1 00:00:01,420 --> 00:00:17,290 I'd like to call Walla Stegna board meeting to order. It is 8.32 a.m. on the 9th of March, 2026. And this is a electronic meeting. 2 00:00:18,550 --> 00:00:23,590 I can board members, please state their name and title for the record solid by anyone else with a speaking role in today's meeting. 3 00:00:23,590 --> 00:00:25,570 Sarah Vorgh, president, Tony. 4 00:00:26,170 --> 00:00:27,090 Kodakurana Fijur. 5 00:00:28,410 --> 00:00:29,230 Frank. 6 00:00:29,810 --> 00:00:31,290 Frank McKenna, board member. 7 00:00:31,830 --> 00:00:32,110 Jeremy. 8 00:00:32,690 --> 00:00:33,690 Jeremy Steele, secretary. 9 00:00:34,370 --> 00:00:34,890 Anthony. 10 00:00:35,710 --> 00:00:36,790 Anthony Steele, CEO. 11 00:00:38,190 --> 00:00:39,330 Adam, if you're speaking. 12 00:00:40,190 --> 00:00:41,570 Adam Grillock, other CEO. 13 00:00:42,310 --> 00:00:42,790 Thank you. 14 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:48,020 Nielsen, with academic west. 15 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:49,020 Hannah. 16 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:51,140 Hannah Jones, academic west. 17 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:52,260 Shantel. 18 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:57,720 No, I think that's everybody. 19 00:00:58,380 --> 00:00:58,560 Perfect. 20 00:00:58,920 --> 00:00:59,080 Okay. 21 00:00:59,300 --> 00:01:01,120 So, the first item is consent items. 22 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:04,620 Do we have any comments about the board meeting minutes from February 2026? 23 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:06,600 No. 24 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:07,480 Okay. 25 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:11,080 I'll make a motion to pass the February 2626 board meeting minutes. 26 00:01:11,180 --> 00:01:12,160 Can I have a second, please, Frank? 27 00:01:12,980 --> 00:01:14,060 I Frank's second motion? 28 00:01:14,820 --> 00:01:16,900 I'll say aye, aye, Sarah and Tony. 29 00:01:17,460 --> 00:01:17,800 I like Tony. 30 00:01:18,420 --> 00:01:18,780 Jeremy. 31 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:19,720 I Jeremy. 32 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:20,600 Frank. 33 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:21,660 I Frank. 34 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:22,240 Frank. 35 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:30,500 That's unanimous and that's passed. Next item is the throating items. Everyone received a copy of the ratified CEO employment agreements. 36 00:01:31,100 --> 00:01:32,860 Was there any comments or queries on that? 37 00:01:35,140 --> 00:01:47,020 Yeah, I think there's an error in his. There's a blank spot, and I'm not sure I think she just matched with some Anthony's. I've been able to verify that but reached out to me or from him either. 38 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:52,080 But we might need to take a look at that real quick. I still think we should try to approve them. 39 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:53,620 you know, pinning up. 40 00:01:53,740 --> 00:01:55,020 It's heading to the SS. 41 00:01:55,660 --> 00:01:55,760 Right. 42 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:56,680 Exactly. 43 00:02:00,300 --> 00:02:02,940 Did you want to check over that and we'll move to the next item? 44 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:04,980 Well, we'd like to hear. 45 00:02:05,260 --> 00:02:07,160 Yeah, real fast as you can see right off the bat. 46 00:02:07,300 --> 00:02:08,860 The sea over there will see an additional, 47 00:02:09,340 --> 00:02:11,740 and anybody is striped and of, and then it's blank. 48 00:02:12,540 --> 00:02:13,200 Oh, yeah. 49 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:14,300 You should be like a number there. 50 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:16,520 And if you're in the same as mine, yeah. 51 00:02:16,660 --> 00:02:17,760 I think it's much different. 52 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:19,880 The entire thing is just like 370. 53 00:02:20,220 --> 00:02:20,940 It's much shorter. 54 00:02:21,420 --> 00:02:23,300 I think we can just stick with some of this. 55 00:02:23,300 --> 00:02:30,260 just now let's match yeah let's just match what the other one says and and then 56 00:02:30,260 --> 00:02:35,740 approve a paint based on that yeah yeah I think it's the right amount I think 57 00:02:35,740 --> 00:02:39,160 what we have in Anthony's is what it's supposed to be I'm having trouble 58 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:44,060 verifying that I think we'll be able to the can you verify that shantel implant and 59 00:02:44,060 --> 00:02:48,960 then put the right a self of them and we'll approve it based on that yeah that was 60 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:52,900 I'm sure that was just my mistake I think what we had is we had the old 61 00:02:52,900 --> 00:02:57,620 amount in there. Right. We put the new amount and it just didn't make it in. So yeah, 62 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:03,700 I will change that. My bad worries. I do want to skip over and come back when we know the number 63 00:03:03,700 --> 00:03:13,220 or just just for it to. Let's start to approve it with the amendment changes. Okay. Are you comfortable 64 00:03:13,220 --> 00:03:19,180 with that? Anthony and Adam. Yeah. Yeah. Make sense. Okay. I'll make a motion to pass the 65 00:03:19,180 --> 00:03:24,200 certified CEO employment agreements with the mentioned changes. Can I have a second 66 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:29,120 please Jeremy. I Jeremy second the motion. Only if I would say aye aye Sarah Jeremy. 67 00:03:29,660 --> 00:03:36,700 I Jeremy. I Tony. I Tony. Frank. I Frank. That's none of us and that's past. Thanks for 68 00:03:36,700 --> 00:03:42,540 spotting that Tony. I didn't see that. The next item is the 2627 school land trust plans 69 00:03:42,540 --> 00:03:46,200 we've done this many times. Anthony and Adam did you have just a quick one sentence about 70 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:52,500 Yeah, well it's like three sentences. So we use all of our title one money to pay for all of our 71 00:03:52,500 --> 00:03:59,060 parapherstionals and the parapherstionals run hundreds of small group reading interventions for all 72 00:03:59,060 --> 00:04:04,900 of our lower grade kids and then we use our land trust money to hire what we call intervention specialists. 73 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:11,900 These are really good teachers that we train to supervise that entire program and so they train 74 00:04:11,900 --> 00:04:15,600 the parapherstionals, they supervise the parapherstionals, they set all the schedules and make sure 75 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,480 that all those reading interventions are working and that every kid is getting a reading 76 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:22,220 event interventions. It's the same thing we've done for the last few years and it works 77 00:04:22,220 --> 00:04:24,220 very well for our kids. Any questions? 78 00:04:26,140 --> 00:04:26,260 Nope. 79 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:28,480 Sorry, I don't look in three sentences. 80 00:04:29,100 --> 00:04:29,620 No, that looks good. 81 00:04:31,340 --> 00:04:33,600 Tony, can I have a motion to pass the land trust? 82 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:37,680 Oh, you're on mute. 83 00:04:40,370 --> 00:04:41,670 Make a motion to pass the land trust. 84 00:04:42,190 --> 00:04:44,570 Oh, sorry, 26, 27 school land trust plans. 85 00:04:44,990 --> 00:04:45,310 Oh, sorry. 86 00:04:45,550 --> 00:04:48,170 I certainly make a motion to pass the 26, 27. 87 00:04:48,170 --> 00:04:48,210 Hello? 88 00:04:48,990 --> 00:04:49,850 Six, three, seven. 89 00:04:50,070 --> 00:04:50,330 Hello? 90 00:04:50,670 --> 00:04:51,050 Wyne. 91 00:04:51,250 --> 00:04:51,750 Pop them up and copy. 92 00:04:52,870 --> 00:04:53,830 I know that, I'll do that. 93 00:04:53,830 --> 00:04:54,670 Second, please, Derby. 94 00:04:55,030 --> 00:04:56,030 What is your army second yet? 95 00:04:56,630 --> 00:04:58,710 I only during this, I, I, I, Sarah, Tony. 96 00:04:59,410 --> 00:04:59,910 I join— 97 00:05:00,230 --> 00:05:00,610 Frank. 98 00:05:01,210 --> 00:05:01,630 Yeah, Frank. 99 00:05:02,190 --> 00:05:02,450 Derby. 100 00:05:02,890 --> 00:05:03,370 I join me. 101 00:05:03,850 --> 00:05:04,930 That's an enemy's in that spot. 102 00:05:05,150 --> 00:05:08,850 We've got three, um, one handbook and two policy updates. 103 00:05:09,290 --> 00:05:14,250 Um, I requested everyone to read them in advance, um, ones if him or lay, ones parental and 104 00:05:14,250 --> 00:05:17,210 post-partum recovery leave and ones that pay time off policy. 105 00:05:18,110 --> 00:05:21,910 And to each other, Adam, did you have something to mention about any of those specifically? 106 00:05:22,890 --> 00:05:27,650 Yeah, what brings this up is when we, maybe you guys remember this a long time ago, when 107 00:05:27,650 --> 00:05:34,930 we initially adopted paid leave, what we wanted to do was do paid maternity paternity leave 108 00:05:34,930 --> 00:05:38,730 because no one else in the state was doing that at the time and large percentage of our 109 00:05:38,730 --> 00:05:42,170 employees are very young people and mostly young women and they have a lot of babies and it's 110 00:05:42,170 --> 00:05:43,570 is a very big selling point for our school 111 00:05:43,570 --> 00:05:45,110 and it makes people very loyal to our school 112 00:05:45,110 --> 00:05:46,110 because they get that paid leave 113 00:05:46,110 --> 00:05:47,390 and they come back and they love that support. 114 00:05:47,810 --> 00:05:50,590 But at the time, we were told that that might not be allowed 115 00:05:51,190 --> 00:05:53,850 and instead we'd have to just do paid FMLA, 116 00:05:54,850 --> 00:05:56,290 which we all thought would maybe just include 117 00:05:56,290 --> 00:05:57,710 like people who get like cancer and whatnot. 118 00:05:58,090 --> 00:06:00,790 Turns out it's pretty much any reason you can imagine. 119 00:06:01,070 --> 00:06:02,190 And we looked at the data, 120 00:06:02,610 --> 00:06:04,970 almost a third, well actually exactly a third 121 00:06:04,970 --> 00:06:08,150 of all of our leave has been for non-venturity, 122 00:06:08,330 --> 00:06:10,950 fraternity things, things that I think 123 00:06:10,950 --> 00:06:15,030 those people wouldn't have left work for if we hadn't incentivized them to leave work for. 124 00:06:15,670 --> 00:06:20,010 So now that the state has actually a requirement to have just paid maternity paternity leave, 125 00:06:20,330 --> 00:06:25,450 we know that's completely allowed. And so we want to go to just paid maternity paternity leave. 126 00:06:26,030 --> 00:06:30,810 FMLA will still exist, of course, but it will be unpaid. So people can keep their jobs for 12 weeks, 127 00:06:30,810 --> 00:06:35,990 just like they're federally required to have, but leave will only be paid for maternity and 128 00:06:35,990 --> 00:06:40,410 paternity leave is what we envision for this. Am I missing anything? 129 00:06:40,810 --> 00:06:48,130 Yeah, we also decided to extend it from six weeks to eight weeks, but I didn't get back to 130 00:06:48,130 --> 00:06:54,450 plan on Friday afternoon. So the maternity paternity law is a little bit different than just 131 00:06:54,450 --> 00:07:01,870 straight number of weeks. It's like split up between like recovery from giving birth and also just 132 00:07:01,870 --> 00:07:07,070 like paternity style leave. So that's like adoption style leave. And I would, I don't, I don't, 133 00:07:07,150 --> 00:07:10,270 I didn't get a chance to even see what the policy ended up being. It would be sent to you guys. But 134 00:07:10,270 --> 00:07:13,950 I don't really want to differentiate between it. So we just wanted to do eight weeks. 135 00:07:14,670 --> 00:07:20,130 Okay. Yeah. So I think you could tell us how it's kind of structured. Now as you have, 136 00:07:20,330 --> 00:07:25,350 you have the postpartum recovery, like you were saying, that's three weeks for those who have babies. 137 00:07:25,550 --> 00:07:31,290 And then you have the parental leave, which is like you were saying, like adoption or for a paternity 138 00:07:31,290 --> 00:07:38,310 the tightly situation. And so someone who's having a baby, they get the full three weeks of 139 00:07:38,310 --> 00:07:42,370 postpartum and then they also get the parental three. So they get six weeks. Those who are 140 00:07:42,370 --> 00:07:46,610 just on the parental leave just get the three weeks. So if you want, maybe what I'm hearing 141 00:07:46,610 --> 00:07:54,290 is maybe we just make, if you qualify for postpartum or parental, you get the full eight weeks. 142 00:07:54,650 --> 00:07:55,450 Is that kind of what you're saying? 143 00:07:55,450 --> 00:07:57,710 Yes, that's a really good idea. 144 00:07:58,390 --> 00:08:04,030 Okay, so how it reads now in the packet is not that way. 145 00:08:04,050 --> 00:08:08,370 It still has it separated out, but you could still prove the policy and just make it so that 146 00:08:10,170 --> 00:08:14,130 whoever qualifies for paid parental or paid post-partum 147 00:08:14,130 --> 00:08:16,390 either one gets up to eight weeks. 148 00:08:17,710 --> 00:08:18,090 Sounds good. 149 00:08:18,570 --> 00:08:19,350 That sounds good. 150 00:08:19,350 --> 00:08:26,290 If the board likes that idea, we wanted to further encourage that. 151 00:08:26,410 --> 00:08:32,510 I think the state employees also just increased theirs this legislative session to six to nine weeks. 152 00:08:32,670 --> 00:08:33,310 I think so. 153 00:08:33,710 --> 00:08:39,330 We wanted to increase our paid maternity fraternity leave, but we don't want to pay for these random other things. 154 00:08:39,510 --> 00:08:47,270 We have some people who apply for FMLA every year for not terminal type illnesses, but you would imagine FMLAs for it, but for much more minor things. 155 00:08:47,270 --> 00:08:48,990 and we don't want to encourage that anymore. 156 00:08:49,930 --> 00:08:51,910 Thoughts, questions, ideas? 157 00:08:53,530 --> 00:08:55,470 I think that's really important to increase it. 158 00:08:55,670 --> 00:08:59,110 I know as an adopted parent that when you're 159 00:08:59,110 --> 00:09:01,450 doing all those processes that takes weeks 160 00:09:01,450 --> 00:09:06,450 just to organize and so three weeks would be, like, not much. 161 00:09:06,810 --> 00:09:08,810 Yeah, not too much bonding, right? 162 00:09:09,070 --> 00:09:10,810 But I think that's nice for it. 163 00:09:11,410 --> 00:09:13,970 Yes, exactly, so yeah, that sounds great. 164 00:09:13,970 --> 00:09:18,310 and for all types of parents as well, so that sounds great. 165 00:09:19,010 --> 00:09:21,670 Yeah. Any other further questions? 166 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:28,640 We've had one that affects the paid parental and prized part of recovery, 167 00:09:28,780 --> 00:09:36,160 so I'll just point to that that would include maternal and paternal types of leave for eight weeks. 168 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:41,440 Yeah, postpartum and parental, both either one of the qualifies for up to eight weeks. 169 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:47,900 Okay all right I'll try that. But I make a motion to pass the amended paid FMLA leave policy 170 00:09:47,900 --> 00:09:53,460 and employee handbook and the motion to pass the amended paid parental and postpartum recovery 171 00:09:53,460 --> 00:10:01,860 leave policy. With an amendment to increase the postpartum and maternal paternal leave for 172 00:10:01,860 --> 00:10:08,040 up to eight weeks and the amended donation of paid time off policy. Can I have second please, 173 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:13,200 20. 20 seconds. I would say aye, aye, Sarah, 20. 174 00:10:14,220 --> 00:10:14,520 Aye, Tony. 175 00:10:14,980 --> 00:10:15,400 Jeremy. 176 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:16,260 Aye, Jeremy. 177 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:17,020 Frank. 178 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:18,080 Frank. 179 00:10:18,940 --> 00:10:19,700 That's unanimous. 180 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:20,220 And it's past. 181 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:24,860 The last item is that we've got April 15th is the next board meeting. 182 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:28,420 Hannah, we talked about that we had something coming up. 183 00:10:28,660 --> 00:10:29,900 Was that what was that again? 184 00:10:30,620 --> 00:10:34,920 We did have a March 18th board meeting scheduled, so be in nine days. 185 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:41,920 but yeah, it just as needed if we want to get that canceled we can and just put on the April or 186 00:10:43,660 --> 00:10:47,900 Yeah, it's up to up to the board. That's what we were planning on doing that. So are we through this one? 187 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:54,900 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did we have something else that we said was due coming up there or was that all I knew about 188 00:10:54,900 --> 00:10:55,660 interest 189 00:10:57,620 --> 00:11:03,220 We had the financial RFP but we could just reach out to the vendors and let them know that we can award it in 190 00:11:03,220 --> 00:11:09,840 and April. Oh yeah, yeah, let's do that. Okay, so planning for the RP in April. Yeah, 191 00:11:09,860 --> 00:11:14,100 I don't think there's anything else than as far as deadlines go. 192 00:11:19,540 --> 00:11:21,420 So Sarah, you pass the 193 00:11:21,420 --> 00:11:24,820 paint print on postpartum recovery. You might want to make one more motion just to 194 00:11:24,820 --> 00:11:30,740 see the policy and we'll just FNLA and donation of paint time off policy. Those are two separate items. 195 00:11:31,220 --> 00:11:35,640 No, she said the FNLA one does. So we just need to do the paint time off one. Okay. 196 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:37,560 I read all of them. 197 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:39,300 Oh yeah, did you get any time on that three? 198 00:11:39,740 --> 00:11:40,000 If 199 00:11:42,020 --> 00:11:45,340 I'm a lay leave policy amended paid parental and postpartum recovery leave 200 00:11:45,340 --> 00:11:47,600 and amended donation of paid time off policy. 201 00:11:48,140 --> 00:11:49,500 Okay, good job. Good job. 202 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:52,480 I did it all together. I can do it again if anyone thinks I'm done. 203 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,480 I just ruined the two, but I want them all done. 204 00:11:55,620 --> 00:11:56,740 Yay, get the air. 205 00:11:57,340 --> 00:11:59,620 Yeah, I'm pretty sure I just read the whole three. 206 00:12:00,740 --> 00:12:03,160 All right, well, if there's no further questions, 207 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:05,400 any further questions first? 208 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:05,520 Yes. 209 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:13,820 But there is going to be a difference in the verveg in the numbers for that for Adam's contract 210 00:12:13,820 --> 00:12:15,040 so all they can touch with you on that. 211 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:19,680 So hey, I looked at that and I think what we did is you're talking about paragraph A to 212 00:12:19,680 --> 00:12:19,860 it. 213 00:12:20,140 --> 00:12:20,400 Yeah. 214 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:24,820 I deleted a number because then we did the two different numbers starting at different dates. 215 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:30,360 So I think I didn't delete the word of, but let's talk after if you think that there's 216 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:31,300 sort of different things there. 217 00:12:31,740 --> 00:12:31,880 Cool. 218 00:12:32,140 --> 00:12:32,340 Okay. 219 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:33,180 Tell us great then. 220 00:12:33,940 --> 00:12:34,340 Okay. 221 00:12:34,340 --> 00:12:37,060 Thank you guys, thank you very much. 222 00:12:37,060 --> 00:12:38,100 Wait, wait, we need to do a adjourn. 223 00:12:38,420 --> 00:12:39,820 Should I sit there? 224 00:12:40,140 --> 00:12:41,720 I've been to close the general meeting. 225 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:42,960 I'm sick of this, Jeremy. 226 00:12:43,940 --> 00:12:48,020 I, Jeremy, make a motion to close the general meeting at 8.45 a.m. 227 00:12:48,580 --> 00:12:50,360 Well, in time say I, I, I, Sarah, Tony. 228 00:12:50,660 --> 00:12:50,980 Hi, Tony. 229 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:51,840 Frank. 230 00:12:52,460 --> 00:12:52,820 Hi, Frank. 231 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:53,580 Jeremy. 232 00:12:54,340 --> 00:12:54,800 I, Jeremy. 233 00:12:55,340 --> 00:12:59,860 At unanimous its pass, it is 8.45 a.m. 234 00:13:00,660 --> 00:13:00,820 Yeah. 235 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:01,520 Wow. 236 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:02,280 Thanks everyone. 237 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:07,380 Thanks for keeping us in line, Hannah. 238 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:08,520 Yes, yes. 239 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:18,040 Good. 240 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:18,600 Good. 241 00:13:19,420 --> 00:13:21,020 Thanks for running the meeting for us. 242 00:13:21,140 --> 00:13:21,700 No problem. 243 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:22,600 Good to see you. 244 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:24,060 Yeah, have a good day. 245 00:13:24,180 --> 00:13:24,720 You too, bye. 246 00:13:27,710 --> 00:13:27,990 Freak.