001okay ladies and gentlemen we'd like to welcome you to our board meeting today tonight um we apologize for getting started five minutes late but we'd like to go ahead and get started it is Tuesday June 13th 2023 and we are going to begin by indicating who is here Julie Jackson coach Handler Connie Burgess Chris Wynn Karen Winder Clark Nelson Todd Harbor Rich Knight and Nicole McDermott all right um we're gonna go ahead first and start with I want to start with introductions um GA Michelle we see you here and a bunch of people Jessica and Company go ahead and introduce and Justin [Music] [Laughter] thank you thank you for being here um sorry real quick minute nope that's not what I wanted I want a shirt that says public school made me wherever you got
002that I need to know all right and then do we have our secretaries Our Guest is that guess but no no thank you sorry about his professionals president all right thank you and then um our do we have any PTA Representatives here Oh yay thank you for being here um and then our guest bed do we have a guests my name is Breezy I'm the vice president um Jessica with me she's over Security Services Shea is our USDA representative and then we have Damien and Garrett who are both members all right welcome thank you so much for being here um do we have any middle managers and then granted Education Foundation and local elected officials thank you thank you so much will you stand and introduce yourself so everybody knows who you are I am
003Christina thank you Christine for being here we appreciate it all right all right we're gonna get back to oh Karen oh representative Peter said will you stand up thank you thank you so much for being here I have to get back to my other agenda here all right um we're gonna go ahead and have Rich Nelson who is a secondary school leadership and Improvement director um lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance so we're gonna invite Rich up thank you I pledge allegiance to the flag United States of America thanks Rich and we're going to turn the time over to Clark he has a reference for us today all right thanks Nicole you know in today's day and age it feels like we hear a lot about how our young people our students perhaps our
004own children maybe even our teachers have no desire to work anymore and it's obviously true right I mean I'm in my 50th year now so I think with a half century of experience I could rightfully look down my nose and confirm that nobody wants to work right well I thought I better do a little testing on this hypothesis of mine I stumbled across some research conducted on headlines and short newspaper blurbs over the roughly past 125 years and perhaps it'll provide us a little bit of relevant commentary from forbes.com in 2022 it states according to a new survey released by tiny pulse one in five executive leaders agree with the statement quote no one wants to work 2014 from Germantown news what has happened in the workout to the work ethic in America nobody wants
005to work anymore it has not always been that way when I first started to work as a teenager I saw people work hard 2006 from the Ventura County Star I can't believe the bad luck I have had in trying to find someone to do some needed Home Improvements it almost seems like nobody wants to work anymore and when they do work they take no pride in what they do how does one find a Dependable worker 1999 from the St Petersburg Times nobody wants to work anymore they all want to work in front of a computer and make lots of money 1981 from the Miami Herald quoting a farmer I hired two boys to clear the Rocks off this land last week but they just fooled around they didn't want to work nobody wants to work
006anymore 1952 from the Evergreen current I heard somebody say the other day that everybody was getting too darned lazy and nobody wants to work anymore that's the truth if I ever heard it 1937 from the York Daily Record faced with a shortage of Labor when unemployment is widespread peach orchardists in York and Adams counties are complaining that nobody wants to work anymore there's work it is reported for 15 to 25 Peach Pickers in every Orchard in the two counties but only two to five Pickers are at work because of the unavailability of Labor nobody it seems wants to work 1922 the Mulberry news what is the cause of unemployment and hard times the manufacturer and businessman say it's because nobody wants to work anymore unless they can be paid enough wages to work half the
007time and loaf half the time 1905 from the Edgefield Advertiser labor is scarce high and very unreliable none want to work for wages and lastly 1894 from the Rooks County record with all the minds of the country shut down by Strikers what will the poor editor do for coal next winter it is becoming apparent that nobody wants to work these hard times so I trust you're recognizing what I did which is maybe as we all get a little older we become a bit of a curmudgeon maybe some pessimism Creeps in and even some discouragement sneaks in further into each of our Frameworks I mean we all know what a cynic I am right or maybe some of you out there are learning for the first time tonight that I'm fairly sarcastic and cynical but I
008genuinely believe that there is reason for great optimism for our students and our educators and it's because of what I've personally observed in them including most recently in our graduation ceremonies and other recent events they are engaged they are articulate and they do want to work so while I will never be one to try and sweep our problems and challenges under a rug my hope this evenings is that we can look back on the school year that has just concluded and look forward to the school year soon upon us with great optimism both for and confidence in what the future holds Helen Keller said optimism is the faith that leads to achievement nothing can be done without hope and confidence I hope our students our parents and our Educators know of the great optimism and
009confidence that we have as a board in each of them thank you thank you Clark I appreciate those comments before we move on to recognitions I just want to remind anybody who is here for our budget hearing that would like to make a public comment please feel free to step out into the hallway there is a sign up sheet out there that you can sign up for for the public comment portion of that make sure that she gets your name on that and then we'll make sure that we get your public comments as we get to that budget hearing in the meantime we're going to turn the time over to Ben for recognitions this evening thank you board president superintendent and other board members and executive leadership team very excited for the tremendous amount of
010recognitions that we have this evening as you are aware under state law or public hearing is time certain for that budget presentation so we are going to go super super fast and I hope that doesn't diminish some of these incredible recognitions that we have tonight but we have to go into our public hearing and presentation at 7 30 and then we can finish the remainder of whatever we're unable to accomplish after that and continue on with the agenda our first presentation tonight is our friend of public education and we'd like to recognize representative Karen Peterson if she wouldn't mind joining me down here I'm going to just say a few words and then turn this time over to the superintendent who is able to work with representative Pearson representative Pearson for those of you who
011don't know is not one of our legislators we're very disappointed about that but if Davis doesn't want to recognize her we're so happy to do so she's been a tremendous advocate for education has worked in particular on several mental health initiatives this last legislative session and which is why we wanted to recognize her today and I turned time over the superintendent to share a few other thoughts thanks man I would just like to say um to representative Peterson Karen she and I have worked together for a long long time on many different things and I can uh strongly recommend you as a friend of public education is first and foremost on your thoughts and on your mind and you're the first to reach out to seek feedback because you're building out bills as you're considering
012new ideas and always grateful for your partnership in advancing toward meaningful legislation this last session moving forward some bills amending some bills all in an effort to lift and support public education thank you so much well I appreciate this I don't live in your District so I was a little surprised to win this award from you but I just want to say thank you for what you do being on the local school board is not for the faint of heart and it hasn't been especially the last uh four or five years so thank you for what you do thank you for everyone here in the audience and what you do for our students we have an incredible education system and opportunities for our students here in our state and we're really lucky um my own
013family has been had such a benefit from the good Educators that are in our community and let me know I can continue to support you and the good work that you're doing I'm happy to do that thank you foreign thank you again to representative Peterson for joining us tonight allowing us to recognize her we're going to turn the time went out over to I'm actually going to switch this up a little bit we're going to do uh we're going to start with Chris Shipman and the skyline girls golf team and then we're going to go straight into our academic all states again with Chris Shipman and again we're going to try his move as quickly as possible so we're not holding you up through the the presentation for the the budget and the time certain
014so Chris Shipman I actually is it going to be Mr nerdin okay Mitch nerdin from principal of Skyline High School hello thank you so much for the opportunity I want to introduce to you uh two gentlemen who are the coaches of the girls golf team at Skyline High School Mr Kenny James and Mr Cade Robertson just a side note before I turn the mic over to to Kenny Kenny has I believe it's 11 state championships in five different sports at Skyline High School and he just added his 11th so I'm going to turn the time over to Kenny thank you uh this was a really difficult year because of the weather and uh it made this season really strange and time compressed and the girls had to work what what the gentleman said earlier about
015work our girls worked really hard so when a lot of the teams cancel practice we were out hitting in the covered driving range out into the snow in the dark and they put in extra time and then they just kept getting better and better and better at the end of the year and we've been working I've been helping with girls golf since the second year it was in existence and we've been trying to get good enough to to win one of these and we finally did and I'm really proud of those girls and they shot the second lowest team total ever and our individual girl who won the individual she shot the second lowest girls score ever and uh but it was the Improvement of the depth of our team and how hard they worked
016and they just they performed well at State and uh peaked at the right time and we were really grateful for the support we get from our Administration and our teachers at Skyline it was really hard because of we ended up having tournaments to a week for for a month and they missed a lot of a days and the teachers were really good at helping those girls even though they had to miss for tournaments so I we couldn't have done what we did without the help of our Administration and our teachers and it was a kind of a whole team thing at Skyline and we're really proud of what we accomplished and couldn't do without my principal and also my sister coach uh Kade Robertson he's been a great support to me so we really appreciate
017it and uh we get everyone coming back so hopefully we'll keep doing this [Applause] [Music] congratulations definition s yes nice picture [Music] please congratulations guys uh thank you school board members and granite School leadership for taking time and tonight's meeting to recognize our academic All-State athletes of the academic Allstate award recognizes those student athletes who have excelled in the classroom as well as athletic competition individuals are selected for this award on a basis of their athletic ability and their academic proficiency over a hundred thousand students participate in high school activities in the state of Utah each year this is the most prestigious honor that the Utah High School Activities Association presents to seniors the following students were earned this honor this spring many of them are two three and we have one four-time winner of
018this year so yeah we've got some great great kids to be recognized as I read your name if you're in attendance could you please come on down Alex Falcone Coleman UTI Max Feld Russo Colin Marchant Kyle Rasmussen alemma Tanner selvie dance Sarah Martinez jaylind Hopper sorry Johnson Danielle sawcroft Aaron Jowers Dylan Nguyen Johnny Nguyen k i Ong Daniel Kwan Yusuf Johnson Brienne and Lambert Eric Nicholson Garrett cousins Marvel Suarez biwi Henson Brooklyn Henson we've seen the Madson Rosie Nelson Carly Randall Daniela gray Allison Chadwick Riley Allred Louise for us Brennan Christensen Adrian Jones Jonathan Sampson and Sam soberg [Music] [Applause] [Music] disappointed we don't have more here but it usually is this way in the summertime we they spread out as soon as they graduate and so we're just pleased to recognize some of those
019individuals here tonight and we do have some swag for you guys so please take care of that with Mr shipping outside and it's always appropriate if you don't mind that we could have some of these parents be recognized and stand if you're a parent of an academic Allstate would you please stand and be recognized for us tonight [Applause] [Music] thanks for supporting your student we know that as much as they do that you do a lot to help them as well we are going to switch now to a U.S presidential scholar recipient I'm going to turn the time over to James Taylor to recognize this incredible student good evening president superintendent members of the board it's a pleasure for me to be here to present this young man unfortunately I've been looking for him since
020I got here and I I don't see him Aaron if you're Aaron Wang I I think he uh I think he skipped out on me but uh he's he's probably tired uh give given his resume here he's probably tired of being recognized this young man was here two months ago being recognized as the state Sterling scholar and the computer science Sterling scholar and it's my pleasure to have him recognized this evening as the U.S presidential scholar for current technical education this is uh unprecedented in the fact that this is two years in a row that Granite school district has had a U.S presidential scholar and both from the same High School Skyline High School that also is unprecedented this is one of the nation's top honors the U.S presidential scholar program was established in 1964
021by executive order of the president of the United States to recognize and honor some of the some of our nation's most distinguished graduating high school seniors there's only 161 of these students recognized each year in nation and this young man is certainly uh deserving let me just share with you again some of the accomplishments of Mr Aaron Wang he's a about as perfect of a student academically speaking in terms of the way we score those kinds of things as you could possibly have along with being the founder of the president the founder and president of the skyline artificial intelligence Club president of the skyline math club co-captain of the Utah American regions mathematic League he has taken 10 AP exams second place computer science second place Journal of young investigators best abstract National Oceanic and
022Atmospheric Administration anyway the list goes on and on and on he's been a research assistant up at the University of Utah since June of 2021 of working in the artificial intelligence lab and the neural robotics lab this young man is amazing as I as I look over his information just incredible I don't know when he finds time to sleep but we're very proud of him and pleased to present him to you tonight for for your recognition Mr Aaron Wang from Skyline High School I just got a text message from Aaron he's taking another AP exam and could not join us tonight so we will find another opportunity to recognize him and thank you James for uh recognizing again only 161 out of the entire United States so we're going to try and squeeze in one
023more recognition I'm going to turn the time over to Rebecca Ibarra and uh principal Michael Douglas to present our Mesa Utah engineering design competition winners thank you very much nice to see you this evening board president and Clark I really appreciate your your your reference today the uedc these students are here tonight they won the Utah engineering design competition and they are now moving on to the National engineering design competition which is the nadc which will be held in Albuquerque New Mexico June 26th through the 29th that is this coming up shortly here and we're all getting really excited about that the design for Equity is the national engineering design competition asks students to First identify an individual or a group who experiences some type of inequality then using a microprocessor as the key component
024of the design teams will employ human-centered design practices to engineer a solution teams must use at least one of the following microprocessors as the main component of their design Arduino circuit playground Express and or micro bit tonight we have our winners from the Middle School level which is Church Hill Junior High School if they're here please come up that would be under the direction of Mr Derek Tate Nina Mankowski Marco Del Canto Hayes roller and Andrew Larson if they're here they help to design an uh a nice product called the helping hat and we're going to wish them well in the nadc competition at the end of June then our Cottonwood High School and that's also under the principle is uh Trent Hendrix who's not able to be with us tonight the high school is
025going to be from Cottonwood High School and that brings us with our principal Mr Mike Douglas our advisor Yuri Perez and our students here are Jessica Pereira da Fonseca [Music] umkova and siona cook these young women I love this they're Mesa which are under privileged underrepresented and definitely minority here in the fact that we have these so many girls joining this year from Jessica's from Brazil Jessica um Nora is from Syria and Diana's from Russia and Sion is all the way here from California so I just want you to see the diversity here that we have representing Mesa this year and we'll be representing Granite School District with um the national engineering design competition this June I'm excited to be going to Albuquerque with these young team Chris and his wife Julie are here this
026evening if you'll just raise your hand they are the mentors to Cottonwood High School's team and I appreciate everybody for participating in the Mesa program Mesa and stem of course are the heart of Education Mike did you want to say something thank you always take an opportunity to thank Yuri Perez he's our advisor and the support of Chris and our Mentor we could not have the success without Mr Perez so congratulations students [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Ben will you pass that to the board members just to pass around is this they're going to give you a copy of the presentations that the kids presented and their inventions that they created thank you can we have those parents the parents of these wonderful students also parents will you stand and be recognized as well thank you [Applause]
027[Music] all right thank you and Ben go ahead and do the last recognition say that again sir go ahead and do the last record okay we're going to turn the time over to Noel Converse to recognize a handful of teachers really quick with some incredible recognitions thank you very much thank you board president board members and all of our guests here tonight I have a couple of very special um Awards to give they're also very heavy so I'm having Chris bring them up so that I don't drop them on someone's toe the first is Rob mon if you could come up Rob has been teaching for 20 years he taught in Yuma Arizona and at Green River High School in Green River Utah before moving to Granite School District most recently come on over he
028has taught for the last nine years at Cottonwood High while at Cottonwood he teaches French driver's ed PE health and Credit Recovery he also helped coach boys basketball girls basketball Boys Tennis softball and baseball he maintains the main web page website as well as the activities website for Cottonwood High and he has helped with granite online Stephanie wood who's in the curriculum in the instruction department and Matt Bauman developed the current online Driver's Ed Course that's being used another little tidbit is he will be actually taking Matt Bauman's place as our new driver's ed specialist so we want to honor him tonight because he also won the udtsea outstanding teacher award which is the Utah drivers training safety Education Association wow I got it and he is the outstanding teacher for 22 23. so thank
029you and congratulations and be careful [Applause] [Music] you want me thank you so much partisan okay and now I'm going to have Matt Bauman come up Matt Baughman has worked for granite school district for 30 years he has served the students parents and Community as a driver's ed teacher a math teacher a basketball and baseball coach an athletic director and his current position as the driver's education specialist come over here he also has served on the udtsea board for six years in various capacities as member vice president and president he has dedicated his life his vast knowledge experience and passion for the overall success of coaches students teachers and our drivers education program which is really important because we need good drivers his many accomplishments include developing a driver's education program for our alternative schools
030in the district including Roosevelt continuation school yes and connection high he has enabled disadvantaged and struggling students to acquire essential life skills by completing driver's education and we've had over 30 in the last few years get their driver's license from those programs so we're really really proud of this and it's a it's a special spot for him um he has assisted the state in developing the online driver's education course he's worked with the state law and policy committee he has helped with new policies and developed course curriculum to improve student access and success in driver's education he's just a tremendous support and he's a fierce advocate of pedestrian safety and overwhelm well-being of our driving environment so he's kind of caught me in the in the parking lot a couple times and has very gently
031redirected my driving habits made significant program improvements such as the scheduler introducing the education process early on with 7th and 8th grade students and their parents implementing Street smarts aiding the faculty in transitioning to pbl which is a was a little bit of a challenge for our drivers ed teachers but they really have come along quite quite well he has been privileged to work for one of the finest most highly acclaimed drivers education programs in the United States these are his own words a District's a district sustained program with awesome teachers administrators and highly skilled and capable staff and because of this and because of your support this is why we have a high quality program and Matt feels that this is why he has gotten this award just a little bit about him loves
032basketball Drive fly fishing photography family history and spending time with his best friend and wife of 32 years Jenny's we're going to miss Matt dearly because he is now in addition to getting the driver's education award for the Utah driver Traffic Safety Education Association he's also leaving us this year so we are going to miss him dearly and I don't know if you want to say it doesn't work thank you great job [Applause] [Music] thank you and just real quick finally I want to just bring Chris Shipman back up because sadly our PE and Athletics specialist in Granite school district has taken an assistant directorship with the Utah High School athletics Association which is a great relationship for us in Granite to have someone who serves in that capacity but we will miss him dearly
033so just saying goodbye thank you Chris for all that you've done for our district as well we appreciate it we do too we've needed something appreciate it all right um we would like to I will entertain a motion to recess from the General Session for the purpose of beginning the public hearing on the budget fantastic so we need a motion to recess from General Session we need to to risk recess the General Session for purposes of beginning the public hearing on the budget would you like to make that emotion yes it's emotion thank you so we have a motion in a second for recessing the General Session for the purpose of beginning the public hearing on the budget all in favor please say aye aye any opposed all right I can read in the public
034hearing on the granite School District budget I'm going to turn the time over to Todd are you helping or we're just trying to get over to brain all right um one more quick reminder if you are here and would like to comment on the budget this portion of the budget um hearing that we have there are sign up sheets out in the lobby please feel free to jump out there and put your name on there if you would like to all right well thank you appreciate the time to do an overview of the budget hopefully you have a hard copy there on your desk and we've also had it posted down in the the website for your perusal uh we're gonna jump into the 2324 budget as well as uh any questions that you have
035on the 22-23 final budget we can manage those as well I'm going to turn the time over to our excellent budget director Brian Ibsen let him run with that and then we'll do some tag team along the way with our presentation there we go okay um thank you board members for for this opportunity to be here and present the budget um so before we jump into the presentation I have to share a quick story my daughter is 10 years old she just finished fourth grade and she loves to make presentations PowerPoint presentations it's her thing and she asked me if she could look at one of mine and give me suggestions on improvements that I could potentially make to my PowerPoint and I was like okay so I showed her this presentation actually and she
036looked at it and came back to me and said Okay a couple of things and her list was mostly two things your fonts are really boring and you need more color in your slides um I don't think she understands what budget presentations are all about so anyways maybe next year we'll have some some color and some fancy fonts but this year we have the boring Brian IPS and fonts so um with that we'll jump into the presentation um so just jumping right in the the process that we go through every single year as we put together the budget is kind of a continual thing like we're finishing up one year while at the same time beginning a new year and that is a continuous cycle that that doesn't seem to ever end right and so
037um the process that we go through in the springtime specifically as we're thinking about next year's budget focuses on revenues and then on expenditures and as far as revenues go we're we're looking to estimate the the monies that we'll have available to us in the district so this includes federal funds like our title programs like our Esser coveted relief funding special ed funding CTE funding this coming year we'll have something we've never had before which is FEMA funds to help replace one of our school buildings so that's a new thing we have state funds the big one is through our our wpu funding with the basic school program we have funds that are specifically for schools to through the land trust program we have Adult Ed the teacher and student success program that again gives
038funds directly to schools for them to use for for needs in their local community and then a big one this year especially was the educator salary adjustment which which allows us to give compensation increases to our teachers specifically um local funds the major source there being property taxes um and then we have interest earnings local grants and donations and so in all of those cases we are putting together our best um projections of where those revenues are going to land what funding will be available and then as we as we have those numbers after the legislative session ends we begin to estimate our expenditures and and recently we've had plenty of cost increases that have come about as a result of just inflationary pressures so the cost of doing business has increased for our district
039we have budget requests from schools or District departments or the superintendency or who whoever it may be in the district that is requesting consideration of their budget requests for the coming year and then we always have the salary and benefit cost increases by far the biggest item in the budget as we fund steps and lanes for for teachers and others on salary schedules as we potentially talk about cost of living increases and related things like that so on both of those fronts we're we're attempting to estimate and put numbers to okay what are things what what funding do we have available and what are things going to cost us Ryan can I just insert really quick this came up last year with our truth and Taxation hearing we don't have I just want to be
040really clear even though it is part of our state budget we don't have control over land trust or the tssa which is the teacher Student Success act money correct that is not with that is something that's decided by the board doesn't decide that so the the allocations the amount that we receive as a district is determined by the state and those allocations are given to us by the state but we as a board don't allocate those funds that is the tssa money as well as the land trust of the bulk of that goes to schools and the community councils are the ones that allocate them correct so the local community councils and those those allocations are made strictly on the basis of enrollment numbers and and average daily membership numbers and so depending on how
041much each school has that determines their allocation of our of our big District allocation but but correct the community councils are the ones that help to give input on how those funds will be spent and those plans um in in the governmental world we do everything using funds and so there are specific funds that are set up within the district to track different Revenue sources um and each fund that we use in our accounting records is balance that means as we put a budget together we only plan to spend what we have we don't plan to spend more than we have um and we we typically are putting together a budget that that allocates and spends out the the resources that we have on the students that we're going to be educating in that year
042right and so there are there are fund balances in there sometimes leftovers but for the most part we are budgeting to spend the dollars that we receive and provide services and education to the students in our district throughout the year budgets can be amended by action of the board however typically we will adopt a budget in in June in this budget hearing and then they're they're smaller adjustments that can be made to working budgets throughout the year and a final budget that will be adopted at the end of the year that incorporates some of those smaller adjustments that have been made throughout the year and and so that that again tonight is what we'll be doing not only adopting a budget for next year but approving the final budget for 22.23 based on the things
043that have changed or you know knowing more at the end of the year allows us to to make some adjustments to those budgets [Music] um this book we produce one every year and this is the the budget Source right this this tells you for every fund what what our planned revenues are what our expenditures are um it shows a history of the last three fiscal years that have been completed it shows that final budget for this current school year we're in and the proposed budget for next year so you can see that by fund and anyone can go out to the web and and view this this budget book it has a budget again for every single fund for which the board has legal responsibility so that includes the general fund it includes Student Activity
044funds pass-through tax fund which is for uh Redevelopment and Charter School the charter school levy the fund for our Granite Education Foundation um Capital funds Debt Service for payment of our bonds and then school lunch for breakfast and lunch in our schools so each one of those funds has its own budget and and proposed revenues and expenditures for the year where is the budget published in addition to the printed copies you can go to graniteschools.org and there is a link on a bulletin on the front page that will take you to this budget document you can also go to the the best web page on graniteschools.org which is the budget Department webpage and the budget can be found there as well they're boring okay key budget dates March 3rd was the last date of the
045legislative General Session um following that it's kind of a whirlwind of getting numbers together projecting figuring out what our state revenues will be and then beginning to estimate other revenues and and receiving again budget requests from departments and and people in the district by May 30th we had the proposed budget posted online in accordance with law giving 15 days of of viewing time for anyone in the public that wanted to see the proposed budget it was online and available printed here at the district for anyone to review on May 31st we published advertisements in the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News about this budget hearing that would be held tonight and then by June 30th we are required as a district to hold a budget hearing and adopt a budget for the coming year in
046order to begin spending funds next year um so again to review action to be taken on three items tonight will include approval of last year or the 2223 budget adopting the 2324 budget and setting tentative property tax rates for that year and then we'll get into this and talk about it in a little bit but authorizing a truth and Taxation hearing to be held in August as well um yes what he's described to hear very briefly are the bare minimum requirements for public transparency I would also point out that we developed a budget mailer that was sent out to active and registered voters with direct links to our budget that's above and beyond the state requirements has been a tradition here of transparency in in Granite School District um that truth and Taxation hearing the
047the time and date will be coordinated with the Salt Lake County Auditor's office we do have August 1st tentatively scheduled as the board meeting in in August that we will hold that truth and Taxation hearing okay the legislative session what happened in January through March up on the hill um the big number that everyone always looks at is the wpu increase so the weighted pupil unit increased by six percent in fiscal year 24. um that is by itself just with regular K-12 wpu funding a 13 and a half million dollar increase to Granite School District another big thing that happened is that full day kindergarten was funded completely meaning any student now in our district who chooses to participate in full day kindergarten they will be funded as a full day student so at one
048wpu just like any other student would be it used to be 0.55 for those students and then they had some Grant programs that helped us to offset costs of providing the full day kindergarten that we provided but now it's just across the board any student who's enrolled full-time will generate a full wpu um so assuming that most of our students next year will be full day most of our kindergarten students that will be approximate 1.4 million dollar increase in funding over prior year the educator salary adjustment in HB 215 this this is the adjustment that gave teachers several years back a forty two hundred dollar bump in their salaries and for fiscal year 24 for next school year that has been increased from the 4200 up to eighty four hundred dollars so every teacher that's
049a full-time teacher will will receive an additional forty two hundred dollars in salary plus benefits next year educator professional hours is again funded on a one-time basis this allows teachers to submit a plan to their supervisor of professional development kinds of things they want to engage in during the school year and receive a stipend as they complete that plan and submit that back to their principal or their supervisor that's approximately 5.9 million dollars to Grant it and then this last one was kind of a controversial topic throughout the session the income tax earmark or public education so this is the earmark that says that income tax dollars are earmarked specifically for public ad and cannot go anywhere else there was a bill that was passed to remove that earmark and kind of as a compensation
050or a way to offset that for for public education there is a five-year hold harmless where if if funding were to or I mean if enrollment were to decline during that period the legislature would would essentially keep funding constantly during that and that old harmless period begins full year July 1 26 right 26. okay so it won't affect this year's budget this doesn't have any impact on this year's budget it's more for future reference and knowing yes so these Provisions are conditioned on passage of the Constitutional Amendment yeah November 2024 is when that will be on the ballot okay just quickly what is the the weighted pupil unit um it is the foundation of funding in the state of Utah as far as public Ed funding goes all leas local education agencies are funded through
051the wpu and the the main way that that funding flows to leas is through the primary pupil count program so basically as a student is enrolled in a school and attends they generate what's called average daily membership and in kindergarten grades 1 through 12 in the special ed self-contained World those ADM numbers then turn into wpus which turn into funding for a school district there are also other add-on programs where above and beyond the one wpu that a student generates they could potentially generate additional wpus if they are a special ed student or if they're a CTE student or if they have certain at-risk factors so that would be things like ell um students or students that are socioeconomically disadvantaged those students would qualify for additional funding or additional wpus that would flow through to
052to Granite um the class size reduction funding was given many years ago and reduced class sizes when it was given and then since then has kind of been all about maintaining those class sizes that were reduced so what has happened with the wp over the years um you can see that it's been throughout the period from 09 to 2021 it's kind of been very much up and down um we had a couple of years during the recessionary period where there was no wpu increase you had fiscal year 12 where it looks like there's a big increase but they actually rolled some other funding into the wpu that didn't so that 9.3 is kind of deceptive there and then from there we we go anywhere from a one percent up to a four percent fiscal year
05321 actually started out as a six percent increase and then was reduced to 1.8 percent after the covet pandemic started so they had a special session and reduced that but then for the last three fiscal years including this coming fiscal year we have seen six percent wpu increases which has been great I'm grateful for that and and it definitely helps and in this world of of increasing costs and and the challenges that we're facing um you know it's great and at the same time you always say man I wish we had more right um but but we are grateful for that sustained level of six percent increases over the last three years um looking at our budget overall all funds you can see the general fund is 712 million dollars of the total of just
054over 1 billion in total budget between all of our funds in the district Capital outlay has been large over the last several years as we have rebuilt our schools as we've done the skyline and Cypress projects as we've done West Lake other other projects prior to that so 190.4 million in the capital outlay fund um school lunch at 42 and a half million Debt Service 33.9 million and then the the school funds of 16.6 so the general fund is where the bulk of of our budget sits so having said that let's talk about the general fund and where the revenues inside of the general fund come from um the the projected revenues for fiscal year 24 are about 715 million um of that a little over 30 percent our state unrestricted funds so these are
055funds that come to us from the state that don't have any specific ear mark on them to say it has to be spent on this specific thing so that includes that K-12 wpu funding it also includes guarantees that the state gives us on certain property taxes we Levy and then we have our restricted funds from the state that are program specific they have to be spent on the purpose that the state has has given those to us for so those include adult ad at risk add-on CTE funding special ed the teacher and student success act educator salary adjustment all of those are part of that 28 State restricted funding as far as property taxes go we have a number of different levies that end up in the general fund and fund General operations of the
056district those those are approximately 28 percent and then Federal funding of about 11 a really big part of that in fiscal year 24 is the Esser funding this is the final year of the coveted relief funding that will be going away after fiscal year 24. so that that percentage will will definitely drop as we look forward to fiscal year 25. hey Brian real quick is the theme funding factored into this or no nope it's not because this is General funds so that would be in the in the capital fund I'm being Capital yeah I wasn't sure which one it would go into okay now we're going to look at things from the expenditure side what do we budget to spend our money on in the general fund and as you can see almost 88 is
057salary and benefits that's what we do in the general fund is is pay for people and teachers and support staff and and all of our great employees that help to provide quality education for our students some that's the bulk of what we're doing in the general fund supplies of six and a half percent utilities have actually increased a little bit this year and we'll get into that of about three percent and then other services and and objects 2.4 percent so now we're going to go through the the ongoing budget of the general fund but we're kind of looking at it on a new revenues basis so the new funds that we have available to us next year and and the uh requests and new new expenditures that we have to consider as far as the
058budget goes and so that's this is not all of our revenues by any stretch of the imagination this is just showing you the new funding sources that are available and the the budget priorities that have been put in place with those new revenues um so that state funding including the wpu increase gives us approximately 15.8 million in new new funds state property tax guarantees of approximately 7.1 million we have property tax New Growth which is different than any property tax increase this is funding that as a result of new businesses coming online in the district new homes in the district that there's new Parcels that are generating property tax revenues so we estimate about 1.5 million from from the new growth um the BTS Arts funding is something that will be increasing next year as
059a result of a review we did with the USB e on our BTS program that we're actually going to get additional funding next year that will reduce the amount that we have to contribute into the program to fund it and so the state's giving us 1.2 million more than we've received in the past for the BTS program which is great um the tssa program allows for us to use 25 percent of of the funds to fund teacher increases as far as salaries go so that 599 thousand dollars represents money that can be used for that purpose and then we had various base budget reductions that we made of of approximately 900 000 that were just things here there we were able to cut out of out of the base budget and and reduce that freeing
060up some funds there so in total we've got about 27.2 million in in new funds to work with um now we'll get into the the obligations and the expenditure side of of that equation oh one more item that actually will will generate some funding or generate some cost savings next year will be the uh closure of three of our elementary schools so Mill Creek Spring Lane and Twin Peaks will will be closing this coming year and there are certain operational costs that we will save as a result of those schools um being closed including you know staff costs like secretary custodial office help reading specialist technology coach there are a number of these kinds of positions that are one position per school and so that doesn't mean that anyone will be losing their job or
061that they will their Position will be going away it's more of you know natural attrition in those positions and people retiring will be able to transfer those people to other schools or or have them move elsewhere um there are some of these savings that will be reduced by us retaining the administrative staff positions to allow for more assistant principal positions in our elementary schools and then custodial staff to help provide coverage in the closed schools and continue to maintain those buildings until something happens with them in the future so the total savings there were estimated at just just north of uh 1 million and so we're factoring that into the ongoing budget conversation as well now we'll get into the expenditure side there are certain contractual considerations that that come up every year as we
062talk about employee costs um so just the natural progression of employees on our salary schedules produces a cost for step increases and you know it's sometimes just assume that this will be funded but it's important to know how much of a commitment that is on the district side to provide those built-in step increases to our employees so that's approximately 6.2 million dollars just on the unrestricted fund side next year so it's quite a quite a commitment and it's really nice benefit for our employees to have those step increases as they progress in their careers um we will have employees that will retire and move on and do different things and so there are always turnover savings that result from employees that are higher on the salary schedule leaving and a new employee starting that's that's
063at the beginning of the salary schedule that's estimated at 1.5 million and then this coming year we do have a seven percent increase in health insurance premiums that I think everyone's dealing with this same reality of of health care costs being higher and in addition to the seven percent increase on the district side the district is picking up the tab on the the increase on the employee side so there will be no increase to employees on their premiums and the district's going to cover that piece as well so that's part of that 3.1 million um our CTE program every year when we get State funding they provide us with the number that's called our maintenance of effort number we have to contribute District funds into the program at that amount and that that increase this
064year by 656 000 and so our cost to the CTE program will be going up by our commitment as a district will be going up by by that amount and that's that's the unrestricted District funds that will be contributed into the CTE program next we have the the laundry list of other things that are that are potentially changing in the budget for 23.24 the two big ones are the ones at the top uh the first would be curriculum software adoptions that this is a repeat of something you would have heard last year if you remember the the budget hearing from last year that we we were able to take care of a portion of this last year and solve the rest of the problem with one-time funding and this 1.9 million allows for us to
065cover future costs of of our textbook and curriculum adoptions we have a big fun spreadsheet that estimates all of these adoptions into the future and builds in inflation and how much are we going to need every single year in order to fund these adoptions because they're typically done on a five or six year schedule that we prepay for those as we as we purchase them and so you've got to have money in the piggy bank every single time one of those comes up to be able to pay those costs and and this is allowing us to get to a place where we feel like we're we're fully funded and so that will be great to have that built in and then those costs fully funded into the future utilities it's one that we never want
066to have as part of our budget right you don't want to spend your money on utilities but unfortunately it is a reality of of this year and moving into next year that those costs especially for natural gas have increased significantly and the 4.1 million represents our best guess as to where these will land next year and it's a huge increased commitment of of resources and we recognize that but I think we're we're doing our best as far as trying to get make sure that we're being efficient and doing doing things we need to so that uh we can keep those costs down but there is a certain part of it that just is a reality of of the situation other inflationary costs increases include stuff from like our transportation department and our maintenance group that
067costs of repairs or hiring people to do those kinds of things have have increased I know that parts for our school buses have gone through the roof and we we have fuel that's increased over the last couple of years significant increases for fuel and so that 840 000 is is a recognition of those those kinds of pressures in the budget um we have contracted school resource officers mostly through the unified Police Department this will be the final year of that agreement with unified because there will be some changes following this coming fiscal year with with unified and so we'll have to see where things go from there but but this coming year there were built-in increases into our contract with unified that it will cost us 115 000 more next year for that contract there
068were a couple of FTE editions that were were added into the budget one or two two new FTE for the BTS arts program additional teachers that will allow for us to have some of our larger elementary schools as we as we have students moving to elementary schools as a result of the closures will have full-time teachers there a teacher there all day instead of um part of the day or or allow for for more coverage in our in our bigger elementary schools that have more students there's a new FTE in policy and legal and then our our gaap program it's the Roosevelt continuation school one additional teacher there so um four hundred one thousand dollars total on those FTE Editions and then the other eye or the other line here includes items such as uh
069coaches at our high schools there are some new sports that have been sanctioned and um new new coaches that will be required to to be paid for as a result of those those uh new sports that we're we're sponsoring um there are software adoptions and then things like covering volunteer fingerprinting costs just random miscellaneous things are are all part of that in there well it is a little bit curriculum software adoptions cost increases so when um when we talked about that and how it used to be that we had textbooks we had this textbook budget and now this is an increased um cost from what the old budget was you said then that now we've kind of got this under control and we've got a plan for how to move forward with this increased ongoing
070cost is have I got that right correct yeah I just want to make sure my expectation was right I want you to come next year and maybe like wait a minute to you said right okay thanks now to to clarify that's as of right now and there's there's always uncertainty with the future but as as far as we know of right now and building some reasonable inflationary cost increases into that model um we feel like we're at a good place with with this 1.9 million yes yes okay the final thing we'll talk about as far as next year's expenditures is the Recruitment and Retention of employees um so as we've gone through the negotiations process as a district and and talk through different employee groups there are two agreements that are one is finalized and
071then another will be finalized as of tonight um so with the Gea for our teachers there will be a two and a half percent Cola or cost of living increase and that's in addition to that forty two hundred dollars that they will receive from HB 215 um so pretty pretty good increase for our teachers and a recognition of of their service to the district um as far as guespa goes for our education support professionals um there is a Monumental increase that has been tentatively agreed upon which is a four dollar out per hour increase for those education support professionals [Applause] agreed yeah um this this is something that I think will make a huge difference in our district moving forward and just being able to attract and retain and bring good employees into our district
072and and you know it's something you hear from many teachers that I just want good para Educators or I want good people in my classroom to help I want you know that's that's a common thing that you hear from teachers and I think that this will allow us to to move forward in that regard and so it's really a Monumental step that we're taking as far as this this budget for 24 goes um so as we look at the total costs of the comp package there there are a couple other pieces of this that are not quite finalized as far as employee groups go but we can look at this on a total ongoing budget cost basis the total comp package is estimated at approximately 22.1 million to fund all of the different increases that
073have been proposed and talked about between our different employee groups and um if we take that and plug it in to see where we're at as far as new funding that we have available all of the savings from school closures and then the various costs that we've talked about you'll see that we end up at a place where we're about 10.2 million dollars short of balancing the budget on an ongoing basis um and so that's where the next part of this conversation comes in that the budget is proposing a fairly modest tax increase in order to allow for this to happen but recognizing that anytime you're asking for additional property tax revenues from the public there's there's a heavy lift on their end to help support this and and and help you know provide for
074the things that we're proposing in the budget and um so that that total increase that would be generated through the the proposed property tax increases 10.2 million which works out to be about 61 on an average valued home in the district keep in mind that that's that's an average valued home and everyone's circumstance is a little bit different and so it's It's always important to look at your specific numbers and and not just run with with the numbers that are presented here um but as we look at that we as as I said have made every effort to try to ensure the lowest property tax rates we can the the the lowest burden to our taxpayers to generate sufficient revenues to finance the things we've talked about tonight we have not had a property tax
075increase for operations since 2018 when adjustments were made to the teacher salary schedule and so it has been a number of years since anything like this has been proposed again this will require a truth and Taxation hearing to be held on August 1st to discuss this and allow the public to have input on on the decision to do that and so when we plug that number in that is what is balancing our budget and bringing us to a zero there with with the funds from that property tax increase so having said that I'll turn the time over to Todd for a few minutes to talk about prioritization of of our resources that we received this year great so we're in the process of going through a strategic plan that has priorities and different actionable items
076within that strategic plan this budget takes those increases and aligns it with the Strategic plan so the three main focus areas of the Strategic plan are identified as we went through the budget request process we had each of the groups actually identify which of the Strategic priorities they feel their budget fit under we captured it that way and then we also asked them to provide us the performance measures that they would be using for those additional dollars so we're at the very outset of going through the Strategic plan alignment and focusing at this point just on the new dollars that are coming in as we move forward we'll begin going into the base budgets and then aligning the base budgets also with the Strategic plan priorities as well at this point this graph here just
077shows out of the new dollars that we're focusing this is how it's falling out within the Strategic plan most of it falling into the academic priority I don't know supernet if you wanted to add to that or just to embarrass you a little bit uh Todd um part of selecting a new business administrator one of our priorities of the board was to to hire a strategic CFO and uh Todd definitely is that Brian is that uh brings that element to that as well as to say hey what are our priorities and and really whether you're a district a school or any organization really you can determine what your priorities if you follow the dollar to see how we spend our money and so this is uh as right out of the gates looking at this
078budget a little bit differently this year's to make sure that they are aligned to Priority thank all right let's go ahead and move forward talking about capital outlay and Debt Service um so as a reminder of our long-term capital funding strategy that we've talked about a couple of times throughout budget hearings and tax hearings and things over the years um we had three different options in 2017 when we we were proposing different things in order to solve our our problem of Aging school buildings and the needs of of our our Capital Fleet in the district um one was to do a single tax increase that would immediately raise Capital funding levels so to increase and bring funds directly into the capital fund another option would have been to have a series of bonds that every
079four to five years we go back and and have another election that would allow us to issue bonds and rebuild some schools with with the funds that we received from those those bonds ultimately what we settled on in 2017 was kind of a mix of those two models where we we put a vote out to the public in 2017 they voted yes on issuing bonds for certain projects and then as we have bonds that are coming off the books as we're paying things off we're moving that Revenue over to our Capital fund to begin trying to do things on a pay-as-you-go basis and so that was ultimately what was selected we issued bonds um starting in what 2019 through 2021 and we've actually now used all of the proceeds that we received from those bond
080issuances to do the various projects that were were authorized under the bonds and we we now have some of that Revenue that's been shifted into capital and the plan is to continue that forward that we will have ongoing money that can do these these things and pay for these things on a pay-as-you-go basis however having said that this coming year we actually had in our bond payment schedule an increase built in so instead of bond payments going down in fiscal year 24 they are increasing slightly and then from there we'll taper off and so this was always a part of the the planned rollout of the bonds and paying off the bonds that this coming year would be a year where it would increase slightly and so there will be no shift that will happen
081in in fiscal year 24 because we're actually going the other way right so just to illustrate that here is our debt service schedule you can see that in this fiscal year we had Debt Service of about 30.6 million in 24 we're going to have 33.9 million and then slowly beginning to taper off from there and you can see as we get to really fiscal year 30 and Beyond is where we really have a decrease in that debt service that will allow for additional revenues to be shifted over to Capital to fund projects on an ongoing basis um just as a reminder of some of the projects that have been financed through these bonds we have Driggs Elementary Evergreen Junior High hunter High School that are all additions or remodels to the school Olene Walker and
082South Kearns Elementary were actually rebuilds entirely and then Rosecrest and Valley Junior High were also remodels and we all know the current projects in progress Skyline and Cypress high that have planned completion dates between fiscal year 26 to 27. so as I mentioned the construction costs for those projects now will shift to being paid out of capital as opposed to paid with Bond proceed monies since we have fully spent that money out we'll now shift over and start using the capital fund to pay for these these costs so Capital outlay fund next year we have revenues of about 72 million in property taxes interest has increased significantly significantly recently which is a great development um we're we're getting close to five percent on our money that we're holding on to which was well under one
083percent just a few short years ago so um that's budgeted at A 5.6 million we have a small amount of State funding that's mostly um funds for filters and things along mountain view corridor schools that we receive from the state so HVAC systems and filters then we have a big chunk of of our Esser funding that is planned for HVAC projects at our schools that should all be completed this fiscal year because that's the last year we have the Esser funding and then here is where our FEMA our federal FEMA money is budgeted approximately 17.8 million of money that's that's allocated or been been award granted to us to help cover the costs of the Westlake rebuild and we'll we'll make it so that we don't have to do any bonding for that school which
084will be great expenditures we have equipment allocations for both schools so the bigger chunk of that is for the schools they receive Capital discretionary allocations that can be used for smaller equipment items or smaller projects at their schools capital projects about 1.4 million our maintenance department gets 2.4 million police and their equipment is approximately 420 000. our property management people have a budget of about 1.6 million a big chunk of that is for land Acquisitions and it's just built in but a lot of times it's not end up and it doesn't end up being used um we have school projects so these are the smaller School construction projects like smaller remodels or classroom kinds of things we have some of those schools that are absorbing the students from the the closed schools that will have
085uh some of those smaller remodels done in their classrooms that's 16.2 million and then the big number the 121.5 million is related to our school rebuild so that includes all three of those projects and you know the the various Revenue sources that will be funding those whether it be the FEMA money for West Lake or the the regular ongoing Capital money for the other two Support Services 572 000 transportation of 1.6 million is totally buses purchased for the transportation department and then our technology Capital items and software is 3.9 million so if you if you look at this you'll notice that if you add up the expenditures it's actually a little bit more than what the the revenues are and that's because we have a fairly large fund balance that we'll be carrying over from
08623 to 24. um that will fund some of these projects so it's the whole model of that pay as you go thing that we're accumulating resources and then using them as we as we pay out these construction projects that we've undertaken Debt Service we have budgeted property taxes of about 35 million and 200 000 in interest and then it's pretty simple here we've got Bond principal payments of 23.8 interest payments of 10.1 a few miscellaneous costs and then the statute does allow for us if we have excess funds in The Debt Service fund to fund technology programs in the district and so that's built in that's not a sure thing that that transfer only happens if there is excess money available in The Debt Service fund at the end of the year our property tax
087rates just as a general reminder certified tax rates as as valuations in our district go up the general rule is that each year the certified tax rate that's that's set by the State Tax Commission will go down in order to offset that effect overall right so um the the decreased rate is known as the certified tax rate and the app the exact opposite would be true if if property valuations in our district were to go down then the certified rate would go up and the concept being that we are Revenue neutral from year to year that we will bring in the same Revenue next year that we were we were able to bring in this year through property taxes with the exception of New Growth so again those new new pieces of property in our
088district that are generating property taxes would be new revenues that we would we would generate when you talk about this it's important to remember that everyone's tax situation is a little bit different and depending on whether someone's home went up in value as compared to other homes in the district theirs might not follow this model exactly and so it really depends on a specific property owner how much there's increased or changed in comparison to everyone else's in the district looking at our rates for next year um the state Basic School rate is the levy that as a district we are required to Levy in order to participate in the basic school program and receive revenues from the state so we we Levy this tax and that that money together with the funds contributed by the
089state fund the basic school program and those wpus that we talked about earlier there is going to be a significant adjustment this year in the state Basic School levy these rates are not final yet because we are still waiting on the tax commission and the Salt Lake County auditor to give us our for sure certified rates but we do know there will be a significant decrease there because there has been legislative language over the last five years that froze that rate and kept it at the same rate it was every year when property values were increasing that rate stayed steady and now that's gone away and so there's there's an adjustment that's happening to that rate that's going to bring it down quite a bit um the charter school levy is another one that is
090a district we are required to Levy but we don't actually see any of that Revenue so that that goes to fund charter schools in in the area um or in the state and this year we actually have seen a significant increase in that rate or what we're projecting that rate to be as a result of our property tax shift that happened from that service to Capital so as they calculate this Charter School levy the way that they do it is they take all of our all of our revenues that we generate from the board local voted local and capital local levies and pull them together and say okay how much on a per student basis are you generating for those charter school kids and because now we've shifted from Debt Service a rate that wasn't
091included in that calculation to Capital a rate that is included that's what's caused that drastic increase in our in our Charter School levy from the .00089 up to the zero zero zero one three two um yeah yep um so as we as we look at the board Levy in connection with that Charter School levy it's important to note that those two are kind of connected at the hip to each other so as that Charter School levy increases what that means is that our our certified rate for the board local Levy is going to decrease so as this goes from the 89 up to the 132 that means that that difference there is going to be deducted from our board local Levy meaning we're going to lose those revenues that are now generated through the the
092charter school levy and so what this means is that without us really doing anything we've we've lost some some funds that we we would have had before on that board local Levy so we received we received the certified rates or projected certified rates on Monday and that's where this all came to light so it's important to note that we're working with estimates as we try to put the budget together and as we try to plan for the coming year we're working with estimates and these things change and until a week or two from now we're not going to know where everything for sure landed but what we do know is that that's going to have a negative impact on our on our board local Levy um and what that means for purposes of of us
093maintaining the level of Revenue that we need in order to fund our operations next year is that this paragraph down here where we talk about the 61 dollar property tax increase on an average home in the district being approximately five percent in order to get to that same Revenue number because this Charter School levy increased we will actually have to do an additional one percent or approximately thirteen dollars on an average home so though those numbers would change to about seventy four dollars or a six percent increase in order to bring in that same Revenue number that we were budgeting for in in our general fund I don't know if any of this makes sense because I know it gets very very complicated and and at this point there's there's a lot of moving parts
094to it but we just want to make sure that it's clear what that ask is going to be in August and what that's going to look like that there's going to be an additional 13 or or one percent added to that number as we as we go into the August hearing um our voted local Levy and capital local Levy just have the regular certified rate adjustments and then the debt service has that adjustment needed to cover those those higher costs for our debt service needs in fiscal year 24. but if you look at this rate overall we're going from a 6311 to a 6355. so the overall increase when you factor all of these pieces into the rate is not a huge increase it kind of all for for property taxpayers I think it it
095all ends up going together and they look at it as one one property tax bill right and and for the rates that we are over that we have Authority for as a school district um that's that's increasing by about [Music] um zero zero zero zero five zero so so we're looking at a a very small increase overall in our in our property tax rate um on the revenue side when we look at that 6355 what it's generating in these in these various levees we're at about 300.8 million in total that will be generated through through the property taxes the school district levies um and like I said these are still subject to change I think most of them are pretty much finalized at this point but there could be things that change with these as
096we as we go through the next week or two and work with the Salt Lake County auditor on what those certified rates will be um so I don't know if there are any clarifying questions about that or any anything that the board would like clarified as far as the property taxes go okay um action required denied again as a review approving the revised 2223 budget is published adopting the 2324 budget is published and setting that tax rate to a .006355 subject to changes in that basic Levy and Charter School levy and then other levies potentially being changed by the certified tax rate and finally authorizing a truth and Taxation hearing to be held on August 1st so with that I will pass it back to you Nicole for for public comment and board discussion all
097right thank you um let's go ahead are there any comments or questions word at this time anything that we need to clarify no thanks puck Julie had some questions I'm sorry that when I went through this on my own like these questions did not come up I know I would have asked you earlier but I first wanted to tell you thank you for putting together these uh the allocation of our budget according to our strategic plan I loved seeing that up there and um or maybe that was you Todd who threw that who put that together um what I just when I saw that up there I kept thinking who's under which category like do our electricians know that they are under the student achievement category most likely do they know that that's what they
098are contributing to you know and um so I I hope that at some point people get to self-identify into those categories because I I think that's a really important part of what we're doing here you know absolutely so at this point we were focusing on the incremental increases that are in this particular budget so that conversation that you've just highlighted will be happening it didn't happen necessarily in those numbers that you saw in the chart but we will have those conversations and it may be that there's a different dimension added on to the Strategic plan that has to do with the support services that may not be directly seen in the classroom and that it would have its place on that schedule with its performance measures and how it contributes to the overall operations of
099the district so there's some conversations still to be had as we move forward and I'm happy that plan is fluid I wanted to just um on on your bond schedule there can you remind me why the shift in that schedule after 2030. do you know what I'm talking about when I say shift yeah right there yeah so that's as Bonds mature as we pay those off completely we will have lower Debt Service needs as a district we won't have to pay as much right as as we get some of those bonds paid off we're going to go from 31 million in fiscal year 29 all the way down to 4.8 Million by fiscal year 32 in needs for our bonds just because some are going away they'll be completely paid off maybe we can have
100a discussion about that because I'm looking at this and I'm seeing it's incrementally going down very little but then all of a sudden that that all of a sudden drop is what is where my lack of understanding comes maybe we can talk about that offline pay off the loan that's when we pay off and where do we where does that money come from for us you see where my lack of understanding is so I think I better Circle up later with Brent um are Esser funds go away this year are there places where we have spent Esser funds on any ongoing expenses where we will miss them next year that's a great question and and one that you know there's there's what we say and then what people think and sometimes those don't exactly line
101up right and so what we've said throughout the whole process is Esser can only pay for one-time expenditures and we as we hire people they know they're on a one year only contract that that it does there's no um expectation that that continue past the one year however everyone out in schools and communities gets used to a certain level of services and and if we start to offer things with those user funds that all of a sudden that money's gone now and the school doesn't have access to that allocation in fiscal year 25 that necessarily creates a little bit of a gap there where the the communities don't care what funding source it is that's paying for whatever's going on they just know that they're receiving certain services at their schools and so that's going
102to be a big important thing for principals and schools and and the district overall to manage as we go throughout this year is kind of setting those expectations of like hey there are certain things that we're paying for with us or that that we won't be able to continue to do or we'll have to maybe make decisions in other areas that hey we've got to free up funds here in order to move what we were doing with Esser money onto a different funding source so it is the nature of the beast when we we have these one-time funding sources that it's it's difficult as you wean yourself off of those funding sources and don't have them anymore that difficult decisions have to be made so it sounds like we we'd be wise to have a
103Communications strategy in place for dealing with that and we're helping our principals to deal with those expectations for our patrons as those funds go away and help them understand what's going to go away and why um again I will say to Ben I will leave it to the expert on that but one of the things that we spend extra funds on was actually communicating with our patrons I'm totally being honest it's a challenge and you're spot on there are other ways to communicate and address but to identify potential there was this whole decline in in populations and getting kids back into schools there was an allowable expenditure and so we utilized some of those funds in that way but I'm going to point out that I think the bigger issue here and I want to
104compliment I I want the public to understand that everything you see here in this proposed budget isn't what was requested right there were a lot of things that were requested that were denied because the funds weren't there and we didn't have the ability to I mean the board is obviously cognizant of a tax increases and very sensitive on that front and so there were things that had to be declined that would have been shifted to ongoing from Esser as well so you're you're correct we do need to do a good job of communicating that but I want the public to understand as well as you adopt this budget that that both the District administration and the board have been cognizant of trying to be fiscally responsible and prudent with the with these funds the conversation
105if anyone else has sure we know Clark doesn't have any Kim do you have any can confirm I want to ask about the prioritization of new resources slide um specifically the funds being directed toward social skills and dispositions um I know we have that as its own segment in the Strategic plan but my question is more can you give us some examples of what specifically what kinds of programs will be funding in that segment what criteria is going to qualify something to fall into that segment of that kind of thing so there are two particular budget items that fall into that social skills category the first one falls in the area of tiered interventions and this was a request that came out of our legal department asking for civil rights investigator to be brought on
106to staff to manage the workloads of the hearings and the investigations that need to take place under any of the complaints that fall under Title IX or Title VII so that's one position there another is in the area of attendance this is in our student learning area we're looking at an additional teacher to work at our Roosevelt school to work with the students that are needing extra interventions and attentions so they're successful in their school career so those are the the two items that fall under that category what's up does you have anything else Kim or is that okay think that answers my question thank you Connie did you have anything Chris yeah go for it I'm the only question friend um Capital fund when you talked about the capital fund you said if there's
107an excess in that then we can spend it on technology do you know what I'm talking about so that would be The Debt Service fund excuse me which I just assumed went to the capital fund okay yeah um well I I just wondered wouldn't we want to save that money for other pending projects rather than putting it directly into technology so so the funds there are actually part of paying our bonds and not the the intent of those funds is not for capital projects all right because it's not capitalized service and so yeah I'm good um and then I also just wanted a reminder on certified tax rates um we are not the ones who set the valuation who is that is it the city or the county so the Salt Lake County Assessor assesses
108property values and and and every County does it a little bit different but um typically you have groups of properties that are assessed at one time so you'll have hey this year these this area got hit and there was there was adjustments there sometimes it's more all across the board and the whole county has adjustments that are made so last year would have been a good example of that because valuations change so drastically it was kind of a county-wide thing that there were pretty significant adjustments made but that's the Salt Lake County Assessor that that does that okay that's all thanks thought of another question sorry just to clarify your answer to my last question um how do Title IX investigators fit into social skills category like what's the criteria justification for that so the
109within that category there were strategic objectives in one of the Strategic objectives was tiered interventions and so there's the opportunity to have that hearing process tie into what interventions may be needed at the school level so sorry if I'm not following but saying that so an incident occurs or a complaint happens and then the Title IX investigator is helping to I guess assure that if there was a behavioral problem that contributed to that issue we're correcting it is that we were saying so now you're asking beyond my ability to describe exactly how it all works together so I don't know if if Doug can jump and talk about how a Title IX investigation ties in to the broader the prospect and this goes to a policy that we passed on uh maybe a year ago
110and it's the student code of conduct policy right now the Department of Education has passed and then modified Title IX regulations regarding how we do and how we conduct investigations related to complaints of of of titlemen violations the process of doing that is pretty onerous and um and and in our school district we actually have been very um resourceful I think in how we've tried to share the responsibility of complying with that with the Title IX investigation process and the hearing process but it's simply become undoable we we just need additional help in in following that process so it's a mandated process it's a process that's mandated by the federal government by Title IX regulations and by the Department of Education and we've been kind of um sharing that responsibility with a variety of of
111individuals chipping in and trying to help out with those those investigations but that has become unworkable and so there's a there's a real need for us to be able to to conduct those investigations in a compliant Manner and to what Todd was referring uh as part of our code of conduct we described that in every instance where there are allegations that are made that are violations of the student code we conduct investigations and that is a part of our tiered systems of intervention so if we need to get um a complete and thorough investigation down in a in a timely manner so that we can um intervene with a student who who uh who is the alleged um respondent as well as provide services and help to the to the alleged um complainant in those
112circumstances so it's the process of of intervening with students um obviously we we'd like to never have to conduct investigations uh with respect to some of these civil rights violations but that is the reality of it and and we're kind of desperate for some help in in completing that uh are you able to give like a hypothetical example of the situation that might happen where we would bring that person in sure so um in a school where um I mean without uh being too specific I guess where we have a student who who engages in some kind of sexual harassment or some kind of sexual assault toward another student we have an obligation under Title IX to investigate that actually in a very prescriptive way a way that has been prescribed by the federal government
113and it's somewhat of a lengthy process it's a process that I I feel like you know the school district was doing pretty well before the regulations changed but those regulations kind of added additional responsibilities with respect to that circumstance so that we can conduct an investigation provide both the complainant and the respondent adequate due process as they go through that those investigations and make sure that we have an outcome that is the most beneficial for both parties for for the for the respondent as well as the complainant does that help them I mean kind of I'm still feeling like it's a bit of a stretch personally um to put it into that bucket but that's what I'm trying to trying to get out of the questions I'm asking yeah and I'd love to I'd love
114to perhaps show you the um the um uh the student code of conduct and the student code of conduct what we do is everything that we do is in uh is a tiered intervention for students and um at the highest level of those tiered interventions are some pretty um uh you know some some pretty uh intense interventions for kids and this is an example of one of those fairly intense interventions for kids um again that that has to do with our multi-tiered systems of support that is all our our student code of conduct is built on multi-tiered systems of support and what we're talking about are investigations that occur kind of at the very tip of the uh of of the third tier of those um of that multi-tiered systems of support so it it
115does allow us to be able to go through the safe School process and do all the things that we need to do to to provide support and services to the kids who again who are both are the are the complaining and they're respondent in those circumstances I think maybe it would be helpful for me if you had maybe a list of I don't know different code of conduct violations that could trigger a Title IX investigation sure um you mentioned it was a sexual assault already but if there's others yeah and we actually discussed them in Fairly in in some um relative detail in the code iconic policy that we could we could sit down and go through I I hear you a little bit Kim I'm trying over here to connect those same dots that
116you are um because in my mind social skills and dispositions you know specific to our strategic plan you know dependability hard work resilience those kinds of things and then I'm over here with the Title IX violations and I'm trying to like I think in my mind when I'm seeing money put to social skills and dispositions it's those five that we've outlined for the Strategic plan and then all of a sudden over here now we're talking you know horrific behavior that then triggers the Title IX and I don't know I'm trying to reconcile that a little bit in my head so I hear what you're I hear what you're saying Kim and I I don't disagree it's a little confusing to try to draw those thoughts so I would say social security disposition is is that
117umbrella or that head that title one heading if you will right Title One not as in federal but in that level one heading of of different things the characteristics fall under that as well as this multi-tiered systems of support So if you think about multi-tier system support students are going to engage in certain behaviors all don't receive the same consequence right so what is a multi-tiered set consequence or intervention that matches the nature of the infraction right and if it's truly egregious then that's going to receive an appropriate level of consequence or intervention that's correct um wherein where if it's a higher less level of infraction we wouldn't want to apply and again I'm speaking just in general terms we want to apply that same level of of consequence for an egregious behavior for something
118that's less egregious that's that's identified under that multi-tiered systems of support now what I also hear though is what actually qualifies for a Title IX investigation right um sure would would uh wouldn't would trigger that and then that part of that investigation would then determine what is the appropriate level per code of conduct or behavior or social skill that would then fall under um the appropriate level of a consequence Associated for the infraction yeah and I think that I think as you describe it it is on a Continuum and we have we have um what you've described Karen or or very low level interventions that that we um that that we apply um when there's uh you know when we need to correct behavior and and help kids um develop the kinds of skills that
119would hopefully prevent um that what we're discussing however on the other end of the spectrum there are those circumstances where we do have to intervene with much higher level intervention and and that's an example of this but it but but it is a Continuum uh in the multi-tiered systems of support and so I agree that that that that while we're trying to prevent behavior issues from happening there are behaviors that occur and we have to intervene um at the appropriate level when they do so I guess I'll do social skills and dispositions and behave Behavior maybe that like I wrap my mind around not a little bit anyway okay I'm done I think when you use the word intervention we're talking about correcting Behavior right and the idea is to bridge that concept is we're
120trying to teach them those those skills that would be appropriate and so that how that's how it kind of ties back into that that category into the Strategic plan comparably the other position ties into providing that intervention and support uh to help that that student who's committed an egregious Act um to learn those skills necessary to be successful in an educational environment all right we're going to go caring part of this you have the list may I solicit any additional comments for the public hearing portion I have the sign up sheet here if anybody else is dying to speak in the public hearing portion on the budget itself please let me know and I will add you to the list otherwise budget um there are this is not for other things to be addressed during
121this time um I'm gonna read this certain actions taken by the Board of Education require public hearing during a public hearing Granite School District patrons employees students and residents May provide comment on the topic of that subject of the hearing so this is specifically for the hearing of the budget we have one person signed up so we're going to invite Michelle Jones to come on up please state your name and where you live and three minutes to address the board thank you my name is Michelle Jones I live at 3710 South 500 East it's late and you guys have been talking about this a lot which is awesome we I'm also a Gea president the proud representative representative of um Gea and we would like to voice our support for this budget and especially for
122the four dollar an hour increase to our classified brothers and sisters let's do another woo-woo [Applause] we depend on them to keep our schools and classrooms functioning and ensure that students receive the best education possible so we support this [Applause] yourself thank you for your support on that all right with no other comments we will go ahead and close that portion of it and move on are there any further questions or comments on the budget from the board Brian will you go to the last the last life yes thank you so will you please all look at that we have three well really four but three um three emotions that we need to have made tonight the first two are as outlined right there the third one I've asked Chris because there's some specific language
123that was left out of that one but those are the three um three motions that we have tonight so I will entertain the motion I move that we approved the revised 2023 budget as published right we have a motion in a second to approve the revised 2022 23 2023 budget as published is there any further questions discussion or comments all in favor please say aye aye any opposed all right that passes um second motion up there is to adopt the proposed 2023-2024 budget we do need to have the all of that language included on the motion all right can you read it again I I have a slightly different one so I don't know if you want me to do it or not but my emotion would be to adopt the budget without the prioritization
124two social skills and dispositions as described in that slide I don't know if you want to read that whole thing so would you just leave out leave out that money or would you have it reallocated somewhere reallocated probably to academic but agree on that I suppose a board but yeah I I would not want to approve it with that piece in it um I think it's it shouldn't be a surprise to him on the board I think I've made clear on multiple occasions my my views on that aspect um and I you know I to be clear for everyone here I and transparent I voted to ratify negotiations I fully support the increases in pay this is not about that at all but this one piece for me is a bit of a sticking point
125on the budget as a whole so can I just ask I don't know if it's a clarifying question for you or for you but um so if it's a reallocation or just maybe putting that Fund in a different category Kim right that would not change the tax rate am I correct and saying that so your issue isn't with the tax rate it's with how the funds within those budgets so that's more administrative I guess am I right there but yet we're the fiduciary board can you clarify that for me Todd so as I understand it the the motion would be to adopt this proposed language with the amendment even though we don't have a main Motion in front of us but with the additional language of reducing or reallocating that portion of money that is
126identified as social skills and dispositions is that did I get that kind of close so it's it's basically all of this and then a reallocation of those dollars under that category so we could still hire them I mean it would still be FTE well that would be that's the question that would be the intent of member Chandler as to whether the dollar if we're just re-changing labels versus authorizing FTE that's right is it the actual position that you have an objection to I think it's generally both because the intent of the position is really the interventions as we discussed so if there's so this is so it's my understanding that the in the intent of that position is to help in investigations that have to do with egregious some of the egregious things that happen
127in our schools sexual assault things like that and your objection is you don't agree that we should be spending money on investigating those things in invested in them as interventions under an mtss program I don't think not saying we shouldn't investigate those things or spend money on it I think the way we have the program structured is what as I've expressed in the past mtss PBS pbas they all go together and they're things that I have concerns with so so I guess get back to your question then right if we were reallocating the funds and hiring a position to help investigate issues um I could probably think about that and get comfortable with that little so let's say that what if it was more adding FTE to Doug's Department as far as you know he's
128the one his department does the investigation so what if it's not under this social skills umbrella but more in the legal department because he's working hand in hand with those investigating these egregious you know behaviors would you support that as far as maintaining the FTE but maybe just not allocating it to that fund I mean to that umbrella maybe to like reallocate the socialization portion right that's specific to social skills and dispositions if we're allocating the funds as you described the more just maybe the legal department these since they're since it's an investigation yeah I don't know number two that these are not that um can you change to that prioritization of new resources slide that's not necessarily I mean this these are not budget categories this is just where they're being prioritized so this
129actually is not even a part of the fiscal document really is that it's just in here for our slides yeah so this is a lens by which you can look at the budget or interpret the budget the adult the dollars will actually be in the general fund under salaries and benefits so and and that's as far as it goes as as the numbers uh relate to it the rest is just how do we convey what we're doing with those dollars so this is where that money is going but it's not necessarily an official you know title correct this is an alignment to the strategy so when you look at the Strategic plan as a document and we started identifying resources going to the Strategic plan this would be an activity if you will or an
130FTE that would fit within the Strategic plan so we're talking about it's alignment within the Strategic plan now the legal office as a whole we haven't gone into base budget so this exercise hasn't pushed into the full budget it's just been these incremental additions we probably based on this conversation have a deeper need to understand how do Support Services fit into the Strategic plan do they fit into these three priority areas or do they have their own area of priority which accomplishes Support Services and Kim I wonder if you would be willing to pass the budget minus this slide well this isn't I think what you're saying though is this is not part of the budget this is just for our information this morning that's what I'm trying to say too because I think it's
131a question this isn't binding right right I mean this is kind of I think we're a little bit into semantics right now because this isn't binding that that money has to go to this category be labeled as this this is all general fund money that's basically going to our strategic plan so if you look at it a hundred percent of it is going to our strategic plan and I think the rest of it is a little bit semantics but the budget that's oversimplifying I don't know as the board adopts a budget it's done by object code so you're you're approving expenditures salaries right the 100 object codes or the salaries and the two hundreds are benefits and and there are dollar amounts assigned to every single one of those object codes in the budget and
132that's that's what you're approving when you approve a budget for the the upcoming year Leslie did you have did you want to add something well if I could clarify another thing that's listed underneath the social skills and dispositions priority is just a teacher at the Gap site so that honestly that teacher is teaches academics but because it was categorized in social skills and dispositions it doesn't necessarily explain what what the position is going to be it was displaced in a category because it comes from prevention and student placement and they've been working on the social skills and dispositions priority so what if we adjusted to say you know approve with the understanding that we will discuss further allocation question before committing funds yeah the lens question because as Todd has mentioned this is just a
133lens through which to look and so that's why we just need to understand if if there is concern there or with the actual positions as has been mentioned Title IX investigations were under obligation per law to conduct right and they become of such nature that we need additional FTE to help us do those uh you know in a way that satisfies that obligation and the other part is that Roosevelt teacher right so if the if the question is not to do those positions and that does change how it is we allocate those resources if the again if the question is just the label that's over that that's that's certainly yeah that's certainly open for future discussion as we especially as the board continues to work through their Mission Vision priorities as well uh that you
134know that that that lands can can certainly be adjusted but so anyway that's that's understanding is the concern with the Roosevelt teacher position and the Title IX position or is it more the label of it and so yeah motion can be made too to approve them it depends wherein lies the concern of the board is it with the positions or is it with it or is it with the lens to make him like it's not necessarily the positions that you have a concern with but just more the label that we've given it here correct that's yeah I mean that we need to have an investigator is not your objection it's just more that we're we're tying it into mtss and that is that am I reading that right um yeah generally speaking I think okay
135so since that's not necessarily part of the budget then that could be something that we could talk about in the future talk about have a have a conversation about um but that does not necessarily it's not necessarily tied to the budget as we would pass it in this way okay so you're saying we wouldn't need to make a motion with any exception and we would still use it unless we'd have an actual objection to the position the actual the I think she's saying that when we approve the budget as per the language here it does not approve what's on this slide that's that's the tax rate it's it's those fine details and then the discussion yeah we're giving yes 85 to Personnel that's what we're approving not necessarily the label that we're giving it does
136that make sense so I'd like to make a motion that we adopt the proposed 2023-24 budget as published and set the tax rate to 0.006355 subject to the following the basic Levy and Charter School level will be adjusted to the rates established by the Utah tax commission and other levies will be adjusted for any changes in the calculation of the certified tax rate as sent by the Salt Lake County Auditor second all right we have a motion in a second to adopt the proposed 2023-2024 budget as published and so the tax rate to 0.006355 subject to the following the basic Levy and Charter School levy will be adjusted to the rates established by the Utah Tax Commission other level levies will be adjusted for changes in the calculation of the certified tax rate as set
137by the Salt Lake County Auditor any further discussion questions comments all in favor please say aye aye aye any opposed all right and then our third I'd like to make a motion that we authorize a truth and Taxation hearing to be held at Granite district oh it's just Granite district offices at 6 pm on August 1st 2023. hold and to authorize a true truth and Taxation hearing sorry to be held at the district office at 6 pm on August 1st further questions discussion or comments all in favor please say aye aye any opposed all right that's it [Applause] I I now need a motion to close the budget hearing and reconvene the General Session all right we have a motion in a second to close the budget hearing and reconvene General Session all in favor
138please say hi any opposed thank you all right thank you thank you those of you who were here for the budget so can we do the consent before we recess um a point of point of order we do have granted elected officials participation time in page participation time before that oh so let's find out can we do the consent agenda first I think we have to go in order I believe I can move that camp all right um let's go ahead then and um and do the consent agenda so we can get people out of here I move that we accept the consent agenda I second it all right all right before we vote uh was under the impression we had some people here who wanted to comment related to our agenda on issues related
139to consented so that might be an issue with movement consent agenda yeah if they're here to come in we do have one because that are you shaking your head yeah okay so we need to reverse that I think okay um we're gonna hold on that motion then and go back to Patron participation time and Monica will invite you up for uh public comments go ahead and step up to the microphone make sure you talk really loud into that and name and your address okay my name is Monica Wilbur you have my address I'd like to thank you for this opportunity to address the board tonight I'd like to talk about the moral hazard that is Panorama which is the platform that Granite has chosen for social emotional learning surveillance on the students in this District
140I get that state code 53g4207 allows the districts to collect behavioral data and other highly subjective non-academic and behavioral intervention data on children under the pretext of monitoring for at-risk factors but let's be honest thanks to the district's lingering covet and diversity equity and inclusion policies schools are now treating all kids as at risk by default this means that Granite schools are continuously collecting not just attendance data on our kids but social and emotional data on their attitudes and behaviors as well this psychosocial data is not just collected through surveys which parents can opt out of but through multiple modalities including teacher observations computerized check-ins and checkouts and intervention implementation a student's social emotional data can then be intersected with other personal data points like a student's ethnicity the students families income and education levels
141the students gender Etc to create a comprehensive data profile that can be disaggregated to justify more school programs that have little to do with academics but a lot to do with increasing the amount of data collected on our kids to tightly control their experiences both in and out of school the Panorama Ed data dashboard prejudices Educators toward drawing a direct connection between a student's academic performance with his social emotional data in other words Educators may be falsely attributing a student's academic difficulties with socio-emotional factors that have nothing to do with the students struggle to understand the differences between adverbs and adjectives as one example teachers are expected to read into these numerical scores on the Panorama dashboard a sort of mystical understanding of a child's cultural influences upon his or her learning and then Divine
142the proper multi-tiered interventions accordingly one of these types of interventions that Panorama encourages is PBIS positive behavioral interventions and supports PBIS as an intervention approach according to multiple Granite board members in a meeting a few months ago has been sending students the message that bad behavior will be rewarded instead of mitigated there's a multitude of other privacy and informed consent issues with other tiered intervention approaches like mtss as this board just discussed which the Panorama platform supports extensively you as a board may not have a choice in implementing an early warning system in this District but it doesn't have to be Panorama even if the State Board does subsidize this platform for this District and as a parent I am under no statutory obligation to authorize the collection of this highly subjective data on my
143two children in this District it would be reasonable to expect that the district ensure that it instructs its administrators to respect protect and further the interests of parents by honoring requests to exempt their students from their involuntary inclusion in the Panorama social emotional surveillance system thank you for your time Christina did you want to speak before we do our consent agenda happy to speak whenever I just wanted to talk are considering we've been whenever all right um we will go ahead then and go on we had motion and a second on accepting the consent agenda is there any questions comments oh I think I'm the person who made the motion on the consent agenda but I'd love to hear um Rich what what you have to say about some of those points that Monica made
144which um you know things especially about opting in and being exempt um data collection connection of data collection to um academic information and whatever else you can remember from because I should have taken notes that was a lot of good information yeah and so I yes if poor president thinks um so I appreciate the question and and the concerns uh share several of them uh working with the State Board of Education on the contract with Panorama making their student data protections and privacies in place decrypted at the aggregate things like that I'd be happy to sit down and discuss at length how it's used when the bill was originally passed in 2017 there were some Protections in 2022 I worked with the bill sponsor and a parent group over some of their concerns and we
145added some additional Protections in there and so there there is opt out Provisions associated with it but it really functions as an early warning system as has been mentioned that does bring in elements of a student survey and we don't seek to hide anything there that that is made available uh we would make it available even before the law change in 2022 to parents they can see that see what those questions are and they can opt out if they're uncomfortable with that as well as it brings in attendance data and academic data so it's coordinating systems as as to an early warning system so um as far as the the contract with the State Board of Education those are vetted by the Attorney General's office to make sure that there are Level protections associated with
146with that student data privacy as far as Panorama having access to Utah and I would say Granite School District students they do not have that access so it's encrypted and it held at the aggregate the personally identifiable information is removed um for Panorama they don't have access to that unless again the State Board of Education determines at such point that that they would have a need for it and that's taken on a case-by-case basis at USB and so for us and and the utility of using it uh what it has informed for us or is one to elevate primary objective to elevate the student voice in determining and sharing with us how they're experiencing school and and that's taken at multiple points recognizing uh we're we're looking to elevate the student's voice and and this
147helps us do that and in coordination with the academic data points and other things that have been mentioned but happy to sit down and have the discussion but for us to be able to use it we've we have seen increases in attendance when we are engaging students at that level teachers part of it is building making sure that they have positive relationships with students so that students when they show up at class they feel like they want to be in class and it just really helps identify how are we meeting the needs means of student better early Warning Systems generally have shown nationally where the implemented implemented well were able to to intervene at an earlier State um to get them on track for graduation and not just graduate but graduate being well prepared for
148life after after school and so there's there's a lot of points there that we can discuss again I share and I don't I don't mean this to be patronizing I'm sure some of the concerns associated with that having been a uh you know uh can still am a father of public children is to make sure that one of those data protections there too and that that it is used appropriately and inappropriately but anyway we this is newer to our district uh having launched it in several schools last year seeing what that implementation is and then still building the framework for its appropriate use moving into the future for our district and that's what this second iteration really seeks to accomplish on the consent does this data follow a student from year to year no so
149a lot of the academics piece does but that's in the student information system right um when it comes to like behavioral like a student has an infraction or something that's that they've done that they shouldn't those interventions only apply to that year um or the survey information survey data yeah so no no so they'll be able to and it's not on a transcript anywhere no and nobody can access it except for granted that's right district and I would say not even with the granite District so only the School site can access School site information and only those students for which they have a vested educational interest in meaning someone wouldn't be able to access the data of another student in another class that's not theirs I was in a community council meeting at one of
150our pilot schools recently where they were giving feedback about pilot to the about panorama to their principal and uh they had some things that they would want to change about the the way that they organized it but there were many examples given in which students made gains based on information that the teacher learned from the Panorama survey like oh I didn't realize this and so we we dealt with this social emotional thing and then could now address the academic piece because this other part was being addressed and so I I felt like I feel really great about this program I feel like it's something that will help us help our students make the gains they need and help us understand the bridges that we need to cross better for them I've I've seen data slides
151pictures that to me appeared to show aggregated student data that were at the state level and so some of the things I've seen seem to to contradict some of the things I'm hearing so I still personally am very concerned about panorama um you know even just for the fact that I've said this before um the system is there it's in place to help basically modify Behavior and to align to the standards that we determine are correct and the state should never be dictating beliefs attitudes and personalities so my intent was to put forward a motion to approve the consent agenda without the Panorama contract um in in addition just coincidentally with without the University of Utah contract just because I feel like that's when I need to know more information about before I vote on
152it I did reach out about it and you may have responded but I have not had a chance yet to see that um I would like to see that before I vote on it so my intent was going to be to propose a motion without those two items what was the second one Kim I'm trying to find what the I contract with the University of Utah for mental health support goes for those are for unit kids correct those are for our um our first students under CBT units thank you where they're receiving special education services to provide free and appropriate public education per their IEP and those services for those most acute and severe behavioral emotional behaviors give them special education law have to be provided to provide free and appropriate public education and that's
153where the University of Utah contracts for those highly specialized services is there a contract that we can see sure can be confusion all right we have a motion in a second to approve the consent agenda if there's no further questions or discussion um okay all in favor please say aye aye aye send me a post nay right we have most uh pass of six and uh one vote of a no with that we are going to turn the time over to thank you for being patient you guys John take it over take it away Board of Education and those members of the elt that are still awake oh I'm sorry they're still here with us it's my privilege at this time to to introduce to you some new appointments and we appreciate all three of
154them and their families for being so patient first of all we'd like to start off by introducing you to Sarah wall if we could have Sarah Stan [Applause] Sarah is currently serving as the assistant principal at Kearns High School but previously she has served as a special education teacher at Jefferson Junior High in our district she was also an intern assistant principal at Calvin Smith Elementary and she served previously as the assistant principal at west lake stem Junior High which she will be the principal of next year congratulations Sarah [Applause] [Music] Sarah who did you bring with you tonight that's fantastic we appreciate you being here tonight thank you we all like a crepe cookie or something I don't know something big time and they nailed their loved ones like dinner or something for sure
155okay next up We Have Allison if we can have Allison and Allison is a gosh or gauche gosh good I thought I hit it okay Allison is currently serving as the assistant principal or intern assistant principal at Eisenhower Junior High she also taught for us in our Granite connection high school or alternative program but she will be uh serving as the assistant principal at Copper Hills Elementary and West Kearns elementary schools next year congratulations Allison [Music] [Applause] and Allison I think your husband had to oh he did make it back okay they have a they have a newborn so it I think he had to run home for for a bit but he made it back right okay so please introduce who you got here tonight great we're glad you could be here all right
156um next up we have Annie Orton we're gonna have Annie stand Annie has been serving currently as the instructional coach at Olympus High School she was also an instructional coach and AVID coordinator at Matheson Junior High previously and she was a math teacher and an instructional coach at Cedar high high school Annie will be the assistant principal at Rolling Meadows Elementary and South Kearns Elementary next year thank you [Applause] [Music] Annie please introduce who you have with you today [Music] that's great that's fantastic Annie actually has two members of her family that work in Granite as well her sister Heidi is a principal and her husband serves in our Police Department so it's great that they're all in the keeping it all in the family so congratulations to all of you thank you thank you
157so much for your patience tonight and please go enjoy the rest of your evening thank you [Applause] thank you [Music] thank you thank you for your patience and staying and we're thrilled to have you in if you want to leave you are very welcome Doug's gonna be offended because immediately Board of Education I'm sorry I failed to mention that we also had a transfer so Becky Dees is being transferred to be the assistant at Kearns High School to replace Sarah okay all right thank you okay um we're gonna jump back real fast Christine I apologize how do you say your last name bogus okay I like I think have said it four different ways and in my head and so I apologize for that this thank you for being here well thank you and thank
158you for being concerned about how my name is pronounced because some people are not and it's just a thing um I am happy to be here tonight and thank you for the opportunity to address the board um I really actually have to hand it to you part of the reason I'm here is because I got a mailer and I thought man I've been expecting and wanting to go to a board meeting in Granite for months and it was a wonderful reminder that this is an opportunity and my calendar was free so thank you for those because I don't know if everybody appreciates them but I appreciate them and I would like to sign up for every month when those go out all right um and had I known I was going to speak I would
159have curled my hair but I did not know that I was going to speak tonight I just want to thank you for your time as a public servant I know you can't do anything right so we appreciate what you do and um and how you serve and if I can help you and support you in any way I've had the pleasure of working with some of your staff as we've debated issues on different levels and just let me know how I can engage and have conversations with you in a fruitful and productive way so thank you I won't take any more of your time I know you have plenty to do but thank you for your time I will ping pong into Jordan on in the August meeting but thank you for allowing me to
160be here tonight and thank you for allowing me to speak I appreciate it thank you and thank you for your service and I know you sit through much longer board meetings than we do so just pray on those days of the month you're very welcome thank you all right um we're gonna go to Doug for our first reading of article 9 8 a progressive discipline in order that's right just starting tonight right we're just getting started yeah um oh you know what go ahead do you want to propose that well I thought that just kept going but I think In fairness to him and everybody else I'll propose a three minute break do you want to make that five minutes no let's make it three a three-minute saunter 10 minutes so we're gonna go ahead
161and and come back are we good over there okay And when everybody else will join us we'll join us oh except Doug's not here Doug we're past three minutes you're being paged that was your 10 minutes was okay board members um there's a play something's happening