March 4, 2025 Board of Education Meeting Live Stream

001thank you for being here um we'd like to begin our this is March 4th 2025 this is our 7 o'clock board meeting um we're going to begin by indicating who's here we have are Kim and Julie online okay sorry we want to um we have some board members online because they had some exua circumstances so we'll Begin by indicating who's here with the with Kim and Julie online and Chandler jie Connie Burgess Chris wi Karen wer Clark Nelson Todd harber Ben Worsley and Nicole mcder all right um as way of welcome and introduction we'd like to welcome anybody who's here from the PTA did you want to stand stand up and introduce yourselves thank you for being here um GAA and granite office professionals Elementary East thanks for being here middle managers see anybody Gua

002um granted Education Foundation would you guys please JD the executive director Johnson and we didn't see any elected officials but if there's any we missed I don't see any um and then can we please have any who are here um principles that we have any administrators will you please stand and be recognized thank you all right welcome we appreciate you being here we're going to um have the Pledge of Allegiance right now and we will invite Wendy level who is the principal at Farnsworth Elementary to come on up and lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance will the audience please rise repeat after me I pledge aliance 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 for all right

003we have for our reverence tonight um we have a little bit of change um we're g to have Granger High School Dance Company we have a video to show from them and so we will turn the time over to Luke yes I just have a quick uh introductory paragraph that I'll read um and before I read this when I'm done Andrew will start the video this screen has a been working very well for videos so you'll want to turn your attention to one of the other three um or the one up here on the on the stage so um echo in stone is a collaborative work between the Granger dance company and its director Brianna Winkleman inspired by this year's theme Beyond me the piece serves as a tribute to the voices of Family and

004friends who came before us those who made sacrifices and shaped a better future for generations to come filmed in Moab Utah by Brianna winlan and performed by The Talented dancers of Granger High School Dance Company [Music] for [Music] thee [Music] [Applause] [Music] fore the in the he let let [Music] [Applause] [Music] all theong is [Music] [Applause] thank you so much um we're going to go ahead and move on to our good news minute this is just an opportunity for board members to be able to share some things that they've been up to this week or this month in the schools um and in the community and so we will go ahead Julie do you want to start afraid not to do a good news minute tonight okay she's not feeling well so totally understandable um

005Kim are [Music] you yeah thank you just we'll keep mine brief EV one of them being the stem ribon cutting at J WR Elementry that was come to see the celebration in that community and that school for all the work that they've put in the teachers and administration to get the designation for that school they've had it for a while you making it official and celebrating also basketball games I was able to attend a couple of those and I know we had a lot of teams um that did really well this year and just wanted to recognize and acknowledge them I was able to go watch Granger and Taylorville a couple of games there and those are really fun to watch so just good job to all of our student thank you thanks Kim Connie

006I'm not men in the schools but as uh as was involved with the usba a joint legislative committee and uh I want to say thanks to Todd and and superintendent for what they added um to our jlc meetings um the legislature I guess in some ways may have been kind to education but um I I don't think they were the we always hope more um I went to a basketball game uh with the girls and uh I appreciate so much that our coaches though they don't get a lot of money they just do their best and it's a whole different um outcome I guess when the students don't play together as youngsters and grow up together um but they worked so hard um as the second game in state and um they lost that game

007but they didn't quit through the whole game and I was so impressed with the students so um all quickly I have um I feel like this was the month of the students there was so many student things going on that were um really fun so the the stem fair I I went to the stem they had some really amazing projects that I would have never thought of in a millionaire so that was so cool and then um Lego league is also one of the funnest things to go to if you've never been those kids are just so in it and so excited and we had I talked to Chris we had the most teams in Granite we've ever had so I love to see that so many of our elementaries and Junior highs were participating

008it was so fun to watch them um and just get excited about about learning um two Unified amazing events we had a basketball tournament at Cypress High um so much fun so much fun to watch those students compete and do have some so much fun and then they had the prom the unified prom at kar's High um which was amazing it was so amazing they brought in the buses so that students could come and I just want to thank our foundation for supporting our unified um teams and events so so well um PTA region PTA they're awesome they Cottonwood High was Battle of the Bands we had a Skyline band perform and I think they did really well they did okay so there we go um but it was still fun and then um re

009they let me come along with them to do our reading grants and the Linda marotti reading reading grants so I got to go to Olympus Junior Copper Hills um Elementary and Taylorville Elementary and I help award those grants so thank you PTA for supporting our kids and then um we had Nicole and I got to do a professional development training leadership training um at Neo district and that was a great day to learn more about um some things we can do to to unify our board and do a great job and Julie also um helped with that so that's my good news minute for to I want to start by thanking everybody for rallying behind my Kern's Community it's been a rough uh rough past week with the passing of one of their students uh

010in the crosswalk and uh I want to to thank just shout out to my K's Community they are Kar strong and there are a lot of people who have rallied especially the district thanks the district for your crisis team support I spoke with the principal at Karn Jr and I just said what else do you need what supports can we give you and she just really complimented us and the entire staff um for being there for her community at a at a really difficult time um so thanks to everyone for that I had the opportunity go to BYU for the 5A State swim championship and uh I was just verifying with Clark all of our high schools except for um Cottonwood High are 5A and it was so fun to cheer everybody on I was

011there as both a board member and as a parent and uh and it was really fun to just kind of hear Cyprus Kars you know Taylorville Scot Granger everybody and uh it it was it was a lot of fun to be there and cheer for the uh variety different teams but what I want to highlight specifically is grer High swim team at the beginning of the Season lost their head coach just to a family tragedy in her family and uh and even at the state and so other people jumped in to help and kind of lump them along but it was fascinating to me to have the Cypress head coach say how can we help we're there for you Granger so here you are competing against each other but at the same time you're supporting

012each other and that was that really warmed my heart also had a chance to pop over to Granger in their Lego league and to talk and visit with all those kids and it was so fun to ask about their projects and some of their answers made no sense to me um as they tried to explain what their project but others but it was still fun because the excitement of their it was probably just me not the student to be clear not understanding but um it was so fun to hear them go through everything that they've worked on and those kids put so much time extra time they're at school early they're school late you know putting time into their projects and it was fun to actually be on the floor the judging floor in the

013gym the basketball gym is where they did the judging and uh it was just a lot of fun a lot of energy there um West curs now has a secured entrance so I'm very happy about that and thanks to all those who made that happen and last I just thank you Thursdays are awesome our foundation puts them on I go to as many as I possibly can fit on my calendar and it's great to cheer on all of our staff members last congrats to Granger Heist counseling team who is here tonight and then we'll be recognized they're awesome they're cohesive they collaborate and they take care of our Granger kiddos that's more than a minute but that's my report I'll keep mine to a minute um I wanted to share yeah she will time me

014I wanted to share a note I received from a p a patron just a few days ago says hey Clark just wanted to send you a note and I'm going to use some anonymity here that principal X at school Y is the absolute best and if there is some award available this principal should get it this principle is such a great addition to the school this principal really cares about the kids and does such an amazing job it's not to try and sweep under the challenges that we have at all of our schools and and the difficulties that we face um but as a a true Born Again cynic I appreciate this Patron reaching out to accentuate the positive I think it represents um very much what goes on in our schools and with all

015of our principles um and appreciate their effort to just very out of the blue reach out to me and and let me know about this particular principle thanks thanks um to cover something that hasn't been covered I know uh as we approach the end of the quarter we have a lot of um concerts and and plays winter plays that are happening and um I'm excited to be able to go to one more uh this Wednesday but I know I've I've been able to get to a few um but just I mean that's a lot of work and this is also time because of where it happens this is where they go to the state Festival as well or the region festival and then go on to the state so I know we've got a lot

016of schools competing in Sol and Ensemble um doing their region and then they go on to do the state one and that's a uhsaa um authorized activity um so for all those kids who do all of those kind of the other part of it um I I just commend them for their hard work because because it's it takes a lot to be able to do that um also um I the one highlight has been uh I got to go to The Literacy Center at uh Walker Elementary and be able to um talk to Tony fow with and and give him um with with the help of the foundation an award for his his great work that he's done in our schools and it's just phenomenal that what he has done and what he's been able

017to sponsor and that Literacy Center you guys haven't had a chance to go see it go see it it's amazing and to have that resource within a community that that so desperately needs it and so so much could use it um I love that and the community there is so grateful and there the cute the kids were so cute with him and what a great just he was just a really great great guy so um appreciate being able to do that and appreciate the foundation for you guys coordinating that and be able to set that up so that concludes our good news minute um thank you we're going to go ahead and move on to recognitions and turn the over to we're going to invite Carrie up first and this is Carrie Johnson who is

018our the board president of the Granite Education Foundation thank you president mcdermit the board and superintendent we are excited to be here with you tonight I'm joined by our executive director JD Talbot we are honored to be here and thankful that you are allowing us to recognize two organizations who have given us incredible support incredible support for the foundation and also for the entire Granite School District we could not do what we do without Partners like the two we are going to introduce you tonight I would first like to recognize and thank Vivant we are honored to have Rich McCain he came all the way from Texas to be with us this evening his team Abby skyly and Stephanie over the past couple couple of years Vivant has stepped up with a program stepped up

019and G given us a program altering support for the granite Education Foundation food assistance pillar they have helped make our food program more effective and allowed us to reach more students than we ever have before generous gifts allow now every school in Granite School District to have access to food kits for students in need this gift has not only given us the ability to send extra resources to schools during long breaks they have given us monetary donations and they've also donated their time with 880,000 weekend kits coming from vivent and over 2,440 volunteer hours they have made a massive contribution this gift has truly changed and altered our ability to expand our res our our resources for food hunger in Granite we cannot thank them enough and we hope for many years support in partnership

020with them so thank you so much viven [Applause] and as I run down the stairs and don't fall we cannot you wait there's more uh we would like to thank and invite to the to the stage um Beth Marshall and her team from the Prague Foundation we are honored to have them with us tonight the Prague Foundation is an outstanding organization that has helped our students in so many ways in addition to making Financial donations Beth and her amazing team have volunteered uh at events with us they have also through their founding donated nearly a half million doll worth of furniture to the Granite school district and to the foundation so they have helped us furnish our new home at the at our elementary school they and it comes in forms of teacher chairs and

021cubicle Furniture you've seen their contribution in almost every school within our district they also opened up the Prague Development Center and it serves Granite students and their families with countless resources and opportunities we would like to give a huge thanks to the Prague foundation for all they do for granite a thank you from our board from our school board and from our teachers is not enough we know for these two organizations we want to thank you on behalf of 58,000 kids in the granite School District you're holding some of their thank yous in your hand and thank you so much for pro uh supporting our foundation and board thank you for letting us honor them what did you say sorry no that was good there was great job thank you so much I know saying

022thank you is it feels like not enough but we appreciate the help and and the love that you guys share with us so both of both of your your organizations we really appreciate it thank you all right we're going to invite Miss anrie to come up she has a presentation also thank you uh board president McDermot board members superintendent horley and members of the executive leadership team I'm here tonight to help honor some of our um new and recertifying national board certified teachers the national board certification is a pro uh professional accreditation and Excellence recognizing teachers who demonstrate the highest standards of teaching practice the rigorous voluntary certification process is designated by teachers for teachers and is grounded in the belief that accomplish teachers make the greatest impact on student learning to achieve certification teachers

023undergo an in-depth assessment of their content knowledge instructional strategies and classroom impact they submit portfolios of student Work video recordings of their teaching written Reflections that showcase their ability to engage students differentiate instruction and Foster a dynamic learning environment earning the national board certification is not just a Prof Personal Achievement it's a commitment to lifelong learning and continuous Improvement it signals a teacher dedication to excellent and their Excellence their deep passion for Student Success studies show that national board certified teachers Elevate student achievement Mentor colleagues and strengthen student Community School communities tonight we want to recognize the hard work perseverance and expertise of our newly certified teacher as well as of our five of our teachers who have recertified this year their accomplishment represents not only their Mastery of teach but also their unwavering dedication

024to the future of Education please help me in recognizing these teachers we first have um as recertifying um debborah katril who's a social studies teacher at Hunter High School Stacy Stosich an English teacher at Cypress High School Sher wesy a math coach at jacine elementary go up here audron Damron a special a teacher at kwood high school Heather Langley Sykes a sixth grade teacher at Gerald Wright Elementary and our new national board certified teacher is Melinda Ray a social studies teacher at Skyline High [Applause] School congratulations congratul great job guys tons of work now scoot close together so we don't see me in the back SC Closer sco Closer you don't want to see back great [Applause] job I just want to I I don't know if you really grasp like how much work that

025takes I've looked at it and that's about all I've done so I just I mean huge props to you guys that's incredible what you've done so thank you um we are going to turn the time over to Scott Bell for our counselor Utah counselor of the year and counseling program of the Year thank you board we're we're excited to be here I'm Scott Bell the director of college crew Readiness and I'm joined by our CCR coordinator uh K Holton Tim and this year yuka's uh top or counselor of the year as well as counseling Team of the Year are both from Granite School District so we're very excited to be here to recognize them this evening and we'll we'll start start by uh recognizing our Granger High counseling counseling team and yusa counseling Team of

026the Year and I'll have uh K read read the recognition if we can have the Granger High counselors come on up and uh welcome [Applause] them good evening it's with great pride and excitement we recognize the exceptional work of Granger High School counseling team for being awarded the Utah School counseling Association Team of the Year award this prestigious recognition reflects the dedication passion and hard work of the Granger High Counseling team and supporting the growth of all Granger High students members of the counseling team include Department chairs Brandy Oliver Jim bcot Kesha katton Monica Candia de Garcia EV Fortune Samantha McMorrow Christina sewer Laura Sherman Sheena Switzer and Laurel takashima Granger high is the largest among the most diverse high schools in the state the counselors at Granger play a pivotal role in shaping the

027future of each student through their intentional and thoughtful approach the Granger counseling team has implemented a robust process for guiding students in selecting courses tight to personal Pathways that align with individual interests and aptitud udes this ensures that students are not only set up for Success academically but also prepared for future careers and aspirations the impact of their work is evident in the Clearing House data which shows an increase in college enrollment rate of 4% last year this achievement speaks to the tireless efforts of the counseling team who continuously advocate for the success and well-being of students principal Tyler how who was unable to be here today highlighted that they are highly visible to students they support 1/4 of all the mobility of students within the entire School District by providing a welcoming environment for

028all students the focus on building connections with students helps personalize academic plans build students skills and support students accessing resources no matter the individual circumstance Tyler notes they're among the most trusted adults for our Lancers we commend the Granger High Counseling team for the remarkable contributions to the students they serve for serving excuse me for setting a high standard of Excellence in School counseling their Innovative efforts including college application week career Readiness initiatives and targeted interventions for first generation and working students they've expanded opportunities for students and strengthened their confidence in achieving future goals their commitment to equity advocacy and student empowerment makes them truly deserving of this recognition [Applause] great job guys and next we have our our yusa counselor of the year uh which is uh Danny nater if she can come on

029up and Danny N is a graduate of granite graduating from Hunter High she began her teaching career at Hunter High where she T Health and coach cheer and drill team she has been a school counselor since 2014 as the population of Taylorville and District changed data showed a need for more intentional and specific student College and Career planning planning meetings that include not only plans for graduation but also the future Guided by Danny's leadership the Taylorville High Counseling team created programming that uses the Youth Science Program to identify students strengths and aptitudes and then align those with CTE Pathways for students thus having more focused data to tailor students classes to match their future goals as the head of her department and a school counsel leader in her District n worked to create a College

030and Career Readiness system that is being modeled throughout Granite school district and in many other districts throughout the state Mark eler her principal had this to say Danny ner is a great example of what a counselor should be she is not only a dedicated professional but also leader and a true friend to everyone at Taylorville High School Dany is the kind of person who has a natural ability to connect with others and her caring nature creates an environment where students staff and faculty alike feel heard supported and valued Dany is an advocate for all students she works tirelessly to ensure that their voices are heard and that their needs are met no matter the circumstances we are incredibly lucky to have Danny nater as a counselor at Taylorville High School her impact on our School

031Community is immeasurable her passion for helping others and her commitment to our students makes her not only an outstanding counselor but also a cherish member of our school family we are honored that she was selected as the Utah school counselor counselor of the Year by this Utah school counselor Association and recognized by ASA earlier this year in Washington DC well we also have a video for her or her video that she did for for the national um National recognition hi my name is Dan and school counselor of the Year from the great state of Utah in Utah we're known for a world class game and winter sports our beautiful scenery and our national parks I believe as a school counselor we can help our students Thrive by meeting them where they are no matter what

032that looks like when we're compassionate understanding and knowledgeable we can help students face whatever circumstance they come across positive or negative and help them move forward [Applause] hi ni good job [Applause] okay and then last we have our academic winter academic All State athletes by Aon Whitehead board president mcder members of the board superintendent horley the following student athletes have been recognized by the Utah High School Activities Association as recipients of academic All State for the winter sports season uh athletes as your name is called please come down and meet the superintendent and the board and have your picture taken and then afterwards please come out to the foury year we have some uh Swag Bags I guess is a good way to put it for you and then ladies and Gentlemen please hold your

033applause until they've all been announced and then if if you're here and I didn't announce you come down and punch me in the arm we'll get you on there representing boys swimming Benjamin Hatcher Olympus Eli Stettler Cottonwood Kevin 2 Olympus Parker markram Taylor girl swimming Adelaide James Skyline representing cheer Alex Sylvester of Hunter Dylan everon of Olympus girls basketball Grace Schwarz of Olympus and finally for drill Isabelle Jane of Olympus ladies and gentlemen give him a round of applause to qualify for academic allall state it's generally a cumulative grade point average of 4.0 but there is a sliding scale if you have a very high act as well conratulations [Applause] 4.0 great job great job hey can we have the if there's any parents here will you stand and be recognized as well because we

034know behind every great athlete there's a great parents thank you for supporting your students and thank you students for all the hard work you do that's amazing all right thank you we're going to go ahead and move on on our agenda next up we have our Patron participation time we have Jonathan meum signed up to come up and speak um if you will please once she get up here state your name and um your I guess where where you would live into the district or or your connection here and then and you got about three minutes Perfect all right so I'm Jonathan mum I live around the corner from oage elementary school up in the Olympus Cove um I grew up in that neighborhood I actually had a I have four things to talk about

035one's personal three pragmatic so I'll try to make them quick to fit in that three minutes um something that Connie said actually helped me to shift what I was going to talk about personally she mentioned the basketball team and how great these kids do and how the great these coaches do when you have students that didn't get to grow up with each other ending up on the same basketball team um so my family alone me and then my four children account for about 50 years of granite school education 30 of which are at oakd elementary school um one of the things that that neighborhood promotes and that Community promotes is people move to that neighborhood for that school they don't move into the neighborhood and then find a school um and they do that they

036stay in the area listening to all of these different schools being mentioned all of the wonderful accomplishments of these students I personally have been in every one of the schools mentioned tonight at some point in my life because of my friends family members that all went to oakd and then grew up in Granite School District and that's something that you can't see on a stat sheet in the same kind of way we stay here on purpose um three of the pragmatic elements of why we want to oppose oage closing that's why I am here by the way the pack study and opposing oage Elementary School's closure um there was a bond that we all voted for for $238 million a few years ago that is still something that we're paying for to improve our schools

037oakd is one of the schools that literally could be on the Granite School District um logo as it sits right there on that mountain and could be the flagship that's what we were thinking we were voting for when we were voting for a bond that we would pay for for a decade um the second element that I wanted to talk about is the safety of that school is hard to replicate you have kids that get to cross a freeway without ever touching a traffic light intersection on their way past another Granite School in Churchill Junior High that allows kids to walk to and from school with or without their parents all of my kids and me did it to oage elementary school and their friends for their entire School lives and that's something that is

038special and again hard to replicate oid is also large enough to accommodate other students if something has to happen it is ready willing and wanting to accommodate those other students there is an advanced learning program that was put into Morningside Elementary School that Oak would love to have many of the parents in the neighborhood that moved there for oakd have their kids in that morning Side Elementary Advanced learning program that would immediately move them right back to oakd and are hoping they can do so it's ready we want it there we've got a lot of support and we're going to keep talking about it because it needs to stay in the community that's all thank you so much thank you superintendent yeah I'd like to appreciate these uh families and parents coming out tonight I

039don't think there's a board member up here that doesn't appreciate the contributions that Oak rich and uh makes to our our Granite School District uh a family of schools I I want to make sure everybody's aware and it's clear that at this point in time we have only initiated a study of the area no proposals for closures have been considered at this point in time we have announced some meetings um that will be held a little bit later this month um we as a district and uh who has lost over 10,000 students in the last decade we obviously have some some tough decisions ahead of us and we want to make sure that we've gone through a thorough process and due diligence to evaluate all the um the challenges that we're experiencing with and provide

040plenty of opportunities for our public to be able to comment and provide uh feedback and Analysis and qualitative data for us to assess before we make any proposals and so we're going to start that process with some of these meetings a little bit later this month and uh again uh be able to review that process and make sure that everybody has every opportunity to advocate for their school and community and that this is done in a fair and Equitable manner um again we have some challenging decisions ahead of us and and we'll follow through with that process that's been widely recognized as a as a keyway to to be able to engage our communities and make these decisions um with a thorough vetting process so thank you again for sharing your thoughts tonight and uh

041I hope everybody has a nice evening thank you for coming um oage community be appreciate it all right excuse me we're going to move on on our agenda excuse me we have consent items that we need to um approve um if there are no questions I will take a motion I move we accept the consent agenda I'll second okay we have a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda uh are there any um discussion on the items seeing none com from me okay go ahead Kim sorry just the comment as to I will be voting agenda today there are some contracts on here which I voted against in the past so just the same concerns curricul associate okay head thank you Kim all right so um with that we'll go ahead and take

042a vote all those in favor please say I I I I I any oppos please say n n all right motion carries that moves us on to our action items just disappeared hang on okay um the first action item that we have is our administrative appointments if there are no questions I will go ahead and entertain a motion for that as well I move that we accept the administrative appointment I'll second we have a motion in a second to approve to accept the administrative appointments are there any further comments or discussion do you have a comment on this one as well um there is one appointment on the list this evening that I have had some personal concerns regarding and as such I won't be able to support this evening just letting the board know

043as well ahead of time okay thank you Kim all right any other comments all right all in favor please say I I I and those oppos may all right motion carries um with that we're going to turn the was supposed to be lesie who are we turning it over to Let's Noel First Noel come on up thank you very much board president vice president board members leadership and audience tonight I have uh several appointments to introduce um I uh we'll go through these in order let's see we'll start with Kyle Anderson Kyle if you'll stand um Kyle Anderson started his career here in Granite School District as a hunter High School teacher um he was also a par educator by the way which I did not know he moved into the assistant principal ship at

044Granite connections High he's also been a principal at Rosecrest Elementary and then most recently he's been the associate director of special education he's been uh acknowledged and recognized in various uh ways teacher of the year PTA Region 5 administrator of the year and gas's District administrator so I just want to welcome um Kyle Anderson to my team as the um Advanced learning and personalized learning associate director so Kyle Anderson and I think Kyle has uh someone here with him do you want to introduce this is my wife Sarah glad my wife here to support me thank you next is Christine Drummond who will be uh joining us as the associate director over literacy and Christine as you know um Amber moved into the school leadership and Improvement uh position and we're going to welcome Christine

045Drummond so I'll tell you a little bit about her um she was a second grade teacher in Jordan School District which is really important to us uh in terms of literacy because we need people with a lot of experience in early literacy So Christine has that um she spent uh time as an assistant principal Copper Hills Elementary Bas Elementary and Bridger Elementary she also was the principal at bakus elementary and then most recently uh um Oakridge for quite some time and then moved just next door to Eastwood so we're happy to welcome Christine and if you'll introduce who you have with you your bestie thank you Christine and then finally Christine Christ Michelle kristopherson sorry about that Michelle stand up uh Michelle is taking um the position as the online learning director um Michelle started

046her career we stole her from Ogden School District uh where she was a sixth grade teacher she moved into Granger Network go Granger and was a sixth grade teacher there for quite some time as well as a literacy coach um she then moved into assistant principal ships both Moss Elementary and Armstrong um Elementary then to Valley Crest for some time over the D school there and then most recently at jackling elementary so I want to welcome U Michelle and then if you'll introduce your lovely family so I have my awesome husband Wayne who I introduced correctly he told me this is my last dance and then back home watching from Michigan I should have my parents and my S so thank you thank you Bo now it's John's turn right good evening Board of Education

047and uh member superintendent and members of elt it's uh my privilege to introduce a couple more of our admin appointments tonight one I'm doing in behalf of lesie bell uh assistant superintendent Bell is under the weather tonight and not feeling well so she was unable to attend um so I'm going to fill in for her I'll start with her appointment it's Carly Chavez if we could have Carly stand Carly Carly started teaching for granite School District at Hunter Elementary she was an intern assistant at wght in Monroe Elementary Schools Carly served as a principal at lak Ridge and then an oene Walker Elementary Carly has been the associate director of educational access and opportunity for the past year and she will now be serving as the director of educational access and opportunity congratulations Carly thank

048you who do you have here tonight with you I have my husband Alex and and myter K great so glad you could be here tonight next up we have Amy Neil we can have Amy Stan we we're just making a habit of bringing Amy back every month month we're just going to have her come each and every month no I'm just kidding um she uh served as a teacher in both the Alpine and Davis School Districts if you'll remember we stole her away from Davis and she was also an intern assistant in Davis School District Amy is currently the assistant principal at Copper Hills and West West kar's Elementary Schools but next year she'll be serving as the new principal of Copper Hills Elementary so congratulations and Amy I know you brought your husband again

049tonight Sean's with me you guys Sean the foundation we left all five children in other places some in other states and some at our house they're raising themselves right now I'm super excited to stay at Copper Hills and serve the community it's been awesome we're glad to have you congratulations next up we have Aaron Bitner Aaron Aaron has taught for granite School District at benan and at Roosevelt Elementary Schools she is currently serving as the intern assistant uh principal at Farnsworth Elementary full-time and next year she will be serving as the principal at Farnsworth Elementary School let's give her a round of applause Erin who do you have here tonight with you I have my husband my husband Paul myter Brook myter Natalie Jason and Ryan and my parents are watching and you also have

050one of your biggest supporters right next supporter Wy Yeah Wendy great we're glad you could be here tonight congratulations to all of you welcome to farenorth I'm so happy to hear that you're staying so welcome to not welcome CU you're already there but I'm just great F that you get to continue so and I just wanted to excuse Tyler how he was actually going to be here tonight to do this but he had another obligation and so next month he will be here to do the April appointments so John I just want to point out that we're we're grateful to make some of these appointments uh tonight we traditionally make most of these especially School level appointments in the April meeting but some of these um uh communities are anticipating and waiting with anticipation and

051we wanted to make sure that they knew what we were thinking about them and some of the challenges they're faced with and so uh and since these individuals would be remaining at those locations it seemed prudent to go ahead and make those announcements sooner than later so other people are waiting and we know and we're thinking about you as well so we appreciate your patience thank you so much for being here we appreciate you um your work the work that you currently do and that um we get to have you in new position so welcome you're welcome to stay for the rest of the meeting or you're welcome to also go take your significant other out time ice cream go take Darby out to ice cream all right our uh while they're filing out we're

052going to invite Dr con back up um we have a presentation short presentation on the ELA curriculum adoption short thank you very much okay uh I'll try to make this very very short but also informative so that you um understand what we're doing here tonight okay so uh we're talking I included two things because as you know the new process requires two reviews of instructional materials so we have to kind of squeeze these in and I'm starting to get the rhythm of doing this but it is still a complex process so we're doing the final review of the secondary Ela materials and then we're doing a first review of sexed materials and then there are a couple tweaks in this um presentation just based on recent um changes in or Rec recent uh happenings both

053in the legislature and um some some decisions we made so um just a little bit of background that uh you're designated as the board to fulfill the state requirements of adopting these learning materials and our article supports that um we have committees composed of teachers with expertise in content areas the grade span district and school administrators Specialists um and parents and uh for this committee for these committees there two we had teachers District administrators special education access and opportunity specialist Ela curriculum specialist secondary literacy Specialists and parents we had a five member parent review subcommittee and um as I said before we had one committee looking at 6 through 8 and one looking at 9 through2 just the the steps that we follow for curriculum adoption in general um are that we survey teachers and

054administrators far ahead of time usually about a year ahead of time just to get a feel for what teachers want and that's something we started to do several years ago and have found it to be very very helpful in um in us to be for us to be able to make more strategic decisions about adoptions um than just kind of going through the motion so uh this helped us to be very very uh um just fiscally responsible and responsive to teacher needs um so diverse Committee of teachers as I said before um we look at the specific requirements and criteria that are used based on a number of factors for uh foremost being the core standards in Utah and our expectations to meet those standards to increase student achievement um we then complete a request

055for proposal under the guidance of purchasing uh and we make those materials available for Patron review We allow for public comment uh for that whole period in between the two meetings and then we recommend the sele instructional materials to you uh at these board meetings so last time I I opened that um that first review and this is the final one and then finally your your step is to formally determine adoption status at the second um meeting so in terms of our committee's review hmh introd uh intro intro to literature um we were looking for successful Ela core instructional material um uh um component on and the big five were strong Utah alignment so it's always core alignment that's the first thing we're looking for um is a very very strong alignment to the core

056so we write it into the RFP and we have them demonstrate in great detail how each aspect of the curriculum actually relates to the core uh specifically because as a pbl district we want everything to align directly with the standards in Utah we really want customized able lesson design and planning guides that are flexible for teachers so that's a big piece um rigorous Pathways uh for whole group small group and individualized instruction and then we have to and want very much to reflect our local communities law standards and students and then finally it has to be relevant interesting and developmentally appropriate um and specifically at our secondary level motivation is key to um meeting the needs of our students so for literature um we have physical and digital resources so that was one of the

057the big pieces that we were looking for so that flexibility to toggle between tangible things that you work in write in annotate um read and then also some digital components but with a heavy focus on really making sure we had tangible things in the hands of kids and they're actually able to to write and read and um H have things in their hands both teachers and students we had a strong desire to make sure that there was a assessment um component to this program that allowed us to have regular screening opportunities and so this material has the NW map uh embedded which is a highly regarded um valid reliable normed uh screening uh screening measure and that it also has formative and summative options built into it into into literature does oh by the way

058it's the continuation of into reading so it also kind of allows us to create a seamless uh transition from elementary to secondary the other thing that was really important was a digital writing and collaboration piece now this is kind of new so this is kind of the new the new stuff that's coming out in some of our resources which is really exciting so this is an interactive component where kids can practice their writing skills um get feedback uh in the program and the teacher can use that to scaffold to extend to individualize what they need it has rubrics built in it has many skill lesson lessons on grammar and syntax and uh a rubric that that allows us to deliver an AI suggested feedback mechanism so it's it's teachers loved this part they were like

059totally totally excited about um the writing component of it and then finally we build in a professional development oper opportunity that allows for a lot of flexibility so teachers have multiple opportunities to engage with the materials before um they adopt and then as they adopt and um ongoing as needed so here you'll see parent sub committee comments um I won't read through all of those but I will just uh um say that the mo most if not all of them said they thought that the materials had um really strong options and see seemed rigorous um there was one concern somewhere and I can't find it but there was a concern somewhere uh oh okay yeah so there was a concern um that there was cultural relevance but there was a bit sparse on representation of

060white male over well overall Pro provides well balanced easy to navigate stories of interest thank you Mitch um and so those were the parent subcommittee comments and so again that was a subcommittee of parents um that reviewed the material and were able to provide lots of feedback so if you read the rest of those um see seeming to really enjoy the the quality of the materials and then public review comments um also uh were were um obtained and we did that through just pushing out through Blackboard also then having a portal for them to to um review and these were the comments we got from the various networks and you'll see um they were very positive there was one concern um about how long the child would be on the computer but as I've said

061before the individualized practice components of these that are um you know after the modeling the guided practice and and then follows independent practice those are usually like 15minute practice opportunities or even used at home so there is a lot of material that is um ripe for teachers to use in the moment for real interactions on a regular basis to really optimize engagement so we're we're uh appreciative of this vendor for making a lot of different materials available so um our formal recommendation based on that and this is where um it gets a little I have to give you a little explanation is we're recommending the adoption of the hmh into literature for the 68 band Only um we we're recommending that we foro the adoption of inter reading for 9912 and instead we're recommending that

062we pursue purchase of ancillary instructional materials for writing and uh intervention and also the supplemental screening tool for 9 for 910 so 9912 we're saying a writing tool and an intervention tool and then the screening tool for 910 only and I'll explain the rationale for that for the 68 68 Grand uh grade band adoption um the rationale for adopting is that our teacher surveys indicate students in six8 benefit from a more structured scope and sequence similar to what they're they're familiar with in elementary so this really allows us to extend what they've been getting in elementary and still receive a very comprehensive um structured scope and sequence that's laid out teacher feedback indicates a high interest in implementing an integrated curriculum that combines the assessment opportunities with the intervention Pathways that are in the program

063and then finally the cost benefit um usage data on current Ela tools that we have in 68 demonstrate a higher percentage of teachers using those tools and so I I say that because in contrast well I'll give you the comments first sorry about that here are the comments for uh for recommending the adoption of that so the comments from the 68 committee uh really talked about all of the components um working together to um make instructional decisions for personalized instruction and target targeted growth tracking which is really good um Middle School teachers rely on a curriculum adoption to serve the needs of their students a and more of that so so just a strong um support for that I want to say also I noticed that they said it really supports the MMA Learners which

064I think is an important component in our district ESP absolutely yeah and that was one of the main components that we looked for as well um yeah and and then our rationale for not adopting into re into literature I keep saying into reading because we're we say it every day um into literature for 912 grade band is that the teacher surveys indicate students in 912 generally benefit from more from more choice and teachers more choice in the instructional tools while adhering to the ELA standards and um particularly our usage data with our current Ela Tools in 912 demonstrate extremely low percentage of teachers using the adopted tool and so from a cost benefit analysis perspective that's a little bit troubling to to look at um adopting a comprehensive um tool when it's very very um

065it's used on a limited basis and then finally when we talk to administrator Representatives um on the committee and off they're satisfied with the adoption of ancillary tools and supplemental tools um that will um help teachers still meet the standards um as long as we have their expected use in the classroom so um for our 912 committee T when when we talked about this option they really saw that um teachers saw huge benefits the 912 band in adopting a writing program it's something that I think we're we we need to emphasize a lot more in our in our school district and that's K12 so we've been doing it a lot with our um letters implementation and really adopting the science of reading we've been ramping up writing in elementary school but we need to do

066better in secondary and this tool is something that I think is really going to help us move the needle and it's going to uh benefit teachers because of the convenience of the tool so writing has traditionally as a teacher you know um writing has traditionally been a a laborsome um Endeavor for the teacher and particularly when you're editing you're revising you're grading and and that process where teachers really want to spend a lot of time going through that iterative process of getting to a quality outcome product um this product allows it to be much more efficient and it's still super super rigorous and valid and so it's very much aligned to our our core and and we're able to achieve some of those things that in in the past uh were were very hard to

067do and then the um usage of our uh our screening tool which we've we've currently been um piloting uh for 910 will really allow us to continue that longitudinal dat data that we've been capturing for students around the reading progress all the way up through 10th grade once we get past there it doesn't seem to have the usage benefit teachers don't seem to find it as valuable nor do we get the same results kids are kind of like eh been there're done that once they get into 11th and 12th grade and so usage becomes uh much more limited now we still have access to this for our special populations um and the use for um diagnosis of specific needs needs um but overall um our our committee um really believed that just adopting these ancillary

068tools instead of the comprehensive program would be um would be an appropriate uh solution for their current needs in 912 and then finally and this is where I'm doing a little editing um we are if you look at the two columns um the one that's uh on the left is one that we will continue to pursue so this is the first re first review of our AP Psychology material um and we ran we run that through the sex ed committee simply because there are standards in AP that um overlap with some of our sexed um legislation and Rule so uh we we um took that through the committee we had a 91% approval of that of um 11 members so 10 of the 11 and now it is out for public review I'll bring this

069back to the April meeting and do the same thing I'm doing tonight for the secondary Ela on the other side uh the other column um the boys maturation we will be um we will be pulling this material and I think um superintendent horley will address this a little bit more specifically when he talks about legislation at the future so you don't need to worry about the maturation materials um we will have to now worry about those probably in April and May we already have um some individuals reaching out to us uh asking if um they can have their materials reviewed so that's where we stand right now questions okay we'll take questions about the materials anything anyone just to be clear um your your recommendation is not to adopt into literature for 9 12 grade

070band you mentioned adoption of ancillary materials so that's something outside of our action item tonight is that I'm not understanding that correct I mean our action item might be to choose whether or not to adopt literature for that grade band but I'm asking about the ancillary materials you mentioned right so the ancillary materials are um that's a great question by the way um the ancillary materials would be the writable program and then the uh supplemental NWA map um so the the NWA map would be a supplemental tool because it's an assessment tool the writable tool would be by definition under the law an instructional material that is an ancillary material since it's a part of the 68 adoption um I think what we'll be able to do is just add it to an action add

071it to the action items for our next board meeting if we pursue that right now we're working with purchasing um to look at how they decouple those different components of the program if that makes sense does that make sense to you Kim I think so so what you're saying is tonight your recommendation would be a motion to not adopt and then you would braking si in pieces later on correct you're saying yes M so the motion would be to adopt 68 the into literature for curriculum any other questions I I actually am just curious with the AP Psychology material since it's on here how I it it seems like our AP is set by the college board and the AP so we don't have much um leeway as far as what we we have to

072teach certain things so like how much of this is out out of an abundance of caution um we feel we felt like it was prudent to screen it through the um through the sex egg Committee just because it does overlap with some of the ex existing legislation um Doug can probably chime in but we but um it is technically exempt um and so you you're absolutely correct that um it it it applies to to college board um it's technically exempt um so I think the point being we're trying to be super cautious in observing all of the legislation that's out there and utilize an existing committee um to make sure that we're just we're screening things appropriately so while it is exempt we're just we're doing our due diligence and and yeah correct yeah and

073with there a few other areas that that that might happen we did that with the human trafficking um materials a few years ago and there are a few other CTE classes that it might apply to but it's something we've kind of uh adopted a pattern of doing just out of an abundance of caution that was all updated in our administrative memo if I recall just within the last year or so right I ask one more um the committee members are we able to share their feedback with us prior to the next board meeting so we can see what the concern was from the one you did not support it absolutely yeah so that happens in the second review okay so you'll get that uh a week even a week before the the next review thank

074you sure thing all right if there are no other questions go ahead if there's no other questions I just had a comment I just wanted to thank Noel and her team this has been an arduous process and what she's doing is really important because uh I curriculum adoptions are quite expensive so the scrutiny that we're we're seeing towards identifying things that work well for us and things that don't is uh again a heavy heavy lift and I appreciate the labor intensive um effort that she's made uh with her folks and uh making thing making things work for granted and not just just adopting things wholesale that we're not really going to utilize so I think that's remarkable and it's fiscally prudent and it's appropriate so thank you thank you remind me does this need a

075second reading or is this is it two okay that's what I thought I just want to make sure all right so the motion then for anybody who is willing to do it would be that um we adopt the 6 to8 Ela curriculum as recommended as a first reading and I'll take a motion so said all right so Connie moved and Chris seconded that we will adopt the 68 Ela curriculum adoption or curriculum as recommended is there any further discussion on this a comment go ahead not to appreciate the work that's gone into reviewing the curriculum and trying to Pi what is best for District um I think that this does have a lot of good points to it um I do however still you know I feel like I'm have been consistent in this have

076concerns with the electronic curriculum with the AI and with these social emotional learning aspects and so for those reasons I would still be voting no on this adoption thanks Kim any other comments all right all in favor please say I I I I any oppose n right motion passes thank you thanks Dr Converse for being here thank you um we are going to invite Mr Roger Brooks up and assistant superintendent Adams to go over our pre- disaster mitigation plan for president mcder is going to miss the absolute most exciting item on the agenda tonight she'll be back should we wait no we don't want her to miss out she'll be okay yeah you be all right uh I just wanted to take a few minutes to to say thank you for uh taking the time

077tonight board members uh to consider the adoption of this plan um we are in uh the season of applying for Grants time is short this is a mandatory document to have in place uh to apply for different fem grants and again just to highlight how important this is had we not had this type of plan in place prior to our earthquake we would not have received the near $20 million uh that FEMA put towards the Reconstruction of Westlake so these are important items for us to consider it talks about safety it talks about thinking planning and preparation but it's also an incredible box check as we start to get into those grand applications uh with that uh Roger is our subject matter expert I'm here to support him uh and and just to let you

078know uh of the amount of effort that he's put in you've seen the document it's not thin it takes a lot of work to do this so Roger please thank you um good evening board members and El members I just want to start by giving you my appreciation thank you um for putting this on the the agenda so short notice for this for this meeting um we appreciate it um I didn't want to bore you with the whole what it takes to adopt a something like this but but I will just say that we started this process in August and so it has taken this long just to get to the final draft so it is a fairly uous um procedure to go through when you're when you're doing a a plan like this um

079so why why do we have a hazard mitigation plan uh we'll start by just outlining some of those reasons and compliance with federal and state requirements is you know at the top of the list of that always the plan is required under the disaster mitigation Act of 2000 and it ensures the eligibility for FEMA Hazard mitigation grant program funding So the plan also has to be updated every five years and this is our first update that we have had on this plan since we adopted our first version of this in 2019 it it does align with state and federal emergency management guidelines and it is necessary as Don stated that um for granite School District to continue to apply for grant funding and Andor federal financial assistance post disasters we need to have this plan

080in place protection of lives and property is also at the top of the list especially for someone in my position as the um emergency manager hazards like earthquakes flooding wild Flyers severe weather they all pose um great risks to our buildings our schools uh in the district and to our students and staff we have a lot of older buildings in our district specifically a lot of older schools that have some issues that um that need to be worked on um financial and operational impacts of disasters are always of concern natural and human cause disasters can result in tens and millions of dollars in damage as we all witnessed with Westlake school closures disrupt disrupt education Food Services and student support programs and proactively invest proactively investing in mitigation reduces overall costs of recovery so what

081will our plan be used for risk assessment and Hazard identification is one of the biggest reasons why we do this plan it assesses the probability and severity and locations of some of the hazards that we were we discussed a minute ago and it affects all of our district facilities this plan identifies vulnerable infrastructure that we have in our district and recommends retrofits and structural improvements mitigation strategies and funding opportunities are also important um with those recommendations come a lot of other mitigation recommendations as well not just retrofits and structural improvements but there are outlines in this plan for all kinds and all types of mitigation for um things that are happening in our district yes let let me just give you a couple of things that that impacted US Post adopting this plan we had

082a a very severe Windstorm which uh took us uh by surprise did a lot of damage to facilities did a lot of damage to utilities and had some of our schools down for uh at least a week uh we are now experiencing droughts that have become Regional challenges to us these these along with earthquakes along with we've seen wildfires uh just above some of our schools in NE Canyon etc etc these are the types of events that are identified that talk about risk that talk about probabilities and have us really thinking about what happens next how do we deal with this next set of disasters so again super important uh based upon just what we've experienced since 2019 as a district so when Roger talks about the the districtwide exposure um if you get a

083chance to read all 200 some odd pages of riveting excitement uh it really is eye opening for us and we are appreciative of the efforts uh and then pointing out those challenges that we try to mitigate each year so when talking about mitigation strategies and thank you Don for those interjections um when talking about mitigation strategies the plan includes a mitigation action Matrix which prioritizes some of the needs that we have in the district such as the seising upgrades and flood prevention emergency communication improvements and so on um also ensures that our district can apply for state and federal funding as we had mentioned before federal financial assistant given to to help build West Lake as Don mentioned um was super helpful for us and important because as he said that was upwards of $20

084million that we wouldn't have had otherwise as also stated we're in the middle of our grant cycle right now and and we have a brick grant that is um in the final phases of of being approved we're hope we're hoping um and without having this adopted quickly that Grant will be in Jeopardy of of not being approved so um The Brick Grant will we that we're applying for this year will'll bring seismic upgrades to two of our schools that are in much need of that and that will be upwards of $13 million that we will be receiving from um FEMA for that as well if we get approved for it integration with school emergency plans this plan supports all existing emergency response and continuity plans that we have in our district and it enhances coordination

085with Salt Lake County Emergency Management and First Responders and I will just note that um Salt Lake County Emergency Management and many of the other entities across our Valley all have their own Hazard mitigation plan as as required by that act of 2000 so how does the plan benefit our district and we've already discussed some of those so we'll just go over them real quickly again um increased safety and for students and staff is at the top of my list uh it reduces the likelihood of injuries and fatalities during disasters by doing some of that mitigation work that we had discussed that U is identified in our plan and it ensures that critical School functions continue to operate the financial savings and Grant eligibility we've already discussed a little bit but it does help secure

086state and federal mitigation funding and reduces the district's financial burden when we do have um an event that happens in our district and it reduces long-term repair costs by proactively strin string our infrastructure strengthen community and stakeholder trust this plan shows a commitment to student and staff safety provides transparency in planning and PR preparedness efforts and encourages Community Partnerships and emergency response um it's really important that we as a district are transparent in everything that we do and that we build trust within our communities where our student safety and staff safety are concerned and having a plan in place like this that is actually open for the public to see we have a lot of our emergency plans and whatnot that we have in place right now that are not open for the public to

087see they're they they can't really see those and don't know necessarily that we have those in place something having something like this builds that trust in the community that we are doing those things that we need to be doing to keep our students and our staffs safe again that's all I have right now if you guys have any questions but we are just asking that you adopt this tonight and we can move forward with this and getting it approved through the state and federal approval process right do we have any questions thanks for all the work when I saw how long it was I go oh it was a lot of work all right seeing no questions um I will go ahead and entertain a motion is this just a simple act one action it's

088not a first reading right okay I move that we approve uh the pre- disaster mitigation plan I'll second it we have a motion in a second to approve the pre- disaster mitigation plan are there any further comments just just one Echo con's comment this is a very thorough and of work and just thank you everybody who's part of this together thank you it took me two hours to read it and so I can't imagine how many I can't believe that you actually read it I did I even looked at the maps and the charts but I was like if this takes me two hours just to read it I can't imagine how you probably have is very thorough and it's thorough for a reason so thank you for being thorough that thorough all right um

089no further comments all in favor please say I I I any oppose oh sorry I cut you guys off I think Julian Kimble said yes let me know if it was different all right thank you thank you all right we're gonna in invite superintendent horley to join us down the front uh for a legislative update and nrba Todd h as they're sitting down we just wanted to say one of the reasons why um both uh Mr hobber and superintendent hleer where they are at is because we feel very strongly about the involvement in the legislative process and we appreciate their efforts on going through the years but um especially representing Granite District so thank you thank you uh board president board members um we're excited very excited to present no we're very excited that there

090are less there are three and a half days left in the legislative session so I am going to try to fly through a number of pieces after uh Todd goes through kind of a revenue piece on this but I I would say that uh this has been a very very challenging and difficult legislative year and I think when we see the final budget numbers on Thursday I think the full weight and challenge of the difficulties that we're seeing up there will be manifested so uh I have a number of bills that I could go through I'm going to try to fly through a bunch of those but I think it just demonstrates the um the full scope and picture of of what we've been faced with so Todd you want to take us through Revenue

091all right so so here's just the calendar reiterating what superintendent described we're in the last few few days of the legislative session uh we had Revenue estimates come out and unfortunately they didn't come back stronger so these are actually reductions to the numbers that we saw in December by about $110 million fortunately uh the legislature uses what they call highrisk Revenue calculations and so they had anticipated that there would be some type of reduction into the February session and so the numbers hit really close to 112 million that they had anticipated so fortunately that didn't necessarily take money away because they'd already set some money aside and said not available we we won't plan to use it in our uh budget discussions so that's where that landed uh this has been a challenging year as

092superintendent described these are structural changes to fiscal uh matters typically you might see one or two structural changes to financing in the state government we're looking at eight here so it was a a pretty significant year uh Senate Bill 37 uh basically took property tax and converts it into income tax through the state's general fund so we're in a new era where uh we will assess a property tax for school education but it will end up in the state's general fund to be used for general fund purposes with the commitment to replace those dollars with income tax so that public education is held harmless the the trick though is we will now Levy a levy and we won't receive those funds directly they'll go to the state the concern with this is that it opens

093up the door to what happened in 1996 with a constitutional amendment when higher education was allowed to receive income tax dollars uh they've used that for the last 30 years or so to wash income tax money into the general fund through the higher ed budgets they will now do this again but they will do it with property taxes to the tune of $840 million so we will watch $840 million shift over into higher ed uh thereby freeing up that much money in general fund for the rest of state government so this is the flexibility that the legislature was looking for that they didn't get through Amendment a that was stopped in the courts so yes how like legally how when it says this is this is a a a state doesn't it say school levy

094on our taxes yes it says School basic Levy yeah how how can they legally if they're if they're taking that Levy how can they legally not give it then to the schools like I wish I knew the answer to that question the as far as they're concerned at this point since the equivalent amount of money is made available to public education just in the form of a different dollar the income tax dollar the the school district is not harmed through this exercise yes okay that's what they said say but how do we know for sure that that's dollar for dollar we get no no so that's not so much in question Inc Senate Bill 30 7 there's explicit language instructing the state treasurer to take the exact amount of money that's deposited with them for

095property tax and have that then uh transferred over to usbe the State Board of Education to then distribute to school districts out of the income tax so there's not a loss of dollars in that exercise what we what there is a negative impact because there there's a 30-day delay now so we'll lose 30 days of interest on these uh revenues but that's a small consequence in what they what the bill started so what was the point of the bill like what flexibility just flexibility this is to provide flexibility for uh the legislature to manage all of its responsibilities so we would have to demonstrate damages before we would have a chance to dispute this I think is the way to say that how much damages do we lose in 30 days of Interest depends on

096which month you're looking at okay all right house bill 110 property tax reductions so this is a a basically a tax relief effort uh on property taxes what is available in the legisl or in the process of Taxation is there's a weighted increase or a wpu value increase tax rate that's added onto the basic Levy and that was designed to be a funding mechanism that accomplished two things one is that the state legislature felt that the portion of income tax and the portion of income tax had come out of balance so they wanted more income tax to be flowing into the minimum school program so that we have this add-on if you will to the basic Levy did you tell them we did too pardon and the second is that this became the primary source

097for funding t tssa so what house bill 110 will do is it will uh discontinue the automatic growth to the tssa account uh an impact for us is obviously the schools won't be receiving more money into the future but we were also using 25% of that Revenue to uh fund compensation as allowed in statute so that is future Revenue that will not be available to us and I say future Revenue because the effective date of this bill is July 1st 2026 so it won't impact this very next budget cycle it'll be the one thereafter that uh these dollars will be uh not available to us can I ask you really quick what's the what has been the increase on the tssa uh the tssa grows in the neighborhood of 30 million a year 20 25

098to 30 million a year what is that approximately per student uh 30 million divided by 600,000 students what does that calculate that real fast okay 20 bucks 20 bu sorry go ahead no I'm trying to keep a straight face on these ones but anyway uh Senate Bill 321 actually failed in committee this afternoon uh however the language of this bill is found in House Bill too what is happening here is when you Levy the voted or the board uh rates the state guarantees a certain yield for those uh for those rates uh Grant School District participates a great deal in this program because our yield is not as high as as other areas of the state so we are eligible for this guarantee money uh this program has what's called a hold harmless provision which

099is that uh as your rates are uh reduced by the certified tax process that you can receive the guarantee at the highest rate of the last five years so that's how the program works so we're we're a beneficiary because we had a higher rate five years ago than we have today so we're getting a a guarantee on Levy that we don't actually impose so so we have a benefit in that program this bill will change that from a 5-year period to a twoyear period And so that will negatively impact the school distri our district because our highest rate was five years ago we have a much lower rate two years ago comparatively speaking and so we this uh impacts the strategy or a tax policy that the board has adopted in that we go to

100our public infrequently to raise taxes what this bill ends up uh benefiting are those districts that have done this on a regular basis so if they go annually or every other year they've kept their rate up so this shift from 5 years ago to two years ago doesn't hurt them or actually advantages them a little bit in this maneuver we are anticipating that the district will lose about $14 million over the next three years because of the shift in the hold harmless uh so that's something that we'll have to take into account as we start building budgets for the next three years so Ju Just to be clear if didn't catch that because we have not consistently raised taxes to address inflation um over the past few years that a that law of averag is

101going to have a huge impact on us and which Levy is that so this affects both the voted and the board local Levy both those programs are eligible for the guarantee you're being punished for being fiscally prudent will you just please say that when we get to truth and Taxation gladly uh House Bill 106 is the income tax reduction that we've heard about the legislature had set money aside to reduce the tax rate from 4.55 to 4.45% I believe is the the change there uh as well as some other uh child tax child credit tax benefits and also for corporations who provide daycare there's a tax credit for them as well so that's what's uh available there house B 237 has to do with roll back taxes so this is when you take agricultural land

102and change it and develop it into something other than agricultural land there's a 5-year look back to see uh what the taxes would have been if it had been developed and then those become due right now the district receives 80% of those uh dollars those roll back taxes and 20% goes to the county for different conservation efforts this bill would make that 100% Going to counties for conservation efforts and the district would not be participating in those revenues House Bill 408 uh failed in committee today also was that today a lot of things s forget what day is that was actually yesterday the best day of the legislative session that's right the rest of it has not been great so we won't talk about this bill so much other than uh it could have placed

103our tax increases uh sub our make our tax increases subject to referendum and the the Bill's timing for referendum didn't work at all oops I pushed the wrong button uh really quick 511 is property tax elections uh this idea is that before the board could impose a tax increase it would have to hold an election a general election of the the public and actually have a proposition put on the ballot and ask the people for permission to raise taxes for the subsequent uh fiscal year uh so that bill is not moving in the session now it's it's been referred to interim study so that would make uh raising taxes uh very difficult and the timing is is near impossible can I bring it back before the end of the session I I don't think there's

104yes technically yes committee all committee work ended today so they'd have to under suspension of rules bring it back but I think the intent of the sponsor is that this is for interim study I think though to your point Connie is how the legislature works or has worked in the past is yeah it's killed this year but it's a lot of those bills that are tabled at the end of the session this year come back roaring uh the next year so while I'm grateful this is tabled it looks like for this session I am worried about the future sessions yes the concepts will definitely come back which is uh to provide the public the ability to agree to raising taxes as opposed to a board independently doing that so what are he's saying is you've

105got to know a year in advance what you're going to do and what your budget needs are going to be get permission from the public to to make sure that you're going to be able to raise taxes when that need arises almost a year later so if they vote no then we have no ability to raise the tax correct so then our budget would be cut or people would be like that's our option so we would we would be setting a budget in one year but then including if if we said okay we'll we'll raise a you know salary or whatever and then but we would have to wait if it had a tax increase we would have to wait till the following year to do the tax increase in order to pay for that

106if they vote Yes so is that right is that what that bill would say that's that's what the bill establishes yep off to interum so so hopefully we can help all of that those Concepts and challenges uh the last one here is uh House Bill 552 uh this is in reaction to a failed goo Bond so if a if a board fails a goo Bond you cannot use the building authority to fund those projects that were in the field proposition so it's closing the door to that Avenue go on while you can do I keep going it only gets better so these are some previews at numbers uh these are programs that will be discontinued next fiscal year funding wise so gang prevention effective teachers and high poverty schools and we've all already been aware

107of school fees and we have a presentation today to talk about school fees so I won't go into any more detail there uh education our executive appropriation has made some recommendations and these are items that are showing up now in bills most of these are in House Bill 2 we've heard about the compensation increase for teachers and for esps we'll we're still waiting for the formula to be worked out but we understand uh that that's in place our CTE programs will'll take some haircuts the CCA program will uh be discontinued as a standalone program but can be funded through the add-on uh same with ctso library media nurse grants those were dollars that were rolled into the flexible allocation two years ago and now they will be eliminated professional learning grants will be eliminated uh

108impact Aid so these are the high cost students in the special education program so if you're one of the larger five districts in the state you lost your impact Aid money under the formula and uh professional staff is probably the the most difficult one to explain but the impact is basically we receive money or we have received money from the legislature to support a step and Lane schedule so these were dollars that uh would increase the wpu for years of experience of a teacher as well as their educational attainment that formula has is repealed and those dollars are redirected into what we call the flexible allocation account in that process we will lose $2.5 million in that exchange so that's less money than we have this year to pay for for contracts so this these

109are the amounts for this state this is us so this is District district impacts yeah so add that onto the 14 million we discussed a little bit earlier over a threeyear period and some of these other numbers so we'll get there so these are these are also estimated uh impacts positive as well as negative so there is the 4% increase in the value of the wpu so the district can anticipate something around $13.6 million uh future impact on tssa that's again delayed a year so we don't see that immediately uh this is we'll lose $255,000 on the rollback taxes um there's also a Senate Bill 20 that uh was circled in the Senate last I heard and this this is to allow a district to raise um to raise the contribution rate for the tier

1102 employees who are in the hybrid program uh right now there's a cap the district can only participate up to 10% the cost estimates coming back from URS is that's about 10.9% or 10.8% so that difference above 10% point8 has to be paid by the employee and what we're asking is can the employer pay that on behalf of the employee but we need that cap lifted so Senate Bill uh 20 removes that cap and uh there was also URS at a 05% reduction in the rate itself so this kind of funds itself if you will the 0.5 is a savings and then if the district picks up the 08 we come out about 600,000 ahe um we talked about the tax guarantee program so over three years we'd lose about 14 almost $15 million fortunately

111the way the bill is written we don't have an impact in year one of the three years of this uh that we lose uh which is interesting I can get into the details if you want but then that means we have a steeper decline in the second and third year so we'll still lose the 14 million we just don't lose it immediately so those are future impacts um and then there was uh Senate Bill 32 is going through uh class size reduction uh they've changed how this will be administered they're concentrating the dollar on grades K through three instead of K through 8 and uh so this is the net impact that we would see over three years is that formula changes so I tried to categorize a couple of these bills into a few

112categories there was too many governance bills and most of them had to do with the State Board of Education so just know there's a handful of bills out there with respect to state board governance uh you should be aware of a handful of curriculum bills I call this the zombie legislation because legislative session because we've seen a lot of bills from previous sessions that have come back to life this session and as Karen pointed out sometimes a bill doesn't make it as far as it normally would and all the way through the Finish Line we're seeing reiterations of those bills now coming back in subsequent years and having to have the same conversations again about why that's not a great idea um so with respect to curriculum bills flag display amendments this one just simply

113um restricts what types of flags can you can only sh uh post certain types of flags mostly the American flag or the state flag so I'm not going to go into a lot of detail unless you have a specific question if you look at uh Jack Collins bill um that sorry Colin jackville that says uh the the mining industry wants to make sure kids know the benefits of coal and uh other minerals and so they're going to stipulate curriculum requirements to uh help us understand how energy is accumulated in the state um going on to Jordan tusher bill this is HP 191 this is a a require state board approval for any sort of credit uh recovery programs so instead of us deciding which ones we would like to utilize this would kind of uh

114provide some consistency in state board approval is there um has this been subbed I haven't looked at this since last week yeah it's in it third sub yeah it's in the third sub third sub so you know Bill is not perfect till it gets to the seven sub so or that means it just wasn't very great in the first place okay I'll keep going homeschool amendments this bill removed um some restrictions in ter there was a child that was killed a child abuse case um up in Davis County or Weber County I can't remember which uh but after that there there was some scrutiny about homeschool processes and how um in that particular case there was concerns about uh I guess some school districts have required background checks in order to get a homeschool affidavit

115signed uh Granite has never done that we've not uh I'm not hav't been aware of anything like that uh but this bill prevented that from occurring so you can still homeschool and we cannot require a background check in order to do that so that's not something we've done um but now we really can't do it even if we wanted to um so curriculum another curriculum bill from representative peek um on oh go this one is uh uh we cannot uh use so uh we discussed this a little bit sorry I remember bill this is this is HB 233 so uh there are two school districts that have utilized Planned Parenthood mat maturation materials um Planned Parenthood uh does not we that materials those materials have gone through a regular sex head approval process and been

116approved by the board in the past this bill would restrict us from using any materials from for any sort of sex head curriculum that's provided by an abortion provider so with respect to this uh as she removed that item from curriculum adoption we're going to be looking at some some different ways that we might be able to support our schools and do some Network wide maturation program so I've directed her and lesie to look into some options so we can make that uh make our own content that goes through that process and kind of own that process a little bit better and kind of lead out on that so I'm excited about the in light of this legislation doing something a little bit different in our own district and that will meet our needs um

117HB 447 um it's a Statewide Catalyst campus model this could be called the Statewide Granite Technical Institute uh model because it's what we already do but there is yeah yeah I guess they have a cooler name and I regret that we were not on top of that um so uh speaker of the house uh Schultz is from Davis County apparently went and saw The Catalyst Center up in Davis County and thought that that was like a new fangled way of doing things and uh with respect to that I would have loved to have have them come down and visited the GTI this does open up about $65 million in new funding to to model this type of programming so it's unknown right now unless to Todd has discovered if we're going to be able to

118tap into any of that Revenue um to support our own program so half day kindergarten amendments uh relates to requiring I don't I needed to check on where this bill was at this morning um but uh we kind of reversed vered back to every school providing full day kindergarten and now this bill would then require us to also provide half day kindergarten so my head spin a little bit on this um but apparently there were enough families out there who just wanted to continue with half day kindergarten so now we're going to be required to provide that at every school unless there's certain threshold that's not met does it specify in the bill the threshold yeah it says it right there uh I think it's if the half day enrollment is lower than a given

119threshold it says it in the bill I want to say it's six kids but I house rules so we have to offer it as long it's been returned to house rules so forget this one they they well they sifted today so yeah today's been the big day of coling uh bills for the final um loow down so let's just forget about this one but my guess is we hear about this one again next year was there any fiscal note attached to it I don't recall okay sorry go ahead he's looking that up for right now uh no fiscal note cuz that's not going to uh impact us at all so that was sarcasm okay food security amendments um there's a couple bills related to uh being able to provide and ensure that low-income families have

120access to food so we'll have to see what the final version of this bill looks like there was one that was proposed by um other members this is the one that's actually uh got through committee the Senate site committ it yesterday so we'll see if it makes it through there is a fiscal note attached to this one and there's some philosophical differences on whether this is the responsibility of of the government so I'm curious to see if this makes it to the finish line but I've heard uh one way or another so so the funding for the bill was prioritized by executive appro so there is money set aside um it is only onetime money so this is like a delayed unfunded mandate we have money for a year but then the obligation of the

121school district to provide free meals is still there which is you're aware sorry I didn't mean to catch off you're good in Granite School District with 62 plus% of our kids on free introduce lunch uh there's going to be an unfair or unequitable burden on districts with high poverty if there's no State funding to to assist with this um education industry employer privacy this just ensures that um we can't sell or transfer certain types of contact information without consent this would be for employees uh contact information HP 161 the best Bill of legislative session this just codifies our current practices and allows sixth graders to be treated as Junior High kids as it relates to um the distance required provide transportation this is a bill we asked representative Matthews to run and it was a

122bill that went through unanimously and everybody it went through so good bill we come up with good legislation um representative L Bay and uh proposes substitute this is actually another representative peek she's a new legislator from toilla you can see a lot of these bills are coming from from her uh this uh this prohibits us uh while any employer uh let's I want to be clear public employers from taking disciplinary action against employee for using gender specific language in certain circumstances so um we can't have any sort of policy that requires an employee to use gender specific language to accommodate uh an individual to exempt the employee from disciplinary action in certain circumstances so a student a student requests use certain pronouns we could not require that an employer an employee would use those types

123of things which is not in our policies right now anyway so I've not seen this as an issue in our school district but I guess we'll see what that looks like uh HP 267 I think everybody's well aware of this bill we discussed this a little bit earlier this evening um we'll have some additional conversations surrounding that HP 281 um I think there's this notion that schools are providing extensive therapeutic services um most of the the types of therapy that we're providing are crisis counseling or grief counseling and temporary circumstances and otherwise our our policies and procedures require us to refer to outside agencies or uh medical professionals we just don't have the time or the resources to provide exhaustive EXT extensive therapeutic services but this really curtails a number of the things that uh

124our um School psychologists and social workers um can discuss with students without parental permission um and so most of our concerns on this particular Bill had to do with special education services and uh um there's some potential challenges here and some potential conflicts with federal law so we'll have to see what that looks like um I I haven't uh seen through the latest version and talked to Dr Day in a few days about this one but I expect it will pass um Public School the hb303 died in committee yesterday today yesterday is it Tuesday Tuesday okay this died yesterday again I said this was the best bill or the best Bill to die uh on on the hill this would have required us to share direct parents contact information with local charter schools within a

125certain geographic area they would then in turn have to to share their uh Parent Directory information there were some concerns that this uh without an OP out this would conflict with furpa um and uh I spoke against this bill and I'm I'm going to say out of sheer luck um some members of the committee were not in the room when it came up for a vote and ended up on a 2 two split vote and failed so frankly we got lucky um this was a little bit closer on the house side and I think we had the votes there if we would have had a little bit more time but frankly we're tracking over 100 bills and it was hard to to stay on top of a few of these things but this bill did

126invariably fail yesterday I'm shocked that they would support sharing private information that they don't have a problem I don't think they understand the irony on that yeah there were a couple of amendments that would have addressed the the the parental opt out um but the committee didn't adopt those and so we at our suggestion if you're going to pass this bill please accept these amendments that did not happen school fees did pass that's another unfunded mandate we'll have more conversations surrounding that School attendance amendments this bill failed uh earlier today so this was going to um discuss chronic absenteeism as a long-term study item um to see if there's potential Solutions the bill failed food additives in schools HB 402 this is on the third sub we already do this but it prevents certain types

127of um processed ingredients in school lunches and there was a vending portion that was ironically reminiscent of uh Michelle Obama's efforts back in 2010 um that basically curbed all of our revenue on vending machines because you couldn't have unhealthy snacks in there and so that part of the bill was removed um but uh we're already in compliance with this and uh there might be some min minor pieces that we need to adjust but uh an interesting Bill since we were held up as a model on that um as it became known that we were already doing that so HB 408 we already discussed a little bit earlier this was another bill that dieting committee yesterday um that we spent some time working and uh just uh this would have seriously curtailed your ability to as

128a Board of Education Act and and uh in any capacity and that local control would have been diminished significantly basically any policy or tax increase that this board um approves without a super majority would have been subject to referendum and so at that point in time I'm not sure why we have a board of education so I may have been that flipping in my comments as well in in the hearing but the bill did fail so we're grateful for that uh School data amendments this is uh uh by representative mcferson intended to address a long-term study of what types of information schools should be retaining this is obviously in light of the recent data breach not just in Granite School District but in several other school districts along the wasach front um most of this

129we had already discussed and we've shared some information about with you that we no longer plan to retain um so my expectation is by the time the study item comes forward in September 2026 there's supposed to be an inter room report um we would already well be in compliance clean truck amendments you're like Ben what is does this have to do with anything well this would have required us to update a number of our buses but they were invariably Exempted in future Subs so I'm following that to make sure that happens um because we don't have the money to be able to afford to update some of our older buses um without our normal uh procurement process uh there a couple other bills uh truth and Taxation uh this was going to change some of

130the open uh and public meetings act to clarify that hearings on property tax rates above the certified rate requires the presence of a quum of the taxing entity I don't think that would be a problem for us but um needless to say when you certify that tax rate you would need to make sure that a certain number of did I read that bill right okay anytime there's a funding question I always look to my right okay uh there's a couple other bills we've already discussed I'm going to keep scrolling down hb40 you can see it's on its fifth sub and that may actually be its sixth sub at this point I was updating this over the weekend so I apologize um this is the school safety amendments from last year's HB 84 there was a

131couple of components we hope would be adjusted some of that has happened some of it has gotten frankly a little bit worse and so uh we'll have to see what the final version of this looks like but this is something we're continuing to work on where's that at it's in fifth set okay it's on the Senate SEC okay uh Juvenile Justice fire firearm safety so these are safety related bills this is another required um curriculum item uh for firearm safety in schools we'll have to see what this looks like supposedly it's entailed with a a state board of education approved video it could be very minimal but again we're we're obviously wanting to make sure that instructional time is not hampered and as we get more and more requirements that's where the concern lies not

132that we don't want to address gun safety it's just how that plays out um this HB 432 I needed to check on this one as well uh this this um is a bill that would have allowed repealed the ban on flavored electronic cigarette products which was a real coup just a few years ago because why do tobacco companies create flavored products it's to attract younger users and uh given the huge vaping problems we already have on school property because of Juvenile Justice Reform back in 2017 which made it a non-referral offense on school property um and a referable offense off of school property kids know this and they come to our schools to vape because they know they won't be referred you had flavor products to the mix that's just going to incentivize the the

133negative behavior further where's that at did it get returned it uh failed it was subbed a fourth time and failed as a fourth sub I think we all should just give a round of applause on that who's with [Applause] me I'm I'm thinking of the little cartoon of uh I'm Just a Bill dying um on the steps of the the capital and I'm grateful in this particular case uh that was that would have been appease appeasing to Tobacco companies to um provide some I don't disagree with the bill sponsor that we need some enhanced regulatory practices but sacrificing um the van was not worth it it just isn't so um maybe I'm opining too much school discipline amendments I think is kind of up in the air it may not make it through but this

134codifies some other practices that we have in place and the sponsor has been very amenable to some changes and adjustments to that bill and so we're grateful for that um we'll see if it goes further s178 is something we're already compliant with uh but just ensures that there's a universal ban on school um cell phones and schools unless a board has a policy that allows for use so it's kind of a flipped backwards mandate um so we're already in in compliance with that juvenile this is actually one of my favorite bills of the session 223 I testified on it committee this afternoon so it will hopefully get through the house in the next few days but this clarifies the definition of bullying and when we think about how broad and ambiguous this definition is um

135it creates a number of of challenges for us because there are certain notifications that are required as part of a state code as well and we've been subject to recent uh Records requests on things that were deemed bullying but really weren't buling and that subjected the district to uh unnecessary scrutiny that was frankly inappropriate so s249 clarifies student reintegration uh procedures this is for students who have committed crimes certain types of crimes are also now subject to reintegration we love reintegration process we came up with reintegration process and got that put into statute two years ago and this uh also ensures that students who might be um under investigation for certain types of violent crimes cannot just walk back into school the next day but uh are subject to uh additional scrutiny and potential placement

136in other places until that investigation is complete obviously we want to comply with with federal law but at the same time we want to make sure our schools are safe so uh 958 bills available that was as of Saturday afternoon I want to say and I'm up to0 bills as of this morning um there's a couple more that we're we're following through on as well I have never tracked over 100 bills in a session um active bills and so this has been quite um yeah this has been something and I really have nothing else nice to say and my mom told me if I don't have anything nice to say I shouldn't say anything at all so we'll just wrap up the investig uh the uh not the investigation it should be an investigation there's

137a crime that's occurred up on that Hill uh but I won't go into that any further and I'll leave it at that unless there's other questions any further questions all right just thanks thanks for tracking those bills even though it's a lot and thanks for being up on the hill and testifying I know a lot of the past few weeks I've if I've texted Ben or or even Todd and and Julie they're I'm up on the hill I'm up I'm in a meeting I'm in a committee meeting we're testifying right now so I know it's been a lot of work and we really appreciate what you guys have done all right we're going to invite up for our school fee schedule um our Craig stofer and C pan our Secondary School leadership Improvement directors to

138have a riveting discussion about school fees and you know I have questions of course I just informed I I get one question one oh okay one question Clark told me thank you board leadership um Granite board and superintendent elt we um you've introduced Steve and I we're we're excited to be here along our um boss John to present with you um the H Bill 344 along with the maximum fee scheduled first reading um so that is our our goal today is to share that with you and highlight some of the specifics with the law so we're looking at the PowerPoint first to start this not working that little arrow thank you there you go um first I would like to um highlight just a few things about the law U as a board you've always

139been very conscious to keep our Feast um as low as possible and they've always been quite a bit lower than our surrounding our sister districts so we appreciate app that and um we're going to go ahead and try to identify some of the highlights with this law and how it will affect the the maximum fee schedule that we're going to present for you so beginning in the 2020 25 26 school year um we cannot charge a fee for a non-fee course so they've identified courses that are considered fee courses and non-fee courses those non-fee courses are basically English Health mathematics science and social studies now those are broad categories but every thing um that that generates the requirements for graduation in those categories would be considered those non-fee courses we can also not charge for

140a general fee um or the potential of charging or increasing that fee to supplement or supplant the fees so that's specifically for high schools would be the $65 basic registration fee that we currently charge if if we're identifying those the things that we've normally not charged for anyway would be textbooks we cannot charge for textbooks along along with textbook like materials um School equipment the machines equipment facilities Etc that we um that we have we have normally not charged for those anyway we've only charged the for the replacement of um after they've been used for many years and then they've identified common educational experience or expenses that we cannot charge for which would include the teacher staff facility and then the regular maintenance now in every law there's exceptions so we cannot charge for those

141things I've just mentioned however there are exceptions that we can charge so we're talking about both non-fee and fee courses or basically all of our courses we can charge for the following the first thing would be instructional equipment um that is required for class the class and becomes the property of the student we can um charge for field trips which includes the activity performance Transportation food and lodging for those field trips and we can charge for school activi clothing so anything specific that we we ask our our students to wear that would be um towards or for that class um but not it but not a uniform and we want to make sure that that's separate uniforms would be considered what we had at Kennedy years ago the school uniform so um those three things

142we can charge for for all fee courses and non- fee courses and we'll identify them on our fee schedule the two last bullets are on the the next slide things that we can charge both fee courses and non-fee courses are any discretionary projects in lie of those regular classroom P projects um an example could be if I'm in a Woods class and instead of building the chessboard I would decide to do a nightst stand I would pay for that extra amount and then of course the compensation or remediation any credit recovery um that is specific to not only fee courses but non- fees so if a student were to fail an English class we can't charge for the fee the class English class fee but we could change charge for the credit recovery and we'll

143identify those each of those on the fee schedule now moving on to the next slide are the things that we can charge for just fee classes only uh the exceptions if you will we can charge for instructional supplies so any consumables Uh Wood clay art supplies food for food classes that type of thing life cycle replacement cost of school equipment so again we can't charge for the school equipment which we haven't done anyway the normal purchase of but the life cycle replacement we could um an example I can think of is maybe a kiln for pottery we might take a part of that fee and save it for 10 or 15 years to buy a new Kiln would be that example musical instruments we can charge for licensing fees for intellectual property this has changed

144a little bit it's for Fine Arts only so your um Visual and Performing uh Arts is is the intellectual property and then of course participation in driver ed that would include the class and the driving and so we'll identify that the last slide um be because this Fela was not finalized prior to us creating this um report things have changed a little bit and so I've got to mention one here on this slide um the very end of the highlighted area school can charge a fee for the should not read a fee course it's that they can charge for these three items listed along with the um items in the next slide so we can charge for expenses related to postsecondary related courses including tuition college credit exams and textbooks for our three Advanced areas

145that we have in each of our schools so AP IB and concurrent we can also charge for extracurricular activities including the life cycle replacement cost of equipment and of course the participation in the driver ed course and after school driving so those are things that we can charge for besides non-fee classes non-fee classes and fee classes so that's all a little bit confusing um as you read the law but I hope I can answer any questions if you have them after we go on um the next slide has directly to do with Elementary this is always been the case but schools may not may not require a fee for elementary students and what this specifically is saying is that an elementary teacher can send a list home of recommended things but they have to put

146in what we have in um quotation marks which is notice the items on this list will be used during the regular school day they may be brought um from home on a voluntary basis otherwise the school will furnish them so that language has to be specific with the note that we sent home to students looking forward um beginning in the 26 27 school year so in the future an Lea needs to find at least one pathway for a student to be able to take the 24 credits for graduation without charging a fee or it even being Fe waiverable um what does that mean exactly um I is that we will try to provide a pathway that won't um won't separate kids in any way or or identify them in any way and what we've looked

147at as a feed committee is currently we charge for our online classes and um we charge a certain fee up to $30 for those online classes students can take them from us or they can take them through a a K12 program or other credited program that's supposedly free however um when they take a class from K12 for example they go through What's called the seats program and granite School District then for every class that they take and pass has to pay K12 um out of our wpu to that school so it's technically not free if that makes sense to us and so we have decided that we're not going to charge for our online classes hopefully to encourage kids to take them from us if they would like to take some of those extra classes

148um so that will bring some of those students back and the um the net positive would be that they'll be taking them from us and so we're not paying other schools for that amount that is also thinking in the future that in this this law the 2627 portion of it that could potentially be that free pathway for any student to be able to take the credits that they need to graduate the next slide um that's important to note is the current Fel law removes fundraising from the definition of fee so what this actually means for us is that the fee schedule that you're going to be viewing is actually um that that maximum amount includes the out-of-pocket and the individual fundraising but it doesn't include the mandatory team fundraising that's identified in bullet number two

149so a team may still require a team fundraiser that students must participate participate in but our coaches advisors currently normally have used that to reduce that out of pocket maximum so our coaches have chose to do it that way but the the law is now written to where they wouldn't necessarily have to um the definition of individual fundraising is it's an optional fundraiser which is what we use mostly and a kit and a student can then sell that product individually or optional but all of the money that they raise goes towards their fees and that's what the majority of our um our advisers our coaches are doing so um based on the way that this new law is written our last bullet is that the fee committee has suggested that um because they can still

150do a required fundraiser it might be a good idea for us to revisit our fundraising policy just to ensure that it's in line with this and um gives good direction to our to our teachers and and coaches and advisers now I'm moving on to um the actual fee maximum fee schedule and the this first page gives you a view of the 2425 um last year or this year schedule if you will and you can see that it's on a half sheet right here in the PowerPoint but it's extremely small even in a full view that you have access to looking at well based on this new Fel law um we've decided to take advantage and to change it so that it's multiple Pages it's a lot easier for our patrons our community to read um

151and it it identifies not only all of the fees maximum fee charges that you're allowing each of our teachers or advisers to charge but also includes a spend plan and um that maximum amount and by doing that we meet the letter of the law for usbe that says that we that the board has to approve not only a maximum fee schedule but also spend Plans by April 1st now we are still going to have our coaches and advisers go in and create an individual spend plan that has to meet these guidelines of the maximum but is been going to be more specific to their program and it will be on each individual school's website so that's still going to continue to take place but what it does or allows is for you to approve a

152general schedule and then it gives our coaches all the way until the end of June to complete those spend plans so they're more realistic to what they expect to take place the next year okay I'm going to switch now because this PowerPoint then goes from a one page to eight pages and I didn't want to put up every one of those pages but I do want to discuss some of those with you so I'm going to P Escape see okay and can you blow that back up and then what I would like to share with you is the first thing is yeah yeah know the gr school district one where you're at yeah yeah right there um I wanted to share with you you you as board members of course at elt all have a

153link that you can click on to see the high school schedule the junior high schedule I want to share with you and anybody who's watching from home and so you can share with your constituents how can they give us feedback so if you go on the um General gr School District page right between bulletins and social media there is that 25 26 school fees you'll click on that and from there it gives them a short synopsis of um the information for that they where they can find school fees and where they can make comments and then it also identifies each of those pages so they could do it through the board notes but this is the easy way for them to go in and actually make comments if you will click on the 20 the

154high school schedule and let's do a Control Plus real quick it's can you do down here yeah um if you would please if you want to follow along click on the high school fee schedule I want to go over a couple of specifics on that and what I'm primarily I trying to identify is what are the changes from last year's schedule to this year's schedule and that's that's plenty of enough okay y um the very first thing is you can notice that on this fee schedule there is no longer a basic registration fee of $65 and then on the first page there's orts that have been added and so the committee got together along with some coaches that we have and determined that the $200 was the appropriate thing for schools to be able to

155buy the equipment needed to start Esports which is a new sport through the Utah High School Activities Association um we've made some additions or additions if you will um cheer through the cost of uh inflation and uniforms has gone up $100 to $1,800 our soccer has gone up a little bit to help cover inflation so that's up to 600 swimming went from 300 to 400 track 300 to 400 and volleyball from 550 up to 600 um page two so you're scrolling up um we've talked a little bit about track and volleyball we also have Dance Performing groups that win up quite a bit more there was quite a bit of a difference in the needs as we surveyed all of our dance groups and so that's gone up to $11,000 um there's an increase to

156driver's education because of the increased cost of of gas and maintenance with with driving so that's up to 195 and then um IB is an interesting one because we can't charge specifically for the IB courses that fall within English math social studies science um based on the rule we we're going to charge for just the after school program those students that decide to get an IB diploma if you will and it helps um pay for not only the program that Skyline has but also the training needed uh for teachers to be able to continue to provide the service the school or the the classes along with um a student who wants an idb diploma has to get an advisor a teacher and help them go through the actual paper that they write and prepare kind

157of like a thesis that you do in college and so there's a lot involved with after school so that's why we've implemented that um on page three we have uh right underneath our um our musical performing groups which hasn't changed we added color guard and marching band and so that went up to $300 to cover both of those we increased um the graduation party and so does that go down a little bit farther from uh $50 to $60 again that's just through inflation and information that we received from PTA our commencements the cost of the venues has gone up quite a bit and so that has increased a little bit for our um seniors and then School level Banquets so not individual uh athletic or or Performing Arts type Banquets but this would be school

158level so your senior banquet has gone up $10 to meet the the cost of food that's increased we also have um field trips added on page eight that's well before I go all the way to page eight let's let's start with our individual class fees so this is the biggest change from what you've been visually seeing and that is we've identified each class what it is that they have as far as they can spend on the spend plan and these are specific to what the Fel law allows and then an amount and so we did a lot of research with our um teachers on what it is that they needed what they could still charge based on the fee laws and came up with amounts and so this is of course our first draft on

159this presenting to you I do need to share with you because I'm not going to go through each one of them that since that F law has been finalized on Friday um we we we were anticipating there was going to be a potential change for CTE and our non fee classes and that did not take place so on what you're seeing right now I'm going to share with you the classes that we are are going to remove that we will not be charging a class fee for and there's several of them so the first one would be um Visual Arts all Remains the Same but if I go down to CTE so keep going down our first CTE course is accounting um students can receive math credit for accounting and so because of that that

160falls within that math category for graduation so we will be removing this for the final reading um that you will receive in April if that makes sense the next class is animal science you get a science credit you can earn a science elected credit so that class will be removed um aqu agriculture will be aquaculture excuse me will be removed so we will no longer have that on the fee course um biotechnology will be removed that's a science credit as well business communication allows for students to get a English credit that counts as a fourth English so that one will be removed equin science is another science course through CTE so that will be removed medical forensics which is um probably the the one that we have as the highest fee will be removed as

161well and then uh medical anatomy and physiology will be removed because those are all science credits and veterinarian assistant so because those um are on the pathway of earning graduation Credit in those areas that are non-fee courses they will be be removed um if you move down to page eight the last thing that I wanted to share there field trips can you oh field trips so right there underneath concur enrollment IB um field trips was identified as something that we could charge for both fees and non-fee courses and so we removed um Admissions and changed it to field trips Admissions and uh registration off- campus events and that went up from $60 to $80 for the current costs so that is our current high school schedule with um very very similar as far as amounts

162besides the few changes I identified except for it's far more specific and uh meets the letter of the law and and hopefully provides you with more information and possible questions if you have those we're now going to go on to Junior High do you want to take questions for each one or do you want to wait what would you prefer maybe it is easier to take questions for each one we've got the slide de I mean we've got this fee schedule up so we could take it and do it that way if you'd like Clark told me he could I could have his question I did not I have one so I have a son who teaches science uh zoology and he said what am I I supposed to do because he has all of

163these um yeah lab things to uh dissect and he goes what so is that any part of so so based on the current fee law we would not be able to charge students a fee for those however um superintendent and uh Todd have shared all of these other laws and how they've affected um the amount of money that we have to be able to divvy out as a board that you have and so what this will ultimately do is be asking you to hopefully be able to help support these programs that we can no longer charge students fees for so that they can still receive the same opportunity and our last side will slide will kind of explain a little bit of that and and if I might in the earlier presentation on legislation we

164had a line on there for fees and there's about we're estimating about a $2 million price tag that the district will need to pick up in order to cover those those classes so I just for clarification I don't think this should count as my question um couple of those like the uh the office professionals there is a CE course on that as well a CE exempt from from this or AP as far as the fees you can if it's a c course even if it if you do get credit even if can you still yes yes based based on those exceptions that we tried to identify you can you and you can charge only for specifics in there the the specifics are um for a textbook for them receiving any type of college credit or

165tuition um and or taking the test in any of those areas so if they need supplies for that class then it would come out of what we have to provide is that what you're saying because so there's fees but then what would we have extra money we need to come up with for those classes or would they be able to cover it with that fee so are you talking about an example of like like like concurrent enrollment concur concurrent enrollment English for one of them one of them you said was the um Office business office specialist business office specialist which has a concurrent enrollment offering as well as the regular one so we can't charge the regular one but we can for the concurrent enrollment well we wouldn't be be on there we wouldn't be

166able to charge just a class fee for instructional supplies and those items am I saying this right so we wouldn't be able to charge for the for the the things that had identified that we can't charge for non-feed classes so though the instructional um supplies uh is probably the main thing there uh but then we have the exception of what we can charge for would be their tuition their their books their um any college credit that kind of thing so that we can still charge for when it when they are identified as any concurrent IB or AP class even if they fall in the non Fe course so I guess that's why do we need to have that listed on here that for any course that is a concurrent enrollment or IB there may be

167like does it does that does that make sense is that on I didn't see it does and it's down here on the bottom if you go down to the bottom is your uh uh so the cost um concurrent enrollment a and it looks like this is where you're saying and I need need to put a note Steve that we need to includ it is okay I looking at the other course Fe include the other items on that description but we need to include tuition college credit we'll we'll be specific with exactly what the law says yeah good good question um so this is my my question that counts uh first of all I noticed that you have Musical list on there several different places I'm not sure that that's super clear um and would suggest

168that you list it in one place Performing Arts course maximums would be fine but I'm not sure why we have to list it under do we have to list it under a curricul extracurricular because it's listed up there as well but I asked this last year um the and and brought up the point that it hasn't been raised as far as I'm as far as I can remember since I was teaching in the district the um fee for the rental and the the instruments that they're renting are instruments are are are rentals that would cost them upwards of $300 to $500 to rent from a store but yet we still have it sat at 75 have you talked to the teachers about this and gotten their opinion and if so why is it that there's

169still we've raised everything else for inflation but we've kept this for 25 years at $75 for f rental for an instrument it's a great question and what I haven't done um and I always like to do between this session and next session is go to individual what I've done is shared this with all of our principles and all of our curriculum Specialists and ask them for support in going out and reaching to the schools and then um usually in the next 30 days I do the very best I can to try to identify some of these so I will um reach out so that I can give you better better information on that specifically um all I can say is I I believe it was last year it and it could have even been the

170year before I can't remember um I went out and spoke to three different schools and two different Junior highs and they were charging less than that $75 amount they they did share with the same concern that it isn't um as probably as high as they need however they weren't charging the full amount because they were continually worried about bringing in students for their program and so what we did is we went through and looked at spend plans and I went through all high school spend plans and then all Junior High spend plans and identified even though some of them are quite a bit lower than what we charged last year as far as maybe potential class fees we took the amount that we're actually charging and placed that in this hoping that we would get

171get some feedback but that we're physically responsible for our students as well so that's so nobody is charging even there are people who are charging the maximum don't I don't want to say that but the vast majority of them are not and their rationale was was Prior I'm still trying to grow my program or that type of thing so anyway it's good both ways but I will make sure that I get more information for you well and I don't believe just to point out the rental an instrument rental is not a part of a fee schedule we don't have to put that on a fee schedule or a fee uh sorry uh on a spend plan a spend plan not on the spend plan they don't but they have to have they they have to

172have it listed when we look at their the bookkeeping amounts through through accounting I just I so good point going to advocate for maybe some communication especially with our secondary our high schools because I think they would like to see that can do that with with Tim and Noom me on that as well yeah thanks oh I wanted to answer you had another question about why it's in two separate places and I can I speak to that sure um the fee Committee in looking in that identified we have um performing performing groups that are extracurricular and we have the class fees and we have some groups for example maybe I'm taking beginning band I'm not necessarily going to go out and I I'm not going to charge that that student the Performing group fee because

173I'm not going to be having them perform a whole lot they might perform at a Christmas thing or something like that and so we they're we're we we're giving them the potential to charge less for individual classes but they can't charge for both which means I can't CH if I'm going to choose this um my concert band to be a performing group then I can charge the maximum fee under performing groups extracurricular but I can't charge them a class fee and if I'm going to charge them a class fee then I can't treat them as a performing group if that makes sense so I can't do both and that's the way we've always kind of treated things is that you can't necessarily do both so we kind of felt like we had to put it

174in both places say do both charge charge for both yeah did I say that wrong if they do both you can charge for both no you cannot charge for both you can only charge either for a class fee which which very few of our teachers do because they charge as a performing group because most of them perform but there are some especially at the junior high level that choose just to charge a smaller fee and they charge it as a class fee rather than a performing group we can talk later okay any other High School questions okay I want move over to Junior High fees then Junior highs is also that one page we've also expanded that this year this one is three pages long for the junior highs uh one of the reasons why

175we met with the feed committee for so long is we thought this was overall layout was more informative to parents and describing everything for parents to see and what our advisers and coaches and teachers could include in their spend plans below are the changes to the schedule for this year we increase the student feed uh for student travel maximum for fi trips Admissions and registration to off-campus events from $60 to $80 that matches what we did for the high schools as well um we increased the fee for under Sports fees coach adviser runs Sports Camps that's moved from 50 to $75 keep up with the cost for that and the final one was actually a decrease in fee for extracurricular activity for Dance Performing groups we move that from 400 to 200 and again that's

176with Craig looking at all these spend plans and no one was even coming close to the 400 we reduce that down to the $200 for that those are all the changes for junior highs any questions on Junior High all right moving to elementary elementary again cannot charge with inside the school day for most things the only thing that has been added on there is the field trips and that one was um added just to match like we do for our Junior highs and high schools where field trips for admissions registration off campus of events has increased from $60 to $80 um we increased the maximum fee cap from $400 to $500 to match those overall increases and there was also a decrease in the fee under extracurricular activities for stim club from $100 to $50

177looking at those spend plans decrease that amount really easy for elementary school and then as Craig mentioned that disclaimer for teachers if they want to have uh volunteered for supplies right in the classrooms have to put that disclaimer on there disclosure the disclosure all right and then the final one is non non wable fees so we added a line this year this one is for replacement of the student IDs for the bus classes as we as you all know the students are now required to have a bus pass to get on a bus a student ID and those students sometimes lose those quite frequently and so we give a first one replacement for free and any additional bus ones after that they have to pay a $5 fee to replace losing that bus pass um

178we've also added an additional fee for Chromebook finds and that is for the Chromebook system board and that is $130 that's the main component of that Chromebook uh with that and then some changes to that increase the charge of memory books under the general purchase for junior highs to keep up with the rising cost of those printing those books that has gone from $20 to $40 and for the senior high an increase of yearbook for General purchases purchase for the first semester from $50 to $60 and for anything after the first semester from $55 to $65 and then a lot of changes to Chromebook as we've charged for the Chromebook finds and that just as we've worked with Chris Larsson in educational technology looking at those so the school discretion to replace these and to

179repair them for the screen the non-touch $24 and for the touch screen was $53 this next year a decrease in the bezel that's the area around the the monitor from $27 to $14 a decrease from the top case under the Chromebook fines from 36 to 20 a decrease in the bottom case under Chromebook fines from 36 to 20 and a decrease for keyboard under the Chromebook from 87 to 40 so any questions on non-waivable charges or fines Luke I might need help with this Mac get back to that power like that perfect so final slide in summary of our first reading our new uh maximum fee schedule result and a loss of funding for following areas for schools as Craig mentioned at the top a general fee can no longer be charged for our high

180schools this equates to a $65 for each high school student and $40 for each Junior High School student that something we can no longer charge for class fees cannot be charged for English Health math social studies and science this includes classes that count towards graduation Credit in the areas mentioned above um such as areas as rural languages if student takes Advanced rural languages they can use that for an English credit CTE science and CT math classes so something that the board will have to consider is that we'll need to develop a plan to support schools with a lot with his lost Revenue as Todd mentioned to the tune of about $2 million this could be done through fundraising District support or a combination of the two and that's what we have for our fee schedule

181for first reading any questions any further questions okay it's the first reading so I will entertain a motion I move we where is the wording hold on accept the school fees for 2025 20 26 school year as a first reading second we have a motion and accept to accept the school fee schedules for 2025 2026 school year is there any forur further discussion all in favor please say I I any opposed okay Julie had to check out but um is still keeping track just so you guys know all right thanks thanks and I'll talk to you right later he's walking up can I just uh make sure everybody's aware that the biggest decline for schools is that General fee if you go to a school 2,000 kids times $65 you're getting to that $150,000 range

182and every single one of our schools is going to lose that money money that gives the school the ability to kind of maneuver and take care of the classes that need stuff for dissecting or supplies or or everything so that it really loses flexibility good okay uh so we've been going through several different monitoring visits from the usbe from Title One to title 3 to CTE to internal controls in our uh last review uh the monitors decided that our policy that we have with regards to time and effort was not complete in other words it didn't have all the language that they uh thought was required under Federal Regulations so what we have here is language that pulls in the federal reference which is is the CFR 200. 430g uh because that's the language that's

183the area of the language that they were concerned about with regards to our time and effort uh so this is just simply to bring our policy in closer alignment with the federal rigs I don't think that we were out of compliance in fact our whole process was praised for how well we do time and effort and the system that we have to comply with it it was they just felt that there was some language missing so easy fix any questions so this is just bringing us into compliance well I would say closer compliance we I think we were already in compliance we just now have the phraseology that these particular monitors are looking for okay um this again is a first reading and with that I will entertain a motion as such do I just

184say section 14 and read that is that okay I'm move that we approve is a first reading in our fiscal policy section 14 applying for administrating administering Federal Awards grants I'll second we have a motion in a second to approve section 14 in our hang on I got to get up there so um section 14 in our fiscal policy manual applying for an administering Federal award grants as a first reading is there any further discussion all in favor please say I I any opposed right motion passes thanks Todd okay we got several um first readings to go um actually I think we're going to start with our uh our well do you want to start with our first readings or second readings start with our first reading uh first readings we have parental leave up

185first right paral parental leave um I'm actually going to ask the uh board if uh um if you'd be willing to table this particular policy for one month um it was based on some conversations I had with Jessica and GAA um they would like a little bit more time to just to be able to uh go back over this they have been involved in the committee um uh conversations um Mitch and Joe and others were on that committee and um they just needed a little bit more time uh to be able to review it and make sure that um it was kind of what they had hoped for or what what they had expected and so I I indicated to them that I would ask the board if we could table that one for one

186month do we have to have a motion or can I say without objection Todd is there objection to it without objection we'll go ahead and table this one then great thank you very much I appreciate that um board members uh we have a few others um a first reading for corrective action Progressive discipline inorder early termination um this policy is 9 a4c we've had this policy oh thank you we've had this policy in uh before the board multiple times um this is just a a simple change to the policy the uh State Statute allows us to extend a provisional um employees um provisional status um if we indeed have it in a policy we didn't have it in our policy and so I'm U bringing this policy back to the board there are ve rare

187but some circumstances where uh extending a provisional um employees um uh provisional status is helpful useful allows us another year to be able to work with a particular teacher that we think we can build with capacity those kinds of things and so uh we have made that slight change to the policy to give us more flexibility as needed if you have any other other questions about that policy I'd be happy to respond I do have one question um this is on e2c um it's a couple pages in but this is more I don't know Doug if this is for you or Ben if this is for you MIT somebody um but when we have an employee going through corrective yes ma'am you know there's obviously the state statute you've got to have due process it's

188for 120 days you know and then you're doing evaluations there's plan of assistance you know kind of all those things it's like kind of a salad it's just all in a bowl but um my question is this and I know this isn't necessarily in policy but is there a metric laid out somewhere where employees need to perform better by x amount percent so let's say you have somebody who you know is going UNC corrective cuz maybe they're in the 15 20% Z you know they're just they're either struggling or yeah or whatnot and then they're given this opportunity to improve performance and then let's say they improve to 25% which is Improvement right by definition it's better than the 1520 but at the end of the day if we're still looking at this as a

189whole we have an employee who is only performing at you know 25% which to me isn't great right so how do you define Improvement as this policy is explaining without the metric attached that's what I'm it's an excellent question so um uh let me respond um and please jump in anybody else who who'd like to respond um essentially what you're what you're describing is um um uh corrective action for performance and we have essentially two kinds of of uh of corrective action excuse me corrective action for conduct versus corrective action for performance on this side uh corrective action performance is generally rated um through um class observations and through um our annual and well biannual um evaluations um we also ask um uh principles and um uh directors of various departments to collect other uh

190lines of evidence as well and so the idea is that with our evaluations there is a very there is a very specific Matrix in the evaluation itself and in the uh uh in the observations itself that rate the teachers based on their performance on all of the standards um that we've identified and so we have all the standards listed in those evaluations all the standards listed in those observations and um and they're rated based on their uh their uh proficiency with respect to each each of those um with each of those um uh those standards and so we can demonstrate growth or lack of growth through the evaluation and through the um the observation process and then we also in addition to that ask principles and ask directors to provide other lines of evidence as

191well whether that's um uh a survey data from from the school um Communications with parents par um there's a whole variety of things students that uh check out of a class um uh there's all kinds of things that could that could provide additional lines of evidence as well but the um the quantitative type data that you're that that you're um that you're referring to is in the in the the the evaluation tools that we use um that are in front line right and and you know I can have a deeper conversation later but I think my con concern with this is what does Improvement look like cuz even in the data within your with which you're speaking um you know you could still say yeah it's Improvement 10% better Improvement but it's like really not

192building us up to where we want that person to to be regardless of position right I'm not just attacking teachers please you said teachers but I did not say teachers I'm talking employees no and I that that's why I said principles and directors right cuz we're talking about departments and and schools you also pointed to e2c which um which also requires us to do a plan of assistance so for anyone who um who is under corrective for for um performance um before they can move through that corrective process and and and hopefully build their capacity or um before they would actually we would actually seek for separation they have to go through what's called a plan of assistance and that plan of assistance assistance is a very specific plan that that um identifies goals identifies

193um uh goals for growth um goals for improvement and measures those those um those goals over a period of several weeks um you mentioned 120 days it actually can't go beyond 120 days but typically it's six to 10 weeks um a plan of assistance um depending on the the the type of employee and depending on the need um their their Improvement or or their progress will be tracked through this plan of assistance um before either hopefully their their capacity is built or um or they'll be they'll they'll be moved uh to towards separation okay did you ask me um in that plan of assistance you usually outline specific expectations that they're going to meet and it's not like oh you you improved by a certain percentage it's did you start your class with a starter

194and if I came and I watched and you didn't do it you didn't do it um it's not like well you did it one more time than you did than that's that's not it's expected it's written into the plan you've got to do these kinds of things to improve and it's pretty easy to say yeah you're you're making the gains we want to see or not or you're not and it becomes more of a you did it or you didn't as opposed to well you got a little bit better right and and I will mention as well that we have we are moving away from um from Behavior goals toward outcome based goals so a teacher would be required to improve say the proficiency of their students a certain amount uh during that plan of

195Assistance or or um an individual um uh custodian might be required to increase their performance on their Vector score by a certain amount during that plan of assistance if that makes sense so we are trying to quantify those outcomes so that we can measure those yeah I think the simplest way to put it is just simply that you have to be effective according to the evaluation rubric did that answer your question car sure right are there any other questions okay seeing none I will entertain a motion as a first reading I move we accept article 9 a4c corrective action Progressive discipline and orderly termination for a first reading I'll second it we have a motion second to accept article 9 a4c corrective action Progressive discipline and orderly termination as a first reading are there any

196further comments all in favor please say I I I I any oppos okay thanks okay thanks our next policy is our drug and alcohol and tobacco policy thank you Luke um this particular policy was updated um for a couple of reasons first uh um it was to include um based on um uh updates in the law um some uh exceptions for smoking cessation type products um that we didn't want to Outlaw but were inadvertently outlawed with or uh were violations of our policy um we also updated the policy with a concept of misuse um that came because there there is a um in in in recent years the legalization of medical marijuana um that has been introduced into this mix and so um we uh added some language regarding misuse of um um of prescribed

197um uh Controlled Substances um including prescription drugs and um those who who uh obtain a medical marijuana card if you have any other questions about that one I'd be happy good answer any questions okay I can entertain a motion first reading on this I move that we accept article 9 a1b drugs alcohol and tobacco as a first reading I'll second we have a motion a second to approve article 9 a1b drugs alcohol and tobacco as a first reading are there any comments right all in favor please say hi hi hi any opposed motion carries great thanks um the next one is 8b9 this prohibition of bullying cyber bullying hazing and retaliation thank you Luke and um this policy was updated because um recent uh legislation from last year um requires us to maintain a or

198excuse me to create a bullying action plan um for students that um are are um that that we have determined we engaging in bullying um that was actually part of the reason that we also uh worked on the legislation that got our definition changed this year so that we would have a more precise definition of bullying so that when we have to do these action plans they're not done um or they're done in circumstances where bullying is actually um the uh the um the offense that's committed by the student so we updated the plan or excuse me we updated that that that legislation that coincides with our our our updating of um this policy um and I guess that's it if you have any questions about that I'd be happy to respond I think my

199only I have a question that so everything that's taken out of this is just to bring us up to date with the current law correct because it seems like a lot is taken out of this no I appreciate that so one of the things that we did here Chris was we um actually did what we call in our policy uh our law and policy committee we hybridized this so what we did is we took the the procedures of the bullying plan or bullying policy out and we place those in um memorandum 149 so now we have a policy a board policy and we also have a memo for our procedures so that portion that you can see that's been removed was actually just taken out and put into our into memo 149 which outlines the

200procedures for reporting for um um doing investigations Etc oh that makes sense thank you we've been trying to do that with law and policy that kind of been doing it over time yeah we've been trying to be very cognizant of this is this is policy this is what we're in charge of and this is what the administration is in charge of and we try to take that out of there so that we're not Crossing those lines so yeah that's question thank you thanks any other questions okay I'll entertain a motion I move we accept article or 8 B9 prohibition of bullying and cyber bullying as a first reading second I have a motion in a second to accept article 8 B9 prohibition of bullying and cyber bullying as a first reading is there any further

201discussion all right all in favor please say I I I any opposed oh sorry Kim thanks um I did want to mention sorry uh something I forgot with that prohibition of bullying cyber bullying hazing and retaliation we have been also working um pretty extensively with parents um it started with a group of parents from Skyline High School and then we broaden that and we discussed this at um our district Community Council and been working with parents on trying to to um make that policy a little bit more robust so I just wanted to mention that uh next we're going to move to our second readings and we have uh two policies on second reading the first uh you'll recall is our student code of conduct policy this is a very simple um fix to that

202policy this is 8 B12 there it is um this simply provides a um a rision in the policy that um that defines what making false claims and reports of a threat of an emergency at a school look like and um and prescribes the the um uh the appropriate uh uh discipline for making those false claims that was required to be in the policy by Statute and so we added that to 8 B12 if you have any other questions about that one I'm happy to respond any questions all right I move that we accept as a second and final reading article 8 B12 student code of conduct and discipline of students second I have a motion and a second to accept article 8 B12 student code of conduct and discipline of students as a as a

203second and final reading is there any further discussion all in a favor please say I I I any opposed motion carries great the last one we have is um Article 5 C9 um and this is again for a second and final reading um this policy was updated um to include some language regarding new uh uh driving laws and the use of cell phones it also includes a uh a section that we created um that is basically a um uh a what employees should do when using District vehicles in the case of an accident or um and requirements um for appropriate use um of a district vehicle uh those those um changes to the policy came at the request of our um CTE Department um and uh based on some vehicle usage that that that um

204that that they've been uh involved with and so we uh updated the policy um based on that request as well if you have any other questions I'd be happy to respond questions I thought we had talked about putting something about the police in here and police cars oh we Exempted police cars from this so I'm I'm glad you brought that up okay uh the police cars actually um Chief if he still here can can attest um they have their own policy in police so it doesn't need to be a double corre yeah so we don't need to that was one question I had cuz I know we had talked about it before yeah and I apologize for not bring for not uh mentioning that before are there any other questions we'll entertain a motion I

205move that we um approve Article 5 C9 vehicle use standards as a second and final reading second we have a motion and a second to accept Article 5 C9 vehicle use standards as a second and final reading any further comments all in favor please say I I I any opposed motion carries awesome thank you Bo Karen or any others if you have additional questions about like the policies that I didn't really address tonight please feel free to reach out I'd be happy to discuss any of these policies with you further um or answer any additional questions okay thanks okay we're going to go on super tenant report thank you board president um in light of time I'm going to be very very brief so we failed to acknowledge earlier the appointment of Rob McDaniel and

206uh wanted to uh acknowledge Him and his efforts at Skyline High School he's had an interim tag there and uh we have asked him to undertake that on short notice and uh come and support that community and uh we've done some more due diligence in terms of uh meeting with staff and conducting surveys and visiting with Community leaders and stakeholders they requested that he uh remain at Skyline High and so his appointment this evening is an acknowledgement of his hard work and uh thank you for your support of that um wanted to talk about Kern Junior High and uh in light of social workers week um it's appropriate to acknowledge the great and tremendous efforts being made by so many of our staff to support our schools and car and discuss this a little bit

207earlier but I just wanted to give a shout out to those wonderful folks as well um I want to give a shout out to U the Olympus High student section they are incredible um I went to their State uh semi-final basketball game last week uh they remembered who I was which is not uh people don't care who I am that's fine uh but uh they're just fun and they're great and I've gotten to know a few of those students and uh they just had a tremendous turnout and blew temp you out of the water both on the court and uh uh in the student section so they have some awesome chair and they're just very positive and uh they're just doing a great job and establishing the quality culture up there of how we should

208support our sports teams Olympus is one of those true Community Schools and uh the community is highly engaged in a variety of activities and uh it's great to see the success they're experiencing on the on the basketball court so I also got to go to one of their girls basketball uh semi-final games and uh it was a very difficult and challenging game but the t uh the team played with uh so much determination and they didn't quit despite being down to Bountiful uh by a large amount and uh it was tremendous to see their character on display uh speaking of which I also had opportunity to visit uh the district dance competition and I wanted to recognize the great efforts being made by our district art folks to provide those opportunities to our students and

209I got to see every Junior High and high school dance uh team performed that evening and uh got to even see my niece perform they did recognize me there and I would uh give a shout out to my sister-in-law for booing me when they did so it was nice of her uh to acknowledge me so uh but just some great things happening within our schools and uh again uh grateful to be a part of of of granite and the community that we uh represent and surf superintendent Kim do you have anything I do not have any okay thanks Connie just that usba has their spring Regional meetings on the 12th at 6 o'clock and if you can attend um let Stacy know because they do serve dinner and we need they just want to count

210also um there's a website Utah loves Public Schools that um is really advocating for public schools and so become familiar with it and if you can help with passing the word along it would be great other than that Chris um I don't have anything to report the budget committee we going to meet quarterly most likely or or as needed not monthly um and speaking with Todd we we're going to do it around um pertinent things to happening in the district so budget formation things like that because we feel like that would be a better use of our our committee's time so we will come out with a schedule shortly and then um go from there thanks thanks Ken good news on the benefits front from um our benefits meeting I attended we I ended last

211year at the uh 91 % loss uh ratio which is phenomenal so that's even 3% better than last year last year was 94% um and not last year the year before that you know how it works anyway um so sitting at a 91% stop last R show was really good um we also some good news is Pharmacy um with our really big push to with using Express Strips and also trying to get people on generics 85% % of the scripts are now generics which is actually helping our Pharmacy costs a lot another win I think is that more and more of our employees and this has been a big focus of of the benefits um committee but Al but specifically in HR that's working with this is um to get people to use the preventative

212mental health um tools that are there and to get help when when they need it on the front end of it and before they're they're in crisis and so that has become one of our biggest um diagnostic U measures for our Medical Teams or coming in on the claims is um so you know there's a cost to that but it's it's a it's a good thing because the cost is coming on the preventative side of things which is a cheaper cost than on the clinical inpatient you know side of things and so we're we're celebrating that too um there'll be a mamogram bus we coming up next month April 15th 16th and 7th for Select Health members April 15th and 17th for region um members so anyway just wanted to give a few little um

213obviously Insurance costs still are going up and we fight that a lot um inflation you know Insurance costs are not immune to the inflationary costs that we're all dealing with on everything else but we're celebrating their current numbers thanks Karen clerk I have nothing further right and you guys I'll got my update from law and policy because I wanted you to have it before board meeting um I will say that District Community Council just so you're aware is next week March 11th um at Bonville Junior High from 6:00 to 7:30 so um let your please let your community councils know so that they can send a representative if you get a chance um they will obviously also be reminded from from our um somebody I don't know who sends that out trinda trinda sends it

214out um and with that I we stand of our agenda so we can Mo anour move to adjourn we actually don't need a motion we just found that out we trained jour