TCSD #1 Board of Education Regular Meeting - Dec 10 2025

001I'm going to call this regular meeting of the Teton County School District number one board um to order at 6 p.m. >> [clears throat] [laughter] >> I love hearing >> on December 10th, 2025. Uh let's start with the pledge of >> allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible [clears throat] with liberty and justice for >> All right. And read could you read something from the mission vision and values? >> I shall. Thank you. Our mission is to ensure that all students have the foundation for success and are challenged to reach their full potential. >> Thank you. >> All right. And keeping that in mind through the meeting, let's uh move on to the organizational meeting for the

002elected officers of the board. >> Madam Chair, >> 2026. Yes. I would move I would move that we appoint the same um four officers um Betsy Carlin as chair, Stephan Abs is vice chair, uh P me as clerk, Bill Scarlet as treasurer for the upcoming year. >> Second. >> Anyone else want to add anything? >> Uh all in favor? >> Opposed? Question carries. All right, liaison positions. >> You want to switch or should we just keep them all the same? Someone want to switch something? >> Is anybody dying to switch? >> I'm going keep breathing. [laughter] >> Madam chair. >> Yes. >> The only only suggestion I had a brief talk with Dr. Chris about it is these three um the employee housing committee, the Bronx achievement center committee and the transportation center committee. Um

003I mean [clears throat] those are all formed for various reasons and they're kind of all running on autopilot. I wonder if we should consider um maybe changing those a little bit um to more of a uh capital projects master plan. So, we review first of all with the housing. Let's review that housing plan that um chairman or when trustee Giger was chair led us through. Maybe we should start working on an update on that and putting together a little subcommittee for that. And then a master plan for the other um under rock achievement center overall look at all of the different path projects around the schools that we need um and update that um plan. And I forget when we did that. That was in 19 or so. Um, yeah, that that's a great idea.

004There have been a couple of times where we've talked about capital improvement things and we've checked a lot of off that list that we created and I think it's probably important to look at it again and rep prioritize. >> What do you want to call it? >> I don't know. >> Capital improvement. >> Uh, well, the capital projects committee instead of the Brock Bron Achievement Center and those are more focused on the schools where the housing is looking at the housing plan. >> Okay. So we would just put the transportation Bron Achievement Center and other capital projects >> All in that one. And then we would continue with the employee housing committee. >> Yeah. And that be more looking at the uh entire housing plan where we are what we're completing which you know great

005job to all our staff for on time on budget. it appears to this point and what we want to do next there. >> That's a great idea. >> I think that's a good idea. Anybody else have feedback? >> Somebody's good for long-term planning. >> Okay, >> good idea. >> So then we just So there must be two there two trustees on transportation. I think that's you and I >> and two trustees on rump achievement. Who is that? That was Kate and Bill. >> Bill. >> Kate and Bill. Um, do we just want two trustees on that? Um, yes. Because we don't want to get into a >> combine them. >> Yeah. So, we'll combine. >> I would be happy to step off that and move up to the housing. >> Okay. >> And that way

006you have three and three and so you don't get into a meeting situation. >> Okay. Oh, >> so you can put three on each. Three on the employee housing and three on the capital improvement one. >> Yeah. our capital project way. We stay within our >> meeting laws. >> I would like to remain on the capital projects committee. I think >> I would like to as well. >> I'm happy to do it unless there's somebody else who's would like to do that. >> I'm always up for one speech if [laughter] that is the case. Um, okay. Did that make sense? So, it'll be Bill, Keith, and who else is on the house? >> Reed. >> And I'm happy there. >> Okay. [laughter] >> And Kate, Stephan, and Bill London. >> Trusty, >> not Bill. Uh

007>> is or do you have an interest in any of those? >> Um I appreciate that. Um, you know, the problem is is I'm late to the dance on all of these. So, um, the learning curve is kind of extreme and as much as I enjoyed, uh, learning new stuff, I, um, the only one I have any interest in is the Bron Achievement Center. Um, but if we're going to combine that with other things, I'd rather let you guys that have been running with it run with it, and then I'll go from there. Thank you. >> Okay. Uh the other fin so we're going to keep the finance committee as is. Educational services committee as is. Do that little switch around with those. Um related boards and liaison. Is there any any of those that

008want to switch up or should we just keep them the same? >> I'd like to stay with educational services. fine where I am. >> Okay, I'm happy where I am. Anybody else? >> All right, that's easy. We'll just stick with it other than those small changes that we just discussed. >> This Excuse me, Madam Chair. >> Yes, >> this form has something under student schoolboard leaison Keith Gingry pending Keith's agreement. So, I don't know what Keith >> Oh, that was last year. I wasn't at the meeting when you guys were doing it and [laughter] and I was fine being put on but actually um it turned out it was you've been doing it Betsy hasn't >> I have been doing it but I'm Kate can do it no we did it >> yeah you >>

009did it [clears throat] with me last year when we were choosing >> yeah no I'm happy to >> Oh I don't have you know >> Yeah it's Kate and Reed okay that works Kate and You and I did it at least one time. >> Yeah. >> Um All right. We're all set with that. Um moving forward, approval of tonight's agenda. >> Madame Chair. >> Yes. >> I would move the agenda with one modification. I would remove item D on the action items, the consideration of the Munger Mountain sewer transfer agreement from tonight's second. >> Any discussion? All in favor of the pro approval of tonight's agenda minus the Munger Mountain sewer action items. I >> I >> post motion carries. >> That brings us to the superintendence report. Dr. Chris, >> Madam Chair, trustees, thank

010you very much. Um we'll start this evening with a recognition of you and trustees from the Wyoming School Association. Um, Trustee Scarlet and I um received this award on all the board's behalf. And you might ask, what is this award? We just rejoined, [laughter] right? >> However, um, nobody was [laughter] >> I think the award, [laughter] >> but there was a specific reason um, for the award has all of your names. Um it really shows the amount of trainings that the board has completed um or are eligible to complete. Um and so several uh boards received this award in the state. We're one of them. So congratulations. >> Thank you. >> Congratulations everybody. >> We're already getting stuff back for our fees. >> Yeah. Right. [laughter] >> We're still getting stuff from our last fees

011I believe. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. Um the next celebration is a recognition of our continuing contract staff and trustees. Just so as a reminder, uh continuing contract staff are those certified staff who are who have completed three consecutive years of service at GCSE and are currently um serving their fourth. We have the list of names here for your review. Um, and I would ask if you are a continuing contract staff member in the room if you can please stand up. >> So, our little gift for you. Thank you very much. I do think it's worth um noting many couldn't make it tonight as you can see the list but thank you for agreeing to come tonight I'm assuming >> so only the ones that came actually were given the contract >> that was

012the rule [laughter] >> um continuing contract status is something we do annually everyone realizes that but I do think it's important pause and thank you for your service to TCSC and what you do with our students um three consecutive years your professional was just appreciate it and all the principles say thank you as well. >> Oh, can we go down the line and everybody say their name and what they teach? >> Um, I'm Tanya. I teach at the middle school and I teach EL and Avid Excel for 8th grade. >> Uh, my name is Alex. I teach physical science and chemistry at the high school. >> My name is [clears throat] G. I teach first grade Spanish. >> I'm Andrea Lardy and I teach first at JDS. I'm Taylor Davis. I teach first at JDS

013as well. Excellent. Well, thank you very much. We really appreciate that. >> That concludes celebrations. Um below celebrations, as you know, we have our district leaders report. I have one um followup on the district leaders report. Um, I like to make it a practice of highlighting one of the um, insertions in the report and I'd like to call out Jenn over in Alter. Um, if you read her um, report, it's a paragraph on what they did with veterans um, during pre-Thanksgiving break. I do think it's important to continue to understand that that small school environment is very important in TCSV. Um, we did a tremendous job across the district with Veterans Day in recognizing our veterans, all the schools. Um, Miss Beck did a wonderful job over at Alta given the small school nuances and

014obviously it can be complex, but I encourage you to read through her summary and and celebrate what Ala speaks to. >> That concludes the superintendent report. >> Um, I Oh, go ahead. Trust me. Um, Madame Chair, uh, Superintendent Brisp, I wanted to give a shout out to Piper Worththington for her family engagement coordinator report. Um, it's been a while, but I went on to look at the English and Spanish playlist for each grade level, >> and I was so impressed with the efforts to help families be able to um work with their little kids on math and reading. Um, it really is something. She's really doing a great job with that with that um engagement coordination and and I I urge you all to take a look at the little lessons that are given in

015math and English. They're they're terrific. >> And I thought, boy, uh people who have children in our schools really have an advantage to have that available to them, both English and Spanish. Trusty Reed. [laughter] >> Um, Superintendent Chris, I too was really impressed with those videos because I have read a number of studies about school districts who have multiple uh ethnic groups represented in the school district. And it's something like that that can establish a kind of standard across the district where everybody buys into the same kind of teaching methods and teaching practices and it can overcome a lot of um cultural differences. And so I think those little videos are fabulous. They look like fun too. [laughter] Um well to just to build on that um I'd also uh want to mention that Piper

016beyond that has taken she's added herself to the steering committee for the expanded learn collaborative and I really appreciate appreciate having a school board representation on that steering committee and I think that her perspective in families and building relationships with families will be excellent. Excellent for the this program that sort of thinks about out of school time and connecting all organizations that teach children in some way or another. So, thank you for that. Then, um my other question, it was for lost the report. There it is. For Danny Reed, is is he over there? No. Or maybe Kristen, you can answer us. Um, I just wanted, so there was a mention of a centralized kitchen and then there was something else I read and so I was like I just wanted a little clarification of

017what the definition is or you know expand on just [clears throat] a tiny bit >> just expand on just the suggestion of a centralization. >> Uh, you know, I think we're in this we had a lot of conversations last year with student schoolboard project last year around food and food service in the school district. Danny and William um have a steering committee that they're using this year that has some parent participants. And so we're really trying to vet every single possibility to offer food in our schools. And that can range anywhere from, you know, one suggestion, we just had our meeting last night, so this is all really fresh in my head. [laughter] Um to go completely organic, no dyes, no sugar. you know, there's there's kind of this um really dream vision that some

018people have of what they what kind of food they want to offer in our schools and then there's, you know, the other side where we continue to do what we're doing. Maybe we restrict and we offer less options and and so there's all these possibilities and there's lots of models out there right now that people are looking at. One um one set of schools up in Canada has green houses on their roofs. That was a suggestion from the committee last night as we look to redesign the high school. Maybe we consider putting a a rooftop garden on the high school. Um then you know Boulder Valley Schools actually superintendent Chris and I are going to go down when we go down in Cheyen to Cheyenne in January we're going to go tour their schools. they're

019doing a more um like farm-totable from scratch model where the nutrition is believed to be better than what we're offering now. Um a lot of times those programs don't participate in the USDA food. So it [clears throat] comes down to how do we how do we offer a healthy meal to our students at the same time as being fiscally responsible um and operating within all of the constraints that we have. Central Ace Kitchen often comes up because it's the from scratch model. Um there's a district in Washington DC that's a huge school district. They do they have a from scratch food program where they have bakers and they make everything from scratch, but it all happens in one place and then they bus out to all of the schools and deliver those meals. Um, so

020what you're seeing in his reports is just we're we're looking at all of these things. We're we're talking about what this might look like. We currently have a request to Sedexo to bring us uh three different proposals for next year. One would be keep it as it is. The second would be kind of a step towards okay, what does more organic or more, you know, um, from scratch hooking look like? assuming that we have the facilities to do that. And then third, if we wanted to go all of the way, what does that look like and what would that cost us? So, um hopefully we'll be able to bring those proposals and share at least this is what it would cost if we really want to consider doing this. And that's the conversation with that

021steering committee is yes, anything's possible. It comes down to money. Um and and where does that money come from? How do we fund raise for it? if that's something that the board decides is an initiative that they want to um promote in our district. Um but it is generating a lot of great questions. We're able to educate a lot of the parents that look at the food that we're serving now and they're not hugely in favor of it. Um while still being able to feed kids nutritious meals while we're doing all of this. >> Great. Thank you. I'm glad I asked since the committee meeting was yesterday and now we got a little feedback on that. Anybody else have any questions or comments? Thank you. Uh, and that was it for me on the superintendent's

022report down at this end. Anything? All right. Uh, moving forward, students schoolboard member report. [clears throat] trustees. Madam Chair, the first um we want to bring up is our student um parking lot, which is um what we want to keep doing and what we need to reinforce. So something we want to reinforce is just safe driving all around. Making sure [snorts] are following speed limits and no idoling policies and just making sure they're driving safely as long as as we're moving into the winter. And then we want to continue to reinforce the number of people who can park based on their pass because I feel like most people don't have a parking pass and shouldn't be parking there. So, we want to make sure those numbers are correct because there's not much parking. And one

023observation we made is that the parking lot I mean the traffic between 8 to 10 minutes faster than it was before closing the east parking. uh as part as our environmental project we are we thought that for during the flex for or like wind time I believe it's called for the elementary or middle school uh we have links of YouTube videos to give more information for the younger kids about the environment how to protect it uh keep it you know keep the world healthy I guess um and we kind of got these videos just to to not bore the kids out so they see a fun way to keep the planet safe. And we thought to keep the keep water bottles, reusable water bottles to encourage kids to use them more. And um in the

024next slide, we there's a map that we thought maybe the kids could play with and we haven't talked to this about Dr. Chris, but we were thinking maybe during the next student senate meeting to maybe show this map to the kids and get their input on it, what they think about it, or maybe have them take it to their own schools so that there's the students there can play with it. And it's just a map like kind of like the game of life, but except it's just about how to keep the planet um green and how to stop pollution. And it's just a mat to Yeah. keep the keep it light, not too heavy on the kids, but so that they're aware of the environment, how to keep it keep it good. >> And we've

025also gotten a Google form responses from the high school, but we only got 208 students to actually respond. But it's kind of really interesting to see already how it really skews the statistics. Um so this includes these two pictures include um the middle schoolers responses and driving increased from 20% to 43 only with about what a fifth of the high school responded and um school bus and start bus activity decreased by 15% and we think probably if ever from the high school participated [laughter] in this Google form that would really the drive-in would probably make up the majority of the circle and the little green bit of start buses would be like minuscule. And the other thing that we did notice that the high school is doing really well though is that um almost every

026kid in the high school knows where the recycling bins are and most of them are using them too. And I guess one of the main problems we have noticed though, which is something students for sustainability has been trying to address, is that everyone keeps throwing away the metal utensils into the trash can. But they got um they got, sorry I'm the word, magnetic lids now to try to pull them out. And it looks like it's saving about half the ones that can get thrown out, which is really great. >> [laughter] >> And then um we're also doing the student senate um which is meeting um next Monday the 15th. Um and we will be leading rotations. We will be leading five rotations. Um the first one is um uh composing like thank you letters uh

027to TCSD staff or like fellow students or like people in our community to show like gratitude because it is like the season of like giving and like the holidays. And then the second um rotation is uh creating like a 5second video about connection which um I think Dr. Chris was um planning to include it in the uh parent newsletter um so that people can know about the connection going on in all schools. And then the third one is identify ways to give back to our community so that maybe next time as a whole like student senate we could go out and um volunteer and give back to our community. And then the fourth one is to sign a pledge like to build connection. Like each student will sign like a little pledge like I'll like

028invite someone to lunch and then hopefully that they do it. And then the fifth one is goodie bag making. Um and like the students will make goodie bags and then hopefully hand them out to someone like a fellow student that's showing connection in their school. >> Excellent. Thank you. Anybody have any questions? Um, Trusty Abrams, we'll go with you first. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. Student board, thank you for your presentation. Going back to the environmental side, looking at one of the suggestions that you had that you brought up was about the reusable water bottles. uh as a parent who visits lost and found on occasion. I don't know if you've ever seen the lost and found either at the school uh barn, the bus barn, or at any of the schools. And it is

029massive. It is overwhelming. And if you want to make an impact to the environment and to what this the families in this district, you help solve reuniting that lost and found to those students. And um what gets shipped out of the valley at the end of every school year is probably staggering. It below your mind. And so I I think if you want to make an impact, try to solve that problem. Um, I think it would be high value to the leadership at the different schools to see the reunification of that stuff. Any way that you could help come up with some creative ways um would be in and my thought helpful. There's got to be a ton of kids walking around this valley without jackets because there's a ton of [laughter] lost family every

030Los. >> So, thank you. >> and water bottles. You could fill Target with a water bottle and also [laughter] rest. >> Thank you, chairman. Um, so going to the driving and the uh people conducting the uh the traffic out of school, you all have had the experience the experience of both with and without. >> Um share can you share any of from the students perspective how this is working um for you? >> Yeah. Uh at the beginning of the year, I feel like I would always sit at the parking lot with my car with my friends waiting traffic out because it would take probably I wouldn't get out the parking lot till like 4:20 and I was getting out of class late today and I saw most of the cars were out by 412 >>

031which is already huge difference >> and happier no cares angrier where what do you think the uh >> I don't feel like many students mind >> the difference really. Yeah. >> I think people though because you're like stopping and waiting, people get more impatient and kind of pull more dangerous moves to get in front of the in the front of the line, which is something I've noticed, but I'm not sure if you guys agree. >> Yeah. I feel like they want to like where everyone like goes, they just want to go into the same group of people. So, they would be going out to school first. But >> like other than that, >> from a parents lens, I find it a lot smoother. and easier um and not quite as chaotic. So that's why I

032asked from the students lens. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions, comments? >> All right. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Enjoy the meeting next week, fiscal management. Madam Chair, we met 3 weeks ago right before Thanksgiving and I can't honestly we're [laughter] going we're getting inundated with recalibration and trying to figure out the mystery of the universe. >> Yes, [clears throat] but let's let's hear it. >> Uh the budget update is posted. No major surprises. We're pacing where we should be. uh the initial bill that was proposed. Now we haven't seen the actual bill uh the the recalibration committee directed at the last meeting um for certain criteria to go into the bill be put into the bill. So, while we were in uh Casper for the Wyoming School Board Association meeting,

033the business manager group in Wyoming got together and we worked on modeling what all these changes might look like for each of our districts. And while the biggest and probably most positive thing that's coming out of this bill is that the legislature wants to increase teacher salaries, but then it's all of the other things that they've added into the bill on top of that. um that actually decreases overall funding for schools. Uh so when I run all of those components and this is not a perfect estimate. We're we're trying to use a model that is from our prior funding model. We're trying to make it work for the proposed bill. So it's not perfect, but as you can see, if the evidence-based model as proposed passes, it it will probably reduce our funding by approximately

034$6 million. Um, and that's just the components that are in the model. They've actually suggested a couple of other things as well as changes in the model like class sizes and regional cost adjustment. And that's that's one of the biggest hits to us obviously is regional cost adjustment. But then they've actually proposed other changes outside of the model. For example, uh because we're a recapture district and we hold a lot of that tax money throughout the year, we have significant interest earnings. One of the um legislators proposed that we no longer get to consider that our revenue that that now gets grouped in with the foundation guarantee. So, if if you look at what our actual foundation guarantee is currently, um you can see it's about $59 million. Um, and then if you look at

035our budget, our actual budget is $70 million. And the reason that there's a difference there is because we're able to keep some of the money that we're able to maximize through interest earnings um as revenue in our district that don't contribute to the foundation guarantee. If that change is made, now not only will our our foundation guarantee decrease, but we'll no longer get to keep those funds either. Uh, and then another big one I think that will impact districts pretty well is um they want to get rid of the pre97 reserves. And we currently have $2 million in pre97 reserves. Those are reserve dollars that were saved in the district prior to the current funding model implemented in 2005. Um, I actually don't know and maybe Trusty Ginger could give an opinion on this. Is

036that even a legal proposal for them to do? I don't know. >> I was just thinking current to spend. >> Well, well, in order to spend it, it's tricky to spend it because that means we have to drain our complete cash reserves all the way down to zero uh in order to spend the 2 million so that they can't take it back. Uh which we could absolutely do and uh we might find ourselves in that position next year. Um but yes, >> well, >> um Madame Chair, uh Trusty Gingry and and Kristen, uh don't some school districts have many many many millions of dollars of pre97 pre197 money when they um didn't have to uh or you know prior to the foundation guarantee and they had the oil and gas money. Is that still the

037case? Do you think? Yes. >> Yes. The other big change uh that's in this bill is that they no longer want to allow districts to do the capital depreciation transfer. So, at the time when our cash reserves were at a a really decent uh we had a great balance. We were able to take some of the money um and transfer it into our capacity suitability and housing fund. Um one of the proposals in the recalibration bill is that we'll no longer be able to do that. Uh so they're really trimming this down. So this is how much money you have. This is what you get to spend on education and limiting the district's ability to move around and maximize what we do in our district um individually. >> Madam Chair, >> yes. >> Um Kristen,

038has LSO uh taken a look at what this would look like with regards to a reduction in funding and expansion in funding or what? >> They're working on it. We expect to have well we expect to have the full bill in January on January 22nd and hopefully that will come with a fiscal analysis of LSO uh we have heard nothing um it's >> Madam Chair um after um the business managers all got together then Jeremy from uh Sheridan 3 >> which is Manchester >> Manchester their business manager presented to all the WSBA attendees packed room um and they told us all of the scenarios that they were working on when and so this model here is based on that >> and so this is their best guess as a collective group of what the impacts

039are going to be Kristen's just plugged it into our situation here um classroom sizes are um going down and going up. >> Um K through three will be 15 to one, four through 12 will be 25. Come on. How that impacts us, we don't know. And we don't do the final bill. >> Well, and it's it's still so very early in the process. I think it's important to get out and have this information like this is how it was proposed, but again, we haven't even seen the bill. We haven't seen LSO's analysis of it, it hasn't even been debated in the committee. Um, and it certainly hasn't passed the committee yet. So, while it's nice to have this information and it's good to go into this process, um, knowledgeable, there's so many things that are

040going to happen between now and March 6. >> Perhaps the Supreme Court decision, >> maybe. They they talked about that and they don't expect any decision until after the session >> and the committee asked for an extension on many of the things that they lost in the lawsuit for one more year. >> Uh so the only thing they addressed from the lawsuit was teacher salaries in the recommendations. Trist, >> Madam Chair, Kristen, any other or any word or thoughts on the state health insurance plan and requirements that they we be on that? And then more importantly is um at least to me is is if that is the route, we've heard from you at least that we should think about doing something sooner than later only because there's going to be a mad rush. um

041like it's a mad mad world looking for some treasure. So, any thoughts on that? >> Yes. Uh we we being Heather Cookinsky, Heather, Sean, and I um we had a call with uh the Wyoming administration of the state health insurance plan. We were able to ask a lot of questions. Uh there is a lot of um there's a lot that we need to consider there. And you know, now now knowing what the legislature is proposing in this bill, you know, my thoughts on it passing, like my intuition is saying this is probably not going to pass. I don't know if it will or it won't. I think there's going to be a lot of opponents to this, but who knows? Um, that being said, I don't know that the state health insurance plan is the

042best option. Heather Shawn is working on a presentation that she's actually going to give at finance committee next week on December 16th. And what she's done is she's mapped out all of the options that we have that we can present to the board um which would be moving to the state health insurance plan, staying on our current plan or modifying our current plan um and going out to bid and doing that process that we normally do in the spring. And then she has a slide that has pros and cons of each of those decisions. And so we'll discuss that at finomecom on the 16th and then hopefully come to some kind of consensus and then bring that information to the full board in January [clears throat] ahead of the deadline in February to decide if

043we're going to go on the state plan or not. Um, you know, I think it's important Heather works in this real life health insurance administration on a day-to-day basis and so I really want to bring her into that conversation at finance committee because she has some great perspectives, her and I don't always agree on everything. Um, and I think, you know, oftentimes she has a little bit better of a perspective than I do because she's so up up close and personal with it every day. >> Thank you. >> [clears throat] >> Anything else? >> All right. Thank you very much, >> Madam Chair. >> Trusty SC. >> I think it'll be a um in January we will need to have an executive session um to discuss um legal ramifications of proposed So, just want to

044put that on our watch. >> Thank you. >> Educational Service Committee. >> Good evening, Madame Chair, board of trustees. I first want to say hi, Diego. It's Mrs. Phelps. [laughter] So fun. He's a senior. He's [laughter] in my kindergarten [clears throat] class. So 10 years ago, 13 years ago. Anyways, [laughter] um so this evening I just wanted to give some highlights of our PLC continuum data survey that we collected um in November. And I know that the board has requested some information more more teacher kind of perception survey around our PLC work and it's really timely because we're talking about the calendar this evening. It also is very timely in connection with the accreditation um kind of informal results that we received a month ago. Um really celebrating all the work that we've accomplished in

045the last 5 years. So that was really great to hear. Um so this confirms a lot of that what you already heard, but it also highlights some areas for us to focus on. Um which our administrators are very um very tight in their school improvement plans around what where their goal areas are. Um especially if you were if if you recall the um school improvement planning workshop that we had, they really did highlight some of these areas that um especially in the area of curriculum development and um common formative assessments. So that really kind of comes comes through in this survey that was filled out by all teachers. So PLC's filled this out. Um and then the guiding coalition from each school re reviewed the results. Um something I do want to just connect with

046is our timeline of implementation. So during accreditation we did talk about how long we've been implementing the PLC framework and um that was a great opportunity to showcase a lot of our work that we're proud of. And I I want to note that um the middle school was kind of leading the charge in in that initial implementation years ago. So they're in Matt Hilchshire could give the exact date, but I think it's 8 to nine years of PLC work. So um it really comes through in that survey to see how far they've come in especially curriculum development. Um and then uh the high school is in their fourth year of implementation. And so I I do think that shows through in the survey that we're in that phase of implementing, pushing into developing. Um and

047so I think it's really important to think about that as we discuss the need for those um inservice days and flex Fridays that that is work that we need to do and carving out time for them to work in their teams and really move forward with um implementing the new standards. And I also do want to bring this forward um and this may be appropriate for ed services committee to discuss but really how can we ensure that we're getting more time for elementary teachers to really also have that time to work on curriculum and their assessments because it is really tight this year. um these days are really really packed and I do have concerns about as we move towards um implementing new standards the next four years look really really tight with the content

048that we're adopting um and just the need for that curriculum development. So I just I want to bring that forward because I think that's something that we need to problem solve. Um, and I'm available for any questions on the survey or any thought final thoughts on what you read through our PLC work. >> Any questions? Any comments? Um, Madam Chair, um, Megan, it seems like the high school scored the the PLC's lower than all the other schools. Is there uh some theory as to why that is? Are they newer to >> Yes. So there this is this is the fourth we're in in the fourth year of implementation. So that's to be expected. It's also um the questions were really specific to implementation of evidence-based grading practices because the questions are around your curriculum and

049assessments that are tied to evidence-based grading um the revisions that are necessary to move in into that direction. So, it is expected that with about 65% of the school implementing evidence-based grading, we're not at that full um schoolwide yet. >> But they also are the ones that have flex Fridays, right? >> Yes. And all the reasons for we absolutely use those days and need that time. >> Thank you, >> Christy Bosch. Madam Chair, um I'm just curious the survey. Is this the first time you have used this or is this something >> No, this is um in years past we've always done fall and spring um and we were monitoring over the last five years that I can recall um when we really had all those co cohorts coming through to get trained in PLC

050coaching academy and we were really monitoring the foundations of the PLC and seeing that growth and you can see that's one of the highest areas is the the foundations Um, and so I think it's important to really look at those GBC areas and common formative assessments to monitor that improvement. So my question would be just to you know applaud where do we see the growth but then for me at least more importantly is where do we need to uh or where do you see that we need to work better or get better at and is there anything you need from us >> uh to accomplish that in your opinion >> thank you yes um I think that's that's why the inservice days and and flex days are so important Um because as as the high

051school and the middle school as well as they are making those refinements to their curriculum, they need time to work in their teams. And you know, we talked about collaborative needs for all last year. And really, it's it's the work. It's the work of refining your curriculum, developing assessments, developing interventions for students. And they they can't do that in isolation. So, they really do need those days where it's uninterrupted. And the flex Fridays were using every minute of those days. >> So, do you need more time, do you think? Or they need more time, I should say. But, you know, I'm just kind of getting curious on like >> I I believe that middle school and high school has the appropriate time that they need. I think we are in a situation where I believe

052the elementary teams need more time. And do you have a solution to that other than just saying, "Okay, Friday's off." That didn't go over real well last time at least. >> Um I know that's an Yeah, I know that's an unpopular um topic to talk about, you know, having another day that kids are out of school. Um but there are other options to explore. um such as in the years past, I know we've talked about this um maybe it was five years ago, we talked about a late arrival or an early release once a month. Um I know that's challenging because it's not consistent, but I do I do think that we need to discuss with the administrators and ed services to talk about how can we ensure that um we are prepared for what's

053coming, which is new standards. New standards are coming, revisions are needed, and and we need to make sure that we're planning ahead. >> Well, I I hope that you have that next time and get that together and let's take a look at it. >> I I think an option would be to to talk about in the January um ed services committee to explore some ideas and then talk with the administrators about it. Um, I know that that has been, we've talked about this for years that it it's really challenging in the elementary schedule to make sure that everyone has time together to get this work done. So, >> anybody else? >> Thank you very much. Thank you. And we are on to other reports. >> Madam chair, trustees, um I wanted to just take a

054moment and update um our board on a change that took place. I think it was November was the week before [clears throat] Thanksgiving break. Um so wearing a couple hats here. um I thought it was important to bring forward in light of our policy discussion around graduation requirements. So for the past uh two to three years, the Wyoming State Board has been um working with the WDE and districts on trying to update um what was formerly called chapter 31, not to get confusing, but now it's chapter 3 does the same thing. This essentially lays out for every district the graduation requirements for students and one. Um attached to your agenda is the chapter 3 rules. However, for the purposes of tonight, it's not to review this entire document. It's just to highlight some of the

055changes uh sort of pre-post change. um some of those changes. If you look at um you go to part D that Sarah has highlighted um one of the big changes moving forward is to recognize the ability for a student to earn credit in different ways. This is intended to allow districts to become more innovative with their education models. um that goes beyond credit just earned during school time that but potentially can be earned out of school time. Um these are big ideas. These are long-term ideas. They're exciting ideas. I believe when we know that learning doesn't just take place in schools, it happens in and out of schools. And so there's an acknowledgment of how our state can work on creating systems to allow credits to be earned in alternative ways beyond the traditional seat

056time requirement which is important. [clears throat] This just takes it to another uh another level. That's one fundamental change in chapter 3. There's a couple other fundamental changes I just want to bring to the trustees attention because it does relate to our um graduation policy discussion to come and that is if we scroll down to section three where it says graduation standards in chapter three um there is very specific language now um calling out um the specific skills that are listed in the portrait of a graduate Um and so these are becoming more formalized now in terms of graduation requirements. There is clear acknowledgement not only in our district but in districts across the state that there is no silver bullet in how to measure these life skills. This is an assessment conversation. How do

057you really do that in a robust way and not overwhelm our teachers or system? Um there are some models being produced that allow us to track these skills embedded in current type projects and other classroom assessments and to track that in terms of development of a child K5 to grade 12. So these portion of graduate skills, it's not simply a high school conversation, it's a K5 moving through the system conversation. Um, and we do a lot of this current, but we don't do it formally. We're not assessing some of these portion of the graduate skills formally. So, that's some work for us to consider in the future. It will be required though for every school district in Wyoming to include these portrait of a graduate skills in their uh, graduation requirements. We are one of

058the first to do that. And as you will notice in our policy, you will see these listed like this in our policy that will review tonight. Um, in the next year, every district will be asked to revise their graduation requirements. So, we're kind of the first to put our our hat in the ring in terms of ports over graduate skills [clears throat] um being listed on our graduation requirements. It doesn't change the fact of credits being required, certain content areas being required. Um, if you read through chapter three, you will see that our graduation requirement, which we'll look at soon, far exceeds the state average by far. Our 25.5 credits, I think, uh, when you look at chapter 3, it's 13 or 14 if I'm not mistaken. I have to count that, but that that's

059a very low bar compared to where we are from the state of TCSU. So, I just wanted to bring chapter 3 forward just for um the purposes of letting you know that we are as a district aligned to the state requirement. We we exceed the state requirement and we're moving ahead with the requirement on some of these life skills that we have to try to figure out how to measure in some way acknowledging we have some [clears throat] work to do. open for questions if you have any. >> Any questions? >> Thank you. >> Uh Madame Chair, trustees. Um so for um our capital projects update, um Jason Burning, our owner's rep for transportation facility is online. um he's provided um uh a report and presentation for you if you have any questions. Uh but

060basically we continue with um sort of the all that underground work that um we won't see when the building starts to um take shape and go up. Um but things are progressing along has continuing to have our weekly OAC meetings um with the contractor and the architect. So, um, things are things are moving along and like I said, um, Jason did provide a, um, a report and a presentation if you have any questions. >> I I do have a question. I was really surprised that December 9th was the date they were going to be done with the concrete slab. That seems crazy given our weather. Um, have they already poured it? >> [snorts] >> Uh yeah, good evening. Um thanks um u trustee. Um yeah, we sorry. Um we um the slab has not been

061poured. They've been focused on the underground plumbing and electrical and have definitely had some weather impacts. Um the plan is in December to be pouring it'll be focused on pouring the administr the uh office side of the project um in December. So basically the the the entire footprint's about 17,000 square feet and where they're going to have a crew moving forward with structural steel erection in the transit side of it where more the bus barn is and where the admin and the office side is. Um they'll be focused on pouring that slab here in the month of December. We're obviously not going to hit that December 9th date. Um but um we're we are planning on pouring it here in December. We'll have to provide updates here in the new year on how we're impacted

062by the weather. Um, so far, >> thank you. >> Other questions, comments? >> Okay. Um, moving on. >> Um, moving on to housing. Um, in terms of the, um, actual project, um, just a couple of highlights. the um the panels, the a um AFC panels that um will go on the exterior, those have started on the north and south end um with more um um underway now. Um signage, so interior to the building. Um unit numbers, um laundry where you know where things are um all of the that signage is going up. Um appliances for the second level um were um being installed last week. Um first level is done. Um some inspections are underway, things like electrical, that sort of thing. Um waiting for the final electrical inspection so that we can get the

063elevator operational. So just some really, you know, just more um a lot of progress being made. Things are coming along really nicely. Um, and um, one of my I think one of my favorite parts um, that I've seen so far is it's great to see the units and how nice they are and the nice finishes. One of the most fun pieces and it's included in the link in the district leader report is the involvement of uh Grant Ross' construction 2 class uh building the patio furniture um the adund chairs the tables they're going to be doing some benches um how excited he was um when we offered this to him um as an opportunity for students um he was he he was all in um which was just super fun because, you know, it wasn't

064as though he started the school year knowing this was coming. Um, we came to him partway through the SK through the year and said, "What do you think?" And he um he was so excited and I think the product that the kids are working on is is really impressive. Um I think it's going to be a nice addition to that patio space. um and will might make a nice consistent um um enjoyable outdoor space for for those who are living there. Um so any questions about the actual construction portion um before I move on and I'll pro update on the committee >> work. >> I want to say that I was going to make the same comment. I thought that was really cool the photos you had included. So >> um I I'm I'm looking

065at those aderondac chairs. I'm like, I think those look nicer than the ones that are on my patio. [laughter] Um, they're doing a great job. Um, our committee, um, our housing committee, um, is continuing to work. We're meeting each month. Um I anticipate um having pulling all of the work together um at our next meeting in January. Hopeful that we can have a report to you all for your consideration in January in terms of um how um rate structures and um um selection process and and some of those aspects. Um the team has been doing a lot of work and and asking a lot of really good questions. So hopefully we will have addressed a lot of the topics that um a housing program needs to address. Uh but prior to that um the name

066of our buildings, we've been talking about that for a while. We did do a um district-wide survey. We received about 60 names um and um about a third of those included some variation of um the but um which is now the committee's recommendation for the board's um basically blessing um that we would name the housing project the butes um recognizing that this is the first of hopefully three buildings um and that um that would be the recommendation of the committee. Um the reason we're looking for we're we're hoping to move that forward is um there is a very large boulder that was found um as part when we were excavating uh for the site and um the plan is to use that place that at the front put a put signage on it with the

067street address and the name of the building um on the on the on that big boulder. So we're excited to to move that ahead. So, unless there are any concerns, um our our apartment complex is called Pews. Um let's see quickly. Um I unfortunately I don't have um any new information on our summit u bathroom project. Um Jeremy Slater from the state is going to come um meet with um Neil um from Architects and I to take a look at the plan, the project and figure out how to move forward with the funding that the state had previously allocated. Um so hopefully um I will be able to provide an update for you in January on that project. Um and then lastly, the um high school addition and vestibule. Um I will be going to

068Cheyenne tomorrow to um attend the joint appropriation meeting where school facilities department is presenting their budget request. Uh that includes the release of our our full funding for construction as well as the additional money for design and to address the inflationary costs um that we anticipate due to how long it's taken to get through the Mercer process and and all of those steps. So um that is the um capital projects update unless you have any questions. >> Any questions? >> Thank you. >> That's a lot. and travel safe. [laughter] >> That's the end of our other reports. So, we will move on to public comment. Not uh things not on tonight's agenda. Um if you have a public some public comment, please come forward, state your name, and you have three minutes to present. Any

069public comment in the room? Any public comment on virtually? Seeing none, we will move forward to action items. Consideration of the 20 26 board meeting schedule. Um, one comment on the schedule. Um, we tried to replicate just so the board is aware that potentially haven't gone through this process. We replicated this past year to the best of our ability maintain Wednesday for the most part. There's a couple that are there Wednesdays due to holidays etc. Um on the back or on this page two, you'll also see our CWC Boseies meetings um that we kind of clarified compared to past agendas. We have five on there that will be virtual online. Those could change to face to face depending on the topic that we're discussing. Um but everything else is pretty straightforward. You'll look under the

070recreation district meeting schedule and the third item is to be determined because we just don't know yet. So that's the one piece just so the board knows we'll have to fill in um upon approval. I I had a question on that. Um on the rec district meeting schedule, the one that TBD makes sense to me. Um the typically the rec district meeting is at the same time as the um schoolboard meeting. And here it's July 8th for the rec district meeting and July 15th for the budget hearing. And that may be just an oversight because um the budget hearing was moved a week. Does that make sense, >> Madam Chair? That's an oversight. I can make the correction. >> Yes. Sorry. And I should have emailed you this afternoon, but I was moving it. >>

071We will make that. >> Yeah. >> Thanks, but I just wanted to provide some clarification. So, with the correction of the um budget hearing meeting for the recreation district to July 15th, I would move approval of the 2026 board meeting schedule with that correction. any uh um let's see any public uh comment. Oh, wait. Anyway, any more discussion? Sorry. Um all in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carries. consideration of first breed policies. >> Madam chair, trustees, we have um four um documents to review. Um there are uh two regulations and two policies. Um the first policy of review is student organizations. Um what I've tried to do and and can change practice um at the direction of the board is to provide two documents for each number. So you have a redline version and because some

072of the red lines are so extensive. I also included a clean copy um which I think is standard practice but again I will change that for the direction of the board. So the first focus student organizations um it is a if you look you look at the policy not the regulation first that's number one listed um some context to the policy and regulation because they both have the same context. Um the goal of an update of these regulations and policies is to ensure that um the clubs and activities that or the clubs in particular, the organizations that um are created um are um coming from our students, ECSD enrolled students in our schools, staff. Um there was some language that wasn't clear in certain areas of our of our policy. Um, and I also thought

073it was um important to bring forward just to make sure that we were clean on when we have a student initiated organization that it is a student that is enrolled in our schools that wants to have other students involved in that club and finds a TCSD staff sponsor to sponsor that club. Um, so really it's language around TCSD being involved in our community when you're bringing up network. >> Any question? >> Madam Chair, I do have some edits, but this is first read, right? >> Yeah. I'll second to this on the regulation. Um, like number three, it says can be granted by the school and superintendent or designate. So I'm confused as to does the school principal decide it? Does the superintendent decide it? Yeah, it gets a little confusing. And then like down in

074the number three of the second number three or no, it's the number two. It says the initial club sponsor shall be a member of the school district scaffies that later on the club sponsor can be somebody else. I was assuming you were wanting the person to stay as the school district. Anyway, there are some little things. Um but I'll send those to you before the next um reading of this. We'll be Madam Chair, >> trusting. >> Uh, Madame Chair, Superintendent Chris, you know, none of this talks about the financial implications of these clubs. How is that? I mean, that's obviously not determined by these rules, but how is that determined? How do you deter determine how much money a club may be entitled to or how much money they may get? Chair, trustee me. Mr.

075Hansford, can you address that question? And I'm asking you because I want to be consistent with this answer. We have a lot of club requests, >> right? >> Some are pennies on the dollar and some be false, but I want to make sure we have a consistent reply. Um, Superintendent Chris, uh, trustees, um, trusty me, typically when someone has wanted to start a club, um, they we've waited usually around three years, um, before we've allowed that sponsor to be paid. Um, and I've brought that presentation then to the cabinet to the superintendent to approve whether or not they would approve a sponsor, a stipen for said club sponsor. Most of our clubs are just internal to the school. um no travel, things of that nature. There is you guys, we've used um through rec district,

076there's been a line item in there for national travel for certain events, uh or sorry, local travel within the the 100 mile border of Wyoming that we use for the WHSAA. And we have that kind of broken out by the clubs that already existed. Let's say someone started a new club, then we would bring that back to the school board to add to that pot of money for your approval at that point in time. Um that that would be how most clubs the expenses that they have. There's membership dues for a lot of clubs at which point in time we just transfer that the student pays the membership dues into an agency account and then we pay for that out of set agency account. >> Interesting. Thank you. Sure. >> Trusty B. [laughter] >> Madam

077Chair, um, if we're offering or a new club comes up to offer, and this actually goes for all clubs, how do we deal with insurance issues to cover liability and other things with respect to these clubs? I mean, you know, somebody wants to start the electric bike wheelie club, which seems to be a thing already at the high school, but if we're doing this, how do we deal with this and how do we address those issues? >> I would probably have to defer to uh Miss Van Gendry on that. My understanding would be that when students are involved in clubs, we have an activities registration form where they're talk where they have to acknowledge being involved in the activity. um as well as releases of of indeidentification, things of that nature. So that would be

078kind of my understanding of how that works. And I'm assuming we have a blanket policy for our insurance that all activities would go under. We did have to do something different special for mountaineering, but I believe that was the only one we had to do something different [clears throat] for. >> Madame Chair, Trusty Bosch, great question. And that is a one of the purposes of a policy adopting student associations is that if a club is sanctioned by the board of trustees and the district, typically uh the district's general liability policy will cover all clubs. again um they we do look if it's an extra hazardous occupation or activity like mountaineering but um part of it is that when a club is is asked to form and it submits the appropriate paperwork then we run that

079by the district's insurance carrier to confirm that it's a sanctioned club and part and covered under its policies >> and if there's any increase in premium or stuff like that do we pass that along to the club or >> there has never been that I'm aware of any increase. I mean typically again it's considered a sanction club as part of the curricular activity and extracurricular activities and never associated with that. Sometimes the carrier will require like extra releases or or things like that if they feel necessary. But again, we're actively involved with the carrier and the um making sure that we have all necessary documents and releases. Anybody else? [clears throat] >> Thank you. Um, madam chair, the next um policy for review is number three listed in the agenda there and it is the

080policy IKJ graduation requirements. You have both a red line version and a clean version. Um, some of the items I talked about like the change in chapter 3 requirements are listed um, in the second, as you can see, the second bulleted paragraph on that document. Um, and I think it's also very important to note had some really good questions come my way. Um, these are pathways listed if you look at the the second page student would be earning. it just provides a little bit more flexibility in regards to a sequence of courses a student may take um in one of the pathways versus the other. So for example, the halfway pathway is the pathway that we've had on the books now for over a dozen years. It's a very standard academic pathway uh with four

081years math, four years science that continues to exist. Stu many students will continue to take that pathway and that a lot of that comes from the requirements of higher education four years math or science regardless of what we the second pathway is different. You will see it is does not require an academic math or science. However, it is important to note that those additional classes that a student can take under the umbrella of CTE can be foundationally built with math concepts like financial literacy, business, finance. There are a lot of courses that students now will have the opportunity to take that don't within the the academic mathematics classes like a pre-cal or calculus or an algebra 2 or advanced algebra 2. So fundamentally though at the end of the day your credits stay the same.

08225.5 are still your credits. One pathway provides a little bit more opportunity to explore. one is much more academic in terms of a very poor sequence of academic classes. Either pathway results in a TCSD diploma. The diploma will look the same. There's no differentiation from a student lens. We want to make sure that both pathways have the same amount of accountable integrity in terms of learning. Um, and we don't want this perceived one track versus two track. Um and that's on us to create those systems and programs put in place. Um that's just a quick summary of the policy change. We still far exceed the state requirement. We are in alignment with chapter 3 which we need to be. Um and we'll have to submit this policy to the WDE um upon approval once we

083land on. >> Any questions, comments? Uh Trusty Dorn. Um, Madame Chair, Superintendent Chris, um, I wanted to ask about the, um, homeschool graduation requirements. If a, if a student is homeschooled, K through 12 or even 9 through 12, do they get a TCSD diploma? >> The student um, Trusty Dorn, it's a great question. So right now um if a student can demonstrate that they are completing the required credits like outlined in this policy, they would have to transfer back to us before graduation and technically to be eligible for that. However, and we will get to this in the regulation in just a moment, homeschool regulation. There are many layers to that. As a district, we do have the um the right or the process to ensure that when a student comes into our district, especially

084at the high school level, we provide tests, assessments, writing samples, etc. to make sure that student is at the level of that class that they have recorded. or the district may deem that homeschool credit not to transfer depending on the level and academic success that student and that will be part of our regulation requ. >> It depends on the homeschool program students. Um, homeschooling right now in Wyoming, as our trustees knows, have gone through a significant change and it is pretty wide open in the state of Wyoming. I'm probably being polite when I say wide open. Um, I I say that um not to be critical of homeschool, but to when students transfer back to us, they're our responsibility and we always want to make sure that a student is set up for success. This

085isn't about judging one parent or organization or club over another. When that student transfers into the Jacksonville High School as a ninth grade or 10th grader and they are far below where our students are, it is it is our duty now to make sure that student gets up to grade level. So, we should have a vested interest in where these credits are coming from. We do maintain that ability to review a student's homeschool transcript and determine how many credits with the appropriate me. Um, Madame Chair, Superintendent Chris, um, with regards to these credits, is there are there enough enough hours in the day or over the four years for kids to get more credits than uh, we require? In other words, can kids take more stuff um, will they have time during their high school

086years to take more classes than these 25.5 credits? Um, madam chair, trustee me. Um, yes. Right now, a student at Jacksonville High School, if they maximize every period, >> flex withstanding, they earn the 28 credits. Um, and so we there's still some wiggle room there, which is appropriate. Um 25.5, if you recall over a decade ago, um the push for 25.5 was really in service of ensuring kids were in our schools full-time and we were engaging them full-time and when they left our schools, we were preparing them for the next level versus a half-time student um junior senior year there for three hours leaving. I will say with the new chapter 3 rules, the integrity of this will help, but it'll also we need to be thinking creatively of how how kids can earn credit

087maybe differently in a community. >> Um been pair as I speak right now, we're at a workbased learning conference um and our intensive work sessions on how we can create some of these out of school experiences that go beyond, hey, Scott got an internship at a law firm, give him credit. We're developing a curriculum that a student has to complete first, be ready to work with that employer, then be placed appropriately, which is a little higher level. We do need to be thinking innovatively about kids and credits. It's the way things are going, but we have to do it with some accountability. Can't be too loosey goosey, too. So, there's this balance that will work. So, 28 credits is the max. >> Great. Thank you. >> [clears throat] >> to do that. >> Thank you,

088Madam Chair. Uh Dr. Chris, um you said something about the homeschooling if they want to come back and get a TCS or the D C diploma. They have to meet certain requirements. Does that apply if they want to come back to do anything here? Meaning if they want to participate in activities, if they want to do anything that's related to being part of this community, is there requirements um that are imposed or at least looked at? Um, Madam Chair, Trusty Bosch, the require the one area where requirements have a little bit higher standard and teeth if you say is the credits and I would say maybe athletics are a little different conversation um in terms of people who are individuals who play on TCSD teams or homeschooled and we have several homeschool students playing on

089our teams Because with credits I can't if if a student comes to the high school for example and it really gets you in secondary K5 is a little more loose but when you're talking about credits if a student's transferring into the high school and we receive a homeschool transcript that lists algebra one the first thing we will do is do an assessment where is that student because essentially if if the home school was >> giving the student a credit, our first reaction is what's the appropriate placement because it's only going to backfire on us if we don't do that. If the student goes into algebra 2 and doesn't have the algebra skills, that's going to ripple through our system and lead to I hate to say it, credit recovery or other items that we we

090work with. So where we have the most um teeth I would say is credits. >> All right. The last >> next item it bleeds over nicely um given Trusty Bosch's question is homeschool regulation. Um as you recall in July we passed a home school policy. our regulation did not match our policy since we passed it. So I went back pulled up the regulation um when you look at the redline version of this particular regulation it's there's a lot that came out and the reason for that is our policy changed and we just don't have the same rules to play by. So when you look at the clean version which I recommend is is just pretty straightforward. Um it's it's it's not a lot here. There's not a lot that the school does to monitor homeschooling.

091We we don't have a homeschool curriculum submitted to us at this point. Student can opt to be homeschooled with not a lot of school district oversight. Um what we do get is when a student returns and it complements our conversation, the ability for us to do testing and assessment to ensure the student is on par and That's the quick summary of the regulation. There's not a lot here. It just matches our past policy in July. >> Any questions? >> So, Madam Chair, these are all obviously first reads. happy to take the feedback if you have some more time to process um and um can make edits as we go forward. These will come back as an action item in um >> I had one little question. How many students are homeschooled in our district? >>

092Do you have any idea? >> Read I would need to get that. Let me I want to give you an accurate number. it changes. In fact, I can tell you in the last week, we had two submissions of homeschool. We do have a right, we have a like a worksheet that a family is supposed to complete to let us know and we get those occasionally. We received two in the past week. On that document, it clearly indicates and gives the parent the option to be tested on white top or not. so that Eric can check which we will track um which we do um but I need to look at our totals it fluctuates >> but all figure is it fewer than 100 >> yes >> that [clears throat] >> just to feed off on

093um trusty Dorham's question this was an issue that was brought up at the conference WSBA conference. Um, and under these new laws, the district can ask, but they really have no right to get a response. And um, the issue then bleeds into the truency program, which our truency officer was um, very much responsible for. But if it's a homeschool kid, um, I mean, there's just like so many things we were seeing, it's legislation that wasn't completely thought all the way through. Um, so when Dr. Chris says he'll do his best, that's all we can ask of him. And the I I did pursue the question about um eligibility and participation in our athletics. And it's not just athletics, it's activities, speech and debate and everything. And um put them on the put homeschool kids on

094the same playing level as our BCSB kids. Um it's just not clear. Um you can't just kind of take the parents word for it that the kid is at the appropriate grade level and making appropriate grades as of now. So that's um that's where the current state is. Any other questions for Dr. Chris? Any public comment online? Thank you, Madam Chair. >> Seeing none. Yeah, >> I would make a motion to approve the first read of the policy JJ student organizations regulation JJ-R1 student organizations policy IKF graduation requirements and regulation IHBG-R1 homeschooling as presented. Second. >> Any more discussion? >> Madam Chairman, um as we go through this process, it would be really helpful if we have changes um and proposed changes made and presented to Dr. Chris before the second read. So, it gives

095us all a chance to really absorb um what there is and that way we can all be on the same page moving forward. So, if anybody has suggestions um that they want to send to Dr. Chris, maybe do it before the next meeting because then we have that check-in and it'll be there with the those changes I would have said. >> Thank you. >> Any more discussion? All in favor? >> I opposed. Motion passes. [clears throat] consideration of lease of request for proposal for property management services. >> Thank you, Madam Chair, trustees. Um, as you know, we've uh been talking about our employee housing um u units and how to move forward with um best implementing an employee housing program. Um, as part of that conversation has been the um management of our units, um,

096including um, lease administration and maintenance. Um, and so the, um, the concept being to hire a property manager that would take over management of all of our units, not just the new 24 unit apartment building. Um and so because this is um um quite a departure from how we have been handling our units to um to this point which has been um internal to existing staff. Um coming before the board to confirm that you all are comfortable with releasing an RFP for property management services. Um and then um of course we would come back to you with a recommendation of a um the selected or recommended um property manager to um to support us in this work. So with that I stand for questions. >> Any questions? >> Trusty D. >> Madame Chair Charlotte I

097I'm wondering will the manager live on the property? Um uh madam chair um no the um at this point we would be looking at local property managers who have you know who work on with other like properties um and so uh I would not anticipate that um that would be um how we would structure so a program >> super >> correct correct um >> and and what about um [clears throat] will that job expand with the increased number of units or something like that. >> Um Madame Chair, so um Trusty Dornan, what we are issuing at this point is management of the 36 units that are um owned by the district. If we develop future units in the future, then there would be a um I think a a revision to um our our program

098to account for additional units coming online. um madam chair Charlotte doesn't say anything about what you anticipate this is going to cost us. Are you intending or is it the suggestion that the um people who rent the units will end up paying for the property manager or do you have a ballpark guess as to how much it's going to cost for somebody to do this property management? >> Um Madam Chair, Trusty Me, um I don't have estimates yet. Um I know some property managers set a um have a base price. some property managers set their fees on a um um rental a percentage of the rent uh rental rates charged. So, um I think that will be um the information we gather through the RFP process. Um and then we'll evaluate um what that would

099look like. Uh but yes, we would anticipate that um um the um employee housing program, rental rates, etc. will cover um the costs associated with the units. um everything from maintaining the buildings to then um also covering the property management costs >> and and similarly is that that program uh subject to different accounting than our general fund? I guess that's a Christine question. Thank you. >> Yes. Um, so if you'll remember a couple of years ago, we had a separate employee housing fund that sat outside of the general fund. And at that time, this was probably 5 years ago, the auditor, because we had so few units at that time. And the the assets really originated within the school district in the general fund. We moved the employee housing fund. We eliminated it. It became

100um all of the general fund. We've now since with the the bringing on of the new apartments and then the expansion of our housing program, we've created an employee housing fund. So all of the rents that we're collecting are going into that employee housing fund. It has its own set of financial statements that sit outside of the general fund. So, as we talked about the recalibration bill and some of those local revenues we've been able to maximize, those will not fall under the property rental um spot on the general fund, which is considered a local revenue for us right now. That does not contribute to the foundation guarantee. Now that we've moved that out, we'll get to hang on to those funds and they'll be able to support the employee housing program moving forward. >>

101I guess I I just remembered the part about the general fund, but it got moved into the general fund. I remember >> it did. We moved it back last year. >> Okay. Thank you very much. >> Any other questions? >> Bos, Madam Chair, um Shy, um when you get these proposals, the one thing that I would be interested in is um or I think we should take a look at is what kind of standard form agreements these property management companies use. Um because I do at least in my limited experience, they vary. and the responsibilities that they want to not assume um varies dramatically. Some do not take on any responsibility for anything. Um but it seems that me at least my understanding why we wanted to do with this was to have somebody else

102manage this the renters how we you know how we're uh administering that what's going on all those things. So, I'd like to know these do they have insurance? You know, what kind of stuff they have and then what is their agreement kind of standard form agreement >> with us. >> Does that make sense? I didn't see that in here. If it is, I apologize. >> We will make sure to address that. Thank you. >> Anybody else? All right. Thank you. Any public comment online? Seeing none, uh, is there a motion? >> Madam Chair, I move to approve the release of RFIP for property management services for TCSD employee housing as presented. >> Second. >> Any more discussion? All in favor? >> I motion pass. >> Madam Chair, >> yes. Uh once those RF come in,

103will that be the employee housing committee that reviews it? >> Um I believe so. >> Uh we removed I think my computer didn't update. So we've removed Munger Mountain. So we'll move on to consideration of school calendars for 2026 27 and 2027 28. Madam Chair, just a side note, um releasing Charlotte from tonight's meeting, she's hitting the road for Cheyenne at 4 a.m. or 5 a.m. So, >> so I'm going to go home. >> Just an F [laughter] drive safe meeting. Um so calendars for 26 27 27 28 are in front of you. I'm happy to answer questions. I did attach to the agenda just for the board's information a copy of um another rule called chapter 22. Um many of you heard me talk about this a lot last year when we were talking

104about the calendars um around what's required. I thought it was important for the board just to see like what really sets the framework for calendars. We talk about it every year. We look at the calendars. We debate dates. Um but chapter 22 really tells you what you have to do and 175 days is your minimum student days according to chapter 22 and also chapter 22 tells you how many hours that you are required to teach a school. So that's that's attached if you have any interest in looking at chapter rules. So two calendars just give me a quick snapshot. I know you've had time to look at these. Um the big differences moving forward or actually they look very much the same as this year. Um and just for the board's information too, it's important

105to note that these calendars had a very similar look and feel prior to co we had inservice days kind of scattered throughout the school year prior to 2019 2020. Um very traditional calendar. Um, we brought them back obviously four or five years after COVID with this year. Um, there are some nuts and bolts areas you should be aware of. We're kind of going back to a traditional winter break um compared to the extended twoe break that our district has had in the past. When you look at December's for both years, that's a result of where the holiday lands um in terms of of the the Christmas day being on a Friday or Saturday. Um, Labor Day is later than normal. If you look at these two calendars, uh, verse 26, 27 and 27, 28, um,

106that drives the start of the school year a little bit. Um, and also there's the same 10 days in terms of teacher inservice days. Um, with the start, five and six litter throughout. Um, I met with our superintendent advisory council three weeks ago. We have representatives from all roles and all schools and um they were pretty firm with me the importance of having a day end of the year to close down classrooms >> and um so the we made a compromise and moved one of the internal aids to the end of the year. This really came from a K5 perspective. Um there's just a lot to shut down with kids being in elementary. Um and so we made that compromise and moved in service to open to any questions or answer any questions or feedback

107you might have. >> I have a mildly related question. Um since we were talking about reccalibration and uh the you know cutting in fund potential funds um for the district was there any conversation around cutting the school year >> we required >> well um madam chair recalibration committee did bring forward one of the days you were there a statement or two on reducing from 175 value savings. If that occurred, we would have to we would have to pause. Obviously, we'd have to look at contracts or days. That would have a ripple effect beyond calendars that would impact calendars. Um, and our last meeting, it didn't come up as a primary topic, but it it's on the books. It's been reported. So, um, the conversation on reducing days has come up. I don't know how much

108weight it has right now. Um, but we would have to reassess our caliber. Re-calibration does lead us to a 170 or 165 count. >> Hopefully, you would know that soon. >> Last year during the session, there was a bill that was introduced to the summer preservation act which um restricted school districts from scheduling school in the summers and they had dates on those that would impact. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a bill like that again in this session. It didn't pass obviously, but I don't think that that topic has completely gone away. >> Thank you. >> Uh any other questions about the calendars? >> Madam Chair, not a question, just a statement. Just looking at both calendars, it's important to note how quickly uh in January the kids, the students return to school

109after the holiday. I think 26 27 it looks like Monday the 3rd and um actually that's 2728. So the other one it's pretty soon. I think it's like the 4th. So it's pretty it's Yeah, it's pretty early in be aware of >> public comment. >> Any public comment? >> Do I have a motion? >> Madam Chair, I move to approve the 26 27 and 2728 calendars as presented. Madam Chair, before I second it, would you add um subject to reccalibration or other legislative action? >> Yes. Subject to recalibration or other legislative action? >> Second. Uh any more discussion. All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion passes. uh consideration of corrected warranty deed to the town of Jackson. >> Madam chair, trustees, um I am going to allow Sarah [laughter] >> know my strengths >> and um

110I think we'll just allow Sarah to give a quick summary. >> Great. Madame Chair, trustees, again, this uh action item is a request from the town of Jack Jackson for a corrective warranty deed um resulting from a 1998 transfer of the Miller Park property from the school district to the town of Jackson. And again, when the uh the property was transferred in 1998, it did have a a restrictive use for public purposes only. And now the town is requesting that the board of trustees amend that use to recreational purposes only because the town of Jackson has received a I guess a recreational grant through the land and water conservation fund through the state of Wyoming which requires uh recreational purposes in perpetuity. And the the deed as transferred in 198 19 1998 does not have

111that restrictive language. And so I know Trustee Scarlet had several questions, good questions about recreational purposes, what that definition is. Um, prior to the transfer, again, the the 4 building has been located on that property as well as the University of Wyoming Extension Office. And so I think Trusty Scarlet's questions were how does that fit in with this deed restriction for recreational purposes? Um, I did reach out to the town attorney. She referred us back to the 1998 transfer and use agreement which acknowledges the location and presence and lease to the 4 building in uni University of Wyoming extension office. And so she felt comfortable that this fits in with the the current deed restriction as requested and that there should be no issue with that. But I stand the questions. Madam Chair, >> is

112there a lot of hurry with this? >> No, there's not. Um there's no timeline. This is something that's been on the town. They came to us, I believe, in May of this year. So, it's been sitting there and we've been um requesting information kind of trying to understand the purpose of the correct lead at this point. >> Should continue it just for one month. I think Trusty Scarlet brings up a really good issue. I'm wondering if Elmo should read It's restricted to public purpose and recreational purpose. So, I hate to mess up the 4 building and I see where Trusty Scarlet's going with that. The Does everybody know this story? They they they went and got some money from land and water conservation fund and all they did was put in that on that one

113corner there's a um ADA compliant grant and they didn't actually even get that much money. But when you take that money, you have to guarantee that the entire parcel will always stay recreational. Well, the entire parcel is not all recreational. So, I get what they're trying to do, but I'm just wondering if you and Leah could put your heads together and it'd be nice if it was recreational purpose, so Leah gets what she needs for the land and water conservation fund and public purpose and maybe even say it is specifically recognized that the 4 building is located on this property. I'd hate for someone in the future to try to push the 4 building off. >> Yes, I think that's a great recommendation. I don't see why. Hurry. I'm just wondering if you guys could

114go back and work on a little. >> Yes, >> madam chair. I have one other question um regarding consideration because it appears we are giving up the district is giving up a pretty significant right of a public property to to our right to revert if they discontinue to use it as a public property. um you know and I don't know exactly what we're receiving for that and I struggle with that too because you look at the history of Teton County School District we quite often this district historically has given up land for center for the arts rec center Owen Burcher and it just doesn't seem we get some big promise that we might be included in this bed issue sometime in the future. And so, uh, I I I struggle giving away any more property

115rights um without receiving some benefit to our kids because at the end of the day, we're the trustees for the schools. So, something else with um trustee's comments. Madam Chair, the other thing you can talk to Leah about is maybe they need to subdivide the little piece that has where the ADA compliant ramp is. Maybe just make that a little parcel in that part. We would give them a new D saying that part is recreational only and then we divide it up because that whole whole Miller Park is there's a lot going on there. Madame Chair, trustees, I I think these are all great points and questions and I certainly have no problem um going back and meeting with the town attorney at this point and kind of raising some of these issues and really

116getting it clarified. Um I am aware that they just entered into a new ground lease as of November of 24 with the 4 building for 50 years, but again some of this is new information, so no problem going back. >> I'm sure to continue. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, trusty Dornet. >> Madam Chair, um I'm wondering about um keeping the use for for children in that park. That's why I like the idea of restricting it to uh recreation use because somebody proposed changing a a good portion of that park to a dog park. And there's the children children's history museum or whatever it's called now that's going in. The children's learning center is there and I really hope to keep it. I think in fact there used to be a high school on that property or

117some kind of school. My husband remembers the school on that property way way way back when. And um it seems to me that little by little there's less and less land green grass available for recreation purposes. So I'd be strongly in favor of keeping it to recreation purposes except for what has already been allocated elsewhere. Any other comments? >> Were you making the motion? >> Trusty Scarlet Catch GBT down here. >> Said that to Sarah. >> It's like his best friend. >> He's putting Sarah out [laughter] of business. >> Just don't tell Judge Ranken. [laughter] [gasps] >> I would move the silent gainer. Second. >> Uh, any more discussion? All in favor? >> I opposed. >> Motion passes. >> All right. I think that that uh completes the u action items and move on to

118the consent agenda. >> Madam Chair, I move the consent agenda. A, approval of staffing considerations and reports. B, approval of check register. C. Approval of executive meeting minutes of November 12th, 2025. Approval of the board education regular meeting minutes of November 12th, 2025. E. Approval of college board advanced placement purchase order. F. Approval of waxy sanitary supply purchase order for autonomous floor scrubbers. G. Approval of board member travel. H. Approval of sent. >> Second. I almost want to pull the one off so someone can be wellness. [laughter] Floor leaders are gonna scare me when I come walking down the hallway. [laughter] >> It's been move. The consent agenda has been moved and seconded. All in favor? >> I opposed. >> Carries. >> All right. Now we need to have a motion to adjourn into the

119TCSD number one rec district board meeting. Madam Chair, I move to adjourn into TCSD number one recreation district board meeting. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I opposed. >> All right, we'll go start with um reports and information. Uh the only things that are posted here are are items that you all have seen before. There is a um summary of the approved applications for fiscal year 26 and what we've paid out to date. As you all know, we receive the uh the property tax revenue over the year and we pay out the applications as the money comes in. Uh the budget update is also there and the bylaws that uh were updated in 2023. >> Any questions for direct mail? Thank you. Um, recreation district board meeting. Uh, let's see. Uh, election of officers.

120I think last year we just stuck with the same slate of officers that we have for the school district. Is anybody opposed to that? >> Madam Chair, I move the same slate as last year. That's a car chair Stephan vice chair clerk treasur bill of scarlet any discussion all in favor >> opposed motion carries consideration of 2026 TCSD number one rec district meeting schedule. Madam Chair, I move to approve the 2026 TS TCSD recreation district meeting schedule as presented. >> All we already did. We already approved it with >> Oh, we did approve it before. So, we're just Okay. We don't have to do it again. Thank you. >> All right. >> Madam Chair, did just the edit with the edit as well >> with the so we don't have to do it again. >>

121All right. Thank you. Um chair, I move to adjourn the rec district meeting. Um, is there a second? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> opposed. All right. Uh, can somebody call this meeting back or I'll call this meeting back to order at um 7:57. >> All right. Uh, communications to the board. Um there's one um >> is there one? Yeah. From note from uh >> Commissioner uh Macker uh thanking us for the excellent job of the middle school um musical um on the middle school musical and I uh she's also the artistic director of Offsquare Theater. So I take that with um you know there that's not just a thank you. Um, so I appreciate that and I'm just sorry I wasn't there to see it because it sounded amazing. Um, see

122communications from the board. >> Um, madame chair um just on the WSBA school boards association. I guess quick update um the survey we sent out. Um we have at this point o over 500 uh respondents. Uh Friday night is the closing. So if you haven't um filled out your survey yet, please please do that. um by Friday night. Uh next Wednesday 17th, Brian Farmer will present with the findings of that survey and um move on from there. Second thing, February 22nd and 23rd, it's the Wyoming School Board Associations and the Wyoming Association of School Administrators Legislative Forum at the Little America in Cheyenne. Um, I plan on attending and I'm sure uh director Mayo and dire and uh Dr. Chris will be there. So um if you have interest um you should get a block

123of rooms of the Little America for it's a Sunday Sunday Monday and then uh come home Monday night or Tuesday. >> Consider going. >> Yeah, it's it's always good fun. Um, >> it's either that or DC member. >> And [clears throat] let's see. And then just a little bit about the general sessions at the uh at the school board association, which was kind of fun for Dr. Crisp and I. We're strategically located in the back corner with the new superintendent from Duboce and a number of uh administrators and uh school board members from forget which Fremont County it is but it's the Arapjo school and they brought their kids in to do the opening dance and they had these Arapjo kids out there. It was really fun sitting with them and and conversing um with

124them during the day that we were there. Good speakers and uh it was it was kind of fun to be back in that lovely hotel called the Ramco [laughter] >> and it smells like chlorine. >> Madam Chair, I just have one question. Uh there are there two surveys that we as schoolboard members have to fill out. Um I filled out one for WSBA on uh superintendent type stuff. Was there another one we have to fill out or is that the regular >> That was for um the survey that went out um last Wednesday, a week ago. It went out for staff, high school students, and community members, including families. >> All right. So, we don't include that one. >> No. Okay. Great. >> Um, one other just clarifi, we are in district 19 and we

125share that with Lincoln County 2, our f our brethren down in Alpine or in Afton. And it was technically our turn to serve as on the uh board of directors to be the repres district 19 representative to the board of directors of WSBA. I had lunch with uh Brian Farmer and um and agreed with him that the dire or the current representative from Afton Lyn call is would like to serve for one more year. He's not running for reelection next year. So upon that time, we'll re-examine whether we'll send somebody down to fill that or wait one more year before we serve since we've been absent for a couple. So doesn't include ideal. >> Not anymore. >> Just two and >> yeah. >> Um any other reports? I was just going to remind everybody that

126we have a meeting next Wednesday evening, a special meeting at 5:00. Um I believe the agenda is going to go in such that um the WSBA will will meet in regular session. They will give us um they will present for 30 minutes uh results of the climate survey and then we will go into executive session to hear other um personnel related results and discuss next steps in contracts. >> Is that in person or virtual? >> The meeting is in person. Okay. >> Um although WSBA will be virtual. >> Okay. So, we'll be meeting here. >> Yes, we will be meeting here and then we'll move upstairs. Um, we'll have two WebEx links for Trusty Me if you'd be allowed to attend. >> Yeah, I will. I might be a little goofy, but it's nothing new.

127[laughter] >> Oh, I think I'd like to see it. That's all I've got. Oh, somebody's bedtime. >> It's my bedtime. >> Future time. >> No, it's the phase down for bedtime. >> But if you're going to end the immediate, that would be great. >> Yeah, I know. And we I just want everybody to note, well, we have featured items that it is 8:00, but we did continue at least two items to next week and we have next month and we have the audit. So be prepared for the long haul next month. >> Fair warning. >> Uh review of me. >> Got a thumbs up from Keith. So we can move on. >> Yep. >> Uh advanced planning. It's there for you. Um do I have a motion for a journal? We um Madame Chair, [laughter]

128let's go home. >> All in favor? >> Oh my god. >> Yeah, that is >> We haven't done that in a long time. >> [clears throat] >> How you doing? >> We got invited to 100, right?