001[Music] e [Music] n [Music] [Applause] [Music] n [Music] we're going to get started at 6 o'clock um welcome to the Robert croll boardroom Carson City School Board Tuesday June 22nd um it's 6 PM we're going to start with the board workshop and we'll call the meeting to order and and start it off with a flag salute Richard if you'll lead us Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the republ for stand one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for thank you item two is the board Workshop it's a Roundtable discussion among board members and staff with input from the public to address the following topic um the discussion the topic is discussion to review a draft of the Carson City School District's plan for the safe return to
002in-person instruction and Community excuse me continuity of services for the 2021 2022 school year uh this is for discussion only we won't be taking any action on it and the way we're going to work it is superintendent Stokes is going to present the draft plan and we'll just um kind of have question and answers so Richard if you'll start us off thank you Mr President good evening members of the board citizens of uh Carson City Welcome part of our purpose for having this Workshop tonight is to establish an opportunity for um a safe reopening plan that's required by both the federal government and all the also the state Department of Education in the state of Nevada and so I want to uh reiterate that because uh of where we are in the timeline this is
003a draft and so the uh Workshop that we hold tonight its purpose is to take input from uh the citizens to also have uh discussion amongst the board members and then we will return after having taken into consideration tonight's meeting on the 13th of July which is our next regularly scheduled Schoolboard meeting and at that time there will be action taken at least proposed on this particular plan because we are required to submit our plan by the 14th of July and so uh I'd like to go through this presentation and I am assuming that there will be plenty of time for discussion and interaction but I wanted to go through what the uh original requirements are from the federal government to create this plan and so these are items that must be addressed in the
004plan first is the maintenance of health and safety for uh not only students but also staff and community members that might come into the schools second is to ensure that there is a continuity of services in other words in some parts of the United States there have been some school districts that were unable to open at all uh we had a hybrid model we made some modifications throughout the course of our school year where we brought different grade levels back for more time than we had at the very start of the school year so that continuity of services addresses all things like um IEPs or individualized education plans 504 plans uh free and reduced lunch Services student health all of those things that are part of any school day the third aspect of the plan
005is to get an assurance from the local education Authority which is the school board that the plan will be periodically reviewed and they recommend no less than six months at a time for this review and this is not unlike what we did during the last school year as you recall every so often we came back with some new information data and uh we were able to modify and revise our plan over time and then the last item based on federal expectations is to provide the plan that is ultimately um established in each School District to the families in the community in their preferred language so please know that the purpose again of this Workshop is to take public input we will uh again reiterate that this is a draft and that all things are subject
006to change in this type of a process so the um let's see let me move on here as uh the introductory statement here for the plan and there's there's going to be specifics as we talk about these plan uh or this plan and the individual aspects of the plan but we're proposing to return to school 100% to inperson and on campus instruction as you know last year we had a hybrid model we had a variety of um established uh conditions including full remote this year we are also required to provide an opportunity for students and families to have access to distance learning but it's um and and I'll go into that in a little bit um further into our presentation but but this has to be a presented aspect of the plan in other words
007we could have students that uh are unable to attend school for any reason and because we have had a year where um technology has played a big role in the education of our students we have some capacity to provide distance educ education distance learning for students in certain circumstances we're also required to deal with the conditions of health and well-being of students and anyone who comes into the schools student attendance again coming off of a year where some students were lost we had times when some students uh were not in touch with teachers uh for a variety of reasons and so being able to account for student attendance attendance as another important aspect of the plan and then of course uh we learned a lot about having school during a pandemic some of the things
008that we learned with regards to operations and I'll go into that in more detail as well so to start with the 100% full return to in-person on campus instruction I would say that the best way to describe this is that we'll have school like we have had in the past uh we expect to follow our school calendar which you folks have already approved so that calendar will be in effect all services for students will be available regardless of uh individual need but those services will include student health student nutrition transportation and of course any special services that might already be established it's also important to note that uh while not known exactly at this time it is expected that Student Activities in athletics will continue as we have um been able to enjoy those in
009the past they will be um established through the uh Nevada inter Scholastic schools Association and uh they will follow the typical schedules for example and seasons for example basketball happens in the winter time and cack in the fall or in the spring and so on so those are expectations for um our activities curricular and extracurricular from a dist distance learning perspective as you know and we've reported to the board earlier in the school year that full remote learning will be made available to all students in the district through Pioneer Academy now the the thing that's different this year is that people can't just show up to the Pioneer Academy and say we want to belong there is an application process and this was done purposefully because we are taking into account all of the academic
010conditions that a student may have encountered especially in the last year if the student was a full remote student last year and was unsuccessful we are not recommending that a student in that condition apply for uh placement in the Pioneer Academy so uh we however have just the flip side of that we have many students that were very successful in full remote uh conditions and uh based on the uh recommendation of school principal family parents and the students own academic record that will all add up to whether or not a student has the ability to enroll in Pioneer Academy now we also know that students suffer U illnesses injury uh all kinds of reasons why there may be a short absence in a student's Academic Year and so for those students uh especially those who
011may for uh reasons of illness they will still have access to their classroom through District provided technology laptop computers Chromebooks and as needed we will help support their uh or that family's connectivity to the internet what we want to accomplish under this condition is if a student is for whatever reason not able to attend school but on a shortterm uh process be able to have access to the materials that their classmates are studying at school um and if this year is um well if next year is anything like this year was there were time when we had to close classrooms we had to close individual uh wings of schools we actually did close one school for several days because of an infectious outbreak and under those conditions we would also be able to continue with
012school and uh students would not be losing academic time based on uh either um not being able to be at school in person or um not having access to the needed technology this particular slide I'm sure will be of great interest um health and well-being is as you know very important aspect of um this particular plan and uh again I want to reiterate that this is a draft but as of today and uh this will be included in our um draft no face masks will be required at school unless mandated by governmental health agencies okay so I kind of want to let that sink in because I know a lot of folks have attended our meetings in the last few um meetings of the board and um we know that face masks in general in
013the state of Nevada it's it's uh people are not wearing them um I do want to just state that the uh Center for Disease Control is still the recognized health authority in the country and we expect I expect that they will be providing guidance uh before school starts and I'm hoping that they give similar guidance to us um but it should also be stated that in this particular aspect of the plan face masks may be worn voluntarily by any student volunteer uh or staff member and this should be able to be done without stigma so people have the um ability to voluntarily wear a face mask uh just as someone else might wear gloves in another situation so um right now the uh we still are working with the um local authorities and um it
014has been stated by the governor's office that face masks are required on District buses and so this could create create a little bit of a challenge if students are not bringing face masks to school but yet they're required to have them on bus buses at least at this point in the uh the planning then we will have to uh make sure that we have an adequate supply of disposable masks available for students on our buses and uh we will we will play that out as the year progresses next uh just wanted to point out a few items with regard to the health and well-being of our staff members and of course this is an important part of our plan one our nursing staff is very robust we hire RNs and they're employed at all of
015our schools we also have at our schools but in a supportive role uh staff members who work in uh in our uh nurses offices and their uh level of skills are at the EMT level so again highly qualified highly competent individuals um but we feel fortunate to have individuals who are working in our health programs as uh registered nurses we also have available nurses who are trained and who have provided uh the covid-19 rapid test access or access to the rapid test and uh those of you who have had children or family members or know of students that have been in athletics or activities it was an important aspect of um those activities in in going forward to have someone who was able to uh do these rapid tests and so we still have a
016number of these available to us and we have the individuals who can actually perform the tests I don't know as of this time whether or not the Nia will require rapid testing as they did in this past year but it's certainly a possibility and we would be prepared if that were were uh asked of us to do we're also still closely connected with our Department of Health and Human Services and uh feel fortunate to have a good working relationship with those individuals we also learned a lot from this past year and we will encourage our teachers to continue um being good role models and helping our students as it comes down to uh personal hygiene uh coughing into their elbow handwashing before and after meals and uh certainly be able to um ask of our
017families to make sure they have a look at their children before they send them off to school and if if they are exhibiting any kind of illness they would just kindly keep them home for a short period of time until they're able to feel better and then come back to school just trying to again reduce uh any infectious outbreaks that might occur and uh even though social distancing is not something that's been required uh since the governor's return of uh mitigating um practices to the school districts we do know that social distancing works and while we're not necessarily going to be setting up schedules around social distancing because that that does have limits uh but we do know that for things like walking in the Halls for uh students working in small groups for um
018lunchtime in the lunchroom being able to practice social distancing is a good practice and it's something that we will ask our staff members and our students to continue doing a as much as practicable student attendance has a few requirements but nothing that we're not used to doing um the federal government the state government has asked that we do daily attendance which is part of our everyday activities um we do contact families when students are not at school we seek their input for uh knowledge about how long the student might be gone or if there is work that we might be able to provide school work that we might be able to provide for the student and um we know that uhud Student Activities are a great motivator for students and so with Student Activities being
019able to continue we're just anticipating that that will add to um students desire and fam's interests in being able to make sure their students are at school teachers are required to be available to our students when they're absent by either the internet or telephone so if a student is gone for one or two days those are generally absences that are are relatively easy to make up when the student returns to school if however the student's absent is a little bit longer fames should recognize that there's an opportunity for those families to contact the the students teacher and uh get information or knowledge about what that student may have missed uh while the student was out of school and then we are also um this is something that we do any way but the state requires
020that we um state that we will have ongoing training for staff members and teachers and this can cover a variety of topics from our operations Department we've already talked quite a bit about student health including social workers so that's an aspect of not only physical health but also mental health that will be uh available five days a week to our students we're going to maintain our cleaning and sanitation of buildings as you know we have a regimen regimen of U cleaning that occurs at our buildings uh this includes stripping of um surfaces for the application of a material that is an antibacterial and works very well we also have a a scheduled system for exchanging the air that's in our buildings and all of the air that's exchanged is filtered through a hospital quality filter
021and those are changed according to the manufacturer's recommendations nutrition services as you are aware we provided food uh for our students last year during um a difficult school year and those nutrition services are going to be available for all of our students again in fact uh we were notified by the Department of Agriculture that all students will eat free for the 2021 2022 school year so that again is an important aspect of uh services that are available for our students the one thing that's likely to change however is that those nutritional services will not likely be available during the weekends so every day that we hold school students will be able to take uh food have food available to them at no charge at this school and then of course our transportation process is uh
022not quite back to 100% it's operating at approximately 66% um and so one of the one of the key pieces here is there will likely be fewer seats available to families and so as you as families go through the uh registration process as you update your information uh please take a look and uh make sure you can notify our transportation department if you intend to use our transportation system there are some limitations with regards to how many students we can um accommodate and at the current point we are not uh reducing our walk zon so really no change to the transportation system other than we will not be able to um operate at the same capacity as in uh non covid years so here are some considerations as I wind up this short presentation and
023anticipate for discussion and input from the public uh it's important to note that everybody will have different academic needs um that's in times whether we have a pandemic or not but um we believe that there's flexibility that's built into this plan that will allow for uh a variety of needs and uh Services we want to acknowledge that it is possible that schools classrooms or Wings could be closed again based on local health conditions um I don't think any of us can say well that will never happen again because it could there are new variants of covid-19 and um it's it's just hard to predict how something like that might uh occur so um I think it's also safe to say that regardless of whether it's a pandemic or not all people who come into our
024school buildings do so at some risk hopefully that risk is minimized because that's really our our goal is to make sure that people come to school that they're safe while they're there but there are chances that people could get injured or become ill as a result of attending and it's again important just to note that all conditions are so subject to change uh next steps for us is um we will listen intently to questions and concerns issues that um board members members of this of the uh citizenry students members of public agencies anybody who has a thought we certainly are going to take that into consideration a final plan will be presented to this board on on the 13th of July and then we are required to submit the final plan on July the 14th
025to the Nevada Department of Education one last thing after that uh submission of our application to the Department of Ed is that we would Place uh the plan by September the 10th on our web page so that it is available for anybody to see and to learn about our school district and then of course we would would come back within 6 months to um take a look at how the plan is working uh again seek input and guidance and then uh take whatever plan or step is necessary within our plan trustees do you have any questions of me after this brief introduction Laurel Mr Stokes you said that the federal government and Department of Education both require this reopening plan and I guess what I'm wondering are are they tying any of our funding that
026we receive the sfsr funding to these reopening plans thank you truste Crossman that is exactly part of uh this exercise uh obviously we want to have a school that is um meeting the needs of our community but we are also being asked to be accountable for the funds that are being offered to us uh by the federal government the state government is really the agency that um writes the check but U but both agencies are requiring that an exercise like this be done in all of the school districts anybody else on the board Richard just to be clear and I'll just keep it short but we're we're re our hands are tied on the bus portion of this we're required it's required that students wear masks when in entering our buses at the current time
027okay again I yeah and I expect again that um so so the most recent information that we have on the use of face masks on our buses was back about the 28th of April and so I'm anticipating that in advance of the start of the new school year uh and looking at the data as the governor has done in the past he is likely to make some other statement that provides additional guidance regarding this particular topic but right now uh Mr President you're correct that's the expectation okay and then once kids get off the bus and they get to the school I know in here it said that masks for those that are vaccinated but we won't be checking others but we're making more of a blanket statement that says no masks unless we're told
028by an authority above us that's correct at this point the new school year starts July 1 and the uh that's being presented tonight would be without face masks unless there is some other uh requirement that is given to us by public agencies okay good okay seeing last chance any okay it's more of a comment I just really appreciate having had five children going through the district that there's more of an awareness the past year of when you're child is ill um because of course this is the more recent one but there's been strep throat outbreaks there's neuro virus that just can run through elementary schools and so I really like the awareness that parents are having on checking your child's health before you send and and I have enough kids to know you can send
029a kid that has no symptoms whatsoever and they can still barf um but I think that you know this is this is a good thing that come came from this that people are more aware and and taking that time and I hope that as we go forward the Department of Education and looking at attendance requirements that that I know we want kids at school but I hope that there's that leeway and flexibility for when when children are sick that we can avoid that trusty Crossman I think that your boys show us they're capable of much more than just barfing we don't want to use your family as the example uh Richard yeah I just want to say I think overall this is a good plan and I'm happy to see the uh face mask situation
030not being required unless it's overridden but I am really curious to see what the community has to say and what they think of the plan yeah so with that Don did you have anything or okay with that I'd like to open it up to the public on this topic um let's see I don't know if these were these were just for general public comment so I think for this discussion anybody would like to come up to the table kind of first come first ser please and um same thing we it we're going to keep to the three minute so we can give everybody a chance to talk because we do have to wrap this up by seven Robert Harris thanks for diffusing me appreciate it I appreciate it uh I brought in today I wanted
031you guys to review uh I know that there's a lot of conflicting stuff out there um I when all this first started I started out with the World Health Organization and so um the name of the uh uh papers that I'm going to give you it's called mask use in the context of covid-19 and I will give it to you the only thing that this is missing is the references because it's like seven pages and you know ink and all that so uh in here you're going to find that uh the question isn't to mask or not to mask it's are we going to have medical grade masks because that's where the the the difference in um microbal comes in right because this is an Airborne virus the cloth mask is basically a fashion accessory
032um I understand that you know since has kind of gone on we've noticed so we haven't had as many flu we haven't had as many colds everything else but we got to keep this in context for covid-19 cloth Mask doesn't work um in here it has different uh rates of use so after five Cycles five uses a cloth mask depending on how many layers is garbage it's no longer good all this information is in here I would encourage all of you to read it I've read it about four times and I swear I learned something new every time so medical grade or no mask that's kind of my my thing I believe in performance with purpose if you look at um Florida versus California per capita they were Polar Opposites but their numbers are just
033about the same locally um I think the health Department said 20% of our cases came from grocery stores so if you guys want to look at that item also that would be something to I would encourage you everybody in a grocery store has a mask on so thanks I'll give it to Renee so we can make sure it gets distributed great Robert thanks on there okay well what's that thing never mind okay now during the during the 2009 swine flu epidemic something like 63 million people were infected um this virus also came from China and uh the virus mainly affected children um they the CDC for some reason did not keep accurate uh uh account of deaths but um no schools were closed and no masks were worn in fact the CDC said masks wouldn't
034help now in um uh under um uh the covid-19 um we have uh a situation where Florida never closed their schools and never required children to wear masks and there was no major outbreak no major deaths and the the death from covid generally affect the elderly and of course covid-19 again came from China um here again why are we requiring masks when masks will not uh contain um a stop of a virus which is so small and my opinion here is no mess not even in on on the bus because in school they're going to be all together with no mask so why why not allow them all the freedom and not wear masks on the bus thank you very much thank you yes sir hi my name is Lee Elliot and I'm a resident
035of Carson City I think some of you know me I know Richard knows me um we're talking about masks we're talking about the masking of our society where we have become so paranoid that we're going to catch a germ not only the covid but from any else touching the ground I remember as a kid and I remember I'm sure most of you remember when you'd roll out in the dirt and you'd come into the classroom and you went home and you didn't get sick remember those days well what's happened psychologically is damaging longterm to our children and what I mean by that is that we as parents I am I'm a great-grandfather now three times can you believe that because I'm so young and I see the ugliness my wife Richard Stokes knows knows this
036was a counselor at bwick for 11 years okay and these kids are hitting the streets now after a horrendous year wondering are they going to die now what's going to happen if they don't wear their masks there's no counseling for the young children like they used to have at the schools and to me that is a breach of the oath that this school board took to protect our children and our families yes covid was ugly I've had seven heart attacks and I didn't get it and I'm not going to take the shot okay but you've got to look in your soul and you've got to understand that the psychological damage these kids have had happened to them for the last year is going to haunt them for years okay and that's a truth they at
037a young age need our guidance they need counselors at schools when a kid comes up to him say I just touched Johnny and his family had Co am I going to die and that happens I've read about it and I've talked to kids we've got to be serious about this we've got to let our kids have their immune system grow back to where it was prior to covid-19 president great thank you very much that was three minutes thank you [Applause] Lee Mar Mathers I'm concerned about the cleaning protocols how long is that going to happen because I think that's ridiculous all the I mean he talked about like taking the surface something or other spray crap I don't know I've read all kinds of things about the cleaning products that are being used and those
038cause more damage than all of the other stuff how long are those cleaning protocols going to remain in place Richard do you have a response we had anticipated those cleaning conditions being maintained throughout the school year so it's indefinite I mean this is just going to be for forever Lysol wipes are not a great thing to have around kids all the time I have super sensitive skin I you can see I'm wearing my paint clothes again so you know I'm the crazy mom that paints um I can't use stuff like that because it burns my skin and my son is the same way if it's going to be all over the desk and then he has to go touch it he's going to have outbreaks on his skin the system that we use just to
039add some information here is a uh it's a fogger it's a mister okay and so that process is completed when there are no students in the room and then it completely dries and that uh has been the system that we used this past year and would are planning to continue using so there's not anything that like remains on the surface I mean that doesn't just disappear when you you put a chemical on a surface it stays there right mister is a liquid correct so it's Landing somewhere and then they can touch it and you know pick their nose and wh lick their fingers kindergarteners are constantly touching their faces that's why the masks are ridiculous they don't cover you know they don't keep them on their face and not touch them every time you touch
040the mask anything that's filtered out is now on their fingers when they put the mask back on it gets in their nose it gets in their mouth it gets everywhere children do not leave their face alone whether they have something on their face or they don't so if there's anything on the surface they're getting it in their mouth I'm concerned about that so that's something that needs to be taken into consideration and I do know Barb it's been a while since I I asked a similar question when this whole thing started and I was I was curious about that is this Lysol what is it and there was some information brought to us I I don't remember what it is but I wonder if we can get that information made available that would be appreci
041bring that sure I don't really like lots of cleaning stuff I know I I tried to offer my wife as a teacher lifea and she said we can't bring that into the classroom so children have allergies and I mean it's especially with the littlest ones that's not a good idea yeah if we could do that that'd be helpful I think glad to bring okay bring that to the school district board hi I'm Karen Stevens and um I appreciate the time to ask some of these questions regarding the school plan some of it sounds pretty good but uh I have a few other questions about it just building on her uh comments about the cleaning projects products I'm wondering if they're organic that's the only thing I use in my home because chemicals are not good
042for your body so that would be my recommendation you you're using organic cleaning products and there's lots of items like um lemon oil that's organic it's easy to buy organic Pro uh products to clean places and and disinfect so um one of my questions was you did the presentation but I didn't see any copies of the draft plan anywhere so we could actually review the whole thing so is there some site we can go to to review that draft plan yes thank you for asking that we do have it on our web page www.carsoncityschools.com and it's very easy to find uh in fact if you wait for the photos to scroll through at the top of the page you'll be able to click on one of those and uh you'll be able to be taken
043to the document uh obviously at the end of this meeting we plan to make modifications to the document that will then be brought back again but those updates will be seen uh on the web page as well okay excellent so um another comment was made uh about counselors and you there's something on there about social worker services I don't know what that is but I know when I was working at the Department of Education counselors were being laid off and have we brought back counselors over all the problems that have been going on the last year because I know this has really messed kids up we have at uh within our school district we have a social worker at every school and then there are three at Carson High School and the social workers have
044the uh background training essentially to uh visit with individual students students and to also connect families with uh Social Services of any kind that might be representative of what's needed at the home so as far as um guidance counselors we have individuals who are playing a different role in our schools especially at our elementary schools right now no not the same okay somebody else can follow up on that um and then online services you brought that on um so it sounds like um you're you're going to just allow people or children to use that you that you approve of and um so uh in speaking to a um a school district employee she informed me that the application process was um supposed to be done by April 23rd and that they ran out of seats
045so was there not enough uh seats available for all the people that want to apply for online services or was I misguided on that we have plenty of seats available for anybody who's interested in the online full remote program so I would encourage anybody that you're talking with to have children that are interested in that process or families who are to contact Mr Jason Zona he's the principal of Pioneer High School and Pioneer Academy so Pioneer Academy is a standalone uh program that will be serviced by fully licensed teachers who are skilled and capable and working in an a remote format so as many students that want to go to that there are seats available for them is that what you're telling me I'm telling you that we will fill that uh to a level
046that is manageable for the teachers see the students are not in a classroom per se they're sitting at home uh maybe in a library they have the ability to be in another location so it's not like we have to have enough classroom we have to have enough students that or enough teachers rather that can actually help the number of students that are enrolled so that would be our limiting factor is the number of students per student or per teacher so there's a number of students per grade that you're going to allow or you have like one total number that you've going to allow so if we have students in the first grade that want to be uh working in a remote program then we will we will limit that number of first graders to the
047number that is uh doable by the the teacher uh if that number is 25 then that would be the cutof number but we are we are waiting to see who actually applies for our uh program as you know when kids were uh last year working in remote programs we didn't have in some cases great uh interaction with those individuals and so we're trying to um gain back any learning loss that might have been um received by the student and we know we can do that when we can get the adults and the students in the right ratio so that uh there aren't more kids than the teacher can manage and so forth so it's it's going to be brand new for us we are working to make sure that we're uh meeting at least the
048minimum requirements that the state has for uh student to teacher ratios all right thank you for that one last question I had was it's my understanding that the school district receives about $111,000 per studentes is is that a an accurate figure sorry I don't know the answer that Karen but I just needed to let you know the three minutes are up but if you want to follow up or unless you can answer that quickly and then we'll move on to next person yeah that number is quite a bit higher than uh we actually receive our number is closer to $7,000 per student okay I I have to double check on that one okay so my my fiscal Services guy is saying that uh I've only given you a part of the answer which is the
049amount that we receive from the general fund there's also additional dollars that we receive from Grants yes and that's the figure I was looking for the full amount thank [Applause] you hi my name is Marie King and my question is um number one a social worker is not the same as a counselor they do not treat the kids in elementary school um they might have the qualifications I don't think they have the experience or the knowledge on how to um approach or um help these children that really need the help and I think that we need to go ahead and maybe yeah I'm sorry Renee was just telling us we can't hear you I guess the recording can't if you can just pull a mic closer oh okay is that better thank you okay m
050question is well really it's not a question it's a statement and I don't feel that um a social worker is the same as a counselor especially for um children that are in elementary school um a counselor and a social worker there are two different people they're trained to different ways uh a counselor can go head and talk to a little kid get things get them to speak uh a social worker is more intellect and has maybe more school book knowledge than the experience so I think that's something that you know we really need to look into and get counselors back into the schools just want to um say a couple of things beepy strawberg um I Heard many of the speakers talk about masks I think um mask has not proven to be very useful
051and after a a few uses they lose their uh efficiency even more but the more important thing is mask are a symbol um we don't want to create a fear in our Young Generation there was a generation that went to World War II against our enemies but if they are fearful of their own shadow and masks have done that I see young people walking in my in the street in front of my house with their dog alone with the mask on I've seen uh young children when they were told by their parents that they don't need a mask at home go around the room uh afterwards with their hands on top of their nose as if that's going to help them anyway so I think it's a symbol and we don't want to create this
052artificial fear among our children of people next to them or of their environment I think psychologically it's not the right thing to do the second thing I would ask is have the school considered any uh changes in their nutrition programs because uh I've read a lot that in many ways if we boost our uh immune systems um that can help avert all of these uh diseases that are airborne or um around us so I was wondering if the nutrition programs have been re-evaluated in terms of what we are going to face in this coming year and that would be my recommendation uh second thing is I've also talked to the CEO of Carson Tahoe hospital asking why we couldn't do any Wellness programs to educate the parents as well and staff Etc to see how
053we can improve the General Health and avoid these uh um bad things that are happening around us so those would be my recommendations thank you thank [Applause] you hello my name is Richard Nagel I'm basically along the lines of what bepsy strawberg has to say I've got about 40 units in nutrition from Meritt and Laney College and Mesa College in California and one of the things that we need to focus on is the immune system of our children and I think that Z zinc and vitamin D and C are critical in building the immune system up and and zinc is is really easily accessible from something as simple as pumpkin seeds something like this we have an RD for our school system and we need to get them to acknowled and approach for nutritional Wellness
054in the future the other thing I also want to say a non-chemical way of preventing bacterial spread or virus spread would be inside the ducks that you're talking about filtering would be to put black lights black lights are very good at killing covid-19 okay my understanding because when I worked at the VA I was told that the VA that the the covid-19 is a very wimpy virus when it comes to sanitation procedures and the most important thing it can do is is wash your hands you know and clean the door knobs you know as soon as you go one from one place to another wash your hands my wife and I have practiced that for the past year haven't got sick all year that's all I have to say thanks thank [Applause] you okay it's
055654 we still have a few minutes if anybody has anything else to add about the draft plan yes sir uh thank you first of all let me introduce myself my name is Tom Gibbons I've been a member of the community now for 50 years in the process I've gone through the entire educational cycle uh far earlier in my uh in this time and remember a lot of different things from those years too none of which we are experiencing today so my my suggestion is this is that online uh teaching does not hold a candle to teaching in person and I'm I'm very concerned in that regard for the simple reason that uh I would like to know the standard that might be available to say you know I think I'm going to opt it out
056and uh be taught at home uh one of the simple situations I'm a u graduate school student and one of the simple situations we find that the uh not only interaction with the teacher but with fellow students is critically important and to be laxidasical I'm not saying you are laxidasical it's basically come from on top if uh if uh fouchy can figure out what the heck he's doing next uh coming into a situation whereby I think it's important we get the children back in the classroom now I've had a son who's gone through the school districts here as well as UNR and I can tell you that I will save it for another chapter to tell you what I think of the current educational system but my primary concern I think it's extremely important that
057we get the children back in the classroom that we uh focus on teacher student interaction student on student interaction I think that's important I read in the paper just recently where there is going to be a fall break well I think that's very nice but I can also tell you those are days that could have been used or could be used to teach the children and bring them up to standard we know exactly what's happening to the entire educational system in this country it's not going up it's not increasing we continue to fall within the world standards in terms of Education now again I'm not an educator I'm a healthcare provider but I can see in some regards what has happened not only I personally uh to some close family members and I won't get
058any more specific than that with the current educational system but I finally look back and how fortunate I was in the years I was taught it's been great to become a member of this community I appreciate anybody that's volunteering as you are to fill these roles I'd like for someone to say I was asked to run for mayor many years ago I said are you nuts I don't have the kudos to do that and you folks have the willingness to be there so I thank you for that but I encourage you to get as many children back as classroom as possible uh sorry Tom have to cut arithmetic and I will finish this up thank you thank you very [Applause] much okay we have a couple minutes left Richard did you have any closing remarks
059or are we good I'm good okay we have we we we have two minutes and two comments we do have end at 7 o'clock I apologize what kind of extra things are you going to have for kids who are struggling give us your name real quick it's Heather Co and my son has always strugg l in math he was doing really great with Solutions I worked something out even though that's not exactly what it was for but he excelled and did great he has lost year basically of education online did not work for him and I need to know what steps you're taking for these kids to have extra help the ones that need it we have established summer school that runs until the end of the month if your son is not enrolled in
060that it probably is not but summer school is not going to help all these kids that lost literally a year of Education exactly so what do you propose for all these kids who are behind we will be asking our teachers to work uh to have the the students Ed I mean as they meet with this with the kids every day and they have an opportunity to understand where they are they are going to adopt their uh classroom time to work towards the best interest of the students so keeping in mind there 25 kids a high there when it comes to education I hate to interrupt Mr President but we are limited to public comment on the reopening plan at this point and it is 7 o'clock okay I would invite you uh to contact your
061students principal and then teacher once that's established and then by all means let's talk about uh what individual uh steps can be taken for your child we do that when are you guys meeting again because I mean we do by stop this do right now if you want to come and during the break or whatever we can get you some information because I don't want you to go away oh sorry I don't want you to go away thinking there's no answers I but I think it requires a separate conversation okay thank you they're having a meeting at seven so you can get up and say it again yeah talk to them again you're welcome to okay so at this point we're going to close the board workshop and we're going to call the regular board
062meeting to order and so the first item on the agenda is excuse me on the agenda is adoption of the agenda as submitted but I do want to make a note that we have some folks that traveled here on some items to be discussed and so we're going to ask that we move item seven public comment to after item 10 so that we can get the three presenters um here so I'll move that we adopt a flexible agenda giving chair the authority to pull items in the order needed second okay a motion and a second any further board discussion seeing none any public comment about this agenda item seeing none anything uh no Mr Copo okay back to the board all those in favor I any opposed okay we're going to move to item four
063superintendent report for information only uh Richard Stokes thank you Mr President members of the board I have just a brief statement that I'd like to read I know that there have been a number of um thanks Joy members of the community community that have spoken in public comment and uh I I'd like to just share this if I could with the community and with the citizens that are here tonight and with the board the American Heritage dictionary defines Equity as the state or quality of being just and fair for schools this means ensuring that all students every child every day from advanced placement to special education receive the support they need to succeed academically as well as socially and emotionally every child has the right to feel loved and cared for and to feel that
064they belong to a community educational Equity means there is no predictability of success or failure that correlates with any social or cultural factor a child's educational experience or outcomes should not be predictable because of race ethnicity linguistic background economic class religion gender SE sexual orientation physical and cognitive ability or any other sociopolitical identity marker most public schools receive funding from AI variety of sources including the federal government in recent years federal grants have required applicants to ensure educational equity for all students being able to improve outcomes for underserved students has been Guided by certain educational initiatives like ensuring that there is quality teaching occurring in every classroom assuring rigorous standards applied to all students providing systems to improve teacher instruction and making changes to improve educational success in low performing schools these activities are expectations
065of all school districts who receive federal dollars like Title One and individuals with disabilities Education Act or idea granted these initiatives are often aimed at Urban schools where significant education ational challenges are more visible however the federal guidelines are expected from all entities to apply for and receive monies associated with these Federal programs questions have recently been raised about hiring a position as director of equity in curriculum and instruction having a position within the district to help assure these conditions are made available is essential not only to improving services for students but to also meet Federal expectations to qualify for needed funding the goal of the Carson City School District is to improve educational access for all students so anyone who is willing can take advantage of the opportunities of college trade school and the
066workforce so they have access to all the benefits and opportunities this country has to offer not because of a political ideology but because they have received the Educational Tools necessary to succeed and Mr President that's all I have all right thank you uh move on to item five board reports board member comments we'll start off with uh Nevada Association of school boards no report okay we'll start down at the end Mike no report this evening Stacy um we had a uh NAA board meeting um June 15th uh they made some changes in the transfer rules and had a a vigorous discussion about um the upcoming Seasons we have an emergency meeting on the 24th to discuss a proposal that's been put forth to adjust the academic eligibility requirements for the first semester because of the
067they didn't really get their sem their season and if their grades were bad if they weren't eligible at the end of this year because of that they wouldn't be able to start in the fall which is the only season that is affected by covid by those by those problems so we're going to discuss that with the the superintendent and see if that is something that um there's a taste for to allow them a lot of them are going to summer school so they're it's not as big as hole as um as expected but there still are going to be kids that aren't going to be able to play winter sports if if this doesn't pass so that should be a good discussion and then last night we had a uh parks and recck meeting here
068in the uh Bob croll room with um open space um a lot of public comment there too about the uh dog leash ordinance and dog parks they still are looking for um input on people from people in the public about dog leash leashing in the Parks and in open space um we'd went over the memorial policy and a and the Mountain Street um trail head new design which is kind of exciting with the Anderson project and then they they did want to let everybody know there is a huge need for lifeguards because the pool is closed on Sundays now because they just don't have the Staffing so if you know anybody that's looking for a kid looking for a job or even an adult um it'd be real helpful to help them and they're seasonal
069workers too there's not a lot of upkeep which I'm sure we're having the same problem with too so um that's my report thank you Don I don't have a report tonight P I don't have a report either moving right along Laurel um just to follow up on the lifeguards because I have two that just moved on to other things that were lifeguards it is such a great job for kids because they are very flexible with the hours they can also work another job if they found another part-time job it's a great opportunity for kids and there's a lot of flexibility throughout the year um my report for Fremont Elementary School is that they are very excited to have Carri prior joined them as their new assistant principal and um I think she's going to continue
070to do fabulous things there and they also would like to wish Cheryl R rashetta all the best as she moves into her new position at bwick as their new principal and that concludes my report Richard I have no report tonight but I would just like to take a minute to thank all the public uh members who show up for these meetings and express your opinions and thoughts we do take them seriously and I just wanted you to know that thank you great thank you Richard yeah I would did that um I have no no report tonight so we'll move on to item six Association reports do we have any association reports tonight either in person or remote through email no Mr Copo okay seeing none like we said we're going to jump to item eight
071and then we'll pick up item seven after item 10 item eight is presentation on the greenhouse projects proposed plan to develop a revenue generating Enterprise requiring the need to use additional property on the campus at Carson High School this is for discussion only no action will be taken and we have Karen abow good evening and thank you um I'd like to introduce our team myself Karen abot I'm the president of the greenhouse project our executive director John Ryder um our Greenhouse manager Corey King assistant manager will pierce they'll all be here for questions I want to thank you for your time this evening as we are here to discuss and hopefully just get a nod of approval to pursue our submission for our epth application and a major plan review with the city for a
072special use permit Amendment for the Bur culture program and expanded teaching Farm on the acre and 3/4 that is School District property um north of the solar panels at Carson High this is part of a two-pronged approach that the greenhouse project is pursuing to allow self-sufficiency and sustainability for its mission of growing giving and teaching the year of covid has forced a new look Beyond fundraising to ensure Financial Security not competing but working with local business the greenhouse project has sought the input of local landscapers and nurseries to develop a list of native plants they need and have a hard time getting and both programs the expanded teaching farm and the vermiculture composting of school food waste satisfy a revenue need for the greenhouse project and provide educational opportunities for students so now I'll introduce
073John and you have several documents that you got in your packet and so um he will go through those and if there's any questions we'll take those thanks Karen um so the first you got a number of handouts there and the first one is just a two-page summary of our what we're proposing to do here on this this land uh if you're all familiar with the the Carson High School site the solar panels there um there's a 1.75 acre parcel just north of the solar panels that's um currently unused uh it's near our current site um so as we started thinking about the um some potential Revenue generating options that we could do um instead of relying on concert fundraisers and that sort of thing um we realized that this could really be used to
074tie into the curriculum and and not only generate revenue for the greenhouse project to fund back to you know fund back into our core Mission but we can tie it into the curriculum of the a Sciences students and CTE students uh and create a more comprehensive teaching Farm taken together with our current site so really that's what the um the first document is that two-page proposal uh the first phase would consist of the worm compost or vermiculture um we would start that probably as early as this fall uh getting it up and going into next spring uh but this is really a neat program because um we would be able to use some food waste from Carson High School initially and then some of the other schools in the district uh to recycle food waste
075um and potentially even other uh downtown restaurants um the second phase then would be the nursery crop propagation um and then you have a a brief summary of what we anticipate our budget to be on that so that's the first document um I don't know if we want to go questions on each document or do we just outline each what what we've been given and then take questions um I'm happy to let you guys finish your presentation but anybody has a question feel free to ask okay um we can you know kind of I'll just outline the rest of the documents uh there's couple letters of support one from mark corick and um director of operation Services Mark is a former board member so he's very familiar with us he's still on our Action Group
076which meets monthly so he's he's very involved with us there's a letter of support from Candy Ruff the CTE coordinator uh Candi is a current board member so she again is very familiar with what we do and then she also develop two other documents um one is how this our proposed activities align with the Strategic plan and how the curriculum could tie into the CTE agriculture and natural resources U standards alignment so you got those the other documents involve the Nevada division of Environmental Protection composting permit which we required to get uh so you see some guidance documents there and a draft of our permit application which we included because it really describes the composting operation in great detail and then there's a proposed map of the site and what we um are proposing to
077do out there but uh really taking together you know this site and our current site could really create a more comprehensive teaching Farm concept for the students plus you know it helps us generate some Revenue but we can also you know uh enhance the curriculum so we'd be happy to answer any questions Tom go ahead do we have any plans for that 1.75 Acres I know with the Lampa housing project we may uh lose some of our uh baseball field but would that affect the 1.75 Acres thank you for the question trustee Kini uh the the land consideration that you're thinking of actually is on another part of the campus so right now this particular property that's in question is on the north side of the solar array at Carson High School and there's a
078a piece of property there that uh extends north from the solar array um and and there's about an acre and three qus right there and that's the portion that the greenhouse project is looking to uh be considered for uh this particular project that you just heard yeah if that land is not committed I I think it's a great idea and I I miss the concerts I do too anything coming back this summer fortunately not the entertainment industry was the most hardest one of the most hard hit and because of that we can't afford the axe anymore so that's it may I from the back just so you know that sorry you have to come up to the microphone and state your name first hi my name is William Pierce um the area in question just
079so you all know it's where the fireworks and bonfire stuff have been staged in the past so that's the uh area land and part of what we have worked through with Nevada Department of Environmental Protection uh is considering the property distances uh are already not within uh what the permits consider but they are willing to allow a variance um concerning the project um pending application of course and to address that further Mark and I have reached out to all the properties within a F feet of this project so just so you know that they will be properly noticed for 30 days once the in-depth application is submitted and they have a a a time period in which to respond but yes as a courtesy we have and for the most part everybody's supportive or unresponsive
080so Mike I I would just say that I think this is a great project it's a great opportunity for these students and CTE to actually apply what they're learning but also there's an element of problem solving that's going to go along with both of these projects that you talk about and so I think it's this is the type of project when we have our community plc's and we talk about real world application this is what we're looking at so thank you for partner partnering with us and I think this is going to be a great opportunity for students thank you yeah Karen I agree i' I think the greenhouse has been a nice addition to the community um I just had a question when we're talking about sales and eventually you know generating Revenue I
081think that's important these days but is there any impact I I think somebody asked this question last meeting too is there any liability for the school district can we can we use our grounds to sell and generate revenue for the project or has anyone broached that topic with the city or as far as I know we care the greenhouse project carries Insurance of our own and so when we have our plant sales and things of that nature they're there is no impact with regards to it so I don't see this as being any different than that and we are we are talking to BBN Associates about it as we expand forward but I don't see it any different than what we currently do okay thank you any additional questions from the board Richard on the
082special use permit is there a concern about maybe contamination of groundwater is that why they're asking for that I think and I don't Mark cornick isn't here he's on vacation and um he's the one that has worked with uh uh planning briefly on the special use pyramid I think it's because the this is an expanded use of our special use permit and I think that's why we have to go through this process so um just because we're expanding on what we currently do it always triggers this so right that's Ju Just to answer that question you're exactly right anything on school grounds not anything but a lot of things require a special use permit so anything being slightly different does require it and issues like that will come up I'm sure they'll raise questions or
083staff will comment on it right then uh one other issue is um if at some point in time we needed to put more solar panels back in that piece of property how would we stand if we needed to reclaim that land I guess for La a better term I believe that if we moved forward and approved this project it would be to the end that has been described tonight we have entered into a a an agreement with the greenhouse project with our current greenhouse and um we're anticipating that this goes into perpetuity and so this would be the um approved use of this particular property so we if we were to put more solar on the uh Carson High School grounds we would need to look for another location Richard if you look at that
084Map There's a section that they could put more in it's kind of it's an L section so there's the spot just like um yeah I know it's an l-shape I didn't know if that's the whole 1.7 Acres that l-shape the whole area no that's a solar race if they added some more they could add there okay I'm looking at the wrong piece then I'm sorry and Richard just so that you know there's actually more acreage than that um and it's used for uh School storage I believe and um a few other things of that nature so there's actually more acreage than what we're talking about thank you any additional board questions I have one Stacy so is this a a yearly lease or threeyear lease or you just talked about prity we have have entered
085into a uh memorandum of understanding with the greenhouse project and as you know the greenhouse project with the monies that they raise and that they pay us in rent that money goes directly to the a program so really the school district from a financial perspective uh enjoys the the benefit that the greenhouse project provides to that particular program but we unless the board you know has other intentions for that property we we have entered into a a project or a a memorandum of understanding that says we're going to uh support each other in this endeavor and so when I say into perpetuity unless the greenhouse project goes uh out of business which we hope does not happen then uh we're in business with them and and they provide a an amazing uh program for our
086students in school and I agree I'm not I'm not saying that you don't that's not what I'm trying to get at but it's kind of like when you have a really good superintendent you do all these programs and then you get a really bad superintendent in you know so I um you guys are great we've had some great events out there but what if Personnel changes and it it turns into something that we don't want it to be I'm just making sure that there's something that there's a safety net so that if if we don't like what they're doing or you don't like what we're doing I mean it's both ways that that that there is a way for us to to take care of that situation thank you trustee wil I understand your question
087better uh I believe our current memorandum of understanding is six years yes five five years so at the end of the fifth year uh we would come back to this body we would talk about any plans any concerns any issues and then certainly yes this body does have the ability but but I I guess I was speaking that if in general uh the board is happy and they the greenhouse project has invested time and money into this project there I don't foresee a reason that we would end that relationship I don't either but we didn't see covid coming either you know you just never know and it's nothing against you guys I just want to make sure that you know why we're here tonight because yeah um I think it's a great programing we have
088over 300 ed student and then we have the middle school starting theirs with the FSA exactly right so it's very exciting and we're already collaborating on y so and so you know the one question I always ask how much does it cost the district because everybody wants to make sure that we're not using District funds for this so just to put it on the record it doesn't because the budget that you had in there was 40,000 but that's your budget that's not $40,000 out of our budget that's right it's all of our money that we've raised for this thank you for the clarification good job okay um I think we've asked all our questions anything else you'd like to present I think that's it unless you have any questions on the application will is here
089to answer the details so is Corey so if there's anything pertaining to that that you would like answer they are happy to do it that that's beyond our pay grade Mr President I would just add one more piece of information and that is at some point when the permitting conditions get settled then we would bring back a revised memorandum of understanding that would be provided to the board so then action could take place and uh everything is signed and in agreement and we could then move forward that's right yeah Don uh here's hoping that uh little riverband uh is feeling charitable in 2022 one for being thank you appreciate you thank [Applause] you okay moving on to item nine discussion on a potential Bond issuance for fiscal year 2022 to complete capital projects in the
090Carson City School District this item is again for discussion only and we have Andrew feling and Marty Johnson presenting this here for you and your all right thank you you oops thank you hello sorry thank you trustees um AJ fing for the record um this evening we have Mr Marty Johnson with us the district's Bond advisor uh has been working with the district for almost as many years as you've been alive many years many many years um so as you know we have some significant capital projects going on around the district um and as the the years have gone by uh inflation has uh reared its head as well as just learning more about projects um and so there's been some cost increases that we've had to take into consideration um back in 20 December
091of 2019 the district bonded for $1 million um we are now looking at needing probably in in the range at a minimum $7 million but we have capacity to go beyond that so um we're talk talk a little bit about that tonight um if you have any specific questions about the projects that's uh more for me but uh Mr Johnson I'll tell you a little bit about the the the markets that that we are living in uh as crazy as they are and have been um and what things look like for the district uh going forward um so that we can better plan uh some of these projects here in the near future thanks AJ uh for the record Mar Johnson with GNA Consulting Group and uh I started working with the school district in
0921990 so it it has been a lot of years I so we're going to recap the uh have you been alive that long can we just point out the big smile on AJ's face that you started in 1990 yeah it doesn't seem like that long ago honestly but anyway let me just kind of recap where we're at right now in terms of the district exp position as it relates to Capital funding uh we went and got approval from the debt management commission we have to do that before we can issue bonds and as AJ mentioned we've issued some bonds against that we currently have about $23.8 million of capacity available from the debt management commission uh we still have to pass some tests to be able to issue those bonds and we'll talk about those
093in a minute uh the projected revenue for fiscal year 22 from the Department of taxations estimates are 7.3 million uh about 12% of the gross property tax revenues and Carson City for the school district uh are abated uh so there's almost a million dollars that is not being collected because of the uh 3% and 8% abatement caps annual Debt Service right now is ranging from 6 to 6.3 million so you can see we do have some available revenues coming in that we can do something with uh The Debt Service fund balance uh is about 80% of next year's Debt Service uh the district's Bond rating was recently downgraded I know AJ talked to you about that a couple of months ago when it happened I'm going to uh talk just a little bit more about
094that as well and then in this last session s sp450 was approved uh a lot of us are reading it as though it extended the bonding Authority until 2035 uh and I think that that will be the case uh maybe it was 2040 but I I think it's going to be 2035 either way we have the authority to take care of capital projects for a number of years so that that should be a good thing for the school district I just a little bit about the market and where we are with interest rates uh this is a 20-year chart of tax exempt rates uh you can see the five 10 and 20 year rates uh you can see that Spike and that's March of last last year when the market just shut down no one
095knew what was going to happen interest rates went through the roof I very very quickly came back down and you can see that uh we're about as low as we have ever been uh we've had short-term rates that were really low before uh but long-term rates haven't been like this in the 31 years I've been doing this uh so it is a very attractive time to go out and uh uh take take advantage of those rates if you have need for Capital Money uh one other point over the years we've taken advantage of these low rates and reduced Debt Service on outstanding bonds by over $3.2 million uh and that is savings that accr in that Debt Service fund that eventually can become capital projects money uh so we have done what we can to
096help manage uh you know those bond issuances to make sure that we aren't spending any more than we absolutely need to so the rating downgrade uh happened in February of 2021 since my sister lives in Ohio and I'm sure she's not watching I can blame her on some stuff but this is like when I would play Monopoly with her when I was a kid and she would be losing that she changed the rules on me that's exactly what Moody's did to us we didn't do anything different nothing changed about the school district Moody just decided to change the way they were going to look at us they put heavy waiting on pensions uh they can't understand that the pension obligation in Nevada is not an obligation of the school district if the school district shut
097down tomorrow the accumulated pension liability would not be owed by the school district it would go to wherever those employees went because it's a percentage of your payroll uh so they did that and they made some changes to how they look at fund balance and what rtio iOS you need etc etc anyway they downgraded us to a double three rating which is still an excellent rating it's not what we were I know Stacy hey I and and and I agree with you I mean we still are among the best of the school district we're just not alone at the top uh but you can see wo's able A3 Douglas's doua minus that's the S&P equivalent of a able A3 from Moody's lion uh a neighboring School district is an A+ uh depending on how the
098market is you know depending on whether we're talking about bonds that were paying back in two years or three years or 20 years the interest rate impact could be anywhere between two and 10 basis points so instead of a 2% it might be a 2.02% or a 2.1% uh with a lower rating you do pay slightly higher rates but again it was nothing that the district did it was just Moody's decided to change how they view the world so moving on from that outstanding debt Service uh you can see here the principal and interest represented by the bars and the revenues uh assuming a continued growth of 2 to 3% uh for the next number of years uh we've got a pretty good margin and that is money that we can use to either repay
099bonds that we will issue or transfer out as cash uh to pay for capital projects or combination of the two and so that is the money that we have to work with The Debt Service fund balance which is also important because it's one of the tests we have to pass in order to issue bonds has to be equal to essentially 50% of next year's Debt Service and so you can see that the red I don't know why that extra bar is in there uh or in the legend but the red is what we need to have uh based on our current outstanding debt service uh the blue bar represents what we would will have if no further bonds are issued if no transfers are made uh and the revenues continue to grow at that 2
100and 3% so you can see we we are comfortably above that minimum requirement that we have to have so in order for us to issue bonds we've got to be able to demonstrate that the revenues will be sufficient to cover the outstanding debt service and the proposed Deb service so if you think back to this chart we've got to show that that green line will be basically equal to or above the amount of debt service that we're going to have the other test we've got to pass is that making sure that that blue bar is above the Red Bar you know pretty pretty straightforward stuff and so as long as we do that we can issue bonds if the debt management commission approves and of course the Board of Trustees approve we also can do
101transfers to the capital projects fund uh as long as we meet both of those tests that The Debt Service gets paid and that we leave a balance in The Debt Service fund equal to that minimum requirement so looking at all of that there is approximately $50 million available for capital projects over the next five years based on these projections about 47 million of that comes from bonds uh you can see there and again these are just for illustrative purposes only we can slice and dice this a thousand different ways uh 12 million this fall uh another $15 million in two years and another $20 million or so uh two years after that there would also be approximately 3.8 million that can be transferred in from the capital projects fund assuming that that $47 million bonds
102got issued so that's how we get to that 50 million uh of that 50 million we can go issue almost 23 and a. half million of that whenever the board desires uh we've still got another year and a half I believe on our debt management commission authorization before we would have to go uh go and renew that so we've got flexibility we've got the ability to fund projects uh to the extent that is necessary so just a couple of thoughts is as we look at uh what your plans might be in looking forward you know as I said the the timing of that 50 million can be adjusted we can accelerate we can defer uh generally unless property taxes do something outside of what we're anticipating that 50 million would be available even if we
103didn't take 12 million this fall you you just add it to the next issue uh but accelerating the issuance moving the bonds and getting it the money faster than I showed will generally reduce the amount that you're able to get delaying it is going to increase it a bit uh total funding could be issued or could be increased by issuing longer term bonds instead of 20 years to me we only do that if we absolutely need that money otherwise 20 years is a very appropriate borrowing term for for what we're looking at I we've talked about the authorization in order for us to issue bonds we have to have a reasonable EXP expectation we don't have to have a concrete plan we have to have a reasonable expectation that we're going to spend those Bond
104proceeds within three years if something happens you know there's you know some rare bug found on the property and we've got to slow things down that's okay we just have to have the expectation that we're going to spend that money within three years and then also and I'll talk about this here on the next slide uh the district's 2012 bonds can be paid off or refunded uh June 1 of 2022 and right now there's about or there will be a million 6 outstanding in 2022 the interest rate is about 3% if rates stay constant we'd be able to refinance those bonds it's somewhere in the one to one and a half percent range I think if we did it today it' probably be 1% the problem is is that with only 1.6 million there's just
105not a lot of savings and so one thing that we could consider doing is taking a million six out of that Debt Service fund instead of using it for capital projects we use it to pay off those bonds the money that we would have used to pay off those bonds could then be applied to new bonds that we would uh be able to do or they could be used for uh just cash transfers the capital projects fund but essentially right now I am guessing AG you're not investing at 3% or even 3% perhaps uh you know and so we would be able to save interest uh on that but that isn't something we need to worry about now it's just something I wanted to make you aware of and that's something that we'd probably talk
106about as you're doing your budget for next year uh if you wanted to move forward uh we have the authority to issue bonds uh we can go forward fairly quickly we would need to prepare all the bond documents the soonest we could do a bond resolution would be July 27th obviously we could do it any time after that as well uh but once we've got that Bond resolution we need to get our rating uh we sell the bonds lock in the interest rate a couple of weeks later we close and we have the money interest rates locked for whatever uh the term of the bonds are and you guys are ready to go on your projects and so with that I'll let AJ answer all the questions questions from the board while you're thinking of
107your questions AJ maybe just for the benefit of the public not to mention for me but if I'm sitting in the audience and I'm hearing this for the first time I'm thinking what's the district complaining about money for we can get $50 million let's solve all our problems right right that but maybe explain to us why it does that's an excellent question so um the bond proceeds uh can only be used for Capital type items so we're we're looking at spending on buildings new buildings uh land Renovations other types of major uh maintenance projects um it can be bundled smaller projects but it's not uh it's not anything that we can use to otherwise pay for teachers or uh additional staff or things like that and the property tax rues restriction oh property tax revenues
108cannot be can can't be used in that same way either we couldn't hear you okay we're did you hear anything from the okay sorry okay sorry so so the the res Bond Bond proceeds are are issued for for capital projects so capital projects being um anything related to purchasing land improving land uh new construction improving buildings um you can't use it to pay for for staff we can't use it to pay for um myself it's it's not uh that that's not how Bond proceeds can be utilized and and then just what I wanted him to add to that is that the property tax revenues from the school district's debt rate that repay those bonds have those exact same restrictions they can only be used to repay bonds or be used to pay for capital projects
109there is no ability to transfer that money into any sort of operating fund no thank you because I know you know that's always uh seems like why not it's your money but it's amazing how our money is sectioned in a way that certain pods are for only certain things so thanks for clearing that up okay Stacy yeah just um so the amount that you have for that first year that we're we're looking at bonding that's going to cover the increases is it Eagle Valley is there anything else in that's going to help thank you trusty wi yeah and and and to R this is not for Action tonight so this is just informational um so yes the the amount we need to cover the balance of the Eagle Valley Project is looking to be around
110$7 million that that would be a safe a safe number um so the the additional funds if you decide to bond for the entire 12 um those additional funds that the district has been the board has been discussing uh potentially purchasing the SNY property that would be an option um and there are plenty of other projects major maintenance projects around the district that we we could do working on Roofing asphalt envelope doors there there's a lot of um always is potential but but important too is that um as Mr Johnson pointed out that in in the very near term and I have to say when when um mark went over the numbers with me I honestly I was surprised um with the capacity that we seem to have built here just in a couple years
111so um in the near term there's other opportunities to come um for uh more bonding if if necessary yeah that that surprised me too because it seems like like five years ago we were almost tapped out so to see that that we're can bond for 50 million is is real impressive I think we've done a good job with the refinancings have helped and and certain things there still not enough money though right if we held all that 50 million to build a new school so the the new high schools in wo are well over $200 million a piece and uh we we are nowhere near the bonding capacity to pull off something like that the uh I I don't I actually have not heard of final numbers um recently I don't know if Mr Johnson
112might know but the the middle school is the last I heard were um they had started I I think in the 40 to 50 range and they ended up in the 70 to 80 million range and I think the elementary schools were pushing 35 to4 million so it's um it's kind of well without our or outside of our reach at this point yeah one of the current middle schools that's under construction in waso is right around it's going to wind up being about $78 Million by the time you're done well and then just to take this opportunity Marty thank you for all you've done for our district direct we appreciate you coming up here and answering our questions and you're always available for questions outside of this I'm still mad at Moody so as am
113I I have never heard Marty so angry as on that that call with with Moody's what do I a curiosity what would it take for us to improve that rating what what's that next year have Moody's have a change of heart honestly with the new school funding formula the way that works and with the Moody's methodology I don't think a school district Nevada is going to see an upgrade for a very long time unfortunately okay if that changes Laurel will make some good cookies so she'd probably be willing to send them some cookies we will get the upgrade first then send the cookies I like your thinking what one one last thing president Cass was sorry to add um so either at the the last meeting in July or the first meeting in August we're
114likely to bring this Bond Bond resolution um we need to discuss it a little bit more but just kind of as an awareness for all of you um and then with closing we'd have have the proceeds um in September October time frame so well well within time to make sure we keep current with our E Valley Project and all the projects okay one more question yeah Stacey just for very because of s sp450 we don't have to take any of these amounts to the voters they're on the r no essentially what the legislature did so if you remember in 2015 they extended the terms of the rollover by 10 years then in s sp450 they basically extended in its convoluted language but basically they extended the rollover until 2035 for everybody uh so no we
115do not have to worry about going going back to the voters uh for a number of years hopefully I'll be retired by then thanks Joyce sorry we're because it's discussion only we're not taking public comment on it but if you have any questions you know send them ask you can you can ask me and I will in turn ask them okay all right any other comments on the board if not thank you very much thanks Marty for coming up okay item 10 presentation and possible action to approve the renewal of property Casualty Insurance package with Nevada public agency Insurance Pool in an amount not to exceed 2628 self-insurance bond in an amount not to exceed $6500 and excess workers compensation policy with Star Insurance Company in the amount of 48,000 $18 for July 1 2021
116through June 30 2022 this is an item for possible action and we have Ann Seer Andrew feling Ryan garavente and a fourth person showed up so I apologize Alan C from the insurance pool is also here with us thanks Alan and while you guys are talking I apologize but I have to hit the restroom real quick but please continue in I'll hurry thank you can you hear me okay good uh for the record anere um I have Alan cult from the Nevada public agency Insurance Pool here this evening as well as Ryan gaventa from Alpine insurance and I'll be turning it over to them for a presentation on the renewal uh I just want to say that the materials that are located in your board packets if you look at the summary from the uh
117Insurance Pool uh there is a page that talks about uh a market summary and the information contained in that market summary pretty much Trends right along with the information that AJ and I shared with you all a few months ago when we talked about the market conditions and uh What uh what that would look like going out to Market this year on our property casualty program so I would say that there was a really strong effort made uh Alpine Insurance approached over 36 markets on behalf of the uh school district and uh we learned some good things uh in that process uh I think if we were able to pull out pieces of the insurance pools program and competitively pric lines of coverage such as liability property cyber liability student accident but that's not the
118way the insurance pool uh provides the coverage uh they they provide a uh a package policy and it's kind of an all Oro type of purchase so uh we did learn uh where we had some competitive numbers and learned uh from some markets that would be interested in talking with us in the future but I would just say to you that you know at this time uh the commercial insurance Market it's a lot like the housing market you know where people are writing letters to homeowners begging them to sell their homes to them um that's kind of what it's like when you're out as a school district or any public entity right now looking for competitive options nearly all public entities Renew on July 1 so you have you know just hundreds of thousands of
119accounts that are approaching Underwriters and they're you know making decisions about whether they're going to work really hard on an existing account or whether they're going to talk to a school district that they've not been familiar with so um I think there might be some conversations that we'll continue on with next year uh but for the time being uh the staff recommendation is to continue on with the insurance pool and with that I'll turn it over to Ryan good morning or good good evening everybody good to see you again this year thanks for having us Ryan Genta from alpan insurance um and potentially future uh lifeguard at one of the pools this summer that sounded fantastic uh um I would uh I would Echo almost everything that that an said uh you asked us last
120year at the end of our presentation you know what else what else is out there oh sorry let me scoot up uh oh well okay perfect um the the the sentiment was um what else what else is out there what are you doing where are you going where are you looking um and so we you know collectively heard you loud and and and clear and so we went to the marketplace uh we didn't leave many stones unturned um and and again I'd be remiss if if I left out that the the pool product is a very good product it's very comprehensive they work very hard uh they put in a ton of work and they put something together that it is a very good product but like most products that we're seeing now um costs
121are increasing and you're seeing that um for a variety of reasons um reinsurance worldwide um uh Wildfire concerns in the western states on property um you know it's just a time that insurance auto in Nevada is is becoming tough uh so you know we are all in a spot that insurance costs are going up um and so you know back to what you asked last year we went to the we went to the marketplace we talked to 36 or more markets uh like an said we had some competitive pricing in some individual lines but again that's just not how it works we don't separate those out from the pool they've put a comprehensive package together and and that's what we have um for instance we had a property quote that was our only property quote
122and it was more expensive than the total product that you're buying from the pool which is property liability Educators legal liability Auto student accident cyber the list kind of goes on and on and so um it makes sense at this point um to keep the deductible where it is and and and renew with the pool uh I will say uh to Ann's kind of final point and I also have two last parts to talk about after this um uh we did make an interesting connection towards the end of the the period of time that we had uh we had some interesting conversations with some with uh an aggressive Market uh that wants to use the next 11 months to put something in front of you that we hope will be competitive at present we don't
123know what that looks like we don't know what the coverage looks like we don't know what the fors look like we don't to be honest we don't know what the people look like um we've been conference called um more in the last month than I've had conference calls in the last five years um they were not at a place to put numbers together but again you know my commitment to you is you ask we will do our best to deliver and we will spend the next 11 months to see again if there is anything else out there for you so with that um I'm in agreement with with an and AJ that uh the renewal with the pool is your best option um at the deductible limit that you bought last year um and I
124think that that kind of sums that up um we do have the two other policies that we work on to talk about um I don't know if you want to jump right into that or if you want to take a pause for a second uh I'll I'll follow your lead I think you can go ahead and continue okay perfect so the other two parts of of the coverages that we do um you have a uh reinsurance uh policy for your self-insured work comp program and we have a bond that needs to be filed with the state um the idea with a self-insured work comp program is all the money that you your saving from a standard work comp policy which at this point I couldn't even tell you how many hundreds of thousands of dollars
125you are ahead the idea is those monies not spent are funded or put in place uh so that you know we can increase things like uh like the self-insured retention my recommendation this year uh and this is working closely with AJ and an is to increase that attention um from 400,000 to 500,000 um the rates are lower this year um it's about a 16 Cent rate to a 13c rate um the price is up because the payroll is up but the rate is down and so you know we've or you have put yourself in a position that we can take a bigger bite on a retention um to to to create some savings and it's you know about a $112,000 savings from from uh you know um the the the retention last year to the
126retention this year so um I'm pleased with that that policy uh is marketed aggressively every year by Loveland and smartt uh they're out of Roseville they've done a great job for us for a number of years um I'm pleased with that number uh and then the last thing is the bond that we have to file your self- insurance um Bond the amount is the same as expiring from last year so I'm I'm pleased with that number as well um if there's anything that you would like to ask of me I'd be happy and we also have representation from the pool as well do do we have an increase from last year in what line well bottom line it what's the increase in in well premium coverage well the increase yeah the the increase that uh
127that we have on the pool program is about $100,000 from last year yep you are reading that right any other question Richard you look like you're going to say something yeah when you went out to the marketplace I know there's some districts school districts that are self insured or they have other coverage did you go to those districts to find out what kind of insurance coverage they have and how much they're paying if they're not in the pool so uh 17 school districts in the state of Nevada two of them are self-insured and those are the two largest school districts in the State uh because financially they're in a position to be self-insured um one of the markets that we approached is the property market for Washo County School District they saw a 40% increase
128on their property this year so uh those markets that work with those two large self-insured uh school districts were approached but they're seeing similar if not even higher increases than we saw this year what about any of the smaller districts all of the smaller districts are in the pool all 15 of them do we have pool pack tell us about their still if I may um for the record alen cult I'm the Chief Financial Officer for pool pack and and like Marty um been in this gig for a long time I was the church County fin Finance guide com controller for 26 years came over to pool packed every year we um we go out to bid at poolpa okay in the marketplace and um United Educators had a significant increase um in their rate
129what they did is they they raised the attachment point they lowered the overall Aggregate and we ended up using the financial resources of our captive to fill in those differences okay they eliminated cyber coverage for all school districts so what we did is we had a cyber contract with County reinsurance limited okay that covered our communities cities counties and general Improvement districts we we were able to convince them to bring in the school districts into the family to provide that cyber coverage the reason why they were able to do that is that we have a excellent cyber program uh with passive Network assessments no before and these services that we provide to assist our members in cyber security fighting cyber crime so that we don't have you know Ransom type of events um so we
130were able to take the power of the pool the advantage of the pool and the diverse membership to benefit um you know in this case provide cyber coverage within that um you know we go out to bid we you guys own us you know an I appreciate answers on our executive committee the other school representatives are Dan Murphy from Persian County School District and Paul Johnson the CFO for White Pine County School District Douglas County went out to bid Douglas County Schools went out to bid um and they had the same results you know that the pool was more economical in total costs not even factoring in the cost of the services that are provided so you ask the question well gosh why do we provide the services well we provide the services you know
131going back to you know talk about the FFA and the a program when I was a kid 4H the model was make the best better and that's kind of the whole concept is working with the districts and the employees providing those levels of service to help raise and make the best programs that you have here at Carson City School District even even better so that's why we have those one of the other common questions that as I go around doing renewals because it it kind of stinks the what United Educators did you know the in effect was 100% rate increase not good um is well what about our claims you know and I was driving back from uh one of the Southern Nevada School uh one of the Southern Nevada districts and I was driving
132back and they said you know our claims you know looking at our claims loss and I thought well how do you answer that question and I thought to myself personally you know I uh I've had auto insurance ever since I've been able to drive of homeowners insurance ever since I was a homeowner and life insurance once I got married okay other than my little whoopsie in high school that I've asked forgiveness for my parents I finally granted it um that was the only claim I ever had praise God my house is never burned down I've never had a homeowner's claim and I don't know if my wife thinks it's good or bad that I haven't had a life insurance claim against me um so sometimes you know claims happen we have insurance for that you
133have three over $300 million of assured insured values of property $34 million and you're in an earthquake zone with you 15 $50 million of coverage you know God forbid something were to happen but that's why we have the insurance and you know we can't control the interest rate markets we can't control the other uh environment so we're doing the best that we can to bring you know to keep our cost uh in line and try to minimize that one of the things that uh that an has asked about and I've and I've met with AJ and Paul Johnson White Pine and others is looking at how can we develop potentially a rate mitigation strategy going forward because that's one of the advantages of the pool is the goal is to keep the rates within a
134relevant range and you know this this this last this last year because of Sam cases and what United Educators and the Cyber and and those changes you know the the overall rate was huge it was you know double digits it was like 14% um the priv previous two years the increase was relative to the property Marketplace and an just spoke washing County School District got a 40% uh rate increase indication from uh their carrier you know so our our 6.2% increase in property was pretty good because of our loss ratio you know and the hard work that we do um you know keeping those costs so I apologize for going so long but I just wanted to kind of get those comments out there you know it's your pool you own us we appreciate your
135membership and um you know we're here to help serve and meet the needs of the folks here in cars city school district Mike when I think about insurance it's one of those things that none of us like to pay but if anything happens we're certainly thankful that we have it and so I just want to say last year we asked you guys some really tough questions we asked you to really help us do some research and since then you've come back and given us a lot of information or education on the insurance industry and then also you've also put tremendous efforts into helping us find a reduction and so thank you for doing that extra work I know that it's it took a lot of time so we thank you for that and then I
136think the one of the things that also when you think about the pull pack is you know I went to one of Allen's classes and learned about financial literacy here a few years ago and I mean there is also that benefit that we have that professional development available for our staff members on a range of issues and so I think that we're seeing that there's a lot of liabilities right now especially when you talk about cyber you know ran somewhere or whatever you know I work in Lion County and we got hit by that two years ago and it it was a nightmare and I don't think until a school district or a government or as we've seen recently major company has hit with something like that we don't realize exactly how devastating that would
137be for our district so thank you for making sure that that's coverage is included thank you sir Don did you have anything just for the heck of it if uh Clark and Washo would return to the pool would it save us money you know what's interesting was county is considering was County schools in was County itself and the question then becomes are they you know historically they're they're they're big they're huge so then the question is is how can we creatively develop a program that works for them that also benefits the medium and the you know and the other 15 school districts and create that Synergy Where We Become One Nevada you know where there's a win-win scenario and our property coverage um you know is pretty phenomenal and we don't you know I think
138the challenge that we have in place on the marketplace and you take was County you know I mentioned that you had $34 million of assessed value of total insured values there's is probably I don't don't know what the number is but it's probably could be in the billions so they would need High limits but if we could somehow maybe create a separate program from them that uh is able to provide and meet their needs at the same time you know creating that partnership to help the other school districts that's a win-win and and we actually are working on that sir thank you uh I mean in a sense it's really a state issue all the money is coming from this from the state and if the two come back to the pool pack and if
139it saves the state money then it's a good thing I just don't know the finances of it or the economics of it yeah go ahead just just a question on the insurance prop property coverage because I'm reading in the stateof the market that um securing coverage for Wildfire is becoming more difficult then I'm looking through we've got arson we've got earthquake flood does our just to confirm our property coverage does include Wildfire loss okay thanks if I could just curious um you may not know this an or you guys but what was our claims last year and how much we pay out in claims right off the top of my head I couldn't answer that question but it was a it was a favorable experience in claims last year very minimal yeah I think one
140of the challenges looking at claims is looking at it over a period of time because every once in a while you may have a a large claim that that could hit the district you know you may have a you know let's say a $2 million claim and then have a couple years of you know $50,000 or $10,000 worth of claims um you know and how does that play out over a longer period of time and how you know how does the reinsurance market look at those and smooth out and one of the one of the benefits of the pool is that you know hopefully you know we don't have multiple entities that have those shock glosses those severity claim CLA claims um you know but we know they're going to happen you know earthquake happens
141you know those type of things you know can happen and have an impact and and well actually an put together a presentation that showed us exactly how we went and how we had a one whoops a year and and so we did benefit this year from the education that we understand that a little bit more and and we are very thankful for ppap because there's more than just our premiums there's a lot of training you support our School Board Association um Wayne is at everything we ever do at that level and so um I'm thankful that we get to stay with the pack to be honest I think you have a lot of added value that is not seen and and for your effort to call 36 plus thank you I mean that's that's a
142lot and and for you to take what we said and to go above and beyond we really do appreciate it oh you're you're welcome happy to do it and and always happy to you know bring back some um results or some explanations so happy to do it always yeah I just wanted to reiterate what everybody else said we do appreciate your relationship we have with pool pack you know money is always an issue I mean now more than ever it seems like we're we're talking about budgeting for the next five years and it's grim and so when we see insurance rates going up when you know when our available money is going down it's a difficult pill to swallow and if it keeps going up we really have to start asking those difficult questions and
143start looking around and it's something we really don't want to do but um you know I'm hopeful that you know over these next 11 months we can find a solution that that works you know that works good for us I mean I think you guys offer a great service you know but it's like everybody else at some point you got to say look you know we got to start balancing this and you know what can we what can we slash you know that or reduce or you know those kinds of thing so you know these 11 months will be educational for me but I'm hoping we can come back to the table with you know something that's going to be favorable for us and uh help us get through these next few years one year
144at a time you know as a former Finance director I appreciate your comments definitely a challenge sir okay this uh this is an action item if we're ready to make pres Copo all move that the Carson City School District Board of Trustees approve has submitted the proposed renewal of property c um Casualty Insurance package with Nevada Public Assistance Insurance Pool in an amount not to exceed 628 self-insurance bond in the amount not to exceed $6,500 and excess workers compensation policy with Star Insurance Company in the amount of $ 48,8 for July 1 2021 through July 30 2022 a second and I think you meant June 20 June 30 I mean I probably did yes I do I'll second that thanks we have a motion and a second any further board discussion seeing none any public
145comment on this item I know it's an exciting one I have a question yes just have to come up unfortunately and state your name for the record is Pepsi strawberg um I assume this is we're talking about a captive insurance and the pool is all the uh school districts and no other Industries no are there other Industries in there uh this is actually the Nevada public entity pool so we have General Improvement districts and cities and um and counties uh and school districts uh all included it's all public yes so the risk profile of these entities in the pool are approximately the same well as they are all rural Betsy um but uh the risk profile of a county with a a law enforcement department might be a little different from the risk profile of
146a school district but the rates that are developed and charged to those uh individual entities are in line with their risk profiles does that answer your question okay okay back to the board uh all those in favor I I any opposed motion carries thank you guys very much thank you thank you yep thank you everybody okay we're going to move back to item seven and I thank everybody for their patience um I think everybody's been here now for a few meetings and understand the protocol we have for public comment um basically we ask that you come up state your name for the record we limit public comment to 3 minutes per person we ask that you don't just um repeat what was um presented before and uh everything else is written in our agenda so
147with that um Ryan was going to just add to this uh thank you Mr President based on uh news we're seeing not only in Northern Nevada but throughout the State and really the country I thought it would be a good time to uh remind the board and maybe notify the public about the the restrictions that have been put on public comment uh as you all may know any restrictions on public comment have to be Viewpoint neutral uh and reasonable so for example you just noted that we limit public comment to three minutes and we ask that uh speakers not simply repeat the comments that were made uh prior that last portion is taken directly from the Nevada open meeting law manual published by the attorney general and it it provides in in pertinent part uh
148that the public body or in this case you guys may prohibit public comment if the content of the comments is a topic that is not relevant to or within the authority of the public body or if the content of the comments is willfully disruptive of the meeting by being irrelevant repetitious slanderous offensive inflammatory or amounting to personal attacks or interfering with the rights of other speakers and so given what's what's been going on again not only here but throughout the state I thought it would be a good opportunity to remind all involved of that prohibition from the manual I appreciate that we want to hear comment from everybody and I know sometimes we might we might disagree or it might seem like we're disagreeing but I look forward to everybody's comment it doesn't have to
149agree with mine I think a lot of times you might be surprised what mine might be but we all have a right to our our our thoughts and comments and this is your chance to provide uh your thoughts so with that why don't we open up public comment and um I'll start with the list and then of course if you didn't fill this out you still can come up but I'm just going to read from the list first so Joy you're on there you are you're on top Joy trinsky good evening again um my name is joy trinsky I believe in education not indoctrination currently our children are being indoctrinated in the NADA school system they're being taught socialism anti-al nationalism anti- capitalism and anti-American views in our schools there is no debate no alternative
150views just the pushing of group think critical race Theory and the 1619 project which teaches whites are race RIS and the United States was founded on racism and slavery is a part of this indoctrination to divide weaken and destroy our Republic critical race theory is based on a lie the truth is our nation was founded on judeo-christian principles in God we trust and that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness we have the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights supporting individual liberty yes racism exists every race on Earth has races but we can stop the hate and division by giving our children a good education education after all is the great equalizer we must
151teach our children respect for others and denounce racism in in all its e ugly forms also our children should be taught about our government the US Constitution the Bill of Rights and a fair and balanced fact-based history of our great nation compare our form of government with communist and socialist governments which deprive their citizens of Freedom we must get back to basic Reading Writing and arithmetic we must get back to traditional treat teaching methods and curriculum the truth is that the Nevada education system is failing our children in the 2019 school year Carson City District average proficiency rate for math was only 33% for reading the proficiency average was 44% for the 2020 school year math average pro proficiency was only 32% with 53% in Reading anyway you slice it these are pathetic numbers currently
152the Nevada education K through 12 ranks 49th in the nation we should all be ashamed for allowing this poor education of our children to continue year after year our Educators say they are working hard to improve education but you cannot improve inherently flawed system I say to parents minutes take a stand join us and demand higher educational standard three minutes are up trach submit the rest of your comments to the school indoctrination thank [Applause] you okay next we have Marie King okay is she sorry yeah okay so my name is Barb Mathers for the record also for the record it is freaking hot in here and I don't feel too hot so I'm hoping I can actually say what I wanted to say because I feel like garbage but anyway um we discussed in the
153plan that masks are not going to be worn which is awesome it's really stupid they're going to be on the bus because that doesn't make any sense the kids are going to touch their masks and then get all the stuff on their hands and go to the classroom it also said on the plan things could change so I'm still going to share my comments because I don't want masks to be in the classroom ever again period um the last school board meeting I asked superintendent Stokes if masks will be enforced in the 22 school year and part of his answer was that families have the right if they want to wear masks as do staff have the right to wear masks you said they have the right to wear masks what about the rights of
154the kids who don't want to wear masks what about the rights of the parents who don't want their children to wear masks where are my rights I don't want my son to wear masks I don't have a mask on my face right now but I can feel that my heart ratees hasn't has increased and I'm not getting enough oxygen that's why I've been Fanning myself the whole meeting the mask basically works the same way my 9-year-old son has a lot of the same health conditions that I have I know that if he were to wear a mask in the classroom and he's going to ride the bus if he goes to school again he won't be able to concentrate in his class he's going to be incredibly uncomfortable and he's not going to be able
155to learn because he's going to have a really hard time concentrating because he's going to have a hard time breathing and I don't want him to be in a mask period there are supposed to be exemptions from The Mask that's what cisac said people who have asthma people who have been sexually assaulted people who have hearing impairments you can't talk to someone in a mask I don't have hearing impairments hearing impairments but I can't hear people when we were in the grocery store and everybody was having to wear them I had to ask people to take their masks down because I couldn't understand what they're saying going to the bank in a mask uh I don't even need to discuss how many things could go wrong with that um masks are wrong children should not
156be muzzled they shouldn't have their faces covered the emotional problems that have come from this far outweigh the good that masks do the emotional d damage the psychological damage we've already discussed the fear level I mean I've heard so many stories of children being terrified to forget their mask because their parent or their teachers yell at them for not having a mask on and then they go home and they wear their mask at home and their parents are asking why are you wearing a mask well I don't want to forget it when I go to school the teacher's going to get mad at me this is not something our children should be dealing with at all um masks are political they're divisive there there's literally not especially for children there's not a health like a
157help to them for children to be wearing masks one because the the uh the possibility of getting covid is very slim for children dying from it is even Slimmer I mean they they just don't spread it this is not something that children should be dealing with and the majority of people who get covid and die from it have underlying conditions so regular old healthy Joe shouldn't be wearing a mask if you want to wear one that's totally fine people have the choice we have the right to wear masks apparently but we should also have the right not to wear them it shouldn't be forced uh the inconsistency of how all of the covid stuff I don't know what you want to call it is being handled is literally crazy it's obviously County to County but
158um I I looked at the the paper the weekend of graduation and front page of the Nevada Appeal Pioneer High students are covered in masks same weekend this is I couldn't get the paper because my parents threw it away before I could get it front cover of The Record courier is a whole lot of kids of Douglas High celebrating graduation no social distancing no masks same state obviously different County rules these guys are masked these guys are not did we have a safe grad for Carson High School we sure didn't they didn't get to celebrate graduation Douglas High got to have a really big celebration but did Carson High School have prom this year no who they did actually they had prom so who's who's deciding what's safe and what's not safe I you can
159have prom and dance right next to each other but you can't have safe grad I mean it's the same number of kids potentially that would be at prom versus safe grad right so that doesn't make any sense and obviously it is based on County rules I have cousins in Fallon who had kids in school didn't close their schools didn't enforce masks nothing was shut down as we've discussed also there are states that literally never closed businesses did not close churches did not close their doors and in Nevada churches closed their doors small businesses were literally annihilated their I flip Furniture as I've discussed before my sales are down 90% I've had to sell all kinds of other crazy things in order to make ends meet I have three more minutes that wasn't six minutes right
160six minutes that was six minutes okay well the main thing is just don't do masks ever again in the future next we have [Music] Richard for the record beepy strawberg and this is Richard Nagel who is donating his time to me um I received a reply to my email to director Macy um she said that she starts her position on July 1 she correctly identified that I'm looking for transparency from the school district and specifically from Mrs Macy on plans to refresh the Strategic plan around the topic of equity I'm also seeking transparency around profession development that build on the concept of equity I asked her what is the timeline or project plan for the development of the equity policy when can the public see the work in progress and the completion date my questions
161were to determine what we can expect between now and the September 22nd strategic plan meaning just a little background my mother was a kindergart principal my late husband was a professor Meritus from Cal State Hayward I taught in the MBA program at Cal State Hayward I believe in public education I've seen education as a equalizer as my late husband came from a very poor white family he was so poor that sometimes he pretended to be a orphan just to get that extra cookie education must produce career ready citizens not create entitlement or hate among peers in current and future Generations we need teachers to set a rigorous curriculum and a high bar of student expectations it's the parents who need to teach cultural and social values we SE uh celebrated validator in the high school
162couple of weeks ago if we didn't have competition we wouldn't have valedictorians if we separate students based on race with no competition among students we will race to the bottom of even lower our current ranking with 11,198 Revenue per student in the school district it is $800 lower than the TU at Bishop Mano we can do better our school district uh web side showed 47% white 44% Hispanic in the last Academic Year the Gap was getting closer 59% came from lowincome family so why is equity even an issue in the in when the two biggest student de demographics are almost equal I know as superintendent Stoke said that students who need extra help will get that help so I'm very confident of that Nationwide the tension between parents and school boards are due to distraction
163disengagement and distrust to me mandated masks mandated vaccines and even Equity are a distraction to the core duty of the school district the community is engaging as you can see behind me and we can build a trust by sharing information the school board can help by creating a vision and a purpose on the Strategic plan that extends Beyond one single tribe a single demographic or a specific economic level we need a strategic plan that will promote a sense of abundance and a sense of individual Freedom among our students and that is why I'm seeking transparency and cooperation in the work that will be completed by by this school board by the school district and particularly Mrs Macy during the next 3 months until we meet again I hope to hear from her soon thank you
164for your [Applause] time thank you bepsy uh let's see Lee Elliot oh did he okay okay Robert Harris I'll go last that's all I have everybody else now is just whoever wants to come up okay my uh beautiful daughter Madison Harris said that uh I can have her three minutes so and I got nine more minutes outside planning the playground if I need it Robert Harris I understand you have obligations to comply with ab262 passing the legislature but I would ask for you all to understand that you were the ones that can say no to discrimination you do not need a lawyer whispering in your ear during the board meetings if you are all doing the right thing if you believe in God then you know all children are created equal if you are an
165American then you believe that all children are created equal not equity I understand our real fight is with the State Board of Education and believe me they will be sued for obligating unconstitutional curriculum in our schools probably by me you are the first line of defense for our children and the decision makers for curriculum hence my direct communication with the board and apparently the trustees which I found online the intent of my communication over these meetings is to ensure you understand that what you were doing will have consequences some of these consequences will be to our children's psyche and that is unfortunate so my plan is to ensure you also understand that your lawyer who attends these meetings will probably be defending you for possible civil penalties along with criminal penalties on a personal level
166due to allowing discrimination and abuse against our children you are all culpable of discrimination personally if you allow equity into the curriculum after I have advised you of the illegitimate mandate set Before You by the state and federal governments as you may know multiple lawsuits are already in court over Equity discrimination at the federal level I am challenging you all to take a pledge for the Constitution tonight if you believe America is not a racist country and you love all Races and ethnic groups who comprise America this is what makes us the best country in the world so I think I know the answer to this but Mr Stokes do you have an equity statement for the community yet I do not Mr Harris okay you probably can't answer this either what specific date will
167the district have an equity statement we were hoping to work towards that for our community uh peel in our community peel see that will result in a refreshing of our strategic plan what date do you have a date before what date the the date of our strategic plan actually ends uh with the calendar year 2022 so there's some time yet for that to actually occur so we are we are not in a place where a strategic plan has been refreshed or an equity plan or statement has been developed so how can you have an equity and curriculum manager if you're not going to have an equity statement I guess that's CU we're all up in arms and what you said earlier I'm I'm going off cuff so time out but I need there's no there's
168no time out I know we need to know before you know I mean because we're all up we're up in arms your your earlier quote of Heritage was great I need to move on I guess I'll follow up um a word of advice when you finally present your Equity statement please do not use the phrase underserved I've heard it twice so far unless you clarify unless you clearly Define what underserved is because according to the National numbers available on greatschools.org every child in Carson City is under served people like to blame Vegas for all the overall State rating of low 40s nationally since the beginning of time but with most of Carson City's schools scoring a four or five out of 10 I not sure that this is a viable excuse anymore let me be
169clear you can say out loud that you will not teach critical race Theory and of course that's what the paper will print it's just simply not true Equity is part of CRT even in educational circles Equity is under the Dei tentacle of CRT I have noticed the sly devious tactic of treating parents and the community at large like mushrooms not sure what I'm talking about when you keep parents in the dark and stuff comes out of in the newspaper quotes the next day it's almost like you were agreeing that we are not smart enough to understand what you were trying to do the Wikipedia definition of equity is able to be edited so why would anybody use it it's kind of insulting to my intelligence I liked your earlier one and a little concerning that
170this is a reference source greatschools.org has a perfectly clear definition of equity why doesn't the district I cannot say it any clearer than this Equity is discrimination Equity is you judging a book by its cover Equity means only some kids matter Lupe is on to something when she mentioned declining pupil numbers when discussing the purchase of a building last meeting as a parent of children in your schools I am considering pulling my children out of your indoctrination Camp because why would my high schooler be playing a board game called secret Hitler in which the Liberals are against the fascists after she finished a a test during school hours this is misleading and is indoctrination allied forces are not called the Liberals as I mentioned in May when I reached out to you via email Mr
171Stokes regarding this issue my grandfather was in World War II and he was not a liberal he was a freedom fighter allowing teachers to expose students to a perversion of the truth is a violation of your bylaws but you never followed up with me regarding this issue I guess you show how concerned you truly are when called upon to act on information given to you what about my fifth grade grade what about my fifth grader being told no whites are allowed on the playground by a child during recess is this acceptable when this first happened in May I assumed it was bad parenting but now I wonder how much the school played a role in the influence of that child what's next for our children I think it's sad our local media doesn't accurately portray
172this issue it seems like they are part of the ignorance problem on this issue I have all summer to inform all 36,000 registered voters in Carson of what your plans are for the the future of our children I am confident the public once educated about your intentions and the real meaning of the equality will not allow Carson to become Portland 2.0 stop being tonee and look across the nation if you think eques then you are probably not going to win in 2022 refuse to honor the time lims that are imposed you're certainly willing to call it recess until I submit my comments into public record of this meeting by handing my write up secretary thanks for thank you okay any additional public comment I have a comment sure just come up and state your name
173for the record please um I'm going to my name is Susan Ru spelled r u um I'm going to address everyone regarding critical race I know you're probably all sick of hearing about it but as Carson City people we don't want it we do not I spent a lot of time talking to people during the 2020 election and I know a lot of people did not want to have common core in the schools and now I can tell you what parents do not want critical race Theory entered into the school system critical race theory is nothing to do with education it is pure Marxism it's a classic communist theory of conquer and divide critical race theory is the gravest offender of sewing hatred in our children teaching them to hate instead of Goodwill critical race
174theory is tearing our country apart as a school board you should know you should not want this to be taking place in our school get back to what we need a Core Curriculum teaching English science math not this Marxist socialist agenda which the our legislator is pushing the multiculturalism teaching our K children to love our country patriotism not leftist agenda in 1963 that's a long time ago for many of us there was a congressional Hearing in the House of Representatives with the honorable hurong Jr of Florida who reported on the current Communist goals coming from the book The Naked communist probably some of you weren't even born then re that now remember this was in 1963 there are 45 bullet points in this report on how they're going to take americ America without shooting one
175bullet I have two of the bullet points here number 17 get control of the schools use them as transmission belt for socialism and current communist propaganda soften the curriculum get control of the teachers boards put our party line in the textbooks oh this is just I mean do you see it I mean do you actually see this this is what's happening now number 26 present homosexuality degeneracy promiscuity as normal natural behavior this sounds like the transgenders in our bathrooms so don't let this start occurring here in Carson City we like our schools we like our town you just hired Mrs Macy to study Equity we should have hired a teacher instead of studying Equity it's time to start educating our children for God's sake they're we're are 49th in this in the country for Education
176please start educating our children thank [Applause] you I please and because that guy is very intent on people don't repeat themselves or go over six minutes max Bradshaw is going to donate her three minutes to me so I will be sure to be within the six minutes right okay oh and it on Little River Band um and thank you for the definitions for Equity out of Heritage in Wikipedia um but I'm I'm really confused because all the years that I've lived here I didn't know that we didn't have equity in the schools I thought all our kids were treated with Equity especially with my um knowledge and training and experience at the Department of Education I wasn't aware that our kids were not being treated fairly or given um adequate time um to learn this
177products that they need to to okay I'm getting a little nervous but um the product or the um what I wanted to talk about is homeschooling um the way this last year has gone and well I'm very very concerned about the subjects that are going to be taught this next year I'm thinking hom uh homeschooling might be a good option for students there's roughly 2.3 million million children who learn at home in the United States States the pros and cons of homeschooling versus public must be taken from an individual perspective what matters most is that each kiddo is safe and gets to maximize their potential as I have a limited time I won't go into the cons uh parents can uh look into that themselves but um as far as the pros education is a
178journey Journey homeschooling a homeschooling Advantage is families enjoy the freedom to design a learning environment strategy and lifestyle that fits each child you get to choose your own hours when where and how you homeschool is entirely up to you you are not required to follow a specific home school schedule or to keep a rigid uh routine compared to Convention students homeschool graduates are more likely to have higher college gpa be politically tolerant be agreeable and conscientious have a more positive college experience and more likely to be self-employed 11 of 14 peer reviewed studies on academic achievement home schooled students significantly outper conventionally schooled students the clear majority of peer-reviewed studies show that homeschoolers often have better parent child relationships homeschooling provides students with greater safety such as not being involved in lockdown incidents bullying exposure
179to covid Andor fear-mongering mandated inoculations misnomer as vaccines toxin toxic cleaning products as well as many other safety concerns I agree with Mike Pompeo the risk to Children is not from homeschooling the risk is from radical Scholars seeking to impose their values on our children I would add to that statement government bureaucrats that's why I left the Department of Education I couldn't stand the bureau ocracy anyway I had in I had my 20 years in so I I really hope that parents start looking at homeschooling if they don't trust the environment in the schools and where it's going and that's my two cents and I'm sticking to [Applause] it thank you yes please hi um hello okay my my name is um Charlotte Stewart and um I guess I'm a little bit late because I
180didn't hear that masks weren't going to be required is it in person next year is that what's happening okay um I just wanted to say I'm really happy about that uh I wanted to make you aware of a study that was done by a group of parents in G Ville Florida um there was only six of them but they took the Mass from uh age 6 to 11 and they sent them off to a lab um after being freshly washed and then put on their face for 5 to 8 hours during the day after wearing these masks they found pneumonia tuberculosis menitis keratosis and sephtis anti antibotic antibiotic resistant menitis eoli lme disease diptheria Legionnaire's Disease and severe infectious uh Stafa coccus so basically staff infection all of the all of the masks were contaminated
181except for one and they also sent in a T-shirt and the T-shirt came back with nothing nothing Contagious on it so to me that had me totally freaked out I don't want my kid like my kid was so sick last year and she wore a mask and went to school and I don't want that happening ever again it totally stressed me out I was worried that I was going to have to pull her out and have her go to online or homeschool and um so I just want to thank you for [Applause] that thank you any additional public comment from Watch Dog Days pictures in the Strategic plan that's not count against my time [Laughter] now my name's uh Joe ciphers uh I was at the uh first PLC Zoom meeting uh with superintendent Stokes
182and afterward I I wrote superintendent Stokes a letter with some of my concerns about the meeting and I was wanted to remind superintendent Stokes tonight that I still haven't received an answer from that letter back in February um when I was a when I was a Public Employee my my boss has always expected me to answer answer letters and inquiries of every kind but anyway um I just want to make uh I won't take much time I don't have a anything written down but I wanted to bring up something that did happen at that first meeting um I there's been a lot of developments and I'm not familiar with what the legislature passed um I'm not familiar with the funding issues but uh one thing that did occur at the first meeting was there was
183a breakout session on the teachers and one thing that was brought up by a number of the Educators in the teacher session I believe this man over here was in charge of it and uh was they said students need to learn from teachers that look like them and I wanted to say that I found that to be a very disturbing statement very disturbing statement I think students need to learn from teachers who know how to do Reading Writing arithmetic welding uh graphic arts whatever it is that they're teaching uh and how this teacher looks is is irrelevant in my opinion um so I I did want to bring that up tonight uh again I'm not familar with all the latest developments I've heard superintendent stoke's definition of equity several times now and I still don't
184know what it means but uh uh I know I know what I think it means and what a lot of people here think it means and um as far as the funding issues uh I can understand funding is always a big problem U but uh you know I'm not willing to sell my good Catholic Soul maybe it's not that good but I'm not willing to sell it for federal dollars and I'm not willing to sell my kids for federal dollars either thank [Applause] you thank you any additional public comment good timing hi G to say good afternoon to everyone here on the panel my name is Chris Lashley I spoke to this before couple of weeks ago and this going be short and quick the words of the Republic behind me agree with everything that
185everyone had to say and the CRT stuff is the biggest pile of garbage I've ever come across puty Mar you can be teaching your kids to hate themselves hate their friends hate the school hate the Constitution which leads event the genocide and the M fact that you guys are trying to push this on kids being kids should just be going to school and learning about mathematics arithmetic geography biology and history that's what the kids need to learn not to be going to school and let you say your daughter was St no white allowed on the field I've never heard anyone told me that I wasn't allowed to go any place in this country and I immigrated here I did everything the correct way I'm the most fingerprinted I'm background check person ever from the military
186my citizenship my green card and America is the greatest place on the face of the Earth to live and I've traveled quite a bit between here Canada Europe and nor place beats the US you can't be anything that you want to be here in this country what you guys are doing with this C stuff is taking away all these kids aspirations and dreams kids don't need to be dealing with that stuff in school you're trying to teach kids that their Liberties their rights and their freedoms makes them selfish when a natural F makes them selfless it gives them the Saints of Duty and the Saints of Honor that's all I have to say thank you for the time [Applause] thank you any additional public comment okay I'm going to close in Person Public comment do
187we have any comment no Mr Copo nothing online okay thank you everybody we do appreciate the public comment we're going to move on now to item 11 discussion on possible action to approve renewal of contract for Legal Services with the law firm of Allison McKenzie limited this is for possible action and we have superintendent Stokes presenting thank you thank you Mr President members of the board for as long as I've lived in Carson City which is 20 years the uh law firm of Allison McKenzie has been the uh independent contractor uh Law Firm that has advised the school district on uh all matters pertaining to our operations and the uh the current contract that we have for Legal Services is about to expire and uh you have in your packets a copy of the new
188memorandum of understanding which uh really only has a few changes to it one it strikes the overall term of the um of the memorandum of understanding instead of being a year-to-year document it is uh there is no limit or no term that is identified but there is an opportunity for either party to terminate theou within 60 days of notice to the other party I'd also like to just mention that um within the uh document the contract rate has uh no increase and uh when Allison McKenzie which typically has been represented by uh Mr Ryan Russell they charge us for two hours in case there's a longer than twoh hour board meeting uh we still only get charged for two hours so I'd like to just add that uh uh starting with Todd Russell going to
189Mike pavlakis and now Mr Ryan Russell we receive outstanding um Legal Services we get great uh thought and uh we have an opportunity really to to talk about discuss interact uh in advice for all matters pertaining to our our operations and so uh it would be my suggestion and that of staff's that we renew our contract for Legal Services with Alison McKenzie and certainly uh invite Mr Russell to uh respond to any questions uh and I too would do that if you have questions for me this is kind of a general question um my company is working um for George Allison right now we have a project going so I think that that recuses me from voting because there is a financial impact in this isn't there uh trusty Wilkey thank you for the question
190uh Mr Allison is actually an independent contractor essentially with our firm now he's of counsil and so he will receive no Financial benefit uh from this contract um that being said the decision uh following the disclosure is absolutely up to you thank you for that clarification I think with with the way everything's been going on can't we can't thank you enough for for not raising your rates um I can't believe you didn't up the meeting nights because that seems to have progressed a lot more in the last two years um but we have always appreciated the um the firm and the people that represent them and are very blessed that we've never been accused of violating the open meeting law which I'm almost excited more excited about that than my Mooney's rating during my term
191so um I appreciate that and all the things that you and your firm do thank you oh okay yeah sure go ahead Lupe I move that the Carson City School District District Board of trust is approved the contract renewal for Legal Services with the law firm of Allison McKenzie LTD okay motion by trusty Ramirez second by trusty Crossman any board discussion seeing none from the board I just want to extend my thanks to Allison McKenzie and your predecessors and you I really appreciate the legal council we receive and the cooperation it's can't thank you enough do we have any um it's only n o'clock and I'm getting tired any public comment on this again state your name there we go Karen stens I'm just wondering I know it's comfortable to sa with the same firm
192that you've been working with but did we even go out to bid or see if anybody else was willing to give the same services for maybe a lower amount of money I can't answer that question NR NRS does not require Professional Services to be bid uh so in this particular case we have a law law firm that has been with us for 20 years they provide uh the historical knowledge and understanding of our operations and so we have elected to stay with them okay so the answer is no and I can say Karen that we use attorneys in my day job um and I've used them personally over the years and the we I think we're getting a really fair deal I the hourly rate we're being charged is far less than any attorney that
193I've ever used in this decade well that's good to know know but you never know unless you ask right sure and we didn't ask okay back to the board all those in favor I I any opposed motion carries thank you uh Mr President if I may uh I speak on behalf of my firm and and thanking you guys for your confidence us and we're proud to to continue to serve you the the last year and a half has been a weird one for for all of us so again thank you all okay we're going to move on to item 12 discussion on possible action to approve renewal of agreement between Chartwells Food Service Management Consultant and the Carson City School District from July 1 2021 to June 30 2022 at a cost to the district
194of an administrative fee not to exceed $51,500 and a management fee not to exceed um 824 per meal with funding to come from the nutrition fund this is for possible action Andrew sorry the decimal threw me off in the dollar yeah that is a it Thrills me off too when I see it so no no apology necessary uh thank you president Copo um tonight uh bring to you you should have copies in front of you of the approved Amendment to the agreement from last year that has now been it has now been approved by the Nevada Department of Agriculture um and in in the executive summary so I I apologize for any confusion I I noted that you would be receiving two amendments and there were two different items being considered and and and we
195had the amazing idea of combining them all into one so everything is in one Amendment and there's effectively two changes to the contract so if you remember um back in uh the spring of 2020 uh we went through a competitive RFP process um and selected Chartwells as our um vendor um and in this case known as a food service management company um so they have been with us this last year uh this last year each year for the next four years you have the opportunity to renew that agreement um without going back out to bid um in the fifth year USDA regulations do require you to go back out so um I think as as many of you are aware we've been extremely satisfied with uh their services for this year um and so we've
196negotiated this uh Amendment to the original agreement for the next school year you are only allowed to uh add to the agreement for one additional year um each time of note um the the costs that president Copo mentioned um those are 3% increases from the prior year um the what what's important about that in the context of we often talk about a financial guarantee that is offered and so the the Food Service fund historically has run a deficit um in the original RFP um Chartwells laid out actually five years of projected deficits and I believe it was in year or they have the program turning to a surplus um so even with that cost increase they are still guaranteeing the same uh have the same Financial guarantee um that they included in their RFP so
197the number the $226,300 was something called the seamless summer option so um over this next school year as you're aware all of our students will receive breakfast and lunch for free um regardless of their uh status under free and reduced lunch policy um and so in order to make that happen uh it's really kind of a quirk but EV every District in the country is going to have to apply to their local agent state agency that runs nutrition programs to ask for the ability to run this seamless summer option and that is what they're going to be calling the program over the entire school year so it's kind of strange they're saying seamless summer when it's really outside of the summer but that's just kind of what it is so um the the changes then
198to the agreement are allowing Chartwells to help us run that seamless summer option and and generally a summer food service program um and then also the 3% cost increase um those are the only two significant changes AJ and I'm I'm wondering you know in the summer the summer food program is what is funded and so with that every child up to the age of 18 is able to receive a free meal um and so probably there's extending that through but my question for you is that's why they call it seamless Su sure but um I think that having all free lunch that is actually helping us with that those numbers for our reimbursements correct that's absolutely correct I I um the the federal reimbursement rate is greater than what our students pay for their meals
199so um in in every case Simply Having more participation will help better cover the costs of the program and so I I would I would imagine that with every kid being able to to get a free breakfast and a free lunch not not that every single child is going to take advantage of that but clearly it just makes it easier and some of the the stigma that may come and and you know we we've worked so hard in in districts across the country trying to kind of um anonymize that whole process but um clearly if if everyone just knows every kid is eating for free um and it you know regardless of anything um I think it it hopefully will build participation and and I guess the hope that we've talked about internally is um
200that it it kind of really gives a reset to the program so that in future years um even that goes away that um I think the I truly I think the level of quality the the variety of foods um being offered have have really um improved and and most importantly the pizza because I hear great things about the pizza that it's amazing so um so I really I think that will will help us out go ahead Don I just more of a comment uh I think the 3% increase is fair um in my day job I deal with our budget our marketing budget I'm throwing 5% on stuff this year uh there's a lot of Economist out there thinking four or 5% inflation in the upcoming year so 3% is fair and and I should
201mention too so initially they they were requesting more we we did negotiate that that number down a bit so but we thought that was a fair so what are we going to do to tell people or get the word out about every kid gets to eat for free because we had that last year and that flyer wasn't very persuasive is there more than a flyer we doing parent Square how are we getting the word out so that we we know that every child knows that they could eat if they wanted to so the the information I I guess in general is a starting point I know Mr Davis put out um a notice in the paper just saying that that this has occurred um in in clearly there there's kind of the the standard um
202process of trying to get this information out with now with parents Square we've always had some kind of um mechanism like that um but you know emails and and I think truly when things like this change early in the school year there's always kind of this transition and information distribution point where I I don't I think it'll be a little slow to to start but very quickly it'll ramp up so I I at this point we haven't fully discussed kind of all the angles we're going to take in trying to get that information out and and we certainly will and it'll you know people will probably get tired about hearing about it um near the beginning of the school year but I I think it'll the the most important part is when you know a
203kid's sitting there with with their lunch and they see their friend sitting next to them with that piece of pizza that looks so good um they say boy you know I think I want to try that next time and so I I think the word Will Word of Mouth will be a little more powerful but but we certainly will make every effort to get that information out and with the not renewing the grant for veggies and fruit is that g are they going to pick up any of of that do they have that aspect to put back into that plan we don't anticipate um the the kind of the offerings there to really change I mean the have having the bar available this has been a strange year right so having some of that stuff
204wasn't we weren't able to um but bringing it back to the program that it was and what was offered and and the bars and things like that we expect all of that to come back to Stacy's point I think that going into the second year at this point I think by the end of the year most families knew the meals were free and the kids knew and the teachers made sure their students knew so I think that it's not going to be quite the heavy lift the second year as it was last year and and and truly I mean the with the opportunity that's presented with the kind of helping the program we as a district have every incentive I I believe in incentive so we have every incentive to try to get that information
205out so every effort we made to get that information out I was pretty impressed by the the different food that they had compared to air mark and and the taste I I did the chicken I was on chicken day but I was it was much more impressive than than I expected I I I've been happy with what Chartwell has been doing I think um as I'm learning over the years nutrition services is it's complicated it's interesting it's complicated and we call it nutrition and we really try to live by that but it's hard because when I was a kid I didn't want anything nutritious I still really don't but I you know my wife tells me I have to it was easy 20 to 25 years ago when schools could just sell candy bars I
206mean kids love candy bars Ma and and so then you know yeah but I appreciate what they've done and really we've had them for such a short time and we've had a very challenging year so I think getting the word out and things like that you know fingers crossed we are back to a normal school year and we can really really see the benefit I hope of what Chartwell can do for us so anyway this um if any other questions otherwise it is an action item I'll make a motion I move that the Carson City School District Board of Trustees approve renewal of the agreement between Chartwells Food Service Management Consultant and the Carson City School District from July 1st 2021 to June 30th 2022 at a cost to the district of an administrative fee
207not to exceed $51,500 and a management fee not to to exceed uh 0824 cents per meal with funding to come from the nutrition fund second by wilky okay we have a motion in a second any further board discussion any public comment on this topic just a reminder of our discussion during the reopening plan to look at the state your name again too uh Bey strawberg just a reminder that we talked about revisiting the nutritional uh needs under the new covid um and other Airborne diseases so refresh the nutrition uh nutritional content of the meals no thank you I thought that was a good comment okay back to the board all those in favor I I any opposed okay motion carries thanks AJ at this time we're going to take about a f minute break um
208I meant to call one before I apologize but it's 9:16 let's try to get back here let's get back here at 9:21 [Music] thanks [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] o [Music] n [Music] a [Music] oh we're going to call this meeting back to order uh and we are on agenda item 13 discussion and possible action on a resolution to approve a final amended budget for fiscal year 2020 through 2021 to include revisions for certified enrollment audited fund balance carry forward amounts use of use of contingency funds and recommended augmentations to the spefic specific funds this is for possible action and again we have Andrew fing thank you president Copo I will make this a quick item there's no PowerPoint to go with this one this is uh just the annual kind of cleanup
209budget at the end of the year all the the transfers and moves that have have been approved and moved um through the year kind of reflected in the final document um any minor adjustments that need to be made the the the big thing with this one which is different than past year years um and this relates to the last meeting of the board trustees that we had we um there was a resolution to dissolve and a resolution to create a new fund the Student Activities fund so to meet our um our obligations um with the state to to H have kind of um reflect gby standards and and such um this now includes that Fund in the budget so um that that is will be um kind of our our final submission and and this
210leads to then the next item the next budget for next year which has been revised based on what happened with the legislature but also including the Student Activities Fund in there um I worked with uh our our uh auditor Dave Silva uh in in De kind of developing a plan of attack on this this is kind of a new um a new item for for all of us to handle um but he he he went through and helped us kind of figure out what numbers we should include and and to keep it really simple um to start and then once he comes in um uh later on in the fall um we'll kind of work through what uh some of these numbers should look like going forward it's it's a really new process to be
211um trying to take all these numbers from all the schools on what's happening in their uh in their Student Activity Accounts at their sites and wrapping it into one larger uh District pot so um the the big change then is to add in um this new fund 279 uh the Student Activities fund and and by doing so that will um help us meet all our uh requirements statutory requirements for this budget and for this year I don't really have anything else to say besides that any uh any questions from the board uh Richard go ahead am I writing this right for hopefully I got the right budget in front of me $3.8 million deficit so that that is correct that is what you're seeing so so this you have to remember that this budget you're
212seeing is for the current year that we're finishing up so that we have it ends June 30th and so in the the way this sets up is the original budget approved back in December had that exact same number so what you're seeing now is not changing that number it's just reflecting the transfers that budget transfers happening throughout the year and other kind of cleanup items um the the reality of it is that coming into the end of the year that that 3.8 million includes 1 million in contingency which we aren't accessing it includes about 800,000 in carry forward funds which are yearly or minimally accessed um and then what was projected to be the deficit mostly due to the loss of students this year so our revenues dropped dramatically um and I'll say so what
213it looks like coming in now towards the end of the year and it's still even with eight days it's still a little bit fuzzy um that final number should be between um like $500,000 and a million dollar I believe for a final defit it's nowhere near that that $3.8 Million number good thank you any other board questions or comments otherwise again it's a action item I move that the Carson City School District Board of Trustees adopt the final amended budget for fiscal year 2020 2021 by approving the resolution and transmit a letter and further instruct the director of fiscal services to file the necessary documents to to comply with NRS chapter 354 okay I got a motion by trusty wikey second by trusty Crossman any further board discussion seeing none any public comment seeing none
214no public comment Mr Copo thank you I'll bring it back to the board all those in favor I I any opposed motion carries item thir excuse me item 14 discussion of possible action on a resolution to approve an amended final budget for fiscal year 2021 through 2022 to include final legislative Appropriations to K12 education and recommended augmentations to specific funds this again is for possible action Andrew feling presenting thank you president Copo um so what I have for you tonight uh reflects the impact of the legislative session um uh So within 30 days at the end of a legislative session districts have the ability to do an amendment to their budget um if if they feel it's necessary um generally it's be it happens more often when um there's significant increases to revenue and trying
215to show how you're going to be using it so you have the authority to use it um and that is somewhat our case but it it's also kind of a strange case because of the federal funding and the Asser but um I still I still thought it appropriate to to do that given the year that we've had and and what has gone on for the last um six months and really two and a half years I guess so um what I have tonight is uh I believe there's about uh 12 slides that kind of um walk through what has happened um there will be some numbers to look at um but more kind of explanation of some things that have happened what the impact us um Carson City School District is from the the outcome
216of the legislative session um what what I have then there's a pause and and kind of like last time and just given where we are in the in the night um you have all been provided with the full presentations that have all kind of the graphical pieces and kind of break that down um and I am certainly happy to continue going through that if if you would like to um when we get to that point of kind of fully explaining what has happened um uh I'll I'll take a pause and and if take any questions and if you feel like at that point you're comfortable with the resolution that's fine and if if not you want me to go through the rest of it I'm happy to and you're you know obviously welcome to follow
217up with any questions at any time on any of that so as we go through um and we get to that point just let me know so I guess I don't really need that okay the 81st session of the Nevada legislature just ended um you may have heard a collective uh Sound Of Joy emerg from Carson City um so uh $500 million was added to K12 education and that was kind of the the drum beat at the end and there there was a lot of excitement about that um that number uh did add money to education um but it it's not not exactly all new money A A lot of it was restoring what had previously been taken um last summer during the special session but there there truly was more money put in um
218to to some extent um not that we benefited much from that uh other districts did so um one of the unique uh things that happened in in the final funding that was determined um as you know this whole new pupil centered funding plan was implemented um we were we had talked forever about us being in a whole harmless State um and and so when it came down to it in in the final uh verbiage in the funding bill it said that the the hold harmless language changed from um districts will receive their fiscal year 20 level of funding to districts will receive uh a funding level reason L close to fiscal year 20 and so what that means is across the the entire funding model they reduced everything by 69% so um where we ended
219up is actually not our fiscal 20 funding level it's 69% below that so I just think that's important um in any discussions you have about you know what has happened to funding estate and you know how's the district doing like well we're getting the we're getting less funding than we did two years ago is basically what it comes down to um another important change is that the per pup or the uh whole harmless will will now be calculated on a per puple basis um and and again that that's a little concerning just with the year we've had but I I I do believe that in the end that's actually going to be a positive thing um for us as our community continues to grow um districts who are in hold harmless have flexibility in how
220they use their funds so there's going to be a a final dollar and I'll show you some of these numbers here in a bit and you'll see um like for um for at risk students there's a certain dollar amount set there for gate students there's a certain dollar amount set there but they they recognize that we have less funding than um we have had in the past so they're saying look um this is kind of how the formula would have worked out but hold harmless districts you are not obligated to spend your money exactly in this fashion it's just kind of what it would look like so we have flexibility with how we use really any of the funds that the state um is bringing to us in this um new funding model um and
221then any any funds um that brought us back to this kind of pseudo restoration Point anything added beyond that really in no way benefits us it's benefiting other districts that are in the model which I think I kind of said but that was the so um i' I've taken some screenshots directly out of this new model and I I only I think I have four slides like this but it it'll kind of just tell the kind of four-step story of what is happening um so when you start the the new pupil centered funding plan the the Statewide base um now is 7,020 $9 for next school year so you can see that this is applying to every school district all the charter schools multiplying against the number of kids enrolled um and then you get
222to your What's called the Statewide base so this is kind of the um this is where everything starts in the model that number is um while we are used to hearing per pupil numbers over the last couple years of around 7,000 ,000 um like uh Clark and wow generally are closer to like 6200 6300 and so this as or I should say too the the Statewide base previously was $6,200 so what this reflects is there there is some more money being put into education but more importantly adding to that is they've taken all of these grants and if you remember there was a slide in the last presentation where there's like 15 different grants that are all becoming part of the general fund that's all getting thrown into this pot now so while if you
223were looking at last year and you said oh the the Statewide base was 6,200 and now it's 7,000 wow that's a lot of new money to education it's not they just there is some but most of it is they took all these grants and they they put them into that that single pot so class size reduction is in there um read by3 is in there the social worker Grant is in there Zoom or well zoom's not there but it's in a different one um but it's all those monies kind of put together so that's kind of the that's the first step of this new pupil centered funding plan and then um you get to the the first adjusted base and so as I mentioned this is this is what they call in school Finance horizontal
224Equity so it's taking into account here that some school districts are smaller and some are more spread out than others and that's what the um the column here I can't I can't highlight it I don't think no um the this the First Column or the second column that has numbers it says adjustment one District size funding so those are the amounts that districts receive basically because either the district is small or they have a lot of schools that are spread out they're kind of a remote district and and 's a calculation that goes on to account for that one of the interesting things with this is that you you look at Clark County and Clark County is getting more than anybody else and it that seems really strange because they're the largest school district but
225what you have to remember about Clark County is that they do have these really rural outlying areas you have Amarosa Valley of mosquite and so there there's small Schools they're out there and so they they get extra funding to help out at those schools and it's really just recognized izing that it costs more to operate schools that are in rural areas it costs more to operate schools that are smaller it's harder to attract people out there so it's it's recognizing that for for every District in the state for us it's really just recognizing our size we can't get some of the efficiencies that Clark County can because they are so large um the next column over is the end the um Nevada cost of Education index otherwise we've referred to this um over the the
226last couple years as the um uh CWI uh this is supposed to look at um it's kind of a proxy for a cost of living uh standard in the formula although that's not exactly what it is and this was kind of the most contentious issue over um the last two years um during the commission on school funding last meeting um there was an economist that came on and and had done this study um and and really show that this probably is not um as good a measure of this sort of thing as expected so I think I think over the next few years there will probably more conversation about that but the the impact um really uh kind of North you know Northern Nevada we think of Carson Washo story um Lion see no benefit
227um because in in the study that was done to come up with this number it basically showed that people were willing to get paid less money to live here is is kind of the biggest factor of what it comes down to and it doesn't in any way take into account housing costs which is just I don't know there there's there's more to go with this but um the the rural the very rural counties did get um a bump because of it um and then Clark County got a bump because of it so when you when you take that Statewide base your starting point and and then you're you're making these two adjustments really kind of kind of uh uh trying to consider the more more so the geography um and size of of districts and
228schools and so it makes this adjustment you'll notice then in the far right column you start seeing per pupil amounts that are very different so instead of having that same um 70 $729 you now have them all over the board reflecting some of these changes um Carson is highlighted in yellow we're at uh $ 77546 you can see we're still higher than Clark County but less than Douglas County and Esmeralda gets the most and they always have um so similar distribution um but but still there are differences so after you have the adjusted base then you start looking at the weighted category are what are considered the vertical Equity area so you're looking at students instead of kind of the district and the schools and so again English Learners at risk and gifted and talented
229are the three categories here um at risk in um during the session they decided I may have mentioned this last time but they decided to use free and reduced lunch as their their uh account to generate this number um that's not a good idea because if ultimately the whole idea with the pup centered funding plan is having money flow to the kids that need this extra support given the circumstance principles are not allowed to know which students qualify for free and reduced launch teachers are not allowed to know so if we're supposed to direct this money to them how can you if you don't know who they are so in in what what came down to is they needed to use something and they weren't ready there there's this um new uh algorithm number that
230Infinite Campus has come up with that seems like a really good idea and it would be something that could be shared but it wasn't ready for prime time going into the legislature so they decided to kind of go with this for now and they're going to allow uh again flexibility with this um but in the next session they will lik L have that new um formula nailed down and that could actually be shared with principles and that would kind of make more sense then so but again um so the these are the numbers that um would be generated for for districts and if they are in hold harmless they're not as meaningful I mean clearly you still want to support your English Learners and and some of these programs um but again you you have
231we have flexibility within the funding that we have um districts that are truly on the new people centered funding plan they they do not have that same level of flexibility So like um Clark County School District will need to show that they spent $3.88 million on gifted and talented education in their District um this year and they have to show that those money not that they just spent that as a district but that those monies flow down to the schools where those kids are and are getting to those those students so it there's a kind of another level of accountability and you I think that'll be when we get to that point it'll be hard enough um for us to kind of make sure that distribution happens I can't imagine districts like Clark that are
232so enormous and how they'll make that happen but they have lots of people so they can figure that out um so that that's the second piece so now you have the adjusted base and now you have kind of the additional weights and then you have the final numbers and so you'll notice that about half of the districts in the state qualify for hold harmless and half of them are on the new pupil centered funding plan um the First Column with numbers shows the total general fund um state aid dollars that we will be receiving um so for us it's 71,9 th73 um on a per pupil basis and and the enrollment number being used again remember that this really is on a per pupil basis so if our enrollment changes this number could change but
233they're basing it on an enrollment number of 76 about 7600 kids which I don't think is unreasonable I think that's probably a fair guess um so if you take that 71.9 million divided by 7600 kids you come up with about uh 9,450 $4 per student and again remember that this is basically general fund and there's still other grants tonight there was a question about the $1,000 per student so there there is still more money besides this but clearly this is the most significant chunk of money um going toward toward our students um so then as a a point of comparison um just to the right of that is what the legislature believes is our fiscal year 20 level of funding so this is like the hold harmless Baseline amount um they believe we received $72,400
234and3 or $4 43,372 and what we are receiving then in fiscal 22 is a difference of 51 ,000 so it's it's down but it's down that 69% so that that and you can see that reduction all across the board and and that that reduction actually is impacting every District even the ones that are not on hold harmless you just don't see it in the same way kind of because they're just in a different situation um I believe that that final number um used for that calculation we're we're we're still still taking a look at it because we think there might be a couple problems with the final number so um we're working on that and communicating with um uh with the state about um some questions about how that number was generated um if if
235there were a difference in the number I don't know that it would actually uh make a difference if you remember um I think three years ago we were underfunded um it was found by by $1 per pupil um I think it was and Washo was by a little bit more so the impact to us was like $7,000 the impact of washa was like $9 million but instead of it being fixed right away um they made them wait until the next legislative session to kind of give them the money that they were due so I I'm not sure exactly how that would work out um but there's still some some work to be done on that any questions so um so I just listed again all those because that number seems really big that 71.9 million
236but again all of these other grants have now been rolled up into that number so it's not just the general fund it's all these other pieces too what about full day kindergarten did that go away or I don't see it rolled in full day kindergarten got rolled up in 2017 or 2018 I believe that that was uh um Brian that that was the last year Brian sandavol was was still Governor they made that change um I would never say that in a public meeting um so from from the last presentation I I had uh likely that revenues would come in better than what you saw in May and that that is the case so in May the revenue number we had was 69.9 million um now the number and I should say this is the
237total revenue so this still takes into account um a couple other local revenues we have and some federal revenues we have so the total general fund Revenue in May was 69.9 million the total general fund Revenue in the budget you have before you tonight is 72.7 million so that's an increase of 2.8 million which is excellent news um but I also said that um it it's likely even with an increase that we'd still be running a deficit so um with the May budget without Esser funds available to help us we would have been running about a 5 million deficit with this increase of 2.8 million that deficit is would be about 2.2 million but again the Esser simulus funds take care of that and they will take care of um of that in in over
238the anytime over the next three years that we would have a deficit to deal with um not that we have to read through all of this but one of the things we were waiting to hear on the Esser 3 Grant was if the US Department of Ed would uh give uh Grant Tidings a Tidings Amendment uh to sr3 which simply means you can use it for an extra year beyond what it says you can use it for and they did so uh S3 officially was good through September 30th 2023 we now have access to it through September 30th of 2024 so that's that's really good um and also talked about how positions now at that time back in in May POS positions projected to be in the stimulus funding may come back to the general
239fund if more dollars became available so we have more dollars available and positions have been moved from um the the what was projected to be the Esser um be funded out of Esser move back to the general fund um simply because there's more funds there to to that need to be used um and then completely new positions may be added to S2 or sr3 for the same reason so now there's more sr2 and sr3 funds available um we're talking about I know Mrs fusan is is meeting with principles and getting information about what they want to do for their learning loss programs um so this is kind of these are active discussions happening right now so um as we start working up to the year it's likely that we'll we'll be putting we'll be adding
240new positions into some of these funds um to support learning loss in the district um as those decisions are made and so that I I showed you um this last time um and I've adjusted it a bit to kind of be more in line with the numbers but I I I just really want to keep the perspective for you that um that we can use these Esser funds to cover what level of expenditures we have but those expenditures are going to grow just because costs grow over time um but then three years down the road we can use these user funds through fiscal 24 but in 25 they go away so you you have this kind of awkward place where you have a lot of federal funding to help us out and do great things
241but at the same time you have to be thinking about down the road and we don't want to set ourselves up for a situation um like what you see in fiscal 25 um so the the positions currently that are projected to be in the sr2 and sr3 grants have changed um again because of the change in the or the increase in funding from the state so now it's basically the positions that were in the social workers Grant and the positions that were in the zoom Grant are all now in Sesser 2 we had also plan to use some uh some of those funds to purchase technology within Sesser 3 um a good deal of what happens there has to be dedicated to learning loss and and our distance said um assistance clearly that will be
242a large part of their job this year so we plan on funding them out of S3 all the summer school activities that we are going through currently and probably next year as well um and then any other learning loss activities that um we do as a district or uh that principles come up with that they want to run at their sites will will be put in there and that's really it so the the the bottom line is that um the general fund is um made whole by Esser um as it as it was back in May um the the bottom line numbers don't change for that um all of the other funds basically are not impacted uh it was it was all about getting this final number from the legislature so what will happen over
243the next months is um we are racing to uh present our Esser uh you know back to school plans um so that we can access all those funds we're getting together plans for how to deal with learning loss at each of the school sites and and giving the principals time to provide feedback and and what their needs and wants would be um so so really on the Esser side of things and as we learn better understand the Grant and how we can use it that is naturally going to change over time so I I don't want you to see this now and and expect that that's how it's going to be it will change um but this is kind of the best guess of how we would use it now how it would help out
244the general fund to keep it whole um and allow us to kind of get moving on planning for the new year and so are there any questions at this point go ahead go ahead Mike I just one of the things I find so frustrating is everybody's everybody in the legislature seems to be breaking their arms off to Pat themselves on the back and really you know the narrative that they're putting out there is they found all this magical money and we flushed with additional funding when truly they restored what was projected to be cut and and we're still in a world of hurt I mean I I really hope that people pay attention and hold their legislators accountable because at some point we're going to need people that truly support education in our legislature and
245I don't believe the members of this current legislature did that adequately for the majority of this state and I hope somebody holds them accountable and doesn't let this false narrative continue that they've done all these wonderful things that they haven't done did any you go ahead yeah did any of this funding redo some of the riffs that we had done um we we didn't have any going into um we didn't we didn't have the only ones I know of from this going into this current year we're in were related to changes in um Federal grant use at some of the schools like Title One um the the the Kinder peras I believe was actually two years ago so that that was that wasn't a part of um the planning going into this at this point
246I I guess I have something I'm glad we're were able to put more people on for the learning loss but what I worry about is three years down the line four years down the line when we have all these expositions no money for them and um is there any pre-planning going on about how to lessen the impact in four or five years I I will say we we have not started that planning yet but I I'm sure everybody is tired of hearing me talk about it that this I mean I I keep showing that graphic because that is clearly a problem um and again it it it's a it really is a strange place because you you have all this money but we're going to be looking at having to get the general fund down
247to a point where three years from now for four years from now that that is not such a problem um so it it's it's going to take a a lot of planning it's gonna take a lot of communication because it it's going to be hard for a lot of folks to wrap their head around how you can have all these extra federal funds yet four years you know we're talking about potentially trying to reduce general fund expenditures even though we have all this money that could cover it but it's because you have to be thinking about that fourth year is there any talk about if the Republicans take the Senate back or the house back if some of these funding funds may go away um no and I I guess I don't I truly don't
248know if that is something they could do um I I haven't really thought about that don't don't do that to me Mr Barner um but uh no that that that has not been a part of the planning so I I certainly hope that is not the case but I I have not I have not heard anything about that hopefully they won't take it back midterm so to speak yeah yeah Don I just have a comment uh this was excellent those uh those spreadsheets were excellent easy to read uh thank you thank you I I do try it was excellent you're always excellent it really excent ACR they're good but the font size made it excellent maybe that one said that any uh any other comments or questions from the board if not it's uh this
249is an action item also I move that the Carson City School District Board of Trustees adopt the amended final budget for fiscal year 2021 2022 by approving the resolution and transmitted letter and further instruct the director of fiscal services to file the necessary documents to comply with NRS chapter 354 I'll second okay Motion in a second any further board discussion seeing none any public comment any remote public comment no Mr Copo okay okay bring it back to the board all those in favor I I any opposed thank you motion carries thanks AJ thank you uh moving on to item 15 I'm going to ask the board if we can table this item we do have a little bit of time built in and my thought was if we were hitting 10 o'clock um that maybe
250we ought to table this also my being out of town for a week and work schedules I know Mike has been extremely busy and might be a nice chance to take a look at what we have on paper and see if anybody else comes to mind so we give this a very thoughtful you know thoughtful time that that I think all these folks are due it we'll bring it we'll bring it to the next board meeting and that'll give Laurel enough time to write them all that's right Ryan we don't have to make a motion to table it do we okay with that we're going to move on item 16 approval of the consent agenda this is for possible action I'll move that we approve the consent agenda as submitted motion and a second any
251further board discussion any public comment any public comment via email no Mr Copo okay seeing none back to the board all those in favor I any opposed hearing none motion carries item six excuse me 17 informational items uh for discussion only we have any questions or discussion on informational items seeing none request for future agenda topics uh seeing none I I have one just we can fit it in in a normal whenever they're coming up again but our social workers we had some comment about the difference between counselors and social workers and you know how the how the kids are serviced and I think it might be might be worthwhile revisiting that we know they're not the same but a little bit of re-education for me would be helpful okay not seeing any other requests
252for future agenda topics we'll move on to adjournment this meeting is adjourned thank you [Music] everybody [Music] need [Music] oh