001For a minute it was good. All right. Um, I'm going to bring the Grant County School District Board of Education regular board meeting and public hearing to order. It's Wednesday, April 29th, 2026. It is 5:19. We are here at the district office and available via Zoom. Um, all board members are present. Terry and Matt are both here. Um, we will have a public hearing um, on our budget, but if you're here to speak to the board, um, please fill out a public or speaker card. If you're here for public regular public comment. And please turn your cell phones off vibrate. And then sit up. Um, do the Pledge of Allegiance. Any kids here today? Okay, we need just a Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and
002to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Uh, mission statement. Then I will read our mission statement. Our mission is to put each student first every day. Um, approval of the agenda. I would move to approve the agenda. A there a Second. Eva makes motion Katherine seconds to approve the agenda. All those in in favor say I. I. That passes 5-0. Public comments? Any public comments? No public comments. Board recognition. So she wasn't she was coming? Yes. It's not on the agenda. Oh, okay. Um information discussion items. So we will have the trust lands presentations. We'll start with HMK. Holly is here. Hey. Yeah, I'm just like seeing blank faces. All right. You want to talk us through this the trust lands for
003next school year? We sure will. So we um we met in June to go over my basic outline. You know, for the 2025 Well, the first Monday of the month, I guess, is when it comes. Um so our first goal is centered around ELA and math. And basically what we decided was to continue our focus from this year and maintain that same focus for next year. So really the goals remain the same. Um the only emphasis we put on there is that we want to narrow that achievement gap for our sub groups um since we are all CSI. So we kind of added that language in there. Um so what we're wanting to do is increase our placement with the Acadience reading composite and then using I-Ready math and reading as well. Um we did
004not put Acadience math on there because it is going to be going away at the state level where it's no longer going to be paid for us. It's not um a reliable data source. So we did take that out. Um with that we wrote down our action steps which are very similar to last year. So um what we want to continue doing is hire and retain some more educational support professionals. So we currently have one that is being funded for reading. Um we want to add an additional one for math. And then um we also have some intervention tools that we'd like to purchase in um response to some of our goals for CSI. And then we want to allocate 10,000 for Chromebooks um to help with tops at the cost of that. Um let's
005see. We also want to continue to maintain the instructional leadership in our building. So providing stipends to our specialists, our three specialists, and also our what we call our GPS team which is our leadership team. They are lead teachers. Um those were the only money big money items. And then continued professional learning for our teachers, putting somebody aside for them to attend professional learning. Um which I think is very important. And then finally some incentives for some additional stipends for anyone that is willing for up to two teachers that are willing to get their ESL endorsement which targets our CSI subpopulation. And um also anyone that's willing to attain their letters of uh certification or a STYERS certification which also helps with our literacy goals. So that is goal number one. Any questions on that?
006Okay. Um what the 120 minute daily literacy block? Yeah. And that's actually a state requirement to have that um much time set aside for literacy. But then that includes 25 minutes in math but they like reading better. So it would be 25 minutes of tier two math which would be like additional math support. But then it's all literacy block but it's a literacy block. Daily literacy block. No, 25 minutes in math will be specialized and targeted. Wait, you're looking at number one currently. Yeah, but it says which will include 30 to 45 minutes of skill based instruction for all students in reading. Uh-huh. Yeah, so we'll have a 120 20 minute block total for literacy and within that 120 minutes it will include 30 to 45 minutes of tier two >> But not it doesn't
007include >> It does not include the math. Yep. Yeah. And then and which means in addition to 25 minutes of math. Okay. Um goal number two. So uh in order to hit our um upper grades and also target science which is one of our categories for CSI as well. Um we want to increase the percentage of students in third through sixth scoring proficient at the end of the year in mathematics and science by 5%. Our goal this this current year was um 4%. So we have kind of upped it a little bit to be a little more ambitious, but that's where we're at this year. Um and then looking at our action plan for that we will maintain a 90 minute daily block schedule which going along with our single literacy is what's recommended by
008the state office which will then include 25 minutes of skill based instruction which is that tier two instruction. Um we will and I've re-listed some of the same things from goal one because I mean it's all working towards the same thing. So obviously hiring more staff, getting some more intervention tools, Chromebooks which would help with that as well. Professional learning will help, instructional leadership. And then where we've added in around science especially and social studies um and then even just ELA supports would be funding our field trips um and any other um experimental or enrichment activities for students to take. And then I did put in like having those um incentives for teachers to get their endorsements. And then any additional funds that aren't used could be used towards technology outside of anything that's unused.
009So questions on that one. And then finally goal number three um is kind of falling in line with the with like the goals that I set as a school this year. And so uh we want to focus in on um family engagement but also behavioral things. And you know that if you increase family engagement you oftentimes decrease behaviorals. Um that's also what you're getting. So we want to decrease uh behavioral office referrals by 10% and increase parent participation in school wide academic events and achieving. So we've been keeping track of that this year. So we just want that 90% um or higher percentage uh our participation rate for uh parents. And then like I said decreasing our office referrals by 10%. That seems really high for that number. Yeah. We actually did. We got 90.5
010um in parent engagement this last round with parent teacher conferences. Yeah. And I'll take that point five cuz I think So the 90% would include all these things? It would. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But that was just me looking at just parent teacher conferences for spring which is actually harder to get parents to come in in the spring. Um but we did really comfortable at spring. Yeah. Um and then action steps for that. What we would like to do is hire um a three quarter position for someone to come in and help with uh specific behavioral intervention. And that would be an instructional person. So someone who's going to come in and teach some behavior skills to students. They would kind of be added to our team of behavior coaches that we currently have. And then
011we also obviously want to continue to incentivize our students. With the new change in trust lands allowing for approximately $4 per student per student incentive we're right within just under that threshold. $4 a year? Uh-huh. Yeah, per kid a year. Yeah. So for our school it would be about 2,300 with our current enrollment. So we just I just allocated 2,000 for that. Do they audit that kind of like thing where you can be like you spent $4.50 on that one but Oh, yeah, there we go. The box they would they do. They audit the Not The school wide plan they would do like I did on the pizza. Proof of expenses. On the student side. The other parts of the plan not incentives. But I don't know how come they they would audit a kid
012like they would be like you spent $10 instead of $4. They audit It's average, right? They look at the probably the best bottom line of what you spent in that category. Well um and then setting aside some funds for that parent engagement. Um we obviously will pair those funds with what we get from title one funds and then also we get some additional funds from title two um to kind of help support that. So or title four is what I meant to say. Um and then supporting our um student mentoring cuz I think that that's really important and it's a great partnership that we have with uh Grand Area Mentoring. So that is our third one. Questions on that one? So when it's all said and done um we will have just a little bit
013of carryover because I am one of those type of people I like to have a buffer just in case. And so we're well within the 10% but there should be about $1,900 left over um that could potentially be rolled into technology or or funds in other areas that we may need later on. So. That's it. Any other questions? Do you really think they'll stand in line this way for food? It hasn't happened yet. It's coming up on May 14th. And um actually Melissa Roy is in charge of it. It's a pre-K. So that's the idea. It'll be pre-K one this year. Fun. So the state has actually offered uh some programming for it this year for free. And so we're kind of jumping on board with that and targeting pre-K and up to 5 years.
014So three and three to five years And do they have to be in the preschool? No. No, they're just ages. Just ages three to five age. Okay. Yep. Just three to five. Okay. Okay. Any other questions for you? But that's eight that are in the district. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Can we go back to them? Yes. Um all right, we're going to move back on Mer Shandon. And we are going to recognize Nurse Mary. He was walked in. Mary Frohlich, there you are. Um she won the Utah School Nurse Association's Mary Eda Award, one of the most prestigious available. Um attached is her nomination. Um that's a long nomination. I will say I watched the video. That video. Well, we're going to let's We can watch the video. Let's watch the video. It
015was It was a good video. It's really good. And what about the comments? >> [clears throat] >> Good afternoon. My name is Megan and I get to I have the privilege to stand before you and present one of the most prestigious awards and honors. Um it is the Mary Eda Award. So this award was created to honor the legacy of Mary Eda and her philosophy to live well, live, laugh often, and love much. Today, we recognize someone who doesn't just work in school nursing, they embody the philosophy through a tireless commitment to students in a world medically underserved community. To understand why this recipient was chosen, you have to understand the landscape of their work. Imagine being the only school nurse for the entire district, providing oversight for nearly 1,500 students across three schools, a
016preschool and an alternative high school, um in a region often described as an island in the desert. This individual has become a vital connector between families and then care they desperately need. In 2019, this nurse became the first full-time school nurse their town has seen in at least three generations. Since then, they have stared down significant barriers, financial hardship, intergenerational poverty, um and the isolation of the frontier area where the nearest pediatric sedation dentist is 120 miles away. Instead of seeing these distances as obstacles, this nurse sees them as opportunities for collaboration. She has coordinated a biannual clinic with the BYU Family Nurse Practitioner Program, bringing 30 students and 10 faculty members over three hours away to serve local kids. She partnered with the Community Multicultural Center to break down the language barriers. And she
017innovated dental and vision programs that have screened hundreds of students, ensuring that no one's health falls through the cracks simply because of a zip code. Their guiding motto is simple. Say yes to an opportunity to form a partnership that will benefit health services. This proactive spirit hasn't just impacted their local district. It has impacted nurses across the country. This individual was even featured on NASN's podcast Beyond the Band-Aids, sharing this experience expertise on children's dental health. Whether she's navigating the challenges of Grand County or building bridges between schools and health care providers, her leadership and compassion is unwavering. So it is my absolute honor to announce that the recipient of the Mary Eda Award for her incredible heart and her service to her students in Moab is Mary Frohlich. >> [applause] [applause] >> You guys,
018she had no idea. This is a very well-deserved um And if you guys haven't seen the podcast, I suggest looking it up through NASN. All right. Speech. Have you digested that? And now you you have a speech ready? Thanks Stephanie. Speech is amazing. Congratulations. It's especially very pleasant cuz I am on the awards committee. >> [laughter] >> Did you bring your Oh, you didn't bring your speech? >> bring it. Um I will say I kind of want to put a shout-out to um our former superintendent because um the BYU I mean she kind of did it's kind of a team effort and I think it's kind of amazing our um the the director of the Family Nurse Practitioner Program sent out over 200 emails um soliciting potential rural partners and he got one response. And
019that was Taryn who got the email and said, "I don't know." And she just clicked forward cuz she knew I'd have lots of ideas. >> [laughter] >> And um and and I just appreciate appreciate having the opportunity to just I mean I did have lots of ideas. And there were a lot more ideas and there's a lot more opportunities for continuing partnership with BYU. Um so it's just I appreciated that she just kind of gave me the the Was it your idea then to do the dental clinic? Like Like they were just saying, "How can we help you guys?" Yeah, but yeah, they wanted um and actually he was thinking more in the lines of um like doing sports physicals and I and I had I One of the ideas we talked about was asthma
020and and that was one they were really excited about, but the dental is also something when I came into this position and like the first year or two through, you know, I was just asking lots of questions and trying to find out what the need was and I heard over and over and over again from teachers that dental was a big concern. And and it and it was very subjective. Nobody really had any firm data. And um that was one of the big advantages of this. We were able to start really small with a small pilot with just kindergarten and it was and it happened very quickly. It happened within a few months. Just doing a pilot project and from there, you know, each time we do one of these, we learn more and more
021and are able to gather more and more data. And now like I had completely kicked down on it and I I have even like developed like um risk a risk ranking and which is you utilizing clinical um clinical risk um and enabled to like now really have the information on who our highest risk kids are so we can do more targeted interventions and but now now we have that data which we didn't have before so we have a real picture of what the need really is. Um for that but and and it was something that he wasn't necessarily expecting um but it fit within the scope of practice for family nurse practitioners um and it and why this particular project is getting so much attention is because it is [clears throat] um integrating oral health
022with primary care. And it's also um so we're training the future family nurse practitioners. So that's that's one one big reason why it's considered It's also being I also just found this out it's being published in the Association of State Health Directors. Um for model projects. Good for you. And >> [clears throat] >> I didn't I did I mean I understand it's it's all you know part of Healthy People 2030 goals of integrating primary and oral health care. And um Well, if you've ever seen it in action. I mean I went I went to one of those and it's just it's just like so impressive how well organized it is and how many kids they see and Well, you know, when I when I worked in the eye clinic, you know, what this is very
023different. But one of the things that I was impressed was well how well you knew the kids. I mean and it's these are kids that I know you see them, but these are the kids specifically with the glasses and like I know that one doesn't that one's, you know, at home we need to get them here. Like calling people. Like you were just so on it with knowing >> who every single one of those I guess middle and high school at that point or high school kids would say. Like their background with their glasses and okay, he doesn't wear them we need to work on this and it just was really impressive how well and just that the extra steps. You weren't there just to do eye exams. It's all that extra stuff that I
024saw in one day that I when I saw that video I'm like, oh yeah, I I can see that. Very interesting. Very interesting. You can head out if you need to. But yeah, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. All right, next we'll move on to the middle schools. Just lands. Yes. Oh, I don't know if you guys have it pulled up or not, but So, essentially most of our plan is devoted to um the art instructor salary and the strings program salary. Um But a lot of it is also devoted to professional development for staff members and supplies for staff members in the classrooms. I'm happy to answer any questions you guys have. This is 26 27. Yes. Can you explain to me again and I'm so sorry. How about the school
025year about the RISE data, how you're basing it on the data like for example using the RISE pretest benchmark beginning, middle and end for the year 24 25 like how because I know we get that data late. Mhm. Just like remind me of that like when we get the data. You know what I mean about that? So, like We've already discussed this before. I don't know if I don't Why isn't it 25 26? So, this is actually for next year. Right. So, it should should be closer to 27. You mean the measurements? Is that just a typo? It could be just a typo. Of the measurements. Yeah, right here it says 24. >> In the measurement section, okay. Yeah, definitely a typo. Oh. Oh, I see that now. Yeah. But you're using the data from
02625 to this year's data. Right? For that. >> growing from 25 26 to Okay, that's what I just wanted to clarify. Thank you. Oh, he don't even notice my counselor notice that. And then at top it should say 26 27. Any other questions? Where do they put the whiteboards? Where do they Do you have a special place for them like a special classroom for those particular that you touch screen interactive like like where they're going? Um Miss McKinney, our seventh grade math teacher has requested one. And Miss Geiser, our um special education teacher has requested one as well. Do all the classrooms have it um whiteboards? I can't I mean I've done the tour. I can't remember. >> Normal whiteboards, yes. Interactive whiteboards, no. Um right now I'm kind of doing it on a do
027you want this technology or not piece because we do have some teachers who are not reliant on that and some who are. I understand. Okay, any other questions? Okay, thank you. Thank you. Thanks. High school. Just lands plan. Corey. You guys have access to it, correct? Mhm. Good. Um so, our goal is more specified this year, but pretty much the same as last year, which is to improve our proficiency scores. Last year we didn't specify for shift for proficiency. So, it wasn't clear whether we were improving our growth scores or our proficiency scores. This year we are improving our proficiency scores by 3% compared to the previous year. And then I listed all of the tasks data that we would use to um measure whether we increased our proficiency scores or not including graduation rates.
028Um and then the academic areas that were listed um last year the feedback that the School Community Council gave was that they have to tie in to um how you're raising those scores. So, that little paragraph there just is explaining how all of the academic areas tie in. And what will happen for each academic area. Uh and then the funding we have $32,000 for the academic support teacher. The $7,200 for the testing coordinator. Uh the leadership team will get $10,400 and um the wellness courses will get $4,000. Grand area mentoring will receive $4,000 and um This is cut off for me. Oh, it's cut off for you, too. It looks better on the plan. Um It looks like it's just Is it the $1,900 and then the $1,904 is the incentive which was raised from
029$2 per student to $4 per student for the next year. Uh and then the 23,000 is sort of they took away that line item that was like, this is for anything else that's not allocated. Uh I didn't break out the line items because the ones that are listed here are some of the other supplies that may be needed. Um and then the 5,500 is specifically uh to support teacher uh training for the various um things that we may need training for including that in science of teaching with the step two or level two of the high reliability schools. We um have $25,000 allocated for Chromebooks, which was 7,000 more than last year based on my conversation with Jerry and then the other $21,000 is allocated for staff um laptops. So, yeah. And then $12,500 is
030allocated for travel for all of these things that are listed and some of them may change, some of them may cost more or less, but basically it's for field trips. And then the last $30,000 will be provided for instructional materials training. Whatever that we need in order to um sort of run the school. It's like the old unallocated funds, but technically it is allocated. So, I I have a question about 23. Um that you were saying that sort of you know Is that Do they How How and Jerry this might be a question for you. How's I'm curious just how strict are they about I mean they give you enough leeway of how you can spend that. I'm just curious if they like oh that you know in hindsight how strict they are. >> They
031make that happen. >> They they do so so if she like has 23,000 of 5 plus 23,000 that they would like it to spend and it has to fit and they know what it is within the parameters and the scope of the trust line funds. So it can't be just like oh we're going to throw a pizza party and just have a great time. It like have to fit into those into that scope. Typically trust lines runs about a year behind in their monitoring which is you know getting some monitoring stuff from last year right now. Yeah but they do um I've had two monitorings for trust lines this year. They do look at them. I was going to say that's what I was wondering like how does the staff know like they know to
032to make sure >> They know they know the program rules for trust lines way more than I do. Okay that's what I was going to say but So I'm trusting is they put their plans together. I mean I've gone through the trust lines um webinars also so that I know what is acceptable but that doesn't necessarily mean I know what what the line items are but I leave it at their discretion to spend them appropriately cuz it is their funds to special I'm just wondering now. But they do want a magnifying glass. They need they get I guess I think it's more than now than it used to be. Um I don't I don't I'll let the rest of them speak to but Yeah. in my own personal experience it seems to be has a
033much larger magnifying glass on it. Well and last year they had a line item called undesignated funds. They didn't want to say grants so they put undesignated funds. If you notice that line item is they no longer have that category. Which is why I put some little extra money here and there that for these things supplies and training. Um Yeah. Question for I have a general question just about all of them. So this has been submitted by the school to Only to the >> Only to us and to you Jordan. Yeah. Okay. So if it's if it's approved by the LEA then it goes to state. And they're due May 15th. Ours were due to that to Jerry. She's the LEA like reviewer the 21st or something and so they're in to her and that's
034why she you you don't have access to that. You didn't have access to the drafts. And then the you guys approve it and when I mean before May 15th ideally and then Jerry submits on behalf of all of us to the state. And then if they don't like something they send it back basically. They ask for revisions. Yeah and I you know I think when they ask for revisions it doesn't have to go back to the board but if we make revisions then it has to go back to the board. Right like if you don't spend something a certain way and you want to spend it a different way. Right. Correct. But if they don't like that $30,000 and they want specific line items of what it's got to be spent on they can ask
035for that but that just goes right back into the plan and gets submitted right back to the LEA. >> [snorts] >> Um I have a question about the testing coordinator. Yeah. With that is that is that a salaried person after school? Yes. Okay. And so they'll provide Is this Okay. Is it with benefits then? Is a stipend with benefits? Does a stipend come with them? Oh not the medical but But everything by God Okay. We're done. We're done now. >> [snorts] >> Is that a um Is that going to how how Is that like two times a week once a week? We'll just When they do I mean how how's that going to how how do you >> It's not new. We've been doing it for the last 6 years. I feel like that's a
036more money but maybe it's not. >> Well it so you're right it was 6,000 but we hadn't it was 6,000 in the budget but it hadn't included benefits and so we would always spend more than 6,000 or not make like this the stipend coordinator thought they were receiving. Right? So even the stipend coordinator this year is like I hear it's up to 7200. I was like to be clear it's still 6,000 but others with benefits and that split this year because um I have two testing coordinators and so one took on a spire plus and the other took on ACT. And they're doing that after after their it's not they're not doing it during their prep times or anything. They're doing it >> the testing is within the school day but all of the extra
037work that goes into coordinating the testing is outside of school. Um on on number three um there is a it in the middle of the paragraph it supports a position to assist students navigating post secondary education options. So that is a person. So um within that $10,400 the school community council had an extra $2,000 so they wanted to allocate $2,000 to this person who can help with post secondary exploration. So that would be like college like college applications and stuff like that. That would be great. Yeah. >> Good. >> Yeah it's not a whole it's not a ton of money but it at least it's another stipend for somebody to Yeah. >> help help kids navigate. Yeah. It seems to be a lot of technology in this. Yeah. >> Like a lot. Well I you
038know we bought the teacher laptops um like 5 6 years ago with the school community council money and so they have their desktops but a lot of them rely on these laptops and so we're at end of life for their original laptops. We didn't get great ones. We're going to go a little bit upgrade on them but I think that laptops in general are 5 or 6 years to end of life. Is everybody getting one? No. So not every it's not necessarily rotation cuz not everybody's going to use one but the ones who are you We're right now going through and going how many do we need cuz it's going to have to take some of this lap we we had some on this year's budget and we'll have some on next year's budget. So
039there's some there we're going to buy some before like right now and then some July in the beginning of July so that ideally we can get everybody on this rotation like everybody gets a replacement this but we'll be sitting in meetings with them I'm sure you guys get this. And like people's laptops will die and then it's like they can't keep with the week or just end of life. I got two minutes. >> [laughter] >> Any other questions? All right thanks guys. Thank you all. See now now what am I supposed to do for two minutes? We we can we can recess for two minutes before we go into our meeting. Yeah. Okay. Uh we're we're let's recess. I'll accept a motion to recess. I'll make a motion to recess. There a second? Hey Kathy
040Boone thanks motion. Laura Lee Green seconds move to recess at 5:58 for two minutes. >> Yeah right. Do we Do we pause our I think it's our streaming and take a recess? No. They get muted. No. What? We need to start the recess what do you No you're good. He said no. Oh. No. Yeah every time we recess we're recording. I just They were recording from the budget room. >> [clears throat] >> Okay okay we took that motion. Um Kathy Oh. And apparently Laura Lee There you go. I don't have it. Oh there we go. Vote totally voting. I think that is unanimous. All right. We already done voting. Yeah oh Yeah. Go for it. Well I'll let you pull up All right and get come back to out recess. It is 6:00. We are
041going to Let me find out what that is. Uh I am going to We Oh let's see. Jerry Hamilton will present the proposed revision. No. It's That's I think it's that. I'll look here. We're opening up third the revision is okay but with that proposed revision of FY25 26 budget. All right, so you'll do the presentation then we'll have a public hearing afterwards. Okay, so this is the current fiscal year's mid-year budget updates following updated revenues from the state. So The first It's going to be me. Okay, they'll let you if you'll scroll down to the first page um after the title page so the first page is just a summary of fund 10. That's small. That is a please call. That's our general fund fund 10. So I'm going to We'll come back to
042this page. This is a summary of the revenues and the expenses. So I'm going to come back to this page. So if you'll scroll down to the second page for me. This is the revenues of the general fund broken out. Um as you kind of the the top one is the local sources which is all of the different taxing levies. Uh the middle there is state sources kind of above the line as you've come to know it and then down below the related to basic programs those are the below the line revenues. There's not a lot if you'll just keep cruising. Yep. Not a lot of changes here. Um the the one thing that you you stop right there. The one thing that you will notice the peach cells was the original budget that was
043presented in last June. The yellow cells is the ones that we're discussing today. That's the budget revisions. So in the peach you'll see a lot of dashes um in the yellow the state has given us the revenues for some of those specific programs as um they've allocated that out. So you'll notice that the state support is up just shy of a million dollars. That's mainly due to programs that were promised to be funded that we didn't have a budget for at the beginning of the fiscal year. We now have We now have revenues for. So if you'll cruise down to the next page this is the federal sources um of revenue. Same here. You'll see that the the federal sources are also up a little bit a little over about $150,000. The biggest thing the
044biggest increase there honestly is um we received more money in our title funds and IDEA than we had been than with the the initial allocation. Um so the revenues up there are up there accordingly, too. We scroll down to So that's the revenues. Any questions on the revenues from the board side? I'm going to cruise down to the next page which is the expenses. So in the district the biggest portion of our expenses is salaries. It's about 82% of our overall budget. So um the first one there is instructional salaries. No big surprises as you're cruising. You can just kind of If you have a question, please ask. I'm just going to cruise down through the salaries. You'll notice collectively as you go up that the benefits are up just a little bit um in
045every sector. The biggest part of that is the health insurance that increased last year. Didn't have a set rate when we did the initial budget. We do have that. So as you're cruising down, no um staff services these are just um paras uh some secretarial staff. The next page keep cruising. This is district administration which is either school admin um business services like the BO office uh transportation department and operations and maintenance. So I I did have a question on the federal sources. I wasn't quick enough. In the revenues? Yeah. Huh? In the revenues. I had a question on this too. I mean why why in some of those it's included in the revision budget but it's not in the same as the original budget. Well I'm like just beacon and mentoring. Well that's they
046got their grant at the beginning of the year and it stayed exactly the same. But why is it under revision if there's nothing changed? >> Because I still get the same revenue. So nothing's changed but I have to show there was a budget in there at the beginning and there's a budget now. So for us when we do a budget revision it's not a difference. I'm presenting an overall budget. >> new budget. A brand new budget. Okay. I guess it'd be the best way to describe that. So with the with the beacon and mentoring so that that that huge jump is because of the money that from from 17 there was this huge jump. Some of it is beacon and mentoring. Some of it if you'll look up through there is um if you look
047at the IDEA special education they got um about 40,000 30,000 dollars more than what they had anticipated. Um the state the same with some of the title funds. Um there's a little bit more in a couple of those especially the title three. They got an extra grant. I was just thinking specifically with the like the beacon and mentoring specifically. So what is that huge jump? That's a huge um the beacon got a big grant for high school middle school. So that's more Yeah, I was just Is there ever a plan to separate those out or no? I'm just curious to see cuz when I see that I mean they're great programs but I'm like did mentoring get more of it? >> Well right there you can see on the one >> Break it out. Oh
048that's Sertoma grant. Um what I can tell you from looking at that that 17,000 was the mentoring at the beginning of the year. Right. Um the difference between the 17 and the 168 if I take 17 off that's beacon because that came in in September. So that's be So it's really beacon money. Mentoring didn't get more money. Did some how Beacon beacon got a new grant. Got you. Beacon got awarded a I didn't hear about it. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. They got awarded a Sertoma grant for middle school and high school programs. All right. So um page two of the revenues through the district administration business services operations and maintenance student transportation um As I went through these nothing alarming was standing out of being like highly over or highly under budget. Um
049Tracking fairly I'd say fairly consistent in where we should be about this time of year. Um page Oh yeah operations. This is the bottom So this is going to be >> Oh you're at the very bottom. I can cruise back up. Go ahead. Could you explain in a in a accounting way the restricted indirect cost way there um negative balances and how that why we do have to do that or what the We have to We have to show them as income but then so you'll see that they're a negative and a positive. They just offset each other. >> What is that? What like what That's the indirect cost rate proposals that USBE requires if we So the programs get expensed that indirect which becomes revenue for the district but it's an expense for one
050part of the budget and kind of a revenue for the for the general part of the budget. So it's expense to the individual program that's reimbursed to the district as an income for us but they cross it out. Is that usually building costs utilities >> That What kind What kind of costs? No those are an indirect cost. Those are Usually it's just like the utilities. Those are directly related to the programs like the title programs when I do grant reimbursements you can have indirect cost rates and that's just for mostly building utilization. They're about 5% restricted indirect are 5%. Most of the grant programs we have have restricted indirect costs. There's a few unrestricted but those aren't can't even really I I can think of one off the top of my head. Those are Most
051of them are restricted and they're federally restricted. You can recapture a little bit of what it costs to run the program from a facility standpoint so to speak but not 100%. What is um staff services? That's where I'm looking. Well I know where I'm looking. Okay. Uh What page is it? Staff Oh the bottom of page two. Salaries and stipends. >> page two but Or page It's like page five. Uh yeah. I'm sorry. Page Staff services staff. Yeah. So that's um stipends that some of the admin pay out. That's uh custodial staff. That's um the salaries in there are part of the custodial staff. Um Some of it's clerical staff. Some of it's library aides. A big chunk of it's stipends with the teacher pay out. Supplies go up. Is that specific Are there reasons
052why it's we're overspending that budget? Was there a big purchase? >> That would probably be um the cost of custodial supplies is higher. Okay. Maybe they went out and purchased some supplies for a particular program. Like I'll take for instance the title four program the program. It was a special grant, so the revenue went up, so the supplies go up cuz they bought supplies to fund that program. There are some grants that we got that there are not salaries associated with it. It was just for either supplies or curriculum. So, those would go up in conjunction with that. What category or would be techno- like the technology staff? All right, what like Kendra support services they're in the district like in the business services. I was curious here. Yep, things went up. So, like supply
053and instruction went up 200 and almost 250 thousand. A big chunk So, two things for that. A big chunk of that was additional title money that we received. So, they purchased um we had some extra title three and extra title four funds. Which are what first title three and our title? What's that mean? Title four is numeracy. Title three is that's a Holly question. Title three is our English language learners. Okay. And so, those were the curriculum and tracking programs for those family engagement night um And so, we received income for that. So, that's on the first page. There's those grants. We've gotten We've gotten grant money for that. And those are grants that are reimbursement based. So, we pay for it up front, then I request the reimbursement and have to show them that
054we spent the money. How we spent the money. Any other questions? Did you present them? Okay, so if you go down to the bottom of this one, as again, you'll notice um with the total expenditures, the revenues are up over a million dollars, the expenses are going to be up somewhat appropriately. They're actually up just a little less than a million dollars. Um again, those are program related. Um most of the programs either staff or supplies go along with that, so at the end of the day at the end of the day that I'm happy that the expenses are less than the revenues that came in, so that's good. Good news for me. Okay. Any questions kind of on the general fund? I'll come back to the summary page when we're all done cuz it'll
055show the fund balances and everything, if that's okay. So, this is Okay, so this is fund 21. >> [clears throat] >> Um it says student activity fund. There are zero changes to this budget. So, this is the schools individual accounts. Um when they close out their year-end in June, you'll see that blue column, it's blank right now. We'll have a budget revision in June once I reconcile their books and and put them into our books. So, there's no changes in fund 21. So, we can cruise down through that. Next one is fund 26. This is the charter school pass-through. There is no changes in this. I will receive final revisions in the middle of May from the state of Utah, so there will probably be a change there in the June revision, the final budget
056revision. So, no changes on that one. The next one is the debt service. I guess the things to note in the debt service, you'll notice that the debt service levy is down just a little bit from where we originally budgeted it. That's due to the truth in taxation that we went through last August where the uh the board decided to not recapture as much in the certified tax rate that we put up for the debt levy and to um and then take part of that money that we didn't recapture and put it into the capital fund. So, that is down just a little bit. That was by design so that we could eat into the fund balance a little bit as the year goes along. So, if you'll cruise down you'll notice that right there
057where we have a deficiency of about 523,000 dollars. Again, by design. We're trying to eat into that fund balance just a little bit. We didn't increase the debt levy as much as we could have and chose to pay for um about 500,000 of that out of the general fund. So, not that actually I'm really happy that that's kind of like right where we right where we were planning it to be. So, that was a happy number for me. So, we'll cruise down to the next page. This is the capital. Couple of things to point out in the capital um levy, you'll see here uh the capital levy is down just a little bit. The biggest reason for that is we had anticipated increased income from the debt levy offset, but also we had the Mid-America
058payback, which hit the capital fund about 400,000 dollars. So, um the gains that we kind of were getting from the increase of the taxes were offset by that Mid-America. So, again, with that Mid-America they just take that money out of your income that they would send you. So, we're seeing we're not seeing it as an expense. We're just seeing it as less income. Less income. We see it as less income. And why is it out of the capital as opposed to the general It's out of all of them. So, it was 1.5 total and it's out of all of them on a percentage basis. So, then if you'll kind of cruise down to the expenditures uh big items to note there under construction services um HMK, the remodel project was a big chunk of of
059the the change in that. Um and also middle school. Middle school is now done, signed off on, totally complete. Um change orders from the middle school, final retention numbers that were owed to the contractor because of the middle school, so that six-year project is put to bed. So, yay. So, then And we got two buses. Oh, and two buses. So, you'll see under there under the 735 400,000 dollars for two school buses. Uh reason being for that is we actually ordered our bus last year and it was supposed to arrive by June or July. It hadn't arrived by August when the auditors were here and they said we had to void that check. So, we voided the check that we cut for the school bus last year. The school bus actually came in December. Also,
060so we had to budget in last year's school bus plus this year's school bus. And so, that is that. But, I am assured that moving this year's school bus, we should be receiving it by July, so I can cut the check at the end of June and be fine. When do we order them? To order. Okay, but when do do we order? Well, typically she Yeah, she orders them in like December and they're supposed to be here by June, but um and my asking questions, COVID put everyone way behind on that and they're slowly getting caught up. So, we ordered um this one in early March and it should have an arrival date by July. But, and and but you you can pre-cut the I can As long as it's like not two or three
061months in advance. If I cut it at the end of June and we actually get the bus in July, that's great. But, we cut it in June and it bus still hadn't arrived by August and then September when they came back, they said, "Yeah, you got to void that." So, anyway. That's what we had to do. So, okay, cruising on down. Um No surprises here. We knew we were going to eat into the capital fund balance by doing the HMK remodel. So, um I actually we're ending the year with a little bit more um at this point in time a little bit more money in the capital fund balance than we had anticipated. So, yay. Okay. Last one, sorry. Fund um the original budget Um there. The original budget 25 26 fund balance, that information
062right there is not Just left. Hold on. What paper are we looking at? Um So, the last column is original budget 25 26 is different than the original budget 25 26 on that page. On the fund balance. Oh, on the fund balance? Yeah. I It's probably I don't have a formula carried over correctly. Oh, because you have to copy and paste them from the ending fund balance to the beginning fund balance. one is which one We're looking at this one. You're You're going to be looking at this one. You see that? Yep. So, that So, the one I So, I had to update that. It's going to be that. It's going to be the yellow one now. I don't see yellow. Well, right here is Yeah, that's it. Yep. Okay. So, I didn't copy and
063paste that over correctly. Yeah. Okay. So, it's going That's the actual right there. So, that's where it comes from. That's the actual and then Yeah. That's not the right beginning number. Nope. So, that one that one the formula didn't get copied and pasted over correctly. Yeah, look at that one. And now you're going to look at the yellow one. Yeah. So, that We'll start at Yep, stupid. Okay. That's just That's just my typo there, so thank you. Is this in spread Is it in like this? Yeah, I was pretty sure. Yeah. You get a lot. There's There's a lot. I don't know what it is. It's a spreadsheet. Don't touch that formula. Okay. So, cruise down to the next one. And that Any more questions on that? Sorry. On either the debt service or capital
064levy. Very good. I'm cruising to fund 49. Okay. Uh this is the child nutrition program. A couple of things I want to highlight here. Just like with the rest of the district programs, uh salary is a big chunk of their budget. You can keep cruising down just a little bit. But what I do want to Keep going. It's like for these expenditures. What I do want to highlight right there is the food. I'm pleasantly surprised, I'll be honest. Uh we originally budgeted 545. With the cost of kind of everything over this last year, it's at 573. Uh kudos to Sarah and her staff. They've made some inventory changes and some menu changes to keep inventory under control and kind of be consistent using the same brands and foods across campuses. I actually think that um
065when we move into June, I'm hopeful that's actually going to trend down a little bit or stay where it's at. That those funds won't be going up. She's done a good job over the next couple of months to use up inventory that we have on hand so that the food costs in April, May, and June are April and May, I guess, are a lot less. The thing to notice there, we had budgeted to transfer 600,000 from the general fund. Right now, it's sitting about 578. The way that uh the nutrition program has been trending, it's trending in the right direction. I actually think that's going to be closer to about 550 by the end of the year. So, um transferring a little less into that fund than we had anticipated uh for a variety of
066reasons. Food costs, better food management, inventory management, um staffing we've reduced um HNK kitchen by one full-time staff this year. So, just kind of overall better management of the program. So, then if you'll go back Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. You're good. All right. There's only four. Okay. Sorry. There's only four lines on that one. Not five. Okay. Columns, I mean. Oh. That threw me off a little bit. Okay. Okay. So, we don't have a We don't have a previous year but Yeah. Do you have an original >> We have an Is that my 49? Our 49 You want to be actual >> have the actual white column. The white column It's probably my mistake. Probably should say that it felt That's actually But then the numbers don't match at the bottom. >> actual from
067the actual year end. >> Yeah. Okay. And then the numbers on the fund balances aren't Yeah, something Something's You just don't have the actuals of where that one started from. It's going to be the pink side. The 184 and the 210, that's what we ended last year with. So, again, that peach column, my formula isn't right. This one. Okay. Use the peach one or the pink one. Cuz that was our original budget last year. And then I was supposed to copy and hard paste but I didn't copy and hard paste it correctly. Okay. Okay. So, if you want to go back to the first page after the title page, this is the kind of overall summary of the funds put together. Um revenues at the top there, as we went through those, they're up Go
068back up. Right there. Um revenues are up um a little over a million dollars. So, and then if you cruise down a little bit, you'll see that the expenses were also up. They're a little less than a million. It shows we have actually a surplus of 198,000 um at midyear. And then because we haven't because we budgeted to transfer that amount of funds. I'm not changing the 600,000, so you'll still see the 600,000. But at the end of the day, um we'll be eating into the fund balance about $400,000. The goal was 500,000 for the board when we did the TNT and the different changes. So, um we're trending right where right where we were anticipated to be and where the goal was. It's actually 100,000 less that we'll be have, you know, 100,000 less
069than what we thought we would be eating into the fund balance but at the end of the day. So, I'm That's a good number. I mean, I I I know our goal was 500 but 400 is kind of where we're trending now. We'll see what happens with the final budget revisions that I'll get from the Utah State Board of Education at the end of the in the middle of May. But I'm actually really happy that we ended last year with a 4.2 million dollar fund balance and this year we're right now projecting to be at 13.8. The goal was to to bring that down a little bit and trending [clears throat] in trending in that direction. 13.8 No, revised is 13.8. Original is 13.8. >> [snorts] >> Yeah. So, actually up a little bit more
070than what we I mean, we had budgeted to eat into it a little bit more than right now where it's trending to be. I'll be optimistic that we'll end I think close to that, 13.8. So, Cool. Any questions? Questions? And if you have more as you look through this even more, I mean, you can certainly come and see me. I I'll be Honestly, as soon as I get the state's updates starting on the final budget revision for this year for this one and then also um beginning 2027. I have the preliminary numbers for that. So, we'll be starting on that in the next week. Cool. Any public This is a public hearing to get any public comment? Any Sarah? Public. Okay. Um on revenues in the 35, I know there's a new line item, school-based
071education support bonus. It's funded at like a million 10,000 dollars. I just really think it's flowing out in the water and how that's going to affect school and board. That was a one-time um appropriation from the state legislature to to give a bonus to all of the support staff like with custodians, the psychologists, all of that. We had to send in That's what we projected we would spend. We had to actually send in our payroll numbers and then the university reimbursed us exactly what was 97,000. But it's not being funded by the state legislature next year. So, that was money to be out this year. Yep. We gave it to all of them in November. We had to send it and send it out by November. That's been spent and gone and we've reconciled it.
072Could you tell me what page that Was that on page 6? Oh, the revenue page. Is that it? I'm It was the school-based education support bonus, is that what you meant? The 110,000. Yeah. Let's see. Do you have a number? Sarah? Do you have a number? 5659 5659. Thank you. And then business services The services employee salaries was originally budgeted at 638,000 but in the revised it's 960,000. >> Part of that is um what as we were going through this, we just saw where someone's payroll is coming out of business services and it should come out of a different account, so that will be changing next time. So, there so I adjusted the budget to reflect what is in there now but when I audited it with business services, there is an employee in there
073that their payroll should be coming out of separate What were they being funded under now? Right now, they're being funded under this. Yes. They'll be moving They're going to be moving into that. They'll be being moved up to district administration. And so, that will increase the district administration budget a little bit. Um It will lower this one significantly. Tell Will you tell the numbers on that? There's There's a number of factors playing into that and also the budget revision This is the same as last year. Um One of those is one One of those is on the list and hiring two new someone. It's not really sure if it's expenses It'll on the next amendment. Oh. Oh, I'm sorry. Page 6. Page 6. Yeah, that will be reduced in the next little bit and then
074definitely being moved to district. We can keep going. 25 100 2500. Okay. And so So, you're um you're revising the budget to I'm not right now. So, when we do it again, there's an employee in there when I audited it that should be in a different coming out of a different fund. So, that will be Which fund will that get go out of? 23 It'll go into 23. So 23 will block a little bit. And that's I caught that after I've done this and I'm So that's two things. One of that that is some safety upgrades here at the district office that the school safety grant does not cover any safety upgrades at a district level and those were mostly due to that. Cuz we thought the same when I sent in the grant and
075then they're like, yeah, the district doesn't count. So I had to move it all back. That's That's the big change there. Thanks, Sarah. Are you done, Sarah? Sorry. Okay, thank you. Any other questions, comments? All right. I'm going to be closing the public hearing and for the comment or this meeting. But remember that if you do have any budget questions, please contact Jerry. And she can answer those. Where we at here? HMK site improvements. Matt, can you provide us an update on the HMK site? >> [clears throat] >> I don't have to tell the time. We're closing that at 6:33. Closing. Okay. So, as you know, we talked about finishing the HMK site improvements with the final piece being the plazas in the back and then some exterior work along the back fence and down
076to the south end of the property. We had one responsive bidder submit a bid. The board has the opportunity later tonight to to award that contract. It's the Tryhers Construction. You can see the base bid there. 44,479. That does include a 4% contingency. And really again, this is our project where we're trying to take the maintenance of those two areas and and make it as simple as possible. Putting a lot of turf in. It is an investment in in turf back in in that application. Making it more usable and just cleaning it up so that it matches the rest of the the site improvements that we've got. Nothing changed as far as the plan. There's no alternates. So I mean just we're at with our one responsive bid. Where's Tryhers from? They're out of Blaine.
077So They did our football field and track project. Did you Did you talk about anything in the audit committee about this or No. No. We didn't talk about this as a facility, but this is in the ballpark of where we thought we would be. Um Yeah. Any questions about this? Okay, tabulation. Moving on. Am I missing anything? Bouncing around. Um consent agenda. Correct. Yes. Um on So last meeting we didn't There weren't the financial reports, sir. We have the March check register, revenue report, and expenditure report. And that's it. So I'll accept a motion to approve the consent agenda. I make a motion to approve the consent agenda. And we have a second. Second. Donna Woodbury makes a motion, Kathy seconds. All those in favor of approving the consent agenda say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.
078And passes 5-0. All right, here are some possible action items tonight. We have uh first, the approval of the revised fiscal year 25-26 budget. I make a motion to approve 25-26 revised budget. Second. Donna Woodbury makes a motion, Dave Burchett seconds to approve the revised budget in fiscal year 25-26. Any discussions? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. And passes 5-0. Approval of trust lands plan um school year 26-27. I move to approve the school year 26-27 trust land plans as I'll second. Second. Greg Richardson makes a motion, Kathy Williams seconds to approve the school year 26-27 trust lands plans as presented. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. And passes 5-0. Approval of superintendent contract. The board has the opportunity to review the employment agreement between the Granite City School
079District Board of Education and Superintendent Matthew Kiesz. Um that is attached. Is there a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the employment agreement between the Board of Education and Superintendent Kiesz. I'll second. Kathy Williams makes a motion, Dave Burchett seconds to approve the employment agreement between Granite City School District Board of Education and Superintendent Matthew Kiesz. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. And passes 5-0. Congratulations to Matt today on the contract. Um Any communication? The same committees. Um for the Utah School Board. I just got back from the Utah School Board with um discussing the Utah leadership standards which were last revised in 2018. And the USBE representatives for the rural representatives And we have a draft so I don't we've been going It's It's coming. The plan. What is
080it What is it? Yeah. Um to revise the state leadership standards. What we want is the leadership. And the USBE. Yes. Or Like administrative? Like principals? Like you. Standard. So you're a representative for your rural You and somebody else are representing representing rural districts. There's two of us. There's There's a lot of different people in it. I mean it's too bad that we haven't had a meeting. But it just gets tricky with those things. Those things. How many people are on this committee? Uh I think at least 20 people. And you do it through Zoom? Yes. [laughter] >> [clears throat] >> That's cool. Well, then. And I enjoyed the elect. That's all. Same Same here. Reality Town was cool and uh car show went well. Had about 300 cars and 10,000 people. But I will
081be getting everybody a schedule of the hamburger cooking >> Oh, yeah. events that will be at the middle school, high school, and baseball tomorrow. Dave, how did the parking go? It was an interesting page. That was PTA. How did that go? Good. We need to talk. How did it go? We had a good turnout. >> [laughter] >> Great. Um communication concerning the board retreat. We We talked about that briefly. I'm working with school leadership aligning on some professional development the week of June 29th. That is Okay, I have a turkey hunt. That was that breath. No, no, May's. May's turkey hunt. Okay. It was just kind of a month. >> You said June 29th? Yeah, the last week of last week of last 2 days of June and but we're going to get Oh, okay.
082Like it's a month. So >> Would it be 1 day or 2 days? 1 day. That would be like 1 day or 2 days. It'd be 1 day like if we were to plan it out for July 1st or Oh. June 3rd I mean I don't know if we have a Saturday we do retreats on, but is there a day that week? Obviously the end is towards the holiday, so preferably not that, but That is perfect. I would say not Monday, but I can't cuz I have something that I can cancel it. It's okay to cancel that. On the Monday 29th? Um That's perfect. If that if that window works good just like Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday maybe I will uh see if we can nail down a date with them one of those 3
083days, so it's 29th, 30th, or the 1st. Do you have an agenda for that? There is an agenda planning session. But that we can That's That would be a move. So it was a Wednesday since we always do these. That's fine. I'm flexible. I'm fine. I'm fine 3 days. I'm flexible. They're bad They're bad, but fine. Bad, but fine. Okay. >> [clears throat] >> And can we do it USU Yeah, I'm June 29th 30th 1st, right? Mhm. And the 29th is a So June 30th would be a better Yeah. Tuesday, but Possibly. He might Yeah, yeah. Tuesday is fine. Wednesday would Well, but you I think that's fine. I can Okay. I'm just trying to see where I'm going. Okay. Any other uh communications? All right. No. Do we need to go into executive to
084talk about new awards or some personnel? Um I'll accept a motion to recess. There will be a recess. A second? Second. Okay, Director makes a motion, Laurie Green seconds. So to recess, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Councilor Specter, we'll be recessed at 6:43. Oh, I just got to think I I don't want to talk but I don't want to say anything, but I just Thank you. 7 days of a wellness collective fired. What do they do with that? It's It's like It's like an um it starts at it technically starts at 12 like 4 So they do morning yoga and stuff. But like just But it's like it's really cool thing. It's like um They're It's the wellness collective, so everything is like healthy and they diet. They're doing It's like Like
085a So is it I can find the reading or write up of that. I just know that I really wanted to go last year and I I think it up a lot this year. Cuz it was test a lot here. Um let me find a little thing and I'll read it to you because um cuz I was just like oh, I'm taking myself. I don't know. Just like a cool period. I just Yeah, I wonder. Um who is in charge of it? Oh, yes. Who is the wellness collective? >> Oh, you don't know the wellness collective? It's It's a bunch of It's like I know they're located It's This isn't like Do you know um my neighbor? Is it like a not-for-profit called the wellness collective? Yes. Yes, cuz they're on the coalition with us.
086Like they they are part of So I hear about all their fun stuff they do. Like here's their I mean this is just a calendar. This is like They do a lot of like wellness stuff. Yoga they do stuff. Oh, they do yoga and everything. Like this is just their calendar of events they have and it's just really It's kind of You know, that's a good question though. Like what is their thing? I know what they are, but it's like But They did Yeah. Um wellness collective This is the thrive on this weekend. May say I have beauty. So You know, it's a very community of beauty, you know, right here in Utah. Um this this is the only their second year. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but as far as their We you're looking for the
087tagline like what you know, what how would you describe what Left too. Have a good night, guys. website Awesome. Yeah. I think it'd be like a little It's just like real It's not website. They got a little access to this. What we need to It's my vision. It's not their It's a little help, but it might be a little bit more, you know, but it's like celebratory, you know. It's um yeah, you should probably get a better sense. It's a really good fit with the wellness community. Do you know Breanne? Um I don't know. I don't know Breanne. She's my Her husband is um That's her guy. Yeah, she's my Um Why is my brain foggy today? Her husband is uh he's a mentor. He has a can be cool fake leg, you know, your
088little Why did you know, the one that the Olympic runner had? Cool. No, I mean I know who you're talking about. He's a cool person. >> you on tours. Like he runs tours. Um Is that He runs like he's He's like an Olympic runner, right? This is She's in it like a little So he's like their main guy. Yeah, the main guy there. And um and then she I thought she kind of ran the wellness collective. To be honest, I thought Breanne did. She might, you know, but um But anyway, I'm a big fan. And they you know, I hear We're on the coalition. We just hear what everybody does. for guests and they're very It's just a very Utah-based nonprofit. So it's a nonprofit. And do kids go to Like they'll go to that
089Yeah, right. Yeah, it's like a family They'll have family-oriented stuff, too. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty It's cool. Anybody that's putting wellness out there, right? It's like, you know, I'm all for that stuff. I'm all about the Even if I don't show up and I'm laying on my sofa, I'm like, yeah. I support wellness. No, you don't. I don't have to do your class. I'm like, I missed it today. I I almost went to the gym just so I can begin and watch. >> I was like It's not my I had two parallel quarterly's this meeting. Yeah. >> And then I had two workouts yesterday, so I was like You were at the end of like the making the quarter of the year. You're like a midnight 11:58 something. You know what I'm saying. You know
090what's happening in my life, right? I had dinner there the other night and someone said bless Melissa Bird. Exactly what I heard. And I said, I'm not sure she Was it an employee or was it like a Was it personal? Let me tell you, I'm keeping the doors open for Was it an employee I said bless Melissa Bird and I said, I'm not sure Melissa feels the same. We're going to have water. I'm I'm dying to know what this has to say cuz you know, I'm not on Facebook. I wanted to text you the other day and go, is everything okay down? I just know that it said bless you. And I said, I'm not sure that she feels the same. >> [laughter] >> It's It's been a while. Um there's a steeper learning curve.
091We need to not have any type of training. I was like, where's my Pat Wilson? Yeah. >> [laughter] >> No, but I've had some good good people to call and ask questions, and so I'm lucky, but it's still steep learning The learning curve is even and I've been doing bookkeeping different for 3 years. Yeah. Well, I I This is not >> And this I've like Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not I'm looking at a bunch of I didn't This is not part of communications, but I'm on the assistants academy. I'm missing it now. I hope I can No, no, it's okay. Cuz they're driving tonight. >> What is that? Oh, it's It is citizens It is amazing. So it's um So the police department now police department It This happened This took place in the Salt
092Lake. Don saw that in Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this is a big thing up Salt Lake. So, you know, both Lex and um James are the assistant police chief are from that area. They all work together. Amazingly. And I'm not just saying that because this is being recorded. They are. And I happen to have the opportunity to get to know James quite well. Like, he helps me >> Will he be the guy that used to be the police No. They're all they're new. So, um but they started a citizens academy. And it just they they took applications. They're very selective. It was like really cool. But basically, it is They're putting you through police school. Like in a very minor a minor version and you see what actually happens on the police force. And they
093do everything. So, like So, tonight they're doing the crazy driving. Like, you know, they put you through it. Next week will be a wild Oh, yeah. So, you apply for this? Oh, yeah. You have a full field and all that. You know, I'm I do all that stuff. Okay. But um but yeah, it's uh Um but but it is so fun. So, when the class started last It started last week and it runs for the whole until the very end and we get to graduation and everything. But it is from 6:00 to 9:00 every Wednesday. It is intense. But like we did a tour of the jail last week. I mean, it was like and all these different employees and these are the different places we get They give us like a big spiel. It
094is like it's a major PR is what it is. It's and to help people understand how difficult Like not so much how difficult their job is, but to see what the other side is really like. >> How many do you know? And I'll tell you and like Liz Ramirez from the paper is on it. We have You have so many people which I think is amazing, you know, that are attending this and they are explaining I mean, both Lex and and James um Lieutenant the the chief of assistant good people. They were like, "Hey, come in. Let Let us teach you everything that we do." and It is amazing. So, like the first 5 minutes we're all sitting in there. There's probably they capped it at they capped the class at 25 cuz they didn't
095you know. And we're sitting there and they're instructing and then sure enough out of the blue and I I was not even sent comes James coming in with a fake like "What are you guys doing?" He's like pretending he had a gun and to to the instructor and he had a real taser. But James is in a complete outfit that you can be tased in. Okay. And he's like, "Stop! Stop!" and backing up like putting us through what it's like when someone is charging you and how you can't just not fire Right. >> if they are coming at you. And he had a taser. You know, it was cool. And And he's you know, Did he get tased? Yeah, full tased. But he's got the outfit Right. Right. Right. Right. But it was like how
096cool Damn, it was awesome. And you know, our our friend's daughter is in the class, you know. Your friend your good friend um that's on the citizen group with us. Yeah. Kylie? Kylie is. Wow. >> Yeah, cuz she wants She's thinking about going into criminal justice. We have two kids that were under 21 that got accepted in. Wow. And she's a senior. I I kind of hung with her for a little while. Yeah, it's pretty cool. So, is the purpose of this is to help us understand It's a way of bringing the community in >> And then you're going to be the liaison or you're going to be out there and and Exactly. Cuz you have your friend group that you can like talk about. It's a good PR thing. But it's also just transparency.
097It's like And in one class, I you know, I learned a lot. You just We're going to get to see from their their side, you know, and even going into the dre jail and they explain every little thing like they go here then we do this. It just was really really amazing. But it was so funny after that little demonstration, they're like, "Okay, is there anybody in here that's very very uncomfortable right now? Because we want you to know this is a perfect time for you if this is not your thing." You know. And everyone's like, "Oh, yeah, that's right." So, tonight So, there's men and women. Yes. Is I'd say most people are under 45. Are there mostly men? I would think it'd be mostly men. No. I'd say it's split. I think they
098do Yeah, they they select people. And we all had to do background checks. Like some people fingerprint the whole thing. Did some people not get Yes, oh a lot did get chosen. Yeah. Did you have to interview? No. We had to fill out a full application and And maybe what And then Like a little spiel like what They looked at her. You know. They looked into it, you know. But like Liz Ramirez from the paper is in there. You've got several park rangers that are not law enforcement. You've got a lot of people just like they all We all had to introduce ourselves. But it was [clears throat] it's really cool. Like a mix of age and then two young people. And um Did you all One of the city commissioner's daughter is in the
099class. The one who just got the award here. Um the last time Mix the best He said Don's name. A city commissioner's? City Council. It's not Don's No, yes. It's It's one of the city They She just She's the tall Melanie McCauley. No. No. Her dad is You know who the daughter You would know this girl. She just got She was just in last year of my third something. She's cute. She's a senior. She's a Jason. Jason. Jason Taylor. Yeah. What's his daughter's name? Izzy? Yes. Oh, Izzy's in it? Yeah. It was so hysterical when we're all introducing. She's like, "So, I'm Jason Taylor's daughter." >> [laughter] >> But she and um yeah, and they're you know, seniors. But they're thinking about Mhm. doing something in this field, you know, one day. So, How did
100you hear about this thing? I don't know. No, you know, James told me about it. I knew about it was coming like a long time ago. You know, it's a really cool thing. So, it's the first time doing it. It's like it was in the paper. It's been And then you know, you know, like you said it's all the law and we will be in a flash shaper. Right. Ready? Uh-huh. Yeah. >> [laughter] >> You know, in the city. And you know, it's like the community doesn't like the thing of the They said they're against us opposed to for us. Yeah. And they get to When did they start the school down there? I'm at 5% years ago. Like You're charging? Yeah. Maybe it's working. I know. a whole 5% You know, you don't feel
101It's taking this long Yeah. Something's wrong. Did you kill it? Yeah. Are you talking about the smart guys? Not with that. She's my remarkable. And is there some secret to it or something? I don't know. I cannot I don't know the secret. It has Well, obviously you've been using it for a long time and it normally charges. >> Yeah, it's only a couple months. Yeah. But Is there something new about the charging as well? No, I don't think so. But her phone that's supposed to charge him. Oh, it stopped charging. Okay, that's what I mean. >> Yeah, it did. It didn't charge all of a sudden. Are you a lot That's why I'm in here with a purple notebook today. I was wondering why you're carrying around a purple notebook today. I had it yesterday
102too. Google it. All right. I haven't Googled anything. Yeah. Stop being a bad influence. That's it. You do something. Probably. I mean, yeah. Probably stick with two. That's probably up to 2,000 or 2 million. No, let's ask Kathy. Now ask Andy. That's why we just have our phones and we don't have to worry about it. I will. They said I can What? The high school police 60,000 That's what you bet the money is. electronic disco Well, but Good note. But you know what I mean? What you saw me on the board I know your name. I know you. And actually we're years apart. I literally when I saw that It's got to be one or the other. You know what? And you knew that, too. Yeah. Oh, yeah. But I thought I'd thought you'd be
103a little bit more honest. You thought That's why in the end you you in the end I'm just I'm disappointed. I know. I'm just like I'm just I'll be here at 7:00. You're just on the normal regular questions that don't have any answers. Because you know why? Things are good. I like what I see. You don't come out and say that. Right. Hey, you've seen the tag on my truck, right? So, you know. My nose. Look at yours. I would have turned it off. It's okay. All right. We're going to come out of recess at 7:00. All right. Uh we're going to go You need to go into executive session to talk about personnel. Um I'll accept the motion to go into executive session for personnel. I'll make a motion to go into executive session
104to discuss personnel. There's a second? I'll second. Stephanie Williams makes a motion. Laura Lee needs seconds to go into executive to talk about personnel. Roll call vote. Laura Lee Green Yes. Jen Mulberry Yes. Melissa Bird Yes. Stephanie Williams Yes. David Rushing You made that 5-0. We're going into executive. Okay, 7:01. You want to put that on for a second on the board? Yes, so it's stopped. Yeah, but it's personnel, so it goes off on the right. Zero. Zero. Okay, then we'll start it just for a second. Okay. All right, it is 7:01. Grand County School District Board of Education is in closed session. It's April 29th, 2026. All board members are present. We also have Matt, Jerry, and Nishay here. And we're going to turn turn off the recorder to talk about personnel. Um I'll
105accept it. Um and also assistant. I'm Shelly. Huh? What? He's also part of the assistant. Oh, you're not sharing the names? Oh. You can stop it. Yeah, so go ahead. I just want to make sure we're recording. So