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001Allegiance. >> 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. If >> I can have a roll call, please. Madam chair, we have a quorum. >> Changes to the agenda. >> Consider adoption or make changes in the board agenda. Do we have any? >> We do not. >> Madam chair, I would move we adopt the agenda as presented. >> All those in favor? >> I. The consent consent agenda. Approval of the minutes of the December 9th, 2025 meeting. Consider payment of bills including late pays and pre-authorizations of payroll, insurance, utilities officials, and automatic payments. Ratify the payments of bills approved on December 22nd and 23rd, 2025 by board members. >> Madam Chair, I

002would move that we accept the consent agenda as presented. >> Second. >> All those in favor? I >> any of not okay let's move on to our round table um the first one we don't have them here tonight so we'll start with Azid Wah and Brady Slack >> we love it >> all those faces. >> All right. Thank you for having us give our middle school update. So, I think I know everyone, but I'm Aziz Wahed, principal of the middle school. >> Slack, assistant principal. >> Yeah. So, we do you guys see my screen? >> No. No screen. >> Hey, Mr. Tech people, we might need assistance. >> Hey, Mr. >> [laughter] >> being Roy over here. >> Roy, there we go. [laughter] >> All right. Well, we appreciate the opportunity to talk to you

003guys every year about what's happening at the middle school. Um, I think the best way to tell the story of what happens is by bringing our amazing kids and all the things that they're involved in. And this year we also got to bring some of our outstanding staff members that lead departments to give you a departmental update. So, um, we wanted you guys to hear from them what happens throughout our building. So, we're super excited about what happens. And I I just want to start you guys off the same way we start off our school year. So, every school year, um, something I used to do as a coach and I still do as a coach is we always try to have a word or a phrase that encapsules like what are we trying to

004do? What are our goals? What's kind of the theme of the year? And so, um, if you look back through the years, I've shown this slide to you. I always think it's fun to look back and say, what was happening in the world at that time? So, you know, going back to 2020, that was my first year as principal. I had no idea what was what I was doing. [laughter] those COVID rules and all the things like survival and then where we've graduated to. And so this year, um, Mr. Sack and I were really thinking about like what what are we trying to accomplish this year with our staff, with our students, what's the what should the theme be? And so we never want to get stagnant. We never want to just say, you know,

005we've done so well to this point, like that's good enough. So our word of the year for our staff and students has been challenge which is a pretty simple thing but go ahead. >> Yeah. So I think challenge just became our word for the year because when we look we have we have a fantastic uh bunch of staff that work at our school and then along with that we have a really good group of students at our building. And so we just wanted to uh first challenge our staff to continue to grow and make sure that we are pushing our kids in a manner but not just pushing our high level kids, also meet some of our lower level kids um that need those extra supports and really get uh creative with their their design

006for lesson plans. Um and so we just wanted to see the whole school continue to grow and we figured the best way to do that was to challenge um our staff and our students. So, um, there's a couple just kind of things that we focused, but that's >> So, we we think about just not not doing it just because it's the way I've always done it. So, we always try to think about is it the best way that's being done? Is it the best way that our students need to receive it and just because I've done it before or just because I've it might look like more work, am I up for the challenge of of taking it on? And our staff is um and part of what our staff does that I think is

007so cool is involve kids. I said this last night at a meeting, but we always say this, busy kids are good kids and busy kids need to be busy, right? They need to not have idle time. They should be challenged. We should give them opportunities and our staff provides those opportunities. If you look across the country, this isn't the case in schools. There's a number of things that are dropping off because there are not people there to do them. There's not people there to provide those opportunities or share their passions. And we're super fortunate to have an outstanding staff that does that. So, does being involved matter? Absolutely. We check this data all the time and kids that are involved in our sports and our clubs and are just involved in the things that you're

008going to hear our kids um being involved in being involved in. Um they have higher self-esteem. They show up to school more. They have better GPA. They have better outcomes. And so this is not a new situation, but what is cool is just how much our students get to take part in. So, uh, I'd like to this time have some of our kiddos talk to you about what they do and what their experiences are. So, we're going to start off with Miss Kennedy Sheets talking about her experience in sports. >> Hi, my name is Kennedy Sheets and I'm a student athlete at Riverton Middle School. I play basketball, volleyball, and track. Sports has always been a big part in my life, and being able to participate in those school sports has helped me learn to

009be a better athlete and student athlete and to push myself to work at something that may not be easy. It has been such a great learning experience to be a team player and a coachable athlete. Even though the competition is hard, it has been so fun getting to see and know some other friends from other towns when we compete. Through sports, I have got to make a lot of good friendships, which I still have today. Sports has taught me to be a better leader, teammate, student athlete, and an athlete that represents our school the Spartan way. >> Thank you, Candy. >> All right, next we have Logan Watson with Leather Club. >> Hi, I am Logan Watson. I do leather working at Riverton Middle School. I am here to tell you why I like it.

010It's because well we get to make a lot of stuff like for example this hat and it teaches us patience and not every mistake can is irreversible can be changed into beautiful art. I also like it because we get to travel to the leather working competition at the end of the year and that gives you something to look forward to and work on over the year. All right. Next, we have Doug Lewis representing student council. >> Hi, my name is Doug Lewis and I'm seventh I'm seventh grade student leadership president. Student leadership's main focus is involving the middle school in our community. This year we have teamed with other school groups for a school and community food drive. We have had various fundraisers to purchase items to use during school spirit events such as a

011tarp for field day. We strive to unite our school by hosting dressup days and assemblies. We look forward to growing a strong school community and create a space where every student feels welcome. Thank you. >> All right, our next student is going to cover three topics. So, FFA, flex classes, and then jazz band. Hi, my name is Eastston Beckan. I'm the president of the Riverton Middle School FFA chapter. FFA is one of the amazing things we have to offer at the middle school. We get to do a lot of things. We get to go to state convention in April where we compete in livestock, horse, poultry, meats, and the new one which is tool ID. We get to meet lots of new friends and get lots of opportunities all around the state of Wyoming. We've

012done many community service projects. This last one that we did, we adopted 10 older people who are less fortunate than we are and we bought them Christmas gifts. Thank you for the time today. Um, I am also here to talk about jazz band. Jazz band is something that we do at the middle school. We meet three times a week in the mornings at 7 and then we get to go compete at our Kinszer Jazz Festival in February. I think it's pretty awesome to get to do the jazz music. I'm also here to talk about flex. Flex stands for focused learning that exceeds excellence. I really like flex classes because it challenges me a little bit more and I feel like I need that and some of the other kids do too at school. Um, teachers

013definitely work a lot harder to make our flex classes awesome. Thank you for your time today. >> We have Declan Hughes with Hunter Safety. Hi, I'm Declan Hughes and I was able to benefit from Hunter Safety this year and it was very convenient for me and my parents because I was able to just walk down the hallway after school to complete the course. Hunter safety taught me how to be more comfortable and knowledgeable about a firearm and how to use and how to be safe and use good ethics while hunting. Thank you, >> Kate Richardson on Gaming Club. Hi, my name is Kate Richardson and I am a member of the gaming club. I am an active Dungeons and Dragons player where we participate in campaigns and have a lot of fun. So far this

014year, we have fought a yeti, a slime, a dragon, and a sorcerer. As a team, we have we have worked together to solve problems and overcome obstacles. Through this experience, I have made many friends and h it has helped me gain different perspectives of on why players make the choices they do. This is this club is my favorite part of school and makes me look makes me really look forward to Tuesdays. I wish it met every day. Thank you for allowing us to have this group. It's Jordan with welding and agriculture. Hi, I'm Gage Jordan. I'm here to talk about our agriculture class and our welding simulators. In our agriculture class, in seventh grade, we cover plants and seeds. In eighth grade, we cover more of like livestock. And the welding simulators are like computers

015that you weld with. And I've benefited them to learn patience and like feed with it. And thank you for letting me come up and present tonight. >> We have William with Robotics Club. >> Hi, my name is William Robas and I am a proud member of the Lego Robotics Club. Today I am going to be talking about what Lego Robotics is all about. So, Lego robotics is essentially your traditional Lego bricks, but with programmable motors and sensors, which allows people to engineer robots. A highlight of my time was in the first quarter. We were assigned sets to build and afterwards we would put it at a table designed for the sets itself. And Mrs. Orbell, our club adviser, told us how to play the game and the regulations of the game. So ultimately, through LEGO

016robotics, we make things fascinating and better, one brick at a time. [laughter] >> All right, next. Dot Nielsen with the musical. >> Hi, I'm Dorothy Nielsen. I am an eighth grade at RMS and I am here to invite you to our production of Annie Jr. The show dates are February 26th through the 28th and all shows are at 700 p.m. except for on the 27th we have a matinea um at 100 p.m. We have had a blast this year with our theater program and Miss Bergen is the best. Everyone has been working so hard and we hope you can make it. Thank you. [applause] >> You guys are STEM class, right? >> Okay. Olive Fister and Haley Adams for STEM class. Hi, our names are Haley and Olive. We're in the eighth grade. Last semester,

017one of our exploratories was STEM. During this class, we learned how to design and 3D print on tablets. During this class, we learned many things that we could take away and use in the real world. One of our major projects this year was creating a neon sign that we could cut out and take home. During this, we had to go through many steps. This process took many weeks to design and cut out and then eventually thread out the LED lights. By the end, we all finished and got to take it home. During this class, we also learned how to create businesses. And then eventually, we got to create decals and stickers for different classes that they eventually could use to make pinball boards. Thank you. >> We have Kinley Link talking about our rotating schedule.

018>> Good evening. My name is Kinley Link. I am an eighth grader at the middle school. This year, our school went into a rotating schedule for our core classes. I was hesitant at first because I get stressed out with change at times. We have been doing this schedule for a quarter now, and I really like it. I love that we do not start and end with the same class every day. Your mood throughout the day changes. I had ELA at the end of the day, and I noticed that I would be unfocused and tired. All I could think about was going home or what we were doing at practice after school. When this changed, I felt like I understood more about my class and was more engaged in my learning. Another reason this schedule is

019a very good strategy is that if I have a test in my morning class, I can have the information fresh in my mind when studying. When this when classes rotate, it allows me to have every class first thing in the morning. And now I have success in all of my classes. Some of my classmates are always late to their first period class, missing the same class every day. But with the rotating schedule, they don't miss the same class constantly. This is why I feel like this new, interesting, and unique rotating schedule is a great fit for me and my classmates. Thank you. >> Um, so yeah, we uh incorporated the rotating schedule uh starting our second quarter. Um, the rotating schedule was driven off of uh just looking at behavior um attendance and grades. So,

020we started to notice that we were starting to have uh more behavior issues kind of right after that lunchtime period um when students come in. And so, we just kind of tried to get creative of if we can see if teachers can see some of those kids at different times of the day, they might find some success and reduce those behaviors. Um we don't have a ton of data at this point in time, but early data does show we have seen a a decrease for behaviors at this point. Um academics, we just wanted to try to make sure that uh the kids were seeing teachers at different times of the day as well. We noticed um you kind of wander around and you've got your teachers who are morning people and they're brighteyed and bushy

021tailed and running around and jumping up and down and doing all the things and then by the afternoon they need more coffee. So um we just wanted to expose students to teachers at different times of the day because it does benefit both of them. Um and then when we just look at attendance that was you know we do have those habitual kids who show up late and then we also had students um who are being excused early throughout the day um not just because of parent checkouts but also because of um athletics or clubs that we like our kids to be involved in. So it was helping reduce some of those things. So, and just the way the rotating schedule works is we we have like an A week where our core A works through

022B, C, and D. And then the next week we bring that end of the um day schedule to the beginning um and then it just be D, A, B, C. So, it just kind of rotates um and allows those mornings to afternoons to just be adjustable. So, we chose a week rather than a day just was so it wasn't quite so chaotic and it allows our kids who need consistency to still allow some of that consistency. So, it did present some challenges with Power School, but we're very fortunate um for Lindsay Cox. She was a ton of help um kind of getting that through and just the tech people in general. And so, it's been it's been a fun challenge kind of going back to that word. >> Yeah. So, if you're not familiar with

023what he's talking about, ABCD, so we have four core classes. Every kid gets math, science, social studies, language arts. So, we're just moving them around throughout the throughout the month and it's been a pretty cool thing. So, I'm expecting one more kiddos. She's coming from a piano lesson. So, we're going to keep going and and let her jump in if that's okay when she gets here. So, another one I know you guys are familiar with that we want to invite you to again is our eighth grade restaurant. We love this day. This is a unique thing to Riverton Middle School that was here for generations. Went away for a while. We're proud to have it back. I think this is year is more three, four. This will be your four our fourth year back. So,

024pretty cool. Um the most important day for us is February 11th for the kids. Um the the thing that I think is most important about that day aside from the restaurant is we bring in community business people. Um we have presidents of banks and um just people that own their own companies, people that don't know the kids at all. And so the kids have to go and meet these people, introduce themselves, talk about their strong points, and it is a full-fledged job. It's such a cool day at the middle school. The kids are all dressed up. They're super nervous. They're stressed out. I love that. Um, and it's not to be mean, but I love that they have to feel that and and know what that's like. And I we get feedback all the time

025of um what a benefit that was to them. Kendra, come on up here. You're going to be going next while you're walking up. So, this is Miss Kendra Bot. She's going to talk a little bit about science olympiad. Sorry to put you on the spot. And science bowl. Come on in. >> Hi, I'm Kendra Bot and I do science olympiad and science quiz bowl. So, science Olympiad is basically a competition where you study a few subjects and you go take tests for a day. So, it sounds like not fun, but it's actually really fun because you get to like learn about topics that you wouldn't usually learn about in school and you get to like build stuff, do hands-on learning, experiments, and you learn about like math and science. And science quiz bowl is basically

026the same thing except it's more of like fast facts. So you learn about like science, math, chemistry, physics and you have a team of about four to five students who like they learn each they each learn a subject and then they go against other teams for a few minutes and they get asked questions and whoever knows the answer to the most questions wins. So both of them are nice because they cover all of the areas in STEM. They are with like the advanced students. So, they're a good group of kids and they expand on like the typical learning about in school. So, instead of just learning like your typical math and science classes, you get to like expand on that knowledge and they're fun, but they're also educational at the same time. Thank you. >>

027Okay, Mr. Becker is here. He is our Spartan Academy counselor. So, have them chat about the program. >> Perfect. Uh like Aziz just said, I'm Dietri Becker. I'm the Spartan Academy counselor. And uh for those of you that don't know what Spartan Academy is, it's a um at risk program that uh has been commonly referred to as an in-house alternative program that is started six years ago. >> I just meet lots of people. >> True. Mr. Mr. Nyberg actually started it for me. >> True. And so it's been uh I've been a part of the program for this is my fifth year now and um we've had a lot of cool changes and um you we've been able to have like our own hallway. We've been able to get lockers and we've been able to

028um put together a really awesome team to help these kids. And so the kids that we focus on uh helping the most are identifying or at risk you use within the uh within the middle school or just within the district. Um we have about 35 to 40 kids currently within the program and that's sixth through 8th grade. Um and the unique part about the program and uh the perks about it is that uh there's about three to four staff members so three teachers um one counselor we were able to get a pair of which was really awesome and very helpful. And uh what's really nice about that is that I'm able to uh meet with these kids weekly because of the low number of case load and help with the significant amount of needs that

029each student uh brings to the table each and every single day. Um, so a lot of these students, they deal with uh terrible things that happened in their life and and unfortunately there are those things and it's really nice to have the program for them to fall back on and to be able to um be successful in the middle school setting and be high school ready um if that's the path that they choose. Um the program that we use within the program is uh Ingenuity. It's an online based program which is also a huge perk because a lot of kids uh that we work with uh have attendance issues and they can pick up where they left off or we have a lot of students that aren't working at the same level um as other

030students and it uh meets them at where they're at. So that's just a nutshell. And there's one uh I wanted to share this uh uh story from this uh student who we invited uh to come here today, but uh he I was able to get a speech out of him and not join us today. So um a little bit of backstory before I dive into this uh um this speech um is that this student um was absent last year for about 60 to 70 days of school. Um and I think that's maybe being generous and um with the work of the Spartan Academy team um with Aziz and Brady and uh even with our local uh community members and uh um the deput [clears throat] the sheriff station DFS. This was truly an awesome success

031story to where we were able to get this student into the building. Um so this is all his words right here. Um backstory before joining Spartan Academy. I was a very troubled kid in seventh grade. I was flunking all of my classes. Barely showed up to school. Almost every morning, my mom called the deputies to get me to school. One morning, it got so bad that I ran outside and broke a window. This all led to me about being kicked out of school and having to be reenrolled. I was on the urge of dropping out and I was only in the seventh grade. What Spartan Academy means to me and how it has affected my life. This was one of the only alternatives preventing me from being kicked out. Spartan Academy means a lot to

032me and has helped so much. It makes my life easier with smaller classes, less people, and really nice and caring people. They teach me slowly and and I started to get the hang of it. Whenever I was struggling, I got the help I needed. Overall, I love this program and the people within it. Now, I realize the teachers love me and love to have me. So, thank you for your time. Um, one more cool part of Spartan Academy is we have expanded it into what was formerly Frontier. It was kind of a a rushed move in right before Christmas. It's been so awesome. Um, our food service has been great. Our transportation has been great. Um, as Mr. Becker said, this is just like one of many, many, many stories that are like immeasurable levels

033of success. and success looks different uh with this group of kiddos, but it's a incredible bunch of people. Um so to keep things going, I just again talking about unique things to Riverton Middle School. I think a lot of you guys are familiar with this. We brought this in a few years ago, but um it's pretty cool. Anytime someone comes to our school or other principles hear about our school, they they have no idea how we pulled this off. But again, it's it's pretty cool that our science team does this. So we spiral our science. So, um, what Mrs. Beckin will expand on science in a little bit, but, um, what I think is so cool is our science teachers get to see the kids every single year of their middle school career. It's not

034just I get you for a year and then I kick you down the road. Um, and so the inception of this started because we started to find we were teaching things in sixth grade and then they wouldn't have it again until 9th grade. And like I was teaching chemistry stuff for example when I was teaching science and it went you wouldn't hear it again till 9th grade and then in 11th grade. So our goal is that we continue to build throughout their middle school careers. So in sixth grade they hear it then we go a little bit deeper in seventh grade and a little bit more intense in eighth grade. And so um we do this with physical earth and life science. So it's a pretty cool um rotation. Again our goal is to keep

035things just moving for kids. We don't want them to be just stuck places. And I think again, as we say, busy kids are good kids. And kids that have slightly disrupted routines, that's okay. And that's why we started to bring in what Brady brought to our school about the rotating cores. Um, and this daily core class switching actually was was one of Mr. Jordan's deals when we went into the COVID world and it and it stuck because we found out this is the best practice. So, every single day you're the kids at Riverton Middle School don't have the same teacher. uh even if they're in seventh grade language arts, they have one teacher one day, then the other teacher the other day, and we go back and forth, and it forces our teachers to work

036really closely together to really look at data, to really look at, are we doing the best for our kids. Um, and we have more adults invested in kids, and we love that. Every kid can walk down the hallway and every teacher knows their name. And that used to not be the case. Half the school knew their name. The other half didn't know who they were. Uh, so just a lot of cool things that we get the opportunity to do. So, um, with that, I just want to have our departments give a quick update because they're the ones that need to speak to what's going on on cool things. So, this is Mrs. Moore, our she's an art teacher for us, but our department head of exploratories. >> Okay, thanks. >> Hi, I'm Tacy. Um, I'm

037representing our exploratories. Um, and because there's such a variety of in our classes, I thought I would just give a little blurb from each one. So um PE is finding success and making fitness fun which all you guys you all know that's a long that leads to a long healthy life so it's better you know for the long run. Um they just purchased railard fitness equipment and they're using those for obstacle courses um working on upper and lower body um strength balance and coordination. Uh the kids really like the ultimate tag for with that. Um they also do a unit on dance so swing dancing and line dancing. Um that was really great because we recently just had um a school dance and they were throwing it out there. They were swinging in line and

038all over the place. So um band has a very strong and enthusiastic participation this year. Um they just had recent success with the Christmas concerts especially in the new auditorium. Um it was a packed house both nights. So they like that. Um in health they're have great results with their DSA. They have high profession oh high numbers proficient and advanced um with lifetime activities they're enjoying the fly casting unit and um Mr. Thomas is getting fishing stories all the time after that. Um so in foods and nutrition uh is important. That's essential life skill. So um kids are working safely in the kitchen. They're following recipes. They're working as a team. Um the restaurant is a favorite um because it it's it brings in you know real job life um experience. So that's great. Um,

039in computer science, uh, kids are learning how to safely navigate this technologically technological heavy world that we live in. They're, um, making their own websites and writing their own code. Um, they're they're enjoying their new space. They recently got new tables and chairs in a new classroom. It's making things more efficient, so that's really great. Um, m musical theater is a new class. It replaced our choir class, and they're also enjoying the new auditorium. They've um had multiple performances with great success there. Um and then art class, we're enjoying a variety of mediums, a variety of techniques. Um we're learning how to uh work creatively and observe the world around us. Um overall, our department is pleased with the success of our students. The growth we see in students speaks for itself. Through exploratory classes,

040students connect learning from all the content areas um while discovering passions and building skills that prepare prepare them for a long, healthy, and meaningful life. Thanks for listening. >> One of the really [applause] cool things that Mrs. Barn chose to do was she was concerned about our Spartan Academy when they moved buildings to um lose their exploratory time because it is kind of housed there. So, she came to Brady and I and said like, "I want to provide these guys art. Like, these guys need an outlet. They need something else." And so, um, it was her idea and it's such a cool thing. She goes over there the last period of the day and provides art class, um, which I know the teachers over there really appreciate and the kids do as well. So, now

041we have Miss Shai Coreo with our ELA update. >> Hello, I am Shai and I'm going to talk about um, language arts sixth through 8th grade. And first I just want to um start with a big celebration. We've had a lot of growth consistently year-to-year on our YT top scores. Um and that can be I think due to a lot of different factors. One being just a collective investment that we all have in um the students education and in the curriculum that we're using. Um our yellow sheet days we have had a lot of success sixth through 8th grade. um they've been very valuable to all of us and needing that time to uh be able to sit down with our colleagues and really um just nail down exactly what where we've gone in the

042past and where we want to go um in the future. And so that has been very helpful um which has led to a lot of high engagement with our students. Um we've been integrating a lot of AI into uh some of our units and our novel studies. um they've been providing just a new fun facet to just for our students and their different learning outcomes. Some different things that we've done with that um are revising our writing um creating artwork using a research assistant tool um and then using study guides as well. Um, and then another thing I'm going to talk about is something that we have, um, in sixth grade started a couple of years ago, um, which was some project- based learning, but this year we're really excited because we were able to

043do some crosscurricular learning with social studies. Um, we tried it out with one unit and now we're going to get ready to do it in a second unit as well. And um so I have some examples of some things that students have created through this project based um just project that we had done. Uh the students first went to the Cody Museum and they were able to see actual artifacts uh Native American artifacts which was our unit Native American unit and we studied this for an entire quarter and then throughout that quarter they were creating their own representation of an artifact. Um they could do this at home with their families and I'm going to just pass around some of the really amazing things that students have created. Um everything that I have they did

044from materials that they purchased themselves and they did completely at home and by hand is a headdressed bear claw necklace and each bear claw is handcrafted from clay. [laughter] That's fantast. It is a fancy fancy one of our students that >> this is a scraper that the student had um made with his All right. Thank you, Shai. >> Thank you, Shy. >> So, now we have Miss Revlet. She is our math department. Give you a update on our math stuff. >> I am Tasha Revlet and I teach sixth grade math at the middle school. Um, we have a lot of different things that we have to accomplish in a short time in the math department. We have to teach brand new skills at every grade level. We have to also spiral back and continue practice

045and um, make sure our kids are fluent with basic facts um, basic math facts to keep their learning growing. and then also trying to um show them how these new skills can be applied in the real world. So I have a couple photos up here of different things that we've done at each grade level. Um one thing we started last year was March Mathaness during the NCAA basketball tournament. We tried to bring excitement to um practicing fluency and bring a little competition and gify um our boring math facts all the time. So, um, we had a really good competition with each core. And, uh, this is just a little snapshot of the bracket, um, when we got to the Elite Eight. And, um, so that gamifying math just with those kind of like I said,

046boring math facts all the time, we really brought some excitement there. And then we also did an an an enrichment project at the end of the year based on the movie called Paper Planes. It's about a boy that enters a a paper plane contest in Australia and has a lot of um struggles along the way not really knowing anything about paper planes, but he was bored and wanted to do it. And so we kind of watch a clip of the movie every day and then based on what happened in that clip that day they are able to adjust and fix their paper planes and make them better and then have a competition at the end. Um it really brought a lot of problem solving skills and you know the kids were kind of seeing what

047the other kids were doing with their paper planes and then seeing the success and then they were able to update. It was really fun. The kids loved it. Um, in seventh grade they app they used a unit um on on angle relationships out in the real world. So they take their kids pretty much over to JC Park and they have to go around and find a whole bunch of different angle relationships in the real world and then create a presentation on it. Um, and it's really cool to see all the different types of, you know, angle relationships. if you just see it on a grid, it's kind of like, oh, when am I ever going to use this? But then seeing it in real life, um, really gets them engaged and gets them kind of

048seeing where they're going to use this in the real world. And I I when I talked to the other math teachers, this one was really cool. Um, they did an enrichment project on percent error. That's one of the seventh grade units is finding the percent of error in things. and they did a enrichment project on the percent error of of a bag of M&M's. So the Mars company actually has a percentage of each color that they are supposed to put in every bag. And so they were each given a bag of M&M's and they had to find the percent error that they made based on their projected percentages. So I thought that was kind of cool just to apply that. It's kind of a tough It's a tough unit and so being able to kind

049of have a little fun with it is good. Um eighth grade, one of their big um big units that they have to do is on slope and it's probably one of the the biggest units that they have. and they were able to apply it to um kind of mapping out a zoo and then use slope find distances between points and then um also write linear equations based on the locations of all their stuff. And I thought these couple maps here were pretty creative. The drawings on there, they were able to use a lot of different skills, art and and creativity and and then also apply I mean linear equations. That's another one where it's hard for them to understand when they're going to use it in real life. And so they were able to kind

050of take that and that's kind of our goal is, you know, we have to teach new skills, but then also, you know, show them where they can use it. And these are just some of the few that that we do and and try to implement consistently. So, >> thank you. I'm here to represent the best department. [laughter] >> Um I do think science is uh is one of those subjects that um the kids really enjoy coming to. Um, we do the rotating schedule and I think one of the things that all of the science department loves is that by the end of the year we know every single kid in the school and it's pretty cool when you go to Walmart and even though you don't know their your their name like you can pretend

051but it's really cool to know every kid and it's really cool to see the growth from sixth grade to the end of 8th grade and then you see them in high school and you I don't know it's the best feeling in the whole entire world. I think um some of the things that the other teachers were asking me to say is that um as a science department, we're always working to give unique experiences, whether it's field trips or bringing in experts. Um eighth grade does a really good job of bringing in some different people to talk about um their science. In seventh grade, we've tried to really do some unique field trips. This year we were actually able to take the whole seventh grade to Yellowstone thanks to the other departments that were willing to

052give up a couple days and go with us. Um, I thought that was a really cool experience. In sixth grade, we go to the water and the wastewater treatment. So, I thought you'd love that picture of the kids at the wastewater treatment plant. Um, that's really the worst spot. There's It's not that bad. Um, every other year we get to do a balloon launch and then we get to go uh capture the balloon and see how the kids' experiments went. Um, and that's a really fun thing. And then the thing that the eighth graders this quarter are looking forward to the most are is the planetarium that we get to set up in the cafeteria. Um, and Mr. Bell and I um have memorized all these stories and um we get to kind of play

053story time for a whole class period and tell them about the constellations and the moon and the sun and um it's really cool. So, if you'd like to do that, I would love to have you guys come do that. Um let's see. I think that's about it. >> Thank you. We wanted someone else, but she had to Mrs. Beckin had to sub in. That's why she's an anchor. She drags us down. [laughter] >> And Mr. Jordan is old enough. He's the oldest person there. So, he's the historian. >> Not a real [laughter] >> Red Baron. That's awesome. >> I am the oldest out of that department except for Mr. [laughter] >> Not real. Looks really good though, huh? >> Um, so I'm here representing social studies. Um, again, as you can see by the kids

054that presented, you can see why it's pretty easy to love my job. But, uh, we made a commitment with social studies a couple years ago to try to get back to more project- based learning. Um, what you see coming around at the start is an eighth grade project that they do with World War I. Um, the kids get a list of things that they get to do and um, we'll put together that project and then they'll present on it. Um, and so just some really cool um, presentations that's come out of it as well. But it's also really cool to see what kids can bring in. Um, I'm sure if parents are driving up a lot of times they're probably scared about what's going on because one of the kids flamethrower this year looked like

055it was an actual real one and like so they're just it's just really cool how they get into it and just uh, create those models to where they look so lifelike. Um that's eighth grade. A lot of the other cool stuff they do do is um they put put together this amazing Vietnam Memorial Walk last year. Um they're taking great experiential learning trips to Hart Mountain um and Buffalo Bill. And again, it's just it's just a really good thing that we're able to do with social studies is just provide um experiences that they can hopefully grab on to and and spark some interest in. Um with seventh grade uh last year, we reorganized our units a little bit and we put together a Native American unit at the beginning, kind of the start of America.

056And one of the things that we do is Native American belling. So, that was the last two that came around and um I just kind of wanted to show you contrast. Those were both really great projects. Um the one student always does an amazing job of spending lots of extra time at home. Um completing really amazing projects. He's done that and just about everything that we've done. Um, and then the other one did not have a great home life and she just used the materials we had at school and was still able to construct that amazing wigwam. And if you took careful look at it, you could see how she thoughtfully placed the yarn and the little pieces intertwining and then placed the grass on the top just like they would have done. Um whether

057it was the sheep eater shonies or um whether it was some web bombs in the Great Basin tribes or whatever. So it was just really cool the detail she put in it with just the stuff that we provided and still did just as good a job. And so we try to we give materials out in class and then they can take it home and work on it if they would like. So, um, and then in sixth grade, they've made a commitment to do those things again. Um, they always do a really cool gifts of the Nile project. Um, them coordinating with the ELA has made seventh grade have to try to do that this spring, too. So, it's it's motivated the seventh grade to to try to work together and do some things, too. So,

058again, um, it's just a great place to work and it's a great school. So, thank you guys for all your support. All right, I know we went long, which is what Jada had requested of me. So, I'll uh [laughter] I will shut it down, though. But again, I just want to say like we always feel supported. Our staff always gets to have all these amazing programs because of what you guys are always there for and and approve of. And so, Jod's been instrumental in getting us our Spartan Academy going, which um again, what Mr. Becker outlined is is not just important to those kids, but now the culture of the whole school also has changed as well. So, I think it's been a win-win situation, which you don't always get in school. So, uh, super

059fortunate to have an outstanding team of people. We have incredible teachers, and that's hopefully what we outlined is none of this stuff is possible without the people that we have. So, anyway, thank you guys for letting us tell you about our school. >> Thank you. [applause] Okay, that was awesome. Now you got to come up here and show us what you got, Max. >> Thank you. Have a nice evening. >> Are you going to dance for us or anything, Max? >> No. I >> don't know who I made mad to have to go behind that followup. That's not fair. >> So, not nearly as exciting, but we get to talk about money. Um, this draft, and it is still a draft, uh, we we initially started because of our amazing new auditorium. Um, and we

060have gotten countless numbers of requests for community members to want to use it. Um, and we want them to be able to use it, but we also need to be able to take care of audio and video and and uh lighting. And so, as we started looking into that, we realized we have a lot of spaces that a lot of people use consistently. Um, and we do spend a significant amount of money for custodial services, for maintenance. And so, not trying to, um, you know, gouge anybody or undercut anybody, we got together as a group to try to look at what can we charge for our facilities that is a fair price that helps us cover custodial costs, maintenance of our amazing facilities. Um, and so again, this is a draft document right now. We

061would love to have this finalized by the end of January and hopefully approved in February so we can get it out to our community and constituents uh and start next August with this fee structure in place. Um so again feel free to suggest any changes you feel should be needed but we decided on breaking this out into three different tiers. So the first tier is our own in-house school sponsored clubs, events and activities. um you know, basketball and wrestling and and swimming going on right now. Those groups using our facilities. Um we wanted tier one to also include our wreck and then any government entities. We have a lot of times that RPD comes in to use our wrestling room for uh like in June they're going to do a week-long survival tactics. Uh they

062like having that somewhat padded floor as they're throwing each other around. They've also used RHS uh for active shooter training. You know, odd a couple of odd hallways, clearing rooms, things like that. Um and we feel it's important that our government entities and our in our local those local community members should be involved in tier one. Tier two would then be nonprofit community groups uh or district staff that are using the facilities for personal use, birthday parties, um you know, family reunion type thing, gettogethers. And then the tier three would be any other group. And throughout this uh tier one does not have any charge. Tier two is something that will cover custodial costs and um also those specialty items. And then tier three would is something that we know we're not going to see

063a whole lot of. Um, but those special use groups. So, as we as we go down through these on that left hand side there, you will see a few that will have the asterric next to them. Those would require some sort of personnel fee associated with it. That's where we're going to need some sort of specialty involved, whether that's custodial, lighting, sound, scoreboards, um, anything along those lines. Um, and I won't go through, you know, each and every line and and cost for each and every one of these, but we we set it up where if there's a recurring event, you know, one to five uses a month, six to 10 uses a month, or 11 or more, or if there's individual daytime special events. This last Saturday, we hosted a gymnastics uh competition that

064was wildly successful. Everybody there had an amazing time. um that you know would be that five or more hours of a single special event and they're going to pay that one fee structure as opposed to something that's going to be you know wants a gym from 7 to 9 three nights a week you know all through the winter time. Um we do have a few question marks along the way. Um the football field uh using the scoreboard or the stadium lights. We, you know, right now in terms of using the scoreboard for a football game or a soccer match, we're going to pay our own employees $1250 an hour to sit there and run that scoreboard. And there is a little bit of training that is involved in that. We don't know what that would

065look like charging the public. Would it be that same rate? Do we want to charge a little bit more? Um, what is that? We don't know what that looks like. And then turning on the stadium lights. Um if if a group would like to be there in the not in the dark what we don't know yet. Um Ed McFerson didn't have exact costs on what you know what that electric bill is when those lights are on. Um so we we have a couple of question marks there. Uh the only other question mark uh we need to visit with Miss Spriggs. Um if somebody is using the pool, what do we charge for our lifeguards being there? uh somebody at the front desk that those those aspects. Uh finally on this before taking any questions is

066looking at hours that that we can have our facilities open. Obviously anytime students are in there it's not open to anybody else. Um but then also looking at our custodians, our humans and they have lives. We don't want our facilities open to have to have them there through midnight or you know starting at 3:00 in the morning things like that. So, we did set up some hours um for those groups that that they would be available to request that time. Um and again, this is just a draft. A lot of this can be, you know, modified as needed and and uh take any questions you have, any suggestions on any of the the fees along the way. >> Question. Have we had any interest in like in the scoreboards or the lights in the football

067field. >> We have um there's a couple groups that like to well we have a uh I don't know 8U 10U 12U soccer tournament that comes to town. They would like to use the scoreboard, you know, on the on the turf field for that and then use our portable scoreboards on the grass fields. >> Are we going to offer them training requiring that? That that's the question is do we hire our people that already know or do we pay somebody to train them how to use it prior to that event >> and that is part of that custodial cost you know set up setup tear down and and we also talked about with all of those events having a a district employee >> that is there >> or at worst case on call and close.

068>> My only thought on whatever we decide to charge for staff is we have to make sure not only do we cover the hourly but we cover our share of um the taxes and all that stuff because that you know it might we might pay someone $12 an hour but it really isn't what it costs the district. >> Right. So, and that's a hard hard thing for people sometimes to to think about that it really cost the district $15 an hour to pay someone 12. >> Yes. Exactly. Um part of as we were looking at especially things like custodial costs is if we have, you know, three custodians on duty until 10:30 at night and this event is happening at the same time, they're already on their contract hours. Um, and yeah, trying to kind

069of find a balance in there versus, you know, having to call somebody in on a Saturday, whether that's overtime or whether it's a substitute that or somebody that needs to get to their 40 hours in a week. Um, that's where we landed on a lot of the prices is trying to find that happy. Heck, just keeping track of the schedule is hard. I used to do it. It's hard. It is. I will say I do like that um and there's still >> issues to work out, but the event manager software we're using this year um has been from my perspective has been very nice for knowing um you know I get requests all the time. Hey, is this gym open at this time? I can get on the calendar pretty quickly and yeah, you put

070in that request or no, sorry, you're going to have to find another time. >> Right. >> And they pay a utility fee. I mean a usage fee >> right now. We do not. >> Okay. >> That's this fee structure we had talked about trying to put in place starting August 1 of 2026. >> And that'll cover facility use and liability and Okay. >> Correct. Now, any outside entity, anybody that would, you know, that would fall into that um non >> Yeah. Fremont 25 they do have to have proof of liability insurance before we allow them >> right >> to use any of our facilities. >> Kind of a comment is I think like you were talking about the soccer you know wants to use the fields and stuff and it feels to me that anything

071we can do to facilitate that sort of thing helps us out in the long run. I mean Casper is getting tons of money from hosting events, sports events. Absolutely. Um Mr. Lenhard and I have been working with the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, the Kuanas Club on that that very topic. Um how do we make what we already have better and how do we draw more in >> going to soccer club soccer? There's so many moving parts. We only have one set. >> Well, we got the I mean the turf field and then was it one or two fields on the grass area over by the over by the common >> given time there's probably 25 games. all over again. They do it by remembering the story. So I guess for it to think

072about games. Well, thanks for taking this on because it's a big project. >> Thank you. And thanks for the all the how you disseminated all the information out. >> I mean, so that we could actually see it. Visual individual. >> Yeah. Kwiss with set this up. She did a did a really good job with this and McFerson and Teresa Howard helping with, you know, the the custodial side of it. And then Mark and I trying to help out with, you know, the >> Yes. >> the other facilities and and what that looks like and feels like. And it's it been a process, but it's been good that we've been a little bit slow with this so we can try to think about what about this, what about that, >> right? >> I just think it's

073a great community, something that builds community and allows the community to be able to utilize some of the things that some of their tax dollars are paying for. >> And I I was uh I attended the gymnastics meet. I've done that for several years. and uh last year we did had to do that gymnastics meet in St. Margaret's gym and it was craziness and this time it was just so calm to be able to go in there and do that. And then also the awards ceremony to be able to do that in the auditorium that that venue was amazing and that never happens at the gymnastics meets that you go to. Everybody just kind of stands around and it tries to crowd around something. So, it was an amazing u opportunity and I I heard

074from other people that came from other communities that it was just one of the best venues they've been to for that. So, so I just think it's a great community service as well. So, thank you for all your hard work with that. >> Well, I even clicked on your cleanup checklist and I know that a lot of that's going to fall under custodial and everything too, but do you have in mind um how you're going to be able to police that? I mean, as far as being able to, you know, >> that's still one of the up in the air questions of who does that essentially fall on and then >> right >> and for lack of a better term, what are the consequences when they don't meet our our expectations, our standard? You know,

075do we charge them more money? Do we, you know, require a deposit ahead of time that we do or don't get back to them based on this checklist? Um, this is this was one part that that we do have more questions and answers on, but at least we have a good start on, you know, if you are wanting to use our facilities, this is the level that we would like to expect, >> right, >> when you walk out, >> Right now, everything more or less free >> one changing remember instituting many things over the years and we didn't know after it happened more times and say it maybe it'll get through >> absolutely and I did >> redundant conversations about change Yes. >> Get your budget straight for next year. >> And I did with

076uh the two dance studios in town and St. Margaret's when they reached out about uh using the auditorium. I did let them know that, hey, right now we can't because we're we're setting this up. But I also let them know that we were utilizing what CWC has. We're not trying to undercut them. We're not trying to, you know, go way above them. Um the the most recent one, the the principal from St. Margarets that I was visiting with, she's like, "Yeah, we have no problem paying that. We just want a good place to do our Christmas concert and your auditorium is definitely it and we're we're willing to pay that. We understand you need, you know, that expert there for the lighting and the sound to make sure everything runs smoothly for our Christmas program,

077>> right?" We used to have a structure >> lost but it used to be you know like CWC traded we were using we just kept track of room usage and but there was a reciprocal agreement they have a couple other groups swimming swim have great experience with If you can find the documents from when I worked up there some of that stuff. >> Good luck with that. >> But there were that we did have a fee structure for some entities when I was there. >> I haven't come across any of that and I've looked in some file cabinets and seen some >> crusty papers that >> [laughter] >> Well, I think too >> and when we put a charge on, oh my gosh, we filmed up the room a couple times. >> Well, I kind

078of echo what Carl said. Just as long as we we're talking about this and it's getting out publicly because the more you can talk about it I mean you're not going to be able to talk about it enough really but the more we can talk about it the more that that it's understood that this is coming about you know because it's important things cost has gone up on a lot of things and keeping the building open and available is one of the things that adds to that cost. Hey, I wonder about the cleanup if there is a certain charge for them to do their own cleanup or if they want the school to clean up this there's a different charge. So maybe there that would be something that because I sometimes organizations don't have people

079that can do that cleanup work at the end, you know, do a substantial degree. So that might be something to offer as well. >> Yeah, I like that. >> Yeah. >> Anybody else? Anything else? >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you, Mr. Nice evening. Okay, now we'll move on to board members. And >> let's start over there with you, Ally. >> I don't have anything other than Wyoming for the holidays, which is fun. Weather wasn't too much of a shock since it's been 50s, >> but just be back at it. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Right. >> That's right. >> Just a couple of quick things. Um I just wanted to give you an update on an event that uh we had in December um since the last time I saw you all uh

080for our Title Six and Joom families. Um and that we had that at the high school and we had um such a great turnout. We had over 100 people show up and lots of families come and and be engaged. Um, our next event will be in February, so we're going to tie it with Valentine's Day and I'll I'll um always invite you and you're always welcome to attend our events, but um I think we're on a really good good role with engaging our our families. Uh the other thing I wanted to mention really quickly is just um one of your action items is uh is a request to accept an additional allocation. Um, this isn't super common, but sometimes it happens where the state receives a little bit more money and so they distribute it

081out to the district. So, just a formality there. Nothing that's going to make too big of an impact. [laughter] >> Yeah. >> Um, but just uh but that was just a formality. >> I think it's just a math. >> It comes back. >> Yeah. Okay, Christina. >> Uh, just a couple things since yeah, we haven't seen you guys in a little while. Um, over break I did subtraining again for our pair of professionals and so got another eight people um subcertified. So that way if they're working in small groups or alone with students um they have that certification. The other thing is that we um you'll be seeing something come out from each school on nominating a teacher of the year. Just wanted to give everyone notification of that. It'll come from every every school.

082They'll uh accept nominations and then the schools will narrow it down to one person to represent their school that we'll look at the district level, get a committee together, and then we'll pick one district level teacher of the year that will then go to the state level. So, we're trying to sh those processes up so that we have representation because we know we have amazing teachers. I work with them and I know how good they are. And so we just want to make sure we have that representation. And that is all I have. Thank you, >> Jody. Um well, I like I said, I I attended another of the board chair sessions and I find those those things very informative and even though I'm not chairing anything, I get a lot of information. Um they

083talked about the recalibration a little bit there and about some of the things that are going to be coming down as far as legislatively and so they give you some good background and information on maybe how you want to how we want to approach or the things that you want to be there to attend and so I I gained great benefit out of that. Um I also to this afternoon I attended um at two by via Zoom the the PCP that on the recalibration those the panel meetings and and listened in on that and looked at the documents they had attached and you all will you all have access to that so we don't need to discuss that any further here but um I found it interesting to do that. So, um, and outside of

084that, I just kind of been running up and down the highway here and there going to different things. So, thank you. >> Awesome, Carrie. >> Well, I hope everybody had a great Christmas and a happy new year. Um, congratulations to the boys swim team took first and uh, congratulations to our speech and debate team who took first. So, that was great. That's all I have. >> I do have one other thing I wanted to mention. I played around on our website and I went and I looked at the schedules and the things that you, you know, like you could pull up the activity schedules and we have not had this capability before, but I really really like this capability. There's a couple things that I just wanted to kind of hit on. I wish Max

085hadn't left because I know that he's been instrumental in helping this and so is Katie because it's it's logistically that way. But you can click on the like say the soccer schedule and then you have an option that you can add that to your download that to your calendar on your computer or on your phone. Those that is an awesome feature. Um, I also want to mention because I know Jada's done a lot of work on this and Jod as well, but um I like the the fact that I can click on policies in Simly and then I can also it also has an attachment within that like if you have one policy, you have other policies that that expound on it or or work in conjunction with that. We've never had that capability before

086and that is absolutely a fabulous thing. So, I just want to commend them on all their hard work because I know what a big undertaking it was and I appreciate you guys for doing that. So, and I'm sorry to interrupt, but I thought, nope, I had it written down right here and I forgot it. >> Thank you. >> Quit it. [laughter] Uh Lori, >> so I've been watching some basketball on the YouTube channel, which I really appreciate the fact that we have that opportunity for basketball down in Cheyenne to be able to watch the games >> and the gymnastics here at the I already talked about that and that was a really wonderful event to be able to watch. >> Um other than that, I've been still inundated with open enrollment. So it's done Thursday.

087I'm really excited to get life back a little bit. So, >> I bet you'll get some rest. >> Okay, let's move on over here, Lynette. >> Um, Colton sent me the draft of the audit because I asked him to do that and I've read it. So, I would like all of you to make sure you read it and you get through it. There'll be a quiz at the next board meeting. >> Thank you for that. >> It was very well done. Good job to your staff. Um, I know I'm one of the only ones that actually likes to read it from cover to cover. It's really interesting the if if you figure out how the numbers flow through, you know, and highlight it. I try to go and then when I started at the foundation,

088I didn't read them very well then, but once you start there and you figure out how it works, it's really interesting how the numbers all work and it makes gives you a better appreciation of the amount of paperwork and um the sheer the sheer volume of of funds that we are charged with managing and charged with using to do the best for our kids. And I think we do a phenomenal job. And I think it's really easy for people to not understand that fully. And they only get a little bit of a picture and then they try to to describe this whole room based on the face of the clock instead of looking at the entire room. So when you read the audit, you're actually seeing information about the entire room, not just the face

089of the clock to describe what happens in our district. So thank you for that. Um, we had our Northwest >> be training >> probably would be. We'll have to have a work session on it. >> Um, we had our board our Northwest Boseies board meeting. Um, and we are moving forward there. Um, not a whole lot of leadership change in our board members. We do have a couple of new board members from different districts. Um, I thought maybe I would get someone else to step up and be the board chair, but not so much. So, I will continue on in that. uh that role. But we'll have our next meeting the fourth Wednesday of this month and I will report back to you the first uh meeting in February. >> Bruce. >> Okay. I'm going

090to talk about the audit, too. >> Perfect. >> The biggest thing I take away from the audit is when the auditors go, "We love coming here." >> That's right. >> You guys are great to work with. Everything's there. We don't have to hunt for anything. That makes a good audit. >> I'm done. [laughter] >> Awesome. >> Well, I'm glad we all made it through the year. >> I talked to Colton the other day. So, it's been a a time of numerous personal conversations with people about different things. Talked to K. I talked to my neighbor who's the chair of the Fremont County GOP and I've talked to numerous other people just by coincidence bringing up schools and it's it's very conversation with a ex colleague that was on the schoolboard association. I mean there's a

091lot of conversation about schools through the community. Um some of it is somewhat staged. You know there the same talking points. Um, schools cost too much money, associations cost too much money. I mean, state insurance needs to be reigned in. Uh, so the legislative body is doing a great job of getting information out to their folks. Kell Case said something to me the other day that he said this is the most important election that he was talking about this coming primary. This is where pro precinct people are elected. This is where our next body of Republicans will come from. since this is the most important election since statehood. I I've been thinking about that and it it there's some truth to it. Uh there's some amazing things that have happened in the previous election cycle

092and this next coming election. So I'm I really you know, don't just listen to, but respond to and become active into this next political uh round. It is important and it's something that we need to be aware of. I mean, the things that are happening to everything in the state of Wyoming uh because the property tax and how it's going to affect folks down the road. We're going to have it on the ballot to lower it. Uh and there's no plan on how to vacuum it. So, it's all about cutting costs and There's a lot of stuff that has already been cut. 2016 was one of those watershed years that we watch cuts occur. Uh Department of Health, the Department of Transportation, uh all the state departments were were cut. Uh he also said there's

093only six uh Democrats in all of state government. the three that we send to Washington, the uh five that are uh our top state leaders, all Republicans, and only six in both houses. >> So, it's a one party state. So, the the election is determined in the primary. >> So, it's that's why he's talking interesting conversations. Also learned a little bit about charter schools that uh we were going to have probably come to us in 2017. So you know that was an interesting conversation. Also Janine she sits on the board whatever it is that uh oversees the new charter system and she has some great insights. I think some of you know Janine great insights into how that works and how it's watched doesn't have a big track record. There are charters that happened before

094that was done that came through the district. Now it comes from the top into the district. We run the ABN then send it off to uh the chart. It does money flows through us but the approval and all the other processes flow through the state. Uh the other day, I guess it was yesterday, I was reelected to chair of the county and I think I've done that now for five years over he wasn't interested. We are having much more participation at the meetings where we used to start calling around to get a quorum. We now have a quorum which is great. Um we are in the process like I told you last time of finding new executive director. We have four apps in at this point. Um and he thinks that there's going to be

095a fifth. We're going to in the first couple of weeks of February uh and have interview or a the whole body of work members will look at the applications. We're going to try to whittle it down to doing three or four interviews. So, we'll be doing that after the 16th of February is when we're going to we start uh having our first meetings to look at the and then try to get the uh person hired by the first part of March and they'll be on board in July. So it's it's uh it's good the dollars coming into the Boseies 557 55 to72,000 lower than it was this time last year's coming into the we all knew that was going to happen with the tax slashes. Um other than that uh We have a bunch of

096280 272. >> Yeah, I think it's a lot of money. >> And I see the two gentlemen back there with our tech. And I think that is a BOS's tech program that uh the district signed on to. And so there's some proof of of dollars going to teach our students how to become tech. >> Awesome. >> Welcome to the board meeting. >> So that's all I have. >> Can I pop in for a quick second? >> Yeah. >> Colton, you might ask answer this question. So those funds for the charter schools are going to run through us to the charter schools. Is the accountability for the spending of those funds going to affect us in the audit at all? >> No, it doesn't. Okay. >> As far as the what I've been told from the

097other schools is we would create an activity 80 account that just has that and it's just really deposit in and deposit out and that's all I should have to >> really do with it. >> Okay. Thank you. That makes me feel a little better. >> Yeah. >> Okay. We're gonna We'll come back to you. Jada, you have anything tonight? Colton, >> I have a few things. As Carl mentioned, the recalibrations coming up next Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. I will be in Cheyenne at one of the last recalibrations and it's going to be really key. Um, on all of the recalibrations they've had so far. They've had all of that a live stream. So, if any of you want to listen, get a hold of me and I can I can show you how to get on.

098It's through the Wild Legislature website. Um, it's pretty easy, but if you need help, just uh give me a shout and I can show you how to get on. But it's going to be key. Um, I know there's a lot of rumors that we're actually going to be receiving more money, but early indications of the stuff we've seen so far, it's it's not that case at all. We're actually would be taking a pretty significant cut if everything that they want that they've proposed so far goes through. Um, I think the early numbers are probably about a million dollars is what we would lose. And that doesn't include like steps or lanes or anything like that. Um, so these next couple months are going to be key and I'll be attending as much meetings um as

099I can and keep you guys updated as we go. >> Thank you, >> Colton. The last uh WSBA from Julie shows you how to get on to that website too. >> Oh, okay. Yes. If you want to see that is should be able to do that WSBA website as well. >> Okay, Jody. Okay. Um, we have a discussion item on the agenda tonight. So, um, we'll talk a little bit more about the facility facility use and, um, fee structure and a couple of policies that are important. Uh we do have a couple of policies. The field trips and activities that are on as um information item already that we won't be discussing, but I just want to let you know that the field trip activities. The reason that we updated that is because we didn't

100want to be so restrictive for our staff to do the trips. If you remember, we had that conversation. So we have updated that to uh allow the international travel and then the larger domestic travels back in. However, I am not going to take out the non-school sponsored policy because we have had some staff who have taken some trips with some students and that very clearly then because they did not come from the board or get it releases us of that liability. It protects us just one more one more step. So, um, I just wanted to give you some information on that. I did share your board self- evaluation tool in a Google form today. To those of you who have not completed it. So, if you did not get that email from me in a

101Google form, let me know and I'll share it back out. The goal is to hopefully have you have gone through and marked your boxes and put your comments in by next Tuesday so that the Tuesday after at our board meeting you all can discuss um the self-evaluation results. Next week I will be going to Philadelphia. Um it's it's an awful long trip for one full day of meetings with um the company that supports WBI to talk about what it would look like to have those supports right here in Riverton. So I don't have the exact agenda for that yet, but I'm really looking forward to that. Right. When I get back from that on Thursday, um I am counting on my flight landing perfectly so that I will be able to be in Lander at

1023:00 to meet with Judge Condor, DFS, um Lloyd Larson, Representative Larson, and um some of the school superintendents to talk about some of the gaps that we might have and some of the questions that we have for the behavior and the problems that we're seeing in our community with youth um being disruptive. So, I'm hoping that I can go from one great meeting right to the next. So, that's uh continued good weather and a plane with no mechanical issues would be great. >> Um that's all I have for you this evening. >> Okay. Anything else before we move on? I don't have anything this evening. >> Okay. Right. We're going on to uh do we have any visitors or anybody out there that wants to say anything? Nope. Okay, let's go on to action items.

103First action item is consider an administrative recommendation to approve out of state travel requests. Uh, Madame Chair, I would move that the board approve the Riverton High School American Heritage students to travel to Boston and New York in March of 2026 as per policy. >> Second. >> I have a second. All those in favor? >> I. >> Anybody opposed? Okay, moving on to um B. Consider administrative recommendation to approve an out ofstate travel request. Mr. Madam or sorry, not Mr. Madam Chair, [laughter] I would move the board um approve the out of state uh travel request for the Riverton Middle School 8th grade band students to travel to Leighton, Utah in May of 2026 for the music in the parks. Any discussion? Okay. >> Hearing none. >> We'll go ahead and >> All those in

104favor? >> I. >> Anybody opposed? Okay. Moving on to consider an administrative recommendation to accept a grant. >> Madam Go ahead. >> Madam Chair, I would move the board accept the 2025 26 grant awards of 102 >> 1 million48 [laughter] from ID part B 611 and $8,467 from ID >> second >> any discussion okay all those in favor >> I >> any oppose Okay, moving on to uh the next action item. Consider an administrative recommendation to accept a grant. >> Madam Chair, I would move that the board accept the additional title 2A allocation of $85.99 and the additional title 4A allocation of $1,781.37 for the 2024 2025 school year. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All those in favor? >> I. >> Anybody opposed? Okay, moving on to the next one. Consider an administrative recommendation to

105accept funds. >> Madam Chair, I would move to accept funds from the closing of the Peters H Educational Trust in the amount of $28,434.38. >> Second. >> Any discussion? I just make the comment that that was established in 1965 and I actually remember the Peters house but yeah that's pretty cool. >> Anything else? >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Anybody opposed? >> Okay, moving on to the next action item considerate administrative recommendation to accept resignations. Madame Chair, I would move to accept the resignations of Holly Weston as a Frontier Academy counselor effective January 2nd, 2026 and Ashley Penner as a Riverton High School assistant volleyball coach effective January 5th, 2026. >> Second. [clears throat] >> Any discussion? >> All those in favor? I Okay, we're moving on to information items. RHS will move

106their Wednesday, January 14th early out to Friday, January 16th to accommodate the speech meet. We have a change in policy. Policy 4115, revised school sponsored field trips and activities. Policy 1190, revised participation at board meetings. Policy 6137 revised treatment of headlice. C. Notifications of 10day drops. Students see your executive content. Classified staff changes. Rescend Jordan Andrew as the aquatic an aquatic center lifeguard. Resignations. Rendevu Perah Brena Barrett. Effective December 10th, 2025. Career center custodian Becca Richardson. Effective January 2nd, 2026. Willow Creek Parah Emma Hayen Hidenri >> effective January 16, 2026. We have some transfers. Ayla Palmer to a transportation bus aid. Grayson Beasley to a career center custodian. New hires. Bla1 Watson as a rendevous parah. Erin Heiner as an Aspen Elementary parah. Isabelle Tower as an RMS parah. Camry Jevney as an RMS parah

107how's our enrollment Jadaist. >> Okay we have some discussion items. Policy 6100 student activities and organizations. Policy 6100R1, student activities and organizations proposal and approved process and facility use and fee structure. So, have you all had a chance to review those um prior to the board meeting? >> Yes. Um, do you want me to go over any of it or do you have questions about the purpose of redesigning those policies was the was initiated by the Interact Club coming and asking um for a club followed by four others right on the heels um that came to ask for a club which makes it not very feasible for the district if after the budget season and also not fully understanding or having the sponsors and adding that to a budget when we're talking about the potential

108of a million-doll cut and those sorts of things which we weren't talking about at that time. But the policy as written here is designed to one review our current our current clubs to make sure that they are still having the membership and worth the sponsorship fee. Um there are a few that I think are on the cusp of do we really need this um club at this point in time and should we do something newer. So um and the other part is there has been a lot of um issues with clubs and schools and whether or not the club or the school supports the club's philosophy and those sorts of things which has causes caused dissension depending on whether your beliefs are for this or for that. And so this policy clears up that language

109and allows for us to support clubs in our school, have them use our names, um, give them a a a incubation time period, but also alleviates us from saying this is the school's beliefs. >> So I don't know, Ally, if you have anything to add or if anybody has any questions or thoughts or concerns. I I reviewed it and to me it looks fine with regard to free speech concerns, you know, um limited public forum. if you can't make a decision based on content of a club, but if you allow, and this is for um the category two clubs and three clubs, not the ones that are specifically um endorsed by the district and brought to you by the district. So I in looking at it to me it seems to align um with how

110I understand first amendment juristprudence and what a public school has to do when they open up a space to the community. So it it from that perspective it looks good and I also think it's a good idea that you have that organization because it clears up a lot of issues that you were talking about logistically. My understanding it's a two-year probationary. >> Yes. >> Yeah. So, um, we can use the Interact Club as an example. They're on year one because they have been operating and doing, if I'm correct, next year would be their year two. And so at that point, we could discuss whether we have the funds in the budget to go ahead and sponsor it with a paid or maybe they'll come to us with their idea of how they're already doing it.

111So at that point, we'll decide whether it becomes a part of our budget. It will never be a category one because it won't it's not WHSAA or co-curricular, >> right? >> But it could be in the budget if that makes sense. So it would be a category two that would be budgeted. >> Okay. >> So you you sent out a I think I can't remember if it's conversation or email about the legislation last year and the uh disparaging one group against another group. Uh DEI kind of stuff. >> Yes. >> And Does this sort of put a step so that it's not something that we're promoting? And so if there was a diversity club that had our sponsorship, would it be affected by that legislation? >> I don't believe so. Based off of the fact

112that it's, you know, we're not enforcing it. We're not >> That gives us the step back. >> Yes. >> It takes it away. It's just the use of which we have to do >> or close. >> Anybody else have any questions? >> So I I mean the only question I would have is I'll put it in I guess it's not a question unless you tell me differently. I'll put it on as an information item then. Um, if from now until that time there's some changes that come about, I'll communicate those with you. But we'll just plan on these two policies being a part of >> agenda, >> the agenda as an information item and then going through the process. >> Just going to say um I appreciate the fact that everything is very well defined.

113I think that has been an issue in the past. Um, and we you've really addressed that with some of the edits to the policies in general, but I think it makes it it makes it more clear for everybody on how this works and you know, then it's not clear as mud. So, I appreciate that and thanks for all your work on this. >> Thank you. So the other part of the discussion item which I think you did most of the discussion while Max was here but I wanted to give another opportunity if you wanted to do any more discussion on the facility use and fee structure. Um a couple of clarifying points is for the auditorium use. The reason we would like to get that on and approved sooner than later is people are asking

114to use it now >> and we need to be able to charge um the fees. It's going to be hard for us at this point in time to actually have the tech person there. We're having a difficult time making sure that we even understand the the use of the equipment um but >> ourselves, but we're working hard on that. So, I do believe we have some people that would like to reserve the facility at this point. I don't believe their thing is until May. So, we're not we won't have any outside entities using it prior to school being out, but they would like it on the books. >> And so, until we have something approved, um I don't feel comfortable putting something on the books and committing to that for someone. So, I would like

115to put that on the agenda for the next time as an action item. It's not really a policy, um I don't believe. >> So, we'll be updated on what's going to happen there. We need to vote on that. >> You'll have to vote on it at the next meeting as an action item. >> Yeah. Then they'll have those other items they talked about cleared up >> or we won't include them at that point in time. >> Okay. >> So it will uh so the $300 would take care of any payment to technicians. So if you look um I think the upper portion is just the facility use in general and then if it has an asterisk you scroll down below and you'll see that it has >> custodian per hour, technician per hour, those things.

116I think each use and as we've talked about it more, each use is going to have to come with okay, let's sit down and figure out what your needs are and we're going to h have to build a this is what you're expecting from us and so this is what the cost will be. Um >> everyone will be >> yeah everyone will be unique. But I don't think we can just say, "Okay, because you're going to have it for five hours, it's this fee and then five hours times $20 for the tech person is another." I think we're going to have to sit down and say, "What are you expecting from us?" And >> what the use was for. >> This is this for use then. This is a this is a a fee structure

117that just we can communicate out and then um >> if you need a technician to run lights or sound >> then we'll sit down and add that and it's if you scroll down those fees are down at the bottom. >> Yes. >> Yeah. Because it needs to be well defined. >> Yes. And I I do think especially you know depending on what the activity I mean if it's a birthday party simple. >> Yeah. you know, you don't have to sit down and say, "Okay, but if it's going to be um a dance production and they're going to need it for practice and rehearsal and they're also going to need it for the event and those things, I think we'll have to sit down and develop the contract with that entity." >> Yeah. >> Which is

118going to require manh hours again as well. >> Well, um I'm guessing it's going to be Max and Mark. Yes. Y >> and we'll potentially have a backup for if they're too swamped, >> you know. So, >> okay. Anything else? >> I like it. >> Yeah, we want it to be used. >> U Madam Chair, I would move that we recess into executive session for the superintendent evaluation. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All those in favor? Hi. >> Hi. >> Okay, >> we'll move to the other room.