001Okay, we're going to start now. Welcome to the meeting of the Canyons Board of Education. Today is June 2nd, 26. and we're meeting at the district office located 9361 South 300 East in San. First item on the agenda is the foundation board annual report. This will be by foundation development officer. >> Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here tonight. My final presentation to the board. Um, I'm going to invite up our board president to say a few words and get us started and then I'll chime in. So, Prince Bar is our current board president. >> So, familiar faces, we're grateful for the support that you give the foundation. We currently have 25 board members. that's in some people are stepping down after but we come we have a great diversity from various [snorts] >>
002yeah just that you know the various businesses and backgrounds you can see the names of everybody pretty small but from the financial sector's so it's it's fantastic to be involved and see the impact that has happened in our district as I decided not to run council member again. This was the one board that said you've heard all the others, but I'm staying on this one because it's so rewarding. It's great to be involved and see the impact. It's wonderful has done this, but unless you have any questions for me. Thank you. Thank you for all you do. >> And we also appreciate our exeicio members um that are on the board because we have Katie who is the board of education liaison for us. All of our uh city mayors we consider as exeicio members
003as well. Um so fantastic group of people. I love the people I have on the board and we give back so much. First thing I want to talk about is our financials. And as you're aware, we take in cash donations, in kind donations. Cash donations can either be restricted where they're going to a specific school or program, or we'll just do fundraising events where we raise money and we put in to our general fund and use as needed. Our endowment fund, we just pulled the numbers um before I came in here. It's actually up to 677,000. So, we're inching up close to that million mark, which is what the goal has always been. We grow our endowment fund at just about 10% um per year, 10% of our fundraising activities. So we take 10% of
004our net from both the gayla and the golf tournament and then we put it in the endowment fund. We talked about as a board possibly pushing some more that way because we want this to be sustainable to keep going, keep doing the programs that we have. Um we also have donor scholarship endowment These would be the Fairborns, the Jorgenssons, um [clears throat] some of those where people give us money, the Millerbergs to do scholarships for students. We continue to earn interest on it. So, their scholarships will go on for them. So, we have about um we will have three of those that are being set up. We're currently um our investment policy committee is meeting. We're currently looking the way we handle our investments and who we handle them with. So there might be some
005changes with um going forward in our structure with that. Then we have uh grants that we um reach out to people for and we get funding in through grants in kind donations um and we do a lot of donation drives and a lot of people do that for us. I just wanted to highlight a few of the cash donations that we've got in this year. Um, we got a grant of $25,000 from HCA Healthcare for the CEK program. Uh, 25,000 from the Ron McBride Foundation for after school programs. 15,000 from Larry H. Miller Foundation for holiday support. the um legacy stuff legacy foundation part of holiday oil um gave us $5,000 as well as an additional $10,000 for holiday support. They worked in conjunction with um England was it CR England to get us our
006diesel. So, we got the diesel truck for the CEK program. Um, $15,000 from Zans Bank, 15,000 from Jordan Credit Union for shoes, 10,000 from Shields, 14,000 from America First Credit Union, so many more. So, it's just those are some of the bigger ones, but we just want you to know who in the community is helping us and supporting us. Um some of the other inind donations that we've got, we received a bunch of STEM products from Lake Shore Learning. Um musical instruments, cars for our high school auto shops, and then we get blankets, food, snacks, um shoes, all of the good things for our resource closet. There have been so many donation drives. I also want to point out a few businesses and community partners that did large donation drive for us. South Valley Chamber
007did a big one. Cypress Credit Union, Sandy City did a day of service where we filled up probably 200 gray totes with hygiene supplies for our students. America First Credit Union again, [clears throat] Holiday Oil, FFKR Architects, USANA Kids Eat gave us over a thousand [clears throat] uh weekend food bags for kids. Um so that just that's a lot of stuff coming in. So I just want to give a special shout out to the warehouse because all these inind donations that are coming in, they're helping us store um so that we can get them out. We have thousands of backpacks. We have shampoo and food and we have our resource closet here. But there is a lot I do have. Thank you. [laughter] I have bronchitis and it's still kind of hanging with me. Um
008but it is a lot to manage bringing that in, storing it, accounting for it, thanking people for it, and getting it out where it needs to go. So it is a big job, but we love doing it. But one of the rewards of that I wanted to share with you is just some of these adorable little thank you notes that I get. [clears throat] It's like dear Canyons Education Foundation, thank you for pro providing STEM activities. Thank you for making us happy with STEM. God bless you. [laughter] >> I get all this cute little artwork coming in, all these cute notes from kids. So that's the reward for what we're doing. And then they send me photos of kids using the items that we've been able to put in the classrooms. So when you see
009the students using what you give, um it's really that's the heartwarming part of the job of what we do. So the other way that we get money in besides just people donating things to us is through our fundraising events. And most of you have been to at least one of our events. We host the um gala in the spring and that brings in between 60 and 90,000 year net for us. The gala has supported many things. We've supported mental health. We've supported classroom grants. Um we've supported unified sports. So we kind of go with different initiatives every year. Whatever you or the district administration thinks we should support with that is where we go with it. This last year um we were honored to have speaker from NASA who was amazing and also an alumni
010from uh can uh school. Um our golf tournament is well known and well loved. It's working. People love to come to our golf tournament. It is in the fall up at Wasp State Park. The golf tournament funds our foundation innovation grants. We usually make about $100,000 at our golf tournament and you're always welcome to come up have lunch with us. Um and uh take a ride with us on the fund bus. So when we do those innovation grants, we go around give out big checks to the teachers, big checks in the amount of between a th000 and $10,000. Then we have our fund runs which are not so much about making the big dollars but about community involvement. So we're trying to get the community to come have some fun with us, learn about what
011we do. We've done um fun [clears throat] runs with the tutu run. You remember the pig with the tutus. My favorite one was um May the fourth be with you when we had the Star Wars characters come in. So [clears throat] we're leaning towards excuse me a superhero fund run for this next go round. Um but we usually bring in at least $5,000 for that. We're hoping to inch that up and we're always we're going to make our fun run um supporting unified sports from this point forward. So these will be our three main fundraisers. Any questions on any of those things? So the people that um come to these, they are our sponsors and we've been very fortunate to have sponsors um who come in at a high dollar value. I want to thank
012some of those. Hogan Construction, Hughes, Cypress Credit Union, [cough and clears throat] Roing MH, every single sponsor, no matter if they're an individual ticket or the gold sponsor night, it all helps kind of raise money for what we're doing. What we do with the money is, this is the most important part, supporting the students. So, the resource closet, food, clothing, hygiene, school supplies, This is a collaboration with the state and federal programs. Michelle Bogler and I have worked together on this um to get items in and items out where the needs go. We also provide holiday support every Christmas to make sure that the kids have something for Christmas. Um unified sports we've brought on at all levels. We're now going into elementary school as well. Unified sports we cover things like their lunches, their
013snacks, their uniforms. scholarships. We have our Canyon Strong scholarship which is through the foundation, but we also have private scholarships. I think we did about scholarships this year. Private scholarships. Then we also um handle any special requests. We always do a back to school dinner at the road home for our students. Um their individual students needs. If someone needs a pair of glasses or a hearing aid or something like that, they can reach out to us and we have funds for that. And we have, as I said, um supported mental health. So, after we get done supporting the students, we support our teachers, ESP, and departments within the district. Um we do the teacher of the year, which is the big checks that we give as well as the baskets that each teacher gets. So,
014it's around $30,000 in teacher awards. ation innovation grants I mentioned before that's about $100,000 a year. The donors choose projects we've um given over $400,000 in [clears throat] donor's choose projects and that's where teachers can put in a project online and we will go out and fund it. The nice thing that we do with that is we look for matching offers where somebody else is paying 50% of it. So our impact if we've done 400,000 we've had an impact of over 800,000. So, it really benefits the teachers. Um, we get a lot of classroom supplies in. We try and push that out to the schools. We have our ACE scholarship where we have um given that out to seven people at this point and that is $5,000 a year for up to four years. That's
015a great scholarship. [clears throat] We're working closely with our special education department, Life Skills Academy. sometimes with their um state funds and [clears throat] the limitations they have, we kind of come in and help with some of those extra things that they can't do. [clears throat] And then of course, we're looking forward to working with the Canyons Innovation Center. This is my favorite. So when I I'm going back to when I started, excuse me. Um so I started back in 2018 and on our financial statement we had um about $647,000 and we now our financial statement is a little over three million. So that's amazing and I'm very proud of that. Um but also since I've started something that we didn't [clears throat] we started the resource closet and we're helping with the teen centers.
016We're supporting unified sports which um is fairly new. Donor's choose is new. The fund runs are new. Having the vendors at the team CSD with the HR department is new. Doing coordinated donation drives with businesses and other foundations is new. We've increased the scholarships from 19 when I started to 54 from 23,000 to 97,500. Um and then we started the ACE scholarship. So, for me, this has been an amazing ride, and I've loved um I've loved the job. I want to thank Charlie and Susan for giving me the opportunity and the board, of course, to do this job. Um, but it is now time for me to move on and pass the baton to our new development officer, which will be Brook Horn, who knows the department well, has worked with us for years, couple
017years now. And um, so she knows all the events that we're doing and she's done the financials, so it's a natural fit. She's going to do amazing. And Brooke, if you want to come up and say a few words. Quinn just whispered to me that if you went from 500 or 600,000 to three >> you're gonna have to do >> you're going to be at 24 million. So [laughter] >> I'm coming after all of you. Um no I'm excited. I um have been involved with the district. My kids have all been the products of Kenya's district. I still have one in school here. But I had an opportunity a few years ago to go to work at Hillrest and that was a very different environment than the school that my children have been attending. And
018I was just amazed and awed at the um the opportunities for service and the opportunities that our students had and needed and that we were able to fulfill as a district and as um volunteers within our own community. And so that has something that's really stuck with me ever since I was at Hillrest. And now I'm excited to be able to come and work on that at a whole another angle here through the district offices. Um maybe a little bit of a broader scale but just as much impact hopefully on the individual. So Denise is leaving big shoes to fill and we'll do our best to get there. >> We're working together this month and we're together make sure she knows everything she needs to know. Are there any questions we can answer? >> Mrs.
019Hey, first of all, Denise, thank you for all of your work. We really owe you a lot. We're so grateful for all of the work you've done. So many amazing things have happened as a result of your efforts and it's been a a joy to see how that's impacting kids at a grassroots level. um as things are shifting over the I've had some things like floating in the back of my mind with regard to the foundation that I'm wondering if just to put it out there and see if maybe it could be considered or at least discussed as a board. Um [clears throat] so now that we have the strategic plan and especially the portrait of a Canyon scholar, part of me wonders if um that has impacted the conversations at all about how money
020is awarded in certain cases. So, I'll give you an example. Um, I was approached by a teacher that shared an article with me about in New York State they had, um, this is several years ago in the public schools, they had an initiative that would allow teachers, I think this is at the elementary level, to apply for a grant to be able to go and have some really unique training and work together in cohorts across the state of how to be really innovative and hands on project based learning and other things in their classrooms. And then those teachers went and shared it in their local schools and kind of it helped everyone's tide rise. And she was saying, "Is this something we could ever consider?" And I was like, "Wow, you know, that's an interesting
021idea because I know the foundation grants usually kind of go to purchase items or equipment, right? Like hard things, but what happens if if we were to invest in our teachers a little differently with that, you know, some of that money?" just like something to think about. Um, another idea with that was when we were talking about things at the innovation center and as that's starting to become a part of our near future. Um, when we were talking about, you know, different opportunities that teachers could go out and find with employers that are really innovative and really helping students lift their businesses, what's the motivation for them um, to go above and beyond that much more? Is it possible that perhaps on the back end like that they're awarded or this could apply anywhere I
022guess in the district for something where they've gone above and beyond and really demonstrated something that aligns effectively with the strategic plan and with the project of Kaden scholar. So that's also kind of like a big picture idea. And then one other thought I had was the idea of like, you know, because we're going to be focusing so much on entrepreneurship at the innovation center to provide opportunities for seed money for student businesses. Um, you know, I know we award scholarships and whatnot. It is it's kind of its own scholarship really for students to be able to have that learning experience of trying to live the business and sometimes they have to have a little bit of capital to be able to move towards that. So I don't know. So those are just some thoughts.
023I wonder wonder if you know as we're moving into the future there's been so much amazing foundational work that has been done and maybe we start thinking a little bit outside the box as we're trying to become innovative in our practices and especially reflect the strategic plan. So anyway >> that's great Mrs. Those are some really awesome ideas. I think that would be great to discuss at the board round table, too, because there's some other things that we could go into with some of those. So, I think that would be awesome. But I wanted to also just thank Denise. Um, what incredible, fantastic work. The numbers alone speak volumes to what the impact has been for everyone. and I'm really sad to see you go, but excited for your your relaxing future, [laughter] >> whatever
024that becomes. I'm excited for Brooke. Brooks, I I I was thinking, wait a minute, now what's going to happen during legislative session? >> I know, [laughter] >> but I'm sure we'll figure that out. But, uh, I'm I'm grateful [clears throat] for great people and this is just such an amazing amazing work. So, thank you. I just wanted to say thank you. >> I do like um your idea, Amanda, as well. Some of those things as they start to discuss them. We need to look back at our bylaws um because there are certain things in the bylaws right now that prohibit that from happening. So, there would need to be an amendment to the bylaws some of those things you're talking about. Yes. >> Uh Mr. wanted to >> Yeah. I just wanted to say like
025we're all here for the kids and so I wanted to point out like how many you've impacted but also what you've done and how will carry on and how many generations like of children's and and lives that like will be changed because of the work that you've done. Um and I mean you know with scholarships and with everything else like the work that you've done is lifechanging and so I just want to say thank you. >> Thank you Mrs. Dolly. Uh, thank you for the legacy that you've left here, Denise. I mean, you have recruited a great group of business leaders and it's amazing being in the meetings and they're wanting to do what they whatever they can for the students in our district and um, Denise has been just a huge part of that
026and leading out and setting that vision and it's kudos to you how you've grown this so much over uh, the last eight years. So, thank you for all you've done there and um, getting the businesses behind them. talking a little bit too to your strategic plan question. One of the things we've started talking a little bit about with this literacy initiative is how can we get the foundation on board with this more because this isn't just an education issue. This is a society issue. This is a workforce issue and to really make a difference with that we really have to we working as a community make a change there. >> Okay. And then these are for you, Denise. And I just want to add my thanks. And just like everyone said, like what you've done
027will have um the effect for many years to come. >> It's been my honor. Truly. [applause] >> Next person doesn't get flowers. [laughter] Hey, thank you again Denise and Quinn and Brooke. >> Thank you. >> Brooke. >> So the next item on the agenda is the strategic plan focus group report operating systems by Leon Wilcox, business administrator. >> Thank you. Big thank you to Denise. You know Denise is a day one person. Uh she started off as our when we started as a district, she was a parah in Jordan but was special ed admin. admin assistant we started in 2009 then years later became uh Dr. Brisco, my admin assistant. She pre many of you don't know that, but she appreciated Cindy. She really found her true calling in in the foundation. So, we're going
028to miss you. Wish you the best of luck. So, thanks to Denise. Uh, I want to just thank the members of my committee. Handful of you are here, but Katie, Andrew, and Amber serving on the committee, and those in the room, Scott, Kirsten, [snorts] Dan, Jeff. Uh the biggest thing that we wanted to hit tonight was Q. That is our big implementation that is coming up this this summer. So I've asked Mill who's done a fantastic job. She's heading up our student Q student. We did finance Q back in October. Not just hit human resource, accounting, budgeting, payroll, those things, but Q hits everybody, every teacher, every parent, every student. So Camille has done a fantastic job heading that up along with Eric. Eric's another day honor with us been here with a long time.
029Uh then I ask them just to show do a quick 10-minute presentation on what parents will see when Q comes online and it goes uh live on registration. So here's just a quick Oh, here's our goals. We won't go over those. But here's a quick thing on Q. September 19th, we're stop start stop talk taking registrations. Essentially 20 June 25th, our old Skyward goes away. Skyward will then take Q and start take our data computer, convert it into Q. It'll take them almost a month to do that. We'll get it back on July 13th. Well, about two weeks later, but it's going to be really July 20th before it is rolled out and made live to everyone. Then registration will start on August third. So with that, you guys want to >> presentations. >> Well,
030Eric's connecting just to kind of give you an idea of the training that's been happening. So I know that's been a concern like how is everyone going to get trained about this? Like so far since the end of January, we've done like 58 trainings, which is like anyone from school office, school staff, um nurses, food service, we did teachers this week, um district specialists, um nurses, and it's from like registration, it's from I mean almost everything so far. And we we're touching this we're barely touching the surface because we're like what do people need to get the school year started? And so um it's about,300 indiv that have been in each training. It's not unique individuals, but that's 13 people in the seed. So, and that's just we're going to have more trainings come June,
031July, August, September, October, November. So, um but just to give you an idea of what we've been doing so far and then showing you what the families will see and we will have resources for the families. I'll be working with communications like what can we do to help preview what this will look like and then have resources that are also translated so that they can have those documents to be proactive with the support they need to be successful with this. So >> yeah, so as [clears throat] Leon said as my Wi-Fi kicked off here. See what happens here. >> Just quick question while he's reconnecting with back to school registration. Is there a way to move that tile tile so it's the top corner? Like right now it's at the at the bottom I think
032just so especially if people are coming from mobile it'll be the first thing they see instead of >> Yes. And we can also there's a lot you're seeing a lot of tiles there. We can clean that up as well. We can even work with schools to make it school specific. So if there's tools um tiles they want to see and even links to like external maybe to parent square or something. So we can definitely tailor it. But yeah, >> just the ease we can make it so it's the first thing they can see when they come in and when it's all new and they're sort of confused of where am I? >> Yes. So >> we'll see if this this holds here for a minute. Uh so again to answer your question, yeah, we'll be
033able to arrange these tiles in a certain order. There's certainly tiles on here that we'll we'll never have on there. Um this is just kind of the default. There's things in here that we uh we don't use or it's not something that we would display to families. So again, when a family comes in here, they will have to do this registration process for every student just as in current version of Skyward. When it is available, they'll have that tile. Again, most likely we'll have it in that top corner. They'll go into that back to school registration [clears throat] and then be able to begin that process. Again, some of this is still being worked through as far as some of the verbiage, but this is all kind of customizable as far as what information displays
034for a parent. Um, as far as the step one instructions, uh, the one nice thing about this is with your browser, um, parents will have the ability to go in and, um, update the language or translate the language within their browser. So again, if I wanted to choose this language, it is going to translate everything on that page into whatever language that parent chooses. And again, the way that we have the information built within this registration, everything should translate based off of, again, whatever browser translation. So, probably some kind of Google type translation, >> but again, maybe not perfect, but at least a solution for those families um to be able to get through this hopefully a little bit easier than um current version that we've kind of struggled with at times. So again, they'll
035be able to come in here, start the process, um, and go through those steps. The steps will be very familiar to most families. Um, again, they will have their answers carry over. Um, residency is one that we don't carry over, but other areas like the alternative language, um, the student health information, all of that kind of stuff will carry over from current versions. So, they won't have to refill it. It's going to be more of a verification process. We still have that ability when they answer questions a certain way. It will prompt them for additional questions as far as what they do need to select. Um, and they will be required to answer those questions in that process. So again, not a huge change other than just really more of a a look and feel
036change. Again, as they go through and complete, certain steps are required, certain steps optional. They don't have to fill it out. So, if they choose to, they can skip certain steps as they go through um and and do this this process. Um there are certain steps that are only available to certain students or certain questions. So, again, if we're looking at a again a current 12th grade student, they are going to see information in here for the sharp survey. If you're not 6 8 10 or 12 grade student then you wouldn't um if you are a 610 12 you'll see sharp if you're outside of that you'll see the school climate survey um so again there'll be certain questions if you're kindergarten there'll be the the question about the um house bill for toilet um
037training they'll have to answer that question so not every student will see every question again it'll go based off of your grade um so certain questions will will appear for for c levels. So again, that's a a very kind of quick high level that Leon kind of asked us to come through and show. Happy to answer questions that you have on this. Again, there are some still some work in progress through this. Again, all the data we'll have to bring over from current versions, so they don't have to necessarily answer everything. Again, more of that verification. >> And Eric, this is mobile friendly, right? >> Yep. So that is one big plus with this is the new version of Skyward is very mobile friendly. So there will be uh it will be easier for a
038parent if they are doing it on a a phone or an iPad or a mobile device like that. One thing that I'll point out right now today there is not a step within this registration process for the food service application. uh it would be something that they would have to do in a separate step. There would be a food service application step um in this process that they could go through and do. Um Skyward has committed that they would have this available to us by the time we go live so we can have this as a step so we don't have parents do registration and then do a separate step to do the food service uh free reduced application. um they can do it all within the same registration process. So anticipate to have that
039there as well. >> Um Mrs. Dolly, >> um one question, transportation, will that people be able to look up bus routes from the transportation tile or will they still have to come to the website? >> Um we do load the transportation routes within there like what bus number and the the pickup and drop off time. So that will be something that we'll show um out here in the transportation tile. >> Thanks. And then can you show the emergency contact? I know Holly would be interested in that um just how that is set up now and and whether like pickup and stuff is allowed. back to within registration. >> Within registration, there'll be a step for emergency contacts where they can um edit emergency contacts. Um add, reorder, delete emergency contacts. So, part of the emergency
040contact fields, again, we'll we will be getting rid of driver's license number. Uh that's not something that we ask. Um, but there will be a a check box here that they can check to identify who is available, who can pick up their student from school or check out their student from school. So, again, this will be something that we'll need to work with our schools through uh kind of new processes to basically verify that that contact has that information or that field check to allow that uh pickup to happen. Um, if if they don't, then we would need the parent to go in and update that and they can certainly update it through registration. There will be also a method that they can do outside of registration through their family access where they can then
041update that um that information as well. So it's not just only part of the registration process. They can go out here into the emergency contacts and update that that information. So >> and they're only able to update their own. They're not able to update different family members. Hey, are there any other questions? >> Hey, thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> You guys all a lot of work. >> Thanks for being here after being at all teaching classes and tomorrow. >> Thank you everyone. archaic. It's a lot more user friendly. >> All right. I like the title. >> Want to say I received a call today and uh I thought it was a prank call, but it says you can either have $250 or you can have two tickets to an Albert impersonation show.
042And then it says you either have to collect one for the money or two for the show. [laughter] That was a good one. >> Wearing your socks today. Wear the socks today. We're going to hit a couple things. I'm gonna have I'm hit a couple slides. I'm going to have Kirsten come up and show what we're doing on uh our recruiting efforts here. Uh I want to just as you know, we sent out a calendar survey. The calendar committee will be looking at this, but I just want to give you guys the quick overview of it. went out in April. Keep in mind everything for next school year, the 26 27 year will be as is, no changes, but some of this data may be used to impact how we do things in the future,
043how we set up the calendar. So, we have we sent out this in uh you can see the responses, but we sent it out in uh [snorts] April, 1,500 students, lots of parents, they were farther away, the biggest, almost 2,200 staff members. We got quite a few back as well and you can also see the feeders with Brighton leading the way but you know uh out corner have good participation ball feeders there so we feel like there's some really valid data here three questions that we asked one it was on the AB block we want to keep the AV block as is where it fluctuates you know uh uh on a rotating basis or do you want it fixed? So a day Mondays and Wednesdays would always be a day. Tuesdays and Thursdays always b
044day. Fridays would go back and forth. Holiday on Monday that would change. But you can see we had a not a overwhelming but a strong preference preferred that we do the fixed. I thought was interesting. Some districts do that and this is just for high school here to think about. Second question we asked which gave us bigger data was ending the first semester before winter break. So we have over I would call it you know we hear that a lot about students coming back for those two weeks and you know uh uh how does that impact them? Some of it use it some use the break to catch up on stuff others want to just feel like hey they're off for two weeks they're coming back for two weeks but rather just start the new
045second semester right when they come back. So percentage prior to Christmas. Now, that does impact it really doesn't impact your year-long classes, right? It impacts those semester classes have a few days less. Those that are again math 1010 or math honors all year, that's not been impacted, but those >> there ones. Yeah. >> Um, have we gone back to the data and pulled Brighton out on these questions? because I know that Brighton had a significant number that responded, but that could skew this data differently. >> I don't know what >> Oh, because of how it impacts the >> Well, and I personally >> because these ones don't impact Brighton, but if they >> voted on it, >> we've got to pull it out. But I also think we should really um only >> survey teachers
046because we did not that was not a big group and I'm I'm worried the most about the impact on teachers. That means they're doing all the grading right before Christmas. >> Could be stressful by any calendar. >> And the last question we asked about the educational you want throughout the years or do you want them aligned also to you know holidays that we have now? seem to be alive. >> Yeah. >> A big surprise there, right? >> Shocking. >> So, those are the three questions. Yeah. I was going to just say one of them the schools put out for next year like these are the weekends you should take holidays like the long weekends instead of you know to help with attendance if you're going to take a vacation take it over one of the
047long weekends you know trying to advertise that ahead of time >> we do provide some opportunities for that >> so we'll probably be talking a lot about that in the fall as we start developing the calendars for again starting the 2728 school Uh changing subjects. This is one thing that we've been tracking quite a bit over the last decade. This is it's students who reside in another district who attend one of our schools or kids who reside in our district and attend a school another district. So you have kids. So Alpine kids who are 10 live here but 10 alpine and vice versa. So you can see the trend as it's gone down. I'm going to show you all the numbers but I think the [snorts] biggest one's Jordan here. You can see where uh
048[clears throat] the numbers have gone right now. Looks like our biggest you know gap if you will spread which we like to see. It's good that gain or loss. We went from 470 students to 370. So that's a big kudos to our schools, right? They're magnets. They're attracting kids from neighboring districts. And you can see the trends from each one over the last eight years. There's also a dollar component to this. Again, the state money is equalized. So if a student comes here, we get the WP of course, but then you have to equalize the property tax that are paid in that other district. And so there's a formula the USB finance staff calculate that every year and that's how much we can bill as a district for a student that attends a school in
049us and how much they can bill us for attending one of their schools. So our amount's always going to be higher because we have a higher assessed property value that these other districts around us. So you can see, you know, we're still going to pay out net amount 226,000 this year, but you can see the dollar amount has gone down. You know, last year for 600,000 in the better. It's a big deal, at least for me. So >> yeah, >> so that's a huge huge deal and a huge deal for our school. With that, I'm gonna turn it over to Kirsten who's gonna take us through the rest. >> This is okay. >> No, it's okay. It'll probably have more to do with Kirsten anyway. >> Okay. Sorry. >> Yeah. My No, my one question
050is if we know for the pockets of where they're drawing students from, like which school boundaries or communities? Do we have pockets or is it just kind of spread across the port? I'd be curious about that. >> Hillrest is the biggest draw. >> I'd be in theater. >> I'm saying of where we're losing students. We know >> it's sunrest is one >> I know that one and that's because >> the next one would be Cottonwood Heights historically you know they were actually before the district split part of Cottonwood Heights was in Granite >> right >> and they have just kept going to >> uh Church Hill and Skyline High >> are they closer geographically to Skyline's Ivy program than they to Hillrest. >> Just wondering I mean >> that's another conversation but I just wondering
051if we could recapture some of those kids. >> That's a sure >> we have made a little prog. That's good. inspiring members actually. >> Um, so I won't spend too much time on this slide, but um, just really kind of wanted to kind of provide a report on all the work that we've been doing to customer service and advertising and community engagement to promote our schools and programs. It's been a three-year effort and Uh when we started this in 232 24 we just really wanted to start by getting very focused on what our vision and mission was to essentially maintain a sustainable school system that serves all students and honor choice in the enrollment process and we focus not just on you know growing awareness about all the great things that are happening in our
052schools. I can play that well. Um but we also wanted to focus on like systemic improvements that we could make just for example to make it easier for kids to register for school. Um, so you can see how kind of that work aligns there with the strategic plan. So glasses, so I don't have to take them on and off. Um, when we launched into this, we started by surveying families to understand what the motivating factors were for enrollment in Canyon district schools. I don't think any of those are any big secrets, but of course, school reputation is right at the top. School safety and climate, um, convenience for families. Uh, a lot of families want their kids to go to school with their friends and their neighborhood kids. And so don't never underestimate the the
053draw or the allure of the neighborhood school. Um, and then that what we've discovered informed courts, the messaging that we did, but also the steps that we took again to sort of make onboarding as easy and seamless as possible, including the no wrong door policy that we adopted for permits. So we, you know, our schools have been like accepting tons of permits and so we and we've encouraged that and we've encouraged people to apply those permits. Um, of course, we did customer service uh training with our secretaries and we started pre-enrolling our preschoolers into their boundary schools. So that was like one less step for them to have to take. Um, we also actually consolidated the enrollment for preschool and kindergarten to kind of help that make that a little easier. It's kind of about
054the same time frame, January and February. Um, Here's some examples of what we did in terms of advertising strategy. So, a lot of what we do is pretty homegrown and taking advantage of our organic channels. Um, it's cost efficient. It's effective. We have um great websites and great um avenues for telling our own story and we we do that. Um but we also pursued some digital advertising um targeting families specifically with school age children in our area. This included um all of those strategies you see there display the video pretty well with the idea being that if you're online and you're a family of a certain age with kids in our geographic area you're seeing stuff about canyons whether you're you know looking at YouTube videos or doom scrolling on Instagram or um listening to
055a podcast or searching for vegetables in Utah. Oh, the other thing I wanted to mention that we did is started a new mover mailing. So, anytime a new family moves into Canyons, they actually get a postcard along the neighborhood postard. So, they we or mail about 2,900 of those. And we've actually kept those uh addresses so that we can add them to our new and whatnot in addition to the home families that we have also tried to engage just so that they're aware of the enrollment opportunities that are available. Uh community engagement. So, we do a lot of this already, but we've few uh sort of arrows to our quiver. So I mentioned the homeschool families and then for the past two years we've also staged those preschool kindergarten open um we found I think
056actually there was sort of some pent up demand for that that kind of information that we give so that you can onboard your little ones for big school. Um we held six last year and I think they've averaged about anywhere from 60 to 100 attendees at each of those events. Um one of the other things that we do that's been successful municipal municipal partners or cities, they all have newsletters that go to every home owner in their area. And so sometimes when we're trying to reach people who don't have kids enrolled, that's one avenue that we use is to allow us to contribute content to them. So that's been super helpful. So some of the KPIs um as a result of some of this work. So 4.4 million impressions um [clears throat] thousand clicks. I
057want to emphasize that this is an addition to what we've already done, right? Like I think we have upwards of 15 million hits to our website in a year. So this is on top of that phone call leads to I wanted to emphasize that they actually get uh followup by some a staff member in our office. So they're emailing us or they're calling us, we're responding within 24 hours and then we're also making sure that we follow up with them to make sure that they got the information they need. And in terms of enrollment, these are some kind of um indicators. So projections, we built enrollment projections for uh last three years except for last year and that's according to the projections that Rick She draws in January. Um and we all know that last
058year was a little bit of an anomaly, right? Because of immigration patterns and policy that impacted our projections in ways we probably couldn't have foreseen just with straight projections. >> Um we areing more receiving more permit applications. They peaked in 23 24, but even beyond that, we started confirming more. So even though that applications have dropped a bit, we're confirming more this year than the year before. So these are people who are trying to get in our schools. As you know, many of our high schools waiting lists to get into them. So you've asked for some data before kind of about um how we compare to some of our local charters. And this is the number of Canyons District students who are enrolling in public charter schools across the years. And you can see it's
059been fairly stable for um homeschooling is a little bit on the rise. Guess why? >> I would assume vouchers have play a role in that. >> And the capture rate of course so this is according to the US census how many school age children live in canyons. This is the percent that we captured. Um did quite above 23 24 when we started all of this. It's kind of leveled off a little bit. Just keep in mind that this is for K12. So obviously it differs in at per school level. So the elementary right now is at 69%, middle school is at 75 and our high schools are at 80. So that's the average. uh preschool enrollment is really strong um especially for the tuition based kiddos that's on the rise. So that's a sort of
060an area of strength for us and the percent of preschoolers who then enroll in Canyon's district as kindergarten. So also a little bit of a a drop but again 70.7% is still higher than the K5 capture rate. So again, I think it's an area of strength and maybe more opportunity for the district. So where are we headed next year? We're obviously going to continue doing what we're already doing. Um, one of the great things about digital ads is it's really easy to understand kind of your ROI as ads are running. You can test different messaging strategies to determine what's working, what's not working. So we'll continue to do that, but we're going to add um we're going to take additional strategies. So, for example, we're thinking about parent testimonials for we know in a lot
061of families who are, you know, big advocates and kind of brand ambassadors for their schools or people who have gone to other schools and then come back. Um, we want to help tell their story. Uh, this was actually your idea, I think, Amanda, the CSD TV ads, right? Rolling those ads while people are waiting for a live stream. We could do that with our podcast as well. Um, we're going to put ads on the TV screens that are hanging in most schools. When I say ads, it's predominantly for like programs and opportunities that are available throughout the district that they can students can apply for. Um, school bus ads. We're installing 10 more of those this year. We're doing movie theater ads. We're doing lawn signs for our students. Um, and the good news and
062billboards, which I think I've shown you some examples in the handouts that I provided. And the good news is that we're going to fund this with ad revenue that we've raised through working with our own partners. Like so for example, if someone wants a local business wants to advertise using some of our external fencing or through the peach flower system money there and Susan Edwards identified this opportunity and the Kes that money about that um and then of course oh so we have um those three big campaigns that we're rolling out this year obviously will continue with um just promoting schools at large but then the Kesn innovation center which opens in August 2027. We want to build awareness about that. So, in the handout, I've kind of like chocked out what that's going to
063look like and the tone of that and kind of the strategies behind that. And then um an anti- vaping actually um our student wellness services group received a grant received a grant. So, we're that money to help push awareness and it's actually going to be based in prevention science. So, this notion that you're you're really playing off risk and protective factors as part of your So, we've got some people actually already working on that. So, >> thank you. Uh, yeah, Mrs. Oaks, >> I love your ideas, Kristen. And I have to say like when I think about the mass exodus of a lot of our immigrant students. I feel like the efforts that you guys have gone to in large measure have helped cushion that blow. I think it would have been a lot worse
064actually. So, I really appreciate so much you were doing and and these other ideas. I mean, I thought, "Oh, they've thought of everything." And then you had another page. I'm like, you know, whenever I go on walks in my neighborhood, like I know exactly which families are the W Diego families because they all have their graduate signs out front and I, you know, I had never thought like we should do the same thing, but it's a great idea. >> Yeah. And and I know a lot of the high schools already do that for sports teams probably. >> Yeah, they do. kind of thing, but I think we can just grow it. >> But to have it as a graduate and it's like a a sign of like it's a badge of honor. I think it's
065awesome. So, yeah, really clever. Thank you for your work. >> And I'm always open to new ideas. So, >> and these ads look fantastic. >> Oh, the ads are so to launch those billboards [clears throat] actually is donating some space to us so that we're getting >> Oh, nice. >> Awesome. >> Thank you so much, Mrs. >> I was just going to quickly say thank you also. So I knew it took some time with strategic enrollment to figure out where where those numbers were with charter schools and all of that. That's awesome work too. Just the whole thing is really awesome. So >> have to share whatever until we have >> Hey, thank you. Okay, we're going to skip the superintendent listening tour right now. Um hopefully we'll get to it. We're going to move
066ahead with the two other items um first. So we're going to go on to item D, the policy update. technology resources. Anyway, I'm not going to read all that, but you have questions on >> assistant legal counsel. >> Thanks, McKay. >> Have time to read the portion cookie then? >> No, I don't have time. >> Be worse than the Elvis joke. >> No. Uh, [laughter] >> I'll be brief. I attended graduation. I have a hawk now somewhere in the state on a wonderful graduation party. So, um, it was really nice. candidly to go to graduation. Sometimes legal services, as Dan and I can attest, we always don't see the bright side of what's happening in our schools. And like I actually got, you know, it was different than my son's experience because it was a
067nailbiter to the end whether or not we would be at graduation. [laughter] With my daughter, it was a much different experience. I got to listen to Leon give a graduate speech, which was great. I mean, he didn't tell a joke, but it was short. And and board member Oaks, I just out of curiosity, I decided to time and you were spot on with the with the amount of time. >> So, I want to say something. Thank you, board. Everyone was really short and I got lots of um >> so it was great. >> Maybe one wasn't short. >> But every No, everyone did great. So, thank you so much to all you for being short. >> I'll try to be short here. So, this fortune cookie, I'm going to read it because I think it
068plays into one of these policies we're going to talk about. Don't wait for success. Start ahead without it. So, that applies precisely to what I'm going to talk about when it comes to this school wellness, this school wellness issue. >> Belong at the legislaturator's website. >> Yeah, exactly. >> School wellness. So there is a statute that was passed not this year but last year requiring uh that schools public schools not um prohibits food additives food sold donated offers or served in public schools beginning in 2627. We had a great discussion of the um soundness of this legislation in our policy committee [laughter] and I'll put it in that. So the real issue here is implementation. So Karen on our wellness committee worked with our head nurse Jen Gerard to develop some kind of an implementation
069plan. We brought that to the policy committee and again there was much discussion regarding how best to implement this bill. So essentially the the rule requires that we can't sell, donate, offer, serve on school grounds food dice. Okay, great. Then how then do you implement that? And so the the challenge is is how we're going to move forward. So the policy component of this discussion is straightforward. We've added the language that's required to our policy. We will be in compliance. The implementation is going to be like my fortune cookie said, we're going to start and it might not be with a great deal of success as we begin, but over time I think um we'll do our best. So you can see that there's three exceptions that are allowed under the statute for not adhering
070to this prohibition of dyes. One is you can let a parent bring their own students food to school and that's not something that needs to be prohibited. Or alternatively, a teacher can provide a food item um if they get permission from the parents at the beginning of the school year. And we're talking about how best to include that in our online registration so that that isn't something the teachers have to manage. The third is that a school may sell a food item with food additives, ingredients as described at a as a concession item at or an extracurricular event or a vending machine. So I I don't know if the did the graphic make it on maybe it didn't. So looks like it didn't. So I included it on board docs. You might be able to
071or on diligent >> a little infographic. >> Yeah. So the discussion in our policy committee was to have a one-page document that can be provided to a parent if they bring something that's beyond the scope of their own student to address this issue. And it essentially details the law and indicates that it's not from school board directly to state statute. And so if you have feedback before our next reading, again, this would just be an exhibit to the policy, welcome feedback if you look at it and think, "Oh, I wish this could be done." And Kirstston did a great job working with Jen on preparing that for for for our onepage kind of communication tool. Uh then um then the other piece is we also have drafted a potential agreement that would be provided to
072teachers. We're still looking at that. And then the other pieces that Karen kept, we'll keep that on file with the wellness committee. And then portions of that larger exhibit that they prepared is going to go in a memo, which I think it's likely >> for this Thursday. It's kind of a reduced version of the larger document because that's more of a communication tool. And this is just the bullet points to our staff recognizing this will be a training item coming. We were just trying, Jen and I, we're trying to answer questions that will come up and and how they would how we would deal with them and still stay in compliance. And >> and I think all three >> I think all three could potentially be associated with policy. Yeah, Andrew, >> you can finish
073what you were saying just in case. Okay. I couldn't like I I I can't >> say that this is the most asinine piece of legis selective legislative overreach based on pseudocience that the legislature has ever like pass and they've done some really dumb things and I kind of wish I guess this will go to a main meeting because like I kind of wish I could say that there like this is this is absolutely dumb. It doesn't apply to charter schools. Yeah. It doesn't apply to private schools. And so these dyes, which in the little sprinkles that they're going to have for birthday parties, um don't even have a link, right, to to uh hyperactivity, which is the concern for for red dye number blue, right? >> Uh but apparently charter school kids aren't impacted by
074dyes. >> Yeah. >> And so it's totally good for them, right? And then of course private school kids um aren't impacted by things like school violence or dies. Um and this is just this is it's just so dumb and such an egregious overreach. And I don't know who in their right mind thought that it was okay to pass this law and who thought it was okay to vote for this and who thought it was okay after they put in the exceptions. like like so many people had to make really bad choices for us to get here. >> And and it's just I'm I'm just baffled as to how we have so many seemingly smart people who made so many poor choices to get us here. And I wish that this was the only example. It's
075just like today's example, but it's also one of the dumbest. Like it's just it's horrible. just nightmar. >> I totally agree and I think where we're really going to see people frustrated is elementary school birthday celebrations >> and PTA and the problem is with this is as we all know this just absolutely adds fuel to the fire of like oh my goodness like where is public school going now? We can't even do this. take away one other uh tradition. You know, something that's been such a embedded part of our school culture is birthday celebrations and little PTA stuff. So, I think, you know, I like I I wanted to draw everyone's attention. This was Andrew's ident policy committee and I couldn't agree more, but we wanted to make sure that we that everyone understands this
076is not coming from us and that's why it says Utah code right there. But I also think it's really important that we as board members are very vocal about that too. Like just so you know when you see this this has nothing to do with us. We don't you know this this came to us and we don't we don't agree and we just have to do it because I think I think the unfortunately the carve out for everyone else but us. It is very difficult not to think that this is a a further ammunition towards public schools. So, >> this is I mean it's crazy. Well, but we can have it in the vending machine on our campuses, but we can't we can't [laughter] um >> my big concern on this is we're putting the
077the teachers in a position of having to implement this law and be the enforcers of it. And I don't agree with that >> at all. >> I don't agree with that. The reality is there's not a there's not any teeth to the law other than there'll be some parent that complains to legislature. But the rumor is now that we're banning candy in all of our schools. So >> one of the things we have annually is when a requirement get put like this in statute, we typically have the assurances that we have it in that comes periodically from USB. So we'll we'll have it in that we have that. >> Mrs. I was just going to say the wellness committee doesn't like it anymore than you do, but we are tasked with the op, you know,
078the the reality of, okay, this is the stupid law. What are you going to do with it? And we're not allowed to ignore it versus the fact we could lose funding for all sorts of things. But I found it really interesting that you can't eat these things during school hours, but as soon as you go to the football game after school, it's all good. >> It's fine from concessions. >> From concessions and stuff like that. What we tried in in our bigger list was to make it as least impactive on teachers. It basically went down to they just need to notify the parents that a treat's going to be given and that they have to say that their child cannot have it. Otherwise, they assume they can. And that eliminates a lot of the hassle
079right there because you you only have a couple that are going to be picky picky people. and that it really unfortunately would be put on the office, not on the teacher to discipline them. >> But not always with the office. Like when I bring birthday treats in, I'm just coming straight to the classroom. It's in a bag. The office isn't checking >> weather. And so, but you don't want it to be like it's Johnny's birthday. And the teacher's like, "Sorry, Johnny. We can't have the tree that brought in because it has the dyes." >> Um, >> no, we can't with withhold. Anyway, we talked for a great deal of time about that, too. But just know that just because we made a a pol, you know, had to make some guidelines. That doesn't mean we
080necessarily completely support it. But that's no different than sheets, you know, stuff on our windows and locks on our doors and fences on the thing that are >> I just want to add I think this is complete virtue signaling from the legislature and it is exactly the kind of political national political interference that we as board members have warned is coming to our schools. This is a political agenda. This is a political play. This is all about politics. It's completely devoid. It's completely separate from what actually goes on in a classroom and actually how you're going to execute it. This they took none of that into consideration. This is just >> it's just writing policy on paper, politics on paper and forcing us to >> politics. Um because there's no law about how it's to
081be enforced. >> [laughter] >> We don't have any food police stationed at the school, right? We don't have a special school guardian. >> No, our guardian can go. >> We don't have a food guardian. It's one thing for us to be able to do what we can with providing it >> and not providing it. >> But I also, you know, I am not opposed to the idea with the communication with the birthday treats. Like you said, just, you know, the here's the law. Let me know if you have any kids who don't, you know, who you don't want to have them eat the dyes. But otherwise, >> here it is. It's up to your own discretion, parents, because it's not really fair to make any of us the police, not the front office, not the
082teacher. And because the law doesn't have any any enforcement written in, I don't see why I don't really see why >> we were trying to make it an attitude change where if they're really sensitive to that, just being able to communicate that to the teacher. And then the other part is is that we really are trying to get our students to be rewarded in ways other than food, >> right? >> And we've been on that >> for a long time, >> for a very long time. And if we have this, this could be a motivator to get parents to really think, is there something else I could provide? Because we have so many students with allergies and and those kinds of issues. You know, the the nurses say it's crazy trying to get the kids
083that can't have things. What are we going to what are we doing about them? Because they're already facing that food police thing themselves >> as nurses. So this this the only good thing to it is it could be a messaging situation where we say if possible let's not use food. >> If we ever message this and say that I am going to flip out so much. No kidding. Like if we are going to push this to people I I I am not going to be as held back as I am today. [laughter] >> Very helpful. >> And YouTube channel is going to get shut down for a day. So, but I wanted to make a comment on this note thing, and for those of you in policy committee, you heard me on this, too. So,
084I read, and I know it's not up there. Um, new food standards for Utah schools, Canyon School District. That's what I read. No kidding. >> That's true. >> Our logo should be nowhere, nowhere associated on anything with this. It is poison. This topic is poison. We cannot bring treats for my kids' birthday party is poison. We absolutely cannot put our logo anywhere near that. We can put the state's logo on it. I'm happy to put the states like I think we could put the state seal on it. >> Our logo with that is poison. >> Superintendent. Is it um would it be appropriate to pull the memo that we plan on sending out to our faculty and staff until we further this conversation and actually address the policy >> address? Is this for parents? >>
085I think it's >> because still with the staff memo there at the very bottom it talks about best practices and best practices includes not using treats for or food for rewards and different things like that. >> So school level things. I feel like nothing's really changed except what can be sold in like the school markets >> because we already had best practices for not using treats for awards. >> Um, school lunches are not impacted by this at all. Vending machines are apparently not impacted because kids don't get hyperactive from vending machines. Um, and so the only thing it impacts I think like for school operations, and correct me if I'm wrong, is like the school markets, like the middle school and high school have markets, and so they won't be able to sell food anymore.
086Um, because there's no food that you can buy that don't have any of these dies. Like even the popcorn we have in the district has two of them. Um, what I'm concerned about is the messaging being sent to parents. Um, and I'm not opposed to a message like this being sent to parents and then us washing our hands of this asine law. Um, but like it was mentioned, we can't be the food police, parents, like that all that will do is cause animosity toward teachers and principles. >> And of course, like as the principal changes out, I don't remember who said it, uh, that uh it's like this new principle is horrible, right? like we used to be able to have fun in parties and I could bring these little cupcakes which I'm already severely
087restricted for now because like I can't bring treats from home and I can't bring treats with this and I can't bring treats with that and now they're saying that you can't have birthdays and you can't have fun and you can't have anything that's nice in life. And so my concern is the messaging to the parents that needs to just not be or maybe like if anything like a page that has the state seal on it. Absolutely not ours like this. This is this comes from us and we made this rule >> because you're not going to read the whole thing. All you're going to read is the big words at the top and the Canon's logo at the bottom and it's our fault and we did it. Uh and this is such a small thing
088that literally has zero health impacts for anyone but is like >> so huge and how like what it's going to do to people. Well, and one thing we need to be sensitive to is all those new principles that have put into the schools. We do not want any of the parents to believe it's the principal that that came in here that has these different political views and wants to do, you know, the amount of speculation that will go on is ridiculous. And so, you know, that's the other part of it. And it's and we've talked about birthday celebrations, but it's also like every Valentine's and Christmas party where they're decorating sugar conversation hearts. I mean, the whole the whole gamut. And so I think I think we have to be really creative with our communication
089and messaging because I think with our communication and messaging, it's important for for probably the public to understand that this in no wise represents what we personally believe and that there's a a large level of frustration on our end because I think that unless they actually get that actual message, I was just at um a neighborhood party this last weekend And I think more often than not it's either legislation or higher level policy that's being enacted in the schools and parents are making judgment calls based on the administrator and what you know what are their values. So it's like >> okay good discussion I think we better move on but did you have you have something >> I want to bring up the memo once again and the reason why I feel like I want
090to bring this up and just to get some clarity here especially because this would be going to all of our faculty on Thursday and then the rest of our staff starting Monday and the memo starts off by saying beginning the 2627 school year food sold donated offered or served to students during the school day gives a timeline may not contain the following additives used unless legal exception applies. Then it lists all the dies and it says the code this does apply to the following celebrations, teacher rewards, class birthday treats. So if we're giving this to our faculty and staff, I promise you and any of our teachers in the room or educators in the room will attest to some people are going to take this and that's immediately going to be built into my >>
091my communication to my parents because I'm thinking about it right now and I'm preparing it for the upcoming school year. >> Which is why we were rushed to get it done >> and and so again I we need to hit pause on this. I would highly recommend that we do until this discussion is completed and the policy is firmly >> discussed. I think policy committee should discuss that again. >> So if you look up the voting on this it's actually not as strongly politically it it was across both party lines just FYI. the number of the >> um >> 2022 and >> it was kind of balanced between both and I'm going to push back a little bit. >> Um there are a lot of parents who feel like some of these food dyes and
092additives do exacerbate some of their neurode divergent kids issues >> whether it's autism, ADHD, some of those other things. And before we jump down the throats of our legislature about it, I do I think it's very poorly thought through and like a lot of pieces of legislation that come through that they approve, they are not talking to those of us on the ground who are making these local decisions. Um, but I have already heard from some parents who are happy about it. So I think we have to be a little bit careful about saying this is >> like people are only going to see this one way. I think it's a little bit more nuance than perhaps we're giving it credit for. >> And I'm not saying that I think that this is what should
093go down. I'm just saying there are other perspectives on this. >> If I were to share just one more thought or recommendation and that would be >> ultimately because of that very thing >> it's already been discussed a little bit. We need to remove this from our teachers and our schoolbased principles >> from the policing and the decision making because you will have teachers even as teammates fourth grade teachers. >> I'm going to be very passionate about this because I have a child who >> y >> may be affected by these whereas Aaron doesn't necessarily feel that way and now I'm no longer the fun person. Aaron is the fun person creates all these issues. And so if we are going to head down this path, in my humble opinion, it should be a districtwide
094established decision rather than a school-based and or classroom based. >> It's not intended to be school. >> So anyway, >> I agree. >> But I don't think we should be as extreme as that. I I do feel like we need to give parents that opportunity to express or be at least notified that these things are there. >> Now I wonder did you about something at registration where parents could okay it >> yes >> it's just not on there >> it's no different than saying you can't do a survey or do whatever literally that's the level that we have it at and I think if we've notified parents and they have an opportunity to respond that's kind of as far as we're going to go too much with it we've given you the information we would
095prefer that this be the case but I don't know that we're going to police it does that make sense >> so I don't know that we need to react quite so strongly Sounds like we're going to police it if we're going to put something on registration. Huh. >> I think put on registration gives us more flexibility. >> Yes. >> Because that's the exception in the law. >> Well, maybe we can bring this back for our policy discussion. I mean, the policy itself, >> it's an implementation discussion. The policy is straightforward. It's a statute. >> We have to adopt it. So, I don't think that should slow the policy moving forward. But I think roll out is a broader discussion >> roll out and enforcing and >> and that can be another discussion for another day.
096So you know great topic a lot of these sentiments took time in our cabinet meeting it it's on the statutes it's a law we need to comply how we comply and having it in our books is where we need to go. >> Susan Edwards wants to go ahead little tiny point of clarification is they did actually have a cleanup bill this year that the house voted all but one to passed the cleanup bill that would have included charter schools um and did some other things as far as donations, but it did not make it through the Senate. So, they did try to have a cleanup bill this year. It did not make it through. >> Possibility they'll bring it again. >> So, then >> good possibility that they'll be have it on our radar and
097we'll watch for it. >> So, the one feedback probably for moving forward is with the exhibit infographic, right? The change. >> Yeah, the infographic. We can we can edit that. That's great. >> Reevaluate everything. Perfect. >> Um, this one is short technology resources. Um, this is in line with statute. A lot of definitions. The main change here is most of our middle schools already went to a belltobell ban >> this last year. They're all there. That's really >> They all are. And so it's really a minor change. It's got the statutory definitions required by the technology update. Uh, it's really just cleaning up the policy and making that more clear districtwide. So, >> that's it. >> Mrs. Oaks, >> real quick to that point. >> Yes. >> I know that there was a pocket of
098kids from the Conwood Heights area that were for a while going over to Church Hill because they had some of these policies in place before we did. I just wonder Kirsten whether or not it would be worthwhile for more parents to be aware that we do have some of these policies as we're going to less tech which is where a lot of parents are requesting some of that like just to make it clear like we have that kids are they're talking >> I actually wanted to get like follow up with students just talk to them about how >> okay thank you Okay. Uh Tomwood, can you do this in five minutes? >> Yes. [laughter] >> So, we're going on to the next item. Item >> transition life skills and try something. >> We used to
099eat glue and smell rubber cement. We weren't worried about the dyes. >> He still does such a thing. [laughter] >> Explains so much. Maybe it was just me. >> Okay. For the 2027 school year. >> Yes. So, I was just asked to come and have a very short conversation about kind of the what are some of the benefits that we might see if we were to put LS8 and TRA in the same building. Um, I'll try to hit the hot points. I wrote some of them down. Um, if you have questions after, let me know. I can make copies of this and email it to you if you want, send it to you. I didn't make a slideshow. Um, first one is we do need additional room at Diamond Ridge. They're at capacity. We turn
100kids away from Diamond Ridge because they have no more space to grow. So, that's a significant need we have in TRAA also use some room to grow. They turn away adults and um other uh we don't turn away hardly any schoolaged youth and I don't know how many of you know this but in Toronto also serves a large number of school age youth that are severely credit deficient. Um they go and enroll in the adult high school as a quasi dropout. that if they can get their credits in recovery and get to a point where they can graduate, as long as they do so before their cohort graduates, they can still graduate. And TRA has saved a lot of kids both in Kenya's district and in exterior districts that are taking advantage of that. Um
101especially in Granite as Granite only does a GED program. So we serve a lot of students in getting them back on track to uh path to graduation both school age and adults. The bulk of the students that go to Entrada are under 22. We very rarely have adults of more aged categories, but uh it's fair fairly young population. And the benefits of having these in the same building is a lot of the students who come back to graduate from high school also were on IEPs. Because they're on IEPs, we can receive federal funding in addition to adult ed funding to educate them as they're entitled to public education until they're 22. So putting in the same building allows for a lot of crossover services. We only had one student from LSA this year that was
102taking classes through Entrada to earn a diploma. I feel like if we put them in the same building, we would see more of those students taking advantage of the opportunity to actually get a diploma. Something that Stacy brought to our attention is, you know, put these students in LSA to teach them how to ride a bus and how to get a job. And they're competing for jobs with with everybody else. >> And if we can get them a diploma in addition to teaching them the life skills, it really is a feather in their cap to compete against their peers, even for entry level positions. So, um, it helps reduce the negative stigma with both schools. Um we we like the idea of oh the the the location if we do consider putting it in Bella
103Vista. It's a fantastic location for access to um community partners without needing to access public transportation. It's all walkable. We like very optimistic we could create some good partnerships. Um, and kind of as a bigger picture idea, we really like the idea of creating like an adult community center that houses Entrada, houses LSA. Um, we would also be able to house community ed programs there after hours. We could develop partnerships with workforce services, which we put people in our building that worked for Petts and for Voke Rehab. I feel like we could really serve the greater adult community in a lot of educational capacities if we were to take advantage of this space in the right way. >> Great. Are there any questions or comments? >> Yeah, Mrs. Peterson, >> I was I just wanted
104to verify that myself. So, I went and talked with both Mark and Well, I haven't talked Yeah. Well, Amy, Mark, and Stacy actually have talked to all three, and they're actually Mark is exceptionally excited about the possibilities that open up that he cannot provide at his current location. Being older than the other is actually easier for his students. I don't know if you know that most of the students that are going to both Diamond Ridge and Entrada get off tracks and walk up on Gordon to school. They're not driving to school. Most of these kids don't drive. they don't have licenses and they're walking up. So having an opportunity to have a bus stop right there >> it'd be very helpful for those intrada partic students particularly and for life skills. So um all they
105could tell me is how they felt they love working together. Amy and Mark love working together but they felt that the benefits far outweighed by the opportunities that those students would be provided. I feel very good about that because I wasn't sure how they felt about it. >> Thank you. I do have a question. So, you know how we modify Belleview? Like, are we going to need to modify >> modify the building? >> Have to make another entrance. >> If if if any modification most of the modifications at Diamond Ridge were for Diamond Ridge, the only thing we might have to do is separate the two programs. We don't necessarily want them intermingling willy-nilly. get to be two schools in the same space, but I don't think that would entail very much. >> There are
106different hallways. >> Yes. Yeah. No, I think it I think it'd be a minimal minimal modifications. >> They're not there bellto bell either. >> No. No. >> Life skills is there in the majority of the day and then and starts in the afternoon and goes into the evening. >> Is like 10 to 6 and life skills is a traditional schedule. There's only two hours. >> There's a little bit of overlap, but >> they like the large classrooms of the building. They really feel like benefit to the programs >> and then with the space that opens up it's just better for Diamond Ridge because >> expand it expand. >> Okay. What do we need? Do we need to notify anyone? You know how we like what's the legal process we need to go through to make
107this happen. Anyway, just be thinking through that. I think because it's a moving >> with a special ed skills you'd have to life skills would have to >> have to give notice to skills. No, we're not changing a boundary or anything. The boundaries >> the law says not probably have to meet with parents. >> Thank you. Um we'll just move the superintendent listening to item A of Everyone, we will now have five minute break. Thank you, Tom. Okay, welcome to the meeting of the Canyon's Board of Education. Today is June 2nd, 2026, and we're meeting at the district office located at 9361 South 300 East in Sand Utah. And the first item on the agenda today is to approve the agenda. And please don't forget that um item from study that we're bringing forward. >>
108I'll make a motion to approve the agenda for tonight. Um changing the You want me to do that right now? Okay. We're moving the um superintendent listening tour review Dr. from May Robinson from study session C and moving that to new B business item A and then the budget update would be moved down to item B. >> Okay, perfect. We have a motion for the agenda for tonight. Is there a second to that? >> I'll second it. >> Okay, thank you. We have a motion and a second to approve the agenda for tonight, June 2nd, 2026. Um, is there any comments or discussion to that? Okay, seeing none, I will call for a vote. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay, thank you. That motion passes unanimously. The next item on
109the agenda is the pledge of allegiance and that will be by Mindy Robinson, assistant superintendent. Okay, thank you. We are now going to move on to Canyon Strong employee recognitions and this will be by Jeff Haney, director and Kirsten Stewart, associate director of communications. [snorts] Thank you, President Schill, for this time to recognize the achievements of Canyon's employees. We certainly ended the year Canyon strong, as you will see from this week's recognitions. Now, during the study session, the board heard a report on the successful year of the Canyon's Education Foundation, which is the fundraising arm of the school district. One of the people who has been with the foundation from the very beginning is our first honore Brad Snow. Now, the past 17 years have been a period of great growth for Canyon School District.
110We have developed a reputation as an academically, artistically, and athletics, athletically strong district that is responsive to the community it serves. And we have earned that reputation thanks to the strong school to home connection as well as our amazing faculty and staff and our partnerships to industry and to businesses. One of the people who has had a front row view at the historic creation of Canyon School District also has played a key role in our growth. This is Brad Snow, our friend who is right there. Let's give him a round of applause. >> [applause] >> He has served with us since the very inception of the Canyon's Education Foundation. He was president for several terms and was the driving force behind the launch of scholarships that are announced the night of our spring gayla. And
111Brad's work with Canyons also extended past the fun of handing out checks or hosting banquetss or welcoming our golfers at the fundraising tournament. He also worked on our steering committees for our bond measures. And he stepped up big to promote and lead the citizens effort to raise private funds to raise awareness for our 2017 bond initiative. And that $283 million bond, it was approved by nearly 60% of the vote that allowed Canyon School District to transform and modernize facilities across the district. In the foundation, millions have been donated and we've had millions of inind dollars later. Plus, there's been countless hours in meetings and the time that he spent volunteering with the foundation. But he says all of that is worth it. In his resignation letter that he provided to the foundation, he said he
112experienced great joy at seeing what the grants and scholarships can do for teachers, students, and their families. It's for all of these reasons and many, many more that the board of education paused tonight to honor the contributions of Mr. Brad Snow for his efforts and dedication on behalf of all Canyon School District students, teachers, staff, and of course our parents. Brad, will you please come forward to accept a gift from the Canyon's Board and Administration? President Chill has it for you. Let's give him another round of applause as he comes forward. [applause] >> [applause] [clears throat] >> Brad, would you come over here for a second just for a few seconds to Yes. Right here. See this? This is the microphone. We talk into that. I know you've done it before because as the president
113of the foundation board, you gave many addresses about how important it is for our community to support our students. Would you just talk for a few seconds about what it was like to serve with on the foundation board from its very inception? >> Well, um, when I first started on the foundation board, I was also part of the the chamber, the Sandy Area Chamber of Commerce, doing both doing, you know, service on on both boards. And I had to make a choice of which one I wanted to stay on. It wasn't a hard choice. I chose education. Um, and it's been the right choice all along. It's been a been a passion. It's been something that I have never had uh fear or trepidation or or uh not want to serve and do things to
114see. I mean, the biggest thing was, you know, diving out the the grants because you can see the emotion in the kids and the teachers and that's what it's all about. For education, it's easy to raise money. It's easy to to to work. It's easy to serve. So, I've appreciated the support of the district, of the board, of our board members, and I know they're in good hands. I know the foundation's going to move on and continue its upward trajectory as it always has been. So, I appreciate the recognition and all of you, and I uh close with that. Thank you. [applause] >> Well, I certainly hope that we're going to continue to see you and Janelle at all of the gaylas. Yes. Okay. She says yes. So I guess he has a date to
115our future foundation gaylas. We appreciate the snows and all that they have done for Canyon School District since our very first days. Now the next honore is the winner of this year's rodeo, the driving competition for Utah school bus drivers. Canyons district's Terry Brown. She extended our streak of bringing home the trophy at the Utah School bus safety skills competition. She took first place and she earned a trip to the international competition in Texas this summer. Our other driver, Jeremy Clunk, took third place. He was hoping for a third consecutive first place win. Finished in the top three, but still out of the top three, we had two of those. Those are our school bus drivers. and we are incredibly proud of them. We hosted this competition at Crescent View Middle School. It brought together
116nearly 30 drivers from 10 school districts across the state to compete in a series of very demanding safety and precision challenges. It was designed to simulate realworld driving conditions and man it was tough. It also drew spectators. We saw Dr. Robinson there. Mr. Will Cox was there. And that cute little kiddo right there in the canyon's district cap. Well, he loves to stand outside my house and wave at the school buses that drive past our house every single day. That's my little grandson, Jupiter. He got to ride on a school bus that day. It's been the highlight of his year. It also got him ready for the fall. He's so excited for preschool at Sprucewood Elementary Schools. We also want to commend special education director Terry Mitchell and our early childhood development specialist Stephanie Peterson
117for the hard work they put in to having amazing evidence-based preschools all across canyons. If you haven't had a chance to check out our preschools, we tell our community, please do so. They're the best around. We're excited to see what Jupiter can accomplish in the coming year at a Canyon's district preschool. He's so excited to be a falcon. We're going to talk about the Falcons next. This was an amazing day. Speaking of Sprucewood, our next honores know how to respond as quick as Falcons to crisis at the school. On May 14th, the team at Sprucewood Elementary demonstrated extraordinary teamwork during a lifethreatening emergency involving a first grade student in a special education classroom. The student began choking and the teacher Ashton Brown immediately cleared the room and called for support from the school nurse Tanya
118Wade. Ta responded without hesitation. She directed front office staff member Ray Henline to call 911 while she was administer and life-saving measures. Ry stayed on the phone with the emergency dispatch while Becky Scrogggin radioed administration and coordinated communication in the school. The AFM Lane Brown ensured that emergency personnel could access the classroom with minimal delay. Meanwhile, [clears throat] classroom pair of professionals calmly transitioned students outside during this crisis with the student. They went outside for an impromptu recess with chalk and bubbles to maintain a sense of normaly and emotional support and safety. The students one-on-one nurse kept the parents of the child that was in distress informed the entire time, even facetiming them and letting them know what was happening and assuring them that things were being handled appropriately while the emergency responders were in
119route. Wendy Christy Anansen uh the a para profofessional and a nurse worked side by side with our school nurse providing critical assistance during this emergency response. And because of the calm leadership, seamless collaboration, and unwavering dedication to student safety, the child's life was saved. It was quite a day at Sprucewood Elementary School. It was also a time when our community had heightened concerns about emergency responders at our schools. And even though it didn't have anything to do with emergencies at other schools, it certainly did show us how our folks respond in a crisis, they are truly canyon strong. We are so glad that they did what they did in this life-saving measure for a first grade special education student. We thank them for their hard work. Principal Dr. Ashley Lennox says their actions exemplify the
120very best of education, compassion, and professionalism. We also wanted to mention the Sprucewoods faculty and staff who work so hard on the year-end musical. I sat next to Mrs. Oaks during the Granny Awards at Sprucewood. This year, instructional coach Christina Vanam went above and beyond, as she always does when she directed this musical. The school's spring musical, it was complete with amazing costumes, as you can see. They had choreography, songs, and you know what? They needed a few more speaking parts. So, Christina turned to technology and she helped write some commercials that were acted in the musical. It was so creative and fun. But you know, our employees are canyon strong away from school, too. And Christina recently completed her first ever marathon, the Ogden Marathon. So, congratulations to Christina on these two accomplishments. Both
121at school and away, we are involved in the community and our employees truly are Canyon Strong. Now, through laughter and tears, we recently said goodbye to our retirees, 58 in all. They have decided to start a new chapter in their lives. After collectively contributing, 1550 years of service in the public schools, one of our retirees was our former superintendent, Dr. Rick Robbins, who literally and metaphorically handed off the ball to Dr. Robinson. We have also, you can see there the photographs of some of the things that happened at the night of the retirees banquet. We also have had open houses to celebrate our retirees at schools and departments across the district. One of the biggest and best attended was for my friend and I know Mr. Lewis's Char Graham from East Midville. In fact, I
122saw Jackson there that day. Before Char's last day, the school unveiled a sign that dedicates the school's garden to Char's 47 years of service. From now on, East Midbell's spot inside the school for flowers and other lash plants will be known as Graham's Garden. To all of our retirees, we wish you much luck and happiness and joy in whatever you decide to do in your next chapters. Now, when he shoots, he scores. Now, we know that, and I certainly know that because he was a star hoops player at his and my alma mater, Roy High School, and it was certainly true when he hit the courts as an Aggie. Uh Reed Nuie is the Canyon's Innovation Center director here in Canyon School District and we congratulate one of our own in being inducted into the
123Utah State University Athletics Hall of Fame. Reed played for the Aggies before returning as an assistant coach. While as a player, he was a first team all Big West Conference selection and still ranks among the Aggies all-time best players. and he's the 13th leading scorer in program history with 1536 career points. That's a huge honor read. Congratulations on being inducted into the Utah State Athletics Hall of Fame. Now, every year the state honors teachers um with awards and the science of reading awards. In recent weeks, representatives from the state board visited Canyon School District and they provided these awards. They gave and surprised some of our amazing teachers with the science of reading award. These are the educators who are doing so much to promote literacy in their classrooms. So congratulations to Bernice Allen in
124our instructional supports department, Leanne Fiser also in ISD and from Granite Elementary School, Tiffany Smith from Bella Vista Elementary, Tamar Combmes and from Alterara Elementary, Payton Dalmire. So congratulations to our teachers and staff who won these amazing science of literacy awards. And Union Middle teacher Brooke Grant continues to impress her alma mater even after graduation. Not to mention the impact that she is having on her school community right here in the Canyon School District. She was recently presented with the Utah Valley College of Education Alumni Award. The nomination for Mrs. Grant says her impact extends beyond the stage. She helps students build confidence, collaboration skills, and a sense of belonging. Her dedication to inclusive practices and student centered learning makes her a truly deserving candidate for this award. Canyons, you can see there that the
125award uh ceremony was attended by our next assistant superintendent Minnie Robinson and union principal and our next middle school's director Angie Holden. They joined the Grant family in the celebration at Utah Valley University. Congratulations to her, Brooke Grant, a union teacher who won Utah Valley University's Education Alumni Award. Now, I also want to give applause to CSDTV's Ryan Wild for taking his camera behind the scenes at Hillrest's recent production of Phantom of the Opera. CSDTV's debut documentary called Behind the A Look Behind the Mask. The making of Hillrest Theat's Phantom of the Opera will be available for screening tomorrow starting at 6:00 on CSD TV. It's about 30 minutes of footage and interviews with the people who brought the music of the night to life at Hillrest. And this show recently won two technical awards
126for the show at the Utah High School Musical Theater Awards. The documentary was a labor of love for Ryan. I assigned it to him and he did so under great duress, but he did a phenomenal job piecing together what it was like to put together this Tony Awardwinning show. I'm sure that the soundtrack haunts his dreams, but after all of the editing he's done for our CSDTV documentary, he will sing the songs as he is walking down the hallways of the district office. We invite the entire Canyon's community to grab some popcorn, curl up, and learn what it took for our school to bring the Tony Awardwinning musical to life on the Hillrest stage. President Schill, before summer starts in earnest, we have just one more graduation ceremony. That's Entrada Adult High School. Their rights
127will be on June 10th. After that, the strains of pomp and circumstance won't be heard again until next spring for the class of 2027. But we also at this time want to thank our canyons strong commencement committees at Alta, Brighton, Corner Canyon, Diamond Ridge, Hillrest, and Jordan high schools. Those committees work incredibly hard to make the day special. And by all accounts, the ceremonies were well planned and worthy of 1,000 memories. Or guess I guess I should say 2026 memories for the class of 2026. The 17th in Canyon's district history. In 17 years, President Chill, we've become Canyon strong, even stronger than we were before. graduates, do us proud. Congratulations. We turn the time back to you. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Haney. We have now come to the patron comment portion of our meeting.
128The board often designates time in meetings to listen to the patrons of the district. Patron comment time is limited to residents and taxpayers of Canyon's district, students and parents of students, and current employees of the district. Patrons may provide board members with written documents and these documents must be submitted to the board secretary at the meeting or email to the office of public communications by noon of the following day after the board meeting. Tonight, individuals will be given three minutes and those representing groups will be given five minutes. Comments made during patron comment time are part of the public record. It is the board's practice to listen and take notes during patron comments. The board of education does not discuss matters that are not on the meeting's agenda, nor engage in public comment on individual
129students to protect their privacy or employee issues. If a patron wants to comment on a district employees character, professional competence, or mental or physical health, the board requests that those comments be submitted to the board in writing. However, if the patron determines to verbally comment on those personal issues, the comments need to be civil and refrain from personal attacks, insults, defamatory or slanderous comments about an individual. The board of education values input on all sides of issues. To maintain decorum and respect, we ask that those in attendance refrain from applause or other types of demonstrations during the patron comment time as well as throughout the meeting. Tonight, we first have Dennis Lagonis. Uh oh. Please correct. Please come up and correct how to say your last name. I'm sorry about that. >> Okay, say that
130one more time in the next >> Deos. >> Okay, thank you. Go ahead. >> Good evening, uh, board members. Dr. Rob, Dr. Robinson. Um, I just want to introduce myself. I'm running for Canyon's Board of Education, District 5. I was going to wait for after the primaries and I guess the candidate dropped and uh, here I am. So, that's why I introduced myself to you guys. um tell you that uh if in the event I do get elected, I look forward to working with all of you. Um I'm a husband, um a loving father, I've got two boys in the Canyon School District. They're high schoolers. Uh all my passion is my voice. Um care a lot about their future. Um I just want to be a voice uh for the community. That's it. I'm
131a simple guy. Simple as that. So um yeah, I just want to introduce myself and say good evening. That's it. >> Okay. Thank you >> for your time. >> Jason Maldonado, then Brienne, England. >> How you guys doing? I'm Jason Maldonado. Uh, thank you guys for being here. Um, biggest reason I'm here is a little bit concerned uh with my community about the closing of the schools. um kind of don't understand things as a taxpayer here. Uh I think my hardest thing I'm trying to comprehend is on one hand we're trying to say we don't have enough kids for schools, but then we're going to open up another school. We're going to spend a lot of money on another school. And by doing that, it's going to raise our taxes in our homes. And our
132taxes are already very high for our homes. And uh I wish there was more people here because I want to let them know that I know you guys do listen and uh you take in account of everything. You're not just trying to do anything you want to do. I I know that from experience. So uh you know I hope we can work together and find a common ground of what makes sense, right? because uh I think a lot of things are uncertain and we can move through that and uh try to make sure families and communities stick together. They're very important and that's why people live in our community, right? We start selling off lands and schools and things like that. I think it's a there's a big unknown. Um secondly, I would love to
133uh Mr. Robinson, I'd love to get to know you and talk to you and all of you actually on a onetoone. I have some uh concerns about Jordan High School. I think they're probably best if we meet. Um, and then we'll talk about things and you guys can decide how you want to move forward right there. But they're very important things and my goal is to not embarrass anybody, which is why I would rather meet. I think I left a message on your for you to get a hold of me just today. So you have a you're not late. [laughter] I left a message, yes, with your with your uh secretary. So hopefully you can get a hold of me and we can arrange uh some type of meeting where I can talk to you
134about my concerns. Uh they're very important. I think you guys will be surprised uh what I know to be true. Uh that's it. Uh, thank you guys very much for what you do. I know it's uh not easy, so thank you. >> Okay. Thank you, Brienne England. Hi. Um, I'm here on behalf of Granite. You all know because I come all the time. Um, but members of the Granite community and staff came to you guys in February of 2025 asking you for help. Um, for nine months, we participated in the boundary study process believing that that help would come through. We engaged in good faith, attended meetings, provided feedback, and trusted the process. However, today many families and staff feel our school is in a worse position than where we started. And frankly, we are
135exhausted. So, I'm sure you are, too. Over the last two weeks, I spent many hours at Granite attending end of year events, and I wanted to come here tonight to share what I consistently heard from families and staff. Overall, many do not feel heard. They feel that their concerns go unanswered, their emails receive little or no response, and issues they raise are not meaningfully addressed. Many do not feel comfortable communicating their opinions with the board and as a result many have lost confidence that their participation makes a difference. At the last board meetings, some members of the board expressed disappointment that more Granite parents and staff were not present. However, these are the same parents and teachers who during the busiest weeks of the month or of the year were finishing student portfolios, planning field
136days, supporting sports playoffs, attending soccer triyouts, dance performances, piano recital, and countless other commitments. Many simply do not have the time, energy, or emotional bandwidth to attend another meeting. When people feel their voices do not matter, it becomes harder and harder to ask them to continue to participate. Granite is now facing an allocation of just 10 teachers next year. Staff members are being forced into new positions by administration. Families are discussing leaving the school and sense of stability in our school has been deeply shaken. My own first grader recently asked me if I thought he would have the same fifth grade teacher as his older brother. I realized I couldn't answer him. I don't even know what school he will attend in fifth grade, let alone who his teacher will be. That uncertainty weighs heavily
137on families and especially on these children. They should not have to live with that uncertainty for the next two or three years as our school continues to bleed out. I encourage you to come to a granite event. Come and talk with us directly face to face and not rely on communication via email. At the end of the day, trust in this district depends on people feeling heard, valued, and respected. right now many in the granite community do not feel that way. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. So now we are going to go on with our agenda and the next item on the agenda is the consent agenda and I will now take a motion to approve that. And please read each of the items separately. >> I'll make that motion. So I'd like to
138make a motion to approve tonight's consent agenda which includes item A, approval of minutes for May 19th, 2026. Item B, approval of hire and termination reports. Item C, approval of purchasing bids. Item D, approval of business administrator contract from July 1st, 2026 to June 30th, 2028. Item E, approval to commit proposed property tax increase revenues and general fund balance. And item F, approval of administrative appointments. >> Okay, thank you. We have a motion to approve the consent agenda. Is there a second to that? I'll make that second. >> Okay. Who was that? >> Karen. Okay. Karen seconded that. Okay. Is there any discussion to those items? >> Okay. Seeing none, I will call for a vote that we approve the consent agenda as read. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay.
139That motion passes unanimously. Okay. We are now on to new business and we will start with item A and that is the superintendent listening tour review and that is by Dr. McKay Robinson our almost superintendent. [laughter] >> Well, we will refer to this as the almost superintendent's listening tour summary then. Um, but no, in all seriousness, um, I'm grateful for the opportunity to, uh, stand and discuss this, uh, wonderful practice that Dr. Robbins put in place. And fortunately for me, over the, um, several years that I was serving in the assistant, um, superintendent role, um, I had the pleasure of attending probably around 85 to 90% of these and tried to be to almost everyone that I could. So for this um school year, this is a summary for the ones that took place this
140school year, but there will also be some information in there that kind of encompasses the four years that these have been in place. And uh then we'll talk a little bit about the future as well. Um so first and foremost, just to give you a quick idea of all the listening tours that took place over the last six months, and I shouldn't say the last six months, but in between September and February. Um after the February date, Leon and myself um simply went to the different schools and and met with the administration to talk about some things and and uh offered some things up. But um this is a summary or encompasses all the information that took place in that six-month window. So you can see all the different groups that were met with. We
141had 22 elementary schools, two middle schools, two high schools, two special programs, and then we had the seven different employ employee groups. and they're all listed in there. And um this basically gets to the overall data or the information that was shared. And I wanted to first start off by um sharing some of the celebrations as well as the things that have taken place um throughout those years. Um you will notice the information on the left are just some of the key themes that came out this year. Whereas the things on the right are the the pieces of information that came out in the listening tours from 23 to 26 and that have been worked on and or are still in the process of being worked on. And I'm happy to report that a very
142key theme was there was a lot of appreciation if you will expressed by the teachers and staff in regards to these four particular areas. um specifically the additional planning time that was put in place, assistant principles in several of our elementary schools and uh child care benefits that came about and then also just a greater um attention if you will to the wellness. And just to give you an idea of what the employee wellness um is addressing as well as the increase that we had, um some of the main areas that they were extremely grateful for is the expanded on-site daycare for employees and their children. Uh middle school gyms have been opened up for our employees to access and to get some exercise in at no cost to them. Um and then the expanded
143maternity, parental leave, and then personal leave benefits as well as some employee wellness rooms throughout the district in the different um schools. And all of this um information and everything that has been put in place and worked on over the years has actually led to a 24% gain in teacher job satisfaction across the district, which is a an awesome um area to celebrate and to definitely recognize. So, we're grateful for all the work that's been done by many people to make these things happen. You will notice that we have a few lingering um stressors, if you will, or areas of concern, and we'll jump into those here a little bit more um throughout the following uh slides. And you'll first notice that underneath um in the blue box under support, staffing, and case loads, you'll
144see that number there. And you'll see that a number similar on the different pages or future slides. And that is basically an indicator of how many times these phrases or these subject areas came up in these different conversations uh throughout the different schools. And so more specifically to our special education as well as 504s, we continue to hear about high case loads um IEP workload and paperwork and everything else that's listed there. Um we had a few um employees that spoke very adamantly about the PAR educators and and how they're being paid and is there a way to you know continue to in incentivize or to draw them into these schools. Um it's a very difficult job and so those are ongoing things. Terry Mitchell our director of special ed has been um tasked with
145looking into ways of addressing all of these different areas. That does not mean that we will be able to address absolutely everything, but it is certainly something, you know, as was mentioned in the patron comments, this is definitely a group that listens and hears um from our employees as well. And we certainly try to do with what we can with what we have and the continued uh um difficulties difficulties that we face with just funding in general. Um moving on to the boundary study. This has obviously been a very um hot topic over the last um few years if you will and uh you'll see here that the concerns that are continuing to be raised is the FD reductions you know with obligatory transfers that is something that is being looked at overall within our
146um policy committee. They'll continue to look at ways of best addressing that and we'll talk about that a little bit more um in a future slide as well. Um but the concerns continue to come up even about the magnet programs or the sustainability of certain programs that we have in place. DLI being one for example just the feeder systems in general. Are there inequities across the board? And then concerns about some of our aging elementary school infrastructures and u system failures as well as ADA accessibility. Um one of the things that was brought up and I thought this would be some interesting information to share with you. um the quote or someone had shared if we were to add more preschools, it'd be a great way to attract some of our schools. In our previous
147um study session, we talked a little bit about our preschools, which is awesome. Um I don't know if you know to what extent or how those numbers have continued to grow, but we used to only have 10 programs throughout the district. We now have 25. And those 25 programs across the district um requires uh currently 90 employees roughly. Um, and those are everywhere from teachers, paras, sops, and so forth. And that funding is largely based on our special ed funding as well as the tuition based. And so if we were to uh grow that, it would be something that we would have to seriously consider or look at, but just keeping in mind the the amount of funding that goes into that as well. But I'm just quite thrilled to be honest that we've been
148able to increase that number and Terry Mitchell and and her team have done such an exceptional job making it such a a wonderful program. And as we talked about in the previous meeting, the students that are joining our preschools, about 70% are staying and continuing on through kindergarten as well. So, it's a great recruitment, if you will, and helping students to see and understand how great our schools really are and then they choose to stay. Um, class sizes continue to be a concern that came up throughout. Um, one of the main concerns is when we start to hit classrooms of 30 plus. Um, we've talked about that quite readily. I'm quite regularly I mean and it's something that we all share concerns with and and about and we continue to look at those and will
149um oftentimes if you recall even last year um we had a certain number of students that were fully enrolled in our schools and we thought they were showing up for the first day of school and then the first day of school came and those students were no longer in our schools and and there were several things that took place that led to that. um that we continue to have a dramatic drop and we're trying to address things the best that we possibly can. Um but we will continue to look at those and and addresses as needs do arise. But um the enrollment continuing to decline and then looking at student behavior, we have um escalating behaviors, aggression toward teachers and staff, um the need for more behavioral support personnel, and then student absenteeism. All areas
150that um Dr. McIll and his team as well as our MTSS team are discussing um twice sometimes three times a month in our MTSS meetings and looking at ways to provide different supports and trainings and and um even personnel where needed. Um we have some great things that have been put in place with our Thrive Chime, but there's always plenty of work to be done. um this little quote here on the side when it talks about the clear and transparent way of determining staffing. Um one thing that I continue to remind myself is what's very clear in my mind does not necessarily mean that that's clear in the minds of everyone else that I'm working with. And um it's amazing how many times um I have had to have that conversation with different individuals. And
151that only speaks to not that people are uninformed or not aware of how things are done. It really just comes down to we need to do a better job of being more transparent with how it all works and how it rolls out. And I think with the obligatory transfers and everything and possible school closures, it really will just um provide a an avenue, if you will, to be very transparent with all of that. Um we have to also be very careful and cautious with specific numbers. That's always something that a lot of individuals have held on to when they look at FTE and they'll see a certain number and they believe that's means that automatically we now qualify for an additional teacher. Unfortunately, that's not necessarily what that means. It simply is a kind of
152some guidelines, if you will, and we tried to adhere to those because we too believe the importance of of class sizes and and how to best support. Um but these are just all areas that came up in those specific areas. And then dual immersion and then planning and prep time. Um as you know, we've had to move to a oneclass cohort for two of our programs um at Silver Mesa as well as Okalo. Um we had the conversation as well at Lone Peak Elementary and they were able to get a few more students that um didn't require that shift. But uh with declining enrollment um this continues to be a challenge and a problem that um we will continue to look at and I know this is part of the comprehensive uh discussion as well.
153Um but that also leads to just the fear of losing programs or teachers when you're moving or shifting. What does that mean for those teachers that have been doing this for several years? Um and then also with the visas and green cards. um just some of the uncertainties that are there and I think that's that was expressed by one of our patron comments as well just there's a feeling of uncertainty and uh we certainly want to do our best to try and provide some of that clarity as well as um understanding of what's coming but at the same time I I also question times what's next and where um what are our numbers going to look like tomorrow and the following day and the next year and so forth and so we are doing the
154best with what we have and uh we'll continue to address all of these um and then planning and prep time. Um the frustration when prep days become PDhe heavy. Um we um most recently were working with our um CEA team and um in negotiations in different areas and were able to put out a nice um statement that also really addressed the week before and the week of parent teacher conferences. Um, so I'm very grateful that we were able to work through that to avoid any sort of mandatory meetings during those two weeks to um, give them the chance to truly become prepared and plan and be ready for not only the parent teacher conferences but the days of teaching as well. Um, and then you can also see that there's been some interest shared regarding
155remote work or paid leave and transparency flexibility as well as the calendar adjustments that were we talked a little bit about that in the previous meeting. those were more specific to um our high school. Um but there are these other areas that are more for the broader calendar and um this has been passed along to our calendar committee and several teachers that have also expressed interest have already been added to that group moving forward as well. So excited to report that. And then these were just some of the other areas that um were less frequent but did um come up in several different areas. And I think one of the biggest ones is on that far right hand side, just the quote there. Um, but we've seen a about a 65,000 square foot increase in
156building um, square footage. Um, but really haven't been able to address or maintain or continue to grow our facilities and maintenance staff. But I know that's something that Leon's been doing quite a bit with and looking at. And uh, I know that weighs heavily on his mind as well as mine. Um, but you can see all the different areas that have been mentioned there. And so that ultimately is kind of a quick summary of of all the different things that have been discussed as well as some of the areas that we're working on. Um, I did want to bring up and talk about the the future, if you will, and how we want to address these listening tours. Um, if I were to make a suggestion and or a recommendation, I personally would love to
157approach this a little bit differently. And the way I would like to see this and again open to feedback in in every sense of the word but I would love to be a part of our building leadership team meetings that are taking place at the schools, our professional learning communities, even sitting in the lunchroom um with the faculty and staff as they are coming in so forth so on and then also get our um administrators and district um directors involved in some of these as well. Um, and part of the reason for that or my explanation and reasoning behind wanting to be especially in the building leadership team meetings as well as the PLC's is that's where the work's ultimately happening and being discussed in our schools and it's gives me the opportunity to see
158what the roadblocks are from accomplishing what we need to to provide the students what they need and what our teachers need and then just having that discussion while we're in there. Okay, how do we help remove this barrier? And so it's an idea. It's a suggestion. We've been doing this approach for the last four years. I can continue this approach or we can try this other way. Um it doesn't mean that the numbers will decline in any way, shape, or form. Um Mindy and I, I'm sorry, incoming assistant superintendent um Robinson and I have been talking quite a bit about this already and just how we could make this um look and getting everyone involved. And it's very similar to what's currently set up in the sense that we reach out to the schools, they
159sign up for a date, we would just do the same thing for their um BLTs and PLC's and and then other opportunities where you know superintendent or the assistant superintendent will be hanging out in the lunchroom. If you have questions, feel free to drop by and just giving them different opportunities that way. So just some ideas and thoughts there, but I'm open to any andor all questions that you may have. >> Okay. Thank you. So board um would you do you have any questions or also what do you think about that proposal about moving forward kind of in a different way and obviously people comment um Mrs. Dolly then Mrs. Henderson. >> Just two questions on that. Um I know right now it's sort of like with the listening tour we have external relations and
160people come to take notes and so we're able to then you know get this information to the end of the road. So I think we just need to think about how does that communication then also get back to the board um with those and then secondarily making sure that we have the opportunity for all teachers to have a voice that it's because BLTs are not everybody. Yep. >> Um >> just thoughts things to think about. No, for sure. And I appreciate that. That's one of the reasons why I mentioned even the lunches or the different areas that way. Um, and and again, one of the reasons why I've also thrown out this idea is, and again, I haven't had this feedback, but I, as a former building principal, and maybe some of our um, teachers
161could attest to this as well, there are moments or times where um, we are sitting in a in a faculty meeting, if you will, and we're looking at our clock and we're wondering, boy, I wish I could be doing X, Y, and Z. Um, we have a lot of systems that are also in place with our Sachs, with our DAXs, with I mean there are so many systems of collecting a lot of this information and again giving the the opportunity for all teachers to communicate that, but then also being respectful of their time when it's because these often the listening tours oftentimes take place before after school, which is their planning time. So, just trying to be mindful of that as well. >> Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Penderson. >> Mine's a lot like Mrs. Stal's
162um [clears throat] questioning. I would like to see a combination of all of the above or or narrow it down so that certain schools could be assigned so they would know in advance when their rotation would come up because I find as you know I attended quite a few of those [laughter] listening tours that some schools were seen over and over and over every year and some were seen once. >> Yeah. and some had been seen five or six times because the principal would request it and that was the difference. It wasn't by our choice. It was by >> yeah [laughter] >> principal's request. I would like to I think the benefit of having an entire staff together and hearing one another's concerns as well as supporting one another so they feel confident in expressing
163some of their concerns may not be reflected in just a BLT. I think that you should visit some BLTs >> and that they can request to have you do that, but I would be hesitant to have BLTs be the only means by which we get information. I think we could do a combination where um certain schools we'd have a rotation and we wouldn't necessarily do 22 schools and seven you know all the high schools and you know all the employee groups but that we would be going through different regions areas of the district and have listening tours with the addition of they could request or you could ask in could which would your school prefer a listening tour or a BLT visit. I do know that BLTs are not always inclusive of all of the
164thoughts of the faculty. I just I'll just say that from being not on a BLT and and being in the building and I respected what they did and they worked very hard and I really appreciated them, but they weren't in their BLT meeting looking at some of those peripheral issues. >> Sure. >> So, I think you it would be wise to have both of them. Um, I think it's one of the best things we ever did was have listening tours and have have people come to their actual school and be able to see them in their home turf if if that's if that makes sense. So, I'd like I I want to continue some version, but I don't want to throw all of the listening tours out, nor do we have to do 100% listening
165tours. I do like the idea of popping into BLTs and I think at any school anyone could visit at a re at at a lunch you know we just say hey I'm going to be in the area can I just stop by your school and just let them know we know with our schedules whether we could do that because even board members could you know do that if that be something that the faculty would be comfortable with so um I appreciate your efforts to adapt but I also don't want to stretch you so far that you can't get your job done. So, it's it's an a lovely balance balance of time, but those are my concerns. >> Thanks. >> Okay. Thank you. And then let's just go down the line right here. Mr. Edel, Mr.
166Lewis, Mrs. Nyar. >> So, as each new leader comes in, you know, each new leader has a different style and a different approach. And uh I wholeheartedly support you taking a new approach. Um obviously, we just hired you, right, for a reason. um not by chance, not by fluke. Um right, because of our uh our faith in your ability to to do your job and do your job well. So I I won't even presume to even think that I can micromanage on something like this. And I would hope that none of us would also believe that we could micromanage you on something like this and how you engage with staff um and get feedback. Uh I appreciate you letting us know. I imagine this process will evolve over time as you get into it. And
167I just want to say thank you for continuing to engage at the facility level um with our schools um uh and also with with the rest of our staff throughout the district. And I look forward to uh hearing the additional comments that come forward as we move through the next school year. Thank you. >> Okay, Mr. Lewis. Thank you. >> I uh appreciate your willingness to be innovative. Uh, I do agree with Karen on most of the points she made. Uh, I would be will I I I'm interested to see if we did this what it would look like in a year, what the results would look like in a year. However, I'm just a little bit concerned about how selective BLTs are like Karen said, as well as, you know, you with the superintendent
168store, you give everyone a time, place, like a specific date and an opportunity to just come and complain, you know, to come and complain, voice their things, and it's open to anyone. You don't have to attend. You can attend. I think it having that set in stone instead of a, oh, I'll show up at a BLT or at a lunch or anything else is a little bit more consistent. However, Andrew is right. You are deeply deeply experienced on all levels. And if this is the way that you want to go, let's give it a year and see how it looks at the end of next school year. Absolutely. >> Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Nymar. I really appreciate the opportunity to have our current superintendent um utilize his leadership abilities in in the way that he
169sees as best. Um I appreciated the opportunity to sit down and be part of those listening tours and listen. Um, many times I would stay after and talk to staff and you know there's tradeoffs with whatever whatever approach you do. I actually had a lot of faculty um feel that the listening tour, yes, they were able to come and speak, but as far as followup to issues, as far as some of those things, you know, it's it's it's kind of a a big view of we're listening, but it's a little bit harder to then go in and then, you know, in in a very precise way actually follow up with what's happening. And I think that's the beauty of small group interactions. And I know you mentioned PLC's too which would take in all the
170teachers and I think I had enough um feedback from teachers about okay what's the followup and and um actually um a lot of a lot of teachers following up with me after listening tours. And I think that there there'll be some really neat things that come from more of a small group um feedback, question and answer and ability to follow up. So I fully support you in that decision. Um, also when you were talking about the feedback from the listening tours, I just wanted to mention I did receive um communication today from the Oak Hollow community who are extremely concerned about moving to the one cohort that they have um that they have um some families that are on waiting lists. And just so the whole full board knows, I guess there's going to be
171a lot of communication and emails coming in. And um parents also from Okalo did talk to Lone Lone Peak Elementary about that process. And so they anyways um that's actually what was I was on the phone with um right around when closed session was happening. So just as a heads up that there's a concern that way already that we can get going on and look into. But I just I really appreciate it and I'm excited to see I guess my one thing is I'm really excited to see also um a level of um you know followup of what of after you go to these schools and do more of a small group interaction um then what are the next steps and measures because I think that was the biggest feedback I would receive after. So
172>> okay thank you. Um I do want to mention that Mrs. Oaks needed to leave. So, we need to um put that on the agenda, but she she is listening and she will not be participating anymore, but she will be listening. Um I do want to add my support like I I would love you to try a new way. And I think I think the majority of us are saying yes, at least try it for a year and then maybe um make sure you like because I think all of us want to make sure you report back to us because there have been several initiatives that we've then adopted, you know, put more money like the more um time for teachers, the assistant principles. I mean, those are all budget decisions. So So I I
173think we all just want to make sure we get some type of report back. >> 100%. No, I can completely commit to that. Okay. >> If I were to add anything else, it would really be the fact that this is going to continue to morph, if that makes sense. I think it's >> I would imagine >> um something that we want to be effective. We want it to be beneficial. We want to continue to receive the information as well as help our employees see that they're being heard. And so again, as I'm just throwing out these different ideas, it's it's trying to look at how do we most effect effectively address all of our employees. Um, and that could be a combination of all of the above. And really, it might be school A wants
174this and school B wants that. And you know, and I'm very much open to all of this. Um, and again, I've I've kind of pride myself in spending time with people and and understanding where they're coming from and what their um needs or concerns are. Um, and so we'll continue to look at it. I'm not committed one way or the other. It truly just comes down to what's going to be best and most effective for our employees moving forward. >> Okay. Thank you. I think that sounds great. Um, I do want to bring up another item. So, every other superintendent um that we've had, well, it kind of got messed up with Rick because he was hired during COVID. So, every other superintendent, we've had some type of open houses where the parents can actually
175interact with you. And so, I don't know if you could talk to communication. I mean, I don't maybe there's not the need, but I would at least love you to discuss this because I I mean, I do think it's important for superintendents to get in front of parents, not just employees. So, I don't know. I mean, I'm not going to tell you what to do, but um I don't know how the rest of the board feels, but I do think it would be awesome. I don't know. I don't know. Think about because I know with like Jim Brisco, he went to every single I think high school. Didn't he go to every single feeder? >> I mean, I'm not saying you have to do that. Like, you don't need to do that. Jeff, do you
176have some ideas? I see you standing. Okay. >> Yeah. And just to add to that, and I know this is very similar to the other in the sense it may not en encompass everyone, but we already do have like our PTA and our SEC's that all come together and we do >> that is true have those conversations. You're going to do that lunchon the lunchon in the fall. >> Yep. That's our great if I remember correctly. So, >> okay. >> Yep. We've got all that in place. So, >> so perfect. >> Well, we'll continue to look for every opportunity possible. >> Okay. That sounds great. Okay. >> I'm getting some sleep. So, I'm good. [laughter] >> That would be great. Thank you so much. We really appreciate that. And that was a good report. Okay.
177Next item on the agenda is item B and that is the 202627 budget update. This is the second reading by Leon Wilcox, business administrator and he will go through all these items on the agenda. >> Thank you, President Schill. I know uh May I know you need some sleep, but hey, you got to stay awake during the budget. This is the exciting. >> That's the most exciting part. >> Yes. Uh yes. Thank you, President Shill. This is our second reading. Just a a couple quick housekeeping items, if you will. Uh we posted our budget online on the website, uh last Tuesday, day after Memorial Day. Has an executive summary. It's on Diligent as well. I have a copy here. I may just show this binder a couple times. That's what it is. The total budget
178we're asking you to approve is 610 million. It has 15,000 Excel lines, which is 15,000 separate accounts. You know, obviously, we're going to try to uh truncate that down just to a couple charts and graphs here for you and for the public because there just so much detail out there. Some of the things we went through last time was our pass through taxes fund, our capital, and our debt. The pages are there. We won't hit those today since we hit them last time. But uh uh I [clears throat] want to just start off by saying this statement. This was in the minutes that you approved. I'm going to ask this be per verbatim in the minutes again for this meeting and that is that there are 2026 27 but proposed budget for Canyon School Executives
179District includes a proposed tax rate increase. The increase will be approximately 6,871,000. The percentage increase will be approximately 5.8% and we'll schedule our truth and taxation to be held Tuesday, August 4th at 6 here in the district offices here in this room. Okay. I'm going to ask that be put in the minutes. So, we have to turn that into the the uh state and the and the county. Uh we have our property tax impact statement. It's found on our website. It's found it's found on the homepage found on diligent. We have handouts. Uh of that total that 7 6.8 2.61 will be used to give a slightly higher cola inquiries cost of living uh of 0.75 of 1% for all employees. That was part of the negotiations agreement you approved two year two weeks ago.
180Also looking to hire two new teachers for our CIC manufacturing and engineering with those funds as well. So the general fund will go up 2 million uh 371,000. Yeah. Yes, that amount there and that's on their tax impact statement. Again, we're looking to increase our capital fund that will only use that money to pay general obligation debt, but we also reduce our debt service fund by that same $4.5 million. So, it's a net in has no it's a net zero impact to the taxpayers. And as we said, our debt retires over the next few years, the district will use the funds to re rebuild and renovate our aging elementary schools. Doc McCay hit on that. One of the concerns as we go to some of these middle elementary schools, we have 13 that are over
18150 years old that need some work and another six that are 45 to 50 years old. So things that we got to start addressing that way. Here is a average tax statement. I just want to go over that with you. This past week, we received the average values home values from the Salt Lake County Assessor's Office. So, a home value in the a the average home value in Canyon School District increased $30,000. Excuse me, 40, excuse me, $30,000. Yeah. Went from 740 to 770. Last in the budget and last meeting, I thought I used that's 4%. I used 3% so it was 762. So, a little bit higher than I thought. Uh, but you can see $30,000 on the average home in one year. So, you can see that amount right there. You compare it
182to pointing to this amount right here. Uh, >> you look at the line that we're looking to increase, the Canyon School District line on that top line on people's tax statements goes up about $70 on the average home. We want to make that note there. However, if you look down on the second line, that is going to drop by about uh just about $38. Again, the debt service again as we transfer money from debt to I mean from debt into our capital. So, we want to make that note there. Also, the basic school levy on this average home is going to go up about $11. That is set by the state. They will they may change that rate as they get closer with the certified tax rate. They usually do. Usually it drops a little
183bit, but I we'll have to see what happens this year. That being said, as we get the certified tax rate and get all this figured out, these could change by a few dollars here. Just want to just want to make sure everyone that says that this is a projection and an estimate right now. But again, the net increase in total taxes, you look at last year's amount, what we're and then what we're project last year's amount and versus what we're projecting for this year's amount is about $37 on the average home once everything's [snorts] figured in. Okay, so that's that increase there. And again, that will could change, go up a couple of dollars, could come down a couple of dollars as we finalize everything there with the state. Again, also want to note our
184tax hearing August 4th here in this building. This does not in of course your statements will not include anything from the cities. I do know Draper City will be doing a tax increase. I believe that's the only one of the cities in our district that's doing it. Is Cottonwood Heights doing it? >> Yeah, Conwood Heights is planning to do one. >> They had a list and they were not on it, but okay. That and I know the town of Ala is also doing it as well. I know Sandy is not and I don't think Midville is, but I'm not 100% sure on that one. Uh [clears throat] the tax revenues again with the new bill 236, you committed the funds on the consent agenda. We cannot spend devil's monies until the tax hearing. So we've
185what we've said is committed or set aside that 6.8 million right there in our general fund. Uh and then as it does the increase goes through we will be doing what we call retroactive for those employees who would qualify for that. That's you see the page number there on our budget. I just want to give some more detail uh eight year last eight years on property taxes. You can see what we collected eight years ago. That's FY20. That was the year of COVID. And you can see where we're at now. Roughly 25 27% more. 38% is that is due the state's portion has gone up by 38%. So you know people say taxes have gone up. They have. We were the first to admit that. Some of that is because the state has dropped income
186tax but has raised their portion of the state basic rate too. So a little bit of a difference there. And you can also see the where the debt has gone up again. We've dropped it down this year. Transfer some of that money up there into what we call a certified rate. Again, making that even there. You see a bar graph of that going across. And also the average home value again the last eight years. So in co >> it was average home FY20 was 420,000 421,000 this year again it was 769 to500 I'm rounding up to 770 but you can see an 83% increase in the average home in the last eight years that's big you know that's goes back to our enrollment problems of young families how do they afford it we you know
187I understand that you can see the next rate down is the basic how much basic rate has increased on that average home again about almost 50% from 384 up to 572. Our certified rate that we control gone from 970 again up to this is the proposed 1314 35% and you'll see the debt again that rate has dropped but you can see how that impacts the average home roughly 18%. Here is the total taxes due and the year-over-year change. the state did drop the basic rate quite a bit in between 23 and 24. That's why that went down. Uh but also but you can see a total change if you will of about $34 from one year to the next. Total taxes again that could go up or down by a couple dollars as we go
188forward. Important to remember I say this last several years you see house values have gone up quite a bit. Commercial values have not. you know, uh, this work from home type thing has really impacted the commercial market quite a bit. The commercial values was 7.4 billion dollars, if you will, in FY20. It's now up to 10.7 billion. We like the commercial because they don't get that that tax that residential exemption, but they haven't gone up as much. You know, their values have gone up about 44%. That's why most of, you know, these increases have been pushed on to residential homes rather than commercial properties. And so that's always a big thing factor that's out there. I know the state has looked to try to change that. Couple bills were floated out there, but nothing took
189hold this last session with that. So, so there's our tax taxes right there. uh going to completely change gears and this is what I brought up last meeting about a proposed lunch price increase. Again, the last time we did it was in 2021. We actually didn't implemented that year as we had two years of COVID. You know, we were subsidized by the federal government, but our food costs have just gone up up and up, as well as our labor cost, you know, to keep and employ good people in all parts of our district, including our kitchen. So, if possible, we'd look to approve that at next week's I mean the board meeting in two weeks. We won't need to we don't need to wait till the truth and taxation hearing to approve that. Here's what
190our proposal is. You can see what Salt Lake and Jordan are doing where they where they're headed. Uh we're proposing a dollar for breakfast. more on the next slide on that. And 50 cents for elementary lunch and 75 cents for secondary lunch. You can see the participations there. Uh about a almost half our students participate in lunch about 10% in breakfast. Those schools who recall are on C or community economic provisions will still rem receive free breakfast and lunch. you know, Midville, Middle Meadow, then Carper View, East Midville, Mid Midville, Mid Valley, and Sandy Elementaryaries that will continue next year. So, I know there was a quest last time about paid breakfast, how that looks. So, these are we got I updated that this today because we got the final totals of the number of
191paid breakfasts we provided all of last school year. So, it was about a 181,000. And you can see the breakout there between elementary, middle, and high schools. Uh, you know, we don't have a whole lot of students pay for breakfast, especially at the high schools where we're only the average student if you calculate on a per student basis is about two a year. Uh, I know some won't have most won't have any, but some may have 30 or 40. You know, it just depends on how what they choose. These numbers do exclude those C schools, so they're not accounted in there, but you can see the averages there. Uh, I'm going to just stop there because this is a little bit separate. Is there any questions on what we're requesting on the increase in the
192paid in in the school lunch and breakfast costs? >> Are there any questions, board? U Mr. Ed, >> uh, I do just want to comment as a parent with kids who do eat breakfast and lunch at school. Um, I I I still think that the the fees are reasonable and um, you know, I looked at the math and the math makes sense. Uh, and I appreciate the the quality and the availability that we have uh for school meals. And um, while I want to acknowledge the impact it'll have on some, uh, I know for at least my household, uh, we'll continue to have to have no restrictions for our children. If they eat, then they they eat, and if they don't, then they don't. Um, but the prices are still all uh really cheaper than
193I can I can do at home. So >> yeah, like I say, if you go to Chick-fil-A or McDonald's or wherever for lunch, these kids who particularly the high school kids who leave for lunch and come back, you know, they're paying three times as much or four times as much. Yeah. >> So, if it's okay, we'll bring a proposal back for you to vote on at the June 16th meeting then. Okay. Again, here's some enrollments and uh McKay hit this with, you know, the concern that's out there amongst all our school communities and that's just this drop in enrollments. You can see the last five years that have where we have been, you know, we're actually higher than that the previous two years. So, we've been following for about six, seven years now. You can
194see where we're projected to go over the next five years. Just continue down. We do think we're going to bottom out around that 25 26,000 enrollment in the 22 I mean the 32 33 year kind of bounce along there for a couple years and then start rebounding if you will in the late 30s 36 38 that is what the state is projecting. We'll have to see if that comes to fruition, but that is the projections out there. Will take a long time. You know, they're projecting about from the peak down statewide about a 90,000 student drop uh from where it was about three, four years ago. So, it's big uh that way, but we'll uh see where that is. And again, we'll have to adjust our budget accordingly as we move forward with fewer students.
195Now, I'm just going to hit again some of the our charts there. You have I put the page numbers, you know, again, trying to condense these 15,000 accounts down to a little bit simpler view, but some of the impacts that we're seeing out there. Uh here's our revenues the last three years, what we're filing budgeting this year, and what we're proposing for next year. You can see it. There's not a whole lot of big difference between our budget for next year and our final budget this year. Main change is in the increase in property taxes. We will get a little bit more state money in some areas, but we're losing, you know, but due to the loss of students and also the loss of the digital teaching and learning with that pays for our our
196elevate summit that was happening today and tomorrow. We're also losing TSSA with that. So you can see our revenues going up a little bit but not a whole lot. You can see a chart how we collect our money. Again the majority some uh uh 56 57% coming from the state and either restricted or unrestricted but then also our property taxes and just a small chunk from the federal government and and our local whether that's building rentals or whatnot there interest on investments and whatnot on that. So that's why we're always working with the state legislature, Susan, Charlie, trying to get the money that we can to support our schools. Here's where we have the money going out. Our expenses, a three-year trend plus this year's final budget next year's again, not a big d in
197not a big increase. The main thing is we're going to have about 50 something fewer teachers uh next year just because of that loss of enrollment is what and uh and so the big thing uh as the big challenge we're going to face going forward is how do we reduce other areas as well and I know you know McKay's gone out to the listening tours and people have commented about the student behavior and other things. And that's where these student services and staff services and district administration impact those. But again, we have fewer students to fund those. So, we have to we may we'll have well, undoubtedly we're going to have tough decisions going ahead with that. So, but you can see where where we're projecting there. Again, we still want the most of of
198our funds going right to instruction students, our teachers, right in front of our students going around the PI facilities. That would include our utilities of course are going up. Especially water, our school administration, our staff, that is our that would be our coaches, our librarians, and also all the PD that we do out there. Our student services, there was our counselors, nurses, psychologists, social workers. Central was payroll and accounting it is the biggest one there transportation our busing and then our district and community u making up about 1% there here's what we call it by object again you know even in this age of AI if you will it's still salaries and still people that's what drives education is people and 90% of our dollars are going towards people whether it's salaries or benefits and
199you can see the others around there but uh again even this age ai still don't we're never going to get past a qualified teacher in front of our kids. Here's our fund balance. You can see where it's been the last few years and where we're projecting. I should always say I say this every year it's not going to look like this at the end. We always budget on the conservative side, but we also know historically we're going to be two to three% on the budget. You know, 3% on a $400 million budget is about $12 million. And we're trending pretty well this year. So, we expect uh you know, we hopefully will add to we add a little bit to our fund balance this year. And we do there is a per Utah code for
200the last few years if you have leftover funds in your debt service you can use that for technology programs which we've done and here's our FTEES again we still want the most going right to instruction whether that's aids or teachers paras and going around the circle there again those same services but again long next several years we're going to have to figure out how do we keep that instruction ction up there even higher while reducing these other ones. And that's going to be painful. We know that. And this is one thing that we talked a little bit about in our operating systems last week. McKay hit on it. Uh but that's class size. And you know, that's really where the rubber hits the road for us is that is keeping our class sizes as low
201as they can because that provides the most effective instruction. That's what our budget is really all about is how do we, you know, educate these 32,000 kids the best way we can and also the most efficient way we can. So, what I did is I pulled all our just the just elementaryaries uh and I did it about three weeks ago. So, the fourth term if you will their class sizes and so we had 16 I'll get that to the on the next slide. We had 16 elementary schools that had a class size of 29 or higher. And we'll get to that on the next slide. But you can see our ratio here of how many teachers students per teachers we have. Then the number of classes, the high and the low. We have, you know,
202as we've talked about, we have some very small classes, you know, in the low teens, then some that get bigger, particularly these smaller elementaryaries that that poses that challenge there. Well, you can see on our kindergarten, we staff it at 22.15, but our average is 19.8. So, we're below what we staff at. But our biggest one was at Draper. We had one at 27, one at 25, and one at Silver Mesa at 26. All the others were under that. First grade was our best. You know, again, we had several of the DLIs that were 28, but uh the highest nonDLI was at Glacier Hills with 24. Uh and you can see going down there the big concern we just had a few kids move into Aluse's neighborhood and just that one class fourth grade. So
203we got up to 35 there. That was far and away our biggest class. But you know, some of these are these smaller schools that we've looked at and you know, Quill Hollow, Granite, Sprucewood are in that area right now. And Oak Hollow is the same with the dual immersion just basically one neighborhood class. So that just all these challenges come to there. But we I think overall we are pleased that we just had again out of roughly 400 50 close to 500 classes. We only had 16 that had 29 or higher. And you can see those there. Uh again, the biggest was out of your fourth grade class. Then two classes that had 31, Sprucewood and Oak Hollow, and then four classes. Alterara's fourth graders were 30. Quell Hollow had a had a 30 again
204as we had lots of their parents here last time and understandably so with their concerns. So there's again trying to monitor our class sizes. Just to hit to wrap up our budget approval process at the next meeting on June 16th we'll ask you to approve the FY27 budget on a tenative basis. The final approval will come at our tax hearing. We'll adopt a revised budget at that 16th meeting as well. We'll ask you to do that. Not a whole lot of changes between what you approved last a year ago and now. We'll have a separate public hearing for any public comment on the budget. We may have the certified rate done, but it may not be. But and then we'll also ask for your approval on the lunch and breakfast price increases. So just want
205to remind on the August 4th truth and taxation bill here start an hour earlier at six o'clock. We can only have that can only be our only meeting that day. So we cannot have a study session before as we've done in the past. The only business we can discuss is the tax increase and the budget. So what formally adopt the budget however it looks that night. And we must allow for video and audio connection. So I'm going to have talk with Justin, Jeff, Kirsten how that's going to look. That was a new requirement they uh going on that they will submitted or required and also uh any well they can submit written comments before the hearing and during the hearing and we'll need to read those into the record. So have to see how all
206that plays out. Again, new requirements from that House Bill 236. So with that, that's all I have. But any questions or comments with that? >> Okay board, are there any questions or comments? >> Well, it looks like there are not. So thank you, Mr. Wilcox. We appreciate all your work on this. It is a lot of work that goes into it. Okay, so the next item on our agenda is staff comments. And we will start with um superintendent report Dr. McKay Robinson. Hey, I learned how to turn it on. That's good. Last time we struggled a little bit with that. Um I I do have a few things that I would love to just quickly identify and share. And we may need to start this three minutes for me as well. Um but just really
207quickly, Brad Snow was recognized a little bit earlier in the work that he's done on the foundation and and I just wanted to express my appreciation to him as well. Um one of the most um amazing individuals that I've had the privilege of working with and has always been so kind and gracious to me. So I thank him and and all the great work that Denise has been done doing. I know we celebrated her in the back room, but um just really admire her and all that she's done and influenced all of our students. Um Suzanne Ren is another individual that has truly impacted um our schools and just really grateful for her as well. Today was really an awesome opportunity for 920 of our our teachers. Um we had our elevated teaching summit today
208and we had 920 teachers um sign up to be a part of this come in on their basically their first day of summer if you will. Um it's truly impressive. There's 254 sessions over the next two days. Um 61 of our classroom teachers actually are signed up to be presenters. Um we had 14 external presenters. Everyone I mean from different organizations like USB, UEN, Canva, Magic School, Near Pod, on and on. So there's 196 different presenters overall. So truly amazing. I have to give a major shout out to Shandra, Allison, Jonathan, Emma, Lesie, Li, um, Amber, Katie, and the list goes on and on, but the the amount of work that went into this is just truly impressive and and it was a great privilege and and u opportunity that I had and just so
209grateful for all their work. Um, I wanted to congratulate our graduates as well. Um we made it through another amazing school year and it was a great thing to be a part of three of the high school graduations and then Diamond Ridge as well. Um just truly grateful for all of that. Um but last but not least um certainly not least in any way, shape or form is um I wanted to just specifically recognize Sergeant Singleton. Um, Sergeant Singleton is uh just a just an all-around amazing human being. Um, and as if you talk with other law officers and the different individuals that work with him, they have nothing but positive things to say to them say about him. They talk about how he's by far the best supervisor that they've worked with. And just
210from a personal note, I know that Shereice, I know that um Susan, Suzanne, everyone else involved that has had the opportunity to work with you are truly blessed and are better people because of it. And I will just speak for myself um just how grateful I am to have known you. I hope you're not disappearing. Um and I hope you continue to come around, but um been with us for about five years overseeing all of the SRO's in our schools. And so my hat goes off to you and I truly appreciate you and I hope if there's anything that I can ever personally do for you um to help advance your career in any way, shape or form, please don't hesitate to reach out. I'd be more than happy to support you. Um we have
211a very very small token of our appreciation. It's one of our lovely Canyons coins. I know my brother speaks quite a bit about the different coins that are passed around different law officers, but we wanted to make sure that we got one of these for you from Kenyon's district. So thank you, Sergeant Singleton. We greatly appreciate all that you've done for us. Okay, thank you Dr. Robinson. Um, now we will have the business administrator report by Leon Wilcox. >> Just want to thank Tamara Bostic for filling in for Cindy tonight. Sydney has an annual uh girl state is where she's at first week of June and volunteering her time out there and tomorrow has graciously stepped in and been trained over the last week and kind of had a deal with McKay and myself on
212preparing. But hey, thank you for filling in tonight. Uh I just want to extend my thanks to the board for, you know, extending my contract for another two years. looking forward to, you know, the opportunities and also the challenges that we're going to face moving forward. So, thank you very much. Certainly appreciate that on behalf of my family and myself and just want to uh go along with what McKay said. You know, we had I had serious fun, I called it, at graduation last week. It was great to be at Ala with and corner with Holly and Amanda, uh Jeff and Tom as well. and then Diamond Ridge with McKay, Karen, Katie, and Amber. So, that was a lot of fun as well. So, congrats to all our all our graduates. That's all I have.
213>> Okay. Thank you. We will now go on to board comments and we are going to start with Mrs. Nybar tonight. >> Well, I I love participating in graduation ceremonies. It's neat to be a part of of that with the kids and because that's why we do what we do and and why we spend the time we do is is for them. And so it's neat to whenever we have the opportunity to interact with the kids. Um I always have the same thoughts as as you see all these kids and their caps and gowns is the future is so bright. And one thing that was stood out in my mind as I was reflecting, I I I was able to go to Alta and Corner Canyon and then also had the awesome privilege to go
214to Jordan Valley. And man, I don't know that there's anything that'll bring tears to your eyes quicker than seeing the difference that teachers and staff and faculty at that school make in the lives of those really awesome, neat individuals that we we all get to learn from. But as I was I was thinking about these graduates, I was thinking about all the people that stand behind them, their parents, their families, the teachers, the administrators, the bus drivers, the custodian, you know, there's so many people that that um the teacher aids obviously um the teachers, but all of those people kind of create this ecosystem behind them um to create the experience experiences that they have for those kids in in our schools and their school experience. And I was thinking that, you know, it's regular
215everyday ordinary things that are done, but those things over time added up and if done with great love become extraordinary. And it's interesting um finish lines are always pretty fast and surreal and we celebrate them and they're so fulfilling. But behind that finish line was the process it took to get there. And that is is the significant part. That's that's the part where where people become who they're meant to be. That's where all the lessons are learned. And and so it's just neat to to think about everything that went into that day. So I really I really love graduation. Um had some really fun activities at the elementary school. Uh the fourth grade's doing this whole um rendevous um frontiers uh kind of they did this whole unit on learning about frontiers uh the the
216Wild West and everything that went into that and then they had these goods and they went to market and they they had these um beaver pelts that they they marketed and sold and bought with beaver pelts. That was really a fun event for for my fourth grader to be involved in. Um, so many, you know, end of year programs and I'm just come away just feeling so grateful. I'm so grateful for our village, so grateful for everyone who who pours all the love and time and attention into our children. That's it. Thanks. >> Thank you, Mr. Lewis. >> I had the opportunity to attend three different graduations over the last two weeks. The first being Jordan Valley's graduation with Holly and that was again an incredible experience. Uh we had I believe eight graduates this
217year. Uh it was two last year and it was such an exciting ceremony to see people who are so so so dedicated to giving another person such an incredible opportunity like education. Seeing that work hard work pay off is so awesome. uh at Hillrest and Brighton's graduation uh had the opportunity to more particularly at Hillrest to hand a couple of diplomas to people that I ended up going to high school with. Did not really expect to see some familiar faces, but you know, this is the last year that I had students I have that there are students still in school that I went to school with. So, that was kind of a fun thing. Um very, very interesting. Um, other than that, I hope that each of our students enjoys their summer break, uh, and
218that our teachers enjoy a little bit of a time spent away from the classroom over the next couple of weeks. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Edel. >> So, with graduation, I've been thinking an awful lot about uh, young people, and there's various opinions about young people, but I think they've persisted since time began, right? where young people are always younger than older people and they have less life experience and those have more life experience. Um, but uh I'm really excited for the graduates and uh we we have so many great uh young people out there right now who are incredibly sharp um have fantastic critical thinking skills. Uh, and so it's fun to celebrate them at graduation as they start on that next chapter in life. Um, and for the ones that I get to
219work with, um, who who come my way, it's uh, it's fun to get to know each of them. Uh, but yeah, we we have just such such amazing young people out there and so I'm appreciative of them for the work that they put into their education and then everyone else who I mean for all the work that goes into into that as well. So, uh, and then thank you so much, Sergeant, for keeping our schools safe. Um, we we've got like the best SRO's, like really absolutely hands down. Um, you know, all of my interactions with our SRO's have been uh nothing less than amazing. Uh, so thank you to you. Thank you for your whole team. Um, thank you for the positive role model that you are for all of our students. Um, and
220thank you for keeping our students safe. >> Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Dolly. >> Thank you. I've had uh the opportunity to attend the Elevate conference today and to echo what Superintendent Robinson said, it is phenomenal. So shout out to our ISD department for all their work in putting together uh this conference because it's no small feat to put on a conference for that many people with so many great sessions. Um and so I'd highly encourage anybody that can to attend that. the keynote keynote uh today was phenomenal and you know learning more about uh that it shouldn't be screen time that we're counting but really screen value um when we're using technology in our schools and make sure it's really providing the value uh that we need it to for our students. Secondly, um as
221many have mentioned just shout out to our graduates. It was awesome to attend the graduation celebrations. I think my favorite moment was at LSA when the principal Stacy Nasinger was getting a little bit teared up and one of her graduates said, "Be brave, babe." and stood up and walked up and gave her a big hug. And so, you know, I'll always remember that. Be brave, babe. Uh when when things could be tough. So, thank you to um everybody that worked hard to put on a great graduation celebrations for all of our students. And then lastly, I have the opportunity to serve on our Canyons Education Foundation. And just want to thank uh Brad and Denise for all their work there as they move on to other things, but um also take the opportunity to uh
222thank all of our partners that serve on the foundation. We have so many businesses um in our communities that love to support our students and our schools and make us make it possible that we can do some some great things with our schools and supporting families and students. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Patterson. >> We'll just finish the theme of graduation. Um, it is such an honor to be able to see the end of the results. As an elementary teacher, you worked really, really hard and you moved this child that you put your heart into and passed them on to someone else who loves them just as much. And to be able to see some of those those same kids coming across the stage and look at you in in the eye and just
223be so proud of them and their accomplishment, it's a reward. You get to finally get to see the the end of that process. And so I appreciate being there. I also um enjoy the fact that I get to go to some of the alternative kinds of graduations. I attend Life Skills and I go to Diamond Ridge, which is a school of choice. And I'm going to be also speaking at the at Entrada's adult high school graduation as well as the opportunity I had to be to the school where my kids all went to which was Jordan High School. So that was that was pretty awesome. But what I like about these alternative schools is that I learned so much from them and their speeches. The trials and challenges that they faced are are way above
224anything I remember having to face as a student myself. and I learned so much from them and their courage and I want to be a better person because they've made themselves a better person. So, I really appreciate being able to be in that process. I did have one small um sadness from graduation. And I was at an elementary graduate or not graduation but the end of the school day when the kids came out and some of the parents had lays they were putting on kindergarteners and they came up with a limo and picked up their students and they had names written all on the cards and that's all really really fun but the little girls that were standing by me go where's my limo? I I kind of hope our parents will realize that when
225they go above and beyond the norm for their students that there's some kids that will never have that opportunity and how hard that was. That was just really hard for me to see the disparity of of of support that they did not have at graduation from their from the parents. So just just think about that. Um I have loved being able to go to listening tours. I've been to nearly I'm pretty close to every single possible listening tour over the past three years and I loved being in the environment of our schools and hearing from them directly and seeing them share their heartfelt desires and also their and feel their joys. I think it's an important process and I'm appreciate our uh upcoming superintendent willing to consider expanding or refining actually the process. So, I'm
226I'm really excited. Many many many many things that we have done have come from that listening tour. So, I appreciate that I've been able to enjoy that. I just want to wish our teachers a hopefully at some point a happy summer and a chance to relax. And that's what I have to say. Okay, thank you. Um, so today or tonight rather, we have a lot of thank yous. Um, I want to thank Tamara for filling in tonight. I want to thank Sergeant Singleton. I didn't even know what I didn't know you weren't going to be with us anymore, but um, anyway, thank you so much for all you've done for our students. We do appreciate you. Um, I want to thank our high schools. I actually think all the graduations. I heard all the graduations
227were amazing and I've heard so much um positive from multiple different people just about how fun graduation was and from grandparents from different people. Um I also want to thank the board for keeping your speeches very short. I heard almost everyone's was less than three minutes and so I'm just want to thank the board because I've also heard a lot of positive feedback from parents about that as well. Um, I do want to mention that Katie and I, she didn't mention this, we were invited to Brighton yesterday, um, they had a PLC conference and about half the teachers from Brighton came voluntarily to actually have more um, professional development and classes and I sat in one class and wow, I I learned a lot and I realized why this teacher teaching it has been teacher
228of the year. I mean it was amazing and some of my kids have had her and I was like wow she is an amazing teacher and that was fun and I did learn a lot. I kind of had a headache after that. So it was great though. Um, also I just wanted to thank I meant to thank um, Superintendent and Kirsten and Susan was there and Brooke and Caleb and I mean a whole bunch of people were at Bella Vista for the last day and I really did appreciate everyone being there and it was hard. I mean, I'm going to be honest, it was really hard. It was hard to um, it was sad. I was sad all day. It was hard to kind of see, you know, the effects of that decision, but in
229the end, I do know it's the best, but it but it's not easy. I just want to recognize it's not easy. It's not an easy thing. And I think the board as a board, I think we realize that closing a school is never going to be easy. Um, but we do appreciate the teachers. We know it's been hard for them, but um we hope that things will go okay next year. So um and let's see. Is that all? I think that that is all. Um so I will now call the meeting to a close. Thank you.