001It's 5:00 and we'll begin our our Murray City School Board meeting, Murray City School District Board meeting for this evening. We'd like to excuse uh our board president. She will be here, but we'll be a little bit late. We'd like to begin by having the pledge of allegiance under the direction of our superintendent. >> If the audience would please rise. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. We've asked um Principal Horn to share with us a little bit about Oh, we have to do the next thing. I am so sorry. I get nervous about this assignment. Here we go. So, um, next we'd like to, uh, ask for
002an approval of the minutes. Do we have a motion to approve the the minutes that we >> I move that we approve the consent agenda, which includes the minutes? >> We have a second. >> I'll second the approval on the consent agenda. >> All in favor? >> I. [snorts] >> Okay. Are you ready? We'll let you take it back. Thank you. There you go. Thank you for everybody's patience. Next, we'll move into the delegations. We have um Long View Elementary here tonight and >> Oh, and Principal Horn, we're going to turn the time over to you. Thank you. >> Well, Long View is awesome. Um loving working there so far. Uh basically the uh we've been working a lot with the PTA um [snorts] specifically with our red ribbon week next year or next week.
003We're getting a lot of adults in the building uh with some eating lunch with your adult and uh different activities during lunchtime and stuff. So that's one thing a lot of PTA members have been working really hard on. Um also with the pressure of the PTA to be honest, but I'm excited about it too. We've we've uh got things rolling on our uh fundraiser for new playgrounds. Uh we're in pretty rough shape over there with some of our our playgrounds and I think the whole community is pretty excited about it. I have people coming up to me all the time like, "Oh, even these grandparents down the street, you know, they bring their grandkids here and they really want, you know, get a new playground going here." So, um yeah, the PTA partnerships work going
004really well and uh yeah, I'm excited about some of the things going going on. And I think Caroline I think she's here. Okay. And there's our FTA president. But yeah, that's all I got for you, but >> it's good to be here. >> Thank you. >> Carolyn, did you want have something to present? >> Yes. >> Wonderful. >> We're glad you're here. Thank you. >> Um, my name is Carolyn Forsight and I'm the PTA president for Long View. And it's a great community, a great space. We have awesome administration and teachers and it's really, really fun to be with the kids. I think probably the best thing at Halloween is some girls were trick-or-treating and they came up to my door and they opened and they're like, "You're the PTA." So anyway, it's just a
005great community that we can have that. And so I have a couple of kids here, Eden, my daughter, and Joe Dailyaly here to talk about some of the things that we've done in the PTA. Welcome. Thanks for coming. >> Um, hi, my name is Eden Foresight. Uh, we have the best PTA. And I'm not just saying that because my mom promised to buy me ice cream. Um, um, so uh, we do pretty normal stuff like the carnival and the book fair. Um, but the PTA always makes it a little bit funner than normal. Um this year instead of kindness week, we had a kindness month. Um some of the stuff we did is um we did um a service project for M Murray and so we made these scarecrows and they're they're really fun. A
006lot of kids my age enjoyed it. And then the little kids or maybe we're not at that level yet. Um they did like little scarecrows at the front desk for Murray Haunted Woods. Um and for kindness month we also did we also like played with dominoes like at lunchtime lunch recess um to show how kindness can spread like one act of kindness can spread everywhere and it can just make someone's day. Um, we also did a smile day where we wrote down what makes you smile and that was really fun. A lot of kids enjoyed it. Um, we also painted these kindness rocks to go we have this little like rock thing in the front of our school. So, we kind of put them in there and a lot of kids like searching for theirs
007and like pointing out like, "Oh, that's mine. I did that." And it was really fun. Um, we also did these posters for our teachers to show how much we appreciate them because our teachers are awesome. And we also did them for other staff in our school because our staff is amazing. They are really appreciated and a lot of kids love them. So, I'll turn the time over to Joe. >> Thank you. >> My mom. Well, kindness month isn't the only thing we did. We also uh have red ribbon week, which is next week. Uh it's really fun. And this year we will um have an assembly with a musician. We did that last year. Yeah, we did that last year. And um some uh high school students come and uh like from the sports like
008the football team and volleyball team was I think it was it was last year and um they tell us how to like keep our body straight and good and um and uh well families are welcome to come to lunch one day so we can strengthen our family ties and red ribbon week is awesome. We also like every week usually after lunch we have a uh we have we like write down something on like a poster like the smiley face thing that was during kindness month. It's usually every day but since kindness month was stretched out for a month. It was once every week which made a little more special and yeah red women week is really fun. I like it. Usually sometimes we have like a dress up day. It's fun. Great. Thank you for
009coming and thanks for being brave. That was awesome. And I look forward to noticing the rocks out front next time I'm at your school. Thank you. All right. Next, we have um the MEA >> and Christiey's here tonight. Thank you. >> My name's up there, but it's not on the agenda. Um no, thank you. We always appreciate an opportunity to share some things that the teachers um are doing through our association and um most recently yesterday we were invited to be a part of the insurance committee which we know that's a big focus for the district and glad to have some teachers that can participate in that and and help give some insight from their um point of view. Um, we also wanted to let the board know that we took a page out of
010the district's book and we have started sending out kind of a a an educator update, but we're calling it MEA today and we're sending that out on the first Tuesday of every month to the members so that we can have a more communication and and get people involved. And so, so far we've only done two, but we're we're glad to have that. um as a communication link for our members. And then we also I just wanted to say thank you for the educator update. um superintendent always puts a great quote at the top and I don't often hear about it but this time I had several teachers comment of how appropriate that was and how good the timing was because and I don't know if you've read her message but we really did hit the
011ground running and you feel like that first term is just go go go and then all of a sudden you kind of hit second term and and think am I just spinning my wheels? So, several teachers commented that they felt appreciated and and it just it's always good to know someone recognizes that you're doing a good job. So, thank you. Um, we've seen the board out at a lot of fun activities and just want to reiterate how much we appreciate that and teachers teachers have noticed. So, thank you. >> Thank you. All right. And we have um is it Mr. Kaufman for the uh Murray Association of the Administrators. >> I just wanted to uh give a thank you to the board um as an administrator. Uh the extra that you guys found to help
012those ESPs who are not part of that legislative uh piece. I was counting just in my building and our building really isn't that big. I mean, I had 14 or 15 people who be impacted by it and they have such a huge impact on our school and I think publicly they don't get that recognition though you guys do recognize it and I just wanted to say I appreciate that as administrator because they help me a ton. So, thank you. >> Thank you. All right. And then um Fain with the Murray Education Support Professionals Association. >> I just need a ditto. He took my thunder. [laughter] Thanks Earl. Appreciate it. That was my my thunder. But no, we we truly appreciate the the small district uh you know the feel that hey there's everybody's looking out
013for everybody else and the board has has our backs you know in stuff going on. So we truly appreciate that. Um come to love come to board meeting and learning new things. uh learned something new from Christie, you know, and update, but it's like, you know, that's a that's a good idea to throw out there to keep in involved in our in our in our group of people uh and way to communicate back and forth. But that's so said Earl stole my thunder, but that's all right. I'm happy for it. I'm glad that it's not just us that's noticing that, you know, the administrators are noticing it. Not that they don't, but and teachers as well. But thank you. >> Great. Thank you. All right. And we have um Doug with the Murray Education Foundation.
014[clears throat] >> Thank you. Uh we are kicking off the angel tree tomorrow at 6 PM at the Fesh and Place Mall. Uh they were gracious this year in allowing us to put up a tree in in behalf of our students um across the district that are in need. And we will have these little nifty uh tree tags on the trees for shoppers to go and purchase items for of of need [clears throat] and of wish for some of these students. So we appreciate fashion play small. We also are working with the sports mall, uh, multiple LDS church wards, um, in Murray, a company called Gold Systems, Reach Out today, which is a nonprofit organization, Murray Chamber of Commerce, and countless individuals have already contributed quite a bit um to help us kick off the
015angel tree for this year. We we are expecting some great things, which we need because we have close to 600 students will be supporting [clears throat] supporting this year. And so there is a great need and there is a lot of very very generous people out there. I'll just say that uh so far that have stepped forward. Uh so we'll be kicking that off again tomorrow at the the uh Fashion Place Mall beginning at 6:00 PM. If those that are able to attend, that would be great. Uh we'll be having some music and dance from student groups uh at our schools along with some inspiring messages from the superintendent and from the mayor of Murray. And I'm told that Santa and the Grinch might show up there toward the end along with Miss Murray. She
016will be there in attendance. Um and then we've got some treats and other things. So it's going to be a fun evening. Hopefully something that we can build on for future years and become a tradition uh with the Fashion Place Mall. I think they're a great asset in our community. Um and as a reminder, um MEF is also part of the City Creek Giving Machine this year. So that kickoff, um will be November the 24th at noon, which is a Monday. So I hope that that's on your calendars if you're able to attend. [clears throat] They will also have several live performances and messages there as well. And then lastly, MEF is also participating um as a partner with the Holiday Lights at the Ballpark event that is taking place at the ballpark uh down
017in uh Sandy or is it Yeah. Daybreak uh November the 29th and December 1st, our uh folks in Murray that are interested can get discount tickets to that and a part of those proceeds will come back to the foundation. So, we're excited to continue or to to promote that event uh as well. And then lastly, we have our um pinnacle nom award nominations going out in two weeks along with the pickle ball tournament registrations that'll start in about two or three weeks. So, we've got a lot of fun things this holiday season to keep people hopefully engaged in giving and also in uh some good good positive uh vibes uh in the community. So, thanks. >> Thanks, Doug. All right. And then now's the time to hear from our public. Thank you. We welcome your
018comments, which are important to us. And please note that all comments are limited to three minutes with a total of 30 minutes set aside for this portion for public comments. Public statements are welcome for new issues, new program policy suggestions, and other issues that have not recently come before the board. During this segment of the meeting, statements are not allowed regarding bidding, contracts, employment or personnel issues, criticism of individual district employees, complaints where other appeals are available, repetition of issues recently discussed in a board meeting, or items which have a separate public hearing. During this portion of the meeting, we ask that the audience refrain from clapping or cheering. When your name is called, please come to the podium to comment. And it's helpful for the board if you would give us your name and
019please address your remarks to the board chair and note that we will not be entering into dialogue at this time. The purpose of this agenda item is for you the public to inform us the board about your views and if members of the public have factual questions, staff will be glad to address them after the meeting. So, first we have Bo Peely. >> He's representing a group. So, he gets five. >> Oh, and Bo is representing a group, so you get five minutes rather than the standard. Um, so, [laughter] >> um, Bo Peely. Uh, I am the voice of Murray football. So, if you recognize the voice, I'm also a Murray citizen, third generation. Um, Murray alumni from went to high school there. Have a our oldest a junior in Murray High School and my
020wife might be teaching for the district. So excited. Um but I'm here to talk about the youth conference uh specifically to the district of Murray and the need for field space. Uh we used a space this past season and it was the rugby field um which came at a large cost and of course when things come at large costs we have to pass the cost down to um our players and their families. And our proposal this day is we request sitting with you trying to figure out how we could find a solution uh to better opportunities to find whether it's the high school um playing our Saturday games there and utilizing the field on the south end zone um whatever it would take so that we could get the kids there. Uh we do believe
021that um it would strengthen the pipeline of our high school um sports especially where we're such a small pool of players to choose from. It it creates a challenge. I know number of students that have gone to other high schools um that are playing and we're losing out on that talent. We're losing out on that opportunity. Um and it's the the retention of of because of open enrollment. Um we just don't want to lose those kids. We don't want to lose I know it deals with funding as well. uh to our school districts. Um so I think it's big and most of all it's the continuity with the program. You know a lot of districts or a lot of high schools right now their youth league plays the same plays do does the same defense,
022same offense and coach Dunn has been very great at being part of our youth program and trying to help us just bolster all these children and getting them ready for that next level. Um, the other thing is the community engagement. Um, one thing that was unique to the high school this past season was when we drove down to Uenta, bus broke down. Some of us parents had to help the kids up there. Um, but we all gathered together and to get them there and there was a ton of people for a three and a half hour drive. I was surprised by the representation of the Murray community. I do believe that as we um lean into this a little bit more, we'll bring more and more people together that want to be part of this.
023And I am part of the fieldhouse committee as well. So I I know the challenges there. Um and and so I we want to work with you guys. Um so the community engagement also the education and athletic value that comes with it. um or the what we're seeing and talking to coach Dunn and something was just posted today 28 Murray football players were able to receive the academic honor role. Um that's huge um because sports just creates the discipline, creates the drive and they have to have the grades in order to play which then goes to the my next point. Of the 97 student athletes that registered my athlete, only one was ineligible. Meaning, Coach Dunn was able to create that program to, hey, school first, get get your grades in. And I remember being
024on band because my son plays for the high school, too, that there is a number of times, hey, instead of practice, we're going to study. And I know Coach Dunn is big on making sure that the kids are hitting those grades. And lastly, just the efficient of the district facilities. Um, we want to help. we want to be part of that if it's policing or if it's you know being part of making sure as we rent out fields and I know that's you know might be a problem that we have whatever we could do to find that solution to help um I had the opportunity this past season to coach the seven and 8year-old scouts and my son alone was able to recruit four other players from his school and and I know there's a
025fire that has started within the community of football cuz for years and I've been part of this program years ago um because of prior movies and other studies that people have gone to other sports. I believe football is coming back and I know the things especially when I was teaching our seven and eight year olds if they didn't make their bed that day they had to run win sprints and so those are the kind of habits those are the kind of things that we're trying to instill in these children at a very young age so then when they get to high school they're straight A students and they're doing amazing which just increases you know our viability out there as as a school district. Um and so again, our proposal, we have maybe five games
026a season and to find a place to find a place where we could um have those five games. So, thank you for your time today. >> Hey, thank you. And if this is appropriate with both speaking on the group, could we just get a raise of hands of who's here with Bo tonight? All right. Thank you for taking the time to come. Appreciate that. Right. then we'll move on to the report of the board and we'll start down here with um Elizabeth if that's okay. Yeah, that's okay. Um okay, so since our last meeting in October, I've attended a couple things. Not too much. It's been a little slow. Um one thing, I went to the Hillrest Band and Orchestra concert. Um they did a really great job. And I just want to also shout
027out to the Murray Symphony. they join Hillrest um for the concerts and they get mentorship through the Murray Symphony and I think it's a great partnership and they did such a good job. Um, another thing I wanted to highlight was I got the opportunity to check out our nail tech program with our CTE program and got my nails done. [laughter] Um, which I might sound frivolous, but I really wanted to support those Murray High kids with their with their program, and a lot of them are planning on being Del Techs when they graduate from high school. So, if you get a chance, find a high school student who's in it and go book it. It was a really, really nice time. Um, and that's all I have. And I hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving.
028>> Thank you. And >> um, I don't have anything to report at this time. Thank you. And Jared, >> yeah, Salt Lake uh County Parks and Rex had their meeting canceled, so we didn't have anything to attend to for that one. I am looking forward to the holiday activities coming up with all the lunches with each school and getting to meet with the staff and visit with them on a personal basis. Thank you. >> Um well, I had opportunity to attend the trunk or treat at one of the elementary schools and that was really fun to meet the families and be involved with those cute children all dressed up. Um it was cold but I survived and as did the others of us that were there. Um, and also I just wanted to comment on
029uh the opportunity yesterday that I had to attend the Spartan Summit and that's an organization at the high school where many of the clubs meet together and coordinate their schedules and it's amazing to me what these students are trying to do and how they're trying to improve their the lives of the students they are with in the school. >> Thank you. And then I'll just report out on my um participation in the uh Murray Coalition, the Partners for Prevention, and what a great group that is. And it's kind of been pushing the stone up the hill, and it's we're about ready to start rolling. And it's exciting to see that happen. But it's a coalition of just entities all over the city um that are looking at how to support the youth in our community.
030And it's really cool to see an entire room full of people come together and looking at data and different programs to to help with that. Um I also enjoyed the the Spartan Summit and looking forward to um all the things the high school has planned with their winter charity and it's amazing to watch kids lead and the opportunities that they have to do that through this winter charity is pretty phenomenal. So, I look forward to that. And I really enjoy attending um the PTA meetings and seeing seeing the magic happen behind the scenes. And there's some really great things happening. And just one thing I wanted to note, um Horizon is trying something new to connect their students with their faculty and they've made trading cards and it's such a cool thing. Um, so each
031kid will get a a handful of cards and they're all just random and they're challenged to try to complete sets. So they want to try to trade cards with with different uh students and teachers to get a full set of like maybe all the third grade teachers or maybe all the lunch workers. And I just thought that was a really fun new thing to see. Um, I really appreciate it. Every quarter we meet with the city council and the mayor um and different representatives from the city and and our school district to collaborate and go over some different things. And our last meeting was really I thought productive and we're updating um some of our um interlocal agreements and how we share facilities and what that looks like and who pays for what. And I
032just think that that's moving in a great direction and happy to be part of that and just enjoyed Halloween at the schools. um got to visit a couple and saw some great costumes and I always love to see what the different school themes are and what the different um grade levels do and um fun time to be involved in our schools and and that's all I have for that. Um and so we'll move into the report of the staff and start with um director Tagert with um some project updates. Well, if you've had a chance to go past the the high school and the junior high progress is is really happening. Uh everything is on schedule up to this point. You know, knock on wood. Every time I say that, I kind of hold my
033breath, but it's going really well. Uh at the high school, we'll start with that. Uh on the first floor, they're starting to do framing on the first floor, the duct work, putting in um the the plumbing. And so, it's it's it's coming. On the second floor, they're still putting um the metal deck so they can then they'll pour the concrete floor on the second floor, but they're putting in the decking in and continuing the masonry up up to the third floor. So, they're basically doing the second floor now with masonry. They're almost finished out ready to put the steel in. So, then they can put the supports in to take the masonry up to the third floor. Um we've received some of the mechanical um equipment early and that was a decision we made early
034in the process um to you know and when we started this not knowing what tariffs were going to look like and the wait time on certain things and so we've received those now and that we have them stored at the U junior high. Um, it is amazing how much has happened in the last month since the last time I reported. They currently have about 150 workers on site every day when they're going. It's just, you know, and so you got a group over here and a group over here. Um, they started to tilt on panels on the gym this week. In fact, they should be able to finish most of that um if not tomorrow, early on to next week. Um, I know they're really pushing hard to get that up because of the weather
035starting to change and um, with the ground getting soft and the crane, um, they really want to get that in so they can get the crane off of off of there, the big um, movable crane. Um, with that, um, the masons are going to be moving from the classroom wings now over to closer to the auditorium. They've pretty much finished the masonry over on the classroom wings. They'll start uh putting in the steel structures on that side. So, basically, you got the masons on one side and then steel is coming in right behind them. They're starting to put the the the deck above um the office area. So, they have some steel in place over where the office is. They're starting to put the deck. They'll put more steel in and then continue with the
036deck. So, um yeah, it's if you haven't been past, it's it's pretty amazing of how much they've done in the last month. So, >> Thank you. And then a food services update from Gwen. Thank you. >> Thanks for letting me be here. Um, I just wanted to kind of give a quick update on some fun things that are currently happening and hopefully some fun things that are coming in the future that I would like you guys to get on your calendar so that you can join us. Um but the first thing that we have started this year at two of our schools um Horizon and Liberty they have started um the um fresh fruit and vegetables program um otherwise known as FFVP. Um and so what we do it's an opportunity twice a week to
037introduce the students to fruits andor vegetables that they normally would not get. Um, so they have had the chance so far to have pink lady apples, English cucumbers, yamsticks, goosebererries, which I really liked and I thought they would because they're sour, but we didn't get that great of a response. I was really surprised. I thought, oh, all the kids love, you know, sour patch kids. This is just like, but they they didn't love that. But they did love the rainbow carrot sticks. A lot of them came back and said, we have more of those. So that was fun. um Italian squash, Jonah gold apple, Asian pears, and the day before Halloween, we served blood oranges. So, um I have a really great representative at Charlie's Producees, which is who we use, and she's super creative
038and she does all the choices for me. I don't even have to to do it. But the other thing that goes along with the program is they have to have a little bit of education about that fruit or vegetable. And so, these are just some of the flyers that they see. um as this goes out and it's got nutritional data. Um so like on the blood orange it they are told that the blood orange originated in the Mediterranean in the 18th century. So there's a little bit of history about it and then what good things it does for their body by eating it. Um so that's been fun. Um it does take a little more work than we thought it was going to. Um but the the lunch ladies that are facilitating that are really
039loving that program. Um then the um fun thing that I'd like you to get on your calendars is um we are going to do future chef competition again this year. We are going to hold that Wednesday, February 18th uh 2026 from 5 to 900 pm at Hillrest Junior High. Again, the theme this year is passport to flavor. So the student can pick any dish from any country and um produce it for us. That um recipe submission should hopefully go live sometime next week. Um so hopefully you'll put us on your calendar and we'll see you there. Jiren, the the group wants you to be a judge. So think about that, talk with Kelly and see if if you want to do that because there's a little bit involved in that. And then if you'll just
040let me know. Um and uh one of our leads, the lead at the high school, she's going to be a judge. And then they asked um the team asked me to reach out to um Pam Carter. >> Um they said that that they thought she would be good. So I've asked Scott and he told me I could do that. >> Um couple of other really great things. Uh we did have a spend down plan and um in doing that we provided eight schools with brand new dish machines that um was quite the process. Scott and I learned a lot about that process. Um and the maintenance team did all the the removal and installation and they've done a really great job on that. So they need to be commended for that because that was a
041big project. And then we provided four schools with new ovens because we had ovens that were dying and catching on fire and burning food and things like that. So, we had to go. Um, and then, um, I've mentioned a couple times that we've we're doing some new menuing and we're constantly, um, trying to tweak that a little bit to, um, get the students where they're happy with the menu and also where the employees are happy with the menu. I did a big ask um, and I asked them to prepare three items a day and that has not quite gone as well as we had hoped. So, we're cutting back there. Um we've ran run into an allergy that um we thought we had solved. So we were serving offering um pad thai chicken. Of course
042that has peanut butter in it. Um and somebody had a reaction. They didn't realize they were allergic to peanut butter. So we changed to sunflower butter. And I guess we had a reaction today at one of the schools from one of the staff members. So we think we're going to cut that from the menu. So we're gonna have to find something else fun to put in there. some of the fun things that we've done with this menu. Um, chicken tikka masala, chicken yakasoba, a shredded pork toa, green goddess salad, shepherd's pie, which was a really a really big hit, especially once they realized they could put ketchup on it. >> So, that's kind of um where where we're at and what we've been doing. And uh do you have any questions? >> I didn't catch
043the date of that future chef. >> Wednesday, February 18th. >> 18th. >> Yep. from 5 to 9 p.m. >> Can you email the details to Jen so she can forward them to us? >> Absolutely. Yep. Anything else? >> All right. Great. Thank you. >> Thanks, Gwen. All right. We've got um Director Dean with a few items here on the agenda numbers three through nine. [laughter] >> It's policy season. Yeah, they just magically multiplied. I don't know what happened. It's not as fun as talking about like food items though at dinner time. That's pretty good. So, the first one I have for you guys is the positive behavior uh support plans. You guys have had those to take a look at them as a a board. Um what we just need is we just need an
044approval from the board that these plans are approved for this year. And so that's each of the schools and what they're doing to um implement positive supports for our students uh specifically to reduce uh alcohol use, tobacco use, those things. That's what the money's for. But there's a lot of other benefits with it, too. So, I don't know if the board has any questions they want to ask me directly after looking at the plans or if you guys want to approve those plans. So, board president, I'll leave that to you. >> Is there a motion? I move that we approve the positive behavior support plans. >> All right. And is there a second? >> I second. >> Okay. Is there any uh further discussion on it? >> All right. All in favor? >> I >>
045All right. Any opposed? Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. The next one is our inter intercolastic ath intercolastic sports report. I was going to say athletics in there, but I was like, so this is a report that we're required to have yearly. It is from our high school and the first tab that the superintendent has opened is our female sports. And so maybe you could just scroll down so they can see what those female sports are. And then I'm going to just pull up mine alongside. So each of those things, we have the number of competitors in each sport. We also have what it costs for that sport and then it's broken out for each female student. Um we're required to rate the quality of our facilities, list any special features for those um
046our practice facilities, locker rooms, and so forth. So this is a fairly comprehensive. I sent it over to Brady Smith, our athletic director, to work on this. This is a second round. We had this last year, and we'll bring it forth every year. Um, the second tab on the bottom is our male competitors. And so you can take a look there and see the cost there for the different sports and how they're rating our facilities. The rating of the facilities is on a scale that's goes excellent, good, average, and poor. So you'll see that a lot of them are rated good, some are excellent. There's a couple of average. I didn't notice any poor on there. Um, we have to look at distance. Yes. >> Drill team is a male sport. >> Um, >> it's
047just it's got a >> I just have it on the wrong tab. >> Yeah. No. No. Yeah. Yeah. So, it's listed there. >> Males can peripate. >> Yeah, >> they can. >> So, and then you'll also see distances for facilities from campuses and those type of things. And so, it was interesting to look and see which sports um the cost of which sports are more. I was surprised how much it is for to have a golfer personally, but I don't golf, so the greens fees are expensive, I guess. >> What goes into all of the cost? Like where does that cost come from? >> Is it from the high school numbers? >> It's from the high school. So they p Idy, I'm sure, pulled this off of the spend plans that they turn in. >>
048Okay. Because these look very the same. >> Okay. >> Yeah. So there are a couple of things and one of the things too is we have to the last tab calculate a ratio just is how many sports we have. Um so we have 11 female designated sports and 11 male designated sports and you have to have a ratio that can't be there's a 10% margin there that you have to have it within um to be compliant with federal law and so we are compliant. The other thing to look at though is our facilities need to be equitable between the the females and the males. And also um looking at the the funding as far as some of these sports that are both um I had a couple of questions as I was going through this
049a little earlier when I was looking at golf. It seems like there's a difference between males and females as far as like golf and what is being Well, no, it wasn't golf. There was one of them that's on there. There's one or two that were on there that were uh which one was it? >> Volleyball. Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Jiren. So, volleyball. I had a So, that'll be something I'll follow up on just to see like why is that costing more for >> volleyball is new for our district for males. So, they're probably spending a lot of that on uniforms and stuff. >> I think it's actually more in the female on our girls volleyball team. I do believe that's because they attend more camps. If I remember from those spend plans, I think
050that the coach was having them go to multiple camps, but we we can dig into those on those spend plans. >> Yeah. So, there's a couple I want to just look at. >> I don't see football on here. >> Football should be at the bottom on the mail if you scroll down. There it is. Okay. >> Yeah, it's it's on there. Yeah. Thank you. So, certainly the board can take a look at this. This isn't something that has to be approved. This is just for the board's information. we're required to present it. Um, as I said, I'll be digging into the numbers a little further, but if the board does have questions that they would like me to ask of our athletic director or our high school administration, I'm happy to do so and follow
051up on those. I would be somewhat interested in what percent so if that's the cost of what it cost us to run that program what percentage of the money came from from our fees fees in from from student athlete versus what portion we contributed because some of them may be more funded than others and that that would be something I would be interested tested to see. >> So, I know like for drill team if they're they're not $1,000, but if it was $1,000 times 11 students, then we collected 21 whatever that number is. >> Okay. >> I'd be interested to see that. >> All right. Any other questions at this time? But feel free to email me, call me, let me know. Okay. calendar. >> Uh, we can go to it if Are you ready
052to move on? Okay. >> Just like, all right, where are we at? >> Suspense. [laughter] Okay. >> Where are we? >> Um, so the calendar, the board had a chance to take a look at this in our study session and so we are bringing this forward for our first reading. Um on this calendar we it is a 177 day calendar and so just letting the board know that it would mean reallocating three instructional days that would be taken off. This last year our last calendar we the board reallocated four instructional days. So we had 176. So this will be adding on. Of course this is the 2728 calendar. So, I don't know if the board still has questions regarding this. We discussed it quite a bit. The main thing, there's a couple of things. The
053we have our spring break, which would be later this year, which is uh probably the big change. Um that would happen in in the middle of April. And then >> we get out before >> we get we get out before Memorial Day. So it would be the three years in a row because this year, next year, following year. >> No, are we not Memorial? Not this year. Next year. [snorts] >> This year, Memorial Day early and so >> Okay. >> We do not. >> So, >> did we have any questions about fall break or anything? >> No, I think we covered all those in the meeting. >> Perfect. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> All right. Now to policy, the stuff we love. So we have our educator evaluation policy and assistant superintendent Wangi was
054doing a nice job of doing a little tuneup on it. We had some things we needed to change that we had changed in practice but we hadn't changed in our policy. And then I dug into it a little further and added a few more updates regarding our um state code administrative rule. So, there's just a little bit of a rewrite there at the first for our statement of purpose, just saying that the board recognizes and appreciates the efforts of our educators and that we're committed to having highquality educators in our classrooms and that we want to make sure we have a an evaluation system and process that works. And so, that's the essential part right there. A lot of these you're just going to see here going through this first part just some change of
055terms instead of a classroom teacher. Um was taking that out just because we have people that are licensed individuals. They're not necessarily classroom teachers and they're evaluated. So wanted to change some terms to to make it more correct. So there just some minor tweaks to the definitions there in that first part. Then going to page two, some more definition changes. Um, we have certified evaluators. So, all of our administrators are certified. They have to take an evaluation course which they have to pass and then we work with them with them. And I think we've determined that every five years we'll have them reertify on the evaluation process. And that's a course through the Utah State Board of Education that provides that course. And then one thing that had changed as part of evaluation is they
056have to have student academic growth goals. It used to be a learning objective. So just tweak that definition. Minimally effective, change to partially effective. Um this next part, this short little paragraph is a joint committee. If we're going to make changes to our education evaluation plan, we're required to have a joint committee. Um we're not planning on that at this time, but if we did, the board would help select those members if we were going to change our evaluation program. And so we follow the Utah State Board of Education, their model evaluation program. Some districts have chose to make their own along with incorporating the requirements of the evaluation program, but um that's just to let you know that we would have to convene a committee if we were going to do that. So moving
057on, page three, there's just some updates to state code rules. Um all of our educators if they're provisional receive two evaluations. And the way our evaluations are is we have observations where our administrators are required to go in uh three plus times during a semester and then they sit down for a formal observation with the teacher or formal meeting with the teacher after they've had those multiple opportunities to observe them based on dropins in the classroom setting. So that's kind of encompassing that part and those changes. And our educators are evaluated on a four-year cycle. It used to be a three-year cycle and that's for their official career summit of evaluation. Every year an educator receives it what's a formative evaluation. So they have that. It's I I guess I'll call it the abbreviated evaluation,
058but every fourth year they would have their official career evaluation except for when you're in your first three years of service. Then you get evaluated twice a year every year for those first three years. Um then just what evaluation shall include. Um added some stuff there for administrators. Our administrators are required to have employee input on their evaluation and so we do staff surveys for them. Um we have a reasonable number of supervisor observations for everyone and then evidence of their professional growth and student academic growth. Page four. You can stop me anytime as you need to. I know this is exciting. So um the state used to have a a rubric where we were rated there were four categories not effective partially effective effective and highly effective. The state in their model program moved
059away last year from having highly effective. So they went from four to three. So we followed along. So we have not effective and then our emerging partially effective and then effective. Even though we know many many of our teachers are highly effective and our employees are highly effective but this just are how the categories are reflected at this time and supervisors are free to make notations of excellence on their evaluations. Let's see moving on to our next page. Um couple of notices. So of page four. >> Yes, the bottom of page four going on to the to page five. Um we have to give a copy of the evaluation instrument to our employees at least 15 days um before the evaluation and notify them of any like potential consequences including discipline termination if they fail
060to meet performance expectations. and some more tweak to the rule, little changes. Um, some more from state law. An employee can't advance on the adopted salary schedule if they're rated on the lowest um tier of the evaluation. So, that's in state law. And then we have another thing that is they can't receive the educator salary adjustment which is money that comes to our district which is a good chunk of change for each individual. If they were rated unsatisfactory for three years in a row um if they were rated unsatisfactory for three years in a row I don't think they'd still be employed but so I'm not worried about that one. That is out of state law. And then we just have some more things with some minor changes here on if an educator has unsatisfactory
061performance, how we have to assist them with specific measurable action plans, provide for improvement. And that just outlines that. And I think that about covers it, superintendent. That should be it. Great. Then on to the parental and postpartum recovery leave. That was just a first reading, right? >> That is just a first reading. >> And if the board wants any of these to be put on our study session agenda, just let me know and we can add those on. >> And most of these are just uh be compliant with the changes that have taken place with this policy. So the next one though we brought forth to you early on, I believe August or September. um with our parental and postpartum leave. It was a little bit confusing. Uh we did uh get some help
062from one of our district attorneys to work on this to make sure that we have our leave policy correct. Spent some time talking with uh both MEA and MESPA regarding our our policy. And so I think we have a a good policy here in place. And so the policy I'm just looking at you've got the red line version of >> I've got the red line. Yes. >> Okay. So >> and that's okay. >> I think it starts on yours right where it says purpose because we we just struck. So >> so what this is defining and the we have to as I had mentioned a couple of months back we have to have at least the minimum of what the state has for their employees and what state law requires for the for the employees
063in the state. And so what that essentially turns into is 15 days of postpartum leave if you give birth and or 15 days of parental leave. So for an employee that gives birth, they would have 15 days, three weeks of paid postpartum leave. Then they are also eligible for another 15 days, three weeks of parental leave, which is six weeks of paid leave. So that's the easiest way to look at it. If you're having a child, it's six weeks. But if I'm the spouse of a person that has a child, I am entitled to parental leave. And that used to be five days in our policy. The district now has to provide 15 days or if someone adopts a child, it would be 15 days of parental leave. So, it's just defining what those are.
064They do run um concurrently with FMLA. So with the with their FMLA leave, their family medical leave, that does count as part of the 12 weeks they're entitled to if they're an eligible employee. Um, so this goes through, I'm happy to, you know, this is a first reading for the board. I think we've got our language solidified there, but if the board has questions or sees something that they might be like, well, this seems a little bit confusing. >> I just have a question. Can you remind me what it was before this update? Yes. So if you and this also includes now our ESPs who were not eligible before. >> Okay. >> So before our ESPs were not eligible. Um and if you were a career teacher you because you had acquired a sick leave
065benefit of 180 days over two years which is a lot of days right? they would use those sick leave days and so they were fine to take the six weeks of maternity leave or parental leave. >> If you were a provisional teacher though, you were left to your your days that you had for um sick leave allotted and they had like right now they get 10 days a year. So if you were a brand new teacher and this wasn't in place, you'd have 10 sick days. That's it. >> Yeah. So, yeah. So, this greatly expands the benefit. >> Okay, that's good. >> Yeah. And I think it'll I think it's great. So, >> and I really appreciate the adoptive part, too. >> Yeah. >> And we will make a nice uh clean quick sheet for
066our employees so they don't have to parse through all the policy language. All right. Any questions on that one? Great. Then SP947. >> So these next two policies, um the first one, SP 947 is our ESP uh sick leave and bereavement policy. And this is coming forward because we created this new parental leave policy. we had to make a some minor adjustments to our sick leave policies for both the ESPs and for both the teachers. So this first one there's just some language clarification that paragraph C is just about sick leave. Paragraph D is just to clarify that that's about bereavement leave because these are all combined into one policy. Um D is really the paragraph that was added to both the ESP and the teacher policy. And this this one it just so employees
067who take parental or postpartum leave. It's just stating that they can't extend their use of sick leave because our ESPs have unlimited sick leave and our teachers have 180 days. Well, our contract ESPs, thank you. over and then they have the 180 days and it's saying you can't use that sick leave unless there's certain medical conditions, right? A doctor, there's things going on. That's all that's saying is it's just saying you can use your postpartum and parental leave, but you don't get to use your sick leave to extend extend on. So, it's essentially making sure we have a stop. >> And you'll find the same language in the next one. SP 927 is the exact same paragraph in both of those. >> Okay. Okay. Any questions on those? All right. I think that's it for
068you, Darren. >> I think that is it for today. >> I just have a quick question. Sorry. um on the sick leave policy then then SP947 is the education support professional sick leave policy and 927 is the >> educator >> correct. >> So when I look at them I know which one is which. >> Okay. >> Right. >> Thank you. Next we have assistant superintendent we hung with a couple things. Thanks Darren. Mine are a little less intense than those ones, but we've just got a couple of policy adjustments to the current policies we have in place. And the first one um is our instructional material selection, which seems to rear its head every year. But there is a couple of components on this that we realized um weren't on it, but should be on
069it. And that one is um on the second page there uh is that we need to make sure when we're adopting a instructional materials that those materials are actually available for public view whether that's online or in person somewhere and that public view is a certain time period until those have been um given an opportunity to on part D have those two public meetings. Typically those are board meetings where um patrons can make comments about the materials that are going to be adopted and then of course those have to be approved by the board. So that component there in the red is the only component that really was was uh put into this back into this policy um other than the one word change where we specify that it is curriculum materials. So not materials
070that are not curriculum based. So programs those include uh things that are online apps um the textbooks and so forth. So this is again a first reading feels like a 30th reading but yeah first reading of this policy. Any questions on that one? Okay the next one we did not really add anything to this one. This just clarifies on our early graduation. So for many years um early graduate graduates uh from the high school if they graduated at the end of uh their junior year they were eligible for a centennial scholarship. This was a partial scholarship that was provided by the Utah system of higher education. That no longer exists and it hasn't for a few years. So we've just struck that part out of this policy. The opportunity scholarship is the scholarship that replaced
071that. But the opportunity scholarship has nothing to do with early graduation. and that's more about academic achievement. So, we've just removed this part from the policy and that was it. So, any questions on that? Okay. >> All right. Then, next we've got um our business administrator with our fraud risk assessment. >> Now, we get to the exciting stuff. Uh as you may recall, we the board uh approved a fraud risk assessment uh questionnaire in August. That was for the prior year, fiscal year um 25. Uh the state auditor's office requires that this risk assessment uh form be completed every year. So as a matter of uh form we are presenting this fraud risk assessment for the current year FY26 um for your approval. Uh it's same numbers as the prior year uh based on the
072assessment we are at a low level of risk. Um and this is a form that is needed uh we need to have board approval and the it's something that the auditors as part of their audit procedures are required to review each year. So I would just uh request that the board uh if you have any questions if not that there be a an approval of this risk assessment. >> All right. Does anybody have any questions about it? >> Keep scrolling. Sorry. Why are we only 350 rich? >> Because we're not 355. Uh we're five short of really extremely low. But uh it that's a good question though. I mean the challenge that we face as a smaller district is uh internal controls and the number of people that we have to to manage the you
073know the the processes. So it's it's a bit of a challenge because we can't have separation of duties as much as we would like. So that kind of leads to the issue of our not being in the extremely low risk category. >> May I just ask a question on question five here? It says, "Have all governing body members completed entity specific training. Have we not done that?" I thought we did. >> Um >> I watched my videos. >> I did my videos. [laughter] >> Four years of Yes. Well, I mean, we we've done well certain training. >> The board has with a committee and internal controls. So, I'm not sure if I dismissed checking that or um >> because that was one of the thing I mean, right, >> that we checked on a few
074board meetings ago to make sure we had all completed that training. I'm not sure whether I just missed uh checking that box or not. I'll I'll go through and and re relook at that. But thanks for asking. Um but uh either way, we're in the low or very low. >> If we adopt this one today and it turns out that that could be updated, do we just bring it back and adopt the um the new one? >> You I would say we could just adopt a pending review of that. And that >> if that's another 20 points, then >> we can bring it back if you'd like or whatever whatever the board prefers. >> Well, that moves us to 370, which means we're very low. So, [laughter] >> good job everybody completing their training. >>
075So, it let's do this. I'll look at that. If we need to bring it back, I'll just put it on the consent agenda for the next time. >> Do we need it for the auditors for for the audit report in December or No. >> No. Okay. >> No, the one in August will suffice for that. And number eight on here says the internal audit. Does our it are our audit is an external audit. We don't have internal audit >> because of the size of the district. We are not required we are not required to have an internal auditor function. >> Okay. So we won't vote on that one tonight and we'll move down to um superintendent. >> Okay. I was feeling left out in the policy department so I decided to take one myself too.
076So tonight I am presenting for a first reading PS438 which is currently called home centered education policy. Um the homeschool laws have been changed the last couple of legislative sessions and so we needed to update ours. One of the things I'm proposing is we call it the homeschool education policy. A lot of people go to try and find this and don't home centered. I think that was what it was originally called back when it was developed in 2015, but I thought that might be a good way to do it so it's easier for our patrons to find what that is. Um, outl Utah code has changed. It used to be that they had to do a notorized annual homeschool affidavit, meaning every year they homeschooled, they had to do that annually. It had to be
077um it had to be notorized and then there was an exemption certificate that we had to mail to them. that has changed. So, this is consistent with Utah code 53G6204, which says um if a parent or legal guardian chooses to homeschool a child, that they are solely responsible for selecting the instructional materials, for choosing the time, place, and method of instruction, and for the evaluation of the homeschool instruction. So, the district does not have any part of that. Uh it also states in that code which we're updating in policy that as a local school board we make cannot require a parent or legal guardian to maintain records of instruction or attendance require credentials providing for those people who are providing homeschool instruction. We can't inspect the homeschool facilities and we cannot require standardized testing or
078other testing for homeschool students. Um, if a homeschool parent or guardian requests, we can give them what we believe the knowledge, skills, and competencies that a student is recommended to attain in that grade level to assist them. When a parent withdraws a a school age child from a school for the purpose of homeschooling, they have to provide a one-time initial notification to the district. So, it's no longer annually, it is one time. And we do have a form that they complete online to do that. Um, and then we are required in number five to uh notification is not required. Oh, excuse me. If they have done this prior to May 7th, 2025 when the law changed. So if they had been doing the annual not notoriization, they don't have to do it again. We have
079all of that. So this is just saying if they have already done this prior to May 7th, we have the database of that. So they don't have to send the one-time notification in again. It doesn't restart. And then number six is when we as a district receive that notification um that they are intending to homeschool, we will maintain a record of that. Currently that is done by Kristen Davis and then we acknowledge receipt of that. And because we have an online form, it automatically sends to the parent that we have received that and it sends them a copy acknowledging that. And then it also states in our policy as well well as in state law that um a parent or legal guardian who chooses to homeschool that at that point Murray City School District is
080not responsible or liable for any of the education services of that school age child which includes special education services. So that are those are the changes that are being updated to PS438 and again all based in kind of law changes. Any questions? This is just a first reading, but any questions? >> I did. So, they don't have to do anything if they don't start in the public school. If they just start homeschooling from kindergarten on, then they they don't need to do >> if they live within our boundaries and they have a school age child, they need to notify us that they're homeschooling. >> Okay. How do we get notified that there's a schoolage child if they've never enrolled? >> Well, that is on the parent, so we don't go out and check. So >>
081that's the only thing that scares me here is that kids could very well get lost because there's no notification required. >> That is correct. So >> that is a parental right in the state of Utah. So it is incumbent upon the parent letting us know, parent or legal guardian letting us know. >> Okay. >> Great questions. All right. If there's no further questions on that, I then have um uh two TSSA amendments. the teacher student success act amendments. Um the first one is for McMillan Elementary and so McMillan Elementary in their TSSA plan that was approved. They have been having a family literacy night but they've had a challenge reaching out to the families that they really wanted to especially the guardians of some of maybe their higher risk students during the event. So they
082cho decided this year as they talked about it as a building leadership team to incorporate their family literacy education with parent teacher conferences where they had more of an opportunity to visit with those parents and it helped them to reach more families. So, in their TSSA plan, they had set aside money um to pay stipens for teachers to come and help with family literacy night, which they no longer need that because they're now doing it as part of parent teacher conferences. However, due to the the new way that they're doing this, they have a greater need for supply money to provide resources for home learning activities. So, they've been giving them literacy packets to send home. And so the TSSA amendment for McMillan Elementary is they are asking to approve a transfer of $1,750 um
083from family literacy nights literacy night stipens to family literacy supplies. So it's a change from um paying an employee to paying for supplies which that would then increase their take-home life literacy supplies from 2 to 3750. So, it's not it still goes along with their goal. It's just reallocating it to move it from stipens to supplies. Do we want to vote on this one individually or would you like me to do the TSSA amendment for Murray High School as well? >> Go ahead. Okay, great. Let's do the TSSA amendment for Murray High School. So, Murray High School um their TSSA amendment. There we go. Okay, they are looking to and this goes along with their school land trust amendment which I will do after this. They they needed to adjust some things. So when they
084were calculating amounts for most oh sorry gosh most of that was really loud. Most of our TSSA and school land trust funds are used on people because that's how we're using them to help support our students in a lot of different areas. Um it it came up that the cost was more than expected at the high school and so they needed to reallocate some things to make sure their school land trust funds did not go negative. Um and and they did a good job of looking at that. So they says the first one they've got kind of three or four parts here. They want to move Murray High School's instructional aid that works with the ESL population in their math department to TSSA. So it's been in school land trust. They're going to move it
085over to TSSA funds. Um they also want to move two periods of the ESL study hall class from school land trust to TSSA. They are seeking to amend the increase in the stipen for their PD coordinator. So that would be the person that's coordinating their professional development from 1,00 to 2,000. And that is because this year Murray High School is going through the accredititation process. So they're having to take on more than they have in the past. So, this is likely just a one year. Next year in their plan, it'll go back to a,000. And then they're seeking to an amendment to increase the stipen for their website manager from 3500 to 4,000. Um, we are moving to a new platform. I think we've talked to you about that. We're moving to smart sites. Doug
086has done a great job of setting that up, but the high school is probably the largest website that with content that needs to be moved. And so in fairness to their website manager, they'd like to increase that stipen. Um, so th those are the the four areas that they are seeking an amendment. They've got that down there. Both of these, both the McMillan and the Murray High School amendments, TSSA amendments did go before their community council and were passed. So, um, do you have any questions that I can answer for you on those? >> Seems like we've had a lot of those changes this this year. Yeah, we have. I We're working really hard to get better at staying with under that 10% threshold in school land trust. It's always tricky because when you're figuring
087out how much people cost, there's a lot of moving parts in there. And then when we do, if you recall, we do our land trust budgets and our TSSA plans before typically we have the um the compensation for the next year completed. So then sometimes that throws it off because we want to give people more but then it costs more and then it changes things. So yeah, very fair. That's a good assessment. Okay, if there are no other questions then um board president, I would ask for a motion to approve the liber or excuse me the McMillan Elementary and the Murray High School TSSA amendments. Right. >> Is there a motion? >> I move that we approve the TSA amendments for both McMillan Elementary and Murray High School. And is there a second? >> I
088second. >> All right. Any further discussion? All in favor? I. >> And any opposed? All right. They both pass. That one motion passes. >> Great. Thank you. I will let both of those administrators know. The next one is there is a school land trust amendment from Murray High School. So again, this kind of dubtales with the TSSA amendment. And so on here, I think I've got it highlighted. All right. So it goes down here um where they are providing provide 22 periods of ACT prep, AP concurrent enrollment, ESL study hall, study halls, STEM to help lower class sizes. They had allocated in their school land trust budget a two let's see >> they yeah they had allocated 182,000. They're moving some of that back into the the school land trust budget. So increasing it to
089215,000. At the same time they are coming down here that instructional aid that we just talked about in the TSSA plan. They're pulling it out of school land trust except for $6,118 because that has already been paid out. So we don't want to do a journal entry and transfer that. That is something that's already been paid to an employee. They're taking what it will cost for the rest of the year out and moving it to TSSA. So, originally in their plan, they had planned for $60,000. So, that is now being changed to $6,118. And then down here, um, if you scroll down, it's just going to balance it out so that they will not be have a negative carryover, which we always don't want a negative carryover, which makes their estimated carryover if everything goes
090well 7,290. So that is in with that 10% threshold that we're trying to stay under. A lot of moving parts there question. Any questions I can answer for you on that? Okay. Then I would ask for a motion to approve the school land trust amendment for Murray High School. >> All right. Is there a motion? >> I move that we approve the school land trust fund amendment for Murray High School. Is there a second? >> I second. >> All right. Any further discussion? >> The only thing that I I do say is that I do appreciate that they're making these adjustments prior to us getting >> in a negative position. So, I will let appreciate that. >> Thank you. >> All right. All in favor? >> I. >> And any opposed. >> All right. That
091passes. >> Great. That will now go to the school land trust administration for their review and approval. So, we will get that sent in tomorrow. And with that, I would like to request a closed session to discuss um personnel and property. >> All right. Jar, >> yes. >> Jill, >> yes. >> May, yes. Kney, >> yes. >> And Elizabeth, >> yes. >> Great. >> Thank you. And small recess before we do that.