PCSD Board Meeting | 2025.09.16

001those 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. >> We will start with JD. >> Awesome. >> We'd be back. Um, so I I know on the agenda it said all uh district facilities and I'm happy to answer your questions, but I was told Treasure Mountain, so I'll start there. Originally, we had targeted uh the demolition for the 15th, but we had some training in fact they're driving to Hum right now. So there's some stuff going on over there right now. Um, so right now we are targeting the 25th pick Monday. So, there's a 10-day notice that had to be filed for the demolition with DQ. That was done on the 8th. We're not sure

002it's exactly when we're going to get that, but they said they would mobilize the day after they got that. So, we're we're targeting the 22nd. Most utilities are off over there. Um, the last one really is the power and we just kind of left that on with all the things that are kind of going on over there, but that'll get shut off and then that will be demoed. We're about We're still on schedule for the turf middle of uh October. So yeah, if you've been over there, you can kind of see out the windows here. You can see them taking shape. You can see the perimeter fencing going and the walls and all this big pile of stuff you see here is the final base of where the turf goes down. So there's a concrete

003wall that kind of goes around all that that the turf is anchored to and they're pouring that now starting on the baseball field. So um so that's on schedule. Um, the idea with Treasure Mountain, I don't know if everybody knew this, was to demo everything down to the slab. There's no basement there, but depending on weather, we may leave the slab over the winter. If the weather's good, we would take the we would take the slab out, but we don't want to deal with the contamination, the mud, all the things going on with the soil, why that's wet. So, you'll see it down, but you may see just the concrete there. Um, and really that's it for over there. So, um, we're, like I said, we're on schedule. I think everything's looking pretty good. Um,

004like I said, if you look out there, you can see all that starting to take shape. And within, I'm guessing that based on the schedule that I've seen, we're probably about 3 weeks into the demo. So, with that demo, we'll also be utility demo. So, you'll start to see the gas line coming out down the lane. You'll start to see the water coming out. You'll see a few of the utilities being demoed as well. So, it's kind of not just the building, but everything around the building as well. So, uh, and that's really kind of the update on Treasure. I will I'll tell you a little bit briefly about the high school. Trying to get a schedule put together for the finish of the photo lab and video lab. We're close. I can tell you

005that. There have been some last minute changes over there with the flooring that's taken a little bit of more time. There is some electrical stuff with the lights in those labs that has to be done. But uh turnover for one of them could probably be like as early as the end of this week. That would be the video lab. That'd be short a few things, but uh and then the um photo lab would follow after that. I don't know if you've been in there. It's a great space, but uh and then there's a lot of finished stuff, countertops, some other stuff. And so I'm trying to get a firm schedule that it can be held to so that we we know what we're targeting to be done there. um echer. There's a couple light poles,

006a few things with the HVAC commissioning and balancing, but for the most part, that's all done. There's some gates for the generator enclosure canard. That's really that's all that's kind of left over there. Uh the other one's up and going. I I hear good things. So, I haven't heard anything bad yet, at least on the elementary. So, so I feel good about that. But uh other than that, you got any questions? I'm happy to answer them if I can. So, >> so around baseball or soccer if they're going to be available for use. >> So, they would be ready once the turf's down, which would be the middle of October, but we're going to have to sort out how they're going to access them, right? Because this is really kind of an offlimit site. You

007you really have to be escorted in there. One thing that you know, this built on fill, I don't know if you've noticed that. So most of the cap's been penetrated through the utilities, right? The there's a deep sewer line you can kind of see if you look out there going through the middle of it and stuff like that, but the rest of it's filled. So your exposures down, right? Which would limit, you know, you should be able to to be out there, but it's where how did they get out there, right? Because you you'll have the demo going that'll be off limits. You can't park and walk through there, but we talked about doing the trail right now. So that's maybe accessible probably from here. you could walk onto there, get onto there. And so

008we know that's coming. We know that there everything's just to get on there. And so we're working on a, you know, an access plan for that. So, >> um, weatherwise, I know it's been beautiful, but what happens when it turns black and it gets really cold? There's some snow, you're not done. >> Well, they the turf, I believe, will be out of weather, right? I mean, I think we can weather a couple storms and that should be fine. It's it's when you get into the end of October, right? Halloween time is when you really start to worry about it. So, and that's I think what you'll see then is the turf will be done, the fencing will be up and that kind of stuff. You'll start to see them really go on the buildings that

009the footing should be done. And one thing that's happened over there is with the excavation of the team rooms and the dugouts and everything. We've we've hit a layer of pete which has been developed from all the organics that were buried over there. We pulled out a bunch of railroad ties, a bunch of I mean just all kinds of stuff that's decomposed and that was not originally when we did all of our board holes to test the soils and stuff. We hit some of it but not to the extent we're hitting it now. And so you'll start to see a pile of it behind Treasure Mountain we're storing right there right now until we get it all esavated because now we have to come up with a new soils management plan to just deal with

010the Pete. Um, but what we have tested so far has had no uh, you know, we hit ground water with the sewer, it tested clean, so we've been able to, you know, to get rid of that without having to haul it off, which would have been a major >> uh, ordeal to pump all that in the tanks and haul it off. And so, and then the Pete has tested clean as well. And so, we've been really good as far as our contamination testing going. So, that's that's a positive, but we still have to deal with it. And so, you'll see a little bit of that. But, How do I say it? Where is the pizza? >> So the pet's under the ground and so this >> but no it was originally where the the uh

011the box for the announcers and everything was to go is we had a warlog there and it showed peak down six feet or so. But I mean you're talking about an 8 inch hole in a whole big piece of property, right? And as we started to dig out the dugouts and the team rooms and everything, we're hitting it as well. And so we we weren't expecting that. And and really it's not the bigger issue is if it's contaminated and which so far it hasn't been, but we've still got to test it all. We still have to esavate it all out and and you can't build on it, which means we have to overavate it and then put it in structural fill and bring it back up. And so that's we weren't anticipating that, but it

012really hasn't slowed things down too much. It's it's just that we can't haul it off site now. We have to protect it and cover it. And so you'll see the pile they started building a pile actually today behind back where behind treasure the original pile of contaminated soil was. So that's where we're going to store our food. >> Jenny, can you speak to safety measures precautions that would be in place as Treasure Mountain is demoed just for >> Yes. So, >> public education, >> we have a perimeter that we've established that has a line to it. Um, and I can distribute some maps if you'd like so that you can get them out to everybody to see. That'll be demarcated off with fencing, some K rail, and everything else. Um, we're trying to leave as

013much parking as we can, right? And the contractor's aware of your school being in and everything else. Now, why they're demoing that, that'll be all watered, right? So, there's two hydrants on the end there. They'll probably have water cannons that are going that'll keep all the dust down and everything else. They have the really the 10-day notice is an air quality notice. That's who it's filed with. It's through DEEQ, but it goes to the Department of Air Quality. They're the ones who do that make sure that that's taken care of. And part of that is we're air monitoring every day anyways. So we have air monitoring going and and so those those reports are available obviously to see it but we haven't had anything that's been you know it's tested out of the rain or

014anything but so that's that'll be in place and so um and then we have designated routes for the trucks right they'll probably be using this back lane instead of the light even though it's more convenient on the light at comtock but right now because of just how much stuff's going on we'll probably be using that. So there's there's kind of a plan in place and then obviously that's it's not set in stone. If something needs to change and there's there's issues then we can we can change those. So but >> you said everything to this point is tested clean >> for the most part. Yes. >> For the most part. >> Yes. We've had a couple that have tested but they've had very low limits. Right. Where it doesn't doesn't fall into that category of

015contaminated uh where it has to be hauled off to a special facility. It's been below that. So, >> so everything is tested as we go. >> Yes, everything is tested. >> And if something tests as contaminated, what is the plan at that point? >> So, the plan the way that the the So, you know, we're we have an environmental monitor there that's every day, right? And they're they're the ones taking all the samples as we go. But the way that the DEQ has has treated the site and the way that the soils management plan was was written is they treat everything and I'm going to mess this word up because they say it all the time, but it's homozygous, right? So it's all the same. So that they don't have so they and it's done

016that way so you don't come over here and say, "Well, this is all clean over here and this is really dirty over here." Right? They want it to be all the treated all the same, right? And so they haven't really set a limit for that yet. Uh they just have said it's all going to be treated the same. And so we just keep taking tests on everything that we excavate. We take tests on the import that we bring in to make sure that it's contaminated, right? And so if anything ever reaches a level that is beyond what they decide that is going to be that homozygous area, then they would say, "Hey, you got to do something with this." But the plan, the soils management plan was always to re bury the the the tailings,

017right? So anything that was contaminated stays on site. It was our plan was never to haul it off. It's to use in all the landscaping and the mounding and everything else. So that's why the Pete has caused us problems is because now we got to do something with the Pete and we don't we've already planned for the extra material that was contaminated to be kept on site and used in the landscaping and and all the elevation work around their grading work but we didn't plan on the Pete. >> So So if we find contamin is used in landscaping and then it's capped. >> It's capped right. Yeah. Obviously, and and you've seen this. I I don't know if you've been over here, but they had a big machine here. When they stripped all this the

018soil off and the grass off, they wanted that top soil. And so, they lift all that up, put it in the machine, it has brushes like you see in a car wash, and it scrapes all of the grass off. It makes a lot of dust, but you can see you can start to see the top soil that we're getting off of that as well. And so, it's it's a reuse of the top soil again, too, so that we're not we don't want to really have to haul anything off if we don't have to. We'd like to keep it all here. So that was the plan all along. So >> and the piece just a problem not because it's contaminated but because you can't build >> it's it does it has no structural bearing capacity. So

019it hurts us with the buildings and it really doesn't have any value as far as top soil goes or as far as stuff goes because it's organic, right? So it'll continue to decompose over time. And uh so I was just over there today doing the asbestous survey on the building and dealing with the Pete, but we're going to come up with a new soils management plan for the Pete specifically and then that eventually will probably get all hauled off. So but but any high tests obviously they would they would that gets reported back to DEQ and then they look at that. But there's a report that goes out every week from the environmental guys and all of that stuff. And so it's it really has been pretty smooth sailing I would say so far. So

020>> knock on some blood. >> Knock on some wood. We get a little bit of dust, but again we're air monitoring every day and a lot of that dust is just on the sight dust but most of these fields were all built up like I said. So it's all imported fill that's your seed. >> There's a great view from my office. >> Yeah. I see her folk through the blind. It's It's kind of hard to keep all that wet, you know. So, it's you you'll have a little person. >> Any other question? >> Yeah. >> We should have a drum roll. the mind entourage. >> One of my former students parents was I knew she was going to be here the planet, right? >> Yeah. >> Um I'm just here to share well to share

021my excitement for the position that I've been honored that's been bestowed upon me. um for just a short time now. Uh but part of uh being the 2026 Utah Teacher of the Year is uh to realize that it's a year of service. And my goal with the year of service is to recognize educators, teacher leaders in our district first and then beyond the state and to represent the district in that way, in a positive way. Um, there's a I I quoted him in a recent article, the 2021 winner John Arthur said and rightfully so that there's a thirst for recognition within the profession, a thirst for acknowledgement. So, my mission is to make sure that they're acknowledged and they're appreciated. Um, and I would also like to bring in members of the Utah State Board

022and members of the legislature and invite them to join me whenever possible if they could join me um to recognize teachers and their leadership and all the hard work that they put in every single day. So, but it was an honor. It was exciting. >> It was Lindsay knocked some things off the table that night, but she had been telling us and they had known for a month leaving. We did it. But the committee made it. >> It's just like I just want you to know don't have any expectation. I'm not going to win. Like >> it was it was tough competition. >> The other nom fabulous. They're doing far more than I am. So she had already talked herself out. >> I mean we to get there we crossed a a burning semi-truck. Yeah.

023So I said, you know, if you want to stay home, you can stay home. >> She came she she made her way through that traffic. So did Caleb and Caleb's wife and other people from the district. So it was nice. But it was quite an honor and I'm I'm really excited to get started. And is Ingred here? >> Hi. I'm reaching out to you because I'd like to partnership with you and how I can best recognize the teacher leaders in the district. >> Let's do that. >> Okay. Bobby, >> did you have any questions for me or J? I'd love for you to give our board a peek into your classroom. Okay. And how AP government has evolved since you have taken the reigns of the program as well as your new class of sheer

024criminal law. >> Yeah. So I that was one of part of the uh the selection process. You have an opening statement that you deliver um before the interview and my opening statement I had to share how I teach with passion and inspire future generations. And I think for my class um we don't shy away from current events. We talk about current events and we apply them to course content. So everything we talk about is is connected to a standard. It's connected to something that's required. But the course itself is very discussion based. Uh it's team based and you you're held accountable if you're absent, if you're I don't allow parties um if you're late. And your team depends on you so that you can talk about these hard topics because they're hard. Uh we just

025talked about what happened in Utah last Wednesday. Um and we talked about the implication, not just the the assassination, but we also talked about the aftermath of that, what that looks like when people are posting social media post and whether or not that's a first amendment infringement. Um so that that led to some pretty interesting conversations today. So I think what makes the class unique is not just the team collaboration and the professional accountability where the team members and I hold every student accountable, but it's also um the application of what's happening around them, what they're seeing in social media, what they're seeing on YouTube, the news to the content because every day something's happening and it's pretty exciting. But before we do all of that, before we have conversations, they learn how to be

026professional and debate and talk to people about hard things. When I had my opening statement at my interview, I you know, I used and one of them might have been sus. I'm not sure. Um I started and I ended with uh testimonials from students and the very first testimonial was something to be effective. after this class, I now know how to talk to people who I disagree with >> uh without arguing, without screaming at each other, without violence. And then the last quote that I ended with, which I knew it was going to be like I love it, was uh Mrs. A's class has restored my faith in democracy. And I think when our our kids are just surrounded with negativity, um you know, just ugliness every day, whether it's self-inflicted or not, and I

027want my place to my room to be a place where they can, you know, read like move between the leads and say what's real, what's not, what do I have control over, what do I not have control over? And at the end of the day, what we have in common is our humanity and our constitution. And that constitution works for them. So I want them to realize that. and be able to interact with other all around those students. >> Do I hit it? >> Yes. Thank you. I'll tell you later. >> I walked into her classroom today and the kids were having to do a free ride on paper and pencil. You should have seen their response. >> Well, it was about Guantanamo Bay and the constitutionality of the deta of the detention there. you

028know, but after September 11th, there were several executive orders that came forward and one of them was that the article 3 of the Geneva Convention didn't apply to detainees. So, they had to analyze, well, is that constitutional? I, you know, because the argument from our administration was, well, they're terrorists. Um, but you know, the students were like, but everything in the constitution applies to whether you're a citizen or not, whomever you are. And then the debate was, is it US soil or is it not US soil? So, they had a 15 minutes and we frontloaded and they had research, but they had to respond to that in a rough draft and there there was some discomfort. >> Yeah. >> And I think they'll discomfort's good. Um, it gets you to think outside the box and

029then they'll get um some feedback and some pure feedback and then they'll revise. So, it's not always comfortable, but it's productive and they're engaged. Um, there's not a I I don't think there's a single class period where I'm standing up in front of the class for very long. they're engaging with each other. So I think that's important. And then the more and more you walk through our building, you will see that it is less and less teacher centered and more and more student centered. Every teacher in our building strives for that. So >> what was your AP test rate? >> 88% I had 32 fives, but there was >> how many fives? >> 32. There were um an AP US history got 96.4% pass rate. AP world was 90%. Um, social studies kicked by. I'm

030sorry for the math and science and English and everything else, but I do know that social studies I know AP psych was 92%. So, social studies really knocked it out of the park this time. We definitely contributed to that overall. >> I agree. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, >> and that was AP >> government. >> AP US government and that my course is now concurrent enrollment as well. So, the kids can double dip which is nice. >> Yeah. So they get three college credits through UDU >> and four Yeah. um college credit through their AP score. >> Yeah. And how does it how do your obligations of being teacher every year? >> It's going to be a balance actually. >> Yeah. It's it just started. So it will definitely be a balance. Um there are some

031keynote speaking engagements and conferences I have to go to. Um and I think the expectation is to visit schools throughout the state. So, it's going to be a balancing act for sure. My students are my priority. Uh, so they will always be my first priority, but I there will be some balancing this year, but I'll figure it out. >> Yeah. I have no doubt. >> Yeah. Question. Thanks for inviting me. >> So many calls. I wish I could tell. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I will say you're invited to come. I mean, and just pop in and be part of the conversation or observe the conversation. Yeah, the more I think I think for our our community and our state and our country, the more people see what teachers and students do together, the better.

032So, you can come anytime. >> I've been to her class quite frequently and it's fascinating that we can have kids who share very different perspectives and they're modeling for us as adults how we should disagree and still be kind and respectful and polite. >> Yeah, they're very respectful. that last >> and they're heterogeneous groupies. So I don't put them in the third front. I put I and it changes every quarter the CD. >> So it's intentional. So yeah, >> I just want to thank you because it's very difficult to learn how to have difficult conversations. >> And if you can learn when they're younger, they become very successful adults, >> more productive and Yeah. Yeah. and civically engaged because we want them to vote. >> We want them to be informed. Um, so yeah, it's

033an honor. It's quite an honor. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. I'm not gonna stay for the rest of the meeting. >> Roll. Um, okay. Welcome back to the next graph. >> Hi everyone. >> I'm so excited to work with Joanna. I don't know what that's going to look like, but I'm thrilled that I want to you two amazing humans will figure it out. >> Yes. >> So, I think all of you, but um for those who don't know me, I'm Ingred Whitley. I'm the president CEO of Park City Education Foundation. Um and then just wanted to give a little background on who we are. so that you know. Um so we're a 501c3 nonprofit. We're overseen by an independent board of directors and most of our um board members are our parents. We

034also have educators and community members as well. Um we provide funding for programs and initiatives that support our teachers and our students in the district. And this year we're funding about $1.8 million um in awards and grants to the district. And just a few things that we fund. So we do both supplemental funding and also full funding for programs. Some of the supplemental funding um for programs for things like preschool and after school PC CAPS. You might have heard of PBIS, positive behavior intervention systems. We provide some supplemental funding for that. Um Latinos in Action, many more. We fund over 100 programs, so I won't list all of them. Um, and then we also fully fund things like elementary visual arts, um, the RC league at all the elementary schools, bright futures, the excellent educator

035awards, which Joanna won last year, um, and and many more. Um, and then throughout the year, we fund what we call express classroom grants, and that's for teachers to request up to $2,000 for project they want to do in their classroom that's an unexpected need. Um, and we also have kind of classroom grants on an annual basis that teachers apply for and that we fund. And we've worked really closely with PCSD since our founding in 1986 um through many different school boards and superintendents and leaders um and we've navigated this partnership with um obviously a lot of conversation and working together and memorandum of understanding. So that's what I'm here to talk with you all about tonight. So, our current that's in place was adopted back in June of 2022, and that's guided our work

036um since since that uh document was signed. It has a a clause in there that it's meant to be reviewed and revised or renewed every two years essentially um in odd calendar years. So, here we are in 2025. Um that's why we're talking about this. Um so, it was renewed automatically in December of 2023. So, it's been in place for essentially four years. Um, and that was prior to my coming on and Lindsay being superintendent. Um, and so we have new leadership at BCSD. We have new leadership at PCF. And um, we thought it was a good time to just review the the terms outlined in theou and um, to make updates and revisions to make sure that it reflects how we currently operate together um, and our mutual roles and responsibilities. So, Lindsay, Randy,

037Craig, and I, and a couple of our board members met back in the spring just to start reviewing and discussing potential uh edits. I worked with a few of my board members as well throughout the revision process. Um, and so we don't have a final draft yet, but we have the draft that I shared with you um uh in the board docs and wanted to share kind of where we are. I did share a cleaned version, so without redlinined, but I also have a redlinined version. So if you want to see kind of what we had and what edits we're making, that might be easier to look at um too. And then I want to underscore that this is a draft. So my board has not even seen this version yet. We're working with a

038small committee. Um but I want to also underscore that because we have time to make further edits and revisions um to this version. uh and just kind of an overview of what it does. So it outlines PCSD responsibilities to PCF PCS responsibilities to PCSD. Uh some shared understanding regarding employment and fiscal responsibilities um expected communications, confidentiality, access to information and dispute resolutions. Those are the big categories that are covered in thisou. Um, and just from a national perspective, I was at a conference in March, the National Association of Education Foundations, and one of the sessions underscored the importance of having an MLOU with your district. And like, great, we have one. Um, we want to make sure it covers kind of everything that we needed to. And then, um, we don't want things in there

039that we don't actually practice anymore, right? So that's really the point of making any edits or changes, clarifying language, um making sure it reflects our current practices. I will pause there. Happy to answer any questions. Um and also if you want me to talk about any specific sections, I'm happy to do that, too. So, the goal was to have Inger come present if we need to make edits offline and then come back next month and formally make a decision in our October quarantine. >> Yeah. And our bullets have this uh finalized and signed before them as they are ongoing attorney December. So, ideally, it'd be great. Um but no pressure if we need some time to make provisions. I think we do. >> Yeah. I feel like that's a very reasonable time. >> Okay. Any

040questions that could answer? >> No questions. But I mean when you're close, I'd love to see the red line versions, see the changes. >> Yes. I can share that. If you want to send it to then I can share it. >> All right. Thank you all. Thank you. All right. >> Hello everybody. I'm here to talk about open enrollment. Just giving a brief over. >> So this first slide just a reminder of the timeline. you all approved open enrollment in decay five and on June 17. Um we immediately started uh releasing information. There was a social media and um different articles and then on June 23rd at 8 a.m. it opened. We did our first review on June 30th and then we meet every Monday since then to review any applications. >> Are you still

041getting that? >> We are. So here's just some numbers. So we have a total of 195 open enrollment students in the district. That is before the special course that total student uh teacher kids etc. So when we first started we had 30 in the queue. So that was before that that uh what was it June 23rd open date and 15 of them were sec secondary 15 were elementary. And then since the special area time we've had 91 applications we uh they declined after approval 10 people declined. Um we denied 16 of them. So we have a total of 65 for the elementary >> and a variety of reasons for declining not understanding that we don't provide transportation if they live out of boundary. There was some confusion even though it was clearly stated on the

042website that we did not provide transportation but um some outside of our boundary were operating under the impression we did. So this breaks it down by school of that 195. So you can visually see where um the students are under >> the uh secondary now that is just legacy from when we were open before >> or correct or a teacher >> and then the next slide this is how many where we approve them at each elementary 26th 13 of barley's and nurse This wasn't a data point you were asked to clue. So if you don't know >> I'm not trying to put you on this spot. >> That's okay. But >> how many Well, obviously everybody in Poland is Spanish. >> Correct. >> Um how many of these other kids do you know? >> I

043would say less than less than five. >> Okay. were went into Spanish or French >> just because they want the room because they didn't want to >> because they didn't have that, you know, they're starting in fourth or fifth grade. >> Yeah. They might be more like five to 10 because we did have some first graders that did go in. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> I mean, there was one family that relocated from out of state. They were in a French emergency school. So, that was an easy placement. If they come in the office are very levelish to see where their language proficiency is for the target language >> and these numbers in each school I know we had different numbers open in each school. >> Yes. >> Does this proportionally match that or is

044this more a feature of where people wanted to go? >> No, I think it I think it definitely meets it and the colon has so many and you'll see if I show you in the next slide this is how many spaces are still available and this is strictly based on others. 23 um in first grade through fifth, you know, in each class and then 20 at kindergarten. So, this is strictly based on numbers. You can see McFullin has still has a lot of room, right? They have four sections of every grade. Um and their their numbers are are quite low. So, >> so this is after these are already >> still have this much >> remaining seats. Yes, we could. And and I didn't count like in third, fourth or fifth. I did not count

045um D in these numbers. So these are strictly numbers in the other three elementaryaries that are mostly traditional or STEM mixed >> and are there so many spaces at Mcborn because of the district that schools from and >> because it's a whole because they take students no matter >> where in our other schools for DI just go to take >> I think proximity to the 40 and south summit Um, and then like Caroline was saying, they're hope school Spanish, >> right? >> Versus that we had a traditional track in a DRI track at our other three elementary schools. >> They're hoping to keep they weren't getting out and um having to keep pushing it because we uh are anxious. I mean, every we had three on Monday. The numbers are small uh but we're still

046getting there. I'd love to keep monitoring this and see see how that changes and understand what we can do to fill some of those seats at the moment. >> Yeah. Incredible. >> What is the Roman ethnic form? Do you know? >> Um, not off the top of my head, but I want to save three. >> I can look. >> You got it. >> I was going into how many? 500 students. >> Build it. >> 409. >> Thank you. or >> and then how is the preschool? >> Yes, you did not pull those numbers. Amy, Jenkins, you don't have those, do you? >> 200 students in preschool across the district. >> Over 200 across the school district. >> I do not know off the top of my head. >> I mean, I could pull them up

047here as well. Okay. So, >> that might help pull in in a year or two. Also, do all of these elementary schools have full capacity of their after school program? Does that defer some parents too? >> And we just met and executive leadership committee or team and decided that we were going to add some more reads to get some of our students off the actual because the some of the schools the numbers are pretty. So, we're gonna I'm gonna have to start posting that. So there's 44 colon 12 prek 32 prek4 trail side is 47 19 three year olds 28 four year olds somebody can do quick math while I'm okay >> I had just heard that some people were wanted their kids to go to Stone or whatever one of the amenities but there

048was no prepared. Yes. >> And that there is sending them to because of that. >> Yeah. Our waiting list >> is fairly large, but we're definitely we're going to work on that. Add more aids so we can take that also. I have those numbers here and to-do list and things quickly. 207. So 83 at Jeremy Ranch for um preschool 43 year olds 40 year old have those after school I'm going to say there was like 20ome on the waiting list at McDonald >> so like Caroline said we met executive leadership and a lot of ridiculous families off the wait list for afterare so we've been able to make that decision and move it forward perfect time some babies as well. >> That's how I had some time. >> Is there before care and after care

049before care is just that? Yeah, we started when we started a few years ago. We did a colon and but we just didn't have any. So that's interesting. Any other questions on Thank you. [Music] Hey, just a quick calendar committee update. Uh we met I did the brief yesterday for the first time. There's a parent from every school as well as representation from every employee group and really talking about what are our priorities for the 27 27th school year. Trying to get that calendar set. The end goal is to have three years set. So some of the priorities that surfaced are never start school on a Monday again. And I couldn't agree more. Um so shifting that start date to either a Wednesday or Thursday. How do we embed more PD days for our teachers

050um with what we are asking them to do, new curriculum adoption, AI coming online, and really having them have more time with students or without students so they can have professional learning without having to take a sub and write lesson plans. Um so that was another priority. Uh something else we talked about was February break. What is the sentiment among our community now? Do they value that week off? Or could we look at a modified version to where we're taking the Friday off before President's Day and maybe the Tuesday off so families still have five days and then we could get out earlier maybe that Friday before Memorial Day. Um, but helping our families understand there's give and take in a calendar because we still have to meet the 180 days. the 990 hour rule

051has gone out the window. We still got to meet that 180. We still need to have snow days built in. Don't think the state's going to grant a waiver to Park City School District. Um for not having snow days built in given where we live. >> Um so those were some things we talked about as well as just, you know, fall break. Um because of the Jewish holidays this year, we pushed fall day fall break back. Next year it will be back to the normal third week in October. We will continue to honor the Jewish holidays within our school calendar. Those were also priorities that were discussed. So our next task is to take those considerations. Lori has already done this and put it into a couple calendars, pushed that out to our community, as

052well as some questions about things like February break. Do you value that week off? Would you be okay if we shortened it so you could get out sooner? Um, we've even talked about having two PD days before the first day of school. that is protected teacher time in their classrooms where they can get their classroom set up because the one thing we always hear is there's never enough time. Um so giving them more time without schedule PV on those days leading up to the first day of school. So that's where we're at um with the calendar committee. Another thing that I did plant the seed with committee is reconsidering Friday early. Fridays afternoons specifically are not ideal for adult learning. I don't know about you all. Um but I'm not functioning at full capacity on

053Friday afternoon and that time is really intended for adult learning recognizing that would be a shift for our families. So that's going to be additional conversation and dialogue with the greater community. You know, do we go back to a Monday early hours? Do we look at a late start for maybe a Monday morning? Um, and we would have to navigate what the logistics look like. Could we shift after care to before care to provide that child care for our families? So, I just throw that out to the committee to get them thinking about it. Um, one parent very candidly said, "Oh, I kind of have an adverse reaction to that." But then you explain the purpose is adult learning, then I understand why you would want to move it off of Friday afternoon. Another consideration

054is we have to be mindful of high school athletics. Um because where you put that may or may not impact if your high school athletic coaches can attend. >> I feel bad if I call somebody on a Friday afternoon for anything work related. I'm like I'm really sorry. And it may be a year of planning and saying this is coming, this is coming, this is coming and we don't implement until 2728. Um but we continue to ask more of our teachers. We know math standards are going to be adopted in a potential curriculum roll out. Um so the idea of professional learning is not going away, but we also want to maximize the times that we do have with teachers. questions on camera maybe >> clarification on the early hour when you would just switch

055it to a different day. Is that what you're saying? >> Yes. Or look at a late start and years ago we had a Wednesday late start. Um >> either at the elementary level >> elementary was not. So secondary was a late start and elementary I believe was still on Friday on Fridays historically. >> Yes. Is there any reason we need >> they have multiple >> um >> yes but there was >> there was a period of time where elementary was Friday secondary was Wednesday late start um I don't know if late start's better than an early out but there's all considerations that It's greater than just a superintendent decision. It requires a lot of dialogue with our families as well as our employee groups. Um what's best for adult learning, but also considering our families

056who have uh child care concerns as well as athletics and there's lots of things that factor into the decision. So, it's a conversation that we have started. Um, I brought it up with our PCA representation, Jen Riggs and Kristen Hall on Friday just again to plant that seed and get them thinking and talking with members. >> Does it need to be uh a time tweak or can we build it in so that it's separate days on the calendar still get the same opportunities? >> Consistency is better. Um, just in terms of routines and schedule. So, we would love to keep it on the same day every week. Um, we need to go four hours for it to be counted as a full school day. So, that's why the high and we have to serve lunch.

057That's something we learned. Um, so that's why high school goes 7:30 to 11:30. They get there four hours, they serve lunch, and then kids buildings. But in an ideal world, we'd have the same day, same time every week because there's all these things that need to happen during a finite window of time. You need professional learning. You have um MTSS meetings that come together. You have school leadership teams that come together. You have lesson prepping that's happening. Um there's a lot of of work happening in our buildings during that three-hour window. I think that we probably need to express that more to parents because as a parent myself when my kids have that I had no idea why my middle school was going in late one day and >> I elementary has always gotten out

058early so that was just oh elementary gets out early on Friday but it was never that that time is used for our teachers. >> Yeah. >> What's the why behind the scenes? It's important when we know that as they're making these decisions that it's not just >> we're doing it to inconvenience people. >> No, we are certainly not. Um teachers choose less than threat and have a sub is far more difficult than to just show up and be there with your kids. Um, and even when they're out of the building participating in prof professional learning, all they're worried about is what level instruction and are my kids okay and what's happening today and what kind of catchup am I going to have to play tomorrow when I return to my classroom. Um, and that's another

059reason why we're trying to embed more PE days up to what the state allows. So we can have eight hours of dedicated professional learning, whether that's district directed or school directed or teachers are in working with their professional learning communities planning um for school year. >> Is it worth seeking direct community input on half day would be best for them? I mean, I'm very fortunate. I work hard, right? It doesn't really affect me, but I know everyone else. >> Yeah. No, we we intend to send something out because I do want to get a pulse on. Is there a preference amongst working parents and just families in general? I understand Friday is more than ideal because you can go on a quick trip and your kids are done um at the very latest. You know,

060Eper's done at 1:40 on Fridays and that makes for a long weekend, but in terms of learning for adults, it's less than I do. >> Has a teacher utilized or been interested in having more professional days at the start or end of the school year, the longer prep time at the start of school year? >> Yes. So that's one of the considerations for uh the one of the draft calendars is six days before students return. The first four being district and school directed or some combination of and then that Monday Tuesday before students would return on Wednesday is protected time for them to do whatever they need to do to be ready for kids to show up on that Wednesday. There's two days in the calendar like there used to be for November 7th and

061March 20th are the days this school year for PD. >> Um and then we have snow days. If we don't take a snow day or need one, then you would see again a 4 day weekend for Memorial Day. So they'd be off the Friday through to the Monday. School calendars are complex. I wish it was just throw some things into AI and generate a school calendar, but there's lots of considerations um that need to come into play. >> You can build a custom chat. >> So, the community is going to be surveyed. Are the teachers being surveyed? every day. It'll go internally and externally because we all have our own selfish wants and desires >> to meet our needs. >> Okay, let's go a little >> Someone did bring that up and said, "Hey, we

062have you considered year round school." And there was a resounding no. >> Someone asked me about that recently and she is an older person in the community and I was like there is zero >> Yeah. archetype. >> And there was some conversation, do we start early? And I said, I don't know that that our community would support that because it gets warmer much later in June. They want to maximize the warmer temperatures >> into the middle of August. Be great. We could start after Labor Day and before Memorial Day, but uh that's not realistic. >> Okay. So we will push that out and then I told the group yesterday we'll reconvene once we've collected that data um to make an informed decision and then the calendar will get presented to this group hopefully if not

063next month November board retreat recap if you click on that document um so this group as well as some of our executive leadership team members in conjunction with school leadership alliance held a retreat on August 29th and if you recall we answered the question why do we exist and we came up with three potential statements I refined those I want to make sure this group is good with those three statements before we put them out to the greater community as well as our different employee groups to kind of get a reaction from them um attempted to word smmith and capture what we discuss. If you feel strongly about any of the words or the way in which it's formatted, we can certainly make changes. >> Great. [Music] >> Talk about having some defining characteristics. You

064talked about transparency and kindness. Are we going to leave that off until we can get the same >> work done with the staff? >> Yeah. So, I think we want to get the work done with the staff and then we'll I mean this is a living dot you know it's fluid. We'll continue to refine it. So the three that we are talking about so the first one in partnership with our community we empower every student to thrive with dignity grow with purpose and embrace opportunities for success in a dynamic world. Option two, in collaboration with our community, we educate and empower every student to thrive with dignity, embrace growth and opportunity while preparing them with confidence for an everchanging world. Together with our community, we prepare every learner for success by valuing personalized pathways, fostering

065growth, and strengthening our shared future. Um, and I know there are some concerns about do we include democracy? Is that too much of a triggering word for for some individuals? But we want to be um preparing our students so they can civically engage in a respectful and kind manner once they leave our system. So my recommendation is we put this out both internally and externally but also leave sort of an open comment box u for people to give feedback if they feel like we've completely missed the mark. We're open to that feedback. Um we can come back to the table. >> Someone will tell us good. >> Yes. >> Um but I think the importance is this is a partnership um with our families and the importance of us partnering with our families and our

066community. >> So we'll work on that and push that out. Couple questions I just want to work through um with this group. you know, what are we seeking to accomplish a as we evolve as a new team, as a district? For me, it's clarity and alignment around the six critical questions that we talked about. Why do we exist? How do we behave? What do we do? How will we succeed? What is most important right now? And then who does what? So, those are the six critical questions we want to answer as we engage with this work in school leadership alliance. Um, we want to increase capacity of individuals to effectively create clarity alignment for teams through answering those questions. That not only applies to the board, but our principles and district leadership had the same

067training um last week. They got a bite-sized um portion. Um, and we'll come back in a couple of weeks and continue that. And then what could steps to success look like? uh we want to gather key or input from key interest groups in forming a first draft of the answers to the six critical questions for our district. So we would do that this school year informing our work for next school year. We convene on August 29th. Our administrators are doing this monthly. Um so instead of getting all of the six critical questions in a day, they're getting it in 90 minute increments each month. Executive Leadership, we have two days that we're we're working October 8th and December 3rd. Similar work. Teaching and learning and student services are coming together on October 15th and December

0685th to do this work. And then I'd really like to push this out to our community, families, and students because they are the enduser of the work that we're doing. Um, and so we're talking about what that might look like and how do we engage our community, families, and students. So we are doing things alongside them and with them instead of to them uh because they are our consumers >> and the school leadership alliance have um a blueprint or suggestions for how >> Yeah. So they're starting to do some of this work in other school districts and they're learning what works and what doesn't. Um, and so Lawrence, Amy, myself, and his team will talk through, you know, is that a a late winter community forum and then an early spring? So, there's two opportunities

069and then what does that look like going forward? >> Uh, alignment of board and district processes and procedures to these six critical questions. A recommendation would be for us to have an audit of our current crisises and procedures and then reflect and refine how we might align them to better align with how we're responding to those six critical questions. Um, also identifying mutually agreed upon leading indicators to track work and adoption rate around the clarity and alignment. Um, and also looking at the lagging indicators. How are we gauging impact and what's the result of the culture not only here within our buildings but in the greater Park City community? >> Yes, Marin. >> Um the audit the recommended audit the current processes is that something you would just conduct internally. >> Yep. In conjunction with

070school leadership alliance that may require them coming in and just having internal conversations with different groups. So my question to this body is >> do you think it's worth stating at the beginning just because everyone has been on thing on on groups where we make a new vision statement make a new mission statement we align our goals to tell people at the beginning or number two we are looking at why we as a school district exist and number two what do we want to accomplish for the first time we as a school district want community and student involvement in how we set goals, measure goals, and then redirect goals because that hasn't been done anymore. I think that e to let people know that the first time we're asking them. >> Yeah. >> And what

071is their metric of success? Because for us as theals, we have metrics of success that we've set both as a school district as well as with the state and the na nation is set in some regard. But as a parent, you might have a different metric of success and we're seeing that through some of um the literacy community engagement that our literacy specialists participating in. You know, one of the questions is to parents, what do you aspire for your child? What what are your hopes and dreams when your child leaves our system? What do you hope they've accomplished? And see what kind of responses we get from parents. Um, and I imagine there would be some themes, but there might also be some outliers. >> We talked a little bit about all of the uh

072numbers stats we used to have on the website. Mhm. >> Is the vision that comes back aligned with the metrics we're identifying? >> Yes. Yes. >> Are we doing what we're saying we're doing >> and where are we at in that process? >> We've been really good about putting things on paper >> and put them in a folder and never really putting them into action and and want to shift that behavior for sure. So for this group, what work do you see yourselves actively engaging in with our district as opposed to simply receiving progress reports on a set cadence? Um, and these are reflection questions for you guys to kind of mle over. Are there any additional desired professional learning elements to help our effectiveness and supporting this work? For example, change management, strategic planning.

073As I mentioned uh previously, we're in year three of a five-year strategic plan, but we recognize some revisions need to happen because things like AI and other um initiatives that we've been marked on are not embedded into that strategic plan. Would another retreat at the end of the year be valuable where we revisit a version 1.1 draft of the six critical questions? This would be after we've obtained feedback from key interest groups to explore what change should look like and what metrics are we proposing both from a parent and student perspective as well as board employee perspective. And then what other ideas does this group have in terms of collaboration around supporting our district and supporting your development as a three-term school board members? Uh so the answer to the coming back together as a

074group I don't know whether it's end of the year my view would be uh it's worth doing that at milestones along the process right not not just necessarily there then >> I would yeah I think as we're going through through this process of looking at why we're here and what our goals are we should be coming together regularly to to review that what our next steps are and how we facilitate I agree. So I my task to this group is reflect on sort of the questions what you feel you have the capacity to do over the next couple of months and maybe we'll look to schedule a retreat in Januaryish as sort of a middle of the year and then we'll get something in the end as June. >> Um I anticipate this partnership with

075school leadership alliance to be multi-year. I value uh the work that they do as well as the conversation we were able to have um as a group. And I've got um some leaders going this weekend, myself included, to the Deote University campus in Texas where we will continue with business chemistry and leadership development um with superintendent and principles from all across the nation. >> Um so we'll be in Texas uh from Friday to Sunday. But it I've been before and it's phenomenal. Um it's a great leadership experience and just to network with others and to see that they might be in Tennessee but they're experiencing the same struggles you are within the profession and how are they navigating the difficult and challenging circumstances? >> Yes. Do you think we could have representatives from the admin

076team and the executive leadership team at the January retreat? Because they will have already met and gone over all these same issues that might make it easier for us to >> and maybe it's combination culture change. >> Executive leadership, building principles, and school board. >> So we're all speaking the same language. >> Um the whole retreat for part of it. >> Yeah. >> No, I like that idea. I never done. >> Okay, any other questions on board retreat? Like I said, it was a great start. I found value in the day. We were able to have open and honest conversation um and really start to move the needle in the direction that this board wants to go. Lori, can I call on you >> to share with all of us what you said to Nick

077and I when we met just when we met at the retreat for agenda planning just your observation and you don't have to >> I just said it was so nice that you all could come together and everybody had a voice and everybody felt heard >> and it was a felt like a functioning board. Everybody was valued and you felt like you could speak and I just I thought that was really nice to to see. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Yes. >> I I thought it was ready. >> Glad you did. >> Yes. And hopefully Jim, who's the former CEO of Deote, will join us at somewhere. He does live here in Park City but still travels quite a bit. Um but he has great stories and is just a wealth of information um and

078brings a level of expertise. His mom was a teacher but he has mostly lived in um the private sector with with Yeah, he's a part resident and have >> I met him I met him last time I was in Texas and then I met him at chatbooks um because school leadership alliance kind of uses chatbooks as an office. I believe Jen's son founded chatbooks so there's a connection there but they use that as an office space. I think four committees. >> Yes, we're gonna uh Yeah, let's hold on. >> Um, do we have any comments? Anybody? Anyone sheets? [Laughter] Well, then we will go to our committee of science. So, we just wanted to now that we've kind of got a little runway behind us, >> um look at where we are with who's who's

079doing what with regards to the committees. Um because it recently came up that we need somebody for the um policy. Is that correct? Uh it would be great if we could find someone [Music] and I mean >> it's a really fun >> who doesn't want to serve on the policy on >> the timing. >> When is it? >> Tuesday before board meeting at 3:30. >> What just happened? >> So it's before board meetings. >> Tuesday thing. week >> about it. Roughly an hour. Sometimes we do not go an hour. More often than not, we're a 40 hour. Okay. >> Um and we're meeting in person, but if you need a Zoom option, we can provide that. We do that. Kathleen's going to serial policy. >> Are we good to do this without Susan here? >>

080So, she let me know she would like to be on the superintendent's advisory committee. as the board member. >> We can have up to two if someone else wants to join. >> Oh wow. >> Now in the superintendent advisor tool. >> It is not on this. Um it is a new one. Just create a feedback loop. So every school site has a parent. Um, I've got employee group representation and then some administrators um from both elementary once a month for about an hour. Um, it's it's really except for December. We're not meeting in December because the schedule in December is just crazy. um September 30th, 3:30 to 4:30 is the first meeting >> and um what exactly does this community >> anything and everything employee group has a concern >> um or they're hearing things

081out in the community. It's really an opportunity to give everyone a seat at a table and have conversations in person versus elsewhere social media. Um, let's have face to face conversation and figure out how we can problem solve >> uh together. We don't have to. I don't have to look at this right now, but I do think it would be great if you joined the Mtech. >> Oh, you want to do that? >> But well, no, no, it's only one. It's a single, but I just think because >> Okay, that would be great. >> We're not in the technical community. >> That would be great. >> I think your background, you know, >> you need to do it for a while. I mean, you can bring me to like the parties and >> what and

082they do >> there's all some good training to get out and be part of. >> Yeah, I think that partnership will continue to strengthen especially with the campus in Hebrew opening yes. >> That would be great. I would be happy with that. And then I think that'll be it for me. >> Yeah, I mean um so are all these committees still active? >> Well, that was question. >> Is there anything here? We don't >> the audit committee. Yes, Randy leads that one chamber. >> Yes. City, county, we're meeting with them quarterly at a breakfast. I am also um joining the we call it coffee with the chief every Wednesday at the Park City Hospital. So Margaret Olsen um county attorney, sheriff, chief, um different public entities and their leadership come together and try to just

083hey what are you hearing? How can we work together? They do it every Wednesday at 8:30. Um >> so the board leadership Meredith and Nick you you attend those two. >> And then just because are is one of us meeting with the employers or we haven't >> only when we start talking about the um LPA >> okay >> and the the agreements with the classifier group. So usually late Yeah. Um, >> so there's nothing else left. >> No, I meet with them monthly. Um, and we try to problem and I meet with them monthly. >> My responsibility is like >> but yeah, that'll just be early spring >> depending on what happens with 267. Can you send me an invite for the policy meeting? >> Yes. And I'll give you access. We put everything in

084their Google Drive. >> Okay. The agendas and all the policies. Yes. >> And it's just putting this anyone is welcome to join me as well. That is that's sort of a what is the joint legislative >> during the legislative session and >> it's a party >> that and the policy committee >> be fine. >> Yeah. Right. >> So it's at granite every Friday. >> Friday during the session. >> Wow. So board members, BAS, superintendent, uh representatives, all come together and talk about what position are we going to take on this bill? Um where are their problems within the language and try to give that feedback during the session? >> Has the state office given out their position papers were there? >> Not yet. >> There was a meeting that >> I think we're waiting to

085see if they're call special session. They were sponsored in September. >> But was there a local TC region? Was there a regional meeting? >> Regional meeting coming up. >> Yeah. Yeah. But there is a regional meeting that they have periodically outside of the session. It is I'm out of town. >> Where is it? Is it >> at church? Is anybody invited? >> I won't be here. But in the future, I do want to join you and see. just keep my head spinning like it's >> the DLC this year is going to be the Senate building. >> Okay. >> Where is it at? >> The Senate building >> that'll be more parking spot. >> Yeah, get there early. >> They do have a very >> It's hard. >> Yeah. >> Regional recreational master planning. Is that

086>> our local that is an old? >> So he will towards the end of 2016. [Music] >> Okay. or something. [Music] >> I don't know. We'll take it off and just >> maybe we will add it back on and then inter local agreements or something. That's >> take it off. >> Well, do you not talk about all of that when you meet with your city, county government? >> We do. Yeah. >> So again, that's >> and then we also will have flying conversations based in you know similar to what we did with the Hy Ranch um and that property and the eastment there. Um sometimes it's formal, sometimes it's informal. Interlocal agreement will come up especially once these fields are done. Um, so right now it's not crucial that we're having those conversations, but it

087will once we skipped over Susan is meeting with you, Randy, for the insurance. >> Yeah. So, I'll include her in that. Yeah, we meet with spring a couple times. So, I'll probably bring her in. I'll meet you with GBS Mary and I before we have that meeting >> and I'll wait until >> on the board that's a duty I have been >> delinquent. >> Do you want me to? So I'm going to their meetings quarterly or class meetings I should say quarterly. I can add you to those invites and go together. >> Please. >> Okay. >> Can you send it to all of us and then whoever? >> Yeah. That would be great. I'll send that to Laya. Do you want to invite >> We'll just make sure because I think you're the owner of

088the calendar invite >> and let me know. Yeah. Right. >> It's interesting. You know, last year we had conversations about beyond our pouches. if they come to the high school, what does that look like? >> I'm getting sacrificed. >> Um, and and then just >> what's happening in the high school, where are their areas of concern? We partner better. Um, it's interesting. You'll get to see their new space. >> Uh, they have phenomenal new space with storage in the back. You're not having to run all over the high school to find their decorations and nanny the liner costume. Um, >> it's an upgrade. >> Yeah, on our tour. >> Okay. Is that thing about the >> other things? Can we go >> audit chamber city government insurance JLC >> BCE employee groups that is on

089the monthly meeting >> and that's what I asked earlier about >> we're not you guys are welcome to come if you want to >> employ to have you guys are >> so it's the Friday before board meetings at 3 we'll add you guys. >> Yeah. It's just I just try to attend >> EIG and PCCA is usually at 11. We do those on soon. We have some flash drivers who are part of that and they're just >> I'll let you all to the I'll let you calendar and then I'll show the the document if it has agendic [Music] >> I don't know do you know >> well we were going to talk about communications generally the radio I think I think that was why that was put on there that you it could be a

090rotating basis who goes on the very good but for me Thursday at 8:30 >> that meeting you open >> I think it's [Music] want to develop it some way. What what direction >> I'll talk with uh Amy Campbell and John Amy Campbell's overseeing child nutrition. I do think we should bring it back. I mean, and decide >> we need to get some committee from parents and students and um >> do you want to be >> Do you want to community gardens? Mhm. >> So, >> cuz I know she had your head >> and the and the pantry and all of so that it's all one >> and from the child nutrition department. >> I will get Amy Kim on that. >> So, the other one was back in attendance advisory committee. You said you got

091Susan got Susan. We can have another. It's up to you guys. Can you add me? I don't know how to Okay. I think that covers something out. >> Is there anything we're missing? An area you guys feel like we need anybody more. >> And there will be more that come online that I will ask you guys to join as we look at DLI. um at the elementary that will be a much bigger group than just me the board members, parents, teachers um and principles just talking about what is our next evolution of DLI. We've had in place for 10 plus years. We haven't really tweaked or refined the program. there are some unintended consequences that maybe we weren't thoughtful about on the front end of implementation or how can we improve the program >> and

092when will you be addressing >> January sometime want to have what are your >> thoughts on what you want it next year >> starting to form it in January of 2020 26 with a school year of really studying and evaluating what are we doing, what are other school districts doing because we're not this problem's not unique to us. Um we're not the only school district that is experiencing these challenges and what is our next step? You know, I I don't foresee DLI going away, but I do see some refinements >> to the way in which activity. when we can't continue to have our traditional classes with 70% of the students feeling at risk doesn't >> so putting a plan together starting to push it out in January likely forming committees or task forces next school

093year to really study it and come up with if we're going to make changes what are those changes and what's the timeline >> okay does I don't know any other districts that have all their elementaryaries on. >> You know, I can speak for Wasatch as a parent. They have 80 language. It's Spanish and they are bigger than us. I think it's very rare that you're going to see a school district of our size have two languages. Do they have it in every elementary school? >> It is in every elementary school. Um they start in kindergarten, not first grade, >> which I think. >> No. And have they had the same issue with disproportionate >> that? I don't know. I can ask >> to see what their traditional compared to their DLI. >> What's only, you

094know, not only the disproportionality in student demographic, but also class size. >> That's right. Um, yeah, >> because believe it or not, we had some classes of 10. Good oneonone. >> It'd be good to have experienced some of the same challenges, right? It would be good to have some information sharing and just understand. >> Yeah. >> So, that will be a big lift. I refer to it as the elementary realignment. we're done with secondary and settling into it and elementary is next and really looking at um what can we want student experience to be for the K to five worry about that. [Music] >> All right. So everybody >> I think we're ready. So now moving on to the consent agenda which includes regular session meeting minutes of August 19th. The special session the board

095retreat minutes of August 29th travel request LA specific license employees. Approval of standing purchase orders. Approval of emergency procurement personnel check registers of August 2025. board revenue and expenditures of August 202. I get a motion to approve the consent. >> I make a motion to approve the consent agenda as a >> second. All in favor? >> I already solicited and now we will have the nonpay reports from professional groups. We're actually we're starting with student on the board. Sorry. Pardon me. Hey, how's school going? >> Um, this week is very busy because it was homecoming week. We have fun student things um every day this week including us yesterday for the ACT. We wanted to be comfortable. Today was country versus country club. Tomorrow, >> which are you? I I try my best tomorrow and

096then Jersey versus Jersey Shore. And then Friday is our homecoming t-shirts should come wearing those which we get tomorrow in class. And we also have a lot of activities after school. Last night we had a movie night on Doure. It was super fun. It was Little John's. >> And then tonight we have Powder Puff. Tomorrow is Buff. And then we have the Bonfire. And then it's the tailgate um with the game afterwards. And then >> Oh, no. That'll be fun. And then um this week oncoming ticket prices are regular. They're no longer discounted. So 40 is a single, 55 is a double. and those will only go up at the door if you don't purchase. Um, and then that is pretty much everything homecoming related. We also have made a donation to the National Ability

097Center of $500 from Water Wars profits from last year. And then we have also officially um launched the fall desert which is souls for souls which we collect shoes and clothes and um items of resource to give to people who do not have the resources to get them for themselves. So I really encourage everyone to donate. >> Awesome. Thank you. My daughter was >> um his name. And are you going to be Jersey or Jersey? >> Jersey. >> What? Jersey. >> We got our employee groups. Hi. >> Uh, I'm just gonna read a prepared statement uh because I'm nervous. >> Good evening. My name is Jason Jensen. I'm the new secretary treasurer, Florida Park City classified employees association and I'm glad to be here tonight uh and share a few updates from our educational support

098professions. Uh to be frank, some of our ASPAs are feeling a strain from a limited summer. uh clerical staff have been busy registering new students. Maintenance teams have been working on finishing the project of treasure and custodian par educators and transportation staff have been busy supporting the summer school programs. Now even with all those challenges, our ESPs are feeling very positive and really excited to do their very best for this new school year. Um, we just had our very first PCCA board meeting last week and uh, for the first time ever, we're we have experienced voices representing all seven of our job families. So, we're very excited about that. Um, local leaders also took the opportunity to take part in a training uh, over last weekend uh, down in Salt Lake and gain valuable tools

099to better support ESPs up here in Park City. at at the state level, USDA board members and staff are working closely with our representatives to advocate for Utah's ESPs, and we're grateful to be a part of the superintendent's advisory council, which helps strengthen our connection to the district. So, while there has been a lot of changes and a lot going on for all of us, we're really excited and hitting the ground running for this great school year. >> Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. I'm just trying to do my best to help. >> Okay. Well, mine's short and sweet. Um, I want to go piggy back off of him. I do appreciate the superintendent advisory committee, so thank you for that. Um really no news is good news. Um I'm with PCA. We haven't had any

100issues with the alignment. Everything's been really positive. Um teachers are starting to get into their routines and getting into the groove with all the new curriculum and new leadership. Um, we just want to say in light of all the recent shootings and stuff on schools, we are very grateful for the support that Park City School District gives students and staff with resource officers, social workers, school counselors. So, thank you. We do really appreciate it. Um I also saw the policy for the um the recording of meetings and we are really supported that as well. So thank you. But no news is good news to a good start and we do also support not starting every Monday. >> That was the longest week ever. Um, and every year teachers are wanting more days at the beginning

101of the year that are uninterrupted to get ready for their classrooms. So, thank you for that as well. >> Do you want to introduce yourself, Jen? >> I'm Jen Rice. Sorry, boarding teacher. >> Um, I'm Jeremy Ranch, fourth grade traditional side. So, >> the other side of the DI. >> Yes. >> So, I know exactly what she's talking about. Yeah. So, thank you guys very much. Thanks, Jim. Hey, we're thriving with one month of school behind us and a few more to go. >> Yeah, just >> just a few. >> Mission and vision. I'm not going to read this to the group. What I am going to do is highlight what I feel is an accomplishment that embodies all of these pillars um that are highlighted here. Uh we received an email yesterday from USB

102saying that we had the highest percentage of our MLL students in the state meeting their individual annual growth goals. So huge celebration Carolyn and her team have and we will continue to work towards that goal. Our goal is that 80% of our MLL students are reaching English language proficiency after being with us for five years. Um, so they take that test in first grade. Our hope is that they have exited NEIDA, moved into the monitored status by the time they're at Hill. So that is our our goal with our MLL students. Next slide. Just highlighting a couple of things that have transpired during the first month of school. Our architecture and construction students spent the day at Sunre High Adventure Base. It's in between Camas and Evansston. They taught firewood. They roof finished structures and

103they built tent platforms. So Brad Ganon and Jordan took a group of students up there as part of architecture and construction. Talk about hands-on real world learning. This exemplifies that. And you can see that in those first two pictures. uh preschoolers down there to the right uh participating in yoga with Brandy Joe. Uh cutest thing just really teaching them how to breathe. Uh do some yoga. This is the first year that we've been able to do that. Thanks to Missy Shawurn for help uh facilitating that and coordinating that with preschool teachers. Um, the shark outfits. Uh, they do this thing at Nicole Poland called book tasting. Uh, so students rotate through tables of text that they're going to use throughout the module and ELA and they typically spend a few minutes at each table examining

104the color cover the illustrations in the first few pages of the book while enjoying a treat or food of course that correlates with that particular book. and it's really to get them excited about the next module in ELA. That bottom weird corner with the mountains in the background, that's our girls flag football team. Um, inaugural season, they had their first game last night. We have two teams. Unfortunately, they lost. Um, they play at home next week. So, if you're not busy next week, um, they will play on Doure. I believe it's on Monday nights and they are late games. I want to say like 7:30 and 8:45. >> Yes. But we don't have school on Tuesday. So, and then you see the flag ceremony there at Mc Polland commemorating 911. Um, we had city council

105member Ryan Vicki speak a few words to our students about kindness. Um, we did the pledge of allegiance and then the kids sang the school song in both English and Spanish. It was very cute. Uh the kids were extremely respectful and engaged for the entire 30 minutes during the ceremony. Academic success, we had seven National Merit semifinalists at the high school that we recognized last week. That is um the most we're tying the most we've had. So seven is kind of the number we've been trying to beat. Uh to be eligible, they must take the PSAT during their junior year of high school and they must achieve a score within the top 1% of test takers in the state of Utah. Uh a counselor will continue to guide some of finalists through the process of

106the advance the finalist stage. Finalists will be announced in February and then the actual scholarship winners are announced in April. >> top 1% of the state Just kidding. >> Again, highlighting Joanna um featured next to her is our jazz band was invited to play that night at the banquet. So, she had four of those five students in class. So, very special moment for her to celebrate with students um at the banquet that night. Again, just highlighting the Coleman flag ceremony, but also want to highlight Randy and his team for receiving the meritorious budget award again for 2526. This reflects our commitment to sound fiscal management and budgetary practice. This morning, we hosted our first superintendent conversation at Blair from 8:30 to 9:30. It's really an opportunity for community members to come in, ask questions. This

107morning we reviewed some data points as well as talked about safety and security of our school. Educated a couple of parents on what zero eyes was. Um the AI weapon detection system that is installed at all of our campuses and what it can do for us to enhance our safety on each of our campuses. Um, and it's really just a space to have open dial dialogue and it creates a feedback loop for all of our interest groups. There's an article in town lift uh this afternoon kind of highlighting the different uh topics that we discuss during that hour. >> Schools and so we're going to do it two times of quarter. One will be in the morning. We're actually going to change the start time to 9ine so we can accommodate parents who have kids

108at her hill knowing that school starts at 8:40. So 9 to 10 and then tomorrow at 6:30 to 7:30 at the moment community center. So trying to capture working families or just making sure there's two spaces for people to be able to come if they want. And we'll have different topics at each session. The open house for phase one and phase two is scheduled for Thursday, October 9th at 5. Uh the reason we chose that date, there's a home football game and a home volleyball game. We want to maximize attendance and show off the incredible spaces at the high school. So, we'll do a quick ceremony with MHTN Hogan um and talk about the design process, the construction, the need, the why. Um, and then also open the doors to not only the new section

109of the high school but also the CTE wing because I believe many of our community members have not seen that and it is biased opinion um a great space uh for our kiddos. Can I ask? Sorry, Ingred. And did we decide to do something that afternoon as well during this school day or we just during the during >> Are anyu I mean this might be back to you. >> Are any students able to come? >> Yes, we're going to talk to some of our student leadership groups to get tours as well as much like we did la at last year's open house, have them demo some of the equipment. Um, so it's not just sitting there. Families and parents and community members can actually see it in use. >> We'll push that upward to our

110chamber. >> Yes. >> Again, community alliances this week is coffee camper. Uh, Ed Foundation is sponsoring that. So, Lucky Ones takes their coffee camper to each of our school sites and is there for approximately two hours. Our staff can come out, get coffee, hot chocolate, and treats. Just a way for the Ed Foundation to to show appreciation to our staff and the incredible work they do. This was today over at Eer Hill. Live like Sam, another community partner, their gala is coming up next Saturday, September 27th. Two programs I feel strongly about that some of our students have been able to participate in is Thrive, which is offered to grades 6 through 12. It's evidence-based preventive mental health initiative that empowers and strengthens youth well-being. Another one being digital wellness, grades four through 12. It's

111designed to give youth the tools they need to navigate social media and their digital lives in a healthy and empowered way. Um so I would encourage you um if you can participate, they've been a great partner um both in our afterchool program as well as during the school day. And after last week, I I sent an email out out to our staff. Uh this only went out internally, but I would share it with this group. Uh this past week has brought challenges and emotions for many of us. I want to take a moment to thank you for showing up each day. With care for our students as well as one another, even when we don't share the same perspectives, we can always choose kindness and respect. The way we respond in these moments shapes the

112tones of our schools and strengthen things in our community. Um, and really just challenging our staff to model appropriate adult behavior. Even when we share different perspectives, we can still choose kindness and show up and hear the other side. And with that, any questions? Yes, I did get some coffee while I was out of this afternoon. Thank you. >> Okay. So now we have the policies for posting the following policies have been reviewed by the policy committee and they are now for the board for posting. We have policy 107 environmental regulation plan. Policy 3013 bullying and cyber bullying. Policy 3014 reporting of meetings. This is a new policy. Policy 5005 building access and security policy 7021 allowance which is also a new policy and policy 9065 volunteers in schools. >> I make a motion to

113apprehicing policy for adoption. Uh this has been posted for the required 20 days and this policy is now before the board for adoption and is policy 100090 the prohibition of for punishment. European policy. >> Oh, are there any discussion? [Music] >> Okay. Um, so now that we covered all of our agenda items. May I get a motion to >> make a motion to run regularly scheduled session >> in August 3rd. >> Okay. All in favor? But I