001I also indivisible Justice for all. I will now accept the motion to adjourn and composed for the purpose of discussion of the character, professional competence or physical or mental health of an individual person. I make the motion to move to close for the should. Oh, and and property. Yes, I add that to my motion. Okay. Second. Doing the roll call in favor. Roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. resume with our work session. Um, and not I'm not in bed here. Um, here it is. Thanks for having me. My name is Matt Wagner. I'm the district superintendent for basin recreation. Um I'm coming before you today to talk a little bit about our Hyun trail project. Um which I believe you're all familiar with the High property or Hyena branch in the community. Um, I'll
002walk you through a little bit of the history and then I'm really just here to open up the conversation and answer any questions you might have based on this proposal and this request that we collaborate on a on a public trail access. So, in in 2011, the the county um in the Utah Opens and and other collaborators established an option agreement and an option to purchase the Hayu Ranch property. So, in that agreement was granted also the based on several conditions um public trails that would travel through the property. um that agreement have 15 year lifespan. So meaning it's ending in 2026. There are some other conditions within the agreement that could allow for those trails to be granted before that date, but we're coming up against one of them, which is the end of
003the agreement in 2026. So um based on some recent developments which is a transfer of land ownership a portion of the ranch to Utah open lands um that's really opened up the door for our negotiation to be able to execute this long promised trail on the high ranch rout. So, where the school district comes in is you can see on this um conceptual map that I've created is that there are on the Pine Brook open space um to the west of the Echer Hill property, there are some existing public trails. Um, and our ideal connection for the public to be able to access the High Ranch property is utilizing for expediency and for costsaving reasons some of those existing trails that are on the Era Hill um on Eer Hill. So just adjacent to the
004Era Hill property. Um what is proposed here is in addition to this connection, this critical connection as it's labeled on the map that allows the public to cross just that upper corner of the school district's property um to access one of our our planned alignment for the multi-use path. Um, we've also embedded some singleuse trail system that are designed to allow people to gain and lose elevation safety. It's kind of a a more modern take on trail development is single trails separation, especially where there's a lot of elevation gain or loss. Um, on a multi-use trail like that, you don't want cyclists who are descending very quickly to be sharing trails. Um so from that that portion of the trail would descend or ascend about 500 feet. Um so that's an area where we've identified
005as being critical for mode separation. One of the other things that that we are proposing is uh moving what is now sort of a community trail that goes around the field space just on the west side uh of the the school. that that access point gets moved up the hill and away from the school to a greater distance. Um, and our ideal connection for access would be to create some trails that allow the public to park at the park and ride facilities adjacent to the school and um, hop on the trail right there without crossing through school district property as much as as we can possibly avoid. So, um, that that's the general concept that we're proposing for this trail. Uh, it would further connect beyond this property up to the Mid Mountain Trail. If
006you're not with our trail system, that's sort of the spine of the Mason Recreation System of the roughly 200 miles of trail. There's the larger map there. Thank you. Um so this would provide a connection all the way up above three mile canyon which is referred to as a high ranch um and connect to that mid-mount trail. So allow for connections beyond with the toll canyon another property of basin recreations and also further south for the entirety of the bas recreation and park city trail system. So for bas and recreation, this is a a great opportunity to provide an improvement access for the community. um which has been a priority especially trying to manage higher volume parking areas um has been a challenge over the past several years uh highlighted mostly during COVID in 2020
007that we really had to actively manage these parking areas and some of the improvements that we've made are include um we've hired a team of rangers. We have three rangers who spend a lot of time at trail heads managing parking and managing user behavior. um which has been very very successful. Um and this particular access point was also identified in a collaborative planning process with the county. We called it the um the multi-disiplinary group which was just kind of planner speech for you know a broad array of people from all sorts of stakeholder groups and we're talking specifically about trail access and improving trail access. And so this was identified as an area where a lot of existing public parking um and with the the proper connection could provide access to the broader system in
008a really meaningful way for um virtual users and so with that I think um that covers most of of what I wanted to talk about but I'm absolutely happy to take feed feedback questions um and also guidance on, you know, any more information or email process that you would like to see um to be able to make decisions on this this proposal. When do you need to addition? So, we can start construction as soon as this summer. Um we have limitations based on environmental constraints um that we don't want to mobilize before July 1st um is really when you're going to start construction. So, middle of summer. Okay. But how old does construction take? Um in total there's about five miles of trail. I think it would be a push to get it all done
009in one year. Um but it is possible, weather permitting, we could get it all done in one year, but uh it's possible a stretch of different seasons. How likely to be in New York? uh probably typically put an end date um on most of our projects in October anticipating that first snow that we get. It wouldn't end necessarily until there was enough snow accumulation um to restrict construction. So that the equipment was involved for constructing that trail. So the uh right past the school the two months of the school year uh potentially um we're also open to discussions about what that looks like. There is the possibility. This is our because we we also lease a portion of this property um that the middle school based recreation does and maintains the fields. Um this is
010sort of our you know our logical entry point. um it also meets our trail system at the upper end kind of off of the Pen Brook neighborhood. So there's different ways to approach it. We haven't determined um the schedule to that level in detail yet, but that's kind of what we're we're proposing is an entry from the the school end of the trail. Um trailer is okay. So you're saying that part of the trail would move away from the school. Yes, that's the proposal. That's a more it's a more friendly climb um than a stair down. Yeah. And the hope is we would drive parking back to Park and Ry because High Valley would have been vacating or hopefully moved from that spot. Yes. Um that is the plan. Yes. I think our our biggest
011thing just from a school district perspective and we talked about this is ensuring student safety and um making sure they're accessing the trail appropriately and not specifically. Yeah, we're absolutely open to those security concerns and trying to figure out how to best mitigate that interface between the public and the school. But to the extent that we also want it to be available to the whole community including students um if that's a you know an amenity or resource that can be utilized by this field that's something we want to provide to you. Um, I guess one practical question. So, if you park at the park and ride and then you join the trail on the left of the image you're looking at there, is there actually a trail to the side of the current uh parking
012lot and you know entrance and exit from the middle school parking lot or is the expectation they would actually use that piece of asphalt to get to the uh there would be a new trail. Yeah. So, and that's where there's an opportunity to create some separation. There's an existing kind of jack leg fence there that's not, you know, it's a ranch style traditional fence. So, probably style. Yeah. It doesn't prevent a lot of access back and forth. So, open to potentially some kind of things something a little more secure. Yeah. So if the park can ride and then they're going to hike up that trail, is there a way if they wanted to park in parking lot that could be a problem or school? Well, there's not a lot of spaces in parking lots. I
013mean, that's just not a thing. A little bit of the history of that is the you know the recreation district was contributed to the construction of that facility and the parking lot and it's always sort of been understood that there's some public parking available. Um but for trails specifically our peak times and we have 14 we have a network of trail counters that we use to analyze this data. Um, peak trail usage is on the weekends between like 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Um, and even then I would anticipate like at our busy trail heads, you're talking like 10 to 15 people per hour are entering the trail system. Um, so that's kind of a volume that we would expect at a comparable trail. This So I invite them for discussion and coming back next
014month as a decision matter. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Next we've got administrators and land trust. You guys just want to go in alphabetical order and we'll start uh elementary first. Sorry, Roger. [Music] Sean, I'm guessing that you already have had a chance to look at the plan. Um, so I I won't go into deep detail. Um but maybe just a little background. Um our first goal is all about reading which is primarily what happens in an elementary school. It's teaching reading and and this goal of of increasing grade level percentage by 3% over the course of a year has proven to be a an adequate goal. Sometimes it's a little too challenging. Sometimes we exceed it. Um but 3% is is a good amount to go from beginning to end
015of the year. Um and we typically have been finishing the year between 70 and 77% of our students reading in grade level. Um so we kept that that goal kind of the same. It's probably the third or fourth year we've done that. Our second goal uh addresses math and it's it's a little different look at it. um rather than increasing the percentage of of proficient students, we're trying to decrease the u number of our students who are achieving low growth in math and that's from um beginning to end of year as well. So it's students that are focused on their individual growth. Um and our our final academic goal has to do with our MLL students. And this one is a little different because we're measuring one spring to the other spring. So, it's not
016exactly the same group of students. Um, but it's really intended to make sure that we're measuring closely what's going on with our MLA students. The 25% is a tricky number to arrive at because as I look at recent years, we're kind of all over the board. that has a lot to do with the very small number of students that we're tracking. So, one or two students can skew the entire thing, but 25% um seems like a good level to to begin that measurement and then subsequent years we can keep pushing that up. Um there are a couple other goals on our plan. The faculty goal is where we chose to um pull in a goal about science. Um, I I trust you're familiar a bit with what we're calling inquiry cycles. And this year, all
017of our inquiry cycles have been based on our MLL students, but we decided for next year to make that MLL goal in school improvements plan and to work science through our inquiry cycle. So, each one of those would be focused on the improvement cycles with um assessment measures through STEM scopes. And finally, um, there's some talk, especially through our school community council, about the difficulty of keeping track of all the all the events that take place. And we have a number of different calendars for parents to look at. So, we felt that a good communication goal would be to focus on finding one clearing area, clearing house for all events for school. Meredith, maybe you can agree with me. I can. Yes. There are lots of fun things going on. there are throughout the years
018and and that's that's all I have prepared for you. Do you have any questions I can answer? Hi Angie [Music] Dary. So, I'm excited about our goals this year because we really tried to pair down a real detailed two really detailed goals. The first one is um Napoleon will increase the number of students proficient in math and reading by 3% as determined by Acadians. Um grades K through three will use RISE. rates three, four, and five, we will make these gains by increasing oral language discourse opportunities and curriculum based materials. How we came up with this 3% is by this year's first grade, by the time they're in third grade, the state's goal is that 70% of students should be reading at or above benchmark. And so what we did was um and then uh
019the following year, our our district has a goal of 90%. And so what we did was we we backwards designed. We said, "Okay, in order for our first graders now to be 70% by third grade, what do we need to do?" And that's 6%. So that's 3% every year. And we wanted the same for math as well. So um very excited about that. I think um if we could get all of our third graders to 70% in two years, that's a great feat. So, and our next goal is um for MLL and um we got that goal because um we know that the district wants our MLL students to um be English language proficient by the time they're in our our school for 5 years. So, we took um how we did last year on
020our access test and we looked at how we did compared to the state and how we compared to the district. So, uh, MLL students reaching proficiency will increase to at least 20 29% which equates to 17% above the 2024 state average. So, um, and then we want to increase 3% above the Park City School District average. So by continuing those increments, we will ensure that our students um are English language proficient by the time um they've been in for five years. That's my goals. Any questions? Thank you. Good even Park. Let's talk about the wonderful things that are happening here. So, we have set goals for next year to keep continue our work that we've already been working on. We're going to really stay focused on our tier one, which is the instruction that all
021students get and we are setting a goal that every student will increase their end of the year goal by 5% from the beginning of the year. Last year, we met that goal. So, we're confident that we can meet it again this year. We have everything in place for that. Then, we've dug a little bit deeper this year. We that's an overall schoolwide goal. And then we have a a targeted goal for our MLL kiddos who um we are really focusing on to help them grow and then also students with IEPs that we want them to see them grow. Couple ways we're going to we're going to look at rest if we have some ways to look at that to measure. We are going to um really focus on just supporting the the teachers so that
022they can have high success in tier one and then also building up our intervention staff also so they can help the kids to kind of catch them up. And then a big focus at at Kley's Park is we're going to continue conscious discipline for our third year in a row. We're excited about that. And and next year the teachers and myself, we're going to learn about the structures to put in place so that we have structures. We've been learning all about the mindset and having kids be available to learn. But next year, we're going to really talk about the structures put in place that can address specific needs. So, we're excited to see the growth and really feel like these goals um really capture what we need. So, thank you for your support. Uh Kim,
023stay there for a second. When Kim joined us in 2022, there is a website called Great Schools and it rates uh schools based on academic progress, test scores, demographics, students with disabilities. They were rated a five out of 10. As of today, they are rated a 10 out of 10 thanks to the great Thank you. Yeah, it we're really we feel like we we're just excited. Thank you for that. And huge kudos to my staff and my darling students who come every day ready to learn and bring new things. Thank you. Hello, Tracy Failside Elementary Principal. Um our goals this year we really focus on ei data. So we take it takes into account math, reading, ELA, science and creates um proficiency data for the whole school. So this year our goal is that the
024average percent met benchmark across all the subjects tested will be 78% as determined by ACI. Um over the years we've seen that grow 3 to 7% each year. So, we really feel like that's an attainable goal. Um, it's fun because five years ago we were at 63% and now we're shooting for 78%. So, um, we're seeing good growth there. And then our second goal focusing on our MLL students is we're actually seeing proficiency increase, but um, we're focusing on the number of MLL students that have low growth in reading and math because to get to proficiency, we can't have low growth. we need to have not even average growth but high growth. So our second focus is on that and really a lot of that the funding will go towards tier 2 instruction with our
025instructional aids and intervention and providing targeted support for what and shout out to Tracy because has been recognized as one of the top 10 elementary schools across top 10 schools. top 10 schools. Good evening. Garrett Rose, principal Ecker Hill Middle School. Thanks for taking the time to listen to me talk about our goals. Um, so last year we hit all of the goals that we had intended to hit and went above and beyond. So we wanted to change goal number one a little bit because we are firmly believers in that rising tides raise all ships. And so we decided to focus on students hitting expected high growth because we're already very high in that area. We want to increase that by 3% schoolwide. So that that can be get maybe some more high higher proficiencies.
026But um that's why we decided to focus on the 3% in ELA math and science um accomplishments. Our second goal um we kept the same as last year. We did really well with our MLL um programs and that's to include increase by 10 percentage points um with growth for our MLL students as well as a 5% increase in overall proficiency measured by WEDA. And in order to do that, goal number three directly ties into those first two goals, which is uh we want to give um our staff the PL PLC time that they need. Um, and so we've set aside money for them to have two days where they get to work on anything that they see fit, whether it's uh working on curriculum, whether it's looking at student achievement and tying it into um
027their curriculum maps, they get this opportunity to work on these so that they can focus on those same goals that we have for girls one and two. And then finally, goal number four is just making sure that um our parents are receiving um the communication that they need to for their kids, whether it's just the uh at least three times annually for reports for ELA and math um or whether their child has been um chosen for interventions based on ELA and math scores um that they get those reports and have we have 100% communication. So those are our goals for the year. Any questions? member is not presenting, but I do want to take the opportunity just to recognize the significant gains they have made in science and math. Uh, thanks to Caleb, Isaiah, and
028Ben's leadership along with their staff. So, we have been able to close the gap in some of our core content areas at Treasure Mountain and attributing that to some of their land trust goals and TSSA goals over the school years. But as you all know, treasure is closing, which is why they are not presenting. Um, so we'll jump straight to the high school and Roger and Caleb are going to present the goals. So, we've been working collaboratively on this. Uh I do want to just point out that our SEC has for many many years has been funding the dream big initiative that is on our campus and it has been highly highly successful but they have really uh over the past several years they've wanted to uh pass on some of the respon financial responsibilities
029of dream big to the district so that they can go on and do some other things. And so this year we've um Caleb and I were both in the last SEC meeting and the the goal that they we're looking at is increasing our proficiency in our four content areas. Uh and one of the ways that we're going to be looking at doing that is we're going to start we're going to try something new next year with the SEC. We're going to hi in our new multi-purpose media room or library that we're going to have. We're gonna hire three full-time, two to three full-time tutors in math and um and English. Hopefully, we're looking at math and science and English and social studies. And they will be available to our students all all of our students
030all day long from 7 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon. So, any student can pop in or they can actually take a class where that is a study time for them. We're calling it the mine. Uh and we're really excited about that. Different from minor advantage. Yes. So this is actually minor advantage is actually a tier 2 intervention that we use for students who have gaps in their learning. This is somebody who has a test tomorrow and is freaking out that their physics skills are not up to date. So we are going so that will be available to all of those students. Who among us is not? So, um, we're really really excited and our and the SEC is really excited about, um, trying that out. Our target number two is really focusing
031on PBIS and tier one interventions. We feel like, uh, if we can get our teachers in professional developments that help those, we feel like that's going to be a plus. And then, uh, last but not least is the, uh, communications. Um this SEC has for years asked the principal to put put out uh timely um videos and the principal has not done that at all. Uh and so there is a there is a principle that's coming up that is going to be very very good at that. So so any comments you want to make? I think ultimately the the plan with the financing budget size allows for flexibility to meet the needs of teachers. So, as they identify the PD they need, we have opportunities to infuse that. I think Roger and his team's been
032incredibly creative in in coming up new ways to support kids. But, I think this uh the tutoring idea, which is has been something Roger's wanted to do for a long time, I'm excited that I get to live that out. What principal doesn't want to say we have tutors available before and after school and during school for your student that are highly trained, highly qualified people? And I believe we will have qualified candidates due to the generosity of the board and ensuring we're paying people enough to to make it worth their time. So I think we've got a great plan. I'm excited to execute it. Thank you guys. We might hear a So before we get started with public comment, I just need to remind all of you that we do not use public comment to
033talk about personnel. Any specific employee of the district is not who we are here to talk about. You can talk about your experience. You can talk about your child's experience. You may not name, it is not appropriate to name specific employees or specific personnel of the district. So, are we clear on that level setting of what we're here to do for public comment? Yes. Okay. Yes. And there are other ways that you can submit those comments. We've certainly received emails of board members. We have ways to submit uh comments through the website. So, you are certainly able to express that to the board via email, just not in public comment. So, please refrain from calling out specific personnel. You're welcome to speak about your experience as a family, your experience as a student, but if
034you want to speak about an individual specifically, please email that privately to us. Do we have buckets, but I'd like to change my paper. Yes. So we'll just go into the opportunity to speak. Yeah. Do we want the families who have students here to speak first? Okay. Having a four and sevenyear-old, I can understand how it is to wrangle and keep their attention for so long. What kind of you guys? Yeah. One one other we're also not going to discuss the public comment here is we will we will listen we will hear we will not be using it it's an opportunity for discussion otherwise we will be here until tomorrow okay you want to talk start with Harley's family you Ready? Yes. We have five minutes or five minutes as a brutal. Are you Okay.
035So, hi everyone. Hi. Well, good to see you. My name's Lily Penny. I'm a proud parent of a Charlie's Park student and we're here to represent dozens of families in support of our dual um language immersion program um second grade as it stands. Um so, I'm pivoting giving the guidance here. Um, and just want to support the packet of letters that we submitted and strongly urge the board and the district to consider how much impact this program has had in the lives of our kids and we have exper what we've experienced has been a culture of vibrancy, creativity and full connection. We've seen students find confidence. we've seen students who have been disengaged learners come alive. So with that, I'll I'll conclude um with the restrictions noted um that we respect all the constraints that
036you all are at in making decisions around changes to the current um structure of this program in the second grade Parley's Park Elementary School. and we feel and encourage you to reflect on your on the decision and the needs of our potential students and so many of them are here today and the families are just here to really stand up and support uh this program and all that it's meant to our kids. Yes, thank you. I'm Britney Schumacher. I'm a parent of a second grader at Parley's Park Elementary. I'm also a former Parley Park Elementary graduate. I went through the Park City School District. I feel such strong support for the school district and the teachers that are at that school district. They've had such an impression on me like Miss and like names you
037just don't forget. Um so like Kathy Anderson, my second grade teacher. So as um someone who's been in HR for 15 plus years, I know the challenges that go into hiring and retaining top talent and I know the challenges associated with evaluating top talent. And I just feel it would be a missed opportunity if those of us here didn't get to um share our opinions and our experience with um staffing decisions as they relate to teachers at the schools. So my son specifically a second grader has just flourished this year. He has gotten um he has he's just changed as a person. There is so much about him that I think leading into this year where he was shy or less independent more often would like retreat there because of the staff of the school
038he's been pulled out of that in a very significant way. We've seen such great development and it's a really a testament to the hard work that his teachers have put in and so I'm just in full support of them and hope you guys think about this point consideration. Um hi my name is Scott Taylor. I have two kids in Harvard Park. Isabelle is in second grade ZLI and my son um will be starting ZI in in August. Actually, it's this year has been totally a game changer. It's hard to move from English on to um dual language immersion and uh we've had amazing teachers that completely changed and made them love speaking Spanish, bringing home Chromebooks. my son who was a great student, he was very intimidated by um going into DL and he didn't
039he said he was absolutely not going to do it and I mentioned it to the teachers and immediately they said we got it they invited my my son into that's something it's very emotional to me because they invited my son so special and within a week he said I want to do it I want to do it because it's so fun and I'm like that's what we do Right? When we want to retain talent, we see somebody come through. We know about contracts that some contracts are short and nobody was giving the hope that they would be employed forever. But when we see something, especially in in education, I feel like we have to grab it quick so it doesn't go away. Teachers can move somewhere else, but we should try to keep them here
040if they make such an impact to our kids. I feel especially in elementary school we don't see a lot of um male teachers and to me it's very important for the little boys to have a little role model because otherwise it's all women around them. They already have their moms to tell them what to do. It's nice to have somebody else who they can relate with and I think that's been a very strong impact. Thank you. Um, and I was just going to say that I like my second grade teacher and um, she's just really fun. Thank you all for coming. Thank you. Thank you for the quick respecting. Okay, next I've got it looks like about 16 dance cheer comments, but I've Is there a spokesperson? Can we call this a group? Thank you.
041You guys ready? Okay, five minutes. Go. Um, I'm runner and I'm here on behalf of the park cheer team. Um, our program is slowly falling apart and if we don't have a coach next year, the spirit rates like our spirit will just decrease. The cheerleaders won't be here. dance team and we already have low like attendance in certain school events like football games. We don't have the best spirit section and erasing the cheerleaders and dance team will define these even more and honestly will just hurt the spirit of the school. I think we can all agree going to the football games just us or taking your little one can really make a difference. Especially little girls and boys seeing cheerleaders. This is so fun for them, seeing them dancing on the side, really lifting the
042spirits of the game. Um, role models, having the mini cheer clinics, these can help people also grow up to who they want to be. And taking away this might take away the whole program and what like could happen. From another standpoint, the cheerleaders are extremely integral to the Park City community. We do tons of events such as community service and then also as a senior I've seen so many girls work for their whole lives to come to the point where we are now. And I know personally girls who were planning on trying out to cheer in college and that can like make or break their college experience. That can make or break whether they're able to go to college or not. And I think taking that away is like completely not fair to anybody involved.
043I'm Eva Sers and I believe that the cheer program and a program along with the girls involved deserves an advocate and experienced coach and I don't think that a last minute coach would really give the girls on the team what they deserve and a program that is going to help them grow and support and give them an adequate education in what they are interested in. And I believe having a coach that can give the girls that and can give them the experience that they are hoping for and the experience that they deserve is really important to me and everyone here today. And for safety reasons, having someone that knows what they're doing, who is certified and knows what they can do also makes a huge difference. Liability. Having someone that knows what they're doing can
044make a huge difference. knowing what just what to do if someone were to get hurt instead of someone that wouldn't know what to do. Additionally, as a senior, we have been through this with the program before and we've all seen just how hard it is to find a qualified cheer or dance coach in Park City, especially somebody's who's willing to do both. Yeah. And so I just don't think it's realistic to think that we're able to just find a new one. Yeah. Well, it might be for school spirit. It's also a very helpful program. Like it helps everyone just grow into capable adults. It helps them transition to the next chapter of college. And I know that the cheerleaders that I like cheer with all such kind girls and just like spreading positiv positivity among
045the school and this is really important for just everything in general. Um I also feel like the cheer team really brings people together. Um having a whole team can really bring people together. Having this spirit also can bring more people to events, fundraisers, all of these things can really help bring people together as a community. And I think as Park City, we are a very big community. And without the cheerleaders, I feel like this could fall apart. There are also some people who need to be on a cheer team or a dance team in order to make it through high school. For some people, that's all they have. And for some people, this is the only motivation that they have to keep their minimum 2.5 GPA. And it's the only reason that they are able
046to get into college or make it through high school, which is completely unfair to take away such opportunities from people that you would never take these opportunities away from like football, basketball. It would not be considered. [Music] Okay. We just want to keep our cheer team here running. Like we want to keep the program running. Just it has so many benefits to our school, to mental health, to our just everything in general. It really is. They're really important. Yeah. Thank you guys. a little bit. Hi, my name is Lisa Finny. And I wrote this down because I'm nervous. I've never spoke before. My husband works for the city. Anyway, my name is Lisa Finny and I'm a parent of a soon to be senior at Park City High School. I'm also the substitute teacher for
047the school district and I have been for years. Um, my daughter's a competitive dancer and on the dance team here at the high school. She's also a TA and choreographer and instructs dance one and two. Just to give you some um it's my understanding that the plan next year is to combine dance team with class dance one and class dance 2. To me, this is like to me this is like combining an AP calculus class with beginning algebra. Both equally impressive and challenging, but completely inappropriate to combine them in a class setting. My daughter wants to dance in college. I'm strongly opposed to eliminating any dance classes, let alone combining them. My son went to Trailside, Treasure, and Park City High School until his senior year. He transferred to Brighton High School due to a
048negative athletic experience at Park City High School. While this built character and showed his courage to change, it impacted his future for athletics and was really difficult to go through. I do not want my daughter to have to leave her senior year to be able to dance at her current level to be able to dance in college. We are strongly asking that you not cut any dance classes which will have negative ripple effects for both dance and cheer and chair for coming. I just would like to mention one thing and I'm I'm not a lawyer. I'm not a public policy person but to me this is a title n issue as well. equality between girls and boys sports. Um, we've seen a lot of negative impacts recently on women's sports and I would like to
049see this sport opportunity be maintained here in this story. Apologies. I'm a city res. bring my paper. So, I'm Lauren Tennaw and I have a a soon to be senior in high school and I'm here with all these people that came. But again, just an advocate for cheer. Like these girls are such strong and dance, but these these cheerleaders are the face of the school. They are such strong powerful athletes. They work all year long to do this. And for them to not have the same opportunities that all of the other sports have, it's just not it's not fair. and and my daughter is in the same situation as and if she wants to go to college in cheer and this like this would really like make that a lot harder decision where she's looked
050at switching high schools before but she's committed to Park City. She wants to stay in Park City even though this has not been the optimal place for her to be a cheerleader. So we are sticking it out again but we really ask that you maintain your code so we can keep it up. Sarah and we live here. My daughter Lily is a senior this year at high school who started at the child care center for teachers here. So, we've been across the street and um since since day one, it's my understanding that there's a perception that it would be easy to replace the current coach Hyatt um with someone who can just come in and teach cheer. And to me, that's a huge risk and liability. I certainly don't feel comfortable having my daughter stunt
051and do all the things that cheerleaders do with someone who's inexperienced, who their heart's not in it. Um, to me, that's just a huge liability for us as a community. And also as a community, we need that school spirit brought together. We've all talked about how school spirits a little iffy at times and even in the kids um school what do they call the they the student body has really been pushing school spirit and without cheerleaders at a football in a basketball game I don't know how you think you're going to grow that. And so I just it's critical to the community that we try to work with coach Hyatt and keep her on and and get away from the mindset that some random will just happily volunteer to come and teach our cheerleaders. So
052hopefully that can be something to consider in your budget. Hi, I'm Addie Kenny. I'm part of the dance team right now. my mom. So, but um basically why we're saying all this is because sorry I have a hard time with speaking. But um next we're going to combine the Sorry, I didn't know I was going to cry. They're combining the intermediate team or intermediate classes with the dance team. They're combining the alternative beginner um dance and intermediate with the competitive dance. And I just think that's very unfair to us because we work really hard in our dance class having good enough times and like good spirit for the team and everything. And like me, so many people are trying to go like beyond high school for dance and cheer. Um, and so I just think
053it's very unfair to us to combine the two classes because the skill levels are very different and it'll be very difficult, especially with the amount of kids in the class. Um, but anyway, I'm okay. Um um I just think that if we could possibly by any chance just um split up the dance team and the intermediate class um that would be very useful and very um helpful for the dance team because it'll be very difficult for us to practice our dances, to learn our dances, to practice our skills and their skills because in my experience I am a TA like my mom said for dance one and the skill difference is very like I forget the word but very like different and um cuz dance one is basically just the basics like they don't even
054know how to turn don't know how to leap don't kick and you have to teach them all of that and the dance you already know all that stuff you're trying to like improve even more than that. And so combining the two just would will not work and will um the dance team will just go away and disappear which for many years now um we've tried to improve the dance program and with this the com combination of both classes the dance program will completely just disappear. I truly believe that. And yes, this year team will also struggle because they will lose the most amazing coach. I know I'm not supposed to talk about that right now, but um okay, sorry. But Cynthia says, "My daughter is going to be a senior um this year." And I'll
055just just add one thing that I wanted to mention is um for the last four years we've had a different uh cheer coach every year. Um and just we were really looking forward to having that same coach. I think the girls that have been parents that have stepped in. We were you know chewing on our fingernails worried blessed a year ago if we were even going to get a coach. They didn't coaches didn't get plugged in until August. There were lovely parents of some kids who stepped up. This past year, we've had a coach who's really a coach, and I see the big difference in the way the girls perform and what they've learned and how they've grown. We're really looking forward to next year being able to grow on that and compete. It's the
056first time in three or four years that the girls were going to be able to go out and compete because they have been gearing up. There's a bunch of new freshman's coming in. There's girls coming up through the program. So, that's something we would like to have some consistency like the other sports do, the coaches. Um, the other thing I want to mention with the with the cheer team is if they I mean the uh dance team, if they combine the two classes, that's 26 kids for one coach. They're not going to be able to learn a lot and work together. And then the difference between the quality of not the quality, but the um experience of a new beginner dancer and an experienced dancer who's trying to get in college. So, we just hope
057you guys consider these things. Okay, thank you all for coming to share that your experiences with us. We appreciate that. Um, next Jonathan Wilson. Wilson. Uh, I was here before in November. This is Gina. I'm president of the Hollywood vice president. Um, we've been working with Mike Tanner, who is no longer here, um, but met him back in November, uh, to discuss the, uh, phase four of the, uh, athletic master plan. Um, and then tried to stay in contact with him, but wasn't receiving any information. And then at the last meeting um at the last meeting which we were not able to attend but one of the other members of the board attended it seems that phase 4 was very quickly pushed through without much discussion. Um the phase four plans were posted the day
058of the meeting not in advance and I think the the basic premise is we don't feel that we are being heard as the HOA. We also happen to be John and I and then two other um attendees here, residents of Lucky John on the strip behind the high school. So, I can tell you from from my perspective, my house went from having open space to now having a big building in front of it. We were promised there would be large trees put in, that there would be a burm. None of that has happened. And now we're trying to intervene with these plans around phase 4 of the athletic department. It's interesting to be here hearing about dual immersion being cut, cheerleading coaches being fired when we're building a 13,200 square foot accessory building right on
059Lucky John on a residential street, which doesn't make much sense to us because Karns Boulevard is a thoroughare. So for us, I mean, our homes are our livelihoods. You all live here. We're residents in Park City. to have these commercial looking buildings. I am now looking out at a dumpster and a industrial uh compactor. We're now right now facing trees where we have a field. We're being told that concessions and the accessory door lines are going moved closer to Lucky John that they're going to be I can't remember the exact height of 28 feet high. 13,200 square feet with 300 lockers for what? 28 feet. 28 feet. Yeah, I got it right. Thank you. Uh so we want to be heard. We would like the board to review again the proposals. We don't understand how
060phase four got through. We know there's a meeting tomorrow with the city, but we are we are very very concerned and disappointed about the fact that Lucky John Drive backside is being essentially turned into half commercial building uh right in front of us. Especially when we've got Karns Boulevard, which would very nicely accommodate that. We can already hear football games, which is nice, but moving concession stands closer to Lucky John, building a 28 foot tall building in front of our homes on the back side, it just it really doesn't feel right for us as members of the community. Many of us are new here. We're all taking a role in civic councils. We're members of the HOA. We are really trying to make sure that the Holiday Ranch um homeowners board, which hasn't typically been
061super involved in the community, is getting more and more involved and playing a bigger role. And we're just really disappointed and would like some reconsideration of this phase 4. We don't understand why one of the proposals was chosen over the other, which I know is a question, but we can consider it rhetorical for a later time. Um, and we would just really love to have a conversation um either with Mike Tanner, his replacement, or someone before any of this moves further because it is it is truly like not only um reducing the value of our homes, completely changing the landscape um of where we are and the general plan says amenities should be supported within the neighborhood with careful mitigation of negative impacts such as traffic, lighting, and compatibility. The proposal that has been pushed
062through will create all of these negative impacts, including increased lighting in the dark skies neighborhood, increased sound, and additional bus lanes and traffic on our residential street, which we were assured that would not happen. So, we're concerned both as members and representatives of the HOA, but literally the homeowners whose homes are being essentially decimated from a value standpoint. And what we what we bought completely changing. We're not saying we shouldn't expand. I have kids in school. We're asking that the expansion be pushed toward curbs and that we do not put something in place that will cause increased traffic on Lucky June Drive. That will make it even more thoroughare than it already is. That will create issues with light, sound, traffic, um, and just general congestion. It also just make it more sense to put
063on the 50 yard line on either side of the school. um if you're thinking about like spectating the sport and lockers and you know teams adjacent to the field instead of at the end on the street. Um and there's the church parking lot right there where you know parking lot doesn't care so much. As I can mention too, Summit County is embracing Park Meadows where our values are definitely diminished from these just the whole buildings being there, but yet we're being taxed on the community of of apartment. So another point at least is financially is not fair. And we love our street and we love having the high school. We just there are ways that it can expand without I know it's just a comment but like what is who's our new point of contact
064if if Mike is truly gone because we've also submitted a lot of emails. We've been trying to engage in many many ways and nobody's been responsive. Yeah. I stayed after for an hour and talked to them last time and then and then Yeah. So we'll follow up um with who you can speak with directly regarding these concerns. Okay. Okay. Great. Thank you. Hey, so I'm sorry. Did you fill out a a blue form? I did that before and went on to say a little bit of I'll be blunt on this. So I'm Ryan Williams 1730 like a John. So the same thing happened last time I was here. I spoke and there was sort of lots of nods quite nods and then as GM John said nothing happened and then back. So I I would
065like some sort of response from this group of people on what exactly is next. So public comment is just that it's your chance to comment. It's not a conversation. We can schedule a meeting. I think we reach out to us and we schedule a meeting. We asked for that previous. Yeah. Partly like we don't quite understand the process. I don't think we understand the process. We're following the process and we're not getting responses. We've been told we've emailed and nobody responds to us. So if you want us to keep doing that, we can. I think you have to understand new superintendent, new board seated that we've been in our positions for approximately three months now. So a lot of this happened before any of these new board members were seated before I was appointed. We're
066willing to have conversations that public comment is not the place. So we will follow up. We would love that. And maybe if we can just slow this down considering you're all new, you're new. We would love that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Last question. Will anyone be at the planning meeting? Will any of you be at the planning meeting tomorrow planning where they're going to talk about our owners rep and architect usually attends that meeting on our behalf? Would they be the people that we would then be our point of contact with? They would be a part of the conversation, but district leadership would also be a part of that conversation. All right. Thank you. [Music] Is there any other um No, I just want to make sure it's if you want or if
067you think it's okay, I'll go ahead and Okay, you take it. Just uh let's see. We have two comments about the Chinese language program. Let's start with Kathy. My daughter's packet. She's not going to go through the whole thing. Okay. Okay. Thank you. You want a copy? [Music] Thank you. You got three minutes. Go ahead. Hi. So, um, my name is Novishes and I'm here to advocate to restart the Chinese language program in Park City School District. And you guys all have my presentation and a copy of my editorial in the park record of my other supporting documentation. And there's not a lot not a lot I can say in three minutes. So I will have to go over a bit on the time if that's okay. Um with the limited time, I would like
068to walk you through my presentation and focus on the key points. I would ask that you take the necessary time to read the material I have given you guys after this meeting. And please refer to the presentation restarting Chinese language program in Park City School District. and let's keep any questions until the end. So, uh please turn to page two. This is the objective. So, um our objective to is to like the Yeah, page two. Um our objective is to restart the Mandarin learning at the high school and if possible start Chinese DI within Park City School District and and with enough enrollment and we have over 130 signatures so far on change.org to support this initiative. And in order to do this, I'm acting asking the school board to support doing a formal formal
069survey of all parents within Park City School District K through 12 to see if their students would enroll in Mandarin learning be it just in the high school or DLI excited. And please turn to page three. This is uh first in Mandarin learning. So in 20 2002, Park City School District was the first school district in the state of Utah to teach Mandarin. Enrollment was eventually a couple hundred of students with an echer treasure and the high school. The program was cancelled in 2022 with the last teacher who resigned and we could not find a replacement teacher. And please turn to page four. This is the address diversity issues within Park City School District. Um, Park City doesn't have a lot of cultural diversity and is 82% white, around 15% Hispanic, and less than 3%
070Asian. Where I went to school from K through four, the student population looked more like the rest of America, a melting pot. And having more diversity makes the school more welcoming for students like me or other minorities. It encourages respect and understanding, and it better prepares our students for the future to learn Mandarin. Please turn to page five. This is China challenges and opportunity. China is challenging the United States economically and militarily. Our students our students should have the opportunity to learn secondary language to compete in the global economy with Mandarin being one of the most important languages to learn across the country. Some parents and students are adverse to learning Mandarin because of the current political climate. But I think this is shortsighted as we should not let politics block learning that prepares us
071for the future. Please turn to page six. What is Utah doing with Mandarin? The state of Utah has 96 schools teaching Mandarin. This includes K through 12 secondary language learning and DLI. Let's not let Park City fall behind when other school districts continue to offer Chinese education. I was told from school leadership that there is not enough demand from parents and students in Park City School District to to learn Mandarin. I disagree as demand is growing in 2022 here at the high school. Please turn to page seven. Finding Chinese teachers. We can find a Chinese teacher. It has become easier since co. I have spoken to Utah State language resources resources and they could help. I have sent emails to Asian organizations here in the United States and some of them emails some of the
072email responses are attached to the packet to the end of your packet. They they list or associations for Chinese teachers that allow you to post job postings on their website if we need to. Why can't Park City Education Fund pay for recruiting fee to find a teacher to attract a great teacher? This must this must be a full-time role and someone who wants to grow the program and commit to our students. Please pay this teacher a living wage with a full-time position. A part-time position does not show a commitment to any secondary language program. Please turn to page eight. Next steps. Number one, approve this initiative. I want to work with school leadership at all schools in Park City School District to put together a survey and survey the K through2 parent and student population
073within Park City School District. Together we can bring a program that puts Park City students ahead of the curve. You guys have any questions? Good. Good job getting and and I know you have a meeting you would set up with to talk about it. Um so yeah. Thank you. Good luck. Thank you for your time. All right, Kathy. I just want to um share with you I've had two students now already go through well that have attended Park City High School. My oldest son, he was able to participate in three years worth of the Chinese language program at Park City. And I by the time he finished his junior year, um he was able to converse very easily with me speaking Mandarin. I was very impressed with the quality of the Chinese that he was
074getting at the high school. So I do think it is of value and s so much so that now when he's in college he's able to actually um befriend some of the international Chinese students and help them to feel at home by going up to them and surprising them that he speaks Chinese and and it's a very I don't know a very positive experience. So, I I recommend that you take Lauren's research to heart. Um, my second experience, my second son, he is currently a junior at Park City High School. Um, he's had to take Chinese online through the seats online, Utah online. The problem there is that they only offer two years of Chinese. Now, um I did mention that I speak Chinese, so I really wanted my kids to do to take Chinese
075in high school. And I told them that college recruiters would definitely be impressed to see that on their resumes. And it was cute. A couple months ago, he texted me and said, "Mom, you were right." because he's been in contact with various um college football recruiters and they have of elite of elite universities and they've actually commented on the fact that they took Chinese and that it's on his um transcript. Um one of them unfortunately said, "Oh, but you need to have a third year." And so that's where the online option doesn't really work. There are only two years available. And then you also um have the problem of it's not with the same program and we need to try to figure out oh well is Chinese one and two really going to have prepared
076you for some other programs Chinese 3. So um whereas that would be avoided if you had an actual dedicated program at the high school. There would be no problem with someone taking three years or four years of the language with the similar program and the similar teachers. So, I encourage you again, take Lauren's research to heart. Um, see if there's anything else. China has one of the largest economies in the world. Chinese is a language of interest to the government. It's a language of interest to businesses and we should make it a language of interest to Park City School District. Again, thank you. Can I chime in real quick on Lauren? Um to uh California's point, yeah, you can go to uh Chinese 2 through Utah online and then you can even go to AP
077Chinese, but how do you get there? There's a gap. All right. So Lauren right now is taking she's made it through Chinese 4. We're paying $3,000 to do language bird uh in California. So that's how she's got to Chinese 4. she might be able to take AP Chinese in her senior year because Utah online has it, but there's that huge gap. So, you stop at two, but we've talked to the state uh during COVID. They said, "We're working on three." They never did it. So, there is a gap. It would be great to get it back into the high school. We We hear you. Thank you. Thank you. Uh All right. We have covered a lot of ground in in public comment today. Is there anyone for public comment who has not gotten to speak
078yet? All right then. Uh we will move on. Um we might jump around a little bit on agenda, I think. Uh but uh do we need to do a consent agenda? We have to do consent agenda first. Yes. Okay. Time to the consent agenda which includes travel requests, uh March board expense reports, uh revenue reports, uh check register, uh let's see, uh school [Music] districtl from March 18th, uh new hires for April and uh the April reports. Uh I get a motion to approve. Okay. All in favor. Uh then I think we can go to administrator announcements. [Music] Yeah, we'll see if it's the right one. Will, do you want to join me right here? Where would you like her per? [Laughter] So, Trisha joined our school district back in the fall. She's currently serving
079as the dean of students at the high school and next fall she'll be the new principal at Trside Elementary by Isaiah up as a new principal of Eer Hill come August he is going to introduce his new assistant principal. Yeah. So, uh, good evening members of and everyone else. I'm very excited to introduce, announce, and welcome, uh, Miss Katherine Stony as the new assistant principal at Ever and brief introduction. Catherine uh is uh currently vice principal at American Leadership Academy down in Spanish for extensive experience K through eight. uh a particular note, she was the founding principal of the school out in Orange County, California. We're looking to draw and leverage on her experience uh in terms of instructional coherence, building culture, and examining systems. So, very excited. Uh just a few words of note
080uh in in in interviewing her, a couple words that came up in the process were uh she is brilliant, she is firm, she is warm, uh and that she does what it takes. We're very excited. So, Caleb, I think he's flying solo because our other two new APs have had prior commitments. Uh just very excited to introduce the other new assistant principles Park City High School. I know they are fan favorites because they are internal uh internal candidates and uh they are Angie Ericen is currently ser serving as our NTS coordinator. been in the district for over 15 years now. And the other is one of the most beloved teachers uh in Park City School District history in my opinion. And that is George Murphy. Made a good jump to uh what they call the
081dark side, but he's going to bring a lot of light to that. So, we're very excited about it. And he is of course coaching because that is what he does. He's a kid first person. Uh he's currently with the girls called team and could not get away. But very excited to have both of them on the team. And I know our faculty and staff are so very happy with these candidates. So very excited. Great. Are we done? Thank you. [Music] We release more people. Well, yeah, I was going to say, let's do the employee group reports and we'll we'll come back to that afterwards. Let's release as many people as we can. Uh um we just finished Wish Week. We raised [Music] $9,767 and the donation pages in cash. We raised $128 from book sales
082and cookie sales and then $650 from Venmo. So we did reach our goal and Hannah can go to Disney. Um yeah, we're very excited. yesterday. We completed our student council election, the student body president. Um they'll be there are tomorrow and I just want to go ahead and bring the students as well. And that's all we have. Thank you very much. Uh let's see employee groups general. very brief. So, good evening. Uh, first off, congratulations to our new principal and vice principles. Uh, we wish you great success and welcome you into these roles as we look forward to continuing relationships with all at every level. The referendum for HB267, which targets all labor unions, is underway. PCA has been very involved in gathering signatures, and we thank everyone for their support. If you have not
083had a chance to sign a referendum to put HB267 on the ballot and let the people decide, please contact either Shannon Hayes or myself and we are happy to either meet you or come to you. The deadline to sign is April 15th. In May, PCA will be asking board members to approve the licensed professional agreement. There are no earthshattering changes and we have worked positively alongside Craig Jensen and Lindsay Huntsman. So, we thank you for all the positive relationships and that we continue to foster and grow as we move forward in a positive direction for our district. Thank you. I'll be there also. On behalf of EIG, I just want to extend a warm welcome to all of you on the board and introduce myself. I'm Cindy Mayer. For those who don't know me, I'm
084co-president of EIG alongside Josh Dukes of Ecill. We look forward to collaborating with each of you. As I reviewed tonight's agenda, I noticed travel policy was posted on public comments in March, but is not on tonight's agenda, and I shared EIG's comments with the policy committee, and I believe you all have received a copy. As someone who monitors travel within the district, a member of EIG, and a taxpayer in our community, I want to express concerns about the rising costs of travel within the district and the need for greater accountability in these expenses. While the proposed changes may appear to be minor at first glance, they have the potential to significantly increase costs for taxpayers, EIG and I respectfully urge the policy committee to continue discussions about the proposed changes and consider the possibility of
085developing electronic system for managing the travel. Thank you to the policy committee for taking the time to carefully review this policy and post and for postponing its adoption to allow for further discussion. Your thoughtful consideration is greatly appreciated. Gina almost. Hello. Gia Cox, uh PCCA president. Um we have been a little absent because we've been so stinking busy. Who hasn't been? Um, we missed last month's because we were at the national uh, NEA ESP conference. It was incredible. We got to meet with ESPs literally from Hawaii to Maine and Alaska to Florida. Um, getting to meet those professionals and share our concerns, our wins. Um, just creative ways of um, problem solving is is always just such a such a neat experience. Uh, plus, uh, Utah became the third state in the United States of
086America to have backto-back ESP of the years. So, um, Andy Marcus out in Canyon School District, uh, a custodial staff worker out there to call him the national ESP of the year award, which is incredible. That puts us up amongst like Washington State and California. So, I think all eyes are on Utah. Um, and I am excited and I'm ready and we are doing hard work. Um, as Mary mentioned, referendum is in full force. We've got about a week left. Um, if you haven't signed, let us know. Um, something that I just wanted to mention that I've taken away from the experience is that it has been a really incredible bonding experience amongst all public servant workers. So, we are literally working shore and shore with librarians and lab workers and firefighters and police officers,
087former educators, current educators. um once an educator, always an educator. It's it's really been an incredible experience to share stories and people come up and say thank you, thank you, thank you um for continuing to fight for our right. Um and I always like to mention, you know, remember because we've done a lot of the work up here in um Senate District 20. Um remember what you guys did first. You guys stepped up to the plate and said that we support our unions. We support and appreciate the relationships that we've built and the conversations we've been able to have because of our unions and that has set a precedence in our state. Um we've been able to take that to other locals and say look what Park City is doing. So I just want to
088say thank you again for that. Um it is greatly appreciated and we just really appreciate the initiatives that we've been building with you. Um really quickly let's see. PCCA is um starting our election process as well. Um so we will have hopefully uh new board members and representatives from all seven of our job categories. Um it's something that we've not had in the past. It's something that's always been in our bylaws. Um we just haven't always had the incentives and the ways to encourage people to step up into those roles. Um but we have some creative ideas this year and we've already had some feedback from our membership. So I'm excited about that. Um, we are looking forward to negotiations. Can we say that? Do we really look forward to negotiations? Meet and confer. Like,
089do we really look forward to meet and confer? It's a lot of work. Um, but, uh, again, our employees really appreciate it. So, um, we appreciate having that voice. Um, it's going to be a sprint, as Mr. Jensen has said numerous times, to get it to you guys on time, but, um, we're here for the hard work and we're ready to do it and collaborate um, over Corona. Um, I think yeah, I think that's good. I think I don't think I need to take any more time. Just thank you. Thank you. And uh we'll see you next month. It is okay. April report. uh that picture. Uh couple of board members, myself, Caleb, and Randy had an opportunity to attend the National School Boards Association conference this past weekend. Caleb and I were selected to
090present. We presented on relationships first um and the power behind human connection and how that can really propel your district forward. Uh we were a bit concerned that no one would come because it was 12:45 after lunch on the last day of the conference, but Randy can attest we did have a almost full room um of board members and superintendent. So great experience for us. As always, our mission is to inspire and support all students equitably to achieve their academic and social potential. Our vision is student centered with a focus and emphasis on the whole child. Our students are safe, supported, engaged, challenged, and healthy. Many of you attended the ribbon cutting. Was that last week? The days are starting to blur together. Two weeks ago, um we were able to celebrate a major milestone
091with the ribbon cutting in the new forum. Um people were able to see the new cafeteria, the new gym, the two new wings that will accommodate 8th grade coming over in the fall. um state-of-the-art classrooms, uh an updated kitchen, opportunity for kids to experience a maker space with 3D printers, laser cutters. Um so one of those wings is already occupied by teachers. Then other wing will become occupied later this summer. Mission and vision, a couple different pictures uh here. Our sped department hosted a transition fair on April 3rd. That event supported 18 agencies from across our local and regional community. Um they shared information with our families, answered questions, and provided resources to support our students in their post high school experience. That was organized by Laura Glass, who's one of our special ed coordinators.
092In the middle, you see Bright Futures. Um they had a college grad celebration this last Saturday night, April 9th. um or sorry, it was April 5th, I believe. Um nine of the 11 grads of PCHS, class of 2021, were able to attend that ceremony with their families. On the right, you see our PCHS kindness award. That is Bob Emonson, uh one of our assistant principles at Park City High School. We had three award winners. Ashton Sylvester was our 10th grade award winner. 11th grade was Brie Van Beaver and 12th grade was Zoe Zoe ays academic success uh there's an exciting event that happens every year at Eer Hill it is uh put on by their librarian Laura RDE and this year it's battle of the books some years it's one book one school but this
093year they had a unique opportunity uh to host a special author Jennifer A Nielson she's published eight books and they were able to choose within their advisory one of those eight books. Um the entire school has been reading one of her eight books. They've been competing in events like the game show quiz, um battle for which of the books is best. And this Friday, I believe they're having a culminating event with Battle of the Books at Ever. Next is excellent personnel had an opportunity to attend our regional K16 alliance. So we are part of the mountainland region that includes Neibo, Meep Summit, South Summit, Park City, Wasach, Alpine, um, and a couple other charter schools. And they recognized a counselor from each region or each school district at their annual counseling conference. And ours was
094our Parksy High School academic counselor, Liz Moscow. It is National Assistant Principles Week. So, we have been able to recognize several of our assistant principles. There you see Ela Gaspari and Missy Shawurn who are currently serving as assistant principles at Eert Hill Middle School and then Jamie Weekes there on the right um as an assistant principal of Park City High School. We had some conversation this weekend about do we have a strategic plan? We do. It was adopted back in 2023 and runs through 2028. So, I just want to update you guys um on some OLAG um findings as well as how we responded to those findings. So, in the initial report that came out in all of 2023, there were 18 recommendations. We submitted our one-year progress report in September of 24 and we
095got an updated response back in January. We have resolved 15 of those 18 recommendations. We're still working on three and from the audit supervisor they recognize the three that are outstanding will take more than a year to implement. So those are in process. Um we're still having conversations. The three recommendations that we are working on is continue to refine performance measures, clarify monitoring mechanisms with internal controls, and demonstrated results of compliance risk review. And you'll notice uh the audit supervisor comments that was shared with us. Note that the sounding recommendations are ones that we would expect to take more than one year. We appreciate the district actively working on those and all of the recommendations. So, we will continue to refine our our strategic plan. It is a living document. I actually charged teaching and
096learning yesterday to look at it and make sure if the work that is happening in our classrooms is actually being called out in our strategic plan and if it's not, how can we go back and refine it to ensure it does reflect the work that's happening within our schools. All of you are aware that Senate Bill 178 did pass. We are ahead of the curve in regards to this particular legislation. It's smartphones and schools. We have a policy in place. Uh per parent request um and some other conversations with teachers. We are going to host a community event specifically focused on high school um the yonder pouches which are the pouches that lock the cell phones at Treasure Mountain that were implemented this year in 8th and 9th. there's conversations of whether or not that
097would fill up into the high school. So, we're going to have a conversation with parents, teachers, as well as students who have been impacted this by this and kind of get some input as to what they would like to see. How do we implement our policy at high school? Because right now we are violating our own policy. We shouldn't be seeing cell phones during the school day per policy, but we are seeing that. So we want to have a open conversation on what are our next steps and how do we implement or refine what has happened and been highly successful at Treasure Mountain at Park City High School. As I mentioned last month, uh we do have a new feedback link on the district website. People are welcome to provide feedback to us. We asked
098specifically for their name and their email so we can follow up on that feedback. But it is one way to leverage uh the community partnership and rebuild trust. Community alliances, we appreciate uh the ongoing partnership with Park City Ed Foundation. They have a lot happening this spring. Running with Ed is happening on May 17th. Excellent. Educator Express is April 25th. You can see there's a couple different awards that are handed out. Uh, one is sponsored by the Delin and Hink Lewis families. We visit every school and we surprise the excellent educator of the year at every school that is voted on by their peers. We invite their families. It's a very special day for those individuals. And then there is one specific at the high school. It's chosen by the senior class and it's the
099most influential teacher. So, the high school has two. Every other school has one. After school registration opens April 21st thanks to the new spaces that were supported by the community bond. After school is now open to our three-year-olds and again it is supported by PCF funding. Classroom grants are application closed on April 1st. Uh I happen to chair that committee. I believe this will be my last year in chairing that committee and I'll hand the the baton to someone else. But it's a competitive grant. The idea is that they are funding innovative ideas, things that don't already exist. Um, many of the ideas such as the flight simulators that are at the high school, computer science, those are the sort of things that were funded and started by seed funds with classroom grants. So, we
100have a committee that will review those 30 applications on April 30th. There was a total request of well over $250,000. and the committee will deliberate and make sure it aligns not only with the school district strategic plan but also the ET foundations strategic plan. And farewell to Treasure Mount. We are in the process of planning some events um as Treasure Mountain the school year comes to a close and we will say goodbye to that building. Saturday, May 17th is running with Ed. We will have an exchange running down memory lane that will happen at Treasure Mountain. Wednesday, June 4th, we've hoped to have a community open house. We're still talking about time and then we'll have a staff alumni event to date in time to be determined. But we really want to celebrate the legacy
101that Treasure Mount is and allow people to come back and have conversations and revisit memories they may have had within that building. And just a couple final thoughts. Uh, as we navigate the complexities in our schools and the wider world, let's keep in mind the profound trust we hold as educators as well as board members. Our priority is what's best for student learning, acknowledging the trust from families, the commitment of our community, and the dedication of our staff. Let's focus on moving forward, building trust and dignity, and steering clear of negativity and speculation. We're in the business of shaping humans, and our students are taking note. Let's be the role models they need. And I was fortunate enough to throw out the first pitch at the softball game today. Uh uh I did have rotator
102cuff surgery about a year ago. So I'm going to blame the home plate bounce on rotator surgery. Um, but it was fun to be out there and and be with the team and sort of uh change the perception of female sports and try to build them up um in a way that maybe they haven't had that opportunity in the past. You know, that's my report for April. So, uh, you and Taylor both won your pitch. Yeah, I know my time. I get a chance at redemption next Tuesday. I'm not sure about the first pitch for baseball. So, yeah, it it's fun to to be in a a different environment celebrating student athletes. Yes, it is. Um, okay. Thank you very much. Uh that is probably a good time to go back to the board of
103event handbook since we just talked about uh vision and [Music] goals. Uh and Susan, you want to give us a little background on this? Sure. So, we um decided that the board handbook needed a big update and we we took the time Susan and I to look through it and look at other um districts and other states and how the same size as us, same um economic scale, all of that and put together a cleaner canvas. We're still in the process of doing it and it will reflect actually the duties that the board members have compared to what the superintendent's duties are that so that the community can have a better understanding what our roles and responsibilities on board actually are for and what the roles and responsibilities of the superintendent are. This will be
104coming. We're still cleaning it up. So, we're hoping in another couple of meetings um and when we link it with the strategic plan and then we'll post it for the public to see. Anything to add? No, I think um we've talked about the importance of having full transparency with the community, with the staff and everyone else. and hopefully the new um and and also to help us who are just coming on the board uh understand what our role is in in this new new job that we're all doing. So hopefully we'll have a chance to look at it before we publish. Thank you. [Music] There's a lot going on. Yeah. Uh, so I would just say um and I I would love to have everyone look at it and and get feedback next next month.
105But um the strategic plan goals that we have here and this is why I thought it was really good following on from Lindsay is these these things here are not goals to me, right? But if we go up to the top of the next page, it says exactly what they are. their core values, right? And I think what we need to do in here is take our core values and think about what our actual goals are and then we need to position the core values as core values. And then we need to have strategic goals that feed into the plan. Yes. And they need to be measurable goals so that we all understand you know what what the goal stands for and if we are achieving it and I think that's a piece that still
106remains a little bit clear or unclear. Yes, agreed. And that was feedback from OLAG in our strategic plan. We have a lot of goals, but they're not necessarily smart goals. So, what's your metric? Exactly. It has to be measurable. Yes. As measured by Yeah. And we have probably have too many things. That's the other thing. If we could focus on three or four things, make it clear so every every teacher that I want to say bedside, but every teacher in the classroom understands it. knows what we're doing, can speak to it, talk to parents about it. So, it's a living, breathing document. Absolutely agree. Um, and I was I I think this is so far ahead of what what we had before. I mean, it's half the length that is that's true. uh it clearly
107outlines the the relative roles between the board and the operational leadership which I think is really important because that has got blurred over the past few years and we need to unblur that and get back to uh the the right roles. Uh the only other thing I add on this when you scroll down a couple other pages is uh so at this point avoid avoid discussions between as meetings where two or more members but I'm I'm not sure this is correct. If we go down to page I think it's 70 we actually have something that directly conflicts with it. [Music] um yeah this one up to three board members can get together to discuss the topic. I think that one is wrong. I think we have those wrong way around. I I think two two
108board members can get together and I think three can't. So I think we just need to make sure things like that. And I think as you go through it for the public, we tried to add some graphics because everybody learns differently instead of reading so much. We tried to put some charts in there. You can kind of get right to it. Huh. And like on page seven, you can see there's a chart of what the school board governs and what the superintendent manages. They're right there to the right. Yeah. And I think just if everyone can comment and we'll look at it next time, uh the idea would be to have retreat and work through this, but I think scheduling difficult is going to take three or four months probably to get everyone together. Um
109okay. Anything else on the board handbook for now? I think that's it for now. I just want to thank glory too for helping us. Yes. Together. So, thank you. Okay. Decisions. Uh Randy. Yes. So, the first item is as remember last month is a supplemental that has preschool city high school esports which is now a UHSA sanctioned competition as well as a fee for curricular interal activities at Eerville Middle School. And so this would be a second reading looking for a motion to approve those on second reading. And then as stated last month, um we're getting we'll get more information on the fee bills that hit the legislative session this time. I think we're within the parameters. However, for now, we'll bring those back to you. We have corrections. Okay. means must a motion to
110motion to approve security. Okay. Can I get a motion to make a motion to approve it? All in favor? Yes. I uh and then tell me what we need to 8.0. Yeah. So sale district property. board has decided to sell the home that the previous superintendent lived in as a board of education has decided to sell the home property which it owns uh it's located in Jeremy Ranch and has been listed to as the board has listed the home for open offers. Um we need to make a motion that the board of education accept a recently contracted offer on the home which is greater than the asking price. The details of the offer will be disclosed once the closing is complete. We have a motion to that just a straight in favor. Yes. Favor. Yes.
111Maybe a little cap. Well, I see you have before you um what we're looking at for the FY26 and I apologize I already found not the FY25, it's the FY26 uh capital budget u moving forward. Usually come bring that early to the board before the the budget's posted June 1st uh because there are long lead items and some things that need to get done once the kids are out of school that falls within the fiscal year. So, just uh just to go over the revenues real quick, where we're coming from, we have our capital levy that's through property tax with some anticipated growth. Uh the local levy is the same amount that's budgeted for this year. So, we're not we're not doing any tax increases in capital. Um and you can see some interest. We
112do transfer a million dollars from the from the operations fund into capital. That's been in practice for quite a while. And then with the new principal and interest for the 38 million in bonds we just sold, we've committed 750,000 out of fund balance each year for the first 10 years on that. So that's the 750s to represent. Where is that money going? There is a technology budget of 1.1 million and at least least revenue bond payment you can see is 4.6 million. Part of that will be paid out of operations uh as we're doing a little bit of a switch. Our bond interest payments a little more than that. Um but we're moving our repair budgets which is in operations to capital which is where where it belongs. So you can see the capital out
113request 5.8 million along with an allocation for some school furniture at 80,000 as needed. That's not dictated ahead of time. That's on an as needed basis. So the 5.8 million uh you can see on the second page of that document. Uh Todd Hansen is here this evening. Todd has been very an integral part of the capital outlay requests and worked with all the different schools and departments as to what the top needs are. So you can see the ones that are prioritized for the current funding which is the 5.8 million that also the very top item the district required repairs. That's the shift we're doing from operations to capital uh and shifting some expenses back to operations. So it's in that zero uh situation. the the items that have in the in the account or
114the in the column next to the dollar amount. You can see for example cap90, cap91, cap92, those items right there which total $3 million, we ask for the permission from the board to start spending some of those in the current year. And then what we ultimately do is if we whatever we spend out of that the next year that budget is the last, right? Because it hits our fund balance. But those are those long lead items that we have to start contracting with now. Uh all in all probably most of it's not done by July. It just gives us the opportunity to start before July and issue those POS needed to do those RFPs that are needed for that. The next group in order you can see the projects next in line. Those are the
115things that if there's additional funding available maybe this year our expenditures and capital are less than we anticipated or our revenues are more then we we have some extra funds. These will be the next projects that go, not necessarily in priority order. So, we're requesting the approval on the capital budget correct by 26 as stated uh so buildings and grounds and technology can start through these processes and start adding things any better. Any questions? I have a question about the um athletic project with the tariff situation. Can we go back on that bid that they've given us? I think it was 38 million to charge us more. Is that once it's signed, it's signed? They're locked in. Yeah. So, what So, nothing's been signed for the full 38 million at this point. The Hogan contract
116is supposed to be on the agenda tonight. We don't quite have it massaged out. We do have the architect contract, of course, and our owner's representative. Um, what'll happen is once that goes out to bid, the plans will be done here pretty quick. Once that goes out to bid, then we'll see where the bids come in. And if we exceed that 38 million, then we do what we call value engineering. We'll go back through and say, "Hey, maybe we can't have this or can't have that." If it gets to the point where there's nothing we can cut, we'll come back to the board and say, "What's the direction you want to go in?" So, so right right now, I mean, the 38 million's been committed because we've sold bonds and we're closing next week. Um
117but at the same time we have some latitude in that dollar amount with what's going on. So uh right now I mean the biggest one of the biggest costs is the turf that's going in on all the different fields and we've been working closely with the same company that really does they're on state contract. They do most of the work and and right right now on that piece of the terrace center affected us. So um it's kind of a day-to-day thing right as we get through it. So we'll adjust as needed. I have a question about um maybe Todd can answer this locker room and other things changes or new office spaces. Was that not covered in the amazing? No, this is in a different part of the building. There's they've got some uh counselors,
118different things. We had to split some offices up. I'm looking right where you come out of the main office across the hall. There's some aluminum frames and glass in there. We're going to split those up to make room for that. And then we need to divide one classroom because just sheetrock and a wall is the counselors all in the same area instead of separating them. They're all So that was taken into consideration when they No, that wasn't even when we were doing construction. Okay. that's in a completely separate part of the building and they're going to have an additional social worker and an additional counselor because they're getting more students kids. Um, so trying to create private office space so those individuals can be one-on-one students and then the audio also for the high school
119in Ed is that the older part of the building. Yes. And we will the construction projects are complete right based on whatever interest income we have. If there's money left over available there we can do some of these projects with that construction money. We'll of course do that and try to salvage to get to these lower budgets. guns have money. Yeah, really truly. Sorry to be vague, but it's it's looking I mean it's um I'm not losing sleep at night. Let's put it that way. But whether there'll be excess with some of the things we have going on, landing's got to be done and some of those things may may not. So part of that also is we've set aside because our interest rate has been higher than the interest rate on the bonds. We
120have to pay back that they're taxfree bonds. So we have to pay back what we call arbitrage. And so that arbitrage could cost us up to over $5 million. We've set that aside, right? So keep that in mind as well. That calculation doesn't happen until all the projects are complete. And so we really won't know till all the all the piec. And then the steamer is for what stool? It's for my home in the kitchen. It's on this last couple of years and just ready to be replaced. You probably bought that soon opportunities for equipment. Did they apply for that? Yeah, we we do see those. Okay. Yeah. Um, [Music] one brought up the athletics project. We make sure we proactively get time with the lucky join. I don't want to wait for them to
121come to us as well. Well, I'd like to plant trees and stuff, but I'd have to wait till the project's done. I I understand. I understand. I just want to make Yeah. Accommodate them best. You know, kind of. Yeah. I think there's a lot of a lot of questions that they have and you know, some of them I think we can answer. You know, why did we make decisions we made and all those kind of things I think talking through some of that with them will will help. Uh, and if they have to come to us to chase things, it's just going to increase the attack. It's just like that's actually and I'm happy to be a sacrificial land for them to yell at if if I need to. So, are you needing us to
122say go ahead for those capital? Yeah. So, just be a motion to approve the FY26 capital budget or just to approve the 3 million that you need up front to start working. Uh, you could do either one. Um yeah, you can really do either one. This will come to you in June, right, for devopsion uh as well. And so yeah, uh can I get a motion to replace 2026 to accept the 2026? Thanks. Thanks for sticking it out. Getting to work. I'll have something to do next year. All right, let's see. uh policies for discussion and that covers policy 7055 jury duty, policy 9080 graduation requirements, policy 100020 attendance and policy 1050 student dress code. Uh and a word for my be grateful that I did not push for school. Uh we need a motion
123to they're just for discussion, right? So do we have any discussion on those policies? No. Okay. Uh have a policy. We do have to have a motion to Okay. I can I get a motion to post uh those four places and motion to post those policies. And then we have four policies for adoption. Uh, policy 430 ty effort policy [Music] 7075 policy 1090 student policy 1 1 0 0 family education rights and let's see uh I think we have the motion first right and then we'll uh then we'll talk about them. Is that the right order? Sure. Uh can I get a motion to adopt said policies? I move that we adopt said policies. Great. Second. Okay. Do you have any discussion on those policies? I have not received any comments. Everyone just excited. Okay.
124All in favor? I All right. Was there anything else we supposed to come up today? Is that it? I think that's it. Great. Can I get a motion to adjourn until the next regular session on May 20th? Ending anything else to be discuss. Motion to second. All in favor? I. Great. Okay.