001under there. Is Jerry on there? Okay. Will you just give me a I'll make a note if they either of them, you know. Um, so Laury is absent and Sherry Hamilton is absent. Okay. Um, pledge of allegiance. >> Sarah, you're up here. >> Lead in the pledge. Thank you to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. >> All right. Um, >> Jenna, will you read our mission statement? >> Our mission is to put each student first every day. All right. First on the agenda is approval of the agenda. >> We do. Oh, that wasn't posted. >> We don't have to change that because Okay. Is there a motion to approve the agenda?
002>> Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Jenna Woodbury makes a motion. Dave 5 seconds to approve the agenda. All those in favor say I. I. I. That's half score zero. Okay. Public comments. Um the board appreciates the opportunity to hear from the public during the comment portion of its meetings. Before we begin, a reminder that the public comment period is to allow members of the public to provide input to the board in its capacity as a related body. The public comment period is not a forum for discussion or debate between the board and the members of the public. Board does not engage in discussion during public comments, but may later follow up on comments made during public comments. Each individual will be allowed three minutes to provide comments to the board. The board
003will not allow public comments during board meetings that are slanderous, obscene, or otherwise violate state or federal law. Employees and or their representatives may not use the public comment period to address issues that should be raised through existing formal communication channels or established agreement or negoti negotiation procedures and public comment. Any others coming up? We have one tonight. Judy Sweeney, you go. >> Just my question. >> Yep. My question is uh will all will all ESPs receive the bonus? If not, who's going to get who's not get it? >> Okay. I don't have the answer, but we have Matt. >> So, there's not a survey um following those guidelines. The people highlighted in that survey for eligibility will get it. I don't have a list of them off the top of my head, but it's
004following the uh survey that was put out by the state. >> Is it on the state site or >> Board of Education? I'm sorry. What? Can we find it online? >> I I I'm assuming so, but I don't know the answer that. So, you're welcome to swing by and visit with me at my office. Um, but yeah, that's those are the guidelines we're following. >> Thank you. And ESP stands for >> educational support professional. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh, next is the student body president report. He is at dress rehearsals. So, >> he's at dress rehearsals. So, he wants everyone to know they are invited to participate in Anastasia, which is the school musical this year. It's Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 700 p.m. It's $10 for adults and $8 for students and seniors. So,
005he wants everyone to know they're invited. That was his update. >> Do you know are they doing a dress rehearsal at HMK? Sometimes they do that. No, but they will do it for the s for the Red Devil Pride like our RDP time on Friday um from like 9:30 to 10 for the other high school students. Just selections, not the whole book. >> Okay, that's what we did. >> Okay. Um board recognitions. So, we're doing students of the month and Holly is here for HMK to present kindergarten through six. of the month. All right, we are gonna start with our kindergartener, Connor. Oh, hey there. >> All right, I'm gonna read something about you standing here. So, Connor is a bright boy who is such a cute and fun personality. He is kind and helpful
006and a good friend to others. Connor is a respectful and responsible student. He comes to school each day, smiling and ready to learn. He listens and follows directions well, stays on task, works well independently, and he has made great improvements with not trying to get his work done, but being sure he always does his best work. Connor's participation and enthusiasm throughout lessons is much appreciated and teaching lots. He is encouraging and is an awesome example for his peers to follow. Connor is a joy to teach and I am lucky to be his kindergarten teacher. Keep up the great work, Connor. I'm so proud of you. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> All right. Riot. >> All right. Talk about you now. Diet is the overall student of the month and he comes to school every
007day excited and ready to learn. He's a fantastic helper to friends who need a little extra support finishing their work. So, he always tries his very best to be a problem solver on his own. He's a very active listener in the classroom and is always willing to share his thoughts with the rest of the class. Ry is dependable, smart, and all around a great student. Awesome job, Riot. >> You turn this way. >> Yeah. All right, Maria. All right. Miss Sheila is class. Nominated Maria. And Maria is smart. She's kind. She's hardworking. She always demonstrates resilience when things are hard. And she patiently wins a hand when others need help. And your class loves having you in their class. Hey Oliver. >> All right. Oliver also comes ready to learn and participate every day. He
008keeps his peers accountable to doing what's right and he just needs to keep that up. Good job, Ollie. >> Oh. Oh, yeah. >> All right. or you get sign. >> Hey. >> All right. >> November student of the month overall fourth grade student right here. He works hard every day and is a great problem solver. He's very kind and always helpful to people around him. Thank you, Dylan. We wish you keep up that work. >> Oh, it's somewhere in the mix. Did we didn't give out two, did we? Anybody? Anybody get two? >> Me beside the Smith family. >> Okay, I'll have to get it. Okay, guys. >> All right, Harper. Arbor is the fifth grade overall student of the month from Miss Skull's class. Arbor goes out of her way to accomplish her goals
009at school. She studies at home. She shows attention to detail. She knows what she wants and she goes for it. She's an incredible student. She's also great at working with others and sharing her ideas with the class. We are lucky to have her in our class and I'm honored to be her teacher. She makes me feel welcome. Um, Porter. >> Okay, I'm just gonna read about him. Porter is the overall sixth grade student of the month. He demonstrates a remarkable eagerness to participate and contribute in the class discussions, enhancing the overall learning environment for his peers. Porter's social intelligence shines through as he consistently looks out for others, ensuring that everyone feels included and valued. With a positive attitude and a caring heart, he fosters a sense of community in our classroom. We are fortunate
010that Porter is a member of our learning community and of our world. >> Thank you. All right. Next will be the middle school cherry. I don't see my seventh graders is our eighth grader student of the month, Cash Mandless, and his teachers have this to say about him. Cash is dedicated and dependable student who is a dedicated and attentionable student who confidently shares thoughtful ideas and reads aloud. He works hard, masters his lessons, and stays humble. Cash always participates actively and comes prepared with correct answers. He is reliable when faced with challenges and has a polite, positive attitude. Cash is a valued member of all the teachers classes. His favorite subject is math and he is also on the swim team. Cash plays the piano and the trombone. He is 510 and he thinks he
011has really bad handwriting. Catch's advice to his fellow students is before you ask for help, try first. Congratulations, Catch. >> I think he's You've grown like four feet. >> Holy cow. >> Eighth grade. All right. Corey. >> Oh, I only see one. So, Gemma, come on up. Phillips, everyone. Okay, we got a lot about Gemma here. >> So, Gemma is a junior and the daughter of Christy Nichols and Dan Phillips. Christy Nichols is a teacher at HK. Gemma enjoys her medical anatomy and physiology class, loving the opportunity to learn how the human body works and how to treat it effectively. She also enjoys chemistry, finding it rewarding um to reorganize her notes and help other students learn their material and perform well on tap. Interestingly, she finds both of these classes as her favorites and
012her most challenging. Uh as anatomy requires weekly quiz preparation and chemistry demands extra time at home for reorganizing notes and adding information. Outside of academics, Jimoth has been highly active in sports, participating in soccer, where she's the team captain and manages the boys team as well, track and field, cross country, and girls basketball. She's also involved in the National Honor Society and recently enjoyed in join science of the team. Her community involvement includes volunteering for the Moab Trail Marathon, the community rebuilds haunted bunk house, and assisting her mother's elementary school classroom, and the school library during the summer. Gemma credits GCHS with teaching her time management, which has been essential to keeping her grades up and her stressed out. She is currently employed by the city of Moab as a referee for city rec sports,
013including soccer and volleyball and an umpire for baseball and softball. Those are rough jobs. she's ever had to do. She's been doing that for about seven months. Looking ahead, Jenna plans to attend college and play soccer and pursue a degree in the medical field, interest in professions such as physical therapy, nutritionist, sports medicine, or speech or and speech pathology. So, she can be really busy studying. Her four advice for other high school students and HMP students and middle school students is take time for a break, rehabilitation, and rest. um emphasize that you will help you emphasize that you perform your best when you are healthy. This is Jenna Phillips. >> Thank you. >> And I don't meet Josh Kelly, but he's our other student of the month. I can just let you know real quick.
014He's the son of John Kelly. His favorite classes are his auto classes in auto program because he always has been around mechan mechanics because that's what his dad does. In contrast, he finds math classes to be the most challenging as it is a subject he struggles with. During his time, he has participated in wrestling and football. The most valuable thing he's learned at school is how to set goals which subsequently subsequently led him to learn how to achieve those goals. He's currently employed at the Boab Brewery. He has worked at there for the last nine months as a food runner, describing the job as pleasant, not too difficult, and pays decent money. After graduating high school, Jeff plans to enter the oil fields uh and work for them, stressing the importance of personal initiative by
015stating, "If you want to change something, you have to initiate the change yourself." That was the Josh P. Thank you. All right. Um, if you're welcome to uh speak out, but we do have a riveting audit presentation by Kyle drove a long way, >> but I don't think he'll I think temperature in the building will go there. out. >> Yeah. You don't want to know. >> Okay. >> You're welcome to pull chair out or you can sit at the table. Wherever you wherever you're most comfortable, man. >> Perfect. >> So, um, >> come right on up. >> Yep. child's here to present the findings of the audit for the 24 25 school year from Squire's that whole name. >> You don't have any more people to add at the end. >> Make it easy. >>
016Right. You want me to go? >> Yes. >> Okay. Um, so first off, just an update. Um, so we we've issued the financial statements, but the federal government um has not issued the compliance supplement that we need to be able to actually finalize and issue our compliance reports. So, we've done our testing. Um, we we have a draft of that. We think we're good, but we cannot issue until we get that. Um, so they were late on doing that and then the shutdown happened and then it was still not a priority for them. yet. Um, historically that gets issued in July just so you don't know how late they are. >> So, it's nothing you've done, it's nothing we've done, but we are in hold up. So, there is just the one packet um for
017that um but this has the financial information in it. So, um just um I guess we can go there. It's page one right after the table of contents. But um that this is really the only piece of of this report that's ours and this is our audit report uh where we ultimately issue our opinion. Uh and so um that second paragraph says in our opinion the financial statements uh present fairly in all material respects. So in in plain English opinion, right? So we're g modified opinion. You go down under the basis for opinions paragraph. It's there in bold that paragraph. That last sentence says we believe that the audit evidence we have to obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit. So because we were able to get the support, we
018were able to then be able to test the balances and say that they're good balances, right? And so that's where the connection is. So we were able to do the testing. We did that came out in August and did um that work of testing. There was four of us this year um did the testing and then we've just been doing some followup and again waiting and hoping for the federal government but they haven't done it yet. Um that next paragraph is the emphasis of matter paragraph that's there this year. Just so you know there's a new government accounting standard that came out. Uh the district implemented that. Um because of that there was a restatement in your financial statements but that is just purely because of implementation and what that requires not a we did
019it wrong it's just getting up to the new speed and everybody that's everybody's had that this year. So again if you see that as you read if you do read through you see the statement again at times that can feel like that's a bad thing. This time it is not. It's purely just applying the new standard that came out. Okay. related to compensated absences. So, okay. All right. So, let's go just through a few numbers here. Um, if we go to page 14, I'll skip through. So, I'm skipping through the maintenance discussion and analysis, which can be good to read just as a quick um overview of this report and then um skipping the full approval statements to get to your fund uh statements. Um, so as a reminder, you've got your three major funds.
020You've got your general fund, your debt service fund, and your capital projects fund. Those are your three majors. And then all your remaining uh funds are there in that other governmental funds column. Um, so in the general fund, that's the first column. Uh, I was just going to focus down on your fund balances. Um and so committed there it says economic stabilization for 1,460,000 there. So that's um the 5% that you're allowed by law to set aside. And again as as a reminder as a board uh that resolution happened a long time ago and for you the district to dip into this money would require another board resolution to release those funds. Okay. So that's that's money that is controlled by resolution here of the board. Um and then the next row down is some
021employee benefit obligations. So some money has been set aside for compensated absences for the early retirement program that you have. And so it's just a a show to your employees that hey, we have some money set aside for some of the benefits that we've promised promised you in our policies. Okay. And then then there's some assignments there for different programs, repairs, uh just some other things. Those assignments are um done at the management level. Uh and so that would be Matt and his team that can set uh those assignments. And then there's unassigned. That's the very bottom 14.5. Those are just monies that you get to use for operations of the district. Okay. And so so nothing there. So there's that's the kind of the fund balance get you to a total fund balance and
022the general fund of 17.4 million that will roll into the next year to continue uh operations there of the district. Okay. Uh debt service fund uh just just over 2 million there that that fund balance is is restricted for debt service payments. So you can't use it for anything but but those. And then likewise the next column over 5.3 that's for capital outlay uh for some of the capital projects that you have ongoing. Um for this year you you the track was almost done by year end by this this balance sheet over at the high school and then you've started as you guys your HMK >> upgrades are kind of the two big projects. So some of that money is being used uh there for that. Okay. We got two more pages now. Page 16,
023that was a point in time report. The balance is right as of June 30th. This now is um activity for the year. So all the money that you brought in and how that money was spent. So this now represents 12 months of activity here. Um again, same presentation. I will go off to the far right first and just show total governmental funds. So, of the 36.7 million of revenues you have, 22.5 of that comes from your property taxes. Uh, so so heavily relied on on the property taxes here that you did. Um, the next largest there being state at 9.3 million and then the federal government um at 1.9. That federal government again declined this year if you were to look at comparative years because of some of that COVID or money that went away.
024uh we still get still got in about 1.9 this year. Okay. So those those are the monies coming in and then we go back to the general fund the first fund. That's where most of the money now gets spent. Um 13.5 of that is in instruction. So include that kind of in the classroom the the teachers the aids the the supplies the all the the textbooks all of those things goes goes in there. and then the various other um functions of the district with your administrative staff, operations, transportation, uh things that way. So, go all the way down on that first column, you can see there was almost a $2.8 million increase in the fund balance before we transferred $400,000 over to the food service fund. So that's what that negative 400,000 there is is
025we had to subsidize the food program uh this year to keep to cover its losses from the food service program. So that's that 400,000 there. Um that's up 50,000 from last year. Uh so that that may be something to look at there in the food service program and and look at the operations of that um and see if that can make maybe be run a little bit more efficiently there. Um it's not abnormal for smaller districts to have to transfer some to help subsidize. Um there's that. So >> that's ever a finding. Sorry, that wouldn't trigger. Okay. >> No, it wouldn't trigger if if we didn't transfer the money. What it would be is there would be a deficit fund balance, meaning you would be in the negative in the school fund. That would >>
026right >> because you cannot have a deficit fund balance. Okay. >> Um but the transfer itself is fine. Y, you're totally allowed to do that. So that's totally >> good question. >> Um, so after that transfer, so your net change in your general fund there is just under 2.4 million after that transfer, which gets you to that 17 million that we talked about before with all the different commitments and assignments and other fun. Okay. Um, debt service, you you made your you made your principal payments. Um, so so nothing to report there. Those are just the principal payments that have been made. Um you've got about three years left on your first geo bond, but I believe we're getting close on bonding again. Um >> refunding. Yeah. >> Or refunding. Okay. And and so there's
027so those are your geo bonds about three years left. And then in the capital projects fund, you also see some principal and interest. That's your lease revenue bonds that go through the capital projects fund. So those that's why there's debt service in each of those. The debt service fund covers your geo bonds. Your capital project fund covers your lease revenue bonds. Okay. And then in your capital project, you spend about 4.8 million this year. Again, most of that being the track and the start of that uh HMK update that you had. Okay. Awesome. So, those are your general funds. That's what I was going to go over. Um there's there's a lot more in here. If you've got questions, I'm happy to dive into any of them. Um, the other thing I did just bring
028this little one sheet here. Um, more just for information. Again, it doesn't mean right or wrong when you look at any of these numbers, but just hey um you know what are other districts what are other boards maybe doing uh with with um their abilities to adjust budgets and impact change. So, these four districts that I chose uh are just four districts that are close to your enrollment, not necessarily geographically, especially South Summit. Um but but just close to your enrollment. Um and these are ones that have their audits finalized so that we can get numbers. Obviously, San comparison, but their their audit has not been through yet. So, unrestricted fund balances. So, these are the ones that we went over. So permitted is the green and again that's what you as a board have
029by resolution. The assignment is what Matt and his team have and then the blue is the unassigned. Um so you can see for you guys you have and this is as a percentage of your general fund expenditure. So you guys have close to about 70% set aside your fund balance for uh your general fund. You can see some other districts similar in different components. Some have a a larger unassigned like you. some have more assigned. Uh it it just again up to the board and the management there. That very far right column is just a total of all the school districts that have less than 10,000 in enrollment and what they kind of look like. U the further down you get on the enrollment list, the more it reflects closer to what you guys have.
030The the higher up you get, it does become a little bit less of a fund balance. >> You mean no students? Yep. Um, okay. Then next is property tax revenues. We did that one again because that's also a board decision. You guys get to decide how much you want to leverage any of your your capital projects by debt or by a capital levy uh and different things. And so it just reflects what decisions are being made there. So you can see uh for the ones that are presented, Grand and Beaver have some debt. uh some of the other districts uh in your size currently don't have any debt and are trying to do that through capital lesson or just don't have capital needs right now. So they're they aren't funded. Okay. Um and then just
031on the back side uh just showing you how your uh general fund and spend are spent. Um this does not have the the little note there are some districts that will have and you guys have it community services in your general fund. those have been taken out. So that's why it doesn't equal 100% between the two of you. But this just shows, hey, of of the dollar that comes in, how much gets spent in our classrooms. So again, about 55% of your the dollars when the dollar comes in, 55 cents of it goes into the classroom and then the other 45 cents is to uh cover some of the different supporting services that that you have. Okay? And in comparison, just to have other districts uh again similar in your size from enrollment and and
032how they are also spending the those dollars. And then of your general fund, how much of that is salaries and benefits? Um and so for Grand County salaries and benefits in the general fund equal 83% of various countries. Um and then comparing that again to some other districts. Okay. Um again just because one's higher or lower does not mean necessarily good or bad. It's just has decided what they are doing with uh some of the monies that are getting but just a ability to look and see what others are doing and compare. You know we've heard at least as we go around sometimes how do we compare what are we doing? So that's what this is just intended and trying to highlight some key things uh that neither compare. Okay. um for the for the
033single audit really quick. That's the federal again not issuing but we we are anticipating one finding there. We tested the um the esser funds again. Uh the beacon program got some of that money and we un they're supposed to file an annual report. We've been unable to see that. So the district got some money, Beacon got some money for that program. The district submitted their report showing how they spent that money. that we have not uh obtained and we don't we don't believe it happened but we consent in their report. Um so there will be or we are anticipating that we're finding um just so you do know we will issue that as soon as we can. We'll let you know once we get the compliance supplement but we have no timeline right now. >>
034That report was supposed to come >> the compliance supplement. Yeah. the federal government uh the office of the OMB is what they're called um management and budget office there the federal government they they release it >> no I mean the reports um funding >> for the funding no those reports go to the state of Utah >> and we've checked with our the contact that we have in the state of Utah and they also do not have a report so we tried to see if >> we could go to them and say hey show us what was submitted but they don't have anything either >> so we are anticipating that one uh finding when when we are able to issue that report >> state compliance um we're not anticipating any issues we'll have a we'll have
035a clean opinion on that one >> isn't that though on the compliance report that beacon the the reports that we're most supposed to submit to the state isn't that part of the your compliance >> that's your compliance report right not >> the separate this is the financials and we have a separate compliance to submit to the state, you're supposed to put them together, >> okay, >> and submit. So, we right now are unaware of what the state is going to want. >> Okay. >> So, they're going to have to issue an extension looks like because it won't get done. >> Okay. >> Time. >> Okay. South uh in that area. >> Canvas. Canvas. on the on the potential plan, which I do think you're right, anticipate that we'll have that that finding. It comes back
036to that discussion that we've had as a board from time to time and and offshoot groups um of the really unique relationship that Grant County School has with like Beacon and Ventoring where it's principally independent but financially dependent and it's a really weird umbrella and relationship and how that reports. we're looking >> at cleaning up that relationship would alleviate >> this issue >> this this issue. So, it's unfortunate because it's going to uh result in deeper dives, which I'm sure you guys are excited about and like I'm excited about um for the next few years, but it's something that, you know, we can absolutely learn from and try and straighten that out. >> And can I see something? Um is that is the 400,000 um brown um like nutrition program is that is that mostly
037unpaid balances that >> uh no that's it's it's more than that it's the overall management of that program that we've been working on gradually cleaning up the last couple years that I've been here other than what's going on before but um yeah we're aggressively the you know collections is definitely an area that we're looking at uh what we've purchased as far as supplies, how we can do that more effectively and how we can manage those supplies. Um it's a number of things that right now Jerry and Sarah are working really diligently that closely. the word I anticipate that number to go to go down going forward that's on page 44 if you know that number of that whether you want to do that now or later just there is a separate report on the food
038services that shows you the money coming in and the money being spent so yeah see there is just an overspend that program that's page 44 is one of those Thank Anything else? That might be the shortest audit presentation I have sat through in my career. So, >> yeah. >> Trying to just, you know, get to it and let you guys move on. President said it's riveting. I know. >> This is more than a Jordan school district. I was at last night and they only had like by the time I got up there was only like five people left in the >> This is like >> Thank you, Kyle. We appreciate it. >> Thank you. Here's just another extra. We We gave you one for the room. >> Oh, we've got plenty. >> Awesome. Thank you.
039>> Thank you. Thanks. >> Okay. Um we're we'll next in front on our agenda is Alex Zans, but he's delivering apples. So he will push Jim back. >> He's got apple. >> We're going to push that back until he till he joins us. >> We'll let him talk about apples. >> Yeah, he can talk about it though. >> We deliver Christmas Thanksgiving. >> Um All right. high reliable skill high reliability skill schools information superintendent kind um we'll discuss HRS survey results >> so just keeping the board ab breast of where we're at um I've attached the individual survey results for you guys to review um that was step one step two is is meeting with our um certifier and consultant from Marzano and They we do that via Zoom. It's a 70 minute somebody correct
040me 75 >> 75 minute webinar where we go through and and analyze the results of that and really focus on um what we need to prove and what we need to improve as as we go through this process. Um kind of a theoretical starting point for us as a team was anything below 3.5 on that is an area that we needed to look at. not necessarily that we needed to improve on, but that we needed to look at to make sure that one, is it something that we need to improve on, or two, is it a communication piece where we're actually doing something that's not being communicated or how we can better better educate on that. Um, we've had two of the schools, the high school and the middle school go through theirs. Um, I
041found them to be beneficial and I'll open it up in just a minute for you guys to talk about. um focusing on the direction that we're that we're headed on those and really coming away from that with and we talked about it yesterday in our admin meeting um what we can do in the next 90 days before we we'll be meeting again in March with our HRS representatives. Um what we can do in the next 90 days to be proactive in either providing uh artifacts for that criteria or or really striving on what we're looking at improving. Um, and so as as we go through that, we're looking again both to be certified as a higher liability school, but to also use it to help us make strategic steps to get to where we want
042to go. And so step one being the safe and collaborative culture. Um, that's what we're focusing on. We we discussed in our admin meeting yesterday. Um, and I'm going to forget them because I didn't write them down in front of me. Communicating was one PLC on the collaborative. And the first one was >> schedules >> student centered. >> There we go. Yes. Thank you. As far as making sure one of the questions that came up that I found interesting in that walkthrough and again you guys um as feel free to jump in um talking about are we creating schedules with the students best interest in mind and if so how are we documenting that we're doing that? How can we prove that we're doing that? And while schedules look different at all three campuses because
043of the way um they're set up, uh it is an issue at all three schedule or all all three campuses that we can look at and and either prove what we're doing and and you know uh reiterate why we're doing it or or look to improve. So that's the direction. And last time we talked today, Holly, you still have not been scheduled at HMK. >> I haven't heard from >> Okay. Um but the high school and the middle school have gone through step one of that webinar and are working in their individual groups um to attack those >> did you just do it >> Monday? >> And yours was the week before. >> Yeah. >> So a week ago. >> So >> are we going to get a a report on after that? like this
044is what we've identified as I mean you've you >> I've highlighted three but yes >> three but like that's very general I mean communication is very general >> correct so as as we're working through this process we're putting that into the Moodle which is basically fancy Google sheet >> uh no platform >> it's a platform so it's it mood is like a Google classroom or a canvas this it's just a different version of those the learning it's an LMS um LMS for learning >> management system um that's uh high reliability schools has decided to use to submit our work to >> we're also putting it in a Google sheet so that we can share with Nicole and she can update and help >> correct so there's there's two two systems that we are submitting to
045>> and yes we can report on that as we build that out >> okay is Absolutely. We can include that in >> be like our request. >> Yes, >> absolutely. >> The are the surveys supposed to happen once a year. Is that the idea for >> So these surveys give us a starting point. One of the tools that we can use as we go throughout year one is actually now to look at the individual areas that we are targeting and a survey could be a tool to measure if we're growing in that area or not. I know there was some discussion at the high school about possible use of surveys. >> Um I don't know. Did you decide on if that was a tool? >> Um I've not decided no. >> So it it's an
046ongoing process. >> I just um noted just it does seem like a lack of response from I mean from parents in in secondary schools. Um so Is that something we could work on like cutting more lead time or >> that would be one of the pieces of the communication that we're talking about parent and community communication. >> Yeah. >> You know, capitalizing on either using the platforms we have now more efficiently or looking at different avenues to get that word out to try and increase a response whether it be a survey or a meeting or parent teacher conference. Um that's all part of the communication piece of the website. >> Great. And with the administrators, the three administrators of the high school were they kish and the CTE. Okay. Was the 3.5 uh an HRS
047number they recommended or was that something internal you decided 3.5? a little bit of both. I think in general in the first survey email we got there was it might have been mentioned. Um again that's that's more of a a theoretical number for for us for me I should say to help to help see where we're at. Um, you know, I did discuss that with our certifier Nicole and she talked about how, yeah, from a 30,000 foot point of view, that can be a good um, measurement tool. But if it becomes so large that there's so much that we're working on that because it's below 3.5, we wouldn't be able to efficiently uh, make progress in all of them at the same time. It's just not realistic. So, just kind of using that as a
048starting place and then looking at each one. And there's some that are above 3.5 that we can still, you know, see like there's a dis a disconnect there. Maybe people think we're doing things at a better rate than we actually are. So looking at it, it's just just a rule of thumb to kind of a starting place for me. >> So and if you guys the three if you got a thought on 3.5 or if I'm just living in my own world, that's fine, too. Yeah, because I what she said to like I know that I'm reading the descriptive statistics calculation about the 3.5, but what she said in our meeting is like you take your mean and then you go, okay, we're going to go work on this, this, and this within your mean
049and this, you know, for each individual table, >> you know. So, yeah, 3.5 is the goal. like eventually we get to that 3.5, but right now we've got to start from where we're at somewhere and then hone that focus into a few things and try and do it well and improve it and then a few more things. Um, and so I would say the descriptor on page three in the um initial analysis and that's all connected to the board report tonight um is a good descriptor to sort of like have as a baseline for understanding where the three board went. every time I move. >> Yeah. Click. >> So the the communication piece um it also seemed that um sort of like teachers and staff having ways to provide input was pretty low score. Like
050is the communication addressing all all facets of communication not just outward but in inward? >> So yes and no. the well yesterday I was primarily focused on the parent community communication piece but like we talked about on the individual tables as you go down through that there are different things that each school has highlighted in working on >> in that prove or improve basis. So it's it's a it's a >> correct >> a goal that we're >> one of the common indicators was kind of communication yeah >> to our stakeholders >> how we can improve that >> and I would think that um education is will probably some of that just educating that they are being communicated to but it's just not getting understanding the question I mean I took the I took the survey
051at HMK and um I feel like all of them were basically you know I didn't I don't think I would have known if I as a regular um parent >> um but they all the questions seem very geared on communication and safety right so >> I even think that those goals are pretty set up they're setting you up for specific goals of communication safety for your step one. >> In line with step one. Absolutely. >> Do the surveys change as you go up? They're asking qu different questions like once you achieve communication and safety >> once we level up >> and then you will be asked about >> whatever instruction >> and every and we might have answered this before. Um, is it a level are are schools leveling up or are is it a
052district level? >> The criteria is based on your individual school. Okay. Obviously, we're trying to not silo the individual schools. We're doing it as a group, but meeting that criteria for each school to prove >> submitting the artifacts for each individual camp what we're doing in these areas. Any other questions? All right. Um, next is review of new policies previously posted for public comment um discussion. So later on we will be just just because I know we have other events going on. I think the high school and things if you want to jump up to principal reports when we get into policy. >> Um well if we're going to be quick with policy that's fine too. Well, she has other do she has coverage over there, I think, but I don't know unless you you
053want to leave. >> I the I'm going to leave by 6:30 um for the dress rehearsal for >> Oh, >> yeah. But yes, that's the being covered by >> Let Yeah, we can move that. Let's move to principal reports. And just to make sure we're on the same page, this is not one of our quarterly. Right. Right. We haven't fully inputed that. This is a principal information submitted. And if you have any specific questions, >> it's going to take me a minute because this was like an 80 page agenda. >> Where am Okay. Um, let's just start. >> Oh, that's like technical at home. I was able to get all four. >> That's right. Because I'm just saying. >> Well, so on the So, they're different. So, some are attached by PDF and some are
054linked on the agenda. >> Okay. So, that's the difference. >> That's the difference. So, if you want >> So, just go to the where >> if you go to the main agenda >> and click on that's the difference. I don't know why that is. Mich >> I can tell you because >> um two are attached as PDF documents and two are attached as links. >> Did you just say that you did? >> I just was wondering why >> different formats. >> Okay, >> thank you for that. Whoa. >> Whoa. You are the one. >> Okay. Uh, we'll just do the high school report first. The other thing I It's more I can't tell you how to how to make that bigger. >> Oh, I just zoom in. >> Oh, accessibility. >> And you can go
055to accessibility and make it like 100% bigger. >> Oh, the moment. There's also the name. T business share link and an accessibility link make it large. >> I did it. >> Yeah, that didn't work. >> Also, there's like if you hover over the picture >> Oh, >> well there's there should be a thing that pop out >> in that little box. >> Oh, this box right here. >> Was able to make a thing. I just clicked on it. Okay. >> Yeah. >> Um so these are not our presentations but are there any questions? We have enrollment. Um we have attendance. Great. And then if you click on the link that says number one GCHS enrollment and attendance you can see prior years data >> where it's keep >> it's in pink right >> and then
056there's just I don't know a few slides that just have you know you can see that 2023 24 we had 452 kids 2425 474 and this year 486 so we're one of the only schools in the district is growing in enrollments. >> Are you um is attendance how is attendance um calculated? One class missed is gone like >> no my understanding is calculated and we we have this question all the time right with powers school. My understanding is calculated by hour because it's average daily membership but it's calculated by hour. So, if a kid's missing, what shows on attendance is if a kid misses five hours a day and they miss 10 days in a row, well, they have to be exited, but anyway, that's going to be, you know, 50 absences for it's going
057to look like 50 absences for the kid. Um, but they really only have 10 absences. However, it's 50 times that they missed each different hour, >> right? And then um the the interesting part kind of like about just breaking apart the data is if you look at the next slide, it's our 2026 attendance by grade average of 90.32% as of 1031. That's a report straight out of uh P school. But then you look at the next report straight out of power school for overall attendance for 2025. Her total overall attendance was 87.8. Um, and so it's not, you know, we're not faking that we have pretty darn good attendance. I think that the teachers are really disregulated over that 12.2% that they don't have because those are the kids that like they're trying to track
058down. They're trying to figure out why they're not showing up or, you know, they're giving them credit even though, you know, all of these things. And so, but when we look at it, it's our overall attendance is really good. And then the next slide is the average daily attendance for the year for 2022 or 2023 24 and 25. 88% 88.47% 87.8%. So our our attendance hovers over 85%. Our average daily attendance hovers over 85%. which I heard a report on like some news channel this weekend with the lady Venlo who's doing this antenn attendance campaign across the state and hers like statistic was we have a 64% average daily attendance across the state for students >> and so it's no wonder that people keep reaching out and saying what are you guys doing because it
059looks like you have good average daily attendance I don't ever respond because I'm kind of like are they just trying to trick us and then they're going to like use us as an example of some this that or the other, you know, and you never know who's reaching out. But anyway, I think it's important to note that we have really good hourly events. I think it's because kids in our community don't have a lot of other social outlets and so they use school sort of as a social outlet. For those who don't feel that anxiety going to school every day, they have a good time coming to school. It's their social it's their first social interaction. And as just of note on those on those comments and even just talking about how those absences are
060calculated, that is one of the big pushes that the legislature is using right now, especially um with like Senator Phil about attendance. basically they're they're saying they don't trust the data coming out of in any school district um because it's it's uh confusing and ambiguous and all the challenges that that we're talking about because we've been looking at this. So that that's why you're seeing a lot of that and it is um a statewide trend as far as being that that concern over attendance. Well, I and I can see that argument just be if they're doing like Aspire and maybe I don't know about car school, but in Aspire I remember there were probably 20 different reasons why somebody could be absent. Like there were codes A through Z, right? And so >> still that
061way. >> Is it still that way? And so it's just it can be a little confusing. Um I mean there should be to me there should be >> more consistency >> more or less options like you know we don't need to know um you're either excuse not excuse activity I mean >> what else >> medically >> medical >> thank you for adding them um but you know I are these do you know if these are activities are not included in these absences. I would think it'd be a lot higher, but maybe not. >> I would have to investigate that. It previously activity excuse was excluded from this. So, every other type of excuse was not excluded from average daily. >> Could we look at reporting our graduation data as the state does like for all
062four years instead of just like >> we do. I think it's important to note though that you know um the the seniors that we start with this is how many of them we're getting over the finish line, right? We could look at the how the state reports it but we don't like we have so many students who enroll and unenroll you know we have a very transient population to track that we'd have to track every single kid that enrolled freshman year sophomore year junior year senior and then ensure that whatever happened with them we if they were considered a dropout out then um then we could calculate them, right? But if they transfer to another school for us, they're not considered a dropout. And so we do track that. It's just that the kids that
063we don't track are the kids who enrolled and then went somewhere else. If they go somewhere else, we actually count them as transferring to somewhere else. But if they don't graduate from there, that that may count against us. That may not, you know, if they go to adult ed and they don't finish, that may count against us. that may not and which is why I put all that convoluted stuff in that information. >> Yeah. >> You know, um but certainly >> so the state is you is the state figuring that out in >> correct >> and we don't give them that information. >> Well, and something that I am confused about from the state is sometimes they'll say we're reporting this 712 and other times they say we're reporting this 9112. So, I'm not even
064sure whether they're calculating the students who enrolled in seventh grade but didn't make it through the finish line in on in 12th grade or the students who enrolled 9 through 12. >> I think this this argument plays into the arguments that you're seeing right now about why the legislature does not trust our graduation rates. >> And it's I don't even know. I don't I'm not saying it's a district problem. It very well could be they don't know what they want to look at or how to find it. Um but there definitely is question again concern statewide coming up the legislature about graduation rates because of the difficulties we're talking about right now. Um >> there's two different there's two different numbers in the two different laws about the tracking about graduation and one says 7
065through 12 and the other says 9. So yeah, we could and you know we could spend the time and effort to make sure if the student lead enrolls with us like we had several students enroll with us from other countries in the beginning of the school year and now that the season's dying down they're unenrolling and going somewhere else. Great. It happens. I mean our our in and out our door is like you know the kitchen swinging door, right? >> Um and that's okay. The kids who transfer to another school and we know that school and we can identify it, they don't count against us. kids who we don't know their their parents, they just leave town because they don't know the process. They don't, you know, when someone enrolls, we don't go and if
066you're going to unenroll before the end of the school year, you have to do XYZ because we just hope they're going to be there. >> I what I see is the problem is that, you know, here you are reporting 98% graduation rate, right? And then when our number comes out from the state, it's a completely diff it's a lower number. And then that makes us look disingenuous, low transparency at the legislature. I mean, that's what I think that to me that's kind of what you're saying, right, of like we have these two different numbers. >> You shouldn't report it 98% if it's if the state's going to say it's not. Um, and so how do we >> how or a co like when you say 98% but uh I don't know. There has got to
067be some uh how to >> Explain the difference which which then goes back to HR communication. I mean to me, you know, like it it's it seems bizarre because I talk to people all the time and like well these are the state numbers say this correct >> and you're saying it's 98%. Like >> well it's actually lying in the slide here like this is how many seniors we had. this is how many student you know this is who did what this is how many students actually graduated therefore equaling a 98% graduation rate but of the 111 students who did graduate um 16 of them came out of SCSC but the state hasn't published the 2025 rate however they do the the calculation over the course of all four years so it I'm not boasting a
06898% graduation rate I do think that this is the number that superintendent McFall said, I want you to publish the graduation rate for those seniors who started with you in the beginning of the year and those seniors who finished. And so what we have here at 98% is the seniors who started with us in 2024 and walked through that G in 2025. That's the 98%. We know that there were almost 27 additional freshmen who come and gone. Not all of them we can account for exactly where they they've gone. And so those are the ones that are going to count against us in the end. Bottom line at the end of the day is we can't deny someone's enrollment where we're required to provide a free appropriate public education for anybody who enrolls regardless of
069their status or whether they're going to stay or not. And so I don't I don't want to boast a 98% graduation rate, but 98% of those kids that started with us in 2024 got through that G in 2025. >> Um, and I think that's something that we shouldn't like not maybe it shouldn't be the graduation rate. Maybe it should just be 98% of the students who started us, >> right? >> Walk through the G and get rid of the graduation rate success rate, you know, >> right? Yeah. So I can certainly do that. change the graduation rate to senior success rate. And I I do think that you will see uh direction from the legislative session following six legislative session about attendance and about graduation races then we'll then have to take >> yeah to
070me if you can't track somebody you can't track somebody because you don't know I mean >> but then they aren't counted for I mean you report that if we don't know where they went >> yeah I don't know if there's any >> we don't get we don't we don't get if they just leave and and don't unenroll. >> Correct. >> Is that that is on us. >> Well, yeah. Until we get a transfer of something from another if we never get anything that's on us. It's our weary, >> right? Well, then I guess they just report that. I I mean, >> we do we work really hard to make sure that we track everybody down mostly because they have they're onetoone on the Chromebooks, right? So, they have a device worth $350 plus the charger,
071right? And so, if we're if they are in the 10day drop status, regardless of whether they're a freshman or a senior, we are worked hard to get in touch with those parents. Hey, where's your kid? What's happening? They're almost a 10day drop. You know, those kind of things because this can come against us whether they drop out in ninth grade and come back in 10th grade, which they do all the time, you know, um or they drop out senior year. It doesn't matter when they drop out and possibly seventh and eighth grade dropouts count. It's questionable. >> So I changed that to senior success rate as you can see >> and we use that language. >> We can only control we control if they leave in nth grade and we don't know they drop out.
072It's not ours. >> Sure. But I've seen but I think that to clarify what that is the state is saying graduation rates and that's what we're reporting. Well, and I the the news to highlight here is we 73.4% graduation rate in 2022. Congratulations, Grand County High School staff. 85.2% graduation rate in 2024. And I only anticipate that the graduation rate will be better in 2025, but they have to release the report card, which actually has a lot of stuff in this report that the report card report has not been released yet. So, Um, I had a couple questions about the Thank you for including the common myth data. Um, >> yeah, they the teachers wanted you to have the individual data because they wanted you to see that this is the teacher view. >> They
073can't manipulate it. So, they get what they get per class. >> So, what like for the AP lit like why was only one >> only one student tested? >> I mean, her her information back to me was attendance. She has eight students in the class. I don't know if the two days that she gave the test literally only that one student was there. She'll tell you attendance >> and AP lit. >> Yeah. >> So, but I mean and then like the the 12th grade US class is that >> I was a little surprised at the proficiency. I mean it was a college class. >> Correct. Um does that mean their common lit 12th grade was but it's still the 12th grade common lit >> correct and common lit does test the end of the year
074testing right so you can see that yeah I would I would ignore the data that 100% of her AP lit class because only one student took it so we she got lucky it was a good student but when you look at the USU data um 27% of the students who are in the USU concurrent enrollment class tested proficient in reading, right? And these are the kids who have a 3.0 or better. If they're juniors, they have a 3.5 or better, right? Like these are our high-end and very high end perform this data. I mean, if you are able to compare, it just looks like ninth grade. Oh, it's that's okay. you know, you know, 10th grade's, you know, not great, but it just seems like it's like from this data, I don't know what you
075can extrapolate from it, but >> you can certainly see the nth grade basic reading class 0% proficient. That's why they're in basic reading, >> right? >> You know, and it lines up with the proficiency leaving sixth grade. >> And this is the midyear that doesn't the ninth grade basic. >> Amazing, right? This is why they need the basic green, >> but they took it also in the beginning of the year. So there was no improvement. That's >> well this is the data that they have and they they uh the improvement data is they only have per student. So I didn't want them to include any students. They really wanted you to see that the >> there's limited um information what the teacher can get. um even though they chose common lit um the certainly the
076language arts department would prefer to go back to map testing uh because they got a clearer picture uh and it's broken down by standards so they would not cry if we went back to that testing. Our big thing is that you pay the money to implement it content area. You can't just pick and choose like language arts, right? And um so we'd have to get all of the departments to implement with fidelity. I just don't know that we're there as a secondary group. So common lit is what it is. >> I think we can shut the door. >> Is it really cold? >> Well, my feet are cold. >> Any more questions for Carrie? >> She has to leave. I before you leave, Krie, I don't know. I mean, I I um looked at your
077report, Carrie, um and there's a lot of information there. I don't know if you um can compare um rise to aspire, but that's what I did. Um just because like with your information it's um you know I mentioned that our work session sort of sort of the you know the present the present 11th graders their math scores last year plus. So in you had some information from 2022 and 2023. Um and so you know those kids sort of had a similar score to what they have in Aspire is a very low proficiency rate. Um so that's three years that they they haven't really improved. Um so yeah I guess I would like maybe more information from the map um or what um sort of what's being focused and I know the stand hopefully we'll see
078better results because of the standards is that >> okay it's fair to say okay >> but the focus for them is definitely on like you know curriculum and instruction delivery and assessment >> so that we can improve our performance >> you Well, but I am sure that if I ask the math farms to come and talk to you guys about what's going on and and why they're doing what they're doing and how they're using their data to effectively improve student performance, they would be happy to attend a board meeting as long as I gave them prior proper notice um and explain what's going on. especially if you wanted to do that math, language arts and science in different nights because that would be a lot. Um, but to answer your question, I I mean the
079assessment director is right here. I don't think that you can fairly compare Aspire Plus to Rise. Um, but I think looking at the trends in the data, like at what point did this class of 2027, which I think you're talking about the juniors today, >> at what points and within, you know, all of these things that were happening within schools, did those scores drop off? Um, I can tell you >> or not approved, you know. Um, and uh because I think that would, you know, there's there's there's a crux behaviorally with this anomaly of this like 11th grade class, right? That I remember from being at HK, >> you know, like these kids couldn't walk through the hall. Like one fundamental rule was you come in from recess into quiet. And we used to have
080to stand outside and be like sh because the the kids in the front of the line would come in and could be quiet, but by the end of the line like every day the kids just couldn't control themselves. So I think that there is probably some fundamental learning acquisition that already was kind of disrupted with this 11th grade class and then you added COVID and then you know and then and then and so it would be interesting data wise to just kind of go well when >> when did this become like usual trend versus All right. Uh, middle school questions. >> I just had some questions. >> Oh, yeah. You Yeah. >> Why is it she stopped looking? So Har I mean I so I click on sort of the rise of data there's a
081fit in. Um, but so Carrie, thank you. Um, I like this kind of information. >> Um, I mean, it seems to me like I love the three-year comparison. Um, and then the eighth grade science rise scores are nearing the state average, which is or higher. Yeah, they're higher. Yeah. Um, and then >> Yeah, that was interesting. The seventh grade is far below the state average, but going up. >> Very close. >> Yeah. Yeah. Um and then um yeah, yeah, and the same with the ELA, like getting um I mean you can see the improvement >> and the only reason and I um I meant to type this out, but of course as I was putting it in there, the only reason they don't have a um chart with it, a graph, is because they changed
082um in 2022, 2023, and 23 24 they had like um the scores were in the 800s. Like that's how they did it. And then this last year they jumped it up. They changed the way they scored it and it they put it in like the thousands, right? >> So it wasn't fair to create a graph like that because then it would have showed a huge jump and so I was like, "Nope, I'm not going to do that." >> Got it. Okay. >> Yeah. I mean, and but with math, it seems like we're pretty far below. So you're below it, but seventh grade is doing pretty good. >> Yeah. They're going they're going up. Yeah. Thank you for that. Oops. Okay. Um, HMK, any questions, observations? Okay, moving on. Make sure one report because I just
083kind of got it. So, one thing that um nurse Mary reported to me is we had our um we had a vision clinic and then we also had BYU come down and do the clinic um in October and we had over 400 kids that um consented for Thoride varnish and then we had gosh we can't even Um it was it was a pretty significant amount that they were able to like identify do the early prevention on. Um and then she also had about 42 kids that were scheduled for that vision clinic and of those they were able to um get classes for quite a few. Just wanted to share that was really important. your your template is very easy to zoom in on and >> Oh, it's a PDF. >> I do appreciate though you're
084putting you're just outlining all of your plans. You got all the this is what we're going to do. >> Um >> I didn't have as much data so I figured on the in between data then I just felt like >> to address the data we have. >> Yeah. and carry your campus improvement plan, too. It's great to have that. Yeah. >> All right. Um, >> Alex has joined us. >> Well, wait, we got one more. >> Oh, preschool. Sorry. >> Sorry, Alex. I was trying to get you in. >> Sorry. >> Any uh questions on preschool or special ed? >> Is that still proceding a pace? sort of the moving >> that would be a when I think of >> Okay. Yeah. >> I was gonna tell you also for Rise and I mean Utah
085Star Plus and Rise. This year will be the last year of Utah Fire Plus in the high school in 10th grade. The following year, so the spring of 2027 next coming spring um it's going to change over to RISE. So rise will go from three through 10th grade. So just so you know then it'll correlate better as far as >> because right now you can't compare one score to the other because they're two very different >> but still change. That's the other. >> So >> it'll be nice though that it's all the way the dad and the teacher all the same. So >> It'll be easier to >> Yeah. It'll be just so much nicer. So, and again, we didn't we don't have a lot of Okay. All right. Um, Alex, now you're up. Alex
086from Zans is here to talk about the bond refunding. Um, progress. >> Is this the one? No. So, yes, Alex is here to report on where we're at with the bond refunding progress. We did go out and get a bond rating. Um, it was a good experience and I think it went well. Things have been moving quick and rapid since then. Um, we did get that rating back about a couple of days ago. >> Yeah. Monday afternoon. >> So, I'll just turn it over to him to give you a quick I did attach the bond uh rating presentation for the board to look at just in case you wanted to because it's just dynamic and >> amazing. Um, go ahead, Alex. >> Great. Thank you, uh, Matthew for that introduction. Um, I'm Alex Buckton with
087Zion Bank Public Finance and I work as the municipal adviser to the district. And um just like uh Matthew mentioned um we recently um went and uh secured a bond rating from SNP and uh board member Williams and Superintendent Kais and Jerry. Uh the four of us went and met with S&P. We did a lot of prep beforehand and put together a nice presentation that they actually gave. I was just there just to kind of uh introduce the the bonds themselves and then the the three uh representatives from the district provided that presentation did an excellent job represented uh the district very well and uh as a result of that as uh Superintendent Kais just mentioned uh we did get back a A+ rating from S&P which is a a very good investment grade rating.
088Um and uh so we were on the phone in fact this morning with our underwriter Bank of America and they were very excited to uh to know that the district had received that A+ rating uh which helps them in marketing the bonds and then eventually selling the bonds which we currently have scheduled uh the first week of December. uh we may push that meeting uh or excuse me that sale uh to the second week of December. We we're still working that through the underwriting desk at Bank of America. Um but uh we will be closing the bonds uh prior to the holidays. Uh somewhere between the 16th and 18th of December is when we're going to close the bonds. So uh the market is looking good. Um, we feel like we're in a good position
089again with that very very good rating uh from S&P that we should have a very successful bond sale and we'll be able to save um quite a bit of taxpayer money um as far as uh those new the the new interest rate on the bonds. So, um, you know, couple of highlights with respect to the, uh, presentation and then my conversations with S&P afterwards and then the the write up that that, uh, report that you all will get or have received. Um, they felt like the management is really well and strong. So, credit to you as a board and superintendent Kais as well. Um, they also love the fact that you had very healthy reserves. Um, your finances are in in good order. Um, they uh, so credit to Jerry as well. I don't see
090Jerry here, but I know she's worked a lot with Superintendent Kais on that. Um, they wish that the economy wasn't so centralized around tourism, but that's totally out of your control. So that's the one area of of the rating criteria that the school district itself really has no control over. >> Um so anyway, I uh I recommend you read through the report. Once again, we're very happy with it. Um and uh very proud of of the district. And if Kathy or Superintendent Kais wants to add anything about that experience, go ahead. But I think it really was um it it was a really good exercise for them and and probably for the district as a whole to really get into the weeds of how your district is run. And I mean there's a lot of
091focus on the finances and a lot of focus on management and outstanding dad and and um and so it's always a good way to really understand how things are going with your district. And then when you get a rating from a independent third party and they come back very favorable, it should make the board feel really good and and your taxpayers and citizens feel very good that the the district's in good hands and things are moving in the right direction. So happy to answer any more qu or any questions about that or uh where we go from here with respect to the the refunding of the bonds, but we're uh right in line with where we wanted to be when we started this process a couple of months ago and we're excited to sell bonds
092here after the Thanksgiving holiday. I would I would just echo Alex in the fact that it is a really a great uh professional development opportunity to kind of dust off what you know your your knowledge about the inner workings of the district and how that applies with the economy. Kathy gave a a portion of the presentation on the economy and to look into some of those things and to just refresh on the correlations just to have an overall better understanding of how the different pieces of the district work. you know, as a system uh in in the systems level whole type thing. Um I found it to be very rewarding. I know Jerry did as well. I think I can speak. >> Yeah. I mean, it's just for me it was a it was just
093a learning just learning how how the process does work and getting, you know, going and getting the credit rating which then, you know, is gives us um is how they determine what our the interest rates are going to be and um I guess you know the safety of the bonds and such. So, it's just it was really um I learned a lot about the whole process. >> Yeah. To Kathy's point, the higher the credit rating that you get, the lower the interest rate is because the investors on the bonds look at that as, hey, it's really good credit and so it's less risky >> and so they're going to they're going to lower the rate. So that's why what we get as far as a rating is so important because it really directly impacts the
094amount of savings we're going to get when it comes time to selling the bonds. So thanks for mentioning that Kathy. >> I thought it might be more stressful than it was, but the most stressful part was the traffic. >> We had some traffic. >> California traffic is it's rough, but >> little scary. We're not used to that here in LA. I'm actually I'm heading uh back there in in uh two weeks with the Weaver Fire District. So, I'm going to be heading back into that traffic. >> Any other questions >> with the report that you're that you referred to? Are we going to get that report? >> That was emailed the the email that you received today. It was sent to you. >> Was it sent to me? >> Yeah. Yeah. They they actually sent
095it to you as the board president, but then I I forwarded it along to uh to superintendent and to Jerry. >> Who was this? Who was it from? >> It was from SNP Global >> is the rating agency. >> Yeah, Melissa. Okay. >> SNP. Sorry. I think I'm probably actually saying S and P, but I should be saying S and P. S standard and poor. >> Yeah, they used to go by just standard and standard and pores and uh they since in the last 10 years or so trim that down to S and P. >> When when was that sent? >> Oh my. >> And you can send that out to the board. >> I will back. I also say mountain. >> It's a mountain. >> A heads up that that was important. >> I
096was going to talk to you about it. So, >> okay. >> I didn't presentation. >> It's not loading. Successfully loading. >> Oh, really? It loaded earlier, but maybe our internet is >> Did you send a presentation as well? >> I just share. Yeah, I think that yeah, that and that's and and the information that was put into that presentation was provided uh to us by Superintendent Kais and Kathy and Jerry and then we pulled a lot of the information too. So there there really was a lot of work that kind of goes into that and uh >> anyway I I appreciated the three of them will work the effort they put in and then the willingness to go. It's, you know, takes a couple days out of your life to go do that, but uh
097I think it was well worth it. >> Thank you. >> Any other any other questions? >> And I do have a box of apples. Normally I would normally I would pass out some chocolate covered nuts, but it's the one time a year that we provide a healthy treat. It's our Thanksgiving apples or Christmas or holiday apples, whatever. And uh so I'm going to leave those here as well. Thank you. Thank you. I'm sure. Okay. Yeah. Agenda. Um, >> oh yes, policies. So, review of new policies previously posted for public comment. Uh, discussion. The board will review and discuss the new policies from USBA for 725. These policies were previously posted on the district website for public comment. Um so this would be our third um reading of these. Uh, D A H D KF D
098MBA A E C L E F E H C F D A CG FD Fde D E D FGF GM. And we did have a um question about the additives, the FDEB prohibited food additives. Jerry >> Oh, Jerry emailed me. She talked to Sarah um and she said there were two breakfast cereals that had um these additives to it >> and that's it. >> That's all. Yeah. So I think >> so the board has the ability to adopt that policy. Like I said that the conglomerate that we purchased through um I don't foresee it having a tremendous impact and currently it is only the two cereals. Yes. itself um or the board could decide to because we can exit out. We can't exit out. But that's for your your discussion. >> So then it would
099be if we were going to approve the policy as is, we'd have to remove those two cereals from breakfast. >> So um >> not and adhere to it in sports. >> They get rid of I can't imagine I don't >> Oh. They are I think they are. >> Yeah. >> Um Yeah. >> Do you Does anybody have I I'd say keep it in if it's not going to cause a complete meltdown of the >> I mean we opt out though. >> Yeah. We could retire the policy. >> We can. Okay. The other policy on here that I mentioned and I made it up for to remind myself um is the pathway to graduation focus pathway to graduation. Um so this is the state model policy. It it mirrors what the policy was um or it
100mirrors a policy that Ki and um our former CT director Kate Finink had been working on. So, uh, out of that work may may come some suggested modifications to this policy. So, what I'm looking at today with with the board is I don't have a problem if we approve this knowing that we might be uh adjusting it in the future depending on how that plays out. Um, just to have it fast currently um to be to be in compliance or taking it off tonight and circling it back and bringing it back around when they can flush it out. Whatever either and each option has pros and cons. Um I just want to point that out to that there was some work done in this direction um that I wasn't previously aware of until just recently.
101You >> want to make a recommendation superintendent? I I think I would um recommend that we approve this policy. >> Okay. >> Um and then if we need to make adjustments to to fit our needs or get clarification, >> this this is a good starting place. >> I think that's what we'll do. >> Thank you. >> Um all right. Any other uh comments, questions about these those policies listed? >> Yeah. Can I ask a question? So in the food diet policy, it says that I would have to obtain permission from students parents at the beginning of the year to have snack provided. So like in kindergarten they ask for like bulk snack and it says if with this thing it says um a student's parents may provide students with such food during the school day
102and the teacher may provide students with such food if the teacher obtains permission from the students parents. So this is going to make it a lot harder the food policy one. Yeah, and that kind of goes also back to the food policy question that h you know uh you know those those snacks are actually being >> now should be being vetted >> but this also would be like birthday treats >> which is also part of that if you that but Holly sent out the policy that we the wellness policy >> um that we would be following any way as well. So I mean I will >> take the recommendation of you know how it how it works with the wellness policy. Um we want to table that to have better discussion with your >> admin
103and we can definitely table and have better discussion. It is not out of the realm of what we are supposed to be doing with our wellness policy right now. >> Right. Um, so we may not have like you just pointed out systems in place, but we probably should. We need to be working in that direction. Um, so if >> that are federal guidelines from the wellness >> or or the state, >> um, it's it's not Yeah, I I don't see it. We may not be following our own policy in that area right now. I don't see this as being another lift outside of that policy. But if we want to have that discussion as administrators, you've had the most recent experience in it. >> You want to review the additive policy with the wellness policy
104and see if those two align. >> Does that make does that >> I mean we can do that. Absolutely. that sort of thing. >> I would like to make a comment as a parent. >> Is that why you moved over there? >> Policy about the additives policy. Right. So, as a mother of a kindergarten student who has lunch at around 10:45 in the morning and is not expected to be in school until 2:45, it is a little ridiculous to expect that the child is not going to have any sort of snack from 11. >> I don't think that's part that's not this policy though. >> But that is in regards to what Melissa is talking about. She's saying that then there's a list of policy. Yeah. That that it would it would put a >>
105burden on the teacher to figure out which snacks >> you can have a snack. >> It's they've got to be vetted in a different way. >> The snacks can have the food additives. >> I don't know. Is that true? >> I don't think it can >> or it has to be cleared with it has to be cleared with the other. So, so I think I think let's take it out. Let's put it on the um plate of Matt and Holly to figure out and Sarah um to see if there's an easier or what we're doing exactly. >> Yeah. In addition, a a student's parent may provide students with such food during the school day. >> But not for the class. Yes. From the student where cupcakes >> where one of the overlap that we're seeing
106happen though that may or may not be >> is parent providing that snack for that students and then that student that student sharing with >> Right. Right. Right. Right. >> Right. >> Which is against the policy but >> you're right. This doesn't cover Yeah. birthday. >> Right. or a teacher provides students with such food because it would be the parent bringing in the food and then the teacher dispensing it to all the distributing it to all the kids and I guess you can't do that if >> unless unless you get permission from all the other parents that your kid can have these >> additives additives >> well that's only the teacher but I mean the way this reads a student's parent may provide students it doesn't say may provide the own student may provide students
107with such food during the day. I mean, >> that to me reads they could bring in something for a birthday. >> Uh, working I think working through that little bit. Okay, I'm going to pull it. >> Make that note for the motion if there's a motion. >> Um, you tell me what that what FD Okay. All right. Next, uh, review of policy changes regarding certified and classified discussion. The board will review the policies from USBA that have changed in reference to the term certified and classified employees. So, um, we had talked about the Egypt. ESP, >> ESP. Um so there are changes in these two BDAB, BLA, CGA, DBBN, DBDN, DGAN, DHC and DKBA where we have needed to change certified and classified to either staff or >> so ESP >> with those termin terminology
108changes. There were six that uh involved negotiated policies that the board has negotiated with. Three of those are represented here tonight for approval because the the terminology change didn't substantially change um anything in that policy. You can see there's a footnote there. the three policies we left off D AHN, DHBN and DKCN because the terminology change within the way that we have tweaked those policies for negotiation, we got really got really messy. I don't know that it substantively changed anything, but it made it really messy. Since those policies are negotiated and it is a big change, I pulled those up. So the policies that are on that list are just the policies where the change in terminology from certified to educational support professional or just employees does not materially change the policy. Does that make
109sense? >> Yes. All right. Any discussion on these? All right. Moving on, the review of policies with non-s substitive steps. I always with substitive changes discussion. Um the board will review policies. These should have uh non-substant substitive syllable on there. Citations, date, minor word changes. This is the second reading of these policies. on this same thing. There was one policy that we had not a negotiated policy, but it's a policy we had um massage to fit our our needs that I pulled off um because it it the site changes in our language made for it um quite a bit of of change citations made for quite a bit of change. And then also there are two on there. I know one is FF. I have that. Remember remember that. And the other one is each.
110>> Was there the one that you guys were talking about the FG? >> No. >> That you decided wasn't substantive? >> No, he's just talking about the ones that he added a P to >> No, I can't find the other one because I didn't write it down. Oh, it's EVA. Terms of instruction, school year, red line. Those are ones that we had um changed where I could go in and just simply switch out site citations. >> What was it? What was the second one you said? EA. >> EA. >> EDA. And they're highlighted on that list with a P and FF. So, those are the ones. Um again, we did pull that policy. uh as noted at the bottom, FDACP was was removed off of this list because it's going to need um some more
111acute attention. So other than that, these are and then there are some that as they're listed right now do do require fill in the blanks. Is that correct, Melissa? >> Yeah, I have I have a list of ones that just need fill in the blanks and so I don't I don't feel like that would stop us from posting those. Um I just they would >> posting or approving. >> Oh. Oh yeah, we're approving our move. >> Well, I don't know. >> Previously you guys just put a motion in saying that the blanks would be filled in >> and then the letter would need to change to P at the P. >> Okay. because we were so visited. >> What about um FG A that says we're supposed to seek? >> Oh, so FG A D.
112>> Yeah. Um, that is one that I would like to pull off the approval list that we um we need to discuss that post it because it's not or it's not sub it's not it's not nonsub it's substantive. So FG A is um needs to be pulled off and then um also EH there is a option A and B on that. I guess we just need clarification of which one we are um a h e >> oh adult education student participation in graduation ceremonies or adult education student participation in graduation cere um adult education students do not participate in our graduation activities and ceremonies. >> I don't think so, but I do look >> Oh, it's they do not. >> They do. >> Yes. So, we have options. >> They currently do not. Um that
113being said, the policy that we are looking at um pathways to graduation that we just talked about >> has a clause in that where non-traditional students can participate in graduation ceremonies um not necessarily dictating which ceremony. So they wanted to have better >> the new one that Caitlyn or that Ki is working on. >> The one that we just talked about. Yeah. >> But not the one that we're passing. >> The one that they're working on. >> No, the one that we're passing. >> Oh, >> how's that that language in that ties into this? >> Did you say alternative? So >> versus so that I guess that would be defined as alternative versus adult education >> and being a part of a regular graduation. >> Yes. So adult education right now we do we do
114not that being said uh alternative can students believe students can participate. >> Well that's and so there's adult ed right that they're different in adult. So adults >> adult right now does not participate >> but SCSC is alternative >> if they if they go through the there's a hierarchy of steps to participate to walk through the G but the adult head we have not had so it would be um >> so >> these are two different groups >> it would be option A on And I I believe um probably Trish she has approached me to talk about this policy particularly I'm sure but then didn't talk to me but just in passing wanted to talk about that. So maybe she may want to suggest in the future that they they can maybe. >> So but
115that would be I would then I would send her to me >> to you >> and then you could present it >> I'm just anticipating the Okay. Uh clear of what we're doing? Yeah. Okay. So FG A is off the list. Do I need a motion that says something? >> No, just don't include it all. >> Well, there's a list of 45. We're not going to be listing out those letters. Correct. We just have I know because there's a reason why you do lift those out because I don't um >> I think I think a motion is perfectly okay to have a motion that says um and general we approve the policies as listed on with the exception of the policies you're taking off. >> Okay. and not list all the policies >> and not
116list all the policies. Just ask the policies. >> So if the other one is DK I would like to take off as well. Um just because I want some clarification on >> that's the postpartum one. >> Yeah. If it's negotiated just on the approval I mean >> these are approving. >> Yeah. So I don't they're not just not just not easy ones. So you'll pull it just because it might be negotiated. >> It definitely needs another >> Okay. Yeah. So those two >> I was looking forward to reading all those letters. >> Yeah. I give you >> um >> yes. Okay. Any question other questions clarifications? Oh, I have that. I'm writing two different ones. >> You got four note ads going on. >> Yeah. Was I thought you got that so you didn't I
117know. >> Um okay. Board committee reports. Um, no. I mean, >> we met as a finance committee. >> We did meet as a finance committee. We talked about the bond rating, >> right? >> We have a little presentation because I wasn't able to. >> Well, yeah. No, it it is you. I'm sure with our maybe our internet, you'll be able to see it. It was, you know, it was probably 40 50 pages, but um not all. >> Yeah. >> Um uh Superintendent Kais presented his portion was to present kind of the school district that the health of the school district, the demographics, our population growth and decline. Um our uh a lot was on the cyber security was a big deal because that's important to people investing because of just risk of you know um
118hack hackers and such. Um I presented on the Moab economy. A lot of the data came from the um city and the economic development committee and the tourism committee. So there's a lot kind of on on our you know um where a lot of our uh well where a lot of our property taxes come from as well. So a lot of it's you know hotels and hotels and then also our big um centrally assessed um mid America pod ash those things um there was part of my presentation was also talking about the up and cominging um like King Creek Echo Canyon Lion's Back just as presenting because these are going to be you know potential um property taxes. So that was talked about and um so that was my component was just presenting the Moab
119economy. Um and then Jerry presented basically our financials and um showed you know had a lot of um same stuff that we see regularly like our fund balance and how much we you know spend on this and that percentages. >> Um so >> so how many people did you present to? And how long did it take to put I mean >> hour and a half. Okay. >> That was me pontificating about our mission. >> Oh, I'm sure >> we are. >> No, it's good. It's good. I think it was important. Um and so yeah, so those were the those were the S&P people and then they take our information and I'm sure they do their due diligence and doing this. make sure that you're not fibian. >> That we're not fibbing >> and um >>
120they come out with this with this rating which I think is pretty good. An A+ rating was >> pretty good. >> Yeah. >> In addition in addition to that, I had the due diligence interview with the underwriters attorney this morning where we went over all the nuts and bolts and made sure that >> Oh, you did? >> Okay. >> knew what we were talking about and could answer all their concerns and make sure that you know they're being forthreatened every everywhere. So, that was another great experience this morning. >> Yeah. I presented it to this and I thought you going to do all that? Yep. >> Yeah. Yeah. All the questions that you had to have answers to. >> Well, I've been going to community council. That's it. Lots of them. They're trying to spend
121all the money. >> Uhhuh. Um we did have negotiations Monday and uh one of the things that we um talked about was um just the GCEA new leadership. So Judy is I don't want to put you on the spot Judy, but she's the new president's president. Um Melanie Dolphin is the vice president. Ray Layen Mason and Deian Cop are the secretaries. So um we're hopefully going to have a healthy um um attendance of that from GCEA and uh we spent the most the uh meeting talking about the educational support professionals, ESPs and their concerns. Um the one thing we probably need to start working on, I'm sure you're doing that, is the calendar. Um and get that going, right? >> Yes. >> And um we talked about, you know, even some of these negotiated policies,
122we will be acting on them, but um GA and GCEA will be voting on them. Um, but that's that should go through pretty easily. And then our next meeting will be January 26th. >> Can you go over those names while we're >> Oh, yeah. Judy, President, Melanie, Vice President, Ray Mason, and Deian Cutaries. >> Thank you. Okay. superintendent report. >> Um yeah, it's it's been busy. We're making good progress in a lot of different areas whether the with the bond refunding which has been a priority as as well as HRS. Um, we had some discussion in our admin meeting about uh career career status and provisional status and the direction that we'd like to see that go within the within the scope of our policy that has been negotiated. Um, taking taking steps there. Uh,
123I'm given the BA for Jerry as well. We've been um working really diligently to knock out some big nasty grants. Jill, I'm looking at you in the back, but uh got got that done and you know, again, going in the right direction. HMK is uh getting closer every minute. We're on that very closely. A lot of times, you know, you guys are the last 5 10% is some of the the hardest to make sure you you get done appropriately. We do have uh a state schoolboards conference coming up in January. That'll be here quicker than than you think. So, just keep that in mind. Um and I would like uh to have some some conversation or some direction about the National School Association. >> When do we need to know that? When do we need
124to >> Yesterday, but no. Um the early bird is still we can still get the discount. But >> is it like December 1st or something? this early birth and when it comes >> so keep that on your on your radar. Um yeah, I'm sure I'm leaving out a lot. We're looking at a lot of different things. >> Oh, what's the difference between GCA? >> What's that? >> What's the difference between GC >> classified um certified? So is certified >> teachers >> and then um GCA is the education >> they're going to have to change their name to >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> GSP Actually it's still G SA. That's our union name. >> Oh it is? >> Yeah. your the chain the classification for our people will be the ESP but it's called G it's
125called SEA USA is the name of our association >> but Grand County is we've >> ga but that is right when they send a letter head it comes out as different than what we had so I've been looking at things that says G in front of it I'd have to talk to Hank about it too but that is and I don't know if the name change came recently but Well, let us know. Keep up on your correct acronyms. >> Yeah, I'm just waiting to learn it all. >> Okay. No business administrator reports. Community coordinator report is attached. Any questions for Jeremy? >> Just checking in on there's been some shifts with regards to um office education. They were officially switched into the Department of the Interior as well as kind of other shifts from Department
126of Education. um that group um lost was had a number of folks um lose their positions. Um the director had left and has now come back. So that's good news. Um they are functional. sent out a letter today that kind of just shared that there there there's I got an email today from the state representative from OE Chuck Foster who's said good news we've got our director back things are stable so it's we'll we'll see what happens with it uh from department of education that are trickling down to uh to title six so um in January we should know more um as they would put out great reports requests. They have a lot lower staff, but we'll see what happens. >> Thank you. >> All right. On the consent agenda, we have regular board meeting
127minutes from October 15th. We have the personnel list, November personnel list. We have financial reports detailed check register expender expenditure report and revenue report in October we have an out ofstate travel um we have three of those we have the plane talk conference for some HMK and principal HMP teachers and principles principal what is the outcome conference. >> It's called conference. >> It's a what? >> I said the best conference ever. >> Yeah, it's it's a big conference in New Orleans. It's uh it's mostly literacy based, but it they bring in entities from all over that are focused on literacy. >> Yeah. >> So, these two two sixth grade teachers and two fifth grade teachers. Is that right? One fourth grade, one fifth grade, two sixth grade teachers. Have we been or not? We have
128HMK been to that before? I know there's been Is that one that is you go to a lot? >> Yeah. Yeah. These are teachers that have never been. >> Okay. Good. >> Lost my meeting. It doesn't look like um sign your travel. >> I didn't I didn't sign my I don't need to sign up on my own. >> Yeah. Okay. checks and balances in place. >> I like it. I like it. Um, so wrestling going to Cortez and then um Matt has requested to go to an HRS school summit that he has been requ they they've requested for him to >> they've strongly suggested. So, I came to uh our HRS reps that we work with. >> Okay. >> And it will just be you. >> It'll just be me down there. >> Is that
129the same place that the national US or the NSBA? >> Okay. Um, any questions about those? I'll accept a motion to approve. the consent agenda. >> I move we accept the consent agenda as present. >> There's second makes a motion captain seconds to approve consent agenda as listed on the agenda. All those in favor say I. I. That passes 4 Z. Okay. Uh, action items tonight. We have approval of the audit. Earlier this evening, Squire and Company presented the 2425 Gran County School District audit report to the board. And there motion and I would probably ask one of the audit committee members to to make that motion. I'd like permission to jump from them. >> Well, I will move to approve the audit um the 2020 425. No. Yeah. 2425 audit as presented um by
130Squire. >> There second. >> I'll second. Kathy Williams makes a motion. Dave Beite seconds to approve the audit report from Squire Company for 2020 242 year ending June 30th 25. >> Any discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. That passes 40 absent. >> Approval of new policies. New policies from USDA have been posted on the district growth site for public comment. There have been no comments regarding those policies except for some comment tonight. Um the board may now vote. Which one was that? >> FD Fde. Okay. All right. I move to approve the new policies. B A H A D KF D M B A E C L E F E H C F D A C G F D F G S and G. Is there a second? >> I'll second. Denna
131Woodbury makes a motion D seconds to approve new policies uh as she listed removing FDA FDE deb was not >> listed there wasn't a second >> not from that list >> um any other comments questions all those in favor say I >> I >> that passes 4 Z with absent All right. Approval of policies related to certified and classified employee terminology changes. For review policies relating to certified and classified employee language changes and we now vote to adopt um those those are okay. All those right. >> I move to adopt policies BBA BLA C G A D V D N DB D N D G A N DHC N D Ka. Is there a second? >> Second. Gary makes a motion. Cathy seconds to adopt policies as listed on the agenda. Any discussion? All those
132in favor say I. >> I. That passes 4 Z with it. All right. This is um approval of the adoption of policies with non substantive changes. The board of review the policies um with minor citation date wording changes. The board may now vote to approve these adoption move the adoption of these policies um with the recommendation of taking out F G A F G A D and D K What's that motion? >> I'll move that we uh approve the policies with nonsubancy citation date or any word any changes to the board meeting. We approve that we approve this list minus tell me again >> dke >> f a d >> f g a d >> thank you there a second makes a motion one seconds to uh uh approve the policies listed on the agenda
133uh minus dke and fa A D any discussion? >> Um, so I'll just send a list of there will be slight changes to the the other ones and that's okay. Add P to some and like Okay. All those in favor of approving the policies list on the agenda minus DK at FG A I >> I that passes 4 Z absent. Any communication? questions on different classrooms. happy. >> Nope. >> Um the only communication um Lauri is currently working on our meeting um schedule um and she's suggesting possibly and so this can be up to discussion but trying to hit us uh the three schools um every month. So that would be like a good goal for us all to have. Edam the list will be she's working on that. So she did. >> So one
134of us will hit So every school will be hit at least once a month >> by you. Yeah. >> Oh by each of us. Yeah. So three three site visits >> in a month. >> So you're not doing just meeting. >> Oh. Uh I'm sorry. No, those are meetings. Oh, okay. >> Yeah, those would be mostly meetings. You could fill in community council. What do we do? Staff meetings. There are even some um student, you know, if there was some student things. I mean, it's just kind of just touching base with anything that um and and the a Google doc has been created. Um and the principles will have access to that. So they can add things in there that they're like, "Oh, we're doing um you know, hoop dancing." >> Yeah. >> Tomorrow. >>
135And you know, >> right? So like that would be >> Yeah. >> So it's not just meetings. >> Um >> I mean because I have a cool class that I'm like, "Oh, the board might want to see this activity." >> Yeah. Okay. Cool. >> Add those cool things. >> Meetings and cool things. No, you just want to meet saying like I want to brag about what my teachers are doing. >> Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So, um we also talked about, you know, like even um national honor society meetings or what does Tracy do? You guys call them differently. >> No, um honor society. >> Honor Society um you know, Zoom Council meet. I mean, there's there's tons of meetings and too if you get bored. Um, and then we did talk about the other piece.
136Okay. >> Disgusting stuff. >> I need to put that on my >> I know. I'm sending out a reminder. Friday reminder. >> The Friday reminder. Okay. >> A Friday reminder of our main ones that has to happen that we Yeah. >> So that people don't get lost and just wander around the building by themselves. Well, we talked about that, too. >> Um, >> possibly. And starting, yeah, in in January, we might change our Monday times from 1:00 to a earlier time, >> right? So, we go date Monday. >> Oh, you know, we always do one. >> That's why I wasn't there. I had Rotary and I had a bunch of people there and it was very difficult. I did get there 15 minutes, so that was quick. I was fasting. So that we're going to
137be talking about changing that time. Okay. From 1:00 to earlier. Okay. Um advanced planning. Y'all are welcome to leave or stay for um >> we have a regular regular board meeting. Um tonight I won't let that Okay. Thanksgiving breaks. There's no school um for that week that districtwide. However, the that is different for 12 months. >> Monday, do you think >> Monday, Tuesday? I think so. Whatever. >> Um the agenda planning meeting is the third oops December. Holy cow. out of district. >> Well, you're kind of the main guy. >> Are you going to be all Should we just move it? >> Um, >> or you want Do you want to do it via easier? >> No. If we could do it on the Thank you. We could do it in the second probably at
138that same time. Wednesday or Tuesday. >> Wednesdays Wednesdays. Thursday. >> So if we if we could if we could move that to >> Well, you're you don't you can't. That's what about Monday. >> That might not be the best. Not about Monday. Okay. Would you rather do I'm looking at the mark of that? Um, so it's either Matt has to zoom into our agenda planning meeting on Wednesday or he can be there on Tuesday, but you're not available Tuesday. >> Yeah. Well, what time? I guess I have a lunch. >> Okay. You want to do it over your lunch? That's >> That would be Tuesday about 1ish. Okay. There's that idea. I don't know. Normally in December, we cancel one of the meetings. I don't know. You guys are anticipating doing that. >> We would
139anticip we'd have to do agenda planning to >> to We have to do agenda planning to cancel >> to cancel them. >> Well, not necessarily. >> So, we could do a Tuesday at one. >> Okay. >> Tuesday. I can edit it. You need to edit Tuesday. You guys holding out, huh? You're welcome. >> So, what's going to happen after the fifth? >> You got nothing. >> Oh, are you >> I mean, I went out farther than I normally do. Um, prevention is on the 9th or we I don't know if that's still happening. >> We're doing a Let me look on my calendar. >> Yeah, >> we have a road show and then >> I think we are meeting on our general time. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Um, finance meeting is on the 10th
140at 2 p.m. >> Work session is still on the 10th 3:30. So we by we might be cancelling a work session or just the financing company. If we cancel the work session, you know I'll probably cancel the finance. >> Okay. >> Or reschedule the finance. >> Reschedule the finance. >> Clinical safety on the 11th. Board site visit on the 15th. That is at grand preschools are well. >> Are they still they're still there? >> Okay. >> Knock on wood. It'll be the last visit to that school. >> 9 a.m. >> People that'll work. >> Yeah. They don't do a water clock because they don't have kids. Oh, I see. Okay, that's fine. >> So, that is on the 15th. >> Sorry, I'm just now 9 a.m. >> Is anyone going to the economic mobility partnership?
141>> When is that? It's December 2nd. Oh, that's your agenda. Oh, it's right >> it's in the evening, isn't it? >> No, it's 9 to 11:30 a.m. >> I saw that invitation. >> Who was that invitation? Did I delete that, too? >> It was from somebody and I I could show you. >> I got it as well. >> Chamber. >> I can't. No, it was it came to see what happened. >> Julie Rosier economic mobility partnership round table. I mean it looks you know communities are aligning and leveraging the strengths of businesses, nonprofits, education partners and civic leaders to improve poverty and educate outcomes. >> Did was this was what Laura Lee went to already >> or something similar? >> No. Oh >> no, she did that too. It was a >> ter economic. You
142are you going? I think I am going to go. Okay. >> And it's the gardener policy institute which I think is Yeah. Right. Politics. >> Yeah. Could I request that we do a once a quarter formal facilities committee meeting just to go over things and talk about even if it's maintenance and such just so we can I feel like there's stuff to be done but we just forget it and it would be good just to do it quarterly. It doesn't have to be forever. >> Put that on your look on your calendar. How often are you now? >> We haven't. It's not that formal, but I think we need to just set it and even if we just, you know, because you get questions and you just >> and Matt's been good about keeping us
143informed, but there's more details out there I think we can get into. You know, >> on the 8th, Matt and I are going to price for S meeting, >> legislative lunchon. >> Legislative. That's December 8th. Mhm. >> S E S C >> Southeastern Educational >> S E E S SC um no school from the 22nd to the 20 to the 1st. No second and then no school staff prep. >> Um so we will do agenda planning and then we'll let you guys know about if if >> if you're going to have a meeting work session. >> Okay. >> Um and then uh tomorrow we uh >> so we've got to talk about that because that has changed since we started this meeting. You think it was >> there? Uh, well the But is it still
144kind of happening? >> We hope. Right, Holly? >> Oh, so the time has changed. >> Oh, great. >> From 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. So, it's from 1 to 2:30. >> Okay. The So, the lieutenant governor is coming um and the teachers are some teachers are doing presentation, but she's bringing a whole uh group. It's not even a presentation. just a panel. >> A panel, >> but there'll be a bunch of of her cabinet >> staff. >> Um, and so Kathy and I are going to go hopefully Cathy will see me. Um, but it's a small room with a bunch of people in it. >> Where is it? When is this? >> Tomorrow. I say morning, but it's >> so 1 to 2:30. >> Okay. Yeah. And it's about it's it's specifically on House Bill
145126. >> Senate Bill 127. >> Seven just in case. >> Senate Bill. >> Pretty close. >> I mean, do you guys know the difference? No. >> Literacy. >> Oh, yeah. >> It's about It's about literacy and the focus is on the feedback from the teachers uh to the lieutenant governor and her team. So, it's really just an observation. It's not going to be a participatory >> um participatory thing. >> The slides on the wall and not >> um and hopefully we're rescheduling rapidly and >> it's done >> squared away. >> But if you but if you want to come down at uh uh and and shake hands, I think that would be an at one o'clock. Is that what we said? >> No. Yeah, they should arrive >> um >> right before >> you could
146go and shake her hand and meet her if you want to. >> But all the staff clearly aren't going to be in attendance because they're >> No. And and we have a set schedule like there's like a 15minute debrief. We'll have a half an hour of observation. We'll have a half an hour with teachers. We'll have a 15 minute debrief again. And then they're out. >> It's a pretty regular >> Are they walking around and observing? Just in our K3 classrooms, >> your face doesn't come in the morning. They see reading. >> They come at 1:00. They're going to get they don't get to see what they're coming to look for. >> Yep. >> I think I switched the time today. >> That literally changed while I was not. >> So, okay. My apologies. >>
147No, no, it's not. It's not like we don't we're not like, "Oh, no." It's just like, "Oh, it's a bummer because we do such great things with our reading and having them come and see that you fly time would be very impactful versus having them come in and we're like, we're making butter. >> It's going to be great. >> Yeah, it'll be great. It's going to be good. >> We'll be having fun. And then just a reminder of USBA um is Salt Lake. >> Put that make sure that's on your calendar. That's been reserved, right, Mich? You've already got those things reserved. >> You should all have your room reservations in your emails. >> Yeah, >> I haven't. I don't think I've seen >> I have mine a long time ago. Booked up a long
148time ago. >> Yeah. >> All right. Um moving on. Uh, we don't need an executive session. >> I don't need one. >> All right. Of >> course you don't cuz I got you the form today. >> Um, but you're going to email me to um I'll accept a motion to adjourn. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Different makes a motion. Kathy Williams second. We are ajourned at 7:38. >> Good work everyone. >> Is there going to be a problem that I'm the one that always makes the motion to the journal? I want to get out of here by some have this indicator. >> In my free time, I keep statistics on that kind of stuff. >> What comes? >> Was she good today? >> Always. >> She was in a mood this morning.
149>> Get one on the books. You take your