001I'd like to welcome you all to the regular uh school board meeting for September 9th. If you join us in the pledge of 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. 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. >> Excellent. To I would entertain a motion to >> Mr. Chair, I would move we adopt the agenda as presented. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Hearing none, we'll adopt the agenda as presented. The consent agenda tonight includes approving the minutes of the August 26th board meeting. Consider payment of
002bills including late pays, pre-authorization of payroll, insurance, utilities, officials, and automatic payments. and to adopt amended policy 51000, family and medical leave. Policy 3210, meal charge, and new policy 1056, firearms personnel authorized to carry on second reading. >> Mr. Chair, I would move that we accept the consent agenda as presented. >> Second. >> Any discussion on any of those items? Hearing none, all in favor? I I >> any opposed? The consent agenda is adopted. We'll move on to the round table. Our first guest, victim, depending on how you look at it, Mr. Mills. >> Guest and victim. Okay. Good way to put it. >> Uh so each month you're asking buildings to come in and provide an update. As I was putting together the activity and athletic update for you today, I decided I will
003focus on the ways that we are communicating within our activities department and then also from the school to our community. Uh so on our homepage or on our Riverton High School page, uh we have the RHS activities and athletics schedules. Um I've been working diligently to keep this updated as uh times change, dates change. uh you know, hey, we we're going to move ours up an hour later, an hour, things like that. Uh but I decided to take this even one step further. Uh and I have created on my Google calendar individual calendars for each of the uh athletics at this point. Speech and debate is on there right now. And then the rest of the activities are coming as I get schedules from those individuals. So when you are on the RHS page looking
004at the activity and athletic calendars, I have two different links here because I found out the hard way uh these are different links. So from your phone, if you uh navigate to the activity and athletic calendar, you can then click on that link using your phone and subscribe to that calendar to where all those events show up in your Google calendar on your phone. Uh if you prefer to do that from a desktop computer, it is a different link, but then same thing, click on that particular link and you'll get the option to subscribe to all those. Um you can then go in and set up notifications. Um I didn't want my phone buzzing at me all day, every day with all of the notifications. So the original calendar does not have any notifications, but
005you can go in and customize your version of that. Uh the benefit to using the Google calendar this way is that anytime I change an event, it'll automatically change on yours. Um and so and again that's another one of those options you can select is get notifications when events change. >> So if I add a new event or move a a game time or an activity time earlier by an hour, later by an hour, it has to move an entire day, you would then get a notification that that event has changed. Um so just trying to you know do everything we can to share this with the community about all the events that are happening uh home and away. It does include everything. Um the next step with this is initially this right now is
006going out to all of the RHS staff. Um every Sunday I I take a moment to put together a little bit of a blurb of the previous week's activities. the highlighting all of the good things that have happened for for the Wolverines and excuse me and then provide dayby-day breakdown of what's coming up for the for the current week. Um, you know, so you see there Monday, our eligibility warning list just started this this week. Uh, becomes finalized tomorrow morning. Uh, we had our our football game, our fresh played Evston at 4:00. um with the home events and on the on the Monday one here um I didn't because I'd already communicated with those individuals, but I usually also include who's going to be working, who's on the chains, who's on the clock, who's helping
007us out with that or if I need help, um I'll I'll include that in here as well. Um if you would like to be included in this listing, let me know and I'd be more than happy to include you in the email as I send those out every Sunday. utilizing social media. Uh we've had a I've put together a couple of spotlights of our teams asking uh coaches or from from my own phone taking some pictures. Uh trying to promote our athletes. See the one on the left there. We've got the uh Barry Bryant Kyle Johnson memorial meets on Thursday. So trying to get a little bit of PR for our cross country team, get people to come out to the rendevous ponds and and uh come cheer them on. Um the golf spotlight was
008the week before their uh golf tournament. Um Kim Lenhard has done a fantastic job of of posting a lot of things on social media and Tommy Kirkland has taken most of the pictures that you see between the two of these um and and getting posted those getting those posted to social media. So, um, as we have, you know, we get closer to a speech meet, as we get closer to marching band heading to their state tournament, um, as we get closer to all of our activities, having competitions, I'll be getting each and every one of those highlighted and posted to social media as we go. Oh my god. Then one of the things that I've done internally with coaches and and Lindy Nielsen helped out a lot with this uh setting this up in in
009Perform with our documents um having coaches do a better job of getting itineraries out to parents and also with the help of Lindseay Cox um utilizing the the rooms that all of our athletes and parents are in and getting our coaches to get those itineraries posted so parents know you know what motel are we staying at, when are we leaving, you know, where are kids going to be and at what time? >> Um, requiring coaches to get uh Vanessa, my my secretary, to get room list to her so that we can get those onto the motel. Uh, we require that every Monday that they have a stay on that coming weekend. Motel really like to know that many days in advance how many rooms that you booked are you actually using. Uh, so that coaches
010have been awesome getting those to me. Um, we have them check off that they understand that a folder with physicals has been shared with them. We've taken the time to scan all of those and and coaches are responsible for getting a copy of those and taking it with them. with the med kits. They have to check those out through our athletic trainer and I provided them a list of, hey, here's what you should have in there and feel free to add and change and modify amounts, but work with uh Miss Fallon to figure out that make sure that this is stocked every week and and that we've got our kids taken care of as you go. Uh the next one, Tracy Shepardson's been uh really good working with us on this, the ICE document in
011case of emergency. uh getting together parents names and phone numbers of in case there is a problem. >> Um we had a couple coaches don't worry I've got it on my phone. I'm like that's fantastic. But um we've had situations where a you know anifreeze line breaks and bus fills with smoke in the middle of the Wind River Canyon. Your phone isn't do much good there. No. >> Um and so having a physical copy of that to give to the bus driver. Uh Tracy Shepardson has those on file. He's been printing them off to give to our bus drivers and it's been a great relationship there. Uh say gave all my coaches a template for practice plans. Uh they've been utilizing those. I've been I've been going to practices. I'll talk about that here in
012a little bit. Uh but just making sure that we are intentional with what we are coaching and how we are coaching it. And it's it's also a little bit of liability coverage. when somebody gets injured, we can go back and show what skills we've been teaching, how much they've had time to practice that skill, and that it is, you know, an accident. So, um, and then of course, all of our coaches have to take a concussion and a heat illness course on the NFHS. Um, the concussion aspect is part of the of state statute, the the three prongs that they have there. And then the heat illness is one that we've added to that because we want our athletes to be safe. And so we've we've added that extra requirement for them. And then end
013of season recognition and evaluation. Um all of this got put into perform. Coaches have to check off that they understand what all this is and and they know how and and how they're going to be evaluated and what this looks like and what those expectations are each week. And so far it's been it's been fantastic. I've sent very few reminders to coaches about, hey, remember I I need your itinerary today. So, couple, you know, it happens now and then, but not very often. Um, and then finally here, uh, visibility. I've been at every practice multiple times checking up on coaches, getting to know athletes. Um, you know, the like just today with, uh, cross country, I've got three different athletes in cross country. We have our own handshake now. Every time we see each other,
014we we got to do the handshake. um classroom attendance. I've been making it a point to get into classrooms, make sure that that students know who I am and that I'm there to advocate for them and make sure coaches know that, you know, I'm there to support them. Um along with that, I've been doing in-person check-ins with all sponsors and coaches. Um I've had the time to meet with everybody so far. It's been it's been incredible. Dr. Peaks is a great individual to get to visit with and he's very passionate about marching band as he should be. and you know worked out where he and and our football coach have a great relationship right now making sure that they can share the space on the turf so that both have an opportunity to be as
015good as they can be. Um you know really excited that Ben Thoron is really excited about the new auditorium. She's got grand plans for that. So um so those check-ins have been going really well. Uh, obviously home event attendance. I've seen seen quite a few of you guys there. >> And uh, and as a side note, Jody, I got to visit with Andy quite a bit. It's been so much fun in football. He's >> he mentioned that as well. He's of course, you know, where his head is where that game's concerned. >> 100%. Um, I also created as an as an extra thing an event worker document to uh allow staff the opportunity to sign up to work events for um everything that we are hosting at home. It it takes a lot of people
016for an event to be successful. Um and and most of that nobody notices unless the event doesn't go well and that's when they notice that something didn't happen right. So um so far that's run very smoothly. It's been incredible. Um, I mentioned earlier eligibility starting this week. Uh, we're working through the process of what that's going to look like and making sure that we can have our kids doing as well as they possibly can to be able to part to continue to participate in activities and athletics. And then finally, um, unfortunately, our swimming pool is out of commission right now. Um but the uh lander superintendent and business manager who who is in charge of their pool and then their new activities director have been incredible to work with. Uh you know putting rivalries aside
017for the benefit of students has they've been they've been incredible. So we worked out this week and next week we're going to be busing our kids over to Lander. Um, unfortunately it's a 7:30 to 900 pm time frame for practice, >> but trying to not displace their community, you know, as as little as possible. They are cancelling some community swim time for us to be able to do that. Uh, but they were very gracious in in allowing that and and obviously we would do the same thing for them. So, um, you know, hopefully we can get that fixed as soon as possible and and have our kids back in our own pool. Um, we're supposed to be hosting a duel next Tuesday. That, uh, right now our our three options are postpone it till later
018in the season, go to Evston instead of them coming here, or cancel it. And right now, we're we're holding off. Uh, we're going to start digging a hole tomorrow. So, we'll know a lot more about what that looks like. And then we'll make that decision about next Tuesday. But the goal right now is we are hosting a a big meet on uh September 26th. And so the goal is to be back in our own pool by then. But along with this last bullet, Lander has also offered to work their schedule around to where we could host our meet in their facility that day. So >> that is very nice. >> So again, they're they've been incredible to work with. So um up to this point, you know, it's it's uh been an incredible, I guess,
019month, month and a half or so that I've been in this position. And at one point it honestly felt like I was trying to take a sip of water from a fire hose, but it's, you know, feel like we're we're settling in and things are going really, really well right now. So, what questions do you have for me? >> I just thank you for everything you do for our kids. >> Absolutely. >> I thank you, too. It's nice to have that visibility, too. And I've had individuals make comments and ask actually ask is that is is this Mr. Mills? Is you know, things like that. So, yes. It's a big job. Thank you. >> A lot of stuff to coordinate. Um I do have a question regarding the safety part. All of our coaches are
020CPR certified, right? >> Yes, they are. >> And IED certified >> IED. The A >> Oh, AED. Sorry. Yes. >> I'm sorry. >> Yes. >> Okay. And do we have those on the field? >> We do. Okay. >> Yep. Uh anytime we're at an outdoor event, our athletic trainer has it in her cart, uh her athletic training cart that is out there. and all the indoor events. It's within a arms reach away. >> And EpiPens, we have those available. Go. Yeah, you guys got it covered then. >> And Narcan. >> Narcan. Yep. That was another one I thought of that. You never know when those things are going to be needed and maybe not even >> an athlete, but somebody else. >> Yeah, spectator. >> Thank you. Appreciate that. >> Spectators just as well. Um,
021so far the frontier ambulance has been able to be at all the games, which has been fantastic. Um, you know, it does cost us some money about 25 an hour for them to to be there on standby, but worth every penny. >> Yeah, I think so. >> Appreciate you. >> Thank you. >> You Thank you. >> And is it pay? >> Okay, Miss Pay, would you come up and give us your Thank you guys so much for letting us come speak to you tonight. Um, I'm Katie. I'll hope you remember me from the last time we were here. And I am the past president of the Riverton Rotary Club and our Interact sponsor at the club. So, if we have an interact club, one regular club member has to be committed to attending all their
022meetings and making sure that they're following all of Rotary International's protocols. And that's my job. Um, really, I just wanted to come to talk to you tonight about first, thank you for approving the club and then talk to you about thinking about sanctioning it as well. Um, we were actually approached by these kids last spring. Um, Tony called me up. Well, she texted me because that's how things are done now. Um, she called me and she's like, "Let's have lunch. I really want to build a group that fits into anybody's schedule where we can give back to the community." And that's really what we have worked to build. Um, so she's put in a lot of hours. I think we've had 21 kids participate in different little like plannings, trainings, just different activities all about
023Interact so far. Um, and really they're just excited to give back in a new way to the community. Um, the really unique thing that I do want to mention is that it's not just community, it's ours, but then it's also reaching out to that global international element. The kids are required to have a service project that reaches beyond Riverton. So, it could be involved in Uganda or Rwanda and we know people that could help them get there. It could be just doing something as much as bringing information back to our community about things that are happening out there. Um, and that's really kind of different and something that we're really excited to help foster with them that international element. Um, and finally, I'm going to let Tierney talk because she's way more important than me.
024Um, but we really want to give them that validation. They've worked so hard and they are so excited and our club voted unanimously to support them and we just hope that you guys are as willing as we are to validate their thoughts and ideas and actions and all of their hard work. So Tney, >> hi T. Um, good evening all members of the board. We are here tonight as students who want to officially form Interact Club at the high school. Um last spring we went through the required approval process with the high school um and received approval from the building leadership team. Since then more than 15 of us have um have committed to being members. We have appointed officers and a faculty adviser has already agreed to oversee our club's activities. We're ready to
025begin. This effort is very personal to us. Um I and our vice president Natalie a few years ago got to go to Young Ria which is a week-long leadership camp um that we that was that experience was instrumental to helping us um grow as leaders and it inspired us to um start this club. uh it brought the principles of Rotary which is service, ethics and leadership into um our lives and we want to bring that into the schools as well. We value the many clubs already at Riverton um but Interact offers something unique. It connects us with Rotary International giving us access to global service projects, leadership development, a mentor or sorry, a mentorship um from community leaders. This isn't a duplicate. It extends opportunities for service and growth. Our community strongly supports this effort.
026Many Rotarians are here tonight and many others have written letters. We respect we respectfully remind the board that when a school allows non-curricular clubs, all student initiated clubs must be treated equally. Interact is not here to compete with existing groups. We want to complement them by adding new opportunities for students to lead, serve, and make a difference. On behalf of the students, our faculty advisor, and the community members who stand with us, we respect or yeah, we respectfully ask the board to recognize Interact as a sanctioned club at Riverton High School. With your approval, we are ready to begin serving in ways that benefit both our school and our community. Thank you for your time and for supporting student voices. >> Do you guys have any questions? Just thank you for coming and speaking. >>
027I don't have PowerPoint, but I did print you all copies of all the letters of support. >> Got it. Thank you. >> Please read them. >> Thank you. >> Okay, we'll move on to board members. Jody, do you want to start us? So, I don't have anything more tonight than our Mercer study information that we had earlier. And that's it. >> So, that's it. >> That's it. That's all I have. I think I've kept you updated and Max mentioned the pool. We won't know till tomorrow. I've sent you a couple of emails about the other things that are pertinent. >> Okay. >> Would you We'll start down on this end. >> I don't have anything tonight. Thank you. That's fine. Roy, >> I just have a couple of things. Um, so we are we've geared
028up and our office in our Native American education department. Uh, last week we had our first JOM parent committee meeting. They nominated uh folks to be uh on the ballot to become officers for this year. That ballot will go out tomorrow. So, um, by next week, we'll have officers for the upcoming year, and they'll start having their regular meetings. Uh, we have our first Native American Education Family Night events coming up on Thursday evening. Uh, that'll be at 6 PM at the media center at Riverton High School. You are all welcome to join us. >> Um, Thursday, Thursday evening. >> Thursday. >> Okay. Um, we will use that to introduce all of the programs housed under the Native American Education Department, the services we provide, uh, and then get ideas from parents and students about
029the programs that they want to see and how we better how we can better serve them. So, again, that's Thursday evening at 6 PM at the, uh, Beverton High School Library. Um, and then two weeks from that night, we'll have our first, uh, Title Six parent committee night. Um it'll be uh Thursday, September 25th here in uh this room actually and uh that'll be an opportunity for our parents um under our Title Six Native American education grant to um start planning events and uh letting us know what they would like to see and um what they want to accomplish for this year. >> I do not have anything. Well, the MRSA study was interesting and you heard my comments about it. Uh I wish they gave us money to inform the our people uh because
030that's our biggest problem is that why did you guys do that? And you know that was Tonkan, that was the why isn't the auditorium bigger, you know, all these things. And it was here and nobody else was here but us. >> That meeting was it's public a public meeting and did we put it out on the so so it's out there for our public to see that this is what the state with in conjunction with us because we do want new schools. We do want new facilities, but the process is so processed and it's sort of top down in many ways. You were involved in it, but many of us were, we just heard about it, too. So, getting that information out to our public, what is happening? So, it's not why didn't you tell
031us about it after the building starting to be knocked down is important. uh because you know people even though it was reported, it was on the radio, it was in the newspaper, people still did not know about it. Um and you know that's the way the world is. That's I'll end that conversation now until next meeting. Um we had our Boseies Fremont County Boseies meeting uh and we received our uh director's resignation. He'll be leaving in June. So, we'll be doing the process of hiring. Gives us plenty of time to do that. Now, the dilemma is do we want to keep the same configuration? You know, a u executive director. Uh when Sandy Barton was the director, she was an entrepreneur. Uh she made us money. Uh you know it was not just mill money
032coming in. We had lights on. We had the uh energy. We had the firefighter. We had all these different grants and whatnot that we developed and we created a a reserve of a hundred $1.8 million during that period of time. And we're spending that down now. We're under a million dollars and we're still spending it down. So Parker's sort of been a caretaker of the spend down. So I don't know if we need to another another Parker per se. We might want to go uh in another direction. Uh so this is a board decision that we have to talk about. I put it to all the other board members. Shosonyi, Win River, we have everybody there in person for the first time. And so all the districts in the county except for Arapa who is
033not a member uh were there. So I've asked them to test their boards on what do we want the Boseies to look like. Do we want it to be inside one of our buildings run by maybe a um somebody in a district office, Lander, Riverton, Wind River, wherever? Uh, do we want that kind and maybe somebody else to take care of our books and whatnot and just be more or less a pass through of, you know, the dollars to the districts? or do we want to go out looking for an executive director that was more like Sandy Barton in some respects and uh go out and you know somebody that knows how to write grants, knows how to go out and look for things to bring to the districts. Uh so as you ponder the
034many things that you get to ponder, think about that uh and and let me know what you think and we have till November when our next meeting is uh to sort of reconfigure how we want to do things. Also, the superintendent, uh, Bruce Thorne was there, uh, uh, monitoring what we were doing, seeing what's going on, and, uh, he's going to probably tell the superintendence about what's going on, and you guys will have your input also. So, thank you. That's it. >> Thanks, >> Well, um, I, as I told Mr. Mills, I've been at a few activities here. I've been watching a little bit of golf and a little bit of football and and those kind of things and then um have attempted to, you know, I always do those board chair training things just
035because I always learn something new about what's happening and and so I've tried to do a be in attendance for some of those as well. Um, we went to the we had the WSBA fall roundup that we all attended attended here and they kind of give us the update >> since then, >> you know, the the Craig report, things like that. Um, so we did that. Again, the Mercer study, it have been nice to have as many that are even as many as are seated right out here, you know, because then then it gets back out into the community and oftentimes, you know, um I know that we're excit we're an exciting group, but oftentimes our board our boardroom is kind of crickets out there >> and and so but that was very interesting in
036in learning how to do things and and as Carl said, we we want the best for our kids and we want to have new buildings. We want to be able to do these things, but we also would be really nice if we had more help in being able to communicate those things out into the public because at the end of the day, we're the ones who get the questions about why is this happening and why didn't we know about it and and we all we all went about some of those things. Um the other thing that I I started doing was or we started doing my husband's doing it as well. Um, we got reached out to by Willow Creek to come and be a volunteer at lunchtime to help, you know, with the kids.
037And, you know, it's been a long time since I've been in an elementary lunchroom. And I'm here to tell you that I'm it's not changed all that much. No, but it's been really actually really fun. And he he likes it so much he goes two days a week. I think it's to get away from me. But I don't know. We're not gonna just be quiet. No. >> So, at any rate, and then I want to thank all of you for being here, and I want to thank the individuals we received letters from. Um, we do appreciate your your your input and your conjecture. And young lady, you did a nice job up in front of this cl in front of this crowd because we're kind of a hard crowd. Probably the guy sitting there that's
038with the gavvel, you don't have to be afraid of him. So, but thank you very much and um we do appreciate anybody in attendance that that wants to be active here and and do those things. And that's it for me. And I would echo the the comments from Jod about appreciating all of the information. You know, that that's how we we become a community and start to understand what's what's happening. and we, you know, it's uh I just really value the fact that people will come forward and take give of their time to do that. And I know Roger is is a great group. Um so, and Max, thank you so much for all of all of your that what you're doing for all the kids. It's huge as a as a past parent and
039now grandparent. It's just always nice to know the activities that are going on and that your kids are taken care of, those kinds of things. is it's just a you know that's a huge burden huge lift and we appreciate all that you've done with that. Um so for me I football I've been watching some football I've got experience in the plays and also um attended uh the meeting the town hall meeting with uh Tara Berg and uh assessor assessor Tara Berg and clerk Julie Fes about the voting guidelines and the property taxes and some of what might be the consequences of the uh reduction in property taxes to our services in the community and and it was a very interesting meeting. One of which I think a lot of uh constituents really don't understand uh
040that if there's a reduction in property taxes, there's a direct result of services to the the community and the schools. And um just I just hope that more people educate themselves on that because it always sounds really good to lower your property taxes, but then you know if you need an ambulance or snow removal, it may come at that cost. And so there there are some things that we really need to take a look at and I just hope that people would educate themselves on that. And I think that those two did a great job of uh remaining very neutral but sharing the facts with us about what's going on in Fremont County. We have two very uh committed uh representatives not only to Fremont County but to the state. They're very they they're very
041well educated and they've done a very good job of communicating that to the state and to the legislature as well. Um and that is about all I have. So >> thank you. >> Well, I'm not going to beat a dead horse, but thank you all for being here tonight for everything you had to say. I don't have anything else to add. No sense in repeating. >> No. Carrie. >> Um I say the same thing. Thank you for coming tonight. A lot of times it's crickets here. Nobody So, thank you and thank you, Max, for everything you do for us. Um, especially making things a lot easier as a grandparent to see what's going on. just to reiterate that and uh the school is the heart of the community and so the more people that are
042participating just like tonight it it brings more of a community spirit into the school and we appreciate that. >> That's it. >> Thank you. Cole, do you have anything? >> Nothing tonight. Thank you. >> Kada, I know you've got All right. >> Thank you for the food, by the way. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Always looking after us. >> Thank goodness someone needs to. >> I'm anticipating that there are going to be several people wanting to talk tonight. So, in anticipation of that, I'm going to read our policy regarding uh participation in board meetings. The public is invited to attend all regular and special board meetings and may be given time to voice opinions or problems. Citizens wishing to have an item placed on the agenda for a specific board meeting should direct their
043request to the superintendent or board chairman. A request a meeting of the board I lost my place. Request >> an item placed on the agenda should be made seven days prior to the scheduled meeting of the board. The superintendent and board chairman will confer and determine the appropriate placement of the item on the agenda. Citizens wishing to address the board must attend the meeting in person. If health or other unavoidable circumstances will not allow in-person attendance, other arrangements will be considered. The board recognizes its responsibility to conduct to conduct the business of the district in an orderly manner and will therefore require protocols for public public presentations to the board. A brief period for questions and comments from the audience will be held during each board meeting. A person wishing to be here heard by
044the board will first be recognized by the chairman. They will then identify themselves and their affiliation and proceed with their comments within the established timeline and following established protocols. A single spokesman should be selected by groups or organizations desiring to address the board on a topic agenda topic to avoid presenting repetitious information. The board will not permit in public session any expression of personal complaint about school personnel or against any person connected with the school system. Personnel matters are not appropriate topics to be discussed in regular board meetings. The quorum requires that such matters be entertained in executive session as arranged by the board. Speakers will not be permitted to participate in gossip, make defamatory remarks, use abusive or vulgar language. Speakers will be advised that their comments must be limited to items which relate
045directly to the school district. The board chairman will maintain the prerogative to discontinue any presentation which violates any of the public public participation guidelines. Members of the public will not be recognized by the chairman as the board conducts its official business except when the board schedules in advance an interim public discussion period on a particular agenda item. The board may remove any person or group of persons who willfully disrupt a meeting so as to render the orderly conduct of the meeting unfeasible. If order cannot be restored by removal of such persons from the meeting room, the board may recess the meeting and reconvene at another location. Any individuals not responsible for disrupting the content of the meeting shall be readmitted to such meetings. That being said, uh and I read all that too much really,
046but I just want everybody to know what the ground rules are. So, that being said, uh would anyone like to address the board? >> I don't think I need to introduce myself, but I will. Um Gay Hughes, um retired employee and I'm currently the Kuanas advisor for the Key Club. Um, I gave all of you a handout that I put together this afternoon. My technology skills have gone down the toilet because they keep changing everything. And uh, you want to introduce yourself? >> Hi, I'm Quinnel Davis. Uh, I've been in Key Club for this is now my third year. Um, I serve as the district's convention chair. So, I'm in charge of uh our district's convention, which our district has around 2,500 active members. So, maybe less than half of that comes to the uh
047convention. And uh I have to plan for that. Anyways, uh Keycl Club is something that I cherish. It's something I love to do. Thank you. Um without Key Club, I wouldn't be the person I am today. I've learned a lot of uh leadership skills, uh character building, um and a lot of discipline. Keyclub um there are mult there are numerous programs available within key club with leadership at the head in addition to other essential skills. Uh last year I had the privilege to go to a leadership building camp that was pretty much key club and for three to four days I learned nothing but leadership and what it means to be a leader and I used that and I learned by example and I put others before me and before that I just thought I
048could get through life without thinking about anyone else. There are bro there are programs built to support Key Club after high school. I had no dreams for college after high school. Um, Key Club showed me that there is a way, that there are options to get involved with my community, and I really couldn't thank Key Club enough for that. Key Club also offers opportunities to get involved internationally. Key Club also has an international uh organization and I had the absolute honor to go uh to Florida and just make new connections and have a great time. But it wasn't just having fun, it was working. It was voting on international board and making a difference even though we are a smaller club in size which was really amazing to do. >> Yeah. Um, I hope you've
049had the chance to look through what I prepared. Um, >> my Thank you. And I keep getting shorter. That's the worst part. Um, first of all, thank you for running for the school board. Um, I've I've gotten a really good idea what it's like, except you get the local complaints, etc., etc. at the college. You know, we're responsible for one employee and that's President Tindell, but the the time that you dedicate to this, thank you very much. And I really have a new appreciation for what you do. Um, I've been associated with Key Club now for 30 years. That's kind of scary thought when you can start saying 30, 40, 50. Anyway, um, and I appreciate Rotarians. supporting this. I don't think most of you know I was a Rotary exchange student way back when
050and um went to Sweden and spent a year and so that's what got us starting hosting exchange students. We had 10 at our house over the years and so I have a big appreciation for Rotary as well. Um, what I really want to point out is the fact that Sheridan High School used to send like 40 kids to district convention. They'd bring a bus and their school district allowed them to start an interact club. And what happened was neither one of them were any good because it got to be well they belong to that club and they belong to that club and it kind of became not a good thing. And as a result, neither one of them were any good. And um they are now trying to reestablish their key club. And a great
051part of that is, and I'm not trying to toot my own horn, is having an advisor that's willing to spend the time because it does take a lot of time. When you look at what the Riverton Club does, they do 50 to 60 different projects a year helping out in our community. And that says a whole lot. And as a result of that, uh, we require 40 hours of service because we want when we when our kids sign and say they did service work, we want it to mean something, you know. And so, uh, was it hard to get you 40 hours? No. >> No. No. So, when you have that many events, it's pretty darn easy, actually. And uh one year back when the Thanksgiving dinners started, we actually won the community service award
052presented by that Riverton Chamber. So, that was that was pretty exciting because we saw a need and we had two weeks to take care of it and we pulled it off. And so, it's pretty much been a tradition since then. CO kind of messed things up. But anyway, um thank you for your time and naturally I'm advocating for no need for two service clubs. Um because we have a strong club and we'd like to keep it that way. Um these young ladies are welcome. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Yes, you're recognized. Come on up. Well, good evening everyone. Thanks for having us today, Mr. Chairman and board. I did not really plan on speaking today, but I got to tell you. So, >> can we get your name? And >> I'm sorry. I'm Herb
053Wilcox for those of you who don't know me. I've been in retired from the US Air Force for 23 years. I was in the Air Force and I have been a director for Wyoming Senior Citizens for almost 15 years. My son was in Rotary in Texas and he came to me one day. Just a second. Didn't plan on speaking. So, just a minute. Um, so in Texas, he went to this Rotary Club and I said, "What is that?" And he came back after a week and said, "Wow, that was the best thing that ever happened to me. the things I've learned, the kids I met, the programs we went through, the leadership skills we learned, it was incredible. And I'm like, what is this Rotary thing? Well, luck would have what we moved from Texas,
054we moved to Wyoming, and I got invited to be a Rotarian. And for 15 years, I focused on the club, but I focused on kids. Okay. I have no idea why my voice is cracking. This is kind of strange. Anyway, so >> for 15 almost well let's see 13 years I've been a Rotarian and I've delivered dictionaries to third graders send kids to Rioa to young Rioa seventh graders high school kids scholarships to kids every single year when I was in school I was club great experience for me in high school long time ago but it was a wonderful experience went to Denver went to conference but these kids I'm so proud to stand here today for these kids in high school that want to start an internet club. I'm sure it's not perfect everywhere,
055but I know it works in some places. I know Lannard's got a great system going over there. I know that in Laramie they've got one at the college level. It's a great things for kids. Great opportunity for kids to have more than just one option. Um we work so well together as clubs. We support the Thanksgiving dinner every year with Aquanians, their friends, our neighbors, our co-workers. Um, I mean, in civic situations in the community, we get along great and I think there's room for that at the high school as well. So, I guess that's what I want to say. I think there's room for both. >> Thank you for your time. >> Of course. Thank you. >> Yes. Go ahead. I'm um but um as Herb said, a lot of places do have successful
056organizations that have both Key Club and Interact. And um I wanted to start it because I went to Young Rio, but I also have a deeper personal connection because my grandma started um an Interact club at Thunder Basin High School and they had a key club as well. And both clubs are running very strong. My cousin was the president and at Interact um he graduated just last year but he was the president. Um my aunt is their faculty advisor and they work together very well and they don't have much competition. In fact, none. they don't have any and they do projects together and a lot of things in Riverton um people collaborate and they work together and that's what I want to do. I want to be able to bring an additional service organization to
057the high school for kids who may not be able to meet the requirements. um and a lot of kids can but there are a few who cannot and I would like to bring that additional service that has a little bit of flexibility. Interact is it does amazing things. Us as a club we are required to do one local project and one international project and that local project can be for our community, it can be for our school. Um and the international one can be raising understanding. um we can help with a project internationally. Um and so that's what I want to do. I want to be able to have our own projects that we get to do along with Rotary and work with Key Club. Um so that's all that I have. >> Thank you.
058>> Anyone else? join the club. >> Yeah, just >> I mean I feel like I'm here. >> Hi, my name is June Bailey. For those of you who don't know me, I am also a Rotarian for three years. Rotarian of the year this year. >> Um, educate, empower, inspire is what Riverton's motto is. And I think that's what those kids have done today. Um, I think kid club does a fantastic job. But as a person who's been in Rotary and Kuanas, we work together so well. And I don't think there's any reason why they can't work together. And I think it's just a bonus to have extra kids working together on projects. We've done a city cleanup. We had some of the kids help us with that. The first time we had 30 volunteers. The
059second time we had 80. I think the next time we'll have even more. So, I just want to say I really hope you consider having these guys do their class together, their club. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Hi there. Um, my name is Jonathan Fabian. I'm actually Tierney's dad. Um, but I just I'll be really brief, but we we had the initial um interact club meeting uh yesterday where they got together and kind of let people know what the club was about and what what all that looked like. And you know, there were 21 kids there. And out of that group, um, in talking to the faculty adviser, she said that two of them had affiliation with Kowanas at any previous point. That means there were 19 kids that weren't planning to do service
060at all who showed up because it was different. Um the opportunity for these kids to really not just be labor or you know assist with existing things but to build their own projects I think really stands out uniquely. Um and I think that that's one of the big drivers. But I don't I don't know. I think the pie isn't it's not if if I get a piece you don't get a piece. That's not how it works. You get people who want to be involved in different aspects. My wife used to be a Kanian and that was her passion. I've been a Rotarian and that's my passion. And our community is big enough for both. I guarantee our high school is big enough for both. And um I think these kids deserve an opportunity to bring
061the people to their respective clubs who fit with it just like our community has that opportunity. >> Thank you. >> Anyone else? >> Okay, we'll move on to discussion items which >> amazingly enough is discussing. >> Imagine that. >> Anyone want to I'm leaving because my dog escaped the tennel. >> Oh, well, I can't have that. >> No, go save your home. >> We got to buy Tilly. So, she's down there. >> That's right, >> Carl. >> The young lady brought up the point that uh what was the the decision that you used uh that says clubs or if you don't offer one club, you can't. It's a Supreme Court case anyhow back in the late 80s uh out of Salt Lake I believe or the out of Utah and it basically said if you
062open up clubs it's very hard for you not to allow a student-driven club. That club happened to be a Nazi or communist club uh if I remember correctly. and Salt Lake basically just uh >> Y >> uh said no more clubs. >> Yeah. >> And they disbanded all the clubs in the uh district >> because they didn't want the one. So uh I don't know where we're at at this point. I'm sort of surprised. Uh I know that uh I understand it for sports uh because that's a whole different operating system. But uh clubs uh we learned our lesson in the 90s uh about those. So I don't know that's my two cents worth. Can you tell us what lesson >> that you if it was a studentdriven created? They got the sponsorship. Uh it
063was hard for them not to be a club. >> In fact, it was illegal not to let them be a club. >> So, did that ruling apply to already established clubs? >> Oh, yeah. No, it was to the district and the district had then to make the decision and the decision was that they weren't going to allow this club. So, they expanded all clubs. >> So, it's kind of an all or nothing approach >> unless it's curriculumbased. So, if you have a program that has a club attached to it like uh egg, then you can do a FFA or those kind of clubs. If you have a uh business, you can do the business clubs, but they're on a different level of clubship than uh a service club, >> right? >> Ally, you had something
064to >> um I'm familiar like kind of with that, Carl, because I had looked into it for some other um issues with other school districts. I don't know. Um, I know it's mostly cont like you can't regulate contentbased if you're going to open up your facilities um to the public to have like it's a semi-public forum. So I but I don't know the details and off the top of my head I don't remember the analysis. So, if you guys would like, I could look into it and I could figure out like legally what what the rule is exactly with regard to Interact Club versus Key Club, but that's up to you guys. Just let me know. But I I do have some familiarity with it, Carl. Um I just off the top of my head,
065I don't >> It was early on in my career of school boarding. Oh, >> yeah. >> So, it's been a while since I thought about it, too. >> Yeah. But I did I did that analysis at some point for another school district. It's just and basically yes, that's the rule. If you let one club in, you have to let all of them in. But with regard to this particular situation, if you want me to, I could look it up. Um, just let me know. >> So, does anyone know when Key Club started? >> The 60s. >> Back >> in the 60s. >> So, that was quite a while before. And I don't know if that or not. >> It was only a boy club at the time. >> Yeah. >> All male. >> Yeah. >>
066A question. >> Okay. >> So, I'm looking at our policy. Where where are we in the policy? The steps in the policy. The students have brought it to the building leadership team. >> What has happened since then? So they brought it to the building leadership team and then it wasn't communicated forward and so um somehow it got lost in all of the transitions and so I didn't hear about it until I got an invitation to a Rotary Club meeting. Um, and I believe Max didn't hear about it until I called him and said, "Did we approve this new club?" And there's been no board action. And so under that new, we had a discussion. Our budget has already been completed for this coming year. Um, financing another activity or another club is we're already over
067our allotted amount um for this coming year. And so my decision at that time was I wasn't going to bring it before the board um to be sanctioned. I wasn't going to bring it as an action item. And so instead we brought it as a discussion item tonight because we um the nice folks that came here to advocate for it want it want it to be sanctioned. There's really not a lot of difference between if they have the club unsanctioned or sanctioned. Um the sanctioning part just puts more responsibility on the district which at this time with Max and Colton we didn't want to take that on. Um adds another activity account adds more where oversight adds another um I don't believe and we haven't looked into this 100%. But I don't believe that we
068can have the adviser without paying the adviser. Um I don't even if Kowana said they would pay the advisor I don't believe they can pay the adviser if the adviser donates their time that's one thing but can't be paid from that source has to be paid from our source if it's school sanctioned. So there was some some things that happened um in that regard. So my thought was potentially it could go through the process again and then next year it could be put in the budget. Um, but that would also be the district leadership team. Um, we do have a lot of clubs um, available and personally if Key Club wasn't here since the 1960s. If both of them were coming at this time because of the opening the door for every club that wants
069to come, I would be saying unless it's curricular or co-curricular, we aren't going to sanction the club. However, we will work with you to use our building, have access to our students the same way we do Boy Scouts, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and some of those other programs that come to us. >> So, there's a difference between being approved and being sanctioned. >> Yes. >> So, we've approved the club. >> Well, no, the board has not. I mean, well, the the building leadership >> building leadership team has >> has >> to be moved forward. >> Okay. So what would happen is if if Rotary decides to have the club anyway, it wouldn't be school affiliated, but they would have the same access as any other community. They just have to follow those >> process basically.
070I think that so they have access to the facility weren't sanctioned. Yeah. >> Yeah. We can't we can't say you can't come use our facilities the way that we allow the others to because we like what you're saying, >> right? >> That's that's the rule. >> That's what I thought I read. >> Yeah. >> And they would not be allowed to fundra >> under under Riverton High School. They would be able to under Interact Club. Correct. >> And they would have their own they would the Kowanas would or not the Kowanas, the Rotary would do their own banking for them, their own um monitoring, their own requisition process, purchase order process, all of those sorts of things. It wouldn't funnel through the district. posters, flyers, all those things to recruit kids can be in our
071>> in our in our building. >> Yes. With the same procedure that they do the others they bring here say we would like to post this. We sign off on it. We send it to the principles. The principles post. >> So it's it's not that we're saying no, please don't have a club. is that we're saying at this time the district doesn't know if we have the capacity um to add the additional organization in our responsibilities. >> Thank you. I just wasn't sure where we're where we were in the process. >> Thank you for asking. >> I have a question for the Rotary representative. Um are you okay with being approved but not sanctioned. What? I'm I'm not sure. What is Why do you want the sanctioning? >> No. And we're not we're not the
072enemy. We're just we're trying to understand. >> All right. We think there's a huge benefit for this club. There was the option to just bring everyone thought last year. approval. Okay. So if the school district sanctions your club, does that exclude Shosonyi and Wind River and Lander and those places? >> Okay. So >> so they would not be able to >> yeah it would have to follow our district policies and procedures and so it does put more restrictions on the interact club. So that is one of the benefits of interact and key club not being sanctioned by a district um because then the >> so the only thing different sanction club is a blessing and funding for the uh sponsor >> and and oversight over >> and and and then they get into the uh
073the dollars for going to you know like Kana splits >> the travel and uh paying for going to conventions >> and then the rest of it's done by fundraising. So, the only thing that you would be lacking is dollars in a way. If you could find a volunteer uh uh teacher or someone that would do it on their own for a year, >> so they could be in like they can put the posters up. They, you know, they they still are they could have their meetings in the school. Uh but money and >> are we legally responsible for sanctioned clubs? >> Yes. >> Under policy. >> Okay. And what other responsibilities would the school district incur? Um well we've listed as a official >> okay >> school and we would be responsible for it like
074we are all all the other sanctioned activities and clubs like we are for the ad clubs and the skills USA and the marching band. We would be responsible for you know the transportation and the oversight and the legalities and the um >> liabilities. Okay. >> It's a budget issue anyways. >> Yeah. At this point, >> it is. >> Yeah. >> Yes, sir. >> Oh, we want to hear from everybody. >> So, we specifically asked this question. back saying may request to school grounds outside of instructional time. Sanctioned well also unsanctioned clubs may use facilities if available but are not prioritized. raise through the school district under the district's fundraising policies with funds managed through district activity accounts cannot fundraising districts operate directly under rules I think there's significant differences. >> Okay. What are they? >>
075Well, for one access >> I don't think that's a >> sanction club. >> Okay. the library and these guys request it and then in addition to that is in fact the funds access to be sanction however we have interested in fact starting I don't understand fairness lies in this person that's pretty important. >> Okay. I don't know exactly how to proceed from here. >> So >> move to table it >> until another discussion and decide if you want to bring it back to the board uh as a action item or not. >> So move it forward. Okay. Is that a motion? >> That's a motion. >> I'll second Carl's motion. >> Any discussion? >> All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay, we're going to we're going to table this for a two weeks.
076Everybody's going to think about it. At least I am. I can't guarantee that everyone else will. And we'll go forward. Um, we'll let you know, Miss Pay, specifically that and then you can disseminate that information as you see fit. Uh, where we go from here. Um, that's I don't know what else to say. That's about it for right now. We're going to we're going to go forward and and try and give it some some thought. It's to do this all in one thing is kind of a little much for me anyway to to wrap my head around. >> I I really don't think anything. You've answered the questions that I had. Has anyone else have a question that has a budget issue? >> It is. >> Okay. >> I really appreciate what you're doing for
077the kids though. >> And so that's basically what the superintendent has to mull and with our business manager how that process would work. >> Go ahead. >> I understand that it's a budget issue on the city council deeply understands and yet polic >> and I can only apologize for that. Nobody. We don't know what happened. And not knowing isn't an excuse, >> but it's the best that I've got. >> Heard about it for the first time this week. >> Um, >> two weeks. >> And you if you since you know about budget issues, you know that changing budgets and coming up with extra money and responsibilities is not not the easiest thing to do. >> So, um, >> okay. Maybe me. >> I think it was me. >> It was Carl. >> So, if we
078could get the faculty sponsor >> Okay, we're not we're not going to make a decision tonight, but that that is allud >> it is a for me anyway, and I don't want to for everyone here, but for me paying the the faculty is a portion. The liability assumption is a huge portion for me, >> right? >> Um, one word sums all that up. Wrestling >> and if we if we sanction it, then it's it's a moot point. Volunteering it. >> That's right. become part of the >> you know that's that's one of the things that is in policy that have to pay. >> Yeah. >> So we need to we need to each individually think about it and and come to a consensus. Yes. So you said process >> I don't know >> is that
079>> they have to start over with the approval process if they were to table it for this year I believe is your question am I correct okay >> so we can reconsider it at this time or at that time next year um it's has gone through our process is changing because what we learned from this process is the building leadership ship team really doesn't have skin in the game. They they didn't know if they wanted it or didn't want it and quite frankly nobody even really voted. So when they were asked about it because they it the process wasn't working. So um Max and Reggie and the middle school um the athletic director, the middle school principles, the high school principles got together and revamped our plan um for how we do do this process
080to make it more meaningful so that the people that are talking at the table understand the impacts of the decision that they make and the voting and the putting some thought forward to it. That's part of my understanding when I investigated how am I getting an invitation to a club that I didn't know we had? And so that was part of part of what we learned is that the process wasn't working as we had intended. >> And this has happened before. >> So um that I believe that did I give send that to you for next board meeting? >> It was >> or is it on this board meeting information item? >> I can't remember. >> It is. It's it is it's in the information. >> So yeah, they have already revised it to make
081it um a little >> um better. >> We think so. Yeah. So, and it and the process as it as it is is a few steps. I mean, you ask for the club, they determine whether it meets policy, vote on it, and then we bring it to the board. So, >> so I believe that was Miss Fabian. I believe that was her question, >> right? So, I mean, basically, it's you go to Mr. Mills and say, "We'd like you to reconsider it at this time." He has the previous information. He takes it to the next spot. Um because we've already been to this part, it shouldn't take as long. >> No, you would just have to talk to Mr. Mills and say, "We would like you to consider this again." and he will say okay
082I will consider >> you have to renew the consideration but renewing the work would not be >> when we >> you'd want to you'd want to do that in February when we're starting to talk about next year's budgets >> yes Thank you. >> Well, thank thank you for being >> appreciate you guys >> and your patience and your comments. >> We'll move on to action items. Uh the first is to consider an administrative recommendation to accept a grant. >> Mr. Chair, I would move that the board accept the W uh Wyoming Department quality of quality grant in the amount of $52,775 to be used toward the replacement of one school bus used for student transportation. Second, >> any discussion on that? So, this is the same grant that Tracy did a few years back when
083we bought several or purchased several buses. Um, so Tracy did this process again. So, thanks to him for his work on that. >> Okay. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Hearing none, we'll accept that grant. Consider an administrative recommendation to accept a grant. >> Mr. Chair, I would move that the board accept the Exxon Mobile STEM grant award in the amount of $34,000 for the 25 2025 2026 school year. >> Second. >> Any discussion? We're accepting money. I hope we accept that. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Hearing none, we'll accept that grant. Consider an administrative recommendation to offer a contract. >> Mr. Mr. Chair, I would move the board offer a contract to Talon Toman as a Riverton Middle School assistant 7th grade football coach effective for the 2025 2026
084school year. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Hearing none, we'll offer the contract. We have some information items. Uh updated 2526 RHS handbook. It says please see page 13. I'm assuming that's in the >> it is that's it's an update to school fees. So which is something that we have been talking about and are trying for equitable participation to eliminate or reduce significantly. Um but we're not at that point in our budget yet to where we can do that. But um ideally that will be something that we plan for next year to not require student fees unless the projects go above and beyond the basic projects that are required to complete the class. >> Perfect. >> Okay. Revised policy 61000-RE request for approval of a new school activity.
085Save the Day 2025 WSBA annual conference in Casper, November 19 through 21 of this year. More details available in upcoming episodes. Um, notification of habitually truent, willfully absent, and 10day drop students. You can see that in your executive content. Uh, classified staff changes. Rescend I'm assuming that means rescend a contract or hiring >> Justin Gothier Godier as a RMS parah hired as an RMS crossing guard resignation maintenance subcustodian Patrick Wright effective September 3rd transfer Anthony Romich to a district floater custodian new hires Maxine no Maryanne Truax as an RMS MS PAR. Ayla Palmer as an RHS parah. Theodore Enos as a transportation bus driver. Pamela Adams as a transportation bus driver. Jordan Andrew as an aquatic center lifeguard. Travis McFarland as an aquatic center desk clerk and McKenzie Rinker as an aspirin parah. There are
086some separation notices which will also be available in your executive content. We have a thank you card from Yavon Thornley right back here and enrollment. >> Come on Jada more from you. >> So currently this year compared to last year right now we're down 71 students. >> Oh no. But interestingly enough though, um, where we closed out the year last year in May compared to where we're starting this year, it's a difference of 11 students. So that's I mean they're hard to balance. >> Yeah. >> And then comparison where we're the student loss is right now. We're down 22 elementary students. We're up five students at the middle school, down 50 students at the high school, down two students at Frontier, and down two students at Spur >> from this time last year. >> No,
087that's from where are 71. That's >> that's from the from this week last year. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> Anything else that anyone would like to bring forward? Oh, I have one more thing. Um, through the whole wedding scenario, I was at Double Dutch and they had a jacket for a CWC board member >> and I thought, "Yeah, that's pretty cool. >> Buy us one." >> Well, that's what I'm that's what I'm bringing up. If you uh I asked her about it and she said they run about 75 bucks a piece and are you guys interested? Would would you wear that sort of thing? a jacket that said, you know, district 25 board and that sort of thing. No, you're not. Anyone else? >> I have an entire wardrobe when I
088work with the RHS office. >> Okay. Well, you're >> by your own. That's great. >> Well, and that's that is an alternative. >> I mean, I love my Wolverine shirts, but >> All right. That's my thing. >> Think about it. If you decide that you want to go one way or the other, text me or call me or >> Okay. >> Whatever. And we'll go forward with that. All right.