001um welcome to everyone to every or welcome everyone to tonight's study session of the canyon Board of Education today is January 23rd 2024 we're meeting at the district headquarters uh at 9361 South 300 East in Sandy Utah we also welcome board members uh who are attending by electronic means as well as those that are here with us in person tonight um Nancy Amber are you able to hear us yes I can yes I can hear you great hear us we can hear you we're good all right um Amanda Oaks will not be able to join us this evening she's out of town and Holly Nar indicated that she will be uh arriving late today uh the agenda for the study session has been made public in accordance with Utah law you may have seen that
002we are not scheduled to hold a business meeting tonight this temporary change to our meeting format also means we will not be holding Patron comments this evening at time the board typically reserves for res Reserve to hear from parents residents employees and students about important issues will'll return to our regular schedule holding a business meeting with the time to take Patron comments at the February 6 meeting if you hope to address the board at tonight's meeting we invite you to send your input by email the email address of all the board members or members of the board of educ ucation and the ad Administration on the Canyon's website you can also send messages to Communications that canyonsdistrict.org and those will be forwarded to us hard copy letters and other documentation can be given to the
003board secretary Mrs Cindy Claus you get a shout out on that one we appreciate all the messages we have been receiving trust me there have been quite a few lately we're hearing a lot about uh the work of the elementary planning task force please know we read and take into consideration all of the feedback we receive whether it is during Patron comment or sent to us in an email our intent is to respond to every message please be patient as this may take some time thank you again for coming tonight to the study session before Mr Willcox begins his presentation I want to make sure all board members especially those I've already done that they can hear us we can hear them uh okay we can now begin our study session with our first agenda
004item long range planning a demographic study we'll hear from Mr Le Leon Wilcox the canyon business business administrator yes thank you m and uh appreciate the board members here here well as Ember and president president shillin thingy online uh a while back the long range planning uh task force committee uh commissioned a demographic study we wanted to look at the changing demographics in our district because we knew they were changing we could you know all of us left there we could see that so we uh did an RFP and selected applied economics uh Mr Rick BR bramer is the president of Applied economics he does he's been doing this for some 40 years I'll let Rick introduce himself he works with some 25ish school districts throughout the country he is his headquarters right now is
005in uh Phoenix in the Phoenix area it's raining there as he told us earlier which is a little bit unusual but uh he's gone out and we met with him a few times last fall both uh in person he came here spent a few days with us and then various phone calls and meetings afterwards via phone call or Zoom uh so he has completed his report in December we posted that report out on board do you can see it there I'd encourage you to spend some time reading that I the numbers person I found it extremely interesting uh we'll hit the highlights there if you don't have time I least read the summary which is executive summary which is two pages the first two pages highlights many many things but with that being said we
006have taken his report and he's put it together here in a a presentation he'll be Shar he'll be using his screen to move forward in the presentation here but it's again it's on board dos what he'll be showing you so with that Rick we appreciate you being here uh should also note we'll have him go through his presentation and then take some questions he actually has to go meet with another school district later tonight so he has about a 5:15 time where he has to leave so he's got about 30 minutes with us so with that we'll turn it over to you Rick and you want to just take a moment to introduce yourself and again we appreciate you being with us here tonight yeah certainly uh thank you Leon um president shill vice president
007millerberg Dr Robbins a distinguished guest it's really our pleasure to be here tonight uh to share with you the results of the study I think um like uh like Mr Willcox I'm a I'm a real numbers guy and so every District even though it's the same data has its own story and we've had the privilege actually over my career serving about 50 districts um in five different states and some of them most of them here for long periods of time but very interesting to get into a community and and see where it's at in its life cycle and you know that's what keeps me coming back to it you know is uh everybody's just a everybody's a little bit different a little bit different place um so we did work with Salt Lake City School
008District um a couple of years back doing a demographic study looking at their declining enrollment and um we recently went under contract with them to do an update um so we'll be doing spending a little bit more time up in your wonderful city um so the study scope were we're staying away from looking at enrollment you you have people on staff who do a really good job at that we're focusing on demographics and the characteristics of the population how much there is and how old they are and those kinds of things what's going on in terms of housing Supply um add additions that are being you know added to inventory and um occupancy rates is kind of a smaller part of that and kind of one of the key focuses here turns out to be
009you know household type owner versus renter and the age structure of of who's living in all those housing units all of that said uh we still are looking obviously at housing market characteristics uh particularly availability and price affordability issues um are extreme in a lot of areas and as a desirable Community um we saw it there too um there's certainly still some development activity and some development potential we need to account for you know as we're looking forward in our projections and we do a little different because we do two models we do a district level top down how do you fit into greater Salt Lake how does it fit into the economy Workforce the kind of those kind of issues and then sort of a bottomup approach where we're looking at planning geographies within
010the district and for you guys because it's it's it glosses over what's really happening when you look at at the grand total for the district you really kind of got to look at the neighborhood levels you know to to Really better understand and so we established a planning geography um for the district that essentially respects all the current elementary middle school and High School attendance areas and then we subdivided those to some extent to get areas that we felt would make good modeling areas and modeling areas are are interesting because you don't want them too big because it hides all the results you're looking for you don't want them too small because then really small populations are irregular and very very hard to project so we have a good fabric here that we were working
011for or working from I should say but we'll start back kind of with the with the grand scheme of things in the you know basic demographic Trends so you can see in these charts the first one above that you know the population has increased by about 20,000 people per decade between 2000 and 2020 from 184 to 21 um but the population under 18 has been you know basically stagnant 58,000 57,000 57,000 so as you can see the share of the population under 18 you know has gone down pretty significantly from 32% to 26% during that period um the other thing that you know sort of ma Mega Trend I suppose that's been happening to some extent um is the introduction by percentage terms at least many more um renter occupied housing units and that's be
012to some extent because of increasing rental of single family housing is least in the northern part of the district um but the vast majority is actually the addition of apartments and you know you know there's some of those that are obviously owner to but by and large they are rent or occupied so we can see that um you know the the share of units that are occupied share of housing units that are occupied by renters um has increased from you know 24% a little under a quarter to you know 30% of the population and it's it's it's an interesting tradeoff because the average um renter household has fewer children than the average owner household however renter households don't tend to age in place and so their enrollment doesn't go down over time like it does
013in most of the more more owner occupied parts of the district and and everywhere that we work really so we look under the hood of that just a little more carefully um in terms of looking at the age structure of those rent or households that's the top chart and um you'll see that um you know back in 2000 58% of rent households um had um were in the prime age for having children 25 to 44 that's our key group that we're you know that we're tracking and essentially that among you know that has stayed almost the same 58% 54% 56% essentially the you know the exact same number we have seen uh more of the renter households in the district occupied by um the person's 55 and up so that's gone up you know by
014almost 50% over the last 20 years um more more directly impacting enrollment is kind of what's going on with the with the owner uh occupied housing units where back in 2000 40% of those F we had heads of household that fell into those that key category of of 25 to 44 years old and so that's gone down by you know basically a full quarter down to 30% and so what's happened is that even though the total number of owner occupied households has increased from 44,000 to 56,000 look at the number of owner occupied households 25 to 44 is actually level straight across which you know basically correlates very well with what your um enrollment has been doing you know during the during this time period not really falling but you know not really increasing either
015um I talk about this is just one example the reports got a ton of these Maps but looking not only then at at that under 18 population at the district level but at the sub District level so this is just one illustration that shows the number of persons under 18 that come out of every household every occupied housing units and so you can see that the rate per household um is is much higher in the southern part of the district where you have larger more single family OCC more owner occupied housing units however when you there's another map in the report that when you look at you know the actual distribution of persons under the age of 18 the distribution shifts more to the north because of the housing density is so much higher there's
016so many more households per square mile so those are the kind of things that we're trying to you know take into account particularly because these projections you know went beyond the district level to help the district look at what was happening you know at the attendance area level as well um one of the things that's you know holding that um that population down even with the number of households are birth rates and so over the last Dozen Years in the state of Utah the birth rates Fallen by about 30% um it's still above the national average it used to be 1.45 times the national average and now it's only one and a quarter times the national average so the national average has gone down 177% during this this period of time um the and the
017decline really began a few years before this chart with the Great Recession but is unique in that most of the times in in American history when there's been a recession and there rates have gone down because of that there's been a bounce of some sort on the backside and that hasn't happen this time and there's a lot of there's a lot of theories and there's a lot of data um a lot of it simply stems from the impact still of the Great Recession the people that saw how their parents suffered the debt that was incurred the seeds that were planted about the difficulties uh and expans of raising children and essentially it's caused um people to put off the decision to have their first child about five years longer than at the start of this
018cycle and what that means is when you start later you have fewer all that's the way that's just the way it works and so we have this impacting us you know in canyons and everywhere really across the us but it's been a little more pronounced in uh in in Utah the other thing that's playing with at least the enrollment numbers and it's an important thing to understand the distinction is that we look at school age population so if we're looking at grades K to 12 we're concerned with this with the population of persons 5 to 17 years old okay so that's the green bars in this chart and your enrollment numbers are the blue bars and so we have a ratio between those that we refer to as the service rate what share of the
019school age population in the district are you serving and you can see that from 2010 through 2019 it essentially you know it trended upward just very slightly it peaked in 2019 at about 82.3% um and the rest would be in parochial and charter schools and and things like that um then you'll see in 2019 that the first down tick and almost every District I work for um lost consider considerable amount of of enrollment uh in 2020 due to co that's just the way it worked um we expected it to bounce back from that to some extent and in lower socioeconomic status areas it did or at least it mostly did but in higher socioeconomic status areas more people found the infrastructure and the Alternatives that were created from from Co acceptable and essentially we've been
020seeing you know a slight downward decline in the service rate ever since so a it's important to understand not everybody comes to you and B it's important to understand that that's starting to creep down and that's something that we really need to keep our eye on you know sort of independent of rooftops and then we can talk about rooftops because we certainly did take that into account and the district and Rick Shish and U and Company were able to give us some some really great to start with about what they knew was going on in terms of development projects and we did feel you know worked on some of those to uh to verify and look at the timing of those at least in our opinion we also did an analysis of all the partial
021data from the assessor and so in addition to having invent the potential coming from you know projects we also have a category here where we're looking at infill so all all together we've identified you know the potential for a right around 10,000 additional housing units doesn't say when they're going to be built that's just you know the current would be the current estimate of the of the future but you'll see you know about 80% of those are multifam and that's you what we're really talking about mostly is apartments and that's really important because the kind of apartments that we've seen at least being built lately um are not built you know to market the families you know there might be some kids in there especially younger ones um but they're not targeted to families which
022means all that construction really may not amount to much uh in terms of school age population and so we're thinking that and this is how we basically uh look at the world from household population housing units and household household is just an occupied housing unit and we're tracking things like occupancy rate and really looking at what's happening with population per household so it used to be quite high at 3.2 you know three down to 2.9 and then at the latest census would be the 2020 column down to about 2. you know8 so steadily falling um which is you know in lock step essentially with what we're seeing with the school age population um we do think about 7,000 of those housing units will get built over the next 10 years so somewhere on the average
023of 700 a year not so much in the short term because we all know that there's been a slight pullback in activity interest rates and prices are really you know raising heck with the um with with the market but um a population increasing you know by another 7,000 or so over the next 10 years so what does that mean in terms of what's the likely impact um on on you know total enrollment basically and so even though we expect there to be 7,000 or so more households added we structure those households according to those age groups that we that we know are you know the the the primary age bearing categories we also monitor the the the the households in the oldest categories too because we know they'll turn over right now one of the
024things that's holding back housing you know or um enrollment growth is is the fact that people are staying in their housing units so long both because they're able and because um options have become unaffordable so it slows down the turnover rate and it causes you know basically the population to age even more so we're seeing that continue we'll see we think an actual decrease in the school of age population so it's been pretty steady but as we run out of new things to build and the things we are building are only multif family we're expecting you know a a decline there in the in the school age population and then Translating that through the service rate a a decline in you know your enrollment of around 2,00 or 2100 uh students over the next 10
025years and that's predicated though on a very small decline in service rate and that's the one of the things we're going to have to watch the most because you can see 82.3 talked about in 1920 um and this year you know working backwards we're looking at something more like 78% so 1% a year and if you were to keep up you know a 1% per year decline instead of losing 2,000 students over the next 10 years you'd lose 4,000 students and so that's why that's one of the things that we you know most really need to keep it you know keep our eyes on at this point is that service rate we kind of know what's going to happen with the school AG population so overall um you the population has really aged in the
026last 20 years um population over 45 now you know representing more than a third of the of the of the of the total population and the northern part of the district is historically been a little more affordable but now we see that gentrifying and a lot of in projects um you know a lot of Rejuvenation which is good in terms of a Community Development standpoint but it pushes out families and it causes household sizes to decline and those are being exacerbated by decline in birth rates that we were talking about um multif Family construction has been fairly strong in the recent years it's probably going to continue but as I said you know the vast majority of them aren't um made made to or made for or marketed to um families with children um we're
027watching as we said the service rate the rise in online schools Charter Schools um homeschooling um seems to have taken another uh surge forward you know it kind of was popular a few years back everybody found that it was hard and then uh but this seems to have turned that around and I think it's a lot of the new online tools things that were created to get us through Co would are now useful to people who would like to home educate um so unfortunately we're we're projecting in moment to decline throughout the projection period i big caveat here is um if we can bring houses down housing prices down make it more affordable or if mortgage rates come way down again making it more affordable we could see those turnover rates pick up and so
028maybe we wouldn't have you know quite the loss of enrollment that were at anticipating at this moment but that's really about the only thing that can change the course that we're on um there's lots of other data in the report and as uh Mr Willcox said I really just tried to kind of Hit the high points but i' certainly take any questions that anyone had uh Ricky maybe just a quick thing you live in the Phoenix area you know that they've of course Arizona's adopted a voucher program years ago uh what and then other Charter Schools homeschooling what has that impacted down you and not what do down there we lead the nation in private Charter Schools um we have about 25% of enrollment now in charter schools Statewide and the e in the esa
029program um it's been around for years but the purpose of it up until two years ago was to allow families who had special needs students to seek you know special providers that's really where it got its start and the current Administration has expanded that to basically anyone and so the number of students on vouchers went from 14,000 two years ago to 40,000 last year to 73,000 as of today and most of my districts have suffered large large losses in the last two years uh particularly at the kindergarten and first grade level most of my districts average a service rate of right around 60 65% so you're hanging in the 80s and you know and you know I hope it stays there but it's a huge factor I spend more time helping districts close schools now
030than I do open or reorganize them yeah it's sad situation any other any questions really um I um Mr millerberg I have a question okay go for it um so I this this is really amazing information and what you just shared about the situation in Arizona is very sobering um my question is we do have an area in our district that is the former Utah State Prison site and they um the state is looking at developing that as kind of mixed use both um commercial corporate and housing yeah um were you able to um kind of look into those plans and and include that in any of any of your analysis yeah we sure were I mean that the Brownfield areas and you know are some of the only larger pieces of land that you
031have left in the district and again it's kind of those mixed use high density projects that tend to be high amenity I.E expensive um and you know kind of out of the reach of most families not that there won't be some impact and we did account for some um but it's just not like building you know a single family house somewhere a unit is not a unit right so just kind of a follow-up question on that the idea that you know if it does bring a lot of jobs to that specific area then is there a ripple effect of who occupies the housing units surrounding an area where there's a sudden increase in jobs yes typically it displaces lower income people because rents will surge but would it bring in more in your experience would
032it bring in more families no it'll drive it'll it'll push families away probably okay that's we certainly have seen happen in Chandler as as a Motorola plant sorry is the Intel chip plant has gone from 5,000 to 25,000 in employes wow it's gotten so expensive that it's you know their enrollment is in Decline even though it's an incredibly desirable place to live wow yes thank you no problems thank you Mrs KY anybody else on no again hey we just uh appreciate Rick uh we being probably a future contact with him as we move forward and uh you know likely procure his Services again to do further updates as we move forward at this again I just appreciate his time today and his the effort that he put into the report there were lots of things
033that were not a huge surprise to me but the impact was I think he and I talked the impact was more of a surprise I was tyly at the age of ownership of our homes and the amount of more so many more rentals that we have now so uh but uh we'll certainly be in touch as we move forward and I appreciate his time tonight yeah Mr bramers on behalf of the board we uh tell you thank you for taking time this evening to meet with us oh it was really my pleasure like I said you have a very interesting community and it's obviously very desirable I saw a lot of good things when I was there um you know people out being active and you know it's the kind of family area that people
034are seeking I just hope they can continue to afford it okay thank you R for joining us you bet have a great evening you too okay moving uh to our next item on the agenda we have the 2024 legislative update will be presented by I'm not seeing Charlie so Susan I guess it's you just I left Susan Edwards public engagement coordinator I left in quite a um that was a nasty meeting it in quite a nasty couple of meetings I was watching I'm go there's Susan so um legislative sessions on what day seven so it gives us 38 days and a few minutes left um can't anyway as start as they can't in too soon but um um they are progressing along some of the bills that are of most interest are far bigger than
035canion's District um so we'll talk about a couple of those um the sensitive materials bill was just heard this afternoon in Committee in um House Ed and it passed on party lines um it was a nasty hearing I'll leave it at that I couldn't see that they were going to come to a common ground because there's the all about the books and all about who's who's who's making the decisions and the two did not cross no yes at all going yeah it was uh so we anticipate that one moving forward I don't know where and how I don't know if at some point people will um I I am not seeing um yours and the usba or jlc um idea that a couple cou of districts voting for the whole state I don't see that
036gaining any traction at all um with the majority party so um at this point they look like they are moving that one forward um and we'll keep working on it as we have for years and see if we can make any any Headway on that um but it's not uh looking good right at this moment um the school safety amendments has not yet been heard committee we anticipate it will soon uh still working with the sponsor on our concerns on that which are primarily the film on the Windows uh the school Guardians and and the fact that all both of those separate from those concerns are also is not an a funded mandate it's unfunded at this point um but we will keep um working on those [Music] um we did spend quite a bit
037of time today um public get Appropriations heard the line items that they're trying to move from below the line trying to move up in the wpu I do think we've gained traction on that thanks to jlc and and uh the State Board of Education not supporting some of those items moving I think some of them will still move but dual immersion heavily represented today by dual immersion um people from across the state they did not however take public comment so they were there they were not heard um but they discussed today they did not take public comment so they did not um get much of a say so but they have heard of the discussions that uh both jlc have had and and the State Board of Education and I think they are um taking
038into consideration that some of those items might should stay where they are um yet to be determined if they see it the same way we all see it of which line items and which not but I do think at this point it is looking positive that there will be some favorable movement there as as we consider that that um HB 257 which Otherwise Known is sex-based designations for privacy anti-bullying and women's opportunities or the bathroom bill um that one um I anticipate to Move Along on party lines it is so far we are um hoping to get an amendment in so there there's a $10,000 fine attached to it and right now that $10,000 fine for any infractions is basically at at will you know we think you've violated this here's a fine we're going
039to try to get and I think we're gaining traction no guarantees but I think we're getting traction on getting that only with that it has to go before a judge and a judge has to rule it's really easy to say we we think you did this here's a fine it's a lot harder uh to get it in front of a judge and to prove to a judge what actually happened before a fine is levied so we're trying to get that to go in front of a judge which will probably we would anticipate except for the most egregious of cases probably knocked that down considerably over what we're all anticipating if that's not in there so we're working on that Amendment um that is at this point moving forward but we do we have some promise
040of getting that amendment in there yes tell me what a violation of that would look like would that be not providing gender neutral bathrooms or well according to the sponsor and there's a lot of different inter interpretations of this but according to the sponsor it is if a child or a person is in a bathroom not of their sex on their birth certificate and does something egregious okay but it's in a bathroom so it's kind of definitely he said she said or she said she said or whatever the case may be right so it's it's going to be very hard to prove do our administrator stand at the door trying to Poli that I mean it's it's how does this how does this really um some of the interpretations Rick you can speak to jlc
041for this some of the interpretations have been uh much further that you can't allow anybody in a bathroom that is not single stall or not not a of the of that sex and I listened to the committee meeting in the Senate and I think her big frustration that sponsor on the house side was that according to her up to now that males could essentially hang out in opposite bathrooms or locker rooms and nothing would ever happen that that's not against the law if they didn't do anything aggreg just that basically that it's just open to all of that you know and so I think that's where she's coming from is to to stop that how you know how you monitor that or apply with that I don't I don't know how you know that's short
042of single stall restrooms in all of our buildings which and there is no m you know astronomically expensive at least that was what kind of the frustration that single stall bathroom available to them in the school but every bathroom being single St go that's c k did you have a comment um I had a quick question does this bill also include the one about how parents can't take like a mom can't take a little boy into some of the interpretation and some of the questions what is included in this particular one because I was under the impression questions are in relation to this bill whether that's really a concern that's not what they're intending but you know there's always the crazies that push the extreme that conversation is pertaining to this bill whether it's extreme
043whether it actually is relevant or not I I don't know I don't know but that's common practice I mean what are you gonna do and there was there's been a lot of testimony to that so that one again pass um has passed the house already and is being heard in Senate committee and pass past Senate committee on party lines um equal opportunity initiatives is um what we otherwise refer to as the Dei bill um this one appears very much to uh that it will pass on party lines um the State Board of Education who last week said we're not going to fix our rule right now we're going to wait and see this play out and we're going to look at our Rule and see if there are any changes that need to be made
044they fully anticipate if this passes they will be fixed that rule they'll be having to address that um and we are looking at um that one but it it does appear to have a consensus agreement between the house and the Senate and it um has gone through senate committee and is on the both of those are on the Senate uh calendar now to be heard on the floor when they come up any questions on that no it's just funny to listen to the news because now they've brought in that that's going to affect our bid for the Olympics which it may which it it could it could because in other either one of those could yeah so but they're not concerned about that apparently this is interesting yeah it is interesting [Music] um let's see
045the uh sb13 is one as he was talking it made me think of this um because I don't know if he understands the political landscape in Utah but they are moving forward with some um easier requirements for homebased schools home school and and micro schools to continue to increase those so that um is moving forward favorably and um uh the local the sb886 the lease revenue bonds bill um we're trying to get it currently is it 30,000 and the business managers and those of us working the bill are trying to get that up um I think we we've managed to get an agreement around 45 we're still trying to go up try to go 60 try to go 90 we're still trying to go up um so that one we'll work on I think the
046bill will pass it's just where are the limits that they agreed to so you were on the on house bille 161 was ship and perui on that not right now ship I think is changing his version and he's not keeping it connected to peri's but Peri does plan to still run hers as is and I and and it will run is it out of it's not out of committee I don't think not no I don't think it's been in AE anything else I will say we had 22 girls from the junior women in business from the South Valley Chamber up today and they were awesome they addressed with Senator colore cell phones they addressed with uh Jeff stenquist his neutrality and schools Bill and they were not prepped At All by me and they um
047did an amazing job um asking questions asking what I would consider the right questions across the board to both of them uh brought up excellent conversation um and uh they got to visit with about 10 uh legislators in their time up as well as some staff members and things they had a great time but they I I've never seen a sharper group of girls ask questions than that group that was there today and they're from all the high schools in canyons and Jordan District as well as uh Juan Diego and APA and uh Providence Hall and they just did a great job of talking to the legislators and um the final on on representative stenquist neutrality and schools Bill their final synopsis he asked their final opinion and their final opinion was this will hurt
048our teachers they won't know how to stay out of trouble on this if your bill passes and I thought that was quite intuitive of girls and one of them even said I keep thinking I may want to be a teacher but I don't know if I do because I don't I fear that I would not know how a stat of trouble so very interesting take from our high school seniors who desperately love their teachers and don't want them don't want to see them in trouble unintentionally so Amber Nancy do you have any comments um yes I just want to thank Susan and Charlie for all the work they're doing I know it's just such a fast moving and intense environment that they're in all day every day and thank you for representing us and thank
049you for these updates and reports you're welcome yeah I want to just say thank you too it's I know it's crazy and I can't wait till I'm back and come up there with you thank you everyone vacations while you can thanks thank you thank you Susan appreciate that very much yes thank you yeah I just real quick thank thank you and then we're going to get that spreadsheet with the bills you should be getting it every night I don't I haven't gotten one yet okay is emailed to you every night so I will check to see why you're not getting than I've been looking and I you're on it you don't see itting I was gling around looking for Mr Sherwood I didn't see him came in came out and you have now proven the
050old adage correct that when the student is ready the teacher there was like where got it got so the final item on our agenda for this evening is a Title Nine district report so Mr Sherwood if you would like like to take over thank you so um I'm not going to click on of these but Utah state code there's a new um provision in there where I as the title n Athletics district and supposed to report out to the board every year on our Title Nine um situation and so and there's specific items listed in code that I'm supposed to report on and those are the items I'm going to hit um that was was really quick all the way to the end going am I supposed to point this the computer you're on page
051there we here you go so um title n has three prongs um the first prong is proportionality and that speaks to equality in facilities funding and participation and schools are supposed to be working toward participation numbers that mirror their enrollment that also speaks to expansion um if you're not meaning proportionality you need to show that you're expand expanding that you're increasing opportunities for girls in High School athletics and the third trong is that we seek input from female student athletes is determine what sports activities they would like us to offer moving forward for proportionality data um currently these are the enrollment percentages at our five Traditional High Schools um below that is the participation percentages for athletics at those five traditional high schools at the bottom it shows the differential of how far off the
052participation is um when uh enrollment is taken into account and um three of our schools are at 6% ala is at five and Jordan school distes has met proportionality with their athletes they have the same number of CLS as boys competing when into account State Statute says that as long as proportionality is within 10% um we're good we don't have to make a plan to do anything drastic but if it ever gets toward the gaps of 10% then we need to make a specific plan how to that Gap so we're all in compliance in that regard um also of proportionality is facilities um some of these things on here were addressed in our last board meeting with uh some of the funding that has been um allocated um ala they had no concerns particularly with
053condition of anything they felt like there were sematic sees in the dance band color guard and that is currently under construction and under inequalities between boys and girls facilities they had no concerns Brighton condition no concerns this was mentioned that they felt like their baseball softball lock rooms were inadequate let me put that on there because that was reported by the school it's something we we have some plans on how to dress up with a small cap project it shouldn't be significant um and inequalities there were no concerns I will add while we're going over this that one of the benefits of some of the renovations we've done at our schools is Big steps towards tot n equality and the old Brighton High School for example didn't have uh enough team rooms for all the
054boys and girls to have Team rooms um there were inequities of some of the locker room facilities all these things were addressed in our rebuilds and we we've really done a good job in providing equal facilities for male and female Athletics in our in our district and all of our high schools Cory Canyon um you guys are aware there are concerns about the condition of the boys and girls soccer field um and uh inadequacies um need reservations to some of these uh locations they have no concerns however with inequalities that equally inconvenient for the boys and girls soccer team there go work Fair um Hill Crest um the condition they're worried about their um concrete football bleachers which we discussed inadequacies they're worried about the six Lane track and as far as inequalities go no
055concerns um Jordan um condition they're worried about their Auditorium lighting sound improvements inadequacies uh this is something that will be addressed with the some of the new bond funds and that's um some additional storage for boys and girls soccer equipment and inequality is that the softball team lacks lock room and concessions area that the baseball team does have and that is a facilities inequality which needs to be addressed and it is in our plans as a first tier to address with the new um another place we're supposed to be proportional is with uh uh Financial uh allocation to these teams of equal teams so girls uh girls soccer gets the same amount of money as boy soccer and Etc um we have everything put on a district fee schedule where those things have been equalized
056the participation fees are equal the uniform fees are equal we've equalized the amount of money available to each program regardless of um gender so um if you'd like to see a sample of that that's that's a link to that um and the facilities department has gone out of their way to come to me and ask hey where can my custodians and my facilities people get good TR on Title 9 because we want to make sure we don't make modifications to facilities that we shouldn't make before that might be a title 9 issue and um I provided them with a pre trining on the nfhs learn website that has great resources for teaching people about the general tenants of Title 9 and and what they need to look at and and we have a great working
057relationship with facilities to make sure that our facilities stay equal in terms of proportionality um if you'd like to see a breakdown of the participation by school you can click on that link it has how many kids play each sport at each school has also activities as each School band choir drama things like that um it's just broken down by by sport that is one of the criteria of the the state code that I provide you with that information this the data in the spreadsheet is from 2223 next fall I will do the same report out for data from 23 um as far as uh meeting some of the other um prongs of Title 9 we are looking to increase expansion of opportunities um some of these things were brought to our attention through the
058recent title line lawsuit which our district was a part of and these are some of the agreements we've made as part of that settlement that is that we will be more intentional with reaching out to our Middle School especially emails to encourage them to participate in high school Sig principle at each Middle School to be the title line specialist at that middle school they work with our high school directors to increase the uh visibility and access of Middle School those to high school students um we also are working with Communications on establishing a poster program where we're putting more posters of girl athletes and girls participating in sports being active um recruiting just with a more of a a media model and we're doing the same thing in elementary schools um putting more just making
059making it more uh public to girls that hey you can do this these are some of the athletes that have played at our schools and gone on to Greatness we're still working up some of the team some what that culture program is going to look like we are going to have a intentional presence in our feeder schools to help promote participation in high school sports uh specifically by females and the last thing is accommoda interests um our last survey was conducted in 2021 um also as part of the settlement the three districts involved created a um survey with the help of qual Trix it was given to all of the girls in the districts we gathered feedback if you want to click on that um survey you can see the different percentages of sports that
060they indicated they'd be interested in one of the highest ones at that time was competitive cheer and since that time cheer has been sanctioned which did which did help us reach a little better equality in terms of participation with our girls sports that being a sanctioned event um the transparent this spring will be our first season of sanctioned boys volleyball which will lose everything we just gained in terms of uh closing the Gap so we've got to continue to make good efforts to expand opportunities to our to our female athletes um we are looking at those most recent interest surveys to see where we have some low hanging fruit that we might uh take advantage of um some of those things that have been discussed just have been uh girls bowling leagues um we could
061take advantage of you know Community bowling allies would cost us nothing outside of some know small Transportation Investments to do something like that we have girls rugby leagues um that that are currently we have girls in our district participating and other girls in other districts and they've shown interest about getting District support so those are a couple things we've discussed is mountain biking I know we a lot of our schools have Mountain bik so they've never be sanctioned State risk has said cover them that was after they said they didn't want to be sanctioned but State risk was like oh by the way we don't want you to be sanctioned so the crowd likes being where they are yes they they like that autonomy and theyve done just on a they've done a great job
062of accommodating kids that where there's uh Financial issues too um I think every mountain bike team has bikes they've donated to kids want to participate they've been great at being open to all kids in the current structure they have um this is as a breakdown of some of the other things we're doing I've mentioned some of them already um we've talked already about making our District web page more clear and accessible having a One-Stop shop for policies related to Athletics but also um making all of our High School athletics websites um common and accessible right now there's different aptitudes of people in the schools and some of their websites are better than others and we're looking to get good websites at all of our schools across the district um we we needed a district L
063aison to be able to Title 9 for athletics and um work with potential emerging Sports and that was part of my job um we will plan to administer a new interest survey in 2025 we own the survey that we through call tricks we'll probably issue the same survey um we have worked with the ads about being involved with the middle schools that will probably probably become a um bigger effort this spring and into next fall um we're working with High School principles to identify potential expansion Sports specifically for females um we did talk about a Communications program middle schools um I did talk about seven already specifically assembly's promotion of girls Athletics when schools do their raw RW and used to be they did like uh you know the band would perform in the dance
064company and we'd have the performance groups come we were never really int about promoting girls Athletics at those events we're going to do that movie and uh be more um use the peach jar and uh air Square to um uh promote female Athletics that's the Title Nine report anybody have any questions Andrew I'm just noticing on your interest survey Rodeo yeah that's it that would be a tricky one they do have that at some high schools it is a club I don't see I see that in rural districts that would be a big deal but B deal in my previous District lots of girls rot you yeah yeah bar Barrel Racers everybody has horses they all have their for that you may kind of laugh about rodo no I think it's great sport on scholarship
065at U it's a big deal kids a lot of kids do it it's I know being I'm used to be a rural school but they had rodo Club when I was in high school I had a lot of friends and a couple of them went I can believe it I just have a hard time picturing our high school to Geto is very expensive too would be transport animals and their equipment yeah it's it's not cheap not cheap afford table tennis so I just wanted to say something okay go ahead um well thank you Tom for this report like I I mean I'm I think it's great and our district is in a pretty good place um I just want to remind you guys the Esports is going to be sanctioned so I mean I feel
066like even though I'm sure girls and boys will be on it I feel like it's probably more boy heavy so we just need to make sure we um keep promoting those girl girl Sports and activities nany robotics is that way too yeah uh thank you so my question is um when and thank you for this information Tom it's really helpful um I have a better understanding now of of where we're at and I appreciate that my question is when when considering all these factors whether it's proportionality or you know equality of opportunities things like that is it just the High School Activities Association activities that are sanctioned or can we do other things that are um that can be included in those numbers in the in the report a great so through the title n
067lawsuit originally the uhsa was named in the lawsuit was determined that because they receive no federal funding that they're not beholden to Title Nine so the Title Nine um requirements are on the school districts and it doesn't matter whether the opp the opportunities we are providing our students are sanctioned or not it's whether or not we're providing them support so if we were to find something that we wanted to support as an inter mural for high school girls or a or somehow uh help with the proliferation of clubs whatever we do in terms of increasing opportunities that are tied to our schools would uh be positive for us in reaching more proportionality so Tom how does to nany's question that so contemporary dance or the dance program are they I thought they were not counted
068in that number but well they're not but I think with the new information that uhsa is not tied to it we absolutely absolutely could probably count them because I mean that's a that's a big those are big programs I think I think the I think the criteria is that they compete um so a lot of our dance programs don't that's more of a festival atmosphere so there has to be some form of competition in terms of Esports they made it an activity and it's also specific to Athletics so like band and choire and debate they don't count either uh and that theater would actually help us there's typically more girls that participate in theater than they're all boys but because it's an activity they don't traditionally compete it it it's not I don't think it's
069considered under the title n umbrella so but there are things we can do as a district to reach out to some of our local organizations and the girls rugby um clubs have actually reached out to me they'd love to be somebody we provide support they're not to the point of sanctioning that but they're like we'd love to be part of the conversation and building our product and getting any support from the districts we can and um and Dan has been has encouraged me to work with them and see what we can do with that even if it's just providing a to practice sorry oh I was just gonna say so this idea that there has to be some form of competition but it could be an intramural just intradistrict or would we need to find
070some other teams outside of our district to be a part of a league or a tournament or something like that it could absolutely be in our district we wouldn't have to compete outside of our district it could be us playing each other we're we're by doing so we would be making efforts to improve opportunities for female athletes in our district which is all we really have um over which we have any control so right okay thank you yeah okay sh did you have a comment I was just wondering does Robotics and competitions this those don't count because they're an activity well they're competing against it's not high schools it's not athletic enough it's not athletic yeah I mean they count golf so there's got I don't know where the line is gonna say I was
071just curious because it is a funny line no oh Esports does not count count Esports is categorized like an activity like same categories okay okay um thank you very much for this great thank you very much for having uh having been here tonight thank you for the information I will tell you from my perspective I was pleasantly relieved to see that we are in as good a shape as we are I think that's a lot of uh hard work by a lot of people to make it make that work I completely agree um in terms of Nationwide Trends and you know even districts with their own State Canon District's doing a pretty good job of all the prongs of title 9ine um some of them were working out some Kinks You know that we could
072improve upon but with proportionality of facilities um opportunity we're we're in pretty good shape you know years ago when Title 9 passed there may have been we'll need to confirm nor I some of us that may have cringed a little bit my gosh this is a good deal uh you know time has proven to me that this is for the best interest of all of our students I agree 100% okay if there are no other comments we've reached the end of our agenda and I will be Clare us finished you see you guys thank you nany Amber thank you for joining travels you guys be safe thank you appreciate you all have a enjoyable time thank you very much done this is rare that 534 we're done I know that's because go ahead let me
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