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Have quorum. Thank you, Christy. Good afternoon, everyone. Today is Thursday the 13th of August. Not Friday the 13th, thankfully. It is 530 on the dot. And the board of St. George Academy is meeting for our board meeting in attendance from the board. We have alpapas. Pete, Shane LaRoya, and representing the administration.

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We've got Ms. Hall, Ms. Nash, and Roger, who keeps us honest.

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All right, we will get going now, entertain a motion to approve the minutes from our last

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board meeting, which was held on June 11th, 2026. Make a motion that we approve the June minutes.

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Wonderful. I second it. Wonderful. We have a motion to approve

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from Al and we have a second from Pete. All in favor, please say hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Any opposed?

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Oh, welcome. Kerry. I got a little bit of business as well. Hearing and seeing none, motion to

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approve minutes passes unanimously, we will now open the form for public comment.

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Now, it's

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operating the

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school and the boardents and ability to continue to do that with her fantastic admin team.

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Just so you know the board real quick, on the board chair, Mayor Shane, with me, we've

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got Al Papis, Al is on our, he chairs our finance committee as well as our committee, as well

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as our enrollment committee, as well as our competition committee.

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So Al's a big part of the board and helping run a lot of stuff.

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We also have Jessica Davis, who keeps us on compliance with governance as she chairs our governance committee.

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We've got Dr. Willis as well on our board.

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Very grateful for the amount of time that she spends with us.

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She chairs the Strategic Vision Committee as well.

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And then I'm sure you're familiar with Mrs. Hall, Ms. Nash, and just around out the team.

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we've got, I haven't forgotten about you, Pete, we've got Roger, who is essentially our

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accountant keeps our finances in order. Pete is also a board member, a big part of the community

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here locally. We really thank Pete for the time that he spends contributing to the school as well.

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So just in terms of public comment, I just wanted to give you kind of a roundout and then we've also

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got Generator Joining Us, Ms. Raker, is our Gen Kidney Honest. You are our office administrator,

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correct? Is that the look I got it right? That got the titles right. Hey, someone ate their

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meaties this morning. I want that. So, we're, I think, almost their Halloween five years in,

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six years in now. It's been a while. I know that because I, I Shanghai view, I want to say, it's been five

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years out and seven on the board up and seven for six years. I think Dr. Willis, you've been around

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for five years. Yeah, this is four. Four? Yeah, so we've got a board that's that's been with the

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school for quite a quite a while as well. So welcome. We'd love to have more parents join as well.

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Again, we're a very open board. We are also a very fun board in that we joke a lot.

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We try to keep things formal, but also very informal.

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So forgive the humor or sardonic sense of it.

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All right. So wonderful. Welcome again.

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All right. We will move right into Chrissy or your report.

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Over to you.

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Okay. Can we see my report?

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Yes, we can.

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Wonderful.

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You can do presentation mode and then we can, you know,

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we can actually see it.

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I know I'm looking, there it is. So I don't remember how to use.

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There you go. There you go.

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All right. So this is my August 13th director's report.

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We have some actuals. Remember is only the third day of school.

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So we're still playing a little bit of catch up.

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But our current actuals is that we have 196 students in person.

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We have 153 online, closes October 167, of which are fully processed.

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Last year we had approximately 25% attrition, so of that 153 we still need to keep pushing that forward

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so that it can handle a 25% attrition.

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If you remember for the lean budget model that we adopted, we needed 195 in person.

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So, just so you know, last week we were at 203 in person.

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What we see is a dip on the first day of school, but then we catch up as the district starts.

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So we always see a really sharp dip and then over the next three weeks we really catch up.

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So we do still expect that 196 to grow.

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and then our goal for our budget is 150 for our online students that

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closes October 1st. Any questions just about the numbers?

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Not at all. The only observation I have for you, Christy, is you know if we

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need to talk to our partner given we had a commitment of 200 I think, right?

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Yeah, 200 was the top goal. Right, so we do need to have a conversation out

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about perhaps having another conversation with them about WPU if that falls beyond what we're looking

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at. But we'll get to that when we get to it in October, so we've still got a little ways to go

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to see where we go. Getting them into the doors then, keeping them in the door is awesome, right?

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That's the way I looked at it. That's the way it goes. So if you just wanted to break down of where

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those students are coming. We're at 58 new 128 returning six foreign exchange. So and once again,

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this is like highly fluctuating. I made this report this morning and our numbers had already changed,

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so I've been updating it all day long. So it's that variable at this time. So but just to compare,

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we're up 10 enrollments from where we were this time last year. So that's good news.

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Our attrition rate for returning students last year was 36% and so we're returning students

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is 22% this year so we're getting better at keeping those students and this number

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does fluctuate so the 36% that was a total for last year but because once again the

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district started sometimes in the next couple of weeks we'll see students who left try

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a district school decided to come back. So that number could still change even though we're

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three days into the school year. And then just to reiterate, in-house enrollment fluctuates

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between back to school night and August 21st, which is the second week of school, some families

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make last-minute enrollment changes. But our overall enrollment generally remains stable after the dip

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and then back, which also is true in a district school, which is why they don't do the count until

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October one. So there's all kinds of fluctuations in between then. And first

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time ever, we only had five no-shows. So that's that's a milestone. It's

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usually 10 or 15. So we attribute that to our partnership with

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Skola. Skola has been instrumental in keeping families informed, keeping us

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informed, helping us to really explain like what is our school and being

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being very proactive in communicating with parents, so there weren't surprises.

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We knew who was coming and we knew who was leaving, so that was great.

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Christie, I think it's also important to add that within those five no shows, they also

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helped us reach out to our returning students when we had not heard from some of those families.

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So the, and the 22% as far as our attrition rate, majority of those were people moving out

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state or moving some place with reason, it's not because they just didn't like our program.

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Yeah, so you have to remember that that's that's also part of that attrition rate.

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Moves out. We did not, however, include, of course, our foreign exchange students in the

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attrition rate because they're only here with us for a year. All right, any questions about enrollment?

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and where we are at this time.

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Not at all.

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Not going to need.

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All right.

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All right.

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We're for our reporting and compliance.

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Our financial compliance is currently up to date.

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June 30 is when most of our big reports are due and they are completed.

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Our bond compliance is up to date.

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And I have a meeting with our bond holders tomorrow just to update them on enrollment

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and to answer any questions they might have.

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And then our July reporting is complete.

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I'm sorry.

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I'm sorry to ask a good job.

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Thanks.

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Very good.

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Our upcoming projects, we still have our bi-weekly meetings

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with our online partners, School of Vertex, WAU.

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We will continue to push our enrollment and marketing programs

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until October, and then we'll switch to next school year.

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Even though we still accept students,

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since the marketing switch happens around October

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to fill the school for 2028.

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And then our really big project is the FY26 audit.

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So we have started with our new auditors,

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getting them the materials,

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and we will keep you updated as we move forward

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in that process.

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And Rodgers, there anything you wanna add at this point?

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Only that I'll be contacting you

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tomorrow is some information, but we basically have the numbers closed out to the year and will be

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transmitting to them whatever they need. Okay. Very good. Are they coming to the school for the

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audit, right? Yes, they do. So like two to three days they'll schedule that with us that doesn't usually

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happen until late, like early September, that time period. But we send all the materials

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over that to them first. So yep so you'll send the packet and then they come and they they check

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everything. If I'm in town I'd love to meet the orders as well so just like no I'm sure Al will too.

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Al does usually come and then yes I will let you know.

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And then just start upcoming events. Our school year has launched it launched on Tuesday.

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homecoming is on the 19th and then we do have an enrollment open house on the 24th and we've been working with our online partners to push that out as a media campaign and then we also will have local campaign with our students and send out flyers to families and put up flyers around the school and use our local channels.

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Yes, I have quite a bit actually. Chrissy, we pull up my, yes, I never trust my system

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to work as a secondary. So I always send it to Ms. Hall and ask her to click through

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it for me.

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I can't wait to manage up. That's what I said.

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I'll wait back. I just had a child fall.

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I'll be right back. I'll keep going.

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Next slide.

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School safety. We do have a school safety guard this year.

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We have paired up with a private security company.

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and we're thrilled. I met with the public safety department. I met with Sergeant Nash.

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He is the liaison that we work with. My contact did just so the board has some

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contacts as to why we chose a private company. Three years ago, when we were

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looking at getting an SRO, I want to say it was about $120,000, including benefits,

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salary, you know, all of the above. And then I contacted Washington City to see if I

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get an updated estimate and they were not willing to even give us an estimate because they don't have

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enough officers if we chose to engage to be able to fulfill it. So our options are one of three.

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There is hiring an SRO. They're using a private security company or there is the Guardian.

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With the Guardian also comes the liability that comes with that. The company that we have hired

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carries their own liability insurance, which is a bonus, and they employ retired policeman.

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So it had all of the training that we would have if we were to hire our own SRO,

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but we have the flexibility that works with having a small school.

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Do we have any questions on that piece of it? I know that's a big piece, but I wanted to make

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sure that you guys understood the why. Okay, so the wearable panic. Oh, I had one. Okay, go ahead.

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I was just curious. Has there ever been any security events? No. No, there was a piece of legislation

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that was past saying that all of the schools

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Had to have armed guards in some capacity. And they gave schools three different options and a deadline to make that happen. So we have had the guardians in the past where we have had an individual, an undisclosed individual within the school that has met that requirement as per the loss as we can. And so this year we're just doing it a little bit differently. And we're doing it in a way that can grow as we continue to grow. Is it an option for any of the teachers that have CFPs

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to bring again. They can but they have to go through the training in order to qualify for this.

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So and there's also there's no compensation provided to those individuals. So it's a lot

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of liability for the district and eventually I see them phasing it out because they don't really

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they they want an individual whose job is that job and so we have to fill out an alternate

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application to even qualify for that and you have to meet certain qualifiers in order for that to

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be the route that you use.

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Yeah, but we essentially want to want to make sure that we have the right folks doing

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what?

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And so the educators job is to educate and not police if we can help it.

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It's kind of our philosophy now.

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In the old in prior to this, we did have so the school guardian brat is essentially someone

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on that was a member of the faculty that obviously had a concealed weapons permit.

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But again, we've gone down that road, but it's also one of those where we don't really

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have a faculty that is comfortable fulfilling that.

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So I think that's what Ms. Jensen is exploring about.

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Yeah, yeah, it makes sense and I definitely understand the personal liability concern.

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It just in a growing dangerous environment, you know, I just know the guardian can't be everywhere

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all the time. So I was just curious. Yeah, well, that's also one of the benefits of having an individual

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who that is their job. Right. And so that we do have more coverage.

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Do we have any statistics from the other schools with regards to guards and I don't like

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any incidents that they may have faced?

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So yes and no is the data available absolutely all it is.

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I can put it together and I can send it to you, but I don't have it currently.

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Got it.

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I like to see that.

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I can put that together and send it out.

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I can.

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You're welcome.

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Any other questions?

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So for me.

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Okay, so the wearable panic devices we've talked about for a while, they weren't exactly

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sure how they were going to fund it.

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Part of the safety legislation says that all of the adults in the building have to wear

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something that in the event of an emergency, they can use it and they can call 911 and they're

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funding that for the next three years, which is also something that we need to be aware

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of because that funding may not continue after that three-year period.

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So the way that it is currently written is there are two vendors that we get to choose from and that the state has approved and they will do the install and the training and the initial purchase along with the software and then they will continue the service for three years.

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What happens after that three year period is still up in the air and we don't know.

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So, as I get more information on the companies, we'll let you know, I did send that information

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within the two companies to Shane and asked him to take a look at it as security is more

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his, his purview as far as like larger companies and those types of things.

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And he's given us the green light on either company.

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I was also talking to Sergeant Nash yesterday and he was telling me that they, he went to

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a safety conference and they gave him a demo of some of the panic devices from one of the

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companies and so he was going to bring that over so we could actually physically look at it

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before we decided to purchase it.

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Do we have any questions on the wearable panic devices?

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So we're going to issue those throughout all the fact that he is the plan. That's correct.

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Well, I was speaking with Sergeant Nash. He said that he will be visiting soon for our annual

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will visit with the public safety inspection.

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So I will keep the board apprised when that happens.

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We also spent this summer making sure

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that all of our employee background checks were up to date.

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So everything has been cleared.

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They have to be renewed every five years

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and we have completed that process.

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And our front door, we have installed a buzzer button.

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So now all of the doors on the school are locked

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minus the front office, which is not connected to the academic piece of the building.

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But all of the doors leading into where the students are locked from bell to bell.

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Do we have any questions on the school safety portion?

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No, not me.

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Okay, perfect.

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So, student services.

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I had talked to you guys briefly about getting the survey results from Scola,

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but I wanted to actually show you what our families are saying about our program.

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We had, next slide please, we had a 194 families surveyed and we had a 30% response rate.

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I didn't expect it to be that impressive.

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Next slide please.

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So what they had to say about teachers and staff, they described as caring, amazing, brilliant, genuinely invested in student success.

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staff and faculty, treat students with respect and provide meaningful support.

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In Spanish speaking families echo the sediment calling teachers and staffs second to none who love what they do and help students achieve their potential.

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It's great.

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With student safety and acceptance, families value the safe, inclusive environment and acceptance of all students and the strict anti-bullying policy is frequently highlighted as a major strength.

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So I also want to point out here that the last time our students took the

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sharp survey and we will be taking that again this year. So it's been a few

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years but we had like a 2% bullying rate coming from the students. So like that's

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echoed in what the parents are seeing as well and it'll be interesting to see

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what happens when they take the sharp survey this go around. Multiple parents

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also shared that their children who previously felt unsafe or unwelcome elsewhere

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now feel that they belong.

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Hmm.

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Next slide.

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Do we have to stand against other schools in that regard?

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I'm in which regard out?

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The bully, especially.

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And bullying, well the average is about 22%.

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Wow.

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So, and again, that was the last,

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it was probably two or three years ago

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that we took the Sharp survey.

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And that's coming from the students perspective.

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So that's not anything that we have recorded

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from the admin side.

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that's the student's perspective of what's happening in our building.

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Time. Yeah. So for individualized attention and small class sizes parents say that small class

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sizes allow for personalized learning and individual attention and that their children feel seen and

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that their unique needs and experiences are considered and the teachers sit down one-on-one with

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students who are in need. So I mean this is all the information that we know because we're in the

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trenches of it, but I love that this is also the way that the parents are

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feeling about the program.

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For student growth and development parents feel

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that we focus on both academics and character development and families noticeable

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academic improvements and an increase in their student's confidence. Students

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who have struggled at other schools are thriving at SGA and again these are all

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coming from parent comments.

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Communication and engagement, open communication,

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between staff parents and students that we are willing to listen and engage and it's genuine

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that it's not performative. And Spanish-speaking families note that the school is accessible and

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open and administration and teachers take the time to meet the parents when it's needed.

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As far as our electives and the unique programs families rave about the variety of elective offerings

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including course like courses like cosplay and game development that are not found at other schools

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this year. We also have a

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course

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though and again we just every year we ask the students what

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they want in the following year we try to build electives based on student needs and our families

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are seeing this. So our unique program provides students with hands on opportunities to develop

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their talents. Next slide. So improvements, communication and organization. One of the things that

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was talking about inconsistency through our how we're communicating regularly.

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We do send weekly newsletters. One of the things that we are going to do is we've changed our parent communication system.

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We were using school messenger, which was kind of hard to use.

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So call now is or now call one. So I always get the name of it wrong, but we've switched to a simpler platform.

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So that it's easier to communicate with parents. We do send weekly newsletters

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and we are also going to now communicate that through a link, just texted to them and we're

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working to better communicate with our families about our pathway requirements as our pathways

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have become better developed but we now have better ways to communicate that as we move forward.

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Next slide.

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Okay, so programs and electives, we've added a rock band class and we're really excited about that.

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And yes, and we have expansions of our after-school program.

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So we hear our parents and we're doing the best that we can to add those classes.

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Facilities and student resources parents would really like us to have lunch five days a week.

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We currently provide it three days a week, with fundraisers.

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we know that it's not a shit in the back and that was up their concern, and it's

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on a phrase to help raise money to be able to correct that, and we're still working

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with that goal.

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Next slide.

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One of the other concerns was the complicatedness of the fees we're working on streamlining this.

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We know how our students store where it's easier to be able to pay those fees and we

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no longer accept cash in the office so that again it is streamlined through that online

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payment system trying to make it easier for parents so that it's all in one working place.

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So we're aware of this and we are doing our best to try to rectify this in a way that

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makes sense.

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So as fire is not exactly user-friendly for fees and that's the SIS system that we are

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are using and so we're trying to integrate what we can where we can.

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Next slide.

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And improvement for staff and school culture, they ask that we maintain a positive and

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empathetic environment, additional staff and teachers to support the student population.

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Part of the concern was that families don't want the school to grow and to lose those small

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ratios and the culture and all of the one-on-ones and I know we have talked about that continually

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through the Mission and Vision Committee, along with the rest of the board, is to make sure

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that we can maintain the integrity of the program as we grow, along with increasing visibility

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and engagement of the administration with parents and students, and really the addition of

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the school guard will help us with this because it's an additional body so that we can be out

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with the students and the parents. Can I ask a quick question there?

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Absolutely. What exactly does that mean maintain a progressive environment?

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So we have a very positive school culture and a lot of it is based on growth.

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So within the survey students were concerned that if the school were to continue to grow that we

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would lose the personalization that comes with knowing all of our student's names and knowing all

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of them as individuals and they wanted to ensure that we were paying attention to that as we are looking

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to grow. That makes sense. Do you try not to lose the culture as you scale? Absolutely.

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Absolutely. We want to keep the integrity. Okay.

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Could you do we have any other questions?

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Okay. That's all I have. Thank you. Very good. Very good, Jordy. All right. Over to you, Roger.

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Get off mute first and then financials. Oh, you got to let me in there to share

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this.

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Okay. Everybody see it?

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Yeah. All right. So we're looking, we're talking about July financials here and just a quick reminder because of the school accounting rules.

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The early months of the year are going to look extremely positive and extremely flush because although the money coming in is maybe the same as every other month and money going out, maybe the same as every other month.

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much of that money going out is charged the last year's budget because the

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teachers are being paid over the summer, which is money that they are in last

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year. Also you've got a couple of grants in in advance in July so so the

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cash is a little higher which I'll show you in a minute so the ratio of the

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Here as they always are, but um...

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You know, sort of a wink and a nod on those. Your guide is your budget. That's where we think we're going during the year. And you want to always compare those numbers to the budget numbers rather to the enrollment numbers that you heard a couple of minutes ago. So here's the balance sheet. You can see that the cash is up significantly from last month. That's also partially due to the fact that the state didn't pay the June money until July.

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So, you didn't get it last month, instead you got two months of it this month, so it's up about 400 times.

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You've seen Brad's note about zooming out a little bit more on the slide.

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It's difficult to see the details.

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Okay. Right, Brad?

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Yeah, well, I can see this one a little bit better, the first one was a little better.

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Sorry, the KPIs would be a little bit tough.

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Yeah, I got you. There you go. But there's the balance sheet. So you got the cash on top.

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Receivables are not that much. They really shouldn't be. They're going to be limited to the grants.

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That may have been spent, but not paid yet as of June 30th. This is the building.

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And payables are generally very low. They pay the bills as they get them and they flow through

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fairly quickly, the accrued payroll is what I was referring to before, which is drawn

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down by 50,000 as the summer wages are paid. Deferred revenue refers to monies received

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in July that weren't spent yet. So instead of just throwing them into income, we're

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deferring it for a couple of months and when they are spent, we'll put it back into income

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so that the income sort of equals the expenses against it.

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And the accrued interest is related to the bond.

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Is that a 30-year bond?

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Yeah.

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This is the P&L, or the budget versus actual.

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First column being the budget.

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This is the budget for the entire year.

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Actual is one month,

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and therefore the amount of the budget that remains is in column three.

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percent expended or received and you know we're at about eight percent of the year for one month so

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the stuff will normalize later as the year goes on and this gives you a look at last year

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so you can see where the budget had left us where we expected and this is where we actually ended up.

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But this is, as Chris said before, subject to audit will be going through that process in the coming weeks.

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After that, we show the same numbers, but we break them up and sort of explode each of the lines into the various components that make them up.

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And this is a seeing budget, right?

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Sorry, Roger.

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This is the conservative budget that has been selected.

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Yep.

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So this is the state revenue with, you want to be about the same as every other month.

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And this is where the expenses begin.

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And again, you're seeing salaries are really going to be low because much of it was charged

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to last year, the benefits and the rest of these others.

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And so you've got a surplus of $141,000 for a month of operations which is really nice,

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but not something that you would expect to be maintained.

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This is where you want to go for the annual.

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That's what our target is and if we keep that enrollment to the 350 or so where you had budgeted

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Then I expect that's where we'll be.

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Yeah, I think it was based on where we end up on October 1st.

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We'll see if we need to have a conversation with, you know,

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the online side of things for a different split of the BPU.

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I hope not, but we do want to come in as close to that 76,

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439 as we can.

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Yeah.

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That has a quick question on teacher comp or admin comp.

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Is there anything performance based to incentivize teachers?

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There's actually, we're participating and Christie keep me honest here.

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There's a state, isn't there like a state thing that we're doing?

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I can't recall what it's called, but it's from Edison.

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We're in a pilot for that, I believe, right?

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The tier, it's called the teacher merit program.

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There you go.

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Yep.

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And we spent all last year learning about it.

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working through the program and it's supposed to come in September so you don't

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see any of those finances on this particular balance sheet because we are

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unsure of what those funds will look like and it goes directly to the teachers

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who meet the criteria of the performance program but if you want to know more

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you can just google Utah Teacher Merit Pay program and all the details are right

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there. Yeah I was just curious you you as the leader of their direct report I mean are you

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getting access to performance or is that at the state level.

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Sorry I'm having a problem with

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my internet here. So for the teacher merit pay program that is completely on the state level.

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Funded by them, managed by them even, so we help in gathering the data, but we don't actually have any control over any of it.

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Yeah, I just came from the private world, so I was just curious that there's any way to incentivize in order for us to attract the best talent.

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Well, this is our first shot at that.

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We're excited.

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Most of our, the culture that we have is one of Brad making sure that like the teachers that are there there they.

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It's very different than the district of that.

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These folks really love the culture and they love the camaraderie of not only their fellow faculty, but the admin team as well.

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And that's part of the reason why the students are very kind of on their parents.

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Quite frankly, they're very conscious of the growth that they're afraid that we'll experience.

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And with that, we'll kind of just an erosion of that very close-knit culture that we have.

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And so, I think even on this call, this Nash, Miss Hall and Miss Rayper have been here since day one,

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right of the school starting and so we've got a lot of tenure you know at the school and it's

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these folks they could go and do better quite frankly at the at the district but everybody

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chooses to stay because of the culture that we have. Yeah yeah I think that that's great I mean

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solid retention probably says a lot about the culture what year was the school started?

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The first graduating class was 2018.

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18, okay.

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And someone told me about four years ago there was some change in administration.

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Yes, so I've only been the director.

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This will be my sixth year.

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But I was a teacher here before I was the administrator.

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So I was here when the school started.

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But when the director position opened up, I applied and got the job.

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got you.

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Anybody else? Sorry, I'm not trying to slow down. Okay,

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then that's all I've got for you.

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Awesome. Well, thank you for a great summary and we'll keep a firm handle to Pillar at Christy for

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enrollment numbers. And then if we need to have a conversation with Woodbridge, I got that right,

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right? It's Williamsburg. Williamsburg. I keep calling them Woodbridge. Let me know if Alan and I need to

437
00:39:12,170 --> 00:39:17,310
have that conversation. I was going to get confused. All right, we're writing to committee

438
00:39:17,310 --> 00:39:21,950
reports. I've gotten nothing report for academic excellence over to you at Al for finance

439
00:39:21,950 --> 00:39:29,270
audit enrollment and comp. Yeah, nothing to report specifically. I'm looking forward to

440
00:39:29,270 --> 00:39:35,270
the audit gathering that we're going to have later this year. And that's always an exciting

441
00:39:39,460 --> 00:39:49,600
That's the other thing, Brad, this establishment, when a lot of this work came on, was at the

442
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:53,660
brink of insolvency, and as you can see, it's been managed very well.

443
00:39:54,300 --> 00:39:59,300
Since then, a deal in large part, a lot of the work that Christy and Al have partnered

444
00:39:59,300 --> 00:40:06,200
on, which is again a testament to turning this school around, it was going to be closed

445
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:12,240
down by the by the state. It hadn't passed a successful financial audit. I think for two years

446
00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:16,780
though or three years of operation and since then has passed every single audit without a

447
00:40:16,780 --> 00:40:23,480
minding from the stage. So that's a lot of work that got down to the clean house there.

448
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:31,400
That's great to hear and I'm a huge advocate of charter schools and part of the reason that I'm here

449
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,860
and you know, Mr. Papus, you made a joke at the beginning.

450
00:40:34,980 --> 00:40:35,780
Why are the parents here?

451
00:40:36,420 --> 00:40:39,760
You know, I want to be really engaged in my kids.

452
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:43,980
My kids have never been anywhere except for private schools.

453
00:40:44,260 --> 00:40:47,960
This is our very first foray into a non-private school.

454
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:51,340
But I am a huge advocate of the charters.

455
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,200
And so I'm excited to see that.

456
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:57,300
Getting back to the financials real quick,

457
00:40:57,300 --> 00:41:15,180
Is there is there any reserve study for facilities or anything else that gets funded so there is and by mandate there's best practices for that in terms of how much cash was supposed to have on hand and typically we're on the way surplus side of that instead of deficit.

458
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:26,160
So we actually manage manage the kind of the I don't call it petty cash but we manage the kind of financial side of it pretty religiously.

459
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:33,820
Well, yeah, I think having a buffer of cash on hand is different than funding a reserve

460
00:41:33,820 --> 00:41:36,520
so you don't have invisible liabilities.

461
00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:44,480
We don't, typically, and we don't, we have to abide by a lot of the state rules there

462
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:45,640
as well as our bond holders.

463
00:41:46,500 --> 00:41:50,480
So that's how we essentially set up our finances.

464
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:55,080
So typically what you would have in the private sector is you would have some kind of a fund

465
00:41:55,080 --> 00:42:03,140
for that. Everything that we do on the, again, on the tax fair funded institution side and the

466
00:42:03,140 --> 00:42:10,360
public sector is essentially through our cash on hand, our reserves is where it goes. So

467
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:16,560
you cover like the the one offs for like slurry seal replace a roof. Oh yeah, oh yeah, trust me,

468
00:42:16,620 --> 00:42:20,400
we had a water main break. What was that last year, Christine? No, that was last month.

469
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:28,580
year before? No, we had it. It happened in July. Yeah. I was last year sometime because I was

470
00:42:28,580 --> 00:42:33,500
from that found it. That was a different break just so you know. Okay. So, you know, there's

471
00:42:33,500 --> 00:42:37,260
always stuff going on with the building. There's always stuff going on with the water and you know,

472
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:46,620
they are you will out to like hold access cash on hand like in a money market or anything that's

473
00:42:46,620 --> 00:42:53,340
interesting. Yeah, so definitely gonna stay account. So the the state has what they call the PTIF

474
00:42:53,340 --> 00:42:58,480
and that's where we we put that essentially and then we've got I don't know if you saw on

475
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:04,140
Rogers. There's the Zionist bank account and then there's the, gosh, what's the other one, Kristi?

476
00:43:04,140 --> 00:43:09,800
US bank that's where our bond holders have their reserve. So we have a reserve for the bond holders

477
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:21,040
And then we have our reserves in the PTIF and then design bank is our like our day to

478
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:21,300
days.

479
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:24,460
That's where we have all of our spendable money.

480
00:43:30,410 --> 00:43:30,830
Awesome.

481
00:43:31,130 --> 00:43:35,130
So, over to Al, anything else from you on anything financial?

482
00:43:35,530 --> 00:43:36,050
No, nothing.

483
00:43:36,130 --> 00:43:36,990
I report this one.

484
00:43:37,690 --> 00:43:37,870
All right.

485
00:43:38,030 --> 00:43:38,310
Awesome.

486
00:43:38,590 --> 00:43:39,350
Over to you, Jessica.

487
00:43:40,290 --> 00:43:44,010
Anything on the governance side, I think we've got some training to do, I believe.

488
00:43:44,010 --> 00:43:46,710
Yeah, I'll give you the next couple of months.

489
00:43:47,150 --> 00:43:51,230
I do want to start by saying, Al, I have never in all my years in education heard someone

490
00:43:51,230 --> 00:43:52,710
say they were excited about an audit.

491
00:43:53,230 --> 00:43:56,950
So that is probably why the school's doing so great.

492
00:43:58,390 --> 00:43:59,230
Never, ever.

493
00:44:02,010 --> 00:44:06,950
Okay, so thank you for doing your June and July trainings.

494
00:44:07,410 --> 00:44:10,970
We are going to finish up if I can get it pulled up here.

495
00:44:11,090 --> 00:44:11,470
There it is.

496
00:44:11,470 --> 00:44:29,710
We are going to skip the hiring and independent auditor and the separation of duties trainings within that board training and go down to the fraud triangle internal audit plan and fraud risk assessment overview.

497
00:44:29,710 --> 00:44:38,710
you. I'm skipping those other two because as board members outside of Shane and

498
00:44:38,710 --> 00:44:42,870
Christie, I'm sure you guys are actually the ones who do that hiring of an internal auditor thing.

499
00:44:43,110 --> 00:44:47,310
We don't actually have a part in that so we're gonna just skip those ones and

500
00:44:47,310 --> 00:44:53,970
but if you would really like to see that 100% complete on yours, that's not required

501
00:44:53,970 --> 00:44:57,690
by the state but if you just yourself would like to see 100% complete on that,

502
00:44:57,690 --> 00:44:59,750
I'm not saying you can't do those trainings

503
00:45:00,050 --> 00:45:31,470
That would be okay. So, but if you do those three, that will finish out what we need from that training for school board members, from the state auditor's website, and I'll send you that link. So those three, since they're so related, those are going to be our August training. And then our September training is going to be a video from the state charter school. Who is it that does this? I always have to remember what the

504
00:45:31,470 --> 00:45:37,310
organization is the Utah Association of Public Charter Schools and it's their

505
00:45:37,310 --> 00:45:42,310
required policies training. So it's just a good refresher on the required

506
00:45:42,310 --> 00:45:47,950
policies for all of us to be aware. And then I have not heard back from...

507
00:45:47,950 --> 00:45:53,430
Not from Erin? I bet. It's okay, right? I just wanted to update you that I haven't

508
00:45:53,430 --> 00:45:56,330
heard back yet. Jessica, she's litigating a pretty big case.

509
00:45:56,730 --> 00:46:00,970
I'm sure. And we're I think we're okay because we did not have any

510
00:46:00,970 --> 00:46:14,950
Yeah, we didn't have any issues with that issue, so I was just going to wait and not bugger. Yeah, she'll she'll reach out. She'll I call her I said give give you a ring and then coordinate whatever training that she wants to do.

511
00:46:15,410 --> 00:46:29,290
Brad Aaron is our council. She's also counsel for quite a few charter schools here in in town. So is that a private room? Yeah, she's a former SEC attorney.

512
00:46:31,730 --> 00:46:34,930
She's awesome. We really enjoy her. She's really great.

513
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:43,680
But that's all from government's watch for that email. And then let me know when you've done the trainings and I'll mark them off.

514
00:46:44,140 --> 00:46:47,900
Fantastic. All right. Dr. Willis, say I at SGA in my favorite topic.

515
00:46:47,900 --> 00:46:58,940
Yeah, so we formed a subcommittee and that included Brandon, RIT Specialist and Amy Flores,

516
00:46:58,940 --> 00:47:05,020
who's an English teacher, a language-arch teacher, who's the English teacher,

517
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:12,460
so they had to

518
00:47:12,460 --> 00:47:19,740
measure that as this is a very dynamic aspect of education now that we're balancing the

519
00:47:19,740 --> 00:47:28,760
concerns about cheating and reduced depth of learning with employers, you know, wanting

520
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:36,360
employees to use AI as part of their skillset and being able to make sure students are going

521
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:43,100
to be prepared for the workforce. Recognizing that complete prohibition of AI on campus and at

522
00:47:43,100 --> 00:47:50,500
home is going to have our students unprepared for employment in numerous fields and the numbers

523
00:47:50,500 --> 00:47:55,900
of fields keep growing. Virtues having unrestricted use and preparing the development of critical

524
00:47:55,900 --> 00:48:07,580
thanking and analytical abilities and communication skills. So this meeting, I want to report to the

525
00:48:07,580 --> 00:48:13,860
board what the actual state of things is from expectations,

526
00:48:20,170 --> 00:48:21,590
according to the subject matter.

527
00:48:22,630 --> 00:48:26,650
So, you know, math use is going to be different from language art. It's going to be different from

528
00:48:26,650 --> 00:48:30,970
history, et cetera. And these are posted in the classrooms and are in the

529
00:48:30,970 --> 00:48:36,410
syllabi. There isn't one standard rule for the school. And these are so these are

530
00:48:36,410 --> 00:48:41,710
developed by the departments and by the teachers. We're talking about with

531
00:48:41,710 --> 00:48:47,890
each other recommending informing parents directly as opposed to just having

532
00:48:47,890 --> 00:48:52,730
it in a syllabi in the classroom so the parents can better support what our

533
00:48:52,730 --> 00:49:00,110
goals our expectations are for their students at home when they're with them and we're thinking

534
00:49:00,110 --> 00:49:06,030
about doing this as a document near the start of the semester each time and then maybe

535
00:49:06,030 --> 00:49:12,870
a quarterly news letter that would go out to update because it is so dynamic. Any changes

536
00:49:12,870 --> 00:49:19,710
that we're making or responding to potentially what's out there in the media because when

537
00:49:19,710 --> 00:49:24,670
parents are surveyed across the country, such a high percentage of them are anxious about what's

538
00:49:24,670 --> 00:49:29,790
going on and they want to make sure their students are protected and yet prepared. So we want

539
00:49:29,790 --> 00:49:36,130
parents to alleviate some of that anxiety so that they know that we're actively engaged in this

540
00:49:36,130 --> 00:49:42,790
process and we're not ignoring it. One of the things that's coming up is having the ability

541
00:49:42,790 --> 00:49:49,750
We from Chromebook Management software that's going to be used this year so that schools

542
00:49:49,750 --> 00:49:56,810
and parents can actually review the search histories for AIUs and then teachers can potentially

543
00:49:56,810 --> 00:50:02,490
utilize the Chromebooks to establish classroom specific AI tools as well as restrictions.

544
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:14,940
And then just noted that a lot of what's going on in the classrooms regarding AI now is basically

545
00:50:14,940 --> 00:50:17,200
we just teaching a lot of search, right?

546
00:50:17,720 --> 00:50:19,520
So chat GPT searches and such.

547
00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:22,820
So teaching students how to use those search tools

548
00:50:22,820 --> 00:50:24,300
and how to use them accurately,

549
00:50:24,940 --> 00:50:28,300
how to evaluate sources, make sure students are getting

550
00:50:28,300 --> 00:50:31,980
and reading the original sources that are proposed,

551
00:50:32,700 --> 00:50:35,200
checking those source results for accuracy

552
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:38,000
and there's so much hallucinating.

553
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:41,960
Illucinating of results and search tools

554
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:43,220
just making things up

555
00:50:43,220 --> 00:50:45,880
and make sure students understand how that can happen

556
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:49,160
and how to investigate that, how to query,

557
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:53,580
how to produce searches that are nuanced in detail

558
00:50:53,580 --> 00:50:57,640
rather than generic and even how to use

559
00:50:57,640 --> 00:50:59,080
spelling and grammar tools correctly.

560
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:01,460
So that students aren't changing their work

561
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:05,160
from what they intend to do when a simple grammar change.

562
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:09,020
Even just Microsoft Word, recommending a grammar change

563
00:51:09,020 --> 00:51:11,280
can change the intent of the writing.

564
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:17,960
So I'm really just wanting to empower students to understand that it's a tool that's it can it can help but

565
00:51:18,740 --> 00:51:20,220
Engaging the mind is first

566
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:28,780
So all of that is to ensure that AI at SGA is protecting student learning while also preparing them to use emerging

567
00:51:28,780 --> 00:51:30,980
technologies effectively and responsibility

568
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:32,040
responsibly

569
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:34,060
We'll meet again

570
00:51:34,900 --> 00:51:38,540
in November just to update where things are at is

571
00:51:38,540 --> 00:51:44,280
because we're trying some new things, and then we'll just keep updating the board on where we're at.

572
00:51:44,540 --> 00:51:50,400
I don't think that we need to have any formal policies or anything that we need to take action on with the board

573
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:53,340
unless something comes up that we're concerned about.

574
00:51:55,060 --> 00:51:56,500
You guys have a question there?

575
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:57,060
Yeah.

576
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:04,820
First of all, I think that was a fabulous presentation and your approach.

577
00:52:05,540 --> 00:52:20,500
Yeah, and I think there's a fine line between, and I'm very glad that, you know, the kids are getting education and being able to utilize the tools, but there's a fine line between taking advantage and misusing them.

578
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:28,320
I was just curious outside the eco sphere of content monitoring within the school network.

579
00:52:29,420 --> 00:52:35,300
when students are on private devices to the teachers have access to any tools

580
00:52:35,300 --> 00:52:40,180
that can use AI to detect if AI was misused.

581
00:52:41,820 --> 00:52:45,720
I'm not aware of that on their private devices and I don't know.

582
00:52:45,720 --> 00:52:49,980
So like if I bring home, if I bring in my homework and I cheat it essentially,

583
00:52:50,780 --> 00:52:54,500
I know there's some sort of anti-AI software.

584
00:52:54,500 --> 00:53:00,860
like scanning for. Yeah they can say this is AI language or you know the way

585
00:53:00,860 --> 00:53:08,540
this math problem was laid out was you know it was clear that that AI did you

586
00:53:08,540 --> 00:53:14,780
know use this or did or did this I was just curious. I've read several

587
00:53:14,780 --> 00:53:21,120
articles at the collegiate level that they were using those tools and they

588
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:27,800
become somewhat ubiquitous. Yeah. Yeah. And some of the teachers are, I mean, generally speaking,

589
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:33,620
a lot of the course work that's done at SGA is done in the classroom. It's okay. There's not

590
00:53:33,620 --> 00:53:40,260
a high burden of homework so that there's hands-on direct interaction with the students while they're

591
00:53:40,260 --> 00:53:46,240
doing their work. Yeah. Well, and I think you answered it by putting the burden on the parents

592
00:53:46,240 --> 00:53:50,660
It's somewhat, so I think that's good.

593
00:53:50,860 --> 00:53:53,800
But I really appreciate you addressing that

594
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:55,100
because that was one of my questions.

595
00:53:55,540 --> 00:53:55,980
Yeah, yeah.

596
00:53:58,600 --> 00:53:59,480
Not right.

597
00:53:59,980 --> 00:54:01,120
Yeah, I just want to say, Carrie,

598
00:54:01,180 --> 00:54:02,540
I think the approach is really thoughtful

599
00:54:02,980 --> 00:54:05,880
and that you've looked at a lot of different perspectives

600
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:08,980
and angles and I also appreciate your presentation.

601
00:54:09,700 --> 00:54:13,700
I think getting the teachers to really be the ones

602
00:54:13,700 --> 00:54:24,050
to figure out how best to police the use is what I will call it, of AI based on the curriculum

603
00:54:24,050 --> 00:54:33,470
that they have established is the best way to do it, to your point. Even if you're an algebra

604
00:54:33,470 --> 00:54:38,370
class and you're using AI, it's going to be very different in terms of mortality than if you're

605
00:54:38,370 --> 00:54:44,870
in a calculus class and using AI. And so I think that giving the educator the freedom and the

606
00:54:44,870 --> 00:54:48,410
license to the police that is the right to do it.

607
00:54:48,850 --> 00:54:54,230
I want to constantly changing what students have access to six months from now

608
00:54:54,230 --> 00:54:56,150
to be very different from what they have access to.

609
00:54:56,270 --> 00:54:58,930
We just want to make sure that we're adapting to all of those things.

610
00:54:58,930 --> 00:55:01,910
We're keeping updated on what students are doing.

611
00:55:02,710 --> 00:55:04,250
Right. And all IT is in house.

612
00:55:05,130 --> 00:55:09,330
No. No, we outsource the IT to our local company here in Utah.

613
00:55:10,450 --> 00:55:19,310
And then we have to to RISO is in-house and we have a tech specialist on site and then

614
00:55:19,310 --> 00:55:23,050
we have our IT company who takes care of our cyber security.

615
00:55:23,690 --> 00:55:24,870
And what firm is that?

616
00:55:26,450 --> 00:55:26,970
STS.

617
00:55:27,910 --> 00:55:29,690
Sorry, that's a space I can't say.

618
00:55:30,310 --> 00:55:30,690
Oh, cool.

619
00:55:31,230 --> 00:55:33,510
I don't remember what STS stands for.

620
00:55:34,230 --> 00:55:35,270
Something technology.

621
00:55:35,270 --> 00:55:46,750
All right, a big IT shop for charter schools here in the Southwest, Brad.

622
00:55:47,630 --> 00:55:52,730
We don't have enough, what's the word, I'll use, critical masks to have our own kind

623
00:55:52,730 --> 00:55:53,650
of in-house routine.

624
00:55:54,250 --> 00:55:54,670
Agreed.

625
00:55:54,750 --> 00:55:54,890
Yeah.

626
00:55:55,330 --> 00:55:57,490
So I was coming out source.

627
00:55:57,950 --> 00:55:58,050
Yeah.

628
00:55:58,330 --> 00:56:02,930
Yeah, I was CEO of an outsource firm for 26 years, so I'm a huge advocate for it.

629
00:56:03,730 --> 00:56:05,190
Awesome, awesome, awesome.

630
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:14,380
All right. I think two items to approve the LEA licenses and then

631
00:56:14,380 --> 00:56:20,200
I'll go through the PEC policy, right? Yeah. So, let me know if my connection, it says

632
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:24,760
it's unstable. The wind is really bad over here. So, let me know if I have to repeat anything.

633
00:56:25,900 --> 00:56:35,960
Okay, so this one has some, could be sensitive. We are allowed to approve these LEA licenses

634
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:42,560
by discussing the name of the employee and what they're getting licensed for but we are

635
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:49,440
not allowed to discuss any qualifications or concerns in the public meeting, we would

636
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:59,460
have to go into closed session. I sent the board the resumes and letters of the letters

637
00:56:59,460 --> 00:57:02,320
There's a request from the administration.

638
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:04,440
These are not core classes.

639
00:57:04,820 --> 00:57:14,280
These are elective and specialty courses and technicalities for one of them on a technical

640
00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:18,460
issue we ran into because we're 7-12 instead of K-8.

641
00:57:19,380 --> 00:57:23,280
So you know the state of Utah just has some funky little technical things.

642
00:57:24,020 --> 00:57:27,360
So I am going to share my screen now.

643
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:37,680
Can you guys all see my kind of small, all right, so I would just, these are the only

644
00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:40,520
LEA-specific licenses for this school year.

645
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:50,860
It's one class for three of them and then three classes for the other teacher.

646
00:57:50,860 --> 00:57:59,780
So if we need to discuss anything other than the courses themselves, we would need to go into closed session.

647
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:07,920
So I looked at this. I don't have anything. I think, again, boarded somebody. Folks, if you want to, I had a chance to look at everything.

648
00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:18,400
So I'm good with it. But if we want to go into closed session, we can. If you folks think we need to talk about people's qualifications on the faculty to teach these electives.

649
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:23,760
I have a question that I don't know if this would fall under it, but are these all returning

650
00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:25,200
or are they new?

651
00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:31,600
One, our guitar rock band teacher is new, and that's all he's going to be teaching.

652
00:58:32,140 --> 00:58:32,380
Okay.

653
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:37,940
But the rest of them are returning faculty members from last year.

654
00:58:38,860 --> 00:58:40,540
They just have some new assignments.

655
00:58:40,980 --> 00:58:41,660
Adam, pervert.

656
00:58:46,180 --> 00:58:49,640
I didn't have any questions from what you had submitted.

657
00:58:52,810 --> 00:58:53,250
How?

658
00:58:53,530 --> 00:58:54,510
How was the only one?

659
00:58:59,330 --> 00:59:01,330
Any questions from you guys? Pete, you're on mute.

660
00:59:03,110 --> 00:59:04,870
No, not for me.

661
00:59:06,050 --> 00:59:10,650
Okay, then we don't need to go into closed session, which is just fine and dandy.

662
00:59:11,370 --> 00:59:12,730
We can do this in one of two ways.

663
00:59:12,870 --> 00:59:15,990
We can group, approve these or we can do them individually.

664
00:59:15,990 --> 00:59:17,270
What would you like to do?

665
00:59:20,190 --> 00:59:20,850
All right, by the group.

666
00:59:21,430 --> 00:59:21,750
Yeah.

667
00:59:21,850 --> 00:59:22,530
By group, all right.

668
00:59:22,850 --> 00:59:23,130
Yeah.

669
00:59:23,450 --> 00:59:24,210
Is he good with that?

670
00:59:24,610 --> 00:59:25,490
Yes, that's great.

671
00:59:25,830 --> 00:59:26,210
Fantastic.

672
00:59:26,390 --> 00:59:28,470
Well, I will entertain a motion to grant.

673
00:59:28,470 --> 00:59:39,530
and LEA psych-specific licenses to Ms. Reed, Mr. Ferraro, Mr. Carter, and Ms. Blaha for the FY27 school year.

674
00:59:41,600 --> 00:59:44,880
Oh, that's a mouthful, but I will try and do that motion.

675
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:45,640
Okay.

676
00:59:45,760 --> 00:59:46,680
All right. Fantastic.

677
00:59:47,100 --> 00:59:56,820
We have the motion to approve the three other licenses requested by the admin for FY274, Ms. Reed,

678
00:59:56,820 --> 00:59:59,960
Mr. Fraaro, Mr. Carter, and Ms. Blossom.

679
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:29,860
Thank you, Dave. I was going to do it. You're watching from Al. I feel like an auctioned ear. Al, did you do a second? Okay, also. I have a second from Al. All in favor of granting LEA licenses to faculty, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right. Hearing and seeing none, LEA licenses are granted. Congratulations. Moving right along.

680
01:00:29,860 --> 01:00:36,440
technology policy, my favorite. Yes, so as you all know, there have been two big

681
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:42,800
technology pieces of law that have just been passed by the state

682
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:50,460
legislature. That's HP 502. We were required to write a policy regarding

683
01:00:50,460 --> 01:00:55,060
personal devices, especially cell phones in classrooms and in the school

684
01:00:55,060 --> 01:01:02,920
building, but now the law that took effect, I believe it was May 6th, bans all of these

685
01:01:02,920 --> 01:01:10,480
technology pieces from belt to belt, unless you have a policy that outlines the expectations,

686
01:01:11,080 --> 01:01:18,640
make sure that there's exceptions that are reasonable exclusions, procedures in case something

687
01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:19,480
is confiscated.

688
01:01:19,480 --> 01:01:27,100
We had a policy, the first law required a policy, but the second law required us to amend the policy.

689
01:01:27,620 --> 01:01:29,660
So I'll just point out what is different.

690
01:01:31,160 --> 01:01:38,440
Under the expectations, the last bullet, like where this policy specifically applies to,

691
01:01:39,420 --> 01:01:45,680
as we are a high school, our policy applies to instructional time.

692
01:01:45,680 --> 01:01:51,940
so they're allowed to use their devices before after school and during lunch, but they are not allowed to be on our

693
01:01:51,940 --> 01:01:57,740
student Wi-Fi. They have to use their own data system. We had to add the exclusions.

694
01:01:58,620 --> 01:02:06,820
This was new in the law, and so it just follows what the law requires. The procedures have not changed.

695
01:02:07,100 --> 01:02:12,600
This is what we, what we had last year. It was successful last year. We had a little bit of hiccups,

696
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:20,780
So we corrected those with the faculty did some training and it's now in full force and it's working really well. It's only three days in but working well.

697
01:02:22,520 --> 01:02:29,040
And then we do have an exclusion for laptops for students who are involved in concurrent enrollment.

698
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:40,280
So laptops at our school are just not allowed personal laptops because we don't really have the ability to monitor what they're doing on those laptops.

699
01:02:40,280 --> 01:02:46,340
unless they can get an exclusion if they are enrolled in a concurrent enrollment class in the college

700
01:02:46,340 --> 01:02:50,760
and that's because often they require software that our Chromebooks cannot handle.

701
01:02:51,160 --> 01:02:54,400
And so they have to have a special exclusionary form in order for that.

702
01:02:55,020 --> 01:03:01,740
The accountability remains the same, student gets a warning, teacher takes the device, parent has to pick the device up.

703
01:03:02,080 --> 01:03:04,960
So that's works really well for us.

704
01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:12,580
have your teachers felt supported in implementing the policy?

705
01:03:13,020 --> 01:03:14,420
Yes, the teachers wrote the policy.

706
01:03:15,080 --> 01:03:15,640
Oh, beautiful.

707
01:03:15,940 --> 01:03:20,980
So we made sure that it was all of the requirements of the law.

708
01:03:21,300 --> 01:03:26,320
But then we let the teachers really drive this because yes,

709
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:27,860
they're the ones who have to enforce it.

710
01:03:27,940 --> 01:03:30,800
And we wanted to make sure that it was something they felt comfortable

711
01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:38,160
enforcing and that they felt supported on our end that they had to say in what was happening in their classrooms with the technology.

712
01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:46,940
I mean, the basic rundown is we have pouches on every classroom wall, in every classroom,

713
01:03:47,180 --> 01:03:54,440
or not in every wall, but in every classroom that the students drop off their device and they have to stay there during the duration of class period.

714
01:03:56,520 --> 01:03:58,300
Is there support from the parents?

715
01:03:58,620 --> 01:04:01,840
Or have you had any issues with parents not liking the fallacy?

716
01:04:02,220 --> 01:04:06,340
I have not heard any parent complaints that were formal.

717
01:04:07,560 --> 01:04:10,660
The law itself has some mixed results.

718
01:04:11,560 --> 01:04:18,440
Most parents were in favor of it, but there are some parents who it's a culture shift.

719
01:04:19,740 --> 01:04:28,220
And the concerns or just sort of the things I've heard parents say, wait, I can't text

720
01:04:28,220 --> 01:04:32,200
my student any time I need to and it's like, well, no, you can't, well, if you're in

721
01:04:32,200 --> 01:04:35,900
class, you need to call the front office and we'll take them, call them down to the office.

722
01:04:36,600 --> 01:04:42,020
But students can, in between classes, use their device, so if a student needed to get a hold

723
01:04:42,020 --> 01:04:45,920
of their parent, they could, but students still have to check out on the front office even

724
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:50,600
if they leave campus and so it's worked out pretty well.

725
01:04:50,900 --> 01:04:52,940
That's probably the biggest cool tip.

726
01:04:53,460 --> 01:04:56,340
Like our biggest challenge, I wouldn't even call it a challenge.

727
01:04:56,460 --> 01:04:58,000
I would say our biggest concern with parents.

728
01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:01,540
A lot of it had to do with students who use them for medical.

729
01:05:02,300 --> 01:05:05,880
And then once they understood what the expectations were

730
01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:07,780
and the accommodations and exclusions

731
01:05:07,780 --> 01:05:09,160
that were included in the policy,

732
01:05:09,820 --> 01:05:13,600
then it eased whatever concerns there were.

733
01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:21,200
Yeah, and that fits in the exclusions category. So yeah, that makes sense. I mean again we

734
01:05:21,940 --> 01:05:28,960
want to make sure that they're not on their phone and actually learning and all that kind of

735
01:05:28,960 --> 01:05:36,800
good stuff. If I had my way, I jammed cell phone signals in the school, but no, I mean, but fair enough

736
01:05:36,800 --> 01:05:40,420
and after your third offense, then you know, we get a auction off your device.

737
01:05:57,260 --> 01:06:07,020
I'm sorry, we did run the changes through the faculty before we brought it to you so they and they voted and they were all in favor

738
01:06:07,020 --> 01:06:13,020
So I had I had no teacher who who did not support this so I can't see any

739
01:06:13,020 --> 01:06:17,240
teacher that that wouldn't support it. I mean it's it's egalitarian but it's

740
01:06:17,240 --> 01:06:20,080
also firm and we've got to obey the law and then the way it's written by the

741
01:06:20,080 --> 01:06:27,060
state so it's not like we got a chance to change it so we've totally got it all

742
01:06:27,060 --> 01:06:33,840
right I'll entertain a motion to approve the FY27 technology policy as as

743
01:06:33,840 --> 01:06:39,340
written. A motion to approve the SGA technology policy. All right thank you

744
01:06:39,340 --> 01:06:44,780
Dr. Willis we have a motion to approve the FY27 technology policy as written by

745
01:06:44,780 --> 01:06:50,700
Dr. Willis make a second. A second. All right thank you out we have a second

746
01:06:50,700 --> 01:06:55,540
from Albo proves the FY27 technology policy as written. Well in favor please say

747
01:06:55,540 --> 01:07:25,520
Hi. Hi. Hi. Right. Any opposed? All right. Seeing and hearing none, motion passes unanimously. All right. Your policy is now good to go. All right, folks. We will be meeting next in October. And by then, Christy, we should have an Roger. We should know where we are with the numbers and everything like that. And then Al and myself are happy to have a conversation with

748
01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:36,160
It's not Woodbridge. It's Williamsburg. Williamsburg. There we go. All right. Thank you all. We'll see you in October and welcome Brad. Thank you for the questions.

749
01:07:36,480 --> 01:07:52,740
Are you attending and hopefully you can attend more of these. Thank you, Brad. Yeah, I just wanted to say thank you to all of you for your time and I've heard nothing but fabulous reviews about the current group.

750
01:07:53,600 --> 01:07:59,160
Like I said, this is our first foray and in the charter and we're excited to be a part

751
01:07:59,160 --> 01:07:59,400
of it.

752
01:07:59,480 --> 01:08:05,140
I retired a few years ago so I could be more engaged as our kids go through the teenage years.

753
01:08:05,560 --> 01:08:09,120
My wife is a non-working nurse and she loves to volunteer.

754
01:08:09,900 --> 01:08:14,220
So if there's a list of any volunteer opportunities, I know she'd be interested in that.

755
01:08:16,160 --> 01:08:22,120
Since we announced that we'd be at SGA, we heard some concerns that were several years

756
01:08:22,120 --> 01:08:28,700
a little bold, but you know we've heard nothing but good stuff about what's going on now we love all

757
01:08:28,700 --> 01:08:33,600
the teachers, so we're really excited to be a part of it and thank you all for your time.

758
01:08:34,880 --> 01:08:36,960
Thank you for that. It's great to meet you.

759
01:08:37,640 --> 01:08:43,200
I would say absolutely, this is McDermott, to connect with the PT, the

760
01:08:43,860 --> 01:08:48,520
future association. They're very active in our school, so I can tell you,

761
01:08:48,520 --> 01:08:56,420
I think Christina and our team are very bound to the school and very connected to it, which

762
01:08:56,420 --> 01:08:57,100
is great.

763
01:08:57,300 --> 01:09:02,480
It shows in our results and in our standardized testing results and our matriculation

764
01:09:02,480 --> 01:09:07,700
rate and all those kinds of good things and so we'd love to take as many volunteers as

765
01:09:07,700 --> 01:09:08,100
we can.

766
01:09:08,480 --> 01:09:09,680
I'm not shy about that.

767
01:09:10,720 --> 01:09:11,380
Very good.

768
01:09:11,920 --> 01:09:12,420
That's great.

769
01:09:12,760 --> 01:09:14,860
All right folks, well enjoy your evening and thank you.

770
01:09:14,920 --> 01:09:15,660
We'll see you in a little bit.

771
01:09:15,660 --> 01:09:16,760
All right.

772
01:09:16,920 --> 01:09:17,120
Okay.