001scheduled Janu Mark January March 25th session of the district 25 school board to order thank you all for coming uh if you join me for the pledge i al 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 could I get a roll call Mr chair we have a quum thank you do we have any changes to the agenda we do not thank you so Mr chair I would move we adopt the agenda as presented second all in favor or any discussion about the agenda all in favor I any opposed hearing none we'll accept the agenda as presented the con consent agenda I'm having trouble tonight it's good consists of approving the minutes of the March 11th
0022025 board meeting and to consider payment of bills including late pays 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 hearing none we'll accept the consent agenda uh and we'll move on to the round table Mr mcferson can you tell us about the buildings and grounds of course yes I will uh overall we're in good shape uh the auditorium is coming along uh it's on schedule to be major completion toward the end of may I anticipate start getting some punch lists and stuff first April or end of April 1 of May we'll start working through those uh they're looking really good Landscaping is about the only thing left to do on the outside
003of the building and of course that's going to depend on what spring brings for us on most of that uh we have the rest of our reconfiguration move to finish this year we'll be moving Jackson over into rondevo and then some uh fifth grade classes out to Willow Creek and Aspen along with that we're doing a little work in Jackson to try to help accommodate some of those younger grade levels to kindergarten in first grade uh and most of that I think we've got some good work around for the bathroom situation and everything I met with uh some of the city guys over there yesterday we got some real good ideas on how to take care of a lot of those issues uh we got the sewer project starting in Jackson should be starting sometime
004this summer early spring try to get them in there as soon as we can as soon as uh we're out of that building and get it done hopefully for the anticipation of Frontier moving in there over Christmas break next year um have a re-roof going here at central office should be starting late summer early fall we'll get a new roof on here and other than that going through the uh State condition assessments that they did on all the buildings here feed years ago uh trying to come up with good prioritization plan on what we need to tackle when everything and then clean it up uh taking care of the major maintenance work orders that have been out there for a while so yeah we're doing pretty good any questions well I regarding the auditorium uh
005I don't know about anybody else but I'd like to see it when it's like to the finished stage I can talk to you uh Samson we'll see if we can set up another board tour here four weeks doesn't have to be anything you know in depth but I just kind of like to see what we've been planning for all these years yeah I'll talk to him maybe we can get a quick peek in the front end there uh at least see it I believe they're starting to work on the upper deck seating and stuff now so and it doesn't have to be soon but I mean like when they're ready to be pretty much done I would I would love to see it I would I would love to see well we'll get you guys
006in there before it's it's fully open so you can take a look around okay be great the punch list day yeah yeah that sounds like a good idea throw a punch yeah they low punch list we're going to do some of that in stages our first one will be where we've cut into the school and put into hallway uh that'll be the first one that comes out so we can turn it over while we have students still in there and then we work through the rest of them as they complete up awesome get us done that's exciting so we're you're a a project is on the action items and I just kind of wanted to ask a question that um sir so you don't have to come up again thank you it's a decrease what's
007the what is it what's the change uh they originally project was going to have some digital controls that just would not interface with what with what we have existing in that building okay so we've done away with the digital controls we're going to rework the old pneumatics that are up there uh and everything so that that is where that big decrease come in in there good that's pretty simple answer that'll work it'll work well that way yes it should work well that way I'm always about saving money that's nice yes we just won't be able to play with it from remot can't the other ones but oh well proba be able to work around on that huh yeah yeah there's always somebody around little trained monkey go change the that's right thank you I appreciate
008it Dad okay so Carl you want to start no okay I am don't have anything to that okay um Jody I have a couple things um first of all I traveled home from the soccer on Green River and I just want to give a shout out to our transportation individuals I know that they transported kids to Denver so that they could go to Boston and to New York and they also there was a driver that transported them back several of those kids are soccer players they arrived here around 5:00 a.m. and loaded a bus at 6 to drive to Green River to go play soccer and um those roads over the past were atrocious that's why they returned through um to Rollins um Ted and I had left early enough we checked and and and
009we and it was fine I'm here to tell you it was not fine they shut the road behind us and um it was it was some of the worst roads and I've driven that Hill a lot a lot of times and it was awful but I wanted to thank them especially Hermes and piffany they're the ones who are driving the the boys and the girls and I truly appreciate what our what they do and our transportation department for giving updates and having those travel updates so readily available for our drivers that's huge in getting kids home I was relieved to know that that's where they came also um Ayanna marado what a stellar student um she well I think the Arab Le she she took first there and from my understanding she was accepted into
010John Hopkins wow which is pretty impressive and um she's just so driven and she's so focused and you know she does everything she plays soccer as well um so I just wanted to give a shout out for them and then the other thing is is we we've got the Middle School um restaurant coming up and it happens to be on our board meeting tonight and so I would like to maybe entertain some discussion about possibly doing that you know moving in back that night the meeting time because um I have an eighth grader this year and I very much want to be able to go or I will be going to attend so um and and not that that would matter but I know that everybody here loves to support that and it's such a
011great little thing for all of us to do so outside of that by the grace of God I'm here because I made it over South pass in some of the worst roads I've ever driven and I go up there a lot we have cab there so I'm here to tell you it was pretty hairy so that's it for me I just want to thank Ed for your oversight of the find Arts of the auditorium that's a huge project I know and so it's h that will be a wonderful addition and thank you for all that you've done to help with that um I wondered about the I don't really have much I went to state soccer or State uh gymnastics couple weeks ago and Lany took third on bars in the state so that was
012kind of fun didn't do as well as she wanted to but that was still a good achievement um but the April Boys and Girls Club breakfast are we gonna have a table at that again so yeah so Jada arrang that we have your tickets and everything so just wanted to to make sure that we were voed that because I think that's a that's always a fun thing to do and and support so but I don't really have anything else so thank you um we'll have our annual our monthly Northwest Bose's meeting tomorrow night and um we'll be moving forward with different things there I did have a quick question about graduation is it at 11 on the 18th I have to maybe all of a sudden I was like oh I have to rearrange my
013flight schedule for a me I'm leaving that afterno I'll find out okay I think it's 18th is it noon okay perfect well I'm glad I asked looked up looked up on the calendar before I hit book on that tiet because I was like so anyway that's coming up quick it won't be long we'll be having graduation and I am excited about the restaurant project that's always a good time and of course the Boys and Girls Club breakfast will be great so I don't have anything else nothing tonightt nothing tonight thank you it is J come on give us something you know what I did take a look at the website because Lindsay Cox did a phenomenal job your photos are up there your bios are up there it looks great so thank you for doing
014that I think you might have had a little to do with that didn't you all you guys and Lindsay cops we give her the credit on that looks great thank you Ally you got anything for us um well I wanted to just I know you're all aware but I wanted to call your attention to the fact that the judge and Cheyenne judge folcker agreed and found that the state legislature has been underfunding the school Finance really uh yeah a lot and the opinion is quite scathing I'm very much enjoying reading it um uh but if you guys want any more information or want me to do a presentation or anything please let me know and I'll prepare one but um basically what it says is yeah you got to fund schools better you not doing
015so over all of these years has led to a uh um a violation of students constitutional right to an equal and adequate education and that he's maintaining jurisdiction so they can't actually appeal it to the Wyoming Supreme Court from what I understand because he is like I'm going to now oversee whatever plan you're going to come up with to actually fund education the way it should be funded the way the Constitution requires it so you don't think it can be appealed I don't know I'm thinking about it and I'm not because he's maintaining jurisdiction I don't know how that works I know that that's what they did in the other Campbell cases but I believe it was the Wyoming Supreme Court that maintained the jurisdiction so I got a figure that out um it's 30
016days from when the uh decision was issued so I don't even know if they that's run um let me pull it up on the on the I have it saved on my phone so let me just see and I'll tell you right now if the appeal date has run um but it was excellent I was very pleased uh February 26 2025 so they have tomorrow to file an appeal if they're going to and we'll see and they might but I think procedurally they can't do it but we'll see and I'll let you know um but I think that means they they passed the ECA for this year because of it and I think I mean I don't know what the WEA wants to do or what any of the other um attorneys that filed that
017lawsuit any of their clients want to do but any of those other bills or laws that pass that take money away from the public fund to give to private education like the one the $7,000 voucher I think all of those would be unconstitutional given this opinion so I don't know I I'm hoping that there's going to be lawsuits brought to challenge those uh but we'll see how that plays out um but it was a very good day for public education I was really happy about it one of the things that came out was that this is is the year of recalibration so he sort of gave them a you know a year to have their summer meetings and figure out how to do recalibration and then come up with legislation so it'll probably be after
018the legislature next year before anything is really accomplished so maybe they'll pedal back on some of those laws that they passed this year well they have to Pedal forward too well yeah you know what I mean yeah there there's some of those are there but there's a bunch of stuff that they have to do to fix it absolutely nothing to do with what they did this year and yeah it was just I was really I really commend uh Peter foler for what he did for the for the state and the public school system oh yeah we got stuff that I didn't expect to see I mean yeah everything sro's and school counselors sro's the food uh re M all of that I know on the voucher deal somewhere I've got stuck in my head that
019they said someone said they the nebulous they that that money was not going to come from school money yeah they're trying to make it so that it can't be challenged as unconstitutional but I suspect there's a way to to challenge that law based off of this opinion even if they're trying to hide it by saying it's coming from somewhere else I think that it's still coming from the government exactly so I think that there's probably a way to okay to legally challenge that law it it is coming from the general fund not coming out of the well yeah but that was like another thing that at least it's not coming out of our yeah can of money that's very small can yeah but it's going to get hopefully bigger now that's what you got any
020further questions for Ally I had one question I was trying to research is I I didn't see anything about like back damages or anything like that it's just going forward correct yeah no he's not he's not going to make them pay for all the stuff that they didn't do because I you know I think one that would be astronomical to require the state to make up what they should have paid and I think it's it's just correcting it going forward yeah okay thank you you're welcome Roy you got anything for us nothing tonight Christina I do not okay um I really don't have anything either just uh you know what everyone else has been saying that the the Arab League deal I saw the thing in the paper and that was I was glad to
021see positive press in the paper and I saw Max's deal in the paper uh that was good also good job Jody okay so um with that restaurant project are you all in agreement then that we can advertise that the board meeting will change to 7 or 7:15 that night which would you prefer I think 7:15 might be better give us a little more a little cushion okay so um we'll get that advertised that we'll change anyone have anything to add to that no no okay thank you yep um so I also had on my um list to talk to you about the Boys and Girls Club breakfast so that is April 23rd we do have tickets available for you and um J will deliver them at a board meeting prior to the event so that
022you have those um and then I wanted to ask about potentially having a work session on April 29th that is not a board meeting night so it would just be on an off Tuesday I believe that that's one where we have two Tuesdays in between our board meetings I don't know what your schedules look like um we would do some preliminary budget things because is there what time does that start Seven 8 High School uh middle school so if we if we scheduled at 6 and we're done in time I then we could make sure that we so I can SE out y That's yeah I'm good with that what date uh April 29th we'll provide a um small dinner and then we'll plan on working for an hour to an hour and a half
023so start at five start at 6 six like I said that's what I have it down ASM do you have will you look again on your calendar and see if it's listed I don't know that I think it's seven is it seven we could start on the district on the district event calendar it says 6:30 oh on the that's the district event we're looking on the website so they have seventh grade and then eth grade will fall maybe we start at 5:30 would everybody be able and we'll be done at 6:30 5 yep 6:30 6:30 okay so you want to try to start at 5 does that work for you Lori 55 505 505 we're starting at 505 for a work session on April 29th I said I might be late so we said five
024o'clock right five o'clock okay and we'll we'll we'll wrap up by 6:15 we'll try to have it be an hour okay perfect I clock out at and um so I received an email from the state of Wyoming I couldn't tell if it came to a lot of superintendant or not a lot of superintendent so I responded back and they um and I filled out this form and I have a trip paid for to go to Palm Springs with wde and whoever else from this state did it for a training um so since the flights paid and the hotels paid paid and it's nothing on the district that'll be my second event that I have attended in traveling so I'm making progress there going ahead and getting out of my cup Zone good job um what
025time when when is it it's April 23rd so I will miss the Boys and Girls Club breakfast and I will miss a board meeting um but it is the direction the state's trying to go um with some of their projects and so I thought it might be a good idea since I my trip will be paid for to attend that yeah I think that's great yeah awesome um and I will yeah I know that's scary and we'll be um I'll be taking a little bit of vacation time and the rest of the central office will too so we do have Amy covering on Thursday and Friday but if it's absolutely if she's the only one and there's nothing going on she'll lock up the doors and put a note on as well so perfect all
026right and that's all I have okay thank you very much do we have any visitors or delegations that would like to address the board seeing none hearing none we'll move on to the action items uh first one is to consider an administrative recommendation to approve a change order Mr chair I would move the board approve change order number one with Sweetwater air in the amount of a decrease of 12,00 385 on the Riverton High School pool lobby rtu project second any discussion already kind of discussed just really glad that it's a decrease I have a quick question though it says in our um information that it's a decrease of 20,000 is that is it a decrease of 20 and then we're adding back in 7600 yes okay sorry I was just making sure I was
027following the map thank you it is down at the botom at 7615 yeah just making sure yeah it's just a wording yeah okay yes anything else all in favor I I any opposed hearing none will'll accept that recommendation for the change order to consider an administrative recommendation to accept resignations Mr chair I would move the board accept the resignations of Matthew Mason as a Riverton High School social studies teacher Cody Christensen as a willow Creek first grade teacher Andy Bradshaw as a district instructional facilitator effective May 23rd 2025 Brian Schultz as a Riverton Middle School assistant track coach and brtt nberg as a Riverton High School assistant football coach effective immediately second any discussion all in favor I I any opposed hearing none we'll accept those resignations to consider an administrative recommendation to offer contracts
028Mr chair I move the board offer a contract to Joy Jones as a Riverton high school art teacher Dylan forbus as a Riverton Middle School 8th grade science teacher Danielle skags as a Riverton art teacher effective for the 2025 2026 school year Tyler Jordan as a Riverton Middle School assistant track coach effective for the 2025 spring season second time any discussion all in favor I any opposed hearing none we'll offer those contracts um information items we have a donation from Kelly Orosi I don't know how to pronounce that of a swim urg with M pm3 power meter to the Riverton Aquatic Center estimated value of $2,000 I had no idea what that was I I don't know what that is it's a thing that they can like kind of lay on and and swim right
029they can emulate the their Strokes on it yeah build their muscle okay it's a strength strength is yeah okay so you knew what it was resistance okay cool uh certified staff changes transfers Haley Lavoy to a Riverton high school a teacher effective for the 25 26 school year Bridget Franks to a Willow Creek intervention teacher effective for the 2526 school year classified changes a resignation of rhs custodian Nicholas Solas effective March 28th transfers Erica Harker to an aspen Elementary daycare assistant effective immediately Patricia Patricia granin to a sped Family Resource advisor effective the 2526 school year and we have a separation notice that we can discuss an executive content um enrollment stud excellent all of your parading up and down Main Street that's right good job how much does it average out as for the
030year what's that what is the average for the year counts yeah you know Carl average is a terrible statistic but that's what counts I know know it but one foot in ice and one foot in boiling water on average you should be comfortable but it put us in boiling water that's I checked like a week ago and we're down like 82 I think it's average yeah it's sticking around like 79 to 82 okay somewhere around there good job Jada nice safe for a tag team who I hear a a motion to move to go into executive session for personnel second shouldn't take too long all in favor