001[Music] Happy. Oh. [Music] Amen. Fall. [Music] Oh, [Music] Oh, la. [Music] to the Carson City School District Board of Trustees meeting. Today is Tuesday, May 27, 2025, and we are going to um call the uh meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. We are going to start off with agenda item number one, adoption of the agenda as submitted, and this is for possible action. Trust uh moved by Trusty Walt, second by Trusty Varner. 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 NRS28A.220 to discuss labor relations with the district's management representatives. And this is for discussion only. So at this moment, we will move to uh the [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Oh, hey. [Music] Oh, hey. [Music]
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003[Music] Amen. Oh. [Music] Oh, hey. [Music] Don't a [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Hello. Hallelujah. [Music] Oh, hey. [Music] Oh, oh, hey. [Music] Oh, woo. [Music] uh to our public meeting. It is 6:32 and we're going to continue with agenda item number four, flag salute. Um I'm since uh Trusty Walker is not here. Um he is excused by the way. He is ill. We're going to ask um Trusty Clappam to please lead us with the flex salute. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Trusty Kaplan. Agenda item number five, superintendent report, and this is for information only. Superintendent feeling please you're excused. Good afternoon. Thank you, President Ramirez. Um, so today uh we have
004some special guests. Um when when I was in high school, I played sports and I was very average and um that's a generous average probably. Um we don't believe it. But we we I I was a center in basketball. I'm I'm sure. Um so uh however, there are high school athletes and many here in Carson that tend to be much better than average. And so tonight we are recognizing 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 students that will be carrying on to play at the collegiate level. So, if you happen to be one of those high school students that is more talented that in athletics than I ever was and you are moving on to the collegiate level, if you could please make your way up here
005so we can have you introduce yourself to our board members. Don't all go at once. I know this is a lot. First one up gets to take a seat. You just kind of stand behind the table or take a seat here. Kale made it. The young lady gets a chair. What's up? The young lady gets a chair, right? Okay. Oh, okay. So, we have no extremely formal process to this, but if you could please just introduce yourself, your name, uh what sport you play, where you are going to school. I guess you're going first based on that shuffle. Um so, your name, uh what what sport you play, where you're going to school, if you want to give any other information. I I don't know. Trustees, I don't know. Is there any other information you'd
006like for them? Blood type, anything along those lines? I think you covered it. Oh, positive. All right, we have a winner. Okay. Um would would you like to begin? Okay. And and and what are you interested in studying when you're in college? Okay. My name is Danica. Um I'm going to Northeast Iowa Community College to play softball. And my major is rad. Rad. Um, rad techch is just um studying like X-rays or MRIs. You can pick any like ultrasound just different ones. Um, my college is specifically for X-rays. So, I'll be learning about the body and how to see them through like the imaging. Excellent. Yes. Angela, is this thing on? Okay. Yeah. Just double check. Um, you want to repeat the questions, AJ? Yeah. Can you repeat the questions? Um, my name is Angelo
007MSAS. Um, I'm going to play at the collegiate level for football. Um, I want to be an English teacher once I'm finished up. So, I'm just going to go down there and and I'm going to Oh, I'm going to the University of St. Mary's in Kansas. Uh, can't wait. Thank you. Right on. My name's Dominic Porter and I'm going to Mercur University in Erie, Pennsylvania to wrestle D1 and I'm going to study in geology for a bachelor's of science. Right on. Very good. Um, my name is Sawyer Macy. Um, I run cross country and track. I'll be going to Lehigh University to run division one cross country and track and I will be studying engineering. Uh, my name is Joshua Lopez and um I'm going to Central College, Washington to play soccer and I'm thinking
008of studying business and marketing. Do you want them to come? Do you want them to come up with you? My name is Sergey Villoeva. I'm going to the College of Worcester, Ohio to play football. And my major is going to be computer science. My name is Kylie Franco. I'm going to the University of Aurora in Illinois to play softball and my major is history. My name is London Bishop. I'm going to Carol College where I will be cheering competitively and non-competitively there. And I'm actually double majoring in biology and anthrozology. All right. Next, next group. I'm Yan Kaye and I'm going to swim for University of Redlands and my major is going to be international and global business. My name is Alandre Curo. I play soccer and I'm going to go to um Chucky Meadows
009Community College where I'll be studying radiology. Uh, my name is Kale Walt. I'm going to go to Eastern Oregon to play soccer and my I'm going to study uh going to study fire science, which is just like firefighting. My name is Elen Ortiz. I'm going to Wenberg University to play division 3 soccer and I'm going to study premed. So, I'm a major in biology and minor in chem. Right on. [Applause] Congratulations to each and every one of you. That's super exciting. So, so just to explain for all of our our student athletes here, if if you're not familiar that the the folks up here are are the school board. They're they're elected by the community to represent the community. They are the ones over the years that have approved sports to happen in the schools.
010what sports happen in the schools, making sure all the classes that are available that you have taken, they they have helped they help make sure all that stuff happens for you. So, they requested to see you cuz you're kind of a big deal and they're really proud of the work that they do when they see stuff like this. So, trustes, I don't know if there's anything else you want to comments from from any of the trustees. I I will I guess but uh congratulations on your future and your college choices and uh just wish you the most success that uh you can have and we're really proud of each and every one of you. And somebody mentioned about maybe wanting to be an English teacher. uh we would like you to come back here and
011and teach here when when you get finished. But uh and all of you would like to see you back in the community uh working with the local community here. But congratulations. Anybody else? Michelle, uh super proud of you guys. Good job being awesome. Um this doesn't happen just as a fluke or to somebody who is kind of lukewarm into the sports. This happened because you guys were students and then in all your free time you were athletes as well and that you trained in the offseason, you worked hard during the season and you gave it your all to what you're doing and it paid off. So enjoy the college experience. Go have a great time. Keep excelling and and making your parents and community proud. Anybody else? Molly. Yeah, her son must be in the
012audience. Yeah. Um I knew I would, but so sorry. Um no, congratulations. Um you know, only 6% of high school seniors go on to play at the collegiic level and you know that's nationwide. So congratulations you guys. Um, I personally know how much you guys sacrifice to to get where you are right now and so congratulations. I I wish you all the best. Good luck and continue to work hard because your dedication is is what is needed. I have a question. Um, can you raise your hand and let me know if you participated in AP classes or um, jump start? Outstanding. Good job, guys. Well, again to each and every one of you, um as my colleague said, congratulations and um thank you for making your parents proud and continue making your parents proud. It's
013it's a wonderful thing. So congratulations parents. Congratulations and um best of luck to you all. Big round of applause again. [Applause] H Oh yeah. So, if you guys all wouldn't mind if you could kind of line up over here. They'd like to get a picture of all of you. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Molly, do it again. Do it again. A That's awesome. Job, kid. Yeah. All right, students and parents, thank you so much for being here, uh, giving this opportunity. we've we've never done this sort of recognition before and and I think high time to to recognize all that effort that's happened. So, thank you. Um, next this evening, um, if we could have Sawyer Macy come back up and Betsy there. Oh, there you are. You were hiding right next
014to him. Um, so no, no, just stand. Just stand. Yeah. No reason to sit. So, you both have helped the district out with one of our responsibilities, which is called the family life committee, and I'm sure it was a lot of fun, right? So, but we appreciate it. It's it's it's a requirement for us, and we appreciate that you were willing to help us out even if maybe your parents twisted your arms a little bit or something along those lines. Um, but as a as a thank you from the school board for that work, we have this for you and just want to show our appreciation for for that work. I don't know if Yeah. Thank you. And next, uh, if we have Christopher Esgridge, Caitlyn Win, or Diana Ankot here. There's Kaitlin, come on
015over, Kaitlin. Get, come over here. Over here. This side of the room. Much better. No Diana. No Christopher. Okay. So, Caitlyn, this is a thank you from the board for representing Pioneer Campus throughout the semester or the year with all the information. I will tell you, you have been the most entertaining person to come and report on the activities. I I've thoroughly it's not often we talk about really thoroughly enjoying uh reporting on activities like it it's fun to listen to but you make it you have made it so fun to listen to so above and beyond. Thank you so much and this is a thank you from the board for for your time. [Applause] Kaylin Kayen before you go away. Kaylin, I'm draw I'm drawing blanks, you guys. I'm drawing blanks. Um, well, it's
016been my honor to represent Pioneer because I know that we don't have the best reputation if I may be honest with you all. But I also know that there are so many good kids here and there are so many good kids in the entire school district and what I really love to do is just talk about you guys and that just makes it fun anyway and that just I it fills up my cup so much that it bleeds into others. So that's why I like it. Uh, and thank you guys for giving me the opportunity to talk to you and thank you for listening to my grading grading voice for since October. Kayen, I think you're a prime example of the outstanding students that we have at Pioneer. So, thank you. And I do have
017a question for you. What is your major? Architecture. Oo, exciting. I thought it was going to be public speaking because you're amazing. I might someday. There you go. Good. Any other questions or comments from the board? No. Yes. Richard, you're good. I was just going to say uh I think um Superintendent Fueling pretty well stated everything, but it has been very entertaining uh listening to your reports. Um you're very well spoken and we just really enjoyed it and we have the utmost respect for you and we know that you'll do very well in the future. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? Very good. Well, big round of applause. Thank you, [Applause] girl. Okay. Um, really quickly, just a couple more things, but this one's kind of a big deal. Um, with all of you here,
018our our school board trustee, Mr. Varner, uh, today is his 29th birthday, and we we were hoping that you would help us sing happy birthday. Oh, no. [Music] Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Richard. Happy birthday to you. and many more. Well, thank you very much. Uh, I owe you one. And, uh, as I said earlier, um, it was very hard for me today because I turned 40, which is a big deal. I wish. But anyway, thank you guys. Um, very unexpected. Um, just last couple things quick. Uh the Carson High had their salute to scholars night where they awarded over $10 million in scholarships to students are recognized the awarding of $10 million of scholarships which is it's a lot of money. It's pretty phenomenal and I I just think just speaks to
019uh the quality of of kids we have up there. Um, last thing on Thursday the 29th at 5:30 at the Fandango is the uh last uh mayor's attendance hall of fame uh recognition event for students across the district. So trustees, if you're interested in attending that, that that's coming up here pretty quick. And that is all I have. Wonderful. Thank you so much. So, um, everyone is welcome to stay or, um, you may go and enjoy the rest of your evening. We just want to give you that option. Thank you so much for coming. All right, we will continue on with our agenda item number six and this is board reports, board member comments and this is for information only. Um, do we have a representative from Carson High School? Um, Mr. Cooper, come on
020up. And then, uh, I will also invite Kayn, if she has not left, to come up and do her report. Or maybe she did leave. Okay, Miss, she's coming back. Okay, wonderful. Mr. You may begin. All right. Um, so, uh, we just recently finished, uh, AP testing at on, uh, Carson High main campus. uh all those scores are in and submitted and those will be graded over the summer. Um and then we're also just getting uh prepped for the end of the year, getting ready for finals. Um a lot of them have already been taken, but everyone's just uh pushing through these last couple ones. Uh and then on Monday, June 2nd, we have our uh senior celebrations starting um which is senior awards. they'll get their uh caps and gowns, cords, and then there's
021a uh field day organized by uh early childhood education students. Um and then along with that, uh courtesy of Miss Tuttle and the elementary school principles. Uh Miss Tuttle is the leader of the early childhood education program. uh they'll be able to wear their caps and gowns and uh walk around to their uh elementary schools that they went to uh just to kind of reminisce the good times that they had. Um and yeah, basically that's it. Sounds like an exciting week. Thank you so much. Um Kaylin, sorry guys, I got a little bit excited. Now you can be yourself. Thank you for the card, by the way. I read it. Um, good evening members of the board. My name is Caitlyn Wyn and I will be presenting Pioneers announcements for this week. Our last dance,
022which was held on Friday, May 16th, was a huge success. Um, I made a typo when I wrote this because it was like 12:00 in the morning, but our king and queen were Patrick Brousard um, and to Tori Elliot, and our prince and princess were Adrien Hall and Maggie Uelle. We want to thank Little Caesars and Grocery Outlet for helping us with the food and decorations. I want to tell you guys that I I'm in leadership and as our final assignment, we were setting up the dance and I was planning to go out later while we were cleaning up and you know, snag a little extra slice for myself as a leadership tax. And when I went out, we got 10 pizzas for free and they were all gone. I'm like, my personal disappointment aside,
023I can tell you guys that the students all enjoyed them very much. A on May 15th, we held our induction ceremony for the final cruise of Pioneers National Honor Society. We're incredibly excited to work with Carson High in the coming years, and we're grateful for the chance to be able to um celebrate ourselves independently one last time. And this week we're working with Pioneers online teachers and coordinators to make sure everyone gets their finals in. But we also recognize that this year the district is working on maintaining productivity throughout the whole year, not just by the time the finals are done. So teachers have been planning extra assignments and activities for students to demonstrate their skills and just make sure that they remember them instead of just forgetting them over the summer. These activities include
024speeches, um, presentations, and figuring out logistics for a few surprises for students at the end of the year. I actually have to give a 10-minute speech tomorrow. You guys wish me luck. Oo, you got this. And finally, we're excited about this year's graduation ceremony, which will take place at June 6 at the Carson Community Center. So, you guys will already will already be here, right? Yes, we look forward to it. Yep. You're going to be coming? Yes, we will be there. Okay, cool. I'll be coming too then. Um, I'm most excited personally about, if I may go off script here for a little bit, I'm personally excited about our history teacher, uh, Mr. Etchea, because he goes all out for his students, especially when he wants to get them into like emotionally invested in classes.
025He wants to make them learn, right? So, he was invited to give a speech at the graduation ceremony and he's like, "Okay, but only if I can dress up as one of the historical figures I dressed up as for the whole year." And I'm excited for the George Washington because his wig is on a generational run. It's really good. I hope you guys can see it. Thank you. This is Caitlyn signing off. Thank you both. And we look forward to both graduations. So, all right. Agenda item number seven. Oh, excuse me. I'm so sorry. Um, Nevada Association of School Boards, NESBY update. Uh, Trusty Varnner. Uh, yes. I have a few things tonight, but I'll try to get through them quickly. Uh, we had our joint meeting with the NASBO officers and the board of
026directors on May 16th uh, prior to our training which was held on May 17th. And a few of the things that were discussed was um perhaps clarifying bylaw number six and this actually pertains to the election of officers uh just clarifying how nominations are accepted and the election process. So just some wording clarification on that. Okay. And then um there was a adjustment in the membership dues. Uh the dues committee approved a 5% increase or recommended I should say a 5% increase uh to the dues for this year. Uh it was voted on and accepted by the joint board. So, uh, for Carson City, I think it means, uh, Stuart, I mean Spencer, $791 for our increase in fees this year for NASBY. Uh, there was discussion about, uh, the budget and, uh, right now
027NASBY is in a really good financial shape and, uh, the let's see, protected revenue. Yeah, basically we're just in really good uh shape and the budget was accepted and voted on and approved and then uh there was an appointment to NIA region two and three board of control and it was a parent representative and uh it was voted on and this particular individual was approved and I don't recall her name so I'm sorry. Um then committee assignments were um discussed and they asked for volunteers to be on the nominated committee. We did have two people who volunteered and then they asked for audit committee volunteer and we had one for that and uh they these people were approved and uh this year I'm remaining on the following committees. Uh I'm on the nominating and awards
028committee, the audit committee, the membership dues committee, and the committee to participate in the evaluation of the executive director. Then there was a legislative update by Dr. Diane Nichollet who is on the board uh excuse me one of the officers NASBY and also by representative from um our um trying to think uh Tom Clark and Associates I'm sorry and uh the key highlights um I think were given to everybody I think everybody received an email with them but I I yeah from uh, Executive Director Harris. And I can cover just a couple of them real quick. As of May 16th, only 10 bills had reached the governor for his consideration or approval. Uh, everybody knows that the economic forum revenues came in below projections and that funds were drawn from the education stabil stabilization fund
029to cover education related shortfalls. Uh I think everybody knows by now that the PERS rate increase is uh 3 point some percent. Uh there was some changes in proposed changes on the federal Medicaid funding and it was suggested or projected that there may this may lead to a special session sometime in September or October depending on what the federal government does about reimbursement for Medicaid. Um there was discussion about fiscal year 2027 being even more challenging. uh financially due to uh different impacts of budget budgeting impacts and then everybody knows by now that there's two major education bills that have been introduced one from the governor and another from the senate leader and I think those are still in discussion. Is that correct? Nothing has been passed. Yeah. And then um one of the pri
030primary objectives from NASBY is to maintain local control as a priority for the local school districts. And that'll be my report for NASBY. I think Molly had a question for you. Sure. I don't know if it goes through you or if it has to go through the executive director, but at the next executive meeting, can we can you bring it up to possibly have our trainings online? I know I've been asking um but when we I know it would would help the rurals a whole lot as well but it would also help the cost of the school districts if we could have online trainings you know available rather than having to travel you know like down to Vegas for I did bring that up at this meeting and and it was discussed and it was
031determined by the board that at this particular time it would not be feasible. And a couple reasons is um they don't have the equipment, no way to record at this time. And then also some of the instructors, they may not want their um material distributed without them being there or having control of it. So at this time, um it was kind of agreed that uh not something they wanted to move forward on at this time, but I did bring it up. Thank you for the update. Trusty River could I if I could I just wanted to add on to um Trusty Varner. So the the two bills that you're referring to SB460 is the speakers I'm sorry the Senate majority leaders bill. Um and then I believe it's AB 584. 584 is the governor's bill.
032Um there are there are differences between them, but I would say there's great similarity in terms of what I would consider rather draconian accountability measures that um really kind of hearken back to the early No Child Left Behind days with um replacing principles and buildings, replacing board members, replacing superintendent um with a lot of kind of punitive measures and expectations from the state to take over in in various ways. So um if you uh care to keep track of that, I can um share the uh the the legislaturator's Nellis website so you can track those bills if you care to. Um they are both I think one is 110 pages and one is like 150 pages. They are extensive omnibus bills. Um both of them have a couple things I'd say that were are good,
033but there there's a lot of pretty serious impact um within both of those bills. Thank you. Great. Alrighty. Um board announcements. I will start with uh Michelle. All right. So, I've got some Mark Twain. Um, they are eager for looking forward to the end, which I think is something every single campus could echo at this point. Uh, kids and and staff are are feeling that pinch as we wind towards summer break. Um, this Thursday, the fifth graders are having their float parade. I'm not sure if all the elementary schools do this, but um, the fifth graders each are assigned a state to research, and then they have to create a float that they pull along behind them. And so, um, they parade the halls and all the classes come out and watch and and see,
034um, all the fifth grade classes. Every single student is pulling a float from some state. Um, all four of my kids did those. They were a lot of fun, a lot of work, a lot of parent, but really cool to look at. So, if you have free time Thursday, go check it out. Um, but they've had a lot of stuff. I'm not going to share it all, but um I think the other thing I'll share from them that I think is pretty cool um a lot of schools their mascots the Hawks. So they do Hawk points. I know a lot of them you earn whatever I don't know their mascot dollars are. Um and then you can spend them in the school store for whatever um you feel like redeeming it for. But I think
035my favorite one um some of the kids saved up all quarter and redeemed. Um, and this is something our SRO's have made some kind of an experience with them, a prize that can be purchased every quarter. And um, like you could, one of them it was just lunch. Um, you could cash in your points to have lunch with the SRO's and and Miris would rally the troops and they'd all go um, over Christmas they did like a a Christmas time minute to win it. Um, it was something you could buy in. This one was um kickball with SRO's and so about 15 kids saved up all their Hawk points and cashed them in and had a kickball game against all the officers in their uniform. And um some of them were more competitive than others,
036the adults and the kids. But it was a lot of fun. A lot of smiles and I just think that's the coolest. Um anytime you can have that interaction with the SRO's um positive interactions with law enforcement, I'm all for it. So, I love that the SRO's were on board with that and that kids uh saw that that was something worth saving their hawk points instead of cashing it in for candy or a treat. It was I want to play with the cops. So, that was cool. Uh my Carson High report. Um I got a couple things I want to mention. I love a good collaboration and there are three that I um want to touch on. One of them is um one that's always been around um and I'll lead it into the others.
037Um we had um academic letters recently for the seniors second semester um and the culinary provided cookies for it. I love that that's something that they can do and and a way that they can work within the schools and and that the school can tap into um putting the kids to work for something for themselves and for their peers. Um, another one that is really cool, they just had um an athletic and FBLA both had reasons to be honored and some of the engineering um kids they were tasked with coming up with um 3D printed awards to hand out. And so instead of getting a plaque or a certificate, they have um like the C for Carson C with the shape of Nevada in the middle um awards like that that the engineering made for
038um those moments. And then my absolute favorite one, um, the art class for their ceramics. Um, they partnered with one of the elementary schools. I don't remember for sure, so I don't want to say. I think it was Fr. Okay, good. It was Fr. Um, and had some of their students draw monsters. And then the monsters were given to the ceramics class to create um, into 3D real life creations. And so they molded them, colored them, fired them, glazed them, all that, and then presented them back to the kids like, "Here's what you drew and here's what I made." And I just think it was the coolest thing. It made me smile. And so I love that they did that. And I love the people who think outside of the walls of their classroom and
039look for opportunities to engage not just in different departments of the school, like the engineering with the athletics and FBLA awards, but with the teachers reaching out to the elementary schools. I just think it's the coolest thing. So high fives for whoever's awesome idea that was. and for everybody along the way that said yes to it so that everybody could have those experiences. Nice. Exciting. Thank you. Yeah, go ahead. My other one, sorry. Shark Tank. Ah, if you have not um every year the um CLS, the compreh comprehensive life skill students who are like the more advanced or uh more severe special needs that um don't typically go into the regular classroom. They do um a shark tank where they come up with a product and they work with their peer their peer mentors in
040the class and so they have and their adviserss and they have to create the product and market the product. They have to come up with slogans and advertising and make a commercial on a business card and then present it. They have uh different celebrities from the district come and the kids have to present um why is my product good? And if you've ever seen the show Shark Tank, it's a similar thing where they ask questions and they challenge them and and make an offer and and the kids walk away with um Amazon gift cards uh for their hard work. And they did that this week in the library for a couple of days and it was really really cool. So if you ever get a chance, check in with Lance Hendy and figure out when
041he's got the next Shark Tank coming because it's really neat to watch. Thanks Michelle. That's super exciting stuff. Yeah, thank you for your report, Rebecca. All right, Fremont is gearing up to the end of the school year with some fun stuff. Um, PTA fund run is tomorrow. Um, let me clarify, Dr. Ward, are those donations closed or we still All right, so final push tomorrow morning. It's happening. Um, it's uh and they're so excited. It's a really fun thing. It'll be starting at 8:30 in the morning, goes um till about 11:30. And then uh they've also got a field day planned and a day with obstacles. So they'll have one of those bounce houses with the different obstacles in it and each grade gets to go through. And I believe the grades with um who
042had the most attendance during map testing get earned some extra time in the in the obstacle course. And then watch for report cards. Those will be coming home on Thursday, June 5th. And that's it for Fremont. Wonderful. Thank you, uh, Richard. Yes. Thank you for um, Fritz Elementary. Principal Brown wanted to thank the many families who joined him and his staff for their annual family barbecue, which was held last Wednesday night. and he also wanted to thank all the French staff for an incredible school year. Then for Boardwick Bray, principal Ricetta wanted everyone to know that their attendance carnival is coming up on Friday, May 30th, and they are looking forward to a great time for all. They're going to have bounce houses, face painting, cotton candy, popcorn, a cakewalk, and lots of games. On
043Tuesday, June 3rd, they will be celebrating their fifth graders with a special parade at 2:45 p.m. All fifth grade families are welcome to come and send off their fifth graders to middle school. Then all report cards and student items will be sent home on Wednesday, June 4th, and there will be no backpacks on the 5th. The last day of school will be celebrated with field day in the morning before students go home at 12:40. And uh she hopes that everyone has a wonderful and safe summer and so do we. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, Matt. Thank you. Um, it's a report from Mr. Connley over at Eagle Valley. Um, I am going to miss uh him first off because every time he emails me, he uses some great language and it's not bad, but um
044the first thing he said to me was, "Yepers." So, just thought I would share that. Um, the River Wranglers engaged in seventh grade students in a variety of watershed and environmental impact activity last Thursday, May 22nd. It was a great success. Students had a blast and the River Wranglers were a stupendous group to work with for our staff and students. That's the second time you use stupendants in two weeks. So, um, we have a variety of activities planned for the final week of May, including awards assemblies on Tuesday, June 3rd, 8th grade promotion celebration on Wednesday, June 4th at 10:30, and grade level activities on Thursday, June 5th. and Miss Robinson um reports reports that their award ceremony will take place this Thursday for students who have excelled this school year. Next week we have
045field day and a yearbook signing party to celebrate the end of the great year. We'll also celebrate all of our promoting eighth graders with a party at the governor's mansion next Wednesday morning. And finally, the eighth grade promotion ceremony will take place next Thursday at 1:30. and they're excited to celebrate the the school year with the students. That's all I have. Thank you, Matt. Molly. So, for Empire Elementary School, they will be having their annual STEM fiesta night this Friday, May 30th, at 5:30 p.m. The community is invited to see all the amazing things Empire Elementary students have done this year, and there will be games, food, vendors there as well. Um, Miss Virgil would like to thank the school district, the school board for the fence that has been put up at Empire Elementary
046School. She said it is amazing. It has made a huge difference and the kids love it and it makes them feel um a whole lot safer. So, she um thanks everybody for making that happen. Wonderful. Thank you. And uh for me I um as Superintendent Felin mentioned um the scholarship night was super super amazing. Uh thanks to Mrs. Gordon and Miss Campbell for putting that together. It was a wonderful event. I think we all enjoyed it and uh we all had an opportunity to participate. So it was just wonderful to see that many students receive scholarships and I really hope that they continue applying for scholarships because they're very well deserving of those scholarships. So, and then also congratulations to the um students from Jumpstar who graduated last Monday at WNC. It was a wonderful
047group crossing the stage and we look forward to seeing them again at the high school graduation on June 7th, right? Yeah. Okay, good. So, then moving on to agenda item number eight. Um public comment. I understand we don't have any number seven. I'm so sorry. Do I did I I'm so sorry. I skipped number seven. Association reports. That's ah we do have an association representative. My apologies my apologies. Association reports and this is for discussion only. Thank you. Good evening members of the board. My name is Dr. Jennifer Ward and tonight I represent as the president of your administrators association. And with me tonight is our negotiation team of Miss Gina Hoppy, Mr. Daniel Karsten's, and Mr. Jeremy Lewis. We just wanted to take a moment of your time just to celebrate the end of
048the school year and all the crazy business that we are getting to experience. As you can imagine, we have students and staff and parents who are all anxious for the next two weeks. And so as we get started, we just wanted to have the opportunity to speak to you just for a moment. So I'm going to turn this over to Mr. Lewis. Good evening. Um, as administrators association, we first wanted to thank the board for your continuous support for all the administrators in the CCSD. Um and we just wanted to make sure that you were aware that when as an association we often times look to the strategic plan um for our own alignment as an association but also for our own individual sites that is what we are doing at our sites. Is that
049in line with what is happening um what the plan for the for the district is? Um and specifically we look at you know how we as administrators can continue to support staff recruitment, professional growth, right? Shared leadership um our own staff efficacy and efficient and efficiency all which align in this case to goal one of the strategic plan. Um, and as the instructional leaders on in the buildings, we play a central role in supporting and maintaining and implementing those district-wide goals. So, we just want to make sure that that as a board you're aware of the scope that we take into account when we look at our own association, our own needs, our own um flaws, and our own growth. Thank you. We appreciate that. Uh my name is Dan Karstens, uh principal at CHS.
050And again, I I do want to echo what Mr. Lewis said. And sometimes the public perception of administrators isn't always the best, right? It's we're in our offices, you know, behind a computer, behind a desk. But I know that your perception is not the same and I appreciate that very very much. Um I've been in districts where I feel where I felt valued and I've been in districts where I haven't felt valued and this is definitely one where um I do feel valued and I know our admin team does. So um thank you very much for that. And really what I want to do is I just just kind of paint a picture of what what we do. Maybe not in a day, maybe not in a week, maybe a month, maybe a year, maybe
051at home, maybe at 2 am. You know, it's it's just kind of painting that painting that picture of what uh of what happens. But, you know, we we have that mission and and that vision that is on our shoulders, you know, the motto. Um, and we're honestly right now we're working on that stuff um just to make it better and better. That's that's what we do. when I look at all the the students that were up here, you know, your your heart swells with pride. Um, and it's and it it it reminds you of why you're doing everything. Um, and so, you know, we we design our professional learning. Our district provides so many awesome resources. I mean, I can't can't thank you enough. and we we hear um you know here's all the resources
052but it is our job to figure out how all those resources fit together to make our school and our school system um one cohesive unit. Um so the staff really looks to to their admin. Somebody has to make the decisions. And a lot of times the buck it it stops stops right here. You know, teachers look to our deans, deans look to our VPs, VPs looks to our to the principal and then I I I know I have support from district office and everything, but sometimes there's no one behind me to look to, right? And so that that buck really stops with us. And and we love it. we we signed up for it, you know, out of all of the different duties and additional duties that come on your plate when you when you
053least expect it. Um, those are those are some of those things that uh that we have. Um, and so I I I just continue to encourage you don't don't always look at the value of an administrator, but look at the value of a leader. And I believe that our admin team here isn't an admin team. This is it's a leadership team. And I know that uh that they all work extremely hard to to make this district what it is right now. So just think of that and invest in our leaders. And this was a very attractive district for me to come to. And I would just encourage everyone to just, you know, let's let's keep that attract that attraction going. Um there's a lot of people that that look here and there there's a lot
054of good things that we're doing here. So, um, yeah, let's let's keep it as the CCSD. So, thank you all very much. Thank you. Oh, okay. Comments. I'm sorry. I thought I thought we had another person that was going to speak. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Speak. I can speak. That's fine. Gina Hoppy. Um, I can say as I make the transition from Fritz to Eagle Valley, I know um how much we have on our plate. And so having a foot in both doors, I know how overwhelming it is to end a year and begin a year. And that's where we're at right now. So I that's it. Thank you. Well, I would like to say thank you so much to each and every one of our administrators because you guys do so so so much
055and um it's all for the students and so we really appreciate your hard work. Um please know that we really value your work that you put into your day to make um to to educate our our students and to send them off well. So thank you so much. Comments from anybody else? I I would just like to say u I think we all realize how hard you guys work and we really appreciate it and uh we're looking forward to continue to support you guys the best we can under the conditions we have to work with and you'll always have our support. So uh thank you for everything you do. Thank you. Okay, now I can move on to agenda item number eight. Correct. U public comment. I understand we do not have um online public
056comment. Do we have inperson public comment? Seeing none, then I will skip that statement and we will move on to agenda item number nine. Discussion and possible action to approve proposed health curriculum resources reviewed by the family life advisory committee during the 2024 2025 school year. And this is for possible action. Welcome Miss Sheila Story and Mrs. Tasha Fusen. Good evening. My name is Sheila Story. I'm the chair of the Family Life Advisory Committee and the chief nurse for the Carson City School District. Thank you for allowing us to speak to you this evening um in regards to the Family Life Advisory Committee and the success we had this year with our committee. Real quick, we had four meetings. Um they were all very well attended by our members and we had some material that
057was brought forth to us from the middle school asking for some information on signs and symptoms of pregnancy. They felt this was an area that was um they didn't have a lot of information on. So we started this process last year, no the beginning of the year and then we went and researched some more information that we brought to the committee and we have some really good resources that were sent to you. The committee has um approved these two resources and I know you guys got them in your board packets. So, if you had a chance to read them, do you have any questions for us at this time? I believe we all had a chance to read them. Do we have any questions or comments? Who would like to start? Oh, I just have
058the one um question. I just want to um reassure the public as well. This is part of the family life that if their child opts out, they can opt out of this. Correct. Can you speak? Sorry. Oh, sorry. Can I hear you? Wow, that's that's odd. Um, so families can um have their students opt out of of this. Correct. Yes, that is correct. So, in the beginning of the unit, uh a slip is sent home for families to read and review. And if they do want their child not to participate in all of it or part of it, they can do so. And other curriculum will be given to them and they'll be asked to maybe um study in the library and go through the alternative curriculum provided to them. Anybody else? Richard? Uh just
059a quick question. Um, page one, it just talks about like the note on the language and it talks about like pronouns. Um, I don't believe there's a policy in in the district to my knowledge, but a teacher isn't going to be given consequences for not saying they versus woman or anything like that. Correct. I just I don't like that paragraph and I'm just curious if that's something that doesn't need to be in there or since we don't have a policy for it um or do they have to stick with this saying th those words? So whenever we have um material brought to the family life advisory committee for our review, it is um part of a toolbox that they can utilize these to help implement the curriculum that that they need to implement according to
060the standards. Um, so they may not be using this whole packet um or either of the these packets, but I believe we do or we have given our faculty and staff some guidance on how to present material in a more sensitive manner so we don't you know we don't uh you know disrespect anyone's values or beliefs. Is that correct? Tash a few for the record just short and sweet to to answer your question. No, no, I'm teachers do not have to use this exactly as Sheila is saying to the tea. Um, exactly the way it's written. We I had considered removing that but this is not something we created. This is from a different district and this is how was presented to the family life advisory committee. Um so we absolutely can give guidance to
061teachers that any part of this in terms of recommendations for verbiage or language etc is not required by the district to utilize you're talking about gender terms or um and we do not have we have not given our um teachers specific directions on requiring them to use general genderneutral terminology. Um, so that part, like I said, we we discussed potentially taking it out, but that would then be altering something that is already copyrighted and produced by a different district. So, this what we the intent of the family life advisory committee was specifically more for the lesson piece in terms of the information and the worksheets that were in this packet because it's missing currently in our adopted curriculum. Um, signs and symptoms of pregnancy. There's not materials currently provided in our adopted curriculum. Thank you.
062Any other questions? Richard, uh thank you guys for appearing and uh thank you for all the work you do on this uh committee. I know it's not easy sometimes to pick out the appropriate material for resources. But I do have a question. Um, on lesson plan pregnancy part one, it says the target age range is 9 through 15. We're not really thinking about providing this to 9year-olds, are we? So, real Sheila story for the record. So, real quickly, when we do review these materials, each committee member is given a sheet of paper and they're asked certain questions. Is it a good visual? Do they have good information? All that good stuff. Is this something that would be appropriate? And then down at the bottom it asks for is it good for male and female or
063both. Then it asks for um the grade level and which it is best appropriate for. And I believe we did pick this for middle school level and up. So Tasha Fusan as well if you look in the executive summary exactly what um Sheila is stating is that this is um what we're asking for is approval from the board to approve it for seventh grade in particular. So, no, ages 9 and up would not be our target audience, but again, we didn't alter the material because we didn't create the material. So, when it goes out to our staff, um we have a resource list that you have all seen before. It's also posted on our district website, but it specifically says what grade level that it's been approved for and it specifically lists the the standards
064that it addresses. So, it is very explicitly told to the teachers how and when it's appropriate. If that answers that question. I think that answered my question. I just wanted to make sure that we weren't uh talking about pregnancy to uh third graders. No. No. Thank you. Okay. If I don't if I don't have any other questions or comments for this agenda item, I will entertain a motion. I could go ahead and make a motion. Okay. If I could find it here. Okay, here I move that the Carson City School District Board of Trustees approve the health curriculum resources reviewed by the family life advisory committee during the 2024 2025 school year which will be included in the family life curriculum for the Carson City School District. Second. Okay. So motion by trustee Barner, second
065by trustee Peterson Peterson. Any board discussion? Seeing none. Any public comment? Seeing none. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you so much for all your work and for this um you know information that is very very important for all of us to be aware of. Thank you very much for having us here this evening. Okay. Agenda item number 10, presentation of the budget pre uh preparation timeline and introduction of the topics for the public hearing on the budget for fiscal year 2025 2026 including brief discussion for discussion only. Uh welcome Mr. Spencer Winward. Thank you, members of the board. I might need some assistance with the password here since our computer was closed earlier on in the meeting. It says one click wonder, but I think there's a little more to
066that. And Rene is the keeper of all passwords. So, What? Hold on. Oh, really? You always make a mistake if there's people watching type your password. That's how it is. Okay, thank you. As always, we're like your rock. Thank you. Uh, fixer of everything, I think, is her official title. Alrighty. So, will it just take a second to connect to the uh screens through the the room here? No, it's not going to work. No, never done everything. You can't. Okay. Thank you. All righty. Thank you members of the board. Sorry for the apologize for the slight delay there. I just kind of want to go through um what the the buzz budget presentation timeline that we have just to kind of where we're at in that what comes next uh to assist some particularly some
067of you that are this is your first time around through this. Um after that we'll talk about the uh revisions to the capital plan and the CIP. Uh Mr. Johnson will assist with that and then we'll we'll present the budget presentation and resolution. So uh to start off with the timeline here of course our budget planning really it's ongoing year round but for the intents of this we say that kind of starts at the beginning of January where we're looking at where we're sitting currently for this year where things are looking next year. we start to look at revenue projections for the upcoming year and start to take all of those inputs into our budget planning. Uh February 15th, we receive uh projections of revenue from taxation and then uh we use those and and
068other inputs from NDE to generate our tenative budget uh which we presented to you on um early April and we provide that to taxation by April 15th per statute. From that time till now we do fine-tuning on the budget. You guys had a got a good look at the budget of that tenative budget that column and we as we continue to gather information we use that to update the tenative budget to the final budget which is the document that's provided to you in your packets. Uh per statute we uh advertise the budget hearing notice. Um and that happens in the newspaper that was published on May 14th and May 17th. brings us to the little you are here on our map that if you were looking at the mall and see where to get to
069that's that lets you know where you're at. And of course today is a budget hearing. Um and then we will discuss the final budget um that's due to taxation by on June 8th and then what happens particularly in the legislative year late June early July we have 30 days uh after the close of the session to amend our budget if necessary. uh we'll see if there's any drastic changes from what the projections we have. If there are, then it's likely we will amend the budget. If there's only minor items, uh oftentimes we can get by till December 31st when we can do our final budget amendment with uh current enrollments that are known and our audits are wrapped up generally by then and so we know what our beginning balances are audited and can incorporate
070those into our budget. Um couple of items of interest. This is the first year of the bianium. We know the session's ongoing right now. That ends June 2nd. Typically one to two weeks after that we have finalized numbers and can we'll know if we need to amend our current final budget. Um and then also just as we discuss frequently that gradual decrease in enrollment continues to affect our funding. Um our capital projects for FY uh excuse me that should say FY26. Uh we're prepping for a large large projects of the conclusion of FI25 and the start of FY26 summer uh where that kind of tricky where our our busy season spans the end of one fiscal year and the start of another. Um so shortly we'll discuss capital improvement plan revisions and then uh we
071do have some pretty big projects going on this summer that will use a lot of our our bond funds and capital fund uh dollars. And then once this the summer dust kind of settles, we will um revise our our capital improvement. And typically once we know what projects have been completed, we get another round of input from our bond oversight committee and and make adjustments to that in December. So any questions or comments about this process? Thank you. Questions or comments from the board? None so far. No questions, no comments. We're good. All righty. Thank you. Mhm. All right. So, agenda item number 11, discussion and possible action to approve the revised capital improvement plan for the Carson City School District for fiscal year 2026 202030. And this is for possible action. Mr. Spencer Winward
072and uh Superintendent Feling and Mr. Mark Johnson. Welcome. Thank you, Madam President. Again, this will just kind of be going a little bit more detail um the revisions to our capital plan and what we have going on this summer. I'll let uh Mr. Johnson take over the microphone and work his magic. Mark Johnson. For the record, I did not get to meet the new board members. U Mr. Flynn wouldn't let me come to that meeting. He keep he keeps me away from uh new board members and old board members and public. There's a reason. Unlike Mr. Fueling, I have three college degrees. But like Mr. If you mean I have three college degrees where I played college ball two years off of the bench at Frederico's College of Beauty. Um do you have this for
073them in their packet? Yeah. Uh this is the capital budget uh that we're proposing. You have this before you. Uh it's similar to all the years before. We've upped a few items on the district-wide asphalt. 400 uh $400,000. I'm proposing to do uh this year we're doing uh three locations for slurry seal or two locations for slurry seal and three locations for uh repaving some uh locations. Right now we're slurry ceiling the south teachers parking lot celiger elementary and then we're paving uh in front of frri building a empire basketball court in Carson Middle. So I'm requesting because we've done a condition assessment uh for our paving and I'm trying to keep up with that. I've got six locations next year I'd like to do. So I've asked them to up that. I do crack
074seal seal coat every year on a regular basis to keep up with our condition assessment. So I asked to do more on the uh slurry seal uh for next year. Uh there's I won't go down every item unless you have questions. Uh I'll go to some of the bigger items we're looking at. Uh Mark, if I could sure on the paving asphalt, what about the teacher where the teachers parked by CMS or Yeah, CMS. Which part part? Across the street. Across the street. I'm doing that this summer. That Okay, that's included. That's the one I'm doing this summer. Okay, thank you. That's the one of the three I'm repaving. I thought we talked about that earlier. So, we've been trying to do that for like four years. We're finally doing that this summer. Good. Thank
075you. Yes. Mhm. On that note, really quick, is that why there's such an increase because it was a um the four the 400 four $400,000 is for this next year. I've already got it paid for. It's encumbered for this year is what Spencer said. I've already got it paid for. We've already awarded a contract uh for it already. Okay. For the slurry seal and the pa pavement. It's already paid for. or we've awarded it. We haven't set the schedule. It's just going to be during that summer. Our pre-construction meetings uh going to be taking place and they just need to uh send us the schedule. It's going to happen during our summer months because what I was looking at is um in FY25 we had projected um 150,000 and now that's for different things. That's
076for my regular pavement maintenance where I do crack seal. I've got like nine uh that I'm getting proposals on off of that 150 for like crack seal, seal coat, repainting, repaving parking lots uh districtwide for like I'll spend like $10,000 $15,000 at a parking lot uh playground districtwide. That's where the 150 goes. And so then this year you're asking for What? Then an additional next year or next this next fiscal year, you're asking for an additional 250. Yes. An additional Okay. Which will be for bigger projects for the slurry seal because like right now uh to for helping to give you a quick geotechnical, you can repave a parking lot, but to prevent that from having to repave it, you can uh slurry seal it, what puts a lot of oil back in it, or
077you can fog seal it or seal coat it. the better. It'll last five years on a slurry seal to help that. And I'd like to slurry seal more of our parking lots or um playgrounds. It lasts longer. It costs a little bit more, but it lasts longer because I've been I've been seal coating them and I've been crack sealing and when it gets the cracks in there, that prevents the water from getting down into the subbase. Okay? And that's what I do with that 150 uh,000 districtwide. Uh, and and the rest of the items I'll say are self-explanatory, but I'm open for questions on these. I've got my notes and I will go. I do um um doing a comparison you know from um FY 24 25 to the 26 and and most of these
078are a lot of times are job specific right like we didn't do it last year and this will be a specific job or project that we might be doing so they won't be equal or identical but go ahead. Yeah. So I have um just a a a question if you can um educate me. So when you go for revenues it says projected increase by previous year. Um so in FY24 we said 1.6% 25 1 um 16% 26 1.16%. Why would you go to project in FY27 at 5%. Where is that revenue coming from? Where do we think that additional revenue is going to come from? 5% has kind of been the the default that we've used over the years. Um, and generally as we kind of get some better like we will sometimes kind of
079adjust those down the last few years like FY26 is is more kind of what we know based off of taxation's estimates and that's where we go with that 1.6 1.16. So as we look and and get into FY27 we may do a more in-depth analysis to decide do we want to move from that default 5% because as we look at the last three years they've been lower right and we would adjust those. Okay. Yeah. So, I was just gonna um wondering why we would go um up to five. U moving down to expenditures. Um so, in F uh fiscal year 24, we had 150,000 for land acquisition and that was, you know, spelled out that it was the lumpa when we did in that budget. Um it says the LA 10 acres was 150,000 for
080FY24. What would this 200,000 be for? So the the 200,000 that the 150,000 for the lump has not been spent yet, but we still intend we may need to spend that this year. It may be the year coming. So we've just rolled that budget authority forward and we've added 50,000 there in case there are some acquisition costs we need if we look at other land options towards that may become available to us. And as that as the lumpa happens, if it happens at the 150,000, there's no other additional cost to that, then we could allocate that other 50,000 to other projects or it's available if if we needed to explore something that may become available. Okay. And then under expenditures, um the plumbing and the mechanical is something that is new. Oh, no. Is that
081the HVAC? No, the HVAC you've been in FY24 it was 200,000. nothing in FY25 and then 750 is what we're projecting in FY26, but then underneath that it's the plumbing and the uh mechanical and we've never had that before and that's an well in at least since I've been here and it's an added 550,000. So what is what's going on with our plumbing? So we kind of put a placeholder there. Not sure what we would have but we we found some pretty good surprises with our Carson bathroom remodel. Okay. As well as um just a lot of our buildings we're looking at 30 40 plus year old infrastructure and find that we when we open these up with projects we're finding that they're not in as good a condition as we hope and we've had
082some additional costs there. So we've kind of put that there not intending to in spend that all this year unless we discovered something that was just completely catastrophic. Uh, but it's just kind of a placeholder that as we do these other projects, sometimes we have things opened up and it makes sense to spend 40 or $60,000 to repair some plumbing that is not in good shape. Uh, for example, at Carson Middle, uh, we have a very old building and some additions, there's a high likelihood as they get in there and open things up, we find that, you know, it would make sense while we have this torn up. Let's spend a little bit more and repair this plumbing, okay? so that we're good for another 60 80 years. Okay. So, I'm hoping that's what um
083if we move on to Carson High School. So, I'm kind of hoping that's what the um it's just a rollover, but please tell me if it is not. But in FY24, we had stated that we were going to do $400,000 in gym bleacher replacements, but now it's back in FY26 for 400,000. Yeah. We have yet to do that replacement. Okay. And that's kind of a placeholder where we don't have actual bid numbers yet. Um we anticipate that's likely going to be higher than 400,000 when we do go that route. Okay. And is that the same then for the HVAC upgrades because we had in FY24 and then again in 25 um we had 1 million for Carson High and then in FY um 25 we were looking at five million. So is that where we're
084kind of So we have we done those yet? We we originally had that project slated for this summer, but for a myriad of reasons have postponed it a year. Okay. So that same amount we've just rolled to this year and and next year because that'll be an FY2627 summertime project. Okay. Um All right. So then I think that is pretty much what is kind of the rest of my questions as well is if they were on a fiscal year, you know, like two years ago to be budgeted and if they're still on it today, we just haven't gotten to it. That's generally the case. Okay. Thanks. I I I would just add to one of the one of the with this budget, what's really hard is you you have a lot of the projects are
085happening over the summer. And so you have maybe half the project that is happening in the current fiscal year, half that is happening in the next fiscal year. And so some of Spencer's work is trying to figure out where where we are in terms of money available as we go into this year, but then also looking to, you know, some of those costs are already in the FY25 budget, but they may not all be spent and they may come up after July f or the the work may be done after July 1st. So then you're you're kind of playing both sides of that fis those fiscal years. And that that is a it's kind of frustrating. It'd be easier if you could just plan this is what the summer costs, but it's just not it's
086just not the way it works out. So then I guess lastly, um did we have then a carryover of funds? So like in um FY25, we had thought that we were going to um you know spend a total of 23 million um total applications of 23 million. Um, did we spend all of that? We we did not. If you if you look at the beginning balance in the budget for FY26 at 16.1 million, we would have had nearly all of that 23 million budgeted. Perhaps not quite all, but a good chunk of that, especially because we had six or seven million tied up in that HVAC project that was rolled an entire year back. So there's a quite a bit of carryover uh from unspent projects in FY2526 that or FY2425 that are now budgeted
087in this capital improvement plan. That's where it's kind of the living document. You know, we get it all hammered out and and this is what it should be and then real life doesn't line up to what we had on paper. So we're constantly making adjustments and changes to to match what our projections will be and and what actual is. Yeah, that I mean it's a great carryover. So I'm not complaining. 16 million. Um, not at all. Um, I do though if um if it's possible to work at the to letting us kind of know, you know, when we get this what has been done and what's kind of a carryover. So then we're not looking, you know, saying like um, for example, uh, the gym bleacher replacements. When I look at this here, just the
088in today's packet, I look at 400,000. I'm like, hold on a minute. I I know that back in 20, you know, fiscal year 24, we did another 400,000. What do we do in one the right side, the left side on two different years? Not been done, right? So, if we could just maybe put that in future budgets going um you know, didn't do in fiscal year 24. It's the project carryover. Maybe something to that would be helpful for us up here to be able to see what was what project was carried over and not finished. Thank you. I have just one quick thing on the land acquisition of the Lumper Ranch. Are we still receiving the $1,000 per house is being built and uh are we getting that money in? Yes, we are receiving that
089and keeping it in a separate account. Okay. So this land acquisition that 200,000 or 150 thou that's being paid for by that money we're getting from those houses. The 150,000 represents our portion of that. the remainder of the cost of the land would be made up by the thousand dollars per lot that we receive from paid the 150 then that's just that'll be carried over to next year probably and we get the the way the way that um agreement the specific plan for that area um the the the sale price on that land was $2 million and the the lumpa money coming in that we're collecting goes toward that what our obligation of that two million is to pay 150,000 actually out of our own funds. Rebecca, uh yeah, just a question on some of
090the projects um being new to the board. I just um safety is really important for the students. So, I would just like to learn more about access control phase three, like what phase one and two were, what's planned for three, and then also at Carson High, um what safety upgrades are being looked at. Uh, let me let me start at the three and go backwards. We're at 94% complete. I looked at that that today. And we're the last part of that's Carson High School. The access control or I don't have my Yeah, it's the swipe cards to get in. Uh, they're finishing up uh the elevators, which I think they did that. And then at the staff uh location, it's to get access at all the doors at the main entrances, the back entrance to
091the playground. The high school doesn't have the playground. Um they did the first access control to get the main entrances and some of the playgrounds. Then they realized and our risk manager goes, "Well, we need more of them." So phase two went back and re-evaluated the schools and got more of the locations. Then after phase one and two goes, the principles got involved and go, "Well, we need one over here, one over here." So phase three came around and hopefully he's going to probably get like 99% of them because after phase three is done, they're going to go, "Well, we probably should have added one here." We've done a couple change orders through this and added a couple locations. We're like in an off interior office at Carson Middle. Um that's going to give us
092access control. And one of the main things is that the teachers can get access through their with their this without having a keys to the main entrances and also gives control through the schools um that they can lock down the schools at any one time. They can also close the school down on the weekend so teachers can't get in there on the weekends at certain times or they can get in there during certain times on Saturdays or Sundays and then close the schools down. So, we're almost done with uh phase three at that part of it. What safety upgrades at the high school are being looked at? Where's that one at? It's with perimeter fencing and safety upgrades. Uh perimeter fencing, that's a brand new project. Vanoir Beagot is our uh uh architect on that.
093at the very north end. You know where all the main glass doors are where they come in at the student parking lot. We're going to fence that in and we're trying to get a secure a access to the school. We have a secure access on the south end where the kids are supposed to go in that way, but they go in all hours of the time. We're getting a secure access fencing. We're getting that designed right now by Fanart Body. So like if the kids come in there and then you know on the west side where we have the towers uh there's doors there where like if kids call in hey they call their friend hey will you come and open the tower door. Well we're going to we're going to alarm all those doors
094as well. So like if you go open the door for me that alarm's going off. So the principles and vice principles or deans will get an alarm and say, "Oh, tower threes." Well, we'll have cameras out there as well. So, they'll have your picture and my picture, but we'll have them uh it's going to be a learning curve right at first. So, that's going to um at uh going to be able to call us in and say, "Don't do that." And we're going to have it signed, you know, can't use these during these these times. Those doors on the uh towers will be for egress only. Leaving the alarms will go off. Then in the in the front where the student parking and it's going to be an operational thing on the high school side.
095Then once those kids come in after that's locked down, you got to go to the front to the main front entrance and sign in. You a kid can't come and open those doors for them. So that's being designed right now. Hopefully we can get that built this summer. hopefully. Thank you. And I appreciate that. My niece was just talking to me about people coming from all directions and I thought, "Oh, and I don't like that." I don't think and you drive her all the all the time at any time of day to go check on a project or and you can see kids going like this and that's not a secure right. So, thank you. Thank you for addressing that and answering my questions. Yeah, I think that has been a concern for many of
096us. So, we appreciate that clarity. Excellent. Okay. So, if there are [Laughter] If there are no other questions or comments, I will entertain a motion or I knew that one. I guess I'll can make the motion. Okay, Richard, go ahead. The Carson City School District Board of Trustees approved the revised capital improvement plan and the opening balance fund 300 capital projects for fiscal years 2026 through 2030. I'll second. Okay. Motion by Trusty Vardner 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 so much for all that work. Okay. Agenda item number 12, discussion and possible action on the final budget, including adjustments to the tenative budget for the Carson City School District for fiscal year 2025 2026, including
097adoption of a resolution approving the final budget and transmitt letter and this is for possible action. Mr. Spencer Winward. Thank you, Madam President, members of the board. Um this will just kind of complete the budget presentation that the CIP was part of. Uh to start off with, I kind of wanted to to just show a um an overall pie chart of our expenditures by fund. Um I don't know how good your your eyesight is. The large the blue the largest section of that is the general fund which comprises 57% of our spending. Uh and this is just kind of to show you a little bit of everything that we have. And then of course a lot of those funds that we have mirror the general fund spending and then others are closely mirror with additional
098restrictions that those funds have. We have the bond fund that's 11% that we just talked about um that you know that's all been outlined and the reason I show this is this is why we spend so much time talking about the general fund because it's the bulk of what we do. Several of the other smaller funds mimic what the general fund does. Uh sometimes with the exception of just being more salary and benefits because there's less services and supplies in there for those that are specific to uh positions. Uh and then just to kind of give you an idea of, you know, this is all of the funding makeup or all of the expenditure makeup of everything that we do in the district. So, um, the budget document that you guys had included in your
099packet, we just I'll just kind of go through similar to to how I've done in previous presentations. Um, just go over the total revenues and expenditures and and where our projected deficit is because we we we are anticipating some deficit spending. Uh, reducing some of our reserves because they're they're in a very healthy position and uh we sometimes we need need to do that. So, um, unchanged from last time is 80.8 million of our general fund revenues. And then a slight change, we have 85.4 million of general fund expenditures. Um, that brings our taxation deficit. If you look on page two of the budget, that shows that 4.6 million. Of course, that includes 1 million in contingency. We don't anticipate on spending, but it's there for a just in case. Then also just slightly over
100$200,000 of our carry forward amount is in that as well. If you remove those from the taxation de def def def def def def def def def def def def def def def def def def def def deficit it gives our structural deficit of 3.4 million as you recall from the tenative budget we are 3.5 million so we have squeezed blood from a turnup and got a few more drips out of there uh to reduce that just just slightly by almost $100,000 but feeling pretty good about that estimate. Um and and again as in years past we've projected a deficit but not always had that. Um at at this level we do anticipate there will be some deficit spending in reducing our reserves to keep and maintain the services that we have been while being
101cognizant of of future years expenditures making sure that we don't commit ourselves to a situation that would be drastic for the district for future years. Um any questions on that before I move on? questions. See none. All righty. I heard someone here likes graphs, so I've included a few more and they are very very visual. So again, this is just the the same pie chart that showed all of our expenditures. It just shows those same expenditures of the general fund, that 57% broken out by object area. Um, so as you can see, our salaries and wages is the bulk of our our expenditures. 57% salaries and wages 30% benefits for 87% of our total expenditures as services supplies and other equals 13%. Um so we can trim if you remove people from the equation you
102can trim and cut and do everything and maybe make a 1% difference that service applies another and it barely moves our budget. So that's one of the difficulties in in building this is we're very personnelheavy. That's just the nature of education. Um, and so we're always cognizant of making sure are we too heavy in positions? Do we have things that we don't need? We look at that to make sure that because that's where the bulk of being able to save funds comes from. Um, highlights of changes for all of our funds. So throughout all the funds, we've updated the salary and benefit numbers to our latest projections, including a few more resignations and retirements that we didn't have at tenative budget time and at our last presentation. And overall those are slightly lower. Uh one
103trend that's different to that is our special education fund is slightly higher um for salary and benefits numbers. I'll discuss a little bit more as I talk about special education fund. One other thing you may note in our general fund uh the SP231 funds uh both revenue and expenditures has been removed from that and back to a special revenue fund. It's really a net zero change as we remove 2.6 million of revenue and also 2.6 6 million of expenditures from the general fund and put it back in a special revenue fund similar to how it was accounted to for this year. And that's based off of where we think that's going to land when the legislative session is done. We'll we'll know shortly after June second if that's the case or not. Uh but that's
104what what we've done based off the most current information that we have. We did include a slight increase for liability insurance um as we've seen some increases on that. I don't have final numbers, but the last projection I had for that is very favorable. Likely won't include all that increase, which would just ultimately move that u uh would potentially lessen our deficit at the end of the year. So, that's good news if that shakes out how we're hoping that it does. Um a slight decrease in overall fund transfers from the general fund. Again, special education funds slightly higher. the PCFP funds, EL at risk and GATE funds are slightly lower. Um, EL is English learners. Um, GATE is gifted and talented education. I'm sorry I try not to to use too many acronyms without explanations
105at least once. Um, new this year, there's a small transfer to our summer summer school fund as over the last couple years as funds have have managed those expenses. Uh we did have some res residual funds in there, but uh we have budgeted for a little bit of that uh to cover our summer school expenditures. Um another graph here just kind of shows the expenditures by program of the of general fund. And again, the bulk of that is regular education. That's what we do. 44% support services, which uh very closely tied to regular education. And you could probably argue some of this could go one way or the other, but this is how we delineate it. The state works to try and get this similar from district to district even though there's probably some variability
106from one district to another. Um, example of support services are our pair of professionals, bus drivers, um, some of our grant personnel, our nurses. Those are all examples of support services that they may have direct face-to-face contact with student, but they may not. U, the two of those make up the bulk of what we do. Um, our fund transfers, uh, 11% goes to special education. Again, that's going to be broken up very similar to this. Uh, one thing I kind of like to highlight is our co-curricular extracurricular. That's 1% of our overall budget. Occasionally, I'll get questions like, why do you guys do sports that's so expensive? Um, in the overall scheme of things, it's not a huge amount. Um, I think we saw a pretty good example today of of what sports does for
107educators. We saw students who are going on to continue their education and further their sports careers. Uh it really gives you a pretty good bang for your buck as far as being able to increase educational opportunities beyond the classroom. Uh moving on to other funds um outside of the general fund are PCFP funds. So the um EL special or EL at risk and gate funds um our our funding is slightly reduced from the previous bianium for those. Um there are a lot of factors that go into that. Um so and again less re revenue there is going to equal higher transfer from the general fund andor shifted expenditures to the general fund. Sometimes it just might make sense for us to move a position that was previously funded by one of those to the general
108fund as opposed to increasing the transfer. And then also a third thing there could be a reduction of services. Again, we really try to to not reduce that at all and do so only as a last resort. Our adult education funds um nominal changes from the ten of the budget to the final. Um and as usual, every available dollar we have is budgeted for expenditure and uh those programs will continue fairly similar to they have over the last couple of years. um our state grants fund uh nominal changes the largest one is this is where SP231 came to to reside. So there is aside from other nominal changes there is that 2.6 million increase in revenue and expenditures for this fund. Of course these grants are managed through eage which is Nevada departments of education's
109u web management system for grants that's um turned out to start to work fairly well and then we're able to to change these funds. So they can be self- augmenting as we find more information or get increased revenue or decreased revenue throughout the year. Our special education fund also has nominal nominal changes from the tenative budget. Um we did have to move a couple of positions to special education and these are necessary uh positions that we need to to meet our maintenance of effort and those have moved from some grant funding sources to special education. As we know that's a very fluid situation now and you know we'll continue to monitor throughout the year and may see some changes in December as we know more as the federal fiscal year ends and new one starts
110how that will look. Uh local grants very very nominal changes from tenative to final. This is also self- augmenting as we re may receive funds we weren't aware of uh throughout the year. we can augment that budget uh if we were to receive a local grant that we weren't aware of of at budget time. federal grants fund 280 very not a few changes here mostly related to the special education grants again we we had a couple of uh reduction in funds there and we've made those changes to to move positions from here to special education these are also managed through eage through Nevada department of education and uh re receive increased moni monitoring through that through ND's teams could could you just explain so just with a couple new board members explain the self- augmenting
111like what what that really what that means. So self the funds that are self- augmenting means that we can increase our budget authority throughout the year uh with our general fund, our PCFP funds, our special education fund, bond funds, uh capital projects funds, those are not self- augmenting. What we budget now is what we can use uh up until December. We can make it a budget augmentation at that point in time for those funds. With these that are self- augmenting, for example, a a federal grant, if a new grant came about in September or October one at the beginning of the federal year, we're able to adjust that fund and it it's managed through EPA. So, there's additional uh scrutiny and and eyes on funds like that throughout the year through those systems, but we're
112allowed to increase the our budget for those items throughout the year without needing to do uh the full process of augmenting a budget. uh which would include advertising the newspaper, having a budget hearing, um public input, and going through all of that. So, that's what a self- augmenting fund is. Again, just kind of could kind of recap our local grants, um so fund 260, fund 270, um which are gifts and donations, and fund 280 and 240 are all self- augmenting, meaning we can kind of adjust those on the fly. the others. It's a little bit more of a a tedious process and uh unless something changes drastically in the legislature, we're not anticipating a change of those till December. Any questions up to this point? Questions? No questions. All righty. Moving on. Our nutrition services
113fund, we did have some pretty good changes here. Um, as we received some updated revenue projections from our food service management partner, we had of some more data to input to that based off of having a year or almost a year of of non-universal free meals. So, revenue projections were were uh slated to be lower than what we showed in the tenative. Uh, I feel good about the number. It's what I would say is closer to accurate where the others were uh a little bit too inflated in my opinion. So, I like what we have in there better. Um, currently we show a slight um increase in fund balance for fund 290. Uh, that might be a little optimistic just to be honest, but it's I'm comfortable using what our our food service management partner
114has has created and then as we see some changes throughout um, you know, the first couple of months of next year, we can see if we're on target for those or if we should make an adjustment December. Um, our contract renewal for our FSMC, our food service management company is currently pending. Um, I would anticipate you guys see something on the next board meeting regarding that. We have been through the RFP process and that contract's currently with NDA for review. Uh, once their review is finalized, then it comes to you guys for final approval and then we execute that contract. Uh, here's just kind of an update to uh, what we anticipate to charge for our mills next year. We had some pretty good increases last year come off of universal free. A couple of
115things that go into this. uh we do some some projections uh based off the Department of Agriculture and their recommendations say we should add 50% per mill to kind of keep up with the going rate. Um we kind of feel that would not be do a service to our families in the community to increase prices that much. We do have to increase them on average for lunch at 10 cents per mill. We've opted to increase elementary by 255% 25 cents per meal. hold middle school the same and increase high school by 25 cents per mill. Those have to be weighted averages based off of actual usage of those mills. That does come out to be a 10% a 10 cent per mill increase to comply with with federal regulations. Um we feel if we went
116much higher than that what we would lose in participation probably would offset any gains that we would get by a drastic increase. Um, we've typically have done that similar of when we need to increase kind of stay at the minimum knowing that that may at some point result in the deficit, but we feel that's doing the best thing for our community to not have such a drastic increase all at once. Any questions regarding that? Any questions? No, we're good. All righty. Um, next funds that are in the budget are our capital projects fund fund 300 and bond funds. Those are both covered in the CIP. Uh the budgeted items have been updated to match our CIP as required by statute and we Mr. Johnson covered those fairly in-depth. So if you do have any further
117questions, I I do welcome those. If not, we're pretty clear on that. I'll go ahead and move on. Our debt services fund. This is this is essentially the fund to pay the mortgage on our bonds. Um a couple of updates just to reflect the interest and principle of our our projected bond payments. One thing I will mention we didn't cover with the capital improvement plan. Um we did update our pay as you go funds that are available. That's approximately 4.5 million. And what that number represents is that's money that we could pull out of our debt services fund and use for a capital project. That takes us down to the bare minimum of what we're required by statute which is 50% at the beginning of the year of what our bond payments are. So if
118we were to pull all that out that could uh potentially affect future bonding. It is available there if needs be. Um and we may in fun years 2728 elect to use some of that but just want to let you know that that's what's available currently as things stand now. Uh some items that will affect the final amendment budget in December. Uh obviously biggest thing is uh finalization of the legis of the legislative session. Uh if there's drastic changes that could um cause us to amend the budget uh 30 days after the close of the session. If it's pretty close to what we have projected, then we anticipate not making a change until December. Um there's a lot of volatility with federal funds right now, that may come into play in what our December budget looks
119like. And uh our enrollment comparisons uh as we look at our projections versus what actual are right around the beginning of October when the dust is settled, we kind of know what the year looks like. That could potentially affect what how our budget looks like. And then once all of our positions are filled or mostly filled and we know actuals versus our estimated staffing costs, we may make adjustments there as well. Uh we could see some updates to the nutrition fund because again we'll have some a couple more months of data of how things are looking with those new prices and may adjust things up or down depending on how projections are going at that point. And then also just our further fund analysis analyses as we're looking through that may may uh create input
120for that December budget. Any questions or comments? That's a lot of information here. So, I'm sure that there's a lot of questions. Go ahead, Richard. Number one, thank you for the work you're doing this. It's not easy to prepare a budget like this, but I just got a quick question. And on page six on budget resources uh under o funds if you go down you see gifts and donations and for some reason it's 80,961 and it moves over to $200,000. I'm just wondering what kind of gifts or donations those are or where we get that. So on page six, okay, and we're looking at gifts and donations. So yeah, that first column represents the beginning fund balance of 80,000. We kind of estimate based off of previous years of $200,000. Um because this one is
121it is self- augmenting, but we also can't um if we we can't unlock uh beginning fund balance unless we budget for it. Okay. So 200,000 is the 200,000 is kind of an estimate. We have some items that we know, but that's that's based off kind of some historical averages of things that we see in allows us to accept donations and have a place to put them throughout the year. Yes. Okay. Thank you, Willie. All right. Thank you. Um and thank you for doing this. Okay. So, um just to clerical, if this is your final budget, um on page two, um it says estimated estimated general fund beginning balance on July 1, 2024. So, I think you want to change that to 2025 on page two. And then at the very bottom, it says um estimated
122FY24 operating expenditures. I think you want to make that 25. 25 2025. Yes, good catch. I apologize for that. And would it just had me so confused when I was comparing um one budget to the next to the next and I I was confused but now I got it. Okay. So um so one I just want to emphasize that um you know and I think it would be you know you mentioned it as well but I think this is for the public as well to state that um you know no one no government entity can submit an unbalanced budget. This is a balanced budget. If you go side by side page by page you know you go from one fund to the next the revenues match the expenditures. It's a b it is a balanced
123budget. What we're saying the five the 4.5 is just deficit spending meaning that we are proposing that we will have to go into our reserves which looks like it is 15 million is what our reserves are going that is rolling over and we're proposing to spend 4.5 million of that 15 million is what um this is looking like and so you know I will vote to approve this but I just need um you know, and we mentioned it earlier this morning during our meeting as well is at some point we need to stop deficit spending. We're going to either um need to make cuts because as you estimate in here as well, the enrollment is going down. Um I believe we you know we stated at one point um you know in FY um 24
124we thought 7 7,427 students the next year 7,38 and then this coming year we estimate 6,914. So as enrollment goes down revenues stay down as well. So, I would just encourage us um you know to to I guess stop spending what we don't have because you know in a couple years we're not going to have anything to roll over and that is a concern you know that I have as well. Um but you know other than that um you know we need to get this moving forward. Yep. If I may, we are very cognizant of that and for the last couple years um we've kind of given the benefit to the doubt as we have a position that's kind of on the fence of like right let's keep it reduce our class size numbers and
125then reevaluate and unfortunately the way things are that the the script is kind of flipping to where those positions that are on the fence they'll probably need to go the other way and we have reduced a few positions through atrophy and you know as as we go throughout this year that's one thing that we would look at quite considerable is as people leave. Can we reallocate uh our existing members to to reduce a few positions or or what we need to to to reduce that deficit amount so that we're closer to being balanced without using our reserves. Uh we do find ourselves in a very good position to have the reserves to be able to do that to to where we've for the past couple years have been able to say, well, let's give this
126position the benefit of the doubt. let's keep it for another year as opposed to removing it now and you know do a really good job of providing all of the benefits we can to our students. So yeah, and I and I recognize that and I do appreciate it. And I do know that, you know, this last year we were caught off guard. I think with um inflation, you know, with I auto insurance going up for the buses and you know, the fuel, you know, to to run the buses as well as utility bills and you know, everybody is is um experiencing that as well. And it's um you know, unfortunate that the rate of our revenue isn't going at the rate of our expenditures. That would be awfully nice. Um so yes and then if
127I can just make a suggestion as well um when we move forward um I have asked this you know um previously as well having this meeting the Tuesday after Memorial Day weekend is extremely hard um it's hard I think on staff and it's hard on us as well going over this budget you know over that weekend and then trying to address the question so I don't know when if it could be done in a special meeting, you know, the Thursday before Memorial Day weekend, you know, and we do a special meeting and we mix tonight's meeting, you know, on maybe on that end. Um, but I would really appreciate that we look at that moving forward. Um, because it it is it's stressful, I think, on all of us as well when we want to
128make sure that we're prepared to pass this budget. Also, I would ask um of the board and of staff as well is if we can break down um some some of these other funds like you know we get a we get a general idea of the general fund you know and you can kind of see what's actual to what is being proposed you know um to what actual being proposed but some of these other funds if we could take um a few meetings and I believe I spoke to the president about this as Well, but ever so often that we get some meetings to where we can actually break down these funds with the detail line items so we know as a board up here what they really are. Um, you know, because like you
129know, gifts and donations. Um, okay. I'm not really, you know, it would be nice to just have a um a detailed line item and to kind of educate us as well. It wouldn't it wouldn't be anything we're voting on, you know, because it's within the budget, but we would at least get an idea of what is actually in all of these different funding mechanisms that you had great um chart for, by the way, the pie chart. Um but yeah, just to kind of give us an idea and then um because I think it's going to take a team effort to make some cuts moving forward and I think um when these budgets move forward, the board is going to be put into a very tough position. If cuts are going to be needed to be
130made, which I believe that, you know, they may, um I would like to make sure that I am doing my due diligence to know exactly what we're cutting. So that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you for those suggestions. Um, thank you, Molly. Um, I do have a question. Are we able to change the timeline for the budget? Are we able to um, you know, perhaps have this this agenda item at a previous meeting? Um, it it gets kind of tricky because the later we get, the more accurate information we have to develop the budget. So if we go earlier then then we're essentially just submitting the tenative budget a second time. Gotcha. So the later we go the more time we have to input that. But then if we you know the next board
131meeting is going to be after statutoily statutoily we have to write it to taxation. Right. So kind of tricky. I will admit it is also difficult on the person who prepares the budget to have it memorialally weekend. Well, and and Spencer, the the there's a range, and I forget exactly what it is, a range of dates that yeah, this has to be it's got to fall within 10 days of the latter part of May. I don't remember exactly. It's something to do with the something something Monday of May, but there's a 10day range that this has to fall in. And that's why I do think, but correct me if I'm wrong and you can, but I do think that that Thursday prior to Memorial Day weekend would work because you would post it on a
132Monday and then we could have a special meeting on that Thursday and then I and then the questions could be asked and Sure. Yeah. I I think you know it some of it depends on the way the calendar itself falls because I know this approval hasn't always happened after that Tuesday after Memorial Day. Sometimes it's it I think more often happens the week before Memorial Day which helps with with some of this. Um, I I will say that I think up until or up until about 2016, 2017, we actually would have three meetings in the month of May. We'd have two regular board meetings and have a separate meeting just for the budget. Um, but we thought we we thought we had to do it that way and then we found that we could combine
133the budget into a regular board meeting. So we were able to eliminate a board meeting which there was happiness about I would say. Um but but so I I think there is some flexibility and and really maybe looking forward maybe depending on how the calendar is falling within that year. Um we can start talking about potential adjustments if it's going to fall like this again. Does it? Okay. Spencer get so we can plan ahead. Yeah. And that's what I'm saying is um ever since I've been a board member, it has fall it has fallen the Tuesday after Memorial Day weekend and then next year it falls the Tuesday after Memorial Day weekend as well. And it's not fair. I mean it's you know we get the packet on Thursday and you know the questions that
134are being generated, it is unfair on staff and I and I recognize that. Um but then it's not fair on us board members either taking the the weekend to digest all of this and go through it. Um and so that's what I'm the questions would have come this morning you know on that end. So um if we could I would just ask that we you know explore it. Thank you. So another suggestion is to consider applying for additional grants to help us you know with with um you know some of that um deficit. I don't know how um active we are in um seeking for grants, but I'm wondering if that would be something that we could look into increasing. We we are exploring a couple of potential new grants as we speak. So, we
135have our grants um manager is devotes a good portion of her time to looking for new and outside the box sources of grants rather than the ones that have been traditionally provided to us including private sector and corporate sponsors and and other items. Oh, great. Awesome. Thank you. Okay. Any other questions or comments? If not, then I will enter. I do. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry, Richard. Go ahead. Um, I think everybody knows how I feel about deficit spending. I've been talking about it for six years. Could you remind me once more? Just kidding. I'm not in favor of deficit spending. And up until this morning, I was really torn about whether to um support this budget or not. And I will support it. Um but I'm glad based upon the recognition that in the future there's
136going to have to be more uh not more attention paid, but some consideration of reducing that deficit spending if not eliminating it. So I at this time I I will support it. I appreciate I appreciate you expressing your concern. Um as that's what we all face in the education world of Nevada is is that's kind of the the picture that's painted statewide and I I appreciate you expressing your concern for that. Thank you. Okay. So at this point I will entertain a motion. I move that the Carson City School District Board of Trustees adopt the final budget for the fiscal year 202526 by approving the res the resolution and transmit a letter and further instruct the director of fiscal services to file the necessary documents to comply with NRS chapter 354. I'll second it. Okay.
137Motion by Trusty Walt and second by Trustee Barner. Any for discussion? See none. Any public comment? Seeing none. All those in favor? I. Any oppose? Motion carries. And Mr. Wward, thank you so much for all this work. I can only imagine you probably go nights without sleeping because you have to, you know, work on this tremendous project. So, thank you. Thank you. Very literally. Thank you all members of the board. All right. Okay. So, moving on to agenda item number 13, discussion and possible action to approve the Carson City School District Board of Trustees nominations to the Nevada Association of School Boards of Individuals to be considered for recognition during the NASBY's 2025 annual conference. And this is for possible action. So, as we recall, um at our last board meeting, we decided we were
138going to have a subcommittee uh review the um input that we received from the district staff. Uh and by the way, thank you to those individuals that did take the time to um nominate uh their colleagues um for these prestigious um nominations or this prestigious awards. We want to thank you and I also want to thank Superintendent Feling for creating that survey that he sent to the staff. So I appreciate your time. It's not like you don't have anything else to do but you helped us with that. So thank you. And so, um, uh, Trustee Roberts and, um, Trusty Peterson and myself, um, got together and reviewed th that input that, uh, information we received from the, um, district and we came up with three individuals or three three candidates um to, um, share with
139you. And then as a board we will identify um one or two for some nominations we do have um the option to um nominate two individuals. So and then we can identify which ones those are in um we will also identify who is writing the letters of um nominations for those particular individuals. And as I recall uh it was decided that us three would take those um the responsibility. Once we are done with those nominations then we will go on with the rest of the nominations and then we will disseminate um those um um candidates uh or we will we will have other board members to help us. Of course. Of course. Yeah. We'll go for a five minute recess. Yes. Okay. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hello. Hello. [Music] Oh, forever. [Music]
140Oh, oh, [Music] It's going to help us with the clarification on how to proceed with this agenda item. But Mr. President, just for clarity of the record, there were there was a process where the superintendent conducted a survey and received nominations from from staff and others um that were provided to all of the board members. The committee uh that that was appointed by the president, met and has uh their own recommendations for you to consider. Uh we want the record to be clear that you are not limited to those uh recommendations. You can still consider any of the other folks that were nominated and you can go completely on your own and nominate truly whoever you want. Uh the committee was formed and performed a task to make recommendations. It did not limit any choices
141for the board. Perfect. Thank you. Are we good with that? Okay. So then if we can um refer to our handout that we received on our packet and start off with um school administrator of the year and this is to recognize the invaluable service provided to Nevada's children by professional school administrators. And please note that for this category, we are able to nominate two individuals. And again, as Mr. Russell noted, uh we did have um that handout uh with the input that we received from the um staff. And so the top uh three individuals that um we recommend to for consideration is um Dr. Susan Molden, um Miss Carrie Prior, and Mr. Josh Billings. And again those are the three that we recommend but as noted um we are able to come up with additional
142um recommendations for other individuals for this category we are able to nominate two correct I'm ready to make okay so then are we just to make this a little streamlined for you what I would recommend is making nominations we'll keep track of them as we go and we'll have one motion at the end for all of Okay. Thank you. So, we'll make a motion. You're going to make a motion for going to make a nomination. Nomination. You can make a nomination. Thank you. Correction. I'd like to uh nominate Sue Molden and Josh Billings. Okay. Any additional recommendations for the um school administrator of the year? Okay. So, looks like there's none. We will move on. you are. Thank you. We'll go on to the next one which is um school district employee making a difference.
143And again for this one is two um nominations and this is to recognize the invaluable service provided to Nevada's children by employees who work behind the scenes to impact student learning and achievement. And we have um identified um Eva Bickmore. She's an office specialist from Fridge Elementary School. Um Sherry Fletcher, um she oversees the transportation. And then um Miss Elizabeth Winfield um cresing guard and noon duty at Freeman um elementary school. Those are the three that we um recommend. Any additional recommendations? See none. Yes, we are able to nominate two. This yes. So this um well you can add um I do want to nominate um Sher Fletcher. Did you want me to go? Okay. And then I will do um I would like to also nominate Eva. Um is it big more? Bigmore. Okay.
144Any additional recommendations? We're good. Okay. We we'll move on. I would love Elizabeth Wingfield, the the crossing department at Fremont to stay on the table for that one as well. Elizabeth Winfield. So, so we have three. So, how would we proceed with this? I would pull the board on who their individual nominations are for this one. Individual. Okay. So, then um we'll start off with Eva Bigmore. So, um we'll take votes. So, I I think um don't take votes. I would just ask each individual who their two nominations are and I'll I'll keep tally tracks for you so we can make a motion at the end. Gotcha. Okay. Very good. So then uh we'll start out with you, Michelle. Who are your top two? Um Eva and Elizabeth. Eva Bikmore and Elizabeth Wingfield. Okay, great.
145Rebecca, same. Elizabeth Wingfield and Eva Bmore. Okay, Richard. Can we ask um I don't know this Eva Bigmore or what she does. Could they explain that to us? Sure. Go ahead and read that. Explain why you're nominating somebody. You're absolutely at liberty to do that. I'd like to know that. Would you like us to do it by way of reading the write up or just in our own? I believe was it you who nominated her? Do you remember? We can read it. Okay. Yeah, I can read it for Eva. So, Eva has been with Fridge for almost 10 years as a noon aid, a reading interventionist and a phenomenal kindergarten parah and finally and and finally and currently as a front office specialist. She makes that office run so smoothly. She works hard. She takes
146initiative and she is so professional, kind and considerate to all staff, students, and anyone that walks in the front door. Eva can probably name most of our students and can remember details about them that makes them feel special and one of a kind. Yeah, thank you. It's been a while since I read that, so thank you for take that one. Reminding me um Sherry, sure. So Sher Fletcher has worked for but is this going to make it unfair to the rest of the nominations? No, it's it you you guys are all able to make your nominations and can justify it however you want. Okay. So if somebody's nominated Sherry and they just want that letter read, they can do that. If somebody wants to back up the nomination for Eva or Elizabeth, you guys are
147welcome to do that. Okay. All right. So then Sherry Fletcher has worked for the school district for over 27 years and has worked her way up to being supervisor of the transportation department. She runs a department of approximately 47 employees. Her dedication to the district and her job is exemplary. I have known this is a third party. I have known her for 11 years when I when I first started in human resources since 2014. I am so lucky to have her as my boss now. Her her knowledge of all the routes, times, and even all of the special kids names, and what bus they ride is astonishing. She has created a warm and inviting atmosphere for her employees. If you are a team player, then you are in the right place here with Sherry. The
148bus drivers and aids have welcomed me so much that I feel like I have been here for many years. All of her staff know they can come in and talk to her at any time and feel at home. Her patient sense of humor and loving care makes her the best boss. I really hope that I really hope she stays with transportation longer than her 30 years. And then for Elizabeth um for the past 16 years she has safely crossing students on fire firebox road. She greets students in the moments by name. Um she na she always offers a friendly reminder to their best as they leave as they leave her on the corner. When she arrives for lunch duty, she is constantly checking in with students and asking them how their day is going. She
149encourages students to play safely, but also allows her allows those who may not have the same amount of social skills to hang out with her and walk the parameter perimeter and and monitor for safety. At the end of the of the day, you will find her right back in at her post by the crosswalk. She is known to hand out a piece of candy or two on any given day to parents and students alike. Right before spring break, she made sure that everyone who used her crosswalk received a chocolate bunny. I am nominating her because this is what our job is to create a warm and positive environment where students are are care about for who they are and what they bring to this world. Liz is a gift to many students and has been
150for over a decade and a half at Fremont. So, does that help? Yes. Okay. So, where did we live off? Okay. Uh, I would um go along with Sher Fletcher and Elizabeth Wingfield. Okay. Matt. Uh, Sherry and Elizabeth. Okay. Molly. Okay. And I will vote for um Sherry and um Elizabeth. Okay, great. Now, um moving on to uh district level administrator of the year impacting student achievement. And we had three nominations and that was um Susan Molden, uh Daniel Settler and Lauren Simino I believe is how you pronounce it. So do we have additional nominations? And this is for the district level employee making a difference um impact in student achievement. I have a possible Dr. Tanya Scott. Do we want Okay, additional one. So, Dr. Tanya Scott, the director of English language and prek
151programs. Okay, so that's the additional one. So, we've got four now. Anybody else? So, we got four. Okay. Then we will start off with your uh two um nominees. Uh let's see. Michelle, start off with you. Uh my two would be Sue Molden and Dan Sandler. Okay. I'm sorry. Sumolden. Who else? Daniel Sadler. Daniel, thank you. Okay. And then Rebecca, so we're just coming up with our two. Sorry, [Music] Lauren. Lauren. Okay. Uh Lauren is a work workhorse. She is there to support her teachers in all their content. She has worked well with each group in developing comprehensive proficiency scale scales. Lauren's unrelenting support for her teachers ensures a high standard of learning with supportive teaching. This one is for the impact. This one is for district level administrator of the year impact in student
152achievement. Okay. It wasn't clear to me. Is she a district level administrator? Um CTE testing coordinator and instruction coach. So that would be a department. So she she definitely has an impact on at the dis at a district-wide level. not technically an administrator though. Um I don't So then would that disqualify her from this category? You know, I sat on the nominating committee and they're very precise in what they look at and if they can't determine what position they actually hold or what duties they are, it disqualifies them. It doesn't really disqualify him, but they don't they don't they don't get those points. I see what you're saying. Okay. So, then do we want to It sounds like Yeah, it sounds like she does not meet all the criteria. So, we want to continue with
153the three that we have unless there are additional ones that you Excuse me. Four. Wait, that was three. Sorry. So, uh Mr. Dan Sandler and then uh Dr. Susan and uh Dr. Tanya Scott. And you don't have to take anybody off of the list. Um you're just going down the line. Anybody can nominate whoever they want. We'll just take a vote at the end for whoever got the most nominations to fill each spot. Gotcha. Okay. And then since um Susan Molden was nominated for another one, they can be nominated for as many. That's fine, too. Okay. And then Richard, why why Dr. Scott? If you uh know Dr. Scott at all, um she work she's a very hard worker. She's at almost every event that I've been at in some capacity. She uh assisted and
154um helped bring that astronaut to Carson. um she wasn't the one that actually contacted him, but she was really highly involved in setting it up. And then she runs the EO program. Uh she does u on the weekends, uh they have art shows at the community, not a community center, but the u not the library, but the downtown, the children's museum. Yeah. Right. And she's there all the time. I was at an art show um that they put on just last week or week before and lo and behold turn around and she's there you know assisting with that. Uh so I just think she works very hard for the district and puts in a lot of effort and um you know like I said the eel program is a very important program that we have
155here and she runs that and she does a very good job in it and then then the prek also. Okay. And that's definitely a dis district level position. Yeah, for sure. Oh, sorry. What? I I was just gonna clarify, too. I I'm not sure that um Sue Molden would actually qualify for this either because she's considered a school administrator, not necessarily a district level administrator. So, I I think probably removing So, then we're down to uh Mr. Dan Sandler and Dr. Tanya Scott. Okay. Are we good with that? Yeah. Everyone's okay with that? Mhm. Okay. sold. I'm just kidding. Okay. And then moving on. Okay. So, award to a friend of K through 12 public education. We're we're we're continuing with the ones that we got feedback from and then we'll go back to the
156others. Okay. So again, this is a word to a friend of K through 12 public education. And we have uh Paula Bomb uh Christine Christristen Kohi Kohi. I don't I don't know how to pronounce that last name. I'm sorry. Koi Kristen Koi. She's a director of programs for the greenhouse project uh on the Carson High School campus and uh Children's Museum of Northern Nevada. Those are the top three that we uh recommend for for consideration. Are there additional ones? This is when we are able to add additional ones. Yes, I would like to see Dana Why with Carson City Toyota. Thank you. Dana way with Carson City Toyota. Okay. Anybody else? I know last year we um recommended uh the sheriff's department and they did not get selected. Are we able to resubmit the selection
157or the nomination rather? If so, if so, I'd like to move that one. Yeah, I would like to include that one. I would also like to um include Mayor Lori Begel. Yes. Yes, definitely. I was just going to say that with um whoever is part of giving the bikes, is that something through her? Is that something? It's a combine effort from but it's her initiative. Yeah, it's her side. Yeah. Okay. Her initiative and then um Carson City Toyota has been a partner in helping fund that with many others. Right. Right. They're a lead partner. And for this one, it's my understanding that we are only able to select one. Can we do that? Can we do that? Yeah. Kind of make it as a um a thing on absenteeism. Yeah. So that would be like
158the um initiative. I guess it would be on Okay. Excellent. So then So they just said that we could combine the two of them. Are we in agreement to move forward with Mayor Bedwell and Dana Whe. Uh, I still very passionately support Paula Bomb and I know I'll be outnumbered, but she is incredible and in a million ways and has been for decades. Okay, that's my vote as well. Two of her. Okay. And then um Richard I would um go with Mayor Bagwell and Dana Win okay whatever she said Matt like the sheriff's office as well. Okay. And Molly I think you already said it. Okay. I'm going to go with uh Mayor Bagwell and Dana Wley. That's definitely one one strong program that we need all the help we can get, you know, in
159absentism. So, I feel like they're contributing tremendously to make to make improvement in that area. Okay. So, do we have we don't. So, that leaves you have two uh for bomb, one for the sheriff's office, and three for way and Bagwell. So, when it comes time to vote on this, unless somebody wants to change their vote, we'll have to single this one out and do it separately. [Laughter] Mayor Bagwell. It's fine for me. Mayor Bagwell. Yeah, Mayor Bagwell. Okay. with Dana Whe. Are we good? Okay. All right. Moving on to innovative um educator. Okay. And for this one is also just one individual that needs to be um submitted. So we have uh Brenda Ramirez who is the attendance um attendance Dash Dean Carson High School. What is her position? Attend. It says Brenda Ramirez
160attendant attendance dean- Carson High School interventionist. Okay. Okay. And then um Mrs. Jennifer Chantler. And then the third one is um Mr. Cody Downing. Those are the ones that were um recommended for the innovative educator. Just so the record's consistent and clear, are there any other nominations? Thank you. Are there any additional nominations that you would like to bring forward? No, looks like none. Okay. So, we can go ahead and start our Yeah, our vote or or nom nominee nomine sorry. Um, from the list provided, my nomination would be Cody Downing. I'm sorry. Of the names provided, um, Cody Downing is my nomination. Okay. Jennifer Chandler. Okay. Richard. Jennifer Chandler. Jennifer. Okay. Uh, Matt Jennifer Chandler. Okay. Molly. Uh, Jen. Miss Chandler. Chandler. Okay. I I'm tossed between Chandler and Cody. So, I'm I'm going
161to go with Cody Downing. I think that um project from this year was just incredible. So I think he's very well deserving of the nomination. Okay. Excellent. Okay. So that concludes the list of the um nominees that we reviewed. So then we'll go back to the packet and um identify the nominees for the other categories. And that would be the direct NASBY director of the year. And this is to recognize the consistent effective communication skills demonstrated during meetings of the NASBY board of directors as well as promotion of leadership skills and strategies to recognizing and rewarding student administrator, educator, staff, school, and district achievement. So, I personally believe Richard Varner is a very good candidate. I know we nominated you last year, but you did not receive it. Correct. I I I received it year
162before last or something. Two years ago. Is Was that the director of the year or was it a different one? Wasn't it the executive? Uh yeah, that was the executive award a different uh category. Correct. And we can also nominate people outside outside of the here, you know. So, okay. Go ahead. Go ahead. I would then, you know, because you are Nasby and and Mike as well, so I would refer to you on um what your thoughts would be. I most definitely would um second the nomination from President Ramirez, but I would like to know what your thoughts are. Not like you're on the spot. Yeah, I am. No. Oh, thanks. And there's a lot of good directors and without seeing their names right in front of me, um, we have Dr. Nichollet, but she's
163an officer of the board. Um, I'd almost have to pull up and see the names and so maybe we can come back to that or you can you don't need more than one nomination if you don't want one. It's okay to to just have one for this. I feel comfortable going with with the nomination for you. Yeah, I think you're very well deserving of the nomination. You're very knowledgeable and you bring us a thorough report at our meeting. So, um, again, I think you're very well deserving of that award or nomination. Okay. Any other nominations? Any other nominations? I'm so sorry. Any other nominations? We're good. Okay. NASBY Veteran School Board Member of the Year. And this is to recognize the dedicated service and leadership of local school board members who have served for more
164than one term. has has Mike I Okay. I would like to nominate uh President Lupe Ramirez. Thank you. Any additional Yeah, I'd like to nominate Molly. I was going to hold Lupe. Are we Are we veteran? It just says one more than one term. Are you in your first term? I am. Okay. Okay. I was going to say I was going to hold Molly because there's a board member that's two plus terms is another one. Um Okay. Yeah. And Lupe, are you in your second right now? Okay. So, you wouldn't qualify for that one. You would qualify for this one. Correct. For the Yeah, for the veteran not the not the second one. All right. Well, then Lupe. Well, you do great. Any additional names that you want to bring forward? Okay. All right. We're
165good with that. Thank you. All right. Second one or the next one. Uh NASABY new school board member of the year. And this is to recognize a dedicated service of Nevada's newest school board members. So, um last year we nominated Matt. Um, I would be um more than happy to nominate him again or um Michelle or Rebecca either either one. Um any additional what's the input from the rest of the board? This is where I can throw Molly, right? Yes. Yes. The next one also requires two terms. Oh, shoot. That's right. That's right. That's right. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. So, there's a new somebody who's at least done at least one term and someone who's done at least two terms are the three. Yeah. Okay. So, um, so new school board member would be somebody currently
166in term one. Yes, I go Molly on that. Two nominations right now, just so I'm clear. I'll nominate Molly as well. So, Lupe, you nominated Matt. I nominated Matt. Shell, you nominated Molly. Okay, now you can ask if there are any others. I'm sorry. Do you want to go down the line and see else? You got to ask first if there are any other nominations. Okay. I Are there any additional nominations? None. See none. Okay. So then start with Michelle. Molly. Molly. Rebecca. Matt. Richard. Um Molly. Hey Molly. Matt, can I choose both? Can I choose Matt and Molly? I'm just kidding. Okay, I'm gonna go with Molly. We're good. Okay. And then we move on to individual school. Did I am I correct? Okay. individual school board member of the year. I'll nominate Mike
167Walker. Yes. And and I think he would be the only one that would um fall under this category because he's got more than two years. All right. So, I think we're all good with Mike. Yes. Mike Walker. The only concern Do we have additional uh select people from outside of this port? Correct. Uh the only concern is um you know Mike Walker is president of NASBY and I don't know if would that create a conflict of interest. I don't know if it No, it it certainly doesn't for you guys voting on this today, right? Because Yeah. Okay. Thank you. It's not the NASBY identifying him for this category, right? Nasby's not appointing or making the nomination. You guys are okay. So we are able to nominate him. That fits the criteria. So and again we
168are able to also consider other member other board members from other boards other districts. Correct. Unless we're all good with Mike. It's up to you guys. Are we good? I'm good with Mike. You're good with mic. Okay. Uh good with Mike. Everyone is okay with Mike. Yeah. I see everyone nodding their heads. Yeah. So we're good. Will you accept that? Okay, very good. So, NAS um award to a friend of K through well, we already did that and we already did innovative and uh NASBY media award for outstanding education reporting. So, this is for the media. Uh do we have recommendations? Jessica Garcia. She won two years ago, didn't she? Amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Richard, do we know how um how long we have to wait before we are able to nominate those individuals for the
169award again? Yeah. No. Uh it doesn't have to do right now. I think we have up until maybe actually September. No, I'm so sorry. So, um since she was already um the recipient of the award, how long do we have to how many years? As far as I know, there's no restriction. There's no restriction. Okay. On uh that's never been brought up in any of our meetings about you can only want it twice or you have to wait three years. There's been no Okay. So to your nominating her again. Okay. How do you guys feel? Did um last year Nevada Independents got nominated, right? Yes. Right. But they did not receive the nomination. Correct. They did not win. Okay. So, do we want to consider them also? Yes. Last year, you guys nominated uh Rosio
170Hernandez with the Nevada Independent. Okay. Okay. And she's still the one who's doing all of the legislative session updates, right? Is she? Jen. Okay. Okay. I would like to put her Okay. So, what is her name again? Okay. So, Rosio from Nevada Independent. Okay. So, then are there additional uh nominations? See none. Okay. So, then do we want to um go with Rosio and who else did we have? Um Jessica definitely. So, okay. So, then we're going to start count. Okay. So, um, what is your recommendation, Michelle? Jessica. Jessica. Okay. Rebecca. Rosio. Rosio. Okay. Richard, I'm looking at Jessica. And I can tell she really doesn't want to do this. So, Rosio. Rosio. Okay. And then Matt. Uh, Rosio. Rosio. And Molly. Rosio. Okay. And Rosio as well. But Jessica, you're up for all your
171work this time, Jessica. Look. [Laughter] Okay. Next one is um school board governance team of the year, [Laughter] right? Easy peasy. Yes. Carson City School Board. Okay. Any additional ones? I don't see any. Okay. Then Carson City School Board, it is. All right. Board uh board secretary or administrative assistant or other board support staff person of the year. And as always, we always want to nominate Renee because she's so well very well deserving of this nomination or this award every year. that um we also want to ask AJ feeling to get input from from you as far as recommendations that you have for us. We we can nominate Renee every year agree with me too. Um I I would just offer to last year we nominated uh Gina Hines who works behind the scenes in
172our ed services office and and so much of the reporting and work that she does come comes to you within consent agenda items and approvals and she's amazing too. She didn't end up winning last year but that was who we nominated. So I I would just submit that as well. Um, I think we could renominate Gina or renominate Renee. Okay. [Music] So, additional ones. Just for clarity, is is a member of the board wanting to nominate Gina? Does the rest of the board want to nominate Jen? Jen Gina Jen. I don't see any any feedback yet. I would go ahead and nominate her. I'm sorry. I would nominate Gina. Okay. So, yes. Okay. Now, are there additional ones? Um, as for board support, um, Spencer would be considered, um, board support, too. Administrative assistant. That's
173right. That's right. Okay. Forgive me. Okay. All right. because he said or other other board support [Music] staff. I I think I I think the intent is more around um administrative side like administr Okay okay very good okay then or like other maybe classified staff potentially but okay so then we're going to start with Michelle first I guess we I just need to double check there are no are there any additional recommendations if I see none then go ahead Michelle Renee Renee Renee Okay. Renee. Okay. Renee. Rene. Renee. Renee. I picked Gina. She's like, "Get me out of this one." Okay. Renee it is. Okay. All right. And then NASBY Superintendent of the Year. Can I can I recommend uh someone for consideration? So, the the superintendent from Eureka County, Tate. Um he he's been
174superintendent, I think, for six or seven years. He currently serves on the state board of education as a NAS representative. Um and he is the current vice president for NAS. Um, and just about as uh in in about as involved as you can be when you're living in Eureka. Um, but I I think just does a a great job advocating and uh just great human being. So that would that would be my my suggestion. And and the nominee you put forward last year um was Adam Young who is the White Pine superintendent and he won along with the superintendent from Lincoln. There was a co um uh Tate else e ls e. All right. So I nominate Tate else from Eureka. Okay. Any additional nominations? AJ feeling. Okay. AJ feeling. I I I did get
175it two years ago. So it's but thank you. But that was a that was a a co- it was it was two two yeah two different individuals. So this time it would be just him just saying. Okay. All right. Any additional ones additional names? No. If not then okay. So I will start with um again going back to you Michelle Tate. Okay Rebecca Tate. Okay Richard the um I know that AJ won it several years ago about two years ago and he's a very humble guy and um so I think for this year I'd go with the Eureka County person. Tate. Yeah. How do you pronounce the name again? I'm sorry. Right. Peter. Although I think AJ is doing a great job. I I think he would be amazing, too. Um Matt, I take our
176guy any day. Hey, Molly. Hey. Who' you say? A vote for AJ, right? Okay. I'm sorry. AJ. Yeah. AJ. Okay. Yeah. Our guy. Okay. Um take eight AJ. Okay, we are done. So, um Okay, we are ready to Are you going to read it? What I can do on this you guys is is give you a whole motion. If it's what you want, you can say so moved, get second, go to public comment, and then vote on it. Okay, sounds good. Okay. So, uh, nomination for school administrator of the year, uh, Molden and Billings. Nomination for district employee making a difference, um, Wickfield and or Winfield and Fletcher. Uh, district level administrator of the year, uh, impacting student achievement, Mr. Sadler and Dr. Scott. NS or NASBY Director of the Year, Mr. Varner. Uh, veteran
177school board member of the year, President Ramirez. New school board member of the year, uh, Trusty Walt. Uh, individual school member of the year, Trusty Walker. Uh, friend of K12 public education, uh, Dana Whe and Lorie Bagwell. Innovative Educator of the Year, uh, Jen Chandler. NASBY Media Award for Outstanding Education Reporting, uh, Rosio Hernandez, Nevada Independent, Schoolboard Governance Team of the Year, Carson City School District. Uh, board secretary or administrative assistant or other board staff support person of the year, Miss Cortez, Mrs. Cortez, uh, NASBY Superintendent of the Year, Tate. Uh, and those are the list of nominations. Uh, so if you would like to make a motion to approve those nominations, now's the time. Okay. So, motion by by Trusty Wall and second by Trusty Chap Kaplan. Any board discussion? Seeing none, any public
178comment? Seeing none, all those in favor? I any oppose? Motion carries. Thank you very much. Um, Mr. Russell for helping us with that. And um, and again, do we Sorry, the superintendent I was just talking, he'll email you about uh maybe who can write letters for for each of we do need to. Oh, yes. We did not discuss that. And Mr. Renee will make sure you guys know, okay, when to have those turned in by Okay. So, we'll get an email from you, Renee. Thank you so much. Okay. Very good. So, yeah. So, just be prepared to sign up to write the letters of recommendation for those individuals. Awesome. Thank you so much. And again, thanks everyone who helped out with this task. Um, thank you Michelle and thank you Rebecca for working with me
179on reviewing those um comments from the the district. And I guess if I could, there's a lot of these people who nominated who have been nominated before, so there's letters on file that we maybe I'll get and just update. Right. Yeah. Thank you for making that note. Yep. And that will be helpful. I would note too when we um first the few that we sent out the surveys for uh it was included in there that if if your candidate or who you suggested is nominated, we would come back to you to ask you for help with writing a little bit more. I know some people wrote more than others, but that may help as well. Okay. But I I can tell you by being that the more detail the better the better these letters. Yeah.
180And maybe and maybe gathering um data that would support um those nominations. Would that be helpful? Yes. Okay. Yeah. I mean, if you can. Great. Awesome. Also, a couple suggestions, Lupe. We talked about it would be helpful AJ if we added on that survey how many years served in the district they have and then could that maybe come to us as well just to make this part better because as we've nominated our own people some of us know nothing about them. So just to be able to have that little blip if if there's recommendations from us. Yeah. The board. Perfect. For this year too or for next year. For next year. Perfect. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Thanks, Rebecca, for remind for for remembering to do that. Yeah, we talked about it when we met, but
181I forgot. Okay. Very good. Agenda item number 14, discussion and possible action to cancel the July 8th uh 2025 school board meeting. And this is for possible action. And um it is my understanding that the that weekend or or yeah the 4th of July weekend is prior to the July 8th uh meeting and so many people are on vacation. So if we are in a um in agreement to um cancel that meeting, I would entertain a motion. Since this is a a um an action item, I move that the Carson City School District Board of Trustees cancel the July 8th, 2025 school board meeting. Second. Second. Okay. So, motion by Trustee Clappam and second by uh Trustee Roberts. Any board discussion? Yeah, I I do I'm a little confused. July 4th is on Friday. Um,
182so it's that right and 8th is on Tuesday. So it seems like uh guess I'm wondering why we so the 4th of July um holiday is on is on Friday. So you would have Friday off the fifth, 6th and 7th and then the eth would be on that Tuesday. So in that weekend, the weekend prior is when people would be on vacation and we would not have Well, I and I I think it was so this meeting has been cancelled for some time and I think it's just to make sure because some people are leaving the area. They're going on vac like longer vacations around that time. It's not so much that it was like right next to that date or right on that date, but just generally in that time a lot of times
183people are out and about, but it is a Fourth of July weekend. It Friday many people. Yeah, the long weekend. Are you still Do you have concerns or No, I mean if that's the way you guys want it, I'm fine with it. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So, we have a motion on the table. So, then um any you second it. Okay. So, um so motion by trustee clapp and then second by trusty Peterson and then we had the discussion. Any um additional discussion? Any public comment? Just clarifying the second was Roberts. Roberts, I'm sorry. Roberts. Thank you. Okay. All those in favor? I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Thank you. Okay. Agenda item number 15, approval of consent agenda. And this is for possible action. I move Carson City School District Board of Trustees approve the consent
184agenda as submitted. I'll second it. Okay. So, motion by Trusty Clappam and second by Trustee uh Varner. Any board discussion? See none. Any public comment? See none. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Okay. Agenda item number 16. Um,formational items and this is for discussion only. No action will be taken. Any questions or comments? Okay. Agenda item number 17. Request for future agenda item uh topics. I do. It doesn't need to be at the next meeting, but if we can get um a update on grants, you know, kind of um you know, what we've received in the past and um you know, what we might be losing. I think that's important. Um you know, because we talk about that this isn't this one isn't going to be moving forward and if we can
185get an update and then on some future ones that we've been applying for, that would be great. Perfect. And then also I would like to add if we can um add to the agenda to the future agenda about our um uh board retreat that we've discussed in the past so we can identify a date and um work on the agenda and whatnot. Okay. Very good. Agenda item number 18. Thank you so much everyone. [Music] la. Hey Heat. [Music] Heat. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. [Music]