001It's a pleasure to be here tonight. Um, the last time we were here was October of 23. So, the annual award is just a little past. We were going to be in November, we got moved. We were going to be in January. I had eye surgery. We were going to be So, now we're here. So, we've got some great updates for you. A lot has changed. We've got some new board members. We've had some great things happening. So, we're happy to come and report to you tonight. I brought with me tonight our board president, Fred Lowry. We're going to kind of tag team through the presentation. I've also brought um my intern for this year who I want to say she has been amazing, Michaela Snow. Um and so we're happy to have her with
002us tonight as well. So I'm gonna let Fred start with a little bit about our board and what makes up the Kenyons Education Foundation board. And I hope that you'll all give Michaela a big pat on the back. She's been amazing helping the board. and helping and it is a privilege to be able to serve on the assignments I have. This is making a difference. And the reason why it's not only because of what an amazing district we have and the students and things, but the the board and the people that are engaged with wanting to help this district is really quite incredible. You know, this is our executive board and Quinn Sperry's here. Glad to have you here. And of course, Amanda Morton and Brad Snow and Landon Butter Bradfield. But then if you
003scroll, we have 27 members uh on the on the board right now that are really engaged. I think of the years that I've been on the board, this is the most engaged board that we have. And what's exciting is that we have some great interest with the innovation center coming about. We've got great business leaders that are shown interest in wanting to help support the foundation. And we're looking forward to having some additional members be a part of the board. And so with the this board, we can talk about some of the great things that we've been able to do. Go to the next slide. maybe talk about the financials first and then we can talk about some of the fundraising things that you've been doing. Love to. And I also want to thank Katie
004for being on um the exeicio member as the board of education member on the board. We love having you as part of that um and being part of our foundation board. It's always exciting when we have our foundation board meetings and we have a full group that shows up and are engaged. They're either on the phone or they're there in person and we really love the impact that they're having. So, and I think with that, we appreciate the support from the board and you support these events. There is one thing though, Katie, it would be helpful if you wore Birkenstocks at the meetings because it's just not the same. You always had Birkenstock. I'll work on it. I got a couple pairs. So, so I did include um on board docs our financials and this
005was just the most recent financials that we have. Um the main number I want you to kind of just take a look at right now is the total assets as of May 1st. And if you look at the financials that I sent over, it's just a little bit different because that's how the foundation runs from one minute to the next. We're getting donations in. We're sending funds out. And so our actual um total assets right now are 2,57,750. just that is we're very happy with that number. Um the way that we get donations in is cash donations come in through private donors through our partnerships and advertising. This includes the banners and the bus advertising that you see. Those funds come in and allow the foundation to use those community and business partners. And then
006we also um put out for grants to get in. So we have two types of funds that come in, the restricted and unrestricted. So if a donor says, I want this to go to Corner Canyon football program, then that's where that donation goes. If they wanted to go to Corner Canyon football program for Joe, no, we don't do that. We can say on behalf of Joe, he raised some funds, but donations do not go to a particular student or to a particular teacher. um or yeah teacher it can go to a teacher's classroom or to a program. So unrestricted funds that come in that's all of our fundraising dollars that come in then we're able to use those for what is needed. A lot of our donations that come in are for family support. People
007want their donations to go for the students in need but will go for food and clothing and things like that for McKenna Vento students. So that's what we do with the restricted and unrestricted funds. We also have a couple of endowment accounts out there. The main endowment account, the 530 809 is the foundation endowment account that we add to every year. So we take 10% of our net profits from our fundraisers and add to the endowment. And that's so we can continue to sustain the programs that we're working on. So that has grown. And then we have a scholarship endowment fund. This one is for the Fairborn family. It has 4,000. So if anybody wants to donate a certain amount of money, you can then put it into an endowment fund, use the interest to
008help pay for scholarships for other programs. We're going to have two more endowment funds that will be added. Actually, three more this next year. The Millerbergs are doing a donation for a scholarship to go on and then also the Jorgensson will be going into an endowment fund. The other kind of donations we get in, we get a lot of inind donations in. So, um, talking food, clothing, hygiene items, school supplies, cars, sewing machines, I mean you name it, people want to donate it. So, the thing we ask for the schools like if someone wants to donate a bicycle or a wheelchair to a school and they want some sort of tax credit for that. We make sure that the principal sends us notification, we received this at the school, this is the value, they send
009it to us and we can log it in as an in donation. The main reason that we ask the larger donations to come through the foundation is that we can give that contribution form to the person. So if they just give their money um to a classroom project, they don't run it through us tax time every year. I have people call me and say, "But I gave." And I'm like, "But you didn't come through us." And so through us, we're able to give you that contribution form. So that's why we kind of ask that through our district. One of those in kind donations, Denise, that I don't know if many of you saw where you taught jazz shoes that were donated. Did many of you see all those shoes that got hundreds of pairs of
010Donovan Mitchell shoes? Donovan Mitchell moved on. His shoes stayed. We got them. We get We have It's so fun to see what's in our closet. You just never know. We've got a whole little storehouse down there. Um, so we handle all of those that come through. So, just um I wanted to let you know that if you have any questions as we go along, please let us know. But I think now we'll kind of talk about how we get these donations in. So, with the fundraising that we do, um and I don't we talk about all these inkind donations, the the value on that is incredible. And I I want to compliment Denise on the way that she she finds different ways to to get things for that resource closet. I mean, I I think
011it's through her connections that the Jazz donated those shoes and she does a great job on all of that. One of the things that she maximizes is the donor's shoes program. I think it's close to 800,000, but that's through matching. So, it's almost about 400 and something thousand that we've done. But with the matching those funds that always stays on top of that, that really helps. Of course, we have our gayla that I think some of you participated in. We raised about 90,000 this year and that was without even doing the silent auction which was amazing. That was a a record for us amount that we raised. Of course we have our golf tournament every September and that is a fun event. We have our fun run that we had last year. Next uh this
012coming Saturday we have a pickle ball tournament and we're interested to see how that will come about. also with the donation drives that we do, the back to school events and the day of service donation drives. The other thing that's been helpful with those, and Jeff, I think you've been very helpful with those too, is we've gotten we've gotten some TV spots with that to be able to promote that, promote the scholarships and different things like that that have been very helpful. Then, of course, there's also the gathering for good and the holiday donations. How many gift cards do you give out at Christmas time? Probably 20 to $30,000 worth every holiday season for students in need. What's been nice with that too is that last couple years we've done more of those gift cards
013and it wasn't as much scrambling for staff here and I think it actually made it more impactful. We used to go and buy get what every student would want and then we would take board members and our staff and we would go and buy and wrap and it looked like Santa's workshop in my office for a month or so. But now we get um the gift cards and we ask the schools to go and purchase the items because they know the students better and so it's a way for us to without giving them the gift card directly allowing the schools some control over that as well. So that seems to help. So between golf Gayla, fund run and stuff. We bring in well over $200,000 for our fundraisers that we do every year and donation
014drives and inind donations are probably another 150 to $200,000 in just inind donations that we facilitate. And with the donor support with that, I think this is helpful. You probably know a lot of this, but I think it's good to see if you look at the different organizations that have donated the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, that's only been happening for the last couple of years, um, which has been a great help. The Ron McBride foundation, I think it's worth mentioning them all because Lone Peak Hospital has been a more active donor last couple of years. Cypress Credit Union and America First Credit Union and support for a long time. The Larry H. Miller the Miller family is amazing and you know we have one of our board members that's part of
015the Larry Miller companies which has been very helpful. Shills is always right there and Walmart great job and then with the legacy giving that we have I think that's an area that we're going to continue to try to emphasize even more as we get more people involved. You know there's all different ways and then this largest. I wanted to point that out specifically and and you know at this one because we came to you with the request for Jordan High School for this donation. Um but it is a longtime Canyons Education Foundation board member and between the scholarships, the teacher awards and then the what he wants to do facilities wise at Jordan High School, he has given the foundation um over $700,000 just from a donor who is on our board. So looking that
016we started thinking about legacy giving and he's already set up a charitable remainder trust for when he passes for a substantial amount of money to the foundation again. So got thinking about that and thought there's probably other people out there who would want to do that um who love their school and school meant a lot to them their high school or elementary or a teacher. So, we're going to push this a little bit more from the foundation and let people know that we are happy to help facilitate that. It's kind of long range planning. You hate to we call it the happy funerals when somebody leaves you something. But other foundations around the state are doing a lot of this legacy giving. And so, we want to make sure we tap into that as well.
017I'm going to talk to you about how we use the money that we give in. First thing is how we give to students. And you all are aware of our resource closet. Got a portable outback. I have a couple closets downstairs. We filled over 2,000 requests just this year alone for all the items in our resource closet. Those uh requests come in through school administrators. So, principals, social workers, nurses, um they do the requesting because they know what the families actually need. They'll come to us, we'll go and fill, send it back to the school, and let them give it to the families. So, the families aren't interfacing with us directly. It's still going through their schools. We talked about the holiday support. You know that we've jumped in big time with unified sports. Michaela
018and I were at the unified sports tournament over at Mount Jordan Middle School today for middle schoolers, soccer. Um, so we have helped fund those tournaments for them. That's been a wonderful thing. We love the unified sports and that we've done. We always help with our McKenna Ven students. Whatever they reach out to us, we will help them however we can. Um we always make sure that they do a fund back to school night which we fund uh Utah college application month. It's not as big as it used to be because Utah colleges are now covering a lot of that. But we never want that to be a barrier for students. So we will pick it up. This next one is one that has increased dramatically over the years and that is scholarships. So we
019changed our bright star and rising star to Canyon Strong scholarships. We felt like that better embodied the spirit of what we were doing. So this year we gave a Canyon Strong scholarship to every high school for one of their seniors as well as Entrada. Then we have our AC scholarships which are for employees. We also give one to a student. That's a $5,000 scholarship to become a teacher. But the bottom line is where we facilitate that number. When even like when I last presented, I looked at my numbers was around $53,000. We now facilitate over $100,000 in scholarships. So these are private donors who ask us, they give the money to us, we send out the letters, we do the certificates, we do all the awarding. So, that's been a big kind of add-on to
020us, but making sure that those scholarships get handled. And then we also have a lot of people who want to help with lunch debt, but rather than going into the schools, they send it to us. I work with Sebastian and we help handle school lunch debt around the district. So, that's how we're helping our students. And I'll let Fred talk about how we give to our educators. You know, I love the mission of the educational foundation. I know it sounds like an elevator speech, but you know, as you all know, it's about enhancing the educational experience for the students and the teachers. And I what we do to help these teachers, I think, is is amazing. You know, over $100,000 in scholarships we facilitated, but we've been giving out close to $100,000 a year in
021the teacher innovation grants. So it's over a million dollars now that we've given out those teacher information grants which or that's is that's the second most exciting thing to do is that fund bus. The first exciting thing it's actually the one that gets to your heart is when you read those applications for the Canyon Strong scholarships and see how these students so much. But we have amazing teachers in this district. You guys already know that. But for some outside when you go to the us and you deliver those checks and you see how engaged these teachers are and you see how much the students love them. It's uh it's inspiring. And so the teacher innovation grants one of the ways that we help the donors choose. We talked about how we've had those matching funds.
022The teacher of the year awards um 32,000. I didn't I knew we gave a lot as I read that I didn't realize it was that high. It's amazing. Then of course we do the new teacher event each year. I was telling Denise, I felt like we just had a new teacher. I don't know how fast the school years go by so quickly. And then the ace scholarship I'm I as for my input, do you guys see that catching on employees to be able to increase more get more understanding of that? I I hope I hope so. I know last year they communications did a big push. So hopefully Ace. Ace. Yes. And it's more than more than doubled this year. I see. That's awesome. It's like 25 of the 48,000 in growth that you've received
023in scholarships. So, I think it's significant. We'll continue to grow for sure as people see like what a difference it's making. Deliver those to a PAR educator or a support person. Um, we had a school secretary this year and they I mean they're in tears. I think every one of them were in tears because it's it's their life dream to become a teacher. Um, and then our student one as well. So, giving four of those this year was fantastic and we are going to keep pushing our employees. If you can just give a dollar, a couple dollars every paycheck, we need that to continue this on. Um, and so, yes, we we love that program. Take us to the finish line. All right. So, um, engagement relationships. Uh, one thing I do work closely with,
024um, our community schools. Those are all of our title one schools and the schools that they on out from there. Um they help with the resource closet tremendously. So I love being able to work with them and our McKenna Vento. So state and federal programs. Um the state external relations department can I not include them? They help with everything. Our department is been by there. It's always something going on. but they help the foundation, our podcast and our social media post and doing articles and helping us get the communications out. Um, again, I said we work with state and federal programs, student support services, Brian's here. We've helped with mental health initiatives for them, nursing, we've done some things with nursing, special education, of course, unified sports, and we help where we can in other
025departments. And then our main goal is to continue to engage the business and community um and let them know about Canyon City Foundation and how they can support the schools in their community. A quick update here. Um there's been some rumblings about there about making sure everything is transparent and out. So we make sure that our board has the required trainings by the state. We do open meeting act, the governmental nonprofit board member training. So we ask all of our board members to do that. All of our agendas, minutes, and recordings are on the Canyons Education Foundation website as well as the public notice state website. So we are trying to be transparent, let everyone know what we talk about in our meetings, what we have. So this is kind of making sure that happens.
026a special thanks to my colleague and again it's just um an honor and a privilege to do the work that we do for school district and for the board of education. So we're happy to answer any questions that you might have. Are there any questions? Okay. Well, if not, um I just want to say thank you from the whole board. We really appreciate all you do and it is amazing and that the last gayla was so much fun and awesome. I hope some people are going to do the pickle ball on Saturday. Some great prices. So anyway, thank you both. Thank you. We're gonna switch up the agenda a little bit and we are gonna go now to the Canyons Innovation Center update and Superintendent Robins is gonna lead that and we we want to
027welcome here and also architects right over there. Scott and Angela. Thank you, President Schill. Um I'm going to stay seated down because I'm having some weird kidney pains. So, if I have to get up and run out of here into the hospital, I hope you guys know where I'm drinking water. I'm drinking water. I think it's just swelling, but uh Okay. Can we We need to go back to the first the very first slide deck. a second. Um, so if you guys want to get one of these, so the first thing, uh, I wanted to just talk a little bit about, um, and this is just, uh, a brain dump that I've been working on in my office with Reed, just to I think it's always good to revisit our why and kind of circle
028back to, you know, how do these things h how do all of these programs, how does our philosophy, how does our strategic vision, how do these things connect, right? Because we're talking about so many different ideas, we're talking about so many different things, but at the end of the day, you know, how do we really relate that to our strategic vision and that alignment that gives us clarity and coherence and focus in our vision and and how we expend funds, right? I mean, can we can we truly look through that lens and say, "Yeah, you know, the the direction that we're going aligns to our vision. It aligns to the needs of our students." And and so that brings that clarity and that coherence instead of, you know, kind of getting lost in the weeds,
029which as we know, right, sometimes can be easy to do because there's so many needs. there's so many competing uh agendas and and needs and wants, but as I've said before, there's there's not enough resources. So, we have to be judicious in how we think about, you know, what that that looks like. Pull that up. This deck, there's two there's two decks. Are you talking about the innovation deck? No, this No, that's what I just gave him. It's this guy right here. April the 15th. Um it's on board docs on board docs to begin. I don't know that I got it. So let me get second. Um so two parts. The first slide deck is from our April 15th uh planning session and um we'll kind of walk through some of the process there and
030some of the things that we we're still talking about planning. Uh and then also we'll look at uh the process that we went through to develop some of the renderings and spaces. So I think it's important that we get the full board caught up there. And just also want to tell Angela and Scott, MHTN and Reed, our whole team, uh just thank you for their great work and just continuing to kind of hone us in on our priorities is really, you know, what this is about. April 15th. So, um, all this right here. Sorry, I didn't mean to. No, no, no. You're good. You're good. You're good. Yeah. So, we we're going to get back to we're going to get back to this brain dump and how that relates, but let's let's jump right into
031this and and we'll fly high on this. We're not going to take a lot of time in it. you can go back and look at it. Um, but I want to get this out to you all as a reference point. And then another recommendation might be to do so that we really have time to dig deeper would be a full round table maybe in the summer, June or July. We have one we have one already scheduled for the first meeting in June. Perfect. Okay. If we need another one, Cindy's gonna send it to me because for whatever reason the clicker is not working with I can just if you want to just tell me I can run. Okay. Um, so we talked a little bit about where we've been. We've talked about the different places
032that we visited uh and getting that feedback. And these are just a few things that we've been working on um going forward. So you can see some of those. We're really really appreciate Kirsten's work. We're moving forward with uh naming and some branding. So uh we've brought on an external uh consultant to help us with that. And then just really appreciate uh Reed and Janet and Doug. They've still we're still visiting different sites. Uh we talked about uh Maricopa Tech Center. A couple of you have mentioned that you might want to go. that's coming up on the 19th and 20th. Uh I did follow up with um Dr. Murphy at Lowden and he indicated he said you're welcome to come but couple of things is it's his last week they're transitioning to a new principal.
033So he goes I don't know how how helpful I'll be and there's no students uh at the academy that week. So he said if you want to come back in the fall we'd love to host. I'll get you hooked up with our new principal and we can He just sent it to me. So, hey Rick, can I just say something? I think it's notable that the last part of why there's been a hiccup with Laven is because their former principal that we went to see just got snatched up by NASA. Yeah. So, I was like, okay, yeah, she's awesome. On the right track, I really hope that any board member that hasn't gone can really. And we're planning the fall, right? Yeah, we'll go. I was thinking like maybe early September, but the school's in
034and their new principal. School. Yeah. Okay. So, uh these are just some of the things that some of the topics that we visited on that day. And then um th this is another just little bit of my kind of overall uh thinking. And the thing that I want you to relate here is thinking about what we learned from our industry uh partner report and how that really interfaces and marries to our strategic vision. So when you're thinking about portrait of a scholar, uh you know, and it kind of goes back to kind of more of this flowchart that I shared with you, uh how are those concepts and principles that industry is, you know, really pointing to uh h how does that really marry with our strategic vision, right? And so thinking about how those
035those interface between kind of going back to both diagrams really dialing in on our why and then understanding the what and the how, right, to to make it to make it happen. And then you can see just I talk a little bit about our culture and and our narrative and the story that will be told at the innovation center and everybody that we talk to. And I I think you know it goes without saying we understand uh the level of what we're talking about here and the really the opportunity and time to do something so special that it it really is going to revolutionize and change education and the landscape in Utah and in our country. So we this is one thing that has moved forward and we're excited about this. So we're finally to
036a place where we're talking about uh clusters and programming which is very exciting right but uh this work as we know the devil's really going to be in the details and is not going to be easy right I don't think we we set out to be easy uh we set out to you know measure ourselves against the best just just like Kennedy said in his his moon speech and that's what it's going to take because many of these programs already exist in our high schools. Some of them are already housed at CEK. But how do we really build that runway and that articulation to give our students the very best opportunity to one experience high school and their high school credits and and moving metriculating forward, but at the same time gaining all the valuable
037skills uh necessary to really compete in industry as even as soon as high school. I mean, we saw with our uh junior women in business, I mean, these kids are amazing, right? They're they're graduating seniors, Monae, Amanda's daughter being one of them. To be recognized by South Valley Chamber as being real leaders uh when it when it comes to career readiness and and moving forward, I mean, that to me, that's kind of the, you know, that's kind of the goal. That's what we're that's what we're setting out to do. So, um the programs that are in white are current. Those are programs that we already have and the programs highlighted in yellow uh are are are being proposed at the innovation center. So you can kind of go through and you can see how we've
038looked at uh the structure and these clusters. And the exciting part about this too is as we're thinking about those spaces, I love how Reed talks a lot about collision points, right? and that hive mentality, the collision points of where industry, our teachers, our students collide in different spaces, you know, to really, you know, bring forward all of those ideas and that that great synergy and how they learn. and they can see how that crosswalks between one discipline to the other, you know, whether it's, you know, business or marketing or or whatever field they're in, they see how these things uh work together to to build their skills. So, we talked a little bit about what that might look like, right? These are just some highlevel uh drawings. You can see the the trades building
039down here uh on the outside. And then this is the first floor. We did this activity in different groups. I know it's hard to to read any of the titles. We we can talk about those in a minute. Then we've also been doing some cost analysis, right, of really uh Leon's been great at trying to just with MHTN projecting what some of those estimated costs are with some of those programs. So, these are this is just a different uh look in how this might play out. And at the end, we we did come up with kind of a fourth um rendering and we'll talk about that. I think actually has some great potential uh as well as as some of these. So the second floor you can see uh mostly the health sciences. That's this
040space down at the bottom. Um this is the third group. I I think one of the the highlights just to call your attention to if you're not already aware on the first floor on the top right there to the right uh we're kind of identifying that as a conference center. Um and and you think about Zion Tech, you think about Loud and you think about all of these spaces that we've been to um this common space uh for learning and showcasing our our students uh talent. So that that's one of the highlights uh that we're we're kind of looking at. So here's this is Zante Center. If you you went to the gayla, you'll recognize this. You can kind of see that open concept of what, you know, we've kind of been striving for when
041it comes to this type of meeting space. Okay. And then just thinking about uh some of the space and and what that actually might look like because we had some questions about what is actually the the square footage. So you can see um what what that might uh look like uh with the conference center and the inquiry lounge. And then you can also see there to the left you have our energy engineering uh one um there's a a maker space right at the top. Um on the left side is lab. So you can take you can see that. But this just kind of highlights the space square square footage. Again this is second floor and third floor. Right now just to update full board uh third floor right now uh we do not have that
042space occupied. So that would be used for potential growth. So again, um, just looking at what the conference space might look like. So we're talking about, uh, hosting up to approximately 280 occupants. So that that's an actual view of what that space might look like at the innovation center. And that would be without a second floor if I remember right. Is that correct, Scott? So that would open up And you can see be uh video walls high high technology capability. So to host different conferences and different setups. You can also see the partition there. I'm guessing that probably mobile um again this is the first floor. So you can see the pl the large conference room. That's the motors room. That's where we've been meeting just to give you a point of reference. Um, one
043of the things on the lab space you can see there and Reed's done a great job brokering this, but we are expecting a partnership with STEM action center. Um, if you've ever met Tammy gets, I mean, she's amazing and she is a fireball when it comes to steam principles and and really leveraging state resources and tools. And so we see that lab space and STEM action center being very much dedicated to this cause. You know, whether it's robotics or whatever topics that we we study there, they'll be a great resource to us. A couple other drawings. So um one of this is over in the um building with the auditorium. Um and you can see there the some of the things that we've highlighted. One of the things that you'll see in the final drawing,
044I can stand up here. Um, but this area right here at the top is the gym and we've talked about the potential of moving cosmetology into that space and that would free up more space in the trades building. We like that in that space because it's direct entry and exit to the to the parking to the road there. Um, you know, I Leon and I know this in the gym, at least since we've been there when uh even when eBay was occupying it. There's very few people, as much as I'd like to keep that space um which as an amenity would be great, but um that's also some prime real estate that would help, you know, not only provide that space for cosmetology and kind of that that health section that Holly's talked about before,
045but that would boost our tradesh space. as well where we could create more space and not have to expand the We'll talk we'll talk more about that, but you kind of see how that that's laid out in the amenities building. Okay. Um just some renderings. This is kind of cool. This gets me really excited. So, this is the entry point over here uh in the boomerang space. So, we're talking about potentially uh a a staircase right there. And that again that would be kind of our showcase area on the main floor. And then there would be uh space up top for classrooms. And then you can see the conference room and the inquiry lounge are adjacent. And then administration offices. Muller's room that we start into our business and technology space. So this is what
046it currently looks like. This is a rendering from MHTN of what it could be, which I I think you know would be amazing. So this again would would be that hallway heading to amenities. So this would be kind of a showcase area that our students work side by side with industry to showcase their great work. Then of course you have this large video wall and kind of sweeping staircase that goes upstairs. Then you come around here. This is this would be our industry partner uh wall that would showcase all of our partnerships and then it would move into the conference center. But you see some of the robots and some of the things going on in that space. Pretty exciting. Um just a few exterior drawings too to I I think it's just super exciting
047to think about. So again, this is the entry um that we just looked at. But you kind of see this this open type column area that would would allow just for more uh light. But you can see some of the retrofitting and just updating the the saw outside. This is another look at it. You can see kids working with drones out in that that courtyard area. Um, this was an interesting discussion in our uh planning session. So, this is a first just a first highle look at the trades building. So, we all had different opinions that some said, you know, I I won't repeat everything that was said about but but I love the innovation and just the SP. I kind of thought, man, be kind of like the zoo. You're on display while you're,
048you know, doing stuff, but and like piece of metal flew or something that might cause a little bit of damage, but sort of that. Very high-tech. Interesting. It never happens. So, yeah. But but it's exciting to kind of see some ideas. Um you know, rather we land on anything like that. I I just I I love the just the feeling and the tone that it's kind of setting. Uh one thing that it says to me that, you know, if I'm a a trade student is that we really value that great work that they do, but we we also need to really think about what does that look like five years from now, 10 years from now. um what will AI and technology do that you know may change those industries how do we build out
049flexible u spaces so that as it changes it it doesn't become a dinosaur and become extinct right so so these are all great ideas again this is at the front okay so this last part if we can go to that other slide deck real quick um couple things that that I asked Reed and Angela to talk about. Um, one of the things that that's important to us is is getting feedback from our CEKC teachers. And so, just for a a couple of minutes, yeah, I I asked them to just talk about a couple of things. One, input uh from our CEK teachers. Two, uh, program sizing. So, we do need to think about sooner than later. Um, you know, is the numbers in the space right? And and we'll we'll show you some of that.
050uh and is do is it going to require more than one FTE in in some of those spaces? I I think we want to be very thoughtful about what that might look like. So, I'll turn it over to them for just a few minutes and then we'll wrap it up for the questions. Any questions on or do you want to do questions on that first section or do you want to finish this up and um maybe let's finish it up. Yeah, let's finish up all together. All right. I'll go first and then Angela can get to some of the uh architectural and some of the feedback automatically like changing. Sorry, Sandy. That speed up. I'm not generally that currently. I had the pass around a little flyer so I don't forget it. That's our entrepreneurial
051showcase uh happening Thursday at CEK. So uh if you can make that that'd be great. I just came from sitting today with seven uh students out in Blue Valley caps all randomly selected but all uniquely get stopped so you can drive it. Oh I don't need I don't need that but thank you. but all uniquely prepared to be entrepreneurs. Then last night we sat at their culminating event, 10 students, all the same. So, my my my point on that is with the feedback we're getting, you know, I went over and sat with Nathan. Appreciate him being here, uh, home construction teacher. Uh, and, uh, he, uh, introduced me to Dylan German. German uh, graduated last year. He's already an entrepreneur. He's got his business plan. He's got uh a great marketing strategy. I'll show you
052at our next planning meeting. Didn't want to take the time, but the things he's talking is the same thing these students last night today are talking the Blue Valley. We have I'm so jacked if I can say that in bullet about this opportunity because it's like the superintendent said his vision with your vision and support. We're gonna make this something and and it's coming and it's going to be great. Um you know uh I met with I brought a guy in a coin. It's Terry Thorne. He's the producer of Rugrats. He produced the first 65 episodes of Simpsons. We had him out for an industry thing and met with uh our animation teacher up at CEK and then took him around the district. This is some of his stuff if you want to just glance
053at it. I showed him the center and he was so pumped and everybody I brought took in there, taken in there, excuse me, uh has been so excited and uh here's our industry professionals. Uh we got the junior achievement. I'm meeting with them this week. superintendents already laid the groundwork there. Um, uh, we, uh, had the CEO of Alpha View out. Um, and they're all so excited. We went to BD the other day with, uh, uh, Doug and kind of set up a an internship, laid the groundwork for that, as well as their input. They want to have more influx into our curriculum, which is a great opportunity. uh whether it be modular or whatever. Justin was with us with Terry. That was awesome, wasn't it? Yeah. And uh so we included everyone in that
054and you know we've got great input. Terry wants to be a partner. superintendent, you were Well, he one of the things that I just was so impressed with him is he talked a lot about um in his company's Wonders Media and and they work really want to get in the public sector with schools and they're they're really focused obviously they're focused on animation, right? But the thing that struck me the most and I don't know anything about animation, never studied it. I I couldn't draw, you know, a house if a stick house if I wanted to. But he talked a lot about stood on a whiteboard. The key what was fascinating he said the key to to animation to audio video production. It is not the actual technical side of it. It's important obviously but
055he talked about writing and he talked about music and he talked about voice over and character development. We had Emma Moss and Jonathan from uh uh Dr. group there and they were they gave great input and I think they enjoyed that. I don't know if they reported back to you, but uh so it's really coming together is the point. The the industry influence, you know, I know the board's talked a lot about how we're going to infuse that entrepreneurial spirit and uh skill building. You know, it goes right along with the five pillars of the portrait of a graduate that you've already established. You know, I really see that meshing together well. uh that the the entrepreneurial aspect of it. Uh Doug's working on some things in terms of specific directive and direction of training
056with teachers. They've already laid some of that groundwork. But we'll, you know, we're going to continue to flesh that out. But like the superintendent talked about, the real focus has been our our clustering and strands of programming. Um we you know the all all these people we take through the center they're just so excited to jump in and be partners and we're going to get that right and continue to produce uh Dylan's uh on a large scale but um so this is getting real solid real quick. So hopefully if you've got any input I I'll I'd be happy to take that. that you know our medical professions our uh you know design our emerging tech pathways uh it's going to work real nice with the center you know one thing that we've come back I
057haven't really heard there's any limitation on resources leon revelation from the super but um we've got some contingency plans uh Scott and Angela have been fantastic in terms of getting we got to get this right in terms of programming and students first and then fit that into resources. Uh and you know I love Charlie and Susan have been phenomenal at setting the table with industry and following up that uh Kirsten and her department. She's everything's working really well together and we appreciate all your support. So, any questions about specifics on that? I know covered a lot of things. I, you know, bounced around. Go ahead. So, my my question is this. Actually, I've been thinking about this as I've been researching more with AI and where it's going and education. Um, and I know we've
058had conversations like we have large weighing lists for certain subjects and we expand it. I really would love before our next round table discussion. I don't know who could do this, but if we could have someone do some research on on our current CEK programs and what industries they are predicting will be made obsolete in the next 10 to 20 years or drastically changed in terms of humans and how they interact. like I I really want to make sure whatever we are strongly supporting in this that we have an eye to the future of the kids being able to come up and and really have a job that where they're meaningfully employed in a world where a lot of things are being made obsolete all over the place. Does that make sense? Yeah, I I
059think that's uh critical. uh you know we've tried to focus on uh the the five to seven strands that are the most in demand. You know you you do I was talking with the blue valley people today. You plug in most of professions and uh one of the top ones is like child care and uh early childhood uh care. So I I I think we have to uh continue to do that. But yeah, we can we can certainly do that. You know, I the the hard numbers on our waiting list, I was looking at them uh tonight. You know, we have 91, for instance, our top waiting list is 91 in CNA, right? So you say, you know, we have 59 in uh MA, medical assisting. Well, you know, that that's like we better get
060more CNA. We better get more M. But you know, some of those are limited by the externships and the clinical hours that we can provide. And it's a balance with what exactly what you're saying, market. And what couldn't we do in terms of, you know, there there's certainly demand, but we've got to be able to scale that at a at a level that we can support in terms of the market, you Well, and I I think to your point like no matter what comes out of that research, I think it will be useful for us moving forward and understanding how we approach each of those y areas, right? I mean, if we understand what's coming, then maybe that's a good time for us to address at the CEK level or other other levels how we're
061going to adapt those courses to make sure that the kids are ready. I mean, it's here. It's taking over so many different industries already. It's a great point. You know, uh, uh, uh, Amber's, uh, group, uh, has been so great. You know, I've met with Emma. She, her and Jonathan are kind of spearheading their AI, uh, development. And so, Christy Yamada, the state has kind of agreed to support us in piloting that. and we're on a kind of trying to get a fast track going and really appreciate the work they've done in curriculum to this point. And then, you know, we've got to introduce that. My goal is by the time we open in 27 to have AI not only uh uh uh as a standalone, but then morph it into every uh strand area.
062Yes, for sure. So, how does AI influence you know uh the the health profession? So that that also I think you know thinking about one really leaning forward with curriculum but also thinking about leaning forward with structural modification. I mean I think we want to build in the ability that you know what I'm saying that in five years or 10 years we're not stuck with space that we went oh man if we just had thought forward enough that we build it out that way. Yeah. So I think to to your point uh Amanda is that uh we have a very adaptable uh uh projection over there. Uh and you know when you look at the trades for instance you know you we're going to put a hard structure in there that services the trades. Well
063there's always going to be jobs in the trades. Now, you know, the building can, you know, do a little roller coastering, but there's always going to be, you know, you've got to uh remodel. You've got to redo. And so everything everything we're doing has, I think, a substantial uh uh research base to it, but we can always uh try to project out further. You know, it's like uh 10 years ago, you know, I remember getting the data from um the uh gardener group up on at the U on population dynamics and what it was going to do to school population. I remember meeting in Davis with our people and saying, I don't know, we're kind of growing. But it's followed almost uh identically to their trend lines. and I we were all a little suspect
064then but it's so anyways uh any other questions? Yeah, Katie um just comment to what we're talking about here. I think this is awesome and the direction that we're going because this is what the state and national are seeing now is they want kids to be able to come out of high school and be employable and and more this trades education because higher education is getting really expensive and they're cutting the access to student loans. And so the more we can connect you these kids to jobs and and you know even starting like how can the innovation center be making money um using that space and things like that. I think always thinking about where where are we going and making sure that connection is very clear um with those like with the construction you
065know that you know getting them out and they they've got the skills and abilities to start work tomorrow if they decide to go to college or not. It's it's awesome. You know, just like what Dylan I saw with him. I had him mock up three PowerPoint slides. We'll show those next time in the planning meeting. But, you know, it we want him to jump in. You know, for instance, with CSDTV, you know, I took Terry out there. Now, this guy again, he produced the first 65 episodes of The Simpsons. He saw what Justin and and external relations have done with CSDTV and he was blown away. And when we plug that in to, you know, that hasn't been incorporated necessarily into our CTE pathways, but when we plug that in and give kids an experience
066with that type of media, they're going to be able to jump into industry at any point and be ahead or higher ed. Well, and even the crosscurricular like I like that you know Dylan student came and he's created a business plan but like making sure we're not operating in silos so they're not just doing construction design but now they're working with the CAPS program maybe in the business and even like CSDTV we've got this meeting space CSDTV can come and do the AV for a conference our hospitality could be providing the banquet food you know like ways to conversations we have with the superintendent you know Angela was there the other day and kind of, you know, was a great conversation we had with her. But yeah, you know, that that's the thing, you know,
067Dylan's uh experience, you know, when he's talking to me at the new construction they're doing. Uh like you said, the business students need to be listening to that. And that's one great thing about the center, you know, with the design and the flow. uh you know, we're gonna have better collision points and and and it's gonna really be something. So, any other questions? You want to hit you want to hit on those three real quick? Um so, I just wanted to catch everybody up on um where we've been and it really touches on these questions that are already coming up. So, I'm hoping that this can help educate the conversation. Um, so we've been using this um for our foundation for getting these programs into the building essentially. So, how many teachers do we need?
068What are the courses? What are the programs? We then broken it down. Um, and a lot of the the kind of the cost estimating that we did prior to this was based on the low and high square footages for each of these programs and then the type of renovation that that they would need. Um, as Rick talked, we we've been playing with different conceptual plans. Um, and as one program shifts, so do the other. It's like a little bit of the dance. And so that's what we're doing right now. we're dancing in the building and we're trying to figure out what are the right sizes for the programs um so that we can get the the dance just right. Um so what we've done is we've done a really deep dive over at CEK and
069with the teachers um we've given each of them a questionnaire. They've gotten those questionnaires back to us. We've sat down with them uh multiple times. We've toured the building, taken photos, and we're really trying to understand each puzzle piece as an individual thing so that we can bring them together. This this is a critical component, you know, if I can just add and and MHTN has been great with this in that, you know, uh these teachers are going to come and go possibly as as we all do, but they have unique insight in terms of what, you know, the the uh ideal would be. You only get one chance at that usually in your career and they're taking a good shot at it and and we want to accommodate that. Just like I said, coming
070from Blue Valley, uh, no, this was, uh, somewhere else I've been recently, can't remember the place, but they the teacher told me that they they were very involved in the process of setting it up. So, an Angela and Scott, MHTN has been great on that. Yeah, and that's a good point. That's also why we're doing so many site visits. Um so I I actually wonder at the end of this whole master planning how many schools it will be but it's on the upwards of of 10. So so we're not only collecting information from the teachers looking at the existing programs at CAC you know gaining information from from the board and from the steering committee but we're also touring schools around the US that are that are you know the best in the industry. So
071um so yeah to to Reed's point it's it's just a funnel of information. So, so we've toured the spaces, we've talked with the teachers. Um, and this is just one example. I don't want to go through all the programs just for for time. Um, but then what we've done is we've developed these essentially these these puzzle pieces of these programs and we've sat down with teachers again, talked to them about this these spaces and again just gaining insight and trying to get these pieces just right. Um, in the process of doing that, we did notice that there is a there's more information that we would like to receive um from from the board on what is the right size. So, we just we need a right sizing, but also a little bit of a of
072a direction on where all of these programs these programs go. So when it comes to the trades, we've noticed that um currently there is the question, are these going to be a one teacher program or a two-teer program? Are we going to keep them the size that they currently are at CEKC? There's a waiting list. Um you know, what is what is the demand of of of this community? Do we do we double these programs? And if so, what does that mean for the overall budget and resources? um as we we distribute them across the board. I just I just want to emphasize that that this was this is a question we need as a board to kind of try to decide because because we are going to go out for and they need to
073know like are we going to add it to and all the trades do have waiting list. Yeah. And I'm and I'm almost done and we can we can last. So we we've checked the programs. Um we've we've drawn up essentially what would work for a single teacher. um the program not doubling essentially. Um but then in talking with the teachers, they they have this wonderful vision for doubling the programs because there is a waiting list, right? And so the spaces that they are um requesting and requiring and and validating it it's larger than what we initially had put into that into that trades building. Now as architects were constantly um so that was construction. We talked a little bit about this, you know, are we are we doing um the larger truck bays or the
074smaller trying to get direction on that that can really impact the size? Um and then with welding again, do we do we double the program or or do we keep it essentially how it is? Um and again, these were um discussions that we had had the teachers and and the space they that they would require to double that. Um, I'm gonna fast forward to the end here and then we can jump back to the conversation and jump back to those square footages at the very beginning. But, um, as architects, we're always trying to solve puzzles. It's it's our favorite thing. And so as we were sitting down just internally looking at this, um, one question that that came up that we would like to explore further to see if it if it has a ripple
075effect that is very positive for all programs is what if we consider putting cosmetology in the amenities building, thus squaring up some square footage in the trades building where we know those square footage dollars are going to be higher because that's new construction, right? Um, and when it came to cosmetology, we were concerned because we have to put vents through the roof and we have to bring in plumbing and that's kind of expensive. But by placing it in the amenities building, um, we believe that we could actually offset that cost a little bit. We're going to bring on a CMGC. These are conversations we just want to have with him. It's just something that we want to explore along with probably two other conceptual plans. Um so again, this is just one of the explorations
076we're we're going to lean into with um Cosmo taking up that gym area. Um and then multi the multimedia still being um a foundational piece in that amenities building. Culinary also swinging in there. Um the other programs would be on levels one and two of of the what we're calling the boomerang building. And then that would free up some square footage in the in the out building for all of these programs to grow. What What are each of those, Angel? Yeah. So, it's construction, welding, and diesel. What's the What's the square footage on each one? Oh, yeah. That is really hard to read. Um, are they around 8,000? Is that right? Uh, we're still targeting about 30,000 square feet for that out building. Yeah. The sweet spot from a budget standpoint that we're trying to
077target. But it increases. We were in the 5,000 square foot range. Now in this we're now between seven and eight. And cosmetologies at 11. So that's that really is a lot bigger which and again I these things are going to going to eb and flow a little bit as we work out those puzzle pieces and exactly what they need to be. Um it's it's a it's a real um you know balancing that It is really appreciate like like for instance today you know I was in this biomed lab space and you know I got measured and figured out with the classroom is about 3,000 square feet and that's a big piece of land and so you know and like when we talk about CSDTV we we got to have great production studio and you know
078that takes some land and and we've got to have classroom space we got to have storage storage. You know, that's one thing they emphasized today. Storage, storage, storage is one one teacher told me. And so, you know, there's a lot of components that go into eating up that land real quick. Yeah. And I what we just wanted to share this with you. We we're just asking for direction from the board. Um, two big questions. One being, do we um do we want to double these programs? Do we want to keep them as the same size as they currently are at CEKC? Does that become a little bit of a shoehorn? Um, not allowing not building that space so that when we get over there, we're already that's the direction we're looking for. So, what are
079the sizes of these programs? But also, you know, exploring Cosmo in this existing building. Do we feel that that's a good approach? We've gotten pretty positive feedback on that. We would be exploring along with it not being in there. If you would like, we can explore both. We'll have a CMGC on board here in a couple weeks at which case we would really love to run all three of these or two of these conceptual plans with them and start to understand what are the what are the budget implications for them. Um but understanding the size of those programs will be huge um because we do know that the cost of that new building is where the dollars are and that building can grow and shrink. There is room, like Scott said, you know, keeping it
080at that 30,000 kind of is budget-wise the sweet spot. Um, but there is enough room to grow it to up to 40, but again, how does that work with budget? That's where we are. Just a comment on that, Angela Kennet and Scott. So, thinking about kind of going back to Amanda's point, can we look at some some of the maybe what's out there with what other districts and what the research says about future programs in the trades like this and what what are how are those spaces being developed so that they can accommodate the future. For example, I mean, is that is that space I mean, does that mean maybe those walls are flexible? Does it does it create I don't know what that does for the infrastructure when it comes to power and water
081and everything else that maybe is necessary in that building to meet future needs. I mean is that something that when we have our next round table we can bring all that to the table and then make that decision or do you guys feel like you need that direction now? You know, I just to jump in, I think that's for sure one of the principles we're always coming back to is that future flexibility. The existing building is fantastic. The raised access floors, the distribution of power, that lends itself to changes that could happen over the next 5 to 10 years. We can apply those same principles to the out building and look at the ways that that infrastructure is served to specific programs and how you could flex over time of a left or right direction
082in this case. um and still build it, you know, a day one program that could expand in the future. Um, also keep in mind that we've got 37 acres here and not say that you're going to put everything in this first puzzle piece or first project, but there's another parcel to the left here. There's, you know, 20 plus acres to the south. You could really grow into this site over the next 20 years easily. One one other thing, sorry, go ahead. Oh, I I was just going to say to I mean to your point, I think with trades, what the research shows right now is most plumbing and heating and those kinds of companies, a lot of those owners are are retiring in the next decade. And so there's going to be this huge need
083for that. And that's something that's not going to be taken over by AI is a lot of this trade work. And so that's right, research is showing there's going to be the demand is only increasing. And I know Dylan has talked about wanting to do, you know, more plumbing and electrician kind of apprenticeships. And so having that space, I think it's shortsighted to try to build now. Yeah. Especially where we already have the demand. I think we need to build for the growth of that. Yes. one of one of the things that when we went on a tour of BD back to Dickinson down here, uh he he took us to his employee board and he said you can see the 50 plusers or about three4ers of the pictures on that wall. So it's the
084same concept. So like do do we all agree with what Katie just said? Yeah, I was just going to add on I agree exactly with what Katie's saying and looking at this particular layout I think allows for that flexibility. I don't know if cosmetology needs 11,000 square feet. I have no idea. But I do know that these three heavy, you know, the construction and the welding and the heavy duty mechanics, they are going to adapt and change. I like that they are um going to be able to be a little bit more flexible. I like that they're going to be more visible. I'm glad that we're not talking about putting him in another concrete box. Here's a concrete box with a garage door and you can come in and look if you'd like. They want
085to be feeling like they're part of this this whole campus and I like the direction that we're heading with that. Um the location of those things are really good. I think cosmetology has good access being there. um just as good at access as if it was on the end of the other buildings. Yeah, I actually think that gives them better because they have all the side parking. That was another one of the ripple effects of it. They have all the side parking. Yeah. It puts them in like just the security of that building to have night access. That's what the amenities building becomes parking. It starts to solve that problem. Um also this idea that this becomes this um center with a lot of energy between culinary like it starts to become that the 11,000
086like I said this is a really I know I was just gonna say it's a big it's not quite right but the the logic behind the logic is great is they need three classrooms which are already existing maybe we can really utilize those not spend too many dollars and then this is the part that really be okay that makes sense when those three squares are classrooms we want to play with it digital media actually might start bleed into that area is another thought. We don't know the solution. We just need a a few I really like this. I'm kind of glad cosmetology isn't stuck on the end of the hard trades, I'll call it that because it's got a different concept to it. It's it's a softer thing and I think being next to the
087diesel mechanics, doesn't give it the same support. I like the construction has space on the end. Yes. because they're going to have to be able to get in and out to make those mini shelters, mini homes that are the time of the future. And diesel is going to be going electric. And I don't think gas is going away, obviously. So, we're going to have to branch that out. And with welding, we could also put a section in there with wiring, um, electrical, you know, the electrical, the heating, plumbing, those things can be combined between welding and construction. One of one of the things that that, uh, you know, we want the board to conceptualize and you know, cosmetology that all those things fit the way you describe it there. But also, we really want to
088utilize this auditorium and the wrap around CSDTV. We're going to be a media mecca. I'm just telling you, you can write that down. It's we, you know, it's ripe for explosion and kids love it and the community is into it. You know, you talked about developing YouTube channels, uh, podcasting, uh, uh, the entrepreneurial opportunities there of taking a Dylan, those two go in construction and saying, "Hey, come over here. We're going to help you with the commercial. we're going to put you at our fixed studio at a desk, do a do a YouTube short. And so, you know, there's just so many possibilities, but I like that what uh MHTN has done here with incorporated cosmetology. We want to really keep multimedia because they've got to roll out, you know, they got that trailer and
089that'll be a good advertising piece as well that constantly rolling out of that area. Well, and cosmetology isn't just hair. I mean, there's whole departments down at BYU with potentially. Yes. Um, and then even just for productions, how many um, theater groups come through here and they need to have makeup artists and set designers and whatever. And see, they're all in the same area back and forth between each other. So, I really like how this particular is laid out and I would rather have a little extra room for the future and and again, when we only have 5,000 feet, that's all they have now. And I don't think that's doing them any good, any service at all. I think we need to give them room. One of the things along those lines, you know, to
090the perspective of what uh Canyons has is, you know, we're servicing uh a tech center uh for the community as well as the high school programs. So, so they increase space a lot, but you know, when you look at what uh Scott and Angela presented last time, the Westfield design, their labs, their uh uh lab area for welding is 5,000 square feet. You know, I talked to the Clearfield people. They're putting in a brand new tech center on uh at Clearfield High. Their lab space is 6,000 square feet with the classroom is seven in welding. And they have the best, you know, they've had the welding high school program, but but we're at a higher level in terms of we're a tech center that that technical college basically level and the high school program. Okay.
091Um Amanda had something and then Holly. So Holly and Amber are both gonna know what I'm going to say about this. So just reassure me you're doing your research. Well, I know exactly what you're gonna say about I'm just really concerned about the smell of the chemicals from cosmetology leading over into the culinary arts area and where people are eating. So, as long as we can like with this configuration really figure out really good fans ventilation, then I'm good with this. If not, it's going to be a hot mess. So, we're already on it. We walked the building um on Tuesday. the mechanical engineer already had a solution that said Cosmo will be on its own system is right there. It won't be that expensive. We'll just just fence up and it's good. So I
092don't know Scott if you want to speak to that as well. So great Holly. Okay. First off, thank you. I'm really grateful. This is something from the beginning I've really wanted. Right. I I love that the those um you know those technical trades that we have room to grow because they are the ones that have the waiting lists like we've talked about electrician and plumber and all those things that there's such a need for more so in industry. So that's great and for them to get their you know their shirts so they can just go straight out into industry. And I love that cosmetology has room to grow because, you know, I've said this before, we don't have nail tech and Jordan district does. There's esthetician. There's so much in that beauty, wellness, health um
093you know, space and and that's a space that's continuing continuing to grow especially in Utah. So um the one thing I will say just the one thing is when we were talking about also having the center to be an opportunity to not only social partners reception area a place that also possibly community can rent out. My first conceptual was that the the culinary would be in a space that would like the what did we call it before? We called it the what do we call it? The trade the the what was it called? What are you talking about? The the space where things could be on display but it's a bigger larger space. Showcase. The showcase. The showcase. The showcase. So, so, um, just my one question is, do we feel like that that area
094now because it it lends itself if we have the culinary there and we're able to receive people and have that that space where you can also kind of entertain industry partners and have like that um I I just kind of think of it like like a little trade center, like a little I don't know, a little um an area to come and and be able to show off and see and have this pavilion. The partner pavilion. Thank you. That's what I was looking for. We'll do we'll do another layer. Um we want to get the pro we want to get the educational programs in. Yes. And then we'll do another layer of those other eight key spaces. What's still necessary? How do they fall in? Okay. So, that'll be another layer. One of the things
095that you know you you just kind of have to take a lesson from everyone that's done it. You know, uh when you go to these schools, there's not a ton of that happening during the school day. So, you got to be careful with allocating space for something that's just going to be space. You know, I I told Katie that MHDN is going to work on up some sketching of some of the ideas we went through with with her on that. And you know there's this is going to be so just talking to Reed's um what we had talked about I went out with my conference manager and walked with Reed and Susan as far as the the multi-purpose space. Ideally your multi-purpose conference room space you want it to be one to one versus a
0962 to three kind of ratio. We're looking right now at like a one to three ratio. So it's really long and skinny. Yes. Like threequarters of your people are not in front of the stage. So but we are sort of restricted. The question is then how much money do you put into something? But then it also is a way to maybe make money for the district. Um one question though too is the thought we've got some amazing views out there. Have we looked at potentially putting that on like a second third floor on the other side of the building? because right now you're just looking at at you know businesses like if you're trying to create some space that maybe it could be used for school dances. I mean we're spending a lot of money
097to go outside of the district and is there a space we can create take advantage of those views on the south side of the building. Um you know if we end up putting something on the third floor now we've got people above a conference center space that might be making some noise. Is it better to raise that to a second third floor get some views? It's a, you know, it's a we talked about this with Katie. It's a tough balance because, you know, you've got, you know, Scott and I have talked about we've got to do something, you know, we have to have this maker space. Yeah. You know, it's it's it's key to developing an engineering program. Uh, and so we're going to have to do some modification with the floor. Some of that
098stuff will go right through that base floor uh for weight. So, So when you get down at that end, it kind of limits it. You know what I'm saying? It we have to put that somewhere down here or in the amenities building where it's a concrete floor. So there's so many balances, but Katie had some great concepts of maybe running uh you know, that's what we're going to sketch out running the trades building out here and doing something more internally with the gathering space. Well, that's the thing. If you move that conference center up to second, third floor, that opens up more space on your first floor for maybe a bigger maker space. And then that was my second concern is you drive up our main parking is all on the south side. And with
099this layout, half of it you're looking at cinder block wall and we've got this great amazing space and that's going to be the first impression. I mean, that's a concern. of looking at sliding that building out so it's we can enjoy this incredible building that that we have. What would it just MHTN and Leon, but we put parking? I mean eventually probably in that back corner will be likely an elementary or some other building, but how expensive would parking be in that space that we've talked about? You're talking right here. Yeah. So great. The problem is you have elevation issues. A pretty significant grade right there. A quick analysis though. Could you do a drawing of what that building would look like on that other side? Because right now we only see it from kind
100of over. Absolutely. And that's part of the puzzle pieces is finding the right location and then kind of the fun stuff with the architecture. I don't want to say it's easier, but we can make sure that as you're approaching from that south facade, you're not walking to that brick wall. There's a lot of cool and interesting things that help introduce the building and the concept and the idea, the brand identity as you're walking into that south area that just doesn't feel like you're walking into the yard of a construction lab. Yeah, because there's already there's already a yard there on the right side, right? And I think we would screen or enclose that, put some gates there, put some branding elements. At one time we did look at moving the trades building over to the
101other quadrant, but there was a distinct relationship that felt like it was more appropriate to keep those all connected. Yeah. Yeah. We'll keep working on that south elevation for you though. Amanda, so just as a followup to I don't know if this was addressed, but in our last round table when we all walked the building together, I know we had discussed the idea of having like the conference area over by the culinary arts section, but Angela, remind me what it was. Like you said, you went in with someone who took a deeper look at the ceilings and and just said it wouldn't be as feasible. Well, the high and it's not big enough on that side to amenities. you would have to build a new construction. Yeah. Just for an ideal situation, the higher ceiling,
102but also there was columns in the space which then just kind of restricted it a little bit more than we we thought. Um we all thought it was a great idea. Yeah. Yeah. So, so then we we kind of placed it over here as a two as a twostory space opening that up. Um again, I I do think you know bringing it up is something of interest. Um, but again, we we do want to talk to the talk about price when it comes to those cores that run the center of the building. That's where our plumbing and our electrical. So, um, in a couple days, Leon, I'll have um some some things from the engineers on these like no touch zones in the building. So, again, we're we're exploring all of these ideas, but as
103information comes in, it's like one of those yes, no things, you know, you're like yes, no, okay, then you go that way. Yes, no, yes. Right. So, we're we're on that path right now. A lot of information is coming in. Um, and we'll be presenting on this every two weeks and working. Yeah. So, I mean, what's the cost of because you got some big beams to take that two floors. What's that compared to even new construction if you're trying to build even an ideal conference space? It's still going to be cheaper. It's still going to be cheaper after digging out. Well, and I know one of the things we talked about is having kind of garage doors at the back of that room so that the kids can actually bring in some of their projects
104and different things right off of the parking lot. not be able to display for industry partners or other teams, right? Yeah. And the way that the students could use that space on the first floor is really great. Also, Katie, when we laid out the event space, um if if the stage is at the front, yeah, that one to three ratio is quite horrible for sight lines, but you know, when you turn it horizontal, it actually it does work quite well for sight lines. So it's it's deeper than you want though for if you put it on the the stage on the skinny side. You really need to have then some kind of screens about halfway back. No, exactly. So we sent So if it's if it's long horizontal, the stages here and screens. Um so
105it wasn't you weren't running. Does that make sense? It was something that showed in that first. It's not ideal to what you want. We can make it work. You know, that's the question of the cost of this. Yeah, the cost is where it comes back to and what are the priorities for the district. Where do they want to put the money? So, that's what we're looking at. We really got to get it pushed to the CMCG, you know, soc. I think I think we can wrap up. I think the board said that we do want to expand those spaces, explore cosmetology and that way we can make those three spaces bigger and that I think right now explore that bring back bring that back and as long as we can afford it. One more clarifying
106question. Are they wanting us to explore taking that uh multi-purpose room out of the building because I know that was one other we keeping that in the building for sure. That's just what Katie was entertaining. That's what she's achieving. I think we got Yeah, I think I think we need more space in those areas to to expand those programs. Say we've come a long way the last three boards. So, thank you everybody. Mhm. This is this is a blast. This is so fun and science class schools. We know there's going to be a lunchroom and office and 30 40 classroom. Yeah, this is a whole different completely different thing than a regular school. So, big thanks to the committee and MHD and Reed, everyone. Thank you so much. Thanks for being here. Thank you guys.
107Okay. Is there Leon or presentation in 10 minutes? That's I can. You can. Okay. Jeff, can you just We'll push you. You have to be here. I'm good. It's Sophie's choice. Budget or policy? Budget. We're gonna choose budget then. Sophie's choice is two wrong answers. Yeah. Okay. So, Jeff, you will get bumped. We will have a really long policy section. Anyway, okay. Thank you. Leon, can you go ahead with our we'll just skip um number B and we'll go on to D and that's 2025 2026 budget update us. All right, Eric, we're just going from he's a trained professional. He can do this easily. So exciting talk budget after great discussion on the innovation center. We have come a long way. So again, thank you to every start. We're just going to start. Keep in
108mind uh couple things. Just going to start on go down as they're pulling it up. Just a couple highlights. I'm going to hit the non general fund the non general fund items today. Okay. Come back in a couple weeks and hit more general fund. But we did have a WPU increase. Thanks, Eric. Uh, it's up to 4674 4% onto that educator salary adjustment, TSSA, land trust, all went up. Probably the last year though for the TSSA because of House Bill caps. That's a hit. That offsetting things in transportation, CTE, even though they seem to focus on CTE, they did cut it. Same with we'll talk more about some of these things next week. Uh just really quick on some of our lease revenue bomb projects again you know we talking innovation now but a year
109ago we were talking on you know east Jordan High what's happening there and a lot's happening at all these schools. Uh just to let you know the parking lot at high will first parking lot's done first set of gender neutral restrooms should be opening this week. I think they were going to try to open them tomorrow. Do a final clean today. So, get the final mirrors and stuff is in. Awesome. Uh the fieldhouse is coming along. Footing's going in. Uh if you drive down the south end of the innovation center, you see all the steel that is for the steel from the fieldhouse there at high being stored there. Are they going to look to move the some of the weight equipment from the innovation center into the fieldhouse at night time when we get
110it up use for the office is going to have the best of should be completed by the time school starts and we'll be going on the auditorium. So, lots of stuff happening there. Same in Eastmont. The drainage is done. They've done the pit for the new elevator. Gym floor will be replaced. Let's see June 2nd. a lot on the lot here because that's the day one day after school will be going in and the same with some classroom upgrades and we just centered the cafeteria floor. So there's going to I mean I think all these classrooms should be done at Eastmon by Christmas if not before. So it's goodly intended to be able to move around while they're working. We're actually going to do uh put in some pods and pull everything out and do
111four do six or eight at a time. Absolutely. Two different crews. One's doing gym floors and another one. We're gonna One's doing gym floor, one's doing elevator, doing all over the place. Probably be about 80 people in there at one time. Want to look like an ant. Yeah, you talk about a hive. Yeah, that's it. Quarter canyon steel was going the erection crew is on site. I don't think with the rain today and yesterday these got started, but all the steel's there. They should start be putting it together and should start be going up this week or next on that. Hopefully by October, November the whole building's done. Soccer turf should be done by the time season starts here July. So coming along there crest coming along. Uh uh uh what we call a pork
112ch that's a ride in ride out entry. The SEC had always been requesting that the last couple years it's in. But they're do also doing subservice on the track. The turf starts in uh just in June and that whole project should be complete by beginning of August for the football season. And then innovation center, they touched on that the 20th two weeks we should have what we call the CMTC general contractor construction manager on site. Had a pre-bid had 10 excellent contractors. This is a lot of visibility out there in the construction world. So, uh, we really never have 10. You also saw the prices there for each one. Some small what we call small capital ones compared to all the other Indian Hills. Uh, that's out to bid, closes a week from today. We'll
113ask you to approve that on the 20th. Depending on how everything goes, we may actually I may send you a ratification on that so the contractor can get some supplies ordered on that. Be aware of that. Okay. Other ones you can see them going down. You've already approved those in previous meetings. So the again June 2nd big one on Sandy and the Brighton Teen Center. They're halfway done with the Alterara irrigation and getting started on the water line of car view again. You really can't do that till school's up because we'll have to shut the water down. Could we just backing up Leon? Did we get somebody to look at on the HVAC? Here are some other ones again. closing the Jordan Valley chiller and an alter upgrade. Uh again, we always look at these
114capital projects one year, always forecasting out how we're going to go down, you know, three years from now. Uh we're looking at some property sales on going and hopefully tapping into this cat new catalyst grant 65 million. It's right up our alley for this make these lease revenue bomb payments ongoing maintenance 5 million for these small capital projects each summer. So again have a little bit bigger balance down if we could keep around that 10 million that be helpful for us. Uh lease revenue bonds. Uh keep in mind three different colors here. The orange ones were the ones we did four years ago that was for Glacier Hills Park and a year ago we did things for Jordan Valley High School. That's the yellow and then green is innovation center. So you can see the
115bonds issued again up to about 125 million after we make our payment here. It's a decent amount, but hopefully we can start paying that down. Again, they go out to 2040, staying around that 12 million each year going out except for the last couple years there. Uh going to switch to another fund, our debt service fund. This is our go bonds from our two bond elections. Uh where you can see red is the election we had in 2010. 2017 is the blue. Uh we you did authorize us to do a refunding. I you know when we looked at that back in February, we were about a million dollars in savings. The tariffs and the turmoil associated with them hit and we actually went into a negative. So we nit them. Uh talking to Matt today,
116we're about a half a million dollars of savings. you would like to see that go up a little higher before we actually pull the trigger and go forward with that if you will. It's still on our radar to do and you know the author authorization is still there and good to do but just instead of hopefully being done in May or June could be to July or August just so you know on that. Okay, this does assume that but you know by the time we make our principal payment next year we should be around that 300 million which you know when we were 450 a year a couple few years back some of you may remember that that's starting to cut it down bond writers always like to see this 67% will be paid off
117in next six years of it remaining in the last seven years there I want to talk about this because this leads into, you know, when we talk in the new business about this boundary and possible school consolidation. Again, mapping out our debt revenue, our lease, and our general bonds. Okay, all in one chart here. I put those together because again, we have this a small break here and a small decrease here and then room to layer on debt going forward. So you know again a possible scenario if you wanted to look at I know there's a talk about well what can we do about building a new school if we put two together i.e. the Glacier Hills model we did which was quite successful a few years back. You know you could probably look in
1182029 in the fall say August, September, December of issuing maybe a hund00 million of bonds making a few smaller payments here then bigger payments here filling in these gaps even going out into the 40 41 42 if needed needed. you look at building two schools, then they would open in the fall of 31. Again, you're going to need about 18 to 22 months to build a schoolology there. And then you convert this debt into general obligation bonds into capital debt. That would require taxing. Then you could but you the taxpayer you keep the taxpayer neutral if you will. Okay not going to pay anymore. Actually opens it up so they actually pay less but that is an option. Then you can repeat that a couple years later just to keep that in mind. Okay. Of
119course uh with any type of bonds you're going to incur interest cost. We'll just move quickly to our couple. back up to that though real quick. So if I understand it right, the law changing pass a geo bond from simple majority to 60%. Right? So yeah, I'm just asking because I think one of the things that we've talked about is to consider is and this would be sooner than later and it would obviously add more deaths sooner. I'm not saying that's the right thing to do, but if down the road we have to go to a geo bond to try to pass that is going to be way more difficult. Well, it's going to be impossible. So, I'm I'm just proposing is that something to consider that we you know, and I don't know how
120our communities feel. I mean, traditionally all of our communities have really supported new schools, right? And so, um, even if we pass a GEO bond, it doesn't mean that we issue the bonds then, but it would give the board and future board the flexibility to build those schools either with this plan or potentially sooner, but I I'm just throwing that out. I mean to think about what is what's Rick referring to is a Senate resolution number two put out there and passed both houses and will go to the ballot in November of 2026. Okay. And so that says if you're going to pass a uh pass anything that's going to require a new tax or extend an existing tax, which we would be doing here. or new tax, it will have to they're going to
121put out there to to change the constitution to make it 60% rather than 50%. Okay. So, I don't know how the whole how the state feels about that, you know, the voting public. Uh but you know to Rick's point, if you were going to do a general obligation bond, you'd almost have to either do it this fall 2025 or at the same time this is on the ballot 2026 to hedge your bets that it doesn't that that does pass, you know, so you're aware of that. That's that's so I'm just saying that in thinking about you know some of the conversations that we're about to have with merging schools and closing schools potentially or combining schools and building new campuses. The Glacier Hills model I think has been that was genius. That was very successful
122planning. Right. I'm just worried I'm just thinking ahead if if we're to do that. I mean, some of the superintendents I know that are in states that require 60%. It's dead in the water. I mean, buildings that are 50 60 years old that they they just cannot pass that threshold. So, the nice thing about doing it, and I don't know if this is the the fall for, but next fall, you know, in line with this consolidation, potential consolidation is it would allow us to start sooner on schools, right? if we issue a bond in 26 instead of having to wait till 2029 and we can only do two schools every two years. Um because I mean this is sort of our last thing if we can show hey look these are all the projects we
123promised. We've got through all these and these are the last ones, you know, the these elementaryaries that we need to address and we've focused on the middle schools, the first bond, the high schools the second that I think we need to just keep all options open. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. I don't think we decide that today, but it would allow us to do things. Just wanted to put that out. Uh completely moving. fund, a lunch fund. Sebastian does a great job. Lunch prices will stay the same. They just had a very, very indepth review. Passed it. We're really proud of them. The USB team was very impressed. One area concern though is our school stores. High school school stores do sell stuff that's not allowed. We'll go ahead. I'll just comment to that. So I
124happened to play soccer with the USB person that came to do the review and asked her how it went. She said the scores are not so much a concern. She said we can get an exception if it's being used for merchandising class. It's just a matter of applying for that exception that it wasn't they weren't as concerned about it if it's used in that aspect. That's not how the meeting went. Well, that that was the feedback I got. They basically told us fix this or we're going to shut you down. Yeah. because I said you can't buy, you know, use money to buy that food. If you're using incentive bucks, that was okay. But as long as it's cash, unless there's some exception for the merchandising class, it sounded like they didn't even what it
125is. It's it's selling fair luck unhealthy food, right? For sure. You're eating unhealthy food. And right next door is the cafeteria and that's the issue right there. So, I don't know. As our as far as I understood it, as long as it's incentive bucks, it wasn't an issue. And if it's being used for the merchandising class, as long as they've applied for an exception, there's no issue. You can do stuff like that. You just can't what they're doing right now is competing with the Right. Right. Because they're just selling it for cash. Yeah. And they're right next door. And that and you can't do it at the same time lunch is going on and things like that. So, yeah. So, those things that you just have to watch. Uh we still get uh we still
126got six schools that are going to be on free lunch the next few years. And keep in mind a bill passed that uh there will no longer be reduced lunch. You know there are going to be free or paid and reduced lunch goes away. Uh but you know they set aside two and a half million. If that doesn't cover it statewide, the districts have to pick up the rest. That's gonna be a second half is not cover. Wait, wait a minute. I Hold on. Sorry. Can I just ask a question? I thought like that the period project people like got on this big thing about like covering school lunch for kids that can't afford it. I mean, like, how is that fitting in with all of this? Like, you know, the governor got on board,
127they did a big press conference. like how does it relate? So what that is that's paying off unpaid debt. Okay, which is huge. So it's not moving forward. But this is saying, hey, we'd rather not take any money. We'd rather pay for the whole thing taking which seems if we run out of the put they put two and a half million dollars towards reduced lunches, but that's not going to cover it all. Yeah. Roughly three or four% of our student population on lunch. Does it cover the reduced lunch for students that are not in a title one school? Any of our any of our lunch kids? They're they're free in the title. It's not going to be enough money. Free in title one, but everything else based on our percentage. There's no way they'll be
128enough money. You say that's breakfast and lunch. It's both, right? No, I think it's just lunch. Just lunch. And then charter schools, our health insurance, you know, we kind of stapled out, but we've had a couple big hits in April on our insurance, but you can see our again our price per member. [Music] Weather got better. Everyone went outside just like recess. We talked about property tax. You know, again, we're going to we plan to exceed the certified rate this year. 4 million of uh general fund money for, you know, to pay negotiations and health insurance costs and also 2.6 to pay the bond payment at at eBay. This is how it will look on an average home that went 700,724,000, just under $70. See there slight drop in the debt as that will go
129down looking at a tax August 5th the county does set those did the bill pass where we were asking for them to admit that they were taking district money for the state governor veto that so that's not going that's not going to happen good just double checking the good We have some more stuff at the next meeting uh June 3rd for a round table but then on the 17th we're ask budget for next year. Thank you Leon. Let's just have a five Welcome to the business meeting of the Canyon's Board of Education. Today is May 6, 2025, and we're meeting at the district office located at 9361 South 300 East in Sandy, Utah. I would like to excuse Mr. Andrew Edel from our business meeting tonight. The first item on the agenda is to approve
130the agenda for today, May 6th. I would like to make a motion to approve the agenda for today, May 6th, but with the following changes. So on um under new business, I would like to adapt it the with replacing item D with the previous um policy update that was going to be held in study session. And then the new item E will be policy update as listed under new B business currently. And then item F will be long range planning update. Okay, thank you. We have a motion. Is there a second to that motion? I'll second it. Okay, thank you. We have a motion and a second. 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.
131The next item on the agenda is the pledge of allegiance. And today we will be led by Oak Hollow Elementary Principal Julie Mootz. And then after that we will have school highlights. Thank you. I brought with me our incoming principal uh Kimberly Ranny who will be leading us. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Well, thanks for having me. This was sort of weird. If you probably know, I'm retiring at the end of the year. So, it's 38 years in education, but I always say my last 10 at O'Hollow have been the absolute best. So, thanks for letting me share just a few things. Um, when I think about Okalo and
132just a few highlights for you, I think of two things, academic growth and community. And so, just a few highlights. I am so proud of our students and our teachers. Um, we've seen a 14% increase in our ELA um growth over last year, which is huge. um tenatively I our science rise from our fourth and fifth graders for this year is 7% higher than last year and I'm like yes um our counselor Tracy Gerard was awarded the 2025 resilient U award for the state so we're really proud of her but then the other thing too is I really think of community um our community is amazing they want to jump in and we do so much at our school because of our community I counted 24 of Our 26 aids are current parents or they
133had a child there. So our parents stay with us. Our community gets involved. This year alone we've done spelling bee science fair, family art night, family French night, fall festival, and our school chooses to do battle of the books. And we had over a hundred students in grades three through five participate in it. It was such a huge success. The parents are coaches, the PTA organizes. It was just beautiful. Um, our behavior assistant organizes our Eagle refs, our junior coaches, our honorary junior coaches because fourth graders wanted to do it in fifth. And she trains them. Um, it's just part of our whole community and that positive community. Everybody wants to give. And I guess finally, I'll leave with my behavior assistant said, "Yes, if you want to be an Eagle Ref, it's a big
134deal to earn your whistle." So, thank you. Okay. Thank you so much. Um the board, we love hearing about our schools and um congratulations on your academic excellence and um we love to hear that you have an amazing community as well. And then I just want to add congrats on retirement and thank you for all your service. We do appreciate you. Okay, so the next item on the agenda is the Canyon strong recognitions and Jeff Haney, director and Kristen Stewart, associate director of comm communications will lead us. And I I do want to say one thing. Um congratulations to all our teachers and thank you because today is National Teacher Appreciation Day. And I do believe we have the best teachers anywhere in the state. Anyway, thank you. Thank you to teachers. Yes, indeed. Thank
135you to our teachers. In fact, one of our most recent board meetings, we celebrated the good works of our teachers by naming our teacher of the year. A teacher of the year in the Canyon School District is Lucia de de la Cruz Rodriguez from Midvil Elementary School. And I'm very proud to announce that in recent days, we officially forwarded her name as Canyon's district's nominee in the Utah Teacher of the Year selection process. So, thank you to all of our teachers. The board of education recently honored all of our teachers of the year, gave them a crystal award, and upcoming is our Canyons District night with Real Salt Lake. We'll look forward to seeing our entire community with Real Salt Lake and cheer for all of our teachers of the year at halftime on the
136field. So, President Sheil, we appreciate this time that the board grants us to recognize the achievements of the students and employees in Canyon's district who truly have gone above and beyond in their pursuit of excellence. Mrs. Moes has already left, but I actually wanted to thank her for a second. Mrs. Mootz was the assistant principal at Midfell Elementary School when my son went there. And Jaden and Mrs. Mootz had a very close relationship because Jaden's naughty and he was in her office all of the time. But to this day, he's 22 and he asks me how Mrs. Moots is doing. She was a fantastic administrator at Midvil and she's been a fantastic administrator at the schools that she's been at. So I wanted to thank her for the friendship she extended to my son when
137he was a Midville Mustang and she was there too. Now to start our recognitions tonight, we'd like to present to the board an award that is given as part of our focus to prepare students for careers in the 21st century. Now, it is no secret that Canyon's district is transforming the former eBay building. We spent a significant amount of time during study session talking about our plans for our new innovation center. And this center will be geared toward training our students for jobs of today and for tomorrow. And that also includes CSDTV, which is our streaming service that uh is broadcasting events like tonight's board of education meeting and also teaches students the ins and the outs of the electronic media industry. In fact, we're streaming that right now. Hello to all of those at
138home watching board meeting. But it's also not a secret. The Canyons District acquired the 215,000 foot eBay building for half of what it would cost to build something brand new. And here's some other news. The board's actions to acquire the eBay building led to receiving this impact award. We've placed that crystal award right there in front of President Schill from Co-Star, a commercial real estate analytics firm and online marketplace. Now, this eBay purchase and the board and the administration that made it happen were recognized by Co-Star in the 2025 sales acquisition of the year. That's the award that Canyon's District has received. Now, here's what one of the judges of the award program said about Canyon's District's acquisition of the eBay building. Canyon's Innovation Center is an exemplary adaptive reuse project intended to convert a
139regional headquarter commercial building used by a tech company into an innovative learning center for high school students. Congratulations Board and Canyons District for receiving this war award for moving forward with our project at the former regional headquarters of eBay. Now, I also want, if you'll see up here, that's where um the award is recognized in that magazine right there. We have additional copies if you would like to see those. And before we get going on the rest of our honores, we also want to thank Midville Middle School for hosting today the middle school unified soccer competition. Now, thanks to the support of our schools and families, the special education department, and the Canyons Education Foundation, we're extending opportunities for students of all kinds to participate fully at their school. Now, the rain forced uh today's
140event to move indoors and uh but they still had a fantastic time and we're hoping that our weather apps are right when these apps are telling us that tomorrow will be sunny and the highs in the 60s in St. George where the Jordan High girls golf team will be playing in the state for a tournament. So, a big shout out and good luck to the B diggers. This is the first year in quite some time that our girls golf team at Jordan has made the state finals and we hope that they do very well over the next couple days. Now, our first honores are the latest Canyons teams to win become state champions. We want to give standing ovations to the theater teams at Hillrest and Corner Canyon High School. Now, when the awards were
141announced, Canyons District students took their bows on the stage. The Huskys and the Chargers are the state champions in 5A and 6A theater. The Huskys won in 5A, even though they're a 4A school, and the Chargers won in 6A. This is the third year in a row that Hillrest has won a state championship in theater. Now, that is said to be a record for 4A, 5A, or 6A schools. And the win was Corner Canyon's very first state championship in theater. So, congratulations to the Chargers. The Huskies overall sweep stakes win also came when Hillrest learned that for the second year in a row, it won a best of state award in theatrical education. Uh, spring is a great time to take in a lot of theater productions at our high schools. Brighton just wrapped up
142You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Jordan High will re in the up I think we'll have their one act plays in the coming weeks and Corner Canyons the Drowsy Chaperon is in is later this week and Hillrest's Symbolene is next week. So if you're looking for some familyfriendly entertainment, our theater productions are a sure bet. Our next honores, the Raptors, rocked the house at their recent performance. History was made at a recent evening at Diamond Ridge High School. Diamond Ridge students performed at the school's first ever concert and it rocked. Miss Patterson was there with us that night. These kids were simply amazing. Now, these students, many of whom who had never before picked up a musical instrument, put on a professional, highquality show. Now, this is the first year we've had a music program
143at Diamond Ridge. It's rare for alternative high schools to have music programs, and ours has been a massive success thanks to the work of school administrators Amy Becker and Jared Tucker, and Mr. Brandon Lupus, who is the school's first ever music teacher. They have really put in a lot of hard work to get that program going. Now, the school now has a drum line and a rock band, and they both brought the house down. They played songs made popular by Metallica and Black Sabbath. It's also worth noting that Mr. Lupus, the music teacher at Diamond Ridge, is an Alta High School graduate. He came back to Canyon School District to teach in Canyon School District. Now, as Brandon was instrumental in starting the music program at Diamond Ridge, he started at Ala High School. He
144was a student and now a colleague of this guy, our next honore, Alah High's instrumental music director, Caleb Shabastasteri. He he was recently honored by Sandy City as the mentor of the year. The award was part of the city's one one Sandy honors program in Sandy. Mayor Monica Zultansky visited Ala High School recently to give Caleb the award in front of his students because Caleb decided not to go to the awards ceremony because the orchestra concert at Ala High School was the same night as the night where he would receive the award. He opted instead to be with his students instead of going to get his award. So Sandy visited his classroom and gave him the award in front of his students. We also want to give a big big thanks to Caleb and Mattie
145Lupus at Alta for arranging for the drum line to go to Life Skills Academy today to teach our life skills students about instrument and rhythm and music. And this is all part of their lessons to become a little bit more ready to live and work independently. I've seen the photos in video and those LSA kids loved playing alongside the kids from Alta. Our next honore is a finalist for a major award through AVID, the program that we've embraced as an academic support to prepare students for college and career readiness. Congratulations to Jay Rudell, a longtime Canyons educator who now works in the instructional supports department. We're proud to announce that Jay has been nominated and selected as a district leader of the year finalist in the AVID Global Achievement Awards. Mr. Rudell is now among
146four nominees in this category. It recognizes his dedication to Avid's mission. So, congratulations to Mr. Rudell and best of luck in December at the national conference when they will announce the winner. And we also want to note two big awards won by our school nurses. We're beyond thrilled that Canyon School nurses, Jen Gerard and Tara Aka, won major awards recently. Jen, our head school nurse, is the Utah school nurse of the year. So, congratulations to her. The board earlier this year gave Jen an Apex award. She does fantastic work coordinating our nursing services and Tara received her award for working with Jen and the other school nurses on providing vaccination clinics to our community. She won the silver syringe award from the Utah Immunization Program of the Utah Department of Health and Human Services. So
147congratulations to both of them. Now Canyon's district made national news with this Corner Canyon graduate. Congratulations to Jackson Dart, a former Charger. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the first round. He'll be headed to New York. He has a personal connection to Canyon's district beyond the fact he graduated from one of our high schools. His aunt Katie Campbell works at Hillrest High School. She's the assistant principal there. And she told us that it was an exciting night when he was selected to go in the first round of the draft. The next honores made headlines as well with their achievements and it extended our streak of having Sterling Scholars awards won by Canyon's district students. A corner Canyon High senior was announced as not just their Sterling Scholar in computer technology but was
148the overall general Sterling Scholar. Congratulations to Emily I. She had a magical evening when they announced the big winners of the night. We also had a winner in instrumental music. Blake Hullinger captured the top award and we had two Hillcrest students named runnerups in their category. So, congratulations to all of the students who won big awards at the Sterling Scholars competition. And can you believe it? We're finally to the very last slide. We've had a lot of accomplishments. Congratulations to Jordan High's Angley Stevens. She is one of just 16 students selected to be a state officer in the Utah Association of Student Councils, the only in Canyon School District. She'll do a fantastic job representing Canyon's district, Jordan High School, and the interests of students as they work with such groups as the state board
149of education, the governor's educational council, and the Utah Association of Secondary School Principles. So, congratulations to Aninsley. That is a lot. President Shill, thank you so much for granting us this time to celebrate the achievements of those in Canyon School District. As a little reminder, the first ever pickle ball tournament is this Saturday at Pickleball USA. For those of us who have had to play against President Schill, she has a wicked serve. So, those of us who will be lucky to play with her, they'll probably win. But we hope to see everyone who Canyons District employees come to our first ever pickle ball tournament. It's also a fundraiser for our unified sports program offered through the foundation. President Schill, thank you so so much. And we turn the time back to you. Okay. Thank you,
150Mr. Haney. We love to hear about all our um teachers and students that are achieving. So, 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 Kenyon's district, students and parents of students and current employees of the district. Patrons may provide board members with written comments, written documents, and these documents must be submitted to the board secretary at the meeting or emailed to the office of public communications by noon of the day following the board meeting. And the secretary, our secretary is right over there. Tonight, individuals will be given three minutes and those representing groups will be given five minutes. Comments made during patron comment are part of
151the public record. It is the board's practice to listen and take notes during patron comments. The board of education does not discuss matters that are not on the meeting's agenda, nor engage in public comment on individual students to protect their privacy or employee issues. If a patron wants to comment on a district employees character, professional competence, or mental or physical health, the 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
152the patron comment time as well as throughout the meeting. and comments must be age appropriate considering children who may be present or viewing online. So um we have two people that have signed up today. The first person is Paul Weaver and he is representing a group and then the second person is Lane Vamant Vammanacus. Okay, I probably said that wrong. So please correct that when you come up here. Um so Paul, please come up. I'm Paul Weaver. I represent SESBA, the Canyons Educational Support Personnel Association. I just want to let you guys know we really appreciate everything you guys have done going forward in negotiations in accordance with line 8B. Um, kind of threw us for a loop. HB267, we didn't know if we were going to get a negotiation. Like I said, we really
153appreciate it, Leon, Rick, the the rest of the board, and uh yeah, we just look forward to working with you guys in the future. Okay, thank you. So, Lane, do you want to come up and please say your name for the record? Thank you. Hi, thank you. I'm Lane Vamianakis. am a parent of students at Willow Canyon Elementary and I just wanted to come and speak regarding the new business item F um regarding the boundary enrollment and school consolidation. Um, I'm here really just to get some information, but I do feel that when you guys are going through the process of figuring out where to close which schools, I think it would be nice if there could be some flexibility provided to those families in the permitting process in order to uh maybe facilitate some
154of that stress and anxiety of the our communities that are going to be like greatly impacted. Um, I would appreciate some flexibility in that permitting process to enable us to maybe stay with specific teachers or specific friends or specific things that will help our children kind of go through that whole process because that's a really huge uh impact on our community. So, take that into consideration. That's all. Okay. Thank you very much. Okay. Okay, now we are on to the consent agenda and I will now um take a motion and whoever makes that motion please um read all the items. I'd like to make a motion with regard to the consent agenda. Um I'd like to make a motion approve the consent agenda. Um, with all but one, I'd like to pull off of the
155consent and discuss separately. And that would be item I of approval of land, trust, and TSA TSSA plans for the 2025 2026 school year with two board member signatures. And then we would approve the rest as follows consent agenda. And that would be item A, approval of minutes for April 15, 2025. appro. Item B, approval of hire and termination reports. Item C, approval of student overnight travel. Item D, approval of purchase and sales agreement for property located at 332 West, 7800 South Midvail. Item E, approval of reduction of contract days to federal programs funded ESP assistance. Item F, approval of reduction of force Jordan Valley school pair professionals. Item G, approval of reduction of contract hours, ele Crescent Elementary ML assistants. Item H, approval of administrative appointments. Item J, approval of land trust or TSSP
156amendment for life skills academy. And item K, approval of LEA specific licenses and endorsements. Okay, thank you. We have a motion. Is there a second to that motion? I'll second that motion. Okay, thank you. Is there any discussion to that motion? I Yes, Mr. Lewis first, then Mrs. Nybar. Uh, I just want to say uh in regards to item D, I want to thank the board for being willing to sell this property to the city of Midvil. Uh, I personally, and I know our community is extremely excited about the the what's going to go go on on that plot of land. So, thank you. Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Nyar. Can we open up for discussion why the land trust was pulled off of the consent? I I think we're first approve just having it pulled
157off then we can have the discussion. But well, just one clarifying thing. I was talking to Alice today and the the approval is just that it that all of the plans are approved by May 10th, but it's for tonight. I don't know if that changes your your decision to pull it off. No, it doesn't. It actually I'm planning on um voting for approval, but I just want to point out something and request something of the administration to look at more deeply. Okay. And thank you board members. Any other discussion? Okay. Seeing none, I'll call for a vote. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Okay. That motion passes unanimously. And now I will turn the item over to Mrs. Oaks to discuss item the item she pulled. Okay. So, first of all, I
158want to um thank all of the schools and and school community councils for working so hard on your land trust and and TSSA plans. A lot of thought and effort goes into all of these. And I thought it was really meaningful actually that we had Julie Mootz from Okalo Elementary here tonight because every year I've been so impressed by Julie's plan. I feel like it she does such a deep and granular dive and hearing the outcomes of what has happened with um their kids achievement in the various areas that they focused on doesn't surprise me. and she brought up specifically the area of science. Of all of the elementary school plans um that I read, and there were a lot, um Julie's was the only one that focused in part on science. And um in
159the past when I've read these plans, you know, I know that there's a lot of focus on reading and there's a lot of focus on math. And um I've never thought too much about it until this year. where I spent as much time as I did listening to the feedback that we got from our industry partners and um other CEOs and business people who came together with the district to discuss what K12 is doing well and what we're not doing well in the state of Utah. And one of the areas of greatest weakness that they highlighted is science and scientific thinking. And and so when I went to read the land trust plans this year, I really kind of went in with a new set of lenses. And I realized that there seems to be
160lack of support in this content area. Um and even though our science scores have roughly stayed higher than the state average, they seem to still be remaining fairly stagnant. And so in my mind, this begs the bigger question about our alignment um to hands-on project-based learning and what our commitment to sciences in our strategic vision and our strategic plan. So my ask a board member and I'm wondering if anyone else has interest in this is to ask the administration to do a science curriculum block audit and report back to us. Um, specifically I'm interested in getting information on elementary schools and you know and this ought to include things like instructional time, labs, projects, etc. I mean, I know over the years there's been a lot of discussion about paying for maker spaces and are
161we using them? If so, how and when? We've paid for science kits about are we using those and if so, how and when? Um, we've been offered outdoor learning spaces. Are we using those? If so, and when? I mean, I know a lot of these things are kind of included in our strategic plan, but I'm just not seeing it reflected right now in our land trust plans. And I'd like to to kind of do a deeper dive about what we can do to help this in this area. Children have natural curiosity and really enjoy being able to touch um and and learn things in a hands-on way. And there is no subject that better leans itself to that than science. And I don't want to lose this opportunity that we have from a very early
162age to instill that curiosity in kids. And I know there's a lot that we're asking of our teachers. And so part of me wonders, are there things that need to be pulled off and cleared in order for us to be able to do that? I'm not sure, but um I'm just Yeah, I'd be interested in getting um feedback or weigh in from the rest of the board about whether or not anyone would be interested in getting more information on that. Okay. Board, are there any comments? Mrs. I'm interested in supporting your idea, Amanda, or to um look at how we are incorporating our our sciences. I know that a lot of our schools are doing maker spaces, but they're run by the PTA for the most part, and they're before or after school, mostly before.
163And I'd like to see us devote balance our day a little bit more where science is more integrated into um a regular schedule. Okay. Anyone else? Mrs. Nymar. I I would support looking at science as well. I think I think that's something we could explore and put as an agenda item. I don't know that totally um I think that'd be a better place for it is as an agenda item to look at in a study session, but I'd be very much in favor of that. I I wanted to bring it back to the land trust and the TSSA plans. So, um I I wanted to first just thank all of our schools. Actually, this year was the strongest plans I've read in the five years I've been on the board. A lot of great detail.
164Um I was just super impressed. I also felt like their goals were were more ambitious than I've seen in the past and that was super exciting. A little shout out um Corner Canyon had such an ambitious goal as well as Sprucewood Elementary. I was super impressed with how ambitious their goal was. Um also there is um I just wanted to make that clarification that it's two signatures by May 10th because there are two schools I'm waiting to hear back from one of the schools. It's a great plan. and it's just not very measurable and it's the it's the land trust goal and so um Alice is working with the school to to fix that. So, um but yeah, I really in just in general I was really excited about the plans this year. So, thank
165you to all our administrators and schools and our school community councils for taking a lot of effort and time and deep dive. It was very good. Okay. Um I I would be supportive of us just adding science um science to our agenda at some point. we can figure out when that would be best. But um I am supportive too. So I think we can add that and oh Mrs. Dolly just a quick comment. I think I've seen a lot of great science that is happening in our schools and so I think diving into it is great and putting more effort there but there's a lot of great hands-on things happening and and seeing my kids come home excited about these hands-on science things that they are doing. Okay, I think we're ready for another motion
166if someone would like to make that to finish up consent. I'll make a motion to approve the land trust and TSSA plans for 2025 2026 school year with two board members signatures. Okay, great. Thank you. Is there a second to that? I'll second that motion. Okay, that's fine. Thank you. We can have Mr. Lewis second that. Okay, any other discussion? Okay, seeing none, I'll call for a vote. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Okay, that motion passes unanimously. Thank you for that discussion. And now we are on to new business. And first we'll have item A, which is approval of 2025 2026 Canyons Education Association negotiated agreement. Action is requested and this will be presented by Leon Wilcox, business administrator. Thank you, President Schill. Uh we have completed negotiations with all three
167uh groups, the teachers, the ESPs, and the administrators. Uh we're ask for your approval of those here tonight. Uh couple things in common. So we I'll just address these as these go throughout all three groups. So when I come to that specific group, I will not repeat this. But a a couple things uh one we will be on the insurance for all three groups. The district will pick up a 6.5% premium increase. Employee premiums will remain the same uh for the our 2026 plan year. Uh but deductibles will be increasing for that 2026 plan year. Uh you can see those on on the agreements uh on the traditional plan from single from 900 to,200. couple and family from 27 to 3600. Uh then on the high deductible plans 1,650 to 2,000 for a single and
168a couple or family coverage uh from 3,300 up to 4,000. These will gen save the district approximately $850,000 uh with those increases as well. Again, we've had a big, as of all companies, a big hit on insurance uh this year. Also, to make uh try to give our employees a little bit more flexib on leave, we will be converting uh increasing the personal leave allocation from five to six days per year that they will earn. We will actually take the one day off from their family sick. So they'll have one day less of that. They can now use uh eight days rather than seven of personal leave going forward. Again, that will be for all three groups. And it also should be said that uh House Bill 267, as you know, was passed by the
169legislature, signed by the governor. Uh signatures were gathered u the they have been verified by the lieutenant governor. She did place a hold on that bill today. Going forward for the next five days as it was supposed to be implemented tomorrow. It then after five days the governor will have a decision make. So it will that's the status of that. If he places a hold on it those negotiated policies will still remain negotiated until uh further action of the boats. So again, that's for all both negotiated policies for both ESPs and and for our license. So I'll now get to just the specifics of each motion, then we'll ask you to approve each one individually. We'll start with our CA agreement. Want to thank those who participated in the negotiations with CA. That would be
170Rebecca Allen from Albian, Mitchell Attentio from Corner Canyon, Julie Bean from Jordan High, Natalie Day from Quell Hollow, and Kathy Smith back here from uh Alterara. What we've agreed to there is the find the whole package I should say, all 40 pages, but it is on board doc. So, I'm just going to hit the summary. Uh again, we will uh the educator salary adjustment has increased by $1,46 up to $10,350. The TSA increased by $90. We will grant increment levels of $950 per each increment and also calculate a 1.51 cost of living adjustment uh as well. So, what that does is that will give each teacher a $3,540 pay increase from this next year compared to this year. Again, it's a dollar amount for each teacher. Uh the average teacher this year makes about $76,300.
171Uh that would equate to about a 4.6% increase next year. So, our average teacher will make just under 80,000 next year. So that's uh thank you to the board for getting us to that point. Uh that is we uh a couple other things on that. The 32 hours of paid professional hours will still continue at their their hourly rate and we will be giving each of our title one teachers a $1,000 stipen that will be paid from title one title one funds and middle school budgets for their activities will increase uh from $2,500 up to $3,000. So uh that's the uh summary of the agreement. again the whole ones on board docks just want to say thank you a big thank you to all our teachers uh uh you know whether they're a kindergarten first
172grade teacher in our elementarymentaries working with our middle school kids in those early teen years can be a little awkward for them uh whether they're in high school uh working with our arts or drama or a band coaching or kids in athletics or you know I have to mention my boy took an AP test today. And big thank you to his teacher. I never thought a ninth grader could take would be ready for an AP test, but he says, "Dad, I think I passed. I think I when I called him." So, big thank you to all them. And also to our counselors, our our instructional coaches, our social workers, psychologists, nurses, everyone who works with our kids on a daily basis. So, big thank you to all them. With that, I'll be happy to take
173any questions or a motion. Okay. board. Any discussion or I will entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to approve the 2025 2026 Canyons Education Association negotiated agreement. Okay, thank you. We have a motion. Is there a second to that? I'll second that. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Any other discussion or questions? Okay, seeing none, I'll call for a vote. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? That motion passes unanimously. Now we'll go on to item B and that is the approval of 202526 Canyons Education Support Professionals Association negotiated agreement and action is requested and Mr. Wilcox will continue to present. Okay. uh for our ESP agreement. Again, you've heard from Paul uh ear minutes ago, but I just want to acknowledge the team here. If they could just raise their
174hand as I read their name that we that we met with. That is Matt Pots from facilities. He's their president. Angie Viva from uh hope I said that right. From Butler close. Okay. From from Butler Middle, she's the nutrition manager. Brandon Wolf from facilities or energy team lead. Brent is not here. Brent Marcus, she's our custodial coordinator. Brett Wolf Hillrest, the register, and Kathy Collins, uh, media technician at Canyon View. Again, big thank you for them. Again, we've already hit the insurance and the leave pieces. But, uh, the financial package is we will fund steps. That's about a $1.8 8 million cost about a 2.32% increase over this year. Uh we also find that 1.5 uh cost of living. That will put that is a cost of about nine just under $2 million for that.
175That will put the starting base salary for any position at $15.70. uh for those employees that are topped out and we appreciate all those who have been with us those 10 plus years uh we have about 320 ESPs who have topped out on their salary schedule been with us a long time and we appreciate their loyalty. We'll give a $650 a one-time stipen on their November 30th check. We've also paid those hourly ones a $200 stipen regardless of the number of hours worked on that same check if they're topped out. We will fund a $1,000 bonus. Again, the state funded a $1,000 bonus to all ESPs uh who work in schools. We will also extend that to all district level ESPs as well. Anybody who does not qualify for that, around 160 would qualify for
176that. So again, the whole cost to this package is about four just 4.27 million or about 5.4%. 4% above this year's compensation base. Again, big thank you to whether you're a bus driver, bringing our kids to school every day, uh, in the lunchroom, working in facilities, or keeping our buildings clean and or maintain, fixing our computers, working with our principles as their administrative assistants. A big big thank you to all our ESPs, big backbone of this district to to keep it going every day. So, thank you to them all. And with that, I'll ask any questions or a motion. Okay. Any questions, comments, or we will I will take a motion. I'd like to make the motion to approve the 2526 Canyons Educational Support Professionals Association negotiate negotiated agreement as presented. Great. Okay, we have
177a motion. Is there a second to that? I'll second it. Okay. Thank you. Any comments or questions? Discussion. Okay. Seeing none, we will take a vote. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? That motion passes unanimously. So, Mr. Wilcox, back to you. Yes. We'll now hit the administrators. Uh, again, want to thank those who met with us. That was Elsena Selene from Granite, Kirst Kirsten Draper from Crescent, Chip Watts from Draper Park, and Dr. Bruce Echler from Jordan High. What we agreed to there was step increases, that's about $227,000. Uh 1.51, same as the other groups, COLA, that's about $384,000. those administrators who are topped out and we have about 52 of them, we will fund a one point as we've done in the past several years a 1.25 stipen for that and
178then uh administrators were not included unfortunately in the ESP uh uh bonus provided by the state. So we will go ahead and provide each administrator a $1,000 bonus payable on their November check for that. So, uh, again, they will still have the same insurance leave that we've already hit as well. Uh, again, thank you to all our administrators who really do a great job of leading this district. Jeff mentioned, uh, Julie Mootz, I want to mention her as well. 10 years ago, my little boy was starting kindergarten. Julie invited us in, took him by the hand, and gave him a tour of the school. So big thank you to all those administrators. We have a principles. We have a a hundred plus just like Julie who do a great job caring for our kids every
179day. So thank you to them all. Again, turn it back to you, President Shill. Questions or a motion. Okay. Board. Um are there any questions, comments on this administrative agreement? And if not, then I'm I will take a motion. I move to approve the 202526 compensation package for Canyon School District administrators. Okay. Thank you. We have a motion. Is there a second? I'll second that. You can pick. You got it. Okay. Mrs. Patterson, I guess will be the second. Okay. Um, any other discussion? Okay. Seeing none, I'll call for a vote. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Okay. That motion passes unanimously and thank you um leadership for being here. We appreciate you guys and also um CA in the back. We we appreciate you guys always being here at our meetings and
180we appreciate negotiating with you. So we are glad we can continue to do that. Okay. So now we will just move on um to the next item on the agenda and this will be item D and that is first we're going to talk about the policies that were supposed to be in study session. Um so we'll turn the time over to um Jeff Christensen, our assistant legal counsel. Thank you, President Schill. Uh I tried really hard not to have two back-to-back policy agenda items, but But you had to listen to Leon for six or seven tonight. So maybe we're all right. Uh so again, all of these are for first reading. So um if you have feedback, uh please provide it to the policy committee. Um and I can try to review what what's here.
181Um again, most of these that we're discussing here are legislative updates um that are required by state statute. And I've referenced in the presentation and in the memo the the relevant uh bills. So, the first is policy 300006, student transportation, as a result of HB 161. Um, we have a transportation policy, and this adjusts uh the mile length for our sixth grade middle school students that used to be one and a half miles, but will now be two. And you've had this discussion already in um our business meetings previously and in study session. This just um makes this adjustment in policy moving forward. uh our student conduct and discipline policy. Uh there are three bills that uh impact this policy. SB223 uh the bullying amendments, SB 170 school discipline amendments and SB2 49 student integration
182amendments. Um as outlined in the memo and in the in the um PowerPoint presentation, the first is the bullying. Uh this was presented and it adjusts the bullying definition for both students and um for staff and we've updated the policy to include that new definition for bullying. Uh in SB1 170 with school discipline amendments. Um we have here new definitions for emergency safety interventions and their associated terms. And what we've done is included those new terms and also um the relevant portions of the statute addressing um that you cannot inflict corporal punishment and how to address emergency safety interventions. Um student integration amendments. This deals with if a student uh um is arrested or charged or adjudicated in a juvenile court for a serious offense, the school will develop a reintegration plan and um through
183work from uh I believe our our CSD legislative team, we've been able to add some additional language where um if we have a student that receives an integration plan, um we can provide them an alternate location setting for that education if they've had one of these um forcible felony events. And so what we've done is included this language both in the policy and and in our um and we'll include it in our levels of behavior document. So that includes all of those statutory bills in our student discipline policy. Uh the next one again for a legislative update this deals with SB 178 devices in public schools. Again here a student may not use a cell phone, smartwatch or emerging technology at school during classroom hours. Um based on our discussions in the policy committee, they
184recommended a tier approach moving forward um for open time which would be during lunch and um passing times for um our schools. So in the elementary a band to ban um a bell to bell ban on those devices and they may not be used during lunch or transitions between classes. at the middle school level a little bit um less restrictive where they could use it only during lunchtime and in high schools you would have passing and um during lunch times to use those devices. Uh considerations for all grades. This was recently raised. Um teachers and administrators may authorize an exception to those parameters for a student's IEP or 504 accommodation plan. So there's language where there may be a need to address the use of a device in a different way as um outlined by
185those accommodation plans. And again, schools may implement a stricter policy if approved by the principal and school community council. So our policy will set the floor and schools could uh be more restrictive as as needed. Then you have the the outline statutory exceptions and then a few other cosmetic changes were just to update the red line in this policy for compliance with SP 178. Uh the next one is open enrollment, school admissions and school moratoriums. Uh this one uh there's uh statutory language where if a student um enrolls in kindergarten in another state and then moves to Utah and they um have already been enrolled but are under the five years old requirement on September 2nd, they can be enrolled if they're coming from another state. So we've updated that language from statute. And we
186also updated um our open enrollment application and rejection of applications and open enrollment appeal language. So um if if we have a situation where a a student um enrolls um in canyons through the open enrollment process um they can be a student provided they adhere to the um disciplinary standards of our district. If we have um a serious violation of the law, then we can put them on a provisional contract and um if they violate that contract, they can be uh the permit can be revoked and they can return to their boundary school. So that process is laid out in our policy. We made a few adjustments there. Uh HB or sorry um policy 534 HB288 deals with publication immunization amendments. um a vaccinate a vaccination exemption that an individual submits under the statute remains
187um while that student is in the public education system instead of an annual um exemption and then if a student transfers that will be provided with their transfer to another school student attendance homeschool amendments uh the requirement for homeschool affidavit signed by a parent or legal guardian for homeschooling has been eliminated uh based on the recent legislation a parent or legal guardian only provides a one-time notification to the child's district of residence. So, in that policy, we've just struck the language that dealt with the homeschool affidavit. And then what it requires now is that one-time notification. And once we receive that, then we provide um an acknowledgement back to the parent or legal guardian that provides that notification. Uh in policy 542, medication in school amendments, um this policy updates um our medication in schools
188for epinephrine nasal spray. So a CSD school um shall permit a student to possess an epinephrine spray or injectable epinephrine epinephrine rescue medication to self-administer. And the policy outlines what's required to for them to be able to do that, which is consistent with um some of our other um medications, getting an authorized um statement from the doctor and acknowledging that the student is capable and responsible for being able to possess and administer the medication. Uh all of those are legislative updates required by state statute. And we have a couple additional policies for first reading that are uh just primarily cosmetic and cleanup. And our fiscal accountability policy, we brought this to you earlier this year uh in in March. Um but it was about the time of the legislative session and we were updating a
189couple of other issues. Now we're bringing it forward just to clarify uh that joint PTA and school fundraisers are not allowed and to request a proposed itemized budget from high school groups that are seeking approval for fundraising. So, we went back to that policy where there were a couple sections we weren't able to address while our external relations team was um at the legislative session as we've been working through our um fiscal accountability and our finance policies. So, that's brought back forward for um first reading uh small unmanned aircraft systems. This is uh our our drone policy and it's essentially it's not a state legislative update, but frequently the federal government will update their um circulars or their updates regarding uh federal aviation. And so this relates to drones on school property. And so that
190their um update is that they provided some new definitions and um also some considerations that we need to have um in place if we're going to operate a drone on school property. They have to be approved by risk management and provide their proof of registration and airspace authorization because we're near an airport. Uh the last one in this group of policies, again for first reading, is um after considerable discussion over several meetings about our student overnight travel policy to to simplify uh our um process for discussing district travel. Um we're proposing a new district travel committee um that would be comprised of um two board members appointed by the board president, the business administrator, assistant superintendent, director of high schools and all high school principles and director of of accounting. um the draft maintains um
191this new policy or this new policy includes this new committee and then they would approve um meeting annually or more during the year to approve travel. And so our thought behind um bringing this forward is to move away from um board approved travel in board meeting and move it to a committee that would meet periodically. The other component of this policy is that um we have situations that occur on a regular basis where a group may need an additional rental van or they mean to adjust how many days they may be traveling and in looking at some other districts. Um the proposal was to simplify our process, move it to this committee that can meet um more frequently and um one reduce the work for the full board looking at travel and also streamline some
192of our provisions moving forward. Um I guess two items of note that were proposed by the by the policy committee and looking at this that I think should be noted for the board. Again, this is for first reading. You can provide feedback to the committee. Um we've always had um student supervision issues, but we want to propose providing an additional chaperone agreement that we always have chaperones that are BCI background checked and it must be 21 years of age. We want to uh give some additional protection to students for those chaperones that attend while they're engaged as a chaperone um that they are responsible for student supervision and and a code of conduct. Um we're also looking at maintaining our um travel gross expense cap, the two tier expense cap and the itemized budget that
193I mentioned um earlier. And then one other issue in our transportation and lodging. We want to look at um providing a little more latitude for places where students and and groups can travel to through VBO and air BNB, but also looking at um several school districts um to protect students that travel in overnight to um one bed per student and have separate rooms and restrooms based on gender. Uh this will um incur an additional cost but in meeting with the policy committee um given the nature of overnight travel and students um in rooms we feel it's appropriate to rec to um require that one bed per student. Um I can answer questions regarding uh those policies. Again, a number the majority of them are legislative and then uh again, these would be brought back at
194a later meeting for um consideration. Okay, board. Are there any comments or questions just while we're discussing this? And thank you, Mr. Christensen. This is a lot of work. Anyway, Mrs. Oaks, thank you. This is a ton of work. Policy committee has a heavy lift. So um first my this is a shorter question is the policy regarding the drones. So I know one of the things we've talked about is having a drone program out at the innovation center. So I'm just curious whether or not teachers or those who are familiar with that curriculum or te are teaching how to fly drones were um consulted in the formation of the policy. I'm just trying to make sure that we're not creating something that is going to tie our hands later of being able to meaningfully teach
195this. Yes, we we've had those discussions previously when we um drafted the policy. The update, if I can I don't I don't have it here, but it's on board docs. They they just updated some of the definitions that are included for line of sight and some of the parameters for what's required. So, there aren't any new requirements. What what the the policy specifically requires is that if you're going to fly a drone, you have to register with two entities primarily for altitude. And so that the aviation centers that are close nearby are aware of its use. And so we would have whatever program is engaging in drones would have those requirements to to to register if they're going to be engaged in the process of flying drones. So even if they're in the process of
196learning. Yes. Okay. All right. That was my first question. Um the second one is regarding um 500.02 um regarding um yeah well regarding violent offenders specifically. So, I just want to point out, I mean, there are some people that have been concerned a little bit about this, and I think it's important for the public to be aware of the fact that when we're talking about violent offenders not being reintegrated in regular classrooms that this is what a forcable felony includes, right? I mean, we have it up there. aggravated assault, mayhem, aggravated murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, aggra aggravated kidnapping, race, rape, forced sodomy, rape of a child, object rape, so on and so forth, aggravated sexual assault. I mean, it's it's a category where kids are egregiously attacking another human being and sometimes in some cases using
197a weapon. Um, and it's very serious. I personally as a board member am grateful for the passage of this legislation. When I was first approached um in my very first time of running as a board member, I had a parent who asked me to go to lunch with her. She was a very involved parent at one of the high schools that I am involved with. and she said that there had been a student that was going to school with her kids that she found out had committed a very serious crime. It was the first time that I had ever been made aware of the fact that this was a thing and that because of juvenile justice reform that was essentially forced on the schools to figure out solutions. And yet it presented this very um
198large quandry about what to do in order to maintain student safety, especially when students are sitting alongside somebody with that history and they're not aware of it. Um, so when a student has demonstrated premeditated violence, I think that there is good reason to make sure that we have policy or processes in place to make sure that they are not necessarily going to school alongside mainstream kids until they're either rehabilitated, their their record is expuned or whatnot. I mean, I think we need to maybe talk through that. So here's my question. I know that this policy is now here and aligning with the law that's in place, but do we have because it's it's a may it's not a shall right in the way that it's presented. What do we have in place in our district
199to asssure that violent offenders are not sitting next to any of our run-of-the-mill students who aren't, like I said, aware of the violent history there. So in response to that, we we have the language of the statute and um so I guess the first point I would say is we have to receive notice um whether the student has been arrested, charged or adjudicated. In terms of the court system, we most likely will get an adjudication, which is they've met and there's been a proceeding and we're on notice. It's a bit more unclear when a student has been arrested because there hasn't been any judicial action at this point and whether or not the police notify us when there's an arrest may may be less clear. I mean that we're we're not obligated or they're not
200obligated to provide us notice. We do sometimes receive through our partnerships information. Um when a student is charged again they're still in the due process point of being you know they're still subject to the criminal justice system. how we've addressed these issues. If we do receive notice, then we're meeting with our I mean then we putting in together a reintegration plan and that's primarily overseen by Dr. McIll and our student services and often our DCMT team to take a look at those issues and determine what's appropriate given what information we then have and we're and under the statute we put in a re together a reintegration plan and what that looks like. What this new bill does allow us to do is we haven't had on the table where we shall integrate. We now have
201available alternative education options for the student which potentially could be online or other support. So to the extent we have information and we have concerns for student safety, that's how we would address it and and looking through those issues. So it's outlined in our levels of behavior document where we do have to meet. we have to meet within a certain time frame and make that reintegration plan. So that's how it's addressed. Brian, again, that's an area that I don't oversee particularly, but it's handed through our student services and I don't know if you want to add anything, Brian, to that, but essentially in terms of the policy, we're adding in the new bill. Um, we have been working through this process at with our partners um that are providing us information um through the adjudication
202process. Uh, I think it's something that a lot of school districts are are trying to balance as we receive information from the criminal justice system and how to appropriately provide education and also maintain student safety. I think this is a great um bill to allow us alternative paths so that we do have means available to still provide education while maintaining safety. I appreciate where you're coming from about that. It opens up another path, but for me as a board member, and I don't know if anyone feels similarly, I would like to see some sort of consistent plan and to make sure that our building leaders are familiar with how that goes. We have been dealing with the aftermath of the change in juvenile justice for so long that those are the lenses we've been operating.
203But as we've seen in some situations that have occurred in the district over the last year that have become really heated and very difficult. I feel strongly that if we are getting information that a forcable felony has been committed by a student that we have a plan of what that how that's going to move forward. Which brings me to another question. What is the alternative education options that we would be providing those students? Do we have a plan on that yet? So again, I would say I think the plan itself would not be standardized in terms of all of the available elements for a student. We may have a student with different credit um they may have earned. So it might look different in terms of credit. It might look different in terms of location
204and and they could potentially have other significant issues. They could have an individualized education plan. So, in terms of the plan there, I I don't have the bill in front of me, but I could go back and look at the statute, but I think it will be tailored to that student's individual needs working with the integration team, which includes, you know, mental health specialists, social services, and so we can have a template to the extent that it doesn't, I guess, bind the student, but it'll have the components that are in the plan as as outlined in state statute. So, um I think it will be individualized based on the student. Um I'm just trying to I I really feel strongly that they should not be in mainstream classrooms if they have committed one of those
205things that are under the forcable felony definition. Right? We as a district have the autonomy to make that decision. I and I I'm trying to understand if they're not in a mainstream classroom, what are our options with those kids? Oh, yeah. Superintendent. Just a couple of things. One is um Brian and our team I I've been very clear about if we are aware of a forcable felony like this that we do not reintegrate them automatically back into regular school. The some of the and Brian can speak to this too more as Jeff says, but youth academy is one option. We we have a placement here at the district office that Brian actually is overseeing from the the start. Um, we also have I know we've worked with Diamond Ridge. We've worked with um what's our
206other adult uh intrada. So, so there there are placements. I I think to me once the notification comes, that's one thing we can deal with it. I I still have concerns about, you know, previous behaviors and things that we may not be totally aware of um andor how that information comes to us. As Jeff says, sometimes we get consistent information from law enforcement, other times we do not. And so, um, trying to evaluate that and protect student rights at the same time making sure that our schools are safe is there's, as he points out, it's it's a balance. But but I I feel like we've made it very clear that and I know, you know, over the last year, our cases in DCMT have really ramped up. Um I think with levels of discipline, Brian
207and our team's done a great job of of really kind of going back to our visit to Davis. I mean, you know, looking at all of these kinds of behaviors that um really affect our culture and other students that, you know, I I hope it's making a difference. It seems like it is. I, you know, we we probably should revisit discipline and office referrals at some point, maybe in the summer, um to just get a kind of another check on it to see where it's going. But when it comes to investigating and reporting and documenting and and follow-up plans and care plans um you know for all students involved and Jeff's been a big part of this too. I I feel like you know we've really ramped up our efforts. So okay, Mrs. Nyar wanted
208to comment. Yeah. I also think it's important to point out that the law now states that any student that has committed a felony like that, we are no longer required to integrate them into a traditional high school or traditional classroom. And that's been a change. So, I think that's important for us to recognize, too. Okay. Thank you. Are there any other comments? Um, I do have some comments. No one else does. Okay. First of all, going to the cell phone um policy for high schools. So, when I um shadowed that student at Brighton, a bunch of the classes have like the clear, it's like I think it's a shoe, it's a over thedo shoe thing, but the students are required to put their cell phones in those clear pockets. So, the policy says it has
209to be not seen. I mean, I just want to make sure that we allow when a school is already doing that process. It seems like it's working well that we're we're not saying they can't do that anymore. So, I don't know if we can change um language on that. So, we would have to just look again um with SB78. A lot of this is where um let me go back and double check that, but as we were looking at the different layers um I they were talking about keeping it out of sight and I think that's part and I don't have SB78 right in front of me. It's not part of my presentation in terms of the full bill, but I think that was drafted to um to address that they can't be out during
210the classroom. And so even if they're in a in a separate location, um but we'll just have to double check to see if that can be modified. I can bring that back when we discuss the second reading. Okay, that would be great. And then the um my next question is on the travel this travel committee. Yes. just because um our board I just don't know if board members should be on it honestly because to me that's an administrative function and also I mean board members are already on like six to eight committees and some some se several of them take many hours um so I just don't know I was just wondering what was the thinking on that uh the thinking beyond in that in that um development of that committee was envisioning um likely
211a one meeting per year with the full committee. So, so let me just explain uh a one-year like we said meet annually and Tom as we discussed this Mr. Sherwood we talked about there may need to be additional meetings to address issues but that would be delegated to a subcommittee. So, the reason we wanted to include board members on that one-time meeting is that's where we would have uh the director of accounting, our business administrator to discuss, okay, this is where we're looking in terms of finance. This is how much money we have. Do we need to make any adjustments as we look forward? And rather than have the board not have a voice in looking at what we're doing in an annual meeting, that the board would be represented on that one-time meeting. Okay?
212So, it's a it's a much more reduced role than we're anticipating. And the the idea behind it is to reduce one the board agenda with travel appeals to reduce not having a committee any further. It would be addressed through this established committee and then also allow us as we look at how travel through our forms and otherwise it could be updated to to provide some ease for administrators and secretaries. So, we're really trying to look at how to better streamline and reduce some of the issues that have been consistently coming to the board. Okay. In the last year with the number of appeals. Yeah. So, it's just like an annual meeting. It's not because almost every single meeting we have right a so as Tom's looking at exception with the travel committee. So, it's not
213that travel committee. No, no, no. But we're Tom really thinks that most schools can say these are the trips that we plan to take in the next year with all the groups that I know it's a lot but could be addressed in one meeting. All the documentation provided early. This is what we're thinking we're going to to do. And then during that meeting we would look at and it could be provided electronically in advance and the two board members would just be there to this is what we look in terms of finances. is do we need to make any adjustments kind of an annual meeting in the spring or in the fall and then from that point travel could then be addressed through a subcommittee on a regular basis if there were other issues and
214not pull in board members so that the idea is to reduce load not create okay so I do understand so that is a board so you would be possibly looking at changing policy so that is yes this is a this is a full policy revision where we're looking at adjusting the the how travel has been done. So board, are you guys okay with that? Okay, Mrs. Nyar, then Mrs. Peterson. So I I I voiced this in policy committee and unfortunately I wasn't able to attend the last one but my initial concern was akin to yours Amber that I I'm just a little concerned about the volume and um making sure that the whatever policy we create that there is some streamlining and I think this policy does kind of go towards hey if it's a
215UHSAA if it's something that's every year those can just be streamlined. However, one thing we did discuss which I don't think has been done yet is I'd really love to have the high school principles. This is just a first reading, but I'd love to have them invited to the policy committee meeting and hear from them um a little more of their feedback seeing as how and and sometimes head principles have like one of the assistant principles really over the student overnight travel. But I think that would be super helpful just to get I know that they are in the I know that we have them set up to be in the district travel committee, but I would like for them to review this policy as a whole just because I have um just talked it
216through with some of my administrators and they do have some concerns that I think are fairly legitimate. So I I would really be interested in inviting them to the policy committee meeting and have them kind of air those things because they're the there's the ones that get those all the time, right? that are trying to go through all of it. And I want to make sure that this is as least complicated and you know um heavy laden with time and resource as we as we can make it. So, okay. Thank you, Mrs. Person. I'm changing topic. I'm going to go back to the cell phone policy. Um I just wanted to make clear or make sure the understanding I'm understanding it clearly. I I understand that it's a tiered restriction, but the very last line
217says that schools, and this is for all grades, schools may implement a stricter policy such as disallowing the device use at lunch if approved by the principal and school community council. I really would like that to be emphasized and promoted to our school community councils and principles because so many of them have said we would really like to have a stronger backing for our policies and not have them be the ones that take the brunt of it. We now have a state law that says you're not supposed to use phones in school, but they gave us the leeway that we could modify. I just want to do the same thing. We are doing the same thing for our principles, but I really think that many of them may choose to do a stronger policy if
218they know that they're being backed up not only by the district, but also by the state. So, I'm I don't like it just being a little teeny sentence down there. I would like it to be more emphasized that this is our our current policy, but if they choose as an SEC, as a community, and as a high school to tighten theirs up, that we back that. We as a board I'm I think I can speak for the board. We as a board would back that up and the state would back that up. And I just want to make sure that our community is aware of that and that we're not encouraging excess use of our cell phones, but that we really want to make education the priority. That being distracted by phone calls is never
219our our goal. And the less we have them looking at screens, we're talking about um Chromebooks, I think phones are worse. Um I would really like to see we we us have a stronger policy even than this, but this we have that option right now and I'd like the communities to kind of weigh in on that. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, Miss P. And I think as drafted that would be the case. They'd be able to do that. And just Miss Nyar stepped away, but I just want to I guess put on the record that uh Tom met with the high school principles and their assistants regarding this travel. And I can bring back their input um for a second reading regarding their their thoughts. Um, and I think many of them would like
220to see some simplification, which I'm hoping as we do this, it would bring that because they'd be looking at travel from a year perspective rather than um periodically in months and bringing it forward. So, I think it would streamline. So, I'll bring that feedback back. Okay, great. And if you could maybe follow up with her, make sure she heard that. That's what she said. Happy to. Okay. Then, Mrs. Oaks has something on that policy. I when I Yes. on the travel thing. I I am concerned about having board members on that and not because we're overworked. That's not the issue. It's because I feel like the board should still remain the final level of review. And if you have two board members on there, it it kind of Yeah, I make I think it makes
221it more difficult for us as a board as a whole to make an objective decision. I think we need to be like, you know, if they make it through that process and they still don't feel like it's what it should be, then they can come to us. But it kind of there creates a bit of a bias and there's two board members on there already. That's that's my only concern. Let let me just clarify. So in the you don't see the full red line in front of you, but in moving this forward as drafted, travel policies or travel recommendations and requests would no longer come as an agenda item to the board. So you wouldn't be sitting as a group later reviewing. It would be approved by that group and be a final approval at
222that committee level. That's that's the thinking is it wouldn't no longer come forward to the board. So if I didn't make that clear, that's that's that's the adjustment that we're recommending is other districts don't bring their travel appeals or their travel recommendations to a full board. They delegate it to a committee, which is what this is proposing. and the and then the policy elements would be what the board deems they think is relevant for travel, but then it's delegated to the committee moving forward. Okay. Um I do have one comment going back to what Karen said about cell phone policy. Like for example, I know that Butler Middle, they do not allow students to have at least they didn't unless they've changed it like cell phones during lunch and that's that was like a huge
223thing because then all of a sudden students are actually talking to each other instead of being on their phones. So I do just want to go along with what Karen's saying and make sure that we are supporting schools in if they already have a slightly different more restrictive policy I want to support them. So okay any other comments board? Okay thank you. That's only half of your presentation. Now, now we're going on to um item E, which is the policy update. Um that has that is a second reading, possible actions starting with policy 500.22 school fees. Item D. Oh, okay. So, this is what we've already reviewed and yeah, I'll just give you that background action. Yeah. So these are these are for second reading possible action. So we met um before we did the
224teacher of the year in April and presented several policies to the board for again primarily some legislative and others. So our school fees pursuant to HB 415 and 344. Um we've discussed this in in study session. Again this incorporates new definitions um from the statute and uh you've have already approved the fee provisions for next school year. So there's the school fees policy. Um but I guess one of the main things to note is I think credit towards graduation without fees. That's something that we've placed in the policy and we'll be looking at how you know a student would be able to proceed forward not this school year but for 2627 without incurring fees. Um service animals in schools. Uh the policy recommends to add more detail. Again, this is primarily um based through our
225ADA process, Americans with Disabilities Act, um for either students or employees that may have a disability and are in need of a service animal, primarily um a service dog. Um that policy has been in place for a number of years. And what we're adding is just some language for other individuals that may inter interact with the service animals, some just some more guidance for staff that wasn't in the policy previously. animals in schools. This is new. Uh as we were discussing um issues to related to our school campuses. Um the cabinet of the district met and there have been some questions just about other animals particularly um dogs on campuses and so the policy committee um recommended two changes a new policy for animals in schools. The first part deals with trained therapy animal dogs.
226So in state statute you are allowed to have so we have a service animal under the ADA. You may also have now a trained therapy animal which could come on school campuses and be available for for students to interact with under strict conditions as outlined in the policy. So in the policy it talks about they may be allowed on school campuses or specific um areas of a school provided proper notice and scheduling. So that's when you're trying to avoid any allerg students that have allergies and um the district would not own them. They would be owned by um an employee or volunteer and they would have to properly register the therapy animal. So that's the first piece of this policy adding therapy animals. The second piece is um moving forward uh for sa reasons of
227safety and hygiene uh and student safety, the recommendation is to no longer allow dogs whether leased or not on any of the school district properties and make it more clear through signage and through um risk management posting signs and making that more clear throughout the district. So that would be new. Um once approved, likely given our calendar, this would be up for I mean if approved today, a lot of our signs would go into effect for next school year as as we're looking at this um animals in schools. Uh again, then it talks about anyone seeking to bring an animal other than like a classroom pet or a service animal approved therapy dog on school campuses must give approval through risk management. Um the policy also does outline classroom related pets. So in the slides
228that I've provided is a shorter summary, but the main issues we would then have two animal policies moving forward. Service animals and then animals in schools addressing therapy animal dogs and our provisions for restricting dogs on campuses and then um other animals brought through through risk management. Uh we moved some languages. We're looking at revising travel. Um we're moving some of the definitions for an extracurricular activity through our school fee amendments. Um there's language that deals with um providing um uh information to students before they engage in an extracurricular activity. That was in our student travel policy and we want to move that to our extracurricular policy. And then lastly, again, we have had our field trip provisions in our student travel policy and we want to move that to a standalone policy. So, I
229can answer any questions. These are for second reading possible action. Um, I haven't received feedback other than the main issue is that we would just be working to um communicate this new policy related to animals in schools to our staff and patrons moving forward. Okay board, are there any comments on these policies? Okay. Well, then we can have a motion if we are ready to approve them tonight. I'd like to make a motion to approve policy 5000.22, school fees policy 300.08, service animals in schools. New policy 300.15 animals in schools policy 500.23 extracurricular activities and student participation new policy 500.25 field trips. Okay. Thank you. Shared. Thank you, Mrs. Peterson. We have a motion. Is there a second to that motion? I'll second that. Okay. Any discussion or comments to the motion? Okay. Seeing none,
230I'll call for a vote. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Okay, that motion passes unanimously and thank you Mr. Christensson. We appreciate you and all the work of the policy committee. Okay, now we are on to item F and that is the long range planning update study of boundary enrollment school consolidation and potential school closures. This is a second reading possible action and Mr. Wilcox, business administrator, will present this. Thank you, President Schill and board members. Uh, again, as with just policy, we talked about this uh tough and difficult topic back at our April 1st meeting and bringing it back for further discussion and and what you guys would like to do proceed moving forward uh with this. Again, appreciate everybody who's on our committee. You can see them listed there. Uh it's
231just you know the decline in enrollment that we're experiencing are our uh you know particularly our elementary schools. You can see where we were in 201819 school year the year before the COVID hit just under 15,000 students. This year we're about 13200 students. Next year we expect to be under that 13,000 mark. again 8,700 from six years ago. We now we'll probably be over 2,000 once we hit uh next school year. Uh the state as a whole, you know, we are not alone in this difficult situation. The state hit its high water mark, if you will, on student enrollment has 675 roughly 675,000 students two years ago. that includes both charters and district students, public education students. Uh they expect that to decline to around 620,000 by the year 2035. I probably should have put
232a a chart in there, but u so we're not alone that, you know, that's roughly almost a six almost a 10% increase statewide. And uh so others are feeling it. We're feeling it, too. maybe even a little bit more so because we're just built out, which also is a problem as well. Uh we talked about the big the big increase, you know, the two are just increasing housing prices, you know, 700 plus for an average home here and the declining birth rates and just little places, little opportunity for growth being built out. There's some space out on Jordan Bluffs and the former prison ground once that gets going, but you know, charters, private homeschooling, the voucher program, all all impact us, but it's still those declining birth rates and the and the increasing house prices
233are the are the main ones there. You can see the average home where it was in 2017, you know, 373,000. this year in 2024 703,000 nearly doubling. Uh we'll get in a couple weeks the 2025 average. I'm I'm guessing it's going to be 3 to 5% higher as well. Not just, you know, it's just so hard for families. Again, it's the birth rate for families to just, you know, live. It's, you know, it almost requires both mom and dad working. That also affects the birth rate. You can see it in in our zip codes in the year 2014. That's this goes by calendar year third about 3,300. And then in 2023, the last year we have data. You know, we had dropped down to just about 2500 about 800 fewer. You can see our capture
234rate if you will across still capture a lot of our our you know those ch children who are born here. We believe that, you know, they stay and, you know, as as as families get a little older and have a little bit more financial resources, we do have some move back. That helps our our secondary schools, but it's our elementary enrollments that really struggle there. Uh, we talk about what is the ideal size of an elementary school, and there's, you know, we'd like at least three classes per grade. So let it be at least 18 K through F uh five CLA 18 through K through five classes. Preferably we'd like to even go up to four classes per grade. You know that puts us in that 560 range. We had uh five schools, you know,
235over that 567 mark. Uh actually over 600 students and then we had another five around that 567 mark. A lot of these are dual immersion programs or are two salt schools, Sunrise and Peruvian Park are there. Uh but it's it's it's a challenge that these other schools here that we've listed, you know, we have 10 schools that are this year were under 375 and those are highlighted in the kind of the orangish brownish color there. Uh you can see, you know, I listed what their enrollments were several years back. the last year of our before our grade reconfiguration in fall of 2013. You know, the buildings were a lot, you know, when sixth graders were in elementary a lot lot fuller. We do feel like it's a better educational program that we have now. Most
236many districts hitting that way where it's just K5 in elementary and then middle school for three years and then high school for the four years. I I still support that model. Uh but that does affect our elementary capacity and you can see where these schools were in the 201819 and I just put two years ago where they were as well and what we're projecting them next year. Then I'm going to skip the 26 27 year and and put out what we're projecting 2728. Those numbers may change a little bit. We're running projections all the time but not going to be greatly different. Uh it should also be noted because we have space in these schools. Many of these house are special education self-contained units. We also have uh and you can see those with the
237double asterisks there. And we also with the kind of the approximate sign we have five of those hold our prek programs as well. So again, they're put at these schools because there is room and we ever looked at closing or consolidating, you know, we'd have to look at these programs where they could go because we still need to serve these students. But it's a it's a again part of the challenge is these buildings, these 10, you know, is just the age and the condition of the building. They were all built around the same time. Some have had significant remodels done over the last several decades. Others have not or needed some more quite a bit of work on them. Uh again, you can see the this year's enrollment. I always use the October one enrollment
238because that's state funded. Our projected enrollment for next year, the capacity of the building and the capacity will vary a lot. It's going to vary on based on the programs that are there right now. And if you pull out some of those programs, the capacity will increase those units. But if you keep them there that you know it's going to shrink the capacity if you will of the K5 uh students there. So that's something that has to be considered. And again what we call the SC the or FCI or facility condition index you know the higher the lower the score the better condition we feel the building is in as we as we go through it and evaluate it. the higher, you know, the more work is needed at the buildings. All these buildings are
239aging. They all need work. There's no doubt about that. But, uh, some have received work. I know Bella Vest and Copper View before the split in 2009. Jordan Jordan district did quite a renovation. Each one of those since we've been a district, we did a pretty big renovation at Willow Canyon back in early 2010 111 range. So, that's why they're a little bit lower. these others ones, you know, we try to just maintain them the best we can going forward. Uh they're all uh you know, eight of these schools are connected and concentrated up there in the south uh excuse me, the northeast part of the district. You can see our boundaries there. Uh, you know, obviously back in the 70s during this boom, if you will, Jordan school district needed to build a lot
240of schools and they did and they did a fantastic job of that. Uh, but you can see there are somewhat tightly clustered there a little bit. We could have and we can put a map where the others are a little bit more spread out in some of the other areas of the district. You can see sprucewood and copper view do not touch. As a committee, we talked about these and if we're going to do a study, it's our recommendation to pull these two out of the study because they do not border a school. We feel like carp with all the growth potential out there on the bluffs, you know, is going to be needed at some point. Uh so we'd recommend pulling that out and Sprucewood would again because it doesn't boundary a school we'd
241recommend pulling that out but you know still come back at a later date and study that and see if there's something we can do but again we are losing students now in the southern part of the district so it's kind of the robbing Peter to pay Paul if you adjust boundaries in that area. Uh challenges with smaller schools. There's so many. You can go beyond this list, but the class size is probably the toughest. Uh you have, you know, classes with 30, 32 students. We try to put those in the fourth and fifth grade, but you also have classes with 16 18 students. And and just because of the way we allocate teachers, that's just tough. uh we are supplementing FTE teachers in many of these schools does affect the PLC collaboration you know teachers
242have to do more duties because there just fewer of them you know whether it's recess bus or serve on the SEC BLT anything like that you know you have limited choice of classrooms you know if there's if uh if there's only two grades and you need to the principal and teachers need to split students up they have limited options if you only have two grades. Uh the supports there and maintaining the number of programs at each school. They have less TSSA and land trust money because that's on a per student basis. And now the safe school safety requirements come into play of the upgrades that we are required to make there and the overhead just operating costs of these schools going forward. And so that takes us to this next slide. You know, the personnel
243is the big thing at every school. Again, education is people driven. You can see the cost there of the people that we have in each school. A little over a million dollars in in personnel cost, non-personnel cost with utilities and just the repairs, parts. You know, you're getting in that $1.2 million range. Uh also on the lunch program cost as well. You know, if you were to consolidate schools, you probably will increase transportation and busing cost because you have to do more routes. If we want to take a timeline, you know, it is spilled out in this Utah code. This was passed in the 2024 legislative session based on some, you know, what other districts have done and and far as the process. So, the legislature wanted to clean this up. I think it's a
244pretty I think they did a pretty good job. You know, before you uh you take action, you have to give at least 90 days notice. So, whether or not that 90 days starts today is is is up to you. We can discuss that here in a minute. You have to give that notification to parents both by parent square and US mail. Uh you also have to talk with the mayor and the city council of each city if you're going to look at adjust whether it's adjusting boundaries or closing the school. They're the same for each. You have to have comment at our board meetings which we always do and we have to hold a public hearing preferably at the school where will be affected by a closure and you have to do this by December
245end of December if you want to implement it for the following school year. Now if you want to implement it later you can certainly do that. Uh, and if you want to, if you do close a school, it almost affects a boundary change, of course. Then you you you do have another 60 days to do that. I would recommend if you do go this route, you do it all at once and not do that. So, just everybody is on the same page. Uh, if we do do that, we'd look at all these. Again, there are more considerations longer than this list, but I think our always top one will be our academic performance of our students, the safety of our students, the programs we can offer there. Uh, but also we want to keep neighborhoods
246together. We want to look at the feeder patterns, uh, the capacity of the school and the capacity of the neighboring schools as well. the FTE input, the permitting in and out, uh the support needs, you know, as I mentioned earlier, the self-contained units, that would be both the STE units and the preK units. Our future enrollment projections again just we still just see our enrollments dropping, you know, to at least as far out as we see. We usually go out to six to eight years uh growth, but you know, we may have some growth again on the blust and as the prison builds out that that property, the building conditions of those, you know, those eight or 10 schools that we have and the the condition now, but also the condition in four to six
247years. Some of them are going, you know, the roof's okay, but in six years it may need to be replaced on the HVAC or something like that. uh as well. And we a couple things we want to avoid is pocket busing. We do not do that now where you live in one area. You bust across a neighboring school to neighboring school boundary to another school. We do not do that. We Jordan did it in the past. We actually did it for the first couple years here, but we do not do that now. Any safe walking routes, you know, the playgrounds, the fields, and again the safety of our students. So, and there'll be other you could you could certainly add more items to that list. One of the things that you know as we talked
248briefly about the committee is you know do we look at or you know we don't have true feeders in in canyons. Some some areas we do, other areas we don't. And do we look at maybe trying to, you know, I'll use the term clean up our feeder process in some of the areas of the district. Again, we really haven't done uh done this since 2013 at the elementary and middle school level. We did it in about 2018 for the high schools, but again, the elementaryaries and middle schools were not touched at that time. Some of the issues as we looked at it was you take Oakdale for instance, it feeds into four middle schools. You know, most of it goes into Albian, but you can I'll use my little clicker here. There's a little click
249piece right there that goes into Butler and a little piece here that goes into Butler. Little piece that goes into Midville and a little bigger piece that goes into Union. Again, probably 70% goes into Albian. But do we look at cleaning that up? Granite has three feeder systems. Uh again, the bolt go to Albian, but some go to Park. I mean, some go to Eastmont, some go to Indian Hills, and Brookwood has two uh between Butler and and Albian. Now some of this gets cleaned up by the parents just in their permitting process you know throughout the time but is it something that we want to change just to so they don't have to do the permit process as well. So that's something we may want to look at. The other five schools that we're
250maybe proposing to look at do feed directly into the whole student body if you will does feed in directly to a middle school as do many of their other districts. But you can see the green lines are the uh the middle school boundaries and the in the brown lines would be the elementary boundaries there. So here's a couple recommendations. Again, we can talk about these before you make one, but this would be uh this, you know, the committee recommends we look at at least an in-depth study, a possible boundary enroll bound boundary enrollment changes, school consolidations, and potential school closures and begin that process of notifying parents and engaging in the following elementary and school communities. That would be the eight listed. uh Bella Vista, Brookwood, East Sandy, Granite, Oakdale, Park Lane, Quell Hollow, and
251Willow Canyon. Uh we also recommend that if we're going to do that study, we need to go through the process of notifying the parents and guardians of the following elementary schools that their boundaries could be changed. These are the ones who border these schools. That would be Butler, Canyon View, Glacier Hills, Lone Peak, Mid Valley, Peruvian Park, Ridgerest, Sandy, Silver Mesa, and Sunrise. All of them may not have impact, but you know, we want to note those just in case. I want to emphasize we are not looking to consol to close any of those schools that I just mentioned. Whether they're part of a boundary change or a consolidation remains to be unseen, but certainly they would not close. And if again, if we wanted to move to look at the middle schools, we would
252recommend we notice that you authorize us to begin the notification process uh to Albian, Butler, Eastmon, and Union Middle Schools. Uh we also want to know not notice that you know we the committee plans to meet sever a few times several times during May and over the summer months and we do have a little bit of time to do this. So, we'd probably maybe recommend doing a two-step notice that we would do an initial parent square, if you will, now to hey, we are going to look at this and then do it and if there are areas that we know we just can't solve or don't feel like are meanable to be adjusted at this time, consolidated at this time, that we'd pull those off and then do a more an official 90-day notice about
253when school starts. S again that would have to be both again by parent square and by this time it would be you know the US mail would be required for this. So maybe a little two-step process that way if you wanted to implement it by you know by take the you know vote in December and implement it by the end of the school year and I mean the calendar year for again the 26 27 school year and of course you always can move it down later years later if you want as well. So with that, uh, be willing to discuss any questions that you have. Okay. Again, I just want to say, you know, this is a sad, I said last time, this is a sad situation. You know, we really, really wish we were
254not in this situation. Other districts are the same as us. They wish they were not in it. Uh but it's it's the the it's kind of it's a national trend right now and it's a it's not a it's not an easy thing and we're just wish we were not here but we'll something that at least the committee thinks we need to at least look at so turn it back to you. Sorry President Shel for interrupting you. Okay. Thank you Mr. Okox. Um so board are there any comments? Um yes Mrs. Dolly a couple comments. One is just a reminder. This is just a vote to open the study. We're not voting on any school closures or anything at this time. Um secondly, the writing is on the wall and this is not something we want
255to do. It's not a a pleasant process to go through for for any of us um in our community that are involved with this or the board. But also with our declining enrollment means we have less money coming into the district every year. And so trying to be wise with our taxpayer funds is we need to look at how we can save money and also provide the best education possible for our kids. And and Leon has well uh laid that out with how it's going to provide better education for our uh students and our teachers by being able to balance these class sizes, have more support in a building by having three to four classes in each elementary school. Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Peterson. I also want to point out that boundary changes have been
256requested for years by our community. I before I even ran, I had people say, "Why don't they just change the boundaries so we can get a better more students feeding into some of these more troubled schools um that keep declining so quickly?" And so this is another way to answer that problem. It's been a long time. when we were in 2013, this is a whole different situation. There was growth. I mean, everything that we're dealing with now did not exist at that point. So, the needs have changed and the concerns have changed. And I think the community recognizes that that would be a very logical thing that we need to do. And of course, if you shift the line, um, it's going to affect people on both sides of that line. So, that's why so
257many schools are listed. It's just simply to put them on notice that there may be some impact to that school. Likely there may not be, but we are by law not required to notify anyone that could possibly possibly be affected so that they're aware. So right now um we haven't identified any schools more than just looking at their enrollments. But as you saw the list of um considerations, we're going through each of those considerations. And I don't know what number slide that would be, but a couple slides up. Um and and actually looking at each school and which condition and what's happening with all of those criteria. It's going to take some time. So I don't want anyone to feel like we're rushing this. We're we're trying to run thing o something over you. We
258are telling you exactly the kinds of things that we have to look at. As you can see, there's more decisions that we're having to take in consideration than probably you did to buy your new home. When you moved into your home in the property, you said, "Oh, yeah. Where's the school? Where's this the um grocery store?" And you looked at the neighbors yards and you looked at the cost. You didn't go interview all the neighbors. You know, that might have been a thought, but we're having to really, really be careful that we are doing the very best we can for number one, our students and our communities. And the second benefit would be our personnel that are supporting your students. Those personnel will not lose jobs. We will obviously have to restructure where everyone goes
259and that won't be a happy happy change. But we will do what we need to do to make this this be the most pleasant um I thing that we can do. I don't know if we can do this in one year. We haven't really defined how fast we think we can get this done. It'll really depend on the next few meetings and being able to go through these considerations and if we can actually identify in time enough to be able to present that to be able to get that off the ground. I almost would rather rip the band-aid off a little bit quicker than to drag it out because that's stressful for the community. It's stressful for the the teachers. They don't know what to plan. Principals won't know, okay, I'm only going to be
260here for one year. You don't want a lame duck school year. So, there's so much that we're looking at and we want you to know that we really, really do care about your input. We care about our students. we live in your communities and that um we are going to be contacting you as about everything that we know at the times that we know it. Right now, we're just following the law that says we're identifying who may be impacted. We haven't identified any closures, so we don't have a 90-day rule yet. And sending out the paper notification is when we're more specific, when there really is some concrete information to share with you. We're literally at the very top point where we're just letting you know that we're gonna we're approving as a board today
261that we are going to go ahead and study these schools and that we've let you know that we are studying them and that's kind of where we're at. But we are meeting as often as we can get together. It's not like every week. There's lots of other things happening too. But um we promise that as we go along there will be tons of transparency. We're creating with communications um an information site that will be constantly updated, right, Kirsten? And yeah, they're going to be launching that right away. Um there's going to be multiple ways that you're going to be knowing what we're doing and you are welcome to contact any of us with your input individually or come to well you can't come to study sessions because that wouldn't get anything done but you can
262contact us and we can take your information and share that and then we can share it back with you. So, I just wanted to point out that we're not happy about having to do this, but I think our first look is will shifting boundaries solve a lot of the problems. Will it solve all of them? No. We may have to combine some schools, but if so, what are the pros and cons? And we're going to really look at that. So, I don't want anyone to panic yet. No panic. Just an awareness. Okay? It's it's like the weather band telling you that on Saturday it's going to rain and you're going sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. That's kind of what we can tell you is maybe you will be affected and maybe you won't, but
263there's a chance you will. Okay. So, I just wanted to make sure that you understood kind of where we're coming from. Okay. Thank you. Um, Superintendent wanted to say something. Uh, first off, yeah, thank you Leon for this great work. Um, nobody better at explaining this and understanding the issues than Leon. Um, just a couple of thoughts. one is, you know, looking at all of the criteria under the long range uh committee considerations. And I'm just throwing this out to the full board and and Leon for consideration, but uh maybe if this is the direction we go, what type of metric, you know, do we do we look at I know there's models out there, Granite, Salt Lake, other districts have gone through this process to to give a score or a metric in each
264of those categories to just be as finite as we can about how we're defining that, not just, well, this is, you know, Rick's opinion or Leon 's opinion that we should do this or that. But um and I I know we've done these kinds of indexes before, but so just that thought to to bring some clarity. I I also just, you know, point out again, I think it's important to note not only the law, but fiscal accountability is one of our tenants uh in the district that the district was founded on. And I think Leon has been and the board has been masterful over the years of of really making sure that we are fiscally accountable. Um, third, I I think it is really important for the public that's listening to go back tonight and
265listen to study session. uh because I think handinhand with this discussion uh is our debt service and where we're at in the future when it comes to looking at merging schools or kind of following the Glacier Hills model of building combining schools to build uh new schools. um you know and that may be part of the study that we want to understand the you know our public's propensity uh if that's something that that they want to consider. So you know I think those all of those issues combined are important when we when we get right down to it. And then lastly too, I don't this is just another thought to throw out as we look at this, but just with that metric, Leon, maybe this is more for you, but process by elimination. I mean,
266once the name the school names are on there, are they on there for perpetuity or do we is there a way that as we rank or look at this index that those names can be pulled off that we drill down pull them off to a smaller group? our our this is simply meeting the criteria of the law at this point, right? I think our goal once we really give that 90-day notice where we send out written US mail, we'd have we if there's things schools to pull off because we just can't do, you know, we don't feel like a consolidation closure boundary adjustment is needed or works with the area schools based on the these considered variations. You can just So, could that come off over time or does that I'm I'm just thinking as
267we go through that process, right? It's not an all or none. It could even come off in November if you're going to vote in December, right? Okay. You can pull them off anytime. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Any other comments, board members? Mrs. Nyar, um thank you for the comments that have been shared. I think that fiscal responsibility and accountability is is paramount when we're looking at this. Um, and having lived through a boundary change, I was in Tennessee at the time. I was like 28 or 29 and um, the the largest chief complaint was there wasn't enough transparency and communication. Um the school board looked at at uh realigning boundaries during the summer when a lot of us were on vacation and we came back in the school year and they had a parent night
268saying this is your new boundary. So as you can imagine there was a a huge uproar and I was pretty involved with it. Um and and so I really I I really appreciate the law how it's written as Leon said. I don't know why, Leon, you always get the hardest jobs, but you do like presenting this. But, um, but, you know, like you said, I think it does a great job of addressing how to be transparent, how to, um, do a good job of communicating, which is going to be super important. I really appreciated the parents comment earlier tonight um, from a committee that was talking about are we going to look at how to ease the transition? I just want to tell you absolutely um and I I think that McKay, our assistant superintendent,
269will be a great voice in this as he was the director of elementary schools previously as well as our other directors of elementary schools and school performance. But I think looking especially when we're looking at the elementary schools, they'll they have a very um they have they have their ear to the ground as far as looking at how to merge I'm sure faculty and make and you know create patterns that would provide the most ease I think for kids in this transition. I think we're all committed to that. And I also just want to emphasize um this this lady who came and spoke to us keep coming to the meetings. We I think um listening to parent input is so very important. One of our um largest responsibilities as your schoolboard members is to listen
270to your input and to represent it. So So thank you for being here and we will listen and gather input and and represent as best we can also. Thanks. Okay. Thank you. Um I want to add a few comments. Yes, please. Is that okay? Absolutely. So, I I really appreciate all my board members and their comments and I just want to emphasize that what we want to do is really maintain our high quality education, right? And we want to do what's best for students, what's best for our employees, what's best for the community, and be fiscally and um responsible. So, we just need to look at this and if I I do think it's really important, just like Mrs. Dybar said to be transparent like we're just starting this process. Um but I I just
271want to say that the last time we did boundary changes which was I don't remember how many years ago 201617 for the high schools and then 2013. So the last time we did that um we actually made the decision and then it didn't go into effect for two years. And I just want the board to consider that because I'm not saying draw out the process for two years. I still think we should probably make a decision by December, but maybe let's consider if we want to do it in, you know, the fall of 26 or the fall of 27th. I do think it's good to have more time because parents, people don't like change and the two-year thing just gave everyone like a chance to figure out what they're going to do and get used
272to the idea. and it did work really well. Um, but maybe we feel like we need to only do it in a year. I don't know. Um, but I would also love it if what Rick is saying, we have a rubric, we have like a number we give every school that it's just very, um, that we're looking at data, not just feelings of people. So, um, I would love that. Um also, um one more thing just um that I think it is better if we maybe could narrow it down by the fall so that like back to school night we have information. I don't know if the committee can get get all that information together by then. But even if by the fall we could narrow it down because and then do the 90-day notice,
273I I think that'd be great. But I don't know if we can. So we're just we're just starting. So, um, anyway, I appreciate everyone and their comments and I will now take a motion, but I don't know if Mr. Wilcox wanted to add anything else. No, I appreciate the board's comments. We'll look at a metric and as Holly said, we do have McKay on our side, so that's that's got to be worth that's worth a lot right there. Yeah. Uh and it should be noted at the last meeting just to clarify you know we looked at DLI and as we talked as a committee we just feel like DI is a whole different topic. Uh we we can we actually have some pretty good numbers that we can share on our DLI enrollments kindergarteners going
274into first grade particularly in our French program. So uh they're actually full. So that's nice. Uh so we felt like with this with just this process and the innovation center and everything else we have going we felt like let's pull DLI from that because we feel like that's a whole different topic. So that's why if anybody is wondering from the first April 1 presentation of this one is the committee uh are recommending that DLI not be pulled off. that it should be studied but uh looked at but not not not in conjunction with this. So right now there is no formal study if you will on the DLI program. Okay. Thank you Mr. Wilcox. Um so now if if we're ready to make a motion and I mean right here they're written out. So thank
275you. This is helpful. I move to authorize a study to determine possible boundary enrollment changes, school consolidations, and potential closures, and begin the process of notifying parents and engaging the following elementary school communities: Bella Vista, Brookwood, East Sandy, Granite, Oakdale, Parklane, Quell Hollow, and Willow Canyon. Okay. Thank you. Um, thank you, Mrs. Dolly. Is there a second to that motion? I'll second. Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Patterson. Any comments to the motion? Okay, see none. I'll call for a vote. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Okay, that motion passes unanimously. Now, we have another second motion we could possibly put forward. I move to authorize the administration to begin the process of notifying parents and guardians at the following elementary schools their school boundaries and enrollments could change. The schools are Butler, Canyon
276View, Glacier Hills, Lone Peak, Mid Valley, Peruvian Park, Ridgerest, Sandy, Silver Mesa, and Sunrise. Okay. Is there a second to that motion? I'll second it. Okay. Thank you. Any discussion to the motion? Okay. Seeing none, I'll call for a vote. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? That motion passes unanimously. Now, there is a third motion. I'd like to make that motion. A motion for the board to authorize the administration to begin the process of notifying parents and guardians of this study at the following middle schools as their school boundaries and and enrollments could change. The schools are Albian, Butler, Eastmon, and Union. Okay. Thank you. Is there a second to that motion? I'll second that. Okay. Thank you. Any discussion? Okay. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Okay. That last
277motion passes unanimously. Um, we are now to Thank you, Mr. Wilcox, for your work on this. And we are now to staff comments. And we'll start with the superintendent. Just a shout out and thank you to all of our negotiating teams and through the process. Again, it was great. We just really appreciate that relationship and look forward to uh more success in the future. Thanks. Okay. Thank you, Superintendent Mr. Wilcox. Just echo that. Big thank you to both our teachers, ESP administrators, uh for negotiations. I know it's not always an easy easy process, but again, thank you for the professional way they do it and uh and that we can collaborate and try to make things better for, you know, all our employees and our students moving forward. So, uh that's all. Thank you. Okay.
278Thank you. Um we will start board comments with Mrs. Nybar tonight. Okay. Okay, first off, I want to extend a huge congratulations to Corner Canyon's theater department for winning the big trophy in first place in state. That was awesome. Um, also I've had the occasion to do a lot of volunteering at Willow Springs in the last few weeks and I have um and I've got a son that's needed some additional supports and I been so grateful for the school community there and everyone working um to help. I've especially been impressed with just um it doesn't matter um what what role um faculty members have as they've as I've been out in the hallway with my son, they don't hesitate to stop and and and talk to us and and try to um extend some help.
279So, I've been so impressed with that and all the systems at work. Um, I was able to watch their butterfly release when Amanda was talking about science units. It was really fun to see these kids. I've I've been there a few times um as they, you know, watched the whole process unfold with the caterpillars and and to butterflies. So, that was neat. Um, I want to recognize our teachers as it's um as Mr. Haney was saying given today. am so grateful for our teachers for all the time and effort they put into the classroom and for the love they have for their for their students. That's another thing that I've just um been so impressed with is uh especially in this little first grade class, Mrs. Tatum at Willow Springs. She has built such a
280community with her classroom and her kids. they are just like one big family and they really work well together as a unit and it's just so fun to see that. And um again just in closing I'm so grateful for the land trust and TSSA plans. They were awesome and and very strong and I'm super excited with those strong goals that we have. So that's it. Thanks. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Lewis. All right. Uh, first I would like to uh congratulate Hillrest on their best of state award for theatrical education. That's really really awesome. Uh, I'd also like to give my appreciation on today, National Teacher Appreciation Day. Teachers make everything possible and I just want to know that they're appreciated. Um, I also have one statement I would like to read. Um, today's the last
281day before HB77 flag display amendments goes into law. My disappointment in this law, not just as a gay man, but as someone who believes in strong and inclusive learning environments, is immeasurable. Let us be clear about a very simple concept. Taking pride in who you are and your community, especially in this case, is based in pride in resilience against the history of oppression that members of our community have faced for decades in this country. Displays of inclusivity and displays of pride flags, for example, in specific are a a simple display that is a that a place is welcome to all specifically and including those who are represented by that flag. I would like to share a personal story about my experience in public a education and why I'm so p passionate about this particular issue.
282I came out to my friends on January 24th of 2021 for the first time to anyone in my life. The very next day, I was horrified to walk into my school. Not just because I was scared of facing discrimination, which I wasn't, but it was because I had made such a profound change in the way that everyone around me would perceive me for the rest of my life. And I did it at 3:00 am on an impulse. It's just I was so nervous about this choice because it would permanently alter the way that people would view me for the rest of my life. But when I walked into that classroom, the first thing that I saw when I was staring at the floor and honestly shaking was a little pride flag stuck to the whiteboard
283at the front of the classroom. It was a comforting reminder that even as I was undergoing a massive personal change, one that I had stressed about at Nauseium for years, I still had a community and a school that I was welcome at, one that I was visibly welcome at. That is what a flag in a classroom does. It provides a symbol of welcomeness and familiarity to all that come into the room. I implore our legislature legislators to deeply examine how these laws impact the most vulnerable when they're making these decisions because there are unintended consequences to whatever culture you're looking for here. There are real real consequences that will be faced by students in your classrooms forever. Thank you and please consider that. Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Oaks. Thanks, Jackson. Um, I want to also
284congratulate Corner Canyon's um, theater department. So awesome. We've known for years. They're amazing. It's really fun to see that reflected in the state rankings. Um, I also want to give a shout out to Sprucewood Elementary who put on their annual musical last week. It was of Cinderella and could not have been more adorable if they tried. It was really, really sweet. And the kids that were up there, they you could tell they had a ball. It was so much fun. And I'm very grateful to the faculty members that went the extra mile. They don't get paid enough for doing extra things like that, but man, it sure makes a difference to those students. Um, while we're talking about uh National Teacher Appreciation Day, uh, I had the opportunity to go to Alterara Elementary where Beehive
285Meals and the first lady of the state of Utah um, had worked together to recognize certain teachers that had been nominated by their students for being great teachers. and we walked in and not only did Beehive Meals provide this teacher with um freezer meals, but they did for every member of the faculty. It was amazing. The entire um faculty room was filled with with the these freezer bags full of meals and and the kind of like dog pile hug that the kids gave this this teacher was phenomenal. Was awesome. Um, I was there when Caleb uh Shabasari received his his mentor award from uh from Monica Zultansky from Mary Zultansky and that was awesome to see the community that he has created in that room. All of his students came from other classes to come
286in and be in there when he received it. He really has a lot of kids who truly deeply love and appreciate him and have a place where they feel like they belong. When you bring up the whole concept of belonging, what I would be remiss not to mention something tonight with regard to teachers and how they've made a difference. Um, one of my most important teachers and mentors passed away. a month and a half ago. His name was Jack Ashton. He was a a an orchestra teacher at Olympus High School for 35 years, was a violinist in the Utah Symphony for decades, had a private violin studio for 60 years. I mean, imagine that. He would get up, he had eight children. He would get up and start teaching lessons at five o'clock in the
287morning and had um youth orchestras that he organized in the area and impacted hundreds and hundreds of us. And I had the opportunity to perform at um a memorial concert on Sunday evening at a Bravenel Hall where many of us who had studied with Jack over the years came together along with his current students and performed pieces of music that had made indelible impressions on us for years. It was fun. Um, Steve Nelson from the Piano Guys is one of those kids. He got up and was one of the MC's along with Marshall McDonald who's a well-known and respected composer who was also influenced by Jack. It was so wonderful to have um they asked they turned around and asked members of the orchestra of how many of us had gone on to perform professionally,
288how many of our children had studied music, how many had become music teachers themselves. It was unreal and it was a visual reminder all over again of the kind of impact one teacher can have in the lives of of students. Jacket at at one point received the Utah Governor's Mansion Artist Award and was featured on PBS for his work. And it it was so cute because he said, "You know, I could have gone into a lot of things. I could have done this. I could have done this. I would have made a lot more money." He said, 'But I wouldn't have had nearly as much fun or have had as much impact. And I think that that is true of all of our teachers. They are not in this for the financial reward. That is
289for sure. And they're not in it because it's an easy job because it ain't. um they're in it because they understand the law of the late harvest that you plant and sew seeds with young people who one day become something more because of their influence and impact. So I want to give a shout out to all of the Jack Ashton of the world. I think Caleb Shabasari is going to be one another one of them. And Caleb knew Jack personally. He and I talked about it. But it's not just in music. It's in every discipline. There are people who are lifech changers in this profession. And I think about them a lot in this role and I'm profoundly grateful for them and for the influence that they have not just on my life but on
290my children's lives. So that's all I have for tonight. Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Dolly. Thank you, Amanda. It is a great reminder of the the lifetime impact that teachers have on the lives of children that I still remember lessons taught by teachers and coaches that I've had throughout my life um each and every day. So, we thank our teachers on this teacher appreciation day and week for all the work that they do. um that is sometimes not uh done in public that it's you know the many hours they spend after school hours um trying to do the best and and what is needed for each of those students in their classes and also remember those that support our teachers, our administrators and our education support professionals in providing a quality education for our students uh
291in Canyon's district and making it the best district here in the state. Um, I'm also grateful for I've had a lot of time this last month to be at various school community council meetings. Uh, a lot of it in preparation with this boundary study vote that we were having today. And I'm just thankful for all the parents that are willing to come and serve on their school community councils. You we it makes us a better uh community and district when we have that that parent engagement. And so, thank you for the work that you do. And as we've talked about the land trust and TSSP plans that we have uh voted on today, all the work they do to as all these parents are so engaged and concerned about the learning of our students and
292helping them to all be uh succeed to their their highest potentials. And that's all I have. Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Penderson. As was expressed in the superintendent's Friday message, I too appreciate the talents, skills, and creativity displayed during the end ofear student performances. Unfortunately, tonight alone there was Parklane and Aliv's night of the arts and the cultural night at Midbell Middle, which I would have happily attended, but here I am. Um I it's just a sample of all the fantastic things that our schools are doing. It's a wonderful time of year to share in student successes. Um, and I'm really looking forward to attending the high school plays. Those are always a highlight at the end of the year. The one thing I'm especially proud of is the recognition um given to Diamond Ridg's drumlined
293and rock band. You don't often get an any recognition for an alternative high school and they were amazing. We really did rock out. It they even offered head um earplugs if we needed them before they even started. So, I wanted to to shout out how well those students did considering it was their very very first year learning that instrument, and they did amazing. I mean, you would anyway, it's amazing. Um, I also wrote a letter a while ago to some of my teacher friends and I thought it was appropriate to send to share it today. My educator friends, as we begin teacher appreciation week, I want to personally thank you for your incredible dedication and hard work. As a former educator, I know that acknowledgement of all you do for your students is rare. I
294know in my heart how difficult this job can be, but also know that I understand the love and dedication required to make a difference in a student's life every day after day. I am so grateful for all you do. Thank you for being true professionals. This week, I encourage you to take a moment to reflect on the difference you make in the lives of your students and the invaluable contributions you make to our school community. Your hard work, care, and dedication are truly appreciated. Also, do something fun for yourselves. Warmest regards, Karen Patterson. I hope that they take that to heart because I know that every thank you you get, especially from a student and a parent, means far more than any gifts. And the little cards and letters and stuff, we save them. And
295it's really nice to be able to go back and look through them and relive those moments over and over and again. So, we may make an impact on our students, but they have no idea the level of impact they make on us as teachers. and I'm so glad I would chose that occupation. Um, the last thing I want to do is since Leon didn't offer any humor today in his presentation, I have one. Last week was my birthday. So, I've been thinking about my retirement. I've been investing in stocks, beef, chicken, and vegetable. One day, I hope to be a bullionire. It's almost as good as yours. Okay, thank you. Um, I also have been attending a lot of school community council meetings and I do I love attending them and just um being there
296at the schools and seeing the parents engaged and the faculty and I was able to attend Brighton, Butler Elementary, Oakdale and Ridgerest. And then also Ridgerest put on the play Willy Wonka. Oh, sorry, not Ridgerest. No, no, no. Oakdale. Sorry. Sorry about that. Um, Oakdale. And it was adorable. And just the costume, like I was really impressed. Like Hillrest, Brighton, whoever is going to get those singers and actors will be lucky. Many of them have a career ahead of them. So, um, really, it was amazing. So, I just wanted to give them a shout out. And I will now close the meeting. Thank you. Thanks everyone for being here and attending.