June 17th, 2025 - Alpine School District Board Meeting

001you opportunity to be here. We have a study session full of items. So, we will start with our annual health report and asurances. Uh, I will turn a time over to Dr. Vicky Carter to introduce that. Okay. We have Jessica Benson here to present and we and uh Dr. Valon Thomas is here to support her as her supervisor. So they will present the things that are being presented. Thank you. Um coming around is just the um annual health assurances. This year is a very small year only because um it's not a data review year and so we don't have to um we won't have Kimlo joining us to help over um the data from the um Utah County Health um review this year. But what I do need to report on for our um state

002health assurances is that we did hold a um committee meeting on April 17th of 2025. Um and you can see the list of all of our committee members for the secondary human sexuality committee. Um Sarah Beson is our school board member on that committee. And then we have a variety of district and parent um volunteers on that committee. There's also the element elementary ele elementary maturation committee um and those uh members are listed right below that. This year we did not have any diagrams, images or presentations approved but we did have three um healthy boundary videos that were approved to be in our health one and healthy two um courses which is technically our eighth grade and 10th grade health courses. Um they are very short two to three minute videos on helping students to

003understand what a healthy boundary is. Um and those three videos were all approved by all of our committee members. Um there were no new elementary maturation items approved this year. Um everything has currently stayed the same. Um and then as a reminder, this is what the health um health science and CTE if all of our health teachers um our health science teachers and some of our science teachers, some of our um that do require a parent consent form fall underneath this category. So, not all of our Saints teachers um are have to be held to the same requirements, but we do um state uh sex law and policy training with them every 3 years. We do an alpine sex law and policy training with them every 3 years. They are required to do a botin

004training once in their health education career. And they are required to teach the Botbin curriculum. Can you tell us what that is, please? Oh, yes. The Botburn curriculum is a curriculum that was approved by the state. Um it's not necessarily in our um human development unit, but it encompasses all of it's a prevention um a prevention curriculum. We mostly see it during the substance abuse unit, but it is a curriculum that is approved at the state level um to be used throughout the year and there is a training that goes along with it. um not necessarily doesn't fall under the human sexuality um umbrella unit 6, but it does um it is a requirement for our health teachers that they go through bottom training at least once in their career. Thank you. Um and then

005all health or health science teachers that use a parent consent form um that teach any of the anatomy, health one, health two, adult roles, those courses uh must use items from the approved materials list which they all have. And our teachers are amazing at making sure that they stay up on their um training requirements and the approved materials. So, like I said, that was a really fast one this year. Um any questions? A you said that the healthy boundaries series is in the eighth grade and the what? 10th grade. In the 10th grade. Yes. Does that kind of is that kind of an equivalent to um sexual consent or does that approach not necessarily 10th grade um they are approved to teach um like affirmative consent. So they are um they do get to teach

006consent in 10th grade and not necessarily just um when we're talking about um sexuality but we're talking about consent in general like as a person. Um and with a healthy boundaries that's kind of the same thing. It's just three short videos that were approved for teachers to use if they would like to that just allow the students to understand um as a person I have the ability to set healthy boundaries for myself and why I would want to set those healthy boundaries. Okay. So, it kind of approaches it but it doesn't really go for it. Okay. Yep. If you would like um I've got the links for all of those that I can send out in the email. They are also um already on the new approved materials list which I believe the school board

007all has um access to as well. So you can go in and click on those videos and look at them if you'd like to. How often do you look at who's on the committee and do you replace the parents who have graduated that are listed here? Um, every once in a while we just find if we did just have a switch over um with a couple of with one parent who was unavailable to come to the meetings anymore. Um, at this point right now, we're just trying to keep the committee intact until the separation of the three because each new district will have to form a new um human sexuality committee. So, they're fine to be on here if their students have already graduated. um we like to make sure that they're they're still on

008the committee, but we do want to have members that have students that are in the um that are technically in school as well. Yeah. Great. Any other questions? And we are actually going to be adding a few people to this committee for the upcoming two years so that we have more representation from all areas and again updating because we want to make sure that as a parent on this committee they have students that are still in a secondary education classroom. So thank you. You betcha. Any question? Okay. Thank you. Thank you Jessica. Our next item is uh to review with full board and public the fiscal year 2026 tenative budget. So I'll turn the time over to our business administrator administrator Jason Sunberg and his team. Okay. Thanks Dr. Farnsworth. Um so this is an

009exciting day to be able to share the final FY25 budget and the tenative FY26 budget. This process for the FY26 budget really began last October, even before that because the enrollment projections that we do that are presented in November drive the budget and then we're at this point. We've had meetings since uh January, February, meeting with committees, with teams um and then our team will present in well just after June 30th the the fiscal year for FY25 will end. We'll start the process of reporting what happened in FY25. Um have audits for that in August and then present the financial reports in November. So the process is all connected and we're excited about this to be able to show the final FY25 and the proposed retentive FY26 budget. Um wanted to recognize I'm going to

010introduce our team members that aren't on BE's team directly and then she's going to introduce the others there. So we have no Okay, we got Robert Ber, our accounting director, and Crystal Burch, our assistant budget director and payroll director, and Chyon Frost, who is our professional accountant lead. And really appreciate Be and her team, all that they've done with this, spent so many hours on this budget book, and I think they're very excited to be able to share it is, and so we'll work together on that, and we'll turn the time over to be. Awesome. Yeah, I could not. There's no way I could do this by myself. So, I just want to highlight Lauren Necker, our senior budget analyst, Allison Sabin, another budget analyst, and Jen Nielsen, budget analyst. We also have Crystal Michaelels,

011who's not with us today, but she does a lot to help us with this process. So, um, everyone at the table should have a book. We just hang on and hang in there with me. Let's page through it. So, um, first of all, like Jason said, it really is twofold. It's to present the final budget for FY25 and then also present the tenative budget for FY26. Within the budget book, there's about five main sections. It's the executive sum. when we'll be going through all these sections, but it consists of the executive summary, the organizational section, um that I'll go into more detail, but the financial section, which really includes the numbers of all the funds, um also by the summary statements and a three-year forecast uh for all the funds. And there's also anformational section,

012which when we populate theformational section, we get a lot of help from the accounting team to do that as well. uh but it helps populate a lot of the other reports within the the whole budget report. And then we have a glossery at the end to help define terms and acronyms that are used throughout the the budget report. So if you have questions, please ask and you can stop me at any time. Um, but if you go ahead and just turn to page nine, uh, highlights the very first, it's the beginning of the executive summary and it highlights in the first paragraph the years that most reports within this budget book cover. So it covers actual audited figures from FY22, 23, 24. They cover final amended budgets for FY25 and then tened budget numbers for

013FY26. And much like your board reports that you receive every month, the budget book is organized by fund. And the fund has several different categories within them. I tried to make it a little bit more clear with putting it on the slide. Um, governmental funds are covered from all the way from general funds down to school activity. And within that, there are three major funds. um general debt service and capital outlay. Those are some where our big where a lot of the fun money is. Then we have other funds which are the special revenue funds which include nutrition services, nonk nonk12 foundation and then also student activity. Student activity is everything that's going through the schools. Um proprietary funds which should be self- sustaining. um our industrial insurance which is workman's comp and then school

014services which also includes the warehouse that we have in our district and then the final fund that is included in the budget book is a fiduciary fund which covers our trust fund. Okay. Um we go to the next one. The executive summary has a lot of helpful information. And the nice thing about the executive summary, it is what it is. It's a summary. And I'm going to go through three charts right now that summarize a lot of the budget book and everything that covers it. So I think it's a good place to start um to try to get an idea of what all is within the budget book. The first one is a summary of the revenues. Uh if we go through and what I'd like to do is hit the line items that have

015the biggest change. And what I'm looking at is the last you're on page 13 right now. You turn to page 13 and you look at the chart that says all district one summary of revenues. Look at the last column like the second column from the left. Right. Sorry. Thank you on my left. That's why he's here. Um but this is showing the change between final budget 25 and tenative budget 26. And you can see that there's a big change within the general fund. So, if you put your hands, you know, kind of your finger in page 13 and then also turn back to page 112 and 113, it's a little bit easier to to kind of see where some of the differences are. This gives a lot of detail on the revenue for the general

016fund. Um, if you look at and then there's three components, three major components to the revenue that's going in. There's local sources, state sources, and federal sources. The biggest contributor to the change in the increase in revenues in the local source can be seen on the third line, earnings on investments. We're projecting about a $3.3 million increase uh there. So, that contributes into that 36 million increase. If you go to state sources, there's a lot going on in this. There are some programs that are discontinued. There are some that have reduced, but overall the contributes to an increase are from the WPU, which is on the first line, which shows about $17 million increase. And then if you go down to um kind of midway through the other state revenue petting, um there's teacher and

017student success act, which is TSSA that will be going that will be going up about 6 million if I'm looking at this right. Also, right above that, school trust lands that it's going up about a million. And then if you go down a little bit further, you see educator salary adjustments. And that uh will show about a $7 million increase. So all those it kind of explains where that that increase on the summary page is coming from. Now, the federal source overall is decreasing in most categories, but if you remember last year, we had a big cut in Title One, and this year they're kind of bringing that back up a little bit. So, if you look over on page 113, um it says ESSA title one, and if you look over to 25 and

018then also 26, you see that that's going up about 3.4 million this year. So that is a good way to kind of visualize that increase on the first line for general fund. And B, just to clarify, that's like a partial restoration. That's not like an increase. It's really like a restoration back. Yeah. And it didn't go back to the 9 million. No, it didn't. They're trying, I guess. So good. Thank you, Anelise. Yeah, Annalise fought hard for that. I was looking at my notes of this presentation last year and we really we talked about that last year. So Good. Any any questions on that? That's a big one. Okay. If you go back to again back to page 13 and you go ahead and look at the second second one is debt service. That's going

019down just simply because we don't need as much revenue because our debts going down for go um bonds. So we'll see that decrease each time. Capital Outlay is pretty consistent, but I wanted to to mention it just because it is a big part of our budget. Um, capital outlay, the tax rate for capital outlay went down slightly, but it balances itself out by the property taxes going up. It's like revenue equalization. And so it keeps that pretty consistent. And the big key there when we look at the fund balance there, that 87 million, that's just what's coming in pretty much from property tax. when we sell the lease revenue bonds next month, that doesn't come in as revenue, but as another other sources. So, it'll come in as a different line, but then then be

020available to use as an expenditure. Okay. And then the next line item I just wanted to show on nutrition services, that's also a large amount. We're just being conservative in that, not knowing what the participation rate is going to be for lunches, breakfast, and also some federal funding less in that category as well. Then the very next one, non-K12 also went down. Uh that again is being conservative as far as enrollment in preschools and there was a $400,000 grant that was not awarded um on a federal level for that. So we tried to uh account for that. And then if you just look down to student activity, that's showing a $900,000 decrease in revenue. And that's obviously because of recent legislation that's limiting school fees. Any questions on that? All right. If you look at

021page 14 and we go to expenditures, it's kind of the same thing. You'll see a increase in expenditures. Same column for the change. Under the general fund, they're showing a 62.8 increase in expenditures. uh we have about 89.2% of the general fund expenditures is for salary and benefits and a lot of that amount is exactly that for salary and benefits. Um group insurance has increased and so that's that's all counted in there as well as steps and cola that we've provided for the accounting for for the employees. Again, you'll see debt service going down in expenditures just because the the principal and interest are going down as well. This is where you start to see capital outlay increasing due to the issuance um pending issuance of the lease revenue bonds and the construction of the

022high school in Saratoga and the elementary school in Eagle Mountain. And we're just starting to budget for those those things. And so that's starting to come into the increase in those expenditures. The nutrition services shows a a decrease in their expenditures, but that's really kind of a domino effect. If you look back to the final budget for FY25 in that column, the end of this year, the uh nutrition services has purchased additional equipment that has been needed and so their expenses have gone up in FY25. They're not planning that kind of expenditure in FY26, so it's just naturally going down. Um we'll talk more about that fund balance when we get to fund balances. And then the foundation the expenditures are increasing. Uh we just there's been some donations that were given in previous years

023that we're now spending. And so uh that is part of that math curriculum believe from Texas Instruments. And then again we're just projecting that student activity expenditures will go down again because of the AC being limited. Any questions on that one? Okay, if you want to turn over to page 16. One more summary. Okay, this is the summary of fund balances. And uh the first line item shows a general fund going down again just kind of a again because of the uh increase in cola and steps and group insurance but also you'll in the federal funding I didn't mention it when we were over on that page but federal funding for sped has gone down and we're continually supporting trying to support sped in that effort. So that that's part of that contribution as well.

024I know. Wow. They've never met their obligation in the first place. So that's discouraging. Okay. Um debt service again that fund balance going up just because our fund our requirements or needed amount for that is not as great with our balances going down. But we're also pulling in property tax which may lend to the increment conversation that Jason will have later. Um so that's all part of that amount going up at this point. Um capital outlay. This is where you really get to see the issuance the effects of the issuance of the lease revenue bonds. This is where this comes in where we projected that. Um and uh that's just you know we'll be accounting for those amounts coming in. So nutrition services nutrition services fund balance is showing a decrease. There is a requirement

025from the federal level that the fund balance for nutrition services should be in the range of three months of average expenditures. So it's quite high right now and that's just a effect from COVID and the US you know just funding that came in for nutrition services during the COVID years and we're now trying to bring that fund balance back down. Um, nutrition services is really aware of it and they're trying to spend their money down. It's not as easy as it sounds sometimes. Um, but that is that is part of that and we're trying we're starting to get back in the range of where we should be. We still have a ways to go based on three um months of expenditures. Their fund balance should be around 7.86 million. So, they still have ways to

026go, but you can see looking at the previous years before that that it's coming down and we're glad about that. Okay. The foundation again just um with the expenditures that are coming in and maybe not the same uh level of donations coming in, expenditures going out, it's not the same level of donations coming in. um the reason for that fund balance going down and again student activity it's the same explanation just knowing that the legislation legislatures limited fees that we can collect and so we're trying to be conservative when we estimate for those amounts. Uh the industrial insurance we in FY24 we brought down the percentage from 0 75 to 0.25 25 of what we collect for industrial insurance workings comp and um and we have had some larger claims in the last couple years

027that contribute to that. Also, the last summary on the in the executive summary that chart just on the second half of page 16 is for tax levies, but I'm going to let Jason talk more about that when he gets to that point. Anything else you want? One more a couple of things on this slide. Um, if you're looking at the total line on the fund balances, it gets a little harder to read because you've got, okay, you're going up and then down and there's a wide swings. If you look just at the general fund, you can see that we've been increasing that the slow rate, the 106 to 120 133 and those the amount that's in the say the actuals for FY24, that 133 million is about 15% of our annual budget. um we've set

028aside about 5% for um kind of economic stabilization. Then we have other things that are in an assigned fund balance. There's also a little bit for the OPB trust that's not in the trust but in the general fund. Um but you can see if you look at the capital outlay, that's where you get the wide swings because that's where money comes in from selling lease revenue bonds. And so we go from 46 up to 113, spend it down, building schools. So it goes 9349 back up. So looking at each fund individually really helps to be able to see what's going on there. Also with the debt service, we've planned for two years in a row to spend that down by reducing the increment by three to be able to to bring that down, which is

029really fortunate that we have the fund balance to be able to do that, which will come into Jason's discussion later, too. Be I had a question just going back into the insurance part of that. Yeah. because I we know that the premiums have gone up and I mean I think that's one of the best things about Alpine is that we do our teachers don't feel it because we absorb that cost for them right but and do we I I think I remember someone saying that a lot of it went up because you had mentioned because we have used it the you the utilization utilization part of it but is there a differentiation between the help and the mental health on that is it the mental health aspect that's gone up. Julie, do you know remember

030someone told us about that? It's both. It's both. Yeah, it's all combining. It's Yeah. I mean, it's all in one bucket because mental and physical are all in one bucket, but yes, both of them have gone up. And is that part of the reason that we saw a switch this last fall with how we've done insurance a little bit? So we were at I believe in the past we were at almost 100% utilization rate and it's come down to about 96 with the changes that we made with gardener the utilization rate from what we're hearing from EMI the it's working with what the changes that we've made. Um but anything over 93% utilization is when our renewals are going to go up continually. So we're really trying to bring that back down. So okay, but

031this year the renewal rates about 8.3 million. which is less than last year. Thank you. I know that, you know, part of our goals is is to retain good teachers. And so I think part of that is that we have older teachers at at retirement. And so does that also play into the higher cost and higher use that we're retaining teachers? I think it's really interesting to if everybody could listen to the presentations that EMI give and all the data that they're giving for those. It's amazing the detail that they come through. It could be older teachers. It just could be someone who has some, you know, me or medical sit, you know, medical situations that they have to address. But they they have details on that. And obviously, um there's a lot that goes

032into that, but you're right. I mean, it could be just a younger person with a metaphor. Could still be an expensive anything else? Okay. So, we go into the organization section. If you turn to Well, first of all, organization section, you've got history and local economy of the district. um if you want to read through that with your late night reading, it's really exciting. It was interesting. Um you've got accounting and budgetary policies. But then what's um if you turn to page 39, Jason kind of alluded to this. The bottom part of 39, I just always like to highlight this part because it's the budget calendar and it starts in October and then if you turn over to page 40, it goes all the way to August. And really it really doesn't stop. But this

033is just kind of interesting because you can see what we do as a as the budget process goes through the year and what we're doing at different parts of the year toward that. If you go to pages 43 through 45, that gets more into the account structure that we use um in the district and explains different parts of functions and objects. And I'm going to go into that in just a minute in a little bit more detail. And then another part of the if you'll turn to page 49 that is the organization chart. Recent changes have I just want to show just note this recent changes have been made but due to time constraints we haven't um included those changes in this version of the budget book but we will have them by the August

034version of the budget book and just include those those changes that we show. And then if you just turn over to page 50, everything that's on that organizational chart, we've put in a little bit more detail as to what each part of the district leadership team does. The first section there on page 50 is obviously the board of education. Every part of the DT team has um also has a section just like this where it has an overview of what they do. Um accomplishments that they've had this past year and then objectives for next year. So you could look through each of those. That's something that everybody writes up every year. And then the last part of each um department section is showing their FTEES for that department, that program, and then also the expenses

035under that part. All right. Let's go to the financial section. If you'll go to see page 78. for every when I first started learning about the budget book, it was actually really fun for me because it all matched. When we get done the budget book or we're trying to get done in tick and tie, um we're doing that by object and function and we match totals by object and also by function. And so um I just want to explain that a little bit more but object and function totals are shown in expenditure details throughout the budget book as well as summary statements. So if you look at page 78 and 79 just as an example 78 is reported by object as you can see in the title and then kind of the middle of it

036says expenditures by object and then on 79 is shown by function. But if you look down at the bottom of the page all those totals match. So, it's the same amount, but it's different ways to report the information. So, what are objects and functions? That's where it gets a little bit more fun. Functions, let me just I wanted to we talked about it finance committee today. So, I wanted to include it in this, but if you haven't seen a a account string, that's on the slide up here. That's the account string. Every account number has that many numerals in it and they represent something different for each part of it. The first part's a year. Next part's a fund. Next part shows location. Next part is a program that we're reporting on. Next part is

037a function. This is where function object come into play. And the next part is employee ID. There are some legisl legislative accounts that need to be reported by employee. So there is a section for employee ID. The majority of accounts that we use, we don't put the employee numbers in there, but there are some that we do need that from. And sequence is just that last SQ is a sequence number. It allows us to be a little bit more specific on each account. So, for example, this account that I'm showing as an example is a account from FY25. It's from the general fund, which is fund 10. It's being reported from AF High, which is 704. That's the location number for AFI. That is the TSSA program 5678. The function is 1,00. So function says

038um what type of expense it is or what type of revenue source it is or what type of um balance sheet item it is. So this function is saying 10,00 is an instructional function. It's saying this expense is due is for instruction to students. And then object says Well, what kind of expense is it or what kind of revenue it would be? Um, this object is saying 0610 is supplies. So, this is saying this is supplies used in TSSA for instruction. Okay. So, function says what it is object well function what type it is object what is it? There any questions on that? SQ again was what sequence. So if if um AF High wanted to have another um supply account in there for their instruction and just say, "Well, we want supplies for um

039science or something like this and this or we want it for math or something like that." It's just another way to just distinguish and report differently and have more reporting information. So one could be sequence 01 but still supply could be sequence 02. Okay. Um, another way to look at it is with this next chart. If you go to page 120. So, this is by object and by function. They're still the same total, still the same pie, but the object is what is it? Well, it's purchase services or its benefits or its supplies or its salaries. That's a pie chart showing that. And then by function, well, what is it being used for? It's being used in transportation or general services, school admin or district admin. That's how we're reporting those two. Okay. And if

040you'll go back to um page 113. So 113, the bottom half 113 is showing the general fund expenditures by object. It's just that section of the page. All of it's reported. But then if you page over to 114, 115, 116, 117, those are the same expenditures but by function. So there's more detail there. But if you were to look at the totals on page 113 with the totals on page 117, they're the same. I just hope that helps you as you're looking through the budget book to say, okay, there's all these charts and reports. It's just a different way to look at them and for you to have more information on how the funds are being used. One thing I wanted to point out on 116, there's a big jump there and I just want

041to explain why. So on page 116 the total the second bunch of accounts there's total district admin support if you see that on the left and then if you go under final budget of 2025 and the budget of 2026 there's a big jump there from 5 million to about 11 million. That is where we are putting the amounts for we have under uh legislation that we need to provide $60 per student in each of the new districts. So, we're setting aside that money and that's where we have put that money. So, that's the big jump right there. That is where that was came just over $5 million to provide that $60 per student and that's where that is. So, if you're asked like why is there that big jump in district admin support? That's where

042it is. And we will go ahead. Are you doing that over time that $60 or where is it per year? Let's do January January one. We budget it for the year, but the legislation says by January 1 of to make that first payment. Okay. So, is it going to live in that account then? Not forever. Are we going to open new accounts for that? When you say account, you mean like in accounts in Alio or in bank account? I don't know. I'm just There three funds. There's fund 11, 12, and 13. I heard that they're going to stay inside of our budget. Correct. But they'll be separated out separated so we can track and be able to put those things. When we report to the state, it'll all go as fund 10. Um, but we'll

043be able to distinguish them by different funds in our accounting system to be able to track those. Okay, just a couple more pages. If you'll turn to page 121, just talk about debt service for a minute. And I know Jason's going to get more into this in a minute. Um, but just wanted to show that um, debt service Each year, I just did it a couple weeks ago, we report to the county how much we need in revenue to make our principal and interest payments on our go bonds. And so they determine the tax rate based on how much we say that we're we have obligations for. Um, but in the past years, we've used some of our we've taken that fund balance and been able to decrease increments for that tax rate. Um, so

044if you look at the fund balances for the debt service under 24 to 25, you'll see a decrease in that. And that is because instead of using that full tax rate to pay for our debt service, we're cutting the tax rate and using fund balance to pay for those obligations instead. So that is the reason for the decrease there. Okay. And then finally, if you turn over to page 164, another section, another part of the financial section is forecasts. And I will be honest, when we were preparing this, it was kind of a awakening of the reality of our situation for this because in the past, we've always had three years of forecasts. Um but for FY28 29 you'll see they're all zeros. So just due to the split that's why those are zeroed out.

045Um but across on the side on the right side of again these are reported by object and function. So those um in the 164 and 165 you'll see that the totals match. Um but the projected growth rates are shown on the right hand side. And then the assumptions on the bottom of the page explain really why we're using the the growth rates that we are and the rationale that we use to use those growth rates for the projection forecast. Okay. And then the last section, the second to last section is theformational section. We use a lot of these se a lot of this section you also see in the after. We have a lot of help from our accounting team to help prepare this. Um, it's a lot of statistical information. It's property tax rates.

046Um, it's the biggest employers. It's capital assets. It's graduation rates. There's just a lot of statistical information that again leads into other parts of the budget report. And it's it's great if you love numbers to just go check that out and and see where we're getting a lot of those um statistical a lot of that statistical information from. And then the last section is the glossery which is again just where we have um definition of terms and acronyms that we use throughout the report. That completes that questions. So I saw the uh um the sped uh revenues. Is there a place to summar summarize the suspended expenses? I'm sorry. I should have talked to you beforehand. That's all right. Could you get back to me if you want? The sped expenses. It's pretty there's a

047lot to the sped expenses. um in particular they are all they're all part of this whole thing. So it's not broken out individually with that. Um you see the revenue side just because we're bringing it from the federal side for revenues but a lot of the sped expenses are mixed in like salaries they're all part of the salaries mixed within but if you want to have further detail on that we can definitely yeah one of the things we're doing in USDA this year is trying to ask the legislature to fill the sp expenses so we need to know exactly how much to be spent so we know how much we we would need additionally from the legislature. Okay. Yeah, but it's not emergency sometime. No, it is. It is. I know it may be hard

048to tease out, but No, if we could do it, it would be we can do it because we have it by program. We just don't break anything out in the budget book by program. Okay, but that's the nice thing about that whole account string is we can then pull out what we need. Okay, thank you. Before I jump in, great job, E. Yes, excellent job. Wonderful. Before I jump into the property tax, just wanted a few things on here just to note. So, if we go back to page 14 and 16, just kind of a summary of what we're looking at of the budget. So, page 14 when we're looking at the expenditures, we can see that final the FY26 budget. So, the total budget with all funds listed there is about 1.3 billion in

049the funds and 953 million of that is in the general fund. So 71% that's where everything operationally happens there. 71% of our budget is in the general fund. Um and that 7% increase you know like be was saying aligns with what we had in increases in cola and uh health insurance. When we go to page 16 the fund balances we can see most years. So the final budget of 25 we're projecting to add about $15 million to the fund balance which sounds like a lot but it was really only about one one and a4 to 1.5% of the overall budget just in the general fund. Um, and then looking at the amount there, the 11.7, which is that's right now that in that second to last column, the 11.7 million is what we're is our

050budgeted deficit for FY26. And usually at this time, we do have a budgeted deficit because when we're budgeting for expenses, we're saying we think it's going to be within this range, but we're going to put the very worst case so that the expenditures are the highest. And with the revenue, we know that some certain range, we're going to put the very the most conservative there. And knowing that they're going to, you know, there's going to be more revenue than we put in here and less expenditures hopefully. But if worst case happened in both expenditures and revenue, we'd pull from fund balance about 11.7 million. Um, but if you look back at the end of FY24, we were at 133 million. We're going to add 15 million. If we took 12 million away, we'd still be

051higher than we were currently at the fund balance levels. And also in that 11.7 million is the 5 million of that $60 per student. So that's not coming from something in the regular budget. We have that in budget from or in fund balance from when you went when the board went through truth and taxation last August. It was mainly for FY26 items. So the things that remain in FY25, we're going to be able to use that. um for those $60 per students. Any thoughts or questions there? So, part of the reason that we overpredict expenditures is because if any area we overspend, we then have to go back and amend the budget. So, part of the reason we kind of overpredict is so we don't have to come back and amend the budget every time

052somebody spent a $142 over what was allotted in that. And especially when that's a great point in the FY26, we're trying to get that there, but especially in the final FY25 in the expenditure ones, we are going to set those to where we cannot go over because if we go over in any fund individually, we can get a finding in our audit. So even those um final expenditures for FY25 are going to be higher than we expect because we don't even want to get to the 99 percentile of spending that. Hopefully, it's somewhere in the 92 95 of the percent knowing that we won't go over that that amount. One more thing, Jason, too, and I just want to thank for the board for being patient, but we have it's a hard timeline. Um, I

053think we've talked about this before, but we're required once we get these done, we're required to post to our website by June 1st the budget book. So, we try our best to do that, but we don't actually get some of the tax rates until June 10th is. So, it's kind of backwards, but we do try to get that up to you and and on the website by June 1st, which we're required to do, but then we have a really quick turnaround between when those tax rates like the tax rates really just got fin like the ones that we have, the final ones we received were Thursday. So, we dug into it hard till late Wednesday and we printed Monday morning. So, it's a really quick turnaround. I wish it wasn't that way. Um, so you

054had more time to look at it on a more of a final format, but we do have several versions and this is just version two of probably four. So, anyway, okay, I'm going to go quickly through this on property tax. So, the slides are here. You've also received those as a PDF. Um, so these, as we're talking about that when we we're preparing the budget book, we have to estimate what we think the rates are going to go to. So, these are the rates. These are last year's. So the FY25 is the tax year 24 and then we estimated these. So we we were conservative. We didn't have much of a tax rate value growth. We had 0% and also growth and we estimated that the rates would go down by 8.7%. And then this

055is what actually happened. So like in the capital levy we projected it would be 1410 um for the estimated but it actually went down to 1329 which when we're looking at those as those goes down those go down though don't they don't necessarily hurt us in revenue as they go down that means the values went up by that amount. So the value and I'll show that on a future one but our value overall the tax value went from about 52 billion to 57 billion for the taxable value for the area for the district. Um, so some some highlights down here at the bottom. The overall tax rate value, like I was saying, the 52 billion to 57 billion is a 9.5% increase. Um, certified tax rate decreased by 6.7. The board local levy decreased by

056more than that because it's tied to the charter school levy. So the two together and because um the p per pupil value in our district went up significantly, the charter school levy increased by 36.2. So that 36.2, it's hard that that pulls from our board local levy, but it's nice that our per pupil um revenue is gone up for the the district area. The debt service is still an estimate there. They haven't got us the final yet, but that's about where we're at. And we still don't have um the basic rate, but as the basic rate comes in, if it's higher, we'll receive more revenue through property tax, but less from the state or vice versa. So, they'll just equalize based on our amount calculated by the WPU value. Here's a chart that's in the

057book of where we're sitting right now on the history of the tax rate. So, you can see as values have gone up, the rates gone down. There's been some increases in rate as we've gone through truth and taxation. So the total rate is the 5646 um that's currently and that doesn't assume anything for truth and taxation. That's just the current rate that we're estimating right now. Um a total decrease of rate of about 8.15%. Here is a quick chart showing what values have done. So this is the adjusted taxable tax rate value. So just in FY21 we were about 31 billion. Now it's at 57 billion. You can see and this is the percent growth each year. So from FY20 to 21 we grew by 12%. Here was the biggest as it grew from 34

058to 47. And now these are more in line with kind of the long-term history of things. But looking at this past one was about double the growth of of last year. And of that 9.5% growth um 3.4% 4% of that was from new growth. So you have the values that are on the books for existing things and that went up from the the 52 to the 57. But of that amount 1.8 million of that was from new growth in the district. An interesting thing here the the gray line also shows the inflation rate. So few years ago so worried about the year-over-year inflation rate those have come back down to more normal values. less than 3% is, you know, between two and three is where uh the Fed would like those to be. Um, quick

059thing here on the 20 increments. We've shared this before. This there was some legislative change this year. So, in the past, the voted and boarded were looked at combined with the 20 increments, but also separately. So, the voted we could be at the max we can be at for voted is 16 increments. each time we raise it to 16 and values go up, the rate's going to go down. And there's been a five-year hold harmless from the state that as that's gone down, you're still get the amount of revenue as if it was at the 16 increments. The board needs to be out of four increments and we've raised that above because each time we've gone through truth and taxation, we've added it there to bring in more unrestricted revenue for the board, the district

060to be able to use. Um the change now is those won't be looked at individually and there's only a one-year look back. So it's going to change some things especially for our district but it's going to become simpler in the calculation of that. So we the nice thing is last year and currently for FY26 we're going to be above the 20 increments which we need for the guarantee. So the board will just need to look at that as as those rates come down. Um, if you're below that, you don't you aren't guaranteed other than one year. So, if it went down in FY27 below the the 20 increments, we'd still be held harmless at the the what the last one was or at the 20 increments, but then after that, it would fall down and

061not be able to get that guarantee. This is to encourage borders to do their part and generate property tax revenue. Okay. So this are some increment options. Kind of the recommendation here in the last two years. What the board has chosen to do through truth and taxation is to do four increments in capital, three in the board levy and then reduce the debt service by three to get a net of four increments up. Um this year the recommendation is so for many reasons. One right now we have about 6.4 four increments that in the are in the capital fund that go just to a building fund and that just generates to be able to build buildings with cash rather than to have to bond. Um that was kind of the thought to build that up

062and to build an elementary every year or two um just without having to do any interest on that. Um, so right now if four increments were added, the board chose to do that in August, the additional amount would be about $23.2 million per year of new revenue that would be going to that building fund. So two years worth of that is going to be close to $50 million. um the 6.37 increments if nothing else is decided to use from the building fund will be in the $70 million range um at the time of the district split. So there's some funds available for startup costs for each of the districts as that gets divided. Another option is if four increments are added in capital in a couple years when new boards are there they can choose

063to move two or three of those or if there's the 6.4 four plus these four there's about 10 and a half increments. A new board could say we want to take half of those let's say we take five of those increments and move them from the capital to the board or the voted to be able to bring in more funds more budget for um operations. So gives some flexibility. What this also does as the debt service rate is going down it captures that. So looking at that, if if right now if there wasn't something done, people's property taxes may go down, but they need to go back up at the time of the split. So it's kind of stabilizing that as saying we're just keeping that steady um instead of a decrease in a spike

064um in those years. So four increments the cost on the uh the median home value is about $114 annually or $95 monthly and four increments increase is a 7% increase on their truth and taxation notice. So if four increments was decided if we if we we have to let the county know next Monday what the possibility would be the max that we would increase um this rate. It's not setting the rate because that would be decided in August. Um but on truth and taxation notice, it would show that 7% increase on the truth and taxation notice. Right now, um the geo bond debt, we showed that it's falling from like 64 million to like 44 million that we owe for this year. We've already taken that down three increments this last year. Um so there's

065not as much of a jump down, but it's about 1.4 four increments going down from 931 to 791. That won't show up anywhere on anybody's tax notice, but it's just something to keep in mind from last year, last tax year to this tax year. Um, additionally, there's, as B was showing, there's more fund balance in the debt service that could be decreased. So if we decrease by three increments and use up some of that fund balance, then if there really was four increments in capital and reduce the debt service by three, then the net of one total increment up and the cost on the median home value for that is $28.60 annually or about $2.40 monthly and one increment is about 1.8% tax increase. So really looking at that, if there's four, you have the

0661.4 before coming off, but it's going to be hard to explain that. But saying if there's the four increments added and we reduce by three in the debt service, it's that net one. The the important part with the debt service, we can't let the county know by next Monday that we're reducing or might reduce the debt service by three cuz they just tell us the rate that's needed for the payments to do that. So, it won't show up on the tax notices that possible three down. It would just have to be explained. And then if that was decided by the board in August, um again, it's just explaining this. Yes, it's four up here, three down here. So, it's going to be this net, but it won't show up anywhere on tax notices. If you

067were in charge of tax notices, would you fix that? I'm glad I'm not in charge because it's it's just a point of misunderstanding every year. So the summary the recommendation from the staff is four increments in capital which nets about one which would net about one with the if yeah with effect yes the net for the district would be the full four but the effect on the tax payer would be the equivalent of one and and the and the individual property tax holder looking from last year from tax year 24 to 25 should see a slight decrease even with that with going up four down three even though it's a one up because the debt service is going to fall 1.4 also but it won't show up on the tax notice because they don't show

068last year's rates right so if you incorporate that 1.4 four then and you do three increments in debt service then it's actually a point4 reduction point4 reduction correct and my preference has always been to try to keep us from going down because once it goes down it's really hard to claw back up and so this feels like we are staying kind of the same but with maybe a 4 decrease. Right. Well, and I think what Jason was showing too with the amount of increments that we need to hold, you know, we're at whatever it is, the 21 maybe 22 next year, we're really close to that 20 increment mark. And so we're also kind of floating where if housing prices, you know, increase too much, then we're going to sink below and then be forced

069to raise above the 20. So we're sitting in Yeah. the goal is to keep the rate kind of here and not have these big swings and fluctuations. And repeating on that like if if a board like wouldn't have to happen next year with this board because there's the one year hold harmless, right? But if it was like the next year um whenever you're moving if you decide well let's move two increments from capital to the board and that's all you do there's no truth in taxation because those three combined as long as it stays the same there's no equalizes. So it really sets the new boards up in two ways. One, they don't necessarily need to go through truth and taxation and they can adjust those funding sources to meet their needs. And two, it

070creates a revenue source for them to address. Yeah. Because that revenue will come in as it's not we don't have some need right now in the logistic capital. It's more of building up for this future elementary or this rebuild of this high school kind of starting those things. Anything else? Jason, that is my last our last slide. Any other questions? Do you need approval or something on this? You have to turn and taxation thing in a week. We need to vote on something. Well, the board meeting would be a board meeting. Not here. But but if we wanted to have a discussion on this before board meeting, this is the time to do it on the amount that we let the county know. Yeah. But the the thing is when we let that know, so

071if we say four increments in capital, we can't do 5, six or seven. But we could do 4 320 one zero. So any of those, you just can't go above. So I don't think it needs to be the specifics in the the vote. just it it we'll talk about approving the tenative budget with this rate and then having the hearing on but you're comfortable with a point with a forward input. Thank you. Okay. Well done. That's a lot of information to share. Thank you for your outstanding work. Uh you do a wonderful job and it's recognized by state and national agencies that look at your work and recognize that as outstanding. So we recognize that here is outstanding but it's nice also to have that third party validation that what you do is just remarkable

072work for us. Well done. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, Dr. Ruiz, I believe we have a report from student support services over to you to introduce the team. All right, so we have Amy Cism who's our outgoing director of student support services and Dr. Kim Jones who is our incoming director others to the support services and they'll be co-presenting this report. He wants just to stand over here or where do you want us? Yeah, here's fun. Right here. Okay. Apologies. Still using notes, you know, for struggling with that. I appreciate the opportunity to come share with you all. Um We were asked by Dr. Ruiz to come talk to you a little bit about our alignment with the board priorities for the past year and highlight some of the work we've done this year um

073to help um provide those uh supports so that students continue to thrive in Alpine School District. So, it's uh we did have put a lot of information in the folder and you'll get the slideshow and I put a lot of links to things in the notes. So, we're going to we're going to go pretty fast. So, um just know you can have have that to go through on your own time. Okay. So under student achievement, our one of our goals really came out of feedback that we received from teachers and administrators that we were having a lot of issues with behavior out in our schools. And as you can imagine, that's not an easy fix. It's a complex issue. But our team is amazing and they got started working on something that we call ASD's

074behavior support toolkit. There's a paper copy in your file and it's electronically on our web page. The front page of that is a list of resources and tools for our teachers and the back page is for administrators and it really focuses more on systems and processes. So, one of the aspects on that back page you'll see is this multi-tered system of behavior support. And this is where anyone can come and look and say perhaps maybe substance abuse or vaping is an issue at our school. That's for students that need a little more help and support. So you could go to tier 2 specific interventions needed. And this next page that you see on the screen would pop up giving you links and resources for that. And Amy will share a little more about one of

075the resources and other prevention aspects that we have. Awesome. Thanks. Um so yeah, great segue, Kim. So, um one of the things that we worked on this year, um at the request of our school administrators was some support for substance use and vaping. So, our team did create um a bank of resources that are available for students and families, parents to use free of cost. We also created a couple of different um courses that schools can administer as a consequence for behavior but obviously to help change the behavior. So historically we had been paying a third party to enroll students in courses and the feedback was that they didn't really address the root causes of the behaviors. Our school administrators didn't find them super effective. So these courses give um our school teams a chance

076to actually engage with the students in learning and identifying the root cause of the behavior and being able to um individualize supports. So we've been piloting um the courses this year at a couple of our junior high schools that had um a high amount of offenses and we've refined them through that process and they will be available to all schools. um beginning in August. Another um area that we've focused in this year is um in bullying and harassment. Um we've worked closely with our amazing legal team on revising the bullying um policies and we've also created some resources to go along with that. So our administrators were all given a decision tree that helps them identify um if it is an incident of bullying, harassment, sexual harassment or a lower um level incident. Um we

077also have provided um training for students. So all schools and students K um 12 uh enrolled in and participated in a training course on bullying at the beginning of the year this year which um we think will help prevent um further incidents. Amy, can you clarify when you say all students participated? Can you say like was that through a thing on Skyward? Was it something? Okay. So um not Yes, it was on Skyward. Guess I can clarify this that um the elementary grade level bands received classroom lessons from their teachers. So we put them on near pod and teachers were given lesson plans and delivered them that way. And then um our secondary courses were on Canvas and so students could either do those asynchronously on their own or teachers had the option of leading

078their classes through those courses um with materials as well. Thank you. Yeah, you're so welcome. Is the time commitment there? We made them intentionally less than 40 minutes so that they would fit in most secondary schools um intervention periods. Then that brings us to our second goal in student achievement which deals with our culture, climate and connection survey. We worked for years with BYU to create a valid and reliable measure for our students to let us know how they felt about their dispositions and the conditions that we as the adults are trying to create around them for a safe environment. And we've had some really great success. All of our schools have been able to participate. We've had a really great rate of 80 to 90% parent consent on the optin. And this really allows

079us, it connects with the coherence map, which we love, and the idea that we want to help with the priority goals around connection at our schools. And so now we have data that helps to drive those decisions made at the school. And then we've also had as part of our three-year strategic plan, we want to support schools with their behavior needs in another way. We have had the author of Behavior Solutions, his name's Dr. John Hanigan. And this is a book that really incorporates the RGI pyramid just with behavior. How can we set up tier 1, tier 2, and tier three out in our schools? And we've been able to have 20 schools bring teams to his three-day workshop so far. And we're excited to share that we have 10 more that we'll be doing

080next year. So, our goal is that we're setting up all three districts with elementary and secondary schools that they can learn from once the reconfiguration happens. We also had the opportunity to meet with every elementary school teacher online three times for an hour this year where we provided behavior strategies and tools to help support them in the classroom. Okay, awesome. Um and thanks to curriculum for allowing us space to um and recognizing right that behavior is learning. So we appreciate it the professional learning time. All right. Um you can go to the next one. So our our priority um on improving effectiveness of um not only our phone service providers but administrators and teachers in the district. So, in July, we um did a a training for our administrators on improving documentation across Alpine District.

081Um we also trained all of our service providers on that. Prior to the training, we worked with um some of Scott's department and legal on revising um our student information system so it's more effective. We report more accurately. So um we assigned new roles and rights. Uh for example, administrators now can add guidance and attendance notes. Um we also amended the codes that are in Skyward so they match federal and state reporting. And we removed some of the um what I like to call catchall categories. Um we used to have one called general behavior. So if you're school admin, you know that you you didn't know where to put something. That's just kind of where it went. Or maybe that was just me, but um and now we feel like we our data um actually

082reflects what is happening in schools. So we um can you know kind of target and provide more interventions and find areas that are needed based on that. Can I make a comment on this real quick because I feel like the way you said this was kind of not paying tribute to how huge this was for our schools, for our admin for working with students and then on the parent end being able to have something specific. And so I just want to say thank you because I know this is a very big deal and getting everybody on it was I don't know maybe everybody else is not as excited by this but this is a very big thing. So thank you for your work for this process. Thank you. I appreciate the enthusiasm because you're right.

083I mean, it it's all of these things we're highlighting took months and a lot of work to get to, but I do feel like we're we've turned a corner on documentation and you can see it in our trends like we um kind of cut down the presentation that we gave in the small group obviously. I think it was two hours, but um you can see the the trends and how accurate the reporting is starting to get even in year one. Okay. We also um are in year one of what we call case management reviews. So this is a shift away from the traditional district disciplinary hearings. Um case management guarantees that students receive due process by thoroughly reviewing the procedures followed at the school level and by examining all the evidence submitted by all parties.

084These reviews are conducted by a facilitator who is our director of safe schools and discipline, Dave Bund. They're made up of administrators who are highly trained, a consistent panel of administrators from around the district, of service providers, and of um other personnel as needed like special education, 504 or title six. Um this team collectively determines appropriate and equitable outcomes for students. Um our data in past years has not um been favorable towards students with disabilities or students of color and quite honestly the same um offense was disciplined for very differently across the district. So, we're trying to bring this process in um to provide better outcomes for all of our students. Um case managers come each month. They um receive training and um they take that training back to their schools to share. It helps

085them provide interventions and improve their practices for student behavior. They also spend um time analyzing data um and trends from around the district so that they can learn from each other what's happening and so that we start to share our stories and and really see um equitable outcomes. So, it's been a really positive experience both for schools and families report um feeling more seen and heard in the process and that it's less adversarial um for families and for schools and we are seeing um through our disciplinary data and outcomes that we are making a positive impact on um on discipline for students. a crisis response. And I told you, sorry, I'm just really shotguning it. Boom boom boom. So, here we go. So, we have a district crisis response team. And our goal really is

086um as it says on there, to help communities through the grieving process, maintain a sense of normaly, and foster healing. Um, something that was really important to us is that we empower school teams to be able to lead out crisis response at the school level with some support from our district crisis response team as needed. So, um, we work closely with communications and I appreciate Rich's help in that role. And um we provide trainings to administrators um at the district level and at the school level to our service provider leads and our individual service providers. It's been a particularly difficult year. We have had more student deaths and crises than we have had in past years. We um have provided support now for 25 crises in um Alpine district. It's hard, heavy work. I will

087say I'm grateful for my team that shows up and supports. Um, and I just did an interview and Alisa doesn't know this. I just did an interview with USB last week because they actually are going to um, highlight and recognize our crisis team for the work that we do in Alpine District this year in their upcoming communications. So um and then thanks my Vanna White. So we know that well-trained staff um with the right tools and resources achieve the best outcomes for all students and for schools. So we prioritize training our service provider groups to build their capacity. Um just some of the highlights of our training and professional development efforts um this year are that we trained our school-based therapists on um the substance use counselings called grief challenges but that um has provided

088great support to schools and all of our schoolbased therapists have been certified now they're actually certified as substance use disorder counselors. Um, our school counselors were trained on an intervention. It's called Brisk, which stands for brief um I never can remember something about brief response to intervention with school counseling. There you go. With school clinicians. So, um, we we actually started doing this a couple of years ago, and I'm really grateful because with new legislation, um, the Brisk model actually falls right in line and provides a lot of safety and clarity for our school counselors on what it is that they are allowed to do in school. Um, and then our school nurses also have been providing more training to our schools. um like stop the bleed is a big one and they they've been

089receiving training in substance use prevention themselves. So we've added that as well. So one of our goals within stakeholder engagement is that we really want to help others understand the great things that our department is doing and how it can help everyone in the district. And so we've had several articles in all About Alpine highlighting our team. We've had the eye on excellence videos that have highlighted different aspects of our department as well. We've presented at moments for matters many times. And then something else we do to help with internal communications deals with all of the policies and guidance documents and ASD forms that you see listed here. And then we broke the cardinal rule of putting too much on a slide, but we did it on purpose. We wanted to show you, we won't

090discuss every bullet, but we wanted you to visually see. We provide professional development for various stakeholders, many teams, and lots of different content areas across the district. And we love that opportunity to be part of the teaching and learning that happens in ASB. Okay, this is probably honestly my favorite part of my job and I apologize. I pride myself on not being very emotional, but emotional for a couple reasons. It's my last board meeting. Last time I put on a suit to come to work today. And um and also this is just so near and dear to my heart. And when this job became available, this is the reason why I really wanted to get involved in student um support services. So, um, in your I included in your folder this little snapshot, but this

091is, um, just talking about some of the work that our community outreach team is doing. Um, our goal of our community outreach team is to build strong part. Oh, this slide, sorry, this slide's just some examples of how all of our service providers work together to provide supports for families. So you can see on there all the different ways that we work together. And then the next slide is actually the work of our community outreach team. Um the goal of our community outreach team is to build strong partnerships between schools, families, and the broader community to support student success. And we do this by increasing family and community engagement by fostering trust and collaboration. We identify and address community needs and concerns and we connect families with resources and support services so students come to

092school ready to learn with the basic needs met. Um the next two slides are just show you a little bit of the progress. There's a lot here and I put an electronic link actually in the slide so you can look. But I do just want to say Can you go back to the oral one? So, or did it not get switched? Sorry. Um, so I we Michelle and I just were in our board community schools meeting today and it's just so exciting to see the impact that this strategy has because what you see in those schools is that they are um meeting an exceeding proficiency in literacy in math. They are showing improvement on their culture climate connection survey. they have more students enrolled in concurrent enrollment CTE than they ever have before. Um, so

093I I just love what the strategy does to help our student learning. Um, since 2022, we've grown, we've added more members so that we're trying to service more areas in the school. Um, Matt told me I could take some of his time, so I don't want you guys to be staring at me like I'm not doing all of it as he asked, but I will take a minute. Okay, but I really want to show you. And then McKini Vento, we it's a first year in student services. We were able to hire a new coordinator and streamline processes. I think everyone can agree it goes much smoother, much quicker, and we help more families. This next p slide though is my favorite because this is a picture. Can you switch this slide? Sorry. So, it's a

094picture of the graduation at the adult English um classes at Frontier. And I love this picture because I don't know if you can see in the picture, but families, we had 150 adults graduate from Frontier. We had 34 graduate from Westlake. It's the first year at Westlake. Um, and I don't know if you can see in there, but right in the middle, a man's holding his baby, and there's some other kids in there. And I love this because to me this illustrates why we do family and community engagement cuz quite honestly like the support and the services that we offer. Um they're more than just resources for families. I see them as a lifeline and they actually are transformative. they can change the trajectory of people's lives and empower them and their families to thrive

095for generations to come. So, um it's something I'm so proud of and so proud to be a part of and so grateful quite honestly that I I got to step into this work. So that's my celebration of community outreach. And and then just as far as next steps, we just would really need to say in this moment, we're thankful for Amy and Anelise and your leadership in our department. All the great work that's been accomplished in this time. And to let Joel know, we're excited to have him on board as leading our team. We are excited to continue to create and to innovate and to help serve our students over these next couple of years so that they thrive. And we're also setting up three great new districts for the future so everyone can be

096successful. We're just happy to serve in any way we can. Thank you so much for your time. A couple things real quick, Amy and Dr. Jones. Appreciate uh your work. A couple things that stand out to me. Many departments are data driven. Many are need responsive, but few are data driven and need responsive. And I think it's incredible the work that you've done to be data driven, but also respond to the needs. I think you're misnamed that student, family, administrator, teacher, employee, not just to support students. You support everyone that supports students. and uh it's just incredible work. You've been recognized by the state for uh some of the work you've done uh rightly so. Uh and I think uh Dr. Jones, as you set up, I think the challenge now is and I feel

097very confident all three districts will have remarkable tools and frameworks to continue to support students at a high level, exceptional level with a very lean department. when you compare what Alpine does in student services to other districts across the state servicing 85,000 students, it's it's just really incredible the work that you've done. Congratulations on that and thank you so much for presenting Dr. Jones. I think the board would be interested in the future and looking at what your structure looks like internally and how that could be replicated in future districts as those new districts come on and and have their own student, family, teacher, employee, administrator support department. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, Scott, we have uh Matt here to present briefly on uh timeline report. Briefly, I will apologize up front. No, we're good.

098That's all we need. We're going to apologize up front. I texted Matt and said, "Hey, do you have a book, a binder, or a folder?" And he goes, "No, but we do have a presentation." And you did get these in board. So, um Matt Norman is here. He's our district athletic director. He supports all the schools athletic directors. Uh manages things, run things, uh huge part of pays to run it, directs uh meetings with our athletic directors to support all athletics alike school district. So I really appreciate him. He has a huge load uh to work with our schools as our athletic directors do in each school uh to keep things afloat and keep us compliant with all the things and the new requirements coming in. Um what we're going to share with you is

099in the document you already have. This is House Bill 420 from 2022. It's a mandatory. is a required reporting to each at the beginning of each school year uh for the title n um reporting mechanisms many intercolastic sports currently we have 26 sports in Alpine school 26 sports and alpine school district we're going to add a new one next spring esports and so we're just going to continue growing and growing which is why Matt is so amazing to have um there are some specific things in this report I'll let Matt go through and do as he compiled this how he compiled it but we appreciate him being here and sharing this. Awesome. Thanks, Scott. It's good to be here with all of you. You all have this, so I'm not going to go through everything.

100Just a couple highlights. Um, we have in Alpine School District 9,427 students that participated in in sports during this 2024 25 school year, which is 44% of our student body of the 84,000 whatever it is, which I think is remarkable because we know that many studies um indicate that when students are involved and connected to their school through sports, they do better academically. and and I would say they they learned many great lessons. Uh you can also see in terms of number of participants, we have more boys participating than girls, but I will say that this past year we went up 1% with our girls, which I think is is is awesome. We do offer one more sport for for girls than boys. um which we just kind of follow UHSA and what sports they

101they offer. Um couple other highlights I would just say are our athletic directors or our school provide all this information. Um and I just want to emphasize how critical their role has become at at our high schools. Um, I spent many years at Pleasant Grove High doing both an assistant principal role and basically the athletic director role. And it's really unsustainable for that model. And so I would just encourage as we move down this path of reconfiguration that we we consider in all of the districts um having athletic directors. And if anybody wants to talk more with me about that, I'd be happy to do that. Um, also on this, there's some questions. I'm not going to go over those because of time, but we want our schools to be giving the girls sports the

102same amount of time in the main gym or on the football field for soccer. That's what these questions go over. And I think our schools do a great job to um, you know, switch off in the gym for practices and things like that. So, um I don't have anything else if there's any questions, but you all have the report and I don't want to continue at all just because um everything's included in that document and uh you know, we're just required to submit this and to present this at a board meeting. I have a couple questions. Okay. I noticed like the percent of boys to girl athletes at Lone Peak it was a lot more boys were competing than girls but at their neighboring school American Fork it's the lowest and it's the most equal.

103Do you know why in such a close proximity we see such a huge swing in sports between boys and girls? I don't that I mean Lone Peak obviously does very well. They have a few programs that are low. I know their softball's low in numbers, which surprisingly American Fork just a few years ago couldn't even fill a varsity softball team. So, they've they've done good to get that program better. But I I don't know. I can that's I'm glad you brought that up, though. And I can talk to athletic directors and just see what they know about that. And then another question I have, I noticed some of our high schools are able to run without putting any um money into the athletics and some are putting an extensive amount. Why do we have such

104a difference throughout the district? I mean the one, you know, you'll notice this year Lone Peak in baseball and softball put 25,000. They were helping with some needs for facilities. um that is that is rare but that has to be reported. Schools have the choice whether or not they contribute. Athletics are run on fundraisers to be honest with you. I mean fundraisers and student fees. Um and so you know again just hearkening back to my time at Pleasant Grove, we we tried to give a little bit to each program. It didn't even cover busing or officials. I mean, it's expensive. Also, one thing about the Lone Peak facilities, um, followed up with Todd that's there and knowing the facilities pretty well. Um, that money was spent specifically to update some of the facilities that were

105they're sustainable facilities, but they're not when you when you go around to other facilities, you start seeing what others have. But there also is is a an increase for the softball team to put a batting cage in with netting. Netting is incredibly expensive. So when they redo some of the back stop things that it makes it look nice but it's also more functional so you don't have to keep sewing holes in the net and all that kind of stuff. So they had some updates and facilities that they had the funds but those were also matching funds that the community gave were able to help support those fields but they but softball and baseball got it knowing that that was going to we didn't want to create a discrepancy there with the numbers. So they were

106very conscious of making sure it was eaten and these are choices that administrator would make with respect to how much is. Matt, is it true? My sense is that when there is a successful program, uh it kind of just increases the number of students that participate in because it starts building a feeder program. So they have more kids if they know the varsity team has been successful then more sophomores will play more juniors will play and you just start getting more participation because it's attracting more people into that program from the student body and elsewhere they're choicing into that area. Absolutely. So you see what's I mean with Lone Peak and the success that they've had with their women's sports has just increased the number of total participants that they're drawing into those. Actually, the

107data was opposite. At Lone Peak, 60% of their athletes were male and 40% were female, where at AF, it was like almost 5050. And I think you'll see that eb and flow because of AF success this spring in those sports as well. It's like track and field is is an area where AF has done really well and they have a lot of participants in that. So, it depends on what sport is thriving. I was just wondering if there was something sweet that American Fork was doing that could be emulated across schools to have more female participants. Can I just ask what does compliance look like in title one title N? Um have we achieved it or is it something you can force? Well, with this report, if there's a 10% discrepancy in the the number

108of sports offered between girls and boys, then you have to have an action plan, which we we're not even close because we have one more for girls. Um, in terms of, you know, trying to get I mean, I I have seen a decrease, frankly, in a lot of areas with with participation. football for instance, you're seeing slightly in youth a reduction in participants just because of concussions and head injuries and parents are concerned about that. Um some of our junior highs, they're not on this. You know, we we can barely fill the ninth grade basketball team for girls at many of our junior highs. Um, and I'm not I mean I have my own theories, but I'm not I don't want to kind of get on my own soap box about that. Okay, thank you

109so much. Um, we're actually going to adjourn until our public hearing at 6 p.m. Thank you. ments for the Inessest development between Belmont Elementary, Ridgeline Elementary, Lehigh Junior High, Timberline Middle, Viewpoint Middle, Lone Peak High, and Skyidge High Schools. Seeing no comments, I declare the public hearing closed. We're adjourning this public hearing. And now we have to sit and wait. Okay. I'm going to declare the public hearing open for the possible boundary changes for the Wildflower development between Vista Heights Middle School, Sage Canyon Middle School, Cedar Valley High School, and Westlake High Schools. No individuals have signed up, so I will declare the public hearing closed. We are adjourned from this public hearing. I'm going to declare the public hearing open for the fiscal year 25 final budget. We have no comments regarding the uh

110fiscal year 25 final budget. So I'm declare the public hearing closed. Okay, I'm declaring the public hearing open for the FY26 tenative budget. Seeing no comments, I will de declare the public hearing closed. That's why Everyone Yes, he does. Thank you all for being Here I'm going to call the meeting to order. Um, first item on our agenda is that we are going to say the pledge of allegiance and that will be led by Dr. Annelise Ruiz. Okay, repeat after me. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Next, we have our inspirational thought or reflection by Derek Barnes. So, a few years ago, as I was preparing a presentation for the

111transportation department, I asked my kids, "What should I tell the bus drivers?" as they knew I worked with the bus drivers and the bus attendants. And my nine-year-old at the time said, "Tell them where to drive to pick up kids in a map to school." Very, very smart. Uh, my seven-year-old said, "Drive safe." Also very smart. My wife, who probably doesn't want me sharing her age then or now, uh, said, "Be nice. Parents are watching." Also smart. And my 5-year-old, without hesitation, said to tell the bus drivers, quote, "I love them." May we always remember why we do what we do. And on behalf of 5-year-olds starting kindergarten to 17-year-olds starting their senior year in high school, thank you to you board members, to you parents and community members, whether here in person or watching

112online, and to the thousands of district employees who day in and day out put their best forward to serve the students. I love them. Thank you. That was awesome, Derek. You're definitely coming back to do that again. Okay. Next up, we have recognitions and those will be led by board member Clement. Okay. Um, by the way, we used to have these teams come in to board meeting and I think they like it a lot better now when we just uh honor them and then send their certificates to their schools which will be given to the student athletes during their recognition ceremonies. So, first of all, for Oram High, the uh 4A boys state track and field champions. American Fork, the 6A boys state track and field champions. Um, okay, you're keeping up with me? Okay,

113now we're on girls. Okay. Uh, American Fork 6A girls state track and field champions. This is the first time in 6A history that both boys and girls teams have won in the same year. So, that's pretty exciting for American Fork. Uh, moving on to the American Fork 6A boys state tennis champions and the 6A boys state soccer champions. And that's also exciting to see American Fork High School's name so many times in here. Uh following that we have Lone Peak uh 6A girls state golf champions and finally American Fork 6A baseball champions. So I'm just excited to see all of these students that have an opportunity to build teamwork to have a great experience and to excel in the in the sports that they're working on. So I think it'd be appropriate to give them

114all a hand of applause. Okay, it's now time for community comments. And I don't think we have any community comments, so we're moving right on the agenda. Next up, uh we have approval of the minutes. I will accept or entertain a motion to approve the minutes. I move to approve the minutes. Okay, we have a motion by board member Lincoln. Do we have a second? I'll second. Okay, and with a motion by board member Lincoln, a second by board member Baitman. Do we have any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Superintendent. Board members, you have received your claims, the claims for the month. I recommend that you accept the claims. Okay. shall entertain a motion to accept the claims. I move that we accept the claims.

115Do we have a second? Second. Okay. So, we have a motion by board member Wilson and a second by board member Peterson. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Superintendent. Yes. You've also received the routine business for the month. I recommend you approve the routine business. Okay. Do we have a motion for approving the routine business? I move that we approve the routine business. Do we have a second? I'll second. Okay. So, we have a motion by board member Bon and a second by board member Lincoln. Do we have any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? That motion passes unanimously. Superintendent action items. We have the approval of the fiscal year 2025 final budget and we recommend that you uh

116approve the budget from fiscal year 2025. And I'll appreciate Jason Sunberg, business administrator, and his team and the work they've done on the 2025 and 2026 budget. And he's available to answer any follow-up questions on the 2025 final budget. I move that we approve the fiscal year 2025 final budget. So, we have a a motion by board member Wilson. Do we have a second? Second. Okay. And a second by board member Peterson. Any discussion? This was a hot topic for study session, so it was discussed. Um, okay. Uh, with a motion by board member Wilson and a second by board member Peterson. All in favor of approving the fiscal year 25 final budget, please say I. I. Any oppose, please say nay. Okay, that passes unanimously. Superintendent. We also have the fiscal year 2026 tenative

117budget and I believe there is a resolution that uh board president needs to read with respect to that. But I recommend that you approve the tenative budget for fiscal year 2026. I move that we approve the tentative budget for the fiscal year 202526 with a recommended tax rate of 0.005. 005553. The recommended tax rate does not include the charter local levy of 0.000093 which is set by the tax commission and may change due to the certified tax setting process. The recommended tax rate will be finalized at a truth and taxation hearing which will be scheduled for which is scheduled for August 5th, 2025 after after 6 p.m. Thank you, board member Wilson. Do we have a second? Okay, with a motion by board member Wilson and a second by board member Baitman. Um, any discussion?

118Well, this was the uh recommended in our study session. Um Jason, if you want to just summarize for our public what this means kind of on their tax statement. So for the the resol or the thing you read, yeah, the the tax increment. Okay. So the the agreement or the vote today is just for the tenative budget for FY26, which does not include any additional tax increment. So it's what's set by the certified tax rate and what we're estimating. Um the part here with the August 5th is to um investigate uh look at the possibility of increasing the the capital levy. Um and the discussion we had in study session was up to four additional increments. So that would be the cap uh deciding on that and it could be 4, three, two, one or

119zero um as the board studies that and discusses and and votes on that. Okay. So this is a tentative budget with a declared tax rate. The tax rate that was declared there is the current rate. If anything changed in August that would be an increase from that. Okay. Thank you for clarifying. Uh I just want to say thank you to the team. I think we had a great finance meeting today. I appreciate all the work that goes up into this point because it is such a massive lift and I think we had a great conversation about how we can help present this to the public so that they have a solid understanding prior to our truth and taxation meeting. So, thank you for your work. Okay. Any other comments? Yeah, I just wanted to make

120note that this budget allocates 73% of the general fund to teaching and learning. That's going directly to our students. Um, it prioritized our teachers in giving them a a generous package. Um, I would always love to give them double, but it's it's a good package. Um, and it it allows for some supported um or it allows for some targeted class size reduction. So, we're not going to see it across the district, but we're starting to make steps towards that. Um, however, I still am a little concerned and a little lur. So, I'm going to continue to monitor um parts of the budget, including the property tax increase and just how we deal with the decline of students um and make sure that we're still meeting the needs of students at the levels that we are.

121Okay. Any other comments? Okay, seeing none, we have a motion by board member Wilson and a second by board member Baitman. All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Superintendent. Thank you, board members. I would invite Eric Woodhouse, executive director of operations, and Derek Farns to come forward. We have been in the process of doing boundary studies, and they will make a recommendation uh to the board for the middle and high school boundary adjustments for the wildfire development in Saratoga Springs. We recommend that the board uh approve their recommendation and set those boundaries. appreciate uh Derek Farns uh one of our directors in operations uh for doing the boundary studies and taking that over. We've really tried to refine the process of how we go about boundary studies, make making sure

122that we're getting the appropriate input from our community members, but also addressing a lot of the needs that the students have and our schools to make sure that we are balancing those school uh enrollment sizes. So without further ado, I want to turn the time over to Derek. Thank you, Eric, and the board and superintendent. All right. Going to get up close and personal with the mic here. In fact, we're just going to hold it. Uh so we're going to talk about two boundary studies, but the first one here, as uh noted, is is the Wildflower uh boundary study in Saratoga Springs. Both boundary studies had people involved, priorities. We looked at uh options that were considered uh pros and cons to each and the recommendation ultimately to uh to you as a board to

123vote on tonight. Uh so the people involved uh a large group of people obviously parents uh parents that gave us input and feedback uh principles were involved for the schools that uh that were potentially impacted by the boundary adjustments. uh school teachers and staff, the developers in in both the Wildflower and Inesse areas uh were helpful as uh we were looking at how many uh lots and how many uh students when we would uh interpolate those to make some enrollment projections. the city planners in both Saratoga Springs and and Lehi. Uh Frank Pulley and his facilities team. Uh Rex Brimhall and his transportation team in particular uh Raymond Bird uh as the um GIS specialist helping on the on the boundary committee. Uh those on the operations team and and obviously you as a board

124and and others in district leadership um that were supportive through the process. uh some of those priorities that you see there on on the screen uh that we look at uh school capacity utilization over time trying to make sure we're we're utilizing the school capacity that we have the proximity to the of the students and families to the schools u uh depending on which boundary they they get uh pulled into uh keeping communities together trying to keep people with their friendships and those that they interact with together. Obviously, patron patron preferences and uh the impacts to transportation. Uh do we need to add a bus or uh can students walk and we don't have to have a bus in an area? And as you notice that last bullet point, sometimes these priorities conflict. They don't

125always align perfectly. And so we have to we have to prioritize the priorities and uh we did that as we went through this process. So with the wildflower uh boundary study, we had two uh options that were presented to uh to the public. Option A and option B. Option A was uh adjusting the boundary to align uh the secondary boundaries with the elementary boundary that was adjusted uh about a year ago um so that there would be a pure feeder and option B was simply not making a change to the secondary boundary uh leaving it as is. With option A, we received public feedback. Um, and obviously those that were in favor, they liked the aligning of those uh boundaries with the elementary, so they had the pure feeder. The school capacity utilization, uh, there's

126lower enrollment at both Cedar Valley and Sage Canyon. And so moving uh, students, as few as they may seem, it's a little bit of, uh, help getting them to move uh, a little bit of help at Vista Heights and and West Lake where they're a little more crowded. Proximity to schools is similar. uh for the middle schools, uh it's a little farther for uh the high school uh going in in this option, keeping communities together. It keeps the Blackidge community together, again, that pure feeder. Um and there's also more wildflower development to the west of this area that we're looking at adjusting. And so there would be community of that wildflower development uh still together. As for transportation, there's going to be buses in in the area for both options. uh because west of there

127is still going to be in in Sage Canyon and and Cedar Valley and east of there is still going to be in Vista Heights and West Lake. So there's going to be buses in the area, but there is a potentially longer high school route because of again that proximity for the high school. So that's option A. Option B, uh similarly, but kind of the opposite for some of these uh public feedback, not changing schools or the disruption uh or avoiding that disruption. and they have existing friendships they wanted to have that uh connection with and keep that connection with were some of the comments from public feedback. Um the opposite with the school capacity utilization, the higher enrollment at both West Lake and Vista Heights. Uh proximity to schools is similar but closer for that

128uh uh similar for the middle school, sorry, and closer for the the high school. Keeping communities together. This is where that existing connection to the Harvest Hills and then Saratoga Springs overall for some extracurricular activities they they wanted with with option B for those that commented that way. And then uh transportation uh buses in the area again with a a shorter potential high school route. um our recommendation with wildflower given those uh those various criteria and priorities again they didn't always align but the biggest things were aligning the boundaries with the elementary and having that pure feeder from Blackidge going up into the secondary as well as uh the uh uh help a little alleviation of enrollment at West Lake and Vista Heights were the two biggest reasons recommending uh option A. Uh any questions

129that you have at this point about the wildflower boundaries before you take a vote on that? Um Cedar Valley High School is pretty maxed out. I mean, are they able to absorb this? Yeah, that's a great question. So this this coming year with Sage Canyon middle school opening, uh although the the ninth graders are moving out of out of Cedar Valley High School, so they have significantly more room. Now, it doesn't mean they're not large or getting larger as as we know in Eagle Mountain, but they will have the room to absorb those this Thanks for reminding. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for your work on this, Derek. Um, just commentary. I I I think it's a great problem we have when when people don't want to move schools because the schools that they have are so

130great that they don't want to be shifted, but then they realize that there's other great schools. Um, I will also recognize that there is a significant change here as far as distance. I believe it's about three and a half miles from Wildflower to get to Vista and Westlake. Cedar Valley's 10. So there is going to be a you know there will be a cost associated with that as far as time for transportation which we will be providing because they'll qualify for um funded routes at the state level. I also want to communicate that we're looking at Westlake being 3,400 plus by the time um before we can get that new high school opened. And with Cedar Valley being about 2700 this fall, there's just a little bit more elbow room at Cedar Valley. Uh with

131the growth, it won't stay at 2700, but hopefully it won't hit 34 3,400. Um so also there there is I know that the developer has come and asked for an expansion to approve like village 9, village 10. So the growth is going to keep coming in wildflower and my preference is that we do changes earlier so it has the least impact to students and that it basically sets a new expectation. So I appreciate all the work that has been done by the staff on this. So thank you. Okay, any other questions or comments? Okay, seeing none, I will entertain a motion to approve. Oops. Maybe I'm just going to make the motion. I'm going to motion that we accept option A for the middle and high school boundary adjustments for the wildflower development in Saratoga

132Springs. I'll second. Okay. With a motion by board member King and a second by board member Lincoln. All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Thank you. The next boundary is the elementary and secondary school boundary adjustments for the Inest development in Lehi. We recommend that uh the board approve or adopt the boundary as recommended by the boundary committee. Thank you. And the same process we went through, I won't go through it all because it was a similar process of who was involved in the priorities etc. But we used that same process. We had again two options. As much as you're seeing six maps on the screen, there was an option A and an option B. Uh and then of course there's a map for the elementary, the junior high or

133middle school and the high school level. And so those boundaries aligned going up uh all the way through option A from all those levels so that the feeders would be pure feeders going up uh from elementary to those uh secondary schools. Um and then similar in option B they they align going up. Um and so in option A uh the public feedback the in large part was the proximity to schools uh being uh that those in in the Inesse area in option A would be closer to uh those Lehi schools school capacity utilization. Uh this is something looking at in the near future there is a discrepancy between the enrollments in uh in all three levels with a higher enrollments in those Lehigh schools. One of the things that uh I looked at in working

134with the developer in learning how many units were going into uh all four of the plats AB CD uh there are additional plats beyond 2029 that uh that are going in and additional students that will move in. And so especially in in plat C and D that won't be completed uh by 2029. And so there's going to be additional students that would be going in option A going to those uh those schools to the East Ridge Line, Timberline, and Lone Peak. Um and so that's the school capacity utilization. Some pro some con there. Proximity to schools as mentioned significantly closer to Belmont, uh Viewpoint, and Skyidge. Keeping communities together. Uh Everest is is too large to be absorbed at one elementary school. And so to keep those pure feeders, we split the secondaries as well

135to have that that aligned boundaries going all the way through from elementary through secondary. There is a natural break in the development between plat B and D which is where the boundary lines drawn. And so that is uh something that keeping communities you're going to have a better with that natural boundary natural break in the in the development and following that for the boundary. As for transportation, uh those that are in the Everest development in uh the Lehigh schools are within walking distance and so we wouldn't have to have a bus for for those schools uh going to to those Lehigh schools. We will for the other schools regardless um for those that are that are uh over that mile and a half or two miles for elementary and secondary. As for option B, uh

136the public feedback, there was some of that with the balancing enrollments, trying to get closer where you add a few more kids going to the schools to the east, Ridgeline, Timberline, and Lone Peak. Uh school capacity utilization, same thing, more balanced enrollment in the short term. Proximity to schools is that it's significantly farther to Ridgeline, Timberline, and Lone Peak for those students that would have to come from Plat the Plat B area. uh keeping communities together, same thing, but we're using a more artificial boundary line um to to draw that boundary line. And then transportation, we would need to transport those students uh busing them literally past viewpoint along next to the viewpoint fence to go to Timberline or a block away from Belmont to go to to Ridgeline or a couple blocks from Skyidge

137to go to Lone Peak. And so there's that proximity which is significant in in this case. And so with those uh our recommendation for Inesse is option A. Uh that proximity to schools that school capacity over time even in the the longer term and then transportation just that walking distance again because of that proximity. And with all of that said any questions that you have for the immers boundary uh option recommendation before taking action. Okay. Thanks for that Derek. I will entertain a motion regarding the Inverous boundaries. I move that we adopt option A for the new Inverous boundary. Okay. So we have a motion by board member Baitman and a second by board member BON. Any discussion? So I think a couple of things to note here is this really is a solution for

138the next two or three years. We know that we need to do a larger scale um boundary study with all of Lehi. Um right now this is the least disruptive to our students who are already in our schools. Um also just to clarify a little bit on this um because there was so much public comment about it. Unfortunately we do not have the purview to um require builders to build a school but it would be really lovely if we could. So thank you for those suggestions. Um but that is not an option for us. So we're aware that we need to balance things in the long term. And also I just wanted to comment on the Belmont or not Belmont viewpoint getting up to 1973. So, right now, Viewpoint has portables. We know that that

139would need to move to a satellite. The school is already um prepped with a pad and the plumbing for that. So, we know that we need to move that in to accommodate those. And at some point, we need to have a conversation about a fieldhouse or another space. So, um just wanted our public to know we've had a lot of conversations about what we need to do to support these schools to accommodate our students. Any other comments? Okay, seeing none. Um, all those in favor of approving option A for the Inverous development in Lehi, please say I. I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Superintendent. Action item six. We have received an offer for the home built by our CTE students in Oram and we recommend that you uh adopt resolution 2025009 authorizing the sale of

140the CTE home in ORM. Thank you. I'll entertain a motion. I move that we uh approve the CTE home in ORM resolution 2025-00009. Second. Okay. with a motion by board member Bon and a second by board member Wilson. All in favor of approving resolution 2025-009, please say I. I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Uh yeah, I was going to get to that. Too much sauntering before the meeting. We have finalized the 2025 2026 school fee schedule and spend plans and recommend that the board approve those. Do we have a motion for approval of the school fee schedule and spend plans? Move that we approve the school fee schedule and spend plans. Do we have a second? Second. Okay, we have a motion by board member Clement and a second by board member Wilson. Any discussion?

141Seeing none, all in favor of the 2025 2026 school fee schedule and spend plans, please say I. I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Superintendent. Thank you. Resol or action item seven, resolution 2025-010 is a sale of our CTE home in Lehi. We have received an offer on that and seek board approval to be able to sell that. Thank you. Do we have a motion? I move that we accept resolution 2020 2025-010, the sale of the CTE home in Lehi. We have a second. Second. Okay, we have a motion by board member Lincoln and a second by board member Baitman approving resolution 2025-010, the sale of the CTE home in Lehi. All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Can I just point out that both of those homes sell sold one

142for the 600,000 plus and the other for 700,000 plus. These kids are doing an excellent job and having a wonderful experience learning uh on the job. So agreed the homes are beautiful. They've done a phenomenal job and the profits from those homes will go back into the program. The kids don't get those proceeds. they will go back into the program for future opportunities. So, we're grateful for uh the work that's done on those homes. Okay. Discussion action items. Uh these are items that the board, if you feel so moved, can move to action. You have the draft schedule for the 2026 board meeting schedule. And if the board is comfortable with that schedule, then we would recommend that you move uh you approve that schedule for board meetings in 2026. Thank you, Superintendent. Um, do

143we have any discussion or do we have a motion regarding 20 the 2026 board meeting schedule? I wonder as I look at that schedule if it might be more advantageous to move the June board meeting back one week and give us just a little bit longer in the budget process to review the budget documents before we need to approve them. So, are you making a motion to accept the schedule with an amendment? I was, I guess, seeing if there was discussion if people liked that idea. Jason, any thoughts on how that would affect the timelines that you have, the deadlines you have with respect to the uh certified tax rate and other obligations? Yeah, so for like this year, we have Monday as our deadline for the the rates there. Um, so it would be

144similar next year it would be the Tuesday after that Monday. So we'd have to decide beforehand on that. Um, I'd have to look exactly. I think the deadline is the end of June for accepting the budget rather than the middle, but I'd have to investigate into that. So moving it would we would have to decide prior to that board meeting date on the for what we're setting the rates with the county of Moving the board member Lincoln, you're recommending moving the June 16th board meeting to the June 23rd. Yeah. I wonder if that would just be And Jason, you're suggesting that the likely deadline for the declaring the tax rate would be the 22nd or would be the 15th or the 22nd? 22nd. Okay. So, we can keep discussing it or we can move on

145or we can do a motion. Whatever you guys want to do. I move that we approve the board meeting schedule. Okay. We have a motion by board member Wilson. Do we have a second? Okay. We have a second by board member Bon. Any discussion? Okay. Seeing none. All in favor, please say I. I. Any oppose, please say nay. Okay, that passes unanimously. Superintendent. Yes, we invite legal counsel Craig Brinkerhoff to come forward. Appreciate the work of the policy committee and the work that's been done on policies. Couple policies as per state statute that we're required to adopt. That is policy 4162, health and disability. We recommend if the board feels comfortable with the discussion that you move that to an action item and adopt that policy. Mr. Brinker is available to answer any questions. Yeah.

146Yes. Thank you. And just uh quick quickly to summarize what was done to this policy. So the uh the health piece and disability piece basically remain the same. What was added is the parental leave which uh we are now required to match at a minimum what the state employee parental leave policy is. So 6 weeks for um parents who are who have children. Our policy also includes adopted children. Um so that's something new that we haven't necessarily had in the past. We've had it as a pilot, but uh it's never been non-piloted. So with the with the changes in the state law, we this now matches what those changes are. Thank you. Um any discussion or do we have a motion? Are these essentially the same change in the two policies listed there? Correct. Yeah.

147So the next one that's on the uh board agenda. So one is for our certified staff and the other is for our uh educational support professional staff. Okay. Discussion or a motion? I move that we approve policy 4162, health and disability. Okay. We have a motion by board member Lincoln. Do we have a second? I'll second. Second by board member Peterson. Okay. Um, any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor of adopting policy 4162, health and disability, please say I. I. Any opposed? That policy passes unanimously. Given that the board approved that policy, we would recommend that you do the same for our support professionals and adopt policy 4412. I move that we adopt policy 4412, health and disability leave as amended. So, do we have a second? Okay, I'll second it. Okay. with a motion

148by board member Wilson and a second by board member King. All in favor of approving policy 4412 health and Oh, sorry. Can I just point out that that we did have policy in place for these two um uh for adoption and postpartum and we had policy in place, but this is just um matching what's required by the law. It's not that we didn't have it before. I just wanted that to be clear. So, thank you. Okay. Um, so we have a motion by board member Wilson, second by board member King. All those in favor of approving policy 4412, Health and Disability Leave, please say I. I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Superintendent. Yes. Next policy is policy 5250, electronic communication and devices. As you're aware, the state uh legislature passed law with respect to cell

149phone usage in schools. Each LEA or district is responsible to draft policy, implement policy, adopt policy that is consistent with that. um policy committee has worked on that and invite uh council to uh share um that update and if the board is ready to move forward on that after any discussion that is necessary we recommend that you approve or adopt policy 5250 electronic communication and devices. Thank you superintendent. So with this policy, again, this is uh a little bit reactionary to legislative changes to cell phone policies and prohibitions in schools. Um the state listed basically a a floor of what the restrictions could be. Um and then we can either adopt it as is or we could potentially put in more restrictions as we so choose as a district. So, uh, we adopted what the

150legislation says and then we tweaked it a little bit. So, the tweaks that we made are for grade levels. So, what we put in is for elementary it would be no cellular devices or devices that fall within that definition between the opening bell and closing bell. For middle schools, the same restriction exists except that they can use their devices during the lunch hour. Uh for the high school grades, they can use their devices before school, in between classes as they transition, at the lunch hour, and after school. So, we we made a little bit of a distinction there. We also made allowances within the policy so that individual schools if they so cho chose could restrict their individual schools policies how they chose with their parent groups, their school community councils, etc. So this is

151not a top- down policy that says the whole district has to do it this exact way. It lays the framework and then allows schools to be tighter. They just can't be looser than what the policy would be. Um we worked with other school districts and conversed with other school districts to see what they were doing with their cell phone policies. This is our the way we've drafted is very similar to what other school districts are doing um including Provo School District uh Neo School District and others. So a lot of them have that tiered example in there with the different grade levels. Um, we've talked with our supervisors as well over, for example, our elementary schools because that's the area where we were a little bit tighter than state statute requires. Um, everybody that we've

152talked to is very supportive of um, it as read or as drafted in the elementary section. So, meaning the belltobell is more restrictive than some. Yes. Yes. because uh the state legislation is not bell-to-bell. It's it's just not during class time periods. So anytime that is not class time, then the cell phones are are accessible. And then of course um in line with legislation as well, if there's emergencies, if there's safety issues, if there's uh disability I IEP 504 exemptions, there's all those still built in. And none of this applies to schoolisssued devices. Yeah. So none of our school devices um are communicating with parents or friends, right? Um um unless it's through like the email system. So this would not include Chromebooks or things like that. So Craig, I know we only really approve

153statement of policy, but you know, I like to dig into the details. It's my fave. Um in 4.2.1, 2.1 it talks about how in the first violation the students device is put in a container. Um I don't know if we can provide some clarity. I don't know if that means like a Tupperware or a shoe box, but if we could kind of maybe like clarify what the container is and who's in charge of the container like are teachers providing containers to put these devices in. So I guess that's my request is um if this becomes a discussion thing and not an action item, I would ask for that piece of clarity from the policy committee so that once we push this out to teachers that we are perfectly clear about who's responsible for what. Um

154so that would be my request that we did talk a little bit of having this more of a discussion item for tonight. The policy committee is meeting in two days an all day air. We're pulling an all day air on Thursday. And um so there'll be a little bit more discussion, Julie. And so um we'll get with you afterward to make sure that that's addressed. There's a couple of little things that maybe we can discuss and talk about as well. So if this could be just a discussion item tonight, that would be helpful. Two things I just want to comment on. Um somebody mentioned a paper bag stapled. It could be as simple as that, but there also is no confiscation of the device. um ever. Correct. Unless there's a withdrawal of privileges. Yes. So,

155the way the policyy's drafted, we're not confiscating. So, the teachers never taking the device. They're simply uh putting it in a in a some sort of container. And we purposely didn't define the container because we've had some schools that wanted to purchase lockable containers, others that might use, you know, whatever it is they choose. Okay. So, I think that's going to be a discussion item and um enjoy Thursday. Uh superintendent. Yes. I recommend that we adjust the order of the next three policies, it makes sense to uh if the board approves to adopt policy 7110, bullying prevention. That's the combining of the two policies preceding that that would be retired. So we recommend that the uh board discuss and if comfortable move to action the approval of policy 7110 bullying prevention as a combination of

156those previous policies listed there. Thank you. Do we have any discussion or do we have a motion? I move that we uh move policy 7110 to an action item and approve it. Okay. Okay. Do we have a second? I'll second it. Okay. With a motion by board member Clement and a second by board member Bon. Um, any discussion? Okay. Seeing none, all in favor of approving policy 7110, bullying prevention, please say I. I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Thank you. Consequently, I recommend that you retire policy se 4078, a bullying policy. Okay. Okay. Do we have a motion? I move that we retire policy 4078, bullying policy. Do we have a second? Second. Okay. With a motion by board member Wilson and a second by board member Lincoln. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor

157of retiring policy 4078, the bullying policy, please say I. I. Any opposed? Okay, that passes unanimously. Policy 5181. Bullying policy should be retired. We just did that one. We did the other. No, we're doing 5181 now. Yeah, 518. We got it. We're on the roll. Okay. Let's Let's retire that policy as well. Okay. Do we have a motion? I move that we retire policy 5181, the bully pol bully policy. Second. Okay. So, we have a motion by board member Lincoln and a second by board member Peterson. Any discussion? I just point out that uh this is an ongoing process that we've been working on for quite some time to um solidify and unify our policy um and just get everything in order. So this has been going on for quite a while. So this is

158the culminating was also a recommendation that came out of the performance audit that we had. Um and so I appreciate the board appreciate the policy committee moving on this in a timely manner cleaning it up. Okay. Um, all those in favor of approving the retirement of policy 5181, the bullying policy, please say I. I. Any opposed? Okay, that passes unanimously. Superintendent. Yes, you've received the U membership report, the final membership report for the year and just recommend that you familiarize yourself with that. Similar trends have occurred throughout the year. Thank you for that. It is um now time for our board member and superintendent reports and information items. So I just wanted to mention that uh I appreciate everyone's participation in our uh delegate assembly where uh school board members throughout the state have come

159together on uh what their priorities will be for the legislature in the coming year. I thought it was an interesting data point that as we've looked at the bills passed in this session um in 2025 that there are 74 policies that will have to be uh revised to uh to meet those the bill requirements. So we'll be hearing a lot more bills that need to be uh revised uh at least 74 of them this year. So policies. Yeah. Thanks. Last week, uh, we took a field trip with the foundation down to Windsor Elementary to look at the stars program. Um, and the team does fabulous work there. That's Carrie Miner, um, with Mary New and Rebecca Stafford. Um, I remember when I first moved here years and years ago, it was much more of a

160there was more autonomy and so each program kind of functioned uh, as it as it preferred and now there is beautiful alignment with a framework with three um, target areas. Uh this year we have 18 locations with 36 classrooms and 675 students across the district. So it's uh students going into first and second grade and really our teachers and parents have done just a fabulous job being able to help these kids stay on level and hopefully not see um that same slump. And so I just want to say thank you to the individuals that show up every day for these kids. I know it was hard to be inside in a building during the summer and so very much appreciative of their work and thank you to the foundation for um funding it. I would

161like to take a moment of personal privilege if I may. We have two members of our senior leadership team who will be retiring or leaving us soon. And given that my days are numbered as well, uh I would invite Dr. Anelise Ruiz and Scott Sumner to please come forward. We take a moment to recognize them. Anelise has accepted a position in Salt Lake School District and we are going to miss her and her influence. Scott Sumner is retiring and has accepted a position at BYU. Uh several years ago when I was first an administrator, Scott was assigned to do his internship at Timberline Middle School and uh our careers uh began as administrators about the same time. And Scott has been a dear friend um for past 22 years and I appreciate uh his friendship,

162appreciate the service he has given over those 26 years to the students of Alpine School District to the families and most recently as a member of our senior leadership team. He has uh just been an outstanding teammate, a dear friend and a great advocate for public education. So, Scott, I wish you the very best. Uh, thank you. Anelise Ruiz came to us from Canyon School District uh several years ago and uh was a great addition to Alpine School District when I was appointed superintendent. Uh I knew I needed Anelise on our senior leadership team. With the perspective and the drive that she had, she would just make all of us better. And uh that has been the case. Uh she is just an outstanding individual who cares deeply for others who is very intelligent who

163always says I wonder and helps us all wonder if there's a better way of doing things. And she will be uh an outstanding addition to uh Salt Lake School District. I wish her well uh in her endeavors is just a great friend uh a great educator uh and a just a fantastic human being. So we um a couple years ago created what we call the influencer award and we give that uh as a senior leadership team to individuals who have significantly influenced Alpine School District and uh both of you have done that and uh I am grateful for my friendship for you for my professional relationship with you and I I'm a better educator and a better individual. ual because of my association with you. So, thank you for the influence that you have had

164on me, the influence you have had on this district, uh the principles, the teachers, and the influence you have had on the communities that we represent. So, congratulations Hold it in front of me. No, you're good. I should have gone before that. Okay. I just um wanted to show uh and express my appreciation to all the summer warriors. It's always kind of funny to me when people say that schools are closed for the summer because that's not kind of even sort of what's happening. Um so I just wanted to thank like our physical facilities. They are in the midst of replacing turfs and tracks. They are moving portables and satellites. They're replacing carpeting. It is hardcore go time for physical facilities. Um, right now we have summer school going on, extended school year. We have

165school pantry, summer library, summer meal site, stars, sims, marching band. If you live close to a high school, you're getting serenated a lot. Um, we have sports programs happening, print services and warehouse. this is like their busiest time of year as they are ordering Chromebooks and um making sure everything is set for the first day of school and making sure that every teacher has what they need when it comes to print services. So, I just want to extend my gratitude for all of the people who are working incredibly hard over the summer to make sure that our schools are in tip-top shape, ready to go, and that teachers have what they need when when schools start. So, thank you um to all of our employees. And I just wanted to also share the some exciting

166news of a groundbreaking of a high school out in Saratoga Springs on Friday at 2 o'clock. Please join us if you would like to. Okay. Uh we do not have need of close session. So, I'll entertain a motion for us to adjourn our meeting or we can just hang out. Let's move that we adjourn. Having reached the end of our agenda, I move that we adjurnn. Okay. And we stand adjourned. Thank you all for being here. We appreciate it.