Kuna School District Board of Trustees Regular Meeting - February 10th, 2026

001I'd be nagging it. Okay. >> Do I have a motion to go into the executive session? >> I make a motion that we go into executive session according in accordance with code section 74-06. The board may elect to hold an executive session to be to consider evaluation, dismissal, discipline and of or to hear complaints or discharges brought against the public officer, employee, staff member or individual agent or public school student. Have a second. I second. >> All right. Um, any discussion? Kirsty. >> Hi. >> JD. >> Hi. >> Freddy. >> Hillary. >> Hi. for me as well. Okay, we will be Just realiz all right we will resume regular session. Uh please stand for the pledge of allegiance. Ready? Begin. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the

002republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Okay. Um before we vote to approve the agenda, there's a request to to amend the agenda and add an action item to old business and update on sale of Fourth Street Gym Trustees Grant and Low. >> I move to amend the agenda to add an action item to old business under the sale of Four Street Gym. >> A second. >> Okay, it's a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? Okay, we'll take a vote. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay, amendment passes. All right, so now we do need a motion to approve the approve the agenda as amended. >> I'll make a motion to approve the agenda as amended. >> Okay. Uh,

003any discussion? Okay. All in favor say I. >> I. Okay, motion passes. Okay, we'll move on to celebrations. Parent University. >> Um, so chairman had to think for a minute. Chairman Thornton, um, and members of the board tonight, Anita Wilson is here. The board had wanted had asked us about doing parent universities along with the superintendent advisory. And so we had our first well a second one actually but Anita's first one for the two middle schools. Tim is at city council or whatever what it is planning zoning tonight. So Anita is here to share about how it went. >> Hi. >> Thank you. >> Chairman Thornton trustees. Yes. Uh it's great to address you guys tonight. This is the first time for me doing it. So it's um I'm glad to be able to to

004present this. So last week we had our parent university um middle school 101 uh principal Tim Jensen and I ran that. It was held at the high school and u it was well attended. Allison was there. I'm not sure I didn't count how many people but it was full. Um every table was filled with um parents from both Fremont um Kuna Middle and Synergy. So um parents who were interested in synergy. We had um I did bring the agenda if you would like a copy of that. Give one to you. So these are the topics that we talked about. >> Thank you. >> Welcome. And so we just kind of went over the basics of middle school, what to expect, the differences between elementary and middle school. We had um we spent about an hour

005reviewing that and then we had at least 30 to 45 minutes after where parents stayed and asked us specifically um some questions and we were able to get back to them with some answers. So um you know we kind of went over the differences um in how CAST is different. We have AVID programs. We talked about uh parent involvement and we did talk about athletics. So it was wellreceived. We had a lot of questions about the dual language program and special education programs that we were able to answer. So overall it was a great evening. It was really nice to see a lot of people. So um I will stand for questions if you want to know any more information about the night. >> I don't have any questions but Mr. Jensen said that he

006liked doing it together. >> It was great. >> Something that you also thought was great to >> combine the schools. Yes, it was great because um you know we have a lot of programs that are the same and um schedules that are the same. However, there's some differences, a few slight differences between the schools and it was it was really nice to be able to um do it together. Yes, definitely. >> Sounds like it went very well. >> It was great. Yes. Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Is your shirt for your >> Oh, yes. I am wearing a t-shirt. I'm sorry. I'm wearing a t-shirt tonight and jeans. This is um a t-shirt celebrating our attendant secretary Stacy Webster has been diagnosed with cancer. And so today at school, everybody wore we wore our

007Stacy Strong t-shirts. So it's twin day for random acts of kindness week. So we were everybody on the faculty and staff were twins. We're all twinning. So just to support her and her family. So >> that's great. Thank you. >> Great to meet us. >> Okay, we have one more. Um, chairman and we just got that in today. Allison is going to really quickly share a celebration. Okay, >> Mr. Chairman, trustees. Um, a shout out to one of our bus drivers, um, Kendall Foster. Kindle, like many of our community are concerned about, um, kids um, in these dark times walking and going back home to school, not being able to be seen. And so, she she and I were looking for things that we could do to equip our kids so they could be better

008seen. and we encountered um an AC um highway district program called Glow Up and we were able to go through them and get 350 um battery operated reflectors that kiddos can put on their bikes and perhaps attach to their scooters. Um and so we just got those today and we'll be working to get those out to schools to get to kids who are walking, riding, scootering in the dark. So >> celebration. >> Thank you. >> All right, next up our reports. We'll move the time over to Jonathan Giller, our CFO. >> Okay. So, we'll spend some time talking about budget. First off, thank you um for moving me up a little bit. I have a couple board meetings tonight. So, if you see me leave um it's not cuz I got tired of the conversation

009you were having. It's cuz I got two other meetings I'm going to jump on. But you guys are first and foremost. So, I was super excited. >> Um don't tell the other two boards I said. Oh, >> yeah. You're telling everyone. >> And I know that's on video. So, there we go. Um, all right. So, let's get started. We're going to talk about a couple things. Um, I'm going to give you a budget update. I'm going to talk a little bit about financial projections, some information that I've ran specifically on expenses. We still got a little bit more work to do with revenue, so tonight we're just going to talk about expenses. We're going to spend some time talking about fund balance. Um, I'll give you a state funding update. It's not going to be

010very exciting, so don't get your hopes up. Um, there's still a lot that uh needs to change there and a lot of things that are still outstanding. Um, and then I'll have some time for questions. So, first off, during last year's budget, you guys essentially approved a budget that was going to spend down fund balance by roughly $1.5 million. Um, so that was the plan. It was part of the process that we were going to utilize our fund balance. We'll talk a little about cost drivers for some of that in a little bit. And so, I'm just going to let you know basically based on financial projections, we're going to be a little bit higher than that. So, we still have fund balance to cover it. I don't want it to to to cause any

011panic. Um, but just know based on the projections I've ran, you'll be around $2.1 million that we'll lose this year based on expenses. And then I'll talk in a second about what drives those and kind of what are the reasons why. But just keep that in mind. Essentially, I'm projecting roughly a 17% fund balance, which is still a good healthy amount. And we're going to want to keep that fund balance. We keep fund balance for numerous reasons. Um, I should stop for a second. Everybody knows what fund balance is, right? Essentially, that's the excess that we have available. It's essentially a savings account. um it doesn't work quite exactly like that, but that's how we want to look at it. Um you can use it to offset one-time expenses. You can use it in the

012situation where maybe we have a budget cut and it happens midyear and so you don't want to be able to displace things for kids and so essentially we'll eat into our savings account. So um so again, this is where I project the end of the year. What I'll tell you it won't be exactly that number. It would be awesome if it was. That means I'm really good and I've planned everything out and every dollar and penny exactly the way it's going to happen. But again, that's kind of how we're projecting the year. So we' be hovering around 17%. So why does fund balance go down and why did we think about it going down this year? Um largely there's a couple of things. There was some changes right at the end of uh towards the

013end of the session last year that talk about salary minimums. Uh we captured a lot of that in the budget. So I don't want to make it sound like that's a big cost driver, but there was quite a few changes to R1, P1, and AP1. You don't need to know those terms, but essentially it required minimums in our salary schedules. And so for a lot of us that was a lot of changes and that was a little bit of change in code from even the previous year and how we should apply that. So that increased salary costs. Much of that was captured during the budget but oftent times you know you don't know exactly where everybody's going to land and so you're going to have some of that spillover. The big one is special education

014costs increase. Um and this is not specific to Kuna. This is really everywhere. You're seeing special education costs continue to go up. And so even a lot of times it'll be beyond even what you budgeted and projected because you don't know exactly what your student count's going to be and what those students needs are going to be. And so just know that as we start to talk about budget this year, you're going to hear us talk a little about special education costs. You're going to hear us talk a little about how we're going to try to manage that and manage that risk. And then lastly, um the budget increases we all received across the state um didn't exactly cover all of our increases in operating costs. And so we're having to continue to kind of

015deal with the escalation of cost increases with reduced revenues to offset that. So why do we want to like what are some reductions in fund balance? What are potential impacts? Um decreases in financial flexibility. That's pretty simple, right? It's just like your savings account at home. If that starts to get smaller, right? You have to worry about, oh, if I have a roof problem or I have a car problem. It's the same thing for a school district. Um as our fund balance continues to drop, it just reduces our flexibility a little bit. If we want to be nimble, if we need to make a change, if oh, we really need to buy this piece of curriculum, it requires a little more discussion in process, which is why we want to try to maintain a bit

016as much as we can. Um, it could impact bond ratings. I'll tell you it can. More fund balance for a bond holder is always better. Um, what does it necessarily mean that going down a million and a half is going to change your bond rating? No. It'll be a lot of valuations that they'll do not only of the school district, but of school districts around as Moody's does with valuations. But again, if you go out for bonds, the more fund balance you have, the more likely you are to have a better interest rate. And then lastly, um largely what happens when you have state funding changes midyear, um we've already agreed to contracts, we already have students in classrooms, a lot of those expenses are already incurred. So it just means that like as your

017fund balance drops, if you have mid-year changes in in funding, um it's a lot harder to manage those. So again, those are some of the reasons why not only we would anticipate fund balance to go down is when situations like this occur, but then also we want to sure that we can try to maintain as much as we can moving forward so that we can manage through some of those risks. So reduction plan. So you talked about you saw the $2.1 million um the administration has come up with a plan essentially over two years to manage through what that's going to look like. So we're going to look to adjust the budget. So we're not going to adjust it tonight, right? But what we'll go through as part of the budget process is we're going

018to look to try to recoup around $1.1 million and that's going to we're going to take a look at you know essentially we'll look through staffing we'll look through people who are retiring attrition you know that's not very different than what we would usually do but again we're going to try to identify open positions and then we'll essentially try to recoup those dollars and save them in the budget. We'll also go through I'm going to take a look at um any like materials and services spending if there's any capital that we can delay if there's any curriculum that we can get creative about managing looking to help manage those costs to reach that $1.1 million. But again, essentially we're going to look to do this across two years um to hopefully again limit the exposure

019and allow us time to maybe look at some ways we can generate additional revenues. Um so we'll look at attrition again, review other cost areas to find savings and then how do we increase state funding, right? So that's the other side of it. We can essentially look at continuing to cut costs or we can try to look at where we can increase revenues. Two places where essentially you can increase revenues. I'll tell you you really have control arguably you have control over one of them um you know attendance. So enrollment if we have more students that come in that'll generate additional funding. We really don't have much control over that will be at the the nature of whether that happens. Where we can look at is essentially are there ways where we can increase our

020attendance percentage. So we've been spending some time kind of walking through what that'll look like. because there's some attendance initiatives we can do. Is there things that we can do to try to increase that even a tenth to a half a percentage point just bringing in additional dollars for basically the operations we're already doing. So those will be things that we'll look at to try to look at ways to try to increase our revenues. We'll continue to talk downtown. We'll continue to have discussions as well to try to you know ensure we can receive enough dollars to operate to effectively educate kids. Um starting with 2728. This is where I project that our fund ballots could be as we roll into 2728. So now I've transitioned a whole another year, right? So this is like

021um have you seen on ESPN like right after the Super Bowl, they have way too early projections, right? That's my sports analysis. This is the same thing. Way too early projections of how things are going to look 24 months from now. But just know essentially with that $1 million reduction that happened the second year, we'd be sitting around 7 million in fund balance. How we'll try to manage that budget as we roll into 2728. We're going to have some of the same conversations. We're going to look at are there additional costs? Did we have any attrition that happened during that budget process? And then essentially, is there additional revenues that we can recoup? Are there things that we can try to drive attendance up? Is there a new program that we can try to market

022so that we can try to bring in student enrollment? And then what are we going to be working on over the next couple months? We'll continue. I'll run another round of projections. I'll take a look at revenues for 2526 and try to firm up those numbers. Then we'll start working on 2627's budget. And I can tell you that's already started. We've been looking at expenses. We've been looking at identifying ways that we can find cost savings. Um, and then we'll work on the 2627 budget with a plan to give you a presentation probably in May for a work session. Uh, so that we can walk through all the revenues and expenses. And before then, I'll be kind of starting to dribble out information so that you won't have to take it in all at once.

023And state funding update, fiscal year 2526, there was a recision package that went down to the legislature. Um, as of right now, uh, K12 is not in that package. So, as of right now, we should be, as of today, at least not anticipating a cut for 2526. As far as 262 27, um, more information to come. So, that budget's still getting worked through the legislature. So, there's still a lot of discussions. Unfortunately, I don't know much now. Hopefully, by the next board meeting, I'll know a lot I can share with you about budget. And then with that, I can answer any questions. That was a lot really fast. Sorry, I drink a lot of caffeine. I probably should drink less, but you catch me at six o'clock. So, >> I don't have any. >> What's

024the monthly What's our monthly expenditure, >> right? >> See, but you know what? I can get it for you rather than just trying to run in my head. I I'll pull one um because I'll pull the budget and then I can Yeah. >> And I'll send it to you guys. >> I guess I did have a question. I noticed that it said reduction in Medicaid funds but increases in special education expenses. >> Yeah. >> So it's is it additional reductions based on this year or are we talking about last year still? >> Essentially our expenses for special education have continued to increase um and the Medicaid reimbursement as a percentage of that proportion has not maintained that. And so as costs continue to rise, there's this idea, right, that um Medicaid will help kind of

025recoup that. And it's just it's not a dollar for dollar. It never was. Um but really it's now not the dollar of expenses increasing at a faster rate than the dollar of revenues. And so now the gap becomes more. And so what happens in those areas is then the general fund has to kind of pick up that difference unfortunately. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> Thank you. All right. Next up, we have Kuna Education Foundation, Mrs. Mary Stewart. >> Good evening. Uh, thank you, Chairman Horton and trustees for allowing me to uh speak with you for just a few minutes this evening. U my name is Mary Stewart. I'm the current president of the Kuna Education Foundation. Um, so I'm just going to share with you this evening um, a little bit of our foundation's history,

026the purpose of the foundation, what we're currently doing, our future goals, and how we can be supported. Um, so we were, excuse me, granted our official 501c3 on November uh, 1st of 2010, but according to records, um, it didn't really get rolling until about 2013 2014. Um, and our founding members included Gabrielle Bby, Jim Ford, Gail Jenkins, Randy Manker, and Courtney Sheerer. Um, as well as Jenny Greger, who is actually our current um, executive director. And then Kim Nixon is also still remaining on the board as a member. So, we have a lot of relationship with um, our past board members, which is really very nice. Um the role of the foundation uh the biggest one really um what we do um for the district is provide supplemental funding source. Um it's really what education

027foundations are designed to do. Um they help create community partnership as well as um we really work to increase the public uh perception of education and the teachers in the district. Um so we are here to support teachers. We offer scholarship opportunities just to the students of Kuna School District. So that really reduces the competition for some of the um scholarships that we offer which is really great for our students. And then we are 100% volunteer run. There is no member of our board that is paid. Um we don't have any employees. So everything that comes in goes back out which is a really nice thing to be able to say. So our current activities we really do three main things. The first is our bridge grant. That's a one grant that we grant to

028teachers um in the district. Actually, excuse me. It used to be one grant for $25. The 2425 school year was $25 to one teacher in the district through some really great fundraisers, including the basket fundraiser, which the board helped us with and donated a basket. Um we were able to increase that bridge grant to three teachers and $50 each every month. We also offer classroom grants for things like uh field trip expenses and um supplemental uh things to curriculum. Uh we just gave one to Ross for a program called mission IO so that the kids can learn some really cool STEM things. Um they were very excited about learning leadership and they told me that without teacher prompting which was really kind of cool. Um and then again student scholarships. So, uh, moving forward, one

029of the big things is we want to work to increase our donor base. Fundraisers are great, but they're not consistent, and we can't keep tapping the same people in our community. So, we're really working to uh create some sp some uh relationship with businesses and corporations who can provide us with more of a sponsorship similar to some of the education foundations around such as West ADA and Boyisey. Um, we really need to grow our board of directors. For the past 15 years, there's been five and it's really on a very quick rotation. And so, we'll be looking to community members, business leaders, and things people of that nature to um continue the passion that we've created in the past year. Um we would really like to implement some new funds and grants, including creating an

030endowed fund. One of our main goals is to create um an endowed fund that would help um cover past lunch balances. Um, we've seen that as a big need for the elementary schools as well as middle school. Um, and that would be something that would be really great to have that endowed fund to continue to pull from rather than continuing to ask the community to give and give and give. Um, how can you support us? Like, follow and share. It's the age of social media, the more people we have who are sharing our content, who like the our posts and things like that. Um, so thank you to the district for sharing our posts as we do them. donations um of course always welcome and accepted and introductions. If you know somebody who is philanthropically

031minded um a good business leader who you think would be interested in partnering with us, we'd love to speak with them and um see how we can work together and then uh also sponsor. So businesses and individuals um can sponsor um scholarships as well as our monthly bridge grants and so there's um possibility for relationship there as well. So with that I'll say if you would like to connect with us we have our Facebook QR code as well as our website will lead to donate our donations page excuse me any questions clear as much >> you next report we have is capital plan update assistant superintendent Jason ready and director Allison Westfall Chairman Thornton and trustees. Uh I we had Allison on there. She probably helped from the audience tonight, but I had jury duty

032this week and so I was 50/50 on I was going to get here or not. But uh so ended up on a jury till about 8:00 last night. >> Oh my gosh. >> Good times. Anyway, let's talk about the capital plan. Um thank you so much for inviting me to come and give an update. I appreciate that. Uh I'm excited to kind of share some of this information with you and the work that had been done um last spring. So a quick overview. Um we met four times last spring and talked about a variety of topics and sought feedback from a lot of experts. And I do want to spend just a few minutes to walk through these things. Uh Trusty Thornton and Trusty Bruce were in all of these meetings as well. So please

033feel free if if I miss something important um please help if if if you want to. So, first first bullet, uh we looked at the the previous capital plan that was um on the ballot in 2023. Obviously, we know that that uh didn't meet the supermajority. We met the simple majority, but it failed to meet that supermajority threshold for the state of Iowa. We looked at that plan because it was it was a good plan. There was a lot of stuff in there. It was it was a long-term plan connecting back to the 2017 bond that built that first phase of Swan Falls. That was always intended to be a three-phase project and uh so it was kind of like trying to connect all those pieces together. The next uh item up there is we

034spent some time talking about our enrollment capacity and what that means in a school and how it's different from like physical capacity of a building and and those different items. We went to Kuna High School, walked around a few classrooms. We talked about how a welding classroom has a different capacity than a special ed classroom and how that's a different capacity from a gened classroom and how we do that analysis. The group had some really good feedback about that. Felt like it was helpful and informative um because there really was kind of a lot of confusion about what is the capacity of Kina High School, what is the capacity of our different buildings and how do we measure that? So, we spent some good time talking about that. Next, we talked about growth. Um Mike

035Bourj from the city of Cuna came and talked to us about, you know, kind of what what we could see now happening. um what we should plan to see in the future. Talked about the fact that, you know, it's easier to make good projections a few months from now as opposed to 24 months from now or well into the future. We also talked a lot about the Tishler Bice study that we had commissioned um several years ago and if we met the mark that was established there and why we didn't meet that or how close we got to it. Um we talked about the financial picture. We had Michael Keith from Zion's Bank. He does all of our financial advising and and for bonds and levies. And frankly, I think he does it for pretty

036much everybody in the state of Idaho, all the school districts in the state of Idaho. He's very smart, uh, a great expert to have in the room. So, he presented to the group. We had a presentation from our architects, um, Ron and Amber from LKV. Um, they're great partners of ours, very helpful. Uh they showed us some different options we could consider with Swan Falls and the bottom floor, the top floor, adding the library, not adding the library. You know, there's lots of different options to consider. So, they presented those to us, talked about elementaryaries, updates to middle schools, a lot of the things that were on that um 2023 bond. And then, um we looked at the the property that our school district owns around the city of Cuna. We talked about what each

037of those sites um what kind of school would be best fit on those high school, middle school, elementary school, which ones are the most ready um as far as you know all the utilities that would be needed which are not. Uh and then I'm going to spend some a few minutes talking about the school choice impact and and what that has what kind of impact that has on enrollment in the coming slides. Uh, and we also talked about um just some of those different bond options, whether it's big big bond, small bond pieces, parts, uh, and just kind of I I like to affectionately call it like kind of the Lego approach, like can we how many different Legos can we put together to kind of put together a good plan for our community. Um,

038so the first thing and really the overarching question I want to try to answer for you is like why did we pause the work that we were doing after we met those four times? Why did we pause? Uh, one of those reasons is really just the future is very uncertain for us as far as what enrollment is going to look like. And there's a variety of reasons for that. The first obviously you see up there is we are going to have charter schools uh coming online. um kind of a lot of charter schools in the next couple of years. Uh we know Valor is going to start next year. That's going to be K through seven when they open and there my understanding is their plan is to add one grade level every year until

039they get to K12. Um, we don't know exactly how many kids, frankly, we don't know exactly how many CUNI kids will be pulled from our district for each of these because there the way charter schools draw their boundaries is different than the way that our school district has boundaries. They can pull from lots of different areas and frankly a much bigger area. Um, Elevate will is for sure coming. Um, that was approved by the charter commission. The link on there is to the news article that talks about that. You can drill in more if you if you want some more information, but that's traditionally a 6 through 12 um CTE kind of alternative CTE environment. You've seen they're in several places around the state, Caldwell, Nampa, Idaho Falls. Um and then we know that there's

040two more uh rumored to be in 2028 coming online in 2028. zone. Um that creates some decent uncertainty about what our enrollment is going to look like in those coming years. And then the uh private school cha uh private school choice bill, the House Bill 93 from the last legislative session, we don't really know what impact that's going to have on us. Um it's very difficult to make that prediction because there's not really any um like accountability measures for like if a kid leaves and goes to a private school, there's no no way for us to know for sure came from us or the chart the private schools don't have to report where the kid lives. So to anybody so it's difficult for us to be able to make predictions about that. And then we've

041seen statewide, right? uh Idaho's getting a bit older and the demographics are changing a little bit and so we just it's make that's another thing that makes it difficult to predict what our enrollment will do. Um you can go to the next slide please. Another reason we paused uh is we had some changes to leadership. Uh we had our CFO obviously is is new. Uh, in addition to that, um, Trusty Wheeler, this is his second meeting, and we felt like it was appropriate to have a new board member have a voice into what the capital plan future would look like for Cuna. And then obviously, um, new superintendent, you guys are working on hiring a new superintendent and hopefully we'll know who that is by the end of this month. Um, but making sure that

042that person has a voice into that plan also, we felt like was important. Uh, another thing to consider that I think is important to weigh in this equation, uh, we currently have a supplemental levy on the books for $3.6 million. Uh, that levy expires in June 2027. And you'll remember, I'm sure, that levy included 43 teachers, some curriculum, some technology, and textbooks. Uh, so that levy is going to need to be considered for renewal um, coming up pretty soon. So, if we want to get if if you choose to have that on the November um ballot, this board would need to make a decision in August uh of this year. If you you have the option to extend that a little bit, um which would be May of 2027 would be the next option and

043you would need to make that decision in March in order to get it on the ballot. Um the last piece of this and this we'll we'll share a little bit more in the future, but we met with Michael Keith from Zion's Bank a couple of weeks ago and he shared that because we have paid down that 7.2 million in our bond debt, it's actually created a little bit of like room in our bond capacity. uh that gives us some flexibility where we could potentially um run a bigger levy or add a bond and our taxpayers would not feel a rate change. The rate would stay the same and we could actually increase um some of the revenue for our school district. That's a short quick summary. I'm not financial expert, but we'll get Michael Keith

044in here to um give some better and more detail to that. and the option you guys you as a board have an option to consider uh as far as what we want to do with that that plan. So in summary, this is a quick summary. Um these things on the right kind of led us to this this statement of you know we we know what we could be we know what we could do. We know the school sites we have we have plans for from LKV about how we could add on to Swan Falls. um we could build another elementary in the same footprint that we have built the last several. Um but the question really came about what we should be building not what we could build and what when we should do it

045like should it be now what should be first what should go next. Um there were a lot of questions and a lot of different um ideas or options so many variables to consider. Um I know Trusty Thornton probably agrees with that too. Uh and so this last piece that kind of led us to that that path of you know LKV Zion some of our other experts said man there's you guys have so many options to consider you really would want to cons you should think about pull in your community get some feedback from the community uh and see what they think about what's their priority middle school elementary school finish you know all the different possible variations and so that's why we presented in September. Um the potential of doing a community survey. Um but

046all of that to say we that's that's kind of why we just paused the work to to give us some time. Can you go to the next slide? This is just a quick kind of timeline picture. You can take a snapshot of this in your brain. We shared this with the superintendent advisory committee in September. I think Allison was that sound right? Um just kind of the you know we have a new superintendent starting July 1. that's their first that would probably be their first actual date of work in CUNA. And then we we like to talk as leaders in those positions about like what are you going to do in your first 100 days? And there's a lot to consider in those first 100 days for that new person. Um and then you'll see

047those two potential ballot measures with question marks um on there about getting it the board discussion and then getting it on the ballot. So um you can go to the next slide. So the big question is what are our next steps? uh we would want to review that tax capacity. We'll have Michael Keith um he's always willing to come and and talk to us and teach us uh which we appreciate. So we'll get him scheduled to come out and then we have the question of the levy renewal. And then as always in the fall we're going to monitor enrollment really closely. I think trying to evaluate what impact Valor charter school coming online will have. I think that would help us predict what adding more charter schools would do. So, we'll we'll be monitoring that

048very closely and we can report back about our enrollment um at that point. >> So, I'll stand for any questions, comments if there's something I can help give 32. >> Do you know where um the other I mean I know where Valor is, but where's Elevate supposed to go? Do you know the location of that or the other two? >> Yeah, I don't know exactly off the top of my head. Tim actually might be the best expert on that one. Um, it's one I know it's in one of the developments. They've allocated it for a charter school site. I just can't remember. It's >> site over here. >> All three of those major ones are >> Yes, I think. Yeah, all four >> valor plus the other elevate and then the two. Okay. >> I

049think it's in the Galica Heights >> subdivision. >> Is that south of like the south? >> Black. Oh, okay. All right. Black cat. >> Oh, kind of by black cat >> towards Tampa. >> I think one thing to consider too is these charter schools. I mean, the first couple years is sometimes shaky and we've seen kids go there and then our enrollment starts and then they come in a couple months later where we see an influx of students. >> That's a good point. >> There's Impact STEM is closing their doors right now, too. So, I mean, it takes a while for them to get up and going before it's successful in my opinion. So, something to think about. I >> believe we did share a slide about the number of charter schools that have opened

050in the last several years and the number that have closed to kind of validate your point in the capital planning team. So, I appreciate that. Thank you. really isn't there really nothing says that someone could maybe take their student out of school or home school or a charter school or a private school and we don't like that option even if they've received money from like the $5,000 they can still put their student back in our district right is that true >> I think that's a question for the tax commission >> yeah I didn't know that how that works yeah like I think we take whoever right I We're not turning people away even if they've if they try out homeschool doesn't necessarily mean they won't be back. >> Yeah, >> I had one more question.

051There was a woman who came and presented about um doing an a community survey I guess or um we have not moved forward that with that. Is that correct? >> No. No. I I was asked to pause on that work, so we did. Um, >> was that the once like what do you what does the community want? Is that the survey you're talking about? >> Yeah, we were something else. >> I thought it was about like, you know, how many people per door, you know, how many kids per door? Yeah. like refreshing our previous >> No, this one was a different a different type kind of asking the community what they're looking for, >> you know, kind of >> rather than the actual survey or the the research that they did. >> But did we

052kind of talk about doing some research to replace our old research >> talked about? >> We did not do that. Am I >> correct? Yep. Um we worked I mean that Mike Bourjik honestly was very helpful in that and he can tell us exactly how many doors are going to come online in the next you know six months get pretty good 12 month predictions out from further than that it got a little he's a little bit like hey could be a variation of this or that I can share the slides with you um they were actually really helpful and informative um so yeah we could we could pay to have this the study updated if we wanted Um, >> how much did that study cost last time? Does anyone know? >> It was fairly expensive.

053>> Yeah, it was only phase one. There was phase and then there was another one >> six grand. >> I think it was between 8 and $14,000. >> It's frustrating. >> It seems kind of hard to predict with so many variables anyway. I mean, our whole reasoning for having that information validated is so that we could, you know, share that with the city. I I don't know how I don't think it helped that much. I could be wrong. It's nice to have, but >> it's helpful as a reference for sure. And it was, you know, at the end of the day, it's a prediction, right? They're making a prediction. We were I think that number came back we had a 6 kids per door. Um if I'm right was that 6 and some change. It

054ended up actually over the time from the time we got the study to the basically when we were working on this capital plan what we ended up with was about 0.5 kid per door. So it wasn't far off but it wasn't exactly on the head either. Um, yeah, I think the survey, Trusty Willer, to answer your question, the survey was really to try to get some more feedback from the community and to get more people involved um in the capital planning process. Uh, but to kind of figure out, you know, what they really valued about should we finish Swan Falls? Do you think we need another elementary? Should we update our current middle schools? you know, there were a lot of pieces to consider and um the group got to a place where we was

055like there's so many things that we could consider. We need some more voices. >> Gotcha. >> Is there any baseline that we of I mean because there's so many things that we should consider. I mean, inevitably there's things that we have to do, right? regardless of the variables. Is there any way when we do those polls? Just as a as a community member, I think it would be helpful if I got a survey like that that explained like here's the things that we have to do anyways. Otherwise, it just feels like you fill in bubbles and like I don't I don't know what the what that survey looked like or what it entailed, but seems like if we do one, it'd be helpful to have like some foundation of like >> here's the required like

056here's our here's our needs, here's some of our wants. >> Yeah. like here's the things that we inevitably need to do and here's some things that if we have extra >> but I don't know if we it sounds like it sounds like it's so fluid as far as what we actually need to do because we've got the vouchers and we've got charter schools coming in and so like the question I think that at least just based on your presentation Jason is it seems like it's up in the air of like what our needs are and we're trying to solidify that before we really move forward. I think you're just spot on because this it was like October. It was our former um uh CFO and we were talking about I think we'd had the possibility

057of that phase one of that person doing the some work and him him being an outsider to the district, you know, kind of looking into that balcony view was like, okay, what are the needs? Because if enrollment goes down, how do you go out for a bond for another school if you don't need that? Or is it just adding on a wing at some of the elementary schools? I mean, so we were like, we don't >> and we need more people to help us make that decision. So that was kind of the pause as well because we were like there's all these gamles out here of these new charter schools coming on and we can't go out and say we absolutely have to build a new elementary school and we don't really know that we

058need that. >> Yeah. >> Do we need a wing off of Crimson Point or something? >> Do we need to finish Swan? Like I think >> we just went Yeah. >> What do the what does the community want? And we didn't have a good answer. Um then we had a change over and our So anyway, that was kind of a big pause for us because we were like that's probably true, you know. Um we keep talking about one thing, but then these charter schools keep getting approved. We don't know how many kids are going to take. But then you drive down 10 mile and you see that new subdivision coming in. Is that going to be families going to Silver Trail Crimson Point or are we going to get some of that? >> Sure. It

059was just one of these gifts. >> So, we're going to let some of the dust settle >> if it if it does settle. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Right. Move on to patron comment. >> All right. Hi, Danielle Hobs. Um, before we get started, just a reminder, you have three minutes. If you could please state your name and address for the record, and we'll let you know when your three minutes are up. >> Good evening, uh, Chairman Thornton and the trustees. Uh, my name is Danny Hobbs. My address is 1017 East Tuckman here in Kuna. I am a third grade teacher over at Hover Elementary. I'm a parent of a student over at Hover Elementary, and another student will be joining at um, Hubard Elementary next year. So, I'm

060very um a part of the district and um I really love Hubard and in that I am a co-lead of our Sunshine Committee, which is just a committee that we have on campus to try and build uh and continue teacher morale, build our teacher community, but also we go out into our community as well. And so, we do a lot of little projects to help within our community. But one of those things is uh last month was National National School Board Appreciation Month. We know that Idaho celebrates it in June, but we're not really here. So, um, we wanted to go out and make sure that we got all of the signatures from our staff as well as some just well wishes and appreciation for you guys and all that you do because, um, Hubard

061had a rough patch a couple years ago and some of you were on the board and we just really appreciate that you allowed us to stay open. I mean, my own family is just benefiting so much. My child is thriving there. So, I just want to say thank you just on my personal level, but just also as a staff, we are so appreciative of you guys and everything we do, you guys do because we know that this is not an easy job and you don't often hear the positives. So, I just want we like created a very small token of our appreciation for you guys and I just wanted to give it to you guys personally rather than send it through the mail. >> Thank you. >> Um, but we appreciate you guys so much.

062So, that is all. Thank you. >> All right. Uh, next up we have Andrew Abrams. >> Yes. >> My name is Andrew Abrams. My address is 13304 West Silverbrook in Boise, Idaho. Um, I'm here today representing the Treasure Valley Param Motor Pilots Association. And we have a a number of members in the audience here today for support. Um among them of course is uh numerous kuna residents as well. Um we are here today because we be it has become known that there is some concern with us using the field next door. Um, I wanted to come here today to um just to establish that we are qualified, caring adults, qualified pilots who take real care of our community and we really do care for the sport that we participate in and the communities that we,

063you know, we impact when we do this. Um, we are a group of adults who found our way into aviation through lots of different ways. We're uh lots of us are some of us are private pilots, airplane pilots. We're engineers, business owners. Uh we're all basically successful adults. Our probably our average age is about 45. Um have all of you seen us flying around? You're very familiar with what we do. Excellent. So, I won't go into the explanation of the sport and such, but you know that there's two different types of flying. It is. There's the people who launch five foot and then there are the folks who use the wheels, the the carts. Um, this field next to us here is really, really special. Uh, we've been using it off and on probably myself

064personally for about six years. Um, I know folks have been using it for longer and there's a lot of newer pilots among us who have really been using it a lot recently. Um, the this field is special because it gives us access to the open spaces near Kuna. This kuna is special because it has all the open spaces around us. Um, and this field is grass. It's beautiful. It's flat. There's really no wires or obstructions and so it's perfect for our use. Um, I know that your main concern is the dangerous nature of the b of what we do and potential liability for the site. Um we do understand that and all of us as pilots constantly we do take full responsibility for ourselves and all of uh u the activities that we do. Um

065I can speak for all of us here for probably thousands and thousands of hours. There's never been a major accident among any of us here or in our group. Um, uh, finally, I'd like to offer some compromises or some options that perhaps might, uh, help you feel better about allowing us to use that. Um, there are instances where waiverss have been, uh, signed. We could have one on on signed for all of our pilots. We can follow all any guidelines that you might set for access and use of the school. Um, we would obviously avoid any operations at school or any uh sports activities get first priority. Um, and we thought maybe we could perhaps limit the number of pilots that might use the site at any one time to limit any impact to our

066local community. >> Yeah, your time is up. >> Okay. Thank you for your time. I really appreciate you hearing us today. >> Thank you. >> I do have a little handout. Would you would it be okay if I pass them around? >> Thank you guys. You're welcome. >> Thank you. >> You are >> appreciate you. Thank you, >> sir. >> Thank you very much. >> All right. Okay, we will move on to unfinished business discussion and interaction. >> First up is the update on the CUNA virtual program by assistant superintendent Jason Ready and principal Reno. >> Mr. Ready said he talked too much so he wanted me to do it all. Uh Chairman Thornton, trustees, thank you for having me up here today. Um Kuna access to virtual education. This is a pilot that we've

067created to uh give access and choice for our families in the Kun School District. We've recognized that and you'll see why. Currently, we have 57 students signed up for it. Seven of them are students that left our school to online and came back for our online. We have seven students that were planning on leaving it semester, but because we had this opportunity, they are staying at Kunaha High as our enrollment. Like uh Jonathan said, we need enrollment to to generate that revenue. Um, we have four content teachers that we've used based off our staffing model. So, no additional expenses. This was built into Kun High staffing model at the beginning of the year or the intent of using it for online. It just we have I have some flexibility with staffing that can move around

068especially for for periods. Um, we're using a program called Egeneuity. It's an online program. Um, it's the curriculum's all there. Um, the lessons, everything are there for the teachers. So, basically, the teacher is just giving feedback and grading assignments. It's really self-paced and monitored that way. How are students doing? Well, we're about two and a half weeks in. Um, everyone's logged in. Everyone's um doing assignments. Yes, there are some that are behind, some that are ahead, just like in any class, but there is there is progress going there. And then our long-term goals is to to see how this goes this semester and then to to use it maybe as summer school and in the future for others. Next slide. So, why do we start this? Why have we why do we even dabble into

069this? Well, as you know, if you follow the legislature, the IDLA is um in the news a lot and it might not who knows because they currently have a 40% cut they have to do and we use a lot of IDLA classes. We have over 1400 courses section sections that we do with IDLA. Um Egenuity could can ultimately fulfill that so we wouldn't have to rely on IDLA for a lot of courses. Um we're not there's other in the SIC about half of them have online uh programs. Nampa uh Westa Boyisey and um there's one more em EMTT I think >> I think that's it. No, I think that's it. But yeah, that was Jason's homework. Um but um >> yeah, we're not the only we're not we're not the trailblazer, but we're not the

070last ones on this bandwagon. So, why do we This just creates more opportunities and we're losing students to online. We really are. If you can see our three-year trend, you know, in 2022, 23, we lost 61 kids to online school. 77 the next year, 90 last year, and so far this year, 90. So, as you can see, this is increasing. I I do a I do a four-year this could be a, you know, a freshman, sophomore, junior. If we had this enrollment, it would really increase the the revenue. So that's our goal is to get all these kids back in Cuba that were once with us. Any questions? You >> answered my question. >> So like for funding, we don't get funding for students enrolled in IDLA, but we do for this program that we

071have here. Is that correct? >> Correct. We have to pay IDLA for those classes. Yeah. >> So we Yes. We have to pay for those classes. So, this is us not paying for those and doing it in house. >> Any other questions? >> We're we're hoping to give you an update at the end of the in June or July about how how it went, the future plans. So, that's our goal. >> Thank you. >> All right. Next up, we have an update on the sale of the fourth street gym. tried to just give it all to you guys that I thought you were going to do. >> Yeah, I'm happy to. >> Yeah. >> Okay. I didn't know if somebody else had something. >> I I have You guys have a map, but this is

072up there as well cuz that's one of the things if unless you've walked it a bunch, when I say storage, when I say upstairs, downstairs, like where is that? So, it's labeled up here as well, but I'm going to let you >> Okay, >> talk to us as you want. sit here unless somebody wants to. >> No. Yeah. >> Okay. >> All right. Um Okay. We met with I think Friday evening afternoon. We met with um the mayor and his staff um for the second time and um just to kind of talk about they did a little more research about what they needed to know to move forward and and they were able to give us kind of some of their thoughts and what they would like from us is to have a vote tonight

073to see if we're still on board to continue moving forward. And I'll give you kind of what they asked for and and I guess um can you tell us Brian which of these things like >> we have asked them to maintain some use of these particular areas. So which ones is everything except for this two places that say storage. Is that right? >> Yeah. For us we said that right now any of our rentals any of our reservations for the gym we're about 9010. So right now our facilities coordinator person is the rec center person for the city. 90% of what we plan for there has nothing to do with the school district. So we said for the gymnasium part we just said could we have preferential I if if we have a huge wrestling

074tournament that's that's like blocking both our junior high middle schools and high school could and we gave enough notice would you make sure our basketball team got to practice there first? Um downstairs we said that would be so basically the gym's the cities, the downstairs is the city. Upstairs is a joke. It really I mean it's not a joke. There really is an upstairs. I would never go up there and I wouldn't go up there with >> it. Seems like no one's going to be using that. >> No, it's very old. It >> says penthouse. >> It does say penthouse on the map that they have. >> And then the three areas listed storage. We said that we could be completely out of them. Cam's got to do one thing. Um otherwise those areas we

075said that we don't need you know use anymore shared use just the areas marked technology. >> Okay perfect. So just technology and then preferential um use of the gym. I think we have kind of a few things that are on our schedule that have been on for years. Maybe like something for Indian Creek. >> Yeah. Sometimes Indian Creek uses it as their auditorium. >> Yeah. So, um, anyway, they are they think that that sounds great and they're happy to do that. They would like to charge us $1,500 a month in rent for those areas, which they said, um, they did kind of like the standard of what it would cost to rent that in the market now. And it would be $14,000. um which you know is is steep especially for the quality of the

076space rented. But they said they said you know in if even if we cut that in half, we knew that you wouldn't be able to probably afford that. And so they felt that $1,500 a month would be a reasonable amount um considering that we spend just a little bit less than that in um the utility bill. And so we're already kind of budgeted for that amount. Um, but then they would be paying the utility bill. Correct me if I'm wrong, but we would pay them $1,500 a month in rent. >> Yeah, it would be like a pass through. >> So, it's it's pretty much a wash as far as the cost to us. >> What is the utility bill exactly a month? >> They they did the math and it's about 14 or something like

077that. >> Gez, >> they did their homework. >> Yeah. And so I think that's where they came up with the amount. Um, which I felt was generous. um they would like us to continue to pay for any maintenance or um for the space that we're utilizing. So any maintenance or or repairs that we need to make would come from our we would we would handle that and we would cover the cost of those things. They also proposed that um we use we each use our own attorneys rather than engaging a real estate agent um which I also felt was a good idea and that we would each cover our own expenses for that um as part of the deal. Um they our appraised value for the building was 1.7 something um and their offer was

078at 1.8 8 million and they propose that um they will pay us the appraised value of the building and that any difference between that amount which I don't have. Um it's 1.7 something. I don't remember exactly what it was. >> Yeah, I think you're almost I think it was 1 point I hate saying this 1.7 I guess backwards. 1 point I thought it was like 1.78 or 1.76. >> Okay. >> So anyway, the difference between that and 1.8 8 would then be um would go to cover the closing costs for the for the deal and then any additional amount of closing cost that wasn't covered by that amount, the city would cover that amount. That's their proposal. Um they would like, like I said, to to see that our board is is all on board

079with continuing forward before they dedicate more staff time to the project. um and ex and incur those costs. They they have a suggested suggested timeline for us that um we can rent these technology spaces for two years. Um and only one they would like us to only have one year for which space was that bring >> shop on here. >> They would like us out of this area sooner. So they said one year for that um and two years for everything else um was their proposal. I I think we maybe need a little more personally feel like maybe we need a little more time than that um since it's negotiable. >> Yeah. Yeah. I think it is. I mean we this is their proposal to us and then we can negoti based on what we'd

080like to see and and then we can we'll go back to them with that. Do is the um does the city know that like 90% of this is used by not our school district? >> Yeah. Yeah. That was one of the requests they made was to so I shared that within the first visit is after the first visit that was one of my homework is we had to give them like all of our rentals and use of it. And so they would they would plan to to handle the scheduling of that from now on um for anyone that's not the school district and even for the school district. But we would just have some preferential treatment for utilizing it. >> Well, and if they buy it, they should maintain it. >> Yeah, I think that

081they would maintain all of their areas. They just don't want to maintain the areas we're renting while we're there. >> Cover their rear. Like if we're written it and we damage it, we probably should pay for that. >> So I guess if we decided to go with the two years, where are we going to put these people? >> I think that's the question that like even if we were to build another place or anything, I don't think we could possibly get it done in two years. three years and then >> but we looked at >> it was it last time we looked at a proposal for a building and I was double what we even get for this building >> right >> so how do we I guess what where are we at on that

082>> yeah so we met back with LKV and gave them kind of the parameters of of and and we went even further we said hey this needs to be draw something for about 1.5 just because I feel like whenever you include arch aritects and construction people, they're still going to go over that. So, we had to go. It's like giving my wife a budget. I go lower than it's supposed to be. They're going to spend it. So, but we have that. We can share that with you guys. >> Travel at home. >> But I feel like there's kind of a lot of work to do on that for first. So, I like personally I would like to go maybe back to them with a little bit longer timeline. I I mean I kind of wanted

083to propose I've started with 10 years but hearing there too I was thinking maybe we could compromise it a little more like five years. Um but >> what's in that big technology room? What >> if you were out in that in a year? >> It's our warehouse. It's it's where we I mean we've got a lot of stuff in there that that he >> Would you like? Yeah. Um >> is it all the little plastic bins that are labeled and >> I've got plastic bins. I have backup computers. I've got pallets for vans currently in there. Um, all of the It's our storage for most of the big items of the district. Backups for TVs, backups for stuff like that. So, >> and they want it back to use it. Is that the >> Yeah.

084And I I mean, I walked with um Mr. Graves and Mr. ready, but like around plenty of areas and I think like they're already cleaning out quite a bit of what we've got there in order to free up some space those all those storage areas the three storage areas right and so I mean I don't I think we could can maybe maybe still be creative with a few areas but I think that's just that these kinds of things are going to take time to make the decisions and I don't I just don't know if we can do one year or two years. Personally, I don't know. How do you both feel about that? Like, do you kind of think the same way or >> I I do I I think I think if you give

085us kind of that three to four years, we we would have a plan. I think we could we could show you what LKV had for us. It's going to include a big >> piece of it will include middle school that kind of 41 if you're a Kuna High graduate. It used to be the A shop. Um and it's got a it has also a penthouse >> not at Kun at Kun Middle School. >> Well, if you graduated from Kun High when it was Kun Middle School. >> Um but it was their it was their act shop in that area. We use for a class. Um and it does get used for storage a lot. So I think we can it has two big garage doors warehouse-wise. Um ample and so that we can have that

086ready to present next next month as far as here's our plan to replace this space. It doesn't replace the gym. >> Did you Did you have an idea? Did they give us an idea what that would cost? Right. >> We asked them to be around 1.5. They will never give us the number, but they do all the drawings and then we go to bid. Um >> just be lower. It >> just doesn't make sense to me to sell this the gym for 1.5 and then just we're replacing it with 1.5 or I mean we're still losing that space. I don't know. just doesn't I mean I definitely want to wait on this or or come back with like a five like what trusty low said a fiveyear plan to rent it but I don't know

087it >> well well with the budget and what he just talked about we definitely need at least a year or two to figure out finances and what that looks like and if this is even more the financial aspect of it >> I just wonder if there's Um, I mean, we've talked about a lot of options without even building something. Um, which would be really my preference. I don't know if it's possible, but I feel like, um, you know, there's some really creative ways to maybe utilize some space. I don't or or build something very cost-effective as far as but I I mean I'm not saying I know exactly that we can make that work but but I I don't really like to see us sell the gym either JD that just for a onetoone replacement

088>> doesn't make sense >> but um it would be nice if if we could sell the gym and further some of our other capital improvements but >> so >> are we under sometime some time crunch to get it sold. I mean, is there >> The city doesn't seem to be in a giant hurry. At least the mayor >> because it seems like Go ahead. What's that? >> Well, because the appraisal the for the appraisal. So, that kind of was one of our deadlines. We also asked our attorney if there as long as she basically said as long as we're negotiating and and discussing, then there's no >> I mean, I obviously it probably couldn't be a three-year negotiation, but maybe it could. I I just don't think this happens very often. We only had the

089one responsive. We had the highest responsive bid and we only had one that was responsive. So, >> yeah, >> because it see Go ahead. >> No, you go ahead. >> It seems like I mean, unless we've got a solid plan that's not going to just basically trade what we have for something else, that's what we have. Maybe we don't rush the sale until we have a game plan of where we're going to how we're going to adjust it and if it actually makes literal sense or if we're just doing it because it would be cool to have a new building because that would be awesome. But if if we're just trading one for the other and we're adding stress to having I mean construction projects are pain in the butt. Well, then if you can

090say that then we're losing then we're losing. >> Trusty Low, would would you argue that it felt like their staff was in a way bigger hurry than Mayor Steer? Mary Steer was very calm and he he said we could take his >> Yeah, I guess I mean I guess I would propose that maybe um I'd be willing to work with maybe you guys on trying to come up with like an ABC kind of option plan that we could use like like maybe LKV's building and how and their projected cost for that, but then also some more creative ways to utilize space that that doesn't include a building if if we could even make that work. Um, so I feel like maybe it would be good to do some of that research before like moving forward

091on the sale. I >> I would agree with that. >> Well, that's why we haven't moved forward. >> Yeah. So, this is just um so I I kind of think maybe we would go possibly go back to them and say we need we need a little more time before we can make a vote based to move forward. We need more information. Um, >> would you say like your a being more than like what >> like where would we put these places if we if we could not build a building? We want all of the $1.7 million to go to some other capital plan. >> Yeah. Our budget deficit >> just 1.1 per year for two years. Yeah, >> but um >> yeah, I mean I guess we probably need to see what the plans could

092be. Where will we put these before we can tell the city that we're going to we're willing to get out in five years? Maybe we're not. Maybe we can't. So, >> the another question, and I this would be hard to answer, but like our utilities for this place are almost $1,500 a month. And if we went to the middle school, I mean, how how much do we anticipate that will increase our utilities at the middle school that >> right >> just be the addition of the offices that we talked about >> if we added >> it would be a little bit more probably I'm assuming there's maybe some heat >> and and cooling that you would need >> sorry heating and cooling would probably not be as that going there. It's a whole new warehouse.

093I mean, >> I was actually pretty surprised that that's as little >> of the utilities that it costs that >> I mean there's like open air underneath. >> Yeah. >> Like I can't believe we're that it even holds in heat with like you can see this much of a gap underneath the doors so to the outside. So, okay. So maybe I could just make a proposal. >> I mean, should I make a motion >> or do we? >> It doesn't say action. >> We amended. >> We don't have to take action. We could just >> I just don't know if we need it or if we just say like let's put this on next month's agenda with some more information. >> Next month I do the research. >> Okay. >> Do you want to see

094that that what LKV prepared for us? That was kind of in that 1.5 just to get it a picture. Okay. >> Right on. >> And so we'll just put this on the agenda for next month and in the meantime we can talk about additional plans and then we can get back to the city and say we're working on the timeline. >> I think the easiest thing is we can wait for LKB to come up with their their process too. That will help us with our decision. >> We don't need another meeting with the city at this point though. Correct. I don't think so. >> Give us an update. >> Clear up your Friday for >> Thank you. >> Friday afternoon. >> Really? >> 3:00 Friday meetings. >> Yeah. >> Darn it. >> I vote we

095don't schedule those. >> All right. Very good. Thank you everybody. >> All right. Next is an update on the superintendent search and potential action item. We do have one thing. One of the people that we asked or put on our staff committee cannot for that day. Kimberly Parker. Is that right? >> She's going to be gone. >> Oh, I was going to be gone. Yeah. No, you did. So, we do need to find pick somebody else to replace her on that. And then I was hoping we could have a discussion about the community and talk about some people we would like to be. she will not be able >> as well or I would want to. >> So that's what I have for that. >> I had a little bit of a hard time hearing.

096I'm sorry. >> Sorry. >> No, it was just noisy over here. So yeah. >> So I just wanted to we need to replace Kimberly Barker on that committee. Um she's not going to be there. And then I wanted to talk about the community one kind of what if there were some people we had in mind that we wanted to put on there or >> how we wanted to do that um for him. >> Didn't didn't she had a community member >> name is Justin. >> Justin White. Yes. >> Okay. Yes. Justin was a teacher for me as you >> let's take care of the staff forum first if we could. Um, >> so I think maybe another elementary school principal. >> That's what I was thinking. >> So Andrea Randall, >> Andrea Randall would be

097good. Michelle Trip would >> any of them be interested? >> I think Michelle Trip would be a good one because she is very, you know, you got the AVID stuff, but she's also she's on the cabinet as well as a strategic kind of partner with us. So her and Kimberly tag team that. So, I think she'd probably really good. Yeah. And she lives in the community. >> I would agree with that one. >> I make a motion that we assign Mrs. Trip to that committee. >> I second. >> Uh, any discussion? >> I just can we can we go ahead with an a backup in case she can't be there? >> Yeah. Like should we put another person on the list just so that we don't >> put on Andrea Ranch because Andrea Randle lives

098in the community too. >> Yeah. >> So like if Mrs. Strip can't make it then Mrs. Randle >> Could we just make a motion to have Andrea Randall as the >> alternate? Let's motion. >> All in favor? I >> I passes. Then you >> make a motion that we ask principal Randall to be back up for any of the admin positions when they can't if they couldn't make it. >> Second. Okay. Um any further discussion? >> Okay. All in favor? >> I thank you. Uh the next thing was talk about the community forum. Um I think we want to do kind of the same four or five people on the forum to kind of ask the questions. >> What about somebody from the capital planning committee that's been in, you know, is that I don't

099know. Would that be good? Well, and then also um who's the gentleman that was he's always involved. He was on the policy committee. >> His wife. Yes. >> He's on the superintendent's advisory council, too. >> He might be a good one to have. >> Who's this? >> Elliot. >> His name's Elliot Tolbert. >> Very knowledgeable >> and he lives in the community. >> The person that you met, you were talking about Justin. Justin's kids go to Crimson Point. So, he does have kids, but he's a administrator at >> Very nice. >> But he lives in Kuna. >> Yes, he does. >> I feel like everyone should ask to be a part of the school >> within the district. Um, how many is that? >> Be somebody from the capital planning committee. >> I could look

100at the list. Um, >> it's was on that, right? >> Oh, I think he was on the >> He was on policy. >> He's on the policy committee, but he's it's just kind of everywhere. Are you wanting these folks to help ask the questions of the candidates or >> are we forum? >> Are they going to come up with the questions? Are we giving them the questions that they are going to ask? >> Wasn't they getting >> I understood it to be that they were going to we were going to have like four or five community members that came together and came up with their own questions. So that when we had the community all here, we didn't have 40 people trying to ask a question. but to try to get a good pool of

101members of the community that could ask a typical question that the community cares about. That's how I interpret it. >> That's what I was thinking. I've been wrong. >> So, they would need to meet ahead of this meeting. >> Yeah. >> Anybody? >> Yeah. don't use micros. >> Any women that come to mind? >> Mary came to a lot of the capital planning meetings. And >> what about Carrie Larson? I she's at all a ton of meetings. >> I do know. >> Oh, and she goes to she's attends the Kuna Education Foundation meetings. >> I don't know. I don't really know superintendent advisor as well. >> Oh, okay. >> She's barely an employee if that matters. >> Oh, yeah. She is she works. >> Is she an employee? >> She's parttime. >> So, maybe we

102don't have if we can just avoid any employees. So, it's not a I don't know. >> I don't know if it matters, especially with her. >> What's her job? >> Uh, building aid at one of our elementaryaries. >> Are there any volunteers in our schools that you know of that might maybe at the high school or in the middle school? >> They have advisory committees also. I don't need to start making >> super easy for the club presidents to you fat. We can get you guys >> from there. >> Mr. Reno's got to know some parent like your booster club presidents, your >> I moved to nominate Elliot Tolbert or nominate. Sorry guys, I'm new here. to uh have uh Elliot Tolbert on the uh committee on the >> the community >> community forum committee.

103>> I'll get it right next time. >> Second. >> Thank you. >> Should we just say all of them or do we need to do individual? I >> think we got to vote in >> do each each one. >> I still think it's okay to put Carrie Larson on there as a community member. >> Well, let's vote on this and then maybe then make a motion if you >> We have a second. >> Yeah, we got a second. All in favor? I >> I carries to make a motion that we have Carrie Larson on the >> the community committee. >> Second. >> Any further discussion? >> No. >> All in favor? >> I motion carries. >> Kirsten make a motion to place Justin on the community committee. Justin White. >> Justin White. >> Second. Okay.

104Any further discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Motion carries. I make a motion that we um ask Neil Durant if he'll be on that community uh committee. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? I >> I opposed. >> We have four. >> I didn't hear you. >> Oh, sorry. I was thinking I >> Okay. Four to one. Motion carries. >> Um I think I feel I would like to make a motion that Hillary Woodland be on the community person. I don't know why >> the community forum committee. >> What's the limit? Are we doing five or six? >> We picked five, but we >> Oh, did we already do five? >> No, that was >> I feel like another female would be nice. >> I was thinking >> um and I feel like

105she's got a lot of >> and she's been previous I don't know if she has recently but been previously pretty involved. >> I agree with that. >> May I have a second? Did you second that Kirsten? >> Yes. >> Okay. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I >> should we do >> we want to talk about some alternates in case people are >> Anna Paw was really involved in the levy and um you know is on the she's not on the educ is she on the education preschool. She's on the preschool. >> Do we want to ask her if she's available or interested? >> She'd be good. But >> what did you say? Who did you say again? Anna pause. >> I'll make a motion that Anna Paw be placed on the committee as an

106alternate if someone else is not available or declines. >> Second. >> Any further discussion? >> All in favor? >> I car if you want to Oh, did you name >> I was going to say like Anna and um Enrique. >> That's her. >> Oh, okay. I didn't recognize the last name because I different last name. got a guy another guy that's on the superintendent his name is Brian Resnik and he's involved he's been involved for years and like about re red districtricing and he's very involved he's got kid the grad kid at high school right >> and Mary you know him Mary he's he's a he's a good guy I mean he's a he's a good guy but he's been involved in in the district for a long time and he's not unemployed been on

107capital plan. He's been on superintendent advisory. He's been on when we redistrict back when we had the lender split. And so he likes to be he's a he's a good guy, but >> I think I've said that five times, but you probably don't. He works for St. Louis. I think >> he uh >> he came to most of them. I think one or two. >> Yeah. Big guy. >> Yep. >> Yeah. Just a just an idea. Maybe you guys have >> Do we want to have another alternate? >> Well, that would be too, right? >> What about Toby Halverson? >> Make it do it for a backup. >> But he doesn't have any He's in the community for sure, but he's not a parent anymore, right? Because all their kids are >> Which is crazy.

108That means I'm old, too, cuz I'm older. I'm I make a motion that we have Toby Howerson on the committee as well. >> Is it okay? >> Yeah. >> Second. >> Is he the one that yelled at me in here? >> Toby. >> I don't think he ever yelled. >> Okay. >> Well, I don't know. >> Did you just have a discussion? >> I think he was combative as a person in the So, I would not want to keep it just parents. Like isn't he a parent? >> It's a committee member. I mean a >> community member. >> Okay, we do have a motion in a second. Um >> well, because Kim also gave a parent who would be a really good one. >> Who's that, Kim? >> That was um um Brian Resnik is

109his name. He was on the Capitol Plan, but he's been on involved in He's a parent, I mean. I would forive him on this. >> I think so, too. So, nay to Toby. Vote. >> We do need to vote. >> I'm fine to rescend my second so we can talk. >> Great. So, Tobyy's a no. I'll make a motion that Brian Resnik be placed on the committee as a back as a alternate. >> Can we Can we vote on the Tobyson? >> We have to say no to >> Oh, I thought he rescended the second. >> No. Sorry. We need to vote. >> Oh, okay. >> Um, all in favor? >> No. >> I No. >> No. >> Okay. Motion fails. Okay. Go ahead, Hillary. >> I'll make a motion that Brian Resnik be placed

110as an alternate on the committee. >> A second. >> He's been very involved. I think he's on the superintendent advisory as well. >> Um, okay. Any further discussion? >> All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. Motion carries. All right. I think we are good to go. So, do you want us to contact them and meet with them and maybe like Michael or one of you two just, you know, could come and and meet with us, but we could gather them together, have a meeting and tell them kind of the plan >> and make sure they're okay. But I think we'd include the alternates just to make sure, you know, that if someone had to back up, >> it' be good to have them >> Yeah. >> involved from the beginning so that if something changes,

111>> they're someone says no, we can have someone else step in. Okay, we'll work on we'll work on getting that group together and then having them >> under same with the other committee too. >> The other committee and we have the commons that you guys got that all reserved for the 24th for the staff meeting and then the community one. Um, so that's all taken care of and >> I I saw the schedule. >> Yeah, >> it looked like a good long day. Okay. >> Did you speak a >> lunch? >> Okay. Well, we'll work on that then. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Moving on to business discussion boards. >> First one up is the consider RFQ for insurance services assistant superintendent. >> Yeah, I'll stand. But that's literally >> That's it. just um that

112way we can go out and get a quote, see if we could get the best deal for you guys. >> RFQ >> request for quote. >> I make a motion that we cons do I need to say consider that we go out for RFQ for insurance services? >> Second discussion. >> All in favor? >> I staff insurance. >> Yeah, medical >> and dental. >> Oh, yeah. Okay. >> Okay. The next item for discussion in policy 262. Um this is just something I thought would be helpful for us um in future board meetings to kind of have a script for um leadership elections. Um, so what's been added to the policy or what's changed in the policy is just the red um that we had Jill work on putting in here. And it's just kind of

113a a script for how to make our elections um flow better, work better. So we're so like a new board member knows what's going on in the meeting because that's kind of a lot to throw at somebody at the first meeting. >> Additionally, like any I think it just puts us all on the same page about how we're going to and and this is in keeping with what you know Robert's rules would be. So there's if there's anything we would like to modify, I watched a few I watched ADA or West ADAS and then I looked at NFAS and they both do it a little bit different even than from this. Um so this is kind of the standard a pretty well standard operating way to do it. So if there's anything that you feel

114you would like to change or do differently, you can have that discussion. >> How do they do their nominations when they do president and vice president? >> So West Ada, >> they actually turn for the chair, they turn it over to the clerk to have the floor and then somebody nominates. They don't require a second. Um, the one that I watched, there was only one person that was nominated and then they all voted for him, which a lot of times that's typical. >> Okay. >> Um, then Nampa was pretty similar to kind of what we did. It was somewhat of a mo a nomination of the second and then they voted on it that way and then and then I think the chair ran it from the beginning if I remember correctly. So, >> so

115this new policy the way Sorry, did I cut you off? >> Go for it. >> The way we have it, we don't need a second anymore, right? >> We don't we don't have to we can we can do that if we would like. >> I think it says do not require second unless the board has >> requiring one. >> I like to have that just so it's in order. Otherwise, you're just gonna have like three names out there and then I don't know. >> Yeah, that >> I guess if you have three names out there and then your vote like >> how are you going to vote in you just vote in order >> whoever is nominated first and if they get the majority >> the votes then it's done >> then it's done >>

116but then if they don't then you move to the next person who's nominated >> which I think it is more it's there's a clear understanding of So could you so you would go down the >> sorry >> the list and vote either yay or nay on all like say for each individual or do you vote like everyone just says a name? One person says a name and >> the chair the chair or the presiding officer will say the name that was nominated first and then you vote if they get the majority of the votes >> then you so it's not just like >> at least that's how I understand is that >> the only the only difference would be you just don't need a second I mean it would be the same way that we

117we've been doing it for I mean I've been on the board for 12 years >> I think this is a change to that isn't it because the change would be that everyone would have the opportunity. You'd open nominations, right? And then everyone would say like, you know, this person would be nominated, another person would be nominated, and you could have one or you could have five, and then you would know who you were voting on prior to the vote. And the way we've previously done it is someone's nominated, we vote on it, but we don't know who else would have been nominated. And that's what's spelled out in this red. Yeah, that's why that's why we don't have a second. So, you keep having nominations and then vote on the first one. >> I think

118you add a second to that and still have the same person. >> I think the result would still be the same. >> Yeah. >> Right. Except if you were nominating yourself and nobody else n seconded then you I guess that would be the only the only thing that changes. >> I think we should say that we don't need a second for clarity. >> No second required. >> Yes. So like >> I think it says in it too. >> Yeah, it says nominations. >> I don't think I don't think having a second in that has >> it doesn't seem necessary. >> I think we'll be okay. And then yeah, you you have to close the nominations and then you vote. >> That's the key that for me is helpful. Just knowing that you how how it's

119like staged. >> You open it and close it. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Um, I just not in the red, but when I was reading through this, I just saw a typo and not in the red, but I don't know if you want me to bring that up right now. >> Do we have we need to do? >> Yeah, we'll bring it like whatever corrections that bring it back for a second. >> Okay. >> Would you say that would be first or second? >> I think we could do it for a second. >> Second. I >> um It is under public participation wherever that is. Oh, here. Right here. The fourth line under public participation. >> How' you You're like super fast. >> The manner the manner in which the public comment and request for agenda

120items will governed is included in the rules. So I don't know. >> Yeah. >> Just need B. >> Yep. Just needs a B. >> Okay. I need a motion to approve the first reading. >> I'll make a motion that we approve the first reading with the updated change. for the typo. >> Is that good? >> And there were no other changes to the red, right? So, it's coming back and I'll >> I think we're all good with that. Yeah. >> Do you want it to be a standalone second read or then it could go to consent and we'll fix the B? >> Why don't you put it >> as a standalone? So then you guys can discuss again if you got any other feedback. Okay. >> Just make sure it's the way they want it.

121>> Okay. Um >> other policy next time. >> No further discussion. All in favor? >> I motion carries. >> All right. >> Assistant Superintendent Graves, you're up. >> Uh remember these are quarter four from 2025. Um and we don't have yet quarter one. So I will not have first resp. There are six um policies up for amendment. So I stand for any questions. >> We have one on 500. >> Um like in there it talks about how the policy or that the um all student handbooks are approved policy of the board and like those are changed pretty regularly, right? So >> um we have a there are we up we correct them. >> She's my policy helper but she's handbook we the handbooks do get updated throughout the year as well. Correct. um only if

122there's something um >> that changes in policy that has to >> significant >> because we're trying to follow along with what you're doing in policy, but we know if that uh your changes supersede whatever's in the handbook. So we'll go through in May and go through all the policy changes you've made through the year and update that. But generally speaking, the main district campus doesn't change throughout the year unless it's just something really a link to um form something like that. That's what we do. >> So, it doesn't technically seem like that's that they really are. I feel like maybe they should be like they are based on the policy of the board because I've never read one except for the ones my kids went to school with. I read those cover to cover. >>

123Nice. >> So, you want to change that? Is that is that what I'm hearing you say? Okay. >> You want to change that sentence to say >> that student handbooks are based on approved policy board. >> I'll write it down. >> So, do I need to make a motion? Um, we can do we have any questions on >> anything else on those others amended? >> No >> ones. >> Um, >> I make a motion that we approve the first reading of the following policies with that change to the student handbook policy. So uh policy 500 549 814 832 834 857.5 >> and and I okay I guess if I can put this in the discussion but I had something for 549 as well. >> Okay if I get a second then we can go into

124discussion. I'll second. >> It's just a very small change that there's a typo in the third line that says that community is spelled wrong. I believe >> community. >> That wasn't me. >> Sure. >> No one. >> But that was all >> prove it with that change. I have a motion to approve the first reading of the to amend the following policies and the second. No further discussion. Um all in favor >> I >> motion carries. >> Make a motion that we remove the following policy 296. >> Second. >> Any further discussion? >> No. >> All in favor? I >> I >> motion carries. >> I make a motion that we adopt the policy policy of 556 559 and 818 and 1,12.1. >> Okay. Second. >> Any discussion on those policies? >> Yes, I have

125um 101 12.1. I feel like the lines are need to be longer and make them further apart for people to fill out >> just a bigger form. >> Yeah, >> make it a larger. >> I can do that. >> She'll fix that for me when it becomes done too. >> My copy paste is bad too. >> Otherwise, I have no concerns. >> Any further discussion? Okay. All in favor? >> I make a motion that we approve the consent agenda. >> Second. >> I did have a question. Um I intended to ask before, but where um for number nine, the KHS bumper plates, where is that funding coming from? because I didn't note that in the information is too >> I had the same question >> what's the >> is the district paying for it or

126is there other funds >> it waits >> I'm guessing because it's from Mr. That makes sense. >> That Craig, the hope is that it'll be refunded from the diode money. This was part of what was he was going to purchase diode money is coming out of um that waterfall interest earned because we can't use any of the house money for athletics. >> So any modernization funds, the investment income you'll get off of that. It's an allowable usage. So, I'm sorry I didn't hear what that was. >> So, off the waterfall money >> that we had from the U >> modernization funded. >> Thank you. >> So, >> and then hopefully to be reimbured by the DO >> grant or whatever. >> Yeah, this was part of his the athletic athletic >> athletic part >> waited

127until they started cracking and then they said they can't use it. >> Okay. >> All right. I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Okay. All in favor? >> I. >> Motion carries. All right. We'll move to good of the order. We have Day on the Hill February 16th through the 17th next Monday and Tuesday. Great opportunity to meet with our legislature, our representatives. Kirsty can have lunch with her husband. >> You'll have lunch at the theater because I don't have budget. >> Okay. Um, next thing, next board meeting, March 10th, 2026. And I don't have anything else unless anybody does. >> I motion that we adjourn. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I mean to adjourn. Yes, you official. >> Good try. >> Wait for you to use that 140. >>

128I might use it for some This is where