001make her way up here please thank you all right Welcome to our uh Board of Education meeting it is 7:02 this is April 1st 20125 we're going to begin by indicating who's here Clark will you start Clark Nelson Karen wer Chris wi cotney burges Kim Chandler Julie Jackson Todd Hopper Ben orsley and Nicole dermit thank you all for being here we'd like to recognize first um some of our guests that are here do we have any PTA I know we have PTA go ahead and stand up and introduce yourself so everybody knows you we know you thanks Kimberly GAA Michelle Jones G President haly Kelly board member thanks for being here you guys um do we have any granite office professionals I know we do I saw some I'm I'm the vice president El school
002thanks for being here you guys um middle managers not sure I saw any we have get any gasa um granted Education Foundation Danny tal the executive director Christy green Administrative Assistant thanks for being here um I apologize if I missed if there's elected officials here would you please stand be recognized any elected officials okay and then um I know we have lots of Administrators and principles here will you just stand and be recognized as well if you're an administrator uh if you don't mind we have one additional recognition there is a a former assistant superintendent I saw would he please stand and be recognized pretty sure he just swore at me all right we're going to invite JD tbet to come up and lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance please rise and repeat after
003me 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 you can please be seated and I'm going to invite Kelly Miller to come up and introduce the reverence for this evening all right thank you so we um at Kerns Jr uh I was astounded when I got there at just how much representation of lots of different things we have all over in our building um we have through every single hallway we've got pictures of teachers with their favorite quotes um to help Inspire students we have um lots of representation of awards that the school's won and um we do have some Student Art around the building we've got a great M Mosaic as
004you walk in the building there's a bench out front that um students put together with stonework uh it looked like it used to be the practice to um either purchase or commission a piece of artwork from students to be hung outside of the um Auditorium but as I looked around and I looked at all the student artwork were little names and dates on all of them and the latest dat or the yeah the latest date I could find was 1993 which doesn't feel like that long ago but someone informed me that that was more than 30 years ago so I decided it's a time to get some fresh art up in the school so um I worked with our Advanced art teacher and um she worked with all of her kids to um put together
005a mural that's going to go up in our gym so I'll let her talk about the process of that hello so um I'm Tira cook I'm a visual arts teacher at Junior High and when Kelly brought this idea to me she kind of posed it as a contest at one point and so then I was like I love that idea but I also want to have it be more of just an advanced art situation where each one gets to design something so we talked about Community the differ between graffiti and a mural um how to sustain murals as well as um just what it would look like in our community as Cur Junior High and so we went took a little field trip to the gym figured out where it was going to be what
006was most important for us to have in the gym and then they started out making their first little sketch their first sketch became into a second sketch after looking at each each other's artwork and determining what was most important um what they wanted to add in their own artwork that was from somebody else's and then um they used AI tools to generate statements of what they wanted this mural to look like and develop reference photos that were exactly kind of the ideas that they had and then made them into their own after that the third step was creating um groups deciding which which groups or which students had similar ideas and then putting them together and then them collaborating and figuring out which is the most important out of their groups what kind of elements
007what kind of designs what kind of community aspects they wanted to have and then step four I'll get i'll get to after we P our cute little video for very cool [Applause] so then um after taking those five groups and them deciding which they decided which mural design was the best one for their specific group I gave those five mural designs to our admin and they put together a team to decide on what what values and what things they liked out of each five of those and after that they gave them back to me with um with their notes and created their mural design so you're so with that um that's going to be turned into a big vinyl sticker that'll go across the the gym so that it that'll last a little longer than
008um other designs usually so see you you guys want to see it awesome when does that go in so that'll go in this spring or early summer so so we don't have an official date yet yeah very cool awesome okay thank you all right thank you so much we're excited to see that when that goes in let us know Kelly we'll come see it um we're g to go ahead and move on to our good news minute um and if we can go ahead and start with Clark sure I had the chance to attend a principal's meeting in the cotwood network last week and was impressed with um kind of a similar approach that they take in their meeting uh in terms of providing some good news from each school I just want to highlight
009two in particular uh from that meeting last week one at Wilson Elementary the kindergarteners uh who started with 5% uh Proficiency in their letters and sounds are now at 89% year to date pretty impressive and then second uh Bonville Junior High had its high uh had its Junior High musical last weekend which was High School Musical Junior and I have not stopped humming uh all of the songs ever since it was tremendous and a special thanks to Carrie Peterson Amanda Johnson and Becca sares who really put on an incredible show so thank you to [Applause] them um speaking of Kars Jr that just gave that lovely presentation it was my honor to be able to um go with the foundation and honor our teacher of the year who happens to teach at KS Junior High
010and it's always exciting to celebr teachers but when it's one of your Precinct schools you just celebrate a little bit more um so that was fun to surprise her and and the kids were super excited on stage it was a huge assembly and it went really well that was fun congrats to Grangers unified basketball team taking state so that was I'm super proud of them um had the opportunity to what Tyler Hal calls the best day of the year which is his birthday um happened to stop in and he always orders cake or supplies cake for every student so that's always fun to see that in motion I had the opportunity to go to Kennedy steam night this happened to be that Thursday a couple weeks ago that we had snow and they had fireworks
011planned and they still did fireworks it's great it was fireworks in the snow and as long as the wind isn't I can learn this as long as the wind isn't too powerful you can do fireworks in the snow so there you go but they had slime they had a they you know all the Sciences they were going through and letting kids pop popcorn explaining the reaction of when the popcorn Colonel heat there was just a lot of fun there that night but the fireworks definitely stole the show in the snow and last but not least um had the opportunity to celebrate the National History Day and um two of our high schools that really do a really good job with this and encourage our kids to participate in it are Granger and Skyline and uh
012a lot of winners are moving on to the next level from those two schools so congrats to all those guys for their extra [Applause] work um I was also attended the Kennedy stem night it was um really fun I didn't stay for the fireworks because I did not want to drive home in the blizzard so I went at the first and it was really fun and I want to thank those um efforts put on at Kennedy it was it was fantastic and um they I I think it was fun cuz I hadn't been in Kennedy very much it's not one of my schools but I was appreciative to go and see something different cuz all of our schools do things a little bit different and I and it's really nice to see um all the
013good work that goes into every school that we have um I've attended some District community council meeting with a it was a great discussion there and um Brock Bank Junior High has they're starting their um Community Council and they're getting um some real excitement going there it's starting a new school is is very very tough um cuz you are you don't really have a lot to draw on yet you're barely hiring a staff you don't you don't really have a lot to go by and so I really appreciate Tim Clark and the efforts being made there to get a staff on board um they've got some fantastic teachers going to Brock pain Jr and it was really exciting and then some great parents that are on their Community Council now who are starting to form
014um some really good initiatives that's going to happen at Rock Bank and I'm really excited um I want to thank Hunter High School um I went to their community council meeting and right after they had their PTA meeting which was really nice so I could stay for both and they had a great discussion and I just want to thank the parents um that take the time to really be involved in their school not just at a surface level but they really want to take care of our teachers they want to take care of the the students and support their efforts are just remarkable so thank you Hunter High School thanks I uh also was able to go up to the Delta Center and what an opportunity our unified our Unified sports people had of being
015at the Delta Center and playing basketball um we had five teams from grandet go Cypress Granger Taylorville Karns and Hunter and most of them won so it was just such a joy to be there and see the interaction and the crowd was so good to clap and and cheer for these um special students so I really enjoyed that um I also enjoyed the wrestling for the junior high they had their division um finals last Saturday and um it helped to have a couple of grandkids there but um it was just so organized and the the kids all participated I think there were maybe one there was maybe one student that that left early so um she couldn't wrestle well it was probably the quarterfinals but the kids were all there and it was um such
016a joy to see parents and and kids all I want to focus my highlight this month on its playtime by playtime I mean musical time um a lot of musicals and plays going on in our schools right now I've been able to catch a couple of them one of them had to cancel one of the nights I was able to make so I couldn't get to that one I have another one coming tomorrow um can't make them all but just want to recognize the effort that's gone into these plays and the excitement of the students being able to show off all of their hard work um for the last several months and they're acting and singing shops we really do have some talent in our district um really impressed by some of the the singing
017and the the acting that they do so just wanted to say Well done to all involved and thank you for the good work one of the things about being on school board is that I found that was unexpected is that when you serve your community you come to love them more and um the my community is uh just beginning to pack study and I've had so many great opportunities to meet incredible people who are so intelligent and so dedicated to our community and our kids and it's just been really inspiring to see and I again just that my love for my community grows and grows even when we're all a pay in the bud like I love us and um I so I just wanted to highlight and send appreciation to those who are working
018really hard on that cuz it's a lot of people um I also wanted to say that a couple of highlights for me this uh month were when I got to go to Crestview and there was a student there who was a school board member in the wax museum and so she interviewed me and it was the most professional interview I almost was nervous because she was so professional with me and I was so impressed with her and she's a great example of how how amazing our students are um and uh I also wanted to say that I had this spectacular conversation with a group of about 30 students at Skyline the other day about Chromebooks and cannot stop thinking about the feedback that I got from them and their perspective and I just think that
019students have a perspective that nobody else has and I love being able to talk with them thanks Julie um I I to have been able to go visit a couple schools and and see their shows um benan is doing Little Mermaid junor and uh I'm missing it tonight uh to be here so um I did get to go also see Taylorville high school and they did um wait until dark which was incredibly creepy um but very well done and um just want to give a shout out to all the teachers that they um it's it's performing time it's the they've all been doing competitions the music groups and the the Performing groups I know our drill teams have all been doing a lot of their end ofe um performances as well and I did want
020to highlight also Jefferson Jr uh I was able to go visit their Pi Day and it was so much fun to see the effort that they put into that it was incredible um huge thanks to Walmart they donated those little teeny pies to all of the students so they had one for all of the students and so cool and also highlight there was that Coach Ron McBride was was there so got to see him um and he was just chatting with the kids and talking about you know success and and what goes into that and just saw the superintendent coloring a pie city um and saw a former superintendent come and also do that too so anyway it was really fun to be able to see that but um just man the the work that
021went into that from that the I know the the one teacher kind of coordinated everything but um man so incredible so much fun the decorations they created everybody was color coordinated uh so a lot of work that went into that and and a great job with that and so it was really fun to see so that's my minute and we're going to go ahead and move on um we would like to invite JD talet to come up he is going to present our EXL Award winners for our recognition our first recognition all right good evening board and superintendent members of the superintendency as you know we have countless amazing Educators here in Granite and each year at the foundation we get to honor 10 of these uh nine teachers and one administrator with an Excel
022award so it's my pleasure to be here tonight to introduce to you this year's winners uh the 2024 2025 Excel uh Award winners I will read their names and as they're here if you'll come up shake board members hands and then wait up here for the picture it would be great if we could hold the Applause to the end but we have Anna Alamo from Cottonwood Elementary Megan Allen from kar's high school and our admin winner this year was Jennifer Christensen from Olympus High we have Shantel esus from Olympus High Jennifer Johnson from Hunter Jor High Anna Kendall from bonnaville Junior High Stephanie namp from Upland Terrace Elementary Ray Patterson from Kars junr High Shelly Rush from Whittier Elementary and Carolyn Wetzel from from oage elementary let's give all of these Educators a huge round
023of [Applause] applause congratulations conratulations congratulations you're awesome [Music] [Applause] [Music] I know that's why [Music] as we take a few minutes to instruct adults on how to get their picture taken I'm going to I'm going to tell you a little bit about the process to become an Excel winner so each year we accept nominations nominations can come from anyone so students peers uh members of the community can nominate teachers to to be to win an Excel award after the nomination process teachers do have to fill out an application and then those that score highest on the application then move on to the observation round so it's quite a thing for all of these teachers to go through to get this award but let's give them one more round of applause [Applause] all right and then
024an is coming up there she is come on up and all right well I'm here tonight to Pro uh help celebrate an extension of the Excel Award winners I'm wondering if we can have Ray patteron come on up let me tell you a little bit about Ray Pon as she stands here with me for a second Ry um is an incredible educator she's an e teacher at Cur Junior High whose dedication and innovation has made a lasting impact she goes beyond teaching she Advocates inspires and ensures that every student has the opportunity to succeed through her community- based instruction she use brings Learning To Life helping students develop both academic and Real World skills she's built Partnerships and broken barriers to make the world more accessible for her students her work with the karn's coffee
025cart is legendary and is more than just a school project it's a model of inclusion and empowerment giving students meaningful opportunities to grow and contribute Ry believes in her students before the world does and because of that they Thrive she changes lives proving that the right opportunities every student can succeed so please help me in celebrating Ray pison as our Granite School District teacher of the year [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thanks so much that's our girl you're amazing you're amazing second time is the best while they're taking their picture I will say that I visit when you visit Kar and you see her kids they absolutely adore her and you can tell she adores them there is such a connection between her and her kiddos it is just a sight to [Applause] behold all right
026thanks so much and thanks once again into the foundation for all that you guys do for our teachers and for us okay um we are going to move on to our Patron participation time we don't have any elected officials unless somebody came in that I not know about okay uh we do have two people signed up for citizen participation we have Dr Zachary book from an oid parent and Dr Nathaniel echler um who's talking about Beverly Taylor Sorenson so um Dr book if he would come up and please um just for the record state your name and um you've got three minutes to address the board hello can you hear me pleas meet everybody so I'm Dr Zachary book I'm a board certified Emergency Physician and I also hold a degree in Psychology from the
027University of Utah with an emphasis in early childhood education um I'm here as a passionate Advocate um for oage elementary school so thank you for allowing me the opportunity um to uh share my viewpoints and some information from a study that we conducted from our local neighborhood survey which uh included over 120 families responding which I think would be valuable information for you all to uh consider uh oage is not just a school it's a historic mid-century modern architectural gym in my opinion I'm a product of that school I went there in the 80s many families that I know have brought their families back to go back to the school and I think there's a lot of intangibles that aren't expressed in various numbers uh that you all may be seeing uh and certainly I
028love data and valid numbers but uh the overwhelming majority of the people that we have surveyed uh don't want any school closures in our neighborhood and have a wide variety of reasons uh against that uh so I think oid's design reflects a thoughtful education space and offers students an inspiring uh environment to learn and grow or grow I should say so if you haven't been there and the school has a million-dollar view which is inspiring to all that learn there it inspired me when I was gazing out across the valley thinking about what I could be in life and where I could go which I think is very unlike in other schools in the district and uh certainly a unique aspect that needs to be safe saved uh in our area I'd hate to have
029other Unfortunate Events such as Fortune elementary school which I was actually going to as a child uh as a preschooler uh turn into a developmental uh area and signed over to real estate developers and I think that would be an extreme tragedy to have that happen to a site like ochre Elementary School uh forgive me so I think Studies have shown that welld designed environments possibly impact students while being in academic performance I think various board members and their past comments have always agreed with those comments uh that there is a value to the type of Lear me environment that you are in and uh I can just tell you from personal experience I thought Oakridge was one of the most amazing places that I've ever personally learned in going out onto that playground and
030looking at Mount Olympus is inspiring every day I think it would be a tragedy to lose that environment for future students uh and I feel very strongly about that that I personally moved back after 15 years of absence when I had my family to this neighborhood to have my children my twin daughters who are soon to be eight and my 10-year-old son who go to oakd uh experienced that same process and I know there's a lot of families uh from our survey I think overwhelmingly 85% of them chose this school in order to have that type of learning environment for their children so uh I would also like to maybe mention a few talking points about uh seismic stability I think oakrid is above the wasach fault line which is unlike the majority of the
031schools in gr School District which provides a very unique element of safety from a seismic perspective uh I think those studies are very well known that that area uh is less prone to damage uh to my knowledge that oage isn't in the uh state registry for unreinforced masonry it unlike other schools that may be in grite school district that may be on a pathway more for repair I know that you have had various Bond measures that have been passed to rebuild schools and certainly those are valid uh and I know oage was up for rebuild at some point in time personally I feel that your money could be spent otherwise in Saving a very valid school and saving money for yourself in adopting your own recommended policies from various procedures that I've seen from you
032of I believe a a third tier plan of having two Renovations of per school over time as opposed to just instantaneously rebuilding once a certain LIF style or life cycle of a building has been uh made uh I'd be open for uh you know other data that would say that might be more economically viable however I think oers is a very unique building uh that should be saved historically uh for its architectural uh value so I think oage has a long uh lasting Legacy of Excellence um it's been historically producing excellent individuals can tell you myself as a product but I can name a number of other Physicians that come out of that school I think it's a leader uh for the community of how to act and just from a common sense standpoint it
033doesn't make any sense to me to close a school school that is leading the state academically out of elementary schools certainly in the top five if not the top 10 I think statistics very of uh you know where it lies but certainly it's a Vanguard of educational excellence and and how people can perform uh and I can only wish that that could be duplicated in other environments as as a product of a split class model I've heard those arguments been made that there's small class sizes uh I could tell you that that gave me an opportunity to peer teach peer learn learn from others and I think there's talking points on both sides of any uh statements that could be made from different uh resources about what is best value to graduate uh kids in
034the end out of high school uh so I think that there are some talking points that been presented as generalities that apply to everyone however I think that there are are amazing things that are going on in a dirt floor in the middle of Africa with a computer and those kids are learning uh with very limited resources and I think we have uh exponentially more resources at this point in time compared to many many other countries and different learning environments and I would differ an opinion that there needs to be different student teacher ratios in terms of providing the best quality education to graduate uh kids from high school which I believe is gr School Board District main mission uh I think there is some generalizations about declining enrollment that shouldn't be applied to oage
035Elementary uh I don't know if you're aware but morning site has several programs uh including dueling will merge in uh GT program as well as a regular class schedule I've talked to that school um gotten those numbers and I can tell you as a parent and uh from our survey that many parents have been wooed to that school through marketing and uh you know sort of uh an attitude of my child should be at the best school quote unquote and this is the best and that was been labeled the best I can tell you uh from historical means uh that was the exact opposite from o elementary where kids were getting busted in from Sandy all the time and there was a a caveat of local buses when I was a kid coming for GT
036program programs at Oak Elementary School uh and those programs have subsequently been transferred to other places I would give you the proposition there there's alternative solutions by simply redistributing students back to ochre Elementary that have been drawn off and this is coming from I believe the Grant School Board District information from their own website uh and forgive me the name of the uh files but it's on your websites about what percentage of children are coming from to and from which school districts and where they're going to school now uh and I think it's called a pivot table from my recollection if you haven't seen them but the numbers don't lie very significant portion of people that live in Gran or oage dis or oage territory I should say uh are being drawn to morning side
037and should be redistributed uh there are some slight misleading public outreaches I think I'd like to clarify some facility uh condition index data um some maybe misleading slides that have been presented in the past and I believe that you've all been presented various data tables uh in the past but for my reading of these tables it seems to be that the majority of the schools are in various 80 pertile condition ratings and I'm not sure going from 86% to 85% makes a big difference and using that data as a valid measure to close any one specific school as they are uh generally all in the same category of being older schools Dr book we appreciate your comments and and would love to continue this um conversation um but we do need to move on with
038our meeting so if you could wrap up your comments we'd appreciate it sure so I'd like to just give some very simple statistics that our uh local survey over 120 families show 85% of the response indicate that oakrid uh was a primary reason for purchasing their home uh the majority of the students walk to school from that environment and that would be broken by uh closing the school and a staggering 99.2% of the surveyed respondents Express their opposition to closing oage Elementary and I don't know if that type of data is being collected by yourselves but I'd like to present that to Pac and yourselves for consideration that uh our community uh is very much against this type of closure uh I would have lots of other data to present to you and lots of
039other ballot opinions that I think you should consider in terms of making uh your future decision on school closures personally I'm against school closures west side east side of the district or any school closures and I think the future of education system relies on having resources and open environments using artificial and technology and other means to maximize efficiency and effectively learning and having differentiation of uh children's education in order for them to succeed and I think there's many ways to Recon consider uh a plan that is uh being put in place in order to close schools uh and I would just like to give you know a a huge shout out to my community for coming together and expressing I think their valid opinions that they're against this thank you Dr eser um once again
040please state your name and for the record and um three minutes um thank you uh my name is Dr eer and this is Carland Salazar we're both BTS um teachers here in Granite School District this is a joint statement by another BTS arts teacher she wasn't able to make it we are teaching artists and she's in the community performing tonight so um she's GNA stand with me here today okay um if you were given a copy of this I'm going to skip through to keep it in that timeline for you so just try to follow along if you're if you're reading along okay all right good evening president mcder members of the Granite Board of Education and superintendent horley thank you for your dedication to Granite students uh to the students of granite School District
041as I said my name is Nathaniel ler and together with Caitlyn branville we put this together for you we are both teachers in the Beverly Taylor Sorenson Arts learning program at Granite School District we represent just two of the 27 teachers in this program which also includes four visiting artists and instructional coaches collectively BTS teachers serve approximately 26732 students across 56 elementary schools in our district we collaborate with roughly 1,000 academic teachers as well as special education psychologists and social workers we are writing today to highlight the importance of the Beverly Taylor senson integrated arts learning program to Granite schol School District we aim this evening to remind the board and the school district that implementing high quality and authentic Arts integration in K5 learning is a valuable asset to our student education therefore we
042also encourage the board to continue participating in the BTS program and to more closely consider investing to increase Arts integration capacity longterm due to the size of granite School District our current BTS implementation U sorry our current BTS Implement implementation model and the and the needed resources to form a more robust Arts integration program in our schools we respectfully ask the granite School District to consider supplementing existing BTS funding to better meet the grant requirements as outlined in the Beverly Taylor Sorenson Arts learning program handbook research underscores the profound impact of Arts integration learning on student achievement according to Wang harle and Walberg Arts integration significantly enhances four key competencies cognitive metacognitive motivational and social emotional we would point out these compet competencies aligned with granate School District's Granite um graduate of granite characteristics in
043my five years in the district um I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of Arts integration some two examples are collaborating with Home Room teachers to write songs and raps about math targeting specific learning challenges aligned with core standards I thought about bringing one of them and leading everyone in it tonight but you know I only had 3 minutes it takes a little longer than that um adapting Bach Coral Melodies with Rewritten lyrics to teach science Concepts at developmentally appropriate levels for each grade my um co- teer or co-writer of this says in my own planning testing refining and implementing lessons in general music my students and I have explored interdisciplinary connections to math English language arts social study stems sciences and social emotional learning she goes on to say implementing Arts integration that delivers
044on these benefits however however takes substantial time to prepare plan and execute successful Arts integration after all does not only occur in the classroom Arts classroom on the contrary true Arts integration requires deep whole school and whole District commitment to the practice we acknowledge that Granite continues to face the difficulties of new and constantly changing policies affecting Public School schools and the granite's current um area for growth are tied to Decades of underinvestment by the Utah State by the state legislator Utah's Public Schools however we must better mobilize the limited resources we do have and commit to working smarter not harder end quote Arts integration is not an add-on it is a well-established pedagogical approach the Utah Fine Arts core standards explicitly highlight the role of Arts in enhancing understanding of other content area via
045standards in the connecting strands however the current structure of the BTS program in Granite School District presents significant challenges to implementing this pedagogy successfully BTS teachers are expect expected to teach five to seven classes per day across six grade levels travel between two or even three different schools operate with only one guaranteed 45 minute planning time per week and integrate Utah Fine Arts standards with core academic subjects math science language arts and social studies while ensuring meaningful collaboration with Home Room teachers to support granite's focus on tier one instruction and to more closely align with the conditions of the BTS Alp Grant funds and best practices in arts integration we urge the board to increase funding to support the BTS program education research affirms this and again we sincerely ask the board to continue investing
046in arts arts integrated education not to just align with the state requirements but to give our students the best possible foundation for success Success Through providing highquality tier one instruction across the elementary curriculum thank you for your time and [Applause] consideration all right thank you so much for those who um addressed us we are going to move on to our consent items we've had these for uh um a few days to be able to look over if there are no questions I will entertain a motion I move that we approve the consent agenda I'll second we have a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda is there any further discussion on this I just will quickly add a comment that the consent agenda contains the expense for the ELA curriculum that the board
047approved last month just in alignment with my vote last month against that curriculum I'm also not voting to support the funding that goes along with it so okay thank you Kim um all in favor please say I I and opposed May motion carries uh that takes us to our other action items we have first our administrative appointments and transfers again this is something that we've had for a few days and been able to look over and ask any questions if there are no further questions I will entertain a motion for that as well I move that we approve all the admin appointments and transfers second have a motion in a second to approve the administrative appointments and transfers all in favor please say I I I forgot I sorry do you have any comments okay
048um any oppos right with that much anticipated we're going to invite several people up to introduce some of our new appointments and transfers so first we're gonna ask ask Jared Reynolds to come up how are you Jared good evening president McMan and members of the Granite District board I am here to recognize replacement for our director of Granite Peaks adult education Dave vanav has been the director for several years and is retiring at the end of this school year and I'm going to present Johnny [Music] matage Jonathan mic goes by Johnny Johnny began teaching in 2005 and taught primarily High School language arts along with coaching track and field basketball and football including being head football coach at Taylorville and Granger High School before finding his passion for alternative education as a teacher for several
049years at Granite connection High School a former school I was at I love Granite connection for the past 5 years Johnny has shown his leadership abilities and focus on student learning as an outstanding assistant principal at both Olympus Junior High and karn's high school so I present to you Johnny as the new director of Granite Peaks adult education thank you all right um and Dr Bryce Day You're Next just so you know up on the que next would be JD you're you're after sorry apparently I had to sit all the way in the back uh uh chairman mcdermit and members of the board I'd like to introduce to you uh Tiff iakona who will be assuming our position of associate director of Elementary special education um she she will be replacing Kyle Anderson who was
050recently appointed in curriculum uh she comes to us with 11 years of administrative experience including uh serving as an administrator at Jordan Valley School Glacier Hills Elementary School and in a similar position in Canyon's School District most recently she's been our principal of uh our Granite transition Services over at the hbe Jones Center so thank you very much good evening again Mitch told me earlier today if you talk in the microphone three times and one TI you automatically have to take the day off tomorrow so I'll see you all on Thursday but I'm super excited to be here tonight uh to welcome two new members of the communication and family engagement teams here in Granite uh the first one will be the new marketing associate director Miss Jen bodell we'll have Jen stand up Jen
051Jen has been in Granite for 28 years 19 of those years she spent teaching fifth and sixth grades at Truman and Armstrong uh she then moved on to be an instructional coach an intern assistant principal before her current assignment which has she's been the Principal of Whittier Elementary the last four years so we're excited to welcome Jen to to the communication and family engagement team [Applause] and then our next one is uh the new the new associate director of the parent advocate position Mr Taylor Kar Taylor Taylor is a granite guy through and through he was a Skyline High graduate and then after he got his degree he went and taught history at a boarding school in South Korea before those Skyline Vibes brought him back here to Utah to to be a teacher at
052Skyline and then he became an intern assistant principal and an assistant principal before his current assignment as the principal at Howard R drigg so Taylor welcome to the team thank you board and then I don't know if it's Wyatt or Brenda Oho good evening thank you I'm filling in uh for Patrick tonight um he's out of town and so I have the honor of letting you guys know about Britney [Applause] Ambrose uh Britney has taught for uh 13 years in uh several districts in multiple States uh she taught for one year in granite before moving into Administration uh she served as an assistant principal and for the past five years she served as the principal of Rose Crest Elementary and now she's joining h is the associate director over retirement and evaluation and I didn't
053want to be outdone by the high schools so I brought HR swag there is such a thing thank you Tyler you were you're jealous of that all right um and then Dr how come on up buck you guys buckle up is right we got a lot um good evening to the board of the superintendency I'm a Off the Bench fill in um John welburn is excuse he's on a trip to Hawaii and as we were coordinating I said you know I can fill in for you on that John you can take this and I'll take that y' um it's a great privilege to get to be part of this to get to be at this celebratory moment for um individuals who have dedicated their lives to education and to be able to support and um
054lift students and get to watch this important Milestone so it's just an honor to be a part of I want to take a quick Personal Privilege if I could um this has been eye openening for me at the amount of work and time that goes into making these arrangements for transfers and appointments and it's pulled me out of my school a lot more than I ever dreamed this last week and my assistant principles were amazing at holding down the fort so I've got one here tonight and others that are uh surely watching this and I thank you to them um I do want to go through a lot of names here and I would like to as I introduce each of these people ask them to stand up we'll give them a round of applause
055and then we'll just give them a little bit a little explanation of who they are and where we um have them appointed next first we want to recognize Kristen Logan right out of the gate Kristen has been a teacher and Technology coach in Granite she is currently an administrative intern at Magnet Elementary and Kristen will be the new principal at Fremont Elementary School congrats Kristen we're going to put you on the spot for a second do you have anyone you want to introduce with you is my HB all of my and they're all seeing you congratulations like to uh welcome back Allison mil if she could stand welcome back Allison Allison has been a principal at Monro and orchard Elementary School she is currently an assistant principal in Canyon school district she will be the
056new principal at gorley elementary school Alison do you want to introduce with you wonderful to have you if we could recognize Katie Paige Katie could you stand Katie has been a teacher and an administrative intern in Granite she has been an assistant principal at Academy Park Elementary and is currently the assistant principal at Redwood Elementary Katie will be the new principal at Diamond Ridge Elementary School exciting Katie do you have anyone you'd like to introduce yes I have my husband Alex my kids are here in the that's a good place to be yeah my parents are here with me and then also some friends as well wonderful thanks for coming Lee basquin can you stand a round of applause for [Music] Lee Lee has been a middle school and high school counselor he's currently an
057administrative intern at Moss Elementary Lee will be an assistant principal at stanbury and Moss Elementary Schools you have people to introduce yes um daughters skla Arabella congrats it's premature aodi here as well I didn't think so um just to go through the announcement Prima has been a teacher in Granite school district and is currently an administrative intern at Lincoln Elementary Prima will be the assistant principal at Walker Elementary School I'm sorry she couldn't join us today so congrats for Prima Anna Pendleton can you stand Anna has been a dual language immersion teacher and a teacher specialist at Granite District she is currently an administrative intern at west lake Junior High School Anna will be an assistant principal at Lakeridge and Valley Crest Elementary Schools Anna you're way back there so if you could belt it
058out anyone you want to introduce thank you Anna Corey penley can you stand Corey has been an administrator in Michigan he's currently a teacher at elkrun elementary Cory will be in assistant principal at Copper Hills and Hillsdale Elementary Schools Cory you don't have anyone to introduce right that's wonderful thanks Lisa um next Megan Snodgrass there she is Megan has been a teacher in Granite district and is currently an administrative intern at Bas and Truman Elementary Schools Megan will be the new assistant principal at Copper Hills and Hillsdale Elementary [Music] Schools Megan do you have anyone to introduce wonderful um next Nicole [Music] [Applause] [Music] woodmancy Nicole has been a teacher in Granite district and is currently an administrative intern at Taylorville and Penn Elementary Schools Nicole will be the new assistant principal at Magna Elementary
059School anyone to introduce Nicole I also understand your husband guessed this correctly so he's the one to take to Vegas over spring break everybody right there thank you our next person is not here um Gabe guadiana unfortunately Gabe cannot join us he's actually on a cruise in the Pacific having a great time um he um he is currently sorry Gabe has been a teacher and a teacher special in Granite but he is currently an assistant principal in Salt Lake District Gabe will be the new principle at Whittier Elementary [Music] School can I ask Michelle farmer to stand Michelle has been a teacher and instructional coach in Granite District she is currently an administrative intern at Pioneers in Silver Hill Silver Hills elementaries Michelle will be an assistant principal at cotwood high school Michelle do you
060have anyone to introduce no I have family that lives out of town I do have coworkers that came to thanks for being here wonderful could I ask Sarah lefon to stand please Sarah has been a math teacher in Jordan District she's currently an administrative intern at Eisenhower Junior High School Sarah will be the new assistant principal at Eisenhower junor High School Sarah anyone to introduce no that's a good person to bring with you thank West um Alysa longstaff can you please [Music] stand Alyssa has taught in junior high and been an instructional coach in Granite School District she is currently an administrative intern at Valley Junior High her loyalties are still to Westlake of course um Alyssa will be the new assistant principal at Bonville Junior High School Alyssa after you receive all these gifts
061is there anyone you want to introduce I have my husband David here with me congrats can I ask Travis melhoff to stand Travis has been a coach and teacher in Granite School District he's currently an administrative intern at benan Junior High Travis will be a new assistant principal at Jefferson Jr High School [Music] Travis do you have anyone to introduce and that didn't work out boy you're going to be in a good assistant there you go can I ask Chris tord to stand Chris has been a math teacher in Granite District he's currently an administrative intern at Kennedy Jor High Chris will be the assistant principal at Hunter High School Chris do you have anyone to introduce I have my [Music] current welcome can I ask Amy haer to stand wow Amy has been a
062PBIS coach and MTS specialist in Granite School District she is currently the assistant principal at Bonville Junior High Amy will be the new principal at Eisenhower Junior High [Applause] School Amy clearly you don't have anybody here with you we're going to move on do you have anyone to introduce Amy I want than to wonderful thanks for cheing her on Daniel harnsberger can you stand Daniel has been a junior high assistant principal in Ogden District Daniel is currently an assistant principal at Jefferson Jr High and Daniel will be the new principal at Jefferson Jr High School Daniel do you have anyone to introduce my wife and kids moms are the best I got my dad here he's pretty cool [Laughter] too congrats can I ask Chad Reinhardt to stand Chad has been a teacher and an
063intern assistant in Granite School District he has been an assistant principal at Hunter Junior High and is currently an amazing assistant principal at Granger High School Chad will be the new principal at Ma Junior High School Chad you have people to introduce I'm here with my and your your principal Tyler thank you Chad thank you congrats can I ask Justin pitcher to stand Justin has been an elementary principal and high school assistant principal in Kan School District coincidentally at the school where my kids go and they love them um due to Michael Douglas moving into an assessment director position in the district Justin will be the new principal at Cottonwood High School you've got some merchandise there expect you to wear that sir there you go go Colts Justin do you have anyone to introduce
064with you I have an awesome wife Ashley myter and my son Ken I have two other kids are in college and so they're just Joy University tonight and good for them great to have you Jared Wright can I ask you to stand oh that Jes never looked so good Jared has been a teacher and Elementary principal and a high school principal in Salt Lake School District Jared will be the new principal at the best high school in the district Granger High School I'm I'm off the bench here we're thrilled to have you Jared do you have anyone to introduce there break here I bet thank you appreciate you can we have one more round of applause for all of these appoin for what you done to the board and the superintendency that's a lot of
065names and thanks for letting us share them thank you before we excuse you all we wanted to the people who were introduced before um we didn't have your families stand and or you to stand and be recognized so will you just please stand up and and be recognize that you were here to support those people so anybody who did not get to thanks for I was gonna have you stand up and then leave so no just kidding no um you are welcome to stay we have a a wonderful agenda but you're also um if you want to we have a wonderful break [Applause] we love you all but we do still have a a meeting to to continue so we're going to invite you to step out into the Hall [Music] [Applause] you want to
066go close the [Applause] do thank you all for coming we're going to continue on with our agenda [Applause] [Music] let's just start okay our next item that we have is um we have our sex education materials and we have Noel Converse here thank you Dr con for being here and we're going to just review that yes thank you thank you you board president and uh board and superintendent horley as you know this is the second review of the sexed material so I'm not going to um review the first couple slides um just because we've already done this in the first review so if you have any questions at the end we certainly can revisit those if that's something you're interested in doing so I'll go ahead and Skip through just the logistical slides that we
067have at the beginning and I'll just bring to your attention um what we did discussed in our first review last month which was that 100% of um the nine member committee did recommend for approval the boys maturation the updated Bo maturation um materials and there were no dissenting committee comments and then as far as the AP um psychology text there also was 100% uh agreement to of the eight member committee for approval and no dissenting com comments and then for the second text for AP Psychology um it was 88% um of the nine member committee recommended with one rejecting who had no comments Kim I think you had asked me that in the first um in the first session and I went back and double checked there weren't any comments she just she just had
068a a no next to her uh vote thank you um just to summarize uh public comment so as you know there's a 30-day review period for public comment and and um during that time we had a total of four public comments so just broadly um to summarize what those were uh under the boy maturation materials there were three comments in full support of all the review um all of the reviewed sex ad materials there was one comment that suggested um that the maturation slide deck kind of ended abruptly and just could they do something do something kind of nice at the end so they did go back and just add a slide at the end of that just to make get uplifting and and kind of some closure to the slide deck um and then
069uh finally we did have two parent inquiries regarding girls maturation material I believe it's just thinking that knowing that both there's boys and girls maturation these individuals were simply inquiring um where they were where are the girls materials and so we reached out to each of those parents and let them know there were no changes in those materials so when there are no changes we don't review those or bring those to board um in terms of the AP Psychology there were two comments uh supporting adoption of both texts and no dissenting comments and so if you have any questions regarding those materials I should have called you but I didn't that's okay so is this um AP py is that something that that the curriculum says they have to teach correct so in terms of
070the AP Psych ology let me just take you back to um these two pieces so basically the standards are actually written in a way so it's really based on the standards and so we can't we can't um uh change or augment um AP standards because they really belong to college board and this is really college credit and I think we've mentioned um in the first review as well understanding that we do review the AP um materials out of an abundance of caution uh because we want to make sure that we feel really comfortable with everything that's being taught but they are an Exempted uh group there any other questions okay so this is a um Second and final reading for the sex education instruction materials I will entertain a a motion I move that we
071approve the sexed material S as described for a second and final reading thank you I'll second we have a motion in a second to approve education instructional materials for a second and final reading are there any comments I do have one sorry I didn't know if you were also jumping in or not yeah so I we were given a small piece of curriculum to review for AP I think it is helpful and you explained it I'll say it again for those listening that the board does not Choose Or approve AP curriculum um and we're having it up for a vote tonight simply because you know we're playing it safe having this portion up for a vote given the potential for it to be viewed as sexed curriculum correct so nevertheless I am I'm concerned about
072the curriculum overall because of the standards that we have to use which Connie briefly brought up which we don't create or approve either by the way um I realize that the board does not get to choose the curriculum does not get to create those standards but I did some digging into the national AP psych standards that we are teaching to um this particular standard here brought up in in this vote indicates that students must understand that deciding on a gender identity is a normal and typical part of adolescent identity formation there are other questionable standards as well students being able to describe effects of privilege and Prejudice and diversity of gender identity to be clear as I read it the standards which are concerning show Dei in action again I understand we don't get to
073choose this curriculum but I do believe we get to choose which AP classes we will offer in the first place and so I would encourage my fellow board members to take a look at re-evaluating the AP courses we are offering to ensure that we are not running a foul of both state law and Dei related Federal Executive Orders um with regard to this specific vote I'm comfortable with the Myers curriculum not so comfortable with the language in the Amsco Laura brand text and combined with my overall concerns even though this does nothing really but make a statement because we don't have control over this specific curriculum I will have to vote no thank you thanks any other comments right those in favor please say I I I any OPP post n you all right thank
074you Dr Converse thank you very much um the next two items that we have are information items and just as way of explanation while Doug makes his way up right uh I asked for him to kind of just give some information um number one because we H as a law policy committee we asked for this to be sent to our district community councils and we didn't want you to be blindsided that this was going to come to your District Community councils if you went um but number two also just to have you give you a chance to weigh in on this as well um in the in the way that we just we I mean we could do that during a first reading but we wanted to make sure you guys were aware and okay
075or at least um understand where your communities um stand on these two things so there are two significant changes to these two policies that Doug will go over and would like just to have your feedback before we get to that to the point of thank you um uh president mcdermit so we had um initially um uh planned on doing as a first reading three policies tonight but two of those we've um we we've uh discussed um perhaps there's a little more discussion required before we before we bring those for a first reading so the first one is District um property access and safety this is um policy um uh 4c2 um sorry I'm just trying to get it is that 6 C2 sorry 7 C2 7 C2 I'm sorry I'm sorry you're right 7 C2
076SC way like [Music] oh okay here we go so this particular policy it was a combination of three policies and um those policies uh had to do with the use of our school grounds we redid essentially the entire policy combining um article 7 C2 grounds use um and you can see there um article uh 7 C3 safeguarding the use of school grounds after school hours combining those policies into one um was fairly simple however there's a portion of that policy that we discussed at length in um in our law and policy meeting and um that has to do with dogs and other animals uh on District property so if you look in uh F uh 12 and three um there's been significant discussion surrounding the issue of whether or not um after hours um dogs
077and other pets should be allowed onto school property um we crafted some language that um would preclude dogs from being on school property based on um the concerns that have been raised and the and the complaints that have been made regarding owners not picking up after their pets um in particular um and so the the idea is that we understand that people um that domestic animals dogs are part of um people's lives people can um definitely walk their dogs however what we would ask them to do is to leave their dogs or uh excuse me more accurately leave their student uh at the at the sidewalk and they wouldn't uh bring their dogs onto campus so that is essentially the the um the the position that uh law and policy has taken with respect to
078this particular issue I know that there are a lot of um very strong opinions about this particular issue in some of your communities and so that's why we wanted to bring it here and allow you an opportunity to speak to it um I'm happy to insert any of of my own um thoughts or feelings but otherwise I leave it to you board members to um Converse about uh specifically the direction that the board would like to take with respect to this particular issue so just to kind of cue it up um Julie was really a a big one I think her area uh a lot of your schools or several of your schools had have issues with kids that are going out during recess coming in with dog poop on their shoes um the question
079was posed what's that in their hair in their hair um just different things like that I don't know the question was posed are we seeing this all over the district we did ask for that to be um to be surveyed yep um and a lot of principles did say they they do like that idea uh we recognize that it's not feasible if every every campus because we don't have completely enclosed areas but what this does do is that if it is part of our policy our municipalities then do have the ability to be able to ticket people when they do see them with dogs on there so just kind of the question that we had do you all are you hearing this from your schools is this a are your Communities going to be upset
080that they don't have access or that if access is cut off um for them because of the abuse of the property what is what are your thoughts what's going on in your areas sorry I might mention just one last thing that the the feedback we've been getting from principales is fairly consistent that um those that have spoken up prefer that that we disallow dogs on on school property all together Julie in your area haven't there been a couple of instances where the the gates have been locked for 30-day periods and what was the impact or result of such actions um posit positive and neighbors upset at first and then finding out what was going on and then um supporting but wishing it was otherwise you know and I will say that my area I think
081will be upset um about this policy because they want to take their dogs on the property but the reality is is that um um it's starting to interrupt instruction in not just one or two of my buildings I would say that when I go to Community Council meetings this is like very often a discussion very often and so I would say almost every single one of my um buildings is experiencing this and part of that is because in my area there's not a lot of open space so the schools are the parks we don't we have just a couple of parks but um you're not dog's not allowed off leash there either so and I have had patrons talk to me also about things like um now that this is like in the works um
082yeah my daughter's allergic to dogs and this is a huge problem at pickup and drop off and then other people chiming my daughter too my kids also or um my you know kids feeling unsafe because there are dogs there that are off leash and we're not able to ticket them or really enforce the law but this would allow us to enforce it so that's my next question is what's the Practical enforcement look like so at some of our schools we can lock gates at others we cannot either way um what is the Practical enforcement are we really going to see it are we going to start seeing citations I mean I if we're going to create the policy I hope that it has teeth is what I'm saying otherwise it's a bunch of hand waving
083uh we've had some conversations preliminarily with some of our city partners and I think the concept is if they know that schools are banned on school prop dogs are schools are banned on school property dogs are banned on school property that if they saw that instance they could then go take and make a citation so the way that it's set up right now they you're in a situation where they have to demonstrate that they're not allowed on school property at that particular time um and usually when we're getting those types of reports from principles the the people have left by the time the police are able to arrive so this is really more of a matter of convenience and they're driving by the property and see that a dog is there and is this it
084all times of the day or just during uh the suggestion is it would be all times all times weekends included correct the idea um being that it it really is the the the problem with the with the waste that's being not not being cleaned up um um and I would say to um superintendent horley's point that right now we do have law enforcement who stop by schools on a regular kind of a on a rotate you know on a on a regular Cadence and um they're always looking for criminal conduct but they have shied away from doing anything with respect to the dogs because we don't have a hard and fast rule that that prohibits it so if if if if we're willing to provide a hard and fast rule for them then they will
085help us enforce this is just an unfortunate policy we have to come up with cuz just like a lot of rules out there it's only because a few people don't do what they should and pick up after their pets and if this weren't a problem we wouldn't have to do a policy on this unfortunately though it's our reality and I have to put kids first and I don't want kindergarten well any grade but I can just imagine kindergarteners out there not looking where they're steep in and now they're supposed to learn and then everyone else in that class is like ooh where's that smell it just is nasty so it makes me sad that we can't just open up you know and have these open Community spaces that's what we like our schools to be
086but on this one unfortunately some people haven't followed the rules and just even the common courtesy of owning a pet includes cleaning up after them um but because that's not happening I think we have to we have have to put kids first I do Wonder this if if um if you guys feel like you want to go out and ask your community councils to weigh in on it or something like that before we vote that's kind of what we had discussed I think but we we I oh okay we have a survey that's going to go out right yes we do okay yeah okay yeah so this isn't a voting item to this I'm sorry I want to make that clear I think trenda put it on the community C Council or the district Community
087Council so I think that will get some good we we encour encourage our um patrons to come there you know our community council somebody a rep from each school would be great then they could have some really good input on that too so I think it's for next time okay if there's no other thoughts we're going to go ahead and move on to uh the next item which is article 8824 electronic devices again this was just one that we have a a new uh section in this is um as we passed this policy last year this is coming back up on our year our year anniversary and we I I know we all asked we'd like to review this and see how it's going so this is part of that but there's also a new
088a new part of it that law and policy we asked to be put in and so we wanted your feedback on this as well yeah and let's see if I can tee this one up a little bit um so the the the conversation in on policy once again the the um our board handbook says that we you know we don't modify a policy um within a year of it passing the last time uh unless there are certain circumstances that that require it so we we don't have any real pressing need um to to work with this policy really until June however there was a conversation that came up in law and policy that that I that our law and policy committee wanted the the board to weigh in on as a whole and that had
089to do with screen time in general this idea that um screen time uh is perhaps being used um as a means to um not necessarily instruct but to pass the time in schools and in in some classrooms now uh W without sounding disparaging I I don't have any particular data to back that up it's um the the uh the um incidents that we that we've discussed are all anecdotal in nature but the idea being that uh that kids um don't necessarily need to be on screens um throughout the whole day including throughout the entire school day and so we should limit screen time if we can in schools um I pointed out to the law and policy committee and I think this is where kind of the discussion got a little bit more um tra
090action and that is that this really would be kind of an about phas um of you know past philosophy of the of the District of the board um as we move toward one: one um uh Chromebooks um for every student T students taking those Chromebooks home um uh essentially being Tethered to it so that they um so that they would have the ability to be able to use them and and um have access to um their um have access to Canvas and and their school work at any time this was also an issue you you recall past um conversations about this an issue of equity where some families have more access to technology than other families and so by us providing a on toone device um it allowed um families without that luxury uh a
091little bit more of a of of an um an equal playing field these are the conversations that occurred in the past Connie I see you smiling and some of you recall some of these conversations that we've had and so prior to us making any real um changes to the policy we really wanted a discussion to to come before the board and again to go to community councils and and we'll be following through with those conversations Community councils as well but if I can point you to c56 and 7even in that policy this is the portion of the policy where we tried to to craft some language that would kind of capture uh at least law policies um position at this point or or best thinking at this point but again um it would be a
092change in Direction somewhat from where we've been in the past and we wanted to have the board or we wanted to give the board an opportunity to to kind of um discuss that issue and and and that um uh that change in philosophy if if that is indeed the direction the board wants to go I think it's good I think sometimes when we're not prepared and if teachers aren't prepared uh on a certain day I think it's much easier to just say open your Chromebook and they can give direction partially and then the kids can spend way too much time so I liked what you had written um I'll just chime in a little bit I I can appreciate adding this in I think there was a time and place where we needed Chromebooks and
093now um we we're kind of flipping from that because of we don't need we have face to-face instructional time and we have um I think I think this was this is needed now more than ever because we we have some maybe habits that were kind of what Connie was saying we kind of fell back on some habits of using that Chromebook for more instruction than necessary now but at the time I think it was um in response to what we had to do to provide education for kids and now we're back to hopefully more normal times where we can now step away from that and uh and this is a great this is a great addition to the policy just add a comment um a law policy team already has heard this but just it
094out for everyone else as well I mean I I advocate moving away from our one toone Chromebook model I would prefer we didn't use Chromebooks at all I don't think screen time enhances learning that conversation like Doug said is ongoing so hoping to have continued conversations on that topic um not sorry are you saying no Chromebooks all levels to high school just I think that would be ideal yeah but especially for the elementary kids um anyway but just want to keep those conversations going I know that's not exactly what we're talking about in this policy yet today but just wanted to throw that out for everybody thanks I'll just add my my comment to that I I appreciate the need for some some balance and like many things in the world and in education balance
095is um critical I don't think that doing away with Chromebooks altogether is the right balance we live in a world with technology um that's a big part of the world and of Our Lives um and hopefully for the most part in a good way um and there are many aspects of technology that our students deserve our attention and our um oversight that we Embrace technology in all the right ways possible Karen did you have any thoughts I do can I go um I just uh a couple things so while I think this isn't necessarily A change in policy what we've written up here because we've always just said in procedure yes we use computers for best when it's best practices we've never prescribed it like this and this to me the change to teachers is
096you don't use this you don't use gate plane on your l on your Chromebook for a reward and also you don't use it for indoor recess I think that this policy does not support those two practices so I would say that we need to make sure our teachers are aware of that um because while this is a very very general policy would you guys agree with me that that's what this says like that you use it for indoor recess and now that breaks this policy I'm asking if it breaks the policy as written what do you think um where where it says limited I don't think it says not I mean limited during school hours I think that's so there's some limits put into a an administrative memo that's you know our best practice is
097to use these only for administrative I think I think this gives a lot of discretion uh I think it allows a lot of discretion if you wanted to tighten it down further I think we could do that um but but I do think that it focuses on the concept of um technology being used for instruction and not for passing the time I I don't think that I'm in favor of um uh making this tighter without feedback from teachers but I that's the direction I would like to head in is hey this is where we want to head what are the unintended consequences and like talk to us let's let's talk about this I I and I think that we're talking about going out and getting a lot of feedback from all of our patrons our
098our parents and our teachers about intentionality and to me what I would hope would be a tighter um plan even if it's a memo and a and a procedure rather than a policy about um Chromebooks but um I would like this to be part of the conversation myself the other thing I wanted to talk about is that I just went to my uh class at Skyline and ask them okay talk to me about Chromebooks and my three takeaways from that class of about 30 seniors is the first thing is that I said a lot of parents are really concerned about um accessing pornography talk to me about that and they were like oh fat chance with bark no way like if anybody does anything you get called down to the office immediately like they know
099there's no way that they were so I I couldn't believe how much they were like no that's not happening who's saying that you know fascinating second was um that they uh this was on a different day when I said what do you think is the major reason that we have an attendance problem and they said because everything's on canvas so we can miss school easy and still keep our grades up which I thought I think is something we should consider as we look at this technology policy in the next year as we go consider what we're going to do next year about this right and then the third thing that they said was uh there should be absolutely no Chromebooks at the elementary level kids should learn to type and that's all they should do
100and I was fascinated that these high school seniors were feeling this way knowing that in only a handful of years they are the parents of my kindergarteners right this is their attitude and they were pretty unanimous about it also in a part of town where it's a little more liberal minded and they were feeling this way right so I thought that was a really fascinating uh perspective that I wanted to share here um uh and then they also had kind of a roll out of how you would little by little bring the Chromebook in it was it was very interesting to chat about it but so I I think it's important for us to listen to these students who have had their Chromebook and who have experienced it because they know it on a level
101that we don't so I don't want to skip out on the student voice as we get feedback about this that's all I was going to say I was like maybe we could do a student survey at least at the secondary level as part of our further research and Analysis of this the policy changes on this I think we have seen success in a few places I know in just my own experience my kids do their starter in their class and then I say put the Chromebooks away right and then the really only other time they need them is when I tell them to pull out the googler and look up something because there's a fascinating historical fact I want them to to get some to to curiosity you know use their curiosity to find out
102something um interesting but uh I think we're moving in the right direction with this but I the whole purpose of bringing this as an information item was so that we could gauge what type of survey and uh feedback that we'd like to get from not just the community but I like I like the idea of taking that out to our students a little bit further that's good and our teachers which is part of the community and if I may provide a Counterpoint as well I mean there are teachers out there who who use technology they've integrated it into their classrooms I'm you're going to find some resistance from those teachers theyve worked very very hard to learn how to integrate really in everything they do the Chrome books and I've seen some of those classes
103where they've been highly effective in doing so um particularly with English language Learners and and um and some other you know situations where where the Chromebook where the where the technology can be used as a uh as an enhancement to learning and so um I I would say at this point um uh I I will take this feedback that we've received tonight from board from the board we'll try to put together the surveys that will go out to community councils District Community Council and perhaps even some students and teachers will'll figure out how to do that but I think I think these are philosophical issues right these are these are broad philosophical issues that the Board needs to Grapple with in order to um kind of give us Direction moving forward as to how uh
104we see this um really the the the the the principal reason that we're here and that is instructing kids so can I just um add Julie's comment um about the seniors and then Clark's comments about balance made me think you know all these variables don't just happen in vacuum they happen intertwined and one of the variables that we're not considering but we need to in in this is yes like like Chris said we we push teachers like crazy to get really good like putting stuff on canvas and then we at the same time said pbl you got to help kids to pass the class and and attendance doesn't matter except that attendance matters and learning happens with the teacher right and there's balance there's has to be a way to balance all that I think
105the pbl just needs to be considered as a component of the issue at hand I wanted to just make sure to add to the conversation as we all are thinking about this the problem with the textbook as well that textbooks are now moving online it's hard to find the printed copy if they have a printed copy it's kind of not as awesome anymore we would have to as a state of Utah you know build the build the market demand for a a printed book right which would take time I mean so this is also a part of the conversation I think I don't think this what's written is if if teachers are prepared and they use electronics for the purpose of teaching I don't think this it affects that it affects it when you're not
106prepared and you just say students get on the you know which yeah that's the easy way out for all of us you know grandparents and parents and everybody yeah but I do think that there I mean I like getting something written here I've volunteered in classrooms before and even knowing I'm coming cuz sometimes teachers are a little intimidated when when um Schoolboard members walk in the classroom but there there were there's been a handful of times where I left the classroom I thought that's interesting the teachers over here working with you know three four elementary kids and the rest of the class is just on their Chromebook and as I walk around they're playing games which might be you know tie this spelling to this or whatever but is that the best use is that
107how they're really going to learn probably not and so I I like that we have something that maybe suggests you know what that model looks like as the teacher pulls out small groups I'm not sure but uh but that that's always stuck with me as I kind of have left a handful of classrooms like oh they're kind of babysitting themselves on on the Chromebooks and I think that's what we're trying to avoid here and it wasn't it wasn't very long ago that those kinds of learning programs were going to be the Silver Bullet now education right yeah but ultimately if we want teachers to be able to follow through with this with Fidelity we have to give them the supports they need which is such a struggle for us we try to give supports but
108we're limited and so I mean that's where you see that is well I got this kid and I just got to teach him this one thing you guys 10 minutes you're playing a game while I teach four times tables to this kid you know like so I I see the teacher's dilemma but me too and this particular time was more like a half hour and that's what got me I was like okay you know if it's 5 10 minutes okay I can I can digest that but this was I was in there for a half hour and walking around and and I was trying to make good use right I would sit down next to a kid what are you learning what's on you know what are you show me what you're learning right now
109and then they would flip screens and then they would show me something but it wasn't until I sat next to them that they would flip to a screen that had something of not really of value that's a little harsh but maybe something more exciting to share I and i' I've had this Con I had this conversation with Rich when he was still here and I I said you know we have to have the value proposition of having a live teacher what's the use if we have if the kids are going and well you know it doesn't matter because I just pull out my Chromebook and I work on my Chromebook the whole time then they don't want to go to class they don't need to go to school and that's the whole point is that
110we have a value prop position of having an a live teacher the teacher is there to help them they can give instruction it's something that's different than they can get online and learn anything that they want that's not the value proposition that we offer as an as a a school district and so we have to keep that in mind and that's what this is aimed for I do I understand what clerk is saying and I absolutely agree there is a balance because I can think you know I have I have a program that I have my kids go on sometime and it's about not reading and they go on and they they do that and I can monitor them and I only allow them on that website because of the software that we have but
111um and it's it's easier for me to instead of sitting there cutting out flashcards for the kids and it's much more fun for them to have a you know to earn an orange belt or a black belt in not reading um so I think there can be a time and a place but I use that like four times a year you know that's not what we do most of the time in my classroom so it's that you know that balance of of where it is important where what you need so um all right there's no more comments I so direction from the board I what I'm gathering is that we take some of this feedback uh we start to um gather data the best that we possibly can uh over the next couple of months
112and we we develop um some additional um data points that we can bring back to the board so that you can consider those as we as as as we talk about changing the policy is that does that sound about right yeah and I believe as we chatted with trenda I think she's planning on this is District Community Council as well so we get some good feedback very good yeah okay thank you thanks all right let's go ahead and move on we've got Article 5 A6 Guardians in school this is a short policy great so we're ready for Meers to keep going um excellent so Guardians and schools we heard all uh well maybe I can't say that um we uh we we know a fair amount about Guardians in schools now which is is a
113good thing this policy um was necessitated by state law by HB 84 from last year and HP40 this year the law requires that arm volunteers Guardians be uh present in district schools volunteers may be um District employees but they're not primarily located in a classroom so this policy now provides us um essentially a uh an outline of what the guardian program is and uh administrative memorandum number 150 will provide procedures as to how we select train and maintain those um those Guardians and schools so if you have any further questions about that particular policy I am happy to uh discuss it further the only question I had was that you said that we and I'm assuming we're just not going to add it into the policy but that there was the exception made that if
114we had a School less than than 350 oh correct does that need to be in the policy I think it does actually okay it does you do have a line that says unless an exception applies I just know if it needed to be spelled out due to the state statute that that that makes sense there is an additional exception that we can petition and say hey we can't find anybody else will you allow us even though we're bigger than 350 so there might be that exception too okay we probably need to add some verbage some verbage yeah I'll I'll work on that um for next go around aside from that were there any other questions we're very grateful for that by the way that provision yeah we have about 20 schools that are under 3
115it really helps actually yeah we accept a motion oh motion I move that we Sorry Todd go ahead Todd Doug yes sir knowing that the definition for a school Guardian now includes principal does that affect to and how we're defining a school district employee so the principle only if it is less than 350 though right correct unless we apply for exception that's why I wondered if does it have to be spilled out there or does that fall under the unless an exception applies mhm yeah let me let me think through that a little bit more I'll bring you a resolution to that okay okay okay go ahead Julie well I think I want to just move that we move on and wait until we get a revised copy of this to do a first reading
116is there a reason for us to need to pass a first reading today is there a deadline is there a reason not to because first reading is just the first draft I guess it just feels like there's a lot of changes think the only change is just that one that 350 yeah I think that's the only change okay well I will move that we approve 5 A6 Guardians in schools as a first reading second we have a motion in a second to approve 5 A6 Guardians in schools as a first reading are there any is there any further discussion all in favor please say I I any opposed great um superintendent as we actually passed this and put this into effect I've had a lot of community members ask me how we're going to handle
117this and as it is very confidential so you can't really say um I I would appreciate uh some good messaging about it uh once it's passed and going to be in effect which I guess would be this fall right defitely mentioning that um since since Doug is here do you mind Craig if we wait okay let's skip over sure um to article 8 B9 prohibitions of bullying cyber bullying and hazing and retaliation yep thank you so this is uh comes before the board on a second reading um this policy was updated to include a definition of a bullying action plan so um fortunately we we got our um our bullying definition passed uh in State Statute uh it's a somewhat more restrictive definition which will help us in the process of determining whether or not
118we need to do a bullying plan each time a student um is investigated for for that um this change arises out of that new legislation action plans will include directions for reporting bullying responding to the student who caused the incident the student affected by the incident and the parents of both parties um so this policy also uh has a memorandum that outlines the um the procedures for its implementation and so with that um I'd be happy to answer any any further questions on um article 8 B9 do I have any questions if not I will entertain a motion I move that we approve appr 8 B9 prohibition of bullying cyber bullying for a second and final second we have a motion and a second to approve 8 B9 prohibition of bullying and cyber bullying as
119a second and final reading there any further comments all right all in favor please say I I any opposed right motion carries skip to article 9 a1b drugs alcohol and tobacco 981b we had a a fairly um robust conversation about this in the last board meeting um you'll recall that we included uh in this policy some additional language surrounding um particularly the use of marijuana and the uh medical marijuana Statute in the state of Utah and um we included a definition of misuse so that we would be able to uh continue to um monitor and uh discipline for misuse of any prescribed drugs even if it's um medical marijuana or any other prescribed drug so that's how we've handled it we took out the testing portion you'll recall and put that into our um procedural
120uh or our procedures in the in the administrative memorandum um that's basically that whole second half of the policiy you can see there if there's any other questions about 9 a1b I'd be happy to respond I was just G to make a motion I move that we approve as a second and final reading article 9 a1b drugs alcohol and tobacco I'll second I have a motion in a second to approve article 9 a1b drugs alcohol and tobacco as a second and final reading is there any further comment all in favor please say I I I any opposed motion carries let's go ahead and do article 9 A4 C okay 9 a4c this is our um this is a a fairly um um critical policy this is um corrective action Progressive discipline and orderly termination of
121employees um you'll recall from our conversation last month that um we added to this policy uh a a provision that we can extend provisional um status of an employee for two additional years one year at a time um if there is um sufficient cause to do so and so uh that is under uh section G5 if you want to take a look at it that's the the section that we added um there was a couple of other items that we cleaned up but otherwise that was the the the bulk or the the substance of the of the change to that policy and I'd be happy to answer any questions about article 9 a4c if you have them there any questions if not I will entertain a motion I move that we approve as a final
122second and final reading article 9 A4 C corrective action and Progressive discipline policy I'll second we have a motion a second to approve article 9 a4c corrective action Progressive discipline and orderly termination is a second and final reading is there any further discussion all in favor please say I I any opposed motion carries great we're going to jump back up real fast to the fiscal policy manual update that is Todd just a reminder on that one uh we had a federal uh monitoring visit and they praised our process and the procedures that we have in place but they said that our policy did not have all of the pieces in place that are required under Federal code so we're just putting in the language necessary so um if there's no questions I'll entertain a motion
123this would be the approval of the f policy update as a second and final reading I move we accept the fiscal policy manual update as a second and final reading second I have a motion in a second to approve the fiscal policy manual update as a second and final reading there any discussion all in favor please say I I I any opposed motion carries now Mr staer thank you board members thanks thanks Mr Larson sry Craig poor Craig good evening I'm disappointed that there's only just a few people in the audience I know that what I present is uh very exciting to everyone so I'm sure we have lots online so I am here to present to you the second reading of our um maximum fee schedule oh do I have to go like that
124there we go um these are just some of the objectives of the presentation I want to do a quick review of the fee law um give you a revised copy to go over um highlight some of the major changes I want to make sure that you know that there are some small adjustments that were made that I won't go into detail um in especially some of the adjustments in um grammar and then if there's any questions during any time during or at the end of discussion please let me know a quick review is the Fila itself um for beginning 2025 does not allow an Lea to charge for a non-fe course which is defined the five areas um we cannot charge a general basic fee we cannot charge for textbooks School equipment and then the
125definition of common educational expenses and then we can charge for a fee course and a non-fee course um I highlighted here that the items are built into our class fee so um when we list each of the class fees these items are built in which are instructional equipment that we can charge for along with school activity clothing and the definitions are there the school can charge for a fee course and a non-fee course these are um itemized separately within the the maximum fee schedule field trips will be separate discretionary projects that would be in lie of the regular classroom projects and then Credit Recovery a competency remediation program and then schools can charge for a fee course these items are built in which are the instructional supplies the life cycle replacement costs and the licensing
126fee for intellectual property so those are all built in to our class course schedules and then these are listed separately that can be charged for a fee course which are the musical instrument rentals and the participation in driver's education within the law It also says that a school or Lea can charge for um either credit Exam textbook or tuition for our AP IB and concurrent classes and we can also charge uh normally for anything that has to do with extracurricular activities including that life cycle replacement cost want to remind you also that elementaries can ask for a suggested list of supplies but we do need to include this notice when we send that home um that's listed on the the slide so that was a quick review I would like to now if you can
127help me uh move from the presentation to the actual fee schedules it will be a little bit more timely to be able to go over those and then that might be where you have some of the questions so first we'll bring up the high school fee schedule it's going to take maybe just a second to come up if we can expand that perfectly so to share with you a few of the changes um on the first page there were no changes there we have each of those listed on the second page of the high school schedule uh within the overnight travel student travel there was an adjustment made um within approved geographic region and we listed the policy we felt that it was more important to do that than to to list the actual States
128so that if uh that policy ever changes the fee schedule won't have to be shared two times at two different meetings so that was um adjusted and then with credit recovery that of $45 that's mid way down the page two um this is the only place that will be listed because based on the law um we had it listed as a course class or a course charge as well um but with what you can charge for a fee course uh there was very few things that could fall underneath there so we've listed it just in extracurricular for that credit recovery on page three there are a few changes the first thing that I want to um mention is that we REM removed music performing group uh we did that because we placed um all of
129our performing groups in the um extracurricular portion only one thing that we noticed um and we got feedback was is that having it both as a performing group fee and a class fee became a little bit confusing for parents because where will I be charged and could I possibly be charged for both and we had within the policy that they students could not be charged for both but it still was a little confusing and after meeting with each of the um the band leaders at the high school level they all agreed that all of them perform at the high school level at the junior high level um we we're I'll I'll explain that change a little bit different but but we are going to only place them here and there won't be a class fee
130except for guitar guitar and piano um I also wanted to list that we did increase the instrument rental charge um thanks to some help from some of the teachers we were able to identify what each of the district other districts charge um also what it costs to rent an instrument monthly and um we fit well within the parameters of comparison to our sister districts and way cheaper than it would be to rent an instrument monthly if you were to do that on your own so that will be increase to $150 again this is a maximum and so communities schools can choose to char charge that maximum or what they feel is appropriate for their community and then the SE second instrument would be $25 care I had a question on the piano one I don't
131know what fee schedule it's on cuz I'm a little lost but the said piano 150 do people rent pios I understand like I'm trying to figure out how that how that would work cuz obviously viol I mean any instrument is a lot most instruments you the kids carry with them right they're renting it they're taking it to school with them they're taking it home or maybe they're leaving at school whatever and then I saw the piano on the fee schedule and I was really trying to wrap my mind around that can anybody speak to that I think there's some Cottonwood I'm thinking in particular that if they wanted to they could rent a piano and take it home and leave it at home and practice like just a keyboard piano so it's not a well
132obviously it's not like an upright a grand piano okay so more like a keyboard that's potentially portable yeah yeah that's what that's what my guess and rent it from the school or rent it okay from the school yeah yeah it still would be this would be a rental from the school at this point which which if we had to we would if we had multiple we would have to um rent from and then there would just be different piano at the at the school hopefully this yeah like I rent I rent my kids who play bass I rent them one to take home and then they have one at school so they're not so they're not yeah CU that's a to car just that one caught my eye that's a great question other questions there
133um looking down along that same page um we do have Club officers peer leadership team student body officers and class officers and we felt it was more appropriate to separate them into three lines so that they could be more specific with the totals because our student body officers and class officers usually have a class and do quite a bit more with um dances and other events that they put on and so that amount was $5500 and separated that with Club officers versus peer leadership team so theirs would be um less and then going down all the way to course fees would be the next change from what you previewed it's still on this same page though uh maybe yeah page there you go thank you uh we realphonevalidation that allowed students to earn credit towards
134graduation in the non-fe courses and we needed to remove those and they were on the list before and so after doing that and then also changing art to visual arts to give a better definition we reorganize those so you're going to see CTE first rather than what than art which was first before and then moving on um we we received some feedback on page four child development we increased that fee slightly from 20 to 25 construction which is our construction classes here at the GTI that was a slight increase as well based on some feedback from the teachers and then um food and nutrition we had the title there Foods one and two and that was not um consistent with what we have for course codes so we made that adjustment nothing on page five
135on on page six there was competitive Athletics that was a course fee and after speaking with Aaron Whitehead along with some other coaches um there there is not normally a class fee that's charged we had listed with this that if they were going to charge a class fee they wouldn't be able to charge a team fee if they were part if it was associated with a team and um it seemed more appropriate to just charge them for being part of the team so we remove moove that fee as a class fee so there wouldn't be anything there we added the word um aquatic aerobics rather than just Aquatics to make sure we defined that that was an aerobics class Karen has already mentioned the $150 for piano and then for guitar and again that this
136is just a maximum um we can make those adjustments if we need if you feel it be more appropriate to reduce that but this is a maximum and that each school can charge what they feel is appropriate for for their community on page s there is on the second line AP Studio Art which includes 3D and 2D uh we had missed that class we we had it down at the bottom with 3D but we missed the AP portion and So after talking to um our our director or I mean our um teacher specialist they asked us to change that to include both 2D and 3D in AP and it added it or in increased it to 55 instead of 50 no question spelling error on there but I'll point it out to you later okay
137good thank you down at the very bottom we used to have under and it would potentially fall on the other page we used to have field trips and instructional equipment listed under specific item courses we REM removed those because of duplicates and they fall just within the extracurricular or the top portion of this and so they were both removed under specific item course fees so that is all the adjustments for high school are there any questions with that one do you have to give all the students these seven pages do you print them or just have them online yeah we we have everything online it will go out with registration ation material and and when students and parents look at what they're going to register they'll have each not all schools offer all classes and
138so this is just for the district and it will be posted online for parents to preview and then schools will individually complete spend plans that are specific to their school and the courses that they offer or the extracurricular activities we just going to say you can see them on our homepage right now too in in this form Craig did you um see these two emails that we got from a patron earlier today I forwarded them to you right before board meeting but I did um and a couple of them I've answered so one of the questions was I wanted to make I thought I was hearing but I was like okay was there something missed in yeah so ultimately we tried to eliminate any duplicates for one because that was confusing um in those duplicates
139it did often say that if you're charged for a course fee you couldn't be charged for performing group or vice versa and so what we did is eliminated them so that they weren't in both areas that was um competitive Athletics and then the musical piece with the the band Orchestra and choir so those two were eliminated so I think that that answered her question there and that's not a change that you made since the first reading it it actually is and it was an adjustment based on feedback but it was something that we had already changed prior to receiving those emails okay so yeah so so I guess what about the per night maximum on overnight travel so so I'm not sure that iort that one yeah that one um has not been addressed and
140that would be a question for the board to discuss because what what we offer is a maximum of what we allow them to be able to spend for an overnight trip and then um it's it would be difficult what the question was I should repeat the question the question was can't could we charge or create a maximum per night for overnight trips and so the example would be maybe $200 per night and then however many nights they go could go up to a total of 1,700 the difficulty with that would be that that means we're identifying or defining what they do on tour because there are going to be some days that they go to Disneyland and some days that they perform and um don't go to a different activity and so that would just
141be very difficult to do um versus allowing them to do it within a maximum she did share an example of some of our athletic groups that go on maybe a two night trip or a one night trip and I did come up with a couple of examples looking at that and most of them charge under the $200 per day when they do a two night or a three night trip so or or maybe just slightly over so we are pretty close to what her suggestion was I just feel like I don't know if that's something something that the board really wants to get into the weeds to make decis to me it's really hard and I appreciate that she looked at that but it depends where you go you know if you have it's limiting
142it's very limiting and you know I mean a hotel in in Los Angeles is going to be more expensive than a hotel in St George or you know I mean you're going to have a hard time evening that out over the time and I think it is just you know let's put a maximum on it and hopefully coaches and our teachers use their best judgment and also they use the travel we go through the district for the travel so they they try their very best to to keep the cost where it needs to be and our process is for them to um make the request through their administrator their principal who then sends it to U us as the directors and we preview it and then it goes to um accounting looks at it as
143well and then it's ultimately assigned by the assistant superintendent the superintendent so we we have several checks to ensure that they are doing things appropriately and and what would be best for kids in that activity and then um you may have addressed this I got a kid who I'm trying to help via text while I'm also doing this so maybe I missed it but um uh the Chromebook findes and the depreciation value question can we make it so that uh she was looking at if you have a 5-year-old Chromebook that the fee for fixing it should be different than if it's a brand new one or the replacement fee should be different and can we look at that um and also the idea that these are maximum non-waivable charges and fines on this page it
144doesn't say that they're maximum it does say that on the other ones she says that I I didn't look to see um but maybe we want to make sure to put that these are the maximum fines not just the fines yes and and and I do you want me to jump to that one before I go over the CH finds are on a different page right yeah so let's let's wait till we we go to the junior high and then I can maybe try to address that a little bit sorry I'm just like going through awesome that's a different page you're totally right I'm any questions on the high schools you guys everybody good on the high schools yeah okay let's move on to Junior High then the junior high is a little bit smaller
145we just have three pages on the junior high schedule and there are just a few changes from the last presentation the same change on the overnight travel was listed with um it listing the actual article and District policy on that we did remove college readiness was removed under extracurricular because uh that is something that's required for graduation and then we added school year versus summer when it came to the Granite Junior youth Symphony and um the summer boach we also separated our class officers or our club officers with student government so that that was more specific with the amounts 275 with student government and 125 with Club officers the music performing groups was removed from performing groups under extracurricular and it was added into cour course fees and I I was able to speak to
146four different uh teachers and they mentioned that they do of course perform but it's not quite at the same level as the high school and they have a lot of beginning classes so it would be appropriate for them to be able to charge at the class level and when I get to that point I'll I'll explain a little bit of a change there page two under course fees Visual Arts we have um added Art Foundation One and 2D there because I didn't research well enough all of the different art courses I had teachers that shared that there was a lot of classes missing and that there were classes that um that that we hadn't described and and I have to share and when we we when we present and share with the bookkeepers we will
147make sure that we let the bookkeepers know and the principles so when they teach their teachers that these courses we couldn't include every course that that was available on the course catalog if we were to do that it would be way more than The Nine Pages at high school and the three pages of the junior high so we put in general um categories art foundations is one of them that would include multiple courses Foods is a great example at the high school level that includes multiple courses and Ceramics so we'll we'll do the um explanation of that but it did make it so that we removed both um Ceramics and photo and film because they all fall under Art Foundation with course number and then on page three where we get to performing arts and
148course fees the request to increase instrument rental was a little bit less there it's a $100 maximum under class fee and then we increased the actual amount that they could charge for the class from $25 to $50 we did that same thing for vocal music and then with piano and um I think it's just piano and then instrumental music So guitar piano and instrumental music we still have that at $100 for the rental so that was the adjustment there and that is all the changes on the junior high is there any questions with the junior high schedule okay we'll move on um there was no changes from the last time with Elementary and so that if that's okay I'm just going to skip over that and go to our non-waivable fees fines I have a
149quick question on Elementary though I think I think it was the mine slow coming up here on the maximum cap fee the 500 um if there's multip like sometimes they do two things during the year not just one time during the year is this for the whole year right this is including like if they're if they do a stem Club then they do something in the fall and the spring it would be the one charge would be for the whole year right I'm just making sure that's so not for activity if they do two different clubs or whatever so correct and that maximum of $500 means that let's say they they participate in three or four of these right if that ends up being above the $500 limit the maximum they would have to pay
150is500 but if they do like stem Club let's say they do a fall and then other students do it in the or they they want to rein I I know schools that sometimes do two sections of things do you know what I'm talking about so like they'll have maybe a club in the fall that does it and then in the spring they can't charge 5050 each time correct even if it's under the 500 or do can they do that per student I'm just wondering I know we have some kids that participate in the spring or fall or both for some activities in in this particular case the way that we have it outlined it would be for the year the year on the high school we have them per semester in the junior high but
151Elementary is not the same way even correct okay and I think that that's a good point to put in is to make sure we put that within the the explanation that um all extracurricular activities occur before after school and I could include that this is one price for the year for the so I'll add that in that's a good good suggestion so per Julie's question that she had before and I I'm not sure because you talked to her and I don't know where it ended up but you do have it listed on the junior high and the high school where it says School sponsored admission fees and fundraiser but we don't have that for the elementary was her can you just clarify was that in regard to a a fee or a an admission and
152why do we not have it listed on the elementary but we have it listed on the Junior High in high school and Julie and I did have a conversation about it and um what our schedule list is what we are charging students not necessarily parents and so on the junior ey in the high school schedule to to partic or to go and view a play a school could charge up to that um $10 at the elementary we normally have an elementary assembly if you will and they get to watch the musical during the school day which we couldn't charge anyway and then um in the evening there's a couple of ways that they could they they can charge because we don't have a we we don't set as a board what we can charge maximum
153for parents um necessarily we could we can definitely do that if that's a discussion that you would like to have and um So based on that we would let the community decide whether they feel it would be appropriate to charge or not to charge um there's an option for them to go through their PTA as a fundraiser that type of thing as well okay okay right is there any appetite to add that then to the fee schedule for elementary I don't know if anybody's Elementary charge fees I don't I'm not aware of any of mine but I just that's why I questioned sure I I after talking with Craig I kind of said to myself you know I don't I've never heard anybody upset about what we're doing I'd rather just not be prescriptive and
154continue to just trust our principles we don't have to line this out so I just won't worry about it I I had never had a complaint I was just noticing its absence so okay I dropped it okay I actually do have a question that came up at Hunter high now that I'm thinking about it the principal mentioned that they might have to charge for students normally their activity card their school ID card whatever um would get them into games and now because we don't have that initial cost like that's kind of gone that we don't that they might have to pay to get in games now that's part of because it's after school and it's not during school is that do we have any guidance on that yes um so part of the the basic
155registration if you will was to help um allow for then students to go to region games or other activities but yet they they still paid for dances they still paid to go see plays that type of thing and so rather than based on the Fel law we wouldn't be able to charge that and also based on that law you have some kids who don't go to the game yet they all paid that basic registration fee so the appropriate way would be for to just charge the students as they came and so it would take place they would have to pay for them now and if they went to multiple games it could end up being a little bit more I guess than what the basic registration fee is um most likely um they would go
156to the number of games that they'd want to go to and it might end up being less okay yeah good question so that's for all of our high schools so now high school students going to the football game will pay regardless home and okay yeah normally I'm just sitting here thinking about the families who normally they could get in normally they just get in on their ID C but now that they probably will be charged the idea is that they can charge yeah and it'll be now up to the principal to decide hey are we charging for okay that was going to be my follow-up question is is there a set amount process amount through all high schools or does this literally come down to each individual high school because I can see students getting
157confused that hence my question is am I going to pay today or am I not going to pay today do I need to buy my ticket in advance am I those those things that that's a great question so region set up and we have within the fee policy that says that we would charge what the regions um make as a rule so the regions each region sets up a rule they are pretty close to each other and they would set up the maximum amount that you could charge students currently our current practice this year for example would be that non- region games I would go and I would pay to to go watch that football game and then region games were covered under that activity fee if you will and then when I go to
158an away school I have to pay no matter that's our current practice in this situation now they wouldn't have to pay remember now I don't have to pay a $65 basic registration fee if I go watch five games at $5 a piece I'm getting off a little bit cheaper so that's the way I like to think of it so the $65 the problem with this for I'm looking at it from a 16 17 year you know point of view is the $65 the most likely the family's writing the check and then they're paying for their game out of their out of their own wallet so maybe that's just me but I'm thinking oh that's actually a little bit more of a hit on the kids but I guess follow part of the parents talking at
159the community council meeting we saying wow this could get really expensive if your kid really wants to go support the school and go to like all the basketball games for example cuz there's more basketball than football games that could get really expensive so we we did talk about how that might really affect yeah kids yeah I don't I don't love this um you do love it I do not um in an era where we need more school spirit more um con more Community um to me this feels like a disincentive in some instances of oh man I got to pay out of pocket for a home game that historically has has been able um that one has been able to gain entry with their their student ID so there are uh districts who have created
160an athletic fee and if they pay that they can then go into whatever games they're going to go into for the year so they figured out what the price is the challenge that we're trying to overcome though is a general fee like we charge everybody $65 whether they go or no that's what we have to stop the practice of but it doesn't stop the idea of hey we have a athletic card it costs give it a price 60 bucks and if you want to go to games you can buy a card and you go to as many as you want but you but you've got it and as as opposed to shelling out something every game you go to so so there are ways to navigate through this General fee world and and get something
161more specific for admissions I hear you Todd and that makes sense I just it's it's a little bit disheartening to see that we're structuring it this way um I've have attended High School athletic events all across the the wasach front um and it's not unique to our school district but attendance at those events is is down not up um and I think that's something that's missing from our communities is that kind of school spirit we need more of it not less and that's I I repeat my previous comment I worry that this is a disincentive even if you can go by an athletic pass I I get it um it just it just doesn't feel uh like the right move from a from a community and school spirit standpoint I don't know that it's our
162choice though because this is part of the law we can't I hear I hear you so do we do you want to have it do we want to have that added on as a as because we would have to list it on the fee schedule right now right so the activity fee that Todd is talking about is that the question or yeah to to get an activity fee or an activity card to allow you into any game would we have to put it on this right now we currently have that that we follow Utah high school activity Association guidelines which is set by the region um they do not have they allow any school to come up with their own season pass if you will they don't allow that they they allow that so they
163allow schools or districts to decide what that would be so we we could do that but that is another discussion that needs to take place is what would be appropriate to cover well that's why I'm wondering do we does it have to be listed on here or because it is that stipulation can it just be a school can decide to do that on their own even if it's not on here I my experience is the when you create That season pass it's cheaper than if you charged all of the games sure and so cons cons I conceive that you don't need it because you're already saying hey this is a maximum $8 per game and we are only going to charge a a portion of that on the flip side to Clark's Point um schools
164can't still just decide we're not charging kids to come to these games let them in it just is they got make you got to make up the revenue somewhere to so to Todd's Point it's a it's a little bit of a revenue issue but I also kind of Wonder Todd maybe and I don't want to belabor this too much longer but how much revenue are we talking about if you can boil it down to either across the board for the district or for an individual High School given that to my point there's we got two High School the attendance the attendance the attendance from the away fans is not significant it's the parents principally that are paying and some students a few um and so historically that Revenue has been from visiting fans that comes
165into Revenue generating sporting events from a from a student standpoint I just I wonder how much revenue are we really talking about is it really tough for the principles to make that up through some other means what can we do that's that's creative the it was Jen Johnson who who told me the price to run the football game was two thou around $2,000 so I think they're just trying to capture that cost so they can actually you know break even even you got you got to cover costs cover costs M um you have to comply with Title 9 which means if we're going to charge for a boy basketball game we got to charge for a girls basketball game even though it costs more money to charge because you have to have all the people
166to make sure you could charge and you don't get enough money to even cover their fees but you got to charge to keep it equal and then you hope that the basketball season or the football season makes you enough money that you can spread that out across everybody in the whole in the whole sport in world so you do end up you make money on football you maybe make a little bit of money on basketball but probably not and and that and we live or die by that football gate and it's tens of thousands of dollars over the year so if you but if you don't have this $65 fee that's the question is that critical in making that money or is it just the gate fees that you're making we're I'm just talking talk
167about gate so that that gate is in addition to the that fee and you have to have in addition to the fee so it is and historically that gate has not include revenue from your home students except for preseason except for preseason or these endowment games yeah and to your point there student this the amount of money from students isn't that much money it really isn't in the big scheme of things it's not yeah I don't I I feel like we're being perhaps Pennywise and pound foolish on this personally but I realize every dollar counts at the same time but I I'm very concerned about the message that it sends to to school spirit and CommunityWide kind of you know we want our schools to be the centerpiece of our communities um and we want
168our students who attend that high school to come to every game and it just feels like a big disincentive to do that I I get it we can talk about how it washes out but to a student um you know the extra six bucks or eight bucks or whatever it's going to be that they could go spend at in and out instead and eat um and not go to the game I think would be an unfortunate byproduct so I'm going to try to answer your question first um when I look at the fee schedule on page two we have the Utah high school admissions activities sponsored by Utah High School Activities Association may not exceed limits established by the Association we could add in there that we can create an activity pass that would be
169um less than the cost of charging to go to each game that would be an option that would take care of that for us the other option could be that we put in there that we will not charge for home games and then we would have to either require the school to come up with a a way to fund raise for that money or we would ask the board to help support and give them more funds to cover that that would be our two choices I I would very much be in favor of that scenario and one potential proposal would be make the cost for an adult or a parent a little bit more um so that the kids can benefit from that and have no charge for home games that's my can you charge
170more for parents according to the rule though we can only charge what they allow the maximum amount which yeah which is is usually around $10 so I don't know if we could charge potentially more Granite school district is has known to charge less than other districts um based on what because the region is established by the majority of gr school district schools um and they're so so if you go to an Alpine school or Davis school they might charge more but we still could only charge the maximum that Utah high school allows which is what amount is that specified they said they're charging they're going up to $13 $8 for students $13 for adults yeah that's the current recommendation for Utah high school right I don't think we've been charging 13 in the past for
171adults that's obviously that's an increase but that's that was in that email that I forwarded you yeah exactly so any thoughts do we want to add that in is that is it just let's leave it how it is what what would you like I'm advocating that we make it so that um we do not charge students for home games so does that have to be in our fee schedule Todd then I say we can just leave can I was just bringing it up as so having having a non fee isn't necessary on the fee schedule it would be communication to our High School principles yeah as to how what our practice is yeah but if you did like an activity card that would have to go on the fee schedule because it would be it
172has to be on the fee schedule so that people who are in fee waiver could also have access to that card so that's where the difference is so also the maximum amount you could charge so a school could choose not to charge an individual school or we could send the I I guess we could take it off so they don't have the option right um and then the other thing I was going to say is then that opens up to me what about um performances you know like Performing Arts I mean at what point do we want to no charge draw the line on charging usually performance I don't know the most the performances the can students get in free with their not usually card yeah I'm saying if they it depends like I'm thinking
173Granger High's choir concert band and Orchestra I went to there just a couple ago those are free but obviously the musicals plays things like that um you yeah and I think a little bit of about a supply and demand you know so there's plenty of room in the football stadiums and there's plenty of room on the basketball bleachers um I I know in some of our auditoriums they sell out so you open that up for students for free and I think you're GNA have some well there's capacity issues you could still require a ticket but it's free ticket that you signed up for yeah they just I'm just saying they per your question they don't generally with that same activity they don't it's that it doesn't include that admission so Tyler if we don't charge
174because we're not charging that $65 fee and we say you have to let your students in free does that mean you're going to be short on money depends which area we're talking about so yeah footb overall our football we bring a lot of money there our theater we bring quite a bit of money to support that the other areas our basketball but notet I think that is going toy from school to school we went feel the pinch a lot in basketball we would in football I think we we're subsidizing mostly from that $65 so if we don't do a if we just say flat out you got to figure out how to do this that would hurt our high schools that would put them in a pinch is that that's what I'm hearing is that
175if I can if I can add so there's another dimension to this so so we're talking about the fee schedule and the law that has disallowed certain fees to be collected we've done the math calculations to determine what that impact is is to the district and last board meeting had a line item of about $1.7 million like that's the overall impact to the school district and as we've been going through figuring out well how do we make that up what what are the sources and we have some ideas there uh but how do we get it to the schools what we've noticed is that for the high schools at $65 and at the junior highs of $40 that adds up to about the 1.7 million that were coming out short so we could distribute to
176the schools the $65 that used to be collected in a fee as District support for both secondary schools and so that might negate this whole conversation Alto together because if the district's going to provide the monies you can now say and school students go free because they're not paying the 65 it's just coming from a district allocation so you can get there that way if you're willing to adopt the other side of the story that's still coming which is how do we balance the overall District budget but we're building this the proposal around that concept we think we can replace those two with District dollars and so a school would receive those monies and could probably conduct their businesses they always have it's just going to come from a district pot so if we do
177that Todd you're saying we would put that into our budget and then allocate it to the school schools and they would get it and say this is what this is replacing basically the $65 or $40 correct yeah that's how we would start to communicate it so maybe leave it for this year and see how it goes and and let's if we it doesn't work fix it next year okay all right I I do have one more thing that I need to share that that will hopefully answer Julie's question and that is the non-fee wable fee it must be sorry one of the questions that came up on this there was no changes from the very first presentation last month this is it um but the question was with Chromebooks and we we have just added
178this the last couple years and the the reason that we added this amount these amounts in specifically was schools were were kind of just given to their own accord how they were going to end up charging for each of these things and so Chris Larson and his division felt like it was important to share with schools here is our itemized list for replacing things that are broken and um this would be just what it costs his Department Andor the school to replace a lost machine because they're going to have to replace it no matter what uh if the board would prefer that we do have some type of a a scale that we would reduce reduce that amount based on depreciation he's very willing to sit down with me and we could add that into
179this list it might be that they it it drops a certain percentage each year to try to put it on this this form so that is something that we could do but currently these have actually gone down from last year some of the prices because some of those prices have gone down and they're just replacement cost for each thing when we replace them is there a a wish that we do create a depreciation depreciated scale and that that most likely would just be for the Chromebook replacement the 300 and the 270 versus the other items the question that I had was is this and maybe this just solves it is that it needs to say Chromebook tou screen full replacement maximum $300 correct so if it says Max maum on there then that indicates hey
180if it's an older machine you can you can prate it or you can depreciate it does that solve the problem I would think so yeah that's that that's what we're thinking and so we would we would still leave this but then I would work with Chris to create a depreciation scale that we would then send out with granitize send out this is what we follow as far as our depreciation scale and give that to them so that's something that we could definitely do if that's what you'd like so it doesn't necessarily need to be in here right now correct because do we need to add the word maximum on there just yes and I'll do that that will be at the very top just within the um the description at the top we'll make sure
181that we add the word maximum okay does that help yeah yeah okay I believe that that's everything the last few Sid slides were just repeats of the explanation of asking the board to help support for the the loss of Revenue to the schools along with the fact that next year we'll be looking at this all over again and coming up with new rules we we did come up with the idea of hopefully using online classes to to potentially support the new law of having a free version however there is many discussion amongst the legislature and usbe as far as how that's going to look so it would be inappropriate for us to come up with a solution now okay any other questions so given the fact that we're going to make some changes we can't
182do a final read on this today is that true yeah we could do a final Read With The Changes we discussed okay just making sure as amended thank you for the language okay well will you accept a motion I will accept a motion um I move that we approve the 2025 2026 School fee schedules as amended for a second and final reading a second we have a motion on a second to approve the school fee scheduled for 2025 2026 as a second and final reading as amended Is there further discussion all in favor please say I I any opposed all right potion carries thank you good job Craig hey I just want to say thank you personally thank you for going out and doing that research and making those changes I really appreciate it heavy
183LIF this year I made sure to make up for all of that by running you around this time okay we're going to bring you back on stiping just to do the fee schedule all right we're going to move on to superintendent and board reports superintendent uh given the lateness of the hour I'm going to wave my report I'll just send you a nice email okay clerk Karen just a quick benefits committee update um we're happy that it's a very small projected medical funding increase we talked about that a little bit earlier this evening um they talked about many renewals just your these are supplemental things like Dental life insurance Etc um the mamogram bus this is the month April so if you are on Select Health the mamogram bus will be here at the district
184yeah here right April 15th 16th and 17th and Blue Cross and Blue Shield will be the 15th and the 17th so we hope to get a lot of people out preventative care is always the way to go speaking of preventative care uh discussion on mental health and our update for 2024 touched on this a little bit last month but we're excited we've had almost 25,000 Mental Health visits for the year of 2024 and just over 7500 of those are virtual and that was something that we've been talking about um being able to have access and kind of quicker access convenient access and then just over 17,000 in person because just like physical health mental health if you can catch it on the vent ative end it's cheaper for it's better for our employees in the
185long run and it's also fiscally prudent for us to catch it on the front end because it's a lot less expensive um medical wise so that's my report Karen do you know they have a something that goes out for the mammog grand bus do they have to sign up or I think they have to sign up and that there have been emails um there okay Michelle yeah it goes through the benefits um yeah yeah I was just going to say Burke probably will be the the point person I I checked on my email and I didn't see anything so I just that's why I want to make sure the no that's good to know because we'll follow up and make sure the emails are going out okay thanks Chris um I just have one thing
186Region 5 PTA Awards night for um it's here April 14th at 6:30 um come if you can we also had five that won at the state level so we have a big group here that got um awards from our region and then five that will actually go on and they won at state level so um if you guys can attend that be great it's right after spring break the Monday after so I'm telling you now so we can't and you should have all got an email about that and then I just had a um I just want to quickly say whoever did the Brockbank Junior High stem mascot um post today was the best thing ever and my community loved it more than any anything I've ever seen in the last several years so um
187we might be the BR Bank brain shrimp so just so you know I think it's so fitting for my community but anyway it was a great a uh April Fools and um or was it and kudos to whoever did that because my community just thought that was the best thing ever and the comments go read them tonight if you can't sleep because sometimes after board member meetings you can't sleep so they're the best thanks Facebook I I saw it on Facebook well I got screenshots sent to me so then I had to go check it out so yeah it was awesome noted Connie do you have anything I I don't have any I don't have anything because you sent that information out from UA uhsaa and just that it will be nice to do the
188um go and learn for development for us at nsba this week so be good thanks um just that we did meet for parks and wreck this month my first time actually being on the board officially so now actually technically in that meeting I was approved to be on the board so now I'm on the board um they have an interesting process whereby you actually have to be approved even though you're signed you've got to be approved to be on the board so that finally happened and you know just they're one of the big things they're doing right now is creating subcommittees to talk about things before the meeting so I might be assigned to more committees and more meetings um on that side so that's about it for me thanks again Julie we had a
189district community council meeting that was really great at Bonville jior high in which we discussed the mission and vision and Etc and it it was great we got a lot of really great feedback comments questions from patrons um the evaluation committee um will meet tomorrow and our goal is that in the next few weeks you should be seeing an evaluation in your inbox for Mr business administrator Todd hobber so we hope that you'll be paying attention to that um oh Connie I guess actually do you want to say anything about usba I was just gonna say that but we got our nsba coming up this month and then Connie and I are going to a what three-day retreat in St George for usba at the end of the month so um I had something I
190can't remember now so I guess it doesn't matter oh I need that's what it is Connie Julie I need to talk to you after so please don't leave trou sorry sorry really it's Stacy that needs to talk to you so come see me okay yes graduation schedule is out so we need to just make sure that you guys know and have approved so that's it all right having met the end of our agenda I will go ahead and journ