001education. Today is February 17, 2026, and we're meeting at the district office located at 9361 South 300 East in Sandy, Utah. Okay. So, we are going to change the order of study tonight and the legislative update will be last. Um, Charlie and Susan are still up at the capital. They had late committee meetings today. Um so we are going to start with item B which is strategic plans focus group reporting and Mindy Robinson director of middle school to us. >> Good evening board. It's nice to see you and thanks for letting me present and study session. I love that's a little bit more intimate and being able to talk through. Um I've had the privilege recently to be over high quality learning and educator. It's really exciting to me um to see all the incredible
002things that we are doing in our district and high quality learning. I've listed up here our committee members for this year that attend. And then I also just reminded us of the four impact statements and just a couple words that stick out to me every time I read this as Utah's portrait or graduate which we have um canyonized to Portrait or Canyon Scholar. But I love the words mastery, autonomy, and purpose. I think of what our kids do, what our teachers do, and it's very powerful. I also love in that second bullet that we talk about high quality, competency based, personalized, and evidence-based. To me, the most exciting thing, I know it was a long time ago, but 16 years ago when I joined this district from another district, I didn't know what evidence-based was.
003And it has been so exciting to me to see how my teaching changed when I started this district because of how much work we've done on evidence-based practices. And then finally, I think one of the greatest strengths of our district is that all educators have this access to personalized professional learning. So I'll just go through an update. We're doing a lot. This is kind of the work of what we're doing every day in our schools, but just want to kind of highlight a few of the areas that we have been on. Portrait of a Canyon Scholar to me is really exciting. When the state of Utah put together a portrait of a graduate, I was in the schools at that time and we really embraced this at the school I was at. And the reason
004we did is we really felt like these core competencies allowed students to really celebrate so many things that we are good at and they weren't always getting acknowledged for that. And I look now with an innovation center and all of this focus on durable skills and how exciting that we were very proactive and putting this together and now we need to do the next steps to make sure it's being implemented in our schools and we're aligning that K through 12. So just a quick reminder, the five ones are innovator, critical thinking, resilient learning, impactful citizen and collaborator. I think more now than ever in our history, what an important time for us to all as adults and kids to really focus on those core competencies. So a few of the things and again this is
005just a highlight of some of the things that we're in the process of or hoping to do and the high schools we've been looking at um from the feedback. Thank you, Miss Dolly, and to other people who attended one of the um advisories that the kids, our high school advisory kids really talked about how they loved chords, that some of the other things weren't as important to them, but anyone that's been to graduation can see the chords. And so, we wanted to really look at how we could take those five core competencies and look at different ways. And Jordan High School had some really creative ways that we're working on implementing a point system. So, we're looking at developing that. Um we're also, thank you to Dr. McIll and his work um that we're looking
006at a curriculum possibility for high school since we really don't have that yet which is very aligned um to the possibility of having more focus there and then just really this idea of durable skills and um Ezri and the innovation center know that we know that this is the key thing. I have a brother who worked for a company is like Mindy if you could just teach kids one thing tell them to show up to work problem solve think at work and talk to one another. I'm like, "Oh, that sounds easy." Not easy. And I think that that's a really important focus. In the middle schools, we really are excited that we're looking with the transition over to cumulative instead of just having the word citizenship that our schools are going to actually be choosing
007two of the core competencies to give kids feedback on. And we think that will be an exciting way for both the teachers as well as the students to have that. Um, we still have the thrive time lessons. ISD in coordination with student wellness has spent hours putting those together. Again, focusing on durable skills. And the one highlight, just a reminder that we're moving college and career course to the eighth grade. So, we really can put this into action as kids preparing for high school. And then elementary, I think our elementary teachers are fantastic at doing this all the time. This is their daily working with the kids on helping them through all these. Bless all those elementary teachers that do that the whole day. Um, and also looking at the learning skills on the report
008card to see if we can't have a better coordination between those. The next major focus that we have been talking about this year and for the last 20 plus years is professional learning communities. And to me as an educator, this probably is what actually fundamentally changed my teaching. I started in a district in PLC's. This is for those of you familiar with DEForce. This is when the books first came out like in the early I'm not going to tell you how early because that ages me a lot, but they came out quite a while ago. and we have really embraced this as a district and also recognize that we also want to continue to improve this. Um, just a few things here. I think the one thing that we've all been really proud of as
009a district is making sure that teachers actually have the time in the day to do the PLC's. Teachers work so hard. So the more that we can incorporate that time in there focusing on student learning, focusing on structural practices. I also love that this is an opportunity for our teachers to be an example of portrait of a canyon scholar and the collaboration hit me as we I was thinking through these core competencies that we also want to be the best example of that. Just a little quote, but I think to me the key words these are the best, least expensive, most professionally rewarding wages in schools. And I love the word professionals because as educators that has always been the focus and that's really what the purpose of our professional learning communities are. Um we're
010a couple I mean for quite a few years now we've put some focus on the PLC's and I'm just going to kind of talk through this is a slide that actually um was presented by ISD to our building leadership team. So over 400 educators saw this slide and I really appreciated um Amber's focus on this that quality instruction as we are looking at high quality learning is the most important variable in student learning and really that last quote that the prof professional learning communities as a system seek to create the structures and the cultures. Those of you who've been around for a few know that really you started education as this independent contractor. And to me when I realized how much I had to gain no matter what year of my teaching career from one
011another it was so critical for us to do that. So what we've been really working on is first of all we've now developed a PLC committee um school performance and ISD are working collaboratively. The first thing that we've been doing is really looking for what's actually happening. Um thank you to Jackie Ricks up at Brighton High School. She created some self assessment forms that we've done the high school and we've developed that. Now what we're doing is we're going into both K through 12 the PLC's to really look at what's going in. They're non-evaluative. This is just to get a baseline and then the things that we're really looking at is to ensure the next steps. There's a difference of just meeting together versus actually collaborating for student learning. And that will require us to
012look at assessments that will require us to think deeply for a lot of our teachers who are singletons or only teach their own only teacher in the building. The district has also created in the secondary schools some early out opportunities where they all come together. And I just can say as at least a middle school principal, my teachers were so excited when the theater teachers like, "Yes, today I get to meet with five other theater teachers." And so I think it's really important that we realize that this is a process. Many of us were able to attend a solution tree conference. And one thing I really loved about the PLC is they reminded us it's a process. It's not a moment, but as a school we're a PLC because all kids were responsible for it.
013So, a lot of work's going into this. We know that's going to be ongoing, but we also know that the PLC's really give us the biggest bang for the buck to improve instruction and student learning. Um, one thing I just want to be aware, we haven't talked as much about high quality learning, but last year when we dove a little bit into AVID and some other programs, one thing that's always important to us is that we're providing rigorous experiences for our kids. Our goal is, especially as a high quality learning committee, to make sure that we are focused on rigor. What does that look like? and in every content because we have seen rigor. Think of the electives like I want to be in a PE class that they're pushing those kids. I will never
014forget a teacher my son had that said he's used his asthma as an excuse his whole life to not do it. By the end of the time he's like mom she really pushed me. I can run now. I can do this because a teacher believed in him and gave him the skills to do that. So I think it's so important we think of rigor academically in the electives that we're really doing that. These are just a couple of ideas of where we're really looking for the rigor and we'll always continue to do that. Another great strength and this is ongoing too is just the professional learning opportunities that we have for all educators. That first picture is from Playworks which I I was an elementary principal for a little bit. I loved Playworks and I
015love that ISD has someone who works with those technicians to give them the best training because they're so vital in our elementary schools. And then I look at the professional learning our educators have. I listed a couple. We're introducing seventh and eighth grade honors in a more robust way this next year. We've had training, lots of training. And the thing that's been really cool is not just training, but time for the teachers and to collaborate and create the lessons themselves, but providing that time. And so I just also I love that the elementary did the first day of safety, care, and deescalation. Like we also know that teaching is about behaviors and academics. And then as administrators, this is a passion of mine. I've been able to do a lot of this, but really helping
016our leaders have the professional learning they need to because we're all educators looking to grow. And then just in conclusion, I had the opportunity for fifth grade orientation. If you ever want to be entertained, go to a middle school the day that all the fifth graders come. I happen to be at Draper Park. I mean, I'm telling you, like these music teachers are rock stars there. Like they cheer for them. That and I will say the SRO and the music got about the same level of cheering there. But to watch it was pretty impressive. I'm like, good job. But I think as we watch these kids, when we think about high quality, every experience that our students have, it is the focus on that whole child. And I really like that we use that in
017our um tenants there. But I also think this idea of innovation, learning, growth. I mean to me to see eighth graders performing at a level there were some sixth and seventh graders was mainly eighth graders. But to see them perform at this level and to see these fifth graders just level of excitement like I can do this. I think that's really what our jobs are about. So that's just kind of an update. I know I'm a fast talker. Um, I wasn't getting it close to 15 minutes, Amber. We all knew what I'm happy to answer any questions or anything that's from the committee. It's happy to talk through any of the conversations or anything that you want to go over. >> Okay. Thank you so much. Um, Mrs. Oaks, >> thank you. That was a
018really good overview of a lot of things. And I did reach out to M today earlier, so she knows this is coming. But uh talk to me about PLC's and vertical >> alignment and collaboration because >> as a board member that was one of the biggest reasons why I voted for us to have um PLC's across the district is the importance of making sure that we're aligning things vertically from elementary to middle middle to high school. And then also and and I'm curious if there's measurements for that and in and Jackie's um rubric and and are we allowing our teachers and organizing that between the different schools for us to be able to accomplish that? And the other thing is I've had some teachers approach me and say same subject twice from high school to
019high school particularly. I haven't heard this as much from middle school, but they would be interested in collaborating and figuring out some consistency on those same subject. Um, I mean, obviously they have what they're supposed to teach from the core from the state, but even just like assessments, like how are we doing assessments? Writing is one area that I think is really important to address and if that's being taught consistently from each high school to high school. Do you know what I'm saying? So, and and how are we going to address that in our PLC's? >> Yeah, those are good questions. And I think too, it's a process. I think um when we were talking about vertical articulation, I apologize, it was in my notes, but I got talking and I didn't refer to my
020notes. Um I think with the vertical articulation, a couple things that we started with is one, first of all, trying to get in the school to do a vertical articulation because people know even in the elementary when I was an elementary administrator, I remember one day that we just broke up the standards and we just literally did what you said. We said, "What are we teaching in writing from K to five?" And that was really powerful because I think sometimes not only the transition times but in the schools themselves. I've seen a lot of our schools doing that and I think we could better support that. The other thing I've really liked that we've been doing is um with ISD's collaboration we do have one in April that's a vertical articulation day and it's not
021enough but at least it's a beginning because what we are seeing um I'm on access and opportunity. We really are seeing fifth to sixth grade and 8th to 9th grade. Those are the areas we need to keep working on because we want to ensure like you said we better make sure that the rigor in sixth grade is more than fifth grade and ninth grade is eighth grade and without that vertical articulation so that in terms of measurement I think that once PLC's are hard to measure in terms of really the ultimate measurement is student learning and success and I also think it is teacher enjoyment of the job. I do think those two things weigh together. So I think you know for example when we look at cohorts of students in the data it's really
022important to see are those kids growing now that we did the MAP test in the middle schools if they're not growing each year then we really need to be looking at our level of rigor that's fine rigor there but I think you're hitting on something Amanda that's super important how do we keep monitoring this we're looking at informal methods more formalized methods even if it's teacher survey of do you feel like you're you know see is collaborative and you're doing this and then I think too at the TFSSP we noticed in there like making sure the rigor's in there but days. They do some a lot of the schools do a collaborative day. They do teams and vertical articulation. But I think that's an area that we need to continue to do like you said
023because if not the rigor is not getting higher and if I don't know what fifth grade's doing or eighth grade's doing that makes it really challenging. So it's great question like just this and I apologize that I didn't bring this up before in our community meeting. It just we never have enough time for everything, right? It's it's such a big subject but I mean even just if we were to take team leads like for instance if you take math science or whatever >> and the team leads from the various high schools were to be able to come together and share best practices right and and even like how they're assessing things how they're handling like the difficulties that come with like you know grading writing or some of those I feel like because our district
024is all on this common schedule where we have Friday afternoons off we don't capitalize that as an opportunity. It's it's a real shame and because there are things that each of the schools like shine at, why not pass that on to others and help them learn from each other and we'll keep working on that. Dr. Robin, >> I was just going to say that with RISE being added to the high school and I think that's a that's another lever that will really help alignment and practice. So good. >> And I do think the team leads, for those of you who aren't familiar with ISD, they have established team leads and they're more familiar middle schools. But I really like that they're collaborating and I think Amanda, you hit on something important, continue to think what
025they're collaborating on, what's the best use of those team leads times because they're really valuable and they're really respected in the schools as well at the district level. So I do think where we already have that structure, how do we make that process more robust? I just add too I mean I it's great that our principles are talking about common grading scales and looking at learning through the same lens. I mean that that's a huge step that has been >> that minute. Right. So >> sixth grade through 12th grade will be on the same grading scale for the first time next year. And >> awesome. Dr. Sherwood and myself have been working that. The middle school's made a few more agreements. The high school is a little bit more complicated but we're really excited to
026like you said Dr. Robins to really think through how do we support kids? We're a system. We don't want you to go to this high school or this high school and it's a completely different process. They should be able to if they move be able to have some similarities. So, we're excited about that. >> I I think it lays the groundwork for all of the, you know, all of the priorities that you're talking. So, >> or even if they're in the same high school and they have different teachers. I mean like as a parent trying to keep track of that now I'm fourth high school child in like I still don't know consistently from class to class what we're dealing with. So >> I think that's alone yeah even with that grading scale I know
027it sounds like a small step but really we've made it through high school. We're now in college and that I'm like hey it's on you guys like that's up to the kids but I remember in high school sometime I'm like which class is this? Is this a 70F 55? Like where are we in this range? And I think it's also fair to kids. The more predictability we create, I really think that helps them. I mean, it's a lot to manage the number of classes these kids are taking. So, I think anything we can do can really help them. >> Okay. Thank you. Um, any other comments or questions, Mark? >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. Okay. We're gonna have the legislative update right now since Charlie is here and Charlie Evans, director
028of external relations will be in this discussion. So then we'll go to the innovation center. >> Thank you. It's nice to be here. Um Fizzen is still at the capital. We had a couple we had several bills in committee this afternoon. She's uh there working on them. I just texted to you guys the update uh for today and I'm not going to go into a lot of detail rather than take your questions but just in a general sense of the way the legislative session is going. I think everybody will recall in the last three or four years they've started really fast with education bills that they crad down off in the first week or so. They didn't do that this year obviously and they've been going very slow and there is a huge huge backlog
029of bills um especially in the House and even beginning to be that way in the Senate too. And so uh we're going to have um a really busy couple of weeks here. Uh, by the way, of updates on what happened today, um, the sponsor of the two of the school safety bills ran two of them on the House floor, one passed and one failed, which was not something I saw coming. I talked to the sponsor after, and he's planning on trying to bring it back, but he's uh 11 votes short. Um, I don't know where he gets it without a pretty substantial change in the bill. He he he said he doesn't plan to change it. So, I don't really know what's going to happen there, but I don't see how it passes without a
030significant change to it. He asked me to come by his office in the morning and talk to him, which I plan to do. I I have some ideas uh that might help it, but we'll see. So, anyway, what questions can I answer for you guys? >> We have questions. I I just want to say thank you for these updates. are really I know that adds to your burden like to get the daily update is it's really helpful for us to like stay on top of them. So >> you bet we're happy to do it. I just create a note every morning and share it with the team and as somebody on the team does something they go to the note and add it to the note. So it's really not been a problem and it's
031been help helps us stay organized too. So you're welcome >> this is Dolly. >> Um thank you for all your work that you're doing up there. We had a question earlier in talking about Senator McCay's bill on the 5% limit on property tax. Do you think there's any chance that you know if we're converting debt to capital and there's actually not an overall increase in tax but it shows as an increase do you think you would have any willing to put an ex exception in in that case when there's not an actual increase overall tax wise it's just a conversion. So, uh, that bill was substituted today and, uh, when I I was watching when he substituted it and as he sat down, I asked him planned on running and he said, "Don't worry, there's
032another substitute coming." So, I don't know why I put the one in. But I do think that that is coming out on the thirds up because it's too restrictive. And the point I made to them is what that will do is it will make people increase taxes more often. >> Yes. Absolutely. >> I think they figured that out. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Great. If you can continue to work on that would be great. Um, anyone else have any comments? >> Um, I just have a question. So the the safety bill, the one that was like shoved aside versus the held. Okay. So what were the distinctions between those two? >> Uh the one to me this was the one the one that failed was the most egregious. Um I shouldn't call it egregious. I mean
033everybody is trying to do the right thing but uh it was the one that I that forced more un unfunded mandates on us in terms of paying for SFOs. It would have given local the jurisdictions uh the authority to buy or hire SFOs and then bill us for them. And so that's obviously not a good idea, at least from our perspective, and that's what killed it, I think. And that's what that's what's got to come out. But he doesn't want to take that out. >> And you know, they're realizing the Guardians were a bad idea to begin with, and they're trying in a flat budget year. that come up with some other mechanism fund that you know it's a flat budget year for us too. >> And then what was the one that was is
034continuing? >> It's 42 and cyber security. >> Yeah, cyber security. >> Okay. So, all right. >> Okay. Um so there's several bills um Charlie about Utah High School Activities Association. So, do you I mean I personally I've been on that board, so I'm really worried about those. Like is do you think those are going to pass? Like what what are your thoughts? >> I don't think anything that the high school activities association wants to I don't think I don't think anything's going to pass that they don't want to pass. >> Really? >> What do you mean? Um they're, you know, >> listen, >> if they've demonstrated anything in the years I've been at the legislature's ability to take care of themselves, I don't know why we're wasting a lot of time on it. >> It
035is a waste of time. >> They they know how to protect themselves as well as anybody up there. I've never seen anybody force anything down on them. I've seen the speaker of the house spend all session trying to do it and failed to do it. Not going to happen this year either. because I am worried about those because one of them gets rid of all transfer rules. One of them put us >> that's some crazy stuff out there. >> Yeah, there's bad stuff there. So, >> hey, anyone else? >> Oh, okay. Great. >> Thank you, Charlie. um so much. >> We have also appreciated when you guys ask questions on that thread so everybody can see the questions and it gives us an indication of what you're interested in. So don't hesitate to ask any
036questions especially once we get going here final revenue numbers here in the next couple days. Um every I I'd hope that they would not be uh as bad. I don't think they're going to be as bad, but I do think rather than having a revenue shortfall of probably be flat >> be flat. >> Um, and so the EAC has built in that cushion where they made all the subropations committees submit a a budget with 5% cuts. And so, um, there's some stuff there's some room there. But one of the things that um I think we need some guidance on is in that that list stuff that was proposed to be cut by uh the education appropriations committee. I think we could impact one or two of those in a positive way, but we need some
037direction u from you guys on what one or two you'd like us to work on. I don't they're not going to be a 5% cut. >> Yeah. So, it's just a matter of prioritizing the stuff on that list >> and we ought to take a look at that. And I'm not suggesting doing it right now, but >> do it right now. >> Take a look at that and let us know what it is you want us to work on because not all that stuff's going to be cut. >> We talk on Friday when some of us are up there. >> That's perfect. That's perfect time. That's, you know, next two weeks is when they'll start doing that. >> Send the board that document. >> Yep. I'll send >> the tags. Go ahead. I'll send it
038right now as soon as we're done here. >> It's great. Hey, Mrs. Oak, >> is there any appetite to them also similarly cutting the UFA or no? >> Oh, no. We're here. >> Does it look like they're going to continue to grow it this year? >> I don't think they'll grow it this year any significant way. Yeah, is going to come, but we're years away from Great. Yeah, they won't they won't have a big year, but they won't get cut. Thought it was interesting the committee education committee today's bill actually adds accreditation to private schools >> and yes you know like saying that hey if you're going to take public dollars then you can go through accreditation and man she got >> oh I bet >> her friends came out though >> no I know
039I I thought wow >> brace her for she actually said there needs to be a committee that that these micro schools, private schools, if they're going to take public dollars, they should go through accreditation. And >> there's too many people lobbying there that are going to let that fly in. >> Well, I'm just going to put this out there. I am part of part of my guess is why she's leaning that direction is because people are starting to wake up to the fact that no one can no one can grandma the financial records or how it's being >> right >> because it's currently being over by a nonprofit outside of the state of Utah which was a deliberate move. So our state auditor cannot reach any of that information. It's all totally opaque even though
040it's tax dollars. So >> it is insane. >> Very recipe for corruption. >> Got it. >> So absolutely they should be going for more >> accreditation. >> Okay. Thank you Charlie. >> I'll send that list right now. >> Susan and team. >> Yes. Thanks. >> Okay. The next item then is the Canyons Innovation Center branding and update. And this will be by Reed Newi, director of the Canyons Admission Center, and Kirsten Stewart, associate director of Canyons. >> Thank you. Appreciate it. Uh, President Shield, just uh, as usual, when when you form a team, it's best to pick Kirsten first. She always does more than her share of the work and she has on this. We really appreciate uh what she's done in terms of kind of marshalling our group um and taking a tremendous amount
041of feedback and and consolidating into what we feel is a coming up with a strong logo to present uh to the board as we try to move forward with uh increasing our branding and kind of really uh solidifying that. So, with that, I'm going to let Kirsten take the process, take you through the process, and tell you what we have. >> Thank you. >> All right. >> Truth be told, um, this was a super collaborative process involving a lot of people, but um, thank you, Ray. That was very nice. So, first we're just super excited to be talking about kind of the fruits of our labor as we've worked to bring the Canyons Innovation Center name and vision to life in the fall. Um, and as I mentioned before, it has been a really collaborative
042process. You'll remember from our timeline all of the stakeholder interviews, um, focus groups that we conducted, you know, we had students at CEK who were involved in the creation of the name. Um, and then we've had virtual focus groups on the name since then and of course the theor September and we've been working hard since then to kind of bring logo to fruition. Um, but I want to give a real big shout out just to the core group that really kept this ball rolling forward of course Allen back Anderson was on the team. Jeff Bolson was joining us in the back. He really helped us with refine the logo design and uh Mandy in Reed's office. All of these people kind of kept our feet to the fire, which is a good thing. Um, a
043little bit of background. So, we did start with some concepts from an outside agency that were very polished, very professional, but at a pivotal point in this whole process, um, Doug Halenback had the great idea of let's take these concepts and give them to the CEK media design students to kind of kick around and see what resonates with them. So, we did that. That's what you see pictured here is working on some of their concepts and kind of what that revealed was that Ames Innovation Center, specifically the CIC acronym, really resonated with them. Um, not just as a name, but as a mark. So, we kind of knew we were headed in the right direction there. Um, and then just as a reminder throughout this process, we've like used these metaphors for discovery as kind
044of our litmus test for every visual direction that we've explored. you've got um you know the edges of perception or this notion that we want students to seek beyond what they can see and then collisions right a sort of catalyst for change like Reed's vision of this as sort of like a collision center right where students from different backgrounds and interests are kind of colliding around ideas but also with industry leaders so um using student ideas and in as inspiration we worked in parallel with Jefferson our office to kind of really refine the mark Um, we wanted it we really wanted it to be to stand alone and kind of have some sort of gravitas, but also we really played around with the typography so that it sort of kind of carried the brand message
045forward too. So you kind of see that forwardleaning forward motion energy in the topography. It feels really industrial, right? It feels um professional. And um this is the version where he felt like it really, you know, everything kind of came together. So you can see kind of like the concentric seas remind me a little bit of like a ripple of water like that, you know, kind of that collision. You've got the eye in the middle for CIC, but it's kind of like a little bit like a lighthouse. Um kind of making a focal point, right? Um so I really like that. And then when you look at it when it's really small and you kind of take a step back, it almost looks like an at sign, which to me kind of subtly reinforces that
046notion of at the point, you know? So, kind of really like that. Um, so the logo, like I said, it leans professional, it leans industrial, but we still think it's pretty cool uh on a hat, too, right? Still cool enough to be on a hat and on and on a t-shirt. Um, this is in kind of more of a twocolor, one color application. So, you can see how that looks there. Um, the One thing I wanted to mention is like those metaphor or sorry the the brand personalities that our stakeholders identified were a little bit at cross purposes with one another in a way because it was sort of like we want it to be credible and professional but also at the same time exciting and young and you know fresh and creative and playful
047and we found we think a a good way to kind of bridge those personalities. So, um, what we're proposing is sort of like this the central color scheme you see there in the middle and then you've got accent colors that we can play with from time to time accent palettes. We're sort of envisioning this sort of an evolving identity system kind of like, you know, Google and Apple, you know, those evolve throughout the years. They never remain static. So the idea is this mark, you know, remains the same, but it may change depending on the application like the marketing campaign that you have it in or whether it's on a sign or a t-shirt or um maybe even in reference to the different programs, right, that you're you're advertising. And so you can see another
048a color palette there. Um one of the great ways about one of the great things about having it flexibility is I think it kind of speaks to what we want out of this innovation center, right? We want that dynamism kind of at the center. Um, and also it's sort of lends itself to like the digital applications, right? Logos these days, if you look at your the home screen on your phone, they're all back lit, they're brightly colored, there's lots of gradients, they're all optimized for dark mode in mobile devices. And so, it's kind of why we leaned this direction. Then here you can kind of see how we see it woodworking and kind of like the camera lens there. So >> yeah, that's kind of like that's dark. >> So and it also lends itself
049really well I think to animation. So without further ado, I will play. >> That's it. So yeah, happy to entertain any questions or thoughts, >> comments, Adam. >> Uh, I just want to say I was when I was opening the presentation, I was ready to not be super thrilled about it, but I think it's fantastic. So really like it. >> I'm glad. Thanks. As I said, it was a team work. Many hands make it work. >> Any other comments? Uh, Mrs. Bark, >> I love it, too. I think it's totally awesome. Um, one question I have is I really like that last part because the A is full >> on canyons and in all the other ones there's a slash through the bottom stem of the A. >> You don't like that the slash? >>
050I'm not sure why it is that way. It and my eyes kind of drawn to it >> and kind of takes away from the super cool logo. >> Okay. >> So, that was my one thing. And so that's why I really loved that last animated part because the A's full. >> Okay. >> Now it's full there. >> Wait a minute. It's full. >> This one's where the C was disrupted. Sorry. >> Oh, yeah. The C was disrupted. >> Here, but >> Oh, okay. So is So the Tell us the idea behind it. >> The main mark was to have the the A because it just sort of like if you look at it, it feels a little bit like it's in motion, right? It I I see like Motor City and kind of like, you
051know, E500 movement. >> It felt like it was flying to me like like it brought like aviation and stuff when I saw the A >> wavelength. You know, you think about the waves. We talked about the, >> you know, wavelengths and collisions and things too. So, it brought some of that into it also. >> And it kind of hearkens back to the canyons a, right? That doesn't have the the bar in the middle, right? >> That's true. That's true. >> I've always thought was cool. >> I don't know. Do you still feel the same, Holly? We're lacking. I mean, yeah, if everyone's liking it, awesome. Like, I could totally see why it's why it's great, too. >> I'm funny. I like it. Like, I don't It's pro It's probably like intentional marketing, right? Like when
052you're driving down the road and you see those billboards where they have stuff like that, it always kind of bugs me, but then you look at it longer and it stays in your mind. So, it's >> identifiable. >> Yes. And so and so probably the reason why I keep focusing on it is probably a good thing because it helps people pay attention more. >> I do think you notice it like I Yeah. >> I love that they're concentric circles because that was the first thing I noticed. And what I love about it is that if you were throwing something into the water like you were saying, it actually moves out. So our students are going to be impacting their industry and being part of that, but it also can be like a target where it
053moves in and you have the point right there in the middle so it can cons we can all come to the same consensus. I love it. >> Um yeah and I was looking at the little graphic you have of the students computer >> some of their ideas of what it could have been and >> this is this is great. >> Yeah. Right up there in the corner, you can see some of their ideas and you know, they're not bad either, but I really think you've got the best the strongest >> message. And I like how you can change the texture behind it or in it. >> To manifest its department, its its focus. So, I'm I'm very pleased with this. This is this is great. >> Yeah, I think you guys nailed it. It's awesome.
054I'm totally excited to wear the swag. So, >> yeah, right. >> It's a really cool logo. I think people are going to be like, "Hey, where does that come from?" And it is very flexible even though it's like solid and kind of stands for itself. >> Okay, this is Dolly. >> Um, yeah, that was my question is when can I get a hat, but great job knocking it out of the park. >> Yeah, it was so good. >> I know Mandy's actually been bugging me for the vector art. Gotta wait. >> It's got to be approved at least. >> Yeah, >> tomorrow. >> It's true. >> The board will get the first uh >> That's the background. the main background color going to be? I mean, the consistent one. So, you say you're ordering hats.
055Are they gonna all have black hats with the thing or? >> We're gonna start with a black hat. >> Black. Okay. I like that >> because it's generic. I mean, it goes everywhere. Love it. >> Well, we just try to stay away from anybody's >> other colors. >> Just curious because you could put anything behind it. That's the beauty of it. >> Yeah. >> Those textures in it are awesome. >> Totally really cool. >> Great job. Okay. Well, I think you guys or something else. Is there anything else? >> No, that's uh just uh that's it. We got uh the ground scraped and we're heading forward on trades. So, >> logo actually makes me feel better about the name. >> I didn't love the name, >> but it makes me feel way better about >>
056No, it became clear that that's was that really resonated with me. So, Not not that we compare, but stack it against any of the other centers logos. It's far and away. >> Yeah, it's really cool. >> Actually, it's good it's that name because we've been referring to it as that for now a few years. >> We have to really work hard to rebrand at this. >> Thank you, Kirsten and Reed. And um now I cannot believe this. I did not I thought we may go over in this meeting. So >> um let's just keep this going toward our next meeting and keep it short. >> But I will now declare this meeting over and we will just start at seven business meeting. Thank you everyone. >> Really get a good map in. >> You're so
057close out. Board of Education. Today is February 17th, 2026 and we're meeting at the district office located at 9361 South 300 East in Sandy, Utah. The first item on the agenda is to approve the agenda for tonight. And I will now take a motion. I move to approve the agenda for tonight, February 17th, 2026. >> Okay, thank you. We have a motion. Is there a second to that? >> Second. >> Okay, thank you. We have a motion in a second. Is there any discussion to that motion? >> Okay, seeing none, I will now call for a vote. All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? Okay, that motion passes unanimously. The next item on the agenda is the pledge of allegiance and this will be led by Diamond Ridge High principal Amy Becker. And
058then we'll hear some school highlights from her. >> Green button is now on. And please stand if you are able and join me in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. And I thank the board for the opportunity to present to you tonight. Want to start out by saying >> yes. Check. Check. Better. Okay. I want to start out by saying when we hear alternative high school, we have some ideas of what that sounds like. Diamond Ridge is actually a school of choice, which means not disciplined kids being sent here, but families choose to apply for a lot of reasons. Jobs, family finance, students are bullied, social
059anxiety, disconnect from their big school, and mostly because they've fallen behind and lost hope. We have some great things to talk about tonight. Why that's different? First of all, we have a wonderful music magnet program. Over 45% of the entire student body is enrolled in drums, stage band, guitar, and other performing arts. We have a strong Latinos and action program. And we started a student government this year. Hundreds of volunteer hours by students support our food bank and tutoring elementary students by our LIA students. And finally, as you'll hear tonight, Diamond Ridge students really do embody the portrait of a Canyon Scholar, especially by becoming innovators, resilient learners, and impactful citizens. So, we took some data last summer. We wanted to see how students did at Diamond Ridge. And in our 10 years that ended
060with the class of 2025, students who had come to Diamond Ridge for at least four quarters have a 90% graduation rate, regardless of where they go after those four quarters. Secondly, the class of 2025 realized a graduation rate of 87.8% which is the fourth highest in Canyon's district. And finally, Canyon students, Diamond Ridge students in particular, who are multi- language learners, students with IEPs on free and reduced lunch, and who are homeless, have a higher graduation rate than their peers in regular high schools and graduate at the same rate as their Diamond Ridge regular ed students. So, that's pretty exciting information. And we've done something different this current school year. We weren't really happy with our student attendance rates. And at like many schools who are struggling with attendance since COVID, we made some changes.
061So here's a couple. We created new mini terms. So we cut each academic quarter into two smaller terms. We added enhanced attendance requirements, enhanced GPA requirements, and began accepting juniors with only two credits, which we couldn't do before. And this is the results of that so far. So halfway through the school year, last year 47% of students had a G GPA of 2.0 or higher. This year, 77.5% of students. Last year, students with at least 90% attendance were 33%. This year, 90% of students have at least a 90% attendance rate. And to boot, students are no longer dropping out. Our MAP testing improved 35% last year showing growth to 90% showing growth this year. In reading, 7% growth over last year's rates. Our teachers are telling us they can add increased rigor and content because
062students are coming and they're not having to retach. Discipline discipline. Our rates are usually pretty low at Diamond Ridge. However, we've seen a 50% decrease in office discipline referrals and more than 75% decrease in minor incidents. We also are seeing a decrease in students going to Entrada and and whether you know this or not, if a student goes to Entrada and they don't graduate with their cohort, they are automatically a dropout. And finally, and this is really exciting, many more students are returning to their home high schools because they were recovering credit for failed courses. So, our future plans, um, Diamond Ridge has consistently been one of the highest performing alternative schools in Utah and becoming more so because next year we're adding four concurrent enrollment courses. We will continue our mini-term project for long-term
063data analysis and we anticipate an increase in the overall Canyons district graduation rate based on the improvements. Um, and finally, we are seeing an increase of total numbers of students accessing Diamond Ridge because more students can come get caught up and go back to their boundary schools. So, lots of great things going on at Diamond Ridge. Thank you so much for the opportunity to present. >> Okay, thank you so much. Um, that's really exciting all that data you shared with us. Um, that's amazing. And I love how you started by saying it was the school of choice. And I do want to um commend your drum line because they were at Brighton High School early Friday morning at 8:30 on a day when there was no school for the ESPA ESP day um professional development
064day and they did awesome. So >> only two of those kids ever played drums before they came to >> wow that's amazing. So thank you. Thanks for all you do. Okay, the next item on the agenda is the Canyon Strong Student Recognitions and that will be by Jeff Haney, director and Kirsten Stewart, associate director of communications. >> Thank you, President Schill. Um, my son is a graduate of Diamond Ridge. He's a Raptor. I'm incredibly proud of that music program over there because Brandon Lupus, the teacher, went to marching band camp with Jaden when they were just 12 years old and they were in Altahigh's marching band all six years together. So, it was nice to see Brandon and his students there on the stage performing at our ESP conference. And it looks like the person
065who has my presentation has stepped out of the room. There he is. But President Shiel, thank you for the time that you grant us to recognize the ways that in Canyon School District, you can learn more, do more, and be more. Our students are showing the world how canyon strong they are in the classroom, on the stage, and on the field of competition. And that was never more apparent that at the 5A and 6A drill team state championships, Canyon School District was well represented by the three Canyons teams. that scored high enough to get into the final round of judging. The Corner Canyon Charerels wowed the crowds in 6A. They took fourth place overall. Hillrest's drill team and the Brighton Aadians were stellar in the semi-final and final rounds of competition. Hillrest took fourth place
066overall in the military division. Also, as a bonus to cap this drill team competition season, you can see there that the New York Times came into town and they profiled the Corner Canyon drill team in a feature on the unique style and high quality of performances of the Utah drill teams, especially in the military category. Congratulations to all of our drill teams, the coaches and their parents for such a fantastic end to the season. Now, there's going to be a new face on the sidelines at Brighton High School's Friday Night Lights. A wellrespected co coach from Park City is coming to lead the Bengals. Congratulations to Coach Josh Monsingo. He was selected to be the new head coach after a thorough search by the Brighton administration. The coach had an impressive 82 win record at
067Park City and that included four region trophies and three playoff appearances at Rice Eckles Stadium. So, welcome to Canyon School District. Coach, we're glad that you're here to lead the Bengals. The 6A state champions and competitive cheer have solidified the reputation as a national force. Corner Canyon's cheer squad finished as silver medalists in the both the varsity and game day categories at the recent UCA National High School cheerleading championships in Florida. So congratulations to the Chargers and coach Whitney Lent on a fantastic winning season. And you know the sweet harmonies of the Canyon's Youth Symphony and Canyon Symphony Orchestra could be heard recently at a Bravenel Hall. That's one of the premier performing venues in Utah. With the two orchestras made up of fifth through 12th grade students, Canyon's district was represented by more than
068130 student musicians. Now, what an experience to play where prominent figures in the music world have come before from its Pearlman to John Williams and many more very famous artists. And now the list of artists includes the students from Canyon School District. Congratulations to all of our upand cominging student musicians. Also, you can see there that Eastmont Middle's chess team can came out on top at the recent Canyons District in a murals chess tournament for middle school teams. They won the title on their home boards, so to speak. From quiet concentration to dramatic endg games, it was a great reminder that competition doesn't always happen on athletic fields, and it's not always about speed and strength. Sometimes it's about thinking ahead, staying focused, and of course having fun playing a game. At the competition, every
069eight player team played every other team roundroin style. The games were 15 minutes a piece. Mount Jordan and Midvil Middle teams finished second and third. And we also want to give a big thanks to Eastmon's Taylor Hansen for coordinating the middle school intramurals program. He does a fantastic job bringing these events to life for our middle school students. Now, Canyon's student athletes in wrestling brought home a whopping 10 state individual championships to Canyon School District. History was also made at the 5A tournament. Hillrest High's Eva Zimmerman finished with a 35 and0 win loss record and claimed her fourth consecutive state title and that makes her the first girls wrestler in Hillrest history to win four consecutive state titles. So, congratulations to her. Now, counting Eva's win, Hillrest's girls wrestling team earned four total state titles
070at the 5A tournament. This includes Caroline Pastana and Katie Zimmerman, who each won their second consecutive individuals titles, and Cassandra Pastana, who won the 110 pound class. Hillrest's Moroni Mah repeated as a state champion in 5A and he was joined in the champion circle by Alta's Dne King, a freshman who took home the state championship in 105 pound class. In 6A, the Corner Canyon Chargers had four state champions from their teams. Blake Mossh, Taylor Telford, Clarion Fagger, and Piper Eller. And Blake is a repeat winner. Tanner is won his first state championship at the 6A tournament. And Clarion and Piper are both repeat champions from last year. So congratulations to all of our wrestlers for their accomplishments and bringing those titles home to Canyon School District. Now, as a reminder, in the coming days, we'll
071be applauding students on the stage and graduates who have re risen to the top of their sports. You can see there that we've listed all of the spring theater productions. They're starting this week. Ala High is performing the play that goes wrong. Brighton, they will do a spring showcase of the pieces that they are preparing for state competition. Corner Canyon is doing a oneact play called Fortress that they will then perform at state competition. Following the one act, they will perform the other pieces they're preparing for state. And then sir Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical masterpiece Phantom of the Opera arrives at Hillrest February 19th through the 21st and again on February 23rd. And then Jordan High School will stage a studentwritten interactive show based on a day well spent, which is a one act that
072they have turned thanks to student playrs with help from their teacher into a two-act play. The Beatdiggers production will be February 19th to the 21st and the 23rd. All the shows start at 7 o'clock and Jordan's play will be in the tech atrium due to the renovations that are going on at Jordan right now. We also want to invite the community to a jersey retirement event for the Chargers who are now playing in the NFL. Next Tuesday on February 24th, we're celebrating the professional accomplishments of New York Giant Jackson Dart, a Raider Jackson Powers Johnson, and Dolphin Zack Wilson. All three of our pro players, Jackson, Jackson, and Zach, have confirmed that they will be at the event when we retire their jerseys. at the event during which we'll also hear from former Corner Canyon
073coach Eric Car who now heads my Wildcats at Weber State. He coached all three of those young men. All three have become NFL standouts. And then afterwards, our fieldhouse will be open for visitors. It's free and open to the public if you would like to come and get autographs from the three hometown boys who have made it big in the NFL. Now to wrap up our recognitions, we would be remiss if we didn't pause for a second and pay tribute to a colleague who has been with Canyons from our very first days. Uh since Sunday morning, we have mourned the loss of Janet Goal, who has served as Canyons District's director of career and technical education. She's been with us since the very beginning for 17 years. Janet died on Sunday morning after a valiant
074battle with cancer. She was one of the first 100 employees ever hired in Canyon's district and she helped develop and maintain CTE programs and pathways that are regularly ranked among the state's best. Janet opened doors, built pathways, and believed in the promise of every student. Her gentle, kind, and dedicated leadership in CTE shaped the future for so many students. While at Canyons, she was the 2020 Utah CTE Administrator of the year, served a dual role as both the director of CTE and the principal of the Canyon's Technical Education Center, and one time in 2017 even testified about the importance of CTE in front of a congressional subcommittee. Her work has literally helped the lives of a generation of students who wanted to gain a certification or stayed started their careers right when they were in
075high school. And it was because of the careerfocused pathways in Canyon Schools. This was Janet's life's work and she's touched so many lives as a result. Janet, we will miss you. You are a friend, an inspiration, and a mentor. President Schill, I know the board and the administration did issue a statement. They honored Janet's contributions in an inmemoriam that's now on the district's website tonight. I understand the board would like to enter into the official public record, the minutes of the meeting, a sentiment about Miss Gobble for the community. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Haney. The Canyon's Board of Education honors Janet Goal's dedication to the Canyon School District. We express our sincere condolences to Janet's family, friends, and colleagues in schools across the district and the state. For the official record of tonight's meeting, we
076provide this statement about Janet and her contributions as a founding administrator of Canyon's district. Year after year since the day the first days of our district, Janet was at the forefront of making sure job readiness remained a fundamental element of Canyon's mission and vision. Throughout her illness, Janet showed us all what grace and courage truly look like. Her memory will live on in the countless Kenyon students who will graduate high school ready to succeed in the workplace, become leaders in their industries and communities, and strengthen the economic foundation of the state. >> Thank you, President Shill. If you will look up there, you'll see a photograph in the top left. That's Janet putting some balloons. And I know exactly where that's at. That's at the old Midville Elementary School. And it was the very first
077day of the first year of the first new school district to be created in Utah in nearly a century. That was the day that we started our red carpet welcome for our students on the very first day of school because Janet, like the other administrators, believed that the students are the stars of the day. She was there to celebrate and to welcome all of those students from Midvil Elementary to school for the first day of the year. That was in 2009. Janet, we will miss you. Thank you, President Schill. Janet Goal was Canyon strong in so many ways. We honor her memory, not just tonight, but with every workplace learning opportunity that is provided to Canyon students. We turn the time back to you. >> Thank you. We now come to the patron comment portion
078of the meeting. The 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 the board may provide board members with written documents. These documents must be submitted to the board secretary and she's right over there at the meeting or emailed to the office of public communications by noon of the day following the board meeting. Tonight, individuals will be given two minutes. Those representing groups will be given four 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
079meeting's agenda, nor engage in public comment on individual students 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 patent patron determines to verbally comment on those personnel 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. Okay. So tonight I'm going to read two names at a time and so if if that second person
080will just be ready to come up so we can go through this as quickly as possible. Um the first person will be Zu Heightman and then the second person will be James Hume. Um good evening ladies and gentlemen. My name is Jill Heman. I'm a parent from Lone Peak Elementary. Thank you for the opportunity to be here. On behalf of the Lone Peak families, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to all of you, the board, and the district leadership for your work, time, dedication in keep in keeping the two class cohorts. Thank you for helping us foster a stable and caring learning environment and for your willingness to listen to our parents. We're fortunate to have strong and dedicated school leadership. Both the DLI and neighborhood programs are led by outstanding teachers who
081care deeply about their students. We're also equally proud of our hardworking students and the devoted, supportive families who stand behind them. By working together as a unified team, we can continue strengthening our DLI program and further elevating the excellence of our school. Thank you. >> Okay, thank you so much. Okay, the next person is James Hume and then Lisa Neerhouser. >> Hello, my name is James Ham. I am a kindergart dinner at Loun Peak. Thank you for giving giving me a spot to learn Chinese. I am excited to learn Chinese so I can communicate with more people. I love being a student at L Peak. Thanks again. >> Okay, thank you. That was very brave. Um, okay. Now we're having Lisa Nehhouser, then Chase Fington. The Willow Canyon parents support the current plan to combine
082Willow Canyon and Parklane at the Willow Canyon school site and welcomes Park Parklane students and families should that be the final decision of the board. It is important to note that the majority of the Willow Canyon community and the voting constituents do not align themselves with board member Patterson. Um while her email may claim to want to save our school for a variety of reasons, both valid as well as absolutely self-serving and biased, we disagree with her motives and her delivery. On multiple occasions, she has told our community in various meetings that we do not need to email or to call a board to express any concerns, only to discover days later that the boundary study is still examining smaller enrollment schools and our school is in fact not safe. Furthermore, her inability to have
083honest and productive conversations with community members. Her constant spreading of misinformation to community and faculty alike have shown us that she does not have the Willow Canyon or Parklane community's best interest at heart. In my opinion, she is biased and incapable of voting in the best interests of Parklane or Willow Canyon students and communities. As will be expressed in this meeting, Willow Canyon has a better existing structure, higher test scores, larger in-boundary enrollment, and a larger capacity. As a reminder, it is the responsibility of the school board and other administration to make fiscally responsible decisions on behalf of their voting constituents as well as the student population as a whole. Our kids need civility. No more changes. Okay, thank you. Now, Chase Ferington and then Emily Hansen. >> Good evening. I'm the father of five
084children, all under the age of five years old. Don't ask me how that math pencils, but it says elementary education is very important to my family now and for many years ahead. I'm quoting recent studies, location and convenience continues to be public school parents top reason for choosing their child's school. It's been open openly acknowledged by the board that Parklane occupies an ideal and strategic location and that closing it would create a large gap. Intelligent opportunists will highlight and circle these educational dead zones as lowhanging fruit and we'll see alternative options become more competitive in quality, quantity, and geographic reach. The district's goal of consolidating schools makes sense through a lens of optimal efficiency and budgeting. But it but if not executed with extreme precision and ironclad strategy, we compromise a foothold in this region
085and accept vulnerability to the number one real world driver behind school choice, location. There's also a misconception that our community is on an irreversible decline. Kids will not cease to exist along the east bench by any means. Yet, population metrics are not the biggest threat to public school enrollment. Alternative options are. By not maintaining this necessary balanced access across its geography, the district is leaving its valuable yet highly um substitutable services directly oh detrimentally exposed. You've built and directly influenced schools people want their kids to attend. Choosing Park Lane, even shortterm for I mean closing Park Lane, even short term for an unlikely rebuild means losing a strategic asset at precisely the time when tactical positioning matters most. Momentum lost will be nearly impossible to regain. Keeping Parkland open is what makes the most strategic
086sense for the district's long-term health and competitiveness. Thank you. >> Okay, thank you. Uh next is Emily Hansen, then Amanda May. There's a well-known saying in real estate that the three most important factors in any property decision are location, location, location. This saying first appeared in print in 1926, 100 years ago, and has endured because it's true. In the long term, location matters more than small differences in building condition or capacity. At the board meeting on January 20th, several board members acknowledged that Parklane's location is preferable to Willow Canyons, both for traffic flow and to avoid creating a large geographic area without a public school. There was even discussion of building a new school at Park Lane. I really appreciate these comments, but I'm also confused. If the plan is to rebuild Parklane, why does
087the current proposal close Park Lane? Short-term actions should support rather than contradict the long-term plan. I'm excited about the possibility of a new school at Parklane, but I'm also aware of reality. We all know that budgets, timelines, and district needs can change. Under the current proposal, if plans were to shift, our communities would remain at the less desirable location indefinitely. I'm also concerned about having to repeat the closure process. If we consolidate at Willow Canyon in 2027 and then move to Park Lane in 2031, my understanding is the board would need to complete the full 90-day closure closure process again in order to close Willow Canyon. The 90-day closure process puts significant strain on a school community. Asking a newly merged school to endure it again just a few years later would undermine stability, unity,
088and trust. In conclusion, the Parkling and Willow Canyon communities need clarity about which school is closing, and we need a proposal that aligns with the long-term plan. There are several ways to accomplish this. You could revise the proposal to explicitly designate Willow Canyon as a temporary site. You could change the proposal and have our communities consolidate at Park Lane in 2027. Or you could pause the proposal and not displace any students until you're ready to begin the rebuild. Whichever path you choose, I ask you to update the proposal to clearly clearly reflect the long-term plan for our communities. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh Amanda May, then Heather Okaine. >> Your your schools, your voice, your community. This is the title to announce the boundary and enrollment study. However, as a Parklane parent, I
089do not feel our school, our voices, or our community are being considered during this process. This community is not scared of buses, large schools, or change. However, we do fear losing something great without being given specific reasons behind the decision. For example, Park Lane was recently recognized as a positive outlier for student academic recovery during the CO 19 pandemic by the Utah Education Policy Center at the University of Utah. Parklane was the only canyon school recognized for having minimal impact during during and a large recovery after the pandemic. The community and culture at Parklane were among the things listed as key factors for its success. The board continues to tell us that enrollment is going down across the district and schools need to close. No one is denying this fact, but what the district hasn't
090told us after 6 months of board meetings is why Park Lane continues to be the default. Recently, Salt Lake Tribune provided a breakdown between fall 24 and 25 enrollment. Yes, Park Lane is similar in enrollment. What is more telling though is the schools with similar enrollment that have experienced a much higher percentage of decline over the last year. So why is the board wanting to close Park Lane over others? Why is the board trying to close two elementary schools within a two-mile radius? Our community has gotten up and spoken over and over again about our concerns and our frustrations. Even our students from Eastmon and Jordan have bravely stood in front of the board asking for help. Unfortunately, proposal B does the opposite of helping Eastmon and Jordan and will only further weaken them. Over
091the years, Parklane, Eastmont, and Jordan boundaries have changed to help other struggling schools. These decisions have crippled Eastmon and Jordan. My fear is our children will have their elementary, middle, and high school all closed during their K through2 education. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. um Heather O'Neill. >> Okay. Um good evening. My name is Heather O'Ne. I'm here tonight in support of Willow Canyon Elementary. I have two children at Willow Canyon and currently serve as vice president of our PTA. Our community supports the current proposal to combine Willow Canyon and Parklane at the Willow Canyon site. If that is the board's final decision, we we will welcome Parklane students and families and work together to build a strong unified school community. That said, I have serious concerns about capacity and district-wide boundary issues that
092remain unresolved. While a new building is planned, the root problem, misaligned boundaries, has still not been addressed. The East Mont feeder system continues to be structured in in a way that sets it up for ongoing challenges. We are seeing short-term fixes instead of a thoughtful long-term plan to address declining enrollment and boundary imbalances across the district. These repeated changes cause instability, divide communities, and increase costs. We strongly recommend a comprehensive boundary review across the entire district, elementary, middle, and high school, beginning with the high schools. Clear feeder patterns should allow elementary communities to remain together through middle and high school. Stability strengthens relationships, builds community, and supports student success. Both Parklane and Willow Canyon are consistently top performing elementary schools in East Sandy. With a district-wide enrollment crisis, why are elementary closures being prioritized before
093a full boundary redraw? Finally, it is my opinion we have not rep been represented fairly or responsibly in this process. Our board member has contributed to division across Willow Canyon and Park Lane, spread misinformation, and demonstrated that her primary focus appears to be reelection rather than the best interests of students. Our students and communities deserve impartial leadership, focused solely on what is best for our children. For these reasons, I respectfully request that Karen Patterson be removed from the long-term planning committee and recuse herself from boundary votes related to this issue. Our kids need stability. No more constant changes and they deserve a clear, responsible, long-term plan. Thank you. >> Okay, thank you. So, we have Katherine Terrell and then Nye Canel. Good evening. My name is Katherine Terrell. I'm the Willow Canyon parent and the
094PTA chair for literacy month. I would like to speak about long-term plans for our schools and some continued unanswered questions our commun. First, what is the plan for buildings of schools that are going to be closed? No neighborhood wants an empty, unused building. We're also aware of proposed bill in the Utah State Legislature that would give charter schools first choice of closed school buildings. If that happens, it could further impact enrollment across the district. What is the district's plan to address this possibility? Second, why is Park Lane site being selected for the proposed future new school build? Other schools in the district are being rebuilt um are being rebuilt are remaining on their current sites where schools are being merged. Willows Canyon is more centrally located, has a larger property. It has more level terrain
095that appears better suited for construction. According to Salt Lake County property records, Park Lane sits on 10 acres while Willow Canyon sits on 13.67 acres. that it's a significant difference in usable space. Additionally, upcoming changes in the DLI program could increase enrollment at both schools. Since large DI programs will no longer be offered at other locations, why not wait until the impacts of next year's school closures and DI changes are fully understood? Enrollment at each of these high-erforming elementary schools should be evaluated after these changes take effect. I want to remind and reiterate that in May, President Amber assured us that they would take two years, like the last time they did boundary changes. And at this point, we're not getting that time. We're we're on a very rushed timeline. At Willow Canyon, we parents
096support the current plan to combine Willow Canyon and Park Lane at the Willow Canyon site should that be the final decision of this board. Thank you very much. >> Okay. Thank you, Nia Canel. and then Elizabeth Flam. >> Hello members of the board. Thank you for hearing the Lone Peak Elementary community. As a Lone Peak parent, we truly value and love the DLI program and it serves Canyon School District as a competitive advantage. On the lunar new year, saving the Mandarin DLI program at Lone Peak gives us more to celebrate. As we know, this is another year of DLI. The parents of Lone Peak are committed to helping promote and increase enrollment at our school to continue the demand for our great program. We want to continue with the board and finding ways to both
097support and promote the program together. Maintaining our award-winning teachers, US News, and World Report rankings is something we should seek. Thank you again for hearing our voices. Okay, thank you. So, now is Elizabeth Flam and then Laura Anderson. My name is Elizabeth and I have four children currently enrolled in Canyons. I appreciate that tonight there was discussion on high quality learning. Last month, I read the book Digital Delusion by her Jared Horvath. And tonight, I have brought the a copy for each member of the school board as well as the superintendent. Horvath emphasizes the need for better learning opportunities. And one of the best ways is for children to have excellent in-person instruction. Horvath spoke at a press conference at the Utah Capitol at the beginning of the legislative session this year. He is an
098educator that has become a neuroscientist to study human learning. This book discusses the fact that our children are less cognitively capable than we were at their age. And the book is packed with data backed by research findings. The most interesting thing that I found in the book is that he brings to light through international data that edtech is not working the way we want it to and that we as parents, teachers, schools, and administrators can each make changes to help our students. Horvath specifically touches on paper versus screen, pen versus keyboard, and handwriting versus typing, and how paper, pen, and handwriting support better comprehension and memory, as well as deeper understanding and test performance, all of which are things that can students deserve. Last year, the book, The Anxious Generation, was brought before the board
099by a parent. That book talks a lot about the social and emotional tolls screens take on our children. This book is different in that it specifically discusses the measurable lack of impact edtech is having on the learning of our children. Canyon's district is here because of the children. They deserve the best learning. Taking a hard look at edtech and the need to retrench away from it is needed. I strongly encourage all administration to read this book and think about how canyons can help children help children have the highest quality learning environment. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. So, now we have Laura Anderson and then >> yes, she'll she'll give them to us. Thank you. Um Laura Anderson and then Anna Lisa Edmunds. >> Okay. I also have a few concerns about the current proposal.
100Don't get me wrong, I'm all in favor of joining with Parklane. I've seen these parents go to bat for their students and their school and I absolutely love it. They have shown that education and community are very important to them and I have no doubt that we, the Park Lane and Willow Canyon parents, will be an unstoppable force when it comes to fighting for the rights of our students. I see it as an army is growing in strength and numbers and I'm excited to see the amazing things we can do together. Our kids are so dang lucky. But I have a few questions. For example, what's your plans with all the preschools in this area? Qual need to be relocated. Willow Canyons will need to be bro relocated as well as Bella Vistas. Where on
101earth do you plan on putting these preschools? One of the main points we've heard over and over is leaving a giant geographical gap with no elementary school. But what about preschool? That leaves an insanely huge gap for no place for these preschools to go, which means little tiny kids with disabilities are going to be sitting on the bus for hours to go to a two and a half hour preschool. That's something that's very important that needs to be looked at. What are we going to do when all these kids who thought they were going to the DI program don't get in and they're in our boundaries and they also need a place to go and our numbers suddenly go up. What about the new apartment complex that's supposed to be built on Sega Lily and
10213th East? 150 apartments going in and to which um Holly Nyar said last time those are now housing students. It's a different demographic. They will be coming to our school. Where are we going to fit all of these people? As others have said, I'm also wondering why Park Lane site was chosen to build the giant school on. It seems very unfair that Quail Hollow will rebuild at Quail Hollow. Sandy will rebuild at Sandy. East mount or East Midville will rebuild at Eastmont, but Willow Canyon will re will rebuild at Park Lane. That means my kindergartener will have a change in first grade when we combine with Parklane. And then again in fifth grade, he'll have to move schools. Then again to go to sixth grade. That's not just one kindergartener. That'll be 100 kindergarteners who
103are going to have all that change over and over again. It makes sense to have some stability for them. And speaking of middle school, we are absolutely dying to know what you will do with Eastmont. I have been up here thousands of times begging for change. Yet I see the proposal tonight has absolutely nothing in it about Eastmont. again it is dying and it will die if this theater system isn't protected. >> Okay, thank you. Um Analisa Edmunds then Lane Vamakis and please correct me if that's wrong. I'm sorry. >> Willow Canyon parents support the current plan to combine Willow Canyon and Parklane at the Willow Canyon school site. We're excited to welcome Parklane students and families. We're excited to expand and combine our two amazing communities. I'd like to speak to the traffic safety
104at our schools. Traffic flow in and around Willow Canyon is cohesive. There are designated bus lanes and parent traffic lanes with plenty of parking for those guardians who park to pick up. For example, Parklane currently has 82 parking spots compared to 148 spots at Willow Canyon, an 80% increase compared to Parklane. At Willow Canyon, there are two parking lots, one for buses and one for pedestrians with separate entries from the main road. While we have crossing guards who are helpful and aware the traffic flow keeps our student population safe and ensures an easy and safe return home for each of our students. I am strongly against rebuilding a combined school at Parklane's current location. This proposal is akin to the board dumping millions into Eastmont when other options were more fiscally responsible. The re rebuilding
105proposed on the district's website this week has only 80 parking spots at the new location at Park Lane. Again, Willow Canyon currently has 148 parking spots. Why are we building a new school when there is a good school with a long life ahead of it? Willow Canyon can fit both schools without a new build right now and it has 80% more parking than the proposed new built school. The mo the board must pick a side. You're either combining schools to save money or you are spending more taxpayer money to build new schools that are projected to remain at low capacity. The Willow Canyon school location should be chosen for the current proposal to combine and for future years to come. We are asking the board to be fiscally responsible and stop throwing money into poorly
106planned proposals. Our community needs thoughtful proposals that make fiscal sense. Our kids need stability. Our kids need safety. >> Okay. Thank you, Lane. >> Hello. I am a mother of four kids in Canyon School District. Um my youngest is Charlie and he is a third grader at Willow Canyon Elementary. On September 2nd, the LongRange Planning Committee presented closure recommendations and then invited public input. Tonight, many Willow Canyon parents will speak about and have spoken about our school and why it should remain open. I support them. My concern, however, is how this process has divided two neighboring communities. Willow Canyon and Parklane are both deeply involved, highly functioning school communities. We are also neighbors. We shop at the same grocery stores, gather at the Sandy Library, and enjoy the occasional sounds of the Sandy Amphitheater reverberating
107through the streets. We should be united instead. Unclear direction and shifting decisions have unintentionally pitted us against one another, creating a dynamic where families feel they must advocate against the other school to save their own. If these schools combine, as I believe we eventually will, two communities who were forced to compete will now be asked to blend. Our children will sh will share classrooms. Parents will volunteer together and we will have to build something new side by side. Communities are not bound lines on a boundary map. We are built through years of volunteering, trust, and shared identity. A new mascot or school name cannot repair the damage that has been created by a rushed and divisive process. I believe this process has been made worse by bending to pressure, not showing strong a strong united
108front, and thinking of your own political agendas and careers. I hope both Willow Canyon and Parklane communities will keep in mind the impossible position that we have been put in by those who we have elected to lead us. This is a complicated work and there is not a solution that will make everyone happy. But strong leadership requires clarity, steadiness, and a commitment to unite, not divide, the people you serve. I urge this board to move forward with consistency, a clear long-term vision that prioritizes community cohesion over short-term pre pressure. Thank you so much. Okay, thank you. Um, that is the end of our patron comments and thank you all for being here and we do appreciate you parents being willing to come and speak and um, tell us your opinions. It's important to us and
109part of the process. So, thank you. Okay, the next um item on our agenda is the consent agenda and I will now ask for a motion and please um, read the reasons each each item. >> I'll make that motion. Um, I make a motion to approve tonight's consent agenda, which includes item A, approval of minutes for February 3rd, 2026, item B, approval of hire and termination reports, item C, approval of purchasing bids, and item D, approval of January financial reports. >> Okay, thank you for that motion. Is there a second to that? >> I'll second that. >> Okay, thank you. Is there any discussion to that motion? Okay, seeing none, I'll call for a vote. Um, all in favor of passing the consent agenda, please say I. I. >> Any opposed? Okay, that motion passes
110unanimously. >> Okay, the next item on our agenda is new business and that first item A is 2026 2027 fee schedule. This is the second reading and this will be by Leon Wilcox, business administrator. >> Thank you, President Schill. and want to just thank all the parents and uh employees that we've had come speak tonight. We really do appreciate your comments. And I also want to just second what uh Jeff said about Janet. Jennet and I were very close. We worked together for 17 years and she will be missed and uh our thoughts and prayers are with her family at this time. Uh just want to hit I'm going to go through this quite quickly if it's okay. This is the second reading of the fee schedule. Went over the first one in study session
111two weeks ago. The items in red font are new. The items in the in the black font are are just carried over from that presentation two weeks ago. Just want to hit a couple things as we go through this. Uh we talked about the legislature possibly pulling back se uh the 35 million and a half that they designated two years ago to offset some school fees that are going away. Uh and the public ed appropes or final recommendation is that they restore the 17.5 that or 17.8 million that went to school districts back in September that that not be pulled back that we get to keep that funding. So we'll see where that goes. We do not expect to get the money that we were expected to receive the next two years. That would be
112that bottom bullet about 550 million next year and 370 in FY28. We don't think that will be coming to us, but we are hopeful to get at least be able to keep the 923 million I mean thousand we got for for this year. We'll see how that turns out as it goes through the final weeks of the legislature. Uh, a couple things that this general fund fee or this registration fee funded for us. We talked about the credit card processing of about $40,000 per school. 90% of our fees are paid with credit cards. We do take a which is still charged a fee and and a few few still pay with checks, but 90% is through credit cards. Uh, the overtime for our custodians who have to do Saturday events. uh the assistant coaches who
113work in u you know that our gate receipts just cannot cover as well as our new the huddle camera film system there in the elementary just to reiterate elementary and middle schools we have no fee no proposed changes to the fee schedule keep in mind we cannot charge for elementary schools except for the afternoon morning and afternoon orchestra and band classes that we have there here's the high school ones that we again put out. The maximum per high school is per high school student will remain at $6,000. Uh the we only have a couple we don't have anybody student reaching that this year. We've had a couple in the past. Usually they have to have the CEK be in the CEK cosmetology program to get there. Uh class fees will remain at the $35. We
114are proposing parking increase from $10 to $20. You can see the revenue that we would generate from that. Then we also propose increasing at the $10 participation fees for all extra extracurricular activities. This would be uh sports teams and groups. We expect that to generate enough to cover the custodial cost on Saturdays, whether it be for the theater or for the sports teams. uh that should cover that expense. Uh one thing that we wanted to look at or let you know is that we want to add a a mock trial fee. That would be the same as debate. Hillrest and Brighton are the two schools that currently have that program and we did add that to their schedules, but as as if other high schools pick that up, we'd add that as well. Again, that
115would be same fee as the debate. Uh and again, as we mentioned last time, we may we'll probably have to look at regular fee increases in participation fees to cover inflation going forward. Here's this again. Here's the CEK fees. You can see those to get the required certificates for our students. I won't go through those by line, but you can see those there. No changes from our last meeting. Two pages. Want to emphasize the very last bottom, the new program, our medical scholars concurrent enrollment credit at Weber State uh can get you four our students four uh concurrent enrollment credits there. Again, that's a new one coming online that we started this semester. Uh here's some possible changes. Again, there last several years there have been multiple changes to school fees. Some have gone through,
116some of them have not. two small ones this year or smaller I should say. The one where we could charge for a science class. Again, we cannot charge for ELA, health, math, or social studies, but the one for science has not been heard in a committee. I'm kind of guessing that will not go through this year, but could go through in a future year. Again, we have to maintain a no starting next year, a no fee path. So, we for students to graduate. we would have to uh make sure there are some science classes that are do not charge fees moving forward if if this if this does become an option. Right now it is not. And then one that likely will pass is House Bill 142 easily passed the House as you can see
117there and then is moving on to the Senate. That's where students on waiverss can still go on one trip, but if they go on a second or third trip, they have to have a written agreement with an action plan with the principal about doing tutoring, uh, doing some custodial work or something to help offset the cost of that. So, again, that one will likely pass. So, we'll have to make our principles aware of that. Here's the fee schedules. I won't go through all those, but uh, for the middle and high schools, uh, here's what we've done since the last meeting. We sent out uh on Parent Square uh information about the proposed fee schedule for next year that went out on February 6. So me I have two boys. I received that uh email. Those
118of you who have uh who have students should have received that email on the 6th. We got a few comments back. Want to emphasize we got one comment over the weekend. So if you read this over the weekend, you there would be one more comment that was added. Uh so we will we'll take your direction, but we'd be happy to send out another one this upcoming week for more feedback and then we'd bring this back for your approval either at next meeting, March 3rd or our March 31st meeting. So there's where there's where we're at with that. Want to go through that fairly quickly, but uh I'll take any questions, comments you may have. and if you would like us to go ahead and send out another parent square on this. >> Okay. Thank you,
119Mr. Wilcox. Um, are there any comments? And I see Mrs. Nybar has her hand up. >> Thank you. Um, I looked at all these slides, of course, before the meeting. And I am interested in doing another feedback cycle. I think that's great. And I was wondering if we could um also maybe even have uh ask our SEC's just to make people aware too see if we can get a little more attention on this because I know sometimes it's difficult for us to get the feedback we're seeking. So >> we can I can ask Tom mainly it's the high schools right it's 90% of our fees are high school related. So, I can ask Tom if he can reach out to the high school principles if they have a SEC meeting. That'd be fine between now
120and then to see if they can get more feedback on that. Yeah, sure. >> Okay. Any other comments? The board? Are we fine without sending out another notice? And then the high school principles. Okay, great. Thank you, Mr. Wilcox. Um, and then now I think we can go on to the next item and that is item B, long range planning committee update. This will also be by Leon Wilcox, business administrator. Again, we're pulling that up. Uh uh again, appreciate all the parents and comments that have been shared with us tonight. So, It's got to be out there. >> Sometimes technology doesn't work. >> Sometimes technology >> Yes. >> Anyway, I'll just start by thanking the longrange planning committee. I know you guys had another really long meeting um to get to this presentation. So, thank
121you everyone who's on that. It's on the website, you guys. Times like this, I wish I had a few jokes, but I don't have any tonight. >> I know. Why don't you have a >> I know. I'm so unprepared. Feel awful. >> You need to You need to always have a couple prepared, Leon. >> Yeah. >> Mount of snow tonight. Anybody? Two inches, six inches. We're hearing all kinds of things. >> Let's hope a lot. Not at our houses though. just in the mountains. >> It should be said that I do have a 13-year-old going on 14-year-old and eighth grader at home. He has promised Rick $5 anytime he closes school. So, Rick, that is that is out there for you. That will put that on public record tonight. >> He's up at four with
122you. >> No, trust me, he's not getting up at 4. >> I know. So, parents, these guys get up at 4 a.m. >> to make the decision about what they're doing. >> It's hard enough getting them up at >> in time for school. Yes, >> those with eighth graders probably know that. Uh >> yes, >> again, we've been meeting as of the long range planning. Thank you for getting this up. uh uh you know the the bottom line while we're going through this is we know our enrollment has decreased and we know it's going to continue to decrease. We know uh school choice plays a big role in that. There is no doubt about it. We also know there's always going to be kids in East Sandy and all our areas. We we know that
123as well. But we also know there's just not going to be right now we're just not having as many kids. And that's signified by you know we went over this a couple meetings ago. our birth rate. These are the number of births we've had in our zip codes. You can see the information starting in 2007 till 2024, the last year we had information. You see we're almost down a thousand bursts. And that has just filtered through the system. Right now, our incoming kindergarten class is expected to be about 8 to 900 students fewer than our graduating senior class. And so that gets into that why we're just decreasing in enrollment and so and why we're having to make these really hard choices that we, you know, we really wish we weren't in, but we know
124we have to do something here. Uh, one of the things that we always hear about is, you know, against school choice and we know we're losing some to to homechools. Uh, one of the things that we always pull and monitor is those students we learn who who who live in our boundaries who attend a charter school. And on your tax statement, you will see you pay a portion of property taxes to charter schools. And that's based on a pretty complicated and lengthy formula that's uh created at the state and maintained at the state. But one of those key factors is the number of students you have residing in your boundaries who attend a charter school. Now, we have you may have charter schools in our area where kids from South Jordan or Holiday come. They're
125not residing our in our boundaries, but these are the number of students who reside in our boundaries who attend charter schools. This number is based on a two-year lag. So, uh so you can see there in 2019 on October 1, we had about 3,900 students, we call them DORs, district of residents, students who lived here who attended a charter school. They don't have to again attend this charter school here. They could also attend one in in uh Riverton or in Lehi. Okay. But they do live here. So you can see there in we have 3,900 in 2020. I don't have the number. I know there were some impacts with CO because it would have been based on that October one of 2020 count. But then you can see the last three years it's been pretty
126consistent. Now we know the number of students has gone down you know so we don't expect that to go down but it's been fairly consistent but you can see the number of students who reside here who attend a charter school next year we'll get the number actually later this year we'll get the number from 2024 I do not have that but that will be used in next year's calculation for that and then 25's what was happening on October 1 2025 will be used in the 2728 calculation but you can see they're been fairly consistent with those students attending charter schools. And you know, we're again, we're we're trying to make sure we take the time and analyze everything here. And one of the things that we're trying to do is listen to the community and
127and uh try to take as all their feed as much feedback back as we can. We've heard to try to keep communities together, particularly elementary, middle, high school. We've heard that again tonight. uh strengthening Jordan feeder. We got a couple slides on that. We know that's an issue and we're trying to find issu uh resolutions to that as well as addressing our our aging K5 schools. We've addressed our secondary schools, but we know a lot of our elementary schools were built in the 70s or 60s and they need a lot of work and we know that. And how do we go about doing that? Is it through either renovating or rebuilding? Oops, going the wrong way here. So, here's our middle school projected enrollment starting next year. And you can see some of them are
128fairly stable. Uh, again, this is found on boardwalk. So, if I know the names may be a little blurry, but we do expect to see decreases in Draper Park. Uh, just again aging out in the expense of the housing down there. uh Albian, you know, lots of these schools that we're studying, whether it be Oakdale, Quail Hollow, Granite, Silver Mesa, that are decreasing in enrollment, feed into Albian. So again, we're expecting a decrease there over the next five years. The others fairly fairly stable. We know Eastmont's the bottom one there. We do expect them to be fairly stable the next five years, but you can see the difference there between them and the other uh seven middle schools. and we're trying to we have one solution that we not quite ready to present but are
129are working on that. I know we know this is probably going to be a phase out period where we have to go through this to try to try to address that issue again with the Eastmont feeder and the Jordan High feeder. You can see our high schools uh Corner Canyon, we expect the biggest decrease there that will align with the Draper Park decrease. The others we expect to be fairly stable. Again, we do start pulling students back from home school and from charter schools back into the when they get into the high school ages there. So, you can see Jordan still expected to be relatively stable, but we know it is smaller than the other schools out as well. Uh, but you can see where we're looking at trying to correct the best we can.
130We'll never be perfect going forward with that. Again, Eastmont and Jordan should be said, you know, looking at what we can do to support there. We have put in about 12 million of upgrades there. So, if you've been inside to see the new restrooms, the new floor, the new tile, you know, it's still a a school was open in 1973, so it still has that. I think the biggest improvement has been the lighting. if you've seen the new LED lighting in there. Uh but it is uh you know an avid school has a STEM designation won our chess championship and our debate championship just recently. So we have some fantastic kids there working with some great teachers and so we want to keep strengthening that the best we can again as we look at this
131longterm vision. So, I'm going to change focus just a little bit here and look at how we address our long-term building out period with with uh with some of these aging elementary schools. This is our current outstanding debt. I'm not going to go through all these colors here, but you can see it starts tapering off in about 2030 and then starts going down to ends in 2040. This would be both our general obligation bet debt and our lease revenue debt. All of it right there. So right now we're paying about just about 57 58 million in debt and will for the next couple years. What we're proposing to do is introduce two colors if you will. That would be the purple and the red. Everything else is staying the exact same to look at rebuilding
132some schools moving forward. Uh again that would start in the purple would be introduced a new building in the 29 year and then the next year we look at issuing more debt building three schools possibly up to three schools at that time period. You can see we start lengthening that out into the 2040s. So it would be about a you know 15 16 17 year bond depending on where we issue it. Uh, so as I said, one school could start as early as 2028 and open in 2030. It takes about 18 to 20 months to build a school. Now with all the electrical and structural and also the safety requirements there, we used to be able to do in about 15 months, but it that's just not possible anymore. It's about 18 to 20. We
133could start another three schools a year after that in 2029 and 30. then they would open in 2031. Uh all these would have to we'd have to issue this debt, but it'd have to conform with requirements of state law at the time. The legislature does change those from time to time. And we'd also need to convert our geo bond debt into capital debt, which would require a tax hearing for that. Okay? We try to keep the amount neutral for the taxpayers, but it would require a tax hearing. We want to emphasize that you know this is our proposal but it there are sub it is subject to change by state legislation, property tax legislation, interest rates, construction cost and there could be other factors. So we want to emphasize that but that would be the
134plan going out moving forward. So here's what is we've looked at as a long range again trying some of this is focused on the Eastmon and Jordan feeder the best we can and when I say Jordan that would also include mountain Jordan and that would be to look at rebuilding Sandy Elementary on site that would be our what I'd call phase one and we'll go over that in the next couple slides then in phase two which would begin in fall of 2029 open In 31, we look at rebuilding Ridgerest and Bella Vista or the that school on the Ridgerest site, Park Lane and Willow Canyon on the Park Lane site and then either the granite Quell Hollow on Quell Hollow site or rebuild East Midville on its current site. The one that we didn't do
135would be what we'd call phase three. That could start in 2031, open 33. Okay, that is our proposal that we're looking at moving forward. Just talk about these briefly. Uh why Sandy? Well, Sandy is our oldest school built in 1951. The next two schools are Copper View and Crescent, which are 10 years years uh younger. Uh they, you know, we've done lots of upgrades to Sandy, but it's still the oldest school and still some of the original fixtures, if you will, are still there. mainly in the plumbing. So, it needs a restroom upgrades in a HVAC that we always have trouble controlling with a building that old. And we'd want to look at expanding Sy's elementary boundary to focus on Mount Jordan, Jordan High, and look at the feeder alignment with that. This is what
136we could look at. You can see where Sandy Elementary is. Now, one of the things, so that would be I'll point here. So, you can see Sandy there. One of the things that we could look at is expanding its boundary here into copper view and pulling those students up. Then adjust the middle school boundary and the high school boundary accordingly. We could also look here at the bluffs, the new bluffs here. This is Ivy Lane and pulling those students around as well, having those go to Sandy, then Mountain Jordan, Jordan High. Uh, one of the things we wouldn't make this effective until the 2030 till that school got rebuilt because we'd want to limit the number of buses and other vehicles going on site during construction. I want to emphasize those red lines are just
137estimates at this time. Uh, you know, we'd probably look to bring in around a hundred more students into Sandy Elementary. It has about 450 right now. Make it around 550 if if we could. Again, that would go into Mountain Jordan, Jordan High from there. Second one is moving to phase two. We'll start with Bell of Vesta Redest. Uh the name will still be Regger Crest next year, but we'll probably look to rebrand that. Would look to start that construction in 2029, open in 31. You know, that has the high FCI score of 90, about 92. So, it has needs of HVAC. You're going to see this HVAC in lots of our schools, but also plumbing, electrical, restrooms, mill work. We are going to put down some carpet this upcoming summer. It desperately needs that. This
138will be a big school once it's done. It's going to be around 600 once but uh once it's combined, but and we'll we expected to stay there in that range. Uh but when we build the new school, you know, we'd look to rebrand it. We like building it on the Ridgerest site for the reason that we want to keep a strong presence in that area of Cottonwood Heights as we already have so that would be west of Highland whereas we already have Butler Elementary Highland that we rebuilt in 2016. So that's the reasoning behind putting that there. Again, still some work to do with the city on that park that's next to it on what how we can rebuild with that. Here's a couple renderings again of possibilities. This is looking at using the uh
139Glacier Hills School elementary model right there. Uh here's the current uh uh Ridgerest Elementary. We would build right here on site. Again, keep the students there. We'd like moving them to, you know, obviously you always want to look at moving students off, but the Bella Vista building is just not big enough to hold them. It only has 23 classes. And then so we would obviously put in a safety fence there to protect all the teach all the students and teachers. Then when it's done, we'd look at a and then you'd have a ball field where the old building was. I think it would turn out really really be a nice campus and facility there. want to emphasize, you know, every school site has pluses and minuses building on site and it mainly depends on where
140the current building is. Okay? And so you can have a large site with 15 acres and have the building in a certain place and it's really hard to build around it. You could have a smaller site and still be to build around it based on where the current building's located. It's just every school is different in that factor. Those of you who were around, primarily President Schill, we know we had to rebuild Brighton and Hillrest with 2,000 students on campus on site at the same time. So, that was quite a challenge. So, but we've done this both ways. We moved students off uh as we did with Peruvian Park and Glacier Hills, but we rebuilt Ala View, Butler Elementary, and Mid Valley all on site. So, we've done it both ways. Our prefer pre preference
141is to move them off, but we know that's not always a possibility. Here's another rendering of of uh Bellist and Ridgerest. Just me, I kind of like this one a little bit better because you may get better views of the mountains, but we'd see that decision does not need to be made tonight. But again, again, the playfield here, you can see where the the distance is. you got to maintain a firet truck access between two buildings and even more than that going forward. So, and this is how it would look. I know we had an option out there where it has Canyons Elementary School. We want to emphasize no names been decided on on this new school, but that gives you an idea of how it could look in moving forward. Next one would be
142uh Parklane Willow Canyon on site uh building on the Parklane site. Uh again, we could start that in fall of 29, open in 31. The main reason we want to do it at the Park Lane site is to maintain that strong presence for the Eastmon feeder and the Jordan feeder as getting as far east in Sandy as we can. That would be the main reason there. Now, the other reason is, well, why well you while you you know why not go to Park Lane now? consolidate there for a couple years. And the main thing is just the condition of Parklane. You know, Willow Canyon has has had more updates. Park Lane Chile chillers and boilers are still functional, but they're 2005 models. Hard to get parts for those. You know, the carpet needs to be
143replaced. The wall carpet needs to be removed. Mill work, restrooms, lighting. The asphalt's in pretty good condition, but the parking lot needs a design, and we could easily do that with the rebuild there. All these, you know, you're looking at around the cost of about two and a half million right now. When these are combined, you know, we'd be about 580. As we've talked in the past, we look to rebrand these with a new name, maybe pull in a DLI or STEM program to try to again build up that Eastmont feeder going into Jordan from there. U here's how it would look. Again, it would be just about impossible to build Park Lane on site. Uh you can see there where the current building is. The idea would be basically put the new building where
144the existing building is, but just push it back about 15 to 20, maybe even 30 feet back. So, it would still occupy probably this would probably be about the front door right here and the parking. So, right here would be the front door. Again, it go back into the parking lot a little bit there with again we'd have a bus drop off here as we do it. Glacier Hills and then the parking in front there. So that's what we'd look at. When you do this, you could easily fix the grade at the Park Lane building. Uh so obviously to do that the students would have to be offsite. So our recommendation would be to move them off site for the first two years and then start this construction in 2029 with that. So they would
145have to if we did nothing, if we did not consolidate them now, but wanted to wait two years, we could do that, but they would have to consolidate at the Willow Canyon building starting in 2029. I know one there was one comment well you'd have to do another hearing to bring that back or to close Willow Canyon. It is our understanding we would not have to do that uh because it is one school. The boundary is not changing. The school is not closing. It's just being relocated to another part of the school boundary. So we would not have to go through the school closure process again in 2031. Here's uh again. So there's again phase two or phase three. I don't know which one the board wants to look at, but uh building Quell Hollow
146on the uh rebuilding Granite and Quail Hollow on the Quill Hollow site again starting that construction in 2029 uh and opening or you could open in 31 or 33, whatever you want to do. We want to build that long-term synergy with Albian Middle. We know through the earlier charts at Albian, we expect to see start seeing pretty big decreases there. Uh the biggest thing at at Quill Hollow is the carpet and the mill work restrooms. That just needs a big refresh there. Uh again, once we get we are projecting a large enrollment about 550 kids that would include the EEC moving forward with that. Here's how it looks at Quill Hollow site. I think we could build one there, but it would be tough. I think our recommendation at this point would probably be to
147relocate back at the granite building for two years where we rebuild on site for that school. But again, want to keep that big focus on that strong feeder with quail granite combined moving into Albian then on to Brighton with that. Okay. And the last one. Oops, I'm going the wrong way. Sorry. Last one is East Midbell. Again, you could do either the Quail Hollow Granite School or the East Midbell. Uh, East Midbell has, you can see it has, you can see its FCI score. It's one of our older buildings. Opened in 1966. We have done some work there with the new roof, new carpet, but we still have issues with the restrooms, the mill work. The layout of the building is unique. It was a unique design back in 60 1966. Some really like it,
148some really like it much less. So, uh, but you can see it's laid out in these pod areas here. Plenty of room to rebuild on site. We don't really have a vacant school. We're always hesitant to bust kids, elementary kids long distances. You know, the furthest we bust elementary kids was when we redid Park Pro, bust them down to the Crescent View building, but that's about was about four miles. We're hesitant to go more than that because, you know, parents try to come and pick them up for doctor's appointments or music lessons or whatever and they're just driving further. So, that's one of the concerns we have there. But we have plenty of room. We think we could build a great campus on site back in that space there. So again, trying to, you know,
149eval I'm going to go to that second bullet. Evaluate our current boundaries to assess alignment with long-term sustainability and the healthy K K12 feeders. That's what we're trying to get at there. And to really try to do what's best for our students moving forward. And you can see the other bullets. We've put those out there before. I won't go through all those. Uh here's the timeline that we're proposing right now. You can always change this, but uh you know, at the January 20th meeting, we said we'd open a new 90-day window. Uh we have in March we have public hearing scheduled at March 10th at Granite Elementary, March 19th at Parklane Elementary for their school closures. Uh we could have a second reading at our at our March 31st meeting and then if you wanted
150a third and reading of possible action at May 5th. Again, these would go into effect for the not next school year but the 20 27 28th school year. August of 27. Then once you approve that, we would start with the transition teams, you know, that we've had with Bellow Vist, similar to what we're doing with Bella Vista and Richest right now. Uh I'm just going to go through these slides really quick. These were back in our last presentation, so I don't want to spend a whole lot of time, but here's just again where the boundaries are for Quell Hollow and Granite. They would go to the Quel Hollow building. That slice though on the on the south side of the goalie would go to Lone Peak because that does go into Indian Hills and into
151Ala from there. You can see the numbers. The EEC would stay there as it goes into Albian and Brighton right now. Uh and then you can see we do have 28 classrooms at Quill Hall. We would need 23 of those. uh class size around 22. They would also need three for the ABS. We are looking, you know, I know Terry is looking at preschool where we could do that more. We know we're doing some more at Oakdale and uh we'll probably look at other places as well as Sever Mesa, maybe even Peruvian Park and other other areas. Uh here's our proposal B again. Park Lane going to Willow Canyon start starting the 2728 bill year at the Willow Canyon building. Again, if we did the build on site, they would have to consolidate there anyway
152in the 29 year. Again, we feel like at least our view is get these communities together, get them built up, and again try to strengthen the best we can of going into Eastmont. We do know we lose about a quarter of the Parklane students, sixth graders going to Albian. We'd like to try to get keep as many of those with the friends going into Eastmon then down to Jordan. You can see the FCI scores with those and again uh you know again just try to focus on that strong stability feeder system moving forward with that. So with that, again, these last six slides were done a couple meetings ago. I didn't want to spend a whole lot of time, but wanted to leave them on there just as a refresher so people didn't have to
153go back and look at where they were our proposals were. So with that, board members, I'll turn it back to you, President Schill, and take any questions or comments you may have. >> Okay, board, are there any questions or comments to this proposal and update? I >> think we probably all do. Oh, Katie. Okay. Mrs. um Dolly, then Mrs. Nymar. >> Thank you, Leon, for all your work on this and for our long range planning team. Um it's been hours and hours of work. As we're as we've been going through this and there's lots of stuff still going on behind the scenes that we're not ready to put out quite yet, but um just know that we hear you. We are looking very closely at that Eastmon Jordan feeder and trying to balance these feeder
154systems for the long term. You know, as he looked at, you know, some of our others are also dropping quite rapidly. And so trying to we're looking at how to support those. And so know that we're there um looking at those things and trying to also look at the number of times we're displacing a community with some of these rebuilds so that we're not moving communities multiple times uh to do that. >> Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Nybar. Okay, first off, thank you so much for all the work. Uh I we all were interested and we've expressed multiple times the uh need and request for a five or sevenyear plan. So I love that we have something put together to look at. Um could we please move back to the slide about how we'll fund these
155projects with the where we talked about possible uh tax hearing right there. Perfect. Okay. Um, Leon, you said that the initial investment would be about two and a half million when you were presenting just a few bit ago. >> I I think that was, you know, to get Park Lane, some of the needs that need to be corrected at Park Lane right now would be about two and a half million. >> Would be about two. >> So that's that's different than this. Yeah, >> you're right. So, so, um, my largest concern is I know the operating costs of keeping the elementary schools open and I do know the age of our schools and that they need updates, but I'm concerned about the large investment to do all these building projects within the next seven years.
156Um I'm concerned about our our way our vehicle to do that with lease revenue bonds just because I'm not certain it's always going to be how it has been. Um I'm concerned about the the tax um levy implications and um having said that I know this is a very complicated situation. So, I'm not trying to I'm not trying to be overly critical about it, but I'm I am very concerned about that. Um, I want I I would love to know when we look at the remodels. I remember how much Glacier Hill was. And I'm just thinking about if we were to if what would be the cost benefit analysis if if we looked at keeping these schools open for a certain amount of time and how much money that would cost versus the rebuild and
157combining them together. I the thing is that I worry about is I really do worry about um I I do believe that our strongest um thing we have to offer for parents and families is that we are the center of the community and that we are a close proximity and that is why our families choose us. And my concern is with what has happened in the past with legislation, right now we have such competing interest to draw away really great families to other art other educational options like charter schools and private schools, especially with the um you know the the financial um paybacks and so to families. And so um I've said it before, but I'll say it again. And I'm very very concerned about um so much consolidation because I think we lose our
158stronghold in our communities and and we need we need these families. We need these families to stay here and sit with us. We need personalized education. I think um I think we need to look at how to be innovative. We had a a mom speak just barely about uh educational tech and the controversy of um you know the statistics provided of what what happens there. We've had um families come to us and ask can we have a a tech-free classroom where they just do tech like for brain boosters. I mentioned in a previous board meeting, how amazing would it be if we started a pilot program like at Granite Elementary and had some elementary classrooms where they only do tech at a brain booster or an assessment situation. Um, I just I I'm really interested
159in looking at some other things that we can do and I'm concerned about so much rebuilding and so much cost associated with that. And I really want to hear from all the long range planning who've looked at this a lot. So, and Leon too. >> Okay. Um, Mr. Wilcox, do you want you've already told us multiple times the cost of keeping a school open for one year. Can you just refresh our members? >> So, you know, it's about a million dollars, you know, on overhead cost. Most of it's p personnel with the principal got vice principal, achievement coach, secretary, custodian. that it's about you're looking at about a million dollars and then and then all the aids and whatnot. Of course, the teachers would go to the new school off that. Uh as far as
160rebuild and remodel, you can discuss that all you want. I agree there's it's uh you know you they are older and and where do you start drawing the line dump you know putting more money in and rebuilding? That's something that we've always talked about. We also know that these buildings do draw. Every elementary that we've opened has drawn uh kids back from wherever they were going. So, all that focuses in and trying to really sustain that strong presence. I'm particularly talking about Park Lane, that East Sandy area, trying to get that strong presence, keep that strong presence up there. That's what as a long range what we've talked about. We want to emphasize on the tax as we do this. We wanted to keep this neutral to the taxpayer. They would not see an increase
161in their taxes. Now they, you know, they may see we may we'll probably have to do increases as we've done for operating costs for salaries for our employees. As you know, we cannot bring in more money from one year to the next. But on the capital side, we wanted to keep that uh revenue neutral, cost neutral to the taxpayers moving forward. So we have gone through that plan. That's what this does here. You know, we'd love to start building now, but we don't have that capacity. So that's why we have to wait till 2028, 2029 to do that. And we can only do one in 2028 because you can see it starts spiking up a tiny bit here under the way we have to do lease revenue bonds. If we did all four at that
162same time, that would spike up much more and cause a bigger impact. So, uh, so all those, you know, that's why we're in this little bit of a waiting period until until we, you know, again, looking at the long-term plan, but we know we can't put shovels on the ground right now because we just don't have the the ability taxing ability to do that without an increase to the taxpayer. So, that's one of that's the main reason there. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Wilcox. Um the other thing to keep in mind just board and pat patrons that are here is that we cannot mix capital is one fund >> and then ongoing money that we pay salaries with is another fund and we cannot mix those two. So >> just keep that in mind. Um
163is there anyone else who wants to speak? Mrs. Peterson. >> Um I appreciate your comments, Leon. You've you did a fine job of um expressing some of the things that we've been discussing in long-term planning. remember that it's a plan. It's not a guarantee. So that's the nice part is at least we have some benchmarks set out for future schools and no one says for sure they're going to happen on those dates. You just ask that we have a plan that we know what we're heading for and that is that is our attempt at this point. Can it be changed? Absolutely. But it's I can I'm pretty sure it can't happen exactly the way we have it. that if the world was perfect, we would love to be able to do that. Our buildings are
164aging out to the point where we can't get parts. So, if we can't have a strategy to replace our schools so that they have another 50 years um or more in them, then I think we can really provide a great education for our students. I don't want to have leaky roofs or bad air conditioning and and safety issues because of the age of our buildings. And so we're just looking ahead and being a little, you know, trying to be proactive. What could we do? This is what could we do? And we're this is the best version we can see without a crystal ball. So I'm I'm pleased that we've been able to come up with this. In the past, the district has never looked any further than a year ahead. Really, we haven't had a
165long-term plan because we haven't been around long enough to have uh had that need. But it's been wonderful that we've um been asked to and are able to create a plan that we can we can adjust. So yeah, it it's a lot. It's a lot. I agree. But I'm thinking down the road if we can have key buildings in our strategic areas of the district so that we have strong presence in all of our areas, I think that will be a far more efficient than having lots of little small schools. Jordan built as fast as the as the neighborhoods built. >> Yeah. >> And that's why they're in interesting locations and why they're so close is that they had a subdivision go up, so they built a school. A subdivision went up and they built
166a school. And so they're all in the same situation. And we inherited that when we had our split. So we're doing the best we can to be efficient. Um we don't want to raise taxes to do this. it we're this plan is a possibility that we can do that without causing additional cost on our taxpayers that we can pay as we go. So I think we're being trying to be very prudent in how we're using using our money. Um the as far as our proposals be proposal B it hasn't been decided yet. That's just the proposal. So it can go either way back and forth. It can be ch it can be dropped alto together. We're not to that point yet where we've completely completely made that decision. I promise. So, the hearings will be
167helpful. Having you here is helpful. Appreciate that. Um, we do have a lot of things that we're working on boundaries that will affect our high schools and middle schools, but until we have that truly set up the right way, we're going to have people coming in and trying to break, you know, challenge all those parts. and we want to make sure we have them right so that we can say this is the boundary plan and we're not quite there yet. It we're working on it but it it's a really complex problem that I'm more than happy to work on. So I appreciate um Leon all the work that you've done for this. I think we we're heading in a good direction. Have we decided anything completely? Not a bit. This is a proposal. So thank
168you. >> Okay. Thank you Mrs. Dolly. Then Mr. at all. >> Uh just to your point, so there what Holly was saying, well, if you look at there's extensive research on the lifespan of public school buildings and it's about 40 to 60 years and and all of our schools in East Sandy, a lot of these ones that we're looking at were built in the 70s and early 80s. So we're hitting that 50-year mark. We're really at the lifespan of these buildings. Even as you go in and try to remodel, I don't know if mo any of you have done a house remodel, it sort of starts with one small thing. I'm going to change this and then it snowballs because you find other issues that it rolls into things. And so by the time you
169put all that money into the remodel, we found that even with Eastmon, a lot of times we're better off rebuilding to provide a better school environment for the students to be able to start from scratch. Many of these buildings were built with this open classroom model. We've already had to put like awkward walls and things in to make it work um for a period of time. But also remember this is what the district was founded on. The reason this district split off of Jordan School District was because the mayors in the community were mad that the money was not going into maintaining our schools. And so this has been a priority of the board from the get-go and of the community with passing general obligation bonds is to provide great education environments for our students
170that can last for a long time. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Edeto. >> Uh so I'm I'm particularly excited about the proposal. Uh a couple of my co colleagues though have mentioned that uh they hope that this will help the schools last an additional 50 years. Uh Sandy Elementary is 75 years old. Um and then looking at uh Ridgerest uh is I just had it up uh 59 years old. go to say an additional 50 years. Uh our our buildings have have lasted a really long time. Um and if you've been at Sandy Elementary, uh it's it's actually amazing how nice the school is given its age. 75 years is a really long long time for a building to be uh in existence. Uh and it was mentioned various issues, right? Heating. So, for example,
171at Sandy Elementary, um it's been a routine issue that uh uh I know that uh facilities has has worked tirelessly to try to address, which is classrooms that get into the high 80s um and into the low 90s or I think mid 90s when uh a couple different days twice a year every single year. um and to the point where uh you just have complete learning loss um at a title one school for multiple days each year. Um you know, you're probably looking at at a solid two weeks of learning loss um where it's most needed. Uh and and that's not to say anything about kids throwing up because it's so hot, right? Uh or we're not we're completely ignoring the employees as well because it's a significant impact on them. So that in of
172itself is exciting. But then the new schools that we have in addition to being places where um you know your basic needs are met, they are also so much better of environments for our students to learn. Um when you have natural light, natural light is so incredibly important for our students. um along with how the how the spaces are set up. You know, we've come a long way in 50 to 75 years that we're looking at for some of these buildings. Um so, so I'm really excited uh for that with this and we've spent quite a long time uh you know, you know, looking at this and addressing it. Um, but I did want to speak to the feeder system for a second as well. That's been a huge priority of mine has been uh
173the Jordan feeder system. Uh, I have kids in the Jordan feeder system. Uh, it it matters a lot to me. I mean, I'm at I'm with the short walk to to Jordan High School. Um, and Jordan High School's been an absolute priority of mine since I got on the board along with the schools that feed into it. Um, so there are some other things that we're looking at to go into this as well. So the first items that were proposed tonight were to do some rebounderies. We've got the Jordan Bluffs area um that's expecting some significant uh uh buildings to go up in the area. And so we are looking at that right now so that we can capture those students um and then funnel those into the Jordan feeder system um along with some
174potential changes over at Copperview which I'd like to say that some potential changes at Copperview could also drastically um improve the educational experience um of really I think our most disadvantaged students that we have in our entire district. Um, and to be able to get uh each one of those students um into a brand new elementary building, no matter how we were to to divide that, assuming we went down that path, I think would be transformational for their lives as well. Um, and just the feeling that the students have, right, with um, you know, how they go to school, but refocusing back on Jordan Eastma, there are some things that we're looking at that we weren't able to propose and that I'm not going to explicitly mention. Uh so at my other job in the
175military we call the process staffing and I was uh told that that is not a term that we use. Uh and so chat GPT told me I'm supposed to say review process which is where you bring it to various parties um along the way an a concept right before you you push it out. Um that's an important process that happens with anything and any kind of big decision. Um, and so some other some other concepts we're looking at to strengthen the Jordan feeder system are currently in that review process. And uh, so while I'd love to push that out right now, it's really important that it it go through that. Um, we don't want people to be caught off guard with things, we don't want to create a uh, accidentally create a bigger mess. But
176do know that we are looking at that um, at the moment. And so, um, so we really do want to to focus on strengthening the Jordan feeder system that goes with Eastmont, right? Um, it's essential that Eastmont remains strong. It's essential that Mount Jordan remains strong. Um, and it's essential that Jordan remains strong. So, I did want to mention that I do think that this plan uh goes into that fantastically. And then of course looking at the new schools in our areas uh for phase two that we have um you know a new school is is fantastic. Um when we look at uh Glacier Hills or we look at um some of our other new schools the the learning environment is is just so significantly better. Um, and I've had kids who went to school
177um at one of our old buildings um that's that's dark um and doesn't have very many windows. And then I've had my kids go to school um in buildings that have that have windows, modern spaces um and enough room, right? And I think that those are all all incredibly important. Uh but and then I do just want to circle back to the Sandy Elementary. Um Sandy Elementary is in my area. I spend a lot of time at Sandy. Uh and so I am particularly excited about this plan. Sandy has is an amazing school, but the building itself just has so many issues. Um and this would be absolutely incredible for all the students in the area. And I could spend a lot of time on the issues the facility has. There's there's so many um
178but I'm I'm absolutely thrilled with the entire uh phase 1 through three plan that we have. Uh and it was mentioned, you know, how do we pay for it and as we look at the falling debts, right? And so we then transfer that money uh into the new schools. Uh I can't display it as eloquently as uh Mr. Will Cox will in a in a future slide. He's got his great slide and um there's a another graph you had showed us once that I thought was um a little bit better. And I don't know, the whole thing is just a little bit complicated, but uh but not that complicated. I mean, unless you think all of Utah's tax system is complicated because you know it is. But I appreciate uh the work uh that Mr.
179for Will Cox, his team, facilities, my colleagues, um, the long-range planning committee have put into this, uh, and I'm really excited, uh, as we work to strengthen our schools, reinvest in our students here, uh, and of course work to ensure that we maintain um, and strengthen our Jordan feeder system. >> Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Oaks. >> Okay. Thank you so much. I appreciate the comments and um the presentation. There's a lot of work and preparation that goes into this. I I want to address the sense of frustration I'm getting from parents that there's this perception that there is a lack of transparency. And part of what I want to say is when I was in your seats as um as a parent and I came here because I had questions or concerns and I had
180similar frustrations feeling like things weren't transparent. I have now that I'm on the other end of this I've come to understand part of why that existed and it was not a function of anyone here trying to not be transparent. It is partially a function of the system that we are required to work within. Let me explain that a little bit. I don't know how many of you understand what the open meetings act is. Um school boards, uh city councils, um other um governing bodies that are required to follow by the open meetings act have pretty tight restrictions placed on us in order to follow within the law. Um, namely anytime a majority of the board is together, it becomes a public meeting if we're discussing anything that could be remotely considered policy or a long-term
181decision. Now, that is even inclusive of emails where there's four more of us or even texts. So, I literally cannot have a conversation with more than two of these people without us immediately thinking, "Oh, we could be violating the Open Meetings Act." What that means is the only time we can ever come together as a group to discuss things is in front of you and is when it's televised and that's like twice a month maybe, right? And so what that feels like is you must be hiding something. You must be something. Actually, it's like no, we're finally just getting together again and we're finally hearing what you have to say to us again. And yes, we have smaller committees kind of working through and looking at data. But I I can tell you from having
182served on some of those committees where there's a lot of things that you're looking at. Sometimes you have a scheduled two-hour meeting like once a week or once every two weeks and you barely scratch the surface. This is not a function of anyone wanting to keep anything quiet or hidden from anyone. I can promise you like when I get my like stipen every two weeks like for fulfilling this position, my husband laughs at me and he's like really like you have a lot of great and this is what you're doing with it? I mean they it's a family joke, right? They are here because they earnestly want to serve the community and they are not trying to pull a fast one on anybody. I can promise you that. Um, if you don't believe me, run
183for office. You'll figure it out yourself and you'll all the jokes on you actually. But the truth of the matter is because the state legislature has put additional restrictions and requirements on what is required with school closures, that timeline that we are beholden to is extended and pulled out. Now, that feels like torture when you want to know what's going to happen and you want that certainty of what's going to happen. Now, if we were to come to you and say, "We figured this all behind the scenes, and here's the plan, and we really don't care what you have to say." I guarantee that we would have lots of like pitchforks and torches. But the truth is, if you track what we have been doing since we started this process last year, we have actually
184really been trying to listen to the community and have made adjustments along the way. That is why we restarted the 90 days and changed the configuration. We listened to you about what you had to say with regard to your special ed communities, with regard to feeder systems and you'll notice that changes consistently are happening. That is because we are trying to be responsive to the public voice. Now there is a basic principle with any sort of leadership and systems and that is the larger the system you have the longer it takes to be able to turn the ship right. Um I personally as a mother I have engaged in every kind of schooling you can think of. I did homeschooling. I've done charter private and public. There's a reason I'm back at public by the
185way. But I will say the smaller the system, the easier it is to turn the ship because it's a smaller one. It's like turning a schooner versus an oil rig, right? And so it takes time in part because once you pull the string out of the the ball of yarn, it impacts something else around the spiderweb, right? And so all we behind the scenes, we have to like address all of that stuff. Well, how does that impact this and how does that impact this and how does it impact this? We don't want to belabor the public with all of those questions. Trust me, you don't have time and neither do I for that matter. I mean, I my hats actually off to the long range planning committee because if you want to ask any of
186us what the biggest lift has been for anyone on this board this year, that has been it. It's not a it's not a position that anyone wants because they're putting in a lot of extra time and away from their families and their jobs. So, I promise you, we are listening. Now, listening and agreeing are two different things. We may hear a lot from a school community and it may be some of the same repeated message, but it doesn't always mean that in the big picture of the whole ecosystem that that's going to work the best. Like what Mr. Wilcox said, none of us want to be in this position. We all wish without any shadow of a doubt that every kid that we lose to charters or to homeschooling or even like that the home
187prices were lower so that young families could move in. We wish we we could change that but we can't. And we are left with this responsibility from the state legislature where we have to be fiscally responsible and also that we can provide learning environments for kids that are healthy and robust. So with that said, I just I want you guys to understand there is no ill or foul play here. I recognize that right now in government there is a lot of fear, upset, and angst about what is happening. And I am right there with you. I've lost a lot of sleep watching what I've seen, Tim, of of some of what I've seen in the media. But I can assure you that I serve alongside people with great integrity who are really trying to do
188best by their communities. and we will continue to communicate with you as information comes forward. We will continue to adapt and I promise you that we will try and make the best decision possible based off of data and the big picture. It might not totally align with what the world looks like in your corner of the district, but we have to make decisions for the big picture for everyone in order to make wise decisions that will help the district long term. Um, to that point, I like what Mr. Edel said, I'm very excited about some of the proposals here. I'm not saying like I'm absolutely settled. I'm excited in learning more and understanding more. Um my understanding is that um East Sandy has issues with not being seismically safe. And so that is something that
189we need to address especially considering we've had some earthquakes just even in the last couple of months um along the Wasatch Front. We have to keep kids safe. Um, and I recognize that a lot of these proposals don't appear as the most ideal or convenient thing, but I promise you, we are trying to do the best we can with the public trust that we have received and are responsible for. All of us took an oath to uphold the Utah Constitution, the Constitution of the United States, and to do our best based off of the information provided us, and we will continue to do that. We will continue to listen to you. And again, I apologize that it feels so long and drawn out. What is meant to make it more transparent sometimes actually makes it
190feel less transparent. That and it's a strange irony. Um, if you want to contrast that to the Utah State Legislature, be my guest because a lot of times they go into closed door meetings and as a caucus come out later, hours later, with a decision that nobody knows h or has any idea what the conversation was. We do not have that luxury. We'll have a misdemeanor crime attached to our name if we were to ever do something like that. It's just not possible. So, that's what I have to say. I want to thank the members of the committee um and Mr. Wilcox for all of your work on this. I recognize that there's going to be more information that comes forward and there's a lot to continue discussing. >> Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Nyar. >>
191All right. Thank you. Hey, I first off want to be very clear. I am very grateful for the long range planning committee and all the hours you've spent. I do feel like as a board it is our job to also ask questions because this is a robust discussion and this is kind of a big direction we're headed to. So I'm asking questions but I also very much admit that they have spent hours and I'm grateful for the hours and they're also very smart and very capable individuals. I really appreciate what you said Katie about the lifetime of a building. I thought that was so very relevant. Um, my concern is in 2017 before I was on the school board, we had a general obligation bond passed for 283 million and that is what the vehicle
192we used to fund the Glacier Hills project which was about 24.4 million to build that, right? About >> I can back if I can back up. >> Yeah. >> Because of prices spiked at that time. >> Yes. We we had to go issue additional bonds that we call them lease revenue bonds. That would actually be the kind of the I'm gonna go back here. That would be the peach color here. >> Okay. >> We had to issue those bonds to do the Peruvian and Glacier >> and Glacier >> both >> because what our original budget was less than the 24. >> Yeah. And it was based on the costs of Hillrest, Brighton, and Ala that >> caused that issue. So Yeah. >> Yeah. and and and building costs rose like and >> the concern I
193have is this seven-year plan and again I'm grateful for the seven-year plan and I know this is just a proposal but this is why we're here to discuss and ask questions is we are looking at five rebuilds within seven years Sandy Elementary being first and Sandy looks like that is something you know obviously it's over 70 years old we really need to do that but if you go to the other ones We have we have four other rebuilds because we're combining Ridgerest and Bella Vista. We're combining Quail Hollow and Parklane if you look through that list. So my concern is if the building costs are about anywhere from 20 to 30 million per building. They won't be that big. >> No, no, they're more than that. They're more now. The cost >> Yeah. The costs
194for a new elementary now are about 40 to 45 million. >> Okay. So it's like doubled. Okay. So, so for each of those buildings, we're looking at 40 to 50 million and we're saying the vehicle we're going to use to do that is lease um is lease revenue bonds. I would rather look at the vehicle of a general obligation bond so we give it to the people to be able to vote on. Number one, that's why I liked what happened with Glacier Hills because it was part of that. I know you're saying because the building costs went up, we did a we did have to do a lease revenue bond on top of that. This is dates before I was on the board, but I like the idea of a general obligation bond giving people
195the chance to vote on it. The other the other concern I have is given the cost of each new building being what it is and to keep a building running is 1 million. I know they're old buildings, but Sandy lasted 75 years. some of our buildings that are 40 and 50. It seems to me that it would be a cost savings to keep to keep them open for a while, for a time. And I'm not saying we cannot combine schools or close schools. Um because, you know, reality is we may have to do that. But I just again, I mean, right behind me is this tenant of fiscal accountability. And so I feel like I need to ask the questions, right? I got to ask the questions. And what part of this in in what's
196happening with um charter schools, you know, I'm up at the capital and they have so many lobbyists and they're always asking for more money and and more legislation. My largest concern is, is there something we should be looking at? Is there some sort of innovation we should be doing in our elementary schools, piloting programs or doing something a little different besides closing and consolidating? Um, can we exhaust ourselves trying to keep open those community schools so that in this educational race that we're having in our state, we we win? Because I firmly believe the reason why Utah is so different than all our other states and why we're so our economy is so great is because here in our state all ships rise because traditional public school has been the number one choice for most
197parents. And so we're all in this in this situation together. I've lived in Ohio for four years. I lived in Tennessee for six years. And I have seen what happens when neighborhood schools close and when schools combine. And I'm concerned about losing population of our families. So, anyone want to answer that? >> Okay. Thank you. Um, any other comments, board? >> Okay. Um, I will just end by saying, um, thank you again to the long range planning committee. Um, I really do appreciate them. We've I know a lot of parents have been saying like we need a five-year plan. Okay, they finally have brought this to us and this is the first time really our board has seen this. This is the first time I've seen it on Friday. So, it's not like something where
198we've been hiding from you guys. I just saw this on Friday as well as the rest of the board members who are not on that committee. Um and I do appreciate that. Um just just my own comments. So, with those two bonds, we did um we focused on high schools and middle schools. And now we do need to focus on elementarymentaries because they are all about the same age and they're all really old other than the ones we've rebuilt. They're new, but um we have a whole bunch of buildings that are really old. So, so we do need to focus on re starting to rebuild our elementary schools. Um and I think this has been a good discussion. I do value all the opinions of my fellow board members and I think they had some
199really good comments and with that we will just look forward to I mean I personally look forward to this is a process and the public hearings are next and and like Mrs. Oak said we do listen and that's why we've been changing the proposals and they can still continue to change so we'll look forward to that. Um, so we are now going to go on to our staff comments and I will start with Superintendent Robbins. >> Yeah, I'll just echo uh my appreciation to the long-range planning and how much work they put in. Um, also just want to express my condolences to the global family and as mentioned and echo that sentiment. Uh, she'll be sorely missed. Great administrator and and friend to us all. Um, you know, I was thinking back, she actually beat
200cancer uh once and uh and what a triumph, you know, that was for her and her family. And so I know this is a really difficult time for them. Also, just want to recognize our ESP employees. We had an awesome uh PD day. I I thought it was excellent um to see almost 2,000 of our ESP employees there and just the spirit of the meeting and working together and really developing skills and building relationships and networks. I thought that was very impressive and just appreciate all that they do. So that's it. >> Okay. Thank you. Um Mr. Wilcox, business administrator report. >> Just want to echo that. Uh thank you everyone who helped with our ESP PD day. Great to see that many people there, whether they're hourly brain boosters, office aids, bus drivers, uh,
201custodians, maintenance workers, computer, IT workers. It's great to have everyone there and thank you for everyone who organized that. Just want to give a a quick shout out to those who worked on our catalyst grant. We got uh it came out about a week ago. The legislature allocated 65 million for that. We got 17 of that. So, uh, about a quarter of it came to us. So, that's big, uh, for as we start with our renovating the CIC down in Draper. And just, uh, quick update on Jordan High. I know we've focused on that. Some of the improvements there on the consent agenda, we approved the new baseball field. So, we're actually going to tear up all the grass, replant new grass. It's going to have an infield turf, uh, new batting cages and pitching
202uh, bullpens. So, that will be again 1.8. We'll be doing sprinkler adjustments as well. And we will have lighting there. So, it's going to be the only school in the district with uh, exterior lighting. So, none something that our other schools don't have. Also, if you haven't been inside to see the new restrooms, they are all complete. the vestibule, the office. We're making good headway on on the auditorium. That will be heavy this summer. Same with the fieldhouse and the small theater, blackbox theater is what we call that. Uh those two going up together simultaneously should be open by the time school starts. So that will be a big big uh improvement there once we get those complete here this upcoming summer. So just some uh updates on that. That's all I have. Thank you.
203>> Okay. Thank you. Now, we'll have board comments and we'll start um at this end with Mrs. Nybar tonight. >> First off, I want to thank actually Leon. He's remarkable for all he does and pretty amazing. Um I don't know many people who can off the cuff just spit out numbers like him, but he does a great job at at making everything work and making ends meet and is also in charge of our transportation and so many things and has his finger on all the projects. So, I wanted to thank him for his incredible work. Also wanted to thank our long range planning committee. Thank you for all your hours and your time. I really appreciate that we had a seven-year plan proposed tonight and look forward to more discussion and thank you for your
204time. Uh I I want to thank Susan Edwards, Charlie Evans, and Brook K for their amazing work at the capital. They are absolute rock stars. They spend an inordinate amount of hours there talking to our legislators and helping us with with uh public ed bills and and informing um and educating the the legislators there and and they've been doing this work for a long long time and they're fantastic at it and it's so much work. Uh finally, I just wanted to just um and personally say how um how much I loved Janet. She was fantastic. She did this for every board member. As soon as you got on the board, she'd give you a personal invitation. She'd have you tour a CEK. She'd have you go to your the high school you represented and go
205see the entrepreneurs that were lecturing to the kids. I very much believe it was her personal invitations and her relationship she built with all of us that helped us realize what a priority CEK is and career and technical education for our kids. And I think it's a large part of why that became a focus with us for the innovation center. She was so genuine, kind, optimistic. As Rick said, she had fought cancer once and and won and just a lovely individual and I'll miss her very much. That's all. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Lewis. >> All righty. Um, I'm going to start just uh this last week I had the opportunity to visit East Midville Elementary's Living Traditions Night. Uh, they do it every year. They have they set up the school so
206you can travel the different halls and travel the world. Um, this year they had booths uh about Oceania Oceanania like the countries uh like Tonga uh Samoa that kind of uh region as well as the North Pole. They had some Swedish, some Finnish, some Greenlandish people uh and information there. That was great. They do it every year. It's one of my favorite things. It was one of the first things I did when I uh joined on the board last year. Uh this upcoming week uh I have the opportunity to attend Hillrest Phantom of the Opera play and I encourage everyone who can to attend. It will be uh February 19th, 20th, 21st, and 23rd at 7 p.m. Um, I also want to uh express my appreciation for uh the long-range planning committee's uh addition of
207construction info on our prop on proposal B. I do believe uh and I I said this at I believe it was the January 20th board meeting that I I do I do believe Parklane is the appropriate school to to consolidate at. And I really do appreciate the fact that uh actual information and just a more whole and comprehensive proposal seemed to be included this time. Um I don't think that a good proposal can be made without a full plan of what we're going to do with the the plot of land. You know, that's I so I really do appreciate um that information being added so we can have a discussion on that. And I do want to mention uh one of the first things I also did when I uh was brought on the board
208uh was I did go and tour CEK. Uh Janet Goble did reach out to me literally within the first two days of me being on this board and asked me to tour the CT the CTE facilities at Hillrest and then go over to CEK with her and we did uh in January. It was wonderful. Uh she she was just she was a wonderful person. and she was a wonderful educator and it was an excellent introduction to the CTE facilities in our district. So, I want to say thank you to Janet for um as a student in our district who graduated from this district. I want to thank you for what you did for myself and my peers and also just for the district as a whole uh and for myself on the board. That's all
209I have. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Edel. Um, I don't think you could have met Janet and not have fallen in love with what an amazing person um that she was. So, like everyone else uh as soon as I got on the board, she reached out to me to give me a tour of CEK, the CTE programs that we have. Um, one of my favorite moments was actually visiting uh our house construction site. So, for those of you who aren't aware, the district has a construction program uh and students actually build a house. It's it's it's a real house that people eventually live in. Um the one I visited was um sold um I believe to to someone who lives in the district uh works in the district. Um and anyway, the the passion that
210she had for our students and um for their futures was phenomenal. And so um my deepest sympathies to not only her family, but all that knew her and and that touched her. She was an amazing uh individual and um she'll definitely be missed. Uh, I do want to thank Leon for comments about the improvements at Jordan. Um, I'm really excited about what's happening at Jordan. And I know that it it kind of seems like it's been a little slow with the improvements at Jordan, but if you stop to take a step back and think about the magnitude of uh the improvements that we've been making, they they've been pretty significant. And um, you can only do so many things at the exact same time. Uh, it seems weird to mention bathrooms, but the new bathrooms
211are amazing. Uh, and I do remember the students coming here saying how horrible the bathrooms were and how they didn't even want to use the bathroom. They would just hold it the rest of the day um so that they wouldn't have to go to the bathroom at school, which which is really bad. Let's let's say that. But uh colleagues um you know stepped forward and um approved a package uh to improve a lot of the facilities at Jordan um make it more secure. Uh and then the rest of them the rest of the improvements are coming and I'm really really excited about what's going on there. Uh and I'll stop there. >> Okay. Thank you Mrs. Oaks. >> I want to reiterate the comments about Janet. um she's going to be very sorely missed and
212much of what will happen with the innovation center is in large part because of the work that she did. So her legacy will continue on for many years. Um I am wanting to wish everyone a happy Lunar New Year. Today's the first day of the Lunar New Year which is a really big deal in a lot of areas of the world and it was so fun to hear that little kindergartener come and talk to us. I think he may be the youngest public commenter we've ever had. That was pretty awesome. Um, I got to attend, speaking of Lunar New Year, a a a Lunar New Year celebration event at Corner Canyon, um, that hosted multiple Chinese um, dual language immersion schools and and performers. It was awesome. We had people from the Air National Guard
213there, um, talking to students about um, language opportunities. They had other travel study programs. They had um, just so many different performers. It was awesome. And it was it was quite the tribute to that program. So it was it was fun to hear from the Lone Peak community tonight. Um I got to attend concerto night at Corner Canyon. Um that was amazing. So many talented students and so much work that goes into playing one piece. Um my daughter is a chist and she got to perform that night and I can say from personal experience she's been working on the same piece for over a year and um it's a a ton of work, hundreds of hours of practice. So um I got to attend um or go up to the legislature and see much of
214what our legislative team is doing up there and participate in discussions. There's just so many bills that are thrown at us every year. I think on average we have what over 200 education bills passed every year. So it is a fullcourt press, lots of work. Sometimes the education bills that actually impact us the most aren't even labeled as education. You have to be really wise and savvy and realize it could end up in all sorts of different committees and different places. And so it's it's quite the circus. Um I appreciated being able to attend the innovation center meeting. Um, there's so many great things that are coming to the students at this district. Um, I I just can't wait for you guys to to learn more about them and also high quality learning. There um
215a lot of dedicated people who are really seeking to make sure that the experiences our kids have in the classroom every day are meaningful. And um I'm excited for more discussion um to take place in the daily classroom surrounding the Portrait of a Canyon Scholar, which represents all of the professional skills, you know, and abilities, critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, those things that are hard to quantify, but are extremely important in order to be able to make it in the current world um and in the current job market. So anyway, I there are wonderful things happening despite having major challenges in front of us as a board. I'm also very very grateful for um the collaboration that we share as a group and um the critical thinking that goes into some of these very difficult decisions.
216>> Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Dolly. >> Thank you. I first want to thank Amy and the Diamond Ridge staff for just knocking it out of the park. I love that they were innovative in figuring out a way to change the schedule to meet the students needs and meet them where they're at. They are doing incredible things and changing students lives. I know a couple of those students personally and it has been a 180 180 degree turn for them when they had the opportunity to attend Diamond Ridge and really have begun to thrive learning in that environment. So, it it's a great school of choice uh for your kids if they're if the traditional schedule and things are not working. Check out Diamond Ridge. It's an awesome um opportunity and the staff there is incredible. So,
217thank you for the work you're doing there. I want to just echo uh the sentiments on on Janet. I'm not going to go into more because so much great things have been said, but uh she was amazing and such a loss for our district uh to no longer have her with us. I want to thank our amazing administrators that we have here in the district. Uh Leon is like the miracle worker when it comes to money. There's, you know, we get we have pressures from all different angles. June, as we sit through this legislative session and wondering how else they're going to kill us by a thousand more cuts when it comes to money, and yet he still is figuring out ways to provide a great educational environment for our students and our teachers and
218in managing all of those uh pressures that we face. Now, he may lose a lot of sleep over it, but we appreciate the work that he does for that. I want to thank the team that put on the ESP day. even our support professionals are spending the time to do continuing education and learning and it was great to see the energy up at Brighton High School last Friday with that. Thank you to the uh CTE team and for the job shadow day they put on for our high school students that were able to go do u visit industries all across the city and learn from the industry members about their their work and their careers that they're doing get the kids interested in opportunities there and I want to thank Karen. She works tirelessly. I
219probably puts in the most hours than any of our board members. Every superintendent tour she's at, she spends a lot of time with our uh Utah School Board Association, our uh JLC, we have the opportunity to go on Fridays and to work with our legislators and give them feedback on on bills and she's a voting member there on JLC. So, I just want to thank her for all her work she does there um in supporting our district. >> Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Patterson. Thank you, Katie. Um, I too want to just say uh recognize a good friend, a leader. Janet was um someone who is fiercely passionate about CTE and CATAC programs and I truly admire her courage fighting cancer not just once but twice. And she she went down fighting. She went down fighting
220and and not too long ago she was saying, "I'm going to beat this." So, I just admired the kind of uh per person that she was and we will definitely miss her in our CSD family. Um I you mentioned I go to a lot of the listening tours. I go to all of them. But um I was able to go with the superintendent to our facilities department. So fun. This is this is the secret department. No one gets notices. Um facilities are the hidden backbone of our district. They are the ones that are on 24-hour call that if the water breaks, um, if a window's broken, if the air conditioning goes out, toilets flooding, they're it they're the ones that have to do the icky nittygritty maintenance of our buildings. And I just so appreciate
221everything they do. They have they take care of heating and cooling, electrical, like I said, just just about everything. They are amazing. And we have added 6,000. Oh, I don't know how much. We've added quite a bit of more property to their workload. And yet, we haven't hired any new ones. And that's really not fair to them. I I'm we're going to look to see what we can do, but the budget is just so tight. So, we'll have to see, but they definitely earn our respect. And I'm hoping that um our students if they get a chance or even the teachers to thank their um building facilities managers, they're kind of the servants for the building. Someone throws up and they call them and they immediately have to come and clean that up. So, I
222just wanted to say how much I truly appreciate the dedication they have to what we do. And I know they don't always feel that appreciation, but let me let me share that with you. I just really truly appreciate all that you do. We're going to watch out for you guys. Do what we can do. Um, I also had the opportunity to go to the Canyon Symph Symphony Orchestra last week and I if you closed your eyes and were just listening, I would swear I was in a professional performance. I didn't hear any errors, any mistakes. And they made such a cute, it was such a fun program because they highlighted different parts of the orchestra in unique ways. They had the brass system uh brass um players all behind us and then they had some
223percussion over on the side and then they had you know people in the middle. It it wasn't just sit and listen. It was amazing. 90 of our best orchestra students throughout the district. All five schools were there and all five choir d or choir how about orchestra directors were there uh conducting and it was just an marvelous experience. I just truly truly enjoyed that opportunity. I'm looking forward to going to the play. It's the beginning of the season of the play season with our high schools. So, I've got tickets. I'll be over at Hillrest to see um Phantom of the Opera. So, I'm looking forward to that. And I just want to end with that. And I hate to do this at the end, but I'm just a little disappointed that my community doesn't feel
224supported by me. and I would appreciate if they have questions or concerns, they are welcome to email me and we can have a personal conversation. I don't think I've spoken with most of you. So, if you want to ask me questions about what I believe and what we're doing, I'm more than happy to have you contact me. But having people just spread talk about you makes it very difficult for me to tell you what I'm really am doing because they're not with me all day long and they don't know truly what I'm what I'm up to. So, if you have questions, um I am here to represent you and I need I need to know what you're thinking and so let me know. Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. Um I also want to
225just mention I went to the ESP um day and I I had another meeting so I was just going to come for a little bit but then the keynote was so good that I couldn't leave. I had to stay the whole time. Anyway, that it was so good and so and it was just great to see so many people there and friendly faces. Um, and we really do appreciate all they do. They are the backbone of the district and don't always get the credit so I appreciate them. Um, I also attended there was a CTE job shadow lunch and Karen and Katie were both there. Um, and that was just really fun. Like students from all of our high schools had gone and gone to different companies. Someone went to the court, someone went up
226to the legislature, um, and they seemed like they had a really great time there. So, I do appreciate that. And I just also want to say something about Janet. Um, I I I got to go on a tour of CTE two years ago, so I guess I've been on the board so long she had to do it again. And she took me and Nancy, and we went to every single school and also to CEK. and she was just so proud of each program and really I do think because of her we bought eBay. I'm I'm going to say that because she took us around and showed us all these really great things that were happening. We could kind of see the vision and what could be also to expand it. So I do want to
227give her some credit for um for that for our innovation center and um our thoughts are with her and her family. And I will now declare this meeting over. Thank you.