0012025. This is our 7:00 board of education meeting and we are going to begin by indicating who is here. Uh Kim, go ahead first. Kim Chandler, Burgess, Chris Win, Karen Winder, Todd Hober, Ben Worsley, Nicole McDermott. I'd like to excuse both Clark and Julie. They had family and work commitments. Um hopefully if Clark gets a chance, he may join us online and Julie will hopefully be here later as well. Um we're going to begin by um welcoming our visitors. We have So if you are here with the PTA, will you please stand and be recognized? No PTA today. I'm a member. It's a busy week. It's teacher appreciation week. Um GA please. I'm Michelle Jones. Jessica Dunn, executive director, Barbara, associate director. Sai Peterson teacher. Thank you. Uh, Granite Office Professionals, President, thank you. Thank
002you for being here. Do we have any middle managers? All right. Uh, GEPA, I'm Breezy. I'm the president of Riley. I'm secretary. Thank you. Thank you for being here. Um, Granite Education Foundation. Oh, thank you. All, do you want to yell your name so we everybody can know who you are? Kathy. Thank you guys. Um I know I see our Taylor'sville mayor here. Um do we have any other elected officials that I did not recognize. Thank you, Mayor Overson, for being here. Karen Quan's right there. Where's Karen? Oh, Karen. Hi. Sorry. I apologize. Thank you for being here. And then administrators, principles, will you please stand and be recognized as well? Come on. There's a lot of you stand up. Thank you. All right, we are going to um go on to our pledge of
003allegiance and we're going to invite Lindsay Neil from Gerald Wright Academy to come and lead us in the pledge of allegiance. supposed to stand somewhere specific right there. All right. Will you please stand? All right. Ready? Begin. I pledge algiance 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. All right. And go ahead and stay in here because next up we have our reverence and we're going to invite the Gerald Bright Music Club to come in. And Lindsay, if you want to go ahead and introduce them, that would be great. So, our fantastic fifth grade does a music club. Um, they learned the ukuleles. And so, we have a few of our fifth graders here. They're
004fantastic. And they're going to play a couple songs for you. The first song they're going to play is Skip to My Lou. And the second song they'll play is in in the jungle. And I just want to thank Miss Cressy. She's done a fantastic job. She's a fantastic fifth grade teacher. And this is all her. So we appreciate everyone being here. So this is our Derald Wright STEM Academy music club. Lost my partner, what'll I do? Lost my partner, what'll I do? Lost my partner, what'll I do? Skip to my Lou, my darling. Skip, skip, skip to my Lou. Skip, skip, skip to my Lou. Skip, skip, skip to my Lou. Skip to my Lou, my [Music] darling. What I do? Lost my partner. What I do? Lost my partner. What I do? Skip to
005my Lou, my darling. Skip, skip, skip to my Lou. Skip, skip, skip to my Lou. Skip, skip, skip to my Lou. Skip to my Lou, my darling. [Applause] [Music] In the jungle, the mighty jungle tonight. In the jungle, the mighty jungle. The lion sleep tonight. Here the village, the peaceful village, the lion s. [Music] In the village, the quiet village tonight. [Music] Hush my darling, no fear, my darling. The lion sleeps tonight. Hush my darling, no fear, my darling. The lion sleeps tonight. [Music] Woo! Any parents? Will you stand up? [Applause] That was so fun. Thank you. And parents, thank you for bringing your kids here tonight. We appreciate that. All right, we're going to go ahead and move on to our good news minute. Um, everybody is going to take one minute and just
006share quick summary of some things that happened this month. Uh, we'll go ahead and start with Kim. Yeah, I'll keep mine short, but just want to say I appreciate this month the the GA, particularly Jessica and Barbara for hosting me at their new offices. Um, it was fun to get out there and see the nice office they've put together, the good use of space and just hopefully it's serving you well. I think it is from the sounds of our conversation. So, appreciate your partnership and collaboration and willingness to sit down and chat over any topic. So, thank you for that. And then just also wanted to recognize um and thank Ben for all the work he's been doing on town halls. Um I think it's invaluable getting you know opportunities for the community to come
007and just pepper you with whatever questions they want to right and being willing to answer them. So thank you for that. We had a tour today of GTI and with as many people as here. The one thing I want to just talk about for one minute is the CEO pro uh program that our students as seniors can learn about entrepreneur. And so this weekend they are having a so for two years they study how to be an entrepreneur. And this Friday at Southtown Mall they will bring what their business has been and we'll try and sell or whatever it was maybe teach you something. And it will be Friday from 10:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. And this is a group of granite uh granite students that have taken this course for two years. I went
008last year. What a thrill it is to see what they've done and what they've created for their business. Connie Chris, mine's going to be longer than a minute. I'm so sorry, but I will try my best. Um, I got to go to the bus driver appreciation at the our transportation department and it was so much fun. So, I want to thank um those office people there are wonderful and welcomed us and it was just so fun to thank our bus drivers and they do such an amazing job of getting our students where they need to be on time and uh they are just so great. um Cypress. I didn't get I our faculty is just got a tour of the building and as they saw that new building we also get to say goodbye to
009Cypress. So on Marth it's lift the anchor and anyone who please please spread the word if you went to Cypress or your grandparents did it's a it's been there a long time um to please come and you can tour the building for the last time and probably run into lots of old classmates and it'll be a really good time. um teacher appreciation week this week. I just want to thank all our amazing teachers. We have so many in this district that just go above and beyond and they're just amazing. And I just want to highlight one because it was something um she invited me to. Deborah Gaitrol from Hunter High. Um she also is in the Utah National Guard and she it was a change of command and I'd never been to one before. U
010Michelle Jones got to go and the principal Jen Johnson and um that was amazing and it just makes me go you know I we I forget we have these amazing teachers who are doing amazing things in their classroom but they have a life outside of the classroom too and it's so important that we honor their work life balance and I was just just so impressed by her and just want to thank her for the opportunity to be there. Um, Cypress Units, we had our great open house town, our our town supports so well um our our schools and at Cypress Units, all of our schools were there to um show our elementary students especially what what it's going to be like to be in um you know, eventually you get to high school.