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>> [NOISE] WE'LL CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER IF YOU CAN
[A. Call to Order]
JOIN ME IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.READ OUR VISION STATEMENT FOR THE DISTRICT.
AS A PREMIER DISTRICT, OUR VISION IS TO ENSURE EVERY STUDENT IS PREPARED TO SUCCEED IN AN EVER-CHANGING WORLD.
WE WILL MOVE TO APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA.
[B. Approval of the Agenda]
I'D OBTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE THE AGENDA OF WORK TIME.>> [LAUGHTER] [OVERLAPPING] WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE AN AGENDA.
[LAUGHTER] I'M READY TO GO HOME.
>> I MOVE TO APPROVE THE AGENDA AS PRESENTED.
I WOULD JUST LIKE TO BRING TO THE BOARD'S ATTENTION THAT THERE IS A NEW ITEM THAT WAS ADDED THIS AFTERNOON LATE, WHICH IS TRAVEL FOR ME TO GO TO THE JOINT REVENUE COMMITTEE MEETING NEXT WEEK.
>> THE WAY I GET THAT, THERE'S A NEW NUMBER 9, I ASSUME, UNDER CONSENT FOR THE PROBLEM.
>> EIGHT. WELL, NUMBER 8 MOVES DOWN TO NINE.
>> I'M MOVING SECOND TO APPROVE THE AGENDA FOR TONIGHT WITH THAT ONE CHANGE.
>> ALL THOSE AGAINST. ALL RIGHT.
[C. Superintendent's Report]
WE'RE UP TO SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.SUPERINTENDENT CHAPMAN, I THINK WE'RE DOING SPECIAL OLYMPICS FIRST.
>> WE ARE, AND I'D LIKE TO ASK COACH SHANE BRAMAN TO COME IN AND INTRODUCE HIS ATHLETES.
AS THEY'RE COMING IN, WE HAVE A NUMBER OF ATHLETES AND ACTIVITY CHAMPIONS TO RECOGNIZE.
THIS IS ALWAYS A HIGHLIGHT TO NOTE.
IT'S A HIGHLIGHT [INAUDIBLE] AS WELL, SO THAT'S A PROBLEM [BACKGROUND] [INAUDIBLE] [LAUGHTER] [APPLAUSE]
>> [INAUDIBLE] HI, BELL, DAVE, HI.
[BACKGROUND] [INAUDIBLE] [LAUGHTER] [APPLAUSE] [OVERLAPPING].
>> COACH, IF YOU WOULD JUST SAY A FEW WORDS ABOUT YOUR ATHLETES AND THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS THIS YEAR, THAT'D BE AWESOME.
>> [INAUDIBLE] WE BRING IN NEW ATHLETES ELEMENTARY [INAUDIBLE] WHICH PROBABLY THAT'LL DO BECAUSE [OVERLAPPING] [INAUDIBLE] [BACKGROUND] WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TWO SNOWBOARDERS FOR THE FIRST TIME.
[BACKGROUND] WE'VE GOT TWO BRAND NEW SNOWBOARDERS WHO [INAUDIBLE] [NOISE] WE'VE GOT TWO SNOWBOARDERS WHO REPEATED, SO THEY NOT ONLY [INAUDIBLE] SNOWBOARDERS THIS YEAR BUT THEY'VE GOT TO COMPETE AGAINST EACH OTHER, DID AN AMAZING JOB.
WE'RE ALL PROGRAMMED TO DOING GREAT.
TWO YEARS [INAUDIBLE] WE'RE ONE OF THE FEW PROGRAMS IN THE STATE THAT CONTINUES TO COMPETE, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE COMPETING AGAINST OURSELVES, THAT'S GREAT.
IN TOTAL WE HAVE AT LEAST 15 ATHLETES COMPETING IN THE WATER GAMES AND NOW WE'RE PREPARING SCREEN GAMES, BASKETBALL [INAUDIBLE].
[APPLAUSE] [LAUGHTER][OVERLAPPING]
>> THANK YOU. [LAUGHTER] [APPLAUSE]
>> THANK YOU GUYS. [BACKGROUND].
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>> YES. MIKE [INAUDIBLE] IS NEXT TO TALK ABOUT ATHLETES.
>> ALL RIGHT. [OVERLAPPING] COACH EVANS, THANKS FOR THE OPPORTUNITY OF RECOGNIZING LAST SUMMER'S STATE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS. SINCE OUR COACHES ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO BETTER SPEAK ABOUT STUDENTS, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED.
IF THE ALPINE SKI TEAM COULD COME UP.
>> [INAUDIBLE] YOU HAVE A COOL SWEATSHIRT. [INAUDIBLE]. [BACKGROUND]
>> ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU FOR HAVING US [INAUDIBLE].
THANK YOU FOR HAVING US ONCE AGAIN, BOARD.
THESE ARE THE SKI TEAM MEMBERS THAT HAVE TURNED OUT TODAY.
ALTHOUGH WE DON'T HAVE A TREMENDOUS STORY, WE DID HAVE A TREMENDOUS YEAR.
WE SAVED YOU THAT [INAUDIBLE] THERE YOU CAN LOOK THROUGH.
AMAZINGLY ENOUGH, FOR OUR GIRLS' TEAM, THIS IS THEIR 13TH YEAR IN A ROW [INAUDIBLE] FOR OUR BOYS IT'S THE 11TH.
[NOISE] [APPLAUSE] [INAUDIBLE] I'LL QUICKLY INTRODUCE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE HERE.
OVER ON THE FAR SIDE IS ONE OF OUR ASSISTANT COACHES THIS YEAR IS TJ COLE AND MANY OF YOU HAVE HAD HIS HELP IN YOUR BUILDINGS IN SUCH [INAUDIBLE] SCHOOLS, BUT HE IS A GREAT HELP TO US AND A GREAT FIRST YEAR'S ASSISTANT COACH.
THIS IS COLIN [INAUDIBLE], [INAUDIBLE] IS A FRESHMEN, AND ALTHOUGH HE'S A BIGGER KID, THAT'S ALSO BECAUSE HE'S ALIGNED ON THE FOOTBALL TEAM.
[LAUGHTER] SO WE'RE TEACHING HIM SKIING, AND I APPRECIATE THAT BECAUSE I TOO WAS A FOOTBALL LINEMAN AND SKIER GROWING UP IN HIGH SCHOOL.
THIS IS BROOKS HEARD. BROOKS HEARD IS A SOPHOMORE WITH US THIS YEAR, AND HE ALWAYS BRINGS A LOT OF SPIRIT TO THE TEAM AND SO WE'VE APPRECIATED HAVING HIM ON THE TEAM FOR TWO YEARS.
THIS IS AVA [INAUDIBLE], [INAUDIBLE] IS A SENIOR THIS YEAR AND SHE ENDED UP WINNING THREE OR FOUR OF OUR FIRST GIANT SLAM RACES AND FINISHED SECOND IN THE STATE AND DID JUST A GREAT JOB FOR US AND THE SENIORS.
EDDIE OWENS, THIS IS HIS SECOND YEAR ON THE TEAM WITH US AND HE IS ONE OF OUR CAPTAINS.
HE ALSO FINISHED SECOND ON THE BOYS' SIDE AT THIS STAGE.
WELL, WE HAD A TREMENDOUS FINISH AS FAR AS OUR TOP FIVE VARSITY BOYS ALSO FINISHED ALL FIVE SPOTS IN FIRST FEMALES TEAM, AND AVA WAS ONE OF OUR FOUR GIRLS IN FIRST TEAM ALL-STATE.
THEY WERE THE BEST SIDE. THESE TWO WENT ON AND RACED AT A REGIONAL RACES IN [INAUDIBLE], NEVADA, AND DID REALLY WELL FOR OUR STATE AS WELL.
SO NOT ONLY IN [INAUDIBLE] BUT THEY DID A GREAT JOB FOR OUR REGION.
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT AND APPRECIATE BEING HERE.
>> OUR NEXT STATE CHAMPION TEAMS WILL BE OUR NORDIC SKIING TEAMS LED BY HEAD COACH KATIE [INAUDIBLE]. WELCOME.
>> WE HAVE AROUND A QUARTER OF A TEAM HERE [INAUDIBLE] IT'S GREAT WHEN 70 PERCENT OF OUR TEAM [INAUDIBLE] [BACKGROUND] [LAUGHTER] I'M KATIE AND I'VE BEEN THEIR COACH FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND THIS YEAR MIKE EVANS IS OUR ASSISTANT COACH.
IT WAS A REALLY INTERESTING SEASON, [INAUDIBLE] BUT EVERYTHING WORKED OUT IN THE END.
THIS PROVED A TREMENDOUS JOB THROUGHOUT THE SEASON AND AT OUR STATE CHAMPIONSHIP MEET.
SIMILAR STATISTICS TO WHAT CODY WAS SAYING WITH THE ALPINE TEAM.
BOTH OF THESE PROGRAMS ARE REALLY STRONG PARTLY BECAUSE WE LIVE IN A REALLY WONDERFUL PLACE FOR THESE SPORTS BUT ALSO BECAUSE WE HAVE SUPPORT.
[NOISE] OUR BOYS' TEAM AND OUR GIRLS' TEAMS, AS WELL AS INDIVIDUALS ON OUR TEAM BOTH WON STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS THIS YEAR.
[LAUGHTER] FUN FACT, OUR BOYS TOOK 1ST, 2ND, 3RD, 4TH, 5TH AND THE 6TH AT OUR STATE CHAMPION CLASS.
A RACE DAY WHICH I DON'T KNOW IF THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED BEFORE.
THAT'S A CLEAN SWEEP, PERFECT SCORE, SO IT WAS A REALLY INCREDIBLE ACCOMPLISHMENT.
THAT'S SOMETHING TO BE REALLY PROUD OF AND OUR GIRLS ALSO HAD FIVE SPHERES IN THE TOP 10.
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MIKE [INAUDIBLE]>> YEAH, I THANK KATIE FOR HANDLING WELL WITH THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENT.
I HAD SUCH A BLAST, AS MUCH AS I'M NOT LIKING THE SNOW RIGHT NOW, I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO [INAUDIBLE] ALREADY.
[LAUGHTER] THESE ARE BY FAR THE COOLEST KIDS IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, I THINK.
[LAUGHTER] FIRST, I'VE HAD EXPERIENCE WITH NUMBER 10 AND IT'S [LAUGHTER] [INAUDIBLE]
>> [OVERLAPPING] THEY'VE MOTIVATED, THEY'RE FUN TO BE AROUND.
THEY'RE FUNNY AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE.
>> OUR NEXT CHAMPION IS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE RECOGNIZING ME IS NOT A TEAM, BUT WE HAD TWO STUDENTS TAKE INDIVIDUAL STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS AT SPEECH AND DEBATE.
WILL HAVE COACH DAN AND COACH [INAUDIBLE].
WE HAVE OUR TWO STATE CHAMPIONS HERE, SARAH SCHWEITZER, WHO YOU GUYS KNOW AND LOVE HOPEFULLY, AND CARTER WOOSTER.
SARAH WAS OUR STATE CHAMPION IN EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING, AND CARTER IS OUR STATE CHAMPION IN CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE.
A FEW STATISTICS ABOUT THE TEAM, THIS YEAR WE HAD A ROSTER OF ABOUT 22 KIDS.
WE DID A HYBRID SEASON, WHICH WAS INTERESTING.
WE GOTTEN TO THE ROUTINE OF ALL VIRTUAL LAB LAST YEAR DOING SOME VIRTUAL TOURNAMENTS AND SOME IN-PERSON TOURNAMENT, WAS DEFINITELY INTERESTING.
WE COMPETED AT 14 REGULAR SEASON TOURNAMENT.
I WROTE DOWN SOME NOTES BECAUSE WHO CAN EVEN REMEMBER WHEN WE STARTED BACK IN OCTOBER.
NINE OF THOSE TOURNAMENTS WERE IN-PERSON, FIVE OF THEM ONLINE.
WE PLACED IN THE TOP THREE AT 12 OF THOSE 14 TOURNAMENT, AND FIVE OF THOSE WERE FIRST PLACE.
HUGE EFFORT FROM OUR TEAM THIS YEAR.
WE TOOK THIRD AT STATE NEXT TO THE TWO CHEYENNE SCHOOLS, WHICH WE JUST FEEL WE ARE HAPPY TO BE ON THE PODIUM NEXT TO CHEYENNE SCHOOLS THAT HAVE 6,100 KIDS ON THEIR ROSTER.
WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
OF COURSE, HAVE OUR TWO INDIVIDUALS STATE CHAMPIONS.
THREE OF OUR COMPETITORS WERE ALL STATE AS WELL.
THEN, WE WENT ON TO QUALIFY SIX STUDENTS TO NATIONALS, WHICH WILL BE IN-PERSON FOR THE FIRST TIME IN TWO YEARS IN KENTUCKY.
JUST WANTED TO ALSO QUICKLY MENTION THAT I'VE GOTTEN MY MOTHER AND MY ASSISTANT COACH WAS NOMINATED OR WAS AWARDED THE DISTRICT COMMUNICATOR OF THE YEAR, AS WELL AS THE DISTRICT ASSISTANT COACH OF THE YEAR.
I APOLOGIZE FOR THE SELF TUNING BORN HERE, BUT I WAS ALSO NAMED THE DISTRICT COACH OF THE YEAR.
OVERALL JACKSON, [NOISE] WE'RE GOING TO BRING MY MOM SO SHE COULD TELL YOU GUYS ABOUT ME AND I CAN TELL YOU ABOUT HER.
THANK YOU AGAIN, FOR HAVING US, HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO CARTER AND SARAH.
>> TELL ME, SINCE YOU DID A HYBRID SEASON, WHAT WORKS BETTER? IN-PERSON OR VIRTUAL.
>> IN-PERSON, IT'S GENERALLY FUN, BUT IT IS NICE BEING ABLE TO MAKE PANCAKES AND THEN GO SIT DOWN FIVE FEET FROM YOUR BED, YOU GO TO BED. [LAUGHTER]
>> I THINK THERE'S DEFINITELY SOME NICE THINGS ABOUT THE VIRTUAL.
THE TRAVEL IS NICE NOT TO HAVE TO TRAVEL AS MUCH.
IT DID AFFORD US THE ABILITY TO GO TO MORE TOURNAMENT THAN WE NORMALLY WOULD.
BUT DEFINITELY, IT'S BEEN NICE TO GET BACK IN PERSON, SOME STUFF. THANK YOU.
>> I THINK YOU HAVE THE DISTRICT LEADERS REPORT.
>> YES. THE DISTRICT LEADERS REPORT HAS BEEN POSTED.
IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS FROM TRUSTEES, TRUSTEE NEED IS ONLINE.
I WANTED TO MAKE SURE YOU KNOW THAT.
IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS, WE'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER THEM.
>> THIS IS A QUESTIONS FOR DEANNA? DEANNA, YOUR CIP WAS POSTED ON THE DISTRICT LEADER REPORT.
ARE YOU PLANNING ON DOING THAT AT A LATER DATE OR YOU'RE JUST SHOWING IT TO US JUST SO WE KNOW IT'S THERE.
DID YOU WANT US TO REVIEW IT IN ANY DEPTH?
>> THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR TRUSTEES, DEANNA HYDRO FACILITIES.
I DEFINITELY WANTED TO SHARE THE INFORMATION THAT THAT'S WHAT OUR PLAN IS.
I'VE REVIEWED EXTENSIVELY WITH GILLIAN AND HER TEAM.
BUT I REALLY AM LOOKING TO YOU FOR SOME GUIDANCE ON HOW INVOLVED DO YOU'D LIKE TO BE IN REVIEWING IT.
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>> I HAD TWO QUESTIONS ON THERE.
THE ALTA IRRIGATION SYSTEM YET DONE THERE FOR 32-8.
WHEN WE WERE IN ALTA WEEKS AGO, SOME PARENTS HAD APPROACHED US ABOUT PUTTING IN UP BASKETBALL COURT.
IS THAT ANYWHERE IN ANYBODY'S THINKING?
>> MR. CHAIR, THAT I WOULD HAVE TO CHECK IN.
THAT IS NOT ON MY RADAR CURRENTLY.
I'LL NEED TO CHECK IN WITH THE PRINCIPAL.
I'M HAPPY TO EXPLORE THAT. BUT CURRENTLY, NO.
>> THEN, THE MIDDLE-SCHOOL TEACHER, YOU HAD IN THERE 30,000 FOR REPAIRS.
IF WE'RE GOING TO BUILD THERE, SHOULD WE BE DOING BE REPAIRING, I GUESS.
>> THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR AND TRUSTEES.
CURRENTLY, JUST SO YOU KNOW THAT'S AN ALLOWANCE.
I'VE GONE IN AND INSPECTED THE HOUSE.
THE CURRENT PLAN IS REALLY JUST TO REPLACE THE BASIC FINISHES BECAUSE THE CURRENT TENANT HAS BEEN THERE FOR QUITE SOME TIME.
WE WERE NOT PLANNING ON MAKING ANY SUBSTANTIAL UPGRADES, JUST STANDARD TENANT TURNOVER, FINISHED REPLACEMENT.
I AM CURRENTLY WORKING TO GET AN ACTUAL ESTIMATE FOR THAT.
THERE WOULD BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO COMMENT ON THAT IN FUTURE.
>> I WAS JUST CURIOUS. ANYONE ELSE HAVE A CHANCE TO LOOK AT THE CIP? I THINK SHE HAS ALL THE WAY UP TO 27.
>> ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ON THE CIP? I DIDN'T SEE ANY BIG NEED FOR US TO DISCUSS IT FURTHER UNLESS SOMEBODY WANTED TO AT OUR JUNE MEETING. I THINK YOU'RE FINE.
>> THEN I JUST REAL QUICK, COPING NEEDS TO COME UP.
BUT DID EVERYONE SEE IN THEIR COLBY HEAD IS BUS REPLACEMENT PLAN THAT WAS REALLY WELL DONE? I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY LOOKED AT THAT.
UNLESS SOMEBODY HAS ANY BIG ISSUES WITH IT, I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO REVIEW THAT EITHER.
BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE KNEW THE WORK THAT COLBY HAD PUT INTO COMING UP WITH A PLAN AS TO HOW HE'S GOING TO REPLACE THE SCHOOL BUSES.
UNLESS SOMEBODY WANTED TO, WE COULD REVIEW IT IN JUNE OR NOT.
DOES ANYONE WANT TO REVIEW IT DEEPER? I THINK YOU'RE GOOD. [LAUGHTER] THAT WAS THE DIRECTOR REPORTS.
ANYONE ELSE SEE ANYTHING IN THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT THEY WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT? ANYONE? DOES THAT MEAN YOU DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING? WE'RE ONTO THE EDUCATIONAL MOMENT.
TRUSTEE NEEDED ASKED FOR SOME EDUCATION ON THE DUAL EMERGENT PROGRAMMING AND THEY'RE GOING TO GIVE US A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW AND THE CURRENT REALITY.
THAT LOOKS LIKE PARENTS DOING IT.
NOT THERE, BUT I CAN GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED JUST TO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME.
MR. CHAIR, TRUSTEES KAREN WATTMAKER IT'S AN HONOR TO BE INVITED HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE DUAL IMMERSION PROGRAM.
THIS PROGRAM HAS A LONG HISTORY HERE.
THIS IS PART 1 OF A TWO-PART SERIES THAT YOU'LL GET ON DUAL IMMERSION PROGRAM.
THIS IS MORE OF HISTORICAL OVERVIEW CONTEXTS AND SOME CURRENT DATA.
THEN IN AUGUST, WE'LL BE GOING OVER THE REST OF THE ACADEMIC DATA IN SOME OTHER SURVEY DATA.
I JUST THOUGHT THAT I WOULD TAKE A PAGE FROM THE VERY FIRST PRESENTATION IN FRONT OF THIS BOARD.
THESE ARE THE THREE BULLETS THAT WERE PRESENTED IN 2008 AS THIS DUAL IMMERSION PROGRAM CAME INTO BEING AROUND THE Y. I'M NOT GOING TO READ THAT, BUT THAT RESEARCH IS STILL VALID.
WE STILL BELIEVE IN THAT THE PROGRAM IS MEETING THOSE NEEDS.
JES OPENED IN 2009, ENTERED SECONDARY IN 2014.
MONGER, AND I THINK MOST OF YOU ARE A PART OF THAT, OPENED UP IN 2017, AND LAST YEAR WE HAD OUR FIRST GRADUATING CLASS.
THEN IN JULY, WE FINALLY HAVE THE SEAL BY LETTER, SEAL OF WYOMING.
JUST SPEAKING OF THE PREVALENCE AND THE BELIEF IN DUAL EMERGENT SYSTEMS ACROSS THE COUNTRY,
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WYOMING BECAME THE 47TH STATE TO ACTUALLY APPROVE THE SEAL OF BILITERACY.ONE MORE WAS APPROVED AFTER US, AND THEN THERE'S A COUPLE OF MORE ARE GONE.
WE ARE THE ONLY DISTRICT THAT PUT THE BILATERAL LITERACY SEAL ON TRANSCRIPTS FOR STUDENTS.
OTHER DISTRICTS TALKED ABOUT IT, BUT NOBODY ELSE TOOK THAT STEP TO DO IT.
>> YEAH. THIS YEAR WE WILL AGAIN PUT OUR TCSD SEAL BILITERACY ON JUST BECAUSE WE'RE A LITTLE AHEAD OF THAT JULY DATE.
BUT STARTING NEXT YEAR, WE WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PUT THE OFFICIAL SEAL ON AND WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
>> WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THE DUAL IMMERSION PROGRAM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS CLEAR, ARE THE BENEFITS OUTSIDE OF THE ACADEMIC, WE HAVE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND WE'VE TALKED A LOT ABOUT THAT IN THIS DISTRICT.
WE BROUGHT UP DATA YEAR AFTER YEAR, LONGITUDINAL DATA AS WELL AS OTHER DATA, BUT WE DO HAVE A LOT OF OTHER REALLY GREAT BENEFITS FROM A DUAL IMMERSION PROGRAM AND EMPLOYMENT IS ONE.
THERE'S ALSO A LOT OF RESEARCH AROUND DUAL IMMERSION STUDENTS AND STUDENTS WHO MAINTAIN THEIR FIRST LANGUAGE ARE LESS LIKELY TO DROP OUT OF SCHOOL, MORE LIKELY TO GO TO COLLEGE, AND MORE LIKELY TO ATTEND FOUR-YEAR DEGREES.
WE'RE EARLY IN THAT FOR US, BUT WE ALREADY HAVE SOME REALLY GREAT NEWS AS FAR AS OUR FIRST GRADUATING CLASS AND OTHERS WHO'VE BEEN ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF SOME OF THE PIECES OF DUAL IMMERSION WITHOUT STARTING AT THE BEGINNING.
I THINK THE QUESTION THAT CAME UP AND IT'S A GREAT ONE, IS HAVE WE LIVED UP TO THE PROMISE HERE AT TCSD? WE MADE A LONG-TERM COMMITMENT AND WE HAVE KEPT THAT COMMITMENT.
WE HAVE BUILT THE PROGRAM ALL THE WAY THROUGH SECONDARY.
WE DID SURVEY ALL OF THE DUAL EMERGENT STUDENTS WHO GRADUATED LAST YEAR, AND WE WERE INCREDIBLY PLEASED TO FIND OUT THAT 100 PERCENT OF THOSE STUDENTS WOULD RECOMMEND DUAL TO OTHERS THAT WERE THINKING ABOUT THE PROGRAM.
WE ALSO HAVE A LOT OF DATA THAT SHOWS, AT LEAST IN PERCEPTION DATA THAT STUDENTS FEEL LIKE THEY ARE READY.
THAT THEY HAVE A LOT OF SKILLS THAT WILL GIVE THEM ADDITIONAL BENEFITS.
THEY'RE MORE UNDERSTANDING OF OTHER CULTURES, AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CAME OUT REALLY CLEARLY IN THE INTERVIEWS IS THAT, THEY FELT REALLY ADAPTIVE AT MAKING FRIENDS AND WORKING WITH PEOPLE FROM OTHER CULTURES.
REALLY PLEASED ABOUT THOSE OUTCOMES.
HERE'S OUR CURRENT REALITY, JUST THINKING ABOUT THE SCALE OF THE PROGRAM.
WE CURRENTLY HAVE MONGER WITH QUITE A FEW STUDENTS AND STAFF.
A LOT OF THOSE STUDENTS ARE CONTINUING INTO SECONDARY.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE GREAT MAJORITY, WE DO HAVE SOME STUDENTS WHO HAVE STOPPED TAKING SPANISH TO TAKE FRENCH OR ANOTHER LANGUAGE.
WE'RE STARTING TO GET SOME TRILINGUAL STUDENTS, WHICH IS AMAZING.
BUT MOST OF OUR STUDENTS DO STAY IN THE PROGRAM.
WE HAVE SEEN THAT THERE'S AN INCREASED OPPORTUNITY FOR CONCURRENT ENROLLMENT, AND MANY OF OUR ADULT STUDENTS ACTUALLY WIND UP WITH CREDITS GOING INTO COLLEGE.
THAT'S A HUGE HELP BOTH FINANCIALLY AND IN EVERY OTHER WAY, GO AHEAD.
THERE'S CURRENTLY 12 SECTIONS OF DUAL IMMERSION AT THE HIGH SCHOOL AND OTHER TWO PROJECTED FOR NEXT YEAR.
THIS IS A START THAT WE ARE REALLY PROUD OF.
EL STUDENTS ESPECIALLY COMING LATER WERE DISRUPTED EDUCATION AND COMING FROM OTHER AREAS, REALLY HARD TO GET THOSE KIDS GRADUATED.
THEY END UP HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO INTO OUR DUAL IMMERSION PROGRAM AND THEY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO ACTUALLY TAKE SOME CLASSES IN THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGE,
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SO THAT THEY'RE CONTINUING TO STAY ON GRADE LEVEL CONTENT, ARE CONTINUING TO BUILD KNOWLEDGE WHILE THEY'RE LEARNING ENGLISH.WHAT THAT MEANS IS OUR EL STUDENTS GRADUATED AT A RATE OF 94 PERCENT, VERSUS 64 FOR THE STATE OF WYOMING AND EVEN 64 IS ACTUALLY RELATIVELY HIGH COMPARED TO NATIONAL AVERAGES, SO REALLY PROUD OF THAT START.
>> KAREN. SORRY, I CAN'T FIND THE RAISE YOUR HAND.
THE CHART THAT I'M LOOKING AT IS K-5 HAS 397 STUDENTS AND 6-8 IS 226, SO THERE IS 150 LESS.
THERE'S FEWER RAID LEVELS AT MIDDLE SCHOOL THAN ELEMENTARY.
AS THEY'RE COMING UP, WE'RE REALLY NOT LOSING THAT MANY STUDENTS AS THEY ENTER INTO MIDDLE SCHOOL.
WE DO END UP HAVING A FEW MORE, THAT CHOOSE OTHER OPTIONS.
I'M SORRY, I'M LOOKING AT YOU BUT YOU'RE NOT PROBABLY SEE ME [LAUGHTER].
>> WE DO LOSE A LITTLE MORE AS THEY GO INTO 9-12, WE DO HAVE QUITE A BIT OF RETENTION, BUT AGAIN, THEY START TO CHOOSE SOME OTHER PATHWAYS IF THEY'RE INTERESTED IN.
IT'S HARD FOR SOME OF OUR STUDENTS TO CONTINUE ON WITH SPANISH LANGUAGE WHEN THEY HAVE SO MANY OTHER INTERESTS, AND THEN THE SCHOOL OFFERS SO MUCH, SO MANY CHOICES IN HIGH SCHOOL.
WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT KIDS, WHO ARE IN THE PROGRAM, WE ALL KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS, K-5, BUT SIX THROUGH 12.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, AND HOW DO WE KNOW WHEN WE'RE DETERMINING HOW WELL THEY'RE DOING? ARE WE DOING THAT ON THE BASIS OF BEING IN THE PROGRAM, OR JUST GENERALLY HOW THEY'RE DOING AFTER K-5?
>> THAT'S A REALLY GREAT QUESTION AND I THINK I UNDERSTAND, BUT IF I GET OFF TRACK, PLEASE STOP ME.
IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL, THEY HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE SPANISH LANGUAGE ARTS, AND THEY ALSO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE THEIR HISTORY IN SPANISH AS WELL.
THEY HAVE TWO POTENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES AND MOST OF OUR STUDENTS DO STAY AND TAKE BOTH.
IN HIGH SCHOOL, IT'S A VERY SIMILAR PROCESS.
THEY HAVE SPANISH LANGUAGE ARTS, BUT THEY ALSO HAVE AP SPANISH WHICH IS WHAT THE GREAT MAJORITY OF OUR STUDENTS DO TAKE, AND THEY CAN TAKE HISTORY ALL THE WAY UP THROUGH, THEY HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF TAKING UP TO TWO CLASSES IN SPANISH.
>> I DO HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE TO ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION, [OVERLAPPING] AND THAT IS WHAT YOU'LL SEE IN AUGUST.
WHEN WE GO AHEAD AND LOOK AT THE ACADEMIC DATA, WE DO TAKE THAT COHORT THAT'S CONTINUING ON IN BOTH LANGUAGES.
WE TAKE THEM OUT AND LOOK AT THAT DATA SEPARATELY.
WE ARE LOOKING AT THE STUDENTS THAT HAVE STARTED IN THE TRADITIONAL PROGRAM, AND WE'RE LOOKING AT THE STUDENTS WHO STAYED IN THE DUAL IMMERSION PROGRAM, AS WE'RE RUNNING ALL OF THAT SECONDARY DATA.
>> THANK YOU, WE HAVE BEEN GREAT.
>> I AM CURIOUS SO YOU GET THE SEAL OF BILINGUALISM, OR WHATEVER ON YOUR HOMEWORK OR YOU CAN'T HOPE WHAT STIPULATES EVERY DAY AS EVERYBODY THAT GOES THROUGH THE PROGRAM CAGE AND FIVE GET THAT OR WHAT IS THE PROCESS?
EACH STATE GETS TO DETERMINE WHAT MAKES UP THAT SYLLABI LITERACY IN ABSENCE OF HAVING THAT CRITERIA TO TCSD, THE DUAL TEAM ACTUALLY CREATED OUR OWN CRITERIA FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS, AND IT IS RIGOROUS.
IT MEANS THAT YOU EITHER HAVE TO HAVE A THREE OR ABOVE IN AP SPANISH OR PASS A SEPARATE SPANISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT, AND YOU HAVE TO HAVE BENCHMARK SCORES ON ACT FOR READING.
YOU HAVE TO COMPLETE ALL OF THE SAME GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS FOR HALF THE WAY.
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IT'S A VERY RIGOROUS PROCESS AND NOT EVERYBODY THAT'S IN DUAL DOES GET IT, BUT THE MAJORITY DEFINITELY ARE. YEAH.>> WE'RE STILL WAITING TO HEAR THE STATE, I BELIEVE IS FORMING A COMMITTEE RIGHT NOW, I HAVE REACHED OUT AND HAVEN'T HEARD BACK.
WE'RE SEEING IF WE CAN FIGURE OUT IF WE CAN HELP TO DRIVE THAT CONVERSATION ONCE THE STATE DOES FORM THAT COMMITTEE.
YEAH. FINALLY, AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE REALLY PROUD OF.
MR. ABRAHAM HAD WANTED TO BE HERE TODAY TO REALLY TALK ABOUT THESE KIDS, BUT HE'S NOT ABLE TO.
WE HAVE FIVE BILINGUAL RECENT GRADUATES, CURRENTLY WORKING AT MONGER, WELL ATTENDING COLLEGE.
THESE STUDENTS ARE SOME OF THEM IN OF TRADITIONAL FOUR-YEAR SCHOOL, BUT MOST OF THEM IN COMMUNITY COLLEGE, AND THREE OF THEM WORKING TOWARDS THEIR DEGREE IN EDUCATION.
WE ARE REALLY PROUD OF THAT WAS ACTUALLY ONE OF THE HOPES OF THE PROGRAM, IS TO REALLY BUILD THAT SKILL SET REALLY GET KIDS TO WANT TO COME BACK AND STAY IN EDUCATION, AND THIS VERY, VERY RECENT DATA IS REALLY EXCITING.
THESE KIDS ARE AMAZING AND DOING REALLY, REALLY WELL AT MONGER.
THEY'VE BEEN A HUGE, AND REALLY POSITIVE ADDITION TO OUR STAFF THERE.
I'M NOT GOING TO READ IT TO YOU, YOU CAN READ IT BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE REALLY BELIEVE THERE COULD BE, AND THERE ARE SOME SHORT-TERM CONSEQUENCES OF DUAL IN THE SENSE OF AS STUDENTS ARE LEARNING TWO LANGUAGES, AS THEY'RE GETTING REALLY COMPETENT AND GOING THROUGH ELT AND SLD, SOME OF OUR STUDENTS ARE TAKING A LITTLE LONGER TO ATTAIN PROFICIENCY ON OUR STATE ASSESSMENT, THAT'S OKAY.
WHAT WE KNOW THAT THEY ARE CATCHING UP AND THE LONG-TERM BENEFITS AND ALL OF THE OTHER BILINGUAL, BICULTURAL, BILITERATE, THOSE PROMISES ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOR OUR KIDS AND WE SEE THAT BY THE GRADUATION RATE AND THE NUMBERS COMING BACK.
FINALLY, THE PRINCIPALS WILL BE SHARING THE DATA IN AUGUST, WILL BE WORKING TOGETHER TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A FULL COMPLEMENT OF DATA FOR YOU TO LOOK AT AND THEN PENDING TONIGHT SCHOOL BOARD APPROVAL WE ALSO HAVE PLANNED GIVING OUR FIRST K-12 SPANISH LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT FOR OUR KIDS.
WE WILL HAVE SOMETHING THAT'S VERY, VERY SIMILAR TO THE ACCESS TEST IN SPANISH AND SO WE'LL REALLY BE ABLE TO LOOK SIDE-BY-SIDE AND MAKES SURE THAT WE'RE DOING BOTH LANGUAGES JUST AS KIDS ARE MOVING THROUGH OUR SYSTEM.
>> TRUSTEE MAY DID YOU HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS?
>> YOU KNOW KAREN I AM VERY SYMPATHETIC WITH THE KIDS WHO COME HERE AND DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH.
ONE OF THE REASONS I WAS INTERESTED IN THIS IS THAT WE'RE TAKING KIDS IN KINDERGARTEN, THE K-5 GROUP, WHO DON'T REALLY KNOW HOW TO READ, WRITE IN SPANISH, OF COURSE, BECAUSE THEY'RE IN KINDERGARTEN, NOR DO THEY KNOW ENGLISH.
RATHER THAN TEACHING THEM ONE LANGUAGE WE'RE OPTING TO GO FOR TWO LANGUAGES.
THAT'S WHAT I'M CURIOUS ABOUT BECAUSE WHEN I WAS ON THE BOARD IN 2008 AND SO AS JANINE, AND THE DUAL IMMERSION PROGRAM WAS PRETTY CLEARLY SOLD TO US AS A WAY TO ENABLE OUR SPANISH-SPEAKING STUDENTS WHO COME IN AT KINDERGARTEN TO BEST LEARN ENGLISH.
NOT SO MUCH A PROGRAM TO TEACH LITERACY IN SPANISH.
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I THINK THAT ALONG THE LINE THAT HAS CHANGED BUT I WONDER IF THERE ARE OTHER PROGRAMS THAT SIMPLY TEACH ONE LANGUAGE RATHER THAN TRYING TO TEACH TWO LANGUAGES AT THE SAME TIME.IF THERE'S, OF COURSE, THE THREADS THAT WE HAD IN OUR SCHOOLS WE'RE DOING THAT BEFORE WE GOT DUAL IMMERSION.
I'M NOT CRITIC OF THE PROGRAM THAT THE PURPOSE OF MY INQUIRY IS WE'VE DONE THIS FOR 12 YEARS AND OBVIOUSLY IT'S TIME TO TAKE A REVIEW OF IT.
I SENSE FROM YOUR DISCUSSION OF THIS THAT YOU'RE A LITTLE UPSET THAT ANYBODY WOULD QUESTION THE VALIDITY OF THIS PROGRAM AND I AM NOT REALLY QUESTIONING THE VALIDITY OF IT, I'M JUST WONDERING IF WE FEARED OFF OF WHAT WE STARTED WAY BACK IN 2008.
>> WELL, I WASN'T PART OF THE GROUP OF EDUCATORS WHO SPEARHEADED THIS PROGRAM THROUGH.
HOWEVER, I WAS IN THE DISTRICT AND I WAS WORKING REALLY CLOSELY WITH SOME OF THOSE EDUCATORS.
I CAN ONLY SPEAK FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE.
I HAVE ALSO SPOKEN TO SOME OF THE FOLKS THAT WERE MOVING IT THROUGH IN AND I COULD BE WRONG AND SO AT MY APOLOGIES AHEAD OF TIME.
BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THE DUAL IMMERSION PROGRAM WAS ACTUALLY SPECIFICALLY BROUGHT HERE IN ORDER TO HONOR THOSE BOTH LANGUAGES AND SO BY DUAL EMERGING THIS PROGRAM ACTUALLY WAS BROUGHT INTO THIS DISTRICT TO SPLIT THE TIME EQUALLY BETWEEN SPANISH LANGUAGE AND ENGLISH.
AGAIN, THE THREE GOALS OF THE PROGRAM ARE BILITERACY, BILINGUALISM, AND BICULTURAL.
THOSE GOALS HAVE BEEN DATED GOALS SINCE THE INCEPTION OF THE PROGRAM.
TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION THOUGH, ARE THERE OTHER PROGRAMS THAT JUST TEACH ENGLISH? THERE ARE TRANSITIONAL BILINGUAL PROGRAMS, THERE ARE PROGRAMS WHERE WE HAVE JUST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT, THERE ARE SCHOOLS THAT WORK WITH [INAUDIBLE].
ALMOST ANY WAY THAT YOU COULD IMAGINE SOMEBODY IS ATTEMPTING TO DO THEIR BEST TO TEACH ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS HISTORIC [OVERLAPPING].
>> I'M SORRY TO INTERRUPT YOU, BUT WITH REGARDS TO THESE STUDENTS THAT HAVE COME IN THAT YOU DESCRIBED EARLIER THAT COME IN WITH SOME OF THEM HAVE EVER BEEN TO SCHOOL.
WE'RE PRETTY MUCH JUST WORKING ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ASPECT OF THEIR LEARNING. IS THAT RIGHT?
IT DEPENDS ON WHEN THEY COME IN AND WHERE THEY COME INTO OUR SYSTEM.
WE DO TAKE NEWCOMERS INTO MONGER, WE TAKE NEWCOMERS INTO SECONDARY, AND WE TAKE NEWCOMERS INTO OUR OTHER SCHOOLS, JES AND COULTER.
IF WE CAN, AND IF PARENTS CHOOSE, WE DO PROMOTE MAINTAINING SOME ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY FOR THEM.
ONE THING THAT IT DOES IS ESPECIALLY AS THEY COME IN OLDER, IT ALLOWS THEM TO ACTUALLY ACCESS GRADE LEVEL MATERIAL AND CONTENT THAT'S AT THEIR LEVELS SO THAT THEY HAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF GRADUATING.
ONE THING THAT'S REALLY HARD AS IT WHEN NEWCOMERS COME IN AND ESPECIALLY IN SECONDARY, AND THEIR LANGUAGE IS SUCH THAT THEY CAN'T ACCESS CONTENT, IT'S REALLY TOUGH TO GET ALL THOSE CREDITS TO GRADUATE.
HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO BOTH HAS ACTUALLY BEEN REALLY HELPFUL AND AGAIN, I THINK IS REALLY ATTRIBUTING TO OUR GRADUATION RATE.
>> YEAH. I HOPE I ANSWERED YOUR QUESTIONS.
>> KAREN YOU'RE COMING BACK NEXT MONTH WITH THE FOLLOW-UP, IS THAT MY UNDERSTANDING OF [OVERLAPPING].
>> AUGUST BECAUSE WE WON'T HAVE THE DATA YET.
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IT TAKES A WHILE, ESPECIALLY TO GET THAT OFFICIAL DATA BACK FROM WDE AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE ALL OF THE DATA.WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE SPANISH LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT ACCESS ENOUGH TIME TO REALLY COMPILE AND LOOK IN DETAIL AT ALL THE DATA TO PROVIDE YOU EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR.
>> FOR YEARS, THERE WERE ISSUES WITH THE LOTTERY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING CHILDREN, THERE WAS A LONG WAIT-LIST AND THEN THERE WAS ALWAYS AN ISSUE OF TRYING TO CONVINCE LATINO PARENTS TO JOIN THE PROGRAM.
DO WE STILL HAVE THAT ISSUE OF TRYING TO CONVINCE THE LATINO CURRENT?
>> NO. I THINK AGAIN ONE OF THE BEAUTIES OF THE LONG-TERM PROGRAM HERE IS THAT WORD OF MOUTH NOW IS OUT AND SO AGAIN, WHEN WE INTERVIEWED [OVERLAPPING].
>> IS THERE ANY LOTTERY ON THE LATINO SIDE?
>> I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER. IF YOU COULD LET ME KNOW EXACTLY.
WE ARE STILL IN THE PROCESS OF GETTING ALL OF THE DUAL IMMERSION APPLICATIONS IN.
FRIDAY IS OUR DEADLINE FOR THAT.
>> BUT JUST IN THE PAST, LIKE LAST YEAR WAS THERE A LOTTERY FOR KITO?
>> YES. EVERY YEAR WE HAVE [OVERLAPPING]
>> BECAUSE FOR AWHILE, I REMEMBER THEY REALLY HAD TO GO OUT AND TRY TO CONVINCE LATINO PARENTS AND EVEN TODAY, THERE IS A DICHOTOMY IN OUR COMMUNITY WHERE SOME LATINO PARENTS ARE FINE WITH THE DUAL PROGRAM, OTHERS SAY NO, I'D RATHER MY CHILD NOT GO IN THE DUAL PROGRAM, I WANT TO GO WITH THIS OTHER.
AND I THINK THAT'S MORE OF A DISCUSSION POINT.
AND MAYBE I THINK THIS IS A LITTLE BIT WHERE KATE WAS GOING WITH THIS AND MAYBE WE NEED TO HAVE JUST A DISCUSSION AMONGST THE BOARD.
WE ARE EDUCATING LATINO STUDENTS THAT ARE SPANISH SPEAKING ONLY AT JACKSON ELEMENTARY AND POULTRY ELEMENTARY.
I THINK WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE THAT THE DUAL IS NOT THE SILVER BULLET.
AND I THINK THAT'S SOMETIMES WHERE A LITTLE BIT OF A FRUSTRATION IS THAT WE'VE ALL DECIDED DUAL IS THE SILVER BULLET.
AND I CAN'T REMEMBER WHICH AD WAS RUNNING THE PROGRAM WHERE HE WAS REALLY PUSHING THAT, WE'RE GOING TO SEE THESE AMAZING NUMBERS JUST BY THEM BEING IN THE DUAL.
I'M NOT SURE THOSE AMAZING NUMBERS EVER MATERIALIZED.
I THINK THERE'S GREAT BENEFITS TO IT, BUT I DON'T KNOW.
I WAS HOPING THAT'S WHERE I THOUGHT KATE WAS GOING WITH FOR TODAY WAS WE'RE GOING TO SEE HIM.
I DON'T NEED TO SEE THIS YEAR.
I'M JUST CURIOUS FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS OR HOWEVER LONG IT IS GOING.
I WOULD ASSUME THERE'S SOME DEPTH IN THE LAST TEN YEARS SHOWING SOMETHING.
I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT THIS SOMEHOW THERE WAS SOME BENEFIT TO THIS PROGRAM BECAUSE I'M NOT SEEING IT.
I JUST NEED SOMETHING TANGIBLE.
I NEED DATA AND THE LACK OF DATA IS FRUSTRATION.
IF HE COULD GO BACK, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE CURRENT DATA, BUT SOME TYPE OF DATA, SOMETHING THAT SAYS, YES, DUAL WAS A GOOD PROGRAM AND IT BENEFITED CHILDREN IN THIS MANNER.
I THINK THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL BECAUSE INTERESTING TO COMPARE, YOU WILL TAKE A TEACHER AT JACKSON ELEMENTARY FILTER THAT HAS ESL CERTIFICATION AND THAT WE'RE PUTTING A LOT OF SPANISH-SPEAKING STUDENTS INTO THEIR CLASSROOM.
HOW DOES THAT COMPARE TO TAKE THOSE KIDS AND THEN TAKE SPANISH-SPEAKING KIDS AT MONGER, IS THERE A DIFFERENCE, DID SOMETHING BETTER HAPPEN IN ONE OVER THE OTHER? THAT WOULD BE AN INTERESTING THING TO LOOK AT.
BECAUSE I JUST THINK WE NEED TO HAVE A DISCUSSION AND I THINK TRUSTEE MEADE HAS RAISED A REALLY GOOD ISSUE.
I THINK WE ALL APPRECIATE THE FULL PROGRAM.
WE ALL SUPPORT THE DUAL PROGRAM, BUT IT JUST BE NICE TO HAVE SOME DATA TO PROVE THAT THIS PROGRAM HAS A BENEFIT OF SOME SORT.
BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF NEGATIVES TOO, BECAUSE I HEAR ALL THE NEGATIVES FROM THE PARENTS,
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THEY ARE PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM.AND I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT THE POSITIVES AND THE NEGATIVES AND SIT DOWN AND SAY, YES, WE'RE FULLY COMMITTED TO THE DUAL IMMERSION PROGRAM, BUT LET'S MAKE SOME CHANGES OR LET MAKE SOME IMPROVEMENTS AND LET'S MAKE SURE THAT OUR OTHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ARE PART OF THE SOLUTION TOO.
THAT WE'RE NOT JUST ALWAYS PULLING INTO DUAL AND THERE'S MULTIPLE APPROACHES, I GUESS AND I GUESS WE HAVE TILL AUGUST, SO THAT'S JUNE, JULY.
YEAH. THAT'S NOT THAT FAR AWAY.
IT JUST BE NICE IN AUGUST, IF WE COULD COME BACK AND NOT ONLY HAVE A PRESENTATION, BUT MAYBE A DISCUSSION.
I DON'T THINK IT'S FAIR TO YOU GUYS, WE VOICE OUR OPINIONS THROUGH YOU WHEN WE ASK QUESTIONS, SOMETIME WE'RE NOT ASKING QUESTIONS, WE'RE MAKING POINT.
MAYBE WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS JUST HAVE A DISCUSSION AMONGST OURSELVES AS TO THE DIRECTION THAT DUAL IS GOING.
DO WE LIKE THE DIRECTION IT'S GOING, DO WE WANT TO MAKE SOME CHANGES, DO WE WANT TO MAKE SOME CHANGES AT JACKSON AND COULTER TO MAKE IT WORK BETTER TOGETHER.
THOSE ARE SOME OF MY THOUGHTS.
I JUST THROW ALL THOSE OUT TO YOU.
THEY'RE ALL MISHMASH OF THOUGHT.
[LAUGHTER] BUT I THINK WE'RE ALL STILL REALLY COMMITTED TO THE DUAL PROGRAM.
I JUST THINK WE'D LIKE TO SEE DATA.
>> CHAIR AND TRUSTEES, I THINK ONE THING THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN LOOK AT, WE DO HAVE A LOT OF HISTORICAL DATA TO PULL UP AND WE CAN DISAGGREGATE IT FROM THE LONG-TERM DATA.
AND I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE DO TAKE A LOOK AT ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE SCHOOL, AND HIGH SCHOOL BECAUSE IT'S REALLY IN THOSE SECONDARY YEARS WHEN YOU START TO SEE THE BENEFITS OF BEING BILINGUAL AND BY LITERATE STUDENT.
IN THE ELEMENTARY YEARS, THERE IS A LOT OF DEVELOPMENT AND SO YOU WILL SEE THE DATA LAGGING BEHIND TRADITIONAL MONOLINGUAL SCHOOLS AT THE ELEMENTARY BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T DEVELOPED THEIR LANGUAGE SKILLS AT THAT POINT.
AND SO IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE RESEARCH FROM THOMAS AND SCALIA, YOU'LL SEE THAT THE DUAL IMMERSION TRAJECTORY, NATIONALLY AND THEORETICALLY TOO, IT DOES EQUAL OR GO BEYOND TRADITIONAL MONOLINGUAL SCHOOLS FOR ESL STUDENTS.
LOCALLY, I DON'T KNOW IF WE'VE EVER HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO BREAK THAT DOWN, BUT I THINK IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE DO BREAK DOWN THAT DATA TO COMPARE SUCCESS RATES FOR STUDENTS THAT HAVE BEEN PART OF THE DUAL PROGRAM FROM ELEMENTARY ALL THE WAY THROUGH SECONDARY AND THEN COMPARE TO OTHER ESL STUDENTS THAT WERE IN A TRADITIONAL MONOLINGUAL SCHOOL.
>> SO MY QUESTION OR MY QUEST WOULD BE IS THAT WE ARE REALLY FOCUSING ON THE NATIVE SPANISH SPEAKERS IN THE PROGRAM AND I WOULD ALSO LIKE, IF WE'RE COMPARING SCHOOLS, DATA ON THE ENGLISH SPEAKERS AT THE TRADITIONAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS COMPARED TO THE ENGLISH SPEAKERS AT MONGER BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS NOT JUST FOCUSED, ESPECIALLY IF YOU GET TO THAT BI-CULTURAL PIECE.
THE BI-CULTURAL PIECE IS VERY IMPORTANT AS WELL.
WHAT IS THE BENEFIT THERE AND HOW ARE THE NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS BENEFITING AT MONGER MORE OR LESS THAN THE TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS?
>> I WILL JUST SAY IT. I DON'T REMEMBER ON THE BOARD WHEN WE PRESENTED OUR DATA BACK WHEN WE WERE THINKING ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT WE WOULD BOTH CODE WITH MONGER, BUT THAT WE DID PRESENT ON THAT DATA BROKE IT DOWN LONGITUDINAL FOR BOTH OUR LS AND RL2.
ALL THAT DATA WAS THERE AT THAT AND CONTINUING THAT DATA ALONG AND THAT'S THE DATA THAT WE PLAN ON PRESENTING IN AUGUST.
IT IS A CHALLENGE TO START TO BREAK IT OUT BECAUSE THERE IS MIXING AND WE DEAL WITH MESSAGES FROM JACKSON AND CULTURE THAT ACTUALLY ENDED UP GOING INTO SOME OF THOSE WHICH IS AMAZING, GREAT OPPORTUNITY.
>> ONE DATA POINT THAT I REALLY WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT WE DO HAVE AVAILABLE TODAY IS OUR GRADUATION RATES.
THERE IS VIRTUALLY NO GAP BETWEEN OUR SPANISH-SPEAKING AS A FIRST LANGUAGE VERSUS OUR ENGLISH SPEAKING, SO WHILE MAYBE [OVERLAPPING].
>> DOES THAT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH DUAL.
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>> WE HAVE SPANISH-SPEAKING CHILDREN COMING INTO THE KINDERGARTEN AT JACKSON AND POULTRY.
YOU SAY THOSE CHILDREN ARE NOT GRADUATING AND THE ONES FROM MONGER ARE GRADUATING.
>> NO. OUR DATA WHEN WE HAVE A 97.1 OR 98.1% GRADUATION RATE, OUR SPANISH-SPEAKING OR EL STUDENTS NORMALLY IN OTHER DISTRICTS, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A SIGNIFICANT GAP.
LIKE MAYBE THERE'S 72% OF NON NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKING STUDENTS THAT GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL.
BUT IN OUR HIGH SCHOOL, OUR STUDENTS, THERE'S VIRTUALLY NO GAP.
THERE, 90 IN ONE-YEAR. [OVERLAPPING].
>> I DON'T SEE THE CORRELATION WITH DUAL.
THERE'S NO CORRELATION TO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
>> THOSE ARE TWO DIFFERENT PROGRAMS. WE OFFER TWO DIFFERENT PROGRAMS THROUGH THE DISTRICT AND BOTH ARE NOT VERY SUCCESSFUL.
>> I GET YOUR POINT THAT WE'RE VERY SUCCESSFUL.
I DON'T KNOW IF WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS ANYWHERE ATTRIBUTABLE TO DUAL.
IT'S ATTRIBUTABLE THAT WE HAVE TWO GOOD PROGRAMS IN OUR DISTRICT.
IT'S ALMOST AS IF WE'RE SAYING ONE PROGRAMS GOOD AND ONE INJECTS IN CULTURE BAD, AND I DON'T KNOW WHY WE DO THAT.
>> THAT IS ABSOLUTELY NOT OUR INTENT BECAUSE I THINK ALL OF OUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ARE DOING A PHENOMENAL JOB.
THERE'S JUST A DIFFERENT PATHWAY IN IT'S SERVING THE NEEDS OF STUDENTS DIFFERENTLY.
I THINK THAT WHAT I WAS TRYING TO GET AT IS THAT THERE MAY BE A LAG AS CARRY SENTENCE THE STUDENTS INITIALLY, IT TAKES THEM A WHILE TO GET INTO IT.
SO THERE MAY BE A LAG IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, BUT THERE'S SO MANY GREAT THINGS HAPPENING THAT WE ARE CLOSING THAT GAP AND IN OUR HIGH-SCHOOL GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS ARE MUCH MORE STRINGENT THAN THE STATE SO WHEN OTHER DISTRICTS SEE THAT WE ARE GRADUATING 95, 98, 99% OF OUR STUDENTS, IT'S JUST UNHEARD OF.
WHETHER STUDENTS ARE IN DUAL OR IN A TRADITIONAL MONOLINGUAL SCHOOL, OUR STUDENTS ARE EXCELLING SO GREAT THINGS ARE HAPPENING.
AND IF THERE IS A GAP REALLY ON WHETHER IT'S A JS OR CULTURE OR MONGER AT WILSON, WHATEVER THEY'RE GETTING IT AT THE VERY END. THAT WAS MY POINT.
>> TRUSTEE MAY DID YOU HAVE ANY FOLLOW-UP BEING AT THAT MY RAMBLINGS.
>> NO, I JUST THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE THE DISCUSSION.
I HATE TO BRING UP MONEY, BUT IT APPEARS TO ME THAT THERE'S ALSO PROBABLY A COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS THAT WE HAVE TO TAKE A LOOK AT AS WELL.
THAT'S WHAT I HEAR IN THE COMMUNITY.
MAYBE THE GROUP OF PEOPLE I TALKED TO ARE DIFFERENT THAN OTHER BOARD MEMBERS I TALKED TO.
BUT SOME PEOPLE FEEL LIKE WE SPEND AN INORDINATE AMOUNT OF MONEY ON MONGER, AND NOT SO MUCH ON THE OTHERS.
NOW, I DON'T THINK THAT'S TRUE.
BUT I THINK WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT IN LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT IT'S NUMBER 1.
IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO GET DUAL TEACHERS.
I THINK THAT KAREN'S PRESENTATION AND THE KIDS WHO HAVE GOTTEN OUT OF SCHOOL WHO ARE GOING TO FOUR-YEAR COLLEGES AND ARE LOOKING TO GET INTO EDUCATION, 'HOORAY' THAT'S BUILDING A BACKBENCH FOR US EVENTUALLY.
I DON'T THINK ANYBODY DENIES THAT THAT'S BEEN HARD ALL ALONG THE WAY TO DO THAT.
I THINK WE COULD TAKE A LOOK AT THAT AS WELL.
I'M DELIGHTED THAT ALL THESE KIDS DO SO WELL HERE.
WE DO REALLY GO TO THE FINAL MILE TO GET ALL THESE KIDS TO GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL.
I DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO TAKE IT PERSONALLY.
I'M NOT TRYING TO CRITICIZE THE PROGRAM, BUT LIKE KEITH, I JUST WANT TO SEE THE DATA WE NEVER HAVE.
EDUCATION, AS WE ALL KNOW, CONSISTENTLY DOES STUFF THE SAME WAY BECAUSE WE'VE ALWAYS DONE IT THAT WAY.
DUAL HAS BECOME ONE OF THOSE PROGRAMS BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T REALLY LOOKED AT IT VERY CAREFULLY IN THESE LAST 12 YEARS.
IT SEEMS TO ME AS THE TIME TO DO IT NOW.
>> [INAUDIBLE] [OVERLAPPING] AS A PARENT OF THE DUAL IMMERSION, STUDENTS TWO OF THEM.
THANK YOU, KERRIE. YOU'VE DONE A GREAT JOB.
WHAT WE'RE FORGETTING IS, THESE ARE NOT NUMBERS, THESE ARE NOT DATASETS, THESE ARE CHILDREN.
TO SEE THESE KIDS GROW UP FROM KINDERGARTEN TO HIGH SCHOOL, IT'S REALLY SPECIAL AND I CAN COUNT THEM HERE.
I THINK I COUNT SIX OR SEVEN DUAL PARENTS IN HERE, AIN'T MANY.
I HOPE I SPEAK FOR ALL OF THEM.
SO KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK DOWN THERE.
LET'S TWEAK IT, MAKE IT BETTER. THANK YOU.
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>> KERRIE, WHERE IS THE STUDENTS' SCHOOL BOARD?
[D. Reports and Items for Discussion]
SHOULD YOU GUYS LAST NOW, OR DO YOU HAVE ONE MORE?>> OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, WE'VE BEEN WORKING VERY HARD IN [OVERLAPPING]
>> YOU SHOULD BE ADVISED. [LAUGHTER]
>> OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, WE'VE BEEN WORKING VERY HARD IN ORDER TO GET THE RESOURCES WE NEED TO COMPLETE OUR PROJECT ON TIME.
IT IS ABOUT READY TO BE MADE PUBLIC TO THE STUDENTS WITHIN OUR SCHOOL.
IN THE PAST TWO MONTHS, WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON CONTACTING POTENTIAL PARTICIPANTS AND ONCE WE PUT BACK FROM THEM, WE'VE BEEN ADDING THEM TO OUR DATABASE.
WE HOPE THAT THIS WEBSITE CONTINUES TO GROW IN THE NEXT MONTHS AND HOPEFULLY IN THE NEXT YEARS.
THE FIRST THING I WANT TO DISCUSS IS THIS IDEA THAT WE'VE CREATED DATABASE.
WE THINK IT WILL BE A HELPFUL RESOURCE TO STUDENTS.
STUDENTS THEMSELVES HAVE TOLD US THAT THEY WOULD USE IT THROUGH OUR SURVEY.
BUT NOW IT'S THIS IDEA OF ACCESSIBILITY, MAKING SURE THAT STUDENTS CAN ACCESS THIS.
ALMOST EQUALLY IMPORTANT TO CREATING THIS WEBSITE IS MAKING SURE THAT STUDENTS CAN FIND THIS RESOURCE EASILY, ACCESS IT, AND ULTIMATELY STIMULATE CONNECTIONS TO MENTORS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
NOW IT'S THIS IDEA OF MAKING SURE THAT WE ADDRESS THIS IN DISTRICT SECURITY ISSUE.
WE'RE IN CONTACT THROUGH MS. REYNOLD'S WITH THE DATABASE PROVIDERS AND THE WEBSITE OF [INAUDIBLE] TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN THEN MAKE IT TO THE WEBSITE RESOURCE SEGMENT OF THE TCSD SITE.
>> ONE OF THE HIGH SCHOOL SITE?
>> IN TACKLING THIS IDEA OF CONTINUITY AFTER WE GRADUATE, I HAD A REALLY PRODUCTIVE MEETING WITH THE COLLEGE AND CAREER COUNSELOR AT THE HIGH SCHOOL MS. EMILY HOFFER AND GOT SOME HOPEFUL CONCLUSIONS OUT OF THAT.
SHE AGREED TO HELP MAINTAIN THE GRADUATE PART OF THAT THIRD OF WEBSITE AND CUTTING ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR.
THAT WAS ONE OF THE SUGGESTIONS FROM THE BOARD THAT WE CAN TRACK GRADUATES KEEPING IN TOUCH WITH THEM.
I'LL GO A LITTLE BIT MORE INTO HOW THAT COULD BE HELPFUL IN A BIT.
IN THE SPIRIT OF GETTING ALL OF THE GRADUATES WE CAN WHO WOULD BE GOOD MENTORS ONTO THE DATABASE, THE CONCLUSION I CAME UP WITH THIS MS. HOFFER IS TO PUSH OUT THE SURVEY AND CONSENT FORM TO ALL GRADUATES AS PART OF THEIR CHECKLIST WHEN GRADUATING.
THEN DO THE FILTERING FOR GOOD MENTORS AFTER THAT FOR SURE I ALREADY KNOW ALL OF THE SENIORS. SHE AGREED TO DO THAT.
MY WORK IN THIS PROCESS IS GOING TO BE STREAMLINING, AUTOMATING THE PROCESS FOR COPYING AND PASTING, BASICALLY, JUST THE INFORMATION THAT WE'RE USING ON THE DATABASE FROM A GOOGLE SURVEY OR SOMETHING SO THAT MS. HOFFER DOESN'T DO MORE WORK THAN SHE NEEDS TO.
MS. HOFFER ALSO BROUGHT UP IN MY MEETING POSSIBLE USES FOR NETWORKING ON THE OTHER END OF THIS DATABASE WHERE BUSINESSES AND NON-PROFITS IN TOWN ASKED HER FOR A LIST OF GRADUATES THAT MIGHT BE IN TOWN DURING THE SUMMER TO GET INTO CONTACT WITH.
THIS DATABASE COULD WORK THE OTHER WAY WHERE BUSINESSES FROM AROUND TOWN CAN USE IT TO NETWORK WITH STUDENTS THAT MIGHT WANT TO INTERN AT THEIR PLACE OF WORK.
THEN THE LAST POINT I HAVE IS IF IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE, OPEN-ENDED QUESTION TO ENLIST THE AID OF NEXT YEAR STUDENT'S SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS IN MAINTAINING THIS WEBSITE.
BECAUSE I HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH TIME I'LL HAVE IN COLLEGE, IF THERE'S A PROBLEM, FIX THE PROCESS FROM GETTING NAMES OF GRADUATES ON WEBSITE, THINGS LIKE THAT.
>> FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO CONGRATULATE THE THREE OF YOU.
YOU'VE GOT MUCH FARTHER THAN I THINK BETSY AND I COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED WHEN WE FIRST MET WITH YOU AND TALK ABOUT THIS.
THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION, ABOUT NEXT YEAR'S STUDENTS' SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS, I THINK LIES WITHIN YOU.
WHAT I'M SAYING IS, AFTER THOSE FOLKS ARE SELECTED, I THINK IT WOULD BE IN ALL OF OUR BEST INTERESTS FOR BETSY AND I TO SIT DOWN WITH YOU, AND THEM AND YOU TWO TELL THEM WHAT YOU'VE DONE, WHY YOU DID IT, WHAT YOU FEEL YOU GOT FROM IT, AND WHY IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA FOR THEM TO TRY AND TAKE IT FORWARD.
WE'RE BOTH HAPPY TO, I THINK TO HELP YOU DO THAT, BUT I JUST THINK THIS TO ME WOULD BE THE TRUE LEADERSHIP IN THIS PROJECT IS FOR YOU TO CONVINCE THEM WHAT THIS IS INDEED A GREAT THING TO DO.
WHICH, BY THE WAY, AS YOU WELL KNOW, I THINK THIS IS A WONDERFUL PROJECT AND YOU'VE DONE A GREAT JOB AND IT'S THE RIGHT THING THAT WE SHOULD BE DOING IN
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ORDER TO KEEP TRACK OF FOLKS AFTER THEY GRADUATE. THAT'S WHAT I'M HERE TO SAY.>> THANK YOU [INAUDIBLE] REALLY QUICK.
I SEE [INAUDIBLE] ARE YOU MAKING IN AN ANNOUNCEMENT?
>> SARAH. [APPLAUSE] ANY PLANS.
>> I'M GOING TO [INAUDIBLE] FOR A COMPUTER SCIENCE.
>> VERY GOOD. IT'S VERY SIMPLE MATH.
YOU TOLD ME EARLY ON YOU'RE WORKING ON BLACK BELT AND?
>> IT'S COMING SOON. [LAUGHTER].
>> KYLE, I AM THE MOTHER OF A 2014 STAR GRADUATE FROM MICHIGAN STATE.
SHE GRADUATED FROM MICHIGAN STATE IN 2014.
I HOPE YOU CAN ENJOY IT AS MUCH AS SHE DID.
>> [INAUDIBLE] I'M REALLY GRATEFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY.
INCOME [INAUDIBLE] [OVERLAPPING] [LAUGHTER].
THE RULES ARE [LAUGHTER] STARTED THIS BUNCH.
I'M GOING TO START THIS DISCUSSION BY SAYING, THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT EVENING WITH A LOT OF FINANCIAL CONTENT AND I DON'T WANT ANY OF YOU, INCLUDING MYSELF TO TIMESHAME CRYSTAL [OVERLAPPING].
SERIOUSLY, SHE HAS PUT A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WORK INTO WHERE WE'VE GOTTEN TO TONIGHT.
WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR ANY DECISIONS TONIGHT, THIS IS PURELY A MATTER OF PRESENTING ALTERNATIVES.
NEXT MONTH WILL BE THE MONTH WHERE WE APPROVE THE COMP PACKAGE.
WOULD YOU DO DECIDE ON THE INSURANCE OPTIONS TONIGHT? DIFFERENT TOPIC.
BUT ANYWAY, ASK QUESTIONS PLEASE FOR CLARITY.
I THINK WE'VE COME A LONG WAY AND TAKE IT AWAY.
THANK YOU. THE FIRST THING I'D LIKE TO DO IS INTRODUCE OUR NEW FOOD SERVICE MANAGER, DANNY.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO COME ALL THE WAY UP HERE, BUT IF YOU'LL STAND UP, THIS IS DANNY REED AND HE IS DOING AN EXCELLENT JOB IN LEADING OUR FOOD SERVICE TEAMS. [BACKGROUND] A BUNCH OF HIS AID TODAY IN THE HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIA, WE ENJOYED THE CHICKEN SANDWICH [LAUGHTER].
ON MONDAY WE HAD CHICKEN NUGGETS.
IT COULD SEEM TO BE A THEME [LAUGHTER].
I THINK TRUSTEE ME MIGHT BE SERVED IF IT'S JUST CHICKEN BEING SERVED [LAUGHTER].
I WANT TO LOOK INTO SOME BEEF.
[LAUGHTER] IN THE ARMY'S DEFENSE, WE DID HAVE A LOT OF CHICKEN COMMODITY [LAUGHTER], WE WERE FORCED TO ORDER AND USE BEFORE THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR.
YES, THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF CHICKEN.
WE ANTICIPATE THAT CHANGING [LAUGHTER].
MY COW SAYS EAT CHICKEN, SO HERE WE GO [LAUGHTER].
WE ARE GOING TO JUMP RIGHT INTO THE COMP PACKAGE PRESENTATION. ].
BEFORE YOU DO THAT, I HAVE ONE QUESTION IN MY MIND, ON THE BUDGET UPDATE.
WHY ARE WE OVER BUDGETING OUT-OF-STATE TUITION? THAT IS BECAUSE WE HAVE MORE STUDENTS ATTENDING THE ALTIS SCHOOL THAN WE HAD ANTICIPATED.
THAT COULD BE. WE JUST WEREN'T AWARE OF ANYBODY IN HIGH SCHOOL OR MEDICAL SCHOOL.
THE NUMBERS JUST COME IN PRIOR BUT REMEMBER ON THAT LINE, WE GET THAT REIMBURSEMENT FROM THE SUMMER.
I JUST WANTED SUCH A RESPONSE WHEN WE GET THE REVENUE.
THIS FIRST SLIDE IS TO ILLUSTRATE WHERE WE'RE AT FISCALLY IN OUR COMMUNITY AS WELL AS A COUPLE OF FACTORS FROM THE STATE.
THE BLUE LINE IS OUR RECAPTURE.
MOST OF YOU KNOW WHAT RECAPTURE IS IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND, THE ORANGE LINE IS OUR RATE OF INFLATION.
THIS IS UP TO THE MOST CURRENT DATA THAT WE HAD WHEN I PUT THIS PRESENTATION TOGETHER AND THEN THE YELLOW LINE IS OUR RCA.
WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO SHOW WITH THIS SLIDE IS THAT OUR REGIONAL COST ADJUSTMENT THAT'S FACTORED INTO OUR FUNDING MODEL DOES NOT KEEP UP WITH INFLATION OR OUR RATE OF RECAPTURE.
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WE'VE BEEN HEARING A LOT ABOUT PROPERTY TAXES LOCALLY.OUR RECAPTURE FOR NEXT YEAR'S ANTICIPATED TO BE 46 MILLION.
THIS IS THE MOST RECENT DATA FROM THE COUNTY.
I DID REACH OUT TO BOTH MELISSA SCHINKLE AND KATIE SMITH'S, AND THIS IS THEIR MOST ACCURATE NUMBER AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME, WHICH PUTS OUR RECAPTURED NEXT YEAR AT 46 MILLION, AND THIS YEAR IT'S AT 24 MILLION AND THIS IS STATE STATUTE REQUIRED MILL LEVEES THAT ARE THAT THE COUNTY HE AS TO IMPLEMENT IN A COMMUNITY.
WHY IS THIS SUPPORT? IT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE 48 PERCENT OF THE REGIONAL COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT IS BASED ON HOUSING.
THE HOUSING THAT'S REFERENCED IN THAT INDEX IS RENTALS.
HOWEVER, I WOULD SUGGEST TO YOU THERE IS A DIRECT CORRELATION BETWEEN PROPERTY ASSESSMENTS AND RENTALS.
THAT'S A REALLY KEY POINT AS WE'RE MOVING FORWARD HERE AND THE SLOPE OF THAT LINE IS ALMOST VERTICAL.
WHAT WE SEE OVER TIME IS THAT WE SEE PROPERTY VALUES INCREASE DRAMATICALLY, AND THEN WHEN WE SEE RENTS A YEAR OR TWO LATER INCREASE, BUT THEN OUR RCA IS TWO YEARS BEHIND.
THE IDEA THAT OUR REGIONAL COST ADJUSTMENT IS UP-TO-DATE IS A LITTLE BIT INACCURATE, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE SEE A DRAMATIC INCREASE IN PROPERTY VALUES, A DRAMATIC INCREASE IN RENTS, AND A DRAMATIC INCREASE IN INFLATION.
THE REGIONAL COST OF LIVING IS BASED ON A THREE-YEAR AVERAGE AND WHEN YOU'RE IN A PERIOD OF HYPERINFLATION LIKE WE ARE RIGHT NOW, THAT JUST DOESN'T WORK.
WHEN WE WERE PUTTING THIS COMPENSATION PACKAGE TOGETHER.
THESE ARE A COUPLE OF THE OBJECTIVES THAT WE KEPT IN MIND, PRIORITIZE STUDENTS OF COURSE AND HAVING THE MOST SKILLED EDUCATORS IN FRONT OF STUDENTS. THIS IS CRUCIAL.
WE BELIEVE THAT WE HIRE GREAT PEOPLE AND WE WANT THOSE PEOPLE IN THE POSITIONS THAT WE HIRED THEM FOR.
WE OBVIOUSLY, OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, ESPECIALLY HAVE HAD A LOT OF TROUBLE FINDING SUBS AND HAVING ENOUGH SUBS FOR THE AMOUNT OF ABSENCES.
WE HOPE THAT THAT IS ON THE DOWNSLOPE AND WE HOPE THAT COVID IS [LAUGHTER] COMING.
WELL, COVID WILL NEVER COME TO AN END, I THINK, BUT AT LEAST THE IMPACTS TO OUR CLASSROOMS HOPEFULLY WILL BE A MINIMUM MOVING FORWARD.
WE ALSO KNOW THAT SALARIES WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY HAVE ALSO SKYROCKETED WITH SOME OF THE PROPERTY VALUES AND PROPERTY TAXES, SO BEING COMPETITIVE IN THE MARKETPLACE IS ALSO IMPORTANT.
THEN WE ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE OFFERING A GOOD BENEFITS PACKAGE THAT KEEPS PHYSICAL, MENTAL, AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH PRIORITY FOR ALL OUR STAFF.
GO AHEAD THIS FIRST PART OF THIS PRESENTATION IS REALLY THE HOUSEKEEPING AREAS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR OR ALSO THROUGH LEGISLATIVE ACTION.
THE COMPLETE SUMMARY OF CHANGES IS LINKED HERE.
WE'LL GO THROUGH SOME THE LARGER CHANGES IN THIS PRESENTATION, BUT THERE ARE SOME LITTLE MINOR THINGS THAT YOU CAN ALSO LOOK AT, AND THE SUMMARY OF CHANGES IT'S ALSO POSTED ON BOARD BOX.
THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. THE FIRST ONE OF THOSE IS OUR INSURANCE.
THIS IS THE ONLY PART OF THIS PRESENTATION THAT YOU WILL BE DECIDING ON TONIGHT.
IT'S ON AS AN ACTION ITEM LATER IN THE AGENDA AND THIS IS THE PAY STRUCTURE.
WE PRESENTED THIS THE FIRST TIME YOU SAW OUR INSURANCE RENEWAL AS WELL AS LAST MONTH AND PROVIDES THREE OPTIONS FOR STAFF.
ONE OF THOSE IS AN EMPLOYEE-PAID PORTION OF THE PREMIUM AND THAT'S FOR OUR TRADITIONAL PLAN.
THE OTHER TWO ARE HIGH DEDUCTIBLE PLANS THAT COME WITH DISTRICT HSA CONTRIBUTIONS AND SO EVERY EMPLOYEE WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO CHOOSE THE PLAN THAT WORKS BEST FOR THEM.
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS AND WHAT CURRENTLY EXISTS? WHAT CURRENTLY EXISTS, WE HAVE THE TIER ONE AND THE TIER THREE.
WE ADDED THE TIER FIVE HIGH DEDUCTIBLE OPTION.
WE DO HAVE MANY STAFF MEMBERS THAT ARE VERY HEALTHY THAT DON'T UTILIZE THEIR INSURANCE AS MUCH AS SOMEONE ELSE THAT MAY HAVE A CHRONIC ILLNESS.
THEY APPRECIATE HAVING THAT HIGHER HSA CONTRIBUTION.
THOSE HSA CONTRIBUTIONS, ONCE YOU'VE BUILT THE BALANCE IN THAT ACCOUNT THAT CAN CARRY ON THROUGH THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.
EVEN WHEN YOU GO ONTO MEDICARE, YOU CAN STILL USE HSA DOLLARS SO THAT FOR SOME PEOPLE IS A BETTER INVESTMENT IN THEIR HEALTH THAN A TRADITIONAL PLAN.
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SOME PEOPLE MAY CHOOSE TO GO WITH THE $5,000 THOUSAND DOLLAR HIGH DEDUCTIBLE BECAUSE THEY WANT $126 INTO THEIR HSA RATHER THAN THE 71.YES. RATHER THAN THE 71 ON THE TIER THREE. CORRECT.
THEN WHICH ONE DO YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR? IT'S THE FIRST ONE, THE TIER ONE, THAT TRADITIONAL PLAN.
HOW MUCH DO YOU HAVE TO PAY? IF YOU CAN SEE IT'S THAT EMPLOYEE FORTUNE RIGHT BELOW.
IT'S THE SAME RATES AS I KNOW, THAT'S CONFUSING.
IS IT NOT MONTHLY THING? IT IS.
EVERY MONTH IF I WANTED TO PICK ONE WHICH WE CURRENTLY HAVE, THEY PAY OUT OF THEIR PAYCHECK EVERY MONTH $71.50 TO BE ON THAT PLAN.
THIS YEAR THE RATE BECAUSE OF THE EIGHT PERCENT INCREASE.
THE EMPLOYEE PAID PORTION IS DUE TO THE INCREASE IN RATES.
CURRENTLY, NOBODY'S PAYING FOR HEALTH INSURANCE? YES.
THE BIG CHANGE WE'RE MAKING TONIGHT IS IF YOU WANT TO STAY WITH TRADITIONAL PLAN, WE'RE GOING TO START CHARGING IS $71.50 EVERY MONTH AND WE ADDED THIS NEW REALLY HIGH DEDUCTIBLE ONE, THE 5,000 THE ADVANTAGE THERE IS SLIGHTLY MORE INTO YOUR BALANCE, SLIGHTLY MORE INTO YOUR HSA? YES.
THANK YOU. THAT IS MATCHING ME AT THE BOTTOM.
WE, IN THE PAST, YOU COULD CHOOSE TO GET AN HSA MATCH.
WHEN WE ONLY OFFERED HIGH DEDUCTIBLE PLANS, WE OFFERED AN HSA MATCHING AND YOU COULD CHOOSE TO GET THAT MATCHING OF $100 A MONTH INTO YOUR HSA OR YOU COULD MATCH IT INTO YOUR 457, WHICH IS A RETIREMENT ACCOUNT.
WHEN WE MOVED TO A TRADITIONAL PLAN, WE ADDED THE TRADITIONAL PLAN.
WE NO LONGER OFFERED THE MATCH CHOICE BECAUSE IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE AN HSA PLAN, BECAUSE YOU HAVE A TRADITIONAL PLAN, YOU'RE NOT ELIGIBLE.
WE SWITCH THAT OVER TO A $34 MATCHING TO THE 457.
IT'S RIGHT IN MY FACE, BUT WE'RE GOOD [LAUGHTER].
I'M THRILLED ABOUT THAT. [OVERLAPPING] I WILL BE OKAY.
ANY MORE QUESTIONS ON INSURANCE? RETIREE INSURANCE.
THIS HAS BEEN A TOPIC WHILE WE VISITED IT ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO BECAUSE WHAT WE SEE IS THE PAID LOSS RATIO FOR RETIREE INSURANCE, IS OFTEN OVER A 100 PERCENT.
IF YOU HAVE YOUR PREMIUMS SAY YOU'VE PAID AND THEN YOUR CLAIMS, IF IT'S 100 PERCENT PAID LOSS RATIO, THAT MEANS THAT YOUR CLAIMS EQUAL THE PREMIUMS THAT YOU'VE PAID.
NOW WITH WEP INSURANCE WHO IS OUR INSURANCE PROVIDER, EVEN IF YOU'RE AT A 100 PERCENT PAID LOSS RATIO OR LOWER, WHICH WE NORMALLY ARE, WE WILL STILL GET AN INCREASE IN OUR PREMIUMS. IT'S DUE TO THE RISING COSTS OF HEALTHCARE NATIONWIDE AND IN OUR COMMUNITY.
THIS YEAR OUR PAID LOSS RATIO FOR OUR WHOLE GROUP WAS OVER A 100 PERCENT, WHICH MEANS WE RECEIVED A HIGHER INCREASE.
THAT FEEDS INTO THE CONVERSATION ABOUT, DO WE CONTINUE TO OFFER INSURANCE TO RETIREES? BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT GROUPS PAID LOSS RATIO IS HIGHER.
WE'VE HAD A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THIS, WE'VE HAD A LOT OF FEEDBACK AROUND THIS [LAUGHTER].
WHEN WE FIRST STARTED DOWN THIS PROCESS, IT WAS THAT WE WERE GOING TO SUNSET THE RETIREE INSURANCE.
AFTER A LOT OF FEEDBACK AND A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS WITH STAFF AND TRUSTEES, WE HAVE THEN SINCE COME TO THIS STRUCTURE WHERE WE'LL ALLOW RETIREES TO ONLY ELECT SINGLE, AND RIGHT NOW THEY CAN ELECT WITH A SPOUSE OR WITH A FAMILY, TO ONLY ELECT SINGLE AND THEN AS WE MOVE THROUGH THE YEARS, WE WOULD CHARGE A HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF THE DISTRICT PREMIUM MOVING FORWARD.
THAT MEANS IF YOU WERE TO RETIRE NEXT YEAR AND WE WENT WITH THIS STRUCTURE, YOU WOULD PAY A 125 PERCENT OF THE DISTRICT PREMIUM.
THE PREMIUM RATES ON THIS SLIDE ARE AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE WITH NEXT YEAR'S RATES.
>> CAN WE STICK ONCE, STOP HERE.
WHAT WAS THE PAID LOSS RATIO FOR A PERSONAL EMPLOYEE VERSUS OUR RETIRING? SUCH AN IMPORTANT DATA POINT [INAUDIBLE].
>> RETIREES WERE A 183 PERCENT.
TRADITIONAL PLAN WAS 123 PERCENT
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AND THE HIGH DEDUCTIBLE PLANS WERE 90.I THINK THEY WERE LIKE 98 PERCENT.
BOTH OF THE TRADITIONAL PLAN WHOLE, WHEN THEY START TO SEPARATE TRADITIONAL PLAN AND HIGH DEDUCTIBLE PLAN, IT GETS A LITTLE BIT TOO SMALL OF A SAMPLE GROUP.
IN THE A 123 PERCENT AND THE 98 PERCENT, RETIREES ARE INCLUDED IN THOSE TWO NUMBERS.
WEP, WHEN WE RECEIVED OUR RENEWAL THIS YEAR, THEY SAID THAT ACROSS THE STATE ANYBODY WHO HAD A TRADITIONAL PLAN, THOSE PAID LOSS RATIO WERE HIGHER.
BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TRADITIONAL PLAN ARE USUALLY HIGHER UTILIZERS OF HEALTH INSURANCE, WHICH IS WHY THEY HAVE A TRADITIONAL PLAN.
BUT WEP NEXT YEAR WE'LL BE INCREASING THE RATES ON TRADITIONAL PLANS.
EVEN IF NOTHING ELSE INCREASE THE TRADITIONAL PLAN PREMIUM RATES WILL INCREASE NEXT YEAR.
THEY'VE ALREADY LET US KNOW THAT.
DO WE HAVE A FAIR NUMBER OF A COUPLE OF TEACHING WITHIN A COUPLE OF RETIRES AND THEIR FAMILIES ARE EMPLOYEES [INAUDIBLE] WE WERE, CAN EACH THEN DO THIS AS A SINGLE?
>> I WOULD SAY YES. IF BOTH ARE EMPLOYEES, EMPLOYEES WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR SINGLE.
ONE OF THE BENEFITS TO NOT SUNSETTING AND THIS WAS JUST A CONVERSATION I HAD ON MONDAY AND I DIDN'T GET TO ADD IT TO THE SLIDE BECAUSE THIS ALREADY POSTED.
ONE OF THE BENEFITS [LAUGHTER] TO JUST INCREASING THE RATES VERSUS COMPLETELY SUNSETTING IT, IS THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO RETIRE WITH A DISTRICT, THAT ARE STILL FAIRLY HEALTHY AND IF WE WERE TO FORCE EVERYBODY ONTO THE WEP RETIREE INSURANCE, THEY DON'T OFFER A HIGH DEDUCTIBLE PLAN.
THEY ONLY OFFER TRADITIONAL PLANS ASSUMING THAT MOST PEOPLE ON THAT RETIREE INSURANCE ARE GOING TO BE HIGH UTILIZERS OF INSURANCE.
ONE OF THE BENEFITS IS TO NOT SUNSET THIS BECAUSE THEY'LL STILL HAVE THE OPTIONS OF THE HIGH DEDUCTIBLE PLANS.
EVEN IF THE TRADITIONAL PLAN GETS TO THE POINT WHERE EXCEEDS THE PREMIUM AMOUNTS FOR THE RETIREE INSURANCE, THE HIGH DEDUCTIBLE PREMIUMS WILL STILL BE LOWER AND GIVES AFTER WE KNOW OUR EMPLOYEES ARE HEALTHIER THAN THE AVERAGE AND THE STATE, STILL GIVES THEM AN OPTION TO DO A HIGH DEDUCTIBLE PLAN AT A LOWER COST.
>>> ANYONE ELSE HAVE QUESTIONS ON THE RETIREE?
>> MY ONLY THOUGHTS [INAUDIBLE] QUESTIONS OR THOUGHTS.
JUST TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS WHAT THE OBJECTIVE HERE IS.
IN THE STATE OF WYOMING, ALL OF OUR TEACHERS CAN RETIRE AT THE AGE OF 60.
OR IF YOU HAVE THE RULE OF 85, THEY COME MANY YEARS YOU'VE TAUGHT AND THEN YOUR AGE ADDED TOGETHER EQUALS 85 AND YOU COULD RETIRE.
SOME PEOPLE CAN RETIRE AT 58, 57 DEPENDING ON WHEN YOU START WORKING.
IT'S THAT GAP PERIOD BETWEEN WHEN YOU RETIRE ESSENTIALLY AT THE AGE OF 60 UNTIL YOU CAN GET ON MEDICARE AT 65.
THERE'S A FIVE-YEAR PERIOD WHERE PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO GET TO AND THAT'S WHY THEY NEED ACCESS TO THIS.
I WOULD STRONGLY ADVOCATE WE DON'T SUNSET THIS, WE KEEP THIS OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO GET TO 65.
THE OTHER THING, I'M NOT SURE IT'S A NEGATIVE, BUT WHAT HAPPENS IS IF PEOPLE DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO RETIREMENT OR TO HEALTH INSURANCE WHEN THEY RETIRE AND THEY'RE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR MEDICARE YET, THEY'LL STAY.
POTENTIALLY A TEACHER, PERHAPS SHOULD'VE RETIRED, SAY THAT THE MEAN WAY, [LAUGHTER] THEY MIGHT WANTED TO RETIRE, THEY'RE GOING TO STICK AROUND UNTIL THE AGE OF 65 AND TO NOT [INAUDIBLE].
I'M WONDERING, WHAT'S THE MAGIC OF THE 250? WHY DOES IT HAVE TO? IF YOU RETIRED THIS YEAR, YOU'RE PAYING THE 932, IF YOU'VE TAKEN THEIR TRADITIONAL AND THEN NEXT YEAR, LET'S SAY YOU'RE 60 THIS YEAR AND YOU DECIDED TO RETIRE, IN THE NEXT YEAR YOU'RE GOING TO PAY ABOUT 1,119 AND THEN THE NEXT YEAR YOU NEED TO PAY 1,305, THEN YOU'RE GOING TO PAY THE 1,492, THEN FINALLY YOUR MEDICARE.
WHAT'S THE MAGIC OF THE 250? CAN WE SLOW DOWN TO THIS ACCELERATION? DO IT A LITTLE BIT MORE GRADUALLY.
>> THIS WILL BE 125 PERCENT OF THE PREMIUM RATE FOR EVERYONE THAT YEAR.
PEOPLE THAT ARE CURRENTLY ON RETIREE INSURANCE AS WELL AS ANY NEW RETIREES.
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THEN THOSE PEOPLE THAT RETIRE, LET'S SAY IN FISCAL YEAR YOU'RE 23, WOULD THEN GO UP TO 150.THERE IS NO MAGIC WITH THESE NUMBERS.
WHAT I WAS TRYING TO DO WAS REALLY TO STRUCTURE THIS IN A WAY SO THAT BY FIVE-YEARS FISCAL YEAR 28, THE TRADITIONAL PLAN FOR SINGLE ONLY AS 1,865, THAT JUST BARELY EXCEEDS WHAT THE WEP RETIREE INSURANCE RATE IS FOR A SIMILAR PLAN.
WE ABSOLUTELY CANNOT [OVERLAPPING]
>> THE PLAN IS, JUST ESSENTIALLY SUNSET, YOU'RE TRYING TO GET TO THE WEP SO THEN WE WOULD SHIFT EVERYBODY ON THE WEP?
THAT'S IS IF WE GOT ANYONE WHO WANTED A TRADITIONAL PLAN INTO WEP RETIREE INSURANCE, THAT WOULD ELIMINATE THAT HIGH-PAID LOSS RATIO FROM THE DISTRICT.
BUT ANYONE WHO'S STILL WANTED TO MAINTAIN A HIGH DEDUCTIBLE PLAN WOULD STILL HAVE THAT OPTION AT A LOWER COST TO BE INSURED THROUGH THE DISTRICT.
>> AFTER FISCAL YEAR 28, IT JUST STAYS AT 250 PERCENT.
>> THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS.
WE CAN SLOWER THE PACE. GO AHEAD, KATE.
>> NO, I WASN'T WAVING, I WAS JUST TURNING ON.
>> WE'VE SAID THIS ISN'T DECIDED ON TONIGHT, I'M WILLING TO TAKE FEEDBACK.
WE CAN SLOW THE PACE, WHATEVER THAT LOOKS LIKE, I THINK WE HAVE SOME TIME.
THIS DECISION COULD EVEN POSSIBLY GO BEYOND THE COMPENSATION PACKAGE APPROVAL BEYOND THIS CAN BE A WORK IN PROGRESS NEXT YEAR.
WE WOULD WANT TO DECIDE THAT BEFORE THE FEBRUARY 1ST DEADLINE TO NOTIFY RETIREES.
BUT IT VERY MUCH CAN BE CHANGED, UPDATED, WHATEVER WE WANT TO DO.
>> I GUESS HOPEFULLY YOU ALL ARE RECEIVING THE MESSAGE THAT THE TRADITIONAL PLAN COSTS IS A LOT MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE HIGH DEDUCTIBLE PLANS.
>> COULD YOU REMOVE THE TRADITIONAL PLAN, DOES NOT OFFER IT, AND KEEP THE HIGH DEDUCTIBLE ONE LOW, DON'T HAVE TO LEAVE IT AT THAT 125 PERCENT.
TO SAY, HEY, WE'LL NEED FOR RETIREES, WE ONLY HIRE HIGH DEDUCTIBLE, THE THREE OR THE FIVE.
>> T OR THREE OR T OR FIVE AND THAT MIGHT BE AN OPTION.
THE OTHER OPTION I WAS LOOKING AT WAS WE COULD JUST DO FISCAL YEAR 23.
JUST SAY, HEY, WE'RE GOING TO RAISE THEM ALL UP TO 125 PERCENT.
WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS BECAUSE I WORRY BY HAVING THIS LIST GOING ALL THE WAY OUT TO FISCAL YEAR 28.
I DON'T KNOW BECAUSE I HAVEN'T THOUGHT THIS THROUGH.
I'M JUST WORRIED WE'RE GOING TO CAUSE, THERE WILL BE AN EFFECT THAT TEACHERS AND STAFF ARE GOING TO SEE THIS AND THERE'S SOME ACTION THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
I CAN'T QUITE FIGURE OUT WHICH DIRECTION EVERYBODY WOULD GO. IS EVERYONE GOING? I GUESS THEY DO. [OVERLAPPING] NOT LIKE YOU'RE LOCKED IN SO IT WOULDN'T BE LIKE A MASS EXODUS.
>> WE COULD ABSOLUTELY DO WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, SO WITH WEP RENEWABLE EVERY YEAR.
COME BACK AND REVISIT WHAT THESE TABLES RATIOS ARE FOR THE DIFFERENT GROUPS OF PEOPLE.
WE COULD SAY NEXT YEAR IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A 100, IT DOES MAKE SENSE TO HAVE RETIREES PAY A 125 PERCENT OF THE PREMIUM.
THAT MAKES SENSE. BUT IT COULD BE REVISITED EVERY [INAUDIBLE] WE CAN SAY FOR NEXT YEAR IT'S GOING TO BE A 125 PERCENT.
LET'S LOOK AT THE RENEWAL MIXTURE.
>> IT JUST NEEDS TO BE STATED THAT WHEN YOU HAVE A PAID LOSS RATIO OF 183 PERCENT FOR YOUR RETIREES, FOLKS WHO ARE STILL WORKING IN THE DISTRICT ARE PAYING FOR THAT.
WHAT THIS IS TRYING TO DO IS TO MAKE THAT COST-NEUTRAL.
>> WHAT YOU'RE SAYING THE RETIREES POTENTIALLY BY HAVING THEM ON THERE, IS CAUSING THE INSURANCE FOR THOSE WHO CURRENTLY ARE HERE TO GO UP?
>> WE ABSOLUTELY COULD OFFER JUST THE HIGH DEDUCTIBLE PLANS FOR RETIREES.
IF THEY WANTED A TRADITIONAL PLAN, THE WEPT RETIREE INSURANCE HAS TRADITIONAL PLANS.
THEY ARE MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE FOR THE REASONS THAT WE'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT.
[OVERLAPPING] THAT COULD BE AN OPTION.
WE ARE ONE OF THE VERY FEW DISTRICTS IN THE STATE THAT OFFER RETIREE INSURANCE.
>> WE WOULD BE TALKING ABOUT NUMBERS WISE.
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HOW MANY RETIRED THIS YEAR? HOW MANY?>> WE HAVE A POTENTIAL OF 37 NEXT YEAR.
>> WE'RE GETTING MORE RETIREES THAN WE NORMALLY WOULD HAVE.
THIS YEAR I THINK WE HAVE SEVEN THAT QUALIFIED FOR FULL WYOMING RETIREMENT AND THOSE ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT ARE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS BENEFIT.
>> THEN ONCE YOU RETIRE AND WE OFFER THIS TO YOU, LET'S SAY I'M 60 AND I DO A 61, 62.
THEN CAN YOU JUST PULL IT AND SAY WE'RE NOT OFFERING THIS ANYMORE?
>> WE WERE JUST HAVING THAT CONVERSATION [LAUGHTER].
>> I CAN GET THE AGE 63, I'M TWO YEARS AWAY FROM 65, ALMOST THERE AND THE SCHOOL BOARD DECIDES WE'RE NOT OFFERING RETIREE INSURANCE ANYMORE, AND THEN I WOULD NEED TO GO TO THE [INAUDIBLE] PROTECTION.
>> I WAS JUST CURIOUS. I LOVE [INAUDIBLE].
>> I MEAN, THAT TYPE THAT WOULD MAKE ME REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE BRINGING THAT RECOMMENDATION [LAUGHTER].
BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE PEOPLE WHEN THEY RETIRE, THEY FACTOR IN ALL OF THESE THINGS WHEN THEY RETIRE AND THEY PLAN THOSE FIVE-YEARS, THEY PLAN THE THREE YEARS UNTIL THEY TURN AGE 65.
IT WOULD BE REALLY HARD TO BRING THAT UNLESS WE WERE IN A REAL CRISIS.
>> BUT LET'S FINISH OUT YOUR WHOLE PRESENTATION THEN WE'LL COME BACK AND READ THIS.
>> WE'LL EXPAND MORE ON THIS LATER IN THE PRESENTATION.
BUT IF YOU ALL REMEMBER, WE GRANTED FIVE STEPS TO SOME CLASSIFIED STAFF IN THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR AS AN EMERGENCY MEASURE TO TRY AND RETAIN EMPLOYEES, FOOD SERVICE, MAINTENANCE, CUSTODIAL STAFF.
IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE EQUITABLE, THE RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE TO INCREASE THE SAME FOR ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS AND TRANSPORTATION STAFF WHEN WE ACTUALLY STARTED DOING SOME EVALUATIONS OF COMPARATIVE SALARIES.
THERE IS A LOCAL TRANSPORTATION PROVIDER THAT STARTING ILLUSTRATORS AT 2350.
IN ORDER TO GET TO THAT RATE, WE'D ACTUALLY HAVE TO INCREASE OUR BUS DRIVERS BY EIGHT STEPS.
THAT LOCAL TRANSPORTATION PROVIDER DOES OFFER A FULL BENEFITS PACKAGE SIMILAR TO OURS.
THIS WAS AN ANALYSIS THAT WAS DONE WHEN WE GET TO WHAT THE RCA LOOKS LIKE, WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THIS.
HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS IF YOU HAVE THEM NOW.
>> THAT BRINGS US TO THE SECOND [OVERLAPPING] YES.
>> KRISTEN? LITTLE WHILE AGO, TEAR GANGRENE.
WE HAD A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE NUMBER OF HOURS THAT MOST OF THE BEST DRIVERS WORK AND IT WAS MAYBE 30 HOURS, AS I RECALL.
IS AS THERE HAD BEEN ANY THOUGHT TO INCREASE SEEING THEIR HOURS SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE MORE MONEY SO THAT THE THREE STEPS RATHER THAN THAN THE EIGHT STEPS SEEMS MORE PALATABLE.
>> MIGHT BE A PULLEY. [INAUDIBLE]
>> THAT'S SHARED ANGRY TRUSTEES.
WE HAVE A MIX IN DRIVERS WHO COME TO WORK FOR US FOR THE BENEFITS.
THEY WANT THE PART-TIME HOURS AND THEN THE CG WANT EXTRA HOURS.
YOU HAVE OTHER OPPORTUNITIES, FIELD TRIPS, AND ACTIVITY TRIPS.
I DON'T THINK WE'RE IN A HUGE CRUNCH TO NEED TO GIVE THEM MORE HOURS.
>> I WOULD SAY THE OTHER THING, TRUSTEE NEED IS THAT THIS IS THE STARTING WAGE.
IF WE HAD TO DRIVERS THAT WE JUST GAVE MORE HOURS.
I MEAN, IF THEY'RE WORKING 30 AND THEY WANT TO WORK 40, BUT THE WAGE IS STILL LOW, THEY COULD GO TO THE OTHER TRANSPORTATION COMPANY AND WORK 40 HOURS AT A HIGHER WAGE, WOULD BE THE ONLY OTHER.
>> I WAS JUST TRYING TO BRIDGE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE EIGHT STEPS VERSUS THE THREE STEPS THAT WE'RE PROPOSING HERE.
>> WE'RE PROPOSING EIGHT STEPS.
IT WOULD BE THE FIVE PLUS THREE.
>> JUMPING UP EIGHT, AND JUMP IN THREE.
>> I WOULD RECOMMEND EIGHT [OVERLAPPING] THAT DOES NOT HAVE AN ERROR IN ONE OF MY FORMULAS THERE.
THE TOTAL COST OF THE TRANSPORTATION STAFF IS ACTUALLY CLOSER TO 190,000.
WHEN WE STARTED RUNNING THROUGH SOME OF THESE HOUSEKEEPING CHANGES WITH THE FINANCE COMMITTEE,
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THE FINANCE COMMITTEE ASKED US TO LOOK AT A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT THINGS.THEY WANTED US TO LOOK AT THE ENTIRE BENEFITS PACKAGE AND SEE IF WHAT WE HAVE IS WORKING AND DOES IT ACCOMPLISH WHAT WE NEEDED TO.
THAT INCLUDES SALARIES, THE ENGAGEMENT INCENTIVE, PTO.
WE'LL TALK ABOUT SOME OF THOSE.
ALSO WE TALK ABOUT THE RCA A LOT BECAUSE WE'RE IN A UNIQUE SITUATION COMPARED TO OTHER DISTRICTS IN THE STATE WHERE OUR RCA IS MUCH HIGHER THAN A LOT OF OTHER DISTRICTS.
BUT WHEN WE START LOOKING AT THIS PAST YEAR, THE RATE OF INFLATION AND WHAT THE ACTUAL COST OF LIVING IN TETON COUNTY IS, WE'VE HAD MANY RESIGNATIONS BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE LOST HOUSING OR THEIR RENT HAS INCREASED SO MUCH THAT THEY CAN'T AFFORD IT ANYMORE.
WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO ACTUALLY PAY HIGH ENOUGH WAGE WHERE PEOPLE COULD AFFORD TO LIVE IN TETON COUNTY?
>> A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR REGIONAL COST, OUR REGIONAL COST IS BASED ON A THREE-YEAR AVERAGE AND IT TAKES THE SECOND AND FOURTH QUARTER OF PAST YEARS.
OUR CURRENT FUNDED REGIONAL COST FOR FISCAL YEAR 23, THE COMPENSATION PACKAGE THAT WE'RE WORKING ON IS 162 PERCENT.
OUR CURRENT REGIONAL COST IN THE CURRENT COMPENSATION PACKAGE, THE YEAR THAT WE'RE IN IS AT 159 PERCENT.
THE SECOND QUARTER 2021, ONE YEAR AGO, DATA SHOWS THAT OUR REGIONAL COST IS 165 PERCENT.
BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE SLIDE, THAT'S JUST ONE PIECE OF THE AVERAGE AND THAT'S HOW YOU GET TO 162.
A YEAR AGO OUR REGIONAL COSTS WAS AT 165 PERCENT, BUT WE'RE ONLY FUNDED FOR 162 FOR NEXT YEAR.
THIS IS WHERE THE LAG COMES IN.
OUR CURRENT ACTUAL REGIONAL COST, I BELIEVE IS HIGHER THAN 168, BUT THE WYOMING ECONOMIC ANALYSIS DIVISION JUST PUBLISHED THEIR FOURTH-QUARTER 2021 REPORT, WHICH PUT TETON COUNTY'S REGIONAL COSTS ADJUSTMENT AT 168 PERCENT.
WHICH MEANS IN THE LAST THREE MONTHS WHEN WE'VE SEEN SOME OF THE HIGHEST INFLATION RATES IN THE LAST 40 YEARS, OUR ACTUAL REGIONAL COST IS PROBABLY CLOSER TO 174.
WHICH BRINGS US TO WE RAN SEVERAL DIFFERENT SCENARIOS ON WHAT THIS WOULD LOOK LIKE FOR OUR DISTRICT.
OUR CURRENT NO CHANGE IS 159 PERCENT.
IF WE RAN OUR RCA OF 162 PERCENT NEXT YEAR THAT WOULD BE AN INCREASE TO OUR BUDGET OF 700,000, AND ON DOWN THE LINE.
WE HAVE PREPARED THE DRAFT COMPENSATION PACKAGE WITH 168 PERCENT RCA, WHICH WOULD BE A DECREASE TO CASH RESERVES BY 2.5 MILLION.
THE REASON THAT THAT IS A DECREASE TO CASH RESERVES AND NOT MINUS THE 162 IS BECAUSE WE ARE FUNDED FOR 162 PERCENT RCA.
BUT BECAUSE WE'VE HAD A DECREASE IN ADM, THAT THE DECREASE IN ADM BROUGHT OUR FUNDING DOWN AND THE RCA BROUGHT OUR FUNDING UP.
WHICH MEANS [OVERLAPPING] WHAT?
>> IT BROUGHT OUR COST UP NOT OUR FUNDING UP.
>> OUR COST UP. WHAT IT MEANS IS OUR ACTUAL FOUNDATION GUARANTEE FOR NEXT YEAR DOESN'T REALLY CHANGE FROM THIS YEAR.
EVEN THOUGH WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE INCREASING SALARIES BY THREE PERCENT.
>> WE NEED TO GO TRACK THESE KIDS DOWN AND BRING BACK. [LAUGHTER]
>> WE ARE, THAT IS ANDREA'S JOB.
[LAUGHTER] DON'T SEE THOSE NUMBERS INCREASE [LAUGHTER]
>> ACTUALLY TRUSTEES, IT'S A VALID POINT BECAUSE NORMALLY WE HAVE A VERY LOW POST-SCHOOL OPTION.
THEN IN THE SCHOOL YEAR 2021, WE HAD 177 STUDENTS.
WE HAD ONLY IF WE HAVE SOMEWHERE WITH FIVE STUDENTS AT HOME-SCHOOL, WE HAD 177 FOR THE 2021 SCHOOL YEAR.
WE KNOW THAT NUMBER IS GOING TO CONTINUE TO GO DOWN, HOWEVER THERE'S A LAG IN THE FUNDING THAT'S PROVIDED FOR FORMING VM.
WHILE WE HAVE AN INCREASE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL, MORE THAN 100 STUDENTS THIS YEAR, OVERALL, THE DISTRICT WERE DOWN 45 STUDENTS.
THAT'S THE ISSUE AND IT'S RIGHT THERE WITH THE HOMESCHOOL KIDS.
>> [OVERLAPPING] IS THERE AN AMOUNT FOR ADM?
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BUT THEY WORK WITH THOSE, I'LL FOLLOW THROUGH THE FORMULA.YOU DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT THE LIFE OF A STUDENT IS [INAUDIBLE].
ACTUALLY OUR ANNUAL TUITION RATE IF SOMEBODY WERE TO COME INTO OUR DISTRICT IS BASED ON THE COST OF A STUDENT OR WHAT WE'RE FUNDED ON A STUDENT.
WE DON'T KNOW THAT NUMBER OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, IT'S PROBABLY SOMEWHERE AROUND 21 [OVERLAPPING].
>> TWENTY ONE SOMETHING [INAUDIBLE].
>> [INAUDIBLE] HER MODEL, ADM TETON COUNTY. DOESN'T LOOK RIGHT.
I THINK WE HAVE THE TUITION RATES IN OCTOBER, NOVEMBER.
WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT THE ENGAGEMENT INCENTIVE TWO YEARS AGO.
WE PUT THIS STRUCTURE IN PLACE AND LAST YEAR WAS OUR FIRST ACTIVE YEAR ON THE EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT INCENTIVE.
WE HAVE THREE OPTIONS. THE FIRST OPTION WAS TO BE IN THE TOP FRAME.
>> BEFORE YOU MOVE ON TO THAT, WHAT WERE YOU PROPOSING AS TO WHICH ONE OF THESE TO GO?
>> THE COMPENSATION PACKAGE HAS BEEN DRAFTED WITH A 168 PERCENT.
>> BUT WERE FUNDED FOR 162 AND WE'RE THINKING OF GOING TO 168, AND THERE'S SOME MONEY THERE THAT'S NOT COMING FROM THE STATE, SO WOULD HAVE TO COME OUT OF RESERVES.
DO YOU WANT TO REVIEW THAT FOR EVERYBODY SO EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS THAT?
>> SURE, $2.5 MILLION WOULD COME FROM CASH RESERVES.
DO WE WANT TO LOOK AT THE RCA, THE OTHER DOCUMENT? WE BRING UP, THE OTHER DOCUMENT.
I'VE HAD THE QUESTION ASKED QUITE A FEW TIMES OVER THE LAST.
>> I THINK EVERYONE'S HEARD THIS EXCEPT FOR US WHO DO MEET.
I DON'T THINK YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLAIN ALL THIS TO TRUSTEE MEETINGS, SO THAT'S WHY I WAS BACKING UP, TO MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTOOD WHERE YOU'RE GOING WITH THIS.
>> ESSENTIALLY WHAT WE'D BE DOING IS FRONT-LOADING THE RCA.
I THINK THIS PRESENTATION THAT WE'RE ABOUT TO SHOW WILL BE HELPFUL IN UNDERSTANDING WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE AND WHAT THE LONG-TERM PLAN IS FOR THE DISTRICT.
THE SECOND SLIDE SHOWS THAT OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, THIS IS HOW THE WCLI, WHICH IS, THIS IS THE INDEX, THERE'S THREE INDEXES, IS THE STATE OF WYOMING USES.
THIS IS THE ONE THAT WE QUALIFY FOR.
IT'S WYOMING COST OF LIVING INDEX.
AS WE MOVE THROUGH THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, AND I HIGHLIGHTED THE SECOND QUARTER OF 2021 JUST SO YOU COULD SEE HOW IT MOVES THROUGH THAT CALCULATION AND THE AVERAGE OF ALL OF THOSE QUARTERS.
IF WE WERE TO TAKE A VERY CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATION OF WHAT OUR REGIONAL COST ADJUSTMENT UNDER THE WCLI INDEX LOOKS LIKE OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, EVERYTHING IN PURPLE ON THIS SLIDE IS WHAT WE KNOW, THOSE HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN THE WYOMING ECONOMIC ANALYSIS DIVISION PUBLICATIONS.
IF WE ESTIMATE THAT THE SECOND QUARTER OF 2022 IS AT 170 PERCENT, I BELIEVE IT'S MUCH HIGHER THAN THAT, BUT IF WE WERE TO ESTIMATE, IT'S AT A 170 PERCENT AND THEN IT STAYED THERE.
THAT WOULD MEAN IT WOULD TAKE TWO YEARS FOR OUR DISTRICT TO CATCH UP TO THIS FRONT LOADED REGIONAL COST ADJUSTMENT.
NEXT YEAR, FISCAL YEAR 24 PLANNING, WE'D BE AT A 165, SO YOU CAN CUT 2.5 MILLION IN HALF.
IT WOULD COST US JUST UNDER FOUR MILLION FOR TWO YEARS FROM CASH RESERVES.
OUR POST TO 97 CASH RESERVES ARE AT ABOUT EIGHT MILLION, ARE PRE 97 CASH RESERVES ARE AT TWO MILLION, WHICH GIVES US A TOTAL OF 10 MILLION.
I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND TAKING INTO THE PRE 97S BECAUSE THOSE ARE COMPLETELY UNDER UNRESTRICTED CASH THAT WE HAVE IN OUR DISTRICT.
THIS IS A VERY CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE.
IF YOU GO TO SLIDE 3, A MORE MODERATE ESTIMATE GIVES YOU THE SAME THING.
IT WILL BE LESS THAN TWO YEARS, BUT OUR FUNDING WOULDN'T ACTUALLY BE IMPACTED UNTIL TWO YEARS.
WE'D BE AT 170 PERCENT, WE'D BE LOOKING AT IN THE FISCAL YEAR 25 PLANNING TO ACTUALLY ADJUST OUR MATRICES AGAIN BY TWO PERCENT.
THEN A MORE AGGRESSIVE APPROACH LAST SLIDE WOULD GET US TO 171 PERCENT IN FISCAL YEAR 25.
I THINK WE WOULD BE IN A POSITION WHERE WE'D MORE THAN MAKE UP THE DIFFERENCE IN TWO YEARS.
THAT DOES NOT MEAN WE'D REPLENISH THE CASH RESERVES INTO YEARS.
IT JUST MEANS WE'VE NOW BECOME EVEN AND START BEING ABLE TO SAVE MONEY AGAIN.
>> BUT THE RISK YOU'RE RUNNING IS IF YOU'RE WRONG, I'M NOT SAYING IT'S SOMETHING LESS THAN 10 MILLION [LAUGHTER].
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WE HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO SUSTAIN, SO THIS YEAR WE'RE GOING TO GIVE A BIG RAISE TO ALL OF OUR STAFF. WHICH IS GREAT.I JUST LOVE THE IDEA OF WHAT FINN, JENNIFER AND JANINE AND BILL HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB OF GOING FROM THE 162 TO THE 168.
I THINK IT'S JUST AMAZING. I THINK THIS IS GOING TO BE GREAT FOR OUR EMPLOYEES.
I THINK IT'S GOING TO HOLD ON TO PEOPLE.
I THINK THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT OUR EMPLOYEES WERE HOPING WE'D BE HEADING TOWARDS.
WHAT I WORRY ABOUT IS WE DO THIS, SO WE GIVE THIS VERY SUBSTANTIAL RAISE THIS YEAR MORE THAN WHAT WE WERE ALLOCATED THROUGH THE FORMULA BECAUSE WE'RE TAKING MONEY OUT OF THE RESERVES.
WE DO THAT AGAIN NEXT YEAR AND THEN THE NEXT YEAR FOR WHATEVER REASON, THIS DIDN'T CATCH UP TO US.
WE DON'T HAVE MONEY COMING IN FROM THE STATE TO SUSTAIN IT.
WE DON'T HAVE ANY MORE MONEY IN RESERVES.
I WOULD HATE FOR US TO EVER BE IN A POSITION WHERE WE'RE HAVING TO REDUCE SALARIES. THAT'S THE PARTY.
IT'S GOING BACKWARDS I GET SCARED OF.
THAT YOU'D HAVE TO TELL EMPLOYEE, "HEY, YOU REMEMBER THAT BIG RAISE WE GAVE YOU, WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO SUSTAIN THAT ANYMORE.
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO CUT YOUR SALARY." THAT'S MY WORRY.
I JUST THROW THAT OUT THERE JUST IF THAT'S THE RISK.
>> WE'VE HAD THIS QUESTION, WE'VE HAD THIS QUESTION FROM STAFF THAT ARE CLOSE TO RETIREMENT.
IS THIS SUSTAINABLE? WE THINK SO.
[LAUGHTER] I CAN'T BE 100 PERCENT SURE.
THERE'S NO WAY TO BE A 100 PERCENT SURE.
THE REASON THAT IT'S STILL BENEFITS EMPLOYEES, EVEN IF IN TWO YEARS, ONE YEAR OR THREE YEARS WE HAVE TO DO A PAY DECREASE, IS THAT YOUR WYOMING RETIREMENT BENEFIT IS PAID OUT ON YOUR [OVERLAPPING] HIGHEST YEARS OF SERVICE.
EVEN IF THIS WAS ONLY SUSTAINABLE FOR ONE YEAR OR ONLY SUSTAINABLE FOR TWO YEARS, OUR EMPLOYEES GET THE BENEFIT NOT ONLY IN THE YEAR, BUT THEY ALSO GIVE THE LONG-TERM BENEFIT OF THEIR WYOMING RETIREMENT PAYOUT BEING MUCH HIGHER.
>> NO, THAT'S A GOOD INSTINCT.
>> AS A MATTER OF FACT THE CHAMPION TALKED ABOUT IT AND YOU'VE HEARD ME TALK ABOUT IT, WHICH IS, IF THERE'S ENOUGH ROOM, PROPERTIES TO COME ON MARKET, OUR REGIONAL COST COULD GO DOWN ANYWAY.
>> IT COULD GO DOWN THROUGH RENTS GOING DOWN.
IT ALSO IS CONSISTENTLY A PIECE OF CONVERSATION [LAUGHTER] WHEN WE GO INTO LEGISLATIVE SESSION.
I'VE BEEN WITH THE DISTRICT FOR FIVE YEARS NOW, AND EVERY YEAR WHEN WE GO INTO LEGISLATIVE SESSION OR WHEN WE'RE HEADED INTO RE-CALIBRATION, REGIONAL COST IS CONSTANTLY UNDER SCRUTINY.
WE COULD USE LOSE THE WCLI INDEX NEXT YEAR.
THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE THAT RISK THAT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE A PAY DECREASE.
I HOPE THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE REALLY CHALLENGING FOR OUR DISTRICT TO BE ABLE TO OFFER AN EQUITABLE EDUCATION TO STUDENTS IN OUR DISTRICT IF THE LEGISLATURE DID THAT.
>> COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT IS JUST EXACTLY WHAT IT SERVES.
THERE'S NOTHING THAT SAYS COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT CAN'T GO DOWN BECAUSE THE FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO WILL GO DOWN.
FOR EXAMPLE, IF THE INFLATIONARY RATES GO DOWN, SOME OF THE OTHER COMMODITIES THAT ARE PART OF THE INDEX GO DOWN, WE MAY SEE A DECREASE AS WELL.
>> WE ALSO MAY GET AN INCREASE IF THE LEGISLATURE ACTUALLY PASSES AN EXTERNAL COST ADJUSTMENT, WHICH IS DESIGNED TO ADAPT TO INFLATION, THEY DIDN'T DO THAT THIS YEAR IN THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION AND I'M HOPING THAT THEY DO IT NEXT YEAR.
BUT THAT COULD ALSO INCREASE SALARIES BEING FUNDED IN THE MODEL.
IN THAT CASE, WE WOULDN'T NECESSARILY MAKE AN ADJUSTMENT ON OUR END, BUT THAT WOULD HELP US GET TO THE BREAK-EVEN POINT WE'VE INVESTED.
>> AT THAT JUNCTURE MAY I MAKE ANOTHER POINT.
IT'S INTERESTING AS WE'VE GONE THROUGH THIS BATTLE ON THE EXTERNAL COST ADJUSTMENT THIS YEAR.
THE WHOLE BACKDROP WAS, WELL, YOU GUYS RECEIVED SO MUCH MONEY FROM THE FEDS, [INAUDIBLE] BLAH.
IT NEEDS TO BE STATED THAT TETON COUNTY GOT A WHOLE LOT LESS THAN A LOT OF OTHER DISTRICTS OUR SIZE LIKE ABOUT A THIRD.
>> I ACTUALLY JUST SPOKE TO ANOTHER BUSINESS MANAGER TODAY FROM A MUCH SMALLER DISTRICT IN POWELL.
NO, IT WASN'T POWELL, IT'S LITTLE ONE OUTSIDE OF POWELL.
THEY GOT JUST AS MUCH MONEY AS WE DID AND THEY'RE NOT EVEN HALF OUR SIZE.
>> IT'S SUPRETENDANT, YOU EXPLAINED THIS THE OTHER DAY IN ONE OF OUR MEETINGS.
COULD YOU REPEAT WHAT YOU SAID BEFORE?
>> IT'S NORMAL THAT YOU HAVE SOME SORT OF A FORMULA TO DETERMINE FUNDING SOURCES.
THEY GENERALLY, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT USES INCOME LEVELS AND FREE AND REDUCED LUNCH SUPPORT.
IN ORDER TO QUALIFY FOR FREE MEALS AND IT FLUCTUATES A LITTLE BIT EVERY YEAR, BUT IN GENERAL,
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A FAMILY OF FOUR HAS TO MAKE IT LESS THAN 38,000 AS A COMBINED FAMILY OF FOUR.THE 16-YEAR-OLD WORKING AT TARGET AT $24 AN HOUR, THAT IMPACTS THE FAMILY.
THE FAMILY IS STILL LIVING IN POVERTY.
THEY DON'T QUALIFY FOR FREE OR REDUCED MEAL SUPPORT.
IN OUR COMMUNITY WHERE THE WAGES ARE SO HIGH, THAT FORMULA MAY WORK REALLY WELL IN THE REST OF THE COUNTRY, BUT IT DOES NOT WORK WELL HERE.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT AS A GOVERNING BOARD MEMBER FOR THE NATIONAL SUPERINTENDENT ASSOCIATION, I'M CONSTANTLY LOBBYING TO HAVE IT ADJUSTED BECAUSE COVID AND THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE FUNDING FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WAS TO MITIGATE THE IMPACT OF COVID, IT IMPACTED ALL OF US REGARDLESS OF FREE LUNCH SUPPORT.
WE ARE TOTAL, AT THE BIGGEST PART WAS 3.9 MILLION, WHEREAS OTHER COMMUNITIES WITH HIGHER FREE OR REDUCED LUNCH STUDENTS, THEY GOT BETWEEN $12 AND $15 MILLION AND THEY'RE SMALLER THAN WE ARE, AND THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THE MONEY.
WHEN THE LEGISLATURE MADE THE DECISION THIS YEAR TO INCREASE THE CAP, THEY'RE LIKE,''YAY, THAT'S FANTASTIC.'' NOW I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO GO ON A WILD SPENDING SPREE.
MEANWHILE, WE HAVE SPENT EVERY SINGLE DIME OF THAT MONEY FOR THE PURPOSES.
ACTUALLY YOU COULD USE THAT MONEY FOR FACILITIES TO BUILD NEW FACILITIES.
BUT WE CAN'T BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO IT.
WE'RE REALLY HAND STREAMED BY THAT FORMULA.
SOME OF THE OTHER GOVERNORS FUNDING THAT WE USE TO DO THE WELLNESS GRANT.
THAT WAS A BASE MODEL AND THEN A PER PUPIL ALLOTMENT.
THAT MADE ME HAPPY BECAUSE THAT WAS EQUITABLE.
AGAIN, IT REALLY HELPED US BECAUSE WE WERE ABLE TO DO SOMETHING REALLY CREATIVE WITH THAT MONEY.
BUT OTHER DISTRICTS BECAUSE THEY HAVE SO MUCH MONEY COMING IN, THEY GAVE SUBSTANTIAL RAISES THIS YEAR FOR THEIR STAFF.
SORRY, NOT EVEN A RAISE BUT A SUBSTANTIAL BONUS.
THAT DIDN'T LOOK GOOD OR FEEL GOOD. IT WAS REALLY [OVERLAPPING]
>> BONUS DON'T COUNT THAT YOUR RETIRED.
>> THEY DO NOT, BUT THEY WERE SUBSTANTIAL BONUSES, WHICH I THINK ALSO MAY HAVE HAD AN INFLUENCE ON OUR LEGISLATORS WHO ARE SAYING, ''WELL, THEY DIDN'T NEED ANY MORE MONEY.
LOOK AT ALL THIS MONEY, THEY GOT.'' SOME DID, BUT WE DIDN'T.
>> LET SEE THIS JUST REAL QUICK.
TRUSTEE ZONG AND TRUSTEE SCARLET, TRUSTEE TUSKEGEE OFFERED YOU SERVE ON INCOME.
MAYBE START WITH TRUSTEE ZONG.
WHAT WERE THE THOUGHTS OF WHY TO GO WITH THE 168? WHAT WAS THE THINKING ABOUT THE ZONG PROBLEM?
>> WE THINK IT'S A CUSTOMER SAYING THAT THAT'S OUR CURRENT ACTUAL REGIONAL COST IS EVEN THOUGH IT HASN'T.
THAT'S NOT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO GET BECAUSE OF THE PREVIOUS [OVERLAPPING]
>> [INAUDIBLE] CAN YOU SUPPORT A LITTLE BIT?
>> THE OTHER FACTOR IN HERE IS THE BASE.
WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS A LITTLE EARLIER THAT THE BASE SALARY, THINK OF FIRST-YEAR TEACHER, WHAT DO THEY CALL FIRST LINE?
>> STEP ON LINE ONE, IS STATEWIDE AS 48?
>> WE DO ALL OVER INVESTMENT BASED ON THAT.
STATE HAS NOT CHANGED THAT NUMBER AND AS LONG AS IT'S HEIGHTENED ON THE BOARD.
THERE'S BEEN NO INCREASE TO THAT NUMBER EITHER.
I THINK THE STATE OWES US A LITTLE BIT OF COURTESY OF TAKING A LOOK AT THAT BASE SALARY BECAUSE THAT CHANGES THE WHOLE DYNAMIC HERE TOO.
>> [INAUDIBLE] YOU'RE ON TRIAL, WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS?
>> I'VE LOST A LOT OF SLEEP OVER THIS.
YOU WANT THE HONEST TRUTH? I DON'T LIKE GOING IN THE HOLE, I DON'T LIKE DIPPING IN THAT DEEP INTO OUR RESERVES PARTICULARLY WHEN I DON'T SEE A CLEAR PATH OUT OF IT FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS.
I DO THINK THAT TO BE A LITTLE POLITICAL.
I MEAN, IT'S CERTAINLY IS A VERY ARGUABLE POINT IS YOU ARE NOT GIVING US, THE EQUITY WE NEED IN ORDER TO DELIVER THE EDUCATION, AN EQUITABLE EDUCATION TO OUR STUDENTS.
BECAUSE THE BOOKS TELL YOU WE'RE AT A 168, YOUR FUNDING US A 162.
I GUESS AS I'VE CALM MYSELF DOWN A LITTLE BIT OVER THIS, I THINK ABOUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WILL HELP US AS WE'RE MOVING FORWARD IS,
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WHEN OUR ADM RECOVERS FROM THE HOME SCHOOL PIECE SUDDENLY GET SOME OF THE ADM BACK INTO THE MEDS.BUT THAT'S ALSO A LONGER-TERM.
THANKS, BUT I DON'T SEE ANY OTHER CHOICE.
>> CRYSTAL, WHAT DOES THIS TRANSLATE?
>> I DON'T KNOW. THIS 2.5 MILLION, WE'RE GOING TO 2.4.
THEN WE'RE GOING TO PULL OUT THE RESERVES.
WHAT DOES THAT TRANSLATE TO AN EMPLOYEE, SO THEY UNDERSTAND WHAT POTENTIALLY COULD SOMEBODY BE SEEING AS A RAISE THIS YEAR?
>> IT'S APPROXIMATELY BETWEEN FOUR THOUSAND AND SIX THOUSAND.
I WOULD SAY PROBABLY NOT MANY ON THE SIX THOUSAND END.
BUT BETWEEN FOUR THOUSAND AND SIX THOUSAND FOR THE YOUTHS.
>> BUT FOR THOSE STAFF MEMBERS THAT OWN THEIR HOMES AND THEY'VE SEEN SUBSTANTIAL PROPERTY TAX INCREASE JUST IN THE LAST WEEK.
THIS COULD GO A LONG WAY TOWARD HELPING THEM TO PAY THAT PROPERTY TAX.
>> YES. I ALSO THINK ABOUT ONE OF THE COMPARISONS THAT I RAN IS FOR THOSE INDIVIDUAL FAMILIES WHO WANT THAT TRADITIONAL PLAN, THEY WANT TO PAY THOSE PREMIUMS BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT REALLY WORKS FOR THEM AND THEIR FAMILY.
THE INCREASE ON THE ANNUAL FAMILY PLAN, WHICH IS YOUR HIGHEST COST.
I THINK IT WAS AROUND 22-23 HUNDRED FOR THE YEAR.
THEN I RAN SOME OF OUR LOWER-WAGE MATRICES JUST TO SEE, COULD THEY COVER THE INCREASED PREMIUMS? THEY WOULD ALSO GET AN INCREASE.
I THINK THAT'S AN IMPORTANT PIECE TO THINK ABOUT TOO.
>> WE COULD BE GIVING YOU A RAISE.
BUT THEN WE'RE SAYING THAT YOU GOT TO PAY US FOR THE INSURANCE.
>> PUT THOSE INDIVIDUALS STILL HAVE AN INCREASE IN PAY AND THEY WOULD, GIVEN THIS SCENARIO.
>> LET'S MAKE SURE THAT WE GOT ALL THE NUMBERS STRAIGHT HERE.
WE ARE PRESENTLY FOR THE 21-22 SCHOOL YEAR, OUR EMPLOYEES RECEIVE 159 PERCENT RATE OF COST LIVING ADJUSTMENT?
>> THE STATE FUNDS US FOR 162 FOR NEXT YEAR?
>> WE'RE MOVING EMPLOYEES FROM 159 TO 168, SO IT'S A NINE PERCENT INCREASE.
>> WELL, IT'S NOT EXACTLY NINE PERCENT.
IT IS A NINE PERCENT INCREASE IN RCA, BUT YOU DON'T JUST GO TO THE SALARY AND ADD NINE PERCENT, YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO DIVIDE BY 159 AND THEN MULTIPLY BY 168.
IT DOESN'T LOOK EXACTLY LIKE THAT.
>> NO ONE TOLD ME THERE WOULD BE MATH HERE.
>> WELL, IF THEY'RE GOING TO GET THIS RAISE, BUT THEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THE INSURANCE SO THAT IS WHEN CRYSTAL RAN THESE NUMBERS FOR ME.
IT ISN'T JUST AS WE'VE LEARNED OVER THE YEARS, THERE'S NINE PERCENT OF THE SLAB, NINE PERCENT.
HOWEVER, IT DOES WORK TO PROVIDE A MAJOR BOOST FOR ALL THE EMPLOYEES.
OUR CASH RESERVES ARE FOR AN EMERGENCY, YOU THINK? I MEAN, I HAVE SAVINGS IN THE BANK FOR AN EMERGENCY, OR I HAVE A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS THAT COULD QUALIFY FOR THAT.
BUT IN A SCHOOL DISTRICT, WHAT QUALIFIES AS AN EMERGENCY? IF A BUILDING OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT ALSO, WE HAVE OTHER MEANS.
WE HAVE INSURANCE, WE HAVE OTHER MEANS OF DEALING WITH THAT.
WE DON'T HAVE AN INSURANCE PROGRAM FOR MASSIVE RENT INCREASES OR PROPERTY TAX INCREASES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
>> BUT JUST TO CORRECT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING ABOUT BUILDINGS, THE FREQUENTLY IS A HUGE LAG BETWEEN WHEN YOU RECEIVE YOUR INSURANCE PAYMENT AND WHEN YOU NEED TO MAKE THE [OVERLAPPING].
>> THAT'S TRUE. [OVERLAPPING] THERE IS A NEED FOR THAT, EVENTUALLY THAT WILL BE CAUGHT UP.
BUT WE'RE NOT SEEING THAT WITH OUR SALARIES.
HOPEFULLY, WE WOULD SEE THAT WITH THIS CASH RESERVE IF PERCENTAGES CONTINUE, AND IN THE MODELS THAT CRYSTAL PUT TOGETHER, WE HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF SEEING THAT RECOVERY IN THE SAME WAY THAT WE HAVE A LAG TIME WHEN I'M GETTING INSURANCE.
I SEE THIS AS A DIRECTION TO GO PERSONALLY.
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I MEAN, YOU TALK ABOUT RENTS AND THE LAG TIME IN RENTS.I TEXTED A GUY AT WORK WHO [INAUDIBLE] AND I SAID MY TAXES WENT UP THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
I DON'T KNOW IF HIS LANDLORD ACTUALLY WORKS OR JUST HAS HIS TENANTS PAY FOR STUFF SO HE CAN LIVE HERE.
I SAID BE READY FOR WHEN YOU GET HOME.
HE SENT ME A TEXT AT ABOUT SEVEN O'CLOCK AND SAID, LOW AND BEHOLD, MY LANDLORD SAID MY TAXES WENT UP $3,600 WHY DO YOU INCREASE THIS MAN FIRST? THERE'S NOT NECESSARILY A LAG TIME.
[OVERLAPPING] [INAUDIBLE] WHERE YOU SAID WE CAN GO DOWN AND I FULLY AGREE THAT OUR REGIONAL COST THINGS COULD CHANGE.
BUT I DON'T SEE EVEN WITH AN INFLUX, WE DON'T HAVE A HUGE INFLUX OF HOUSING ALL AT ONCE NORMALLY, I THINK IT CAN TRICKLE SOME AND AS IT TRICKLES ON PEOPLE GO INTO THE CURRENT MARKET.
I DON'T REALLY SEE THAT RENTS WOULD BE A PORTION OF OUR RCA THAT WOULD BE DECREASING.
I CAN SEE THERE MAY BE OTHER PARTS OF THAT THAT MIGHT, BUT IN OUR COMMUNITY, I JUST DON'T SEE IT IN MY WHOLE STUDY.
>> BEFORE ANYBODY ELSE SPEAKS WITH ME.
I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S CLARITY AROUND THE INSURANCE OF PEOPLE HAVING TO PAY AN INCREASE IN INSURANCE.
THAT WILL BE A CHOICE BECAUSE THERE ARE TWO PLANS THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO PAY.
BUT MY CONCERN WAS FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO, BECAUSE THEY NEED THAT TRADITIONAL PLAN FOR THEIR HEALTH SITUATIONS AND THEIR FAMILY, I WAS STILL GIVING THEM ABOVE.
BY THE CALCULATIONS WE DID IT WOULD [INAUDIBLE].
>> KRISTEN CARL, DID YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ON THE 168?
>> NO. GIVEN THE PRESENTATION AND WHAT EVERYBODY HAS TO SAY, I'LL DEFINITELY SAY IT'S FINE.
>> [INAUDIBLE], DID YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ON MOVING TO THE 168?
>> NO. I THINK CHRISTINE MADE IT VERY CLEAR IN HER PRESENTATION, AND I THINK THAT IS A RISK THAT I WOULD BE WILLING TO TAKE GIVEN THE FACT THAT NOTHING SEEMS TO GO DOWN IN TETON COUNTY ANYMORE.
>> I NEED TO RULE OUT ANOTHER MAYBE QUESTION OR COMMENT.
I GUESS, JUST LOOKING AT 2018 TO NOW, IT LOOKS LIKE EACH QUARTER INCREASED EXCEPT FOR BETWEEN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF '19, AND SECOND QUARTER OF '20, SO I GUESS ONE BENEFIT BEING AVERAGED OVER THREE YEARS IS THAT EVEN IF IT WENT DOWN FROM ONE-QUARTER OF THE LIKELIHOOD THAT'S GOING TO GO DOWN FOR THREE YEARS AND OUR ACTUAL RCA WOULD BE LOWER.
>> THERE'LL BE A SLOW DECLINE.
>> THAT WAS THE COVID ORDER WHEN WE SHUTDOWN.
>> WE WOULD HAVE TIME TO REACT.
>> WELL, CHRISTINE, DO YOU HAVE AN ANSWER ON YOUR 168?
>> THANK YOU. THE NEXT IS THE EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT INCENTIVE, AND AS WE'VE MADE THIS PRESENTATION TO SEVERAL GROUPS AND GOTTEN A LOT OF FEEDBACK.
THESE NEXT TWO CHANGES, WE WOULD NOT ENDORSE ANYTHING UNLESS A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE WAS APPROVED IN THE COMPENSATION PACKAGE.
THAT BEING SAID, IT SEEMS LIKE YOU GUYS ARE ON PRETTY POSITIVE ABOUT THAT, SO I'LL PROCEED WITH THESE.
THE EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT INCENTIVE WE PUT INTO PLACE, THERE WAS THREE OPTIONS ORIGINALLY, ANYBODY IN THE TOP 25 PERCENT.
THE BEST ATTENDEES TO WORK IN THE DISTRICT FOR THE YEAR, IF THEY IF THEY LANDED IN THE TOP 25 PERCENT IN THEIR PTO GROUP, YOU HAVE DIFFERENT PTO GROUPS, THEY WOULD GET AN INCENTIVE AT THE END OF THE YEAR THAT ENDED UP BEING ABOUT 126 STAFF MEMBERS.
LAST YEAR AT THE INCENTIVE WAS AROUND $1,200.
>> HOW MANY EMPLOYEES DO WE HAVE?
>> 500. OPTION 2, IF YOU WEREN'T IN THE TOP 25 PERCENT, WAS TO BUY OUT ANY DAYS OVER 60 DAYS, SO WE ALLOW PEOPLE TO ACCUMULATE UP TO 75.
IF YOU HAD ANY DAYS OVER 60, YOU COULD BUY THEM OUT AT $100 A DAY.
THE THIRD OPTION WAS TO BUY OUT ANY DAYS OVER 60.
YOU HAVE THE OPTION TO SELL THOSE BACK AT HALF OF THE DAILY RATE AND PUT THAT MONEY INTO A 457 ACCOUNT.
WE DID THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME LAST YEAR, WE HAD CHECKED WITH WYOMING RETIREMENT,
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THEY SAID YOU CAN DO THIS.THEN WHEN WE DID IT LAST YEAR, THEY CAME BACK AND THEY SAID, '' NO, YOU CAN'T DO THAT ACTUALLY UNLESS YOU'RE LEAVING THE DISTRICT.'' YOU CAN DO A SICK OR VACATION DAY BY OUT AND PUT IT INTO A 457 ONLY IF YOU'RE LEAVING EMPLOYMENT.
THAT BEING SAID, THAT WE ACTUALLY HAVE TO ELIMINATE OPTION 3, I WOULD RECOMMEND IN THE PROPOSAL THAT WE'RE GIVING IS TO ELIMINATE THIS ENGAGEMENT INCENTIVE ALTOGETHER.
THIS WOULD HELP OFFSET SOME OF THE INCREASED COST OF SALARIES, BUT ALSO FORWARD-LOOKING WHAT WE'D REALLY LIKE TO IMPLEMENT IN THE FUTURE AS A WELLNESS PROGRAM, A ROBUST WELLNESS PROGRAM, AND THIS MONEY EVENTUALLY COULD BE USED TO DEVELOP THAT PROGRAM.
>> ANY QUESTIONS ON THE ENGAGEMENT INCENTIVE?
>> I'M JUST WONDERING, AND I ASKED THIS QUESTION AND PERHAPS SO YOU GET AN ANSWER AT THIS POINT AND JUST WONDERING, WE WENT FROM SICK AND PERSONAL LEAVE TO PTO, WHAT WAS OUR REASONING FOR DOING THAT, AND DID IT MAKE THE CHANGE THAT WE WERE HOPING FOR IT TO MAKE?
>> A COUPLE OF THE REASONS BEHIND THE PTO CHANGE THE VACATION SICK AND FIRST ALL TIME INTO PTO WAS ONE, IT REALLY OFFERS MORE FLEXIBILITY TO STAFF.
I'VE HEARD A LOT OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, AND EVEN WHEN WE VISITED THIS TOPIC BEFORE, WHEN IT COMES TO 10 MONTH EMPLOYEES, THEY USED TO HAVE TWO DAYS AND THEN IF THEY HIT A CERTAIN YEARS OF SERVICE, THEY GOT AN ADDITIONAL TWO DAYS SO THEY HAD FOUR DAYS, AND THEN THEY HAD 10 SICK DAYS.
AT ONE POINT I THINK WHEN WE MADE THE PTO CHANGE, WE MADE THAT 12 DAYS INSTEAD OF THE 14.
BUT I WOULD ARGUE ACTUALLY THAT IT WASN'T A DECREASE IN TIME, YOU ACTUALLY GAINED MORE FLEXIBILITY IN THE PTO DAYS.
THEN WHEN WE'RE REALLY STARTING TO LOOK AT ABSENTEE, I MEAN, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS SEVERAL TIMES ON THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.
WHAT DO OUR ABSENTEE RATES LOOK LIKE? WHAT'S CONTRIBUTING TO ALL OF THAT AND WHAT'S AN APPROPRIATE AMOUNT OF TIME FOR THIS STAFF GROUP OR THAT STAFF GROUP TO MISS DURING THE YEAR, AND STILL BE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH THE GOAL OF EDUCATING STUDENTS OR MAYBE IN SOME OF THE OPERATIONS STILL BEING ABLE TO COMPLETE THEIR JOB? I THINK WHEN WE LOOK AT THE ENGAGEMENT INCENTIVE AND THEN WE ALSO LOOK AT THE PTO, WHICH IS THE NEXT SLIDE, IT'S REALLY A BIG LUCK OF WHAT DO WE WANT TO INCENTIVIZE AND WHAT IS REASONABLE? WE'VE LOOKED AT SEVERAL OTHER PTO PACKAGES LOCALLY, OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE ENGAGEMENT INCENTIVE AND WE'RE ALSO HAVING A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS THIS YEAR SPECIFICALLY AS A RESULT OF COVID TO MENTAL HEALTH.
WE DO HAVE A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS, AND THE STRESS OF COVID, THE STRESS OF ALL OF THESE OTHER THINGS THAT HAVE CONTRIBUTED OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.
THIS IS A PRIORITY FOR THIS DISTRICT, AND TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS COMING TO WORK.
WHEN YOU INCENTIVIZE PEOPLE TO NOT USE THEIR PTO DAYS OR TO NOT TAKE THE TIME THAT THEY NEED, IT REALLY WORKS AGAINST THAT GREATER GOAL OF MENTAL HEALTH.
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE ENGAGEMENT INCENTIVE, THAT IS AN INCENTIVE TO NOT USE YOUR DAY.
THAT IS AN INCENTIVE TO COME TO WORK SICK.
IT JUST WORKS IN CONFLICT WITH MAYBE ONE OF OUR OTHER GOALS, WHICH IS MENTAL HEALTH.
>> TO CLARIFY ONE QUESTION THAT YOU ASKED, TRUSTEE BROWN SAID PREVIOUSLY BEFORE WE WERE PTO, AND I KNOW YOU KNOW THIS BUT I'M JUST CLARIFYING, THAT YOU HAD 10 SICK DAYS AND EITHER TWO OR FOUR PERSONAL DAYS.
AN EMPLOYEE MAY WANT TO GO TO THEIR COUSIN'S WEDDING AT A TOWN, AND THEY REALLY NEEDED THREE PERSONAL DAYS.
BUT BY OUR POLICY, THEY COULDN'T DO THAT BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T USE A SICK DAY.
IF THEY DIDN'T USE THEIR PERSONAL DAYS, THEY WOULD ROLL OVER THE NEXT YEAR INTO SICK DAYS.
IT WAS ACTUALLY A BENEFIT TO EMPLOYEES BECAUSE SOME EMPLOYEES MADE A MENTAL HEALTH DAY FOR THEM,
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MAYBE TO GO SKI OR GO ON A LONG HIKE OR WHATEVER, AND NOW THEY CAN DO THAT.PTO AND ESPECIALLY CALCULATING IT AND MAINTAINING IT, IT'S MUCH EASIER THAN SEPARATING SICK VERSUS PERSONAL.
I THINK THAT WAS A GOOD MOVE FOR US AND IT WAS AN ACTUAL INCREASE IN BENEFIT FOR EMPLOYEES, ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT TYPICALLY WEREN'T SICK, BUT MAYBE THEY WANTED TO GO TO THE WEDDING OR THIS YEAR.
OTHER THINGS WERE HAPPENING IN THEIR LIFE AND THEY HAD OPPORTUNITIES AND THEY WANTED TO TAKE THEM, SO THERE'S REALLY NOT THAT RESTRICTION.
WHEN WE STARTED ASKING THIS QUESTION, HOW MANY DAYS SHOULD WE HAVE? HOW MANY DAYS WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR THESE EMPLOYEE GROUPS? THIS IS WHAT WE CAME UP WITH.
FOR 10 MONTHS, EMPLOYEES ONE DAY A MONTH FOR EVERY FOR EVERY MONTH THAT THEY WORK.
WHEN YOU ACTUALLY SIT DOWN AND LOOK AT THE SCHOOL CALENDAR, THERE ARE A LOT OF DAYS OFF IN OUR SCHOOL CALENDAR.
ONE DAY A MONTH IN ADDITION TO THOSE DAYS SEEMS LIKE A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF DAYS.
NOBODY LIKES TO BE REDUCED ANYTHING.
I THINK IT IS HARD TO DO IT, WHICH IS WHY WE WOULDN'T RECOMMEND THIS CHANGE WITHOUT SIGNIFICANT PAY INCREASE.
BUT 10 DAYS FOR 10 MONTH EMPLOYEES IS AN APPROPRIATE NUMBER, I BELIEVE.
THAT LED US TO OUR 12-MONTH EMPLOYEES AND WE HAVE TWO CLASSES OF 12-MONTH EMPLOYEES, ONE DAY A MONTH FOR THOSE 12-MONTH EMPLOYEES.
FOR THE 238-DAY EMPLOYEES, THESE ARE EMPLOYEES THAT WORK YEAR-ROUND, AND THEN THEY GET THEIR THANKSGIVING, THE CHRISTMAS, THE SPRING BREAK DAYS OFF, AND WHEN WE STARTED LOOKING AT THAT, 12 DAYS DIDN'T SEEM QUITE ENOUGH BECAUSE THAT WOULDN'T HAVE PROVIDED ANYTIME IN THE SUMMER, WHICH IS ONE OF OUR BEST TIMES IN JACKSON HALL TO TAKE ANY TIME OFF BEYOND THOSE SCHOOLS SCHEDULED, SO WE ADDED FIVE DAYS IN THE SUMMER.
THAT LEADS US TO THE 260-DAY EMPLOYEES WHO DON'T GET ANY OF THOSE REGULARLY SCHEDULED BREAKS.
WE DO GET THE PAID HOLIDAYS, BUT NOT ANY OF THE REGULARLY SCHEDULED BREAKS.
>> YOU DON'T GET SPRING BREAK.
>> BETWEEN SPRING BREAK, WE GET CHRISTMAS.
>> THEY SPEND THE CHRISTMAS EVE, BUT THEY DON'T HIT THE WEEKEND.
>> THEY GET THE HOLIDAY NIGHT OUT.
>> WHEN I WENT BACK THROUGH THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, SPRING BREAK, CHRISTMAS, THANKSGIVING, THOSE BIG THREE, THOSE DAYS END UP BEING ANYWHERE BETWEEN 16 DAYS AND 20 DAYS.
WE THOUGHT EIGHT WAS AN APPROPRIATE NUMBER TO BE ABLE TO TAKE OFF A COUPLE OF DAYS AROUND THOSE HOLIDAYS, AND THEN FIVE DAYS FOR SUMMER, WHICH MEANS FOR 10-MONTH EMPLOYEES, THEY WOULD GET 10 DAYS OF PTO, WHICH IS A REDUCTION OF TWO DAYS, 12-MONTH EMPLOYEES, 17 DAYS, WHICH IS A REDUCTION OF SEVEN, AND FOR 12-MONTH 260 DAYS, 25 DAYS WHICH IS THE REDUCTION OF NINE DAYS.
THEN FIVE ADDITIONAL DAYS ONCE YOU'VE HIT 10 YEARS OF SERVICE FOR 12-MONTH EMPLOYEES ONLINE.
I REALLY RESPECT ALL THE COMMITTEE DID ON THIS, BUT WE JUST WENT THROUGH THE CALENDAR, AND THERE WAS RARELY TWO WEEKS IN A ROW THAT PEOPLE WERE IN SCHOOL FIVE DAYS.
I'M SURE THIS IS POLITICALLY INCORRECT TO SAY, BUT PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY WHO ARE PAYING THESE PROPERTY TAXES SO THAT OUR TEACHERS CAN GET A SIGNIFICANT RAISE DON'T GET THE TIME OFF THAT OUR TEACHERS HAVE JUST IN THE REGULAR COURSE OF THE YEAR; SUMMER, TWO WEEKS SPRING BREAK, CHRISTMAS.
I REALLY DO THINK THAT IT'S A LITTLE TONE-DEAF TO SUGGEST TO THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE PAYING THE MONEY TO MAKE THE SCHOOL DISTRICT WORK, THAT IN ADDITION TO ALL THESE VACATIONS THAT OUR STAFF GETS ADDITIONAL TIME OFF.
QUITE FRANKLY, WHEN I STARTED TO WORK IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT 12 YEARS AGO, I COULDN'T BELIEVE THAT TEACHERS GOT TIME OFF IN
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ADDITION TO THE ABUNDANT BREAKS THAT THEY HAVE DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR.I KNOW IT'S HARD WORK BUT, EVERYBODY ELSE'S JOB IS HARD ALSO.
SO I FIND THIS REALLY DIFFICULT TO SWALLOW.
I RESPECT WHAT THE COMMITTEE HAS PUT TOGETHER, AND I RESPECT THEIR RECOMMENDATION, BUT I THINK WE'RE A LITTLE TONE-DEAF ON THE COMMUNITY.
ON WHAT THE EXPECTATIONS ARE FOR OUR TEACHERS, AND IT'S PARTICULARLY GOING TO BE SO WHEN WE'RE GIVING THEM A SIGNIFICANT RAISE.
I KNOW THAT THIS HAS BEEN IN EXISTENCE FOR QUITE SOME TIME.
I THINK MRS. TESKEY TOLD ME THAT SOME OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS DON'T DO THIS.
I THINK IT'S JUST SOMETHING IN THE FUTURE THAT WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT, AND THINK ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE PAYING THE PROPERTY TAXES WHO HAVE A 20 PERCENT INCREASE GUARANTEED.
THOSE PEOPLE DON'T GET THE TIME OFF THAT OUR TEACHERS DO.
THAT'S JUST MY COMMENT ON THIS.
>> FOLLOWING UP ON TRUSTEE MEAD, PRIOR TO US GOING TO PTO, AND I KNOW YOU JUST SAID THIS, WITH A TWO VACATION DAYS, 10-MONTH EMPLOYEES GOT, AND THEN HOW MANY SICK DAYS WERE THEY?
>> PERSONAL DAYS, NOT VACATION DAYS.
>> WE CALL IT PERSONAL. OKAY, IF YOU TAKE THEM FOR ANY REASON?
>> THEN THERE WERE SOME SICK DAYS TOO.
>> TEN. THAT'S WHERE YOU GOT THE 12 FROM.
YOU TOOK THE 10 SICK AND THE TWO PERSONAL AND YOU COMBINED.
NOW, UNDER PTO, IT CAN BE FOR ANY REASON, SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE SICK.
>> THEY ALL DO HAVE TO BE APPROVED.
>> BUT I DON'T HAVE TO PROVE TO YOU I'M SICK.
>> THAT DEPENDS ON HOW LONG YOU'RE SICK.
>> IF I WOULD SAY I'M GOING TO TAKE IT TOMORROW OFF, I'LL TAKE TOMORROW OFF.
WHAT WE WOULD ENCOURAGE STAFF TO DO IS COMMUNICATE WITH THEIR ADMINISTRATORS.
I THINK WE HAVE SOME INDIVIDUALS WHO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE SYSTEM, YOU'RE ALWAYS GOING TO HAVE THOSE PEOPLE IN AN ORGANIZATION.
THOSE CAN BECOME MORE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT DISCIPLINARY ACTION, WHAT THE CAREER TCSD LOOKS LIKE.
THERE'S LOTS OF WAYS TO DEAL WITH WHAT WE THINK IS AN ABUSE OF THE SYSTEM, AT THE SAME TIME, WE WANT OUR EMPLOYEES TO BE MENTALLY HEALTHY WHEN THEY COME TO WORK.
WE'VE ALL WORKED WITH THAT PERSON THAT YOU TURN AROUND AND YOU LOOK AT AND YOU GO, "YOU NEED A DAY OFF." [LAUGHTER] [OVERLAPPING]
>> I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO REMEMBER WHY WE'RE HERE.
WE TRY AND SELECT THE BEST POSSIBLE STAFF WE CAN TO PUT IN FRONT OF THOSE KIDS.
WHEN THAT TEACHER DOESN'T COME TO WORK FOR WHATEVER REASON, THE STAFF THAT'S IN FRONT OF THEM IS NOT DOING, CAN'T DO EXACTLY WHAT THE MAIN TEACHER DID.
TO ME, THIS REALLY GETS TO HOW DO WE KEEP THAT TEACHER SO IMPORTANT TO THOSE STUDENTS, HOW DO WE KEEP THEM IN FRONT OF THE CLASS?
>> THANK YOU. WHAT I'M CURIOUS FOR TRUSTEE MEAD AND TRUSTEE TESKEY, ARE YOU SUGGESTING LOWERING IT EVEN MORE THAN STAFF IS SUGGESTING LOWERING IT? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE GETTING AT OR IS IT JUST A [OVERLAPPING].
>> YOU'RE COMFORTABLE WITH THIS?
>> I'M FINE WITH THIS [INAUDIBLE]
>> I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD HAVE THEM AT ALL.
JUST SICK LEAVE, WHICH YOU HAVE IN A 10-YEAR. I REALLY DON'T.
I GUESS THAT'S FUNDAMENTALLY HOW I FEEL.
CERTAINLY, I'M IN THE MINORITY WITH REGARDS TO THAT, BUT THAT'S WHERE I'M AT.
>> LET'S DO THIS JUST REAL QUICK.
HOPEFULLY, WE'LL FINISH UP IN A SECOND.
>> I KNOW. LET'S FINISH UP HERE IN A SECOND.
LET'S TAKE A BREAK FOR FIVE MINUTES.
LET'S COME BACK, TAKE SOME PUBLIC COMMENT, AND THEN WRAP THIS UP.
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I THINK I HEARD TRUSTEE MEAD SAY IN THE LAST LITTLE BIT WAS, AND MY POINT IS THERE'S GOT TO BE SOMETHING FOR WOMEN EMPLOYEE OR CASE IN A DISTRICT WITH A LOT OF YOUNG EMPLOYEES, AN EMPLOYEE'S CHILD IS SICK, WE HAVE TO HAVE AN EVIDENCE.IN PRIOR TIME, IT WAS, YOU HAD SICK DAYS.
NOW, WE HAVE PTO DAYS WHICH PROVIDE MORE FLEXIBILITY TO THE STAFF, WHICH IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD, I GUESS.
YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT AS A TEACHER, YOU'RE WALKING INTO THIS GIGANTIC PETRI DISH.
[LAUGHTER] ESPECIALLY NEW TEACHERS, ONCE YOU GET IN THERE AND YOU BUILD UP YOUR IMMUNITY [LAUGHTER].
YOU LAUGHING AT ME, I'M SO SERIOUS.
>> THAT ONCE YOU'VE BEEN IN SCHOOLS FOR A WHILE, YOUR NUMBER OF DAYS THAT YOU'RE ACTUALLY SICK IN A YEAR GREATLY DECREASES, BUT THE FIRST COUPLE OF YEARS, YOU ARE SUSCEPTIBLE TO EVERYTHING THAT THOSE KIDS BRING IN.
SO JUST IN TERMS OF SICK DAYS OR THE ABILITY TO TAKE TIME WHEN YOU'RE SICK, YOU JUST CAN'T CUT THEM OUT ENTIRELY.
>> I WOULD JUST ADD THAT TRUSTEE MEAD, YOU MENTIONED ELIMINATE ON ENTIRELY EXCEPT FOR SICK DAYS AND IT'S NOT LIKE WE HAD 10 SICK DAYS PREVIOUSLY.
I AGREE THAT WE CAN'T ELIMINATE THEM BECAUSE ONE OF OUR GOALS WAS MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS, AND I THINK WE ELIMINATED THAT, THAT JUST TAKES OUT THE AVENUE FOR PEOPLE TO TAKE TIME AWAY FOR SICKNESS OR PERSONAL TIME.
>> IT CERTAINLY WON'T BE THE BEST THING REMOVING SICK DAYS.
>> ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS FOR KRISTEN BEFORE WE TAKE A SHORT LITTLE BREAK? WONDERFUL JOB, KRISTEN. THANK YOU.
>> LET'S TAKE A FIVE-MINUTE BREAK AND THEN WE'LL TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT WHEN WE COME BACK.
BEFORE WE GET THE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ISSUE, HOLDEN NEEDS TO GO HOME AND GO TO BED BACK THERE, [LAUGHTER] AND HE CAN'T WAIT TILL THE VERY END TO OUR REGULAR PUBLIC COMMENT.
WELL, WHY DON'T YOU COME ON UP? I THINK YOU WANTED TO TELL US THAT IF WE'RE GOING TO DISCUSS DUAL, WE SHOULDN'T ENGAGE WITH THE STUDENTS ALSO.
>> I RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT THE BOARD SPEAK TO STUDENTS FROM DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS IN THE DUAL IMMERSION PROGRAMS.
>> EXCELLENT. WE WILL CERTAINLY DO THAT.
THANK YOU ALL. [APPLAUSE] THANK YOU.
>> WE ONLY WISH WE HAD KNOWN THAT EARLIER SO YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO SIT THROUGH THIS PAINFUL DISCUSSION.
>> I'LL OPEN IT UP TO PUBLIC COMMENTS.
IF ANYONE HAS ANY GENERAL COMMENTS ON THE COMPENSATION PACKAGE, THE CONVERSATION WE WERE JUST HAVING, IF YOU CAN KEEP IT TO THREE MINUTES AND TRY NOT TO REPEAT EACH OTHER, AND I'LL OPEN IT UP. OH YES. GO AHEAD.
I DON'T CLAIM TO BE AN ECONOMIST OR EVEN UNDERSTAND ANY OF THE COMPENSATION STYLES WE DO FOR OUR TEACHERS.
BUT FROM A STUDENT'S PERSPECTIVE, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY, I HAVE LOTS OF WONDERFUL TEACHERS AND I'VE ALMOST NEVER MET A HIGH-SCHOOL TEACHER THAT'S WORK THEY'RE STRICTLY CONTRACTED HOURS.
THEY'RE ALWAYS WORKING VERY HARD JOB. I APPRECIATE THAT.
I THINK PART OF THE REASON THAT'S DOABLE IS BECAUSE IT IS MORE FLEXIBLE ON THE SUMMERS, THEY CAN GET MORE BREAKS TO DEAL WITH FAMILY AND MENTAL ISSUES.
I THINK IT'S WORTH RECOGNIZING THAT'S NOT A NORMAL JOB.
IT'S DEFINITELY TEACHERS GO ABOVE AND BEYOND EVERY SINGLE DAY.
>> THANK YOU. ANYONE ELSE? JEFF, DO YOU WANT TO?
JEFF STEIN, I APPRECIATE THE THOUGHTFUL CONVERSATION.
I JUST WANT TO SAY THANKS FOR THE GENEROUS PROPOSED PAY RAISE.
ON PTO, I JUST HAD A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS OR MAYBE CLARIFICATION.
JUST FROM SOME OF THE FEEDBACK I'VE GOTTEN.
IF WE'VE MADE THE MOVE FROM PTO TO PTOS IN THE COMPENSATION PACKAGE, SHOULD EMPLOYEES SEE THAT AS A BENEFIT THAT IS THEIRS TO USE OR LOSE? LOOKING AT SOME OF THE TEACHERS THAT ARE RESIGNING,
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THERE'S DISCUSSION ABOUT IT.IT WOULD BE GREAT IF THEY DIDN'T USE ANY OF THEM.
BUT SOME OF THEM LOOK AT IT, THESE ARE OUR BENEFITS.
WHY WOULDN'T I USE THEM? I THINK SOME OF THAT NEEDS TO BE THOUGHT THROUGH A LITTLE BIT.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE EXACT ANSWER IS, BUT I DO KNOW THERE'S DIFFERING THOUGHTS ON WHAT PAID TIME OFF IS.
I KNOW, KRISTEN MENTIONED YOU HAVE TO PUT IN WHEN YOU REQUEST A SICK DAY IN FRONTLINE, WHICH IS A SOFTWARE SYSTEM TEACHERS USED TO PUT IN FOR PAID TIME OFF.
OBVIOUSLY, IF IT'S A SICK DAY, YOU MIGHT PUT IT IN THE NIGHT BEFORE OR THE MORNING OF AND I DON'T THINK YOU'RE GOING TO GET NECESSARILY DENIED BY THAT.
BUT IF IT'S A PERSONAL DAY, THE LACK OF SUBS MAKES THE BENEFITS SOMETIMES DIFFICULT TO USE.
THERE DEFINITELY IS CONCERN BY SOME STAFF THAT IF I DO PUT IN FOR PERSONAL DAY TO DO THIS, I REALIZE I'M GOING TO HAVE ONE OF MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR SUBBING ON THEIR PLANNING PERIOD FOR ME, AND I KNOW ELEMENTARY IS A LITTLE BIT THAT SECONDARY, SO I'M SPEAKING, OBVIOUSLY, FROM A SECONDARY PERSPECTIVE.
BUT I DO WONDER ABOUT THE MESSAGING AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF PTO.
I DID APPRECIATE THE MOVE TO PTO, BUT HAVEN'T BEEN HERE LONG ENOUGH.
I KNOW THAT THERE WAS SOME RESERVATION ABOUT MAKING THAT MOVE YEARS AGO THAT SPEAKING TO THE CASE CONCERNED THE 10 SICK.
THE TWO PERSONAL WAS PRETTY CLEAR, WHETHER IT'S 12 PTO OR 10 PTO.
WHAT THAT MEANS TO DIFFERENT EMPLOYEES IS THE PERCEPTION OF IT IS PRETTY DIFFERENT AND I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE GIVEN SOME THOUGHT.
BUT I REALLY DO APPRECIATE THE DISCUSSION.
I THINK THE GENEROUS COMPENSATION PACKAGE.
I UNDERSTAND THE RISING COST OF HEALTHCARE.
I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THE RETIREE POOL THAT IS 183 OVER COSTS UNDERNEATH THREE PERCENT OVER COST.
IS THAT A ONE-TIME, THAT THIS YEAR WE HAD A COUPLE OF BAD THINGS HAPPEN OR WHAT HAS BEEN THE TREND FOR THAT OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS? WHAT'S THAT DATA POINT LOOK LIKE? BECAUSE AT ONE POINT IN TIME, I THOUGHT MATERNITY CARE WAS ONE OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE GROUPS AND THEN RETIREES WEREN'T NECESSARILY.
I'D BE CURIOUS IF IT'S BEEN 183 FOR OVERTIME OR IF THAT WAS JUST A REALLY BAD YEAR BECAUSE OF A COUPLE OF PEOPLE WERE REALLY SICK AND IT'S A SMALL POOL.
THEN ON THE INCENTIVE FOR THE PTO, IS THAT GOING TO CHANGE FOR THE RETIREES, THOSE PEOPLE THAT ARE SITTING ON 65 OR 70? WE INCENTIVIZE PEOPLE ON AN ANNUAL BASIS BUT IS THAT GOING TO END FOR FOLKS WHO ARE CURRENTLY GETTING PAID UP 60 PERCENT BECAUSE THE LANGUAGE WAS STRUCK OUT IN THE PUBLIC.
>> [INAUDIBLE] THE INTENTION WAS TO STRIKE THROUGH THE [INAUDIBLE] AND UNFORTUNATELY THAT RETIREMENT BUY OUT WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT.
THERE'S NO PROPOSAL TO CHANGE THE BUY OUT OF OVERTIME.
>> THOSE ARE JUST SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I WAS THINKING OF WHEN I WAS LISTENING TO YOU GUYS DISCUSS. THANK YOU.
>> ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT? ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE DISCUSSION WE WERE JUST HAVING? ARE WE ON ZOOM? IS ANYONE ON ZOOM THAT WANTS TO?
>> I SEE PEOPLE ON ZOOM BUT NOBODY IS RAISING THEIR HAND.
>> IF YOU'RE ON ZOOM OR I GUESS IF YOU'RE ON WEBEX, I APOLOGIZE.
IF YOU'RE ON WEBEX AND YOU WANT TO SPEAK AND IF YOU CAN FIND THE HAND RAISED, RAISE IT, AND WE WILL CALL ON YOU.
SEEING NO ONE, WE'LL CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT AND BRING IT BACK TO THE BOARD REAL QUICK JUST TO GIVE DIRECTION TO KRISTEN BECAUSE WHAT NORMALLY HAPPENS, PEOPLE WILL BRING THE COMPENSATION PACKAGE NEXT MONTH FOR US TO VOTE ON.
WE CAN CERTAINLY CHANGE IT NEXT MONTH AND VOTE ON IT.
IS EVERYONE COMFORTABLE WITH IT BEING PREPARED, AT LEAST, IN THE FORMAT THAT SHE HAS PRESENTED IT TO THEM? DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS OR ANYTHING THEY WANT KRISTEN TO FOLLOW-UP ON BEFORE THE JUNE MEETING? I THINK JUST FROM WHAT JEFF WAS SAYING, IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO KNOW A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE RETIREES.
IS THAT A TREND OR IS THAT UNIQUE THIS YEAR? I THOUGHT JEFF JUST RAISED A REALLY GOOD POINT ABOUT THE PERCEPTION.
JUST THE FACT THAT WHEN JEFF SAYS, WHEN YOU'RE SICK AND YOU HAVE TO [INAUDIBLE] FOR A SICK DAY, JUST THE USE.
I STILL SEE THAT WITH A LOT OF OTHER STAFF MEMBERS, THEY STILL USE THE TERMS BECAUSE WE TRAINED EVERYONE SO MUCH THAT THOSE TWO PERSONAL DAYS ARE YOURS, DON'T FORGET TO USE THEM BECAUSE IT WAS TWO.
BUT THEN WE TRIED TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE DIDN'T USE THE SICK.
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NOW WHEN YOU SWITCH OVER TO PTO AND THE TOWN OF JACKSON SWITCHED OVER TO PTO FEW YEARS AGO, AND YOU WATCH THAT TRANSITION, IT'S MORE OF A CULTURAL TRANSITION.I SEE WHY PEOPLE HAVE THAT PERCEPTION.
BY SWITCHING TO PTO, YOU'RE ALMOST SAYING TO PEOPLE, "DON'T FORGET TO USE ALL 10 OF YOUR DAYS BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR." THAT'S THE DOWNSIDE OF PTO IS THAT'S HOW SOME PEOPLE LOOK AT PTO, THAT THOSE ARE YOUR DAYS, I BETTER USE THEM.
>> BECAUSE YOU DON'T MAKE THE DISTINCTION.
>> A CLARIFYING QUESTION, SICK LEAVE HAS ALWAYS BEEN USE IT OR LOSE IT.
>> NO. [OVERLAPPING] THEY CAN GET ROLLED OVER.
>> SICK LEAVE ROLLED AND PERSONAL DAYS, WE DIDN'T USE AND ROLLED IN TO SICK [INAUDIBLE]
>> BECAUSE I WAS IN A SICK LEAVE.
>> YOU STILL HAVE THE SICK DAY, DON'T YOU?
>> IF YOU USE ALL YOUR DAYS, IF YOU NEEDED TO.
>> ANYWAY, THE PERCEPTION THING IS SOMETHING THAT MAYBE HEATHER COULD WORK ON JUST MAKING SURE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE 10 DOESN'T MEAN WE WANT YOU TO USE THE 10.
IT'S LEFTOVER FROM THE OLD IDEA DON'T FORGET TO USE YOUR TWO DAYS.
>> YOU ALREADY SAID HOW MUCH YOU CARE.
[LAUGHTER] DO WE HAVE THE USE IT OR LOSE IT OR DOES IT ALL ALWAYS ROLLOVER NO MATTER HOW MANY.
>> SEVENTY FIVE. THEY CAN ROLL IT OVER TO 75.
>> WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO JOE BOLTON.
POOR GUY SAT IN HERE ALL NIGHT AND I DIDN'T REALLY NEED HIM TO SIT HERE ALL NIGHT, BUT HE'S EXCITED TO BE HERE.
[LAUGHTER] JOE, I THINK EVERYONE MADE IT TONIGHT.
WE ALL WENT OVER FOR THE GRAND OPENING OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
IT WAS BEAUTIFUL AND THE CHOIR SANG AND THE ORCHESTRA PLAYED AND WE HAD LOTS OF PARENTS.
I WAS REALLY EXCITED WITH THE TURNOUT.
I WAS VERY EXCITED TO SEE PEOPLE THAT DON'T HAVE CHILDREN IN OUR DISTRICT, PEOPLE JUST IN THE COMMUNITY THAT JUST DECIDED TO COME AND LOOK AROUND. THAT'S EXCITING.
THEN THERE WAS TWO OR THREE PARENTS I FOUND THAT THEY'RE FIFTH GRADERS AND THEY WERE COMING INTO MIDDLE SCHOOL AND THEY THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO COME AND WALK AROUND BEFORE SCHOOL, BEFORE THEIR KID GOES TO SCHOOL NEXT YEAR.
THE VESTIBULE LOOKS GREAT. THAT WAS AMAZING.
I LOVED HOW YOU COME IN AND THE SECURITY PART.
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WALKED DOWN AND LOOKED AT THE FOUR NEW ROOMS, THEY'RE GETTING PAINTED AND CARPETS GOING DOWN.
I KNOW WE COMPLAINED ABOUT THIS CENTURY WITH CENTURY CONTRACTORS WITH THE VESTIBULE BUT BOY, WITH THOSE FOUR ROOMS, THEY ARE FLYING ALONG.
IN A BIG HALLWAY, THE KITCHEN LOOKED GREAT.
I STILL NEED TO GET THAT LAMB ENDED UP.
I WENT BACK AND I WAS SHOWING OFF THE FREEZER AND THE FRIDGE TO EVERYBODY.
[LAUGHTER] IT WAS JUST VERY EXCITING.
JOE, YOU WERE A MAJOR PART OF IT BEING OUR OWNER'S REP AND YOU REALLY KEPT US ON THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW AND REALLY HELPED ADVISE US AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
WE STILL HAVE A WAYS TO GO, BUT I JUST REALLY WANT TO THANK YOU.
IT'S GOOD TO CELEBRATE, SOMETIMES, [NOISE] OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
WITH THAT SAID, WHERE ARE WE AT WITH FINISHING THIS? [LAUGHTER] I CAN STILL GO THROUGH THE REPORT.
I WAS PLANNING ON GOING THROUGH THE REPORT JUST BECAUSE EVERYONE HAD [OVERLAPPING].
>> WE CAN GO DOWN TO THE NEXT PAGE.
JUST ON THE FINANCIAL SIDE, WHICH OBVIOUSLY IT'S HARDER TO SEE IN PERSON, THE CONTRACTORS STARTED THE EXPANSION A LITTLE EARLY, AND ALSO THE LARGE HALLWAY INTO THE FOUR-CLASSROOM ADDITION WAS DONE AHEAD OF SCHEDULE AS WELL AS THEY DID NOT HAVE THE SPRING BREAK.
YOU CAN SEE THE PERCENT EXPENDED IS OUTPACING THE PERCENT TIME-LAPSED A LITTLE BIT, SO THAT CAN BE A GOOD SIGN.
I DON'T BELIEVE THAT ANY ADDITIONAL CHANGE ORDERS HAVE COME THROUGH IN THE LAST MONTH, SO THIS SHOULD BE THE SAME AS YOUR LAST MONTH'S REPORT. NEXT DOWN.
THIS HAS CHANGED SINCE I SUBMITTED THIS REPORT.
THE SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION SCHEDULE IS TOMORROW FOR THE VESTIBULE AND THE ARCHITECT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THERE TODAY,
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HAD TO RESCHEDULE FOR IT TOMORROW.BUT AS YOU ALL SAW, IT IS VERY CLOSE TO COMPLETION.
>> THE ARCHITECT JUST NEEDS TO WALK IT TO GIVE IT THE SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION?
>> CORRECT, AND MAKE HIS GREATEST PUNCH LIST.
THERE ARE A FEW PUNCH LIST ITEMS FOR THE VESTIBULE.
BUT, IT FUNCTIONS JUST ABOUT ALL THE WAY NOW.
THEN, AS WE KNOW, KITCHEN REMODEL HAS ALREADY BEEN COMPLETED OTHER THAN THE P-LINE PORTALS.
FLOORING PLACEMENT IS COMPLETED.
>> FOR THE KITCHEN, WHAT ARE THEY WAITING FOR? WHY IS THAT ALL EXPOSED THERE AT THE TOP?
>> THE SUBCONTRACTOR CREATING THE LAMINATE PORTALS DIDN'T DO ANY FIELD MEASUREMENTS, SO THEY SHOWED UP WITH PRE-MADE LAMINATE TO GO ON THERE AND NONE OF THEM FIT, SO THEY HAD TO GO BACK AND REMAKE ALL OF THEM.
>> DON'T LAUGH. I'M NOT GOING TO ASK QUESTIONS. [LAUGHTER]
>> I DON'T KNOW WHY I LAUGHED.
>> [INAUDIBLE] ALLOW ME ASK A QUESTION.
MR. CHAIR, IF I MAY, I'M HOPING THAT WE DON'T GET CHARGED FOR HIS MISTAKE.
>> NO, NOT AT ALL. WE WILL NOT.
GOOD QUESTION THOUGH. FLOORING REPLACEMENT, AS YOU'VE SEEN, IS ALL COMPLETED.
THEN AS I SAID, THE FOUR-CLASSROOM ADDITION IS ON THE HEAD-OF-SCHEDULE SIDE OF UNSCHEDULED.
BUT, I WOULD SAY THEY'RE PRETTY MUCH RIGHT ON SCHEDULE.
>> AS SOON AS SCHOOL'S OUT, THEY BUST DOWN THAT WALL THAT THEY'VE GOT THERE IN THE CAFETERIA GRILL.
>> THE BOARD DECIDED TO PUSH THAT UNTIL AFTER SCHOOL THREE MONTHS AGO. THAT'S WHERE WE ARE AT.
>> ANY QUESTIONS FOR JOE? AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE JOE IN SCHOOL.
>> WE APPRECIATE ALL YOUR HARD WORK, AND WE SAID A BUNCH OF NICE STUFF ABOUT DEANNA SO I DON'T WANT TO MAKE HER HEAD TOO BIG, BUT WE'LL SAY IT AGAIN.
>> DEANNA FOR ALL OF HER HARD WORK ON ALL OF OUR FACILITIES AND IT WAS JUST FUN TO SEE MEMBERS OF OUR PUBLIC THAT WERE EXCITED THAT PEOPLE WERE COMING UP AND SAYING THIS IS GREAT, I REALLY LIKE IT.
THAT'S NICE THAT PEOPLE WERE EXCITED.
[E. Action Items]
>> JUST SKIP TO THE ACTION ITEMS. OUR FIRST ACTION ITEM TONIGHT IS CONSIDERATION OF A DESIGN-BUILD CONTRACT WITH ACM WYOMING LLC TO RELOCATE IN A REMODEL MODULAR BUILDINGS AT DAVEY JACKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CAMPUS. EVE.
>> GOOD EVENING, MR. CHAIR, TRUSTEES, DEANNA HARGER, FACILITIES DEPARTMENT.
YES, THIS IS CONSIDERATION OF A DESIGN-BUILD CONTRACT.
WE THE FACILITIES DEPARTMENT OR THE DISTRICT PUT THIS OUT AND REQUESTED PROPOSALS FOR DESIGN-BUILD SERVICES IN RESPONSE TO REQUESTS TO TAKE A LOOK AT RELOCATING AND REMODELING THE TWO MODULARS AT THE DAVEY JACKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CAMPUS INTO HOUSING.
WE RECEIVED ONE PROPOSAL FROM ACM WYOMING.
>> THEY'RE THE SAME GROUP THAT DID THE FIRST ONES FOR US?
>> CORRECT, YES. WE RECEIVED ONE PROPOSAL FROM THEM.
WE'RE HAPPY THAT IT'S THE SAME GROUP BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY, THEY'RE VERY FAMILIAR WITH WHAT WE DID AND WE LEARNED A LOT FROM THE LAST PROJECT, AND SO STAFF IS RECOMMENDING AWARDING THEM THE CONTRACT.
>> THE CONTRACT IS JUST FOR PRE-CONSTRUCTION OF THE 55,000, THEY THEN COME BACK WITH THEIR GMP ONCE THEY WORKED ON THE DESIGN?
>> AT THIS POINT, WHAT DO WE THINK THAT GMP WILL BE ON THAT?
>> MR. CHAIR, TRUSTEES, I DID TAKE A LOOK AT THE PROJECT THAT WE COMPLETED, WHICH IS SIMILAR IN 2019, AND THAT PROJECT ENDED UP BEING $687,000.
I EXPECT THAT THIS PROJECT, BECAUSE OF THE PRICE INCREASES AND INNOVATION WE'VE EXPERIENCED WILL BE MORE THAN THAT.
BUT THAT'S ABOUT AS CLOSE AS I CAN GET.
>> WHERE ARE WE TAKING THIS MONEY FROM?
>> WE'RE PROPOSING TO TAKE IT OUT OF CAPACITY AND SUITABILITY FUNDS.
BUT IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE FUNDING, I WOULD DEFER TO KRISTEN.
>> KRISTEN CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO US WHERE THIS MONEY IS COMING FROM, AND HOW MUCH IS IN THERE, WHEREVER WE'RE TAKING IT FROM?
>> CURRENTLY WE HAVE A LITTLE MORE THAN 299,000 IN THE FUND FOR PUBLIC ED THROUGH EXACTION FEES.
WE'LL HAVE A NEW AMOUNT COMING IN IN JUNE AS WELL BASED ON THE PREVIOUS SALES, SO WE'LL START THERE AND THEN WE'LL MOVE INTO THE CAPACITY SUITABILITY AND HOUSING FUND THAT WE HAVE SET ASIDE.
>> NOW SHE CAN ANSWER. [LAUGHTER]
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I THINK IT'S JUST AROUND A MILLION DOLLARS, IS WHAT'S LEFT IN THERE.
>> BUT IF YOU TAKE THIS 300,000 WE'RE GETTING FROM THE EXACTION, WE SHOULD HAVE ENOUGH.
LET'S PRETEND THIS COMES IN AT, I DON'T KNOW, 800,000, WE WOULD HAVE ENOUGH.
[NOISE] THEN I GUESS MY ONLY OTHER QUESTION IS, WE HAVEN'T REALLY WORKED STUFF OUT YET, BUT THESE ARE THE BUILDINGS THAT THE CHILDREN TO SEE AMBERS IN.
HAVE WE DISCUSSED TIMELINE WITH ACM SO THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S A TENANT RIGHT NOW IN THOSE BUILDINGS?
>> MR. CHAIR AND TRUSTEES, YES.
WE HAVE DISCUSSED TIMELINE WITH THEM.
AS PART OF A PROPOSAL THAT THEY SUBMITTED WHICH IS ATTACHED, THEY DID SUBMIT A PRELIMINARY DEADLINE, WHICH SHOWS BASICALLY THE CONSTRUCTION PHASE OF THE PROJECT WHICH START AROUND AUGUST.
BUT AS WE HAVE A KICKOFF MEETING WE'LL COME BACK TO YOU WITH MORE DETAILED INFORMATION.
BUT PER THIS PROPOSAL, THAT'S THE ESTIMATED TIME THAT WE WOULD START IMPACTING THE EXISTING MODULARS AND POTENTIALLY THE TENANT.
>> IN THE MEANTIME, MR. CHAIR, OUR PLAN WOULD BE TO CONTINUE MONTH TO MONTH, AND I'VE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH THEIR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.
THEN IF THE PROGRAMMING WAS IMPACTED FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST, WE WOULD HAVE SPACE AVAILABLE IN OUR SCHOOLS WHERE THEY COULD DO THEIR MONTHLY PROGRAMMING AND THEN THE OTHER REQUEST THEY HAVE IS FOR SOME STORAGE.
WE'RE JUST STAYING IN CLOSE CONTACT AND WALKING TOGETHER TO SEE WHAT WE CAN COME UP WITH [OVERLAPPING].
>> DO THEY UNDERSTAND IN AUGUST WE'RE PICKING THESE THINGS UP AND LEAVING?
>> OKAY. ANY QUESTIONS BASED ON ALL THOSE QUESTIONS THAT I HAD?
>> MR. CHAIR, I'D LIKE TO PRETEND THAT IT'S STILL COMING AT 700, NOT 800.
>> WHAT ABOUT ACM [INAUDIBLE].
>> WHAT WAS THAT NUMBER, AGAIN?
>> PERSON TO GET MARRIED WITH ALL THOSE ROUNDING IN [LAUGHTER].
>> INTERMEDIATE [OVERLAPPING].
>> ONE LAST QUESTION. THEY PICK THESE UP IN AUGUST, THEY'RE GOING TO MOVE THEM.
I DON'T WANT TO GET INTO THE WEEDS HERE, BUT WILL THEY COVER THAT UP? I HATE TO LEAVE MS. [INAUDIBLE] WITH A BIG HOLE IN THE GROUND NEXT TO HER SCHOOL ALL WINTER LONG.
[LAUGHTER] IS THAT PART OF IT THAT RIGHT WHEN THEY MOVE THEM THEY COULD FILL THAT IN SO THAT THAT'S NICE BEFORE SCHOOL?
>> [OVERLAPPING] YES, THAT'S WHAT I'M ASSUMING THAT HAS BEEN THE LAST PROJECT THAT WE ACTUALLY SELF-PERFORM THAT RECLAMATION.
IT DID TAKE A WHILE SO I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT WE INCLUDE THAT IN THE SCOPE OF THIS [OVERLAPPING].
>> IT WOULD BE NICE IF THE RECLAMATION WAS IMMEDIATE SO THAT SHE DOESN'T HAVE THAT IN HER SCHOOL [OVERLAPPING].
>> [LAUGHTER] ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS, TRUSTEES? [OVERLAPPING]
>> I WAS JUST LOOKING AT THE [LAUGHTER] SERVICE CENTERS THAT'S IN THE ARC [INAUDIBLE] IN THAT CONTRACT.
THE FIRST ONE IT ALMOST SEEMS LIKE IT DOESN'T INCLUDE DESIGN [LAUGHTER] INTO SOAP.
ALMOST READ THIS AS THE CONTRACTOR SCHEDULING ATTENDING ME WORK SESSIONS WITH THE CLIENT DESIGN TEAM, BUT THEY INCLUDE THE DESIGN TEAM.
MAYBE THIS BECAUSE I GUESS THE DESIGNER ASKED, "WHAT AM I DESIGNING WITH DESIGN BEING IN THE SCOPE?"
I WILL SAY I'M CONFIDENT THAT THE DESIGN SCOPE IS INCLUDED IN THIS.
IT PROBABLY COULD HAVE BEEN WORDED BETTER, PER YOUR REMARKS, BUT I'M CONFIDENT THAT THE DESIGNS, IT WILL BE FULLY PART OF THE SCOPE.
THE NICE THING TOO IS IF YOU WERE TO AWARD ACM THIS CONTRACT, WE ACTUALLY HAVE AN EXISTING DESIGN AND I THINK WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET FEEDBACK FROM THE BOARD AND SO WE WOULD POTENTIALLY USE THAT AS OUR KICKING OFF POINT FOR DEVELOPINGS.
>> ANY PUBLIC COMMENT FROM ANYONE ON THIS TOPIC TODAY, ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? PRINCIPAL [INAUDIBLE], WOULD YOU PREFER TO HAVE A POOL OR WOULD YOU LIKE US TO FILL IT IN? [LAUGHTER]
>> [INAUDIBLE] OUTSIDE WOULDN'T BE WONDERFUL.
MAYBE YOU COULD START A MORE CLEARER SPACE FOR THE KIDS.
>> EXCELLENT. SEEING NO FURTHER DISCUSSION. I ENTERTAIN A MOTION.
>> I WOULD MOVE TO APPROVE THE DESIGN-BUILD CONTRACT WITH THE ACM NOT TO EXCEED
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$55,000 AS PRESENTED WITH MINOR MODIFICATIONS SUGGESTED BY LEGAL COUNSEL.>> GOOD, MOVED AND SECONDED TO APPROVE THE DESIGN-BUILD CONTRACT WITH ACM.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? SEEING NONE, ALL THOSE FOR APPROVAL SAY AYE.
>> MR. CHAIR, TRUSTEE MEADE(PH) LOST HER CONNECTION.
>> CAN YOU REFLECT THAT IN THE MINUTES THAT IT WAS FIXED TO ZERO AND TRUSTEE MEADE WAS ABSENT? LET'S SEE.
NEXT ONE IS CONSIDERATION OF THE FY23 INSURANCE OPTIONS FOR EMPLOYEES.
I'M NOT SURE IF WE NEED ANOTHER PRESENTATION, WE HAD ALL THE INFORMATION.
DID ANYONE WANT ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS OR MORE DISCUSSION ON THIS? IS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT FROM ANYONE THIS EVENING ON THIS TOPIC? SEEING NO PUBLIC COMMENT. I CAN ENTERTAIN A MOTION.
>> MOVE TO APPROVE THE FISCAL YEAR 23 INSURANCE OPTIONS FOR EMPLOYEES AS PRESENTED.
TO APPROVE THE FY23 INSURANCE OPTIONS FOR EMPLOYEES AS PRESENTED, IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION FROM ANY BOARD MEMBERS? SEEING NONE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
>> ALL THOSE OPPOSED? TRUSTEE KARLA(PH) MADE
[F. Consent Agenda]
A SPECIAL REQUEST THAT SHE COULD MAKE THE CONSENT AGENDA TYPE.>> I MOVE TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA, APPROVAL OF STAFF CONSIDERATIONS AND REPORTS FOR APRIL 2022 APPROVAL OF MINUTES FOR THE MARCH 9TH, 2022 REGULAR MEETING, APPROVAL OF THE MARCH 2022 CHECK REGISTER, APPROVAL OF THE AGIREPAIR INC. PURCHASE ORDER PROVABLE OF CONSIDERATION OF THE CONTRACT OR THE SNAKE RIVER MEP TO REPLACE CLASSROOM AND HEAT PUMPS AT THE WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
[NOISE] APPROVAL OF THE DATA RECOGNITION CORPORATION PURCHASE ORDER FOR LANGUAGE ASSESSMENTS, APPROVAL OF THE HANDOVER RESEARCH, PURCHASE ORDER APPROVAL OF BOARD MEMBER TRAVEL, AND APPROVAL OF CONSENT AGENDA.
>> SECONDED TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS LISTED BY TRUSTEE [INAUDIBLE].
IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? SEEING NONE, ALL THOSE FOR APPROVAL SAY AYE.
>> ALL THOSE OPPOSED? SUPERINTENDENT, WOULD YOU LIKE TO ANNOUNCE ANYTHING NOW THAT WE'VE APPROVED THE CONSENT AGENDA?
>> THANK YOU TRUSTEES AND CHAIR [INAUDIBLE].
WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT AGENDA, I'M PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE CULTURE PRINCIPAL FOR THE 22-23 SCHOOL YEAR WILL BE JAMES HOWEL.
[APPLAUSE] JAMES IS CURRENTLY AN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT JACKSON HOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND A FORMER SCIENCE TEACHER AND A COACH FOR, I BELIEVE, 20 YEARS IN THE DISTRICT.
REPLACING JAMES AT JACKSON HOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL WILL BE SETH BETHOS, AND SETH IS CURRENTLY A SCIENCE TEACHER AT JACKSON HOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND IS COMPLETED NUMEROUS INTERNSHIP HOURS WITH THE DISTRICT AND HE IS A GRADUATE OF OUR FIRST LEADERSHIP TCSD CLASS.
I'M VERY EXCITED TO WELCOME THEM AND LOOKING FORWARD TO THEIR LEADERSHIP.
BUT YOU MAY HAVE ALSO NOTICED THAT WE DON'T HAVE VERY MANY ADMINISTRATORS HERE THIS EVENING BECAUSE THEY ARE PARTICIPATING WITH THEIR LEADERSHIP TEAMS IN A PLC CONFERENCE.
WE HAVE A LOT OF ADMINISTRATORS OUT AND THAT [OVERLAPPING] WHAT'S THAT?
>> I THOUGHT THERE WAS A BONUS OFFER.
>> I GAVE THEM A PASS, THEY DON'T HAVE TO USE THEIR PTS.
>> [INAUDIBLE] FOR JAMES AND VERY EXCITED.
WE MOVE ON TO PUBLIC COMMENT AND THIS IS
[G. Communication]
PUBLIC COMMENT THAT ANYONE MAY HAVE THAT FOR ITEMS THAT WERE NOT ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA, JUST ANYTHING GENERAL THAT ANYONE HAD.AGAIN, PLEASE STICK TO THREE MINUTES AND DIRECT YOUR COMMENTS TO THE BOARD.
IS THERE ANY GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT TONIGHT FROM ANYONE HERE IN THE ROOM? SEEING NONE.
IS THERE ANYONE ON THE WEBEX THAT WISHES TO GIVE GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT? [OVERLAPPING] IF YOU ARE ON THE WEBEX AND YOU'D LIKE TO MAKE A PUBLIC COMMENT, LOOK FOR THE HAND AND RAISE IT, AND WE WILL CALL ON YOU.
I SENT YOU GUYS AN EMAIL EARLIER TODAY.
>> IT'S FROM THE BOARD, I WAS GOING TO BRING THAT UP.
>> OKAY, WE CAN DO THAT FROM THE BOARD.
YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT? THE TRUSTEE TESTIMONY.
[02:45:03]
I ALSO RECEIVED THE EMAIL, BARRY ALSO RECEIVED THE EMAIL FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES, BUT WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HOST ONE OF THE FINAL SESSION FOR PROFILE OF THE GRADUATE.
IS THERE SOMETHING WE AS A BOARD WANT TO ENTERTAIN? AS I LOOKED AT IT, I THOUGHT ABOUT IT AND I THOUGHT HOW NICELY IT REALLY FIT IN WITH OUR STRATEGIC PLAN, WHICH PROBABLY COULD BE USING A LITTLE BIT OF A REFRESH BY NOW.
KEITH, YOU SO PERFECTLY STARTED THE MEETING TODAY WITH OUR VISION STATEMENT.
THIS TO ME, THE PROFILE OF A GRADUATE WALKS RIGHT INTO THAT VISION STATEMENTS.
>> WHAT WOULD BE INVOLVED, WHAT DO WE HAVE TO DO?
>> WE COULD PROBABLY BRING PIZZA IN FOR YOU BECAUSE I KNOW YOU.
>> BUT I JUST THINK IT'D BE A REALLY GOOD OPPORTUNITY.
WE HAD ONE EARLIER ON, IF YOU REMEMBER.
>> I WILL SAY THE RESULTS THAT I HEARD FROM OUR EARLY ON SESSION OF THIS, BECAUSE WE WERE ONE OF THE FIRST DISTRICTS TO HOST ONE, IS THEY WERE QUITE SURPRISED BY WHERE WE WENT.
THEY WERE QUITE SURPRISED ON OUR FOCUS ON SOME OF THE SOFT SKILLS AND SOME OF THAT THING VERSUS JUST TEST SCORES AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.
I DON'T KNOW, I THINK IT'D BE A GREAT THING TO DO.
>> YEAH. IT'S LIKE THE SECOND OR THIRD WEEK OF MAY.
>> DOES EVERYONE HAVE TIME TO DO THIS? DOES ANYBODY WANTS US TO DO THIS? I KNOW WE'VE BEEN REALLY HAMMERING THE DOUGHNUTS [LAUGHTER].
I DON'T WANT TO IMPOSE TO THAT EVERYONE HAVE TIME TO DO THIS.
>> I THINK THAT IF WE ADD A PERSPECTIVE THAT THEY'RE NOT HEARING FROM OTHER PLACES IN THE STATE AND I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO DO IT.
>> YEAH. JULIE SAID THAT A FEW TIMES.
WE WERE SO DIFFERENT THAN OTHER DISTRICTS.
IT SOUNDS LIKE WE'RE IN AGREEMENT IF YOU COULD LET, THEY ASSUME IT'S JULIE.
>> IT'S ACTUALLY DR. CLARK WHO IS THE STATE BOARD PRESIDENT.
>> I SEE, HE WAS SENDING IT ON THEIR BEHALF.
>> IT'S THE WEEK OF MAY 16TH TO MAY 20TH.
>> ANY OTHER COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE BOARD? [INAUDIBLE]
>> YES. AGAIN, FROM THE PREVENTION COALITION, I JUST WANTED TO PUT OUT THERE THAT TOMORROW IS A DRUG TAKE-BACK DAY FROM 10:00-3:00 NEAR THE TOWN BUILDING PARKING LOT.
COMMUNITY MEMBERS CAN BRING ANY PHARMACEUTICALS OR DRUGS THAT THEY'D LIKE TO DISPOSE OFF AND THEY WILL BE DISPOSED OFF.
PREVENTION COALITION IS THE SPONSOR.
THEY DO THIS TWICE A YEAR, AND THEN IN THE FALL THEY TOOK BACK SOMETHING LIKE 32 PANELS OR 48 POUNDS OF DRUGS.
YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO GET RID OF DRUGS IN THE TRASH OR DOWN THE TOILET BECAUSE IT GETS IN OUR WATER SYSTEMS, SO THEY HAVE SOME TYPE OF INCINERATOR THAT THEY CAN GET RID OF IT. CONSIDER THAT.
>> ANYONE ELSE HAVING COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE BOARD? MY ONLY COMMUNICATIONS WAS I REALLY APPRECIATE EVERYBODY'S TIME IN THE LAST MONTH.
THAT WAS ASKING A LOT OF EVERYBODY.
WE HIT EVERY SCHOOL IN OUR DISTRICT.
WE DROVE UP THE MORAN WITH KELLY WITH THE AUTO REPLAY.
THEN THIS PAST WEEK, ON MONDAY, WE HAD A LUNCH AT THE HIGH SCHOOL.
AGAIN, TODAY WE HAD LUNCH AT THE HIGH SCHOOL.
WE'VE REALLY BEEN GETTING OUT THERE AND SEEING WHAT'S GOING ON IN OUR SCHOOLS AND DOING A LOT.
I REALLY APPRECIATE EVERYBODY TAKING THE TIME OUT OF THEIR BUSY SCHEDULES TO BE THERE, SO THANK YOU. I THINK IT WAS VERY EFFECTIVE.
I THINK WE'VE GOT A LOT OF POSITIVE FEEDBACK ABOUT THE DOUGHNUTS.
WE GOT A LOT OF POSITIVE FEEDBACKS, DEFINITELY ABOUT DELIVERING PIZZA WITH MORAN AND KELLY, AND I THINK I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE PEOPLE OF [INAUDIBLE] DOES SEEM TO BE VERY HAPPY THAT WE ALL SHOWED UP FOR THE PLAY.
[02:50:05]
I THINK THE LAST TWO MONDAY AND TODAY WE'RE VERY EFFECTIVE.ON MONDAY, WE HAD COMMISSIONER BARRY, WE HAD COUNSELMAN ROOKS AND TODAY WE HAD COUNCIL INSTRUCTOR, AND THEN TODAY WE HAD COUNCILMAN JORGENSEN AND MAYOR MARTIN LEVINSON, AND WE GAVE THEM TOURS OF THE HIGH SCHOOL.
WE MADE SURE THEY STOOD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HALLWAY WHEN THE BELL RINGS, THEY COULD SEE HOW JUMBLED UP THAT GETS.
WE HAD LUNCH IN THE CAFETERIA AND WALKED HIM THROUGH ALL THE DIFFERENT CLASSROOMS AND SHOWED THEM WHAT WE'RE INTENDING TO DO WITH THE BRONCHUS ACHIEVEMENT CENTER.
I THINK THAT WAS VERY EFFECTIVE.
WE'RE MEETING AGAIN ON MONDAY.
I THINK MR. LUCA WILL BE THERE.
>> REPRESENTING OF HIM WAS COMING ON MONDAY.
HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET EVERYBODY.
HOPEFULLY, BY THE END, WE'VE HAD ALL FIVE COMMISSIONERS AND ALL FIVE COUNSEL PEOPLE AND OUR APPLICATION HAS BEEN SUBMITTED.
SOMETIME IN MAY, THEY'LL VOTE WHAT THEY'LL PUT ON THEN SPAT BALLOT, SO HOPEFULLY, WE GET ON THERE.
>> I'M THINKING THE FIRST MONDAY IN MAY, BUT I'M NOT QUITE SURE. I THINK THAT'S RIGHT.
>> DO THEY TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THAT?
>> YEAH. THEY WILL HAVE A LONG MEETING, I'M SURE.
I THINK TRUSTEES ARE GOING TO LEAVE THAT FOR US.
>> YEAH, WE WILL DO THAT MEETING.
>> I'M NOT MASTER OF CEREMONY.
>> OKAY. WE WILL FIND SOMEONE. LET'S SEE WHAT ELSE DO WE HAVE TO GO OVER, SOMETHING ELSE.
>> JUST GO ON WHAT YOU WOULD CERTAINLY LIKE TO.[OVERLAPPING].
>> THAT WOULD BE GREAT IF THEY COME AND DO THAT.
>> WE SHOULD COME TO KNOW ONE-ON-ONE NOW.
>> THE OTHER THING WAS, IF YOU LOOKED IN THE PAPER TODAY, CHARLOTTE DID AN AMAZING JOB WITH A FULL-PAGE AD.
EXPLAINING THE PROBLEM AT THE HIGH SCHOOL AND WHAT ACTION PEOPLE COULD TAKE TO ASSIST US BY CONTACTING THE CURRENT COMMISSIONERS AND CITY COUNCIL.
IT HAS THE DIAGRAM OF BRONCHUS ACHIEVEMENT CENTER AND IT HAS THE VISUAL OF IT.
WE'RE GETTING OUR MESSAGE OUT THERE AS WELL AS WE CAN.
ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY COMMUNICATION FROM THE BOARD? ANYONE HAVE ANY DISCUSSION AS TO FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS WE COVERED? THAT ONE, WE'RE GOING TO HOST THAT MEETING.
>> FOR FUTURE FINANCIAL LITERACY WOULD LIKE TO HAVE AN EXPLANATION OF WHAT WE'RE DOING AND HOW WE CAN EXPAND ON IT.
THAT'S BECOMING MORE AND MORE APPARENT THAT CHILDREN ACROSS THE NATION ARE BEING FINANCIAL LITERATE WHEN THEY GRADUATE AND IT'S SUCH AN IMPORTANT FUNCTION.
>> KAREN IS COMING BACK TO US IN AUGUST, IS THAT SOMETHING POTENTIAL WILL BE DUE IN JUNE OR JULY?
>> CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG PROBABLY WOULD DO JULY BECAUSE THE PRINCIPALS AREN'T ON DUTY.
>> WE MAY TRY TO DO THAT IN JUNE.
>> WHAT ELSE DID YOU WANT WITH THAT, JUST WHAT CLASSES WE'RE OFFERING?
>> JUST EXPLAIN, THAT CHAPTER WE'VE DISCUSSED.
>> OKAY. REVIEW OF MEETING? A LITTLE LONGER THAN I WAS HOPING, BUT WE'RE GETTING USED TO THAT.[OVERLAPPING] [LAUGHTER].
>> THIS IS ONE OF OUR MAJOR TENETS.
>> I WOULD ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADJOURN.
>> I MOVE IN A SECOND TO ADJOURN ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY, AYE.
>> MEETING ADJOURNED.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.