001Thank you all for being here. Welcome to our board of cash county and it is Thursday the 12th of June 2025 at 5:30 and we are meeting in the boardroom on Legacy campus and we are glad to have you all here. Thanks for coming. We'll begin with roll call starting with Jared. Jared Black, business administrator. Jeff Nielson, board member. Alan Grunik, board member. Terry Rhodess, board member. Roger Pulzer, board member. Todd McKe, superintendent. Randall Baggley, board member. Thank you. And board member Kathy Christianen and board member Brian Chambers are excused this evening. Uh Alan Grunig will lead us in our pledge and mission statement. Please rise. [Music] I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice
002for all. Our mission statement is our mission is to educate students for success in a changing world. Thank you, Alan. I appreciate that. Uh, next on our agenda is public input and we will hear uh public input uh from two people who have signed up to speak. Just a reminder um for those of you who um will be speaking, it's important that you um your comments will be timed and you'll be limited to 3 minutes and uh personal com personnel comments are prohibited and please remember your to be respectful because your comments are recorded as part of the public record of this meeting. So, first up we have Kendall Welker. Please come to the podium. Good evening. As she said, my name is Kendall Welker. I am from Nibi. I've lived there 22 years and
003I have eight children. Um, thus my shirt, eight characters, and this is my household all the time. Um, I have three adult children that graduated from Ridgeline and my daughter that graduated two weeks ago, she is the was in the first class of Spanish DLI. Her five younger siblings are all a part of that program. Um, I want to thank you for your consideration um, when it comes to the secondary path. A year ago, I learned about the magnet school. I was in those meetings and I looked at it selfishly. I'm like, "Okay, my youngest will be there for 2 years. I can drive to Spring Creek. I can do that. That's something I can do." I didn't look beyond that. Um because secondary was my concern. Um I was a member of the DLI
004committee and I feel like for the committee that was formed, it might have had too many objectives to look at. um that part of the objective. Some were easier than others, some were complicated. Um I feel the switch from Ridgeline to Mountain Crest is more of a complicated issue. Um I did vote for the transition period going to Mountain Crest. I would encourage you guys as a board um maybe consider when that should be in effect. it that the transfer of that gives it doesn't give everyone equal access because there's no equality. We all live in different places. We all have different circumstances. It does give the same kind of access to the whole district where everyone has to drive to the magnet school no matter where they live. And of course, those living closer
005will probably choose it more than those living further away than those magnet school locations. um secondary it gets kind of I don't know how to say it but it it just seems more complicated in my opinion. Um kids are establishing friends. We go to South Gash and then to Ridgeline. My three oldest that have graduated struggled with friends when they moved to Ridgeline um because of going to school with all of Mountain Crest. A week ago, we found out that secondary boundaries aren't going to be looked at or changed for at least 5 years. That means most of your DLI secondary kids live in me live in Nibbi or surrounding communities closer to Ridgeline and older siblings are already in that path. So as you consider that secondary path, I would encourage maybe a few
006years down the road is when it gets implemented, not in 2026 to uh give those current families who have dedicated time and uh things anyways consideration for when that plan is implemented implemented. Thank you. Thank you, Kendall. Appreciate you being here. Uh, next is Spencer Nelson. Hi you guys. Thanks so much. Uh, first time I've ever spoken to a school board. Not in my nature usually to to speak out like this. However, uh, first I want to thank you very much for all that you're doing um, for our community and for our kids. I feel like we live in a wonderful school uh district, wonderful community uh with great teachers and administrators. um with my responsibilities um in different uh associations to different uh church groups and different things. I I have a strong awareness
007for the youth uh in our area and uh different things that they're facing from elementary school to middle school and and through high school and technology and specifically cell phones is something that I've tried devote to devote a lot of time and energy to research. I am by no means an expert whatsoever. Um but but have spent a lot of time to try to understand this issue specifically how it relates to the youth. Um I really appreciate the school district and how you have put in cell phones cell phone policies specifically for elementary um K through six and then there's a also a policy for secondary schools. Um this book that I have here and I hope I I was thinking about it at the end of the day. I don't know if it's even
008okay for me to give you this book, but I ordered a whole bunch of copies of this book. Um, what I've loved about this book, a lot of times we hear about the consequences, the problems, and those types of things, but there haven't been a lot of solutions until I read this book. It's it's very um researchbased and has a lot of ideas and solutions. And may maybe you're very familiar with it, maybe not. But I would love to leave each one of you a copy. And ultimately, there's there's a note in there for me. And what I'm advocating for is the idea of um having a uniform policy from K through 12 specifically. I I love the elementary school policy towards cell phones and wearables. And I would love to see that policy just
009carried through through the middle schools and the high schools. And I know there's never going to be perfect enforcement. Teachers don't want to be the bad cops and those types of things. However, as I have a high schoolaged and a middle school age student and hearing about them from them and their friends, the experience is that cell phones are very much a part of the hallways and the classrooms, lunchrooms, all of those things. And in the elementary schools, they're not. Um, part of that is because of the age and parents buying, but but also I think part of it is the policy where uh policy for elementary school and I detail it, hey, the phone goes off when the first bell and it doesn't get turned off until the last bell. I think there's a
010great opportunity we have to help our kids uh in the classroom and in social uh have social experiences that right now phones are and I do believe parents are the first line of defense but as a community I believe we all have to work together. So I hope you'll consider that. I hope you'll read this book and I have my contact information if you ever want to reach out to me. I think healthy dialogue is good even if you disagree. So thank you so much and is it okay if I give each one of you a book? Thank you. Thank you, Spencer. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. Uh next we have as part of our public input, we have a public hearing for our uh final budget uh presentation for fiscal year 25 and a
011presentation for our um proposed budget for 20 fiscal year 26. So, we will shall I turn the time over to you, Jared? Unless there's somebody who wants to comment. Is there anyone in this room who wants to speak about finances? Yours or ours? I don't care. [Laughter] All right. Well, moving on then. If no one wants to talk about money, uh we'll move to our consent agenda which is very long and includes a lot of policies. So I hope you all have looked at these um including the uh negotiation uh finals and uh I will take a motion to amend or approve the consent agenda. I make a motion to approve the consent agenda. I second it. It's been moved and seconded that we approve the consent agenda as printed. Any further discussion? All right,
012we will vote on that electronically. voting is closed and the motion to approve the consent agenda passes unanimously. Thank you Jared. And now I will turn the time to you for the first two items on our action agenda. Okay. Thank you, President Rhodess. I'll take a few minutes and review from a 10,000 ft level the uh proposed final budget for the current year that we're in that that ends June 30th as well as a proposed uh initial budget for the upcoming year beginning July 1st. and Spencer's helping us to get that uh up here on the screen to see. Also, if if anyone here in attendance would like a copy of these proposed budgets, they're printed out on the back there. Great reading material. So, enjoy. Uh we'll also have uh the proposed budget is
013uh posted on our website uh under the business office uh department page uh in financial reports. So uh if anyone listening online would like to access a copy of that, we'll have that posted on there by tomorrow morning. Thank you. Uh that can be downloaded there. So um let me get the switcher here. Okay. So, as we build out our budget, just a few uh things that that play into this a lot. And and the first one would be the assessed valuation uh in the county. And and this is not the assessed valuation of all of Cash County. This is just the assessed valuation of properties that are part of the Cash County School District. So, would not include the majority of Logan City, but most of the rest of the valley. And uh you
014can see the assessed valuation is almost 12 billion. Uh that's gone up significantly. I think in the four years I've been here, I think we started at around 8 or 8 1/2 billion and just in that amount of time, we're at we're at 12 billion. So you can see how the assessed valuation has grown uh just from the prior year. That's uh just short of 1 billion higher than what we were the prior year with assessed valuation. And of course, that ties into all of our tax rates, which I'll talk about here in a minute. We've included in the proposed budget for the school board uh all of our legislative estimates as of yesterday. Uh so we're current as of yesterday. Uh I should probably give the caveat to the board that these are changing
015constantly throughout the year. So, we're always updating budgets as we get um sometimes minor adjustments or new programs that come through that we add into our budget. That's why we approve a final budget at the end of the year that includes everything that that has transpired over the last 12 months in the current year. Our estimated fall enrollment is 19,762. [Music] That is K through 12. And so we're still not quite at the 20,000 mark that that we think we'll get to. But if we include our preschoolers who attend uh many of our schools were uh a few hundred over 20,000, but but this number just includes K K through 12. Uh a little bit of growth in the school district, but not much. So our our new teaching positions are are just 1.5 going
016into next year. Of course, that could change when we get into the fall as as we actually count um students who are here. Uh but that's what we're projecting right now. Around 3,500 employees and on the accounting side, we run 10 different funds. An example of a fund might be uh child nutrition is its own fund. So everything that we uh collect and spend in child nutrition is part of a separate fund from the rest of the the district. So that'sam an example of one of the 10 funds. And then programs we have about 130. Examples of programs might be uh transportation or title one or um federal uh special education or or just a variety of programs that we run. Okay. Okay, I'm going to review just a few impacts on on the budget
017for next year, both on the revenue side and the expenditure side. So, on the revenue side, the legislature did appropriate a 4% increase to the WPU. That stands for weighted pupil unit, which is a standard amount uh provided for each full-time student in the state of Utah. And then uh for our educators, an ongoing $1,446 increase was given for the educator salary schedule. And for our school-based classified personnel, a $1,000 bonus was provided by the legislature. We do collect uh some revenue from property tax growth. And just a quick explanation of that. So when when uh a taxing entity like the school district uh assesses a tax rate for the upcoming year, the district can only assess a tax rate that generates the same amount of money as the prior year unless the entity goes
018through a truth and taxation process. But an entity might generate more money than the prior year if there are new properties that are part of that um area. So if if somebody built a new home, the property tax that's paid for that new home would be in addition to the regular amount of money that was part of the certified tax rate or or or what was generated the year before. So, we do generate additional property tax revenues each year from what we what we call new growth or new properties in the county. Um, this year we're we're still realizing a loss of ESSER funding. That was one-time funding provided through the pandemic. And so, as that phases out, we either have to replace what we've been using that money for with with other district funds
019or just eliminate what what was being used there. Uh there's also federal funding uncertainty right now where uh school districts don't know necessarily if the normal federal funds that we've received will be coming this next year. We've not had any indication that they won't, but but there's certainly been uh talk of that. And so we just keep our eyes on that. For the most part, we are budgeting our federal revenues similar to what they've been previously. And if something does in fact change there, then we'll have to adjust our budgets at that time. And then, of course, we have bond revenues with with the uh bond that was passed a year and a half ago. And the district will likely issue our second series of uh bond funds this upcoming year, uh which would complete
020that that amount of bonding. Any questions to that point? I have a question on your bullet point number two. You mentioned the 1446 was for the educator salary schedule. Is that not is that a regular increase to regular pay or to the educ educator salary supplement for high need um positions? So this is an increase to uh what we call the educator salary supplement. It's it's not tied to highnee positions. It's for all educators. Um, but it is a specific part of the salary schedule. So on our license schedule, there's a notation at the bottom that shows the amount of the educator salary supplement. It has grown over the years. Uh, with this $1446, it will be $10,350. Okay. In total, uh, within that piece of the the salary schedule for for our teachers. So
021why do we recognize that differently than the rest of the salary? Because it's a it's a separate program that the legislature appropriates and we have to account for it separately. Okay, got it Jared. Just two quick questions for you. Um, just to clarify for our community that that first bullet, the 4% WPU, is it fair to say that WPU captures a lot of our costs? Inflation for one. Um, any additional growth that we may experience, it's all rolled into that 4%. Is that accurate? Any growth that we receive uh does come through WPU funding uh for additional students. Um, a WPU amount is is I think we're approaching $4,700 per student. And our total cost for a student is close to 11,000 right now. So, it's it's actually not even quite half of the total
022cost for a student that comes through the WPU. Um, but it it is a significant amount of funding from the state. It's by far our most significant single funding source. Okay. My second question is to the federal funding piece. Um my understanding is the budget that's currently in the Senate may be eliminating some of those federal funds from public education. Are is that what you're hearing as well? I've not heard that, but uh that's not to say it's not the case. I just haven't heard it. But we we just haven't heard anything official and and until we hear something official, we're we're just going to continue as is. All right. Thank you. Okay. Now, a few impacts on the expenditure side. So, um we we have had some years in the past where there was
023an increase to our retirement rate. This is the rate that the district pays to Utah Retirement Systems for employees that qualify for the pension program or or um 401k um type of payment, but no increase to those rates. So, uh that that's good on the expenditure side because we don't have to increase our budget for that. uh health insurance uh this year uh working through our human resources department the plan that was approved is costneutral to the district. So so that's also beneficial in terms of our overall budget. We uh would be including steps and lanes for all qualifying employees in uh this budget proposal which uh costs about 1.5 million if if you're interested. That's that's about what our steps and lanes come to each year. And then also uh cost of living adjustments.
024Uh and uh those are outlined in the um in in part of what you approved in the consent agenda. There there was a list of all of the negotiated uh agreements and so our cost of living adjustments were included in that. Uh but to summarize, all of our schedules have at at least an average of 3.4% 4% on on the different uh steps and lanes. And then on the beginning steps one through three, we added some additional amount uh to help employees who are beginning uh have a little bit better of a a beginning wage. So our teacher uh our beginning teacher wage this upcoming year would be over 60,000, which is a significant milestone. I think it's $60,825 for a beginning teacher. Um, so you said 1.5 million for steps and lanes. Is that
025that is what it costs us as a district for teachers who are inc are stepping up a step or moving a lane. Is that right? Correct. So, and that would be for all of our employees, not just teachers, but but um on all of our schedules, there are steps and lanes. So, a step typically equates to a year of experience. Some of our steps come with an increase, some don't. That's just how the schedules are built out. So, those employees who qualify for a step increase would receive that. And then lanes uh typically would equate to some advancement in in um education. Uh for example, on the license schedule, if if you um have a bachelor's degree, but then get a master's degree, you would get a higher rate of pay because of that new
026degree. Great. Thank you. Okay, just a few quick notes on on program and funding adjustments. So, the the legislature I think it's important the board be aware of this. The legislature moved what we've previously called professional staff funding to flexible allocation. This is close to $8 million in funding for the school district. And uh we we want to keep our eye on this closely going into the session next year. money that's moved into flexible allocation has historically um become open for discussion of elimination or or using for different things and that would be uh fairly catastrophic to the school district to lose $8 million. So, we we definitely want to keep our eye on that. Uh the professional staff funding historically is it it's used to to uh pay for the the levels that our
027teachers are on on the salary schedule because that's how this was historically developed in in school districts in Utah. So it's all based on a formula of how how advanced our teachers are as a whole in terms of education. Uh, Shine is a it's a program that's existed, but it's moving from state um management to district management. And this uh President RHS is the program that is for uh highne areas for teachers. So, it pays an extra supplement to to teachers in high need areas. And then a few eliminations or reductions. CCA and CTSO are and and I know I'm rattling off acronyms here, but they're part of the CTE program, career and technical education. And those programs were eliminated by uh the legislature, at least the funding was eliminated this year. And then we
028saw reductions in student health and counseling, digital teaching and literacy, and the sped impact aid budgets. And then uh school fees. Uh there there's significant changes in school fees where um districts and schools can no longer charge what's considered a general fee. And so there the legislature provided some replacement funding uh for that, but that funding is is one time and will taper off after 3 years to to no funding. So, as a district, we're going to have to build uh replacement funding in into what we send to schools to to cover what schools will be losing from those general fees. And the general fee is is largely what you would see as kind of a a general registration fee um that that's typically been charged at schools for many years. So, that fee will
029not be charged this upcoming year. Any questions to that point? So, sorry to ask so many questions, but does so the salary supplement for highly needed educators that used to be um uh administered by the state is moving to local control. Is that right? Yes. So um if I understand this correctly um what we get to decide at our local level which teachers are of highest need in our district and then um the amount will be may be different for that um salary supplement um depending on how many teachers um fall within that that range. different than the set amount that the state has had in the past. Is that correct? Yes, that's correct. So, the the biggest change is that instead of the state uh determining a list of high need areas that all
030districts have in common, each district can now determine those high need areas. But uh financially we receive a set amount of funding for this program and then depending on how many qualifying educators we have we would divide that out and it likely would be different than what the amount has been previously. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Just just in in a summary the the uh proposed budgeted revenues for the upcoming year are just over 440 million. Uh I would mention this is significantly higher than what our typical budget would be because we're building new schools right now. So we include all of the uh bonding revenues in these budgets. So just roughly we're about $100 million higher than what we typically would be for a budget. And then the final year budget um for the the
031current year is uh just over 437 million. Just to show a little comparison of of uh where our uh budget comes from, we we divide our budget into local revenues, which would be property taxes and and and other sources. Um we show bond revenues there, state revenues which would include the weighted pupil unit we just talked about and a variety of other uh programs and then federal revenues. The the bottom deferred revenue or FB stands for fund balance would be amounts that we're anticipating to to carry over uh into the next year. And the reason uh 25 that the ending year deferred revenue and fund balance is so much higher than the next year is that when we're beginning a new year, we we aren't uh we don't have a way of knowing uh where
032everything's going to end this year. So, we have to wait to to book all of that during the audit and then we'll add those amounts in next year. So, they'll they'll come up again. But I know that might look like an outlier, but that's why. So you make a conservative estimate of what the carryover will be. Yeah. Okay. Now, I'd like to talk about uh tax rates for a few minutes. And uh typically in this uh in this hearing or as part of this meeting in June, the the school board would be approving tax rates. Uh however this year as part of the budget we are proposing a uh higher rate than the certified rate which would mean a truth in taxation process. And so I want to explain that a little bit and and
033how that will work. Uh but on on here I I show the state basic levy. This is a levy that's set the rate is set by the state and it's the same rate for all school districts in the state of Utah. And we actually don't have this rate yet. So, what I've put on here in blue is the current state basic levy. I'm not expecting it to change dramatically. It'll it'll be a little bit different, but I would expect it to be fairly close to what it's been this year, but we actually don't have that that new number yet. Uh the charter school levy is um as a public school district, we're required to issue a levy for charter schools that are within our boundaries. But that money does not actually come to the Cash
034County School District. It's collected and then sent to uh the local charter schools. But but we uh need to include that on our uh financial report. it's audited, all of those things, even though it's it's just considered a pass through amount on our budget. And then we have what I would call board controlled levies, which are leveies that are set by you you as a school board. And um again, uh there's a process in the state of Utah where a taxing entity can uh issue a rate that guarantees the same amount of revenue as the prior year. If that that and that rate is called the certified tax rate. If if we propose to uh issue a rate that's higher than the certified tax rate, we need to go through a truth and taxation process.
035That involves having a public hearing in August. And we're proposing that that would be on the 28th. That's that's set up and arranged through the county 28th of August. and our our official tax rates would be presented and and then there would be an opportunity for public input during that meeting on August 28th. But you'll notice up here um that under the board controlled levies, even though we're proposing a a tax rate that's higher than the certified tax rate, the the anticipated rate would be lower than the tax rate is this year. And and I'll show you that here on on the next slide. Uh if you compare these, you'll see that the uh board controlled levy or the board local levy is higher next year than than the current year. And that's the levy
036that would be uh part of the truth and taxation process. But there there is a levy, the debt service levy that's going down e even more than the board local levy is going up. and the debt service levy is is the funding that we use to pay off our our bonds. And so fortunately with with the growth in assessed valuation in the county, uh we're able to reduce that tax rate and still make our bond payment for next year in a way that allows the overall tax rate to be lower even though we're doing a an increase to the board local levy and and therefore a truth in taxation. Is that making sense? Are there questions about that idea or how that works? Okay. So, I'd like to talk for a minute about the need
037for increasing the board local levy, why we're proposing to do that. So, school districts participate in a a program together with the state uh that's called the voted and board guarantee program. And so in order to receive our full portion of state funding in that program, we're required as a taxing entity as a school district to have tax rates of at least 02000 between our board and and local levies. There's also been a 5-year hold harmless clause with this. And so districts have been able to move the tax rate up to and then let it float for five years, but then it's required at a certain point to move it back up in order to again receive full state funding in this program, which uh by the way, our our state portion of funding in
038this program is about $20 million. So it's this is a huge program for our district. So our current combined rates are 01573. So that's quite a bit below the 02000. And the last time uh the district had a truth and taxation process to increase these tax rates was in 2019. So that was 6 years ago. And the proposed budget for uh the upcoming uh year would include an increase in the voted and board levies uh specifically the board levy. so that those two levies combined are 02000 and uh that would again allow us to to continue to receive full state funding in this program. Any questions on so that so the um the change in legislation this year or this in the 2025 session will require us to do truth and taxation every year because
039the hold harmless is only one year now. Thank you. The hold harmless is moving to two years. Every two years instead of every five. So at least every other year the school board would need to approve an increase to the to these tax rates up to the um 02000. Now typically our tax rates float down because assessed valuation is going up. But if if by chance assessed valuation went down and therefore our tax rates went up, we wouldn't need to do that. But assuming a typical uh course with our tax rates where they're floating down, the board would need to do that at least every other year. Could every year, but but at least every other year. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. So you can see on this I've highlighted in green the the levy
040that would be above the certified tax rate. that's the board uh local levy and would go up to 1238 and then combined with uh the voted local levy that would be 02000. So any questions there? Okay. All right. Um and and maybe a couple of of other comments about this. So, uh obviously a truth in taxation uh process can be concerning sometimes because it it uh is a tax increase. uh the way our tax rates work this year where where it's likely that our that our tax rate will be lower than it is currently, the overall effect to a taxpayer would be that they would still pay less taxes next year unless their property is reassessed and increased in value uh through the process that the county uses for reassessment. So if their taxes if
041our taxes go up, then it's not the school district's fault. It wouldn't be because of of the truth and taxation process that we're going through. Thanks. Yep. Okay. And and also just wanted to um report uh when we did our bond 18 or 20 months ago, one of the asurances we we gave uh to the public was that our debt service levy would would not go higher than what it was at that time. And uh we're excited. Maybe let me go back a slide or two here. So the debt service levy would be 01267. And two years ago when we bonded it was double 2025. So it's actually gone down significantly over a third of what that rate was. Uh so we're we're happy about that that we've been able to keep that assurance that
042we gave in that bonding process. That's exciting. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. the the next couple of slides, I I'll just u go through these really quick, but these just give and and uh you could look at this uh in more detail if you'd like, but these give a comparison of our major revenue sources from the state. The one right at the top is the uh WPU or weighted pupil unit funding that we received. So, that 4% increase uh resulted in not quite $4 million for the school district. And to show our our expenditures by category, you can see here how much we sent spend in salaries and benefits. Uh which is by far the most significant part of our budget. Property services, which is about halfway down, is where our uh bonding funds are built
043into. So that's why that is uh a little bit over a hundred million right now, but that will drop significantly a year from now. And then this shows the same amount um for the prior year. And maybe one thing I'll mention because we we often talk that salaries and benefits are 87 or 88% of our budget. Just to clarify, that's 87 or 88% of our general fund budget. Uh this is taking all of our funds into account here. Okay, this shows our our more significant funds and and the the budgeted amounts that we are uh proposing for this year this year uh for the final budget as well as next year's budget. And that's it unless you have questions. Thank you for making that so simple. I'm not sure I do, but but thank you're
044welcome. I appreciate that. So, was that both the final budget and the ten and the proposed original budget? Yes. And and on the budget document, if anyone has a copy of that or you're referring to that, it has four columns. And the third of the four columns has the final budget for this year. And the fourth column has the the next year budget. So you can actually compare those side side by side if you're looking at that document. Thank you so much, Jared, for for taking good care of our finances. Uh, next we have a request for approval for the student code of conduct that was presented by um Stephanie Adams and Alden Jack last week. And so I will take a motion to President RHS. We'll need to do a motion and approval on
045the the two budgets. I forgot that was on the action agenda. I'll take a motion to approve the final budget and the proposed original budget. uh the final budget for fiscal year 25 and the original budget for fiscal year 26. I I make that motion that we um take care of those two items. Thank you, Alan. I second it. Thanks, Roger. It's been moved and seconded that we approve the final budget for fiscal year 25 and the proposed original budget for fiscal year 26. We'll uh any further discussion more than what we already did. All right, we'll vote on that electronically. Voting is closed and the motion to approve the final budget for the 25 uh fiscal year and the tenative original budget for the 26 fiscal year passes unanimously. Thanks, Jared. Now, I will
046take a motion to approve the student code of conduct that was presented to us by Stephanie Adams and Alden Jack last week. I move that we approve the student code of conduct as presented last week. I second it. It's been moved and seconded that we approve the student code of conduct as presented. Any further discussion? Any questions to anything that you read in that? Okay. Then we will vote electronically. Voting is closed and the motion to approve the proposed student code of conduct passes unanimously. Thanks Jared. Uh the next item says a request for approval of the credit recovery packet but this is multiple isn't it? It's plural. It's not entire packet program which is used for credit recovery. Okay great. So, uh, this is the one that Britney Foster presented to us last week
047in our meeting and, uh, the new, um, asking for approval for the new process as well as the approval of the the district packets for credit recovery. So, I'll take a motion for approval of the credit recovery packets. I make a motion to approve the Cash County School District credit recovery packet. Second. Yeah, it's been moved and seconded that we approve the credit recovery packets as presented to us last week. Uh, any further discussion on this or questions? All right, seeing none, we will vote electronically. Voting is closed and the motion to approve the district credit recovery packets passes unanimously. Great. Thanks, Jared. And we're back to you. Having finished our action agenda, we'll move on to our reports agenda and the June or the May financial report. Thank you. And not a whole lot
048to say beyond what I already did because the budget is is a huge project that we've spent most of our time on the last while. But uh I would report that the um the school construction audit uh that we were a part of is finished. Uh and uh I believe a report was published uh maybe three or four weeks ago about that. Uh so that one's no longer an active audit and and we're always uh glad to receive the the feedback from that and try to implement better things and and but but also be able to move on. So, um, that one is finished. And then, uh, we are working on sometime this summer, we will set up a a tour for school members who are interested to look at our schools that are being
049constructed. And the elementary site in Hyde Park, that project is underway now. If if you haven't been out there to see it, they're moving dirt and and things are coming along there. That's awesome. Is that almost in your backyard, Alan? Say again. Is that almost in your backyard? I can hear them clicking and clacking all the time up there. All right. So, you can verify that it is underway. It looks just like a big sand pile up there with moving dirt and everything going back and forth. Looks really good. A big kid sand pile. Thanks for that report. Uh thanks for your report, Jared. Lots of finance in this meeting tonight. Um, and we appreciate all that you do to uh make sure that we have those reports and especially at this time of year
050when there are so many deadlines. Thanks for your work. Uh, next up we have board member reports. Anyone anything? Just a question on the retreat. I've got the information from the surveys that we did. Um I just would like some time during that to schedule just to talk about what the results were. So that is almost the whole agenda. Okay. Well, there we go. The entire agenda for the Well, it's probably half of the agenda for the for the retreat. Will that be enough time for you? Are you presenting that or is Richard coming to present that? No, I was going to present it. That's awesome. Great. Thanks for taking care of that for us. Uh, anyone else? Board member reports. All right. Board President report. Um, we've I noticed that we've all been invited
051to a cash teacher fellows meeting on Monday, June 23rd from 12 to 2:00 p.m. Are any of you able to attend that meeting? I'm working on it. Yeah, I might be able to. So 12 to 2. 12 to 2. Yeah. Terry, what day was that? Monday the 23rd of June. And will that be in this building or in the district office? I hang on just a second. Let me check that invite. It's in room C2 at the district office. District office. Oh, yep. There I see that. And the invite says, "The Cash County School District teacher fellows are hosting focus group conversations with district leaders about the strengths and challenges within our district and how we as teacher leaders can be part of meaningful and positive change." and John Arthur, who was the Utah Teacher
052of the Year two years ago, uh will be here as well. So, um if any of you can make it, just let me know. Um, I have an assignment to be in Salt Lake at a trust lens advisory committee meeting, but um, which is my first priority since I'm representing school board members from across the state. But if nobody else can go to the teacher fellows meeting, then I'll stay here. So, just we don't need all of us to go, but if somebody can, that would be great. Um, also, uh, Jeff mentioned our board retreat. Just a reminder that that is th scheduled for Thursday, June 26th at 5:30. Dinner will be provided for each of you. And we will discuss the three evaluations of um the board, the superintendent, and the business administrator that
053we participated in digitally in the past month. Um and we will have an executive session as after that meet uh retreat to discuss or maybe in the middle since it is a retreat to discuss um contract renewal for the superintendent and uh business administrator. And we uh the remainder of the meeting will be spent um with the presenting the the new district planning calendar for board meetings. And what we need from each board member is an idea of what um priorities you feel that we need. What are priorities um for reports that we need to hear that we can have discussion about? so that we can um fill in that calendar and that's that'll be the whole meeting is just those few things. So I expect it will be a great discussion and I wanted
054to give a personal thank you to Tim Smith for um the documentation on negotiations that was attached to our agenda today. Um, we've never had such uh detailed information in our uh negotiations packet. So, thanks. Thank you, Jared and Tim. Appreciate that. It was a group effort. Everything is a group effort here usually. All right, superintendent. Yes. Thank you. Um, first I want to begin by just thanking Jared and the business office for the huge lift uh that they completed with the budget. It's just so comforting to know how much effort they put in and how well they managed the finances for the district for us. Um, so huge kudos to them. Uh, secondly, I want to thank the board for the participation in graduation two weeks ago. I thought all five of the ceremonies
055went very well and we're looking forward to the sixth ceremony next week, which is the adult ed um graduation. You know, it's it's the pinnacle of the year. It's it's the kind of the payday for us. We put all this effort into helping these students grow and progress and then to see them walk across that stage, it it's just the uh it's no other way to say it than it's payday for us. we really feel grat um a lot of pride in what they've accomplished. So, thank you for the board and support and participation. Um the last thing I would just touch on, you know, I get asked quite a bit after after the last day of of the school year, what is it that we do in the district office and across the district
056during the summertime? Um I want to report that we have been diligently training. We spent all last week with building administrators uh doing training all week. Um many of them, in fact, all of our elementary principles continued that training down in uh Texas over the weekend at Deote University. Um getting additional support and training from Deote, which has been really helpful. And then many of them have been away to professional conferences this week. Um I know the secondary principles have been up uh at their conference, their summer conference. Um, again trying to sharpen the saw and improve our skills um so that we can start the school year uh ready to go and and again be able to engage in the work that we do for kids. Um that being said, it's it's been a
057great year and we're looking forward to this next year. I want to do I do want to address just in closing um a little bit around DI. I know that the board over a month ago received a report from the committee with some recommendations. Uh there may be those that are still concerned about where we're going to go with those recommendations. Uh since that report, we have been working on putting together a a clear plan in that transition. Uh both for elementary, but then also if the board was to support the recommendations of the committee, what would that look like for secondary? I what I can say, I don't have all the details. We're not ready to to share that yet. We're planning to do that in the study session in August given that we
058don't have a study session in July. Uh so August is when we plan to share that with the board. Um absent all the details, what I would say is that any any change in secondary certainly would include a transition period uh where we're not um where we're honoring the current enrollment of students in schools. We do not want to disrupt their current uh school location. We know how disruptive that can be for families and for students in particular particularly as um you know they have social groups, peer groups that they've developed and we want to make sure that we're we're really conscientious of that because that's important to them as well um as the the DI program itself. So, you know, we'll we again, we're going to have more for the board and for the
059community in that August session, but I just want to put out some asurances that we're being really thoughtful about how we roll if we make a change, what that looks like, that we roll it out um over a course of time and not do it all at once. And that's my report. Thank you. Anyone else questions, comments, concerns? All right, that is the end of our regular agenda and we will uh I'll take a motion to move into executive session. I move that we move into executive session. I second it. It's been moved and seconded. We move into executive session. We'll vote by roll call starting with Randall. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. That's unanimous. Well,