PCSD Board Meeting | 2026.05.19

001Make sure the blank is working. decision. Oh, shoot. Remember that? But it's pretty. >> Yeah. >> It's going to be beautiful. >> Yes. He graduated with an assist number where there >> that's what we're wait until we're doing a walk for tomorrow walk where >> h dear valley you go for graduation And the kids are going to come in from >> the chair. >> So they're going to load up and then download. >> So they'll have to go every other chair because of >> capacity. >> Oh yeah. >> So we're going to hopefully finalize all details tomorrow. >> That's very fun. >> Are you all coming? >> Yeah. How long do you think it will let this extend the time? Because >> we're going to start loading probably just before. >> Oh, so it's an

002hour. >> Uh to make sure we lock everybody down by start time. >> Yeah, >> it should be done then. >> Yeah. And we'll have some kids here going to be up there. That is up to you guys if you want to ride or not. Well, I mean, >> just don't bring the course. >> I call the order of this meeting of the Park City Board of Education. We will start with the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> The board will now session for the purpose of strategy session to discuss collective bargaining. in a society session to discuss pending or reasonably imminent limited litigation and to discuss

003the character professional competence or physical and mental health of an individual or person as well. >> Oh, and also property. >> I make a motion right second. >> All in favor? >> Roll call. Roll call. Meredith. Yeah. >> Yes. right now. Susan bro. Yeah. Anyone else? All right, welcome everyone. We are gonna start out our meeting now with a construction update from JD. >> First is the best but I have a 4 group that I take care of every other day and that's what I in good hands. So, we're doing um just some graphics real fast here. We'll start with Treasure Mountain just so just a reminder of everything that's going on over there. So, uh obviously the softball fields gone. You've seen the baseball netting going up. They'll be moving over to the softball

004field. Uh next, um the soccer fields are rough graded. We're about a foot away from subgrade, which is would be on the north side would be the pad. So, we're about a foot away from that. uh 18 inches on the south side. Um you can see the concrete wall going up between the two there, which is where the press box sets for both sides of those fields. And then the bleachers uh and there's a separation wall that you're seeing forming right now so that when we plane we don't see the other field. Uh and so that's that's ongoing right now. The support building the foundation's up and so they got to do the underground then they'll pour up the slab and then they'll start at the CMU. That's the only building that isn't done over

005there. um the press box and the team rooms and the dugouts. They we've got the roof on the the team rooms, the metal roof. There's metal roof that goes on the dugouts. Um they've done the floors in the team rooms uh and they're working their way kind of around those buildings. They get a brick veneer that you've seen going up that's that's kind of covers that CNU that's more decorative. Um the sophets uh and those roofs are going to happen at the same time. Uh that probably you'll start to see that next week. You're starting to see where the batting cages are. We filled in the holes. The sewer's been repaired. All that's been fixed and so they're starting to grade that now. Um uh they're going pretty hot and heavy on that today. This

006south parking lot on that south soccer field is in subgrade just waiting to turn the corner, but that is the existing parking lot and that'll wait until um school's out. So, uh, all utilities except for the gas and, um, the electric are done. They are getting close on the electric. Um, so that's all the site there. The you'll start to see the poles go up for the soccer fields. And if we can get any squeeze in the tennis courts, I don't think we can, but we'll get all the lighting up for the soccer fields. They've staged, and mobilized, and ready to go there. Um, the, uh, tennis courts are tenatively scheduled. um to start mid July. That's when they'll come in and do the the concrete and the post tension on those. Um and the

007turf for the soccer field is scheduled July 6. The tanks that contain the sludge from the deatering operation should be offsite by next week. Um we started to haul that sludge off. Um we do have a couple tanks. We have one tank and a half of clean water that has to be discharged, but because we moved into May, we had to run some more tests on that. We got one back today. should have the next test back next week. And so then we'll discharge that. But those tanks, what's Tuesday? It'll probably be into Monday or Tuesday, but then they'll just roll them off and be out of there. We got about a week's worth of grading on the softball field to clean it up. The turf's there, then they'll come and turf that. So hopefully

008end of next week, probably the first of next, you'll start to see the turf go down on the baseball field. Um, so then, like I said, all the utilities are in there. Um, you're starting to see some sight grading going on. There are multiple piles of material out there. Some is is uh top soil, some is clean soil. Most of the majority of the contaminated soil is on that north side where the tennis courts are. So, um I don't know if you guys want have any questions about that or you want to move on to Doure, but um that's it for treasure. So, >> just one more question. >> Sure. Do we know yet when we're going to be actively using any of these bits? >> So, um I would say by the end of

009July, we could probably use the soccer, baseball, and the softball fields, right? The biggest thing that would be that would take to be finished is that piece of concrete in between the soccer and the and the baseball and softball fields. That's a big plaza, right? And it has some it has some architectural features that are like little uh I don't even know how to describe it. little uh architectural features I would imagine but but those may not be done but the big thing would be having that concrete done right so there was it was seamlessly in between each of those um I don't know about the restroom facilities the fields would be playable but I don't know that all the bathrooms would be done so they are you know they're they're in the middle of

010the mechanical in all those buildings so all the bathrooms are getting plumbed in all the HBAC's going in all that stuff's going in but by the end of July I would say be probably pretty close in those buildings. >> How does that phases? >> So yeah, I mean we'll we'll I think we'll be ready for fall. Um keep in mind the parking lot's going to be torn off as well. We decided we'd like to we'd like to not do the parking lot till after school is out. We lose all those spots where kids are parking there. Um but as far as getting on there for practice and whatnot, I'm guess some teams will be able to get on there for fall. Our football team's purposely scheduled later home games. So, um, but yeah. Yeah, I'm

011not worried about here at all. I think football team's in great shape. So, but the fields, the big thing will be that parking lot that that parking lot is going to be pushed into September just because we've waited till school is out. There's two big utility crossings that come across there and they're going to take a little bit of time, but that whole thing gets replaced, right? It's all new asphalt, all new subbase and everything else. And so it's going to take a little time, but it's right now the schedule showing not pushed into September. So, and along with the tennis courts, right, tennis courts will be, like I said, uh they are scheduled for mid July. Once that's poured, they have to set for about 30 days, right, before they can surface them. So,

012as soon as that 30 days is up, they can surface them and stripe them. But there's also the sight fencing, and it does start that pretty soon here. But that whole thing gets re, you know, refenced and so you'll start to see the sight fencing going too. So, um, he's actually at Doure this week starting the fence at Doure. So, um, a lot of these subcontractors are working both of these fields, right? They're working treasure and doer at the same time. So, they kind of bounce back and forth, >> right? It's like a similar, right? >> Yeah. So, um, but >> looking forward to grand opening. >> Yeah, >> we are too. Nobody could. Maybe more than me, but he could. Maybe. I don't think so though. But and then you'll start to see the

013that north pile too start to disappear as that is incorporated back into the landscaping and everything that goes around these ball pits. So along the flange there along the on alongs and everything. So they're they've actually started some of that. So they're doing it right now actually as we speak. So, you'll start to see that they are actively working that pile, but I've got assurances from them that they're going to be double covering that now from here on out. Uh, you know, it's it's hard when you see that pile sometimes that with the wind and everything. It's it's a monumental task to keep that thing covered all the time, right? So, um, but I think that with a double cover that'll help. So, that's it for treasure unless you guys have any more there. So,

014we'll move on to Doure. So Goer's way is right on schedule. I mean, it's just tracking so nicely. The track demolition will be done the end of this week. So they will be completely out of there. They're going to start the regrading actually. Uh and they are scheduled to be in here. Let's see my notes here. June 15th. So they will start repouring that track. Um they've got about a month schedule for pouring. Um, so July 10th is kind of the finish date there. And then again, that'll set for a little while while it cures up. It'll be curing at different stages a little bit. But the um Westside Home bleachers are just kicking really. That's a whole concrete structure, right, with the concessions on the back side of it at ground level. Uh, and

015so they are about 70% completed the concrete there. They've already started the steel on the south end of that structure and the deck for the second level. And so and then they're just going to work their way across it north. Um and uh so and then the rest of the the seating and everything is pre-cast and it is scheduled to be here the 8th right after. So you'll start to see them swinging that in there with the crane. They'll get all that seating done. The concessions have the slabs to be poured. The foundations are done. Um, but they're behind that structure. So, if you you're on the back side of the church, there you can see see that those those little buildings coming up there. Um, there is that 8ft sidewalk that goes all the

016way around the track. The south side, I would say, is about 75% done, which has a retaining wall against the apartments there. And then there's a little railing going along the track there. This is to keep people off the track, right? so your your uh foot traffic can work its way all the way around the track both north and south. They've started the southside which is an ADA ramp partially and then it flattens back out as it gets back towards the west there. But they've started the footing for that and they started part partial retaining wall of that. Uh that's kind of incorporated in that 70%. Once they finish this south side, it ties right into that structure they'll move over to to the north side. Um most of the site utilities are done there.

017I would say the sewer and um the electrical is going hot and heavy right now. Uh Rocky Mountain Power is coming in to set a transformer here pretty soon. Um on that west on the east side, sorry. Uh all those buildings are up obviously. You can see the sighting going up on those. Um that's on both both buildings. Um the roofs are done. They're inside doing all the mechanical and electrical and plumbing. Um uh they are getting ready to grade out the visitors bleacher pad. The bleachers are coming in the end of June. That's for both sites. They're going to again hop back and forth as to what's available, but we're going to pour that pad pretty soon for the for the visitor site bleachers there. Um and the fencing guy, like I said, has

018started. Uh the canopy is the footings are already in for the canopy. So, it's just a matter of finalizing that stuff. But, uh Doure's right on track. It's right on schedule. There ever was and we just been had good weather, good working conditions. Uh the last real big utility probably to go in there is the water which is a cut into Lucky John. I'm just going to tell you right now so you're aware of that. Uh we're trying to get that permitted now. We were able to keep originally the original design showed the sewer and the gas and the water being tied into Lucky John. We were able to not do the gas in the sewer through some design changes, but we cannot change the water over there. There was only a 3/4 inch line

019that ran that old concessions building. And this building is, you know, three or four, five times the size of that with bathrooms and everything else. So, uh, they're in the process of that, but there will be some work back on Lucky Jump. So, >> when was that? >> Uh, they have not issued the permit yet. So, they're in the permitting process right now. They they think they could get it done with a day closure, but I would highly doubt that the city would give them a day closure on the permit. They may I don't know. We'll just have to see. >> So, how long will it take just a day for them to do it? >> If they could close the whole road again, but if they have to do it in sections, right, you

020have to have oneway traffic both directions. And that's >> And would you have to turn the water off at the neighbors? >> No. Turn off at the neighbors. There's already an existing connection there. We we might have it shut off for a minute or two while we make the new connection, but that's probably it. So, >> and then what's the time frame of this being finished? >> So, they will be finished. Uh they're they're shown about August, first part of August. So, there'll be some cleanup stuff that they'll have to do, right? The track striping may not be done, but the track surface would be done. Uh it just all depends on a couple of things falling into place, but the buildings would be done for sure. No question about it. In fact, they're scheduled

021to tie the the uh football field back in. I have written down here July 20th. So, they'll they'll be back in to tie that back into the track. So, most of that will be be usable other than there may not be the lines painted, a few things like that, but all the buildings should be done. So, uh they are really moving pretty quickly over there. >> Uh so, it's rolled back, right? which is it's a big carpet if you've ever looked at it and then they've taken all of the infill which is the rubber and the sand and they put they suction all that up and then set that on top of it. It's kind of weighing it down. So they'll just roll it back reo the infill stitch it back to the concrete. It's

022anchored to that concrete track where it's going to be. That's how they anchor these things around this whole the baseball field, softball field, soccer fields. You'll see this concrete curb and that's how that turf is anchored. So, >> so it'll be ready for for classes. >> Oh, yes. Yes. Yeah, for sure. I I can't see. Well, there I think they want to practice there. Is that right, Jamie? And so, I think that we'll they'll be able to practice there as well. And and uh they may have to walk across plywood to get onto the field while they're doing the track, but they should be able to practice there all summer. So, or when I think we coordinate the dates obviously, but yeah, they should be ready to go. So, >> dates. Absolutely. And I'm just

023curious, sorry about the 88 ramp >> on the north side. >> Yeah. So that comes up to the >> So as you as you work your way to the west, so let's say you're walking to the north down that you know to you kind of see the sidewalk. You see the yellow dots? That's those are those are light poles, right? The sidewalk's right next to that. So as you're walking along that sidewalk, there you go. As you're coming around, it starts to ramp up right about there. >> Okay. somewhere right there. It starts to gradually ramp up to the so you can get to the level of the of those bleachers on that other side. So it walks right into it. So >> Okay. So it's actually raised on the west side. Yes. >> Yes.

024>> Yeah. If you go over behind the church parking lot, drive around there, you'll see how much we've raised it up. There's a a new block wall around there and and everything else. And so and you'll see those concession sides are what they call, you know, at that garden level there. So >> progress. >> Yes. Yeah. And then the other side, just so you know, the south side's flat enough uh and then it's a natural ramp up. I think it meets the same requirements. So either way you go I think to make that >> question he's joining us. My name is Jacqueline Nap. I'm your special education director and I have a short presentation for you on our new social skills adoption for the secondary. Um, this is the last piece in our improvement cycle.

025Since 2018, our graduation rates have improved from 72% to 92%. In terms of growth, we're no longer identified in any targeted support improvement category and our students are now making academic growth that is outperforming their general education peers across the state. For the last three years in a row, we have won awards for post high outcomes. So, we're top in our category for students enrolled in higher education, students who are competitively employed or otherwise employed. So, special education has been working hard um on our academic outcomes and our post high school outcomes. And now it's time for the next piece in our strategic plan for our social skills evolution. Several years ago, we adopted an elementary social skills set of programming and today we're ready for the evolution in our secondary content. Students with disabilities

026face complex emotional shifts and things are new. We have digital safety, complex peer relationships, and our students are navigating a transition from high school to college. They're managing all types of um regular student stress in addition to stress that comes from being disabled, which can include academic stress or emotional health. and they're working on mastering their workplace communication. Because of these ch complex challenges, we focused on finding programs that had research base, longitudinal research, and a really good clear track record of student improvement um and outcomes that focused on community transition and doing well in school. Our community, our our committee included speech language pathologists, special education teachers, social workers, parents, and secondary administrators. Uh, as you can imagine, we have a diverse set of needs. And so, we actually adopted three different programs to

027make sure we've accommodate all of our learners. The first program we adopted is Everyday Speech. This has an expansive digital library and has a lot of modeling lessons specifically tailored for our students with significant cognitive disabilities. So these are easy to use, easy to understand, short and digestible. Um they keep even our most struggling learners engaged. And for our uh you know struggling learners, it does include some games and some worksheet components as well. So, this would be for our more significantly cognitively disabled students. The next one is for our older high school students. This is an evidence-based curriculum developed by UCLA called Peers. It's backed by research and shows even long-term gains 3 to five years after intervention. This is ideal for our populations that have average to high cognitive capability, but also have

028difficulty navigating social situations. You can imagine this would be for a student maybe with high functioning autism who does well academically but struggles socially. So those that profile of students this has a lot of modeling and it's best practiced in groups which is helpful for our social workers as they um help students combine their skills and and work together. The last one is social thinking. Um this focuses on the cognitive processes that drive social skills. In other words, this uh program teaches them to think about how other people are thinking. So those complexities um teaches them to initiate to listen to abstract what things mean getting the big picture and then doing so with humor and relatedness that's appropriate. So with these three different um curricula, we can provide IEP services that are researchbased um

029in the in the social skills and then support the whole spectrum of students with disabilities. Our rollout plan and training sequence timeline for is for this fall and then we will have a midyear review and analysis of the progress in January. At that time, we could do any future training that is needed. Tomorrow, we will hold a parent meeting um where parents can come and see the content, ask any questions they have. We'll hold that via Zoom from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. and Colton has posted that on our website. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Dr. do parents have to opt in or is this part of the IEP? >> This would be um students who have IEP goals um that are based in in searches >> and do you have an

030idea or an estimate of how many of the high schoolers for example would be using this? >> So in high school alone we would probably have 35 students who are on IEPs accessing social skills. Um so so a variety of of disabilities actually access this this type of program. >> I have one question. We go to the first slide. uh we have 92% of our state students who are graduating. >> Yes sir. >> What's the state graduation rate generally? >> Not that good. Um I believe >> I believe it is around 80% um for the schools who are doing well. Um, generally speaking, and some years that has been actually 100%. And >> what is it for old students? Say what? >> Um, I h I I'll have to look, but I'm happy to get

031that to you. I think it's somewhere between 70 and 80%. >> So either way, especially graduating at a high rate. That's >> Yes. And our students are also outperforming our general education students statewide. So, our special education students are making more than 50% growth every single year. That's outperforming all of the other general education students statewide. >> I wish these students should pay 21 or 22 that included in that. >> Um, so this is actually for RISE only. Are students with more complex disabilities taking alternate assessment? And we also outperformed the state there as well. So the state rate was 89.8%. Uh for the cohort of 2025 recognizing that the way in which the state measures graduation and is a student who starts at that school in 9th grade and finishes in 12th grade. >>

032So we came in >> you would not be considered as part of that cohort. eager candidate against someone else's count. >> You get counted but not part of the state cohort. So they're looking for ninth to 12. >> Okay. >> Oftentimes we may report out we had a you know 98% graduation rate. >> Um that could be those seniors who started with us in August and finished with us in June, not necessarily started with us as a freshman. So, prior to open enrollment, all of our students would have have been with us and gone through the system. Any other question? >> So, yeah. Are you asking when we were asked to looking at the second slide that's in the agenda with the cost that you're asking for? Um, yes, Lori Pierce has the cost sheet

033for you and it is included in the budget request for this. >> No, this is a just a presentation and discussion. I believe it's a decision item in June. >> Thank you. >> Five. It is so much fun to get to come talk about Park State High School at the end of the year loaded with all of the incredible data and feats that our school has accomplished for what before presentation gets pulled up. I think as I was processing like Park City High School in a year, you what happens at Park State High School is because you take this incredible community, parents, students, board leadership, right? And then you have all these presentations from elementary schools and eer and you've seen all the good work they're doing. Put that all in a pot, add our

034worldass staff to it, and it is world class. Sprinkle some uh seasoning from the Ed Foundation, maybe some fairy dust from the Foundation, and you get this. And it's incredible. Um, it is so easy to brag about parks. I'll talk about what we're doing to improve, but I get to start by saying what a year and what we accomplished. So, if you want to go to the next slide, I I just uh well, that's fishing and vision. I hope you all know it, right? We're inspiring and supporting all students equally achieve their academic and social potential. But go to the next one. I wanted to capture some pictures that show how that came to life at Parksley High School. We'll start in the center. So excited. This year we brought on Unified Sports. Uh both

035a basketball team and a dance team. Uh and it was so much fun. Unified is for our students with complex needs or special needs get to compete in sports. It's the first time we've ever had it at Park City High School. Our basketball team won a state championship. Uh huge kudos to their coach, Zach Blazak, who is a special ed aid and they had a blast. I got to go down to games. It is the best day of the year only to be taught by our dance team uh dancing. Uh recent last Friday I was at watching them uh dance and it is a joy and a privilege. Miss Anderson helped start that program this year. So you want to talk about letting people reach their potential and giving them access. We were able to

036do that. Top left you have student council. Top right you have girls golf winning state championship. Uh bottom right you've got uh a student in a construction tech class which I love. Our CTE program is pretty good. >> We've had we got we've had pretty good leadership in that department for a while now. So by pretty good it's incredible like the best the best and uh and that's an example of that. Uh bottom left that's a that's where we should get funding from maybe like the board of realators because that's a signing day with Yale, Dartmouth and MIT. That's not abnormal to Park City. Um, signing days are such a celebration. I'd encourage anyone to go because you want to talk about kids reaching their potential, getting to go on and and play sports or

037be a part of activities in college. It's a special day. That one, I chuckled at that one and said that that the realators are going to like that one a lot. You can go to the next slide. I couldn't stop here. Uh, top left, we started the year off girls cross country winning a state championship. Bottom left, state band, performing arts. Uh, incredible. Uh there's one picture better than the rest. That's the LIA picture. That's cuz Colton took it. The rest of them are amateur with my iPhone. But uh that's our LIA uh Day of the Dead celebration to watch our students get to embrace their culture and heritage. It's as beautiful or more beautiful than the picture. Um debate in the middle bottom there. Listen to this. Miss Williams sent me this of the

038seniors uh going that are in debate. This is where they're going. Harvard, Yale, Vanderbilt, Uski, Boulder, U Washington, USC, Depal, Montana State, and UVU. So that's a little secret sauce for colleges. And in the right, we have Sterling Scholars, but we also have kids going to trade schools. We have kids going to uh on on religious missions. We have kids that are reaching their dreams out of high school at a profound level. And again, it's the pot. We're pouring all this in the pot. And we get at Park City High School to see it. And we see it more than any other school. And not that the elementary schools don't get to see it, but we literally get to see them walk across the line on June 5th and throw their caps in the air.

039And that is that's what we do. So, it's a privilege to be at Park City High School because that's what I see every day. I just watch the mission and vision come to life. These are just a few small examples of that and wanted to share some pictures with you. You can jump to the next slide. Um, academic success, you've got a lot of data from our school right now. We did receive number five ranking in the state. Uh and I'll talk a little bit more about that. Why we did is in the middle there. It show uh it shows our data. We're ranked number one. And college curriculum is really our bread and butter. Proficiency is where we have some work to do, but I'm going to highlight that in a moment. And then

040uh just some other data points. 270 AP tests given this year. That's not the most ever. That's the second most ever. Average ACT score 23.5. Although that might be going up because I guess AT screwed up uh how they scored and only scores are going up. 4,964 concurrent enrollment credit hours earned for college in addition to the AP test. Huge shout out to Adrien Wley and her team. Uh one of the awards that we're most excited about this year is the right that's from the state office of education and that is for our ML students accessing college and career readiness courses as well as AP courses. So that is a huge shout out to our dream big program, Mel Moffet, Anna Williams and Sykes again, Adrian Woolly supporting concurrent enrollment and our AP teachers encouraging

041all students to take these rigorous classes that make Park City High School so special. >> Do we have the financial value just over 1.8 8 million in college tuition. >> That's in the concurrent enrollment. That doesn't include the AP and that's priced at UBU as an average rate. So could be more, but 1.8 million for concurrent enrollment through UVU alone. Uh let alone the 2170 AP test at a three credit hour. That's that's an additional 6,000 plus credit hours all accepted which is another two plus million dollars. It's a good day. It's a good day. >> We can jump to the next slide. So, I want to dive into that national ranking uh a little bit more. Um the the left scorecard, the 94.92, that's Park City scorecard. Um the the middle scorecard is uh

042the top ranked school in the state. That's Beehive. And uh you can kind of see how we compare. And then those numbers off to the right. So, spoiler alert or not, this is 23 22 23 data. Um that's how we got ranked for this year. It's a little bit disappointing how slow it is to get to the data, but our current uh proficiency data, which we're really proud of, these are the highest scores Park Proxy High School's ever had on the Aspire test. Math 53%, reading 69%, science 70%. So, look out for our ranking in 2829. It's going to be really good, really good. But, you can do the math there. I think it'll be number one and we're proud of that. Um, so the the couple highlights on that on those Aspire scores just

043to give you an idea. Um, our math 10 score is 14% higher, breaking that down a little bit than the state average, and it's 4% higher than math 10 was last year. Our science 10 score is 22% higher than the state average, and 23% higher than it was the year prior. Our reading 10 scores is 21% higher than the state average and 1% higher than it was last year. Math 9 is 23% higher than the state average and 4% year-over-year. And math 10 n has been on a tear for the last five years they've been working on this and they're still making gains. Science uh in ninth grade is 78% proficient will certainly be the highest in the state in public schools as we were last year at a lower rate. Just 28% higher than

044the state average and 6% improvement from last year. And reading is 20 reading in nth grade is 24% higher than the state average. It is down 2% from last year. we were the highest performing school, but the fact that they've been able to stay at that bar in the 70% proficiency, I think is pretty commendable. Um, so that's kind of breaking down that 5369 and 70%. Uh, and we're really proud of that that movement. What that allows us to do now is this data is now what I would consider valid. Um, we took the test seriously. We did implement some instructional strategies to improve those scores, but a big part of it was simply taking the test seriously. Now we have valid and reliable data that we can attack next year. And and because that

045data is incredible compared to the state, it's pretty untouchable. But if you fall outside of that data, if my kids in the in the 30% that's not proficient, great. The data, what are you doing about my kid? Well, now we have valid and reliable data. So we put our teachers in PLC's and we have them strategically address the gaps and needs of kids. And you do that over and over again. And that's how personalized money comes to life. And that's how we keep meeting kids where they're at. because I love the data and I want to be number one, but I don't really care what US News and World Reports because I want every kid to leave Park City High School and say it's the best high school in the world because if they go

046that that way they they were loved, they were challenged, they learned, and they feel prepared. The data will happen as we continue to do that because it's already happening. But that's what we want every kid to leave. And we're not there yet. A lot of kids say it's the best high school in the state, best high school in the world. But there are kids that are not saying that right now. So that's what we have to why we have to stay on this journey of personalizing learning and making it more special. Um we're going to celebrate a heck of a lot along the way. Our staff deserves that. Our kids deserve that. You deserve that. This is a celebration of all of us. Celebration of the elementary schools. You can jump to the next slide.

047We talked about some of the things we do, some of the things that are fun about Park City High School. Um up there, we believe in PLC's at Park City High School. That's our tracking, those little dots and check marks. We're tracking every teacher. how many uh meetings they're in, how many meetings happen on a weekly basis on Friday. Uh we provide feedback on their meetings based on a tracker they submit. So it provides a level of accountability, but it's also uh the meetings are teacher run. They know how to deal with it. We just ask for feedback. Do they love the trackers? Probably not. Um but we want them to be in a small amount of discomfort. It's like exercise. We don't want them to kill themselves because then they can't get up for

048a week. We want just that slight discomfort to keep pushing. And then we pull back and feed them and make sure that they have those good days to rest and celebrate as well. Uh we have a building leadership team and uh and an operational leadership team made of teachers uh and staff. The high school is so special because we also have students in leadership role student council latinos in action. The minor athletic advisory committee, national honors society, all to name a few. Um culture as the superintendent will tell you strategy for breakfast, lunch and dinner. We could not be more aligned in that. Um, one of the things we do to try to keep things fun is we had a staff at Winter Games. During the Olympics, we were having Winter Games and uh, we

049had a lot of fun competition. You've got to smile. You got to make things fun for your staff. I want our staff to come to work and say, "It's fun to work here." And, um, not every staff member loves every little silly game we play, but if we do enough silly little things, we're going to connect with them somewhere. >> And then um, I don't pretend to be the best uh, at anything that supporting our MLS. That's an example of a PD that was led by our MLA teachers for our whole staff. And great thing about Park State High School is I don't have to be the expert in anything because I've got experts everywhere. So, we try to lift those experts up. That's an example of uh of the PD that uh was put

050on by staff, not by uh administrators. Go to the next slide for Drew. Um so, communication. Uh some of the highlights of how we communicate. Most people know me as the YouTube video guy. Um, I regularly go out and about and they're like, I think I know you. It's like you you watch me on YouTube. My video notes. We also have a a weekly newsletter uh that goes out every week in collaboration with our PTO. We call it the silver scoop. We have a weekly calendar uh and notes that go out to the staff. That's a weekly calendar you see on the left. One thing we've done this year, Jamie Sheets, Chris Bear really helped us get this off the ground over the course of the last year. We've moved to a model where all

051of our athletics and activities communicate through one platform sports. No more figuring out different platforms. Uh sports you we also have access to everything in the background. We had to use it once this year. We need to see some messaging to verify that everything was above board. It was actually um it wasn't we our staff specifically but you call sports you we immediately have access to all the messaging so we can see it offers a safety protection as well. So those are some of the examples of how we're trying to create efficient and effective communication. We'll jump to the next one. Community alliances are huge. Uh, I'd be remiss this year if I didn't give a huge shout out to Basin Recreation and Park City Recreation. We couldn't use our fields. Our girls just won

052the semi-finals of the state lacrosse game because uh both BAS and the and the PC Recreation said, "We're happy to help. Let us know what you need." And they went above and beyond. Uh, great partners. Community Foundation supports us through uh United and other endeavors like uh Live PC and Get PC. We're grateful for their uh we have the best SRO in the state. Uh he's incredible. Art is world class and we just feel like our students and staff are much safer because we have an SRO on the building. So we're grateful for the funding that you put into that um along with our partnership with the Park City Police Department. PC CAPS is our program, but one thing that makes it so unique is it it we are uh interacting our students are interacting

053with so many different community partners because of CAPS. And then um you we're so excited about what the Go Miners Foundation is going to do for athletics because we've already seen how the Park City Education Foundation has exponential impact. I'm telling you, their dollar goes farther. It's like you get us where we need to be and then they can I I'm serious when I say it's that flavoring, it's that seasoning. It's exponential on the back end. So, um they're obviously a partner that every school's highlighted as well. So, that's a little bit of our community alliances and um excellent personnel. uh that some fun stories. We have a lot of excellent personnel. I want to share a fun couple fun stories. I'm at a Utah game and all of a sudden I'm like there's on

054the big screen Zack Giddings conducting the whole universe Utah that's a that's a band teacher. I'm taking pictures of the big screen and he didn't even tell me. So that was Zach Giddings and that's everyone knows how incredible Zach is. We got to honor two best friends who are retiring. uh Deb and Mary Sue and uh Joanna Andre uh won teacher of the year and uh you know I have the privilege of inviting two other staff members here today. They didn't know this but they're here to be told how awesome they are as well. So I want to talk about Ashley Jensen and Dave Feesler for a moment. Um Ashley uh it was uh formerly our secretary in the counseling and this year uh she stepped into a role we needed her. there were some

055shifts that needed to be made and uh wonderful Beth went to Eker and Ashley stepped up and became our admin assistant. That's that's a job in of itself because you have tolerate me all day every day. Um and then on top of that when I think about Ashley Ashley I think about you're you are a culture creator. The environment that you have made in the main office um you care deeply about people. That is what we want when people come in. We need them to know they're loved and cared about. That's what you do. You are always smiling. But my favorite thing about you is I can hear your smiling leg to see. So I wanted to honor you and thank you for the difference you've made in the main office. And uh >> we

056got our second person I wanted to honor today is coach Dave Feesler. Um coach resigned yesterday as our head baseball coach. He's stepping down. Um and he has been our head coach for 10 years. He's also, we'll talk about uh his teaching in a moment, but conservatively he's worked over 5,000 hours, and that's a conservative number. I can assure you that as our head baseball coach, um that's 625 work days, nearly two years uh of of of work has been put into that. Two 365 day years have been put into the baseball program. Make a big difference. David, they say that 10,000 an hour makes you good at something, so you're halfway. You know, he is also an AP Econ and business teacher. Um, I'm very fond of the AP Econ program. That's a story

057for another day, but he's grown it. What was your pass rate last year, Dave? >> 90%. Uh, and it's, uh, it's grown year over year. Kids love his classes. He teaches PC caps. who's had an incredible impact in in our academic program as well. It was a lot easier to accept your uh resignation stepping down knowing you're going to stay on board as a teacher and assistant coach. So David, I want to honor you today. Thank you for your hard work. >> Thank you Ashley for you guys to join us. Ingred from the Ed Foundation and do we have a veil epic promise? Yes. Uh first and foremost, uh I've known both of you for a long time. Caleb talks about a program known as CTE being good enough. Um it's an excellent program and

058Dave is one of the reasons that it is an excellent program. He teaches business and marketing uh in our CTE department. Um he is a Park City High School alumni and he chose to come back and work for us. and that I've known Ashley for many years as well as her spouse Nico and Aaron dynamic duno duo that give back to this community in more ways than I can count. So, thank you to the two of you for embodying what it means to be one park city. I'll turn it over to our echo promise representative to talk a little bit about what you two received. >> Yeah. Well, congratulations. Um super excited to be here. Um this is Steve. This is uh behalf of Bark City Mountain and Bonus. Thank you so much. >> Get

059a $100 gift certificate either to one of their apparel stores, one of their restaurants, or a day pass. >> Every day pass. Yep. >> So you get a choice. So it's more than just paper. We're grateful to the Ed Foundation as well uh for partnering and sponsoring this award. Our educators, our staff give endless hours into our community, our kids, and it is oftentimes a thankless job. So, this is just a small recognition of their efforts that they put forth on a daily basis. So, thank you One, two, three. One more. One, two, three. >> Thank you. And since Jamie Sheets is in the audience, I'll take this opportunity. He is going to step in as the head coach of our baseball program. He has experience at the collegiate level. Dave will stay on as

060an assistant coach, but it helps bring continuity to our baseball program. All right, Caleb, you're still on. >> Yeah, well, I wasn't quite done. You only get and then I am still on, but I just wanted to touch base to what's next a little bit. Um, one of the uh, one thing one area that we know is a is a potential gap uh, is just the transition is so big now because we lost a stepping stone uh, of treasure which again I'm in full support of where we're at today. But uh, we know that our freshman and their transition. It's a it's a school community council goal for ours next year. We just want to set them up for success. One thing that our staff's in support of and we have a team plotting what

061could be is a freshman first day which would mean that the first day of school would be for freshmen and newcomers only at the high school. Not for all schools but Park City High School's first day. It wouldn't be a new first day. Um I do believe it would require a slight adjustment uh from you all to allow us to not to basically excuse sophomores seniors uh that are not new. That day would be uh a combination of culture building. think of it conference style sessions on supports on student success behaviors on rules and really to ensure that like they know what they're doing. Um there's a lot of other schools that do this. Our friends at Wasatch uh have done it for quite some time with great success and um our staff's in support

062of saying hey let's give the freshman the time they deserve. the second half of the day is going through the schedule and getting comfortable in the halls without um 1,200 other students and like the pressure of like holy cow that's that was a senior you know that just walked by me because they're substantially different in size especially at the beginning. So, um we would like to move forward with that with the board's blessing. Uh and um uh >> that'll be a decision item to adjust uh the calendar later this evening. >> And then um uh you know our PLC journey continues. We we spoke to what we're doing to improve data and really PLC's and PCBL in my opinion go together and we're talking about personalized competency based learning and we believe that PLC's are

063the avenue which that happens because we do believe what superintendent says in our tagline like learning is personal on every path is possible and that journey is going to happen through PLC's at RCIS you put staff together and you let them be the professionals using data to drive decisions is great and you can throw all the rest out because if we do not prioritize relationships first and foremost in everything we do. And again, that's why I want to honor Ashley and Dave because they did that and they do that. Um, all the rest of the stuff won't work. So, that's what we're going to continue to do. And now get to talk about sister city get for a bit longer. >> We're all in the relationship. >> Okay. Go on to city. Uh, we talked

064a lot about achievement and it's amazing. How are we doing with demographic gaps? So, um there is an achievement gap period. Uh one of my goals is is both obviously you want to close the gap, don't get me wrong, but really we just as much as I want to close the gap, I want to tilt the gap. I want everyone to keep moving up. And what we what we're doing is we're tilting the gap on programs like Dream Big, etc. But is this gap getting reduced? Um and I'm thrilled if we can bring this gap up as long as this top doesn't go down, right? And that's why part of our focus is like let's just shift it and if everyone starts moving that direction we're keeping everyone at their full potential. Um our we

065exited several students in WEDA which is a celebration but yet we want to do several more. Um so we had two exits. We've had years where we've had no exits. We've had years where we've had three or four exits. When they lowered the precedent a couple years ago, every school had a ton of exits. Right. That was a good thing. So we had two exits in WEDA. um which we're very happy that students exited and we're we have not gotten uh the growth scores. Um our ACT scores are lower uh with our Latino population than they are with our Caucasian population. Um but they're climbing. So I think we're making progress, but it's not there yet, Nick. It's not there yet. >> We do have a national merit finalist. >> Yeah. >> Don't speak to

066that student. which national merit finalist >> finalist. >> Yeah, we've got a Oh, Parker K. >> Yeah, >> he's incredible, man. Parker is fantastic. He's going to be honored at the at our community scholarship awards. He's a national merit scholarship. You know, one of our kids that has a 4.5 GPA. Um just an impressive young man. National merit finalists don't happen very often. Um so we're we're excited. We actually have another one that was just announced as well. So, um, exciting awards that that are available to some of our students. These are primarily based on the SAT um that some students opted to take in their junior year along with other qualifying factors. All right. >> Um, different presentation, same person. Uh, I'd like to introduce I do have a partner on this one, actually.

067>> Nailed it. Uh, she is with this one of the representatives from the sister city association. Uh, Park City Sister City Association. We're going to kind of co-present and share a little bit about the two programs that they run and um my idea of of formalizing something that's maybe been operating in a slight gray area for a really really long time. So, I'll let Ash speak to the history and then I'll talk a little bit about the program. >> Thank you. And thank you guys so much for having me. Also, Gary, the presentation of the high school made me like very excited. I hope Caleb's the principal and my son starts there and he's four. >> So, just beware. I'm like looking for that trajectory. Um, a lot to be proud of. So, thank you

068guys so much for having me. Like Caleb said, my name is Ashley Bianu. Uh, for any frankones in the audience, that literally means welcome in French. So it's very appropo that I'm here on behalf of the sister city relationship with Corvelavel France. So Park City and Porscheel have been sister cities since 1984 and we are uniquely each other's sole sister cities. So it is a very longstanding and very indepth relationship rooted in two really amazing ski communities. Um and the community that was started in the 80s, that kind of resolution still holds true today. Two small places who love what we do where we live and everything that that can bring. And in so doing, we have actually created two youth programs specifically. So, we do things through the city. We do things uh for

069citizenships with Park Heights, but I'm going to obviously talk about specifically what we're doing with our youth here and our high school students. So, the first is what we call a winter summer exchange. This takes place over the February break. And we actually started this in 1989, so shortly after the association was founded. During this trip, we bring anywhere between a dozen and two dozen high school students to Corvel for 10 days during their February trip. They are actually hosted by French families in Cororche and then their French counterpart comes out here to Park City in July. We run this usually every other year. This year is a little bit unique. We're running two backtoback because just as we are gearing up to host the Olympics in 34, Coravevel is hosting them in 30. Um,

070so we don't want to above that too closely. Um, now it used to be, so I'm I'm here obviously not as a founding member, well maybe not obviously um not as a founding member of the sister city relationship, but as a board member here. So our relationship was originally um run by um a PCHS teacher, French, um Sue Galucha, and she just ran the whole show, including the student trips, which was amazing. our current president, Tina Quail, who unfortunately is traveling right now, so could not be here. She took over the nonprofit in 2009, although I do want to give her a shout out. She was also on the original signing documents, which is pretty rad. And then she took a little step back to raise her own family. Um, so she still runs the

071ship, is uh our leader here, and has been in Park City since the 70s. And I feel like it's just quintessentially Park City. Tina, if you're watching, hello. Um and then we kind of evolved our student programs. Winter summer um was so successful and we had so many students run through that program that we then created sort of a secondary program which we call our academic exchange. I actually run that program. That's essentially our study abroad. So instead of sending a large group of Park City High School students for a short period of time, we send a small group anywhere from one to five juniors or seniors to Corvel for up to three months. So we try to hit just under that three-month cap to not have to worry about visa complexities. Um and similarly,

072it is direct reciprocity report. So they are embedded in a host family there. Um, and they go to French high school every day, which I taught English in a French high school for a year. I can tell you it is wildly different than high school in America. Um, and that's our first year doing that started in 2012. And we have run that every year since then with a handful of students. So, our students go over in the start of the calendar year and we first welcome the French students at the start of this academic school year. So, I'm going to kick it back to Caleb to bring a little light to this. for you gears. I mean, this has been happening a long time and you can see these are big groups of students and

073what they report back is just the powerful cultural experience of being a part of it. Um, you can keep going, Drew. There's not a ton of special photos that happens both here, uh, one one thing that makes it unique, right? Students are coming here. We're not just going there. So, there's a partnership the whole way. So, you can see up on Main Street, uh, we've got some students here at Park City as well. Keep going, Drew. And Utah Olympic Park as well. So it's not just again in France and of course you didn't keep jumping. Um and one of the one of the biggest fans of this uh was actually Bob O' Conor. He loved this program and would definitely uh I think he likes skiing of course quite a bit. So so uh he

074he was there uh from time to time. That's a two-minute video that a student made in 2017. Um >> do you want to click on it? and it kind of captures a little bit more of what this is the winter summer trip highlights of that trip. the wall open for you. >> Just give me a second. >> Have to give me a second. >> There it is. I'm new here. there. It's just a soundtrack that is a student produced. We were staying on to get away from your shot right now. I don't think we could work this out. I don't know. I thought how could I let you by yourself Let's show them how ocean has go down together. Okay. shirt. time. >> I did verify that that was not a student of ours on

075the Paris sale. It was just they just happened to catch it and think it was worth filming so Randy could be a little bit more ease but that was produced in 2017 and you can just see it's a positive it's a positive relationship. You can jump back to the slideshow. We want to kind of talk about what makes it special and why uh I think that considering formalizing this uh instead of operating in a in a a gray space that we're in right now I think is in the best interest of our students. Um, one thing about this that makes it special is it's actually incredibly affordable because comparable programs for a for a trip are in the $5 to $8,000 range run by for-profit companies. But for our students, it is the cost of

076airfare and we've been able to subsidize that or cover that in uh students in need situation. Um, and that's the only cost other than if they want to have some spending money because the host families will take on the rest of of the expense of hosting. There's no hotel costs. Um, so it's minimal despite uh current oil costs. That's that's the expense for the trip. And then if you go on the academic exchange, uh the the organization has a paid insurance that's $150 a day. It's a student insurance that just provides extra protection. So, you know, we're not talking about substantially more on that end. Uh there's been situations in which we've had students go in the past, has been described to me, I wasn't part of this specifically, where we've had to identify different

077host families because maybe a family didn't feel comfortable hosting a student and and sharing the the fact that French students come back um for a variety of reasons and we're able to accommodate those types of things. So, one thing that makes it special is simply that it is so much more cost-effective. An academic exchange program with these for-profit and even nonprofit uh institutions that do this that are comparable oftentimes run in the 20 to $30,000 for that type of experience. And again, ours is uh this program that they offer is typically in the thousandish dollar range because that's the airfare. Um so that's something that really makes it special. >> Yeah, thank you. Um, so the partnership aspect of course, you know, this is incredibly long-standing and so this is something that when you go

078to Porsche, if you tell them I'm from Park City, they know exactly where that is and they know exactly who we are. So we are able to give that experience to students that they wouldn't otherwise get in just a generic study abroad program. They're it's very white glove. They're going um they're doing things that are just a little bit more special. Um I'll also say and a plug out to anybody who does love to ski or not. Um we brought 12 citizens to to park city citizens this year. It was wildly successful. We're planning another trip next year. They roll out the red carpet for us anytime we come in whatever capacity. So we're talking doing first tracks in the largest ski resort in Europe, dinners with the mayor, which we, you know, also do

079the same here. Um we are backed by the city. Um we are a 501c3 but we are funded by the city. Um and because of that true deeprooted partnership it gives our students an experience that is far beyond what they're getting from an offtheshelf program like Caleb mentioned. Um obviously the immersion right particularly for academic where they are there for three months and they are in school. they are truly living the life of a French teenager. It is unparalleled what they get to experience. Um and that can be from an extracurricular perspective. We try to facilitate if there are specific things that they are interested in outside of school and that's taking that exists in France and is taking place during the time they're there. We try to facilitate that. Similarly, and thank you to

080the high school who's done a great job doing the same for the French students that come here. So, they really get to experience what it's like to live in France, not just visit France, which are two intrinsically different things. And then, of course, that cultural aspect. Um, if any anybody been to France before. Okay. All right. So, good opportunity then for anybody who this may be interested in citizenship. I lived there for almost a decade. It truly changed who I was as a person. Mainly, I came home and my mom said, "Why don't you smile as much?" I grew up in the deep south and so we tend to smile a lot there and I moved to France when I was 21. So, it was a very formative portion of my early adulthood. Um, but

081jokes aside, it is very different and it gives our students the opportunity to open their eyes and see something that is wildly outside of their comfort zone, but in a way that pushes the boundaries in a safe fashion and an exciting one. Um, and then I actually we have a parent here who has um been a part of our winter summer who has had two of her daughters participate in winter summer. We were chatting before this, so I'm going to use some of the things we chatted about. It's also an amazing experience for our host families here. So, they might never be stepping foot into France, but having a French student come for 10 days or three months and them learning from that experience, siblings learning from that, it's truly something that you can just

082not get inside the classroom walls. No, obviously disrespect to the classroom walls. And I'm going to kick it to you for the education >> as a French minor. Guess where we go. This is this is education experiences are are some of the best learning opportunities and that's why I'm a fan of this with kids that are able to go and that were able to open the door and have the partnership. I'm grateful for it. Uh we realized in the process that we we crossed some wires unintentionally of like we can't market this if it's not our trip. But we want to let kids know and be dealing with that. And that's why we felt it was time to Hey, the last time this presentation of any kind happened, we believe was in approximately 2009. Um,

083so it was time to come back, share what it is with you, and and look at steps to potentially formalize because we think it's great education, a great opportunity for some of our students. Um, so we do have a couple proposals uh to be considered. Go to the next slide. Um, do we want to formal formalize this partnership and and be able to own it a little bit more as as a district program, meaning that we would we would be able to market it. Um, it would it would likely have some risk insurance uh ramifications. We'd go through the trip process and we'd be able to say, "Hey, it's something that we are behind and sponsor. We'd make sure we had a chaperone or two on the trips, not the academic exchange, but the winter

084summer trip. We make sure we it was a regularly chaperone trip." Sometimes someone goes, sometimes they don't go. We also give uh school related absences which has occurred in the past. Uh I've been told this year it was like no your parents have to excuse the trip. It's not our trip. As we we pondered that and then the academic exchange um is an incredible incredible experience for the one two four students that do it every year. But how it's been ran on the back end has been a little bit complex. So I put together a proposal on how we can formalize that exchange process so the students um the parents everyone has expectations that are managed and reasonable from our end on what they're supposed to do and uh what a realistic experience is to

085keep them on track for graduation and credit uh and credits but also not putting undue burden on our teachers who are like I haven't seen you in three months and I'm just supposed to be okay with that. Um so we have a couple different models that we believe could be worked. I don't think it needs to be presented here, but we've that's more of a teaching and learning process that we've started that dialogue. I said this is how I believe in model it would be very sustainable for a long time. Is this if you have any questions for us? >> Is there an existing between the school district? >> Um between not between the school district and the association. >> No. And we have created far more structure over the years. Um just well I'll

086say I particularly love structure and operations. So partially because of my OCD um but also the learnings the rinse and repeat right we've been doing this for over 40 years and we have learned a lot and we we have launched and iterated. So there is a lot more structure but to Caleb's point and the reason that we're here is there is so much more opportunity to set the school up for success the teachers and our students. And so it's really being able to give that that formality and that enhanced structure so that everybody's really extracting the maximum value from you know once in a lifetime experience. >> I I have a question. First question is do you need board members to chef? >> Yes. >> Because I'm happy to go hang out with >> I've

087seen you do YSA. You're good. I mean a lot of the detail questions, right? I mean what what does it look like if we uh if we do formalize this? Um how do we select the kids uh detail what it looks like academically for that? I mean those um just a lot to talk about. >> Yeah, great questions. in the proposal it speaks a lot to the academic process for the academic exchange in terms of selection you know that I would we would lean on they currently there's application processes for all of it um if in informalizing it I've already talked with Tina if that were to be something like we would we would need to cover the expenses of our fee waver students which informally has already happened um between in the past again

088I was not a part of this directly but in the past we've had students in need that we feel like this is they want to go. It's been beneficial and between the school and the association sundance fund which is going away but there's been other ways the school has helped fund these things in the past and the association is able to generate a little bit of revenue and it's like and again because it's reasonably affordable they can we can get the money together for the flight and those would be things that we would still want to be able to offer in my opinion um is a benefit to formalize that process and say yeah there's there's a process for this to occur um especially we open it up atou type situation where we said like,

089"Yeah, this is something." And then we could market it and promote it and tell kids we want to go. There would inevitably be caps and thresholds that we can't send 150 kids over break unless the whole board wants to go and our whole staff take over. >> I don't think that's families. >> Yeah, push is much smaller than we are. >> Um, I'm happy to talk through how our application process works now if you're interested. Obviously, we're very amenable to change for academic. Now, students are made aware of the program through the French teacher, um, Bernard. Um, this year, we actually, Tina and I went to present as well, um, just to talk a little bit about the opportunities. They then receive a packet of sort of our our program structure and frequently asked questions.

090In that packet is a written application for those academic students. It's a handful of short answer questions. Um, we also want to know sort of, you know, what's like the living scenario. So, if they're going to host a student, does the student have a room by themselves? Is it shared? Is it same gender? Etc. So, getting an understanding of that. We also want to ensure that the parents have signed off and are aware that their kids are trying to go to France for three months. Um, from there, we then bring those applicants into an interview pool. Um, and we typically receive every year, I'd say between three and eight academic applications. Corabell receives far fewer because they are smaller. Um, those applicants interview with myself and Tina. Um, so we get to know them a

091little bit beyond the paper. We ensure that AI has not written those responses. Um, and we also test their French. We speak to them in French as well. Um, less so for winter summer where the language isn't critical. it is an academic because you have to be able to sit through French classes. Um, not only just getting through your day-to-day, but you know, you don't want to just be inundated sitting in a classroom and not having a clue what's being said. So, we test their French skills and then from there we sort of give the stack rank and we wait for France to let us know how many applicants have passed through their pool and then we can make our final cut to give that direct reciprocity pairing. Um usually the French principal is ruthless.

092She is just like no this you shall not pass. Um it is her last year she was retiring. So uh we are optimistic for some fresh exciting uh blood there. Um but for example France only had three applicants this year and there's a very very strong chance that their principal will only allow two. Um so they go through a similar you know vetting process slightly different but we do uh we also welcome feedback from the school. So our French teacher obvious obviously knows these students um and so that's helpful. Um we last year we're also getting counselor feedback just to get a better understanding. We provided a survey of you know give us a ranking on this scale of um you know ability to navigate ambiguity, ability to stand problem solve, ability you know to

093to overcome adversity those sorts of things. Um, and that allows us to sort of create that stock breaking knowing that then we need to be able to pair with friends. >> And you said the academic program is juniors and seniors. >> That's correct. Yes. We also kids that go for the February and then go again. >> Absolutely. >> Academics. >> Absolutely. Um, and it's also really cool. One thing I was remiss in not mentioning from the immersion perspective, we're hearing more and more of our students now say, "I've been DLI since first grade. this is literally the culmination of everything I've been working for. And I think that is just such a truly remarkable experience that these things that they have been studying on the pages and with their teachers are now coming to life.

094And when I tell you I am beyond impressed by the level of French of the students coming out of this high school. I'm fluent in French, but I learned the hard way as an adult. Um, and it it is astonishing. Um, and so for many of these students, they've gone on winter summer and been on appemic because they said 10 days wasn't enough. Um, and they're just so drawn to again this thing that's been sort of novel, but they've been so immersed in. And you know, it's now the last several years, few years that we've kind of seen that come full circle of the students that started DLI in first grade that now are old enough to participate in one of these programs. Um and then you know we have the families that have multiple

095children and they send them all right they they all apply the winter summer for academic. Um we had one academic student last year. He has two younger siblings who are twins. They've applied for a winter summer for this coming year. Um it's just one of those kind of unparalleled experiences that you don't get from a large for-profit company like Caleb mentioned. Um, if we do this for the for our French kids, what we do for our Spanish kids? >> Great question. I mean, we don't we have to find a partnership and if you were to pursue it, where do you want to go, Nick? >> So, honestly, French. >> No, I I just I just think, you know, it's almost an incredible program. It could be supportive. you know, there is a case for thinking

096about what we do for uh similar opportunity for people who are in Spanish. >> There is a a outside of school program that some of our students do an exchange between us in Costa Rica. Um uh Nikki Arnstead, one of the teachers at Treasure, formerly Treasure Mountain High School, has has facilitated some of those in the past. So there's been opportunities, but those are kind of the, as Caleb mentioned, like the office shelf more service opportunities to travel and do that. And then those students would come and do some shadowing. Um, this was when I was a branch of treasure. So been a couple of years, but those have existed in our in our system. I'll say in the context of sister city, I won't obviously speak on behalf of the city, but they have

097said before they're very expensive. So there is, you know, there's the investment that's been in this for over four decades. And I think there's something special about us being each other's unique sister cities. Um, so obviously plenty of opportunity of of language immersion, but I think this sister city relationship is something that goes above and beyond just what we're doing with our students, right? >> You talk about um the fact that both cities are having the Winter Olympics and maybe having kids who are interested in leadership and in government. >> Yes. going and seeing how our different leaders prepare for that. Our Park City folks are going back and forth. >> Back and forth talking a lot. >> Absolutely. >> Um Tina and I actually just met um with Ryan and Adam two weeks ago

098even to talk about structuring a formal mayoral visit um particularly in prep for the Olympics. So there's so much that the association does outside of our youth. I would say our youth is really our core focus and I love this idea of um and I immediately think PC caps of this opportunity of like that professional aspect and this incredibly unique overlap um of of back-to-back Olympics and all of the learnings there and we're always looking for ways to increase the learnings across the town holistically even outside of our students. So you know whether that's grooming or snow making and all sorts of things. So absolutely yes. I think that would be phenomenal um for us and and if Tina were here I think she would like stand on the table and like shout big yes

099to this. We want to leverage this relationship that we've had with Gorchelle and how deep it is to further the town period. Right. And there's so many things that we can share learnings on like Corchel shuts down in the summer. They don't believe they can be a fourseason town and we try to consistently point them to Park City and how Park City didn't used to be a four-season town and its evolution. And so I think there's so so much opportunity here. Um we've got a stellar board. Um we're all volunteers obviously. Again, we're a 501c3 and so at you know at some point we're like our bandwidth is stretched but we all have that appetite and fire to do more. So, I feel like that would be such an amazing thing to explore. One thing

100I think first time I came knocking on your door right when you started your new job like, "Hello, welcome. I have some things I'd like to talk to you about." Um, was a culinary exchange with the high school. Um, so France French high schools are interesting. You almost pick a major in high school, much like we do at university here. And the culinary programs that they have there are tremendous, just like ours, and of course, very different. Um, the high school that we do the exchange with actually has a fullervice restaurant on site, open to the public that is entirely cooked by students and staffed weight post staffed by students. I ate there last year when I was there. Phenomenal food. So, you know, as we think about these more specific niches, I think there's

101so much opportunity that formalizing the relationship would allow us to continue to grow into these specific verticals. How do we make it work academically? I'm pretty familiar that educational systems outside of the US are quite different. So, how do we make it work academically? >> How have we in the past? >> How haven't we in the past and how how >> in the past which I do not believe is a is a good path forward and it happened 2012. I didn't actually know that the academic exchange very few people knew that the academic exchange was happen. Everyone knows about the February break. >> I was like, whoa, we've got an academic exchange. I didn't know that. um and I was assistant principal while the high school was happening. I didn't know that. It wasn't something

102that everyone was in tune to, but um currently the students stay enrolled in their courses and they do their best to follow along via Canvas or Mountain online school. It's uh they're enrolled in all your courses there while attending a full day of school there. Um it's brutal. It's not it's not a successful model. Not to mention our computers. Now, the sister city association does they know this. So, they provided computers, but um but our our computers don't work. it's not necessarily reliable to be on Canvas. Um, so we ran into like some pains where kids are going and then they come back and teachers are in a tough spot where they're like, how am I sp like it's unfair on the teacher, it's unfair on the student. Um, so the model that I would

103like to move forward with focuses on uh reducing and it comes at a sacrifice for a student on academic exchange. No, you don't get to stay in all your AP classes live, right? there's a there's a choice and that's okay because this experience might very well be worth your junior year or your senior year taking a lighter course load but um there's a couple different platforms we have available which includes our Utah student online students selecting some critical classes they need there possibly depending on curriculum adoption using egeneuity our platform for remediation for past failed credit in some core areas pairing down the load here potentially accepting some credit from France depending on what they bring back because it's accredited and and and working in partnership to say, "Hey, let's see what we can do."

104Additionally, we have a lot of juniors who can afford to leave for a quarter and just not take anything and just go all in on France and that experience is worthy and worthwhile. We support them. Our counselors can help, but we do want to keep them enrolled even if they're not in any classes in this unique situation. We want to say we in a in a partnership like you're still our kiddo. We're not saying get out in the next year in our current model. I've informed the sister association that we do not have a a formal MU or any process. So this is a beautiful program that I do support and the student is going to underroll in parks high school. They cannot still be at parks high school unless we formalize a relationship because

105I didn't know I can't I can't it's not for the teacher as a student and students are still going to probably go if that's the case because again that model is it can work. It's what all the other programs do and they'll come back with what they come back with and our counselors will work to to get them back online. But we're not going to have these teachers being like, "Yeah, I've got this kid on my roll that doesn't come for three months and uh and and then it's like 16 classes. So, you're in school all day and then you got like figure out Park City High School all day." We're going to pair that down substantially uh and try to create a experience for the kids that can go that just changes their life.

106Reaching our mission. You even have a project based curriculum like PCAST or culinary based or you know something else French that the kid is especially interested in based on what they've taken here >> or what they would get >> for when they're there. So French class is one area that's going in a carve out in the proposal that says you can still there a caveat to live classes is we might keep them in live French but for sustainability right now like the first evolution my proposal is we just keep it really clean and what they want to do is truly asynchronous online and so and then I do believe that those are the progressions that we can make but given where we're at the the fact that this exchange is happening next year as of

107today the kids that are going are expecting to unenroll and no longer be our student because I've had to say we got to clean this up >> because we can't have you be our kid when it just doesn't it's not allowable, >> right? >> Um but then I would love to explore that in the future. Uh potentially some project based learning experiences that they could come back and we could issue some other credits, but it would not be a live teacher on Canvas saying like it's unfair. The student came back this year, the teachers are in a bad spot and the kids in a bad spot and you're like h >> it doesn't feel good. So, I probably talk about this all night, but what do you need from us? >> I think that right

108now, um, I think that we need to get an MU drafted that will go to the board for approval in June so that we can then then I can say, okay, sister association, keep running your thing. Yes, we're going to help you screen applicants. Yes, we will um advertise um and and yes, we will build on the academic exchange side. We'll make sure we have a plan. will support it with their counselors. That proposal exists. On the February break trip, the winter summer, again, most of our school calls it the February break trip. We'll give you two school related absences and we're going to send two chaprons or we're going to send a chaperon every 10 kids because and another nice thing about uh the winter summer trip is if it's our trip and we

109have a level of ownership, we can hold students accountable to behaviors we expect. We expect kids to go and make decisions that are healthy to high school and regardless of laws that apply there. um is not a trip to go drink and that's that's not a trip we're endorsing. I don't care if you're 18. I understand the culture in France is different, but this is not a party trip. It's a cultural exchange trip. It's a it's a it's a it's a fun trip. It's exciting. You will laugh, you will cry, you'll play, you'll get to ski, you get to do all the things, but it's not a party trip. Um, and I'm not saying it has been a party trip, but there have been a few outlying situations over the course of four years where

110they've ran into issues and then we're kind of like, is it our thing to like jump in and help or not? And like, and now it's clean. And with the parents, it's going to be clean and we're going to say, "Mom and dad, grandma and grandpa, whoever the guardian, these are the expectations." And yeah, if they don't follow, we're going to send them home. >> Um, because we don't we're not trying to generate a party trip. That is not the goal. In fact, we're combating against that by becoming a partner. Um, this last trip was great. We heard no reports of of behavior of concern, but we would want to send chaprons and make sure we do it right. >> I think the should a board member has to be >> in between now and

111June. There are some logistical things we need to figure out. If we move forward with eenuity and offering original credit, it does have to go through a formal curriculum adoption. We need to look at uh liability and insurance. If we're going to formalize this partnership, so there's a couple logistical things we need to sort out before we move forward. I really like to look into the credit they get from actually taking French classes as well. >> And there the French school is one thing that they've been working on. Uh because I told them like if they come back with a a transcript as long as the French school produces a transcript for us, we will acredit French high school. We will accept that and give as many parallel credits as we can. Sometimes it might

112be like, you know, if we have a kid come from a private school and they have Bible class, even though it's a credit, there's nothing there like that that credit doesn't transfer to Parker High School and those and it won't be viable from France. But they might be a class where it's like we have nothing comparable to offer. Um, so that situation could exist, but if they come back with math credit, we're going to align that to the best of our ability to issue math credit on a quarter basis, even in a semester system, we'll have the ability to do that. So that's that is a that's a phase that's happening. Ash's been working on it. It's in process. We started talking, had a discussion. >> We've got the green light from France now. They'll

113provide that transcript. Uh there's the complexity that our students don't get to choose the courses they take, Wilston, France. They mirror what their post student is doing. Similarly to what our French the French students do when they're here. Um we are working with the high school there to see can they even shuffle a couple of classes if they'd like. Um the French academic system is incredibly uh rigid, very very rigid. Um as is their principal as I mentioned. So I think that is less likely to happen than like real complexities that we all understand here of just caps and the number of students you know the actual like hours of classes mapping up etc. Um but that's something we would also love to eventually get to a spot where you know hey this Italian credit

114does me no good while I'm in France. Can I maybe swap that class for something else? So, that'll be a longer conversation, but we do know from a French high school they will issue him a transcript to be able to bring back to PCHS. >> Any other questions? Thank you guys. >> Sorry, Randy. You got to follow. >> I didn't want to follow. So, it's all right. Um, we're gonna shift things up a little bit just because we're so far past. Um, do we have any go to public comment? If anybody here public comment >> just wanted to create that opportunity. Someone was waiting. All right. Now you're after France. got to learn to schedule better. >> I'm sorry. >> Yeah, tough u tough situation. All right, I'm going to give you uh this month's

115just a snapshot of where we are budget-wise, kind of what went into it. Just some high level stuff. Uh and then the proposal would be come June. Uh our June meeting will adopt the final budget for the current year as well as the budget, new budget for the following year, 27 year. And so that's kind of where we're at. We do have to post a book. Um, and the book's going to be read this year. This is we haven't quite changed the color. I just actually ran the copy and they got the color change for us. But, um, we we do have to post this book before June 1. So, when we have that final draft done, we're relatively close. Uh, we'll make sure we send out the board members as well for you guys

116to take a look and then please provide any feedback. uh it's not a final product until we approve it and resume it. So um going to celebrate the biggest thing on the next slide that's no tax increase uh Lindsay myself and we we've come through we've uh built a budget that uh worked through a budget a lot of pieces to it that's allowed us to not have a tax increase for our local taxpayers. That'll be two years in a row. Property tax wise I will tell you we will anticipate about a 1% growth. We're not expecting a lot. Still kind of still kind of adjusting from the big raises two, three, four years ago and assessed value that the county went through. Every county went through that and so kind of adjusting to that, but

117uh we'll we'll see how the growth comes in. Um the property tax information is not available to us until June 8th. Our county is really pretty good about getting that to us on time. So, we really won't have any concrete property tax information until uh till the next meeting. Uh the basic levy rate's not set yet. That's the evil rate for >> and so that's not set. And then our debt service rate will relatively be the same. The debt service rate is what pays our general obligation bonds does not pay the lease revenue bonds and the go bonds and that's set based on what our interest in principal is for next year uh going forward. So just to kind of give you an overview of the property tax rate history where we've been you can

118see five years ago FY22 we were up in the four point range now we're down to the three this current year we're at the 35 range and I anticipate this going down a little bit more barring anything weird the basic levy I'm assuming the basic levy will most most places I think assess value so we kind of see a trend over there as it as it falls these are the rates you have control of the first one is the voter local levy rate. So that rate is at 518 this year. We generally will be placed through the same next year. It will ratchet down based on the certified tax rate process. Uh something you can share with your constituents. That's 25% of the allowed rate. That's what we charge here. And so uh pretty pretty

119good shape there. The other rate is the board local levy that you have control over as a board. And we're 51% of the allowed rate there. And that's based on the current year uh rate. I also think that'll ratchet down as well. So service levy we kind of instead of the same the board does set that rate. That's rate set again based on principal and interest that's due for the geo geo bonds. Um we start the budget with student enrollment. So you can see here projection wise uh based on our latest numbers were 39.94. Uh that's a 1.3% decrease in current year enrollment. We're kind of in that time right now where with the open enrollment and how many kids have been accepted, how many kids will end up not coming, how many will come.

120We're kind of in that area where we're a little unsure where that's really going to be overall. Uh obviously the the students that have been accepted within the staff and and and space that we have um this number actually would only affect us in the new budget year if in fact we had growth. If we have growth we get that in that year. But otherwise this number would not affect us till the 28th fiscal year. And so that's why I'm not real concerned about the student enrollment number where we're really at here. This is a loss of 55 kids. that AVM would actually fund us in 28. So we worry more about it after October one to see. >> But that number does include open enrollment is as best guess. >> Yes. Based yes. Yeah.

121>> Yeah. I would say without that because I've run some numbers over the years without the open enrollment I figure it probably 50 to 100 lower just based on on the trend and how that focus on >> the hope is to maintain to stay that 4049. That's really our hope right now. Um and may maybe we'll make that, you know, several times. All right. Next sheet is our revenues just to give you an over overview of those. Uh and this is talking just the operational fund. We'll talk about the other funds here in a minute. Uh from local sources, uh I think we we've shared this before. Property tax growth 1%. It's about 650,000. We have been able to repurpose existing money in our budget to the tune of $2.5 million and then we are

122using some one-time funds of $3.3 million. Keep in mind in that 3.3 million 2.5 of that was dedicated for doer the doer project right previously and so we'll show you fund balances and show you we're still really healthy o overall state sources the 4.2% 2% increase on the WPU generates about $700,000 and that's just simply an unrestricted money. Any restricted money goes into those programs. So special ed, CT, those types of programs that does not include that. We do have on here at Senate Bill 241 reallocation. So that's the reading intervention bill. It came came about. We're about $148,000 is our allocation. It's there's not a supplant clause in that funding. And so we believe a lot of that we're offering already and would be able to absorb some of that. So that would help

123our budget out. Um obviously if that's off just a little bit, it's not a deal breaker. So we'd still be able to manage that. So total revenue uh changes 7.3 million. Keeping in mind again we're using 3.3 million in one time money from there. Next page shows you some of the things uh we're proposing to approve operational requests. There's been a funding change with the Park City Ed Foundation. Uh they've got programs that they've graciously sponsored for a long time in our district. Uh we're trying to offload those so it makes room for more programs for them. Some of these programs have been around for a little while. Uh for example, Leninos in action recly or RC league, excuse me, debate theater. There's some special ed supplies in there. So those are things we'll take

124in our operational budget and allow the foundation to have that bandwidth to use those funds for other other requests. Overall, we do have there's two elementary visual actually four elementary vis visual arts positions on here. Two of them we're classifying as ongoing funds. Two of them we're classifying as one-time funds. So two of those will come back next year. Still going to be an ongoing position. We're not we don't have any intent to cut that obviously the next year even though it's onetime money. It just gives us a way to easily manage the budget a little easier. And then if this year comes in higher revenue-wise or the new year then we we change that to an ongoing budget. Right. Overall uh we have budgeted $60,000 this year. Superintendent Huntsman allocated dollars to each school

125and department for culture building. Uh that was $50 per employee. uh as well as the administrators as part of their administrative uh compensation agreement, they received $25 for culture building at at the school level. So, we're combining those two. We're taking the piece from the administrators, putting it all in the school supply budget, department budgets, and that'll be a total of $75. They continue on uh with however they want to use it to build a culture uh within their department. So, you want to comment on that one? No, it's just a way to provide swag for teachers and staff, a way if they want to sponsor a lunch, um, however they choose to use it to build culture within their buildings or within their department, they can do so at their discretion. >> The nice

126graduation funding, so the high school is graciously paid for graduation every single year out of their coffers. Uh, we've determined that's a board responsibility or pay for that. And so they've asked for some reprieve on that. We granted that. Uh there were also some adjustments during the year, right, that contributed to some of that. So we've allocated $30,000 for that for graduation funding. Drivers ed contingency. We'll be the proud owners of a driver's ed program next year at Park City High School thanks to Tracy Fartwood. Um and so we put in a contingency there as we signed up. It's the first year the state has cut money for capital and for covering waivers. So that was part of the the carrot to say, "Hey, we'll cover your capital. We'll recover your waiverss," which they've done

127for years. Uh but the legislature took that money from them, so they're unable to do that. So we've set aside a contingency just in case that's needed. We've also um set aside $50,000 between school supplies. These are things for schools, capital, textbook budgets, those types of things. since they have more students that come in, especially with the open enrollment. We'll we'll make them whole on those supply budgets. I've also got on here some custodial supplies. We're we're evaluating that right now. I think we may be a little bit under what we're what we're providing some of our custodians and they should have some more supply money there and we're evaluating that especially with the new square footage at the schools. So attract and retain employees uh medical insurance increase equates to about 1.73% uh as

128the base it's 1.3 million that we're taking out of the operation account or increases around 1.8. We are we are changing our benefit manager pharmacy benefit manager but we'll realize some savings there we believe uh as well as we're taking some from fund balance in our self insurance fund which is still pretty healthy overall. So, uh, we were able to navigate through that. We had a bad year insurance wise. It's not a secret. Uh, you're going to when you're selfinsured, you're going to have a bad year every four or five years. That's just the nature of these. So, we're hoping this is the one time and not a two time deal. So, uh, staffing changes. This is a culmination of a lot of different changes, a lot of partial FTEs. It includes the arts integration.

129Uh, includes other needed positions that are coming in as well as cuts to some positions or through attrition. Uh the total is 2.45 FTDES that that we're saving. It's about $750,000. So that's part of the changes that have been going on as well. Uh with that we we have we have added 75,000 for the educator salary adjustment. They did add um they did add 3% to that. We typically don't get fully funded all the way and so we'll build some in. Plus they've added nurses to that as well which our nurses are already there and and have that. We have a workers comp insurance increase of 25,000 and then of course I've got the doer project down there to help us balance because as accountants everything's got a balance right so any questions on those

130oper list so that started coming before you before that so okay last page here is our fund balances that really tells paints the picture where we're at. So if you look on the first line, general fund, you can see under the 2425 year, we're at 48 48,279. 2526 year, 455. It's a $2.7 million decrease. Remember, we passed a budget for this year at a deficit. I think it was 2.6 in the original budget. I really believe through a year-end process, money that's not being spent in certain areas, we're going to be closer to break even. So, I'm really not concerned about that number being down. We do have to make sure we cover our full expenses so there's not an audit finding. Whatever you whatever you approve expense-wise as a board is what we can

131exceed otherwise the auditors aren't too keen on that. So, uh we we we are aggressive on that especially at the end of the year. That's why you still see this deficit here. I really don't think we're going to be there. Uh 26 27 you can see we're at 42.1. That difference is at 3.3 million of one time money. So onetime money is really a fancy way of saying I'm taking what's in my savings account. I'm using that to cover some of these expenses moving forward. >> So and that includes the do the 2.5 million. >> It does. >> So if we didn't have that, we wouldn't be taking that much out. >> Correct. Yeah. And like any any budget going into the year, we'll be aggressive with expenses. We'll be a little conservative with revenues.

132It puts us in a good place at the end. Uh, and so, uh, I will have questions from whoever saying, hey, you're worried about this deficit, use onetime money. I'm really not concerned at this point. We have a health department. So, that's where we are operationally. Capital outlay, you see a big change between 26 and 27. That's because of construction because we can't exceed expenditures. We don't know how many draws we'll have between now and the end of the year for these projects going on. Uh so we have to cover those expenses in two fiscal years in the beginning and that we adjust once the year starts and we know the prior year in closes. So the big change there you see is really the construction money that's coming from the bonds that that we

133passed previously and other money that were put in there. So again not concerning overall that 21 million that's in the 2627 projected fund balance would be totally unrestricted money. We will set aside some money for TUR. We're going to start setting aside money for church going forward. So as these fields and do those have to be replaced in the future, we'll have money set aside for that instead of just steal from that current allocation. Overall debt service, this uh is showing up a little bit in the fund. Uh debt service was a new thing until we had a general obligation bond here in Park City. And so what we typically like to do with the debt service fund, we typically have a payment due in August or September, excuse me, September, whatever that payment is

134in September because we haven't received our property taxes yet. We like to have fund balance available to pay that September payment. And so slowly, gradually, we'll we'll build that up. Uh we're probably four or five years away from having that totally built up, but we'll let that build up little by little until we get to that honest pain. So that's why you see a plus there. Food service um we show a loss in food service right now. We are we are contributing money uh to food service from the operation program. And then the the other one that's got the negative there is the self insurance that's due to the 18% increase. We're taking some fund balance of the self insurance fund. Um and so that's that's again where our fund balance is healthy there. So

135we're concerned about and that's where we're at right now. us >> and blessings not as friends. Sorry. >> Um I know that was so much work to cut that $2.5 million a lot of choose to climb and find puzzle pieces that >> Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to speak quickly, okay, to Friday release times. Uh, we would like to propose an adjustment to all four elementary release times on Fridays only as well as Eert Hill. There would be no change to Park City High School. Um, we're not quite sure how we landed on these Friday release times previously. My best guess is several years precoid. Um the high school had Monday early release and Akran Elementary had Friday early release and then for a year or so the high school had Monday and Friday

136early release and then we converted to all Friday early release. By shifting these release times, it allows elementary schools to release at 1210 instead of 12:30. And then it allows Echer Hill to release at 12:50 versus 135. So, it's getting 20 minutes back uh for planning and prep time for our elementary teachers and 35 minutes of prep time for our Echo Hill students. Our bus drivers need approximately 40 minutes between each school release time. That is why it is staggered. What this will do, it will provide approximately 11 additional hours to elementary staff over the course of the school year and an additional 19 hours to our middle school staff. Uh so we have worked with transportation as well as child nutrition and our community partners. there is no negative impact on the services that

137they provide or afford our students. So my recommendation which this is a decision item later would be to adopt these new release times for EC Eertale and all four elementary schools Friday release times only. We are not touching Monday through Thursday. >> Are the parents aware of this at the elementary school level? >> Not yet. uh this would be shared. Um anecdotally we spoke to a couple of parents and just what impact might this have. The biggest concern was having no change to the high school because oftent times our high school students are caring for their younger siblings. Uh we will still provide afterare and our all of our afterchool programs. None of that programming is going to change. It is simply shifting the release time to earlier for elementary and middle school. That would

138be my only concern. We're not causing issues for parents with inflexible schedules. I know it's not a big change, but >> and we certainly could postpone the decision and push this out to community first and get some feedback and then make the decision in June. I think that would be know that Rick considered that because >> some kids don't go to our after school program other after school program is that task for them or how are we going to get there? >> Yeah, we will uh push this communication out ask for some public input before making a decision. We'll just delay the decision to June for that. >> Yes. Um because one thing we consistently hear, it doesn't matter if you're at elementary or high school, is we need more time. That we do not

139have enough time to plan. >> Okay, next up we've got middle school supporters. We've got Chris Bear and Max. Uh so what we're going to do is we're going to go over uh kind of what our mission is and and what it's been over the last year. Uh the success that we had this year in our first year and then go into what our goals are moving forward uh including a partnership with City Week uh and the great things that they're going to help build for us. So our mission is to incorporate education based athletics to foster the holistic development of students by prioritizing wellness, ensuring inclusion and supporting academic success for all students who have the desire to compete. We want to make sure that every student has the ability to play a sport

140if they want to. Right? Uh clubs are getting more and more expansive. Um and less reachable for every single family in our community. So, if we can create an opportunity at our schools uh to give every kid an opportunity to play organized sports, we're doing something pretty special. Um, not many school districts in our state are doing this and looking for ways whether it's intercolastically or interally uh to get kids involved at the middle school level. So this year uh we had two sports that we ran. We originally had a plan of trying to talk to other schools in the Wasach back about intercolastic sports didn't work out that well. We reached out to uh three or four other school districts and we got very little feedback from them. They just said it wasn't something

141that they were needing currently. So we pivoted. Uh we had a lot of conversations between Jamie and I in the athletics office. What are we going to do? How are we going to make this work? And um we decided an inter mural program was the best thing that we could do this year. Uh so we did co-ed basketball at the one and will be uh boys and girls basketball coaches. They said, "Let's get them together. Let's have them competing against each other." The girls were incredible. Uh much better than the boys, even though they were very good, too. Uh we had 55 student athletes, seventh and eighth graders. They spent five weeks with seven incredible uh district employees, uh Ever Hill and high school teachers who came out and uh supported these kids. Uh we

142culminated the entire season with a really cool uh tournament at the high school where we had three games going on at one time. We had the high school players and the high school coaches uh refereeing the games. We had Scott Chester in the big gym uh announcing the game as well as our cheerleaders were there to support them in the main gym. So, it gave that high school experience. Uh tons and tons of feedback from parents saying how cool of an experience, how much the kids liked it. Uh then we tried to make sure that we were not taking field space in the spring from other community programs. Uh so we stayed in the gym. We did team handball which is not a sanctioned sport in the state of Utah where we really played uh

143that ball but anybody know everybody that it's team >> handball team not handball. So uh we had 35 kids sign up which is not a surprise that not as many kids signed up. It's a new sport not many people know. Um, but the uh the three coaches that we had uh said how much the kids loved it, how they were into it, how they were just wanting to learn how to play and then they were competing against each other and got real into it and real competitive. So that's that's a huge plus that we had what nine kids able to play a sport at the middle school level at an inter mural level. So our goals moving forward are a more robust programming for middle school. We wanted to make sure that we add some

144intercolastic options where they are playing other schools and competing against other schools in whatever way we could. Again, we are struggling to get the Wasach back to jump on board, but we we are going to get them at some point hopefully. Uh we are going to add more inter murals as well. Um the question I get all the time from parents is can my sixth grader play? He he wants to play so bad. Uh we had not allowed sixth graders to play because there is somewhat of a leveling. Seventh and eighth graders typically play together. Five to six usually play together in sports. So we didn't want to put a sixth grader who looks like might still be in elementary school and an eighth grader who looks like he's ready to walk into you know

145the varsity level. So, uh, so we wanted to make sure that we are offering sixth graders an opportunity to participate in some of the non-cont activities for leveled programming, which is where CityB will come in a little bit. And we also want to make sure that we can partner in in order to offer as many opportunities for kids to participate. And City League has done an incredible job in our community at building up programming for kids. Uh and and we just want to make sure that we bridge that gap uh that exists which is sixth grade currently uh but really seventh and eighth grade too where there's no like sports in our community that allows them to participate. So uh partnering with city to make sure that we we get those kids as well close

146that gap. Uh so here's the idea for next year. We'll have soccer with city league. City league is already doing an incredible job in our community with soccer. So, we're going to partner with them. Uh cross country, we are going to add cross country. We have two Edgar Hill teachers who are ready to go uh and do cross country. They will do uh at this point the idea is three meets against other programs in the state. Uh Wasach just put up that they are having a cross country program running through the summer. So, we'll start after Labor Day. Uh and then we'll do uh a couple of uh runs in Utah County at this point. That's that's the hope is is get those family participate in those uh runs as well as uh we have

147a run at uh Round Valley uh that the high school puts on and we'll have them participate in that. And then we also want to make sure that we are offering flag football to girls to increase the number of student athletes that are signing up for that as we see that as an emerging sport with the USAA. >> I bet that was offered this year. >> It is offered this year not to the not to the middle schools but to the high school >> as a club as a club. >> Yeah. But we believe it's highly likely that it'll be the next sanction by Utah High School association. >> I just I'm sorry. I have two kids at Echard and so my sixth grade daughter I was trying to encourage. I thought there was something.

148Okay. >> Go back. Would cross country be something that the sixth graders could do? >> Yes. Y So cross country would be sixth grade. >> Um so in the winter we'll do basketball again. Uh city league will help us run that. Wrestling. Dan Gallery uh at Hecker Hill really wants to try and build a wrestling program and continue to add some recruitment into the high school by showing them how to do it at the middle school level. Um, so we're looking at the option of of putting that together. Essports is something else that we're considering trying to put on. Um, and uh, just earlier today, someone reached out from Eker Hill saying that they would be willing to run a cheerleading program so we could we could add cheerleading. >> I think we need a

149coach at the high school. >> No, we got one. We got one. >> Okay. Don't post it. You >> take that down. Uh, yeah. But so we uh we have we have two teachers at Eer Hill who want to run that cheerleading program. So that could be a great theater for the high school uh which would be >> um uh spring sports baseball and softball. City league said that they wanted to try and provide that for us and again bringing in handball um with uh coach Tori and coach Mayor running that. So that's what we have moving forward. So, uh, we are trying to partner with City League. So, City League is here. Max is here to, uh, kind of give an overview of what they're doing and how they can provide for our districts.

150>> Awesome. Great job, Chris. And thank you. Thank you all for for having us in. Um, just first I want to start by just saying thank you to everyone for for what you do. The Park City School District is the main reason my family moved to Park City. We have three kids uh, in the district and are so happy, super excited about everything. Um, so let me just tell a little bit about what we've done in the past year. Um, we had over 800 athletes in in our first full school year. Um, and just to kind of paint the picture, uh, what happens a lot of times, you know, with young families, you start with bas do intro to sport, maybe do some soccer, some basketball, little dribblers. Um, then, you know, you start to

151say, okay, my kid really enjoys this. What's the next level? The next level most typically club in America um if you have kids felt this possibly um next thing you know you have eight-year-olds and you're traveling to Mosqu Nevada ne Nevada Nevada you're in Boise Idaho you're at tournaments with three kids all over the country I was a club coach for multiple sports and and you know we never had dinner together it was you know we were in this beautiful mountain town to mountain bike and ski and we didn't really we weren't ever here for the weekends so u some parents got together we were club coaches and we said, "Hey, look, we're in Mosquite, Nevada at a tournament and the two Park City teams are playing against each other and then the other two

152teams are like Heber and Salt Lake. So, why are we leaving our town, much less our state to to do this?" Um, we thought that there had to be a better way. We launched with baseball last year. There were 75 kids. Um, we went into soccer. We had 330 kids from first to fifth grade. Um, 16 teams, just a a really high level of play. We had over 42 soccer coaches. Some were professionals from Spain, ex- division one athletes. And we thought that, you know, can we have, you know, the cross between wreck and club, but all local in town, always in Park City. So, we have paid trained coaches and our whole development philosophy is collusion, no cut, and fun. I mean, sports are supposed to be fun. What's the point of these sports

153is so that when you're in your 40s or 50s and the new sport of pickle ball comes out, it's like, hey, I can just kind of do that in Willow Creek and it's fun. Um >> Oh, no. You're very mean. >> Yeah. Um I play tennis in high school. But so, so that that's really the point of sports. So, we've done this. It's gone really well. There was a video there, but if it's not, maybe you click one more. It'll load. Just so you can see something in the background. There's no audio. If it plays, it plays. If not, um it's fine. It's just uh there was over 800 athletes in the first year. We did soccer, basketball, baseball. We we took so many of the people from uh BAS Rec that Basin Rec partnered

154with us. We're now working with BAS. I wear their logo on my my other sleeve. Um and so we took over little dribblers and now that is city league basketball. And there's a stat that's thrown around a lot. It's hard to site, but 70% of kids stop um playing any form of uh sports uh by the time they're 13 in America. So trying to see if we can make Park City a little microcosm where that doesn't happen. Um where kids can continue to do multisport because a lot of times what happens is you focus on a single sport by the time you're 12. It's like pick your sport. you you're either a hockey player or basketball player or a soccer player who you have to pick which is crazy. >> Eric Heiden who lives in

155town, two time gold medalist speed skater was talking on a panel and we chatted after and he's like it's crazy the amount of reconstructive knee surgeries that we're seeing for high school athletes. It's unprecedented. All sports psychologists, physiologists are all about you should be a well diversified athlete playing multisport up until at least 12 if not 14 if not all the way through. And so we've created a compelling case for that first through fifth. And a lot of people are, you know, leaving the clubs, not because clubs are bad, but because it works better for their family to have family dinner if it's always Monday through Thursday. We have weekends back and um we're typically done by 5:30. So you have family dinners. And so the community is really really um enjoying this. We're 501c3

156and uh you know, our board is entirely volunteer based. I've been at every single city league event until the one today that I was not at, but every other one where we're all volunteer with the exception of our paid coaches. You can go to the next slide. But the number one question is we love City League, but what happens in middle school? Um, we obviously continue to do City League up through middle school. Um, but we've been in close contact with with Jamie and with Chris uh since the inception of City League and there is a strong strong desire for a compelling middle school sports uh situation in town. And so we could obviously do city league, but I think would be more compelling for a sense of belonging, for athletes, for a sense of

157identity, for a sense of kind of being part of the community is to be on a possible no cut basketball team. >> I'm on the basketball team. I'm on the Heart City Middle School basketball team. There's something really really strong about that. Um especially when people are possibly taking a step outside of club doing city league but then they're like oh if I want to have any chance of making the high school soccer team I have to go back to the clubs and then I'm traveling and then playing a single sport then I can't do a multisport option. So um if you can go to the next slide the our our goal is just to to help lift soccer, basketball, baseball and softball for this next year. Our simul methodology is we order pretty nice

158uniforms and then they're returned at the end. Um instead of paying $600 for club uniforms every two years, we pay for them and then we wash them and then they're returned. Like um I feel like most of us live in your kids. Um, it will start by being a local league with games and playoffs completely intramural in town. But the uniforms I'm proposing would be minors or Park City and we can wear armbands where you the typical city league teams are the mountain or chair names. If you have kids in titty league, Ontario versus P5 versus Jupiter versus Monkeys. uh we will probably still do that uh with armpits, but this allows us the opportunity to not have to reorder uniforms in year two or year three if and when there is a strong desire

159in town and and for for us to, you know, harvest a representative team to play against North Summer or South or if we can't get to to play ball, we can just enter an AA basketball tournament and bring an A, B, and a C team and enter in different divisions. We can do a sixth grade, seventh grade, eighth grade team. Um, we can do this at the the soccer tournaments around town. And wouldn't it be cool if there was a part middle school team playing against some of the club kids? And I'm telling you what we're seeing in in the development of the first year of city league is a lot of those the the city league teams could be very competitive and it would be very cool to have the the middle school team

160be competitive at a a club if they don't maybe want. So that's the proposal. Um and we're working on anou um with with Lindsay and you know our our only goal is to support you all. We obviously have done it at City League. I think it'd be much more compelling to have it be Park City Middle School and we're just in the background. We have the coaching staff. We have over 100 coaches that work with us um that are paid and trained and in our philosophy of love of sport and high development, high rep count because our our general philosophy which seems to be working is it's it's not about telling the kid that they need to commit or they need to go home and practice if they want to be like messy. It's like,

161"No, let's make this so fun that it's they just go home and they we've heard reports that at McPoland there's a basketball games going every recess at both recesses. There never used to be basketball. Man, you'll the kids are going to get really good at basketball. Not because of any sort of thing we're teaching them about keeping their elbow in. It's because it's super fun. And now they're all playing recess. And now we got like a lot of ballers in town and And on top of that, what we also do, this is just on the side, we do um chaperon drop in stuff. So, for example, a week and a half ago, Willow Creek, we had like 60 kids just playing pickup basketball in Willow Creek. And so, the goal is to not have kids

162specialized, but have well-rounded athletes in town. And by doing the middle school sports, I think it also allows some kids, we have so many kids that their parents have said, they would have stopped There was a Aspen Institute um some study that just came out that said like the year that kids stop playing is when the middle school years are when kids stop playing sports. >> They move inside and go on screen. >> Yeah. So next did City just start here in Park City or is it from somewhere like y'all just came up like you were like >> well yeah was it was that honest >> it's not where we want to be. >> It wasn't totally >> let's just >> I saw my I love family dinner with my three kids and then I

163was a club coach and we're in all all over the country and it was just untenable and my kids are really big into team sports. were also big mountain bikers and skiers, but it was just I could see the future was not going to be good for our family and the amount of people at some of these club games and people everyone's talking like why are we what are we doing with our lives? This is so hard for the family, but yet it's what everybody's doing in America. Um, this was just it was born out of necessity for >> I can't tell you how relieved I was when my eighth grade now eighth grader did one season at Divos ski team and then didn't want to do it again. I was like >> I love

164this so much. I have a couple questions. Will base and rec still be part? So that is the current >> that would be the current plan because right now we have a framework with them for first and fifth. Um it's also been super we did soccer by ourselves >> and we were a user group with the town and we we did it all twins and straight. Um we've done basketball and baseball the last two seasons with basin. It's just been really nice to have the flexibility with this crazy weather over the last couple weeks and just go indoors to the fieldhouse. It's just so convenient to be able to have that sort of flexibility. The other thing is having the flexibility to possibly have the fifth graders play with the sixth graders. Um, so that

165would be the the current framework. It's actually not inou yesterday and they have a keen interest in in continuing to work with us through middle school. But my strong desire from from a branding and marketing standpoint is that it is Park City Middle School athletics subtext powered by coaching and basic rails in the sense that they sign up on the basic website through their app. >> But um >> logistical backing stuff, right? There's only so many sixth through 8th graders here in town and we don't want to be competing for the same kids. So how do we ensure this is a collective effort amongst >> Brian Hazel Sam and Logan in the basin yesterday they we asked them to take down their sixth through eight they didn't have any signups yet um the first through

166fifth so that just a they posted sixth through eight soccer and first through fifth city league soccer the same at the same time two days later it was 200 city leagues from zero six through eight >> yeah And so I'm like, can you take that down because we're gonna go talk to the school board. And um but then I'm sure when we announced this, everyone's waiting for >> what's going to happen. >> Okay. I have another question. So, if you're going to have coaches who are paid for, you know, owned by affiliated with someone other than the district, how do we make sure we're all aligned in terms of coach training when it comes to safe sport? So, um that would all be outlined in theou. It'll be in the >> want to ensure we're

167not comingling funds but also aligning professionalism and training for our coaches. >> Yeah. So we have like background check safe sport compression training and then there's the city league training which is like don't yell at the kids. You'd be surprised how >> joystick >> but there's a philosophy but we do do the um safe sport and back object but any any additional requirements we're happy just yeah >> okay my last question because I love the idea so much of having a community based lead and all these things sounds like you want to go to nearby communities too. Then we start having more travel and it starts getting more complex. >> Do you do you feel like your MO is really to stay in Park City Park? >> I mean a lot of people have said

168we I mean I' I've built a a company um that was a global company and everyone's like well you got to do that with this is a Park City thing. I'm not there's no interest. If anything, we'd make a white paper and let other communities help somebody in Aurora, Colorado about it. I'm just advising them, helping them do a similar thing, but we have no interest in in replicating this in other other towns. Um, with the on the question of travel, we think that to to be a to be a propelling athlete that has a chance of participating in a varsity sport at some point in high school, we think that there is an element of possibly playing against another town. Um, it would only always be in the season. So, never round sports. It's

169it's basketball season. It's the winter. Um, in the first year, I could see maybe taking three teams to a tournament in West Jordan. One thing down the line, if we can get the other towns to play, then maybe there's a game against North Summit, a game against South Summit. There's two exhibition games. And until an actual league, middle school league in Utah were to be born. It's just like, wait, it's it's propped up on the foundation of an intramural, highly compelling intramural thing. It's not this is a no cut thing, but the bottom third get no actual sport and it's like just culture being on a team. The primary thing is a is an intramural thing where we have you're you're put on a team. You're on this team of 12. You have a dedicated

170coach and assistant coach. You're playing in a tournament that's entirely at eer or at one of the basin fields. there's, you know, little tournament group trophies and it's like totally self-sufficient. If we can uh have some sort of travel component that will be completely secondary and it will never be like a >> a barrier. >> Yeah. >> The larger school districts grant for example, they have uh middle school, junior high athletics because they have the enrollment to do so. When I went to Chris probably this time this year and said or last year, hey, I want to develop some sort of middle schools. We emailed superintendent ads across the wall such back. None of them are interested. Uh I know there's a need despite what they have shared. Um but they were not interested in

171joining forces. That is why we went with this intramural model. >> So you I'm gonna stop talking. I really am. There's so much good data about how important it is to keep kids during multiple sports their whole way through at least middle school and up. And there's actually there were two really cool articles that came out in general pediatrics and then there was one in the New Yorker about how the quality of play that we're seeing in the NFL and then um the NBA is not as good as maybe it used to be because kids aren't having this time not being so supervised and having hours upon hours upon hours upon hours to get creative and figure out way. >> Yeah. I mean, I think what happens is we overschedu our kids and expect that

172like, oh, because I'm paying the $2,000 for the club thing, then they're getting an hour here and an hour there. But my father-in-law grew up or in Argentina and used to play for six hours every day, every soccer player ever seen. He didn't play any any didn't have any fancy anything. And >> if they love it, they'll do that. >> Right. So, our goal is to to have seasonal sports, but then also >> have these chaperon drop in things where there's pickup ball, there's pickup soccer, there's home run derby, sandlock baseball happening every single day at Willow Creek at Trailside and Bas supportive of that. That maybe city league is now taking over a lot of the sports, but how can BAS still provide their mission to to the town? And we believe it could

173be through a lot of this sort of chaperon and dropping stuff. And if you think about it, the an athletes like time playing sport just goes way up. There's less time in the car and more time just playing with their friends and figuring out cool moves, >> being silly, you know. >> And there's nothing better than a playground with like 50 to >> Yeah. outside. >> So, uh, absolutely love everything about this. uh multisport athlete uh degree and masters in sport science. It drives me nuts how early kids specialize in the states. It's getting worse everywhere states and kids should be playing multiple sports like through through high school. Um any my question is not about those kids because we know a lot of kids start very very young and by 12 they'll stop or

174whatever. What about the kids we miss when they're very young? What about the kids who uh you know for whatever reason don't pick it up in elementary school and then want to and I know you say it's no cut. I know you say it's fun but how do we pick up those kids who are missed at the youngest age and then when they're in middle school want to try? How do we avoid those kids? How do we get rid of the barrier to entry for them and the kids who have been for years? >> Yeah. So all of our practices are camp style and everyone's there. And so for example for soccer we had 170 kids at a time. I'll never go back. We have stations and all of our stations are designed such that

175an elite top level kid coming from club is getting the reps and the development. But also for some reason we call him Timmy. Timmy who has never played with and is just scared of the ball or this or that. For example, we will not do this with middle school, but to show you some more flexibility, we designed a a station on a baseball that has yoga blocks and it was like a carnival game. >> And so this just incentivizes that maybe a high rep count of throwing a ball. The brain is a beautiful thing. It will selfoptimize. We don't need to say, you know, get your elbow here, do this. We get one cue. You need to drag him back there. bring the ball back and they just try to knock down as many yoga

176blocks as you can and they're throwing 200, you know, actually 200 is too many, but 75 per >> Yeah. 75 balls and they're playing and before you know it, they start to get it. And what's also cool about this town is we live in a town of incredibly athletic parents. So, if I see a kid and I know it's it's kind of weird. I know all the kids in town and the parents are like that. >> But so I know all the kids in town and I I know that when I see someone who okay, I know this kid, I know the parents, he can't can't really play soccer very well. If I can get this kid somehow through fun and not like randomization, but just may how can we design something for this one

177kid so he kicks the ball a thousand times in the next two weeks. We've had kids that have never played the soccer by the end just incredibly strong athletes and so we can we can ramp people up really quickly. That's something I saw in club. I was a club soccer coach. We were doing threeon two-onone drills and this kid is so fastest kid could not kick. So it's like we're asking him to cross the ball the whole length of the field. He can't do it. And he was like I don't like soccer. I'm not good at it. We had him in city league the next year and he's one of the allstars because we have 10 radar guns and it's like kick the ball up against the fence and you have a feeling of success

178like the radar gun if you're only kicking it at 10 miles an hour next to the kid who can kick at 45 you don't feel you're doing very good but if you can kick at 10 then 12 then 14 again the brain will selfoptimize you're having a feeling of success we can get those kids up to speed and also we can teach kind of really really good kids that it's not about winning. It's about how can you be a leader? How can you elevate your teammate? Wow. Like do you see how you can maybe help this kid? just the leadership development alone from from having like even teams as opposed to um you know having like the the hey team here team there which we may have if we go down to a tournament but

179the the base thing is completely even teams after assessments and so I think we can get those kids up. >> So you needed for We don't we don't we're not we don't want to stop at at middle school. The goal is the biggest need in town is is like first through the eighth grade but eventually we know of uh like 15 someone reached out to 15 girls who are perhaps from the high school volleyball team. We want to create like a a compelling >> for that even kids who go through college. I mean even if you play then you suck. You got pro you suck. >> Yeah. But there isn't for adults. >> No. And we've I've looked a lot at like what's going on in Dallas. Obviously a much larger market than Park City,

180but Dallas is an incredibly compelling, very competitive intramural sports uh situation for every single age up through seniors 65 plus. And I think that we can continue to do that. We're very tight with Basin. They are very supportive of everything we're doing. And I think there's a way to keep doing it where like there's we can provide more no cut options where I mean one last anecdote we talk to Jamie about this. He's heard this story like three times. I was I would not have made the basketball teams but my town was small and I didn't grow till I was a junior then senior year. I could dunk the ball and was the leading scorer and I don't play basketball in 2026. I was the shortest kid who tell me you're not good at that.

181You should probably do something else. If we can have something where our kids can play a high level of sport because city league is it's a pretty high level sport that is being played in town and with in a kind of a wreck environment. If we can keep that going through high school, I I guarantee you we will see kids who don't make the freshman team, don't make the JV team, and then develop and they've been playing high level sport for 10 weeks, 10 weeks a year, and then both they're your allstar, >> right? >> Get ahead of it. So, we send emails out ahead of time and we actually, this is going to sound crazy, but we have eight soccer games going. We go and talk to each parent ahead of time. Are you

182talking about the parents being crazy on the sidelines? >> Yeah. Or or that they expect, you know, my child's going to be in the Olympics. you know, >> you know, >> they they know what they're getting into with this because they've chosen it. Like, look, this is a different concept of probably what you're used to, which as you heard Max say, that's what a lot of the parents are asking for. We're already overwhelmed. Our kids are overwhelmed. We'd love to get back to just what this community model looks like that most of us grew up on to where you did that through, you know, up until high school where now it's like, oh, we've got these kids with $1,000 worth of gear and uniforms and they're six and they're going to somewhere in Louisiana to

183play the six national championship. Um, and so the parents know what they're getting into because they've asked for it. Um, not that we don't have issues from time to time, but >> So, is this like I saw your thing of cost on there. So, this is more cost effective for these parents that that's why they don't do these leagues and they don't do these travelers myself when my children were young. I couldn't put $200 to join a club and that was 15 years ago. So, I can only imagine what it is now. So, do you do you have options for children that can record lunch? >> Yeah. So, it will be um basically if you're on free lunch, free school lunch, you can get believe it's 75% off. Um with that said, we also on

184the side with City League, anyone can just email us anytime or we'll cover the whole thing. and or for example in baseball we provided the jerseys and we asked for people to buy $15 gray pants but said no questions asked anybody who um can't doesn't can't afford that or put any financial strain just let us know and we just drop ship Amazon to their house so it's um yeah we wanted to be totally inclusive for for everyone yeah for the for the home school programs. We want it to be very affordable. We want we don't want anybody to email and say like, "Oh, we can't afford it. Is there everything is very affordable and and we did have some some people because this year basketball was $30 a person." Um, and we had a couple

185people say, "Oh, you know, I I I had to wait until today and I'm just wait the kid got to got to play." So, it's it's every kid who has a desire to compete. >> The long-term goal of City League as the 501c3 is was, you know, not to be to be somewhat of like a sports version of PCF in the sense that like can we we're going to kick off our fundraising season this year. We want something sustainable and wouldn't it be cool to just make it free um down the line? Um >> so, it's just great for everybody. Where do you play handball? >> We played it in the gym decorating. >> I mean, I grew up playing handboard at least. So, I used handball like nothing bad in the west hand. >>

186They're running around throwing these little tiny soccer balls at each other. It's fun. >> We're excited about this partnership. We're in the early stages of directing theou. It is highly likely we will come back in June with a finalou. Um, thanks to Chris, Max, and Jamie. Chris especially for running with this idea mostly sports because that I just said, "Hey, in casting, I have this idea about school sports. You know how passionate I am about athletics." And he has ran with it. And I would say we have been wildly successful in year one despite the iterations um and just the evolution to inter murals because we couldn't get partnerships with the one back school districts. I don't use for that. I know how I feel about now that I know that. >> I know. I

187know what I'm texting now. >> Well, thank you so much. >> Lori, >> right here. Yeah, that is so counselors >> for the kids that they have connection >> teach >> and we even utilized some of our high school teachers who have been willing to go down and coach these inter murals. So, it's creating that connection to the high school very early. >> And then they can even >> Okay, now consent agenda. >> Lord, I think we're >> we talked about France for a long time. Okay. So for the consent agenda, we have the regular session minutes of April 7th. We have the close meeting minutes of April 7th. Travel request health assurances approval of Rocky Mountain basement by holding >> that >> we're doing Rocky Mountain. >> Yes. >> Right. But not the next.

188>> We have Tango Aviation Curriculum contract approval, the Rev Robotics contract, cyber.org or contract EV battery lab contract site elementary land trust amendment personnel and board revenue and expenditures are ready to go 2026 >> I make a motion to approve this >> I'll second and then do we need to formally pull something out or >> she did she did not yeah read >> all and Hi TDP services. >> We already skipped the right. So monthly reports our student on the board is the only >> you're like oh my god I'm never gonna go home. >> Um I'll try to be quick. Um, kind of like find girls will win their state championship and girls lacrosse just under their semifinals today. Um, the minor film festival is coming up May 21st, 700 p.m. It's free for

189all students and it's going to be in the Um, everyone is super excited about Memorial Day weekend. A nice little break for school that's out. >> Do they know they don't have school on Friday? I know. >> Just making sure. >> Was that a smoothie? >> Yes, >> it was. We built it there. Makeup. We needed it, >> but we don't. >> Yeah. >> The NHS memorial 5K. It's the 26th Tuesday. It's at 1:15 during school. All kids are let out on an assembly schedule. Everyone's encouraged to come, but nobody's staying forced. Obviously, there's going to be kids who don't want to go and are going to go home, but everyone is encouraged to come when they run, walk, or just play the field games. Um, Tuesday, May 26th, there is also the multi-generational book

190club um coming together at Parks in the Senior Center from 3 to 4 p.m. to discuss Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby um Van Pelt. The second and fourth of June laptop collection volunteers are needed as well. The sign up can be found on the silver spoop spook or by emailing Ali Gallagher. Um all senior walkthroughs are on June 4th at 12:00 p.m. All um schools in the district are participating as well as the base school. Senior brunch is the 5th right after that 8 to 10:30 a.m. practice. The fundraising goal is almost met. I think we're almost at 5,000 for student council and the goal is I think 6,000. Um, grad night after graduation is 10 to 2. Donations are welcome and much appreciated by the PTSO. The easiest way to do this is in

191the PTSO section of the PCHS website. Um, checks can also be dropped off at the office if it's easier. Um, there is a raffle as well. questions or comments can go to the PCHS grad night email. Um and the list can also be found on the silver scoop. Volunteers are needed for grad night. It is encouraged that um all adults participate um not just senior parents, especially not senior parents because they're busy celebrating their seniors. Um you don't even need to have kids to volunteer. All healthy hands are welcome and That sign up can also be found on the silver scoop as well as emailing me my email. Um the this event is going to be super fun. There's a DJ, a photo booth, there's a pigmentist coming, characteristic because statistically it is a very

192dangerous night for girls. So, and they're literally just handing out money at the end of the night. Like, they're just like, "Take it." So, I really do, you know, >> it's true. >> I can't There's not enough attendance. >> Exactly. And then we are working in student council on serving the students on school lunch and food served at PCHS and working with the lunch staff to see how they're feeling. So far it hasn't been moved along a lot, but that is something I'm working on this week and in the upcoming weeks. So hopefully we can have that data for the first board meeting of next year. And then the school mascot, another survey was sent out. Um there was almost 400 people who responded to this one instead of 30. So that's >> a little

193bit more data. The main consensus was 38.1% people are encouraging Manny 2.0. Um the second most supportive one is the moose and then the third is the Yeti. I think it hasn't been communicated very effectively and there has been some confusion among students. We will always be the minors and we're not getting rid of Manny. Manny just may have a friend um a friend that smells better and was damaged extensively last year during shipment. >> Yes. So hopefully we can get that going. We do still have conversations um in student council that need to happen and with administration as well, but right now I think people are still feeling very um loyal towards Manny. So yes, but I think we will move ahead with any a friend, >> but we'll have to see who that

194friend is. >> A yeti, a sad spot. The only thing with the moose is >> so I think if we do move ahead with the moose, we will talk with Nolan administration just to see how they feel. But conversations start to be had in student council and among the administration to see where we're moving forward with this. >> Marth conversations about the Yeti. Maybe he could wear sheet or anything. Can wear ski goggles. Um, but we are keeping Manny. Manny's not going in the trash anytime soon. >> Noted. >> Okay. >> How was the goats and floats? >> So good. I got out of my test in time to go out and say hi. We thought that um they might have babies just because of the season they would be a little older, but they

195were babies and they were so cute. >> Yes. I think for next year, >> teacher appreciation week isn't going to be the national week just because of AP testing. And from a personal standpoint, since I was kind of a lead on that, it was very difficult to try and manage. And I think the main not necessarily complaints but feedback from teachers were it would just be a lot smoother and easier if it was not AP testing time. >> Who brought the >> I have a go guide. His name is Francisco. >> She got the guy. >> Francisco brought the goat. >> I know. My mom told me about >> I found him on Facebook and I messaged him. I was like, "Can they travel?" He was like, "Yes, let's do it." >> Actually, a park

196center graduate. So, it was amazing that we could partner with >> somewhere. Will you continue with us next school year? >> Oh, yes. >> I have one question. Can we survey the kids about their lunch as well? run that show. >> Well, he tried. So, he he tried putting together a document that that everyone could sign, but here's what's happening at Echo. Kids keep trying to do that and some other kid will just go in and ruin it. >> So, that's that's what happened. So, he had he had a few thousand signatures and then he got ruined. >> Do you guys work with Ed's leadership class? We don't. But I think that we I can definitely optimally about creating maybe a team building or mentorship >> even like quarterly guys that got together. >> Okay.

197And I have a for the Memorial Day service on Monday at the Park City Center. I have Coen Nelson is our high school. We'll be playing trumpet for them at 10. At 10. Thank you. >> She's got a goat guy like that. >> That was worth saying goat. >> Okay. because we are pulling the release time to get a little more feedback from parents at elementary schools or just make sure that they're aware that we need to make this adjustment. >> We've got two decision items. The board meeting calendar for the next school year and so should we do these separately? Yes. >> Yeah. My question is on the calendar um as I've been sitting here, do we want to survey parents of rising 10th through 12th graders because this would impact their students first

198day of school. So their first day of school wouldn't be until August 20th. Freshman or I should say prek to freshman would be August 19th. Oh, >> I don't know that that needs as much as a change in 15 through 18 year olds. >> They're self-sufficient. >> They just need to know about from your perspective as a Well, I guess you went to ninth grade at Treasure, huh? Would picture yourself entering the new high school with 1500 kids, would a day just with your peers in ninth grade have been helpful? >> I was talking to Miss Luke about it and I think yes, because even going from Echer to Treasure was really scary for me. Not necessarily because it was like a different school. Well, that too, but just like you're thrown into a completely

199new group of kids. And like they touched on earlier, like developmentally you're so different. And walking in as a fresh ninth grader, staring up at a senior who's like a full grown adult, you're just like, I have no idea what to do. You're trying to find your class and like even though I had experience at the high school because I walked back and forth, this year with the new addition, I was like overwhelmed. And I think letting them walk through and get to know the layout and the culture of the school is a really amazing idea. >> It's very common across high schools. This is not seems like a big >> Don't we do it for the elementary going into ether? >> We do not. >> No, there's several >> now. They do they do

200structure how they spend the first couple of days of school with uh sixth graders. They're with their advisory and they spend a lot of time te building helping them navigate the school according to their schedule. But they don't excuse seventh and eighth graders on that first day of school. They don't start their own nth grade orientation. Great idea. >> So, >> yeah. So, the motion would be that the first day of school for prek to 9th grade. First, we have the board learning calendar. >> There's two decision items. First, we have the board meeting calendar, >> which I would propose we shift the August board meeting from the 18th through the 20 to the 25th >> because the first day of school is on the 19th. >> Oh, yes. >> Yeah. >> And I don't

201want to be here till 7:00 on the evening. >> We don't want to bring teachers in the 18th. approval. >> So that so approving the calendar would that change of the August date? >> We change November 17th to the 24th, please. >> No, Tuesday is 2027. >> 26. So it be August 18th. >> Yeah. from the 18th to the 25th because the first day of school is Wednesday the 19th. >> Okay. >> There was another one that originally that you that Lori had sent out that were different than what was on the calendar. >> I think it was February maybe. Was that because of break? February and the April one are kind of launching because of any breaks. So we can either have it before or after whichever. I just kind of what if we

202go the week before break um we just get into this weird cadence of the 30-day posting period if we have curriculum adoptions and >> etc. >> This is the one in February. >> Which one was it that was different? It was >> February 9th would be different. Yeah, February 9th. We'd go that Tuesday of February. Um or it would be the 23rd of February because right now it's not I have from what you found out last year was on the 16th. >> That's the middle of the night. Okay. >> We can always adjust these as we need, right? You just have to send it in as our adopted calendar. >> Yeah, because we have >> Yeah, it's just not the current. >> So, I make the motion to approve the board meeting calendar with the

203August meeting moved >> from the 18th. >> That's it. >> I second. >> All in favor? I I Okay, now it's your turn. Okay. So, I believe the motion would be the first day of school would remain on Wednesday, August 19th from prek to 9th grade. We would ship the first day of school for grades 10 through 12 to Thursday, August 20th. That still keeps us within the window of the required um school days for students. Will this affect any? >> No, they would still report. Um, and speaking with Caleb and his team, they want this to be an all mans on deck. Um, so staff would report as if 9 through 12 was in the building. Motion to approve the freshman first session. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> We're scratching 723 for

204right now. >> Correct. >> Okay. We have the following policies for posting. These policies have been reviewed by the policy committee and are now before the board for posting. Policy 7097, nepotism. Policy 7160, orderly termination. Policy 9025, wellness. >> I make a motion to approve policies for closing. >> One second. >> All in favor? I. >> Okay. Squeaking in under the wire here before 7 p.m. Oh, I need a motion. Yes. I'd like to adjourn to our next meeting. >> I have a second. All in >> favor.