001I'd like to call our regularly scheduled meeting to order. If you'll all stand with us and do the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance 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. All right. Can I get a roll call? >> Mr. Chair, we have a quorum. >> Thank you. Do we have any changes to the agenda? >> We do not. >> Mr. Chair, I would move we approve the or adopt the agenda as presented. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> Uh, any opposed? I didn't figure there would be. will adopt the agenda as presented. Um the consent agenda tonight consists of the approval of minutes of the November 11th, 2025 meeting
002and to consider payment of bills including late pays and pre-authorization of payroll, insurance, utilities, officials, and automatic payments. >> Mr. Chair, I would move that we accept the consent agenda as presented. >> Second. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay, we'll we'll adopt the consent agenda. And for our round table tonight, we have some special awards. This year we have a volunteer of the year award for the rec 25 um board presented to an outstanding individual. She is exceptional, dedicated, service, does a lot of service in our community and leadership have She's significantly enriched our community and inspired others through volunteerism. That'll be Lindsay Cox. >> Speech. Speech. >> Look towards the camera. >> Speech. Speech. You got to turn and look to the cameras. [laughter] >> Congratulations. >> We also
003have you can get up and move if you want get better pictures. [laughter] We have our group volunteer of the year award and this is in recognition of their exceptional teamwork, dedication and service. Your collective effort and compassion and commitment have created a meaningful and lasting impact on our community. And this goes to the Special Olympics management team. [applause] >> Congratulations. Thank you for all you do. >> Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. >> Thank you for what you do for the city. >> Yeah, >> absolutely. >> And our all the people. >> All right, Roy, >> you're up. >> Good evening. Thanks for the time to be able to give you an update on Native American education and programs uh for the benefit of all the people watching across the world as as we imagine they
004are. Uh my name is Roy Brown. I'm the director of Native American education and federal programs. Uh so tonight I'm going to take an opportunity to give you um some updates primarily about our Native American education program but also some federal program updates as well. I always like to start by trying to define all of the programs under those two headings. [snorts] So for Native American education, our department includes our Title Six Indian uh Native American education grants, our Fremont 38 high school transition program, our Johnson Ali program, and our impact aid funding. So these are all funding uh the this is all funding that we receive under the Native American Education Department and then programs that we use to run using that funding. Additionally, as part of our federal programs, um the the programs
005I'm responsible for oversight is our consolidated grant which which this year includes title 1A, title 2 A, and title 4 A. That is money that we receive through um from the state of Wyoming through federal funding. Additionally, we receive money for Perkins and then a CTE professional development grant. So, there's two grants under that uh that uh focus on career technical education. And then we have also received a mental Wyoming mental health grant. It's a grant uh allocated by the Wyoming state legislature. And so we received money based off of our ADM for mental health services to our students this year. We've also received the Nexon mobile grants in the amount of $34,000 that um goes to purchase STEM supplies for our students. And then we also have under this uh this header of the
006CNA and preschool grants from Fremont County Boseies. And those were an amount of $10,000 each. So, those are the sources of funding and then and the programs that are under either the federal programs or the Native American education departments. So, I'm going to talk a little bit more about the the Native American education department funding. Um, that gets a little bit more complicated. Um, there's a lot more overlap, so I'd like to explain that a little bit more. So I provided an uh organizational chart that tries to separate out the types of funding, the sources of funding and the purposes of the programs for each of the uh programs under the Native American education department. So the first one that we receive is title six, which is an Indian education grants. It's funded under the
007US Department of Education. Um, and the amount of funding that we receive, uh, depends on the amount of Native American students who are enrolled in our district and who have a completed, uh, ed 506 form in um, on file. And, [clears throat] uh, so the purpose of that is to meet the cultural unique cultural, language, and educational related academic needs of Native American students. Secondly, we have a Fremont 38 high school transition program. And this is funding that we receive directly from Fremont County School District number 38 in order to support Fremont 38 resident students attending a Fremont 25 high school. This funding was uh this funding is made through a settlement agreement between the two districts um that uh that really originated from uh the complexities between district 38 paying tuition for high school
008students residing in 38 and the impact aid funding they receive for those students. So, so this [clears throat] really um tries to recoup some of the money that they receive for the students that are enrolled in our high schools. [snorts] Additionally, we have a Johnson Ali program. This is funding that is awarded to the northern Arapjo tribe and then is a pass through to us as school districts and is based off the number of students who we can verify that are eligible for to be enrolled in a federally recognized tribe. And then impact aid program is funding that we received through the US department of education to offset non-t [clears throat] taxable property for students um enrolled in our district but who reside on Indian lands. So this program is actually um solely based off
009of the resident of the student um the residents of the student and if it's characterized as tribal trust lands um there's no other objectives or goals that are attached to it. um is just to offset the amount of funding that typically schools um do not receive because of that that trust federal property characterization of the land. And um just to talk a little bit more about the department staff. So [clears throat] I'm the Native American education director and part of my part of the uh the wages [snorts] are of my salary are paid out of title six. Additionally, we we support a Native American student advocate under title six. And then we are currently transitioning to add a Native American cultural programming coordinator under title six. And I'll explain more about that shift in a
010little bits. [snorts] Under the Fremont 38 transition program, we fund four different positions. We fund two academic coaches and then a paraprofessional. Those are all housed in our Fremont 38 transition program room at the high school. And then additionally, we have an Iraq language teacher that is funded out of the program and not funded under department um under the grant program funds um but who has been supportive supporting our programming this year is Lenise Roman. She's the new cultural curriculum engagement and federal program secretary. So she's been helping a lot with our programming. A little bit more about Title Six. So this is um as I mentioned a grant that we receive based off of the amount of students that um fill out a 506 form for us. So it's again it's to meet the
011cultural language and educationally related academic needs of Native American students. And each year we determine priorities um using the stake stakeholder surveys, needs assessments and uh in input from parents and teachers and high school students. Additionally, we consult with tribes in our region uh which in this case is the northern orapo eastern shosonyi tribe. So this year we tried we asked our stakeholders to rank our objectives and activities in order of their priority. So the first the we've I've listed them there in the the order that they had listed them as in their priority and the first priority the highest priority for our stakeholders was to increase knowledge of cultural identity and awareness. So that's the reason we're trying to make that shift from a Native American student advocate to someone who um is responsible
012for implementing cultural programs because our stakeholders have uh identified that as the highest priority for these funds. Additionally, increasing attendance rates, increasing graduation rates, and increasing academic achievement round out the top four priorities for for the grants for title six. This year's budget we received $218,088 um which uh has been a little bit of a roller coaster over the last five years in terms of um in terms of budgets uh allocations. Um about five years ago we were receiving about $175,000 and then a couple years ago we received $225,000. So it really does depend on how many students are enrolled that are willing to fill out that 506 form that we have in our enrollments. So our activities, we try to have a lot of different types of activities. So we do teacher inservice, um
013teacher and staff in inservice. We do presentations in the classroom on culture, history, and tribal governments. We do family night events. We've hosted a student music workshop. We do is classroom storytelling. Um we do things like cultural programming like making sure that we have a drum group at the high school graduation. Um um supporting the rendevu powow. Do we do Native American Heritage Month demonstrations and Native American Heritage Week celebrations. So, those are activities that are open to everyone that we try to push and make sure that everyone has access to them and um that are available to everyone regardless of of whether they're Native American or not. But for our specifically our Native American students, we provide student advocacy, [cough] we provide [clears throat] academic supplies, we provide mentoring and cultural enrichment opportunities. I've
014included some photos here. Um the first photo is of middle school students. Um we've worked with them um after school last year and so this was our end of the year celebration. Um the second photo is uh we brought in an indigenous music artist who uh worked with our students to develop a song from start to finish and they have actually a finished project. And the third photo is a cultural demonstration for Native American Heritage Month at Aspen Elementary. And then the last photo I if you recognize that stranger, but uh that's a photo of uh me doing a a staff and uh teacher inservice session. So, Native American Heritage Week, we just finished that last week. I've included some photos. This was Rock Your Mox Day, which was last Tuesday for us. So, you
015can see lots of students were able to come in their moccasins and show them off and and take pride of of that part of their heritage. And the next slide is ribbon skirt and ribbon shirt day. So we had lots of students come dressed in and staff come dressed in ribbon skirts um and a few in ribbon shirts to to be able to um show that off to their classmates and and make sure that um everyone knew all of the beautiful work that they um they have and that they're able to wear. So those are just some of the fun things that we are able to do to engage in our culture cult the culture of our student body and our staff. So Fremont our Fremont 38 high school transition program as I mentioned is
016uh we receive funding from Fremont 38. It can get a little complicated but it our funding level depends on how many students uh enroll in our high schools that Fremont 38 pays tuition for. So, for example, this year, um, Fremont 38 will pay for tuition for 41 students. We do that count in in August of every year. Um, that's how many students were enrolled in, um, in RHS, our frontier, at the beginning of the year. And so, they'll pay tuition for that. They'll also pay for half of the per pupil allocation they receive in their impact aid funding for those 41 students because they count them in their impact aid program and and we do not. So, uh, to be eligible for this program, they either have to reside in Fremont 38 or they have
017to been promoted for Fremont 38 or both. Uh, so we do a monthly lunch with these students. Um, we we provide enrichment classes for them. Um, we provide school tours um for the incoming eighth graders from Arapo School. Um, we do incentive programs for both academic and attendance. U, we've done family events and then we've done guest speakers like our musical artists that we brought in last year. Um and specifically we we provide the academic coaches and they provide student advocacy. They also have school supplies available for the students. Um, we provide all of the we pay for all of the high school activity and course fees for those students in this program as well as cover any academic program tuition and fees for the students who go on to to seek a academic opportunity
018outside of the district that is um that has a tuition or fee attached to it. Additionally, through our rap language teacher, we have an Arapple language class as well as um she helps out with a western heritage class at the high school. And then our Johnson Ali program, it's open. Um, so the structure of this is it's a parent group. It's open to all parents or legal guardians of eligible Native American students. Um, and so that parent group really decides what they do with that funding. Um, we received last year we received about $23,000 in funding and we're looking to receive similar a similar amount this year. uh they provide um cultural family nights, monthly committee meetings, and last year they did a fifth grade, eighth grade, and graduating senior honorarium. So, if you look
019at the photos, you can see the fifth the eighth grade honorarium was a hoodie with a logo on it. Um and on the back, what you can't see is their class, uh the graduating class year. So, I think last year was uh 2029, I believe, which feels like a long way away. So they get to wear that um throughout the high uh when when they get into the high school. And um this something we want to encourage them to make sure that they're reminded to to keep up and then um maintain um being on track for graduation. And then the the senior honorarium that Jo provided last year is a star to all of our Native American graduating seniors. So, you can see the star quilt on the far right. And then we have two
020students, two graduating seniors who um who let us take pictures in front of the high school with their gra with their star quilts. And here's a little video of the an event that they had. with me all night. [music] Hey, hey, hey. down. So that was an event that the Jo uh sponsored was a round dancing carry-in where they provided turkeys and hams. It happened a couple of weeks ago and then we had round dancing. So we had >> I think 86 people show up for for that event. So it was a really really great turnout and um lots of lots of fun. So, I wanted to make sure that you had an opportunity to see uh the success of that event and and how fun that was. So, switching over just briefly, I wanted
021to talk about our consolidated grants. Um, our title 1A is an elementary focused grant. Um, and you can see that the programming that we have in the grant for this year that the funding supports. The biggest piece of that is our title one and title title one specialists and title one paras. We also uh fund behavior coaches and the preschool program at um at Aspen Elementary. And you can see some of the other programming that we support with title one funding. And again, that's just elementary, so it's just pre-K through five. And title two, um which is the purpose of that is supporting effective instruction. The bulk of our funding goes to supporting four instructional coaches who are um who are assigned to different content areas or grade levels throughout the district. We also support
022wind culture educational coaching at uh the high school central uh here at central office and then um and then not on your slide but on on our site instructional coaches also receive support from wind culture as well. And then title 4 A which is to support students support and academic enrichment. Um that is uh kind of a broad area in terms of um grant programming but it supports our stepup day school paras. Um it supports a campus safety position um at the high school and academic coach at the middle school. It also supports our after school programming and all of our summer school programming. >> Awesome. So, here's where all of this money comes from. [laughter] So, we do a bunch of uh counting of our students for the year. Um, and so for my
023purposes, in order to identify who's which of our students are Native American, we go off of a self-identification. So, if a student identifies or if a student's parent identifies them as American Indian or Alaskan Native in their enrollments, um, they're on the selfidentified Native American students list. So we have about a 680 of those students right now. Um our enrollment is down in that category by about 30 students from last year. Um and our title six Native American student counts was 608 for this funding cycle. Um and again you have to have a completed 506 form on file in order for to be counted um in order for us to receive funding for those students. JOM has a 464 student count for this current grant year. Um, again, they must be eligible for enrollment in
024a federally recognized tribe. Um, but in addition to that, the parents and guardians have to share with us some verifiable tribal information like enrollment or CDIB number so that our uh so that the tribe can verify which of the students are actually enrolled or eligible for enrollment. um impact aids, which we talked about a little bit. Um we have 132 students. Again, this is regardless of of their Native American uh status, but they have to live on Indian lands as verified by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. So, we have 132 students who live on Indian lands for this current f this current round of funding. And then for title one um we identify which students are lowincome by doing a October count. So last year's count was 952 out of 200 two 2340 total children
025enrolled. Um so that's is the number of families that we've determined that qualified for free or reduced lunch. Um, and then just as I added this number because I thought it might be helpful that 325 of those are at the elementary and that's the that's our title one focus. >> I have a question. >> Yep. >> So you said that that up there under the self-identified Native American students that this the 680 and we're down the enrollment was down by 30 students this year. Do you know why? Is there a I mean is there a guess or I guess I just was curious. >> Well, we actually um a lot of our students enrolled somewhere else. Um so at the beginning of the year before school actually started we had 76 students. Um so about
02625 of those students decided to enroll at a different school. Um okay. Some of them decided to go to a boarding school um out out of state. So, so a lot of our a lot of the students in that 30 um decided to go somewhere else. >> Okay. All right. Thank you, Roy. >> Yep. >> And just a little bit uh just to put this on your radar, we have some events coming up for this school year. The first event I want to tell you about is happening uh December 11th. Um we're doing a family nights um at the RHS Commons area at 5:30. Um, we're hoping that it's going to be pretty uh pretty big turnouts and and a pretty festive event. Additionally, just to put it on your calendars, we're planning a March
02728th consolidated grant nights. So, this is where we'll tell people about all of the activities that we have going on under under the grant under the grants and then provide and give them an opportunity to provide inputs for the upcoming grant applications. And we've already scheduled our rendevous pow for this year. It'll be May 15th of 2026. We always have a great demonstration for that. Uh we're excited again to to have um our world champion hoop dancer Jasmine Bell come and do a demonstration at our POW. And then we all have our host drum Riverside Singers again as well as our MC Luke Bell. So we're really excited about that and gearing up to make that an even bigger event for the fifth annual powow. >> Thank you. Some things that we'll be monitoring um
028is that uh the department of education is kind of farming out some of the oversightes of the federal program. So uh title six is going under the department of interior and title one, title two, title four impact aid, mckin vinto are all going under the department of labor through an inter agency agreements. Um, so we're not exactly sure how that's going to impact our accessibility to our um, technical assistance or what that means for monitoring, but we'll keep you updated if things like that change. Um, additionally, title two, title four are uh, the upcoming grant year funding um, is still uncertain. So that should be t school year 26 27. Um there's different proposed budgets that propose to do um either keeping at the same level or doing away with it entirely. Um just for
029your information, what that could mean for us is that uh we would have to figure out a plan to cover or um attit those four certified positions under title two are the three and a half positions under title four. So that could be a great a pretty big uh blow to us if those title two and title four go away. But you know we don't even have a budget yet. So I don't know I don't know what that means in terms of keeping that fund funding um stable. >> Any other questions? I >> have one >> I'm trying to win the bet. Sorry >> only because I can usually figure out the acronyms. [clears throat] But on the consolidated grant, what is N&D student support? >> Oh, neglected in Zelink. >> Thank you. I could
030not come up with a [laughter] word. I should know that. >> But I I just wanted to thank you for the heads up for the upcoming events, too. >> It's really nice to have those ahead of schedule. Appreciate that. >> Thank you. Gerald just how many students usually transition from the eighth grade rappole to uh district 25? >> So we usually have um about between 15 and 20 that come directly from Fremont 38 I meant from around 8th grade to here. Um, right now there's currently 55 students in that program. >> 55 in 8 in as their >> freshman year. >> No. No. Um, so from 9 to 12. >> N. >> So they stay in the program through the whole >> So 55 and we get 16 a year. >> Yeah. Yep. >> Okay.
031>> And a bright spot. Last year we started with 12 seniors um or no 13 seniors that were in the program and all 13 of them graduated. So >> that was awesome. >> So we're hoping to continue that success and make sure we're we're helping them and supporting them as much as we can. >> All righty. That's good information. >> Thank you. Right. >> Yep. >> And then again happy Thanksgiving. So in Arapo it's Hanabat hoi. So hab >> happy Thanksgiving. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thanksgiving. >> Happy Thanksgiving. >> I'm not brave enough to try that. >> I'll try to practice it. >> Probably not. >> Okay, we'll move on to >> Sure. I do. I absolutely will. So, >> um, a couple of things. Frontier is now at Jackson School as you
032know and they are approaching potentially their first graduation that might happen in January and one of the questions is how would you like to proceed with Frontier graduations? Would you like them to do it um in their own facility at Jackson School? Would you like to continue having those graduations at board meetings? Um it has been presented both ways. So >> totally selfish. don't want it to be here. >> What were they thinking? >> Yeah, they were they were thinking of doing it at their own school and not having to do it in >> auditorium. >> Yep. >> Yeah. Well, >> it would give them access for more people to be there. >> It would give them access for more people. Um, so I just said that I would I can't remember what the email
033said. It was very short and so I thought I would just bring it to you and see what your preference is for uh the frontier graduations. >> Well, we've all said many times that the highlight of our >> month is that graduation. >> So, they would very much still welcome you to attend and would like for you to attend. >> Yes. >> I think that it makes sense to have it at their building. I said selfishly I love having it here but I think it does make sense to have it. >> Well, it's kind of nice for that that culture that culture piece too. It'll help build that and make it even stronger if we get it walk in your building. >> You know, it's like our the the kids that up at the high
034school. So, I like the idea of that. I again I echo what you just said, but yeah, I understand it. >> Okay. And we'll work with them to make it accessible still so that you all may attend. We won't we won't have it at six o'clock on Tuesday night so that you can't be there but potentially at five o'clock on a Tuesday night and then come to the board meeting after or something like that. >> Yeah. >> Then we'd be the one to >> Okay. Uh and the next thing is the RHS gym project. Just would like you to be aware that we do have the bid out. Um the timeline from the pre-bid walkth through is a little bit longer than we had hoped for and so graduation is going to be displaced. Um
035there's really not much we can do about that. We'll need to start the project earlier in the school year in order for it to be done um by the end of September so that volleyball is not impacted to the point where we can't have any home games, etc. So um we'll be working on a plan for graduation. It's probably going to be in the stadium outside, but just so that the board is supportive of that and we'll put some communications out in January, but there'll probably be some disgruntlement um because it will be different and so and there always is with change, but it'll be a one-year only thing because it'll take that long to rip the floor out, take the bleachers out, and all of the process. Uh do we have a plan in
036case the weather is >> that's >> so um that's the things that we're still trying to do logistically is potentially have a a time set for the Sunday but if Sunday weather is not conducive then move it maybe to Monday. So those are things that that they're in the process of discussing. >> Okay. Um the legislator meeting on Monday, December 1st. Our tenative format for that is we'll present a topic which I shared the slide deck with all of you already as the individual topic. We'll give people from the audience time to speak. We're we're going to limit each topic to 15 minutes except for the recalibration to 30 minutes trying to have a 6 to 7:30 exit time. Um, and then if legislators would like to stick around to have conversations after that, then
037they could do that. That may change if the other superintendent uh get with me prior to next Monday night to tell me that they would like to see it be >> a different location. >> It'll be right here in the boardroom. Um I did put two behavior me memos or Jada did we created uh these are very first drafts. So I have not shared them with any other administrators. Um I've been working on these things the last couple of days along with some behavior plans. So just for you to read through later. Um I believe that these will give the support that we need uh to our teachers and to other students who are not um the students that are plagued with emotional and behavior issues. So I also have a meeting scheduled with the
038um regional manager regional director of WBI. So they've reached out to me again and are interested in looking at partnering with us to do a behavioral what a WBI campus potentially here in Riverton. So I meet with them next Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock in Casper. That will be a fun first. It's actually a second meeting but a first meeting with the CEOs. >> Thought they said that they that wasn't a viable option. >> Um at first they did and I've been a little bit persistent. >> Okay. Good for you to go. Yes. Y >> um so it's that's actually pretty exciting and uh the conversation that we had at our last meeting about the facilities we did talk with our admin group about the RMS idea for using the old frontier building and they
039met with the high school and the high school wants to be a part of it as well. So, we're looking at how to put maintenance at Jackson. And then one of the potential ideas so that that whole building can be used for their alternative program of the Spartan Academy. And then we did have a Wolverine Academy, but we discontinued that because of staffing and space. So, that's still on the table. Looks like it's the direction that the leadership team wants to go. So, we'll put that in front of you um at a later time. Additionally, one of the reasons that I think the WBI thing is going forward is with the current Mercer study and the possibility of having an empty building that we would be able to use in that partnership is very um
040attractive as well as that we do have staff that would do the daytime part of the WBI programming who are very interested in learning more and developing. So that is all I have unless you have something for me. >> Yes. >> Okay, Joel, let's start with you. >> Oh, come on. Nothing. No. No news on the stay or anything like that? >> No. What has happeneducions various other department >> and they've also shut the Office of Civil Rights. >> So there's no more civil rights. >> Well, there's not a very good way to enforce. We don't know yet. They haven't had a very good success record lately. Nothing that's gonna happen this year. >> All right. Thank you, Roy. >> Okay. >> Nothing for me. >> Okay. [laughter] That's good. I get it. Carl. Well,
041uh just the uh conference in Casper I think was successful. Uh we saw some great presenters. It was interesting and uh they were also fun. Uh so that was good. Uh we passed all three of those resolutions. >> Yeah. >> Pretty much unanimously. the um one of the on a week ago sometime we had our Boseies meeting county Boseies and we superintendent was there and so was superintendent from Shosonyi plus we had a uh probably more folks than we' had for a while and we changed the um offering for the new executive to be much more wide open. So giving more specifics of what we'd like and if experience gets them there, that's good. But it it's bachelor or experience. Uh so the thought is we want to have somebody that can run it and
042grow it. Uh which is a good thing. I think we discussed uh you know our superintendent had thrown out some things like the Perkins director so that different administrative positions that are expensive for one small district co-oping and possibly trying to figure out a way to share it through the uh co-op with the person in the Boseies uh came out also looking for somebody that can write grants and look for new dollars. So, I think it was very productive meeting. Uh, we already had at least one applicant and I've heard from one other person since then that they were interested also. Don't know if he's put in an application yet. But, uh, there's kind of a a mixed bag on waiting till the February 9th or saying let's hire now, you know, when we find
043the right person. If uh that popped up. Uh so that's a a good thing for the Boseies. Other than that, uh I think happy Thanksgiving to all of you. >> Thank you. >> All right, >> Jody. >> Um well, I want to congratulate the recipients for this year from uh Wreck um the special ed directors and then also Lindsy for all they do for our community. I'd really like to tell them thank you very much. Um annual conference was really really good. I got a lot out of it. Um I talked went to and talked to a couple of the vendors and and they had um u you know get the right time right help things there for the mental health aspect. And um they also had a program think first and that program has
044to do with you know driver's education but um the gentleman who was there uh Jeff Grant was his name um he talked about that that he comes into schools and then they do will do presentations and we'll work with kids you know just with regards to motor vehicle crashes and talk to them about things like that and they do it free is the way explained. So that might be something something worth worth looking into. Um I liked they they did a at the preliminary or the preconference they did a because we're getting ready to do our our self um awareness or you know or selfch check for our board. They had a self-awareness check she sh she sheet and I grabbed a few of them and they came down and you scored yourself and then
045they had a a rubric in which you know whatever your score was you could see kind of where you're at within you know they ask questions like I can be a trusted trusted to maintain confidentiality I contribute professional conversations to others you know um I built effective that that kind of thing but I I got a lot out of that I I you know, it makes you take a long look at yourself and kind of how you how you are a contributing person to the governing board. So, I really enjoyed that as well. Those are some of the things that that um went we went forward with and um I just like I said that was basically it I think for [clears throat] the most part it was always very enjoyable had I always welcome
046the conversations we get to have with other districts and um happy Thanksgiving >> two other things uh this this one here I'll give it to you Uh it's a uh way to shut off cell phones. You just take a picture of it with your camera and it shuts your phone off and then at the end of the day you just it's just released. Uh it's a much instead of putting in bags or whatever, you just take a picture of the uh little code there and it clicks it off clicks the phone off. uh the teacher or the administrator of it can look at it, see that everybody in the class has shut their phone off. Kind of an interesting non-clutsy way of of doing it. The other thing was the J program which is the
047boots program for uh suicide prevention that started in uh Pinedell and then um has you know grown into uh several other school districts. Nrona the kids that were manning the station there were all Nrona County students uh that were part of the program. Basically it's just They give everybody a pair of boots and give them, you know, you know the wear these when you're having one of those days and then it creates a, you know, kids see the boots and say, uh, what's happening? You know, it was kind of it's a fairly powerful program. Just wanted to >> Yeah. You haven't much other than sit in my office and work on some insurance things during open enrollment, but uh did go to the Willow Creek lunchon and did the Willow Creek U musical program. Those
048were awesome. Always enjoy those. Um and then I want to just congratulate our football coach on his honor that he received, Mark Lenhart. And then u um I'm hearing some things coming from a few parents about some of the kids that got all conference, but it sounds like that has not been announced by the school district yet. So, I'm going to wait on that. And that's about all I've done. So, happy Thanksgiving to everyone. >> Thanks for that. >> Well, I'm sorry I missed out on the state meeting. That's the first time since I've been on the board that I haven't been there. It was kind of weird, but I did get all my continuing ed requirements met so I can continue to do my job. So, um, and I did attend a training in
049Texas the week before, which is why I was why I missed our board meeting. Um, I highly recommend a trip to College Station, Texas if you haven't been there. We stayed at a hotel called the George, which is based um, the theme was like old railroad and the carpet was handwritten um, rail line schedules from the turn of the century, two centuries ago now. Um, but it was really cool and the stuff sheep just randomly showed up ran different places in the hallway. It was it was quite a quite a deal. So, um, anyway, that's all I've really been doing and thanks for your support while I've been dealing with parental health issues. So, >> you didn't try to weigh the sheep while >> No, I didn't. I didn't run them through the scale. No,
050>> that would have been like an eager, [laughter] >> um, I don't really have anything. I just um it was such an honor to give out those two awards tonight to a deserving person. Lindsay's done a lot in our community and then to uh the Special Olympics group. They really work hard. >> And happy Thanksgiving. >> A lot of responsibility there. >> Um I made it to the concert uh for the choir last Tuesday. The acoustics in the new auditorium are amazing. And uh I think we found a real gem in that teacher. >> She in two months she had those kids loving her and and they were doing well. So I think we found a gem and in the conference well we pretty well covered that. So happy Thank you. >> Anything new? >>
051No I no nothing in the last 10 minutes. Thank you [laughter] >> Jada. >> I really don't have much. Happy Thanksgiving. But then Carl, thanks for the pen. Um, and in simply just to kind of give you a head heads up or an update, I'm currently working to load evaluations. So next year when it comes time for superintendent and board self-evaluations, you'll be able to do it through Simly and it should be a lot easier and it will still come across as anonymous even though you'll load in and do it through your own account. >> Cool. >> Mr. Chair, can I ask a question? you brought up assembly. I stopped by the assembly booth and I was talking to them there and they because you mentioned the evaluation piece that's going to be uploaded. They
052talked about um having the u board policies >> that would be uploaded there and then there would be comparators so that would help in the future with being able to write board policy and make it a little better, >> a little more streamlined. And I I wasn't sure they said that that'll be was supposed to be coming out here shortly. >> Yeah. And our board policies are um insembly. We still have a little bit of finessing to do to them, but they're all in there just with a few corrections that need to be and it's the program is great for when um changes are done when they come for revisions. It'll always show what's been there previously. So you'll always be able to go back, you know, and look for the past five years if
053it was revised six different times or was only went through a revision once and it tracks everything. So it's easier like when Christina does a change or Jodie, they go through and they track their changes. So when you guys when it's finishes it second reading, literally we go in and accept all of those and it immediately up uploads it to the correct one. >> That's awesome. >> So that's how it was explained to me. But thank you for the clarification. I appreciate that. >> If you go into assembly now, you can go to I think it's more. >> That's right. The treasure. >> Then it has the comparable policies. It's it's right there. >> Okay. >> And it's it's an update that uh it's available already. It just >> so you then you can go
054look at other districts and so it's it's kind of >> it's it's a great um I think tool for us. >> Yeah, it's just kind of I thought that was really interesting. I was glad since we just kind of launched that and I had that conversation. But thank you for that Jade. I appreciate it. >> Absolutely. >> Thank you Jada. Um I thought the the conference was very good. I really enjoyed, you know, hearing people talk about stuff. Um, something that I noticed that I hadn't noticed in the past, there was just kind of a aura of apprehension, you know, like everybody's up in the air about what the legislaturator is going to do and what, you know, the federal government's going to do and just a uncertainty that kind of I don't know, it's
055something that I noticed. So, any visitors? Doesn't look like any. [laughter] >> Yeah, you're ghosting us. >> There we go. >> So, we'll move on to action items. Uh, consider an administrative recommendation to adopt policies. >> Mr. Chair, I would move that to adopt the revised policy 2075, inventories and property management policy 2085-R, school property disposal policy 5135-R, district supervision and evaluation on first reading. >> Second. >> Any discussion on those? All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Hearing none, we'll adopt well adopt those on first reading. Uh, consider an administrative recommendation to approve new course proposals. >> Mr. Chair, I would move that the board approve the Riverton High School new course proposals of the senior science capstone, health promotion and wellness, intro to business, technical writing, beginning choir, advanced choir, and piano
056lab for the 2026 2027 school year as presented. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> At some point, I would like to have them come just kind of visit with us about what that >> what that all means. I would love to to know a little bit more about that. So >> I mean they all sound >> absolutely >> excellent good things to add. Um >> any other discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Hearing none. We will approve that information items. Uh the superintendent evaluation needs to get done and we I guess if there's discussion we can discuss it now but we were going to do >> two four and six is that if that's all right with everyone. >> Okay. >> Cuz what did we do last year? One >> well it
057would have been >> we did one >> three and five >> and one is the same as two this year >> right? >> Thank you Carl for already getting yours in. >> Everybody's cool with two, four, and six. >> I've done them all. >> You did them all? >> Yeah, he did them all. >> I've got mine already. >> Well, then you got them. >> Don't ship them. >> Show off. >> Ship them to me. >> Overachiever. Put them in the >> I was going to [laughter] say your nose. >> Notifications [laughter] of habitually, >> willfully absent, and 10day drop students, which we've had a few, right? Um, classified staff changes, resignations. Rendevous Perah Hannah Amos effective November 14th. Justin Gothier as RMS crossing guard effective December 1st. Transfer of Madison Daniels as a district
058SIS. What's that? >> Information. >> Okay. And communication support specialist. New hires Janisa Long as a transportation bus aid. Heather Wyn as a rendevous parah, Sky Matt as a rendevous parah, Emma Emma Ramage as an RMS parah. And our enrollment >> a little bit down. >> Yeah. >> And we need to discuss the trustees evaluation tool. Does anyone have any changes they want made from what we've had presented so far? >> Speak now or forever hold your peace. >> No. No. >> Okay. So, while you're doing the superintendent one, just continue on. And the trustee >> I didn't. So, for the trustee evaluation tool, I'll share that out with you as a Google form. >> Okay? >> And then you can put your information in the Google form and then we can do the >>
059the tallying through a formula. >> Okay? >> So, just let me know when you're ready for that to come out to you because you have until late January to do it. >> Okay? >> Unless you want to move up that process faster. It's up to you. >> That's all right. >> We We'll wait a little bit. >> Yeah, >> unless anyone has >> Just give it to me and I'll get it done. >> Yeah, he's Mr. Overachiever says he'll take it down. [laughter] >> Oh, Carl, you're correct. >> I'm just kidding. >> Um, anything else for the good of the board or even not the good of the board? Okay. >> Meeting adjourned. >> Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. which I