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Wednesday, March 29, 2023

March School Board Meeting for Rich County

 

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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