South Summit School Board Meeting

001me now. Wait for me. I I I probably should have guessed that. How are you guys? How are you, Mariah? Hey, we're streaming just so you know. When is she getting married? Let me know. So, I scheduled a meeting. I need to talk to about what now this announcement. That's good. You're going to go to You're going to go to BYU. You're going to go to that will be fun. Whatever works. I just still can't believe Dan ded out on it cuz he was supposed to be Jake's roommate and then he gets that offer to you and leaves them all the dust. Is he dating anyone right? Is he dating anyone right now? Dad's not going to be here. Come sit down. for a while. How old are you? I'm 18. He's got a mission

002call. No, you could run for his seat. You know, really? Yeah. I don't think he was. How would that be? Wasn't coming. No. Was it? No, it was he had a possible, but then he changed. Oh, there he is. He has more important things. Hey, wait. Just so you know, um, we have to do roll call vote for you. So, everybody will do I and then we'll do, uh, a roll call with you. Okay. He could run against you. No, he's going to run against you. Perfect. I have myself muted. Sorry. Oh, you're good. His campaign manager. You'll be in Brazil. [Music] Four minutes. So start. We're close. It's not Yeah, it's not eight. It's not time yet. I know. Do you need to see my picture? Can I can block out the video, please?

003Perfect. Hey, where you at, Wade? I'm in Red Bluff, California. Okay, I got tonight. We just had 300 runs of slack. I just got done. Started at 9 this morning. All right. I'm trying. I know. But yes, every time it's like this voice just comes out of nowhere. I'll have to have to remember that and talk softer. I didn't realize pay attention during the meeting. All right. Hey, Wade, talk to us now. So, let's see if that's a better volume. Okay. I'm in Red Buff, California. Can you hear me? Yeah, we got you loud and clear. Okay. I can talk softer if you want me to. That would be helpful maybe. Okay, there. That's perfect. He said it so. Okay. Did we scare Emily? Yep. You have to let me know what you think of

004it. Did you um Thanks. Did you get hurt, you know, about talking about what's going on in your school? Yep. Okay. You ready? Am I going first? You need No, I'll be back. You're good with that. Okay. What am I am I doing over here right now? Waft some to Linda. Be like I got some notes written down. He's got some uh I just texted [Music] We're good. You ready? Yeah, I'm ready. It's one minute, too, but that's all right. Welcome to the uh South Summit School Board meeting. um on Thursday, April 17th and it is now it's 5:29. Want to welcome everybody that's here and all the guests. We're excited that you're here and be able to share some of the stuff that you're doing. So, um with that, we'll start with uh the

005pledge of pledge of allegiance by uh business administrator Robinson. Please repeat after me. 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 liberty and justice for all. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. I did that. I All right. And then I'll recite the vision and mission statement. The vision statement, South Summit School District, valuing individuals and preparing them for success. And our mission statement is we support, empower, and inspire individuals to promote and achieve academic and character excellence. Um, we'll now move on to our next item on the board agenda, which is our spotlight for our Sterling Scholars. So, I hear Amy's going to introduce everybody. So, I'll turn it over to her. You guys know

006we have a gem in Amy. She's we're we're very fortunate to have Amy. Thank you. She does a lot of amazing work with kids and four kids. Well, we had great success at Sterling Scholar. I know a couple of you were able to come to the ceremony and it was great. Um, not everyone was able to make it tonight. So, I'll go ahead and mention everybody and then can I have the kids come up when I introduce you if you're here, obviously. Um, so, uh, Camden Cox was our egg science scholar. He was named a runner up. He is, um, he said he would try to get here tonight, but obviously he's not here. Um, Damon Milbour was our business and marketing scholar. Hunter Bednarik was our English scholar and he was a winner for

007the Northeast region. He is playing baseball in Morgan in probably a blizzard right now. Uh Ashlin Atkinson is here tonight. She's our family and consumer science scholar. So come on. [Applause] Stick around a minute. Just sit down right on the front row there. They might want to have questions for you. We may picture. No, no, no, no. Briggs Metap was our general scholar. We like Ivy Jackson was our instrumental music scholar and she had a rehearsal for something tonight and wasn't able to come. Branson Halliday was our math scholar. He was a runner up and Anna Pernaard was our science scholar. She was not able to make it tonight. Mariah Bowen is here. She was our social science scholar and she was also a runner up and Sienna Sergeant is the last one. You can

008just come sit here, Sienna. She was our vocal performance scholar and she asked if she was going to have to sing tonight. Um, I said no, but I say yes. So, I don't if you have any questions for these guys. I did just want to say real quickly they all of them told me they really appreciated the mock interviews that they had with with Dan and Wade and I was just Wade and I really helpful for everybody. So, anyway, here they are. They're excellent. They're awesome. So, can you can you each tell us what your plans are after high school? Start with you. Um, I'm going to go to Westminster College. I plan on majoring in nursing to become a CRNA and I'm going to minor in music. That's great. Um, I'm going to Utah

009State in the fall and then I'm going to major in veterinary science. Good job. Large animal, small animal, probably large animal. We need more of those. Yeah, small animal doesn't sound as fun. Good. I'm going to serve a mission in S. Paulo, Brazil. Wow. I'm gonna study biomed engineering at the University of Utah. Right on. Oh, good job. U there you go. So I will be serving a mission as well. I'll be serving in the Tokyo South mission and the where the Tokyo South. Oh, okay. Nice. I plan to go to BYU study biomedical engineering. Wow. Competition. Isn't Gary Walker in that m mission right now? He's down in the commission. Okay. because I know he is in Japan. Sweet. Nice. And you're going to come back to South Summer, right? Yeah. Nice. Great job,

010you guys. You're all very impressive. Can I just make the uh observation that I was really proud of you guys and especially at at the uh uh whatever we called it the banquet the ceremony I I thought you guys presented yourselves extremely well and it's it's always nice to have uh large contingents there of good representatives because a lot of those schools only had one or two and I don't understand why. I really don't. It's a lot of work. It's a lot of work. But I mean, maybe they don't have Amy and Amy. That's that's it. And I think that's funny factor and and the way we stack up, you're always our school is always going to get the little brother status from the guys over the hill here. Yeah. And you're always going to

011get looked down on. But you know what? We stack up very well with with those guys over the hill and you guys I everything to be proud of and to have the amount of people that we did with runners up and and winners. I remember a few years ago we didn't have anybody ever and now we do. Yeah. So it's you guys are impressive and I appreciate you. So good job. just say that you you've represented yourselves very well and your families and your teachers and your principles that are sitting here and your adviserss and and your community. So looking at you and getting to know you, it was fun to get to know you at that dinner. The the future is very bright. Um you're you're the future. So whoever thou art, play well

012thy part. Wow, that's great advice. Yeah. And I would just, you know, like to also ask you what we can do. If there was one thing that we could do to help students that are preparing, we've got some feedback before because it is a lot of time and it is a lot of work. Do we need to start earlier? Is there something that you felt like we could do just like one thing? Does anyone have anything that we could do to help a little bit better? No. Okay. It's kind of one of those things where you have to go through it to go through it, but I just know with my boys, it's a lot of work. A lot of work. Yeah. Yeah. But congratulations to all of you. Congratulations. Thank you again, Amy, for

013all your work. Really, really, really excuse me. We really appreciate it. So, we'll get a picture. Yeah. And we want a picture. So, if you could, you know, are we gonna have the song? Oh, no. If you have not heard Sienna sing, you are missing out. it. The whole valley is got a microphone so many times. Okay, we're gonna come like right here because I don't move. You guys know me in the wheelchair. I don't move. Hey, you know what? Come on, Kenna. Okay, we got to have a principal in here. Sit down so I don't feel like I'm a bull. Squish. Squish. Pretend like you Jeff. Pretend like you like each other. You had kids represent too. Hey, how are you? You doing well? How are you? You got to be closer. Okay, you

014do. Should all us tall guys meet in the back? Yeah, you're all right. Face forward. Here we go. Okay, we're just gonna start clicking away. Great. We broke it already. Yeah. Okay. Great job. Good job. What a group. Oh, one last quick question. Amy, how are we going to do next year? Knock it out of the park. There you go. All right. So, thank you again. All right. Next item on the agenda is our student board member applicants. Connor is going to join us. Please come and sit down and um welcome. Uh we appreciate you uh taking the time to apply and and wanting to be part of it. And welcome. Well, guess both of you at the same time. just before you speak um when you go to speak just state your name and

015what school you're representing so that we've got it on the record. Fantastic. Thank you. That work? Yep. So So Connor, just give us an idea of why you wanted to do this and and uh and we'll go from there. All right. Uh hello, my name is Connor Gakei. I'm representing Silver Summit Academy. Uh, the reason I wanted to apply is that I've been to this school for quite a number of years now, ever since moving to Nevada, and I've really grown to love it. It's a lot different from any other place that I've been to, and I really want to help support it in any way I can. Plus, uh, I've always been interested in the sort of decisions that go on behind the scenes of school districts, and I'd like to play a part

016in it. And uh one last thing, my little sister is going to middle school in that school uh next year. So I want to help make it the best for her. Oh, that's great. Thank you. Admirable of this. Yeah. You can pull it closer, too. There's long cord. Thank you. So, hello. My name is Samantha Nunes. I go to South Summit High School. So, a reason I wanted to apply was just being more involved. So, when moving here freshman year, it was such a big change. I went from being at a high school with 3,000 students to being in the 500 that uh 500 students, which it was a huge change. So, getting more involved was for sure my biggest goal was freshman during freshman year. And I think that's why and I feel like

017now I'm getting more involved. I do a lot in the school which that's why I would want to be on the be a student representative. Fantastic. Does any of the board have questions for them? Oh yes. I am going to have to put an adamant no on this one. This is the most irritating child. Every basketball game. I'm sorry. She makes it a point to come and stand in front of me and block my view of the game to take pictures. She can't move another foot over what's on the other side. You have the best seat. You have the best seat. Get those angles for my photos. Pay big. I pay big money for those seats. No, I I'm proud of you. You've done a You're You're good kids and I'm glad that you have

018the ambition to want to be part of this and and we've had some really good representation since we started this program. I don't know how many years have we done it. Five years, maybe. I think it was pretty much five. Yeah. Oh, I bet it's more than that. And uh but we've had some great students and and they've done a good job and it it's just uh a really good thing to for the rest of your life and to put on your resumes and say you've done it. And one thing I would like to do is get these guys even more involved, especially like if you remember at the USBA conference and that a lot of school districts brought their kids with them. We didn't. We have never done that. I think we ought to

019do that next year. I think that's a great idea. So, and things like that to we need to be more pro-involved with you guys to get you more engaged with what we're doing. And I apologize to you guys. We didn't do a better job with that. But I'm glad to have you guys aboard. Thank you. What What advice do the two of you hear from you guys? Um, check your email. Check your student email. You know, this really taught me I need to check my email and pay attention to that. So, um, I would say do school visits. go visit the elementary for like a full day. Um I think they're just all the schools, not just like the high school, um are doing amazing things. There's great things to see other than the high

020school and our own events. So go to middle school, go to the elementary school. It's it's really awesome what they do. And voice your opinion, too. I know we didn't we didn't do that as much. That's one thing. And don't be shy when you're up here. Yeah. Voice your opinion. Okay. Questions. So, one of the things we are changing at this board meeting is we're actually going to have them report on the different schools that they represent this time. And so, that's some of the stuff we're trying to get you guys more involved. And hopefully we'll do a little bit more this year. So, I would like to see a change just as Dan is. So, get you a little more involved. tell us what's going on in schools. You're there. You see what's happening

021and um if you have any issues, you can bring them up. So, can I comment too? Yes, please. Um I don't know if you two knew were aware before I said that in my email, but you don't just represent the high school. You represent all the students in the district. So, yeah, it's important to talk to even the younger schools. Y any questions that you have for us? No, I think it's great. You're both moving from out of state. Yeah. Where are you guys from? Um I'm from Los Angeles, California. And then you're from Nevada, right? Yep. Yeah. So, it's good to get another perspective in too. So, that's great. Yeah. Where were you in Nevada? Uh I lived in Henderson and I got to say I'm definitely happy I moved here. What? when I

022uh before when I first stepped into middle school, I went to this school called Signature Prep. It was this first year school and I'm going to be honest, it really sucked. There was way too many kids. It was complete, it was just complete pandemonium. The gym wasn't even finished by the time the school year started. So, we didn't even have like a place to eat or do any physical sports for a long time. And by the time that year was over, we decided we needed to get out and go somewhere better. So, we came up here and I've been going to Silver Summit since. Okay. I think Wade had a question. Yeah. I just wanted to make a comment. We've had student board members since the '9s. I can remember Sam Opel being one of

023our school board members. Okay. But we did go through it. Yeah. When we didn't. All right. Thank you for your time. And I'll be I'll be emailing both of you. So, check your emails. Your student emails if if I may ask. Uh I kind of want to I have some time. Could I stay for maybe a little bit longer? You can join you can join us in the audience. Absolutely. You can stay the whole the whole meeting. Yeah. I I'd like to stay and see how it as long as you don't change your mind by the end. All right. Um, we're gonna move on. Do you think that's enough time for Lucinda? Oh, yeah. I think so. Lucinda, got 15. Five minutes. Okay, Lucinda, we'll uh we'll uh move you up on the agenda. Um,

024we have to end or close this meeting for the uh school fee fees hearing at six. You got 15, so take your time. Yeah, I I always look forward to getting to come and spend time with you. It's like one of my favorite nights of the year. Of course, now it's not going to work. So, she said it. Will you plug that back in? as as they're getting the technology running, I just want to put out there publicly how great it is to have Lucinda in the role that she plays. um dual screen. She she's a learner and she knows a lot and she um she has a vision for for um her department and and how we can move not just her department but all of us forward in our district. Um and and

025I loved as we meet because we meet frequently. Um she had not just a vision for her department, but just she really sees the overall vision of where we're trying to get to as a school district. And and she sees her role and the part that she plays in that as being critical because as a principal, the number one job is to hire the best. As a superintendent, the number one job is to hire the best. and Lucinda, one of her number one jobs is to help us get the best to apply and to stay. So, she does a great job of that and and we appreciate the work that goes into that. Your technology works now. So, yeah, thank you. I thank you really though for the opportunity. Um, this is kind of a

026little bit more exciting than nor than normal HR stuff, but um, this year we applied for and received a small grant from the Utah School Board of Education. They had a pilot program for um, stay interviews last year and it went really well with the pilot school districts that participated and so we applied and got the money to administer the interviews in our district. And the whole plan is if you incentivize it really makes people want to participate. Um, and so we they recommended that we interview teachers that were in the 3 to 5 year career stage. So that's what we call our early career teachers. Um, early career teacher attrition here in Utah is actually higher than the national average. And this is concerning because it affects not just our educators but also our

027students and the educational system. Teacher turnover isn't just a matter of staffing. It comes with fiscal cost consequences and and and then disruption too if we're constantly having to hire. But we need to understand and address the root causes of the attrition. And the stay interviews encourage proactive, intentional conversations with employees to determine what it will take to keep them from leaving. And these interviews can help us gain insights into why teachers choose to stay and what might drive them away, allowing us to create a supportive environment that promotes retention on a classroom, school, and district level. Um, stay interviews are deliberate. They're scheduled. They're one-on-one conversations with our early career teachers. They're an opportunity to build relationships, build trust, and demonstrate value. We're discovering areas for celebration and while discovering areas for celebration and

028improvement. and they're also proactive and informative educators who feel like their voices are being heard. Um they're more engaged and leaders who know what makes them tick can impact the the positive change in their schools as well. Um, so like I said, we interviewed the three to five year teachers and we had a great sample of general education and special education teachers and our instructional coaches and our district mentor are the ones who conducted the interviews and they are fabulous. And the thing that works so well about using them is that they've already built a great relationship with so many teachers and um we actually had an experience, one coach had an experience where they got to interview a teacher that they haven't got to work with a lot that they've had maybe a harder

029time getting time with. and actually felt like it went so well that there's now a very nice relationship there for it was very it was very building and so there were a lot of positive outcomes. Um, so we we got together and they collaborated. We collaborated on the questions and how the interviews were going to go and decided we would just take all the information into a Google sheet so that we could bring all the data together and compare it when we got finished. Um it was really helpful because we we found um oh and another thing is that we tried to stay either on their prep period or before or after school and make it a very comfortable setting for them. Um, most of them were in their classrooms so that it was on

030their turf and anyway, no distractions and made sure that they had coverage if needed. Um, ask a question. Yeah. On the So, the three to five years, I was just curious what's significant about that as opposed to like one to five years. So they say 3 to five because usually during those first three years when they're provisional there's they're still like in the honeymoon stage. Yeah. They and I think in the first three years if a teacher's going to quit that's when they're going to quit after a year or two say this isn't for me I'm moving on. Yeah. And that seems to be the magic number. And they actually um they actually kind of stole a lot of information from the nursing world. That's where they first started doing a lot of um stay

031interviews. That's kind of what the state office based their pilot on and that's what they found is that it's in that 3 to five range where a lot of people start leaving or moving. So, um, th this is just a sample of some of the questions. I thought maybe the ones that you would find the most interesting, but the coaches asked the questions and depending on the answers they received, they'd ask more probing follow-up questions to get information. Um and when we met after the completion of the interviews, we compared all the data, determined patterns, themes, and possible actions. And then this information will be shared with admin in areas that may help them in their schools. And then a follow-up email was sent to the participants again to thank them, to let them know

032when they would receive their stipend and information like that. But also if an action is being taken on something that they proposed or something that could change that we, you know, we're keeping them informed on actions that are happening. Um, another thing, excuse me, that I thought we found interesting was that half of the people that were interviewed mentioned that the district's compensation andor benefits package are the import are important parts of why they decide to travel to and stay in the district. um if the grant isn't offered um through the state office again, we hope that the district would be willing to have this be a program that we could continue. It it was really awesome to see the information that we received in just one year and with a small sample of people.

033Remind me again how much was the grant? The grant was 1,500. Okay. Not very much money. No. Yeah. Each participant receives $125. Is that what I read? Yep. Yeah. Okay. Which they thought was great because it didn't take very long. Yeah. So, it was pretty it's a good incentive. And just like I said, shout out to these awesome um instructional coaches and district mentor who took the time and actually went out and did the work. Um, and they said that they felt like it helped them, but it really helped me because they gathered great information and it was a very comfortable setting for those teachers who participated who already had a great relationship with these awesome um, coaches. So, um, again, because it's HR, it's it's part of the strategic plan, you know, strategic plan

034pillar number three. I just feel like this is really going to help us continue to improve our employee recruitment and retention, but also that builds district culture and values and goals. And despite all the work that we've been doing, it is hard, you know, if whether it's in a public setting and you say, "Tell us, tell us what you want. Tell us what you like. Tell us what you don't like." Well, people aren't going to answer, but when they have a one-on-one conversation with someone they trust, it it was very helpful and very open. Um, and I just feel like that that approach is going to be what's, you know, gives them teacher voice and helps us make those strategic moves. So, um, question, how do we stack up on that 3 to five year

035mark with retention? Actually, I I just told superintendent I I've been knocking on wood a lot. Jinx us. Don't jinx it. Maybe I shouldn't have asked, but last year was last year was down quite a bit. This year we don't have any three to five year movement. And so far our our hiring has been a fraction of not counting last year, but the years before. It's it's been great. Minimal And I like I hate to say that out loud because I don't want to jinx it, but it's really awesome. And I just think that people that it the things that you're doing as a board and the things that the administrators are doing within their building um as a team, it it's just all making a difference and that people are feeling it and they're

036staying. So, it's great. Do you know do we have um kind of a I don't know if I don't know what the education professional associations are but do they do they provide any data around the cost of replacing an experienced teacher is like two and a half times their salary one and a half times their salary I haven't seen that number but I would I'd be willing to find see if there's anybody who has an idea of what that is. I think it would be interesting to track how our turnover is going down and maybe put a put a dollar figure to it. Yeah. And say that through these efforts of of all the administrators and the district office as we drive as we improve retention, it's adding this much value to the community. And

037it might not be hard dollars, but there there's actually research on that and we can get if you're interested, we can get that for you. It it does come down to when a person leaves the profession. So the the cost to losing someone in the year in years three through five is it's significantly more than you know losing someone at year one. But then also losing someone at year seven or nine. Each year that someone's in the profession when you lose them whether it's to another district or they leave for whatever reason with each year the institutional knowledge that they take with them um they're they're they have they have done research and put dollar figures to those things and it is it's expensive and that's why I think as a board with the strategic

038plan to be in the top 10% with salaries like Lucinda mentioned um was that that they mentioned mentioned that in their in their stay interviews being aggressive. One of one of the aggressive was one of the words that was used. You have 15 seconds. Yeah, I'm good. Thank you. 6:00. Yeah. So, we need to Yes. We need to Thank you, Lucinda. Appreciate what you've uh done and I'm glad we're moving in the right direction. Um we need a motion. Do we need I need a I'll I'll move to close the regular meeting and open the schools fees public hearing. I'll second. All right, we have a motion second. All in favor? I I Wade. Uh, any opposed? Oh, well, I need to ask Wade. Wade, I I Any opposed? None opposed. Um, thank you again.

039And, uh, are you going to take us through the school fees or are you gonna have So, for the generally just for the the hearing, we open it up to public. Public comment. Yep. All right. Um, is there anybody who would like to comment on the student fees? Hearing none, we'll uh close the public comment. And uh I'm looking for a motion to move. It's just for the public hearing. Yeah, we're just closing the hearing. I I need a motion to close the public already. The uh the public comp the Yeah, the public hearing. I'll move that we close the public hearing at 6:01 p.m. and return to the regular meeting. I'll second. We have a motion, a second. All in favor? I I Wade, how do you vote? I Any opposed? That was fast.

040We're back to the regular meeting. We'll move that forward. Um, all right. Let it go to Thank you. Student board members, regular public comment now. Yeah, there wasn't any. There was no Okay, just note that there was no uh written public note or uh no public comment, excuse me, public comment that uh was received. Yep. All right, we're going to go now go to the student board members for the reports. Hopefully everybody checked their email. No pressure. No pressure. Bo, I I checked with him and he he was prepared. So, I did prepared surprisingly. Um so first to start off um the 11th grade just finished um ACT testing and I talked with some of them and it sounds like most of the class seemed pretty confident in how they did and you know I

041attribute that probably to the teaching at Silver Summit and how awesome it's been how accommodating all the teachers were. So you know we appreciate our teachers over there and um while they were doing the testing um the entire schools like including seniors, sophomores, freshman and the middle school they all went to um the aquarium down in Draper. and they all really enjoyed that. I didn't I I didn't attend. I had work. So, but sound like it was a lot of fun. And um for the elementary school um I didn't get to speak much with them, but I do know that some of them had told me that they're really excited for summer and they're really enjoying the weather so they can go play football or like wall ball or something outside, you know, not trotting

042in the snow. So, um, and all the seniors, you know, including myself, we're all ready to graduate. Um, we're exciting for what we're going to be doing. Um, I know a lot of them are doing post education. Some of them are jumping straight into careers, and I know everybody's very proud of them for that. And on behalf of the senior class, I'd actually like to appreciate and offer a special thank you to Mr. Grryer for his assistance in accommodating all the families and friends for our graduation that are coming on May 29th. So, thank you, Mr. a lot. I know for me personally and I know for a lot of the seniors as well means a lot. So, um, where are you having graduation? So, it sounds like we're going to be doing at Promontory.

043Okay. Um, Mr. Grinder had offered that we would do it at a different place if it was not accommodating for all of our families and friends. Um, our class size is about double what it was last year. What are your numbers? 16. So, 16 graduating students. Great. Last year was about eight. Would you say so, Mr. Griner? Eight or nine? Yeah, about eight. Yeah, 11. So quite a jump and um you know we have we wanted to make sure everyone and what day did you say you're doing the 29th 29th May 29th. It's on a Thursday. Do you know what time it's on the board? It's on the agenda. On the agenda o'clock, not 7 o'clock. Yeah, it's on the agenda. Oh, okay. Very good. And there's ice cream after. Yeah, it's a great place.

044Um and you know, we're all excited that I'm in front of Good. And lastly, you know, prom's coming up and all the upper classmen are really excited for that as well. That's great. Yeah. Thanks both for that. Thanks for giving me the opportunity. I appreciate it. No, we should have done this a long time ago. So, I'm glad we you have a chance and uh we'll keep it going, Emily. Fantastic. Okay, perfect. Um, so this week, testing week, it's been somewhat hectic, I would say. Um, a lot of people are liking the late starts uh to school, but some people are like, why do we even try and go to school? So, that's been kind of an issue for this week. Kind of a good bad thing. It has its pros and cons. Um, from

045what I've heard from the junior saying from their ACT is that it was not as bad as they thought it was going to be. Um, I know that some of them were like, "Oh, we might not have time to finish." But a lot of them had just enough time to finish or had extra time just to sit back, kind of breathe and go through all the questions. I heard that um math was pretty hard this year, so that was one thing. And then the band and the choir went to Disneyland. Um from what I've heard from some of my friends, it went super nice. Um a couple people got sick um prior to getting there. Um, so kind of a decent experience for them, but I heard that the workshops went so well and that

046they really loved going to Disneyland this year. Um, sports teams. Um, so because I'm track, I want to mention track, right? So right now we have the number one runner in the region and it's Damon and is 100 meters. Uh, we have the number fourth relay team. Um and number second for the four by 100 and 4 by 200. And then we have the number five runner which is Sophie Smoo with her 200 meters. Uh number two 100 meter hurdles is Isabelle Monstrom. And we have the number one shotput girl which is Fatima on Zo. And I'm so proud of her. Good. 30 feet. All right. I was there for that and I was so proud of her. It was awesome. Uh, baseball number five in the region and then softball we're number four in

047the region. Very good. So good sports going on right now. Sports. Great. Love sports. And golf. Um, next week we have region. So that that's going to be so much fun. Very good. Great. Thank you. You have more. Oh, I am still going. Okay. I didn't see your list. I have the fun stuff more than here. Um, okay. Uh, for the elementary some activities. Um, today I got to talk to Miss Flenders. It's great. Um, so the kindergarten is having their field trip to the playground the 23rd. Uh, second grade is having their field trip to the aquarium on the 24th. Um, the 25th there's a swimming activity for the third grade. And then the 29th there's an aquarium visit for the fourth grade. Uh and then the 29th there's uh the choir concert for

048the kids. And I actually want to go to that because I've heard that they're so good and I did choir back in my day. So well that's there you go. And um there's the spring festival May April 30th at 5:00 pm. So, I would say everyone go to that because yeah, so much fun. Um, and then middle school, they have the planetarium um planned. Uh, Miss Alvarado has a vein and soiland consult trip planned for the kids. Um, it's all tentative, so we'll see how that goes. And then I have stuff for May to talk about other than what I just did. So, great. Well, we'll call on you and May again. No, thank you. It's It's good to hear what the schools are doing and uh I appreciate your efforts to go visit them.

049That's uh that's great. Is Is Mrs. Flers going to kiss a pig this year? Yeah. What's with that? Have the opportunity to throw a pie in my face. I don't think I could carry the pig that you kissed before. I don't think I could carry that. Can I throw the pie? Yes, they're whipped cream pies. Oh, all right. You know, Adam kissed the pig also. I did. Yep. I I think it would be more humiliating to get a pie in the face and kiss a pig. I' I'd kiss a pig, but lovely. No. All right. We'll uh we'll get going with the early enrollment numbers. Do you want to click on the links? I love those reports, by the way. You know, every year, um, so Utah is an open enrollment state. Um, and so

050every year we, uh, bring the numbers to the board, bring that data to let you know, um, about, um, the applications that we're getting for out of boundary uh, students during that open enrollment time. um open enrollment specifically early open enrollments open from November 15th to the first Friday in February. Outside of that is late uh open enrollment but and so there you can see the number of um students that applied per grade and um those that the number uh of acceptance and and denial. Um, and uh, we've got that for each of the each of the schools. So, what what questions might you guys have? Quick question. Yeah. And you don't need to be specific. Just give me a general. Why do did we have 22 denied? I was going to ask the same

051question. So, generally, because we're looking for kids, aren't we? Well, that and Silver Summit is a little bit different. Yeah. Oh, that includes both. Okay. That's only Silver Summit. Silver Summit the 22 denied. So um generally reasons that students would be denied um we need to make sure that we're able to provide the educational services that that the student needs. Um uh we also um will deny um at times if a student has um been suspended or expelled in particular for anything related to violence or drugs, alcohol, those kinds of things. Um and uh so th those are probably the most common reasons that students would be denied. Um and uh the the um you you see the 13 that um applied for Silver Summit in particular, that number is always going to be high

052because there's a shift between elementary and secondary. And so you have to reapply when you're when you're changing levels. So, a Camas Valley School example would be if a student is coming to us from NorthSummit, let's say, and they're attending South Summit Elementary School and they want to attend South Summit Middle School, they have to reapply um when when it's time to go to the middle school. And then if they're accepted, they stay at the middle school without having to reapply again. Um, and so then the next time they would need to reapply for open enrollment would be the transition from the middle school to the high school. So where where do most of the students come from that are applying that are open enrollment? Um, some of them are going to be some of

053them actually um will be children of employees who travel. Um, even though they're children of employees, they still have to meet the the open enrollment requirements. Um, we get we get some from Wasatch. We get some from Park City. The the bulk of the open enrollment that Silver Summit sees is going to be from Park City School District because it's that close. Some of it could also be North Summit because North Summit's boundary does go a little bit into Promontory. So, if there are students there, that may be a place that we get them from. Uh, and then also Wasetch. I seem to recall and Jeff most of the kids that come to um South Summit on open enrollment live in Woodland woodland right up on the top right up the river. I seem to

054recall some of some of the students uh that that Jeff has at Silver Summit are coming from Salt Lake uh as well. So it's it's just kind of from wherever and and that's true for our schools here in the in the Cameas Valley also. So from Vernal, there you go. Holy smokes. And so we we bring this we bring this we share this information with you every year. We we are it's one of the asurances that we have that um the board's informed of our open enrollment numbers and um uh choice and and school choice. Yeah. And you that to be updated on April 1st. Yep. So we also have to uh meet certain criteria as far as reporting on on the public website and that um and so that uh you can see there

055the um the board in in in a previous meeting do you remember we declared schools as open or closed and and we put the we put the reporting of how many students were there versus what they could handle. And so that's that's what we're reporting uh as of April 1. That's our our reporting date. Okay. So, okay. Any questions on those two things? The next thing uh that uh I was going to share was just the MTech update. Um, you know, in the working session from Monday, we talked about um the possibility of MTech wanting to partner with South Summit School District uh to look at um maybe uh doing a technical school similar to what they've done in some of the other areas, you know, the new Wasatch campus and Spanish, those things. Um,

056so Wes and I met with um, President Christensen and Vice President um, Mccelis. Uh, we we we met with them yesterday. We went through looked at the different properties that we have as a district that the district owns. Um, and just to see it, we wanted to know what their interest level was um, based on the property that we have. Um we we let them know basically what we had talked about in the in the work session about um the potential for uh new facilities for us, you know, bus transportation, elementary, eventually a secondary school, things like that. Um and and where we were thinking about the the locations for those different schools and and this and that. um they are very interested in looking at partnering with us. Um it this is going to

057be one of those we want to know what they're thinking and they want to know what we're thinking and ultimately we we're going to have to make a decision and and that's going to come down to the board first. Um but but MTech is very interested in pursuing uh a potential partnership there. Um, as far as properties go, uh, the property over on Foothill, um, was a desirable site for them for several reasons. It's easy access for people coming in and out of the valley, and it's also close to our school, the, you know, the current location of the high school and the potential location of the school um, down the road. Um and another question that had come up during that work session was could they could they use um a facility that they

058don't own while they build and the answer was yes. So, the other thing that they that was intriguing to them potentially was um our current transportation building. They don't need I if if we were to move transportation and and we were to enter into an agreement with them, a partnership, all of those bays that run uh north south aren't needed. so we could pick up parking for the high school. The part that they could use uh at, you know, at a more immediate date, so to speak, would be where the the main part of the transportation building is, the the the classroom, the offices, and and those shops right there that that run east west. Um, did they I don't I don't know if you got to this level of discussion, but I'll ask anyway

059just in case, please. Did they in that discussion around that did it come up if they were willing to make any to the part that runs east and west? Would would they be willing to make any needed improvements to those buildings to be able to use them? Yeah. So, that would need to be part of um their feasibility study. Um but yeah, that that would be that would be part of the the negotiation that we would that we would go through. Um they uh they're not oppo the the Wasatch campus they thought was 9 to 10 acres. Um they're they're they're willing to look at a scaled down version if we wanted to go that route. Um there if if long-term the trans if we decided and they decided the transportation piece was working well

060and they did something on Foothill, it's not they're not opposed to having two separate footprints. Um they they what they really want to do is get people into certification programs and into into the trades. Um we talked a little bit about potential offerings. Um, we talked about, um, they asked what we thought was needed and we obviously we talked about the health sciences, the CNA, uh, programs. They were excited to hear that we have a board member that works with IHC. They want to know more about that. Um, and and, uh, we can go into that later, but mention that. Oh, absolutely. I did. Um and uh um they say anything about um are they are they looking to have programs here that they don't offer at the Wasatch campus or are they not necessarily

061so so um we talked about in those offerings um we talked about um the need for some construction you know in the construction field because there are a lot of people that graduate from high school that have never swung a hammer or haven't pulled wire. Um I I want to say the number was 140 or 140 something people just on a waiting list for their electrical program. Wow. So uh just MTech MTech together. So there's a demand though. There's there's a demand for electrical for plumbing. Um uh and and so obviously I know they're heating and air conditioning. Yep. HBAC's in demand. Um uh so there there's there's a desire to to do that and um obviously the the industry is what helps drive um what would be offered and they want to be I

062appreciated that they wanted to know what we thought would be beneficial to us as a school district so that we get a real benefit for our students. Um, and we have some strong we have some strong programs, you know, with agg and things like that that that uh that we could capitalize on. Um, you know, we offer some welding at through the high school and that's fantastic and and so welding may be one that we would want to do with MTech so that if a student's really if their jam is welding, we'll have them take welding in high school and then have them, you know, transition into a certification program with MTech and uh anyway, it's just there's a lot of possibilities there and um they obviously have to do a feasibility study as well

063and and find out legis legislatively if that would be supported. How many numbers do they have to have in order to support it? Um I don't know. I don't know. Um but they have uh they seemed to think there would be zero problem filling what we would offer because their waiting lists I mean they they already have waiting lists for all of their programs. And are those are those the adult programs or the student? Well, it's both. Once you're in the certification year, it it's it's going to be a mixed Oh, so we have them in the same classrooms. They could be. Mhm. I And I I love the idea of bringing certification programs into our community because it puts an emphasis on not just when I say education, I don't just mean a a

064standard education, you know, that we give in K12, but a real education that that leads to highpaying uh highpaying jobs. that you can support a family on. Yeah. Right. So, if if any of you guys have ever been down there, it's hard to even find a parking spot. Yes. Parking is one of their biggest there's a lot of kids go there. Yep. And they're they're one of the uh they're the premier statistics they gave us last at the last trustees meeting. They have like a 10% increase yearly in in growth. Wow. And they're that's pretty And they generally are the least expensive in the western Oh, yeah. area for certification. We get a little further down the road, we could probably get an idea from uh North Summit, Park City, and then even Wasatch for

065programs not offered at their campus. How much of of a poll we could get from those districts to Yeah. get student or adults. and and I I've talked to Jerry in NorthSummit. It's been it's been a while, but um and I talked to um Dr. Gild Day, the previous superintendent in Park City. They both thought that um it would it would benefit them, especially NorthSummit because NorthSummit has to drive if they're going to go to MTech, they have to drive to Heber and so it's easier. Yeah, it would cut it in half. So, any good work? Any questions? All right, we'll turn it over to Adam for uh just a small update. Just just a small update. Um a few months ago, we briefed you on the Apple lease. Um and I just need to

066clarify, make sure everybody's on the same sheet of music because there was some confusion. So, as you remember, we had a 4-year lease uh with the you know, four-year zero interest lease. Now, in order to sell those computers, we have to pay for payments. And so, we just paid our last payment. And now, we'll transition those and sell those computers. And then that's what will help offset the cost of this next year's payment. And so, we it it should based on on what we're being quoted uh cover that first year of the next year's um payment. So, I just wanted to make sure because there was some confusion of whether it was we didn't have to pay that fourth payment and whatever, but that's the way that goes and I just wanted to make sure

067that everybody knew that and that we were all on that same sheet. So, any questions, concerns? I can't remember. Do we sell them back to them? Yeah. Well, it's there's there's several different companies that take those take that equipment. So, we're going to sell it to the highest bidder, whoever pays the most. Okay. and and it's estimated that we'll get about 375,000. That's about what they're saying that we should get and our payments about 320. So, we'll pay that first payment will be paid for with the with this first group. But, we did have to pay the payment just recently. We'll have to pay a payment in July and then the money that we sell will go back against that payment that we pay in July. So, should not cost us anything next next year.

068Great. Any questions? Stuff like that's good to hear. Yeah. That we don't have to pay. The next year we'll have to pay though. Well, you know what I mean though. It seems like we're paying we're paying there. We're paying here. Yep. And we just wanted to make sure that it was abundantly clear. Yeah. Any other questions? All right. Let us move on to the procedural updates. There's a number of them. Any any questions on the procedural updates? No. All right. Hearing. You don't need to. They're not action. Yeah. Hearing none, then we'll continue on. Um we'll now move on to the action items. Um first one on the agenda is the Camps Valley Community Foundation. Um we've received the red lines. The attorneys reviewed it. If you want to just give a quick sum. Yeah,

069the the uh the attorney doesn't see any uh con anything concerning. We've also talked about, you know, the auditors had some questions about it. Um, Adam was able to talk to them, just get the clarity that they that they needed to feel good about things. Um, and so, um, given the given the proposed changes to the bylaws, um, from a from the attorney standpoint, she doesn't see any to worry about. she doesn't anticipate any issues that the board would need to be cognizant of or or concerned about. Um the one thing that she did mention and I've mentioned it to um to Shad is based on the type of 501c3 they're going to need to make sure that they're um complying with the open meetings act still. Um, and so we've we're working on that

070in these last couple months as we transition from district um, you know, from a from the education foundation as we've known it to the Cameas Valley Community Foundation, if if the board approves um those bylaws, then we'll we'll continue with the transition of starting to hand things off and it would be it would become effective July 1. Um, you know, we talked about that in previous meetings. Uh, it that's better for us. Yeah. All the all the money transfers will have to be July 1. So, that's when we would make that transfers. And I've talked to the auditors. The only concern was is he wanted to make sure and I think we've already talked about that that the corpus is for education, not for other stuff. So, and then because that's what it was given

071for and so it needs to maintain that purpose. And then and then the other piece of that is um that uh we talked about with the auditors also is um the money that's specifically already earmarked to specific programs like Silver Summit has a chunk um in there. We'll need to retain that because it was specifically done for Silver Summit. So that that would need to go into Silver Summit's accounts and Adam knows how to do all of the accounting for all of that stuff. And that's that's where the attorney as long as those things are happening, the attorney feels confident that this is, you know, this is fine if should the board decide to go that route. All right. Any questions from the board. All right. At this point, I entertain a motion. I'll move

072to approve the Cas Valley Community Foundation bylaws as presented effective July 1st, 2025. All right, we got a motion. We look for a second. Second. Got a motion and a second. All in favor? I I Wade, how do you vote? I I got one question first before I vote. How are we guaranteed that the monies that are supposed to go to our kids go to our kids? Are you talking the money that's in there for um silver for scholarships? No, for like South Summits. Yeah, we we won't have any control over that. That's that'll go into the community foundation and they'll they'll determine what they can fund and what they can't from here on out. But I think Wade, what you're asking is what about the money that's encumbered already for students that may be

073um serving a two-year mission or whatever? Am I reading Am I reading too much into your question or is that what you were? No. No. All of that. Yeah. Yeah. Like if I donated money and it was supposed to go to a South High School scholarship and we turned it on over, how do we know that that's going to do what I donated the money for? That that was the auditor's concern that the money that was donated maintains the purpose for which it was donated. And so as I hand that over, I'll just let the CAS Foundation know that this is where that was headed and then that handshake that they're going to honor that. Well, I think there's some liability there if it wasn't right there. There's some liability to the donors and and

074that's an immediate liability. The bigger liability is the long-term aspect of I I've dealt with donations long enough to know if you use money in a way that it wasn't intended, people quit donating and you can't come back from that breach of trust. So, um I think that's kind of where that's at. So, there is there is money encumbered um for to to make sure those students are taken care of. Uh and then moving forward if you've donated uh money for you know an annual renewal so to speak um that I think that still would happen as is. It just would be through the Cameas Valley Community Foundation not through us and specifically earmarked for that education pillar. Um so that it all goes into that pillar uh rather than being spread between the other

075pillars and education. is that so so for the kid on a mission right now when he gets back the money's there but he'll have to go to the foundation to get it. Yes. Yes. And it's already in and we're trusting that they'll follow through. Yes. It's it's encumbered. So there there's some liability there if it wasn't. So yes. Okay. I vote I All right. Uh we'll show that it was unanimous. Thank you. Thank you for the efforts and we we're glad it's moving forward. Um all right, next item on the agenda is the South Summit Middle School request to amend 2425 Trust Lance Plan. Um I I don't know uh if you've had a chance to look that over. Um Lacy is here if you have questions or want to talk to her about that.

076But, um, first I'll say I appreciate that, um, she and her school community council are are keeping tabs on their trust lands plans and how they're using that that money. Um, and so the it's not a there's not a it's not a lot of change. Um, but I think it's change that based on um, Lacy and her staff and her community council, they think these would be beneficial for our students. Are there any questions? Are they going to use that money to buy smartboards? Is that what I understand reading the plan? Yes, so I I don't know if you heard that Wade if it repeated, but they still have five classrooms. They do not have smartboards in them. Awesome. And and they may be smartboards or they may be one of the newer um the

077Samsung version um because I think they're they're cheaper and they're as good or better. Um they've been working really well in our schools. So um but yeah. Okay. Any other questions? I'll pause a little longer between these so Wade can ask his you are. No, I'm good. Okay. All right. Let's uh uh entertain a motion on the the request. Go for it. Either one. Okay. I'll go ahead. I'll move to approve the amendment to the South Summit Middle Schools 2425 trust land planned. Have a motion. Looking for a second. I'll second. We have a motion and second. All in favor? I I Wade. I We got a vote. All right. Thanks. Thank you. We'll move on to school trust plans, uh, which is the next item on the agenda. Um, G2, development and implement of

078an effective learning environment and instructional program. I'll turn it back over to you, I guess. Okay. So, um, hopefully this year was simpler to read. Hopefully it was more reader friendly. Um, the template I think worked well. Um, we're always wanting to improve. So, if you have feedback or suggestions, we're definitely open to that. But um all schools all all I keep wanting to say five schools because there are five trust lands plans but Silver Summit we really kind of just call that Silver Summit school right Jeeoff so um they've taken the time and uh and worked collaboratively with their school community councils to um work on developing plans for student and school improvement and utilized those funds um specifically to do those things. And um they've they have uh made sure that they've taken

079care of the training requirements and um making sure that they they follow through with not just the letter of the law but the spirit of law of uh involving community when it comes to the creation of these plans. So, if you have any specific questions about any plans, we do have um principles here. I have a couple. So, Kenneth, with the with the high school plan, super well written. Thanks. Um I just had a a thought. Okay. Like when we had the Sterling scholars here. Yes. That I thought that was interesting. you you outlined it so well about what seems to be working best and I wondered in that wild cat I don't know what the Wildcat Academy is but I wondered is there an opportunity to use some of these senior students who excel

080in certain programs as like peer tutors and maybe give them I don't know school credit course credit or something if they worked in the academy to to tutor those um juniors and sophomores who are falling behind mind. So that is definitely something. So the um we are doing some classes for so the the Wildcat Academy with our freshman. Yeah. So you're just saying is as a suggestion for the sophomores and juniors maybe get some of the seniors to work with them in some freshman and not even really a suggestion just a just a just a thought a thought or a question. Oh, one thing I I am going to have a kind of a debriefing meeting with my two WCAT Academy instructors in a couple of weeks and um we're always looking for ways to

081in improve that program particularly those two ladies that are doing that are doing such a great job and um and I will mention that to them. I think however we can involve the kids and especially it's always a concern of how we keep our seniors in the building and involved and so I think it's a great suggestion and it is a suggestion. Okay. It's a good one too. Give them some extra hands. And um they do do things through leadership. They do spend some mentoring hours through the leadership class. Um and a lot of those kids are in some of those Sterling scholars. A good chunk of them are in leadership. but it's still worth pursuing and seeing if there aren't some other avenues to get more kids involved. So, I appreciate that. Okay. Any

082other questions? I I had one on the elementary plan, too, and I I think it might just be I think it's a typo. I'm not sure. But in there was um in goal number two at the top it says to reduce by I think 5% and then a couple paragraphs down it said 3%. I didn't know if it was just a like a copy and paste or if I just 3% right there. Um, let me find it here. You'll find it. So, one of them, the 3% I think is the reading and and the 5% is the math. The math. Yeah. Okay. So, we we did two different percentages or it's it's goal number two. I think there I think it's 40% decrease in those goals. Okay. So, let me look at goal number two.

083It's right here. It's up there. So, goal number two. Yeah, there's five. It's 5% above in the statement. It's up on the screen. So, I didn't. Okay. So, it should be 5%. Okay. Good job, Ty. Good catch, Ty. Nice catch. Before we send it on. Okay. I didn't catch that. Nice. Good either. I didn't either. Okay. And we've gone over it, right? Lots of times. Yeah. So, thank you. Sure. And Dylan, thank you for sitting through the whole meeting. Dylan is our president, okay, of our council and he's gone over it. Dylan, it's your fault. Pass the buck. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying we had a very astute community council this year. A very thorough one. So, we will make that change. Okay. I I think some of the conversations in the school

084community council meetings is um when I say improving, I don't want to make it sound like it hasn't been good, but there I think there's more focus on um student data in some of those meetings now. Um, and I'm excited as we move down the road of uh assessment and and accountability that we'll be be able to share even more data with community councils when especially when it comes to creation of plans. Had the opportunity to for Cindy to show me some of the uh stuff and she's really excited about it. It was my students so there's no privacy concerns but the data that we're seeing is fantastic. Yeah. And thanks Dylan for heading up that council. Yes, definitely. All right. Any any other questions? All right. I uh will entertain a motion. Every time

085you say that, Tai takes a bite of something. on purpose. Okay, here we go. I move to approve the 2025 2026 TSSA plans for Oh, wait. We got to go up one more. Um, Trust Land plans for South Summit High School, South Summit Middle School, South Summit Elementary, Silver Summit Academy, and Silver Summit Elementary School. I'll second that. Got a second. All in favor? I I All right. I any opposed was unanimous. Thank you. All right, let's move on to the uh TSSA plans. Um do you want to take it from Sure. sim similar to the trust lands plans um as far as the focus being on um uh student success. Um this does not uh require uh any any approval from SEC's or faculty. This is it's it's more discretionary based on what the

086principal uh feels is is needed um to help uh target uh improvement on their their focused areas of need um their you know as far as demographics go. Um the the caveat to that is um while it is their final decision on how to to use the that money, it does require input from stakeholders from you know SEC and and staff. And so again they've they have followed through with making sure that they're gathering input. Um I think they're I I think our plans keep getting better each year and more focused on students uh and student achievement. And so, uh, I would say kudos to our administrators and, um, their willingness to really dig in and, um, do the work because these are these are very welldetailed plans. Uh, and I think better, again, not

087to say that the past wasn't good, but to go from good to better is a is a great thing, and that's the culture we're trying to create of growth and improvement. So, I agree. Well done. Much better. Any of you have any questions on their TSSA plans? Hopefully, again, these were easier to read this year. Definitely. Thank you. So, they were great. All right. Hearing no questions and entertain a motion. I'll make a motion that we approve the two 2025 2026 TSSA plans for South Summit High School, South Summit Middle School, South Summit Elementary School, Silver Summit Academy, and Silver Summit Elementary School. All right, we have a motion. We're looking for a second. I'll second it. Got a motion and a second. All in favor? I Wade. I. Any opposed? No opposed. He's in

088unanimous. Thank you. All right, we're on to school fees for first reading. Um I do want to point out, so thank you uh Linda um for catching on the on South Summit High School's fee um schedule. Um one of the it's not an actual header, but one of the titles on one of the columns um and Adam can pull it up. uh it it had the wrong year. Uh so that's been fixed. We because it was within the 24 hours, we weren't going to change it, but we have given you a printed version and we've also made sure there are printed versions available for any visitors that wanted to come and and so those corrections have been made on the master document and will be uh reflected in the uh May board meeting uh for

089second consideration. Okay. Are there any questions on student fees? I appreciate all the work that's been done over the last since I've been on the board. It's it's streamlined. It's much better than it has been. It's a lot better job. Yeah. Well, and Stephanie's been really great. I mean, the the laws have changed, as you know, a lot around fees in the last couple of years, and they'll continue to change. Yeah. Um, and so it's been great to be able to work with Stephanie um on all of the fees uh for all of the schools to make sure that we're being consistent in how we apply um the the not just the state code, but the state board rules. So, I did also want to just acknowledge her her her work and efforts to help

090make sure that we're systematizing this. Very good. All right. Uh hearing no further questions. Uh I'll entertain a motion. I move to approve the proposed school fees for South Summit High School, South Summit Middle School, and Silver Summit Academy for first reading. All right, we have a motion. Looking for a second. I'll second. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Um all in favor? I I Wade I. Any opposed? Showing none opposed. That was unanimous. Um, thank you. Next item on the agenda is the facility rental fees. Um, I would assume Adam. Yeah. So, so Don was gracious enough to really be the head on this one. So, she did the lion's work. I'm just I guess the voice. But um so so we've got some new facilities that are

091available to be rented, which is the the softball field and the the baseball field and the and the concession building. And so in order to kind of get a feel for what those ought to, you know, what the going rate is, Don went and uh and compared some of the rentals to other districts. And so you can see in red, I think the ones that changed. So concessions on there. You didn't put concessions. So, I I think one of the things we came up with is we don't want to rent the concession building. Um uh there there's some other options, but the Yeah, as far as the concessions building goes, we we're we'd be giving access to um heating elements, you know, cooking things, safety, that's more of a safety thing. And so our recommendation

092would be to not include um the the concession stand. Certainly the restrooms that are part of that that those would be part of a rental, but the actual concessions part we would not. Now that being said, um if and kick me under the the desk if I speak too much, but don't kick me hard. Um, one of the things that is a potential benefit to our programs is if a person is wanting to donate to, let's say a person's wanting to donate to one of our athletic uh, teams and have a team run concessions during a, let's say there's a baseball tournament or something and it's our employees running it and there's a benefit directly to us. that wouldn't necessarily be it wouldn't be part of a rental, but um it is something that we

093could do because it's our employees that are managing that and and it's a way to benefit our programs and they can use the scoreboard. We just have to have an employee there to run that for them. Yeah. Yeah. Any questions on that? Yeah. the um like the wreck teams like if there's a a baseball or softball team do they fall in so the rec center will not fall they won't have to rent it's part of they're part of the district okay and so their their programs will be able to be utilized without rental fees their priority is behind the um high schools teams so we prioritize who gets to use that high school first and then rec center but if a wreck league from outside If our rec center comes in, then they would have

094to pay. They are renting. Well, and like in the fall time with the little league football that plays up here, they would have to pay on our field. So that isn't necessarily our teams, but that's the youth conference. So they have to rent it, right? I like that our employees can use them. Yeah. For zero dollars. That's nice. And is it effective? July. That I didn't know when you wanted it effective. So effective now effective. I would say effective now because we we've got the new fields and they can be rented now. So Okay. Okay. That would be my recommendation. Okay. All right. Any any further questions? All right. Um let I'd entertain a motion um with a an effective date if you could. I'll move to approve the proposed facility rental rate changes effective

095immediately which is April 17, 2025. All right, we have a motion. I'll second. Got a motion and a second. All in favor? I Wade. I was going to rent it out tomorrow. Any opposed? All right. Um but doesn't mess around. Yeah. All right. Uh master plan re um item G. Adam, I guess this is you again. I I don't think we had anything. We We did our It was It's the feas. It's the feasibility stuff. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Sorry. We did have something now that I remember. Yeah, I was hoping to see. Yes. So, one of the things that we in our working meeting um determined that we needed a master plan. So, I need to get a an architect on board so that we can get a master plan developed so that we can

096make sure what we're thinking is feasible. So, it's a feasibility study into what we're uh propo what we proposed at our working group. And so, I'm proposing and now this is a guess 75,000. We'll go out to our architects to see how much it's really going to cost, but I think that's a good start and that if I need more, I'll come back. All right. Any questions on that? Yeah. So, it'll be a bid process for them to the the So, we we've already we've got three architects that we've already qualified. So, what I'll do is I'll I'll take it to those three that we've already done a qualification for and then they'll say, "Hey, this is how much we can do it for," and I'll pick the best one there. There you go. Okay.

097I move to approve moving forward with the feasibility study not to exceed $75,000. I'll second. Uh any further questions or discussion? Sorry. What? No, he already did the motion. You can have discussion after the motion. So, I just want to make sure everybody's on the same page. Any further discussion? All right. Uh, all in favor? I I Any Wade? I Any opposed? None opposed. Thank you. All right. The consent agenda. Um, any questions on the consent agenda? One thing I did learn at a USBA is if anybody wants to pull one item out of the consent agenda, you can you can do that and then we can discuss it. So, um, or NSBA, I learned about that one. So, just uh, keep that in mind. I did have a comment. Okay. It going through there.

098I looked at the pdiums that are paid for employees that are on trips or with students. Do we need to think about raising them? Um, just living out on the road a little bit. It's pretty expensive to buy a mill. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. That might be something we want to think about in the future. When we do our um June budget meetings, we can look at it. Yeah, I can I can I can look at that. So, right now we use the IRS rates. Yeah, it's not it's not a set rate anymore, Wade. It it we do use the current IRS. Well, it's it's the predium rates, the government predium rates. And so, is that what you're thinking? Because it's set on travel request. Yeah. It does it adjust with the city

099they attend go? It's supposed to it I thought it adjust to the city. So, depending Yes. Yes. So, if you came to Park City, it would be higher than if you went to probably LA, right? I know like um mileage fluctuates from one organization to another than Reno then Reno would probably be better or Tilla or something. And the mileage we're also following our IRS rates. Okay. It just doesn't adjust it automatically. It doesn't adjust it on the form, but it Kayyn's adjust it when she does her thing. Yeah. Okay. Does that answer your question, Wayne? Yep, that's all I need to know. Okay, great. Any other questions? Hearing none, will I entertain a motion? I'll move to approve the consent agenda to include the March 13, 2025 work session minutes, the March 13, 2025

100regular meeting minutes, the March 2025 check summary, the March 2025 revenue report, the March 2025 expendential report, the SS AFC new hires and new teachers and substitute teachers and the PAR educators, the other hires, the volunteers with approved background checks. the homeschool affidavits and policy 422 and policy 6007 for second reading. It's very nice to have that there. By the way, Don, thank you for adding that. That is really nice. I love it. Um, we have a motion. Looking for a second. I'll second. We have a motion and second. All in favor? I I wave. I. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimous. Um, all right. Making sure. Um, moving on. Uh, we're looking at policy 74, liability for first reading. This is the, um, policy that was brought up, uh, in our previous board meeting about

101the transportation. And, um, so, um, we've been able to, uh, make the, uh, recommended adjustment. um to to the policy um specifically about parents or guardians being able to authorize an alternate location um such as a daycare or a family member, a friend as a permanent uh alternative. Uh it was um one that um Wade had brought up. Um Wade and I met looked through this. I don't know if you want to add anything, Wade. I think it think it met the kind of what you were going for. Yeah, it did. It I mean based on what we can do and what we can't do, I think it gives somebody an opportunity to find somewhere for their kid to go if they have an emergency. Yep. So, all right. Any questions? Other questions? All right.

102We'll uh entertain a motion. I'll move to approve policy 7004 liability for first reading. All right, we have a motion and look for a second. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor? I I Wade I. Any opposed? Mo motion carries unanimous. All right, moving on to I think it's the four items. Last part of the board. Um, wow. Just want to note uh the South Summit uh seniors dinner is on May 21st at 6 p.m. at the Red Barn. Um I did not know when is the South Summit graduation at time wise it's it's at 6:00 too. Okay. So just that's the dinner's at 6. The dinner's at 6 on the and then graduation 23rd and then uh the graduation's 22nd at 6 and then everything's at six and then uh

103Silver Summits is the 29th at 6. Um any questions there? Graduation is at 6 p.m. Everything's at 600. It's on your thing on your computer. Oh, I missed it. It's at the very bottom. That's why I bought it. Okay, Dan, do you have anything? Um, review right now. Yeah, I have a couple things. It was wonderful to meet Kevin Bacon. You guys all left, right? We Yeah, we went to go catch a flight that was two hours late. Yeah. Um, so now you're the first degree of Kevin Bacon. Yeah. Yeah, I'm a first degree of Kevin Bacon now. No. Um, that was actually pretty good cuz they sang a few songs and his brother, I don't know if you know anything about his brother, his brother's a college professor of music at I forget where,

104but these guys are not just dummies. They're pretty pretty smart. Um, one thing that that impressed me, I went to a uh a breakout and I think Tai was the same breakout session with me and they were talking about uh the new government intrusion into education of the this mantling and and what the board of uh department of education and it was presented by uh represent representative of the NEA was the one that was doing the breakout session and there was some very uh disturbing things they were talking about and and I think the main thing that hit home with me and I think Shel may hit home with her too that they were talking about the reclassification of monies and that for special ed and how now that if they dismantle the Department of

105Education that special ed and the funding will be put under uh HHS and and that which will reclassify special ed from an educational classification to a medical classification. And what that could it's not necessarily going to happen but what could happen with that is that's a regression of probably 40 years in the of the way special ed is viewed and that and so now students instead of being qualified in different areas it will be go back to you have a medical diagnosis that you're not normal and that could really hurt not only funding, but the amount of students that are put into special ed and how they're put in and and so it could be a a whole big uh terrible situation that and being a special ed teacher for 25 years, it's not something

106that sounds too fun. And um uh a couple other things they were talking about is you know just the general funding and how it all is uh kind of the downward trickle and we can already see it here in Utah with the attacks on education of the legislature. And one thing that I'm going to throw out here is to maybe put a little damper on the Mtech stuff is that they're demanding uh multi-million dollar cuts in higher education right now. University of Utah's example is like been told to cut $50 million. Some of these other universities have uh like Utah State's 15 to 20 million cuts. Well, the next uh level on that tier is going to be uh vocational colleges, your MTEX, your Davis district, uh the Davis stuff up there and and that.

107And if they're going to start cutting that stuff, you know, will they want to expand here? I hope so. So, get on it fast before it gets cut. That kind of stuff. And then the next tier below that is what us and you know some of the other districts are already I I'm seeing and reading in the papers of cutting and and that Park City's having a staff reduction right now and hopefully it doesn't hit us. But, you know, that that was kind of a a wakeup me that session that, you know, things aren't all cheery in education land right now. But other than that, I I really enjoyed the NSBA this time. I I didn't have any major health problems in Atlanta. That waited till I got to Nashville when I had a couple

108of collapses on the ground and couldn't move. But, um, I enjoyed it. It was it was a good it was a good conference. I like the layout of it. Um, one thing that's disheartening to me about NSBA, and I've been going to them for 9 years now, they're smaller than they used to be. when they tried all those uh state representatives out on the on the stage, there was only what 25 of them maybe. There used to be a whole lot more. When I went to my very first one in Denver, there was 40 50 people up there from different regions and it's half the size it used to be. So, but I did like the format of the way they started it and ended it on Sunday instead of ending it on Monday like

109they used to. So, it all in all I had a very positive experience and I apologize to you guys about the dinner we had planned. Oh, you had no control over that. I had no control over that. Yeah. So, don't you worry. I didn't expect a barbecue restaurant to run out of food at six o'clock in the evening. That was a busy night though. There was a lot going on. A lot going on. Basketball games, hockey games, whatever was going on. Soccer. Soccer. It was soccer. Yeah. So, I apologize for that. We'll do better next time. It still was fun. It was fun. Good. Ty um I guess a learning I had from the conference just to share the the learning is um one session I went to about vouchers I learned a lot there

110and just to I don't know how many people even listening online but if there is anybody some of the learnings I learned takeaways were that in Utah over 90% of the kids who are being educated are being educated in public schools over 95 5% of the special ed kids are being educated and taken care of in public schools. And whenever vouchers go to the voters in states, it loses. It loses by big margins, but state legislators pass it anyway and pass those laws. And even with all those figures I just shared, um I forget the measure. like per pupil or per student. Even though over 90% of the kids in Utah are educated in public schools and over 95% of the kids with special ed needs are educated in public schools, the legislature funds the

111vouchers at twice their rate as public schools. And that's really disappointing to me. And I want to get the word out because that's something that we need to fix because public education is doing a really really good job for our state and our students and the state government needs to do a better job of taking care of our public educators and board education. So that's my takeaway from the conference. And um uh one question is uh do we so we're we're changing our meetings to Mondays and that starts next month. Yes. And is that we have that special budget meeting in June? Is that on Thursday or is that on Monday as well? That is a question we're going to have to because I would like to propose that we do it on Thursday if

112possible. The public hearing. The public hearing. And the only reason I say that is I've got a ward responsibility. I'll be in Wyoming on that Monday. Okay. So, leave that one on Thursday if we could. Okay. Yeah. I just didn't know. So, the May meeting will be what? Uh May 12th. May 12th at 6. At 6. Yep. And then um last question on that is do we have the and sorry if I missed it, but do we have the calendar for 2026 yet? Okay. Is it just on our website? the meeting schedule calendar or the academic calendar. It will get published. I haven't done it. It'll get published. It'll just be the second Monday. When when is the budget hearing? Yeah. When is that, Adam? So, I put it in Tuesday or Thursday the 22nd

113of June. 26th June on the 19th. So, I was Yeah. June. So, June 19th. June 26th. June 26th. Okay. And then we have board meeting the 9th two, right? Yes. The 12th. Okay. The No, the 9th. The 9th is a Monday. Yeah. The 2nd is a Monday and then the 9th. Oh, June. June. Okay. Yes. Sorry, I thought we were me. We're talking June. Okay. So, 6:00 on the 26th, we're doing budget hearing and then the 9th is board. That's right. Okay. Yep. I mean, I could try to wing the budget hearing, but I'm sure No, no, no. No, I'm fine with that. I just I was just updating my calendar today and I just wanted to make sure I showed up to the meetings. So, just Yeah, I I I'll be honest with you.

114I thought we were starting the Mondays with the new school year. No, it starts May. Good thing you told me or I wouldn't have showed up. Well, you would have got an email saying maybe I would have called you. Oh, you have to check your email. Check your email. Did you guys know we start on Monday next month? Check my email. She didn't know it. I know. We probably should text them instead of email, right? Yes. It does get a little dicey text. It does. It does. The meeting schedule I typically do the one for the next year in May. Perfect. Perfect. I just was updating my calendar and didn't know if it was out there if I missed it. Thanks. And it's going to be the second Monday. Second Monday. Right. Second Monday. All

115right. Uh and remember, we've moved the time as well. Six o'clock. Six o'clock. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And I wanted to go to four. I know. And Wade wanted to go to seven. So, meeting in the middle. Um, one of the classes I went to, just because we've talked so much about MTech, was this um school district, they call it LTP, like very similar program, but they actually have a program that they start in seventh grade. What they do is they start building awareness. They do a few things hands-on and they do exposure to technical fields. They they actually have a semester rotation that includes like a farmtotable in the summer where they actually grow things, a woodworking, automat automative, but they said they're having to stop the auto programs because you can't change oil anymore

116and the cars and basic homemade they develop interest and they start focusing on specifics so that when they get into high school into ninth grade um they are ready to go. It was a smaller rural community, but they have a much higher rate of graduation through the MTech process than they do in college and universities. But I took several notes so when we get to that point, but I they had a lot of testimonials from the students that even in middle school how they had started looking at what they could do at MTech in high school. And so it started getting their minds set to that of this is what I want to do or I want to take those classes and learn that. And they actually they went to they had a great teacher

117who in middle school the students helped raise the chickens and sell the eggs at the local farmers markets too. I'm like okay that's amazing to have a teacher dedicated to do that. But um the other thing that they did is they also held community meetings um just sporadically in the summer back to school making sure that the community knew that what the supply and demand was and you know what what a focus is on that because they said so many times in their community they were focusing on going to college and college graduates and yet they weren't having a high success rate of kids leaving and graduating. So, I thought it was just very interesting how they you can really once we decide and we go in that direction that we can start marketing it

118in like seventh grade, you know, here's options and opportunities and then and they kind of had a scaled approach of what they did. It was really cool. But I thought that was one of the greatest ones. But I I also enjoyed my classes. I did um I went to my guy that I love, Sean Buchanan. He's a superintendent in Oklahoma. And one thing that just really stood out is he he told the story last year too, but he tells a story about a teacher that took a student to the principal's office and in front of the students said, "I have had it with this kid. It's you're he's yours. I'm done." And how like he immediately went and called the superintendent and said, "We're terminating this teacher." Because he's like, "We are the only ones

119that are champions of this kid." you know, he has a lot of problems, but he talked about the importance of every kid's important and that those three seconds of comments will take years for that child to get over. And I know we all do a great job at that, but it just made me remember how important every communication we have is with the kids and it does impact them forever. I I'm surprised even when we're sitting around with our kids, they still remember things um great things that happened in their high school and in in their elementary school and what teachers said and how they impacted them. And it adds a big responsibility and it made me think, you know, as you all know, I raised teachers. They seem to not want to do anything

120else but that education, which is great. But I see them following that same trend. As Mark teaches fourth graders and John's in middle school, they're teaching kids and realizing how they they may be the only bright point of that kid's life that day. And so it it really it's amazing to it was good to learn. It goes beyond just the books and the grades. And that's what his whole point was in his class was it is every single moment, every single word you say to that student. And they had a real culture change there because it was a a school district that had a a lot of Indians, a lot of Navajo Indians in their school. And so they really had to change their whole culture when he got there at the school district. So

121it was kind of amazing to just sometimes you just need that reminder. But wow, that can be an exhausting exhausting job. And I just want all of our teachers to know that we appreciate them and the impacts they make. All right. Um, just following on with that, did you have anything else that you need to bring up? All right. Um, so I thought NSBA was really good. I agree with Dan. It was it was really small, much smaller than I had anticipated. There were a number of good classes. Um, I went to the leadership classes because I'm trying to figure out how to run the board meetings. Um, and the the person from Alaska that was teaching those classes was fantastic. Oh, yeah. They're good. I went to their classes. They are fantastic. They had

122lots of great ideas. Um, and uh some of the stuff that I trying to do. We also went to uh I went to a session where uh about student involvement. And um this is a little weird because it's not in Utah, but it was in Arizona. Um they have a district that's all elementary schools. And so their programs, it's all elementary schools. Yeah. Arizona I taught in Arizona a year. Yeah. Arizona's school districts are not set up like ours. So you would not have like if it was you'd have two school districts here in in Campus Valley. You'd have South Summit Union High School. Yeah. Uh district district and then you'd have South Summit Elementary School District. So you'd have two different districts right here if this was Arizona. It it was it was really

123interesting but you wouldn't because we would have Summit County uh school district and then Summit County Elementary School District and that's the way Arizona set up. It was interesting to me because um they have school choice there and so it's a big driver of trying to keep kids in schools and so they've developed a lot of programs and she's like I'll talk about vouchers all day long but there's a lot of effort to keep kids in in in the public school range and they had a lot of great ideas of involvement. I mean they go to the extreme because it's that superintendent all it's focused on is eighth graders. So, she has a dedicated eighth grader uh student council. And so, it was interesting to see that. Um, I did like the keynote, one of

124the keynotes that I got to see. Which one? The Olympian. The Olympian. Oh, she was good. Yeah. She was fantastic. Um, very inspiring. She had it hit it. Got an IED first day on the job. Um, changed her whole life. Went on to be a parolympic. Did amazing things. It was very inspiring. So, I'll cut it short. That, if I remember correctly, Arizona, it was defeated 6040 by the voters and then the state legislature passed it. Yeah. She was very uh vocal about not liking and school choice, you're saying, meaning they're homeschooling. They do they can go anywhere. Yeah. Whatever they want. And I'm a favor of choice. But if you're going to take taxpayer money, then you need to have the same sort of accountabilities that public schools have. That's my position. And funded

125at the funded rate that public schools are funded. Yeah. Yeah. So, you want to start your own school, start it, but don't make us pay for it. I I think my favorite one, and it's probably your favorite one, was the one that we actually we didn't know that we were sneaking into, but we did sneak into and didn't know. Linda and I got turned away at the door, but it was great. The list, but it was great. Um, uh, that's the folks from Alaska, and it it was really good. Um, uh, there was some focus on, um, personalities and, you know, on a board and, uh, personalities in in just in district leadership. Um and uh just fostering cohesive teams that enable a focus on student learning and improved outcomes despite um the crazy environments

126politically that we're we're facing and how important it is um that we you know work collaboratively with with that at the core center you know student impact being at the center of of what we do. So it it was really good. But I also liked the Olympian. That was one of my favorite parts. So, okay. So, like you, I snuck into one of the ticketed events um before they started taking the tickets. So, it was really kind of fun. But, um it was called creating the conditions for highquality special education on a budget. It's one of the only um uh classes that had budget in it. So, of course, I had to go uh and I had to go for Shelly because of of uh special education. But, um what was really what was really

127cool to me is is the things that we are doing in this district are exactly some of the things they talked about. They talked about how gen ed teachers need to take ownership of their sped kids. Um which is what we're we're working towards as well. Uh it talked about um the the teacher shortage in sped and how um converting good gened teachers to sped is important and we've done that as well. It talked about um how sped should be under teaching and learning which is exactly what we've done. So it was really kind of cool. It was really oh yeah we do that. Yeah we do that. And so it was really really fun. And so I think that's a a a kudo to Shellyley and the program that she's put together. Um and

128you know sped nationwide is is exploding and it's costing a lot everywhere not just here. And uh so um you know any ideas that we can take away from that to to one still provide a quality education for for our sped students uh but also to figure about out ways to to reduce costs I think's really important. Um, but again, we the the main focus is is we've got to provide that to our sped kids and and I think we're we're doing a pretty good job of that and and we're we're doing some of those national things that that are getting results. And so that was that was a fun one for me. And then I also like the the the keynote as well. That was that was awesome. So, all right. Uh, Wayade, do

129you have anything else? He's taking a break. Muted if he's trying to talk. San Antonio um hospitality center reached out to me yesterday to let me know that the Alamo Tours book up a year in advance. So if we would like to look at that on our trip next year, it's time to make the reservations. And she sent me my four vouchers for Dan doesn't know she won at the draw. Yeah, she told. Oh. Oh, yeah. Okay. As long as you know. Bragging about it. All right. Don, do you have anything else you need from us? Okay. Um, at this point, I'll Oh, looks like Wade was kicked off. He's back on now. Wade, do you have anything? He's on mute right now, but No, I'm good. I just got kicked off for a second,

130so I didn't get hear the rest about Adam, but that's all right. I'm good. Okay. Bo, do you have anything for us? No, there are not. All right, Emily. Um, I don't know if you guys know, but I was just recently on ABC4 News. You were? What? Um, we're going to have to go check it out. Yeah. So, the Red Cross invited me to um go on the news because of the blood drive. Um, I received a $1,000 scholarship from them. Wow. Congratulations. Good job. winter blood drive. I was um one out of five students um around the US around the many blood drives that were going on that fantastic job. Great job. Good job. No one more deserving than you. And thanks for letting us know. And she gave me a treat after I

131donated blood. Good job. Very good. Recommend. You're going to college, right? Yes. Yes, I am. You right. Yeah. Yeah. I remember. All right. All right. Thank you. Um, at this point, we'll uh entertain a motion to adjurnn. You need to get one of these on your I'll motion that we adjourn. Thank you. All right. Um, thank you for coming. We lost everybody, but that's good. Thanks for letting me hang out, everybody. Thanks, Wade. Enjoy your time.