March School Board Meeting Unofficial Summary
REQUEST to SPEAK
Academic Decathalon and Sterling Scholar Participants
- Students from Rich High school participated in an academic
decathalon and did reasonably well. The student presenting felt that concurrent
enrollment classes helped them perform as well as they did.
- Several students also participated in Sterling Scholar. Again,
the student presenting felt the programs the school has to offer (concurrent
enrollment, Bridgerland, sports) helped the students perform to the best of
their abilities
Frank Smith
- Mr. Smith informed the board of a grant he has been awarded.
This will go towards STEM learning. More info to follow in future meeting(s)
Commissioner Cox
- spoke of the stance the county is taking on wanting to help
whereever needed for mental and emotional wellbeing within our schools and
community. Offered to increase hours or people if the need was there
Rich Booster Club
- requested to make updates in the weight room and also
requested a potential update to sponsor banners in the high school gym. They
will give a more detailed plan to the board and administration.
ACTION ITEMS
1. Social Studies Adoption
- New legislation calls for local boards to approve curriculum.
Social studies curriculum from National Geographic was recommended to the board
and board approved
2. Staffing (Approve provisional teachers)
- all provisional teachers were approved.
- Lex Cornia, Ruby Hunter, Andrea Carlisle were moved to career
status
- Ashley Rex, Jaden Larsen, Steven Pugmire, Shelly Stapel,
Brittney Lundgren, Chelsie Stuart were approved to continue toward career
provisionally
3. Staffing (Approving new hires and resignations)
- Hired Katrina Reese and Kristen Walker as special ed aids
- Hired Brian Tumor as special ed director working also in
technology
- Principal Taylor and Principal Motta submitted letters of
resignation
- Coach Lamborn (HS volleyball head coach) resigned as well
- HS vball coach position has been opened up for applicants
- HS principal position has been opened up for applicants
4. School Fees (Ratify for 2023-2024 school year)
- school fees were adopted last month and ratified in March
meeting
5. Calendar 2023-2024 school year
- next years school calendar was adopted. We will be taking both
Presidents Day and MLK Jr. day off and will hold school the Friday during the
week of the musical
6. Land Purchase
- Board voted to purchase land near the High School
- Land will be used to store maintenance equipment and also for
potential future expansion
7. Juul Settlement
- RSD will receive a settlement from the class action lawsuit
against Juul. The money isn’t a significant amount but RSD also did not have to
pay any legal fees. Board is less worried about the money coming from the
settlement and more concerned about the voice against companies like Juul and
the impact they have on students
INFORMATION ITEMS
Discussion on School Closures
- board discussed possibly creating a policy around closing
schools during hazardous weather. Ultimately decided to continue to leave it to
administration to communicate with transportation supervisor and county to make
the right decisions in moments of hazardous weather
Booster Club
- Board would like to meet with the booster club in a future
working session
USBA
- discussed future updates to RSD policy book and also discussed
the amount of legislative bills passed and the future changes we will be
required to make because of them. More will come on this in future meetings
Bridgerland
- discussed how fortunate we are to have Bridgerland program in
RSD
Required Board Training (Auditing)
- went through a required board training around audits
April Board
- Set for April 19 at 6pm
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