001the uh school board meeting for December to order. And uh I need a motion to go into executive session. >> I'll make a motion that we go into executive session in accordance with Idaho Code section 74206. >> Do I have Does she have to read the whole thing? No, we're done. Good. >> Second. Thank you. >> Yeah, she's supposed to. But >> I looked at you. I'm like, okay, I think she's supposed to. I took a class on this, but we're good. >> Yeah, we're late. >> It's printed on the agenda, so >> it's all good. >> Did you see me give you the eylight? [laughter] >> I'll say it if I need to. Okay, >> you're fine. >> All right. So, we are in on our way out to executive session. >> We will
002return. >> I think we all voted. Oh, wait. I don't know. We're all We're all All right. Um, let's stand for the pledge of allegiance. Ready, begin. I aliance 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. >> All right. Thanks. >> Um, do we need to change the agenda before we approve it? >> I don't know. >> I think you can. You don't have to change anything. You can just move it. >> Okay. Just move it. >> Just >> Okay. So then, do I have a motion to approve the agenda? >> I make a motion that we approve the agenda. >> Okay. Do I have a second? >> I second. >> All right. Um, any
003discussion? All in favor? Hillary. >> I. >> JD. >> Hi. >> Michael. >> Hi. >> And Kirsty. >> Hi. >> And I'm an I. >> All right. Well, >> your celebrations, you see there's nothing there because [laughter] we're gonna celebrate we're gonna celebrate you tonight. >> Wow. Thank you for your years of service. I remember I was I was on I was assistant superintendent of whatever I was assistant superintendent when you were uh interviewing >> for the uh to be appointed for that position >> and we were so happy it was you. Um I know that >> yeah [laughter] was Yeah, you're the only one that was >> Why do you guys have to bring that >> and I remind you every time [laughter] >> about what I need >> that so we had a
004open seat Kim se and so we had people come in and interview for the spot and Kim was hands down picked as the as our choice >> because just in her heart I don't know if I'm going to make it through this [laughter] but so you guys might have to But, you know, just your heart for kids, for the community, for the teachers, and all that you've done >> over these years, just the advocate for um for every everything that would make our our our district better and also for your commitment to building skills for the board, for with the ISBA and your work with that, your dedication to that and the Kuna Foundation, you know, it's just um just been and you didn't retire and when you when you were asked to go teach
005again, you filled in at a Christian and the kids loved you there. But but Kim, your dedication has been just I don't know. It it's been such a um you're a role model to me and for all that you that all that you've done and you've showed us all the time that I have been here. And just when you talk, it's your passion for the kids. It's a passion for the district. It's a love for our community. You want the best for everybody. >> Thank you. You can stop. [laughter] >> I have not said quite enough, but I just I we're going to we're going to miss you, but we truly >> know that you deserve this time, and we just want you to know how much we love you and appreciate you and all
006that you do. Um, and we do have a little >> Oh, that swag. >> Yeah, we got >> Oh my gosh. >> Yeah. [laughter] And does it have a stamp? >> Yes. You got all of your essentials. >> Oh my gosh. All of your essentials. >> Oh my gosh. >> Thank you. I don't even Wow. >> Do you guys would you >> I don't even know what to say. Thank you. >> We were talking about it earlier and I think for me it was just like you have that true heart of an educator >> and that has been >> I think just a benefit to all of us, to the community, to us as staff, to leaders. >> Um I appreciate that a lot. I think that that has been a great thing to see
007and from the position of a trustee that's that's a that's encouraging. So, thank you for that. >> Thank you. >> You've made us all better. >> Well, um I don't even know what to say. I'm at a loss awards, [clears throat] which is unusual. Good thing my kids and husband aren't here because they would be totally shocked. Um but thank you. I um yeah, I've wanted to do this for for the kids. They've always been my northstar and I've said that a hundred times. Appreciate it. Oh, thank you. >> Um, and, uh, I know that this board will carry on, then they'll do what's right, and I'm excited for the future for CUNA. Um, and I know we've got good administrators and good staff. And so, um, it's it's a good time to go. And
008my husband says, if I don't stop now, he'll kill me. [laughter] So, I'm looking forward to lots of trips to national parks and doing those things. But I always always have my little ear here. So, thank you. Thank you. >> And you might get a few phone calls. >> Yes. [laughter] >> That would be great. That would be Thank you so much. I don't even know what to say, but thank you. Thank you, Kim. [laughter] >> Okay, we can take the pictures down. Thank you so so much. Appreciate that. Um, thank you. All right, moving right along. um patron comment. Okay, that would be great. And then we have reports today and uh Jonathan Gillian will be reporting on my budget update. So, thank you. >> [laughter] >> This is going to get fun if
009somebody else is doing it too. We can figure out how we go through the slides. Okay. Um, so good evening. Uh, it's kind of nice to present. You know, I haven't had a chance to visit with you guys. So, um, just in case you don't know Jonathan Gillan. So, I'm in CFO here uh, at least uh, interim. So, anyway, I'll get started. uh finance presentation. We're going to talk a little about budget. What we're not going to talk about is numbers. So, I'm not going to tell you how the budget's going to go. I'm not going to tell you how much we're going to get. Um we're going to talk a little bit about things we're hearing. So, we're going to talk a little bit about federal stuff we're hearing. We're going to talk a
010little about state stuff we're hearing. Um and we're just going to kind of plan and think a little bit about budget process. So, again, no numbers tonight. You don't need to make any decisions. That time will come. Um I gave a similar presentation at ISBA. was 2 hours. So, I hope you guys are ready. We'll give you a little break in between. Five jokes are not fun. Um, okay. So, first off on the agenda, I just wanted to say thank you. Um, thank you for allowing me to come in and help you. Um, thank you for the opportunity to help your kids. Uh, you guys are amazing. Like, it's been really fun last two months just getting to know the administration. Uh, getting to see the staff, seeing how you work. Um, you have great
011people here. So, just know that. Great people that do great work for kids. Um, and so it's fun to get to interact with that and get an opportunity to be a part of that. So, thank you for for allowing me to do that. Um, so again, we're gonna talk a little about budget. So, we're gonna talk about federal money. We're gonna talk about state money. Um, I talk fast, so my apologies. [laughter] Try to go slow. I drink a lot of caffeine. There's a triple shot of coffee I already drank. And that's the third one of the day. So, there we go. So, first off, I'm going to share a little bit about federal funding. So, um Oh, you can't see the Okay, well, there we go. Anyway, I can just point to it, right?
012Um, so, uh, essentially federal funding, nothing actually passed. So, what you're going to see here, here's what I can tell you. This is what was proposed, um, during federal funding, uh, around in September of last year. So, all this information came from ASBO, the Association of School Business Officials. Um, you'll see some information from, uh, on the state budget, specifically around Idaho. Um, and so, really what I want to highlight here, it's not going to look like this. So, that's what I'll tell you right off the bat. you can look at this and we can analyze this and we can say this is not necessarily what it's going to look like but [snorts] it does give us some ideas of potentially what the administration was looking at and what could be potential impacts as we
013think about our budget for next year and so in particular what I want to highlight um they had proposed essentially a 15% cut um in IDA programs we'll talk a little bit about that um more we'll talk about IDA funding I got a slide in a little bit that will kind of walk through that um and then you might hear things like a block grant as a way to disperse ID funding. So, a different calculation. So, again, what we want to take from this is not, oh my goodness, federal programs are getting cut because we don't actually know. If you know, that'd be great. You can tell me. I don't know. Um, and so what I'm relying on is at least the information of this is a picture we had. And so, as we work
014our way into the budget process, just kind of know, oh, there's the potential, at least in the past, they were talking about federal revenues changing and dispersements to states changing and dispersements to schools changing. And so, we'll keep that in mind as we work through the federal process. Um, another pulse right here. Uh, this was essentially federal programs um that they were looking at potential of eliminating. They didn't. So, you got funding for these this year. Your appropriations came, money got dispersed, the state of Idaho received it. We have these programs now and we fund these. Um, but I think it gives us a little picture of there's potential of there could be some programs that we potentially offer um that they were at least discussing not funding in the future. So, what does that
015mean? We're not going to panic. We're not going to stress about that. We're not going to say the program's getting cut. What we are going to do is think like, oh, if we have a program on that list, what would it look like if we needed to look for other sources of revenue? If they did a 15% reduction um to community schools, is now a time for us to start maybe finding some partnerships so we could cover [snorts] that gap, right? So, now is the time for us to do some research? Now is the time for us to do some planning uh in case any of these changes did come to fruition. We've done our work now. We've done our homework now. We've planned ahead. So again, not looking for this necessarily to happen, but
016it gives us a little tenor, a little idea of as we roll into the budget process, there could be the potential of things happening. And so we need to be listening and kind of be prepared and aware. So I'm going to talk a little about special education. So specifically, um, so this was like I did a I did a huge game at ISBA. I'll save you from the game because it was like 30 minutes. We had dollar bills. We threw fake money around the tables. Everybody dropped on the floor. If they didn't know the answers, it created quite a mess. you guys wouldn't like it there. So, we're not going to do it here. But, um, just to add just a couple of questions because these were all guesses people had to get and they
017cheered if they got it right. Um, so in general, IDA program is funded. So, you receive funding from the federal government for special education. Does anybody know how much they at least promised to or proposed they would be providing? >> Oh, how much they proposed? How much? We get about 30%. They were supposed to be doing more than that. >> They were supposed to be doing 40. The initial goal was that 40% of your expenses. >> How much did they do? I think >> 100. [laughter] >> I'm just on my way out here. >> So, so the federal government, the idea was that when they funded special education that they would fund at least around 40% of a school district's or a charter school's cost. Um, average is around 18 to 20, just so you
018know. Um and then state of Idaho funds special education. You receive roughly five and a half or 6% of your ADA. Um it's essentially identified and you receive special education funding for that. Does anybody know what special education rate is [snorts] 15.9? So why do I say these things? Right? Really because you're going to hear a lot of discussion during the session about special education funding. We're already starting to hear it. Right? superintendent already proposed $50 million to help offset special education costs, right? Because they're rising for school districts and charters. Um it's becoming a cost that's now starting to burden the general fund. And so as you guys start to hear that, you'll be able to know like, oh, federal government maybe pays for a portion. There's a portion that we don't receive. State
019of Idaho pays for a portion, but in the end, there's a general fund impact. And so, just kind of keep that in mind. Again, these sort of precursor to conversations you're probably going to hear throughout the session as lots of school districts and charters uh deal with the funding associated with special education. >> Can you tell me what the 15.9% again is? I didn't >> that's a special education percentage for CUNA school districts we serve that are okay. So 15.9% are part of a special education program. >> Correct. Thank you. >> And again state funds roughly five and a half or six currently depends on the grade level why I say five and a half or six. Okay. So state revenue projections. So, this is an article. I just took a snip [clears throat] um
020straight out of it News. So, I'm sure if many of you saw that article, you saw anywhere between 600 million and 1 billion for a state budget deficit. This just outlines the stuff that's an article. I just pulled the numbers out, right? So, there's a 3% reduction. Kind of think everybody kind of knew about that. All state agencies other than K12 um had a reduction. Even with that, there's roughly a 58.3 million projected budget deficit for this year so far. So again, those numbers, they'll change because we're going to continue to get revenue projections. And so, but again, um then as we look in the next year, could be a $555 million revenue projection deficit. Uh and that's if all things were funded. Um there's some discussions about um federal tax changes. This number's actually
021been updated. So two weeks ago it was 200 to $284 million. Um now the number is roughly 167 million. Um so just give you some context, right? numbers continue to change, revenue projections change, cost of things continue to change. Um, and then there's always a a state goal of having a positive fund balance of $200 million. So, why do I share all this? It's not just go, oh my goodness, is there a cut that's coming, right? We don't know. We don't know what's going to happen at the state level. Legislative session hasn't started yet. But it does give us a little bit of understanding of the tenor of what you know costs are looking at downtown, what their revenue projections are looking at, what they're going to be discussing during the during the session, right?
022Is that revenue projections are not necessarily being budget. And so I always tell people as you plan for budgets, we should look to kind of mirror that process. And so if they're having discussions about being conservative, we should probably have some discussions about being conservative as well. What does it also mean? We're going to monitor what's going on downtown. We're going to continue to keep an eye on the things that are going on. We're going to watch for bills that are coming through. We'll listen to the revenue projections. Kind of just start building our own planning as they work through the session so that we can also work through the session as well. Um this is super simple, right? Potentials for state reductions. If anyone were to occur, they're going to usually go after state
023funding, uh salary based portion, discretionary, um state funding. So a lot of those are areas where in the past when they've had to make reductions. Uh sometimes they look at specific line items, state tech funding, college and career funds. So tips for uncertain times. So what should we be doing? Here's what I tell people right off the bat. Be mindful but don't panic, right? Because that's what you want to start with. You're like, "Oh my goodness, revenue projections. What do I need to do?" Um, and you start panicking, right? You try to take it all in and you try to solve the problem today. We don't want to panic. We just want to be mindful. So we want to start listening. We want to start thinking. Part of the budget process, I'm going to tell
024you, everybody says the budget is all about numbers, and it is. There's a lot of financial numbers we'll discuss during the budget process. There's also some of just taking in the impact and thinking through decisions. Um, and so you need some time, just a process. So that's what we're going to do. We're also going to take some time just to process as we hear numbers, as we start to say, okay, what could be that impacts on the school district? What are things that we want to be planning for? Um, start to have conversations. So again, we'll start monitoring what's going on at the state level. And we'll do that, right? Much like we would anyway, right? We're always going to monitor it in the session, but we'll keep an eye on what are we hearing
025and what could be the potential budget impacts of that. And then how does it specifically impact our district? And so, okay, is that a funding stream that impacts us? Do we receive an additional dollar amount? Is that something we can be planned for? What does it look like? Again, just so we can kind of manage. Um, grow accustomed to uncertainty and be patient with it. And so, you're not going to know a lot of things for quite a while, right? The session takes a little bit. We'll start working up, then they'll start doing revenue projections, then they'll start looking at what state funding is going to look like. And so, really, it's okay to be like, I don't know that answer yet. It's okay for us to sit in not knowing what that answer is
026yet, but knowing that we're still using this time. So, not sitting in there uncertainty, but also sitting in, oh, this is a great time for me to learn a little about the budget. I might not know what it's going to look like, but I might know that now is a good time for me to ask questions so that when I know what it's going to look like, I can start to be able to plan accordingly. Um, then what I'll tell you is be patient, but decisive. So, we're going to wait until we get information, and then eventually we're going to know what we need to do. we're going to know what decisions we're going to make and then we'll have to move forward with those. And so again, just kind of planning, getting used to
027that process, knowing there's going to be a time where we're going to be doing some work and we're doing some background, we're going to be doing some planning, but we're not really going to know what the answers are. Um, start learning about the budget. Now, I love to talk about the budget. So, if you guys ever want to talk about the budget or you want to walk through the budget, I would love to talk to you. Don't ask me tonight. I'm still only 30 days in. So, give me another 30 days and I'll be even better. But, um, but just know I love having those conversations. I used to have a board chair. We would sit down before every board meeting and we would just talk and we would say like, "Okay, how do we
028get funding for this?" And we would just walk through the different funding streams. We would talk through those things just of how they impact our budget. Or she would say, "Hey, I hear something downtown. Do we get that funding? What does that look like for our school district? What does that mean for our kids?" Right? And we would sit down and we talk about those. And that helped build a rapport. That helped us build a common vocabulary. That helped us understand kind of the different funding streams so that when we got to the budget, we could be like, "Oh, I know that you understand that. I know we both know what we're talking about. And so now we can figure out what's best for kids. Um and then for federal and other state funding streams,
029I always just say be mindful of the general fund impact. So not everything um always pays for itself. Um so you have spillover. Um we all kind of know that some of our programs have some general fund impact. And so we'll just be watching that, right? As funding changes, goes up, goes down. What does that mean for a general fund? So what are we going to be doing when we come back from the holiday? The same stuff we do all the time. I'll just tell you. We're going to review expenses, right? So, we'll be taking a look at projections. We'll be taking a look at how we spend our dollars. We're going to be looking at what we can and can't do, maybe where we want to save some money, just like we do every
030year, right? What are things that we may hold off on as we evaluate? What are things that we're going to move forward with? And then we're going to monitor revenues. We're going to take a look at how revenues are looking this year. We're going to take a look at how the state legislature looks. Um, and we'll kind of see what the projections and the impacts will be. It's just a nice brief intro into the budget. Nothing nothing. Thank you for educating us. But I I do have a question. >> Um so about how much of our budget is in special ed right now that we pay. >> So you probably I can get that. >> I mean if you can't that's fine. I'm just curious to know so I can see kind of what we're
031doing now because and where we may have to go. >> I can look that up if you give me chunk. >> I will give you whatever you need. I just Yeah. [laughter] >> Does anybody else have any? >> That's a good question. I'd like to hear too. >> Yeah. Perfect. I can put together a little review of expenditures and then take a look at that. >> Yeah. I just kind of want to ballpark figures so we kind of know where we're at because that's been one of my pet peeves that the federal government only they demand that we provide but they only give us 30%. >> And it's been like well it's not fair. [laughter] So, but anyway, I just wonder how much >> I do I guess I thought of another question. Um, similar
032to to Kim's, but if with some of the talks of budget reductions, have there also been talks about less requirements? And [laughter] >> that would be another one of my pets. >> I mean, I hear hints of that sometimes. So, that's what I'm wondering. Is that something you're also I mean we'll also of course be paying attention to that but >> is the is the budget cut connected with that? >> I'll say yes and no. Um so it really depends. Um so there is a lot of committees that are discussion discussing how you can remove red tape what is duplicative reporting. Um so that conversation I think has started even before this and continues to be part of this. Um there was discussion again when I talked briefly about block grants um that there might
033be some changes in reporting requirements associated with that but like nothing really formal yet largely because the funding stream wasn't decided right so and that'll drive what'll be the reporting requirements so I think we'll get some more um clarity from that from the federal and then at the state level I'm always usually monitoring just kind of what are changes in reporting requirements and what we need to be aware of. So, I'm also hearing that's a good thing to listen to our legislature and what they're doing with these monies and maybe even have some people testify for things that we need. >> Yeah, I think it's a great opportunity. Right. We're lucky that we're super close to the capital. We are, right? And so, it's great. Enjoy going down there, get an opportunity to visit, get
034an opportunity to listen. >> Um, JFAC hearings are actually, you know, if you, you know, I don't know if you ever listen to Joint Finance and Appropriations, they're streamed live. Um, they're actually kind of fun to watch. >> I tell you, it's not my favorite, I'll be honest. you know, but maybe it's cuz I like budget, but I do listen and sit down because it just gives you kind of a picture of like, oh, what are the challenges statewide? They'll put out revenue projections, which I think are always interesting to listen to, even if you're not like I mean, I'm a little geeky, so I like finance stuff. Um, but I like to listen to the revenue projections. How are we doing on state taxes? What are things looking like? Because you can see some
035pictures within the numbers. Like there was some information that came out just today that said like, "Hey, tax questions while they're behind. They don't think it's recessionary trends." Right? Okay. So, that's good to know. Um, so you can kind of see some pictures within the numbers as well. Just gives you extra context. >> Well, thank you, Jonathan, and I appreciate that. Any other questions? I'm going to put a bug in everybody's ear about ISBA day on the Hill. Might be a good thing to attend this year with the budget cuts and what's going on. >> I think we need to go talk and ask that question. >> Yeah, I think I think >> You think I won't? [laughter] >> I think you should very much >> day on the Hill I think would be very
036profitable to go and hear what's going on. It's a fun [clears throat] couple days when you get to network and >> Yeah, it is. And I think that it really would be to our advantage to do that and see what's going on there. >> When is it? Do you know? >> Um February. >> Usually first or second week of February. >> February. It's usually in February. >> So, all right. Thank you. >> Thank you. And I'll get you that information. >> Yeah. Appreciate that. All right. I've been waiting to hear this one. Um Mr. Robbie Reno, safe schools, our cell phone policy update. I was excited to see this on the agenda. [laughter] >> I'm excited to be here. So, Madam Chair Nixon and trustees, yeah, Kim just asked me to report to you just
037the update on the cell phone policy, how it's going at the school. It's going great. Feedback anecdotally is just it's awesome. Teachers love it. Teachers are enforcing it. We have two kids that are on a individual plan. And you think about that, we almost halfway through the school year. Um, and out of 1840 kidsish, depending on what >> Just two. Yeah, just two so far. So, you know, every day we have, you know, first time first time offenders or second time offenders, but there is some, you know, we average probably about six or eight, six or seven, you know, they have time to >> six, [laughter] seven, no, it's um it's been really good. And teachers said some feel like they're moving faster through the curriculum. they feel like, you know, a lot more engagement,
038a lot more um participation in class, and then also to at lunchtime, you don't have as many kids buried in their phones or actually hanging out and conversing with each other. So, it's going very positive. >> I'm anxious to see the test scores because one of the things that got me really wanting to do this was listening to a teacher from Boise >> Yeah. >> say that her test scores just in her class went up considerably after they had done this. So, I'm anxious to see how that goes. So, Uh I just wondered maybe like um behavior impact on behavior and like bullying >> issues that way. Have you seen any? >> That's hard because we did two major policy changes. We did a attendance or tardy and tardy and cell phones and so where
039kids are not in class. So and then we had we have another dean that can kind of be ahead of things instead of reactionary. We can be preventative a little more and follow up with plans. So as far as comparing behavior was this year. This year's a whole set of circumstances from last year. Um so, but we can calculate the data on the behavior to see the we haven't ran the numbers yet because we're we would have a semester at the end of the year to see uh behavior comparisons. >> Has it taken away from class time for teachers to confiscate phones? >> Teachers don't confiscate them. >> They're just sending them on. >> They they call security comes up. >> That's what I was hoping was going to happen. So, that's what's happening. >>
040Yep. That's what's happening. The radio the radio traffic is much more busier because I was wondering a [laughter] phone. Yeah. >> And does that have I Did you say is that the six or seven like >> Yeah. Like per class? >> Per day? No. Per day? >> Oh, per day. >> Per day. Like some days like I I I think today we had one um >> one phone conversation. >> One no one phone one phone conversation or like know some days I mean there's been a couple days where we've had none. Um like I said, I don't have the completed >> miss want the full get full data, but it's just Yeah, it's not it hasn't been a burden. And do you feel like like the teachers have are enforcing it and they're buying they've
041got the full buy in like there's not some I mean I'm sure it's at differing levels that >> so one thing that we help mitigate that is there's times right we we try to they say oh we need to use our phone to take pictures well we have a Chromebook or hey we we some of the money we got we bought digital cameras we b um there's a form teachers have to fill out because there is opportunities like when students have to register for the dual credit classes or for like um apply Idaho or for grants, they have to use their personal email and sometimes you have it blocked or the email's blocked on the so they got to use their phone to get the two set verification or that. So they they they there's
042a process to allow for that but it's not but teachers are following that process but it's not they're not overusing it or that's become a a process for that. >> I have another question too. parental um involvement or support. How's that been? >> Yeah, I mean there's always a few that don't agree with it, but the most part I always say overwhelming. Like I was at bus duty last week and uh one of the deans was joking that moms called and said, "Hey, you took your phone your kids on step three. You need to come pick it up." And she says, "Why can't today? I'll pick up next week." So [laughter] moms were very uh very very supportive in that. >> Okay. Hey, can I say something about the retarding policy though too? I know
043cell phones, but today there was two boys, two I was coming back from Hubard and they were parked in kind of our part. There's numbers on the other side there. Two big pickups and they were parked there and they got out and they were so nice. But I we were having the conversation about can you guys just park down a ways and they're like could we have this conversation? We're happy to have it with you, but we can't. [laughter] That's good news. >> They were so nice. I never met them, but they were so nice. They go, "We will happily do this, but we can't be." [laughter] >> Oh, that's funny. So, any other questions for Rocky? >> Thank you, Mr. Appreciate that. All right. Um, next one is follow up on ISBA conventions. So,
044I'm gonna let you talk first, Kevin. >> I was going to let you talk first. >> Well, no, no, I insist. >> This is your [laughter] right. >> I'll talk after you. Whatever you don't cover, >> you get the rebuttal. >> Yeah. >> Whatever you don't cover, I'll cover. >> Well, uh, Trusty Nixon and I got to present at the ISB convention, too. We didn't take two hours, though. We were much more efficient. uh but our topic was on uh effective use of data for student achievement and specifically focusing on board members and questions to ask and things to understand about testing. So we worked together. It was a great tandem because I was able to present from the standpoint of this when I'm pres preparing data presentations. These are the kinds of things I
045think about and try to anticipate and Trusty Nixon was able to say these are the questions I ask and the things that I want to make sure I understand. So, I thought it was a really great tag team back and forth. >> I thought it was too and a lot of good vocabulary for teachers. They really like or not teachers, I'm sorry, for the board members. >> Yes, we did an overview of all the different types of assessment and specifically the Idaho assessments that they would see data on and what to expect, what kind of data to expect in a meeting and and things that data doesn't tell. It was pretty thorough for that hour. And then the week after I followed up with a 20 minute webinar for ISBA on the top 10 questions
046to ask. So it was based off of our presentation. >> I thought we had really good feedback from people. >> So and then the other thing is uh Deian presented on uh Robert's rules and she did a great job. We were there to help. >> I don't know how much help we gave but we were there to [laughter] respond. >> It was fun and she did a great job and she didn't say anything that I had done bad. So thank you very much. I appreciate that. >> [laughter] >> Uh, so it was really good and and another really good feedback from that. >> Um, and so then I went on and um, of course I love swag, so I brought you all back some swag. And that would be those little pins that say we
047support uh, public education. They're blue. >> Um, so I thought that was a nice little swag thing. And if you want pins, I've got those, too. Plenty of those. But anyway, um and then I attended um went on IDLA um and I thought it was a great presentation. Um we met with IDLA and they went over some summer programs that they're using and that's the um group we're going to be using to help us free >> a launchpad >> launchpad program and then to see what the other communities are doing really um gave Kevin some great ideas on how to use that like at Boys and Girls Club even the library after school and how they can just take that and help us and I'd like to see more of a GT aspect to that.
048Um, and so we talked about that there. So that was a really good one. So I appreciated that. And then I went to legal hot topics. Oh, those are legal hot topics. A lot of that uh going on. But the one thing was they talked about all the different kind of elections like um your bonds, your levies, even your election as board members, what you can do, what you can't do, what you can ask of administrators, what you can't ask, any new laws that were coming up. And then they did um talk about some of the issues going around the state. I hope we don't have those here, but some issues with teaching human sexuality and how they're not doing what the state has asked them to do to make sure we know what we're
049doing. So, that was really a good good one, too. >> We're definitely following that one. >> Yes, we are. Just going to bring that up. And then, um I also went to hiring your next superintendent by SBA. That was a good class to see. We're not the only ones hiring, by the way, people. Um, so there's a lot of even smaller districts that are hiring and Caldwell is another one and just to hear what they're doing and how they're doing it and there is no right way. Can I just say that you have to do what's right for your your district and what you feel. Um, and then also I ended up with superintendent evaluations, a class on that and I really enjoyed that because what we did to change ours is really in line
050with what ISBA promotes. And one of the things I got out of that class that I think is important is that you can't hold your superintendent to something she can't he or she has no control over. And sometimes as boards we want to do that. So we really have to take a look at what we're asking the superintendent um to do whether that's something they have control over or not. So I thought that was kind of a good little thing. So that was the ones I went to. Enjoyed it once again. Love my swag. Dian won $50. did it again. I don't know how she did that. [laughter] >> So, it was a lot of fun. So, I really um promote people continuing. They're really great classes and I think they >> next year it's
051here in Boyisey. >> It is. >> So, whoever wants to present next year, I'll present with you if you'd like. [laughter] >> Not it. >> I could come back for a fee. [laughter] >> You don't do it for free. >> Yeah. No more freebie on that. All right. Um, any questions about that? All right, we'll move on. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> You want to write a report for everything you learn? [laughter] >> No. >> Report only if AI helps me nowadays. [laughter] >> Um, so Deian, you're next with action item. So, um, you will see the election results from the November election and, um, per Idaho code, we just need to have you review and approve said results. >> Okay, I make a motion that we that we approve these
052results. >> Do I have a second? >> A second. >> Any other discussion or questions? >> All right, Kirsty. >> Hi, >> Michael. >> Hi, >> JD. >> Hi, >> and Hillary. >> Hi. And then I'm I also >> All right. I think we're going to um move theou and storm relationships with Tim Jensen. He when he gets here, we will put him in. >> So that leads us to the HVAC phase two loss and Indian Creek and Assistant Superintendent Brian Graves. Um I apologize. This this did come in today. Um the push by our construction management was that there's a big perk on they said purchasing prior to the new year and they really wanted us to get this in this time rather than January. We lost that week because of Thanksgiving break where
053they couldn't do what they wanted to do. Um again they Brett wasn't able to be here. Um it's a lot of similar things about our first phase with Kuna High, our second phase with Kuna High is this remember we combined the In Creek Ross into one project. Um they said it's going to be much easier to deal with one project instead of different electricians at at two different spots. Um Trustee Low asked about the contingency. The first thing he said is they hate change orders worse than we do as a business management company. and he said they don't Bennington because they they oversee it and they said their their job is to make it so there's never have to be a change order. >> Um so I sent that answer to you all you guys
054put I put that on there. Um if you click on the next slide it's broken up into the six different companies that will come in and do the parts and pieces. Remember this is Ross. So there is that asbestous piece. Um but that if you've ever been in the little boiler room um it's I think we're get donated to a museum. It's It's a fun boiler. It's a cold weather. Um, a lot of what you see with the drywall and carpentry, they're going to actually come and there's old heaters in the classrooms that we haven't used. So, they're going to come out and remove those from classrooms as well and come back and do repair. So, these are the companies that they went with. And for Robbie, if you went to the other page, they
055said this is high school. They had one time, they had seven bids. Um, but the if you look at this bid date, we had six different, if you click on one more, we had six different vendors bid on mechanical and seven for roofing. So they said that was you just don't see that many vendors to have six or seven. >> You said it. >> Boy, you're good at that. I think >> you need to go 76. 766. [laughter] >> So I >> put it all together for you and then the the total of any creek Ross phase 2 is >> and the schedule for completion is the summer. >> Oh yeah. Yeah. And and they'll actually be able to I think they'll they what they'll do is they'll focus on one school then the other
056and [snorts] they'll easily get them both done. They're not worried about this like they may be worried about the other school. That's why we're shutting the other school down. No one can be in the other school. >> What other school? >> That phase two pres No, we're gonna That's gonna be a busy hopefully they work 24 hours a day, >> but we've already [laughter] >> That was good to go. >> Yeah, >> more than six or seven hours. >> And I apologize to every >> It's a long motion. >> Do I? Yeah, it is a long motion. So, do I have a motion that we accept um the bids >> for I make a motion >> I'll I'll make a motion that we approve the bid for the as I have to read all that
057the asbesus demolition bill for environmental for 23,842 and for the steel mountain steel 32,316 rough carpentry and drywall Northwest Interiors LLC C for 133,000 roofing and metal wall panels ENH roofing for 109,300 mechanical service experts heating and air conditioning for 599,300 and electrical units or electrical United Electrical Contracting Incorporated for 138,160 60 total phase 2 project of $1,35,918. >> Second. >> Okay. Do I have any discussion or questions? >> I just just for reference, this is coming this money is coming from >> Yeah, it's on the other side. It's how this is House Bill 51. >> Yeah. Okay. Thank you. >> No. Yeah, it's down to >> Oh, yeah. Sorry. Thank you. >> I just want you to know when I started teaching, we had no air conditioning. Can I just say that now? [laughter]
058That would have saved us some money. Anyway, um >> I only hear when we don't have air conditioning [laughter] on. No one ever takes me for the air. >> I know. All in favor? Kirsty. Michael. >> Hi. >> Uh J. >> Hillary. >> Hi. >> And I'm an I also can Can we make sure that those slides are attached to this too? >> Like the individual bids is what we would like to see. And I got those sent to me individually by request, but if in the future we could just attach them, it'd be helpful. >> They're in there now. Okay. because we just got them this afternoon. So there is 4:30 I think you said >> like we should be able to click on them >> not on our not in the agenda the
059agenda. So if you go into the >> well that's what I just did but they still don't come up. >> Can you >> It's fine. It's fine. But I'm just saying I can't I just went in there just now. >> It's not the board. >> I don't think we look real quick. >> Isn't that what we downloaded? >> I think that's where we put it. I remember helping put it in there. I can show you where it's at. >> All right. Well, while we're looking at that, uh, Camwood, are you ready to present for safe schools approval email security protection? >> Sure am. Trustee, thank you for your time tonight. Quick small lesson on cyber security in school districts. Um, school districts are widely considered a soft target uh for people because we do not
060have the resources manpower, money, uh that even federal governments and private industry obviously has. Um we do what we can, we do our best. Uh but cyber security stuff is pretty expensive. Um one thing that has been making it rounds and a bigger thing this year for us and I've seen an upward trend over the last few years is fishing attacks on our uh staff mostly. uh fishing attacks one of the most popular things out there. So what we started looking at and with discussions from other tech directors in the area uh I started hearing about Abnormal um and a couple other ones have been able to bring prices down to be more affordable for school districts. Uh so we reached out to one of our partners OTC to give us a couple demos of
061a couple options and I've been running abnormal in a readonly state for the last month and a half. um just to see what we're what we're dealing with and it's been a big help so far. We're just in a read only state. Um currently if we get a fishing attack, uh my tech team has to manually remove those from inboxes whenever we are alerted to them. Um and then manually dig through logs to see who all got affected. And it's a it's a lot of work. Um Google does have email security, but it just isn't enough. It's pretty basic. Um, next slide for me. Um, what we're looking for with Abnormal and some other things is a it's an automated solution that is monitoring 24 hours a day, which is something we can't currently do.
062Um, it's uh, so like I said, we've been running it for about a month and it has already located about 4,000 fishing attacks that we have looked into um, and pulled out. What it will do is instead of just saying, "Hey, this is there," um, it'll just pull it out of inboxes before it even gets to people that have a chance to click on it, which is huge. Um, it will also monitor for suspicious activity. That's basically say, uh, Jason Rey's account suddenly logged in in Germany and then logged in in Italy when he was just logged in in Idaho about an hour ago. It's like, that's not really possible. We're going to disable his account right now. send us an alert to verify some things. Um, yeah, and it's 24 hours a day monitoring.
063Um, I have it budgeted for in my software budget by uh cutting some things that we don't really need to use anymore as well as uh putting some uh price locks for multiple years, things that we are going to use forever. So, I've got this built into our budget. So, I'm hoping that we can approve this. I just have a question. >> Was there some kind of thing that happened with student accounts this last week? >> Yes, >> there was. And uh this was prompted before that. Um and because of that action, I've also started looking into adding this to cover our student counts. I just don't have those numbers right off the bat. Uh but it is an add-on I can do later. >> So this is not for students. >> This is just
064staff. Um when we started looking at this process staff were the ones that are normally hit. Uh we have full access to the outside world. There are some students have access to the outside world to high school. Middle schoolers and uh elementaryaries don't generally get emails from the outside >> but we're always looking to improve it. So I am definitely looking into getting student protection as well. >> And what was that that happened? people talk about that and >> yeah I think it's a typical fishing attack. So >> um a student's account got compromised >> and um how when that happens the bad asher comes in and will send emails on behalf of that student from their actual account with links that would um like infect other users. So in this situation, >> Cam found
065it on Saturday afternoon and emailed Jackson >> and said, "Hey, we have this issue." And I was out Christmas shopping. Um, so I was able to log in from my phone, pull those emails away. We weren't sure it was fishing at that time. Um, we thought, hey, it could be a student just had a prank. So, I pulled those out of emails and then shut down the students account plus those who had clicked on the link just out of and changed their passwords out of security. Um, and then one Monday came around. We did a more thorough investigation. And in this case, yes, a bad actor had access to this student's account. Um, just send out an email. Uh, that was all they had done. Um, we I did a whole thorough look through a
066bunch of logs last night to verify that. So, it all is all taken care of now. >> Great. Thanks for staying up on that. >> We try >> keeping our kids safe. Yeah, >> but you are working on a student a student piece of this and so maybe January. >> Yeah, hopefully January when we I just started asking about it yesterday. So >> So Cam, this is coming out of your budget. You're redoing some things so that it'll be coming out. >> Already have um this I've already had put aside. I've been this is something that I consistently want to get better at is our cyber security because it's something that's very important and underfunded um from a state and federal level. Um so I've been making changes to be able to put a little
067bit aside uh to be able to purchase things like this. >> Do I have a motion to approve of this purchase? >> I make a motion that we approve the purchase of abnormal units for $22,715. >> Do I have a second? I second. >> Any other discussion or questions? >> Sorry, I have one question. How long would how long will this last? >> Uh, this it's a yearly contract. >> So, this would be an annual renewal >> and I have that planned for that. Yes. >> All right. So, any other Okay. Hillary, >> hi >> JD. >> Hi. >> Michael. Hi. >> And Kirsty. Hi. >> And I'm an I also >> Thank you. And Brian is back up. Yeah. >> How's the shoulders? >> This is day one of sweet six, so it's it's
068it's going along fast, right? >> Yeah. Every day is better. >> See, now he gets to be last. >> Uh this is our very last old policy review. Now we're just doing the quarterly. We will not have first reads unless something comes up from administrator or or trustee. Um we haven't got our fourth quarter one yet. So these were the last of the old cleanup. So I think there is 246 amends and four removes and three adopts. I stand for any questions. I didn't have any questions on this first set. Any anybody want to make a motion to u amend the following policies? >> I had a question. >> Okay. Um, the word manifestation was used throughout the policy and I just want to understand was that the best word to use or was there
069another word to use? >> Which which policy is that? >> Um, >> probably disappointing students. >> I just didn't know if that was the best professional word or if there was a different word to use. >> So, you have to do a you determine if it's like a manifestation determination. That's that's exactly what we have. That's >> federal law. Yeah, >> I have a question about the same policy. Um, under suspension number one in green, is it supposed to say on the last occasion was substantially similar to the previous occasion was substantially similar to the previous occasions >> twice? >> Like, is it I mean, I can see where it could possibly be, but >> I missed that occasion. >> That looks like it's double tight. >> Yeah, it is. >> Good job. And I
070guess these updates are that's >> just updates to log because of the logs. >> Correct. >> Yeah. And these are updates that we should have done. The people that had our positions before I should have done before and just we just weren't kept up and lots of things happened. Mostly co happened. I think ruined a lot of updates and we've we've officially caught up >> because it feels like this is kind of like what we've been doing anyway, right? Like I didn't really see a lot of difference. >> We follow Absolutely. law over this this goes along with those special services that we have to do that are federal. >> That's fairly limiting. >> Yeah. >> And then 971 is the animals in school. Is it clearly understood that teachers cannot bring pets to school
071on a daily basis? >> Yeah. And this just will clarify now as an administrator now they have they what they can do is because this is pets. This is your lizard in a biology class. This is this is a rabbit in the kindergarten. This gives them a policy that >> classroom pet. >> Okay. So, like >> this is not service animals. This is not >> Okay. So, I'm just making sure there's clarification that teachers can't just bring their dog to school every day. >> The only way they could is if if they went through and worked with the administrator and follow it says that up there that it's up to the principal and it depends on the kids and allergies in that classroom. >> Yeah. If I remember correctly. >> Yeah. I mean, I saw
072that, but I just wanted it to be clearly understood that that would be a special circumstance, not like if they need a crayon. >> No, no, most teachers. >> I I do have to tell you though, I did have a dog named Tucker that the kids could earn having him come for a day, and they love that. >> Yeah, that's >> as long as everything worked out well. >> Okay. I make a motion that we approve the first reading of policy 460 >> 546 with the correction of the term that we talked about and then the policy 672 673 677 and 851. >> Do I [snorts] have a second? >> I'll second. >> Any other questions or discussion? >> All right. Kirsty. >> Hi. >> Michael. >> Hi. >> JD. >> Hillary. I. >> And
073I'm an I also. Okay. And then we need a motion on removing the following. Do I have a motion to remove the following policies? >> Go ahead. >> I make a motion that remove the following policies 616, 632.5 uh 560 and 932. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Any other discussion or questions? >> All right. Kirsty. >> Hi. >> Michael. Hi. >> JD. Hi. >> Hillary. Hi. And I'm an I also and then I need a motion to adopt the following uh policies. Do I have a motion? >> I'll make a motion that we adopt the following policies 521 638 and 971. >> Second. >> And any other discussion or questions? All right. Kirsty >> I >> Michael. >> Hi. >> JD. >> Hillary. >> Hi. >> And I have an I
074also and the last one uh second reading for policy 512. Do I have an action or do I have a motion? >> I make a motion that we adopt the following policy 512. >> Okay, I have a second. >> Second. >> Any other discussion or questions? Okay. Girsty. >> Hi. >> Michael. >> Hi. >> Jade. >> Hi. [clears throat] >> Hillary. >> Hi. >> And I'm an I. >> All right. We are going to be hearing from uh Tim Jensen from consider approval of theus that he's been working on. Thank you for doing this in your time. >> Thank you for your patience. I was like I was legally speeding you to get here. >> [laughter] >> Well, we legally I was going to say we legally would not have paid for your ticket. [laughter]
075>> At least it wasn't very far. >> Enough to get here quicker, but not enough to get a ticket. So, >> nice job. >> Um, Madam Chair and trustes, I appreciate the time and and [clears throat] um what I before I get going into the projects, I kind of want to explain to you why I'm [clears throat] or the process and why I'm here tonight. Um all these are developments that have been some of them are a little older than others whatever but in this process theou process where we're at in this in this stage right now is we've worked with these developers and and these are um agreements of developers and as we've talked with them about but when we submit theou we submit them a draftou because obviously they're going to want to
076put it in front of their attorneys and legal teams and stuff like that but what I'm needing from you is just that permission to continue, you know, just say for instance with Sonor and Sky, they come back and say thatou is good on their side for me to be able to go ahead and sign off on that on behalf of you guys for that. So that and just and none of these have reached that final stage yet, but usually developers once we get to that agreement, they're kind of in a hurry to, you know, to get through that process because as they get the approval process, they obviously want to get shovels in the ground as soon as possible. And so that's why I'm here tonight is to tell you about that and just and
077just get that approval to continue working that as they come back to us with their um things. And what I anticipate in those mus I don't obviously because we've already talked about these details I don't anticipate any of them coming back with well we decide we don't want to do this we want to do this now if that's the case if there's a major change in there then that would come back in front of you guys again I would have to tell them that hey this you've decided you know instead of giving this amount we want to give this amount I have to take that back to my board now as well and So that wouldn't be that this permission. I guess what this permission isn't is to take anything less than what's up here
078that's already been presented. Um that would come back in front of you if that were the case. Theou has a lot of wording in it. And one of them for an example says if they accept thisou and they decide that they don't want to continue developing developing this project and someone else takes it over they have a responsibility to tell the next developer that they're now responsible for this you know say buying a school bus or and so that's one of the I I anticipate that's one of the things that they might come back and say like I don't want to be the guy that tells the next guy they have to buy a school bus for the district. And so those are the type of terms that you know that we can work out,
079but if anything changes in what I'm going to present to you here tonight, that would have to come back in front of you guys for approval. And so, so I'll go through them um and then I'll give you, you know, answer questions obviously as we're going through them. Sonor and Sky, this is one that's been on our books. um prey actually uh this has been on the books since February of and was an agreement that was made um uh with a permit. This is one of those that I just was talking about. This development has changed hands a lot of times. I look at Robbie because Robbie was in on this one. The Snoring Sky used to be called Maravette's subdivision and it has changed hands. I can't tell you how many times we are
080fortunate because as it has changed hands, the developers that have taken it over have agreed to continue. This is the original agreement made by the first developer and everybody along the way has agreed to do that. And so the current owner of this project has agreed to that as well. So it would be to purchase school bus for the district. the value. I'm working with uh Brandon and Carissa right now to get exact value, but right now we know the value is up to it's going to be probably between $120 and $140,000 um value to the district. Um the total contribution payment is due on or before the final certificate of occupancy is issued by the city of Kuna. And that's a fairly standard um um standard practice where where developers in this process if
081we come to them and say a developer wants to give the district $100,000 and we tell them we need that upfront and then they haven't sold any lots yet. I mean it's it's coming out of their pockets. And so this is fairly standard to put it out there that before as they sell the last certificate of occupancy um for the last door in the subdivision, our payment or our you know agreement to purchase a school bus has to be done by then. And so most of these and I'll tell you most of these people that we talked to, they want to have it done well before that last one. This gives, you know, this gives us some security of a timeline of knowing at least when we would have either money or product and but
082also gives them that opportunity as well to be able to raise funds during construction in order to help us with the mitigation process. Newberry Place, this is another one and this has been about each individual. >> You want me to stop [clears throat] in item on everyone so we can ask questions? >> Perfect. Yeah. Um, so this is about a little under $2,200 per door just if they have 55 houses, which just to make note is, you know, substantially less than what we would like to see. But I know this is an old agreement. >> Yeah. And that's I'm glad you brought that up. So these two right here were these agreements and these processes were made before we had done our study and developed the that perdoor feed that we have out there. And
083so that's it's kind of almost like a grandfather thing. You know, these agreements were made before we had that rate [cough] >> for >> that makes sense. >> Yeah. >> Which which ones were the ones that were done before that agreement? these first two, Sonor and Sky and Newberry Place. >> Um, and I get like when you're saying that they may not want to continue that forward, like they're if they are not to be the developer, um, which is understandable, but they're working on probably an approved plat and and subdivision that was in place from the previous developers. So, I think that if they don't want to do that, then it should come back to us at that point, too. Because I think if it's not going to be passed along, super common and we
084don't want it approved without it coming back. So, I think that that might be a deal breaker in the in theou for me. Um, I'd like to see it come back to us at least to address it. >> Yeah. And I I don't know if it will or not. I was just trying to give an example of >> I think that when I read it I thought well I wonder if they'll do that but um I think it might be nice if if it comes back to us in that case as well. >> Yeah. >> I don't have any problem that any other questions discussion. Do I have a motion to accept theou for sonor and sky? I will make a motion that we accept ammo for Sonor and Sky as it's written with any
085changes that it would be brought back to us. >> Okay. Do you have a second? >> I second. >> Any other discussion or questions? >> All right. Kirsty. >> Hi. >> Michael. >> Hi. >> JD. >> Hillary. >> Hi. >> And I'm an I also. All right. So, Newberry Place will be next. >> Newberry Place. This one is just kind of a unique one in itself. Um, this one is a $49,000 cash contribution. There's a $149,000 access path that we as a district um asked the developer to do. We went to the table and said, "Hey, we we need an access path for our students to be able to get out to 10 mile road." >> Is this Crimson Point? Is it are the kids going to Crimson Point for the 10 mile? I'm just
086curious which school that was. It [snorts] >> seems like I crimson. >> Yeah, I thought it would. >> So, it's a long CR. So, it's that. >> Okay. I just wanted to picture it. >> And so, we request an access path for kids to get out to 10 mile for busing purposes. So, the agreement that was made and again, I feel like on these first two, I told someone earlier today, I feel like the closer in baseball, like I just came in for the last couple outs. Um, so the developer came back and said, "We'll build that access path, but it's going to cost us 140, you know, between loss of revenue with a lot that we have to give up to build that path. And to build the path itself, it's going to cost
087us $149,000 and loss revenue plus the cost to build it." And so they they put this in. So, we've got $149,000 co $49,000 cost to the developer. We'll give the district $49,000 cash contribution. And again, this is tax or the payment made out by the last certificate of occupancy for a total value of $198,000 um value on that mitigation offer from that developer. >> How many houses are going in? >> 95. certified that >> that's less than $2,100 per door. Also an old agreement, but yeah. >> Yeah, it was >> like I just think it's good to note. >> Yeah. No, it's >> I mean it seems generous, but with the number of houses, it's below the standard just for future. >> No, it is. And I and I Yeah, >> I'm exactly with you
088on that. It's kind of a like I said, it's a weird deal to step in trying to finish up projects that have been been hanging on the books for so long. Well, we like to see them cross the finish line when they're [laughter] great. >> How many of these have we talked about that >> haven't come to fruition and then you know we don't get anything at all for a moment? >> Better than zero. >> Absolutely. >> That's the way I look at it. >> So, do I have a motion to accept the for Newberry Place? >> I motion that we accept theou for Newberry Place. >> There is just a typo I just wanted to bring to your attention. And I emailed you about it, but in number one it's just says 49, two
089zeros. It needs another zero. >> Another zero. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> I'm glad you emailed me about that. >> That makes a difference. >> Yeah. Quite a bit. >> All right. Do >> you want 49,000? Not >> 49. >> Do I have any other questions or comments? Discussion. >> All right. U Kirsty. >> Hi. >> Michael. >> Hi. >> JD. >> Hi. Hillary, >> I would change. Yeah. Okay. >> And I'm I also >> All right. Victory Springs. >> Victory Springs. This is a This is actually a new one that just came on on the page. This is a Canyon County project that is in our boundaries. It is literally probably as far north on our boundaries as you can get. And so I'll be going a week from this Thursday
090to the Canon County Planning Zone meeting to speak on this one. Um, so this is 13 homes and the it's a cash payment. And this is one again, even though I put the final certificate of occupancy, this developer has actually talked to me about this payment just being before they broke ground or anything, once everything got um approved through the Canon County planning zoning process, they would probably just write the district a check before they got even got going. And so, um, again, 13 homes, he understood the size of it. Um, where he was at with this and where that number comes from. Um, if you look at obviously years ago when we looked at our per students per household number, it used to be 1.2. That number has actually dropped down to 0.5. and
091what what this developer said and the reality of it was and he was able to to um talk to people around there. the proximity of this to Nampa school district to Columbia High School to East Valley the distance for families to take their kids to Nampa schools and where Idaho is an open enrollment state now it's in most cases at least half the distance to go to the Nampa schools and in some cases depending on you know which like to come to Kuna High School and stuff it's a quarter of the distance for them to go say to Columbia High School instead but he the developer with graciousness and said, "I I understand that, but I also understand I want to be a good partner with the district." So, what his offer was was was
092to be able was to pay that our 32.86 times that 0.5 per household. And so, he just he, you know, he he was like, I don't he's like, I don't see a lot of kids coming to Sku Kuna School District, but he's like, I also can't guarantee that. And so that's why he offered to for the 13 homes to pay us the 21,359 cash donation to help mitigate any students who do come to to our schools. So, >> um, the way it's written, just it says 3,286 per student. Like, I just feel like that's kind of an ambiguous way to dis like I think it should say $1,643 per door instead because like this way it's I mean, are they going to track how many students are coming here or you know what I mean?
093So, I think it should be rewritten to not say per student, but to say the dollar amount per door. >> Per door. >> That's just my personal opinion, but >> that makes sense. >> And I and I I understand what you're saying. >> I get it that way because it, you know, the way it was offered out, it does come down. Even though it's 0.5 per door, >> it's that much per student. So, I get what you're saying, but I can rewrite that. there could be zero students and they could say that they're all retired couples that move in there with zero students and then we would have zero dollars and maybe that's the case. If that's the case, then that's that's the way it's written. But >> if we want it per door, then
094I think maybe that's better if we write it that way. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I'll make a motion um for the Victory Springs that we um accept this with the change to update it to the >> I did the math on my >> um it would be half of $3,286 per door. >> Gotcha. I know what you're saying. And I like while I know maybe we can talk about this at the end, but >> what [clears throat] account is this money coming into? >> Like when they give us a cash [laughter] >> like we're going to save this money for >> for schools, right? For capital improvements and investments for schools, right? >> The general fund, doesn't it? >> No, I feel like it should. >> Okay. >> Oh, that's right. John, >> so we
095can specifically identify both a fund number that we'll put it in and even we could specify a specific LGIP account. I would recommend that you just put it in and you can gain investment income on it, make money out of money. >> Add that to all the other motion. Well, and and it's a great question because that question that you just asked is the same question that developers ask >> and you know because they're you know they what they are wanting to assure that this like hey I want to make this contribution but I want to make sure that it goes toward those things that you need that help mitigate growth not >> the teacher salaries. >> Yes. And >> I mean I just feel [clears throat] more honest in asking for it if it's
096actually going to offset the cost of what they are their their impact. >> Absolutely. And you're you're making the exact same expression the law that developers make as well. They want that you know that confirmation that this isn't just going to drop into the general fund and disperse you know somewhere else. So, >> well, and when we in in the future when we go for a bond, we can be like this is how much money we collected in in voluntary mitigation fees that offsets what we're having to ask. And I think that data will be really helpful in the future. >> Yeah. And that's what and I think that's part of what we have when we talk to developers. That's one of the things we talk about >> when they ask the why. We talk
097to them. you know, this when we do go for bonds like what I'm presenting to you tonight is about half a million dollars worth of, you know, mitigation. That's half a million dollars that we don't have to put on a bond. You know, it's not a menial amount that's out there. So, [clears throat] >> well, and our taxpayers and residents are asking us over and over again to have have development help pay for development. This is what that's what we're doing. >> Yeah. And I think it's important that we're transparent that way with the people. So mitigation is for capacity. So any item that helps with capacity issues within our district is what we discussed. >> School bonds. >> Yeah. So I think that specific account would be amazing. >> Yeah. >> And I like
098the idea of money making money. >> Yeah. >> So all right. Do I have a motion? >> There's a motion. A second. >> A second. Okay. And we made the adjustments to that. Okay. >> Any other discussion or questions? All right. Um, Kirsty. >> Hi, >> Michael. >> Hi, >> J D. >> Hi. >> And I'm an I also >> and Hillary. Sorry. And Hillary, the one who made it. Sorry, Hillary. >> I'm moving right along. [laughter] >> So, okay. >> All right. [snorts] Serk Ranch again. Um, a newer project that's on the books. Um they when these guys were pretty awesome to talk to. They really wanted to help us and and asked us where some of our biggest needs were and the high school parking seems to be one of those that has
099we've had a couple developers in the past that hey we're interested. This is the one I feel like this is the first one we've had that truly has taken that interest serious because they're the ones that came back when we talked about this. They're actually the ones that came back with this drawing and said this is how we can help. you know, this is what it would look like. This is We haven't had developers in the past that have shown interest that have actually taken it this far and said, "This is what we can do for you." So, Selkerk Ranch, um, it would be to expand the KHS parking lot by 128 spots. Um, which being the principal of Fremont Middle School would be a blessing. Um the estimated the estimated cost um for them
100to do that is about $300,000 value. This is what kind of excites me about it. This development is one that's moving forward quickly. They are going to they're projected to start breaking ground on this this summer, later this spring and summer. They would like to do this project in conjunction with when they are putting their roads, their sidewalks that you know all the earth moving work in there. They would like to be able to just come over, bring their equipment over and build this parking lot at the same time. If things go on the the trajectory that they have predicted out there right now, this parking lot would actually be ready this fall when stu students come back to school. And so it would be a pretty exciting thing, you know, and I know that's
101their goal. There's nothing set in stone that says that, but if they can stay on that timeline that they have set out there, this it would be a pretty cool addition to have to to our KHS campus, you know, going into this next fall for, you know, our high school administrators to have some more spaces to, you know, put kids in their cars. Um, and so anyway, I'll stand for questions on this one. >> Okay. Do I have any questions? >> I have some questions. >> Yeah, >> believe it or not. >> Um, I It looks like we have some more space there that we could expand even further. Don't we need more than 128 spots? >> We do. And so this developer came back to us. They for the the project, this is what
102they could do without costing us any money. If we went further into that, then we would have to incur that extra cost to put in more parking lot. >> But would they do the work still? >> It's not a really effective thing to have them working and then us try to expand on top of that, you know. So, >> and they they they absolutely would. And so, but if they so as if you went up there, you could put essentially without getting too much into this, you could get just one more row that of 32 that would go up above there. After you go past that, you have to start redesigning this entrance coming in, you know, unless you just start shifting parking spaces less and less. But to get another full row up there,
103you could you would go probably you'd lose one spot on the end, but then you could get one more row over here. That >> does anybody know why the entrance road is so curved there? >> Is it because of the the access needs to be a certain distance from other access? >> What's that? >> Slow kids down. >> Slow down. >> Oh, okay. because it feels like if we just made it a straight shot, we could utilize more space there. >> And that would, >> and I understand what you're saying, if if this were just a straight shot up, what that would require as of right now, because one of the things I checked into with this was I got a hold of ACD to make sure that they weren't going to have, you know,
104some sort of restrictions based on traffic flow that would be coming in. ACHD said they had zero problems with us adding to the parking space because these kids are already in attendance at this school. The difference would be if we added two KHS and added the to the capacity of the student body, then we would have to do a traffic study and there's a lot of that extra cost that would come. So, a good thing, a benefit to us on this is that we don't have to do any extra traffic studies or anything. You go back to what you're talking about. If you extend this straight out, >> we would probably have to have ACD do a traffic study. And looking at their guidelines of how close that entrance would be to the others, we
105probably wouldn't >> like the church entrance. >> This is too close. >> It's too close. Yeah, I thought it would be. So, >> okay. >> Yeah. Well, I mean, I feel like a free expansion to the parking lot is pretty um tempting, but at the same time, like if it doesn't do the job that we want, it's maybe just a mess. Does that make sense? >> If it's not the quality of >> Well, I'm not worried about their workmanship, but I just feel like >> like I feel like if we were to do this project and we wanted it the way we wanted it, I feel like we would be doing something different. >> Well, we could We can just ask I mean we got to find the money to pay for the next row.
106>> Yeah. >> So >> I wonder like how far over we can move that access and then how many spaces we could fit in there. And I feel like that would be something that would be good information going into this. >> And then I also know we can't do this anytime but the summer. Am I right? So and we're shutting down this summer. So it would be super great if it could be this summer. >> So since we're doing Hback Yeah. Yeah, >> I I I make a motion that we approve thisou the way they have it, but ask them if I mean if we could find the funding to put that next row in there. I don't know if it's going to be I don't think it's going to be cost beneficial to move
107those entrances and do that study with ACD. But >> yeah, if you if you get to the point where you have to do a traffic impact study, it I mean you could be upwards of $100,000 just for the study itself. And I'm not saying it would be, but you I mean >> plus we wouldn't get there this by this summer probably. >> Yeah. No, because it if we went that route, we it would be that would change how we would be able to do this through the city. then we would be somebody having to go to the city and getting um design reviews approved and planning and stuff right now because in our blessing with the way it's presented right now because ACD doesn't have any problems with the way this is set up the
108city has said this is pretty simple one for us to be able to you know to go through them and get approved with them we don't have to go through any formal process it's it can all be handled through the staff at the city. We don't have to go in front of zoning city council. And so it's just it's >> so I have a question for Robbie. I guess we have 128 that we're adding. Is that going to alleviate very much at all? Do we need to alleviate more? And I guess that's my question. >> And that's weird to say. Is that enough? And like it might be. I mean because right now we have like 50 kids on the waiting list. I know. So if you put those 50 in of them, there's still
109space left. And if you take away what there's I don't know how many spots people park here and on Porter. >> I mean they're lining the road. >> Yeah. But like if you counted those, how many would that be? >> I mean we could go out and we could count those. I'm serious. Like I was thinking like only way to get accurate is to count them and the neighborhood in there just go have some go count those cars and then we can get a number back and maybe maybe 123 is the right number >> or 128. I I'm just curious because I mean we're putting a lot of thought in this which I think is great. But is is this going to be enough? You know, if it is and I say yeah, if it's
110not then maybe we need to take a look at more. And one of the things that I look at with this, you know, and I I I know where Robbie's coming from on this, speaking as the principal of Fremont Middle School and the safety issue created by, you know, I was a high school driver one time. Well, you know, going through the parking lot, going up and down Porter when our students are getting out at the same time. You know, if you can take with 188 or 28 slots, take a good chunk of those kids and be able to put them in that parking lot, it helps create a safer zone here for Hubard. And I shouldn't say Hubard because they're out later than we are, but primarily for the Fremont students that are in
111and out at the same time as the the high school. So >> go ahead. >> Well, I would I don't I I just don't think we can I mean this is a gift and I don't if we do anything to this I think it could push it off and we could lose this. So I make a motion that we accept thisou with the Silk Ranch, but maybe just ask and see if there's a way that we could uh come up with funds to add that next row. I'll I'll get specifics from them on what the additional cost would be for that. >> So, does that need to be in the MLU then? >> I don't >> or is that just something? >> I if we >> if we're using their construction equipment and having them
112do it and paying for it, then it might have to be in theou if that's the way we're going to work with it. >> Yeah. It would probably have to be like a separate >> Yeah. >> in addition because it >> is that one that you could bring back to us. Yes. Yeah. Because we've got time to do that. But that because that would be one that we, like I said, we would be responsible for those additional costs. And so it wouldn't necessarily be anou costwise for them, but maybe for them providing the service like you're saying while they're there cutting, you know, grass and stuff like that, they can use that equipment, set it up. And so it would just have to be worded differently. There wouldn't be a monetary amount. would be a
113service provided to help do those extra 32. >> I mean, if the estimated cost for four rows of parking is 300,000, it's probably like another $75,000 to get another row, maybe if and that seems reasonable to get 32 more parking spots if we can if we can add on. >> Yeah. >> And find that. I mean, it's seriously a problem. >> Did you want to say something? >> I would just say your discussion over there. as you look to spend the district's funding, you just need to be mindful of procurement rules and regulations. Um, and so there may be some stipulations around just turning around and using them because now you're spending state dollars and you have public requirements. >> So I would just maybe like look at those two transactions separately. >> Another $128,000
114to add that extra red. >> Okay, that's okay. So thank you for your input. Appreciate that. Um, did you want to keep the motion then JD? Do you want >> Okay. Do you want to restate it so we can all >> No, because there's discussion. >> You just want to accept it as >> accept as is. Yeah. >> Okay. >> And then I'm we're going to have have that discussion. >> I'll still check in to the addition that we got all this red tape. >> See what we can do. >> But I feel like if we could look into the 32 extra spaces it'd be and the legality of it, it would be amazing. >> Yeah. >> All right. Okay. Do I have a second on that motion? >> Second. >> Okay. Any other discussion
115or questions? >> Okay. Kirsty >> I. >> Michael. >> Hi. >> J. >> Hillary. >> Hi. >> And I'm an I also. >> All right. I think that's it. >> You've been busy. We appreciate >> you. >> Well, I was just trying to make sure I got through not calling you commissioners. I just got [laughter] >> He really has. Tim's really been doing a great job in developing. We had two developers yesterday or the other came, you know, they've been coming to us. >> I just would like the community to know what we're doing here to save them money and to be good stewards >> for them. >> And may maybe going forward if we have any more development coming through too that maybe we could ask them to help fund that cost for that
116next level of parking lot. >> And that would get around the red tape. Yeah, >> I like that idea. >> Yeah. >> All right, we're moving right along. Consent agenda. Do I have an approval for the consent agenda? >> I had one item, just a question on on the trip requests with all the wrestling trips. Um, are there female students going? Because I didn't see I didn't >> There was one chevron that was >> that's female on all the trips. Okay, that's >> what we require. >> That's what I wanted to see. Okay, that's it. >> I make a motion that we approve the consent agenda. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Any other discussion or questions? All right. Kirsty >> I. >> Michael. >> Hi. >> JD. >> Hillary. >> Hi.
117>> And I'm an I also. And now we're to the good of the order. Christmas break December 22nd through January 3rd. Yahoo. >> And the next board meeting will be January 13, 2026. Do I have a motion? >> I have a motion. >> I was making a motion. >> Oh. [laughter] Let me do it. I make a motion that we adjourn this board meeting. >> Gabble it >> second. First, do you have a second? [laughter] >> All right, Accuracy. >> Hi, Michael. >> Hi, >> JD. Billy, hi. >> And I'm an eye also. So, >> way to go and thank you guys.