001e e e our regular scheduled meeting for March 11th for the school board to order if you'd all stand so we can do the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge alance 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 okay can I get a roll call Mr chair we have a Flor thank you and do we have any changes to the agenda we do not okay so Mr chair I would move we adopt the agenda as presented second all in favor I any opposed the agenda is adopted unchanged and the consent agenda tonight includes the approval of minutes of the February 25th 20 2025 board meeting consider payment of bills including late pays and pre-authorization of payroll
002Insurance utilities officials and automatic payments and to adopt amended policy 4165 animals in schools I assume that doesn't apply to students amended policy 5103 District sickly bank and amended policy 411 5-e field trip budget request on second reading Mr chair I would move to um approve the consent agenda as presented second second any all in favor I any opposed hearing none will adopt the consent agenda and moving on to the round table Jenny would you like to talk to about service of course you would yes please yeah yeah right there at that way the individuals are listening and can hear yeah okay yeah I'm Jenny the Food Service supervisor so I'm not sure what you're expecting but I have three topics I'm going to talk to you quickly about what's going on in our department
003accomplishments will be the first one so we have a point of sale that wde came in pretty quick when I took over after school started and insisted that we get a point of sale in all the buildings Elementary did not have those the way wde wanted those and so so we worked quick and hard to get that implemented the point of cell is a cloud-based Nutrition management program which allows us to manage transactions in the cafeteria it is designed to quickly guide cashiers through each cell in real time with accurate counting claiming and Reporting so prior to this in elementary schools they had cards with little baskets they were putting in at the end of the salad bar that was not acceptable they had to be charged in real time at the point of cell
004so those are implemented in all the buildings now thrill share is an effective communication tool which allows us to alert parents and Guardians by text if a student has a negative balance lunch breakfast or lunch balance as of today this may seem high to you but I'm very excited about that we only have an outstanding paid balance this is paid students only of $930 and that's pretty amazing for the number of kids that we feed yes it is so our cooks are ve very diligent in using thrillshare and reaching out alerting parents um we are currently using Neutra kids as our menuing program with the approval of both jod and Colton I purchased new up-to-date software for menuing called healthy Pro healthy Pro is a cloud-based menu planning program created to plan amazing compliant menus
005it allows School food authorities to confidently plan Monitor and document all aspects of the complex Child Nutrition menu planning process and present menus to the public in an appealing and useful manner this program allows Cooks to log into the program and access menus recipes and production records within their kitens I excitedly set my goals high and made the purchase in October hope in October hoping to put the program into practice by November each ingredient with the nutritional values must be entered and then recipes created in order to generate a menu with the Christmas holidays quickly approaching I came to the sad realization I simply needed a life outside of work and accepted the fact that healthy Pro needed to wait until the next school year okay Serve Safe is a um I was Serve Safe
006certified in November that was an online class I took and then I had to go to college and take a test I passed surprisingly we um are fully staffed and have been all year with two subs wanting to work more hours and days than I can possibly give them and I tell my staff they always say I we can't take personal days we can't be sick we don't have help and I said we have two subs that are so willing to step in so take your days so happy to report that in November we replaced the traditional Thanksgiving dinner with a thankful and grateful chili dinner where we fed an additional 597 parents and siblings at the elementary level my staff greatly appreciated this change and were able to enjoy their own traditional turkey dinners
007with their family and friends because they were spending two weeks cooking turkeys all day and slicing turkeys and by the time Thanksgiving rolled around they were over Thanksgiving dinner and I'm very traditional I love those I love tradition holiday traditions and so it was important to me that my Cooks have that same opportunity to enjoy it a wellness committee I'm happy to report we have four or five people on the welders committee next year I'll be sending you an email because I would love to have a board member on this Wellness committee um it's and in the wellness committee a student parent survey was created and sent out by social media the survey will be used to increase student engagement and collect feedback about new and existing Foods through the Food Service program budgets I
008am super proud to report that we have only spent 55% of our budget our wte claims which is breakfast and lunch reimbursements for free being reduced is over 177,000 more this year $177,000 more this year than it was last year at this time our free and reduced numbers for our district are 80 to 85% of our students so now I'll go on to goals the number one goal is to continue feeding students healthy nutritious meals another goal to continue plugging away at healthy Pro the new menuing program that was purchased um I will continue plugging away entering ingredients and recipes and to properly train my staff so we are ready to kick off the 25 26 school year confident that our menus will be healthy nutritious and compliant and to increase popula participation by introducing
009new menu items here's my dream and I think it's going to happen depending on the budget in the next couple of months I would love to have the new delivery truck graffiti wrapped with artwork provided by District 25 students that'd be really awesome I think so and so you have a very dedicated we have a very dedicated team in Food Service they work hard and are extremely dedicated to The District staff and students thank you so much for the opportunity to learn and serve in this capacity I look forward to what the future holds in our department as well as the district I feel incredibly humbled and grateful to work with so many talented and amazing staff and students God bless thank you thank you Jenny thanks for taking on those new programs that's really
010cool yeah that is like like stop go to the door thank you very [Laughter] [Music] much it sounds like your menu planning is kind of complex is that true will not in re done is there a barcode scanner or anything that you can scan ingredients on Lear on ingredients that would be really handy can you use like AI to generate no no ah so it just it has to just be hand entered well you know like they say good information in good information out garbage in garbage out so thank you for that right well thanks for taking that project on it sounds like it sounds like a big project actually and the the chili was delicious at the Thanksgiving feast thank you it was wonderful great time all right well we'll start with the board
011Terry would you want to start even if you don't thanks Jenny yeah true thanks Jenny well since the last meeting um I one of the judges up at the debate at CWC and uh so that was that was a fun time was kids are amazing oh man so I got to do Congress this time and uh then a little bit of the Lincoln uh Douglas debate and then uh some uh poetry which poetry is awesome because they act out the characters or the Au cool and they have to explain it it's it's quite a process watched a little bit of basketball on the channel 10 or the U my phone 10 and uh then uh participated on the rec board giving out grants and so that'll come up on later in the meeting that's about
012it cool thank you I don't really have a whole lot I we did the the rec board meeting and gave out money and we we revising our well I think Dean got it we revised the um the you know they're like your rules the bylaws the bylaws we revised those and we looked over um our um the the way people read through the um when they apply the application process I'm sorry I'm having to time change things no it's okay I'm in a brain fog I'm so tired today and then I'm getting ready for a baby any day now that's what I understand that's exciting so yeah we're busy so with the rck board are there any new people asking for CBS it was fun to have um we had Brady slack come and introduce
013the thing with the group that he has called the frogs and um which is basketball yeah basketball which is basketball yeah for Littles and um that was interesting we're going to help them out with some shirts and things like that so yeah and some some basketballs that uh those grants Awards man they keep a lot of stuff running they really do they just wouldn't be wouldn't be there what they pointed out was that Riverton right now doesn't have a junior basketball and so Middle School is when they're first yep introduced to basketball right now and now they'll be able to draw on those kids from fourth grade on up so that when they get to to Middle School they'll have that experience so by the time they get to high school they'll have had eight
014years of experience of playing basketball well I and I think too that that's been kind of an administrative dream for a couple of years was be able to implement some sort of intermural program for those younger kids so it's kind of nice to get us see that the W board can come in and help with that because it you know all those things cost money and so they're costly and we're very fortunate to have the rec board we truly are indeed well um we had our our um search for the administrative director for Northwest bosis um continues so we will we've extended the application time frame and we'll reconvene um the first week or so of March or of April I mean I'm in brainfog too but mine's not necessarily time change I don't know
015what day it is um but anyway so we're moving forward with that we did um all meet together in Thermopolis um as a board and uh have some discussions so that was really good we had board members all of our board members that were able to attend the farthest one is from Douglas he came up that night and met with us all too so there are a lot of committed people committed to getting the right person and moving forward that's all I have other than be nice to your text preparer L you know I really don't have anything either I'm thankful that the legislative session is over that's that has taken up a good share of my time and so it's kind of nice to have something else to do with my days of just
016having a yeah and I too would like to say that the W board has just a huge part of the community I know at child development services we uh received several grants from the rec board and helped us to put in a playground here in the Riverton in Riv you know the center there and there there's just such so many things that that program offers as community that we wouldn't be able to have if it wasn't for that so thank you for your time with that and I state to M this weekend so I'll be going to that and that's about all I have thank you well I have a a couple of things um I kind of tried to write them down so I would actually remember um I've I've done a lot well
017I watched a little bit of the online watch the the high school basketball teams and I have to tell you that that thrilling end of the buzzer beater that um we we one by one from three-point range with time running out it just seemed like a weekend of that for two weekends because that that occurred with the eighth grade boys in Powell I watch that not just with the the middle school teams our middle school teams but other middle school teams so it just kind of seems to be that I just want to congratulate those teams on and what they've accomplished and what they've done um I also I went to the state hockey for the high school age kids um and I'm I'm really thankful that the rep Bo is actually helps a lot
018with some of their funding and grants and um what it's what it's kind of formulated into and I've been watching this particular group of individuals play since they were old enough to push a chair with skates on and then start with the mites and the mini mes we have three All State players from Freemont County School District 25 one is my grandson Landon Hughes is goalie um one is Mason RoR and he was a forward power he plays center and power forward and one is Camden H as a defenseman and I'm pretty proud of those kids for being chosen for that honor that's pretty awesome um I went to The Lightning Thief which was our Riverton Middle School play it was ABS mind boggles me kids of this age what what the amount of memorization
019and the things that that they can do and on stage and the stage presence that they create and we had one youngster who had a very intrical role who had been and was was sick ended up with pneumonia but she managed to get cleared so she could be on stage and it was so fun and if you've never seen the Lightning Thief or heard anything about it it was very it was it was really great for Middle School age kids because it kind of talks about that awkwardness and not fitting in and and and how do you fit in and and and that kind of thing and I just felt like gosh the message was just so much bigger than that and then I got to go today I I was I I went to
020the tour of excellence and with um our state superintendent I'll leave that to the others to talk more about that but that was a Hu a really great experience it was really what an honor what an honor for our teachers and our kids and our support staff and the individuals who feed our kids and you know to be able to recognized by the state you know Board of Education was what an honor our middle school kids who spoke to the group were phenomenal today they were the ones that came in they spoke earlier kind of here but man they if they were if they were standing up the bath they hadit a home run every one of them it was just so awesome and then we I went with them over to Frontier Academy and
021that was really nice to have that showcase um as well so um gosh I I kind of don't know what to do because for two weekends in con consecutive weekends I managed to um travel just under 1400 miles between hockey and basketball and so um it's kind of nice to be here so I think that's that's it for me but thanks for all you guys do because I we're seeing it reflecting our kids and and we're seeing it reflecting our rec and I hope that you guys will take that back to the rec board that we have three fos that we're honored for for uh all safe Christina I do not have anything thank you I know you're welcome Bruce yeah really nothing for me either J so I just took the whole I did
022didn't I it was all love you for that I have a few things so uh last board meeting I was obviously gone for a wasbo board meeting and and uh or just a wbow meeting and uh yeah I learned a lot about we went over legislature stuff we went over budgeting stuff over leadership things and it was just the support that I've had from the business managers has been truly awesome like there anytime I have questions I have a group of them that I ask questions to um we have another meeting April 7th where it's just going to go specifically with new business managers on how to do the budgeting tool and how to prepare the budgets and all that stuff so I'll be attending that one in in Casper um besides that we've just
023been working hard on the budget um it's kind of been challenging I'm waiting on the state to answer some emails for me about about our budgeting tools so I'll keep pressing on that um besides that oh and then today we went um we had a meeting with webt insurance and our insurance increase is going to be 4% so we're happy with with that um I think a couple years ago 2020 was 10% so um I think it's the lowest it's been in a few years so% isn't horrible yeah we were pleasantly surprised in regard to the insurance um something I thought about before with the whole no gunfree zones is that going to affect our insurance at all so um that was our medical insurance oh okay all right not liability insurance no and so
024that that's a that's a mixed bag um of yes it is and no it isn't depending on who you talk to right and so um as a part of the legislative followup we're waiting to hear back from the wsba attorneys and then also um Joel and Ally will be looking at a few things for us as well but there are um that's one of the things I was going to mention is following up now that the legislature is done and looking at what did pass but you know what didn't pass what was detto all those things and figuring out how those impact our policies and us moving forward um we'll have we'll have a list of things that we'll need to look at I'm sure um I'm just barely starting that process and wsba has
025said that they will um give us a fairly thorough followup as well to help um to make sure we don't miss anything that was a question I was going to have for if they could do that that'd be great why don't you just go ahead with your could I just say one more no okay I just not about what we're on subject I meant to mention this but I just wanted to convey um condolences to Charlie Marshall and his family the loss of Mona you know she started teaching back in 1968 and she was my youngest Brother's first experience in school and he fell in love with her that day and and she just continued that and when I began as a preschool director at St Margaret's it was because of Mona Marshall because I
026was going in and just helping out and she asked me to she said well she didn't ask me she mized it she said she volen told me that I needed to do this so I took that on and that's kind of where that Journey started and I also want to send out my heartfelt condolences um to two of my classmates um barbette and Tom Hernandez he passed away on Sunday and so and they spent a lot of time in our district Tom and I shared uh the room the when I was at the high school as a compensatory education person there and um I will miss my friend um and I just wanted to tell them thank you for their service to our district and what they did for our community and our kids that's
027all I wanted Dan at thank you good job go ahead okay so um I'll be doing the legislative recap and working closely with wsba because they have said that they will be providing that and that will be be very helpful um one thing that now it's back on it was only halfway up and so it wasn't quite on um the tour of Excellence today was a lot of fun and I I knew some of the things that were happening um at the middle school but I was um very impressed with the students and their description of what's happening and how it's impacted them and also um just the level of out of the boox thinking and just going above and beyond that's happening to meet the needs of students there at Riverton middle school so
028that was a lot of fun um one thing that was on our agenda a while back that I didn't speak to was anou that we have with the Fremont County prevention and I just wanted to take a minute to tell you that we have six staff members it was supposed to be three but they increased it to six because we had that much interest in staff members becoming tobacco cessation Specialists and we're looking at adding that to our high school health course to our um Wellness course at the middle school and then having it be for students that you know are caught with their vaping repeatedly there's there's an in-depth and a not training so um all six of those um staff members who um filled out the application and were selected to do it
029have been sent their registration and and the fee will be paid for them and then we will get together as a group and figure out the best way for us to provide that for our students that's awesome good and the last thing I was going to tell you is we've got a lot of uh spring activities happening so you've mentioned several of them but it's it's already March um in case you didn't know it's March 11th yes for those of you don't remember what date it is and uh school will be out before we know it that's great crazy really moving um I know that a few years ago that The Vaping thing was huge in the high school especially is it still a big problem yes yes vaping is still a problem at the
030high school and the middle school that's unfortunate well I'll finish up the we went to the Excellence tour of Excellence is that the correct and got to talk to Megan de in Felder is that right um and it's kind of nice to be able to talk to somebody that really has you know direct input into the education system and I was I think that Aziz did a superb job of presenting what they do in the middle school and I was particularly impressed by the flex program yes aiz couldn't really describe how it worked but it works and I mean he did a pretty good job of describing it but you know it was like well they you know if they move up they they move up in these areas and if they are not excelling
031in a certain thing then they don't move up and it just it was kind of a really individualized instruction and I was that's always been kind of a concern of mine is that we might leave some of the really exceptional kids underserved and this seems to largely solve that problem well NE he also Brady actually mentioned with that that they look at kids when they go through and they develop these kids as who they're going to choose that yes they're going to depending on certain subject there is they're going to kind of focus in on you know those kids that are exception but there are also kids that might not reflect as well academically but they have like an an insatable appetite for a particular um genre or or thing history or or science or
032something and so they've they've done some with that and he said it has just really grown kids really a lot that's a good point because I didn't realize that that was you know part of the deal but yeah it really you know some kids just don't test that well you know but they really know the subject and so they're included too and I think that's outstanding and I was really impressed with the kids doing their little speeches and you could tell the the AI was prominent in that because they were using words that I had to kind of think about what does that mean exactly so superintendent D Felder and her staff said boy future future board members future politician future education people you know it's pretty cool to get a see it was it
033was I'm glad that I went you know it was one of those things where I didn't really know what to expect and I was overwhelmed so that's it for me so do we have any visitors or delegations that would like to speak to the board I want to welcome Ernie back to the board meetings we've missed him yes been a while thank you good to be back nice to see you and your s kick back right exactly you guys are a little Rowdy but we'll we'll let it go this time hold it down okay so we'll move on to the action items uh first one is to consider an administrative recommendation to approve an outof State travel request chair I recommend the board approve the Riverton High School Key Club students to travel to Estus
034Park Colorado in April 2025 for the Key Club district convention as for policy all in favor I I oppos hearing none we'll approve that out of state travel do you want to speak to sure so the Key Club um Jada had a great idea we'll give her all the credit um is going to come after they travel to talk to you because it seems like there the travel is going to be approved almost every time and it's a lot more exciting for us to hear after and kids are very busy so having them come before and after is a lot is a lot so um we're looking at having kids come after when whenever possible so we can hear all about their trip great I'm much in favor of that because I like hearing about
035how excited they are and what they're doing and for them to come and just say you know can we get some approval sometimes they don't even want money they just want and I'd rather do that we can hear about the whole deal we have a group that's getting ready to leave on I want to say Saturday to go to Boston too that we approved at previous meetings for the American Heritage kids are getting ready to go that's that's a good yeah my grandson's going to be a part of that he is so excited Boston's fun consider an administrative recommendation to accept a grant Mr chair I would move the board accept the IRC Grant in the amount of $110,000 second any discussion all in favor I I any opposed hearing none we'll accept that Grant
036I don't know why we wouldn't but H consider an administrative recommendation to accept a Fremont County School District 25 Recreation board award Mr chair I would move the board accept the award of 36,000 for the Riverton Aquatic Center from the Fremont County School District number 25 Recreation board second any discussion just thankful we have thankful that that they continue to supplement that all in favor I any opposed hearing none we will accept that Grant consider an administrative recommendation to approve an early graduation request Mr chair I would move that the board approve the early graduation request for Mia Von eert as presented second discussion it's nice to see our kids moving forward with their life plans yeah and we we talked about it a little bit that this is kind of out of the norm
037um that it's pretty early but there was really no reason to not approve it right right yes so she um has worked really hard and is in a good place to move forward with her life goals all in favor I any opposed hearing none will approve that early graduation uh consider an administrative recommendation to accept a retirement request Mr chair I would move the board accept the retirement request of Judy Rambo as the Rendevous sjon interpreter for the deheart of hearing students effective at the end of the 2024 2025 school year second any discussion just like to thank her for her many years of service and how many kids she has impacted time is this a position that we're going to hire for so we have another interpreter already and depending on student numbers so
038at this time we won't need to um if there's a couple of students that potentially will be moving into the district and if they do we'll be advertising for the position okay great all in favor I I any opposed we hearing none we will be accepting the retirement request consider administrative recommendations to accept resignations Mr chair I would move the board accept the resignations of Nathaniel Gillette as a Riverton High schoolmiddle School music teacher Katherine splitzer as a Jackson Elementary first grade teacher Marco Von Austin P pazi as a Rendevous fifth grade teacher Brenda Moore as a rjon art teacher and Nathaniel Esposito is a Rendevous Jackson sped teacher all effective at the end of the 2024 20125 school year second any discussion all in favor I any opposed hearing none we'll accept those resignations
039consider an administrative recommendation to offer contracts Mr chair I recommend the board offer a contract to Britney wood as an aspen Elementary fifth grade teacher casiah dwit as a Frontier Academy teacher Heather love as a Riverton High School science teacher effective for the 2025 2026 school year Zachary rot as a Riverton Middle School head soccer coach Michael Kirk as Riverton Middle School assistant coach effective for the 2025 spring season second any discussion all in favor I I opposed hearing none will offer those contracts consider an administrative recommendation to offer contracts Mr chair go ahead Mr chair I recommend the board offer contract to Scott McBride as the Aspen Elementary School principal Max Mills as the Riverton High School assistant principal activities director effective for the 2025 2026 school year I'll second that motion any discussion
040all in favor I I any opposed hearing none we'll move forward with those contracts okay on to the information items Willow Creek Elementary and Rendevous Elementary have been selected to participate in the National School food study okay so something has changed since then we were selected to participate in that and we were told that it was a mandatory thing but then they sent me some questions um and I answered those questions and now we're no longer going to be a part of the study so well you know we we um is that good or bad I um actually Jenny and I were both both glad because it takes um some extra work off of off of her team's plate and um so well it sounds like she's goingon to be very busy with what she's
041got going on so anyway um I've I knew that it was on here but now it needs to be off of here but it I didn't get the email until this afternoon awesome no problem no one's dead no yeah we're we're not even limping thank you for the explanation yes the Wyoming Department of Education has completed the preliminary view of the district's evidence for accreditation in the 2025 26 school year the preliminary recommendation is to be accredited with a review score of 97.83% why wasn't it% yeah yeah working on it there was something conratulations on your hard work thank you we had a couple of documents that were not accessible and none of us received the request to open the document so I don't know how it wasn't accessible but we'll work on that okay
042thank you thank you for your hard work yeah nice job job very good job good job definitely notifications of habitually Trent willfully absent and 10day drop students that's in your executive content classified staff changes acceptance resend District floater custodian Trent Hamilton effective February 12th of this year resignations Aquatic Center worker Leonardo Medina effective February 28th of 2015 Aspen Pera Terry Hance effective March 21st of 25 transportation bus driver Jeffrey Connor and transfers Hazel Jordan to Willer Creek perah for the 2526 school year Carrie Childers to Willer Creek Library PA for the 2526 school year Michael Kirk to a Rendevous Jackson perah and a new hire Luke Barnes as a District floater custodian and there's a separation notice in your executive content and enrollment we're still moving in the wrong direction been warmer Jada well that's
04388 huh yeah and I'm sure that everybody knows that you got I just wanted to add a little thing that we won the lawsuit yes and that's a big my gosh big deal MH um it's a big deal for our teachers we'll see how that all pans out whether it gets appealed and all that sort of thing but at this time it's looking I mean I don't know that we could have asked for more than what the judge awarded us or the the state no I don't I I I agree with that that's pretty that's it's a huge thing big deal okay thank you all for coming tonight meeting is adjourned y