yesterday or
003I'm sorry Deser this morning um we had our uh new hire breakfast over at the governor's mansion and thank you to those of you who who could attend. It was a a great event. Um I think we uh we need to make some modifications to the the food line. It took a while to for people to get food, but we'll we'll figure that out for next year. just really a lot of excitement um with everyone coming in the year, a lot of new faces. Uh we had over at Carson High today um the big blue welcomes. All the new freshmen were coming in and um looking tough but afraid if that's possible. So, >> um uh but yeah, a lot of good things going on. Just really excited to start school year. Uh kids are
004back on uh Monday next week. So >> all righty. Yes. >> Oh, and pre kindergart pre kindergarten and kindergarten start Wednesday, right? >> So there's no confusion. Okay, that's all I have. Thank you. >> Great. Thank you, Superintendent Fielding. Agenda item number four, board reports, board member comments, and this is for information only. We will start off with Nevada Association of School Boards, NASBY Updates. Trusty Vardner, do you have anything for us? >> Uh, yeah. I have a few things. >> I think by now everyone should have received the August newsletter via email, >> so I'm sure everybody's had a chance to review that. Mhm. >> Uh last night we uh NASBY hosted a virtual I guess workshop for a better term on um the strategic planning and basically what it amounted to was there's
00510 districts who had representatives there and uh everybody covered their strategic plan give an overview of their strategic plan and goals and um that was basically what we were able to accomplish during that. And then we had a a guest speaker who gave some tips on strategic planning and how it should be at a 30,000 foot level and to make sure that everything's tied into your strategic plan, everything that the district does. So overall, I thought it was different than what I thought it was going to be, but it was good. >> Absolutely. I agree with you. >> And then uh there'll be another virtual training class uh on August 28th, and that's going to be navigating the public records. And then we have the upcoming training in Las Vegas on September 6th. A joint
006meeting will be held on September 5th with the NASBY directors and executive board. And this training, the professional training will be on conflict resolution and deescalate deescalation skills. And then uh obviously the annual conference will be coming up here on December 4th and 6th. to be at the Grand Sierra Resort again. And I know that ongoing planning is being done for that. And that's my report for NASBY. And unless President Walker has anything. >> I I think you covered everything. >> Great. Thank you so much. And we will move on with um board announcements. And I will start off with uh Trusty Peterson. Uh, not a whole lot to report because things are getting ready, but they're not quite hitting our hard yet. Um, Carson High, as uh, AJ said, they had their they had
007their big blue welcome for the freshman today. And yesterday was the handing out schedules and paying all your fees and preparation for the sophomores, juniors, and seniors. And so I I was there yesterday for that, and it seemed very well attended. A lot of really good energy. Kids are ready to be back. As much as they might tell you, they're not. They're ready. They're excited. Um, jump start at the high school actually started a week and a half ago. Um, so they've been in the tech center um, knocking out their first class there. Um, they really hit hard in another about a week and a half is when they add a bunch four more classes to their schedule. Um, a lot of the sports teams are already practicing. Um, they've been practicing for a few
008weeks. Many of them have their first game this uh, first week back to school. So that's exciting to just hit the ground running. So everybody's ready. >> Excellent. Good stuff. Okay, Trusty Roberts. All right, Fremont has their back to school night. Come meet your teachers, get your little bag of uh school supply goodies and everything like that. So, we've got August this Friday, August 15th, 1st through 5th graders. Come one of three times, 4:30, 5:15 or 6. And then kindergarten and prek will be on Tuesday, August 19th. Um, kinder is at 4:30 to 5:30 and prek is at 5:30. That's it. >> Excellent. Thank you. Uh, Trusty Barner. >> Yes. Uh, for Board Rick Bray, they hosted a parents meeting last evening and are hosting another one tonight and then they'll have another one on
009Wednesday night. And the meetings are being held in the multi-person room and they begin at 6 PM. And the meetings are so the parents can figure out where the class placement for the students are going to be. And also there's a lot of new and exciting things that are going to be upcoming at Boardwick. And this gives the parents and students a chance to kind of get a overview of what they're going to be doing this year. And that's my report for Boardwick, but I do have one for Fritz also. >> Okay. Go ahead. Uh, Principal Brown uh, is excited to begin the new school year and would like to invite their fridge families to their ice cream social which will be held on Thursday, this Thursday, August 14th from 4 to 6 p.m. And
010that will conclude my report. >> Excellent. Thank you. And, uh, Trusty Clappam. >> Um, thank you. I have one from Miss Hoppy over at Eagle Valley. Um, as I read this, I want you to hear her voice in your head because I can hear it. >> She says, "Matt, I just want to start by saying how excited I am to share my very first trustee update." >> This is so exciting. Please pass along my gratitude and excitement as the principal of Eagle Valley Middle School. Um, she says that they are thrilled to announce that they are fully staffed for the 2526 school year. Their boot camp back to school night will be on Thursday, August 14th. Students will be able to get their schedules, find their classes, and meet their teachers. Sixth grade will be
011from 3:30 to 4:15. 7th grade from 4:15 to 5. 8th grade from 5 to 5:45. And additional information was sent out via parent, excuse me, parent square. Um, they're hoping to get more parent volunteers in the building this year. Um, one way to support the school is by joining the PTO. Um, she would really love to work with more families this year and develop new traditions. And she wants to give a huge shout out to the summer crew who worked hard over the summer. Um, their buildings and grounds look great and are ready for students to arrive. Also, another shout out to their science teacher, Amy Riddle, who structured a gardening crew of students to keep the hoop house growing and thriving over the summer. and she said thank you to everyone for their hard
012work over the summer and she looks forward to a great school year. >> Wonderful. Thank you, Vice President Walker. >> Good evening. Celiger Elementary School is excited that they have an increase in the number of kindergarteners moving into the neighborhood. So, they're excited to meet and welcome the new families in. And fall's always exciting at Celiger. So, I see some fellow pirates or former pirates in the audience. So, it's good to see you both. Um, they are going to have their back to school night on Thursday, August 21st from 4:30 to 6:00. And they're asking parents to watch Parent Square for updates that are to come. >> Excellent. Thank you. And I was a bad girl. I did not reach out to my principal, so my apologies. I know she's in the audience, but I
013promise I will report next Saturday, next meeting. I do have some um uh announcements. Um first of I want to thank everyone for writing the nomination letters for the NASMI NASBY awards. I truly enjoy um getting to know the employees um that I wrote the letters for um better and I really appreciate all they do for our um uh district um especially Mrs. Molden. That was it was a pleasure to get to know her better. So, um thank you. And then um I echo um Superintendent Feline. Um thank you to Mary Prior for inviting us to attend the um new u employee breakfast. It was super delicious. So, thank you to our sponsor, Greater Nevada Credit Union. And also, thank you to Mayor Badwill for the tote bags that she made herself for our new
014teachers. That was a very nice gesture of the mayor. Um but yeah the presentation was the overall uh event was just very uplifting. So thank you for inviting us. And then um I also do have a save the date for the board workshop that we have been talking about and that is on November 15th. It will be from 9 to 12 and we are still working um the agenda and the logistics. We will be updating you as we progress on that. And that concludes my report. Agenda item number five, association reports. And this is for discussion only. Do we have anyone from the association? See any. Okay. Agenda item number six, public comment. Do we have inerson public comment? Did see none. Uh we do have an online um um public comment. And um uh
015we typically um read the name of the person who submitted the public comment and then we will include this as supplemental documents um in a record. Um so we do have public comment. My apologies I did not see you. Okay. So >> number nine. Okay. Very good. Um, so, uh, I'm going to go ahead and disclose the name of the person who submitted the online comment, um, public comment, Erin Bean. Um, and again, her email will be included on the supplemental documents. Um, and then we will go ahead and take on the inperson public comment. >> Madam President, >> President, um, you can take public comment on that item when it's called. >> I'm sorry. >> This is this is for general public comment on matters that aren't on the agenda. Number nine is for
016possible >> Got it. Okay. So, if you don't mind holding up on that. Okay. Wonderful. I just needed to to disclose the online public comment that was submitted. Okay. Um at this point, if there are no in-person public comment, I will close the public comment and move on to agenda item number seven. Discussion, including with a limitation andformational update on the Carson City School Foundation and possible action to approve proposed amendments to the bilas of the Carson City School Foundation. And this is for possible action. So we welcome John Hager and Casey Gillis. Good evening. I'm John Hager, president of the Carson City Schools Foundation. With me is Casey Gillis, treasurer for the Carson City Schools Foundation. Um did you want to start? >> Let you start. >> I'm gonna start. Okay. So, we're going
017to start with um there's a cover letter that we provided. Um I believe that's public as well, right? So, I'm not going to go through the entire thing. Um but uh in general uh 2024 we we were fairly active. We received $35,000 don in donations. Um about 9,000 through payroll deductions and another$10,000 from Southwest Gas. So, that was fantastic. Um we're off to a great start this year. We got $25,000 from a donor that doesn't want to be disclosed. So, that's good. that $25,000 will go to the AP program. They they specifically requested that. Um this year we have allocated $67,000 to various programs. So $25,000 to the AP program to try to lower um cost for testing. Uh $10,000 for the jump start program to cover the cost of books, $20,000 for department and
018mini grants for the teachers and and departments of the various schools, and then uh $8,000 for um the positive behavior interventions and supports program. So each elementary and middle school will receive $1,000 for that $500 for this um fall and then $5,000 for the spring. Um for those teachers that are >> and oh and the high school got 2500 for the >> the clothes um they're starting a closed closet for students who need to go out and apply for a job. So they're the clothes will be free for them. So, what we provided was money to buy the equipment so it looks like a store and there's a dressing room and racks, that type of thing. So, when the students come in, there's some privacy and they they feel like they're doing a little shopping.
019So, >> and Casey, can you please disclose your name for the record? >> I'm sorry. I'm Casey Gillis, treasure of the foundation. >> Thank you. Um, so, uh, moving on. Kind of lost my place. Excuse me. So, um, we have some changes to the foundation bylaws. Um, per the, uh, articles of incorporation. We're required to bring them to you to approve the changes to the bylaws. Um the the gist of it is we wanted to clarify that um that the president of the Carson City School District Board of Trustees um Luther Ramirez and Andrew Fueling the um superintendent are on there in um exeicio capacities. They they are not voting members. Um but we do value what they have to say to us. Um but uh just to try to keep that separation um the
020trustees will actually make the decisions. Um certainly we're not going to go against what um what they want. We'll definitely take into account everything that they say, but the idea the change of the bylaws is just to clarify that and that was actually at their recommendation. So um we'll we would ask for your support in changing that um bylaw. With that, I'd be happy to take any questions. Did you have anything to add? >> I did have a couple of things. Also included in your packet is the annual uh report that of information that goes to the IRS and grants that were given. And this is the bylaws say that once a year we need to update you. So 2024 is all in this packet. And then one other thing that we did this year
021that is not bylaws more organizational. We followed your example and we have now assigned each of our board members to a specific school just like you've done so that we can have a closer relationship work when there's a problem or something that you know we can help with. It just makes a little better communication. So, we have that and if you'd like, I can send a list to Renee to pass out and to you saying which person is with which school and their um information to contact information. >> And then one final thing, I apologize, John John Hagger for the record. Um the mini grant and department grant application period for the fall opens um in about a week, I think, um and will close in the middle of September. We'll have another one mid
022December to mid January. So, um you should be uh hearing about that soon hopefully um in an email to all staff. >> Wonderful. Well, thank you for yours, uh for this report. Do we have any questions or comments from the board? >> No. I do have a question. Um I think it's fabulous that um you guys are supporting the AP program and the jump start program. Um, I do want to um see that both programs are um meeting the needs of our students and I see a um discrepancy or a difference rather in in the funding that is provided to AP versus Jumpstart. So is do do you have a um uh an an explanation why that might be happening? >> Absolutely. For the record, John Hager. So the jump start or the AP program
023um I believe testing fees cost um somewhere upwards of 60 $65,000. So we're covering a portion of that. The jump start program we initially allocated last year $20,000. They only used >> I think about >> about 6,000 this year. >> Um the 10,000 that we have left is actual money that people donated specifically for Jumpstart. We think that the need will actually be less than that. So we're cover we should be able to cover everybody's books. um that that I think it's everybody's books, not just requested. >> Well, it's it's somewhat based on need, but just about everybody. But part of why the co our amounts have gone down because we the first year was close to 20,000, which is why we started budgeting that way. So many things now are digital and the cost
024has gone down for each student. But and we don't pay tuition. Our part was the all the books and materials because the high school that's not part of their funding. So any student that's in Jumpstart if they have anything any expenses like that that's what we're covering and we take our the amount has it all goes through the grants department because of the amount. It's not we don't handle the bookkeeping and they work with the high school. They have a process to check for need and all of you know so it isn't just here it is but it's all handled through the the high school counselor's department and then the grants department and at the end of the year when they've determined every cost for jump start then I get the notice and I write
025the check back to it. So that's the difference. It's it's kind of the cost and the need. >> Okay. And you and you just clarified that it does not cover tuition, correct? Only, >> right? It never has. >> And it never has. Okay. >> Okay. Great. Thank you. >> Answer it enough for you? >> Yes. Okay. >> Yes, it does. >> Mhm. >> And I don't think I have any other questions. Okay. So, if no one else has any other questions or comments, I will entertain a motion. I move that the Carson City School District Board of Trustees approve the proposed amendments to the bylaws of the Carson City Schools Foundation as presented. >> I'll second it. >> Okay. So, motion by Trusty Walker and second by Trusty Barner. Any board discussion? Seeing none, any
026public comment? Seeing none, all those in favor? I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Thank you so much for this report. >> Thank you so much. Thank you. Okay. Agenda item number eight, discussion and possible action to approve proposed changes to CCSD policy 817 identification batch. And this is the second reading for possible action. Mrs. Ansier, I don't see you're going to you're okay. You're going to present on behalf of Ansier. So, our superintendent will be presenting. >> Uh, thank you, President Ramirez. Um, so this is a second reading of revision to policy 8:17. Uh uh an Seir was here last time with that in the regulation. Um there were no suggested um changes to the policy language. Uh and so it is uh here back for your consideration and approval. >> Great. And I believe all
027of us had a chance to review it. So do we have any comments or questions? If not, um again this is for possible action. So, I will entertain a motion. Take it. >> I'll make a motion. >> Okay. >> I move that the Carson City School District Board of Trustees approved August 12th, 2025 as the revised date for policy 817 identification badge. >> I'll second. >> Okay. So, motion by Trustee Clappam and second by Trustee Roberts. Any board discussion? Seeing none, any public comment? Seeing none, all those in favor? I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Thank you so much to the Superintendent Healing. And then we will move on to agenda item number 11, informationational update on staffing for the Carson City School District. And this I'm sorry, did I miss one? Nine. So sorry. Forgive
028me. Forgive me. Forgive me. I'm sorry. Um discussion and number agenda item number nine. discussion and possible action to approve proposed changes to Carson City School District policy 539 independent study in physical education. And this is for second reading and for possible action. Welcome, Mr. Bringhurst. >> Thank you, President Ramirez, members of the board of trustees, Superintendent Fueling. This is second reading uh of this policy. You'll notice in the um board packet I included a couple of items based on some questions that we had last time. So along with the proposed policy, you will see the Nevada administrative code that it's based upon. I've also included the guidance memorandum that we received from Nevada Department of Education uh regarding how the policy is to be implemented. You'll also see a document that is the frequently
029asked questions regarding uh the changes to Nevada administrative code. Um as well as a document that lists the approved activities that are part of this change. Based on feedback from the first reading, I did make some adjustments to uh the proposed policy. So, you'll see those in your packet. Um, you'll note there on item three some adjustments to better align uh the wording with what is in the Nevada administrative co code that they need to successfully complete ROC and in order to receive their exemption. You'll see a similar update there in marching band uh which is in item four. Item five, uh you'll see some again some clarification there with the wording that mirrors what we see in the Nevada Administrative Code. And then item six, part of what I believe was confusing last time,
030at least from the the way I understood the feedback that we received, was that item six has some different requirements that don't apply to the other areas for exemption. And so they are listed just under item six. That would correspond in the Nevada administrative code to item number three. So those are the activities that may take place outside of the school day for 120 hours um in order for those participants to receive the exemption. The other things ROC band for instance or or other school activities those hours of course can happen during the school day. It's just those items under item six that would need to where students would need to participate with for all of those hours outside of the school day. >> Could I ask a clarifying question on number five? >> So
031basically they one sport they're they successfully complete the season in one sport they earn that credit. They get one sport a year. That's it. >> Correct. >> Okay. And I don't know if we want to be specific about that. it because in my mind if I'm wondering it if I'm a credit deficient student they might be wondering it also >> so you know what I'm saying >> uh if I I do if I understand your question correctly then it's maybe if I'm credit deficient I want to be on the wrestling team and the track team and get two credits >> correct >> whereas we need to clarify it is one credit even if you are on multiple sports throughout the year >> yes or up to one credit per academic year something along ong those
032lines. >> Regardless of the number of sports that are participated in Yep. >> Great. Okay. >> Anybody else has questions? Richard, >> if you don't mind, if we can go back to where the competitive club activity is. It says participation must be verified by the school principal designate. >> They got to do 120 hours. >> How is a principal going to >> verify that they did 120 hours? There's got to be another process in there somewhere. >> Yes, there is another process in there. Uh I was speaking with principal Karsten's about that uh this last week as well as today um regarding that and uh there was a procedure in place in the school district previously for students to earn uh PE credit um correspondence. I'm forgetting the exact terminology now but there was a
033procedure where they had to log their hours. um we have that procedure and principal Karstens will use that as kind of a basis to uh begin working that and putting that procedure into place. If you'll also look on uh item seven in the frequently asked questions that we have from NDE, it gives us a little bit more clarity uh exactly around that question. So, uh, it says, "Verification of participation may be submitted to the school district or charter school, which typically includes documentation such as a signed log of hours from a coach, instructor, or club leader confirming participation, a statement from a coach, instructor, or club leader confirming participation." And so that's the process the principal Karstens is working on is that documentation as well as with some timelines where they will log their hours
034and have that uh signed by the appropriate coach, instructor, organization, leader. >> Should that be in the policy? >> I I was going to suggest I think that that was that would be an item more for the regulation like how it's going to happen. So the policy is what the policy is and then in the regulation it spells it out. Yeah, as long as it's spilled out somewhere. >> Anybody else? >> Yeah. Um I'm going to touch back kind of what um Trusty Walker was asking earlier. Um in the frequently asked questions as well, section four or question four, it says, "Can a student be exempt from a half credit physical education?" And it says for every 60 hours. Um because as he was talking I was remembering back because I've had four kids through
035the high school and and in my memory it was if you did one varsity sport or one sport it was a semester and so if you were a two sport athlete then that qualified you for a year and so as we were talking about one sport one year but it's one sport up to 60 hours is a half credit. So in theory you could do two sports and get that full credits right? Am I understanding that? So, like if you had a tennis season and like my kids tennis and bowling season, that would still be two sports and qualify you as a full year of >> Yeah. Up to a full year. Uh up to one full credit. Um not more than one full credit during one or and I guess I misspeing even in
036saying one full credit. They don't get any credits. They get an exemption. >> Correct. Right. Sorry. Thank you. >> Um so up to one full exemption. Um and so I will work on some clarification there in in that item five um around the half credit full credit and not more than I'm sorry half an exemption full exemption not more than a full exemption for uh any academic year. >> Mr. I would I would s say that you could even in the policy be a little bit more vague with the up to one credit and then in the regulation really break it down the specifics because that's the howto if that makes makes it easier for you. >> Thank you. Okay. I think um do we have any any other ones, Richard? >> I think I
037do. Um, I see where this policy is going, but I guess I do have some concern about waving physical fitness or physical activity during the day when you're going to have all these kids just doing academics all day without some kind of break, I guess. Um, so that would be one concern I would have because we want our kids to not only be intellectually active but also physically active during the day. And I think I just wonder how that's going to work. I guess >> I think it's a fantastic question. I don't know exactly, you know, as when we get these changes from NDE, uh, there's things that we know and there's things that we won't know until it gets implemented. There is certainly an argument for uh those breaks and activity during the day
038and uh and how that helps students to improve their focus and learning. But the guidance that we have from NDE is very clear that the that this uh exemption is something that we need to offer. I'd also say that >> I think it says may offer, right? If I read that right, not that we have to, but that we may be able to offer So from the uh documentation as well as the conversations that I have had with um NDE, it is not a question of whether or not we can. it is that students that students will be allowed this exemption >> on the >> I need a minute to look >> on the letter that say may >> okay because the one I'm looking at where it's the NAC 389488 it says the school
039district or charter school shall exempt >> and the one I'm looking at says may exempt >> better so >> I'm reading the letter also from the state department ed >> where's you're looking at the guidance memorandum >> yes And the guidance memorandum says may and you're looking at the Nevada administrative code which says shall. Um so our Nevada administrative code is ultimately what we need to be going by which gives us a clear shall. um >> from what I can understand >> and I would say I mean I understand the points everybody's making but we're also looking at an exemption because these students are already physically active in well doumented manner whether it's a sport or some kind of activity and for some of our students who might be on an AP track and they're
040trying to get into a top tier college they might need an extra academic course and that might open that up. And so I think there's a whole host of we have a lot of students in that school in a lot of different circumstances and so it gives them some possibilities and these are still students who are physically active because they earn that by being in a physically active activity. And I would add that the counselors also probably are encouraging students to um look into a join a club or you know an activity. Um I'm sure that they also will be advising them to do something. Okay. All righty. Um sorry. Yeah. Okay. So, if there are no other comments from the board or questions, I will entertain a motion. >> No, we do public comment
041or not. >> We're going to have public comment after the motion. >> She can get the motion on the table and then take public comment before action. >> I can do that then. Uh, I move that the Carson City School District Board of Trustees approve August 12th, 2025 as the revised date for policy 529, independent study in physical education. >> Second. >> Okay. So, motion by Trustee Roberts and second by Trustee Walker. Um, any board discussion? Seeing none, and I do know we have a public comment, >> but I just to clarify, I heard 529. It's 539. Yeah. 539. >> Okay. 539 for the clarification. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Okay. Excellent. Thank you for catching that. Okay. And at this moment, we will take public comment. Yes. Come on up to the podium and state
042your name for the record. And we will give you three minutes. Yeah, it's on. >> Sorry. Uh, m Madam President, Mr. Fueling, members of the board, my name is Steve Dilly. I am the department head of PE health at Carson High School. Um, my concern with policy 539 as written here currently by Mr. Breadhurst that redhurst I apologize that it says one PE credit per year of successful completion which I think in a way this opens Pandora's box to a kid not ever taking PE in high school and in some cases the last time a student would have PE would be like in fifth grade. So, we fully support it, ever since I've been at Carson High School for over a decade, we fully support allowing to wave one year of PE for this. However,
043we feel that it's obviously super important that a kid takes PE at least one year at Carson High School. And I feel like as this is written right now, we're opening Pandora's box to allowing a kid to basically wave two years of PE and not have to take PE at all. So that is my concern and that's my department's concern. Again, this was just brought this this letter was just brought to my attention on Friday afternoon. So I apologize um for lack of of preparation on this, but again, like I said, I'm just worried that this is going to open Pandora's box for a student being able to wave two years of PE and not take PE at all. I mean, if you look at empowered uh 2027 4.13 states how important physical education is.
044It's one of your five standards for empower uh 2027. And I'm afraid that this is overlooking that. Thank you. >> Thank you for your comment. Okay, so we have a motion on the table. So, all those in favor Oh, we have another one. I'm so sorry. I didn't see anybody else. Forgive me. Hi, President um Ramirez, Mr. Fueling board. Um Linda Herszel, retired physical education specialist in the Carson City School District. Um Mr. Dilly ex um did talk about the fact that some of with this exemption kids would not have PE except through K through five. We have physical education standards K12. What we send on to the middle school and high school does not meet those secondary um standards and I'm really concerned about that. Um again part of the strategic plan is that
045we physical education, health, wellness is part of it. I agree one because those kids that are do are athletes, the kids that are doing sports outside of school, but I think they should at least have one credit of physical education. Maybe a solution would be to require a credit in middle school. at least they're getting something between 6 through 12. Um, for those physical education piece for the M movement, I worry about the obesity. Um, I had kids that were athletes, but they were also um on a career path. But I think we need to make sure that we are putting out well-rounded students and looking at the standards that the state department puts out for all subject matter. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Any additional comments? Any additional public comment I should
046say? No. See none. Okay. Again, we have a motion on the table. All those in favor? >> I. Any opposed? One opposed. Two. Two opposed. Okay. So, we have the majority of of the vote is correct. Okay. So, we have the majority of >> that was four in favor. That's that's four. That counts. >> Okay. All right. So, then motion carries. Thank you so much, everyone. Okay. So, I was just informed that Mr. Settler is on his way. Uh, so we are going to take a five minute recess. Can we Sorry. Oh, move on. Okay, never mind. I apologize. So, we are able to We're going to skip agenda item number 11 until Mr. Satler gets here and then we are going to continue with uh agenda item number 12. Approval of the agenda um
047as submitted and this is for possible action. Approval of consent, I'm sorry, approval of consent agenda. For possible action, >> I move that we accept the consent agenda. >> I'll second it. Okay. >> Motion by Trusty Walker and second by Trusty Vardner. Any board discussion? Seeing none, any public comment? Seeing none, all those in favor? I. Any oppose? Motion carries. So no agenda item number 13 umformational items and this is for discussion only. No action will be taken and I am sure all of us had a chance to review those items. Any questions or comments? Seeing none. We'll move on to agenda item number 14, request for future agenda topics. Do we have any agenda items? No. That we want to add to the future agendas? No. None. Okay. Then at this moment, we will
048go and go ahead and take a fivem minute recess. [Music] Amen. [Music] Oh. [Music] Oh, [Music] forever. [Music] Woo! [Music] Hey! [Music] Heat. Heat. Oh, you are. [Music] Amen. [Music] Oh. [Music] Oh, [Music] you Oh, [Music] hey. [Music] Hey. [Music] Oh. [Music] Hello. [Music] our Carson City School District Board of Trustees meeting. We're going to continue and our presenter for agenda item number 11 is here joining us, Mr. Dan Sedler. Um, agenda item number 11,formational update on staffing for the Carson City School District. And this is for discussion only. >> Thank you, President Ramirez, trustees. Good evening. Uh, thanks for having me. Dan Sadler for the record. And, uh, quick shout out to Dan Davis for his excellent photo skills here. This is a picture of our certified staff on the first day last week.
049So, nice picture of our uh, new teachers to our district. Um, so the last couple years I've presented this data around this time of year and it's just kind of a good measure of where we stand as far as vacancies go. So, um, we do have a couple years now that we've been collecting this data. You can see back to, uh, August 9th, 2022. Um, and the data that I'll share with you tonight that's over in that right column is of August 8th. I did not update beyond the 8th. So, there there's changes day by day, but this is fairly accurate and representing what we currently have. So, um, you can see that we had zero administrative vacancies. We have those all filled. Certified. We had four vacancies, certified special education, two classified full-time positions,
050we had seven, six classified special education, and one school nurse that could be filled with classified or certified pending certification. Um, so just kind of really good data trends as far as the vacancies. You can see just uh three years ago where we were with the number of vacancies with where we are now. Um and and I always feel like yay, but there's still more work to do. So, um definitely feel that way seeing any numbers in that right side, but uh it is a a very good celebration and reflective of um not only that we're recruiting well, but that we're retaining well. And I think that's most important. And I'll be happy to jump around back to any of this um and answer any questions as we go through it. So this slide represents
051the actual total number of positions filled and um back to a specific date. So we've been posting positions for certain classified positions are usually posted year round um depending on when the vacancy occurs and whether that's a 12-month position, you know, year round or if it's a school year calendar position. Um whereas typically the certified positions we fill those hiring season kind of has started in January and um getting those positions posted earlier than some of our other local school districts has helped tremendously. So thank you as a board for your support in that. Um the early retirement notification has helped tremendously as well. So um when we get to this slide on things that are working that's definitely one thing that we have two years of some solid data on now that that is
052uh helping us get those positions filled earlier. Um so you can see we we still have filled a large number of positions but again trending down overall um from 2022. You can see we had 63 certified teachers hired that year. This year we had 51. That that includes anybody who's in a certified position as well. also could be counselor, could be social worker, um psychologist, speech language pathologist, anybody who's under the certified bargaining agreement. So, just a a little different representation on those numbers. We've used the number 378 for classified um because that's what we started with in 2022. we've had a number go up or down here or there, but we've kept that number consistent just for comparing the data. Uh so again, 14 vacancies as of August 8th, which is a 3.7% vacancy
053rate, down from 7% in 2024 or excuse me, 2324 and 4.4% last year uh for a 96.3% fill rate. Again, two years ago that was 93 and we were thinking that was a celebration at the time. So seeing that continue to trend in a positive direction uh >> is a good thing. >> And then for our certified positions again number 520 we've used that for the data comparison uh six vacancies as of the 8th that's a 1.1% vacancy rate down from 7% in 2324 or 98.9% fill rate down from or up from 97.6%. 6%. Actual positions as of the ETH that we had posted. Um, we've had a tough time. I I highlighted a the blue ones there as far as the certified positions go. Um, we've had a tough time filling some of our
054music teacher positions this year and I know that's not specific to our district. Talking with Wo County and just trying to get ideas. They at the time I think had 15 music teaching positions open. >> Wow. many of which were halftime. So, um that's that's something that we're seeing. Just not a lot of people going through the music education programs uh that we've seen historically. >> So, that'll be an area of focus for us for sure. Um but you can see by site which positions we have that are open and by department I should say. So, just uh a couple things to share here with what's working. Again, supportive school board and superintendent and I think the the word is out on on the board and the superintendent and just as the district being a
055really good place to work. That's something that that we hear people ask about. Um even some people who have interviewed that maybe took positions elsewhere like really heard good things about Carson City School District and you guys have a board that's really solid and hear good things about the superintendent and the principles and the teachers. All true things. So, um, thank you for your support. Um, competitive salaries. Obviously, we're in, uh, negotiations right now and we know that our our budget doesn't look great. So, not a lot of news on increasing salaries, but keeping steady with where we've been and and of course two years ago having a large increase that has helped us remain competitive and especially for retaining our employees. Um, already mentioned the early retirement notification incentive. Uh, and I know that
056that tends to cause a little bit of confusion. We're not buying anybody out. Just for anybody who's listening, you know, we're that's an incentive is that if people notify the district that they plan to retire by the end of the year that they get a little bit of incentive, monetary incentive. Really the advantage for us is then we can post that position and be the first to hire. Um, so that has helped tremendously. Local career fairs, um, we've continued to host some fairs. We also attended UNR. We did not attend regional career fairs this year and we didn't really see a huge return on investment as far as actually hiring people from those events, certified teachers. A lot of interest, a lot of great conversations, met some awesome people. Maybe those will pan out in
057the long run, but we haven't seen any immediate results from the regional career fairs with the exception of University of Nevada. Local career fairs will continue to attend with WNC as those opportunities are available. And then we've just had uh in the boardroom at the district office continue to support. We had a career fair this summer. I think we had 20 people come through the door, 16 applicants come out of that and we've already hired a few people that are already working for us. So um anytime we get someone through the door, that's a win. >> Yeah, definitely. >> The Red Rover application revamp, that process has become much easier to complete an application. I think that's also been helpful. uh was quite clunky previously and to just get through the application itself if you
058weren't pretty techsavvy you might have struggled. So Red Rover's helped us simplify that process and get people through that process faster. So that is another uh thing that we're looking at that we want to continue to improve. social media, branding and marketing. We haven't done a lot of that because it's very expensive uh to as far as branding and marketing, but social media and just people posting celebrations. Uh Dan Davis does a tremendous job with uh working with local media and getting the word out and that also has uh helped us in both retention and recruitment. But our number one, and we do track this through the application, uh is just a word of mouth and people just letting other people know that positions are open. So, um that is our number one generator for
059um getting new people into our district. U I think that's the last one I had in there was ARIRL partnerships. We have supported several different partnerships over the years. Uh we talked about I teach a couple years ago. We still support it. We've since then had different partnerships with uh Great Basin College, um Western Governor's University, UNLV, UNR, just they've made it easier for people to get into the field of education and we've benefited from that. So, we've got some really good solid partnerships there. >> Well, this is wonderful news. Thank you for all that work. >> Absolutely. >> Any questions or comments from the board? >> Yes, Richard. I would just like to say thank you for all the hard work you you're doing. The uh numbers are fantastic to go from where we
060were to where we're at now is really good. I'm just wondering out of the 51 new certified staff. How many I don't know if you know this or not offhand, but how many were somebody who uh didn't retire but just decided to move on somewhere else or quit? So, make sure I'm understanding your question. How many were people who didn't retire that came back? >> Yeah. You know, who uh just decided to move on and uh maybe pursue another career or go somewhere else versus someone who actually retired. >> Oh, thank you. Okay. I'm sorry. I thought you were talking about the people we hired and I got confused. Um so, when we Yeah. So, when we track how many vacancies we have, um a vacancy is a vacancy, but when we're looking at retention
061rates, if somebody's retired as um like they've it's the end of their career and they're retired, we we don't count that as like we've lost an employee. Yeah, that's that's a celebration. Same if they move out of state, we don't count that the same way. So, looks a little bit different. If we did include those numbers, it would skew our data. >> No, I understand that. I was just wondering how many people >> I don't have that number off the top of my head, but I'd be I'd be happy to get >> if you can send that to me later. Just I'm just curious what our retention rate is. >> Yep. >> Thank you. >> Michelle, did you have a question? >> Um I went to the breakfast this morning. Um the energy in there
062was awesome. Packed room full of eager people ready to get started. Um clearly you've been busy working hard um to get all those people in there and and so thank you. Nice work. We appreciate all of that. Um, and the opportunity to uncomfortably stare at each other was a nice invitation, AJ. >> I felt that when I walked in the room tonight. >> Um, no, it was it was great. It was a packed room and that's just a testament to how hard you guys have been working in the offseason, so to speak. So, just applauding that. >> I appreciate that and it it it truly is a a testament to all of the people we have working in our district. Um, it's my pleasure to to lead human resources, but we've got an excellent HR
063team and that extends to our anybody who's in hiring manager, our administrators, and a lot of our staff that are helping with recruitment as well. So, that's definitely not a oneman show. >> Yeah, I would echo Michelle. It was really nice to uh see the smiling faces of all those um new teachers and very friendly, very very excited to be um um working in our district. So, thank you for that work and yeah, that was that all your initiatives have been very impressive. So, thank you and that obviously the numbers confirm your hard work and how effective your initiatives have been. So, thank you for updating us. And I >> I questioned a couple if if they're really old enough to be teachers. They look so young. >> It was a little younger group for
064sure. Just showing my age in education for sure. But, um, yeah, great energy. Um, I was talking with Mary Prey this afternoon. She's been working with our new hires, you know, since last week and, uh, she was sharing with me how impressed she was just with the questions they were asking and the enthusiasm they were bringing into our district. So, we can't wait for that to translate into the classroom and and rub off on our students. For sure. >> She was so funny how she concluded the event. and she says, "Don't forget to go sign your paperwork, otherwise you won't get paid." >> Yeah. >> So, that was awesome. All righty. Well, thank you very much for your presentation. >> Absolutely. Thank you. >> I believe we have concluded or we are going on to
065agenda item number 15 and that's a German. So, thank you so much everyone. Oh, [Music] forever. [Music]