001county school district board to order and ask everybody to rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance please i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay do we have a forum present um we need to consider adoption or make changes in the board agenda are there any changes to be made and we do need to add item e underneath information items okay okay i'd like to entertain a motion for the consent agenda so approved second okay all in favor hi hi all righty madam chair i'd move that we also uh approve the uh board agenda as amended that have the one change one change thank you um is there a
002second second all in favor aye okay and i just like to mention also the consent agenda had the board minutes from june 28 2022 the payments of bill which included the late pays and uh pre-authorization of payroll utilities that official and automatic payments and uh the adopt amended policy ikf graduation requirements on second reading just just yes thank you thank you all righty um so now uh we need to i need to entertain a motion to adjourn our regular meeting for the purposes of conducting a public hearing for the or to hearing on the budget and intent to levy meals so moved second all in favor aye all righty okay so now we need to open i need to we need to open a public meeting at this time um so i'll have to entertain
003a motion to open a public hearing so moved second all in favor aye all righty so it's your show matt so i'm gonna go over the um adjustments because they um inform the next year's budget so what the adjustments we're making to the previous year's budget first okay um so we're increasing the special revenue budget from eight million to three million from last year um so we the big difference there was driven by the stipends we gave out in covin and also we hired a lot of people under the esser grant so um within those two things that ended up increasing our expenditures and special revenue by a couple million dollars so we're increasing the budget from last year up to 11 million for depreciation we increased that by 50 000 that was purchasing the
004copiers on depreciation we underestimated that a little bit and then on insurance we are increasing that by a hundred thousand from uh 9.5 million to 9.6 million um and the just a minor adjustment on the insurance um on this is health insurance generally okay so minor adjustment there so i'm going into the budget for next year i'm going to talk about the differences and why we made those differences a little bit so last year our general fund budget was 42 million this year it's 40 million the big change there was we're accounting for that drop in adm that i said we need to start really considering as our district's budget truly is a little lower than it has been um another big change there's was or difference last year we anticipated by making big purchases
005like the school buses we bought stuff like that there's just nothing going in to this year with that rather out of the general fund we have big purchases coming out of depreciation reserves some of the technology adjustments we're going to do but there's no big purchase coming out of dinner so the 40 million we have next year is accounting for that stuff um the major maintenance budget we're not changing um i did talk with ted through that so we're antici we we give a lot of major maintenance budget for the potential that something catastrophic does happen right we have to replace half a roof or something like that so we have the money set aside for that in case something like that happens um on the special revenue budget like i just mentioned we did
006increase that to 12 million driven solely by esser esser gave us we have 16 million dollars to spend in the next two years so yeah we have a substantial stress revenue budget next year can i ask her a question on that one yes sir so what can we spend the extra money on can we wait this is a public hearing right now and the board will do it after the public hearing right sorry matter of order that's okay questions on that yeah and then when we when we reconvene okay okay okay all right sorry about that no problem um so uh we did increase the special revenue budget by about 4 million up to 12 million for next year we have no debt for the capital expenditures we had 6.25 i think we we anticipated
007maybe getting started on some of the projects we're now getting started on so um we did increase that to 8 million a lot of that's driven by the auditorium which will not have even nearly completed but we'll be halfway through the fiscal year before we um before we start construction on that so we anticipate spending some but not all of that um and then also the uh attack remedy so we'll keep an eye on that one that may need an uh adjustment upward if we do get going and start a lot of these expenditures but right now we're not anticipating much of that auditorium being completed by that point okay um and then on depreciation surge you did increase that from a hundred thousand to nine hundred thousand um again that's driven by a lot
008of these technology uh purchases we're gonna do this year um there's some big replacements we need to make in the district right uh for food service we kept that the same we did spend substantially less this year but we know the free lunch program is going away so that adjusted back to where it was previously um and then on insurance we increased that by a million um i know we are just to explain um we are doing the premiums now as a district right so this insurance fund doesn't account for that because this is how much we're paying to the insurance company so even though we're taking premiums out of the paycheck that goes into the insurance fund and we still pay that much out of insurance right so um that didn't uh that part
009doesn't affect this at all the part that did drive this up was also the adjustment we just made um or were going to make for last year but also we had a four percent increase on the health insurance um from last year and so that's eight million dollar charge that's a few hundred dollars more dollars uh and then the activity fund is uh six hundred thousand we spend about five hundred thousand a year so but we have substantially more on that account um than that so that gives us some buffer there in case we have a big expenditure come out of that student activities okay and then as for the uh um as for the uh levying the mills uh i was incorrect when i told you the valuation a few weeks ago i noticed
010that [Laughter] i was i was informed by another business manager um which number to use and i was using the wrong number so uh but this is all that that number i would have used was 20 million 30 million dollars higher than this even shows so it was still much off from what they were preliminary budget or preliminary value right so we have 189 uh million dollar evaluation now so that makes a one mill 189 000 a three-quarter mill 142 thousand half mil 94 000 yeah and a quarter mil 47 000. um and overall the valuation went up by uh 22 so it was a big big jump um from the last year um okay i think that's everything i say i i think you are done well so to speak um so are there
011any any questions for public comment or or anything with regards to the budget hearing none um i would entertain a motion to close the hearing second all in favor hi okay so we would like to reconvene into that move we open regular session second all in favor all right okay let me get back to where i'm supposed to be here so i can ask the question yep discussion yeah yes so so the ursa funds the three million what can we use those for uh so it's 16 million or 60 million sorry and i think probably close to 17 because we have about a million left last year's esther right uh it's pretty broad i mean it's i i i answer that question is there something specific that you're that you're wondering i mean it might
012be easier for us to answer can that's a lot about allowable for that then try to explain everything well say the wrestling room cost us more money can we use it to help with that if our tournament costs us more money no no we gotta you have to somehow relate it back to covid it is kind of the general rule there are a few caveats to that but for the most part you have to tie everything back to covid somehow so covet hasn't but the rest of the room's gonna cost us more money we're gonna we're gonna go way over budget on that just the way the materials are so if covet can't we tie that to the fact that we have too many kids in one space and then we're going to have a
013bigger room so we can have them spread out so they can wrestle differently could we blame the inflation on coke yeah exactly exactly carl one concern with that we were looking at some construction projects early on using esser and a concern came from the state that most districts were not doing that with the worry of spending federal dollars may be holding us to the federal government in a lot of ways like them owning our buildings well again this became a concern that not use any s or dollars for major construction and again again can we buy more buses get more buses so we have more people spread out so jody you can weigh in here um because you've done most of the the work on the on writing the answer grant yeah so addressing learning
014loss addressing immediate student needs is the primary purpose of esser so those big infrastructure projects and stuff while some people are branching into it i would advise us not to because i feel like we're going to end up paying that back if we do okay so what happens with the money when it just sits there we have nothing to do with it it'll go back or they'll extend it i mean it all depends on well and i think you could explain how we are planning to use it because we certainly are planning to use it um we do have an awful lot of staff that we've hired um i would say close to maybe additional positions that we have put on esser we have purchased new curriculums we have purchased new classroom technology to upgrade
015the engagement of students and accessibility we're working on some mental health provisions and being able to provide more social emotional learning through different avenues for not just our students but our parents and also our staff we're working on the circles project we're funding that out of our esser hopefully the community will pick pick that up but we have been and continue to make plans to use the esser dollars okay but it's a user to lose it correct yes okay we have until september 2024 correct right through september 2024 to use the funds thank wrestling room i think we would be hard-pressed to make that decision like jody said we owe that back inside later on because they might view it as just being used for construction yeah i just wanted that yeah no that's a
016good question jeremy it was a question thank you um does anybody else have any other questions for matt so it's just a four percent increase in insurance yep which is uh in today's world is not that bad that's awesome that's actually really good and that's not you know and that's just to say that four percent this year maybe just depending on the health of our staff correct because it's all based on uh claims versus payments you know so yep that's what i was about to say is that they um they they come out here and they do explain where how they come up with our numbers specifically at the district so they said a lot of districts saw much higher increases but we just did not have a lot of people going to the hospital
017last year so yeah so that's a pretty neat increase yeah knock on wood to continue yeah stay healthy let's hope um so now we'll just uh continue on to the round portion and uh we'll have comments from board members and staff and so mr manning i'll start with you okay um this last weekend we had our school boards association uh summer meeting i guess the big news out of that is we paid our dues to the nsba we usually just leave it in the budget and pass the budget this year we held it out and uh actually voted just on that particular line item that's how we decided if we were going to stay or not is if we were going to pay the dues if we didn't pay the dues we'd be out it
018was a 9 10 vote to stay in i mean so it was razorstein yeah so that was an interesting uh moment i mean i was sort of blown away that we stayed yes sir why did we stay why did they stay in well because we it was uh the arguments for it were because of the amount of things that they've done good in the past 80 years we've had a long association with them they have pretty much removed all the folks that except for the president the person that's there now frank uh henderson he is still there he was the president-elect when it happened he did have knowledge of it but uh you know he was not the one that but he's still there everybody else that was in power has have resigned or been
019let go the number of staff has been decimated they're giving up their uh office in virginia next to dc uh and going to a smaller dc kind of uh office to you know it's cost savings but it's also trying to change the point that it's a dc organization they're going to try to do more regional officing and have a more grassroots kind of thing in the last resolutions that came up on the floor they passed a resolution valley know that they'd be athletical so there's a change of complexion basically moving their office that they would be that that uh so the things that they've you know the the present uh executive officer has uh you know done quite a house cleaning and is and still doing things uh they had a fly-in to of executives
020in denver of the and you know it's a 50 50 you know if you look at the map right now there's i made a statement about i wish we were gray meaning that there are x number of states that are still nsba only an x number of states that are now with cosby and then there are nine states or seven states that are gray and four states that have uh sort of what we are going to be uh members of both so that's the that's the main thing is that we don't know which one's going to continue so uh you know where whether cosbo will float or if nsba will float we don't know and the other argument that sort of won the day was we can be an influence in both and if we're
021not if we're watching from the outside then we have no influence and we don't know what's going on okay so that's that's the arguments that that occurred during that uh discussion thank you the the rest of the meeting was you know just a standard meeting nothing really setting the fall schedule that you started right see roll out uh with jada's uh email email this afternoon um it's so it was it was it was over in thermopolis which was you know it's a short drive over there but uh talking about insurance i heard many districts i think it was plat that went up 13 my goodness and uh like somebody had an 18 growth in insurance so you know we with four percent are really on the uh that's a that's a good number yeah great
022number you know so if you can imagine that number if it was 18 yeah uh you know that's that's the worry about budgets and sustainability of things that we do right we right now have that great opportunity with esser and and funds from the government i mean it's an opportunity to do you know a lot of growth with our students and uh getting you know that we we have you know we're not one of the three pilots for uh training teachers or you know the apprenticeship program but you know when we have 50 extra people in our buildings many of them are teaching many of them are not certified you know right you know and this is a great opportunity to to do a little you know this this person might be a great teacher
023to let's let's do our own little apprentice kind of thing you know and we've been doing that we've grown quite a few teachers from paris uh already and so that's that's you know if we can use some of that money to even help a teacher become a a or a parent to become a teacher that that would be a great use of that money and we are you know we are doing that exact same exact thing so things like that that can be you know beneficial during this time of this this wealth that uh is sustaining us uh in that kind of category is a great thing the other thing is i know we're going to pass this thing coming up on the uh auditorium oh boy that's going to overrun too more than likely
024yes uh just looking at the cost of the design yeah you know it just sucks up everything but we'll talk more about that later okay that's enough okay so jenny um what do you have to to share with i've caught my breath so okay good i was hoping enough time no sorry for being late guys wednesday nights are softball practice for special oh so i had a high tail it from downer up here um i don't have anything i just wanted to remind everybody that the native american ed conference is a week and a half i think it's august 2nd through the 4th and there's virtual options available for that and i had that on my list as well and we we registration is free for anybody here in fremont 25 because we support it
025um we fund um we find some of the dollars that it costs to run it so therefore they give us free registration so if anybody's interested we can let jada know we can get you registered for free and i encourage everybody to at least get registered and partake even if it's on soon yep yeah that's us thanks bruce nothing really you don't want to talk about dragon main in your oh well that was fun but i mean that's not really school really okay i will i will say he's got a really cool car [Laughter] i had my camaro out there right here yeah romero was cool also all right just been uh doing 4-h stuff with the kids getting ready for uh fair and then pigs are getting big rolling i had them tonight before
026i got out here i might smell like a pig if i do that's why okay getting 230 pounds a piece and there's three of them over the chair yeah um i don't know jody i don't have anything thank you ali nothing jada no thank you jody matt okay i'll do my little short thing and then i'll have you take over um i did notice matt that that number so in it which is okay i mean that's i was glad to have that spreadsheet because i need to i need to have that for our rec board because we're getting ready to file formally the 30th that the special districts the f-32 form is due um at the on you know the end of of july and so we have to submit that along with our advertised
027budget amount that we kind of figured and we'll have things come in with with that we'll see how that works out but i i did appreciate you the attachment there so that i could see that other number because i need to have that in order to correctly fill out the special districts form that is really not a special district form but i'm not going to go into that um i i'm hoping that lynette gets safe travel back from casper and wish her dad a full recovery and he'll be feeling better soon i'm sure um and then for joel i know that his his son they ended up having to go back to salt lake so um i did see him at the car show though which is really kind of cool and outside of that
028i've just been kind of running all over enjoying kids from my grandsons to my great nieces and and that that's always and they got me to climb to the top of the blue ridge lookout so that was something so but that's it for me so i'm just going to turn this over to you joanna can i make one as you were saying that i'm meant to mention last meeting about the boces oh and especially that you know now the the boces are now considered special districts and because they were in a category where they weren't ever there was no state audit so now the boces is is being audited in the same way as true special districts yeah yeah and they do have like they have a video out there that you can watch that
029will help you fill this form out but and when we take care of it yeah when we when we were audited though um that's one thing that when was here that we talked about the the format for that form really isn't special districts just saying so but thanks um a couple of things so uh as you'll see on the agenda you'll be accepting funds for the auditorium and also for the design of the demo for tonkin so just with that in mind i i i want to start looking at putting together an auditorium design team as well as a tonkin memorial committee i think it's important for us as we move through the design for the demo of tonkin that we honor that building and the place it's had in our community and and create
030some kind of memorial that'll stand on the ground so um all uh ted actually has arranged a meeting uh for us with um our architect committee that we selected um to start some of the auditorium just to start talking about that's and kind of figuring out who needs to be where and then we'll start to to um gather some some folks who'd be interested in the same with the talking memorial but i just wanted to let you guys know that in case any of you on the board are interested in being part of that at all yes i would so my question is um i'm interested because i bought a brick for my dad so i want to know where all those bricks are sure yep what are you thinking ted you um what we
031need to do something and that's why we need to get together my concern is that we don't uh just kind of explode into something where we're trying to pick a bunch of things out of that building that but i haven't asked about the bricks they spent money on the bricks where's the bricks gonna go a simple thing yeah comes in and we put that in the agreement well that's not the bricks he's talking about the one with the the side with uh with all of the personalities the personalized brickware uh just going back in the past again uh which i do too much but uh jefferson when the uh we we put a um up there the only mistake we made was using some of the glass if if you remember the old jefferson oh
032yes they had these the the glass spots and they got broke right away but you know if you go down and look at it it's built with bricks maybe the bricks could be part you know be used in actual construction of a of the memorial yeah and i was i've been asked that same question and you know there's a lot of families including mine that they're i have several family members who are up i don't know how many probably a thousand they don't remember how many yeah yeah i would say it's close to that roughly i would say and part of the design process will be for us to decide how we want to dispose of the building so you know as as ted said if if we want to salvage uh bricks or some
033other pieces off that for people to be able to access then we tell them that in the design when when the building comes down we want these bricks and we want them set aside and we're going to use them for this or we want this cornice out of the building because we're going to use it for this and so that's all part of the design piece and so i just would like to get people if there are folks out in the community that have a you know specific interest in that have an opportunity for them to kind of serve on a committee to to look at the building walk through the building think about what what what are the things in the building or outside the building that we that would make that we want
034to honor that we want to put into a memorial of some kind or we want to offer to the public in some way shape or form and kind of get that plan so um so if you're interested in any of that and jj i put your name down um just let me know and um we'll then reach out to to other um people in the community as well um we are doing our own teacher internship pilot and i i had that down here so we're not doing the pilot through the state we'd already started our own using yes for fun so um one of the things that i think we've done a really good job of in the district is really collaborating with people across the district um as well as the community on what
035are the needs we this is short-term money but if we use it right we can have a lasting impact with it i believe and um so one of those things is is getting some of our our very skilled very talented um staff members who maybe just haven't finished up a teaching degree but they should be teaching it's that they're it's what they're meant to do it's what they want to do they work for us already and so we have a process in place for them where they can apply for a scholarship through esser and they can finish up their degree um and so we already had that rolling when the state rolled out their pilot piece and we didn't really see any benefit to joining on to that because we already have our own designs
036and we have three applicants at this point so yeah just to tag on could we use could we put some of that if we x number of people sign up can we pigeonhole that money as reserved to pay for the finishing of the project finishing of which project though getting these teachers and getting the teachers esser funds yes well all of our funds have to be spent through at through september it doesn't matter however what we what we can do is it it is allowable for us to look at things that we're spending out of our general fund that would fit under esser dollars and shift those to esther there is no esr doesn't have any um supplanting language so there's no supplanting issue with that as there is with many other federal programs so
037it would be allowable for us to take and we will that's part of what we will be doing moving forward is taking a look at areas where we're spending our funds at a general fund to support issues that have arisen through kobud and switch that over to esser funds and then we can take those dollars theoretically and put them into and save those yes but esser itself no does that make sense sure yeah so i'm excited we've offered this opportunity through special ed uh funds in the past and now we've extended it beyond that um using esser funds i'm hoping that we'll get well we already got three candidates so that's i think super exciting and that is we continue to offer that opportunity um and we're out we're amending it a little bit to
038open the door a little bit wider for some folks and so we're excited about that um also wanted to mention the native american conference so um august 2nd through the 4th as jenny mentioned and we can sign you up free if you're interested in attending at all first week back i know it seems like we shouldn't be talking about that but um it'll be here before we know it the district opening will be august 19th at the middle school i think we'll start about 7 45 we have a trainer coming in for the entire staff that starts at nine so i think we're going to need to bump up our start a little bit sooner so we'll have breakfast served and then we'll start our welcome back around 7 45. um on the 19th if
039you'd like to come and josh varner will be here uh to to work with uh elementary and then he'll do a section a session with secondary um on toronto trauma informed practices for the classroom again something that we're definitely seeing as a result of covid and and needing to really give our teachers those tools on on how to work with those students coming in um from that trauma that that that they've suffered so that will be on the 19th our new staff will come in starting august 8th so on the morning of august 8th we'll have a new staff orientation so if any of you want to come by and say hi to the new staff you are welcome that will be at 7 30 8 o'clock well we'll start registration and pictures at 7
04030 but we'll start the presentations at eight and that's here i can't remember johnny okay how many new staff how many new stuff we have a lot there's a bunch yeah there is a bunch interviews start the first week of august right yeah so that's just everybody we've filled up to this point it's a lot so what day what day was that busy the 8th august 8th how many teachers i think there was 30 25 or 30. wow well it's exciting thank you that is exciting yes um i think you guys received the wsba email that had the information on it about the fall roundup um but we will be hosting the dinner here again and that'll be on thursday september 1st yep you want to put that on your calendars we'll host that dinner
041here at one point carl you had talked about the golden bell award or the champion of education award and we'd had a conversation about that but we'd missed that deadline so i just wanted to bring that to your attention that if there is somebody you're wanting to nominate those nomination nominations have to be in by october 3rd um and and i can get you more information on that um it all the information is on that email that i think you all receive the flyers that explain how you might have to do everything now instead of yeah later yes well if there's a fair amount of paperwork that has to be done and things that have to be gathered so if you if you did want to make that nomination then we would we want to
042get on that and i can help in any way that you need me to do um and then the delegate assembly you know will be held in casper um on on the third is that on the third as well i think so so i think that's all i've got for tonight okay um do we have anybody any any comments or or from the from visitors that you would like to share with the board no okay hearing none we're gonna move right on into our action items so i would entertain a motion um for the take action on the levy to lovey mills second okay all in favor okay so the next thing on our agenda is to consider an administrative recommendation to authorize the board of to request and that to assess 25 meals management
043abortion authorize the administration to request assessment of 25 mills for local support second all in favor aye okay item c consider an administrative recommendation to adopt the budget for the 2022-2023 school year madam chair i would move the board adopt the budget for the 2022-2023 school year as presented second all in favor aye aye item d consider an administrative recommendation to approve a resolution so um mata is requesting that the board approve the budget amendment and appropriation resolution dated july 20th 2022 to amend um the fiscal year 2022 special revenue budget from 8 000 to 11 000 million okay so all those are noted can we enter do do i need to go through each of those do you want me okay no all right okay perfect thank you the only thing i is a
044discussion oh no yeah we have to have motion madam chair i recommend i move that the board approve the budget amendments and appropriation resolution date july 21st 2021 to amend the fiscal year 2022 special revenue budget from 8 million to 11 million for an increase of 3 million the fiscal year 2022 depreciation reserve fund budget from 100 000 to 150 000 for an increase of 50 000 the fiscal year 2022 insurance fund budget from 9.5 million to 9.6 million for an increase of one hundred thousand dollars second okay any discussion yes um i just bet on that three million dollars where is it going to land is gonna be the general phone so that that's actually for last year's budget it already landed that was for the coded stipend that we gave out to all
045the staff members so uh that was predominantly it then we hired i think more staff than we anticipated on esser like we had two attendance liaisons initially we hired a third one um i don't know that we had a terry planned last june but as soon as we got into july august but that's where that's the count that's going to land it yeah yeah it'll be what do you mean i'm not sure in a general fund account no that's special sorry that's a special revenue three million dollars yeah that's a special revenue increase so so we had we had estimated that we thought we would need to spend about eight million dollars out of special revenues for the physical 22 budget but because we gave covet stipends to the staff we needed to spend about
04611 000 or 11 million out of special revenues which is esther funds so so that comes out of that goes back yes it's it's basically an increase in our use of of uh federal federal grants yeah okay yes yeah thank you thank you answer the question i think i'll just quickly make sense to you [Music] and if i say something wrong here matt tell me but i think the tricky thing about a district budget a little bit and um i had somebody mentioned to me the other day about the radio saying we have a 77 million budget and i said well you have to understand what that means we have about 40 million dollars coming in from our state allocation so the state guarantee is giving us about 40 million dollars which is is kind
047of what we see year in and year out that is really the meat of our budget we have additional dollars coming in this year because of significant special revenues 16 million dollars in ester funds that we don't typically get so those get added in right so that's a special revenue source that gets added in with the 40 million we also have capital construction funds coming in so we have money for the demo money for the wrestling room money for the auditorium so those are again um not year in year out funds they're not part of our guarantee from the state so then that gets added on so when you start to add on those kind of significant funding sources that are coming in outside of the the guarantee from the state it starts to look
048like this gigantic budget which it is it is because we're building buildings and we have these esser funds coming in but that's not that's not typical so i just want to be make sure that everybody understands that we don't run on a 77 million dollar budget year in and year out in this district um this is a this is an unusual year the next couple years will be unusual because we'll continue to draw esther funds from the federal government we'll also continue to draw in funds from the state for our building projects so just just to kind of it's a good opportunity to make there's also special funds all the title dollars so and that's usually a fairly stable number it is you know so you can usually predict it pretty well so and it's
049so it stays in special revenue but because there was this increase yes it's a balance sheet transaction yeah it's it's just a balancing trend that's exactly right it's just putting money right needs to go somewhere it's gotta yeah that's right right you spend it out of that fun okay yeah yeah i get it and then how much in depreciation funds is actually have we targeted towards the auditorium it's about 2 million 2 million yeah it's right around 2 million in additional funds to support the auditorium and we were going to have a discussion at some point about the other targets in the depreciation fund we will do that that's that's they'll probably have to have a special meeting for that because it's it's it's like this when you have to you know not a special
050meeting but we'll have to have a meeting that and and plan that it'll kind of be will be right really no i think i think that's the problem is we've been operating like that on the depreciation reserves um we move money as we have it into there i think we need to be a little more deliberate about planning for that movement really knowing what we feel like we have to we have to support out of depreciation and and how much that's going to cost us each year and then being thoughtful about creating a budget that will then move money into the department you know like we were keeping money you know that we were a belief structure that like on willow and aspen on the parts that were outside the model for building a school
051so we've had a bigger gym and you're supposed to put x amount you're supposed to take that money and pay for it outside of your regular dollars and so we've been doing that and we've actually got more money in there than i mean we can continue to do it without putting more money at it for years and years and years well and there's some discussion that that's not necessary yeah so we're looking at right even if it was necessary i mean we have more money right there right right correct okay is there any further questions or discussion we have a motion and a second on the floor um all those in favor aye all those any opposed okay so moving on to item e to consider administrative recommendation to reserve the right to withdraw funds
052from boces go ahead that's fine i mean we do so second any discussion or this does not mean that we're going to do it it just gives us the right to do it right it's it's it's prudent you know for us to do it and i'm glad that we keep keeps the option open right it does keep the option open because you have to give them a year's notice so if we don't tell them now that we may want to do it and we decide we want to do it we'll have to wait a year yeah so yeah and i thank you for saying that because i have got some questions about that too people say drawing from boces yeah we're not we're i feel like we're getting very good services from boces and um
053we're i'm not recommending that we remove but i am recommending that you have that opportunity should you so desire right so we have a motion and a second on the floor um all those in favor those opposed hearing none we're going to move on to item f consider an administrative recommendation to approve inter-district transportation madam chair i would move the board approve the inter-district transportation within fremont county school districts number 1 24 and 38. second um is there any questions or discussion with you is there one district that's not on this list or all the districts on it fort washington i've been on multiple bus trips with broken down buses on wrestling trips so if fort washakie has a bus broke down what do we do with those we don't help them well it's mainly
054it's a reciprocity thing where they will get you a bus and bring your bus back and then take kids back no no this is this is different than that we would for sure help them if something happened like that and they needed kids this is about them bringing a bus into our um into our district boundaries and loading up kids and taking them out to their districts yeah that's what i was thinking it was like no and every other district in the county allows the uh buses to come into their district and pick up or drop off kids that district that unnamed no i guess it's named now uh does not and so it's a reciprocity okay yeah sorry i was i was thinking the ones when you have to know i just want i
055always appreciate that pearl thank you any any other questions or concerns okay hearing none we have a motion and a second on the floor um all those in favor those opposed hearing none we'll move on to item g considering an administrative recommendation to accept funding madam chair i move that the board accept funding from the wyoming state construction department for the riverton high school auditorium edition construction in the amount of eight million two hundred thousand dollars and for the tonkin activity center tac demolition in the amount of three million nine hundred and ninety seven thousand five hundred and eighty three dollars second okay are there any questions or discussion i just want to say that i am thrilled to have this agenda item we have been trying to do this for so long it's actually
056on the agenda it was left out in the 80s yes because we wanted to have a bigger gym and now finally after 40 years we're going to finally get our auditorium yes how exciting is that that's that's really awesome for our community for our schools our kiddos all of that are there any other questions or discussion here i have a motion and a second on the floor um all those in favor opposed hearing none we're going to move on to item h consider an administrative recommendation to accept funding chair i would believe the board accept the special revenues from unite us in the amount of twenty five hundred dollars second um so just quickly just uh we were uh recognized by unite us as our as part of our poverty alleviation work in the community
057we were recognized as a community champion and that comes with the 2500 award which is nice and we can use it to for ongoing support for that poverty alleviation system yeah congratulations to our district for that that's awesome any other questions or discussion have a motion in a second on the floor all those in favor aye aye opposed okay moving on to item i consider an administrative recommendation to approve a revised job description madam chairman but the board approved the revised job description for the buildings and grounds department secretary has presented second um any discussion or questions hearing none motion a second on the floor all those in favor all right opposed moving on to item j consider an administrative recommendation to award a contract for professional services i am chair i would move the
058board award a contract to plan one architects of cody wyoming in the amount of 775 for the architecture and engineering design contract of the riverton high school auditorium project i'll second that um any questions or concerns not a question is that in line that seems like a lot for to me but i know nothing about so design on engine or anything is usually about 10 so 8.2 million dollar project okay they're under 10 okay for design i think they're good and i'll just say this plan one i'm just really happy you guys decided to not get somebody from out of state they're local they're cody they're wyoming i mean yeah and they got some people that live here in this community that work for them i think it's a good deal good enough okay it's
059always tough to see that number though well i know nothing about it so i just think that the engineering services are usually about ten percent and then for design phase the design component is it not i think what what isn't often understood about the design component is it's not just about the architectural design and even the engineering design of pieces it's about the prepping the bid work for the construction so you really want you really want somebody who knows how to get those bid papers ready so that when you go to bid you've got all of your t's crossed they do all of that so they get the bid work yeah yes so like for me what i do for like these guys i work for these guys and a lot of other people we
060work they hire us and the subs and we have to submit our bills to them and they have to process everything under the state contracts and everything else before we ever get paid it's got to be legit all right everything's got to be clean and it's a lot of work yeah so yeah that's why it's that much money and the thing about it the the fewer change orders that you have the better design it was than they thought of it their eyes they dotted them right and they crossed all their t's when you start to see big gaps in things that should have been there and weren't that's when you know you should stay under yourselves for the big documents they're huge it's ejdc documents they're massive okay um anybody else have any questions or
061comments again just excited that it's on the day too i'm like i am very excited about this as well um having a motion in a second on the floor i would um all those in favor aye aye opposed first step that's right first step yes come closer all right um going moving on to item k consider an administrative recommendation to award a contract for professional services i'm sure i recommend the board award contract to nelson architects llc of riverton wyoming an amount of three hundred forty thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars for architect engineering design or tonkin building demolition second okay anybody have any comments or questions or so it may seem a little odd that you're designing a demolition project that you need a design for that but you do because you have to
062design how the building's going to come down you have to design things like what are we going to salvage and keep out you have to uh analyze and and do testing for hazardous materials and design the mitigation of that so there's a lot that goes into uh designing how a building comes down just as much as there does how one goes up right a lot of asbestos from that building right so they'll have to mitigate built in the 40s that's right 40 00. part of that and she is a fremont county resident wonderful lady yeah good work first of all we got her all right um any other discussion we have a motion in a second all those in favor opposed ida mail consider an administrative recommendation to accept resignations madam chair i move that
063the board except the resignation of [Music] tulsia tasha tasha pasha ravilat as an rms seventh grade volleyball coach effective immediately andrew gosnell is an rms eighth grade assistant football coach effective immediately carol ann stingley as a rendezvous ideal teacher effective immediately per board policy second um any discussion or or we do have a replacement in place for carol ann just so you know that at this late of the day if we had not had that you would see me not recommending that we accept that resignation but we do have replacement lined up and ready for that position okay any other questions concerns we have a motion in a second on the floor all those in favor opposed item m consider an administrative recommendation to offer contracts madam chair i would move the board offer a
064contract to alisa harrison as an rhs esser funded counselor social worker calling yates as an rhs assistant varsity football coach and kaden gattenbein as an rhs assistant varsity football coach and shayna montgomery as an rhs fourth grade ela teacher for the 2022-2023 school year second um any any comments or discussion i just don't think it's glad to have talon back got him back from yep that's cody always nice and and thanks for the the little um explanations below us experience and things like that thank you uh jeremy for having asked for that early on a while back i really like that part of all of this any more discussion or questions we have a motion and a second on the floor all in all those in favor aye aye aye so is this shayna montgomery
065is she one of your selectees for it says that she was a para before and now she's working on an education degree yes okay cool any opposed no hearing none now we're going to move on to that's okay that um i haven't obviously been perfect throughout all of this so you guys are having to deal with me so um and um we're gonna move on to the information items we have a few of those our board tour of maintenance projects is on august 9th at 5 30 a box dinner will be provided we have a community champion agreement with that we received from unite us which is really awesome um we have updated salary schedules can i interrupt you right there yes i just i just want to uh uh in open public here i
066want to give a big shout out to matt and the work that he's done since august along with help from karen and other cabinet members to to really do extensive research into other pay scales how we compare not just teacher salaries but everybody who works for us and um and putting it into a data form that we could all look at and make sense out of and make decisions and update um our pay scales and and um i just wanna i i just wanna thank him for that it was a great deal of work um it needed to get done as we've gone through it this year and finishing things up right now we're still finishing things up with it um i'm kind of aware of way why it maybe hasn't been done for a
067while because it's huge and it's messy um but it really needed to be done and i'm and i just want to i want to thank him for that work and so i included those you you have access to them you can ask questions if you want to about those at any time our next move will be to um finalize and and and matt has also got a great deal of this work already done finalizing where people will come onto those pay scales so it's been a process and um you know it started with us recognizing that we needed to uh revamp pay scales it had been a long time since a few of them um there were it's a huge lack of consistency we had some pay scales with three steps on them some with
068no steps on them some with 20 steps on them so we just we just don't didn't feel like we were being fair and equitable nor were we being competitive um so matt went out and did a great deal of research like i said and we were able to look at that information to determine how we need to put those pay scales together then the tricky part was now how do we put people on them um and so again he he did a great deal of data analysis to help us understand maybe the best way to get people loaded onto those pay scales and so and that's a one-at-a-time proposition so he's been looking at every staff one at a time how many years do they have with us where does that place them on the
069scale does it put them in the range that we're trying to get them into if not we need to bump them up if it's too much we need to bump them down one employee at a time so it's just been a phenomenal amount of work um i i think it's really good work i think it's going to set our district up to be competitive for the next several years and to compensate our staff the way we need to and we're staying in the dollar parameters yeah so that was the main yes yeah so matt i mean that's awesome job you do on that the one thing i wanted to see was quartiles where do we sit for the state on a quarter are we at 75 80 90 for if you are level this level
070that because that's what i deal with i got 100 employees and i got to stay within the quartile i lose people so that that's important to me so i didn't see that which would be nice to see where they sit on a poor time so we we actually made the whole pay scale based on that so we looked at where every other district was at every one of our levels so bachelor's bachelor's 15 30 45 masters masters 15 30 and 45 we went through every one of those um and saw what other districts were all starting at what other districts were ending at and that was that was step one of the analysis that's how we everything else played out from there so we've tried to put ourselves in the top 25 okay so whatever
071that last person was then 25 we said ourselves well that's where we want to be and set that as a beginning and end point everywhere so how do we end up overall 25 percent that's what we're saying top 25 top 25 now what's going to be interesting is i know other districts are also looking at you know bumping up base pay so we're gonna have so when all and we don't know what that's gonna look like so when that all gets done we're probably gonna at the end of the year have to go okay are we still where we said we wanted to be but but that's right now with all the information that we have that puts us in the top 25 in the state and that was our goal that's what we wanted
072to accomplish um and and as i've mentioned before we we we aren't getting more money i mean that's that's where that i i worry that people think we have this giant influx of money that we can spend on salaries because we have a 77 million budget and that's not the case so our actual general fund dollars will be actually uh probably a little bit less coming in than it has been um so what we what we have control of is how we use those funds right and how much we put in personnel versus non-personnel so so you know that we that we change the cost share on the employee half of the benefit package um our benefit package is still probably in the top 10 percent of the state so our benefit package is still
073outstanding it was great before it's still great um but we changed some cost share there so that we could recoup some money out of that um we took five percent out of the non-labor side and then matt has also sat with everybody in this district who runs a budget and line item by line autumn has gone through it with them including me and including your budget and and we have captured additional dollars besides the five percent out of that exercise to be able to apply to personnel costs awesome so it's it's been a big project you know and the way we used to go about it you know we used to put a one percent growth on on the first line and then let it run through and that 700 000 that i was remembering
074from the past was a five percent uh increase in uh uh the but in the steps and whatnot right so the or the base i guess and so that was 700 000 and that's how we used to kind of grow the the salary right doing something like this is monumental it's huge they go piece by piece and i i thank you for the work you've done indeed it worked out too it was taken into account a handful of things the first thing was the premium so that was just going back it was about 1.5 million is what we've now put into salaries now so we've taken other money from the district and put in another 1.5 million into that about half of that was covered by the premiums a lot of it's going to be
075covered by the fact that sped's reimbursable is fantastic reversible so that covers us on a lot of angles too but yeah i think i think what carl's saying is kind of how we ended up in this situation we had some people that if they're already we're pretty well paid given a five percent bump pushes them more that way um if they're already underpaid it didn't do enough for them right so um i think that's kind of how we ended up there but uh just to your point the the two areas that i think substantially changed we were already pretty competitive in our bachelor's level teachers we know it because like carl said we paid a lot of attention in that base salary that was a lot of our focus base salary the areas we fell
076short in was the masters teachers and above so they saw a much higher increase in the bachelor's teachers and then the classified staff a lot of classified staff probably about 75 of them just from start to finish just hadn't been addressed that's awesome yeah good job man that's awesome thank you man the other thing that i just want to mention is that um you know we have mad i don't know how many pay scales this year yeah a lot of pay skills in this direction and so part of our work also has been to to look closely at job description so we've done a lot of that work and then also to combining job descriptions so that we don't or sorry pay scales so that we do not have so many pay scales to try
077to manage it's it's really it it was really pretty cumbersome we have a lot of like one-off employees like there's only one of this person in the district we placed them somewhere 20 years ago we've never reassessed is that even the right salary for that type of job nowadays does that make sense anymore why did it happen first place or something yeah there was something like 10 years ago we're like why did we make this decision there's no documentation just it was made so ted you got the emotion again [Laughter] one of the things that makes me the happiest is that that we've put 20 steps on every pay scale so if you stay with us and you work for us and you commit to us it doesn't matter what you do we're going to
078commit to you and you're going to get a step so hopefully that'll help build that longevity and yeah i mean we you're good we we we first of all we have amazing support staff in this district they are phenomenal people and we train them like crazy yes we do and they do great work and we need to keep them and so i'm just really happy that we were able to put those steps on for them and then we also took a look at lanes there are some pay scales that should also have lanes on them that don't have lanes on them right now and we added lanes to some of those so it's been it's been really good work i think and i don't know if we've got it perfect we may find we may
079have some people come in and say wait a minute wait a minute what about this this doesn't make sense and we may have to make an adjustment here there it's been a gigantic project and we've spent a lot of time and we're still working on exact placements and so we're trying to be as clean as we pos as we possibly can with this first move but we may have we haven't we may have a few errors that we didn't see that we'll have to clean up that could happen well i i appreciate your hard work and i appreciate you guys keeping that transparency piece and and so that our employees know if they do have questions they can come to you and ask them and frankly i think it's going to be positive i do
080i think this is great if you do get some questions um there is this notion i think in the district that there was a one-to-one trade on the insurance and that's not necessarily true like we took money from there to pay premium and we gave it right back to them as a premium it wasn't like that because a lot of them shifted and said well i don't need my whole family i just need to be in my spouse right so or i don't need the insurance at all my husband has it and so it wasn't just this we charged you and we're giving it right back to you it was we charged you and now other people have now dropped more and more money from us to have to spend on that so it wasn't
081just this one-to-one trade we probably took out an extra 20 30 on that thanks for that explanation okay um we have some certified staff changes transfers denise mcgowan to an ideal teacher at rendezvous jordan hoover to a fourth grade lr teacher at rendezvous classified staff changes we have some resignations rendezvous para tammy davis effective immediately district computer technician zito foy um effective immediately rendezvous para melissa apodaca effective immediately bus driver darren temple effective immediately and finally some additional classified staff changes resignations aspen elc computer para tracy hannah bush effective immediately and rendezvous para emily kuzel effective immediately so is there any more business to come before the board anybody have anything out