001rise and we'll do the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I need a roll call. >> Madam chair, we have a forum. >> Okay, we'll go on to consider adoption or make changes in the board agenda. Do we have any tonight, Jody? >> We do have um we are adding an action item. >> Seven. >> Madam Chair, I would move we adopt the agenda as amended. >> Second. >> Any discussion or questions? All those in favor. >> So be uh moving on to the consent agenda, approval of the minutes on the February 24th, 2026 meeting. >> Uh madam, go ahead. >> Madam chair, I move that
002we approve the minutes as presented. >> Second. >> Any discussion or questions? All those in favor? >> I. >> Moving on. Consider payment of bills including late pays or and pre-authorization of payroll, insurance, utilities, officials, and automatic payments. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion, questions? All those in favor? >> I >> adopt revised policy 4115-e, outofstate activity and field trip board approval and budget request form. Revised policy 4115-R field trip procedures on second reading. >> So moved. Second. >> Any questions or discussion? All those in favor? >> I. >> Moving on to round table. Our first up is Christina Beckan and the Riverton Middle School FFA team. Here's my gavl. [applause] Yeah, no problem. >> This is our conduct of chapter meetings team. Um and they will be competing next Tuesday um in
003Torington. And um this these ladies have donated so much dedicated so much of their time to this. They've given up lunch and recess and they've stayed after school. We have some coaches who have given everything and spent hours reading the parliamentary procedure handbook and I think like you dream about it now. So, um, but they have one minute, they take notes on their cards, and then they'll start their meeting. And we really appreciate you letting us get our nerves out a little bit before we go com compete next Tuesday. So, thanks for having us. The meeting room will come to order. We are now holding a meeting of the Riverton FFA chapter. Madame Vice President, are all officers at their stations? I shall call officel the United States of America. So I strive to inform
004the people in order that every man, woman, and child know that the national treasurer keeps Washington. of all the owl is a timehonored emblem of knowledge and wisdom being older than the rescue. I'm asked to advertise on the labor accomplishments organized rising sunship. Thank you, Madam Vice President. The secretary will call the role members. >> There are seven members and guest president. >> Thank you. FFA members, why are we here? >> To practice brotherhood, honor agricultural opportunities and responsibilities and develop those qualities of leadership which an FFA membership possess. >> May we accomplish our purposes. I now declare this meeting of the Riverton FFA chapter dually open for the transaction of business or attentions to any matters which may properly be presented. >> Madame President, Madame reporter, I move that our chapter prepare a booth
005for the school night. I second that. >> It has been properly moved and seconded that our chapter prepares a booth for the school parent night. This motion is amendable, debatable, and requires a majority vote. Is there any discussion? >> Madam President, >> Madam Reporter, >> I strongly encourage the vote yes on the main motion because this will help parents be more involved and learn what their kids do. This is why I strongly encourage these vote yes. Madam vice president. >> Madam President, Madam Advisor, I highly encourage the assembly to vote no. I believe that if we do a take that they could be used to spending on LB events. I also believe that it might take up too much of our money that we need to prepare for next contest and events that we're hosting.
006So for these reason I highly encourage these no madam secretary >> I strongly encourage the assembly to vote yes on the main motion because we do have one parent teacher night and that means that we will be able to know what we are doing and since it is our lastly to vote yes on the motion. >> Madam President, Madam Sentinel resources create mad treasure all this and it would just show our community how much we're involved and this is why I strongly Vote yes. >> Madame President Madame Vice President Madh. >> It has been properly moved and seconded that we strike out and insert slideshow which will then make the main motion read that our chapter prepares a slideshow for the school night. This motion is amendable and debatable and requires a majority vote. Is
007there any discussion? >> Madame President, >> Madame Advisor, I highly encourage the assembly on yesing. I believe that take less time and it would have less resources that would be needed to require. I als Is there any further discussion? All those in favor of amending the main motion by slideshow which will then make the main motion read. Our chapter slideshow for the school night. Say I. >> I. >> All those opposed say no. >> No. >> Division has been called. Please rise if you are in favor of this amendment. Two in favor. Thank you. You may have your seats. All those opposed, please rise. Four opposed. Thank you. You may have your seats. With a vote of 4 to two, we will not pass a backap for the school night. Madam President, madam reporter, I
008strongly encourage these vote yes on the main motion because this will help parents be more involved and feel connected with their kids. This is I strongly encourage the assembly to vote yes. >> Madame President, Madame Secretary, >> I strongly encourage the assembly to vote yes because this will show our commitment to FFA and this will also show how good we are doing in FFA. This is why I strongly encourage the assembly to vote yes on >> Madame President Madame Vice President. >> I properly moved and seconded to postpone this motion indefinitely. This motion is debatable but not amendable and it requires a majority vote. Is there any discussion? Madam President, >> Madam Advisor, >> if we postpone this one, then we have to worry about what supplies we would have to work. So, I encourage
009these president. This is why I strongly encourage the assembly to vote no. Madam Secretary, >> I strongly encourage these to vote because we only have one night and we are middle school. This is why I strongly mad. >> Madame vice president Is there any further discussion to postpone this motion indefinitely? >> All those in favor of postponing this motion indefinitely say I. >> I. >> All those opposed say no. >> No. >> When motion fails. >> We will not postpone this motionely. We're back to the main motion that our chapter night. Is there any further discussion? >> Madam President, Madam Treasure, >> Ily have question. This would teach them just what they are doing. And this is why >> Madam President Madel has been properly moved and seconded to refer this motion to a committee
010of three with a full power to act. This motion is debatable, amendable, and requires a majority vote. Is there any discussion? Madam President, Madam >> Is there any further discussion? All those in favor of referring to a committee say I. All those opposed say no. >> No division. >> Division has been called upon. Please rise if you are in favor of committing referring motion. Two in favor. Thank you. All those opposed. Please rise for opposed. Thank you. Negatives have it. We referral. We are back to the main motion that our chap for the school night. Is there any further discussion? Madam Sentinel, >> Madam President, Madam Pictures. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor prepares a booth for the school parent night say I. >> All those say no. >> No. >> Positives
011have it. Motion passes. We will our chap will now prepare a booth for the school night. Madam secretary, do you have a record of any business which may not be transacted? >> Does any member know of any new or unfinished business which properly come to meeting. We are about to adjourn this meeting of the Riverton FFA chapter. As we mingle with others, let us be diligent in our labor, just in our dealings, courteous to everyone, and above all, honest and fair in the game of life. Fellow members and guests, please join me in salute for our flag. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. >> I now declare this evening. >> Thank you
012very much. We finished in time, too. >> Thank you. Well done. >> We'll have time. But thank you so much. >> Let me move this out. Nice job, ladies. Good luck. >> Thank you. >> Good luck. >> Give them just a minute before we continue. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Awesome. >> That was awesome. >> That was par parliamentary procedure at the best. >> I know. >> Okay, we'll move on to the round table um items. And the next one is Christina Briggs with the Riverton Aquatic Center. >> Yeah, that's a tough act to follow. [laughter] Gravy, >> you feel alone up there now. >> Yeah, I do. I need a gavvel or something. I don't [laughter] know. Um, well, thanks for letting me come in and give you some updates about what's going on with
013the pool and some of the stuff that we've done this last year since I came in last year in February, I think. Um, I actually saw on the agenda and I had on my papers that we received the grant funding from the Fremont County School District 25 rec board for 36,000. Um, that money goes to paying some of our utilities. Um, we also use about 6,000 of that to pay for um swimming scholarships for kids in the community to come in and take summer swimming lessons or fall or spring when we have them. It's about $45 for them to take those classes and that helps pay for that. Um, we also purchase free passes for our students. So, we hand those out to the schools um and give them as rewards for our swimming lesson
014program that we do. Um, it pays for our American Red Cross swim lesson fee. We pay a fee for um up to 500 kids that we have come through the program and we pay that through there as well as lifeguard certifications or reertifications, water safety instructor certifications, um all that sort of stuff to keep everybody up and trained. Um, and then last year we were also able to use some of that funding that we got from the last year grant to pay for a new set of water stairs to get access to the other side of the bulkhead into the deeper end. >> Those are nice. >> They're they're super nice this year. Yeah. Much easier for the guards to pull in and out and and for patrons to use as well. So, that was
015that was a big bonus for us. >> Well, what are water stairs? >> Uh, they're they're made out of like a PVC product. So, they're just a set of stairs that are safe. They have grips on the bottom so you don't slip as you come in. >> It's great when you're older and you want to get into the deep end. >> Yes. You don't have to jump in and all that sort of stuff. >> Diving in. >> Yeah. We have the ramp that was donated in 1995, >> right? >> Um and that gets you into the shallow side, but since we moved the bulkhead into kind of the shallow end, we needed an access to get into the deeper. >> Perfect. Thank you. Um, uh, as of July, from July 1st, um, just going back
016to my demographics, we've seen 16,845 patrons. Um, that includes about 4,000 free county school district employees and students. We still have some months left to go all the way up to the end of June, and those are some of our busiest months starting into the summer. So, we'll see that increase. Uh this year we were able to offer summer and fall swimming lessons that included group lessons and private swimming lessons. Um private lessons have been a big hit the last couple years since we started doing them. They're one-on-one with an individual. Um just helps you work through some of those skills that maybe they're nervous about in a group lesson. Uh then we also started a junior lifeguard class last couple years and that is for ages of 11 to 14. It's a readiness program
017to become a lifeguard when you turn 15. Any water safety instructor, so all my high school age kids and all my people that are certified can teach that class. And it teaches um decision-m skills and some of the rescues. It even goes into a little bit of CPR. So, it gives you some tools in your toolbox as a a young student. So, we're excited to offer that again this year. And then another really cool thing we were able to do is a water safety for swim coaches. We offered two sessions of that for our community club team coaches and we ran scenarios with the lifeguards. So the coaches had to work with the lifeguards um so that if we had an emergency situation during a swim practice, everybody would kind of know what their role
018is during that time. So um that was really neat to see. It was probably the one of the best ones we've done in the last 10 years that I've been doing them. So, that was fun. Um, currently we're open for about 6 and a half hours per day. That's on average. Some days are a little bit longer than others. We did take out Sundays this year with some issues that we were having. Hopefully, we can bring those back one day. And I'm looking forward with to using the fee structure that was that been being developed. I think that will really help with our group use. We get a lot of people that request to use the pool or rent it. And if we had the structured fee, I think that will really be helpful to
019make sure everybody's on the same page. For our schools, we were able to offer kindergarten boost through fifth grade class swim lessons. So, I got to get I got to see every kid through kinder boost through fifth grade this year, and it was pretty awesome. >> Um, I get to go into the schools, the program that we've developed, um, I get to go into schools, they teach a water safety class. So, we watch a little video, do a worksheet, talk about water safety so that they're prepared to come into the pool. There's a lot of kids that are really scared or do not have that opportunity outside of the school. And then we bring them in um the next week and they get to come in for a lesson and they get to get in
020the water and do some of the basic the basic stuff, blowing bubbles, floating. Um it's been really beneficial um through our through the last couple years that I've been working on that. Um let's see. We also had um Sunrise Elementary students last week came in for swimming lessons. So they've been going to Lander. This year they we got them to come over to Riverton. So they came over to see us, which is pretty awesome. and they're they've been a great group of little kids that we've had. Uh we still have RHS and RMS adaptive PE RHS lifetime students um which like a PE classes coming in. Frontier's been using the facility a lot. Um and then we have right now we have RMS PE classes that are coming in for educational purposes too for the
021next couple weeks. Our classroom has found a lot of people to use it. So, um, Gear Up found a home. They're in there twice a week almost for the whole year. They've been in there. Letters, I'm not quite familiar with it, but it's a group of teachers that are coming in. They're using the facility. Um, Paige, the trainer at the high school, has been able to use it for two different classes that she's taught this year for coaches. And, um, the AI group has actually also been coming in to utilize that classroom area. So, it's been a really good resource to have. We've hosted three high school girls swim meets, four high school boys swim meets, two middle school swim meets, and then two USA swim meets, too. And the USA swim meets are three
022days long. So, those are kind of big. >> Yes, they are. >> They're huge. >> They're a lot of work, too. >> Yes, they are. Yes. >> A lot to set up and break back down and clean up afterwards. That's for sure. >> Um, and the last thing I have is we have a great staff. I have 26 of us over there. 17 of them are high school students, super involved. And I asked them yesterday, I said, "I have a school board meeting. I've got to go talk to if you had to come and if you came and you said something to them, what would you tell them? What would you love? What do you want to tell them that you love about the pool?" They said, "We love the flexibility of the schedule." With
02317 of them, I'm able to move them around. They go to school all day. They've got athletics. They've got programs. They come to work. They work 10 to 15 hours afterwards all the way to 8 or 8:30 at night or weekends. They're there at the pool and they love to be there and that's why they want to work at the pool. So without them, I don't think I could do it. So I'm I'm very proud of those kids that work over there with me. So thank you guys for letting me come. If you have any questions. No, I I know my daughter benefited from being a guard at the pool and having that flexibility being involved in things and I know that that was a huge thing and she learned a lot of good solid
024skills that have helped her throughout her life. So, I'm glad to see that we're have we're employing those kids and giving them the same opportunities and creating a schedule that would mesh with their all their other activities. >> I'm just glad we can get all of those kids to the pool. >> Yes, >> it's so important. >> Yes. So, >> thanks for taking that on. Yeah, >> no problem. I love that. I love to walk in the schools and they're all, "Oh, it's my swimming teacher." And, [laughter] you know, they got my face out there so they don't come to me and they're scared, you know, who's this new person? So, it's been that's been really fun. >> Anybody else? >> Thank you for coming. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> It's great. >> So glad
025for all that you >> Yes. Thank you. >> Okay. Next up is Marcy Campbell and the district AI team for an update. Hello everyone. >> Hi. >> Thanks for the opportunity for us to do a little presentation for you tonight. Um just want to give you a little bit of history. We were here last year as a team as well. of year one with our AI and um our team started with just we had uh year one we had nine members and we focused a lot working with evergreen AI and they helped us with some guidance around the use of AI and education. So our team really focused on guidance and policy and how do we figure this out for our school district. We did have a couple of popups in the school where we
026had some team members and all of us we went in and just let teachers like experiment and explore with some different AI tools just to kind of spread some knowledge about what is out there. So year two we brought on more members uh we brought on uh people and teachers from all campuses. So, we really wanted to make sure that we had what we would call AI champions. And the purpose of these would be to support in their buildings with questions that are coming up and and support and just really build their content knowledge around AI. We don't have all of our members here tonight. We have a very small group here to represent us, but everybody has worked really hard. We've met four times this year. So, they've given up their [clears throat] days
027and and hired uh substitutes to come in and did their lesson plans because they're committed to trying to figure out how are we uh going to build this plane while we're flying it. Is what we always say. We have all of these new tools and [clears throat] what we learned today is could be obsolete tomorrow and we know that it's going to affect our students as they leave um Fremont 25 and go out into the employment. So, we are committed to really um figuring these things out as we're working. We did split our team where we have some district representatives where we work more on the policy and support and we meet with Jod and talk with her to her about what is some guidance and where would you like us to go with? So,
028um we just want to thank you and we'll go on with our presentation. >> I'm Michelle Anderson. So, this is my second year on the AI committee. Um last year we were tasked with finding or recommending different AI tools for teachers. So K8 we had magic school AI and 9 through 12 um we had school AI. So this fall we were trying to integrate that and figure out how to get that into the classroom. So we started to do a roll out with that. Um it was very slow, very simple. Some of us went into PLC meetings. Um we introduced it in, you know, 15 minutes spurts just tried trying to get the staff to play with it. Some of us led um staff meetings. So, we've been working really hard to try to get
029those integrated with in our school systems this year. Additionally, um we're really thankful and it's great timing to um have these new PD days, these mini PD days that um we've had two now. Just one uh recently here in March. No, in at the end of February, sorry, it is March and then in October. Um and so we had you can see on the graphic um eight of us have presented um in 19 different sessions over the course of those two many PD days and have given opportunities for teachers to learn about 13 different tools. Um and so our big excitement is coming up here in April. Um, we feel that we're getting it out to the teachers, which is great, but our instructional facilitators are such an important piece that they can see all
030of the teachers and all of the buildings. Um, and so we're working with Christina to put together a concurrent session um, in that April mini PD day where we can um, share with just the instructional facilitators some of the main tools that we're really um, excited about that we find value that we're using and give the instructional facilitators time to play around with those tools so they become comfortable with it. So then they can also champion some of these AI tools that we find useful. Awesome. Hello everybody. I'm Brennan Ibah. Hi Jody. Um, we had the opportunity, a few of us that are here, a few a few of us that are not, we got to go to Orlando, Florida for the FETC conference. So, the future of education technology conference. Um, and it was
031a great experience. We got to learn about different types of tools, different laws and policies, um, and then ways to implement them in the classroom. >> [clears throat] >> And the awesome part about it is we were able to work with other other educators from around the United States um from all different levels. So we had superintendent, we had admin, and we had teachers. So thank you guys for the opportunity. It was awesome and we're excited to bring some of the ideas that we learned back to the district. We also have a big thank you card for Roy Brown. >> All right. And in the packet that you were handed, my name's Alicia Sears, you were handed the ethos. There is an ethos responsible AI use for all of the campuses. They all say the
032same thing, but each of them has the logo. The one that you have has our district logo. It talks about ethical, transparent, human- centered, opportunity focused, and secure. We want to make sure that AI is used to support academic integrity, that we're transparent about how and when we can use AI. And one of the important things is human- centered. AI doesn't replace anybody. We want to make sure that it is a tool. And we want to prioritize student learning and relationships. We want to keep opportunity focused. It strengthens teaching engagement and efficiency. It's not a tool that we're going to use and I'm not going to review it at all and just put it out there for people. And we want to make sure that it protects our student data up there at the foremost.
033Do you have any questions on it at all? So, we really um were thinking about next year and had a meeting with Jod and how where do we go with the team and how do we continue to support just AI is here. We know it's here. So, our focus will really be with tier one instruction and how we can use AI to enhance tier one. Um which is one of the reasons why we want to work with facilitators. And so we really um want to build some leadership within our committee. So we want to have more people stepping out into those roles. We also have our AI champions that will continue to do many PDs. And then I sat and I asked myself, I'm like, why would everybody just give their time? I mean, they
034they're passionate about it right now, right? but they're busy classroom teachers and why would they want to give up time to support in their school. So, we're kind of missing this link with having a plan in the school with our administrators and helping them disseminate the information out to their teams. It happens just in little pockets of when there's time. And so, I went around and I I asked, "What can we do for incentives? What we can do?" And Kate was so generous and she said, "I have an idea. Our committee members that are committed supporting this. She said, "I have some money in my technology budget so they can get a a stipen and purchase something for themselves for them to use." So, I'm happy about that. I mean, I know they would all
035continue to work really hard just because they know that it's good work and that we need to do that. Um, we would really like to encourage um some support for more attendance next year at our feetc conference or possibly another AI conference. We are planning to put in a PD PD proposal again and we'd love it if we could have some schoolboard members attend and some administrators attend and members that are not part of our committee because once you're there and you're learning the tools firsthand, you have a better understanding and you're able to just implement it. So, as you guys know, there's lots of different tools and uh Marcy or we said earlier that we bought a a tool for all of the K8 teachers. It's called Magic School. We bought a second one
036called School AI for the 912 teachers. We've also been running some pilot projects. And our plan for next year, um we like to say that this is a support, not force. So, we're supporting teachers who want to use AI. we're not forcing anyone to use AI. So instead of purchasing um a single tool that'll go across everyone, we've decided to change that up to um a menu of choices. So uh staff members in their logical groups, whether that's all the first grade teachers at Rendevous or Michelle and Sam at middle school as a team or a department at the high school, they'll get the opportunity to make a choice from this menu. Um, and some of these, if there's no choice that is made, Google Gemini is built into our existing Google license. It's not
037any extra money. So, they'll always have access to that. So, it's not like they'll lose out on anything. But, if there's a single team member that can get the rest of their group rallied around, Magic School, School AI, Cury Pod, we are going to support a small menu. And that's what I've placed here. So that instead of buying just one big product we're that we're forcing everyone to use, we're going to back away from that and offer some choice. So we talked a little bit earlier about sustaining momentum and so one of the the pieces that we know that we need to do is to have our kids be the stakeholders and growing their AI knowledge as well. And we're just we're at the tip of where to start with that because we have people
038who are like no way and then we have kids who are going to use it no matter what. So um Evergreen has proposed some competency standards for students for literacy and their approach is really interesting because it is not about it's a different thing that you're doing but it is how can you use AI with what you're already doing. So students like in kindergarten might sort a set of facts that are generated by the teacher from a content that they're learning and then they decide which ones are true and which ones are false with the teacher guiding them that AI created these facts. So getting them to understand that not everything that they're seeing or hearing or reading is accurate. Another example is taking and rewriting um like the Cat in the Hat from a
039different perspective and having AI use that tool and then the teacher sharing that with them. So, we're very cautious about the student use especially in our primary grades. But as our students are getting older, we know that we need to support them in their use. And right now, the two platforms have a capability for teachers to manage the student use. So if they assign something to the students, it can be monitored on that platform in a in a safe way, which is part of the ethos that we really are excited about. Um, so we are dabbling with how do we introduce that to more of student use as we're learning about all of these different tools and their resources that they will need for their future and their jobs. Um, we also just started to
040um an AI literacy challenge that we'll put into place for next year. So, we'll offer two challenges. Simple. We're going to throw them out to the staff. They can complete the challenge using one of the AI tools with the directions that we've given them. And then their name will go into a drawing for either a tech prize or maybe an opportunity um to attend one of our conferences to learn more about AI. So, we're just really still trying to spread um the excitement about it with keeping in mind that we still need to be cautious as well while using it. So, thank you again. Do you guys have any questions for our team? >> Couple comments. Um I was at a interview the other day about building lesson plans using AI and also teaching um
041substitute teachers to uh come in and be aware of what's on the board and use AI tools to help them with their day uh teaching the students. The other thing is that AI is you know your students are going to have depending on their family background because their parents are using it now too. I mean the curve is already swung you know it's starting around probably time. So, it is really growing. I mean, four years since started and now it's just, you know, four blossoms out and uh still growing. So, I mean, we're behind the curve. So, everything you guys are doing to help us catch up is is important. So I really thank you for the mission that you have. [clears throat] Thank you. >> We forgot to mention the second uh staple packet
042that we gave you is we worked with the middle school and high school admins. We really decided it was important to have something um in their handbooks. And because you guys approved the handbooks, it's kind of part of board policy. snuck that in um without three readings. Uh but these are um guidelines for students at the middle and high school level and also guidelines for teachers. We're going to ask that the elementary principles get together and modify the teacher guidelines and then put put that in their staff handbook for next year. So we are really cautious and we want to provide clear guard rails for both staff and students. So what would what if you use AI what is expected if you suspect a student is using AI in a dishonest manner what the process
043is so that it's not just uh you know trying to catch up after the fact after the kid is in trouble or after the teacher has been reprimanded trying to get ahead of that. So those will probably um you'll see again inside the um student staff handbooks for next school year. That's a good question. Have we um I'm sure you have thought about this offering some training for parents, right? >> And you know, I know the FFA kiddos saying, you know, we too many things to get done at parent teacher conferences, but you know, I'm sure parents are probably a little bit nervous about it. I know of course you we're seeing a lot of it in our office and I'm just like I don't know that I trust it for tax stuff. So I
044personally verify about four times. But it um teaching people to to know that and you know parents >> parents don't know that either. >> We've talked about it briefly in our committee but we haven't come up with any solid plans. I think we probably need to get on board with our facilitators because facilitators and title one they're kind of a mix. They are the ones that host those title one and math school nights. I think that's probably where it makes the most sense. So we're looking at that probably for next year. But we're going to be working with the facilitators um right after spring break. So we'll have a better sense of that once we get back. >> Thank you. >> I just think it was I attended the consolidated grant meeting that you all
045did and did a a little session and I was there and you know this old grandma was able to work with the grandkids on uh coming up with jokes that pertain to them with gymnastics and baseball and those kinds of things and showing them how to do that and just how easy it was and using it for things that are fun. I mean, this is also going to be uh using it for for things that are pertinent, you know, for for learning. But I think it's a very fun resource that parents can use with their kids and uh I I love the fact that you talked about food preparation and how you how you can use ingredients you have at your house and come pull together a recipe. And I think that's also some really
046good training for our kids, you know, after school kids who have things maybe at the house. So I think there's there's a lot of opportunity not only for what you're doing in in the school curriculum piece of that, but also it's a lot of fun and and you know once you kind of start figuring out how to use it, it's kind of interesting to go through and and work with it. And I had no idea that it would be that easy. So >> Well, nice. >> So thank you. I think too anytime you can communicate with parents is, you know, that takes away any kind of apprehension or fear and and or just like Lori said, want wanting to be able to work with them and help them, you know, help help with them and
047help them follow the guidelines as intended. And so I think that's an excellent excellent thing to move forward. I think the facilitate the evenings for something like that is a really great way to do that. It's kind of like a lunch and learn for the parents or something. You know, >> one of the pieces that we really are hoping to have teams in the building work through are when is it appropriate to use it and when is it not appropriate to use it. So those examples that you gave, I mean that's awesome just you can use it personally all the time. But as far as in academics, I mean we've always had kids that have cheated, right? I mean they do. College scores went up last year. I mean, why is that? So, really thinking
048about the ethos statements, we would really like teams to dig into that. And as you're a classroom teacher and you're working with your students, not saying you can't use this because if they need help, they're going to try to use it, right? They they believe in getting a good grade. And so, teaching them how can you use this? What are the parameters of how you can use this tool? and then allowing that and letting the parents know that, hey, your child can use this to brainstorm for writing or they can ask for feedback on something or they can set up a little tutor to help them with their math. Um, just providing some of that so parents know that it's okay as well and then they can support that. But we're at the beginning stages
049of how we do that because >> great idea. >> In the in the original guidance that we wrote, the big document, we said that We don't provide support on AI detection tools for cheating. They're out there, but they're not accurate because whenever we are using AI, we're training that model. So, if you actually have somebody who's a really good writer, they're going to get flagged for cheating, for dishonesty. And so, we would really like the teachers to take the approach of how are you going to know for sure? And if you want to know if they know the content, have a conversation with them. ask them about their their writing. Um, look at a writing sample that's authentic every once in a while, right? So you can see what their writing style is like. But
050we don't want them to automatically just say you are cheating on this and you get a zero because the AI detection said you were because they're not accurate. Um, there was actually a lawsuit in California last year with that and and the parents won the lawsuit against the district because there was not a policy put into place and the child got accused of cheating and they took it and had a lawsuit against it and they lost. So that's one of the reasons why we are wanting to provide guidance and have those conversations in the school. So if you can support that with administrators that would be wonderful. >> My math tutor wonderful thing. >> Yeah, [laughter] that would have been really great. And the ethics of it is going to be >> yes huge. >>
051It's hard to deal with. It's going to take a whole new mindset >> for educators to be able to accept the new generations of students because they're they're integrated into that uh new world. You know, I'm 76 years old. I barely had TV when I was four years old. [laughter] you know, kids starting in 2008, uh, had smartphones available to them, and they're a different a whole different creature than, you know, my mother who had no technology concepts. >> No. And it's hard for somebody my age or probably even some of your ages that have to deal with students that you you don't know where they're coming from because they've had this swipe since they were one year old. >> And it's integrated into their their soul and brain. And you know the merging of
052humanity into technology has you know >> just like Gutenberg changed the book and the brain there. So, you're right at the cusp of that massive change in the brain. >> Thank you. >> Good luck. >> Thank you. >> Nice to have professionals working on this. So, thank you very much for that. >> Thank you. Anything else? Anybody have any comments or questions? >> Thank you very much. Have a nice evening. >> Thank you. Thanks for being here. >> Okay. will move on to board members and staff and we'll start right over there with you. Ally, >> you have anything tonight? >> I don't. Thank you. >> Okay. >> Roy, >> uh just a couple of updates um in terms [clears throat] of student counts for a title six application. Uh with title six, we we
053have the fortunate opportunity to choose our count dates. So, we can choose any 31 consecutive days. For us this year, that meant the most advantageous to us was the first day of school and 30 31 days after. Um, so we were able to maintain a pretty consistent student count for this year's application. Last year we had 620 students with a 506 form turned in. This year we have 619. So >> nice, Roy. >> Yes. Um, and then one other event I wanted to make sure that's on your radar is our consolidated grant planning nights, uh, which will be, uh, March 26th at 5:30 to 7 here in this room. And that's the night we're really emphasizing this year the the planning piece. We really want some feedback from our stakeholders about what is going well
054from their perspective and how to make sure that the grant applications we're turning in are highlighting our priorities. So, >> what time is that? >> It's at 5:30. >> It's here >> in this room. >> And that's all for me. >> Okay, Jody. Um I attended the we were able to have a quorum so we had a a BOI meeting and they talked about a couple of different things you know encouraging well because of legislation they're going to actually be able to you know the the additional funds and things be able to have more concurrent enrollment and dual enrollment and they talked about the fact that thermoploolis is actually going to be offering an EMT course in their for dual enrollment because there's such a shortage and I thought that was super interesting. And then
055they said, you know, they're always looking, you know, to try to find, you know, get masters and certifications to teach dual enrollment, things like that. And they're going to offer some things in through that. We should have some more. We had um our well, our our board chair um was Scott Jensen, and of course, he had to step away from his position just simply because of the conflict of interest. And so, uh, Gay Hughes is now going to act as as board chair until the we re we elect officers and things like that. Um, I did, um, like I said, I I I found that very very enlightening. I did attend um a meeting with regards to like job shadowing and and working with the college and the these coming through the chamber and different
056things like that that we can do through the college. And so they're going to put together some I just went in and sat in. I just wanted to see what it was about and so I had an opportunity so I went and attended that as well. Um, I want to um congratulate our boys and girls on their final seasons and and especially our seniors. I know how how those those culminating events can affect you um as a parent or a grandparent when you're when you're watching all those those seasons come and go. Um and also, um I want to mention the Fremont County hockey kids that are our school kids. Um out of four teams that competed for state no ice. Um, three came home with state championships including the high school and we have
057a few of our kids both in Lander and Riverton on both of those. >> Outside of that, that's about it for me tonight. >> Okay, Mr. Canrail. >> Uh, you'd like to start off by Westing wishing the best of luck to our speech and debate team. >> Yes. >> They're going down for state this weekend and I know they work so hard to be there. and uh on our rec board, we just had a uh kind of a culmination of our our uh grant awards and uh talked about that's the most grants that we've ever given out. So, we're going to want one because we don't know where the money is going to be coming from. So, we wanted to get rid of some big projects this year. >> No, it died in committee. It
058didn't come out of the committee. >> It didn't make it out of the cow. Yeah, it didn't. Sorry. >> So >> the mill levy boy. >> Yeah. Yeah. If it didn't make it out of cow, >> but so we just carried on. That's that's about it. >> Lori, you're up next. >> So I just get just kind of want to give a little bit of uh input on two bills that that were uh in the legislature. There was so many so much going on. and the recalibration bill uh at the end, the amendments were unbelievable and I I was trying to work and watch and it was a lot to try to to because there was so much good content that was being discussed and so many people were sharing good information to try to
059advocate for things like small schools and operational costs and you know those kinds of things that there were so many amendments that came up and it was uh it was good to hear the knowledge base that our legislators have, you know, on some of the items and also the comments that there were so many constituents that contacted them this year that there was so much involvement from people from Wyoming contacting their legislators, which is what you really want when things are maybe not going the way you thought that that they should go. So, I think it's it's really it's wonderful to see that because because last year, last legislative session, it was kind of crickets, you know? I mean, we had we had some people that got up there, but I don't think anybody realized
060the all of the the things that were happening until it started happening to them. And this year, it was great to see all of the participation and, you know, of everybody that was was uh talking. Um, I I noticed Colton, you brought up the governor's letter and uh that that struck a real chord with me to hear what he had to say about the recalibration bill that he let that go into law without his signature because partly because of the um instructional silos that >> exactly >> that were put in place that he just felt like really um could be very detrimental and to a lot of our programs with the operational costs that are happening. And I know that uh Jody, our superintendent, sent a wonderful letter to the legislature um talking about some
061of the items that were of concern with that siloed funding. And uh so I just want to for people who haven't read the letter, I I commented on a couple of things here. His the governor's concern is that the instructional silo as currently contemplated may so unreasonably restrict school districts that they will be forced into an untenable position of either running the operational aspect of the district at a deficit or severely diminishing operations. And then he also wrote that his second concern with the instructional silo is an unreasonable encroachment on the prerogative of local school boards and that he firmly believes the best government is the one closest to the people. when the state government becomes overly prescriptive to school districts, local control is sacrificed. And so, I thought that was a a great letter
062and some great words that he put into that letter to support what he was talking about and um I I appreciated that. Then the second was the K12 literacy bill. Yeah, >> I kind of liken that to if you're at your workplace and some of your staff members are not doing what they should be doing and instead of coming in with a corrective action plan for those people that need it, you just discipline everybody and we know how how people love that when when that happens and you have a supervisor that does that instead of being brave enough to contact those people that need the help. >> I I think we have I I was very encouraged by Christina Mills at the last board meeting when she talked about if this passes we'll make it
063work and you know so that's encouraging bec because we do have a lot of really good things going on we are seeing progress and it is kind of a it's kind of a hardship to have to now come in and implement some new things and which probably will take a couple of years to actually show progress because that's that's what happens when you implement new programs you don't see that progress right away you have to look at what the scores are telling you in a couple of years. And so that's a little bit disheartening, but um I know we've got a great team. Uh Christina talks about a lot of the people that we have in our district that uh have wonderful knowledge and they really understand literacy and how to work with our our
064kids and our teachers to do what's in the best interest of kids. And and just to hear her say, you know, rather than oppose it, that if it passes, we'll make it work. And that's what else are you going to do? I mean, we have that's what we have to do. >> Um, so the a couple of other kids that uh Brennan Metsler with the Shadron Chad State in the softball scholarship. That's kind of that's a very cool thing. >> And then Allison Addie with the 55 meter hurdles state champ. >> And then I have to applaud Braden Baker. I don't know if any of you know him. He actually goes to school in Lander. >> He does. He plays hockey as well. but he plays uh he plays baseball with the Riverton Raiders and
065has played with my grandson for years. He's a great kid and he's gonna head to Northeast Community College in Nebraska. So, I just that's >> he's been having a heck of a year and trying to get back in shape >> back. So, Lynette, >> um I don't have a whole lot to add. I just want to thank the FFA kids for coming tonight. It's always exciting to see um them in action. >> So fun. and to report that at our last Northwest Boseies meeting, we spent a little bit of our mill money that we've saved up and we're putting in a new dishwasher in the kitchen. Super exciting stuff. We had com conversation about whether we should go with a cold water system that requires a boatload of chemicals or a new hot water system
066that costs a little bit more but is a lot less chemical. That's what we voted on. And we did vote to move forward with a third classroom to help address capacity issues. So, we will be adding a third classroom to Northwest Boseies. Again, we it's been a while since we had three. So, that's exciting. It's all I have. >> Hey, Bruce. >> I really don't have much other than I want to commend the FFA girls for coming in and doing that. I always >> enjoy that, >> you know, that they it every time we have students in here, it's kind of like, >> yeah, we're doing something right. I mean, they're all >> they're good. But that's all I got. >> They could they could be in the legislature. >> Yeah, honestly they could. >>
067The uh it was always I've I've seen that not that particular, but they've come in and ran their board meeting a couple times over my tenure and it's always fun to watch. They were they were much more succinct than some. And I maybe it's because they were all girls, [laughter] but uh uh that was great. Uh it's always fun to have FFA and especially middle school. That was that's fun to see the middle school there. >> Um the Fremont County Boseies, we hired a new executive director yesterday. Good. >> Uh Bruce Thorne uh will be our new exec. >> Uh he is the superintendent from uh Shosonyi. So that's going to be exciting for us. We're real excited about some of the things that he talks about doing. the idea of a Perkins consortium some
068more, you know, he's he's a C he is a CTE guy, you know, he came from construction and he he went to school and came out as a CTE teacher. So that's his blood. And so I think he's getting, you know, he's done a lot of programs over in Shosonyi that uh uses CTE and he's been very innovative over there. So, we're we think we'll see the resurgence of Fremont County Boseies uh in the future. We were in a shrinking mode and I think uh with Bruce leadership will will uh see better things from Fremont County Boseies. The legislature, I don't even want to talk about it. Uh >> it's it's tough that you know just the one bill the uh >> reccalibration. It's uh it's that silo is going to be, you know, talk
069about the swimming pool, uh all kinds of different, you know, how are we going to pay for student lunches uh and breakfast programs and things that that sustain kids besides uh instruction. you know, you always have to have that support group and that's what's been taken out from under us >> and uh you know, the air under our wings. So, uh you know, we'll see what happens, but it's it's it's a tough pill to swallow uh and you know, expand on one thing and contract on the other. Uh, and I I don't see it. It's It's very hard to invision. So, um, you know, I was hoping that the governor would actually veto it. >> I watched all day yesterday until I saw that he had had uh let it go past his desk uh
070without signature and and uh we'll just see what happens. But, uh, it's it's a it's a tough one. >> That is hard. Other than that, uh, cold night tonight, but, uh, next week it's going to be in the 70s, so it's always better than >> Oh, that's right. Well, it's it's spring season, you know, for for activities, so that's why [laughter] >> it's always Jada, do you have anything for us? >> I do not. >> Colton, [snorts] >> yes. I just wanted to explain a little bit further. um action item B for the Craig Beck scholarship. Um we were meeting with our financial adviserss and upon investigating more we found out that the scholarship fund was using our EIN number but we hadn't had that on our on our books. So after asking our auditors
071that's the conclusion that we g gave to is to move the funds to our books so we can control it and that we report on it. But the Craig Beck scholarships it's not going anywhere. it's going to be in our activity80 accounts. We're still going to track the income and the scholarships paid out and with 48,000 we're pretty confident that it's going to last a long time. So, I just want to explain that a little bit further and provide more detail um for the recalibration stuff now that it's passed in law. We're just eager for the actual um for the budget for the for the 100 to come out because it there's a lot of changes and we need that as soon as possible so we can start our budget because the bill is one
072thing but when but we need to actually see the numbers and the FTEES in front of us. So we're just >> hopefully [snorts] yeah I mean >> it's going [laughter] to be tough if it's but yeah we we were asked at our last business manager meeting when we needed it and we're like we needed it kind of last week. So, um, we're just kind of waiting on that, but Jody and I have been working on the budget as as much knowledge as we know and we're so we've been working on that. So, [snorts] >> um, that's all I had for tonight. Thank you. >> Thank you, Colton. Jody. >> Okay. Uh, you're going to see a request for travel and I know we talked about this uh very briefly uh last week that we don't
073generally do >> Yeah. >> uh sporting events. However, this is a national qualifier and so that's a little bit different and it seems like it fits within if somebody is going to nationals. Shouldn't matter what type of activity it is. So, I did put it on the board agenda as one that they could request funds and obviously you can change your mind if you want to, but I just wanted to give you my rationale behind that. uh calendars in your little folder. You have the calendars that we are proposing. I'm not going to go into detail about it tonight because we're going to have it as a public hearing opportunity next board meeting and the board meeting after because that is the rule that we give opportunity. The elementary schools have already given opportunity through
074calendarly invites like we did previously. I'll give you all of that information at the next meeting, but wanted you to be able to look through those and have an idea of what we were talking about prior to um I believe we put did we put we put an RHS bell schedule in there for you. It is not something that generally comes before it as an action item, but just so that you are aware of how they are looking at doing um their bell schedule. You're always welcome to call any of the high school admin administrators. Thomas Jasmine said he'd be happy to field any questions, but basically it's a Monday, Thursday, Friday, 7 period day, a Tuesday, Wednesday block. and that schedule it. They're not going to do the rotations because after further looking into
075it. Um we're just not at a place where that makes sense at this point in time. But it's not won't be off the table to look at in future years, but right now um at this time of year, it's not. So, I wanted you to have that in case you are asked questions. Then, um I wanted to let you know that accreditation, we were fully accredited again. We had a 95. Hey, nice job. >> Yep. So, >> well done. >> Christina did most of the leg work on putting that together this year. And um we in our accreditation, we did have two missignments, which I think I had explained to you ahead of time that we were looking at or at least to the board chair um that we were looking at a possibility of
076mis assignments. So they did not they did give us a a corrective letter and we are paying those misassignments back but it is not impacting our accreditation. So >> um and we had one other thing on our accreditation that I'm they didn't give us details about uh but they said some there were some things with our virtual school and it's possible that we just didn't get the right paperwork submitted with our accreditation. I won't know that until we meet with them to talk about what they want to fix. So, those were the only two areas um that they reached out about needing to make some improvement. That is all I have for this evening. >> Awesome. Okay. Um I have one thing to say and that is is that the one thing that I know
077having worked in this school district for 25 years and then being on this board is we will rise above everything. >> We will be okay. >> All right. All right. So visitors or delegations are delegates are already have anything they want to say tonight. I have this one little speech. This is your one opportunity for public comment or to address the board of trustees regarding action items on the agenda. Does anybody have anything they want to talk to us about? It's on the agenda. >> Answering questions about >> Okay. All right. We're moving on. Madame Chair, I would move we recess into executive session for personnel. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All those in favor? Hi. Hi. Any discussion? All those in favor? >> I. >> Anybody opposed? Okay, moving on. >> Madam chair, I
078would move to approve the separation agreement for employee number 45958475. >> Second. Any discussion? All those in favor? >> I. >> Anybody oppose? Okay, moving on to the next thing. >> Madam Chair, I would move that the board approve a Riverton High School track student to travel to Arcadia, California in April 2026 for the Arcadia track and field invite as per policy. >> Second. Good luck. discussion. >> All those in favor? >> I I >> Anybody opposed? >> Okay, moving on to the next action item. >> Madame Chair, I would move that the board accept the funds from the sale of stock held with LPL Financial in the amount of 48,82562, which are funds to be used in accordance with the original donor intent to support the Craig H. Beck scholarship. Second. >> Any discussion?
079All those in favor? >> I I was I was interrupting. >> It was Bruce. >> Any discussion? Okay. Moving on to the Oh, all those in favor. [laughter] >> Anybody opposed? Same side. Okay. Next one. >> I move that we accept awards of $36,000 for the River Aquatic Center, $66,292 for $74,63.9. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Just one comment. I'm really glad that that No, Phil, that the that it's come out of committee. >> Yes. >> Anything else? All those >> I >> All those opposed. >> Okay. Moving on. Consider an administrative recommendation to accept a resignation. >> Madam Chair, I would move to accept the resignation of Aspen Elementary School principal Scott McBride effective June 12th, 2026. >> Second. Any discussion? All those in favor? I. >> Anybody opposed? Consider an administrative recommendation
080to accept resignations. >> Madame Chair, I would move that we accept the resignation of Riverton High School Counselor Kelly Sabon effective May 29th, 2026, and Riverton High School assistant cheer coach Kelly Guard effective March 2nd, 2026. >> Any discussion? All those in favor? >> I all those. Anybody opposed? Okay. Next one. Consider administrative recommendation to offer contracts. >> Madame chair, I would move to offer a contract to Idania Dardi as Aspen Elementary School teacher. Danon Barkwin as a Rhonda Elementary School teacher. Both effective for the 2026 2027 school year. Kelsey Gorggas as a Riverton Middle School assistant track coach and Jaylen Pettit as a Riverton Middle School interim assistant track coach both for the 2025 2026 school year. >> Second. >> Any discussion, questions? All those in favor? >> I. >> Anybody opposed? >> Okay.
081G. Consider an administrative recommendation to approve contracts for administrators. Madam Chair, I would move that we approve the contracts to the school administrators listed on the agenda for the 2026 2027 school year with contract details to be termin. >> Any discussion, questions? All those in favor? >> I. >> Anybody opposed? Okay, moving on. Consider an administrative recommendation to offer a contract. Second. >> Any questions, comments? All those in favor? >> Anybody opposed? Same sign. >> Yes. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor? >> Okay, moving on. We're on to information items. The Northern Alcohol Vacation Rehabilitation Program, certification of staff changes, >> transfers, Melissa Okay. >> Speech language pathologist for the 26 27 school year. Oh, sorry. Classified my my mic's not on. Sorry. Classified staff changes resignations. Willow Creek Parah Bin Garner effective
082February 23rd, 2026. RMS custodian Jebony Griffin effective February 26, 2026. Sorry, just District 38 academic coach Katherine Brittle effective June 5th, 2026. Transfers Lewis Jevney, is it Lois Jevney? Sorry, to a rendevous food service worker. Anthony Rumich to an RHS night custodian. New hires Taylor >> Taylor Ray, thank you. Cougler as a Rendezvah. Lindsay Kinsling as a rendevous parah. Darby Johnson as an Aspen parah. Joselyn McCoy as a rendevous parah. Victoria >> Manriquez as a Willow Creek parah. Marian Thorp as a an aquatic center desk clerk. And then see separation notices. See executive content. How's our enrollment, Jada? >> So it's an improvement. >> You're doing your work. Madame Chair, I would move that we adjourn to executive session for student discipline. >> All those in favor? I