001no it up here there's nothing you have oh he's lucky to have running water buddy Ken can you just knock him out he have too many side comments today we're live picked on me you give it two minutes that's good good morning 15 days check on my wife would you do you see any she has any she has any boys over make sure they're rich days have a start performances Friday Saturday night and go every night until the till the 29th a long audio I was he didn't get my good looks CU I still have mine good one Ty I will say Xander's a lot easier to give crap than BRS I love them both what I love them um yeah that's for money ain't they for minute yeah they are they come in every
002year that's for money used to come in with their hand out it's I'm you we the ti just for me did you BRS link he even got a haircut he's going to come take you down and he could take you down no he can't it's pretty tough yeah but he's recovering from a knee replacement that's true just hit him with on that knee which knee was it I'll tell you all right get started uh we want to welcome you to the uh th it is Thursday Thursday night board meeting uh dated March 13th at 5:30 p.m. um just to note um all of uh the our board members are here um Emily I assume is coming as far as I know yes okay Emily is coming okay she's just a little late um excuse me
003um we want to uh turn the time over to Bo to lead the Pledge of Allegiance please please repeat after me as we recite the pledge of allegiance of Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all we'll uh now turn the time to uh uh superintendent M for the vision a mission statement vision statement Sal Sumit School District valuing individuals and preparing them for Success our mission statement is that we support Empower and Inspire individuals to promote and Achieve academic and character Excellence all right thank you superintendent uh no public input tonight that I'm okay no public input um we will now uh invite our senior class up please hello I'm Brigs metf and
004B Marchant and we're here on behalf of the senior class you had to talk into that microphone you have to sit down yeah be recorded got to repeat everything you just said exactly I really need to just your names please that way everybody hears it I'm Briggs mff and I'm Ellie Marchant and we're here on behalf of the senior class and first of all we' just like to thank you for all of the support you've given uh senior classes in the past and uh We've also like to invite you officially to our senior dinner this year Ellie has some invitations thank you oh you're good thank you thank you thanks and then we'd like to request funding to help for our senior dinner we do have a slide we can show you with a few
005of our quotes plug down there why they glue it shut get in their own hands not if not we've got a dungle okay let's see if yeah here it comes okay so that first quote up there is for Cafe Rio um this is for 140 people and this is the quote that the senior class preferred and it would be 18 or 1, $860 and we would go and pick that up and then set it up ourselves and then an alternate quote would be Olive Garden 140 people slightly cheaper at $1,680 and then another alternate quote for $2,500 from moas and they deliver setup cleanup yes and moas would they don't have an option to just go pick it up and set it up ourselves they would come and set it up for us so your
006preference is uh Cafe Rio that's correct all right okay any questions from the board you have questions no I think that's great sounds like fun it does perfect thank you thank you look forward to being with you for that dinner thank you appreciate coming thanks for dressing up for you guys look sharp I was going to note that you do you look very sharp both of you thank you all right all right next time on the agenda is the superintendent items U we'll turn it over to him for the legislative well for all your stuff for all of it okay um there are lots of legislative updates I've limited it to just 40 just kidding um I do have several um and I can give you you know more information or less information it kind
007of depends on what you want to know but um one of the one of the bills that passed that will have an impact um is on uh school fees amendments um we've been Stephanie we've been working on some draft language as far as what that could look like based on the changes um for policy change and procedure change um the State Board who Jenny Earl is here she's on the State Board they did um give us they gave every school in the state that you know as far as fees go an extension on the deadline for fees to be approved which is why fees aren't on the aren't on the schedule tonight um we we wanted policy and procedure to precede that um but uh anyway so there's um some some of the highlights of
008the new law are things like ensuring that a student has um at least one option to complete the school requirements without having to potentially pay fees um uh it there's some things that um we've always had to clearly disclose any fee related to a course or activity um uh but it also includes in or it has to be in the description of the course or activity in the registration materials as well so not necessarily just on a fee schedule but it has to be clear to parents so that when they're looking at you know at registration things like that parents have that information it's all this is I mean these are good things these these just they hopefully instill trust and transparency um it also prohibits uh a district or an Lea from charging a
009student fee for certain non-fee courses or charging General fees uh or charging or increasing a fee to a student to supplement or supplant other fees and that's not something that to my knowledge has happened in South Summit but it has happened in other parts of the state so um anyway so that there there is a that will have some impact on policy procedure and just practice in general um another one is House Bill 267 it's the public sector labor union amendments some people have referred to it as the anti-union bill um some of the highlights from that bill are that public employers are prohibited from recognizing a labor organization as a bargaining agent for public employees um and uh it prohibits public employers from entering into collective bargaining contracts uh this does go into the
010the this goes into effect this year so it will impact this year and we'll we'll need to talk about that soon um House Bill 40 school safety amendments you've we've talked a lot about school safety the last couple years um some highlights of that biller that it modifies um some communication device requirements for school safety personnel um it it changes some of the safety assessment deadlines and frequency as far as some of the trainings or you know going through some of the um assessments and things like that um it also adjusts some of the school safety personnel Provisions which for us will likely have an impact on our district um House Bill 104 the firearm safety and school amendments this bill will require firearm safety instruction in in all public in all public schools um
011it's they passed that they passed it or justes this staff no for students it's for students kind of against Hunter safy there's lots of different ways they all they allow us to Define it Hunter education is one of those ways that it can be done but um specifically we have to have while kids are between k6 they have to receive that training three times uh and then another time in middle school and another time in high school um so go ahead did they take away the money for CPR uh do you remember if they I thought that was I think they did yeah yeah okay so but again these are things that will impact Us in this next academic year um the the the the swim lesson one did not pass that was one that
012um was going to be put on on school schools and that didn't that didn't go through um House Bill 396 small school district scale of operations formula that's the one that we call NES um and that did pass so that will have positive benefits for us as a district um that kind of the rural Money Rules it is and and some of the some of the big change to the Ness now is um it it's not just dependent on school size and that it it includes um districts so they use County classification and because we have because we're part of Summit County our classification as far as County goes would not have us receive Nest funding but they added the the component we talked about this last year and um and they they added it
013into the language last year and they made sure it was in here this year that it also um includes school districts that have 2,000 or fewer students enrolled so we qualify under that um which had we not qualified would have been a a a really big Financial hit to us as a district3 million yeah yep so just over one and a quarter million so um so that's good news um Senate Bill 37 Min minimum basic tax rate amendments um a Adams certainly could explain this far better than me but it basically says that local property taxes that normally stay here in our area you know local uh it goes to the state and it has to it's all sent to the state and then the state will turn around and write a check for what
014we sent them uh so the the idea is well you're not losing any money Our concern around that there's also some question on whether or not that's constitutionally allowed is from our state constitution uh perspective but our concern as District leaders is when that happens that becomes we come dependent upon the legislature to um appropriate and and give us that money over each there so um but that passed and so that's something that we'll have to deal with and I don't know if anyone will I don't know of any groups that are going to challenge that I I don't know if that will happen or not but um that that was one that so it's just the basic rate so that's the rate that the state sets anyway that's part of our um you know
015our property tax that goes to school it's that rate that will go to the state and the state will take that money put it in the general fund and then they will give us income tax money back the same rate it'll just be a month behind so so we'll still get the interest on the money um it's just a different pot of money so that was one that didn't see much of a change right from a financial standpoint point but it's one that we had opposed but it still gives the state control and not us um yeah it gives them that they can use that money yeah um to do whatever they want with so the county actually collects that tax right right and so we won't they would pay us they would pay us
016and that would go County's just going to pay them pay them and then that they'll write us a check for that same amount out of the out of the income tax fund so they have their well some of the concern some of the some of the concern you know that came up in conversations is is there you know how do you guarantee from year to year that that That Remains the Same so anyway there will probably be more coming up later around that but so what was the issue that made him even want to they don't have enough money in the general fund to fund other state government programs and so they need this money to they have plenty money in the income tax fund but they don't have enough money in the other funds
017that funds all of other government and so this is a way to get around the State Constitution and and move money from property tax into the general fund and then they will give us the money from income from from the uh income tax so sounds like a freaking deal so and there you know when you talk about when when there are conversations about lowering income tax that if we're reliant on income tax that that's also a concern so and income tax is the most property tax is the most stable tax we have whereas income tax a lot of it depends on the economy and so it's a lot more volatile so that's the scary part so just want to make sure you had an update with that since we had opposed that um and then
018just lastly Senate Bill 178 devices in public schools this past uh this bill addresses the use of cell phones smart watches uh or eer Technologies during classroom hours so that now once it goes once once it takes effect um it will now make it will be uh students can't have cell phones smartw watches or other um emerging technology devices in class being used during class time so passing time lunchtime before school after school are still okay um but this will require it it's one of those that um is more of a shall that uh so a board does have an ability to um create policy that that supersedes this for lack of a better word if a board wanted to do that but um we do it will require a policy uh in in in
019the near future so is that like the minimum we can do we can make a a more restrictive policy but you you actually no you you can the the the purpose of the bill was to try to help support schools and school districts who were fighting the technology in classrooms and and I don't know where it came from but but what what we were told by the the bill sponsor was that he was told by teachers and districts administrators and that that um what they face is when they confiscate a phone or try to enforce a a board policy or a school uh rule around technology use that um because there was no law to say that they were breaking the law there was there was some concern about unreasonable search and seizure there just
020things of you can't do that you can't do that they're not breaking the law so he created he he he drafted the the bill and it passed so it's something that um in the near future we can talk about as far as what you as a board want to to do do we want to stick with it do we want to go more restrictive less restrictive um there are obviously always going to be carve outs for that exceptions to the rule students that require the technology for like for example diabetics you know someone needs their phone that monitors their their glucose you know numbers or you know that is kind Bluetooth to their their insulin pump things like that so there are thing there are there are carve outs for that um but so that
021also passed any any questions about any of that okay um last month um as a board you asked me to just go and get um legal council our legal council to give us information a recommendation on prayers in board meetings um I attached the the letter that um uh our attorney drafted um you I'm sure you've I imagine you've all read it she gives a lot of case law she cites a lot of case law and and um uh and then but at the at the very end her overall recommendation is just as far as from a legally safe place to stand that that school boards not hold prayers in in board meetings but it's not a can't do it's just from a liability standpoint it's it's not a safe practice but um do we
022do until we get the letter so it's you guys as a board vote on it yeah so since since our attorney recommended not to do it I would prefer to have a motion to put it on the agenda for next board meeting I'll make a motion to put it on the agenda for next meeting second that we have a motion in a second uh let's do a roll call vote on this just because no and you're saying to put the prayer on the agenda or to put the discussion the discussion on the agenda so we'll hit the next board meeting right so discussion or action item or both both okay both great I would say both is it both okay just for clarification so for your motion you'd like to have that on the agenda
023for an action item and okay okay so we have a motion a second uh we will do a roll call vote on this Dan how do you vote i i i i all right okay I okay put it on the agenda for next month and we'll then we'll bring it up as a as an action item great all right is there anything else you want me to do for that in preparation for that meeting or do you have enough information I we have enough information yeah great thank you for getting that yeah yeah absolutely um and you'll yeah you bring that have that PDF for us are at least on the agenda so oh yeah yeah yeah yes y absolutely you bet um I wanted to just you know acknowledge now they're not necessarily here
024tonight they they weren't able to be here but um we will uh recognize and acknowledge them at another meeting uh I think we're going to try to get them here for April but just our Sterling scholar results um Camden Cox was a runner up in a science Mariah Bowen a runner up in social science Branson Halliday a runner up in mathmatics and Hunter Bednar uh winner in English so uh fantastic it was yeah we had a good showing good evening it was a lot of fun was it was fun to see the kids uh get to participate in in such an event so can can I just make one comment and this is going to you as well after the meeting Hunter came up to me and thanked me for the interviews that we did
025and he felt that's the reason he won great is because of him talking to Wade and I great spending a half hour with him of how to conduct himself and how to do interviews and how to present himself and he credited us with why he won thank you which I thought was really he's a pretty sharp kid too very sharp kid that's great thank you guys for doing that 35 ACT score in English 35 wow yeah he well he's FY smart too then he's he's already been accepted into business school at it it was a great it was a great evening and it was all the kids did great it was great even that's good and it was so fun to hear some of the student some of our students who didn't make Runner up
026or winner still talking about you know saying things like holy smokes I had no idea I mean the person that won in my event has taken X number of this and d and it's like yeah I mean there's some amazing things happening one kid that won one of the competitions there given his resume and he had taken 15 this will tell you where he was from 15 AP classes and passed them all and passed them all Park City oh yeah there was 15 AP classes 16 AP classes wow so that's awesome that's great it was a great night so it was I think it was it was good too yeah it was a win for for South Summit our F principal yeah she was great job yeah good job well done our our future is
027in good hands L to those kids yeah and you're all doing great um and then just usba region meeting as a reminder March 20th at the Overlook at Black Mountain Resort 6:00 um I think all of you have rsvpd to Dawn um but just wanted to make sure that reminder was out there and then we have upcoming jlc meetings the first two are more for Tai April 18th and May 16th those are the ones down in uh at the usba office from 10: to 12 um and then June 6th and 7th is the pre- delegate and delegate assembly we'll have more information coming on that but if you recall from um usba we have there several of you are the delegates delegates that's the one I was going to right yes right I think you
028and Wade I I I yeah real quick the jlc meetings because the the so what do because the legislature the session's done right yeah so they'll talk they'll L talk about um uh the the um focus of what jlc wants to have for the next okay they may talk about they may talk about interim sessions things like that those are the last two okay so yeah okay and then like I said June 6 and 7 for pre- delegate and delegate uh Lyon and I went last year it's a Friday and a Saturday um it's usually at Jordan I think it's or Canyon school district um but that's not confirmed yet and then just lastly um uh we had talked about doing some board training um I talked to uh I talked to Lexi Cunningham she's
029going to talk with Richard stole tomorrow about um looking at when we could look at doing some board training um and also maybe consider looking at um doing the master board certification things like that so and that would be like are you talking like between now and June sometime well that would be up to you it'd be whatever you guys were willing and wanting to schedule but we certainly could so this is basically just new board member training I mean Dan's seen it she's seen it we have not so it's the Andy it's all about Andy yeah I did I did I did that Master Dale I went through all them videos and stuff already yeah so this would just be specific board what that's the master board certification piece yeah um the usba training
030would be like for example if we and they have several options but roles and responsibilities of a board member how to run meetings things like that um so I'll have more information that I can share that's that's as far as I got on that those earlier in the week it' be better for me okay um you mentioned board Master board certification and that was one thing I just wanted to hit on um there was training what couple weeks ago couple weeks ago um the set the the the modules don't take a ton of time so if you spent two hours on them you would cover a module and it's one module per year yeah so is that what we got the certificates for at us so all of us have done it right no there's
031a new year oh so now you go on and you do it each year new year and then you get a new certificate and it and it covers some really good topic so I would encourage you to do it it it's actually good training so just throwing that out there yep so that's that's um that's all I've gotten all right thanks superintendent uh businesses administrator okay so hopefully you've all had a chance to to read through the Aquatic Center uh yearly um annual report man that doesn't pull up very good but um basically they had a pretty good year um they added you know we added an additional halftime FTE and you can see the new programming that they've added uh over the year uh their attendance is up over the year about 14.5% and
032one of the great things for us is their all-time high in Revenue this last year so that's all good stuff um and uh rather than having him come back and report I thought this would be the easiest way to do that are there any questions on the annual report yeah just one how much so 2025 projects oh you want to so yes so there yeah that's a I was like that's a nightmare that looks a little expensive yeah yeah so this next year if you remember we had the uh study done on what it's going to take to get that Rec Center um up to up to speed and so we've got a lot of projects and a lot of the projects that you approved this last year will be doing this coming fiscal part
033of the 4 million we already approved yes okay so it's not additional we haven't yeah we already so these are all approved I they have like 2 million for one year and then 2 million for the next year approved it okay yeah so remember we had the air handler that's going in like anytime soon I didn't remember the rest of it we've got it's remember it's leaking water through the the Brick and expanding the brick and so we've got to put a seal on that we've got to put seals on the top where the birds of pack through the the stuff and so okay and some flooring and anyway so okay we've already there this is not not new not new I knew some of them were on there but I didn't know if there
034was more no no that's pretty good that makes me feel better um the next thing I wanted to to bring up and I don't know why this is giving me blue screen of death but um oh there we go um is I was asked to kind of put together um some comparisons of board compensation um and so I've done that you can kind of see um where we fall um the average let's see if I can make this more bigger Park city was the other one that requested this from us too so they just put it together too so I figured we'd y a great time to share it with the board yeah and so you can see we're we're about uh 250 a month and the average is about 552 uh median 408 so
035you can kind of see where we fall um and I did this per meeting um cuz some of the boards they meet twice a twice a month and so I felt like in order to show Apples to Apples that's why I compared it per meeting and so um that's for your information if in fact you guys decide that you want to change our current compensation we have to set a public meeting and it has to be separate from our other public meetings uh our fee public meeting and our budget meeting so it's got to be its own separate meeting to discuss uh if you want to make changes there so um I did validate that most of well all but one of the school districts that reported do provide medical and dental um just like
036we do so I mean we're not out of the norm that's pretty standard across the state um and then there was a handful I I would say between five and seven that allow if you don't take the insurance that that that allow some type of uh um stipend or whatever to go towards either your or to a 401k or whatever so so again I think we're not out of the norm it's pretty we're pretty standard but that's for your information for a future if in fact that's what you want to do so I I like that we're below the average any other questions on this one okay okay the next thing uh you asked me to do is to kind of take a look at uh our our um athletic um stiens and so I
037I put that data together I I I got a lot of the wasach back and then some of the other uh districts that are similar and uh and tried to kind of come up with some comparisons um based on what I think we ought to do and so you can see on this first one um this is kind of where I think uh you know this is where I'm recommending we're kind of right in the middle we're not Park City we're not wasach Ogden's a little bit ahead of us and some but we're kind of right in the middle and that's where I'm recommending we go is right there and then you can see the numbers um and it's got a it's got a a scale so you know one to three years for us
038you know so if we we can incentivize some longevity as well because we're having a lot of turnover so hopefully that'll help do you still have um Merit pay in there like if the team wins a state champion yeah yeah that won't change that's still in there yep yep so I thought based on and this is for next year I say but when I reviewed it it didn't we're already in the middle no th this doesn't show where we're at right now this is all my recommendation of where I think we need to go was like we were in the middle so you're thinking we we're low we're we're down in here okay yep The Proposal would put us close to the middle close to the middle right so how did you determine one sport
039over another the number of days or number of days number of a athletes uh all those kind of things kind of went into that and and and we're pretty similar as you look at the steps to to the trend of where everybody's at and so we're pretty pretty close to what everybody's doing except for Park city except for Park City which is just a flat yeah doesn't matter what sport so so just one question on that where were targeting teacher pay to be above average mhm do we want to Target our coaches pay to be above average I I think that's a discussion you need to you need to tell me I I I thought based on you know we're we're 1A school now 2A well 2A sorry 2A sorry we're 3A now but we're
040going to be a 88 yeah so so based on the size of school I I think we're we're right where we right where we need to be and this is this was triggered because of the email we got from the coach remember a few months back so and it's my attempt to fix that now what this is going to cost us uh is about 84 between 84 and $109,000 which is about half a percent for a raise for everybody so so that's the tradeoff the other thing is if we could hire teachers to do athletics and we pay in the top percentage now you're doubt now you're now you're there we don't want to hire teacher based on their coaching abilities then we need to design a plan to keep parents off coaches butts so
041coaches can coach and we don't have as much overturn right and I I think that that's a really good athletic director does a really good job of keeping them off of the off of the building level admins back um an a a good ad is so are you proposing that we talk about this in our June yeah this is this is just a look you give me some feedback and then when we do our budget this will come back as whatever we decide okay this is just my first stab at it kind to give you some thought processes of where where you want me to go first look any questions any any feedback no it's good you did good job yeah thanks I like that after years you get a raise because back in the
042day you coached forever and for $1,500 a year yeah one our coaches put in a lot of time a lot of time so we appreciate them um the next thing I wanted to do is show you our s where we where we rank salary because that's a big thing that on our strategic plan um and and as you look at this average salary we are fourth in the state so only beat by Park City wasach and Alpine so um that is top 10% that's top yeah top 10 so that's pretty good so so I think we're based on our strategic plan we're right where we need to go right where we need to be and then if you look at total compensation we're down one um Rich kind of bre beats us and a lot
043of that is in the their their silver uh health insurance were bronze and so that's really where the the majority of that change comes but um so for the most part I think we're where you want us to be um but if you have any suggestions I'm I'm all ears but it does put us in it does put us in the range that we wanted to be based on that strategic plan right yeah for recruiting and retaining effects and that's all I have thank you for putting that information together What's the timing on because I know last year this really helped us with our vacancies right what's the an education what's the time frame for people giving notice and hiring people for the next school year doing now the were due like the end of
044January so are we seeing are we is are we seeing the trend continue are we getting lots of applications and we're getting some good ones too and I think Kenna could probably test to that she's really got some good ones this year you we've I was going to say we've we've had quite a few applicants and quite a few really we've had some great applications and so just to Circle back to you know one of the reasons about being in the top 10% was you know we talked about do we focus on housing or do we focus on salary and salary was a lot quicker to be able to do and we're seeing the benefits of that um and and I think it goes a long way to be able to say that that is
045part of our strategic plan and are we I don't know if we know this much information yet but are we pulling are we pulling experience teachers from the Wasatch Front yeah awesome we pulled a level four math teacher from Olympus High School right has the offer been accepted and he's all right he's on this yeah that's good and yeah I was going to say it's we're getting applicants from that are certified that are they meet the highly qualified requirements I mean it's it's been it's been good so um the only thing I recommended is we uh put off uh finalizing that until some of the other districts finalize theirs so we have final say cuz last year was beat us just de beat us you're talking rises though right y so so I don't think
046we'll decide that until a little later we'll play the game okay because we want to we want we want to maintain competitive Advantage if we can like without taxing our people so much we're not going to raise taxes we won't need to this year I we hope no we're good okay anything else any other questions for Adam all right uh turn the time over to superintendent anything on the procedural reviews any of you have questions they're they're pretty straightforward in 67 you had a misspell okay course is you forgot to put the SE on it okay it's on item J thank you so it's just a cur yeah it's just a c okay thank you okay we we joke about that sometimes no matter how many sets of eyes you get on something I didn't
047even catch that because it's the second course I could never be an English teacher I could huh can yeah is that an F you're going to get have you ever heard her imitate you oh okay no she better not be imitating me I've heard her I mean any other questions on that um on the procedures you know on it's a procedure and a policy that we're going over 5022 and has you have 14 days four personal and 10 sick why don't we just call them all leave days and you use them how you want because people are going to lie and use them anyway some people do and we can't control that so just make it leave days and for sick or they use it for personal and you don't have to determine whether somebody's
048lying to you or not yeah it's it's something that that we've talked about in previous years as far as negotiations go and and that um and there you would just say there's pros and cons top them all and label them sick or no it would be personal it just be PTO like your PTO PTO 14 days you're the human resources doesn't that make sense yeah yeah you just go PTO I do think the we'd probably have to look at the because the sick days it's a two for one it's a two for one so we have to figure out what's the value of that what's right and that's go to a PTO that that's part of that's been part of the conversation that has not LED down that road because it starts to get complex
049and then there's also um you know uh some of the new state code as far as um maternity and paternity leave now for the first three weeks does not count against uh their their leave bank so we have to figure out what the value of that could be also as we start as we look at and and then I still got a question over why a a certified teacher gets 100 50 days at 10% and anything over that's 25% but a classified employee gets all theirs at 25% a lot of it's based on um the I think a lot of it was was developed originally because the classified was received a lot less money and so they got a bigger benefit when they I'm just saying and it's just never been corrected one way orience
050I would rather take the day than the 10% yeah so I people find ways to use the days yeah well we're we're you know what I'm saying yeah if it's if the board wants us to look at that have them here at school yeah well we could have this end a look at what other districts do yeah there's there's a what we've found is there's a tradeoff yeah there is it's a mix and there's a tradeoff um no matter what we do um it's it it appears to be less common now uh to allow the carryover like we do for the payouts when people retire things like that most gone so I think if that's something that that as a board you want to want to try and Tackle we can we can do the
051leg work and and bring that back to the board I worked with teachers that they never had any sickly done left every year they used it all because yeah they'd rather have the days off than 10% and then you get back okay or they really sick or they yeah just taking a mental health they so we we we I think we talked about it last year too this same topic or two years ago we did we the board just needs to direct us to to do something and we'll do it I think we need to look into it but we need to get with the with the teachers too and see where they're at maybe they don't well the other thing is collective bargaining is no longer on the table yeah so that's another thing
052we that's just another complexity we need to we need to factor in show them the courtesy yeah I'm not I'm not disagreeing I'm just saying it's a factor that we have to put into into that decision the the hard part with that and we'll have to definitely study it is I know I think in Provo School District we Mark Works they do the days but they don't carry over either so then he's like I'm taking two days off this week why you change today up well cuz over I use it I'm like you should classroom but yeah so it's hardes yeah yeah you have to balance it out and see how it works that way yeah eventually though you catch up after you worked so long they're going to take it anyway and so it
053it only benefits of the young teachers not to take to bank it yeah it seems like a project we can take as a workday sometime yeah we're happy to look at it be a good when to chair of that committee one I'll do yeah we got rid of Pete we got word uh rid of slea it was same problem yeah we did too and and I do think that the the difference to your first question what Adam was saying is the salary differential was so much and that makes different and and that's been probably been corrected now because we've done a market study and and so but maybe we could equal that out maybe but I also think if you're going to look at it that way you also look at reducing the number of
054of days days instead of 14 you go to maybe 10 yeah or you don't carry over is what he saying yeah your carryover or even even though I mean if you're gonna get away from the two for one and yeah they they may lie but maybe we don't give as many days then right and you would have to pretty much eliminate your carryover or else you would have like someone taking I mean there's lots of options we can we can talk about that yeah okay there's a lot of I mean even the part in there about if I go on a vacation and I use more days than I'm than I have then I have to pay into the the insurance when I first started teaching that didn't exist but we did have several teachers
055that took way advantage of that and so they made a new rule so we couldn't do that yep as easy it's usually how these work right yeah gives them more may a summer project yeah is that what you want sure okay yeah I think it's after our other working session we have after budget so probably July CU usually don't we leave July up to yes discuss this if we if we have one in July yeah y okay it's one of those July on the calendar but not necessarily always used anything else on the procedures um yeah I I I wanted on the board meeting one you put in there that you would advise us of any changes to procedures what which it's item D and 10 1 1006 dat Governor's plan 6022 that's the policy
056yeah oh that's policy so we're not there yet yet okay okay sorry you're good okay I'm get on the procedures all right um Valle yeah item number five uh which is our cus Valley Community Foundation um I know are happy to come up and talk I know the that um we were looking for red lines I'm not sure we received all that I don't know it's to talk I was say I would have him present and you're all welcome to come on all four of you David you're like David can do it so did you get red lines no um no I got one that says Red Line it says red line but there's no red L but it doesn't show anything so we if you can just walk us through it and then we'll
057we can we can table it to send it to Legal just so we have the the verbal of of what's going on there we did get the document that has all the changes though they just weren't highlighted but we the red line cop we got one that says Redline that wasn't Redlin then then we got one that says with changes yeah so if you just want to talk through it yeah talk through it and then that and then that then we'll take you can send us that and we'll we'll get it back on the agenda and this has come from the February 19th meeting you have that I wasn't able to attend all right well we are very sorry we thought that you would receive that's all right you have to state your name just
058so it's on the record sorry David Simmons thank you and sorry we thought that you had received the the redline versions and we're just going to that's all right you you can talk us through it then we can send it to legal and they can they can bless it so all right I apologize so just kind of scrolling through here so the name we went through and changed the name so South education was changed to cus Valley Community uh Foundation um I'm not sure how much of a background you want just if you can give some background just so it's it's all on public record everybody knows what's going on that sounds good so it's been about a year year and a half now that we've been talking about doing uh a Community Foundation in
059place of the South Summit Education Foundation and the biggest reason that we've been considering this is because we've heard some um heard from the community that there's been a little bit of concern with um how close the the school board is with the current Sala Education Foundation as well as just some of the stipulations with uh a a school Education Foundation versus a Community Foundation and some of the things that we can do um also raising money as we've gone about raising money we've seen some people who they've I mean we had a study here that was done by uh Josh McGreevy with uh uh ultimate home lending and he showed that in our community here in the valley of the I think it's uh 3 and a half thousand homes in the valley 80%
060of them do not have children and so as we're out trying to raise money for Education a lot of these people they're just not super interested and so as we can talk through uh a Community Foundation um with the Community Foundation we're planning on having four pillars to that the biggest one still being education and so all the money that we rais we would like more than half of that to go towards education but then we want to add three new pillars uh the pillars would be Arts Recreation and humanitarian and each of them getting around 15% um for each of those areas and so as you go through and start raising money for this Community Foundation then the money would if they don't stipulate then greater than 50% of it 55% Technic possibly would
061go to the Education Foundation and then the 15% to each of the other three pillars and so as we do something like this then we feel like there's more people who would donate to a Community Foundation who wouldn't necessarily donate to An Education Foundation people who still want to donate to the education they can stipulate that all of their uh funds that they're donating would go towards the education so we can still continue people who are just totally passionate about education we'll still be able to get those funds and get them to go towards that we just feel we can get a greater um group of people to donate to this Community Foundation that then can do other good things in our community as well and so that's what's kind of like started this and
062we've been kind of working towards this we still the people who've been on the cam Education Foundation are still very pass passionate about supporting school and education for our children supporting our teachers and so we still that's what our main passion is but seeing the opportunity to maybe get more money towards this and help some of these other things in our community may to start to feel more passionate about doing a Community Foundation okay I I think the overview is good so I was going to ask for questions yeah so catch me up so we have the South limmit Education Foundation yep to to merge these two foundations does the South Sumit Foundation have to do something to it's a migration actually so it would be away from the education what I'm saying is our
063does our other Constitution say that they have to terminate and then merge to that other one migrate to that other one or I'm just want to make sure that we're following our own rules yeah so that that's part of the legal review that we would have done so they would provide the red lines we give it to the attorney make sure that we're covered everybody's safe everybody's that would have to show that the Education Foundation voted as a membership as a well leadership to do this yeah but it would also require Schoolboard action because right now the school board is the final say on things so it'd be changed to the bylaws um and um and it would it would be separating the Education Foundation completely from the school district so it would no longer
064be a it would it would no longer be um it would no longer run run things through Adam um as far as Financial things like that there's a lot of positive to that um you there just like everything there's good and bad but um it uh it would be an actual separation and I think and correct me if I'm wrong but I think what it would be doing is it would be rewriting all of the bylaws and all of that to shift the current South Summit Education Foundation to the CIS Valley Community Foundation it would still be the 50 same 501c3 number correct so it it would be a migration uh completely away from the district um it's just education would still be the winner as far as percentages if someone were to donate to
065the general fund uh over half of it goes to education or about half of it goes to education I just want to make sure we follow cor process with found so some of the funds would are actually designated for education and those we'd actually sweep in already yeah so or we will we haven't done that yeah we haven't as soon as it gets all established then we'll we'll Shad had a com and then the Corpus the the Corpus of what's in there right now remains in the education pillar so that doesn't get that doesn't get divvied out at all that stays true to its initial um purpose I just won't be investing it it'll be completely out of and then they'll still have communication with like the High School Mrs Reagan or whoever over the
066scholarships and some of the details of that are so and I don't want to steal any of your thunder but oh please the the education pillar so basically each pillar would have you would have an umbrella like a Board of Trustees or you know an umbrella group and then each pillar would have a a group specifically focused on their pillar you know humanitarian education Arts Recreation um and so the conversation that we had last time was there would be there would be representation from the district from the school um it's it wouldn't be so tightly written that it has to be a person but it would be you know somebody so it might be like the principal or their delegate or you know so it's um yeah that's thanks sent thank you any other questions
067for David oh go ahead I got a couple um so what's that put him on the spot okay so um in section 2.6 paragraph a the last sentence says the foundation board will meet a minimum of two times a year I know this is the the bigger board but down below there was a reference that guidance for the pillars or the Committees see above for the same guidance M so I was just wondering what the thinking was behind just two times a year and I was thinking if if we made that more frequent like maybe at least quarterly it could keep some of the momentum for all the pillars for all the pillars yeah so if the if the pillars have to follow the guidance that's set out for the big board I I was
068just wondering what you all thought about making that more than two times a year the intent was a requirement of two times a year come on up he it on the mic make us I can hear you but I'm not sure everybody else can the intend is a requirement of two times a year but the anticipation is that there would be monthly meetings yeah and that's the way I read it I was just wondering why not make it the the requirement a little more rigorous up to four and with with hopefully month intent to do it monthly right but if it's not monthly then at least it's quarterly and we have no problem with that so we can incorporate that change prior to getting you another red line that's a version you can read and
069I don't know if and if how everybody else fills I don't want to create a ton of work but that I just thought that might give us give everybody a little more assurance that people will meet and discuss and I know this is for the like I said this is for the larger board but if the if the pillar has the same requirements as the larger board um yeah as as we were looking at examples in State Statute often times you have to have at least one annual meeting okay we fell for the bylaws we wanted to put at least two but we are happy to put quarterly because it's anticipated that we will be meeting much more regularly than that I think some pillars might be less right and some probably be more this
070is for the overall governing oh the overall yeah I don't I don't have who's okay for the overall governing were you talking about the pillars though well the way I read it below is that the pillars have to follow the umbrella one that's what I thought you were umbrella one so I was just thinking if we want the pillars to meet more often then we'd have to change the either change it below or to quarterly so you're it's just saying that minimally they'll meet two ice he's saying yeah yeah that's the way I read it yeah yeah so I I just thought I'd throw it out because I know in the meetings we've had before everybody's on we're all there's momentum and everybody's on the same page like hey we got a lot of good
071people interested let's keep it going but what you're saying yeah we all might not be in the roles we're in now in five or six or seven years I'll just share one one thing that does intrigue might not be the right word but that's what I'm going to use one thing that intrigues me about this is um I I I reached out to Shad I don't know one or two days ago they all blend together and asked if the foundation would consider helping a family uh pay for a diabetic an insulin pump for a student um uh because one was damaged things like that and and um in in the foundation that like for example in the Salt Lake Education Foundation which they are part of the district but they have a specific arm in
072their foundation for things like that that we don't currently have in our Education Foundation and and so that that's that got me thinking about the pillars of that's something that we you know we might be able to go to the umbrella Foundation group and say hey we want to stick with education being education that might be one of the humanitarian pieces that we could help our student in this case benefit from uh that's certainly has an impact on their education but it's more of a health and H Human Service kind of thing and so that that's something that came up just even really recent and and shad's response was well let me see what you know I'll take it to the board and so that it's just there are other benefits that if it worked
073well there are some benefits to our our students and our community Beyond just the education but I love the concept and if and I'm okay leaving it at two it doesn't sound like it's a big concern for everybody else so just thought I'd raise it and then I have one other question in um section what section in section three art article 3 section three um paragraph B it it's talking about the pillar the structure of the pillar and right there of the pillar committees and right in the middle it says um if the education committee chair so kind of the background is the the way I read it or the way I remember it is the president so it be Matt would be a director on the big board and the I don't remember if
074it's the director but the leader of the foundation or his design so you could say design it was either or yeah so that's the background to this and then it says if the education committee chair is a design they become a non-voting member of the foundation board so I was just wondering the background so if Matt if if Matt decides to do it he has a vote but if Matt designates one of us or like a principal or another administrator then we don't have a vote anymore and I just wondering what the thinking behind that is I got to refresh my memory but I think the intent is that on the Community Foundation a member of the school board would be on that committee and then if when we're talking about the education chair um
075of that pillar of that pillar if if that is it because we're saying I have to remember now where was that again say that it's um it's paragraph B under section three pillar committees oh it's right who's driving is that Adam yeah is that it so if you see like halfway down about twoth thirds actually yeah it says if if or above that go go a couple lines above that where it starts with if the education right there if the education committee chair is a design they become a non-voting member so the way I read that is if the president do if the president does it they have a vote but if Matt if Matt delegates this assignment to somebody else it becomes a non-voting member and I was just wondering why yeah and I
076need to read this more carefully but the intent was not the intent was for the school board member or designed to have a vote and then the education committee chair not to have two votes okay does does that make sense meaning the chair and a design not to have two both so if you had Matt there and then you had a representative from the high school there it would be only one vote it would only be the one vote oh okay I misread that that makes sense but I don't know if it's clearly articulated clarified I do think we need to clarify here's your answer right here Amy's got the answer well okay so that that's what it was is let's say that Matt is on the committee as a school board member and is
077the chair of the education pillar but then he delegates the chairmanship to somebody else then there's not the two votes there's the one do that make sense Matt still has a vote on the committee yes but not a second one because what we're saying is for every pillar the chair sits on that Foundation we're saying if the school board or thect doesn't also want to be the chair of that committee they can appoint that chairmanship makes sense they still retain the vote responsibility be the chair of the subte or not but that design would have a vote on the subcommittee on the subcommittee but not on the not on the overall right and can can Matt or the president can he can he delegate his position on the big board yes and and if he
078does that would they have a vote on The Big Board okay absolutely I'm good thank you that's I I just didn't understand how that worked you answered my question yeah kicking him in the head we can Rel look at that as our group because as I'm sitting here going let's say Matt's on the Community Foundation and delegates the Education Foundation chair to Ty Ty Ty we want to dump or even somebody that's a Community member yeah right I guess as I'm sitting here what's the harm in having the two votes it doesn't seem like a harm to me and and and I think it's good the way you explained it I just didn't I was trying to figure out if the president does it there's a vote there's a voting member if the president doesn't
079do it there's not a voting member and I didn't understand why it's got It's just talking about pillar committees here so that's best good way to okay those are all my questions I'm I'm yeah I'm supportive of it I just had a couple questions when I was reading the document and our um Education Foundation has approved this recommendation okay if we structurally change anything we'll probably require a second vote then we'll send you with the redline version okay any other any other questions or comments um I so um we have it on as an action item but earlier it was mentioned to table it for a month so that it could be sent to Legal yeah we we'll we'll take care of that in the action items yeah I just I just want to make
080sure an action item right there for I just want to make sure that we knew before we get to the action item we don't need to take action because it's not he needs to go back to his committee no I don't think so yeah I don't there's no nothing that would cause that maybe just clarifying we're not voting on it tonight we got to wait for would you have to take and for legal is everybody good with this language I I I'd like to see the red line because I'm not familiar with their okay it' be better to well and then we'd have legal look at it too and if they have questions then at that point then they can go back and forth and our recommendation is actually that this takes place on July
0811st okay and so we take from the time if this is affirmative vote then we would organize and transition during that time period okay I think that would be my Auditor's recommendation as well perfect that's the good transition to I have to close a fund and there's a lot I've got to do too so awesome all right all right thank you thank you appreciate it thank you thanks for coming than you guys um we're excited all right is anybody need a recess push through push through all right all right we'll keep going all right um good now to the action uh items of the agenda um first one was the cus Valley Community Foundation proposal um it sounds like uh table or you can table it which requires action or you can just take no
082action on it and it comes back whenever you want action okay all right we'll take no action on the first item next item on the agenda is uh the Strategic plan um we don't need to take action on that because we're going to meet is isn't that are we going to take AC adding theill the pillar y so yeah it is adding the pillar so excuse me um any questions on this I'll make a motion okay I'll make a motion that we add a pillar to our strategic plan which consists of paraphrasing um taking care of the facilities that house our students so that they can be more successful all right we have a motion we're looking for a second I'll second it we have a motion a second all in favor I I any
083opposed unanimous all right uh C in here that's weird next item on the agenda is the Oakley property lease um I don't know who I I've got this one so we had we only had one bid uh you can see it there uh was Mr CLE um and recommend that we we approve that lease hey on that contract I was going to ask you so they pay the fee plus they pay the taxes and then they have to pay for anything any upgrades any fences any ditches and stuff they have to they have to pay all of that yep freaking nuts but go ahead we got a we got a good deal question that yeah if it's owned by the school district why is there property taxes on it that's CU it's leased and then
084it becomes yeah it's a good question but that is a good question and and that's what I have to send this to the county and then the county has to do their magic and sure okay thanks okay okay U I almost feel guilty I would never pay a leas like that he he proposed it I know he did but I got never mind all right um he should have done any other questions all right we entertain a motion I'll move that we approve the Oakley property lease bid to Kelly clake we have a motion looking for a second I'll second have a motion a second all in favor I I any opposed none opposed unanimous thank you all right we're now moving to the consent agenda um any questions on this hearing none um looking
085for a looking to entend this where I is this do we have some of these no the procedure they're are next okay or was this for policy for second reading was it 105 106 I think this is where those we discussed them the first reading ones but you had one for one6 yeah I do then we do need to discuss that right now yes so what I would like to just a simple ad I know it's we talk about this before about um when we talk about adjusting procedures and changes procedures in good faith they let us know what they're doing I think we as a board have the responsibility of proving that procedure as as amended so I think that just needs to state that they show it to us for approval just got
086to add for approval to the procedure that they're going to use that way we know we know what the procedure is being used so if we have questions for so and and I don't have a problem with that but the last time you were saying as a principal and stuff it was frustrating when you had to wait for a whole other meeting where a procedure update they can just they can update it and let us know the the the conversation with as far as the board the last few years is going back to the role of the board as far as setting policy and then the administrative procedures or things that those are the the the how to those are the things of the weeds and and the weeds and so so from uh from
087that vantage point the recommendations had come that uh that the board set the policy approved the policy um we we added the procedure part as far as making sure that the board knew what was happening so that you were so that you were best of that um so that's that's been what we've been operating under that's why I added the one line that before procedure is implemented the board would be would be uh notified and have have an opportunity to input that may be enough because if you notify us and we don't like it I guess we'll make a change that's why right that's why otherwise then it doesn't have to go through a first reading and second reading okay okay and then update that's it's yeah it's it's a it's not a bad check
088and balance no it's not I'm not opposed to a check and balance it's yeah but if we have to vote on it it would be a policy at that point you move it back into and then it would be a two month yeah so no okay okay B that any other questions on consent calendar or consent agenda hearing none um I'll entertain a motion oh how can you even see that um did we talk about we talked about we don't have to individually read all of these items like we've been doing or do we want to stay with that I think we stay with it okay so I'll make a motion that we approve the meeting minutes the 21325 board meeting minutes the 21925 work session meeting minutes the financial reports February 2025 checks public
089view the February 2025 Revenue in February 2025 expense for the new hires the substitute teachers paraeducators other hires The Homeschool affidavits policies for second reading one6 board meeting 5022 leave benefits 5024 Association leave and payroll deductions D is 5025 retirement benefits is reviewed and no changes and then the spring 202 five coaches all right we have a motion looking for a second I'll second we have a motion in a second all in favor I I any opposed who unanimous thank you all right next item on the agenda is policy 4022 adult education High School completion name change to adult education for first reading is that right yeah it's up there okay um any questions here oh the teachers that were approved okay it was let me tell you Kon jins Aspen blard and Brian Jaa
090Jetta uhuh when since when do we read those names out we don't they they just wanted to know who it was Kenna was being curious so I yeah you've been approved y yeah no that's a good point K any you have to come to us before they offer you could offer the job yes and that they are that was that was any questions on this one any comments on policy 422 yes hearing none I'll entertain a motion so moved we have a motion looking for a second I'll second we got a motion a second um all in favor I I any opposed hearing none there's it was unanimous for U approved next item on the agenda is policy 60 uh 67 student fees and fines for first reading um any coms was there any changes
091made in that um oh God I read through it and I didn't see any really I I say we've been looking at so much policy procedure and and state new state code and bills and everything else isn't this the one that kind of went with the new state yes so the and which we looked at the procedure earlier so this this puts us it should put us aligned with the new state code um and we we just we thought it would be good to stick with that verbage um uh just because there's safety in that I imagine there will be model policy coming um this summer and we'll we'll certainly compare those look at those but um in the meantime basically you crossed everything out and added the new state rule so to speak yes
092and so what we're trying to do is be compliant with the way we read the new state code but we don't have a model policy p to go off of so it's something that we'd be coming back to but when the schools propose their fees when we do our fee hearing and then propose the fees for the for the board to approve um this would put it so that our fee schedule is aligned to this policy uh otherwise we're asking you to approve fees that don't align with current policy so basically by approving this all we're doing is approving the policy statement because that's all correct right correct and then we're talking May for the schools right for fees um it would be April April and May okay is what we're shooting for we just
093to the goal was to try to keep the policy a month ahead so when you approve if you approve for second reading the policy that's the night that fees would have their hearing and and their first approval and then the following month would be second approval so it it just trying to be efficient with time okay any other questions on this all right I'll entertain a motion I move that we approve 6007 student fees and fines for first reading all right we have a motion looking for a second I'll second we have a motion a second all in favor I I any opposed join no that was post thank you all right uh last policy on the agenda if I'm not mistaken you're not mistaken uh policy 704 liability for first reading yep really this
094is some grammar correction and uh correction of location uh it's I got one question on this one it's concerning our issue that we had with the little girl that mother couldn't be there to pick them up okay and Wes said that she could designate another house mhm for that girl to go to and get off it doesn't really cover that in this policy it just says that if they're split you know like parents are split up they can have a drop off for the dad and a drop off for the mom there maybe needs to be something in there that says as approved by the sup supervisor of Transportation if you your kid needs dropped off for special reasons that and and we can include if you want that in the policy we can add
095that I think that would help us okay I was going to say whether it's in policy or procedure it's something that has to be followed but it really just be adjusting that F to not necessarily just say like as it as a family but to different so do you have proposed language that you want to put in there you just have to do away with legal Guardians parents May request two primary morning and afternoon bus stops for students I agree if you take out legal Guardians you're it it does say parents or but yeah if you just take out that I don't know the legal guardian what we're seeing here though is the legal guardian can request right and and stops I would say this ensures this guarantees the ability to ask it doesn't guarantee
096the approval so are you concerned with the word words legal Guardians let me reread it should be provided in the request two morning stops all request well it's the last sent is a problem verification that the student is residing in both locations should be provided well and and I I think the reason that's there is we have we we have had requests of hey my kids staying at their cousins uh tonight uh we need to change their their their bus route or you know things like that what it does it leaves us open to some liability as far as kids making sure they get off on the bus stop just that kind of stuff as far as verification that the student resides in both locations it's also um uh if let's say a parent lives
097in cus and a grandparent lives in Francis um are we going to run a bus route for the kid if Grandma and Grandpa are watching them from 7 to 8 in the morning so so it's adding potential stop not based on where the student resides but based on convenience so I mean that's I think that's why the language is there we could ask for we could get more specific it'd be nice you know for that Mom that had that concern you know she wasn't going able to get to the stop to get the kids right CU they're not dropping off at the house right when she found out she could pick somebody else and designate for that child to get off so they had a safe spot until she got home well that's yeah and
098that's I think with that that's kind of an exception to the rule this is this is more around daily pickup daily drop off maybe we need in there yeah it could be that's where that's why I'm asking what what would you want it to say I don't know have to think about it I know how exceptions work too yeah and it's and it's something I'm I'm certainly if it's it's also something if you guys as a board want to approve it's for a first reading it's not a second reading and so we could look at some verbiage and we could like hold off on it and come back I was to say whether you approve it for first reading it has to come back for second reading if you approve it for first reading I
099would recommend that you include in the motion that we that we add some language around and that's where I'm that's where I'm hoping that because we all know this situation but the next guy might not he might just be black white yeah and then we can work on I'll I'll get with you and we can what what you think would work we can look at so is it are you proposing that we approve it with saying we're going to out language or are you proposing that we just table it it's up to you whether you table it pass it for the first reading and still make a change to it that's right make the motion and then because you know better what you're trying to do but if you prefer to table it or if
100you prefer to take no action it I'm either way first and then just say look at language for the extion I'll make a motion to table this policy until we can come up with some l language to suffice exceptions to the rule for emergency cases okay in the policy not just the procedure in the policy all right we have a motion yeah that was his motion on I'll second it you got a second all right we have a motion the second all in favor I I I any opposed sh there was none thank you um next next item is some board items um just a reminder uh for those attending nsba at sometime in April I think the first part of April um just to bring back your Lessons Learned um and then again the
101reminder for uh usba uh spring regional meeting on uh next Thursday Thursday Thursday is everyone going to that um I'm not going to the school okay or to the other one okay you're not going to the usba next week oh he'll be in Texas that's right okay all right um okay we'll have to figure another day to get together on the plan because you guys are going to be in Atlanta that first week April like just on Thursday so he could do early all right B do you have anything for us to sir I do not have any items you don't have any items okay Emily nothing want to say thank you last week for speaking up I was really appreciative just throwing that out there uh that you spoke up and said hey I
102think you should look at something along for the laptop stuff so that was really good so I appreciate you speaking up it's uh not all students want to do that so just want to throw that out to you all right Dan do you have anything yeah seeing these guys here this probably directed at dawn do we have uh people interviews set up somebody for Silver Summit and I haven't heard back from Amy yet if there's anyone okay other than that I I'm good all right good wait I've said enough I had something I thought was interesting put a word I just wanted to share absolutely yeah I don't I don't know that's anything we can do anything about but my daughter works for a for-profit organization that's involved with education and we start talking about
103homeschooling and I said it's interesting in Utah she she does it on a national level and maybe I was wrong on my understanding so my understanding is they get money to do homeschooling but they don't have the same standards that's that is correct yeah and so she said that's interesting she told me that some other states she works with they have two types of homeschooling one is um you accept state funding and if you accept state funding you're subject to the same standards as a public school right which or you can do homeschooling and not accept funding and you're not subject to the standards I thought that is really interesting that that's actually more similar to what it is you you can homeschool and you don't get compensated for it there's the Utah fits-all scholarship
104where um you can get compensated for it um but there's no accountability the difference is there's not an accountability on the Utah fits all scholarship students um and and so that scholarship is more than an SBC it's more than the yeah it's it's well it's more than the wpu um morning W and uh you know I was in a meeting earlier we were talking about um education in Finland how it's so great and the people there say well we take the American ideas but we just actually put them into action um and so for example they have school choice but their private schools have the same they get funded the same way that public schools do and they have the same accountability measures um so if a parent wanted to send a student to a
105a Christian private you know private school that focuses on a certain religion or whatever they they get funded the same way for that student as far as a wpu but they all also have the same accountability at the end of the year and so but we we don't necessarily we don't have that so yeah the the I say that I'd like to hear the Utah fits-all there is a two things UT has two two Provisions you either have to give a portfolio portfolio yeah verifying or you take the state assessment right which is the same as the rest of students but there is a choice there and that's homebased learning right not home schoool learning home based would be oh okay yeah just because they're trying to keep it separate so that you're not just
106that someone who is homeschooling does not take any public funds someone taking the funding would be basing their home based so there is accountability is what you're saying same though it's not the same as the state unless people choose to take the state assessment so you choose that I think they should have to take it so we can have comparisons of they're doing this good in public school and they're doing this good in homebased school I think that's what the State Board also I I think generally in education that's what people think um the portfolio I think some of some of the concerns around the portfolios is um well some of them are you don't know who actually does it um you don't what what criteria what's your success criteria your measurement things like that
107yeah who's doing the project talk because online learning often when you have the same thing pack you have the same completing it so there is you got that accountability piece that a lot of I I think the hard part for us is that you get almost W the double the wpu but that's I mean that's all that's all codified so we don't well unless we get the law changed that's what it is if if any of you have been by any private schools lately I know one particular one that's one of the biggest private schools they have a big banner up as you walk through the door telling people to apply for the $88,000 right one scholarship fits all and they're using it to fund their tuition the kids and they you then they turn
108it into their tuition and that is it I tell you it's a judge judge has a big banner hanging in front of their school ad izing that to apply for that and I I was talking to administrator down there and he says it's been a great thing for their school because then they can get uh uh more minority kids and dis disadvantaged kids into their building because they had eliminated uh a lot of their scholarships that they offer because they couldn't afford them anymore so that provides a lot of opportunities for uh these kids to and I if I remember from reading an article in the newspaper few weeks ago that the percentage the highest percentage of use of that scholar that one siiz fits-all scholarship one whatever they call it is going towards private
109school tuition because of that so are the private schools do they have to take their eyes and other competency test no but they also and this was addressed some in this legislative session there also was some um abuse of those funds you know horse riding lessons things like that yeah me what's that I'll teach that class let's start the W we'll start private school soting it I mean it's I would say it's a work in progress but I don't see it they fund they they put more money to it again this year I I don't see it going away and I'm not a in all transparency I'm not opposed to school choice to parent choice I'm not either I'm not a fan of the wpu differential but right that's that's I'm all for choice so
110but I also think if you take public money you got to have the same sort of accountability that a public school has and and that's where is that's where jlc that's where you're on the right spot yeah but that's also where as board members um wey to make you feel better about that moment as board members as District leadership that's where we where we can play a really big role in um in in approaching our legislators on that um so great y well anyway that's just an observation no problem Linda I don't have anything um and I think the I I don't have anything else I think I covered everything I do want to say something about Emily though if you're okay with that absolutely and I talked to Bo a little bit about this
111ear earlier tonight at the beginning so the health department has been working on trying to get um uh feedback or input from youth in our County on what the youth would like to see um a focus on and um so when they when when they approached me um we were talking about adults and and the thought the thought that we had you know especially after our last board meeting of wanting to get our student board members engaged in in part of um something Beyond just sitting at the table at board meeting so um we actually are are working on connecting them with the health department so that they can help bridge that Gap to get the the youth input on the health of the county um I think I think what we're doing is far
112away and above what the other to we're doing because we've got kids actually engaging in the work rather than just adults so um I appreciate their willingness to to do that to engage and to to work with their peers on that so I just wanted to point that out I appreciate their willingness to help all right um we we do have some items to go into close session to deal with some personel Personnel issues and uh compensation so I'll make a motion to go into close session have a motion I'll second it we'll uh we'll actually share the treats also that she brought at 705 love yeah we have to do that's roll call vote I sorry Dan how do you vote Wade yes yes yes yes yes thank you way faster than calling everybody's
113you're our state board representative she is and she's great one yeah