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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

 

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Rich High Track and field

 

March 25th Track meet at Carbon Invitational:

(I know that I probably made mistakes, but give me your feedback and I will do better)

Girl’s Sprint Medley

Nya Jolley

Rylee Moldenhauer

Peyton Cluff

Katharina Smith

Boy’s Sprint Medley

Kaysen Johnson

Samuel Leifson

Jett Holmes

Austin Vasques

Girl’s 100 meter hurdles

Violett Taylor & Amillia Shinkle

Girls: 1600 meters

Rylee Moldenhaur   Peyton Cluff   Paige Smith

Boys: 1600 meters

Ben Sellers

Taylor Walker

Dylan Wasden

Talon Pace

Jared Crver

Kaysen Johnson

Ethan Earl

Girl's 4x100 meter race

Nya Jolley    Hayden Pugmire   Amillia Shinkle  Avea Ellsworth

Boy’s 4x100 meter race

Samjuel Leifson

Trey Walker

Levi Stonehouse

Max Parry

Girl’s 400 meter race

Amillia Shinkle

Boy’s 400 meter race

May Parry placed 5th overall

Girl’s 300 meter hurdles

Katharina Smith

Violett Taylor

Boy’s 300 meter hurdles

Samuel Leifson

Dylan Wasden

Girl’s 800 meter race

Paige Smith & Nya Jolley

Boy’s 800 meter race

Ben Sellers

Ethan Earl

Logan Cluff

Girl’s 200 meter race

Peyton Cluff

Katharina Smith

Violet Taylor

Boy’s 200 meter race

Logan Cluff

Jett Holmes

Raiden Lutz

Trey Walker

Max Parry

Girl’s 3200 meter race

Paige smith

Boy’s 3200 meter race

Jared Carver

Girl’s 4X400 race

Nya Jolley

Violett Taylor

Rylee Mouldenhaur

Amillia Shinkle

Boy’s 4X400 race

Samuel Leifson

Justin Leifson

Braden Givvord

Girl’s Shot Put

Haydee Pugmire placed 5th

Boy’s Shot Put

Ben Sellers

Carter Groll

Talon Pace

Easton Eborn

Jack Bell

Boston Jolley

Ivan Flores

Alex Coonrod

Raiden Lutz

Boy’s Discus

Carter Groll

Ivan Flores

Easton Eborn

Boston Jolley

Raiden Lutz

Jeremy Garcia

Jack Bell

Alex Coonrod

Girl’s Discus

Karter Groll

Haydee Pugmire placed 3rd

Boy’s Javelin

Talon Pace

Easton Eborn

Braden Gifford

Ivan Flores

Boston Jolley

Jeremy Garcia

Carter Groll

Girl’s High Jump

Rylee moldenhauer

Paige Smith

Katharina Smith

Avea Ellsworth

Boy’s Long Jump

Dylan Wasden

Austin Vasquez

Jonah Negus

Girl’s Long Jump

Avea Ellsworth

Boy’s High Jump

Dylan Wasden

Ethan Earl

Austin Vasquez

(Next meet will be in Milford on the 1st of April)

Groomed Trails

UPPER LOGAN CANYON SNOWMOBILE TRAIL GROOMING REPORT

UPDATED 3/27/2023:

We generally groom in the later afternoon and into the evening/night of the day/date scheduled. If you encounter the snowcat/groomer on the trails, please remember, it does not have the maneuverability of a snowmobile. Pass it with caution.

We are scaling back grooming operations as the calendar moves closer to spring conditions. We will determine this week if we will be grooming through April 8, 2023.

 

 

 

These are the trails we plan to do this coming week:

3/28/2023 – Tuesday: Garden City Canyon and Sinks trail to the top of Log Cabin Hollow.

3/29/2023 – Wednesday: Swan Flat Loop and Beaver Creek trails.

3/30/2023 – Thursday: Tony Grove and Franklin Basin trails.

4/1/2023 – Saturday: Swan Flat and Beaver Creek trails.


Snow-Water Equivalent in Utah


 

Sunday, March 26, 2023

Changes in Local Leadership for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

 Laketown Ward:

New Bishop- David Fairborn

1st Counselor-Dennis Hodges

2nd Counselor-Jed Willis

Clerk-Courtney Robinson

Visitors Branch:

Branch President-Burdette Weston

1st Counselor-Howard Pope

2nd Counselor-Randall Hansen

Clerk-Henry Howell

Hole in Bear Lake Created by methane bubbles rising by Scott Livingston