001Are you ready? >> I'm ready. >> Sorry, I wasn't really ready. >> Hi, Jenna. Hey, can you hear me? Okay. >> Y can you hear us? You can. >> Yep. Finally. Yeah. >> Okay. >> And you're zooming. I mean, you're reporting. Okay. I'm going to bring the Grant County School District uh Board of Education regular board meeting to order. It's Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 at 59 p.m. Um we are here at the district office. We are also available via Zoom. Um Laura, Lee, Melissa, Kathy, and Dave, and Matt are here. Jenna is zooming in and Mike is uh absent. If you are here to address the board, please fill out a speaker card. I will ask you specifically when you come to um and if you'll turn off your cell phones or put on vibrate
002be appreciated appreciated. Um and Jeremy, you want to lead us in the pledge of allegiance? You're the only one that should be I pledge algiance 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. >> And Kathy, will you uh read our mission statement? Yes, our mission is to put each student first every day. Thank you. Did I get all this stuff? All right. First on the agenda is approval of the agenda. Is there a motion? >> So move. >> Is there a second? A second. Dave Pier makes a motion. Lori Green seconds to approve the agenda. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. I. That passes 5 Z. Next, um public comments. Any
003public comments? No public comments. All right. Next items for discussion. First on the agenda we'll be talking about is the policy FGA which is student conduct policy for electronic devices. Um so the board will review and discuss the policy FGAB that is recommended for adoption. Um but we're actually we're going to probably recommend it for first read. Yeah. So an update on that. We have been working on the cell phone policy as you guys are well aware for a couple of board meetings now and um I don't know what the specific causation is. Uh but we had some earlier attachments on there that were feedback from the the committee that were presented and maybe not um the policy format that we're looking for. Um, I went in and updated the USDA recommended model policy that
004we just received and uh just made sure that it it fit the basis of our needs and made some minor tweaks and that's on there for you guys to read and review and it would be that we post it for just like the regular policy process. Now, um, what this really does, we're having some confusion, possibly miscommunication about about the policy procedure process and how that exactly comes into play. So, what what we're asking and and what really your board is, what your role is as a board is to to create this policy and adopt this policy that allows us then as administration to create procedure specific to the schools. And that procedure would be something that is fluid and changes as technology changes, as needs change, as zones change. We don't want to have
005to come back to the board and say, "Hey, such and such hall needs to go from green to red, or we want to do this at the middle school." That's going to be at the administrative level. So my recommendation to the board would be that we review this policy to make sure that it's meeting the legislative requirements and giving us the parameters that we need at the same time giving the the district administration and the school administration the most discretion to create procedures that fit their specific buildings. So we're kind of taking a side step. I think we may have gotten distracted and convoluted with procedure and and practice as part of policy and what we talked about the last two board meetings. So, we're just redirecting back to what in my opinion is is
006a more appropriate board role is to create this policy and then allow administration to to to go forward with that. Now if there's confusion, ambiguity, frustrations at the school level, the board's role in in that position would be not to become uh involved in depth in creating procedure, but helping to support or direct administration on making the appropriate changes to support the creation of procedure. Does that make sense? So, it kind of kind of goes back and we talked about that like in our in our uh work session that oversight versus overreach and when there starts to be an issue where there's that uh confusion or miscommunication taking place at the administrative level, the board is sometimes pulled in to a situation where it's it's tempting or you know it feels like we need to
007do reach in further. Um, but my I would just caution and say, let's step back and look at what the root cause of why that miscommunication is taking place, fix that at the administrative level, fix that communication, and then make sure we're uh applying that appropriately going forward. So, this is really just a short kind of reset. Let's read this and and get more into the weeds next week. Well, and I think if if the board there I think we could give out a recommendation and I was talking to Jenna about this of like um what this policy is setting up is classroom in a classroom setting um and that's that it's that there's no no cell phones in the classroom. We if we want to push it out into the hallway, that's we could
008tell this would be the appropriate time to say that. um if we want to push it out to lunch, if we want to push it out to um campus, I think that's that's the level where we're at where but we're not going to get down in the weeds of like um everything else >> like enforcement and all that >> enforcement and and you know, and there's reasons why there's probably there's definitely reasons why we would where we scale that. Um and I think we've gotten that recommendation from superintendent um teachers and committee. Um but I think you know if this specific one is only classrooms and so if we want to push it out into recess um passing time then that would we'd want to talk about that right now though. >> Yeah. and and
009I and and I think you could my only uh or my recommendation would be that even that um for for example if we if we and theoretically speaking I live in a theoretical world if we say we're going to push that out right now and then we need to scale it back or we need to adjust it then it comes back before the board for an adjustment where if we pass the policy just as it is right now and then our procedure says >> right >> it's our procedure at the school level that we're not doing this or we're not doing that and it's not working from day to day or semester to semester. >> The school can change that without coming back to the board saying, you know what, we thought that we weren't
010going to have >> any phone calls in any part of the school during passing time, but we've decided that maybe that's too much. Maybe that's and we want to we can make that adjustment on the fly and it's more fluid. um you know giving your administration not only the authority to make that change but uh the responsibility to make that change and be and be held accountable for it. >> Uh so again my the board can do what the board wants to do but the the broader your policy is that still allows you to reach your goals and give administration discretion would be my my recommendation. So, so eventually adopting this policy meets state criteria. >> Yes, it does. >> Okay, that's really what >> Jenna. >> Yeah. >> I mean I mean the policy
011currently says that it doesn't include the transit time between like classroom time doesn't include transit time. Um, so we're specifically saying I I mean I like the idea of limiting cell phone use and transit time. I mean, right now we're saying we're not going to do that. Um, I guess it's up to the schools, but >> if we want to I mean, that seems like we would need to change that if that's what we're trying to encourage. No, no cell phone use in transit time. like we would need to state that now in the policy. >> I don't know if that needs to be in the policy. I think that's in the definition is they just say it's not allowed in classroom time. So classroom time doesn't include lunch or transit, >> right? >> But
012it doesn't mean that the procedure with that that the school has they this procedure the school could implement is it is also not included in transit time or lunch. So the procedure at the school >> would say that >> it's just that our policy >> is only our our policy is only for instructional time or classroom time. But those the school itself can make it stronger. It's just they can't make it less strong than the policy because that's code. But if okay, >> but if that's sort of our [Music] >> Yeah. Okay. >> I think you could you we could give our opinion that we think or I don't know if we could could make the school, you know, we could tell the administrators, you have to make transit time a red zone. you have
013to do that and I suppose as a board we could do that but it doesn't necessarily have to be in policy it could be in procedure >> is how I understand it >> yeah you >> this is just saying this is the minimum that the school policy would be if we want to tweak it to have uh unique criteria for specific location we can do so and that is something that we can change more fluidly that's why we have practice and procedure versus policy Right. >> Practice and procedure can change. You know, we're looking at practice mostly as precedent for procedure and then policy over governing it. So, if the board wanted to just say cart launch and that was the board's view, yes, transits are off the table right now. We know that we
014don't even want the school to have discretion over it. The board could do that. Again, you know, that's that's one way of of writing policy. My and I I I've echoed it enough that you guys know my my opinion is >> to um make that as broad as you can to give discretion to your to your building administrators and your district administration and then hold them accountable. >> Right. >> And I agree >> and I think this what this this is our step forward where we never really had a policy. This is the first step to having a policy that it's in the classrooms. We're expecting we're holding teachers accountable, administrators accountable um to the classroom um where we didn't have that before it was it was just procedure. Correct. And so this is this
015is setting a >> this policy for classrooms um includ is that what I >> I think it's in here that it says right so no one will be using cell phone like that technology watch. >> Yeah. Um I so >> we're not going to do the proced we're not going to write the procedure that would be overreach say what we're doing is writing the policy and if we think we want to involve transit time it seems like now is the spot to do it because if we're going to give leeway to our administrators they're going to write the procedures and the practices theoretically but if we want to >> say we're gonna let you do that But these are are parameters. >> Let me just throw it out there. Uh so I know Jenna are
016so minimum is classrooms. >> Yeah. >> Are we for uh transit times or uh are we wanting to push that bigger? Is the board um wanting to do that? That's the question. >> And the recommendation from the teachers from that committee. What did they say about hallways and trans? >> So, so I asked Lindsay to write a >> do a comment. >> You want to read that comment or read that letter or just ores whatever you need me to do. Um the majority it's kind of half and half on what people the teachers at high school feel about transit. You guys can't have it at all, right? >> Yes. But I think it becomes a maturity a a discussion of maturity. Middle schoolers can't respond. >> That's what middle school teachers really like that there's
017no transit because but secondary we're teaching them that. Okay. We're not supposed to have our phones in a meeting or whatever, but during break and stuff, we're allowed to, you know, or during, you know, that transit time. If you make our teachers start monitoring that transit time, it's gonna be hard. There's a lot of teachers that there's upper teachers that don't know the lowerassman's. And I watched last year some, you know, teacher and classmen like bump heads because they don't know who they are and then the teachers go and trying to figure something out. I don't know. It's just a lot on us and I hear you. But I've also saw last year on how we tried to dial that back and how many kids and parents like like you should see the emails. You
018would be >> shocked. Um I think one step at a time. I think this is great that you you know the classroom should be off limits as long as it's enforced. Um and know they could start like the procedures the teachers like the procedures gave them the ability to be like no this isn't working. Can we change this? And they were allowed to change it within that. I think that's what the majority of the teachers at the high school really wanted. >> So they liked this this red red green zone that you guys um put up here and that so and the green did include transit time >> for because of the difficulty with enforcement is how I understand it. >> Yeah. >> And so most of the teachers support that. >> Yes. >> And
019I think what I'm hearing from Melissa and and Matt is that policy is one thing. I guess you know we could be a little bit into procedure but why I mean it to me it's a process that each school middle school grade school and high school have to determine about transit time and the way it can be enforced and what it does to the teachers and I don't want to be overseeing that and and it's just saying cart launch so I don't think I want to be a little bit into procedure I prefer to be in policy and let procedure Well, me too. >> A lot of the um teachers that were talking is realizing that if a kid wants to go to the bathroom during class time, they can't take their cell phones with
020them. You know what I mean? Because that's still classroom instruction time because you don't know how many high schoolers will go to the bathroom, call their friend, and then now there's a pow in the bathroom that we have to go break up. >> So, a lot of them there's it's been really mixed reviews. um from some teachers want pouches. Some teachers want like just something on their wall that they walk in and the kids put it in and if they choose not to put it in the minute they get it out or they look at their watch or they see something it goes on the teacher's desk and they can pick it up at the end of the hour, >> you know. So there's just a variety of how some people are like, "Nope, I'll
021deal with it in my own classroom." And others are like, "No, we need a unified it needs to be the same in every single classroom or it's never going to work and it needs to be enforced." And so >> yeah, >> that's >> and that's the administrator >> issue right or thing that needs to happen. And Jenna, I think even so we're saying no classrooms and we've always really I mean basically even looking at the middle school they've always had a no cell phone at all policy not procedure basically. So both. So >> right, >> there's always that if if >> I feel if you know we set this policy and it's still out of control or you know we're getting Tik Toks uh you know in the bathrooms and whatever is happening, we can
022step it up in six months. We can you know we can this isn't just >> true procedure. We can step >> we can even step it up as policy. I mean, we're we're giving, you know, we're trying to say, "Hey, high school, please set this up so that you can monitor your own things." But if it's if they have no teeth behind >> um even managing it in the classroom, then we might need to go, "Oh, this isn't working. We do need to set policy so that the teachers have um more support." But I don't but that's to me a bigger discussion that this something the system >> I want to respond to I want to respond to Dave like I don't want to get involved with pol or procedure either I want to set
023this as policy potentially like that's our expectation and then like yeah I mean I I hear you that you don't want overreach either but set something as policy Yeah. And then if it Yeah, we could also if if it doesn't work, we change it. Um potentially too like but we start out out of the gate. >> You know, hopefully >> I do just to both those points, the the thing about uh effective policy is that it changes seldom. Um, one of the issues that we have just from a 30,000 foot point of view with the district is we are updating so many policies so frequently because of the USBA model policies and we haven't had the system in place to really ever make policies our own and they're changing so quick from year to year.
024Like Mich and I were talking a month ago, we have policies that are are waiting or in the process in the works that by the time you guys approve them, we're going to have a recommended change next month. And when it gets to be that way, nobody can remember what is actually policy and what actually isn't policy. and we're referring and it just so this idea yes you're always able to go back and change policy one way or the other but if we're passing policy appropriately we're going through this process of first second and third readings were playing out second third fourth level consequences system level thinking ideally we're not changing policy that often because we've left that discussion to change procedure from year to year in handbooks or things of that as they come
025up. So again that and that's just my philosophy but just from an operations point of view you know we we are changing policy an abnormally frequent >> blame that on the state legislature. >> Well I I'm not saying it's not it's not all us. That's for sure. >> It's not all us. If they take every other year off we'd be in good shape. >> Yeah. >> I guess my my thoughts because I definitely hear what you're saying Jen 100%. And ideally, I'd love for phones to not, you know, when you walk through the door, they're up on a wall. You don't see until dismissal. Like, that to me is what's been successful in a lot of school systems, but we're probably not at that place right now. And I see what you're saying, Jenna. You're
026like, we're going to do it. Let's just start with that, you know? And I I think that's what you're saying. And I get that. I guess for me I always get back to I always come back to if our goal is to set the kids up for success, you know, with this big change is that is it too much to do something like that to block the hallways and is that too much at once that I don't know. I'm just I'm concerned that if we want even little successes, you know, then we just have have our policy exactly like what we've said here, then, you know, next if this goes great, then next year the admins and whoever can decide, well, you know what, let's now move it to the hallway. I'm just worried that
027if the kids, these these young adults are like when they walk in, they're like, well, screw all this. I can't use my phone anywhere. then there's going to be more defiance. I don't know. >> I'm just trying to I'm just trying to think about success for those something that's doable for them in the beginning. >> What what I'm hearing is that especially at the high school level, there's not a way you can have all the laws in the world. If you can't enforce them, if it takes all of our time policing and trying to figure it out, it's it's not doing anybody any good. So, you know, let them have a little latitude, see if it works out. If they go in the bathroom, you start seeing things happening. You do something about it individually,
028but you don't have to police 300 kids at once. And that's what we get into when we say these policies, especially at the high school level. So, >> these kids are smart. They don't get around it. >> They will. I mean, you know, >> when they had to turn their phones into the office, they would bring in someone else's phone and turn it in and keep theirs on them. like they're they're gonna get >> burners. You know, >> even with like the pouches, there's Tik Tok videos on like the ones that carbon use that that you know they can't go to the office to undo. They've figured out how to bypass it. Well, we can only do what we can do and try to make it as palatable as possible for the students and the
029teachers >> because I'm really concerned with what's going on in schools today and and teachers having to enforce uninforceable and follow up and spend all their time being cops and not being teachers. I really love >> any other comments. um discussion. Um I'll just say so this policy does include consequences sort of but kind of possible consequences because that was one thing we didn't want to really get into that either right is what are what you know first infraction second infraction third infraction so there are some they do apparently they will get one warning prior to discipline page >> that's page seven of at least of the one of the red line >> of the red line one it's under consequences for violation of policy Um, >> let's see if it's seven on here, too.
030>> Oh, it does. Yeah. >> So, which I think and that's I guess this isn't code. This was just something that USBA created. um I don't think is necessarily bad, but it does sort of um >> and and what you see there that is not in red on the red line is in your existing >> is it >> electronic devices policy, >> right? >> So that's not a change. But I feel like we can once we get more um comfortable with policies we can if you know we can come back and go oh this is seems not >> we need to maybe change something >> and again this is I know it's on the agenda because of it's been on the agenda the last couple of months but it is not my expectation that you
031approve anything tonight. >> Um this is just first reading. Wouldn't everything need to be completed by the first day of school for the handbook? >> I mean, just so when you're starting, you know, >> need to get in the handbook. >> They need they need to know like from day one and not like we're still figuring it out. >> I don't know. Is that right? I mean, is that the right pose or >> ideally? >> Yeah, >> that would be that would be ideal. I don't know if it's still feasible right now, unless you guys want to run through this. >> Well, the state look we've got a minimum which is what most we're we're we're almost there which is the and the state is saying I mean we already know that that's this is
032going to be the minimum policy >> right so that >> that's that's in >> day one first expectations you know when you talk to when teachers talk to their kids they know that there will be no cell phones >> and that needs to though be that also says you have to make sure that that is available for parents to see on the website And you know, so but is this do we have in our handbooks right now? We have this was this um like this is the HMK one. This is the middle school. And in your handbook, does it already say that? >> I have it linked. So it's linked. Okay. So they do have access. >> So nobody's going to be surprised. >> I mean, you can look at last month we looked at
033all the handbooks and they were in there >> and they was in there. So that's all we need. And then we can do this. It's just the expectations of we need to make sure the teachers are um following correct policy >> but the admin can also still create a procedure knowing that this the minimum requirements are chang from day one the kids need to be and the parents parents usually throw >> quite a bit of it too >> right >> I mean they can still create a procedure right >> well yeah back to date >> so and if we're day one of We have not approved this. It's still >> it's still the code. It's still law. So yeah, >> it doesn't I mean it would be if we wanted to change it to >>
034So we're suggesting that we >> post it >> posted move ahead >> the red line. >> Okay. Okay. And moving on. Um all right. Next on the agenda is um memorial policy or guidelines. Um so the board will discuss student memorials and the development of district policy and procedure. Um we put this on the agenda. Um we had a request or a public comment about a memorial. Um we do not have a policy to guide us in this. um in this issue. And so I recommend a a month ago I asked superintendent to create I gave an example of a of a policy from granite and some recommendations um from the what did the therapists association >> anyway. Okay. So yeah. Um so we talked about this again in agenda planning the other day and
035and thought that the best avenue would be um creating an a committee um to look at um well I I would rather go to the with the go to the committee with a draft policy >> agreed >> and have them look at that and then and then proceed from there. I don't think we talked about committee have a hard time creating a policy especially if it's well it has to look like a policy right so because what comes back is just a lot of um a lot of information >> yeah so >> um I guess we also talked about this is not this I know it feels like it's a time crunch but I you know I I don't this isn't as time crunched as we um we can wait for teachers to come back
036in >> in school. We can ask a couple teachers to be on the committee. We can ask Kelly thoughts >> um because I know she has, you know, some insight. That's where I've learned a lot about um this sort of thing. Um so we have to create the policy forward that >> well and as we I don't know usually Matt what how how does that work? I we don't need to recreate the wheel here. I think that we can um reach out, research, look at other school districts in the state of Utah that have policies, tweak that, get a rough draft, make it unique to us, take that that draft to a committee. Um have, you know, get some feedback from like people who specialize in that, whether it's Kelly Vox or or members of
037that team, and then bring a proposed policy to the board. Um I don't know what the time frame on that would be if like when when everybody gets back in session and are back in on contract and we get going through that but it's something that we can start uh right now and then just go forward and I can visit with the superintendent about uh what role he wants to play in in that and and leading that and we can go from there. >> That would be that would be ideal. I think we want to make sure that we're thinking this out again at a systems level um before before proceeding forward with anything >> part. Have you looked at other policies? >> Do they include things like codes like building codes and all that
038kind of stuff, you know, like when you're thinking about placement as far as making sure I don't know. I was just curious. >> Granite doesn't do any. Their policy is they don't do any. >> Oh, okay. That's theirs. But I'm sure other school I'm just curious like you know if you want to put it in front of the school make sure there's patterns and all you know >> that would be too considered. >> I don't know if that would be in the policy but anything that we built would be code and right through that process and and drawn out. It wouldn't just be >> and like whoever designs it has to make sure that it's >> we wouldn't just be doing >> I don't know. I don't know a lot about construction, but I would
039think if it's becomes something that happens, hopefully not that often, you know, but I just wondering how that work. I >> I think I think that's really simple. I think the hard part is determining >> right >> all of the effects that this memorial will have on all of the students, not just >> not 90%, everybody. >> I'm not even coming at it from that. >> Yeah. And I think that's more what Granite and other people are looking at. >> Gotcha. building of it. It's >> that's the minor part. I was thinking that the >> Okay, there's a lot of likeing and all that stuff. >> Um, >> thank you. I just needed >> Yeah, that's why we're at this miracle. I'm like, well, I can go back to my looking at my cabin. I
040don't want to use my phone on, but I have a camera right here that's looking stuff in my cabin. >> All right. Um, let's see. Convocation and new staff meetings. Um, Mike's not here to discuss that. We did everybody get a letter and so we kind of know >> um thank you to Shay for sending that out. >> Um, you're gone for that. Well, I'm here for the >> I'm here on the 6th in the morning. >> Oh, yeah. Our friends hoping I'm hoping to be there for some of that because my I'm leaving out of Moab flying out and I think the flights are all good. >> Do we have any if there are any questions about it? Um, send it to Nishay and she can >> is all over that. >> She knows
041all the answers. That's right. So all over. >> Um I do have a question about where where do the where does I got an email from a about sweatshirt sizes. Where is that a budgeted line item >> that is coming out of superintendent discretionary funds I believe. >> Okay. >> Because we've done we've done t-shirts. So it's just a little bit more expensive than t-shirt if he has a line. Yes, there is one. >> Then I'll send then I'll send back my sites. >> Yes. Okay. >> Um and to be aware like what when I was talking to Lindsay and numerous people, a lot of people do not check their emails during the summer. >> I know. We'll guess for them. >> Good idea. >> We didn't respond. Yeah. >> And he said immediately, he
042said immediately respond. >> Do you haven't done it yet? >> It was a really long survey. I had to hit a size. >> I know. It was real hard, huh? >> It was tough. >> Good thing you didn't have colors cuz >> Was there a survey? Can I miss that? >> No, I think this came. >> It just says what size. >> Okay. Goodie size. >> Okay. Um, >> moving on. Power schools enrollment registration update. So, uh, the dream that is power schools continues and we are learning and going through our growing pains. We did have a little bump. Uh, Kim is here to answer any questions you guys might have. I don't know who somebody requested this, but if you have specific questions about that um, happy to answer them. We we are registration
043is open. >> I registered all three of my children yesterday in preparation for this meeting. It was um easy. Sure. Yeah, that's easy. Um it looks different than last year. Completely different view like it was what I was expect but it was easier than last year. Yeah. >> So, and then I did um I think the only thing that I might have not done correctly, but I feel like I figured it out. But I copied it. Asks you can cop you want to copy your kids. Um and I did that, but then I didn't notice if I had I just went through again and went through the all the tabs. I don't know if I had to do that or if it just if that copy and paste does the first two tabs or if
044it does it all. >> It should do it all. And so that was like our big takeaway from last year was just that there was like a lot that had to be generated over and over and over again. Yes. >> And so we started off by just doing a public, you know, PSA of like, hey, we heard you. First year was not ideal. We're going to do our best to improve it. And so the big thing we worked on with Power School was automating things that were going to be the same information. So like the only things that should have been different was like if it asked like household questions, those may be different than my children just in case there was two families living together. But whenever it was like my children, my children,
045my children for like, you know, the free and reduced lunch and for uh transportation, all of that was able to just be autofilled. And so we did um Coloulton worked on it a lot. That was like a huge project that we worked on the last like eight weeks. And um Matt was super supportive of helping us do the upgrade because the last the last program was a little bit more like build your own which >> for such a small team was not obviously enough support from them. And so we got um a lot more kind of like a a programming support from P school to make it work more logically this time. And the things that um we the secretaries helped a lot too with enrolling their kids early, giving us kind of feedback. And
046then um the big change was just that the portal where parents logged in um we had to roll that over with our power school year and we were working with our end of year submission to the state in the midst of all of this and you can open up and we can open up registration like in January and have people registering for the next year but we can't roll over our whole parent platform until the whole P school database is ready for the end ofear submission. So there was like a little bit of uh confusion about that and NH put out a post on the second just clarifying that the parent portal is still waiting for the rollover. Um I believe Colton just rolled it over today. We haven't posted that yet to parents. Um,
047but basically when parents log in, they won't see all of their class placements, which is kind of what we were hoping with HMK because there's still some work that the counselors are doing at the secondary level to finalize schedules. But overall, I think every year our goal is to get it a little bit easier. So, this was like much more positive than last year. And we hope that, you know, parents feel that we heard them. And there was one parent that compared us to the DMV last year, which I still really took to heart. Like that's not I took that seriously that that was, you know, an action item to work on. But I do think it's a lot better. It did require a bigger lift of um just like we just need to be
048able to understand what we can take on for our own programming needs and what we need P school to support us with. And so it was a a much better experience. And so the goal is that the the parent portal will have all the class lists August 1. We'll have all of our um counselors and secretaries back helping for all of that. But um the goal is that next year we should be able to open it before school even out. >> So clarify. >> Yeah, >> I'm getting it. That was my question. So there's a parent portal which shows everything. You can find your TPA classes. >> That's your normal parent. That's my normal thing that >> this thing I just did was just I had to create a new account. >> Yeah. >> And
049basically do the all the forms >> so those but I won't but I had to create a new >> you will only need to use that login just for registration. >> Okay. So once once I'm going to go back to my old login. >> Yeah. >> Okay. That was >> so the the first login is your forever login. >> Okay. And this one was >> hope it doesn't update there. Okay, >> it should be it should be fine. The the and we we really wanted parents to just log in with the parent portal. Um and the reason why we couldn't do that was because the year hadn't been rolled over yet. So if so that that's the only caveat. We'll just have to decide next year like hey if we want to open up registration
050even earlier we can do that but we'll have to do that one time code again to >> parents. I think that's fine because I think that keeps it simple. um like it's just that those forms that you're filling out. Once you get into the parent portal, it kits there's a lot of information on that parent portal. >> And that parent portal stays the same. They should expect all the things that were in there before. They'll have all of that uh all the information that they saw before from like their GPA, their class placement, all of that will still be there. So, the parent portal didn't go away. It's just that we couldn't use the parent portal for registration while we were doing our end ofear submission with the state. >> So I I would be
051reminiscent if I didn't mention the fact that Michra, Carrie, and Colton have been rock stars in helping us try to navigate our powers school growing pains. >> It's gotten a lot better. I app I appreciate their efforts very very yeah I know Carrie's been working a lot with Colton on it to help with the admin side and like it's definitely been a huge look but I do think I'm really glad to hear it was a more positive experience >> it was easy >> how long did it take you for three kids >> oh I would probably 40 minutes >> okay >> um na maybe it could have been a half an hour >> and maybe next year it's just quicker Well, you I mean you have to my problem with the I have kids that
052have some like asthma. So I had to like once I click as like I I had to figure it out first because there is a button that you can go >> no medical things and it says no. But once you click yes all of them are required. >> And so then I had to go and say no no no no. But then I figured out I could just leave that >> no but then go down and click yes. I had there was a little bit of figuring it out for me. >> And the one thing we we had to update for all parents was that last year there was like a little bit of a data issue in our guardian tab which is just like guardian information. So this year we just basically asked all
053guardians to submit new contact information. But next year it will autofill because there was that issue last year with some of like the reporting haven't been as clean. So I think it will be even easier next year and this will help with like better reporting to the state for like our tribal affiliation, better reporting to the state um of like our like we updated our Mckini Vento for homelessness. So like the cleaner and easier we make our registration the better data we're going to get from our parents and so the it's just you know gets better cleaner data going forward. So, I do think it's it's definitely was an investment for upgrading the powers school resource from the enrollment express we had before to just enrollment. So, I do want to say that like that's
054a that was a a a financial undertaking this year that I do think paid off and I hope we can continue to stay with that solution because the previous one just didn't have enough programming built in without assuming we were going to do it ourselves which we just don't have the staff for. Mhm. >> Okay. >> There was one tab, sorry, I just remembered went on that main page and I had put my name and then um relationship and I couldn't I was other, not mother. So, um or whatever. And so I I couldn't update that. >> Okay, next time just take a photo. It's just like these tiny glitches. >> Yeah, it's like a tiny glitch. And then I was like, well, who really cares? But now that you said that, but you know
055it could be you might need to know that I'm not an other that I'm a mother. >> I don't other person >> but it was all but all the other kids were fine. It was just on Chloe that I was her other. So >> now this is not class schedules I'm assuming. Right. At this point it's not class. >> Right. Right. And the goal was originally that we would have all the because like right now our class like our class lists have already been finalized at HMK for a long time >> with the teachers and new teachers. So, we were just hoping that once registration was done, they could log into the portal, do their registration, see their class, and we were like, just wait, it's not going to be on the door. It's going
056to be in there. And then because of all of the hang up with the rollover and then the state submission, it just made it a little bit a couple extra steps. So, it will still be there. But again, I think just trying to be more transparent with the community of like, hey, these are the errors we've seen. We're working on it. We appreciate your feedback. I mean, that's the thing. the parents and the secretaries have been like the best and nay is still fielding calls every day for a couple parents that you know don't have their contact info updated so they didn't get the contact email and so the nice thing about starting it now is we have like you know a full six weeks to work through it and next year the hope would
057be that we would do it before school is out >> so that way they can go to summer they've already registered and then whenever we get the state to accept our end of year submission then we would just do the portal roll over then and it should be pretty >> or at least at least in June where we have secretaries in the building that can help. >> Yeah, for sure. >> But if you guys think of any other questions or you hear anything else from the community, feel free to send them my way. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> All right. Um HMK Elementary site alterations and upgrades. Matt, can you provide us an update? >> Yes. So, as you know, we're well into our project right now. Um, on the base bid, we have
05846 days remaining for substantial completion date. We're at 37%. Alternate uh is at 25% with 107 days remaining for substantial completion. Um, we have uh hit some hit some hurdles that we're navigating. um daily. Uh myself, MHTN, uh you know, our OAC meetings are tracking those very closely uh to address those concerns. Um all in all, uh you know, we're well, I right now we're a a little bit behind schedule. There is some optimistic thought that we can make up some of that ground uh with some uh changes to the submittal processes and things of that nature to kind of clear up some of the the management side hurdles that that we're that we're reaching. Um we do have we have gone through and sat down and and um designated priorities as far as areas
059we want done as we start to uh get closer to the school year in in in a priority list. Also, I met with Libby earlier this week for about four hours and we were talking about parent pickup and drop off and lining that out and getting a plan um as well as a contingency plan as well as another contingency plan and another contingency plan just because we live in a crazy world. We will be meeting as a group next week with uh Holly when she's here and uh bringing in Anna from transportation again just to iron out all those kinks and make sure that we know what we're doing as we continue to uh progress and go forward there. Um again, we're we're we're monitoring it very closely and supervising it and addressing the concerns
060as they come up. uh working very closely to address concerns and develop plans uh with the administration so that we're in the best possible position we can be when school starts. The substantial completion date for the base bid is August 25th and the alternate bid is October 25th. We do have a little bit of room there because we do have the the Sunwall Center where we'll be starting out preschool. Um and and that gives us some grace. That does not mean that we're making any um changes to substantial completion dates though. Questions? >> Jenna sleep. [Music] She's she passed. >> It's midnight. >> Is it? >> It's like midnight. >> She did lift your head up and shake her head. No, >> I'm here. I'm here. >> Okay. >> I didn't know you could see
061me. I thought if I had it on the >> video. >> If I had it on the agenda, you couldn't see me. I thought >> I was listening. >> Thank you. >> I was sleeping. >> Any questions? >> No. Okay. um bond refunding. >> Okay. So, I am working uh with Alec Buckton from Zans on our current bonds and considering uh wanting to move down the direction of possibly doing some refunding on those. And what refunding is a fancy way of saying retiring and reissuing. So, we're not talking about changing the maturity date or extending. We're simply talking about retiring existing bonds and reissuing new bonds to capture um lower interest. >> How's that different from refinance? >> Refinancing technically is the term we would use for if we're trying to strategically rearrange >> uh
062>> unlike the the >> debt or or remove covenants or >> Okay, that's things of that nature. So, we're simply just talking about re retiring and reissuing to capitalize on that on that interest. Right now, we're looking at it could a possible savings of $100,000 a year if we were able to do this. So, what I plan is to have um Alex down for next next month to talk about creating a parameters resolution and that just allows us to formally get the ball rolling in that direction. the board will have the ability to pull back and not do it at any time right up until we um actually reissue. So, we'll be monitoring and and there is kind of a window that we're shooting for October um November is it's a couple of month process
063and then just really seeing are the interest rates still trending in the way we think they're going to be trending. Is this what we want to do? So, this is just me coming to you guys, letting you know that next month my plan is to have him down to talk about setting uh a parameters resolution with with the board and he'll have some more information about the process. We're developing it. We're working on developing a calendar for that right now, calendar in advance to get this in place and and to go forward. So really, it's just an opportunity as we continue to do things um to h to to help with our capital, not a chance to possibly save like I said right now ballpark$100,000 to $140,000 a year. So it could it could be
064really beneficial and there's really no uh downside to it at this point. So we're just looking at that and trying to stay active. Questions? I think proactive is good. Okay, thank you. Um, high reliability schools surveys. Um, so on the agenda, >> so superintendent's not here to discuss this, but part of the high reliability schools process is doing a survey or an audit to see where we're actually sitting and to be really honest um, and capture where we're actually at. not where we want to be, not where we've been, >> where we're actually at as we >> go forward in implementing this process. >> So, these are just there for your information. >> Um, >> we did add them to the um enrollment so parents could preview them. There's a staff survey and then there's
065also a student survey. >> So, this is the staff. >> Oh, I didn't see it on the >> Is it under SEAL or something >> for students? I'm not sure if you with the folder that had all of the I think had it in there. >> Had it in there. It was a big >> Yeah, we just went ahead and added it at the last minute during enrollment. But um >> so do they usually do with they do student they ask students, they ask staff, they ask everybody. Do they ask community? >> Yeah, they have parents on here as well. There's like there's actually a parent one too that they gave us a PDF that we could use to give parents in like the drop off zone. we can send it out in a Google
066form and then we basically um the first step recommendation from Marzano was to administer the survey and then they collect we give the data to them and they look at the data and then they give us their recommendations for what to do for the level one. So the idea is that like we might we might get our survey back and have like you know parents seeing that this level but then we have students seeing this level and staff see so it's like they want us to get all three areas >> and we really that the emphasis that I took away from a couple of those sessions was really >> being honest in this part so that we're starting out >> from from an honest evaluation point of view. We don't want to pat it and
067make us look better than we are. We don't want to look worse than we are. we want to be and so just keeping that going forward as the emphasis as we as we educate uh the individual interested parties on >> this will basically be like the driving document that will guide the work of the first year. >> So hopefully this will be like this survey will be taken probably in within the first month of school probably. >> Yeah. Our goal was to get it done I think we said before the end of September. >> Um and I know Libby was talking about bringing it out to parents at drop off in paper form. They said we could do Google forms. We could have students do it orally and then we we don't have to analyze
068the data. We just collect and then the consultants help us to identify. >> Great. Is this a year one thing or is this a every year kind of thing? >> They didn't say, but what I did hear from what the the general consensus is that you should be developing a metric for all of these that are an ongoing measurement. So it's not that you're measuring it once. It's that as you're building your system, there's something in your system that is measuring that we didn't just work on level two, but we also maintained our level one the first year. So I don't know if it's this exact survey, but part of the actual process of getting certified is to like establishing a smart measure for each of the elements and that would have to be something
069we would be tracking throughout the year. And like I know one thing Libby had mentioned is that you know we might have some elements in the school that are on a level two or a level three. We might have some that are not even at a level one yet. So we'll have to be able to kind of let those all live on their own. But if we can't prove with something that is measurable, then we can't really do any of the systems. So the whole basis of the systems is having a measurable tracking um system in place to continue growth while also making sure you're not losing something you had last year. >> I think you'd be great. Yes. >> Okay. Any questions? All right. Um, next our district widths >> and we're superintendent is
070not here to discuss those. I think this is more of just an information starting place for you guys. Um, he's been the point on on on running that and so I'm not prepared to answer any specific questions about them. Um, but more just a a starting point for you guys to review and then we can definitely bring it back at at a work session if you have question or comment, but I'm not prepared to speak up to any of them. >> Yeah, I'm happy to explain what a wig is, though. That's helpful. >> So, it's a wildly important goal. >> You did you guys already do the the 40x step? >> We did some training in our last work session. >> Yeah. So I assume you guys all got together before the end of the
071year as admin. >> Yeah. >> And Yeah. And then came up everybody came up with their wig. >> So we had the district wig first which was the one we wrote all together and then every department had to make a wig to support the district goal. >> That's good. Okay. Moving on to staff community reports. Uh board committee reports. Has anybody met? >> Yeah, we did. A great coalition. All right. So, um let me just pull up. We're actually very productive in the summer. It's great. Um so we've been this was just sort of starting the process I guess working on our policies our vision um procedures with each of the representatives an agreement that we will sign and our responsibilities and and just starting that whole process of going through and and getting all
072of that taken care of. Obviously that's an on, you know, that's going to take a while, but we started that part and just talking a lot about it, you know, especially for you remembering with me, you know, it was very informative and I thought was great to do that. So that's what I Jeremy, is that a good summary? >> I wasn't I wasn't there. >> Yeah, you weren't. I know you weren't there, but that was that was the idea. >> Yeah, >> with the notion of of creating so that folks can contribute um as well as Yeah. having kind of an agreement for the next year so that folks that are involved in the great coalition are doing this community of care action are committed for the year uh to what we're doing now and
073then that they can commit again next year and we'll review that process on a year-to-year basis. Does the great commission great coalition have like a goal unifying goal because this is prevention. This is generally prevention and >> so the notion over time is to create the >> CS is to create a countywide prevention. >> Okay. So we're working up to that in terms of the systems that the communities of care process. So, we're learning all the communities of care coalition rules and systems and best practices so that we can collectively do the research um and set a countywide prevention goal. >> And the prevention goal could be reduce teen pregnancy, reduce drug use, reduce but do you choose one like a year like >> it's generally one. >> Okay. >> And then they work on
074that and then they reup their goal over time. >> Okay. Um but yeah, Beth has been doing the base training for that. Um >> so do we have a do we have a goal right? Like we're still Yeah, we're working on getting a vision. So and even the you know where we went to for Bryce, you know, learning so much more about I mean it it was it all kind of makes sense now. Like when I first came aboard, I'm trying to figure all that out, but now it's starting to okay, this is a plan. This is like a >> a route to get to that. I don't know. For me, that's what I took away from it. Yeah. >> Yeah. I mean, we'll obviously be in touch. >> Yeah. You guys, >> it's a
075very it's a very productive um group meeting. I like that. >> The rest of us for slackers. >> No, no, it's just I've I've been on other committees in in my time and you know, this is very >> Yeah. Cool. >> All right. Next is business administrator report. He doesn't have one. He's locked out. >> Um we'll see. We got to start taking this phone away from him. He had an important call. I could tell it was like, "Holy crap, >> I can hear him talking." >> Yeah, I know. >> Um, we'll go to the community coordinator report. Um, so Jeremy uh submitted his report. >> Sorry, I didn't know we were having a meeting. I just got back from >> Are you apologizing for this report? >> No, I just didn't turn it in
076until yesterday. Oh, >> um I think there's the calendar that you're I think so all those are clickable. Dave, >> you can click on those blue underlined. >> I >> did you know look Kathy didn't know I should I just didn't I wasn't thinking I should have known that we could click. >> So you click on that calendar and you can see all the um different things. I thought that was >> I'm trying to set dates for everything this year so that it's really clear and it's lined out for all the staff. We've been doing a lot of these events year after year. So, I figured I can just set them now and then set it and forget it. >> Um or have it have it, you know, ready for our staff to be able
077to engage and they know when things are coming up and you all will know coming up. I don't have everything done yet. I've got some some dates to set for Native Club stuff. have dates to set for um for USU projects because I'm still waiting for Sam. She's been on vacation. I'm just working with her staff to set dates. Um yeah, I've been busy. I'm trying to work on the with home school community to engage more of them in the district and try to bring more into the fold. um that I'm treading gently because homeschool parents don't always aren't aren't always immediately ready to come back to school district. So, I've been developing relationships and be becoming a liazison is the idea for that those families and a a bridge to the district. Um a
078bunch of other stuff on there. >> You guys have any questions for me? I appreciated the summary information that we read about the the new um the new charter school program. >> Yeah. >> Appreciate that. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Yeah. It'll be curious to see what that group ends up how how successful they are. Um they're organized well to interact with that homechool group. So if I'm trying to bring in those families, they've already got a system in place that they use all over the state that works well with those homeschool families to bring them in one day a week. So it's, you know, it's a it's not simple. Um, but I'm but I'm making some inroads and I've had some positive meetings with parents um with the notion of going to group meetings.
079So when there's like group hangs with multiple families, be able to chat with those folks um and being a you know a friendly connected force for the district for those families. >> Is it is it more about those families that you're talking about um a I don't know how to say it wanting to be a part of the this program like that they agree with that >> the whole teaching. >> I I haven't heard specifically in terms of what uh you know >> their new They'll be new to this program just as any of us in this community are. >> Yeah. >> Um >> it's just set up for those families so that folks that want to do social time can just do that one day a week model. And that's an appeal I think
080to lots of comfortable families who would love to do events in the district. And so I'll be connecting with our our staffs at each school to say is there room for you know event spaces where homeschooled families can connect? What? And I probably should talk to Matt about legal ease about certain things, but things that I run, things like demonstrations, maybe we can engage with comfortable families in those spaces where I I can create spaces to do that or, you know, our Hispanic Heritage Month family nights. Like those things are not a a leap for homeschool families or the community to be involved. >> I think legally they have to be involved. They they can be involved. >> Legally they can be involved. Exactly. Right. So I so so being explicit with this family and
081saying here here's a a list of things for for you to come check out this year that kind of stuff hopefully will bear some fruit for us. >> I think that's I think that's great. Keep them let them know that we're still thinking about them. We'd love to have them back. >> Yeah, exactly. And and then I've been working on a bunch of attendance stuff. um hoped to be able to connect with Ki because um as Dolores is Dolores was taking the lead on that and so now that she's out working with Ki more about attendance campaigning at the high school and more information come from there I've worked with with Carrie and Livia a good chunk already to try to get some stuff set up for them. >> All right, thank you. Um you
082don't Matt, do you have a business administrator report? Okay. Okay. Consent agenda. Um on the consent agenda tonight, we have the minutes from board work session June 11th, the minutes from June 25th, the minutes from 20 the 27th. We have the personnel list. um the financial reports from June check register expenditure report and revenue report and we have the salary schedules uh the admin salary schedule the classified salary schedule the director salary schedule instructional coach salary schedule salary schedule teacher salary schedule and therapist salary schedule um that was um what we negotiated and um put in our budget. Is there a >> a motion to approve the consent agenda with all those items you read? >> Is there a second? A second. Dave behind to approve the consent agenda. Um, I usually don't ask for
083um, discussion, but I have one specific thing that I want to talk about really quick on the personnel list. Um, we we are doing interviews on Friday at 1 and two for the AP um, position. I'd like a board member on that um, interview committee. And so um are there any >> what time? >> One and two, right? >> That was what was >> I'd like. That's what you're asking. >> That's what I'm I'm asking for. Yeah. Donations. No. Uh volunteers. >> We can I would It's a small pretty small. Yeah. >> Yes. It's small. >> So if you want it rock paper scissors for it. Yeah. So you have two interviews for AP. Is that what you're doing of right now? >> Yes. At 1:00 and at 2 o'clock. Should be about a 45m
084minute interview. Right now they're both in person. One might be via Zoom depending on travel plans, but I've encouraged them in person. >> Can you do it, Melissa? >> I Yeah, I can do it as well. Oh, I assumed you were already going to be there. No, >> no. It's somebody. >> It's I just want a board member there. >> Oh, I would No. I would defer to you to be there, >> but other things. Yeah. I I misunderstood. I assumed that you were going to be there. >> No, I'm not there. >> But I I mean I know Dave works closely with if Dave wants to do it as well. Like I think >> it as a parent, >> you do it. >> Yeah. I was just going to say if nobody else was
085interested, I wouldn't mind it. But no, >> you know me, I want to keep it on task. >> Good. Good for you. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> All right. That was my time. >> That's it. You got it. Well, >> um yeah. All those in favor of approving the consent agenda say I >> I. >> That passes 5. I won't. I need something to take. >> Okay. Next, um action items. We have the um G FGAB. >> That's the electronic device policy we talked about. Yep. >> So, if there's no action on that, that's fine. >> I would accept a motion to post or post. >> Okay. um FGAB student comment policy electronic devices um for public comment. I'll make that motion. I'll second that. >> Okay. Um Kathy Williams makes a motion to post
086Gr County School District policy FGAB student policy electronic devices for public comment. green. Um, second it. Any discussion? We post the We don't post the red line. We post the Do we Do you post the red line or you post the draft? >> We post the red line. >> Okay. So, you can see the changes. Okay. >> Um, any other questions, discussions? >> All those in favor say I. I >> I >> opposed just in case. Okay, that was 5-0. All right, next is the state school-based mental health screening. The board must submit their record of determination to the state board indicating whether our LEA will be participating or nonparticipating for the 2526 school year. This determination must be submitted by August 1st. Um, Kelly Bots um has in the past we have not participated
087due to lack of resources. Um, we did get an email if you want to. Um, >> so I >> Yeah, just just briefly from a a perspective again, this is one of those uh deals where the road to hell is paved with good intentions, right? If we participate in the screening and identify, then we are responsible for the services and we don't have the resource to provide the services. Therefore, we can't participate in in the screening. Does that make sense? >> So, this would be for identifying children with serious mental health problems. And and I don't know that when you say serious, I don't know exactly what that >> but or Kelly has come in the past >> um past board meetings and presented this in person where >> and that was her reasoning of
088you know we're we're still screening >> um yeah >> as well as as much as we can if we I think this is a a survey >> so it would be kids are filling out surveys and once that kid fills out that survey ident then they're identified. It's not that we're not trying to address >> I think it's the ser it's that it's that mechanism of how we're identifying it >> and what we're doing to Yeah. And so if we start identifying >> um we don't we're gonna have lots of kids that we do not it's a it's a it's a catch 22 right >> and it's not something I take it that is required by >> it's it's not required >> it's not required that is required that we submit our determination um >>
089and that being said historically we have not done I tried to research it a little bit today >> um and didn't get very far but that's where I'm at >> and so this is outside of the classroom. So obviously if a teacher, you know, if they see and they need to, you know, go through testing and all of that, that's that's nothing to do with that. >> So we're saying we're not participating. >> We're not participating in this specific. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I understand. >> Okay. >> I just got to get the non or the not because sometimes >> she's recommending not to participate in >> Yeah. We have to take that's Kelly's recommendation. She would be the authority. you have to >> if we don't have the resources to do it, it wouldn't
090make any sense to try to it just doesn't make sense. >> Yeah. And you know, I remember previous years Kelly, you know, they're doing they're identifying as much as they they're >> not have to do something about it. >> So, um I think we do have to approve non-participation. move to approve the submission to the state that we will not be >> or we say I move that >> I'll accept it. Who's gonna move that? >> What's that? >> You want to make the motion? >> Oh yeah. I I motion to um to notify the state that we will not be participating in this program. >> Is there a second? Second. >> Lauren Lee Green makes a motion. Uh Kevin Williams second to this is a weird approve submission to the state board that our
091LEA will not be a nonparticipant LEA for the 2526 school year. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. >> That passes 5-0. >> Um all right. Communications. >> Um can I can I throw you a curveball? Maybe >> if Well, it depends on how long we're going to go into communications and advanced planning, but I do have to travel to Salt Lake tonight. >> Oh, yeah. >> So, and we do need to have an executive session. >> Yeah. Okay. >> So, if we could move that above communications and advanced planning >> if that please the the board. >> Um, do we have any communications? >> No. Kathy. >> Nope. >> Okay. >> So, I'm vetoing that. >> Shannon. >> No. >> I got one. Um uh yeah, we can go into advanced
092planning after the executive. >> Okay. Um so I'll let's do a quick recess. Um and then we'll come back just >> so I'll accept a motion to recess. I'll make a motion to recess. Is there a second? Okay. Kathy Williams makes a motion. Dave site seconds. All in favor say I. >> I. We'll recess at 6:35. Jenna, what time is in there? >> I can't stay. 12:35. >> I'm going to bed. >> Are you exhausted? >> Yes. Yes. Okay, I'm tagging now. >> Okay. >> Good night. >> Bye. >> I'm done. >> I don't even I don't know that I'm gonna even think about it when I'm Do you ever been to Italy? >> Yeah, it's even farther. >> You going to Italy >> in time? >> Like it's even going to Arizona. Just got
093back from >> It's been softball summer. Is that hot? >> It was pretty hot. >> Oh wow. That is a lot. >> I think I can put Did you see any smoke from the right on the >> We came back. >> Well, there's two fires. >> Two fire. I just wanted to hear >> I had a picture of me over in front of it. I'm like, >> you know, >> okay. >> Yep. Thanks for coming by. >> Okay. Thank you. appreciate it. Appreciate all you do. >> Two, if we're going to do it, we got to do it. >> But then two, I'm hearing >> Nick's feedback about participation and how long we've actually done it. So, I was trying to get more information. >> third year. >> Yeah. Okay. >> The third year. Uh,
094first year we did it at Red Cliffs. Last year we did it at this fourth year. >> We did it at Red Cliffs and I didn't get invited to that. >> You weren't there. you get uh we did it right >> either. >> They gave they gave us the space for free. It was pretty freaking hot. >> Uh >> hotter than like temperature wise. >> Yeah, because they gave us the outdoor space and it was okay. It was it was fun and I I put a lot of time into that and we did like trivia and it was super fun. This year Here's my thought for this year. >> I think that the helipad will give us their space. It's pretty nice. It's tucked in behind the barbecue joint. >> So what I have what
095I have and what I'll do. >> Oh my gosh. >> A three hour four hour car ride with Jerry and I'll be here Friday. >> So my my thought is we could barbecue and we could do it well. >> Okay. >> Uh I you know I wouldn't screw around. We do a nice marinade. We do chicken. We do like fajita style. And I'll just do it in house. And I can probably get Nicholas to give us a set of cost. >> Is this a your house or >> this is a your house? And we have the big barbecue at the at the middle school, so we could just do it there. >> Put all your thoughts together and we can talk either Friday or Monday. >> Dave said he wants to record. >> Did you
096see I completed all my classes? I got one and I got >> so worried about it. >> Oh, you did all your vectors? >> Whatever. I just did whatever. All those different things they told me I had to do to be to be a board member. >> Oh, okay. The Dave I actually think it would be it wouldn't be a bad move. I want to do we've done a back to school party you know the last couple years >> and we had it catered and with food cost my guess it would be about $3500 for us to do it this year >> right on the cheap right uh but I think we should just cook in house >> and I probably get food from Melody for cheap is my guess >> and then chicken but
097if the board wanted to cook like be the barbecue for it. That's that's always like a good look. >> Mhm. >> Um, >> so >> we know I want to cook. >> I'll throw I'll throw it out there. So, we'll I'll do the marinade and like the pre-repped and stuff like that and we'll just grill. I thought we we could just do like chicken fajitas for this. >> Are we talking about a party? >> Uh, because Matt Matt and Mike and Jerry have been really wary this year because we don't have any money, right? Right? We have we have very low budget. So we don't want to spend a bunch and they're already spending money on convocation. The flip side of it is that the what teachers say is they don't feel connected to each
098other, right? That their morale is well and we have a bunch of new staff coming in again, right? So we'll have a new vice principal, a new principal, a new CTE director, we have new staff in different place, new teachers. So having that space that is more nonchalant for people to connect. >> Where were you going to thinking of doing it then? >> I'm thinking of doing it at the trying to do it at the helipad. You know where that is? >> Yeah, that's a great idea. >> It's a really beautiful space and they're a nonprofit. >> Very casual. >> It's a very nice space. It's got a nice lawn so people can be inside and outside. >> I figure I'll do um like karaoke indoors. We can do um trivia night. before like a
099trivia. >> I've done I've done trivia before. I did that at Red Cliffs, >> right? >> So, that was fun. >> We can do lawn games again. People can just be nonchalant. >> I don't know what the rules is for alcohol there. My thought would be that we could do a Bob if they'll allow us to do it. >> It would have permission for city probably, right? For what? >> No, because that that's totally privately held. >> So, they're you get in a BOB. >> Okay. Matt says no way of eating. >> I like to drink the dead end of street on the west end of street. Remember where the old um >> Do I need to be in that store? >> That's right. >> I didn't know that. >> Yeah. Yeah. I don't know
100what it used to be. It used to be like a shop or something. >> Oh, there was. Yes, there was one. >> You need to stay with the recorded >> kind of a hippie groovy. >> I will throw out some ideas for that. But we we'll see. Um if we cook, you guys should help cook because that's a nice look >> and it's not a big deal and it's also >> less pressure for you to have to make too. >> Okay. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> My son just came home. >> Oh, he's in my college. >> The mother got in the car. that I ended up paying several thousand. >> Make sure it's safe. >> Oh dear. >> And now we got to throw the towel. So >> I ended up buying him a truck
101so I could give him my truck. >> Oh my goodness. >> Well, we'll talk later. >> You ready? I got to crack the whip. I just got to get out of here. >> Um All right. Uh come out of recess. at 6:43. Is Jenna still here? >> No, she left. Okay. Um, uh, Jenna gone at 6:43. Okay. >> She left at at 6:30 6:36. >> Okay. Okay. Um, we needed executive session. I would move we go into executive session for personnel >> personnel >> character and competency and possible litigation >> two different things. >> Oh could be >> I will second that. Okay, Dave Beers makes a motion. Kathy Williams sec seconds to go into executive session for um personnel character and competency and uh possible litigation. Um roll call vote. >> Marley Green here.
102>> Yes. Yes or no? >> I never know what to say. >> I'm just letting you know I'm here. Well, that's a word. Yes. Not in Iceland. >> Kathy Williams. Yes. >> D. >> All right. That's 4 Z. And Jenna is is not here. And we will uh go into executive at 6:44 and turn off the recorder. >> We're going to start with pending or possible location. >> Is it back on? >> Do I need to be back on? >> Yes, please. Okay. Okay. Recorder is on at 6:44. >> Take notes. Recording. >> Okay. Recorder is on at 6:44. We are >> Oh, we are still here. >> Okay. We're going to turn off whatever. Okay. Do you want me to just mute it?