Carson City School Board Meeting 5/24/2022

001[Music] do [Music] do [Music] i'd like to call this meeting to order time is now 5 30 p.m on may 24th 2022. we'll go to item agenda item number one adoption of the agenda as submitted and this is for possible action okay by mike motion by mike second by laurel any board discussion cnn any public comment see a nun any online public comment no mr varner thank you see you none i'll go ahead and call for a vote all in favor say aye aye all opposed say nay motion carries i'll go to agenda item number two would adjournment to close session for nrs 288.220.4 to discuss labor relations with the district management's representatives and this is for discussion only if [Music] ah [Music] [Applause] [Music] ah foreign [Music] hello [Music] uh [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh

002[Applause] [Music] hey [Music] ah [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] my [Music] so [Music] foreign [Music] baby [Music] so [Music] my do [Music] do [Music] foreign [Music] do [Music] so [Music] do [Music] foreign [Music] do [Music] [Applause] [Music] there [Music] my foreign [Music] back to order the first item on the agenda would be the flag salute mr cassiopo would you lead us please of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands thank you we'll move on to agenda item number five which is a superintendent's report mr stokes thank you mr president it's good to have our community with us so board members thank you we are looking forward to introducing a number of our students there's been some uh marvelous performances by our students and certainly we appreciate the

003work of our adult coaches and staff it's it's really remarkable to be able to witness the level of attainment and in all of these situations our students here in carson city are being compared against the best in the state and so this is a wonderful opportunity for us to show what our students have been able to do and accomplish so i'd like to begin by inviting mrs angela golick to come forward she is here with students of the future business leaders of america sometimes you've heard this referred to as fbla and mrs golick we would love for you to introduce your students to us this evening this new setup is it's different can you hear me okay okay hi i'm angela golick i'm a carson high educator and i'm also the advisor for the future

004business leaders of america we have some of our members here tonight i'd like to give a report about the great things that have been happening with our organization this semester this year and then hopefully have a couple of them speak to you first of all we are the largest student business organization in the united states there are over 230 000 student business leaders career and technical business leaders in in the united states and around the world i've been advising or co-advising this group for over 10 years it's been a fun time i'd like to report that one of the things that we were participating in this this year was the hugely successful father-daughter community-wide event in which our group was one of three carson high groups that put this event on with over 800 fathers

005and daughters in attendance and we had to turn people away the that day of the dance we sold out we always sell out um this group of individuals was um helpful in the social media marketing ticket sales photo booth sales admission gate entry clean up um set up the week before and then clean up on sunday the 24th of april that morning they helped do that and then like five hours later got on a bus to go to competition in reno where we competed for two and a half days and the results of our competition at the state business leadership conference competition was hugely successful on very little sleep after that weekend of doing the father-daughter ball prom all of that good stuff but we were happy to be back in person in reno doing

006the competition after two years of competing via zoom and some of these students competed in the zoom activities um the year before and i kept telling them wait just wait till we go back in person you're going to love it you're going to excel you're going to meet lots of people from around the state and of course they did and they were really really hugely successful so i'd like to share on the results of their competition i had 14 students go to the state competition and those 14 students competed in many events and brought home 26 top 10 finishes so i'm really really impressed with that nine of those students placed top four which qualifies them to participate in the national competition in chicago illinois and three of those students have chosen to go to

007nationals it's a it's an expense and so they're taking that on we're also helping pay for it out of cte grant money and fundraising that they participated in um i would like to at this time um introduce the students um and then i'm gonna have the those going to nationals come up and give a quick little blurb about what they will be competing in um so this is valeria vega valeria is a first-year competitor and she placed in her event she placed third in the job interview event while i'm talking about job interview event that carson high school had five of the top 10 job interview placements at state so like we walked that's our event like that we walk away with that i see carson coming and they're like all right these girls these

008guys are awesome so third for you in that event um and then this is hannah kreisenbeck and i always have to look at her because you can see she has someone who looks very much like her her twin but um i'm going to call um the cries and becks and mackenzie who's next to lindsay kreisenbeck my super freshman um hannah placed five out of five as a freshman um and she she participated in five events and placed top ten in five of the all five of those events so that's amazing um her sister lindsay i'm gonna i'm gonna pass um zach really quick i'm gonna go to her sister lindsay who placed um three events out of three top ten and then mackenzie merrill my other super freshman she placed four events out of four

009that she participated in top ten and then next to her is my eva limb bloom eva go ahead and raise your hand yeah there you go um eva will be going to nationals she's gonna tell you about her event that she's going to nationals in dalia alex and todd were a team event but then they also had individual events dalia go ahead and raise your hand yes dalia alexander alexandra nurska we call her alex and then todd gosling okay all of them so i would like to call up really quick um zach and mackenzie and eva please come up to the podium really quick zach nichols was our only state champion he was our first place state champion and he's going to nationals with us in chicago and why don't you tell them a little

010bit about your event can you can you can you hold this like all this time i've been breaking my back um so my event was introduction to social media strategy and uh pretty much what that was um every state has their own prompt but uh nevada's prompt was to make a fundraiser my prompt was to make a fundraiser for a local non-profit organization and doing that with a professional sports team and um it would be in the area of that professional sports team so pretty much you just make a plan for the fundraiser a posting schedule and usually you want to focus on how you're going to promote it through social media and um yeah um so i did the big brothers big sisters of america uh nonprofit organization and i also used um got

011sneakers uh so both those uh great non-profits uh spread out all throughout america so um both of those really helped me um get to where i was in win state but but you also have to brag about which um sports team you chose um i chose the los angeles rams um super bowl champions uh yeah uh partnering with them so you know but yeah just making a posting schedule about it um how often you're going to spread the word about the fundraiser how fans are going to be able to you know enter the stadium and proceed with the fundraiser so for those of us that aren't involved in this much what do you think made you stand out i mean i look at all of you and you're obviously a group of intelligent individuals and

012you went up against intelligence individuals i think what made me stand out was um i made eye contact the entire time with the judge um i was i you know i knew what i was presenting um i didn't act like i didn't you know not know what i was talking about um i knew the content i was talking about i've looked into both these nonprofit organizations i understand what they do i understand what their goals are and and at the end of the day you know you just kind of you go out there and you do your thing and that's what i did and um yeah it's uh it's such an honor to compete against you know so many amazing students in nevada it's just an honor to win it all and yeah yep i'd

013like to congratulate you on your first place finishing your state champion right good job i think they're more nervous today speaking in front of you than they were at the events and this is mackenzie merrill and mackenzie will be going to chicago with me and she'll be competing in introduction to public speaking no pressure so the event i did choose to go to state for was introduction to public speaking and in this event i had to take one of the main goals of fbla and write a speech um elaborating on this goal and how we can enact these um these goals in our fbla community and the specific goal that i chose to focus on was fbla strengthened students confidence in themselves and their work and this was actually really fun for me to write

014a speech about because i see how fbla has affected my confidence in my own work as in my day-to-day schoolwork and how confidence is affecting the schoolwork of so many of my peers going into my speech a little bit one of the classes i'm in we're always required to give these big presentations and whatnot and some of these students don't have confidence in themselves and their ability to perform well and you can see their work start to struggle and their grades start to dip and these are brilliant minds that are being essentially wasted away because they have no confidence and it was such a fun event i mean when i finished my competition walking out the doors to the competition room i was feeling so many emotions and they're all cranked up to 11. this

015has been my favorite moment of my my freshman year what is time anymore cool i'll take that yes but this is this was like the highlight of my freshman year i'm so glad that i decided to come and compete for fbla thank you all right another one of my super um freshmen who is going on to nationals in chicago she competed in a presentation event known as data analysis and it's a new event only two years fresh but i want her to explain a little bit about what she got to present on it's very current and very important hi my name's eva lindbloom and i participated in state and i'm going to nationals for data analysis it's a new event that was put into fbla and it was about houses under construction and being sold

016for in the united states how they would be how they were being sold like the payment types and um how that's being affected and like what's affecting that and then i represented that through graphs and certain types of data and then tried presenting solutions to the judges of ways that i think would benefit the united states i also put in a local data analysis for carson city and nevada specifically and how that is compared to overall in the united states good job nice [Applause] okay so um that is our presentation our president for next year is erin peterson who couldn't be here tonight because she's working um and so i just wanted to thank the board for constant support of our organization can thank our principal and vice principal at carson high school and um

017you know you know this is a wonderful organization that is um they're doing so much for not just carson high school but also the community and i appreciate and we appreciate the support um i do have one more um quick announcement i almost forgot um so since the first time since this young man on the very end todd gosling will be representing carson high school as the north northern region vice president for the state's fbla chapter and we haven't had a state chapter officer since 2017. so i think that's amazing [Applause] i'd like to add that um it was a need he saw while we were at state northern region hadn't had a vice president president for two years um and at state they talked about it they said the northern region isn't being represented

018we need someone to step up and so he came to me talked to me and then i drug him over to the state advisor and i said here is todd he is willing to step up and do this job and so he went to his first event last weekend all the officers in the state and so now we carson high is being represented at the state level with our own um chapter um vice president keep on and call you principal but you're not there yet so thank you very much for your time we will you have lots of exciting thank you to all the retirees that i've worked with over the years amazing work so i just wanted to plug that too thank you before you go before you guys leave uh any board discussion

019any comments just thank you angela for all that you do for fbla i think you put us on the map there it seems like every year we have people that go to state and we're just so proud of you and these guys representing carson and to have somebody in leadership that's awesome it's you got a lot of people watching you so you better do good but really appreciate everything you you've done for this program and you guys are going to love chicago i'd like to add that one of the retirees tonight might be carrying on at another um fbla um mr mchenry you're going to carry fbla on for us in other ways in other areas and he was my co-advisor for many years and so thank you for being i know you retired in

020december but this is the official public announcement thank you for being my co-advisor and helping all of these kids all of these years i appreciate you we have one another comment here um i just got the signal from mr davis so before you guys leave if you'll walk in front and stand up we'll stand up he wants to get a picture of the fbla group and then any parents can also join in taking a picture what are the dates of state we have stayed in april and then nationals is um june that's okay it's june 28 through july 3rd so we come right we come back the day before the fireworks thank you [Applause] and thank you mrs golick and students for being here we wish you well as you take on your next challenge

021mr president members of the board i would like to carry forward with my presentation we also had some outstanding performances by other students that we'd like to recognize tonight beginning with mr lucas taggart lucas come forward if you would please i was scanning there's mr greenlee and our boys golf coach mr wade greenlee there we go so we've uh so lucas has um he went to state as a freshman and and i'm sure that without covid he'd have been a four-time state participant so he won the northern region and uh and he was in the running to win state and he got third um at a tough course down in vegas coyote springs we went from 40 degrees at dayton to 104 degrees at vegas so that was awesome um yeah yeah lucas is not

022going to be going to the colorado school of mines and he's going to play golf there so you know i'm proud of him and and i'll miss him and i wanted to also just shout out to sarah who she went to state or we went to state as a team but she's a senior so she's going to be leaving and going to play golf in new in new york and i had one more mention so so rod butler back there he and i started coaching like back in 2001 he was the head coach and uh um you know we we quit for a few years and then he came back when his son was playing and and kind of without his mentorship um i don't think i'd be here but i love it um [Music]

023and i'm gonna retire from some of that dan said any of you retirees he's got a sign up out there for critical needs and subbing so so you're welcome to it so thank you [Applause] congratulations everyone any board comments any thing you want to say right picture wherever you want i want a picture [Applause] congratulations and coach thanks for being here like to turn next to our boys track team coach hager do i have to speak into this thing or can i just talk loud yeah speak into it turn it off there we go all right so here we have the uh boys that represent the our varsity boys team they won academic state champions so of all schools in nevada these gentlemen averaged the smartest so [Applause] but we got andrew alex sawyer nick

024kai hunter and adam and we got uh we got four seniors in this group did you guys want to tell them where you guys are going to school nick uh i'm nicholas patine and i'm continuing my athletic participation at augustana university in sioux falls south dakota congratulations my name is kai miller and i will be continuing my athletic career at colorado school of lines going to school with lucas taggart [Applause] congratulations uh i'm hunter mathis and i am not continuing my athletic career but i am going to school at unr for academics good and i'm adam sillick and i'm also not continuing my athletics but i'm also going to unr [Applause] besides a couple of these kids being um the four by eight regional champions we do have a state champion in this group also

025kai miller and the pole vault also set the school record at 16 feet 2 inches which is incredibly high [Applause] that's good but um and he was named in the top 10 in the north by nia which is amazing we don't get a lot of those athletes and so we're so proud of that too yep congratulations all you guys any other board comments oh i'll just say the nice thing about track congratulations i used to wrestle and run and all that stuff and i'm a lot slower than i used to be but it's something you can do the rest of your life so you can pursue academics and still run there's always somebody wanting to chase you so congratulations [Applause] i just want to congratulate you you do have three freshmen that made it to

026state this year right andrew alex and sawyer um and then hunter nick you've always ran with my son and um i still like yelling for all the runners so good job guys good job congratulations [Applause] mr president members of the board i'd like to add just one thing in the receipt of this particular award if any of you have walked into the northern entrance at carson high school you'll see across the top wall all of the academic state championships that have been earned by our student athletes and it's a really proud predic proud tradition to have this continue and i would just like to say thank you to our student athletes and congratulate them for not only their abilities on the playing field but also in the classroom [Applause] and mr president members of the

027board if you'd indulged me to go to the podium as is as is traditional with all of our end of the year school board meetings we always recognize our student body individual who has been with us over time and um tests and finals and getting ready for school the next day and i'd like to invite sarah wiggins to come up just so that we can recognize her [Applause] it's been delightful for all of us sarah to have gotten to know you and recognize you for your talents and your expertise of course your golf career we hope continues to take off for you but we just want you to know that we've appreciated your efforts on our behalf we hope this has been a good experience for you and hope that you'll recognize how important the

028students are in everything that we do and you're one of our best and we appreciate all you've done for us thank you would you like to say anything sorry for crying first off oh my gosh but thank you guys so much for this opportunity it's meant the world for the past two years and thank you so much for everybody all of you guys just thank you [Applause] mr president members of the board i have two more presentations i haven't seen mr saddler here yet but i'd like for well as you know there have been changes within the district leadership and like to have mr sadler come up here and stand by me [Music] i'd like to introduce mr sadler who has been selected to take the associate superintendent of human resources position within the school

029district as you know mr dr delfin has left and has moved on to another position within education and uh replacing dr delphin will be mr sadler i'd like to just tell you a little bit about some of his credentials and why we're excited to have him on board mr saddler is a 27-year educator he began his education career as a music teacher and after a period of time has worked up through the ranks of administration he has served as a dean of students as a vice principal and for the past 12 years has been our principal at carson middle school mr sadler has experienced the whole gamut of experience and involvement in running a school he has been involved in the supervision and evaluation of staff of course has interviewed and selected staff as teachers

030and and classified staff have come and gone he is an expert in mediating conflict resolution he was on board as the principal when we had the race to the top grant and so there was tremendous growth and involvement that was on his plate and that he helped to bring about at his school he's past president of the carson city administrators association he was appointed by the governor honorable governor sandoval and served on the commission on technical educational technology he was also appointed by the superintendent of public instruction to serve on the principal advisory cabinet so not only does dan have a great consideration on the local front he's also well known at the state level one of the things i really like about dan is he is endorsed as a teacher not only in his

031subject area which was music but he's also endorsed and received these endorsements while being a principal as an esl teacher and also a gate teacher so i appreciate his depth and his breadth of experience and look forward to having him serve the school district and work in that office of associate superintendents so dan's got a wife and two boys i know he's an active dad and uh an active fly fisherman so he can't be very bad and i'd like to just have a time for dan to say hello to you and introduce himself dan congratulations thank you i appreciate it thank you very much i i grew up in carson city and i've gone through the schools here and it's been my honor and pleasure to be the principal carson middle school i know we've

032got a tall order here at hand with recruitment and retention and kind of some of the issues we're working through but i really am looking forward to getting them more involved across our district and really excited about this for anybody here who's retiring uh i can hook you up for sure and i look forward to working with all of you and uh thanks for all the kind words mr stokes i was 24 years not 27. so no no that's okay um yeah i'm just really excited about it i know there's a lot of work to do uh so i'll be working closely with uh aj fueling to prioritize and hit the ground running this summer so thank you very much we still gotta wrap up the school year at carson middle and uh i'll start

033july first any uh questions or comments from the board so i'll just say congratulations dan i think you're gonna do a great job and when it's a little dull in the district office maybe you could serenade them all with uh some music [Laughter] yeah sure just congratulations we're looking forward to great things and welcome aboard thank you very much i appreciate it thanks for the honor [Applause] also in the wake of staff who are leaving we are losing our director of grants and special projects miss valerie dockery of course he was no stranger and filling her spot however will be mrs christine perkins i'd like to invite her to join me at the podium [Applause] so christine and i hope i counted right i missed dan's but i have you down as 19 years in

034education and currently mrs perkins is working as our coordinator for special projects in the district and part of her job also has her working with our mckinney-vento folks and also as the foster care liaison so she's done a great job in really her first year with the district and as um as she works closely with valerie and has an opportunity to interact with her she became interested knowing that that position would be vacant and really happy that she has elected to work here in the district but just a little bit about her educational background she's also worked as a dean of students and also as a vice principal and that's in a in a school district to the north of us that we won't name but she's a language arts teacher and of course has

035great experience in leading student activities she has experience in working with parents experience in working with budgets policies and academic interventions and these are all really critical conditions for any director of grants and being able to draw on her vast experience in education will really be of great assistance of her to her and a great asset for the school district and so i know that christine and her family live here in carson we're really grateful that she works for us now and we look forward to having her take over this important role and i would just like to introduce her to the board and hand her the microphone if she'd like to say anything thank you as mr stokes said my name is christine perkins i grew up in lake tahoe and then moved to

036reno to attend unr and got my master's degree and quickly moved into school administration and i did open a large middle school in the district we're not naming there it was the administration team for many years but i'm so happy to be part of the carson school district it's been a great experience this year and move into this role i know it's a very important job so we can continue to fund all of these programs for students who need it the most and for all our staff can continue to do these innovative ideas that they come forward with stem projects we watched an amazing presentation today about stem labs and different things that we can continue to push our students in the direction to be college and career ready i'm very excited to be here

037my family loves carson and we've had a great year and i'm looking forward to the future working with all of you [Applause] stacy just as somebody who was on a panel when you interviewed for a different position i am so glad that we found a position for you and karen carson because you were just so energetic and you have so much experience and i think you're going to do great but i was really glad to see that you landed here any other comments questions joe go ahead i'll just add congratulations i i think you know we just um saw mr sadler and now you and these are two tough positions we have a lot of work to do in both so i'm you know i'm happy that we have people eager and up to the

038challenge and and certainly had good mentoring we're going to hate to see valerie go but you know we wish you well and we're here to help where we can congratulations [Applause] mr president that is the extent of my report tonight like to thank everyone for coming out this evening and helping me as part of this report thank you we'll move on to agenda item number six board reports sarah from carson high hi so just to start off with a few past events we had friendship ball father daughter dance and prom that was a little bit ago but i just wanted to bring that back up saying everybody i saw just so excited and had so much fun at the three dances and then moving into that we also had an 8th grade assembly where we

039brought in all the 8th graders from eagle valley and carson middle and we had a little assembly with them taught them some cheers and then had the big blue bash the following night for them and then finally we also had the salute to scholars which was june 19th and that was mainly just a night just to give recognition to everybody who got scholarships and give recognition back to those seniors finally with some more current events we had our co we have our coaches versus seniors basketball game tomorrow night at 6 00 p.m in the big gym and i believe it's free entry don't quote me on that and then uh next we are going to begin distribute distributing yearbooks may 27th that's gonna be this friday and it's going to continue all next week and

040in case you haven't purchased a yearbook yet you can go to miss mills or when the yearbooks start being distributed there is going to be some that are going to be sold on site but there's still only a limited supply then finally chromebook return is going to start next week and it's going to go seniors all the way down to juniors then next wednesday june 1st is going to be a senior day so we're going to have all the seniors where like their future college trade school or even just their new career a t-shirt just to represent what they're going to do with their future then in senator square during nutrition we're going to have a final senior pep rally for all of us and then after school we're going to be chalking up our

041parking spots like we did at the first homecoming and then that night at 6 30 in the front grass is going to be senior sunset then finally just a few little quick notes just before graduation seniors must have all their fines all paid making sure all the books are turned in and their chromebooks all turned in and then graduation is going to be on saturday june 4th at 9 00 am and then finally i just wanted to give you guys all another thank you for everything all the teachers administration everybody behind everything just thank you and then i'd like like to also bring up the next year's school board rep for carson high ava scofield hi oh is it on yes okay hi i'm ava i'm will be a sophomore next year and i'm super

042excited to come and see you guys twice a month so it'll be fun thank you guys i will conclude my report all right sir i'd just like to say that you've been an outstanding representative for the carson high school for these last two years you've done an excellent job every other week you've been here always given a good report very well organized and just thank you for your efforts and we'll miss you but good luck in your future thank you so much [Applause] moving on do we have anybody here from pioneer high seeing no one uh any update from the nevada association of school boards um just an update that the um the executive search interview our applicant time has closed and we the executive committee will be meeting on friday um to have an

043orientation on how that process is going to go forward thank you i forgot to mention that lupe ramirez is joining us by uh via telephone tonight um lupi uh we'll go ahead and start announcements with you if that's okay absolutely um so from carson hi um i echo the student representative who just mentioned um the event that we all attended the salute to scholars it was a beautiful event i congratulate all the students who received a scholarship and i thank the parents and the teachers and the counselors for all their help and support to make sure that their the students actually applied and i hope that the students continue applying as they continue on their education in higher ed and then other than that we look forward to graduation and that's it thank you lupe

044joe thanks um couple announced uh three announcements from pioneer high school pioneer academy is preparing for a return to graduation ceremony their ceremony is going to be held at the community center and uh the principal just wanted to mention how proud he was of their senior class as we all are pioneer held an additional family night dinner on campus yesterday and they celebrated the ski team with parents students and advisors and then last mrs steinkraus was recognized for for a sustainability award for bringing a greenhouse to the pioneer academy her engineering and physics students have been creating plans to assist with the foundation and construction of this greenhouse project at pioneer so congratulations to her and i just wanted to congratulate all the students that were here tonight um you know we school's tough these

045days and i think tonight showed some of our best and brightest we have a lot of them and i think sometimes they don't always get the credit they deserve and the people don't get the credit for working with these students but we have some amazing staff and certainly some amazing students so i just wanted to congratulate each of them they certainly are impressive thank you joe mike so a couple things from mark twain elementary school they want to say thank you and congratulate their pto president on all of her hard work she's been serving the school for the past eight years and her children have aged out of mark twain and so she'll be probably transitioning with them up to the middle school level i'm sure she also wanted to congratulate amy jensen who cannot

046be here tonight on her retirement this year and she was also a fantastic class mom and class substitute teacher when i was starting out my teaching career so i hope amy has a excellent retirement plan for the next several years a couple other reminders uh parents and family members please remember the last day of school they ask all of the kids to leave their backpacks at home on thursday all of their items will be coming home with them and finally they will be announcing the new teachers for students in august using parent square so please make sure that all of your information is up to date and you are able to be reached so your child knows who their teacher will be and then just as a another note is i serve on the jordan

047woodward memorial scholarship committee and this weekend we interviewed a number of carson seniors and it always just astounds me how talented our students are and committed and so i'm just proud of our kids thank you stacy from empire elementary we have um from the principal squires she wanted to let everybody know that they took the whole school to the discovery museum last week and now are taking over 470 family members on thursday night to it and it has been fabulous the staff at empire would like to congratulate principal squires and thank her congratulate her for her retirement and thank her for her leadership and to wish her well and that she will be missed a lot from carson high principal chambers reiterated like everybody that's talked about carson high they celebrated the salute to squires

048scholars last thursday night their amazing seniors amassed over 5.1 million dollars in scholarships and i was very thankful and honored to be able to present two of those for those organizations finally with graduation just around the corner they're letting the community know that the easternmost visitor stands will not be available during graduation because they are being refurbished due to safety concerns this will have an impact on the total number of seats available to the public for their graduation for our graduation ceremony carson ccsd staff is working to bring in some portable bleachers however we still have substantially less seating than normal and then from me i just want to thank parks and rex we had our kids in the parks day this saturday and it is now going to be an annual event every third

049saturday in may the mayor proclaimed the kids in parks and we had a lot of organizations out there the junior park region program was highlighted and then the trains were free to ride that day it was really exciting so anyway and thank that staff for that too thank you don from dr lee conley over at eagle valley middle school next week next wednesday june 1st will be their eighth grade drive through promotion ceremony uh we ask that you arrive at your scheduled time according to your last name a through f will be at one o'clock to 1 pm g through l will be at 1 30 to 2 and m through z will be at 2 o'clock to 2 30. for all 8th graders they'll be getting a mailing if they haven't gotten one already

050there'll be two name tickets with your child's name on them they'll be used to present during the drive-through ceremony and it's in very important that you remember to bring these tickets please the mailing will also include overall instructions and reminders and then there'll be a processional map you'll enter the up upper parking lot off of carson river road a picture area also will be available for all the 8th graders and their families students will receive the promotion certificates on the stage in front of the school decorate your car honk your horns and let's celebrate our students success just a few other items at eagle valley this week students are returning chromebooks [Music] sixth graders will attend a play at the community center on friday may 27th award assemblies for all grades scheduled for is scheduled

051for tuesday may 31st and then sixth and seventh grade activity days will will be held june 2nd that's my report laurel okay from dr ward at fremont they had a tremendous turnout for their dinner and a show night and she'd like to do a special shout out to jonathan chang for his hard work getting all of the talent ready and showing off the many talents of their students they are looking forward to a couple days of fun in the sun next week including a fun surprise for the students on tuesday and also she would like to thank the fremont staff for making it through another interesting and hard year and they are amazing rock stars is what she would like to share for fritsch elementary school mr brown has um would like to remind all

052the parents at fritz about the pta hosting the barbecue tomorrow night from 5 30 to 7 p.m and this will also include their world famous talent show and the book fair and i've been to the barbecue in years past they haven't had one in a while and mr williams was showing off his roping skills at that so i'm hoping that he'll be doing some of that again because he is a heck of a roper so anyway that concludes my report thank you i have a few things i'll try to make it as quick as i can at carson middle school they'll be collecting the chromebooks coming up 6th graders will turn them in on tuesday may 24th 7th graders wednesday may 25th 8th graders thursday may 26th so they started today chromebooks should be charged

053fully charged and any hot spots and books for libraries should also be turned in and then if anybody owes a library fine they should get make sure that's paid they'd also like to tell you that the carson middle school school summer school registrations are due next tuesday may 31st and they just want you to make sure you're registered to your student through their counselor and uh also they'd like to congratulate the cms track team the eighth grade boys and seventh grade girl teams both took first place in the tall neva championship while the eighth graders girls took second place and the seventh grade boys took fourth place so congratulations they also would like to thank carson high school for hosting the 8th grade student students at the big blue bash dance and for hosting the

0548th grade assembly to introduce the high school graduation class of 2026. that was a good event reminder they would also like to remind everybody that the cms drive-through promotion ceremony will be from one to three on this coming on it doesn't say the date but it's come up coming uh i think it's on the fourth no the second i'm sorry june 2nd uh the date was not here so i apologize for that anyway the cars will be lining up on richmond avenue and will proceed through the front driveway to the back of the school and there again you can drive through decorate the cars shout honk whatever you want to do to help celebrate and then at boardwalk bray they just want to remind everybody that may 27th is the last day of pre-k june

0551st they're having a field day they want everyone to wear sunscreen tennis shoes and appropriate clothing as the students will have extended time outside in the sun june 2nd will be the last day of school for all students in kindergarten through fifth grade and they'll be dismissed at 12 40 p.m june 8th through june 30th there's be holding their summer school for those who have registered and have been accepted and there'll be information coming home with the report cards next week and they'd also like to congratulate and send best wishes to mrs zuber and mrs cron on their retirements and they cannot thank them enough for all the work they've done for the students at warwick pray and that ends my report thank you now we'll move on to why we're here actually uh agenda

056item number eight mr president yes you need to call number seven oh i'm sorry association reports thank you do we have any association reports tonight saying none now we'll move on to agenda item number eight introduction of the 2022 carson city school district retirees and employees who are leaving the district after 10 or more years of service and this is for discussion only to be by mr stokes i love delegating things right it looks like boxes unload their desk or what mr president and members of the board honored guests faculty staff friends and family it's my pleasure to be here with you this evening it's a bit bittersweet in my mind as i look around and see friends and individuals who have um really worked to the best possible outcome for our students for our

057families for our community for our school district there are 42 employees who will be retiring this year from carson city school district and that is an astonishing 853 years of expertise that will be leaving our school district so uh these folks are going to be sorely missed and um if they still have some goat juice in them i would just suggest that we have made it possible for you to come back under the critical needs activities think about that during the summer [Music] i'd like to just give you a little idea of how we will move forward this evening we're going to go through the retirees names by where they worked and we're going to do that starting with carson high school so you can kind of get some ideas as to when your turn

058might be up but we do have a wonderful little memento that we would like to share with our staff members in recognition of their time their energy their expertise their love everything that goes into being an outstanding staff member and someone who has given really their life's energy for the building up of america mr davis we would love to get photographs of all of those that are here this evening recognizing that there will be some individuals who are not here but i'll still read their name and recognize them as a retiree and i also know that some of the administrators who are here might also have a a little token of affection that they would like to share with some of our staff members who will be leaving now we always offer some time at

059the podium if you would like to say anything in parting it's not a requirement but if you have something that you'd like to say words of wisdom guidance anything that you would like to say then we certainly invite you to do that so i'd like to begin with recognizing our retirees from carson high school and i if you're here if you'd please come forward leslie cox cook baker at carson high school and she has 14 years of service with the district [Applause] and if the individuals aren't here we'll make sure that these little tokens of appreciation get to them at their sites next i'd like to invite susan drozdoff math teacher [Applause] 17 years with the district thanks for all your words thank work keep it quiet spoken like like a true math teacher there

060thank you mrs drosdov best wishes in the future congratulations sue [Applause] mrs gruenert susan gruenert counselor 20 years at carson high school [Applause] next mr david johnson economics and world history teacher 17 years [Applause] uh i really enjoyed my time at uh eleven years at pioneer six at uh carson uh things have changed and i'm moving on to something new i guess but uh i'll miss the kids and miss the staff and all the opportunities and the stretching that all those places gave us so especially the kids that's going to be a hole in my [Applause] mr curtis quartermeyer chemistry teacher 22 years it was on i just turned it off the members of the board thank you very much i'm a second career teacher and the only home i ever had in education was

061carson high school and i'm going back to my first love which is doing geology and prospecting but i will definitely miss carson high members staff and thank you for the opportunity to have served thank you [Applause] mr quartermeyer my daughter would have never gone into the field that she went into because of the way that you taught chemistry she ended up going into the health care field and it was because of the way that you worked with her and and showed her ways that she could use that and i can't appreciate that more for you thank you so much [Applause] also retiring this year from carson high school mr william billy mchenry business principals teacher teacher 20 years [Applause] 30 years all together three school districts two states this is the best guy in the

062world to work for i'm proud to say i worked for him and carson city school district well you can see i came from football practice i'm still coaching football here and plan to do that as long as i possibly can and if you got something else for me to do i could probably be talked into that as well um yeah it's greatest job in the world and this is pretty much the greatest place to do it as far as i'm concerned i've loved every second of it and thank you [Applause] next i'd like to invite mr ron rc mcnutt to come [Applause] here you're forward to boise with your folks yeah good luck thank you [Applause] rc has probably moved a zillion chairs in his career thank you young man for your work we appreciate

063all your can-do attitude and your smile always meant a lot went a long ways next i'd like to invite judith robinson special education pair pro at carson high 24 years is judith here let's see her oh she did that's right just to recognize judith passed away so thank you for reminding me about that that happened earlier this year mrs sean snyder special education teacher 33 years sean [Applause] laurie sheets come on up laurie 22 years finishing out her career as our athletic secretary over at carson high administrative sec administrative assistant too very much moving on to texas and lori was one before we had the doors that you couldn't get past the entrance without laurie checking you in i know from experience [Laughter] thank you we have pamela white special ed parapro 21 years [Applause]

064i just want to say that i have had the opportunity to work with over 50 educators there at carson high school for this last 20 years and i appreciate it it's been great so thank you [Applause] so that goes through our retirees from carson high school mr davis are you okay where you're at okay okay great if you are able to and would uh like to stay we'd love to get a group photograph of our retirees who are here this evening mr kevin ply as a retiree from pioneer academy i don't know i didn't see kevin so we'll move on to carson middle school joyce cunningham cook baker 11 years [Applause] next we have social studies teacher karina fellini jackson 25 years [Applause] colleen miller special ed parapro 19 years [Applause] what the cake [Applause]

065custodian 16 years [Applause] and also retiring this year from carson middle school leslie zabelski parapro 11 years [Applause] next we have the retiring staff from eagle valley middle school carol garrett special ed parapro 14 years [Applause] and marina gomez cook baker 19 years [Applause] from bortowic bray elementary gloria mccacken special education pair of pros 16 years [Applause] and also from boardwick bray kathy zuber 4th grade teacher 16 years [Applause] from empire elementary jennifer blake parapro 13 years [Applause] empire elementary principal susan squires 19 years [Applause] okay i wasn't gonna cry i've been crying for two weeks i want i i came from another school district up north to teach here and was so thankful when i was allowed to come to the school district i went to school through this school district all my years

066my son did as well now i get to stay home and watch my grandkids go through this school district as well i'd like to thank mr stokes thank you so much karen sims i got to work with her as an administrator valerie dockery who was a great mentor for me um and my husband keith squires who was the best administrator i have ever ever seen as an educator but i just want to thank you all my staff at empire um they have made me um a great educator and i'm thankful for them and i'm thankful for all of you thank you so much and we have one more retiree from empire elementary is christine willey kindergarten teacher 18 years [Applause] next we'll move to fremont elementary we have mr kellen kevin ellis computer science teacher

06726 years [Applause] also from fremont carol owens second grade teacher 17 years [Applause] from fritsch elementary christie howard 4th grade teacher 12 years [Applause] she started crying and that's all i had to say thank you from mark twain elementary amy jensen 4th grade teacher 15 years [Applause] from seliger elementary jacqueline mark martin third grade teacher 11 years [Applause] and theresa reisner 4th grade teacher 29 years [Applause] [Music] from our student support services and some of these folks have left at various times during the year and so could be another reason that they may not be here but we have miss sandra gazetta special education parapro 19 years with the district [Applause] and retiring after 30 years janet silvestro [Applause] i i know i stuck around for a long time because i love the children yeah

068um um yeah i've just enjoyed my stay at carson city school district and um i've learned from so many people here uh i think just i became a better speech language pathologist um people like sheryl youth and um trying to remember who else because she's been gone a while and um ruth abbas story she hired me and she was wonderful i would have done anything for ruth and the children uh i found my niche with the young children and i love them and teaching them to talk and communicate and just um was enjoyable so i just want to thank you i think my skills have grown because i was able to go to conferences and those types of things and it just helped me become better at my craft and i will miss the kids

069and i'll miss the staff the early childhood staff [Applause] next we would like to honor mr franklin frank flanagan computer science and math teacher at the prison education system 33 years [Applause] leaving us after 16 years is jacqueline mccune and she's representing the professional development center jackie are you here let's see you okay transportation department has got three folks who are retiring teresa cantley administrative assistant to 23 years terry [Applause] deborah kaspar bus driver 13 years with the district and jill sarge driving a bus 41 years [Applause] jill has been an institution for our district and we wish her well in her retirement [Music] from our operations department mr gary jones maintenance worker 29 years [Applause] from our administration offices jolie khan roberts human resources supervisor 32 years [Applause] dr jose delfin associate superintendent 14

070years [Applause] and after 21 years serving our district mrs valerie dockery director of grants and special projects [Applause] thank i want to thank everybody um i came here in 1996 and i didn't even know how to say nevada right so i had to learn and then in 2001 my husband was scott who's here tonight thank you honey we were not thank you for moving me to cleveland but thank you for moving me back in 2005 and then i came back to the district in uh 2006 and i i really feel like this district is really like a family you know we we love and support each other sometimes we drive each other crazy but at the end of the day we're a family and i my kids went to school here they graduated from here

071um and i just couldn't be prouder to be part of this community so thank you so much thank you my name is also on the list and uh proud to say that this is my 21st year in the district and i feel like i have a home here of the places that i've worked before this place was the most right i get so much enjoyment out of talking with friends and students and even those parents that i've never met who tell me wonderful stories about their children and the good things that they are accomplishing and the academic and societal levels at which they have attained and uh it's these folks that make that kind of work happen and i'm so proud to be their colleague i am so grateful to you folks for all your

072support for your hard work for giving me a chance 14 years ago to be the superintendent of this school district truly has been one of my highlights i'd like to just say thanks to my kids and to my wife kelly who have all sacrificed for some of the work that i've done here and uh they have really been tremendous supporters to me and as valerie said my family here in the school district which is just been tremendous and i've i've loved the interactions i've loved the the accomplishments that the district has made it's been wonderful to see the students move on and start to take our places as we've now been here long enough so thank you to our retirees thank you to the folks that are still in there fighting the good fight every

073day and again my thanks to you as my bosses i appreciate all you've done thank you [Applause] i just want to say thank you for your excellence i appreciate it thank you you know rich you could tell cyrus that i might have run for the school board because i was so sick of hearing him tell me how quick you could fire me in third grade so maybe i just had to turn the table on him so congratulations that's one of my favorite stories mr walker thank thanks for putting up with him okay congratulations everyone we'll move on to agenda item number nine it's a calling for public comment and making public comment speakers are asked to come to the podium state the name for the record speak into the microphone and identify whatever i said

074that speakers are instructed to limit their comments no more than three minutes regardless of whether the comments are made in person or through virtual participation and does not simply repeat comments made by others now if you're here for a certain agenda item i'd ask you to hold your comments tell that agenda item is called any public comment pepsi strasbourg since we are not allowed to comment during the suggestions for agenda items i thought i would use my public comment time to remind the school board that these were the open items from the may 10th meeting the family life committee procedures were reviewed and sent back for a second reading but no time limit or time frame was given when the second reading was going to be done i urge the board to do that quickly

075the second thing is the approved toolbox those are unapproved by this board and they are still in available for use by the teachers so that needs to be withdrawn and quickly reviewed if the board doesn't have time to do that i suggest a citizens committee to review the videos the presentations etc and come back with the recommendation to the board the superintendent eval form was uh raised as a possible item by trustee varner i trust that it will be scheduled quickly since uh andrew fulling is going to be the new superintendent i guess next week or sometime in june and then trustee stacy wilkie also mentioned the teacher shortage that was to find out the root causes of why we are having a teacher shortage whether it is retirement or some other means and it

076wasn't in another item is what is happening about the replacement of mr fueling as the director of fiscal services what is the process and the timeline for doing that so i respectfully submit these items as agenda items to be added quickly in the next couple of months thank you thank you any other public comment in person heather ko and i also wanted to know what you're going to do about the family committee and their perverted agenda for these children sexualizing them um we know what happens when you sexualize children which is already happening let's see oh wait it made the paper because a high school teacher's already been accused of having sex with a student so and i see no one's looking as usual over there but when no one bothers to look at an

077approved agenda by the family life committee this is what happens you're lying to children for starters okay because there are only two genders and if you think that's cute or funny then you know prove to me that there's more than two as anything else is someone's sexual preference and it takes a real disgusting pedophile to come up with this garbage that you're putting on our children okay they're supposed to be learning math reading everything that they're behind in which i know some of you think is the parent's fault for wherever they work but it's the teacher's job and it's your job to approve a decent agenda and when um critical race theory which is a theory by a racist and perverted crap about gender uh tops math and reading and everything else then there's a

078real problem so i'd like to know what you're going to do about it so if someone could please let me know and i have copies of this for anyone who still didn't bother to read or look anything up thank you thank you any other in-person public comment hi good afternoon my name is karen stevens so you guys know me by now um i have i'm kind of curious um maybe confused like a lot of the kids that have been told there's like 18 different genders but i've seen letters from three carson city individuals that work at the school district and the way they sign their name after they sign their name in parentheses they put she her so i'm really confused i've never seen that before anywhere do we have to indicate what gender we

079are after we sign our name is it that confusing or why do we even have to do that i don't understand what we're doing with she her this is like confusing people trying to tell the kids they they have to identify themselves with some sex after they sign their name i mean i'm really does anybody else do that does anybody sign she her or he him after they write a letter to somebody it's just bizarre i never did that at the department of ed i never saw anybody at the department of ed do that when i worked there so if someone could explain me what what the purpose of that is i think it's just kind of more of this agenda to confuse kids and uh or make it well known i don't know maybe

080someone could explain that to me because i'll be around thank you hi guys jason stinson um i'm actually coming up here for a different reason i don't know if everybody has seen the news today but it's happened again 14 students were murdered and a teacher and i know that our school we are doing some things we have locking doors on all of the buildings which is good we have gates around a lot of the buildings but it's not going to stop somebody that's actually determined to get into our schools so i'm curious has this board even considered talking about further how we can make these schools even safer because the last thing i ever want to hear on the news is this happening right here in carson city i have three children that currently go

081to our schools and i don't want to get that phone call ever and i don't think any parent here in this community ever wants to get any of the parents up here on this board so i would like to know um if this is something that we could get on the agenda to take more seriously talk about and further and prevent something from happening before something happens here we know that that that student brought the gun to the school he tried to shoot the teacher fortunately the gun jammed so he was unsuccessful and to my understanding he was trying to shoot that teacher because he was getting bullied and from what i'm understanding the teacher didn't do anything now i don't know if that's all true or not or if that's just rumors but that's

082what the community is buzzing about so as a parent of this community um and i've talked to a few of the members of this board not about this just about other things but i would like to see this be discussed a lot further possibly bringing it we are the wild west this is nevada find some way maybe arm some of the the teachers that already have gun permits something to protect our children because let's face it i could hop one of those gates and if i could do it and i'm fattened out of shape some young kid that wants to murder people because he's depressed on too many medications can definitely jump that gate with with an assault weapon or i'm sorry with a rifle i don't like to use the assault weapon because it's

083not used for that unless you shoot somebody with it so please every single member of this board i would like to see this in a near future board hearing let's talk further about it let's come up with ideas every single person up here has a wonderful brain let's use these and protect our children before it's too late thank you thank you any other in-person public comment richard richard nagel just i have a question maybe someone could when aj gets up here he can answer it um what is mind bending llc i've tried to look for the website i've googled them and i can't get a find out who they are but we're giving them a chunk of change of money and that's mine bending llc thank you any other in-person public comment seeing then we'll

084close in person public comment do we have any online public comment mr varner the public comment i has pertains to uh the budget when that's presented a little later all right thank you we'll go ahead and move on to agenda item number 10 informational update on the school libraries in the carson city school district for discussion only and ananda campbell please come to the podium thank you for the table thank you i'm ananda campbell carson city library coordinator for the district and i'm grateful for the opportunity to be here tonight so president varner trustees mr stokes members of the public thank you for having me tonight to talk about my favorite subject our library our school libraries um tonight i'm going to be talking about the power of the school librarian and strong library programs

085and i'm sporting my catch the reading wave t-shirt tonight in honor of nevada reading week the every year um we celebrate reading and promoting lifelong love of reading in nevada and the state department nevada state department of ed supports the event and they have a student design the logo every year and so i want to make sure that i wore my t-shirt this year or tonight and i have quite a few references to nevada reading week in the presentation tonight want to highlight each of our elementary school libraries border wick bray mrs colleen krohn she is retiring after this year and um this has been a wonderful year for her to finish off her career in the library she spent an entire year with a mobile library she essentially had all the books on a

086library cart and she visited classrooms because the library was needed for space for classroom instruction and so this year she was actually in the library the library is open students were able to visit and she was also um named as the esp employee of the year at border wake so congratulations to mrs cron we're happy to congratulate you and enjoy your retirement at the empire library we have mr wiggins and he um put some pictures up here of reading week and they had he had a special guest mrs frizzle um mrs wiggins is the actually school district teacher of the year and she is at empire and she partnered with the library to talk about the magic of reading at fremont elementary school there she celebrated reading week with dress-up days they the students and

087staff dressed up as their favorite book character and they decorated the library at fritsch elementary school one of the recent projects she did that was really awesome she did a study of a non-fiction study of the gardening and plant life area of the library and then took the kids outside and they did a gardening unit so they planted and weeded and seeded the garden area that they have at fred fridge so combining literature and hands-on stem activities at mark twain elementary um mrs ikihara started a first grade book club so you can see those cute kiddos in the picture there she also was selected as esp employee of the year for mark twain and she is retiring this year as well and um quite literally sailing off into retirement they she and her husband have

088a boat and they'll be on the seas as of next week so congratulations to mrs ikihara we're sad to see you go and happy for your retirement as well at seliger elementary school mrs fron apple was celebrating bringing back book fairs this year that was very exciting all the students love a book fair and our book fairs are the primary means of funding in our library so she was able to have a very successful book fair this year at our middle school libraries um carson middle school mrs castor has been working on renovating the library setup but with um a genre ca john genrification project that's library speak for um kind of setting up the library similar to a bookstore where you have aries of genres and you find the books based on the type

089of books that they are she is fantastic at her monthly newsletters that go out in parent square and she sends them out on cm news and she always has some type of book challenge book fun happening um so there's some examples of like a bingo book card that she has so mrs castor really focuses on bringing the fun of literacy in and mrs myrene at eagle valley um in april national poetry month she did a blackout poetry project and i'm so glad that we were able to get this picture on here because blackout poetry is when you take a page from a book we use books that are weeded so books that we remove from the collection because they're outdated or etc and the kids do projects with them so for blackout poetry they choose

090words from that page to circle and those words become the poem and you black out the rest of the words on that page so the students of eagle valley obviously are quite artistic they did a fabulous job with that blackout poetry both middle schools are come collaborating with carson city library every summer carson city library joins the nationwide summer reading challenge this year is oceans of possibility is the theme and both of our middle schools are setting a challenge for the incoming fifth graders and current student and staff at each middle school to participate in the carson city library summer reading challenge which you can join by going online googling carson city library and you track your own reading and then in the fall they are looking at the reading stats of their middle school

091students and they're having a competition to see who are the greatest readers eagle valley versus cms so we're really happy to see that collaboration with the carson city library um celebrating our high school libraries pioneer academy which is high school and our k-12 online school as well they don't have a physical library space and so this year mr zona invited me to go to pioneer and i created a digital learning resource page for the staff and students at pioneer and i did some training with their staff so that they knew what databases and digital resources were available to them we also were able to bring in more than doubled our number of e-books available especially with the primary and elementary grade e-books we had a very small collection before now but with our online students

092we want to make sure that they have access to ebooks and audio books as well so pioneer academy now has a digital library available to them and at carson high um hi carson high school one of the things that was most exciting well i had a lot of exciting things this year but one of the things that i really enjoyed thanks to the support of site administration and our director of curriculum i was able to attend the american association of school libraries conference the first conference i've been able to go to in a few years which was in salt lake city and it is always inspiring exciting to go and speak to other professionals and share with one another and i came back with some really fantastic ideas and um really worked was able to

093work with all of our freshman english classes this year and i brought back some ideas for choice reading and increasing the reading and literature literacy at the high school level and my circulation statistics quadrupled this year with some of the things that i brought back from that conference so that was pretty exciting and i'm excited to continue that next year i also have been working on a multi-year project updating weeding our collection we had a very large collection of materials many of them were no longer appropriate to keep you know outdated research etc and the average age of the collection when i started this project was 1986 was the average average publication date of the books that we had and we are now at 2004 so that's pretty exciting in the carson city school district

094libraries we have three main goals to innovate and here's some examples of innovation that we have fremont elementary school mrs moffitt she applied for a grant from city national bank and received a thousand dollar gift card to barnes noble to purchase close to 100 new books that was very exciting at carson high we received funding to complete the digitizing project our archival project so we now have all 100 years of our yearbooks and 75 years of our newspapers digitized that happened at the nevada state library and i am currently working on almost everything is available online at this point i'm trying to problem solve some tech issues with we have some really large files so i'm trying to figure out how people can access when the files are really large so i'm working through that

095um and we also received a grant to collaborate with the tech center to extend library services out to the tech center so in our tech center area you can see the picture of the um the young men sitting on the cubes we were able to bring in furniture mobile seating and so we can have instruction library instruction and other instruction out in the tech center we have um monitors and um seating and air tech support air tech support out there as well and we have a self-check book area so students we have library books out there and the students can do self-check out there as well so that was through the it was a competitive grant through the nevada state library and archives the second goal is to educate um we are continuing our collaboration

096with the carson city library and we brought in all kinds of stem and steam activities you can see the picture of the young ladies they are podcasting so they brought in professional grade microphones and computers the students learned how to do a podcast and they can check out the materials from the carson city library they check them out from us and then they can return it front to us and we'll give it back to the library as well so that's a great collaborative project the picture of the entryway carpet this was really exciting our graphic design class i challenged them with coming up with a new logo for the at senators library is the name of our carson high school library and the winning logo it's a senator man that merges into a book and

097i was able to order a an entryway rug with that logo and we have stickers and i brought stickers so i can share stickers with everybody today so this was a carson high student in the graphic design class who designed this logo and it's now our library logo she did a great job and then [Music] it does you know from this picture it does kind of look like it's shaped like nevada yes i've had people comment on that um so with educate we just being able to collaborate again with classes it's so great to be back in school all together um and so i have a picture of a class this is a creative writing class that comes in regularly and we collaborate with the teachers instructing in the content area and i'm instructing with

098technology and databases and research and so it's nice to be back in the library for collaborative education and um the third goal for our libraries is inspire we want to inspire our students um to work collaboratively to push themselves um to find um everything from reading to education to technology we really want students to feel comfortable feel safe this comment down at the bottom thank you for making this place we can study and meet with other students i feel safe and welcome here this is when students come into the carson high library they sign in and sign out and they can make comments about what we can do you know what can we do to make this space better for you and this comment really stood out to me um especially with the news of

099you know the what happened today at another school um that one of our public commented about the fact that we have students who say i feel safe and welcome here i think that means more to me than anything else and the fact that we have created that space the carson high library is myself and there's a live library assistant ms mel in there ms mel is incredible at remembering students names she knows the names of every single student and she and she calls them by name when they walk in and that means everything for a student to feel recognized and feel safe and feel honored for exactly who they are and where they are so i have some examples of different kind of projects we do we'll put puzzles out and you see the the

100guys sitting there these are a group of my tas i've had them for two years they're all graduating this year maybe a little painful to get them here but they're going to be crossing that stage and um before becoming the tas in the library they said we've never been in here before and now these guys are you know the um [Music] like the the welcome wagon in the library and um they're wonderful at introducing our new students to the school and really making a point that new students who come in feel connected and when you have like three big kind of tough looking guys who say welcome to carson high you're a senator now let me look you know help you walk around you can have lunch with us today that making those connections really

101makes a difference um one of the things that i'm very proud of in our library this year i had a personal goal to put together a formal professional growth program for our librarians as you know we have both certified and classified librarians here in the district and so it's really important that librarians are given the opportunity to grow from where they are so i have librarians that come in with zero experience and librarians who have master's degrees in library science and so putting together a program where everyone can have an opportunity to learn from where they are and move forward so that's why we have created the personalized library professional development module program this year's goal or this year's module was library programming you can see the four the five six different modules we have

102last year we focused on administration next year year will be collection development and then the librarians will choose which area that they want to learn so this year's focus um was increasing awareness and usage of library resources and services so librarian librarians set a personal challenge for themselves of how they're going to meet that goal everything from website development one school created a student advisory group one librarian is doing annual or monthly newsletters i talked about that with mrs castro she's done a great job and many libraries are collaborating with the carson city library to increase our library resources and connection to the city library roles and responsibilities um i've shown that i showed this last year and just to remind you we have the um the certified librarians are librarians who are teachers who

103have a master's in library science that's our secondary librarians and our we specialize in research and inquiry curriculum development instruction and tech integration and our library media technicians our classified library staff also provide library and information literacy instruction they manage the library collection and tech resources and promote reading for information and enjoyment so whatever our backgrounds are whatever our licensure is we all work together to provide a safe welcoming space for our students where we can challenge them to learn and to grow from where they are as your district library coordinator my job is to focus on training and professional growth library processes and procedures to support our school librarians and advocate for funding and instruction and curriculum for our librarians as well so i really appreciate the time here tonight and i can answer

104any questions that you have about the state of the state of our school libraries any questions or comments from the board joe thanks ananda um thanks for everything you do first of all it's i know it's not an easy thing to do it's it's quite the quite the level of work you mentioned before we had books that were a bit old outdated and now we've got everything like a 2004 level how long how long of a process does that take as we've heard in the past you know we have we've had people come up here and say you know maybe we have outdated books maybe we have inappropriate books maybe we need new additions to our you know to our books how long of a process is that to kind of go through and you

105know stay current i guess i believe this is my eighth year at carson high and this it took me eight years to get to this point um now i mean granted if if it were a different type of library if it were a you know very quiet studious not many students if i wasn't teaching class i mean if if then this is probably something i could have kept up on but the library is a really engaging space one of the reasons i was able to do this project it takes a full inventory and at the time you know i had over 17 000 items in the library there's a one dad who comes in weekly and he's been coming in this is third year now that he's been coming in and working on inventory and

106with his help he was able to do the background so that i could really focus on the collection analysis it took me a couple of years to really know the collection before i bring anything off the shelves i need to know you know what the curriculum is across the board i don't want to get rid of anything that if that's being used currently and one of the things i noticed this last year was our classics um i had a lot of classics but so many were so worn out that you know students they really don't even want to check it out because it's dirty and some of them were moldy you got to get rid of those and so um that's one of the things i'm doing is is bringing in newer ver it's not

107a newer version it's like just a newer copy of some of our classics because those are the most checked out books one of the things i think is great is just how engaging the library is i mean at all schools but especially at the high school you know when you go in there it's academic but it's also like the pictures show there's kids doing puzzles sometimes kids are playing games like that one game i beat you at [Music] but i mean seriously it's it's an inviting space for students it has learning resources it's a place where they can develop socially and just get away from the stress of high school you know have a little bit of time with friends and i think that's really valuable after what we've gone through the last two years

108so i i think you're to be commended for all you do thank you i appreciate that you noticed that the social connections in the library are really important to me so thank you so do you sleep [Laughter] we just appreciate everything you do and then taking on the digitalization of the yearbooks and newspapers that was incredible so thank you thank you thank you for your support with that too i i really appreciate the social atmosphere that the library provides for so many kids at lunch that's where so many go and i love that you said your assistant knows every student's name because we know one of the things that helps students to feel connected is to have an adult who knows who they are and pays attention to them and when kids feel connected they

109feel safe and they feel that somebody cares about them and i think that as we continue to build that community at carson high that is is how we address a lot of the things that we're seeing thank you yeah i would agree i happened to be at the carson high school last week at lunchtime so i wanted to see you know the activity there and i did notice kids in the library and i walked the whole school and uh so i think that connection is important so thank you i appreciate that we average about 100 students a day eating in the library and i would like to say or that no custodians are required to come into the library after lunch those students leave it spotless they wipe the tables down there are no crumbs

110and the students who eat in there really want to be in there so they're great at cleaning up after themselves that's good yes so over the last several years we've heard particularly from the elementary librarians about the checking in computers and i'm experiencing that myself i mean it's just challenging because it's an important job there's not a lot of time for that job is is that being is that working better now for our librarians because i'm hurting me for about that for a while it is working better um because we learn and grow um i have a great collaboration with raymond maduros the director of technology and he and i work closely together we've made some systemic changes to the policies or procedures how we how we check in and out chromebooks in the elementary

111school in particular now that we're back in school the elementary students are not taking the chromebooks home so they're assigned to the classroom and so we were able to make some adjustments that make that check-in check out especially at the elementary much much simpler at the at carson high mr medeiros has approved our grades 9 through 11 can keep their computers over the summer now we have so many students who are involved in whether it's summer school honors and ap classes jumpstart which you know starts much earlier than the other students students who are working doing scholarships just continued learning over the summer and in order to can provide them access to that continued learning our students are keeping their chromebooks over the summer we've had we've tested this out for a couple of years

112now and our loss rates are significantly lower than average over summer with the students who've taken them home so we feel confident that this will work better for our students and it helps with end of year and beginning of year typically it takes two weeks at the high school to collect and pass out chromebooks at the end and beginning of year and now we have students day one this year they were able to get going with their online work their digital work and the same thing we have finals all the way up to the last day of school any other comment or questions if not thank you very much very good presentation thank you may i just leave a little handful here you can pass him down i'd love to share her stickers with you

113thank you thank you for your support thank you we'll move on to agenda item number 11 presentation on the carson cares program in the carson city school district this is for discussion only and mary pray will be presenting thank you this microphone's getting a workout tonight yeah i'm mary pray i'm the professional learning coordinator for carson city school district at the beginning of the year i called myself the new carry um but i feel like i've grown into my position now and i just call myself mary when i took this job one of the things that i really promised myself having just come out of the classroom was that i would engage in work that supported teachers and so in looking at the kind of activities that my job affects things like new higher orientation

114and mentoring i decided to create a program that will support our new hires and our educators and hopefully address some of the retention issues that we face in carson city school district just like all of nevada and all of the country so really when i consider this problem i consider the imperative of retaining teachers and training good teachers so i wanted to start with reading a piece of an email that i received from one of my new hired teachers that i supported this year i wanted to thank you for asking about how it was doing on monday it was such an encouragement to me i wasn't sure if you found out but i put my resignation in in march and although i will finish out this school year i will not return next year i'm

115not sure what i'll be doing but i know now i am not able to do all that is required of an elementary school teacher in the carson city school district it still breaks my heart to think about it just thought you might want to know again thanks for what you do the imperative becomes at what point do we consider the support of our teachers in the highest regards in the united states eight percent of teachers leave the profession annually and more than 50 percent quit teaching before retirement teachers that exit the profession cite lack of support as one of the top five reasons for teacher attrition so i wanted to take a look at carson city school district's attrition data so to do that i really had to do a deep dive into our data

116so i took a look at every board meeting agenda that was available on the website for the last nine years and took resignation data and then compared it with um which of those teachers were in what level of their training or i mean whatever they're teaching how many years of service and if they were probationary what i found is the rates have been pretty static over the years they have been about the same even through coveted years what this data shows is this is resignations and this is it was current as of when i created this powerpoint a couple weeks ago there are more tonight i noticed um resignations only not county retirements there were 30 as of when i made this report and on the blue and red one you see the years of

117service of those teachers who resigned five years or less of service to the district or more than five years 58 percent almost 59 percent were with five years or less of service to our district and of those teachers 42 were probationary which means they're in their first three years of teaching looking over the years it holds pretty steadily about 60 of teachers who resign are five years or less of service to our district and of those almost 50 percent is probationary and that goes across 2019-2020 where we had a large amount of probationary teachers leave 29 teachers resigned in 2018-2019 of the teachers that resigned 72 percent were five years or less and 71 of those were probationary teachers in their first three years so over the last nine school years that data was available

118more than half of the teachers who resigned have five years or less of service and are most are probationary in their early career this year we decided to work on creating an exit survey um and i've sent that survey to all the resignees 12 chose to respond um including this year how many years of teaching experience do you have and you can see that the big red chunk are teachers that have four to six years so it bears out the fact that about half of our teachers leaving have less experience how many years did you teach in the school you're leaving most taught four to six years in that building 25 percent zero to three what are your plans for next year i thought well maybe teachers are just quitting the profession um but 41.7

119percent um are leaving to teach in a different district and then that 8.3 red chunk you see um on this side uh is accepting another position within education so not leaving education altogether so mary i'm sorry so that big chunk of teachers that's concerning concerning concerning that they're leaving for a different district are they i mean as you said they say one of the top five reasons is lack of support so they're expecting they'll get more support well elsewhere or what you know maybe i want to know a little bit more about that so we also wanted to know a bit more about that and i think that's why we um in working on um the program that i'm going to present to you the carson cares program we really wanted to find some data

120that would be actionable for us and exit surveys aren't the greatest um because they're kind of like an autopsy report right the person has already chosen to leave um and even in the exit survey i could i can share those results as well of what we've discovered um the teachers i asked them kind of like your customer service person when you you know want to quit your cable company and they send you to customer retention what could we do to keep you as a customer um half of them said nothing there was nothing you could have done to keep me so is it a issue of support at a site is it an issue of support at the district level we're hoping that as we're putting these pieces into place we'd like to work on

121creating a climate survey for next year that we look at before we have to do the autopsy exit survey what are the things that we can support you with some of the other data that we've collected from the state and the state is looking at i was on the nevada coalition for retention and recruitment and um the state is looking at doing a statewide climate survey um that they want to spend a lot of money on um to kind of gauge is it the same all across nevada right is it just um younger generation of people who consider changing careers every five years to be a good new thing right my generation tended to stay with what you learned and didn't change so often i have a quick question i just a clarifying question on

122the data if you can go back to that slide um so this response was the 12 responded from the 30 resignations this year correct and so 40 of 12 we're looking at about six about point um five five um so i just just for number six because the percentages makes it seem like really large but we also didn't hear from um 18 people who did resign so um just wanted to clarify right and i think it also tends to be when you do a survey like this any kind of survey you also have to look at some of the responses with a grain of salt right um if they're choosing to reply to the survey oftentimes it's the teachers who aren't happy right um usually if you're really happy somewhere you don't necessarily respond to

123the survey like on the back of the mcdonald's receipt you know i never respond to that survey unless they mess up my hamburger right so i think as we're moving forward in the program planning these pieces of data that'll give us more information throughout the year will be really helpful and i think as we're looking at designing that climate survey and hoping that we can bring it forward in an actionable way that we can bring those results and really think about as a district where are the places we can support and hopefully some of the stuff i'm going to show you will answer some of that that doesn't reflect on this exit survey as much as the new teachers have spoken to me as i've gone to sites um to support teachers who cry every

124time i'm in their classroom to me and are feeling less than effective as teachers so another piece of data that i think this was shared with our nevada coalition this is from teacher preparation programs in educator preparation programs in the state of nevada in 2015 and 2016 about 3 000 students were in a teacher preparation program and 819 completed the program that year in 2016 about completed a program a teacher preparation program but in the state of nevada this was the amount of vacancies that were unfilled um this year so if nevada is graduating just over 800 new teachers a year the shortage becomes kind of crystal clear for us if we continue to lose teachers in their first five years of teaching or less than five years of service to our district um we

125can see there'll be a problem and some schools are already experiencing that revolving door syndrome right where they have a constantly this huge number of teachers and it drains the resources of money it drains resources of teachers who are attempting to mentor those teachers administration who have to constantly train new teachers so to me it seems like our teaching profession is being held up on two sides in the um state side the coalition really was one of four bodies that presented to the tran of council that will go to the legislation to present what we think should be done and they talked a lot about salary and improving salaries and cost of living um we don't have that much control over how much money the state gives us unless they change it at that level

126but the link in the chain that we do have control over is that support piece so the carson cares program we love our acronyms in education so i had to create one collaborative assistance and reliable educator support not just for our new teachers but for all of our teachers the road map of creating this program and how it's going to go forward for this next year the cares program creation for this last year is now leading into first year for this program the first part of that is that expansion and shift of the mentorship program so the current model is one mentor per every site stipended at 500 in the year the lead mentor at the site the only mentor at the site got their 500 stipend if they had one new hire at their

127building or nine new hires at their building one mentor with nine new hires especially if they're all probationary teachers is just not enough you just don't have the amount of time you need to really mentor new teachers so the next part would be training training for mentors and new for site lead mentors the implementation of the cares mentorship and new teacher academy which is a cohort for the new teachers data collection and analysis of the program components every piece of the cares program has a data collection portion with it so that we can constantly look at where we can improve this program and then refine and adjust program components from the data we collect next year this completely aligns with our strategic plan the goals that we've set as a district especially around providing new

128teacher induction trainings and mentoring throughout the school year expanding the mentoring program responding to staff needs and exploring strategies to increase efficiency for our teachers it starts with the new higher orientation so the model of new hire orientation that we've used in the past will be slightly shifted so the proposed changes to new higher orientation are to create a more instruction focused program expansion back to the full five days it used to be five days and through budgetary concerns it's been paired back through the years to less and less time attract system for differentiation amongst the new hire teachers not every new hire teacher is going to need exactly the same thing of course our probationary arl and long term subs are going to need more in the board packet when you have a chance

129you can see that tracked system in action on the master new hire week schedule um the focus is really going to be on getting probationary teachers classroom ready and that means working on curriculum on a curriculum day a day devoted to kickstart which is a program focused around that first four weeks of school getting them ready um some of them well and i came out of my teacher preparation program i even had student teaching but my student teaching was late in the year and i wasn't there for beginning of school year so how do i teach a procedure what are classroom expectations um what does it really look like when i get those kids into my classroom so kickstart is devoted to that idea of getting them classroom ready what is it going to look

130like in your classroom in those first four weeks and then an napf overview on the framework that they're going to be evaluated on and a lot of that napf overview will work around their first quarter priorities i presented to the administration an idea of prioritizing the neps standards so that over the two-year induction program they would get all of the nafp and epf pieces in a more manageable set of chunks rather than all at once a teacher induction program is only as good as its components and beginning teachers in order to make more competent and effective professionals it needs to be more than just our single week of new higher orientation it needs to involve both more focused professional learning throughout the year for the new higher teachers and an expansion of our mentorship program

131so our action steps in creating the program were around the three different areas so the professional learning component which is a two-year induction program for probationary and arl teachers so they'll be in new teacher cohorts a year one cohort and then a year two cohort where they'll be able to have training um involving um focused targets of improving practice and just in time supports about things that come up during the school year like how do you run a conference what's expected of you in an iep meeting the five-day focused orientation week and the new teacher academy basically the new teacher academy and the napf will run alternate months one month they'll get the new teacher academy the next month it'll be an nepf training the nepf trainings will be on our minimum days there'll be

132there are five days set aside for the new hires to come to napf training in looking at induction models from all over the country i found there were a set of several states that have statewide induction programs that have better effectiveness than others so i took some of the program standards from those and really have focused on creating a program that's tailor fit for us in our district and our needs the expectations of new hires would be that they participate in that in orientation week and the new teacher academy for probationary teachers they must participate in the mentorship program and maintain a portfolio of their work that's done with their mentor around their instructional goals and that'll just be a piece of another piece of data collection this involves multiple layers of support instead of

133the single point of contact support they've had in the past there'll be a site lead mentor which in the elementary schools will be the instructional coaches and then those coaches the site coaches the site mentors should be in their grade level or in their content area we want to train as many mentors as we can so that we have trained mentors when they get someone new in their grade level or content area and that work will be around goal setting coaching cycles evaluation cycles to improve their performance in the classroom committee free for years one and two a new teacher doesn't need to be on sunshine committee and safety committee and school improvement committee they need to focus on learning how to teach and it's a tough job in those first couple years whatever we

134can take off plates and then they'll be district level supports a district lead mentor and then the curriculum coordinators and tech integration have all agreed to be part of this educator support team absolutely you know one of the things i think about is doing the portfolio my fear is that when you look at nepf that puts the focus on creating a box of things as opposed to finding a rationale for why you believe you've earned a certain level for that conversation with your administrator and i also fear that in the first two years of teaching it's going to put a lot of pressure on those teachers that they're already overwhelmed i have something to show you um i agree and part of the reason why i really um encouraged administrators to look at prioritizing those

135napf standards is because in the past you get a two-day training on napf on all of the standards all of the indicators within the standards and then you're immediately evaluated on all of these 41 pieces of evaluation what we needed to look at is how can we focus it so that when they're doing their work on improving their classroom instruction how do we focus on the real nuts and bolts of instruction while still giving them the tools to become an effective educator on the nepf so when i show you the proficiency scale that i've created around these areas i think that you'll see how we can blend the two the work that they do on their portfolio will be driven by in the same way we want students driven by differentiation for them if they

136already know something then we don't need to keep evaluating it right we can mark off that we've done that and then keep moving them forward and up the scale so the support at all levels to to really implement an induction program successfully when i looked at all the different induction programs that are successful around the country i found there were several components that were the same in a lot of these so the five things i really looked at was a strong and supportive instructional leader at a site with positive instructional school district climate and culture so saying that we think that this is important we think that teacher support especially early career teacher support is important and we treat it with a positive spin the instructional leader at their site and these um site mentors

137at their site the lead site mentor create a culture that we're all learners and that we're all here to support the second was skilled and trained mentors every um successful induction program also has a training program for their mentors different types of support were always built in so a balance of that kind of structured mentoring like it would look like with the nepf around the different pieces but also having someone to provide that just-in-time support um i i don't know i don't remember how to put my grades in mastery connect can you come help me or um we're supposed to give this assessment and i don't understand what this piece is who can i go to who's my mentor person and then it all involved that individualized learning piece in our district we envisioned that

138as kind of following and i know you've probably heard the word marzano proficiency scales a few times in setting up growth goals around these pieces that teachers need to have good instructional practice that they're able to see the goals they're able to work towards their goals mark those things off their checklist as their mentor or their administrator looks at those things and move on to the next goal to keep improving their practice in those areas and being able to choose from that list of things this is what i want to work on this is the next thing i want to work on probably the most important piece is that collaboration and feedback piece with their mentor where they can collaborate across the board with lesson planning with um working on goals with creating things for

139their classrooms and then getting feedback on those pieces if they never know if those pieces are successful or not then we don't go down the right row we keep doing the same things over and over so a collaboration and feedback cycle with their mentor so one of the studies i leaned really heavily on was this study by ingersoll and smith they looked at 15 induction and mentoring programs to see if there was actual success and what they discovered was new teachers were less likely to leave the profession if they were provided with a mentor in their content area and if they participated in formal planning and collaboration with other teachers lessening the feeling of isolation and improving their practice by really working with strong teachers so that led to the expanded mentorship idea so basically

140instead of the one site mentor re-envisioning mentorship across the district as one district lead mentor who will be the touch point for doing the trainings for providing the or for collecting the data for looking at analysis for being that person that the site lead mentors come to if there's a problem then there'll be a site lead mentor at every site at the elementary schools it'll be their instructional coach um and then the secondary schools will choose their site lead mentor and then underneath that are the trained site mentors so someone hopefully in the next two years in every grade level and every content area um and then below that are the teachers who are willing to open up their classrooms for modeling good teaching for those um new higher teachers the mentorship action steps were

141similar to the induction we need to train our mentors we've partnered with our pdp to create a year-long cohort for the mentors and we've worked on securing funding through title ii and through some additional grant funding with esser so the pieces that are important in that program are the summer academy a two-day course um kind of a crash course and mentoring instructional coaching model this summer and then a mentor roundtable which will be ongoing support and training throughout the year um two hours a month for mentors the goal is to create an effective and respected mentoring program so there are mentoring standards um that we've looked at that the curriculum coordinators and i have gone through to choose the pieces that we think will be the most effective for our carson city school district eventually

142we'd like to create a rigorous mentorship interview and selection pro process where this is a respected thing it's it's um important work and that the mentors in their sites are respected as teacher leaders when i started um talking about expanding the mentorship several people told me oh you'll never get enough mentors it just teachers are so busy and they don't have time to do one more thing and i said well let's give it a try and i put forward a budget of paying teachers for their time in training and stipending teachers that are working with other teachers and i have more mentors than i can afford to train this year um and so i i think that respecting teachers and their time spoke volumes for getting teachers who want to become mentors and then ultimately

143this program needs to be sustainable we need to realize that retention of teachers especially our new teachers especially the teachers that are in their first five years of teaching is vastly important to this school district we can't keep losing teachers in this revolving door there just aren't enough coming down the pike and you know there are school districts offering to buy you an atv if you go teach in their school district or offer you five thousand dollars to come teach there but that really is just stealing from one pot to another and it's not sustainable in the long run we need to keep all the teachers we can and support our teachers to become the kind of educators we want to teach our kids you know the money is an incentive certainly but from what

144i've seen and what i've heard here it's not the big incentive i think most people when they go into teaching no they're not going in it for the money and not that that's good i wish we could pay them all more but i think you know you're onto something with the support because i think when people come into the profession they're excited they want to impact students in a positive way and then what they see is from the national level on down really the lack of support for teachers and the public school system is a good example of that they really in my opinion at the highest levels don't support education they talk about it but now they talk more about school of choice which is an important thing but you can't abandon one for

145the other and so these teachers come in and they see that and then they come into the districts and the schools and they struggle and i'm just talking about the experiences i have here when i was in florida in february i spoke to teachers and administrators in two different school districts and they're talking about the exact same thing and so i think this if we can find a way the clear i've said this before to clear the path so teachers can can teach but also to help mentor yes i think that's what we need i mean you know we need these teachers to stick around in the short term and in the long term and we have to do it with support i 100 agree and i think that's why this has been such a

146passionate project for me and i'm lucky that tasha's my boss and kind of let me run with this i'm pretty sure she probably thought i was um insane in the first year on my job to create a whole new program um and originally it was a three-year plan um and i just i i felt like the imperative was so important and especially at every board meeting um and you've been here every time that consent agenda comes up and there's more and more and more names of teachers resigning how many did we have before spring break even this year i mean we had over 20 resignations we had some in the first month of school and leaving in the middle of the year like we've never seen before not even staying until the end of the

147year um i think it says a lot about um the state of mind of teachers you know i even though i've signed this contract i i have to go right so i think that um all over um like you've seen in florida it's become a national issue of how do we keep teachers and we always hear that don't give us one more thing and don't give us one more thing but how do we really prioritize for our teachers and so the program is built around how do we collect more data around this program around support for our teachers at all these levels so every piece of the carson cares program has a measurement of success component to it so for mentor effectiveness there'll be a survey of the mentees so at the beginning and at

148the end of the school year so after orientation week there'll be a survey of how valuable was your mentor's support during this first new orientation week and did they provide everything you needed support wise and then at the end of the year did you work on your goals those kinds of things there'll be a survey of administrators that'll go out do you feel like this program of mentorship and induction has created more effective teachers at your site evaluation by the district lead mentor so looking at all the pieces observing mentors and their data their portfolios and then a mentor self-reflection how well do you feel like you were able to mentor do you feel like there are more supports you need more training you need around new teacher effectiveness a survey of new teachers at

149the beginning of the year around the program components of nepf and then at the end do you feel like you're a more efficient and effective teacher and then proficiency skills in the board packet there is a an example of a proficiency scale that was created um it's the classroom management's the very first one that they will see during new hire week and basically this mirrors what our students are going to be using eventually and what our teachers are going to be working on in the next couple of years moving towards what is a a proficient teacher what does it look like to be an effective teacher in the classroom so really this gives us the option to really individualize the training for teachers if you already know how to um do some of these things

150then you don't need to work on that anymore my mentor and i have looked at this my mentor observed this my mentor marks it off on my scale then the administrators also gain a benefit by these scales because it becomes that third point of data when you're having a meeting with your new hired teacher and you say well you need to add more metacognition in your classroom and the new teacher says and then they go back and say what's that and how do i do that in my classroom this will provide that breakdown of so here are the things that i see i see that you already have this this and this the next step might be to add this and this so it gives the teacher an idea of what they need to do

151what does it look like and some steps that they can take there's one of these for each piece of the napf which will roll out over their two-year as opposed to the two days that we have done in the past um educator support effectiveness i'm going to show you a piece in a second the educator support ticket log there will be an educator support ticket that all teachers in the district will be able to submit kind of the way we do a tech ticket my computer's broken come fix it i guess it would be an i'm broken come fix me moment for teachers i need something from you who do you send um and then there'll be educator survey results so once they receive support a survey will be generated to them did someone come

152and support you around that was there something that you didn't receive you asked for how better can we provide that and then the exit survey should teachers choose to leave and hopefully to add in there a district-wide climate survey for next year so the last piece is how does this support all teachers we talked a lot about new teachers in the district how does this support all of our teachers including every teacher in our district so basically i envision the support in our district as layers and layers and layers and the more we can add to support the teachers from the bottom up the less they're up there swinging on the 44th floor without the walls built in the wind so basically carson cares is a multi-tiered system of support our arl and probationary teachers

153are at the bottom of that pyramid they we need to build that before we can build on top of it tier one supports all the teachers what are the things that all teachers in our district can expect tier two would be that targeted professional learning for teachers who need a little more and then tier three would be individualized supports that we offer through our instructional coaching targeted instructional supports for struggling teachers and at the top would be the leadership model that we're actually adding the layer of creating teacher leaders through our mentorship model you have a copy of that in your package should you like to see it and always if you have any questions you can always email me at some point too the support ticket looks like this it's a google form it

154automatically emails me when someone puts a request and they can request support in any of these areas tech integration curriculum instructional practice any pf those kinds of things they write out a basis to their request and then i would say okay well i'm going to send to you um the fabulous carolyn cook to assist you in math curriculum or um the amazing joanna kaiser who can help you with differentiation pieces or depth and complexity the curriculum coordinators have agreed to be part of our support team and the cares tiered support team you also have a copy of that you can just see the kind of supports and what gets added at each level and basically i think bill gates probably said it the best when he said students deserve great teachers and teachers deserve the

155support they need to become great the basis of this program is how can we support all our teachers but especially our new teachers to become that kind of effective teacher we want to teach in carson city school district i don't know if anyone has any questions you guys were asking in the middle so i don't know if there's we'll go ahead and open up for questions or comments from the board joe go ahead richard i have i have a comment go ahead lupe first if you don't mind joe yep go ahead lupe thank you okay first of all i would say mary this is an amazing amazing program i am a firm believer of the power of having mentors for any um any group of um individuals so this is definitely extremely powerful and i

156think that this is the answer to our many questions that we always come across how do we how do we empower our teachers how do we help our teachers how do we support our teachers so outstanding presentation outstanding program congratulations thank you joe go ahead thank you lupe so again thank you this is a this is a lot of information for you and the mentors i mean this alone is is a bit overwhelming so i guess my question is are we ready to do this or how long is it going to take to be ready to do this and how do we sustain it so again um my wonderful boss tasha allowed me to run with this program but she also was willing to um go with me on this journey as far as finding

157funding for mentors i have um through the grant um and i've been grant writing all week with valerie on getting some more essa funds for our teachers we'll be training we can train um 36 mentors this coming year plus the 10 site lead mentors so that's 46 trained mentors for next year so we'll be moving forward into year one of this plan with the expansion of mentorship and the grant we wrote for the esser funds is a two-year program so we will be able to sustain additional training the following year for more mentors at that point with the goal of this becoming a self-sustaining program where we train new mentors as we need and you know continue those things we're ready to move forward with um mentorship we're ready to move forward with the educator

158support team i envision carson city school district as the lighthouse district in the state with the exception of maybe clark and washoe who have a lot more um team members on their um professional learning team that handle all these different things they have a person for everything um i did most of this work with in conjunction with um our fabulous other support staff at our educational services department in brainstorming sessions and we are really ready to move forward with educator support for next year all of the pieces that i presented to you tonight will move forward for next year including the five day orientation week which then moves the dates um you'll be hearing i'm sure about the calendar change for those two days and moves the governor mansion breakfast which may not be the

159governor's mention because we may have so many people including our new mentors that we have to move it to a bigger site which um seems like a good problem to have so we are ready to move forward any other comments questions i i would just thank you for putting so much work into this mentorship i think is very important we do need to get to a point where we can retain the teachers we have pass that five-year thing i do worry though i personally know one teacher who went to school raised was raised in the family got her teaching degree taught one year and then called it quits because she just felt overwhelmed with everything that she was being asked to do and thought it was taking away time from her family in the evenings

160so how are we going to address that or is there any way to address that so that is probably the crux of all of it right how do we create that work-life balance which we put in our strategic plan how do we address that i think the first step is really to prioritize um we um in education you know the pendulum swings back and forth i think that under the curriculum leadership we have currently i think we have done great strides in looking at all of those programs that exist in our district mtss avid proficiency scales and it's ed services and when we meet as a group it is a powerful group of women let me tell you that we always look at it through the lens of not overwhelming teachers not doing one more

161thing that has no purpose and how do we braid these things together so they make sense and create less work on our teachers until we prioritize at every level we will always um hear that teachers are overwhelmed and feeling the pinch because it just it's just true prioritizing um at the administrative level for the administrators in the building prioritizing for their teachers are there things we can take off teachers plates that don't need to be there um prioritizing at the district level like ed services has been working so hard to do um so it just becomes that back and forth conversation which i think is really important to listen to those teacher voices um their crying uncle and they're doing it by um quitting you're exactly right and i'm glad that it's part of your

162mission so to speak to look at that because i do know teachers who've taught for 25 years too and they're leaving early for the same reason so we're not only losing them early in their career but we're losing them maybe before their career could be over you know just for the reason so i'm glad and hopefully you'll continue to look at that yes so we can address it absolutely i appreciate it i'll be bringing you hopefully lots of data through this next year on the success of this program well it's well these are uh the teachers will deserve it the new teachers especially and the existing teachers so thank you very much i think it's a great program and at this time we're going to take a small break five or ten minutes thank you

163and then we'll reconvene [Music] do [Music] thank you [Music] up [Music] do [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] better [Music] foreign [Music] call the meeting back to order we're waiting a second before we call it back to order we'll call the meeting back to order and we'll move on to agenda item number 12. discussion of proposed changes to ccsd regulation 511.1 student accident and injury procedures and this is for discussion only and mr stokes will be presenting thank you thank you thank you mr president members of the board the purpose of this presentation tonight is to take a look at a proposed change to board regulation 511.1 as you know policies are or any change or modification policies required board action whereas regulations are everyday operational conditions that change regularly and we always try to make

164the trustees aware of any regulation changes that are being proposed and in this particular case we wanted to provide additional information for any of our administrators coaches supervisors or those who might be working as a chaperone on any out-of-town event and the proposed change is on page 2 of the regulation 511.1 item number 10 reads if a student is transported to an urgent care slash er facility a staff member or chaperone will maintain remain with the student or at the facility waiting room until parents arrive or the student is released from care unless otherwise excused by the parent so again this is just a common sense kind of addition where we want if there is a need especially in an out of town or away from school event and it does require medical service to

165that student we want to make sure that our folks are they're supporting that student until either relieved of duty or unless the parents let them know that they're they will be there or if the student is actually dismissed from that medical facility so that's really the extent of the changes being proposed here do you have any questions i'm thinking that would be implied but sometimes things get lost in translation when something's going on so you know we have especially some of our high school students are traveling all over the country for their cte programs and so i would hate to think a child is requiring medical care in their families you know thousands of miles away so i think it sounds like a common sense approach my only question is with the last clause um

166of the unless otherwise excused by a parent um i i guess what would those exceptions be and i can think if we've got students who are 18 years of age and then they're treated as adults but i i worry about some of the minor kids if they're in an er or urgent care facility if there's no one there for them i mean i guess nurses take over ryan what are your thoughts on that one i i guess it gives discretion uh in application to include the language about unless otherwise excused by a parent uh if there's a situation where where i can think of a parent um being in route and knowing the facility um being comfortable with saying you know what they're good they're under care and releasing the school district representative i don't

167think it hurts anything to leave that in there um i think i think it gives just discretion and flexibility to the district i mean i'm still picturing even then if i was that coach or that teacher i would still be in the waiting room until the parents got there in case that kid needed something so yeah any other discussion or questions from the board members see none this is for discussion only so uh thank you very much thank you mr president i did fail to mention earlier too that andrew fueling is going to be joining us via telephone he couldn't be here tonight so on agenda item number 13 presentation of budget preparation timeline and introduction of topics for the public hearing on the budget for fiscal year 2023 including brief discussion and this is

168for discussion only mr fueling are you with us i am president barnard thank you uh anytime you're ready go ahead hey um there's a bit of a delay between what i'm seeing on the screen and and what i'm hearing so i apologize if it's a little um awkward timing uh but i'll do my best uh is mrs fusan uh my clicker good evening i am your clicker i am here and ready to to move forward as you let me know thank you so is it possible to bring up on this on the screen what's being presented on the presentation i i can't really mr fueling this is tasha i have nevada k-12 education funding at the top of my slide yeah no you you refined mrs fuson on the um on the live on the

169live stream i couldn't i couldn't do it now it's up now so thank you um okay so um the original final budget for 2022 2023 uh one of my favorite quotes mrs fuson if you click two more times this will bring up the author of this amazing quote yeah so this is a quote from governor grant sawyer from january 22 1963 talking about um the uh some of the details of uh or successes of education in the state of nevada so moving on today's presentation we will go through the budget preparation timeline and i'll try to make that quick because we've already reviewed that with the tentative budget uh the revised capital plan for consideration which is still fairly limited in scope and then the budget presentation itself and then the resolution for for your

170consideration yes if you could go one more please i'm showing may 24th okay so yeah there's just a really there's a 30-second lag in what i'm seeing on youtube so my apologies um natasha i'll just say what slide i'm i'm looking at and i'll start talking about it and hopefully it'll make sense to you okay i will i will keep up with you okay if you could just go back one then i'm there okay so um in october once we have our general account of students for the month of september [Music] we will start doing projections on enrollments for the next school year we start doing our first updated budget projections then the next month with with those students and starting to bring in our audit and audited financial numbers we get heavier into than

171the budget planning process in january we're getting revenue projections in february march from department of taxation those aren't as important anymore but it's still an interesting information for us to to consider [Music] then the tentative budget which was presented to the board back in april that's due to taxation by april 15th there's some fine tuning and then you end up where we are today so this meeting has been noticed twice if you go to the next slide please um and we are now at the budget hearing this evening on may 24th the original final budget is due to taxation by june 8th and then before december 31st we're allowed to do an amended budget um but we always do next slide please so for it should be the fiscal year 23 budget um so the

172the second year it is the second year of the biennium so um we know our harmless per pupil number that that is not an unknown which is a good thing we still have not learned what our special education funding will be for next year but we're usually pretty close to it in estimates you'll you'll notice some slight variations in salary and benefit dollar excuse me dollar amounts and that's just updating with known turnovers and vacancies in the district and again our nutrition services fund deficit it's just kind of a standing item we always have a deficit in that fund and we don't um this year so it's kind of important to uh next slide please hey aj can i ask you a quick question about that yeah sure did we ever get any word i

173know the governor had said he was gonna start um funding the free breakfast and lunch like the federal government was doing have we gotten more information about that for next year um we have we don't have the exact details of of how it will work yet but the the basic idea is that um so for example if a student if a student is free [Music] we will get well so every student is going to need for free and basically whatever amount normally the student would have to potentially make up we will get reimbursed that amount from the state and so while that may not um seem like that big of a deal um that will most certainly keep participation likely at the levels we're seeing right now and if that's the case then the the

174revenues in that fund should be um they won't be quite as high as this year but they still will be higher than what we're used to seeing that that would should easily offset our expenditures in that fund uh last part of this the capital projects um just the the ongoing work mr kornick is going to speak here in a little bit to talk about some of that um some slight revisions to the capital improvement plan [Music] we will be doing a lot of work this summer and it's always kind of an awkward thing because it crosses fiscal years so this is always tightened up once we get to the december amended budget and that's why we revise it in the month of december any any other questions or comments so far if not son you

175can go to the slide that has the number nine on it i'm there just for clarification is this the next agenda item uh yeah i apologize so president varner uh uh item eight is is complete any uh board discussion questions saying none we'll move on then to i guess we'll go to the number 14 which is a discussion and possible action to approve the revised capital improvement plan for the carson city school district for fiscal year 2023 and this is for possible action and mr mark kornick and mr fueling will be presenting thank you president varner and mr kornick my great apologies for not being there this evening [Music] this item is specifically about the capital improvement plan that plan can be found on page 60 of the budget document itself it reflects really a

176process that started well i think five or six years ago with the original facility master planning committee we are at that point now we're wrapping up many of the final projects that that that community committee had approved so um one of the things i just wanted to point out if you look at the top of the budget or the capital improvement plan documents under the the revenues kind of the orange numbers near the top there's a black line that says available pay go or pay as you go and you'll know you'll notice those numbers are um increasing over time and and so what what that means is that that money um is accumulating will be accumulating in the debt service fund um it would be available for transfer to the capital projects fund to do

177some projects if we so chose or it is funds that could be used to further bond for future projects so with the increase in interest rates um that we've seen over the last months it likely won't go as far as it would have just um you know back in 2021 or early 2022 but it's still just something to to keep in mind that the opportunity may be there um although it's still kind of keeping in consideration the economy decisions um this document is a bit of a living document it can change at any time can be brought before the board again at any time so just keep that in mind and with that i will refer to mr kornick who can talk through some of maybe the projects on here or other projects that are

178wrapping up and if you have any questions we'll try to answer for you thank you mr fueling president farner and trustees mr stokes thanks uh for letting me pinch hit here tonight and support mr fueling i just was going to go through the expenditures on that page real quickly um and add some comments and some direction where we might be going later this fall um in the um district-wide cycle we often have for those three categories asphalt roofing and envelope and refresh we generally put about a hundred thousand dollars in there every year and that is just to keep up on those projects right keep up on our parking lots roofs and a refresh item we we added that a few years back where generally a school will get a refresh either that painting or

179carpeting or something like that in the schools or it may go across the district to a few schools um if it's a like item okay um so this year that item the refresh item is sealager they're we're refreshing all their restrooms with new new partitions and new countertops and tile cleaning etc and then we have about 10 classrooms that we're painting and a lot of that painting works due to new television monitors going in and previously years ago we mounted those smart boards we had on the chalkboards and this is one of those schools so we have to get rid of the chalkboards and then refinish the walls and then paint the walls so it was a good year to do a refresh there on the asphalt item we have 50 more than we have

180funds for right now but we may be able to take care of that later and i'll talk a little more on that later and then the roofing envelope is is for smaller roofing jobs we have several of those district-wide maintenance i want to come back to that because that's a high dollar item which you guys are probably interested in let me get through a couple of these easy ones and then we'll talk about that near the end we have a bathroom remodel it's um it's titled bathroom remodel but there's more work to that um our primary restrooms at uh borderwick are being um overused so we need to do something to expand those or change the way we put traffic through those bathrooms and then we talked about a special ad or a cls upgrade

181in that in that building the special ed rooms and the autism room is not adequate for that program anymore so we want to upgrade that and then that will provide us a little more space for those other rooms that we can turn it back into standard classrooms um carson high um we have uh re-roof and that's just a term that we we we put on all the schools when we're addressing a roof um there you'll see as you go down here most of the schools have some kind of roof work this year or next year or the following year and that could be recoating the roofs if they're tpo plastic roofs or it could be re-roofing or just repairing major repairing um and then we have a locker room remodel which is a phase two

182a couple years ago we did some pe locker rooms and i think it was varsity uh girls basketball uh locker rooms and redid that there's a couple there's a boys pee room and then there's um a girls upstairs pe room that needs to be upgraded and brought into this century with lockers and that kind of thing um eagle valley that's that million dollars is sitting there to final up the expansion project which um next week we'll be doing our first major punch walk on that so we're we're in the 90 completion area on that right now and it's looking wonderful we will be um doing two projects in the summer to finish that which is a remodel of an existing computer lab there's two rooms that are computer lab one room is going to become

183some offices and an it room and then the other one is going to be completely remodeled computer lab with with access from the exterior hallway which it never had before you had to go through one room to get to the other so this will make that room a lot better and then in the front the front of the building will get a rebuilt vestibule currently that vestibule when the doors open it offers a lot of wind into the building and into that office area and that vestibule was planned on a safety grant that we had two years ago and when cove it happened whatever we were working on in that safety grant the money was taken back by the state and we couldn't finish the project so we added it into this project so we'll

184be hustling to get that done by first day of school but everything's looking really good schedule wise and then you'll see roofs at fremont ridge mark twain and seliger are all down there that are planned for this year which would be doing an rfp for about five years ago we hired a company called benchmark to do an evaluation of all the roofs in the district so we have mapping for every school we know what the next project should be and and with availability of some funds because we finished up some projects we decided to go ahead and put those together and it may be that we end up putting those other ones that are scheduled next year in there as well um but we'll have to see and then finally transportation um is getting a

185bit of a remodel um they have a bay that they're using kind of for storage and equipment right now and then there's an outside shed area we're going to make that a new indoor enclosed area and open up that bay and clean up that whole area so that they'll have a fourth beta repair buses and kind of dedicate for our new e-buses that'll be coming in so it was a little bit scattered there and part of that reason is because of this district-wide maintenance major maintenance that shows um nearly five million dollars in there for this year and another million and a half next year and that money obviously was um earmarked for the 1600 snyder property we had money to purchase and then money to do some remodeling and since that property's been sold

186we won't be doing that but we already bonded so we have that money there um so that money could be used to like i said push some of those other roof projects together and go out for rfp for all of that this year and benchmark is a company that would help us with that they build the scope we just did border wicks last year on their multi-purpose room kindergartens and they helped us build the scope for that and what type of root roof we should put on there etc so we could look at some of that money going that way we've talked about district-wide there's several landscaping projects that we could get done in that we could conserve some more water less maintenance since the staffing is really tough to get in the grounds department

187as well um and there may be some money supplemental money needed for that transportation project building controls are getting old hvac asset assessment we need to do that so these are some of the items that mark johnson and i have been looking at but what we want to do is bring back our facilities master plan committee in the fall and start developing that five to ten year plan for these projects and getting input from um our staff and community et cetera to build that plan and then allocate those funds that we have sitting there so when we um when we did this um five six years ago we we developed a spreadsheet we went and interviewed all administrators we went to all the schools and we built a over a 50 million dollar project list

188um in 2019 that we were down to 29 million and we've even cut that um below 20 million now and some of those will find that have dropped off that um aren't in the direction we're going in maybe anymore or um we did we've done some of benchmarks um recommendations to do some fix-its on roofs which will push our roofs out about 10 years so we have all these different layers that we're looking at for that for that funding so i'm looking forward to that in september i'm getting the getting the team back together and looking for some new more new folks on that team and um looking for a future direction of the facilities master plan um in a nutshell that's basically what i got for you but um i'm here for questions yeah

189excellent job mr cornick thank you any questions or comments from the board i just have one i i was at the high school the other day and i haven't asked mr chambers what he would like to see for improvement safety wise to the building safety wise yeah and he suggested a set of double doors another set of doors behind the north side doors there so where you had two doors to go through instead of one and i don't know if there's any money available in this proposal that you could do that maybe or look at that i think um you'll probably be on that committee mr varner so bring that to us you know we'll add it into the mix and we'll take a look at that it's actually actually what we're doing at eagle

190valley that would be in a two to three times the size right but that's a good idea okay yeah it was mr chambers idea so thank you well this is um an action item so i'll open up for motion can't hear you i'll move the wii except the um approve the capital improvement project as submitted second second by stacy a census action item is there any public comment state name for record please pepsi strasbourg i have a question um could somebody just explained to me the difference between the bond funds and the capital project funds was the bond funds something that we did back in the past for targeted projects and the capital project funds are coming from the budget from for the district i can't would you like me to answer that president yes

191please the um so it's basically um there's two different funds within the excuse me within the district accounts and one of them the primary revenue source for the the capital projects fund is government services tax so basically taxes collected for the sale of automobiles um in carson city and so those are um those are those revenues are not um as high um as significant as what we usually receive in in revenues when we sell a bond but they are steady so it's kind of a nice pot that we just always know that we're gonna have available for capital projects around the district um the only the only other source we have dedicated for any type of capital projects is anything within the bond fund and that's if we go to the markets and using our

192our debt service levy and i'll actually show that with the next part the 43 cents we have we can use the property tax revenues generated from that to go out to the market and sell a bond and that the last time we did that was at the beginning of this last school year in september i believe it was 12 or 13 million dollars a bond that we received but they ultimately can be used for the same types of items it's just that capital projects is not as significant alone thank you any other in-person comment saying none before we move on to the online public comment any other discussion by the board on the motion saying none call for any online comments not regarding capital of the capital plan mr varner okay thank you go ahead

193and call for a vote on the motion all in favor say aye aye saying none motion carries thank you we'll move on to item number 15 discussion of possible action on the final budget including adjustments to the 10 of the tentative budget for the carson city school district for fiscal year 2022 including adoption of a resolution approving the final budget and transmittal letter and this is for possible action and it'll be presented by mr fueling hopefully thank you again president varner um mrs busan if you could go to the slide that starts with the 81st session of the nevada legislature i'm there thank you um so in the le in the last session again we're in the second year of the biennium so we were aware of our our per-pupil funding amount going into this

194year we are still subject to the state's hold harmless provisions under the people-centered funding plan um originally guaranteed to be at least the level of funding from the fiscal year 20 or the 1920 school year um and it ended up actually being slightly less so that the state um in that process could make it balanced to the amount of money that they wanted to put into education um so that whole harmless is calculated as a baseline off of the fiscal 20 per pupil the amounts that we receive because we are in hold harmless have flexibility in the use of funds once we jump fully on the pcfp model there there's some more restrictions on how you use um some of the weighted funding categories but we have flexibility at this point and then anything that

195has been added beyond that reduction um none of that goes to districts and holds harmless so that goes to all the districts that have managed to get themselves on uh the people-centered funding plan so even with added funding we're still stuck at our level of funding uh next slide please terrible enrollment here so as i was um preparing this um it you know i clearly we've talked about our enrollment has has dropped over the last couple years and so i i wanted to go back to a year i knew there had to be a year in recent history that had a similar level of enrollment so the year that was the closest was the 16-17 school year so six years ago i thought it would just be interesting for you i think it kind of

196captures what is happening with this you you probably don't remember um back in uh fiscal um it was 17 or 18 there was a correction to our funding amount in the old dsa model and then we went into hold harmless so it's kind of been a series of tough events for us but when you look at that enrollment being only a difference of four and then you can see what the the total state and local funds so this isn't just the general fund this is any kind of grant any kind of weighted funding class size reduction funding anything that is primarily local or funded by the state most of it being from the state and when you compile all those numbers for each year and then divide it by the level of enrollment you get

197that per pupil amount so if if you say what is the total state and local revenue per pupil this is what my answer would be to you so about 97 71 for 16 17 school year 9906 for next school year and what really struck me about those numbers is the 1.4 percent increase in that per pupil state and local funding and that's not 1.4 per year that's in total over six years our funding has gone up 1.4 percent however when you look at cpi inflation numbers over that same period of time and assuming that this next year is going to come in around six percent which might be generous um that's 26.2 percent total increase in in costs around us so i think it just really kind of nicely frames the ongoing issues that um

198you know we're going to have um that we're going to need to deal with over time it's uh it's certainly a revenue problem um at this point for us um the next slide please so um just an update on the sr2 and sr funds so we actually have uh another year to spend the balance of our sr2 funds and i'll just note where some of those phones are going and then we have two more years to spend our sf3 funds last time i presented on the budget we had not been given guidance as to the official the official end of sr3 funding is september 30th 2023 but all education all federal education grants are subject to what's called the tithings amendment um which ultimately allows for an extra year so we we actually have two

199more years to spend down um those funds the the 4.4 and 9.9 those are the original amounts not what is left at this point um that we'll still wait to see that here at urine although i'll say sr2 has been pretty well spent um from what was budgeted sr3 due to difficulties hiring staff has has not spent quite as much why um so tentatively how are we using these federal grants and i just add these in because it's significant dollar amounts um and to make you aware um and i don't know that i need to to read through and mention every single one of these items um but the kind of the bigger point being is just keeping that long-term mindset we've talked several times about the the concern about the fiscal cliff so when

200when these grant funds do run out there's not that it's um it's more about the dollar amounts than what you see listed here but those dollar amounts to to some extent probably not a hundred percent um have to be replaced in some way so that that's kind of the ongoing um concern um with with those grants uh if you go to the next slide mrs fisa are there any questions uh at this point any questions comments from the board uh not at this time mr fielding thank you president hey mrs fusan if you could go to the next slot um average daily enrollment so back in the uh school year uh 2017 uh sorry 2017-2018 school year the state moved away from the count day traditional account day and now it is an average daily

201enrollment um over each quarter so um as you can see in the 18 19 school year 1920 school year there were the number of years where the district was was really starting to grow again fairly quickly and then when coveted hit things kind of dropped off so as of this point projecting about the same enrollment um and and that's not a typo that the decimal point is different by 0.1 on those last two that actually is how it calculated out from where our current projections are for this year again because every day still counts this year so it's still kind of projecting enrollment for the year and then what what it's projecting for for next year next slide please this is the historical weighted enrollments for the carson city school district and again you can

202see there and starting in 1617 17 18 there was that bump in enrollment and then it it kind of dropped off but it gives you a sense of um you know going back to 1991 the the growth of the community and you know i've showed you some numbers at the last meeting talking about kind of the aging of the community and the fewer and fewer um 18 and under um so the you look back at the early 2000s you know 12 1300 more kids very similar but it's actually worse than douglas county douglas county over that period has lost well over 2 000 kids in that time so it's not something unique to carson by by any means go to the next slide please this is just looking at historical uh property tax rates for

203for the district the operating rate um which is basically our our general fund and now it's kind of strange because it really doesn't come to us anymore it just goes to the state um and then the debt rate the debt rate we do receive but um you go back to the 1970s and and those property tax rates were a heck of a lot higher um and then you have the that 1980 the taxpayers revolt in those times and the state took over more of the funding but then eventually the the state recognized it couldn't really front or couldn't afford what it was trying to obligate itself to so that it increased and made permanent that 75 operating tax rate um but our debt rate stabilized in the late or early 2000s and then dropped a

204little bit when we um went to the voters and they graciously approved our rollover bond question in 2010 the next slide please this just looks at the overall carson city property tax rate so the using the same colors the um the blue is the the operating rate for the school district the 75 cents the red is our debt rate um the green then is kind of everything from the city and the city has there's several different pots and i don't exactly understand what all of them are but that is kind of wrapping up everything into one for them except for the debt rate that they don't actually levy anymore so um that that purple is just separated out and then the state of nevada gets there a portion of that too but if you if

205you've heard uh over the years i've probably referred to the tax cap or you might have heard that in conversations when you look at those later years the top end of the line it gets just over 350 so talk about the 3.65 tax cap and that's kind of what this reflects is that ultimately um the the there is a limitation to county-wide how much all the entities can tax and all of that gets aggregated together whatever the rates are and it can't exceed that that cap so it kind of stops generally when you get there the next slide is uh historical assessed valuations this now is just more of interest than anything else but you see the huge blip in in uh home values uh around time leading up to the great recession it wasn't

206until last year that values in carson city for the first time exceeded that high point from back in 2009 i think it was it's been was quite a downhill run and quite a recovery for the city next slide please that's kind of just overarching um you know enrollment and economic information when you look at all of the funds of the district um we have a lot of funds 25 altogether um and so when you look at kind of in proportion to each other the general fund clearly is is still the biggest fun but we have many other tiny slices that that we have to manage through all of our work and one thing i would point out i always try to if you look at special education it's five percent the kind of blue one

207on the left side that's the the revenue that we receive from the state but then if you go to the next slide you'll see how the expenditures for special education again blue are well larger than that five percent so that that's kind of the best example of how we have to do general fund transfers we have to transfer money from the general fund to cover those additional costs because the state doesn't cover all those costs for again then just looking at this look of expenditures broken out next slide please um not including the bond fund because that really tends to skew things because if there's no salaries or wages attributed to it but getting just an overall look of the district what percent goes to salaries and wages what percent goes to benefits and other

208items so this is all funds otherwise together but you so you can see about a little less than 75 when you consider all funds goes to staffing and then 20 percent services and supplies and then some two transfers transfers truly are generally a staffing cost anyway because we're transferring money to special education fund or um usually nutrition fund it's those are staffing intensive areas for us my next slide is on the the revenue side there's no adjustments on the expenditure side as i mentioned there's some really slight adjustments based on known turnover there's been an additional bus added from the the last budget as we're trying to replace some of that fleet the the timing delays on bus orders are huge so if we place an order on july 1st we will be lucky to

209get it by april of the next year at this point so it's something that we would want to jump on and cause some problems last year and then also adding the contingency line item and then we'll talk a little bit about balance next slide this uh again so so revenues um under the old dsa way um there was a a better balance between local sources and state sources now under the new pcfp is effectively all state funding so there's very little local funds that come directly to us that we have control over anymore so it's a little bit of a different world next slide you look at the the general fund um again it's pretty similar in terms of breakout between sellers wages and benefits so kind of your staffing costs um again the thing

210about transfers transfers generally are staff and costs all of those together are mostly covering staffing the district please this gives a a sense of um kind of the the change in our cost structure over time so going back to 96 and looking at the blue is the percentage of our general fund expenditures that were attributed to wages the red is benefits the purple is services and supplies and then the green is transfers to other funds and so what what's nice about this and i always show this because i think it just really paints that picture of how the the cost of benefits over time is it just squeezes right because it just kind of keeps growing a little little by little um much of that due to purrs and much of that due to health

211insurance costs but it definitely puts a squeeze on on wages and next slide please so looking at the general fund expenditures just kind of by program area the the regular off to the right that's just kind of your standard educational um programming that that you would think of in the schools down below you'll see vocational technical so that's our cte programming um alternative and distance ad that that has actually because of the new some of the new funds that we have it it sucks some of the alternative and english learner expenditures out of it so it shrinks this but if you looked at it as a whole of the district it would it would be a larger percentage amount support services 37 so that's kind of everything on behind the scenes helping make education happen

212here and then you have your transfers out of it next slide down your opening fund balance projected for the year at about 11.2 million revenues are exceeded by the expenditures we're projecting there is some carry forward included if you recall carry forward is unspent budget authority from from prior years that we allow um schools and departments to carry over a little bit if they they don't uh spend down their entire budget then you have a deficit of about 1.2 million or 1.3 million dollars i think it's really important that given the world we're in and especially the difficulty with hiring it is incredibly unlikely that our expenditure level will come near that 69 million dollar mark i would fully expect it to come in lower than that because of positions that we likely may not

213be able to fill next year if we did and all that came through um we have an ending fund balance uh 9.9 million which is about 14.4 percent of historically looking at that percentage amount um see where our our fund balance has been it wrote up for a number of years but then once really 17 came and got hit by the first round of changes in the level of funding um it's it's been on overall on a decline there's been some ups and downs but overall and a bit of a uh still still within our range that's considered very healthy for government entities uh last second last slide one thing we normally do in these presentations is is always update the board because you by approving the budget you're effectively approving um the prices for

214the nutrition program and um that so normally the feds each year force us to change our uh call our what prices we charge for meals um that has not happened did not happen last year and we still have not received notice if they're going to do it this year so at this point these are the existing meal prices and again it it almost kind of doesn't matter because the state will be backfilling um costs for us but um still there's extra milks and and those sorts of things that that are included here so that more or less for informational purposes and you sign if you go to the next slide um questions or comments on the board any comments or questions joe go ahead aj this is trustee cassiopo just to refresh my memory the

215ending fund balance there's an amount we have to maintain so that you know we don't get in trouble by the state but also with this new funding formula isn't there a maximum we we we we can't exceed and i'm wondering i forgot what that number is and i'm wondering how we're faring yeah um i'm wondering too unfortunately so this is something that it's incredibly frustrating because this is something that with the original sb 543 bill in 2019 and the revised sb 439 bill in 2021 there is some conflicting information or kind of standard 16.6 is kind of the number but as far as budgeted versus actual and the situationally when it applies and um you know how how you know say like net proceeds which we don't get how that gets treated um they in

216the latest kind of iteration of how they may calculate it they appear to be including the nutrition services and special education fund which i i i've already kind of pushed back on that and waiting to get some information back but um it i guess 16.6 is kind of the number that you're looking for but truly the interpretation of what that means and how it'll be applied we still don't understand that and and what's really frustrating is that um when we do come to a final final answer on that it's going to be retroactive back to fiscal 21 um i should say that the the changes between fiscal 20 and fiscal 21 and we're about to wrap up fiscal 22. so it's just a really frustrating place to be and i'm hoping we get some um

217i think it's still going to be a little while before we really kind of nail down what this looks like and we'll see if anything changes with the legislative session any other comments or questions see none um i i have a question on the 1.2 million dollar a tentative deficit does that include the two million dollars or whatever it was for that's the money that we're spending in other words if we didn't have the extra money we'd be looking at a three million dollar plus deficit yes yes you would and and that that really encapsulates that fiscal cliff scenario right so that that's what we everything that we're going to be talking about over the next months is really going to be leading up to that that legislative session and we need to be thinking

218about this anyway kind of contingency planning um but really it's all gonna ride on what happens at at the legislative level again revenues for the state are absolutely through the roof right now um everyone and their brother is gonna be complaining about inflation um and so the hope would be that potentially the state puts enough money into education to free us from hold harmless but that truly i think would be a significant amount of money and i i don't i know that we'll get there but the sooner we get out um the easier it is then to start dealing with that fiscal cliff scenario so um that is something that has been on my mind for ever since the first surround came out and we knew that the hold harmless was going into effect it's

219certainly helpful um and i'm very thankful that it happened with the timing that it did otherwise if not we would be living that scenario already there there would have had to be cuts to meet programming needs thank you any other discussion or questions from the board see you know this is the action item i'll go ahead and call for a motion i'll make a motion i move that the carson city school district board of trustees adopt the final budget for fiscal year by approving the resolution and transmittal letter and further instruct the director of fiscal services to file the necessary documents to comply with nrs chapter 354. second by laurel any uh further more discussion on the motion joe go ahead sorry can i ask aj one more question sure did i miss my chance

220hey aj so when i'm looking at page two of the uh budget in front of us the total revenue projections for fiscal year 23 based on your second to last slide check out at 67 721 810 but then you have total operating expenditures including excluding transfers oh maybe that answers my question it was 61. 998 162 but i think your slide showed something else right it was a higher well and the other the other thing too is the um in my slide i'm not including the contingency line item but in on this page you have to include contingency it and truly in the last eight years we've only accessed contingency funds one time um so we never really expect that but it's something that has to be included in here so when you look at

221the deficit on this page it says 2.289 million while what i showed you is 1.189 million and again there's there's zero expectation we will access contingency but on this sheet it has to be represented that way okay all right thank you any further comments from the board saying none we'll move on to any public comment on this any in-person public comment thank you trustee cassiopo that was my question too so thank you for clarification this is probably the third year or so that i recall we've had deficits at what point will the school district start thinking about balancing their budget and that is going to be probably a painful effort so we need to start thinking about it because as uh and mr fueling said that there is a cliff that is coming up but

222i don't see any programs or thinking around how the school district would have a balanced budget down the road so i urge the board to start thinking about that thank you thank you any online public comment yes mr varner thank you this comment is from robert harris even though this will most likely not be taken into consideration i still think it needs to be mentioned the budget is not being allocated correctly the district is getting money specifically for special needs children and children with ieps because the district is short-handed the children who are supposed to get the special services are not receiving the help the district is getting money for so where does the money go teacher bonus diesel fuel i have friends who can speak specifically to how children are treated within our district

223for example i know a child who is not speaking anymore because of an incident that happened that left a school employee in the hospital this incident traumatized the child with the district being short staffed you allowed violence to take place that left multiple victims some physical and some emotional i know you were all tired of hearing from me but remember i'm also tired of pointing out the egregious and system systematic problems of this district especially when we don't get any results to fix or change them i don't know why the culture is so negative in the district but a little wisdom i will pass along people don't leave the company they leave their district supervised excuse me they leave their direct supervisor that's all i have mr marner thank you president barney sure aj i

224i apologize for interrupting um i just mr nagel had respectfully asked a question earlier about um one of the vendors the the rational mind bending i just wanted to answer him that that is um uh kind of the the most extreme um kind of case psych contractor our vendor we use for psychological services so the really severe behavioral issues across the district which has fun over the last decade so i just want to make sure he had an answer for that thank you we'll go ahead and call for a vote on the motion all in favor say aye aye aye all opposed say nay motion carries thank you move on to thank you aj and i appreciate you coming out or being available tonight even though you're not feeling well thank you yeah i'm really

225sorry about that this is not the night to have this happen yeah get better soon we'll move on to item number 16 the approval of the consent agenda this is for possible action i'll move that we uh prove the consent agenda is submitted second second by don oh joe i'm sorry okay any board discussion on the motion seeing none in a public comment in person public comment seeing none any online public comment no mr verner thank you see you none uh we'll go ahead and call for a vote on the fair say aye aye motion carries thank you move on to the next agenda item number informational items this is for discussion only these are all listed on the agenda i'm sure everybody has had a chance to read them any uh discussion or questions

226about them seeing none we'll go ahead and move on to requests for future agenda items topics it's not not necessary well it will be an agenda item eventually but we talked a while ago about looking at the strategic plan i just want to make sure it's still on our radar because in my opinion i'd like to look at the strategic plan make sure it's updated where we want it because i think that's an important part in the superintendent evaluation is making sure we align the two thank you any other comments seeing none we are adjourned thank you [Music] you