TCSD #1 Board of Education Regular Meeting March 11, 2026

001We'll call this uh Teton County School District March 11th, 2026 school board meeting back into session. Uh we'll start off with our pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, and liberty and justice. >> Uh, tonight we can start off with our mission statement. Um, Trusty Bosch, do you mind reading off? Um, >> I can't see anything right here. >> Oh, thank you. Yeah. >> Which would you like? Whichever one you choice. >> That one. >> Okay. Let's just go with the mission statement. Our mission is to ensure that all students have the foundation for success and are challenged to reach their full potential. >> Um, next on we have our approval of the agenda. >> Mr. Chair,

002I move the agenda as presented. >> Have a second. >> Second. All in favor? >> I any oppose? >> Okay. Um and then we move into Chris the superintendent report. >> Chairman Abrams trustees. Um good evening and good evening to everyone here tonight. Thank you for your time regarding our board meeting. Um we're going to start um with a celebration in regards to recognizing our uh partners in connection award. Um if I can please have uh Dr. Samuel Singer and his crew please come to the podium. Also join stand is Shauna Earl, one of our outstanding teachers at Jackson Hill High School. John, can you please introduce our guests? >> Yeah, I I have the distinct honor of um introducing people that have really become a great part of the API program and a part

003of our community. And I just want to recognize Sam and the Wyoming Stargazers. Uh number one, Sam, like every year our tutors, they just show up. Sam does a ton of work behind the scenes to get these tutors to us. Um they're, you know, as Michelle Brook said, they're astrophysicists and they're coming into our classrooms and they're being a big part of our kids' lives. Um they make our rooms so bright and active and they make looking smart look cool. And uh I just want to thank for putting in the work every year to make sure that we have at least three tutors at the middle school and the high school. Um, it helps us with alignment in our classrooms because these tutors are in our AVID classrooms throughout the day. So, they let us

004know what other teachers are doing so that we're all aligned and it really helps us synchronize that. And then out of the classroom, I know that they've been volunteering. They've been a part of our sports. They've gone to our kids um plays and concerts and they are just a big part of our community and they're from all over the world. and it's just amazing to be able to have um a partnership like this within our community that's made such a big impact in the classroom. So, thank you, Sam. And >> thank you. >> And um yeah, I I really appreciate this recognition, but I I want to say that it's been hugely beneficial for us as well. This partnership really came out of some mutual need. Um, we do stargazing programs during the summertime, a

005lot of them, but it's way harder to convince people to stand outside when it's zero or below to do stargazing programs. So, I needed a way to employ my staff year round. AVID teachers needed some tutors. And so, we found a way to create year-round positions for my staff and in doing so, help several hundred kids um, every year um, learn STEM and and get help with the rest of their homework. So, I really feel like this is an incredible win-win partnership and I hope we can keep doing it for years on end. >> You mentioned >> Yeah. And you know, as Shauna said, I I just do the background logistics, administrative stuff. The people who are really making the magic happen are our tutors. So, please introduce yourselves and just say one quick thing

006about AVIT that you that you enjoy. >> Um, I'm Sarah. I make the middle school AI classes and I really love the range of students I get in my classes. There are students from all sorts of backgrounds and it's really cool to make connections with them and watch them grow throughout the school year. >> Uh my name is Ben. I am at the high school. I've been there for just over two years now and I've had the pleasure of working with some students over a long period of time. So getting to see them grow. I Lisa, they're one of them, right? Um, and one of the things I really do love is I uh in the AVID program there are a lot of firstgen students and I'm also a firstgen student and I didn't have

007the resources and the access to some of the knowledge that Shama here provides to the students. So I'm actually super helpful or super grateful to be able to provide um this to the students or provide the uh assistance to the students something that didn't happen. Hi, I'm Anasi and I also help out with the high school habit and I think some of the best part I was sharing this with Shauna as well is when I help someone with physics or math and they like get it and their like mind just brights up and I'm like oh yeah so it just feels nice to use my physics degree to what my physics degree to use and also since I just graduated from college it's also nice mentoring the seniors especially and I let them know what

008the college life is like but I'm really enjoying it I Lily, I'm at Summit. Um, and but yeah, I like I'll reiterate everything they said. I really have loved watching them learn and grow confidence in themselves, especially at summit. And I also have learned a lot about myself. I love teaching. I love education that I didn't have any experience in that before this. Um, and I'm just really grateful. So, thank you. I always have to say something. I'm sorry. I just Lily just reminded me of something. So, we currently have two one one potential teacher applying person jobs this coming year and we have one teacher that was a stargazing tutor who works at my school teaching math. So, it's a great pipeline as well to not only inspire future teachers but also to have

009them here. I know they want to be here and teach. So, sorry. Yeah, they their takes are best in bright. >> Thank you. >> Wonderful to see that our teachers so excited about these community partnerships as well. Um, next up, district leaders report. Oh, wait, no, another celebration. Director Hansen. Um, thanks for Mr. Leand for joining us. We, uh, have two students who we'd like to present. So, I think I saw they're over here. They're over here. Um, who won Wyoming High School Activities Association Sportsmanship. Some of, um, at least one of these students has won a number of good sportsmanship award winners. So, we're excited to have her here. Um, we'd like to thank you girls for doing an excellent job representing yourselves and the community as a whole um, at our events and

010showing good sports sportsmanship around the state. And Mr. Liber, you want to add something as well? >> Uh, thank you, Mr. Hansen. Um, I know this is about sportsmanship, but I get the opportunity to see them in their volleyball games and their basketball games. And they're also two of the fiercest competitors you'll ever find on the court. And uh, I really enjoy watching them compete and they're great representatives for the school. >> Girls, if you want to say your names as well. Thank you, girls. >> Thank you. Thank you. That wraps up the celebrations. Congratulations everybody. Next up is the district leaders report. Um, any questions for superintendent or anyone else from the district leaders report? >> Crickets. >> Uh, Trusty Bosch. >> So, I have a question uh for director Sanderson. Can you explain

011this chart that's in here? >> I just didn't understand. and it looks like it's going a direction that um concerns me but I don't understand it. So, >> okay. Great question. Sandra Sanderson, directoration middle school recently did an assessment of Spanish reading with all the dual students and these are the so green this is all the green is all the proficient students. So, we have a lot of students who can read at level in Spanish. So the reason why I put it in there is because sometimes we rely on white do data only and it doesn't represent the skills that some of the students have and here you can see that we have a strong readers. >> So when I'm looking at all that green that's positive yeah all the kids >> proficient. Yes. And

012then I counted the blue they are in on on watch but because they are bilingual students that is still a very strong ability to read. >> Okay great okay that's good. Thank you >> Jordan. >> Um I was impressed with the same um set of data here that you have 81% of your bilingual students >> yeah that's including the right >> proficient in reading. So, when do they transfer those skills over to reading in English? How long is it like a couple of years? How and how do they do it? Is it a sort of seamless thing that they eventually fall into being able to read in English or what? >> Uh, it really depends because you have native English speakers who are learning Spanish. So they are going to transfer that English ability, the

013Spanish uh researches in seven, eight years, right? So we expect that by the time they are in middle school, they are leveling up in the two languages. >> Um on the other side can you have the Spanish native speakers who will be developing the two languages and schedule also. So the expectation is by by middle school they should be level and develop in the both languages. But it really depends. We have a very diverse population. kids who come in in the middle of elementary or later in the year. So if they start in kinder then they will follow that trajectory but it's really going to change depending on the time when they enrolled. >> Well as a learner of second languages I know it helps me in grammar. >> I'm not sure how well I

014become fluent in reading that language. Um, but I do learn a lot of grammar and and sentence structure. But I was wondering about the Spanish speakers >> transferring what they already know. >> Are they able to do it without much guidance? >> No, we definitely especially at Monger they do a lot of transferring. So they are teaching them intentionally how their languages are connected. So they develop that ability with time. And then um our dual program at the middle school is also focusing on using that that foundational language. So the first language to transfer and make the connections to the second language and the thing is that this test is just pure reading whereas the measurement in Spanish but in English we have this white is really a more complex is assessing a more complex

015skills which is charts. Um >> because I've seen studies that say if they're good at reading in their native language, they can eventually be good at reading in their second language. >> Yeah, that's definitely true. If you have a strong foundational of your home language, that decision of the second language will be faster. >> But there's not direct tuition in that. Does our school district offer direct uh teaching >> for making that transfer? >> Yes, we do. >> We do. >> That's why we're assessing their Spanish skills so we can leverage those skills and we can help them learn their languages. >> Any other question? >> Cool. >> Anyone else? Okay. Um, I wanted to just say thank you for everyone involved in the Special Olympics. Always, um, great to see that representation and giving

016everyone that opportunity to get out there and compete. Um, Jenna, thanks for the support for Jaylen over on the fence. Um, two silver medals. That's um, very impressive for our community and to celebrate that. and all those spelling be winners. Congratulations. And hopefully we'll be sending winners to visit in Rock Springs. Is that where it's held every year? The state statewide. So hopefully students will have interest in doing that. And then um appreciate all the extra work that teachers and admin put forth for the parent teacher conferences. I know once when we get into the middle school and high school, it can be quite a roundroin for the number of students those teachers cover. also big u push for menary students as well and those teachers. Thank you. Um next up we have reports and

017items for discussion. We have start off with our student school board. Looks like the two of you are um holding up the the other two very strong tonight. Thank you. Um we have one person out sick, another person trying out for some soccer. I'll hand it over to you too. >> Madam chair, trustees, um, >> um, so for the water bottle, we may make a little announcement that we're going to be sending out to all the schools so that we can uh, promote it. And it's basically saying if you have extra clean, reusable bottles, um, gathering dust at home, please bring them in. um is the collection bins are like wherever the school is going to place them and we have those coming in. >> Um >> Mr. Hson's helping >> us. >> So are

018you giving it out for free? >> The the water bottles, what what's happening? >> Yeah. Those are like water bottles getting donated from kids that don't use them anymore. >> Can give those out so we could um keep our sustainability so that we can reuse them, give them to kids who like would want them. >> Parents can stop buying four water bottles. >> Yeah. And then for the bus line, we set a date and that'll be April 17th. Um and we got the students for sustainability to come help us. Um, and we um finally got a contact from the MSU. So, we'll be they taking pictures so that we can get them on the little website that we're going to create so that if parents can't go pick them up. Um, this is just a

019sort through date, but we're still going to put the date. Um, so that parents can't go, they can just look at the pictures through the website. >> Do you want to explain what MSU site is? Yeah, it's just like the MSU website's just a website where everything's organized by like water bottles, hats, jackets, and things like that. And then parents can scroll and find their lost items. >> Yeah. So, if it's harder for like parents to go and search or attend like our sort through, they can just go on their phone and quickly look up water bottles jackets that we have uploaded. >> Yeah. And these are the labels we are trying to buy just to prevent from kids losing stuff again. So water bottles like cartoons only give fun for elementary. And our next

020step is working with schools to get those bins and start our water drive. And then we'll try to get those cute little sticker for our waters. And finally, we're going to hopefully start the process of clearing and sorting throughout the bus barn. >> Yeah. and >> um with sustainability and maybe key club we can get volunteers to come help us and they can get their volunteer hours. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Trustees, one comment. We are in the process of um sending out the applications for next year's group. I'm trying to get that going a little earlier this year so we can identify our next group. So, I'm asking please help us spread the applications around and encourage your peers to apply creeping in. Can I ask one clarification question just for clarity? Will

021did I hear that the website that you're developing will allow a parent to go online my my my daughter left lost their water bottle and search to try to find it at a lo school location. Yeah. So, we would go in and take pictures of all the missing items so we can just find their >> Thank you. >> Welcome, Diego. >> Okay. >> Uh, next up we have fiscal management committee report. >> Uh, yes, Mr. Chairman, we met It was two weeks ago. >> Yes. >> Two Tuesdays ago. Um and we did a deep dive and had a presentation in the finance committee on from our insurance agent insurance who came over from Casper provided us a nice uh PowerPoint conversation and we we discussed where we were going with all the changes coming through

022and Kristen will fill us in on the uh really good details. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, as is typical this time of year, here's our budget update. Um, nothing shocking or surprising. That's everything's moving along as it should be. Um, as far as insurance compensation package budget, that's we're we're in that time of year. The session has closed and uh we're starting to put all of that together. Um, I have I I haven't actually received the one bid that we did receive from United Healthcare yet. I should have that in advance of the finance committee meeting next Tuesday. Uh, so we'll share all of the renewal information that we have. Then we should have a bid from United Healthcare, definitely one from Sigma. We're also seeking one from Whisbait, which is the WSBA um

023version of insurance. I know uh in speaking with Heather Shawn um they use United Healthcare as their provider and um we're we're we've asked Hub to come forward with what their net network saturation is for United Healthcare versus Sigma um and potentially versus Etna if they come forward with a bit. We've also asked for one from them. Blue Cross Blue Shield has declined to bid us again this year. Um, that's insurance compensation package. Um, we'll start planning. I'll work on that over spring break with a draft compensation package ready for you all to see in April as well as the insurance renewal. It moves quickly as we all >> Thank you. Any questions for Director May? Thank you, director. Um, Moving along over to educational services. >> Trusty Julie Nanch, director of educational services. Um,

024student services, excuse me. We met on Cubs again. Hopefully we can wrap up Cubs today. Um, so Trusty Me and Trusty Dordan were present and we reviewed the one proposal that we had from Little Steps and looked at that and decided that that was a viable proposal and agreed to move forward with meeting with Little Steps to start uh contract negotiations and building out what that contract could potentially look like. Um, some of the noticeable changes were a slight increase in tuition by $50 to $100 a month depending on the age of your child. um they would like to extend programming till 12 months to offer preschool in over the summer months. And then um they talked about extended hours for a fee that they would stay open till 5:30 with an additional fee if

025parents wanted to volunteer and opt into that which we don't do now because of our staffing issues. We really had to cut back our hours and shorten our days. So that's another uh bonus for staff. And then I think those were the main highlights. Yes, those were the main highlights and the biggest changes that I really noticed in there. I don't know if Trusty meat or trusty Doran want to speak to it. Other than that, I stand for questions on it. >> Have anything you'd like to >> No, Julie's got a handle. Huh? >> Thank you, Julie. >> Thank you. >> Guess that leads us over to our other reports. Chairman Abrams, trustees, I just have a a couple updates that I'd like to start with. Um there were some other bills um that passed,

026some educational um impacts and I just want to highlight a couple of them and and actually one of them is is could be interpreted as good news. Um, so I thought I would share um there was a a bill that passed around increasing the halfway scholarship. >> Am I getting a look back there? I'm sure I am. >> Um, >> we're just happy there's blood. It sounds that was that was the request. Um, but there will be an increase in halfway scholarship awards. This bill increases halfway scholarships. Uh for example, the opportunity scholarship increases from 8.40 to 1180 per semester. The performance scholarship goes from 1260 to 1770 and the honor scholarship goes from 1680 to 2360 for full-time students. So just an adjustment there on the halfway scholarships. Um director Pal has done an

027outstanding job tracking the K12 language and literacy bill that has passed. Um there are some implications with that bill that we will be working on um in our district with our principles and staff on how we make some adjustments in grade 612 to adjust to some of the literacy requirements in that bill. We'll bring forth more details on that and to the trustees as we work on that. And um as discussed prior, we have a cell phone smart device policy we need to be jumping on. I will um be working on that immediately. We need to bring that forth in April for it to be uh take action in June so it meets the July 1 deadline. Um so we'll be working on on those and those will be part of my updates to trustees.

028You can track those along the way. >> Thank you. >> Uh Dr. Chris with the cell phone policy. Um it is my impression that each site has developed successfully their each unique policy how they should operate. High school should operate different than middle school. Middle school different than an elementary and maybe elementary in Jackson. Jackson Elementary operates different than Moran Elementary. Um, and I I've always thought that having the local ad site administrators develop their own policies, what's best for their their uh um school is the smart way to go. So, when we develop the policy, as I mentioned, to the board um potentially make the policy that the site administrators need to submit this once a year to the uh board of trustees for approval and questions. Um, and the other thing that I

029heard about in the legislature is that some schools have passed very tight cell phone policies, but not an enforcement mechanism. And so to make sure all the classrooms are enforcing these policies and um so the site administrators have the authority they need to enforce these policies. So just few my thoughts your thoughts. Any other folks out there? No. Okay. Um is this where we'll where we will hear um about some finance and educational legislative updates. I believe um before we get in to it, thank you to Bill for the amount of time that you spent down there and Keith and Kate and Reed spent time down there. Jerry, if you spent time down there um please forgive me for not knowing, but everybody else who works for the district of spending time down there really

030appreciate you um making a call and representing us. It's the state capital. We should love it. >> Hazard duty. >> Uh, Trusty Scarlet, do you want to >> director mail? >> Start us off. >> So, I I will start us off. Senate file 81, the recalibration of school finances, uh, passed into law on Monday without the governor's signature. I believe if you all haven't seen the governor's letter, um, you should go find that. Um, you can go to the governor's website. Um, I 100% agree with his summation. This recalibration bill lack vision. It um was a bold attempt like this legislature has been doing for the last few years to continue to erode local control away from us, the local elects of um electeds at the state level. and it was compared to the same

031way the legislature feels when the federal government comes down and dictates to them what they want to do. Um Kristen, uh Director Mayo has spent an unbelievable amount of time both um on and off the clock trying to model and trying to build a budget that will succeed for our school district, provide the best education we can, you guys. Um and I think at the end of the day, we're going to be okay. Um, I think it could have been a hell of a lot worse. And last Tuesday, it was a hell of a lot worse. Wednesday, cooler heads prevail. And, um, I think that we are in an okay, we're in okay shape moving forward, but we continue to monitor. With that, I'll turn it over to the ingredients of the sausage presented by

032Director Mayo. >> Thank you. Um, you know, I think it's been a bit of a roller coaster since June of last year, which was the first recalibration meeting of um, the interim committee. And, you know, I it it's a challenging bill to implement. Um, but at the end of the day, I think one of the most positive things that came out of the recalibration bill and the efforts is um that we will have more money for teacher salaries. Uh there's some other ancillary pieces that we we're going to have to figure out and we still have to figure out in the budget and the compensation package, but um you know, teachers are valued at the state level. And um we just need to get them to understand that there's more in a school district than

033just teachers. Um but that's a good start. Um, so the highlights of the bill, the instructional silo is a categorical grant for we think teachers and instructional resources. We're not exactly sure how that's going to come about. The insurance becomes reimburseable at a limited capped rate and uh everything else is still in a block grant. So it our budget process will look a little bit different. The budget will look a little bit different. some of the categories and how we compare and how we line up to the model um will be a bit of a guess this first goound with this bill uh because we likely won't have much uh information from WDE until the fall, I'm guessing. Um so we'll do our best to move forward and follow the bill as closely as possible.

034Uh but we'll probably have some variances and the state come back and say we're going to do that differently. >> Um any questions for Director Mayo? Okay. Thank you. >> Trusty Dory, >> I'd like to say something in favor of another piece of legislation. Is it should I wait or say >> I think that's a great time. I'm really pleased that the book banning bill failed because it means for educators that information is in the hands of educators and librarians and not just left up to porn sites. Information about sex and sexuality. So, yay. That's another right way in Cheyenne. Scarlet, >> I I guess I should point out another positive and dual enrollment. Um there is a uh a uh an increase in dollar amount. I think it was $10 million to go towards

035dual enrollment for students. Um I think it's really positive. So they can be getting college credit and uh high school credit at the same time. And I think that's really exciting. So, >> it's always something sweet in that bowl of lemonade. >> Yeah. >> Uh, Trusty, Mr. Chairman, I just was, uh, very thankful to all of our legislators, our local legislators when we went down, met with them. Uh, not even singling any of them out. They were all equally engaged. They they knew their stuff. They were engaged, very easy to talk to. U, it's very helpful. It was just very refreshing to be able to meet with them and hear their perspectives and and mostly hear from them how do we what do we do to help the school district. So I was very appreciative.

036>> Thank you. >> Yeah, they were really fantastic. I'd like to add that the bunch of them got together and passed another amendment that ultimately failed, but they tried one more time. >> And that amendment was just for Teton County. >> You know, that was impressive. You know, we said that at dinner. We said it'd be nice to have this amendment. They got talking there at the table. Senator Drew pulls out his phone and starts texting with an LSO person. Hey, I need this amendment first thing in the morning on the floor at 8 a.m. Can you start typing it? I don't know what time it was. We were sitting there meeting. It was like 7. It was 8:00 p.m. And it was just impressive that that we were we were, you know, we were

037throwing out an idea. They received the idea. They get immediately on the phone, start working on it, and and the first thing that next morning at 10:00 am, it was >> you. >> Yeah. But then when you guys came in for the vote, it was ready to go for the vote. And and um I know ultimately it wasn't successful, but it was just impressive that we have legislators that are willing to to hear our ideas and then implement them so quickly. I was just very impressed. >> Yeah, I agree with you. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay. From the finance and education legislative update, I see that we have um uh CWC bosses, Kathy Wells, Chairman Abrams. I have invited Kathy Wells to join our board meeting tonight to provide trustees an update on the new

038CWC Jackson campus. Um just so everyone's on the same page where we are. Thank you Kathy for coming and joining us tonight. >> Thank you Dr. Chris for the invite and and thank you chair Abrams and trustees. Um I am Kathy Wells. I'm the vice president for academic affairs at CWC. We too um very much appreciate the Teton County state electeds. We work with elected officials officials from three different counties and I do have to say working with the Teton County delegation has always just been a joy for CWC. very supportive and we too are thrilled to have um some funding to help your students with some dual enrollment credits um as we open our new Jackson campus. So you can go ahead and click to the next slide. As you likely see every day,

039uh the building is progressing and moving along quickly. Um just uh neighbors to uh your facility. Um this is a picture that was taken a couple of weeks ago. Um most of the work on the building is happening on the interior. They will put the exterior um design up uh as the weather warms up just a little bit, but it's amazing how fast this building is going together. So you can go ahead to the next slide. As far as timelines, we are looking looking at substantial completion the last week of August. So that is coming up very quickly. August 26 is the day they say substantial completion will happen. We will begin moving in in stages. Likely we'll move to remote learning about our third week of our semester to finish the movein process. So

040we'll start our semester at the Center for the Arts, have a move in, and then finish the semester in the new building. And um interestingly enough, although we we aren't necessarily appreciating this mild winter weather, it has been great for construction. So they are a tick ahead of schedule. Contractors never want to say that. They're on on budget and just a tad ahead. >> If they could move that date for me to August 20th, I would be incredibly thrilled because our first day of class is August 24th. So, we actually thought about moving our start date back a little bit and decided to just in case something happens um have some alternative plans in place. Um so, we are planning um and you are all invited um to our grand opening celebration that will be

041September 24th. That's a Thursday at I believe we're starting at 1:00 in the afternoon, letting it warm up a little bit in case it's a cold fall morning. Um there will be lots of um uh advertising about that. Everyone in the community is invited. We will still have some operations going at the Center for the Arts. Uh we are keeping our lease through um the end of this year through December just in case we need that extra cushion in case construction does get delayed with um spring weather in Wyoming that can be unpredictable. Um we are very excited to um be your neighbor and to work on initiatives that we've been talking about for a number of years but with our close proximity we can finally put into action. Um you can go ahead to

042the next slide. I think there's one more that talks about where some of those partnerships could um could be built and and maintained for um your students and our students with the new facility. We have um an opportunity to bring on new programming. We are going to do this in stages of course as we build staff add staff. Um, but I've listed the four main areas of where we are focusing some new programming. Um, we are focusing significantly on some career and technical education offerings. We are starting some construction trades this fall. We are working very closely with what you offer here in the school district at the high school for construction trades to build on the next sequence of courses. Um, in that we want to embed plumbing and hopefully have some plumbing apprenticeships.

043Um, if anyone has ever been in need of a plumber lately, if you can actually get a hold of one, let me know because they're never available when you need them. >> Feed them stakes. >> There you go. Um, and we do want to add programs like um, welding, auto technician. We're working with some partners in the community. Our building does not include space for these types of things. So partnering with community members and and industry is going to be our focus there. Um we are also expanding capacity for current programs that you can take right here in Jackson that we've been offering um with more in-person um onsite instruction. We do a lot of hybrid teaching with some of these programs, but we want to have more in-person hands-on instruction um with programs like

044criminal justice, early childhood, elementary and secondary education. All of our business programs have a pretty um significant enrollment here in Teton County. And we are planning on expanding the number of students we can take into our nursing program annually. We admit every year in the fall um as well as our CNA program and we are significantly expanding culinary and hospitality and tourism um options. I do have lists of potential programs that we are looking to add right now. We're in lots of conversations again with community partners and business and industry who hire these um these specific um workforce uh trades and we're working with them on uh identifying their need and identifying ways we can partner for internships and and instruction and that type of thing. Lastly, we are going to reinvigorate what had been

045a pretty robust offering of community education, professional development, community enrichment that really declined significantly during the pandemic and we've never really rebounded with that um partly because of of um evening classes that we're offering. We just didn't have the space in our least rooms at the Center for the Arts, but we will certainly have the space now. And so bringing a lot of those activities back um is is a focus for the community education and enrichment piece. So lots of ways we can partner with the school district. We are um really excited to uh be your new neighbor and I'm happy to answer any questions that anyone has. >> Trusty me. >> Mr. Chair, Vice President Wells, um, do you have any numbers for your anticipated enrollment fall of >> as far as new enrollments

046or carryover enrollments either? >> Yeah. >> So, we serve we serve about 900 students. Now, if you look at students across all of our programming, um, and in Jackson >> in Jackson, yes. Um, students that come to us from all over the valley, Idaho, down in the Star Valley Alpine area. um about 900 students. Um some most of those students are part-time because many of them are adults working and they have two or three jobs and find school. So they're not all full-time students. Um we do anticipate with the new programs that we bring on this fall and then again a year from this fall that we will add between 20 and 30 new students every fall. um and increasing that as we add additional program options. Some of the programs that are listed like

047the short-term workforce certificates we may offer say once a year for example um getting certified in heavy equipment operations is less than a once semester course. We may offer that once a year or if there's need once a semester and then as we fill positions and we see um a little bit of a decline, we might be flexible. We'll go offer it at one of our other sites and then bring it back when there's a need. Um so that that's what we're looking at right now for current and then anticipated new enrollments. >> Thank you. >> That doesn't include dual dual enrollments, >> right? Um, Teton County is um the school district as far as concurrent enrollments is our highest. We serve three counties uh and about 15 school districts and Teton County has the

048highest number of credits taken concurrent and we are excited to offer the followon classes and additional coursework that your students are interested in in duel. um whether we teach at your building, you come to our building and um the proximity is going to really help facilitate that. So, we're excited to put those types of opportunities together. >> Thank you, >> Trusty. Kathy, I noticed in the paper there was a ad for a new dean. Are you guys getting a feed? >> Correct. So, I um in addition to my full-time academic VP job, I've been serving as the interim administrator for the Jackson campus. So, I am here in Jackson uh about two weeks out of every month. Um so, the invite to this meeting just happened to be on a week I was here. So,

049that was excellent timing on your all's part. Um we are in the middle of searching for a new dean and we have been accepting applications to that position for oh about six weeks now and actually my um hiring committee meets tomorrow to do our initial review of applicants and decide next steps. So um ultimately we do hope to have that position selected um and a person um contracted by by summer. Um, timing might vary depending on the applicant, but we have a lot of work to do this summer to get ready to move into the new building. So, I'll be very grateful for the help for sure, as will my team here in Jackson. >> I just had one more question, and I don't mean to get into weeks, but can you talk a little

050bit about the nursing? You have expanded capacity in nursing. How does that work? Do people start taking some classes over here and then at some point you got to transfer over to Riverton? cuz when we toured your site last year, it was amazing. I mean, the capacity and the >> the all the rooms you took us through that um you know, you had a mockup of a real hospital in in your buildings. It was very impressive. >> Yes. >> Um at some point, do people then go over to Riverton to complete that nursing? >> No, they can complete that degree 100% in Jackson >> and the I'm not sure that Dr. Chris has let the board know. Have you told them about the date for the tour of our building? >> Um, it was in

051a recent memo, but probably smart to state it again. >> Okay. In response, uh, Crusty Gingry, to your question of being amazed on the about the nursing simulation facilities on the Riverton campus, we actually took the took the best footprint of that facility and put it in our current building. >> Oh, wow. So, we have worked with the contractor to tour um uh members of of the board and uh employees of the school district who want to tour the building May 7th from 1 to 2:00 p.m. So, you'll be able to see uh not done yet, but see the workings of what those facilities will look like here in Jackson. Um so as far as the nursing program we do admit eight stu currently eight students every year. Our um our staffing between the number

052of students and instructors is dictated to us by the state board of nursing. You have to have a 1 to8 ratio. So currently we have staffing to admit eight students every year. So we always have eight first year students and eight secondyear students. It's a two-year program and they complete their entire degree here. Most of those um individuals take some prerequisites, non- nursing courses uh about a semester ahead, apply to the nursing program. It's a very competitive application process. Um sometimes we have individuals from here who don't get into the Jackson cohort but want to start and they actually apply to the Jackson and the Riverton cohort. In fact, right now we have two um students on the Riverton campus who are from Jackson and they come home on the weekend. Um they just didn't

053want to wait until they got a spot. So being able to expand capacity is something I've wanted to do here since we started the nursing program here in 1993. Um because there's so many qualified candidates that apply every year and we have to turn them away because we just don't have space. So, we're hoping to double that, increase to 16 every year um as we bring on staff. Does that answer your question? >> Vice President Wells, I I do have a question. Did I hear you correctly? And you said that TCSD has the highest number of enrolled credits with um you said um concurrent enrollment. >> Yes. For CWC. >> For CWC. and you why do you think our district has such a high enrollment of those concurrent compared to the other districts that you

054guys service? >> Um I I think that comes to a number of factors. Um the staff at the high school is just fabulous in um guiding students through the options. What can you take concurrent? What do you want to do after high school? Here's a nice pathway. Here's what we offer that will put you on that pathway. So, absolutely kudos to that staff. They do an excellent job. Um, I think second of all, the instructors that you have on staff at the high school are second to none when it comes to meeting the qualifications that we have to make for meet for um credentiing purposes. Um, so many members of your staff meet the same requirements that my college faculty have to meet. Um, so you have the capacity to offer more of those concurrent

055enrollment classes than some of our much smaller school districts. For example, Duboce, um, uh, the Wind River School District. They have such a small cohort of teachers and many of them don't meet the credentiing requirements. Um, and I think the students are just eager eager to take those advanced classes, eager to get a step up on um, completing college requirements. And so I think those are are three of the big factors. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Anything else for tonight? Really appreciate you taking the >> Yes. Thank you for the invite. It was wonderful to be here. Thank you. All right. Next up, we have Charlotte. Director Charlotte happening. >> Uh, thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, uh, several of these updates were covered um during the workshop under the um current projects. Uh,

056but just a couple of uh highlights. Um, as you saw when you came in, transportation is facility is uh well underway. Um, and even though we lost a little bit of time on the front end of the project, um, we are we're kind of regaining some of that time and are on track to have substantial completion done in the fall. um for the high school vestibule and addition. Um just a note and as a reminder to the board um we had to the district had to basically pay in advance for the design of the vestibule because um the um the funding that the uh legislature allocated was for construction only for the addition. Um with the approval of House Bill 105, we're now able to come back and request reimbursement for um those design funds

057for the vestibule as we now move into um the construction bidding process and starting design on the uh the full addition project. So um just so the board is aware, uh that money will be coming back and reimbursing the district for that expense. >> Another positive from the legislation. And I noticed in the in the bill you had a little asterk next to us that we were the I think we're the only one listed with an asterric. The money is available immediately. We don't have to wait till July 1st. Is that correct, >> Mr. Chair? Uh Trusty Gingry, that is correct. The funds are available now. Um and so I've been working with Jeremy Slater to get all of those things kind of um lined up and ready to go. So yes, as soon as

058the governor um signed that um that bill, the RFP was released for the design for the addition. So we were ready to go as soon as as that was signed and we can start incurring those costs. Uh for the just a couple of highlights on the apartments, the butes um expecting I've been really cautious about saying we were ahead of schedule um for these last several meetings as you well know. Um now I can say we are ahead of schedule. We are expecting certificate of occupancy the end of this week, beginning of next week. Um that does mean that we're now sort of having to expedite some of um our other work in terms of um so that we can meet the um housing authority deed requirements and some of those aspects. So, um we

059didn't want to get ahead of ourselves in case something went wrong. Um and we weren't we didn't um uh stay ahead of schedule, but um given where we are, we'll be just expediting and trying to really move pretty quickly on um getting some of those aspects um lined out and ready to go. Um I will be sure that this uh the schedule is shared with you all but um we will be um holding an open house for interested employees next week um looking at March 18th at 4 PM uh to do a walkth through. Um applications will be released on March 19th. will hold a second open house on April 7th just in case people so immediately after spring break um with applications to apply for units being due on April 8th so that then

060we can review those applications and um um make selections on April 9th and then um um making sure people let us know you know within one week um if they are interested in taking the unit. We certainly expect there will be some logistics involved with um employees who um want a unit um are selected on a unit but current have you know um housing at this time. So some of those logistics are going to take a little bit of time and coordination to figure out but working with with employees to get them into the new units as quickly as we can. Um, and then we um are also looking at doing a ribbon cutting for the um uh on April 20th or the week of April 20th um date to be confirmed. I just need

061to kind of make sure all of this schedule works and we can get in there and uh but um having a great celebration um with um not only the board, the contractor, the architect um town and county elected officials who included us on the SPE ballot um but also um the the employees who will be moving in there, students who are building the patio furniture as we speak. I just went over and looked at um some of those um the tables and the chairs and all of that. So, including those students, really just trying to make it a celebration um for um having that project um ready to go um ready for folks to start moving in. So, um with that, Mr. Chair, um happy to answer any questions. >> Um Mr. chair. Um, director

062Director Charlotte, um, can we get a copy of your leases or are those not prepared yet? >> Um, we're those have not been finalized yet. Uh, working with legal counsel on those. We also have to, um, include some language from the housing authority um, so that we're sure to um, meet their requirements. So, we'll have one set of leases for the apartments under the deed restriction and then we'll have slightly different lease agreements for our other units that don't have that same deed restriction. Yeah. But, um, once they are available, I'm happy to share those with the board. >> Great. Thank you, >> D. Electric Charlotte. Um, I'm still concerned about cat lovers who are not going to be able to bring uh their cats or move into these apartments. And I understand the problem.

063It has to do with spraying. And I looked it all up. It's not just male cats that spray. Female cats do, too. But I'm hoping as time moves on and you have more and more people who try to cheat and bring their cats in that you find some middle of the road accommodation for cat lovers. I don't know what it is because even looking it up I couldn't figure out some accommodation. But >> um Chairman Abrams, um Trusty Dornan, um we will be discussing um the rules around um uh the employee housing program um as an action item. Uh we can certainly take a look at that. One thing that I do want to remind the board now, remind our staff, um this is our first foray into having a formal program. Um we fully

064expect that um over this first year we're going to learn a lot um about running a a formal program. We have had employee housing units um you know for the last number of years but this is really these apartments are taking our efforts to you know we're taking a big leap here and so we will definitely be learning a lot this first year regardless of what you all um decide when we get to um review of the housing program. Um we'll be learning a lot. We'll I have no question we'll be coming back to this board in eight months to make some adjustments, you know, recommend some changes, get feedback from staff who are living in the units, um who didn't move in for whatever, you know, just trying to gather some some of that

065feedback so that we can make adjustments to um best meet the needs of employees while also making the units viable for us in terms of managing and maintaining And Mr. Chairman, just to give a context to the rest of the board, what Trusty Doran's talked about, our housing committee met week ago, two weeks ago, something like that, there's like 10 of us on there. And we did what Trusty Bosch had suggested. We went back to the property management company and said, "What do you do with your properties?" And what Tina responded back to us is dogs are fine, other types of, you know, pets are fine. It's the cats that are >> and hamsters and fish. it was the cats that Tina suggested that we not allow at this point but allow everything else. So

066that's sort of what you'll talk about here in a moment but that that's the context of um we sort of did what trusty Bosch said went back and chatted with Tina and she said the properties she manages a lot it's cats that are usually the issue. >> All set. >> Any other questions? Thank you for bringing us for where we are, bringing us home. Uh that I I do have one question for you, Director Reynolds. Um of the 24 units, how many of those are deed restricted? >> They um uh Mr. Chairman, all 24 units are deed restricted. Basically, the building is deed restricted. Um and that was a um something that the district agreed to do in order to be on the SPE ballot. And so you're talking about with the the housing authority,

067is there going to be different criteria for different units? Is that is that what I'm hearing? >> Um um Mr. Chairman, I apologize if um so the apartment building, those 24 units are all deed restricted. um the other TCSDowned properties, the cottages at Willow, the house in Moran, those um will are not deed restricted um and therefore won't have the same housing authority um requirements that the apartments will have. >> Thank you for clarifying that for me. >> Just exactly what is the deed restriction? It is only if I understand right, they have to be Ton County employees >> um >> employees working in Teton County. >> Um u Mr. Chairman, Mrs. Scarlet. Yes. So the deed restriction is that you have to make 75% of your income here locally in Teton County. Um there

068is a work requirement in terms of numbers of hours that m that the household um must one person in the household must meet. um I think it's uh 1560 hours per year um of employment. They do have an exception for those involved in education. Um so that uh but there are we do have a couple of employee groups that that exception u may not cover. So, we're going to have to kind of look at um and through our application um make it clear to those who are applying um that they understand that you have to meet these requirements, but it can be a member of your household. So, if you are um one of our employee groups that may not meet that hourly requirement working for Teton County School District, but you have a summer

069job, you get a few a few more hours or you have a um another member of your household that meets that requirement, then um then that would cover it. But we are going to have to be pretty um transparent about that and also being very systematic and diligent about how we are recognizing those requirements. >> Sure. One other question with a state restriction and I don't expect you this. world changes and all of a sudden we cannot find qualified renters to rent these units and they sit vacant. >> Is there an exception to clear us? Is there a path that we can move forward to put somebody in there that maybe works doesn't meet these requirements because otherwise it's fake? >> Mr. Chairman, Trusty Scarlet. Um um Heather Sean and I have actually been having

070a little bit of this conversation just as we're looking at some of the HR aspects to it. Um there is an exception process that we could go to um the housing authority town and county and make a um exception request um and then you know just see what that process would be. I think if there was something um so significant to affect our district and our ability to fill units, I would I could anticipate that other um organizations in the community would be facing similar challenges or or difficulties. Um so again, I think we would if we did get to a point where that was a a reality for us, I think we would be um asking for some relief. Um, in terms of what those rules and regulations might look like, I think it

071would take it would be a process to do that. Um, and how we might go about that. I'm not I I don't know at this point, but I c certainly think we would be going back and having conversations. >> Okay. >> We go down the rabbit hole with us. >> Any anyone else? Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um Dr. Chris. Up next we have Jenny Stradley chair name trustees. Um invited Jenny to join us tonight to provide our trustees kind of update on education foundation given all the changes uh the past six or seven months changing name um asking kind of provide you know where are we state of the state accommodation. So thank you. Thank you, Superintendent Chris. Good evening, Madame Chair, trustees. As uh Dr. Chris mentioned, um I'm the executive

072director of the education foundation. And this year has brought about exciting changes for our organization, including new leadership, the refresh name, and an intentional reset around our core funding priorities. These priorities focus on meeting the basic needs of students so that they can come to school, engage, learn and be healthy. While our organization is not new, it was established in 2008 and our mission as the philanthropic partner for Teton County School District has not changed. awareness of what we do, how we do it, and why it matters is still limited within our district and the broader community. So, I'm working hard to change that and um meeting with a lot of individuals, organizations, businesses, as many as possible, as well as our board. We're reaching out, having fundraisers, and and really trying to connect on

073a um an intimate level with a lot of our community members that just don't know what we do. We're gaining strong momentum and we received a generous $250,000 lead gift for our 2025 um end of year campaign. So, we're moving forward and we're working to match that by our June 30th physical year end. As I mentioned, we have refocused our fundraising around the four five programs and none of the programs are new, but increasing awareness of them and what it takes to fund them is critical. So, just as a real quick brief um refresh, the first one is Feeding the Whole, and that program provides meal forgiveness for students who don't qualify for the free and reduced meal program. We currently have um Can you go to the next one, Sarah? We currently have 85

074students that are enrolled in that program. Um one more um compared to 53 last year. So, we're already well ahead of where we were this time last year. The second program is the Gan Cold Smith program and that provides 8 to 10 counseling sessions for students who need support beyond what our school counselors can provide. We are currently we've helped uh fund sessions for 21 students this year as compared to 16 for the entire school year last year. What we know from last year's numbers is the greatest enrollment increase came in May. So, as we get closer to the end of the school year, those enrollment numbers go up. The third program is Love Your Teeth, and that provides preventative dental screenings for K through five students who do not have dental insurance and do

075not see the dentist on a regular basis. Some of these kids have never seen a dentist. So, that program is currently going on. Dennis and hygienists have visited Jackson, Coulter, and Munger elementary schools over the last two weeks. Wilson is on the schedule for Friday. Dr. um Trusty Dornan was one of the one of the scribes at one of the schools. So, we appreciate her help. So far, um we've screened 279 students through that program, identified 40 students who had major findings. They were significant, which means they had absesses, severe decay, impacted teeth, or needed root canals. 40 118 had minor findings. So, they need they had cavities. Um they need cleanings or orthodontic followup. So, we're we are really grateful for the Kuanis Club. They provided us $10,000 to help fund for those 150

076students that need follow-up care. the the Quantis Club helped us um with a $10,000 gift that those kids will be able to go then to the dentist office and get that follow-up care. Um the third the fourth program is a Teton County scholarship program. As you all know, this pro program has been in existence for over 60 years. The education foundation administers that scholarship pro process from the application to award. um participation has grown um from 85 scholarship awards in 2020 to 166 in 2025. So it's almost doubled. Um this year we've had a number we've had an increased number of funders and we've also had an increased number of applicants. So we expect this program to continue to grow. Scholarship award night is April 21st if you're available to attend. And finally, the last

077program is the market and this provides warm clothing, school supplies, and hygiene items for the students in need. Um, this program benefits greatly from community partnerships. So, I've been working with 122 for um the last few months and they are going to provide school supplies for our students in need for the 26 27 school year. So, that'll be a huge um benefit to the students. Knights of Columbus. They also donated approximately $1,700 worth of coats this fall. And just as temperatures were starting to get cold, he drove up with a truckload full of coats. And those were all sizes, smalls to the big. And so those were we were able to give to students, too. So we're very grateful for these community partners and their support. So I've talked a little bit about what we

078do. Let me go to the next one. Sorry, I'm sick. I went to the elementary school on Thursday and I woke up on Saturday and I'm like, "Of course these kids gave me germs." Um, I mean, kudos to all of you teachers. You guys have rock solid immune systems. I don't know how you do it. Um, so I've talked a little bit about what I what we do and I'd like to pivot and briefly talk about why. Um, given everything that's happened during the legislative session and all of that discussion, I think the Education Foundation's mission in impact are more important now than ever. Um, the reality is that state and federal funding is unlikely to ever fully support those five foundational programs I just described. The change the changes we've made this year were

079intentional and they in they strengthened the organization and refocused our work. Now the next step is growing awareness and support so these programs can reach every student that needs them. Building that awareness is something that the foundation board and I cannot do alone. and I welcome your partnership in helping share this work with the community and to build private investment in public education. Um, part of the board packets, we had a I included a lookbook in a short video. So, hopefully you all had a chance to look at that just in more detail to be able to review what we're sharing with the community and as we send out communications to give people the opportunity to look through that. Um and I'll and hopefully you'll all be able to come to our fundraiser tomorrow night

080at Jen Burner's house. Appreciate the opportunity to provide this update and thank you for your talk if you have any questions. >> Any questions for Denny? Trusty Gry Mr. Chairman Denny this was brilliant. I sat on this board, the education board first few years I was on this board. Um, and just so appreciate a the local really need I like the new model motto there at the very beginning and I like that you have five core things. I think that's the most important things that you're you're concentrating like these are the five things we're going to be working on. I think that really helps to focus your mission and most importantly I liked it the end when you said why us that your number one is explaining to people the state model. I think that

081starting with that always helps so much for people to understand like I understand why you need money property tax money. Um so a just a brilliant PowerPoint and I just like how you're focusing everything. It just seems like this u it it was just really focusing. I appreciate it. >> Thank you. And it is intentional. I think we talked a lot about that at the beginning when I presented to you in November about our rebrand and what our our focus is going to be and being really intentional with our messaging. So that's I'm staying on on point there. >> I did have another question. Who's helped? So So you're the executive director. Any other status? Anyone? >> No, I'm not. Um, so we've got Christine who is the first full-time scholarship director and she's hyperfocused

082on the scholarship. >> You have someone doing the scholarships? Yes. >> And I and that's she's a godsend. She's been amazing. She's working with the the the funders right now doing the review process. We, as you all know, we've got new software and I don't know, raise your hand if you've ever gone through a software upgrade where there's not been a glitch. Yeah. Not ever. Right. It never goes as planned. And so she's she's had some challenges, but she's been amazing. And she's been going and working directly with the reviewers directly and stepping them through it. I mean, I I assume the rest of the board knows this, but I didn't know this. I didn't realize I mean, I got the part where they they're helping the money be chosen. What I didn't realize, I

083think it's just amazing. They're coordinating with every single college, so they know who to send the money to and and when to send it and and all that coordination so that when that kid shows up at whatever college they've chosen to go to, that money follows them to that college. just figuring out who to call in each college has got to pay. >> Yeah. And when that when that student stops out and they send us the money or when the student changes their mind and then we have to switch schools. So there's a lot of coordinating. That's exactly right. >> For many years it was just a free-for-all quite frankly. >> Yeah. >> I just get in the mind. >> Yeah. We we have clawed back some money that that was shouldn't have been paid

084in prior year. So we're I'm we're being aggressive about that too. So if we can get it, we're getting it. So a lot of >> very impressed. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Um I of course have been on this board a long time. So I was on the the fund for public education board for many years also. Um you know the fund for education uh public education was started in order to do employee housing and we seem to sort of have deviated away from that and I wondered if there's going to be any effort to get back to uh raising money for employee housing. I know we get monies from the Snake River Sporting Club um when they sell lots, but we did uh improve those willows um units with money from the F

085fund. And I'm wondering uh what the fund's position on that. I know you guys are on the fun. Yeah, we talked quite a bit about that at our last board meeting because I think this is where the refocus comes in when we really start thinking about our foundational core funding priorities and and really starting with the students and making sure that when they they're healthy and well when they're in school. So, if we can ever get that funding taken care of and solidified and get some some reserves built, then I think then we work with the board, obviously your board, and and we continue to build on that. I you know I think the next stage is trying to adequately fund classroom supplies and teacher needs because we've now addressed the the student needs. We

086got to layer um additional teacher needs on top of that which those are great. >> We did that for years. >> Yeah. No. We did that for years. Yeah. Yeah. >> The other thing I'm wondering is if the school district board decides we want to do a capital campaign for the Bron Achievement Center, is that something that's going to come to you or should we just hire separate people to do that? >> I think that's got to be a discussion that happens between this board and and our board. But I can tell you I don't have the bandwidth to do that too and and do everything that I'm doing. So I think that's >> only on these things and if we decide these aren't what we want you to focus on. >> I think that

087so that works because what what we do is really driven by what your strategic priorities are and then our board looks at what those strategic pri priorities are and we have anou in place and and we work for the school district. We are the philanthropic partner for the school district. So, we have to work together to to manage those priorities. But I think what I learned, I've only been on the job 6 months as of last week. There's not been 100% consistent consensus among the school board members, right? So, not all of you can decide what those priorities are. So, that's been really difficult for our board to then come and decide what those funding priorities could be, should be. So I think there's been a lot of discussion and a lot of understanding about

088for me growing understanding of what that means with theou and where those funding priorities grow each year when we get to this year and you're doing your strategic planning for the following year. How does that work? And um so I think it's been a learning process for me. Um Trusty Brash, do you have and Dornan do you have any other insight into that? So, I think that this conversation highlights uh the issues that in the short time I've been on this board that I start to understand and that I've spoken about in the past and pay you and I've had this discussion, but there are uh there's a history to this fund that has several maturations and different leadership and different priorities. And I think that the issue right now is that when Jenny took

089over um to be blunt about it, the fund was in a position where it had to find ways to become uh I don't want to use the word viable because I think that might overstate it a little bit, but it it was in trouble. And so the um I think the identification of priorities has been kind of a nebulous thing and I think that I have encouraged Jenny and Scott to sit down and rework theou because I've read it. I think you were around and I think you and I agree. I I can't make heads or tails of it. I mean it's it's very what's the right word I want to use? It's just it's got great intentions, but it's hard to follow what the steps are to move forward, >> you know, and so

090um and it was never signed, so I don't even know if it's like nobody has a signed version of it, like was it actually accepted? So, I think that moving forward, I think that the fund right now is really working on those things like this that can help get out into the community with a consistent message and something that's, for lack of better words, >> believable, sellable, whatever you want to say, and get people to fund it. >> And then we get that and then we can start expanding beyond that. I think Reed and I are in a tough position because as I said when we get to that Mau I we can't I'm not going to vote on it because we are active members on that board. Um, so I think that what Jenny's

091been doing is looking at how many different priorities and with some consultants help and stuff like that came up with all of this stuff which is just I find amazing compared to where we were and really using that to reach out to people doing these fundraisers getting people to know exactly what we do. I hope like you I mean I have my own things too that are in my head you know that come up um that I'd like to see but I think choices have to be made right now to pick the ones that I think work the best if that makes sense. >> Fair enough. >> Okay. >> I I would tell you that the the feeding people came up because we had one donor who wanted to do that some years ago. So

092that became a priority because she said, "Oh, I will pay for this >> and there's funds that are dedicated, which we know, right?" Like like that's what you said about Snake River. So we have funds that are dedicated >> that we have to do, but like when the administrative fee went on, there's a lot of people who are upset, but it's also like we can't there's no way to do this for free. >> I mean, you know, it's just has to be a >> but yet you're right. I mean, I think that if somebody wants to come in and say, "This is what it's going for, and I'm willing to do this," then we have to evaluate that other than the fee, we're going to have to evaluate that. But, >> right, >> I think

093some of these other things have been just a choice and and Jenny, I don't put Jenny's not the one picking them. This has come to the board as a whole and these were the things we've kind of identified. >> Yeah. And those funds, I mean, it's a good example. the food program, those funds are no longer available. But what you know, the the teams at the school, the food director and the counselors, they've identified that there are kids that are hungry and they need help. They don't qualify for the free and reduced program. And so their families make too much. They make more than $60,000 for a family of four. So they're they're going hungry. So there's real need in terms of what the the sustainability of these programs. The Gene Full Smith is another

094one. And I just bear that's been in is existence since 2014. You know, mental health issues are only increasing with our students. So, so these these programs are new. Maybe they've evolved a little bit. Um but but I think that the need for the students, they're not going down. They're only increasing. >> That's right. >> Trusty Dorns Jenny. Um the other issue is there are only two people in the office. And so taking on any new programs right now would be out of the question unless we found a way to come up with covering administrative overhead. >> It's well, you know, fundraisers generally pay their own salaries, right? >> Not not in the past. >> That's true. But you know, we all live in a town where there's all this fundraising going on. We see

095it, >> right? So the good fundraisers make their own salaries. They can dictate how much they make and because they can raise a lot of funds. I'm not suggesting that you're not one of those. >> But up to now we've been catching up trying to cover administrative overhead and so that's the hardest thing. >> I've been a strong proponent of the focused approach so we could just do what we're doing well. And I'd like to speak up for the dental program. It's been so effective. We've had fewer and fewer kids coming every year. This year at JES, I think we we left early. We didn't have enough kids who wanted to have their teeth examined. I mean, that's how effective the program has been. There are fewer and fewer kids in need. Don't get me

096wrong. I'm not suggesting that I don't think these are good programs. What I'm suggesting is that >> I I really thought of um um the fund as ultimately doing bigger things than these smalish things. Including when when I was on the board and we were doing teacher supplies, you know, we gave grants, $10,000 grants to various teachers, you know, to to buy their supplies. And I always thought that, you know, ultimately this could be very valuable to us as a board to raise money for big things that we can't do right now like the Bron Center or some of those other >> great idea. Yes, >> that's the future. >> Dr. Gary, just two real quick questions. What is the administrative fee that we're charging? And number two, do you know how much is in

097the housing fund from State River? >> I do have it up on my desk over there. I can tell you. Um it right off the top of my head, I don't know. Um the administrative fee for the scholarships is 15%. For the programs is 15%. >> For student activities, we is 2 and a half%. >> Shouldn't this business? >> It is good. >> Yeah. >> No, that's great. and and I and I do I think part of this is just getting back to really running this as a as a business model that just because we're nonprofit um you can't run it into the ground and I think it's lost focus over the years for lots of reasons good and bad but being able to just really hyperfocus and and get to the physical responsibility that

098needs to happen at the at the foundation and and just reset and refocus and be intentional. One of the other misconceptions is that you all we we are paid through this the school district. A lot of people just said, well, the school district should pay for it. So, I think again this is part of the awareness of what we do, why we do it, how we do it, and really um debunking some of those myths about what what how this works. >> I just want to thank you. I think um taking this new path, I'm all for you 100%. >> Thank you. >> And uh keep up the good work. >> Thank you. Appreciate it. >> Give my best to Christine. >> Thank you. >> She's amazing. You've been amazing. I've known her for many,

099many years. >> She's a great partner. >> We're lucky to have her part of the >> Yes, absolutely. Thank you. >> Thank you. Sometimes you got to uh slow down to speed up and ratcheting down allows us to get back into what the vision is to be able to grow and reach some of these bigger um visions that everybody else wants. >> Get lean to go to grow. Yeah. Okay. What will we have next on the docket? Um, okay. We've covered everything in other reports. Next up, we have public comment. Um, any public comment in the room? And let's see. Please give your full name before you begin. While we want to hear everything you have to say, it is important to remember that we also want to hear from everyone. Please try to limit

100your comments to three minutes. Address the board when speaking, not the audience. Um, comments regarding personnel will not be permitted. Thank you. >> Uh, I am Diane McGee. Good evening, Dr. Crisp, Chair Abrams, Board of Trustees, and Staff. I'm speaking on behalf of the Teton County Community Tennis Association and all of the community's tennis players of all ages. Thank you for all that you're doing for our community. I'm just speaking here shortly to thank you for the workshop you held at 4:00 today that was open to the public. It was helpful to see all of the projects that you are juggling. We are excited that our project to have accessible indoor tennis that would be available to students and all members of the community was at the table. Thank you, Mike Hansen, for putting together

101a synthesis of our project and communication over the last six and a half years. We continue to be confident that that the TCCTA will be able to expeditiously fundra for all costs, etc. And we and our partner, the United States Tennis Association, would do the lion share of the work. Our missions do align as we share a passion to provide education, health, and wellness to the students and the community of Teton County. We look forward to continued conversations and hearing next steps and optimistically forming a lasting partnership into the future in the near future. Thank you. >> Thank you, D. Any other public comments in the room? >> Okay. Um Sarah, this one. >> Yeah. >> Hands up. >> She has to unmute. >> Good evening. >> Okay. Can you guys hear me? Okay. >>

102Yes. >> Awesome. Um, I want to extend my gratitude to the board for prioritizing um, housing for our TCSD staff and giving me some few minutes today to address you. Uh, my name is Lily Parsons. I have been a teacher at the high school for the past four years and I was a teacher at the middle school a year before that. Um, I currently live in district housing and it has allowed my family to stay in Jackson and we are so grateful. Um I wanted to share my own personal perspective um from the family side of some of the um proposed recommendations. Um the one that I' that I would really like to address is the um six-year um housing cap. And as I understand it, the goal of the TCSD district housing is to

103create in a sustainable environment and provide subsidized housing for long-term retention. um which has which I have benefited from and I am so grateful. Um I believe that a six-year lease really does limit families staying here and I think it's counterintuitive for somebody like me to be able to build long-term roots and continue contributing to our schools that I am so happy to be able to be a part of and our community long term. As I think as we all know, finding stable housing that's affordable for a family earning their income in this county has gotten more difficult, especially since I've been here within the last five years, not less difficult. It makes me concerned about what would happen to my family, for example, in the next six years. Um, I also wanted to quickly

104ask about the minimum occupancy policy that was mentioned um on the February 11th board meeting and I didn't see it in the agenda today. So, I wanted to just propose that to the board and see if that is still being considered as a recommendation or if you guys aren't voting on that today. Um, yeah. And just in a place like Teton County where the housing costs and the income disparities are so significant, I think small housing policies can make so much difference between families like mine, being able to stay here long term and being a part of the schools and the students lives that I've been able to be a part of. And I would hate to have to leave this community. Um, that's it. I just want to thank you from the bottom of

105my heart so much um for your time and consideration and I'm so thankful we have to be able to have taught in this district as long as I have. Thank you so much. >> Thank you, Lily. >> Any other public comments online? That's all. And I believe that wraps it up for public comment here. Okay. Thank you. >> Um you'd like to have a break. Okay. Um student school board you would like to be released. Um oh go for it. Um so take a 10-minute break. See coming back at um was that 7:50? Close to 10 minutes. welcome back everybody. Okay. Um, next up is action items. >> Director Reynolds, welcome back. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. >> Um, take it away. Okay. Um, thank you. Um, as the board recalls, uh, this item was

106originally presented at your February meeting, um, after the feedback and questions, uh, that the board posed, the employee housing committee met on, uh, February 25th, um, we were joined by, um, Trustee Gingry and Trustee Dornan to talk through some of the items that came up as part of the board's discussion. Um so listed here are um efforts for the committee to provide additional information or answer some of the questions that did come up um in the February board meeting. Um just really quickly and then um I'll just mention a couple of items. um the lease terms um the the discussion around the lease terms and I know you've all received feedback um on that was to try to find a balance between allocating a very limited resource um and making the that um that benefit

107um available to as many employees as we could. Um but recognizing that um as was just mentioned the difficulty of finding stable housing in our community. So trying to provide um a set amount of time um so that it gave people stability opportunity to find other options while also making this resource this limited resource of housing available to as many of our employees as we could over time. Recognizing that um over this next six years um a lot may change in our community in terms of additional housing coming online such as Northern South Park and some other efforts. So that was our effort to try to balance a variety of competing interest um and competing and limited resources with what was available. So that was the discussion that the committee had on the housing Um,

108we spent a uh quite a bit of time talking about uh pets um in uh that we do currently allow two small pets in our existing units. Um and then but the conversation about the apartments um was our apartments different shared walls um no direct um access outdoors. But the committee um um consider obviously heard the board's discussion about that and um and recommend is recommending that the apartments align with all of our other units with allowing two small small pets um with the exception of cats as Trusty Gingry described. Um and that um did come from feedback from our uh property management company saying that cats in particular are impactful to rental units. So that was the again that was sort of the back and forth conversation that the committee um the committee had.

109Um I think um those were some of the some of the key points. Um, again, just to remind the board, we we fully anticipate that we will be revisiting some of these things, making adjustments, and having to fine-tune um as we go along, fully prepared for that. Um, but with that, Mr. Chair, um, I stand for questions regarding any of the other committee's recommendations or, um, any other information that, u may be helpful to the board. Thank you. Someone like Trusty Bosch. >> Uh yeah, Mr. Chair, Director Reynolds. Um the biggest thing that causes me concern about this is the seven calendar days upon employee termination. >> Yay. >> Uh I I have um I do not want to be a company town as it used to be called. Um, so can you explain at

110least what the committee's thought was on that so that I can um at least understand and then maybe have some more questions from there. >> Absolutely. Um uh Mr. Chair, Trusty Bosch, the seven days was um um identified for employment for employees who are terminated um not employees who um leave at the end of their contract or are are not brought back. These are employees that would be terminated um because of you know some um employment concern or issue um safety concerns things like that. Um the the thinking was um allowing someone who may be disgruntled um upon being terminated um does damage to the unit. Also given the proximity um of um living you know, next door to other employees um sharing their dissatisfaction, their um unhappiness with the district with their um their

111neighbors who are also co-workers um and the the the concern that that may have a negative ripple effect um in the district. So, those were some of the things that were discussed. Um I um I do know the board had brought that up um last um at the last meeting. Um Miss Van Gendron and I have um had discussed that um I believe she had done some initial research on that. Um and um therefore we we have kept it in here. Um I and I would defer to um to Miss Van Gendrin about from a legal standpoint, but um that was just the the committee's the committee's thinking and being able to and I I believe it is noted in here that um um the superintendent may grant extensions to that seven days in on

112a case-by case basis. Mr. Paul, so in that committee was it was the other side of that talked about which is if you're a staff member and you have that kind of holding over your head and you're in one of these units that I mean that's a significant leverage over somebody that's in one of these units. And I that's where I have concern is that a somebody that's in a position could use that against that person. And was that discussed at all? Um Mr. Chair um in in terms of it being seen as leverage um that was not discussed. This the the thinking was these are employees. This you know this would be in the in in a situation where the employee has been terminated because they have vi violated policy or they've you know

113done something egregious or to the level that warranted them being terminated outside of for example their contract renewal or something like that. So it wasn't it the committee did not see this or discuss it as leverage over employees. It was more about concern as I described. >> And just then one last question about that is is that and I'm sure the other board members will be able to address better than me, but I think we have policies that give them some sort of due process to challenge that or look into that. So then what happens if they exercise those rights and they they get kicked out? There's no right to do that. Keith, you're shaking your head. >> I I'll wait for you to finish then. >> No, that's that's my question. That's it. Because

114I thought I said in the policy there were some abilities for the employee to to to question that dismissal. >> Mr. Chairman, the teachers do. So if you have if you have a continuing contract, so the first thing got to recognize we're in in this context, we're not talking about teachers. So primarily because the teachers if they're being terminated, it's just their contract's not being renewed. So then they'll finish out the contract and so >> thank you. >> So it's rarely a teacher would be involved. What you're dealing with are so non teacher positions. I'll just give the example from the county and the town perspective. Both the county and the town have the same provision in there. And what I've observed is someone who's been terminated just because they're I not doing a good

115job. Um, that's different. That one usually an exception is granted like, "Hey, do you need how long do you need to to get all your stuff out and find a new place and they'll say, "Hey, I need to the end of the month." And so the county in town goes, "That's fine. You can stay through the end of the month." Or sometimes it's actually even more. If you need to stay another month beyond that, that's fine, too. Um, where you need the and actually I think both county and towns a little bit shorter. It's actually five days. Where I've seen this primarily used is when you have a real serious situation. It's usually something sexual in nature, sexual harassment or sexual crime or something has occurred um that you really need this person gone um

116as soon as possible. Uh mostly sometimes it's it's involving another resident in in the uh place that interacted at the workplace also um or um something extremely egregious uh you know violence in the workplace things like that and and you're wanting to a terminate the person immediately um and and and you know in the state we do it at will you know just you're terminated I don't have to give you notice and I don't have to give you a reason why you're is terminated. And number two, we need you out here and need you out of our unit. And um that's that need. Now, I get the other side of it. Yeah, you could definitely misuse that. Um so I totally get your point. Um so my you could have a really bad supervisor or

117a principal that that is using it egregiously. I that's a bigger problem. That's a supervisor problem that that the principal is using their position in an inappropriate manner. Uh, but that's the background. I don't mind if if if you think it should be 30 days like I I think Director Reynolds is saying it really well. There's a lot, you know, we're sort of creating new rules that we haven't really done before. I think we're going to keep revisiting the I think Lily Parsons raised a really good issue about the six-year thing. I'd love to revisit that. But I think to help Director Reynolds out, she needs to move forward today so she can start getting applicants in. If you need it to be 30 days, that's fine with me. I was just telling you why

118it was a short number. I I'm not I think you could put it back to the 30 and then if we have an incident in the future where I don't know, Dr. Chris comes back and goes, "Gosh, I wish it wasn't 30. I wish it was a shorter," then we can revisit it. that I'm comfortable if you want to make it 30, make it 30. I I think that's the furthest I would want to go out. Um uh but I think Director Reynolds has the really good point is let's let's get something passed tonight, whatever we can agree to. And I I I'm not falling on my sword on any of these just so we can get it passed and then over the next year or two as we find that hey this didn't work,

119that didn't work, hopefully it can come back here and we can make adjustments. I'm in a agreement. I just the damage thing. I'm I am a landlord. I have units and if somebody wants to throw a fish in your >> in your uh you know your forced air ducts and you have to find it like 3 months later, it that takes less than five minutes. >> Like so it doesn't matter if it's 7 days or 30 days. I just don't like that >> hanging over any employees head. >> Sure. In that regards, I think that if you're talking about situations that involve assault and there's somebody else in that unit, which I take very serious as for what I do for a living, then I think there's other protections that are there that can be

120built in. So, my preference is to move it to 30. I don't know about the six month or sixyear thing. I have no idea on that one. I was listening to Lily and it made complete sense. But then again, I does that apply to one bedrooms, two, three, like I don't know. So, I'll let you guys ask those questions, but thank you. If that's Yeah. >> Is is that a consistent is are all of us in agreement to move it to 30? >> Absolutely. >> Okay, let's do that. >> I don't know if any trustee >> me. Yeah, Mr. Chair, I also felt like the seven days was punitive. Um, I I understand what Keith is saying, but you know, there's prosecution that can take care of a lot of those cases. If it's that

121egregious, our prosecutors in our county and town should be doing something about it rather than having it be a landlord tenant issue. The other thing that concerns me is is that well for retirement a resignation you get 30 days and it doesn't say that the resignation you know we have a lot of braceations that we know um we have charged people liquidated damages because they um you know resign after a certain time period or whatever or right before school starts. Um, so if those people get 30 days, which clearly they do by this provision, then people who are terminated, um, should have 30 days. And I'm with with Jerry. I have rental units, too. And, you know, if somebody's going to trash your house, it can happen in 20 minutes. You know, it's seven days.

122Doesn't matter. Um, and then the other thing I was thinking about is that if you have a supervisor, and I of course you can have a bad supervisor, but even if you have a if you have a great supervisor who feels really bad about terminating somebody because they they have seven days to get out of their house, that somebody who may need to be terminated may not be terminated. And I think that that is a mistake to have it like that. So, I'm I'm happy that uh you brought it up, Trusty Bosch and Trusty Gingry, and I would agree that 30 days would be appropriate. >> Mr. Chair, are we done with that one? >> I just had one quick question. This house, this is for all houses, not just the >> U. Mr. Chairman,

123that um Trusty Scarlet, yes. that the rules that we are adopting would be um for all housing units unless there is something we do unique to the butes that would be different from some of the others at at the board's direction. For example, pets. Um if the board wanted to do something different than what is listed here as uh two small pets and that's that aligns. If the board would like to do something different there for, you know, one housing type over another, we could, you know, we could stipulate the different rules for the different units. But the proposal as it stands is for all units. >> Trusty B, >> maybe I'm just wrong in this, but I understand coming up with some general rules that are more policy oriented, but aren't we going to

124be relying on the property manager to differentiate on these things? I mean, especially when it comes to housing versus apartments >> leases and I mean that'll be in the lease terms. I this is fine. I'm okay with doing this, but I think there is a point where we're paying them to do something. Shouldn't we be paying them to, you know, uh use their expertise in this area to come up with terms and conditions that make sense for that type of unit, whatever it is. >> And Mr. chair. Um we um have shared um all of this with um our property manager, gotten uh her input on all of these recognizing again that um some of the apartments that are will be under the housing authority deed restriction. Those are, you know, that's going to look

125a little different. And whether or not the property manager, you know, agrees with that or that's how they she does her other units is really beside the point. so that we're clear for our employees um what that's going to look like. And the other thing to just mention is the district is maintaining the allocation of the re of the units. We are not having the property manager take on advertising the units, selecting who is um who will go into a unit those. So we are keeping as the district we are keeping some responsibilities that some property managers may take on with other with other clients. >> What about termination of the lease? Who would handle that? Forget employment. Let's just say they they damage the property. Don't pay or don't pay or don't do I

126I don't know. But I'm just what happens then? Who takes care of that? >> Um Mr. chair. So, um if there was a situation where the property manager is doing in um inspections and finding violations and that will be a conversation that um that we have that I have with the property manager, we'll go back to the lease documents that we are fi working on now. um review that and if there if something comes up that you know we need a we need to sort through obviously we'll work with legal counsel to um figure out what that means in terms of the lease um whether or not um we are terminating a lease or all those sorts of things. So it will be in coordination with our property manager. Um but we are given that

127we are maintaining some of the elements that a property manager would norm may normally take on. Um you know it's going to be a back and forth conversation and us working together. >> Trusty >> what's his name? >> Yeah. I had that done. >> And I was going to say you're doing such a great job as I was all prepared to say this was a great meeting. It's I think at the end of this tonight is going to be I think it was I didn't know if anybody wanted to talk about the six-year thing. If if not we can chat about it if you want to. Well, do we have any more questions for >> any more questions for directors? Just one last one. Who's collecting the rents on this? >> Um, Mr. Chairman, uh,

128the district is collecting the rents. The rents are being paid through through payroll deduction. >> So, don't take this the trying to figure out what is the property manager actually doing. >> Um, the >> no offense to Tina. I know Tina very well. She's I consider she's great at this. But what is she doing? >> Um, Mr. Chair, so um her um her services are outlined in in the contract and but she will be um doing the inspection. She will be dealing with tenant relations. She will be um um doing um move in, move out. Um, so her fee is is adjusted is lower than it would be if she were taking on all responsibilities. In working with our uh business office with um Director Mayo, the it it was the district's choice to maintain

129the um rent um rent through uh payroll deduction. That system I understand works very well and we wanted to maintain that. Um but the property manager will handle all of the um deposits. Um so the property manager will collect deposits so that if when someone moves out there, you know, there is a deduction on um a um a deposit to repair um damage done, she will have act, you know, she'll have that piece of it. But um the district chose to um maintain rentals through payroll deduction to um given that you know these are our employees and that system works well is my understanding >> yeah Mr. chair directors. My recollection, it's just my recollection and I don't have the notebook I had, but was that we wanted a property manager to handle the real

130estate side of at least this is my feeling to handle the real estate side. So that wasn't some additional responsibilities the district was having to take on and the potential or corresponding liability with respect to that. So when I ask about termination, it would seem to me that if there's an issue, visa v not the employee that's living there employment situation, but anything else. Is the property manager going to handle those decisions? >> Mr. Chair, Trusty Bosch, I'm not sure I'm fully understanding your question. >> They're throwing huge parties till the wee hours of the morning and disturbing neighbors. They get busted for growing marijuana plants. I don't know. I'm just thinking outside the box here. Things that might have happened in properties that I own at some point in time anyway. And I've had

131to terminate those tenants. So the thing is is is that documentation and doing that there is a process that you have to go through. Are we relying on this property manager to do that? >> Um tr uh Mr. Chairman, yes. Okay. the property manager will be handling all of those, but she's not going to do that without communicating with the district that this has happened and and these violations have occurred. She's going to keep us informed. But yes, she will be doing and and and um in my mind, those fall under sort of that tenant relations, notifying them they have violated this aspect of the lease, those sorts of things. I'm sorry um if I didn't answer your question. Um I just previously sound like Sarah was going to have to weigh in on this

132and I I personally I I don't just my only personal opinion is I wouldn't want to have that. I think that they make those decisions. We make employment type stuff anyway. >> Any further questions for director? >> Okay. >> Thank you so much. Do we have a recommended action? >> Public comment. >> Oh, public comment. My apologies. Um, is there any public comment >> on the consideration of TCSD employee housing program? >> Just as a matter of procedure. I just have a question. There's a letter to the board about this and she spoke >> and she Oh, it's the same person. Okay. I was just curious if you would read that now since it's in correspondence to the board. Okay. Same person. Okay. Okay. No public comment. Do we have action from the board? >>

133Mr. Chair, vice chair. Um, I know Trusty Gangry mentioned bringing up the six-year minimum. I I could go ahead and make a motion. My motion will be to remove that six-year minimum and then also um so I would move to approve with the following changes. Um remove the six-year minimum I think I'll explain it later. So that bullet the lease term limits of six six years remove that remove the employment termination somehow work into retirement resignation or termination for cause employees and get good um I don't know quite how to work that just change trying to work in the 30 days maybe employment termination employees terminate for cause must vacate the housing unit within 30 calendar termination. I think that's probably cleanest. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Did you get that change? >> And then the

134final one, >> trustee, can you say that one more time for clarity so we make sure we get that right? >> Okay. So, remove the six years and then under employment termination, employees terminated for cause must vacate the housing unit within seven calendar days of termination and then strike the line. The superintendent make grand exceptions on a case-by case basis. I think you said you wanted it to be within 30 calendar days. >> 30 Yes. 30 calendar days of termination and then strike the superintendent may grant exceptions. >> You can't grant an exception. >> Um so those are the the main things that I would in my motion second. >> Okay. >> Um I think uh Miss Parson's madam or Mr. Um, we're moving the good meeting to adequate. Okay, >> fair enough. Fair enough.

135>> Just forget >> and genders. >> Um, I think Miss Parson's brought up an excellent point. The point of building these houses is to provide stabilized housing for our employees, especially for teachers. um after three years they get continuing contracts. Um and if they're in good standing and they just are not able to um take that next step to find their own home um you know I I I would I would much rather keep a good qualified long-term feature than um and then have to lose them. >> Is there any limitation that you would be comfortable with any time on the patient? No. >> No. Um I I mean at 25 years I think they can retire. I mean that retirement they would have to vacate it anyways which is bad for our community. In

136other words, um the only other thing that I'm I have a little heartburn over is the pet policy. I'm not going to die on the sword on that one tonight, but I do believe um we should rethink the be and the and the tight location of that one, whether or not should have any pets at all. Um and then the superintendent's teach um two dogs might be um two pets might be a little less um for the knowing some of the superintendents and some of the teachers that could attend attain that housing and it has a yard. I believe it does have a fence yard and a standalone. Um, but that's for a modification at some other point. >> Uh, Trusty Bush. >> Yeah, I I just have a general question about the process of

137renewing these or being eligible. So, if you qualify and you get picked to be in a unit, then does that mean you don't have to qualify the next year or qualify the next year or be if if you're in the unit, then you stay in the unit? If that's the case, then I I think there might be different rules that apply depending upon the size of the unit. Like if it's a onebedroom, if it's a twobedroom, if it's a threebedroom. I am all for uh I don't want to say I am all for encouraging long-term teachers to stay here and be here and start a family and do all that. I just don't know, and I've brought this up before, if you can do that if you're dealing with one-bedroom units, and is it a

138is it a are we using these as a way to entice new teachers to come in to the district and be here and then they're here for a certain amount of time and then they've been here long enough to find own housing? Or is it, hey, we're using this these 24 units as we're going to put teachers in that we have and they can stay there as long as they want to, you know, if they're if they're a single person, they can just stay there as long as they want to and that's fine. I don't know the answer. I'm just >> Yeah, I don't know. >> 23 of the 24 are that way. The 24th one will be for new teachers. So, what they're doing is this is October. They're far one and they keep

139calling that Heathers. Um because then Heather had one to entice somebody here. >> Got it. >> We talked about giving her more, but that's not fair to the people that have been here for 15 years. So I'll I'll shut up. >> You No, you explain. I I'll show >> um I'm I'm sorry, Mr. Chair. Um, Trusty, I just wanted to um I just received um new information in talking to the housing authority um regarding the timing of the um recruitment unit. They require that it be occupied within 60 days of certificate of occupancy. So that may create a little bit of a challenge given that new employees would not be selected until July 15th. So Heather and I have been talking this through um uh Dr. Chris um as well trying to figure out h

140what how we're going to navigate this and figure that out. So, I just wanted to and I did I'm sorry I I didn't mention that um during my um my remarks, but we're we're still trying to figure out what that's going to look like to ensure that we can have a recruitment unit um as intended, but also meet the deed restriction component. So, we're we're still working through that. >> Mr. Chair, Mr. Sure. Um, Director Reynolds. So, are you suggesting that that a recruitment unit may not be available as a recruitment unit? >> Um, the possibly at the apartments. We do have an open unit at um the cottages at Willow. So that's one of the um options we are exploring is to make that a recruitment unit for now until you know again recognizing

141that someone may move into a one-bedroom unit. They may be there for a year or two years and then they decide oh now I'm going to move into I've you know got whatever. So just looking at okay how can we move some things around and still achieve the same goals. >> Thank you. Yes. >> Thank you. >> Just sparked some more questions. >> Um, we'll start here. >> Trusty Scarlet. >> Mr. Chair, fellow trustees, we do not operate housing units under the direction of the housing authority. We took the risk. We've done the work. We're recruiting. If it's not filled until August 1st, I'm willing to have that fight with the housing authority and I will back you up. We do not report to them. We do not report to the county. We are a

142standalone uh governmental elected board and this is what our community wants. and I'll be damned if I'm going to sit here and have to couch out to this group. Um, we are doing the right thing for our teachers and our employees and if we need it as a recruiting tool, I couldn't think of a better place to house a new employee. >> Thank you. >> Uh, Trusty Dorn. >> Yes. I'd like to speak to the wisdom of removing the um minimum or maximum number of six years. Um there's a huge study done of employee housing over 50 years in Vienna and Paris and Berlin, some of the other major cities. By not having a limit to the number of years people can stay in those people begin to form community and they begin to take

143ownership in a sort of conceptual way of the places where they're living and add to their um place of living. that they tend to plant gardens and and build um you know residential clubs and things like that. It's a really a good thing to do for the community and for the units themselves. >> Trusty Bosch. Mr. Chair, so I have two questions I forget to make. What how many units are out of the 24? There's how many there? One, two, three. >> Um, Mr. Chair, there are three or two threebedrooms. There are one, two, three, seven, twobedroom and the remainder are onebedrooms. That was the configuration that we determined based on the providing 24 units, square footage, meeting, you know, trying to sort of fit all of these things together. So, the majority are one-bedroom

144units. Um um we did and then we ended up um they were originally envisioned to be all one and twobedroom, but we did add to threebedroom. So, it kind of created some some sort of trading of of spaces. But >> that's the configuration for the apartments. So my second question is in your discussions the committee all this is only one unit to be used for improvement is that enough >> Mr. Chair um uh Trusty Bosch no but the 24 units are also not enough for the demands for our entire district. Um so we were trying to um set aside you know something for recruitment while also recognizing the you know um couple hundred employees that we have who are looking for housing. So we were trying to say yes we recognize this need over here

145but um we also have a a vast need for employees who've been with the district. So just for example this year how many positions are we trying to fill right now? >> I would have to defer to um >> 15 right now probably >> meaning we have more resignations or that are coming up or just >> and we don't have posted. >> Okay. >> So 15 okay that all right. Thank you, director. >> Thank you. >> Where did the guy at the end go? >> Um, he said it was an okay meeting. So, >> he just walked he just walked out of he's the attorney that represents the county and so the housing authority may have excused himself from the conversation. >> Way to go, Bill. Um, so we had a motion and we had

146a second and we've had some robust discussion. >> Um, how about we get a summary of what that motion is after um, we've had this robust discussion so we all know what we're remember voting on. >> Um, is so let me go back to it. Um if >> um >> Sarah, do you have that by chance? >> Um I wrote down what he said, but I usually go back and watch the recording. >> Wow. >> Bill move to remove uh the six-year limitation. Um also to strike seven days to 30 under employment termination and to strike the superintendent of exceptions and those modifications. >> Okay. >> Thanks. >> All right. So, we've had a motion. We have a second. Uh robust discussion. Um I I just conversation piece. I agree with the removing the six-year

147term. At first, I'm like, "Yeah, okay. I get it." But, you know, we need retention. And I appreciate Bill's perspective of, you know, once when we have teachers on U contracts as as well. That's we're not looking to push anybody out. So, and I've rented employee housing as well, and I know when someone is terminated with cause, you really want them out as soon as possible. However, this is our first shot at this. I am more than happy to go along with the group in this. Um I just want to make sure that whatever we have if there is something that is bad going on that um to protect the rest of the staff in any of the units that if someone needs to be vacated from the unit that we have the ways to

148do that. Um which I feel as though that's why we have the leases. >> Yeah. >> Um and I think a lot of that will state that. U happy to move forward. So >> yes, >> um shall we bring this to a vote? >> Okay. Um all in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> I'm opposed. >> I'm I'm going to say I'm opposed only because I don't like the removal of the six years for all the units. I think that we should have some units for recruitment. So it's for I'm going to vote against That is one, two, three. Is that two? >> 42. >> Four. 42. >> Okay. Yeah. >> Motion passes. Y. >> Thank you. >> See, now that really makes it not so big. >> It's important for us to not

149always be in agreement. We can have disagreements. Makes us forward. >> All right. Moving on to consideration of Old West cabin sewer. Right back at the sewers. Yeah. something about me here, >> Mr. Chair. Uh, Charlotte Reynolds. Um, yes, we have a request for a um to apply for a connection um at and I just wanted to quickly run through how what this what is before you tonight and the process um as it will go forward. So, tonight is the request for Old West Cabins to apply for a sewer connection. Um, if this board approves that request, the next step in the process will be for the district to take the connection request to the town of Jackson for their consideration. If they approve it, it um the request needs to go to the um

150Teton County Scenic Preserve Trust uh for their consideration. And then we need to um uh communicate with uh Mr. Gunard uh for because the sewer line runs across his property. So um if all of those steps um are are approved, then it would come back to this board for um a request to um a request for approval to connect to the sewer. So, I just want to be clear that tonight you're approving the uh request for application, but it will come back to you before a final um connection um were to occur. >> Thank you. Any questions for directors? Any public comment? >> Okay, board. What is your wish? Do we have an action? Thank you. She needs to drop the motion. She needs to drop the motion. >> Sarah, can you put up the

151motion? >> Yes. >> Mr. Chairman, I move to approve the sewer connection application cabinets as presented. >> Second. >> Thank you. Um, do we have any further discussion amongst the board? All right, take it to a vote. Um, all in favor? I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. Next we have consideration of staffing letter of intent for the 2026 20227 school year. >> Um >> Mr. Chair, I move to approve the staffing letter of intent for 2627 school year as discussed in executive session. >> Second. >> Um is that do we open this up for public comment? Did I miss that one? >> No. That's session. >> All right. Um, all in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Okay. Motion passes. >> Thank you. Next up is consent agenda. Would anyone like to tackle the

152consent agenda? >> Mr. Chairman, I move the approval of the consent agenda. One, approval of staffing considerations and reports. Two, approval of check register. Three, approval of executive meeting minutes of February 11th, 2026. Four, approval of board of education regular meeting minutes notes from of February 11, 2026. Five, approval of March fundraising. Six, approval of the institute for multi-ensory IMS purchase order. Seven, approval of board member travel. Okay. >> All right. We have a second. Thank you. Any discussion amongst the board? All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> I >> One opposed. >> Thank you. Um, communication. >> Do you want Do you want to say what you're posted or do we >> um I probably should have pulled out the um fundra March fundraising. Um that item was just what I was

153opposed to. So, that's fine. >> Is that something you want to go back and talk about? >> No. >> Okay. >> No need. >> Okay. Uh, next up is communications to the board. Um, we did receive some emails about tennis. Um, a few of them about tennis, the hubs grizzly daycare, and then the house and believe it was a person. Um, we also received another email, but that will go in next month's board packet because it was received too late. Um, any communications? Thank you everybody who has submitted communications to the board. Um, any communications from the board? >> Oh, I have something, Mr. Chair. >> Yes, ma'am. Just >> Mr. board members. Um, uh, Reed and I were in Cheyenne when Michelle Roundy made gave her speech to the House of Representatives. Um, I

154know that she had been down there several times trying to get that done, but she, uh, gosh, we can be so proud of her. She did such a beautiful job in her speech about talking about education in Wyoming. Um, I hope they were listening because she did, you know, a magnificent job of talking about teaching and, uh, you know, just sort of the beauty of what she does every day. Um, it was really inspiring to me and I really hope some of those legislators were listening in tech. >> Thank you. Very kind. >> Any other communications? Just Mr. Chair. um always sharing Cheyenne stories. Um there were a lot of students that come in and out of those um daily sessions. Um and I was so impressed with a group on the day of the

155recalibration discussion in the House Education Committee. um the group or the Senate Education Committee, the group of students that all showed up from different parts of um Park County. Um and two of them got up and spoke so eloquently about the power of public education in the communities of Cody and Pal. And one of my thoughts as we go into the next school year um and we go through a selection process um that we empower our student school board members and have them take a trip to Cheyenne um and experience the legislative process but also find an issue that they can testify and represent the values of Tuck County students. So something for us to noodle and think about. Um, speaking personally, I spent uh my spring semester of my senior year of high school

156as an intern in Cheyenne to uh Senate President John Turner. Uh Keith Baganogi did the same. And uh our attorney Sarah Van Gendron also worked for John Turner. Weren't you John Turner's >> intern? And it was one of the most valuable things of my high school career. And um while we don't no longer do the full um internship and keeping vet interns um I think it would be a good exposure for our kids especially since our calendar is such that boys and girls state doesn't seem to be uh calendar reality for our students anymore either. >> So what happened to that >> was that we no longer do internships a lot of money. >> It's a lot of money. >> It was a lot of supervision on my part when I was there. It makes

157it really difficult to have all those kids and um and I also think the rigor of our curriculum >> has increased. Okay. >> Not everybody can have Mr. Grant as their spring government teacher. So, you can take that. Fair enough. I love you, Mr. >> Any more communications from the board? Okay. Agenda item. Uh that is next. Future agenda items. >> I just have a question. It was a great workshop today. I loved it. Excellent. I was just wondering from Dr. Chris, what's the next step? Cuz like I know Bill showed up today with a priority list and I know I have a priority list and a whole bunch of thoughts and I know everybody else probably does too. When do we get to tell us your thoughts? Yeah, I um trustees I think the

158next step will be um again the goal of that is to do an overview and also to gather some input from you on your individual interests as well because if you recall um in December we um had you sign up for some committees on our committee doc and some of those um we wanted to make sure whoever was on those were interested in those. So, I think the first step to me is finding out where you land with your priorities, reforming some of those smaller committees, and then prioritizing the government. Um, I'm wondering if we just have an agenda item at the next meeting and just we can discuss it as a board where we're going with our capital projects. I I like that we can sit here and discuss it as a board what

159our priorities are. I'd rather not do it in a committee. I do it as a board as a group. Yeah. Mr. Chair, superintendent, um I I really do think we need to have some indication about what the money would be >> for these various things before, you know, we jump in to saying, "Oh, we want to do this, this, and this if we don't have the money." Um, so I I I think there's some very generous people out there in Jackson who want to put in money, but I think we need to know that we have the ability to do some of these projects today. >> Mr. Chair, I'm going to feed off those two and uh I've already spoken with Director Mayo. Um, we need to also have that conversation about major maintenance and

160how we fund um the ongoing maintenance and repairs of going through this list because part of the recal bill is um reducing our major maintenance funding that we relied on to fund enhancements. And when I talk about enhancements, I'm talking about our artificial plane surfaces and our gender junior high school junior high school. >> Um the tennis courts, those are enhancements behind. Um and then we do have quite a bit of green space that also is an enhancement beyond what our landscaping is. I do believe We can have director Hansen put together a list of all the district advancements and that could be our starting point. >> That would be very helpful. Director Hansen, maybe you can provide us with that list. >> Do we need to discuss finance and then bring it back to

161the board as an agenda item for next meeting? >> It doesn't have to be next meeting. I mean, it's going to be sometime this summer. I was just saying I'd like to, it was a great workshop. I'd like to have a discussion. I have a list of things, my thoughts. A lot of them has to do where I think the money will come from. So, I have a lot of revenue ideas. I just want to share them with >> that might be good for a retreat sometime this summer. >> Um, Bosch, >> thank you. Uh, Mr. Sure. I I know I asked at the last meeting. I might have even asked the meeting before, but I'd still like to see uh we've had three surveys done uh by staff. They've identified very specific issues that

162keep coming up over and over again. Um and I'd like to see ways that we can address those. Um you know, um it seems to be the same kind of issues. uh they're asking it seems like they're almost begging for for help and in and guidance and you know feedback and so I'd really like to see a plan on what we can do to give them that provide that. >> Um Trusty Bosch is this in reference to staff feeling they're not receiving instructional feedback in the classroom from their administrators? >> That was one of the surveys. Yeah. And then the other ones there were depend on which one you look at it was all kind of the same theme. Um but they didn't feel like they were getting guidance in one. And so I I

163just in feedback in another. So I think um when when the numbers are that low I think it's a sign that hey let's do something to try. Did you get all the way? >> Yep, I did. And Trusty Gingry, to to your point, um I agree about the um future of our school facilities definitely agenda item. I was referring to the major maintenance like should the finance committee address that and then bring back some information? Sure. Yeah. Yeah. I was not looking to combine that or take that away in in any way. Um um any more future agenda items between topics? >> Um >> Mr. Chair, I'd like to talk a little bit about where it looked to me like from uh the documentation that we provided with regards to um director Reynolds uh information

164with regards to the housing that will have a surplus um after we collect rents. And I think we need to have a discussion on whether we want to do that or or or where we would put the money. And um it seems to me we should put it into housing as much as we can, but um I I I wasn't certain whether that um sort of rough and dirty, you know, sheet on how much everything costs versus um uh the income from the rentals. Um how correct that is as a BF is we don't know. Justice Scar. >> Um, just me, if it's okay, maybe I'm not sure if we've created a proform on on what our housing rentals are going to be, what our expenses so we can so we can analyze what it

165is and then and then when we figure out what the surplus is, we can >> um bring that back to the board. Um, >> we have a proforma in our material. >> Yeah. But but so we so we kind of have an idea. So then we'll bring it back to the board with some ideas on how we can grow housing because I think that's >> the intent but we also need to reserve for the appreciation expense that goes along with these things. >> But that's kind of the number I'm looking forward to. >> Oh, and it came up in the other context. Um Jenny said there's about 100 grand sitting in that household fund. So, just to remind everyone, the last time when we got to about 500, we took that money, we moved those

166modulars and and that's the 500 is what we use to renovate those. It's pretty pretty good use of money. 500,000. >> Yeah. >> Just four units or whatever we created. >> Um so, boy, um maybe we need to have a need to maybe have one agenda item for us to discuss as a board. all of the different CIP things. Maybe a different agenda item for us to discuss employee housing because I think we could do something very similar to the cottages. There's still room over there to do something, you know, quick and dirty that doesn't cost a lot of money. Uh sort of like we did before. And then we really got to start talking um soon. Um because the spec comes back quicker than you think it does. And we want to be first

167in line a potentially for a second 24 unit next door. We already have that all designed and ready to go or not designed, but we know where it goes based on our plan one. Um and and and other things that we might want to put on the spec, but be nice to start getting those all lined up now. Um so we can submit those and u make sure we're first in line because we're probably going to need money on the BAC also. And so there's two big issues there to get on the SP. >> And then the the other thing is, you know, I was talking to a fellow Gillette and you know, Gillette created a joint powers board uh with the rec district. Um they did that for one reason pretty much and one

168reason alone so they could get bonded. They could bond because it wasn't a school district necessarily. So that might be something that we want to investigate too, whether we could do that. Um because you know that as it stands right now before they change the law, you know, make us go to the voters every time we want to raise a mill. Um it might be a good time to start um you know stashing away some money for the VAC that way. >> That's a great charge more mills that way. >> What's that? >> We charge more mills. That's what she's saying. >> Yeah, >> exactly what she's saying. >> Yeah. And you know, we're it's a different organization, so you're not constrained by the same rules the school districts are. >> Still not your agenda

169for the whole summer. >> Yeah, >> we're good. All right. >> We're just getting started. >> And by the way, we have health insurance. >> Nice salaries and the next three months, too. Just some small stuff. Just some small stuff. Just some small stuff. >> Luckily, the legisle already decided how we're going to do the whole budget. >> I don't even know why we have to be here. >> Should we invite the legislators to every one of our meetings? Meet everything we do. >> How about that? >> Um, what's the get what you wish for or be careful what you wish for? Um, review of the meeting. >> It was a great meeting. Excellent. You are an excellent chairman. >> Outstanding chairman. You're the best we've ever had. >> Awesome. >> 50 gig. So kind.

170>> Um >> everybody the first ever. >> Any advanced plings? We have that covered. And then um Trusty Dorton, >> I say enough robust. Let's go. >> Okay. Ajourn. Thank you everybody. >> I'm glad we get what's happening here. >> That joint power. Don't worry. I've been examining crossexamining engineers because we might something that's going to be