[0:02] All right, we have been in a classroom all day, so I can't.

[0:07] Yeah, that worked. What's the house? Yeah, we've been in a classroom all day.

[0:10] It's all cooped up.

[0:13] It's all cooped up.

[0:14] It's all cooped up.

[0:15] All right.

[0:17] Just a little bit.

[0:18] Okay.

[0:19] I think it's a little bit shorter.

[0:24] Perfect.

[0:26] Okay, everybody, welcome.

[0:28] and really we're happy to welcome our new board members and give us another hour and you'll

[0:40] be official and also worn in and everything but work meetings are nice because no official

[0:49] decisions are made during work meetings but it gives us a time to chat and to ask questions

[0:56] and to go over just different procedures that are important for the board. So we've kind

[1:02] of gone over what we think will be helpful tonight, but cross-off a graduation requirements

[1:09] on that main agenda, because that's actually on the agenda agenda for our regular meeting.

[1:17] So, we have an offer because it's on work meeting and it wasn't. So, cross that off the work

[1:24] and then look at this little agenda right here that's half-page.

[1:41] Graduation requirement is on there as well.

[1:45] That's not the end.

[1:46] We're going to support Adam and me.

[1:47] Yeah.

[1:48] All the little things.

[1:50] And I mean, just while we're doing that, just so that you know, if we can't, we can't

[1:58] make decisions on anything that is not on the agenda.

[2:03] Like if we wanted to, let's say there was a discussion that we wanted to add and somebody brought

[2:10] that out at the beginning of our meeting,

[2:12] we can vote on that for a board of the board and add it

[2:15] to the agenda then, but nothing, nothing that can be acted

[2:21] on that isn't over, I don't know, that's just a agenda.

[2:26] So, I'm going to turn the time over to Scott

[2:28] to go over that conflict of interest disclosure.

[2:33] Hey, see, she's out of the coffin,

[2:35] because I don't have a copy of this.

[2:39] Oh, I'm just cutting her slides.

[2:42] Mm-hmm.

[2:42] Oh, sorry.

[2:50] So this is the formula that we come up with, this is a new policy we have to have one of these

[2:55] on our website for each one of the consequences forms.

[3:00] The state legislature doesn't even go online and read theirs in any other time, and this is now a requirement for boards.

[3:06] So I've gone through the code and the things that are going to be applicable for each of the board members

[3:12] are, then we've tried into the having pages

[3:16] and pages of different things to get along one page.

[3:19] So your employer, your spouse's employer,

[3:24] any entity that you receive more than $5,000

[3:26] in compensation from.

[3:29] And then the last one would be, if there's an entity

[3:31] that you remember the Board of Directors on,

[3:35] whether a page or unpaid, that may have a conflict

[3:39] with the school district.

[3:40] Then you just want to list those things, you know, so just

[3:44] just rename my employees.

[3:45] Yeah, so you just put your employer and then

[3:47] under nature's involved in employer and then your spouse's employer and

[3:52] nature's spouse's employer.

[3:55] Those are going to cover most of it.

[3:58] Are you saying everybody filled us out?

[3:59] Or if you feel like you have a conflict of interest?

[4:01] Everyone needs to fill one of these out.

[4:03] If you have no conflict of interest, you know, if you're not employed,

[4:07] there's bounces in the plate, you don't have anything then you still need to fill out one and sign it.

[4:13] And then we're required to get those posts in on the website.

[4:17] It does just be down at the bottom and that required notices.

[4:20] It'll be a place there where...

[4:22] So do you have sign in there?

[4:25] That's a sign that's in there.

[4:26] That was quick.

[4:30] We will be...

[4:31] And these are all these in the year.

[4:33] I'll let those before the end of the night.

[4:35] Yeah, I'm still in there.

[4:36] Good, right.

[4:43] Okay, so, and Andrew's message, she asked if we could talk a little bit about the election of officers before we actually get it.

[5:00] And that's why I said, hey, you guys that have just been to your new board member training, bring these books and I will give you some pictures.

[5:09] members, where that information is, if you go to

[5:23] page 58,

[5:27] it's called the New Team Reorganizing

[5:31] the School Board Chapter 10, and it's on page 58,

[5:41] at the bottom of that first paragraph,

[5:45] school board officers are the president and the vice president, so those are the two officers

[5:51] that we have who are elected to two-year turns. These officers are elected at the first

[5:56] local school board meeting in January following a regular school board election. So,

[6:01] that is today,

[6:05] a President Pro-Tem shares the organizational and organizational meeting,

[6:11] and that can be a means because I've been sharing the meetings. So, we won't have to change

[6:20] So the way it works is nominations, so I'll just say we're out open now for nominations for school board president and accept nominations.

[6:35] If you look at that last paragraph, it says nominations need not be seconded, but maybe tissue support for the candidates.

[6:42] So, if you can nominate someone, a canner doesn't have to have a second either way.

[6:51] Then, the next thing is that it's got little responsibility.

[6:57] If only one member is nominated, the business administrator is instructed to cast a unanimous dollar for that member,

[7:05] is then declared elected. So, if there's not more than one nomination, then Scott says nothing

[7:13] in this ballot. Okay, then if two or more are nominated, in either of those elections,

[7:23] it has to be an open vote. So, we'll just say, you know, all in favor of,

[7:30] I think to make it easiest, we'll do a raise hand, a raise hand for that vote because I'll make it easy for Janet accounts.

[7:37] Like if there was two, you'd say, all of them. All of them have a word. All of them have a word. This person, the man, both. Then you would vote for them, all in favor of this person.

[7:47] And then you'd have, I have to say about elections, you know, this, it's, we're all, we're all here and we're all working together.

[7:57] So, it's a time of, you know, our feelings ever, you know, whatever, whatever way it goes

[8:09] and we elect the people that we feel have the time and the know-how and the position.

[8:20] I'm a president.

[8:21] I'm a president.

[8:21] I'm a president more than this term.

[8:24] I'm a president.

[8:27] My first term as president and vice president was Ron.

[8:39] The newly elected president then takes over the duties of the chair and the board proceeds

[8:44] to elect a vice president in the same manner.

[8:47] So does that make sense and are there any more questions about those board elections?

[8:51] And

[8:56] there's also another page that I thought you guys might want to mark.

[9:04] That's an interesting chapter to read.

[9:06] Chapter 10 starts on 58 if you want to highlight that.

[9:10] And then another place is if actually the appendix E and it says,

[9:24] They can the board meeting work is every members job and I want to just read the page.

[9:30] And I'm going to use it.

[9:32] And I'm going to use it.

[9:34] And

[9:40] there's a synapse in here that a couple of synapse those that I've underlined.

[9:46] I'm not going to sit and read these paragraphs too, but just a highlight.

[9:54] Our decisions, you know, our board decisions and whether we agree with that decision or not.

[10:03] a creative emotion passes them. That becomes a board decision that we support and the

[10:11] sentence I'm reading is in the middle of the first paragraph and this is talking about

[10:20] successful boards and this one says not the boards that seem to be able to weather and

[10:24] in crisis. They display little hesitancy or awkwardness and dealing with the most controversial issues

[10:31] and public meetings. They respond to issues as a team and emerge with solutions that leave

[10:36] individual members on friendly terms with one another, no matter what the issue the board

[10:42] survives and tap. And then, in the middle of the page, the difference, be to when a successful

[10:48] and non-successful board, on a successful board, each member feels responsible for productive meetings.

[10:55] the responsibility is not left entirely to the board presidents, yes, every member's responsibility to make sure that we have successful meetings.

[11:10] And so just with that little bit of introduction and clarification on those elections, does everybody feel comfortable but we're good to go for tonight and tonight's meeting.

[11:21] Okay, so this one's a reason hand, but other Wilts are like

[11:27] Yeah, versus me and yes versus no

[11:33] That was what meeting the other side when the things one in the same way they said I mean you go five minutes

[11:39] Well, I said I now I think yes, it doesn't matter. Hit doesn't matter. Okay, okay

[11:45] That doesn't really matter

[11:47] If we have a preference is the board just tell me

[11:53] All in favor say, yes, that's easy to, you know, all in favor say, yes, that's easy to, you know, all in favor say, yes, yes, it's just one of those that has come from our books rules, I think, but that's, but it doesn't necessarily, yes, if I, I mean, technically we could all say cacao, it just has to be a read upon, that's the symbol.

[12:16] So tonight we'll be voting on the leadership and then the only other one was the threshold, right?

[12:24] So that's a good form of practice.

[12:26] Those are our two votes for tonight.

[12:27] Okay, since that's an action item, can I ask?

[12:31] I have a question about stress codes since I wasn't on the discussion part of it.

[12:37] Like, we're here to that.

[12:38] When can I ask?

[12:40] Because it's an action item.

[12:41] But this is the way it goes.

[12:44] On those action items, I'll be saying, or the president will be saying.

[12:51] The president will be saying, it is the superintendent's recommendation that we approve the dress code.

[12:58] And say the policy number and all that.

[13:00] That's the same.

[13:01] Exactly.

[13:02] Repeat it back and then there has to be a second on those manuals.

[13:07] You have to make a motion first.

[13:10] And isn't it like a motion differences, right?

[13:11] Like if a motion is made that we're deciding and it doesn't...

[13:14] Or just opening the discussion first for kind of motion.

[13:17] And that's confusing part for me.

[13:20] And like if there's any changes you have to make a motion to amend it.

[13:23] Right.

[13:24] But it's just a very accurate question.

[13:26] Like, OK.

[13:27] So if you want to know the greatest seconds,

[13:28] something says a second and then seconds and then when you ask it,

[13:32] and then it says the question,

[13:34] the question is how?

[13:34] Yeah, and then the present will say a motion is now open for our discussion.

[13:40] questions, get clarifications, that's being discussed. And then when the discussion is over with,

[13:47] and all of this will talk a little bit more when we talk about Robert's rules. Okay, so

[13:52] we're going to, if that answered your question and you're going to move on and then we'll hit

[13:56] some more of Robert's rules. Well let me say also that nothing ever gets decided on until we have

[14:02] two months to look at it. So we've already looked at this one in last month's meeting,

[14:06] discussed it, figured out questions, made sure there were no objections, and then when it comes back, then it's when we go on it.

[14:14] So you're going to talk about the same address, but yeah, but there's always a committee or I didn't hear the discussion, okay.

[14:22] But you can have the clarification for that, and if it's something you really don't, you really don't agree with,

[14:29] then you always have the opportunity to know on that.

[14:34] That's, that's what we all do for every, you know, for every decision that we make, and sometimes we do.

[14:42] Well, I was certain for the last ones.

[14:43] I heard like what you talked about, but a lot of times you're saying like, okay, in the packet this,

[14:48] and I don't know what it was.

[14:50] Yeah, I can't read a packet in front of you.

[14:51] Now I can see it in front of me.

[14:53] I don't know what it is.

[14:54] An overtime, because you all sit on different committees,

[14:58] is the fact that if you see that,

[15:00] Come out and you know, you'll get to know when we meet each month and you'll get to know that we're talking about this for the last four months.

[15:08] Then as you get up dates from the superintendent on the week after the committee meets in that, then if you have questions,

[15:15] when we've done as we call each other, we've talked about it. If we have questions and then by the time we come to this meeting,

[15:22] We all communicated between each other and each other.

[15:25] So you're new, and you just want to always, always know that you just call and ask and we're always.

[15:36] No, I'm a policy.

[15:38] What's that?

[15:38] I say, you can talk to me any time about policy.

[15:43] To inform me.

[15:43] Input suggestions, commissions.

[15:46] Let's get it.

[15:47] All that stuff.

[15:47] Questions and we talk about that.

[15:48] You don't have to wait for this.

[15:50] we can start after our training in December and then conference is like, what can we talk

[15:56] about amongst each other without it?

[15:59] All those are not a core.

[16:03] You have like questions just like that, like we're going to be voting on this.

[16:07] I have a question that can go back to the superintendents.

[16:12] So, I'd like to call each and every committee member, yeah, whoever attends that thing or that's on that committee.

[16:17] Let's get into it.

[16:20] So, actually, I'm going to leave Scott some time for Finance Training.

[16:28] But let's just go right in and talk a little bit about Parliamentary procedure and Robert Trolls.

[16:35] And I will tell you that we were not super strict, but we want our meetings to be professional,

[16:47] and organized, and robust rules is the platform for doing that.

[16:57] And we want more training on Robert's rules.

[17:00] there are some, there's a lady that went to, was that the USBA conference years ago that

[17:07] does this dinosaur training, all of the motions and everything and it's actually pretty

[17:14] good training but you can do it online and I've, I've taken her trainings and if that's

[17:21] something that you want to do, that's something that you can turn in as a board expanse

[17:27] and have the district pay for that. I also bought this for a reference to it and I'm

[17:35] going to see if the superintendent just leaves this here somewhere. You can see that I just

[17:42] put a little bit of tabs, a few tabs in it on the things that pertain to us like main motions

[17:48] and when do we recess and most of the things that most of the things that we have questions

[17:59] on end up being of somebody has made motion and wants one to change it.

[18:06] I think it's changed but that's a mundane emotion and let me just go over the things in

[18:14] handbook about our motions. When you're making a motion, if you're following Robert's rules,

[18:25] you say, I move that. Whatever I move that, we adopt policy so and so, and then

[18:35] state the policy and state it just like it is. Okay, so this is very helpful to you if you

[18:42] Look at the agenda,

[18:47] and you can follow that right.

[18:51] We're going to throw a little rock in my throat.

[18:53] You can follow that right along and look at our action items on our agenda for tonight.

[19:05] I will say, or the President will say, it is the recommendation of the superintendent

[19:11] and that the board approved the board's schedule assignments, and then one of you, and

[19:20] typically the board chair doesn't, I could make a motion, I could do a second.

[19:29] It's not forbidden, but typically the chair is just directing and keeping the order and making sure.

[19:39] In fact, let me see you say that and the way of us would need to go.

[19:45] I moved that.

[19:46] I moved that.

[19:47] I moved that.

[19:49] The board approved the board's schedule assignments.

[19:52] I moved that.

[19:54] The board approved the dress code policy.

[19:56] And if the policy number is in there, then you say that.

[20:00] Then you say that on policy number.

[20:01] So action item.

[20:05] The board schedule assignment.

[20:07] That would be this, right?

[20:13] It is, what's in your hand, but the hand book has been updated, and it has a page that has

[20:24] that information on it, but it has everything else on it as well.

[20:29] So in your hand book, what we find it, so the superintendent has given all of us a brand new

[20:38] updated handbook, then I suggest that when you have time,

[20:43] look around.

[20:43] So on page 15, that's what we're approving.

[20:47] Those are, those committee assignments.

[20:51] That's it.

[20:52] We talked about previously.

[20:57] And those are the campus visits,

[20:59] the schools that you visit,

[21:01] on what month, and is there a organizing date?

[21:06] Okay, am I allowed to ask a question now?

[21:10] This is that only, meaning it, okay, just going up on this.

[21:15] So this would be my first school visit, would be more an element too.

[21:20] Okay, and then I'm curriculum, wellness and card.

[21:23] Well, hey, I'm sorry.

[21:25] Those were a school visit for this number.

[21:28] So you actually don't have one.

[21:29] Your next, you'll look at your next one.

[21:32] That was January because this was January we already did those.

[21:36] Oh, you're fine. Okay, so.

[21:39] So everywhere this is your visit will be mountain-green elements.

[21:43] For this, there's a lot of reporting on these.

[21:46] So the committee's stay all year.

[21:48] I'm on this.

[21:49] And then I'm supposed to go to one community council at the...

[21:56] This is, I guess, what I was confused about.

[21:58] A ten-one community council meeting this year.

[22:00] Like every month, they're one a year.

[22:02] Totally one.

[22:04] You can go to a village.

[22:05] You can go to a village.

[22:06] You can go to a village.

[22:06] So does this month go to visit Mountain Green Elementary

[22:09] and then I go to Morgan Elementary's community council?

[22:14] At one point during the year, you need to hit this one.

[22:17] That doesn't have to be this month.

[22:18] This is your this month assignment.

[22:19] And every month, you'll just be reminded,

[22:21] hey, don't forget this.

[22:23] If you wanted to go this month.

[22:25] If you want it, but that will keep popping up every month.

[22:28] It won't ever change.

[22:28] That's so hard.

[22:30] This is my sign school for the year. Okay, that's what I was like, wait, wait a minute. Go visit this school, this elementary and then this, okay, that's it. So one,

[22:44] Okay, any other questions from either one of you while we're talking committees or

[22:53] I've got a lot of committees on the school like visits, but community council is the one I was confused about.

[22:58] Kind of a wait a second, so that's okay.

[23:00] Yeah, and it's like I said, you can visit as many times as you want to, and you can visit different schools in the middle of the council.

[23:08] If you want to, but we're just trying to make sure that each of us hit one year.

[23:13] So you're assigned community council is not being able to go to school.

[23:18] Yeah, but these are new for this year for me, too. It was not asked that you're in it. These are our new 2025

[23:23] Next month, it's not going to like change any like, oh, no, okay. No, that one won't change.

[23:30] Community council visits for the year. Are they all ready to sit down?

[23:34] I'll make sure it's ready for it. Is that where you go with those? Go with the handbook.

[23:40] Oh, it's different. We just cut my mind. We need all that generous.

[23:45] That's okay.

[23:46] So the community council visits just go with go with the board handbook and we'll adjust.

[23:52] And then I'll make sure that this is good.

[23:54] Okay.

[23:54] Thank you.

[23:57] That's CC.

[23:59] One meeting annually.

[24:03] Yeah, I just passed him off of my name on.

[24:05] He's trying to be a mother in elementary.

[24:07] It is bigger.

[24:08] No, it ever says.

[24:09] I'll just...

[24:10] I don't know.

[24:14] No need to print the whole book.

[24:18] You don't know what it was to be.

[24:20] We're going to just go ahead to do it.

[24:22] Right out.

[24:24] If they get for a ride, they go.

[24:28] We have to take a plan.

[24:31] Sorry about that.

[24:33] Thank you very much.

[24:34] What does this mean?

[24:35] Chandni, where are you, Mandy?

[24:38] Do you know?

[24:44] I just told her I hope that doesn't mean it's my turn to say to prayer.

[24:47] No, but it's Kelly.

[24:50] You can deliver if you want.

[24:51] You can deliver if you want.

[24:55] Oh you guys are so hot, but it's always sunny when you get late and I'm locked down as always.

[25:01] I hope you can see some kind of thing where you take care of the baby.

[25:07] What was one of the players was Martin?

[25:11] Supporting.

[25:14] Supporting?

[25:14] He didn't stack him up either.

[25:15] When I know someone about him, first of all, he got up and put on.

[25:19] What did the first part was?

[25:21] We did the third part.

[25:21] We did another part.

[25:24] Not like that.

[25:25] It was scary.

[25:29] So we have, we haven't got a few little corrections.

[25:32] But we're all different, right?

[25:33] So, what is this January, Mandy February?

[25:36] Angie, I just...

[25:36] Can we know what the date may be?

[25:38] It doesn't mean anything, correct?

[25:40] The couple just needs to bear with a principle?

[25:42] Is your attempts to bring the Snapchat?

[25:45] This is not entirely what your focus is?

[25:47] I don't know.

[25:48] I think you can go check out take a test.

[25:51] Take the test, take it to the top of your head.

[25:51] Like in the past, I told you that...

[25:54] You do every year to type the statement.

[25:57] I'm just going to score.

[25:59] But they have a power out there as you say

[26:02] Because I don't even know what's really important in this show.

[26:05] So I think it's a good question.

[26:08] I'm not everything is around.

[26:11] So let's finish.

[26:13] We'll show you the six things.

[26:14] We're doing more meaning later.

[26:16] So usually there's time.

[26:17] That's true.

[26:18] So you'll have time.

[26:20] Next gender.

[26:24] So after that motion and that second, then there's the discussion.

[26:29] And the rule there is that one person does not get two opportunities to speak until everyone that wants to speak to that motion has had a turn.

[26:40] So, I'm going to make a suggestion here, but I want everybody to speak back.

[26:47] I think just, I mean we're all good friends, and we're all first name basis friends, and I think that's amazing and that's wonderful in this way it should be.

[26:57] For our meetings, I'm going to suggest that we use titles just to remain professionalism.

[27:05] So it'll be Board Member Priests, Superintendent Jensen.

[27:10] I can remember one last name.

[27:13] Board Member Pro.

[27:15] Board Member Sees.

[27:16] I got it.

[27:19] Board Member.

[27:20] Board Member.

[27:21] And just for the very profession.

[27:23] And just for the sake of order when

[27:26] When I say, and the motion is now open for discussion about husbands, open for discussion.

[27:33] Just a little raise of your hand, and then it's like board member Brooks, and then you'll have a chance to say everything you want to say.

[27:43] And we'll just go that way.

[27:46] Thank you so much.

[27:48] You don't want to be recorded as we call you aunt.

[27:54] That's way too young to be around.

[27:58] Yeah.

[27:58] I got some good news about this.

[28:03] Okay.

[28:05] So.

[28:05] This is what it is.

[28:08] With that, then after the motion has been discussed, the president calls for the vote.

[28:16] And if the president says, I'll call for the question, that means the vote, the voter, the question, the same thing.

[28:25] Okay, and then it's all in favor.

[28:28] Let's make a decision.

[28:29] What would you like to say?

[28:31] Say yes and no or yay and nay, because it doesn't matter.

[28:36] Yes means yay and no means nay and I like the simplicity of yes and no.

[28:48] I'll try to remember this one, so I'd like to say aye.

[28:53] Aye.

[28:54] Aye.

[28:55] Aye.

[28:56] Aye.

[28:59] We will respond to whatever you call for.

[29:03] You said we had to make sure we were awake.

[29:06] And.

[29:06] because in cog you're going to go yay and nay or high, so then you have to remember when you come here.

[29:14] Well, sure we keep it the same.

[29:16] It doesn't matter.

[29:17] We can, as you asked.

[29:19] Whatever your most comfortable is, because you're calling for the motion.

[29:22] I don't get matters.

[29:23] You know, yeah.

[29:24] Being on the other side, watching.

[29:25] I thought, just wait, is there a certain kind of mind.

[29:27] It's supposed to be that simple.

[29:29] It's supposed to be that valid amount.

[29:30] Lots of the rules.

[29:32] You're good.

[29:32] Well, not in that giant book, but we'll have it be a surprise.

[29:36] This is not tonight.

[29:37] We'll have it be a surprise.

[29:38] We'll have it be a surprise.

[29:46] And lastly, it's appropriate to ask questions about specific budget expenditures on the consent agenda

[29:53] new hires, but quite honestly, questions like that are best.

[30:00] Ask beforehand, because we have to be really careful about talking about anyone, about people's salaries, and you can get in the hot water.

[30:13] So when and out, don't. Yes, she's dealing with personnel should be done in closed session to respect the rights and privacy of all individuals.

[30:22] And I'm not going to go over tonight because you have to go through that training on when we can hold a close.

[30:29] meeting and it's in our handbook too, but a close meeting can only be held for very specific

[30:36] reasons. Otherwise our meetings are like whoever you are someone else, after we do the

[30:45] board leadership agenda elections, you'll just say, I mean I've been here before I watched it,

[30:49] but I guess I just didn't really have this format and you'll just say, someone will say I make a motion

[30:54] to approve the consent agenda, something like that.

[30:59] Yep, it's just like it follows you on that agenda.

[31:03] I say it just exactly right now.

[31:05] And a point to the closed meeting is usually a month in advance when we know that these

[31:10] kind of subjects are coming up, we know these events that we're going to have it.

[31:15] We pretty well know before we come into that school board meeting that that is the most

[31:19] and is going to be made because we know the subject we're talking about, we've had the

[31:23] information about what we need to discuss and private for the district. So it isn't like we

[31:28] come in here and all of a sudden it's a fire alarm and we got to run in the back room

[31:33] because it is so sensitive and most of the things we talk about are things that come to the

[31:39] board and to add to what you're telling the same, a closed meeting has to be like when we

[31:47] And we vote on emotion and majority of roles, okay?

[31:51] But if we vote to go into closed session, it has to be a two-thirds for a closed session.

[32:07] What are the questions, do you guys have just, oh, the other thing that I was going to bring

[32:12] out, then I'm going to turn the time over to Scott, and I want him to have a full 20 minutes

[32:16] and we want to have a little break.

[32:19] The other thing I was going to bring up is all make mistakes, yes, and we all will, and we just, you know, help each other, but if you notice that I'm calling for a vote and we haven't had the motion yet or something like that, just say, and it's called point of order, if something's a miss, something's not in order, say point of order, and that's when we stop.

[32:48] And the chair makes a decision on whatever that point of order is, even if that were somebody,

[33:01] if somebody started to talk about somebody else and things that were totally inappropriate,

[33:07] then somebody would say point of order, that's out of order.

[33:11] And then the chair makes a rule on that, and if the chair doesn't make a rule on that,

[33:15] or feels like they need the whole board to them,

[33:18] then they can have the board to rule on now.

[33:20] But I'll tell you real quick, Lisa,

[33:22] we are going to vote on a president who becomes the chair tonight.

[33:27] Here's a little cheat sheet.

[33:29] This is the job of that person.

[33:31] To run fair efficient democratic meetings,

[33:34] control the meeting process as servant,

[33:36] not boss, control who speaks by recognizing members.

[33:41] Discussion is not a conversation going to allow anyone

[33:43] to speak a second time until I'll wish of spoken.

[33:47] Health everyone's focus on the meeting's purpose

[33:49] by keeping the discussion germane or relevant.

[33:53] Model an insist on courtesy and respect,

[33:55] teach members to use point of order,

[33:57] which we just talked about.

[34:00] And if the chair happened to make a decision on the point of order

[34:04] that you didn't agree with, you can appeal to that.

[34:08] Listen to each person speaking is that there

[34:10] were no one else in the room,

[34:11] keep an emotional connection with our members when in doubt asks the group, the group is the

[34:16] final authority and that's really the way it is. Each of us individually have zero power.

[34:25] Our power is as a board and I mean we have influence and but our decisions are board decisions.

[34:36] So any other questions, and then I'm going to turn the comment.

[34:39] There's a question about making questions.

[34:42] Is it like school?

[34:43] We have to like wait to be called on.

[34:44] I'm going to wait.

[34:45] I mean, is there a certain, well, that's why I said,

[34:49] if just, when it's, when it's come to, when it's come to the discussion

[34:53] part of emotion, if you have something you want to say,

[34:55] or ask a question, just put a hand up and I'll say,

[35:01] Board member.

[35:02] Like school.

[35:02] Board member.

[35:04] And you know, the other reason I've decided that they've, that's a big part of Robert's rules and when you go, if you go down to the legislature, you'll see in their meetings that they actually do this very.

[35:18] And it, it also for the recorded version, lets people know who's speaking.

[35:28] And so, there's a method to that, and we, yeah, we're going to slip and call each other

[35:37] by me once and a while and it's all okay.

[35:40] But I just think for our board members and our board meetings and to try to keep that

[35:47] professionalism will use those professional titles.

[35:52] Okay, Scott.

[35:54] Yeah, one more thing to guess.

[35:58] Before in the future, when we have difficult things, when a board member is acknowledged by the president, the board member is addressing the president.

[36:06] And back and forth.

[36:06] And so, if you and another board member disagree on a topic, you're addressing arguments to the board president, not to each other.

[36:16] And that's particularly when we get into things that we have passions, strong feelings about

[36:21] that's a really helpful tool.

[36:24] But if you know it, if me and NG have a strong difference in opinion and we start engaging back

[36:29] and forth, then it gets heated, right?

[36:30] But if it's, I make my point to the president, you make your point to the president, then it keeps the,

[36:37] keeps the emotions down a little bit, because sometimes board has to tackle

[36:41] different whole things, and that's okay.

[36:43] That's a very good point.

[36:46] And, yeah, very good point, and yeah,

[36:52] take it away.

[36:53] Teach us.

[36:54] No, for the same thing.

[36:56] Find out.

[36:58] The shortcut, please go.

[37:00] This is my tablet one, yeah.

[37:01] How do you know that so the,

[37:04] I don't know if I agree with you, I don't know if you know.

[37:06] Can't be so, it's not, that's very, you know, it's us.

[37:10] Yeah, but what you're eating now, like I said it out,

[37:13] you're just a few minutes before you start.

[37:14] that we want to follow on. So I'm closing this TV is pretty,

[37:22] I have about three hours worth of finance

[37:26] to be finished. So excited that everyone is going to want to do things. So we're just going to

[37:30] When you have the slides and I would encourage you, if you have specific questions, if you want to get with me individually or if you really are interested in the law of comment, they're one on one slide. Presentation, we can do that.

[37:44] Start out with a couple of vocabulary things, and I'll go through this really quickly and I'll end you to raise your hand at questions.

[37:51] WPUs, that's the way that people unit. That's the primary way that we're funded by the legislature and it's an approximation for attendance or enrollment.

[38:04] Add on WPUs, we get additional money for special populations such as CPE, Average, or Spad.

[38:12] So, in addition to the roughly $4400 that we get for each student enrolled in the district,

[38:18] we get additional dollars for those special programs.

[38:22] Cola, that's the acronym for Casa Litting Allowance when we get into looking at salary

[38:28] negotiations, committee, all of our employees are on salary schedules, and so there's

[38:34] steps that they get just as seniority happens, and so that's separate from the Casa

[38:39] Litting.

[38:40] So I can get a little, especially if you're coming from the private sector where you have,

[38:45] you know, your salary this year, the next year, if you just stay another year, you get

[38:49] a step.

[38:50] If you did additional education, you can get a laying, you know, a shift over on that schedule,

[38:55] then a cola or a cost of living applies across the board to everyone.

[38:59] So, a cola is sometimes used synonymous with a raise that is just one component of the overall raise.

[39:07] TNT, trees and taxation, that's a process we go through for generating additional local tax revenue.

[39:13] And it's dynamite.

[39:14] And it's a great idea.

[39:17] Yeah, I'm sorry.

[39:19] Yeah, we got a thing, so.

[39:22] Yes, P, education, support professionals, previously known as classified.

[39:27] These are custodians, lunch workers, but I say it's exactly what we have.

[39:31] We have the certified salaries and the ESP.

[39:34] That's one I need to remember because that's changed.

[39:37] We've always called them certified.

[39:39] And then equalization, also known as board local voted guarantee, this is a program that was designed to level up playing till between rich and four districts.

[39:51] And we've always been a recipient of that equalization coming in.

[39:55] With the new growth is happening in the community.

[39:58] This is probably our last year of receiving those payments.

[40:02] So that'll be a big topic because we get into the budget cycle too.

[40:05] is we were getting as much as 1.6 million that we were receiving in property tax subsidies

[40:11] coming from these more wealthy counties, and now as our property value is to go up,

[40:16] that builds a way. So, by the way, you know, those who've done new growth generates new

[40:20] money too. So, that's just kind of like coming off of welfare and going to work. That first

[40:26] month, you're not really an heir. You're just getting the same dollars but you have to go to work

[40:33] That's the transition that we will be in.

[40:37] There are six reports that I highlight in this thing here that reports that it would be helpful to be familiar with.

[40:43] And I'm going to go through them not in this order, but our audited financial report.

[40:47] Those are on our website.

[40:49] There may be 60 or 70 pages long and have all of the details.

[40:54] If you want the official story on financials, there's a page 15 here that I've included in here that is kind of the core one that tells you what

[41:02] everything. And then we'll go through each of these others, but I want to jump ahead to the next

[41:09] whole, actually we'll start at the bottom and work back. So if you want, if you're following

[41:12] along, go down to the consensus agenda,

[41:18] which is like 12, you'll get two packets each month from

[41:25] Janet when she sends it out. One is the appendix and it has all the things we're going to be

[41:32] and it has all of the exciting materials in it,

[41:35] like the budget reports and the bank records,

[41:36] so we just want it.

[41:38] We really get it.

[41:39] But these are items.

[41:40] I don't know what I'm going to do with this.

[41:43] Yeah, so that's what I want to talk about first with this.

[41:45] When you get that consent agenda,

[41:46] that that's something you really own your own time.

[41:49] And then as you've seen out in our board meetings,

[41:52] at the very beginning, we just approved those

[41:55] that whole consent agenda.

[41:56] So we're approving the minutes from the prior month,

[41:59] and he's staffing changes,

[42:00] the monthly budget report, the check registers make becomes the principal reports.

[42:04] All of those items are in that consent agenda, so it would be appropriate if you have specific

[42:10] questions either before board meeting, ideally before board meeting, or at the time of the

[42:15] consent agenda to ask and say, you know, if there was a large payment to X, what was that for,

[42:22] or, you know, if you have other specific questions about it, definitely reach out to me if you

[42:28] want some guidance on looking through there.

[42:31] There's a lot of detail.

[42:32] Everything you'll check that we issue is on that report, whether

[42:34] here from the district or after the individual schools.

[42:37] And then there's a principle report that shows the balance

[42:40] is of each team or PTSD, so already

[42:43] that that's held with the school.

[42:45] So every month, you get an abundance of disclosure on those items.

[42:50] And so my recommendation would be kind of in this order.

[42:55] Definitely go through the minutes from the priority,

[42:56] because you're going to be approving those and make sure anything you said was captured

[43:01] after the week that what you thought the discussion was is in there so that we haven't

[43:05] after record and then this is where you are where the staffing changes the board doesn't make

[43:10] staffing changes so the administrators make those changes that this is where the board is made

[43:16] aware of the staff and has the opportunity to be aware of that and then monthly budget report

[43:23] Since we're doing our slideshow backwards, we want to go back.

[43:25] This is the monthly budget report.

[43:28] It's the juuually has the distincts of being the only

[43:31] colorful report in the package so that you can just

[43:34] skim through a lot of other stuff and get right to the budget.

[43:39] Just to orient you a little and again, reach out with any questions.

[43:42] Along the talk, you'll see our cash balance and the different

[43:45] funds that we have invested in there.

[43:48] And that's there's a cycle.

[43:49] We collect all the property tax in November, December.

[43:51] So, right now we're at a peak time, and it will spend that money down as we go throughout the year.

[43:59] And then we have three ways that we kind of break the data on the first main section there as a summary of expenditure by object.

[44:07] So, that's by accounting code salaries, supplies, equipment, things like that.

[44:13] So, this takes all of our expenses and breaks them down by that category.

[44:18] And the next section is a summary of the revenues by

[44:28] fund, and so you can see, you know,

[44:31] for our general fund or capital fund, you can see slang there, what are revenues?

[44:35] I have a couple of years of history as well as the budget, and then the current year.

[44:40] And then down below is the expenses by fund. So you can see the expenses two different ways.

[44:45] You can see, okay, how much are we spending on capital? How much are we spending on relations?

[44:48] how much we're spending in the foundation, or you can see all the world together and by

[44:53] having our. So kind of looks like everything is duplicated, but that's just so you can look at it

[44:58] in two different ways.

[45:01] So those are the things that you will see on a monthly basis that, you know, we are helpful, you can reach out to me with questions.

[45:15] Any specific questions before I?

[45:17] We do appreciate this color scotch.

[45:23] I'll just show you these so you know that they're in there. Again, working backwards from the way in reverse or on this. This is a slide you'll see.

[45:33] And I have quite a few slides in here as we get ready to go into this budgeting cycle where we, you know, we get our new money from the state of what we're getting, we meet with our teachers and classified employees and have a salary and negotiations committee and then that, you know, leads into the budget approval.

[45:48] So this is a local salary comparison, which kind of compares, or I do one for bachelors

[45:56] and one for masters, and then this is the years of service, so we're a career with that

[46:01] with you.

[46:03] But with Box Elder Weaver Davis and we're some in Ogden and Morgan, and so that's what this

[46:09] slide looks like.

[46:10] This one is happens to be the masters thing, and so that would be something that the

[46:16] and consider as we look at what money we have and what we put that.

[46:21] Those are the districts that we used as comparisons.

[46:26] Scott, starting on the local salary comparison, I can't see the Morgan line.

[46:32] It's maroon and it's just right above.

[46:34] It just started to left and it's right above the yellow.

[46:37] So I think that's an eye-volage shoot for me.

[46:41] I might be slightly color blind, but just letting you know that color doesn't show up well at all.

[46:44] for my sad ice. Okay. I know that it's out there and where crosses right here I can see it very vaguely.

[46:51] Okay, but I still play everything I do. I know it's hoarding my road. And I probably should blow it up bigger. Again, it's just just a sad ice issue.

[47:01] It's really hard to see. It's hard to see. It's hard to see on the screen, but you can see.

[47:05] Oh, you said so nice. I guess I need a man. She's deficiencies in your clothes.

[47:14] This slide before that, this is the slide that we'll get as we decide what to do about

[47:19] truth and taxation. I won't go through this in a bunch now and you can look at it, but on the

[47:25] left is 2023 on the right is 2024 has the total valuation of our properties and in Mount

[47:31] we collected in prior year what money we're expecting to give in from new growth and then it

[47:36] comes down to, at the bottom here, we know the average value of the homes.

[47:42] It uses put out the county in the city, and then what the dollar amount changed would be.

[47:47] So this is last year's based on the where the rate was set.

[47:51] An average home, if there was no valuation increase, what it decreased in taxes by $12.30 a month.

[48:01] And then below there's put it out for in the county in the city.

[48:04] on what it is. And so this is kind of the tool we use to give you the information.

[48:08] See, okay, if we are to float this rate down partially or all the way where what we

[48:14] the impact the end on an average home in the industry.

[48:24] This last slide, then we'll break.

[48:27] This is the process we go through with salary and negotiations.

[48:30] So we have a little bit of a unique process we do here in the district where it's just a committee.

[48:41] So we don't have a negotiation where we have the teachers on one side and the superintendent on the other side and we are vessel.

[48:49] It's just everybody's in this room sitting around in a table and we go through.

[48:53] So at the top there, shows all of them the new money that we received in.

[48:59] So any new programs, any new money that come and not all has put on the table for the teachers

[49:03] to see, and then down below in blue are the things that we're budgeting to prioritize

[49:08] to do with that money and then when you get down the bottom, the money that's left over is

[49:13] but it was available for a cost of living allowance.

[49:17] So that's kind of how, but the process has gone, not a lot of

[49:20] intention and that seems to be a process that's worked so well and then that recommendation

[49:25] will go into you as a board. So that, I think, is all. If you go to the back part of it,

[49:34] it's a bunch of slides that just show more than our tax revenue tax rate, those things

[49:40] relative to other districts that you can look at on your own.

[49:43] So, you know, your fresh goodness?

[49:52] On our work meetings, it's probably a few minutes of finance.

[49:57] Education would be really good.

[50:00] We do.

[50:02] We do a little bit.

[50:03] Some type of training each time and a little finance snippet each time.

[50:10] It would be really good.

[50:11] So, thanks for preparing.

[50:12] This is interesting.

[50:13] go home and put this stuff out.

[50:16] Yeah.

[50:17] Sit down.

[50:19] You know what?

[50:20] I don't know.

[50:20] Some of the numbers.

[50:21] The tax rate.

[50:24] Yeah.

[50:24] It's anybody that could be called this guy.

[50:26] I'm freezing.

[50:26] But I know it was just because I'm really nervous.

[50:28] I was going home and it's really, really.

[50:32] I'm all made up.

[50:33] I'm all made up.

[50:34] I'm just going home.

[50:35] I'm just going home.

[50:36] Yeah.

[50:38] I'm just going home.

[50:39] I'm just going home.

[50:39] We take a bathroom.

[50:40] We take a bathroom.

[50:42] Have a break and so

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