001good evening everybody we're going to go ahead and call the meeting to order we want to thank everybody for being here we have a lot of um awesome recognitions to get through um but before we do that I just want to welcome everybody number one um we are here for the purposes of a Salt Lake City School District Board of Education meeting today is March 18th 2025 we have board member bade who will be joining us remotely and board member or vice president Brian Jensen um is excused this evening um so this is your team tonight uh we have a couple of different teams that we're honoring this evening um but I also want to um first start with um our Pledge of Allegiance and then we can get ahead with the meeting so I'll
002go ahead and leisten the pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all excellent thank you I also want to take a moment to recognize our employee groups and their representatives this evening from buildings and grounds we have President Aaliyah a compo for Child Nutrition we have President Tanya Slaughter for SLA the Salt Lake Education Association we have President Mike Harmon and uh vice president chelia cost over with us this evening and for slasa the Salt Lake Association of school administrators we have President Adrien la a um I know is here this evening as well so thank you for joining us um our first recognition this evening is for our science fair
003winners um Candace Penrod are are you here I I thought I saw you earlier um there hi Candace would you mind coming up and and presenting our science fair winners to the board and to the community this evening get ready please okay thank you um good evening I'm pleased to be here tonight with the Salt Lake City School District Board of Education Sam is putting up for us the awardees so you can look at those as um as we do this recognition so good evening the Salt Lake City Science and Engineering fair was held February 4th through 7th at Riley Elementary School students from 17 schools participated this year in 12 categories ranging from biomed engineering to physics astronomy and math to computer science and applied computational models their projects are extraordinary and exemplify a
004worldclass stem education being realized in Salt Lake City School District if their projects and achievements are any indication of the intellect Ingenuity and critical thinking skills our students are developing we are in very good hands I am confident that our students will be the scientists computer programmers engineers and mathematicians of the future that will lead us in our community communities through Wicked problems and seemingly insurmountable challenges Associated living in our Advanced Society so without further Ado I invite the board to uh join me up here I'm going to call the award winners up so if you can come up here please and we are going to honor our students and their accomplishments and then um students as I call your name move up to the front and we'll move um we'll start with Dr Tiffany
005Hall and you'll shake her hand and you'll move kind of over here in front of Jason Olen and then when we're done uh with everyone coming up we'll take a picture with everyone okay and um I'm GNA flip this way now there we go I'm GNA go on the back side there we go okay and before I get started I just want to recognize that um and just explain a little bit we have school fairs and winners at our school fairs in grades Fifth and up Advan to our district fair and then if you play in our district fair you go to the University of Utah Regional science and engineering fair and then if you do really well there and you're in high school you go to the international science and engineering fair and this
006fair is very prestigious it's topnotch Salt Lake City school district has produced many winners that have uh participated in this fair and several of them have been grand Champions and have won hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarships to top stem institutions in the world so I just really want to recognize the capacity and the and the achievements of our students and our teachers let's clap for our teachers right now I don't think any of these uh students are with us tonight but we have two students that are going to participate in the international science and engineering fair and it truly has students from many countries uh krishnam goal and AI Umaga waren both from West High let's give them a round of applause and then Ian J Kem was invited to be an observer
007which is a big deal so you go a year ahead and you kind of see how the fair goes and then we have two alternates if any of the uh other participants can attend U Ming Chuan Chang and Bala Naga Saha ra all ta all from West High so thank you for that okay so this evening we have from bonnaville elementary school we'd like to recognize Sophia Rob Robison and Laya hathway could you come up to the front please thank you and again the project names and the um are up on the mares okay from Dilworth Elementary we'd like to recognize Dela Wagner and Nora Reinhardt [Music] [Applause] from Highland Park this evening we have Cara Brandt from Indian Hills Elementary Jack Park and Solomon Christian from Mountain View Elementary Isabelle Bradley [Applause] okay from
008Mountain View also Danielle Van Houston from Whittier Elementary Rowan cater [Applause] Wells and Abby Abby Marsh [Applause] in our Middle School Division from Hillside Middle School Alexander boner and gwendelyn Slattery okay this is a momentous occasion go Rams Highland High participated this year I'm going to give it up for rineer slaughtery honestly thank you for getting this thing going at Highland thank you I worked at Hillside for years and fed into the Highland community so I am thrilled that we have a leader at Highland High School that's going to be participating in science fair all right we have from Salt Lake Center uh for Science Education Lillian oscarson we have L uh Lucia [Applause] Herer Javin [Music] [Applause] Robbins and Betty otterstrom [Applause] y okay if there are any students who snuck in and didn't
009get on my list please come up to the front if you're here come on up come on up tell me your name edth Edith what's your last name and you're from what school element okay Edith Wilson from waset elementary Annie where are you from what park nibbly park Annie from nibbly Park thanks [Applause] Annie Elliot Gilbert from nibbi Park so we is there anyone else all right we have other students who couldn't be with us tonight we are so grateful and I just want you all to know science rocks and you're really amazing students your projects impressed so many people how many of you had a good experience at the Regional Fair last week how many of you went up to the University of Utah how did it feel to be there as a scientist
010or engineer let's hair for yourselves like give yourselves a hand it's amazing it's amazing okay everyone's gonna have to be buddies so just squeeze in come on squeeze in as much as you guys can that looks great and then big smiles okay I'm GNA this sorry that okay ready on the chry everyone ready 1 two three okay on the chem 3 say science ready 1 two three science good job thank you thank you [Music] it does all right take another minute to let the room [Music] settle all right let's give it up for those science fair winners one more time our next recognition this evening um something that we're really really excited about and really proud of in honor of national women's history month for this year um as you walked into our meeting today
011you may have noticed a series of student artwork on display these pieces were created by Highland High School students in Tisha Meers class each inspired by a prominent women female artist in recognition of national women's history month we are proud to Showcase 12 paintings that celebrate the impact of women in the Arts the artists who inspired our Highland High students include Georgia O'Keefe Janet fish Edie Robertson Harriet Lo and I'm GNA say this wrong toin oi ODU tala the this exhibit is a tribute to the creativity resilience and influence of women in the Arts reminding us all of the vital contributions women have made and continue to make throughout history before you leave we invite you to take a moment to admire these paintings in honor of national women's history month thank you and uh
012certainly and superintendent gra oh okay got it got it all right so their next recognitions are also very very exciting um as you know our West High women's basketball team and our Highland High boys basketball team made the state finals this year um I had the opportunity to attend uh some games at the Huntsman Center and I know board member Anderson was there as well uh which is really really exciting and um I guess I would turn over to Dr Grant to to go and introduce who our folks are this evening um I just wanted to say first off we've been celebrating teachers a lot from at in board meetings for their remarkable work and the number of awards our teachers win I love it that tonight we're recognizing students who are winning in science
013and engineering fairs students who have excelled in athletics in our basketball teams and students who are producing beautiful art in celebration of women's history month and so to see all of this at once with our students is just exciting and so we get to recognize um the basketball teams here just uh the enormous accomplishment to make it to a State final it's heartbreaking to have not taken home the state trophy but it is something having been in the place um of not having won that trophy either it is still something to be terribly proud about in what you've accomplished as an athlete in school and so we want to invite up coaches um so the coach of the West High girls basketball team if you could come up Junior salavi hey Junior if we could
014ask you to say some things here about your season and your team and and we'd love to have them come up and stand with you or face the audience as you're talking quick why you guys come up and stand with me yeah let's go let's go let's go [Applause] if you want you want to stand on the other side yeah right up here up front either way all you guys face the face the crowd you guys oh you want me to turn around too hello um I just want to take this time to to thank all of those and especially our families that have uh you know created an opportunity for our young ladies to to have this opportunity to be in that position we want to especially thank the board and uh our Administration
015and we want to congratulate uh Chris Jones and his his group make sure you guys give Applause you know Highland Rams for the accomplishments they have I know you got a good group coming back congratulations on that I mean I guess the accomplishments is uh you know I don't think anybody feels good to get there and not you know achieve that goal but I think we're definitely proud of the Season that we had um I'm really proud of these young ladies uh you know four years ago this team only had won one game in like five years and so to see them grow into something special was uh really special for me to watch um I also want to take this time to thank uh James yapes for his support throughout the season not just
016with uh girls basketball but especially with our um our football team and the you know helping us with the clinic and the extra you know the the sport he gave gave us throughout the season thank you so much and um but um really the compliment for us is we had a goal to have a a 4.0 as a team and I'm I'm glad to tell you we didn't accomplish that you know so we did as a team raise that GPA to a team 3.4 we're really excited about that and so uh thank you ladies for for all you done we have a a gift for you guys for the for the next time you guys come to West tied to support our our young ladies so please uh this is just a token of our
017appreciation for you guys thank you so much um and thank you for the time again thank you all go [Applause] Panthers oh over here if you guys come just on the top Riser then then it's closer I like it squeeze squeeze squeeze as much as possible okay on the count of three you're going to have to smile ready one two three [Music] smile okay thank you all right let's give it up for the West High ladies team one more time I know Bryce is going to love this even though I'm an East High leopard I'm still going to rock this hoodie so congratulations ladies um up next we have our Highlands men's basketball team we'd like to invite up Chris Jones our coach just to say a few words and invite our team up [Applause]
018yeah just yeah circle around you saw they did hi by you made it that's all right you're good what's up coach buddy I'm impressed we are going to have to stand up behind yeah they can't you guys can't can't see now well and they they left but congrats to the the West High girls team they had an incredible year um they only lost one game I think maybe two but they were had a heck of a year I think they were undefeated and then they lost the championship game to Bountiful in a heck of a game right before we played so that was fantastic with what they've done and so um yeah onto our our Squad um we had an incredible year uh we finished uh co- region champs for the first time in 15
019years that Highland's been part of a region [Applause] Championship we had the most wins in school history with h 23 wins we were ended up 23 and four three and um obviously played in the state championship game for the first time in 15 years as well and and uh we're planning on getting back there next year and and with a little different result I hope but uh yeah just just briefly these guys were awesome they're not they're not quite all here tonight most of them are all here a couple are playing spring Sports uh with the weather I think the the board should consider making spring start Sports start in April not the end of February my dad drives the school bus for Salt Lake City School District and every morning he gets up and
020has a route or has an activity plan and it gets canceled so it's uh it's crazy crazy weather but um yeah the guys were great this year we um I think we we had Five Guys average in our starting five average in double figures we didn't really have one guy that you know's got 25 and everybody else got seven or eight we had you know Five Guys scoring double figures we were incredibly balanced they uh and any one of them could have averaged 20 plus in on a different situation or on a different team but they all sacrificed and and gave of themselves um for the betterment of the team and the group um we had a we have a truckload of kids that probably could play and start at a lot of other schools
021um but they uh they stick it out here in Highland and we're a great we're a great part of our program as well so you know I we uh we have a couple great we have a lot of great things going to Highland but the first thing we have is that we have an amazing principal um Jeremy Chatterton he is fantastic gives us uh every opportunity we can and give us every reason to be successful we have uh great people in the community that support us and do a lot for our our our team we have uh great players and then uh probably more important than anything when you're the coach you have great parents and um our parents are fantastic they let the kids play they let me coach they might not always like
022it but they uh they they let us do our thing and and uh love I love their boys and I love coaching them so um thanks to the board for recognizing this and thanks for everything you guys do to put us in a position to be successful and give us the resources we needed to uh to do our thing so thanks to the boy boys and thanks to the board thank [Applause] you can I get you guys to go that way one whole person boys you're going to have to squeeze and be best friends or we have another row come on little guys we get two more players two more players up to the front row one more player up to the C perect feel that perfect okay and then squeeze okay now I need
023everyone to move this way a step okay perfect that looks great that looks great okay on the come three ready one Alan can you move that perfect okay only the count three ready one two three one two three okay thank [Applause] you thank thank you guys told who's the kid all right thank you coach and please thank your dad for us too coach Jes uh Candace it sounds like we have one more person in science fairw that we needed to recognize yes we do we have one more person that got here just right after we got done so Luigi Korea from Hillside Middle School come up y right here you get the whole board to yourself okay C on the count of three ready one two three smile okay perf thank you excellent well thank
024you for um recognizing our students alongside us um as the board um we have awesome students we have awesome teachers and administrators and coaches as you saw tonight so thank you um for all the support that you give our students Community uh their accomplishments are so great uh moving on in our agenda we have the consented agenda and I'll entertain a motion I move that we accept the consent agenda as posted is there a second to the motion I'll second all right we got a motion to Second any discussion I do have one question Ashley um the Aspire test day where we're making an asynchronous day I understand we need to do that and move it forward but I'm wondering um if we're expected to have that annually the next time would this just go
025on our regular calendaring and is there a reason we're scheduling it as a one-off event and do parents know about it I guess so to I don't know about the parent question um if Dr Taylor could maybe address that but yes this was just missed in bringing this to the board on the original agenda but we will make sure that comes on to be approved with the rest of the calendar yeah the schools have included information in their calendars that were sent out to the parents so parents should have been notified through the via the schools we were doing this to rectify the situation so that the annual calendar will be aligned and approved by the board got it so I just wanted to clarify that parents don't need to know new information about the
026calendar we are just bringing the calendar into compliance on our end yes perfect team thank you so much thank you board member Anderson any other questions all right we'll go ahead and call it uh for a roll call vote starting with board member Williams Bryce Williams yes Charlotte F Jefferson yes Ashley Anderson yes Nate Sal are yes Amanda long yes and Mohammad are are you able to vote on that one with a thumbs up or a or on gu perfect thank you Mohamed excellent uh moving along um we didn't have anybody sign up for a request to speak so we'll go ahead and and move to our reports agenda before we get into the the agenda relative to reports our discussion agenda as well uh we do have a special public comment period we have
027two items for a Time certain at 7:15 p.m. uh the first item would be our public input on draft 2025 2026 student fee schedules and the second would be our public input on nibbly part grade level reconfiguration uh so our first reports agenda item is the 2025 2026 preliminary property tax rates ba kirley okay I'm just do I need to do something Sam oh this is that helpful yes okay so um as tonight's report it's our next step in the budget uh we're going to discuss preliminary property tax rates uh we call them preliminary because um it's our we we have to do some estimates on what assess value is going to be the actual final property tax rates will be uh calculated by the dtic Tax Commission and that happens the middle of June
028um so here um the property tax revenue is largely based on a rate times an assessed value um we're estimating assessed valuation to increase next year by 4.8% from the for the 2025 tax year uh and again as I said the actual valuation will be reported by the State Tax Commission in June uh just a little information on what is a certified tax rate so uh certified tax rate is all the values times a certified tax rate generates the same amount of Revenue that we received the prior year um if so if the assessed values are up then the certified tax rate would decline um to yield the same amount of proceeds from the prior year uh the previous year's revenue is there is no inflationary increase in the certified tax rate calculation uh new
029construction increases current year Revenue sometimes you hear that as New Growth um um and then the basic Levy is set to yield what the legislature determined and therefore is considered a certified tax rate we have the basic Levy which is the uh a major funding source of the weight of people unit and that is set by the legislature and then General obligation Bond payment Levy um so that's uh whatever Levy is needed to meet our annual obligation on whatever um General obligation bonds that we have uh this just shows some history of what the tax rates have been um our calculated tax rate for 2025 04139 there you can see is a increase from the prior year rate of Point 0364 uh due to a couple um Parts largely again that Basic School levy set
030by the legislature and then uh as the bond passed we'll start um making payments on that Bond and so there'll be that U respective increase to the general G Bond Levy to generate those revenues for our debt payments uh this just kind of shows so homeowners get a 45% discount on their assisted value and then the rate gets to applied to that to uh determine how much they um uh paying taxes uh this schedule shows you know the effect of the tax rate on a $100,000 home again we understand there's probably not an existence in the state of Utah a $100,000 home but this makes the math easy so if if your house is $500,000 you just times it by five if it's a million you times it by 10 um so what we're showing
031there at the end of the day um property tax would be $227 65 a year for every $100,000 worth of assessed value businesses don't get that 45% discount so they're taxed at 100% of their assessed value this chart shows uh the effect on a million dollar assessed value business um and that's you know just over $4,000 a year in property tax beginning with 2025 so the the state legislature passed uh did some changes to the tax rate for 2025 uh so beginning um in the 2025 tax year the basic school levy will be deposited into the state general fund state revenue consisting of mix of uh Basic School levy property tax and income tax revenue will then be allocated to leas to fund the weighted people unit so as it has been in the past
032we get our we would get the basic rate Revenue straight from the county uh allocated to the district and then the state would kick in um money from income tax to fully fund the weighted people unit um the way that's going to happen going in the future is all the money will go to the state and then they'll allocate all the money back to us in state revenue uh to fund the weighted people unit um we'll we'll get to this more in another budget discussion but we have a fund called ta taxes pass through fund um it's Ashley's favorite fund since this will be uh it's a levy that the school board it's it's levies shall we say tax at the school board levies but we don't collect so we'll show it in the past
033through fund coming in and then going out so Net Zero but that's how we'll be reporting it to reflect the proper County method and then over in the general fund we'll get that state revenue coming in uh this kind of illustrates that so this is property tax re Revenue by fund you see up up till now that little green line has been our our pass through and then for 2025 that green line grows quite a bit because of that basic rate that's now going to be a pass through um tax levy so for 2025 uh we are not recommending any change to the certified tax rate so that's no tax increase and again the final tax rate will be calculated by the Utah State Tax Commission in June uh just just some next budget steps
034uh April 15th we'll review the capital projects and Debt Service fund budgets uh we'll have small group of meetings so um for new board members if to to help you know get down into maybe details of a budget um I invite you to come in and visit with me we'll go through and and ask some questions and those are called the small group meetings uh May 6 executive summary May 20th our final budget review and on June 3rd it's anticipated that the board will approve both the revised budget for this year and the original budget for next year along with the tax rate and with that are there any questions and before we I take any questions I have asked uh board member Williams to help keep time um being that vice president Jenson isn't
035here tonight so any questions Ashley can you just recap for us which buckets we've gone through and go back to that calendar of the timeline so what have we gone through what do we have left to go through and are there any buckets that are not on this calendar that we didn't review so the um the general fund is a last it's our biggest fund it's also the last fund we'll discuss in in board meeting before approval just because it that's the one that it takes us the longest to to actually estimate for next year and that will be included in the um the final budget review discussion on the 20th um there's also internal service funds which um they're not required to necessarily have you know a budget because they're they they charge other
036funds user fees but we'll quickly review those um in probably our May 20th meeting and which have we already covered I'm just trying to keep track of so we H um we've done we haven't done any of our funds yet so our capital and debt fund on our next board meeting will be our first funds um and then we'll include the rest the funds in that May 20th meeting okay thank you any other questions for Allan thank you board thank you Allan uh we'll move on to our next report agenda item which is the Strategic plan for student achievement pillar three report and update Dr Grant do you want to introduce this for us yes I think we're hearing from both James yakas and yandre Chatwin who are our leads on this as we go
037through the presentation's going to plug in so my laptop doesn't D my presentation all you good I got to plug in here I suppose that would help okay all right good evening board members and superintendent and Allan um thank you for the opportunity to come chat with you we are excited to tell you a little bit about what we've been working on under pillar three so there are three goals under under this pillar the first one is family Partnerships and engagement and education um the summary for this goal Salt Lake City School District will ensure all families are valued respected and are treated as equal Partners in designing the educational experiences of their children um under the plan um there were no specific goals for this year but there are for 25 26 however our
038schools still have been engaging in activities that will help help us move forward and move us closer to that goal um under objective one which states that parents will re will experience meaningful school interactions and increased involvement as a result of improved family and school Partnerships um we saw our schools this year um take activities and programs to help families transition after closures and Boundary changes um I know you've previously heard from Mr Brian connley about this so I won't go into great detail um but we have seen also schools really reaching out to plan activities that support student learning and really involve the families um in in being part of their child's education um we also have great efforts to connect families with Community Resources and it's something that will continue for the following
039school year um the two goals are to implement the family school partnership model unique to our district and to create Family School partnership teams in our schools um a few examples of schools that are reaching out and doing a great job um engaging their families um glendell middle school for example has been um hosting celebrations this year to recognize students both for academic success and positive behavior something that's that's really important to highlight um Rose Park has held two love to read events um on a Saturday where they they have brunch and books and um support connections between school and home and support the board's goal of um improving literacy among our students um ni Le park has also provided family literacy evenings um including teaching parents how to use technology how to keep their
040students engaged um promoting school and and college career Readiness um bonaval Elementary has had a family engagement nights um and they they do a lot of monthly activities like recently they held skate night um downtown uh they had a talent show earlier this year called Bonville Got Talent which um was a great time ENT Elementary um has hosted PTA activities throughout the year to help engage their families um and Mountain View continues their strong tradition between uh the school and the Community Learning Center right there they're really great at working with local Partners in support of families um our goal number two Community Partnerships I will turn over to Mr James yapias director of our Salt Lake Education Foundation thank you uh board members and we appreciate you for giving us the opportunity to share
041some information with you I also want to add to uh what yandere was talking about uh with regards to community transition communities transition after closure boundaries uh under direction of Dr Grant uh we work with the foundation to give $120,000 for to assist those schools with funding and support to make sure that the families are really well taken care of and most importantly our students so I want to say thank you Dr Grant for encouraging and working with the foundation to be able to do that um but with regards to the Partnerships Community Partnerships I want to say I have a group of people here that wanted to be a part of this U presentation we have our CLC coordinators and some of the assistants and we also have some principles here who who are
042amazing um but what I want to go back to is our goal Salt Lake City School District will build and nurture relationships with Community Partners to elevate our students and family academic achievement Salt Lake City School District values community members leaders and business partners um as far as our objective the students and families will be provided with critical resources needed for students to focus on learning uh and that's what we do uh when we look at the completed tasks here or goals or objectives one of the things that we we really focus on is building Partnerships uh making sure that our principals nurses counselors Community Learning Centers all of our school administrators are uh learning about the opportunities and how we work with business industry and we've done that um we're continuing to collect data
043throughout the year to see how we're connecting business industry in our partners with with our clc's along with um making sure counselors and and social workers understand that but um one of the other areas that we've done this last year is um implemented professional development uh for administrators in person and Via Zoom uh so that way they understand what resources we have uh within our district um and that's really important because we want to make sure that our principles are well supported and the end result is our students are supported in the schools um some of the key practi IES that we've implemented and this is thank you to our clc's our clc's have been focusing on building authentic relationships with school and Community uh value community members as knowledge holders employing community members in
044our schools and clc's seek commitment with Partnerships asset-based approach programs build on the strength and interest of our students and families focus on capacity building so a little bit about capacity building when we go into the UTA partnership that we have in 2023 24 we had 50 as far as the wrers ship writers ship uh counts and the trip counts I'm going to go into the trip counts 56,000 uh in February and in this year 2024 25 we had 61,000 as far as distinct users we went from 4,300 to 4100 00 okay and then we go this I get excited about this one the next Slide the average monthly trips by hour when you look at our students when are they accessing UTA you go from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. is the peak and
045then from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. is another Peak um and more most importantly and throughout the day all the way till 11:00 at night you know when our kids are working have a second job they're in their apprenticeship program they are coming home and you know they they're going to the library maybe appointments and they're using the UTA as far as the on demand the bottom one same thing all of our kids on the West Side three uh west of 300 West all the way to North in south of I think 2100 South benefit from this opportunity um the next slide I think it just gives us the monthly trips which is 6 1,700 and then the distinct users is 4,300 that is building capacity and I'll just add before James moves on off
046of this that the these numbers are just partway through the school year so we will see these increase um by the end of the year thank you appreciate you so Salt Lake City so before I move on to the next part though none of this work could be done without the support of the board I mean really you've given us uh a direction uh it this this is what we're we've been able to accomplish over over the years Salt Lake City School District's Community Learning Centers operate under the expanded Community Schools model it is a national model we've had people from Mod State come visit our clc's they want to learn more about it but it is expanded Community School model the primary focus of our CLC is to provide holistic educational experience to students
047in our district through CLC programs and partnership students and iies can access Extended Learning opportunities family engagement programs and access to wraparound support such as Health Care Mental Health support food access and other essential resources the students may need to be in school focused on learning um another example to to help you with this is for example the return on investment uh we always talk about what have we done the last 15 years and as we move forward 99 partner organization businesses and donors invest in Salt Lake City School District CLC programs throughing kind donations monetary donations volunteer services and other Support Services 776 volunteers contributed hundreds of service hours 32,1 se0 individuals receive food through food through the clc's on-site mobile uh Pantry this only this is only the CLC but you got to
048take a look at our 25 pantries some of of them are brick and mortar some are uh mobile pantries we have 25 of those in our school Dental Services 470 students receive Dental screenings 143 receive follow-up dental care I was just informed by a doctor yesterday that a student never received Dental Care all 12 years this is a high school student until she went visited uh West High School I was excited about that um as as far as the medical services for Liberty and Rose Park clinics combined 686 Encounters 73% of patients ages 45 and over top five reasons for visiting IM is immunizations diabetes General exam hypertension uh routine child wellness exam total charity 166,000 total discount on bills 432,000 bat debt uh written off 135,000 V Vision Services you look at that this
0498,058 Vision screenings were completed 236 individuals received new glasses screening and exam value total of 210,000 um when you look at the next two slides I want to thank Christina Kendall and I uh I want to say that a lot of these Agreements are are overseen by Alan kirley and Christina uh we we you know we're constantly looking for partners and we want to make sure that we have a clear understanding of memorandum of understanding but we wouldn't be able to do this without uh the feedback and making sure that our students are receiving the proper care but most importantly bringing in the partners into our community into our schools another example that I want to share is this and I think um Junior solo a little bit ago talked about uh his athletes and
050all of the high school athletes so let me just share some statistics total visits clinic visits at West High School 185 Primary Care visits 1126 total sports physicals were completed at no cost to our kids 337 uh 86 patients 86% of the patients who qualifies uh receive mental health support 37% of all visits were behavioral mental health visits 100 Behavioral Health referrals made by West High School pediatrician 679 Behavioral Health visits completed the last bullet on that section on an average to it took students needed Behavioral Health Services through West High the West High Clinic 16 days to access Mental Health Services date to referral being made from the date the referral was made total 17 days for therapy and 10 days for psychiatry for um in comparison for Community weight times uh for private
051insurance patients needing therapy 2 to 3 months in child psychiatry 6 months up to two years um so the last part with patient demographic 57% female 70% uh Clinic um utilizers live in low poverty child opportunity index 40% of all clinic visits were uninsured 16% of all visits were covered by Utah Medicaid and then the next slide just shows the the demographics by race and as far as our volunteer I'm going to go just through it real quick the volunteer program 523 volunteers were fingerprinted including 75 coaches we depend on our coaches and we're constantly making sure that we we're available for that and um and those are conducted at Liberty uh thanks to alen kirley we we get the support to do that last I just want to say a lot of the work
052with uh F like um yandre mentioned family Partnerships and engagement in education goal one and goal two Community Partnerships um wouldn't happen if we we didn't have the support from you but I want to just summarize by saying um we in Sal Lake City schol District we want to build and nurture relationships with community Partners to elevate the students and family achievement but most importantly Foster partnership Partnerships with local businesses and Community organizations to support educational initiatives mentorships internships donations and resources and time develop programs with local organizations to provide tutoring after school activities and career exploration opportunities organize events that include students families and community members to celebrate academic achievement science fairs uh what is it art nights and readathons so I'm going turn time over to Y pardon caffeine Break um so goal
053number three is the last one under this pillar public perception and connections um the summary for this one states that the Salt Lake City School District will maintain positive relationships with students families community members elected officials and Community leaders Elevate The public's perception of our school district as a valuable partner and as a team of influential educational experts um and building trust in the transparency and integrity of our systems so under objective one it states that students families and community members will feel more connected and informed about District programs achievements and operations um and the three goals for the for this last year two of them are completed and one is in progress um we've used the results from the survey of likely voters um conducted last year by Y2 analytics to um set messaging
054goals uh for this year and Beyond one of the uh findings the that came from that survey was um an understanding that we have focused a lot on reaching out and messaging to our families but less so to the broader community so knowing that those surveys showed that we we have worked to expand our reach um to broader community members um not just to our families in our school district um we've uh developed a strategic approach to highlight employee and student achievements um and I hope that you feel like you've seen that through the our social media and through the the number of recognitions that um have been brought to board meetings this year um in progress is establishing a quarterly Communications Council um to increase communication between our district and stakeholders um and let
055me tell you a little more about that um what I'm envisioning is a group of community leaders um starting out small like five to seven groups to start with um including um some folks with Salt Lake City from the mayor's office and then other nonprofits whose uh target audience similar is similar to ours the goal for this is twofold one to expand our reach U through these Partners this worked really well during Co but we've moved away from that um because it hasn't been as critical but we really want to leverage those Partnerships again in this way um for example if during Co we saw that um our reach in especially in our Westside Community communities and to families who speak other languages um they were harder to reach but maybe they were receiving um
056support from neighborhood house um and so keeping the leaders at that organization in the loop was was helpful in us getting critical information to our community members um so that's that's the idea so it's to help expand our reach and also to build these Partnerships we can be good partners too so it's it's not just us taking but we hope it'll be a a mutually beneficial relationship um and I will keep you keep you apprised of that um so related to our strategic sorry related to this uh goal and under y for Y2 analytics to develop that plan I wanted to tell you a little bit more about that um uh in my department we this is the mission that that we follow this is what we believe our role is to gather and provide
057useful helpful and accurate information to our stakeholders um to share the good things happening in our district and our schools um to celebrate our students and our staff and to engage all the other stakeholders our parents our elected officials our employees decision makers everyone who who has a stake in this District um in support of our schools um this plan was created to support the Strategic plan for student achievement and it was created to guide our work through the 28 29 school year it's a working document like the Strategic plan and so it'll be updated as we as we have more data um and as we as we see things changing in our priorities um part of that also included creating a master annual calendar um it's been really helpful uh what we did is
058spent last year tracking okay when what what month of the year is it when uh National Merit finalists are announced and oh right the PST is always in this at this time of year that's helped us to make sure that we don't miss an opportunity to recognize our Educators and our students um we stay pretty busy just even tracking the recognitions um and as we've gone through the year we've found a few gaps and now we've add them and we'll know we'll be on top of that for next year um we have a a little hashtag that we've been using excellence in action when we highlight our staff achievement so keep an eye out for that and then you can see the the graphic there is a screenshot of our social media post from earlier
059this month and you'll you'll notice the little little red at the top with the little tab says exol and in action so you you'll be seeing that more and more as we continue to highlight our staff achievements um this is also helpful to establish Traditions um and some of these Traditions are are highlighting these achievements so we always I well it feels like always maybe not 100% but it feels like we very frequently have um finalists uh among our staff and even our students for some of the most prestigious Awards in the state and even in the country um and this tradition of Excellence we want to make sure our community is aware of it that we celebrate not just in our schools and maybe at an assembly but that the broader Community is aware
060um and recognizes these These are educational experts these are influential people um it was really neat for example when national board certified teachers were highlighted at the capital there was a photo taken of the leadership of the the state affiliate um of that group and all four of those teachers are Salt Lake City Educators um and I mean what more do I need to say about that yes exactly um staff and student recognition so last year um we tracked and we we highlighted students 26 times on social media and staff members 31 times on our social media this year as of a week ago we had had 21 student recognitions and 29 on social media and again this um this will increase because we're only partway through the year uh I had predicted last week
061that we would have surpassed these numbers by the time of today I didn't I didn't check but if we aren't there today we'll be there soon um and one thing I do want to want to share is that this year um we have added a team member um a marketing supervisor to our or marketing specialist I apologize to our team that has increased our bandwidth significantly um just I mean in the Raw number of of people and Manpower hours but um because the individual we hired is talented and brings a lot to our team and I I want to thank the board for approving that because it has expanded our capacity to to do this work um one example uh last year these 26 recognitions for students and 31 for staff a lot of them
062were reshares it's hard to get to every school and be everywhere all the time we do we do our best um but it but it is difficult and so a lot of these highlights were were reshares of a post from a school rather than us being there taking our own photos creating our own content building those relationships and we've been able to do that um I think almost every one of these am I correct me if if I'm wrong but 100% just about just about 100% of these are um are our own posts so that that has made a big difference um and I I I appreciate the work that my team has done to help broaden that reach um I mentioned earlier our mission and I want to break down into three the three
063parts so we maintain positive relationships we Elevate the perception of our district um and we build trust so a few of the ways that we've worked to build trust with our students um again benefiting from this increase in FTE um we've been able to leverage Emma to build relationships with our student body officer groups our goal is to expand that but that was a good place to start she's been working on uh the dignity campaign with our student body officers and they are working on producing some of their own content um and then Emma's working to highlight the events that those student leaders are are creating um another example is the ramfam series of speakers that's led by student leaders um at Highland High School they saw an opportunity or I guess an opportunity Gap
064there are students who naturally are drawn to things like um student government of course but there were other students who had a lot of potential for leadership opportunities and the school created this program to help give those students that leadership opportunity and they've been able to bring in really notable speakers a former Congressman Ben McAdams um uh other folks to to speak to the the Highland student body um and we've been able to to highlight the work that they're doing um positive relationships with families um one thing that you may have noticed I hope is that our website looks a little bit different this year um and thank you to the superintendent for her support of of us moving forward with that of course um you will see a cleaner homepage you will see icons
065that are here I'll give you a little snapshot here so um you'll see these icons for paying for meals bus routes parents Square we are trying to make sure that families have as much information as easily available as possible um and so with Sam and his team their help we identified the clicks the pages that we're getting the most clicks right and these Pages parents want to know where their kids bus route is or they want to know how to pay for meals they want to know um how the safe UT te app works the these are the things that we prioritized as icons on the homepage um and that the icons are I mean they're cute they're visually helpful but also helpful for families who maybe don't speak u a particular language to to
066see okay bus that must be where I can find bus info um I do want to point out and remind our community again that on the bottom left corner of our website there's um the default is English and if if folks click on that they'll be able to select um the language of their choice most of the top languages that our families speak are available on that on that translation function um and then another change small but makes a difference you'll see in those two headers there are now two in different colors just to help people find information more easily um parent Square we've rolled out that hold on I'll talk about the website more in a second um we've rolled out this new platform parents square and um my team did a great job
067and not just rolling it out but really giving parents the context for this this platform is here because we want to make things easier for you we want to centralize communication we want every school to be using this so that you only have to learn one platform no matter what grade your student is in or what school in the district they attend um if a parent has five kids in the district and they're all at different schools uh it's still one platform for them to receive information um we've provided professional development for administrators teachers school office professionals and we will continue to do that this summer um to to help grow the the usage of this platform um and with the recent reorg uh that the board approved uh the translation coordinator has been added
068to our department and even in the short time that he's been part of our team we've already identified and we're working to close um some of the disparities and integrate Services better for our families and for our students students um I also uh have been working with Bob and the rest of our team this year to and apologies for the folks Bob is our translation coordinator so um we've been working on a year-long project of conducting kind of an an informal um assessment of our efforts to communicate with families um at the school level so we've having um Mr Munch and our team has been beneficial um in helping us to make sure okay we know from the data that these are the languages spoken at these schools are those the languages we're actually providing
069services in or are there languages that aren't being used or where where can we make sure that we're aligning our Resources with what data is showing us that our families are needing so it's been really helpful already um okay more on the website redesign so if you scroll below those icons you'll see a did you know section this is our this is where we're highlighting our our staff and student achievements so if you want to you know you're tired of the Doom scrolling how onto the website go to that dig you know section and see what's been uh going on lately with students and staff um our calendar is now a lot easier to see there on the right um and then below that did you U dig you know section we have a y
070slcsd we really wanted again to provide information not just to our our families but really to the community at large so someone who maybe is new to the area or um they've got a 2-year-old and they're looking ahead for opportunities for their their child to be educated they can go here and and click on any one of these and find out great things about our district we have a rich history we have world-class teachers um we provide a Launchpad to success we're leading in student growth um feel free to again when you get tired of the Doom scrolling to take a look here and and read about how um how incredible the opportunities are for students um there's a lot that's going on and we're excited for more opportunities to highlight that um one way
071is through a coming website redesign um later in the summer um Sam is leading a team through the RFP process right now to look for a website vendor it's you know that time where contracts Aspire and you make sure you're keeping the right person involved in that so um our hope is to roll that out uh beginning of the next school year okay parents s roll out we chatted about that but just again parents Square use it everyone um positive relationships with community members um we we really worked on this through the bond um we launched a website to keep the in community informed and we recently rch launched a second page to keep our community apprised of project updates so and we'll continue to keep that up to date um as you know because
072you're part of these efforts too we work with our elected officials through um the session interim and legislative breakfast um and we had a really great event highlighting our first female Schoolboard member earlier this year um with Community leaders the communications Council piece is in progress but I I'm hopeful that that will add it another dimension to our our community outreach um elevating our perception The public's perception of our district um another website related thing but it's taken a lot of time and I I appreciate the the effort my team's put into this but um we've been working to rep review Department websites to make sure that information that needs to be easily available is easily available um um and supporting District programs in their marketing efforts as well um mentioned these already we'll keep
073going um one way we're working on building that trust and transparency is through our school emergency alerts when um something happens in one of our schools we work to get a notification out as quickly as possible even if we don't have all the information letting parents know hey our school is on hold right now uh we'll we'll follow up in an hour with with more information um the more we can communicate the more the trust grows with our parents um and then again Bond Communications um we've also added again through this um through the through the new website we've added the opportunity for folks who are not parents in the district to sign up to receive District newsletters something that we weren't doing before so um again just working to really build that capacity to
074reach out to the broader Salt Lake Community um and I have come to the end of my presentation but I I want to thank you again for the resources that you've been willing to um put into our department to help us to broaden our reach to families um we hope to continue to show you good results thanks thank you James thank you Andre any questions Ashley yeah this question is not actually NE it's a springboard from the family school Partnerships highlighted but it's probably best directed to the superintendent um we've had some elementary schools where administrators have discouraged events with families and when those concerns have been raised impacted teachers have been given a variety of reasons why they're not allowed to operate programs for families after school and one example that it was a
075very false claim that the district had disallowed these events due to concerns about ice so I just I'm hoping we can explain for a minute why administrators don't seem to be on a uniform page about Family School Partnerships when we're highlighting the really positive aspects of Family School Partnerships right now I think we'll have to look into that one that's the first I've heard of it so it' be helpful to have that information I to follow up I have one more thing um I as James went through the Community Partnership list I wanted to thank one group that wasn't in that list which is parents um because we talked a lot about parents earlier in the presentation but not all communities in need are lucky to have a CLC although many wish that they had
076one because the work that everyone does in clc's is so important um and in those communities that do not have a CLC specifically at sxie Bryant it's often parents stepping up to run those food pantries and make sure the students are taken care of including a large number of families from Precinct 3 so given the nature of the pillar I wanted to say I appreciate all those celebrations but also want to acknowledge the parents filling in those gaps in areas where we don't yet have a CLC yeah I agree I agree 100% with you I think uh our parents are incredible uh I work very close with sxie Bryant and I want you to know how much we appreciate their efforts and and most importantly the parents uh a lot of the work that we
077do a lot not just at the clc's but when we look at the high schools they have a school of family uh resource Specialists that work with us uh you know and and we visit with them and meet with them quite often uh as far as elementary schools we're always encouraging uh we just had uh two weeks ago a meeting with principals and counselors and social workers to make sure that we engage parents in as far as participation because a lot of them are volunteering they come to the schools and they deserve to be recognized thank you for bringing that any other questions m i don't have questions more comments and gratitude I guess one I wanted to emphasize my gratitude for just the amount of detail you both went into and dissecting these pillars
078um brings a lot of detail that most of us don't probably ever see um so we can more fully appreciate the amount of work that you and your teams are putting into this um James I have not had an ample opportunity or appropriate opportunity to express my gratitude for all that s has done so to you and all of this left team who really go out of your way to invite ways to provide for the community for the families for the students just a huge huge thank you because you're continually asking what can we do what can we do and it's really our lack of imagination it seems because you're always willing to step in so I just want to sincerely thank you and your team for that because it's Priceless um you did mention
079in one of your slides I guess this is a question that you completed providing a you provideed PD for the admin highlighting services available was that for all of the administration or so you know this is a conversation I've had with Dr Grant uh we want to be able to provide ongoing training uh bonly uh throughout the year for school administrators so what we did is uh we invited him for for basically coffee and donuts and they came in and brought in uh either a a social worker or counselor and we did a training on how to access the resources but we're going to do it ongoing I I think the biggest feedback I received from from the board and is uh communication making sure that we're that all of our resources are accessible that
080all of our documents are in the distri District uh document uh Center and then constantly informing because we have new counselors new social workers principles and I think they need to they need to know what we have available for them and you've also given us some feedback on that because uh that's how I got to meet Heather Brown I believe and others parents who who want to know what the district can do and the foundation is just based on I think we need to do ongoing support in the mornings in the evenings so they understand how to access that yeah precisely cuz yeah you don't know what you don't know and facilitating that conversation so people can really um utilize all that you've got to offer is um fabulous um and then just I guess
081a request well a comment website looks a lot better I see it thank you for all that hard work um and a request with social media posts or things in general for the visually impaired community if you can do an ALT text type ined in the images or and or an image description if you don't already um so that if they a visually impaired individual is trying to access this stuff then that describes what's happening in that image it's something that they would be grateful for thanks I believe we do do that I'll go back and edit if there are missing okay yeah thank you so much for flagging that um I should have flagged also when we were going through the RFP process for for the platform that turned out to be parent Square
082um I asked District parents if they would support us in testing it out we wanted to make sure that parents would um would actually use you know we wanted their input beforehand um and uh board member Longwell as a parent at that point was one of the parents who was um willing to lend us time and and feedback to um select this platform so sorry for missing that shout out before but thank you thanks Amanda later oh J yeah just I didn't want to forget you know just like uh yandere's mentioned there are several people here we can't do this alone this kind of work alone so I I my biggest ask to the board is that when you hear something let me know immediately I I want to be responsive I we owe it
083to our kids to our families and then most importantly I can't do this without my team you know that they're all back here um you know Janette and everyone left team clc's um the different directors the department directors I'm going tell you uh they ask for something it's if it's about kids it's our business and so I just want to say thank you to each and every one of you appreciate you for giving us the time to share this thank you oh I'd like to ask one just the ond demand service James that you've created with UTA and those remarkable numbers of usage of the UTA passes that we do in partnership with the city and UTA On Demand is for a certain sector of the city right for um so it's for the west
084side that is maybe not served as well with regular bus routes or times exactly but people can call from an East Side location and be dropped off or be picked up there is that right the the way it works is uh anybody can access on demand if they're west of 300 uh West and all the way to 17th North and 2100 South and and so if um it's kind of tricky because they it's not like uber but they they they have a stop nearby within a block to two blocks and so they can just make a a phone it's actually on the app and they request where to be picked up at what time and then it gives them 15 minutes 10 minutes 20 minutes uh whatever that may be and then it takes them
085to the location on the west side so if somebody so let's say they're at West High School and they've taken the bus from the East side to West High School but they want to go to Northwest and they want to take on the man they can do that they can meet him close to the closest stop at West they'll take him to the close uh the drop off to to Northwest is about a half a block away from middle school um one thing that I so that's on demand so you have to start and end in West area okay but but I want to say thank you to the city because uh recently under a lot of the feedback we received from Rose Park in that Community UTA only used to go to North Temple
086and then our kids the would have to walk all the way to Northwest Middle School from 6 North there wasn't a bus that would take him all the way to the school uh we negotiated this year um to be able to to be able to have a route that goes all the past Northwest Middle School all the way to North Salt Lake and now the kids are going to be able to have access and also UD do is in the process of putting a sidewalk if you go from six North to uh Northwest that is dangerous I mean but they are working on that but that that was a lot of pressure from students families parents really were very vocal about that and so in starting April they're going to start the process to providing
087those services for our kids so thank you and I know some of you are quiet about this but I know you had something to do with it as well so thank you thank you any other comments or questions James yandre thank you I I've also seen a lot of these improvements so thank you for all your work and yandre I don't know if you have to go too far our next agenda item is a legislative session recap you know what I'm going to stand for this one I'm going to mix it [Music] up all right and I gave him heads up befor but I for financial questions May tap in our business administrator Alan kirley um I don't have a PowerPoint for this but I did want to highlight a few bills um we track
088a lot of bills this session I will not be going over every single one of them um but I did want to point out a few that will impact our our district and point out a few um budget highlights as well so this year the budget was just under $30 billion for the whole state um it's down from previous years there was no Co funding this year um tight there were tighter Revenue projections so they were calling it a socks and underwear year so U less money to go around um possibly for that reason we are seeing a wpu increase of 4% which is the the minimum that they statutorily have to um have to implement to keep up with inflation and and and enrollment growth um I'm going to tell you a few other
089things that the legislature spent money on this for this coming year um they allocated $471 million in onetime projects from the public education the economic stabilization restricted account um 47.4 million ongoing was allocated to boost teacher salaries by $1,400 I do want to point out I think alen would support me pointing this out that that um that includes benefits and and such and so teachers will not see that full $1,400 amount it's closer to what did you say like 8900 1,000 1,000 okay all right better than I was thinking um along with that there was a one-time allocation of $45 million to boost the salaries of Education support professionals and apologies that's more a bonus because it's one time and that amount is $1,000 per um education support professional there was also a $65 million
090allocation one time um to fund House Bill 447 it was a bill sponsored by Speaker Schultz to um give grants to leas who want to create a um a catalyst Center Program um it's a Catalyst Center the Catalyst Center is uh located in Davis School District it's a program that helps um students get uh training and Workforce skills and um really CTE Pathways that can lead them to college to good careers or or even beyond that um $27 million was allocated for the first um credential program that focuses on making sure students are graduating work ready that they have some sort of credential that they can go right into the workforce or go go on to further education 25 $5 million in onetime money um was allocated to meet school safety needs for school districts
091um I do want to point out that the original request was for $130 million but again socks and underwear year um along with that there was $10 million allocated one time for a Statewide student information system um and $5 million one time for House Bill 42 uh a bill that provides emergency funding to schools that midye see an increase in students who whose um first language is not English um all right so let's at income tax bills um this is the fifth year that we've seen an income tax cut from the legislature and um the bill included a 1% reduction in the tax rate both for individuals and for corporations um it also expanded that that bill House Bill 106 expanded the child tax credit um an item that was kind of added at the
092last minute um and again I mentioned this is the fifth year we've seen a tax uh reduction an income tax reduction um this equates to about a $45 savings for the average Utah family um along with that Senate Bill 71 raises the threshold for seniors who don't pay income taxes from $75,000 to 90,000 so more seniors will now not have to pay income taxes but um you know the other side of that is that that reduces the money coming in from income tax which funds U public education higher education and some social services so trade-offs um okay I'll start with tax increment financing um we talked about Senate Bill 23 that was really a cleanup bill from last year um and Senate Bill 26 which started out you know pretty pretty lowkey by the end
093um turned into the bill that allows Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County to fund um a renovation a downtown revitalization that includes possibly renovating the assault Palace and maybe a bravel hall as well um close to $1 billion for both of those projects and it does it through tax increment financing um the money what tax increment financing mean means for our community members who aren't familiar with that term is that um it's funded from future tax growth so future property taxes from new developments will be funneled towards these projects um in any of these Arrangements the school district um is always the largest taxing entity the largest stakeholder of the taxing entities um that means that some of that future Revenue will go toward the projects rather than coming to a school district where
094it typically would have gone um all right so that one okay Senate Bill 306 um allows Salt Lake County to dip into uh revenue from existing Transportation taxes to pay for part of this Salt Palace model as well so it's not entirely being funded through that um tax increment Finance um Senate Bill 33 uh impacts uh venues that uh sorry cities and counties that want to remodel venues in advance of the 2034 Olympics um and again it creates tax increment financing zones to do that we continue to see this mechanism becoming more and more popular um and their goal is to capture that property tax increment to be able to renovate these venues um any any misses there Ellen on these okay thanks Senate Bill 336 relates to the Utah Fair Park area investment and
095restoration District modifications very long name what it does is it made changes to the Utah fa park area area again another area where we're going to see tax increment financing um and then while we're just talking about taxes there Senate Bill 37 this bill um really what it does is reroute school property taxes um under this bill the money that's paid into the state Basic School levy correct me if I'm getting this wrong alen would go to the state's um unrestricted general fund and then the state would pay us back the same amount so it's a way to channel income tax or sorry property tax money that would go to school districts um put it somewhere else to be used for something else besides public Ed but they're saying we'll get back the same amount
096it's just it's a little bit sneaky and the disclosure um won't be on our our community members tax um tax oh my gosh the paper that you get mailed the tax notice thank you um okay more Finance bills um House Bill 344 related to school fees short version what this bill requires is for school districts to provide a path to um earn required credits for students that will be completely free no fees um so that means that I might really want to be in the orchestra but the orchestra has a fee but I can take a music theory class instead and still fulfill that graduation requirement um so there just has to be an option that doesn't include a fee um as students are moving towards graduation um another really big appropriation this year was
097$40 million for the Utah fits-all scholarships um it does the bill this year did Place restrictions on how that can be used for example it limits um uh you can't buy season passes with that anymore um limits extracurricular and PE activities um and we'll get into two human resources builds now House Bill 124 restricts school districts from selling or you know transferring employee information and also prevents districts from requiring certain Technologies on the private devices of employees um that also means that if that technology is required that the district would then provide a device for that app to be to be used or that other technology um and then there was an official change in statute to what we call our school Personnel who are support staff they are now um officially called education support
098professionals so typically the folks we would refer to as um classified employees or par professionals so they are education support professionals they they are professionals and we rely on them to support our our students um under track nutrition two bills one is House Bill 100 which um our school board already does so way to lead the way Flagship School Board in the state um it expands access to free meals for K12 students um and it does it by taking the students who would qualify for reduced price lunches and funding those reduced price lunches that's something that our Board of Education committed to years and years and years ago so we're already doing that in this District um and the allocation for that is $25 million to expand that program um there's another bill that I
099know was a bit concerning to our Child Nutrition director HP 402 um it prohibits certain um certain certain foods so um it's ingredients like um like certain food dyes and certain preservatives some ingredients that um that are not necessarily great for students but um the reason that this bill was concerning although the end goal is good is that it will cost um it will it will cost money to transition into this new way of providing um meals for students there are some exception for this for example concessions at a school event or you know the birthday treats that Mom and Dad send in with the kiddos um or a teacher there was concern from teachers look I keep a drawer of granola bars at my desk for kids who who need something so a teacher
100can ask parents at the beginning of the year if they if they would allow their student to consume foods that do have some of these ingredients and the teacher would still be able to provide that if if they wanted to um okay under Grandma big change to to Grandma this year um Senate Bill 277 created the government Records Office um and replaced the state records committee with the director of that office So currently there's a seven person um committee that reviews these records requests and appeals um and that's changed significantly this bill stemmed from just an overload of um grammar requests that are coming into our our state agencies and public institutions um um school safety of course we we saw similar changes to the to the what we need to implement um everything from
101building and safety standards changing to um specifying more what the window protection requirements are adding members to the school security task force and the public education Advisory Board it'll now include um the higher ed commissioner um as they expand some of these requirements into our college and university campuses um and interestingly it authorizes a school safety found ation so that would be a nonprofit agency that could help um raise funds to offset some of the expenses that will be required by the state um all right let's chat now about curriculum instruction and other bills that impact the classroom House Bill 77 flag display amendments prohibits the display of Pride flags and other non-governmental Flags in public buildings and schools so it's not just for schools this impacts City Hall County building state agencies um I
102do want to clarify there uh I I had questions from a few of our schools about country flags those are still allowed um and a lot of our schools are are proud of the Heritage and culture that our families bring to our district and have flags on display that represent that and we will still be able to do that um the bill does include a list of allowable Flags um and what is being prohibited is is Flags so um a sticker a lanyard a button a pin those things are still fine under this legislation um House Bill 191 impacts the use of instructional packets for high school credit um it allows leas to give credit for courses completed to through packets if they meet certain requirements and the state board has to review and approve
103those packets um another curriculum Bill House Bill 233 will Pro henceforth prohibit an laa from allowing entities that perform elective abortions to provide um instruction or materal materials in our schools that would impact our um some of our health classes um in our school district uh the first credential program I mentioned a little earlier but it's just uh it puts in a new system to give students industry recognized credentials setting them up for um applying to college or for jumping into the workforce whatever their their path may be um House Bill 381 changes the current 0.5 credit requirement for high school graduation for US government to a one credit Civics course um just a minor change there um Senate Bill 170 um this bill was sponsored by Senator esamia relates to how we use um
104seclusion as an intervention in our schools it really codifies what's current practice it wasn't codified and she felt very strongly that this should be written into state code that um we do not use this method except in very very very very limited situations um Senate Bill 178 devices in public schools it um prohibits using devices during class time that includes cell phones SmartWatches tablets all uh devices just generally um it does allow leas to craft their own policy um so you could you could formulate something a little different um as long as it complied with the minimum of that class time prohibition um there's another bill that um protects students reasonable expectation to privacy so for example they would not be forced to change like for a PE class change in front of their peers
105that we'd have to provide a designated space for privacy for those students um collective bargaining um I know you are familiar with House Bill 267 which removes collective bargaining rights from um public employees uh the bill faced opposition from police firefighters teachers and even some nonpublic unions who stood in solidarity with their public counterparts um there's an effort to uh hold this to a referendum and we will see how that turns out that would be on the 2026 um ballot okay so I have one miscellaneous Bill and then I'm done um House Bill 281 Health curriculum and procedures amendments this bill requires our school therapist to have written consent from a parent before they meet with a child um in general that's that's what happens except for maybe in a unique circumstance like there's a
106tragedy that occurs and um a counselor would would with a student right then um and in that permission parents can list the topics that they're okay being discussed and topics that the coun the therapist should not address with their child the exception to that um that was inserted because of the push back the sponsor got um is that they can address those prohibited topics if it would compromise the student safety um or if there's a mandatory reporting obligation like if the therapist suspects child abuse um the again was not going over every bill but I did want to highlight some of the ones that will impact Us in the classroom let me know if you have any questions Ashley yes I have two questions um yes so Senator Plum late in the session Advanced an
107amendment to HB 237 which was the bill Banning Planned Parenthood um from instructing in schools and the purpose of the amendment was to make it so that clinics like we offer in partnership with the University of Utah would no longer be prohibited as they were under the original bill yes uh have we discussed at all any of the legal implications of HB 237 with our clinics and Partnerships schools may also have with LDS Hospital no we have not done that yet um our legal counsel um our general Council excuse me um Miss Kindle uh prepares every year a a list of the bills that will impact certain um areas of our district and so I'm and no doubt that she will provide the necessary guidance to those entities but thank you I apologize for missing
108that Amendment no it's okay very important big list of bills so I just wanted to ask um and then there are some other bills that impact day-to-day instruction that are awaiting the governor's signature like HB 108 which requires firearm instruction multiple times during a student's um educational experience so that's only one of curricular bills so how will and this is probably a question for the superintendent any particular discussions on changes to curriculum reach the board purview if at all I'm wondering if at all which ones are you thinking of that we would bring to the board for a change well I I'm wondering when things would be required potentially to be approved as we like routinely approve all kinds of other curriculum um and changes or we appoint committees to review different things so there
109are multiple curriculum bills I'm wondering which may reach the board if at all and the answer might be about the timeline the State Board needs to rewrite the rule before this and we wouldn't expect to see Firearms instruction curricula brought to the board uh for x amount of time and then it would go on a consent agenda I'm just curious how curricular changes will reach us if they require the board approval they would be in that process but most I don't know enough about all of the curricular bills Dr Hall if you do um and what might be facing us that way and which ones would be ones that we would just worked with schools to implement and which ones would require a particular curriculum on our part generally the only curriculum that comes up
110to the board for adoption is curriculum that we adopt districtwide um so things like um as you have been on the human sexuality committee those present present ations that we have approved um they they don't come they don't come individually to the board they're approved by the board at the end of the year um that's in statute at this time there isn't something in statute that would say if we choose our gun control education that that would need to be approved by the board um so that one it's sort of like um maybe some of our supplemental materials or videos or you know different different things that we use to supplement instruction this this would be um when or if it is implemented that uh you know if if it goes through all the way
111to the end of the row then this would be considered a supplement and generally those are not approved by the board let me follow up too on what yandre was saying about the review that um General Council Kindle undertak so she goes she provides we look at the Master list and each one of those bills is um assigned an owner who is then responsible for making sure that that's implemented in the district um and we can follow up with so that is our way to make sure that we're in compliance with the bills and responding to them and making them part of our district practice as needed so that will start to happen soon yeah most of these have a May 7th at the earliest implement ation date um on these bills that tend to
112come our wayk you any other questions for we got one minute left according to my clock before we got to start our time stre in public comment period thank you yandre we'll go ahead and hang out till 7:15 and um invite anybody from the team up to to speak um to either one of these two items tonight you want to wait for a minute Mike oh sorry really close I mean you can come sit up you've you're already standing you know you said just wait all right the floor is yours Mike um we will start with public input on the fee schedule first okay and please keep in mind that we will still um honor our three minutes that we honor for regular requests to speak um in this process tonight is there anybody here
113to speak to public input on the draft 2025 26 student fee schedule all right seeing none we'll go ahead and move to our second item uh which is public input on nible Park grade level reconfiguration Mike good evening Dr Graham members of the Board of Education as a representative who represents the largest employee group in the district we have significant concern concerns over the reconfiguration process of nle Park the Educators and parents most affected by these changes have not been included in most of the discussions which is troubling as we transition to a new reality without the Sher governance model that mandates input from stakeholders I'm concerned this will become the new reality which is not the solic city district way a major issue is the timeline Staffing reports were due nearly two weeks ago
114and the building was staffed for the K8 based on the district projections Hillside was also staffed on projections that did not account for potentially new students making this decision now for the next school year will require rushed Staffing adjustments impacting displaced Educators rights as outlined in the written agreement additionally Hillside will need to adjust their master schedule and potentially hire more staff which means revisiting their Staffing report as well in the last meeting concerns about meeting the basic midd school program were raised and I understand that but there weren't Al other Alternatives discussed like shared Staffing bringing folks into meet those needs for at least a year so that we can make a timely decision that doesn't impact parents in such a critical way families who chose nib park for their students will be negatively
115impacted if this option is taken away at this late stage and as Bo board member Longwell pointed out this can be very disruptive to a family's planning I understand the G5 policy is under review and I hope that the review considers the importance of timely decision-making so that families and employees have the time they need to make decisions that are in their best interest I was hoping it'd already had the discussion about ni Park so we'll see where that goes but thank you thanks Mike is there anybody else here to speak um to the nii park grade level reconfiguration item okay we will move along on uh to our discussion agenda thank you yandre for your legislative recap again um the first item in our discussion agenda is the G5 administrative procedures um it's my
116understanding that um the policy subcommittee relooked at G5 based on some suggestions and recommendations um and so now it is our um opportunity to um ask those types of questions either from the policy subcommittee or from our general counsel um who's here this evening as well I don't know s is Miss Kindle joining us yes thank you so the G5 policy has been on the agenda before and we um have the conversation in writing that happened with board member um Longwell had asked for some questions to be answered we wanted to put this again on the agenda with those questions in hand so you've received the answers that the policy committee had to those questions that were raised um and so you have a redlined version of that G5 policy in front of you thank
117you superintendent is anybody from the policy subcommittee willing to speak um to these changes or any of the discussion that you may have had in committee I think I'm more ready to answer questions than necessarily like have a discussion I can it's been a couple weeks but I can do my best there any questions for Miss Kindle or policy subcommittee members may I I'll dive I'll I mean I guess I don't necessarily have questions so to speak the memorandum you sent was very helpful to give context to um um the current version I do see the uh some of the implemented changes um so thank you for considering and um making some adjustments and recognizing the impacts to the families and the teachers um ultimately I still strongly struggle with it I mean I think
118that the the I recognize there's been a lot of work for the G5 I don't discount it I think that the G5 is currently structured to give um a district uh and administrators like the the most latitude on making decisions instead of ensuring that things are done in a in a timely manner to help the um um teachers that will be displaced to be able to find their new positions and a better timeline to help families um adjust and prepare and um I just I think that the the sticking to these very um loose is not the right term but um District friendly timelines and not family and teacher friendly timelines is a disservice to the community um and I strongly am very upset that the grade level reconfigurations um has it has a different
119timeline so where I'm really standing with this is I would rather it's uncomfortable me for me to have this discussion about the G5 at the same time as the N Park conversation it's a it's a I don't think that we should be doing that at the same meeting it's um does not feel good thank you Ashley yep I have a question and then a comment and the first question is that the 60-day boundary adjustment question has kind of come to all of our inboxes I think which is how could a family be expected to have a school closure and then wait two months basically to know what their potential boundary changes are and and my question um for our general council is that sometimes a law allows something like up to 60 days but it
120doesn't prohibit something like options that include boundary changes being presented so is that a distinction that would make sense here and an example of why that 60 days may need need to be utilized but would not be commonly utilized absolutely I think um I think as I tried to point out in the memorandum um or in the response to the questions I mean it was built along the timeline that's set out in state law which is that if a lot of different proposals were submitted to a board for example of you could close these schools you could close these schools you could close these schools right like if it was multiple options that the district didn't really have an idea of which way its board was going to vote it would be very hard to
121redo boundaries based on all the variety of options that could happen right so um in those types scenarios I think it um that's why the legislature decided to give a 60-day window following school closures right um but in most circumstances if you were looking at closing one school or two schools it's going to be very easy to draw a boundary map at the same time you're proposing School closure so it wouldn't necessarily always take 60 days or you know it might be done at the same time it could be done much earlier boundary um you know school closures don't even need to happen up right at December 31st clearly most boards aren't going to meet on New Year on New Year's Eve right and they could make that decision in November and then you only
122have 60 days I mean the timelines are very flexible how this administrative procedure was built was simply using the timelines that are set out in statute um so that we do have flexibility but again we added language that's always um that we should be making these decisions as far enough in advance as possible possible but it does give that option of If You Know A District the district decided we're recommending this these schools for closure and then the board decided not to close those schools that the district if it simply had not prepared for that possibility of whatever the vote was would have a certain number of days to restructure boundaries I don't think in most instances it's going to be necessary or it's going to take that long but simply moving forward I don't
123even know when the next process is so this is for future boards to decide if the next round of school closures comes up in 10 years or seven years or whatever right it's just really built along what's outlined in statute but again I think everyone's intention is to provide families with as much notice as possible and understanding that typically this would not be necessary that 60 days does that make sense yeah that makes a lot of sense um and it explains that part to me and I think I think one thing that is helpful to also remind the community asking the question is that for us to go 20 years without recommending School closure is very abnormal and that in a routine process some of these more extenda parts of the policy are not commonly
124utilized or only utilized in you know as you point out an extreme case um in an unrelated comment I think that I was fully supportive of the way the procedures were written and felt like a lot of thought had been put into them and I agree with many of the criteria um until the process for nibbly Park started and I am now actually very concerned that the aps for grade level reconfigurations require kind of no study period or length of time and one of the reasons I'm concerned by this is not only the discussion and that's happening about nibbly Park and more so the manner in which it's happening but that it's reasonable to assume that a recommendation could come in the future um for a potential restructure to K5 that could impact substantially more
125schools and I really hesitate to approve procedures that would allow that to happen without any kind of mandatory study period I feel like more and more frequently we're moving things through very quickly without requisite study and based on the experience with niple Park I'm not comfortable moving these recommendations forward without some type of study period for grade level reconfigurations any other questions or comments uh for general counsel or for policy sub committee members May yeah we can start round two um and thank you Ashley for pointing out what you did on that reconfiguration I would just add to it that the timeline on that reconfiguration should also be um reconsidered when that's assuming this does not pass tonight um and like I mentioned to you I was on the cusp of just tabling it but
126I if counterparts feel like they want the opportunity to move it forward I won't pull that card as much as it hurts um but if this does not pass tonight then also be looking at that timeline on that reconfiguration because that gives a lot more time to uh disrupt families and teachers lives last minute and give less time for them to prepare for that change so that's my extra two cents um what would you think is appropriate I I think giving some directions our ideas to policy subcommittee or others if we're discussing this what kinds of things do you think need to be done well essentially what I had proposed in the initial I mean the deadline on like the school closures is December 30th obviously was point pointed out that we typically aren't making
127having meetings that late so based on that let's move that deadline to November 30th and then our School boundaries have to be changed no later then um and of February basically wait no end of January instead of end of February and then align with that so in the school boundary policy itself putting those deadlines in there to align with the school closure so if we do a school closure November 30th then we have 60 days for the boundary changes which puts us the end of January so if we're doing a boundary realignment or on its own then hard deadline is end of January and then the realignment hard deadline is end of January basically make all of them a similar hard deadline so that no matter what we're doing if we're upending teachers lives or
128students lives family lives then which ever component of this G5 is playing out we have a same hard deadline on all of them and then that puts the pressure on the district the board Etc and paying attention to our agendas and how our meetings are playing out through the year to ensure that we're looking at the data quickly once we get our numbers in October um and really jumping in and seeing if we're having that discussion we're moving we we need to be moving quickly if we're going to respect these families lives and not cause more harm than good can I make a comment just about that deadline being at the end of January um just be cognizant of the fact that with the holidays that that probably takes out two weeks in the December
129month right that that District staff wouldn't be able to work on those things and so while I understand moving it up till the end of November with the holidays that becomes problematic with with those two weeks being gone thank you I agree with that that's tough seeing no other comment I would entertain a motion to move this item to the action agenda I move uh that we move G5 administrative procedures to the action is there a second for the [Music] motion I second Mo a second any further discussion seeing none we'll start with a roll call Vote with I'm sorry you want discussion oh no this is to move it to move it that's fine okay Charlotte Charlotte F Jefferson yes Ashley Anderson no n are yes Amanda long will no yes Price William J
130all right that motion passes uh we'll go ahead and uh take this back up when we get to the action agenda uh the next item on our discussion agenda is the 2025 2026 student fee schedule come on back up Miss kle thank you I would just like to um remind the board that uh per state law the board policy administrative procedures and all the fee schedules need to be approved before the end of this month and given that this is the only um board meeting we have um that we would need approval tonight of those um of the policy ad administrative procedures and the fee schedules um although if the board um had a specific direction for a change that could be included in the motion but they do need to be passed tonight approved
131thank you m Kindle um any questions we've talked about this a few times lately um any questions comments concerns Amanda I was just digging to it to look at it one more time before I open my mouth and it wasn't there but I'm pretty certain that the Unified sports fees uh had the um option for a banner um is that correct that is correct it should be on so yeah should be on there I'm pretty sure I saw it so I just wanted to say thank you for making sure that was on there of course you Amanda I'll entertain a motion to move this item to the action agenda I um move that we put the 2526 student fee schedule on the action agenda it needs to be the policy and the administrative procedures as
132well well it doesn't say that on the agenda Do It um I reiterate that I would move the 2526 student fee schedule policies and administrative procedures to the action agenda I second have a motion and a second any further discussion all right seeing none we'll start with a roll call vote uh with myself Nate Salazar yes Amanda Longwell yes mam yes Bryce Williams yes Charlotte F Jefferson yes ashy Anderson yes that motion passes uh we will revisit that um our third item is the Nigi Park grade level reconfiguration Dr Grant will you please introduce this to us sure I we reposted to you the presentation that was done at the March 4th meeting on ni Park reconfiguration um as a reminder of of what we talked about there there was also the kind of open
133house or parent session at uh nible Park last week I believe principal green there were about 10 families present and six teachers um there and appreciated board members being there as well um to hear the concerns and ideas of of the families and um teachers at that meeting um I do want to say one piece about this that's important to recognize with nibi Park is that it's not a magnet program so a lot of the conversation at that open house or parent night was about trying to bring in more students to nibi isn't there a way to grow the program and as the enrollment has shown over 20 years people have really been voting with their feet for 20 years to say this isn't a program that the majority or consistently the majority of sixth
134graders want to move into typically half to onethird of students um are moving straight into Middle School rather than going into the seven and eight there at ni so the idea originally was not again a magnet program and so um it was meant to be a neighborhood K through 8 that would serve that neighborhood the students within those boundaries and as we've found there are just not enough interested families to want to populate that program enough that we're able to provide the middle school program that was envisioned when it was created um and as we've noted as a district um and I think you've heard you've heard a lot from parents and teachers both ways I think on this um about from the community there's a real mix of opinions on it um but as
135a district um I know that the principal uh feels that students would be better served in Middle School the area director feels that students would be better served in Middle School um certainly Dr Taylor and I feel that students would be better served in Middle School than they are in the program that we are able to provide there nibbly Park um and so we as a district want to recommend that we reconfigure nibi Park as a k6 school this year um and that that would start then in the fall um we believe that with HR and uh Logan Hall you could confirm this that we are um just starting the placement of teachers into into positions that are open um as there have been enrollment changes in the district and we need to maybe Place
136some teachers in the same way these teachers would be there in that same pool up front and wouldn't lose out on opportunities that way um and we believe there is time to get this accomplished and to serve families we can there are there are few enough families in a way that we could call each of them individually and help them work through a plan um to get to middle school so that is the district recommendation and um we have the team here that has been discussing this um and appreciate to janal Rodriguez that you're here for representing Hillside um that can answer questions from the board if needed any questions for Dr Grant or the team of nibbly or feel I have a series of questions um because the K8 was discussed and passed by
137the board as an optional specialized program rather than a reconfiguration in the mid 2000s Dr Grant can you explain why we're not following the process for optional specialized programs in this instance you stumped me glad to get get that on a board meeting thanks um also Alan can you share when auxiliary Services was directed to remove the stoves from the cooking classroom for nibblies seventh and eighth grade uh nope I am not familiar with that process I don't know if Isaac knows anything about it I think it was before his time um so no I'm not aware of that I don't have that information and as a followup to that Dr Grant can you explain more generally why the 78 itive classrooms were are no longer being used by seventh and eth grade students in
138their POD at nibbi as I explained at the parent meeting that night this all happened before anybody I believe in this room was here though D may have some D Miller our area director looks like he has an answer to that one the question about the stove those were taken out for a classroom for a fifth and sixth grade DLI classroom so to reiterate we closed the school and we moved a classroom in and we took away the elective classrooms that seventh and eighth grade students at nibbly were using as part of their middle school program is that a question did we is that what we did say that one more time did we close a school and require that that EOP DLI class are moved to nibi and then use the seventh and eth
139grade electives classroom taking away elective space from seventh and eighth grade students in the middle school program to house an ELP Elementary School class no so so the cooking class wasn't active at that time and so we used it as a classroom instead that that's my when we went and looked at the classroom we brought our CD director in to look at what was in there it wasn't being used um I mean the classroom was being used more of a storage room thank you um this just contradicts what teachers shared at the community event um my next question is to Dr Grant or possibly Dr Taylor can you let us know the timeline on which the electives count calendar was changed by the current Administration to functionally remove the past seven years of practice for
140offering electives at ni K8 so I can speak a little bit to that if somebody else would like to also join me um I remember when um I met with the nibl park staff when digital studies became a middle school elective and at that time the seventh and eth grade were in fact so this is about seven or eight years ago um functioning as an elementary and the discussion for pushing digital studies in uh was talked about in a number of minutes per day not as a period or as a class but that we might you know be able to put 12 minutes here or seven minutes here as part of an elective or um not elective but more like a a passing period or um what's the word I want there like a well
141they were they were talking about it in terms of 12 minutes a day which is not a full class so it actually wasn't until this year that we had as many electives in place as a class this is I believe the first year that digital studies has functioned as a class um and that we have had health function as a class and not just integrated into part of science looking at the way schedules have been set up and CCA so and the electives in previous years were also running as an elementary model they were getting it once a week like they were getting music and art and PE so they weren't getting it like a middle school elective which was daily so if they at one point were getting a cooking class it maybe was
142once a week and it was based on teacher interest and teacher choice not based on teach teacher um endorsement at that time as a followup to that if teachers do have a one8 license and they're teaching the electives in the manner they choose are they violating any state statute or code for an appropriate middle school program I would that's a that's an HR thing and as Mr Hall comes up I will just say um one of the things that comes along with the endorsement is that um review of the requirements for what is taught in that class so that's always a piece when people are doing it by choice the question is is that choice reflective of the state standards that should be taught in that class yeah I think I need to understand uh
143board member Anderson's question a little bit more clearly um from what I understand U the base understanding is a Utah licensed teacher who's licensed in elementary is able to teach in an elementary model from grades K through 8 um and so it would depend on whether the model for the nibbly park um 78 program is running in an elementary type model where it's a one room uh Schoolhouse model where one teacher teaches all subjects or a secondary model um which uh would be a traditional um Middle School where they have different teachers in teaching different subjects um and so if it is working in a secondary model the the teachers assigned to those classes would have to have particular content area endorsements for those for those pieces does that answer your question it does so
144in other words a person with an appropriate grade 1 through eight license teaching an elective on their own schedule once a week does not violate anything in state requirements for seventh and eighth grade students depending on the setup of the delivery model instruction okay um my next question is in the community meeting Dr Hall you stated that we couldn't Market some schools ahead of others in answering parent questions but the open classroom K8 model was allowed to push out multiple advertisements through parent Square can you explain why we allowed one District K8 to offer enrollment advertisements but not the other in the same response could you address why Clayton and Hillside are allowed to come to nibble to Market to sixth graders but nibble 78 is still not afforded any opportunity to share the programming
145at their school um I'm going to ask uh yandre to address the first part of that with school advertising as that has been her um policy and administrative procedure yes so we give equal access to all our schools to advertise through those channels um some don't choose to do that advertising and some do so um whenever we do get requests we support schools in those efforts and I would add to that that um Hillside and Clayton have not always come to nibbly to recruit in fact I believe this is the first year that we've invited those principles to come and speak as we've really looked at what students have available to them at nibl and some of the areas where the Middle School uh requirements for courses have not been met additionally um going to
146or having nibi Park recruit it has always been as the superintendent said not a magnet school that would actively recruit um for or another program or you know if it were the DLI program for instance we we do recruit into those as a magnet pole but this was a neighborhood program that was really designed to have the neighborhood seventh and eighth graders attend seventh and eighth grade there and if 100% of them did then it would have given us the number that the district originally thought would be there which is 150 students which would have allowed us more FTE to run a complete middle school program or perhaps not complete like the other schools but at least meeting all of the state required core assignments I'll come back to that 150 number but I do
147want to say we keep seeing the middle requirements were not being met but they are being met based on the types of t-shirt lure and the approved model by the board um and additionally I'm confused because they were told in the community Forum actively that they couldn't Market but now they're told they could Market just if they knew who to ask so it's pretty confusing but I have some more questions and I want to use my three minutes in our last meeting Dr Hall you said there was no substantial difference in academic outcomes for K8 students um some constituents have shared that data Gateway evidence shows seventh and eth students that nibbly do have lower rise scores but some of the other publicly available testing data from the district shows nibbly cohorts in some cases
148have higher academic performance um you talked Dr Hall in the past meeting about how there were other things that weren't captured by testing which I agree so I'm wondering if you can tell us the difference between ab and IB in concurrent enrollment for K8 students compared to Hillside students and also whether there's any substantial difference in student engagement among K8 graduates in the Fine Arts uhsaa sanctioned activities or student clubs at Highland so I want to be clear that what I said in the previous meeting was that their High School outcomes in terms of graduation were not different Highland does a terrific job of making sure through their freshman success program that freshmen are brought into the school and if they are not where they need to be then Highland Works to make sure that
149those pieces are okay so long-term nibble Park students do integrate into the high school and in their core areas uh do as well as their peers at Highland do you want to speak to the um the other pieces I I have not personally looked at the IB or AP course taking rates for nibble Park students I have not either I have looked at their end of level data for rise for the past few years compared to Clayton and Hillside have I can share that if You' like um for for 2024 in language arts and math Hillside and Clayton were 51 and 54 uh nible Park was 15% proficient in math Hillside and Clayton 58 and 54 nibbly Park 17 in science uh Hillside and Clayton were 64 and 55 nibbly park at 28 and that
150was seventh and eighth grade combined um that was all students I can do I can tell you students with disabilities and or mlls if you'd like I think I've seen that on data Gateway so I'm going to um use my time to ask about a couple more things and Dr Hall you recently mentioned that magical number of 150 um that was brought up a lot of times in the community Forum but I can find no documentation in the establishment of nibble reports that nib made to the board or any other board directive that ever gave the school Community the idea they had to reach 150 students where is it documented that this number was expected and how has it been shared with the school since 2007 we actually found it in the original documents that
151went between the principes and the superintendent and School Board in 2006 and 7 that was the number that both nibbly Park and Whittier had pointed toward making a 78 model work um at after both programs had you know they had been given the go-ahead for seven and eight then um Whittier actually did not decide to ever go through with I mean they just they did not implement the model at that point but in terms of calculations in terms of the number of students that would be necessary to provide enough staff to do a middle school program um 150 students was the number that the district had said would be financially and fiscally responsible to run that complete middle school program can you share those documents with the board please I'd be happy to and I
152think I'm out of time so I'll save my additional questions for the second round Amanda um I on one of um board member sorry ashy I don't know your last name brain fart the marketing thing I do want to say that what I heard from the uh open school night um was that the district does not Market schools against each other it didn't say that the schools couldn't Market themselves so that was what I heard whenever um that was discussed um I I do I I've heard feedback from families saying they want to stay they're happy with it I've heard feedback from families saying this is harmful to the students we should not continue this model same with teachers teachers feeling very adamant that um we should keep it and teachers feeling very adamant that
153it's a disservice to the student population um seeing some students just um spiraling out of lack of Engagement and being challenged in options um and from what I understand the building space the elementary is running out of space with the Elementary programs um so there wouldn't be a lot of empty space with this change that would give them the opportunity to grow into that um I do severely struggle with um the way that this is coming out of this time because a Community member made this comment and I feel similarly that a reconfiguration is essentially a school closure we closing a section of the building which takes teachers and students and families out of that school and moving them so um again doing it at this timeline I I don't feel comfortable with I I
154I I do I do support the closure of the 78 program I I see that it is more harmful to the students than beneficial and I know that we have other middle schools that can um properly support students that need different um um educational opportunities and supports and Dynamics so that is not a question to me um it's more of how we roll this out not pulling the Band-Aid off and saying okay everybody close up even though it's the end of March and um we're done if we can look at a a way to transition grandfather it um I would be more open to that than just shutting it down black and white for the upcoming school year and I think that I also struggle with um I think that no matter how this goes
155it's just not it's not easy it's not it's going to hurt it's going to be hard on somebody a lot of somebody's um I think it's late Ashley had more time than I did every [Laughter] time you're good I'll give you I'll give you a minute my okay thanks um shoot um basically it's I think it's also a disservice to only be uh serving one grade at a time because I would end up with only around 30 maybe 40 students so um looking at the option of next year would be the last seven eight year and then the year after that we would it would just be done at that point so then those that are in sixth grade that we're already planning on going into 78 at nibbly um they've got that opportunity but
156that is the final year that that um model is provided that's something I'm open to any other comments in this first round or questions see now we'll move into the second round actually few more questions I couldn't get to um should this proceed how would we support families with siblings who would leave the district to return to their boundary Ela and thus may lose a year of Varsity eligibility in sports you mean eighth graders at nib that are no in when we clo voted to close schools we talked a lot about siblings and impacts to siblings as we get up into seventh and eth grade we have a lot more High School siblings and many students come to nibi to go nibbly K8 straight to Highland and they have multiple siblings in Highland who will
157lose a year of Varsity eligibility in sports if their family returns to the boundary Lea if the k8's dissolved so what do we do in instances like that where our actions precipitate parent behavior that causes loss of Varsity eligibility so I I I mean I I can't direct what families do so you're saying that if a a student left 8th grade and went back to another school and I I don't another school outside of the dist outside of the district um I mean clearly the student that was at Highland could stay at Highland and play that could certainly be a choice the family made um if they were close enough to get to nibl and highand then I I I'm not I'm not sure I can answer for every single family in the district or
158out of the district that might be coming to nibble so we wouldn't support that issue that was raised by parents I I have not heard that that has been an issue raised by parents um I also don't know that I mean one of the the concerns or one of the issues is that as students come up through nibi they don't have a lot of those opportunities they don't choose to to play a lot of the I mean we don't have the sports at nibbly to support them going into immediately into a a Highland um sports team so that that has not been something that any parent has raised to to have you heard that we have not heard that concern that's interesting I did hear at the community Forum oh Dr Taylor do you mean
159like if an eighth grader was a sibling she's referring to if a family decides to leave because the younger sibling is now to school will they take the high school that through Utah high school Association they can apply for a waiver and what the district can do is then support that waiver as that child transitions back to their boundary school but we would hope to keep because the quality of our middle school programs to be able to keep those parents and those families within the system but in the instance they were if they were listening to this meeting for instance the district could support them in their waiver yes okay thank you um why did the district go back on a plan proposed by past superintendent for a K8 IB feeder into Highlands IB program
160at um actually we met several times with the faculty at nibi and one of the things with the K8 um model for IB programs is that the staff has to agree to do that and so um Dr Parsons and I actually met three times with the faculty at a faculty meeting two or two or three times at the faculty meeting and the principal at nibi at that time also supported that and attempted to get that support support so that we could move forward with a program like that the district was willing to support that but we didn't get the um necessary support from the teachers that's significant number of the teachers that's helpful um my last question is why did we choose to place DLI at nible when it is not a Clayton feeder um
161and in a related question why would we not consider an overall boundary study to identify these mismatched feeder pattern errors rather than just taking one stab at one program at one school so a couple of reasons um first the the nibi DLI pattern actually started with the ELP program so it will be about four years before any of the neighborhood schools the neighborhood program students reach seventh grade which as most districts do when they establish an elementary DLI pattern would give us a couple of years to look at that and decide because we don't need to decide today the ELP students were already pointed to Clayton um but we can decide what we want to do with that feeder pattern for the neighborhood program and if it is such that we decide that we want
162to place support for that at Hillside we would have a couple of years to work with Hillside to be able to place a teacher there to continue that through to Highland and I have talked with Highland they have actually placed some teachers in place um hoping to continue that DLI program through at Highland including possibly even teaching a couple of core classes in Spanish to um provide additional support to students academically in Spanish thank you any other questions from the board um so I know that like you know closure means closure or reconfiguration but would there be any future discussions of like bringing back or reconfiguring it in a way in the future I can answer that one pretty much no in that what we're finding with this program is it's just not working as
163intended um and some some uh districts have gone to k8s they typically tend to be in more rural areas where you only need one school for a certain number of kids and so but they aren't a typical pattern um there is some advantage in students transferring fewer times between schools it's hard for some kids who may be particularly vulnerable to make a change in schools I think that might have been what propelled some of this interest in doing it um but it hasn't been enough of a challenge that districts or our district has considered making more k8s in order to solve that um rather we found that the model with the middle school is better for our kids so um ending this program I mean a future board may choose to do something different but
164if this program were ended this team that I work with and myself would not be recommending those kind of programs in in the near future is that what you are asking there Helena yes so I guess when the like during the Inception of the idea even that um I guess idealistic version of it would not be a good fit in this scenario well we found that you need it one of the problems is with our staffing and with this need for specialized teachers it's very hard to offer that for a very few number of students particularly when the number gets down it's below 70 now it's something like that so um there aren't very many students there to serve and it's very hard for us to provide the ver iety of classes to a small
165group um so that's been a real challenge with this the idea of 150 was that there would be enough FTE enough teachers allocated to the building that you could provide more of that model in place but without that and we haven't gotten near that with our enrollment in 20 years um we just don't have the ability to do that unless we're going to invest a great deal more more in this seventh and eth than we do in in other schools Dr Grant can you break that down to me that notion of investment and you know I'm hearing a lot about um inequities with the program as it relates to other schools what kinds of financial or other FTE types of inequities might we see running a small program like this and I'll just I'll start
166by echoing some of the things that parents have said some parents have really appreciated a small program and they have appreciated the community approach within a small program and um the familiarity of the teachers in the building and the community and have chosen that um but in terms of inequities there is a there is a piece of this that is the parents are choosing this with the acknowledgement of what the program is they have been in the school for years they know how the seventh and eighth runs they have that sense they have the chance to go see what's offered and what's not offered in the school um but in truth really the students that are in that program are not offered the range of courses um and for us to offer that range of
167courses we would have to put many more adults in the building serving those students and that just hasn't been um available to us to do or a choice that we've wanted to make to kind of over staff that school in order to meet the Middle School needs in a middle school program so essentially they get Middle School core c curriculum with Elementary School additions and model of um all the extracurricular stuff and things around the core courses um that's the combined program that's offered right now did that get it what you were asking now I think so um I just I think what my understanding of some of the inequity is that maintaining a smaller program like we have at nibbly could also be taken away from the opportunities financially or through FTE with our
168middle schools as well I don't know that I would quite say that because we staff the program I'm going to look to a nod from Logan Hall that we staff the program based on the number of students there and the way they they teach the core across 67 and8 which makes sense because the core is more similar 678 together um so the Staffing patterns within the school they're working on the FTE that are allocated okay based on students that makes sense thank you but but we we I could also president solazar add to your point that um if for instance Hillside were to gain another 70 students you know when you think about the offerings it's it's really easy to think in a middle school that that would be you know let's just bring a
169choir class over there or let's just bring an orchestra class over there but that would be you know we we couldn't bring one full FTE over for that you know that that would be a one or two period um addition there but at Hillside that might really round out some FTE for that would fill a full FTE so while it doesn't take away at this point um one of the things that we know is that you know when a school is just a little bit larger then that does help with that Staffing piece especially around some of those classes that if they don't fill it's hard to justify that full FTE um I guess one of my other questions is how many ni Park neighborhood Middle School aged kids attend Hillside or other middle schools
170that one has that information actually you just looked that up the context of reconfiguration in this context of school closure um I know like transportation and busing or something that we look at when we go through these processes what is available for these neighborhood kids if they aren't um attending mid Le k38 or 73 Excuse me yes and and so I'll start while you get this open with transportation and we have spoken with Transportation about whether there there would be sufficient room to make sure that people could get on the right bus to get to the right school and um Ken Martinez has said that that would not be an issue as as the you know as we looked at those bus routes this year 29 kids in nibble Park boundaries at 10 hillsite out
171um last year was 33 the year before that it was 34 students um however L overall 43 students in nibbly park boundaries left 70 kids stayed the year before that 48 students left 57 stayed and 22 23 48 students left 56 stayed so we're seeing about 40 to 50% split leave out of the boundaries versus this stay and thank you for answering the transportation question as well Charlotte yeah I so um how many teachers would be would they be moving um the seventh and eighth grade teachers are there three teachers okay so would they be moving to another school yes yes yeah to another Middle School yes because they are SEC secondary endorsed and so two of them are secondary elementary endorsed um so that would depend on on openings within the school if the
172elementary endorsed teacher would stay within the school with that seniority and such so and can teach the classes so I'm not sure we've played out all that scenario completely um because a decision hasn't been made but there's the possibility that if there's an opening one teacher could say and the others would teach in a middle school setting to any other questions um Charlotte that's so Bryce do you have any questions um it looks like we may have lost Muhammad he did text me because he's observing Ramadan he may have stepped away to observe fast um so I I texted him to see if he was going to be rejoining us this evening but um nonetheless I think we're at a point now where we do need to um where I need to call for a
173vote to move this to the action agenda I'll entertain a motion uh I move that we place uh nibble Park gr level reconfiguration on the action agenda is there a section motion Alo we got a motion in a second um any further discussion Ashley I'm concerned that moving this to action without answering the my first question which is why we're declining to use the OSP procedures um is a mistake thank you for noting that any other questions or comments all right we'll start with a roll call vote with um Amanda I vote Yes Yes Charlotte 5 Jefferson yes Ashley Anderson no Mi Salazar yes um I don't see Mohammed on there um nonetheless uh we do have four votes so that motion does pass we will revisit this on the action agenda our first item
174on the action agenda is the G thank you thank you um is the G5 APS um I will entertain a motion to start our conversation there again in potential decision you want a motion to start the conversation typically I would do it yes I move that we open discussion I'm sorry action move to approve not approve it's okay Charlotte okay um how do I make an amendment well you can move a particular thing with that desire in it yeah we can't make an amendment to we would have to open the discussion up with a motion to she if she just wants to make a motion with an amendment to the AP she can she can do that but not amend the motion that's not there I think she wants to amend the AP correct correct
175okay would you like to make a motion to approve or not I could take a stab at that if anybody else would like to take a stab at that yours might be different your Amendment may be different than others I would move that we send it back to the policy committee for more discussion so Charlotte can provide her suggested amendments to the policy committee is that a formal motion ashy is there a second motion is that what you wanted Charlotte okay so we need a second first before I'll entertain discussion are you second no okay no second um not seeing one uh the motion fails I will look for another motion to either approve or not approve or along with language potentially that would amend our our APS there Charlotte give a stab at it
176give her the bad lip fiz so what I'm guessing Charlotte is that you are potentially wanting to move to approved with a potentially addition of a timeline that would meet some of the discussion that we had earli that's a huge assumption on my end meet the timeline um well I actually I have two amendments maybe just throw them out [Music] there so I'd like I'd like to I move that we adopt this with two changes and do I need to outline those changes yes the first change would be um well the first change would be to add a study period or I don't know of what length to the grade reconfig reconfiguration um just a little bit more time on that I think two hearings is not adequate so I'd like to extend that a
177bit um the oh yeah sorry Miss kindall I see you standing up um I I think uh any I'll let general counsel win on that one so I since I would be the one amending it um I guess I just need some clarity when you say two hearings are are you talking about hearings for the public to come speak because even with boundary changes it's one oh um okay let's see Personal Privilege I think that she means the amount of time that the discussion happens not the number of actual hearings that are required so like this can take up to 60 days this must take days this can happen no sooner than 90 days I believe she wants a time period like boundary reconfiguration or boundary alignment has and like School closure has for grade
178level reconfiguration and I I understand that that's probably what it is I just wanted to be clear for the public listening yes that I wanted to clarify that we're we're not talking about more public hearings okay no more no um so I'm looking at the at the where is it do you know which number it is for the grade reconfiguration um it's I had it then I Roman num yeah okay all right so um it's it's oh there's okay so the recommendation comes to the board then we hold one public comment period during an upcoming board meeting um maybe we need a study or uh may I if you look at Roman numeral 2 um B the G5 administrator recommendation under School closure where it talks about at least 90 days prior to the board
179voting to close any school they'll gather the information y y so it's basically saying um at least 90 days before the V board vote we're going through that process of consideration is that kind of what you're leaning on that the board is yeah well the the district would have to provide um information to the board um at least 90 days days before we make our decision so that that elongates that time of consideration and discussion and and that is for a school closure so the boundary has a different timeline okay and this would not affect the nibbly park it would affect it's just our policy for future then it's got a read on that point of order we agreed in the last that we would move forward if this policy was approved or when this
180policy was approved we would move forward with this set of administrative procedures on nii in our last meeting I wasn't at the last meeting if it's confun it we approved as a board we uh gave you direction that we would follow it but at the same time I we're getting way into the weeds Charlotte I need you to make a motion one way or the other so board member Jefferson so um the provision that board member longwill referenced was for school closures which was 90 days before votes taken these things happen and that's for a school closure for boundary state law outlines a 60-day window so I don't know if you're if you're thinking that this would align with School boundaries which would be a 60-day window if you're if you're thinking this would if
181we don't need 60 we need I I don't know what you're thinking but there are separate it Provisions if if the idea was to align this with boundaries it would be 60 or 90 or if you wanted to come up with a different period or you just wanted to indicate that a decision needs to be made by a certain period of time like I think I think those are some of your options cuz if you wanted to change the deadline I'm throwing it out there Charlotte too kind of it's your your motion you're working on but what Ashley kind of recommended is you're on the policy subcommittee right yes so it could just be a motion to move it back to the policy subcommittee like um Ashley recommended so that you guys can kind of
182further dissect these timelines to to two things what sorry yeah the um so I hear you about the the deadlines you would like the them to come earlier to give people more notice but yet that can affect a good decision from being made also as far as again we're getting too far the weeds of discussion I need a motion all right the motion is I do you want to make a motion do we want to table it do you want I need a I need a motion I move that sorry we she has three table them yes no no no what sorry sorry sorry no I calling for a motion for a table you can't I move that we um does table mean we can bring it up it means that we would need to
183revisit it in the subsequent meeting or in Timeline that you state in your motion if I'm correct parliamentarian canol if we all approve if we have a unanimous decision that gets this the conversation Ends Tonight so but we can if we if it does go back to subcommittee we wouldn't be able to take a vote on it in the until the next meeting that if we held a special subcommittee meeting meeting because we don't have one scheduled but we can call one and then it would it would have to be removed from the table it's not just automatic that it comes off the table at the next board meeting are you wanting to visit it at the subcommittee or you just wanting to table it for the next board meeting no I would like to
184to fix it and make it um make it a better make it better so I just don't have that language with me at the moment um so I withdraw my motion okay is there another motion on the table Ashley I would reiterate my motion I would direct this back to the policy subcommittee to make the recommended amendments I second it all right being that um that is case any discussion Bo board can I just have clarification as to what the recommended changes are um it's my understand those recommendations would be about um study periods involving parent and school or teacher voice if I understood the conversation correctly previously so there's no specific direction as to those we can send an email clarifying because I know what I've been seeking which again reconfiguration is similar to
185a closure a closure has a a more uh considerate timeline even though it's not what I prefer and then um I believe what Charlotte was alluding to was giving longer time for um discussion and review of a reconfigure reconfiguration instead of having such a short window with very minimal like expectations um those are I guess the two main issues but ultimately refer back to my first email on my I would clarify that it's board member Anderson's motion yes is that what you're seeking as well Ashley I think that definitely the study period is what I was thinking of but when I said proposed amendments I meant whatever Charlotte felt she was unable to verbalize but may be able to take the time to share in a policy subcommittee rather than something one or more individuals
186specifically desired just the time to discuss proposed to wom if that offers Clarity any more discussion what would the study period um that's a study period where it's brought to a the board and say say we're going to be studying this what period would you think is appropriate I think if I was thinking about the example I gave which is a potential K5 reconfiguration that had a big scope that's something like we have for boundary reconfiguration or School closure would be appropriate and having nothing would be inappropriate with that said I think it could be very flexible and I believe the policy subcommittee would have a good discussion about that which is why I moved to send it to them um we also have Muhammad Muhammad do you have any comment to our discussion right
187now on sending G5 APS back to the policy sub committee yeah thank you um you know uh just listening to this conversation and the confusion it is causing uh sadly to say I mean like if even the the U uh the director of uh policy is like trying to make sense out of this you know then all all we are doing over here is sending it back is kicking the can down the road again instead of like you know this is a living document so uh and and this is living policy and so this idea of just like tabling it back and sending it back and discuss any more and all of that I mean like you know um I say move you know make a decision uh let's vote on it move it and
188this is like you know subject to adjustment down the road uh if needed to enhance the reason behind having a policy committee thank you Mohamad um Bryce any discussion from you we haven't heard you on this one yet I mean I have to say I kind of agree with Muhammad we've reviewed it multiple times already I would like to take a vote however it's fits the will of the majority of the board I'm happy to take a look at it again um I similarly just to take my time would agree with um with Muhammad and Bryce that we've um studied this I think the policy subcommittee has taken this on um once and then additionally um in another special um policy subcommittee that was held um but it is the will of the board to
189to look at this again and bring it back um of course I think we all would support that um so I'm going to call it for a vote um again to restate the motion it would be to move um the G5 APS um back to the polic policy subcommittee for further study um and recommendations based on a study period or timeline as it relates to a number of different things potentially WID scope and large impacting um grade level reconfiguration on a district scale um and also potentially with what we're dealing with here with nible Park um we'll start with um uh with Amanda um I the long BL yes price Willi yes sure Charlotte F Jefferson no is no Ashley Anderson yes Nate Salazar no Mohamed no a tie vote um so the motion dies
190essentially um so I guess is there another motion is there another motion are you wanting okay I move that we um pass the G5 um administrative policy with um wait strike that please I move that we I don't know if I can do this um can I ask that we re consider our decision last board meeting in asking the superintendent to use the new not on this particular particular agenda item I don't believe so because it is already the next one we could though um I don't understand what the next one is my my thinking on this correct if I'm wrong parliamentarian is that um because the nibble Park reconfiguration is an agenda item we would have to manage and deal with that decision separately from motion that we're talking about with the administrative procedures
191right now okay and that would be later later okay all right I move that we accept this G5 administrative policy with the following amendments or changes that we add a 60-day um study period and also that we um on the school closure period that we um have a deadline the first deadline November 30th let's see and the second one the middle of February for the boundary yeah oh is that the boundary study if there's one deadline for closure and then no for the closure no I think what you're saying if I may Charlotte is basically you're changing the deadline on the final board vote to November 30th which inherently then the boundary study automatically um follows the separate written language that allows that 60 days so we don't need to change that Y correct this
192is just the school closure yeah so you're just changing that November 30th date instead of December 31 and then that moves up the boundary deadline automatically or how about December 15 to February 15 your motion I can't say anything okay that you only need to do it correct me if I'm WR you only need to do identify the deadline of the board final board vote because the boundary closure deadline oh the final board vote for closure and the boundary follows by and correct so that that would give the district about 45 days to do it because of the twoe break for the holidays if we did that deadline in December 15th and would 45 days be adequate I I guess it just depends on on how comprehensive the study would be in I hope we
193would be I mean technically you're going to run into that issue anyway because the last board meeting in December is typically the middle of December okay all right so that's my that's my motion okay is there a second to the motion I'm I'm still confused by the motion can we just repeat it you mind repeating it again okay did you get the study period for the the grade reconfiguration I think so I just need it to be and I just have a question so you're not giving a deadline for the school closure you're just making a study period no a study period for the grade reconfiguration but no deadline for it correct I don't think that's accurate it was 60 days right but there's no deadline by which the the grade level reconfiguration decision needed
194to be made so she's not amending that and putting in a deadline is all I'm trying to understand so you're changing the deadlines for for school closure and then the 60 days would track but there's there is no deadline for when the decision on grade level reconfigurations needs to be made I'm just well no let's align that with the boundar B the the boundary closure um deadlines that one get complicated too in the way we've set this up so that school closure has to happen by a certain date boundary can actually float on its own so we could as a district change boundaries without closing schools but it would be this 60-day period that that would happen in that could happen anytime during the year essentially that decision could be made oh it is separate
195from so there's no deadline it's just a 60-day period we just wanted to reallocate students within boundaries but so there is to I think you'd want instead to set a deadline for the configuration separate from other aspects of the policy if you wanted to set a deadline for conf reconfiguration of grad okay well it should be earlier in the year um let's say I would say by I also February 15th then later better end of February end of February okay does that help you brce it doesn't Okay so the the reconfiguration would have a study period of 60 days and a deadline we would to vote the board would have to vote by the end of February on any grade reconfiguration and the deadlines for school closure if we could I would propose or I
196move that we um change it to December December 15th and February 15 yeah February 15 for for school closures for February would be the balance you don't need to is that 60 days yeah that's just the so it doesn't need a separate statement follow you do you got it I got it okay is there a second to the motion I a second all right um Miss kall based on uh the motion would these timelines fit within State Statute um knowing that we have those identified it doesn't necessarily matter when um we take these on but as long as we meet those 60 and 90day windows do you feel like we're in a position to to do that if this is approved yeah I don't have a calendar to count all the calendar days so as
197long as we just go with the December 15th and then 60 days later yeah that's good because I don't know count just just the December 15th date would be changed on the school closure okay okay any further discussion Ashley I just think it seems clear to me that most of us do not know what we would be voting on right now and we haven't seen the language and usually when amendments are made in this way it's on a screen with the red line edit and we're all certain with what we're doing so I can't support this because I don't think it's okay good to make policy in the abstract by notes and if it goes forward I would be concerned that we're not thinking through some of the unintended consequences of language that we have
198not seen written nor prepared nor placed in the context of a situation and I'm happy to make those amendments and perhaps perhaps put it on the consent agenda for the next board meeting as a redlined edit with a cover memo if if if you would feel more comfortable with a motion directing me to make those edits and place it on the consent agenda for the upcoming meeting and then if there were still concerns it could obviously be pulled off of consent at that time I would ask a followup question of our parliamentarian if for instance I was more comfortable with exactly what you said which is appr directing it to be edited and amended and approved on consent if there were no objections uh may I offer that as a substitute motion you can uh
199I would substitute that the board Direct General Counsel Christina Kindle to draft the proposed amendments by board member F Jefferson and should there be no objections to those amendments after dissemination to the board it would be placed on the consent agenda of the next meeting I second okay um my understanding of uh The Substitute motions that we have vote on The Substitute first correct and then we can vote on um the original motion correct um so uh being that we are running short on time and we've exhausted a lot of time already on this I'm going to go ahead and call the substitute motion for a vote um starting with board Williams Bry Williams yes Charlotte 5 Jefferson yes Ashley Anderson yes Nate Salazar yes yes moham yes all right that motion passes uh we
200we will now revisit the original motion uh we'll start with a roll call Vote with Charlotte Charlotte F Jefferson yes Ashley Anderson no so for clarity we're saying no to the original well sorry we are voting on the original and then we're doing the amendment so if we want to see the amendment where it comes to the consent agenda for discussion we say just appr you just approved that so what am I doing with the original motion then voting on voting on it or not but the other motion has been approved so presumably this motion would not pass but you can vote however you that was what I was getting Clarity on was if if I want Ashley's substitute you already voted for yes and we don't want the other to happen tonight we want
201Ashley's to happen at the next meeting okay no on this on the original then Nate yes I need to change my vote please thank you Shar CH Williams no Charlotte F Jefferson no Ashley wasn't no Nate Salazar no Muhammad Muhammad no okay that passes the next item on our agenda is our student fee schedule policies and APS um I'll entertain a motion I move that we approve the 2526 student uh fee schedule policies and APS as posted I second all right we got a motion and a second on the table any discussion okay seeing none we'll call for a roll call Vote with um Ashley Ashley Anderson yes SAR yes Amanda longell yes Bryce Williams yes Charlotte F Jefferson yes Mohammad yes that motion passes um moving on to our final action agenda item is
202the nibbly park reconfiguration I'll entertain a motion I have a clarifying question please um because we agreed as a board we would move forward under the new procedures it seems most reasonable that we would postpone this until we've actually passed the new procedures so can you be more specific are you anticipating going against the direction from the last meeting no I am not so you so would it be acceptable to you then for instance if I moved that we postpone this item until the next meeting if that's a motion that you would like to make I can't direct the board to make a m of approval or non-approval or or otherwise um so if that's the motion that you would like to make please state it so moved is there a second I'll second you
203have a second to postponing the nible park um reconfiguration discussion or action item this evening is there any discussion Ashley I have one clarifying question for myself for our parliamentarian um it's going on the action agenda but the new policies which we agreed we would consider that would be posted on consent should have a requisite study period which now we have not followed What Would Be Our obligation having given board direction to follow new policies which we anticipate would be approved with some type of amendment for a grade level reconfiguration time frame in acknowledging that time frame on that is that what we would acknowledge on the action agenda or would we retroactively assume the policy does that make sense and may I add to that a little bit I'm remembering now the direction given
204by the board so the question on the table at the time was should the superintendent move forward with her current authority to make a grade level change or move forward with the G5 policy that was proposed at that time and move forward with that so it wasn't as approved in the future it was as proposed there because there weren't these amendments and changes to timeline and study session that were part of that discussion at that time as I remember the direction it was to move forward with that proposed G5 policy for president saler it's my recollection actually that this was your reservation that we were deciding to move forward without knowledge of the policy and would we be comfortable moving forward knowing that the policy may not be approved could be delayed or could be
205changed and ultimately the decision the board was making is whether or not we felt it was important for the board to weigh in on a grade level reconfiguration rather than the current policy which allows the superintendent to unilaterally do that so the way I understood it is what you said acknowledging that all of these other things could happen do we still want to give that direction and the answer was yes so I would pose my former question again to um our general councel about what would our obligations be about could appropriate action on this item be to initiate the requisite time period as it potentially amended could that be the board's Direction on the subsequent meeting of course that could be 100% yes could make that thank you and I do want to say that
206I I was looking through my notes from the last meeting and I noted and as my best recollection was the intent of the G5 policy so I hear what you're saying Dr Grant that you know if I were in your shoes I would took it as to what the intent was at that time um and it's hard to function if it's a moving ball so I think that does need to be regarded um I think my point of personal privilege at this point would be to change our Direction and give the superintendent the authority to do that under the current G5 um because now that's two weeks and we're already defeating the purpose of this element of parent response feedback timing planning so in the absence of our ability to make a decision tonight regarding
207G5 or nibbly park my recommendation to this board would to be following the current G5 because that is what we currently operate under I would object with that direction as it was not given to parents for community members and is goes against the face of the intended amendment to require actual study of reconfigurations that come to the board on a timeline I'm going to actually call for a motion one way or the other so we don't have a motion I can just start going for it yeah I I thought we had a motion on the table I thought we did too motion on the table to postpone to the next meeting when G5 would be decided on consent we don't have a second we don't have a second sorry thank you thank you Bryce um
208I'm going to call up for a vote then um starting with actually superintendent you said you wanted to way on that is what you said earlier what you uh it was but I have another thing that I'd like to raise if I may just that um so what I at this point um with an it sounds like a delay coming um what I'd like the board to consider is that we have stirred the nest and I'd like to solve it for the community as soon as we can so what I would like to do is um be quick about things in the way that I don't want to wait and take this up again in November I would prefer if we could sort of follow on perhaps in the April agenda to again in and
209maybe we set a timeline in starting I don't know how to do this without G5 in hand but what I would like to encourage the board to do is make a decision on this before the end of the school year um understanding that it wouldn't take effect then because if we're going to pass G5 and hold to G5 it won't take effect this fall is that a correct interpretation of where we are with things so I don't if the board is moving moving away from the idea of voting in order to implement the change for this fall I would still like to ask the board to take up the vote sooner than later and make the decision even if it's a year from now that it takes effect because we're in the midst of all
210this I think for the families to sit in that uncertainty and the teachers to do so as hard something you could add there I just like to say that in terms of the current G5 there is no process for outline for reconfiguration so you have the option of the board has the option and you superintendent have the option of recommending a process with whatever timeline you would like to give parents closure on this issue sooner as opposed to later irrespective of the new G5 because you're working in a void right now so the direction easily could be whatever timeline you would like right now yes and following the board Direction at the last meeting I assumed I I made the assumption that G5 would be approved I didn't anticipate the study sessions that puts us
211at a time frame that I don't think is tenable to make the changes board president Salazar said let's go with the current G5 but there's nothing that oh yeah thanks and so the idea would be that you could set you know however many more days moving forward so the decision could still be made in or J even though that's not going to comply with the new G5 but it would be for the following year you know what I me I think so maybe the direction could be from the board but we still do have a motion we still have a motion we have a motion well okay what's the motion on the table to postpone until the next meeting let me have a motion a second on the table I'm going to go ahead and
212call for a motion or for a vote um with you Charlotte Charlotte F Jefferson no Ashley Anderson yes n Salazar yes amand longell no Mohammad yes passes um that concludes our action agenda um we board just so you know we have reached about a three and a half hour time limit to our our four three to four hour limit so if we can keep uh board member reports uh pretty brief oh be ideal um and we also do have the need for a closed session um after this uh board member and superintendent reports superintendent you have a report for us um I have I don't know how what if this is kosher or not I wonder if the board could direct me to start a study session on nibi now so that we could complete
213decision making by the end of the year um secr C we're already taken this up at the next so let's okay we just won't be able to complete it by the end of the year so the families won't know the decision until summer time although I think in our discussion we already determined that it would not be happening in this upcoming school year so um right my interest is in getting a decision about closure or reconfiguration not reconfiguration but at least they know it's not going to happen this year immediately y you have a report for us yes I do sorry I have to log into my computer because I wrote it down start with my report Charlotte do you have a report um yeah I just wanted to say that I I was able
214to visit um Edison Elementary School and spend about three hours there with different uh with the ELP well the magnet um gifted program and was extremely impressed and extremely um encouraged that our students on on the West Side have access to an excellent excellent education and that they have for the first you know I mean that this ELP program is really really important and that our students are benefiting from it and finally being served fully and challenged thank you Charlotte helina um yes I want to shout out west he robotics team Red Rock um and they did it amazing as a team at the Utah Regional I believe they got eighth place eight e SE um but two particular awards were given to the adviser Allison bson who is amazing she was presented with the
215Woody flowers award which is extremely prestigious within the state and it shows her dedication as a mentor very grateful for her and Ella fransen um who's a captain was named Dean list finalist which is extremely competitive and yeah great job to her actually you took something off my list um so it'll be shorter I know we amply acknowledge the incredible Women's Basketball team at West but we didn't yet acknowledge the West students who also placed in state swim congratulations Lily and OFA um three women's wrestlers also earned Podium finishes Claire Audrey and Mary um West students are also advancing to the next round of the state Sterling scholar competition in speech theater and debate English Math Science and Technical science um West fbl students competed at the state competition qualifying 13 winners for Nationals um
216West High School's HOSA including our student board member um did set a new Milestone this year at the state leadership conference with an unprecedented 93 students qualifying 61 from the high school and 32 from the Middle School for the International Leadership Conference happening in Nashville um additionally I want to remind schools that the Salt Lake City Arts Council artist in the classroom going Grant closes in just a week it I've been an instructor for this grant in the past before my board service but that's not why I share the reminder the grant is essentially only for our school district and City Charters and money rolls forward every year due to low participation in artist in the classroom in Precinct 3 wasach Elementary uses this money to fund waira a percussion instructor and IGN funds Tanner
217dance it's regrettable that so many funds go unused and less than half of the awards are going to Title One schools I think many in the district worked hard for several years in focus groups to make this application easier for Title One schools to apply and it continues to bring dance visual art music and theater opportunities to our schools that may currently only have halftime art teacher and part-time Upper Grade music um without these granted resources I encourage staff to continue to share the application reminder especially with our Title One schools some of whom I understand have regrettably been actively discouraged to apply by their administrators yeah I'm GNA take my board report a little bit of a different direction and rather than share um the great things that have happened um or things I've
218been able to participate in the last couple of weeks um I want to share my my frustration with the legislative session in our state legislature um they've done a lot of harm this session and I would encourage anyone who has not signed the referendum yet to find someone who has a packet and sign that not on school property let's sorry thank you [Music] madam just a couple of things one acknowledging the unified basketball team they just uh I think it was regionals I'm not sure how they went but they've got uh unified sport championships coming up and I just sent a message to Heather Brown to figure out if our team made it or not so I'll keep you posted um and then a shout out to what's very near and dear to me at
219my heart my daughter with Down Syndrome Friday is National World Down syndrome day um March 21st for the third chromosome that results in Down syndrome so for all those who want to join in uh wear your colorful vibrant socks to represent that extra anomaly in the world that makes fabulous kids um so big shout out this Friday let's see your socks got it thanks Amanda um the only thing I wanted to report on is um I had the lovely privilege to um be a judge for the Northwest Middle School um History Fair had a great time there I saw Dr Hall I saw other folks from our district there um wonderful presentations and Exhibits that we got to see and um I'm hoping for the best for our folks who made it out into the
220regions and I'm sure we'll hear about them soon Dr Grant great yeah um I'm in a second board member longwell's celebration of national Down syndrome day and appreciate those that are going to wear crazy socks on that day um you can do it the rocket yeah there you go um just wanted to give a couple of updates our math department here partnered with the Utah Council of teacher of mathematics to put on a film here for about 130 people there were teachers administr board members here we had a couple um as well as some um administrators from our state board um and just appreciated that people were here and the film was called counted out math is power with the idea that being mathematically literate helps us solve and understand problems and speak to each
221other about the crisis in our world and that without that we're kind of left in a weakened position with without that numeracy so um a great experience that way they the Utah Council of teachers of mathematics hosted 300 314 sites on Pi Day 314 so cheers for that um also want to mention that uh there's an update on our after school program and I'm going to shout out to our after school team and to Logan Hall for the work they've been doing to make sure that our after school programs will begin on the first day of school uh when our kids come to class typically that has started in the after the second week so we will be providing after school programs on the first day of school and um we have sent out or
222will be sending out enrollment materials to families sooner than usual to let them know that this is available and they can begin to sign up and make plans for the year so thanks thank you um I'll go ahead and entertain a motion to enter closed executive session on March 18 2025 moveed that the board go in a Clos executive session discussed the character the character professional competence or physical or mental health of an individual pending reasonable imminent litigation and collective bargaining at the board Jordan immediately upon the conclusion of close session second all right um any I'll take a word call vote starting with Ashley Ashley Anderson yes yes Manda long yes yes Charlotte 5 jepperson yes that motion passes thank you everybody for joining us this evening you all have your travel