001just checking sound no we can't J Jake I'll make d [Music] if you just want hey good to see for me do you want Jake to call me or you uh we can do either way I think my battery's good okay oh never mind he's calling me okay and d g call in on that one yeah we could try it to be bad I'm gonna just put you down for a minute okay yeah okay yeah and then okay but page will talk through that it's just not in got time got tractors oh hard scho all depends on the day's there okay did you go no I just you come I have to remember to breathe Som days today two semi roads ahe I'm scrambling between rush hour traffic and try to get tractors going yeah
002all I can do yeah okay but I'm so glad to have your help with st so I can ask you I get [Music] lost this whole thing or just the top part too there's some words you if you read through that right okay and then read this whole thing um Brandon's here from Holly TR as we go through that as well okay second row see only in front of me that's the thing [Music] okay are we ready is it good it's good on the the sound yes okay still there J you there you ready yes all right welcome everyone we are going to start with the Pledge of Allegiance IED Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the stand Nation God indivisible jce for all thank you everyone for coming
003we want to excuse Mr Mor he's going to be calling in in a minute and Mr Dempsey is on the phone with us from where are you Jake St Lou today there you go all right with that being let's begin we need to amend the agenda Cindy I'm going to make I move that we amend um the agenda to add um on the student trips request number or letter e FCCLA culinary arts trip is there a second second thank you all those in favor say I I I I thank you do we have any signed in visitors that want to speak perfect oh yes we do need to approve the agenda I would entertain a motion for that I move that we approve the agenda thank you second second all those in favor say I
004I I I all right I would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda I move that we approve the consent agenda second thank you all those in favor say I I I I let's move on to discussion items first off we are going to recognize our girls basketball team for the spectacular season that they've had and kind of excited to see what will happen next year too because they're all just still little kind of baby chickens but I'm gonna turn the time the time over to coach Blackwell thanks for being here girls okay good evening Board of Trustees School administrators and Dr on behalf of Middleton girls basketball program I coach black cural thanks for giving us the opportunity to share a few things about our season this year um first and foremost we
005want to express our deepest gratitude for all the support you've given our program we couldn't be prouder to represent Middleton and that Pride stands from our incred incredible support system we have in our school and Community knowing that so many people are cheering for us and roting for our success motivates us every day it truly means the world us this season we set high expectations for ourselves not just as individual players but as a team our goal is to always give our best effort no matter what the circumstances and we worked hard every single day to achieve that along the way we created countless memories together and that's something our coaches have always emphasized it's bigger than basketball the relationships we've built the lessons we've learned and the moments we've shared are what makes this
006journey so special we also knew that without each other our girls our goals couldn't be achieved coach always reminded us that greatness doesn't come from taking days off it comes from learning how to handle hard things better um and we Embrace that even though our season didn't end the way we hoped we learned an important life lesson sometimes no matter how hard we work you may fall short of a goal but that doesn't mean you give it you give up it means you keep going keep leaving and keep putting in the work because tomorrow and next season isn't too far away despite the challenges this season was filled with so many memorable moments and we'd like to share some of those with you tonight we put together a slide a slideshow to give you a
007small glimpse into the incredible times we shared as a team these moments are a testament to hard work dedication and love we have for the program and each other thank you again for your unwavering support it's because of you that we're able to grow not only as athletes but as individuals we are so proud to call Middleton home and can't wait to continue representing our school and Community with pride thank you thank you all right yes fantastic Mrs Murphy would you mind pulling that blind behind you I think we're going to have a glare a little bit then we'll get this video started thank you yeah oh hold on there we go I'm here [Applause] EXC reason 26 when we face lay got all all OPP [Music] I willever no to do uh tonight and
008yeah myself this [Music] thank you you guys we do want to get picture pict are [Music] all right perfect thank you let's move on to our student field trips oh that's I guess that's no that's me look at me up um I'm actually going to turn the floor over to either Mr hullinger or the um advisor for these groups um so I guess starting we've got Deca and Innovation diploma and that'd be um D if you want to yeah sorry you'll just let us know which which of the two you're talking about we I got a little nervous after hearing those [Music] yeah I'll put them on the spot you guys want this is leadership members right here yeah yeah I was here last year actually for our international trip I'm sure you guys are
009remember and if you can just say what Deca is because not everybody knows Deca is so it's our business Club at the school basically we compete in a bunch of competitive events partaking to business so Ethan Carla and I have all done our different events three years in row now so we will this will be our third year going to Nationals all three of us and I feel like it's really brought us us together especially like the three of us like it's a family it's great I love it our our competition it's always hard it's always fun but it's really a great experience I feel like everyone should be able to have and National is one of the best parts of it awesome so we're uh our trip is April 25th through 30th in Orlando
010to the international Career Development confer is this year um car will be presenting international business plan that she's put together and W will be participating in a business services role play uh Ethan an innovation plan and some leadership conferences so we're excited for these guys and um it's we got we got a good group it's been fun to have these seniors that have done this for three years now that's amazing great I hope you not get out of the park GNA be the year you should you got nothing to lose yeah very good any questions want to talk about the Innovation group so our um why is also part of my Innovations class Innovation diploma we started this program last year um I was I'm glad I said yes to teaching this class when yes
011for volunteers because it's a lot of fun and so why is part of the group um we've got two groups of students going to present their Innovation or the basically Innovation plans uh at Design Tech High School what actually or campus but our high schools right there um going to present those we've been working with Design Tech High School in this program they've been helping us along the way with design reviews we've gone through three design reviews where they uh present their innov Innovative projects how they've gone out and researched and gotten feedback from community members stakeholders and how they're able to you know for this project together doing a project on 3D printing and they built some they built some pretty cool machine recycling uh water bottles to create 3D printer filament which isn't
012totally new but they're using it in some innovative ways to create some new uh new prod products and we've got a group that's that just last week presented at the city council meeting um to try they're they're wanting to create a mural in mid on the top of H traffic oh wow call so anyway it's an opportunity and hopefully something that can help build our program soon I think another thing um with this um Innovation Summit that they're heading to this is run organized through the design um Tech High School in on the Oracle campus in California but this is going to be bringing students from all over the world actually so it'll be an in I know there's um people coming from Brazil there's people coming from from um Eastern Asia um there's it's
013a pretty neat opportunity for our students to participate in very cool opportunity thank you for facilitating that appreciate it yes any other questions that's great no can't wait to hear about it yes please when you're done we would love for you to come back and report to us just till it's out I'm hoping this guy will come back with some some glass some Hardware glass you know there you go very good all right very good thanks best best of luck thank you thank you guys thank you uh Mr H are there oh I didn't see did you were you here the whole time no he I was GNA say that was amaz you want to give some information about the state leadership conference yeah you guys I think 20 years ago when I started here
014I didn't like well you know you're trying to be Innovative we're keeping up with the group so yeah our FFA group has our state menion Twin Falls uh we're looking about 25 to 30 kids um have myself Mr Wilson Miss cast will be going and Miss bangler there's our our chapons also have a student teacher with again with me this year Miss Henning so she's she's going to be graduating from Nui here in may they have quite a few different contests doing they're doing horse judging hopefully win this year we got the flal design team um they even have a an aged contest so if you want to be an a teacher you can enter the AED contest we have two or three kids that are interested in doing that so we've had um probably
015three or four students that have went on to become M teachers of the program since I've been here and we have two more that are graduating they're doing their student teaching right now they graduating from that's kind of a NE thing to do um miss two days of school we'll miss Wednesday and Thursday and we'll be down there Friday we'll add home Saturday so it's a a busy event question I just wanted to say that I went to that same convention every year I think four years it made quite an impact on me I think that's a great opportunity these kids yeah the diversity that the FFA programs have taken on now met there's it's not just your regular cows and plows and Cs and stuff there there's literally speeches contests all sorts of different
016things so she usually do pretty well at them so we're excited to go good anything else thank you thank thanks for letting us go and then you'll take the other two y okay so um can I talk about FCCLA first is that okays up with organizations so FCCLA that's family career I always forget the community leaders of America thank you they it's their state convention and leadership conference as well it's in boyy Jack's Urban meeting place so it's mostly culinary students we only have four we have four going this year that program is growing credit bre so I imagine in years to come there will be more students in the future so yeah it's April [Music] 16 so in reality it's home act expanded yes call home myself yes and the the biggest focus in
017the high school for us has been theary program special lots of Interest perfect questions about FCCLA is it is there a oh never mind I'm looking at a different one excuse me all right I'm P my information on the other one tonight so the drama club is going on a trip in fact they were invited to go on this trip to Pocatello to see who call West Side players they've visited them multiple times in the past and they really liked middl team drama and they invited them kind of this special it's almost like a field trip so they will meet with this group it's like a community theater which Mr Madison said most of our students that's kind of the sort of they will go into After High School um and but there there's a
018there's a Tex side of it that they'll check out they look at their lighting side of things costuming uh set construction sound design all those sorts of things um and then they'll be able to see two shows as well while there um Mr M recognize it it's not ideal to come back on a Sunday that but he did get permission from all the parents and everybody going that that would be the case they felt like it was safer in terms of traveling Sunday questions no I just like his field trip policies yeah his pack is very thorough he just tell invited to come help us [Laughter] right thank you thanks I think I might have to you do and I just wanted to say one other thing that speaking of policy in terms of our
019trips I do think it's something that we'll um I would like to recommend we bring to the board that some of these um competitions that our clubs do which we we want to make sure that they're that the board is aware of these trips but some of these that happen year after year um make perhaps we lump those into a group that wouldn't necessarily have to present every year so that it's not the same you know like for some like the leadership conference it's similar to going to state competition for some of our athlet our athletic group groups we don't have them come though and and request that permission so I think for some of those that are just an annual thing that we go to every year we might want to look at um
020lumping that together so that it's approved when we're approving calendars and things like that rather than a special thing and then when they have special events that they're going to that would be outside of that we'd have them come okay makes sense yeah um perfect so the next thing um just so you're aware for the next two items Paige Goodson would be normally doing that but she had to take care of an emergency um and so Mr Hollinger will be taking on the first part and then I'll be taking the next all right I apologize this won't be as smooth as page last minute my best first course is as you see they Applied Mathematics for CTE um this will especially happen at the um well this is this is a combined nhhs Middleton Academy
021request um we are going to the students will need to be enrolled in a CTE pathway the place we specifically think this is going to be utilized is in our um construction class uh because we are going to integrate the class into that construction course that will have a new CTE the new sorry Mark oh the career campus Middleton career campus career campus the construction so that's where that will be especially utilized this first year um and uh we saw the prerequisites and things um but it'll be a lot of just Hands-On math that just integrated within that course very good uh the next one uh Technical and professional English for CTE this will similar to the math one it will be integrated in the course with construction class um the goal is to also
022have this at the high school in English for CTE like a tech like a technical writing class at the high school um and so those students that are in the level two or level three of the ctd pathway they would take this class as well um and that would fulfill their English requirements um good idea it's looking like probably the Junior and senior years IDE if fact you just interrupt to talk a little bit about this so you have a picture of what this might look like at our construction campus over here the students would would that are participating there would come over that for the for the morning of their class of all their classes that day so if they're in this um level three uh level two level three construction class they would
023go they would start their day if they're at the high school or the academy they would start their day on the in the construction building and there they would do they would be doing construction of their different projects and skills that they're learning but they would also have instruction in the CTE math the CTE language arts but it would be all built in so there wouldn't necessarily be going from class to class you know period to period but that whole block of time would count for their construction coursework as well as their math and English coursework and so they would be done you know they would us let's say a high school student that was taking that course would come to the construction campus that we're building they would be there for the morning they'd
024finish they'd get credits for four classes just like they would if they were attending at the high school and then either if they've driven themselves they'll drive back to the high school or we will shuttle them back to the high school um for the remainder of their classwork that day but they'll come away with their construction coursework and their English and math requirements for that year and skills and the skills that come along with that so it's a pretty exciting um way that we've not done here in Middleton so I think it's a a neat opportunity and that's with teachers from our high school teachers from our academy and our construction teachers so just want to make sure that kind of how that all fit together that's interesting yeah very good and then are we
025yeah oh this one's exciting um the sports effici there's a shortage so yeah this is like it says there hope is to help students gain the Knowledge and Skills to become a sports sports officials be specifically the looking at football soccer volleyball basketball um you know baseball softball so um and we'll have do the concussion course sudden cardiac rest courses um all those things are required for I official so question about that is that something that you could gear and get them equipped and they pass then they could possibly go officiate at the middle school yes that the plan is that we have that leave with those like certifications to go officiate and that would help with a lot of our youth leagues as well abely yeah partner with all the wrecks around here they
026wouldn't have to be 18 to do that not not for the rec [Music] department interesting okay um okay so this next one is a it's sort of our yearbook is growing um in fact uh today our yearbook actually got an award from wallsworth the the Publishing Company the distinguished yearbook award for the yearbook they're working on right now so our yearbook continues to improve and grow um and so there's been demand for more opportunity to work on the yearbook and so um the this proposal is that we have a yearbook two class right now we just have one yearbook class we like to add a second class that's more advanced so the editors of the year that oh did you want to talk about it you're here you talk here um is there anything add
027to that is that okay um yes that's not it's it's mostly like a leadership group that would have an extra hour to meet and they could also be in yearbook one and like helping Le beginner kids but then they would specifically have this yearbook two where we could get like much more in depth and much more advanced well and you just have a revolving cycle of of leadership right that's the idea I like that there opportun to that the thing I like about your book is they are taking these like skills that they've learned in their other classes and applying them to a product that is consumed by thousands of people and pick theart and so they mess up it's it's a they do a really good [Music] job thank you okay so um this
028one and Elis I may ask for your help on this one a little bit as well this is again your department El is our fine arts department um so art one we wanted a just to kind of expand a bit on Art one um El what else would you add for for this one for us that's basically it it's to expand one so specifically freshman we could take it other years but it's more freshman like if they want to take the full gear of art one they can and uh we'll just kind of expand on what we did in the first semester but maybe get a bit deeper and try some other media like maybe try more pain and more Ceramics and things like that for their first year part of this is we realize
029we need more um elective options that's what you've seen this year um and I'll kind of talk about why that is in the next I'm going to talk about in a minute um but yeah this is just one of those that we saw there was command and just a need for more of an expansion classes that we do honors world history okay so this is so to most of our freshman take a world history course their freshman year um and it is a one semester course uh this but there's no honors option for that and Ty most in every other year of high school students have an option within the social studies for a more advanced course so they sophomore year they take preap us history their junior year they can take AP US History
030their senior year they can take AP Government but we don't have that option their freshman year for like an honors class for those who are very interested in social studies and maybe wanted to learn at a higher level so we are proposing this course it will be have an option for a dual credit um so as a freshman you can get a dual Credit World District is going to be a one a year long course though so that we can offer the Dual credit so it's just going to world history covers a lot of time so there's there's plenty of more history that we're not covering that will not be covered very [Music] good perfect thank you thank you very much then is he just going to stay up there you might as well we've
031got one thing with the the curriculum okay and M gonna speak for page um so the curriculum committee has met two times as a full committee um cind can probably speak to us a little bit as well um and really what they've been working on is going through um many different curriculums naring down choices taking all the survey data back from the staff the information back from the staff they're going to meet one more time and the hope is to bring a recommendation to the board after that next meeting and so that's really where their current statuses as a committee Cindy is there anything specifically sitting in those meetings you think would be important to share um it's been really interesting to look at the curriculum and they've had um representatives from each curriculum to
032come or each company to come and and um go through that and I think that's been very helpful to break down what's in each curriculum and it's kind of hard because there's some good ones out there and you just want to make sure that you get what you want if you want the individual like Grammar and Writing to be involved it's it's been a good process I've been very impressed well it's involved a lot of different stakeholders so a lot of teachers from all the building special education um are English language Services parents Community there's several parents and so it's it's whatever we're going to end up with has gone through a lot of different people and gone through a pretty thorough betting process and we have to have 50% of the committee be parents
033as it is and so at least 50% of those people that are working on this are parents yeah and I think the teachers in the buildings that have met separately from this curriculum meeting have I think for the most part felt like they giving their um input and you know their choice what they'd like to be able to see in a in a program that they're going to be using so I think it's been a good process thank you thank you any questions all right Mr H are you're back y if I can give a quick uh note for the board on this um what uh Mr hinger is proposing here tonight it would be included within the student handbook next year um and if we look at it and feel like there are anything
034any adjustments to policy that we have to make we may have to make some adjustments to policy in order to fit this proposal so we we wanted to get this and I say included in the handbook included in the handbook for adoption later but I'll let him work through kind of the timeline but that's what we'll be looking at and it doesn't necessarily require any kind of approval tonight but if you want if there were no questions and you felt comfortable with the direction forward you can move forward with that so just wanted to make sure that was clear so okay so I'll try to just paraphrase this Qui statement essentially we think that it's very important for our students even in their senior year to have a some sort of structured environment where they
035are working towards their future um it's been my observation in the two years I've been at the principal at the high school that a lot of our seniors take the minimal amount of classes they can and for a variety reasons it may be so that they can work it may be so that they have more free time maybe so they can just go play video games at home right there's there's lots of reasons to do that um some better than others I think um so we that's something that for the sake of these seniors uh we want them to be I guess actively engaged in something like I said that will better them you know better their opportunities in the future um so uh we we've toyed with how to do this we talked to
036what other districts are doing and talk to our staff talk to parents some students and this is what we can what we came up with so beginning with the class of 2027 if you're in class of 2026 you're not off the hook exactly so the class of 2027 so that's this year's current sophomores uh we would like seniors to be enrolled and enrolled in and pass a minimum of five courses during each semester of their senior year to be eligible eligible to participate in the graduation ceremony and then we clarify what we mean by those classes so any class credited class from the the uh NHS course catalog if they're taking college courses or other career preparation courses like they want to go take like a philotomy course or something like that we can we
037would totally count that it don't necessarily have to be on our campus for those ones even though we have a lot of opportunities within on the campus but if you have something else going on that you can do and you you're showing us that you're working on something again that better that improves your future by all means go do that uh School release School release time courses um so that would be like work based learning um apprenticeship releases a religious release only one of these uh release time courses May count towards the five course requirement though we don't want students just to go do work Work Release now that that's for the five if you want to go do work work based learning for other periods that's fine too because remember we have a seven
038period dat they can take so just to count for these five we say just one of these release these kind of release time classes where you're off off the campus um also affected that 202 2026 2027 school year we would only like students to be able to schedule a late start or early release periods that's where they have no class assigned um first or seventh period and the reasoning behind that is it helps us it helps our master schedule to be able to have certain course offerings spread throughout the day better we can balance our schedule better right now um it's really hard to schedule any class that could possibly have seniors in it in the afternoon because seniors just AR around um or even in the morning there's often seniors aren't there in the
039morning so if there's like this nice sweet spot right now that we can do all these senior classes but we kind of have to all cram them on and then they they overlap with each other and they cannibalize from from each other and so for the sake of our schedule and what we can offer all the students we that's part of what we want to only have first or seventh period is those release time classes or relas kind portions of their schedule uh we we understand that this that there will be special circumstances um that students may have something going on that would require them to U not take the five courses yet they still want to graduate uh or or participate in graduation with us and so we will take those in a case
040by case basis let's say there's a student who is on track to graduate and his family needs him to work so that to just to support the family and he comes to us and he explains the situation obviously work with student like that so we put boing in here to to account for those special situations um but really we want just again to support them to be engaged in meaningful academic or career Preparatory experiences and then finally the class of 2026 originally the my thinking was let's start this next year in 2026 um based on a couple changes that we're making in our master schedule I'm worried that it' be too much of a shock to our system and we wouldn't be to offer everything that we need to to do that but we are
041still strongly encouraging you in the class of 2026 to take at least five classes during New Year um even though it's not quite a strict requirement okay zo I know you're a junior so read this closely I think my child wouldn't like to see him go on yeah this is my favorite part um those who wish to take fewer than five classes must submit a brief written essay explaining how their alternative schedule will contribute to their personal growth you future career goals or overall preparedness for lap After High School additionally parental approval is required for any student seeking this exemption so we will allow you to take a light lighter schedule but we have to explain to us why that's going to help you in the future so that we there's a bit accountability there
042kind of just cor aligns with graduating early right got write for that too and if I can uh just make a note that the distinction between graduating and participating in the graduation ceremonies so the they this would not stop a student from graduating if they were determined to finish and just not take those courses it only would prohibit them from participating in the graduation ceremonies that's just kind of that stick that carot that you're dangling out there so so that'll be interesting how you get that schedule to work which just it seems like all the AP and all the are all lumped and then there's good luck yes that'll help us if we can make it so it's yeah ring so but this is definitely a step in the right direction because I'm concerned about
043how many seniors just don't around much and and that I don't think that for unfortunately there's a fair amount of them that aren't being as productive as they should be so this is a great step in that right direction yeah there's a quote from Franklin I heard the other day that I think kind of help like illustrates this point he said if you want something done I'm gonna I hope this something along lines of you want something done give it to a a busy person there's just something about that momentum of like staying busy staying active in something that just helps you be more productive yourself I just worry about our seniors they give this habit of oh I to do I'll take my two classes and go home all day and then but then
044they have to get like graduate and go into the real world where they can't be that way and it's just hard to get that momentum going again once youve stopped absolutely oh I like it it's accountability yeah thank you thank you John yes all right let's move on to the really fun stuff yeah the bond proposal awesome well first I just wanted to go over some of the feedback that we've been receiving we had the documents from last month um connected there so everything that we kind of went through uh I don't want to go through all of that unless you had any specific questions that come up since no reviewing that I appreciate it being on there um but we did hold two different um we did hold two different Community engagement uh or
045Community um information nights um we held those at mil Creek and Heights um our first one at mil Creek wasn't as well attended um but at Heights we did have quite a a large group um come to the meeting um overwhelmingly the people that have come um have been positive about what we're presenting and um some of the things but we do see a couple of things some questions that are that are some common questions that we're going to start making sure we're including in the different m and emails that we send out social media posts that we post um basically around two things um one is open enrollment and the other is our um the pain for the bond or paying for the school with impact fees um there's some concerns from our patrons
046on both of those count if it's all right I'll just kind of go through that how we how we try to answer that just so that if any body watching the the meeting they can see that and then we'll go on but the first one with open enrollment um the question is and the thought is um we we have all these students that were over capacity in these schools um but we're also we've got students from outside the district that are living here if they weren't living here maybe we wouldn't have this problem now it wouldn't solve the whole problem cuz we're you know 5 600 students over what we have capacity for and there's only you know 300 or so um out of District students but it would make a difference but I wanted
047to kind of give a history of where we've been with that and um where we're kind of stuck based on legislation um in 2021 this board and myself we said we're not going to accept new out of District um enrolling students we wouldn't make the ones that are here leave but we weren't going to accept any new because we knew we were going to try and and pass a bond and we knew that this was a concern and so we just said if you're you know we're just not going to accept those and and even though we weren't sending them home it was going to start extinguishing and it would extinguish it quite quickly because it's top heavy meaning more of our high school and middle school students are from out of District proportionally than
048in our elementaries and so as a graduating class graduated those students would leave and all of the out of District students would leave and then there wouldn't be new ones at the kindergarten level replacing that number so within the two years that uh the first two years that we had implemented that policy we went from 380 out of District students down just under 200 it was like 195 um out of District students just in two years we've been able to to drop that number uh but and I do want to add in those two years while we were dropping those students our overall enrollment was still going up because of the growth within the district then in 2023 the state legislature passed a law that required us to accept out of District students unless the
049school was over capacity or a grade level was overc capacity so we could look at that but we couldn't we weren't overcapacity across the board in our district so when we did that we looked at mil Creek mil Creek was overcapacity as a school so we could still deny any students there Heights the same way um three different grade levels at Purple Sage have been overc capacity and we've denied if there a student is coming in in one of those grade levels um the ninth grade class at the high school is overc capacity so we we've been denying new ninth graders since about November um from the high school but all of the other grades remain open um and so we've had to accept those students which has resulted in um we're up to what
050was it again 298 298 um open enrollment students right now so I I say that just you know and this is something that we will try to communicate to our our patrons as well is that we were doing everything we could to lower that number overall but we couldn't you know once the law was passed it would have been against a law for us to deny those students so uh I think that's one thing that and that is a message that we'll try to continue to portray um within our community make sure people understand we're trying but we can't we don't have the the right to do that right now based on legislation um the second thing is our uh the idea of paying for the elementary school with impact fees and as you're aware
051in Impact fees on new construction as it comes into whether it's businesses residential home bu homes we charge an impact fee to help pay for infrastructure so that can help pay for um sewers that can pay for roads that can pay for lights that can pay for you know Street lamps sidewalks all of those kind of things but in state legislation it specifically denies schools the ability to Levy an impact fee so even if we wanted to we could not Levy an impact fee against um new developments that is ume it's not in code and so if we did we would be breaking the law um which obviously we don't want to do either um and so even though I can agree completely that it would be helpful if the developers were to do that
052it's not something that we have control over we have advocated to our local legislators we've advocated to legislators outside of our local area just to see if somebody would carry that and so far nobody's been willing to carry that that line which all it would take is deleting three words from code and we'd be able to Levy those fees but I think another piece is important for our our community to understand is that even if we started today leving an impact fee it wouldn't solve the problem that we have right now because it could only be levied to new developments from today on and it's going to take several years to build up the millions of dollars that would be required for um the the building of an elementary school if we could go back
053in time and start it in like 2008 we probably would have enough now because of the growth that's happened in our community from 2008 until now but that's just not something that we are are able to do obviously um and so even if we could start that and fix that today it would we're we're so far behind on our capacity it would be important that we still continue forward in finding ways to make this Bond pass and so I think that's something that's important for our community to understand as well by the way I don't think there's any legislates here tonight is there oh I don't think so but if they were but I they and and our legislators they when I reach out they typically will try and respond but to the to this
054date we haven't been able to get them to carry that um I've got a meeting after this current legislative session with one of our legislators um and he's willing to have some initial conversations and maybe we can get that rolling I think it's something that it's worthwhile for us to continue to advocate for um but we're not the legislators so we can't make that pass uh any questions on those two things there are other questions that come up and and we've been trying to field those and we'll be creating a frequently ask questions within our webbsite so that people can refer to that um uh but we are trying to get things the information out as much as we can we'll have a hard copy newsletter going out in early April ahead of the um
055date that the um absentee ballots are sent out absentee ballots will be sent out in um on April starting on April ail 10 through May Mark yeah Jake quick quick clarification could you just share for a minute the difference between a supplemental Levy and a bond I think there's some that absolutely so when when we're looking for funding for schools um and we're asking a tax on our community there are three different ways that you can do that one is a supplemental Levy two the second is a plant facility Levy and the third is a is a bond so uh supplemental Levy only requires 50% um majority to pass but a supplemental ma Levy can be used for anything um we have a supplemental Levy right now that it's $1.5 million per year um for
056and it goes for two years U when a supplemental Levy passes we use that to help pay for a curriculum the curriculum that adoption that we're talking talking about today um for one of our SRO positions for a number of our classified positions um for several of our maintenance um items and supplements Athletics too yes and some of the trips um extracurricular travel um it helps to to pay for some of those things so we have that supplemental Levy um but rarely is a supplemental Levy high enough to be able to pay for the build of a school um in order to build a school you actually have to have a bond because you have to secure the funding for that through the whole process if we were to do a supplemental Levy it's only
057every two years but we wouldn't be we'd have to get the vote every two years to make that happen and that just nobody's going to build us a school when the funds aren't guaranteed to be paid so a bond allows the funds to be paid up front we we sell bonds has um investors essentially are purchasing those asking for permission to go into debt right we and so we're now in debt to that and then the patrons agree to pay that back and so bonds can only be used for buildings we can't use bonds for U paying salaries I mean salaries of Staff we it's used eventually and it has to be for a specific project that is outline and that's what you're going to see within the language that we that b the ballot
058language and the resolution that you're going to be looking at tonight that's the purpose is to lay out all the particulars so that a patron that's looking into this and trying to decide whether they would vote for it would have all that information um a plant facility Levy is similar to a um Bond but it's similar to a supplemental Levy in that it pays out each year um but a plant facility Levy is also only used for physical facilities but again you can't build a building because you don't secure all of the funds up front um in order to make that happen and both levies only require simple majority a plant facility can sometimes be higher depending on your level of indebtedness ours is low enough that we would be roughly at that 50% mark
059But Idaho is still one of the only a handful of states that require super majority for a bond for a bond that's correct so we would need 66 and 23% of the patrons in our community to vote in favor in order for the bond to pass any other details Jake that you'd like to make sure we get out there no I think that's that's fine that's great thank you okay any other questions um regarding the feedback that we got from the the community meetings any other questions before we start talking about the bond language well that feedback has been very consistent for many years and for some reason that's kind there's kind of some misinformation always goes around like we need to get these developers to pay for the school it's never we can't do
060that but the flyer I thought that we sent out I thought was very good because it put a lot of things on just one piece of paper that you could see and it had the lot of good information on that and we'll have one more of those that we'll send out from the district that will just have the information from regarding the bond on it um in early aprils and it goes to all households all households in our school and if we ever find out that it's not if any if you ever he let us know cuz we want to make sure that we get W the correct routes taking care of that was at that one meeting yeah with several zip codes can be challenging to get it to everybody yeah yeah any other
061thoughts or questions thank you so the next item is one that will require an action on the part of the board um and this is how we would be able to put the bond material on the ballot Mark for May I'm sorry and so um we actually work with Holly Trel um to create this um language the legal language to make sure we do that and um Brandon helon from Holly Trel was here tonight and Brandon do you mind taking the podium and maybe walking our board members through um this language and then if there's any specific questions see you thank you thank you if there's any specific questions you have regarding the language um Brandon's the perfect guy to ask well for of Trustees surprised people are leaving this is the exciting part of
062the night but um my name is brand hon I'm an associate Holly tril um I actually believe that uh when the district was running its Bond back in 2022 this is the first board meeting that I ever presented at after starting my career so it's nice to be back thanks for having me back um and so glad that you're trying again um so we drafted up the bond election resolution and and what it does is all essentially just signed is is laid out basically this b or this capitalized title but it calls for an election to be held it uh it denotes the form of the ballot that people will be voting on it it approves the form of the notice that the county CLK is going to publish regarding the election um it describes
063what the projects are uh the amounts the interest amounts everything that's going to show up on the ballot um provides that if two3 or 66 and two3 of people running the election vote in favor of it and the district has the authority to issue bonds uh according to the terms that are on the ballot and then provides the very end that um the district can Levy uh Levy a property tax in order to be the source of repayment for those bonds so that's that's essentially what it does um I think the most important part what everybody really cares about is the ballot language and if you can scroll down the ballot language if you'd like um but the ballot essentially does three things it describes uh for what uh how much and how long so
064it describes the project itself the constructing of the new elementary school we throw a bunch of additional language in there just to make sure all the bases are covered so you can say hey you didn't say that on the ballot that you could do cite work for elementary school so we include things like that um then Describe the term of the bonds so it's for 20 years and then all of this language these last three paragraphs right before the yes or no portion is um all required by state law but it just basically describes the the financial impact of the bond so it gives the interest rate the interest repayment amount the total repayment amount how long the bond goes for it'ss an estimated annual average tax impact for homes uh uh per $1,000 of
065taxable assess value so that takes into account homeowners exemption and then lastly just um describes the outstanding edness of the district so that that essentially covers uh I think the most important parts of the ballot but if you have any questions at all I'd be happy to happy to answer them there's language from that that we will be now that we're having this meeting will be required to place on any message that we send out from the district now if there's a community group they not they're not hel held to that same thing but any message that we send out as a district um social media the hard copy newsletter that we talked about emails out that letters that are referring to this Bond and giving information have to have um and there's a a
066certain portion of this language that Brandon's also helped us with to get that we have to have in there according to state law so we will we will be doing that as of as soon as this will pull anything that doesn't have it on there and replace with those others of course the big change from the last one is last time we were asking for almost 50 million right yeah lower yeah that's a huge change is there any other change that we should be aware of from that first one that you did uh no well I would say you might remember the ballot language last time was a little bit longer um and that's because you know state laws changed a lot recently they keep Tinker tinkering with this financial information that you include on
067the include the bond um on the ballot itself and so you know you used to be able to talk a little bit more about what the tax impact is instead of just saying be$ 34 per $100,000 uh school districts used to have a little bit of leeway to say well you know we're paying off bonds the following year so we're gonna have a huge drop in property taxes so the Net's going to be you know maybe 15 instead of 34 because we're about to pay off a bond or or in the case of the school or the house schill 292 the school district facilities funds that go towards offsetting the district sles you could before say here's the tax impact but you know this money we get from the state every year is required to
068go towards the bonds first so actually the tax in tacts can be more like this and uh you know the legisl has gone more and more strict they don't really want you talking more on the ballot um and so this is basically all you're allowed to say it's required and you're not allowed to talk about more on the ballot you're allowed to talk about all that in your informational campaign and your Logics when that to the community um but just on the ballot this is basically what it's got to be and then superintending you basically hit the other biggest thing which is that now that all that financial information those last three paragraphs are required to go on all information that the district sends out um and so with some pretty steep penalties if you
069don't basically the same thing if you didn't have on the ballot at all so just more Hoops to drop through okay yeah interesting of course in our in our situation that like like you alluded to our other bond is going to be paid off here pretty soon and plus there's all these other factors where we keep adding so much more to our tax base so that hopefully will keep pushing people's taxes down well and the property tax um Rel bills that have been um going on those are going to be pushing that down um and I and I think that's something that as we as we have these information meetings it's an opportunity for us to share those um kind of things um but even with I mean even if you look at just the
070straight amount of that $34 per 100,000 that represents a 79% decrease from the last Bond that we ran in terms of total impact on our taxpayers and I think that's something that you as a board instructed me as we were working through this whole process is we've got to get that amount down um and and I think we've been I mean I don't know of a a district that's got that low uh uh payment in terms of building a new elementary school when they have to go to the tax payers for it so um it's a it's a good opportunity I believe um for our community and for us right now because of kind of a lot of different pieces converging to make that um but there you know there's going to be property tax
071relief that will have an impact on that for sure thank you than thank you Brandon appreciate it all right so any other questions on that okay so there there will be an action item later that speaks specifically to that resolution very good y I'm going to before we go into policy those of you that are here I think we might have some state champions in this room is there a state champion in this room looking back back there please stand up we might just have you come next time so be prepared give you a hand up yes students you are excused but you need to get your agenda signed please all right plus you want to stay for policy that is why I'm letting you go con I'll give you update hell there you go
072award thank you apprciate that I I appreciate that I'll share with weren okay where we at are we we just got a couple we printed off oh you're good uh you're I talked to you last time yeah we just didn't have time to put it on the agenda this time but we'll get it on there for ail all right that's what I you your agenda signed I [Music] perfect which [Music] one thank I think there was still okay we can bring him in April that be okay yeah we can do it we haven't totally gone into policy if you want to well Chris was supposed to talk about it when sh page yeah suppos to bring up but I was expecting it was one more we could go revisit and it was just going to
073be but we weren't going to amend iter agenda anyway so if you want that would be great you are welcome to getas yes we're gonna go back and revisit do you have her docum no okay item item C so go ahead um so I've been working with Stacy C a lot to um bring in this medical really quick would you introduce yourself sorry I'm Chris the assistant princi okay um we've been working to bring a medical assisting career Pathway to both the high school and the academy um this pathway has and our school looks a little different than the high school but one at our school because we do a semester and a quarter of foundations of Health Professions and one quarter of medical terminology and we've been able to offer that so far this
074year at the Academy then what we'd like to add moving forward is a full semester so two of our quarters of internal medical assisting and then a Capstone of medical assisting um this would allow our seniors to graduate with potentially if they pass the test certification to be a medical assistant um so so far we've successed F integrated the L1 classes both at the high school and the academy um Stacy and I both applied for the pathway for the state we should know next month if we are approved and we wrote up a good cross grant for funding um we have researched the National Health Care Association curriculum as a possible option to support this it also comes with a testing um capabilities um our ultimate goal like big pie in the sky is students
075are allowed to um stack certifications so not only could they be certified medical assistant but they could add on EKG and photomy and other medical administration um and anything we can do to give our kids like a head start when they graduate is amazing and awesome um and then you know looking at the need for this the medical world is going to blow up in the next several years I have all kinds of fun statistics like it has them already uh 24% and IO is what they're projecting in the next 10 years of growth um they also the program that we were looking at comes with a called personability um and it's these modules that are teaching the kids how to respond to like a different difficult uh patient or some challenges where people are
076upset and not feeling good um and that provides nine hours of continuing education and once a student is certified they only need 10 hours of of continued learning to renew that certification so with that program we can already have them nine of the 10 hours through and then all students can test within 12 months of graduation so especially at the the academy where we are often Junior and senior heavy we could still Fast Track them through this program in just two years and have them lead with those certifications that is really good is is there a dual credit type situation where we're able to to grab some would carry over to local colleges credit CWI have to look into I know that there is a CWI I don't know how it pairs with this other
077curriculum you looked at but did you hear that date y okay outstanding excited to see these thank you appreciate it thank you thank you thanks for your FIB all right we will move on to policy okay so for first reading tonight we're bringing before you policy 390 the foreign exchange students policy and really this is coming before you um there was a recommendation in our conversation with mea that we needed to review the deadlines in this policy and have some conversations around that and so we're having those conversations we're collaborating with individuals and figuring out what we want the deadlines to look like to make sure that our processes match what our policy says and it's really making it more flexible um so that when we see a need you know let's say that we
078haven't met the full percentage that we agree that we would allow for within the foreign exchange program that if let's say let's say the deadline right now is in April according to our policy we shouldn't be accepting anything in June but sometimes if we're not full it would be uh advantageous for us to be able to take advantage of that um student coming in who wants to come in in June and is finally able to get that worked through so those are the types of deadlines to take off the wording that and just say until full well right we're just wanting to make sure that whatever we do doesn't hamper their ability at the high school to manage the program appropriately so it's the balance between those gotcha but we'll come with the specific things
079but you have didn't we do another foreign exchange was that on the amount stud so this is different okay I didn't think that you could be a foreign exchange student and be 18 or over I thought you had to be under 18 to be a foreign exchange student but I well then it is right here 18 years or younger or younger yeah I you you just can't be over 18 okay that's interesting and that's simply similar to what we have in terms of the students that are here will often have students turn 18 in their senior year so it's trying to be consistent there I see I think it's just the policy but probably what I heard in some of the foreign exchange companies that do that they want to make sure that they're they're
08016 or 17 some some of their own Poli their policies right so with this being the first reading you're still going to meet and discuss and then we'll bring a recommendation back to you next month okay as far as what we believe that those deadlines should be and there's I guess there's interesting Visa re uh certification or requirements and I wonder how our policy how it has to mesh with whatever the the United States Visa policies are yeah and typically we let the the organization that's bringing the student in manage all of the Visa and we don't do much of the work with that other than providing information that they need I see okay well that's good we don't have to worry about that stuff yeah so your recommendation to move to a second yes
081please all right I would entertain a motion for that Ive Mo that we move the policy on foreign exchange students to a second reading you say the number of the policy 3090 yeah is there a second second all those in favor say I I I I hi thank you Jake don't sound so excited this is the best part of the meeting wait a minute I thought Brandon said his part was okay part sorry yeah um going into our second reading so the series that's policy 910 and then pr1 PR2 pr3 and pr4 our recommendation would be to table these until next month and not move forward there's just quite a bit of work that still needs to happen on those and we didn't feel like we had that we were able to make the changes
082to get it ready for a second reading for this meeting so we' like to table it and then come back next month so there are no changes that you would see in right now not not at this point I I just didn't get to read it all you get a whole month um so that would be the first half and then these second half of those readings 7050 P1 7050 we do have the recommendation of the change of the monetary value in those policies and so you'll see that those changes have been made um to align with code and with isba recommendations as well and so it really was the change from the 25,000 to 50,000 um is really what trigger that process okay and then the policy 8070 8220 P 8220 and then 8243
083there have been no recommended changes from first reading to Second reading and those um along with the 7050 P1 and 7050 we would recommend mve all of those into policy we feel like there a spot with the changes that have been made that we can go ahead and make that recommendation into policy didn't we remove 2305 last meeting we did yeah that that's just needs to be struck okay so that was for H JK that we moved policy yeah did I understand that F G oh h j all of those we fer at a spot that we could move into policy okay so with all the handwriting that was on the purchasing and bidding yeah scenario that'll be changed those will be changed to what is written in the handwriting yeah so what I just
084have a question on the bottom of many of these policies the dates that are listed like adopted in 03 Revis 0406 and 15 but after we're done saying this that's when it comes to 2025 y not until you've actually moved it to policy do we change those okay so if you make the recommendation to move it tonight we would add the date of 31025 and then when Gina posts the final assembly it would then be like that okay all right thank you any other questions so all the 9 9010 will be tabled yes please and all of the 82 whatevers go to policy those are all the food service policies so F through K is according to my to remove it okay so let's go ahead and add in the motion tonight the removal of
085the policy let's include that so we have that official motion on the notes thanks Gina okay yes okay so here we go did you guys get all the ones that we're tbling so there's probably three motions okay yes tabling policy yep so we already did the for exchange yes okay we need to T a through e all right I move that we table policies 9010 pr1 9010 PR2 um 9010 pr3 and 9010 pr4 um as well as 9010 10 just 9010 um for later discussion second that thank you all those in favor say I I I I I I'll go ahead and make a motion that we adopt policy 7050 P1 policy 7050 policy 8070 policy 8220 P policy 8220 and policy 8243 is there second second thank you all those in favor say I
086I I I I last one um I move that we remove policy 2305 second all those in favor say I I I I all right let's move on to trips I would entertain a motion to approve or deny the DECA International Career Development conference in Orlando Florida I move that we approve the DECA International Career Development conference uh in Florida second thank you all those in favor say I I I I I um I move that we approve the Innovation diploma class in California a second thank you all those in favor say I I I I I I move that we approve the FFA St leadership conference in Twin Falls second all those in favor say I hi hi I um I uh move that we approve the MHS drama club trip to Pocatello Idaho
087second all those in favor say I I I hi have to like take something and tie the shoes of the girls basketball [Laughter] together and the FCCLA oh yeah oh FCC I would entertain a motion to approve the FCCLA F trip California competition to boyy to boyy jump that's right I move that we approve the um f FCC competition inv boy second all those in favor say I I I I I you can do the requests as as presented as presented um go ahead I move that we approve the course requests new course requests as as presented second thank you all those in favor say I I I I I I move that the board adopts the board excuse me the bond election resolution titled um bond election resolution um which reads a resolution calling
088a special ed election to be held for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of school district number 134 Canyon County state of Idaho a proposition relating to the issuance of up to $1,900,000 General as a general obligation School bonds of school district number 134 Cy County state of Idaho and in providing for the issuance of such bonds the levy of a tax to pay such bonds sound right we're good all those in favor say I I I I I all right onward we move okay and I will get that passed over to Canyon County this week and Brandon will'll just be in touch to make sure with Alicia to make sure that we get that where we need to be Oh I thought you guys were going to get to talk today you
089said enough read all this it's okay you've been useful we'll let we'll let Jay make a motion for the next thing on there you got to read everything right there on number 10 okay okay thank you thank you guys have a good night I move that pursu it to ID code 74206 P1 P Idaho code to consider the evaluation dismissal or disciplining or to hear complaints or charges brought against a public officer employee staff member or individual agent just heading into executive session speaker go ahead trusty D yes trusty Wagner yes trusty pal yes trusty Clark yes and trusty Moore yes all [Music] right okay all right let me get the door and then we'll