Rich Civic Times
RANDOLPH, Utah. October 22, 2019. Middle School and elementary Principal Kip Motta told Board Members that he was informed by the Utah State Department of Education that the North Ridge Elementary School had been nominated as a "Blue Ribbon School".
On September 26, it was announced by the U. S. Secretary of Education that North Rich Elementary was one of 362 schools in the entire country selected to receive this honor. Three Utah elementary schools and one Utah high school are being recognized as Blue Ribbon Schools based on 2019 overall academic performance. Superintendent Lamborn, Principal Motta, and first grade teacher Charlotte Colburn will be in Washington, D.C. November 14-15 to receive this award which includes a $5,000 stipend for the school.
Principal Motta recognized and expressed appreciation for the teachers, staff, aides, Superintendent Lamborn, the parents, and the students all of whom contributed to this important achievement.
It is a huge honor for North Rich Elementary to be recognized nationally as a high performing school. Since the inception of the award 37 years ago, 9,000 schools have been recognized nationally as "Blue Ribbon" high performing schools.
The Board unanimously approved the winter sports schedule.
Utah Grants Budgets for 2019-2020 were approved by the Board.
- Digital Teaching and Learning. $ 56,384.39 Portion of instruction, coach salary and benefits, in-house training, DTL summits, School /Illumination renewal.
- Early Intervention. $37,541.05. K-3 Interventions for struggling readers Kindergarten teachers pay for a full day.
- Early Literacy. $34,173.81. For aide salaries in primary grades and a small portion of literacy directors salary.
- Enhancement for At-Risk Students. $35,542.01.District Red Ribbon Week, interventions for low-performing students and summer school programs.
- Title IA. $39,806.90. Aide and Director salaries to help student learning based on free and reduced lunch percentage.
- Title IV. $9,349.92. RSD Mindfulness Initiative and Inner Explorer Software.
- TSSA. $140,470.02. Each school will determine how to spend the remaining funds within the framework based on their own needs.
- School-based Mental Health Grant. $32,894.40. Behavior Therapist in school once every other week and partnering with Bear River Mental Health at least once a week. (New this year)
- *Accelerated Student. $2,373.60. Concurrent Enrollment Program.
- *IDEA Pre-School. $3,772.10. Salary for pre-school special education director.
- *IDEA School Age. $93,990.10. Salary for special education teachers and aides.
- *Title IIA . $9,557.70. On-going professional development, registrations and local in-service.
*2018-2019 Amounts- 2019-2020 not awarded in Utah Grants yet, but should be similar.
The Board approved to move forward with needs for options on school bus. The base price for a school bus is $118,000, and the needed options required will increase the bus cost to $139,000. There was further discussion concerning future needs and requirements for school transportation.
Superintendent Dale Lamborn introduced Judy Hull who is the Rich County liaison for the Family Place in Logan, Utah. The mission of the Family Place is to strengthen families and protect children. They do this by providing fun, family-focused events in the community as well as offering a variety of services such as therapy, educational workshops, provide safe shelter for children involved in a crisis situation, and to help meet the needs of all the families in our community. Hull is already working closely with our community and school counselor, Weston Taylor, to get the appropriate information needed so she can provide people the proper help and resources needed at this time.
November 18, at 6:00 the Community Coalition will meet at the high school in Randolph. The agenda will include a presentation by the Health Department on vaping and bullying and a presentation by CAPSA, They will develop a brochure of services provided in our community and do a Family Place-Needs Assessment Survey.
The new building at the middle school is on schedule. There will be an extension needed for the high school. Richard Limb, Physical Plant, went to a training stating that the playgrounds must be 50% ADA accessible by this summer. All new locks are in the schools, they are ADA compliant. Summer repair jobs have all been completed in schools.
A security audit will be completed by the State Auditor. All districts must comply with new security system.
The next School Board Meeting will be on November 19 at 11:15 at Rich High School.
The Board approved to move forward with needs for options on school bus. The base price for a school bus is $118,000, and the needed options required will increase the bus cost to $139,000. There was further discussion concerning future needs and requirements for school transportation.
Superintendent Dale Lamborn introduced Judy Hull who is the Rich County liaison for the Family Place in Logan, Utah. The mission of the Family Place is to strengthen families and protect children. They do this by providing fun, family-focused events in the community as well as offering a variety of services such as therapy, educational workshops, provide safe shelter for children involved in a crisis situation, and to help meet the needs of all the families in our community. Hull is already working closely with our community and school counselor, Weston Taylor, to get the appropriate information needed so she can provide people the proper help and resources needed at this time.
November 18, at 6:00 the Community Coalition will meet at the high school in Randolph. The agenda will include a presentation by the Health Department on vaping and bullying and a presentation by CAPSA, They will develop a brochure of services provided in our community and do a Family Place-Needs Assessment Survey.
The new building at the middle school is on schedule. There will be an extension needed for the high school. Richard Limb, Physical Plant, went to a training stating that the playgrounds must be 50% ADA accessible by this summer. All new locks are in the schools, they are ADA compliant. Summer repair jobs have all been completed in schools.
A security audit will be completed by the State Auditor. All districts must comply with new security system.
The next School Board Meeting will be on November 19 at 11:15 at Rich High School.
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