PCSD Board Meeting | 2025.05.20

001I will now call to order this board of education. We'll begin with this pledge of allegiance. Ice 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. No, [Music] that all right. We've got our work session to start things off and we're gonna get an update from Park City Performing Park here. Oh, she can see her. Hi, she was hiding. I was hiding. Hi everyone. Kathy Anderson with Parks and Performing Arts. Former Park City School District employee for 30 plus years. lab. I just couldn't get away from kids. So, I have a little part-time job doing student outreach or pressing performing arts. And I think you all have a presentation that PowerPoint. So, I'll just go over it quickly,

002but I work um getting students into our shows at the Apple Center. So, a lot of the programs that we schedule, we do have student outreach with them. So, that just goes through the list of what we had this year and how many students were involved in our programs. So, we just skip to the next one. National geographics are always a big hit. Um, this one was and eso hunt for sleeping giants and we had treasure mountain students and they were so engaged and so amazing and asked the best questions. So we were able to get 650 students in for that show. Next one um oh that just goes over that again and I'll read it to you because you all are smart. Another National Geographic we did um open this one up to Wyomman.

003So we had this um presenter go out to Wyman and share her presentation. 75 students were at that one. Sun or Sundance filmmakers in the classrooms. Sadly, it'll only help us one more year, but we were able to get um three days of Sundance short films in the classrooms or actually in the um lecture hall at Port City High School and um students came over as well from Treasure Mountain. So, we were able to show films to 1,111 students. And um Jackie Fine did this with me this year and we were we had to preview films to make sure they were appropriated for students to watch. But it was really great. We had filmmakers and directors um some of the actors and actresses from the films were there and some of the directors said they

004had the best questions from students than from any of the other audience. It's really so a great opportunity. They'll do it again this year for the last year. So that was fun. Um, oh that was just a picture of one of the short films Susanna and again just goes over what happened at that film. Our last National Geographic show was Seth Smith wild host of Yellowstone and we had 850 students from Park City High School and Treasure Mountain come over again like I said the Matt Gio shows are really amazing and we feel really fortunate where we're showing these students in our school district. So there was that show and um David Park trio this is through that excellence in the community. We were able to have them go to McPoland for the whole school

005just we're trying to get out into the schools and not have them all take the time away from our classroom to have them go to the apple center. So this was a good way to get them into um a school setting and for kids we thought it was important for some of those kids that don't ever get a chance to go to some of these experiences. So that was a fun one. Joshua Kane or mentalist. He was with third, fourth and fifth graders in Jeremy Ranch and he did storytelling or storytelling and we brought him. So that was another fun one and ballet was Aladdin and we had 630 students from all different schools in Summit County, North Summit, South Summit. We were able to get some homeschool kiddos in Carly's Park, Jeremy Ranch, and

006the home students club. So that was our second to last big one that we had. and Daniel Maguire, civil rights historian, was March 27th and we had 85 students from varsity high school. So that was a great one. So that's basically it. Short and sweet. We worked with Brits on getting the date set. Jason Jensen works with us for district halftime and then halftime with Parks and Performing Arts. So we've already got our winners schedule set for next year. Two national deatas, some ballet shows, a lot of other ones. So I won't bombard principles right now, but we'll get those set up from um I just have a comment that um I recently heard Katy Wang, who's the executive director for Park City Film, talking about what they're trying to do to, you know, post

007Sundance in the community. So I think it would be great to reach out to her and see what there's some ways that what they plan to do. And I don't know if there's anything. Okay. I don't know. But I would hope that there might be some good places to interact and sync up with, right? And I know Katie did school. I'm sure she Well, I know that some is to stay in here. It's just the film festival's leaving. So, they did say we may be able to still get short films to students even though the festival is leaving and you can still be able to continue that. So, we'll see in January what they said. And I think K, you know, Park City Film has a relationship with him as well, so I'm sure. Okay.

008Well, Oscar. Yeah. And then, um, brought this to Lindsay. Excited for where the school district is headed. Great superintendent and board school district. Thank you. You're welcome. And then Lori was with us at the beginning, but I'm trying to get a hold of the senior. This school started 13 years ago and this was the article in the park record 13 years ago when the first group graduated. So I'm trying to find this little Lucy girl and get her paper. So since she's graduating from high school now so anyway I reach out to Bob Eda. I'm glad thanks for your support of preschool snacks way back. Next up, we have our illustrious business administrator often imitated if you ever duplicated. I was trying to convince you exciting budget. Yeah. But after part hey so just to

009tell you about the process we'll we'll talk about it today's report in June on the June 17th meeting you'll adopt the budget and what you'll actually be adopting is the total expenses right that's the big piece of it and then the property tax rates and we'll get to both those things today and so we'll present sent to you expenses that we're proposing for the for the next year. Um, keeping in mind that during the year as grants come in or grants are lower, budgets are adjusted, I say a budget is only good for the 10 minutes after it's off the press because 15 minutes later it's dipping. And so kind of keep that in mind. We have produced the book. I've sent that out to you guys. It's not a final copy. It's a draft.

010So please keep that in mind. We will post it before June 1st as per state code to the website and have a copy available in my office. Um, but this is a draft of the book that we'll produce. Starts out with an executive summary. That's this piece. That's the next slide. Starts out with an executive summary and really you could read the executive summary and not go through the rest of it to be honest with you. And so the the hope is that exe executive summary kind of lifts out everything you're going to see uh throughout the book. So, under Superintendent Huntsman's leadership, I think we've been able to present a budget or prepare a budget um and Austin Harris has helped a ton uh present a budget to you that I think acceptable acceptable

011to us. Uh we don't feel like there's any risk involved with moving forward. There's been a lot of moving parts as you guys know and we've I believe we've met the board's objectives or the direction the board's leading us regarding our sale. Um moving along. So, the first thing is student enrollment. Just a reminder, this year we're at 4117 and next year we're projecting 47. So it's 110 student decrease. And let me back up one second. When you adopt the budget in June, you'll be adopting the FY26 budget. You'll also be adopting the final FY25 budget, right? So any of those changes we made here in the year that we had to have uh will be. So everything we look at is both years, right, as we go forward. So anyway, en Romans 407 is

012what we're projecting next year. So going down this sheet you've seen a couple of times I think in presentations. Uh I won't go into great detail with this unless you have specific questions. We're right in line with the stuff we told you we would approve. Uh what we're what we're having with preschool and how we're handling special ed and some of these different things. Software or safe school SRO's are still in there at the $400,000. Um, as far as attract and retaining employees, we have reduced staff about 32 staff perished overall. Equivalent full-time, pardon? Full-time. Not all full-time. It's 3 I'll say 32 32 FTS equivalent equals about $4.7 million is what we've been able to reduce and repurpose. Um, the the the FTS you see in the top section, we have not put in

013the book yet. So you're going to see a little discrepancy there at the total at the bottom 25 versus the 32. Um then of course we talked about the third year of this current negotiated agreement now meet deferred process. Uh but at $5.8 million that's the cost of that for this next year. So so ultimately we're adding $2.6 million into the budget from the previous year based on on these students right here. And you'll kind of see that number come up again. The next slide is a summary of our revenues and this is the different funds we have. The big one is the general fund right on top and you can see our actuals and 2324 revenues wise for 109 million. We're projecting 117 this year. We'll probably be under that a little bit. Keep

014in mind as we build the budget we're try to try to be conservative on revenues and try to be aggressive on expenses so we don't end up upside down budget. And then revenues for the new year 118 million. So an increase of 855,000. Um not a lot of money came in from 4% because we're declining. Uh we're also seeing uh interest income although still pretty healthy tapering off. We try to treat interest income as one-time money just because as we know the rates go down over time. If that happens, we don't want to be holding that back uh overall. So other funds are right they're right in line. um pass through taxes fund $39 million that's the money that's part of the recap we pay back the state that's part of the charter school open

015levy and part of the increment we're losing based on ours or CDs that we have that affect the school district outside that revenues are pretty pretty stagnant pretty pretty close to the same as they were prior year the next big one is the expenditures so you would be approving the last two columns uh in the motion in June and uh we're projecting $118 million. So you can see with 5.8 million that we're paying on raises still our expenditure total is going up 733,000 overall. So we've been able to repurpose things and make a lot of changes under superintendent arson's leadership data. The big one you see is the capital outlay fund. The negative $37.9 million. That's due to construction being progressing or done. So we go into the year with $100 million as as construction's

016done. We count those expenses. the next year we won't have the same level of expenditures in that fund. We have the piece that takes care of our buildings and then we have the piece that's the 38 million for the athletics and then what's left of the construction for the six cars. And so that's why you see that number larger some years and smaller some years. The bulk of it really was the 2425. That's why you see that number. Everything else is relatively the same. The student activity funds um we will adjust during the year based on end of year uh amount. So that 900,000 we probably see that change overall. So for extra so those are the expenditures uh fund balances. This is really kind of like your home savings account. This is where you

017have you know put put away for rainy day. Same thing for us. So you can tell from 24 in the 24 years actual numbers 23 24 but 2425 is an estimate. So we're anticipating going down couple million dollars and then in 2526 another couple million dollars and I'll get into that. We're still in line where rating agencies like us to be for AAA bond rating uh which gets reviewed on an annual basis now because we have bonds outstanding and so they'll they'll review that every year. Um but we're right in line to really where we want to be in the stay out of the eyes of the state auditor that we're not too high but not too low or risky. So we're really pretty healthy there. So that's where our fund balances are. Um the

018next one is the employees. I won't go into the great detail. the bottom the number at the bottom it's a 32 FTE difference so you kind of see where our positions are. Uh we feel like we have a pretty good grasp on that. There are some others that we need to add in for preschool and things that we haven't. So overall this next one I always get asked this question on the recapture that number that circle there the 33 million. Oh one more thanks the 33 million that's really the recapture. So, we're estimating the recapture for FY26 will be 33 million. Um, that goes back to the state of Utah from taxpayers in Park City. It's a rate set by the state legislature. We don't set that rate. The rate has not finally been been

019set yet. There is a number that's come out of the legislative session. We'll talk about here in a second, but that's something we always get asked. And what's the other community that thinks retouchers? No one right now. So, no one. So, Rich So, Rich has done it a couple times. rich school district. They have a lot of vacation homes up there. Uh South Summit's getting closer, but not not quite there. So, right now, we're still the only ones projected to be enough. So, okay, this is kind of an overall financial I want to trigger your eyes to where the red circle is. So, that number, the 2.6 million, we're asking you to pass a budget that really is 2.6 6 million in the hole. Or to say it better, it's going to take 2.6 million

020million of our savings account, the 44 million we're projecting to have left over to take that and take it down to 41 million in fund balance. So, it's not that we don't have it. We do have in reserves. Um, and so we feel like we've gotten to a good place overall with all the changes that have gone on. Keeping in mind it's a work in progress, right? For the next couple years, we talked about that as well as leadership. So, so that what's what's the impact of that? Not just through 26, but beyond that. So, beyond that, so the the big the big question there is what are the raises going to look like? What are the benefits going? That's the big cost, right? Um obviously, if we keep declining enrollment, we're going to have

021to just act accordingly to stay in this kind of budget framework. Um but, you know, overall it's going to be hey, let's what's I want to say negotiate. We can't say negotiate. Let's meet and confirm. So, so that's going to depend depend on that. I don't anticipate us next year having the same savings we've created this year overall as staff. And so, as we talk, we'll talk about taxes in a minute, but it's going to affect taxes, if you will. Um, so just enrollment's a big thing, right? And they're moving. One other big thing they did this year, which cost us almost $600,000, was they moved the professional staff formula, which gives us credit. Like we hired a teacher on a mast's rather than a bachelor's, but the state would had a formula in place

022that would give us extra funding to help pay for that masters because it costs more. They've taken that line item out. They've put it in what they call the flexible allocation. And because of our enrollment size, we get less money on 600,000 this month. So we're getting 1.9, we're getting about 1.3 folks to our location. So we're not getting credit because we're hiring teachers that more teachers that have masters for example. That was ticker. So right now I mean the simple answer to your question is I'm comfort uncomfortable where we're at. We'll see what next year brings. We'll see what comes out this year. You don't see that causing any problem for us next year? No, I don't. No. even like we can't sustain this year after year after year. Um, one of the places

023I have a little bit of wiggle room is we paid for um, Trailside out of operations, right, their construction project. That was part of the plan. It's a $6.4 million build. Um, that money there we've been able to we're still spinning out of operations, but with some of the interest income we have, again, onetime expense. Trail sites construction project is a onetime expense. That's a onetime revenue. We can match that up and say, "Hey, we're a little better off um because we've got some extra interest income." It's just not something I like relying on year after. You know, I started being a VA 20 plus years ago, interest rates were 6%. And then by two years later, interest rates were 1.2%. So, in a small to medium district, you had to come up with 400,

024500,000, whatever it was to cut out of your budget was hard. So, try to be conservative. So, I know we talk about this all the time, but this to me comes back to the question we're going to win again. Sure. And how long we keep that for? Uh I'm I'm personally struggling to see how we justify it at this point. Um so I don't know when the right time is to have that conversation, but I think we should have session. Yeah, that's really up to leadership when you want to have that conversation. In November, we will bring a presentation to you, deal with open versus closed schools. That's what we're required to by law. Um, but you know, if you want to have discussions prior to that, you're welcome to do that. Obviously, welcome to

025do that. I think we would be remiss if we don't have that conversation well before November. What What are contingencies that we can do besides open up, close it? I I don't know what the answer is, but I think it has to be a priority for the fall, early fall. Well, we also discussed too that with the preschool and expansion and those spot count being filled, we had the option of just opening for the preschools, those kids would continue through in the school district and that's a way to have a controlled opening for the school district. That might be prudent to have that discussion quicker so people can get enrolled. I mean, I assume we're still waiting for people to enroll for the coming year anyway. Yeah, we we've we're beyond that 200 mark. Um,

026so I feel good about where we're at preschool wise. We have that last push now. We'll see. We still have a couple outstanding families that still need to complete the paperwork process. Um, so that may or may not impact enrollment. It could decrease because families still have choices when it comes to preschool, especially in our city. That's good to know. I think last month when we talked there were still a lot of openings. Yeah. I think to be honest so the public hears it that we can't sustain this the way we are doing it. So things will have to get tight or we'll have to think about options to get revenue but they need to understand that or decrease expenses get more revenue and then one or the other. We have several levers we could

027push right and understanding what we pay out to another school district when a child that lives for it's not an equal we give 8,000 and we only get 2,000. Right? So Well, we need to look at all of those elements, I think, to really understand it. Again, the public doesn't go into all of this detail. But I'm already hearing, you know, questions from people about what are we doing, why are we spending money on this, and you know, given the larger environment of projects being not going forward in the general community, etc. So, I think we need to be very very astute about this in the next quarter and ongoing. So in June, you would approve the last two columns, the expenditures in the last two columns is the final 25 and then the new

02826 is what you'd be asked to do. So again, comfortable where we are fund balance wise. Uh we had a couple real healthy years. Uh and so I I think we're we're in a good spot overall percentage-wise and just for our savings account. Okay, just wanted to share so general fund expenditures by object as just a pie chart. This just shows that we spend 85% on our salaries and benefits. So you really outside outside people you have 15% to deal with in the budget which is not the largest chunk of the budget. So that's one thing that's pretty interesting overall by function. The the trigger for us or the thing we look at is the instruction. So right now this budget's built with an instruction percentage of 57.3. Last year the budget was built of

02955. So we're creeping up. Uh when I got here we were in a lower amount but the recapture was in the general fund. We've taken that out uh and they able to account for that differently which has helped us in that instruction number. Ideally that instruction percentage like that between 60 to 65. So um so we're we're creeping up get there small strides. The other thing I'll point out on this is towards the bottom right, this redment support is less than 1% the total budget. So I think that's a positive thing as well as as we've gone through the bill. So Randy, how how do you um uh compare a district of this size with with these very elements um to us? I this is all new for me and I don't know whether this

030is just out of line in line in the media where where this exists. I don't know and the norms sense it's hard in the state right to compare yes you got to look outside to some degree the state Utah state taxpayers association produces a public education spending report every year and so I I rely on that report a lot they they break it down by function how much you're spending per student some of the data in the book what's that it would be this slide then no it's a it's a larger support. But when you say function, function would be in Oh, by function. Yeah. Instruction, student support. Yes. Yes. Um, so they break it out by that. Um, I will compare us to other districts. It's not all apples for apples. I mean, you

031look at Rich County, they have a lot of second homes like we do. And so, some of it's comparable, but their student counts all over, right? And so, I look at some I look at the neighboring school districts. And the thing look the thing I look at the most is the instruction percentage. first of all because that's a real indicator you're really putting your money towards instruction in the district and and part of part of this number for us is we've got a few coding issues in our system. Uh substitutes for example the philosophy here in the past has been if if a teacher is going to a training there it's really a student support for the teacher right which is a different function than um counting that as instruction. the sub can really be

032in instruction because they're face-toface with the kids providing instruction. And so some of those things in our system, you know, it's not a huge degree for subs for example, but it affects that percentage overall. But I I will compare to other districts and see percentages where they are. Uh I will compare like enrollment. I'll also compare uh some districts that have a higher assessed value that have an easier, you know, way to generate some tax if they will generate some tax. So, I'm always comparing those kind of things saying where do we need to get lower? Where do we need to get higher? So, anyway, happy to share that. It's on a big legal piece of paper. You need a magnifying grade or read it if you're over 45. So, maybe if you could read

033it and then just as long as the key elements, but yeah, that's a good report to kind of give us a benchmark to say exactly, hey, where should we be? Are we where we should be in instruction right now? I don't think we are. We're inching hours where we need to be, but it's going to take time, right? So, what are the reasons for that? What are the reasons for that? Um, well, I think when when the board came in, the the things you were hurry hearing were too much administration, too much support, non-facing positions of kids, right? All of those non-facing positions are not an instructional position. And so you see a lot of those um you know that that will skew that the other direction is those positions are evaluated and and you

034know either either eliminated or altered to some other responsibility. So um yeah part of part of it you know when I first got here part of it was where we were accounting for the recapture in Virginia fund. Mhm. I mean, that was because that was saying, "Hey, now your budget's $130 million." And this percentage is destruction. That wasn't a fair assessment. We had to pull that out. And so when the state taxpayers association would report it, it'd be like, "Hey, Park City is at 38% from construction, which just was not a fair number." So um but yeah and part of it system part overall like a self-exam part of it how we code our things in our system that we Okay. All right. This next piece just kind of tells you how the general fund

035uh fund balance is broken down. I just want to point out two pieces. The two that the rating agencies look at the most is this first one. the economic stabilization that by law we're allowed to have 5% of our budgeted expenditure in that account. So at the end of each year if we have money available to do that we raise that to 5%. It's raining day fund basically that the state allows us. The unassigned at the bottom is the other one that a rating agency will look at. So you can see between the two of those we're about $30 million. So we're we're right in about the 26 27% range which which is where rating agencies like us to be. I do always budget and fund balance and contingencies in case we have, you know,

036a PE PTO payouts larger or uh we have something happen with benefits during the year we weren't expecting. I always have a contingency or maybe I've made a bad estimate on the $5.8 million of, you know, how much it's costing us for employee raises. So, we've always got some contingency built in. So, it's not hurting that $2.6 million bottom line overall for us. So, and then this is the thing you've been waiting for is taxes, right? This is the hot topic. So, u these are the different tax rates that we see in the tax system. The three that are highlighted, the voted local levy, board local levy and capital levy is what this body here determines and you guys determine those rates. Uh the debt service which is below the capital local levy is actually

037based on what our geo bond um responsibility is for that coming year. Right? So whatever the tax rate value is put into that go geo bond amount produces a rate that's the rate we charge basically that's the max we're allowed to charge. So that rates kind of comes by formula don't have a lot of control over that unless you want to really lower it. So you can notice in the 25 year and the 26 year on those highlighted rates they are the same as in those two years. So, we're saying, hey, the 26 fiscal year, which is actually the 25 tax year, not to be confusing, um, is going to be this, we're going to keep we're going to stay within the certified tax rate. We have built into the budget estimated $500 million growth

038factor, which is what we had last year when assessed value actually went down. Whether we realize that or not, we'll find we'll find out. It's not a significant part of the budget, but it is part of the budget that we're on. So right now and I I I think we can say our intent is we're not going to for taxation. We will adopt the budget in June when we'll be done with the budget moving forward through the next fiscal year overall. At the top you see the basic school levy. So in the book you're going to see and one place I think it says there's no increase is from us there's no increase and another one right Kathy brought this to my attention it says hey there's a tax increase. the basic levy rate that

039was set by the legislature of 1463 is higher than the current year 1408. So that piece of taxpayers going to see they're going to see an increase in that if in fact that 1463 is the final rate. We usually get the final rate the first part of June from the tax commission that hasn't been published yet. So we don't really know what that rate's going to be in hopes that the rate rate will be lower could be higher. Right? So you may hear as board members, hey, you've raised our taxes because they're basic school levy only. We don't have any control over that, right? The ones that we have control over, we'll make sure we're going to certify our tax revenue. Basic school levy by the legislative. Yes. Yes. So it's in a legislative bill

040to generate a pot of money to help fund public debt and then the tax commission will crunch all all the numbers and give us the fund rate. So that's the rate that everyone every property tax owner in the state of Utah pays that same rate for that one. So they increased it is what you're saying growth. So everybody the state will have an increase. Yeah. So I I would I would assume if their value goes up right for some areas of the state they saw like I mean it was minimal but we saw a value decrease because you had that period of time over two two three years where it was going up 30%. You guys remember that? Yeah. It's like all a sudden your property was worth more based on what was going on

041with home values. Um and so during that time some counties said, "Hey, we overextended." So they they're going back and and reassessing and going, you know, this should be lower. And some of them are realizing a lower amount. So as that dollar amount goes down statewide, the rate's got to go up to generate the same dollar. That's why you see some of that. Um there wasn't a lot of extra funding this year as you guys know from the state legislation, right? They were, you know, Rob Peter to pay. so to speak. So, um that's where we are property tax- wise. Uh we'll do it in June and we'll have a truth and taxation hearing. That's our our plan unless you tell us different. Do we need to um proactively go out and discuss this page

042and the tax situation? So, um you know, we did some people raising their hands about what a great job we're doing or you're doing. Yeah. No, I I think you I think I mean you could probably come up with a statement, right, from the board once the budget's passed to say, "Hey, we held we held tax rates constant. We didn't raise them." Um some people will see an increase just generally because they're evaluating them, right? CW on vacation. We're we're pulling that. Yeah. I think very helpful because it's education. People don't understand that. And I remember a year ago there were people in here, you know, ready to um not be nice to the board. So I think it would be helpful to educate educated community. People need to be nice to Well, that's true.

043We think we could change the percentage of nice versus not nice and then we'll be on CW Thursday morning and we can share, you know, our intent not to raise taxes. that will be finalized at the June board meeting when we adopt the budget for FY26. Good. Excellent. This is this is a lot for the student. Thank you. Thank you. So when we build a budget, I'll just tell you we look two three years down the road. Right. We try to forecast and say where are we getting what position is this going to put us in? I like your question. I think we're a favorable position. I think we need to be realistic as a as a man as as a board and as leadership to say hey depending on what happens in the mean

044confer process and what happens with enrollment can have effect on what we do with taxes the next year right keep that in mind um I I would this is a one-year deal now can we do a year two maybe but I I think I think the cut $4.7 million in position is going to be a full stretch in the second year we see this year so it was Bolton reset. We don't have another set. So two to three year process and as people will retire or choose to pursue other opportunities. Certainly we're going to evaluate those positions. But if they're student facing we're going to be hardressed to eliminate that position. I think that's the important issue also is the distinction between student facing and this office building because that's where I've heard the components

045of my constituency is you know we got that place loaded up with you know all of the southern waste and whatnot. So to make that clear to the public I think is important that's our focus to kids and I I want to acknowledge publicly this was a collective effort. This was not Lindsay and ready. Although we had lengthy conversations, um it was a much larger effort with various departments to say, okay, where can you be more efficient? Where can you potentially absorb a position and schools were very supportive? Yeah. I feel like our leadership across the school district understands the predicament we're facing in terms of declining enrollment um as well as being overstaffed in certain areas and the closing of Treasure Mountain created a another level of complexity and trying to ensure that we

046place people into appropriate roles. So now well done. Yes. gave that Park City performing arts, but there you go. There was no kickball change. Thank you. Thank you for everyone's effort and getting this together. We are grateful for it. All right, next up JD. Thanks for letting me follow a tax discussion. So, hi. Uh I'll start with Parley's Park. Um the kind uh the certificate of occupancy was issued there in May. It was moved in. All the furniture is in. All the landscapes done there. All that is left is the clay pit and it's been ordered. We're just waiting for it. I think it'll be installed and done by the end of June. So, uh I think I do believe they may be using a classroom in there. I haven't been in there to see,

047but I think they've been they've been using. Yeah, I walked through last week and they have some preschool classes functioning for that space. So, yeah, it's a that's a good little space there. It's quite an addition for our school. So, uh and that's really all I have for parties. We're trying right now to close out the budget over there. So, um we had, you know, we had some allowances when we bid that project. We had some allowances to cover some things that we didn't get bids on. So, we're just kind of closing all that out right now, but good to go for the next school year. So, trail side's in the same uh same position. Uh the certific was issued there in April, middle of April, April 22nd to be exact. Um everything's done there

048except for some interior punch. We had some leg issues on the height of the desks for the first grade and so we ordered those and they will be here middle of June uh and install so they're also using those. So uh landscape's not been started there but it's getting ready to get started there. And then the same thing with the player kit. It's been ordered and it probably be done before parlays by sometime in June. So uh good to go over there. uh Echer about 95% complete. There's still a few punch list items inside. They're having a hard time balancing the the two wings uh with the HVAC and all the air and water and everything that goes into that. They did a startup on the chill. They couldn't start the chiller up until we

049got into some spring weather. They started that up Friday last week. And so they're working on getting all that air moving through there. Uh one big thing that's got to happen at Ear is the exterior stuff. There's a lot of concrete. you know, if you walk around there since the snow's gone, but a lot of concrete panels, sidewalk, stairs, a few things have got to be replaced. Uh, and so all that's going to happen. We're also going to replace the curb along the south end or southwest end of the busy bus lane for the snow plows. It's got too too steep of a curb and you can see the damage on it from last year. So, we're going to come through there. As soon as school's out, you'll see all that exterior work starting to

050happen and they're scheduled to be out of there the end of June as well. So really, that's it there. At EER, when we originally did portion, they issued the certificate of Breny for the state. Why? I don't know. But so we actually have that, but I turning in I've already talked to them and I'm following up with the paperwork on the final inspection for those other areas in the second phase. And so they they're aware of that and we probably won't get a new certificate. It'll just be the one that's been issued, but I'm just following up on paperwork with that. The high school is on schedule. So, uh, flooring should start in area C, which is that first the big three stories you see out front there, should start about a week or two.

051So, it's painted, all the cabinetry is in, the ceilings in. um they're doing all the overhead like data um intercom things like that and so once that's done but not the ceiling but the grids already get and painted and so uh I don't really see too big of an issue there. I think that the FF is on track instead of be delivered starting the end of June goes into the middle of July. So that should all be in place by then. Um I just I don't really see too many issues there. Um maybe on the side between um the site work between Doure and the new addition maybe a little bit you know we're messing around with some stuff over there as far as the bus line goes and some other things and so that

052was really part of the redesign of Doure and so we're it's kind of up in the air I'm just going to say so um that's really fun for the high school we had our pre-bid today for Treasure Mountain Sports Complex. So maybe I better back up there. Treasure Mountain Sports Complex. So the whole entire the whole entire plan there was Doure and Treasure, right? The Doer piece has been removed and I'll get to that in a minute. So today we had the Treasure Mountain pre- bid. Had a lot of attendance, a big group of contractors there. Um and it goes to bid on the 29th. So within two weeks of that, we would be able to award the contracts and we'd be able to get started barring a few things. So always a few I

053asked him to go through the questions that I'm not. And I'm scripted. So even though I'm over 42, I wrote my own stuff. So this project that the bidding was just for the females, correct? So it' be the baseball. Yes. baseball, softball, the soccer fields, the demo of treasure, the tennis courts. It's all of everything from a hole in this whole all of that. We put that in. So, originally it was going to be one bid package, which would have been Doure would have been all of this over here at Treasure, but we split that. And the reason we split that is because we the city has come back in a lot of this. So, the um and like I said, the pre-ID went really well. We had a lot of lot of participate participation

054and I I expect we have a really good estimate so far and and so I think that I think we're going to hit that and I think we might even be under that. So it's looking pretty good. The the bidding conditions are really good right now. There's still enough work out there. The contractors are hungry and it's looking like that's it's going to be a really good number. So I'm looking forward to that. Um when so just to give a little history here. So, I applied for the conditional use permit at the city in August. So, it's been seven months, right? They approved it in April. So, they came back, they approved it, uh, which was a very nasty planning commission meeting and they approved it and then we followed up with them. So, what

055they do is when you get your conditional use permit, they approve it based on your conditions. They give you a vision on a list of conditions of things you have to do. We went through the conditions and there was a few things that kind of run counter to what state code says that you can do. So with land management code, there's state code that says the cities can't impose certain things on you. Fencing, landscaping, there's a bunch of them. And some of them kind of ran together. And so we were trying to clean that up, clean the language up in the conditional use permit, but they came back and said, "Oh, by the way, there's an ordinance on Lucky John that had a 100 foot buffer that runs all along the rideway on the back

056side of it." Asked us if we were aware of it. We were not. This did not show up in a title report. This did not show up in any of the parcels. This is also not the first conditional use permit the district has pulled over there. They both voted for the high school and for never came out. In the meantime, Lucky John, one of somebody on Lucky John appealed the CU decision as well. And so all of these things we've been trying to sort through for the last month and a half, I would say, since it's been approved. We've been meeting with them about every week. Because of this, the building that was proposed on the north end of Doure is not allowed because there's not a 100 foot delta there. And there's also so

057we we kind of went back and said, well, what if we moved the north building to the south end? We moved everything to the north. There's some language in the ordinance that says you can't have any recreational facility. And the definition of recreational facility goes to 1986 because that's when this ordinance was passed. The reason the ordinance was passed for a little more background was is they reszoned all of this campus. They took it from uh I believe this was recreational I wrote my notes down I can't find them. It took from we went from residential development to res to recreational open space which is really what you wanted at the time probably to develop all of these ball fields but they threw in that condition which which gave you that uh amendment there which

058won't allow you to do anything. So they left us some options, right? The options would be we can go back and try to reszone it or we could go and try to appeal it to the board and to the board of adjustment for park city. We we could do all that, right? I just fear that you get to the end and they could still say no and that could be a very lengthy process. seven months for this condition to be sprint. So to get all of that done and then uh you know there's quite an opposition from Lucky Charm which you guys are aware of and so right now we've pivoted to an east west design. Um I talked to NHTN today at the bid opening or at the bid pre- bid walkthrough today and

059we've kicked some designs around. It's not the north building that I liked. I think everybody liked that. Uh, but it it it does a lot, right? You're gonna have to remove your bleachers and the buildings are going to be kind of harsh because you just don't have the space that you had in the other configuration. So, that's kind of where it sets right now. Um, I I have been in contact with the city. the uh you know they have 45 days to the appeal was based on notification from the city to them and so that's really in their hands. It really has nothing to do with anything the district has done and so I'm waiting to hear back on when that is going to be decided. I know they met with the appelllet yesterday. Uh

060and then also an additional kink in this is the patch rule for Park City. So because the artificial turf is not certified PAS-free at this point, they are holding up one of the conditions of the approval on PAS. Now we have had it all tested. We have sent that into them. We are having another round of testing done. Um and so they they're reviewing the first part set of testing and then once the second set in about two weeks they'll get that information. And so that's kind of one of the things I'm kind of going through with the city right now is to try to work through the PAS PAS ordinance was based off ski wax not off an artificial turf field. Um there's several artificial turf roads in Park City and so uh working

061through that and then with the app but you know everything goes well bids opening two weeks later in June we would start everything. So we've been busy backing up a little bit. So we've separated out the doer whatever is going to go on over there for right now. You met with contractors to open up the bid process for the treasure side of the project. Correct. Two weeks you'll get the response from those contractors. The award happens. I mean, how long does it take you guys to decide? I'd say two weeks probably to get it all in. So you get them all in two weeks, look them all over, choose who gets the contract. And then how long from award to starting the project? Uh immediately. I think you'll probably actually see the general contractor move

062in, right? Start fencing everything off, bring in his containers, start bringing in his equipment, bringing in his stuff, and then you would award your subcontracts to the to the people to bid bid out the subcontract work. And I would say my calendar in front of me, but it's middle of June. No, middle of June. I would say middle of June. I'd say you'd see the contract the first part of June, maybe start to move some stuff in there, start getting things prepped, and as they're working through those contracts, I'd say the second week of June, probably. So, as long as we have those other approvals. Yes. As long as we have those approvals, but I I'm hoping to have that all resolved before we even get the approvals. Wait, wait. Waiting for the PA. Oh,

063this the turf we want to install. Not the old not whatever said. Okay, that no it's the new installation. It be it cover soccer field and cover baseball and so and then when would treasure get demolished or go what are we thinking? Yeah, we're looking at fall um probably late September, early October. trying to confine it to weekends, not when school is in session. Have to come every day. Um but also allowing school to start making sure teachers have what they need. Um trying to get everything out of that space. That's my Yes. Um, we're having internal dialogue about uh how do we surplus what's left to ensure we can recoup some of the taxpayer dollars versus things going down at the building. Yeah, that's line of what we've told the contractors. There's quite a

064few general contractors of course that are interested in that. Sure. And we're thinking September 10 is great at demo. Well, the other thing to keep in mind, too, we have our project number from the state for this. We have an environmental consultant. We've had the wetlands taken care of. All of those things have been in these past seven months have been items that have been worked on in order to get this to the end and then have issues like we've had. But, but they will not be treasure was there one day and gone the next. No, it will be a process. Like the videos you see, it's not the movies we watch on TV. process portion does that get rolled in eventually or do we continue to handle that completely? So our schedule currently now

065is to have MHTN in front of the board uh June 17th. Thank you. June 17th and then we are already on because because of the way though this is working with part C we get expedited into the conditional use part of this and so it would be here then and then we would be in front of them on 20 25th yes so we still think and we had we had this discussion again today the pre bid we still think if we do that and you guys are you know happy and approved what's going on with the east west configuration that we would still be able to start everything late summer. We'd probably start sometime in July. It'd be the buildings probably, maybe the track. We'd had to we had to work some scheduling out the

066track. The track may take a little bit, but the buildings could start and some of that demo could start and getting all that cleared and grubbed. And then depending on the traffic lane, which is also I'm working on in the background is is also plays into that a little bit. So, so what about fall like football and stuff? No, we wouldn't mess with the field. Yeah, we would absolutely. That's that's what I'm saying. We had to be kind of delicate with that schedule just because of Okay. the events that are scheduled and we certainly wouldn't want to mess up the you know that whole thing, the whole thing was contingent on graduation anyways, right? We were going to start the next day because in order to have enough time to replace the track, you had

067to start right then. But doesn't feel doesn't need to be done. deal. So, we've t we've taken the turf on the field out of it. Yeah. Out of the equation in the contracts. But the the track was a big thing because it needs really needs to be replaced now. It's going to push us back to next year. Do it after graduation next year. Okay. Right. And if that's broken, are there cost impacts? There is cost impacts, but um I think that I think we'll see a favorable number here. And and you we bought a lot of things off state contract and I've been able to do a few things off state contract, which is a much better way to go. Uh and so we saved a little bit of money there, especially with the turf

068and the track and and some other stuff. Some of the demo stuff will be offstage contract. And so I think we'll I think we'll be able to I think this number is going to look good. we do just based off of the preliminary stuff we put together. So, and the and the bonds are sitting in the bank account earning interest as well. We can use that interest towards this project. So, so I don't throw out a number obviously. No, I just I I just would hate to see a significant impact from having to break and there's there's an impact already, right, with the schedule and everything else. And you know, like I said, we purchased the track, so we're kind of sitting on the track and a few things. But again, I do think if

069everything goes right, we get through the planning commission. You know, the meeting for the original CUP was not a fun meeting. There was it almost got out of control actually. So, so I expect a different meeting this time, but you know, if that's approved, I think within a couple weeks we could get, you know, previously MHTN had already put together a bunch of other buildings in a configuration. So, it's just kind of massaging some of that design and making sure that he can fit everything in there and still give the athletics what they want. We're trying to maximize the footprint. Yes. And ultimately, yes, we could have gone down this path and delayed. Um, but we wanted to stick as close to the timeline as possible, which is why we said, let's go east, west.

070It's not ideal, but we want to stick to what we had originally projected as the timeline. And with seeing new buildings and type of construction we're proposing, we could probably do that possibly looking at the schedule. The weather's good. We could probably get the front end as you walk through where the new concessions and tickets would be and all that stuff maybe even done before got so possibility. Thank you. We're really lucky to have JD and Mocha and H2. They've been really great about adjusting and going through our list. So, we've been really lucky with their services. Yeah, we talk weekly if not daily. Yes, we have a military gamb. Okay, thanks JD. Um, okay. So, we're going to move into our consent agenda. We've got regular session meeting minute or minutes from April 8th.

071Special session minutes of May 6th, close session minutes of the April 8th. Uh land trust and TSSA revised plans, travel request, interlocal agreements with Skyville, Basin Recre, and Park City Municipal Corporation Personnel Check registers from April and board revenue and expenditures of April. I make a motion to adopt the Senate agenda as second. All in favor? I. All right. And now we will um move into our public comment time. And I just want to remind anyone here who's joined us to provide public comment. We do like to hear from our constituents and members of the community. Um but we ask that each speaker um to be limit themselves to three minutes and unless you're representing a group then you can have five minutes. So do we have any for public comment when you're finished that

072blue sheet? Yes. We are speaking who are you? Oh, hi. I'm Finley Whitney. I'm a student at Clark City High School and we are speaking on behalf of the students who decorated the QC Hill with Rambo paper on the morning of May 7th. The idea for this peaceful display came the months after the introduction of House Bill 77, which banned certain flags from government buildings. It was specifically created to target Utah's queer community and their allies. The idea to treat large pride flag a large pride flag was not negatively target the high school Park city school district or the city itself but rather to promote allyship and raise awareness of the house bill. We believe that promoting acceptance within the within and for the comm queer community is crucial to our livelihood. Therefore only engaged

073in peaceful protesting and civil disobedience. Our activities were completely studentled and not sponsored by any club, teacher or administrative member. Our funds came from students and donations from Park City High School's gay straight lines club and circle and summer pride. Additionally, we always plan had to plan for cleaning the paper by the end of the day. The majority had been picked up before school got out due to moral concerns. Specifically, a group went up at around 8:00 PM that night to pick up the rest of the paper and tape. Everything was disposed of correctly. Although we recognize that Park City High School, Park City School District is an inclusive and accepting space, we strongly encourage district workers to promote safe environments and for students to be led to be LGBTQ plus allies. Thank you. Thank

074you. Thank you. Do we have anyone else? [Music] I just had so Catholic. Boom. [Music] That's okay. [Music] control, right? Where do we private property? So usually graduation usually takes a birthday. Can we ask them? Slice it up. Okay, we just anybody come in? We advertise it at five. So, we just wanted to make sure that we weren't going to deny anybody the opportunity make public. Okay. So, um moving on, we're going to go to our monthly reports and start with the employee group reports. Mr. Last one. Last one. Who's counting? Uh, good evening. Uh, PCA would like to congratulate our retiring colleagues and express our appreciation for you and your service. Lucky people. Behalf of PCA, we'd like to express our thanks and appreciation to admin board of education for agreeing to the LPA

075and continue to support despite the uncertainty caused by House Bill 267. It's been a rough couple months, so appreciate you guys a lot. Uh, we'd also like to thank all staff for a good school year and ask that the community recognize the power of education to facilitate change. Sometimes it may not seem like it, but it really truly is well intended. We look forward to continuing serving this community and look to work hard to improve and better serve, excuse me. I'd like to announce that as of June, uh, Jen Ricks from Jeremy Ranch Elementary School and Kristen Hall, who will be coming to Parksy High School as a counselor, will be taking over as PCA co-presidents. Uh, Mary Morgan will still be involved with PCA leadership and state leadership, but will no longer attend these

076meetings. I will not attend these meetings unless necessary. I really learned a ton and I will leave this with a deep appreciation of the relationships with superintendent Hman outgoing superintendent fine uh human resource director Jensen business manager upman and the entire board. It's a hard job. I really really appreciate you guys and I really thank you for your service. Thank you. All right, next up we have teaching and learning. Hello. We just have a little business to take care of for our new math class at the high school for next year, which is called the data science class, but it's actually like junior level class. you could take it in place of secondary math 3. It was adopted about a year and a half ago and this will be the first year that it carries.

077Um so we needed to do an instructional materials adoption. It is a very forwardlooking class and it is one that is intended for any student whether they're advanced or on level in math to really prepare them for postsecary math needs. So that's why it's a data science class. you can see how that would connect into very um current modern mathematical needs. So an instructional materials adoption committee was convened that included teachers, administrators and parents. The recommendation is to you is that we adopt UK data science. It's one of four approved curricula uh by USB. This one comes out of Stanford. Um, and the next thing that happens in our instructional materials adoption is we open for a month of parent input that opens tomorrow. The links will be on our website under teaching and learning.

078Uh, parents can link into it, see it. It's also already paid for, so it doesn't cost any money. So, that's great. Um and then after the feedback period then next month you'll see it on the consent calendar. So when you see that there uh the parent review links are there on the website. We will have a zoom meeting if anyone wants to join us on the Zoom meeting to talk to me or to the district math specialist has any questions and there's also a feedback survey on the website and input will close on June 13th. So I just wanted to share that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, now I hear from the student report. Um our upcoming events are prom on May 31st and then after that we don't have much except for

079celebrating our senior years with a friendship chair lift um a city for sunset and then obviously graduation. Um and then next year that's going to be posted on the board. It will be me alongside Elsa Delot. The only thing we really need for that is the policy to be revised, but we are working with Mr. Fine for that. There's a process for follow. Um that's all I really All right. Superintendent. Yes. presentation. Thanks. The month of May, I had the opportunity to throw out the first pitch. I should say my daughters did. Uh at the home playoff game a few weeks ago, I warned the crowd that they are dancers. They are not baseball sophomore soccer uh players. Uh my oldest even threw her left hand and she is right-handed. But um very fun opportunity

080to be in that environment um with our baseball team as well as our families of baseball players as always including our mission, vision and strategic plan that we employ to achieve success, academic success, excellent personnel, leadership, communication, and community alliance. This whole report is doing nothing but celebrating student and staff success. Typically, this doesn't happen until June, but no one comes to the June board meeting because hopefully they are on vacation somewhere. Um, so I am just going to celebrate the heck out of our staff and students because it's welld deserved. So, a few examples of the mission and vision and action. We had 13 students at McPoland who exited WEDO, which is a huge deal. They had an ice cream social. This means they met the threshold to exit language services. they are English

081language learners but we will still monitor them to ensure that they are um that we are meeting their needs in terms of uh language and academic services. We tested 70 students grades K5 50% of the students made their annual yearly progress goal. We're only sending three students to EARD who haven't passed or exited from Budo, which is a huge success because research says if they're not exited by fifth grade, chances are very slim that they will be exited for language services. We also have there on the right our students who attended the Latinos and action conference May 10th at the University of Utah. It's an annual conference. Over,400 Latino students attend for workshops and cultural celebrations. Summer school will start here very soon. We already have 350 students enrolled. Uh Treasure Mount will run June

08218th through July 18th. That'll be secondary, grades 6 through 8. Um July 18th or June 18th through July 2nd, we're going to run a 9th grade web development course. That will allow students to jump ahead. So they have to take a 9th grade digital studies course in high school. and this will meet that requirement and open up an elective. And this is specifically for some of our students who are in other classes to receive support, but oftent times they can't take or access electives because they have to have a certain class. So, we're trying to open up access for this group of students. Next is academic success. So, we have been recognized as a best communities for music education by the N Foundation for the second year in a row. We are the only school

083district in the state of Utah to be recognized. So that's a huge accomplishment um with our elementary music specialist, our band, orchestra, choir, everything that happens um from kindergarten up to the high school. Congratulations to our Era Hill music students. They got to go to Lagoon. Um and I got 40 plus thank you emails today from those students and trying to respond to them. I'm sure that uh it catches them off guard when they get a response from the superintendent, but very appreciative um for them acknowledging our support. The band got first place in their division and then a first place overall superior rating. Orchestra got second place in their division and excellent rating. Down. Go ahead. I just Mr. Gang very appreciative and and encourages students and parents to express their appreciation. Yes, it

084it was very wellreceived. Top left is our elementary debate team. Out of 85 teams at the state competition, five of our 12 teams placed in the top 10. Excellent personnel. A couple of Fridays ago, I had the opportunity and privilege to go around with the Ed Foundation and celebrate our excellent educators. Uh it is peer nominations. The high school gets two awards. So they have the peer nominated one and then they have most influential teacher that is voted on by the seniors. And for the first time ever in the history of excellent educator, the same teacher received both awards. So if you have a high school student and they've had Miss A or Miss Andre, that is who received it. She is pictured in the bottom right corner. Treasure Mountain Junior High School, it was

085Sharon Maddox. She is one of our film teachers. Mick Poland was Joanna Hamill. She's an inventionist. Trailside is Sam Johnson. She's a special ed teacher. Harley's Park was Amy Bean. She's a second grade teacher. Jeremy Ranch is Susan Boon. She's a special ed teacher. And then Eeriel was Andrea Solom. She's a sixth grade English teacher. Tomorrow we get to celebrate all our retirees. Hopefully you guys can join us. It is from 3:30 to 5 at the high school. You can see Chris Taylor. is also going to have a jazz concert tomorrow evening at 7:30. It is free. If you haven't seen the advertisements, Wyatt Pike, uh Caleb Chapman, some alumni are coming back uh for his final concert. So, that should be fun. And then we have 392 years of combined service across Parks School

086District from this group of retirees this year. athletics, track and field. Uh, a couple of records were broken last week. So, the Utah State record was broken by Sebastian Bodley. Um, 400 meters, that previous record had been held since 1996. So, huge accomplishment. Um, also another state record was our 4x200 relay. Uh, that was Sebastian, Owen, and Noah and Elijah. And then our girls received first place in the 4x100 relay. Sierra, Rachel, Estella, and Charlie. Other spring sports, uh, tennis state tournament, we had the second singles placed second place. That was Thomas Regowski. Our softball team made the state playoffs. Our boys soccer team made it into the second round. Our golf was region 10 champs. And Ava Miller placed 10th individual at the state tournament. Boys baseball made it to the state playoffs. Boys

087volleyball. Our lacrosse boys play in the semifinals tomorrow night. Girls are tonight at 8:00 if you don't have anything to do with semester. Sorry. Girls already play. Okay. Thank you. 16 to one at 10 o'clock. Wow. Okay. Good to know. When do they play again? Uh Thursday at 1:00. Okay. As always, we're trying to increase our communication through our website, our media, social media, newsletter, and podcast. We continue to highlight that feedback link that is on the main website page for anyone who wants to give us feedback about ways in which we can improve overall as a school district. Last night, we hosted a community conversation around the cell phone policy. You may not be familiar or hopefully you are familiar. Senate Bill 178 did pass banning cell phones or any type of device, smartwatches

088included during instructional time. It also gave us the latitude to be more restrictive and ban them during passing time and lunches. Uh so we brought in mount mediation uh great attendance from the public and really had honest conversations with parents and a couple of students and incoming high school principal Caleb Fine, incoming Decker Hill, principal Isaiah Glow and myself talking about the direction of the school district. Do we foresee a path for yonder pouches 612 or are the pouches or the slots that are currently in use at the high school by some teachers sufficient enough? Um, we will send out a follow-up article regarding, you know, the different statements and input we've received from parents with a survey. uh because we recognize spring is very busy and we want the everyone to have the opportunity

089to give us feedback as to the direction that we go whether it's yonder pouches 612 uh the pocket system that some of our high school teachers are already implementing uh and see how we might best implement that come August. This is our statistics from views on social media, how much we've been posted. Um, KPCW, Town Live, Park Record, really trying to increase our presence um within the different platforms and celebrating the good things that are happening within our school district. There are a couple farewells um scheduled for what was Treasure Mountain Middle School, then it became Treasure Mountain International School and is currently Treasure Mountain Junior High School. Um so it has had a couple names throughout the school year. You can see the team comprised of Amy Newman, Caleb Fine, Mindola, Ryan Dooka, Matt

090Conn, and Julia Schlackman. They ran as a team. Um they're wearing the old throwback mountain middle school basketball jerseys that Bev dug out of a closet somewhere. Um but we do want to subway celebrate. It is an end of an era. So Wednesday, June 4th, um a sweet farewell from 4 to 6, we will have a gelato truck there, a short program um highlighting uh the memories from Treasure Mountain. And then there's a couple of other events that will be happening uh later uh likely August. One more big farewell prior to the demolition. Running with Ed. Uh the weather was not great. However, the sun did start to to peek out throughout the day. So great exchanges. You can see Jeremy Ranch um they did really did a tribute to Shawn as this was his

091last running with Ed Trailside was a Dr. theme, but great opportunity just to interact with our community and it really celebrates the tight-knit community we are and brings out lots of organizations whether they be nonprofit businesses and families to support our students and I know that in the foundation and I sent out a newsletter uh couple weeks ago just expressing gratitude to our teachers and emphasizing how we finished the school year helps shape the tone of our classrooms, the spirit of our schools, and the culture we continue to build together. Each interaction you have leaves a lasting impression and plays a vital role in fostering the respectful, supportive learning environment every student deserves. And there's me and my girls and the two catchers who were brave enough to catch their one hoppers to the plate.

092I think Isaiah, you were next. I just wanted to piggy back on um KCW's been doing a lot of great interviews with some of our high school students. The girls robotics team was on for for the science show, like a very long interview with them. Recently, we also had they were on this morning, the CTE, the E Yeah, the electric vehicle. fun. So, I mean, our students have been getting out there in our programs and, you know, sharing with our community how the wonderful programs that we have. They did a fireside chat. I think you have to dig a little bit. They did it with uh Chris Taylor talking about his years here. They interviewed students and it was very well done. And we had the interact club come to Rotary today. They were fantastic

093and our club gave them a standing ovation. They're just really impressed with that group of students. And then next week, we've got more high school gradness at Rotary. We've got the CTE program to present. So, we have truly phenomenal students and I think our community really recognized this. AP testing is officially done. Makeup started this week and will continue into Friday. Um, so great things happening in all of our schools. There's much to be celebrated um this school year and and into the next coming weeks as we celebrate the class of 2025 at graduation late don't mind hanging on for a second walk. Um, so we have Lauren for public comment. Three minutes. Lauren. Sure. Thank you. Um, hi. My name is Lauren Vanicious and I'm here once again to advocate for the return of

094the Chinese language program in the Clark City School District. Since the last board meeting, there has been a meaningful progress and now we have over 170 signatures on our change.org petition. The park record published an article covering the advocacy effort which included interviews with alumni of the Chinese program and their parents. Um, their stories were inspiring and since then I've heard from even more parents and students who want to see Mandarin offered again. You each have a copy of that article. I've also had a meeting of our high school the high school leadership to better understand the current landscape. As I said before, but my goal is simple to show that there is enough community interest for the district to consider serving parents and students from about reintroducing Mandarin at the high school level. I

095fully recognize the challenges like ensuring enrollment numbers to support a teacher, fitting another language class into a midsize school, and hiring a qualified educator. I'm not here to ask for the immediate reinstatement of the program. I'm here to ask that we take the next step, approve and conduct a survey that would require the support of the superintendent and the board. The survey could target the district as a whole and or perhaps just Eker Hill and the high school as those are the immediate feeder schools. I would also like to be involved in creating the survey as I have heard directly from many of the students and families who care about this. I understand that timing does not align with current scheduling and enrollment priorities for the upcoming school year. But as you review enrollment numbers

096and any challenges in the two DLI programs, I hope you will also consider the importance of conducting an apparent student survey for Chinese language option in the fall of 2025. Our school leadership has done an under outstanding job of offering new classes that exposes our students to different career and technology opportunities. New offerings that I have learning about include cyber security and data science class for which I am enrolling in data science in my senior year are just two great examples. I believe Mandarin should be seen as with equal values especially as a strategic and globally relevant language. As we wrap up the school year, I ask you to consider the 20 years of the success this program had in the past, the broad community support and the global econ opportunities Mandarin offers students and

097the value of expanding diversity in our district. Giving students um access to a language like Mandarin will help them compete, connect, and thrive in today's global society. as I respectfully ask that you support conducting a parent student survey in the fall 2025. Let's make this decision we get our input from the community. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hey now Isaiah, good afternoon and evening to you all. Uh thank you. Just want very briefly want to appear before you and in accordance with policy 3010 want to ask for your consent to uh amend the colors of Eertill. We want to add on a blue. So we recognize through line that we we are shifting our mascot. We are the Eill miners. We're going to run with the same primary logo. You can see the same

098like pickaxes. They're just going to say Eh. Uh and red and white are going to be our primary colors. We're going to have red dates, white dates. Our calendar aligns with that. Uh just as we're putting the fine final touches on on um really the interior design of the school, feel like blue uh is an appropriate color because um the the school itself is blue. If you've seen the colors of the carpet, uh the the chin, the chair, dripping. Yeah, it's dripping in blue. It's also a little bit of a shout out to the heritage and we just feel like it would match um to to just to coordinate that. And so uh just the high school run primarily in red, white, and black. We just like to stay the same just from red white

099and that is all we need to actually do we have to approve. So you need you need a motion to approve the I make a motion to approve as part of second. All in favor thank you. Hard thing we have to navigate because so it was with the purpose of sort of aligning them back and the minor identity as the mass bands but I think Eric wanted to have a little bit of their own and and the blue have to repact and to preserve some of their legacy and history. So, it will be a timber wall dressed as a kid. Yeah. Yes. Okay. Uh, next up we have Matt from you again. Um I'm not your district superintendent thin recreation district Casper board chair. So just as a a brief overview um we're coming before

100you to request approval for a construction easement for a trail uh as depicted in the the map that you can see on the screen. Um, since we've last talked, we've worked with Utah Open Lands to further define how that border between the H Highu Ranch and Echer Hill is going to look, including some fencing. Um, we've included kind of a rustic ranch style fence with a vegetative stream is sort of the concept we started with. That's the preference of Utah Open Lands as well is to preserve some of that rustic ranch character. Um, I've added a little bit of in the conceptual trail design, a little bit of of trail length to make sure that the um that new public trail that climbs the hill um is a little bit farther separated and and potentially

101um goes even a little bit higher above the ropes course that's there at Egger Hill. Um, and we've also gotten word from the Pine Brook HOA that they voted to approve the trails on their portion of property that's neighboring Becker Hill. Um, and we are currently engaged in negotiating an agreement with Utah Opens um, and the High Rancho family. So, things are progressing. Um, and I just wanted to yeah be available to answer any questions. So where's this old echer trail? Would that go away on the un trail or our our hope is that creating a new through trail that's going to be much better access point is going to draw all the traffic off of that happen. Yeah. And hiking. Yeah, it'll be both. And we do have a mode separation for the hill

102because there's going to be some descending cyclists. We want the uphill side to be pedestrian and climbing cyclist only and then a descending. So that's the purpose of the two trails that are you can kind of see down. [Music] Yeah. Yeah. And we had a productive meeting with Utah Open Lance on the educational piece that is happening with the remodel of the barn. It sounds like there's a plan to put cabs on the land and they will allow for some student experiences. So, I feel like this is only going to elevate our our partnerships with local community. Um, what are we doing to ensure that Lots of signage in education of adults. Are we prepared to hug or are we just confident we'll be? That's a good question. Well, High Valley is moving out from

103that opens up and that's the intention um of the trail that actually crosses into the Hayu Ranch property and connects to the parking ride. So the idea is that what is currently an attractive place for people park to access the trail that is there now um will hopefully just be less relevant. You'll be able to park and ride and access all trans food. And I think the fencing will help too. Uh currently, you know, kids are out there at lunch, hikers, dogs are actually on the field while kids are trying to play. um which presents a safety issue. Um so I'm hopeful with the fencing and signage and directing people to park at what was High Valley Transits operation that will decrease the the adults that are coming onto the property. So what did you

104say you're going to do to the existing turtle right now? that just going to stay there. And then there looks like there's where that arrow says public trail underneath it. Is that a trail that goes down to the existing public trail? This one right here. So there's there's a lot of just demand trails is what we call them that connect all the existing resources including the ropes course. Um they connect over to the the adjacent neighborhood. Um, which that's one of the intentions with creating a better designed and more intentional trail is to draw all that usage into that trail. Um, it's extremely difficult, not impossible um to close down some of those demand trails. Um, but it's something that we we have more capacity to do and especially if we have more of a

105focus in the developed trail system in the same area. We have uh three full-time rangers that patrol trails. Um and can certainly help control usage in that way. Um but there's not there's not a not a plan to directly, you know, decommission those trails or store them, but to just try to draw as much usage off of them as naturally store. Okay. Have you thought about placing logs and such like they do at run for the thing to use? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that's our staff does that, too. Move signage around. But you're not wrong. And a lot of dogs running a month. Yeah. So, we we do move those in a run. We do it very actively and purposefully to like let give areas a rest. Yeah. But we don't expect those trails

106ever to actually be closed. But we kind of closed them off and let let um them recover a little bit and then move for the signage and the fencing elsewhere and let that area recover and kind of just cycle through. It is immense determination of people to just ignore that well we've seen a lot of success with our ranger program as well that has really helped on the education side instead of the ticketing. And so I think that will be, you know, part of our primary focus as we open up this brand new trail that those rangers will be on site to kind of help guide and direct those people to the trail instead of actually parking the air. Will there be a ranger station or there or they'll just They're very mobile. We've got

107a lot of um we've got 14 I think is where we are with our primary trail heads um in district and they're constantly romantic. [Music] Second. All in favor? I Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you guys. Right. Next we have policies for posting. The following policies have been reviewed by the policy committee and they are now before the board for posting. We have policy 7051 military leave and policy 115 struggling. Um administering medication to students. And I get a motion to approve these policies. I make a motion to approve set policies for posting. Second. All in favor? I. Okay. Next up, we have policies for adoption. The following policies have been posted for the required 20 days and are now before the board for adoption. Policy 4010, professional development, travel, and conference reimbursement.

108Policy 7055, jury duty or witness in court. Policy 9080, graduation requirements, policy 10020, attendance combined with policy 10045 and then policy 10050 student dress code and I motion to I make a motion to approve policies for adoption. Second. Oh, do we have um were there any comments? Okay. All right. All in favor? I. Okay. And last but not least, we have policies to retire. The following policies have been replaced by policy 312, non-discrimination and harassment, and they are now before the board for a motion to retire. We have policy 1000, harassment and discrimination prohibited. Policy 10045 attendance and then policy 10086 anti-discrimination. See I make a motion to retire to say second. All in favor? I uh the board will now adjourn to close session for the purpose of discussion of character, professional confidence and

109physical or mental health of an individual at work. Make a motion. Can I get a motion? I wish to adjourn to reason. [Music]