Board Meeting 9/2/2025

001Today is September 2nd, 2025 and we're meeting at the district office located at 9361 South 300 East in Sandy Utah. The first item on the agenda is our annual SEC training. Um we do this because it's in state statute and Susan Edwards, community engagement coordinator will lead us in this training state statute and so very riveting and exciting >> from the states. Can't wait. You'll do a great job. >> So this presentation is not school council training. This is everything the board is responsible for relating to school councils. Um so you are responsible for holding trainings um for the district and uh you have opted to encourage everyone to attend training. You've always asked for for three dates Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and see Andrew got so excited about school for me on the table. Um

002but so you guys hold uh Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday training morning and evening so that everybody has the opportunity to attend. Um you require the chairs and the pres the chairs and the principles to attend to have 100% and then you encourage all others which we will talk about here in just a minute. Um and those are the dates listed so that you all know uh the plan responsibilities. These are the plans that the school community council actually work on and help implement. So that's a school land trust plan where they receive money um from the land trust and uh they as you all know they prepare the plan for that and how it's going to create academic achievement in their school. Pretty limited pretty specific on what it can be used for. um Jeff Haney's

003not in here or I would tell you that um I have managed to make him probably the happiest I've ever made him in 17 years by finding out that yes indeed in certain circumstances for academic achievement this can be used on transportation that will come into play down the road. Um they also are responsible for doing the final report from the previous year. So, a synopsis of was their plan from the previous year used the way it was supposed to be. Um, what did it achieve? They're supposed to turn a final report in as they lined up with um, what is the report called, Leon? As they lined up with you, Asbo, but what's the name of the report in Marchish? Anyway, as they lined up with um the business administrator's reports, um they don't

004turn that in now till January until March, but they we do ask them to write it as soon as they get back in the fall so they actually remember what they did last year. And then the safe walking routes um plan, which we will talk a little bit about as we get into safety, and then any necessary amendments are ran through all of you. Jeff, I did work in that they can now use it in certain cir circumstances for You know how much that makes me smile. >> I know. I know. Um, so review and advise on several other plans. They review and advise the principal in the school on TSSP plans on positive behaviors, digital citizenship, electronic device plan, school safety and attendance plan. Electronic I'm sorry, the digital citizenship, school safety and safe

005walking routes we'll be reviewing here in a few minutes. um for you all. These are your dates. We're going to try to have all plans due in by April 13th. You we will start receiving them before that and as soon as Alice gets them and has a chance to look at them, she will get them out to you so you can start reading them. Um you will have from late March till early May. Um all of them are you will sorry in the April um agenda we will approve um on the consent agenda you may approve up to you guys if any signatures with two plans stand approved and at that point then uh we will have them out to you. You always get the plan for the schools that physically sit in your board

006district and then you always are a second signer on another plan. Then the final approval is required by May 13th. So we will need two signatures, all problems, all questions asked and problems worked out prior to May 13th. The required report um that you all are required to give to the schools which staff does on your behalf is digital citizenship and the school safety report. um we provide them with the report on what we're doing with filtering with internet safety and then you all um and and also with school safety. Um and then they write up whether or not they feel like it's adequate, whether they feel like they need more or less from us. and then um and then um and then they send that back to you which is what we will be

007reviewing tonight. Then um these plans require SEC input again the positive behaviors electronic device attendance cell tower money usage they do not necessarily um they give input back but they are not necessarily they receive the plans and they review them and just if they have any questions or they feel like there's anything that they just give information to that um the external relations so one of the biggest compliance checks for the state is what's listed on on the website. We our department has taken over supporting the schools on several items. The prior year report, opportunities for parents to serve, uh distribution of how much money for the year, and then land trust and TSSP plans and signature. We populate those so we know they're done. We know they're right. the school um Janelle in our

008department. She um helps oversee uh school people who are getting the stipen to help update the website and they update those items and uh oversee making sure those are updated on a consistent basis. We've kind of gone to this format. Most of you have seen this, but if you're ever looking at a school website, this is what it should look like. you'll see the TSSP and land trust plans um and any amendments that are made. And then on the meeting schedule, their full meeting schedule for the year will be updated. And then as they make the agenda for the next meeting, it will be there when they put the minutes up. Um like you'll see in that bottom one, if it they haven't voted on it yet, it'll say draft. If they have voted um

009on it and it's approved, then it will just say minutes. And then if they cancel a meeting, as you can see on there, it would say cancelled. The board also approved, like we said, any amendments and any necessary exemptions. Um, we're going to be bringing those back to you. They did change, you remember, you have approved um gold miners daughter and life skills the last few years. The state has changed that requirement for this year and they are requiring a lot more from us on that. So, we are going to work through that. The deadline for that October. So, we'll be bringing that to you as soon as we can understand their requirements and make sure that those are met. actually are requiring that the schools attempt to seat an SEC. So, they have to

010go through the process of asking parents and having an election and see if they can staff a whole SEC. If not, then they can do an exemption. So, we're going to work with those two schools for the first time ever to to try to do an election. Um, we have had a few audits with SEC's recently. The 202425 audit, um, which is the same as the annual website audit. So everything is due to the state August October 20th. We actually um require it quite a bit earlier so that we can invite people to training and we can be communicating with them especially this year where we need to be meeting with several SEC's. So um but in the audit there are some consistent pieces which again we'll talk about in a minute. Minutes missing public

011notice and the public notice is what you all tend to use the most. It's not just that list of meetings, but it's something on their homepage or on their calendar that says this night, this is when SEC's meet. And that tends to get left off the full schedule for the year. Missing contact information. We do hide the contact information behind a layer so that people can't just query it and and spam them. Still doesn't work 100%, but it is closer. And then this year we've been noticed up that we will have an upcoming audit in November on our rules of order and procedures and or bylaws. We went over these. Amber, you'll remember this about five years ago. We have found that they are considerably out of date again. So we are reviewing right now

012all of them and in SEC training that will be part of our focus is helping the schools rewrite their um bylaws so that they are compliant before this November audit. And that is your C training. Any questions for me on that? Any questions? >> I just asked, will you put on board docs this presentation or is there already >> It's already on there. >> I didn't see it on there. >> In all fairness, I sent it last Thursday, but it didn't get through. >> Come to me. Great. Because I just You may need to refer to it back to Mrs. Oak and Mrs. Dolly. Thank you, Susan. You do an amazing job training the SEC's. I never have any concern whatsoever whether or not our school community council members have access to information of how

013to see. They've done an amazing job. So, >> having served on SEC's in neighboring districts, Canyons is far above their in their training of SEC's and preparing the SEC members. So, thank you for all the work you do because I know it's an immense amount of time to make sure we have well-trained SEC members that know what they're supposed to be doing and what their responsibilities are. >> No, I was going to say thank you and I do think ours is the best in the state. Thank you to Susan and she's probably the most knowledgeable person in the state. >> They keep changing things on me though. >> We try to keep up. >> But thank you. >> Okay. Thank you, Susan. Okay. The next item, Susan is also going to lead us um is

014school safety and digital report. And um Susan can continue talking. >> I will. So you have blue folders that I gave you um in those blue folders and we don't put this out on board doc specifically because it deals with school safety um and various other things. Um and it's very specific on some things. So you'll see a couple of things. The middle and the last section are just the plans that relate to your area. So you can read those on your own time. You can see them. You don't have to um spend a ton of time on that trying to read those right now. But I wanted to walk you through the first few pages just so you know what you're seeing. So the page that looks like the page that looks like this.

015Okay, that is a synopsis of several things. the MCC website that we just talked about, the audit that talks about the number one uh the biggest mistakes that we get caught up on in the audits, which are minutes, public notice, and the full schedule of of meetings for the year. And then you will see your list of um how many people have attended training over the last many years ask. And we're gonna get to one of Andrew's request here in a minute, but that is how many people are attending trainings, chairs, principles, and then the whole SEC's and below are just the same information in graphic form. Um on the um I'm gonna jump for just a minute to this one. And the back part of that is a lot of writing. Okay. This one

016in the back is just an explanation that is um Andrew what you've requested in the past is you want to know the attendance at SEC meetings, who's attending, who's participating and what that information looks like. So that is a report for every school. What I will tell you is it takes a quantifiable amount of staff time for someone to go to every single SEC and every single meeting to try to synops their varieties of ways of keeping that information. So we have worked with Jim Murray and it to come up with this if you look at this and we're just proposing this to you. It is an automated form that they would simply put their community council members names in and then every time they have a meeting they would check it off who's here,

017who's not, who are guest and then it can query that for us very simply. Um if that is something you all want to have us do and have us train at training that you would do that. We would like to try it and to see if that um if that helps us out in time and staffwise. It's already created. It's just a matter of that's okay with you all to roll out. >> Are you okay with that? >> Okay. And we'll see if it works. If not, we'll do it oldfashioned way. And then the last page looks like this. It's colorful. And this is your um safety and digital citizenship plans which you will be reading in your notebooks. A couple of things to note on there um is how so how those work. I'm

018going explain those and I want to explain um the safe walking routes to you. So on the school safety and digital citizenship it looks like this. the um the >> very last the um so we give them the report on your behalf right for those two topics they discuss on school safety and say what's our number one concern and what maybe if do we have any thing beyond number one number two number three they put those into a report for us we sort through and say this director is probably over that area we notify them um Dr. Mill Gill gets a few. Um, facilities gets close to 50% or more of them. Um, but we put them in and then we send them to the director who's responsible that area to help address if there

019if there's answers. Sometimes there are, sometimes they're not. Like a lot of times, uh, Brian will just simply say, I think one of the biggest answers has been, we're doing Thrive Time. This is how it's implemented. This is how it's used. And we'll talk to the principles if there's questions that need to be addressed. basically. Um so that's so we track that and on the digital citizenship very much the same thing. Their um question is do you feel like our filtering is acceptable? Do you feel like um parents uh you have the tools for parents to get enough training and information? Do you feel like you have like the students are getting enough information? Those are the questions that they are asked by the state to answer. I will tell you 100% of our schools

020last year said yes. we feel very comfortable and we have no questions. That's just an anecdotal little thought there. Um so um that's what digital citizenship is. Safe walking routes is a little bit more intensive. Safe walking routes, they have the safe walking route which we are very grateful for Rick Shee. Uh he is our GIS specialist and he populates all the maps in the district and puts them online. We've had two pickups if you will. one, the state redid their site, as happens almost every time you hear those words, the state redid their site, and it has now not worked for four years. So, where we're legally asked to put it on, it has not worked for four years. And Rick has worked tirelessly to try to fix that. Um, but we still have

021glitches. For instance, Mount Jordan has disappeared. So, we're working to get that back again. Um but we last year um with your permission chose to just put that on all of our school websites. So every school they can just look at the map on our school website even though it's not the interactive site but it is much more usable because you can actually see it and it works and it you can tell what's going on. So that's the safe walking right side. Then they put in any questions or any suggestions they have. We then schedule meetings in November, December and January with our cities and county and UD do whoever is required to discuss issues with and that's where we talk about um the questions of um like uh can we add a crossing guard,

022can we add a crosswalk? And then we look at populations and how many students potentially are crossing and if they want to add one they will go out and actually watch for a while because we've had a few added that after they were added then zero kids cross because the parents all drive them. So even though it sounded good they in practice don't actually use it. So then the cities obviously don't want to put the bill for it. So we look at that. Sometimes it takes two or three years to work through that. Some of the areas will have a hazardous bus request which comes to Leon and he will approve a study to see if it warrants a hazardous bus route or not or if one could be removed if something has changed. So,

023we're looking at all those things in safe walking routes. So, you will see that there and we always um try to meet and have those populated by January and then it takes another couple of months for the cities to respond to everything and and uh and to get everything situated. Any questions on how any of those are done? >> Okay, thank you. >> We appreciate all your work on this. You are so very welcome. Thank you. And I wanted to re I wanted to say thanks to our on the safe parking routes, our cities and and our IT department for their support happen and then our own staff Marie and our staff who does a lot of appreciate all their work. >> Okay, thank you so much. Okay, the next item on the agenda is

024the Sandy City Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone proposal and Leon Fox, business administrator, will present this. >> Thank you, President Schill. Uh just want to go over uh what we call an HTRZ, housing and transit reinvestment zone with you that Sandy City has brought to our attention. Uh let me just tell you how these work differ than our typical CDAS. So our CDRAS the city looks at an area they're looking to redevelop improve whatnot. They come to us you know we do our we have a policy on that. We follow that policy and then the board approves it then we go into in a local agreement with the city and and go from there and they go about the redone process. However, HTRZ's are quite a bit different in that uh they're set up by

025the legislature. They were set up about two sessions ago, the 23 session, and then they were tweaked a little bit this last sess session. And so what it is is a couple slides. So it's not a problem. >> This one's old, so it needs to be. >> So we'll just >> I am way old school. >> It's the computer's fault. Very well said. >> We're gonna Yeah, everybody heard that. Just the computer's fault. So anyway, with the HTRZs, the main thing is is the legislature is trying to get more affordable housing, more housing period, in the state. That's the that's the impetus behind it. And so so the school board is somewhat left out of it. You guys really don't get a chance to vote as a group. However, we get two voices on this

02613 member committee. Each member of the committee gets one vote. What happens is we go in and this meeting and it's scheduled for on the 22nd. We'll go meet it's going to be somewhere on the sand. We don't know the exact address yet, but we'll go in there and Zans Bank will do a presentation on this HTRZ and we'll discuss it. then we each vote and if the majority votes wins. If it's majority passes then it votes yes then it passes. If not then it doesn't. So Jackson so the H the CD committee is Andrew Jackson myself. So Jackson and I will will attend the meeting on the 22nd on behalf of the board. So you can see it's made up of two senators two reps. So believe Senator Colmore, Senator Harper Dunigan, Mayor Zansky

027will represent Sandy City and then somebody from each of those agencies going down. So, so that's how it you know that's either how it passes or so get a chance to negotiate or anything like that to the housing trying to trying to build ourselves out of this housing crisis that we're in. This is one of >> this one here. They're trying to build themselves out of this housing crisis by taking money from school children. >> So, what happens is they're looking at high density and so they're focusing on stops at either front runner stations or track stations. Okay? And so you have to be a third of a mile. That's the black circuit line. So the front runner station is right over here on the other side. So you have to be a third of

028the mile around here to qualify. Okay? And so what they've done is they've designated this red outline here is what they're proposing for HTRZ. That that section right there. So once they do that, then they have to make sure there's at least 50 units for every acre. So it has to be, you know, very very high density housing. And then they can take up to they can go less, but they can take up to 80% of the tax increment. Again, as the property taxes go as the value goes up, it generates more property taxes. So that and in the past, we've always negotiated with the city on how that percentages to be split. For these, they can take up to 80%. There's no negotiation. They can take less, but they're asking for the full 80%

029up to 25 years. can go less, but they're asking for the full. So, they're looking at building some these places here. So, it's working. So, here here the innovation center. We talked a lot about blue today. Okay. So, this blue and this blue and I have blue on. in this blue here. These will all be housing right here. This will be a hotel on one side and a and h and residential on the other. And this right here will be some type of office building once it's up. That's what So there will be close to 1500 housing units, you know, 250,000 square feet of office and that would also include the hotel space. Okay. Thank you, Derek. And then a little bit of retail space mainly in the bottoms of these these complexes there. So

030that is their proposal. Again, it's going to, you know, improve this area here. Of course, this is the back of the Kmart, the Old Navy right here, the mall, the REI, all right here building. Let's know it's going to improve that area. We are looking at doing a the green bridge. I think that's going to be attractive to a lot of the committee members to really make it functional uh across here right into the stop. So that's uh one of the last ones they had a couple years ago that didn't pass. Uh you know that was a big problem. People have to go around here back to the to the station. So, you know, Sandy City to their credit put a lot of work into this and made up the earth that way. So, here's,

031you know, just rough numbers of what they're looking at going out for. So, when it's all built out, and it's going to take them 8 to 10 years to build this whole thing out, well into the mid30s, you know, they're looking at being in that $450 million value. Then over those uh 25 years, they're expecting to collect themselves $144 million of tax increment. We think in our projections, you know, again, a lot of these are going to be one and two unit uh apartments or condos. you know, we're gonna based on our formulas, we're going to get, you know, 150 250 kids out of that. So, once it's built out in 2035, you know, we're going to get about 350,000 each year coming to us that we that we wouldn't get right now, but we're

032also going to getund 250 kids. So, that will equal out to around you see the numbers here. There'sund 250 kids, we'd get about 1,400 per student. 150 we'd get about 2,300 per student. Uh currently we generate about 686,900 per student based on all the value. So you know we take a hit there when it's ended you know 25 years all the year generate quite a bit. So, and of course that's the purpose of CDAS, CDRA is, you know, you build up the infrastructure, you give everybody the increment for a period of time. We usually don't go a policy says no more than 20 years. This is 25 and then when it's over, you know, you you collect the full increment forward. So, that's what it is. That's it in a nutshell. uh they have you

033know they had to prepare quite a proposal under the law and so you can see their application on boards and their full full proposal there on boards. Okay, I didn't want to point how much time we have. I didn't go into a lot of that detail that it's down on board docs. So uh that's it in a nutshell. I I I don't want to speak for Jackson, but you know, if you wanted to I don't I don't think we need to take a motion or a vote. If you wanted to tell us your recommendation how we should vote, we'd be I'd be happy to do that on that. Uh I do think Sandy City to their credit has done a lot of work here. I think majority of this committee will probably see it favorably.

034I can't say that for certain how I'd be surprised how it goes. I'll vote yes. >> So that's but we'll be h I'll be happy to go in there and vote no if if the that's the will of the board or if they don't care. There's where it's at in the short >> this is. Thank you. >> So I have no doubt that there's a reason why Sandy City really wants this to come in. To me, it's pretty obvious, you know, look at it and seems like a great opportunity for the city to city. >> There's a couple things I would love for you to take back with many of you. And not saying that we have great odds and there's only two out of 13. >> Can you please ask them when they have

035ever come to Canyon School District with an RDA proposal that we've refused? >> We have not refused one >> since we've been a district. Jordan did progress but not us. >> And why is it they feel like they are bringing one now to us when it's when we essentially have no say? >> Those are two very significant questions and it appears to me very strongly especially when we're looking at the amount of money we will get per student goes to a fifth up to maybe a third of what we currently receive. that this is absolutely going into the pockets of developers rather than to school children. And everyone listening to this, the public or anyone else ought to know that this bill went through the very end of the legislative session. It was a sleeper

036bill. Nobody was aware of it and they purposely slipped it under our noses. >> They purposely kept us out of it. They kept us in the dark about it on purpose, including Sandy City. So, while yes, they might have a nice presentation, make no mistake that that presentation is a shiny way of saying we've just cut your funding for kids that when it's low-income housing, they are most at risk kids and are usually the ones that require additional financial supports to make sure they are successful in school. Say, please vote no. goes without saying, but but please ask them those questions. >> Did you have comments? >> I right along the lines of Amanda like I mean the only way we're going to make up for difference for paying for these kids that are going

037to be living in this area is by taxing other citizens in the city of Sandy. >> So is it worth the city of Sandy for other citizens to pay more taxes so they can develop this area and at the detriment to our school children? I mean, I think this is crazy that to our we can't come up with that money. We don't have other sources of money without raising more taxes and and so to come and ask millions of dollars from our school district is ridiculous. >> Any other comments? >> Hey board, are we all against this and like them to vote no? I mean, I I just wish you know we have a policy, right? Our board has a policy on these technical investments and I just wish we could have had some input.

038>> That's what I would say. >> Well, and just the fact they're going for the max amount. Like there's not even we're not even trying to make it work. >> Motivation for them not to go to the max amount. >> That's that's that's the incentive for them to go to the max amount. >> That's our usual increment that we decide on. Isn't it much lower? Am I wrong? We we usually never go above 80, but we try to go lower. We'll go up to 80 if it's a shorter term, you know, like six, eight, 10 years, but not 25. >> But our last couple have been 20 years at 60. >> So we get that >> as much tax. >> A couple things, you know, that concerned me is one, you know, as I said,

039the red outline area is the You know, I'd hate to see one get brought down in here into the mall parking lot, right? Where essentially the mall parking lot is. I hate to see it expand. You know, this kind of rushing this area tax increment now, but it's pretty much spinning tax most of the time. So, it's it's just it just exited out, but uh We do have one here on the call center north center that mountain America building there that's still pretty much everything here south I mean south of the time it has been in Jordan district and us existed so that's always a first >> I know that It's probably really tempting for a city council and a mayor to look at development like this and it looks like the shiny penny and

040it looks really amazing and like what a great thing for their city. I would propose and I'm wondering if the rest of the board is is interested or willing to consider it sending an email or a letter formally to the Sandy City Council and to the mayor explaining how this proposal um act like how much it costs us specifically as a district per student. I don't know. I mean, maybe they do understand ins and outs, but I think every single one of them, including one of the city council members who is a teacher in our district, ought to be aware >> of the full implications of this proposal and what it means for our kids. >> These numbers you presented here were those generated by Sandy City. >> So, they know this. >> Yeah, they

041know. They also know, you know, it's Sandy City, but it's also the state behind them, right? And they're the ones who came up with this proposal. And so, it's all, like I say, they're trying to build themselves out of this housing. >> President Phil, I have a comment. >> Oh, yes. Go ahead. >> Uh, this is something that we need to be This is something that I think we really need to highlight in our pre- legislative lunches. I think we need to advocate and I've talked uh quite a bit to pal Roberts about this to advocate for ourselves um that that they look at at these tiffs and they look at this the all the things that they're doing to save you know so they can develop so they can save on taxes but how

042it negatively impacts us and we actually need to have someone some legislator or a senator or someone um I think get really behind us to write a bill where there's some adjustments made for these things because this is the most damaging thing that can happen to us. And it's exactly right that you know what what the problem is is you know maybe maybe a long time ago when these tiffs were created maybe at that time there were less families in the highdensity housing. Maybe it was more single, you know, adults or adults without kids, but due to the inflationary cost of homes, that is no longer the case, as well as the influx of newcomers from other countries. And so, we should really be driving this home that that these this this type of housing

043situation is providing children that come that we need to to supply extra services and the high cost and what that's doing and how that's impacting our schools and kids. Okay. Thank you, Holly. >> I went to a chamber sponsored right before this legislative session, an event that legislative leadership spoke at, and they were asked about, this is in January of 2023, and they were asked about the cost of housing. And the speaker said that their research shows that 25% of the cost of a new housing is due to regulation. This is their response to it. Did they reduce any regulation? >> No. >> Take away. >> Their response to it was to take the money from the school kids and give it to developers. And they said in that meeting and everybody in that meeting

044agreed that that was that was the problem. But this is the solution. >> My blood pressure's down. >> Okay, Mr. Lewis. >> So I on a fundamental level do agree with the legislature that we do need to build more housing, especially if we look on the east bench of our district. It is wildly unaffordable and that is where we have fewer and fewer families than we ever have before and we are doing a boundary study to deal with that crisis. We need to build more housing in other parts of the district so that uh people are not competing for housing in that area. More families can move in. Um, I am really concerned about this increment. That's 80% is really, really high and I would prefer us to build more housing uh in a way

045that was cutting regulation instead of taking the money out of school districts. Um, that is extremely concerning and I wish the legislature would address that this year. Um, I do agree. I think we should send a letter to Sandy City uh to see if what even can be done if there's a a reduction of increment before this vote. Um, I was inclined to vote yes before uh I looked over that increment. Now I'm inclined to vote no because that increment is really high. I'm not one to support blocking housing for additional burdens and reasons uh through layers of government. But this is not the I don't think this is the way to to attract more development, more housing is through taking money out of school district's hands. That's antithetical to growth as a concept. Um,

046so just a a letter to Sandy City seeing if that increment can be brought down and then also a message to legislators housing can be built not on the backs of school districts and the funding on the backs of school districts but through some of the municipal red tape that really does increase the cost of new housing construction. >> Thank you, Mr. Edel. So, this is in my backyard. Um, and uh, the area needs to get developed, but I really appreciate what's been said, especially your comments, Amanda. I think they were spot on. I just wanted to note specifically that um, they're using this to build a luxury hotel. >> It is. It's not a It's got a pool on the fifth floor. >> How affordable are those homes going to be? They're not. Well,

047well, sure. They're building some affordable homes, but like the Summit, that's a luxury hotel. Um, and uh because apparently they don't have a nice enough hotel uh the west side of Sandy doing it with >> all these others over here are good enough. >> Okay. So board, do we want to do we have a majority that want to send a letter to Sandy sharing some of our concerns asking them possibly to review the increments? >> I agree. Is it worth sending a letter to other people on the committee? >> Charlie, Susan, what do you think about that? Is that gonna >> I think we're all in agreement with that. So maybe just sharing our concerns, asking if they'd reconsider the increment or lowering the years, right? Like doing 20 years or >> 20 years would

048be helpful. >> Yeah. >> I mean, you think about how many kids are going to go through our schools in 25 years. Yeah. >> That we're going to be taking a hit. >> That's right. >> That we're at a deficit and it's not like we have money to borrow from that we can pay for for those 25 years and then we recapture it later on. >> That's right. >> Mrs. I don't really want to say, "Hey, can you consider doing 20 years and and give them an a option?" What I would prefer is is, you know, for us to even entertain this, it needs to be reasonable and let them come up with what terms are. >> No, they're going to have the votes. We We have no say. We have no say in it.

049>> Well, there's only two. I missed >> only two votes out of this. >> Two out of 13. >> We only have these. >> So, it's going to pass regardless. Stack the deck against us. We have to make noise, but we just want to register our display. >> Okay, then can we have this be a slide with our pre-legislative lunch? >> We need that and we need to show what the total is and this needs to be huge messaging and we need to be lobbying right now to find a senator to craft a bill to help correct this problem. >> Question for Leon. Um, so if this is all about housing, how is a luxury hotel in part of the tax increment? >> Yeah, >> good question. >> I mean, I think that's something is

050she brought up the committee. Why is school children paying for a luxury hotel? >> Developers. >> Well, exactly. I mean, certainly we know who's behind it, but >> yeah, let's point that out, too. Mrs. Oaks, >> do we know how much tax revenue Sandy City is going to receive from this yet? So they've been to the same thing that, you know, they'd give up 80% of theirs, >> but they they don't get they don't live on they don't live on property tax like we did. They live they live on sales tax. >> But that's my point. It's a luxury hotel. >> Yeah. >> How much do they potentially stand to gain from having development? >> That's a good point because they do get the TRT taxes. >> Exactly. Yeah. And they get I don't know

051if they're giving up any >> I don't think they're giving up any retail sales tax. >> Is there any way to ask about that and to actually point that out in the letter? I I'm sorry. This is ridiculous. the fact that we're taking it from the most vulnerable. >> They're taking it from the most vulnerable in order to make sure that they can run more effectively as a city and to Katie's point guaranteeing that we are going to have to raise taxes for their citizens who by the way came at us that they were mad because Sandy's already raising their taxes. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, do do we want to send the letter to that whole list of people? >> Yes. and to the city council in here. >> Let's just send it to

052everyone. >> Who's crafting? Who's crafting the letter? >> Let's send it to every >> communications. Who's crafting it? >> Uh I don't know. Leon work. >> Okay. >> Or whoever or Susan and Charlie >> and we'll get a copy of it. >> Okay. Okay. Thank you, Leon. Good discussion board. Okay. The next item on the agenda is policy updates. There are a lot of policies. So we will turn the time over to Jeffson, assistant legal counsel. >> President Shield. >> So uh when we met as the policy committee this last week, I didn't put it in the slides because I knew I needed to be brief here, but we did a little review in our meeting with the policy committee and we reviewed and updated 28 policies last school year. So, that's a lot of

053great work for the policy committee. And uh we're in our five-year review and we've made it all the way through the board, the financial, and we're just finishing up the general section. So, what I have here tonight are just a lot of cleanup issues. Nothing too, as Andrew was mentioning, prior to our meeting. Nothing too controversial. It's just a lot of cleanup. And so, I'll try to move through them quickly and get you a break before the business meeting. Um, >> copyright. Nothing's really changed in federal law, but we wanted to make a couple of tweaks in the policy itself to just clarify the responsibility for school administration and our licensed personnel that they'll make a good faith effort in working through copyright. And this primarily for our educators as they're in the classroom with

054the resources they're using to instruct. And the main update to the policy is the exhibits that really walk through what's referred to as fair use under copyright. So, if you look on board docs, there's several exhibits that will go and be attached to new to this new policy. And it really walks through fair use um designates a a copyright um group with our licensed um teachers as well as our library specialist issues. So, not a lot uh changing in the policy, but providing some more resources for teachers. Uh the next one is our emergency and safety procedures policy. This is being updated based on a state board of rules and just a clean up. Um in this policy we refer to the district emergency response plan and um we're required through this policy to have

055safety drills um fire alarms. So that's been updated. One of the elements of the board rule is we're required by this board rule to designate an emergency preparedness response week. Um when I met with communications Jeff Haney and our um EMT group, they recommended designating the same week that's our national school safety week. It's in October. So we just aligned all of that and made the updates to our emergency um and safeties procedures policy. Again, just clean up in alignment with the rule. Um this policy, the name gifted memorials, the main idea behind this is to expand it. We've had in our policy manual since 2015 um a named gift in memorial where if someone wanted to contribute to a building they had to provide 50% or more in order to be considered for naming

056rights given what we're planning to do with the um innovation center property. We're broadening this policy to no longer have that 50% requirement. And there's a specific section in the middle of the policy that allows the board to enter into an agreement with an entity for naming rights for a time period. And it lays out the requirements that would be within that agreement. Um evaluation of licensed personnel. This is simply aligning with a board rule that um previously had that you could allow your evaluation cycle to be three years and the statute and the board rule now allow it to be four years. So, this is very small in the policy. We're just recommending that we use a four-year evaluation cycle. >> That's so huge, though. >> That's a huge deal. >> Take a lot

057of pressure off principles, right? >> So, great revision. We're doing that for both the evaluation of the licensed and the administrative. It's the same revision. um technology resources. We we had this policy just here in May, but we are striking the language that um >> agree >> essentially states that there's a false impression that you are entering into a contractual agreement when you are becoming part of the district and your student will be using technology. Um we've always had agreement language in some of our um registration materials and we're striking that from the policy. So not adding anything new, just striking that agreement per section that was included. And uh the last one, again, this is just alignment with statute. We do include all of the statutory valid excuses in our policy related to student

058attendance. Um probably less likely to occur in our more urban central area with competition and rodeos. Maybe there's we joked in our policy how many cattle are actually in our district but nevertheless we're adding it so our policy is just consistent. So these are all I still when I go to cio listen we have some that do actually participate. So yeah, it's a big deal and you have >> Yeah, I don't understand why we needed parents excuse for any >> Well, it seems to me that they could have wherever the district was and I didn't do that research, they could have just had their own board exception. They didn't. It became a bill. It was passed. We have another excuse. We're just adding it to our policy. So if we ever go back at a

059later point and update, it doesn't appear that we're picking and choosing which valid excuses from state statute that we're using. They're just all listed. Maybe this is really just >> Mr. Edel I think had a comment. >> I just feel the need to publicly say that this is one of the best examples of blatant abuse of power from the state legislature. This is a this is a minor dispute that somebody's neighbor had with a teacher that they created a state law to correct a state law. If you look at this, a competition in a rodeo sanctioned by an international nonprofit organization that's dedicated to the development of sportsmanship, horsemanship, and character in youth through the sport of a rodeo. This is singling out a single organization. And every single school district in the state has

060to provide this as a valid excuse to be excused from school even though they already were wherever they were. I'm sure in the state I I can see like no better petty blatant abuse of power than this law right here. >> Thank you, Mrs. >> I kind of just feel like it's like free free marketing really because you read it and you're like, "Wait, where is that?" >> Because it's very specific, right? >> Okay. Any questions or comments? >> For first reading, likely to come back at your next meeting for possible action. Yeah, Karen, >> I just have a quick question on the copyright one. >> Yeah. >> Does that reverse the other way where teachers have to or does our policy cover when schools use our school logos on letter heads or banners or

061whatever that might be? Is that copyright inclusive of our >> trades trademarks? >> Good, good question. Um, trademarks um are an interesting I mean we're not in a lucrative business in public ed. So, >> in terms of trademark lawsuits for likelihood of confusion under the under the law for for trademarks, we need to be careful in our >> our high schools if we're using something like an NFL >> related issue. Right. Right. those that are using ours in the district. Um, you know, we're saying that as a district and employees, we're going to adhere to copyright. So, we're doing our due diligence not to infringe on others. To the extent we're protecting our own marks, that's a good question. We've done a few of our um elementary logos just because they were, you know, novel

062like Diamond Ridge. >> But some of the question to whether, you know, we actually own the right to something we're using is is a good question. There's not a lot of litigation for >> No, I think most of our our our school mascot logos and that are all unique now. I think they've gone through the series now where they're all unique and not general trademarks. But what I'm saying is you go to the store and I know they're not make a bazillion dollars on that either. And I don't even know if this is an issue, but they they put high school logos on these shirts and sell them and there's no kickback to us. Not saying we're going to make a bazillion dollars on that either, but is there a protection or a >> again

063that's gonna come >> or you know I just wondered because >> I've heard about how I have to be so careful of everyone else's >> trademarks that no one protects ours. >> Well, and the issue there too is with whatever we've are we using is is it did we have the trademark in it? It's very interesting. I was looking today at one of our other districts >> before the split. There were some some of our schools that um were part of Jordan school district that for instance Jordan High registered their J with a shield in like 1996 >> right >> as soon as the split came >> that went away because now it's ours but we have I don't think we've taken the steps to trademark each one of those with the state federal is

064very expensive for the for the attorney cost to do so it's a good question we could look at it um >> I'm just curious because It may or may not as we're expanding with the innovation center and some of these other places those things may become more lucrative. I don't know. >> Anyway, it's just a question. >> Yeah. No, great question. I mean, part of it is the, you know, I've heard this phrase, is the juice worth the squeeze? So, if we pay all this money to get it protected, are we getting it? >> It isn't. And that's why it right. Yeah. But I don't know that it wouldn't hurt to have a policy statement that fair use goes both ways. >> You could at least get permission. >> Yeah. Just a permission thing. I'm

065We're not going to get the money from them, but I think they need to be aware that we're aware >> that they have it. After all, we can't use people's names, so they can't use ours. >> Anyway, just a question. Thank you. >> Yeah, we can bring something back next time. >> Okay. Any other comments or questions? >> Thank you. Thank you, Jeff. And we will bring this back. And now we're going to have a break. I will declare study session over. Welcome to the meeting of the Canyons Board of Education. Today is September 2nd, 2025, and we're meeting at the district office located at 9361 South, 300 East in Sandy, Utah. Uh, Mrs. Nyar is here. She may have to step out. Um, but the first item on the agenda is to approve the

066agenda for today. Do I have a motion? >> I will make a motion to approve the agenda for tonight, September 2nd, 2025. >> Okay. Thank you. Is there a second to that? >> I'll second. >> Okay. Thank you. Is there any discussion to the motion? Okay. Seeing none, I will 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 we will be led by Butler Middle School principal Brian RDES and then after we will hear some school highlights. If you'll please stand and follow me in the pledge. Ready? Begin. 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,

067with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you everyone and thank you board for having me up here tonight to highlight what's going on at Butler Middle School. Earlier this summer, we had our summer leadership conference where Dr. McKay Robinson talked about the importance of teamwork and how it can strengthen a school's culture. It really resonated with us and obviously we took that theme on with all of our staff and faculty. Um Butler Middle School is ranked one of the highest middle schools in the entire state. It's home to the Bruins and over 100 of the best teammates you can ask for. Uh, and every day we welcome in 960 students through our doors. We're excited for the year ahead and to celebrate our community that we're a part of. Um, if you didn't hear

068already, we had a hot start to the school year. With no AC uh in the building, it was pretty toasty. Luckily, we got it up and running before kids came into the building. But our team really pulled together and made the best of it. We kicked off with our parent empowerment night where we asked parents to come in that are new to middle school to kind of give them the rundown before we have our back to school night. And with both of those nights and no AC, we still had over 500 patrons attend. It continually impresses me uh I mean continually impressed by the community and their willingness to show up no matter what. Following that, we had a fantastic start to the school year with a rocking red carpet event. Big thanks and shout

069out to board president Amber Schill for showing up and helping us uh hit a grand slam into the new year. Overall, Butler is the place to be. Our community support is truly unmatched with our PTSA. They do so much from our fun lunch Fridays with music and activities for all the kids to the ongoing support for teachers and students. We we simply could not keep the game going without them. So, thanks again for allowing me a couple of minutes uh to boast about my school that we're so proud of and let's knock this year into the stands. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. We love hearing about Butler and I will say um when I joined the red carpet event, it Yeah, you were out there leading dancing, so it was it was awesome. I

070don't know. >> I'm sorry if I scared you. >> No, it was great. And there was just a lot of energy and please um just pass on to your staff. Thank you from the board and we appreciate all they're doing. So, and I'm glad we got that AC working. >> Absolutely. And thank you for everyone's support and getting that up and running. I appreciate it. Have a good night. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. The next item on our agenda is the Canyon Strong Recognitions and Jeff Haney, director and Kirsten Stewart, associate director of communications will present this. President Schill, thank you for this time to recognize the ways that Canyon School District is truly Canyon strong and our strength is shown every day by our students, faculty, and staff and supporters in the

071community. Now, take a look at the places that our kindergarteners will go. We gave a big welcome to our kindergarteners, the class of 2038 for completing their full first full week of big kids school. It's a 17-year tradition in Canyon School District to have kindergarten college ready day to cap the first full week of our littlest students attending school. All students received a blue wristband that said, "I will be college ready, class of 2038." Each school also had a poster for kids to sign. Some had their kindergarteners make paper graduation caps. Some read Dr. Seuss. Others asked students to come to school dressed in the career that they wanted when they grew up. We saw cowboys. We saw police officers, doctors, nurses, construction workers, hair stylists. And if you look closely there, a Canyon's District

072teacher. That's one of one of our kindergarteners. What he wants to be when he grow up grows up. Not sure if you can see there, but his parents made him our future Canyons teacher. a replica canyons ID badge, the ones that teachers wear every single day in our kindergarten is a great place to send the message that school is a fun place to be. That every day counts and that every day dedicated to learning leads to being college ready, which also means being career ready and for the rigors and demands of the workforce. It was a red letter day at Eastmont this morning. Well, I guess I should say a red, white, and blue letter day for the Patriots at East Mount Middle School. This morning, students were welcomed back with balloon arches and confetti

073cannons in the Patriots's school colors of red, white, and blue. The Jordan High drum line and cheer squad also lined a red carpet in front of the school to welcome students back to the facility after they started the first two weeks of the school year in a remote learning schedule. Renovations at the school are finally completed enough so the students, faculty, and staff can safely return to the bottom, middle, and top floors of the school. Board member Patterson calls and uh Eastmont a geode. It looks the same on the outside, but on the inside, it's absolutely beautiful. It's shiny and it's new. And Eastmont is a little bit like that. The renovations inside are improving the educational environment just like all of our other schools. The outside has the same sturdy character that Eastmont has

074had in the community for decades. A big shout out to Principal Curts House and her team for working so hard to open up the building in addition to the extra effort that it took to go online for the first two weeks of the school year. Go Patriots. Red, Black, and Silver was seen on TV screens all across Utah last Thursday. Alta High was Fox 13's cool school of the week, and boy did they show up and show the world the things that truly make Ala cool. Student groups ranging from the cheer and drill team, student officers, ballroom dance, the dance team, drama, drama, robotics, and theater. They all sparkled during their segments. And Dr. Robbins also stepped into one of the early morning interview segments to thank the community for working with the Canyons Education

075Foundation on a back- to-school donation drive. The foundation partnered with the news station on the drive and as a result we have collected a lot of cash and goods including more than 1,000 backpacks in our resource closet. If there is a student in the Canyon School District who needs a backpack, we have one for them. While Canyons appreciates donations of all kinds and sizes, the community, as Dr. Robbins reminded folks in his interview, is encouraged to donate things that teenagers would want to wear. Often donations come in the form of little kids sizes and things that little kids would want to wear. But please don't forget our teenagers. They need help just like everybody else. So, if Ala's school year goes as well as the morning appearances on Fox 13 last Thursday, then the Hawks

076will truly soar all school year long. Speaking of the foundation and a spirit of selfless giving to students, we can't help but think of our good friend Mont Millerberg. As you all know, the Canyon's Education Foundation board named the annual golf tournament after one of the biggest cheerleaders in Canyon's district history. Mr. Millerberg, who was one of the inaugural members of the Canyon's Board of Education, then returned to serve several more terms, uh, passed away several years ago, and he, in honor of his service to Canyon School District and the foundation board, he has that namesake on this annual tournament. We use the tournament to raise a lot of money for the academic platform of the Canyon School District. We miss Mont tremendously since his passing, but his memory lives on in this way, including

077the soldout golf tournament this year. It raises money. I think this year it's for innovation grants that helps our teachers be innovative in the classroom. You'll see right there in the middle is a photo that I found this morning of Mont golfing at our first ever golf tournament in 2010. The golf tournament this year is September 18th at Wasach Mountain State Park. The major sponsors are Hogan and Associates Construction and also Hughes Construction and Wilming Construction. Those two are also big sponsors of this golf tournament. A big thanks to the foundation, the foundation board and development officer Denise Hoff for working so hard on this major event in the Canyon School District. Now, there's more news about our community stepping up big to help students do big things. Last week, the Ron McBride Foundation pounded

078out money to support after school programs in districts around the state. Coach Mack, who is the famed University of Utah coach, chooses from dozens of applications from schools, and he chose this year two schools, Mount Jordan and Union Middle Schools. They received a total of $25,000. This will help support afterchool programs in those communities. Representing Canyons at the event were assistant superintendent Dr. McKay Robinson, foundation development officer Denise Hock, program administrator Shereice Hilton, counseling specialist Kelly Reken, union principal Angie Holden, and Mount Jordan principal Ryan Durant. The Canyons Education Foundation is incredibly grateful for the support of Coach Mack and his team. they gave to our afterchool programs. From the University of Utah to Utah Valley University, we have some news that the next Canyon Strong recognition is for Gretchen Zaitzf. She's our library specialist.

079UVU has presented Gretchen with the Utah Literacy Champion Award for her work to build up and expand the book Blitz program in the Canyon School District. Here in Canyon, students can now participate in Blitz Book Jr. that is so hard to pronounce. It's a quiz show style reading competition where elementary students read a large number of books and then they put their comprehension skills to the test. The this honor that Gretchen received is through UVU's for the love of reading initiative. Congratulations to Gretchen. And man, it's been so much fun to go back to school. Friday night lights and other activities make the schools hum with excitement. Three cheers for the home teams. And it's hard to believe that homecomings are just around the corner. This weekend is Corner Canyon's homecoming. And right as the

080Chargers jump to the top 15 in the National Football Rankings, the only Utah team on the list. So congratulations to them for landing on Max Prep's list of the c the country's top teams. Hillrest and Ala last week both won big in front of cheering home crowds. If you look at that photo of the new scoreboard at Shik Stadium, you'll see that the Huskies put nearly 50 points on the board against Cottonwood last week. Also at Hillrest is a Hillrest, a Hillcrest student. I believe she's a junior, but could be a a senior. Luciana Gonzalez is ranked number four in the entire state in first singles girls tennis. And we can't forget that Brighton's girls tennis team is coached by one of the nation's best, Natalie Meyer, the longtime coach of the Bengals. Last year

081was named the National Girls Tennis Coach of the Year by the National Federation of State High School Associations. And she is one of the reasons why the Bengals have such a strong tradition on the court. She has led Bengal girls tennis teams for more than 20 years and was one of the 10 prep coaches chosen as 24 national coach of the year. And this was in girls athletics. Her selection was announced earlier in the spring. But we're looking forward to this season as the national coach of the year in girls tennis leads Brighton High School's team. So good luck to the Hawks, the Bengals, the Chargers, the Huskys, and the Beat Diggers as they make their way into their fall seasons and celebrate all of their homecomings. Here in Canyons, our students and personnel are

082always considered the home team. And that's where the community stands and cheers in support of CSD. It's where you can learn more, you can do more, you can be more. President Schill, thank you for this time to celebrate the ways that we are Canyon Strong. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Haney. We have now come to the patron comment portion of our 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. Tonight, individuals will be given three minutes and those representing groups will be given five minutes. Comments made during patron comment time time are part of the public record. It is the board's practice to listen and

083take notes during patron comments. The board of education does not discuss matters that are not on the meeting's agenda nor engage in public comment on individual students to protect their privacy or employee issues. If a patron wants to comment on district employees character, professional competence, or mental or physical health, the board requests that those comments be submitted to the board in writing. However, if the patron determines to verbally comment on those personal issues, the comments need to be civil and refrain from personal attacks, insults, defamatory, or slanderous comments about an individual. The board of education values input on all sides of issues. To maintain decorum and respect, we ask that those in attendance refrain from applause or other types of demonstrations during the patron comment time as well as throughout the meeting. Comments must be

084age appropriate considering children who may be present or viewing online. Okay. So, tonight we have 10 people that have signed up. Um, and I'm going to announce two at a time. And so if the second person can come sit in this front chair just so you're ready to come up. Um the first person is Jason Maldonado and he is representing a group and then Juliana Jackson who's also representing a group. >> How you guys doing? Uh my name is Jason Maldonado for those who don't know. I am the father of Kian Carmelo Hamilton. Uh, first I would like to just uh thank you guys so much for reacting and uh making a difference at Jordan. It means a lot to us and I know for our families it means a lot. Like you definitely have

085reacted very fast and uh I know I came here and raised a little bit of hell but I can also come here and uh say thank you and I can acknowledge when a good job's been done. You guys deserve to be in those seats. So, thank you very much. I know uh that was uh one of the things I spoke about. So, also I'd like to apologize if I hurt anybody's feelings. It wasn't meant for that. Um we had our first baseball tournament in memory of my son and it was a huge hit. Uh we have a foundation we started called the Ken Carmelo Hamilton Foundation and we're using his initials as kindness conquers hate. And uh we had 162 kids join and multiple schools up and down the valley and uh they just everybody

086wanted to jump in. I think it's something we can all get behind and just make this a better uh community for all of us, right? Safer. Things are always going to be hard, but I know with uh what I've seen already with what you guys can do, I know this is not impossible. So, thank you again. Um, one thing I would like to bring up, uh, Jordan is still our school. Oh, by the way, Jordan won it. He Jordan came home and won the tournament. So, yeah, it was, uh, it was a sight to see. It felt very good. Um, speaking about Jordan though, one of the things that I can see as a safety issue is where the altercation happened with my son seems to be a lot where kids try to go to

087fight. And one of the reasons is because there's no lighting in the baseball field. Uh, it's completely dark back there. At the same time, we have hundreds of people. uh there's no way for the police officers to be able to see anything. So, um if we can just keep that in mind, I don't know what we'd have to come up with or how we'd have to do it, but it definitely should be addressed. We'd I believe if there's lights there, you're going to detour a lot of problems that happen back there because they want to go into the dark where they feel like they're safe, right? I think we'd be able to turn around a lot of fights. Uh, I think we'd be able to prevent fights and that's initially what we're trying to do

088is prevent, right? Uh, so yeah, that's basically all I came here to say. I know you guys will take care of it. Just wanted to bring up my concerns. A lot of people don't visit the baseball fields or anything or know what's going on over there to have an idea. It's completely dark over there and uh there's just a lot of people at base at the football games. So, if we can help out the police enforcement to be able to identify anything going on before it happens, I think it's just going to help them and then help us as a community. Uh, the second thing I'd like to uh see if we can get together our foundation, Don's mom or a Kian's mom, Don, uh would definitely like to work with you guys and see

089if we can get any ideas or maybe you guys even help grow our foundation. Uh, our foundation is helping kids that are affected by violence. um for us that's our goal now to help others. So, uh thank you guys so much for your time and what you've done. >> Okay. Thank you. Now, um Juliana Jackson and then Laura Nielsen will be up on deck. >> Yeah. Yes, please. >> Okay. Okay. Hi, I'm Juliana Jackson. I am actually part of the first high school class to graduate from Canyons and now my daughter is a student at Bella Vista and I will be speaking in regards to the boundary study. Um Amber Schill is our representative. Thank you for your support. Uh Canyons formed in protest to Jordan district's poor leadership that gave our community unequal representation

090in overcrowded schools. Contwood Heights has already suffered two school closures and those losses are why we voted to start this district. Do not repeat this same mistake and shut down yet another Comwood Heights school which has been a part of our community for over 80 years. As a reminder, community is at the top of Canyon's org chart. Our votes and our taxpayer dollars are why everyone is here. District level expenses far exceed elementary school costs and are the real burden to taxpayers. Our elementary school costs approximately $1.2 million to operate, but district level expenses total $22 million. For reference, our district receives 535 million in revenue. So, our school takes up.2% while district overhead accounts for almost 38% of revenue. This is where the cuts should happen. And this was conveniently left out of the

091boundary study. And yet leadership continues to cut our teachers and schools while adding administrative positions. The district also spent over $50 million on a new tech school out of reach of our kids in our community, but still using our taxpayer funds. Clearly, Bella Vista is not the problem here. The district is targeting our most vulnerable and youngest student population to avoid true fiscal responsibility. Our students and families do not want to be scattered and stuffed into other schools farther away from our homes. Our neighboring schools are already at or near capacity, and closing would force our kids from a safe, beautiful school campus into unsafe and uncomfortable, hot portables. In fact, our community voted to remodel Bella Vista, and it is a waste of taxpayer dollars and betrays our votes to throw that away a

092mere 15 years later. District leadership has shrunk our school boundaries, promoted neighboring schools over ours, denied us stable, experienced principles, cut our teacher positions, slashed our PTA budget, and now wants to close our doors. Canyons now is repeating the exact same mistakes that Jordan District made. You also are robbing our taxpayer funds in favor of schools farther away from our homes and expensive administration. We want spending cuts to district overhead, not our elementary schools where it hurts our kids. Thank you for your time. Okay, thank you. Now, Laura Nielsson is up and then if Joanne Andress can come up toward the front. >> Hi, my name is Laura Nielsson and I I just want to be clear. I put on the forum. I'm representing myself at the moment, but I am an attorney and I

093have been working with a group of Parklane parents and should push come to shove, it's possible I could be representing them in future in a more official capacity. Um, I just wanted to ask uh I I joined the group a little later than others. Is the this the first time there's been boundary stud uh people having public comment on the boundary study without knowing the actual proposal of the boundary study? Like we're about to hear that. That's number eight on the agenda. Correct. >> Patrons can come and speak at any time >> about but they Okay, let me ask let me rephrase the question. Is there going to be another opportunity for public comment on the proposal regarding boundaries and school closures after this date? >> Yes, this is just the first step. Anyone can

094come to any board meeting. >> How many more uh opportunities will we have to do public comment on the proposal? >> It will be in the it will be in the slides >> in excuse me. >> It will be in the PowerPoint. There's many opportunities that there's too many for me to to say. >> That was our biggest concern. Um there's been a we're concerned about a lack of transparency as well with this process and we feel it's been very rushed that meet myself and the other Parklane parents. But I'm going to really hold my comments until I actually see the proposal. Thank you. >> Okay. Now, there is Joanne Andress and then Olivia Morton Morrison. >> Hi, I'm Joan Andress. I've been a teacher of elementary um orchestra here in the in the district

095for this will be my 16th year. And uh when Sher Jordansson was retiring and they you hired three people to take her place, I was the fourth person um that was hired to help out with um just mentoring the teachers in our district. And um we've been able to hire some really great teachers in the last couple of years that um are taking on all the schools. And so all the schools that have had programs now have a program which we're thrilled about. Um and what I'm concerned about is that there are several schools on the list of possible closures that have orchestra programs and I just don't want to see our program shrink. Um, so what I'm proposing is that we find other schools that are willing to take on um an orchestra program

096and a fabulous orchestra teacher that we don't want to lose any of these people. They they're hard to find and um and we have such a good group right now that I just don't want to see that dwindle. Um, the arts in our elementary schools have suffered for quite a long time simply because of testing, right? When was the last time you actually saw a program that was put on by a by a a choir or a or a grade even? They just aren't happening that much anymore. And I just don't want to see any of the arts um have to be suffering because of the school closures. So, I understand why they're happening. I totally get it. Our our our schools are shrinking and so our program is shrinking in each school, right? It's

097hard to have an orchestra with 12 kids. So, we get why it's happening. I just don't want to see the teachers leaving because there's nowhere for them to go. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. Now, Olivia Morrison and then Jessica Watts. >> Hi, I'm Olivia Morrison. Um, I'm representing myself. Um, I'm Oakdale PTA's president. Um, we have about nineish moms here from Oakdale's boundary and Amber Schills, our representative. We just don't want Oakdale to close. We're also worried about our middle school boundaries changing. Um, we expecting to comment at the end of the boundary study, but I don't have anything more. Thanks. >> Okay. Thank you. Now, Jessica Watts, then Caitlyn Sof. >> I am Jessica Watts. Um, I have kiddos um four kiddos in the district. Um, two currently at Oakdale. Um, and similarly,

098as Olivia said, we um love our school and um hope it can stay open. And um I have no further comments until we see the boundaries. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. Now we have Caitlyn Sofh and Kristen Rudis. I'm not sure if Okay, just when you come up to the microphone um clarify that correct saying >> hey I am Caitlyn Sof and I'm here with Olivia Morrison as well just representing Oakdale and myself. I don't have much to say until we hear the proposal as well. Thank you. >> Okay, thank you. Now, Kristen >> is Christina Ruatus. You're not the first person to have a hardship. Okay. >> Um, I am a parent at Oakdale. I'm also the PTA treasurer this year. And like Olivia and Jess and Caitlyn said, we have a pretty

099good contingency here. We're all busy moms that took time out of our night to be here because we're all really concerned about Oakdale. Um like one of the prior speakers said, Canyon's community um school district emphasizes community and that's really important to Oakdale. It's a truly a neighborhood school where most kids in the area walk to school um walk home to school. Um there's a really active PTA. We have a really high rate of participation at our PTA and we also have a diverse um school boundaries that pulls from a couple different areas and it's pretty economically diverse and so we're really concerned about it closing. Um these days there are a lot of options for homechool and private school and charter school and I think one of the reasons a lot of families in

100Oakdale stay engaged is because it is truly a community school. Um, I don't know what the boundaries for the middle school and high school look like, but I think under the current proposal, um, our little pocket, which is, you know, we all live in the Oakdale neighborhood, which is just west of Highland Drive, we can see Brighton from our houses. So, my kids on Friday night didn't go to sleep until 10:30 because they could hear the football game and see the lights and hear all the band playing. Um, they play Brighton lacrosse. um they're very much kind of in these communities where their friends in extracurriculars and from Oakdale are going to Albian and are going to Brighton. And um in the proposed boundaries there's this weird cutout where Crestwood's included in Albian and Brighton

101and then even a little bit south right north of 94th is included that but our neighborhood for some reason is cut out. I think the 13th East Road has a more natural boundary that keeps all these kids together that are going to be going to school together, doing extracurriculars together, and that's really what's important to create strong communities where kids know parents, kids know friends, kids can kind of, you know, have that identity instead of being kind of pushed back and forth among the different schools. Thanks. >> Okay, thank you. Um, next is David Miller and then Nicole Ford. Good evening. I'm David Miller. I'm representing myself and I have two kids at Bella Vista. I just wanted on the record that um Bella Vista is a great school as I'm sure that all these

102schools that are in the proposal are um I just want the district to do the right thing and and make the right decisions for the kids and the families. So, thanks. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh Nicole Ford. >> Um I'm Nicole Ford, a concerned parent with three kids in the district. Um I did have hopes that the comments section would be switched to the end of the meeting, but clearly that was unrealistic expectation. Um you know, having none of us know the information, we're making comments on things we don't know yet. Um, and in that I didn't do research. I don't I don't have any information, but I do want to say a few things. Um, I'm going to ask one thing is if you guys could please listen to us as parents. I am

103imploring you to listen to us. We are not being listened to. We're being ignored. We're being told misinformation. We're tired. Like so tired. If you look at my face, you can see how tired I am. We are in the trenches. I understand educators are also, but us as parents, we are in the trenches. We are great resources of information. Our email, my emails and our emails as parents have gone for requests for pro um parent advisory boards um have gone unanswered or li flat out lies being responded to or misinformation by our representative. I'm frustrated as a parent. I decisions you guys are making decisions. It feels like as parents you are making decisions behind closed doors and then letting us know or selling it to us as okay what do you guys think about

104this but really you know you know what you want to do we are just asking to be listened to we have information that is all I'm asking today is to listen to us these boundary realignments can affect so many families and a lot of things just make plain sense. Um, I'm hoping, you know, to be pleasantly surprised, but the only thing I can ask today is to just listen to us as parents. I'm begging. I'm pleading. Um, and that's all I have to say. >> Okay. Thank you. Um, the patron comment time is now done and we will go on to um, item seven, which is the consent agenda. So I will now take a motion to approve the consent agenda and please read those items. I will move the consent agenda agenda speak. A

105approval of minutes for August 19th, 2025. B approval for hire and termination reports. C approval of purchasing bids. D. Approval of TSSP amendment for Oak Hollow Elementary. E. Approval of Canyon Innovation Center naming and branding. F. Approval of easement agreement with Cottonwood Heights for historical monument at Butler Elementary. >> Okay, we have a motion. Is there a second or an alternative motion? >> I'd like to make a a substitute motion if possible that um we approve the consent agenda. um items A through D as previously mentioned as well as item F but pull item E, approval of Canyon Innovation Center naming and branding for separate discussion. >> Okay, do I have a a second to that motion? >> I'll second that motion. >> Okay, thank you. There is a motion and a second. Is there

106any discussion to that motion? >> Okay, seeing none, I'll call for a vote. All in favor say I. >> I. I. >> Any opposed? Okay, that motion passes unanimously. Now, um, Mrs. Oaks, would you like to talk about the item you pulled? >> Yeah. So, this is with regard to the naming of the new innovation center that is going to be located um at the former eBay building on west of the freeway. Um, and just for clarification, um, it is going to absolutely be available to every student in this district, no matter what high school and no matter, um, where they come from. And in fact, it's going to be a really phenomenal opportunity for these kids. Uh, not only is it going to be incorporating our CEK programs, which have been up until this

107point at a very very dilapidated and out um dated building that has long needed to be replaced with something else. But we will also be doing a lot of work with local employers to provide innovative opportunities for students to um shadow under some of our best and and most prominent employers and to learn entrepreneurship principles, design thinking where it's there's about 17,000 jobs coming to the point roughly and our goal is to get our kids ready to be able to take those jobs. We've listened to um employers from all over the state and have received detailed feedback from them about what they want to see in our high school students coming out of K12 education and we are designing it for that specifically in working um in tandem with them. So it's a phenomenal opportunity

108and um all of the employers that we've been sharing this with are extremely excited. With that said, naming the sucker has been tricky and partially because we want to make sure it's something that similar to the Davis Catalyst Center up in Davis School District has a unique identity and attracts a lot of employers. In fact, Davis has been so successful in what they've done that they have attracted employers from our area and south even because of their model. and we hope to recapture those employers and those internships for our students as well as expand um in great capacity. Um it was proposed on the consent agenda that because last meeting's um name we ran up against some copyright issues um or trademark issues, sorry, excuse me, trademark issues with the name we chose um to

109revert to the Canyon's Innovation Center. But I have concerns about that in part because um and I and this is why I'd like to bring it up for a little more discussion with the rest of the board. I have concerns about it because I am really wanting to make sure that this center is not only a CEK 2.0. We need to send a message to the community to the other industry leaders throughout the state that what we're going to do is extraordinarily competitive and forwardinking. Um, so I know that some of the feedback that we received from students and other employers is that they were okay with the Canyons Innovation Center to them. It it kind of described somewhat what it is we're trying to accomplish. But in um conversation here and there with a

110couple board members, we're we're thinking maybe we um open it up and propose the opportunity um to explore some options that play with that a little bit. um specifically Canyon's Innovation Center at the point or explore possible branding and marketing with um the word I point um and have that come back to us uh in a subsequent meeting perhaps even in two weeks from now. Any thoughts from any of my other fellow board members? >> Okay. Um so Mrs. Oaks, are you asking for that to just come back as an agenda item in the future? >> Yes. >> Okay. So board um any discussion or are we all fine with that? You're okay everyone okay with that? Okay. Okay. So we will not discuss it right now but we will bring it back at our

111next meeting in the business section. Okay. Um now we are on to new business and um we are going to hear from Mr. Wilcox, our business administrator, and he will present to us the long-range planning committee proposal regarding school boundaries and school consolidations and closures. >> Thank you, President Schill and board members. Uh, first of all, I want to thank our all the people who came and commented tonight, those who took the time out to their busy schedules to attend with us tonight. I'm sure we have many many online uh CSDTV watching us as well. Appreciate them taking their time. Want to just acknowledge u some of the comments particularly from our first speaker, Mr. Maldonado. Our heart still aches for his wife and him him and their loss of their son. We want him

112to know that and their family to know that and appreciate that and especially the KCH the kind kindness conquers hate. So we appreciate that. Also I want to acknowledge uh uh Mrs. Andress. She may not know this but she taught one of my boys in orchestra. So appreciate her coming tonight as well. So uh this presentation we have now just put this on board docs. We wanted to put this uh up now to try to you know before it got out be you know so we could try to alleviate any questions or concerns out there in community. And we know there are lots we know since we put this out in in May there's been concerns. We know that we acknowledge that. We've spent a lot of time this summer, all summer in fact, studying

113these issues and what we can do. So, we'll walk through this as well. Uh here is the committee members again. We have three board members, Vice President Nettle, board member Dolly, and board member Patterson on the committee. And you can see lists there. And we've also brought in others as well as we've gone through this process. Main reason we're here is is just our elementary enrollments. Uh here you can see again we I always base you know we do enrollment counts throughout the year but October one's always the most important date because that's the one we get funded on by the state. So we always focus on that one as the non-moving target. Uh so you can see in the 1819 school year just before COVID we had just under 15,000 elementary students. You can

114see the drops uh going out each down each year. Last year we had about 13,200 students. This year through day 10 on Friday, we had 13,523. That is exactly 700 fewer than we had on October 1 of last year. Now, we'll obviously update that come October one, but we expect it to be the same. and could go up a dozen, could go down a dozen, but you can see since that time we've lost about 2400 students, 16 some 16%. Okay. Uh there's so many reasons for that. You know, I say the top two bullets to me are the most causing the most. You know, that's increasing housing prices. We're going to go through our slide with that. Declining birth rates. We have a slide with that. But we're also built out. We have really except

115for the new prison property and the Jordan Bluffs out in West Midville. We really don't have any place to build. Also, as has been mentioned, charter schools do take some the new voucher program, homeschool homeschooling as well. But I still in my mind and I think the committee's mind is those top two drivers there. Just uh for instance, housing prices, the average home in our district in 2017, again that would be Draper, Sandy, Cottonwood Heights, Midville, 373,000. You can see the increases each year. It's highlighted the in blue there. The year over, you know, that was the COVID year. Big spike in housing prices, 30% from 497 up to just about 650. This year the average house is about 740,000. So you can see it basically doubling in that eight-year time frame. That's a big

116big hit. Just so hard for young families to live here. So hard for any old families to live here. Hard for anyone to afford to live here. Also the birth rate as I mentioned is a big driver. You can see in 2014 that calendar year is how they measure it. So we'll always have be off a little bit from, you know, the school year is September uh to December. So it'll always be off a little bit between kindergarters coming on five years later. But in in calendar year 2014 in our zip codes, we have Sandy has four, then one in Midville, one in Cottonwood Heights, one in Draper. So those seven zip codes, we had 3,400, excuse me, 3,300 bursts. In 2023, we're down to about 2500. Again, 800 fewer or about a 25% drop.

117Uh, and we expect it to stable out in that. We haven't got we'll get the 2024 numbers in December. But again, that's a big issue there. You know, it's I think it's a credit to our school schools. I look at our what we call our capture rate. Those are first that those are kindergarteners who come to us five years later. Again, they'll always be off a little bit because of the September one start. But again, we capture, you know, in the high 60s, which is pretty good compared to most districts. And so I think that's a credit to to to our tremendous schools and they all every one of them is great. Uh so those are the two main drivers there, the birth rate and the housing prices. As we've talked as a committee, you

118know, we want the best provide the best education for our students. And really, we look at how that how an what size an elementary should preferably be. And we feel like it should be at least three classes per grade and preferably four four if if you can get that high. Uh we don't have a whole lot that are up in that 550 560 range. We have a a few in that 425, but that is our preference. There you can see where we staff our teachers at 22 teacher. I mean for every, you know, grade one through three, they get uh 20 for every 22 kids, we give them one teacher and uh same with four and five. Uh for every 26 students, one teacher and so the principles are then in charge of divvy out

119those FTEEs, you know, to cover the the classes. Uh these are the eight schools as we talked about last year last May that we wanted to study and you can see and all as has been mentioned here by the patrons every one of them is fantastic. Uh they all have they all do so much good for our communities and we want to acknowledge that. Uh you can see the enrollments in the 201819 year then I did every two years. Again I'm using the October one dates with the day 10 on this year. So you can see some have dropped more than others u uh but uh and some haven't but you can see each one has had has had somewhat of a decrease over the years and that is in that is for all our

120schools. Also on boards I put out a history of the last five years plus the day 10 count for this year so you can see what all schools are doing and as well as all our middle and high schools as well. So if if you want to review that, it's out there on board docs. Again, all these schools in the northeast to north central part of our district. Uh you know, they're all in the blue, all connected there. We were going to look at Carper View and Sprucewood. decided to pull those out at this time and maybe we may need to come back and later and study study those in other areas as well as we continue to we know this forecast in student enrollments. We do for we do believe that will continue for

121probably the rest of this decade and then maybe in the first couple years in the 2030s. We do think that will stable out and maybe we'll start to uh rebound and increase, but we'll have to wait and see on that. Uh the challenge is with the smaller schools and I we highlighted the committee really wanted to bring out that top one and that is just the large fluctuation in class sizes. You know we have some class in these smaller schools how the FTE is distributed. We have some with 17 18 students in a you know in each in a class and others we're getting up there close 30 to 32 and we know that and that's a big issue with that. Uh there's also other things. You know, PLC's are harder to do when you

122only got one or two teachers in a great in a grade. And so we want to that's a big focus on us to improve our instruction. Limited choice of classrooms. If you know a teacher and a student's just not working there. There's limited places where we can what what we can do there. Also uh the overhead costs. We'll get to that in next couple slides. And also we have a lot of school safety requirements that we have to meet. now that are that are costing us but again it's the class size that we feel is the main thing you know for this as we talked about our what we call our overhead cost for each elementary uh the cost you know it gets up there these are the positions here and it doesn't matter if

123we have a elementary with 600 students or 300 students we still have a principal many we have assistant principles we do not have them at all but uh most we do. There's an instructional coach, an SLP, a us a school psych or social worker, usually a half of each, the admin assistant, the uh facility manager and the lunch manager and some other hourly positions there. So, we get up into that 1.2 million on average for all this is average for all elementary schools across the district. So, you know, just to run a school is that cost there that we have to be cognizant of for our taxpayers. There's also other nonoperating costs that we have listed there. So, you know, the utilities, uh we also have parts and services that we do such as garbage

124cleanup and pickup uh and whatnot. So, you get up to average school, you get in that 1.3 1.4 million just to operate a school. Now, if you close schools, you may have had add more transportation costs, and that's, you know, pushing $50,000 a route now. And we'll we can talk about that. Uh, and one of the things that has we've heard about is our our employees. You know, we value each and every one of our employees. We're so grateful that they've chosen Canyons to come work for us. uh if we do go down this route and close the school, you know, our teachers are going to have to go somewhere and we do expect most of them to follow the students to the new school. It is our, you know, and if uh and if

125a transfer of teachers becomes necessary, we'll give them a choice of available assignments. For instance, this year we hired 80 new elementary teachers. uh we probably will hire the same amount next year, you know, just because of attrition, natural attrition of retirements, resignations. So, our our main focus is that we keep all of our teachers. We have never rifted a teacher in our 16-year history. We have had to do what we call obligatory transfers, you know, moving one from one school to another, but we've never uh had a reduction in force of teachers. We would also plan on doing that with our ESP positions. You know, again, the custodian, the secretary. We want to make sure we retain all these and we think we can do that through natural attrition uh through retirements and resignations

126there. Also, we want to look at all the condition of each of the buildings there. And we know that all eight of these schools again are great schools, but we also know they all need some work. You can see there the year they were built. Uh you can see their their projected enrollment. I should have put in the top day 10. I did not do that. But you can uh that would be the second column. You can see their capacity. You know that's always a variable if you have a computer lab or what you do with your brain boosters. But the year belt is you know all of them were built in the late 60s into the 70s. A quell hobble would be the newest in 81. But still all you know at least uh

12745 roughly 45 years old. Also we've you know you look at the improvements you've made to the building and we know we need to make lots of improvements to these buildings and others in our elementary ranks. So we go in and try to assign each one what we call a facility condition index an FCI score. And the lower the FCI is, the better the building. And the higher the FCI is, you know, what would require more work. Now, that's can also be a little subjective. There's not a whole lot of difference in in my mind between a 70 FCI and a 90 FCI. They both need work. Our our new schools are in that zero to three FCIs, you know, the ones we've built in the last decade. So that just shows you the disparity

128with that. Also, it should be said that all of these just about all these house some type of special unit, you know, one of our special ed units and so and also the brain boosters figure into the capacity as well. So these are the you know as we went through the committee and we looked at all these options uh you know we had what we called main considerations and and other and other considerations and the main ones were maximizing the instructional model and the class size and so those were you know really the academic performance of our students and the opportunities for them is the key. We also wanted to keep neighborhoods together, communities together, and also starting to better align our school feeder system. So that, you know, all elementaryaries would go to one

129middle school then one high school. We know it's not, you know, we didn't, we will never get there and we're not going to get there with this proposal, but we wanted to bring forth some options for you to review to try and align that. Then also the other ones over on my right, you know, the capacity of that school, the neighboring schools, you know, we look at the FCI and score now, but also what is going to be needed in the next four to six years. Is a new roof going to be needed? Is we are we going to have to do the parking lot? Is the HVAC system, does that need to be replaced? We also look at permits and ADA compliance and the playgrounds and again the school safety uh requirements and also

130the bell times and safe walking routes and everything there we we've tried to look at to try to get an all-encompassing view of of all the issues. So there is a under state code there is a process you have to do if you change a boundary or close a school or consolidate a school. So you have to give what we call the official notice and that is what our intention is tonight is to provide that official 90-day notice. There is some I know there's you know we understand there's lots of been lots of confusion in the communities. we we get that uh that we're making a final decision tonight. No, we cannot do that because we can't do that for 90 days after we give the official notice. So that once you do that, then

131we have to notify all the parents via parent square which is our communication method. We also have to send a postcard saying that this boundary or this school is being considered for either an adjustment or a closure. We also have to go meet with the mayor and the city council for each in each city. We're looking at that. We have to have public comment at at least two board meetings. We'll get to that. And also have to have a public hearing at u at that that's also required and that's preferably to be held at the school being considered for closure. And all this process has to be done you know again once the the start the clock starts ticking for that 90 days we have to have it done by December 31st if you want

132to implement it for the next school year. Okay. So, if it goes into January, February, it can't happen for the 2526 school year. So, again, that is the state code that's out there. Uh we also want to acknowledge the permit information. You know, uh again, we think we have 45 amazing schools and we want parents and families to know they can permit into any one of them according to state law as long as there's capacity. And if you'd like to, if your boundary is changing, you would like to remain at your current school, you know, would ask you to complete a special permit. And I think we will be able to accommodate most if not all there. Um, and we're also going to say any current students impacted by boundary trains, we will give them

133preference in that window. Again, trying to accommodate everyone as best we can. and we'd invite you to our website for more information on that. Uh so here's the recommendations that we are proposing. Again, these are our proposals for you to consider and we'll we can make adjustments as we go along. These would go into effect. We recommend these go into effect for the 26 27 school year. That would be next year. Uh so we've broken this up into two areas here. One is in the northeast area, one's in more of the north uh the east central area. So our recommendation is to consolidate all of Bella Vista, that whole school in with the Reggerrest in the Reggerrest building. Current Reggerrest students who reside west of 1300 East would attend East Midvil as that is their

134current boundary for Midvil Middle. So again, these students go to Ridgerest, but then instead of Butler, they go to Midville Middle. So we're trying to align that up going forward. Uh keep in mind, we're putting out what we feel like are the estimates impacted number of students. Uh we're rounding that to either the number five or the nearest 10. knowing that, you know, if this goes into effect next year, it'll probably be a few less number because we do expect to have fewer incoming kindergarteners than we do having outgoing fifth graders going forward. Okay, so here's a map of that. Again, I'm going to point up here. Don't want to point you in the eye there, President Sher, but uh again, all of Bell of Vesta would consolidate here into the Redest area. this section

135here of east of of of Ridgerest. Again, this is 1300 east. That would be boundary down into East Midbell. Okay. The you can see the lines here are the these solid colors are the new boundaries and the lines are the these yellow gold lines are the existing boundaries. We will be having maps put out on on the website, interactive maps where you know families can go view this and get more information on that. So that is our first proposal there. Again, the Bella Vista building there, Richest building there. Uh here's just some general information. They're about a mile apart. We estimate the new richest enrollment would be about 580, which is about capacity. So it would be full. Uh but we feel like we can get all the students in there. East Medbell would be

136about 540ish. Their capacity is about 600. We've had over 650 there at one time. Uh the start time for Bella for Rich Crest and Bella Vista would continue at 8:45. East Midville start time at 8:15 would continue. U busing information. Bella Vista has one regular ED bus and seven sped buses. uh would probably need to add two more additional regular ed buses to get the students in to Ridgerest. Ridgerest has three buses, I mean, excuse me, four buses. One of those buses picks up the students in the East Midville that would now go to East Midville. So, that bus would continue to drop those students off there uh as well. So, you're looking at basically adding uh we'd lose one bus for Ridgerest and add two. So you'd roughly have five going in there. Also,

137we know a couple of information items here. We're hoping to, you know, support the DLI program there at Ridgerest. We think all our DLI programs are great. We'd like to, you know, encourage more families to enter into that. But if not, we certainly understand and would hopefully support those neighborhood classes in both schools. We'd also want, you know, the new school to create its own identity. I, you know, whether that's a new logo name, that's up to the board and the patrons. We don't know about that, but that would be our hope. And one of the things that we like is all of the Regest and Besta students would feed into Butler Middle and then into Brighton. They'd all stay together going forward. Uh, some building information, Ridgerest Bu and why we're recommending the Ridgerest

138building. It's it's just bigger. It's, you know, 61,500 ft. Bella Vest is 54,400 ft. Uh we did put a new roof on Ridgerest last summer. And so we do we do know that it needs some work as do all our buildings. Here are some issues that we are still looking at with Bella Vista moving the students there. We will not have space for the ABS unit and the preschool program. So, we're recommending, we're still studying this, but we're looking at either Brookwood, Canyon View, or Oakdale housing those units. Don't know which one it will be. And we'll have that hopefully either by the 16th or uh or October meeting and certainly by the time we have the public hearing, we'll have a recommendation for that. We're still want to make sure on the space there

139at Richest with the brain boosters and the and the classrooms, they do have 28 classrooms. We do feel like we can get everybody in there moving forward with that. So that is our recommendation in that area. Okay, in that northeast area, we're calling this the east central area. So this is Granite Park Lane and Willow Canyon. So we have two opt two options here and that is one that and it's it's more like along the lines of the location but all of Park Lane students were combined with the Granite students in either the Granite students in either the Granite building or the Park Lane building. Okay. However, current Granite students residing west of Eastale and north of 9800 South. We'll show you that on the map. There was about 50 of them would go to

140Willow Canyon and Granite current granite students residing south of Dimpledale Road and between Dimple and Wasatch would attend Lone Peak. That is their roughly their bound their uh roughly 40 students there. Our goal would be to keep Granite's EEC stu unit remain with the school whether it's in the Park Lane or the Granite building. Park Lane's ACC unit would then be moved to Willow Canyon. Again, Willow Canyon did have a unit was an ECC unit up until a couple years ago, but we'd like to uh put that unit back. We don't think that would be too much modifications to the building to do that. Again, here's the map that may show that better. Again, the blue, again, I don't want to poke anybody eye here, but this blue right here is all of Park Lane,

141and this is all of Granite. They would be consolidated into one building. This west of Eastell right here, this section, again, roughly 50 students would now go down into Willow Canyon. Over here, Dimple. Again, these were on the This was always an interesting boundary to us from way back when. These are on the other side of the goalie if you will. They would actually go they'll go down into Lone Peak. This does line up with the middle school boundary for that area. Okay. So they go to Granite then to Indian Hills. So we'd just like to line up that boundary a little bit more. Again, one of our goals was to clean up the feeder system with that. Okay. Then there's some more information again. So, the new Well Canyon with the ACC and those

142uh students west of Eastill, that would bring that to around 360 students. The new Granite and Park Lane combined would be around 460 students. The capacity for each building is about 500. Uh the distance between Park Lane and Granite is 1.5. One of the big things that we're that's going to be an issue is the start times between the two. You know, Park Lane starts at 8:30. Granite starts at 9:00. Royal Canyon would continue to start at that 8:20 time. Here's some bus information. Granite has five regular ED buses. Uh, one bus does go down to Lone Peak. So, that would just pick up those students and take them to Lone Peak. They're on on Dimple on the other side of the goalie on Dimple Drive. uh those students in on west of Eastale. So

143I'll just go back to this map. This area right here, they would be within walking distance. We would down to Willow Canyon. We would ask Sandy City to move the the uh uh crossing guards down into here over Highland so these students could st safely cross down. Uh, one of the things that again on the busing, Parklane does have, you know, three buses that would need to continue to transport students there or down to Park Lane. Uh, Parklane has no regular buses, but would need a roughly four buses to move the students up into Granite. So, uh, so that will be something that we look at. uh you know we're looking at the facility early facility issues at both Park Lane and Granite and and we know as we as I said that both have

144need some need lots of improvements. We know that one of the ones is the is the parking lot at Park Lane. It's has ADA accessibility issues. And making this turn here going coming out of the parking lot onto Eastdale. You can see right there all those little marks right there. That's where buses and cars have been getting high centered or scraping the bottom of the vehicle there. So, that's a big issue there. Also, the parking capacity at at uh Park Lane. We do know Park Lane is a little bit newer, built in 70 uh 79 versus 75 like Granite has a little bit higher FCI score. Uh Granite does have a flatter site and it has we did do the restrooms back in 2017, updated the irrigation system, but there's lots of other things we

145need to consider on that facility as well as we move through this process. But again, our recommendation is to combine Park Lane with the majority of granite moving forward. So, oops, I'm going the wrong way. I apologize. So, those are the main issues with all the elementary schools at this time uh that that we're going to recommend. We'll go through a c there's a couple of cleanup things that we're recommending. Again, trying to align the feeder system. So, this piece right here, we're going to move down into Glacier Hills uh and to East Sandy. This piece right here is the Quarry Bend. Those apartments behind the the Walmart and the Lowe's there. Right now, they are a boundary for Glacier Hills. There's roughly 20 students there. However, their middle school boundary is Union Middle. We're

146recommending they now attend East Sandy. Again, try to bolster up East Sandy's enrollment a little bit if we can, but more importantly, align them so they can go right into uh uh Union and into Hillrest. Okay, so that's one there as well. Uh we are recommending again some more clean up to the middle and the high school boundaries. Again, we're recommending these for next school year, but most importantly for our high school students, we want to allow them to permit, you know, in case they're in the band or on the football team or in a CEK program or looking at at an AP class next year. Again, making sure they have the credit they need for graduation and to finish out their high school high school career where they're at. So, here are those recommendations

147here. Uh this it's mainly this pocket here again for the new granite is what I'm calling it or park lane however that gets branded and then Lone Peak and Willow Canyon. So this section right here would now go to uh it's uh above Eastale and just on this other side of Highland I mean excuse me uh Little Cottonwood Canyon Road. This would all go down into Eastmont Middle rather than Albian. We want to do that because now that will now line up with Jordan High, the high school boundary. Okay, moving that over. So that is our recommendation there. Again, we should note the Granite Park Lane will feed into two different middle schools. Again, we wanted to clean them up all the way, but we knew we wouldn't get there. Also, so you can see

148there's roughly 50 60 students there. 55 already attend Albian and we have five permitting down into Eastmont. But again, it is to match up with the high school boundary. This little section up here is I didn't draw this arrow right. I apologize. But this section right up in here would now go down into uh Indian Hills from East roughly five students. Again, this is going to line up with the middle school boundary which is Indian Hills and also Alta. They're currently boundaries for Alta. So again, keeping that the same. And there's one little row section here. We could clean that up. Uh we'd put that into uh from Jordan to Alta. Right now we only have one student there. That student actually attends ALA, but we could look at fixing that. So that is the

149again trying to align the middle school and high school boundaries there. Uh moving on to a a section. This kind of I'll call it pinkish section here and the purple section here. This pink ex this all this pink section here is Brookwood. Okay. And then down here is Quell Hollow. I know I'm keep shooting you there, President Shill. I apologize. Uh, and then this purple area is Quell Hollow. In this pink area here, this is most of Brookwood goes into Albian, but we are recommending this section here, which is just below uh Willow Creek Road, that that all go into Albian. Most students permit into Albian anyway because they want to go with their their peers. We have roughly 30 students there, 25 already permit in just more or less cleaning up what's already happening

150there, making it more official that way. We're also recommending this side of Oakdale. Okay, this mainly these Pinnacle apartments, they also line up. So, they go into Albian as well. So, this whole section here going into Albian. Roughly 20 students in that area. Five do permit into Albian. The other 15 are boundaried into into Butler, but we were recommending they all flow into again separating Highland Drive, flowing them all into uh Albian there. And one last section on middle schools is we want to again going back to that concept of trying to align all elementary schools moving to one middle school and then into one high school is Silver Mesa. Our recommendation here as you can see this Silver Mesa is the orange I mean excuse me the yellow section right here. This is the

151boundary right now for the middle school. This side of this light green, this section here goes into the east side of Silver Mesa goes into Albium. The west side goes into Union. We are recommending that they all go into Union moving forward. Uh you can see the permit information there. So for this east section here, roughly a 100 students, 70 do permit into Al 70 do attend Alburn, the boundary school right now. 30 do permit in the union. Fewer students on this west section, but you can see almost half and half between Albian and and Union there. And then the last thing, and this ties into our our proposal, this several major ties into our high school alignment here. So this section right here again, this section right here goes into Albian, but then into

152Union I mean then then into Hillrest High where we're proposing that all sever go to Union and then Hillrest because this section right here does go into Brighton but this section goes into Albian. So it's broken up halfway, you know, into the middle school. So we want to line that up in the high school boundaries. Also with the high schools, our proposal is all this section of Oakdale right up here go into they're now boundaried into Hillrest, but they all go into Brighton. Okay, this whole section right up in here. Again, uh roughly 60 students with 55 permitting in the Hillrest. Again, we'd want them to continue. Then we try to clean up this little piece up here. We just feel like the topography of this area here, it would make better sense for these

153students to go down to Hillrest rather than Brighton because again, they have to basically drive almost down here to get up into into Brighton that way. So again, you can see the numbers there. Our high schools are big. You know, if you look at that spreadsheet I put out, they're 2400 roughly between at Hellcrest and Brighton. the full but you know the permit process and our great principles will will get these kids in and situated that way. So that's our recommendation in that area. We have you know we talked about you know we wanted to focus on mainly this area but we had one more area we want really wanted to address and we felt like we needed to address and that's in the south part of the district. Uh, so this here relates to

154Sprucewood and Crescent Elementary and where they go into middle school. So again, right here, this goldish color here is Sprucewood. You can see it sitting right up here on 10th East. Our recommendation then Indian Hills is right there. Our re most of Sprucewood does go into Indian Hills right now. Our recommendation is putting this section here, which is west to 7th east. So 7th east is right here. putting all that all of Sprucewood into Indian Hills. Again, there's roughly 35 students here. 20 permit into Indian Hills already and 15 do go out to Mount Jordan, which is the Boundary School. And then we want to discuss one thing that has been going on for several years that we feel like we need to we need to talk about at least. And so a few years,

155well, it's been about seven years ago, you know, we looked at the boundary study for between uh Mountain Jordan, Indian Hills, Ala, Jordan High. And so, and we elected to run a bus, what we call a special permit bus down here in West Draper. So, this is the freeway right here, I-15, and this is West Draper, 114's right here, 123rd right here. So the Walmart, if you will, is right over here. The district boundary is right here where the river is. We've been running a permit bus there for some time. And we really feel like we need to not run in a matter of fairness to everyone. We feel like we should not be running that permit bus because the permit bus, these students are boundary for Mount Jordan, but the permit bus does pick

156them up and bring them up here to Indian Hills. Uh so we actually run two buses in this area. one for Indian Hills, one for Mount Jordan, and we're open to the date when you want to do it. You know, the committee initially said, "Well, should we pull it for next year or should we wait till our sixth graders go through the process?" So, we did put in the 27 and 28 school year that would allow the sixth graders to go all the way through to pull that bus uh and no longer run it in that section. In this area, we have a lot of, you know, there are a lot of students in this area. 90 do attend Mount Jordan, which is the boundary school, and about 175 do permit. Again, most of them

157are riding the bus uh up to M up to Indian Hills. We can come back and talk about questions that way. I know there's been questions on receiving feedback. And so, as I mentioned the law earlier, we have to take public comment at least two board meetings. We'll take it at every one going forward. So, our next board meetings, September 16th, and October 7th, 21st, we'll take comment there. Then we'll hold public hearings. We'll show you those uh how we would like to have them scheduled on the following slide. As I said, this is our first reading here. We're recommending a second reading. We can no longer we can't take any action but any adjustments we have we can bring at that after the public hearing as and as we gain more feedback at a

158second reading at that November 11th meeting. Again, we can still take feedback on that at November 11th meeting. Then we can look at third reading and action requested at either the December 2nd or the 16th board meeting if you so choose to put these into effect for next school year. December 2nd would give us 91 days technically to meet that schedule if we wanted to go that route or you can delay it till the 16th which we also have scheduled. Here are the public hearings that we have scheduled. So again for that Granite Park Lane Willow Canyon we are proposing to hold that at the Granite Building uh on October 15th. So again, it's recommended we will either, you know, look at closing the park lane or the granite building, but uh so we're holding

159it at one. We're both putting both out there. Again, October 15th, 6 to 7 for Bella Vesta, East Midville, and Redest. Again, we'll hold we're recommending to hold that on October 16th. Again, 6 to 7 the next following day uh at the Bella Vesta building. All these other changes that we are proposing, we're just going to have one meeting here. All those are boundary changes and we'd have those on October 30th here, probably down at the Canyon Center. Okay, that would be uh because of timing, we'll look at 7 o'clock to 8 o'clock that night. So, here's our motions and our recommendations. This is the final slide. Uh then I get to quit talking, but uh again, you can read those. Again, it's authorizing the administration to provide that official notice to propose that Bill

160of Vesta be consolidated into Ridgerest and that section of Red Ridgerest be bounded into East Midbell and also notify that public hearing to occur on Thursday, October 16th at Bella Vista. The second one would be authorize administration to provide officials that Parklane and Granite will be consolidated into one school. also that one section of granite be boundared into Well Canyon and another section into Lone Peak and provided that official notice for the public hearing to be on uh October 15th at the Granite Building and then notifying everybody else here. So there's several schools that are impacted by this, some much more than others. Uh but that would be of the boundary changes. Again, no school closures but just boundary changes. That would be East Sandy, Glacier Hills, the elementary schools. Then be Albian, Butler, Eastmont,

161Indian Hills, Mountain Jordan, Union, then Brighton, Hillchrist, and Jordan high schools. And then that meeting would be held here on the 30th. So with that, oh, I or the committee members, uh, Andrew, Katie, Karen, or Rick, you can ask. We'll be happy to take any questions you may have. >> Okay, board. Do we have any questions or comments? Oh. Um, how about Dr. Robbins and then Kate, then Mrs. Dolly. >> So, Leon, would you just address I know we've talked about this a little bit with some of the groups that we've met with, but talk a little bit about our debt service and the just our past history and what that might look like in 209 2030. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. Uh, >> no. I'm an accountant. We don't like to talk this much. Uh, so

162yeah, uh, to to Dr. Robin's point, our debt for, you know, we've passed two bonds, 2010, 2017, and we focused heavily heavily on our middle and high schools, rebuilding those. And as Jeff mentioned, finishing up improvements here at Eastmont uh so they could get in today. Our debt in the year 2031 starts leveling off substantially. It stays level up until 2031, roughly $45 million each year. In 2032, so after 2031, it drops in half down to about 25ish 223 25ish million dollars. Okay. We could look at holding the tax rate level and then we'd have to do a truth and taxation hearing and bring in cap recapture all that money so households are no longer paying any more taxes. It's just going to a different purpose and we could look at building some new schools

163at that time. You know, I'm going to say rebuilding some of these older elementaryaries at that time. I don't know which ones, you know, we've talked about in order. It's, you know, all these all I'm going to throw back way way way way back here at the very beginning. This FCI score. All these schools, you know, need work. And I would also put in Reggerrest. You know, these eight need work. I'd put in Ridgerest. I would put in East Midville. I'd probably put in Sandy. All these schools need work to be rebuilt. And how do we consol look at continuing to consolidate these more or do we look at rebuilding some of the existing ones? That has yet to be decided. But yes, the short answer is we look we're looking to hopefully all goes

164well, we would actually put a shovel in the ground in 20 around this time in 2029 and look to rebuild a couple of these aging elementaryaries and open them in 2031. takes almost two years to build an elementary now and open them in 2031 and then a year or two later do it again at a couple more schools. That's that's our long-term goal. We didn't want to put that out too much because there's so many variables with that is interest rates, construction costs, and then what schools what order do we put them in? But we do hope to uh rebuild some of these aging schools in that timeline. Yeah, good question. Thank you. >> Okay, Mrs. Dolly. Thank you. Just um a comment here to our community. Uh first of all, we realize change is

165hard. Nobody wants to do this, but the reality is it's a problem that we need to address. When I met with administrators before I was elected to the board, just about every one of them asked me why nobody was addressing the elephant in the room of this declining school enrollment and the the pressures they were feeling in the our elementary schools because of this. And so, unfortunately, it's a a needed problem that needs to be addressed. We've tried really hard to balance things out to do what's best for our teachers and our students. Um that's always what we came back to as we have discussed these decisions and the things we have to make and you know the communities everybody's going to have to make some kind of sacrifice and we tried to balance that

166that that hopefully one community is not feeling it more than another. But again this is just a proposal. We want your feedback. We understand we may have blind spots that we're not aware of. we don't ne necessarily know the ins and outs of every little neighborhood and community. So, please bring those forward at the open houses and um we will take those into consideration um as we look at these. So, thank you. >> Okay, Mr. Edel. >> Yeah. So, I want to start by saying that like you, I'm a parent. I have four kids in Canyon School District, two in elementary, two in middle school. Um, and I serve in this position because of my kids and all of the Canyons uh, students that we have. So, as we went into this, our number one

167concern has always been uh, academic performance. And that's not to say some schools aren't doing well academically. Um but when you look at the model uh and being able to support teachers um being able to ensure that we're able to balance class sizes being able to ensure that um teachers are able to collaborate and to work together um those have been the chief concerns as we look at this. Uh but then as you all are here uh I looked online last I checked there was about 180 people online. I would highly encourage your continued engagement. The reason that we're here presenting this is so that we can now start the public engagement period. Um so that you can tell us what aren't we seeing? Uh what is it that we need to know? What is

168it that you have from your perspective? Right? That's that's what this purpose is. And uh I feel like it it hurts me when when I know that people think that they're being blindsided and that we're ignoring them and that we're not hearing them. Uh and unfortunately this process is is really kind of stringent and weird. Um but so is all things that are really formalized with the board. Uh but know uh that we have email, we have uh future board meetings, we have uh several um inerson meetings. They were listed. There was the three different meetings at the different locations. Um we want to hear from you. Uh I'll be attending each of the each of the meetings. Uh and even if you don't live in my area, let me know what you think. Um,

169but we want to hear from you and I just want to make it abundantly clear from one parent to another community engagement. >> Okay. Board, are there any other comments? U Mrs. Person, >> just a quick comment. This has been really hard. It's been a very long summer and the part that made it really hard is people guessing what they thought we were going to do. We were told you were told in the beginning and we didn't have a plan and if we just said hey we don't know what we want to do just tell us what you think we won't get anywhere. So we had to have a starting point by looking at all these different criteria and it um made it really hard on some areas that were starting to guess what they

170thought was going to happen and it was undue stress. Some of it may be true, but I bet a lot of the things you were guessing aren't necessarily what's on the board. Um, maybe they are, and that's okay. Um, we do want to have your input, but I'm glad that we have this opportunity now to tell you what we've tried to put together for you. It's sort of like when you ask your kids, "What do you want for Christmas?" And you have a list. Not saying that this is Christmas, but I'm just saying that sometimes you need input to kind of narrow things down a little bit. Although you know what you think you your kids want and usually that's what you will get but it's nice to have some input. We needed to come

171up with a tenative plan that we can now discuss and it's not settled. It's not final. It is something that we need. It's a working document but this is the beginning. There was no secret that we were keeping away from you. We're literally just coming up with an initial thought. And this is our initial thought. And it may not be right. I I'm not saying it is, but it's something to start with. So now we have some options to look at and we can constructively talk about, you know, this part doesn't work for me, but this part's okay. Um, you know, we can move things around. There's nothing locked here, nothing permanent. And we have tried to be very very transparent with what we could sh tell you. We literally didn't have anything to share

172over the summer other than what you saw in their beginning slides and also the ones that you saw in May because the committee had to look it through or work it through and we're the people that are working and living in the schools and know the ins and outs and all those little things that sometimes as a parent you're not totally aware of. Not saying I know more than you do. I just am aware of some things that you know you may not be aware of. And we're more than happy to share those thoughts as we're having our conversations in our open houses. So, we're not we're not cutting people out. Actually, this is our invitation. Here we go. This is what we thought we'd start with. And now we need your input. We need

173your help. We need you to tell us what's working and what's not working. And we will appreciate being able to hear that, especially if it's constructive and not angry because you know what? We don't love it either. We don't. Um if we could leave the schools the way they exactly are, we would. But financially, we can't. And you do understand that our new buildings and our and our old buildings don't match up consistently. And so we have to look at what we need to do to make the our older buildings safe and um equitable for our education system. Small classes are great except when you can't have another teacher as a choice when you have one. How do you get those main I just feel for the teachers? You're bringing in special ed kids and

174ECC ACC kids and your regular classroom and you're one person. Having two teachers to share that load makes for a better educational system for all of our students because all of our needs can their needs can be met. So we had many many different things that we needed to look at. Um we have talked with principles but even they didn't know the plan. We just said,"Hey, if we were going to do something with your school, what would you recommend? What do you think or what are you not really happy about?" Um, if that happened, we didn't give them any ideas. They just talked about what would be their concerns if we did something with their school. So, we appreciate the input that they gave us and they're more than welcome to give us additional input

175all along the way here, too. We have met with teachers and we will be continuing if they come to the meetings to talk to them as well. It's really hard to get teachers all together in one spot because of all our different schedules. So before school started, we did meet with our teachers at the schools that are listed. So I just want you to know we really are being transparent. I promise deep down I could swear on a Bible. We really haven't hidden anything from anyone. And we really really are giving you this opportunity now to be able to help us out. We don't want to do this, but I think it'll be long-term the best thing for our district. >> Okay, Mrs. Oaks, >> thank you. Um, I want to thank the committee for

176all of the work that you guys have on this. I know it's been really intense and while most people have been spending time on summer vacation, you guys have sat through very long hours of meetings trying to figure out good solutions and possible solutions. And as I said, they really are open to feedback. Um, I want to point out, um, something that's important context to understand is several years ago the state audited Salt Lake School District and how many um, elementaryaries they had with low enrollment. And what the board had done in order to um, be fiscally responsible. And what they came back with was um pretty it was a difficult prognosis. It was that they had wasted millions of dollars and not closing schools and they really kind of had their hands slapped were

177um publicly embarrassed and um essentially chatted about the fact that they needed to be responsible and do better. Since that time all of the school districts across the state have paid close attention to this. We are not the only school district that has had to look at this because of decreasing enrollment. Um, and we've learned from the mistakes of neighboring school districts and and trying to make sure that we really are giving a very long runway and are trying to be transparent. Um, anytime you hear rumors about a school closure involving your child, I don't care who you are, it is extremely nerve-wracking. But until they had something that was a concrete proposal, they really couldn't present anything. And again, this isn't set in stone and it's absolutely we're going to follow the processes laid

178out by the state about how to be transparent and give people lots of time to be able to speak up. There are people in my community that are also going to be impacted by this and I already know of one that they will be definitely there at the hearing the night that um in for my area in particular. Um but I just want to lay that out as context. we are under an obligation by the state to make sure that we are using our resources appropriately and if not we get in trouble for that. Um, one thing beyond just the the home prices and the changes in and how the birth rates, it is important for all of us to be aware that when things like voucher bills are promoted in the state and our

179recapture rate of elementary schools hovers in the 60s or 70s, that impacts things. I know that um some of how the legislature would like to portray the voucher bill is that it's a win-win for everybody. I'm here to tell you that it's not. It does impact your schools. It does impact your class sizes and how many children enroll because people are being financially incentivized to take their children to other schools outside or to homeschool. and then that impacts how many children come into your classrooms and are able to help us have um a critical mass of students to make a school work. So, um I I didn't used to really fully understand that until I got into the weeds on this, but if you have the opportunity to speak with your legislators, please talk to

180them about that because it's not going away. And keep in fact they keep talking about increasing the funding on it and they have kept the funding veiled in such a way that it's being overseen by an out ofstate entity. So none of us as public taxpayers can even request grammar records to see how those funds are being spent. We have to account for everything everything in this meeting. But if you saw our budget book, which Leon is the master at, every cent is accounted for. When they are handing over double the amount of money per student to a voucher student, we don't know where that's going. And there have been many reports coming back statewide of it being used for things like trampolines, ski passes, and a lot of other things. That's money leaving your

181child's school to go into a homeschool or private school situation. So again, I'm a very strong believer in parental rights and the ability for every parent to be able to educate their child according to the dictates of their conscience and what they believe to be right. But I also believe that it's important that when public taxpayer dollars are being spent that those should benefit public schools and that it should at least be accounted for and transparent to the public. Um so again, we wish that we weren't having having to have this conversation. It's not what any of us would propose. Um, but we also have a public duty in order to make sure that we are following the guidelines and statutes that have been set forth by the state in terms of making sure that

182um we're being fiscally responsible and part of that includes closing schools for enrollment that falls way under critical mass. So, I hope that you come back. I hope you sit down and to Karen's point, write what you have to say. We're here. We're We're here on the same team. We're not trying to hurt anyone. We really are here because we care about kids and we want your kids to be well educated. >> Okay. Um, I just want to thank all you parents that are here and um, we we just like others have said, we wish we weren't here, but we feel like a responsibility that we really need to do what's best for students, what's best for our teachers, and um, what's best also for taxpayers. And um, and it's a it's a hard thing

183to be here really. I I'm the only board member that has lived well been on the board through boundary changes and other than co it was the hardest thing that I went through. So So I I I understand it's hard and parents they love their neighborhood school. They do. You guys do. I know that. And change is really hard. Um I just want to emphasize that this is just the first step in this process. Okay? This is not us making a decision. This is notifying notifying parents so that you guys can give us feedback and we don't have to take all these recommendations. We can tweak stuff. We can take some stuff off but this is just the first step so that we can get feedback and um you know all of us up here

184are parents or grandparents and we do really care about our schools or we wouldn't be up here. Um I think that's Mrs. Nyar. She she wanted to come and she wanted to come and speak. She's been on Zoom, you guys. Um but she wants to be in person to say something. Um so I will let her talk and then we will um then I will entertain motions. >> Thank you so much. I was listening by Zoom. I really appreciate all the comments that have been said. I want to thank the long range planning committee. This is a difficult topic to task and it is something that we have known is coming and something that's been of major concern especially because we don't take this lightly and I listen to all the patron comments and understand

185and actually went through a a boundary change with my elementary school kids in Tennessee and it was very difficult and I understand what that feels like. I I wanted to point out and I think Miss Patterson did a good job of explaining that it is not only a fiscal decision but that it can be difficult for us to run the programs as we need to when our numbers are dropping when we have numbers down to a certain level. We get funding from the state that's called WPU, which is weighted pupil unit. And the children, if they're in the chair for a c a certain percentage, then we get a certain amount for those children. And so schools that have a lower enrollment, we're getting less from the state, but we're still trying to run all

186those programs. So then that school we're subsidizing more money for as well, if that makes sense. So we have to put more from our pot that it doesn't come in from the state to try to provide the same amount of programs. So because we have a certain amount of, you know, a finite amount of funds that then will negatively impact another area. So that's one difficulty. And then I really appreciated how Miss Person talked about the different special programs with um nontypical neuro children. I think that um the the goal here is to provide all the programs so all the kids can um have a fulfilling school experience and we focus on whole child. Um, another point that I think is really important is when we can't provide enough um, different class options. What can

187happen is it can be the same kids moving almost in a cohort situation year after year after year, which can be difficult for their socialization, especially once they get to middle school and it's so much larger. So that provides opportunity also um for them to be able to you know get to know new classmates and peers and um so I appreciate what we're trying to do here and I am very interested to hear all the recommendations from the public and if you have great ideas and look at it and and come up with another option for us I would be so happy to entertain any of those as I'm sure any of the board members Um, I really appreciate this process. I think it was already stated by Leon, but we have provided um, and

188we try very hard at Canyons to provide a lot of transparency and communication. And last May, even before that, when we were discussing this as a board, one thing that we all said is, let's involve the public as soon as possible. And that's why in May, we put out that these are the things that we're talking about. And I know it's very difficult when um when there's been a summer and and we had some discussion about that. So we talked about how we want to give notice before the summer months so that people can see it. Um and then of course we have this whole process uh where we can gather more input. Um as far as West Draper, I need to bring that up. I know that's less impact than the other things we're

189talking about, but I do represent that area and I know we're looking at discontinuing the buses for Indian Hills and I I know the difficulty um when I first ran for the school board over five years ago, I met with some West Draper parents and one of their largest concerns was that the way their boundary is is their children go to a different middle school than they do high school. So, it's Mount Jordan and then Ela. And so that was the thing that they were concerned about was um providing busing so that their kids could follow a cleaner feeder pattern um because they're part of Draper City and all the rest of Draper goes to Draper Park Middle and Corner Canyon. Their first choice would be able to go to those schools. And so it

190was in an effort of compromise that we did the busing to Indian Hills and then um having them go to Alta. and I I am very sensitive to um you know the thoughts and feelings of those parents and so um I'm I'm really grateful for this opportunity for input and public notice and just want to thank everyone who's been involved and hope that we can have more communication especially with the parents that are here. Thank you. >> Okay, thank you Mrs. Oaks. >> Yeah, I want to echo some of what Holly was just sharing. I have the same situation going uh Cranberry Hill neighborhood is one of my areas and they're very strong um Altah Hawks and same thing like there has been that whole crossover between them being boundary for Mount Jordan and yet

191their kids are zoned for Alta and so same thing this is definitely going to be something that is well communicate communicated with the community I guarantee we're going to hear from a lot of them and Um and they've expressed the same concerns that Holly's mentioning to me as well. >> Okay. Thank you. Any other comments board? >> Just a uh if I may present Mr. Wilox a couple things. >> One on the on the public hearing. So they are if you will pseudo board meeting. So we'll need the board >> at least a quorum attending each one. Okay. uh on the on those dates that we've listed and also too we know that some of those eight schools not heavily impacted by our decisions and many others but you know as with long range planning

192you know we're kind of almost looking as a step one u uh as you've all said we really really wish we were not in this we wish we were you know for years I've been here 17 years you know for most of those first 12 13 our enrollment was very very consistent and then we even before co we started to see these drops and they've just grown and grown in the last couple years. So we know that this is probably just step one and we'll probably be back here whether it's one year or two years or three years in in making other recommendations moving forward. So, we want to just let the public know that uh we do there are forecasts out there for elementarymentaries as I put up there on the earlier slide. We're

193roughly 12,500. We do see forecasts getting us down into close to 11,000 in the next, you know, three, four, five, six years. So, that's something that we will have to watch moving forward. Again, we wish we were not in this position, but that is something that is that is out there. And also want to note that I know I went through these slides uh fairly quickly. I I know that we will be putting out interactive maps as soon as uh tomorrow so people can you know put in their address and see where you know if they are impacted by this see what the boundary would be and where they would go for that. Okay. So we do know we went through this fairly quickly but that will be available on our website site starting tomorrow.

194That's all. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Wilcox. Um, I will now consider a motion. If we are ready for that, >> I move that the committee recommends the board authorize the administration to provide official notice that it is proposed that Bella Vista Elementary School be closed and consolidated into Rididgerest Elementary and that a section of Ridgerest be boundaried into East Midville Elementary. Also approved notice for a public hearing to be held on Thursday, October 16th, 2025 at 6 PM at Bella Vista. >> Okay. Thank you. We have a motion. Is there a second to that motion? >> I'll second. >> Okay. Is there any discussion to that motion? Okay. Seeing none, I'll call for a vote. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay. That motion passes unanimously. Um there is now

195another motion. >> I'll go ahead and make that. So for motion um number two, the committee recommends the board authorize the administration to provide official notice that it is proposed that Park Lane and Granite be consolidated into one school and either Park Lane Elementary School or Granite Elementary School be closed. Also that one current section of Granite be boundaried into Willow Canyon and another section of Granite be boundaried into Lump Peak. also approve notice for a public hearing to be held on Wednesday, October 15, 2025 at 6 PM at Granite. >> Okay. Thank you. Is there a second to that motion? >> I'll second. >> Okay. Thank you. Any discussion to the motion? >> Okay. I'll call for vote. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay. That motion passes unanimously. >>

196I'll do three. >> Now, is there a third motion someone would like to make? I'll do three. >> Thank you. >> I'd like to make a motion number three. The committee recommends the board authorize the administration to provide office office. I think that's official. Notice that boundary changes could occur at the following locations. East Sandy Elementary, Glacier Hills Elementary, Albian Middle, Butler Middle, East Mont Middle, Indian Hills Middle, Mount Jordan Middle, Union Middle, Brighton High, Hillrest High, and Jordan High. Also approved notice for a public hearing to be held on Thursday, October 30th, 2025 at 700 p.m. in the Canyon Center at the District Office. >> Okay. Thank you. Is there any Is there a second to that motion? >> I'll second that motion. >> Okay, thank you. Is there any discussion to that motion?

197>> Okay, seeing none, I'll call for a vote. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay, that motion passes unanimously. Okay, thank you, Mr. Wilcox, for your presentation. And now we will go on to staff comments and we'll start with the superintendent. >> Yeah, thank you, President Shield. real quick. Uh also just want to thank the committee for all of their work on this and to Leon uh for his excellent work. And um too I just add uh my appreciation to Mr. Maldonado for his comments tonight. Um it's been just about a year uh since the passing of his son. So um it's pretty heartfelt for all of us, but appreciate his comments and big thanks to everyone here tonight that's that's commented. Um, I I just add, you know, I hope

198everyone will take this in the spirit of opportunity and and think about, you know, what can be uh in the future. And I kind of I mentioned this before, but I go back to uh what board member Millerberg used to say about the best predictor of the future is past performance. And um I I want everyone here to know uh that we're still committed to making sure our kids and our families have the worldclass education that that they've come to expect here. And uh I I don't see that uh changing. You know, our why is always going to remain. um the what and the how, you know, maybe looks a little bit different and I get uh h you know what that might mean that our our schools are center to our communities and our

199culture. Uh and we take that uh very serious. Uh but um I I hope that we can dig a little bit into the trust bank that the district has built up uh over the years. as it's mentioned, this isn't anything that we we want, you know, to do or or be part of or have to do, but um I hope everyone will will understand and just remember our commitment with you as parents uh that we want to deliver uh on that promise to our kids and we'll continue uh to do that uh and do what it takes to make sure that that we get there. So, I appreciate everybody being here tonight and and as mentioned, this is just the beginning. Uh, you know, we hope to have lots of feedback and and as mentioned,

200you know, maybe there are blind spots that uh we haven't, you know, seen or picked up on that we need to make some adjustments. So, thank you for all the comments. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Wilcox. The business administrator report. >> Yes. Thank you, President Schill. Just a couple quick things. As noted, uh, we did get into Eastmont today. Appreciate, uh, Hogan Construction, our group, Stacy Curtsall, and her team making everything happen to get in there. Appreciate the parents, uh, patience with us the last two weeks as they've been online. Uh, with that, we've also had around 150 students there every day in the auditorium and other uh, parts of the building. Uh, still a long way to go though in that building. And I just want the public to know that we still got

201a lot of flooring to do, mainly tile there. But if you haven't, if you get a chance, please go in and look at the classrooms. They really look good, especially the new LED light. I didn't realize how big of an impact that would have. And also, as I you know, as I noted, many of these buildings aging and one of the issues is the Hback in some of them. And it's just so hard to keep these buildings cool. Uh we are having issues at Ridgerest with a sensor. I know it went out today, building got pretty warm. We are hoping to have that in tomorrow and installed and then uh so that can get back to normal temperatures, but uh that is something that we are monitoring uh tonight and will be really throughout the

202rest of this week. Again, trying to keep our buildings cool and comfortable for our students. Uh that's all I have for tonight. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Wilcox. Um we will start with our board reports with Mrs. Nybar. Thank you. Uh I want to encourage all the parents that are here to participate in those public notice meetings and give us feedback and if you have any suggestions, we'd love to hear them. Uh I thank you to Miss Oaks to bring up the thought of it of the eye point. As many know, I'm a big fan of that. I think there's some awesome things we could do with that um with the logo and I think the kids would be really excited about that. I I also really would like the that there would

203be a branding that people will know right away that it's a school and it's an educational pursuit. So, I love the idea of like I Point Academy at Canyons or something like that. So, people know right away it's not a a tech industry, but that it is a school. Uh I think also um anything we can do with branding to help people remember that this is like CEK that was awesome. This is this is like this is CEK and beyond that uh what we hope to achieve and accomplish with this is going to be pretty monumental and transformative as far as education as a whole and especially public education and what we can do as far as providing experiences for these high school kids to then graduate and go straight out into industry so they

204don't um if they choose not to do higher ed. There's so many opportunities with cyber security and tech industry and AI and different things like that. Um the business school that we have there, a capstone business program. There's so many um things we can do. And then also very um a huge uh demand in the supply chain as far as electricians and diesel mechanics. Uh, actually I drive um a Yukon that is a a diesel engine and funny enough I've had a few issues lately and I have called so many you know I thought well I you know the dealership's always more expensive so I've been calling mechanics and would you know four different mechanics that I got all these recommendations from these auto shops they said oh our diesel mechanic just quit. So I

205know diesel mechanics is a big deal and that it's a dying breed of those that are doing that. So, I think we have great opportunities for these kids to go straight out into industry and even own their own business. They'll have that business sector part of their education as well. So, they can have their niche, whether it be electrician or home building or diesel mechanics or welding or whatever it may be, and they can go start their own businesses and be entrepreneurs. And I think that's so super exciting, all the things that we can do there. So, very excited for that. Um, so excited for this time of year. This is my favorite time of the year when the when school the school year is really ramping up and getting started and going to those

206Friday night lights and football and seeing all these athletes. Um the soccer and just gearing up for just a wonderful year for these kids. The musicals, they just had the triyouts. There's so many awesome events at our schools. And I think we just need to really capitalize on the fact that the best part about public school is that the public school is the center of the community. that your children have the opportunity to go to school with their friends and neighbors. So, please, as you review these boundary changes, let's make sure that we are including neighborhoods and that your children are still able to go with their friends and neighbors. I think that's so vital. And um that's it for tonight. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Lewis. >> Thank you. And I want to

207apologize. That was incredibly rude on my behalf. I've turned my phone off. Um to begin, uh over the last couple weeks since our last board meeting, I had the opportunity to uh participate in East Midville's back to school night. They had a brand new brand reveal that was a wonderful experience. They also had a brand new marquee that was opened. Um I want to share a story as well about my elementary school experience as kind of it relates to the boundary study. Uh my elementary school is boundared into two separate uh middle schools. Uh and close to the end of my time in elementary school, uh the middle school community came into our came into our grade band and split the class into who'd be going to one middle school and the other. And that

208created a permanent divide uh within the community in that grade band for the remainder of the school year. And an a very big consequence was that I had lost friendships spanning a majority of my childhood and for the better part of a decade just simply because they were drawn into a different boundary. This uh boundary will reunite and keep elementary and middle school uh schools whole and keep a our feeder systems into high school whole which will in turn be better for our students and our community altogether. Um that's just my own experience in a split elementary school. And to parents, please participate. This is just the beginning. you have the better part of 3 months to tell us and to tweak and to make different changes. Please, all of us are very open. Our

209most of our uh phone numbers and emails are on this the district website. Please, please, please reach out to us. We're we want to make this right. We want to do this right. So, please keep participating. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Edel. >> Got a couple different items. First, I want to thank everyone who came out tonight, everyone who spoke, um, but also everyone uh, who will be participating in this process as we move forward. Uh, as a parent who was involved with the closure of uh, Belleview Elementary, want you to know that I do care about community input. Uh, and I do really want community input. For my other note, my heart goes out to the families of 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old Harper Mayoski who are tragically shot and killed by a deranged

210gunman along with those injured in the entire Annunciation Catholic School community in Minnesota. Here in Canyons, we've led the way in fortifying schools. The state has even mandated safety measures after we've implemented them. That's the type of leadership that saves lives. And yet, while we all know, while we all know that trained law enforcement is what stops shooters, the legislature still insists on putting the burden on secretaries, janitors, and copy aids, giving them a gun instead of giving us real officers. That is reckless. That is unacceptable. We have a responsibility to act. I hope that my fellow board members will join me in committing to fund real law enforcement in our schools. We will not gamble with the safety of our children. And to the legislature, I'm asking every parent, every teacher, every voter listening,

211hold them accountable. Demand full funding for properly trained law enforcement in every school in Utah. Not just canyons, every school, every student, every family. Okay, thank you, Mrs. Oaks. >> Thank you for that. Um, I had the opportunity to, uh, attend the middle school, Draper Park Middle School, um, team and Corner Canyon team and al actually had Ela and some of the other teams as well. um mountain bike race in Haramman and it was at Butterfield Canyon and I couldn't help but think about Mont there tonight, our former board member who passed away unexpectedly. How long has it been? Over a year and a half, two years ago. Yeah, a year and a half ago. Um his son was instrumental in getting those uh trails up and going and useful for the community. And so

212it was so joyful for me to see so many of these kids out there doing this. I mean, um, my son participated. He was terrified. It was his first mountain bike race. He had just broken his arm two weeks before mountain biking and and he was nervous, but it was an incredible experience to watch each of those kids. And I love how that sport is incredibly um supportive of everyone. It doesn't matter what school your child is a part of or represents. Um they cheer for everybody and you're really just racing against yourself. U so that was a really fantastic thing and I you know give a shout out to all of those parents and members of our community who take the time to volunteer in um organizations like that um and benefit so many

213other kids. It's it's such a wonderful thing and I couldn't help but think about the fact that it was a great representation of so much of Mont's legacy, too. Anyway, he should be really proud of his son and what has been left for lots of kids to enjoy in the years to come. It's a lot like public ed. Um the teachers that are in there working so hard for our kids, they're benefiting generations to come. So, thank you for everything that you're doing. I hope that um the beginning of the school year proves to be a good one for for our teachers, for our students, for our parents. I don't know about you parents, but I'm still getting ready, you know, used to the morning routine again. I don't know why it's so hard every

214time, but it is. I I sigh a big sigh of relief every time all of the kids make it out the door and I'm like, "Another one down." So, we're all in this together. I appreciate you. Thank you again for coming. all of you who who came, it's clear that you're interested in your kids' well-being and they're lucky to have you. So, thanks. >> Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Dolly. >> Thank you so much for coming tonight. This is what makes Canyons great is to have parents that are involved and that care and are passionate about having good quality public education schools. And so, we appreciate you. I'm grateful to be a part of Canyon's district and to be able to witness the great things that are happening in and out of our classrooms every single

215day. For our administrators, for our teachers, for support professionals, uh our transportation facilities, our even our volunteers, and our parents, this is what makes us the best district. And so, we appreciate everyone's effort as we we chip in. Even as we have to do hard things, uh just know that that we are here with you. you're with you on the same team working to try to solve these problems. I'm thankful to my fellow board members and all of their selfless efforts and willingness to tackle hard subjects. Their number one focus is always helping our students to succeed to their their fullest potential. Just remember, we we are humans, too. We're not infallible. We're trying our best. And so, have some grace with us as we work through this process together. um that we can solve

216solve some of these tough issues. Uh thank you to our Eastmont community for their patience and their sacrifice as they had to start school virtually for the first two weeks. And thank you and have a good night. >> Thank you, Mrs. Patterson. >> There's been so many good comments. Um I appreciate Katie's and and Jackson's experience that he was sharing that that's very helpful for people to hear those things. Um, I had the opportunity today, of course, to go welcome our Eastmont students back again, but I have spent time over the summer going through the building repeatedly to see how it was progressing. And we were really kind of concerned it wasn't pulling together as fast as we were hoping it would be. The ultimate goal will be beautiful. It's going to be as nice

217on the inside as far as physical ability, you know, physical facilities. Let's say that. um as any of our other middle schools. It will have that new shiny penny look. Um but what's even more important is that Eastmont already has quality teachers and quality instruction. We're just making an environment where they feel supported and welcome. The teachers are already above and beyond working for our our students and spent some of them spent their time this weekend just getting the classrooms clean and ready to go for today. I know this that Stacy spent all weekend all three all three days she was over at school working to get the school ready. She's amazing. Um, I was impressed that she was able to have 150 of the students at the school working on computers doing what everyone

218else was doing at home with teacher support in the same classroom and they had a routine and and it was going so beautifully. Um, they felt supported, they felt they were safe, they were watched over and to have her provide that opportunity was amazing. That wasn't something that the board asked her to do. that was her solution to how can I best support these kids because the kids matter. And they had the special ed kids over in a different section. Um and then they had some oh actually those were sent over to the life skills building where they got they had the extra support that way physically because our building wasn't adapted for their wheelchairs or whatever that happened to be. But I was so impressed. And then today as they were coming in, we

219had Jordan High School um cheerleaders and um pep band cheering them on a red carpet, balloon arch, cannons, and they all died. They were so embarrassed, which was great. Don't you love being able to embarrass? No, some were so excited, but some of them were going through, "Oh, you're paying attention to me." Um it was really, really fun to see how excited they were to come back into the building. It will take the rest of the school year to get the building 100% up and and ready to go, but there will be a grand open house when that happens. And I hope the community will come and be able to see that. But I wanted to thank once again as she's had a lot of of compliments, but I truly know how much Eastmon means

220to to Stacy Kursals and her faculty that those kids are their number one concern and that they are providing the best education possible in their in their roles. I also was given the opportunity to go to Entrada High School. I don't know if you know we have an adult high school. It's not a GED school. It's a high school. These are kids or adults. They're adults 18 years or older who've decided that after they've dropped out of school, they want to come back and graduate from high school. These are the kids we've lost and they have chosen to come back. The graduation at the end, we have couple hundred K kids. I always call them kids. Anyway, couple hundred adults and all their families at the graduations. That's one of the most joyous times I've

221ever seen when these parents show their kids that they can do it. We had them all the way up to a grandma who graduated last year with her granddaughter together. It was just it's just a phenomenal place. And I don't think a lot of you knew that we have not only an alternate high school for kids that struggle in the regular schools, but we actually have a high school for adults who've dropped out who want to graduate from high school. It's a full G. It's not GED. It's a full diploma. An amazing thing. There are so many things that we're able to do for our community that I don't know if everyone ever kind of gets told about those, but it was such a fun thing. It was the first time we'd ever had a

222welcome back with the arches, and they were thrilled. That was so much fun. Um, uh, I did want to mention about our our new building, the innovation center, that not only are we building for our high school students, but down the road once we have this this running, this will be moved, we will be putting in place classes and and instruction from kindergarten all the way up to feed these kids with the skills and abilities to be able to be entrepreneurs and business people so that they will be able to graduate with skills that they can go and get a job and then pay for their own college if that's what they want to do. Or is that going to be their career? That just may be. They may do just super super well. So

223this isn't just something we're doing for our high schooler. It's just kind of a nice little pet project over on the side. This is a long-term goal for our students, all of them handy, you know, the disadvantaged students as well. We haven't developed it. We don't know what it's going to look like, but that's our goal. We're really looking as far forward as we can. Um, and I just want to thank the parents once again for being here and for being involved and caring. We get so overwhelmed with so many things that are going on and you took the time to be able to come and see what we're introducing in person and online so that you will have factual information to discuss with your communities and not just rumors that you may have heard.

224So we appreciate you being here and helping to be the advoc advocates for our students. So thank you again. Um, we look forward to your comments in the next however many bill links. It's actually almost four months of input. Um, because it's only September 2nd, so you have September, October, November, and December. That's four months of of input. So, we're looking forward to hearing from you. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. Um, I just want to thank Mr. Maldonado for coming. I really appreciated hearing about the foundation they've set up and how they are trying to help other kids. Um, and I really do love that kindness conquers hate. I think I think that was a is a great message. Um, I want to thank the superintendent for holding the PTA and SEC lunchons. There

225were a lot of parents there and we had some really good discussions. There were a lot of questions and I really do think we have some of the best parents in our district and that is what makes our district so great. So, and I also want to thank again the parents that are all here and the ones who spoke and um we look forward to hearing more from you guys. Um I do want to end by apologizing to Jackson for saying he was a parent because I said we're all parents up here. Anyway, sorry Jackson. Um but he is a recent student and so he actually has a very valuable um perspective I think. So anyway, with that I will end the meeting and um thank you and this is the end.