001from 8:00 to 5:00 p.m. as a psychologist and then on weekends and after my office job I want to do nails skin hair and at a salon and someday I hope to own my own Salon I want to do psychology because I've struggled with my mental health and through my friends and therapists my mental health has improved greatly and I'd like to impact somebody else's life like that thank you to the board members for giving me this opportunity at Frontier maros think it's Mar spe gonna go back this way sorry there it is all right is now my pleasure to introduce our graduate Marcos Martinez Marcos is I told you I was going to cry dang it he is an exceptionally wonderful young man and I am grateful that he chose to finish his education
002with us I am really really proud of Marcos and an honor to speak on his behalf so often we talk so much about what our students learn from us but tonight I thought I would share with you what I've learned from Marcos number number one talk less and listen more number two sometimes words are not necessary to convey caring number three I don't always need to con words to convey how I feel and take your time with your thoughts and the words that follow it probably comes as no surprise to you or to Marcos that we are too very different people I don't seem to ever remain quiet and maros spends most of his day very quietly contemplating and doing his work at school being in marcos's presence I've told him is so calm and
003relaxing to me and he is a quiet presence that I often need in my day Marcos is extremely loyal and he's so dependable he is a student that I have counted on on more than one occasion to carry the the bag of balls to Wellness for me or he's moved help me move furniture and he will help any way he can he has career goals and aspir ations and he will make a valuable employee someday it is certainly my pleasure tonight to present to you Mr Marcos Martinez greeting board members super attendant Frontier staff and family that made it I'm Marcos Martinez Frontier help me recover my credits want us in my future also not graduating that late concering I was supposed supped to graduate last year in May so not that far behind also
004helped me get started for the rest of my life I plans after graduation are to go to job core for construction and start working I see myself moving to Oklahoma and starting my own business thank you to the staff of Frontier Matt for keeping the school nice and tidy Miss Shing for advising me about career options Miss Stanley for telling me where I am with my credits and greeting me at the day Mr Ziggler for for providing interesting facts at random times thank you to the board members for giving me this opportunity at Frontier I am happy to receive this diploma and excited to move on well that's thing to worry about you ready yeah I'm not I have to tell you this is the hardest introductory speech that I've ever had to give you
005kill me Maya you're going to make me cry good somebody else can cry with me it is a marvelous Place Frontier Academy because every student that walks through that door is a hero for some reason they all bring their unique trials in life and you watch them every single one of them post to you two you watch them overcome and Achieve and then go off and do their thing and usually it's really easy to let them go I find it hard to let go of my hero this young woman when she first came I swear she's one of the last of the tonen kids she's not I'm shaking I'm so sorry I've watched her overcome diabetes I've watched her come over other physical issues and not let it take her into a deep dark hole
006and I know at times she wanted to give in and acquas and say it's not me it's not my problem this happened to me but she has risen like the Phoenix and over overcome those things with a purpose she is helpful and when she sees other people in need or in hurt she goes to them like the angel that she is when my daughter passed she reached out and said if me and my sisters are not at the altar with you I don't know how how this works and I said Maya me either I see you right there with my family when she goes off to play hockey I always worried about her coming back broken and bruised and maybe another reason not to get into her schoolwork but this fighter showed up and she
007fought through any excuse and when people thought maybe she's not going to graduate like heck the kid is here she is ready to go and she is going to take her fight for other people and help them rise up as well so I have the distinct honor of introducing to you my hero Maya good evening my name is Mariah Miller most people at Frontier knew me as Maya or as iBall like to call me Miss Maya papaya my plans after high school is to attend as you to become an endocrinologist I would like to start thank start by thanking the superintendent IA as well as the rest of the school board I thank Stan for always pushing me forward and being all up in my business to get me to this point in my life
008I want to thank iBall for all the love and support for pushing me to be the absolute best in everything I did I want to thank showning for being like the secondary mom and giving me all the hard mom talks I want to thank Riri for being the fun one like the cool auntie and always was having a smile on her face when I walked into school when for sitting with me every day for a solid month to try and get me to understand math still don't understand it Zs cuz he always was the chill guy unless he was purposely shocking me in during Circle Taylor he always made me smile and made going to school kind of enjoying enjoyable even though he made fun of me for being short every day my family especially
009my mom who was always so proud of my achievements even if it was as as small as making 10% or finishing a class she was always my biggest supporter last but not least Cass for her words of encouragement she always said if I can do it so can you and Matt for always being the one to say hey any small talk or any chance that he got one of the many special things about my Frontier Frontier family is we try to make everyone feel safe and like they belong here my favorite memory is floating down the river in the when Mr Zs found duck duck eggs carried them down the river until we got to the end and he launched them and after that we went to Taylor's parents house to play in the hot
010springs and swing off the booking good evening I'm Rihanna Edington and I have the privilege of introducing to you kayn post kin's graduation is a little bittersweet because she is our last tonken kid when I met kin three years ago she was crying on the bathroom floor she was so sad mad and hurt but I tell you that ladies and gentlemen that is not the same girl standing here tonight gayin has grown so much in the time we've had her not just academically but with relationships friendships and even health issues nothing can stop this girl from shining she showed up even when she didn't want to put in the work even when there were tears involved and started communicating about her needs even when they were hard conversations to have that's when we got to
011see the true fun loving spunky kin the girl with a smile that can light up the whole room kin your hard work paid off I'm sooud of you as you can tell I'm a crier I don't know do we not have one for kayen eyb of course do we not have a speech for kayin well I guess I can kind of just make up one yeah um thank you everyone for being here um the frontier staff my family my friends absolutely everyone it's been definitely a long run I didn't think I was going to be where I'm at today but I am to everyone and I just want to thank my family a lot my mom and my dad sorry I went through a lot for the past two years and I have completely changed
012as a person and I just really want to thank my parents for pushing me as hard as they could and always being there for me through everything and Rihanna for making me cry but thank you guys for everything and my plans after school is going to cosmetology school I'm not sure exactly where I'm going yet but I do nails and stuff on the side of working at Petes right now so I've got kind of a plan going for me but thank you guys all yeah that's you your last but not least it's you and me and so I get the uh I get the honor of uh doing our last graduate uh Mason spoon Hunter and uh you know I sit here and I think about like all these uh students talking about you know
013their they just know so much about each other they know a lot about the staff um you I don't know how many graduations I've been to where you know the kids are truly appreciative of uh the custodian you know and they are because Matt does a great job and he's a part of our family and he interacts with the students just like he's you know right there to help them and they they know it uh these students you know we sit around and we we have Circle time and we spend a lot of time in the same area we have a small space with you know 40 50 people and they get to know each other really well well so these graduates know a lot about one another they know about Mason and they know
014that you know what he didn't take the straight path uh from freshman I had uh Mason as a freshman in algebra over at the high school and the one thing I learned about Mason right off was that he knew how to sit down and focus when he wanted to he was very likable by all the students um and then he came over the frontier and I noticed the same skill that he brought with him and so I can remember in Algebra 1 Miss Bean be over there putting him in a choke hold wanting to just strangle him and then the next minute she'd be hugging him the next day she'd be like Mason come here the next minute she'd be hugging him and all of a sudden he comes over the frontier there's Rihanna she's
015wanting to strangle him the next minute she's wanting to hug him then I look over at the front desk at Stan she's you know screaming at Mason about something the next minute they're having lunch together and Mason has that Knack of being able to He he'll drive you nuts but then he'll love you to death and that's just you know what I remember about him the most uh and now he's put himself in a position by graduating to go on and do whatever he wants to do next and I'm just so proud to be able to introduce Mason spoon Hunter good afternoon frer staff superintendent board members and family and friends I'm M SP Frontier held me and gave you a second chance to graduate high school with a diploma staff help me get the
016staff helped me get my life back on track and save me from going down a dark path Frontier has been a safe place in my life for the past two years that I couldn't I couldn't have asked for a better school to graduate from I'd like to thank Miss Stan for being my school Mom for taking care of me and the things I needed needed at times I like thank Mr Taylor for giving me many opportunities and never given up on me I also like to thank Ry Miss Shing for always talking with me helping me through our times i' like to thank Mr Zigler for basically being my math teacher throughout my whole High School career and for being one of the greatest teachers I've had I like to thank Miss iBall for always
017pushing me to become a better student and a better English writer and Matt for being more than just a custodian for me and the other kids and Mr wi for cooking dad burgers and for always having fun on the field triups with us lastly I to thinkk my lastly I I like to thank my mom because even though we went through stor gave me through high school she never once gave up on me and stopped loving me and I couldn't have made made here without any of you I plan on getting a trade or entrepreneurship after graduation hopefully moving out of this town or state so can create a business to start my journey in my short time being at the school I learned the students and staff accepted and treat each other like family
018so I made the school my second home I'm so grateful to graduate from this high school and to have the high school diploma thank you board members Frontier for giving me this J me I'm excited to move on with my life okay graduates if you would stand up and it is with pleasure that I present these students to you um who have completed the requirements set forth by the Board of Trustees uh to earn a diploma from Premont County School District number 25 as graduates from Frontier Academy High School if you will please move your tassels congratulations good jul congratulations good job sweetie conratulations congratulations congratul conratulations [Music] congratulations congratulations my body not that's my fault the photos Maybe worse this is they do move don't they sorry [Music] pi [Music] how's this one doing
019[Music] Miss to run away yet [Music] I [Laughter] d what was that over there Mariah what' you say Mariah let e you see you later thank you guys so much all right I think yes we are all a spicy disaster just to my glasses [Music] Morgan think move it up get two more rows chairs on the side chairs [Music] didn't come all right so the festivities are coming to a close um we have Miss Pearson to present on the model area Arab League Arab League raise the price of g they you can sit come on are you up to yeah you're up you're up you want to wait a few minutes we can have we could have Tracy go first Tracy would you like to give that's funny by Java by Java Java you know
020me you get me [Laughter] right well we'll give you a little cushion yeah we will we'll just heck yeah good evening Lord of Trustees chairman Berg superintendent iBall everyone um I come before you tonight with an informational update of Transportation Department start off with Staffing as usual we are constantly battling the age-old Dilemma of driver shortages we have one driver that is out due to cancer One driver who resigned in December and one mechanic due to a torn min who was a subd driver as well not to mention our lead mechanic who resigned in November leaving us without another sub driver we still have a sub driver Scott Müller who can sub only on Friday afternoons but generally has been our mechanic Leland black warehouse supervisor Tim Rockford and I subie to mitigate the driver
021shortage we have also combined six routes into three when there are multiple Act activity trips going out on Thursday and Fridays it has been a challenge but our team is resourceful and dedicated to adhering to our district vision of No Excuses can do results driven motto there are some positive things starting to happen amongst the negatives uh for Staffing we finally have a bus Aid on every bus and a substitute bus Aid as well and that's crazy because I mean just getting them all on the same you know on every bus and then actually have a sub it's pretty awesome um let's see here and you know it's uh uh making a huge difference on the buses making it safer and of of course more controlled um with that our staff will be getting boy
022toown training March 10th with Roy um to further their knowledge and working with the students I know that sometimes these guys don't really have you know we've gone to man and we've done all this other stuff and and uh but we didn't really have anything to kind of give us how to handle it you know handle certain students and so I I think that's a great great thing that we're able to do that um we also have a new hire Ronnie remit who will be starting the FMCSA entry-level driver training to obtain her CDL and will become a driver when completed um this year I guess the next would be student students this year we have had an increase in ridership on multiple routes we have had to swap out bigger buses for those routes
023to accommodate the capacity oddly enough uh conversely our data for the month of October shows that our average daily transportation of students is down roughly 145 students per day compared to last fiscal year of course we only compared data for one month and may not have gotten a clear picture just seems like it is somewhat of a quandry we have also had more sped behavioral students ridership this year uh one of the biggest POS positives though from the student side of things is that we have had less suspensions this year than the last previous years so that's that's kind of cool I know because we've uh um you know some of these years like last year was a big one we had a couple Pages full of uh suspensions for the year and it's it's
024kind of crazy that it's we've only got a few this year vehicles as you know we purchased five new 24 Ford Expeditions last summer we have placed one of those at the career center one at the high school and one at the middle school the other two are at the bus garage for District employees to use to offset the insurance cost we at first placed four vehicles that were deemed Surplus items in the Riverton Ranger in an ad to bid on them to no avail then two different District employees were interested in buying two of the vehicles so we sold them to those employees then decided to put the other two up on the Public Surplus auction site um once we created a new account they sold within the 10 day auction period um if
025you would like me to disclose what those Vehicles brought in I have those numbers okay all right um moving on to the buses we will be purchasing three new buses this next fiscal year these buses have met the wde chapter 20 rules for the replacement cycle criteria of 17year or 740,000 miles I will be submitting the wde 621a approval forms this week and I've let Jody know uh that this will be coming and uh since just yesterday we finally got the current quotes for the buses now that's can change um because this is this year's uh quote but next fiscal year for the buses might be a little more so I recommended maybe put adding 3% 4% just for any because we don't know what tariffs are going to do to metals and parts and
026all that so anyway uh next budget this year so far has not been too kind to our budget by the end of the fiscal year we will have it we will have had three buses with inframe engine rebuilds at a cost of 25 Grand and some change per bus our normal wear and tear maintenance items for the most part have been consistent with the previous years at the midyear budget review with Colton Lacy and I the expenditures were on a pretty normal trajectory but that was before the invoices started coming in from the engine rebuilds and other items uh last year last fiscal year we were 120,000 under budget but I estimate that will not be close to that this fiscal year um activity and field trips uh since the beginning of the school year
027till today we have taken 252 activity trips and 151 field trips by the end of last school year we had taken 271 activity trips and 233 field trips so at this current trajectory we will surpass last year's activity trips by the end of March however our field trip totals will be close to what was last year's total um lastly um I labeled it a new Endeavor Charters our district has done outof District charters for quite some time trips like Special Olympics fire academy Shuttle St Margaret's field trips Etc but they were few and far between sometimes being one a year but in the recent year we have expanded Charter trips it all began with a call from WRTA not being able to take the Wind River Care staff on a ski trip to Jackson hle
028Wyoming I told WRTA that I would get back with them after I talked to superintendent ibba and business manager Matt go Gonzalez at the time once I had gotten the go-ahead after talking to wde jod and Matt we booked the charter with them at the quoted price from WRTA which our quote would have been less um anyway this was in December of 23 there were they were very impressed with our driver and how the trip went so they started telling others about us soon we were doing other trips uh for Riverton Museum uh city of Lander trips to sinks Canyon shuttles from South pass City to the Chris of mine I saw him up there it was it's kind of funny but more trips for Wind River cares and even weddings we did a few
029weddings yeah and it was funny because they you know the wedding and then their reception was like the rock shop there at South pass so we hauled them there till whenever they wanted to come back and yeah it would looked like a fun time so it was pretty cool um but um since the beginning of last year we have taken 47 Charter trips really wow and we quoted all of them according to pay paying for itself cuz that's one thing we in our quote we just did uh the driver wage benefits uh maintenance tires um you all break that down you know Fuel and all that into one per mile or per hour type of thing and they all come out uh um pretty well even um it was funny I was kidding around with
030different folks in our community talking about these trips and uh saying we are the Prem M bus charter line in Fremont County [Laughter] now kind of funny uh but truly these were a blessing for our summer drivers since summer school only ran in June and a week or two in July it gave the drivers work for the summer and they were very appreciative um as always these trips will never come before our district trip trips but it is a nice service to our community and a great way to keep our drivers busy in the summer thank you for your time and all that you do for our district on behalf of our 25 transportation department uh we appreciate you all thank you thank you lot that's very creative use of of the charter stuff I
031that's awesome yeah I couldn't believe it when they were like uh we hear you do Charters um can you do our wedding and I'm like it's awesome sure why not don't you drive sometimes too huh don't you drive bus sometimes too do I yeah quite often uh because of the D walking and I think I've seen you several times yeah which is kind of fun because uh you get to interact with the kids and and uh also you know I you know we've done these routes and everything and reconfigured them and especially with combining them the six and three uh but to go drive them after you know you see everything on paper and maybe even Google Maps but you don't see okay where's the next stop so that's another reason why uh um bus
032AIDS are imperative for our our routes because a subd driver they they just go okay take a right here oh you're coming up on the stop it's right there by the um mailbox you know so they navigate for us so it's been really awes students we've got them so I don't know any questions I don't think so thank you cra how many bus drivers are you short um so with Jeff and then we had Jody leave uh us um Peterson so really two um just right there and then of course Steve was one of our um substitutes and since he left so there's another one that we're that are I to say but gone you know um but so hopefully with uh maybe some people want to try to uh train and get their CDL
033and maybe we can just get some new blood yeah yep so but we'll continue to fight that fight and keep going thank you for the information you bet thank you guys yep for this whole slob you too thanks Tracy thank you Miss Pearson would you like to tell us about the model Arab League wonderful well thank you superintendent IBA and Bor for having us today we have a unique opportunity to tell you about an experience that um we got to do so um let me start at the beginning I've been teaching geography at the high school for three years now and when we get to the Middle East I always invite um Taylor neelon She's an old debater um from warland that I know when she was a kid and she runs the Arabic um
034language program over there at udub and so I have her come in and talk to the kids in my geography class and three years ago when Landon and Sam here were freshmen she told them about this really cool program called star talk it's a $117,000 program that the NSA pays for okay it's a two-e program in the summer and they learn about um Arabic language and everything and um Landon's been twice okay and um Sam has been once but then he took Arabic at udub and has the udub credits on his transcript now so so they she also came and she'll tell them all about these other programs and one of the programs she told us about was model Arab League now around the United States they do model un so you might be more
035familiar with that and it's where they pretend that they're part of the United Nations and that sort of thing well just like they have the United Nations they also have um an Arab League and they Al you know the African Union and things like that um so I've been trying I kind of thought oh this is such a cool thing it would be so cool if I could pull some of these geography kids and kind of do this model Arab League um where they pretend that they are part of the Arab Nations and do this um but starting from zero I had no idea what to do so I've been working with Taylor um and some of the professors over W for a few years trying to put this together in my head and this
036year we were able to acquire a grant um from New York um to to go and um so let me tell you about it they they what they do is they assign us a country and we are against several colleges around the western side of the United States I I said that again colleges and universities there was only one other high school there we beat them by the way but um but and that was Chinese um but there was BYU um udub had three teams um we had uh let's see yeah I know by you had like a few teams but then there was what ones were from Colorado Colorado Springs there was another one from Colorado there were several there was about 100 kids in total okay um and what they do so we
037got assigned are you ready for the Syria okay so show them the Syria okay that's the placard each of the kids have their own plac so a normal size of a team is about five we have four here but um and then what they do is they go into a council each kid is assigned a different Council so we had Landon was in um The Joint Defense Council um quel was in the political Council um I got this Ayanna was in The Economic Council and Sam was in the social Council and each Council they have um topics and they assign these topics ahead of time maybe four or five topics okay and we have to study those topics um some of the topics might be tell us one of your topics aana uh one of
038my topics was expanding education uh throughout the um developing and or recovering nations in the Arab League and then we have to beforehand think about what would that be like for Syria well as you know Syria just got rid of Al basad okay so this is a unique and interesting experience for us as a team to look at that what's that like to get rid of a dictator and how are they going to develop their land and you know we had this ongoing joke for weeks Syria just wants houses okay because if you look at pictures of syrial online everything's a wreck right so um you know our ongoing joke and I think Sam Actually brought it up in several of his speeches we just like a house you know and so he um but
039not a a joke but not a joke so they're they are they representing Syria please you know education's important I know college is important we would just like somebody to read in our country we used to have a Syria you know they learned that Syria used to have a very strong educational system before and tell them what the regime is called do you guys remember what the regime is called the baist regime so they learned about all of um Syria some of all of that you know the background um and they go and they kind of have to work with the other nations so they might be in there and Ayan might be in there and she might be saying to Saudi Arabia hey I know we haven't gotten along in the past but you've
040got money and we don't and we're new here and we got rid of our guy I'm willing to to make a deal with you maybe that we we start to get along you know we make a treaty um could we use some of your money and we'll start maybe you know whatever economic source that we have we can kind of start getting along and they would write a resolution there in the round so they worked for 12 hours that weekend and amongst the four of them they spoke 200 times okay and I will tell you this one spoke 150 of those times I had a small counsel it's more than that um so they did wonderful all of them I took I walked was able to go into each room and learn a lot so
041that I could take notes and hopefully do it again next year I will tell you the experience itself um brought a lot of joy to me the kids learn so much Landon has a couple CIA agent numbers um they met three Senators Senator Salazar jokingly said to Senator biteman hey my team's here where's yours and um you know he really was proud that we were there um because he's go riverton's represented um we had uh a Riverton alumna was there okay um Brendan murfett actually was the chair of the Palestinian Affairs okay and that's the one person we didn't have anybody and I didn't think that Syria we we didn't need anybody there and we didn't have a f fifth guy but Brendan was in there and he says I never thought I'd see the
042day when Riverton would be there you know because there's not a lot of high schools there so he was really really excited to see us represented um would you guys like to say a word about your experience [Laughter] absolutely I honest and this is how I got my speeches just standing up and saying random things until eventually I got to the point and in this case the point might possibly be that I had a lot of fun I got to meet a lot of college students I now have six different Instagram accounts that I can connect with ask for advice about college ask for advice about traveling to other countries these are the people that aren't afraid to go outside of the country right I met with I think three different people who had already
043taken an exchange program and gone to Somewhere Over in Europe over in the Middle East and came back and we're saying oh my experience in this country that's how this applies um the current social Affairs there oh yeah like I talked with people there I used the language right I worked with the government when we had uh the guest speaker come up who had worked with us aid for a really long time I learned things I never knew about USA I didn't know how closely they worked with the other governments I didn't know how closely they worked with the people I didn't know how many programs that they were setting up to actually help people that were in need that liked Americans because of these programs right it was a learning experience for me and
044it was an opportunity for us to meet people and explore things that I really hadn't thought of before I didn't know model Arab League existed and I certainly barely knew about model un from like some TV shows that I was binging on Netflix and I don't think that the model un kids like I talked with some kids from Cheyenne East that is more High School oriented more high school focus model un kids aren't as focused on going out of the country um they're not trying to learn the languages of their countries they're not trying to be that involved it's just European politics right U model Arab League is I think the complete opposite and I have I don't have any model un experience I was just asking the cheese kids about it but I think
045it's much more immersive and I think it's a much better learning experience because it is so con for the people that get to be involved in it so I had a great time I learned a lot and this is how I got so many words in yeah thank you all right I wanted to say a few things so first off is I don't know if this was clarified but it was ran like a court chamber so it was like parliamentary procedure um which was really good to get to know how that works and then another thing is so she said there was probably about five kids per team that's underestimating there was 10 kids per team each Council had about two kids um representing whereas we had four kids one representing in four of the
046five councils which is where it is really impressive that Ayanna took second place in her Council which I don't know why you didn't say that but congratulations um don't like to BR um and it was it was a really good experience I learned a lot I think it was it was a lot lot of fun for sure I had um I can give a few examples I know that we already gave a few examples of councils and what um topics we had but one of the most important ones for Syria and the social um aspect was that we needed to create awareness around radicalization and preventing it in like children so that um we can actually the biggest reason it was serious for Syria is so that we can form a government because we just
047got rid of the dictator who was there so it's like we really need to actually form a government rather than yeah and um and then it was it was really interesting good to meet a lot of people um everyone was really kind and friendly they all um they all were really welcoming I'm not a super social person but they all had me involved and um it was it was really nice and I had I don't know it was a it was a lot of fun I can't express that enough it I really enjoyed it I don't usually speak uh a lot of things but that was one thing that I really really did like to speak at um it was really cool they did a thing in the middle of the round once you got
048through three of your four topics they would come in with a crisis so it was was a scenario that they had created um about a country that you guys needed to solve and figure out how to solve and write a resolution on solving it so they did that for most of the rooms PR each um yeah they and they had to attack Iran at one point so so they were all different for the rooms there was that one isn't isn't that you guys had to attack Iran yeah so the economic and Council both decided that was best interest to steal their oil supply um however the social Affairs where I was actually we had one specifically around Syria so what happened is that there was a drug cartel and the drugs spilled into the water
049I can't remember what the name of the lake was but it was it was near Jordan and Lebanon and it was like a huge issue for Syria because the people who were drinking it were like becoming like high and they would like on hucog genics that would in the that were in the water and we had to figure out how to write it and solve it it was really interesting to figure out how to write and solve it it was a really like uh formal um structure of a resolution it was interesting because there was like probably seven like six six or seven I think in one of mine there was six or seven different things we would do to fix fix the problem and then each one has several sub points what did you
050guys do to fix the problem we so for Syria I obviously we were Syria so I had to talk a lot about things of like what was going on in Syria and how we could solve this so I had a big opinion and impact on what was going on in the room and one we did several things this was the one we had six or seven in I believe um I a few of them I will list there was getting medical help to the people who had already drank in the water um getting waters um Sal what is it called Sal yes yes um and then there was also I'm trying to think there was another one we also had um so yeah getting sorry what no did you have countries that provided that help
051like so I I also had to reach out to a lot of the people in the room because Syria does not have a lot of money or resources so for Syria to take care of that problem by themsel is nearly impossible so a lot of people were like hey what can we do to help um and I was like this would be great so they were like um Lebanon I think offered to help send in um units to actually train people in Syria to be able to um take down like drug cartels and stuff like that that was another thing we did um and then what was the question you just asked me said who helped oh yeah and um it was so I had to reach out to a lot of different people but
052it was um it was for sure a really good experience he got me out of my comfort zone and that has helped me a lot actually so that's good yeah for someone who's who's not a speaker you just did a nice job abely it did get you it did De Partners so he is lying about that he has a no but I don't like to speak he's not social but he is a me but this is kind of a social event yeah all right now yeah um it's nice being here thank you uh for having us but I guess I'll just talk about my experience a little bit that first Council I walked in and I was like terrified because I had no idea what I was going to do or what I should do
053parliamentary procedure was something that was like brand new I learned like that morning what it was what it was but I don't know it I walked in there and and I thought I was going to do nothing but by my final counsel I only wish I had more time yeah just so many cool people and people from other colleges and I don't know that's just something that somebody like me that doesn't do a ton other than like speech and debate and theater you don't really get to experience what that college experience is and what other people like are doing what you can do in these um I don't know College like environments I think it's really cool to have that opportunity though because I got to meet so many new people who had all these
054interesting stories and different things that they did like um my uh partner said yeah they people who like went across uh the country they've been to other countries it's insane I I don't know it's hard to explain how interesting that is and how important it is to understand that I'm thinking about my future and what I want to do and knowing that there's opportunities like that is really important and this is one of those things that you know for a high schooler is really really cool um hear that excitement I guess just to speak about my counsil it was one of the weirder ones cuz we sat in there and we spoke about one topic for 6 hours when all the other ones were already on their like third and fourth topic So speaking about
055like space for six hours is really draining but it makes you think in a really different way especially when you're Syria and you don't have a house and these people are thinking about oh let's get a rocket and go to like Mars I'm like man I'd love a satellite so it really does make you think in a different way so how can Syria get in on this how can they you know get something out of this and it's really cool getting to work with other countries and well whatever yeah that's about all I really have to say about thank you um I mean when I first heard about model Arab League um I was in the middle of wrestling season so I was just kind of thinking like do I do I really want to
056do this cuz I mean yeah but I mean I I loved it I really did um and and it means a lot for me to say that because I actually didn't think about college before that I really didn't I actually thought about either joining the Marines or at least somehow find a way to have a trade job so then I can I could be like a like a cage fighter you know half time and and it it changed it changed there was something different about this place from what I've noticed and one of the things that um I learned is how how complicated politics can get and I saw firsthand that you don't need to speak up in front of everybody to have influence sometimes there would be like a f minute break and then
057that's when I would start working that's when I would start talking to people that's when I would start trying to have influence that's when pork barrel legislation would start and I it blew my mind how much I could see that and even even after I was done with um model Arab leak it was so applicable to what I was I had to do um earlier in the high school because of US government and I didn't I didn't get it I didn't understand I didn't understand it but then when I was in there firsthand it was something that a textbook or a teacher firsthand couldn't really teach you you could you could understand it you know there's a difference between you know knowing something and just like completely understanding that and that's what I saw there
058um and there was a lot of interesting people there too um I learned a lot not just by hearing about the countries but what all these other universities had to offer and also it was it was a warm welcome because I've been there previously um you know last summer and the you know and the year before because I also went to learn how to speak Arabic and I already knew people I already knew Taylor I already knew this girl named Brooke which she was my chairman um I knew a lot of people so I already felt a little welcome and so it was really easy for me to network I mean that's the reason why I have cie numbers in the first place so um nonetheless I mean there's not much I really can say
059other than I'm grateful for what I I got to see um probably my biggest mistake was that I didn't get to speak up but when I did I made I made a difference for sure I was able to make resolutions and actually like debate through it sometimes and I was actually able to you know convince and influence other people and even though I didn't speak that much I mean some of it when I did it was definitely worth it so I mean altogether it was it was a great experience I uh he told me no like three or four times I haunted him down in the library said I said you're already signed up I wasn't going to take no for an answer from him I knew he was the right one to take and
060we knew it we knew it when we took him he was the right one to take we had the right team going and uh thank you so much I can't tell you that more we have the most supportive board we have the most supportive people in Riverton I'm going to tear up but I believe it in my heart and soul I will work here until forever I love this place okay oh we're glad thank you and I just appreciate you guys so much and um giving these kids this opportunity we're able to take kids that are really smart and need a little bit something extra and give it to them and um that's good that's what they need you know and um and it means a lot in the world of Education you know to
061to add educational extracurricular is important and um to to meet some of those extra you know needs so thank you so much and as a or as Sam mentioned um the way that the the awards go they have um outstanding and distinction and then they have honor um Honorable Men honorable mention and we got distinction level in the economic and out of a hundred people you know um that's not bad at all we were the only High School to do that okay everybody else was a college most of the colle colleges built them into their actual curriculum so we heard we talked to udab and they were practicing 9 hours a week wow because it was actual curriculum so it's you know three hours three days a week we worked every Wednesday night so you
062know um but part that was we didn't know like we didn't know the structure of it because there's nothing El but you know for what we didn't know we did pretty good and um that's better pretty good pretty good so thank you very much so I was actually listening in um the legislature when you guys were introduced um when Senator Salazar introduced you you were up in the in the in the gallery and he introduced the the kids that were there for this and so um as a board member I can tell you it's pretty cool to get a see that and then you know hear the Applause that you guys got and then to have you come here afterward somebody else yeah but no there was somebody else that was there yeah but um
063but to know that you have had that opportunity to grow and Landon is that is okay so to make that distinction that this actually maybe it was a pivotal point point for you to maybe seek out other opportunities outside of what you had talked about that's pretty impressive sometimes you just don't know what's out there until you get out there so thanks for this this was wonderful and I will be on the radio representing this in the morning thank you awesome awesome oh boy so I I would like to um it just keep talking yes keep talking you will um when you have those opportunities when you're in college and you do get an opportunity to take an exchange program do it I did it the summer between my freshman and sophore years and got
064to go to France for six weeks it was amazing and well worth any sacrifice I had to make the extra jobs I had to work and all of that to get to go so if you take it if you have that opportunity please take it I'm so proud of you I always tell people when I'm am out in I end up at different schools helping with different things and I have lots of clients in my office that we have the best kids in the state in our district so thanks for proving that greatest stuff thank you for helping create that opportunity thank you for not taking no for an answer I you know anybody that knows me knows that yeah you know thank you as exciting as it is to see all of the kids
065good programs for that yes and and how excited you are to learn something new and how You' shared that with us that is so exciting but it's just as exciting to see your teacher and how excited she was for you as well and that oh my gosh I love says a lot about you all in the program so so thank you for that all of you this is this is very exciting Ayanna you are getting the 2025 trustee scholar award yes yes I am congratulations on that thank you wow that is so awesome she also interviewed with Princeton last night Harvard tomorrow Harvard tomorrow few weeks ago don't let him ruin you um yeah that was good there there's your classmate is headed to District here at CWC this weekend we're always looking for judges
066um Margaret Murray told me to please right threatened me a few hours ago actually so um yeah we are looking for judges and um yeah so uh yeah be good it's good that you guys are here tonight because our product is Citizens yes that's true and you guys are it that's true too so keep making us proud yep so absolutely it's good to learn how to walk in somebody else's shoes that's true you know being able to see a something that you have very little knowledge of and then growing into an expert and that's what any Endeavor is what you're doing you learn a little bit about it and then the passion comes and and that is is important uh being able to start find it and then excel in understanding and it's all about
067relationships too you know like you said oh yeah the land's a pro we could find him at the time but we were not worried we were like oh he's he's with he's Mak nwork all network connection I was like how do you do that he's like oh yeah I just got all these people's numbers did you know them Army everybody was there they had all the colleges and we said oh well Landon's talking to somebody he's okay you know we were not worried we were not worried well I really appreciate your presentation thank you so much this was awesome makeing his proud thank you thank you oh we didn't tell you you have to stay for the rest of the meeting now you got to get up real early do your homework see first all
068right uh so let's start with Carl okay I'm gonna start with something I forgot to do last time really so this is a presentation for the education points that Mr Terry Cel got from good job cherry good work Terry let's see uh of course it's everybody's been listening to the legislature it's always fun this time of year you can't even get away from I know well I didn't get a chance to look at it this afternoon because I was working and went to another event so just another day of great news yes and uh you know the graduation I think we found the the max number of students that we can yes accommodate I mean six and this were there were people in the hallway that couldn't come in yes so I think about six
069is about our limit unless we do it at a different venue right because there it was so wonderful to have all these people here absolutely and or we get more chairs just bring them up a little closer you just have to pull forward pull pull forward put him against the wall yeah standing room only that's what that was oh yeah it was cool I really you know it was it was good good problem to have it was and the Arab League was you know learning I was when I saw it on the agenda I'm going what oh I know you know I know about you the model un uh program I remember I can't remember years ago somebody was trying to start it here I can't remember who it was but it was a social
070science group that was thinking about doing it and there are still model un uh entities in the state of Wyoming I think Sheridan has a team and a couple others so these kind of things that that create but how did she put it uh pretend right you know that you're you're you're pretending that you're someone else right and you're trying to put your brain into a mode that understands the conditions that a Syrian lives by you know Syria is a crazy place right now and has been for a long long time and just trying to grasp what a daily life would be as a Syrian yes and then trying to deal with other Arab countries is an experience that I mean it's it's it's transcendental you know it's one of those things that can move
071you like the young man said that he moved him into another plane that he was not in before and that is what education is all about so I really appreciate this kind of uh presentation for us it was wonderful thank you well I kind of just Echo what what Carl just talked about with the with the Arab League um you can't duplicate that in a classroom that experience that networking all of those kind of things um you you just have to be in in the moment and it's amazing the light bulbs it can turn on for everyone so that's really awesome um graduation like I said is is always really super I it's it's wonderful to have and standing room only is is nice um um I actually attended the boys and girls club meeting
072um and we have the breakfast is coming up on the 23rd um of 2025 the awards breakfast and a recognition breakfast and Rocky bler is going to be the speaker there so I managed to go to to that meeting and and see about those types of things um they have about on average 40 to 60 kids da and they're they they're currently fully staffed um they do homeschool PE there they have like 34 different enrolled K8 for homeschoolers too the and the engagement besides ours and then they wanted me to be sure I told the district how very very very appreciative they are of the help and the assistance as far as where they're at now with with the building um they couldn't have done done some of that as far as the furnishings and
073things like that but our Surplus really helped them out um the transportation and getting kids to and from there and it's it's something that's really really super exciting um they held their first um they're having some Community groups come in like FCA um and they are holding their very first hudle K8 for the first time there and then they have 4 and Girl Scouts and they've got a lot of good stuff that's really really happening there and it's super neat that we were able to partner with them and then and then help them out in that direction um I've attended a lot of hockey and a lot of basketball recently on this weekend from Friday to Sunday I watched Five hockey games or and um two basketball games um our hockey teams here had our
074squirts play at their state and the bantams um and they both took State and they got to ride the fir trucks last night we we saw that and um it's that's pretty cool considering they had maybe 10 to 12 practices because of ice time being a real problem this year because of of all that that's going on and um I would I wouldn't trade any of it except for that I will tell you that driving to and from laramy so so a young man can play hockey and play basketball is quite a thing and and it was but I'm glad we did it and and it was really enjoyable for us older people oh well yeah Y and so I and on top of all of that I have a brand new great niece excellent
075who was born on on the 22nd and her name is Emma and she mom and mom and baby are doing great um I just wanted to congratulate we have a there's several like I got the scholars and we have several uh Riverton high school graduates who who are graduating from the the University of Wyoming yep Matt Gordon and Jennifer Kelner and Daniel Kissinger and BR Bryce Nemo Cameron Shoni um Paige Smith and Jasmine Wildcat and uh Jasmine is gonna have two degrees that she graduates with which is really cool and so I just want to congratulate those kids on continuing their education and and getting to see them move out and and go into those Realms and now they're going to be out in the communities and and and working and doing those things so
076that's that's pretty exciting um and my grandson's looking forward to going on the Boston trip he's pretty fired up about that already getting his itinerary outside of that I think that's pretty much it for this Gap well I have to apologize for being late I uh went to the Consolidated Grant meeting tonight and it was pretty amazing and I kept trying to get away from people and they kept pulling me back and finally I said no I have to go and so I I think I SL slid in here about two minutes till I'm not sure but I was trying to get away um but it it was uh that was just so interesting to see and I didn't even get get this year I didn't even get to go on the tour around oh
077wow it was just in the career center building and hearing about cor cortical Vision impairment which we have an excellent resource for somebody that knows how to do that some information about the Early Childhood in the literacy um AI I actually got jokes for my grandson and um tongue twisters for my granddaughter and they I got to email them to myself and it took about two minutes to do that so just all this learning that you do and it's been it was just a lot of fun to see all these folks that I haven't seen in a while so that was awesome I also invited on Facebook I invited three people who said that school districts don't trade train don't work with the trades with the kids anymore we need to get back to that
078and so there were three people on uh Facebook post that I said I'd be if you're okay with me personal messaging you I'm more than happy to send you that flyer for our Consolidated Grant meeting you can come see what we do in Riverton high school because a lot of people they just don't know don't know they don't understand that so that that was actually kind of a fun thing too and then I'm just going to go quickly through a a few bills that were of interest to to me I couldn't pay attention to all of them it just would have been a full-time job but um the board party affiliation failed today which was good was awesome um and the I know wsba thanked us for contacting them to do to do that so
079you know we won't have to disclose our party affiliation the alt teaching Certification did pass so we'll have to probably work with uh ptsv to figure out what that means because it didn't really need to pass because they're already doing it it yes so I'm not sure what what that's going to mean the repealing the gunfree Zone did pass the uh Freedom scholarship that we opposed it did pass although they they chose not to take it out of the esa and take that general fund so it's not going to have as huge of an impact on school districts as we had at first thought still going to have a huge impact on the state likely um but but that was one thing that they that they changed up still the $7,000 for any income level
080so that that will be an issue and there was a lot of conversation about that uh the house bill 100 which was at K12 certification missed the cut off that's the one that you just had to be 18 and pass a background check to be a teacher or administrator right um and that missed the cut off so that didn't pass so so thank you for all the work that you that you all did with that one to get that um not to pass and then House Bill 78 the K K12 mental health program failed it missed the cut off which was very sad because I I really feel like that's something that we really need in our school districts and um still need to I guess share what our what our kids need because a
081lot of times they they can't and I'm wondering if part of it might have been that I probably shouldn't say it but representative Larsson was the the sponsor and there there were some political issues with that so that that was a hardship because he's amazing uh set at file 62 that restrooms for publicly funded schools it was on third reading it was laidback so it has to pass by Friday or it will miss the cut off and then it won't go it won't go I didn't do a whole lot with the budget and Career Tech I was trying so you know maybe you can have some conversation about about those um and I know that you you sent us those emails about uh contacting legislators about certain things and I think it was the year
082for everybody to just bombard the um the uh legislature with some things the other thing is Senate file 69 which is the property tax one that had the 50% cut interesting Dynamics today of what happened where they dropped it down to 25% they they wanted to pass that with a sunset the house I guess I'm sure I know what all happen but uh it sounded like from what we heard from a couple of the news sites that it was a a negative for um the freedom caucus on that one that they wanted it to pass and it didn't and so they wanted a couple more days to talk about that which may move it closer to an area where the governor would be able to veto that if he needed to so there there are
083some things with that but it it's uh had a lot of uh of turning in in that one so that's been very interesting to kind of watch and I actually sent a message to Senator Salazar last night and then again this morning and and then I didn't see it on the they said it was going to be the the first bill that was discussed and it wasn't it was the third bill so I missed it because I had another meeting but then I went back and watch a couple things like that yeah they did because the same thing happened so so that's interesting and we so don't we don't really know what's going to happen with that but right now they're wanting to do a 25% versus 50% cut to property taxes and have a
084Sunset date so that it won't go forever so that might save our runny day fund you knowes make logical sense no and it doesn't make the firefighters and law enforcement were actually you know testifying to oppose that because they were very concerned about the lack of services to communities so well I don't know that people fully understand what that means as far as lack of services I don't think that they understand what services those are I think they're starting to understand that's why there's there's changes there is some push back now you hope the legislature would understand that but I that's my concern I agree yeah yeah some of them do but yeah so so that's about that's what I have to do with with uh that that's what I know of there's like 50
085more that you could talk about but those are the ones that I've been kind of focused on and and I actually had to go on tonight and look and see what all happen because things are happening so fast that you don't know you don't know what's happening and I didn't have a chance to look at it before I sat down here so I was trying to quickly brief through it before before you know I I talked and um went to Rapid City to a gymnastics meet this last weekend and that was our old stomping grounds and so that was really fun because we lived in Newcastle for 10 years so that was kind of fun and that's what I've been up to so thank you thanks that all right I wanted to update you on
086what's happening with Northwest bosies we will be um having our regularly scheduled meeting tomorrow night at 7 but if you are interested there are um virtual stakeholder forums and of course all of you because we are a member district are certainly invited to sit in and listen to the two candidates um if you would like information um I believe it's out on the northwest Bose site is the link one will be tomorrow at 5: and one will be tomorrow at 6 so that would be like we did the forums here when we were doing superintendent people can sit in and and listen Brian will moderate Brian um we be do doing that moderating and so you'll have an opportunity to present some feedback if you would like to do that but I would like to
087invite you to to join in on that and then we will interview actually in person on Thursday um the entire board will go to Thermopolis and we will do do the interviews in person so um it'll be a late night because we'll debate and decide what we're going to do um but I wanted to let you know that's what's going on there I did play hookie for a little bit on late Thursday night and ran across the mountain to Big Piney and thank God the roads were nice coming home they were not so so good but um through a little section of it but it was really fun to just get out and um get you know you all know I love high school wrestling so that was it was a lot of fun to
088get to go help with that 2A West group and pineale was hosting the 3A West so it was a was a very busy time in that part of the state but I know our kids did really well at their Regional Tournament too we have but 10 kids I think that are going to state so that's awesome that's all I have I don't have a lot um just been busy watching my grandson going to have a new grandbaby here in a few weeks my daughter is my niece had a little girl and they named her Elton that's pretty not much uh if you get a chance go on the internet check out model Arab League that is very interesting it's all about the Arab Nations getting together and very very uh interesting to have the college
089and the high school kids baate ideas fresh ideas for free you know really that's true gain all that that new ideas on how they can fix some of their problems and and it's it's just for Arab speaking languages so and I did not know that Iran is not part of that because they don't speak Arab yeah Persian interesting just learn that's all I other than I got haed last weekend got hacked yeah so I lost my uh debit card had to get a new one today oh that happens all the time a year at our house yeah it's about once a month business using our address you got anything for us just reminder to do your bios for me Terry if you want me to write them I can do that as well Carl prob
090just a simple little thing be so good and thank you for you just yesterday I mean just when you have time to send them we want to put your photos up on the so give us a thumbnail of what you want like tell you what I data birs education my name how old I am um what your family how many yeah my kids I have three kids or and my with and spouses I have six grandkids um well going to have and um what else did I put teacher for yeah that was a teacher oh yeah for 25 years just your backgound I mean really it's what how many miles do you walk a week she walks a ton I five miles a day good job you should have put that in yeah you should
091well you should seen well done Terry Terry and Terry oh the terries are done the terries are done well done thank you yeah you're making the rest of us look Badr that's because they sit closer to me [Music] J allly so um I have an update on the tonen fund I did some research thank thank you Lynette for sending me that link that was helpful uh so tonen Foundation Inc has been administratively dissolved because nobody filed the annual report so that was done back in 200 eight easy yeah well actually no because I called the Secretary of State and I asked if we could just file another one and she said it's been too late you have to reincorporate so it's not no it's not it's not terribly hard um you just go online I
092think it's 25 bucks yeah and but we do have to um you know file new Articles of Incorporation file bylaws and we have those in our file at the office I was so impressed that I was able to access those from back in 2000 I had to call my it guy and wedge was like you had to do something to allow me to access these old files but I got the bylaws the Articles of Incorporation um and what I think we should do is I have the names of the um officers but I think some of them have passed away and other I don't know if they're interested in doing this anymore so uh the board of directors was well the officers the president was Brett Watson and I know he passed uh vice president
093is was Jim Crouch who's a friend of mine he's still around I don't know if he'd be willing to do this um but secretary was Shirley Walton I don't know who that is the treasur was also Brett Watson the directors were Cody beers and Jay Vincent so I don't know if Jay still wants to do this and I don't know Cody but um so I think you know I I think before I go forward to incorporate this we should figure out who wants to be doing this who wants to be on the board of directors because if I do file something you know I could there needs to be you know an incorporator and it's not going to be me because I'm the I'm the attorney it should be somebody that would eventually be on
094the board of directors right and then we form the board of directors at the next regular meeting um but the skeleton is all there you know we have everything we need it's just we need to know who would be interested in acting as the board of directors for this nonprofit Monday meeting so um I can ask him then he's out of town right now okay and I think Jim was on there because he was a board member yeah I remember he was a board member so I think Jim was on here because of that do you want me to ask Jim if he still would be interested but you can still ask yeah no we probably do need a board member on on that just one yeah we can figure that out that's an easy
095one okay somebody that has some real good historical knowledge not me institutional knowledge as Joel calls it um so yeah if you guys just I don't know how you want to find out who wants to be on it but just if you could let me know um and then I could whenever you're ready I could go ahead and incorporate make the the nonprofit and then file everything that needs to be filed and we'll get ready to go okay and you're welcome and also Lori I want to thank you for um encouraging me to reach out to the legislature because I I sent an email to everyone explaining how unconstitutional a lot of the bills were that they're proposing for the education uh they know so I don't think they cared but I wanted to let
096them know but still it's the voice if if they hear it enough maybe you know and obviously I believe that Sile 98 was a product of all the all everybody reaching out yeah I think that that that made a huge difference there and I also think that with House Bill 100 that that made a difference as well um so thanks sure and thank you for giving me a little bit of advice on the Monday morning meeting oh any any time Ro nothing for me tonight Christina I just want to say thank you to everyone who came out to um our consol Grant just looking at all the great things our kids and our teachers are doing um it was we had a good turnout so I was excited about that and I wish we had
097more and more uh stakeholders out in the community but I get it it's a tough time to get you're just getting off work sometimes and going out and doing an additional I know could be difficult but um I was just excited to see the kids that we had there that um showed up presented and then also we had someone there videoing and doing a walk through so we're hoping to get that video put together of all the great things that are happening and get that out to the community great can we do video kind of things that we could use yeah that's awesome yeah so we um Lindy helped with her family Lindy Nelson to put that together and um it was fun just listening to them I was listening to them as they were
098going around and got put on the spot I didn't expect it but uh it was really uh it's great because I know they were doing some really cool things with it from what I could see I'm excited for that I just appreciate all of your support and you guys coming out so thank you all right um thank you for putting that onely help I had a lot of help please know that I kind of got hung up at the artificial intelligence deal that's always been kind of a I can use all the intelligence I can get whether it's artificial or not I'm not saying a word uh no you don't have to the the arob league I am just I can't I can't express enough how how cool that is that those kids are are
099seeing I mean they're seeing stuff realizing things that adults most adults will never realize you know that politics is complicated um all the Real Deals are made in the back room um it's just it was the best networking times is it during the yeah yeah yeah or in the bar that's that's a skill um and then of course graduation was fantastic six graduates that's but I think I agree with Carl that was kind of kind of up against our limit right there it was a full room oh we could probably have it at theart Auditorium yeah um and then I mean I think that all of those aablue kids were a product of the speech and debate couple our speech and speech and debate is pretty impressive so that's it for me Jody so I
100just I'm going to remind you that our calendar change that you voted on is coming up this weekend so the second half of that so on February 28th of high school school and middle school no school except for staff will be in PD but elementary school will be meeting at a half day early release and then staff will have an afternoon PD that was our exchange for our boys toown in January so we've communicated that out to the community um to the parents schools have been reminding them so um that's it's always something when you have a change and maybe a few people miss that communication so um other than that I the only things that I have for you are the Personnel things that will be in executive session okay do we have any
101visitors or delegations that would like to speak to the board come on up Ed this is a chance all right here none we'll move on can I just say that the Senate file 72 also failed today I didn't realize that that's the summer vacation preservation act oh Lord so that failed today as well so that's good I didn't realize that I was trying to look up all yep was much of it okay I would entertain a motion to recess to Executive session so move second four e e e second favor chair I move that we approve the don't we have to vote on the we have don't we have to re vote on reconvening go ahead oh yeah I okay all in favor I I we were already against hearing none we are reconvened in
102Open Session go ahead Carl now i' make the motion that we approve the minutes from the executive session second all in favor I any opposed hearing none uh we approve the minutes for the February 25th 202 executive session we're on to action items uh consider an administrative recommendation to accept a grant Mr chair I would move the board accept the qfi classroom enrichement Grant in the amount of $1,000 second any opposed discussion I'm sorry any discussion trying to get through appr I know you're being quick it's good in favor I any opposed that's where that comes in hearing none we will accept the classroom Grant now is that the grant that was the Arab Nation Arab League thing okay good uh consider an administrative recommendation to approve a change order Mr chair I would move
103that the board approved change order number 12 and 13 was Samson Construction Company Inc in the amount of 8,00 , 77222 for hat Channel drywall modifying handrail Details In Theater seating aisles and to add a platform in storage room number 106 for the Riverton High School auditorium project second any disc already been approved by the I just want to know what is hat Channel I was thank you I wanted to know what that is too I'm like I thought I knew what is it like J channel is it like kind of it's It's a channel that they put on the concrete brick walls that then attached to drywall too it's a hat a hat kind of has comes out like a hat comes back down like a tie hat kind of yeah tie back down
104on there it looks like a hated thank you I am too thank you for giving me a purpose to SP I'm thinking I ordered a lot of stuff at Lumber when I work there and I didn't remember ever seeing that one so if you look at it in AC cross Chanel it's kind of got a brim goes up goes over shap like pop that pops into the the Brick Mort it screws to the brick and then the drywall screws thank you all right see I learned something new today no thanks to Carl Jody were you able to find out anything about the desks not yet but I have a meeting tomorrow at one with the auditorium and I will all right we got a vote we just got to vote I said second got to
105vote okay all in favor iOS you guys we're that we smok that has been approved consider an administrative recommendation to adopt amended policies Mr go ahead go ahead Mr chair I move the board adopt the following amended policy 4115 D field trip budget request amended policy 416 6 5 Animals and schools admitted policy District sickle Bank on first reading second any discussion just's keep the mice out all in favor I any opposed hearing none we approve those readings uh consider an administrative recommendation to accept resignations Mr chair I recommend the board accept the resignation of Nicole showning as Frontier Academy social social worker effective June 9th 2025 Riverton High School agriculture welding teacher Magdalena lagarda effective at the end of the 2024 2025 school year second any discussion just want to thank them for their
106service was was uh Magdalene the G that was showing us around so it was her yeah she we we she presented some information about welding and stuff like that and through the conversation she kind of sounded like it was going to be an ongoing thing that she was going to apply for stuff next year and monies for next year and stuff like that well possibly she's preparing that for whoever comes in to replace her okay all right well that that was that wasn't the the gist that we got yeah in any event um all in favor I any opposed hearing none that has passed consider consider a administrative recommendation to offer contracts Mr chair I would move the board offer a contract to Wendy Pratt as a rich middle school math teacher Adria lad as
107an aspen Elementary third grade teacher Madison docer as a Willow Creek Elementary teacher all effective for the 2025 2026 school year second any discussion all in favor I any opposed hearing none that is passed consider an administrative recommendation to approve contracts for administrators Mr chair I would move the board offer contracts to the school administrators for the 2025 2020 school year as listed on the agenda with contract details to be determined at a later date second any discussion all in favor I I any opposed hearing none that has passed we don't have anything added right okay information items stipulated agreement which has been violated and moved to an expulsion mou with the Fremont County prevention program and a job description for a special education academic coordinator a revised job description is that correct so that
108is a new job description um [Music] for because we have so much testing that has to happen um in our special education department that we need to have somebody that is handling that with the fact that we don't have our psychologists and we're having to contract and those things so we're we're trying to adjust some positions um to make that work so that will be a higher Within okay um certified staff changes transfer of Kimberly ibba to special services educational diagnostician effective August 1st 25 classified staff changes resignation rendevu Jackson perah Kiana Dill effective May 23rd new hires Victoria eert as a Jackson par and Ronnie roich as a transportation bus driver and enrollment we're still not closing the Gap Sandwich Board is been nice out too you Haven been outside with your sandwi ,000
109is is there anything else tonight that anyone would like to discuss no okay okay