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[0:01] 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.
[0:18] 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.
[0:23] Sarah Vorgh, president, Tony.
[0:26] Kodakurana Fijur.
[0:28] Frank.
[0:29] Frank McKenna, board member.
[0:31] Jeremy.
[0:32] Jeremy Steele, secretary.
[0:34] Anthony.
[0:35] Anthony Steele, CEO.
[0:38] Adam, if you're speaking.
[0:40] Adam Grillock, other CEO.
[0:42] Thank you.
[0:46] Nielsen, with academic west.
[0:48] Hannah.
[0:49] Hannah Jones, academic west.
[0:51] Shantel.
[0:56] No, I think that's everybody.
[0:58] Perfect.
[0:58] Okay.
[0:59] So, the first item is consent items.
[1:01] Do we have any comments about the board meeting minutes from February 2026?
[1:06] No.
[1:07] Okay.
[1:07] I'll make a motion to pass the February 2626 board meeting minutes.
[1:11] Can I have a second, please, Frank?
[1:12] I Frank's second motion?
[1:14] I'll say aye, aye, Sarah and Tony.
[1:17] I like Tony.
[1:18] Jeremy.
[1:19] I Jeremy.
[1:20] Frank.
[1:21] I Frank.
[1:22] Frank.
[1:22] That's unanimous and that's passed. Next item is the throating items. Everyone received a copy of the ratified CEO employment agreements.
[1:31] Was there any comments or queries on that?
[1:35] 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.
[1:47] But we might need to take a look at that real quick. I still think we should try to approve them.
[1:52] you know, pinning up.
[1:53] It's heading to the SS.
[1:55] Right.
[1:56] Exactly.
[2:00] Did you want to check over that and we'll move to the next item?
[2:03] Well, we'd like to hear.
[2:05] Yeah, real fast as you can see right off the bat.
[2:07] The sea over there will see an additional,
[2:09] and anybody is striped and of, and then it's blank.
[2:12] Oh, yeah.
[2:13] You should be like a number there.
[2:15] And if you're in the same as mine, yeah.
[2:16] I think it's much different.
[2:18] The entire thing is just like 370.
[2:20] It's much shorter.
[2:21] I think we can just stick with some of this.
[2:23] just now let's match yeah let's just match what the other one says and and then
[2:30] approve a paint based on that yeah yeah I think it's the right amount I think
[2:35] what we have in Anthony's is what it's supposed to be I'm having trouble
[2:39] verifying that I think we'll be able to the can you verify that shantel implant and
[2:44] then put the right a self of them and we'll approve it based on that yeah that was
[2:48] I'm sure that was just my mistake I think what we had is we had the old
[2:52] amount in there. Right. We put the new amount and it just didn't make it in. So yeah,
[2:57] I will change that. My bad worries. I do want to skip over and come back when we know the number
[3:03] or just just for it to. Let's start to approve it with the amendment changes. Okay. Are you comfortable
[3:13] with that? Anthony and Adam. Yeah. Yeah. Make sense. Okay. I'll make a motion to pass the
[3:19] certified CEO employment agreements with the mentioned changes. Can I have a second
[3:24] please Jeremy. I Jeremy second the motion. Only if I would say aye aye Sarah Jeremy.
[3:29] I Jeremy. I Tony. I Tony. Frank. I Frank. That's none of us and that's past. Thanks for
[3:36] spotting that Tony. I didn't see that. The next item is the 2627 school land trust plans
[3:42] we've done this many times. Anthony and Adam did you have just a quick one sentence about
[3:46] Yeah, well it's like three sentences. So we use all of our title one money to pay for all of our
[3:52] parapherstionals and the parapherstionals run hundreds of small group reading interventions for all
[3:59] of our lower grade kids and then we use our land trust money to hire what we call intervention specialists.
[4:05] These are really good teachers that we train to supervise that entire program and so they train
[4:11] the parapherstionals, they supervise the parapherstionals, they set all the schedules and make sure
[4:15] that all those reading interventions are working and that every kid is getting a reading
[4:18] event interventions. It's the same thing we've done for the last few years and it works
[4:22] very well for our kids. Any questions?
[4:26] Nope.
[4:27] Sorry, I don't look in three sentences.
[4:29] No, that looks good.
[4:31] Tony, can I have a motion to pass the land trust?
[4:37] Oh, you're on mute.
[4:40] Make a motion to pass the land trust.
[4:42] Oh, sorry, 26, 27 school land trust plans.
[4:44] Oh, sorry.
[4:45] I certainly make a motion to pass the 26, 27.
[4:48] Hello?
[4:48] Six, three, seven.
[4:50] Hello?
[4:50] Wyne.
[4:51] Pop them up and copy.
[4:52] I know that, I'll do that.
[4:53] Second, please, Derby.
[4:55] What is your army second yet?
[4:56] I only during this, I, I, I, Sarah, Tony.
[4:59] I join—
[5:00] Frank.
[5:01] Yeah, Frank.
[5:02] Derby.
[5:02] I join me.
[5:03] That's an enemy's in that spot.
[5:05] We've got three, um, one handbook and two policy updates.
[5:09] Um, I requested everyone to read them in advance, um, ones if him or lay, ones parental and
[5:14] post-partum recovery leave and ones that pay time off policy.
[5:18] And to each other, Adam, did you have something to mention about any of those specifically?
[5:22] Yeah, what brings this up is when we, maybe you guys remember this a long time ago, when
[5:27] we initially adopted paid leave, what we wanted to do was do paid maternity paternity leave
[5:34] because no one else in the state was doing that at the time and large percentage of our
[5:38] employees are very young people and mostly young women and they have a lot of babies and it's
[5:42] is a very big selling point for our school
[5:43] and it makes people very loyal to our school
[5:45] because they get that paid leave
[5:46] and they come back and they love that support.
[5:47] But at the time, we were told that that might not be allowed
[5:51] and instead we'd have to just do paid FMLA,
[5:54] which we all thought would maybe just include
[5:56] like people who get like cancer and whatnot.
[5:58] Turns out it's pretty much any reason you can imagine.
[6:01] And we looked at the data,
[6:02] almost a third, well actually exactly a third
[6:04] of all of our leave has been for non-venturity,
[6:08] fraternity things, things that I think
[6:10] those people wouldn't have left work for if we hadn't incentivized them to leave work for.
[6:15] So now that the state has actually a requirement to have just paid maternity paternity leave,
[6:20] we know that's completely allowed. And so we want to go to just paid maternity paternity leave.
[6:26] FMLA will still exist, of course, but it will be unpaid. So people can keep their jobs for 12 weeks,
[6:30] just like they're federally required to have, but leave will only be paid for maternity and
[6:35] paternity leave is what we envision for this. Am I missing anything?
[6:40] Yeah, we also decided to extend it from six weeks to eight weeks, but I didn't get back to
[6:48] plan on Friday afternoon. So the maternity paternity law is a little bit different than just
[6:54] straight number of weeks. It's like split up between like recovery from giving birth and also just
[7:01] like paternity style leave. So that's like adoption style leave. And I would, I don't, I don't,
[7:07] I didn't get a chance to even see what the policy ended up being. It would be sent to you guys. But
[7:10] I don't really want to differentiate between it. So we just wanted to do eight weeks.
[7:14] Okay. Yeah. So I think you could tell us how it's kind of structured. Now as you have,
[7:20] you have the postpartum recovery, like you were saying, that's three weeks for those who have babies.
[7:25] And then you have the parental leave, which is like you were saying, like adoption or for a paternity
[7:31] the tightly situation. And so someone who's having a baby, they get the full three weeks of
[7:38] postpartum and then they also get the parental three. So they get six weeks. Those who are
[7:42] just on the parental leave just get the three weeks. So if you want, maybe what I'm hearing
[7:46] is maybe we just make, if you qualify for postpartum or parental, you get the full eight weeks.
[7:54] Is that kind of what you're saying?
[7:55] Yes, that's a really good idea.
[7:58] Okay, so how it reads now in the packet is not that way.
[8:04] It still has it separated out, but you could still prove the policy and just make it so that
[8:10] whoever qualifies for paid parental or paid post-partum
[8:14] either one gets up to eight weeks.
[8:17] Sounds good.
[8:18] That sounds good.
[8:19] If the board likes that idea, we wanted to further encourage that.
[8:26] I think the state employees also just increased theirs this legislative session to six to nine weeks.
[8:32] I think so.
[8:33] We wanted to increase our paid maternity fraternity leave, but we don't want to pay for these random other things.
[8:39] 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.
[8:47] and we don't want to encourage that anymore.
[8:49] Thoughts, questions, ideas?
[8:53] I think that's really important to increase it.
[8:55] I know as an adopted parent that when you're
[8:59] doing all those processes that takes weeks
[9:01] just to organize and so three weeks would be, like, not much.
[9:06] Yeah, not too much bonding, right?
[9:09] But I think that's nice for it.
[9:11] Yes, exactly, so yeah, that sounds great.
[9:13] and for all types of parents as well, so that sounds great.
[9:19] Yeah. Any other further questions?
[9:24] We've had one that affects the paid parental and prized part of recovery,
[9:28] so I'll just point to that that would include maternal and paternal types of leave for eight weeks.
[9:37] Yeah, postpartum and parental, both either one of the qualifies for up to eight weeks.
[9:41] Okay all right I'll try that. But I make a motion to pass the amended paid FMLA leave policy
[9:47] and employee handbook and the motion to pass the amended paid parental and postpartum recovery
[9:53] leave policy. With an amendment to increase the postpartum and maternal paternal leave for
[10:01] up to eight weeks and the amended donation of paid time off policy. Can I have second please,
[10:08] 20. 20 seconds. I would say aye, aye, Sarah, 20.
[10:14] Aye, Tony.
[10:14] Jeremy.
[10:15] Aye, Jeremy.
[10:16] Frank.
[10:17] Frank.
[10:18] That's unanimous.
[10:19] And it's past.
[10:20] The last item is that we've got April 15th is the next board meeting.
[10:25] Hannah, we talked about that we had something coming up.
[10:28] Was that what was that again?
[10:30] We did have a March 18th board meeting scheduled, so be in nine days.
[10:34] but yeah, it just as needed if we want to get that canceled we can and just put on the April or
[10:43] Yeah, it's up to up to the board. That's what we were planning on doing that. So are we through this one?
[10:48] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did we have something else that we said was due coming up there or was that all I knew about
[10:54] interest
[10:57] We had the financial RFP but we could just reach out to the vendors and let them know that we can award it in
[11:03] and April. Oh yeah, yeah, let's do that. Okay, so planning for the RP in April. Yeah,
[11:09] I don't think there's anything else than as far as deadlines go.
[11:19] So Sarah, you pass the
[11:21] paint print on postpartum recovery. You might want to make one more motion just to
[11:24] see the policy and we'll just FNLA and donation of paint time off policy. Those are two separate items.
[11:31] No, she said the FNLA one does. So we just need to do the paint time off one. Okay.
[11:35] I read all of them.
[11:37] Oh yeah, did you get any time on that three?
[11:39] If
[11:42] I'm a lay leave policy amended paid parental and postpartum recovery leave
[11:45] and amended donation of paid time off policy.
[11:48] Okay, good job. Good job.
[11:49] I did it all together. I can do it again if anyone thinks I'm done.
[11:53] I just ruined the two, but I want them all done.
[11:55] Yay, get the air.
[11:57] Yeah, I'm pretty sure I just read the whole three.
[12:00] All right, well, if there's no further questions,
[12:04] any further questions first?
[12:05] Yes.
[12:06] But there is going to be a difference in the verveg in the numbers for that for Adam's contract
[12:13] so all they can touch with you on that.
[12:15] So hey, I looked at that and I think what we did is you're talking about paragraph A to
[12:19] it.
[12:20] Yeah.
[12:20] I deleted a number because then we did the two different numbers starting at different dates.
[12:25] So I think I didn't delete the word of, but let's talk after if you think that there's
[12:30] sort of different things there.
[12:31] Cool.
[12:32] Okay.
[12:32] Tell us great then.
[12:33] Okay.
[12:34] Thank you guys, thank you very much.
[12:37] Wait, wait, we need to do a adjourn.
[12:38] Should I sit there?
[12:40] I've been to close the general meeting.
[12:41] I'm sick of this, Jeremy.
[12:43] I, Jeremy, make a motion to close the general meeting at 8.45 a.m.
[12:48] Well, in time say I, I, I, Sarah, Tony.
[12:50] Hi, Tony.
[12:51] Frank.
[12:52] Hi, Frank.
[12:53] Jeremy.
[12:54] I, Jeremy.
[12:55] At unanimous its pass, it is 8.45 a.m.
[13:00] Yeah.
[13:01] Wow.
[13:01] Thanks everyone.
[13:02] Thanks for keeping us in line, Hannah.
[13:07] Yes, yes.
[13:17] Good.
[13:18] Good.
[13:19] Thanks for running the meeting for us.
[13:21] No problem.
[13:21] Good to see you.
[13:23] Yeah, have a good day.
[13:24] You too, bye.
[13:27] Freak.